skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where do the worn out NL semis go?

Eastern Europe, if I had to guess. I can't say specifically about semis, but in my home country of Romania I've seen quite a lot of Dutch clunker vans/small trucks roaming the streets (you can tell they're Dutch because they still have some of the original branding decals of the companies that used to own them).
> But someone complained that they didn't like having something that wasn't tied to USD.

No, you're misrepresenting long_time_gone's point. EUR, for example, is very stable without being tied to USD, and EUR/USD will almost never fluctuate by 10% within a single day. Fiat currencies tend to be very stable even when not tied to USD.

Non-tied cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile to pretty much all fiat currencies (and to most other non-tied cryptocurrencies), while most fiat currencies are comparatively stable to most other fiat currencies, without being tied to them.
Yes, thank you! Just because I only have a high school degree does not mean my opinion is not as valid as a medical professional's.

Wait. No, that doesn't make sense at all actually... Hm.
I love this kind of 'alternate history' computing - OS concepts that could have been, should have been.

It makes me wonder about what aspects of modern systems we take for granted. And also what kinds of OS research are going on today, the kinds of systems we might see in the future. Does anyone have any resources to help stay abreast of that?
In Australia I've found the European style far more common, contrary what is suggested in the article.

While we're on the topic of trucks, I've always had this pointless desire to get a non-synchronous transmission truck driver's licence. I just think it'd be fun learning to drive an 18 speed crash box with double clutching and clutch brakes - something I imagine will soon be a thing of the past. Regrettably, there's no real reason for me to get it.

For now, the rational part of my brain is keeping this in check.
It depends on the carrier in the US.

Lots of carries take good care of their equipment.

You can also be a carrier and just be one guy and a truck … so there is a lot of variety.
and all of the owner/operators who specifically want pre year 2000 rigs so they don't have to have an ELD.
Yep: http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/adornocc.html
A visibly expressed intent means nothing at all. I have an intent to get paid without doing work, but it's not working so far.

The intent is a signal, and unless it's one where a site owner needs to legally comply with it, it's nothing more but a wish. And if we were to grant the wishes of the typical entitled internet user, nothing would be sustainable.

Analytics are a primary tool for site owners, not some far-fetched optional thing. They are needed to run any non-trivial website. Analytics don't even require any consent at all in the strict GDPR legislation, so even they acknowledge it is essential.
Off-grid electricity used to be illegal in California under Title 24. The law required residential homes to have an “interconnection pathway.” However, the law has recently been updated and now specifically allows off-grid electricity.
Okay, but why not call every database extension for a language just "A [language] interface for SQL written in [driver language]."

"ext/mysqli is just a PHP interface for SQL written in C"

What is the difference
This is wonderful! :)
> It's quite an overt and deliberate subsidy to foster solar power technology

I'd say that the issue the author is addressing is that it is not so overt. Sure, if you meditate on it it becomes clear it's a subsidy, but I think the vast majority of the people who take advantage of it simply think "I produce as much as a use, so of course my bill should be zero."
The delivery fee being artificially low was a political decision to subsidize utility prices for the poor. Every single utility has step function of pricing for usage fees that works to capture the cost of providing the infrastructure. This is why net metering never made sense to utilities and why they were trying to reject it despite states and politicians seeking to force it on them. The utilities who did go all-in on net metering willingly did so at the generator rates which pissed off a ton of homeowners but that was actually a fair thing to do as that reflected the real price of the energy being provided.
A simple to install setup for writing fast Latex
I'd like to take this article seriously, but it's missing a ton of punctuation which leads me to believe it never got proofread...
Musings on Typicality
Even the real life container ship imagery doesn't give it away because often containerization articles are full of that too
Apple would presumably fix the vulnerabilities, rather than exploit them themselves.
Awesome thanks for these
you forgot the /s
Web3 has already changed the world. Not by much, but the statement doesn't make promises as to how much it has to in order to qualify for "changing the world".

> it’s clear that Web3 is just a new spin on the same blockchain tech that we’ve been discussing for the last decade.

Web3 is everything blockchain. Queue the astronaut holding a gun "always has been" meme. Its adopted a new label, but the core commerce frameworks (Bitcoin, ETH) and the applications of those frameworks (NFT, DeFi, .eth, etc) are inextricable, technically and philosophically.

I mean, really, Web3 sucks, but this article is clearly written by a 60 year old who has been slowly following its developments through Bloomberg articles. The clearest signal that someone hasn't put much critical thinking at all into why Web3 is bad, is prioritizing a complaint about the environmental impact, because that is a problem, but one the community will fix. Its an argument about implementation, not philosophy.

> But unless you’re trying to create a cryptocurrency, buy drugs or blackmail a company using ransomware there aren’t really any sensible use cases for a blockchain

As bearish as I am on most Web3 technologies; the one that I feel does have use-cases are the core currencies. Look, if you believe the only use-cases for crypto are illegal, and obviously you aren't buying anything illegal with it (I'd bet this guy even drives the speed limit), then you just by-definition outed yourself as being critically misinformed. Because (1) illegal use-cases are still use-cases, and won't stop growth, and (2) there are plenty of legitimate use-cases.

What an ass. Just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
I've often wondered why European trucks don't have some sort of mechanism to make them more aerodynamic when they're on the highways i.e. an inflatable nose.

The boxy design must cost a fortune in fuel
Yes you are right it is not a very good UX. For me the most interesting part is observing the evaluations of the position from the perspective of 2 engines. See the charts that track it move by move. It is often the case that one engine sees something that other doesn't. For example, say, that it is completely busted. I imagine internal dialogue: I'm fine, I'm fine, am I in trouble... oh $^#^ I'm losing now. It was especially true in the early days of neural chess engines which saw ideas which were well beyond the event horizon of traditional engines. Most people who are watching these tournaments on twitch are chess engine developers themselves that's why interfaces like these are fine for them.
How Miami became the most important city in America
Aerodynamic efficiency matters much more in North America as average speeds are much higher over much longer distances. Wind resistance increases with the square of speed, so it is entirely possible that American trucks are burning more fuel per mile in spite of being more aerodynamic.
Because it makes no sense. NSO is just one of the many companies doing offensive netsec.
Agree.

The Orion browser that I like very much takes a similar approach: they let you install both Firefox and Chrome extensions.

Hopefully they and/or Librewolf will start providing APIs that will let us create even better "native" extensions for those browsers.
I was interested in knowing the price of trucks and did some research:

The Volvo VNL 2021 costs around 174.000$

That's the new model shown in the youtube video in the article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nY7Xfu47vw&feature=emb_logo

Given semi-trucks are so expensive and heavely used I wonder why more companies don't focus autonomous vehicles for semi-trucks rather than robotaxis.
then break it up into $300k chunks. anyone smart enough to steal so much in such a sophisticated manner is smart enough to launder it
> "they turned this into politics too."

Politics is the discussion of how we should behave. How could this possibly have not become politics?

When you're lost at sea, you're an idiot if you don't row with everyone else, in the direction that the navigator thinks is right.
Countdown was always on in my house when I was a kid!
Adorno and his cohort are the ones who created Critical Theory and adapted Marxism for the post-war western intellectual taste. Much of what is now called "wokeness" is a direct result of their work, by way of the New Left.
This is why when I found out Fios was available in my area I immediately called. I paid for the highest consumer tier of Spectrum available in my area but the upload speeds were still capped to awful levels (20mbit, at max). I'm not actually getting the symmetrical 1gb/s I pay for with Fios either, but it is worlds better than anything Spectrum would offer me.
Why the "only" wording? Seems like the covid vaccines don't even last this much, and they are praised.
In my experience, requirements gathering and obtaining project design consensus is a huge part of the value add from a consultant.

(1) You're usually better at it than they are, because they're hiring a consultant in the first place. (2) You're outside of their political network, and can thus be a more neutral, objective arbiter. Invaluable! (3) You're looking at the problem with fresh eyes, whereas they're looking at it with a history of counterparty relationships, failed or successful previous projects, etc.

Furthermore, requirements gathering and obtaining project design consensus is going to happen at some point. Better you verify that it happens as fully as possible, as early as possible, versus trusting the client that they've done it accurately and sufficiently.
GPT-Neo on a M1 (macOS 12)
When I’m referring ti “conservatives” only reading right wing media that agrees with the craziness, I’m not referring to “Romney/Bush conservatives”, I’m almost one myself. I am referring to populist/religious right conservatives.

Before someone posts a “whataboutism”, I don’t know what happens on the extreme nonsensical left. I mostly read tech news, WSJ and “The Hill”.

This isn’t meant to beat up on conservatives. But let’s see what’s happen in 2020.

Fox News was the go to place for conservatives. Then they fairly called election results and their news articles called the accusations of the election being stolen “unfounded” and then people started leaving Fox News for News Max.

RedState purged all of their never Trump journalists who clearly had their conservative bona fides because they were losing readers. Anytime that RedState does still occasionally admit the election wasn’t stolen, people threaten to cancel their subscriptions.

Trump of course is the poster boy for the extremists. But when he started touting the benefits of the Covid vaccine and boosters, he is boo’d and cancelled by the extreme right and they say he is kissing up to the establishment.

The Wall Street Journal has always been center right. But because it didn’t tote the “populist agenda” or the “election was stolen”, the conservatives are abandoning it too.
Thanks for the feedback Gordon - added to the todo list
Just use it w/o logging in. I have a YT account, but I never login with Vanced. I only do so when I have something very important to add in the comment section and that happens on the desktop. You don't have to be too paranoid
>In Uganda, for example, NSO's ForcedEntry was used to spy on U.S. diplomats, Reuters reported.

This was the incident that made US authorities go after NSO. I remember reading that these diplomats were actually involved in espionage.
The biggest barrier here is testing, IMO. There is no reliable way to tell if you are under the influence of marijuana _right now_. The only way an employer can guarantee you are sober while working (to shield themselves from liability) is to give a traditional drug test.
I posit that the ability to self-learn outside of an academic setting correlates more strongly with being a valuable member of an engineering team than academic credentials.

That reality muddies the conversation, as evidenced by the comments here: while a CS degree certainly gives you a head start, those with one but without good self-learning skills will not be valuable. On the other hand, non-CS-degree folks who get engineering jobs are independently very likely (not guaranteed, but likely) to have good self-learning skills.

So we're not really comparing apples to apples. Rather, were comparing people who probably have high aptitude for a core component (self-learning) of software engineering with people who studied CS in school. Making it through a CS degree is, at most institutions, not nearly as strong a proxy for aptitude as breaking into the field because you possess a strong ability to teach yourself things. Note that none of this implies any negative things about people with CS degrees.

If you don't have the academic background but can teach yourself things to "backfill" the missing knowledge, you can be a valuable engineer. The reverse is not true.
Older trucks dont have the same emissions requirements and are sought after big time in the US.
We just need to run railroad tracks over the oceans.
Well, it's not programming-related, but here goes...

I'm building a cooperative hands-on workspace in Brooklyn in an old warehouse. I have lots of interests that require space and tooling (old motorcycles/cars, woodworking, etc), and lots of friends in a similar boat (with fabrication, music, art, etc). I spent the last 6-8 months searching for a suitable space that I could actually afford, and finally found one about a month ago.

I'm in the process of gutting most of it (it's in gnarly condition) and rebuilding it to suit what I'm trying to do. If there's anyone here who lives in NYC, is good with their hands or wants to be, and is intrigued by the idea of getting a bunch of highly motivated and creative people together in one spot to build Cool Shit (whatever that may look like), feel free to get in touch.

My email is in my bio :)
Will we start seeing tech companies become dividend paying utility stocks? Surely we are past the growth stage for many FAANG-like companies
That's within the feasible distance for a point to point wireless bridge. If geography permits - which is not that likely. Not cheap, but might be better than alternatives.
Having wads of cash doesn't mean you can buy any company without their agreement.
Pegasus is legally considered a weapon in Israel and I doubt the government will allow it.
MNOs really don't need to know the traffic source address to apply throttling.

As per the throttling algorithm, most of the times it's a Leaky Bucket variant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_bucket). The variant usually allows short bursts of packets, then throttles down the downstream traffic for long connections to match the configured rate.

A trick to know if the operator is using DPI to extract the SNI in HTTPS/encrypted traffic: play a YouTube video, then do a speed test (e.g. iperf) while it is playing. Two things could happen: either both apps are throttled (no DPI) or only Youtube is (there's some level of DPI).
create a phony company, hire yourself , and then pay yourself for consulting work. there are tons of ways of doing it
but the quote was already wrapped in the parent posters idea, since they were writing Strong AI with regular expressions!

If you have two problems when using regular expressions and you have X problems with Strong AI how will the combination of your problems be calculated?
It's pretty easy to swap BTC and the like for USD on Kraken or Coinbase. According to Kraken's order book can buy or sell US$14bn of ETH at the moment and move the price less than 2%. We are not talking $1m cats. I've done stuff like $36k for BTC. That's a small trade really.
> ship it over the pacific" was enabled by the lack of a proper carbon tax.

This is just demonstrably false. For a typical household product, more carbon is emitted trucking it from the port to the store than is emitted shipping it across the ocean. Cargo ships are extremely energy efficient. And of course for a great many products the raw materials are not actually produced locally, so if you shift manufacturing back home you now have to ship the raw materials instead.

A "proper carbon tax" would increase oversea production since economies of scale are real and huge.
Completely understand where you're coming from and the cost implications. I'm curious about your position on Amazon Prime. It's a loss leader so you're compelled to spend more at Amazon. Are you spending more with Amazon to rationalize the Prime subscription? That's the goal and why they offer it.

You also state...

> I would rather set up a matrix server at a lowendbox vps

...and my guess here is that you're going to spend roughly $2-5/month doing this anyway. Plus your hours invested. This is squarely why I'm willing to donate to Signal via my contribution. There's value in someone making sure that this works for me and those I communicate with on Signal. I manage and control far too many other things - so I'm also with you on having that control, knowing about alternatives and controlling my data when and where it makes sense. But I don't want to be in the business of owning a messaging platform for friends and family and Signal fills that gap in a great way.

My post was purely a positional statement and not meant to be construed as any sort of guilt trip of those who don't contribute.
Most of the time engine braking is banned within US city limits, there are signs posted outside of towns "No engine braking".
Like when Americans talk about a 'full size' car they mean an over-size one in our perspective.
You see, this is a design that's taken hold of a lot of codebases, and I don't think it works. I see a lot of projects with big folders mixing top level exports, implementation files, tests, test utils, fixtures and the like.

I'd much rather see the 'mirrored' approach.

> Random thought: Can the IDE recommend next file to work on

I'm _sure_ I've seen something like this in IntelliJ.

EDIT: I did! It's in the changes tab > the eye icon > 'show files related to active changelist'. It then sometimes will make suggestions based on project history.
In crypto you can add insurance if you want. It's an optional service. With credit cards it's baked in and you can't opt out. I want to opt out. I've never used a chargeback in my entire life and it's a source of profit for the credit card corporations. They pay out less than they charge, of course. I'd rather have a lower transaction fee and not feed Visa's bottomline. With crypto I'd want to just add a transaction insurance when doing something risky (like bridging cross chain).
Good point! Will have a think if should add exceptions for that
I will not install an extension that is not open source.
I was a little curious if there was a difference in honking power. Now that it became political to honk at the world.
Can confirm, having talked to family members with recent solar installations.
The whole article seems full of conjecture and generalisation.

A big example:

> Another advantage of a conventional cab design is that the truck can be more economical. Surely they usually pull heavier loads, but if there were two trucks, one a cab-over and another one a conventional cab design, and they had the same powertrain and the same cargo, the conventional cab truck would most likely use less fuel. Of course, that is just in theory – in reality there are too many factors to consider.

I don't know... power, load and fuel economy is the kind of data that's extremely available about motor vehicles... this is something we can't figure out? Or were they just writing hearsay to push content and get clicks? ("Subscribe to our facebook. Loads of content coming soon!")
I haven't read anything concrete that shows a clear contagion risk, but https://twitter.com/angela_walch is one of the people in the space to follow that is talking about it
Ugh, one of those articles that paraphrases its title 5 times before giving a very short answer...
You can crash a plane with C++ (Boeing did this a few years ago)
Laws are laws - cryptocurrencies aren't necessarily exempt from following laws.

I know the crytpo folks like to repeat the "CODE IS LAW" mantra, but it's not that simple.

Imagine that that you write some complex contract which basically makes the signee to hand over everything they own to you. And you get them to sign that contract. If it had been that simple, then you could just mail out such contracts to the whole country, and go collect your new fortune.

But we know it's not that simple.

Likewise with smart contracts. A "hacker" could argue that they fulfilled some criteria, which then activated some contract - but my guess is that it would legally end up in the same way as with the above example.
I used to prefer buying from scalpers because paying more for a simple experience was easier than TM.

Even if you make it through the crazy fees and whatnot, they spam you. If I buy a ticket from some random ebay seller, that doesn’t happen. I risk ticket fraud over the definite unhappy experience of using TM.
>200K happy customers

You're defining "happy" as "not quite pissed off enough to leave". That's exactly the kind of game which (when compounded) makes fed-up people call things scams.
Are you aware of the Truck Simulator series of games?
So let's say you're targetting cd19 (the protein). You're saying that the target might stop emitting cd19. Okay, but then why not target cd21 or another target that the cancer is emitting, and run CAR-T again?
You could let the pucks make contact with the PCB, and power them like that. If the pucks are pulled towards the PCB, then it is easy to let them make contact.
Perhaps you and I are reading this differently. In my opinion, the author clearly delineates the two to be able to make this claim:

> In other words, the direct cost of providing an additional unit of electricity or natural gas is only 23% of overall operating expenses.

The way I read it, the author is not claiming the subsidy is the misleading part, just that, once there is mass adoption, the price of everything will actually go up to something very close to the current costs being paid by non-solar panel households. That is, at some point, homeowners who build solar panels right before this subsidy ends will get burnt very badly.
Along Gonzales rd it struggles when taking turns, in particular on and from Oxnard Blvd and Rose Ave. Every time I drive west past Ventura rd it violently swerves when the lanes shift next to the Popeyes. For fun try the residential areas around. It does 'ok' but often will do flying left turns where it doesn't even bother to slow down even though theres cars parked blocking visibility.

Westlake on the other hand haven't really had an issue. Thousand Oaks has been pretty smooth as well.