skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a poorly researched piece that seems designed to drive a partisan wedge into the issue.

>> Actually, when you work, you already give to society, but that is too complex for some to understand.

Given the classic free-enterprise position[1] is exactly that “giving to society” should be accomplished through separate charitable organizations funded by business owners or employees, not by grafting secondary objectives onto unrelated businesses, I’m not sure which into which partisan divide it’s supposed to drive a wedge, exactly, in the WSJ of all places.

(Yes, that position has pretty low-hanging caveats, but it also has a point.)

[1] Friedman (1970), “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits”, https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
I have been arguing that we should be comparing EVs to their highest volume ICE counterparts in their class/tier of vehicle since that is going to be the most common upgrade path as EVs get more available and affordable. Additionally, we should look at TCO rather than MSRP for tiers since maintenance costs are so different. If comparing similar size/TCO vehicles with high volume, The lightest Model 3 weighs more than the heaviest Camrys and Accords and the lightest Model Y weighs more than the heaviest CR-Vs and Rav-4s. On top of that, Tesla is way ahead of most EVs on weight with the 3/Y. Similar range vehicles like the polestar 2 or the Ioniq 5 are really heavy by comparison.

In the US "capability" (even when we don't actually use it) is such a huge sell for many that I don't think were going to see a cultural shift to buying a smaller class of vehicle as you switch to EV. If anything Americans buy up as the operating costs go down.
> Believe it or not, places outside the US did do a 'real lockdown' for a lot longer than a month, and it didn't 'solve' covid.

If other countries harbour the virus then that won't eradicate it (and the countries with lockdowns will re-import it at some point).

As I indicated to dfbsdfbwe2ef2e, I think at this point in history it's really more interesting to get precise data, modelling. Not just to understand what could or could not have been done in the case of COVID-19, but also for the future, the next pandemic (or OK, even still COVID-19, if you're worried about the renewed rise), so that people will have a better foundation to discuss what the best path forward is.

Bickering about some imprecisely passed-around details doesn't seem to have any benefit at this point.
As an aside, I am always happy to see this type of discourse, HN is such a rare place. A discussion about a topic with lots of division and when people disagree, they are friendly and reasonable about it. Kudos to both of you.
One of my children is currently very afraid of statistically unlikely events causing him harm or death. Part of life is evaluating choices for likelihood of harm and deciding if that is an acceptable risk.

I’m not saying this or that about the causes that led to this illness, but 30 cases per country is a bit hard to justify as an input to decision making, especially at a community or country level. It’s valuable information, but if we hid under the sheets for everything that affected a small portion of the population, we’d all have bed sores.
It seems like every time I want to get away for some period I am called back. My bosses work mornings and evenings so they're seemingly always around needing something. And if I don't take care of things right away they just push tasks I'm working on, so my task list never shrinks, only grows.

It's definitely a bad situation but every job I've had ends up like this so I dunno, feels like my only option is to get out ASAP. (And FWIW I'm well in to middle age.)
> The CDC admitted that 94% of the deaths attributed to COVID in the United States were deaths with COVID.

100% of deaths attributed to COVID are _also_ deaths with COVID.

What's your point?
Isn't it worth it to launch another one? Wouldn't the cost be minimal given that zero R&D is required?
Not sure if irony/sarcasm will lead to a more productive discussion.

FYI chicken pox is not part of the routine vaccine schedule (in the UK) to protect unvaccinated adults:

"There's a worry that introducing chickenpox vaccination for all children could increase the risk of chickenpox and shingles in adults."

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/chickenpox-vaccin...
Authentication Risks Discovered in Okta Platform
A more concise way to synthesize tetrodotoxin
Carbon, Go, Sawzal, Dart.

Is this a retention activity, or do they honestly think that creating their own programming languages and tooling will help them meet their goals?
Probably talking about this[] from[]. I think it's overstated, though. The telescope seems to have a lot of redundancy and flexibility.

[] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jNgqXUj6dDVWbSvkw5ngMk-970...

[] https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeor...
It's gotta be a typo. Front wheel drive gives you the opposite of a lot of space in the wheel wells.
Depend on what you mean by public, if made publicly available to universities after claims and research proposals, great. General public is probably a bad idea and waste of resources.
Doing well by doing good
> If not then sorry, a chance of displacement is a part of renting, so you gotta live with it.

But you understand that these people are renting because they have no other choice, right? And I don't think "they cashed out" is the only explanation - there's also the possibility that they could no longer pay their property taxes.

Your comment comes across as extremely tone deaf to the reality that a lot of people will always have to rent because they cannot afford to buy, because the only new things that get built are extremely expensive "luxury" apartment buildings.
Mostly laziness... Should have said 'Europe' or 'Afro-Eurasia' instead.
https://www.google.com/search?q=james+webb+damage+calibratio...
No. That study didn’t even measure EV tire dust, they extrapolated it from weight.

Ignores that the rest of the car tends to be light weighted, etc

Also ignores that EVs universally use low rolling resistance tires, which dissipate less energy in rolling friction and thus less energy to produce tire particulates. (Rubber is also not nearly as bad as these PAHs.)
After these pediatric hepatitis cases popped up, there was a vocal contingent of MDs and Zero COVID types on Twitter arguing that it showed the urgent necessity to do whatever it takes to protect children from SARS-CoV-2 infections. It's sad to think that this fearmongering is probably causing a lot of children not to get the pathogen exposure they need in early childhood.
Integration is totally fine, and I think payments are a very valid use-case. But the app doesn't rely on a blockchain or have a token to achieve its core functionality.

> Supporting Bitcoin in any way is a sign that they are incapable of detecting scams that will destroy life on earth

Well, we couldn't disagree more there. A focus on bitcoin while ignoring other crypto scams shows a great deal of sophistication, understanding of the space, and moral fortitude.
Ask HN: Why has the quality of discourse on HN gone downhill?
I know - this is probably the thousandth time you have heard this complaint, but please hear me out.

I have been lurking and reading on HN since 2016 (I never actively commented til 2019), and the spirit of discussion was outstanding then (2016-2020). The amount of high quality posts and discussions about the technical and operational sides of technology and the tech industry was astounding! Yet, something seems to have changed with the culture on this site since 2020 - it feels as if the site has become a parody of itself, with “edgy” hot takes, cargo culting around supposedly conventional knowledge, and the insane amount of “stanning” of certain figures gossip and a handful of companies.

The increase in political content as well has been a massive change on this site as well, and as this is a discussion board it is fair game for everyone to have a say assuming civility. Yet this civility does not exist - discussions instead devolve into a passive aggressive form of brawling, with no actual insights coming out from other side.

Finally, as someone who is friends with a number of YC founders, there has been a recent trend among batchmates to start creating false traction/“demand Gen” for their products by astroturfing comments and submissions. And this is without explicitly saying it’s a marketing post.

Big picture, it almost appears as if HN has become what Reddit felt like in 2015-16, which pushed me to this site itself, and it is extremely depressing for me to see a discussion board that has helped propel my career start to lose it’s low noise to story ratio.
Every single manufacturer in the car industry collectively cancelled their orders?

Tesla, for instance, would’ve had completely different forecasting as an EV-only manufacturer with multiple new models and lines coming to the market. I have doubts that they would have scaled back orders.
It is worth pointing out the distributed systems tend towards centralization over time.

Keeping things decentralized is always going to be an active effort. Fundamentally decentralized vs centralized is also robustness vs efficiency. Anybody with a short returns horizon that hasn't been burned yet prefers efficiency.
Unfortunately it's more common than you think... I remember this case in particular from some years ago:

https://www.legalreader.com/st-jude-medical-files-lawsuit-ag...
But would it be necessary for ICANN to participate in or consent to someone else (trustworthy) making their registry available over GNS?
Alternately, if the US and other countries hadn't half-assed their response with the pseudo-lockdowns, the "lockdowns" would have been far shorter, fewer, and farther between. Nobody advocated for months-long "lockdowns" where the upper socioeconomic groups would stay home and pretend they were on a fun vacation while the rest were crowded into shipping facilities, food packing plants, and so on in order to make the "fun vacations" possible.
Malaysia or Singapore (island on the equator).

Spain Balearics or Canary Islands.
Did COVID really kill 6 million? At least in the US hospitals got extra funding for any patient identified with COVID so you routinely saw deaths (like gunshot wounds!) attributed to COVID when COVID clearly wasn't the primary cause.

Because of the ridiculous politicization of COVID and the response to it I take NOTHING at face value since every time the "experts" make an assertion, those assertions change months (if not weeks) later. Just look at the ridiculous evolution of masking guidance. How the vaccine story evolved from you won't get it it to you won't spread it to well, maybe your symptoms won't be quite as severe to the real truth after the FDA and Pfizer were forced to provide the background documentation after getting sued that the vaccines are less than 20% effective.
What a shock - big phrama that has already had to pay out billions in the past for lying was lying again?
I dunno, you can download a million or so PDFs from arxiv.org and even more from archive.org. They aren't hard to find.

There is something to say for roundtripping PDFs from source you control (you can accurately model the corruption produced by a particular system) but you will certainly see new and different phenomena if you try more.

I'd agree that spacy's sentence segmentation is better than many of the alternatives.
What is keeping Zettelkasten from being adopted by a lot of other people is probably the unnecessary complexity and over-commercialization of note-taking systems. Zettelkasten is supposed to be simple and fluid at its core. You don't need to pay 100$ for a course to learn someone else's workflow, and overload your senses with a dozen plugins.
Hansen's Second Law: Clever is the opposite of maintainable

There is nothing that will stop a code review quicker than "I discovered a clever way to..." A dozen engineers are going to have to try to reverse engineer your cleverness in order to safely make any change to your code, so you'd better make double-sure that the performance you're buying with your cleverness is worth the total maintenance cost going forward.

There are some times it's worth it (the Fast InvSqrt hack and many others), but most of the time, it's just tickling our intellectual curiosity for our own benefit, and that's a bad trade.
Having not read the book OP mentioned, I would say it's important to emphasize that structure does not necessarily mean abstraction. Starting a new project is more like getting groceries and stocking the pantry than it is starting a stew and agonizing over which type of onions to toss in.

Good abstractions evolve naturally out of good structure.
Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2
I Don't Miss Bluefin Sushi (2009)
I will give this guy a point: Effective Altruism likes to mingle with crypto too much for my taste. I think if they stayed away from it their public image would be better.

The rest of the article is really ... well all opinion. "I don't like this, this is bad".

And yes, I realize that I did the same thing with crypto on my first paragraph. But I would have provided credible sources to sustain my claims if I was writing a piece on wsj.
How fast are the compile speeds compared to C++?

If Carbon can convert existing C++ code, still be human readable and have way faster compile speeds, then yeah it can kill C++.

I think I’ll wait couple more years before trying though.
Why are new languages always putting the type on the right :(
This is a hypothesis based on a sample size of 9 and already in the comments people are treating it like gospel while pushing their political agendas.

Humanity is really (mostly) unfit to deal with both nuanced information and collective action problems.
Rolling also incurs wear. Going at a constant speed still requires shear stress on the tires like acceleration does (to counter air resistance, etc). So reduction in air resistance can also help reduce tire wear.

EV drivers typically brake a little more gradually to maximize regeneration compared to conventional braking. Having each wheel be driven by electric motors with careful traction control can minimize tire wear as well.

If tire wear is the problem we’re trying to address, it might be a good idea to include a specific fee to address it. Related to tire composition and regular annual inspection of tires. That way wear can be minimized in an effective way. Or we develop tire tread whose wear particulates are not a major problem.

Which brings up a point: we have little to no evidence that tire particulates DO pose an actual problem, unlike PAHs, which we do have evidence for. Rubber is somewhat biodegradable already. And the wear particles may be of a size distribution that isn’t so problematic. Detection or extrapolation of existence is not evidence for a problem.

We are multiple levels removed from EVs theoretically having higher weight to actual known health problems here, and likely due to better control and lower rolling resistance, it’s likely EVs are superior.
So the University of Minnesota faked Alzheimer's research and injected Linux kernel bugs on purpose? [1]

Not feeling so proud as an alumni today.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
Is there a new leading theory?
Isn't that exactly what has NOT happened here? Some combination of:

* People not checking

* People checking and joining the fraud

* People checking, not joining the fraud and then getting their work suppressed.
A sufficiently fast and heavy collision with a star might also do the trick but that is a thing we haven't observed.
I think those two are examples of why it's not getting better. People point at these lame kludges and think "well maybe it's secure". But CT doesn't stop attacks and literally nobody looks at it anyway. And nobody uses CAA, and even if they did, it depends on the security of their name servers, the DNS protocol, BGP, and other things, all of which are insecure.

There is simply no way to secure a domain name without having asserted it cryptographically from the people who actually control the domain: the registrar. Only the registrar knows who owns the domain, and what that owner will allow to happen with the domain. A CSR must go through the registrar, and the registrar must pass the request to the human who owns the domain for validation. (This can be automated by the owner for automatic cert renewal.) This puts the power in the hands of the people who really control the domain, rather than a bunch of wonky insecure kludges to kinda-sorta-validate who might control a DNS record or some temporary IP space or an email address or some other nonsense.

It's friggin' 2022. If we land on Mars before we figure out how to control domain names securely, we are truly an incompetent industry.
Randy Shilts' book And the Band Played On spends a lot of time on exactly this problem during the early days of AIDS. Closing the bathhouses was controversial and resisted for too long.
'When you respond to me the first and last words out of your mouth are "I think"' just doesn't resonate the same
As a web developer, I certainly agree that doing this sort of stuff using web techs is almost certainly like using a howitzer to swat a fly, especially when security is a concern, and I'm kinda surprised… well, not surprised, but more dismayed by the number of replies to the OP saying they did this with web techs. When all you have is a hammer…
Impressive. This would be great for drone flight controller software, as almost 100% of the racing controller market is STM32 processors.
Its good to watch youtube tech channels. But nothing replaces books in my experience. Get in to the habbit of reading books and watch videos only occasionally.
We'll have to wait until someone breaks it down into a rhyming Harry Potter reference or something.
Man you could turn this into an awesome conspiracy theory with iron nano particles and gene modifying RNA being injected and then controlled using 5G.
>Center of Gravity lower than the >axle, giving it zero body roll >when cornering

That's not exactly how it works, the center of gravity should match up with the kinematic roll center of the axle linkage for there to be zero rolling moment.
wasn't go supposed to be a replacement for C++?
That sounds like a great classic, someone should turn it into a movie...

Seriously, as a not-so-serious video game it could be a ton of fun!
Calibration image here[0]. According to the article, it still operates well within its parameters. Still feels like getting a ding on your new car though doesn't it?

[0] https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeor...
Don't you need to know when all borrows end? E.g. here:

fn main() {
let x = [1, 2, 3];
println!("{:?}", x);
let y = x.map(|x| x % 2 == 0);
println!("{:?}", y);
}

x is borrowed by println (or rather by code that println expands to) and then it is moved by array::map. The compiler needs to know that before x.map(), x is not borrowed anymore. Otherwise it could be that println actually stored a reference to x somewhere and now you have a dangling reference possibly breaking type-safety (referring to an array of bools through a reference to array of ints, if the map is implemented as an in-place operation).
1. I would expect the window would be the same as you have now to contest the value. Ideally nobody would exercise this right since it is essentially an SLA for government assessment quality. Everyone would rather have an assessment be consistent and slightly conservative than arbitrary and inflated.

2. I don't see the exploit? If they sell below market value then the government gets the profit.
It may be different in Hill Country but in Dallas and Houston the water table is just too high in most places to make a basement realistic.
That first summer lots of kids went to sleepaway camp and caught the virus there.

Then instead of just staying at the camp where it would be contained and burn itself out, the camps themselves shut down and sent everyone home on regular commercial flights. Completely inexplicable and inexcusable.
High quality glass diffusors so at least the light is more indirect?
Though I am no expert and am unsure whether this remains the case, I recall reading some time ago that Heartbeast had some bad practices in his code and that it was better to learn from GDQuest/Nathan Lovato's content instead. His content is also recommended on the official docs at https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/community/tutorials.h...

GDQuest made an excellent web"app" (also available as a desktop application, I believe all versions are made in Godot) that provides an interactive introduction to GDScript: https://gdquest.github.io/learn-gdscript

It's my favorite resource for learning Godot and I can heartily recommend GDQ's channel
https://youtube.com/channel/UCxboW7x0jZqFdvMdCFKTMsQ/playlis...
That is not correct because the damage is not present in the first calibration images that were released.
You can do it with custom elements, e.g.

<dom-calc>
const p = document.createElement('button');
p.innerText = 'hi';
p.onclick = () => alert('hi');
return p;
</dom-calc>

For something like:

class CalcElement extends HTMLElement {
connectedCallback() {
setTimeout(() => {
const fn = new Function(this.innerText);
this.replaceWith(fn());
}, 0);
}
}

customElements.define('dom-calc', CalcElement);
Ask HN: How to find the right tech angel investor for new programming platform?
Here is platform/OS demo video https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/732098541

The tech https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181251
I spent half of my iOS experience of a decade in ObjC and the last half in Swift. I also used ObjC way back when it was in NeXT. No comparison, you'd have to have your head examined to start something in ObjC today. The only reason to do it is maintain an old codebase; in my last job we replaced a huge ObjC codebase (written before I got there) entirely in Swift with higher quality and no issues (reason why was not just to convert it, it was part of a large new invasive project that was canceled but we shipped the Swift rewrite anyway).
Not being familiar with the literature world, are the "new editions" typically standardized, or are there many competing new editions for a given title? How do you tell which one(s) are the higher quality new editions?
I can't find a reference right now, but delayed exposure is thought to be one reason why polio turned into a severe disease. Polio has been endemic in humans for generations, but it started causing severe disease in the late 1800's/early 1900's.

Previously, infants were exposed to polio, but increasing hygiene meant that exposure would be delayed.

Again, I can't find a reference for this now, so I'm probably getting details wrong.
Not even just violence - corruption seems pretty bad as well. I personally know two different people who were extorted by the police there, and when I asked by friend who is from there, she said stuff like that happens all the time.
Also applies to the small mountain towns of the American West. Having all that billionaire money buying ranches does inject a small bump into the local construction/food/services economy at the cost of affordability for the workers themselves. Locals eventually get priced out.
sonic fans have mostly decided that was a bad port, saying that might do more damage than good
I think JS got it right with "const" and "let"
To me it’s like when they say xy stock plummets (by 5%)
This virus can also live in and be transmitted by animals.

You going to lock down all the wild animals in the environment too?

Lockdowns have zero chances of working and were dumb from day one. We got played by China - voluntarily kneecapped our economies after falling for the political theater they put on for us welding apartments shut and all that.
I find it fascinating that so few still seem to ignore that they shut down internal travel but still allowed travel outside their country. Nothing suspicious in that at all.