skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big concern with covid is long covid which affects around 5% of people who got covid. Thats what scares me. When I got covid it were only 2-3 bad days and the rest was like a normal flu but I noticed it took me roughly 3 more weeks to feel 100% like I did before, mostly fitness and stamina.
For those who care about copyright, that URL is not from O’Reilly; it’s a copy of a book-set that O’Reilly used to distribute via CD-ROM – with a nice user interface that used web technologies (even included a search feature). O’Reilly could make it available for free – as they’ve done so for other books such as Apache Security¹ or Using Samba² – but they still (as is their right) expect you to pay for the sed & awk book³.

¹ https://blog.ivanristic.com/2015/02/apache-security-ten-year...

² https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/samba/book/

³ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sed-awk/1565922255/
More discussion just over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30527168
I think the ability to take it to an independent repair facility almost as important as being able to repair something with your own hands.

Sometimes there are specially pieces of equipment required in order to service something. Not to be confused with deliberate sabotage by a manufacturer hiding reset functionality behind undocumented interfaces, cables and unbelievably expensive software.
There's a learning curve parable about the fastest way to learn how to make quality clay pots.

Team A focuses on making 1 perfect pot. Specifications, research, process, testing, verification, etc. They get pretty close with their initial pots, but they struggle to scale up.

Team B just starts making pots. As fast they can. Make incremental tiny improvements. Most pots are total losses. But they do manage to start making pretty good pots. And they hit scale.

Which approach is better?

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Tesla's QA/QC will not improve, stabilize until their rate of change slows down. They are hellbent on scaling up (20m vehicles, build out charging network, etc) while reducing costs (new tech, fewer parts, etc).

A lot of mistakes will be made.

In the future, I'd consider buying a budget (~$25k?) Tesla vehicle. Maybe after they ship a few million.

Hopefully, we'll have many options to choose from (BYD, Kia, etc).
Yeah, as if the venomous snakes, spiders, and even mammals weren't reason enough to be afraid of that continent! :)
Lightning CSS: an extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier
Dutch businesses misleading consumers with sustainability claims: regulator
> I'm all for DIY stuff, but this isn't one of those

After my own research, I absolutely agree. I was quite disappointed.

> They also could stop price-gouging the consumers on the packs, which is one of the reasons people want to repair them

Totally true. These prices are seen as an essential profit center when they're actually contributing to the problem. There are other ways to differentiate for a premium without worsening safety.

It's stupid to DIY this stuff unless you really know what you're doing and are willing to put in the proper effort, and there should be more warnings about this. However, companies are doing the opposite of reducing the motivation for it. I don't know if we need something as extreme as price controls, but in my view, if the industry isn't going to step up then they should be forced to somehow. There is way too much risk of massive property damage, maiming and/or death.
It is painful when the link is a clickbait blog intro linking to actual article that is paywalled
Unrelated question: Do you have to have a certain amount of "points" on an HN account to be able to see the downvoting button, or something? I've only ever seen the up-arrow and assumed that either my account received some kind of "black mark" or that it hasn't met some arbitrary threshold.
The fact that Twitter and Facebook are driving divisiveness and misinformation definitely impacts my life, regardless of my lack of engagement with the platforms.
of course, but the central government is all about seeming to be in control, not objectively in control.

mass arrest -> leads to questions about why 1000's of young couples are being arrested due to them not wanting to pay mortgages on houses they can't move into for years, and has no construction progress (the construction is abandoned), and this is a contagion that will lead to another city starting to rebel, leading to more mass arrests. Not talking about 1 or 2 people, but thousands.

vs.

the central government is taking care of the people by forcing a company into bankruptcy so they can't take advantage of people anymore.

The 2nd is the better narrative. That's what they picked. Doesn't make sense, but is what happened.
This study is ridiculous. The way it's worded, it makes it sound like Omicron is immune to previous infection. What they didn't study specifically was immunity of Omicron to previous Omicron infection.

We all know that Omicron defeated previous immunity, but once you get infected by Omicron, you're immune to Omicron variants. This is basic science, and the fact that some doctors were trying to convince previously-infected people to get vaccinated was anti-science.
Pair up with google glasses, chatgpt and way to convert chatgpt to images for instant slide presentations. aka latest & greatest way to get the picture.

a) practical paper / hands free calculus exercises

b) practical, non-academic reason for learning calculus: direct thought to 3d printed items. [0][1]

[0] : https://www.engineering.com/story/ai-powered-multi-material-...

[1] : https://formlabs.com/blog/25-unexpected-3d-printing-use-case...
By this logic we may as well go back into plaintext Netscape sites and let the browser determine everything about how we see the content. What is the limit to what the browser is allowed to do, and where do your preferences end and the browser's preferences that you can't change begin?
No money for lawyers, before or after you spent $100k on a car?
Yet this article is claiming the opposite... there is some non-zero number of pilots receiving VA funds (for PTSD and similar health concerns) while not reporting those issues to the FAA.
Paris agrees, and has reclaimed a great deal of space from cars!
His formal background is in theoretical physics not astronomy, although he has been at Harvard's astronomy department for decades now.
I think that is good advice, though I am not sure what you mean by saying life is poetry. I will also add that one should be aware of what is happening during the different seasons, such as particular flowers blooming, animal migrations, etc. Only after 30+ years have I begun to notice the changes of the season and wanting to bask in them.
I don't understand this "[reading] his email" thing. I can't look away from the road for more than a couple of seconds without the car alerting me to pay attention while FSD is enabled. It's currently both watching for attention (eyes) and nagging on the steering wheel. Autopilot at least does the steering wheel nag every 30-60s. Failing to acknowledge these cause the car to pull over and start blaring alarms in the cabin. I'm not sure how "99% of people" can use it the way you're describing, especially for FSD.

I've personally never felt like I couldn't take control in <1s.
I don't think your statement is accurate.

The Iraqi army did not just "melt away deciding not to fight", they literally had no capability to fight and the times they did they got a obliterated in incredibly one sided battles.

Trying to then to move focus on Fallujah, an urban pacification effort while talking about national-state-level war doesn't sound right to me either.
All software is potentially broken. If you've only ever tested your software in a controlled driving range, then you don't know how it will behave when you take it out into the real world. If you've only ever tested it on lightly populated roads, then you don't know how it will behave when you take it onto heavily populated roads.

It's not surprising that it made a mistake during testing. That's what testing is for: rooting out mistakes.
Meaning that the marker of success is stable revenue? In other words, someone who keeps a minimum wage job their entire life could be the most successful person around?
> They also could stop price-gouging the consumers on the packs, which is one of the reasons people want to repair them to begin with.

This is a huge piece of it, stop ripping us off! This has been going on for decades -- from NiMH battery packs for power tools, to laptop batteries.

I assume a big difference in the danger aspect with the bike batteries is their size/capacity? Less to go wrong with a 2AH cordless drill battery, than a 20AH bike battery?
Important Modern Day Context; at the GOP Debate last Wednesday, multiple candidates proposed sending forces to Mexico with or without approval.
What's wrong with Autopilot? It's a very good analogy to autopilot in airplanes.
It was 140! and the interface used to be SMS. It basically was for multicast text messaging and I really liked that.
Why do you include the company management and shareholders, but not the workers who actually create the car?
Been working with PHP since the late '90s, still do with some legacy Zend Framework clients.

Lot's of people people who hate on PHP's "design" (not the code bases created from it), didn't understand what was going on. PHP allows taking any C program and writing a wrapper around it, and they would often just use the C program's API, which would then become part of the PHP API for that extension .

There was amazing inconsistency there, yes, when looking through a formal lens. But it was not "designed" so much as "grown" - it was an organic thing made for delivering. It was quickly able to have huge amounts of functionality added that didn't happen as fast with ASP or Cold Fusion, and I didn't find it nearly as gnarly as Perl.
Don't be so hard on React. It does have some valid niche use cases. ;)
People will need to start thinking of the summer months in some places like the winter months in others: during certain periods you need shelter with working HVAC systems, and when you go outside you need suitable gear and emergency arrangements.

I live in the Chicago area, and in the winter working from my heated home and traveling between heated places in my heated car, it's sometimes possible to forget how uninhabitable it is outside! But you need to carry emergency jackets and other things in the car in case it breaks down and you lose your climate control. And I remember how scary it was when my furnace broke during a winter cold snap!
Consider learning Rust instead, and use wgpu [1].

[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/
Question from someone who don’t know much about IP. Isn’t ipv4 better for privacy from practical standpoint? Most of the time users are behind bunch of NATs. And with ipv6 premise (I may be wrong here) it “public ip for every device”. Which should make it easier to track people.
The error IMO would be better described that there's a connective missing - 'so' or 'therefore', etc. - or else with that elided it should be a semicolon rather than a comma.
I've personally found immense use in tracking life according to the Moon's phases. 1/2/4 week intervals turn out to be a good timescale for tracking things like plant growth, project progress, etc.
There’s already some level of precedent around police usage of helicopters that will likely stand with usage of drones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Riley
This reminded me of a Dr House episode where the patient somehow ingested tape worm eggs, which managed to make their way into the brain, thigh muscle etc... through blood, then hatch there.

Looks like it is referred to as Neurocysticercosis [0].

The parasite does not necessarily chose where it might end up, so it is up to luck.
The victim probably ingest a bunch of eggs, which will find their way into different parts of the body, with different level of survivability.
The brain does look like a cosy place to survive.

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/neuro...
How can they manage my work without understanding it? And if they don't understand it, subpar work is paid the same as reliable work.

If there is no premium paid for software that is more reliable as they cannot identify it, why should it be more reliable?
We're open-sourcing the library that powers 1Password's ability to log in with
>Your post basically says "it's bizarre you're expressing your opinion, don't do that" - that is not healthy for productive conversation (ironically op's point about those products)

Ironically, you just did the same thing to his post.
For the open-minded people who were paying attention, yes, for a while now. But for the hall monitors in the back? Not really...or maybe they were just being willfully ignorant? I'm glad there's more evidence coming along so the hall monitors in the back hear it louder and clearer. The fact that this study was funded by the Gates Foundation makes it even sweeter. :)
Brings "Move Fast and Break Things" to a ludicrous new level.

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Is this just one vehicle, or systemic? If there is one instance like this in a space vehicle - wouldnt you immediately go and inspect EVERY SINGLE space vehicle you've ever made that's flying around in space to make sure they don't crash into all the other things flying around in space?

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Also, my Aunt's best friend (can't recall his name) was the designer for the original electrical harness for the very first tesla roadsters... I only met him a few times, at parties at my aunts house, but I do recall him to be 'pretty hacky' (in a good way) and he told me all about it, though I recall very little now, but I am sure a lot of the maverick hacker dna from the original team still exists?
The short term solution is making A/C very accessible and reliable. The long term solution is no longer putting huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. It is imperative to do both, no matter the (e: monetary) expense.
My wife at the time was in the same boat. A virus hit our household in Feb 2020, she got super sick with many of the expected symptoms for COVID and remained foggy for months. However, we were living in Oregon, near the vaccine research facility in Hillsboro, which also happens to be near the primate research facility. So my theory is that the authorities saw COVID was coming and released the closest COVID (Coronavirus family) analogue they had into the population in a hope that there would be some cross protection.

Oregon had one of the lowest COVID infection rates the entire pandemic. Surely not due to anyone being particularly careful.
> Maybe it's because of the advent of self taught engineers?

I doubt that it's this. For much of the modern history of the software industry, almost all engineers were self-taught, but this is a more recent phenomenon. And it's one I've seen as much from college graduates as others.

Personally, I think it's because a lot of software engineering is climbing up higher of the ladder of abstraction. Having a career as a dev without understanding the low-level basics of how computers work is entirely viable now. Just a couple of decades back, it wasn't.
that's a lie. no symptoms and no infectivity is precisely what vaccines gave.

vaccines do not function like a benedryl.
> likely more

Yes, more. This is a fundamental problem with these sorts of “computer does safety critical thing but can’t do it perfectly” things; you need someone whose job is to do _nothing_ most of the time, but have full awareness of what the machine is doing and be ready to stop it at a moment’s notice. Humans are, generally, quite _bad_ at doing mostly nothing but remaining super-alert.
YouTube has now started rounding corners of the video player at full-screen for some users. My friends have shared screenshots of this but I am yet to encounter it outside of mobile where my phone screen is already rounded.

I seriously thought the round corners trend was dead already. Why are they trying to force it back?
The plant is in India, BD is just buying the power at above rack rate (hence the hue and cry)
Findex: Searchable encryption, performant and open-source (AGPL-3.0)
It is a cryptographic protocol designed to securely make search queries on an untrusted cloud server. Thanks to its encrypted indexes, large databases can securely be outsourced without compromising usability.
Have you not heard of Community Notes? https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introducti...
Lawyers prove things in court for a living. They wouldn't have any trouble proving the frame being cracked nearly in half is a defect.

It probably wouldn't get to court, though. The government deals with lemons all the time. Every state has ways to get lemon buyers relief quickly and at minimal expense.
Yes but jails had since the beginning much clearer and stronger security features.
Wow. This is 100% false and misinformation.

The initial vaccine was absolutely tested for infection and was based on infection rates, not based on "severity of symptoms." They changed the narrative after it was clear that vaccination did not provide protection from infection from variants but did maintain protection from severe symptoms.
Well, another important piece of the puzzle is

> the company has argued that Lee consumed alcohol before getting behind the wheel and that it is not clear whether Autopilot was on at the time of crash.

Given that this case hasn’t been previously reported, I don’t think anyone can claim to know that Tesla’s version of the story is false. Presumably if they’re confident in it, Tesla won’t agree to a last minute settlement, and we’ll see what evidence comes out in the trial.
If you crash the plane if you are depressed the reason is not that you are depressed. The reason is you are a psychopath.
My mom is a vet and 1 of 2 that I'm a caregiver for. So yea, I've dealt with them. I have 45 days of vacation saved to deal with their crap. Luckily my mom gets transportation benefits that helps.

I can't argue with why they do it. It's survival. I just know instead of working/gaming the system, we need to change it.
VSCode, to be clear. The fact that Microsoft released two products in the same domain with almost the same name consistently trips me up.

No, we don't spend money on code editors around here; I meant VSCode.
The Griphen can cost as much as a F-35, with F-16 performance. It takes decades for the maintenance cost to catch up to the sticker price when comparing it to something like a F-16. There is also relatively little Griphen stock out there, so you'd be buying them new if you want one.

So I could also see how it would also not be a great fit for a country that basically can't afford more than 10 busted cold war relics.
I'm always happy to see very reputable sources who report on very serious endeavors by very serious people.
These last years have seen a terrible increase in what people call "post-truth discourse", or more simply "fake news".
These terrible things poison our democracy, making people doubt major institutions and look for conspiratorial explanations to the noblest pursuits, such as the quest for science; instead, they see everything as motivated by money transfers and bullshit.
This is a big problem with the internet increasing polarization badly.

Among this darkness stands a beacon of light. The New York Times, reputed for it infallible thoroughness, providing accurate reporting on all subjects. From the Iraq war to pre-2023 reporting on Sam Bankman-Fried, their flawless track-record shows that they can be trusted to shield truth from independent journalism.

>“Two-thirds of the American public believes there is extraterrestrial life, more than the 56 percent that believes in the God of the Bible,” Loeb told me. Dismissing their questions as unworthy of consideration, he argues, is not a good way to earn back the trust of an American public that has become skeptical of science and scientists.

I think we should open new university departments that go one step further and study "why do aliens love the USA so much?".
Most alien activity, either recorded by the public, the media or the government, happens in the USA. This is a major question that deserves the same level of scrutiny, if not more, than questions such as "do aliens exist".
Old TVs were dangerous as hell to repair.

So we had a solution: TV repair men!

The issue isn't so much that consumers can't fix these things. The issue is that even skilled technicians can't.

Manufacturers are saying, rightfully, "Its too dangerous for consumers to repair"

But they are also saying, wrongfully, "Therefore only we can repair it!"

They are creating a false dichotomy so they can corner repairs.
Or just "omit needless words!"
> If so, does their destination matter to them?

Not an expert, but it definitely does. They can be incredibly specific in how they do things. I got a bad case of swimmer's itch after kayaking and it turns out it's from a parasite's larva. In a bird, it would go in through the feet, get into the circulatory system, mate inside the circulatory system, get their eggs into the bird's gut and let them be pooped out where they then need to do another process in a snail. In a human, they just get stuck in your skin and cause an immune reaction.
You acknowledge the need for social programs and back the concept of them, but in practice vote against them because people game the system?

Why not design a system that isn’t susceptible to gaming and doesn’t rely on all people acting with integrity and instead embraces that people will act in their own best interest even if it results in long term worse outcomes overall?

Things like universal health care and universal basic income provide a flat benefit to all, so gaming the system doesn’t give an unfair advantage to some.
Yeah, the self-taught concern is really missing the target in my experience too

Given how many tertiary courses are becoming increasingly vocationally focused - and feed into jobs which are extremely narrow in focus - the self-taught aspect is probably the most consistent distinguishing factor I see in exceptional engineers.

Doesn't matter if they're self-taught from zero, or self-taught on top of some technical degree - it seems to result in more breadth and depth of experience than a degree and a lack of passion does.

That said, perhaps "self-taught" is an overloaded term?

There's self-taught in traditional "autodidact" sense of: experimentation, reverse-engineering, and hundreds of small personal projects - potentially then exposed to informal expertise via usenet & BBS discussions

Then there's self-taught in the sense of: did a vocationally oriented bootcamp in 6 months and all experimentation was related to coursework

Perhaps we need to distinguish between "self-taught" and "self-guided"?
Show HN: Fully automated short-form video creation using generative AI
Hello HN folks,

I worked on an interesting use case in generative AI that is creating publish-worthy short-form videos (YouTube shorts/ Instagram Reels) programmatically in one click.

Script + Image Descriptions : ChatGPT API
Image generation with SDXL 1.0: Segmind .com API
Text to speech: ElevenLabs API
Speech to text to get word timestamps: OpenAI's Whisper
Overlay captions and stitch video: Moviepy (Python)

Hope you find it useful!

Ramsri
My point isn't that you can't simulate it at all, my point is that at some point you have to take it out of the simulation and it will behave differently in the real world than it did in the simulated one, because your simulation will never be good enough to account for everything.

We can't expect people to never test self-driving cars on public, populated roads unless we are just acknowledging that we don't believe self-driving cars should be a thing, because I sure as hell am not comfortable with the idea of cars going straight from simulation to production.