skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a transit or budget costing expert, but I understand that trending increase around 2008 to be around warranty ("All vehicles... were off warranty coverage by 2010, explaining why costs rose over the five years").

re: your point on infrastructure, I think my argument would be that anywhere that's dense and stable enough to invest in capital infrastructure would be better served by rail, leaving electric buses like this relegated to distributed suburban areas. I actually think the future is the marriage of ride-hailing and public transit - fixed, schedule transit routes are from the 60's. I'm really excited by some of the experiments that dispatch buses based on app requests [1]

It's a fair point around battery production - to complement your point, it's a well-known issue that Tesla remains primarily battery bottlenecked over anything else. I guess we're in an interesting conflict between what's best for society/environment (electrify asap) vs cities (best possible public transport), but personally I'd put stock in battery production scaling up faster than expected.

https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/Conferences/2019/DRT/K...
Julia was designed to unsettle a creeping set of python in the domain of Perl, C++, and Matlab in scientific computing and various quant analysis that’s pretty distant, IMO, from what industry data engineering, ML, and analytics work was doing.
so.. Haskell and Scala? Those would be the top two that come to mind for me when someone says "highly 'logical' and 'compose well'", "having sum types", 'more expressive', etc.

I've heard they're great languages (haven't used them much myself), but I probably wouldn't choose them for say an early-stage startup. Go's value is in being a mundane, repetitive, boring language. It makes it easy for any random kid to dive into an existing code base and become productive, that can be super valuable.

There's a theoretical gradient of programming languages where one side is "has a single expression for exactly your problem, a single unique expression you've never heard of exists to solve every possible problem" and the other is "requires thousands of expressions to express your problem, but only a thousand are available" - or something like that.

My point? There's no perfect language, yet people are always trying to find one. It's OK if you don't like Go and prefer another language, the real devil / tradeoff is in the fact that conformance to a single language (or set of languages) is such a strong social phenomena. I think that's why people end up so angry with viewed-as-subpar languages like Go gaining so much traction: it limits personal choice of which language to work in.

I'm positive linguists aren't happy with English becoming the global language either, but you've gotta admit - having a global language is valuable.
My daughter uses Epic for school reading!!! Love that app!
Did you even read the article. Also, it was written by an individual and their experience with the language. The article merits a read or at least a skim.

I cannot speak for others, but I do not see a cabal of people conspiring to bring down Golang on HN. Yes, esoteric languages get love and practical languages like C++/Go/Java et al. get hate because people are more familiar with them and see their warts.

The more a language is criticized the more often it is used.
You’re going to have to define the perimeter somewhat more specifically. I’m in Europe and the foundational document is the EU’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). If applicable I strongly recommend you read it and a commentary thereupon.
> The axons are just as important as the neurons

We don't know about that.

> without weights between them it
We don't know where are located the weights but yes probably.
We know for sure that individual neurons and axons do not reduce to a single floating point though. They have action potential memory and many dynamic modulators.
Basically I believe the idea that neurons are mostly doing linear regression (which is what neural networks are) is very broken. I have read papers about neural coding and neurons are able to encode information in the spike timing frequency and in the strength (weight) but non of those two mechanisms even begin to explain how the system works.

Anyway to answer your comment you have a tentative point but mostly unknown. It is unknown how much percent of human axons are in the cerebrum vs the cerebellum. I would be surprised if the cerebellum would have less since I expect some kind of neuron/axon proportionality. Especially since the main neuron type in the cerebellum are highly branchial.
this tbh. the united states seems to be sorely lacking in training-focused post-secondary like BCIT.
I'm really not sure if I follow you.

Why exactly do you buy a physical medium?

Because you don't think you are able to store 1000 audio CDs loss less for the rest of your life?

I mean that's not that much of space.

You probably have other similar critical things like pictures or videos so you have to have a backup strategy for that anyway.

And what music would you have which would be so unique that in the worst case scenario you are happy that you still have those 1000 music CDs but no longer your pictures etc?
On the other hand I have 3 colleagues in their 70s working in a silicon design startup, they can still design even do some coding debugging, well paid too.

They're all technical and bored at retirement, I feel they're like those college professors that are old but capable, so they can be employed, some are actually sought after.

sure it's challenging to get into FAANG(due to their leetcode barrier) but there are many other companies 50s/60s can work for.
> I suppose technically Robinhood could have held more, but that seems like the kind of thing that no consortium of mere humans would ever actually do, right?

Yep. That's why RH wasn't the only major brokerage that disabled buying of GME on that day. They just got the most media coverage. Probably because most of superstonk users, I assume, used RH instead of other brokerages, or because RH was an easy target for the media.

Webull, Schwab, IB, and some other brokers restricted GME trading activity during that time as well, here is a list with details on each major brokerage someone on WSB has compiled[0]. I cannot verify all of those myself, but I can confirm that Webull definitely restricted it as well, as I used it myself during that time period. But that little fact wouldn't support the whole "shadow cabal" conspiracy theory though, so it gets conveniently omitted in almost every discussion of it by superstonk users.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6xlw3/robi...
People warning of Confederate Flags in Iowa are like people warning of Maga hats in LA.

Something doesn't add up.
While I expect people lurking on HN to get it, I really enjoyed this breakdown to refresh my memory on the subject.
Since this doesn’t seem to be answered down thread- URL refers to Unrestricted Line officers, for example officers in the aviation, surface or submarine warfare communities etc. Restricted line officers can be found in the medical, supply, or intelligence communities etc. A third type of officer, and one of my personal favorite abbreviations, is the Direct Input Limited Duty Officer. DILDOs are required to have prior enlisted experience, but not required to have a bachelors degree. Restricted line officers and DILDOs could be given command of a training unit, or medical facility, but would not be given command of a ship or squadron.
Bay Area-based tech company Robinhood has lost millions of merry memestock men
@jer0me this is actually NYT capable as of April 2022
Scrumfall: When Agile becomes Waterfall by another name
C++ ICs won't find much to love about opinionated Go, but once they start leading/managing a team, they will like it a lot more.
In the US, Discover is fairly common as well, and American Express is widely available now too.
If you aren't already reading it, may I suggest you checking out Scott Robertson's "How To Draw: Drawing And Sketching Objects And Environments From Your Imagination"
Java is like 15 years older than Go. Go had the opportunity to learn from Java. And in some ways it’s better, fast compile times, simple to deploy binaries, etc.

But the language itself was a step backward from Java in some ways, and only recently has gained some of those features.

I don’t think it’s wrong to say that Go in its desire to be simple left a lot to be desired for many people.
Onsager was a bastard with omitting details. He has a 1949 paper on packing of hard rods (and other anisometric particles), which is 4 pages long, but a colleague who went through the details of the derivation spent half a year and filled a ring binder with intermediate calculations.
A small, multipurpose (type "ABC") fire extinguisher. These work for basically all common types of fires, including grease fires in a pinch (if you don't have a way to starve it of oxygen).

Examples:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/First-Alert-Tundra-Fire-Extingui... ($13)

https://www.firstalertstore.com/store/products/First-Alert-R... (larger and rechargeable, $37)
I've been to major European cities in the last few weeks, Paris, London, Edinburgh, all of them, with no exception had bus routes changed temporarily because of construction, protests, events etc. Of course it's frequent.
>which Google certainly has

You’re conflating some ideas here. A marketplace owner always has “dominant market power” over the market they own. That’s the nature of marketplace, the owner gets to set certain rules like the types of payments accepted at the marketplace, because that is literally the job of a marketplace.

Google also has dominant market share, since their App Store is the best for android, but that’s legal (keep in mind Amazon, another $1tn company actively competes in this space) - the government does not want to force consumers to use worse app stores. Competition for the sake of competition is not pro consumer.

What Google probably isn’t doing (and what is illegal) is using its OS market power to crowd out other app marketplaces. As mentioned above Amazon meaningfully competes in this space. The closes you could get there is Google doesn’t publish its own apps to other app marketplaces, but that’s likely not across the bar of anti-competition.
I like what Twitch does. They send a email offering a certain amount of users to complete their survey $5. I think $100 is worth learning what 20 users think and it's a good incentive!
This is awesome and has so much potential!

Regarding the size of the download, I know there is ongoing work in the Pyodide project to create a much smaller python runtime that will help tremendously. Also, the script will be cached once you download it once.

EDIT: Also, you don't need NPM or anything locally to run these
This hasn't been that much of a problem, IME

If you decide somewhere deep in your program you want to use async operations, most languages allow you to keep the invoking function/closure synchronous and return some kind of Promise/Future-like value
I'm picturing a naive lookup table solution for a 32-bit popcount, and wondering if there are any text editors that could handle the source gracefully.
For some reason, I can't see this linked anywhere on the site, but there is an examples page:

https://pyscript.net/examples/

(This was presented today as a pycon keynote talk!)
The thing is… 30% is a lot for the artists on Bandcamp.

Say I sell my album for $10 for easy math.

I think Bandcamp takes something like 10-15%, there’s a small PayPal fee (~1%) and the rest goes to me.

That’s ~$8.41 in my pocket.

If Google takes their cut at the beginning for providing…the App Store where the buyer downloaded the app… the artist’s cut becomes ~$5.89. For a $10 album.

It just doesn’t line up with the whole point of Bandcamp.
I took apart a 650,000 BTU oven burner this morning for cleaning, and had to clean out the oven exhaust damper that was starting to get build-up. Soon I’ll be at my desk programming again thankfully.
The black hole has become a culturally important concept, being the center of different media as well as a common metaphor, allowing us new descriptions of ideas
Super-interesting stories and expensive lessons that deserve preservation in a paper, conference presentation or podcast interview! Thanks for sharing on HN.
Five Lems [video]
> This is untrue

> I don't meet anyone who doesn't want privacy as the default.

We're both speaking from experience. You can't claim that my experience is untrue, just as I can't claim that yours is.

Most people I've spoken to--particularly outside of HN--in the baby boomer and generation X demographics, and even some millennials, have expressed what I said above. Practically speaking, almost anyone who is not technically savvy certainly wouldn't be concerned about protecting their online privacy, since the internet (or "Facebook") is just a tool they use to stay in touch and keep (mis)informed.

As more and more people come online their first exposure to the internet will be via these services. The failure of web developers has been not building privacy-focused tools from the beginning, and not educating people about what they're sacrificing by using "free" services. We can work on the latter, but the former will always be an uphill battle, as the momentum of adtech has taken over the web.

> Snapchat is winning among the generations that get most accused of being comfortable with this corporate and government-imposed lack of privacy

What makes you think Snapchat respects users' privacy? Snap is an opaque corporation, running a profitable ad-based business, like most tech giants.

I'd reckon that most Snapchat users don't use it because they think it's private, but because it has the content they're interested in. This is the same demographic obsessed with TikTok after all.
Do we have an example of a language getting better with critism? I love the evolution of JavaScript but not sure if blogs shaped it.
> I don't give two hoots about "breaking up the App Store Model" and I doubt many/most musicians do either

Well you should. Because regardless of if Epic bought bandcamp or not, the fee that google charges would come directly out of musicians pockets.

Regardless of who is running bandcamp, that feel would directly cause artists to not make as much money.

> I personally feel that 30% isn't even outrageous

Ok, and now the end result is that fee is coming out of artists pockets.

If you don't care about artist compensation, and want them to make less money, well fine. But don't pretend like you are on the side of artist compensation.
Turbo Relayer – Relaying high throughput messages reliably between Microservices
I've been checking out Babashka [1] recently. It allows you to write clojure scripts and output a single-binary with fast startup time.

Then I did a very brief search for clojure libraries, things like parsing html. Most of the github projects were not seeing much activity (like last commit in 2020).

I've found bash-as-glue of unix programs like ImageMagick, curl, jq and pup very practical [2]. I was just looking for a possible alternative to be sure I'm not missing out. Doesn't seem like it.

Anyone wants to hop in and sell me on his own approach?

[1]: https://babashka.org/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31142635
Fictosexual man who married hologram says he can't communicate with her anymore
Don’t forget

* Be open and admit the areas you’re expert in even if they’re not popular - Java and COBOL still get hired
The filesystem might not be able to block use-after-free bugs, but it could greatly mitigate them. In particular, if the fs avoided reusing file descriptors, it could return an error on use-after-free instead of silently corrupting a random data file.
FAANG hiring is just different. They have a vast system of middle management ready to intake juniors, spit out the bad, promote the good. At this point it's a machine. Really senior people (by position) don't fit into this mold. There are exceptions, eg if the senior has a famous product or following -> as this will help intake more juniors into mega corp.
You sum up my 3-4 years writing in Go. I’m going to have to point people to this comment. Thanks.
What are some others, if you don't mind?
This is a great attitude to have if you're trying never to internalize any feedback at all.
There is a better Java, its Kotlin and its embrace has been lukewarm by community. I think golang serves an interesting purpose and it was always meant to be a better C not better Java.
Well, given that they dedicated their first few paragraphs to HN commenters, I guess they do care.
https://archive.ph/b5f9s

To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions

If ensembles are to reflect the communities they serve, the audition process should take into account race, gender and other factors.
The fact that both sides make similar claims does not necessarily means both of them are wrong. One can be just mistaken - or lying, and another telling the truth. An aggressor frequently claims the victim started it - but that doesn't mean aggressors and victims do not exist.

You can see that the people that control moderation on most social networks are political left, and aren't shy about discussing it. You can see that the political support from the social media workers leans to the left (I think over 99% of all political donations from twitter goes to the left). You see that these people routinely proclaim support for leftist political causes in their personal social media. Do you think there's a chance this influences their decisions?

Now, we've been told a lot about implicit biases and how people that think they are even handed may be still prejudiced even if they don't realize it, and need to take deliberate actions to ensure this bias does not influence their work. Do you think this also relates to people controlling social media, or they are unique caste of saints untainted by biases the rest of humanity suffers from? Or, more likely, they don't think they need to any take such actions, because they live in 99% agreement bubble? Do you think the existence of 99% agreement bubbles hinders their ability to evaluate their biases and enact measures to reduce their impact on their work?
Damn.

I never actually learned this stuff. Is there a good textbook account of this isotropic-to-nematic transition that includes full details? Or is there still a gaping hole in the published literature?

In other words, did your colleague do this as a kind of history project, or because the details weren't available anywhere else?
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Showing up not looking like this, can also cause you to not get hired. Discrimination on non-performance factors is real on all sides of the fence.

Anyway this isn’t the point; the point was that it’s sad you need to hide your age using clothing.
Philosophy has no practical value, except for contrarians who don't want to admit being wrong.

History does though & the history of religion is that extremists who are religiously exclusive are much more likely to affect someone else's life due to their zealotry.

That why there are so many wars & crimes linked to religious exclusion.
Surprising / not surprising how woke coastal hiring practice coincides with blatant age discrimination.

"Woke" has nothing to do with it. That's a completely separate thing. Also, it doesn't exist. Black people don't use it anymore ("woke" came out of AAVE, before it became something for Tucker Carlson to trigger the right with) and most ardent leftists recognize that "woke capitalism" is strictly a performance.

Companies aren't going "woke" because they want to impose blue-state social justice on the population. They're doing this because (a) it's a way to make themselves look better in a country that is 2:1 against racism, sexism, transphobia, et al, without actually changing anything about how they operate, and (b) this "woke"/CRT bugbear is just another tool the very rich use to divide working people against each other.

Ageism is similar. Nothing makes capitalists happier than for us old working people and the young working people to hate each other. But we shouldn't. We're on the same team.
But isn't being the boss often a significantly different discipline? My boss deals with politics, business strategy and resource coordination. I deal with concrete engineering/design challenges. Sure there's overlap between what we do but it should be clear that not everyone would want to transition from one to the other.
Goliath the Philistine was six cubits and a span. The internet tells me that 6'0" is the manlet cutoff. He should have either embraced his original height, or asked for a discount since the doctor was two inches short of the mark.
> to look sharp and fit you HAVE to be disciplined. That's a fact.

Again, not in my experience. There are other ways to be fit than a rigorous workout scheme and diet. Some people are fit as a side effect of something they love to do. A mountain biking enthusiast doesn't have to be disciplined to be fit, just a little obsessed. Some people have obsessive body issues and their level of exercise is the result of an unhealthy lack of discipline. You are whitewashing a complex topic with your bias and stating it as an unassailable fact.

I think it is easy to confuse obsession with discipline sometimes. I think the obsessed tend to outperform the disciplined in their areas of focus and the combination of the two can lead to quite incredible things.

Edit: I will say that a lack of fitness can be a sign of a lack of discipline IF you know the context of the goals and priorities of that individual, but as a stand alone signal, it is meaningless without specific contexts.
That's a huge stretch. CERN might be a reason we have the web that looks like it looks today, but we would have something similar with or without CERN.
The article doesn't really mention what fields it's concerned about. Healthcare trends much older, for instance (https://www.journalofnursingregulation.com/article/S2155-825...). I'd think be helpful to know which fields have it worse, no?

Some of the advice also seems odd: "For instance, if your résumé still includes your street address or an older email account (such as AOL or Yahoo)." Yahoo is the second-most popular email provider and I doubt it would really send off an alarm bell for a recruiter. Why not include your street address on a formal document like a résumé, anyway?
> “But I couldn’t help myself. I needed to talk it through.”

Someone who can’t control their public speech is not Exec material.
Diogenes, while I agree that «hyperbolic language is silly» and occasionally «disrespectful», if we let "history", the non progressive instances of history, eat up our language then we would lose something extremely precious.

«"When people hear they think"» is an enemy of language and more.

If you wanted to interpret «"occasionally"» in the first sentence of this post as "seldom", because "when people hear they think", instead of "according to occasion", which is what was meant, then that very sentence would be disrespectful. But you should know this was not what was intended.

You know how it works with servers: strict in the output, tolerant in the intake.
Cake reparations? Is that what HN has come to? This is about the most Reddit quality post I can think of—brief, summed up in a photo (WYSIWYG), timely, though a bit of nonsense.

Unless the OP is related and simply wishes to share a heartwarming personal story with us.
Got it.

So if back in 1999, internet explorer only allowed you to download something, if they took a percentage fee, then you'd be OK this with use of monopolistic power.