skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Are bookmarks used to improve search quality or can it be used
Yeah, the page could be more accessible to users who don't use a screen reader but don't want to parse small handwriting.

If you had a screen reader you'd hear literally only:

- Link, image with alt handwritten.blog

- Link, image with alt Comment on this post

- Link, image with alt Read the transcript

- Link, image with alt Back to main page

I think it'd be less confusing if the main body had an alt. It would just be a short FYI that there's also a big image of text and that the transcript reproduces it.

But the transcript would be a lot harder to miss with a screen reader!
Patiently waiting for my Aptera. Yup. This is the way.

Most cars won't gain anywhere near 20-40 miles per day from solar, though, they're simply not efficient enough. Get the consumption down, and the same amount of panels can accomplish a lot more.

And, most folks who live in awkward parking situations are also near the city where their commute needs are very short. Folks out in the country who need to drive farther, generally have their own parking and can do plug-in charging. (Probably also supplied by solar.)
Look up the forced swim test.
Nature is also extremely vibrant and dense, but no abstracted or symbolic. Trying to follow squirrels in forest or pick a path in dense woods will warm up your brain quite a bit.
The Twitter and Reddit integrations are really great.

I have all my work-related social media in NNW without the distractions.
I was not able to finish Blindsight. It is too pretentious for me, it ignores what state of art was at the time. Let me quote an old comment [1] of mine:

Do you know that current 1sqkm radio telescopes produce data that can't be processed at real time in any cluster environment in use at 2015-2016? They scan skies at precision I just cannot express in words, let's try math.

https://www.skatelescope.org/uploaded/2950_31734_2007_IAU_Ta...

"...with a resolution of few micro-angular-seconds..."

sin(5/57/60/60/1000000) equals to 2.4366472e-11. It is sine of roughly 5 micro angular seconds (1 radian is about 57 degrees). 1/sin(5/57/60/60/1000000) is roughly equal to distance where current SKA can distinguish 1 meter radio-emitting object and it equals to about 41 million kilometers - a fourth of the distance between Sun and Earth.

These Firefall objects just won't be "unnoticeable until their entry to the atmosphere" in the state of the art sky scaling systems of Blindsight's time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381870

Despite me being very unrespectful to Watts works, I recognize his influence. So, what is this Blindsight-related-story you are talking about? I read many of them and I cannot remember any that resembles your description.
> of you driving drunk

As always people are projecting their own behaviour on others. You have more chance to die in a traffic accident as a pedestrian, just because modern cars are ridiculously safe. I've in an accident, I was in the car on passenger seat. If I was not in the car - I would post here, because at that collision speed pedestrians doesn't survive.

It absolutely doesn't matter if I drunk that day or not. Or just was on my way to drink a lot.
How to cede an enormous market opportunity to a dozen other competitors 101.
I wouldn’t put BMW in the same bucket as Toyota. BMW actually tried to sell electric cars and they just went too far selling an eco friendly car.

The BMW i3 was the first mass produced carbon fiber chassis, was produced entirely with hydroelectric power, was made from a high percentage of recycled materials and had an optional 3 gallon take with a range extender as an option.

I’m not convinced pure EV solutions are going to be the answer for everyone. The idea of smaller range EVs with range extenders still feels the most practical option for the next decade or two.
Agree. There's a possibly flawed but possibly real notion of reputation or brand or eminence. Patio11 of course comes to mind :).
> When the American Dream is actually attained

That's just it, it was not attained it was subsidized and given for a moment. Not that it can't be earned, it just wasn't. Yeah the rich got richer like they always do, but they would have been fine with a great depression as well, look at lebanon and venezuela, it would be much worse in the US.

Worker shortages are no joke, there are $20/h+ jobs that people aren't willing to do. The thing is the rich own the companies and they only do that so they can get richer. If they barely make a profit it isn't worth the hassle. Even six figure jobs are very hard to fill in many industries. Short of making everyone millionaires what is the solution?

It's almost as if a crash and a depression has to happen because of human psychology. When you remember starving then you kill the rich or fall back in line.

Just keep in mind that even in communism the rich party members ran things. Money rules this terrible world and that will not change by any political measure.
They're not using the car, so the battery isn't depleting.
I'm not sure what you mean. She had the best hand at every point, before and after the outrageous call.

The odds were not against her, they were in her favor.
Some people say suicide is never justified, but I don't believe people who say such things comprehend the horrors of acute radiation poisoning.
Condolences! I hope it gets better.
Adding a link to an accessible version to the very end, after the visitors who haven't left fought through the full inaccessible article isn't great…

edit: Yes, it works okayish in screen readers. Accessibility is about far more than screen readers.
She's financially backed by someone else who was at the table. He could have seen the other cards.

But the more likely route was some sort of compromised computer system. The cards in these televised games have RFID to allow the show to know what everyone has. Like any computer system, that could have been compromised in some way. There's a lot of money on these tables, enough to make it worth a lot of effort to cheat.
There's massive controversy in the disabled community over alternate site versions that's far too complicated to get into.

Everyone I've heard from thinks a separate site is better than a massive alt though. Many screen readers handle them extremely poorly, and they can't be annotated with html tags to indicate semantics (link, list, etc).
https://archive.ph/VDs7U
This is technologically impressive, but I was disappointed (but not particularly surprised) to see no mention of the ethics involved in using this sort of project - in either the GitHub issues or the README/docs.

This seems like a great tool for stalking people; particularly the recursive functionality (for tying identifiers together).

I'm not saying the world is worse-off due to the release of software like this - indeed, you could argue that publishing these sorts of OSINT tools allow folks to take a proactive and protective view of their own information and e.g. make changes to their own profiles/privacy settings.

But the question of ethics seems like something all-too-often glossed over in the infosec world. Software doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Walking the tree of changes has proven very useful to me several times.

Undo-tree can also display the diff for each change. Useful when an operation induced changes in different parts of a long document (for example rerunning source code blocks with org-babel).
> Even with premium pricing, demand already outstrips supply for electric vehicles.

Thanks to pandemic stimulus, this is true for almost all vehicle types.
1200 bps didn't really show up as something people could buy until the early 1980s, however. In the mid 1970s if you had a 1200 bps modem it would be equivalent today to the cost of having a cisco or juniper router with several ports of 100GbE interface in your house. They were in use for university mainframe/minicomputer data links and such.
Well, that is creepy as hell, but I guess it is obvious that such a tool could exist, and it is better not to have it exclusively in the hands of data-brokers, etc.

I wonder how hard it would be to add the functionality: go back to the email address that has registered these accounts, find any other names they've registered, and search off those. (EDIT: err, wait, I bet that's the "recursive" functionality they mention).
Maybe? It depends a lot on the domain. If it's stable and well-understood, pre-development research can help, both the academic kind and the anthropological. But otherwise, the fastest way to understand the domain may be to ship early and often, while doing lots of user and use observation. And that latter approach teaches you things no amount of pre-development research can, like the right intermediate concepts as you turn human concepts into things that work well for the computers, the users, and the developers.

As an example, consider the social media domain when Facebook launched. No amount of ivory-tower ontology-building would have given them the right conceptual model up front, because the domain co-evolved through interactions between users and platforms.
The average American home consumes 29kwh per day. It takes 62kwh to charge a base Tesla Model 3 once. Of course, not everyone will be charging from complete empty every night, but if every household is charging one car from 50% to 100% each night, the amount of daily electricity demand per household doubles. And most households own more than one car!
+1. git-lfs is sufficient for tracking binaries, including a ML model, at that cadence.

Thinking more abstractly, there is benefit for code and data to live "next" to each other, if possible. Atomically committed to a codebase and the latter loaded / used by the former without connecting to yet another workflow.
I would like to point out that one of the important reasons South African didn't descend into a race war at the end of the apartheid was the formation of the Truth & Reconciliation Committee for precisely this reason: to forgive and reconcile.
ynab has helped me too, though i still occasionally spend money in un-budgeted ways and just move it from an envelope
It's more like ~35-40 miles per day in the US (which will tend to be higher than in other countries).

"The United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration said that the average driver traveled 12,724 miles in 2020. That’s down from 14,263 average annual miles in 2019. The 2020 average equates to 1,060 miles per month per driver, or about 35 miles per day. By comparison, the DOT said the average annual miles was 13,476 in 2018."

https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/average-miles-driven-per-year...
You can start an entire decades long movement and then later prevent it from making further progress.
Toyota isn't listening to its customers. We've been asking for EVs for a long time. Took forever to get plug-in hybrids. Then it all stopped.

I'm a second generation Toyota buyer, my father before me. 100% of the cars we purchased over the past 20 years were Toyota. We've been asking for electric but Toyota was too stuborn, or dare I say, too pussy to make the leap.

Like many, I've decided my next car will be electric. I'm sad it won't be a Toyota.

I'm very disapointed in everything Toyoda says. Excuses and no dream.
Most of those bans exclude plug-in hybrids. They’re way less draconian than most people are making them out to be.

We’re moving to a future where every car has a battery electric hybrid motor if it’s not a full EV.
> But surely it's an extreme exaggeration to say that 80% of them are so unfit that they couldn't walk or bike to work.

That was a stat put out by CDC [1]. Even after aggressive 64 yr cutoff only 22.9% of U.S. adults aged 18–64 met the guidelines. 80% of people are willing to ignore CDCs modest guidelines and risk " many chronic
conditions, disability, and mortality " per cdc . do you really think putting a bike lane is going is better motivation than death ?

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr112.pdf
I agree with this, but I phrase it differently. I refer to eliminating technical debt relative to the change before making the change.

More details in [1], where I explain my software development process.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210402
isn’t it:

`correct horse battery staple`

just wondering how memorable that technique is.

edit: indeed

https://xkcd.com/936/
It's only bad from a privacy perspective if you are sharing things you don't want linked together or are sharing things that can be unintentionally linked back to your real life. If you are the same username across multiple sites and you want those linked together then that's just branding.
I’m happy Toyota will continue to invest in hybrids. I want a car with sufficient range. Maybe other folks don’t take a lot of road trips, but that’s something I do in the Midwest and it brings me a lot of joy. Honda Accord hybrid can get nearly 600 miles range and is an absolute pleasure to drive. I’m hoping my next car is a PHEV.

I don’t want to think about charging. I’m worried it would cause delays and affect my route. Hybrids allow more flexibility.

This board goes really hard on EVs. I don’t understand it.
Developers/desk job employees, what do you do to take care of your body?
As developers/desk job workers, we tend to spend a lot of time stationary and having our dominant arm lifting while operating a mouse. This created muscular imbalances in shoulders, lower back pain, slouching etc problems. We also seem to forget to drink water, to blink, reduce strain on eyes etc.

What do you do to take care of your body?
Asteroids are apparently a lot softer and fluffier than we thought. More like gravel and sand clumped together rather than being giant boulders.
Use a separate password for each site, and also a separate username.
The Demon Core is a 6.2kg Plutonium sphere
I agree in principle, but this is going to sound to younger folks about as silly as Quentin Tarantino's insistence that only flickering 24fps celluloid counts as real cinema. We are doomed to live in a constantly shifting media-scape in which directors and studio heads alike get their fondest wish: to go back and change movies that have already been released and ensure the old ones are never seen again. And this will be normal and preferred by those who are to be born into this world. Gen Alpha won't brook anything but a version of Star Wars in which the Empire wins because they provide free gender-affirming care to trans stormtroopers.
I just started reading SICP yesterday after being convinced by PG's essays [0] and I would suggest just looking at the solutions, since the first chapter relies heavily on number theory concepts, and the authors say they take that choice because it makes introduction to more abstract ideas easier (as a math grad student I'm already on page 110). I personally think that to someone without a background in higher arithmetic it would be a bit boring, so I repeat that it wouldn't hurt to look at some solutions to get a feel to it [1]. The book is MIND-BLOWING and after years of C++ and Python I'm really excited of what I will find in the next chapers.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (referenced in the top link blog post)

[1] http://community.schemewiki.org/?SICP-Solutions
I used to do what this tool does but manually when networking. Find someone I wanted to network with then find all of their online accounts to try to find an "in." Definitely very creepy but I if called it networking not stalking and its okay right.
> and it isn't governed by its contributors

I don't see that as 'playing the governance card'; I see that as him rejecting the attempt by others.
+1 here.
There are only two cars that make 300 miles at highway speed. Lucid Air and Tesla S Long Range Plus. Tesla is still at old 400V system.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36302930/tesla-model-s-lo...
Nope, they're doing just fine writing for BTS etc.: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/arts/music/sweden-kpop-bt...
I think this is the key. Almost too the point that car sized private vehicles should be banned from the inner city.
On the one hand, that's trivially true and I agree. In which case, I'm saying that keeping debt low is pretty important.

On the other, it's a statement that executive priorities mostly trump technical priorities, which I deeply disagree with. Executives generally have a poor understanding of how technical debt works over the long term: https://web.archive.org/web/20190709091156/http://agilefocus...

Week to week, many will say, "OMG, this feature is way more important than technical debt". But year to year, they will say, "Why is it so hard to get anything done here?!? Why is our stuff so buggy?!? We must have terrible developers!" Which is both a management failure and a failure of developers to maintain professional standards. The first is mostly out of our control, but the second is up to us.
So I guess it turns out that Homer Simpson was more realistic than we thought... all the way through to only avoiding nuclear accidents through sheer luck.
Of course, the Dollar Dump might be a way of reducing the huge quantity of foreign currency reserves (US treasuries) that China holds.

China wouldn't want its huge reserves confiscated just like the Russian ones were.

There's a limit to the amount of commodities that can be stockpiled by buying them up with excess foreign reserves.

And the way that US Dollars are declining due to inflation (well over 10% a year) the longer you hold them the more they evaporate away. That trillion Dollars in Chinese reserves will only be worth 900 billion in 12 months - effectively a loss of 100 billion in buying power. It's the old, old story of "Use it or lose it."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/arts/music/sweden-kpop-bt...
Seems incredibly prone to false positives. For example, I can guarantee that I'm not the AdmiralAsshat on Reddit, Gmail, or Twitter, because that username was already taken by the time I tried to sign up for them.
While it is the case the dataset isn’t well curated or perfectly labeled, it could just mean that grammar is not understood - the labels could be clear to a human, whether the image is a picture of Bob Ross or a painting by him. But the training misses that relationship. Even with poorly labeled data, I suspect AI will eventually figure out which labels are more likely to be poor and deal with it appropriately.

In the reverse direction, you can try:

A horse rides an astronaut

And you will probably generate an astronaut riding a horse. It’s not a poor description of what we want; our assumptions about how grammar should work aren’t being honored.
It’s both. I don’t think actual white supremacists are “censoring” me. I think people who saw a way to make money by catering to that demographic are not practicing the “free speech paradise” that they preach. What’s so hard to understand about that?

Also, if I’m belligerent for disagreeing with you, then clearly you are also belligerent for disagreeing with me. You can accuse me of moving goalposts or whatever makes you feel better about it, but i am not meaning to. English is not my first language and it sometimes my point does not shine through the way I would like.
I am convinced EV will be the future, but given how electricity is produced and how batteries are built the most sustainable technology is hybrid https://youtu.be/S1E8SQde5rk
$20k is still too expensive of a car for a lot of people in the US, and for most outside the developed world. Toyota is just keeping that population in perspective.
Your magic button scenario is completely irrelevant; even if gasoline cars stop being sold in 2030-2035, it will take decades for existing ICE cars to come off the road, particularly ones being used in situations where ICE cars make the most sense practically or economically.

This sort of pointless hyperbole, especially when injected with needless partisan politics trying to "gotcha" progressive states, doesn't help anything or anyone.

> Look at the lines to charge EVs in states like California already

Those lines you're referring to are for Teslas, which use proprietary charge connectors and a charging technology which is now behind industry standards in terms of charge speed.

Fast charge stations aren't necessary for most usage. If you have a 20 mile round trip commute and your car spends 10 hours in your driveway or garage, charging at 500W off a normal extension cord is sufficient to replenish the electricity used via your commute.
> I think it's so much harder now for developers to develop "mechanical sympathy"

This has always been something that’s fascinated me, how some people don’t have this feeling of “mechanical sympathy”.

Feeling “bad” (not the exact right term but I don’t know how best to describe this very intangible feeling) for a high-revving engine, or a CPU wasting cycles, or a structural component being under too much stress. Even if all of those things are within spec.

It feels like the drive to avoid that feeling ends up creating better solutions: more efficient code, a better distribution of stress across a structure, etc.

But I wonder if it’s something learned, or something that people just “have” to a certain degree.
Not trying to pathologise everything, but it feels like the sort of thing that would be correlated with ASD
I think "cleaning up x" should just be handled as any other to-do-list item. That means evaluating its cost and benefits in context with the other items on the list. Then do what is on position one, then on position two, then on position three, ... Re-evaluate the list from time to time.
> we’re talking about another three quarters of a trillion dollars of stimulus remaining in the economy and never coming out.

doesn't money leave the economy when it is taxed?
It was our first modem for the Commodore 64 in the early 80's.
You can make it not feel creepy by using the research as a way to seed the conversation rather than replacing it. Ask good questions because you know [part of] the answer, but let the person decide how much they want to say in the moment.

An even better trick is to invite them for a podcast recording. Then all this research is suddenly very normal and expected.
And here is EP004 BUG HUNTERS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoXiXlCNoXg
How does that work when I can still get a new Intel-based Durabook and AFAIK that line has been ongoing without any discontinuity.
At work? For those lucky enough to have chargers at work, good luck when fighting for one. Also, I really hope the world keep shifting towards remote working; I won’t drive to the office just to charge my car.
Putting a profit motive anywhere near anything that is safety critical is almost never a good idea.

Naval Nuclear Power has it's issues, yet it is so safe that we have almost no incidents. That's because things like this don't happen there due to the culture of safety.

That said, this is about production rather than operation, but the overall communities are relatively small and aligned.
It sounds plausible at least. The average per year in the US is around 14000 miles according to the FHA, which would be a little under 40 miles per die.

I'd expect the distribution of individual amounts driven to be such that the median would be lower than the mean, but a little searching has failed to turn up any details on that distribution.
Technical debt is often a result of competent engineers dealing with uncertainty, changing requirements or a bad engineering culture, but it is sometimes just a result of unskilled engineers, and I think as a field, we like to pretend that's not true.
Who made that claim? I certainly didn’t.

Just as the parent comment generalized about the two kinds of people out there, I added other examples of generalizations about people. But that’s all they are, generalizations. Not specific examples.
John Deere is pursuing electrification. It is completely impractical for agriculture, but they're doing it anyway. Because ESG.