skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a lot for these good questions!

I am definitely most excited about running a business. The subject of the business is not my passion, but I am quite comfortable with it. When I worked in the business during university, I was in constant contact with the retail customers. Most of the interactions were really normal, some great and occasionally also really bad. Ok overall.

The exit strategy is not decided yet. I would prefer a small deposit and then paying the rest off over the next couple of years. FIL would like a larger deposit and less pay off per month. We would have to find the middle ground. FIL would be available as a consultant for a couple months after the transition. Also he is family so in really pressing situations I am sure he would provide me with advice and a guidance.

Yes, I would like to work on every side of the business. I really love to touch a lot of subjects, also at my workplace.

I guess the niche will still be there in the next 10 years, but I honestly cannot make a prediction about more. The business is built on returning customers/collectors all over the world. I guess it makes a lot of sense to look into it alot deeper.

He is old, he neither needs to nor wants to work any more.

Really, if I take the business, I quit my developer career. I focus 100% on what makes the business better. If it includes occasional development tasks, great. If not, also ok. I would have my developer background as a backup plan in case anything goes wrong. But if I never return to full-time developing, I am not too sad about it.

Thanks again for your questions, they got me thinking in some different angles!
> That's not really how it works

Yes, it is.

> false positives exist

Matches (positive or negative) are not the same thing as fingerprints. Fingerprints are directly recorded facts. Matches are matters of interpretation (the fact of a match reported by a particular system is a distinct direct fact from the fingerprint itself, but again the significance is...what expert testimony exists to establish or challenge.)
If you can't keep your property free of invasive plants, the government should seize it and auction it off. Right now a big part of the reason why real estate is overpriced is that the costs of maintaining it are artificially low, because the government allows people to push externalities like this onto their neighbors. The government shouldn't be forcing the poor to subsidize the rich.
...the study concludes that consumers need to be more aware of what they are buying.

“...it’s clear we as a public also lack awareness about which plants are invasive and how they spread to new areas,” Beaury says.

One good thing: the study is generating interest by enforcement agencies who want to crack down on illegal sales.

"Whoa, I just saw old widow Johnson down the street doing the perp walk. What was her crime?"

"Opening planting cogongrass in her front yard."

Speaks directly up at US AG dept drone hovering nearby, "Uh, I never did like her."
> Yes, and not just for debugging. Debuggers are great for learning a new codebase.

I do that a lot. It is, for me, the best way of learning something I do not know.
long time google keep user.

i am seriously considering migrating my hundreds of notes and recipes to notes.app because i have been having a bad feeling about keep.

you are saying the grass isn't greener on that side either? what's bad about notes.app besides lock-in and export?
I don't think your intuition is the problem:

> Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creati...

That's over 100 million people.
"Emerging" was 20 years ago.

The threat is extant.
The "Go is like C" comparison never made any sense to me.

Go has a sophisticated runtime with transparent N:M threading and built-in concurrency primitives, Interfaces, garbage collection and a large standard library.

Go is only simple when compared to the other languages that sit in a similar space, like Java and C#.
Aubrey de Grey couldn’t leave well enough alone
Kinda- for a $300 reward, for example, we only need an email address. So a recipient could just choose an Amazon.com gift card and apply it to their account, with only an email address provided.
As mentioned in other comments it is an unequal comparison, but it's easy to outperform NTFS on Windows as the NTFS driver has some serious lock contention issues that make directory enumeration slow.
China wants a chip machine from the Dutch. The U.S. said no
Who would have thought that banning evictions for 2 years could raise rents?
> Victimhood has become THE status symbol of the left.

This is a ridiculously broad statement. It is not an argument in good faith. It does not contribute beneficially to the discussion. GP needs to do better.
So only US persons and companies can buy in the US right? That means Chinese investment firms can still buy but dude who is on some long-term visa can't.

Either way, real estate should be a free market. In the same vein you can buy any real estate you like, a seller should be able to sell to any entity that's giving him the better price.
Some is, some isn't.

We chose to back out of a house offer due to invasive bamboo when the owner was unwilling to reduce the price to cover professional removal.
This is unsurprising. Take a step back and squint enough and you can see any wide-scale fiscal stimulus will be absorbed by land rent. This is the inverse of the Georgist observation that "all taxes come out of rent." All stimulus is absorbed by rent.

Winston Churchill on the topic: http://www.andywightman.com/docs/churchill.pdf

> Some years ago in London there was a toll bar on a bridge across the Thames, and all the working people who lived on the south side of the river had to pay a daily toll of one penny for going and returning from their work. The spectacle of these poor people thus mulcted of so large a proportion of their earnings offended the public conscience, and agitation was set on foot, municipal authorities were roused, and at the cost of the taxpayers, the bridge was freed and the toll removed. All those people who used the bridge were saved sixpence a week, but within a very short time rents on the south side of the river were found to have risen about sixpence a week, or the amount of the toll which had been remitted!

> And a friend of mine was telling me the other day that, in the parish of Southwark, about 350 pounds a year was given away in doles of bread by charitable people in connection with one of the churches. As a consequence of this charity, the competition for small houses and single-room tenements is so great that rents are considerably higher in the parish!

> All goes back to the land, and the land owner is able to absorb to himself a share of almost every public and every private benefit
Probably.

In our case, we were a team of frenemies, who bonded over our shared hatred of the execs. "Manny" was my officemate for 4 years. To this day, I won't hang out with Manny, because he drives me crazy, but if he ever needs anything, my immediate reply would be "on my way".

The official (expense account) team activities were the bosses trying to bond with the grunts. Show "appreciation". Vicariously be part of the team.

I stuck with the work (electronic medical record interchange) because I was passionate about the problem, we were first to market with the best product, and I invented some cool new tech that I wouldn't be able to take with me.
I'm not so clear on how that works in the states.

Here in Argentina you have a public system that everyone can use. Now, if you want, you can pay for private healthcare and use that if you think it's better, but the public system is still available even then, and there are no limits to what it covers.

The public system doesn't care if you can pay it or not, or even if you're a national or a foreigner. Just walk in, show some ID, and you can use it.
It's that the languages suck.

I've tried writing a language around this but it's... rusty. You kind of want to pipe Get-AzDnsRecordSet and Get-DnsServerRrsourceRecord to the same interface structure and then build another transform to some other structure from the interface... The program wires together the transforms. So the programming paradigm becomes rather unconventional, you only write transformations of “events”, you address other shell commands by listening to outputs of their “eventspace,” etc. ... You get a sort of strange logic programming language where the pipe operator has to be slightly specialized every time because it always needs to transform a little as it pipes
As clarification, do you mean as Americans (a la WW2), or Chinese/Korean (a la Second Sino-Japanese War), or both?
Thanks, will check it out later today. Read a lot from him already.

Not more than the general person really.
I assume they mean actual bamboo, some species of which grow over a meter per day. It’s also incredibly hard to remove and spreads very fast.
No. You give it to an accomplice who continues using it consistent with your typical usage patterns. That way you not only avoid a digital trail, you generate a digital alibi.

I suspect in 20 years, walking down the street without a digital radio in your pocket will arouse suspicion though.
I don't like the joke, tbh.

Because:

- In somewhat professional bussiness areas there is in general no free mony, but not because no one picked it up but because no one would place the money down/accidentally let it fall down without noticing.

- But in specific contexts there is "free money" it's just that "in general" this context doesn't apply to you, e.g. there if you are Japanese person who wants to spend the next decade farming in the country side this might be a awesome deal for you.

- But the "mony on the ground" analogy represents a "general but rare" situation, not a "very specific context", but you can find money on the ground and it's always worth picking it up, BUT you should check if there is a string attached to it (in that case literally ;=)).

So for me the joke sounds like what someone would try to argue in self defense when doing a bad deal to reason that all is fine because they are not "blind sighted economists".

In my environment (or more precise that of my dad) I have seen people going in that direction of "picking up free money" and making exactly this kind of jokes only to lose all the money they had maneuvering themself into a situation of basically falling into poverty not long before they normally could have gone into a nice reasonable wealthy retirement...
they need wet soils though
Doesn’t help what? We pump oil and gas across entire continents we can somehow pump water up a hill.
I almost feel that relatively short range (meaning they can make the hops between charging stations) self-flying passenger drones/planes would be better than cars. Leet air-traffic control systems with decades of anti collision experience interact with and track all flights and inform all flying systems of the telemtry data for all slights so they have spatial awareness that way. Set flight paths that are low, but avoid densly populated areas/neighborhoods/infrastructure etc.

Create small emergency landing areas all over...

The only ground based vehicles I care about being 99% auto would be long-haul trucking. With a station to pickup a local last-mile-human-driver for actual drop-offf etc.
I think once Apple has established a pipeline for adding content in a known pattern and at a known cost, it lowers the legal bar (although I am not a lawyer). The government can take your stuff, they just have to pay you for it. I'm not sure if adding the N+1 image to the next dataset is similar to that or not.
It doesn't - it's still pretty compact. Would still be pretty compact after adding ~30 bytes for making it work well with large screens.
I’ve heard that WalMart actually pays devs pretty well, supposedly they’re serious about trying to compete with Amazon.
I’m sure the Roma disagree, but I suppose you might not care about their opinion.
I never understood this type of reasoning, where just because the creator(s) acknowledge their shortcomings, you're not allow to not like the video because of it, or complain about it. So I'll repeat, "I didn't like the video", don't take it personally.
Yet three decades ago, thanks to insane fiscal policies that heavily incentivized land speculation, a few square km in Tokyo were worth as much as all of California.

https://hbr.org/1990/05/power-from-the-ground-up-japans-land...

To be honest 80s Japan doesn't seem too far off from current California tax law so maybe I'll be able to afford a house here in 30 years
The road is maintained by the homeowner's association that we're a part of.

If I were going to be living there full-time, better Internet is something I would probably have to look into. My brother did look into options (as have others along the same road) and he concluded that a hot-spot with limited data now with hopefully Starlink in the future made the most sense.

For occasional use, limited Internet is fine. I don't depend on streaming for myself and I don't expect to work from there to any major degree. (And can always go into the town library or wherever.)
Cultivate browser extension shows American alternatives to Chinese products
Look, don’t touch.
They will never do this because yes, they want to repopulate the countryside, but they don't want to have any change in terms of culture and tradition.
It's a good question that's been asked for years.

I'm not aware of any rare earth elements used in lithium batteries.

My understanding is that lithium itself is quite common and there should be enough for everyone to drive an electric car, but it's still an open question as to what future reserves will be discovered and how steeply the supply curve will rise with more investment and technology. E.g.: https://medium.com/batterybits/is-there-enough-lithium-to-ma...

Perhaps a bigger concern than lithium is cobalt, but there are cobalt-free chemistries so I don't believe it's a blocker.

I have no idea what you mean by cars in 2040 will only be for the most privileged. There are cars rolling off assembly lines today that will still be on the road in 2040.
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Jewish_Personal_Names has more information about compulsory adoption of surnames amongst European Jews for taxation purposes in the 18th century.
That has nothing to do with C++. Its entirely a compiler thing.
You mean except for the part where isn't not available in Japan right now.
I think it is completely appropriate for an individual to do this in their own self interest.

I think it’s wildly inappropriate that our industry rewards it though. Someone taking a year off to study the interview process itself shouldn’t be rewarded so much more highly than a year of real experience doing the actual job.
> In both cases, they obviously can't publicly reveal the source of information, but they can be certain.

Why do you trust these "intelligent" agencies, who have repeatedly shown their incompetence and dishonesty?
how does it know where to be in the lane if it doesn't use lane markings?

"stick to the right as far as possible" is not a reliable approach when the emergency lane may or may not be there.
I am not suggesting any of that. I explicitly said above that PHEVs are the more immediate solution to the situation.
> This is unsurprising. Take a step back and squint enough and you can see any wide-scale fiscal stimulus will be absorbed by land rent. This is the inverse of the Georgist observation that "all taxes come out of rent." All stimulus is absorbed by rent.

So fiscal stimulus should be paired with some kind of rent control/regulation, then?
Here it is: https://nitter.net/trungtphan/status/1429464889307762688
It most definitely does not, and as I said it's not your fault in any way. I would just appreciate more non-spousal perspectives, especially when it comes to things like Japanese nationalism where it helps to have a Japanese perspective.
I've always wondered whether it would be possible to have some kind of compartmentalized bus.

Some kind of compromise between asking people to cram themselves like sardines against a bunch of strangers, while still allowing people to sit next to their family members and friends.

It's convenient to say a desire to not jam up close to strangers implicates its holder in some terrible character flaw of not caring for ones fellow human. But if you really want to get more people on buses it's a desire we'll have to accommodate and contend with.
Data are liability.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170604101018/https://plus.goog...

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106775595907820294

Gene Spafford is, I believe, amongst those who've noted that you cannot reveal what you do not have.
Lex interviewed
Dmitri Dolgov CTO Waymo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6prRXkI5HM
I think you are conflating operating a public service within a very tight scope and "only been tested within a very tight scope"
I'd posit that there's a general principle underpinning this that is true for most things (not games, or art, but everything).

This is a bit half-formed in my head, but: Computer tech makes certain important classes of things cheaper and more convenient to create. Sometimes it makes those things feasible in the first place. But it's always via enabling of cheap duplication of an existing process.

As tech evolves in power, it can do more. The high-speed duplicative properties of computers are the thing that makes them useful. For them them to be generally useful [and critically, financially useful], crafted, stylised, personal aspects are stripped out. So much does not work as well or look as good or is as interesting as things from the previous evolution that were built or provided or staffed by knowledgable, skilled practitioners. But given that skilled practitioners are finite, on average what comes out is better in some useful aspects than most of the efforts of the previous evolution. And on average it's easier to produce/manage/handle at scale. So pick anything: Amazon, Uber, Google search, medical records, 3D games, etc etc, ad infinitum. Almost anything you can use computer tech for.

What's being talked about in the comments: it's not generalisable, so it gets chucked. It's too hard to do, so sand off the sharp edges, cut anything that can't be reduced to an algorithm, package the inferior but much more convenient version that can scale

(I assume there is some body of thought with literature relating to this process that I should dig into, but I think people like Walter Benjamin and Milan Kundera have probably described it much better than I can w/r/t art [or maybe Ruskin or Morris, though their idea are all maybe a bit idealistic] this destruction of the personal to the service of the machine)
If you get to the point where the $20 bills on the ground are being advertised online in other countries after being on the ground for years, then there is probably a massive catch.

Substitute $20 bills on the ground with $500 house in Japan and it’s obvious why this joke analogy doesn’t apply.
I tend to road trip in very unpopulated areas, so in my experience there isn’t much route choice. There is only 1 highway you could ever use. I also find the only times I’d bother with an alternate route are inside a single battery charge (either under 300 km or the start/end leg of the trip).

Your use case is quite interesting. Got an example?

The lack of waypoints in the Tesla navigation is their biggest missing piece of software currently. The navigation is extremely good about recalculating both the directions and charge plan as as you go even if you deviate from the suggested route. I sometimes cheat a little by navigating to a midway point. For example, I set Orangeville as the destination leaving Kitchener-Waterloo for Sudbury since I didn’t feel like going through Toronto.
Especially considering you're not free to sell your property if you get tired of it.
Well, have you heard of another sitting president being banned? If not, then its unheard of.

Specifically the tweets that got him banned were:

"The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!" Trump tweeted Friday at 9:46 a.m.

and

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

To say that these are advocating violence is more than a stretch, its a lie.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking for, or what your point is. Why that specific threshold? Lithium in EVs also doesn't catch fire by itself, it's usually a fault somewhere else in the system first. Most bizzarely, I think you're assuming that I'm taking a side here? Like....there are no sides to take, it's just an article meant as a reply for someone who asked if ICEs ever spontaneously combust.
I spent some time thinking about this last night and want to re-emphasize this question. I'm serious. I genuinely can't think of something I might miss out on. when my friends are doing something, they text me. when something is happening in the world, the people around me are talking about it. and if they're not, who cares? how is it relevant to my life?

more importantly, FOMO, when applied to real relationships, leads to this utilitarian mindset where you view other people and your interactions with them in highly objectified ways, centering the possible opportunities your relationships with others might provide. other people don't exist for your benefit. this is a form of non-sexual fetishization, where you start to view actual people as tools and grant those tools metaphysical power over your life - not interacting with them might lead you to missing out on something /critical/.

treat people like people. spend time with people because you like them and enjoy your time with them. don't fixate on your own ends and make means of other people.
I think I understand where you're coming from, and the difference between your view and the popular HN take. You are considering complexity in a more complete sense of control theory, interdependence of systems, probabilities of failure, and difficulties in diagnostics. The amount of digital controls and software is a big part of that. The novelty of the systems also means that the ecosystem of support and maintenance is not there (yet?).

The typical "EV is simpler" HN take, I think, instead is thinking of mechanical system complexity and mostly ignoring the digital domain. We can see how all those valves, cams, counter-balance shafts, lubrication systems, fuel systems, and emission control systems go away, and they were the root of our most expensive car maintenance nightmares so far. It is hard to compare these apples and oranges, taking away a bunch of mechanical systems, which were exquisitely modular, and replacing them with highly integrated electronic components.
clang kinda started the race
I belive that you do not sufficiently understand the giant footgun that is unconstrained auto, especially in the context of very template-heavy code. Concepts solve the issue that judicious use of auto will allow template instantiations to succeed that are plain wrong in that they will happily do the wrong thing just because the types involved fit the constraints by mere chance and not because they were meant to be used together like this.
Yeah they have trade secrets. Patents are nice and all, but good luck sueing in China. Even if you win, it’ll be a one-time fee
No idea what this is supposed to show or point it's supposed to make, but at least I got tracked by Google Analytics, so, uh, thanks?