skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO (and this is just my relatively uninformed opinion), the key driving force here will be the shift to electric trucks. These are more expensive to buy but cheaper to operate. At least right now. And also easier to turn into self driving platforms.

ICE trucks are really hard to operate. You are basically micro managing the gears, dealing with lot of fairly complex bit of equipment, etc. Electric trucks basically have no gears, heaps of torque and don't really require much more than just pointing them in the right direction. Apparently as easy as driving a normal car.

So, electrification strikes me as a core requirement for self driving. And of course electric trucks are also more environmentally friendly. Less brake dust (regenerative braking) and less emissions. And the batteries are recycled at the end of their life. So there's that.

The shift to electric trucks is already happening of course but its very capital intensive. Millions of trucks with a price tag of hundreds of thousands each means a lot of capital will have to be expended. Trillions basically. That alone will ensure it will take quite long to complete. A decade minimum before most new trucks are electric and then at least another decade before most ICE trucks have been retired. And the first generations won't be self driving. So these new trucks would be in service for a decade plus before being swapped out for self driving ones. So, if that takes another decade to happen, we're talking 30-40 years. Minimum. But with the first ones on the road as early as less than a decade from now. It's going to be a slow process.

Insurance is basically about risk. Insurance companies like to minimize risk and maximize profits. An electric truck that is less likely to break down regularly is less risky and would on paper require a lower insurance fee. And then a self driving truck is less likely to get into accidents or other liability related issues. Which again means lower fees. So, that helps.
This is another cool way of doing it /w Elixir + Lit https://launchscout.com/blog/embedded-web-apps-with-livestat...
To add to that, there is also a lot of clickbait that, for many people, if they see it they are going to jump in, read the discussion, and comment, even if it's not particularly healthy. "Hide" can work for this, having a way to never see it in the first place could be better, for some
What a strange, whiney article.
In OpenBSD softdeps are an optional FFS mount option not enabled by default, (softdep).

I don't use them. Theye can give you a boost on slower media, but a power cut can be fatal after untarring/cp -r/git cloning.

Maybe you should have read the OpenBSD manpages.
> So gross, sorry couldn’t continue after that.

What was so offensive about it?

I interpreted it as "does not fit the overweight, bearded, too-old-for-military-service mountain-man militia stereotype."
If you move an application to trash from /Applications, it leaves behind all kinds of files which are no longer needed and just take up space. I presume RemoveX does something similar to Homebrew which has a list of locations to remove once a cask is uninstalled [1].

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/ca0cc23ef244c...
See also the charming but not especially good 1995 action flick Money Train: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113845
This becomes even more stupid on the part of whomever was performing due diligence when you take a cursory look at the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210128204248/https://withfrank...
https://web.archive.org/web/20210222193947/https://withfrank...

A jump from "Over 350k" to "4.25 million" in less than a month.
Show HN: Autoytpe – A command palette for dynamic text shortcuts
There seems to be an alternative in 8vim keyboard (haven't used it though): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inc.flide.vi8 with the code available at https://github.com/flide/8VIM
My favourite feature when looking down in London (as a foreigner who has only visited a few times, briefly)...

The Stanton Warrior drain cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=stanton+warrior+drain+cover&...

They were produced by Stanton Ironworks in Derbyshire, which closed in 2007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkeston#Stanton_Ironworks.

Many of them must have been replaced with a different brand since then as I noticed fewer had the Stanton Warrior brand when I was last in London in 2019.

The British electronic music producers The Stanton Warriors took their name from these covers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Warriors.

(Also, at adds with the old Google interview brain-teaser, "Why are manhole covers round?" - they're rectangular. So I guess it they don't care so much if these ones fall in the hole, probably because they're not holes that workers go down into).
Very helpful, thanks! Anything similar on macOS/iOS?
Because you never reach any goals that get verified if you develop for security. It is like you only getting punished if the security is weak (you get exploited), but you never know if the security you implemented actually prevented a threat. So there is no real rewards.

Would be interesting to know if there is some kind of reward model out there that solves this.
This is partially true.

If you misspell a word, it will auto correct. If you press backspace, the autocorrected word will still be there, but you can also tap to choose what you actually typed or a different suggestion.

And if you backspace again, autocorrect will temporarily disable itself so you can fix minor typos.
What is accomplished from a supposed write off from paying another business compared to paying employees?

And why is pay for a business’s employees not considered an expense?
I agree. I think most people have a “if you’re not breaking the law then you have nothing to worry about” view on this. Naively trusting that whoever has authority can be trusted indefinitely. But it’s an easier point to make than an abstract view of personal liberties and protections from abusive power.

Some kid (I suspect) wrote a naughty racist word on sone piece of playground equipment (easily cleaned off) and the reaction by people on an unofficial town FB group were amazing. One person called for cameras everywhere and the imprisonment of parents if their kid was recorded writing a racist or w/e word.

Hell the whole defund the police thing started turning into an alternative where there are cameras everywhere. I’m pretty sure that will be the future.
From article:

> Experts not involved with the study said the VA population does not reflect the general population.

> Patients at VA health facilities are generally older, sicker people and often men, a group that would typically have more than normal health complications, said John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
Probably all it would take is defining peoples private property to include their personal information and “generated data” or something. Might even be something a suitable legal eagle could win in a lawsuit.
May help if you say what kind of product/service you're offering?

I have found you can make a return with low value, impulse buys but it was hard work and sucked time away from other projects that would have been more profitable, such as basic content marketing.

There may be some value in long term brand recognition though, really depends how much spare cash you have to throw around I suppose?
Intel just decided the decoder unit actually needed to be a full embedded OS and system. As for the net stack, sometimes the decoder gets confused with esoteric x86 instructions and needs to contact the internet for help.

All logically explainable ;)
looks useful and I subscribed!

btw how this is connected to Build your own Redis? is build-your-own some project where people can host their projects? I am interested in learning about the back story
So indirectly what you're saying is protect the masses from 'misinformation'. The masses are too stupid to think for themselves, correct?
The papers I'm finding on those look truly amazing! Thanks a lot for the insights
A friend of mine often quips, "never forget that nature is always trying to kill you."
Now I know how I got argyrosis.
Yes. 'Geo', or in modern Greek γη (gi), means earth in the sense of land, not as the planet. Hence 'geology' is literally translated to 'earth/land study'. The science of geology is largely concerned with the structural study of the planet Earth, however it doesn't preclude the study of other celestial/astronomical objects. Geologists, for instance, will be studying data from the samples taken on Mars.
With all due respect the hubris (and folly) of Silicon Valley pursuing driveless cars and trucks as well as things like uber is astounding.

It will fail in the market because the technology does not exist and will not exist in the foreseeable future unless or until something like AGI is perfected.

Driving is not a closed domain problem. There will always be fat tail circumstances where statistical methods will break down.

Furthermore driving, freight haul and taxicabs are NOT natural monopolies. They are not areas where technology can give enduring market power that society will tolerate (except perhaps in the case of regulatory / institutional capture). Instead they are low margin, established, service- commodity businesses.

The point of trucking is to safely and efficiently get goods from A to B. Until machines / automation can do it cheaper than humans it will not be viable.

There is no shortage of cheap low skilled labor in the USA.

Why invest in hugely expensive automation in an open problem domain that you can not even perfectly model when you can just pay a driver $25 an hour to do it better?

There is so much more easily attainable low hanging hanging fruit.

Why not automate warehouses?

Trains? Waitstaff? Insurance agents? Real estate agents?

Triage nursing?

All these are probably more attainable.

The driverless delusion reeks of sophomoric understanding of the problem domain fueled by credulous media and group think.

Personally I wouldn't hire anybody for a thinking role who believes that driverless trucks or taxis are viable marketable product for the open road. It is a good heuristic to separate critical thinkers from bandwagon riders.

It is literally an easier technical problem to land a man on the moon than to design an autonomous road vehicle that can do better and be more cost effective than humans in all circumstances.

Hopefully we will stop talking about this foolishness in a couple years.

https://blog.piekniewski.info/2021/12/18/farcical-self-delus...
You should read up on luddites more! This casual usage of the word along with the comical "literally" only disproves your own arguments, if there were any, and assumes bad faith.
You should really read the bipartisan 1/6 committee report.

At the very least what you say isn't true because there wouldn't have been a mob in DC on 1/6 if Trump hadn't asked them to be there. How many people travelled from around the country to be in DC on 1/6/2017? Or 2009? Everyone gets there for the 20th for the inauguration, whereas historically the 6th has been ignored. But in 2021 everyone was there on that day, at the express invitation of Trump. Don't take my word for it - you just have to look at the court proceedings for the 1/6 prosecutions, where defendant after defendant pleads that they are not at fault because they were just taking directions from the President.

But what you say is further untrue because there were plenty of Republicans involved beyond that. The White House was responsible for helping organize the Stop the Steal rally, at which multiple high-ranking Republican party members spoke.

Beyond that, multiple congresspeople and senators objected to certifications, not because they had any basis for their objections, but in order to delay the proceeding and give Trump time to rile the mob. State GOP lawmakers forged Certificates of the Vote electing Trump that Pence was intended to substitute for the authentic ones. GOP Senators were involved in the process to transmit these certificates to Pence in time. Giuliani was busy calling lawmakers during the insurrection imploring them to delay the vote further as the mob bore down on them. Trump sat back and refused to deploy any National Guard troops, to the point Pence had to usurp control and do it himself after waiting 3 hours.

Again, read the 1/6 report. It's all in there.
> I use odd words. I wish […] the iPhone would just let me use my odd words

You’re describing the exact behaviour of the iPhone keyboard. Give it a try. I have all sorts of weird words that it has learned after I intervene a few times.
In this idealized argument it, like the real world, isn’t a zero sum game.

If someone produces enough widgets where they can afford a jet ski then what’s the problem with that?

Jet skis aren’t a product of nature, there’s probably a thousand people involved in the process of turning raw materials into a jet ski. Maybe more. People who are less poor because someone wanted to purchase a jet ski.

And, because I know it’ll come up, charity also exists in this idealized argument so people aren’t dying of hunger while Scrooge McDuck does backflips into his pool of gold coins while saying “let them eat cake”.
Yes I do, it was a Commodore 64 cartridge called "Black Box 8". And it spoke Polish with the right accent with all the sounds not present in English etc.

I read back then that it was domestic Polish make, but back then there was no such thing as IP protection so it is very likely it was based on work of Denic Klatt(same as DECtalk). When I heard some DECtalk recordings in a youtube video not long ago it immediately reminded me nded me of Commodore 64 Black Box 8. Although DECtalk spoke in English and black box 8 spoke in Polish there is some similarity that can be heard in their voices(not pitch - this was a user setting, but more of a rhythm if it makes sense)
In addition to the sitting Republican president, Paul Gosar (R–AZ), Andy Biggs (R–AZ), and Mo Brooks (R–AL) were involved and felt the need to ask for pardons:

https://www.azmirror.com/blog/biggs-and-gosar-sought-pardons...

https://www.al.com/news/2022/06/mo-brooks-among-lawmakers-wh...

There were also a ton of Republican operatives involved (Roger Stone, Ali Alexander, etc.), donors, etc.

More importantly, however, if the Republican Party didn’t support the insurrection it would have condemned the people involved and worked to prevent it from happening again. Instead, as we all know they voted to protect Trump, attacked the handful of Republicans who did condemn the attack and successfully purged them from the party in the subsequent elections, and most importantly, continued to repeat many of the themes motivating the attackers. The easiest way to say the Republican Party didn’t support January 6th would have been to publicly state that the election was valid and support prosecution of the attackers.
> I can protect myself from the individual non-state backed fascist.

Perhaps you can. History has shown that most people cannot.
I do, I'd like to refresh significantly less often than I do.

OTOH since it's hand-picked I have no expectation it'll last very long.
If you want to see it like this, the problem with this filter: everybody gets the same output.
How do you pronounce Fauxgile? I've heard of "Fragile" before.
Other things to look out for:

- Every tube station has a "labyrinth" to find. https://art.tfl.gov.uk/labyrinth/about/

- Vehicles drive on the left hand side in the UK. Except at the entrance to the Savoy, where road markings make it clear they must drive on the right.

- We love roundabouts. Londonist has a nice article on some of the weird things you can find on some of them here: https://londonist.com/london/secret/the-strange-things-you-c...

- When using transport, the normal rule of thumb is that the underground will be quicker than a bus or even a taxi on many journeys, but sometimes walking beats even that. TfL has a tube map that helps you figure that out (check out Covent Garden to Leicester Square - a 90 second tube journey that takes at least 8-10 minutes due to the depth of the line): https://content.tfl.gov.uk/walking-tube-map.pdf
> Isn't it strange that human cultures at some point thought "teenagers" are when people should start families

Not really. That's when they start having sex. So you end up having kids whether you like it or not.
I remember being a teenager in the 90s in Erie, PA and making things from the AC was our go to entertainment. Many a weeknight was spent cutting the heads off matches, stuffing them into PVC pipes and throwing bombs at each other in the woods.

It’s nothing short of a miracle that we all made it out of that time period alive, with our limbs and fingers intact, and not in federal prison.
I merely skimmed this article because I personally don't care or much about the details, but also because I completely and fully understand his pain.

I've done quite a bit of the "searching for the perfect system," including doing Emacs + Org Mode for a few years.

I ditched it because I do like a lot of modern tools, and today I use a ton of little scripts and hacks, mostly around zim-wiki, but what I think the author is getting at is more-or-less the "hypercard" thing.

Namely, it could and should be far easier to cobble together systems of programs as individuals that work together and that don't strongly separate "user" and "developer."

(aka screw GNOME? :) )
Now you're pretty far out of a discussion about handling promise rejections, and into a discussion about product UX and feature design...

"There's no point showing additional chapters if an earlier one fails." <- This is not always true, and heavily dependent on what the use case is. For a book? sure. for a manual or textbook? Much less sure.

The approach works just fine either way, though - if you don't want to display additional chapters if one fails, you can do so easily by just including a "success" field (or anything similar) in the object that appendChapters expects, and break if needed when you hit that. (although again - you'd probably be better served by displaying a user readable error and offering a button to retry, and then displaying the rest of the content so you don't have to fetch it all a second time).

Alternatively, you can also have appendChapters throw, or if you really want, you can still leave the promise rejection - but leaving the rejection or throwing at this spot means you're making a contract that calls for `try/catch` to use without unhandled rejections.

That's the whole deal with async await. You're trading the formatting of .then().catch() for try{}catch(){}.

if you don't like writing try/catch blocks, either structure the contract so that the promise doesn't reject (at least for expected error cases), or use the traditional .then().catch().
There is something missing about pricing and details about the "credits"

> Is there a limit to the number of tweets I can reply to using the app?
>
> The app may have usage limits, please check with the pricing plan and detail.

But the pricing page says one gets X credits. But what are these credits and how does one use them?
Probably because it's a cut throat business and truckers operating on razor thin margins are more likely to default on their loans when they get into trouble. The second hand value of the trucks is not enough to cover that risk. A two year old truck has a value of course, but it's nowhere near the new value of the truck.
> For a text editor mediocricity is fine.

No, not for the text editor, but may be for some users. If a tree falls, does it make a sound?

After all, maybe you are just not a power user and don't have the same frame of reference that power users have.

> It has to be shown that structural editing makes an editor simpler, faster and in suited for a broader range of tasks. Until then, text is the king.

Text might be the king until then, yes, but so is C++ and the children running with AKs in Africa. Doesn't mean it's right or acceptable.

To me, I have argued extensively, that yes, structural can be absolutely simpler and faster and more versatile. Without a question.

> I would not say that CL itself is a problem, but on the other side the lisp community likes to write essays about the perfect software in the sky but delivers mostly nothing.

I am sorry, but I am not a part of that generation, if there's one. Yes, I can see how strange it is to not see what's claimed to be a very powerful language overtake the world. I agree on that, it's a bit mysterious.

But some things just take time, I think. For the people to get accustomed to it; to go through some pain first, perhaps.

Look, the only reason I am using CL is because it's an image-based language. That's simply crucial for interactivity. What are my other options? Smalltalk isn't bad at all, but I like macros too much, and the stability too.

> in praxis it raises a lot of red flags for me.

You have to account that the community hasn't been as nearly as large as for any other mainstream programming language. So, aren't your expectation, perhaps, a bit too high for the output of that community? It only has something like 3k packages online. Python has 420000+. Where is all the amazing python userland software that has lived for >5 years?

And, you know, as small as it is, people have published some pretty cool libraries. Stable libraries. Sublanguages. Macro libraries. FWIW it's pretty cool as it is. A game was published two days ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261430/Kandria/

Is it amazing? Haven't played it, don't know. Maybe? But what exactly is all that software you are expecting to begin with?

I don't know the name for it, but there ought to be some cognitive bias that says: "things that don't happen, can't, and won't".

Of course, I get it. I would be sceptical too. Maybe even very sceptical. But there's no other way to deal with sceptisism other than to analyze what's actually proposed, and whether it's doable.

https://project-mage.org/why-common-lisp
https://archive.ph/j7AXY

https://archive.ph/VkzhD

>China sharply revises death toll linked to covid outbreak to 60,000 from 37

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/14/china-covid-...

https://archive.ph/bZJxu

>Nearly 60,000 people have died of Covid in China in past five weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/14/nearly-60000-p...
Thanks for your comment.

I would really enjoy talking to you more about this.

From what you wrote, I agree, we are indeed in an era where concurrency and its notation has yet to settle on an elegant approach.

With microservices and distributed systems simultaneous independent execution and ordering and consistency then the problems of concurrency reveal themselves.

Do you have any ideas how you would want to define concurrency?
What notation would you like to be capable of writing?
What is your favourite representation of concurrency? (Such as bash pipelines)
Except there is just as much FreeBSD on PlayStation OS as there is on iOS.
Yup.

When there is an economic reason to take security seriously, it is.
This was my first thought as well! I've never seen it, but I had a VHS tape with a preview for it at the beginning that I watched regularly, which I still remember.

Wesles Snipes: we're not going to rob the money train

Woody Harrelson: why not

Snipes: because, we're... we're cops

It was a tantalizing preview