skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's simple stuff like putting together a base Modal display component for re-use instead of copy/pasting that div with the inline-styled zIndex of 99,999 for the umpteenth time.

Is this on the critical path to solving more ambitious goals or just the Sisyphean task you've appointed yourself? It's fine to take pleasure in the small details, and if you want to set up a company to feed that obsession more power to you. However I will go out on a limb and predict two things: 1) unless you are independently wealthy, you are going to stop worrying about this level of detail pretty quickly once you are focused on how to make enough money to afford to hire talented engineers and 2) if you micro-manage style and details to this degree, you may find it hard to retain the level of talent you aspire to.
Absurd. Public meetings are proceedings of record, even if they are populated by liars or idiots (whether attending as members of the public or as elected officials). People who can't attend have a legitimate interest in knowing who said what, regardless of its truth value.

We've seen this problem again and again: not that tech companies want to censor stuff (they do have a legitimate interest in setting standards for how their platform is used by others) but that they are cheapskates trying to bring in as much money as possible while spending as little on oversight as possible, and for all their smarts their algorithmic solutions often yield bad results because they're based on the asinine assumption that all content and attention is fungible.
AGI implies things like "motivations" and "feelings" not just understand of the world (i.e. beyond understanding other things "motivations" and "feelings"), it's a fundamentally different problem. Even if you think you need extremely good world understanding to make a self driving car, AGI is irrelevant (and would actually make it much scary, because an AGI is perfectly capable of deciding to intentionally kill you).
My Model Y, delivered within the last few weeks, has no panel gaps (edit: the panel gaps, measured with an $8 tool at delivery, are within spec). It was delivered in perfect condition and is garage safe. I can even park next to other cars safely.
Perhaps indirectly. Though that's not the focus of the article. Rather that language/platform gatekeeping is counterproductive and harmful to growing the community.
Why satellites are manufactured in clean rooms
Maybe lithium-ion batteries in mass-market vehicles aren't such a good idea. We may need a battery technology that can survive poor maintenance less than perfect battery construction, and low-cost vehicle designs. Tesla had to put a titanium plate under their battery. That's not a mass-market solution.

BYD is converting over to lithium iron phosphate, which is much better behaved when damaged. Toyota is working on solid state batteries, which hopefully don't catch fire.

The NYFD reports over 55 electric bike and scooter fires so far this year.[1] Two deaths, 60 injuries, including 18 firefighters. Fires destroying electric bike shops are a thing, with one fire expanding to all the batteries around. All we need now is for a cascade auto battery fire in a parking lot. Or, worst case, a garage under a building.

Boosted skateboards used to use lithium iron phosphate, but were just too expensive.

[1] https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-e-bike-sco...
I'm talking about on the right-hand-side, where it shows the route it's going to take. There's no indication on there it should turn right at this location. It looks like it should go straight through the intersection.

I see the display on the left side, which shows the car's trajectory, and it shows it's going to continue going straight and then suddenly switches to a turn. I would expect it to show that the turn is going to happen sooner, not suddenly switch from straight to turning.
For full standards compliance, the teapot should be designed and implemented according to the ISO-3103:2019 specification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

https://www.iso.org/standard/73224.html
Bryan could balance his perspective just a tad by dredging up example of old technologies that are used in production, even mission-critical roles.

Not everything that is old is used only by tinkering retrocomputing enthusiasts.

E.g. COBOL has had a much longer run than Linux. Not to deny that its glory days are long gone, if it had any, but it's deployed in important roles, not just something in the hands of retro-tinkerers.

There is also the fact that Amiga is specific hardware. DOS is also tied to specific hardware. Newer hardware still has compatibility to make DOS work, but at the cost of using a 64 bit machine with gigs of RAM as if it were a turbocharged version of an 80286 from 1985. Maybe an 80386, if a DPMI DOS extender is used.

For now, the retrocomputing enthusiast who keeps riding on the back of the supposedly dying Linux horse has a good desktop experience with a brand new computer, which is used to its full potential. This will likely be the case going forward, unless hardware fundamentally changes (like away from the Von Neumann model, type of thing).

Linux will be surely dead when it can't make use of the current hardware, when you need to resurrect (or emulate) legacy hardware to be able to play with Linux. (Even in that situation, it will likely be used in production roles, not just retrocomputing hobby situations.)
Straw man. Author didn't say criticizing a language's flaws at all is problematic. Dismissive, arrogant, "X language sucks and so do people who use it" language is problematic.

It can be boiled down to the difference between constructive criticism vs. bullying. One is productive, the other just serves to make the person saying it feel better and reinforce exclusivity and an air of superiority.
The British Empire also left Afghanistan. And the US also left Japan and South Korea.

It depends on which data points you pick.
> So when I started programming in 2001, it was du jour in the communities I participated in to be highly critical of other languages.

... De rigueur, perhaps? Du jour basically means "of the day" (du = "de le", or "of the", jour = day) as encountered in things like "soup du jour".
It would make a great "American Greed" episode. He got lucky, 7 years is rather on the low end. Usually for running a ponzi scheme this big in the US you get at least 15 years.
Facebook insults, and girls.
Warp Benchmarking for Supermicro and MinIO
Are there tribes within federal agencies, or across the federal administration? It seems like some actors are really against strong encryption and the like, while others actively work to improve it.

Traditionally, this has been explained by saying that the feds have defensive and offensive strategies, but I have to wonder if there are certain federal agents that lean toward one end of the spectrum or the other.
The article says they've announced a recall, so I assume this advice is for people who have chosen not to send the car back yet.

edit: no, I'm confused. From another article:

> The Detroit automaker has recalled all of the roughly 142,000 Bolts sold since 2016 because the battery can catch on fire. GM has taken a $1.8 billion charge so far for the cost of the recall and has been buying cars back from some disgruntled owners.

[...]

> GM has said that when it is confident that LG Chem can produce defect-free battery modules, GM will notify Bolt owners in writing and repairs will begin. Once a repair is made, GM will provide an eight-year/100,000 mile warranty on it. In the meantime, GM has assured Bolt owners that if they follow three steps, the cars should be safe

So they're not ready to repair them yet, but it's unclear whether everyone has the option of a buyback or not. If not, I don't understand how they can be said to have 'recalled' all the cars.
Messenger and Whatsapp for communication
I don't know what an Ethical company means to you or if it should matter. Would groupon be more Ethical then facebook? Apple? Pornhub? Sport betting sites? EA? Walmart? Amazon? Microsoft? Google? Well Fargo? Standard Oil? Starbucks? Blockbusters? Ancestry? Twitter? Reddit? The NBA?

You could debate and compare all of these companies and they come out the same.

NGOs are full of unethical practices hopefully with cover. Small business does unethical at a smaller scale.

More often the successful businesses are the ones willing to be an unethical. The dating company with fake profiles or that tricky sales funnel designed to catch grandma and sell her knitting needles using misleading text.

How ethical is the company you are working for?
I only vouched for this so I can refute it here.

It sucks that you have to go around informing people who claim to be "hackers" that government data is weird, but here we are.

Government data is weird.

Example from this dataset: precinct # 2000 isn't in their GIS. Their system describes it at this URL:

https://recorder.countyofventura.org/ce/mobile/seam/resource...

... as "2000 Oxnard #1-001a" but there is no corresponding precinct in their GIS, where the lexically-nearest precinct is "OXNARD NO. 1-002". On the other hand, there is a corresponding polling place "0004100 Oxnard #101AL", which still has the old designation 4100 for that precinct, as seen in past election results.

The suffix "2000" Seems to have some special significance to this county, as there is 1 such precinct per city, and none of them are in the GIS precinct shapefile:

02000 Avenue #1-001
12000 El Rio #1-001
20000 Hollywood #5-001
2000 Oxnard #1-001a
42000 Mupu #3-001
62000 Rice #3-001
72000 Sta Paula #3-001a
82000 Slvr Strd #5-001a
92000 Thou Oaks #2-001a

What could it mean? Probably early voting in person, provisional voting, or some other "virtual" precinct.'

If you think this is weird I advise you to not look at the US Census.
“Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.

Er, excuse me, who am I?

Hello?

Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?

What do I mean by who am I?

Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.

Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

No.

Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Agree with parent, I think you might not understand what is going on.

At what point would you admit you are wrong? $100K/BTC? $1M/BTC? I will gladly accept that I got it wrong at $0/BTC, hell I’d go as low as $100/BTC. Who is going to be correct?
Quiver Geometry
> The Biden administration's abandonment of Afghanistan could be interpreted as an unwillingness on the part of the U.S. to engage in overseas wars and could change Chinese President Xi Jinping's risk calculations, Ferguson said.

I think this is exactly backwards. Xi was previously exploiting the US’s preoccupation with the Middle East to build up China’s military and militarize South China Sea islands.

With a large chunk of the US military bogged down in a multi-front stalemate with Taliban all across Afghanistan, and maintaining stability in a destabilized Iraq, it was the perfect time for CCP to exploit their limited capabilities.

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan and drawdown in Iraq is clearly about freeing up those forces to refocus on China and possibly Russia, in a pivot back to Great Power competition and balance of power strategies.

The CCP is publicly trying to convince East Asia that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan means the US won’t stand by its allies there, but that’s just posturing. I’m pretty sure both those allies and the CCP know it means exactly the opposite.
My understanding is that GM will replace the battery within 3 years, right?

Seems like a good time to buy a cheap electric car at a discount from someone who is (understandably) impatient.
Right, but if you’re unfamiliar with car terminology, “recall” means “error we will fix”. So it doesn’t mean they’ll buy it back, just that you’re entitled to a manufacturer fix at their cost when they have availability.

Some Bolt folks want a buyback. Seems unlikely.
I've definitely seen signs that say "you can turn here" and "you must turn here", admittedly not with language but with arrows (the "you can turn here" signs around here looking like a forwards arrow with a curved arrow bending off). They're not in general use, only for weird situations (like "two turning lanes" or "yes really this really strange intersection does work like this").

Probably regional though.
>trustlessly

In theory. In practice, it seems to have just moved the trust problem.
Drum Juggling
Where I live we have more cases today (twice more) with 82% of people double-vaccinated then we did last year with 0% vaccinated.
Seems like the obvious conclusion. This is far from the first time Facebook has faced outrage over research they've done. They shut down their analytics page that the top ten on facebook twitter account was using because that lead to outrage too.
> full stack web developer

I think this is par for the course in that subfield.

Part of it is the speed at which things change, both in the software ecosystems and in the change requests to sites. The reliance on comprehensive frameworks (which often need tons of workarounds and glue anyway) also reduces people's desire or experience in actually constructing good abstractions.

Compound this with the fact that startup environments generally don't care about anything other than shipping & pivoting, and want to defer all aspects of longevity.

The same problems exist all over the place, but I think are pretty prominent in these situations in particular.
Key West fun fact, Florida’s first millionaire made his fortune as a wrecker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Curry
A parallel between Facebook and Big Tobacco had never occurred to me until I read this:

> In a move straight out of big tobacco's playbook, Facebook downplayed the negative effects of its product and hid this research from the public and even from members of Congress who specifically asked for it

What would our world be like if it were illegal to have a social media account until you were 21 years old? Interesting to think about.
Rather than dealing with the actual problem, let's go out of our way to limit the collateral damage of what we know is eventually going to happen.
I am a leaf in the wind
If a Bolt owner without a permanent garage spot can manage, then certainly a Bolt owner with a permanent garage spot can manage. The latter has strictly more options than the former.
My 2cents:

1. Tight software/hardware integration (MS have this also).

2. Premium segment positioning in the market, motivating differentiation on quality.

3. Apple brand overall is strongly identified with providing a quality user experience.

4. Other PC makers occupy majority of market which is low-margin, so no motivation to invest in this type of (relatively speaking) niche feature.
The surprising power of daily rituals
Biden Takes Rare Step to Share Nuclear Submarine Technology with Australia
I'd be interested in seeing which set of ethical values helps someone reconcile the two notions of "I'm not a bad person" and "I directly enable human rights abuses on a scale never-before-seen in human history;" or, otherwise, which perspective a person can take that doesn't commit them to the second notion (precluding fundamentally self-deceptive perspectives, such as willful ignorance).
Retro mode should be default.
Right up until you downsize, move to a cheaper area, or pass the value along to the next generation (you die).
That's just arguing on semantics and deliberately ignoring the context. No one is arguing that there is literally no land to put a single building on anywhere in the country.

Obviously when people say land is scarce, they mean that the useful land that people actually want to live on is scarce.

Having a billion square km of sand in the desert isn't useful when someone wants to buy a place to live and exist in a society.
Even joking doesn't always follow since I didn't follow it in your original comment. I just find it easier to be honest from my side, since it always makes you look professional. It also means you don't have to risk being a jerk.

Edited to add:

I think the issue is that if you're trying to "win" the one interview you're in currently, then yeah, odds are you're going to lose typically with this strategy. If you're desperate you're gonna take a lower offer.

But if you see the world as bunch of potential interviews, and start interviewing with a bunch of companies you'll figure out pretty quick what the salary range is gonna be, and you'll know that a startup is gonna pay less on average, and a fortune 500 company has more room to absorb labor costs.

You don't try to win every interview. You're winning the game of interviewing. Because if you try to win one particular interview, you might only be able to get an offer below your market worth, and waste a lot of time doing it just to get that offer. Instead you want to go after the jobs that are going to pay what you're worth.

It's not really that hard to figure out your own market worth.
Anyone know who's financially responsible in cases like that? LG, GM, or shared between the two? I've heard the recall is in excess of 1 billion.
(humor)

> COBOL- still standing the test of time

.. like the plague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague#History
> I fail to see how this matters at all.

Contrast it to "running into the pedestrians"...
Luckily we have a solution to the huge issues with batteries and we've had it since 1883: overhead wires. Not practical with cars but cars aren't practical in a societal sense in cities (too much pollution, even from electric cars, take far too much sates, too much noise, etc.)
some red flag:

1. if you're making 600% annualized you don't take outside investors, you prop trade for your own account.

2. He's very young and didn't have any trading pedigree: normally you would expect someone like this to be ex-js/citsec/etc

3. Sometimes lavish life style can be a give away: often the real rain makers are pretty frugal.

4. Related to 2, but if you're gonna take outside investors for some reason and you're printing like that, you sure as hell aren't gonna take it from random individual. You would raise money from one or a couple big firms or possibly a ultra hnw individual.
The Bolt isn't priced like a BMW though, while the Tesla is.

Even the Model 3, with it's base price of $35k, runs you around $50k after choosing a color and adding the FSD package.

For a $50,000 car, they are really not built well, quality-wise.

The Bolt, with every bell and whistle selected, runs about $37,000, for comparison.
My perception of American designed and engineered vehicles is that they’re really awful, not just from a reliability standpoint but also from a user interface standpoint. GM, Ford, and Chrysler haven’t been building good vehicles in my lifetime - once I switched to Hondas I’ve yet to have any serious engine trouble even in some very old vehicles, whereas every American car I’ve owned has been a money sink. Of course OPMMV, but I’d rather get a Hyundai or Kia nowadays than anything Detroit puts out. Touchscreens everywhere, actually horrible tech branded as being the second coming, vent positions that make no sense.

I’m excited for all the EV models to choose from in the upcoming years but news stories like this make me think it’s gonna be the same old story - an absolute lack of inspiration, mechanical and engineering rigor, and a lot like the USA the staunch belief that in the end it somehow must still be the best despite all evidence to the contrary.
The flammability of lithium batteries kind of freaks me out. I hope we get to non-flammable batteries soon. Imagine a future where every car in a dense parking garage is lithium BEV, and then one of them catches fire. As far as I know, these fires are extremely difficult to put out, requiring enormous amounts of water. What if the fire spreads to many other cars? I'm not sure if this fear is at all rational. Probably not.
I think they all realize that the real harm comes from misinformation, whether it's fake news, anti-vax, or unrealistic expectations. They've been quite good at self-regulation so far, likely to prevent governments from stepping in.
Apple went with the Tesla model and had a PR mess as well as lawsuits
I've heard that China is currently at it's demographic peak. From here on out people are aging with less replacing them, and more and more youth have to support multiple grandparents (effect of one-child policy, which while no longer in effect still has lasting impact).

As such I suppose if they were going to make a move now would be the time.
Isn't this basically what Apple should have done to avoid their throttling lawsuit? Told their customers to change their behaviors?
Why is anything good objectively?
It is good for me because I can stay connected with my mom despite living in different country.
Also facebook group for my town is nice and useful, and my wife enjoys posting in instagram from our trips.

Now multiply this by several billions.
It does help with loans.
The Soviet withdrawal was a bit different since the Union was actively falling apart and the occupied territories were pushing for independence. It wasn't all that smooth either - Georgian civil war and the first Nagorno-Karabakh War directly resulted from USSR's dissolution.
I don't see how electric cars are any different than mobile phones. So basically this means a 3 year life span in terms of battery performance. Regular combustion cars though also suffer reduced mpg so I am not saying this is an apples to apples comparison.
I assume you are a software engineer? If so, part of our job is to use a variety of software tools, since that's our specialty. The researchers are not software developers. They learn how to use one particular tool to do their jobs, but they are not software specialists, nor do they desire to be.