jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It makes sense they're upset. People spend countless hours researching the difference between a ram 1500 and a tacoma sr5 and they slightly prefer the "look" and "stance" of one over the other. One is more "hunkered down," the other is more "stoic."

Then comes this angular abomination, a ballooned version of the robotaxis in Total Recall, and fits absolutely nowhere in this truck buyer's mindset.

You can take the perspective of blaming the truck buyer for being dumb, or lame, or not visionary enough, but that's not a reasonable or productive perspective.

As far as I can tell, this truck may appeal to people who are in the market for a Hummer-type extreme vehicle, hardcore tech futurists, Tesla fanboys, and people who don't give a shit and are willing to try whatever. None of these categories IMO represent today's truck buyer.

Disclaimer: I'm a tech futurist who doesn't give a shit, and I want one.

Edit: misspelling.
At the very least one of the transactions from the article was just some random middle class guy selling land he's never owned, not some organised criminals demanding protection money.
It’s not an isolated problem to Brazilian land. Practically every item on any marketplace has some possibility of being stolen, or in the case of luxury/fashion goods, counterfeit.
The article makes it very plain it's driven by ludicrous national policy. No price incentives, widely used in other economies worldwide to kick start a market. Supertax on luxury cars and no economy models being promoted, and a national obsession on distance which is a lovely self-promoting of our "hero" national image but has nothing of any real relevance to city driving for most people. Trucks drive long distance. Most people drive short distances.

Yes, thousands of people drive 300km per day and some drive 800 or so. No, statistically speaking, this is not the predominant driving distance. Its around 65km and almost all current spec EV can do 200+ easily. The idea that we're all driving 300+ km day in day out is ludicrous.

(Oz discussions about EV are flooded by 4wd driving diesel owners who love high km driving. They are a massive minority and know it, but love to talk range and load anxiety up as problems. That one trip a year most bush bashers make, defines their entire car purchasing logic. The partners city runabout gets more use.)

We even had anti EV fervour used to push election issues to trade workers "woke lefties are coming for your ute" was sloganised, weaponised to win an otherwise 49/51 election. Now, utility EV are coming to market. It will be interesting to see if ute-man dives in, for the acceleration.

Don't get me started on self driving. It adds $10,000 minimum to the cost of the vehicle. Its not helping build market or mind share, it defines EV as luxury.

Mining and related industry are moving to solar and wind power. If the TCO of EV drops, mining will use them before domestic scale arrives. VC money is building charging nets on the eastern seaboard. Inner city unit development now budgets for EV in the car park, albeit mainly in prestige build. If we get congestion charging in the central business district (cbd) EV may get a shot in the arm.

Bring in $30,000 aud 250km range 4 seaters, they'll sell like hot cakes. Right now its $50,000+ units.

(The ioniq is doing ok, according to Hyundai sales staff)
“sales of print additions” = total sum of all print sales
Privacy and anonymity are distinct concepts. Signals provides very high privacy and low anonymity - which is totally acceptable for many people's threat model.

Other apps may provide higher anonymity, but none provide privacy guarantees higher than (or even close to) Signal.
Wow, I feel like somehow the universe directed me to this comment. I've been using Awesome for almost a year now, but with mostly default settings because writing Lua is such a chore. I'm gonna look into this right now, and appreciate any more information you're willing to share about your setup.

Thank you!!
for tech savvy people maybe but try explaining to your mother that you have to pick a server to register with, you need a username, it can't be your email address, then you can add your email and phone later to make it possible for others to discover you. I like it a lot it's just not nearly as straightforward
Where in Europe? In my experience (In Italy, Spain, Czech Republic) the notice period is 2 months.
I wonder why we talk about 10x or elite or rock star programmers in the first place.

Do we ourselves want to be 10x developers?

Or do we want to hire 10x developers?

Or do we want to work with 10x developers?

Or do we want to figure out if we can measure software development in the first place?
Most orchestration tools are stateless from run to run, and as such can't identify if a package has been removed.

The solution in my experience is to change the state to absent instead of removing it from the playbook, and then refactor it out at some point in the future.
On a technical level: no.

On a political level: yes.

The political opposition to the project had nothing to do with preferring a technically superior form of public transportation. Instead, it was opposition to public transportation in general.
$300MM isn't even an absurdist number for a AAA game [0].

Cyberpunk 2077 single-player was $121MM and they have multiplayer planned so probably add another $50MM - $60MM on top, if not more.

I have no doubt that GTA 6 and Elder Scrolls 7 will both come near or break $300MM. $300MM is an absurd amount, but that's just where the market is headed; big and expansive games.

I am not defending CIG necessarily but scoffing at a number out of context is disingenuous.

But yeah, the price tag is likely to be $500M - $750M but their goal isn't to put out a rehash of a rehash for $80 then rinse-repeat next year.

CIG is pretty upfront they are trying something crazy and Chris Roberts (SC creator) is well-known for his scope creep + desire for perfection. It's not like CR is demanding monthly subscriptions to play or that everyone spends $x / year on SC.

If you want to buy an overpriced ship, go for it... but you can buy most, if not all, ships in-game for in-game currency that's easy to get. It looks like the most expensive ship purchasable in the game is an "890 Jump" which costs 32M aUEC or $950. You can get 300k aUEC every two hours so like 212 hours of grinding (but seriously, this ship is purely a status symbol. Just like those crazy rare flying mounts in World of Warcraft.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...
Huh, I came back and found my comment to be more polarizing than expected...

I am unsure where the preference lies. I don't always think there's a preference, but you can get forced into it by other economic factors. Young people move into a city, getting adapted a mass transit lifestyle, but they move to a more car-centric area when they inevitably get priced out of car-free living downtown or on a popular rail/bus line because they want to start a family. Personally I don't really want to give up being able to walk outside and down the street to go to restaurants and shop or connect to transit easily, but it would be short-sighted to say that everyone has the same preferences as me.

There's benefits to living in a detached house with a yard. The price is usually being tethered to a car in the US. If you pick a low density area you're probably not going to have an oppressive commute and running errands will be easy (if predictably lengthy, but knowing it'll always be a 20 minute drive and not 20-60 minutes based on traffic is valuable) because there's large roads and every business was mandated to build a large parking lot.

The problem comes when inevitably other people make the same decision and development happens and more people move in. A Californian pattern of development (and in the many areas of the country that have since copied this pattern) is incredibly hostile to good public transit, but due to the geometry of cars, you inevitably have to do _something_... it's just probably going to suck and get underused. So, an alternative strategy emerges: fight tooth and nail against growth.
Could be, but it could also be that Node.js have much more libraries compared to Go, especially for databases, can escape typing if necessary using any, promise/async programming are much more easier with es6 (you can do a try catch without repeating etc)..array operations like map, reduce makes much easier to do quick and dirty functional programming etc. I can get much cleaner libraries for concurrent programming in Node.js lots of things you can do in Node.js takes roughly twice or more number of lines. Could be anecdotal, but say if I try another language such as Python I found it is more or less same as Node.js. Java is another language I can think that can slow you down. Of course the stricter typing, error handling etc can make for much more robust code in long run, but for someone who can afford to trade development time.
> I absolutely believe we'll crack the fundamental principles of intelligence in our lifetimes.

I tend to agree. However this looks a lot like the beginning of the end for the human race as well. Perhaps we are really just a statistical approximation device.
Maybe a nitpick, but there's a difference between energy consumption during training and inference. If you want to talk about the energy necessary to train a human brain, it involves years of that 20W power consumption. What is the power consumption for inference time for Dall-E?
> Do you definitely want to transfer kinetic energy more than momentum?

Seems that way; if you're using a hammer, the goal is for all parts of the system to come to a stop. You're trying to deform the material you're hammering the nail into; isn't that measured in energy transfer?
> Have you been there recently?

Have you been anywhere else recently? Can you give an example of a community, of comparable magnitude, that is more open minded?

I am easy to criticize reddit, popular as it is on HN, but it is a surprising community for its large population, and as you say the smaller parts of it can be very good. One can find all the flaws with a thing that one wishes to but, in the end, if none are better it's still the best.
I hope they get chargeback'ed to death.
If it's non-deterministic, you're not doing it right.
It's Colombia. Sorry for the nitpicking, but it's a common misspelling.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025

Very much like command + t in TextMate, and works like a charm.
Wow! I was guessing blindly and came pretty darn close! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746868
San Diego says you can't film anywhere in the airport, and goes on to make specific points on xray/security areas:

http://www.san.org/documents/corp_serv/Codes/Article%207/Cod...

Which makes trying to protect your civil rights during a pat-down even harder.
The bigger problem, I think, is ending up on some black list.

So next time you want to fly and don't choose to participate in the "enhanced" version of the security theater, you might find yourself pulled out of the line "randomly" every single damn time.

Also there is no way to get off the black list, possibly ever. That is a pretty high price to pay.
> I find it surprising that hardly anyone uses it though.

Same! I use it for searching reddit all the time.
The software stack for this robot is based on ROS, and there is an existing Scratch extension to connect with ROS[1]. You'd have to write some additional code specific to this robot but it should be doable using that project as a starting point.

[1] https://github.com/Affonso-Gui/scratch3-ros-vm
hq4x looks better (IMHO), sadly the website is offline (default blank wordpress site): http://hiend3d.com/hq4x.html

backup on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20120630044334/http://www.hiend3...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx

Source: https://code.google.com/p/hqx/source/browse/trunk/src/hq4x.c
Hmm. I think it's far from the only place. You might want to check a dictionary.
Of course, the thousands of scenarios where something goes horribly wrong all make for terrible movies.
Same here. Sometimes it loads, but not usually.
A clarification, Heroku's add-ons store works almost identically to Apple's. They take 30% off the top of each add-on subscription each month.

Source: I run https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl
I would run there every single day if I worked there.
High Flight
By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
The attack is still going on. Details at https://status.github.com/messages
They describe what they're doing to mitigate it.

The latest message is

0:09 UTC

Hour 118: Mitigation remains effective and service is stable.
Yeah, that gives something of the flavour. (I was thinking of the record encoding at http://www.lexifi.com/blog/dynamic-types, myself.)
Yariv Sadan is already there, though. That plus the WhatsApp people makes for a pretty intimidating group of erlangers.

edit: Just found out Yariv left. Still, Facebook was using ejabberd, and WhatsApp built their business around ejabberd.
This is a great interview question I don't want to be 'that guy' by picking at what may be a detail but there is another response to look for from a candidate.

We should think very carefully about adding a multiplication command because it introduces a failure mode that may be unanticipated by the client. Code that previously worked could begin to fail after this command goes into use.

Specifically, if the client needs to revert a series of operations on integers, and if the operations are transitive, there is no need for a mechanism to ensure they occur in any particular order (the usual caveat about working within the limits of precision applies.) This holds true for addition and for multiplication, in isolation, but is not true if they are combined. Change the order and the end result will change. Adding multiplication puts a burden on the client to understand this risk and be explicit in the ordering.

Some people may argue that the client should already understand it and they have a point. We can't defend against every possible misunderstanding. I think there is a good discussion to be had on this question and if the candidate were to go there, it would be a favorable sign of experience on their part.
I think the X11 legacy has a lot to do with GIMP's UX even though there's now a native Mac version. That said, I still think GIMP is quite an achievement.
It sounds like the brain has a survival mechanism whereby at the point of death it generates the biggest cliché it can.
Only 3x speed increase feels like either did PHP a very good job or the port is not optimized for rust yet.
I always have trouble parsing the Seemingly Wrong Thing That I’m Redefining writing style, so I’m not sure my comment is germane.

It seems like OP is saying to communicate about technical matters in a way that is not obscured by jargon and distracting minutia. That is generally good advice, and has an ancillary benefit that explaining deeply technical matters in plain language usually deepens the explainer’s understanding.

There is a less charitable interpretation where this is just “I talk to the customers so the engineers don’t have to!” dreck, in which case, Be Less Click Thirsty.
Isn’t there an entire flavour industry?

Seems much easier fixed than trying to invent fake meat from scratch.
That seems like a really bad example of pattern matching, as no pattern matching is going on; it's just using the guard statements, and so could be replaced with an if statement:

let computed_key = if key.len() > self.block_size {
self.zero_pad(self.hash(key).digest)
} else if key.len() < self.block_size {
self.zero_pad(key)
} else {
key
}
Calculating to heat death doesn't make a difference to the people in the simulation. So, it's not the same as terminating the simulation before completion.

For instance, if calculating the simulation was paused for 100 years, then resumed, the people in the simulation would never know.

So, just because it might take five seconds to calculate the entire life of the simulation does not mean entities in the simulation would experience it like that.

Also, our universe seems pretty stable, so if heat death is a part of our universe's life, then there is a reason.
Thanks for the update.

Some additional info here: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/syntax.html#void-elements

I'm skeptical about the increased casual nature of what makes for an acceptable HTML-serialized HTML5 doc. Seems it just makes it that much harder to write a robust parser and tools. Especially the continued use of empty attribute syntax, which is just nasty. I understand it's to allow plain old HTML docs to be acceptable, but still ...
Please just say its coming to Verizon already.
Is that not true of Android users as well? Most of the sites I use on a regular basis have an Android presence as well (Facebook, Yelp, etc..)

I think the probable reason is that the web-browsing data tends to be a few months ahead of those gartner market-share estimates.
If all changes are reflected above and below, then the guys on top of you in the simulation are running you to the heat death of the universe as well. Which is essentially the same as turning off the simulation.
http://www.google.com/search?q=carrots+glazed+with+cum

Haha, nice SEO
Also their image captions are nicely done.

As a student of English as a second language, I find it rewarding whenever I spot the references.
He would've fit in well around here ;)
Too bad the author used "EIT" instead of "torture".
Wasn't COBOL more about "your accountants can understand this"?
> Developers who re-invent/re-imagine some wheels usually realize at the end why the original wheels are designed like those.

While that is true, I do also think it's healthy to have some scepticism about the design of projects because some are just poorly executed (either because it's based on an outdated model that everyone has stuck to because it's the standard way of doing things, or because of time constraints, or sometimes just because of a lack of love for the project).

Sometimes it's worth people re-inventing the while just to see for themselves as occasionally a new developer might just have a unique perspective that results in them solving a previously considered "unsolvable problem".

Obviously this philosophy isn't without it's drawbacks. But sometimes it's worth testing the old standards.
Missing from that page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin
While I don't think I disagree with any of that, I do think my observation stands and that 1984 should be less stressed in these discussions.

Note that I didn't say that I think the book is harmful, but the focus on it.
The affected public is not just in the US, considering us citizens of (even) allied countries are fair game. The motto you cite probably refers to just US citizens.
My younger son had a job before he had his license. We spent around $300-$400 a month on Uber for him. That was still cheaper than a used car + insurance for an 18 year old male. My son is a big dude and we couldn’t buy him a little beater. Heck my parents paid $500/month on me in 1991 for a $10K low end Ford + car insurance.

If my old Ford with 150K+ miles got to the point where it wasn’t worth getting fixed, I wouldn’t buy another car. I did without a car for a year when I gave my car to my older son who doesn’t live with us. I work remotely. When I needed to go some place local, I would take Uber often. I rented a car for a weekend every three months to go home to see my parents,

I had groceries delivered. Admittedly we did have one car. But my wife was usually busy during the day. I see no purpose for having a car just to sit in the garage most of the time. Uber is cheaper.
I don't have an indoor bike, but I'd probably save money by playing one of these cycling YouTube videos in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYaLDjmVt8
Wow, that's remarkable. And telling that even Googlers aren't shielded from politics there. You have my condolences, sir!
Notably, the market is such that a skilled candidate going in and explicitly negotiating how remote they want to be has a good shot at getting it approved. At least if aiming for e.g. 80% remote.

It's also notable that now being someone with longer experience in working remote - especially managing remote teams - has suddenly become a very valuable skill.
Couldn't agree more. If there's one thing the last 5 or so years should teach us is that newspeak isn't a language, it's the entire technological communications apparatus of the West.
How much of a difference do teachers make in the public school system? I don't mean teacher vs no teacher, but good teacher vs average teacher. The topics in the public school system are not set by the teachers themselves - they have to teach what has been decided elsewhere. A good teacher can engage students better, but how much of that is the teacher's ability as opposed to the teacher and students happening to get along? How much of it is good students self-selecting themselves into academically better schools, therefore having better peers?

Asked in a different way: if we paid (all) teachers 3x as we do right now, would we observe significant long-term improvements in students?
I had fun playing through all the challenges. But I don't think I walked away with a better idea of functional programming. This is closer to "learn LINQ", seeing as we're only chaining functions.

I would be interested in seeing this expanded to include passing functions to functions (that is, make the user build a tree of functions, not a list). And yes, that might put you into hot water regarding how to communicate signatures and such.
I have driven in quite a few countries but I don't think I would ever drive in India. Maybe in a very rural area with little traffic but as soon as there is some level of traffic it just looks terrifying and chaotic.
Nomad very definitely does not beget the same gordion knot of complexity of Kubernetes, while working at substantially larger cluster sizes than Kubernernetes is capable of.
In case anyone want to read more about this, that employment structure is called the “tournament model”.
There are countries that crash test pedestrian safety in crashes before certifying vehicles for sale; that wouldn't be useless here. Neither India not the US for that matter do so though.
Almost all of them?

The vocabulary of the grandparent comment implies they are using hadoop's streaming mode, and thus one can use a map-reduce streaming abstraction such as MRJob or just plain stdin/stdout; both will work locally and in cluster mode.

Or, if static typing is more agreeable to your development process, running hadoop in "single machine cluster" mode is relatively painless. The same goes for other distributed processing frameworks like Spark.
Russia-Ukraine has been ongoing for years. It's quite strange that people don't recognize that.

It can ramp up a lot still, but that won't be the start of anything. It definitely already started.
I really don’t care if it was a lie, or if it was incomplete knowledge, or if it was just the best the authorities could offer at the moment. I’m a layman. I know nothing about infectious diseases. I’m gonna follow the guidance from the experts. If that guidance changes 180 degrees tomorrow, then I’ll follow the new guidance. I don’t know what makes sense, I’m a layman! So many people are incapable of just listening to the experts and shutting their pie holes. Everyone with a YouTube account suddenly is an epidemiologist now, and advising their friend list on Facebook.