skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Japanese have a philosophy whereby they will rebuild a shrine every 20 years. The knowledge of what is necessary remains current, and understood. And the shrine continues in its purpose.

Perhaps we should consider how we can regularly rewrite different parts of our software ecosystems using new languages and approaches while preserving the essential knowledge and security aspects of what we have already built?

The important part isn't the language that the code is written in, it is the full understanding of the problem and thus the solution provided.
In the context of the last trend of nlp a word is defined by its context, if a word is mostly used as a derogatory term in the corpus that the model has been trained it will most likely be used as a flag to classify the content as hatespeech
>Maybe I should be insulted that the author thinks being identified as someone wanting the lowest price is insulting.
They give completely valid reasons and they're not necessarily angry specifically about a lower price being offered, but that Edge does not know which metrics by which they judge a store.

Ie Say I'm trying to buy specifically from an LGBT friendly site, oop but it's cheaper over at this other place that also sponsors several anti-LGBT politicos, so the suggestion is useless because price isn't everything, it just is most of the time.
Lightning EMotors ($ZEV) and Berkshire Hathaway's Forest River
When it comes to the EV boom in the near future or maybe now, there is an Infrastructure Bill to support/Boost it. Shares of Lightning eMotors (NYSE:ZEV) soared on Tuesday after the provider of specialty commercial electric vehicles announced a partnership with Berkshire Hathaway's Forest River. The agreement between both parties may surpass $850 million dollars in investment to achieve the target to deploy up to 7,500 zero-emission shuttle buses.

Lightning eMotors will build fully electric powertrains and provide charging products and services to Forest River for the next four and a half years. Forest River sells more than 10,000 vehicles annually. Its large-scale production levels will allow Lightning eMotors to offer best-in-class prices to its network of over 100 dealers.

"This has the potential to be the largest contract ever in the electric shuttle bus market, and we believe it will be the catalyst for other large commercial vehicle OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] and fleets to accelerate their adoption of commercial electric vehicles," Lightning eMotors CEO Tim Reeser said.

Lightning eMotors and Forest River will collectively try to meet the Economic, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals and as well save the costs of fossil fuels.
I've implemented this (using GPS PPS to discipline a clock) using regular old PI control loops. I just make the loop damped enough to filter out the GPS PPS jitter and you're good.
Fully agree here, these special exceptions for big corp are just terrible. It has such a terrible bribery / corruption feel to it.
A regular bank is the same. If everyone withdraws, not everyone gets paid. FDIC offers partial protection, though.
I'm spending some time in Canada and I'm thinking Canada followed along the same lines...
HNers are often skeptical of all new unproven technology, but have a begrudging acceptance of established and proven technology. The thing with cryptocurrency is that it has now been around for over a decade, and not delivered on any of its ever evolving promises in that time. As a result, most knowledgeable and impartial observers would say it has fundamental flaws that it will prevent it from ever being able to do so.

Speaking personally, I know I was really interested in some of the Bitcoin technology in the early days, and super excited about the idea of a "world computer" that could never be shut down with Ethereum. But the more I dug into the technology, the more I realised the gap between what was promised and what was possible was pretty much insurmountable. However, the more time I spent in tech meetups etc. and understood the human nature angle to it, the more I realised that the gap wasn't actually important - most cryptocurrency people weren't particularly interested in delivering a genuine functioning new financial system (albeit one lacking the basic consumer protections of the existing financial system) they were just interested in convincing enough people that it was possible for long enough to get rich quickly.
> Most people who hold cryptocurrencies including stable coins representing various currencies also keep US dollars as well as bonds and traditional financial instruments.

Source for that claim? Because it sounds like you just pulled it out of thin air.

Most every “common” person I know with any Bitcoin is using it as a get rich quick scheme and very much do not have other financial investments to offset potential losses. I’ve begged one buddy to hedge his bets because I expect like others here he’s going to lose his ass at some point.
In a previous apartment I had Jerry-rigged a whole-house/attic fan by putting a box fan in the space where the hatch to the attic was. I used triple-wall cardboard and duct tape to make it the right size. It really helped pull air in from every open window, and because it was at the top of the steps it helped exhaust the hottest air in the house.

Box fans are not made for that type of application, but it worked. If I had to build my own again I would use a better fan, and use a smart home device to turn it on and off.
> Ageism is a thing.

Indeed. I’ve been in the too while executives at a large, publicly-traded company denied specific hiring requests because their LinkedIn profile pictures “looked too old”.

On the other hand, that company was terrible to work for many reasons. They weren’t excluding older developers because they thought they were less knowledgeable. They were excluding older workers because the company knew they couldn’t trick them into working 12-hour days and putting up with abusive management practices. Young people could be convinced the bad things were normal. Older devs knew better and wouldn’t stick around anyway.
In 2006, the original money market fund, the Reserve Primary Fund, decided to purchase risk-free commercial paper, and by 2008 over half its assets were in this risk free, high quality commercial paper.

Unfortunately, a significant part of this risk free, high quality commercial paper was issued by Lehman. And that risk free, high quality commercial paper turned out to be worthless, causing the oldest money market fund to fail and forcing it to liquidate, at well below $1.
Agree.

Also, somewhat ironically (definitely not coincidentally) it seems that letting people be openly and "legally" pseudonymous like here allows for more careful and thoughtful people to flourish.

On the contrary, those who thrive equally well with real name policies are those who:

- use fake names anyway

- doesn't understand yet or doesn't care that being an a$$hole online has consequences

- are so sure about their opinions or feel so strongly about them that they ignore it

All these exist in pseudonymous forums too, but on open full-name forums they far outweigh thoughtful people in any kind of controversial discussion.
You are on your own here. Every one you'll ever meet on crypto forums is 99% of the time trying to get you to buy whatever shiny butt coin it is that they are holding. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Do people use yiddishisms derogatorily?
> Doing a function call is quite expensive!

Doing a function call in C/C++ is not expensive. I wish people would stop saying this, it's just not true, it's one of the most annoying myths in programming. A C function call is on the order of a tiny number of nanoseconds. Here's a benchmark to compare [1]. It's an infinitesimal amount, and it is absolutely swamped by something like a cache miss. If you eliminate one cache miss but add 50 function calls, that's probably a net benefit.

The only sense in which function calls in C are "expensive" is during compilation: if a compiler can inline a function call, it can potentially do tons of new optimizations that it couldn't do before, and that can yield a huge improvment in performance. But the function call ITSELF is almost never the problem.

[1]: https://quick-bench.com/q/2q8ch4HmQSpsSdrwd082NpV3KeI
2 toyotas? you are rich!

here is a 2004 listed 3 days ago for $9k:
https://driverbase.com/vehicle/8784108/2004-toyota-sienna-in...

or a 2003 for $5,795 and its getting a lot of views:
https://driverbase.com/vehicle/7869797/2003-toyota-sienna-in...

interesting there seems to be a lot more 2004 siennas than with a 2003 model year.

here is a 2006 toyota corolla that listed 4 days ago for $12K:
https://driverbase.com/vehicle/8768002/2006-toyota-corolla-i...

appreciate the input. we have several products focused on vehicle discovery and purchase but wanted to help drivers leverage the sellers market especially for extra vehicles that don't have to be replaced since it's not the best time to buy a replacement car.

we will fix the trim issue and block dealership entered trims from showing alongside our standardized trims (which makes it impossible to find the "right" one)
in a use case i have for something _like_ bloom filters (though i want to evaluate Cuckoo/Vacuum/etc) i have an immutable collection of changes that happened during an event, and need to query if a specific change type is in that event.

Given that it's a historical event, there's no need for removal. My concern (due to my specific application needs) is primarily storage size and query speed.
Huh, TIL Myspace was geoblocked?
Quite a condemnation that HN can't beat 280 character tweets on this topic, eh?
That house was made to sell. If someone bought it, then the builder accomplished their goal. Unfortunately...

Everything is made for optimal profit, not optimal function.
Nano coin – news, price prediction, and review
https://stacker.news/ Is really fun if you’re interested in primarily bitcoin.

You can authenticate yourself with a tiny tiny bitcoin payment over the lightning network.
> the groove is a 1:1 copy of the sound wave

False. There's an EQ curve that's applied to all records that rolls off the bass, which has to be re-added by the preamp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
I don't understand. How have you determined the anti crypto sentiment is due to pavlovian hate and not rational disagreement?
There are not enough vaccines. Which is to say, the current Liberal government was offered a blank cheque from Pfizer to order as many as it could mid last year, instead didn't (because they're incompetent and incapable of understanding moderately sophisticated ideas), and then proceeded to engage in a runabout of graft, corruption and waste that means even when we are technically overflowing with AstraZeneca vaccines it's actually still surprisingly hard to have them (and I'll note, we also got short changed on AZ because Europe shut down exports of it for a while - though that's also on the Fed gov because again, we could've bought literally as much Pfizer as we wanted early on).

They aren't benefiting from anything: the governments are all rightly tanking in popularity, and being held up by Rupert Murdoch's multi-decadal commitment to dumbing down the narrative.
I'm not 100% clear if you're looking for a pro crypto currency community that has thoughtful technical discussions OR a community that is more focused about being skeptical of crypto currency. I don't know of anywhere good for the former but if it's skepticism - https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/ is the only place I know of that is focused on criticism and mocking of crypto currency and the related community.
Not sure how much this fits:

* fraidycat: RSS reader where the user can choose refresh rate for different type of feeds. Also different categories (i.e., friends vs brands).

* futureland.tv: a social media website focused on journals to document progress on users' projects. (no-ads)
Exactly, sort of, lol.

That's why institutions that do this are usually banks. This isn't just a large company holding liquid assets. These are reserves backing what is, mechanically, a USD account. IDK what the explicit promises, if any, exist. Either way, there can be a run.

This is banking, not business.
I would figure (smaller) banks and payment processors and "common people" could potentially stand to lose.

For smaller banks if you assume that an alt coin would continue the goals of the FedNow instant payment system that's currently in the works would cut out the banks that currently operate as a payment intermediary [1, "The structural bank disintermediation issue" ] and seems like it could indicate a shift away from fractional reserve money, where the bank could for example hold $2.5 and create $100 in loans, which then increases the power of the central bank.

I think in such a scenario people stand to potentially lose out due to a increase in state power that would result.

[1]https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2351~c8c18bbd...
> I know Americans hate the whole idea of taxes being used for useful things and would generally rather die a horrible death.

Your information is wrong.
Yes, you hit the plateau of that curve pretty quickly. You can't just be an individual contributor and justify 3% raises every year for 30 years, when you hit that plateau on raw skill you need to start finding ways to player-coach the generation(s) of more junior developers behind you. I don't think that necessarily means you have to move into management, but it does mean broadening your definition of impact beyond LoC/commits/tickets.
PAX is a good alternative.

"Some 96% of the reserves were held in cash and cash equivalents, while 4% were invested in U.S. Treasury bills as of June 30."

https://www.coindesk.com/paxos-reveals-assets-backing-stable...

https://www.paxos.com/a-regulated-stablecoin-means-having-a-...
> Manual moderation is unlikely to solve the issue to people's liking either, it doesn't on here or anywhere else I see it done.

I wholeheartedly disagree. I think the human-approach of HN mods is _the_ reason this site is better and different from other social/forum sites.
Tuning Elasticsearch: Garbage Collection Algorithms
I’m going to try the two-and-done strategy, I like the idea. A handful of times I’ve wanted to “I told you so”, despite knowing it’s not productive and rude. This seems like a professional way to do it without saying it.

And I share the authors experience even with less years. I’m wrong more than I’d like to be, which is never.
Hello Adám, thank you for the LPA notes – they are still very inspirational and reassured me that LTR is worth exploring. If you found out something new, I would love to read it.

I am aiming private beta for the end of 09/2021. The language, runtime and interface are in a good shape, however the handwriting recognition have seen only my glyphs so far. Also segmentation algorithm is something to think about when writing. I have to solve these issues before private beta and I have only vague ideas about that right now.

Language-wise, I have to explore monadic operators [0], and type-dependent operators (or polymorphic operators?). They are really intriguing. [1] These facilities should be enough for the language, and then I have to fit operators into this paradigm. Even though pencil enable us to use every glyph, I try avoid unfamiliar/complicated ones. Polymorphic operators could really help here, as one operator could have multiple roles. However, I try to be vigilant because it could create bigger mess than monads/dyads.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/p21u7...

[1]: http://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-2#reduceRight
You can try that. But you may find you alienate the allies who could help you to make that one thing better, thereby making nothing better. An even-handed approach seems moral, but if all you do is complain equally about everyone who doesn't fit your strict moral standards, you won't do anything useful in the real world. Sometimes, you have to pick a fight and not be too purist about choosing your allies.
And you don't have to be 50+ to experience it. My former 30 year old self with a brand new baby had a 25 year old manager, and experienced it constantly. He just couldn't fathom why I wouldn't answer his random slacks at night, or why I thought beer taps, ping pong, and happy hours weren't suitable replacements for good benefits and incentive packages.
So do you people who keep telling everyone dictatorship is next whenever anything happens get tired of being wrong literally every time?
Thanks, for some reason I had a brain fart and thought it’s one giant rotor.
Perhaps, but the guy had been teaching these courses for at least 10 years so he really had it all down. I mean he taught almost completely from his brain.

Total math teacher too, his university email is so full if you email him it just bounces back.
I always like to look back at the "Show HN: Dropbox" thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863) and look at the comments like "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account" :)

I think most engineers try to think more critically than the general population.
Because literally every single topic is filled with puerile “Haha, Idiots!” comments immediately. Every single time.
article says: "I find myself disagreeing with my heroes on a regular basis, and that makes me uncomfortable."

Why should you agree with your heroes? You are not in the circumstances they were whenever they became your hero.
> I have arrived at the same conclusions as you wrt. static vs dynamic typing. A sufficiently powerful static type system entirely subsumes dynamic typing, and there is quite literally nothing you can accomplish with dynamic typing that you cannot accomplish with such a static type system. After writing software using both dynamically and statically typed languages, this is the conclusion I have arrived at, and it feels like a no-brainer to me.

I've come to the same conclusion. A dynamic language is a footgun that doesn't buy any additional power or expressiveness over a well-developed typed language.

It gets even worse when dynamic language developers start interacting with data. The "just do whatever" mentality that rejects type design also rejects relational design without any consideration of whether it's (almost certainly) a better choice than a document database.
Oh joy autocomplete. Was supposed to be bastards.
You should probably read the the whole post not just one part and then assume something I never said.

The power is split between miners and user. A majority from both parties are required to determine where the network goes the rest are somewhat forced to follow. If no such majority can be found the network can fork and both chains can be profitable for miners.
I never said miners are in control, I disagreed with the parent who said users are in control - big difference.
If you live in a cold climate, buy a mini-split (a type of AC that also works in reverse).

ACs are very efficient (more than 100%!). By using an AC to heat (a Delta(T) in my city of at least 30C) your home in the winter you more than offset the carbon to cool and dehumidify it a mere 5-10C (again, in my case).

Heating a home in cold climates are far worse than cooling, but there's a puritan rejection of AC:.

- The Delta(T) is larger to heat a home than to cool it. Delta(T) sets the heat loss through your walls.

- There is an attitude that cooling is hedonistic, while heating is a necessity, but it's thermodynamically and metabolically far easier to heat than to cool.

- Most heating is done with fossil fuel furnaces which are at best 90-95% efficient. A heat pump can be over 300% efficient [1] (i.e. it moves 3J of heat from the cold side to the hot side using only 1J). This is much better improvement in performance than an electrical car.

Get an AC that can work in reverse, and if you want don't use it in the summer.

EDIT (added following):

[1] The metric here is coefficient of performance, COP = Thigh / (Thigh - Tlow). For 30C to 20C the theoretical maximum is 3 000%, or 30x

[2] No, you can't break thermo laws with [1].
The payoff is very clear. Every government loves a crisis because it allows them to pass laws which normally would come with a lot of societal pressure. The mere act of having to verify yourself when going into a mall, restaurant, bus, train gives enormous tracking and control capabilities. In a decade, people will forget why these measures were implemented, but they will still have to abide by them. Just like we still have to take our shoes off at the airport, can't take any liquids and can't have our families watch us board the plane.

Well, simulating lots of sick people is very trivial, ever since the idea of asymptomatic disease came into play. Feel completely healthy? Better get tested! You could have entire populations being completely healthy, but the tests could still report diseases and you'd have an asymptomatic pandemic going on.
Initially I thought this article was going to be about the needless use of esoteric jargon when sufficiently specific language exists. Or badly named jargon.

Naming in programming is hard but if it was done like science journal writing, everything would be someone’s last name or a single invented word that sort of makes sense if one is good at Greek and Latin roots.
Have a look at Micro Focus compiling COBOL to .net and java. They’ve been doing this for minimum 11 years now.
More likely that engineers are more likely to think that they are more critical than the general population and that basic human social facts somehow don’t apply to them.
I've attended several re:Invent conferences in the past and I really liked most of them. However, re:Invent has gotten so large that it's almost impossible to navigate. You really expect me to get value from this along with 50,000 other people spread across 10 hotels in Las Vegas?

This article focuses on what AWS could do in this time of "pandemic" but I think it's a larger vision of what they could do for all future re:Invent conferences. I would love to be able to have a tour guide walk a group of us through some live breakout sessions. Gather people in small groups (100 - 200 people) and all watch the same video feed and chat. Something like watch a movie with family on Disney+[0] or Plex[1]. Or do something like a raid in WoW; Tuesday @ 11PT we are going to go deep on QuickSight!

Hell, they could probably even charge for it. A small fee ($100) might make it a bit more limited and keep griefers out.

[0] https://help.disneyplus.com/csp?id=csp_article_content&sys_k...
[1] https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/
Rekt.news. Where else can you find this elite level of forensic analysis combined with wild speculation. Exploits will prove far more interesting historically than funding rounds in these still nascent days of early BTC adoption ;)

https://rekt.news/polynetwork-rekt/
I don't think I'd class "being concerned that the overwhelming majority of the media is owned and controlled by a single individual" as "moralising"
I'm at a constant balance of 2 months of vacation because it's actually stressful to take more time off. Typically I stay up way too late before/after vacation trying to get everything done.

I've also noticed unnecessary urgency/escalation when someone is not in the office to deal with things. Say it's a Friday and I am in the office, but I am in back to back meetings and then have time blocked off to meet a deadline. Someone asks me to help on something semi-urgent, but they see I am booked, and they are generally OK with waiting, even if it delays until Monday. However,if they see a Friday OOO/vacation message in e-mail/slack, urgency is automatically ratcheted up and they want it done now.

I think there must be some psychological factors involved. It's OK if someone is technically "available" but does not have time. However if someone is takes a day off and is "unavailable" and there is wait..that is less acceptable.