skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Urban" in the US can still be quite different from "urban" of Europe or other places around the world.

I live in a really close suburb of one of the biggest cities in the US. I technically live in an "urban" area, and places further out from the actual city that are less dense are still considered "urban". The population density here is ~4,000 people/mi^2. A similar comparison to Paris location-wise would be something like Le Blanc-Mesnil, which has a density of 18,000 people/mi^2. Both of these are considered "urban", but they are extremely different kinds of cities density-wise.
>Finally, when Texas' grid has issues with big events which knocks out power, it captures national headlines for months on end. When California has blackouts, its just California being California

Meanwhile, the other 48 states, including a tiny island and a giant tundra wasteland larger than Texas have no problem keeping their power on in adverse weather.
Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
Looking at the video Tesla was probably not closer than 25 feet from any pedestrians. If pedestrians were closer I think their proximity would make the car stop as in other videos.

As to abrupt maneuver, EU limits rate of change for steering control and I think it would be wise for US to adopt something similar for driver assist systems.
Sure - which is why I'm answering your question regarding how haters will feel under this proposed intervention, that yes, you've agreed with
> I am astounded that software capable of these outputs is allowed on the roads.

Me too. However, in my encounter with software like this, it usually runs on meat brains.
Rich people get access to astonishingly favorable loans. And they never have to make interest payments.

> Merrill Lynch recently quoted an interest rate of 3.2% to clients with at least $1 million in assets. Those with $100 million or more can get a rate as low as 0.87%.

These are loss leaders for banks. They want to entice incredibly wealthy people to do business with them and have their companies do business with them.

Wealthfront has a product for the merely rich: https://www.wealthfront.com/portfolio-line-of-credit

> Because your line of credit is secured by your diversified investment portfolio, we can keep the rates low for you. Depending on account size, current rates are 2.40% - 3.65%. Using a line of credit is generally cheaper than carrying a balance on a credit card or taking out a personal loan.

> Borrow up to 30% of your account whenever you need it, for whatever you need. Pay back what you borrow and the interest payment on your own schedule.
A 2U server with this same processor (and a case and powersupply) is in the $10k range, so I'd expect something around that.
~12% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is no small matter and it shouldn't be dismissed but choice of denominator is important.

If we choose number of plastic bags consumed in American on an annual basis (100 Billion [1]) and go by the mass per bag (5.5g [2]) then just plastic bags in America is 550K tonnes/year of plastic.

Also, according to the UN the world produces as much as 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste a year and they estimate 20% of it is recycled. [3]

So, ya. A penny saved is a penny earned and all. But it's still a penny.

[1] https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_...

[2] https://stanfordmag.org/contents/plastic-bags-to-recycle-or-...

[3] https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/un-repor...
Who defines intolerance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time
For understanding chips of that era, one good source is Introduction to VLSI Systems, which has a PDF at: https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/VLSIText/PP-V2/...
> good use
Maybe it's just me, but it seems the car wanted to make a right turn on the right part of that side street. There are no pedestrians there.

It's actually the interference of the driver that stops the turn halfway, and steers towards the people at the left starting to cross that street.

I wonder what would have happened when the driver didn't interfere. I guess that the right turn would have been completed without any problem.

But maybe I'm missing some extra info here?
Indeed, equity can pay off in major ways. I’ve been fortunate to be involved in 2 startups that would eventually IPO and the bags of money at the end of those rainbows were life changing. I’ve been involved on the failed side too, ironically from a company that was extremely stingy with equity due to some very early success that was not able to scale and eventually got crushed - poor management.

My only point is to be careful joining a company mainly because of ISO stock options, as are the most popular in our industry. It’s more important that you believe strongly in the product and business, and have reason to believe the management is strong. You won’t be given access to the cap table or equity structure and should seriously consider what you’re sacrificing and what your title really means within the context of the size of the company.

Startups are fun. They have less structure, you get to wear many hats, early successes seem easy and the cult of joy is contagious. However a series D 5 years later while the company is still feeling a bit too startup like and on their 3rd CEO is the more likely outcome.
The only thing that has ever worked for me is gamifying it. Ring Fit Adventure, Oculus Move, Apple Watch competitions, etc.
Even before having been involved in a car accident two years ago, I have always been annoyed with the car industry, and looked on incredulously at the kind of racket that people are suckered into dealing with. Buying a car is like being forced to consume a lifestyle brand, being the result of what amounts to light collusion from automakers to offer nothing else. Since the accident, forced to have dealt with a process that I had been able to avoid up to that point by sticking with my past purchase and staving off the temptation for anything newer and shinier (which wasn't really very tempting at all, given the status quo in the car industry), I have become only more convinced of the need for a reliable $5000 "Costco car". It's a special source of despair knowing that low-income people get ensnared under the current regime that ends with them thinking that the the best option is to pour so much money into $10–20–30k cars that end up being junk, or else risk gambling on something in a lower price range.

Musk professes to have a mission of weaning it off its addiction to fossil fuels, but at Tesla's luxury car prices for what are luxury products, it's not going to make much of a dent, at least not very quickly. The availability of a no-frills EV with reasonable (i.e. next to zero recurring) maintenance costs would almost certainly contribute more to humanity than all the work so far that's gone into SpaceX and Tesla combined.
Why not both? More lush by the rivers, and still arid away from water.

But they could still only have camels as their pack animals, since that's all they'd domesticated. It's not like camels will die in non-arid locations
I remember doing that, as well. I had Slackware running with some custom patches. I had to upgrade the kernel, libc, ld.so, and a bunch of other stuff. For a while, I had a system that ran both a.out and ELF binaries. This was back in 1996 or so?
Some instruments are made for beginners. I think the same correlations would be easy to find in software productivity.

C++ :: Saxaphone Wix :: Recorder; or something
I meant permanent solutions in energy. Not carbon capture. Apologies I can see how my comment wasn’t clear
TIL there's a search box on HN.
> The reason prosecution is so low and doesn't include more violent offenders is because the federal government is lackadaisical and decides not to prosecute them. They instead allow the states to prosecute under state law.

Wait, so the 3% number is a lie? It’s not the percentage prosecuted. It’s the percentage prosecuted by the federal government rather than the states?

You said: “Only 3% of federal firearm offenses are prosecuted.”

Which turns out to be false. The offenses are prosecuted, just not by the federal government. You say that is ‘lackadaisical’ as if you have some justification for that, but deferring to states is a common practice in the US and indicates no such thing.

It sure looks like you are intentionally trying to mislead people, otherwise you’d probably have mentioned this up front.

As far as racism goes, it’s pretty easy to understand if you apply Ibram Kendi’s definition - if it disproportionately affects black communities, it is a racist policy.
Seriously, reading comments like those you replied to hurts my head.

In fact all that's been happening is trickle up, since the wealthiest keep siphoning more and more money, such that we essentially have no middle class left.

I like how we use the word class and then deny having a class/caste system.
Because its poverty and economy are like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand much much much more than Argentina.
So blindly follow random instructions without making sure it's the safe thing to do?

The car was driving 11 mph. The obvious thing to do is very simple: hit the brakes! Stop, re-evaluate, and then continue.
There are lots of powers which if shed would not be picked up by somebody else. For example if you remove the government's ability to grant FISA warrants for wiretaps, that does not suddenly grant wiretapping powers to other entities. Shut down the EPA and no one gains the ability to regulate sulphur emissions. Shut down the FDA and no one gains the authority to stop drugs from going to market. Shut down the patent office and no one gains the ability to grant patents.

There are cases where the government is actively limiting other entities abilities to abuse their powers. For example you want to restrict who a power company can shut off service to so they don't extort people in the middle of winter. Giving up the regulation of such utilities would simply be a power transfer (no pun intended). But this represents only a small fraction of the governments powers, and in general unregulated means exactly that.
I know that this won't help (teens just won't listen, that's what being a teen is all about) but what I'd try to teach a teen is that in no particular order:

1. everybody is fucking around and finding out

2. most adults don't really know what they're doing, so don't even bother about other teens that look cool

3. the most important people that you should be friends with, try to look cool for and have compassion for is yourself

4. FOMO is really a thing and induces a lot of people to do very dumb stuff, some of which will be regretted later

5. 99% of what you see on social media is purposedly crafted and fake

6. you don't everybody's approval most of the time, even in life in general

7. most mistakes are fixable, often times you can make amend

8. some laws are dumb but you should follow them anyway because the risks and annoyances in getting on the wrong side of the court can get very bad very fast.

If a teen could understand these relatively simple points, they could probably use any social network and would probably chose to use none of them.
No Man’s Land, Part I: The Trench Stalemate
Mikrotik products are very popular among people running WISPs, and their product range reflects this, with a whole range designed specifically for that purpose.

Even their standard wall/ceiling-mount AP is weatherproof and comes with pole mount attachments.
A moment of silence for those poor millionaires/billionaires who will have to pay taxes like filthy plebs.
When I started running I found this guide to be helpful and realistic for my starting point as a beginner: https://i.imgur.com/iWVU9vc.jpeg

Basically working your way up from "I can't run for longer than a minute" to "I can run 30 minutes nonstop".
I've heard that Japanese consumers are much
more careful with their stuff

I've always heard that as well and anecdotally it matches my experience when ordering previously-owned items from Japan via eBay, etc.

One could conjecture a number of reasons. Relative to America, the average Japanese living space is smaller and when one owns less items I imagine one would take care of each item more carefully. Additionally, some items are simply more expensive in Japan: physical media such as music CDs have typically been something like 2x as expensive as in America.

I suspect it actually goes deeper than that and there are deeper cultural factors at play, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to expound on them.

As an American I've never understood how other Americans can be so rough with their stuff. I'd rather own fewer, nicer things and maintain them. Perhaps it's just my innate cheapness.

Of course, if I had free Walkmans like you as a kid -- I bet I would have abused them too. After all, they were free =)
What's the Borg????
A very nice explanation, thank you!
I've been using the free, open-source React Admin https://marmelab.com/react-admin/ framework for this use case, and I really like how it works and how little code I need to write. I used it to quickly build an internal CMS, and it handles relational stuff well. For instance, if I have pieces of content, each of which can have multiple tags, it handles all the tag lookups using typical REST API calls. Also integrates well with our existing auth system (AWS Cognito).

There are some other low-code tools that have similar premises and offer things like ETL tools. We evaluated one called Retool https://retool.com and it seemed pretty cool, but because it's a per-user pricing model, the costs can be pretty substantial when you have a lot of people using the tool.
Zillow latest to loosen WFH pay rules
If you look more close into Chamberlain’s record it’s pretty clear he was playing for time while he put his efforts into Britain’s depleted armed forces and armaments. It wasn’t all about appeasement.
No issues with my .co domain.
If Java had anonymous (structural) records, then named arguments could just be a function with a parameter that has a record structural type.
It could even be given syntactic sugar, something like:

foo{ bar=true, baz=true }
Ah, in those days I remember friends referred to Microsoft as The Evil Empire.

I think there was also a little bit of "friendly" debate over the superior OS at the time. (I ran OS/2 Warp for a number of years myself.)
I'm working on a project with a somewhat related concept (dynamically generated PWA built from configuration generated by a simple UI) and I can appreciate some of the complexities involved in building a a framework and composable component library.

From what is shown in the video, I think the biggest limitation is that this approach would only work if the data model is stored in a document store. Each new "itemId" just becomes a property in a big JSON file and the framework knows what to update and how to update it because the "schema" is just controlled by the shape of the component tree and the type of component. That probably works for some use cases, but it's not something that scales IMO.
Ultra-Wealthy secured loans don't work like mortgages you and I deal with. On a $1 billion dollar asset, they can borrow like 40% of that, with no monthly payments, just one big balloon payment at the end of the 10+ year term with a little bit of accrued interest. They simply refinance in 10 years, and now the asset is worth $3 billion and then they take out an even bigger loan. Because it's a loan, it's not considered taxable income. And the interest payments on this loan are tax deductible. And usually these assets (like real estate, or stocks) often pay out dividends or rental income. So they can borrow on these assets ad infinitum and use the proceeds to continue to reinvest in more hard assets and to fund their lavish lifestyle. They won't directly own a super-yacht, their company will own it and rent it back to them, with the maintenance expenses considered business expenses since it's a rental business. Same with their vacation houses. Along the way they may pay a modicum of capital gains taxes on the stock dividends, but it's usually offset by the tax-deductible interest on the loan itself. Rinse and repeat for a few decades.

At the end of it all, they have enough dividends/rental income, that's paying for lavish lifestyles, and they still own all of the hard assets that they can then pass down to their heirs with minimal taxable events.
Another thing I've observed is when you have two measures that operate at different time scales. Both may even be valid measures, but the one measured (and responded to) more often has a stronger impact, and can negatively impact the less frequently measured metric when there's a conflict between them.

A particular instance for this has been (to keep it simple) quantity (speed) and quality in production environments (factories and the like). Daily throughput measures paired with less frequent quality measures. The desire is to keep throughput high, and quality ends up suffering as a result. By integrating quality measures into the process you make the two measures compete on more equal footing, forcing a balance. At least one factory I worked in (well, adjacent to, I was in the software portion not the assembly line) massively reduced their quality problems by integrating quality checks between each station. This contrasted with the prior years where throughput, being measured and reacted to daily, drove them to make things so fast that they had piles of rework at the end. Integrating the quality measures between stations slowed them down, but their rework numbers turned into a rounding error (over a decade ago so I've forgotten the exact numbers, but they went from having items needing rework nearly every day to maybe one or two a month). As a result their real (deliverable to customers) production increased and their cost per unit dropped.
go with python, it's the most general purpose language out there. devops/data science/data engineering/web it's just so versatile.

nodejs/javascript story is so fragmented, but there's a lot of innovation going on right now for how to make the most performant web app without sacrificing developer productivity.
No - this is elementary game theory. By precommitting to "if I withdraw the app I will go to jail", then the Russian threat would become ineffective and they wouldn't make it to begin with.

Granted, the real world is more complicated but this is equivalent of using the strategy of disabling your steering wheel before playing a game of chicken.
This still 100% relies on their servers being up, which is no different than a website. So you absolutely still have to worry about their servers being down, which makes it pointless.
I'm okay with this if and only if anyone who fails the "good driver" test gets their $10,000 back.
https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/limitations#browser_supp...

Possibly related to the 3p cookies limitation described in the docs? Cloud Shell itself has wide ranging browser support.
I have family in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and other states. They've definitely lost power in major snowstorms before, sometimes for multiple days. I've lost power from hurricanes and other kinds of weather events elsewhere. Losing power from big weather events isn't an incredibly uncommon thing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/over-1-million-lose-pow...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/death-toll-rise...

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-08-06-isaias-...

Were you really trying to suggest the other 48 states never lose power in extreme weather situations?
Hitting the brakes in the middle of an intersection is very safe.

What exactly would the machine evaluate in a couple seconds that it can’t do instantly?
Funny, you see the same mistake at exactly the same spot, albeit less spectacular, in the video linked from the tweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWc-r0InwVk&t=148s
Nobody remembers "The Git Parable"?

https://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.ht...
Wanting to do my own 3D graphics after playing Elite was a strong motivator. I figured out all the rotation maths just by drawing triangles on paper and figuring out what the angles were and therefore the formulas. You might be able to find fragments of graphics math in library books and then photocopy it - I remember reading about hidden surface removal by calculating the normals to the faces and their direction to the viewer. I know I had a rotating cube written in BASIC at some point. I don’t remember learning the cross product in school until A levels though!

My dad took the day off work to take me to the PC show at Earls Court in I think 1988. I spent my hard earned paper round money on the assembler and it massively improved my productivity.

I figured out how to do multiplies and divides on the Z80 while doing my paper round. In retrospect it was just long division but it wasn’t obvious to me at the time!

There were lots of other little math tricks that having a slow processor taught you. If you tried to draw circles by calculating sine and cosine it was too slow. Instead you rotated each point by a fixed angle and then used reflections to use that to plot eight points at a time.

All this stuff is still super useful. I drop down to look at the disassembly of x64 code all the time. Large code bases don’t scare me. You have source code! I had to disassemble games and ROMs to figure out how they worked - printing out fragments and then annotating them. The disassembler took 5KB of space so you’d have to load it in at different addresses to get at all the code.
Going behind pedestrians in a crosswalk is legal in many states.

Not in the state in which this particular Tesla was being driven:

"The operator of an approaching vehicle shall stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian, bicycle, or personal delivery device to cross the roadway..."

https://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.61.235
I was shown Mullvad by a YouTuber I respect (Mental Outlaw) and I can't think of a better VPN service. Not only that, but they might just have the most respectable payment model. No accounts. Crypto allowed. Or just plain mailed cash. These guys are excellent.
That explanation does make sense. But Shitlassian guy did talk about things that were done wrong to other people, so I'm not sure he'd be able to pass this test.
> Especially if the resulting output is literate, self-documenting, and easily amenable to later human editing.

Big 'if' right there.

I can see 'solved' problems being increasingly automated away (how many times do we need to write basic auth systems?), but in order to automate the entire pipeline you would need:

- a specification language so detailed that it's basically a programming language

- assumptions so strong they're liable to be subtly wrong

ML can help, but we've all seen codex... we aren't there yet.
The whole "vulnerable vs. non-vulnerable" debate is null once you actually understand how viruses work, though. The whole point of preventing spread was to also prevent mutation/variants - the same reason why everyone getting vaccinated is important.
I feel like the purpose of your posts is more about bemoaning infrastructure tools and less about discussing the original post's product. I'm not really sure it's productive. I definitely do not find it productive.
As a dev: there are pretty much no legitimate use cases for a teen on social media that aren't better served by other means.

As someone who was once a teen: the only one they are going to want is the one they think the cool people are on. By hook or by crook, they will get there.

As a dad: Absolutely not. Throw out all internet-capable devices. Construct a Faraday cage around your domicile.