skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are the people behind these companies not in jail?
That's a super interesting observation; you've convinced me that ML algorithms could generate novel things.
There's nothing to support. The block chains immutability means no takebacks. The phone line can just have a message on repeat "Sorry, nothing can be done. The Blockchain is the source of truth." Customers can then just hang up knowing that it's the real world that is wrong and not a thing on chain. This is blockchain realism at its finest.
Same. I keep mine at 74 during the day and cool it to 71 closer to bedtime.

That, plus blocking the vent closest to the thermostat in summer, tends to get the upstairs to within 3-4 degrees of the thermostat setting.
Interesting that the article doesn't discuss or mention the possible implication of micro-plastics in IBS/IBD.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211222084024.h...
My understanding is NY state prisons bus felons being let out at the NYC bus stops here as well. Many of them have no where to go other than homeless shelters and tend to cause crime again.
Everything green is generated. The “Assumptions:” bit is generated because I wrote this query incrementally. I had it produce the assumptions for the egg question just so I didn’t have to re-type the syntax, and backspaced its (incorrect) output with my second training example. The OpenAI UI then marks that bit of text green because it technically was generated. Sorry that was confusing.
From idea to paying customer
Redirected to gdpr.tubitv.com

> Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. Unfortunately, we're not currently available in your area.

So I can't even know how it works. Wikipedia to the rescue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubi

It seems to be ad supported.
> natural infection is at least as protective (if not more so) than even 3 doses of the current vaccines.

This claim is directly contradicted in the paper you linked:

> The effectiveness of previous infection alone against symptomatic BA.2 infection was 46.1% (95% confidence interval [CI], 39.5 to 51.9).

...

> The effectiveness of three doses of BNT162b2 and no previous infection was 52.2% (95% CI, 48.1 to 55.9).
Except crime is also random. The person that was shot on subway in May was an investment banker who lived in a nice area and had means. He was simply on his way to brunch on a Sunday morning:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/23/business/goldman-sachs-employ...
>If the evidence available on the efficacy of vaccines for kids is so ridiculously wide that it goes from -99% to +370% risk of infection, then surely Norway is _also_ drastically overstating its case

Not necessarily. You can have the data and you can have bad data. You can selectively ignore the good data to come to a drastically different decision and conclusion. Motivated thinking political or otherwise can bias the data that you select.
That is impressive. You probably have the coding skills you need, its just a matter of breaking through somewhere. Keep trying to find remote coding jobs. Knock out a ton of leetcode puzzles -- those are common gatekeeping process.
The writing in this chap’s substack is a joy to read. It has the rare quality of being exactly the right length.

The author also did a great podcast with Tyler Cowen.
> If you cannot see your legacy, then why do anything. What difference does it make if others don't remember if you cannot witness it anyway.

Many people want to feel that their life was important & meaningful, and having a legacy fulfills that desire. Even though they don't get to experience their legacy first-hand, simply knowing they will have a legacy increases their self-esteem and well-being while they're living. It's this same desire to be important & meaningful that likely contributes to 'success' feeling good to you.
Not an answer to your question and only tangentially related, but I've had a terrible time getting a U.S. immigration visa for my wife.

Around 2017/2018, the National Visa Center (NVC) took their "document review" process digital. Previously you would have to mail in all of your documents, wait 2-3 months for your documents to get to the front of the line, they would verify them, and then after they were verified would send the "okay" to the actual embassy in the country you are applying from (in our case Taiwan).

If you had an issue with one of the documents, you would repeat the process including the 2-3 month wait. This makes sense, since when receiving mail you'd have to actually "process" it first to see if it was for an existing application or not (instead of just putting it in a giant bin for "July 15th").

When they moved the process online, however, they kept the same queue process. You wait 2-3 months to get to the front of the line, and if there is an issue, you have to resubmit the document and wait 2-3 months for them to review it again.

It's fairly easy, however, in an online format to tell _who_ each document is for. What _should_ happen, is you are put in a queue and have to wait your turn to get to the front, and then they work on helping you get through. If you have an issue with a document, you resubmit and it's looked at next to get you "moved on through".

They also shut down the phone line that you can call to talk to an actual human being about what needs to be submitted. Instead, you can submit an email that has a wait time of 2 months to get your question answered.

Overall one of the most frustrating experiences of my life
Land is a very minor component of the price of anything. In much of the country you can buy a square mile for a few million.

Labor is the other big component.
I spent so many hours on it. Then I got my first job, and one co-worker I worked closely with was: Wendell Hicken. One day he casually mentioned, I wrote Scorch, was a lot of fun to program. Only then I connected dots.
Without knowing anything about Cue, just be careful with choosing to a technology only because it scales to the largest infra on earth, it doesn’t mean it scales equally good for smaller deployments.
Sounds like crummy chalk -- a good blackboard with some chalk is heaven for me. Whiteboards are so sterile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhNUjg9X4g8
Me too, i absolutely loved it. We used to play 6 player games if i remember correctly.
Would you rather have `.rpm`s build by someone on the command line using `rpmbuild` or `mock` or something built by a CI with proper bootstraping and "nearer" to reproduceable builds. Also, by cutting corners on the CI, you risk introducing mild ABI problems which wont crash, but causes instabilities and potential security vulnerabilities. If they say they needed time to do it properly, I respect that.
I mean, gas is a huge part of it. Take away fuel costs and you're left with housing costs and that's really it.
So I did used to use the axfrs back when I used to use bind. It’s clear text. It requires updating a serial number for no other reason than for the client to know to update. It’s based on polling. It exposes more complexity in the server that isn’t needed. It’s an archaic and dumb protocol.

There’s nothing wrong with it in the same way there was nothing wrong with telnet or ftp.

https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/axfr-notes.html
> What the fuck is "natural immunity" when we have had 5 variants of omnicron and infection doesn't provide immunity to the other variants?

It still provides a very high degree of protection against severe disease, which is already vanishingly rare in children without comorbidities. And is also all you get from the vaccines, along with all their attendant known and unknown risks.
Well that’s just creepy as fuck…

> Bezuidenhout was 4 years old when Musk became her stepfather.
A kid in my 3yo son's preschool class tested positive today, and they are asking that all kids test twice (with a few days in between) and wear masks at all times while at school for the next 6 days. I'm in SF

My intuition is that people underestimate the impact of forcing kids and toddlers to wear masks.

What I observe is that for folks without kids, life has gotten back to normal, but somehow everything related to kids is still over cautious.
It's their first real effort in the discrete GPU market from what I understand, so I can be a little forgiving...

But I also see the trend that they intend to rely a lot on upscaling. There's so much of the chip dedicated to AI/video stuff compared to good old 3D
I think it goes without saying that this vehicle isn't a perfect fit for every situation.

It'd suit the vast majority of commuters by me (American southwest), assuming it performs as advertised - which may be another very bad assumption.
A proper blackboard with proper chalk, such as Hagoromo chalk, is far superior to and cleaner than the best whiteboard.

In general, even non-Hagoromo chalk can be brushed or washed off, unlike dry erase marker dust that gets on everything and can stain. Also, I personally dislike the lack of friction when writing with dry erase markers.
It says 99 lines, and it theoretically is, but is it really 99 lines if it has 119 semicolons?

In the main function,

nil = box(NIL,0); err = atom("ERR"); tru = atom("#t"); env = pair(tru,tru,nil);

This should probably be 4 lines of code, but it all appears on one line in the source code. '99 lines' of code is technically true, but using number of lines as a measure of code complexity becomes less useful once you start packing multiple distinct things into one line like this.
> Checked your electricity bill lately?

My rates are 11-13 cents per kWh, the same as they’ve been for years. Our power is mostly hydro, with smaller amounts coming from nuclear and wind.

So no, that pithy question isn't particularly useful.
An appropriately simplistic quote from someone who habitually and sometimes famously demonstrates being stubbornly narrow minded. But then, how else would he not know that brains don’t fall out of—nor are placed in—minds.
I remember my teachers, quite distinctly, saying the same. In fact I can still visualize the way they wrote on blackboard, opened the books and asked questions. Teachers were useful because they solved our questions when we couldn't find the answer.
Browsers do a fast partial parse to figure out things like scoping and variable names, but skip actually building an AST so it's still a lot quicker than full parsing (e.g. https://v8.dev/blog/preparser)
Logistics, How Did They Do It: The Problem
I won't disagree that medicine has come a long way but I'm going to say that this is a giant disservice to some very great doctors in history.

My favorite example is John Bradmore, who saved the life of King Henry V after he was shot in the fucking head with an arrow. Not only was John Bradmore a surgeon, he was also something of metalworker (and in fact, was arrested for making counterfeit coins; he had to be pulled out of jail to save the king's life). He used that skill to design a bespoke tool to pull the arrowhead out of the king's head, creating an antibacterial environment with honey and disinfecting the wound with alcohol (though this was before germ theory). Henry V would later go on to rule for 19 more years (he would die for seemingly unrelated reasons, heatstroke). By the way, this was in 1403.

There's also a problem with your criticism in the sense that it implies that doctors were blindly confident, and not for a particularly good reason. While obviously certain incorrect beliefs persisted for quite some time in history, it's from within medicine and from other doctors that these views were more often than not corrected and updated. Obviously, Galen believed incorrectly that the human heart has sinuses from which blood flowed across and was filtered, but to his defense he was not allowed by the state to perform human dissections. If anything, the neo-Galenists were to blame (as Andreas Versalius so often harshly criticized, to the detriment of his Latin grammar, funnily enough). But it's only through the work of people like Ibn al-Nafis, Vesalius, and William Harvey (the latter two's frustration with Galen comes across pretty clearly in their writing) that we have the perspective to say that beliefs like Galen's were wildly off the mark. What I mean to say is, that it's very easy to say that those early doctors were far too confident in their pseudo-scientific theories, yet that's the nature of scientific knowledge and the epistemology of medicine; we know better only because of social changes, technological improvements, and/or particularly clever insights.
Shipping products implies real things and physics that work. What they say on the aptera website seems entirely reasonable: 700 watts of solar power good for up to 40 miles per day.

Basically this vehicle is very efficient so doing 40 miles while soaking up 6-10 hours x 700 = about 4-5 KWH seems doable. A Tesla would do about 4-5 miles/kwh. This thing is lighter, more slippy, and has one wheel less so it's probably a bit better than that. This car is covered in small panels and has a surface area that is probably 6-8 square meters. let's call it 7. 100w/square meter is not unreasonable. Probably it's a bit higher than that and the effective square meters of solar is a bit lower. But 700watt is not a strange number for a car that size.

The 25K model obviously does not have a 100KWH battery; that would be the top model which is presumably a lot heavier and logically less efficient and twice the price according to the article. Nobody is claiming that that vehicle would do 1000 miles on just solar power.

If you think about it, with such a huge battery, you could do 20 50 mile journeys without plugging in even without solar. Or about a month of commutes. And it would add 20-40 miles back in every day. And since this company is based in California, they get a lot of sunlight there so I could see how that would average closer to 40 than to 20.

Assuming you are not commuting on weekends it would either take months to drain the battery or you'd manage to keep it topped up with just the sun. And when you do run out eventually, you just plug it in and deal with it. If that happens a couple of times per year, so what? And you can go on a long journey and just fast charge and then most of the time when you don't do that, you just rely on the sun topping you up. Seems, like a great value proposition for people with a bog standard 10-20 mile commute. 365*40=14600 miles per year. Most drivers don't do that in a year. Probably the 25K model is all they'd ever need.
Not in isolation no. How would that make sense?
I’m from a place we’re most people don’t go to college. I know farmers, metal workers, some union guys at a tire factory, someone who works at a truck stop, and some people who can barely read and just sort get by. They’re all interesting to talk to in their own way and have some insights into how the world works based on their own frame of reference. With maybe one exception they’re all capable of having a nuanced discussion if you speak with them in a respectful manner and take the time to listen. I disagree with most of them about a lot, but hell I disagree with you too.
well somebody gotta watch them, the notion that the government is unique in its "power corrupt" tendency is false. Just look at the supreme court or the FED.
The tragedy is that the pandemic was politicized and wearing or not wearing a mask was considered a political statement. Somewhere between 2010 and 2020 we have lost, as a society, the ability to think and reason based on logic and arguments. Most people today actively refuse to think (and hn is a bubble where people are really smart, educated and can actually hold a conversation but it's by no mean something that represents society at large).

Anyway... back to politics. I knew that the CDC was full of BS when they came out with their "yeah, you don't need masks. they are only needed at the hospitals. leave the N95s for them". That being said, people refused to think and herd instinct kicked in. Should you wear a mask when you're in open air an there is noone around? Probably not. Should you wear one when in the middle of a crowd and people are literally sneezing left an right? Probably yes.

After the initial handling by the CDC it was lie after half-truth after lie. Everyone wanted to make this a big deal (some to point at the bad handling of the leading political party, some to point at how well they were handling it). It's also extremely suspect how everyone switched the beat of the drums from "this is bad people. we are all going to die" to "pandemic over. social distancing over. we need to get back to living". It amazes me how in spite of having a vaccine today, we have a higher case rate today than we had for most of 2020 when we were told we are going to die. It's mindblowing.

If this pandemic taught me anything is that I should never judge situations I've not been in before (whenever I watched an apocalypse/zombie/pandemic movie I used to think to myself: naah, people would not be that stupid. c'mon this is not realistic. turns out that we are really like herd animals and we really are that stupid).
There is no way that rooftop area is even as large as a standard solar panel (say 200 ft²). Even the most efficient panel is no more than 350W, so you're cutting your "700 W" more than in half right off the bat. Discounting less efficient cells, road dirt, and non-perpendicular angles and we'll be generous and say 300 W.

12 hours/day is the maximum possible solar duration so you really need to cut that in half to account for a full year on Earth. So we're down to 1 kWh/day and realistically much less if you happen to park under a tree or a bird poops on your roof. That will hopefully get you to a charging station but not much further.
I dislike zig for lack of destructors and "no hidden control flow". I'll probably dislike your language too but is there one big thing difference from zig and austral?
I am a former technical YouTube explainer, active 2007-2010. Two videos had 1m+ views, and dozens of other low-production / highly-technical DIY guides.

Google implemented several changes to their ad / revenue - sharing products, so I decided to remove my digital contributions from YouTube (flatteringly, another YTer re-posted my most-popular video). A few years later, they lost custody of my DIY Technical Manual Website URL (some ICANN snafu), so I left their platform entirely.

The entirety of Google's properties now reside on my DNS blacklists.
I'm not upset either. The dollar is a stable because of manipulation though unfortunately over the long term it does lose value. The cost of stability. Crypto on the other hand I do expect to go up over the long term while being short term volatile. Let's check back in five years and see if that's the case.
Your accepting the premise that Left and Right wing media sources are all that different. All mainstream media is just two sides of the same coin, just like politicians. When it comes to real issues, where they can't sow division...they remain remarkably silent.
https://drinklmnt.com has worked wonders for me. https://drinklmnt.com/huberman for a discount (no affiliation but has been very good for me).
I was more referring to weather.

I love the idea of this vehicle, and if it performs as advertised I could see myself using it. However - I wouldn't want to bank on it charging during work to extend it's range every single workday. Overcast and rainy days happen almost everywhere, at least some times.

Or I could be misunderstanding something about solar panels - do they continue to charge even without direct visible light? I don't know much about them.
Every day, firefox for "personal" stuff, chrome for work stuff. Of course, these are both very mainstream browsers so I would be very surprised to come across things in the wild that don't work in both (that wasn't caused by my configuration).
I lived playing scorched earth in high school with my friends.. One day, on a bout of nostalgia, I looked long and hard for a good scorched earth like game.

I found shellshock live on steam, I found that it was the closest experience to playing with my friends in high school. We even got to play a couple of rounds over the Internet.
One of the first surgeons to break this trend was Robert Liston, who practiced in the early/mid 19th century and was renowned for his speed and results.

It definitely seems to me that they were simply unfortunate to be living in the time they were - I’m not sure there were many skilled enough in ocular surgery at that time to have actually aided in their respective recoveries.
Depends on growth, debt, profit, cash flow, etc. Revenue in isolation means very little.
Holmes: Information extraction and intelligent search based on predicate logic
I do believe Gian-Carlo Rota would have fitted in quite well on HN:

Activity Calories burned
-------- ---------------
Writing one line of C....................... 10
Debugging one line of C..................... 300
Writing one line of Lisp.................... 2
Debugging one line of Lisp.................. 20
Writing one line of Fortran................. 25
Reading e-mail.............................. 200
Writing e-mail.............................. -3
Reading news................................ 1000
Web-surfing ................................ 100
Working on thesis........................... 7
Answering officemate's phone calls.......... 432
Wondering about the future.................. 107
Speculating about life on other planets..... 371
Getting to know inner child................. 252
Perfecting .plan file.......................39924
Reading Wired............................... 15
Writing limericks in assembly language...... 924
Sleeping in chair........................... 15
Sleeping in chair, but leaning on desk...... 7
Sleeping on office floor (with pillow)..... 14
(without pillow)..... 257
Choosing a new CD to work to................ 333
Dreaming (at night)......................... 4522
Searching................................... 777
Sorting..................................... 222

https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/activity.html

Edit: It's possible (likely?) this is Janet Cahn's (~cahn) activieties, not Gian-Carlo Rota's
> The seem to be implying that that Vladimir Putin should have veto power over Ukraine's decision to join EU.

It's interesting that you use the word 'should', because I said no such thing. I am not God. I unfortunately cannot control Vladimir Putin's decisions. All I know is that if the US and its cohorts continue its actions they are risking a needless hot, potentially nuclear, war with Russia. I think Putin 'should' call off his war and accept defeat and let the world be peaceful. Unfortunately, Russia is not a 'real' democracy, and even if it were, I am not a Russian voter. The EU can do what it wants too, since I'm not a European. However, I am an American and I want my country to do what it can to avoid hot nuclear wars, which includes counseling allies against making stupid decisions
They have built exactly 3 prototype vehicles[0]. They are nowhere near shipping even their first production model.

[0] https://aptera.us/faq/
"We’ve completed three Alpha vehicles, Noir, Sol, and Luna. We are currently finalizing development of our Beta vehicles and plan to begin production closer to the second half of 2022."
Yes of course. As a strict non-interventionist when it comes to foreign affairs, I think the US often works against its long-term interests when it needlessly interferes in foreign countries for the sake of a quick buck.
Except the contractors often like that they get to make their own rules. Truckers are not the kind of people who like having a normal boss.