skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just prohibitively expensive to pay a lot of people full time who for long periods of time do nothing. Even if it's just part time, it can be quite expensive.
Especially when you want to pay of other things like welfare too.

E.g. if you're a smallish village (say <1000 people), you cannot afford to pay a living wage to the 10 people or so you will need at least to fight a good sized fire, especially if a fire too big for a regular fire extinguisher happens once every few years.

You could of course pay those 10 people to look after a bunch of villages at the same time, but then you get a lot of fighting about where they will be actually located, etc.

In larger cities or on factory grounds it makes sense of course to keep a permanent paid staff because "enough" bad things keep happening, and especially with certain kinds of factories you want expert firefighters specially trained for certain types of events (like large scale chemical fires).

In a lot of smaller places the community also wants to keep volunteer fire fighters, as they are basically the only "community thing" happening at all, especially since churches and church activities become less and less popular.

Volunteer fire fighters are a tradition.

It's rather common around where I live that each village of more than a few houses does an "Easter Fire"[1] event once a year (of course), and those things are quite commonly organized by the volunteer firefighters who then use the profits from selling beer and food to fund their group's fun activities over the year, be it buying beer, soda and snacks for their regular meetings, be it a foosball table, and minor things like that. And that Easter Fire event often times really is the only major event happening at all during the year in that village.

Other volunteer organizations like the THW (mostly disaster relifef) or the DLRG (volunteer-ish life guards) are considered important for community building as well. And it's always good to have a lot of people around who at least have basic training in these kinds of things should the far fewer paid professionals be overwhelmed in case of major disasters like the flooding right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Fire
> You still haven't addressed my question.

If I must spell it out, there you go:

> Why was I forced to install a substandard, feature-poor, ridiculously slow pdf viewer that I never wanted and which took over as the default pdf viewer against my wishes and without asking me, just because you couldn't be bothered to install a decent one?

Because you are part of a minority of Chrome and Firefox users and I'm probably part of the majority of users, in this regard. I don't know this for sure, but if a Google program manager decided to back building and embedding an entire PDF reader into a browser, I'm 99% convinced this is true.

We're dumb and you have to live with us.

Life's tuff.
Does anyone know more detailed articles about how this (self-)checking architecture/process works?
Like proprietary APIs do it, there is a limited feature set and it is set, done.

With extension spaghetti, not only are we back in GLAD and GLEW land, each set of extensions is yet another possible code path.
If you sleep at the office you're wasting time and slacking.

If you can keep your eyes open while staring at an open email you're being productive.
Also, Discord has capable APIs and a fairly open developer program. You can make some really amazing and useful bots.
>what OP meant rather than the words on the screen

Mmm, I was actually just pushing back against the words on the screen. I don't doubt the OP means it the way you read it. I guess I don't generally see a rejoinder as a way of embarrassing the person I'm replying too - rather as a way of contesting the point, refining it, or clarifying it. I actually quite rarely notice who I'm talking to online.
Is there a way to run a homeserver on mydomain.com but also serve a website from that?
They could be but if network connection was a prime cause Microsoft would have highlighted that fact. Have they shown that is in fact the primary issue?
I remember the pitch from Render.com, they are doing it because Heroku stopped innovating since Salesforce acquired them.

Although most of the time Salesforce just leave those acquisition alone and let them do their work. Which is sort of strange if there are no benefits and synergy, it is more like a long term asset investment.

I sometimes wonder if these sort of acquisition has something to do with low interest rate, ease of capital, and tax reduction.
Cheers! Thank you!

https://orbitalindex.com/ is an amazing resource.

https://jatan.space/ is another that I follow.

Payload Research newsletter rocks too: https://mailchi.mp/payloadresearch/bezos-leaves-earth?e=e515...

There's even a Slack bot to be notified of launches (most of which you don't hear about on the news): https://groundcontrolbot.space/
I should put an astrik that this is only feasible when working 40 hours a week.

Beyond that and the burnout is real.
I could agree with you from a UX-flow perspective, but the tech is so shoddy that i loathe it. Everything is a "web 2.0" monstrosity of load times and popin. Open the wrong link and it takes you 40 seconds for components to popin, pull data, render, move to the highlighted component, it to popin, pull data, render, and finally you get what you want.

The UX-flow might be good, not sure, but the tech is so bad it actually inhibits users. The use of independent components might be neat when loading a Jira card from Bitbucket pull requests (which works), but it makes loading Jira cards from... Jira, terrible. Imo.
Building a community? Raising kids? Looking after elders? Do these things have no value to you?
That is just a best practice for published interfaces (allowed to be used outside of your repositories). E.G. using a different build, main example being APIs available for customers) Not all interfaces need (really "must not") to be published. For "private" interfaces it is an advantage to be able to refactor them easily and also being able to rollback those changes easily if needed. Without a mono-repo that becomes difficult. You basically need an additional layer to "stitch" commits together. You could question why that makes sense because it would just emulate mono-repo behavior.
All I can hear is Bo Burnham singing.
Or you could pull a stunt where you monitor a road a set up a website where people can check the license plates of all who have passed and at what time.

Would probably only move us closer to having having private surveillance banned, while the real problems continue.
The history of tax cuts in order to help out workers is .. not great.
> and should be compensated if legacy automakers want access to it for their customers

The way Tesla will get "compensated" is that users will pay for the electricity they use. This is straightforward business, not a "free ride".
What the law specifies is not always the lived reality.
> ...Your side project could be using tools and techniques that you learnt decades ago, which could be fine but my org is only interested in cutting-edge stuff...

Or, perhaps the inverse could be the case, where i learned cutting-edge stuff for my side project, but at enterprise, sorry, they're only using legacy Java (for example), so can't really use my cutting edge experience, etc. Now, as far as certs, i agree that they should help get through the door, but wonder if pairing them with discussions about experiences gained on a side project - to play with the knowledge learned from said certs - would be an even better combo? If i was hiring, and saw that a person got some certs (and maybe checks some needed box), but also has interests in side project, again, for the experience of it...then that is well above average for sure (at least in my eyes).
I am not an ideas guy. Give me a project and I'll build it. Ask me what I'd like to build and I'll have no idea.

In 15 years I've had 1 side project. I'm a staff engineer.
Still, there's an important distinction between a fine mist of Alzheimer's inducing particles, and a puddle of horse piss.
https://twin.sci-hub.se/6118/daefd0e8ce13e7983e15445a67e567a...
Old programming books really depend on the book: “Sam’s teach yourself Java in 24 hours”? Or “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”?
Apple, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have such a hard time delivering high quality graphics with their proprietary APIs, pity them.
Bankers Need 72-Hour a Week to Master Job
“We’re Not Allowed to Hang Up”: The Harsh Reality of Working in Customer Service
The direct listing was good to most everyone I know (lots of former Twitterati at Slack), and this deal doesn’t seem to have changed that situation.

The post-acquisition exodus has started, which might imply folks aren’t interested in joining The Machine regardless of the money.
Show HN: A job board for the New Space industry
> Point = namedtuple('Point', 'x y')

I must come from a different world. What is going on here?

Are you dynamically creating a named tuple (a record?) by passing a space separated list of field names? Why?
How is this remotely enforceable?
Salesforce already has its Chatter service. It UX is one of the weak parts of Salesforce, but the integration with the rest of SF is really not bad. I could totally see Slack simply replacing Chatter, using those integrations, and improving Salesforce. It also opens up the entire Slack ecosystem for upsell into SF products.

In other words, yes, I totally agree and think you are 100% correct.
Hong Kong Tram Green’ now a recognised colour
And clothing!

Watched an interesting "How It's Made" recently on silk production (okay, worms not spiders). Amazing 5,000yo "technology".
Just plugging in the car won't work for Non-Teslas, though, so that advantage is straight out the window.
"Entirely" is hyperbolic here. Building new numeric types with CL is certainly possible if you write your own versions of numeric functions like `plus` in lieu of the builtin `+`, and it's easy to make your new functions backward-compatible so `plus` will work on e.g. integers. This is not as easy as if the numeric functions were generic but it's still doable. By not being generic the builtin CL numeric functions run very fast on the most common number types; that was the tradeoff benefit of not designing them be generic.
If every programmer doesn't understand the nuance of any random section of code in their product they are bad...
possibly the lipids in cow's milk slow the ingestion of caffeine. depends on the oat milk you drink and how much fat it has in its ingredients.
I use Glacier For cold storage of family videos and photos. I have pre-paid for the next 10 years of expected usage. I just wanted to be sure that we would never lose that data, so I think advanced billing is great.
Assuming they don't already given the rise in popularity of drones.
On the supercharger network:

Just finished a road trip from Phoenix to Northern Minnesota and back. There are enough superchargers that you do have to plan your route around them...but that just means staying nearish the freeways (mostly). There seems to be a supercharger about every 150 miles even through the more remote parts of the midwest.
What was the value of the real-time pricing in Texas? (Beyond rewarding incompetence)
I've been mixin L-theanine to my office coffee for years. It might be pure placebo, but I feel like I can concentrate better with it.
It's a basic thing with getting on for $1bn in ARR. It's also a platform for hundreds of apps and integrations.
You're right that it's not always about time. Some people, like me, are just idea poor. Or, our brains are so overworked from the day we can't concentrate at 10pm at night enough to do anything coherent.
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And yet all those deductions are possible in France. You make it sound like they'd be impossible to claim with that system.
Visited a few years back. Got the impression that it was a bit of a tourist trap with little incentive to ever be completed (easier for them to get donations towards slowly working on it). Regretted going there.
The backlash was just stupid. They kept pumping out stories about how a poor family of four ended up with bills in the thousands, but never mentioned how that same family saved thousands over years with this contract...

It seems to me that a lot of what happened was politicized just so people can trash the republicans.
Biden Is Trying to Impose Online Censorship by Proxy
>my grandpa drives worst than FSD with human oversight

Your grandpa is one person. Retesting 100 million drivers to find the bottom 10% is not exactly very feasible. For a model of FSD, all vehicles on the road share the exact same level of performance. We are talking about scale here.

It is like comparing me selling some vegetables from my garden to a neighbor and a company selling 100 million units of vegetables across a country. It makes zero sense to say "they should both have the same level of safety standards", since a listeria outbreak sickening thousands is far worse than a tainted cucumber poisoning one neighbor.

Tens of thousands of cars using dangerously poor driving level software is worse than any one individual driver that may have dangerously poor skills.
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For the same reason as most others: "its included for free in our existing subscription. Is your other tool free?"
The lady at the Korean grocery store seemed suspicious when I bought the last tea set they had. (They hadn't sold one in years.)

I think of it as a "high performance" teapot because I can heat water in a kettle and use Sencha + Matcha to have delicious and relaxing green tea in about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. I wash out the metal filter and it's ready to go again.
If you are open to sharing, I'd be curious to hear what you have done since university.
To be fair Slack is terrible to use and it probably at it's peak anyhow. Why not exit and let someone else deal with the downhill portion of it's existence?
Sure. The parent claimed there wasn't time.

Btw have you considered something drastically different than your current code? Embedded comes to mind, it's half electrical engineering and lots of instant gratification.

But in general, nonfiction books could help you ace an interview. I wowd some people by merely talking taoist philosophy and how despite having diverse skills, there's something to be said about sticking to your role.
Searching for electric bus chargers shows several in use in Europe at 300-500kW.
No pricing at all on the main page = goodbye.
There's recent thought (as in: published today) that static electricity, triggered by the helicopter recovery process, was responsible for activating the hatch:

https://astronomy.com/news/2021/07/did-static-electricity-bl...
But look how cool they can travel to space now!
An opinion that I agree with, despite doing a lot of web development, but since Google basically wants to turn the Web into ChromeOS, with Microsoft's help, that is what it is.
I guess what GP meant is that you can rent only whenever you need it, as opposed to 500/month for _every_ month you own?
How does DX12 do feature discovery for things like ray tracing which are supported on only some hardware?
I think part of the problem is there are 2 different products Skype and "Skype for Business" the second one is basically a rebranded MS communicator.
If you have a company you can ship it to, you can still buy pure caffeine powder from bulk supplement retailers. (No one will sell to individuals anymore because of the safety risk.)

That makes it a lot easier to meter dosage for an experiment. You can also try to get consistent caffeine by using a consistent, fresh bean/roast, high quality burr grinder, and a brix meter to check extraction %.
IANC: That’s unfortunate, I think Catholic church officials and priest should be allowed to be gay, but I can understand the celibacy requirement, as antiquated as it may be.
A relevant resource is a recent video from Scott Manley https://youtu.be/dBHbLV7xEhc
No Cost Data Scraping with GitHub Actions and Neo4j Aura
I second both Orbital Index and Payload Research!
I was thinking more along the lines of a non-chain establishment like a restaurant, since that's the impression I got from the ancestor comment - they're referring to table service. A burger chain like Shakeshack has burgers in the range of $6-11, pre-tax.
Bezos can hire engineers to work for him. Amazon requires lots of engineers and that works fine.

Bezos’s big contributions will be leadership, creating efficient processes, etc. He’s good at those things. You don’t need to be able to build the product to run a company.
It would be a more interesting article if it delved into the question of whether his claim can be believed. For example, did they ever verify a fault with the mechanism such that the hatch could blow without pressing the plunger?
And this exists because all of these problems are NP-complete, so "guess-and-check" is basically the state-of-the-art right now. CP, ILP, and 3SAT all can be converted into each other, so if you can find a faster algorithm than guess-and-check, you'll probably improve the state of the art.
Yep. I'm against unethical behavior. Seems like HN generally agrees.

I'm also against medical cartels too.

I don't like Samsung or Nintendo for the same reasons I don't like Apple.

Any specific questions?
This is a good question, as historically different protocols used different ports to communicate, meaning you could have many services on the same domain/IP, but recently many new protocols run over HTTP port 443... And I think Matrix is one of them, so the answer is no, you cannot host both a website and a matrix server on the same domain name. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
Tesla's market cap is $658B. The COMBINED market cap of VW (Porsche parent), BMW, and Tata Motors (Land Rover parent) is roughly $233B. You are comparing Apples and Blue Whales.
"As you know from teaching introductory statistics, 30 is infinity." -Gelman
Your diary while on cannabis or mushrooms.
Simply the cost of it (25.000 euros debut price?) seems to defeat the purpose. The weight being closer by far to a small car than an electric bike doesn't help either. I suppose people who need specifically that much room in their vehicle and/or live somewhere very cold could see utility but given the maintenance issues you mention I'm not surprised it isn't a big seller.
At least until there's further standardization to allow it.

There's no reason current non-Tesla chargers couldn't support this, other than they haven't bothered to.
Given Epic's recent success via free-to-play software, I think there's room for optimism. Free or inexpensive software is a huge draw to the talent pool needed to make such software valuable long-term, and from what I've seen of Epic's business strategy I think they would appreciate that.
Hype-based valuation?
I actually seriously dream of starting some sort of company to build vehicles like this!

Other than the car designs themselves, my idea is to decentralize the ownership and selling to circumvent the laws about auto manufacturing. Like, "the sharing economy" but we're sharing being auto manufacturers in an independent, collective way. Each member will be able to sell so many "custom cars" as a private individual.

I want to see the USA with tiny little cars and empower people to be able to theoretically build/maintain their own, like a bicycle.

I'm extremely passionate about small vehicles and I think that they will be more popular in the future, when we are facing the more severe effects of climate change and fuel shortage.

I haven't even read the thread yet, and I've never brought this sort of thing up here before, but I'm slowly acquiring the knowledge and skills to make building one at least a personal reality some day.

Now, on to the thread!
I use BBEdit and love the editor (esp. love the new LSP support), but have hated the name and the icon for a long time. I have all these beautiful macOS icons, and then there's BBedit with it's weird acronym name and encyclopedia looking icon. Maybe it's time for a rebranding for the next generation!

But seriously, BBEdit IMO beats out VSCode for speed and stability by a mile if you're a macOS user. And you're supporting a much smaller company than Microsoft.
I’m imagining this with an Austrian dialect right now lmao
There's no "phoning home". What I think you're talking about is that Element Web's default config specifies the identity lookup server at vector.im: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/blob/develop/config.... The identity server is optional, and just used for looking up matrix IDs based on email address or phone number. When Element Web launches is currently checks if your config is valid (i.e. do these URLs actually point to valid servers?). If you're running your own deployment with your own server, then you'd point the config to whatever identity server you wanted, or just remove it entirely - just as you'd point the config to default to your own homeserver.

We have a separate bug to defer the server validation check until the user actually tries to talk to the identity (or home) server, but it hasn't got to the top of the todo list yet; patches welcome!

Edit: To clarify: this behaviour only occurs with Element Web (rather than Matrix clients or servers in general)
To get started, you'll want to make sure you have a fully-compliant wallet to keep your winnings in. Put all the money you have right now into your wallet and mail it to The Wallet Inspector for certification.
Only if money actually changed hands...
The Perl elite spent too many years futzing over whether to include a MOP (meta object protocol) in the stdlib and, if so, which one. Clunky Catalyst, with its weird subroutine signatures, was also no match for Rails, PHP and Django.
Not enough evidence or reasoning to make an interesting argument. "Doing something everyone else is doing only because everyone else is doing it is bad" is obvious already. This article leaves a lot to be desired..
Convox like many other great tools (Cast.ai, Garden.io, Shipa.io, Kubesail) are trying to solve this problem around Kubernetes. But K8S is not a solution to all devops problems. It's just a container orchestration engine with a strong ecosystem of instrumentation around it. In reality people also need databases, queues, functions, storage, domains and a bunch of other things that are very well solved by cloud-native managed services. The problem is the glue connecting all of them.

What we do in Digger is automating this glue. Kubernetes or not actually doesn't matter. Our default orchestration engine is ECS Fargate just because it's so worry-free. But you can totally switch to K8S. The value of Digger is automating DevOps - not automating K8S cluster management.
Thank you! Excel would be a lot less fun if it was like coding and you had to press “Run”, haha
> something as basic as CSP is also crippled without access to the server to set headers

Why would communicating sequential processes be crippled by this?
I've use TurboTax before, but this year I used freetaxusa.com and it worked really well. I actually did my taxes in both of them to verify the numbers were the same (in TurboTax, you only pay to submit your return and by exploring the UI you can find a preview of your full return before paying). The numbers matched, so I submitted via freetaxusa.com for $0.

I think the anti-TurboTax argument makes sense, but with a free alternative like freetaxusa.com the idea that the IRS should prepare on our behalf is slightly less compelling.
“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” the manual explains. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuates ‘objectivity.’“

I generally don’t feed trolls, but I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt.