skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about 2020, and 2019? I'm more interested in the trend than in the absolute number.
It keeps being brought up because there is a pent up demand for them.

Safety standards are BS. If Mazda can and does keep the Miata complaint with safety standards while preserving the bulk of the original Miata soul, then these other manufacturers could do the same with mini trucks.

The real problem is they don't have to. Bigger vehicles have better profit margins, and the chicken tax limits competition. Repeal the chicken tax and you'd see plenty of entrants. Mahindra was even making serious motions of bringing the parts in and assembling here in the US to get around the obnoxious chicken tax but ended up not following through :( They had all the certifications they needed - even from the EPA, so it's far from impossible to have a modern mini truck if the government didn't have their thumb on the market.

Heck Ford has had to do screwy things to try to get around that dumb tariff: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-ford-tariff-c...
Are you suggesting to run the current ones at lower than optimal output and only run at optimal output when necessary? That doesn't sound like a good use of capital.
Start lobbying your congress critter(s) to repeal the chicken tax. Otherwise it will never happen :(
Reminds me of The End of Average, [1] a book about human variation. It talks about how the Air Force tried to design a cockpit by averaging various measurements, only to find that their pilots weren't actually average.

Your point is especially apt here, where there is a possibility that the technology could be helpful for a subpopulation, and act somewhat like an assistive technology. It is very tricky to assess the utility of assistive technologies (I work in this field and have asked many experts how they do it) because the average impact isn't the most important thing. It doesn't matter if high-contrast mode is bad for 90% of people, if for the 10% who would actually use it, it's helpful.

One way that the study could have been optimized is if participants had been asked (after taking the test, to avoid priming) if they have any specific reading challenges. That would have helped identify whether there appear to be any subgroups that disproportionately benefit from the approach.

1: https://www.amazon.com/End-Average-Succeed-Values-Sameness/d...
Use the press article to get a general understanding. Ignore the part about how it will fix all the problems in the world. Take a look at Wikipedia.

Read the abstract of the research article and look for the most important graphic / table. Does it support the abstract of the article? Does it even support the caption of the figure? Ctr+F for some keywords, like "control group", "exclusion criteria", "almost statistically significant". Try to find out if they are using some "interesting" method to filter the data.

Use some back of the envelope statistic, like comparing the difference, variance and Sqrt(N). Count how many results are statistically significant and how many are reported. How many implicit results are not reported? Also, are there some results with an incredible small error?

There are just too many predatory journals and bad journals with a peer review that is a joke. Unless it's a journal in your area, just ignore the journal and look at the data. And even some serious journals publish bad articles.

I use a modified version of the crackpot index were the article starts with +5 points https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

In god we trust, all others must bring data.
There's the idea of temporal tables, https://pgxn.org/dist/temporal_tables/

It's not a standard (I think) but it'd let you do a cascading delete and then be able to go and look at the old objects as they were at time of deletion too.

You'd need to do things very differently to show a list of deleted objects though.
Is the person you commented ugly too, or do you have an argument better than calling someone an imbecile?
It's surprising but the EU tends to be one of the most stringent regions to work in both when it comes to totally permanently deleting things and when it comes to never ever deleting things - as with anything like this where there is a debate (rather than a settled best practice) there are some times when soft deletion is appropriate and necessary (i.e. to adhere to log retention requirements common in the EU) and some times when it's unnecessary... and the occasional fun time when it's both necessary to support soft deletes and hard deletes - when logs need to be retained for auditing purposes but also when some users can force a hard delete (leading to that data either being purged or moved to an archive storage if it's still needed for auditing purposes).

The world is almost never as simple as it seems.
> The name Quibi sounds like a Chinese streaming site for movies.

Not even a little bit. The legal syllables in which a Q is followed by a U are qu and que. If you asked me "which language was the name 'Quibi' made up in?"[1], my first guess would be English, followed by maybe French or Spanish.

[1] Actually, this sounds like a fun game.
As usual the Telegraph publishes stuff that an intellectually normal 14 year old would be ashamed of thinking.

> Immigration has bounced back. There is no Brexit-sized hole in our workforce; not anymore. Immigrants now account for one in five workers in Britain, the highest ratio ever.

There are 33 million employed people in the UK. One in five is 6.6 million.

There are 6 million foreigners in the UK: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

We must deduct that Mr. Fraser Nelson is describing an economy where newborns work, probably aiding 600’000 foreign zombies. Or one is still an immigrant after 10 years and even after naturalisation?

> The proportion of people who are neither in work or looking for it is higher now than it was in the mid-1970s.

Employment rate is at 76%, as high as Germany and higher than in the mid-70s.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/employment-rate

I don’t have time to research the benefit data but it’s not necessary because Mr. Fraser Nelson has totalled the bullshit meter. Maybe these work lazy Britons should get a job as Telegraph editorialists? They don’t publish articles anymore, so I’m sure they need some help and the bar doesn’t seem too high.
Looks like I got a bingo on my first try: https://outage.bingo/?month=9&seed=10970
If only disabling the GPS, also disabled the bike. Make it too much trouble to steal.
No it's cheaper to just get a utility trailer and hook it to your existing vehicle. Even a compact economy car can do just fine towing one. They can carry up to 1500lbs for the smaller ones, and cost less than $1000. You don't have to pay the same road tax every year, or insurance. You don't have maintenance to do on it other than tires and wheel bearings which are all generic and dirt cheap.

I've been able to do all my house projects for the last 7-8 years towing one behind my Honda Fit. I've picked up motorcycles with it (which is way easier to load than a tall pickup bed). Picked up engines, car parts. I have hauled sheetrock, pavers, plywood, lumber, furniture... I have done countless dump runs... I have moved with it, and helped others move with it. The car + trailer ends up embarrassing the pickups who show up to help move, as they can't carry as much stuff as the car + trailer combo.

And when I'm not hauling things, the car seats 4 comfortably, and we can put stuff in the hatch without worrying about it getting wet... I get mid-30s mpgs.

Anything that's too big or heavy for my trailer... well I have it delivered. Chances are, that load is also too big for your average 1500 pickup.
Interesting there is zero information what the award is for precisely, is that typical? It's described as "covered" and "related" actions.
Weather is not climate though.
>Also, Rust (from my biased point of view) is currently on its way to become the standard low-level language

Lol. Gave me a good chuckle!
Sure, it's a serverless CMS (Visual builder) & Backend (API + SQL DB) based on AWS Lambda & Aurora.
It's used by startups & enterprises to build scalable web apps & mobile apps backend.
The consulting part is all about helping customers to implement what they need.
You can check it here: https://appdrag.com
It's "hostile" in so far as they are being brutally honest. You pull this kind of crap, and you get called out for it. This has all the professionalism of a late night infomercial. DON'T DELAY, CALL TODAY!

End of story.
> Also, reminder: as its largest shareholder, Musk has a greater financial stake in Twitter than the entire board combined

You verbatim quoted the actual closing arguments of Rossman (representing Musk in the trial).
My experience at a few start-ups has been that account deletion just isn't prioritized. It's not a focus when building an MVP. If the application ever gains traction, everyone is then terrified they'll accidentally delete customer data that they never delete anything. It's a shame. As a user, when I delete my account or data in my account, I want you to permanently delete it, not keep it around and just make inaccessible to me.
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The engine can only do so much. Obviously dances and reactions are going to be more voluminous, and the # of unique political content is going to be less.

Also, unlike YouTube where once it decides it learns what you like, it will recommend ONLY content it thinks you will like, the TikTok Recommendation engine tries to be more egalitarian:

* It will highlight random new creators with very few likes or comments or engagement - arbitrarily. A lot of these will be misses, but you're helping train it and get in on the virality early on. The key with those is either to have an open mind and try them or a closed mind and scroll away immediately from anything that has a single digit like/comment count, but not be surprised or disappointed by it.

* It will highlight random viral content even ones that you expressly do not have signals for liking just so you can stay on top of trends and popular memes. In that sense, TikTOk is the absolute best way to stay connected to latest musical and internet trends of the youths, because it's not hidden to their circles but exposed to everyone.

To me, these are both features. Even though I am an aging techie, who primarily likes more engaging content (politics, philosophy, film analysis). I get those TOO and when I want ONLY that content, I switch to my "Following" page to see only the stuff I explicitly signed up for. But I toggle back and forth because I like seeing what "the kids" are into. It doesn't matter if I agree. I think it's helpful to be aware of generational trends. The kids will grow up and will shape the culture. Since I exist in society, I want to know what that's going to look like, even if I plan to stick to my 90's rock musical taste into my own 90's.

(Plus you get to discover that The Kids Are Alright, and are themselves influenced by my own musical genre preferences even today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGUy2UmRxJ0)
Glad that it's not the beginning of Fallout New Vegas story line ;)
Consider how many people of legal age might have a dream and passion to work at SpaceX, and would love to get an internship there.

Review some of the laws & regulations regarding the employment of 15-year-olds.

Look at some of Elan Musk's less-positive statements about working remotely.

Objectively - is your nephew really so fabulous that SpaceX would want to deal with all the issues involved in taking him on, vs. a highly-qualified of-legal-age intern?
>Why does everyone assume he’s not in control of this situation? Many favorable outcomes remain available to him.

Well for starters he didn’t want a Delaware venue and didn’t want an expedited trial. Lost on both. Doesn’t sound like someone who is in control of the situation.

>Now, the same board is begging him to complete the purchase.

A very interesting way of phrasing reality. “Asking a court to force Musk to adhere to the contract he signed an executed.”

If you don’t work in PR, you definitely should. You have a gift for it.
Agree.

I think it's kinda easy to find common ground, but everyone should be allowed a voice. With the "shut up, let Brazil destroy forests, we did it too", the only people that seem to be getting a voice are politically-correct privileged people from rich countries (who want to keep taking advantage of Brazil), criminals in Brazil destroying the forest and the corrupt current Brazilian government.
From the post:

> "As set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose any information that could reveal a whistleblower’s identity."
In a world of increasingly broken supply chains, insane inflation, and gross materials shortages, I would never be hypothesizing about over-building anything.
As set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose any information that could reveal a whistleblower’s identity.

Just have to start scanning for $17M bank deposits.

Wonder what the violation(s) were and how much they fined whatever entity. And if anybody is working on their backhand before they go to white-collar prison.

[Edit] Down voting me is like a backhanded compliment. Just sayin'...
he was not very old. how unfortunate
TikTok is on fire because it shows young girls dancing in their underpants. That's it.
Roasting Secret Santa in an Induction Furnace
If I was a tech lead and also wanted to advocate for hard deletion, I would ask the question for this scenario: "What's the cost of keeping all this data unnecessarily, modifying most queries to filter for deleted data, and dealing with other various consequences of soft deletion, and how does this cost compare with the cost of building a bespoke tool to restore deleted data at a customer's request within a certain time frame and compare with the benefit of a customer being able to restore their data at the 'click of a button'?".

Having dealt with systems that have hundreds of millions of records or more, many of which reference deleted data and are therefore useless, I lean towards hard deletion more and more and on the off chance that deleted data really needs to be recovered you build a separate system/infrastructure to support that, rather than building your _entire_ system around the small likelihood you really need to restore it.
> comma is a 13 person company. We are ruthless about hiring the best and obsessed with minimizing complexity.

How many is it now? Are you hiring?
Strangely, you don't sit on Tarmac, even on a runway. Airport ramps, aprons and most busier runways are paved with high strength concrete.
If you mention the costs of reporting error you should consider the costs of wrongful hard delete too.

And reports are developed and tested before they are used for crucial purposes.
Trend. Check out the latest IPCC report for more info.
I don’t know the OP’s friends’ beef with Drew, and I don’t have a direct beef with Drew, but I cancelled my paid Sourcehut account after getting a clear message that Drew wasn’t interested in supporting anyone who wants to use the software he writes on non-FOSS systems.

It’s a stricter stance than the FSF, and I won’t support the FSF financially (as I fundamentally do not agree with their mission, their licence, or their leadership). So…Sourcehut gets a year of paid support from me, but that’s it. It fundamentally doesn’t interest me, because I’m not interested in using Linux or FreeBSD as a daily driver.
> adox" that takes this phenomenon even further: the more choices people have, the less uniform the distribution is, and the more it favors the top producers.

> reply

Can you at least share how you found your niche?
> My experience is that soft-deletes are blunt tools bridging the gap between hard deletes and event sourcing

Agreed, sometimes it makes business-sense to implement it, but in the big picture it's still kludgy and not-ideal.

While full-on event-sourcing isn't always the answer, once business-rules prevent you from un-deleting anything there's not much point of having all those dead-rows interspersed in your regular tables.
Sure, but just consider how many billions (trillions when we consider global spending?) of dollars are spent on either ways to kill other humans, or ways to defend from other people killing humans. What an amazing civilization we might be able to be, hundreds of years beyond our current level, if we could put that money toward literally anything else.

Yes, the grandparent mentioned health care, but there's a lot more that's possible. And hell, even if no one fixed the health care system in the US such that spending could go down to reasonable levels, I'd still imagine we could have free -- if expensive -- health care for all if we didn't have to allocate so much money to the military.

But that's not the world we live in; military preparedness is an absolute necessity.
As my friend said - a single shot 22 rifle is better than a club; it's a club that shoots a 22 round!

The point is the best gun is the one you have with you at the time.
It wasn't like that for the HTC Desire at least, back in 2011 when I rooted mine I simply ran the Revolutionary utility and it was unlocked.
The information is withheld because they protect the anonymity of the whistleblower. The point of the article is to remind people that financial regulators take care of their informants, both financially and in terms of privacy.
What's your point? That this is unreliable reporting?

I'll take your word for it that the met office didn't start collecting temperature data until 1914. Countless other entities didn't either, and none of them were cited either. In what year did Wikipedia start collecting temperature data?
> Seamless interop where existing, unmodified C++ APIs are made callable from safe Rust requires the C++ code to follow borrow checking rules at the API boundary.

> Seamless interop where safe Rust APIs are made callable from C++ requires C++ users to follow Rust borrow checking rules.

Their complaints about borrow checking rules at the interop layer ring hollow to me. Whether the new code is being written in Rust, Carbon, or C++... the lifetime of shared memory must be well-understood by the developer writing the code. Rust just makes this problem explicit and enforceable. Sweeping the problem under the rug isn't a better option.

> However Rust imposes stricter rules than C++, disallowing some design choices that were valid in C++.

The word "valid" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, and I'm generally skeptical of these "valid" architectures. If it is so easy to know that these architectures are valid, why do we still see so many memory safety issues in Google's C++ code? Incrementally restructuring C++ code to be more provably correct doesn't sound like a terrible thing... in fact, it sounds like exactly what they should be doing.

> However, we are not certain that [C++ can be migrated to Rust incrementally]

Firefox is a large, historically C++ codebase that has undergone incremental rewrite into Rust for years now. It seems quite certain that this is both possible and practical! Where is the uncertainty? Of course, Mozilla's budget pales in comparison to Google's.

Rust is an extremely extensible language, and it is absolutely possible for Google to build their own version of `rust-bindgen` that suits their particular C++ codebase's idioms. That would be a much simpler undertaking that achieves their goal of incrementally adopting memory safety.

I hate to disparage new languages, but this feels like Swift all over again... it's just NIH. At this point, the die has been cast, and I'm sure it would be career suicide in Google for anyone behind the Carbon project to admit at this stage that "actually, the project turned out to be unnecessary after a discussion on HN!", so I don't expect to change anyone's mind. I'm just wasting my breath making obvious counterarguments that I'm sure have already been considered and ignored.

To be extra clear, I would love to see a company like Google take on the challenge of building an ergonomic language that exceeds Rust in terms of safety, but Carbon is a half-measure that doesn't pretend otherwise. If all of Google's C++ code is magically rewritten in Carbon, they will still apparently have memory safety problems based on what Carbon's README says... and then it'll be time once again to consider "maybe we should have ported to Rust after all". It just feels like such a waste.
Damn. I've been meaning to contact him about some old scheme proposals for a couple of years now. He wanted to rebase the language on a smaller core.

He wrote very clear comments on lambda-the-ultimate and did great things with Guile. If anyone has references to work he published please leave a pointer to them.

Brutal reminder to contact people sooner rather than later.
> Instead of keeping deleted data in the same tables from which it was deleted from, there can be a new relation specifically for storing all deleted data

The disadvantage of this is that if you ever do want to access this "deleted" data, e.g. in admin or compliance tools, you now have to do it in two different ways, one way for the main data and a different way in case the data has been "deleted".

The article asserts you'll never need to "undelete" the data. So they're presenting a solution with that assumption, fair enough. Without that assumption, however, moving the data back from an archive table becomes a pain, and if there are any unique constraints e.g. on username or email address, you'll have a problem if you've moved the data out of the main table and another user has used that username or email address.