skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Automakers started making ultra-heavy flagship EVs as a way to make electric cars cool and attractive.

But then it feels inertia took over and now we're getting all of these unreasonably heavy and powerful EVs in some sort of magazine specifications arms race.

Some of these gigantic EVs are approaching 10,000 lbs. I'm not excited to have random drivers piloting their 9,000 lb electric SUVs with 1000 HP doing 0-60 in the 3-4 second range. That's an unbelievable amount of kinetic energy that someone can deploy in a matter of seconds while surrounded by cars weighing 1/3 as much.
Probably because nobody was watching.
Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS)
I mean, except for literally all the cases where they do investigate and prosecute, such as this very thread that we are posting in.

Good thing we have an administration right now that is actually doing something the previous administration didn't do.
> Yeshivas often have armed guards

Awesome, now we're comparing America's problems here to what is effectively an occupied war zone.

Perhaps further mental health related laws are a no-go, however reducing the effectiveness of firearms through restrictions on features seems like a no-brainer. Remove the ability for a shooter to pull the trigger more than once per 5+ seconds and require them to concentrate on reloading while their heart is pumping and they are shaking and you will likely reduce the deaths from any one shooting spree.
I don’t get it. If you already have the version in the cache, then when a client does GET X, the cache can reply X@v4.

As long as the client submits transactions with “I calculated this based off of X@v4” then the database can reject if there is a newer version of X.

The client can then replay the transactions against the cache and by then there will be a X@v5.

With this scheme you can track the transaction replay rate instead of having to build a new system to read-back the cache for consistency.

To get the traceability on which cache node is stale, the client can forward a header from the cache node that identifies it. Then using the same transaction rejection rate ops has visibility on which cache node isn’t being updated.

No cache invalidation needed. Always just cache forever X@version, it’s just that the cache allows an unstable query for GET X.
I instinctively read the title of this thread in Goldmember's voice
Honestly, I feel like the submission title is overly editorialized. The part about the auto industry supposedly moving in the wrong direction is barely a paragraph all the way to the end. This is mostly about Newey's career.
This is addressed elsewhere in the discussion. Access to ID is inequitable. So you need to either be willing to fund the solutions to that problem, or at least show that the supposed voter fraud problem is worse than the ID inequity problem, and neither has happened.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news/wisconsins-dmv-holds-th...
There is a reason why Tarn asks for donations every month, and Notch is a billionaire.
noise is the way out of local optimums ?
There totally is such an ‘aww what’s the use’ exception by the way.

It’s called discretion. It’s also used to not arrest someone who may technically have committed a crime, but for when it would be a injustice/unfair/politically untenable to arrest them for it.

It’s not supposed to be abused of course, but people are people. It would be impossible and undesirable for them to no have it however, in real life. You’d end up with the worst of Barney fife type behavior at the best.
Originally Ghost was a reaction to the problems some (many?) had with WordPress, it was deliberately trying to be less while doing specific things better (more efficient, easier to design/populate). I've not actually used it despite watching closely early on (I've not used WP significantly myself either, but know people who do/did, who I've helped out on some technical matters) mainly because my own making-content-worth-publishing projects have all come to very little thus far!

From comments (on HN and elsewhere) in recent years I get the impression that Ghost is still a better optimised solution than WP for some common use cases, but has switched direction a bit and started to experience the feature creep that is one of WP's issues which Ghost aimed to avoid.
I am the author; so I am obviously biased here.

I am serious when I say cache invalidation might no longer be a hard thing in computer science. In the post, I explained why cache invalidation is hard; and how we solve/manage its unique challenge and complexity. By my definition, we are solving the cache invalidation problem.

The analogy I have is Paxos. It's notoriously hard to implement Paxos correctly. Google published a paper on Paxos Made Live just on how they managed the implementation and productionization complexity.
dfremote was close to this, it was very nice on my ipad with the apple pencil. Sadly we've not had updates in some time and I think the developer has moved onto other things [0].

0: http://mifki.com/df/

edit: In that with dfremote, df itself runs in a docker container on a server somewhere, and the UI is running entirely on your ipad.
Your project looks interesting. Do you plan Typescript support with stubs vor smth similar?
In the end a car, electric or not, is a 1.5T complex machine that transport most of the time 80kg of human and that stays immobile 95% of the time.

You can turn it the way you want, the issue is the concept itself.

A bus is more logical, a bike is more logical, a train is more logical, even a commercial plane is more logical.
Absolutely. Case in point, the La Canada (LA area) Educational Foundation -- https://lcfef.org/endowment/our-story/
Wait, my protected site is being compared to an open forum? Confused.
Let's take a math story problem.

Give an upper class white kid a problem involving tennis scores, no problem. The kid will be able to easily understand what is being talked about, there isn't anything mentally jarring going on.

Give a poor black kid a problem involving tennis scores, boom, problem. Odds of a poor black kid knowing how tennis scoring works, much less likely.

My, largely well to do, neighborhood has tennis courts. The more diverse, and poorer, neighborhood I grew up in, didn't. I am still not sure how tennis is scored, but I am pretty sure the kids in the house next to me understand it.

Repeat this idea a few times with some of the other tests. Give some word recall lists using words poor/minority kids aren't accustom to. It is harder to recall words that you have never heard before, they are basically nonsense syllables, which is a very different test. If you had thrown "quiche" in the middle of a word list 8 year old me would have had no idea what you were talking about.

Modern day IQ tests have tried to correct for these biases, but school administrators can choose an "older" test to purposefully get biased results.
> Multiple assessors, both from parties and individuals who just want to ensure that everything goes right

The story is literally about ballot stuffing at precincts where there weren’t observers like that watching. Which makes the electronic voting part a complete red herring
Are you kidding? It’s a chat client that works in a browser. About as Linux friendly as it gets.
Waymo and Uber Partner to Deploy Self-Driving Trucks at Scale
It has been decades since I was in school. I was in the gifted program and found it to be an utter waste of time. My daughter is now in a gifted program and we both find it to be an utter waste of time. I attended a school in a middle class area and my daughter attends a school in a fairly wealthy area. Is there any studies which show a benefit to gifted programs in schools which are adequately funded?
I'm fairly confident that you can't produce a quantifiable metric backing up your position either.
Didn't think about this much until later. The town I went to high school in they had two high schools about 2 miles apart and one had more minorities than the other (as in 80% vs. 20%) and yeah the former was poorer than the latter.
> Equality of outcome is not the goal of equity.

They actually say that it is - have you seen the famous comic where the three guys are watching the baseball game but the short guy can't see through the fence? They literally are saying the equity of outcome is the beginning and the end of their goals.
> No one is talking about individuals. The discussion is about group statistics.

Sweeping group level decisions ultimately affect individuals.

> If there is a statistical difference in outcomes, why? Is one group inherently inferior?

Why not?

Progress isn't exclusive to the left, and people offering progress often destroy rather than improve. Progress doesn't necessarily require sacrificing meritocratic ideals to satisfy some sludge of totally-not-marxist, totally-not-postmodern, totally-not-intersectional, totally-not-critical-theory thought. We can make everyone's life better through other methods. I'm happy to see the zeitgeist finally getting over this fixation that politics is described by "The Good Guys vs the right wing".

My idea:

Judge people on their individual merits and whatever happens is fair game. Implement a social safety net to prevent people from suffering. Reparate historical violations of the first tenet. Aggressively target monopolies. Increase environmental protections. Increase transparency in business and government. Increase education about our financial system, personal finance, and contemporary topics.

These ideas can be easily composed onto the ideas we already have, will result in benefit for everyone, and the political distance between them and the common man is much less than it is between all the woke stuff.
A month ago I switched back to Vim, from TextMate, but still on a Mac, and honestly: Vim is kinda pretty. I spend most of my day in fullscreen Vim, and with a good theme, Airline and a pleasing font it’s just as pretty as VSCode if not more.
Making up plausible sounding words for domain names is fairly simple.

A few methods -

- Take a common surname suffix and add a new prefix to it
- Make up something that sounds vaguely Japanese, Scandinavian, Spanish etc and you pretty much always find something available
- Take a word that already exists and change (or add) one or two letters

Admittedly the results of the above can border on the ludicrous but the idea is to come up with enough names to eliminate those.
I'm not a denialist, and try to do what I can without living as a hermit.

There's so many variables though. Most of them are out of my control, outside of voting, and in the realm of collective action, politics, and law, at a global level. Even things like voting are fraught as issues are often pitted against one another.

Then too, there's human capacity for invention, which often surprises. People are good at rising to threats with technology. Also, without being dismissive, the planet and life survived much warmer than anything we're facing.

Finally, many of the obstacles aren't physical I think, but sociological or psychological. It's often not about chemical composition of exhaust, but societally condoned narcissism, bias, and fraud.

I definitely care, and wish it were a higher priority for society. But there's so many variables involved, and such a systemic thing. I'd say I'm hopeless but that's not right: it's more like clueless about what will happen or whether any decision I make will make a difference. You just make a decision based on some value, the best you can, and watch.
Yes, they're a professional reviewer and I enjoy their reviews.
In the Bay Area, slavery is taught to kindergartners. People on the left never believe me. I almost cried when my niece said that people like her used own people like her uncle/cousin. What a way to seed racism…
Wordle is a great name. But strictly speaking, at no point there was `wordle.com` or anything similar. Wordle always lived as a humble page on a larger domain. Which I believe was the point of the original comment: That if your product (name) is good, domain is secondary. The vast majority of users can just google at this point (which might not have been true 20 years ago).
Well in case it helps, yes that's complete nonsense. Of course languages can be criticised, by anyone, just like everything else. That's how they improve.

I guess by that logic the person shouldn't be criticising your criticism of the language until they've tried criticising the language themselves .
That last part is definitely overdramatic, but I do think that you're looking at the math of work in a way that I (and presumably the poster to which you're responding) don't agree with.

The thing is, your 30-35 hours at a cushy office job isn't just 30-35 hours of fungible time - it's a commitment to a lifestyle that revolves around office work. A lot of folks talk like a person who has a job has the same amount of freedom as someone without a job, just minus the time they spend in the office. That's part of it, but there's also the loss of spontaneity/flexibility/control.

If those are things you really prize, then it can be perfectly rational to optimize your life for the maximum number of years in which you have total control (i.e. you're not working). If that's what you want to do, then it makes perfect sense to work as much as humanly possible and save as much money as possible on any year in which you're working at all, since you're giving up that total control of your life whether you're working 20 hours or 80. Then, when you've got enough money, you get total control of your life for as many years as possible. Depending on what you value, it can be a totally reasonable optimization.
I do not have a job at technology corporations yet but i think it just takes time to you to learn the work and get set emotional to not let things around you dictate how you feel.
https://archive.is/pFREh
Supreme Court may take territories off the map of the US
If it is actually oppression, then yes that is a valid reason to be concerned.

But let's be clear, you just claimed that the mere existence of disparities is evidence of oppression. That only follows if group outcomes would be equal in the absence of oppression, but that is a completely invalid assumption that has no basis in historical fact.
There was Access Services in SharePoint but it was depreciated a few years ago. Unfortunately there are some very large companies that use Access in a shared drive instead. They make daily backups just in case there is data corruption.
> KDE splits out selected text, and ctrl+c text, into separate clipboards, allowing for some really good workflows.

Just for completeness & correctness: that's an X11 feature, not related to KDE, and predates KDE by several years. I can't easily find the history of it, but this Keith Packard paper[0] on it is dated 1990 so it's necessarily older than that…

[0] http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/selection.ps

(pg. 5, "4.1. Selection names" - PRIMARY, SECONDARY, CLIPBOARD. I don't think SECONDARY is used much these days.)
Is it a Ponzi? A framework for evaluating crypto projects
Nobody is pushing for an "open border" and the absence of a voter ID leading to fraud is just a dumb conspiracy theory promoted by people that are ignorant of how elections actually work.

All voters need to be registered in the first place at which point they verify your identify, your ability to legally cast a ballot, and your address (falsely registering is a felony in most jurisdictions). On voting day, you show up to the correct precinct and tell the administrator your name, they typically verify that your address is correct and then you can cast a ballot. Casting a fraudulent ballot is also a felony.

So the theory is what? That all of these illegal immigrants are going to register to vote? They wouldn't be allowed to register as non-citizens and falsely attesting is a crime. They would show up on election day and cast a ballot under their own name? They're not registered, so their votes wouldn't be counted. That they're going to imitate an actual voter on election day? Instant felony which is easily caught if the real voter shows up at any point to cast their own ballot. That they're going to intercept the mail-in ballots somehow? Again, when real voters figure out their ballots are missing but votes are recorded in their name, the fakes would be immediately found out.

When the states advocating for voting IDs have a long history of race-based voter suppression, analysis shows the ID mandates have race-based impacts that would suppress votes, and there isn't an actual "attack surface" that would be solved with voting IDs, it's clear it's just a transparent attempt to suppress votes.
The city council, chief of police, and associated other folks elected to oversee and appoint them disagree, as does the electorate apparently, based on the recall election results.

If the police were refusing to do their jobs, ultimately it would be the city council held to account, and you’d see rather different types of political pressure being applied.

It seems instead that folks want a different DA.

How we got there and whatever finger pointing was happening and if it was justified is of course part of the debate we’re having.
A basket of goods is only relevant if you can compare it to historical data, otherwise its pointless. And if you start now you can't select your basket of goods and project it back.
Show HN: Missions that help with anxiety, storytelling, and retention
I created a tool that forces solution-oriented people to build project plans with the end in mind. It's a visual network of nodes that tells a story. Built it because I was tired of the same old productivity tool that is just a post it board for to dos. Missions, I believe, will help build effective processes rather than needless processes. It'll also give project members ease of mind knowing that they're always on track. Feel free to give it a go and just reply and I can give full access. Warning: bugs / beta features exist. Enjoy.
The crab mentality goes hand-in-hand with widespread poverty and lack of community development. In schooling it shows up as bullying those who are most academically successful, for being "nerds" or "acting white".
A cruel favorite of mine is to pull up that faces of power business, with all of where it is from and whatnot, and ask someone, "So, why do you think so many are white?" And they talk about racism, systematic oppression, on and on, what you would expect.

Then I drop the blue star thing, tell them, and ask again. Sudden floundering, cognitive dissonance, and so on. Now, all of the same answers in A should apply, and intensely more so, given the statistical unlikeliness, but instead they all vanish. Merit, networking, talent, all of these explanations suddenly appear.
Even if you only hire "good teachers" and give them "enough resources", some of those teachers will perform better than others. And the attention of those teachers will be wasted on the students who don't want to be there; better to give it to the students who care.
Mostly, it's a matter of deducing their actual goals:

a.) Make persistent change $Change in the real world

b.) Socially position themselves as supporters of $Change

Doing a.) generally requires long, hard work. Success is uncertain at best. Vs. b.) can be done in minutes on social media. Success is generally pretty certain.

Not hard to understand why most humans - at least those seriously active on social media - prefer b.).
Facebook's Zookeeper Implementation on Delos
> If you'd rather go the containerized/virtualized way, there's a dozen or so distros based on Docker/LXC/K8S to make selfhosting easier.

Which ones do you have in mind? Would you count ChromeOS as one of those, too?
The accessibility points are strong, and those need to be fixed. But a lot of the rest is just grousing and personal preference. I cannot take an argument that switches are harder to use than checkboxes, for example, in good faith. If anything the click target is bigger for a switch?
Ask HN: Employee monitoring using Microsoft Office
I recently heard that some senior management at my company monitor employee "work habit" using some Microsoft Office's feature for all their department

There is indeed a Microsoft Office feature called "Viva", but it supposed to be private to us.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/overview/privacy-guide-users

Viva emails are grossly inaccurate for me. It recalls 80% focus time when clearly I have been in meetings (sometimes unnecessary but beyond my control) and in-person collaboration all day for a week.

I can't think what could be wrong! Sometimes I don't get time to accept my meetings; because I haven't figured out which one of my conflicts to pick. I still attend the one I feel is appropriate. Microsoft is someone unable to link attendance information from Teams?

Is Viva using this to predict that I am not attending a meeting? If that is true, where is the accountability on Microsoft for having designed unverifiable and un-auditable monitoring methods that clearly could affect people's career? Do they assume I am working entirely inside office products? I can't imagine what happens to some poor soul who needs to keep their job. Microsoft says their tool is not meant for monitoring... like that is going to prevent folks from using it.

Anyone with similar experience?
A few straight arithmetic questions, one about the alphabet, a few about parts of speech. These don't immediately jump out to me as cultured, although anything involving letters or grammar will be sensitive to the linguistic background of the students.

Certainly home life, economic background, etc have an impact on educational outcomes. But I'm making a narrower claim here. A student with a poor home life is likely to test poorly regardless, although the difference might be larger in some tests than others. But a student with the same educational aptitude may test better or worse depending on if they're being tested on topics that are familiar or unfamiliar to them.

Removing cultural context is certainly a solution. I'm not sure it's the best solution. Excessively-abstract problems are only one aspect of intelligence. Anything involving reading comprehension is going to have some linguistic or cultural elements, but I'm not sure it's valid to just remove reading comprehension altogether.

If you want to see a standardized test from a different culture, here's one that's made the rounds a few times. This is for eight-graders in Kentucky in 1912. The sections on Geography & Physiology certainly stand out, but even the math section has a notably different emphasis than modern education.

https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam191...
Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world
Right. But trying to do this in the US (which is very different from those two countries in many ways) could fail entirely for reasons that wouldn't apply at all in those.