skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't build a "lead" as if this was a race. For one thing, there's no finish line. There's nothing stopping fuel cell cars from having their own technology revolution and a S-curve like adoption curve that displaces everything else. This could happen ever after EVs "win" over internal combustion so to speak. It's fully possible that EVs are still on-track to being replaced no matter what happens next.

The other thing is that we still have to pay attention to fundamental limitations. There are hard limits to battery energy density that likely to never be crossed. Extremely fast-charging will probably always be limited by its high power power draw. Meanwhile, fuel cell technology is advancing extremely quickly in its own right. We could be seeing fuel cell cars that cost as much as a Corolla[1], and cost only $1.5/kg[2] to refuel (or about 2-3¢ per mile). In a world were fuel cell cars cost <$20k and are cheaper to run than EVs, while also delivering 400 miles of range and 5-minute refueling times, EVs quickly lose much of their luster.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26050/exclusive-toyota-hydroge...

[2] https://renewablesnow.com/news/nel-aiming-at-green-hydrogen-...
Yep, they are essentially sum types, but out-of-band, which is important.

In particular, you can have:

def quux():
xkcd = frob(foo(), zomg())
...lots of code...

def bar():
try
quux()
catch ExceptionX
...handle X...

def baz():
try
bar()
catch ExceptionY
...handle Y...

I assume pattern-matching can be partial without explicit default value, but (in the languages I've dealt with) it gets tricky with expressions. For instance, in C++:

auto a = foo();
auto b = bar(a, quux());
return frob(xkcd(a), b);

if foo(), bar() and quux() can throw exceptions, and you wanted to replace them with sum types - say, std::variant<F, Err1, Err2, Err3>, or for better semantic separation (more on this below), tl::expected<F, std::variant<Err1, Err2, Err3>> - you'll going to pray you have enough "monadic" methods in those classes (spoiler alert: you don't, as of C++17/current tl::expected) to rescue the spaghetti code you'll have to write to model this flow.

Recently, I've been dealing with a C++ codebase that uses tl::expected in lieu of exceptions, and while the "main flow" becomes more readable - return doThis(x, y).and_then(do_that).map(sth).map_error(logErrors); - the side effect is that the codebase is littered with trivial functions and closures to make that interface work. It's much less readable than a bunch of catch blocks every now and then. Maybe it's a limitation of C++? I feel like a syntax for partial application would remove half of the boilerplate I have to write when chaining tl::expected-returning functions.

On semantic separation, I alluded to using a "nested" sum type like (Result1 + Result2 + ...) + (Err1 + Err2 + ...) instead of Result1 + Result2 + ... + Err1 + Err2 + ... - while mathematically equivalent, they aren't syntactically equivalent in code. Grouping possible return value types separately from possible error type values improves reasoning about code - the groups tend to change independently from function to function. And if you squint, this is what exceptions give you: they separate the error sum type from return sum type, and give the former a completely different control path. This means you can think about them separately, and don't have to force-fit the success path into shape that satisfies the needs of the error path.
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That's a good point. Thanks. So I guess it boils down to (heh) "most consumers are happy with the existing kettles" (which could actually negate the very premise of my article.
Anthony Peratt already figured this stuff out years ago with Plasma Cosmology.
One Serverless Microframework to Rule Them All: AWS Chalice (Awesome-Chalice)
Showcase IDX is hiring US remote UI engineers to revolutionize home buying
The mainstream version of OO is actually quite bad though. You can think of it as just being functions where the first parameter is to the left of the function name. It has a few more features than that of course, but all of these increase complexity and therefore bugs, and it doesn't have any features that reduce bugs.

An example would be non-fragile ABIs (ObjC has this, C++ doesn't) or typestate/built in state machines (so you can't call methods if the object is in an invalid state for them). There's encapsulation at least, it's a start.
The update at the bottom details amazons side of the story:

Amazon has responded, and its response points to the unfair nature of Google effectively blocking access to the YouTube web site based on the type of device being used to access it. "Echo Show and Fire TV now display a standard web view of YouTube.com and point customers directly to YouTube's existing website," Amazon's statement reads. "Google is setting a disappointing precedent by selectively blocking customer access to an open website. We hope to resolve this with Google as soon as possible."
Considering that it was touted as the future digital CURRENCY until up to about 2 years ago, it has failed horribly in that regard. Its no longer being used on darknet either, that place has been taken by monero.

Bitcoin failed as a currency. Bad UX, high fees, high volatility. All things you dont want for a currency.

Now for a store of value, thats something else. If everyone "believes" it to be worth something, thats what it'll be.
You can download Eiffel Studio and use it for free. I'm not sure what restrictions there are or capabilities that may be removed. It's included in Homebrew (mac) but it's an older version. Macports seems to have the current version available. Not sure about various Linux distros.

https://dev.eiffel.com/Main_Page
Indexing in Google's search engine to be included in response to user queries should be decoupled from being excerpted in Google's pretend newspaper front page.
yeah, it resembles the "happiness is a choice" motto used and repeated by many. I would say that it isn't always the case
Maybe China can help with a cite. They did have a 5-6 month head start and first encountered: brain-blood barrier pass, blood cloths and brain/lung aneurisms, reinfection, patient 0, airborne COVID, effect of mask wearing, pets getting infected, and more.

Too bad they don't allow the WHO full access to investigate, nor share critical information with the rest of the world, now suffering thousands of deaths. Most likely is a lab leak accident (Israel, UK, and US all said as much!). But unfortunately, the "China Virus" has become a political issue, and you won't find cites in the popular media anymore. Just articles about xenophobic conspiracy theories, and to listen to health experts when they tell you masks are not protective, go eat at China Town to show your support, don't worry about losing weight, and that vitamin D deficiency is a hoax.
You can send, receive and even buy Bitcoin with fiat with CashApp after you go through their KYC procedures within the app. [1] https://cash.app/bitcoin
Debate on the future of enterprise software (2008)
Because they're David to Adobe's Goliath, I also feel compelled to mention that I've just recently discovered/purchased this and am incredibly impressed with it.
What blows my mind is that this promotional Tesla video[1] has been online for almost 5 years, with this claim in the video description:

> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
As others mentioned you're forgetting an economy which just uses crypto as the means of exchange, which for many has always been the long term goal.

But you're also forgetting P2P crypto marketplaces like LocalCryptos[1], which (for Ethereum) allows you to have smart contract escrow and therefore the middle-man is only really required in the case of disputes. I personally have transacted > $100k with LocalEthereum, not once having an issue with a trade, and most settling in under 30min.

[1] https://localcryptos.com/
It's not productive "work", it's desk warming because it's just as important (if not more) to show you're working than do work. Japan is horribly unproductive[1]:

> Japan ranks twenty-first for labor productivity among the 36 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to the Japan Productivity Center’s International Comparison of Labor Productivity report. Based on OECD data, the report found that Japan’s per-hour labor productivity in 2018 was $46.8 (equivalent in purchasing power to ¥4,744); this is less than half the $102.3 level in Ireland and roughly 60% the $74.7 level in the United States. The government has raised “work-style reform” as a key task and aimed to lift productivity, but Japan has continued to be dead last among Group of Seven nations since 1970, when survey records were first available.

Once I realised that the culture is based on far more on appearance than truth, so many things made sense that hadn't before.

[1] https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00619/japan%E2%80%99s-...
Windows, Xbox, visual studio, office, surface tablet, hololens are no good?

I daily drive Linux and don't own an Xbox, but I'm also not a hater. I like companies that build things.
> I find it very hard to believe you haven't seen any of these issues (especially alt-tabbing). I actually sometimes think people are just straight up lying but I have no hard evidence.

I've got thousands of hours gaming on linux and I've never had an alt-tab problem. Kind of weird to go right to claiming people are outright lying, maybe there's another issue you're running into?
Much of that “desperate need” is created, or worsened, by capitalism.¹

It isn't just a matter of “working hard”. Say you're a brilliantly capable developer for three months out of every year, have around four months of chronic pain and bad mental health unpredictably breaking up the remaining time. Unless you're wealthy, capitalism doesn't let you get to a situation where your bad mental health doesn't disrupt that five month stretch where you could be doing worthwhile things – even if you would make enough money in those three months to support yourself, when most of it's going into paying off the debt you got into because you lost your job and had to eat, it's difficult to do so.

Think this is a bit much? Okay, how about this: you're in jail on suspicion of committing some crime or other. This lasts 1½ weeks, before they realise that no, actually, you weren't guilty. But in the meantime, you've lost your job, and without the savings you'd usually gather prior to job-hopping… what then?

You might've worked really, really hard to get where you are. For many, working really, really hard simply isn't enough.

---

¹: “Capitalism” here is shorthand for “society being structured under the assumption that capitalism is a fully-general ideal solution for allocating all resources, and there are only a handful of narrow examples where it makes sense to do something else”. There's nothing inherent to capitalism that causes these things, any more than a chainsaw is responsible for felled trees. But this is pedantry, so I kept it out of the first sentence.
> can probably get an additional 5% to work with various levels of tweaking

My big complaint is the number of titles that receive a Platinum rating on ProtonDB, in spite of technical issues. I have purchased more than one title with a Platinum rating that had significant issues running on my machine.

This is compounded that Steam/ProtonDB user reports typically have an abysmal level of detail to replicate a working configuration. Someone got it to run flawlessly, but there is so much wine configuration jargon that each time I need to dig into the issues, I waste time on something that otherwise would work on Windows. I would love if there was a 'share my Proton configuration' per game that could be made available to the community.
AFAIK the only reason why there's a market for lending stocks is because the SEC prohibits naked short-selling. If you want to short-sell, you need to locate a share somewhere and "borrow" it, which leads to brokerages offering to do that for a price. For crypto this isn't required because you can short using CME bitcoin futures, which is cash settled and therefore doesn't require you to locate/borrow anything.
Does the ML algorithm with the millions of images training set get run locally or as a remote service?

When I use ML these days is it all hardcore data crunching by remote servers or is some of it running on my phone/laptop?
We agree. Bitcoin doesn't ever have to be a currency, but that doesn't mean that it will ever be "dead".
Perhaps you're correct, and my cynicism misplaced.
> Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?

Just like GitLab. If you have users that might post one or two issues a year you have to pay for them at dev level prices. $240 / year for idle users that barely participate? No thanks.

And they have the same tone deaf solution; upgrade to Ultimate.

Silicon Valley SaaS bros have lost touch with reality because they have unlimited money to work with.
It probably doesn’t need many new features. But it needs someone to release bug fixes, and ports to new architectures, deal with CVEs etc.
Yes - exactly. It's interesting that even though the argument is still at least as relevant today as it was in 1971, it's so far outside the usual narratives that it seems harder to follow it today than it was back then.

It's much safer to frame it as a question about tools - which it isn't - than about politics and power structures.
Your comment implied it's not possible at all for them to use it, not that it's currently not working.
Eh, depends on what your calorie surplus is.

If I don't pay attention to what I eat, and am fairly inactive, I tend to eat about 50-100 calories more per day than I burn, amounting to a 5-10 lb/year gain.

That is enough of a gain that it really adds up over time, and once it has added up it is quite daunting to deal with, but as far as maintaining goes, it's very reasonable to just add a small amount of light exercise on a daily basis.
Is there a way to legally play the EGA version these days?
Thanks for notifying me. I was not aware that it is not possible to clone the repo that way without being signed into GitLab. I will change the url in the docs to `https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow.git`.
> It seems like 4 months were wasted just getting appointments.

That's the NHS "free" healthcare at play.

Remember, you get what you pay for!
Maybe the total balance of results is better for immunosuppressed oncologic patients.

Or maybe it is just a form of medical nationalism, given that the leader of the Remdesivir scientific team, Tomáš Cihlář, is a Czech scientist.

We had some critical patients improve and heal on remdesivir, though. I wonder how big of a role genetic diversity plays. There are many uncertain suspicions that Covid hits some people harder than others based not just on lifestyle, but things such as blood groups.

Research into that will be a good PhD material for years to come.
If I were a therapist, I'd probably have that made in vinyl and put on the ceiling over the couch.
"You are not working from home; you are at your home during a crisis trying to work."
On the other hand, I now have less things. I don't own a turntable anymore and no product replaced it. My phone has replaced tens of products which would have been dedicated devices before. Now I have one unrepairable phone that I replace every 4 years but thats probably less waste than buying things individually.
The lowest HP Honda Rebel right now the 300 goes for 4.5k and even that has 27HP new from factory. Back in 1985, the Rebel 250 started at 16.1 HP but that’s been discounted for a while.

IMO, anything that can’t maintain highway speed up a hill is anemic by modern standards. I get that HP has become a largely meaningless metric for daily driving, but that seems like a useful baseline.
It also does not like to be split cleanly into as many parts as there are people working on it; development work is not an embarrassingly parallel problem.
It's quite amusing. The standard statistical theory does not work at all in estimating data vs model size, and the bounds are all vacuously large. It's a very active area of research, understanding why models act so simple when overparameterized and coming up with real measures of model complexity. Lots to read there if you are interested in such things.
We seem to be going in circles ;) I'm ok to let this go ;)
There's nothing stopping FCEVs from being as efficient as BEVs. Even now, huge improvements are being found like 90% efficient electrolysis[1]. Future improvements in hydrogen and fuel cell technology could close the gap entirely.

Like I said, you're repeating many arguments that are a mirror of the arguments made against BEVs. It's pretty ridiculous to just repeat anti-EVs for something else while being pro-EVs.

The other thing is that this viewpoint is increasingly outdated. A lot of these "facts" date to the 2010s or earlier. These are more inline with a person being out of touch than someone that is informed.

[1] https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/03/20210307-topsoe.htm...
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Interesting, my Icom IC-7300 has burr brown DAC and ADC to interface with computers via USB. it's good to know it's considered pretty good THD.
Pretty sure I remember Sun compilers, Veritas Volume Manager, and several other pieces of software having license keys that expired in the 1990's. Several of them used something called FlexLM.
Thats still quite possible. Buy yourself an arduino board and the chip manual and you can know just about everything about it. Some slightly more sophisticated boards can even do video output and run modern programming languages while still not having an OS or complex firmware.

If anything its even easier now because its dirt cheap and there are hundreds of hours of tutorials available for free. And the arduino tools have removed a lot of the pointless complexity like telling your compiler what clock speed and revision your chip is.
No, I don't think it is. Separately from rationalist community, there is substantial amount of work showing that Bayesian updating and reasoning is in some sense the optimal way of operating under uncertainty.

It is also certainly true that garbage in and garbage out, i.e. if you feed garbage inputs, you'll get garbage out (Bayesian or not), but the advantage in my opinion of having a framework for making decisions in cases of uncertainties is extremely useful. It is often hard to really apply this for ordinary life situations, (and maybe often not worth it), but even then it's useful to think about priors/evidence, even if you don't particularly care about the final number.
"they certainly have the right"

Nobody is arguing that they don't have that right, so this is little more than a strawman.

Expressing disagreement (or even dismay) with a company's decision isn't inconsistent with support for a free market, either.
Well, that's the "magic" of modern deep learning. You can fit models with p > n somehow without overfitting. In some areas you might find this called "the strong inductive bias of neural networks" or "double descent" but no one has found a convincing explanation (to me).
"You should study the manual before you use this potentially deadly system" is about the dumbest way to design a potentially deadly system ever.

Decades of experience has repeatedly taught that people are not perfect robots that always read manuals, and if you design your system under the assumption that they are then it is you that is at fault, not them.

There's a reason we have safety interlocks and dead man switches and seat belts and helmets and ... It's no use having a manual that says "do not open the microwave door while it is running".
This complexity was one of the major reasons the Affordable Care Act’s public option was eliminated. There was going to be a group of people who made these decisions. But when the public found out they were deemed as “death panels” that would get to chose who would live or die.
Uh, right, implicitly trusting video because it's video is definitely dumb. I don't think that's what I'm proposing. Trusting cryptography, as long as you're explicit about what you're doing and how it can fail, is at least not immediately foolish.
You certainly _can_, and I'm all for positivity if it helps you, but don't you think there is a contradiction here?

Again, if it helps go right ahead.
The only reason it costs millions to treat cancer patients is because of medical patents allowing companies to extract profit margins of several thousand percent (or more).

In countries like Australia, where drug companies have to negotiate a fair price with a single government agency, the cost of treatment is an order of magnitude lower.
The ability for individual actors to divorce themselves from MMT driven inflation.
The model is trained on Adobe servers and run locally on your device. The training of the model is much more processor intensive than actually utilizing the trained model, usually by multiple orders of magnitude.
Equity does not mean “equality of outcome,” it means that unequal outcomes are proportional to relevant factors only.

For example an equitable approach to criminal prosecution is that people are exonerated or convicted based on the best available evidence, with no variance attributable to their ability to afford a lawyer (an equitable approach enshrined in our Constitution but still a challenge for society).

And an equitable approach of salary is that people are paid in proportion to their contributions to the business, with no variance attributable to the color of their skin (for example).

We have to measure inputs and outcomes to infer the state of equity because we don’t have a reliable deterministic model of society.
What problems do you see beside the ones that basically any country with a public health care system has (/has solved)?
1 million per year... endemic versus epidemic
That has been my experience as well. Be positive, but remove the stars in your eyes. Don't give up at the simplest failure, but also don't set unachievable goals that are clearly destined for failure (such as things that require pure luck).
And make sure to get a "cromargan protect"-named set. Just looked up "Vision" on amazon, it's expensive (12 persons set is 700£) :-) but still recommended, the more expensive sets have better steel and thinner blades. This set is great for both steaks and spreading butter. Also, you can start small and extend after some years (wmf cutlery has longterm availability)
Most (all?) advanced countries have government funded free healthcare for everyone. It’s UBI that’s the hurdle.
I feel like mistaking " for ' is understandable, but how do you not notice 4 floors when you're expecting 40?
Totally agree but I serve two masters; both of which treat me very well—so not only is the commute the worst part of my day, it’s also the only negative part of the day.
It's not a currency, it is an asset, like gold.

How many transactions per second does gold do? How many stores accept gold for purchases?

Yet it certainly has value and isn't going away as a reserve asset is it?