skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
J.D. Power U.S. Electric Vehicle Experience (EVX) Ownership Study (2021) [pdf]
> There is a performance penalty when accessing APIs over WinMD

Specifically when using WinMD? Why?

Or do you mean vs. calling the APIs directly via C code, or vs. using in-language techniques such as P/Invoke?
And I'm interested to see why. Perhaps crypto people are just more willing to part with money, since bits are less tangible than tangible as cash?

I didn't discover bountysource until after starting on rysolv. But from their stats page you can really see the rise and fall of contributions on their platform.

They've been acquired a couple times. And I wonder if issues came from changing ownership / poor marketing. Or if OS funding is just inherently unprofitable.
Wow thank you, seems awesome!!!
lisp has a long history at nasa

http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2212211
How forelimb function changed as vertebrates acquired limbs and moved onto land?
>>That's not incompatible with democracy

Actually it is, democracy is 2 wolves and an a lamb voting on what is for dinner.

Democracy is incompatible with limited governance, and individual liberty as the majority (or even a vocal but powerful minority that controls the media) will always use the power of democracy to oppress those that do not have said power

Constitutionally limited governance that is immune to the will of the majority is the only way to ensure individual liberty, the founders understood this. This is why the ONLY democratic part of the US government at its founding was the House of Representatives. Over time we have made more and more parts of the federal government "democratic" like the Senate, and most recently the push to change the election of the President to be pure democratic as well.

This has been a DISASTER for individual liberty
I haven't read the text of the law, and with only a couple years of disused collegiate French language classes and no French legal training whatsoever under my belt, I don't think I could understand it if I tried. So, I might be wrong, or well off the mark here, but...

[The disclaimer is longer than comment, but here goes nothing]

... This sounds like it might result in unexpected and undesirable outcomes. Are rural French communities really so invariant over time and space that you can set their community standards in stone?
P/Invoke is not that bad - you basically just copy the c header declaration and adjust a bit. It starts to be interesting strings or large memory where you want to avoid copying it too much. Doing it cross-platform is a bit of pain (basically copy everything and point it to different library - .dll vs .so) it would be nice if there was a better way. I still haven't figured out how to get unicode strings to work cross platform though.
Famous Pentium F-DIV 20 years later, the sequel?
If you're going to interpret Satoshi's single "tyrannical" reference as endorsement of restraining block sizes to 1 MB, it is a much weaker 'endorsement' than multiple explicit calls for a much higher on-chain throughput, including his directly saying that the intended network configuration for Bitcoin at scale was for validation to be done only by users with server farms, which implies even greater than 100X boosts in throughput from current levels.

As for initial synchronization:

There is no basis for claiming users cannot keep up with it at 100X current throughput levels, and like I said, relying on trusted third party set checkpoints to completely do away with validating the entire blockchain history is always an option, and already one being utilized to some extent with the flag in Bitcoin Core to skip validation on transactions older than a TTP-set checkpoint.

Saying every one should validate, but then limiting the world to 300,000 on-chain writes a day, meaning limiting who can use Bitcoin without third-party intermediaries to 0.1% of the world population, is a bad trade-off. Better 10% of Bitcoiners be able to run their own fully validating node, and all 7 billion people be able to generate transactions *with their own private keys*, than let every one with a PC run a fully validating node, while only 0.1% make writes to Bitcoin with their own private keys.

In a scenario where a party cannot write a transaction to Bitcoin, due to limited on-chain capacity, there is little point in running a fully validating node. Emphasizing full node validation accessibility over main chain write accessibility to this extent is not a sensible prioritization.

Regarding this off-chain payment channel networks Red Herring, there is no reason to be confident that PCNs like the lightning network can provide a mix of trade-offs that will make them compelling to a wide set of users, and indeed the LN has still failed to get traction nearly 6 years after first being proposed.

The capital lock-up requirements, especially in a setting where on-chain transaction fees are high, the need for being online to trustlessly receive funds, and the routing challenges, are all potentially fundamental showstoppers for the LN being a viable technology for widespread utilization/adoption.

Finally, even if payment channel networks work - which is a very speculative 'if' and not one that the entire empowerment of humanity with access to electronic cash should be made dependent on - blocks would still need to be on the order of 100X larger to enable global mass-adoption, as payment channel networks do not completely do away with the need to have on-chain throughput.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia are both west-aligned and are not first-world to anyone in the first-world.
The innovation that the gig economy needs.

While everyone is worried about criminals, everyone else that wants to disconnect and has benign data is doing just fine.
I can see an immediate appliation for this technology: printing combustion chambers for regeneratively cooled liquid rocket engines. Electrforming is state of the art for these engines already. Sure, it's slow, but production rates aren't typically very high.
Planes have centralized Air Traffic Control that dictates every move from take off until landing of all planes within their zone. The planes only have to follow the ATC orders and not worry about other planes except for very rare emergencies. Even in those, ATC usually gives them a large block away from other planes to sort things out.

Cars in comparison can start at any moment, from any location and want to go anywhere they like without knowing what other cars are doing, or -worse- the road conditions (potholes, ice etc).

Putting blame is also easier, because legally all pilots agree to be recorded while flying since they're doing business. It'll be much harder I guess to allow recording inside cars.
Has anyone know that Firecracker can access GPU ?
yep, and in the other half I know people who made their entire careers in surveillance and cooperating with the sort of organizations implementing these things, but it was "good actually".

Either way, no sympathy for these hypocrites.
Indeed. Witness all the folks who insisted Amanda Knox was guilty because she didn't act and look as they thought she should were she innocent.
Today i listened to a show on German radio https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/europamagazin/index... that was discussing some planned regulation regarding the rights of social networks. It included the right to appeal bans and to even sue the networks. It seems like something along these lines is a necessary evil.
They call it GDPR-friendly because there is no serious enforcement of the GDPR and so they know they will fly under the (non-existent) radar.

This is the same reason how websites claim to “comply” with the GDPR with a cookie consent prompt that only allows you to accept (and declining is hard/impossible).
I'd really like to point out this:

> Hyperinflation is so incredibly destructive that you’d think macroeconomists would spend a lot of time studying the phenomenon, figuring out when and why it happens. Especially because the answer to the question of hyperinflation is also the answer to the question of how much the government can borrow. An understanding of hyperinflation would give us a flashlight to shine down the infinite corridor, so we could avoid the pit.

... is pretty ignorant. You have an unrealistic fear of hyperinflation propagated by your ideals; to the point, you think it's important or relevant in situations where it's not. Perhaps, and this is just a thought here, if no one educated on the matter seems to give a shit about it there might be a reason. The US deficit is by and large a bogey-man most people love to wax on but hate to learn about... unless you like the scientific method but even then it is mostly depressing.

To me, the whole things sounds like a rant telling physicists, "you haven't studied enough planets like Jupiter, and without Jupiter, I cannot explain Earth. Please explain Jupiter!"

Here's the real shit, that's boring, but true:

Hyperinflation is no risk to the US economy at present. We are the world's piggy-bank, the wealthiest piggies in the world love the US, because we're the only nation on the planet who has always let's them have it back. The USA has never frozen the dollar. This puts the US an unbelievable economic advantage that nearly all of its citizens fail to realize.

Think about it:

1. The US dollar is the defacto (for now) global currency.

2. It's really hard to default when your debt is in your own currency. See link below:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-explains-the-s...

The USA can quite literally print money and get away with it almost indefinitely. Yep, that's the rub. We can 100% print money.

Nope, instead of printing it [1] to invest in our infrastructure, citizens, and planet we share-- we piss it away. We piss it away handing out tax cuts to the rich. We piss it away blowing shit up in deserts fighting other nation's equivalent of rednecks. We piss it away funding racist police and prison systems. We piss it away every day; that's why it's called the "trickle down."

In another 50 or a 100 years, when other nations are financially larger, more stable, and many, many, trillions of dollars of risk could be safely diversified anywhere else... then yes, the US could be at risk because it may not be able to issue debt in its own currency.

[1] Most everyone doesn't understand extremely large numbers and when one looks at the quantities over a certain size they all muddle together. It takes a lot of effort and reading to be able to look at billions, hundreds of billions, and trillions to make sense of and not fear those numbers. That's why people are able to fear things that would literally help them; the numbers are "all the same to them" and thus they're all equally bad or misunderstood.
In America they leave the internet connected through the protest, the better to gather evidence.
>Wouldn't that hurt their deliverability?

If you're referring to deliverability of emails in the context of email spam filters then no. Having an unsubscribe option on repeated, unanswered solicitations would be helpful. The emails are not spam, and in the first email chain they are rather straightforward about their proposal and methods. I'm not sure what the scam actually is here.. people offering money for dev to scam users out of bandwidth? I do think it's noble of dev ignore the solicitation and provide exposure to this market however.
That's not accurate. BF is great but it's not a parallel HN where a secret world of similar discussion is going on. To overgeneralize a bit, topics there tend to be narrower and oriented around specific concrete situations. A lot of it is about hiring, offices, things like that. There are a lot of Launch posts, especially by startups in the current batch who don't feel ready to go to a bigger format yet.

Actually I think YC would probably like BF to become more HN-like and may find ways to encourage intellectually richer discussion (I've been asked a few times to advise about that). But if YC founders aren't posting to HN, it's not because they're busy participating in an alternative-universe HN. It's more likely as the GP said, that they're busy working—as they should be.
Art school is a series of project-based classes that culminate in a portfolio of original work that the student can showcase, and that system seems to make perfect sense to everybody.

I don't know why other disciplines have been so resistant (forget textbook publishers, I mean the professors, deans, and other administrators themselves.) It's not clear to me there are any reasons to be against it, so perhaps it's simply the inertia of large, bureaucratic, conformist institutions.
There's a great YouTube video that collects a ton of footage taken through the day you can review to see the behavior of the protestors on that day.[1]

As an aside, since you appear to feel that breaching a threshold is grounds to review the behavior of all parties in the vicinity—regardless of their involvement—do you feel similarly about breaching country border thresholds?

The reason I ask is simple: nobody disputes that people who illegally entered the capitol should be held responsible. What is under dispute are the methods used to determine who that was. The particular method outlined in the article implicates a number of completely innocent protestors. Further, it leaves ample room for things like "lists" used to monitor protestors—even if they haven't committed a crime.

I'm trying to understand your principled threshold for engaging in law enforcement tactics that involve people who haven't committed a crime.

1: https://youtu.be/_6uSYhyFao4
> yes much more than human driver accidents.

What are you basing this on? You can just say 'despite what Tesla fans believe' as an argument. One datapoint from google 10 years ago is not really convincing.

Specially as car also gets better at measuring human attention. CommaAI pilot is already doing quite well on that. Tesla is working on it internally as well.

And also, we can do things like assess the situation and adjust necessary attention. If you are by yourself driving threw the desert, you can relax the condition. If you are in a city the car keeps you honest.

That this will clearly cause more accidents then human by themselves is not at all clear.
There is little difference in my experience. The question is what problem are you solving, and do you have the correct tool for the job?

It is frustrating to solve problems with the wrong tool. It is a joy when the tool fits the job. Need to write a web server? Not super fun in C. Need to access raw memory and machine intrinsics directly? Not fun in python.
Doesn't a permissioned blockchain require a trusted central authority to manage the permissions? How is it better than having that central authority manage the database?
There's a slightly longer version (1hr15 to credits) here. I'm not sure what the differences are. https://mediaburn.org/video/spin/
Even for hobbyist stuff, Lisp’s lack of libraries can be frustrating. I wanted to build some useful things as I was teaching myself Common Lisp, but there either was no library at all for what I wanted to do, or on Quicklisp there was just some bare-bones library that offered some meagre
functionality but warned that most things hadn’t been written yet.
Not an RPi 1, but a v2.

- pihole

- custom media player based on VLC, with a web UI

- a weather service that aggregates and displays info of small weather stations around the house (ESP8266 + a bunch of sensors)

We are thinking about moving to a v4 to have more RAM
If one only allows container to run as a non-root user (no user namespace either) with all privileges dropped with strong mount isolation and some form of syscall filtering, then the attack surface is similar to that of hypervisors if not smaller while the performance is significantly better.

But yes, quite a few services assumes they have root privileges and do not work as is in such containers, like recent OpenSSH. For those cases VM isolation makes for much smaller attack surface.
That has nothing to do with it's “artificiality”.

Some intelligence is simply less intelligent than others.
They get _many_ more sponsors through Open Collective https://opencollective.com/babel
I don't know if the technical constraints are more real, just different.

When you start interacting with hardware, a lot of easy stuff can become more difficult (testing, deployment, debugging, ...) and some difficult stuff becomes easier (number of platforms to support, control over the product, scope of the project, ...). Everything is generally slower when you have to interact with hardware.

Politics is still there as others have talked about, and the complaints about the tools become more "do we really have to code in ANSI C with a proprietary toolchain?".

I'm not saying don't go for it, it's a really nice domain and IMO there's a satisfaction that's unmatched by pure software when you see your hardware project comes to fruition; but don't expect the paradise.
Neat project! There is a small, inexpensive MP3 player board called DFPlayer that can be controlled from an Arduino and probably would work well for similar use cases, if using a full Pi isn't an option.
Chrome webstore has actually started experimenting with an AppStore style privacy page (seems to be A/B test for now)

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/609441389423493128/...
if only there was some way of doing computatiin without Tensorflow.
That’s my major problem. After about two years of whatever job I have I feel I don’t learn anything interesting any more and get bored.
If it was really good, then yes it's technically correct. But I suspect it just has no idea.
Browsing fingerprints would not be the same.
Not in stable yet, no. It’s desired, but has taken a while to design, as there have been higher priority things for a while. We’ll get there!
It doesn't 'ring true' to me. Tesla might be far a way, but closer then the others. Specially when we are talking about 'as an actual business'.

Waymo and co are simply having a gigantic money burning party and will continue.

Tesla can work on this and support all their efforts as a value at to the current products.
Sheldon Adelson, the largest political donor, who exclusively donated to right-wing causes, died recently. I've been surprised that there hasn't been more conversation about what that means for the GOP. For reference, he donated $218 million in the 2020 election cycle. The GOP's next biggest donor put up ~$71 million.
When it comes to cars, what's often offered is 0% financing or some kind of cash back. It may actually be better to go with the cash back.

Preet Banerjee made a 10 minute video laying out the math on why not going with 0% financing may be better:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGPu0jPryfU
I have to admit Japan is an interesting case and brings up good counter points. Really wages need to go up to spark inflation on the ground floor for common items.
True. It was an incredibly powerful model, but developers like files they can see.

I mentioned in my earlier comment a "hand-drawn diagram of the architecture" - it was in fact a picture of the exact layout of this database including all the pointer blocks etc between the classes, methods, versions, etc.

One project I did was to convert that file format & pointer model to support larger database sizes of 16GB (IIRC). Fun exploring and updating that code. For testing I built a massive fake DB with random classes, methods, etc. The crazy thing was when that fake repo zipped down to almost nothing because it had so much repetition in the names!
>what startled me is how loud it is

Went on holiday to rustic Italy. Woke up by the freaking birds before 6, so, so loud! Louder than I've ever heard birds before, thousands of insolent cheep chirp squawk. It was amazing! I was/am a city dweller and was expecting Boccherini.
Policing in the USA, to a nearby outsider, appears to be more about enforcing societal norms than safety or laws.

It seems to me they harass anyone they perceive to be abnormal.

As a delightfully abnormal human, I'm very glad I was born just north of the 49th parallel. It's not perfect, but I do feel free to be myself.
Subscription service like everything else whether the subscribers use it often enough for themselves, drop a couple lockboxes in uber driver’s cars. Free advertising to other uber riders, no ongoing overhead costs for operation.

Service just needs to exist.

Its not economically “unviable” its also not economically “worth my time to make”, but for someone else that gets one idea in their life, maybe its worthwhile for them
Don't most helicopter fly on (unleaded) jet fuel already, their engines overwhelmingly being turbines?
There are clear antitrust issues here. The consequence of his misbehavior using Messenger includes no longer being allowed to use a competitor of Messenger (WhatsApp), along with Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, etc. These services are leaders in their respective markets and are unrelated to each other except they are all controlled by the same guy. This is why too much power in two few hands is bad for capitalism and humanity, and one of the major reasons antitrust law exists.
Great reading, thanks
Encouraging immutable data objects is “the Kotlin way”, though.

You have explicitly mark properties as mutable (“var” instead of “val”). I didn’t get the value of this at first, but when we started catching bugs at coding tiime that would have been runtime errors in Java, I started to understand. This was among my takeaways from working with it in production for about two years.
I personally don't understand why anyone feels they have a "right" to use Facebook, or even the right to expect a statement as to why Facebook does not allow them to register. They're a corporation offering a service in exchange for data-mining everything you do, why wouldn't they be free to choose who gets to use the service, and why would they have to justify it?

If you, the reader, launched a website and allowed anyone to register and use the service for free, do you feel that you then would be obligated to offer the service to anyone, or that if you denied them service, that you should be required to explain exactly why?

Presumably the answer is no, but I'm guessing most people feel that there's a difference between Facebook and just one guy launching a website. I would question where that line is drawn though, at which point, at how many active users did Facebook become public domain?
Scraping (serp/e-commerce/other).
Yeah but if SpaceX has no actual corporate entity in Russia, Russia has no real way to force SpaceX to disclose the data.

(short of threatening to shoot down satellites, which would normally be a viable threat, but honestly now SpaceX can launch a StarLink satellite for less than it costs to shoot one down)
Both GPS receivers and cell phone towers use the same basic approach based on the time it takes for the signal to travel between transmitter and receiver.

The only substantial difference is that in case of GPS the calculation happens on the receiver side (GPS signals only go in one direction), while cellular service providers calculate time advance on the tower side.
They want to leech bandwidth off the userbase which become 'bots', to resell as a distributed proxy/botnet service from my understanding at least.
Yeah, honestly, I looked into trying to go into embedded software for a little bit and after a while I kinda figured that a majority of the work would end up just as dull and dissatisfying. At this point I'm just hoping I can one day find a job that will allow me to work on something I find interesting, no matter what level I'm working at.
God moleskines have the shittiest paper. They have a nice form factor with the size, elastic band, and rear pocket, but they are garbage to write on with every pencil and pen I’ve tried - and I’m an artist, I had a lot of different tools to try the last time I tried them.

Currently I have multiple Pentalic Traveller Pocket Journals lying around (https://www.pentalic.com/traveler-pocket-journal/), they are basically “Moleskine except the paper isn’t waxy trash that your ink slides off of”. No spiral binding, either, they’re perfect bound.