skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a part of me that wonders sometimes if the push to go back to the office is not about the middle managers or even real estate, but about something simpler. It is much harder to coordinate things like that via email without leaving a trace. In the office, you just have a meeting with relevant players.
> no real long term application

That's just not being creative enough. Terraforming other planets to be more Earth-like is the most obvious long-term application, but there are certainly much more near-term applications for advances in energy, heat management, transportation, agriculture, ecology, weather control, etc.

> Unlimited growth and exponential energy usage isn't possible in a closed system.

Absolutely. Thank goodness we're not in a closed system!

If we had access to an unlimited zero-emission power source and as much matter as we wanted, I wager that some people would still say growth is unsustainable. That reveals in their hearts they're about controlling behavior, not fixing a problem.
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"Action on climate change" very vague... mostly that is "get more electricity from renewable, maybe get an electric car". It is nothing that reduces the quality of life, that is supported from very few people, almost none. There is reasons the answer to how to fund is always "make the rich pay", Americans do not like paying for stuff.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28709481

> The aspect of the problem not talked about is that a lot of automotive chips are really, really old.

> And they are old, because of many certification requirements set partially by the industry, and a few odd governments.

> In reality, most of them are both less reliable, and harder to work with in comparison to open market parts.

> The only two things I seen chips with micron scale nodes used in my life were: air conditioner boards, and car parts.

For example, who in the world today makes PMOS TTL chips? I bet the few foundries who can still do that will bill car parts makers an arm, and a leg for keeping making something this old

Want to migrate? Find somebody who can can translate hand-drawn TTL chip to moderately modern CMOS under 60 years old.

At times, the cases about I heard of car makers were having troubles with were also nothing less of direct consequence of conscious overengineering: some BWMs have one STM32 per window switch just to blink the LED, and do ADC despite the switch having just 5 positions. And now they can't ship because of this single LED blinker.
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Calls for breaking up companies make great headlines for politicians but let's look at the history and why this was necessary as a solution to antitrust.

The textbook case for the Sherman Act was Standard Oil. Built up by Rockefeller in the late 19th century, Standard Oil came to effectively control the extraction, refining, distribution and sale of kerosene (in particular). This is when oil pipelines began, interestingly to break up another monopoly: the railroads (for distribution).

Standard Oil split into a bunch of companies, many of which still exist today (eg Chevron, Exxon-Mobil). This break up actually made Rockefeller (even more) fantastically wealthy.

The key point is that Standard Oil could (and did) use its significant market power to squash competitors.

Another example: the Paramount decision that split film studios, distribution and theaters.

Personally I think very few Big Tech companies would warrant this kind of government action and top of that list for me would be Amazon, whose stranglehold on logistics, delivery and online storefronts is near-total. Amazon's delivery prices (FedEx, UPS, USPS primarily) cannot be matched. The barrier to entry is so huge, no one could reasonably compete.

But Facebook? Let's look at the last 10 years. FB bought IG when (IMHO) IG represented an existential threat to FB. So if you're going to argue market dominance, you're going to have to explain how a company a few years old with 13 employees (at the time of acquisition) could possibly threaten FB.

Another is TikTok.

Can we stop applying standards developed for 19th century oil producers to Big Tech where distribution is essentially free and said companies exist only so long as the users want them to?

I know it's trendy for lawmakers to bang their drums about an issue as a kneejerk reaction to grab some headlines and that they must hurry to do so before the market just solves the problem anyway but still.

Disclaimer: Ex-Facebooker. Opinions are my own.
Depending on your nationality and location of commiting the crime though. If you're in a country that feels cyber crimes are actual crimes, you'd be screwed. If you're in a country that says as long as you don't commit these acts acts your country or fellow countrymen, you're good to go.
On top of everything you're saying, all the press about how close we are to achieving usable nuclear fusion is a huge distraction from the real problems we are facing.

Energy production is but a tiny problem to solve to keep our planet habitable by humans. It's not even a big part of fixing climate change as even if we found the miracle technology today, it would take the best part of the current century to deploy it on an industrial scale, which would be too late.

We need to fix what we _do_ with the energy, not just how we produce it. If we keep on building car parks and shopping malls and generally destroying what keeps us alive, even with clean energy, we are still doomed.

Of course, research is essential and this is good research, but it's the press enthusiasm around experimental fusion reactors that I am criticizing here.
I’m not sure why you are downvoted.

I’m a native speaker and I did have a phase as a teenager when I thought that language must have to do something with intellect, mostly based on some nationalistic feeling. But I’m yet to find anything that would make it that special.

The only rare linguistic thing it has is double negation (we say I’ve never not eaten something instead of never eaten) - which might paradoxically help? (Due to people having to leave behind linguistic symbolism to properly do logical reasoning? But I’m entirely guessing here)
Of course. Have you not seen the VMs written in JS?

https://bellard.org/jslinux/
>0 vehicles sold

This is incorrect, they should hit 10k+ deliveries by the end of the year.

The S1 only has data until 9/30/21.
This feels like lack of planning. The semiconductor industry was a known entity for many years before this level of integration came to vehicles. They should have known this would happen.

Ultimately the industry will have to maintain their own production for consistent silicon.
I love node.js. I also love Python and Zig. Different tools for different jobs. Any one is really bad for some things and amazingly good at others.
I've read that that stuff is bad for your liver. Worth keeping an eye out for signs of jaundice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragyna_speciosa#Liver_toxic...
I never said it's a problem. I asked what's the problem that "You can’t quite run it on [...] say, a guitar."
The Internet Archive is collective action...in action. Why would they use any other word? It's an example of people successfully working together for a common goal.
> Now we have a monopoly of a much bigger, more user-hostile browser(s) and the web "standards" effectively under the control of a single company

I’m not saying thing are great now but it was definitely worse in the IE6 days. Back then it was a literal monopoly. At least currently we do still have WebKit (Safari) and Gecko (Firefox) plus Blink is open source, which Trident (Internet Explorer) never was.

Better yet, the alternatives these days do still work 99% of the time. Whereas in the early days of Firefox and Opera, and in the later days of Navigator/Communicator, you basically had to accept that a disappointingly high number of sites didn’t render properly at all.

In an ideal world we would see Chrome’s market share much lower, but I’d still take the current ecosystem over the IE6 days in a heartbeat.
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I don’t think it’s Node that people don’t like. It’s more the ecosystem and developers around it. An example would be people focusing more on branding and landing pages.
Ah no, quite the opposite. It is simply that we figured out mass media, and the ways it is manipulated and used for manipulation. We have not yet reached that with social media.
As an example, I worked (as a third party) for a bank once.

The way the system here in Switzerland works is thus:

The government has an office which supplies a certificate that says "this person has not had criminal charges pressed against them for the crimes X, Y and Z for the last N years".

A bank can demand (and did, in my case) this certificate from new employees for crimes like Fraud and violent crimes (I assume).

The job candidate requests the certificate from the government and hands a copy over to the company. Obviously if they know they would fail, they don't have to do this part, and can simply stop pursuing the job instead.

IIRC (this wasn't relevant for me), a company weren't allowed to simply ask for a wildcard certificate, it had to be reasonable for the job.
This is the sort of tip I've been looking for!

We (NZ) got a gift from the UK of gorse bush which now runs pretty rampant, but interestingly it's now being used as a tool for repopulating native plants, as it's hardy nature means it can work as a shield for vulnerable young native plants (https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-press/20210605/2... is the best source I could find for this, but I walked through that area about 10 years ago which is how I came to learn about it)
Psychedelics may reduce shame and trauma for sufferers of childhood abuse
'Facebook data scientists and researchers discussed how they were being “embarrassed” by their own employer.' Boy that's a mistake; we know as much as we do because Facebook employees are tired of being ignored by their executive team.

Do you work inside Facebook? Consider leaking what you know to a reporter or research group you trust. Jeff Horwitz of the WSJ may be a good option, he has contact info in his twitter bio https://twitter.com/JeffHorwitz

If you're involved in something you fear is illegal you may want to talk to a personal lawyer. And keep written records at home in a secure place.
Considering its popularity, vast ecosystem, and widespread use, you can't just state that it's hated so much - that is just your impression based on few very noisy people.
I think Jewish culture has a tendency of making the cleverest man marry the richest woman — and overall pay close attention to discovering talent within their communities.
The question is, how many hobbyist licenses get sold at the current price? If that number is rather large - great good for them. If it is only a couple of licenses, then they might consider options which open up the environment to a larger audience. Like people completely new to Lisp. Which later might turn it towards commercial applications.

I tried the no-cost edition, but as it couldn't run my pet project I was working on back then (memory limit), that trial lasted a few minutes and I continued to use SBCL.
Propaganda? I was sharing my opinion on a post that explicitly asked for it, you're welcome to disagree with it
They're typically on the side of the road for the same kinds of reasons as any other cars - people stopping to fidget with phones or stuck with flat tires.

It's reasonable to expect (and reality appears to deliver) long and low-maintenance life from an electric vehicle [0]. There are, of course, issues of keeping the battery warm enough and cold weather climate control. One of the big advances in the Model 3 is using a heat pump for heating where previous models (and most other electric cars, like the Bolt that I drive) use a resistor.

Further mechanical improvements in insulation and thermal management will probably continue to push cold-weather performance quite a ways further. It is, however, always going to be a challenge. Your ICE vehicle produces quite a huge amount of waste heat which can be redirected to the cabin or the glass. And, of course, they're not completely immune to the cold themselves. Places with really serious winters have parking spaces with electrical outlets for engine block heaters. Those will continue to have utility in an electrified future to keep batteries warm and charged.

Personally I'm very excited to see urban delivery trucks electrify sooner rather than later. They're doing a lot of stop-and-go and idle a lot. And they don't drive very fast. So they're super-obvious low-hanging fruit that will really help reduce noise and air pollution in cities. Plus, cargo loading times are long enough to significantly mitigate charging times. Mid-range last-mile delivery in rural areas will be a little bit harder, but still seems plenty achievable with technology we have right now. Long haul seems more difficult and the benefits over a hybrid less clear.

In all cases, however, there's no excuse for being stuck on the side of the road for want of energy. All road vehicles, regardless of their source of energy, indicate how much they have left. Running out is an operator error.

[0] https://electrek.co/2018/07/17/tesla-model-s-holds-up-400000...
This is a lot of effort to express opposition to repealing section 230. Their timeline starts with that event.
I look forward to the cyber-punkish future (real soon now?) where there's an old beige computer case with a Pentium MMX sticker on it on someone's passenger seat with wires snaking into the engine bay. "Yeah the ECU died, so I had to hack together this replacement...".
The flood mitigation that the Dutch have implemented is just unbelievably impressive.
> you should never go rouge like this because if you don't pull it off flawlessly you will be terminated

Live a little; they knew the risks going in and were convinced it was worth getting terminated. I have staked my employment on things I strongly believed in before. The corollary was I wouldn't want the job anyway, if the organization disagreed.
”The potential hazardous effects on humans by alternate ingestion of microparticles can cause alteration in chromosomes which lead to infertility, obesity, and cancer”

(”Microplastic pollution, a threat to marine ecosystem and human health: a short review” by Shivika Sharma, Subhankar Chatterjee; Environmental Science and Pollution Research 24 (27), 21530-21547, 2017)

”In all biological systems, microplastic exposure may cause particle toxicity, with oxidative stress, inflammatory lesions and increased uptake or translocation. The inability of the immune system to remove synthetic particles may lead to chronic inflammation and increase risk of neoplasia. Furthermore, microplastics may release their constituents, adsorbed contaminants and pathogenic organisms.”

(”Environmental exposure to microplastics: An overview on possible human health effects” by Joana Correia Prata, João P da Costa, Isabel Lopes, Armando C Duarte, Teresa Rocha-Santos; Science of the Total Environment 702, 134455, 2020)
If Facebook wasn't behaving anti-competitively by preventing interoperability this might work, but as of right now an individual may not always have a choice in using Facebook.

A lot of businesses, social clubs, schools/daycare centers, etc use Facebook as their primary online presence. Your option is to either sign up or not participate.
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Which is why all hacker shows dramatically use fake screens and what not and/or covered over with montages to speed things along. Real hacking is boring as fuck.
While bikes, walking, and public transportation are great in cities, for much of the United States those are not viable options.
I'm not sure what "doing nothing" would look like if we don't mean "continue on our current path".

The entire set of Western values as cemented by the Cold War seems incompatible with "less economic activity". And even if we somehow shake consumerism, modern agriculture is essential to feeding more than 1B humans and requires a significant amount of industrial scale economic activity.

The majority of the time "buy/make this thing to reduce climate change" is a mere distraction. But there are a lot of resources that we can afford to spend, some of which are near-limitless if you consider predictable advances like asteroid mining. If we find ways to spend those resources to get us at least part way out of this mess, or to buy us time for societal change, then those are paths worth pursuing.
Yes non believers who believe that no life matters but their own. Very important to let them continue to destroy the world
> Most arguments, even in this thread already, are just wrong. Obviously they have never had any experience with the Node.js ecosystem and another.

What makes them obviously wrong? To me they sound like sound arguments by people who actually use(d) it.
I never heard of 88, but the ok symbol was definitely a 4chan creation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture

So, I’m very skeptical of “secret Nazi dog whistle” nonsense.

If something is incorrect, it sufficient to say that it’s incorrect, and explain why. Claiming something is a secret dog whistle for Nazis just means that you don’t have any credible refutation about its correctness.
>I still didn't understand why people here found it interesting.

I would suggest this is a serious lack of imagination on your part rather than the rest of the HN viewers being flawed.
Show HN: Escape film recommendation algorithms and expand your horizons
Other players such as Nick Drake, composed on piano, and tuned the guitar to accommodate the composition.
Correct, and the reason is clear. There is no incentive to do research like this in the open. Even asking the question is grounds for being pilloried in the court of public opinion.
The statistics are based on Census 2017 data published by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Can't we use these giant fans to blow the hurricane away?

/s because I am serious
IMO this argument isn't all or nothing. Sure, popular things are hated but Node is especially eggregious. There is more to it than "its just popular".

In my experience, the entire JS ecosystem does not respect robustness, stability, backwards compatibility, correctness, testability, and learning from other ecosystems. It continues to erode itself with emojis in the package manager, childish schzophrenia of frameworks, complete disregard for proven methodologies and extreme indifference to maintainability.
> “We were able to substitute alternative chips, and then write the firmware in a matter of weeks,” Musk said. “It’s not just a matter of swapping out a chip; you also have to rewrite the software.”

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22595060/tesla-chip-short...
The idea that FB will become a radioactive brand is wishful thinking that people indulge in with every new FB "scandal". Recruiting (yes even from "target" schools) hasn't slowed one bit. And regarding eg FAIR: The ones that have started murmuring about jumping ship are not the ones that are excellent but the ones that have outsized ideas of themselves as do-gooders.
How to be not-so-bad at giving bad reviews
Wait, are we talking about FOX or NPR?
Never is a long time, and the US is not the only country in the world.
Well a Chinese billionaire who did would be disappeared
But the web today already has graphics, sound, portability, etc. Web3 isn't offering anything beyond our current capabilities.
Being heavily coupled to the front-end. There's a perceived attitude that many Node devs are just front-end devs with enough back-end knowledge to be dangerous. With this is the overloading of the term "full stack".

The early perceived coupling with MongoDB didn't help.
The article you linked disproves your point: In 2016, the US was responsible for 57 percent of new chemical entities worldwide. From this perspective, ensuring increased investment in R&D seems logical.
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There are cars where the enthusiast scene burns their own ECU EEPROMS to compensate air:fuel calculations after installing larger injectors, better flowing intakes, etc.

Edit: There's also some "universal ECUs" from companies like Haltech. They sell a single ECU plus some adapter cables to make that single ECU run on a broad variety of cars from the 90's.

Possible since the 90's cars all have the same rough types/numbers of sensors. Switchable software does the rest. I imagine this doesn't work past some year of make as the cars got more complex.
Admittedly it was a long time ago, but I worked in the semi industry and this isn't how things were done. We manufactured batches of totally obsolete EOLed devices for various customers when they had sufficient volume. Devices that are in volume production (e.g. for cars) are carefully managed by people who do nothing but ensure that they're available in the right place at the right time in the right volume. In order to not have product available to meet demand either a factory has to go on fire, or the customer has to screw up their forecast.
Because of this:

https://i.redd.it/h7nt4keyd7oy.jpg

I remember back in the late 2000's/early 2010s, there was a blogger, I think at google, who claimed that "the next programming language has already been chosen for you". In retrospect, he was clearly talking about javascript, which got a tremendous push from the big tech players despite all its obvious problems. Now we are stuck with a mess of code written in an ugly language.

Why the big guys picked javascript, I don't know. Maybe to ensure that everyone was so bogged down in dependencies, language incompatibilities and callback hell that no competitors would arise?

EDIT: It was Steve Yeggie, back in 2007: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.h...
>(don't worry there is a waiting room to prepare)

I really like this sentence.

A few ramblings before trying this:

Kind of Omegle but safe for work ?

LinkedIn and GitHub as Login options. Gives information about users.

I just tried it. There are 0 people. I clicked Ready to Chat and it said that it's looking for matches.

If I click the Back button, then it'll increment the number of users online.

If I click ready to chat then the back button again, it will increment the number of users as many times as I do this.
> Tesla has tons of videos on YouTube from users showcasing similar technology

As you know, Tesla's technology 1) lacks lidar and 2) is not targeted towards driverless operation (yet).

The AV industry isn't in a place where it's building light AGI that elegantly handles the driving task through a sophisticated understanding of the world. The systems out there are still fit to their fairly near-term objectives; it's ridiculous to assume that Tesla's camera-only, hands-on-the-wheel system tells you which issues (if any) are faced by systems with different objectives built on dramatically different hardware.
It's _much_ easier to stop using Facebook than, say, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, etc.