skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, no. Essentially all the aero stuff you see in racing, including active aero and fans and stuff, is to increase downforce. Which is absolutely useless, unless you're going more than 150 km/h (90 mph) while cornering hard.

Take the active spoiler on a Tesla Model X for instance - it is 100% a toy for people who enjoy the Transformers aesthetic. I don't think there are published numbers for it, but the Porsche Panamera which has a substantially more agressive spoiler is reported to produce a whopping 7 kg downforce at 250 km/h (150 mph), decreasing substantially at lower speed.

In the ordinary cars that actually need spoilers - famous example is the Audi TT - it's in order to fix crappy airflow giving lift at high speed, that is caused by the design of the car being optimized for looks rather than aero.

And aerobrakes?? Anything that's not big enough to cover 4 highway lanes is completely ineffective at speeds below 100 km/h (60 mph). It would be substantiallt more useful to install boat anchors.
I don't remember downvoting comments/posts on HN. But when I reply to someone I don't downvote them. It just doesn't seem right.
I'm sure there are a number, and I probably can't remember most of them off-hand. But a few come to mind:

The Pyramid Principle

The Mom Test

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming -- this one so recently that my copy hasn't even arrived yet. I think I found out about it literally like maybe 3 days ago or so.

The Master and Margarita

Solaris

The Gervais Principle

Not sure if I've ever bought anything besides books based off of an HN recommendation or not. Thinking about it, I'd guess probably at least once, but if so I can't recall what it was now.
> enables conditional generation of 3D scenes from different modalities like text or RGB images.

Please help me understand few dumb questions I have.

- What exactly is used as an input to generate such scenes is it just few pictures or even text description?

- Is it able to generate data for something which was not in the input? Like you have some common object in the corner of your photo and its able to expand the picture as if you had it in the frame in the first place?

- What is the end game of technologies like these? Could it be one day fed lets say every piece of data google has about the world like every 360 picture, every book, article, video, movie and so on allowing you to take picture of something and spawning infinitely walkable world looking and behaving as our reality? Similar to procedurally generated video game map.
A few comments above this one there is a subthread on the meaning of "pedant", you might enjoy it.
I inherited a part of the org with a history of underperforming[1]. I'm not worried about losing my job, but I am worried about the entire division getting re-orged, or, worst case scenario, laid off.

[1] It would not be an exaggeration to say that this division has literally never produced value for the company.
How does legal consenting porn, sex work, or similar impact you if you are not consuming it yourself?

It has no more of an impact on you than if someone else spends their nights playing video games.

If you have a problem with it existing that is your fault and not the fault of other people. But that is an internalized problem for you.
Right now a lot of socialist parties in Europe want to shut down porn and sex work under the name of feminism as well. As an example Spain where they are also in power. Thinking only about American Christians is short sighted, there's a lot of pressure from people who want nothing to do with Christianity but see the industry as exploitive and anti woman.
For the same reason poor people like quiet.
Thanks, I will contact you soon.
I am not OK with public social arts being rebranded for corporate PR
Caesarean-section removed this constraint. Since it was introduced, the number of births requiring a C-section due to size have increased:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38210837
But it doesn’t though! A typical laptop can easily hold tens of thousands of I/O connections open at once in your favorite async I/O environment - that number can be in the millions with careful optimizations applied. Each connection just needs a sleep(3) applied between the initial form request and the submission.

A 3 second form delay just means the difference between a spammer launching 1000000 requests and posting them immediately to your database, vs them launching 1000000 requests and posting them to your database 3 seconds later.
Give me a slow, brittle, complicated, poorly documented app written in X by a bunch of people who have long since left the company, and I'll show you a way to make a person hate X.

It doesn't matter what X is.

And it's a shame, because improving or replacing those legacy X's can be a big opportunity, if the person is set up to seize it in the right way.
For lack of time to elaborate in detail, here’s a rapid fire (in no particular order): Guix, Julia language, Framework laptops, PKM movement & tools (especially open and highly malleable substrates eg. the Emacs ecosystem), Glamorous Toolkit (another chance for SmallTalk), Perkeep, Nyxt browser.
This is what you get when there's an infinite cash cow (i.e. ads) that just keeps pumping money into a system. Like a particle simulation for which you set friction to zero, and keep injecting energy into it - there won't be a steady state, just all sorts of chaotic self-oscillations.
Based on context, I'd assume GP was referring to Wordpress.com, which requires none of that...
No one in these comments has said they thought that. The closest was someone saying 'he may not have invented it, but he brought it back.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find even a few instances out of the millions of viewers who would have thought Michael Scott invented the phrase.

I just assumed it was hyperbole.
Hint, that means nobody should be writing C.
If it was on successful validations, they would called it so, no it’s on every request, even failed ones.
In iOS there's still a "Google Duo" and a "Google Meet". If you install "Google Meet" it installs as "Meet (original)".

They need a product manager manager.
I think that commenter means it's logically impossible. In what sense is DAI "decentralized" if its value is set by the same centralized group that sets the value of a dollar?
Maybe we're expecting them to solve a different problem than they're built for.

As far as I can tell, the point of a delivery platform is to provide delivery services in a market where they traditionally didn't exist.

There's no claim they will improve the discovery experience. In fact, by obfuscating where you're actually ordering from-- making it less obvious "Oh, that's the place on Sixth where we all got food poisoning, let's not go back", they can further pollute it.

I could see saying "use the service, I want to order from Golden Lucky Dragon Palace, but can't be bothered to drive there myself", but saying "let's browse and hope to get lucky" is no better than opening the Yellow Pages to the restaurant section and selecting at random.
My favorite:

How many pancakes does it take to shingle a roof?

Orange, because snakes don't have armpits!
> Your attempt at proof by contradiction might be a list of things to prepare for.

It's not a proof by contradiction. It's showing that there are many long tail risks that are potentially very dangerous but also very expensive to try and prevent. It's not wrong, it's just a really difficult concept. The Fed interest's rate is a single tool that can be moved up or down.

What do you do with no model? How do you make decisions? Every decision, including making no changes, is very significant.
It's definitely hilarious that they literally have made so many different chat apps that they ran out of names they like! On the other hand, it's a bit confusing that upon realizing this, they've decided not only to just prune the number of chat apps but somehow end up duplicating names while doing this anyhow.
Are you comparing Visa to Disneyland? One’s a theme park, while the other controls over half of all credit purchase volume. It’s more like the power company shutting off access to Disneyland; the likely outcome is the rapists will just move elsewhere—there wasn’t anything Disneyland-specific making them rapists.
Who said anything about attackers?

This is about resets -- which happens if you forget your password, lose your 2FA device and codes, or you believe your password may be compromised.

Attackers would continue going after your passwords as they do now, and just like now, you'd never know when they've got yours except in the occasional breach-made-public. Attacking accounts by stealing passwords in bulk (through malware, hacking, etc.) is not made even a smidgen harder by this.

Remember this is about in-person password resets, not in-person logins.
Dammit I miss HyperCard. HyperCard got me in to programming by making it accessible to someone who didn't even realize they were doing it - my Hebrew teacher in third grade. There haven't been many tools that can make anything from a simple card file to Myst. I wish there was something like that today, or that I was a good enough engineer to contribute to a modern replacement.
The monopoly is the app store on existing iphones and ipads - not the device itself. Once you buy something with iOS you are locked into their store.
> When you hire some PM or brand manager who will be responsible for things like this ask them precisely how they will navigate this situation.

This is good advice for most companies, but for Google itself who could be trusted to evaluate these answers? From what I can see, their current product management is inept.
There is no evidence this is a widespread problem though.
Something like this?

<person>Jhon doe</person> started the <vehicle>car</vehicle>.
It's not that ironic, because the fuel for our comments is all the websites. We use HN to discuss but the vast majority of content is outside HN.

Unless you consider HN comments to be the actual content, like many people, me included.
Going too slow is definitely inefficient for non-hybrid cars and trucks, but the optimal speed for most vehicles is certainly not higher than 55 MPH.

Average fuel economy for cars and light trucks decreases 12% going from 50 to 60 MPH: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-982-june-19-2017-s...

Heavy trucks are the exception, they are typically designed for an operating point of 65 MPH. However, there are huge losses above that speed. No reason for a heavy truck to be going 70 or 75 MPH.

The American Trucking Association actually endorses a nation 65 MPH speed limit for trucks, which they say would save 280 million gallons of diesel per year: https://www.fleetowner.com/emissions-efficiency/article/2166...
Not forgetting the "meet" tab in the gmail app, for android. And I tend to use this most since meeting reminders come through mail
Seems like the pool of words is quite small; for example with T_RN it was clear that o or u would be the answer, even though a and e also give valid words
I have watched your company build up this tech for a little while now, I suspect there are realistically really only handful of us in game software who really know this stuff inside and out and who are contributing back their knowledge.

Thanks for dropping a reply on HN.

I can be reached at andrew at andrewmcwatters.com. I'll shoot you an email.
Bitcoin mining in the crypto crash: the mining companies’ creative accounting
A New Gun Law Reflects the Worst Instincts of Both Parties
In Alastair Reynold's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Space_universe there is a genetically and cybernetically engineered subspecies of humans called Conjoiners who do just that. They take it to such an extreme that they eventually need to engineer their skulls to grow heat-dissipating fins, because otherwise their brains would cook from the waste heat.
Monstrous Regiment by pratchett is basically this joke in novel form.
Because Google has unique policies and culture that generate these outcomes?
Offloading Work to GitHub Actions
The Ware Tetrology
Thanks for the Infos! For context: I used nimpy for a bit for a reimplementation on how Django hashes passwords, making use of one of python's std lib modules.

In terms of seamlessness, I can not confirm that it is exactly like having a python class, merely "fairly close".
If you define a type, you can pass it to python, python can instantiate (with the typical way of Type() ) or even receive instances (if you define e.g. a constructor proc yourself). It can pass the instances back to nim to work with no problem (see e.g. quick example I whipped up: https://pastebin.com/v5wAqGxZ).

However, I have found that there are differences of a nim-type to a pythonclass:

1) In python you do not have direct access to the fields of an instance of a nim-type. You can access them via getters and setters, but you'll get runtime errors if you try to access them directly. To make that behave seamlessly you'd need to define a python wrapper class and hide stuff with @property decorators. Without such a wrapper class you could also not add a field to an instance of a nim-type like you could a normal python object.

2) An imported nim-type can not be inherited from in python (not sure if that works in C++, but at least it's a nim-python-interop limitation).

If you wanted to make a library in nim available in python that wasn't originally intended for the export, you'd likely also need to write a glue-layer in nim. The efffort there would consist mostly in copy pasting the proc signatures you want to make available and annotating them with the export-pragma, copy pasting the nim-type to make it inherit from the type needed for exporting and converting from the exported nim-type to the imported nim-type or vice-versa when jumping from python to nim or vice versa.
Further, to hide the short-comings (that you can't inherit and that you don't have access to fields or can add fields) you'd need to wrap the nim-type in a python-class as described in 1).

My conclusion from what I heard from you so far and what I know of nimpy would be, that nimpy is 90% of the way there, workable but not as seamless, given that exported nim types and their instances aren't functioning exactly like python classes and their instances. Further the fact you'd need to wrap them in a Python class to hide that means, in comparison, extra work to C++ (though that may balance out with if the glue layer in C++ is more involved than the one in nim, I don't know).
Ask Stanford if the Hoover Tower, known among students as "Hoover's greatest erection", damages their reputation. E.g. https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-images-stanford-university-...
Server not found. Hugged to death? Hacked?
I can somehow understand how "Meet" is a better and more recognizable brand than "Duo". At least they didn't release a "Meet for Business" to add to the confusion.
Actually, the notch fits right in with Apple's design decisions.

Apple loves to have a simple, black and white line art icon for products that allow you to instantly know it's an Apple product. Think original Mac/Plus/SE/Classic look, think iPod with screen and touchwheel, think classic iPhone screen + home button visual. These have broad-based recognition amongst the general public, at least if you were alive during the time. This kind of recognition is what is referred to as 'iconic.' Some other examples of iconic - the Nike Swoosh, the Coca-Cola word mark, the old Absolute vodka advertisements, and of course, the Apple logo itself - words really aren't necessary to convey the meaning (the Coca-Cola logo is recognized even if you don't necessarily read English). When you see one of these iconic marks, it's not just the name, you also cue up emotions and memories - quite a lot that's conveyed via something so simple (especially the Swoosh or the icon of the iPod).

With the move to full-screen iPhones, the line art would be a rounded rectangle on a rounded rectangle, which could be Samsung, LG, One+, etc. Adding the notch makes the design visually distinctive. It's form following function, but done in an elegant way (check out the bezier curves of the corners of the display and the notch - clearly time was spent refining them to make it as elegant as possible). I don't even notice the notch when using my iPhone, but I do notice it when seeing an iPhone from a distance - it's a clue in that you're seeing an iPhone. I don't expect the notch to go away for at least 3-4 more years - and when it does, it will be for a major change in the visual language of the devices.
> George Cove did not understand how his solar generator worked, and neither did anyone else at the time. It was only with Einstein’s work on the photoelectric effect (in 1905) and later work in quantum mechanics (1930s and beyond) that the concept of a semiconductor bandgap was realized.

Amazing.
>To be blunt, yes. People with poor nutrition, particularly in childhood, experience both physical and mental stunting, some of which is irreversible.

I don't disagree, but I was trying to substantiate this point once and I couldn't find any one good source that would confirm such a statement. Would you mind sharing a reference to some good source material approving the conjecture that poor nutrition in the childhood causes mental and physical stunting?
The Chinese room argument itself isn't very compelling. Surely the constituent parts of the brain are fundamentally governed solely by physics, surely thought arises solely from the physical brain, and surely the constituent parts (and thus thought) could be described by a sufficiently complex discreet computation.

Are we not conscious?
Its not compartmentalization if your airlocks are broken or unsecured.
If you join devs of Egregoria and A/B Street you can create a support group dedicated to city builders :)
I feel is kind of similar to static vs dynamic type system argument. Dynamic Type systems can work great if you have strong contracts and everyone understands how to define/maintain that, but as you grow up the team, you'd have people having gaps in understanding those contracts and break them eventually leading to bugs. Enforcing rules sometimes just keeps the rules alive in everyone's head as it is harder to get around that usually.
The argument specifically relies on the financial processing role:

> MindGeek is being sued for knowingly monetizing child porn. Visa’s act of continuing to recognize MindGeek as a merchant is directly linked to MindGeek’s criminal act, as Visa’s act served to keep open the means through which MindGeek completed its criminal act knowing that that criminal act was being committed. At this early stage of the proceedings, before Plaintiff has had any discovery from which to derive Visa’s state of mind, the Court can comfortably infer that Visa intended to help MindGeek monetize child porn from the very fact that Visa continued to provide MindGeek the means to do so and knew MindGeek was indeed doing so. Put yet another way, Visa is not alleged to have simply created an incentive to commit a crime, it is alleged to have knowingly provided the tool used to complete a crime.
Our company is building a community for solo devs and small teams around the Godot game engine. We’re a few months away from launching, but I’d love to hear what indie devs would want in a community and what resources would speed up their development (email is in profile). We’ll have tutorials, game templates, and art assets to that will help people get started. We’re also sponsoring open source plugins and tools for Godot. Let me know if you know of a deserving project to support!
LibertyX (cash to BTC company) did something similar - at first you could only buy from stores that had Qpay (mobile phone top-up provider) and had signed up with LibertyX. Then they came to an agreement with Walgreens/CVS to allow users to pay cash and get Bitcoin at most or all CVS and Walgreens locations in the nation.

USPS and banks already verify photo IDs on a daily basis and they're not afraid to work with companies to provide an additional service if the money is right. The problem for something like USPS would be paying enough up front to make it worth training and educating at least one or two individuals at every single post office in the entire United States on how to verify and reset the passwords.

Although I suppose a similar measure using existing systems would be to send a code via registered mail with a post office hold - ensuring that even if someone is able to request a password reset, they have to also be able to go to the local post office of said person, with a fake photo ID of that person in hand. If it needs to be even more high-security to ensure USPS is following protocol, then users can opt to send a current photo of themselves on registration and instead of a password reset code, they'd receive a video chat code which allows a trained employee at EmailCompany to see and talk to them briefly and verify it's the same user who registered the email.

I'm curious who this complex service would be used by - I'm assuming crypto exchanges, etc, but then that doesn't do anything for someone just getting your password and not needing to reset it. I suppose when you set your password you can receive a list of OTPs to use on session timeout/new device.
Once again I have been baited into responding to what’s either clearly a troll piece or quite possibly the dumbest thinkpiece I’ve ever read. Diana Furchtgott-Roth has “published” almost incoherent nonsense (there are a few facts here). So I wrote 4,000 words detailing exactly why in collaboration with a former colleague, Erika Young.
Are we really going to pretend that only progressive Californians decided to build wind and solar in TX? Maybe, people in TX are larger than only their politics and decided to take huge risk building a lot of wind and solar on land being used for nothing else?

I'll never understand why we'd bash something that a) has helped the grid, b) represents progress toward renewable energy just because a news outlet likes to lambast the high level politics of a given place.
One of the reasons why pornhub is popular is that it lets individual users create a professional looking channel for themselves and has subscriptions which it takes a cut of. The approved accounts thing already exists and pornhub has already purged old/unverified content in the name of safety once, in December 2020. It removed removed around 10 million videos. Visa and Mastercard already went through this process with pornhub and other mindgeek-owned websites. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/14/22173858/pornhub-videos-...
If the other person doesn't know anything about you, then you don't actually have a relationship.
Nope, that's a pun you've shared, but it's not the definitive answer in any way as you seem to think.

There is no single correct chicken crossing the road joke, but specifically the person you're talking to is speaking about an anti-joke where you don't even get to it crossing the road because you're stuck on the question of why cross the road rather than the act of crossing it.
I think you'd be surprised the how recent a browser can be and still lack a client/server cypher overlap once you start whittling down what TLS versions you accept. Just at the start of the pandemic many government sites had to re-enable early TLS because so many people couldn't access their recent TLS only sites.

But yeah, corporate employees aren't going to care about those people. Governments have to. And human persons building personal websites should too.
I don't personally care one whit about the fortunes of Pornhub but this sets a very bad precedent for the internet. The payment processing duopoly is a huge problem, they are able to dictate way too much of what is allowed to exist on the internet. Today it's illegal pornography that everybody agrees is terrible, but that's how it always starts. The safe targets, the stuff nobody objects to, to establish precedent. Once they have this power to censor it is extremely hard to walk it back.