skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't disagree with you that certainly the large carmakers spend more on marketing without a doubt, but then again Volkswagen also sells about as many cars in two weeks as Tesla does in a year.

The size difference aside I also think it's sometimes hard to tell though what at Tesla is marketing and what is research. The Cybertruck to me almost was about as much marketing for Tesla overall as it is an actual product. And when it comes to SpaceX and Tesla, I wouldn't exactly say that shooting a roadster into space qualifies as automotive research.
C++20 std:format is 2x slower than std:fstream?
> Just over 10 years ago pretty much only way to install latest apps on your "internet communicator" phone was to go to xda-developers, browse the forum and download some random files and trust they won't brick your Windows Mobile device.

Nonsense, I had a Palm Pre with webOS in 2009 and at that time it had an official App Catalog and you could add third-party repositories to it. PreWare[1] was amazing, and made the Pre one of the best phones I've ever had.

Before that I had a Nokia N900 with Maemo/Meego. It had an app store based on apt, and you could add third-party repositories to it, as well.

> Mobile operators controlled the market and software on the phones everywhere.

They certainly didn't on the Pre, Pre 2 or N900. I had more freedom to install software on my phone in 2010 than I do now with a modern iPhone or iPad.

> If you would tell anyone 15 years ago that they would be able to sell software on a digital shelf where 1 billion people can find and purchase it in under 30 seconds, they wouldn't believe you.

Steam's store existed in 2005.

[1] https://webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware
To each their own, but to be honest I'm always baffled, and quite saddened, by this "don't make friends at work" "advice".

I've made many, many friends at work, and this near-paranoia level of "you might be pissing off someone else" - so what? I don't need, or want, to be friends with everyone, and I'm quite fine if some people don't like me.
Then maybe you need to add the following to the [Interface] section of your wg0.conf on your server or else I don't know ;-) :

PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
I have at this point lost count of the number of times I or someone else I know on Discord has described getting Youtube recs or ads directly referencing shit they'd just talked about.

I started getting blasted with YT recs for weeks for a channel I had never heard of, never watched, had no real common connections with ... until someone referenced them in a conversation on Discord.

Now, you can shit on that as anecdotal or "intuition" or whatever, but come on. This is HN. No one here is ignorant about the level of data sharing that goes on in the adtech space, and everyone claims they don't until Gmail's selling you ads based on your emails.

It's not like someone's just argued that the president is a space alien. We're talking about suggesting a for-profit internet company is doing something that literally damn near all the for-profit internet companies do and have done now for decades. The bigger question is to how anyone could be so credulous as to assume they are not.
Thank you for this comment.

Could you expand a little around your last sentence:
> …afraid I meditated incorrectly…

The dots to your argument didn’t quite connect for me. Maybe there’s some well known fact about meditation and theta states I don’t know about?

Curious what you think was incorrect for your circumstance?

Do you have another approach to meditating that you think is a better fit now?

Regards
While I concur with the 'disaster', the pipeline thing seems to be more rooted in our former chancellor, a.k.a Gazprom Gerd. Revolving door, and such, you know? :-)
This article actually isn't bad.

It misses one important thing: network difficulty.

Even if it is not profitable for miners to mine due to lower emissions, the difficulty will adjust and the relative security of the network will maintain itself.

We just saw this happen when China turned off mining.
Way back when I reached out to them for getting the actual blueprints for a light industry coop - modular open source welders? Sign me up!

Got a reply along the lines of "we are working with our sponsors and will not be releasing any blueprints".

10 years later you still can't get blueprints from their site: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/

They seem like the solar roadways of open source hardware.
Noticed this when I moved to SF a couple of years ago. No idea why it's so popular here compared to Toronto, especially when people are alone and can just wear earbuds.
The cost issue: Storing spent fuel is pretty cheap because it is not very voluminous. The USA has produced about 85k tons of spent fuel, which would fit into a single football stadium. This means the cheapest thing to do is just kick the can down the road.

The proliferation issue: Waste burners require processing of spent fuel, which some states believe is a weapons proliferation risk.

The sodium issue: Liquid sodium requires very careful construction of the steam generators and piping to keep it from contacting air or water. This is a sort-of solved problem in that all the sodium cooled reactors have experienced sodium leaks from time to time, but those leaks have been fixed without significant radioactive release. This is an issue that improves with operator experience.

The russians do have one waste burning fast reactor running, the BN-800. If they can do it, so can we. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor
Genuinely excited for that. I love the Solarpunk aesthetic. The Park Royal in Singapore is awesome. Qiyi City Forest Gardens may not have worked out but it’s a good look for sure.
For anyone not in the loop, Norvig was the author of Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. This was a substantial contribution to the field of educational computer science literature, and helped to kickstart the idea that the way to learn is to read, not just write.

It's also one of the few AI books that isn't rooted squarely in Algol. It's written with fairly decent though not always portable Common Lisp, just like most Common Lisp books of the era.

It can be read here, in mobi or zipped HTML format: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/releases/tag/1.1

Or here, in PDF: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/releases/tag/v1.0

For a native web copy, abuse Safari Online's free trial. It's what I assume everyone else does when they want to read a niche technical book that O'Reilly put out but doesn't print another run of.

Depending on the day, the book ranges anywhere from $2 to $60 on Amazon, used, if you want a hard copy.

(Edited to fix the very butchered title that I wrote in error initially.)
> it's just business

Hear hear! I am not a hiring manager any more, but when I was, I wanted every developer to feel free to find the best spot for them. I was hoping it would be working for me, but sometimes it wasn't. If they realized it first, they left. If I realized it first, I worked with them to try to correct the issues, but sometimes they needed to go. (Having been on both sides of this situation, please make sure you treat everyone with as much compassion as humanly and legally possible.)

> Dealing with problems like short staffing is why the company employs managers.

Agreed. It isn't your job, as an employee, to be worried about how your job responsibilities will be taken care of when you are gone. Do a good job when you are there, give your two weeks (or whatever is customary) and move on. The honest truth is, either the job will get taken over by someone else or it wasn't as important as you thought. I've never had a company call me in 6 months and say "we need you to come back now, the ship is falling apart". Nor, before you impugn my abilities :) , have I ever seen that happen for anyone in my two decades.

Sometimes I think because the work we (software devs) do is so esoteric and can be disconnected from people, we trick ourselves into thinking it is critical work and requires us to pour our whole lives into it.

Screw that. That level of commitment is for founders.

Do an honest day's work for an honest wage.
I'm saying artists and musicians aren't a bonus. A city without them might be functional, but no one would love it and few would call it thriving. No part of a city is really inessential.
"per car sold"

Spending a massive amount on R&D per car sold is actually not a good outcome. It's unlikely the ratio will stay the same as Tesla sells more vehicles.
Literally heard “Let’s go Brandon” on the emergency frequency today in airspace too far from land for it to not be an airliner or other commercial craft (in contrast to the usual meowing).
As stupid as this policy was, it wasn't started by Merkel. She just sped it up.

The previous chancellor Schröder, now a foreign Russian energy minister, set the schedule into motion for nuclear shutdown.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Relation...
That made me chuckle. But I think the GP is using the term "monad" more in the sense of Leibniz's philosophy than that of functional programming or category theory – "monad" as meaning ultimately simple and indivisible, as "atoms" were in the original ancient Greek atomic theory (as opposed to modern atomic theory in which the so-called "atoms" turned out to not actually be atomic after all). Of course, even in that sense the GP is using the term figuratively – nobody literally believes that China is a single indivisible entity, a hive-mind or Borg, but the GP is claiming that Chinese society (and even the Chinese government) contains more divisions of opinion and interest and attitude than many outside observers assume. And I'm sure there is some truth in that – but, I think the GP is wrong in suggesting Taiwanese society is different – that is just as true of Taiwanese society, and Taiwan being a democracy puts these differences more out in the open (DPP vs KMT etc), China's more closed system means many of these differences exist behind closed doors; and even if sometimes people inside China get away with speaking of some of them openly, they have to be careful what they say and how they say it, to a much greater extent than people in Taiwan have to
I don’t want to make this a personal attack, but go fuck yourself, you mentally weak, pathologically dishonest little piece of shit.

There’s plenty to do if you want to go do it. Even in places with restrictions, there are tons of things to do.

So quit whining, you absolutely worthless piece of dog shit.
There certainly seem to be.

https://www.alibaba.com/products/tractor.html?IndexArea=prod...

Now if only shipping were reasonable!
* Decisions made at a desk in London are marked as made elsewhere, e.g. tax haven, so no CIT paid

* trusts excluded from information exchange processes, effectively unknown beneficial owner

* No reporting of capital reserves to nobody, so laws like Basel II literally dont exist, as long as the pseudo bank is on some island (yet all operations are in City)

* "If I believe it looks like a bank, then it is a bank"
This architecture was also used in the link referenced when bringing up alternative implementations:

https://github.com/google/mediapipe/issues/877#issuecomment-...
It’s completely flabbergasting how much the tech companies are doubling down on it. At first I was angry at them for making poor moves but the entire industry does and has done this for years, and now I’m just curious as to what I’m missing.

There seems to be some pathological need for employers to only hire AAA 100x employees who happen to know all the rigors of academic computer science and being top tier engineers who are perfectly pragmatic and can solve the toughest and most novel software issues. They then take these employees who manage to pass that bar and put them in charge of plumbing together crud apps for the next two years. I recently found out from friends that I am trying to get into the industry, that they are being subjected to a round on system design for distributed and scaleable systems for entry level positions. At least one of those companies I know won’t let entry level engineers even look at something bigger than method until they have a few months under their belt. I just wish I understood the disconnect between what employers and demanding in the interview process and what they actually demand for their job roles
> Remember, GPS is a military tool first. Civilians get to use it at the militaries discretion.

That's a bit like saying Java could have dropped sun.misc.Unsafe at any time because it was a private API. Once the civilian economy started relying on GPS, the military had to consider the cost of turning it off. Not to mention that the U.S. military has traditionally been deployed to promote and safeguard American commercial interests, and if it started disregarding them, that would amount to a shocking political revolution.
Anyone remembers that this girl is on every dead startup website?

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/parked-domain-girl
Renewed Bullishness and Earnings Preview – Market Sentiment Data
I just ran into this myself. Googled it and found this article. Thought it was worth sharing.

DMARC seems to have created an economy for checkbox security (services to manage those daily emails) + "beg bounty" hunters.
Living on a rural US farm... In our area, 3 phase was not ran to our farm until we paid a large lump sum for the utility to run it from the nearest substation to us. Before that we only had single phase.
Customer’s might not have a choice at all if app’s available only in the less awesome experience.

Also bad experience often comes after, not at the point of service.

From not being able to get a refund to bad actor abusing the system/personal data/credit card information.

Yes there are financial incentives for Apple to control the App Store, but we also know Apple was always notoriously picky and laser focused on customer experience even before the App Store.

That’s what they do for decades. Vertical integration. Hardware + software fitting like a glove.

That’s how they’ve beaten the music player industry, the phone industry and the tablet industry. And built huge ecosystems around these devices.

By making sure customers have the best experience possible.

Not only they want to keep the marketplace revenue they’ve tirelessly built, but they want to stay the leader in customer satisfaction and I honestly believe they want to keep customers safe and happy.

I don’t really see much customer or Apple benefit for them to give away control over software distribution on their platform.

Pretty much all discussions and Epic’s court case is not about customers, it’s about giving less to Apple and keeping more to themselves. That’s it.

Customers don’t know and don’t care if developers take 70% home or 85% home.

That’s how any physical or digital distribution channels work, from Walmart to PlayStation store.
Already reads as such, though I've tried that code snippet too:

PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE; iptables -A FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT

PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE; iptables -D FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT

Like I said, everyone keeps saying Wireguard is dead simple to set up, but the comments are full of editing configuration files, priv/pub key pairs, etc. I've helped administer OpenVPN servers for a decade now (and take no pride in it), and yet all these errors that keep coming up in Wireguard configuration for me on a main Linux distro + Windows 10 client seem pretty odd for something that's supposedly so easy to use.

Someone just come out with a wizard/package installer that actually works reasonably well (like OpenVPN has already) and then it might be "easy" to install. For OpenVPN I run an apt install command, run a wizard, SFTP into the box, transfer out the .ovpn file, import it into whatever client devices I need, and it works. Wireguard is at least 10 times tougher than that, even if it worked, which it currently does not.
Matrix doesn't (yet), but Jitsi does, even without accounts for joined users. All you need to start a Jitsi chat with any number of people is a URL.

_Integration_ with Jitsi is a separate matter, however. Hosting it can be a pain too.
Context people. Context.

I’m talking about Facebook. I’m talking about the conservatives that complain that FB is censoring their posts. Posts that are largely, if not completely, mis/disinformation about a myriad of topics.

Of course there exists people who want the censor conservative voices, full stop. I’m aware those people exist, but that’s clearly not who I’m talking about in this context and I think you know that.
I used to flat share in London with some other people in tech. Pandemic WFH setup was the taking turns on the one couch (and floor) for a long time.
Interesting last point...curious why is that? Do they get battered from weather and physically tear, or do they just stretch/thin over time?
So, I'm a data science person who uses SQL largely to integrate with python or just for pretty straightforward extracts - my company is very data not mature. I've previously used MySql, postGresql, and have been considered DuckDB (though not clear I can store stuff outside of temp memory). Is this good? Is something else good?
> The answer here appears to be simple.

It was a rhetorical question. The CCP doesn't allow elections and free speech because they don't want to lose power.

> elections and free speech are aspects of the system that by design introduce certain level of instability

That's the standard claim of dictators, including the CCP, but it's just their propaganda. Democratic governments are far more stable. Chinese democracies - Taiwan and Hong Kong - are/were very stable. Japan, South Korea, etc. When was the last time the US, UK, etc. had a stability problem? Compare that to China, North Korea, and the rest.

Also, that claim looks at it only from the dictator's point of view (a natural bias): Will my power last? I might be voted out at any time! I could be criticized into irrelevancy! That would be a catastrophe for the country if my great leadership was removed! Democracies change leaders frequently and with ease; it's rule of law, not of a person (or personality).

Finally, from the ordinary citizen's point of view, democracies are far more stable: Their rights are protected; they won't be arbitrarily arrested, have their assets seized, be sent to reeducation camps, etc.
Steel Crisis Looms in UK
Yes, multiple times--most recently a few years ago was close to that just pre-pandemic. Another probably 4x in the 3 week to 4 week range in previous job. Pretty standard tech industry jobs. More recently have had many other multi-week holidays that were a combination of tech events and pure PTO.

I realize a fair number of people can't do that or, commonly in my experience, feel that they can't do that but it's not actually impossible if that's what you prioritize.
Go look at an old farmall or ford tractor and understand how they solved these problems 70+ years ago. Be careful thinking you are smarter than those engineers.
In most areas, hackerspaces are open again.

But I also fully understand that you are lying, and that you know you are lying.

Sadly, right-wing lies are allowable and considered high quality content by Daniel Gackle. Daniel Gackle’s last interaction with me consisted of him not knowing what he was talking about, then straight-up slandering me.

He’s a piece of shit, and his mother should be fucking ashamed of the dishonest and immoral pile of dung she raised.
Yes, lets make finding casual acquaintances as awful as online dating, that's the ticket!
> My wife pointed out that our friends aren't interesting. Their posts are often their kids or their families or politics or something that just isn't that interesting to us. They're still friends, but they just aren't interesting to follow on social media.

This is a fascinating insight. Facebook is optimized for in groups whereas Instagram and TikTok are platforms for creators. Naturally the latter is going to be more interesting especially if your peer group is pretty stable.

I guess I’m unusual in that I move around a lot (different countries, different parts of the country) and my peer group gets refreshed (or gets reshuffled) every few years. I often get to know people who have very little in common with my previous social groups so Facebook continues to be interesting for me.

There’s also something to be said about continually upgrading or changing one’s peer group. Not practical for everyone of course but for me it just kinda happens.
Keen golfer here, I don't blame you, your vision of golf is very wide spread and it is a stereotype based on how golf works in some places. Like all stereotypes, it is based on a partial truth, but there is more to golf than that.

There are several countries, (including Scotland where golf was born), where golf clubs are on average very affordable and most golf courses, including some of the best and most famous ones, are public courses (you can go and walk your dog or do whatever, there is no fence)[1] Scotland is not the only country where public courses are popular[2], but it's the most talked about example, due to golf being born there.

Even in countries where golf is usually associated with "social status", like the USA, things are slowly changing, there are golf courses that aim to integrate with the local communities [3][8] and golfers that promote a more inclusive way of practicing the sport[4][5][6].

On a separate note, there are also efforts to make golf courses more environmentally sustainable. Again, Scotland leads the way with their courses that are not irrigated, and intentionally left to brown-out during summer[1][7], but there are also similar efforts in other countries including the USA[9].

[1] Scotland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icSVHHG8vnE&list=PL5vefWGHKL...

[2] In Australia many golf courses have no full time staff, and you pay using the "honesty box", those courses also usually have unlimited public access (non golfers can walk in any time) https://australianseniorgolfer.com.au/26181/honesty-box-golf...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-JIYgZrnrc

[4] https://randomgolfclub.com/

[5] https://thefriedegg.com/

[6] https://good-good.fireside.fm/

[7] https://sustainable.golf/

[8] https://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/what-the-futu...

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyMdFbmBbTk
Cheap energy is the way to go green. I’d love electric heating and looked into it but the lowest monthly cost estimate I could come up with costs roughly the same for a month in electricity costs as a winter’s worth of firewood. (Well, maybe a bit less now with prices of everything skyrocketing, but the demand is there.) Still, it needs to go almost 6x to be worth it.
"This is clickbait-y enough that I fell for it" is uh. Not exactly an endorsement? It seems like kind of the opposite of what you'd want to encourage?
You’d be an extreme outlier in almost any city or town in America for this attitude, at this point in the pandemic
I have had to find more remote hiking locations to get away from the increasingly prevalent use of (awful sounding) bluetooth speakers on hiking trails. I have definitely fantasized about "loudly broadcasting" on the same frequencies that BT uses to get a bit of peace and quiet.

I would never do this because there are probably some highly unfortunate unintended consequences and I don't want to go to jail.
> If it weren't for these buildings, we would need thousands and thousands of homes sprawled out across many square miles.

I mean you could build these towers elsewherez perhaps even demolishing some existing single family dwellings.

Youve made a bit of a false dichotomy here.
Damn points 1 to 4 hit me haha