skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea why Tesla tries to revolutionize the user interface of cars at the same time with their powertrains - as if they don't have enough risk on their plate. There is a reason every car built in the last 50 years looks drives roughly in the same way: it's a highly tuned design language that has evolved incrementally alongside the drivers, so that everyone can get into any car and drive it, without risking to find out the brake and acceleration pedals are reversed.

How does a radically new interior design help Tesla and their long term growth targets? Is it much cheaper to manufacture? Does it give drivers that learn the new paradigm a phenomenally better experience (no, it does not)?

If my opinion has any relevance, they should stick to improving performance, range and efficiency, price and vehicle reliability. Just leave the damn dashboard be already, a UX revolution is a turnoff for an bitter old fart like me, not a selling point.
Been using this site for well over a decade (under my old handle) and never once noticed that. How is that possible o_O
That's news to me.

In December, I applied to a number of blue chip companies for frontend positions and only got callbacks to three of them despite a lot of work experience writing JS for real applications including a YC company. Some YC companies also said to me they wanted someone more experienced in Vue/React instead of potentially allowing me time and space to ramp up my knowledge of it. So clearly there were other applicants who had both a lot of work experience AND the precise tech knowledge they needed, so they didn't have to take a risk on someone who didn't perfectly fit the position.

I eventually landed a dream position, but a huge reason why they looked at my application in the first place was because I knew of a long time employee. Obviously I had to pass the technical and behavior interviews, but they had a deluge of applicants and my application would've been lost to the ether had it not been for that connection.
Actually it should be: "Customize your environment, but take some damn notes FFS."
What's interesting is there's another user there that followed up 2 days after the tweet noting that other numbers weren't fixed. But this is ignored.

Problems shouldn't get fixed just because they got enough likes and reshares on Twitter.
Free time minimizers for the planar three-body problem
In general, I think a large part of academia is basically "toe the line or get out". And I've worked in academia for 28 years.
Market is stupid crazy right now.
My coworkers are leaving because of 2x base offers, we did hiring recently, shortly after we sent an offer we noticed that CV is probably totally made up (inconsistent with Linkedin completely - different companies, different time periods)
So instead of 4YoE we are getting 1YoE.

I wanted to rescind the offer, but my manager told me to give her chance, because of the market (lets see how she will do for first month).

I already received 2x base offer elsewhere as well, I will probably reject it, as I think I can get even more.
I'm happy to see Microsoft digging their own grave. They don't see this as different from how it went down in the late 90s and early 2000s. They don't have the same moat they used to, but they think they do.
Ah fully understand, I thought you meant there is somehow incompatibility between tubes and TL wheels/tires.

I’ll echo your frustration 100%. I found Schwalbe Ones are much looser fitting and have no problem mounting them on two sets of rims I have that will barely take a GP5K.
That seems reasonable.

Honestly, I think open formats and protocols are more important in general than open code -- which is of course why we see them less and less these days :( .
That was not my point but of other user. Even though I can continue argument.

People that made website could make a website without linking to Google fonts.

All the other things you list like hosting providers are technically necessary to deliver website content or like request to TLS revocation log are implemented by browser and not by the defendant.

Yes complicated consent forms should get even more fucking annoying so companies should loose traffic if they don't think twice about using some 3rd party service.

If I have to click through 5 consent forms, I leave and company is not getting business. Other company that is caring about people data will have no need for such consent form and will be getting more business.

KEEP in mind that if you have your own cookies for your page to work like session cookies that are technically needed to login or use page, there is no consent form needed at all. People should just stop visiting pages that require consent.
getting anything sensitive data out of large companies with the GDPR seems to be impossible unless you want to resort to lawyers

I was trying to get my matchmaking data out of Activision Blizzard and they flat out refused, saying my data was their property

their exact response was:

> "the information requested are trade secret and/or intellectual property needed to preserve our game integrity"

I complained to the regulator, who agreed with my assessment, but to enforce it I'd have to go to court

seems the GDPR is basically useless
In the 90's they said "learn the code" when globalization costs people their jobs I thought that response about ignorant...

However this new method of just "move" is even more ignorant, you can not move your way in to a low enough cost of living to compete with nations that pay below US min wages.... This is doubly true when there is a huge push to increase those minimum wages...

So Learn to code from the 90's has become if you do not like it leave... nice
If envy is just some motivating force then why should I care about it? The conversation was originally about unhealthy stress and damage to health due to others having more than you.

Being motivated by the success of others or wanting to negotiate your comp is fine. But when people feel bad merely because others have more, they should not expect anyone else to feel bad for them or solve that for them. It's their own problem.
COM isn't changing. The entire point (the only point, actually) is interop.

So why is your language-specific wrapper changing? Well, for continued language support... but that does appear to be happening with ATL.

Call me skeptical, but we now have... let's see... four COM C++ API's to choose from, just considering the ones affiliated with MS. (If someone offered me an even bet there weren't more without looking it up, I'd take that bet).

Maybe, since the entire point is interop, we should settle on one at some point??

(1) raw C API IUnknown/BSTR/VARIANT/etc; (2) CComPtr/CComBSTR/CComVariant/etc; (3) _com_ptr_t/_bstr_t/_variant_t/etc; (4) WIL's baby COM API
Screens are hard. When I made http://www.skylinesort.com, it was a challenge getting everything symmetrical at all screen sizes for the whole animation.
Problem is, if you are outsourcing remotely, you want someone who is quite competent for him to be able to work on his own and pick up on the lack of face to face meetings. Mediocre as a result will give less than mediocre results or no results.
It's not just privacy concerns but other even more serious security concerns. I ad block mainly to remove an attack vector.
Yeah, sure. Just like since my car is mine, I spend my weekends driving over my neighbors' mailboxes and no one has any right to complain because I'm just using my car as I please. Only socialists and fascists could complain about that.
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This has been replaced by voice commands, dictation, and voice messages.
>I do not understand how is "goth", "geek", etc as a gender, since gender is a grammatical construct.

I guess the question is...why not?

Nobody seems to be able to clearly define what a gender actually is. What are the definitional requirements/restrictions for something to be considered a gender? How many genders are there, and where I can I find a list of them so that I may better understand what is and isn't a gender?
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WeWork and Theranos comes to mind.
> Red and Green have certain connotations, generally Red = Bad, Stop, Danger and Green = Good, Go, Safe.

Yes, this was understood. The context I gave my answer in was after seeing other comments which indicated that the site was somehow designed to make the US look bad. The only reason I can even fathom for how a commentor would question the inclusion of the healthcare cost metric is from embarassment at healthcare costs here and wishing to justify it with a discussion of outcomes (which, as I pointed out earlier, is already included in the life-expectancy metric).

I don't see how any interpretation of their comment can get around the fact that GP doesn't agree that healthcare costs should have been included as a "benefit", which I take issue with. Healthcare costs are a valid concern, and something I'd look into before emigrating. To me, big healthcare costs is a gigantic red flag for a country. In fact, health care costs (and other sensibilities around public welfare) are near the top of the list for why I might some day emigrate.

Why do you think GP doesn't see lower healthcare costs as a benefit?
I got into miniature painting. First just figures to play games with, but then moved to busts and larger (75mm) display pieces. I pretty much have dedicated myself to these at one point. I still go out to local gaming stores to enjoy games with people, made friends that way to hang with, but what brought real peace to my mind is practicing art on a daily basis.
There are tire/wheel TL combos that are just not compatible, no matter what you try. Centering the tire is key, soapy water helps, you may need to warm up the tire, a tire jack may be needed in some cases .. but none of those will work 100% of the time, which is ridiculous.
You company basically did everything wrong.

Remote teams that are selected well can be a pleasure to work with for everybody involved.
I never said anything about not knowing what he's talking about either. It's a bit hard to have a discussion like this.
I'm 100% convinced this fad will pass and you will only see screen-only UIs in low-end cars. Premium cars will all have physical controls for the most important features.
https://archive.org/details/gov.law.sae.j902a.1967/mode/2up

Even if they don't explicitly say it has to be an obvious button on the dash, it's a huge liability changing how basic safety equipment is operated.
Good idea! I’ll try to do a video.
Ask HN: Ok for a man to depend on his wife’s stable income to pursue indie dev?
I have a MX loaner while my MS is in the shop. It's telling (and I'm thankful for) that they didn't update the loaner to v11.

Lots of hate on this TMC thread on v11 [1]

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/v11-software-update-...
This language dates the article, and (as a queer person) amuses me.

"A homosexual programmer at Maxis objected to the use of female characters as objects of affection in SimCopter. So, he decided to protest by putting what he termed "muscle boys in swim trunks" into the game. During the game, these characters would mysteriously appear and kiss each other, but only on very rare occasions. At least, that was the idea. Unfortunately, as the programmer told Wired magazine in 1996, "My random-number generator didn't work as I'd planned," and the characters appeared with startling regularity. Upon discovery of the errant code, the programmer was immediately fired, but the transgression spoke volumes about the frenetic and fragmented state of affairs at Maxis"

That's a pretty hilarious easter egg though, too bad the RNG didn't work correctly, then no one would have really noticed.

Part of me suspects this was probably a known thing that it went it, and he was only fired because the RNG didnt work correctly and it appeared too often.
What I would call "cut and clear" would be a specific description of how prominent the decline button must be. "Inertia, inattention, or default bias" is a very nonspecific phrase, and even if it does include UI, it's not obvious why the implied standard would be "as prominent" rather than, say, 50% as prominent.

Don't get me wrong, I'd really like companies to design this way on principles of general user friendliness, but I don't see much evidence that anyone involved in creating the GDPR intended to require it.
> There are clear cases when the approach advocated in the paper just does not work.

The paper calls for being deliberate in how you modularize your code. So is your alternative to have, what, no modules? To just arbitrarily divide your code between modules?

If you have modules (whatever that means in your language(s)) and you don't consider how to divide your code across them, you're inviting trouble because now you're just being cavalier and avoiding the task of thinking. Not being deliberate is careless.

> For example, in the example in the paper they assumed that the task would stay the same

Yes, he did do that. Both versions, however, largely make this task independent of the modules other than the master control module by putting the KWIC task into master control module itself. All the other modules facilitate the KWIC task and the master control module plumbs it all together. In either design, a change in the task will require changes to a variety of modules but will require changing at least the master control module in both cases. How many other changes are needed? Who knows! Depends on how big a change we're making to the task.

The second design, though, leaves the facilitating modules more independent of each other, in a "what do they have to know about each other" sense. The line storage is presented as an interface, none of the other modules have to know how it works, just how to work it. This is in sharp contrast to the first design, where the line storage model is explicitly known by each of the several modules, and any change to it requires changing most of the program.
I fit it into my 2009 Corolla and a 2010 RAV4.

Ping me if you want more info.
Finding solace by comparing oneself against outliers has never seemed to me to be a good strategy
That’s exactly my point - chasing that 10% remainder will make the new thing similarly hacks-ridden as the original
I like COM as concept, what is awful beyond explanation is why it being so central to WinDev, it keeps having pre-historic support on Visual Studio.

IDL files still lack code completion and syntax highlighting, 25 years later, and they cannot settle on any kind of framework that makes it easier to use.

From .NET side there are still gotchas to this day, and from C++ side it seems we cannot just have nice tools.

Now as a concept it is quite cool, execution could be so much better.
I think Clojure quite explicitly rejects "encapsulationism". As does the "data on the outside" philosophy of event driven systems.
I believe LC wasn't a thing back then, or at least not mainstream.

I don't waste my time on LC now. If I get free time, I'd rather work on a personal project or hobby.

Granted, I'm actually thinking of moving into some sort of corporate strategy analyst role since I don't really get to code anymore. The past 2 years has been very little coding or business problem solving. It's mostly been config, infrastructure, prod support, and meetings/paperwork. I'm tired of it. I want to solve problems and build substantial things. I assume I'm rusty when it comes to coding now.
Within companies, this seems inherently challenging because most employees of companies aren't privy to enough information to enumerate the case against, and also it's (theoretically) a collectivist decision.

For example - in one's personal life, one can choose to learn woodworking. We'll ignore the case for for the sake of brevity.

The case against is primarily made of opportunity cost, both of time and money. What could I have done with that time instead of woodworking? What could I have bought?

It's all about your own choice. You know a lot about these things, and you're able to use that information to approach the best course of action.

But if you're an employee of a company that sort of thing is either impossible due to a lack of information, or might just run counter to the company's aims.

You might say "instead of doing this 6 month software project, we should just fire the developers and take a punt on the S&P500 with the savings".

Or "we should focus on other project A". But "other project A" might mean that you end up on a shrinking team and eventually get fired, so you're not going to suggest that.

Or maybe there's some internal project you don't even know exists that could do with some more dev time and would be more profitable. You probably don't even know that exists, though.
Doesn't do well with 2,3,5,7,11,13. Perhaps they can figure out how to incorporate OEIS or a similar resource in addition to just a simple curve fit.
>I'm usually a defender of the single screen on the Model 3/Y,

Nothing on earth would convince me there is any necessity whatsoever to having a screen in your car, much less a touchscreen. But then again I'm also against power steering, ABS, and generally any and all electronics that obstruct feeling from the steering column. Don't even get me started on automatics. Cars for me ended in the 80's, everything after that has been gravy. I see Tesla as nothing but gravy.

I'd be curious to hear why/how you defend it? I cannot think of a single benefit.
My point is that Latin is not all what it's cracked up to be in a modern context. If Latin is so great, why was it such a loathsome experience? I was 11 years old when I started rosa, rosa, rosam, rosae.... In six years, you'd think I could find one teacher that could inspire me? BTW I graduated Magna cum, first of my class, so I'm not impervious to learning.
Universities were never job training programs, their product has always been the right to engage in class signaling. By paying the university a pile of money you signified to potential employers (and everyone else) that you were a member of at least the upper middle class, with the financial resources (and sometimes family connections) to support making those payments of time and money. Not having that signifier was a signal that you lacked the time and money to dump into that effort, given that you had to spend so much of it surviving.

It's the same human impulse that drives people to bind their feet, value bleached skin, engage in conspicuous consumption, etc. It's all an elaborate signal game designed to convince people of your social status.

The problem is that we looked at that system and instead of trying to build something better we dumped more money into it in the form of student loans and expected that now more people will be given access to those class signifiers and thereby raise their social status and standard of living. In actual practice, of course, what we did was raise the bar on what qualifies as a class signifier, forcing a generation into wage slavery with little real benefit to them or to society as a whole (other than those institutions who siphon off those extra dollars and use them to metastasize extra layers of administration and management to little effect)

What we need is for education to be more job skills training and less social positioning. Funding for adult education should be linked to the success rate of students leaving those programs. If you have the money to burn studying topics that will indicate to your peers how little you need the money, then great. That's apparently the way we've decided to structure things. For the rest of us though let's try to encourage study of topics that will help society work better instead of vainly trying to convince the rich kids club to let us in.
Looks interesting, thanks!

I may very well do something similar at some point, though I've also thought about using it as an excuse to redo whenever I want to learn $LANGUAGE, or writing a markdown (or subset of markdown) interpreter at some point.

Definitely going to read through the code more closely as well - I've been meaning to find some short and well written Rust.
If it’s okay with the wife then why not? No one else’s place to say really.
> Wait, getting multiple vaccines ready but none were from the US.

Wasn't the Moderna vaccine developed entirely in the US?
>How to excel in tech without learning to code

Idk, read Steve Jobs' biography. Passion and dedication are powerful forces for any type of success not only Computer Tech success.
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I hear people saying laws that require police reports, police enforcement or interactions with the court are useless. For people like yourself who feel this way, what alternatives do you propose?
You assume they care at all about meritocracy (hint: they don't)
Which country?

You can get a PO box but it is not a safe deposit and would not keep there anything valuable for longer that a day or two.

Getting a box in the bank on the other hand was tough as I was looking for it in Poland/Netherlands/Germany, banks don't care and it is more hassle for them than it is worth.
I’ll note that the head of UX at Tesla during this design’s testing window had a very short tenure there.

Though it is unclear is they were at fault or just fallguy.
It mostly-works and is used in South East England (including South London + some bits), both for passenger and freight trains.

The top speed is about 160km/h. I don't know if the maximum weight or length of a freight train is reduced vs. overhead catenary.

However, it's more expensive to maintain and more dangerous to staff and the public. There's a very, very long term policy aim to convert everything to overhead catenary.
I use both Discord and Element and vastly prefer Element, so it's hard to relate without specifics.
This is a really odd question.

Outside of old fashioned gender roles, yes, it's perfectly fine as long as you both agree.
Yup. Impulsive decision making, lack of empathy, lack of ability to take different points of view and black&white thinking.
Sorry but I have a pretty strong desire for regulations on things that could easily be safety critical.

We have a lot of history in the US showing that’s basically the only way to get/keep safety.
I would hope that anyone rational would accept that based upon the evidence to date and our current knowledge of astronomy and physics, extra-terrestrial visitation is possible, but very unlikely. Thus it becomes a case of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". But instead, all we have is blurry, shaky footage. Or some phenomena such as lens flare. And the claim that "what 'they' are doing is impossible according to our physics, so it must be extraterrestrial." So much willing misinterpretation and jumping to an unsupported conclusion.

Now, efforts like that described in the article to obtain more evidence would usually be good, but you can't prove a negative, and no amount of undetected aliens, or explained and discarded "evidence" will convince the true believers that ufos are not real aliens.
We are all fighting here over what is ultimately not the fault of individuals, but of social media companies. SM optimize for engagement at any cost: that means novelty, anti establishment, outrage. We're all fighting because of algorithms and systems designed to promote content that induces fighting.