skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it can be healty to maintain a strict "home is home" and "work is work" separation. Home is then a place of escape/relaxation/recharging where work does not interfere.

Some people can manage that separation with a home office. Others prefer a physically separate workplace.

For me, I didn't think I would like WFH. When forced over the last year, it was better than expected. Certainly not having a commute was nice, not having to "dress up" for work was nice, but both my productivity and the amount of direction on tasks/priorities fell off a cliff. Interruptions were about the same, but when they come from spouse/kids (especially spouse) they are harder to deflect.
> I don't want to stop for food, order, wait, eat, get in the car, drive to who knows where for a charger, and then start charging for 30 minutes.

That's not what you do... You stop at the charger and then go get food or take a break at the store that's right next to it.

Don't you also have to stop, eat, and then drive somewhere to get gas?.
Yeah, that needs to change.

It should probably have to be turned on explicitly, because a lot of people are still on spendy OTA plans, but it should be an option.
Interviews via Docs will have an even higher cheating rate than the phone calls, can't wait to hear stories about that, lol.
git commit --amend --author=[...]
The Malawian President flew to London to attend a virtual summit
> the objective of police is to secure convictions

I mean... that's the problem point it would seem
I wonder if a transformer with 1 recurrent layer (or a transformer Deep Equilibrium Model) could work well. Transformers are almost like a physics simulation in that they sum vector-valued interactions which depend on distance in some space, and then add the result to the state of each particle / element.
Sure, they do benefit everyone, but you missed the point I was making. The point is that they claim it is to level a playing field, but they're not actually doing that if those accommodations are open to everybody.

Your comparison also comes off a bit disingenuous. They're talking about interview accommodations like "providing questions in advance" and "extended interview time".
> The GPL does not require to release the source publicly, only to the same people you distribute binaries to.

You're emphasising the distinction between making GPL'ed source-code available to your customers specifically, and making it available publicly online. In practice there is little difference. Few companies bother hoping no customer will post the source publicly (which the customers are permitted to do under the GPL).

In practical terms the decision is between not releasing, or releasing to the public including the source-code. In a world where the Internet didn't make distribution of software trivially easy, things might be different.

Of course, there are some notable exceptions, the most prominent being nVidia's probably-non-compliant proprietary graphics driver. A fair bit has been written about that.

> Therefore the sharing back that does happen is down to culture not to the license.

No, Torvalds has it right.

Proprietary freeware kernel modules are forbidden outright, as you are not permitted to publicly release the binary without also releasing the source. As I described, 'contained' distribution of source-code isn't a practical option.

The decision of what to merge into the mainline kernel is of course up to the kernel developers. There's no other way it could be.
And even if they admit that the infrastructure exist, they vastly overestimate the amount of power needed to charge an EV at home.

People actually believe you need a 150kW+ charger at home, when reality is that if you have a socket that can handle an electric kettle, you can charge an EV from it.
They're only allowed the privileges a normal person like you and me would, which depends on the state and whether they have stand your ground laws in place, or duty to retreat. The guard would have to fear for his/her life, or great bodily injury.
"I've recently quit a job that required a 2 hour+ commute (4-5 hour total)."

The job did not require that. This individual chose to live in an exurb.
Hate to break it to you but "nobody is forcing you" is kinda the standard in the US from vaccines to social media to guns.

Everything is a choice here. There are plenty of countries out there which would have chosen to ban Citizen along with a whole long list of other even more idiotic things but this country is about freedom of choice even if that choice is bad for the greater community.
Stop making excuses for it.

It is a 10 year old language and this is a crippling day #1 newbie workflow and productivity issue.

Just say "yeah, that's a horrible experience and really needs to be top priority now that they've closed on a $24M funding deal"
One can dream about being able to calculate energies with the accuracy of DFT calculations... and do dynamic simulations on the time scale of ball-and-stick molecular modeling sims.

Would be amazing for homogeneous catalysis design.
`map[string]interface{}` screams disconnected from reality when building web software. What an awful experience.
Ha! That's hilarious. Yeah, I've seen some real horrorshows of programming in my field.

I think it's important to realize, though, that academics do have a special use-case when programming. That is, academics don't pick e.g. Python because they are bad programmers and don't know what they are doing, but because Python is a good fit for their needs. I see Julia as an excellent - near-perfect, in fact - academic programming language. That Julia excels at this use case does not mean it's bad at everything else.
Wow, millions?! Do they have any cost/benefit data for this system?
This is a great answer. I think my problem is explaining it to poor people, who see Elon musk and jack dorsey, pushing Bitcoin as “for the people” and they just think, oh it’s for those rich guys to hype their startup options into the stratosphere, not for us folks living in debt on the verge of homelessness. I want to help those people get in on it, so they aren’t left even further behind if that makes sense.
They supposedly have significant offshore methane hydrate deposits, which can be used to manufacture blue hydrogen.
Honest question: is there any evidence a woman sitting in a car is more likely to be attacked than a man sitting in a car?
Validating K8s deployments using Sparrow
How dinosaurs wiped out ARTWORK (Photoshop)
> I think that you’re assuming that the hybrid in mind has plug in, otherwise you’re not really making the case for using gas to inevitably charge the battery (regenerative braking still requires having had some speed generated by gas).

This logic is plain silly. You're not simultaneously on the gas and the brakes at the same time. The weight of the batteries and electric motors pales in comparison to the whole vehicle.
Given all the news that's been happening -- if you "invest" in crypto these days, you aren't "getting played" - you're playing yourself.
Beautifully expressed post, I just wanted to let you know I appreciate your writing style and what you've written resonates deeply with my experience as well.
I've thought on this before. I think it's a really cool idea, and maybe a great place to use something like PGP.

Some other usecases:

- prevents hero worship in software (eg: I'm an x-Googler, believe me)

- might put a dent in bigotry based identity issues
Simon is not an unknown on HN.
No clue if they've got CarPlay or Android Auto in the current generation of Tacomas, but I just recently bought a 2016 Taco and I am absolutely loving how smooth the stereo works with my phone. Sure, there's no screen mirroring or whatever those things do, but it just does the right thing all the time with respect to music, texts/iMessage, and phone calls. When I've taken calls on the road, people have been surprised that I was talking on speaker in the truck because they couldn't tell the difference.
In Finland the largest charger networks are owned by the two largest ... grocery chains.

Their locations are already next to traffic hubs, stores already have a beefy electrical hook up and a car full of people stopping for 15-45 minutes to charge is excellent for business.
Might just be the REPL-centric workflow and lack of docs again and the general experience of "WTF does `activate .` even do?"
This is an old article, but it came to mind when I saw this. A software testing company discovered that high-functioning people with autism make good testers.

https://blogthinkbig.com/autistic-people-software-testers
`git replace` does it without rebasing, which is cleaner and likely to be left unnoticed by peers.
“let them eat cake“
That's kind of a tone-deaf thing to say, _especially_ given the recent allegations surrounding Activison-Blizzard (https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019293032/activision-blizzar...).

It absolutely applies and is important.
> purely for ideological reasons

There are no ideological reasons.

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/dd64f86e0874804d0ec5b713...
"Generics may well come at some point."

https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
"A language proposal implementing a form of generic types has been accepted for inclusion in the language. If all goes well it will be available in the Go 1.18 release."

One of the language designers explaining the motivation for adding parametric polymorphism to Go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvL2ONhFBI&t=1064s

Explaining the benefits of generics:
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/jditu9/what_do_gene...

From the Featherweight Go paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11710.pdf
"Recently, the Go team mooted a design to extend Go with generics, and Rob Pike wrote Wadler to ask: Would you be interested in helping us get polymorphism right (and/or figuring out what “right” means) for some future version of Go?"
I notice you are not listing any of these much easier to accomplish objectives. To be honest, I'm not very interested in your theory of public bargaining. Could you specify a few of the big ideas that you think will make a bigger difference over the next decade?
Subsidizing hybrids and PHEVs in addition to EVs absolutely makes sense and would make a bigger impact in short term emission reductions.

Other companies aren’t lobbying for this because they sell very few hybrids (and often don’t even have a decent viable hybrid platform) & are betting big on EVs and want to recoup some of that investment as quickly as possible. And without a big tax credit attached to it, nobody wants to buy their EVs at the prices they can sell them at.

A lot of manufacturers chose to improve their fleet fuel efficiency ratings by just making engines smaller and adding GDI, turbocharging, and more complex transmissions instead of investing more seriously in hybrid technology. So they don’t even make vehicles at an affordable price point that can get anywhere near the efficiency of what a hybrid can get.

Toyota isn’t really the bad guy here and in terms of improving the fuel economy of their entire lineup they’ve done quite well.
that's what the emoji's are for.
Most compiled languages allow for incremental build. I can understand that a clean compile needs 15 minutes or whatever. But why does it take long when you compile a small change? (or maybe this has been fixed?)
Portable assets is one. You can buy and NFT on one market, use it within a game, display it in your virtual home, then sell it on a different market.

Blockchain allows individuals to actually own digital assets. (Whether those digital assets are valued correctly is a totally separate discussion - personally I think there are many that are grossly overvalued...)

World of warcraft items, amazon video or ebook purchases, etc. - you don't actually own those things: you are locked in and subject to the whims of the platform. If the platform wants to kill your account or remove your items, they can.
As a developer, your job is to develop the software. Yes, you should be testing the code you write as much as reasonably possible. But since you wrote the code and have been working with the code very intimately, it's so easy to develop blind spots that might be obvious to a someone else but you just don't see because you hadn't considered it.

That is why it's so valuable to have dedicated QA testers.
Considering the LandCruiser is pretty much a box with maximal air resistance, it might actually get more aerodynamic by adding the trailer to it :p. So the difference while trailing would be much smaller than adding a trailer to an aerodynamic car. Energy consumption when trailing with constant speed is mostly about aerodynamics.
Are there other countries where a person might be responsible for their own bills? I think there are, right? This may be a bit of a silly question, but how do the systems in those countries collect from individuals who will not otherwise pay?
Any competent freelance journalist will tell you they pay for liability insurance and the annual premium is at least $1000/year.

Said journalists are generally educated and have some training, especially around ethics. At least they're supposed to. This keeps them from shoving a camera in everyone's face while a crime is unfolding.

Citizen is taking contributions from whoever the fuck...
Hint: if you hot-desk but never saw a full fare business class ticket paid by your employer, it's time to switch job; you are at a cost center.
Ask HN: Any electrical or mechanical engineers in LA?
Hello HN,

My team is waiting to get into the Startup School founder match, so in the meantime we thought we'd post here.

We currently run a bootstrapped business that generates $2m per year and we want to launch our first hardware venture. I'm curious if there are any electrical or mechanical engineers in the Los Angeles area?

The product is a life-sized 3d-printer like device that will be used in the health and beauty space. We are looking to put together the team, finance the MVP while raising angel funds.

Please comment if you're interested or email me (address in my profile) Thank you!
Even an IM (International Master) is blown away by the waya GM (Grandmaster) thinks/analyzes. Levy does a video with Hikaru and he looks like an amateur in comparison.
Because people learn from and refer to the documentation. Examples therein should be presented in a manner that demonstrates safe execution.
I'm going to use this as an example of why commit signing is really awesome for git repos.
So it's actually a speculative instrument then?
Yep with the worst offenders being in countries that don't care, not a lot that can be done unless you feel it's worth going to war over (I don't think it is).
I only rarely ever use `interface{}` anywhere in Go code. The idiomatic thing to do with JSON messages you're going to hold onto in Go web code is to type them, just as you would in Rust with serde.
Well, for one thing it's hiring people who may not be the stereotypical "cultural fit". I've always been a massive proponent of hiring based on "cultural fit", but have recently started to realize it can get really toxic that way.

Hiring people who are good at their jobs, but may be different in a social setting can be a way of indirectly hiring people on the spectrum. If you have many extroverted employees, hiring more introverted people will inevitably lead to hiring people on the spectrum.

How do you judge this? Well, personality tests are pretty common already, they can absolutely show traits that are more common in people with autism. Also, an interview can tell you a lot about a person.
Well think-tanks are basically political lobbying groups that try to justify ideology.
> by that argument we should just completely cut off all California farmers since they seem to make less money per water used when compared to California cities

Well, no, because I was positing a better metric for competing agricultural uses, not the one-true-metric for all uses and, also, because even if it was the one true metric for all uses, unless water was the limiting factor for urban economic production, while it kight imply all cuts needed fron current consumption should cone from ag, it wouldn't imply additional cuts to ag to increase urban alotment. And, while the reverse allocation of cuts would cut all urban use in a foreseeable shortfall (because its such a small share to start with) any shortfall that would require ebough cuts to equal all agricultural use would be a a cataclysmic disaster no matte how the cuts were apportioned (and most would cone from agriculture because, even after you stopped giving any to people—whom you need for agriculture, anyway—you’d barely have dented the necessary total cuts.
I was expecting this to be like `git blame`, but to automatically check previous revisions for any lines touched by the current user. That would be a fun toy :-)
> I've said this so many times: But what does it doooooo???

It does exactly what it set out to do in the first sentence of the original white paper.

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."[0]

[0] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
NSIS installers used to get flagged as malware occasionally, too. Was very frustrating for distributing software.
Even better, what presidency got to tell Social Media what was disinformation and not?
Hastening Linux process cleanup with process_mrelease
If you have youtubetv, you can watch and record everything with the push of a button.
regenerative braking doesn't care what mechanism you used to get to a speed. If I want to charge the battery, I can press a button and the gas engine comes on and charges the battery directly. Regen is just to reduce loss due to wasted kintec energy.
I think part of it is also that some people create a dependence on forced social interaction to address their own loneliness, instead of developing healthy friendships outside the workplace.
Quite simply, escrow. Programming complex escrow, that holds and releases funds when appropriate conditions are met. People have bundled many escrow statements together to create entire banks. People can pool different currencies together to create liquidity pools and exchanges between currencies.

It's not all that different from (transfer)wise except a bit less owned by one central firm.

It can be "pay this vendor when this thing ships" or "pay out this pot when this event or game score happens." Any measurable metric online can turn into the IF of an if then statement.
> We're not there yet, but leave it to an open market to extract something of value as efficiently as possible from an effectively free resource.

Recycling can never be free or even close. There's a lot of processing that goes from dismantling a battery, to segregating the lithium, to putting it back in a new battery. Recycle is last of the 3 Rs for a reason.
Some games have been patched to resolve the issue; however, that's something the developer needs to do (and QA), so it won't happen on every game. Compare it to what Microsoft does (developers get that functionality by default), and it's frustrating as a user.

Along the same lines, Sony also has issued different title IDs for bundles vs. the base game. Horizon: Zero Dawn[0] is one such example; I had the disc version, beat that game, and then wanted to play the expansion when it was made available free-of-charge last year. However, the free version was a different title ID (CUSA10237) than the disc version (CUSA07326), and neither was updated to pull the save file from the other version, so I was stuck restarting the game from scratch instead, losing about 60h worth of progress.

This isn't a hardware issue, it's entirely in that Sony hasn't made the proper investments in their backend or system software to make these transitions seamless.
Or San Francisco.
Recently I was give then opportunity to relocate from the cube farm into an adjacent office, but I declined because I like being in the middle of my team and able to just talk over the walls and communicate with everyone easily. This is despite us already all being in a skype room together, sometimes verbal communication is easier or faster.

Also the HVAC setup here is just wrong, my cube is decently comfortable while the office I was offered is either an ice box or blisteringly hot.
One cause I don’t see listed in these discussions but I’d be willing to bet is extremely common - the company signed long (10+ year) leases on commercial real estate and nobody wants to take those leases over, so they expect people to come back to justify their sunk cost.
It is believable. Towing is more about wind resistance than about mass. A car on a trailer is probably sitting mostly in the slipstream of the LC (they are not very aerodynamically shaped) and so not contributing much to the total wind load. Also engines to a point become more efficient under load. All told, there probably isn't a noticeable difference.

Of course we are talking about towing a light sports car here. Tow a different type off trailer, or a very heavy load and the losses will start to catch up.
You are on YC's forum!

I suggest you learn how the price of a product or service changes based on regulation, cost of employees, the amount of money a business owes in loans, basic stuff!

More overhead adds to the cost.

A smart contract infrastructure will not have zero overhead, but it will be close to it. Much less than a centralized service provider.

There is no "middlemen" but more just one "middleman" which is the smart contract which each will have a different protocol and how they handle fees.

Some will use it to pay for API calls, others will use it to do some automated token buy-backs. Depends on the contract.
And the beauty is, the contracts are all publicly available so you can read it before requesting to the service.
One weird trick to make readers blindly click through your cookie consent popover: put it in a different language than the page content!

https://i.imgur.com/lMz297U.png
Tether has a $60bn market cap. That's a drop in the ocean for the international markets.
AFAIK many if not most trains (in Europe at least) are diesel-electric.

The drive train is electric, they're just running a diesel generator to power them.
That is a bad position for Toyota to be in then; this aggressive shift in consumer preference to SUVs and crossovers has been incredibly stupid and bad for just about everything. The way this stuff is regulated and taxed probably doesn’t encourage people to buy smaller vehicles as much as it should.
Correct. The issue is that Apple takes security systems designed as a defense against local attackers and uses them as a bulwark against their own customers.

Come to think of it, maybe that could be the basis of a right-to-repair law: companies which sell hardware products that restrict functionality or access to those who know some secret value must divulge those secrets to the device owner upon request at the time of purchase.

The only issue I can think of with a law like that is that it'd make DRM significantly less effective, though IMO that's not necessarily a bad thing.
> Chakwera justified his trip to the UK to attend The Global Education Summit, arguing that the internet in his country was unreliable.

Good try, but no.
I think all of this stuff is still valid, given the context, and I say that as someone who has been working 100% remote years before COVID.

Jobs are more than just a collection of people working independently. You really need buy-in at all levels of the organization to enable remote work to work optimally. Partially-remote or half-baked remote policies (or rushed, during COVID) often leads to organizational and cultural problems, unrelated to the individual work performance of individuals.

I think if you ask anyone who already worked at a 100% remote organization before COVID, they'll tell you: being already 100% remote was a competitive advantage during COVID.
The same way America handles it when eventually enough people don't pay. They bail the companies out with a ton of tax payer money so the companies can continue their practices.