skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These formula student/fsae cars have aero packages which tend to be designed around 30mph average track speeds, so they will get contribution from that, especially in the latter half of the run. Even so, the tire friction involves both physical interlocking due to deformation and chemical adhesion.

You can see the tire warmers in the video being removed in addition to their approach burnout which imparts additional heat into the tires, so that the tires more effectively stick to the ground.

For all of the questions about why they don't compete with dragster techniques, the student race series they participate in has very strict regulations regarding vehicle layout which forces them to be more of an autocross car, these kinds of (heavily couched) records being produced are really somewhat incidental.
Just to check my math, let’s look at an org that has a multiple of 6²x7²=1764 staff.

We had 294 line managers, 49 managers, and 8+ program managers. 351 managers, 2115 employees total. I need to lay off at least 15% or 318 people.

We go from 294 line managers to 252, plus reductions up the chain to 36 + 5 = 293. 58 down, 260 to go. I lay off 5 managers, 35 line managers, and 245 staff, that’s 58 + 285 = 343 people total, so I can argue for keeping a couple extra line managers and all their reports. Call it 327 layoffs, 96 of them managers, 28.4%.
Looks nice and convenient!

One question, though: How do you say Hellō? [həˈləʊ] or [həˈlø] or [həˈlɔː]? :-)
You assume that the only legitimate arrangement is that a piece of content can only be available on a single platform. Wouldn't we think it is weird if each book could only be sold by exactly one book seller?

What if the platforms competed on offering a better user experience or other affordances or price?

If there were some way to break the normalization of exclusive distribution, that would tilt things back in favor of the consumer, but I won't hold my breath for the legislation.
Reminds me of Estonia digital identity. https://www.politico.eu/article/estonia-digital-id-scheme-eu...
> So this is illegal for any of the stores that are currently in the progress of it, but have not yet committed to it.

The article says only the store that is unionized isn't getting the benefit. What am I missing here?
Glad I was immediately suspicious of the sms feature and decided to not use it. Seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I'm a big fan of compartmentalization when it comes to closed ecosystems. This change won't affect me or my sms chat history.
I reckon they got a rookie web dev to put it together, and naturally they got excited by carousels, because that's what landing pages for shiny products have on them (annoyingly).

Yeah, the site hurts my ADHD brain to read too:

- The font is simultaneously too big and too small, inconsistent in sizes and styles between headers and sections. The handwritten font used in a few places is basically illegible to me.

- The margins/padding are too small - the text comes riiight up to the edge of my screen! Argh

- The carousel sections could just be..... all shown as regular paragraphs, one under each other... without the distracting animation... Not great for working memory, having things you want to read going in and out of your visual field! Let me scan the whole document!

- The page is full-width, all sections get as wide as possible - meaning you can have lines of text which are like 40 words long! (Longest I counted was one of the reddit AMA questions - 41 words). The line length should be limited to like 75 characters maximum. [1]

- Lots of stuff is too close together (not enough vertical padding) - like the reddit AMA questions. Why are those in an accordion and collapsed by default? What are the borders between them for - do they show the top of one or the bottom of another?

- Why do the "Source" buttons pop up a modal dialog with a snippet of reddit thread which is styled entirely different to the rest of the site? Again, why not just show all of that information on the page to begin with?

- A long page which you just have to scroll is _infinitely_ more readable than a user interface where stuff is popping in and out of existence everywhere and depends on user clicks. What if you're dyspraxic / you don't use a screen reader but your carpal tunnel's acting up?

The accessibility options provided by UserWay are a nice touch, but the little human icon at the bottom right isn't immediately obvious what it is (at least give it an "Accessibility" label). Make it _above the fold_ - top of the page. Make it one of the first things someone who would _want_ the accessibility options would spot!

I think that sites like this, where it does look like the _intention_ is to make it accessible and readable by as many people as possible, could take inspiration from the UK Gov Design System [2] and read about the principles underpinning it [3].

I've experimented in the past with making my personal blog more readable for "people with brains like me" [4]. It's certainly personal taste / meeting my own personal needs, but how I lay out information on that blog (very narrow, very linear, minimal interaction needed) is a lot different to how the ADHD Evidence Project site lays stuff out (very wide, multiple columns, stuff inconsistently in and accordions and popups)

[1] https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

[2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

[3] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles

[4] https://odj.me/blog/2021-10-22-a11y

(This turned into a long comment because I'm going to send the link to u/sfaraone on reddit as my feedback :-))
Checking Out a New Atari 2600 Cartridge: Aquaventure [video]
There's no guarantee semiconductor fabs will be recycled. If TSMC shuts down due to political turmoil, Intel decides to halt all R&D and milk their new monopoly, then hardware progress could simply stall with no new competitor rising.

An investor would need to front many billions of dollars for an uncertain payoff over a decade or two, and Intel could at any moment become competent again. And if no investor is willing to take that risk, there would be no new competitor.

Adobe and Figma are software companies, so don't require capital investment. So if one shuts down, it's relatively easy to make a new UI modeling tool(or for an existing one to take over their customers).
The number of references is staggering, especially considering the length of the paper. Is it a sign of deep research, or can it be a red flag, or it's not unusual?
Getting sued will be the least of your worries.

There's a litany of incidents where the FBI has raided homes just to snag one pirater.

With how politically weaponized the FBI has become in recent years, I personally would want to do everything I could to avoid attracting any attention from them.

Not worth it to watch some shitty trash TV or movie, personally.
Also Spain digital certificate. (in translation) https://www.exteriores.gob.es/Consulados/toronto/en/Servicio...
I was an executive level manager at the time. My understanding is that employers are required to "bargain in good faith" and the easiest way to demonstrate good faith is by making concessions.
I don't see why "Comments like this" would make you hesitant to do anything on the Internet, unless you are less interested in understanding and addressing the violence being discussed than you are in preserving some kind of self comforting narrative.

> I would prefer stabbings and acid to mass shootings.

So the elimination of a constitutionally enumerated right to no end... I see that I was right in guessing that you had no interest in actually protecting the children after all, they are simply being used as a pretext. Little wonder why you avoid "debate", the position you've established here is indefensible.
I’m still surprised that we haven’t seen much larger improvements in Ruby performance over the last decade given the large number of major tech companies using Rails.

Yes, I'm aware of 3x3 but for the most common usage of Ruby which if for Rails apps - there hasn't been anything like the gains PHP saw from 5.x to 7.x.

Especially from Microsoft, who has deep compiler/language expertise, and who owns GitHub (large Rails app).
so if we run the traffic through a VPN we can connect existing infrastructure to mobile network devices? i'm very intrigued by the intersection of mobile networks and the existing TCP/IP that runs most of the modern data center. curious how those two pieces will evolve and communicate together. as a side note, any edge device that is outside of wifi network range also seems to be isolated. until you bring that device back into range there is no way to transmit the data, leading to localized storage issues the way i see it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickam%27s_dictum "A patient can have as many diseases as they damn well please."
No, #1 is "this is his burner number"
That is partly due to the rise in prescribing the medication. I saw the DOJ launched an investigation into some of these mental health startups to determine if they are just modern day pill mills, or if they are actually helping people.

I do agree with your point though, getting controlled substances filled is hard. It is unfortunate people abuse them which makes it harder for people who actually need them to have them filled easily.
I suppose you could say it "makes sense" if you confine your field of view to one round of bargaining at one employer who is interested in minimizing short-term labor costs. But does it even make sense for Apple managers/investors on a longer time horizon? Is it part of an approach that's good for the wider world?
When freeloading becomes widespread and normalized, perhaps it is those who are creating the conditions that gives rise to that freeloading who are in the wrong. Digital piracy might be wrong, but the business decisions driving it seem as wrongly-implemented as Prohibition was.

Castigating modern streaming freeloaders might give a feeling of moral superiority, but it seems as futile as yelling at music downloaders back in the P2P days. It's using a bucket to drain the ocean of a widely accepted behavior.

That said, most people don't pirate movies or shows these days, even if they might not have qualms against it- they simply share streaming accounts. Is that illegal, or even against EULA? The platforms don't seem to mind.
I think it's deeply depressing that AI has been sold as something even capable of modelling anything humans do; and quite depressing that this comment exists.

"AI" is just taking `mean()` over our choice of encodings of our choice of measurements of our selection of things we've created.

There is as much "alike humans" in patterns in tree bark.

AI is an embarrassingly dumb procedure, incapable of the most basic homology with anything any animal has ever done; us especially.

We are embedded in our environments, on which we act, and which act on us. In doing so we physically grow, mould our structure and that of our environment, and develop sensory-motor conceptualisations of the world. Everything we do, every act of the imagination or of movement of our limbs, is preconditioned-on and symptomatic-of our profound understanding of the world and how we are in it.

The idea that `mean(424,34324,223123,3424,....)` even has any revelance to us at all is quite absurd. The idea that such a thing might sound pleasant thru' a speaker, irrelevant.

This is a product of i dont know what. On the optimist side, a cultish desire to see Science produce a new utopia. On the pessimisst side, a likewise delusional desire to see Humans as dumb machines.

What a sad state!
My favorite anecdote (so far) from working at Fitbit is that until 2017 or so you could log "Starting a fire, indoors" as an activity.

In the early days the web app allowed you log arbitrary activities; it would tote up the calorie value of all of them. Where did they get the activities? From a public domain list of activities and their caloric value--compiled by U.S. government economists starting in the 1930s when they wanted to estimate the caloric needs of Americans to make sure there was enough food for all the hungry farm workers and factory laborers during the Depression.

I was there the day we removed that database and ceremonially typed in "starting a..." and there was no longer an autocomplete for it.
Forgive me, I'm struggling to parse that triple negative! Can I flip that to be "you have more of a say with one"? Or am I getting it wrong?
I quite enjoyed the writing style on the landing page as well as the content.

Very reminiscent of BDG/Unraveled.
> I remain highly skeptical that there is a common neurological physical pathology in children that is treatable by a steady lifetime use of amphetamines and amphetamine derivatives.

I would argue that even if the effects diminish over time (and it’s true, they do), the benefit of being able to focus in class in those early formative years will pay dividends down the line. Being able to pay attention means you don’t have to play catch-up in math/English/etc later in life. The knowledge you gain in those years doesn’t go away once you stop taking meds.

I’m just speaking as someone who didn’t get diagnosed until I was in my late 20’s. Getting diagnosed and prescribed meds was truly life changing and it’s frustrating thinking back and knowing school didn’t have to be so difficult.
I wonder it's because there's so many Windows users, so few Linux users, and that middle-but-still-reall-small number of Mac users that it seems like a good market to enter into. On Windows there's likely an overwhelming amount of new products for the platform, on Linux there's not enough people willing to try your product for it to be worth the dev time, and on Mac it's still small, but who knows plenty of apps are Mac-only and they seem to be doing fine.

Also, it's probably easier to develop for a *nix platform since it's more open than DOS.

Sources: Just speculating, I can't back anything up 100%
They do make hex bits for drills.

IKEA sells (or used to at least) a battery powered screwdriver/drill with all of the common bits for ikea furniture, including the hex ones. It’s pretty good quality for the price, even has an adjustable clutch for not stripping screws.
Or donate to The Internet Archive instead.
Microsoft debuts Surface Laptop 5 in 13.5-inch and 15-inch sizes
> I bought a Macbook last holiday season and couldn't even set it up until my wife set up her iPhone on my account...

I have no idea what you mean by this. You do not need, and have never needed, to own an iPhone to use an Apple computer.

> I bought my wife a iWatch last week and briefly thought of getting myself one but you can't use it without an iPhone...

This, on the other hand, makes a little more sense. The Apple Watch is designed as a companion device to an iPhone. Much of its functionality relies upon the phone (e.g. displaying notifications from the phone, installing watch apps which pair with corresponding phone apps) -- it can't do much on its own.
>If this is the United States we're talking about, you were misinformed. Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), management has a duty to bargain over certain issues with unionized workers, but there is no obligation to make "concessions" (i.e. changes the workers find favorable).

And just how do you think you go about proving that you engaged in good faith negotiation? All the union has to prove in a lawsuit to a preponderance of the evidence, that more likely than not, management did not negotiate in good faith. Good luck winning that as management by not budging on anything at all.
I feel like there has to be other under explored methods of treating ADHD aside from medication. I’ve yet to find any for myself, but am also incredibly hesitant to medicate my symptoms away. I’ve tried stimulants in the past and was left feeling like I traded one issue (lack of concentration and executive function) for another (racing thought and elevated heart rate).

I do see CBT mentioned, but only as an adjunct to medication. Another commenter here mentioned NLP which I have never heard of prior. Will take a look into this as well.
Related:

Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language (1970) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18756990 - Dec 2018 (4 comments)

Programming a Problem-Oriented Language (1970) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387120 - Sept 2014 (13 comments)

Charles H. Moore – PROGRAMMING a PROBLEM-ORIENTED-LANGUAGE [~1970] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8323235 - Sept 2014 (1 comment)
TikTok Parent ByteDance Plans Music-Streaming Expansion
I find Stable Diffusion is pretty good at generating single-subject images like this. It's really mind blowing and the novelty hasn't worn off for me yet.

But after dozens of attempts I still haven't managed to get it to show me a photograph of a duck eating a hoagie at Niagara Falls. I think it would be really interesting to try to find the simplest query that these tools cannot produce.
Maybe read exactly the post you replied to?

Here, I will reproduce it for you: "We don't know which generation of Egyptians did the top quality work."

Now you may ignore it in both places.
Sounds like a pretty reasonable negotiating tactic. Everyone holds stuff back.
This is a common misunderstanding. For example, an employer can propose a wage cut (obviously not a concession) as part of good faith bargaining.

To your point, making concessions will often prevent any worker (or the union as a body) from filing an Unfair Labor Practice charge. But employers with good counsel seldom worry about such charges, because the penalties are so weak.
People are usually pretty quick to fix the power grid after that kind of attack.

Cruise missiles are pretty expensive. (The US Tomahawk costs about $2M) My understanding is that ballistic missiles are even more expensive (The 9K720 Iskander costs about $3M)

If you are trading these for $50M fighter jets that's one thing, but spending them on transformer yards might be just digging a hole for yourself.
It does seem like a clickbait title.
In the limit, it's going to design an AI to write some python to call a library that does the math perfectly.
From r/ruby (including discussion from author): https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/xwcvty/a_new_web_serv...
Related: Atari asks for help finding developer of 2600 game Aquaventure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30264436
What are those solder joints at 0:50 in the video?
Apple gets incredibly high margins on their products probably leaving more play room.

Is there any evidence that mobile chip makers who do not also create/own the device and are in a race to the bottom on price actually get decent returns?
Thank you, Hegel.
> I have chat history that goes back years that it's often convenient to be able to search.

> but instead the Signal backup just keeps getting larger and larger...

One begets the other.

> I'd love to be able to move it off the device

If you don't want infinite history, set a conversation length limit. It is in the storage settings.

If you want to backup messages on iOS go complain here[0]. For Android, you already have this ability.

[0]https://community.signalusers.org/t/ios-backup-keeping-messa...
Perhaps it’s a hybrid? Original core collapse, then accretion of in falling material after the shock from the last explosion dissipates, causing spontaneous fusion/degeneracy again and re-explosion?
Can we have this but self-hostable and open source, please? Something like Bitwarden that you can stuff onto your own device? I know there are hosted services for handling auth on the server backend, but what about the other way around?

I use Krypton but that's not maintained (and already broken on some websites like Github). I trust the secure storage module of my phone and I trust my computer's TPM, unlike many other Linux users; surely it should be possible to integrate with the OS somehow to make it secure, right? The last example I saw used USB over IP to inject a virtual FIDO device, which works great, but the implementation is clearly not ready for prime time.
This decision is asinine and should be reversed.

I have been using Signal for years. The ability to make it your default SMS client is one of the major drivers of adoption; if someone agrees that privacy matters, and you can point out that the transition to Signal is frictionless and offers all the same features as their existing SMS app, then installing, trying, and liking it become easy. I've brought hundreds of people onto Signal, and being able to give a simple 'yes' to questions about whether it handles SMS is almost always what 'seals the deal.'

Signal is saying that mixing non-secure and secure messages in the same app might cause confusion and security fails, even though the difference is very clearly signalled.

Their argument is bullshit. If users go back to separate messaging apps, chances are those apps will look much the same as Signal (which itself copies the look and feel of the iOS messaging app quite closely). There's a much bigger security risk from users forgetting that they are not in Signal and carelessly pasting & sending information that was supposed to be private or disappear.

Additionally, it creates a bunch of new security risks, allowing third parties who gain possession of a phone to distinguish between conversations that happen over SMS and conversations that happen over Signal, drawing inferences that there is something untoward about the latter.

I cannot understand the constantly changing, er, signals coming from Signal. One month they want to be just like every other messaging app and they're pushing features that hardly anyone has asked for, like sticker packs or crypto payments. Other times they say users are too paranoid for not wanting to expose their phone number/pop up messages about who in the user's address book has installed Signal. Today they're saying that wanting to use Signal for all your messaging needs is somehow anti-privacy.

I find myself wishing it cost money or a small annual subscription so I could vote with my $, because the Signal foundation seems to spend more effort on telling its users that they're wrong than on listening to them.
Thanks, that completely makes sense, I hadn't thought of the scheduler's involvement.
Same here. I also considered this being a US-only thing. I couldn't care less about SMS.

In fact, I hope getting rid of SMS support adds some capacity to the team for features/fixes I care the most about.
When I went to high school the teacher told about a science fair where someone had put a sign next to his project reading:

WARNING
2 million Ohms

(or something like that, I don't remember the actual number of Ohms for this specific project)

A remarkable number of people kept their distance from this obviously dangerous experiment.

The chemistry-equivalent of this joke is to warn everyone around you of the presence of dangerous di-Hydrogen Oxide which kills hundreds of thousands of people every year.
Zeno's Truck.
Before.

We'll have to see how it lasts.

I use Slack, but that's because everyone else uses it.

I'm not especially happy with it. It's pretty buggy.

https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/926458505355235328
You can’t really shut down all VSCode telemetry.

Source: https://www.roboleary.net/tools/2022/04/20/vscode-telemetry....
I don't know about GPs logic, but my logic is pretty simple. I don't use any infrastructure that Mark Zuckerberg had his fingers on. That was clear to me after the first time I saw him.
PowerShell, NPM Scripts, and Silently Dropped Arguments
> Hippie Steve would be pro-union me thinks.

It is always weird when someone who has no connection to an individual responds and attempts to state how that person things/feels on an issue.

Question for you:

If Steve Jobs ran the company, and in your view he was "pro-union" why isn't it already unionized?

Steve often got what he wanted (he was DRIVEN).. So if unionization was something he wanted, one would think he would have done it?
The advantage to a union is it's not up to the company alone whether they implement such things unilaterally.