skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have 'weekends'. Part of 'success' seems to me doing what you love and what you want to do, and if you're doing that, you want to do it every day, and never 'retire'. Then work and play aren't clearly separate. I don't really have 'hobbies', or I don't understand the idea, at least - I'm kind of equally serious (and unserious[0]) about everything I do. (e.g. for me, whether it's programming, making music, making art, learning some new subject or skill etc) I've noticed from all over the place that 'side projects' almost normally become peoples' main thing, whether in science, programming, art etc. Whatever they're working on for fun and curiosity.

(I read recently about how the Institute for Advanced Studies produced almost nothing, because although it sounded great, to pay geniuses to spend as long as they wanted on anything, the effect was that there were 'no side projects', and making everything 'the main thing' seems to somehow stultify it. Maybe we're natural procrastinators, and the AIS model was defeated by that.)

[0] I mean, in the sense of being alert for the comical, unexpected side of things. A playful sense of joy. Most of my favourite writers (e.g. Chesterton, Russell, Kierkegaard) have a great sense of humour, university lecturers too. I got into following chess tournament commentary online because of some commentators who were very funny. (e.g. Mig Greengard, Ben Finegold, Jan Gustafsson). I've noticed almost all great scientists, mathematicians I read/hear have a strong sense of humour, in their personalities if not in all their works. It's not separate from their curiosity and serious intellectual concerns.
For comparison consider that Tesla is selling about that many cars in a month, or that GM sold over 2,000,000 cars last year, so the Volt was only about 1% of their volume. Little sad though because it had some truly innovative engineering.
Strange how Visa starts with 40-49 (10x) while Mastercard is only 51-55 (4x). I wonder if there is any logic with these prefix numbers.
Life is a bit more nuanced than profit-motive vs charity. I'd guess most of the folks on HN work for a salary at a company. There isn't a ton of "profit-motive" in the work. You don't necessarily get more money if you do a better job. At least not reliably (it's up to the discretion of the company usually).

So if a lot of people are willing to do work for a salary, why wouldn't a farmer or landlord be willing to do work for a salary? Why does a landlord need a profit motive? Why does a farmer need a profit motive?

I don't think you can argue that landlords are more attentive because they receive profit over a salary.
RISC-V is picking up steam in this same front.
This is also IMO one of the big reasons Japanese salaries are so low. The Japanese only know Japanese so they can't jump to better labor markets.
It's a true shame, as GM finally got the little details right on both how the engine was put together as well as the interior fit and finish on the 2017 model.

However, it was probably inevitable once batteries got good enough. Removing the combustion engine and replacing it with more batteries probably saves far too much money.

The current problem I have with electric vehicles is simply that right now they are "5 year" vehicles instead of "20 year" vehicles. Things are changing so quickly right now, that there is zero probability that any electric car I buy today I will have in 20 years. Contrast that to vehicles bought in the late 1990's/early 2000's that are still in decent shape (barring things like winters in the Northeast US) and still running.

And the whole "customers prefer SUV's" thing just drives me bonkers. Customers don't inherently prefer SUV's--the automakers market the hell out of SUV's because they are so profitable. And then everybody has a bunch of vehicles that they won't drive when gas goes up again.
Thank you scientists. Also this is why we need to legalize coca leaves, so we have a natural alternative to coffee in case of future scarcity.
Why? Yes, there are more components than either a pure ICE or pure EV, but that doesn't translate to "twice the maintenance expense".

In my experience (we own a Pacifica PHEV), a PHEV means less expense than a 100% ICE vehicle, but more than a pure EV.
homogenous in what way? i’m curious.
Things that are happening on the edge become the things that propagate through to the mainstream. It's how cultures change. Predicting which edge behaviour will cross over is the tricky bit.
Good point. This is planned but not done yet. We are going to show what requirement not met with strike thru. You could notice this trick in Google search results. One or two words are crossed, and closest possible search result still returned. Thank you for this UI suggestion.
The government committed to buy a certain amount of Volts and so did General Electric. It's estimated that there are government subsidies of $250,000 per car.

https://jalopnik.com/report-every-chevy-volt-has-over-250-00...
Bug-finding is contributing.
Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor
> The one part of this that I feel like I understand is that if you buy this vehicle you've effectively signed up for twice the maintenance expense.

Then I would challenge your understanding.

That combustion motor 1) is not running anywhere near as much as a normal combustion engine, 2) has no mechanical transmission to go bad and 3) can be tuned for a much narrower range of RPMs than a normal engine.

Removing a mechanical transmission is huge. Everything else is upside.
The Bay Area functions as a connected region with many areas that are not as troubled as SF.
The topic is programming languages, DSLs specifically.

I'm surprised the link doesn't work for you. Any idea why? (To be clear, I'm in no way responsible for the link or its content.)
I'm no expert on frontend techstacks, but I thought Vue was an application development framework, not what-looks-here like a jQuery replacement for DOM validations and manipulation?

As far as I can see, it is basically doing almost exactly what jQuery does in Bootstrap...can someone perhaps set me straight with this?
I agree with your general point (first paragraph) but second? Nintendo is doing just fine are they not? Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Switch Smash Brothers, Switch Splatoon. Labo, etc. The seem to be doing great, still making amazing quality titles compelling to global audiences.

Agree that Sony Japan has not done anything in a while.
I wonder what will change between now and 2025 to enable profitability on Bolts?
Is it twice the expense? Probably not. Plug in hybrids are simply the worst of both worlds. You still need an engine and everything that goes with it, and your all electric range is anemic.

Why would I buy a Volt when I could buy a Model 3, a Leaf, or another EV? Electricity is cheap, no need for fuel or oil changes, and the driving experience is better (at least in Teslas with quick 0-60 times). You also are still eligible for the federal tax credit at its full amount for EVs where the manufacturer hasn’t sold 200k EVs yet.

The Volt died for the same reason the SR71 did: it was no longer needed.

Disclaimer: Tesla owner
TRNN, Democracy Now!, Democracy @ Work, Thom Hartmann, On Contact, Redacted Tonight come to mind
I recently finished up two years working for a large cloud provider in Tokyo, where we would help Japanese companies build on our cloud... so I had a lot of exposure to different Japanese tech company practices.

The hardest part for Japanese folks working in tech is that most documentation for any service, framework or any paper is in English. This puts a high reliance on sites like qiita.com.

It often resulted in an unintended power hierarchy between engineers who could read the official doco in English, and those who became reliant on the English speaking in their team. Occasionally this would result in cases of pawa-hara or teku-hara.
This video talks about that too!

https://youtu.be/6tihITlPAn4
I didn’t know that.
They’ve also been porting code to iOS this whole time
While that is one quite useful application of DSLs, they're certainly used more widely than config files. Care to expand further?
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135399
Bunch of 9-5 proles
Battery manufacturing scaling up, reducing the per kwh cost. Tesla is supposedly near $100/kWh at the cell level (which is the “holy grail” of EV profitability versus petrol vehicles) with Gigafactory 1 production.

For comparison, VW wanted to build their own gigafactory and LG Chem is holding them hostage, threatening to not sell them the batteries they need for their EV inititiaves. Funny enough, VW is buying Tesla PowerPacks for their Electrify America charging stations for peak demand shaving (the Electrify America brand is distinct from VW, as VW is not permitted to VW brand the charging stations as part of their dieselgate settlement).

Not a Musk fan, but him and JB Straubel knocked it out of the park with their foresight and strategy (build all the batteries we can, sell them in sexy cars).
It doesn't work out to twice the maintenance. In the Volt, then gas engine is only used when you need to take a longer than normal trip. Even then, it is mainly a series generator that runs at a leisurely rev range to supply power to the EV system. It is not stressed the way a normal engine is.

Maintenance schedules for the engine are extended as a result. Oil changes, for instance, are automatically tracked and I only had to do one oil change after about 2 years.

I'm coming up on 3 years with a gen 2 Volt and it's been very reliable and more fun to drive than the ICE vehicle that it replaced.
If you’re using Docker you’re probably not using a Mac anyway, performance is already terrible.
To a first approximation, this would be something like

vec3 pos = {0f, 0f, 0f};

which I think was the joke, you may now laugh.
I just replayed ocarina of Time and I'm pretty sure the Forest Temple map is mixed up with what looks like the Spirit Temple.

Great work! Very cool to see these games come to life on my phone!
Realistically speaking, how important is it that a car last 20 years? If it only lasts 10 years, which current EVs seem on track for, so what? You're not actually out that much on an annualized basis. And don't forget that years 11 through 20 on an ICE car are quite a bit more expensive maintenance-wise.

Depending on how much you drive, two electric cars over 20 years might well be cheaper than one gasoline car lasting that long.
Whether you agree with this sentiment or not, people waking up to ethical questions in our field is unquestionably a good thing. It's important to ask these questions.
"customers prefer SUVs" means "customers prefer lifted station wagons branded as SUVs"
> perfectly modern

Its getting modern, but its no where near perfectly. There are three different ways to allocate heap data and at least one dates back to the 70s. There are at least five ways to initialize a variable last I checked. The language is ludicrously complex to parse for both a human and a computer because its been iterated on for so long.

Because the design space C++ occupies is so complex and lacking almost any feature of it kills competition Rust is about the only real competitor in the space of "modern language that does absolutely everything" besides peers like OCaml that often have too arcane a syntax for the C family linguists to get in to. But compared to C++, Rust is way more cohesive just because it started one decade ago rather than four and has much less baggage so far. And with its editions system will likely never have permanent unmitigated baggage to its benefit.
>It's a true shame, as GM finally got the little details right on both how the engine was put together as well as the interior fit and finish on the 2017 model.

Completely agree. I leased a first gen and am now leasing a second gen volt. I'm actually considering buying my current car at the end of the lease. As a bike commuter, it is my only vehicle, which is why I went the hybrid rather than full electric route.

The first gen I got rid of at the first opportunity. The car did it's job but the shifter physical design was moronic and the fit and finish was so bad that I actually cut myself on a piece of the interior plastic one day.

The 2nd gen is 'just a car' a nice car actually. Excepting a maintenance screwup by a dealer I have had zero - zero - maintenance issues with the second gen. Because I don't ever have to charge it, and don't drive it much, I can usually charge it for free (I'm an apartment dweller). I spend about 80% of the miles on electric. I think I've bought two tanks of gas in six months.

Funny story...a friend of mine's mother was actually the lead systems engineer on gen one. I met her at a graduation party and we had about a 3 hr long engineering nerd out over the 1st gen. I asked about a billion 'why did you/why didn't you' questions and was amazed at how many good ideas were left on the table.
> I thought I literally did just that?

The point of my comment is that the discussion should take place on the merits of the criticism, not the arrogance of the person who would dare criticize. The fact that you mixed together the two is not a good rebuttal.

> I've done that in the past...

Bad arguments in the past are not a good reason to abandon the structure of good arguments in the future. Get better debating partners rather than trying to avoid the structure of healthy debate.

> blatant armchair critics

If some people praise "this is a good business practice" and others point out that, on the face of the evidence, it appears to be exact the opposite (i.e., that the conference calls are disorganized/confused), it is not unreasonable to point this out. It does not require special insight.
The Power of a $15 Minimum Wage
Amazon jobs aren’t unionized, nor secure.
Anyone know how the modules problems were resolved? There were rumblings that the technical challenges around build systems and dependency resolution were blocking items (e.g. as explained here [1]).

[1] https://build2.org/article/cxx-modules-misconceptions.xhtml#...
My rule of thumb: if an article has a line chart with non 0-based Y axis it most probably tries to manipulate the reader's opinion by trying to present an increasing/decreasing trend as more significant than it actually is.
The Volt has proven to be pretty reliable, as far as Chevys go. The Prius is widely regarded as the most reliable car you can buy. So, while it might seem logical that the more complex car would be more troublesome, it doesn't play out that way.
Every dictator promised to make the nation better. This is not a good reason to reject politicians trying to make the nation better.
At >50,000km on my Volt and have had to do no maintenance other than changing back and forth between winter and summer tires.

No oil changes, no fluids, nothing. Averaging 1.2l/100km

You're simply wrong.
The unlikely friendship between a Philosopher and an Empress
I was interested in the Volt myself but after sitting in one decided it was too small. It is essentially a Chevy Cruze body with the Voltec drivetrain. I was banging my head into the roof getting in, while on a similarly small vehicle (Prius) I had ample room. The Volt it sleeker and much better on the eyes than a Prius, but I need my daily driver to have good utility.
I am from Gomel.
I was there when that happened.

About 70% of the fallout landed were we were (the winds were blowing north that time, so Ukraine's side was bit more spared).

Most of the time, I do not want to talk about it, though.

Feels like we were cheated out of normal life.
Feels like we were animals to do experiments on.

I hate that time. Even now, place does not feel right.

I do not think health statistics coming out from here,
are right either...

I also do not like videogames about Chernobyl for some reason. But I understand why the story line is attractive.
So I am ok with that at a 'logical' level.

Once I become 'a person of means', I want to help people to get out of there, or, at least, live with proper controls of what we eat, drink, breath, etc.
> But I can’t support any product that aggregates content for profit and isn’t built from the principle of compensating and protecting content creators from the get-go

This is literally what twitter is.

> No, I don’t like screenshots of my threads being reposted on Facebook or Tumblr. I don’t like my tweets appearing in ad-filled listicles that someone got paid to write.

If you're going to speak publicly, and say something that attracts interest, this is inevitable. As shitty as "twitter journalism" is, at least they're providing correct attribution to the original author. This is how online discussions work, and I think that a rule that says you're not allowed to quote other people would be harmful to society.
A few years later, perhaps it would have been Drone mode?

When I saw the title, I thought a flying UI, like Google Earth VR has[1], had come to Google Maps.

[1] A random flight to street view transition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nulHk7Z3mI&t=96
How to collect CPU performance counters on Windows?
Best car I've ever owned from a reliability and fun-to-drive perspective.

A bit cramped, but it's my commuter car, so don't care.

I drive 100+km a day and charge at both ends, and most weeks use no gas. But still have the flexibility to take very long road trips without the hassle of stopping at DC fast charge stations every couple hundred km.

When this one dies someday, I'll probably buy another used one if I can find one in good condition. The 2019 model is the best, with 7kw charging, power seats, and a new head unit.

Very sad to see it go.
I've had both the 1st gen and 2nd gen Volt. It is truly a great car that's versatile. You can use it on both a commute and road trip with no issues.

This is a classic short sighted GM move. I hope that at the very least they somehow sell the Volt to another major manufacturer. I'm not transitioning to the Bolt.
Mantis shrimp pack a really strong punch too. Truly fascinating creatures.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_patek_clocks_the_fastest_an...
>...Organic is grown without pesticides at all,

I don't think that is true:

>...Organic farming, just like other forms of agriculture, still uses pesticides and fungicides to prevent critters from destroying their crops.

>...According to the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, the top two organic fungicides, copper and sulfur, were used at a rate of 4 and 34 pounds per acre in 1971 1. In contrast, the synthetic fungicides only required a rate of 1.6 lbs per acre, less than half the amount of the organic alternatives.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogs...
I think my comment has been validated by the dozens of comments here complaining about broken inputs. I didn't say it was impossible; the basic trick only works in simple cases and the edge cases are numerous. If I implement a feature and it causes even one person to bounce, it's a failure.
So then what was the point of the heavily publicized hq2 search? If, in the end, Amazon chose a deal that was available to everyone, then what did they negotiate?
Oh, I did almost the exact same thing once in an SQL database reporting system, brings back memories!

/foo/*/blah/*/y

We were putting very hierarchical data into a "flat" database, but we still wanted to be able to query on those deeply nested paths. At the time our front end used a lot of XSLT as well so it was a similar approach. Writing the library that turned these "special" queries back into SQL was one of the more fun engineering projects I ever worked on. Definitely wouldn't do it the same way today but for the project it was a good fit.
I saw a floppy disk icon (no text) as the save button in the contacts app when adding a number on a friends (very) budget phone today when I was helping them add a number. I was surprised to say the least. Especially in such a critical OS app.

The fringes of Android Chinese manufacturer mods are a mess.
Is there a drone involved in this photo?

No. No, there isn’t.

Timers and remotes predate the concept of the frivolous selfie, which rarely involves careful attention to the manner of exposure for the light-sensitive film, which places physical expense constraints on the photographic techniques of the era.

So, again. This is not a selfie that was taken, and then retaken, until the self portrait depicted the photographer in a flattering manner.

There’s no attention grasping identity to the photo. The subject is not pandering to their own ego.

So, it’s not a selfie in terms of technique, and it’s not a selfie in the spirit of the word.

So it is not a selfie. At all.

Period.
I'll believe it when I see the data.
Somehow, I am kind of reminded of GM's Saturn division.
1) make a concept
2) consumers like it
3) but GM can't make it cheaply enough, or sell it at a price that reflects it's cost
4) so they end the model and close the plant

I have the impression that what is wrong with GM is not the Volt, or the old Saturn for that matter, but rather the people who run the company.
Don't format on keypress. Ideally, give the user feedback on their input while they type, and disable saving until the field is correctly formatted. If you must have automated formatting, do it on blur instead.
> how important is it that a car last 20 years?

It's important for the used car market. I've bought all of my cars used and because I picked cars that had been well maintained I've never had any major issue. The same wouldn't be possible with cars that were at the end of their life at 10 years.
My favorite example of the B3 is Galactic's "Quiet Please"[0]. At about the 5-minute mark, the keyboardist switches from an electric piano to the organ and makes it sing.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOoNFFKwNts
No, you mean a blind auction.
Betteridge's law probably applies.
To me, that's a very bleak outlook, and as I already mentioned, retrofitting C++ will never solve all of these issues; retrofits are always additive, and simply increase the complexity of the compiler and specification to the point that very few people actually understand the majority of C++'s semantics.

Retrofitting also doesn't solve the philosophy of a language. There are simply aspects of C++ that are too vital to its identity to change. Is object oriented programming the final word on abstraction in programming? Probably not. This is a young field, and there are always better solutions lurking around the corner. When we buy into the notion that something should live forever, we rob ourselves of the opportunity to move forward, or to at least know with certainty whether something is truly the best.

Unless we want to repeat what has happened with COBOL, where the systems have lasted forever to the point that all of the COBOL programmers are dead or retired, we need to start evolving our philosophy to favor language replace-ability, or stop guaranteeing backwards compatibility. The latter is untenable to most businesses, while the former can be achieved through the use of small services, FFIs, RPC, and system modularity.
Not missing anything really. Sure it creates jobs, but honestly with how much we're paying for it, we're better off literally giving this money directly to people's bank accounts. It'll go further.

NY is not hurting for jobs. NY has so many jobs, in fact it doesn't have enough housing for the number of workers here. That's the real problem.
How to Binge on Books (and Not Get Burned)
Iirc this was pre type hints, so the example might be invalid now, but I’m sure I could come up with other examples that demonstrate the same point.
Occasional Cortex and the socialist unions got what they wanted.
Screw Amazon, NY needs Green Deal and couple trillion in new debt and everything is going to be fine!

NY is ruled by corny capitalists and crony labor.
> Why would I buy a Volt when I could buy a Model 3, a Leaf, or another EV?

Because you could commute on pure battery, but still drive anywhere an ICE can go without having to plan your route around charging stations and kill time while your vehicle charges. Seems like a reasonable use case to me...