skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm shocked at the cavalier attitude I'm seeing here in these comments. There's a sense of entitlement. The US gets to put anything on its credit card that it wants at the expense of the rest of the world, without the concern of solvency, and if you don't like it, well, talk to my army? Is that moral? Will it last? Do you really think that 10x spending means getting 10x as much? Do you realize how much corruption and "hospital pricing" (e.g. $100 Advil) is in that?

For so many, large changes seem impossible. Every empire in history was assumed to last forever. Every pride of lions has an alpha until it gets weak enough compared to the next usurper. His reign lasts years and years, and then changes in a moment, forever.

The petrodollar wasn't going to last forever. Why would anyone think it would? The Nixon Shock always had an expiration date. You realize that three weeks ago the Saudis signed a military agreement with Russia, right?

The Fed clearly can't raise rates so it's been "printing". US debt was 5 trillion in 2000, it's 29 trillion now. Don't read the next sentence if you don't want a spoiler. It's over. A lot of people still don't know it, but it's over. It's that moment in the chess game where you simply trade pieces. As the comment above said, watch this space for the next month.

Lenin had a great quote about times like these: "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks where decades happen."
Think of a device that doesn't yet exist, but should. This might mean that something similar exists, but has deficiencies, or is too expensive.

Build it. You may find that learning with concrete goals in a real problem is more effective that with something you're disinterested in.

The trick with this skillset is it's a combination of many related skills. The specifics will depend on the project. Some examples:

Soldering
Low-level language proficiency; generally C, C++, or Rust. Also includes interrupts, concurrency, DMA, atomics etc
Embedded tooling (Pick your poison!)
Part selection and BOM/cost management
EDA software, including PCB layout, designing footprints, schematics etc
Communications protocols
Reading datasheets and manuals
Familiarity with your MCUs peripherals of interest for the specific proj
How you get the PCB ordered etc
Mechanical skills, eg designing and building enclosures
CAD software like Solidworks, Inventor, Fusion etc

You'll probably need some combo of all of these, unless you're in/starting a company that has a division of duties. Good luck!
Exactly. Electric cars aren't even a great answer - reducing vehicle miles traveled with more public mass transit and denser cities is needed - but there's far more opposition to that than electric cars.
> as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet.

That specious, meaning appearing true but actually false. It is a diphthong expressed by a ligature of two letters. The claim was never made that a diphthong is a single letter, and it is easily expressed in modern English, in a computer using ascii and outside on a piece of paper.
Even 30 km/h is far from silent. Especially around intersections and traffic lights. And when you have trucks or buses accelerating it almost doesn't matter that a typical small car doesn't make that much noise at that speed anymore.
Thanks, this is a useful distinction. As I clarified elsewhere it would maybe be more accurate as:

"If we are subject to a lawsuit due to something you did while working for us then you have to pay an unlimited amount of costs we incur due to that suit".

Anyone doing proper contracting should definitely find the appropriate insurance for their case. I think the terms for the insurance types are different in the US.
Not disagreeing with you at all, but:

It’s not really “leftist”. It’s just “american leftist” if anything.

As far as some traditional leftists go, this whole discussion is a distraction from looking at class problems: “poor white men” can’t be oppressed by being white or men, but can be oppressed by being poor. This seems a strange concept for some on the American side of the pond.
While I think that EVs are cool, the subsidies not only distort things but are essentially tax breaks for the well-off.

It's funny to me how the whole ICE vs. EV argument just isn't that much of a slam-dunk. Looking at page 5 here:

https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EV-life...

Completely altering the vehicle mix doesn't look like a game changer to me. I guess there's probably no low-hanging fruit.

In the future, no doubt not only will houses be unaffordable for the middle class and below, but also cars.
Predictions for USAF's 6th generation fighter – Raytheon weighs in
Rational behavior from a politician means doing whatever it takes to get yourself reelected. First, foremost, full stop.

People who don't do this don't get elected and are removed from the system. Whether their legislation is effective or not matters only as far as it will affect their chances of reelection.
Thanks for the refresher! I am using the timescaledb-toolkit with much success. LTTB, for example. Excellent.
Alright, glad it's working now! And thanks for the kind words, appreciate it.
This is exactly right. Low MTTU and keeping up-to-date across the transitive dependency tree makes it less likely that vulnerabilities creep in due to those transitive dependencies. I think there's also a certain aspect of "faster is better" akin to what we see in Forsgren et al's Accelerate / State of DevOps research. If you have the team structure, development discipline, and release infrastructure required to update dependencies frequently then that probably benefits other aspects of project quality as well.
Why not just increase ur price of gas in nyc via a gas tax that increases yearly up to say $50 a gallon by 2035?

The free market will take care of everything else. And you can fund infrastructure for EVs. Missed opportunity IMO.
This is where the humanities has the tech world beat. While we quibble over correct narratives and seek one option, the humanities has been completely soaked in the idea that there are nearly unlimited narratives that describe any given human endeavor and they weave together into a rich and ever-changing tapestry.

This is why a historian can read, understand (both the pros and the cons), and respect books that represent an economic history, a social history, an information history, a microhistory, and even a great-man history of a given subject without trouble.

More reason for engineers to take humanities courses!
I want to disagree with you on the timeline issue, but I think 14 years was probably chosen for it not to be too economically disruptive.

I live both in NYC part of the time and in Vancouver part of the time and I see a lot more hybrid and totally electric vehicles in Vancouver, despite the fact it should be theoretically easier in NYC due to the density.

There's a large environmental push on the pacific northwest, but there are practical reasons people choose electric cars here- namely that there are taxes coming on non-electric cars soon. Driving a gas car will cost you $1000 a year soon, and then that rate will go up.

You can only avoid that tax with a hybrid or fully electric car.

Other incentives and taxes are coming that only allow plug-in-electric and fully electric cars. For example they allow electric and PEVs to use the HOV lanes on the highway, and there's rumor of possible parking and other benefits.

Back to the timeline... the problem right now is how little plug-in infrastructure NYC and NYS have. To pull off electric vehicles, you need plug-in stations everywhere. You want people to be able to charge their vehicles easily and nearly everywhere.

That's because charging time for cars is significantly slower than gassing up, and electric cars typically have shorter range than gas, so you need to make it convenient to charge up in more places in order to offset the inconvenience of time.

It's also going to be disruptive to various NYS industry, such as the gas stations, which will see a decline in their gasoline business and need money and time to switch over to offering electric charging.

14 years is a very long time, but I suspect if they had said ten years, people would have revolted at the inconvenience/impossibility of retrofitting or building so much electric infrastructure.

It shouldn't take this long, but I think this is the best they could have done politically.
I’m actually in the middle of studying carbon capture right now (via AirMiners Bootup, free, worth checking out the next batch if you’re interested). Direct air capture like Climeworks requires a lot of energy to free the CO2 from the sorbent, and it needs to be near a geological formation that can accept the CO2. We’d need a massive build-out of excess power generation, you can’t just extrapolate out from current numbers. And good luck convincing the people of the world that this is worth spending 1/4 of GDP (not existing government budgets, but all GDP) on this before we’re well past the scenarios we’re looking at and playing serious catch-up. If fusion comes along and energy becomes a fraction of the cost, then this becomes cheaper/easier, but the scale would still need to be extreme.

The foremost experts in DAC are emphatic that it’s not a silver bullet that will magically save us, and that the heavy lifting needs to be done by reducing new emissions.

And at this point, going eventually carbon neutral isn’t enough to avoid the 2 degree C scenario, we need to be going negative eventually.

The major effects seem likely to be deadly heatwaves, crop failure in hotter areas, mass migration, and political strain from all of that.
So it hinges on how different the psychological difficulties of accepting vaccination vs. "just eating less for years" are. Given how many vaccinations people already accept vs. other diseases, and the fact that any such irrational fears need to be surmounted just twice, as opposed to resisting (irrational) urges to eat every waking hour for years, it strikes me as being unlikely that even a serious fear of needles is even remotely as high a hurdle.

The thing is: people that are overweight but try to lose weight will nevertheless struggle. But certainly from how they talk people resisting vaccination are not trying to overcome their own limitations; i.e. the problems are not really comparable.

While there's a hypothetical world imaginable where the two would be equally difficult, it seems hell of a lot more plausible that the issue isn't a psychological hangup, it's conscious intent.

But if this is about people choosing to impose costs on others, then it's totally reasonable to force the issue or otherwise ensure that those making those choices bear the burden of the consequences - rather than innocent bystanders.

Insofar as people have real hangups, rather than making poor (but conscious) choices - sure, it sounds reasonable to help them - and that actually happens! People with fears of needles and the like can get extra help to get through the difficult (for them) ordeal, and perfectly fair.
Mathematicians? No. Computer Science? Yes.

If you want to group to math, you're going to have to compete with the likes of Euclid, Reiman, Bayes, Newton, Gauss, Cantor, Erdos, Fermat, Pascal, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Fourier, Cauchy, Jacobi, Hamilton, Galois, Weierstrass, Cayley, Dedekind, Klein, Hilbert, Brouwer, Godel...
Teach all the facts you want. That's very different than Critical Race Theory, which teaches racism to cure racism.
The 1104 CPUs behind that dashboard
I made a mistake once setting this up and I managed to have password AND key and MFA. This was a misconfiguration but might be useful for some use-cases. So it’s good to know it’s not either/or.
That conclusion requires fraction devision which most folks can’t do in their head. The HN crowd can but it still takes some thought
Some thoughts. Do with them what you will.

0. The original sin of the car is the car itself, not the ICE. The car has externalities other than the ICE, battery cars don't address than and encourage forgetfulness. Arguably the car should be gradually killed off (I say this as a massive car guy) [1]

1. The problem with ICE cars is global warming, which is necessarily a global problem, not a local one (i.e. CO2 emissions barely effect the people who emit them more than those who do not). Therefore to address the CO2 emissions it has to be a global solution.

2. It's not obvious that battery technology can, globally, supply several orders of magnitude more batteries than currently.

3. Electrification of transport has immense promise, if done correctly. Assuming limited battery supplies, it is much more beneficial to use them to electrify big heavy vehicles by employing hybrid drivetrains.

I was very skeptical of the Toyota Prius 20 years ago, and I was wrong. It is a brilliant car that has done more good for the environment than any other car. My only criticism today of the Prius is that the Prius should have been a pickup truck, not a subcompact. However, I understand the marketing wisdom behind that decision 20 years ago.

4. With a hybrid drive trains ICE can achieve thermal efficiencies rivaling a thermal power plant (the vast majority of our energy in the US) -> See Mercedes F1 ICE.

5. With a hybrid drivetrain the stop-go energy loss of heavy delivery trucks is significantly reduced.

6. Nor is there any reason why heavy delivery trucks should run on gasoline or diesel and not CH4 like our powerplants. It's an infrastructure problem just like the one faced by electric cars.

So given the points above, if I were advising legislators, I would

- put massive incentives for blue collar joe to buy a hybrid F-150, or a Ford maverick as his next work vehicle (necessary condition for the incentive, it's used for work).

- put incentives to divert batteries to heavy road vehicles (although not necessarily big rigs. They have a more constant load).

That said, it's not obvious to me that:

1. NY's goal can be accomplished by 2035.

2. vehicle manufacturers wont just divert electric vehicles to CA, NY and Norway and only sell ICE everywhere else

3. It's economically possible within the time frame

[1]I don't zero-index. I use it here in the sense of the zeroth-law of thermo; as a prelude that to some is obvious, but turns out to be quite subtle.
There’s a pretty good chance your keys would just float up past you if you tried to throw them, and hit the water long after you. I think humans have a higher weight to surface area ratio.

But if you found a waterfall, you might try to land in the area that’s bubbling up. That could conceivably improve your chances when hitting water, which are very slim - hitting water in free fall is not that much better than hitting concrete.

Trying to execute a stand-up 2 or 3 seconds before impact might help you survive, I could buy that. I’d guess this is something that’s difficult to do without having tried it before, it usually takes a few tries to do without flopping back to flat.
A platform where I self-censor my real thoughts for some signaling purpose, neat.
Paneer is excellent, but in all my experience tends to get treated more like chicken: as a raw material which you will cook (by frying or simmering, etc.) and add seasoning to. I've never seen it simply sliced and served on a cracker, as you might with Western cheeses.

Definitely seek out and try paneer, though. Saag paneer is one of my favorites: chunks of paneer in stewed mustard greens.
Log Your Thoughts
So do the hackers and Zero Day Exploit day traders.
Do you think these percentages line up?

What about the relative cost of a semester of college in 1970-80 vs today? Or the relative cost of housing?
> Aren't these multiway systems essentially what we see with ambiguous grammars...

Yes.

> One application of these might be to resolve the meaning of probabilities under the many-worlds interpretation...

There's some ways to go before we Hilbert spaces, operator algebras, and the like, but yes, the idea would be that some path counting procedure would be used to derive the Born rule. It would be great to bridge with Carroll's self-locating uncertainty paper [0]

> Under the section titled "Observers, Reference Frames and Emergent Laws" in this article, you can see some branches merging again in that first graph, so perhaps the probabilities of the Born rule are due to parallel computations that merge in this way...

Right!

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7907
.... by being members of minority groups?
Likewise, people dispute that Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, because Babbage and Menabrea had previously created a few simple example programs.

But that downplays her accomplishments too much. She didn't write the "first program" but she was the first to understand what computers would be capable of doing (for example, that by assigning numbers to letters and symbols, computers could do more than simply perform numerical computations), and she was the first to invent foundational control flow structures such as loops and conditionals. Her program was much more rigorously defined and sophisticated than any previous examples.

>The longest program that Menabrea presented was 11 operations long and contained no loops or branches; Lovelace’s program contains 25 operations and a nested loop (and thus branching).

https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.htm...

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-t...

https://projectlovelace.net/static_prod/img/Diagram_for_the_...
What makes it _objectively_ worse? Subjectively, I think it looks better than the first one and as good as the last one.
Because ghee manufacturing process involves boiling water out of the butter, it is rather irrelevant whether the milk has been initially pasteurized.
Maybe you can offer this as an embeddable JS script where any customer can hit an "encountered a bug" button and automatically transmit last X minutes of their session to Replay servers, a la HotJar or LuckyOrange. As one of the commentors said, it's most valuable when the user directly can make this report easily.
Well, that's one way to make sure people can't leave New York...

EVs are cool but until we solve the range issue, I can't bring myself to be interested.
No. I’m talking about events that have shaped modern Western Society. We’re talking about Canadian schools.

Again, are you saying that we shouldn’t teach the facts I listed?
You need a long on ramp for things like this so manufacturers start making more cars and there are enough to actually make the transition. This also aligns with California's date for ending new ICE car sales. This is one of many things states are trying to do, they're making both long and short horizon changes.
The middle version really doesn't look worse. Perhaps you are just conditioned to read the US version and so your aesthetics have been changed by the familiarity with the US format?
Editing Apple ProRes video.
Hacker News: The only place on the net where you actually should read the comments.
31-Line Indulgence
As SO is aging, the most popular answer is almost always the better one for answers from before ~2014.
I will say I greatly enjoyed my time at all boys catholic school. Much more focus and camaraderie throughout the entire grade instead of the drama that ensues when you have couples holding hands in the hallway.

edit: Note I did 2 years of high school at catholic and 2 years at public.
Maybe they were using an Oracle database, where (shockingly) empty strings are treated as equivalent to NULLs.

Edited to add: A "famous" wtf-worthy explainer from Oracle: https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUEST...

Relevant snippet:

'' when assigned to a char(1) becomes ' ' (char types are blank padded strings).

'' when assigned to a varchar2(1) becomes '' which is a zero length string and a zero length string is NULL in Oracle (it is no long '')
I think you want at least parametrized SQL and something that parses responses into a generic data-structure.
He probably feels like an antivirus vendor on the Windows platform.
Haha, I really set myself up for that one.
I'm surrounded by this, and I can't help but feel like I'm part of the cause for people I'm close to. About the time I was beginning my CS degree I got a job doing tech support at a web hosting company. Within one semester the skills I'd gained on the job had far outpaced my university classes as far as providing me with real world problem solving abilities. Debugging shared webhosting servers was a far better learning exercise than writing sudoku solvers.

Maybe it's not true at other universities, but at the two universities I attended it takes literal years for the majority of students to understand how to take the skills they're learning in a CS degree and solve real world problems. So, I dropped out. And you all know the story, now I write code and makes lots of money, woohoo. Now my father and father in law, both highly educated and financially successful people, look at me and wonder why they did so much schooling and worked so hard when uneducated programmers are making more than they made in their whole career. They're vocally questioning the value of higher education to people around them.

Where it gets messy though is that I have family members and friends that have completely or partially used my situation as justification to ditch education, and none of them have gone anywhere as of yet. I've tried to teach some of them programming but I've given up on that, because the motivation and drive they need to teach themselves is the primary determining factor of their success (in my opinion), and I can't change that. I know I'm far from special in this community of overachievers, but whatever it took for me to get myself in this position isn't exactly common among the general populace, and it took me years of watching my friends and family members trying to mimic my path to appreciate that. So now I just tell them to go to college.
I was around on the internet when this was happening, so I can tell you the real story. Some people went around posting those signs, printed at home on A4 paper, around college campuses during a time when social justice issues were at a fever pitch in popular culture. Some very sensitive-to-social-justice-issues and sensitive-to-potential-indicators-of-people-being-insensitive-to-social-issues people saw them and became upset on Twitter. I think the signs usually got taken down, but that's what usually happens to signs.

Some people took this as a sign that an evil fifth column was going around trying to win an invisible cultural battle by putting up signs that had no racist content but that implied that someone around town would be willing to put up a racist sign if they had had the chance and the chutzpah.

Other people took this as a sign that the evil first through fourth columns were in such active pursuit of dissenters that they would get mad on Twitter and take down meticulously inkjetted pieces of A4 paper if they so much as implied that dissent was an option.

Few reasonable people took this as a sign that it was, literally, not "OK" to be a white person (what does that even mean? if it's not okay how are they supposed to stop?), but because taking down a sign can be taken to mean that the janitor disagrees with what those cultural mercenaries at Kinko's printed on it, that take got passed around a lot.
such as vans

Renault, Nissan, Opel, VW and Mercedes all have an electric van on the market and many more will no doubt be showing up within a couple of years. Now it could be that they aren't currently sold in the US, but that is an easier problem to solve

off road vehicles

Mercedes, Jeep and Humvee have all announced off road vehicles that will start being sold soon, and I'm sure others will follow
I'm not particularly into animal rights but this does seem gratuitous to catch them in such large numbers with no-one making sure that enough have been caught. How many will definitely become food and how many will spoil/get discarded.

I guess a similar issue already exists with commercial fishing and the 1000s of animals killed as collatoral, except Dolphins being larger and more intelligent does seem much worse.