skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They want you to pay $1.75 for a single query against a database? That makes AWS prices look cheap.

They want to set a price that's high enough to stop people invading the privacy of everyone they know for a cheap laugh, but low enough that it won't put people off checking if they're genuinely concerned but also very poor. Making it, say, $5 would cause some people to seriously think whether or not they can afford it.
> while in principle I don't agree with authoritarianism or planned economies, I'm also of the mind that one cannot apply a single concept of government to every culture. That's a colonial mindset.

WTF? Fighting evil anywhere but in your own home now is a colonial mindset? You have to be kidding me! I guess I should be happy people like you didn't manage to prevent people from putting an end to Hitler, or else I would be living in a dictatorship that fits the German culture ... seriously, WTF?
I'm just commenting to save what might be the saltiest comment I've ever seen on HN. I bet you're very fun at parties.
Autopilot can't deal with unexpected situations or instrumentation failures particularly well. Take the Sully landing for example - without specifically setting up parameters for that particular case, how could autopilot save all passengers on board?
Most people thought like you did thirty years ago. Societies have changed, and not for a frivolous reason; you might want to update your views.

Drunk in this case is precisely defined in the law as a permillage of alcohol in the blood stream (the law varies per country, but you should know the ones applicable to you). Valid methods of measuring this are described as well.

Incidentally, what you say is almost literally what every inebriated driver who caused an accident resulting in severe harm or loss of life says afterwards before coming to terms with their actions.
Sorry, my statement was too strong. I edited it to "usually".
> My kid can run/play freely and I only worry about her running into traffic.

To be fair, that is possible in a lot of countries, I would have doubts to do that in America though. And not only because of crime.

> I actually began to question whether democracy was the absolute way.

There are several democratic countries that beat Singapore in regards to safety. So I believe this to be flawed reasoning. It is a safe country, but not exceptionally so.

edit: Disregarding the fact that Singapore is officially a democracy. A benevolent dictatorship would probably look more like the Gadaffi regime. Economic success in such a dictatorship is probably mandatory.
Engelbart's Violin (2012)
Fair point. I don't know why I had a mental block and the idea of a recall never entered into my mind.

I completely agree Tesla cheaped out on this part, I just wasn't convinced they are responsible for fixing it. I'm still not sure this justifies a class action lawsuit (I don't really feel strongly one way or the other), but I at least understand why Tesla might be held accountable for their actions.
Pretty much any zigbee bulb (Philips Hue, Osram Lightify, Ikea Tradfri, and tons of chinese brands) can be controlled with a cheap CC2231 USB dongle (~20€ including programmer for flashing) and zigbee2mqtt. I use homeassistant for a nice UI and Node-RED for automation.
Wow, where did you grow up?
Enforcing Database Transactions with Rust
That’s a naive perspective. A few million dollars chafes very little in any other space.
> [Python is] fast enough for almost everything

That's a bold statement. Also I feel like he's missing a few cons for Python:

* The 2/3 mess (yes it is still a thing)

* The insane packaging situation. Packaging a Python app is a nightmare.

* Dynamically typed

And some extra cons for Javascript:

* The insane prototype system

* Basic things are broken and have never been fixed: ===, type coercion, still no 64-bit integers as far as I know.

* Dynamically typed

> Assembly: Too low-level. V verbose. Kinda confusing. I choose Python.

Lol when would your two options ever be assembly or Python??

Not a bad list though.
In fact our helium supply is a by-product of the petroleum industry. As we transition to renewable energy our supply of helium will diminish as well.
Facebook with New Design[Beta], New Facebook with Dark Mode
The internet "censorship" in SG has been around for a long time, and it hasn't really changed. It's a symbolic block that ISPs sometimes forget to even implement.
Maybe there hasn't been any clinical trial, but this article suggests there were quite a few studies on it: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-ha...

Not the cancer thing, but the blue light effects. Well actually it talks a little about cancer as well :p
Rail can only carry objects that can fit inside the cross-section and streets aren't much better.

The defunct Cargolifter protect was quite open about not attempting to be competitive for loads that easily fit conventional transport. They saw their market exclusively in loads that are too bulky for ground transport and I don't think that anything has changed.

Other than that this hypothetical market could be really huge now that wind turbines have grown into the "untransportable" realm for offshore use where no practical transport restrictions exist. (At least in countries that haven't universally given in to NIMBY and are still expand their land-based wind capacity)
Has no-one seen The Thing?

Why are they even allowing it to exist?

Burn it.
The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
As someone who just finished a BSc in computer science and started a MSc in Financial Technology and Computing this post is really interesting to me, keep ‘em coming :D!
This is not very good advice.

Being loud and blustery won't make anyone happy with you, and playing politics well is all about having powerful allies. The lead has probably been slandering you to the founders for the last several months. Go talk to them, but think about whether they are more likely to listen to someone who sounds happy and interested in making a couple changes, or to someone angrily ranting.

Honestly, your manager controls what the founders will hear about you, so unless everyone on the team is having problems with him, you just don't have much control over your situation here. So reduce your work output, take time off, gently bring up the issues with the founders, wait a few weeks, and then quit.
How would this work if it can’t connect to your router?
Ask yourself what the difference between a single-celled organism and an egg is. The deeper you dig, the more you can't imagine it happening any other way.
By looking at the header, looks like it's tablet/phone design oriented. Even the buttons look like made for tapping.
I'm also thankful that I get paid a lot to do what I love. I think I'm good at what I do, but I'm no better or more passionate than a lot of my friends in other industries (particularly the arts) whose livelihood is based far more on luck and the whims of others than mine is.

I'm also thankful to be able to work with passionate, enthusiastic graduates as part of my day job. Seeing them learn, grow and progress into great developers is incredibly rewarding - much more so than the rest of my work.
You don't want repeat offenders of drink driving getting into professional driving jobs though right?
> freedom of press and similar rights are a uniquely western phenomenon that are ... derived from christian values

This is incorrect. Europe is quite unique in that since the advent of Christianity there has always existed a church separate from the state acting as a counterbalance thereto, and offering an alternative foundation of moral authority. Despite this, brutal suppression of all dissent and criticism of the political structure was almost always supported by the Church, which generally allied itself with dominant regimes (i.e. feudal rulers).

It wasn't until the flurry of neoclassicist-inspired philosophising of the Enlightenment and the emergence of monied elites in a position to pressure the state to grant them rights that said rights were slowly granted. They often couched their arguments in terms of Christian doctrine, but this is just the incidental result of the dominance of the Christian religion in society at that time.
The best position to negotiate from is to have other options. Even if it doesn't work out, you can take one of the other offers, which might be a better deal! So the advice about ramping up interviewing is good. Always be interviewing :)
I'm kind-of surprised this didn't get studied earlier. This was one of the pillars of Nazi propaganda - or indeed, come to think of it, presumably any propaganda. Relentlessly repeat your lies, and eventually people believe them.
You were hired to solve X and you solved it. They no longer need you. You have done your job that you were hired to do. It is time to move on. I suspect Team Lead is just trying to push you out of the company because the mission you were hired for, is complete. Best of luck with your future. You aren't burnt out, you are being mistreated.
You can login with Reddit or with Github, and Reddit doesn't need an email address, so if you can make a HN account here to rant with, you can make an account for AoC ??
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Yeah, I mean things like PTSD exist in the brain for a reason, you were in a situation where some action almost ended your life, so now you are frightened by it. Undoing or expelling that kind of information from your brain is really difficult.
There’s no excuse for this at all. It’s shitty short sighted engineering. Simple as that.

The main firmware should have been on a separate physical device if data was write heavy regardless of “enough space” being left. It would have cost a few dollars to make this issue go away.

The more I hear about the engineering the longer I will avoid buying an electric vehicle. Iterating big problems away on a tangible chunk of engineering rather than a piece of software is stupid.
The thing that most definitely needs exchange is the battery pack and IIRC it's ordinary 18650 cells...
No, the literal definition of hijacking is to forcibly commandeer a running vehicle.
or even a perfectly functional hardware in presence of EM noise.
There are apps, such as iConnectHue, which are able to install a preset on the Hue Bridge that dims the lights or changes the color temperature without needing any computer or phone turned on when the timer fires.
Yes, also older cars can easily be maintained by anyone knowledgeable enough, but good luck doing maintenance on a modern car.
Your argument is not totally unreasonable - but not within industry norms. Also Tesla is the manufacturer for electric cars in the public's eye, if they get a reputation for unreliability it will set the technology back decades. (see the Oldsmobile Diesel engine from the 80's)

So for a variety of reasons, I'd argue they have a moral responsibility to fix it, INAL, so it's unknown to me if they have a legal or regulatory responsibility too.
I guess you could just ssh with OpenCL too, no?
How do they (Canada) know about the DUI? Is that database shared by the USA?
Not always. The pins that hold the engines on to the wings are "fuses" in that they are designed to break away if the engine is vibrating violently, before it breaks the wing.
This particular problem had nothing to do with temp rating however. A simple case of wearing out by exceeding the specified number of erase cycles.
I really wish I could think of it as a “tourist tax” benefiting the needy. But I rather have the feeling “its ending up in the pockets of the rich, powerful and corrupt”. So misses the point.

Prices for museums etc. ARE in fact much higher for tourists (factor 5-10x usually if I recall). In a sense the tourists probably subsidize many cultural sites for the Indian population (which is fair).

The energy consumption in the US is twice as high as in Europe per capita - eyeballing the numbers I believe India is not exactly green either (rural areas without any access to electricity etc. distort the numbers unless you want to keep those people “in the dark”...)

But it’s not only energy consumption - it’s also the passionate “trashing and burning of trash” that doesn’t do the Indian environment any good.

Delhi, Mumbai etc. - the air has become more and more toxic over the years.

I don’t want to start a “who is better who is worse” - but the “I only care for myself and nobody else” mentality affects all aspects from tourism to environment and harms the people themselves. That was the entire point.
In the US, you can have your kid run and play outside if you live in a suburb, in fact a better life for their children is what pushes many families to move to the suburbs in the first place.
Fun fact: He shot his common-law wife / fellow beatnick poet in the face and killed her. Even after having such a hard time keeping his story straight (although in all the many contradicting variations, he clearly admits he was goofing off with a loaded gun and pulled the trigger on purpose), he got a short suspended sentence after his lawyer "accidentally" shot and killed a government official's child who may or may not have been trespassing on his property.

Confused? You wouldn't be the only one. Naked Lunch is a story only slightly weirder than the author's real life.
Applied Category Theory and how to apply it in daily life.
Science of Spirituality.
Advanced Mediation Techniques.
Advanced Meditation Techniques.
Well-being.
Mindfulness.
Learning how to learn.
Science of Culture Hacking.
Defense against the dark arts of cultural programming.
Uncertainty logics.
Comedic improvisation.
Problem-solving improvisation.
Musical improvisation.
Same here. I got back to some problems I left open due to other obligations but finally quit. Plus there's the "problem" of the timezone: Puzzles start at 6am here. Last year I had some time off between jobs but this time it collides with my usual heading to the train. Unless I am really fast and am able to solve between 6:00 and 6:04 ;-)

Related is the tool of choice. I was and would probably still be using Python with the addition of Numpy which by studying other solutions found out to be quite efficient for the AoC type of combinatorics puzzles. Although I had the intention of learning it I didn't make it over the course of a year.
The first part and general tone of the comment might be weirdly negative but their main point is valid

Quoting something as questionable as "For instance, cancer progresses much faster in summer than in winter" as a fact, without even a citation while signaling expertise is not exactly great.
An overweight plane is a less safe plane.
Road safety and automation in road traffic
This sounds a lot like my situation a few years ago, except that I was both you and the tech lead. The founders were playing me like the dumbass I was - I was too busy to spend any time thinking about office politics and what I ought to be doing for myself, not the company. Especially since I had no equity...

Lot of good advice in the comments. My view? Absolutely, positively take a vacation first so you can start thinking straight (I never did, in 5 years...) Even just a few days of forcing yourself not to think about things will do good.

Only after that, can you really or clearly decide if you want to stay. If you don't have equity, or don't want to deal with this team lead and whatever manipulative political crap you're going to have to deal with, then quit. It is only a job and believe me, walking away as soon as you realize the fight isn't worth it is worth far more than sticking it out for some potential upside that might not include equity. Without equity, everything is meaningless. If you were a corporation, what would the CEO and Board decide? Think like that and one can start getting a handle on how to be not driven by emotional / psychological factors, but purely profit and loss.

My personal problem was that I got emotional attached to "my system" - I built the whole damn thing myself and wouldn't/couldn't let it go - the ideas kept flooding in and .... I wanted to see them come to fruition. Technically, the whole system was pretty sweet and I had some really advanced ideas on the to-do list... but I did NOT OWN IT. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes.
I’m not sure if node has something comparable, but python’s splinter feels like the perfect trade-off for me. I don’t like browser tests and splinter lets me spend as little time as possible small tests that I don’t mind deleting later.
Putting on a clean pair of socks and shoes that fit.

It might not seem like much but it's something I appreciate every day.
If anybody want to read the real stuff then here is the reference:
Matrix Computations https://www.cs.cornell.edu/cv/Books/GVL/index.htm
Injectors and ignition coils are effectively wear parts however on an ICE engine. Though for balance here, I just had to replace the fuel injector on one of my cars, it lasted 30 years however, so I'm not too upset by the 300 bucks it cost to replace it.
Your team lead is already planning your departure. The business exit is in sight, it's now time to claim all the credit; by pushing you out she wouldn't need to share any rewards with you - those minor issues are a technique how to get you to "make a decision to quit". Make a case with the founders to become her boss and brace for a full-scale war; when it comes to money, people will go unimaginably low; CYA. And to cope with burnout, try to practice emotional restraint, accept some people are just horrible and treat it as a stoic as something that won't affect you internally. Also, if that person succeeds in pushing you out, they are likely going to have a stellar career ahead of them, so it's a good chance to ground another possible asshole wreaking havoc in the industry.
This resonates with my general experience with start-ups. Founders have nice ideas, but don't know how to make them happen (or even if it's possible). They slave-whip their pixies to make the work happen. They don't have an appreciation for the scale of the achievement, and complain about the webpage font being slightly wrong. The solution to any problem is more hours or pivoting.

Of course there is better and worse ones, but FWIW, I think this is just what most start-up jobs are (or at least it's not uncommon). Established company jobs are a bit more boring, a bit less exciting, but more organised, and better at getting sustained value out of employees. That includes treating them more like a marathon runner, less like a disposable sprinter, to be replaced after another 200m bout. Again, of course, not all, but certainly more than in start-up world.

This kind of tussle is not really for me, and perhaps not for you. If so, go look for another job.

What doesn't help is the plethora of articles about how "to make it in a start-up, you must be hard-working, ambitious, driven, talented, good-communicator, and pure of heart. If you don't have it, it's OK, no shame working at Walmart check-out". There is a world out there that values talented, experienced people, just doesn't force them to work in crazy environments.
CO2 is growing exponentially.

No, it isn't. 68 parts per million in 35 years isn't remotely "exponential" growth. It's roughly half a percentage point a year.

Meaningful, yes. Exponential, not hardly.
Judge says Facebook users entitled to better security but not monetary damages
Could've, should've, would've!

I'm not sure you caught the vibe of this thread too well :-)
TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance wants you to know everything is just fine
An argument without any data can't refute an argument with
historical data, either.
Love this project. I maintain a service around Guacamole[1] with slightly modified protocol and client built in nodejs instead of the included Java one.

[1] https://www.allmydesktops.com/
They 'culled' (which means killed) the animals that were not tame enough. And continued doing it for 40 years, it seems.

this is a kind of experiment I would have prohibited totally.

"...
Only those foxes that showed tolerance for the nearness of people were selected and bred to produce the next generation, while fearful or aggressive animals were culled.
..."

https://slate.com/technology/2012/03/domesticated-foxes-in-s...
My guess: there's not a _big_ market for it.

I half remember an article about stock trading companies overclocking servers and running them single threaded at max clock speed. The aim was shaving a few more microseconds from their response time. They accepted the reduced lifetime of the hardware, just replaced it sooner. I got the impression it was a niche market though.
While I agree with you, open source chrome didn't really help push for anything good.

Thanks to chrome we now have AMP and basically total web domination by the GOOG company.
> Now I have a degree in a subject I loved

Is that "d" a typo or is this a little speck of sadness inside an otherwise heartwarming story?
It's difficult to accept this assertion at face value. After all for any given proposition p, regardless of the domain under which it ought to be considered, we can always choose not to immediately accept it without sufficient reason for doing so. We can always ask why p has been offered up to us, what the arguments for and against p are, and what the implications of accepting it would be.
There was recently a post in HN called "There is too much stuff". It revolved around the massive amount of unnecessary physical goods we need to shift through to find what we are looking for. I believe the same thing happens with content.

There is way more content out there that I would like to consume than my time allows. Is not rare to make my way through an article or a 1 hour talk and think 'oh well, that was a waste of time'. Or content that has pieces that I do find interesting, but is so padded that makes the whole investment not worth it. Currently I am reading Domain Drive Design, and I didn't find insights that I consider useful after well over a third into the book (500+ pages total).

I do believe that content curation is one of the most promising fields in the near future, and it will involve a mix of human and technological solutions. This might include not only the act of recommending content, but possibly modifying said content for the user (e.g. summaries, highlights, etc.). In comparison, current recommendation systems are a pure joke.
Apple offer that. I accept the preference and arguments for an open system etc and the distrust of a global corp., but the support lifespan of an iOS device has more recently been ~5 years.
The design is not tablet/phone responsive yet though. Ya, the buttons are larger and tappable.
> Does anyone report on eMMC wearing out in phones

Phones hit bad batteries before anything else and issues related to them get reported fairly often.

> game consoles,

I think Nintendo had a console that hit max firmware updates, instead of breaking it just meant they couldn't interfere with people rooting it anymore. There was much rejoicing.

> What makes Tesla special

An order of magnitude higher price compared to anything else you have listed. Maybe they should try to sell cars for the price of a new smart phone with the goal of selling a new one every two years so nobody would notice these long term issues.
Indeed, you can use drone-CI with Gitea that's also an option. But for now I find Gitlab-CI still slightly better: graphical representation of the pipeline, editable environment variables, review-stop jobs to clean up review deploys, automatic review-stop on MR merge ... Anyway, I run both because some people really want to keep their main repo activity on GitHub "for visibility" (for me that doesn't stand: I use gitlab->github mirroring feature as such my work is still published on github)
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This always pop up and always amuses me. Like, they do teach you reading, math, and algebra in school, right? Believe it or not that it enough to be able to do taxes.