skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had this been believed by decision makers in the US, we would probably be under Nazi regime right now, or at least most of Europe would be. Of course many aspects of war are profitable and it should be avoided at all cost. But to think that all war is nothing but a money maker for a small group is incorrect. American Isolationism, at least many decades ago, was bad for the rest of the world.
Good move on them. They probably realized they were destroying their own market and that they don’t need to move fast and break things, other brands do that and if something comes out of it they can carefully copy it. The only reason I respect Tesla is for pushing hard on electric. Other than that their offer is not for everyone.
Stress that you won't be able to pay bills or debts is NOT envy. You can have it even in a society where everybody is poor. That's why, in rich societies, envy is not the cause of it, but rather how society distributes its wealth is. And so it becomes a collective, not an individual, problem.
If I'm not mistaken the mRNA production is kind of bonkers, it's outsourced to a bestiary of third party small contract manufacturers. I could be wrong, but I don't think that any newly released drug has rolled out like that at such a scale in the past (usually it's one/a few plants all controlled by the big pharma that gets certified by the FDA). It's REALLY impressive that the bureaucracy figured out exactly where to bend the rules and shepherded all of the small contract manufacturers into compliance to get reasonable batch-to-batch consistency and safety for these vaccines.
What I heard from public health folks is that masks have not been shown to work, therefore we are not recommending them. Not that they don't work
There are tons of things like this outside of religion. Almost every coherent group of people believes in some sort of nonsense for political reasons, and as a form of identity signaling.

- Many people in this community believe that a female soul can be mis-allocated to a male body, for example.

- Many people in this community believe that Trump was involved in a conspiracy with Putin to take over the USA.

- Many people in this community believe that democracy is a form of government that gives the population more power than other forms of government.

All of these beliefs are rather silly, but are accepted as dogma and critique is unwelcome.

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I do agree, however, that the Christian church is predatory. It is matriarchal and is basically a system of domestication. However, the fact that they employ dogma is not the problem, all groups employ dogma.
Quantum immortality is real and I think some people do get to cross to parallel universes. Probably just my brain trying to cope with us not having any transcendence whatsoever tho while knowing they confirmed some pretty sfx like things in quantum physics.
https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/s7z10o/why_are_the...
There was a HN submission awhile back about a Dev in Japan who did this very thing. Hiring people such as college dropouts, or older women, who have higher expectations of being stay at home moms in Japan.
That reminds me of a function I have in my environment called `dg` that does `cd` then `ls`. The name `dg` is short for dig, since the name `dig` was taken.

I also sometimes write `2>1` instead of `2>&1` and get a mysterious file named `1` in my current directory. Luckily it I figured that one out pretty quick.
Spotify definitely has the better recommendation engine. AM has much better quality. I’ve only come across a few artists not available on AM. I only use AM on mobile, so haven’t compared desktop or cross platform. Obviously AM is favoring iPhone users.
I don't get the homomorphic encryption part... so it's still proof of work, just got science. many such projects exist, mainly the "X@Home" projects and more.
That is what therapists do (among other things)
Indeed. Authors who carefully avoid splitting infinitives frequently produce stilted, and often ambiguous, sentences, many of which no one would ever produce in real speech (i.e., that are ungrammatical). "He decided to quickly rewrite the story" is not improved by changing it to "He decided quickly to rewrite the story" (says the wrong thing), or "He decided to rewrite quickly the story" (ungrammatical), or "He decided to rewrite the story quickly" (ambiguous).

Reading such authors is painful, as every stilted sentence distracts one from whatever the author was trying to say.
IIUC - standard heavy rail lines are 3-4x more expensive to build than a lane of freeway.

I guess no one is building one lane freeways, but I was still surprised by how much more expensive rail is.
All of a sudden three sea shells doesn't seem so far fetched
Interesting, where?
To clarify as some people have mismatched expectations, the authors mention viability for real-world applications in the paper:

"One may ask to what extent our model can be used for real-world applications, such as time-series forecasting. Although the robustness to noise is an encouraging step in this direction, we believe our model is not directly adapted to such applications, for two reasons.
First, because real-world data generally cannot be
described by neat mathematical equations, in which
case numeric approaches will outperform symbolic
approaches. Second, even in cases where the sequence
is described by a formula, this formula will often con-
tain complex prefactors. While our method is capable
of approximating prefactors rather remarkably, this
adds a layer of difficulty to the original problem, as
the model sometimes needs to use many operators
to approximate a single prefactor (see Table 2). However, one easy way to solve this issue is to extend
the vocabulary of the decoder, enabling it to build
prefactors more easily, or use a separate solver to fit
the prefactors as done in approaches. We leave this
for future work."
Tesla now monitors how often you adjust your seat position
The tens of thousands of dishes carved from stone as hard as quartz and corundum give pause. The ones found in tombs could have been made any time earlier than the tombs they were found in. But anyway I think most are officially pre-dynastic. Certainly the suggested method of manufacture is implausible on its face.

Suggestions that Egyptians melted and molded granite are obviously wrong, because the grain size seen in their products is achievable only with centuries- or millennia-long undisturbed cooling, possible only in nature.
All smart contracts are immutable, but some are more mutable than others.
I think this is a really solid analysis and strategy. I want to briefly expound on the data side which is a huge growth area: mSFT would do well to SHOW the rank and file analyst and developer machine learning in context of their daily work, not TELL CEOs about its transformational possibilities. They own the world’s most popular surface for interacting with data. Why not make Azure’s machine learning be keystrokes away? Give away credits and training, suggest use cases, provide actual value. Sell a $0.000000000001/unit cost that makes it safe for anyone to try in their daily work. It doesn’t need to do much, some cool forecasting, predicting the value of the next cell inline, etc would be delightful. I’m a but disconnected from their ecosystem at this point but I see a window where the can captivate the long tail with pragmatic ML and assert their centrality for the coming decades.
one of railroading great efficiencies, slack (that 2 mile freight train already starts one car at a time)

Is that right? Maybe before roller bearings, when overcoming starting friction was a huge problem.[1] But all US railroad cars in interchange have had roller bearings since about 1992.

Normal starting procedure is to move the engine very slowly until the end of train device reports motion, indicating all the slack has been taken out. Then apply power.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-1EZ6K7bpQ
That is not what I mean. I am talking about well…when they are generic applications that don’t require bespoke work to be done. Maybe HN is the wrong crowd for this as I think most of us work in more specialized capacity. There is a lot of software out there however being written that is say, wiring power BI applications with predefined requirements, or collecting information via surveys that need to be tied to a CMS. Stuff I’ve seen work pretty well when contracted assuming the person overseeing the venture was competent of course.

I’d say anything core to a business in terms of how it functions is not ripe for outsourcing, and anyone doing this is going to feel a lot of pain
I understand, the car my not have a (2)DIN slot. That's a definite regression. And very costly if your car stereo dies out of warranty I might add.
- If it's complex and not automated, make a checklist, print it, check it off line by line.
While I am not a BMW fan, they got the interfaces almost close to perfect with their MINI Countryman cars. The screen is a touchscreen one, but, touchscreen is optional as there is a physical idrive controller, with shortcuts, and it works with carplay as well. All important stuff, defroster/AC/seat heaters are physical buttons! I love it.

https://cdn.bimmertoday.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2017-M...

original article: https://www.bimmertoday.de/2016/10/25/mini-countryman-2017-f...
I imagine it probably said "Danskjävlar". Just some neighborly love from across the strait.
My opinion:

Only one of the following is compatible with meaningful freedom:

1) centralized networks with significant mindshare (e.g. the app stores, Twitter, etc)

2) those networks having the legal/technical ability to censor material on their platforms

It's really one or the other. If you have both, then it's just a matter of time until something you care about is pushed to the margins.
This is exactly why I’m so happy that the Lucid Motors UX team decided to have a dedicated screen on the left side of the car for the most common controls; not to mention a few physical switches for HVAC, music, and cruise control.

https://youtu.be/vxE4P85DSBw&t=2m
I agree, and I like to add there is a difference between censorship of information and stopping propaganda. Some groups make a claim (say against vaccination) which is fine by itself, but when people run with it, amplify it to influence others, then it goes into propaganda territory.

Healthy debates need a good context and a platform that allows for that. I don’t know of many platforms except here in HN and perhaps the debates I had in IRC channels.
Code wasn't law when Ethereum foundation insiders stood to lose a fortune in the DAO hack.
I'm surprised you say the Apple ecosystem is terrible. It's arguably the best, most complete and integrated ecosystem out there currently.

Of course it's not going to work well with Windows. Apple wants you to buy a Mac.
The problem is for me atleast, the people I want to colloborate who are technically competent in non-programming fields don't see programming as crucial as we see it to be. In many situation there is nothing I could offer in terms of efficiency or profitability that they can't get done with exisiting software solutions, contractors/freelancers etc. In most case what programming has to offer for successful small to medium businesses is just novelty, I often think and having someone constantly trying to integrate programming solutions has little marginal value.

When it comes to selling, programming often isn't first thing to address for technically successful people who aren't already fascinated with startup, hacking, sideproject etc. If you have a counter point I would love to hear that.
Please describe numbers. Your "2x base offer" can still probably be very small. Example: is 2x +140K ?
On a tangentially related note. Do people really use the deFROST feature to deFOG their windows? If the fog is on the inside, turn on AC (note, this is not equivalent to saying "make your car cold"). The AC will reduce the humidity of the air and get rid of the fog (works quite quickly in my experience).

P.S. I am of course aware that heating the windows will also get rid of the fog, it just seems like an unusual solution to me.
What's wrong with the center console with physical buttons? It's the same thing, except they never rearrange, and you get physical tactility.

>(current UI update aside)

One thing at least I'll never have to deal with is finding a brand new re-arranged center console in my Geo Metro the next morning!

>but I find I can glance at the speed/car status section of the screen more quickly than I can glance down at a set of dials in the traditional position, and weirdly the sidways/down glance seems to retain more peripheral vision of the windscreen/road than the downwards glance to the traditional location.

I think you just got used to it. Tesla adding a touch screen has not magically superseded the tens of millions of hours car designers put into interiors.
The argument that this person makes from what I can gather is I should not redirect people to https since their hosting company is not trustable by design of holding said keys and second that who am I to impose encryption on others who should be aware of their own follies by using said compromised keys. This is a terrible post to make it on Hacker News as the straw men arguments here are exactly what harms individual users based on the ignorance of the service holder. Fine that this is his choice but also fine that browsers make it explicitly clear that the site being used is a potential security threat. Making excuses for why you should not have encryption based on your biases against the security itself because your provider "may" have access to your keys and you don't trust them is a bad excuse. If indeed you truly distrusted your provider than find another that is more trustworthy. If you cannot then you should self host but it doesn't get you off the hook from providing secure services to your users. In fact it puts you more on the hook for it. If you do not trust yourself which is what is also lumped in with the argument of not trusting VPS provider you have bigger problems and should probably not be participating in this eco system if you cannot trust yourself.
The irony was it took me a lot longer to find because I was searching through the computer screen for a long time assuming it was there.
What were you doing in your 20s? You should have been getting girls, engaged, married if you want that kind of life. It doesn’t usually happen over night.

Remember how people will see you. A 30-something guy, programmer. How fit are you? Socially competent? Are you reasonably successful? Do you have skills and hobbies outside of work? Skiing, martial arts, scuba, sailing, climbing, lifting, whatever.

A girl will look at you and likely have some expectation of where you should be at your age. Hint- it should look like you haven’t been wasting your life. Savings, career, house, decent car, well spoken, fit, etc. Remember, the more attractive/ younger, the more options she has. How do you stack up against the competition?

Do you have any female friends? If not, get some. It’ll be a real eye opener seeing the world through her eyes. A world where she gets hit on constantly and lied to to get into her pants almost as much. It will at least teach you what not to say and do.
Is there a way you could describe this more concretely? Say for the specific use case of a Football website.
The full headline is really this, but is too long for HN:
Tesla now monitors how often you adjust your seat position and will disable controls for ‘chronic abusers’

This is exactly why many people won't buy cars that automatically upgrade the software when the manufacturers want. Without some sort of regulation, manufacturers can arbitrarily adjust the features of the product to the detriment of the consumer and the benefit of themselves.
> virtually all of these have been debunked

I don't know if you're aware but a lot has changed in the past few years. I used to dismiss is all as whacko sci-fi until last year, but the government is now confirming the reality of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP a.k.a. UFOs). You should check out the report to Congress last year which detailed 140 incidents, 139 of which could not be explained prosaically, 80 of which were confirmed by eyewitnesses and multiple sensors, and 21 in which "observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics".

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/27/politics/ufos-uap-extraterres...

These are highly credible reports from the highest levels of military. Check out David Fravor's "Tic Tac" account off the coast of San Diego to get a taste of what's going on.

I've been curating this YouTube playlist of credible sources (including David Fravor) confirming the reality of these things if you'd like to learn more:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7gMGIbRUmhTRTuUHX8CA7H_s...
> but in a car with lives at stake, they can’t be so cavalier

Oh man, my hair will go white soon if I have to tell people who keep making these kind of statements : either show this is causing accidents or lives with numbers or you’re talking out of your intuitive ass.

I agree with the rest - the new interface isn’t as intuitive and multiple interactions is required for various things that needed one tap before. It’s definitely worse and I hope it gets better.

What’s not intuitive to non-Tesla owners is that Tesla owners use the voice command extensively to get things done. Here’s a few of my day to day usage:

- Turn on recirculate

- Lower the temperature

- Play song X by Y

- Navigate to supermarket

- Fold the mirrors (for when parking in tight spots)

- Turn wiper high (no longer use this as the auto setting is almost perfect as of late)

You initiate the voice command by pressing a physical button on the steering wheel under your thumb. For majority of what I’ve listed above, you’d have to take your eyes off the road to either operate a physical button or tap on awfully unresponsive touchscreens in other cars. So as far as I’m concerned, I’m more road alert in Tesla than I’ve been in any other car. Add autopilot in the mix and nothing else comes close.
Seems like this is political flamebait, but I don't think I've ever seen the first point phrased in such a way that it refers to a soul. This makes me wonder, what part of that do you believe is nonsense? The existence of the soul?
I like MultiCommander[1], which I've been using for many years, because it's quite feature rich.

It would be great if there were some in-depth, feature-by-feature comparisons of all these two-pane file managers.

[1] - http://multicommander.com
Not sure why it's the problem when update is an improvement.
Lets say tesla pushed an update that let me schedule start charging and stop charging at a certain time. That saves me $600-800/a year.
Or a special controls for noise of the car for kids.
There are good examples and bad. Last tesla update is not good, even it's not horrible, and let you customize many things.
Decimation (Punishment)
In the past brain drain meant good professionals would leave their countries to live in the US or Europe.

Nowadays, with remote work, people are being paid handsomely and spending their money in their home countries.

Anecdotally, I'm seeing that happening a lot with dev friends in Rio de Janeiro. People are using money earned in the US to help the local economy. They still interact with local universities and contribute to local projects. Cool stuff.
I'm very curious about the folks pushing vaccines

6,000 scientists signed the John Snow Memorandum which states

“there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection.”

https://www.johnsnowmemo.com/john-snow-memo.html

The CDC director is a signer here.

This is so obviously likely totally false it's mind boggling.

We've been told by experts that

a) masks don't work - despite the fact that they've historically worked against other airborne pathogens.

b) that a cloth mask is fine.

...

and the list goes on.

I ignored this and believed in the "misinformation" of N95 with a vent which dramatically increases comfort and wearability.

Now we are are told that natural immunity from our immune system, which has handled MANY MANY influenzas and diseases of the past, doesn't work against COVID, despite evidence from things like SARS and MERS that the immune system remains pretty darn amazing with longer lasting protection.

You can't actually get hard data on this claim, despite insanely high case rates that should make analysis trivial.

So again a likely lie by the vaccine pushers, that if you've been infected with covid you are are not at reduced risk of re-infection.

I'll give it three months and watch them eat crow again.

Honestly, there is no excuse for this crap from those who insist on lecturing us about "dangers to society". We need honesty, integrity and facts, not lecturing, hectoring and lies.
NO!

You should learn some more fundamental aspects of programming:

1. What's the stack, what's the heap, why do I get a stack overflow from recursion?

2. In C, what's a pointer, how does it relate to arrays?

3. What's garbage collection, and how does it work?

And that will eventually lead you to the inevitable:

4. Why is Python so slow? (haha - getting ready for the downvotes!)
> What will really happen is that the political and billionaire classes will find that it is right for them to assume the role of determining the technocratic goals

‘They’ have power and money because ‘we’ give it to them. Not because they take it from us.
I've considered building something like this as well! I think something cool would be to integrate "predictions" or modeling with this. For example, for people with consistent salaries, this can be used to model financial goals, etc. Thoughts are welcome!
For anyone who's curious, here's a video of the Easter egg in action, along with a some more interesting backstory on Jacques Servin, the programmer in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mh7Pc5MSI&t=495s
Why does zsh want to know where mkdir came from?
I'll chime in on this thread that as a model Y owner, I quite like the v11 update. Yes the defroster is annoying and the user profile thing is quite annoying. But it also fixed some things that drove me nuts.
To add heaps of salt to the injury - automotive functions like seat heaters, defroster, wipers, energy usage, etc. - those cannot be pinned to the quick access bar. Only apps like Spotify, Netflix, browser,...

It's a CAR, ffs! Tesla, please stop acting like it's a cell phone
you don't like your hazards hidden behind 3 submenus? you monster
Irrelevant aside: "Gravy" usually means a nice bonus. Similar to "lagniappe," though I don't know why I'm explaining an idiom by mentioning a far more obscure idiom.

As in: "I made all my money back in the first week, everything since has been gravy."
The goalposts are all over the place in this thread.

These people must be working for terrible companies. Come and work for Shopify! We even partner with a university to offer year-round internships while you study for your degree. I regularly mentor juniors to build them up to research-level engineers.
LinusTechTips videos are a lot more pleasant to watch if you have uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock installed, and you are selective about which sponsored videos you watch.