skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s actually made using hemp fibers that have been woven together and then sealed and finished with as super hard resin. And once it’s completed you have an insanely strong material that makes steel look weak and brittle.

You want to know how you can quickly tell this is all bullshit?

Steel isn’t brittle. Not in any relative sense to composites. Saying something is weak and brittle… that’s dry spaghetti. Does steel failure remind you of that? Or does composite failure seem closer?

Carbon is brittle. Composites are brittle. Hemp with epoxy is going to be brittle,all relative to steel which has plenty of pliability to it.

Are you sure you know enough about composites to repeat these hemp claims? Because if “makes steel look weak and brittle” didn’t immediately flag for you, you either know a lot more than I’ve learned in 20 years of working around composites and manufacturing or you don’t and just want hemp to be cool.

Hemp might be amazing. But you are posting nonsense that it seems like you have some desire to believe for some reason.

Sure maybe it’ll get out of the lab just around the same time graphene does.
Thanks for putting this together! There are probably another half dozen vastly less common sizes that you might encounter in reality (e.g. kids' bikes, adult BMX, folding bikes, jogging strollers and bike trailers). I can see this being a huge help if you have one of those and you're trying to find a tire in a pinch.

I have a Brompton and a BOB trailer. I have no idea what size tires they take. The BOB must be a common size for a kid's bike because I blew a tire and had to replace it from Walmart while touring. Being able to type in the size and know wtf I need would be a huge help if you're calling around and the shop can't see the tire in question.
Is the life of one innocent person an acceptable price for the lives of several innocent people?

Note well: I'm not actually a consequentialist. I'm just pointing out what "for success" actually means, at least some of the time.
> I'm happy to see Microsoft digging their own grave.

Tell that to the Xbox team.
I always felt Azure was costlier than AWS. My perspective is of a solo developer. Does Azure justify its higher prices in the enterprise space with other value adds? Or is it the "no one gets fired for using IBM" thing?
volvo's flash lights in case car things somebody going to rear end it
Spotify Responds to Complaints About Covid Misinformation
I have a 1999 Chevy V8 van that can indeed handle all those tasks. It can literally hold 30 goats comfortably too. Love your work BTW
You mean the one for people whose life expectancy was less than half the modern day? Who lived completely different lives?
Many countries have offered similar deals. Italy had hundreds of houses for € 1 but you needed to fix them up to a liveable state, often € 10-12K.

Australian country towns offered land for AUD 1 (USD 0.72). It has also occurred in Spain and even Japan. Japan is destroying hundreds of empty houses a year.
Yeah, neither Pizza Hut nor Dominos we're actually that concerned about the coupons. Both places had drivers apply coupons to orders and pocket the differences, and while I'm sure they would have gotten fired if caught, not having the correct amount of coupons would lead you to be caught.

I think there were one or two actual coupons at Pizza Hut, where you did need the actual code and the piece of paper, but they were things in the coupon books kids would sell to raise money. At Dominos basically the best deal was the carryout special, which is now even advertised online.
You might be right. Some quick searches show several resources saying doctors work an average north of 50 hours/week, with some passing 60.
You’re correct with this issue, but what other, better option does the general public have other than to try to follow scientific concensus?

It’s flawed and can be improved, but it’s still the best thing we have.
From what data source do you gather this?

As a child my friend loved on a ranch. Multiple trucks and Jeeps.

Where I live now there's a lot of farm and ranch land near the city. Drive by any and you'll see multiple trucks.

Anecdotally, I'm highly suspicious of your data.
They mostly cater to big enterprises who are used to getting huge volume discounts.
Change is good for the brain? That's your entire argument for arbitrary interface updates?
Even so, is this something that bicycle thieves find worth doing?
you really think science is suffering that big of an existential threat or are you just pandering to the crowd here
I would love to not have to put a generator in my truck and just run stuff off the battery. It wouldn't replace it in all circumstances, but I would switch from always lugging around a generator to pulling it out when I need it.
I'm surprised the Tesla didn't automatically detect the fogging and enable the defogger.
This is the thread for the interview that’s from - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24083738
And a farmer as you said before. Would you say the overlap between those two spheres of your life is significant, or no?
I understand the idea here, and I treat computers that way. I have multiple ones around.

However for most folks and small businesses, a vehicle is far too expensive a capital asset to buy a brand new one with full knowledge that there are some situations in which it will be just useless. Trucks in particular are purchased for their versatility, and electric sacrifices that for…what exactly? So the buyer feels good about being green? That’s a good formula for a niche product.
Pretty much that. If you are an all Microsoft shop and want to migrate on prem infrastructure to the cloud, it’s the easiest way to go.
WinForms is still available and has the same productivity.

dotnet has successfully transformed itself and is quite popular.

XAML is ok, I guess.

They have stumbled in the Mobile app dev frameworks, focusing on Xamarin, but seem to be moving to MAUI now.
Solyndra was inconsequential. And it was part of a package of knowingly risky bets that was overall very successful. Warp Speed was the same. They invested in lots of vaccine trials with the expectation that some would fail and they would absorb the cost. There were a lot of manufacturing miscues and money that was misspent but that was all baked into the program expectations. Same with the clean energy funding of which Solyndra took part.
And in the same way, a lot of science done and published in the last 25 years has shown real technological improvement in the world around us.
Outrage is only good in that it generate interest in the topic. There is a surplus of hot-headed illogical people bogging down any real constructive discussion. There is a shortage of people that understand the realistic challenges involved and working to come up with viable Solutions on either side of a given issue
I feel like UI/UX is having a postmodernist moment, and the burger menu is the equivalent of Duchamp's The Fountain.

Today, I'd even gladly take the ribbon UI over burger menus every time.
What's the point of even hiring American tech talent anymore. For companies that still hire American engineers, are they really 3-4x better than engineers from countries where the average wage of software engineers is 3-4x less?
Probably a regional difference but I grew up in rural North GA and the farmers that I lived near had tons of farming equipment like a tractor with a shitload of attachments (usually pretty old), a worktruck used for hauling, a fourwheeler or sidebyside for getting around on the farm, and a bunch of other odds and ends. They might have another truck that's really old that's for a project, but I'm imagining one of these guys buying a Ford lightning and I don't see it.

Yeah, they usually are just hauling their goods up their dirt road to a stand on the side of a road, but they do occasionally make a long trip to sell some cows, pigs, or horses and I don't think they want to deal with midtrip charging.

I'm not sure what kind of farmer you imagine this is called, but these guys are just called farmers in my neck of the woods.
> when filing a safety complaint

Please try to widen your focus beyond that one single act. NHTSA and other bodies have a general responsibility to ensure safety of vehicles on the road, including preemptive as well as retrospective actions. That's what I was referring to. I see from other comments that you've been made aware (especially by Syonyk) of the relevant standards and procedures. Ignoring them now seems like just a way to pick a fight with someone who probably agrees with you on the general principle.

> No need to backseat-drive the NHTSA

That's an unnecessarily and counter-productively pejorative phrasing (and it's not particularly clever wordplay either BTW). We as citizens do indeed have a right (if not a duty) to express opinions about the regulations imposed by our government agencies. The fact that Tesla's update affecting safety could go out with no oversight is simply wrong. Raising that awareness - not just within NHTSA via a safety complaint - is part of making the wrong right.
They could.
You seem to only be looking at the surface of this issue. I agree that it is appropriate to be concerned about conflict of interest, but what happens when you take it one step further beyond your comment? I decide to "do my own research" and plug the drug's name into Google. The top site that comes up is the same news organization's fact check because no one else has a financial incentive to investigate this issue and report the truth. Me "doing my own research" leads me to the same biased information. The "do your own research" portion doesn't fix anything.
> instead of lisp I wrote a ~100 line python script[0] so that I could write future content in Markdown instead of HTML. Yes I'm aware of Jekyll and Hugo and such, but even those were too complex for my personal site.

Why does this kind of "complex" matter? By all means code if you enjoy it, but it sounds like minutes of coding saved you seconds of installing something that already exists, and got you a setup that is less standard and so harder to maintain.
> I believe that inertia might be quantized, and if so, it might be possible to take advantage of this to build spacecraft that don't need exhaust to work.

This idea is new to me. From (what appears to be a fan site) quantizedinertia.com: "This explains why stars at the edge of galaxies can orbit faster than expected but still remain bound to the galaxy. As a result, Quantised Inertia predicts galaxy rotation perfectly without the need for dark matter or any adjustment (McCulloch, 2012, 2017). More practically, quantized inertia also predicts that we can get thrust and energy from the vacuum."

> I believe that cold fusion works, it's just hard to replicate.

Although not exactly related, Terence McKenna used to like saying that science's demand for replication limits it from studying phenomenon that differ over time.
Sarcasm nonwithstanding, it took over 12000 years of technological advances for agricultural societies to catch up to their palaeolithic bretheran in terms of average life expectancy and even metrics like height.

I'm not a primitivist by any means (I'm using a pc right now as it so happens) but we continue to have a lot to learn from modern hunter gatherer societies both in terms of social organisation and food consumption.
Humans didn't design genetics, it's a chaotic and confusing system that evolved by chance.

If you are seriously comparing your monetary system to something that evolved by chance there is a problem with your monetary system.
I personally think that a lot of vaccine scepticism comes from the perceived force involved. For example, via passports and mandates.

I think once you get into the situation in which people think "I'm being forced to do X", you've created an impossible catch-22 and you've basically ensured that some % double down.

It's hard for me to explain because it just seems intuitively obvious. I really enjoy a beer after work. But if you forced me to drink one, and made me document the fact in order to go on holiday or whatever, I would feel less inclined to do so because I'd instinctively think that something fishy must be going on.

I've personally had the generally recommended number of vaccines at the right times etc, but when it comes to stuff like showing barcodes to get into places, I've faked it on principle, I think it's a dystopian horror and it doesn't surprise me at all that a lot of people have responded by just tuning out and refusing everything.
The primary market for the F150 is suburban passenger use. I realize a pickup is useful for agriculture, but suburban drivers simply outnumber farmers.
A bit? That’s an understatement of epic proportions
Clean technica agrees that VW ships more. VW has more brands and models. Tesla model 3 may be the top seller, but it's one of only 2 models that Tesla has with significant volume. For instance Audi is a VW group company too. Together they have ~5 of the top 20 EVs.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2021/12/30/15-of-auto-sales-in-eur...
Volkswagen had 25.9% of the European EV market in 2021:

https://eu-evs.com/bestSellers/ALL/Groups/Year/2021

Volkswagen owns many automative brands (VW, Audi, Skoda, SEAT, Porsche, etc.) so sales are split across more brands and models:

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/group.html
> Everyone is coming out with an awesome BEV but no one other than Tesla ship any volume.

The volume issues with Tesla in its initial days are well known.

I think Ford can step up.
"Extended" tab completion seems like one of those things which sounds like a good idea on the surface, but actually involves considerable hidden complexity, and when something doesn't work right, can instead cause plenty of confusion and lost productivity.

As someone who routinely uses tab completion to look into the contents of directories before entering them to confirm that they are the correct ones, I was very confused when a recent system I had to use briefly (I don't remember if it was zsh) decided to not show files if the command started with 'cd'. It wasted more time trying to be "helpful" because it required an extra 'ls' which I could essentially get for free via tab completion.
I have had good results replacing the rectangular thinkpad charging port with USBC configured for 20V delivery. The boards are so small they fit within the footprint of the port, and sugru works well to hold things in place and provide a nice rubber finish. The last piece is using a third party usbc magnetic connector.
Even in 1999, the use of the term "homosexual" in that context was pretty dated, unless it was coming from the mouth of Lucille Bluth. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/XFH5WeJfQJ4
Yeah, having done this myself, a use case might be:

1. Buy ETH

2. Convert to WETH

3. Swap for TOKEN

4. Hold TOKEN

5. Swap token back for WETH (hopefully made a profit there)

6. Convert WETH back for ETH

I did this using Metamask / Uniswap so it is all done for you. So I had no need to understand how the contract works. Also didn't have anywhere near $500k!
The SimCity-SimCopter-SoSC tie in worked because I loved creating cities and then getting to see them in 3D. Albeit, I used the SimCity Urban Renewal Kit because I didn’t understand the gameplay enough to make money at age 8-9.
I thought pre-registration is a thing? Though I don’t really know how (or how well) any of this works in detail.
The NATs work as VPNs to a large extent. To quote Steven Wilson from Europol: "The issues relating to CGN, specifically the non-attribution of malicious groups and individuals, should be resolved."

And the way to "resolve" it is IPv6.
I'm pretty sure I've heard that part of the reason to block "disinformation" is so that people don't get "misled" into voting the wrong way.

For example you can Ctrl-F "disinformation" on this Time article: https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
> For companies that still hire American engineers, are they really 3-4x better than engineers from countries where the average wage of software engineers is 3-4x less?

They don't need to be; first, because wages aren't the whole cost of employment, and second because the measure being maximized is value minus cost, not value divided by cost.
Doing film photography is a bit like going on vacation in a horse-drawn wagon. Even the look of film such as the grain of Tri-X or the artistic distortions of cheap cameras can be imitated digitally far more easily. You can simulate what it's like to do film photography by taking pictures without reviewing them, then waiting a week, then you can see which shots you got and which you missed or have awkward expressions etc.
Couldn't agree more. If regulators ever attack the Amazon stack and split up the company, AWS could become one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Ford stats show a very wide demographic range? https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...
This website is pretty easy to post on anonymously. It takes five seconds to make a throwaway and another three to post a name.

While I agree that there are frauds out there in academia and elsewhere, I have no reason to believe that you’re not yourself some sort of fraud. You’ve essentially posted “I have direct knowledge of [unspecified academic fraud in which somebody claimed to have direct knowledge of [unspecified academic fraudulent conclusion] but can’t back it up] but won’t back it up”

Your overall point is… what? Fraud of perpetuated by cowardice? Self interest? An overall sense of apathy towards the truth? Your comment could be construed as any of those.

There are people that love to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt without having to rely on being truthful. People that are intentionally misleading with the sole intent of leveraging people’s biases and emotions to confirm folks notions and whip people up into an artificially-created frenzy make statements yours.

Serious questions:
1. Do you actually give a shit about this big fraud you’ve brought up but not revealed?
And
2. Why did you post?
I think people want both—I believe I do. I want people to be honest with me and considerate. I don't think it has to be one or the other, yet we often haven't learned how to communicate with both.

I can say, "I want to be honest with you, your relative may only have a few weeks left. I imagine that might feel really scary to hear or perhaps you might even feel angry, I don't know. I wanted to be honest with you and to let you know that my team and I will be here for you and your family."
To start with the last part

> How much rock would have to get scraped and pulverized into future magma to wipe out all evidence of a civilization?

it would take a lot. Even in the snowballs, when we had ice on every continent, there are still plenty of basins (mostly at the continental margins) where syn-glacial sediments are preserved; that is in part how we know the glaciations happened. While we have maybe 1/5th as much sedimentary rock volume per unit time prior to the end of the unconformity, that still leaves a lot!

At the time of the Cryogenian, both the fossil record and DNA-based molecular clocks suggest we didn't have multicellular animal life until after at least the first (Sturtian) glaciation. And we're talking basically just sponges (porifera) at first.

Of course, it's not impossible we could have another snowball in the far future (probably unlikely for several reasons, but never say never), and the question of what that would do to the record of modern human civilization is an interesting one.
The short answer is "I don't know", but I think it would be hard to erase all traces without something a good bit more severe than the erosion that produced the Great Unconformity.
When you come to a full stop, the car remains standing after letting off the brake. Also prevents rolling backwards on uphill start. That’s auto hold.
Yeah, from what I've seen some weird edge cases often are fixed after bug reports, not becasue there is some sweeping benchmark that catches them. I suppose GPUs are in general more complicated to address than CPUs in this sense.

And it's not always even some intentional secrecy, possibly GPU makers themselves don't anticipate every problem in advance. Driver developers just find some of these issues after some known case exposes them and try to work around that.
I don't very much trust Elon's vision in this regard, with respect to the near-to-medium term (say, the next 5 years or so). It seems very unlikely that within the next 5 years technology will have advanced sufficiently to enable that level of automated driving in day-to-day traffic.

He might have intuition in this area, but one individual's intuition is a poor substitute for actual data.
The entire country is founded on the notion that the average person shouldn't be trusted to decide any individual issue, and instead should elect trusted representatives to do the research to understand the individual issue and decide according to how the voter would have decided, if they had researched the issue.

Joe Rogan, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald; these are the cancers, not the concept of representative democracy. Attempting to spread lies and unconsidered science on other people's platforms, and then pretending like they're entitled to those platforms is arrogant, completely wrong, and degrades what it means to own property. If you have to let people use your services, your property is no longer your own; it is owned by the government, it is nationalized.

I want private companies to be able to decide how their platforms get used. If Spotify doesn't want to deplatform Joe Rogan, that's fine, but they should deal with the consequences, which is also fine.
(Straying a little off topic to provide the following hint:)

There's a setting for this in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard. My recollection is that this was previously a checkbox that toggled the "double-Fn to invoke Siri" function on and off, but as of Big Sur (at least) this is now a popup menu control, where the choices are "Change Input Source", "Show Emoji & Symbols", "Start Dictation (Press Fn Twice)", and "Do Nothing".

My test M1 machine was set up from scratch last year (i.e. no account migration) and has "Do Nothing" selected here, so I can't confirm that "Change Input Source" is the default for new users, but its position as the first item on the menu is suggestive.
I have had a lot of people explain how stuff like this is a problem but it just hasn’t actually been a problem. Not with a Tesla in Texas anyway. Charges quickly, chargers are pretty plentiful and in a pinch you can plug into any rv site or regular wall outlet
Thanks for the book suggestion! Going to read it soon.
You can be philosophical about "improving", but in the context of the thread and the post, I think we are talking about technological improvement over the last few years as an example of tangible scientific improvement, even if a lot of papers that are published suck.
Every farm or ranch or estate I’ve visited has like six different trucks already, with most never leaving the estate and could easily be charged overnight.
It may not be technically possible, but that won't stop misguided people from trying to regulate Turing machines and exploit their vulnerabilities. Rather than putting so much energy into in regulation, surveillance and offensive measures, I suspect the "winning" strategy is to focus on secure, verifiable computing. Whoever masters this first will grow an immunity to (human and AI) cyber-threats and gain a significant competitive advantage in the digital economy.
What's this have to do with the title/research?,

which seems to be claiming that it's not a guarantee that you think less of yourself, statically,

but that it's more likely you weight yourself properly due to having taken the time to achieve enlightenment in that interval? (aka figure things out deeply/systemically)