skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's truth in it, but he omits the context for why these changes happened.

In 1990, real software companies could get away with shipping something major less than annually. Companies paced development to events like the annual Comdex. No company was expected to ship production software weekly, let alone daily. Competitive threats arose more slowly because there was less capital. The US software industry could be reasonably sure a Chinese firm wasn't going to suddenly arrive and become a material strategic concern in a few quarters. Seriously, read books describing 1990s era software dev and see how slowly things are paced before the Internet really hit. Look at the time scales involved. Even the rise of mighty Microsoft, considered the poster child of rapid high-tech growth circa 1992, pales in comparison to the Internet giants.

The world sped up. I hate the meeting culture we have now, but it's important to understand that it is a response to the pace of change rapidly increasing over the last 24 hours.

The other thing that really happened is the consumerization of software. In 1990, a much smaller slice of people used any computer in a given day. Frequently, those people could be expected to have undergone specific training for your product. Today, the number approaches 100% of adults globally. This means a higher level of fit, finish, and robustness are required now versus in 1990. Expectations are far higher.

Third, and I can't believe this needs to be said, but Microsoft was known for especially buggy software during the glory days highlighted in the article. Their OS releases were frequently late. They had to abort/restart the Vista project. Aside from the aesthetic factors of crashy software, it is somewhat obviously bad to have a multi-billion dollar company be unable to predict when (if?) its flagship products will ship, and in what form. Obviously, something had to change.

There's a lot to learn from the old days, but if one doesn't understand why things changed, one is likely to take the wrong lessons from history.
Oh, gee, another excessively dramatic article about crypto/Tether (see “… a potential criminal case that would have broad implications for the cryptocurrency market.”)

My gut tells me that the Tether team did break some laws when trying to find a bank to hold their hundreds of millions/billions of dollars, but I don’t think Tether is a scam, since I think they do have the cash reserves to back the stable coin.

Their problem was too much success: they literally had too much money and banks didn’t want to touch it, so Tether was forced to become “creative” because you can’t exactly store hundreds of millions of dollars under mattresses. I don’t see how Bitfinex/Tether making money hand over fist from collecting usurious trading fees will bring down crypto markets. Just because some bank executive is found guilty of breaking banking laws doesn’t mean it will have broad implications for the entire banking system.
Feeling bad is not that unusual of a feeling here; achieving great things when you're young requires a combination of hard work, privilege, and supportive adults (parents/teachers/etc) and most people just didn't (or don't) have the same opportunities.

It's important to develop constructive (or at least non-destructive) habits to handle these feelings. I'd suggest "A Guide to the Good Life" by William Braxton Irvine as a resource. The right therapist can also help you "unpack" these feelings (although the different styles can be hit-or-miss for you, so shop around when you're on a "good" day).

I think that it's okay to set a personal goal for yourself that's different; the most you can ask of yourself is to try to contribute to society as best you can, whether that's "I'm working on the farm making food" or "I work at a big tech company and donate $5 to the campaign" or "I mentor startup founders".
I see what you did here :D
Thinking about the engineering, they squandered a tremendous lead. Look what they had on the road, mass produced in 1997: the electric propulsion, control, storage, and regen. If you squint, they solved the hard problems engineering problems already; just take away the gas part to make a full plugin EV.

This smells more like a business problem. Maybe they can't scale the battery deals they need, big enough and fast enough.
>Motherboard recently obtained data demonstrating the stark racial disparity in how Chicago has deployed ShotSpotter. The sensors have been placed almost exclusively in predominantly Black and brown communities, while the white enclaves in the north and northwest of the city have no sensors at all, despite Chicago police data that shows gun crime is spread throughout the city.

But I thought there was nothing racially-biased about American policing.
I don't think this is universally true, no. Historically there have been large migrations of developers from traditional statically typed languages towards Ruby/Python/JS/Groovy/Clojure. In fact, Clojure was designed by and is used by well experienced developers fed up with the added complexity of type systems.
Also sudden price increases after not delivering the order on time. It was posted on hn before.
No, but it is certainly funny seeing this on the front page of HN after laughing on and off over a period of literal years about the L. Ron 'Tomatometer'...
I get some praise for my FOSS work. Nobody mentions my gender or age ever, though. :) It would feel kinda weird I guess.

I mostly don't care about the praise, because it's not the motivating factor. I usually interpret it non-presonally as the other person being excited about similar things I am. (probably a projection, but whatever)

Also in > 80% of cases the communication goes 1) praise 2) I need this. :) So, being praised is associated with someone wanting something from me, by now.

The best praise is the one that comes with a donation. :)
I would second this actually. Go deep in one region first.
There are a number of problems with EVs that ICEs handle much better.

Trucking and logistics is very time dependent, so stopping to recharge imposes severe logistical constraints. You can't have every truck stay at the same pit stop. There isn't enough space or time.

Large apartment complexes are plentiful. A 1,000-resident building complex full of EVs will draw a lot of power. Can the grid handle it? What happens when the power goes out?

How will residents of states that snow over in the winter will fare? Do they have to stop using their vehicles?

Long trips by car suddenly become more painful, which will likely shift more traffic to air travel.

------ Edit -----

I have a "bad contributor" flag on my account [1]. I had a response to this comment [2] that I wanted to make but can't. I'll include it here for lack of an ability to post on HN:

I just looked at my coke zero can (bad habit), and it's using potassium citrate as an acid buffer.

Inflammation is a tax on the immune system and puts it in a state that is mainly intended for dealing with pathogen and cancer clearance. Over time, endothelial and genetic damage can accrue, resulting in hastened aging and system dysfunction. Increased cell population recruitment from the thymus also diminishes the organ's size in age, reducing immune system capacity to deal with these threats.

Not news I wanted today, but something I needed to hear.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27959642

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27963171
2018 super g was an amazing contest, I was able to download it after the fact, very enjoyable, from what I read it wasn't very good live.
You're right that challenging legislature can improve it, but it would be naive to assume that Toyota has the goal of improving it for anyone/anything other than their bottom line. They are solely driven by their profit motive, and so it is safe to assume they are never participating in the legislative process in good faith, i.e. for the betterment of the public and the world. Instead they are only participating in the legislative process with the expectation that they can gain additional power and profit.

Once we take that into consideration, it's hard to see their pushback against electric vehicles in a good light.
I have been hearing this since 2014. What is the holdup? Why is Toyota not going to sell 1M electric cars in 2022 if they have such a great company?
Not for heating, most people heat their homes by burning natural gas or oil. Obviously an AC unit is heat pump but most aren't bidirectional.
My wife and I recently purchased a new car. We have strongly been considering an EV, but went with a hybrid because even though EVs were well within our price range, we couldn't depend on one. The infrastructure just isn't there, nor is the range. Maybe when we replace our other car it will make sense as that one is driven much shorter distances and we'd have the other one for longer distances (both are hybrids). This isn't even getting into issues with having to upgrade our electrical box and wiring to handle car charging in our garage.

I would never buy a Tesla because I see better options in the EV space, but I do give them a lot of credit and thanks for introducing competition in the area and turning EVs into a product to covet. To me that's always been the best way to handle these sorts of things, to introduce competition and win people over. Lightbulbs were the same way -- the arguments died when quality affordable LEDs came on the market and took away any argument for anything else. When there's big range, reliable and affordable EVs with quick ubiquitous charging, people will flock to EVs.

Sometimes I feel like these discussions are in a bubble, to be honest. When I think of the people I know, and what's in the parking lot, getting them to migrate to a hybrid is really where there would be any movement. Maybe someday they'll just jump to an EV and skip hybrids but at the moment there's lots of people who won't even consider anything but a full combustion system.

I also don't really fault Toyota for pursuing hydrogen and would really like to see that continue at least as a research focus. It is much more energy dense and solves a lot of problems. I realize it's not as fully there yet as EVs, but EVs aren't either if anyone is being completely honest. The article casts Toyota in a nefarious light, but in some ways I feel like if the government is going to get involved and start playing favorites, they should do so in a competitive and diversified way. Otherwise maybe they should get out of the way and just incentivize competition per se. In fact, if the EV market is so healthy, maybe the government should be subsidizing alternatives like hydrogen?
The idea is attractive because it's quite obvious how well ShotSpotter would work in a cleanroom environment. The part that's less intuitive is how far the standard deployment environment is from that standard and what margin the product has to accommodate.
That‘s different from the US how exactly?

$800k/year in San Francisco as a single is $436k/year net. In Germany that’s $431k/year net.

You should argue with lower (more realistic) salaries. Social insurance (including health insurance, pension) is capped, meaning if you earn above a certain level you won’t have to pay any more. This means that those aspects play a diminutive role (about $15k) at your named salary level.
Imagine DEC and IBM going to congress to try to pass laws against these "Micro-Computers" that are popping up on desks.

Or BlackBerry back when it was still relevant trying to legislate that touch screen can't be bigger than X on phones...
The issue is that this just can't be done. The structure of suburbs is actively hostile to public transport of any kind and to everything that's not a car. If this wasn't the case, we could just plop down a high-speed rail station directly into the middle of the town and then everyone could bike or take the bus there.

Try it, take your bike and do a 10km-straight-line-distance trip in an average north American suburb. It's either going to take a horrifying amount of time or be legitimately dangerous.

It's not true that we need low density housing. We need a mix of high density and medium density housing. I grew up in medium density housing in a family of 6, literally the only issue is that cars make it unsafe for kids to walk to school and parks alone.

I wish that it was possible to just convert suburban neighborhoods into nice small urban communities. They're just not designed for that. For those that can be converted, a train station going 150km/h straight into the city is a perfectly serviceable solution. But the basics is that what you're describing is just making suburbs into cities, and for the suburbs we're talking about that's almost impossible.

But beyond that I really don't understand the obsession for very low density housing. A duplex is a perfectly fine place to raise a large family.
Big-endian ARM basically does not exist in the wild. It is very much an edge case of an edge case, and definitely not something that should be a blocker for a 1.0 release.
Others have commented on stacktraces, so I wanted to mention that the debugging experience in VS Code (the replacement for Atom-based Juno) is much improved as of the past couple of months. Worth a revisit if you're using it already.

Regarding stdlib support, I feel like it's a toss-up. For numeric and data processing code, Julia has a much richer stdlib whereas I need at least Numpy in Python (and even then, working with anything not array-shaped is a pain). For more systems-y stuff though, Python has a much fuller stdlib (e.g. reading/writing a bunch of archive formats). The end result for me is that scripting with Julia feels high friction, and doing anything which requires any kind of throughput with Python feels like pulling teeth.
LOL!! That's hilarious!

Upvoted!
I plan to train an NLP bot from Hacker News 1-based indexing discussions to automatically generate the mandatory thread on it so that nobody ever has to participate in it again. It's so unoriginal that it's a better fit for ML automation than a human brain.
Have to admit, it was a few years ago now I was there. I was just mostly comparing it to the situation in Vancouver. A friend of mine lived there for a while before moving back to Edmonton. He described it a lot like what you say. Overpriced, not many jobs. He ended up couch surfing for a bit after he couldn't afford his apartment any more before he ended up leaving.

>Nice weather means that the rest of frozen canada sends their local problem drunks on greyhounds to live

Sounds like what's happened in the town I live in over the last 2 years or so. The problem's gotten bad. Though it's not so much drunks but fentynyl and meth addicts.
> The whales can redeem

Show me the burns.
30% efficiency is where combustion engines maxed out. No doubt the legacy manufacturers got every inch out of them but it's still not the best technology
I don't see any connection to this twitter user from the article at all.
On one hand, it seems that Shotspotter lacks the accuracy to be used in court. On the other hand, it seems like a valuable probabilistic tool to help police perform detective work and collect real admissible evidence. The problem seems to confusing the two.

You can use an Ouija board to help find video evidence, but the video evidence still needs to show something incriminating.
Aside from the various technical reasons others have given, I would like to say please have a look at the underlying design of SHA-3 - it’s really elegant, with so many applications beyond just hash functions. Ironically, I feel like SHA-3 should obsolete block ciphers like AES more than it obsoletes SHA-2.

https://keccak.team/sponge_duplex.html
Ah, I wasn't thinking about any of that stuff. I was thinking of whether small economies could exist without economic coercion backed by violence, where this thread started. The Yanamamo were mentioned as a group that doesn't do that, the men and women carry about their work without the need for coercion. You replied that there's violence against low-status members in Aborigines communities, and wondered if the Yanamamo really were non-violent.

I don't know that it's relevant that the Aborigines are violent. Nor, I admit in hindsight, was my reply about modern people also being violent. I intuited that your comment was irrelevant, but didn't do a good job of putting that into words.

The question was whether the proverbial dishes could get done without violence, and if the Yanamamo do it then the answer is "yes", it is possible, regardless of whatever Aborigines or modern people do. I don't think that white guilt over the treatment of Aborigines is relevant to that question, either.

I'm a bit familiar with the Yanamamo. I had a class that focused on them specifically. I know that they have graduations of violence, mostly to do with mating, which can boil over between villages, but I don't remember there being any economic coercion, men and women do their different jobs without any punishment/violence that I can recall.

(A discussion like this could morph into the idea of "women's work", asking why do the Yanamamo men hunt and the women work. But societies using money have the same concept of women's work, so that would be a separate conversation form money vs no-money societies.)

Until someone shows me different, I think the the Yanamamo comment is right, based on my knowledge of them they don't use economic coercion that I know of to proverbially get the dishes washed.
Pretty sure Tesla is/has moved away from those and they were simply a holdover from the solarcity days. I don't see it as an option anymore on the Tesla Solar site.
Or for example me.

cargo-edit looks useful. None of the tutorials I've skimmed have mentioned it.
Just tried it since youtube-dl is updated every so often, and yeah that's quite unfortunate. After the latest brew upgrade:

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id6AqKIxd94"
[youtube] id6AqKIxd94: Downloading webpage
[youtube] id6AqKIxd94: Downloading embed webpage
[youtube] id6AqKIxd94: Refetching age-gated info webpage
ERROR: This video may be inappropriate for some users.
It's hard to overstate how influential Toyota has been, historically, on legislatures and legislation. Trade agreements, for the past 40-ish years, have been the keystone piece of both trade and industrial policy.

These agreements are designed around the auto industry, and its JIT, and global supply chain it necessitates. Auto manufacturing is basically the model industry. The auto industry of 90s onward, was basically modeled on Toyota and The Toyota Way. The classification of subindustries, the structure of tariffs... Most of it is directly or indirectly a product of decisions made at Toyota. For better or worse, they invented modern global manufacturing.

It's sad to see them where they seem to be today.
Nope. It isn't. I predate the author by a decade+ (first job in 1996), and he's bloviating.

Ask me about the time we had an informal meeting to decide on the premeeting strategy where we'd define the strategy for the actual meeting which would then result in a presentation to management so a decision could be made :)

It's always been a question of the culture you're in, and what they're trying to do. It still is. More collaborators => more meetings. Less ability to tolerate bugs => more formal development processes.

There's only a limited set of things where you can bang away in your dev cave for a few months and emerge with something people actually want. (It's absolutely more fun than the more formal/meeting-heavy approaches, but you're limited in scope and quality)

(With the caveat that open offices are and always have been an extremely stupid idea, and those were indeed less common)
This is doable in Julia too. DifferentialEquations.jl has python and R bindings. I expect more to follow as Julia starts getting more best in class packages.
First they were continuing to donate money to congress members who wouldn't certify the presidential election until The Lincoln Project called them out and now this. I'm actually looking at purchasing a car. I'll keep Toyota off the my list.
Only 63.3% of global electricity came from fossil fuels. That means 36.7% are from ultra low CO2 sources.
You don't need to be snarky.

My point isn't the vehicles themselves, it's the energy required to power those vehicles.
Yesterday while watching some random replay it was pausing the stream every 4 minutes to show 1 minute of commercials. (nbc olympics roku app).
Why the Wines of the Future Will Be Made from Hybrid Grapes
I m not convinced that simple triangulation works in a city environment. Sound reflected off of buildings can mess things up good. I can think of several ways in which a later reflection can be louder than the initial sound.
What's your take on Axie Infinity?
I don't care how much of a Windows fanatic I was I'd never even try to use the GUI of the client version to configure the a box as a Docker server remotely. I don't know what to expect from that other than frustration. I'd definitely use Linux myself but if someone asked me to use Windows I'd still just enable the OpenSSH service instead of RDP and use the Server version if possible and if not at least set up the auto update schedule to the early morning like I would on the Linux box.
Linux Live CD for Network Simulation/Training
> Elon's early responses to this remain true (grid already exists, people can charge at home, easier to build EV infrastructure, etc.)

And Battery tech is "good enough" for most (99%) trips.
Ask HN: How do/did social apps get their first users?
Does anyone have any first hand stories of how they got users for their social apps?
Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young Resisters
10x development speed with local serverless debugging
I downloaded the gold metal match from youtube because seemed like an interesting story, the video was very incomplete. It would have been cool to see the entire match.
Agreed. TransferWise is another good example of this approach.
This is also quite dependent on which part of Japan we're discussing.

As an example, while my daughter's record of birth in Tokyo is a printout of a digital record, my son's record of birth in Kyoto is hand-written, and other than the handwriting, looks identical to my wife's from the 1970s.
I don't think so. Fuel cells do have many advantages. If there are geopolitical reasons for not pursuing full EVs, it could have something to do with natural resources needed for battery production. I got the impression they just made a bet on fuel cells since it is theoretically cleaner/more sustainable than powering everything with lithium ion batteries.
You can't transmit what you don't have.

Also, fwiw "transmission" is literally the name of torrenting software. Would your argument change if that was the package being removed instead of qbittorrent?

Most people use windows, windows comes with defender on by default, what's stopping the govt/some company from getting msft to remove programs and files they don't like?
Japan also doesn't report its work hours fully. The notorious 12 hour work days in Japan are not commonly reported as such. American workers by contrast are (properly) penny counters when it comes to overtime, shift differential, et al. Every hour they work over is going to get counted and credited. The US has stricter labor laws at this point than Japan does.
Computer Modern is largely a copy of Monotype Modern, which dates from 1896. Monotype Modern was, I assure you, not designed by a mathematician nor was designed for use in printing math books. However many math books had lately been printed using typefaces similar to Modern, and Knuth liked how it looked.
Clickbait. Cloudfront is not a 'premium CDN', its performance is notoriously mediocre.

I'm pretty sure Cloudfront only compresses text, so no idea why they are comparing compressed images.

Riddled with factual errors. This is not a good article.
Probably worth noting that while you can technically make the Jetpack CDN work like a normal CDN, the TOS has a very specific requirement. It requires the end site to be a wordpress site with the Jetpack software, or a wordpress.com hosted site.