skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sahlgren (not Shalgren) is an ideologue with an axe to grind. Finland has gotten good PISA scores for a while and still gets them, he sits figures fir his purposes. Also Chinese PISA scores come from top schools in Beijing, whereas Finland tests more broadly, so the comparisons don't hold any how.
Based on my experience with the Volt, which already needed traction control to keep the tires from spinning, it probably will offer slighlty different driving modes. Torquey, smooth, low-rev/low-heat highway mode.
I think the comment you're responding to was nano, (the joke.) ;)
but sbcl is far more common than those two. its also free, unlike those two. i think this is ok as long as its stated cleary (and it is)
I don't really get the AirPod proliferation. Even if I'm in the woods by myself, much less on a busy path, I can't stand the disconnection from my environment.
The fact that benefits are not an absolute slam dunk over risks is also worrying given the coercion that was used to get people to take these vaccines.
I hope HTTP/1.x never goes away. So little projects like this can work.
Yeah, the guy comes across as a massive [expletive] in that article. It reminds me of the piratebay "F U" emails from decades ago. It seems to me that a lot of Americans or American Companies (and Swedish pirates) ignore other countries' jurisdiction.

Edit: just reading into this and New Zealand apparently wanted to take legal action (up to ten years in prison) against any New Zealand citizen who simply watched the video on Kiwifarms forums? That's astonishing.
Hmm, your Vb5 apps were responsive? Mine definitely weren't - but it's fairly easy with Flexbox/Grid.

But yeah, having such a nice GUI designer would be awesome - I miss Delphi a lot, and the WinForms designer was good too. Now finally Flexbox/Grid have support on all major browsers so perhaps we could get this part of the workflow back.
For a while they were mostly just staying on the bases while giving the insurgents free range to roam around and attack convoys which primarily consisted of unarmored vehicles.

The last time I was over there in ‘04 they were more proactive after some reservists refused to go out on convoys because it was too unsafe. Bad for recruiting I guess. They used us as bait one night because they were trying to find a Russian anti-aircraft gun they were shooting at convoys with, didn’t find the gun but we did find out they were now setting up two kill zone ambushes because if a convoy got hit they’d stop a kilometer or so up the road to regroup but they were shitty shots and set off the secondary ambush before anyone was stopped so fucked the whole thing up. Frickin’ amateurs…

The only blackwater folks I talked to were doing VIP escort duty but a lot of the support rolls were civilians, I was a non-combatant truck driver running all over the country in ‘04.
Road trips between cities or drives in the countryside
Take the private jets of 6 french billionaires. It is registered to their company.

https://twitter.com/i_fly_Bernard/status/1565102112731693061

Francois Pinault flied it 26 hours in a single month, or 318 hours per year. And that's the jets from a billionaire who couldn't give a damn whether or not they're making money on this plane. It's just their personal taxi. Now, consider that private jet operators _have_ to rent to make money, and the average goes way up.
What's the best nanotech achievement so far, though?
You just use the stationary boundary, it is intended for sitting. Mind you I'm not gonna be using it in public...
> With CSS Flexbox and Grid, the web is the best GUI app platform I know.

This is exactly how I would summarize it too. Before we had grid, I would be forced to agree with the original comment.

Now that we have these things, thick CSS/JS frameworks like Bootstrap aren't really a big deal anymore. 95% of the reason I used this stuff in the past was because I couldn't figure out the magic spell for getting things positioned properly. We even have media queries now, which can be combined with Grid to toggle between 2 or more layouts depending on viewport or other device factors. Our current web app handles all of the dynamic/responsive layout crap within about 30 lines of js & css.

I will only go back to native application development if someone pays for a one-off contract deal that only has to be supported for <3 years. For any long-term project with a user interface, I feel like the web is the safest default for building your product. We are signing contracts with B2B clients right now with terms measured in half-decades, so I really don't want to be playing games in traffic with 5 major versions of iOS and Android if I can avoid it.
Also, heavier cars mean more tire dust.
For the unfamiliar:

- Wagner Group (Russian Private Military Company)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

- Blackwater (American Private Military Company)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)

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- Re: Blackwater vs Wagner Group

https://www.google.com/search?q=blackwater+vs+wagner+group
What is really interesting is why are there fires during winter months in Southern Hemisphere and why are these fires predominately more denser in colder hemisphere than the hottest part of its northern hemisphere counterpart?
I read too much FUD about the vaccines before my Moderna booster, particularly the myocarditis in younger men results. Started feeling tight chested and a lump in my throat later that day after the vaccine. Finally went to urgent care after a day or two and got an x-ray and EKG and it showed nothing of concern. Doctor suggested it was probably anxiety, suggested taking an NSAID and relaxing and I was better pretty soon after.
There is no opting out of your own iDevices from reporting others’ trackers, right? I do not want to disable Bluetooth on my iPhone in order to opt out of participating a global panopticon.
Ask HN: Payment Processor Alternatives?
I am looking for payment processor alternatives to Braintree and Stripe that allows me to store CC details via token and charge CCs without the need for customers to approve it(ie. monthly recurring payments and "one click purchase" type of thing). Obviously this requires backend implementation. I am not looking for a UI/Gateway type of thing.

My company is based in EU so I need a company that supports EU companies, allows international/worldwide payments. I would gladly work with EU or Asian payment processors. Not much interested in US-based companies(Stripe) or owners(Paypal/Braintree).
I realize my argument made it seem like I was using the sales data to justify my claim, but that wasn't really what I was going for - my mistake. I am aware of the demand issues, but the question is how far does that scale?

The current market for EVs seems to be middle to upper class city-dwellers who own their own homes and commute less than an hour each day. That is certainly a sizable market that will scale to a point, but what about after that point? What about rural folks who have no need for an EV and are perfectly content to drive ICE vehicles the rest of their lives? What about people who refuse to buy EVs for ideological reasons? What about car enthusiasts who love the roar of a V8? What about people who can't afford to spend 35k+ USD on a new (and base) model EV? What about people who need heavy duty trucks? What about people who have large families and need something with generous seating capacity and the ability to tow the occasional boat or RV for family trips?

Point being, there are large parts of the market that are either underserved because there isn't an EV that matches their needs, or they have no desire to be served at all.
> As a platform for developing interactive applications the web is simply terrible.

This is where you lose me. For such a "terrible" platform, it sure has a lot of users now, don't it? Maybe you mean from a developer's perspective, and it's not unreasonable that someone might consider web tech terrible, so I'd be interested to know why they see it that way.

> There is no good way to develop a UI in HTML/CSS/JS

Nonsense. Most UIs suck in general. On the web, they suck a little more because HTML/CSS/JS have such a low barrier to entry, and the industry requires very little intellectual rigor that would cause one to think twice about "just npm install that shit, bruh." Despite that, there's no sensible reason why a "good" UI can't be built with web tech. The web is what you make of it.

> all attempts to do so rely on layers upon layers of wat are essentially hacks

You're going to have to explain what makes working within the confines of a webpage a "hack." Sometimes we create workarounds, but everything may need workarounds.

> to build something resembling a UI toolkit

It is a UI toolkit.

> on top of a document markup language.

Which many people agree is well suited for describing UIs, whether it's HTML or something else.

> The result a UI that is unnecessarily complicated and fragile.

The cause not being something wrong with webpages, but the choices developers make and the way organizations approach software development. Give me a fragile web app and I'll show you a fragile and hard to work with native codebase.

> Laying out and rendering HTML and CSS is incredibly complex

It's as complex as you make it out to be. None of what's on a webpage has to be complex. We make it complex because of a lack of actual engineering mindset and because HTML/CSS is relatively abstract and forgiving. If one doesn't prefer something that's forgiving, they can work with native code or something that transpiles to HTML/CSS. Doesn't mean HTML and CSS aren't capable of performing the job they've been doing for almost my entire lifetime now.

> compared how traditional UI toolkits do the same task.

Depends on the task. Depends on the toolkit.

> That complexity comes at a cost, both in development time and in UX.

As already stated, that complexity comes from no one but the developer. Given reasonable time, a developer should be able to build most UIs using web tech and have it working as intended. HTML, CSS, and even JS aren't really what most people consider complex about web development. What's insanely complex about modern web development, that people frequently complain about, is everything we've done to turn web development into Java development (i.e. a churn of build steps, toolchains, transpilers, runtimes, and so on).
If a lactose intolerant person eat a normal ice cream, he or she is going to have symptoms.

But why can't a Jew eat a normal ice cream? what will happen exactly?
If your data doesn't require preprocessing ... Very often you need to prepare data to use xgboost/lightgbm. You need to fill missing values, convert categoricals/dates/text to numeric, do feature engineering.

What is more, MLJAR AutoML is checking much simpler algorithms for you, like Dummy Models (average response or majority vote), linear models, simple decision trees - because very often you don't need Machine Learning. The xgboost/lightgbm cant do this :)
"A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus"
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202769119

One of the authors is Jeffrey Sachs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs
Tho, the very same groups that should have more "compassion for how they make decisions" in this thread shown pretty much zero compassion to anyone. It is also group that likes to frame compassion as weakness or studpidity.
I think the parent comment is suggesting that a comparison of CL vs. Clojure is more useful than the current comparison of CL vs. Racket.
We will find out. Maybe intelligent load shedding, residential co-generation with thermal stores (underground water reservoirs) to easily switch between heat and electricity generation on demand, large scale battery banks. The EU will basically have to create a war economy energy wise. Germany is in for a world of hurt, because a lot of their industry is built on gas. Germany must switch over to processes based on electricity, in a situation where electricity is at a premium.

I believe a two-pronged approach is necessary - decrease the size of the base load and increase production. Not enough is made of decreasing base load. Nothing inherent in the design of the grid says it must act as an infinite battery of infinate power - that's an artifact of history.

We need to build more flexible processes around an ability to quickly switch on and off loads depending on current price.

(Nuclear is nice but the lead times mean we won't have any new capacity until 10 years from now.)
Very smart people easily fall for stuff that merely sounds smart but is actually nonsense.

It gets worse when you have a whole bunch of them on a bandwagon since how could so many smart people be wrong? The answer is: because they all think that.
At least in the US, you're mistake if these are the same problem. The amount of people who have tile software install in the US are nowhere near the amount of iphones out and about (over 50% of phone users).
OP questioned Rackets use in industry, not CL.

AFAIK, the only (more known) uses of Racket is as a scripting language for Naughty Dogs PS3-era games, and it was made to make Arc (which runs HN).
Without the actual study to read I'm going to actively assert there is nothing here for a general audience. We know vaccines have adverse effects. And the rate they occur is useless info.

We really need cost-benefits of adverse effects v. COVID outcomes stratified by ages, and it takes more than one study to build the picture.
I don't want a fake clutch.
This isn’t fair, but AirTags are superior (and more of a tracking threat) because the number of iPhones dwarfs the number of phones Tile is installed on.
That's the case for all bluetooth headphones. The reason is that when microphones are enabled, the codec gets downgraded to some crappy one (presumably to free up bandwidth because there are two audio streams?).
If I were a stalker, an AirTag would be pretty low on my list of preferred tracking devices. Easy, sure, but even easier to get caught.
It's not all about pedestrians. Take Harley Davidson motorcycles for example. The sound is the brand. It's what people buy (into).

Not saying that's right or wrong. Only that it's not strictly a pedestrian thing.

Since in EVs it's more or less simulated, it would make since to have more than one setting and one of those to be off.

p.s. The Dodge Charger has been ine of Dodge's most successful model. Gazillions of recognition has been invested in that model. They're not going to abandon that. In fact, the name makes more sense as an EV.
Methanol is a perfectly good fuel that is already made at industrial scales. Switching the source of the hydrogen feedstock from natural gas to electrolysis can actually increase the efficiency of the process. Green methanol will be powering ships within the next five years, and there's no reason we couldn't use it for cars as well, considering there are methanol-powered vehicles on the road today.
The battery life is 5 days. How long is an airtags?
>There was a feeling that this was unfair to all those who got the vaccine and thereby had much better outcomes

But that's how healthcare works. How many other conditions do healthcare professionals have to treat, that are the result of people who made bad choices? Am I allowed to get salty about the number of lung cancer patients dying slowly and draining healthcare resources?

>the healthcare system wouldn't be full of those who didn't get vaccinated.

Full? What % of hospitalisations were unvaccinated and Covid-related, during a given time period?
First Internet Interaction
Absolutely!

Another way to look at it: In what world are you more likely to be able to cook your own burger: One where it's literally just McDonalds who can now control how people talk about burgers, or one where there's also other restaurants as well.
It would be much more beautiful if it were based on 12 instead of 10. Of course, this would require humanity to switch to dozenal, which will never happen unless almost everyone dies and someone enforces it on the few that remain to repopulate the planet.
It's honestly just a really bad analogy. Evacuated tubes were not pursued en-masse as an end unto themselves the way quantum computing is being pursued. Their development was as a side fascination for a handful of researchers or they were advanced because they were directly applicable to some goal of a researcher with maybe some mild tweaking. They were not a moonshot and they developed along similar lines as most useful "inventions" of today.

Quantum computing isn't even really comparable to ENIAC. Because the fundamental parts of ENIAC were known to be capable of doing what was required before the machine was built. There were analogus precursors to basically all the parts of the machine. The engineering challenges came with integration and at scale but fundamentally there wasn't a question of whether it could be done or not. We can't say the same yet of quantum computing.

IMO, quantum computing is more like space travel ca. the 1950s. We've got a lot of information: rockets look promising, we've learned a lot about the environment pilots will need to operate in up there, etc but no one really knows how far this can go and certainly we can't say if it will ever be profitable.
OP mentioned on Twitter that he chose iCloud Mail as the provider. How do You handle issues with losing incoming mails? Apple very often rejects mails from financial companies or ones that contain particular words and they won't report that to You. That's the only issue that keeps me from moving from own server.
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Chinese EVs will be taxed into oblivion. No country will let their manufacturing fail.
You're right! Fixed :)
> Nobody else—not Apple, not the government—can access your location data in any way.

You seriously believe that, do you?
Modern nanotechnology is a multi disciplinary approach using effects on the nanoscale for new technologies. Therefore people from different fields come together to synthesis, simulate, analyse etc. nanoparticles/systems. Of course in the media nanotechnology is this big catch all word, where everybody immediately thinks about self replicating nanomachines - this is still fiction.
Eventhough nanotechnology has not fullfilled this science fiction promise of atom precise manipulation the result are still astonishing. Just to name a few: Computerchips, memorychips, displays, catalysts, composite materials, surface coatings…
Cinema4D plugin that makes crude renderings photorealisitc using StableDiffusion
Yup, midjourney
> Why else would they be adding features (notifications, installation) that make PWAs better?

There's a team at Apple that owns PWA's and is iterating on them. Large organizations like Apple usually don't follow some grand strategy.
The problem with tailing your boyfriend in your car is that your boyfriend tends to notice you tailing him in your car, since he knows what you and your car look like. Using an AirTag completely negates that.

It's a lot easier to tail someone without being caught when you can wait for them to reach their final destination and just go straight there instead without ever being visible to the victim.

If you're unwilling to even acknowledge that tracking someone via AirTag is much simpler versus physically tailing them around town then we're just wasting time here.
> dividing by 2 being far easier than by 10

How is dividing by 2 easier than moving the decimal point by 1 place?
You say: "EV advocates refuse to even acknowledge that EVs are not for everyone."

But my comment was: "This is a legitimate use, but for a vanishingly small number of people."
>>>the vaccines mostly just prevented serious disease, but only marginally prevented its spread [I've had 3 doses, and gotten the virus twice

It's unfortunate for individuals, but vaccines are still helping prevent spread (my unvaxxed roommate has brought covid home twice and I've not gotten sick (or even tested positive the second time when I had tests) despite taking zero precautions.
well, dont forget that all major cities will be wiped, but not small ones nor tows nor villages.

There will be plenty people around immediately afterwards. Fallout is not the only thing you will have to be concerned with.

Do you think Johnny and boys who help build and/or stock those bunkers will forget about them?
> dividing by 2 being far easier than by 10

Really? I struggle to see how dividing any number by two is easier than dividing it by ten, but would like to be enlightened. Divide by ten I just need to mentally move the decimal point, dividing numbers such as 35 or 123 by two requires a lot more mental arithmetic.
The superior experience with an Apple branded Lightning cable and charger: 5 watts, USB 2.0 speed, and no. Now that's progress!
Why do you want to secure the airfield? You will have a second-order intent behind that tactical action. If your costs in achieving the tactical action mean that you aren't able to achieve the underlying intent then you've failed.

For example if you secure the airfield but basically destroy it in the process, and the whole reason to secure it was to use it, then you've done it at 'at all costs' but it was pointless.

Or for example if you want to secure it in order to reassure the local population, but terrorise them in the process, then again you've secured it 'at all costs' but the costs mean it's been a net-negative.

Military thinking means always working on at least second-order thinking, not tunnel visioning on the immediate objective. 'At all costs' is classic toxic tactics.
Fwiw I wrote right upfront that it's of course terrible. But the assumption was that now that we've acknowledged that we can also look at other aspects. I get the revulsion though, sorry!
Node.js.dev is applying text-transform: capitalize to all its code examples
Yes, this is a weird argument and unnecessary for the main target of the article. There were plenty of successful microactuators, sensors, full microrobots, etc even when this article was written (2010).
I had thought from a cursory glance that this managed to detect tamper with power removed. It does not, it just uses a different power domain. If you remove and replace the battery then the tamper detection is reset. Since the output is in the 3V domain presumably you can do this without triggering a detection in whatever processor/smarts are off-page.

There are situations where this functionality is useful but unless I’ve missed something significant they are more in the realm of extending battery life than increasing security.

This function could probably generally be better (and more cost-effectively) performed by properly using the features of whatever microcontroller you have in the device.
That’s one of the more powerful counterarguments against “Drexlerism.” Nanotech already exists. It’s called biology and it has already spent a billion years exploring the combinatorial space of what molecular machinery can do. Indeed it has evolved a lot of very exotic molecular machines that do seem to take advantage of quantum effects in various ways.

We are grey goo, and are currently working to build rockets to go out and continue converting the entire solar system and eventually the universe into grey goo.
Nothing strange about it. ORMs like Django name their tables <app name>_<model name> by default.
Probably right. But don’t underestimate the power of stupidity. Look at how many criminals think they can stick up a bank and get away with it. Stalkers by profile aren’t the stablest people, so this is another item in their arsenal for “conquering” their target.
> You seriously overestimate how many people care enough to DDoS kiwifarms.

Doesn't sound easy to me if you need to get more people to care than they do now.

Just search 'kiwi farms' on Twitter.
that metric is not quantified here.
Which obviously stops them working...