skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I mostly agree with your statements, I think you could argue that Ford is up there with Honda, if not ahead of them in supporting (if not pushing) hybrids. The Fusion hybrid outsells the Accord hybrid (at least in the U.S.) by a wide margin, and not far behind the Prius.

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10301
Ignoring the lack of 'NULL' in Python for a moment, this wasn't even an issue with the code lacking an invalid input. If you read the article, you might have realized that.
At some point, can you not file some kind of harassment lawsuit? Is it legal to continue to send someone bills for which they aren't liable?
Type means statically typed unless you qualify it with your own nomenclature "dynamic". Please don't hijack the mathematical definition of type.
Some stores would only have one box of baseball cards.
You would literally run out after 24 packs were sold. It wasn't like baseball card stores were ubiquitous, like they are today.

There were natural bottlenecks in place, where as today, people can literally blast through 24 packs with a tap of a screen.

its the scalability of these loot boxes that are a problem now.
For additional context, Google has "disappeared" 100s of alt-health sites - some bad, but some very good. The site Self Hacked was one, and detailed it here: https://selfhacked.com/blog/google-censorship-of-health-webs...

Some, like Mercola, peddle highly-controversial, near anti-vax content.

But on the other end of the spectrum, Examine.com should be the gold standard. Quality Raters should use it as an example of a site to emmulate. Much higher quality content and informative content than WebMD, IMO.
My spouse always asks me fold fitted sheets. But it doesn't seem that hard.

1. put two adjacent corner-pockets into each other, then do the same with the other side, then put those doubled pockets together.

2. Now you have an irregular shaped blob. If you put your hand inside the pocket (there is only one now), you have a flat square, plus the overhanging bits from parts of the fitted sheet that hang down.

3. You just lay those lobes flat so that what is left is flat(-ish) and square(ish).

4. Fold that once or twice depending on the size of the fitted sheet and you are done.

Step (3) is the hardish part since you need to keep the sheet flat. I do it "in the air", but to start I would use a table so that the flat part doesn't move around while I'm folding over the lobes. The flatness will depend somewhat on the thickness of the fabric, but it's usually about 30% thicker than the flat-sheet.
HN&Lo
biggest cost is probably the cup, straw and labour around servicing customers and cleaning the restaurant, collecting garbage, etc. The biggest cost in the coke is likely transportation to the restaurant
It's not fraud or libel, it's an unavoidable problem with in-band signalling [1].

I assume the government entry system doesn't have an explicit way to set the data as missing, so they work around it like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling
Moral of the story: Test at your own risk!

At least his story brings to light the poor quality of software the DMV is using.

I'm curious about the other, unintended consequences of naming things null in other web applications; maybe its time to explore ...
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Wouldn't their license plate be in quotes, though? 'NULL' != NULL
That galaxy-class saucer separation thing was honestly not a great idea, and it was somewhat annoying when they used it in the episodes. The problem with it is that only the "stardrive" section has warp capability, so what good is it to be able to separate except for using the saucer as a last-resort escape pod in case of warp engine failure? The saucer is simply too slow to go anywhere in a reasonable amount of time without a warp engine: at sublight speeds, it would take years just to get to the closest star system. This is probably one of the most annoying things about Star Trek: they completely ignored speed-of-light issues like this too often. Using "warp drive" as a plot device to get the characters from system to system in a week or less at FTL speeds is fine, but if you're going to do that, don't fall back on sublight "impulse drive" as something that's actually useful for anything except getting into and out of orbit.
Google's AlphaStar StarCraft bot did just this under different accounts. Along with some other fingerprinting, many of the accounts and replays were found by the SC2 community.
I think most people continue to learn to be considerate as they age. I have also seen large changes once someone becomes a parent. I certainly remember some anti-social things I did after my teens that make me cringe now!

Perhaps it could be measured if we can find an activity that affects others, and that doesn't change too drastically over time - maybe driving behaviour?
Are you a product manager, a marketer, an accountant, an engineer, or what? I've often been surprised to find out how the sausage is made in most businesses where I quickly learned making the best product is rarely a goal (and sometimes this is actually the right decision since you should focus on "good enough" for most applications) and that planned obsolescence is a real thing. In the case of autos, many of the dealerships in the US make most of their money on maintenance. And the dealerships have a lot of influence on what cars sell and what should be sold by their respective motherships.
There's a solid piece about this from Clifford Asness over at AQR https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Virtue-is-its-Own-...
Stories like this, combined with personal experiences, have made me very anxious for the exit coming when I'm still invested in the future of the company.

The new owners always envision a different business model and those often span a gamut from slightly sinister to patently absurd.

Startups can have a lot of BS, it's true, but it's a different flavor from the post-exit BS.
It sounds like you're suggesting programming in explicit CPS/callback style, which is doable, but doesn't match the goal of the initial post which was to program in direct style and let the callee determine whether it should execute async or sync.
I'm pretty sure this is what they meant...

def my_func():
group_keys = 'My thing'
while group_keys == 'My Thing':
if some_logic() == 42:
groups_key = 'My other thing' # typo here
It's not a perfect solution, but you could perhaps hack it with @overload to say that the "str" version returns NoReturn.
I use these in Bulgaria. Mini busses for less than a buck. Great.
My parents' house does not have a garage or a driveway, how exactly will the only-full-EV future work for them? Where are they supposed to charge?
Didn't the writers of VOY ever read the TNG Tech Manual?

Nope, in fact they were expressly prohibited from writing about the technology. In the scripts, instead of doing their built-world-homework and writing that coherently into the story, they just had to put "[TECH]" in to the scripts. Then the technical consistency editors came along and filled that stuff in. Not even kidding. This led to some of the really disastrous (IMO) early scenes in Voyager such as one where two characters (Cpt. Janeway and B'Elanna, iirc) are bonding while solving an crisis technical issue... and the dialogue is a total hash because it was "co-written" using a completely insane method.
Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018
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Knowing the California DMV, that contact probably took at least two hours.
Hmm, is this just because it is so few digits? I've had plenty of classic cars that have commission numbers with between six and twelve digits instead of VINs, and haven't ever had any issue with the DMV here in MA.
I'd guess that there is a CSV step involved.
> Rust decided not to go with fibers to avoid having a runtime. I still disagree with this because they already do reference counting, not every worthwhile abstraction is zero cost.

Refcounting is a library feature, does not require a runtime, and has no impact on code not using it.

Fibers is a langage feature, does require a runtime, and impacts everything.

Rust actually stripped out its support for fibers as its community moved its usage downwards the stack. In much the same way it stripped out « core » support for GC/RC (the @ sigil) or internal (smalltalk/ruby-style) iteration.
Don't you have some kind of illegal prosecution laws? In my home country people could go to jail for that.
I bet we've all experienced the bit in a movie or TV show where they're portraying your job and go, "It's not even slightly like that." I bet everybody in every profession gets that. Usually the problem is at the writing stage, or perhaps in the directing.

Sometimes the goal is to seem real to a general audience, even when the writer/director/actor knows better. Audiences wouldn't want to see the job of a programmer; it's deathly dull even when we're doing "exciting" things. I prefer to handwave over such things: if it's not exciting to look at, then just don't depict it rather than fictionalize it. If the story has to go through a moment like that, get a better story.

I appreciate that Radcliffe is here mimicking some of the dull, prosaic work. It's kinda neat to see an actor be excited to momentarily be somebody else. It's a great feeling on stage to be able to convey some of that to an audience.
You could get past the barrier!
I don't have a question, just wanted to say I found the Stereo Spanning example to be a genuine piece of art. The choice of voice and script were truly excellent, having such a robotic voice read the bot's lines was great. Their reading had me chuckling in a few places I would not have if I'd read it simply as text.
TBO these are way too trivial stuff compared to the argument of the post you're replying to.
Slightly OT, but in case anyone else is curious, official Rust documentation lives at doc.rust-lang.org. docs.rs is auto-generated docs for packages published on crates.io.
That should be mandated. Harder to hide embezzlement/fraud.
I doubt that. Normal people do not tend to use the word NULL at all.

What this usually is is the result of systems that talk to systems that talk to systems that talk to systems, all in different legacy formats never written to be interchange formats. One system has true SQL NULLs, the next system down the chain only accepts strings for that field, NULL gets written as the most sensible string, and then from that point on all downstream systems can't tell the difference between the original system having had an SQL NULL or having had the string NULL.
I think the OP was saying it's a fancy term for nothing new. I agree with him (I note the term 'life hack' being used in the media for trivialities now). I'd agree with you too, learning new stuff is better.
Well, actually you need to prove you are a citizen if you fit the profile of an immigrant within 100 miles of the border. And if you don't do so to their satisfaction the border patrol will detain you indefinitely. Yes, in America.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2019/07/22/dalla...
Not really, because you can do quite well based on what others think you can offer and not what you actually offer. So we're back to square one and there is no meaningful difference.
Hardly an option for us with kids and jobs that can't easily be left. My wife is a school teacher, she can't take off for two weeks in October.
There is always some exception to the rule. Frankly the issue is more the number of topics one needs to learn to actually add value as a data-scientist. Junior data scientists need a hell lot of supervision compared to analysts or data-engineers. Most of what it takes to be a data-scientist is acquired on the job rather than something learned in class. And yes some of that could be checked during the interview, but that would also mean a very low pass rate and a lot of time spent hiring on these roles. I would rather hire these people straight out of college in role where they would have much more chance to excel, and would need less supervision. If they are good enough then give them more modeling tasks.
I'm in the US. I don't see it in the US. Can you point to examples of this? UK specific is fine. Note, you keep repeating "the media" and have yet to produce the evidence to support this. I know you can't, but I'm giving you the opportunity to present it.

The best you've been able to do is point out where media doesn't make males being born a sin (so, a counter-point to what you are saying).
It's not moot, there is no point to do threading from within asynchronous programming primitives.
Though that also sort of illustrates some of tradeoffs involved.

Historically, something like that might well have been handled by snail-mailing a default pin to the address on record for the account and telling you to call back after you received it.

Of course, the problem is that a lot of people these days would think that was really poor customer service.
Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?
Many similar websites have suffered from a so-called "Medic" update. Some of them recovered (through fixing their website), some did not. The SEO community is full of such stories, for more than a year I think.

How is it news? :thinking:
For new infrastructure specifically, it costs a ton in the US because of a combination of non-transparent bidding system from contractors (politicians give their buddies bloated contracts) and construction unions overstaffing construction sites.

In other words, taxpayer money is being taken for a ride. For a good example of the latter situation, look up the rampant overtime abuse that's been discovered at the LIRR. There's little incentive to keep costs down and use funds efficiently, because it's tax payer money.
If I mix and match spaces and tabs, Python will not work and you cannot tell them apart ,it's a bit more subttle than this, but you get the idea (should you wish to).

There is no such issue with braces. This is what i meant.

As for formatting, you can use ide shorcuts to format your pasted code but it will run fine even if not formatted, not the same for Python, where it will not run.
Isn't that also a bit tautological given how fixed costs are divided over units produced? If they produced and sold more they would be cheaper. Of course that assumes they would sell well if they put more effort into doing so.
Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking?
I have a hobby project in mind but I'm not sure which technologies will give me the most bang for my buck long term.

I want to track my 3D position accurately within my apartment. My first use case is to track how long I sleep and how long I watch TV etc. without using some sort of reporting mechanism. I would like to incrementally add more advanced features such as gesture recognition for integration with smart devices etc.

I have read about using RF signals and signal processing to track 3D motion indoors without using wearables (https://www.emeraldinno.com/publications). There must be ways to do it with wearables and bluetooth. Posyx (https://www.pozyx.io/) works with UW signals.

Has anyone had experience with a similar project? Which technologies did you use? Is there specific hardware you would reccommend?
You're right. But it doesn't change that the focus of the studio changes from "how do I keep these 4M players playing my game" to "how do I keep these specific 400,000 players purchasing my microtransactions".

And given some of the monetization industry talks, the strategy doesn't necessarily include "make a good game".
I don't see how you can substitute Paris or Rome with a nature hike. I enjoy a hike as much as the next guy, but I doubt I'll run into something like e.g. the Vatican on my journey
Revenue numbers for early stage startups might be hard to come by.

I was in an accelerator with a bunch of startups and one in particular was having a lot of trouble putting together a series A. And strangely, they were one of the few that had decent revenue numbers.

At the suggestion of a savvy fundraiser, they took all mention of their actual revenue out of their pitch and they immediately started getting real interest.

They were then able to raise the funds.

It seems that actually having revenue just really dashed the pie in the sky dreams of many investors. With no revenue or profit, they were free to pretend that when the money started flowing, it would be hockey stick growth.

With revenue numbers, they could crunch the numbers and see the gradual growth curve and that would scare them away.
I run a similar image host with many times the traffic of picsum as well as daily DDOS attempts. This is pretty much the approach I've chosen. (I don't use S3, but a similar setup.)

My infrastructure is much simpler than this (CDN in front of Varnish? What the hell software do you think they're using for the CDN?) and my total hosting costs are about $150 a month since recently upgrading the server.

Seeing articles like this just reaffirms for me: The people who write these articles are not necessarily experts.
Interesting, this actually points increasing vacation days as a small part of a reasonable climate policy. If we need to switch to slower transportation methods, it's only fair that we should get more vacation days. If you have an extra couple of days, even in the US a plane trip can become a rail trip.
Trump's tax cut helped big business, that's true. But for each corporate buyback there were thousands of mom and pop shops that benefited and invested.
At the point when people were too poor to travel, too poor to communicate to a large audience, and too poor to buy trinkets that would harm the environment, such that the same lack of empathy had less impact.

I think I saw an article here a couple months ago comparing the relative wealth of Jane Austen's 1813 bachelor "Mr. Darcy" with a modern millionaire, call him Mr. Smith.

Mr. Smith can afford to hire contractors and laborers to work on his house for a home improvement project, or hire a caterer, DJ, and event planner to host a big party. But these are relatively significant events; each one of these companies he's hiring cost on the order of 1/10th his income. Mr. Darcy, on the other hand, makes 10,000 pounds a year from guaranteed investments, and can be expected to have dozens live-in servants on staff in his home, each earning just 25 pounds a year. Mr. Darcy can afford to travel, but the other 95% of his household cannot.

Conversely, even Mr. Smith's son, working a minimum wage job, can (assuming he lives under Dad's roof) buy an old car and drive it on a big road trip on a teenage whim. Smith's mileage card means that he and his family can fly to another continent for a weekend for a quick vacation for a friend's wedding. Darcy can hire his carriage to take him to London, but an expedition to California or China would likely be a year-long endeavor; to go around the world in 80 days could not be done for any amount of money. His servants could maybe make a transatlantic trip in steerage of a sailing vessel, but they'd be buying one-way tickets with a significant fraction of their savings.

Mr. Smith has a smartphone which contains communication and entertainment from as many sources as a human can possibly consume. He can tweet a message to millions before his morning coffee. Mr. Darcy may receive handwritten letters, or a newspaper, and has the money to publish a circular if he desires, but among his servants information travels mostly by word of mouth, even if most are able to read and write.

Finally, Mr. Smith's trash service takes away a 96-gallon-rollaway cart full of plastic packaging each week. A tourist trap contains souvenirs at 500% markup that cost him pocket change. Mr. Darcy can buy handmade wooden, brass, or fabric trinkets to his heart's content, but each of his servants likely have a single chest of treasured belongings. Mr Darcy is described to have a fabulous array of beautiful clothing which represents incredible wealth, though Mr. Smith's wife made a donation of some old totes of clothes to Goodwill that would give the same wardrobe a run for its money.

Technology and progress means that people have a much larger impact on each other and on the environment. Technology that makes travel, information sharing, or affecting one's environment easier and cheaper has an exponential effect that speeds the development of future tech for the same purposes, and we're rapidly climbing that curve. However, discernment and empathy need to climb in lock step, and while education is improving those cultural and societal improvements are happening through different processes at a different rate.
I've been thinking about origami lately. Has an aesthetic purpose, but very analog and doesn't involve looking at a screen.
I don't have a problem with all games containing even the hint of loot boxes getting the mature rating. The regulations should be just as strict as for casinos. If a game company wants to run a casino along with their game then it's their right but then don't expect to be treated differently.
Look at me!
I took a trip to Lisbon a few years ago, and met a number of people who were quite conflicted but generally upset by the social cost of the money that tourist brought. People could less-and-less afford their rents, were less and less able to live in their cities on the salaries that did not increase to match the influx of disposable income in the popular municipalities.

Dublin experiences this as well in the last few years, with all of our Silicon Valley companies and investment banks continuing to expand there and push out the long-term residents.

To be a humble guest in a different land is difficult and often far from the approach most tourists take in their travels, to the detriment of both visitor and resident.
There's a pretty obvious difference between someone fleeing to live in another country because they're in danger, and someone using discretionary income to visit a tiny area because they want to check it off on their bucket list.
Looks like you can't have the character '&' on a personalized license plate in WA: https://fortress.wa.gov/dol/extdriveses/NoLogon/_/
Funny thing is, in Canada, SSN analog is called SIN.
Direct link to explainer doc in the Chromium source: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/s... (Permalink version https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/bccea73462d...)

Chrome mailing list announcement: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/secur...

Firefox mailing list announcement: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firefox-dev/6wAg_Ppn...

Firefox bugzilla issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572936
It depends on how active the community is. Java has had the same issue, and people just knuckled down and rewrote stuff in Java.
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> This isn't even a coding error, NULL is apparently valid license plate, and for some reason there is a private processing center typing it in to the government system.

I would take that with a grain of salt. The linked article on a talk-radio site, and was likely intended as a wacky news bite that the hosts breeze through and then make jokes about. I figured the exact technical details of what is causing the problem was lost in translation. More likely that they were leaving the plate blank, and then the backend software was confusing null database fields with the string "NULL".
For me, it's normal. Why do you think it's rare?