skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your argument and analogy makes sense. Simplicity is not only valuable when an owner himself needs to repair the truck.

It's valuable when your truck breaks down in a middle of nowhere, and the closest official repair shop is hundreds of miles away, whereas there might be an "okay" level independent mechanic every 20 miles or less (the actual distance is not the point, the point is that an "okay" mechanic will be probably 10-50x more common).

Simplicity is also valuable with missing parts. Sure, the sophisticated solution is better in terms of performance, electronics, and whatnot, but it might take weeks to receive a part (even before COVID), because the shop doesn't have it and have to be ordered from China. Compare this with simple parts that you can again find in many old trucks and even smaller towns, making it much easier to replace.

Just to put it in coding analogy: if my business needs a website, or a landing page, I'm not going to hire a team of former Googlers and ask them to write a performant backend framework in Rust and invent a new frontend framework. I'm going to ask my uncle who is a hobby designer and can set me up a static site/WordPress in a day. I'm not trying to "justify poor engineering", I just prefer simplicity and the "poor engineering" approach gets my problem solved in one tenth of the time. Who is doing poor engineering now?

Also, coming back to the trucks. There don't need to be poor engineering from either side. Maybe the different requirements just caused trucks evolve in different directions?
This is every major city right now, unfortunately.
We took an approach of keeping the notebook interface/IDE, and behind the scenes Ploomber converts it into .py files so you can collaborate with teammates through Git. The users can still open those as a notebook and interact with the files regularly.
I am not trying to extol the virtues of C. I find C a low bar to improve upon, and I'd prefer Common Lisp over it in many cases.

What I am talking about is having to rely on people to do the "right" things when your toolset could be enforcing many of those things. We've empirically shown time and time again that people are poor at consistently avoiding pitfalls. This is especially true as the size and complexity of a project grows.
>instead of the usual flow where taxpayers are on the hook for bailing out too-big-to-fail WallStreet banks

Why is there so much misinformation on the 2009 bank bailouts?

The bailouts were loans and investments that became profitable for tax payers.

>In total, the government has realized a $109B profit

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
"And every single time there's been a look of revelation, if just a brief glimmer, as they realize the point I'm making."

Yeah, let's hope it sinks in, but with some it can be too slow - after the event when they've PTSD.

I recall around the time I was drafted I occasionally got into discussion about these issues (it was never a big or oft repeated topic).

My current stance now has changed very little from my position back then. For some, the 'bravado' mob, perhaps 10% -15% of the platoon, took my position of war being the absolute last resort as me being 'yellow'. It never erupted into serious animosity but I was never part of their in group. Others thought similarly to me but wouldn't say much (or for that matter neither did I), still others said nothing.

The interesting aspect of this was that I developed these views very early when I was a child. My father and my uncles served in WWII and whilst the War was mentioned it was always a muted discussion and I learned quickly that there was something truly rotten about war - I sort of picked the notion up as if by osmosis.

I often wonder what the home environment of the 'bravado' mob was like. In one sense it can't have been too different to mine in that almost every father of kids in my school had also been in the War.

Perhaps it's one's temperament or personality in that I picked up the negative vibes whilst others did not.

I've often thought about it since but I can't say I'm any more informed now than in the past.
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I recently replaced my dog's collar -- which had GPS with LTE-M -- with an AirTag simply because it saves me money, I get about a ~year battery life and I find it's just as reliable.
Which? Where?
Unless they've changed it, the default is that it's off.
We allow people to write pipeline tasks in .py files but open them as notebooks in Jupyter. So they keep the same workflow they're used to but under the hood, they're writing .py files - so they can do code reviews (jupytext handles the .py to .ipynb conversion). Also, when executing the pipeline, ploomber generates an output report for each script, so teams can use this to review any outputs generated by the code.

Finally, since the pipeline is modularized, it's easier to split the work. Some people may work in data cleaning, others in feature engineering, and they can all orchestrate the pipeline with "ploomber build".

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I hesitate to respond to you again because I think you've dug your heels in here on finding the joke troublesome, but:

You DO realize that it's not at the expense of MERELY staying in a small, provincial, homogeneous place, right? It's ALSO continuing to embrace the blinkered worldview that growing up in such a place engenders. You need both for the joke to land.

You're reacting here as thought it's JUST about moving away (or not). It isn't.

I know educated, open-minded people who stayed in my hometown who have grown personally and intellectually and morally since youth. They stayed there for a handful of reasons, and some of them are as you state: an inability or unwillingness to be more than an hour from family, for example.

But I know of far more people who have not advanced in any meaningful way since they were 18 or 20. They often find the VERY IDEA of a world beyond the hometown to be fishy and untrustworthy. They are, uniformly, uncritical consumers of Fox News. They are the ones posting racist memes about, say, the Obamas, or proudly touting their COVID vax refusenik status.

This is who the joke is about.
Fewer people have died from smoking than social media?

That sounds counter-intuitive but if I’m eyeballing that wrong I’d be in your debt if you’d point me at some figures.

No sarcasm, I legitimately want to know.
This isn’t the quite the scenario he was talking about. The Wormhole exploit is just a bug that could’ve occurred even if the bridge didn’t cross chains.

Despite being large, it was still an isolated incedent compared to the multi-chain heist one could pull off with a 51% attack on a single chain.
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Sell them to dumbasses for real dollars
As a part of the hack the attacker did transfer 320M million worth of previously existing coins to themselves. That was the payoff for the hack, and the entire point of doing the hack. The minting part was just a stepping stone to that.

Also, the attacker definitely exceeded authorization - it was literally the authorization component of the code that the attacker bypassed by substituting part of it with their own ringer code.
Android is in fact the dominant platform by number of users, and has cool stuff like cloud gaming apps that iOS does not. There are also other aspects of the iPhone that many people prefer over Android phones, e.g. hardware features and quality.

The point about sandboxing is relevant because many people conflate sandboxing protections with the protections offered by App Review, and thus are afraid that non-App Store apps will be able to install viruses or brick their devices - which isn't the case.

Lastly, the automated malware screening that’s part of the App Review process can be offered separately, thus the risk of "catching malware” from non-App Store apps will be the same as with App Store apps.
I think the greater argument to be made is that it doesn't matter, since iOS has had no-click zero-days for longer than it's had an App Store.
Yes, it gets better when you consider that homeowners that are putting solar on their roof are essentially providing large amounts of power to energy companies without these companies having to actually spend on infrastructure. It's home owners who bear the financial burden for that as well as the risk.

It gets even better if you consider many people are also installing batteries or plugging cars with vehicle to grid functionality (like the new Ford pickup truck is capable of as well as several other EVs).

A lot of houses with solar and batteries enables the creation of virtual power plants that can supply many GW of power to the grid during peak hours. So, when demand is highest, they can sell power at the most lucrative rates straight from batteries that were charged for free during the day. And they don't even have to buy the batteries or the panels. All they need to do is give a cut of the profits to the home owners.

Basically, the way the EV market is developing, there are going to be many millions of large capacity batteries on wheels plugged into the grid at any time. All power companies have to do is find a way to tap into all that power. Even discharging them a little bit collectively creates a lot of power.

E.g. supplying half a KWH over the course of an evening barely moves the needle on a car. Most EVs have something like 40-50KWH of battery. So we're talking a percent or so. They'd be trickling out electricity at a low rate of something like e.g. 500W or even less. Times a two million plugged in cars is about 1 GW of capacity. Do that for an hour and you get 1GWH of power at the cost of very slightly draining the batteries on a few million cars. That's just car batteries. Many home owners also have batteries installed into their houses, and solar on the roof to charge them. And many of those setups are net producers for large parts of the year.

A gas plant costs about 1000$/MWH to operate. Possibly a bit more lately due to the high gas prices lately. So, 1GWH of power is about 1M $ in cost. That's worth paying something to home owners. Most of them are happy to just have the KWH slashed from their monthly bills. The rest is basically pure profit. Any GWH of gas they don't have to burn adds to their profits. Power companies are spending billions on expensive grid batteries to lower that cost.
You make a good point for the opposite.

Cyberpunk is not that far away and it launched probably 2 years too early
Please don't cross into personal attack and please don't do ideological flamewar on HN. We ban accounts that do those things, because they're not what this site is for, and destroy what it is for. You can make your substantive points without any of that, and as a bonus your comments will come out better and persuasive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you this sort of thing repeatedly in the past. Would you please take the intended spirit of this site more to heart and stick to the rules?
Don’t know why they’re being downvoted when your point is irrelevant - the Samsung tracker only uses Samsung Galaxy devices specifically for the network
> I'm not sure why there's a push to eliminate gas cooking in favor of electricity.

It can make a lot of sense in urban areas. In addition to removing the methane leaks (with their high GWP), it reduces the need to install/maintain expensive natural gas distribution infrastructure, and also improves indoor air quality by eliminating NO2 and CO production within the house. If the power goes out, you just use a propane grill in the backyard, or a small butane stove.
Games with dark patterns are an overwhelming majority on Android. That's sad because they abuse fragile people and children.

That didn't had to be that way if Google didn't promote its ad-based revenue model for apps and games. To my eyes they are responsible for the current situation.
F-Droid, Amazon, Samsung, and multiple Chinese companies are operating third-party stores with a fair amount of success.
Android phones don't intrinsically track tags, they need software specifically installed for this. So almost none of those Android phones can be used to track anything. On the other hand all newer iPhones can track any AirTag out of the box, in what's probably the single biggest tracking network in the world.
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Some didn't make it.

Half died before the age of 5, just as an example of what "some" means.
Facebook and Google stocks have diverged, and the reason is Apple
> Right, but that could probably be explained away as “Hah, they couldn’t figure out how to strike a deal with the ethereal being, but we have the best mystic in the tribe with us!”

In a way that is true. You could in principle use the radiation from nuclear waste to do useful work (like generate electricity), but our sages haven't figured out a way to do so in a way that makes economic sense to us. The waste could be useful to a different civilization with better technology or worse natural resources.
I see cabover trucks (or at least trucks with snubby little noses) all the time in the US, in the city. I only occasionally see a traditional tractor trailer anywhere other than major roads and highways, because they're a great big PITA to maneuver. I assume that they have some significant advantages on the freeway, or they wouldn't remain popular for that.
PCIe 5.0 SSDs promising up to 14GB/s of bandwidth will be ready in 2024
Someone substituted inorganic cat litter with an organic cat litter (specifically, wheat husks), it shut down WIPP for three years at a cost of half a billion dollars, and it's not classified: https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i20/wrong-cat-litter-took-do...
Well. Anywhere else? Should I go out to Wenatchee?
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If they sold an iPad that was only made for playing games and that was sold at a large loss, it would be a different conversation, even though I think that consoles should be opened up.
How many of those brands have you purchased?
No, only functional programmers sound like this!
Europe also kept maintaining their rail lines whereas the US has neglected ours because trucks were seen as a way to stick it to the rail companies. Our loss considering that freight trains are 4 times as efficient in terms of cargo ton-miles per gallon of diesel.
>My conclusion was that net metering ends up being a regressive tax on those who can't afford the upfront capital to install solar themselves.

This is the traditional conclusion in the utility business, but I'd say it's also almost meaningless. By the exact same arguments, any kind of conservation winds up being a "regressive tax on those who can't afford the upfront capital", e.g. insulation, fancy windows, high efficiency HVAC.

If I can afford a $2400 upfront cost to go above code on my HVAC unit, but it saves 100 a month, that savings is being subsidized by the people who can't afford it. The utility loses 100 a month in revenue but much less than that in costs, and the difference is picked up by the broader customer base.

Hell, turning your thermostat settings up in the summer is a "regressive tax on those who can't handle the less comfortable temperature" by exactly the same argument.
I'm not a medical doctor, but I wonder if this can be explained as liability-avoiding behavior. If a doctor follows a "best practice", it's more defensible in court than trying something new or uncommon.
That 1.7 million is the number of people caught while trying, not the number of people who get away with it.
They work ok, but it’s inferior to AirTags specifically because the network effects are (much) smaller.

If you’re using it to find stuff you want the largest possible network
> I agree with you, but open source software is given as-is, in any context,

But if you are calling somebody or something "professional" what you are saying is they act as if they were doing it in a certain way. If they don't follow the practices it does not matter if they are doing it for free.

It is like saying a kid is doing something professionally (even if he is not) and argumenting that it is because he isn't paid for it.
Inheriting million dollars is luck not privilege.
This discussion doesn't make any sense whatsoever as you decided to cling to a made-up instead of vocabulary definition of privilege [0].

The same is happening to other words these days. For example some people modified the term racism so that according to their definition you can't possibly be racist towards white people. Which is obviously idiotic, but at least it allows these people to push their sick racist agendas.

Like I said, there is nothing to be achieved here when you're using your own definitions of words.

[0] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur...
No. These problems would certainly exist even if Facebook never did. Like I said, Facebook could be dismantled by regulators today. It won't do anything.

Do you think Facebook or other social media are the main contributors to the acceleration of those things? Why?
> Calling Covid a "novel" virus was a mistake.

I don't remember anyone ever doing that. I remember them calling it a novel coronavirus, because it is a new coronavirus, at least to us.
Exactly. Somehow need to send that data.
Should I drive over a thousand miles to pull it off? What do you expect me to do? I'm not sure what will happen if I disown it, it will probably attempt to be owned by whoever walks by? Can I disown an AirTag without being near it? And if someone who works for Fedex suddenly owns the AirTag, has the situation improved?

I really don't know what you expect me to do. I did this by accident. I thought it was funny.
It's giving people financial incentives to be anti-environmental.
Settings -> Privacy -> Personalized Ads - disable

As far as FB cross app tracking, there is another article on HN where FB attributed $10B worth of revenue loss to Apple’s new opt in tracking prompt.

It’s not about obstructing, a “native ad” looks just like any other post and is integrated into the feed. It would take some serious AI to block that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929935 Think this is the subconvexity one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790830 This one is also related to primes.
...but didn't open the protocol to third parties. In other words, it's as "open" as the lightning connector is: "pay us $x for every product you ship, and we won't sue you for using it"

Apple's marketing must train in the Matrix for how good they are at dodging bullets...
It's an example message proposed in a 1993 report from Sadina National Laboratories[1]. I doubt it's actually been legitimately written or used anywhere, but it's one of many such long-term messages intended to communicate danger thousands of years into the future, when the dangers of radioactive waste or even the prevailing language of the time may not be known.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...
This is how long it's worked so far, the title is a bit misleading.
Anyone who would use these to stalk someone is an idiot. They’re tied to your Apple ID. It’s not at all anonymous. Apple warns people about the abuse.

There’s a million GPS trackers for sale online that are near anonymous. The AirTag is a horrible device used to stalk people.
In North America. Not every major city in the whole developed world.
This concurs with my assessment. It's literally in the rules to not say what I'm about to say, but guess what: content-wise, HN threads are essentially Reddit threads at this point (ironically this stupid rule has likely played a hand in helping this become possible).

HN as a community used to heartily employ downvotes on comments that had low signal value. Those days are long gone; now you can make an offhand joke or pun and it will get upvoted to the moon. HN also used to track your ratio of karma per comment, which encouraged you to only comment when you really felt what you had to say was insightful lest you throw off your ratio with a comment that would only get a couple upvotes. Dang or somebody else removed that because they believed it was holding people back from participating (and it was, but it served a good purpose IMO).

HN has long required a karma threshold to downvote, but IMO they should've hid the upvote behind an even higher karma requirement. Without that, what has happened when waves of new users sign up, is they upvote garbage comments (likely from other new accounts), and over time this becomes normalized to be the community voice. Leading to the low signal quality we have today.
San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. San Jose (albeit theft has never received attention in San Jose)