skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a sequel article that goes over how well it's held up:

https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-its-h...
Yes backup cameras are mandated for new vehicles now. The regulation was put into place starting MY 2020.
Didn't that work out for them in the film because some crazy person blew up the first one?
Was going to reply along these lines. I was fortunate to live with someone who was working on the James Webb and telling me excitedly about it — back in 2006! Surely even with the various upgrades/spec changes/delays, things have moved sufficiently that whatever is started even today will be a marked upgrade.

In any event, many many areas to aim at, and relatively limited funding unfortunately.
Hmm, wonder why the 1 year ago post is posted instead of the new one today that follows up 1 year later: https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-its-h...
Generally most of my refactoring is cutting out code; I love an excuse to chunk down excessively verbose classes.. maybe I'm weird but I generally prefer a lean, concise codebase that might share a few free functions than a perfect OOP pyramid.
This was exactly the same for me. I wasn't sure if all pipes had to be water tight or not. Once I understood what the actual constraints were I could solve the next ones quicker.
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I remember VCs telling me to be a platform, not a product. "Look at what FB is doing!" It made sense for FB, but that doesn't mean it makes sense for everyone.

A sticky platform will be stickier than a sticky product. But that doesn't mean every product should be made into a platform.
the whole point of effective autism is to be effective even if it doesn’t satisfy people’s aesthetic sensibilities. EAs are responsible for the FTX foundation donating millions of dollars to highly cash-efficient charities. that potentially saves hundreds of lives, and certainly improved tens of thousands more. That seems like a pretty good thing to me and I’m glad it happened, although I admit I’m biased because I have a financial interest in crypto
If you build it yourself then some /many of the regulations don’t apply. For example you don’t need airbags (in Massachusetts). It varies by state:

https://www.semasan.com/resources/everything-you-need-regist...

Roughly the same thing is true for airplanes - experimental (“home built”) have to be airworthy but not certificated.

They say it’s due to long tradition of DIY vehicles in America.
What a very websitey web site. My first thought when I saw that home page was "boy, I bet if I keep scrolling, there's going to be empty areas on the page where things obnoxiously animate into place" and BOY HOWDY.

For your free tier which claims to offer unlimited emails, how are you stopping people from signing up and using it to blast out spam until you find it and kill their account (after which they will just sign up for another free account)? Services like these need to be very careful they're not sending out spam lest spam daemons start dropping all messages from their servers, causing emails from legitimate users to never hit their destination. If you don't have some extreme limits on this (like maybe one outgoing message per five minutes) I would suggest you do away with the free tier. Given the enormity of the problem of email spam and the disastrous effects being seen as a spam collaborator will have on your legit users, there's really no shame in getting a card on file and maybe even doing other identity validation before letting users send email with a tool like this.
No one should be BLASTing individual reads... And pretty much no one is going to be assembling with OLC, even for ONT data.

On the products page it says they provide FASTQs, aligned BAM and VCF. Which is exactly what one would expect. They're almost certainly just running the DRAGEN pipeline (or something similar) and giving you the output it creates.
> It sure beats a gas-powered UTV since I never have to fill it up or choke on exhaust.

I don't know much about this site or the article author, but I have a hard time believing that this is anything but a dramatic exaggeration.

I own a farm. I (and no one I know) would never seriously rely on an electric vehicle for utility. In general the batteries just aren't there and the rate at which they lose capacity is just too high to justify the cost. For $7,000 you could have a used UTV/SXS or a quad with a trailer in most markets. Both would handily outdo this Alibaba amalgamation.

I won't even get into all the horror stories about uncaught grounds and battery safety for things on that site or the fact that preferring electric to ICEs is more of a virtue signal than net benefit for the planet. Cool experiment though.
You see so many mid 80s Accords in the US for the same reason you still see a lot of 90s Caddys despite them being objectively crap cars. The people who bought them could afford to keep them nice, not beat the shit out of them and maintain them as they needed it so they lasted. Your average 1990ish Accord commuter sedan lived a far, far, far easier life, at least for the first 10-15yr than your average Ford Taurus or Subaru Legacy family wagon and it shows in the number that are still around today.

This is the same reason you see a lot more Grand Marquis and Town Cars to (non-cop) Crown Vics today than you did back when they were still making all those things. I cite this example specifically to control for literally every variable except the owners.
The philosopher who can fix our economy
This parody scene from Carrotblanca is golden.. https://youtu.be/sKxP18Kvgr8?t=290

...lets we take Casablanca too seriously.
The author of this article does not understand FMVSS or DOT regulations.

1) Yes, this is true, for several years the FMVSS has required backup cameras for full speed cars. However, this isn't true for low speed vehicles.

2) This just isn't true at all. FMVSS do not require factories to be certified in any specific way. https://www.rearviewsafety.com/pub/static/version1558698936/... These are the requirements. Manufacturers self-attest that they comply. The NHTSA reserves the right to respond to complaints or independently inspect their vehicles. They don't inspect or register "factories."
Why does he need proof? People always say government is bad and evil therefore can't you just "feel" this is true?

Now take this as a fact and next time someone makes an accusation use it to show a history.
Exactly what I was thinking. Not to mention the prior experience with similar technologies.
"Although Bell and Telus offered to help, Rogers quickly determined that it would not be able to transfer its customers to its rivals’ networks because certain elements of the Rogers network, such as its centralized user database, were inaccessible as a result of the outage."

It sounds like their control/management plane (with the user's database) was dependent on their data plane. So a data plane outage was more challenging to mitigate than it should have been in a decoupled architecture. Good lesson for any architecture.
> If you significantly increase the number of units available via ADUs, then there's a lot more options to rent, and the demand to purchase houses goes down, bringing the prices down.

Why would demand to purchase houses go down? People aren't buying houses because they can't find rentals. People buy houses because they want to be homeowners.
tell me you live in a busier part of a global city without telling me you live in a busier part of a global city
Also, you may know there are certain areas required by the bid that are less desirable. As long as there is enough desirable in the there to make up whatever punative fines will be levied for failing on the other areas, then it's still a win for the company
The Valley is all suburbs, where people don't like that sort of thing. That being said, Palo Alto used to have a lot more homeless people, and more weirdness too. I can't imagine the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane starting there any more. Yet still I live in PA.

SF has always had a much higher tolerance for weird behavior. Back when the city was a bedroom community for the Valley, people lived there (I did too) for its weirdness and culture. What happened with the dot com boom is that people who didn't appreciate the weirdness showed up, moved to SF, and then complained about it.

Honestly SF is a lot cleaner and safer now. Those whiners would not have tolerated the true weirdness.
beginning of the Rustocene layer
My parents aimed for 1 level up from the opportunities they had. They didn't get a full education: finish highshcool or go to college. So that is what I did.
There aren't really any assets though. I just create the svgs dynamically. Maybe I need to place some strategic `Math.round` calls here and there, never thought of this =).
Your claim about northern cities is just not backed up by data, we have:

- the large amount of bike culture in Minneapolis, people ride all year long (once you're moving you'll stay pretty warm with the right gear) https://gearjunkie.com/biking/minneapolis-bike-capital

- the bike culture in Finland where it's even colder: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2020/feb/0...

the difference in most of the US that it's not prioritized by local government, bike lanes don't get plowed and fill up with gravel, there's not sufficient bike infrastructure to being with etc
Akshually, natural truffle aromatics are not oil-soluable, so the scent still comes from the synthetics and shavings are there just for the decor.
Car-dependent areas need a lot of requirements to thrive. They need large setbacks, minimum parking allotments, throughput requirements on entrances and exits, etc. Walkable areas have minimal setbacks and can have no minimum parking allotments. This lends itself to smaller building footprints and correspondingly lower building and maintenance rents. Smaller, lower-revenue businesses can afford to rent these smaller locations out. Correspondingly small businesses in walkable locations need to spend less money on signage (as only those on foot will need to see it) and marketing as foot traffic naturally leads to serendipitous shopping.
The idea of classes on their own isn't complicated. The problem is that C++ provides an extreme amount of flexibility in how you use them.

You can have multiple inheritance. You can have as many levels of partially implemented, partially abstract classes as you like provided you eventually have a concrete class, and these abstract classes can have member data. You can have static methods, which I've seen abused as namespaces so often. You can have static methods and non static ones in a class hierarchy. Finally you can mix templates into this.

In an ideal world the developers of a project in a company would collaborate to keep this from getting out of control and enforce a relatively consistent philosophy. However in practice people have their quirks and specific not always rational views, and programmers are in general not always the best at dealing with other people, programmers included.

So a strong personality is determined to do it one way and refactors a bunch of code to their liking, and on and on, and now a variety of features have been used in different ways.

No language is immune to this as it is fundamentally a human problem, but taking out features generally helps. Since we can get by without inheritance most of the newer languages have done away with it.
This article mentions some of the others who are part of the effort: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/tech-giants-try-banishin...

> Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon launched a public effort Monday to scrap the leap second, an occasional extra tick that keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's actual rotation. US and French timekeeping authorities concur.

> ... The tech giants and two key agencies agree that it's time to ditch the leap second. Those are the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its French equivalent, the Bureau International de Poids et Mesures (BIPM).
Imagine hitting a pedestrian at 4mph on the side of the road with one of your headlights. The headlight shatters.

However, the light turned out to not actually be safety glass and not shatter in harmless cubes but in nasty long splinters that hit an artery and the pedestrian bleeds out on the side of the road. The Chinese company won't give a shit because they have no certification so nothing to lose. They didn't even export it to you, some random AliExpress seller did. So you end up in jail for it.

This kind of learning from previous mistakes informed the complex legislation around vehicles. Most of these things have good reason, not just lobbying. Manufacturers love cutting costs and you need a big stick to keep them honest. Remember the Ford Pinto? The Boeing 737MAX? Or what Volkswagen did to trick emissions tests? In fact I'd be surprised if the factories welcome all the paperwork that comes with it.

In the end it's not to protect the industry, it's to protect the people (not just you but other road users as well) from an "all too eager to cut corners" industry. And random Chinese factories love cutting corners even more and there's virtually no risk to them. The only way to be sure is to have the whole chain certified.
> Who said that time needs to be in sync with rotation of the earth? Nobody, who cares?

Humans sleep, usually at night time, and the rotation of the Earth defines night in any location, so regardless of the continual tick of some sort of "universal clock" we need a way to measure daily events that humans can use that rely on the sun going up and down at certain times and thus we need to adjust our local Earth times based on it's rotation.

Maybe we can decouple UTC (or whatever) from local times completely, so then a leap second is just a second we add to or remove from the offset for any given location, but we still need to deal with adjusting local clocks to the rotation of the Earth and it's orbit around our star, the "Sun".
That is a very loaded question
I feel like there’d be consequences for up-and-comers against incumbents, who would have a huge brand lead.
I guess, you've claimed that "SF should reinvent itself along these lines" in response to an article that specifically includes biking as part of its 15-min definition. I've suggested that in SF we probably largely already meet that definition, relying heavily on the "or" in "on foot, by bike, or on public transit". It sounds like you're now discounting a whole mode of transit that was repeatedly discussed in the article, on the basis of not being universally accessible.

I would hasten to point out that not everyone walks or can take all public transit (BART elevators frequently being broken is an issue for wheelchair users, for example).

> Plus biking in SF isn’t the same as biking in Manhattan.

It's true SF has more hills. But why should Manhattan be the baseline? Wrt getting to necessities within 15m, I still think almost all of the city qualifies. We don't mostly put our grocery stores on hilltops, for example.

I'll refine my point: even though SF does have a bunch neighborhoods which are set up to be residential, the city's small footprint means that without trying all that hard, people end up being close in absolute distances to the necessities of life anyway.

I do think it's worth pointing out that Tokyo and Moscow each have literally >10x the population of SF. It's kind of an apples-and-oranges comparison; of _course_ they have more rapid public transit.
>The ad hominem is in referring to the person making the argument rather than speaking to the argument.

You've almost got it. The key thing you're missing is: "in a context where you are implied to be speaking to the argument". It's fallacious because it attempts to treat something that is not an argument as being one, not because the category "statements that aren't arguments" is automatically fallacious in all contexts.

If I said, "your argument is wrong because it's raining", that would be fallacious (unless your argument actually relied on the weather in some way). On the other hand, if I interjected, "it's raining!", that would just be an off-topic comment, not a fallacy. Same idea.

>No it isn't, because Socrates is not the man, here. The man, in this context, is whomever is making the argument.

That certainly can be Socrates. For example:

Socrates: I am immortal!

Interlocutor: Actually, Socrates, all men are mortal, and you are a man. Therefore, you are mortal.

Is the interlocutor committing a fallacy? Or how about here:

Socrates: Apples grow from trees. This oak tree is a tree. Therefore apples grow from this oak tree. That was a valid syllogism.

Interlocutor: Actually, Socrates, that was an example of affirming the consequent. A valid syllogism looks like this: All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal.

>First of all, no I did not, but more importantly, this could not be equivalence because purpose and purpose are the same words with the same meaning.

Again, you're unnecessarily preoccupied with the definition of the word "purpose". I've already given you an example (that you failed to address) where it clearly means something different from "the intent of a person" -- the plant leaves -- but if you insist that it can't be used that way, fine; the author used a word incorrectly; whatever. Just substitute the word "function" and move on to addressing the substance of the matter instead of the definition of a word.
Photons travel at c, so don’t they experience no time? Wouldn’t they be zero old?
Plucking from Google scholar you can check

this https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.222658699

and this https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/eat.22531

among many others...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=7%2C39&q=ser...

A key point is that the same anomalies are seen in anorexia, binge eating and bulimia.
Every new vehicle has to have a backup camera.
It depends on context. A household of two earners working for big techs living in a $2M home in Bay Area is definitely comfortable, but by no means upper class. Most of their incomes are still from a W2 form and they still have to budget for kids' school, retirement, etc.
What air conditioned UTV is available for $7000?
Dumping is when a country is subsidizing domestic production and selling a good internationally below cost. Japan isn't dumping because they don't subsidize the manufacturer. Instead they just have onerous regulations that make private parties sell their cars. They artificially stimulated local demand
This is not an acceptable way to speak here. When you find yourself adding emotional content including insults before your statements take a breath and delete everything but the factual statements. For example you could have simply said

"If you click the link, you will find out exactly how the dataset was gathered"

It would have added the same value without degrading the conversation or being rude.

Thank you.
Play for small children is more than just amusement, it's literally them practicing being people. That is why play is often centered on being someone/something else. Child psychology, and its study of play, is really interesting.

There are methods like Montessori that try a more hands-off approach and let kids be kids. Other cultures, like Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Enough!) give kids real responsibilities at a much younger age, letting them apply that practice.

I will say that in the defense of your brother, parents are often stricter with kids in front of other people. If they never discipline them, then they won't follow rules. You don't want to be the parent whose kids run around and scream at the restaurant.

At the end of the day, its balancing act. Letting them run free turns them into little monsters, but strict discipline only turns them into a different kind of monster.
Given that this process must manufacture carbon monoxide to serve as an ingredient, I wonder if it could be installed on some CO-emitting equipment to capture and benefit from it.
Maybe, rather than php, a "reactjs for c" is the direction you're heading
Sound's like it's quite a lot to live on if you have enough cash on hand to travel only "mostly" on PEP.

>That's the point. They are NOT!

Your private pension might not be - but with Health Care, business expenses and certain type of insurances there's more than "virtually no deductible costs" though.

There's a lot of stuff that seems unfair, I agree. I'm not here to debate that you pay more into the system as others and don't get more benefits from it - but the picture you're painting of a 70 % overall tax rate and "not a lot to live on" strikes me as a bit too grim.
I heard that the teams were having trouble communicating with each other and so the ones who pushed the config might not have been the ones looking for hackers.

This is why some hospitals still use the old pager systems to contact people in the city. One hospital-owned antenna on a battery can coordinate a lot of people. I don’t know what the equivalent to that would be in this case though.
Short sidewalls ostensibly offer better cornering because there is less deflection in the sidewall. They also enable the use of larger brakes. Drag racers don't care about this since they don't turn unless something has gone wrong and they have lots of room to slow down. In drag racing the sidewall is used like a coil spring to capture torque before moving forward and then transmit it to the course.

Stance kids and all their variants do things because it looks good to them.
I'll be the odd man out amongst the responses and agree with you.

Not everyone needs/wants to be a software engineer or other kind of computer savvy person. The majority of people get along with life just fine these days with just a smartphone and/or tablet as their only computing device.

Now the caveat to this is, what if your child is the next potential super rockstar ninja pirate 100x SWE in waiting? I suppose there is nothing wrong with trying to get them interested in computers.

I kinda wonder how I would raise my own future kid when I hear stories of superstars in various realms ranging from musicians* to Formula1 drivers, etc. Most of them started extremely young - young enough that the decision to get them involved was their parents', not their own.

* I had a friend who was an absolute kickass cellist. However he claimed he would never advance beyond the ranks of a school music teacher because he started the instrument at age 8 whereas the real talent start before age 5. It boggled my mind.
> In Australia if someone hits me and is caught, they’re fucked.

Only if you are white. Your life is worthless if you aren't.
> I don't find Internet on flights a particular convenience

YMMV. I love being able to stay in touch with my folks or scroll HN/Reddit while I'm in the air with nothing to do but read a book or try to nap.

> take showers at airline clubs

That video is about Emirates First Class, where one can take a shower during the flight. This kind of convenience costs somewhat obscene amount of money, most people here I guess aren't the target audience.
It's just not true - the author of this article doesn't understand FMVSS or the process.

How this works is basically:

1) There are safety guidelines (FMVSS) governing classes of motor vehicles. For LSVs, the regulations are _extremely_ simple. There's no such thing as a "DOT reverse camera factory." https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/571.500

2) The manufacturer must self-attest that the vehicle complies, and affix a label confirming this self-attestation.

That's pretty much it. Now the NHTSA will do what they need to to enforce their rules. If customers complain or independent testing reveals a violation, they will require a recall or ban certain vehicles or makes, or sue the manufacturer or importer.

But there's no reason these vehicles couldn't be compliant if the manufacturer was willing to attest, and also no such weirdness as "DOT factories."