skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that you can see every step of your calculation which creates a degree of self documentation which you don't get with Python, for example.

If you want to do that in Python then Jupyter Lab/notebook is a good solution to document your code and see the result of each operation. And way faster than Excel for large data tables.
I'll take your Malthus and raise you a Bartlett. https://bollocks2012.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/the-greatest-s...

Also, from your linked article from random space cadets: "Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as a matter of course."

Sorry, but O(2^n) is going to grow faster than O(n^3), which is the fundamental limitation of the speed of light for a space-faring civilization expanding in a shell from its origin.

Exponential growth just does not scale.
I used carpentry very deliberately. It's a skill that's seen to require practice, but is still very accessible. Most able-bodied people can build stuff with wood. In fact, most of our grandfathers (assuming American) probably did wood working as a hobby.

It used to be taught to grade school kids. I distinctly remember building adirondack chairs, picnic tables, and benches in wood shop, from dimensional lumber, for use in local parks. Thirteen year old kids can build practical objects using wood, with guidance.

While physics is voodoo. Even genuinely intelligent people have difficulty grasping it.

CS probably lies somewhere in-between, intellectually, but is seen as something that can just be taught to any person and they can be productive.
The article also says:

“Researcher IHS Markit predicts the 100 million vehicle milestone will be surpassed in the next decade, but only because of growth in China, India, Russia, and other emerging markets”

China is already a much bigger car market than the US.

They are also experiencing a bit of an economic slowdown, probably cause by the trade war.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/amp/news/china-economic-...
Don't be silly. Even if FB disappeared tomorrow, "that crowd" isn't going to come to HN, just like they're not going to suddenly develop an interest in, say, electronics and start hanging out on message forums where people talk about how to design PCBs, or an interest in, say, astrophysics, and start hanging out on message forums where people talk about gravity wave detection.

No matter what happens to FB, you're safe here.
Nothing is safe in a hacker conference: not even the coffee machine
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The sales numbers are great from Tesla, but the rest of the car industry sells electric cars too. They are a small vendor is you include all car types.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/666130/global-sales-of-e...
Does autonomous vehicles not lend themselves to some sort of standardization?

Rather than constructing something is completely able to drive on its own with an ability to learn traffic, signage, weather, roads etc. Instead create something that relies on standards and communicates with a central authority on road information, traffic, planning etc.

It seems to me that one could make something that is a lot cheaper, a far easier to implement, a lot safer, more environmental by letting go of the ideal that the vehicle should be autonomous.
The peak example of this is Boris Johnson, who earns more as a Spectator "journalist" than as a Minister.
On a BEV, there is literally nothing to differentiate on the powertrain. It’s a giant battery connected to some motors. There isn’t any secret sauce there.
We used UI/UX to confront the climate crisis
Yes, to be clear I'm not saying people should wait until they see smoke before they leave.

What I was trying to communicate is "The lack of panic I have observed reflects situations where there was no visible danger, I strongly suspect people would behave differently if danger was visible"
That’s Elon talking out of his ass again. ICE vehicles have a lifespan of 15+ years already on the original engine and transmission, while electrics will need their battery replaced outright at some point and at a massive cost.
You don’t normally stop driving a car because it’s not working, you sell it way in advance because you want something newer/safer/better.
Mithril vs. Hyperdom
I have heard the argument before, that things were always bad, but that isn't the point. The difference isn't that things aren't better, but that they aren't getting better. The reason we remember hippies, punk rockers and skaters is because they ended up having an outsized impact in expanding cultural centres. You can trace back entire movements or industries to certain locations or events. But is anyone going to talk about the subprime mortgage crisis, some algorithm change or even "occupy" in the future? Is anyone going to say "I was there when people were in debt, couldn't afford to live in cities and were playing video games and watching YouTube"? I think it is doubtful. People can't even remember current wars. The cast of "Girls" isn't the cast of "Kids". But I guess I can't entire rule out iJustine becoming president one day.
In this leak, there's still a fair bit of decomp work to be done on the audio systems.

Otherwise, you are right: the majority of the work left is to document the functions, to organize the code so that it's easy to mod and play around with, and to provide high level documentation on the systems/how the decomp was made. You wouldn't want anyone to think that all you have to do to decomp something is to run a binary through IDA, right?

Plus, there are more released versions of SM64, and who knows what's in there?
Why join a “hyper local network” when everyone is already on Facebook and you can just make a Facebook Group?
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Okay, I mean conceptually cool, but it's not like an existing startup gonna throw away all their code and rewrite it to save on dev-ops time.

I guess the value prop is that if you're starting from scratch, and want to write your whole app in Dark then you can avoid hiring a dev-ops engineer and iterate faster?

Seems like a stiff trade-off. If it's an interpreted language you're coming from, setting up envs can be < 30 secs anyways (and same with prod deploys), so that's faster than you need.

If it's a compiled language you're coming from (e.g. scala/c++) then it's likely Dark may not match your needs.

Plus I guess this assumes every team in your company is using only dark? Like what if it's a SOA and a full environment has a node component?
Sounds fine, but I think you need to correct this statement "A volume of 7 cubic miles (11 km^3)", because 1 cubic mile = 4.17 cubic km.
Well, they're thinking of overhauling the core.[0] Pablo Vazquez also made a video on why he thinks it shouldn't be 3.0 yet.[1]

[0] https://code.blender.org/2013/06/blender-roadmap-2-7-2-8-and...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJE7vMmOYZ4
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That's an extreme outlier though. The vast majority of BEV vehicles sold are Chinese. And I am not sure it will last either. Volkswagen is planning to switch a factory that puts out 350.000 cars per year to 100% EV by middle of next year[1].

We'll soon find out what the relative difficulty of scaling from scratch vs switching at scale truly are.

[1] https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2019-07/automatisierung-volks...
The problem with agile (in my mind) is it codifies some very bad practices.

One, working your developers to death. In every agile environment I've worked in, nobody ever took a day or two to plan, do retrospectives after a sprint. It was always, always, "Get back to work." I had one job that did weekly sprints every week.

Two, it transfers the risk of bad management from management to the team. "Look! Anything can be built by planning in two-week stretches! We can change direction anytime!"
To be honest, I am not sure.

I saw a bunch of web ERPs going around, and a bunch of desktop ones, and some hibrids.

I don't found out yet what are the advanges and disvanges of each.

Although desktop ones are seemly more reliable due to web ones needing firefox or chrome, and those programs seemly REALLY, REALLY like to drink RAM like there is no tomorrow.
With fully independent powertrains for both alxes (and potentially, for each of four wheels), electric AWD is potentially better that anything that mechanical AWD can offer.

I say "potentially" because one can always screw it up with bad (or poorly tuned) software.
Climate science is interpretation of data, its not the data itself and even that data is highly varied in quality. In other words, its no a very precise form of science.
It can backfire, you need that instead of some random person killed by "autopilot" a bus with children, a family with children or some popular person gets killed, then you will get a ton of bad press like Boeing 747 MAX gets, everyone finding all the shorcuts you made and safety things you ignored for money.
He has a drive that most people can only dream of.

I have a bunch of projects, drones, 3d printers, computer clusters, a bunch of programs I want to make - I have all the tools, I already own all the things I mentioned.

But I suffer from depression/other stuff, and I haven't touched them in months. Let alone this guy, who is presumably pounding away at his keyboard for hours everyday.
"Released" isn't really important; "marketed and/or advertised" is.
I'm thinking that all the countries that have passed legislation to ban new sales of ICE cars in 2040 is the issue here.
Ah yes, the confident programmer that would DIY everything.

I feel like underestimating Excel is a classic example how an expert can have holes in their thinking.

With VBA, Excel becomes a ton more useful, adding programming. Excel is merely a visual database you can share with coworkers and encapsulate in a single file.

There is a time and place for everything. Excel is very useful for workplace data sharing and manipulation.
Migrate DynamoDB with micro-cloud management
That should be feasible even with emulation. My memory seems to be a bit faulty, but IIRC UltraHLE could run SM64 at full speed on systems with less than 1GB and 1Ghz.
>Plus, food and drinks are way cheaper

It's not just this: you can actually eat quality food, not junk food. I'm not a teenager any more, so I don't eat popcorn covered with fake butter and artificial flavors, or crappy candy, or soda, and instead I actually eat real and relatively healthy food. Sure, there's some higher-end "dinner theaters" that do serve real meals, but those aren't that common.

>the audience is mostly silent and I can pause/resume whenever I want.

Exactly. My cats don't make much noise, any guests I invite over are going to be quiet too, and it's really nice being able to pause when I need a bathroom break, or rewind if I didn't understand something (this happens to me with dialog sometimes), or if I want to talk with my companion about something.

Honestly, except for nostalgia for the old days when cinemas were the only way to see movies, I don't see what the attraction is compared to a decent home theater. Even a 55" screen is really good enough, and those are pretty cheap these days (especially compared to what I see people paying to go out to a movie as a couple or family).
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As someone currently doing backbreaking work, please fork off with this bullshirt.

Yeah, I get it, it's mentally tiring and a lot more effort than we see in the video. Cry me a river. Be glad your everything from the waist down doesn't feel like it's falling apart without taking an iburprofen because you didn't just have to clock in a half forking marathon in some cheap sneakers from walmart.
Program against your FPGA cluster like it's a single pool of accelerators
Maybe.

Jocelyn Ireson-Paine has a deep knowledge of the problems and some solutions for spreadsheets:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/category-the...

Paine has long worked with the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (eusprig.org) and has used category theory to develop a system in Prolog called Excelsior about which he says "Excel lacks features for modular design. Had it such features, as do most programming languages, they would save time, avoid unneeded programming, make mistakes less likely, make code-control easier, help organisations adopt a uniform house style, and open business opportunities in buying and selling spreadsheet modules. I present Excelsior, a system for bringing these benefits to Excel."

Examples of Excelsior:

"Less Excel, More Components: presentation to EuSpRIG 2008 [by] Jocelyn Ireson-Paine":

https://www.j-paine.org/eusprig2008/index.html

"Excelsior: bringing the benefits of modularisation to Excel":

http://j-paine.org/eusprig2005_pres/presentation.html

"Rapid Spreadsheet Reshaping with Excelsior:
multiple drastic changes to content and layout
are easy when you represent enough structure":

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0803.0163.pdf

Paine's home page:

http://www.j-paine.org

Paine's Safer Spreadsheet twitter:

https://twitter.com/SafeSpreadsheet
The problem is then you are driving an "IoT car". One hack of a "central server", one lying or broken set of sensors, one crack or loss of encryption keys, and someone has control over a huge number of cars.

Plus you run into issues of what happens if the central server goes down, connection issues, new or changing scenery or tons of other little issues.

IMO companies working on self driving are on the right track here. That car should be able to fully self drive alongside humans without a single byte of data going in or out of the car.
That would be extremely counterintuitive given how pristine Scihub's image is among academia. It is much more likely people are "donating" access from within university networks.
There may not be an outright ban on driving your own car in the future but anything is possible. Insurance rates for non self-driving cars may become significantly higher and thus less people drive their own car.
It just means "pancake".
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I think they're reacting to what they perceive as market demand. What they often don't seem to realize is that they have the ability to alter market demand—and if they don't, their competitors will do it for them.

It's the same story as Apple in its heydays (the two Jobs eras): they radically altered the markets for PCs, MP3 players, and smartphones, largely by realizing that they had the ability to do so.
But you get the benefit of pushing updates quicker. Is the app going to run on low-end PCs, are computer resources such a big issue? We ran our web-based ERP on 4gb machines with little SW optimisation without any hiccups.
Well yes, I understand that this is the price of increased convenience for an average person. I simply feel that there's a certain sense of irony in those new barriers been erected as the old ones fall. Now it's harder to pull a Kosciuszko but easier to post pictures of your vacation on instagram, that's the trade-off here.
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If you're used to SketchUp, you might be interested in this.[0] I don't think it'll land in 2.8, but I'm sure it'll end up in the nightlies.

[0] https://twitter.com/pablodp606/status/1148242297638858752
> That parcs and rec meme is awesome!

>They won the Internet!

I thought this place was supposed to be better than that.
My guess is that this line is why a web application is somewhat out of the question: "I am from Brazil, and here is mandatory to send electronic documents to the government every time you make any sale..."

That said, perhaps the middle-road option of an Electron app that is built to assume unreliable/intermittent internet connection would be the best straddle of desktop and web?
For instance, the polonaise attributed to Kosciuszko might have been composed by someone else. Wikipedia reports the composition as fact, but https://polishmusic.usc.edu/research/dances/polonaise/ suggests otherwise.
The one in Montréal was good enough. Not haute-cuisine but worth the trip at least once.
It’s not very hard to avoid under-runs with a ~125MHz SPI core vs a 1.5GHz quad core cpu.
I have two 4 GB RPi4s, and can run any tests if you like.

Or is this about some 1GB barrier DMA limitation?

I did notice VideoCore can only access maximum 1GB of RAM. Related to that?
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To clarify: there is no server in your browser. You just shoot data across a websocket through https://hostyoself.com/ws
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What are you talking about? Super Mario 64 is an extremely loved game and is still played. People will find much more interest in this than some obscure game that nobody cares about.

People are passionate about this game and there is a good chance of a PC port of the game now (as well as more substantial mods) because of that.
I've been following them for only a few months, sure, but I've seen that link and others, and watched many of their videos. It's extremely concerning that they use a stylus, they clearly don't have multitouch support, copy/paste is based on a control key, screen tearing is significant and some of the UIs aren't scaled properly, I haven't seen them do text selection and the keyboard didn't give feedback. That's just a few issues.

Also, the videos are legit for the software, but they are all running on the Dev Kit, not the actual phone hardware, which we haven't seen and have no idea what the progress on is like. So the hardware kinda does look like vaporware. In the link you have, for instance, the best they can do is take a fake circuit board image and fade it into a fake phone image. That's not encouraging.
True but is QPST/QXDM readily available? Isn't it a windows only solution? This is appears to be python based, so much more portable.
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Yeah, this is the tradeoff of HN -- Just about anybody can get a wild headline to the frontpage.

Sometimes this is great, because that wild headline is an important truth that is ahead of what we normally take seriously. But 90%+ of the time it's non-replicable crap you'll never see again (e.g. cancer almost cured for the 3,125th time!)
This isn't a problem if you pay for your music.
Who is going to run the space colonies? Elon Musk or a government?
Very interesting and flips mostly everything about CI and CD on it's head. I am disappointed the blog post doesn't include any screenshots or actual examples of the Dark code/editor working. It's kind of hard for me to wrap my head around how this works at a technical level just reading about it...would like to see some concrete examples. I went over to the website to look for a demo/examples but there isn't anything.
the issue about the available RAM is this: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/cdb78ce891f6c636...

probably some kind of address mapping, but I'm no expert on this stuff ;-)
I hope we can get true AArch64 support as well, for many different reasons. One is that Dolphin-emu has an AArch64 JIT but not a 32 bit ARM one. While it’s probably not terribly hard to get the Pi4 booting to 64 bit, which is actually probably good enough if you’re just interested in virtualization, I have no idea how to get the VideoCore 6 drivers in 64 bit and if I had to guess, I’d guess shit out of luck for now.

(I am not sure Dolphin-emu would run with considerable performance, but damn if I’m not curious.)
I'm a mining engineer with previous experience as a rehabilitation planner in a coal mine. Technically I suppose I am guessing when I say that is a hill and it is not natural. However it is an extremely educated guess.

I assure you, it is a hill and it is not natural. It is clearly mine rehabilitation. I've been responsible for a very similar looking hill, in fact. Not quite as nice looking from a satellite photo I must admit, they've got a better shade of green.
Why would you choose Chris Ferguson to participate? Don't you know his terrible history?
Even in the new UI, I still use right click to select. Old habits die hard.
If you go with the Electron approach you only need to validate the "web app" part on one browser: the version of Chromium in the final app bundle.
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it reeks of manufactured support.
That separator preamble seems Excel-specific though:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180

If I'm going to mangle CSV into a non-standard form to conform to whatever Excel expects, I might as well go the extra mile and just provide an XLSX file.

That was my solution to a data-export function in an API (it switches on the HTTP Accept header). It now offers a choice of CSV (RFC 4180), ODS, and XLSX, and people can just pick XLSX if their Excel is using one of its broken locales.

It's not too hard to generate the XML for ODS (OpenOffice/LibreOffice etc.) and XLSX (Excel) from a bunch of tabular records once you've set up minimal empty template ODS/XLSX files to inject it in. It's certainly less work than explaining to Excel users that their software is broken and how to work around it.

That said, ODS was much easier to get working.
Ask HN: Would you switch to a privacy- and security-focused credit union?
The Problem:
I care about privacy and security. I live in the U.S.A. Where should I do my personal banking?

The idea:
Start a credit union with a focus on privacy and security.
Build the credit union as a template for other credit unions to follow. Open source as much as possible.
Recruit smart people like HN readers to become members and give feedback on what we do to make it better.
Require an EFF membership to join the credit union.

That's the start. What do y'all think? What questions do you have?
And if you read the media and don't look at the numbers, of course you'd think that.

I ran the numbers a while back, for a similar discussion. They've grown faster than Amazon ever did, for a decade. It's kind of astounding. No, they're not profitable - and they shouldn't be. They're about a tenth the size of a major manufacturer like Toyota or GM now. If they want to play in that league, being profitable is fiscally irresponsible. They should be squeezing every cent they can out of investors and burning cash like they need it to keep warm, because that's fueling this astounding growth.

Insisting that they be profitable or not take loans or stock sales to raise cash is a complete misunderstanding of how high growth companies work.
I see run-of-the-mill Product Manager jobs getting 100+ applications on LinkedIn. Is this mostly garbage (autoapplies from India etc.) or is competition really that fierce?
I have hired around 300 people for my company (currently employ 180 full time). I have found spelling and grammar and the ability to clearly express your ideas in writing to be probably the biggest indicator of intelligence. People who are not good writers generally turn out to be not good employees either.

I agree with the article that you need to make an exception for people with English as a second language for spelling and grammar... but you should not make that exception for the clear expression of ideas.
I share passwords with my coworkers (for resources that don’t support teams+sub-users) not by using any password manager, but rather by just keeping the descriptions+usernames+passwords in a Google Sheet.

We use GSuite, but that isn’t really relevant other than for controlling default ACLs to the document; you can just make a private Sheet and then share it by email to whoever you like.

Google Sheets works okay (for this use-case) pretty much everywhere you need it, including on mobile. Doesn’t auto-fill anything, of course, but since the point is sharing the password, not restricting the ACLs of the password in any enterprise sense (i.e. so people that could use a password before can then lose access to it), it’s fine to allow people to just cache the password into iCloud Keychain and/or Chrome Sync. So it’s not as much of a speed bump as you’d think.
Would it be correct to say their failing was prioritizing dividends over vision in a time of cheap money (low interest)?