skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I left SF (circa 2014) I had this general unease about what a bunch of my friends, who were now founders, had done to themselves. Quite a few that had what were perfectly great businesses, doing good things, giving people an enjoyable place to work, solving valuable problems for other companies. But they'd raised multiple rounds of funding which meant a billion dollar exit was only barely an acceptable outcome for anybody. It just blew my mind that these people could at that point have invested 5-6 years of their lives building a great business, and that a $1B exit would no longer be something to celebrate. Instead it looked like they were contorting themselves and their priorities into chasing highly speculative new ideas in the hope that found the next big success. Their future was either multi-billion outcome or flame out trying.

Coupled with all of this was a certain level of frustration that the startup game hand changed in the past couple of decades. Very few companies were having to overcome the type of feasibility risk from back in the silicon days of Silicon Valley. Lots of them already had a product in market generating revenue! Cloud had made it cheap and fast to make something real. So funding was increasingly going toward pure execution and go to market/marketing. It was a materially lower risk proposition for investors. Most were still taking their ~20% equity stake though because of the perceived risk, and just inflating it with a higher valuation.

So when I got back to Australia I started exploring different models that gave founders better options. A way to have a stake in the business that felt more aligned with the value/risk. A way to give founders their company back if their ambition or outcomes changed without forcing that go big or flame out dynamic. I was also inspired a lot by what Bryce @ Indie.VC was trying to do around the same time. Unfortunately my co-founder (Matt) and I never managed to get quite enough capital together to get it off the ground. A few years have passed though, and Matt has managed to tweak the ideas, get the capital, and a team together to make it happen (https://www.tractorventures.com).

I have to think we'll see this type of model grow more successful and more popular over time. Not every company needs VC investment. For lots of them it's actually a terrible idea. But lots of founders have grown up buying into all the hype and thinking it's the only viable way to build a really successful company.
> I liked the investment thesis of "get founders money and get out of their way"

It's a great theory. I read somewhere Masayoshi Son looks in founder's eyes to decide if they are trustworthy, same with George W Bush who would look into other leader's eyes to decide if they are someone he can do business with.
Maybe they now believe in a collective approach to all rights.
It’s true, but no manufacturer publishes exact numbers on this, so people end up not caring too much. With batteries that last a million miles anyway (and an 8 year guarantee on that), it’s easy to tell yourself that you’ll never drive as much anyway.

Energy price OTOH is the biggest motivator for many to charge at home. I think the higher price on fast charging will be important for flattening peak energy draws. Stations will need to purchase buffer batteries anyway to keep their own prices down (surge pricing is a thing for them too), which should keep fast charging expensive for a while.
Oil states are investing in anything that isn’t oil since basically forever. They are very conscious their luck is finite and that they need to transform their huge capital into an income for when the day will come.

That’s why they invest in luxury tourism, sports, new technologies… in fact, they have basically no interest into investing into oil related things. Their interest is that /others/ invest in it.
As a general question for anyone using python as the primary programming language at your job: what do you use it for?

A while back I did an analysis of language use across job listings and engineering blogs (for places that weren't hiring). What I found was that many of the job listings for python were actually for more systems/devops roles over other more traditional SE roles (Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Engineer, etc)
I don't agree. Your examples (UUID1, UUID4) are much longer strings and contain no useful information. UUID1 contains the device's MAC ID, UUID4 is just random bits.. vs a functional ID system like pika or Snowflakes which make use of those random bits by embedding a timestamp - something which might actually come in useful for some.
Basically approximating a solution, and then finding an equation from some data. Nothing wrong with writing down an approximation to some problem. An approximation can be very useful. As long as you know it’s limitations it’s fine to answer questions where it applies. But this can not replace deeper understanding. It’s all good to write down approximate solutions to some hard n body problem or non linear pde, just don’t look too far ahead in time, or update your model with fresh data if you need to.
you can't win

you can't break even

you can't leave the game
You know all of those substations where the high power transmissions lines get knocked down to distribution line voltage? Now imagine one of those with cars parked around the perimiter =)
Choosing safer paths does not bring you from 1/100 of success to 9/10 - perhaps it brings you to 3/100 or 1/10, but at that level you still have to have the winners making it very big to pay for the losers.
And yes, the fact that so many want to leave their very poor, often dangerous or dirty, countries validates that they are indeed shitholes. They will tell you as much, if not in words, by their actions. It doesn't mean that that person is bad or that you hate them (or their culture, ethnicity, etc.) if you frankly describe the unfortunate situation of their country with that word.
Seems like an improvement in KWh/kg could make a big difference in weight, and hence in efficiency.
You can charge a battery in 15 minutes, but tell me what its lifetime is going to be afterwards…
No, no magical tricks. They do device and browser fingerprinting, essentially they can detect you across the internet and in real life through your device networks, device identifiers like MAC address, device specs and configuration.
You should be able to build every SQL query with this. I built an example Top-N query here: https://imgur.com/a/2xKLltl

Right now building Top-N (and my example) assumes you know the rank function exists, but over time it should be easy enough to pre-build "nodes" that do things like this automatically :)
My wife gets treated like shit if she reveals she's a woman when we play rocket league. It was such a noticeable difference that a few years ago when she started back at school to get another degree and had to take some basic sociology course she used it as the subject for a paper - the teacher was not aware of the gaming world and was pretty shocked by how brazen men and boys were online.
> password-free

I really wish people would stop calling it this, and call it what it really is. Biometrics. I don't use that, and I won't, ever. At least until Mountain Dew Verification Can becomes real.
The oldest porn it could find was from 2005. That's not very old. I have fond memories of being kicked out from a lab in school in 1998 for looking at porn.
How about a simpler theory?

That 20% gains promised by Anchor were complete bollocks. Too much USD was promised, many users confused UST with USD. When UST lost its peg, the users woke up from their slumber / programming, and realized that they'll never get their 20% gains or their money back. Some woke up at $0.99, others woke up at $0.95, and many others woke up at $0.65 yesterday (or today).

The value continues to bounce between $0.65 and $0.90, but it doesn't seem like anyone has much confidence that UST will come back to $1.

So they started to sell off their UST, or at least, the people who can (the ones who were stuck in 20% accounts couldn't sell).

Because 20% APY gains are unsustainable, this entire event was inevitable. Once the dollar value promised by the system far exceeded the dollar value actually in the system, the whole thing collapsed.

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And now a $6 Billion market cap coin (LUNA, since so much of its value has been lost...) needs to somehow be sold to make the $15 Billion remaining in UST whole. This doesn't seem possible anymore. More and more people are realizing this, and they're selling at 80-cents, 70-cents, or 60-cents, because they look into the future of this whole structure collapsing to $0, and 60-cents is better than 0-cents in the long run.

Its quite possible that the original people who made all of this knew this house-of-cards from the beginning, and just wanted to take real world US-dollars from people in exchange for fake UST funny-money. But now that users are angry and asking questions, they need to create boogie men to deflect themselves from the blame.

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As Mark Twain said: It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled.

Let the fooling games continue.
The particulars don't help or harm Hawley. The value to him is in virtue signalling to his voter base. Not for any principled stance on free expression, but for fighting "wokeness."
Also if the registry is corrupted in any way, there's no way to recover it. It's crazy that there's this single point of failure.
Sorry if this is a silly question, but what are the moving parts that make normal lithium ion batteries not solid state?

Phones and laptops don't make any noticeable movement sounds when they charge, but I have noticed that my Tesla will produce some random knocking sounds when supercharging. Are these the kinds of moving parts that solid state batteries would remove?
How to Mine Pdfs for Keywords
Please don’t comment like that. HN guidelines:

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Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
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You and I live in different realities

democrats didn’t storm congress that was trump supporters when they refused to accept his loss.

There is nothing wrong with protesting the Supreme Court decisions, that’s called freedom of speech. Aka something valued in non-authoritian value systems.

Covid misinformation like ivermectin? Or that it’s just flu? That’s not the left spreading those.

Hacker news isn’t a good place for political debates but the views you expressed have serious flaws/skews and do not reflect a factual/neutral observer. Take your rebuttal reply if you will but I’m not going to continue after this because hacker news shouldn’t be for political wars like your post is designed to bring on. In fact the HN guidelines ask people not to post like your comment.
Are there any big companies that excel at innovation? I feel like every large organization goes like this:

- a huge number of people and teams pigeonholed into narrow specializations

- a huge number of corporate interfaces, silos and bottlenecks

- ever increasing bureaucracy to maintain the fragile infrastructure of personnel

- depersonalization of employees as the role they were confined to, rather than the talents they possess
Reads like an episode of Billions
I had a feeling this was going to be a Raymond Chen post. Loved reading the Old New Thing back in the day. Amazingly it looks like it is still going strong.
It’s not. Increase the duration to 20,000 and you see a classic gaming bug of the momentum going haywire eventually. Unsure if it’s anything to do with the environment or the coding. On mobile so can’t really analyze it.
15 minutes still sounds like a very long time to me, compared to fueling a gasoline vehicle (I rarely use the restroom, check Instagram, or buy a coffee, or do anything else when I do this). I'm typically back on the road in under 5 minutes.
It's pretty straight forward. You have to build your own computer scientist, first. Then make them cool. Voila!
The author's main complaint is that the ACLU has prioritized "immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom, and racial justice." But the opposition to these issues (aka the Republican party) is rolling in dark money. The forces against social progress are doing just fine without the ACLU.
I think we're talking more about end user external connections. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that back in the day a bajillion things ran through a DB-9s and DB-25s in electrically incompatible ways and how much easier it got to tech support our families with USB 1 and 2.
iPod was the first product that made Apple a large amount of money after a long time of trouble.
They do, but it their range still sounds daunting for someone who does not want multiple cars, and still wants the ability to do long range trips. Especially in places where charging infrastructure isn't great.

+80% range is probably a place where that argument is no longer relevant as it outranges most ICE cars.
Haha, 482 km range. Very credible.
Claim chowder, as John Gruber would say. You could easily cash this in around 2004 when iPod was mainstream, or 2008, when it was clear iPhone was a success.

Edit: I should have known better. [Of course John did! in 2009.](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/11/30/alsop-next)
They claim 80% charge after 50 mins. And they claim over 80% capacity after 800 charge cycles and they estimate that at >350000 km.

If true, 80% charge is still ~50% more range than a fully charged ev today.

Now it remains to be seen if all of this is true.
> In the first quarter of 2012, while many people were selling stocks during a broad market decline, one US Senator from Georgia purchased $180,000 worth of Cisco Systems shares.

> As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, their products are now more relevant than ever. The company’s revenue has gone up by 20% since last year—and it seems like this Senator knew about this before everyone else did.

To suggest that anyone saw anything like Covid19 seven years ahead of time through the data they're privy to is quite the suggestion.
But the average American, or even pretty financially sophisticated ones, don't have experience with an institution like that.

I think it's fair to expect users to know the coins they buy might lose value, but this is a bizarre and unexpected risk. It's clear from this thread that hardly anyone thought to consider this risk because they are trading off the expectations created by other, better regulated institutions (namely domestic banks).

Edit: I may have misread your intentions, when I wrote this I thought you were saying this arrangement was OK because it has happened elsewhere.
For those who don't get the reference, in 2001 President George W. Bush had this to say about Vladimir Putin:

"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country."
> We use a YAML parser (JSON is a subset of YAML)

I believe that has more sharp edges than one might suspect

--json "{username: testuser, password: testpassword, birthdate: 2022-05-10}"

...,"birthdate":"2022-05-10T00:00:00.000Z"}

The user may be less surprised if the flag were named "--yaml-as-json" or whatever DX friendly variant one wishes, in order to more clearly mark that string as yaml. The user is actually told about the "JSON or YAML", but only if they try to include some scalar value that isn't legal yaml

Also, I appreciate that every service should strive to respond in 10s, but there wasn't an obvious way to get it to be more patient

RequestError: Timeout awaiting 'request' for 10000ms
at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/home/node/node_modules/got/dist/source/core/index.js:962:65)

followed by a ginormous stacktrace and a console.error dump of some event object
No, it just burns. For one week.
Yes, as should be the speech of each person who points out the politician is lying.

A prerequisite for a politician to experience consequences for lying is for people to be free to discuss the lie, persuade fellow voters that he is lying, and disseminate that fact freely.

You’re not going to prevent politicians from lying by limiting speech. You’ll achieve quite the opposite effect, actually.
1h so it's "fully charged" (which would be the normal best way to measure it in a standard way, full to deplete number of cycles) or 1h for that 80% capacity instead of those 15 min, effectively slow charging and not full cycles (which would def count as fudging the metrics or at least the headline on my book)?
The price is set by the market, and that process may happen to be too low to make the whole enterprise profitable. That's the question.
* "The Woman Steering Russia's War Economy"
I'm really curious to see if efforts like this, and from computational augmentation and automation more generally, will yield progress on symbolic modeling of large natural systems.

There is a segment in Adam Curtis's "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" which describes scientists trying to model the ecology of a prairie. As described by Curtis, the more data they collected and more complex their model, the worse the predictions of the model became. It feels like the lessons of the past couple generations (many decades) have been that symbolic models don't compose together easily; symbolic analysis only works in simple systems and has hit diminishing returns; numeric and ML methods work well enough; etc. I'm curious if better tooling (augmentation and/or automation) can push through some of these challenges and yield real understanding. Or if there are some fundamental scaling problems that can not be overcome.
> Basically they say The Founders wrote the whole amendment in the Bill of Rights to express the right of US to have an army (that's the only way I can make sense of the term of "collective right" with regard to keeping and bearing arms). That's kind of weird - first of all, the Army is already mentioned in the Constitution, why mention it again?

There’s an important word right there in the (extremely short) text of the amendment: “militia.” That word explains why the amendment exists in addition to the constitution’s mention of the army: it’s because army and militia are different things. We agree that the amendment very clearly is not referring to the right of the United States government to maintain an army, but I see no indication that the ACLU or any other significant groups believe that.

But it seems odd to me that the first 13 of the 27 words of the amendment would explain why militias are important, when a militia would be an extremely rare use case for owning a firearm.
It's generally good advice... another example is why use c++ when a fraction of functional code will do the same.

On refactor though... sometimes it's not about 'prettier' it's about being able to be maintained.
It's not about moving parts. All current lithium ion batteries use liquid electrolyte.
I'd suspect the knocking sounds are thermal expansion of some rigid parts shifting about.
> 0 comments

This is a blatant lie, I know posts on Old New Thing with zero comments have been extremely rare. And of course:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091231092140/http://blogs.msdn...

Note that pingbacks were also available, and some posts had quite a lot of them from various years, creating a web of somehow related pieces of information. After 2012 the comments were loaded with AJAX, its endpoint obviously stopped existing, and it wouldn't work on Web Archive anyway. However, these resurfaced in 2016 after another move. And someone on bytepointer.com has created a sane static copy which deserves an applause.

Also, various old custom text style markup was broken in other posts, but it's a general problem with all MSDN content. People doing the conversion just didn't care. I guess informing them that some old knowledge base articles were actually distributed as self-extracting archives (IIRC, in custom format, so you have to run them in an emulator to unpack) with text and code files (in DOS code page, with occasional pseudographics) would make them panic and run away.

So there's a corporation the size of Microsoft, and one of the most highly regarded places to set “correct” approach to Windows programming, and the most they can offer to Raymond Chen is “Hey, old man, our engine supports bold and italic, and comments from Microsoft® Account™ logins, you can import your posts and fix them manually. Next!” The announce post had an excuse (personal data protection laws)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190313-01/?p=10...

HOWEVER, it does not cover pingbacks (at least pingbacks from oldnewthing to oldnewthing itself). Also, even in 2003 we see the remains of “old” old comment system, so at least some comments had been impossible to delete all along even before the move. Tsk.

/grumble
> And they say they’re killing Gmail in July.

Source?
The article is pretty ambiguous. They say the energy density is doubled vs Tesla, and then then they compare the charge rates. They never indicate the capacity of the 15 minute charge. What exactly are they comparing.
I think he meant 10^8 instead of 108.
Agreed but imho it's not just about how long it is for one person. If a significant amount of people start needing to charge we are going to need more throughput at charging stations.
Do you not have to convert the music to Sony's format using their software? I had one of the early Sony mp3 walkman models (the circular "network walkman" I guess it was called)... you couldn't actually transfer mp3s to it, you had to use their software to transcode it (probably decreasing quality). It was still awesome, though!
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 charges 10 to 80% in 18 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqcqy29ZCc

The Porsche Taycan can do 0 to 80% in 21 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrkAeTWDed4

A charging comparison between the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Audi e-tron GT (same platform as the Taycan), Audi e-tron 55, and a Tesla Model 3 Long Range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gxcukAhIAU
Literally yes, because the next prompted question is 'who determines what political speech is true and therefore allowed?', which is a path fraught with dragons.
In the early 2000‘s iTunes had some pretty neat features- it supported a handful of non-Apple mp3 players including my Rio and Motorola SLVR. It had a pretty decent encoder and great AppleScript support. One of my first “software projects” was an AppleScript droplet that accepted an dragged audio file, the sermon from the church where the owner ran the sound booth, and output a 128kbps and 64kbps audio file for upload to the church website. I remember getting excited when the color changed, indicating a new version (Green>Purple>Blue IIRC). I curated my music library in it, carefully cleaning and updating id3 tags for LimeWire (and later BitTorrent)-acquired albums. iTunes will always hold a special place in my heart, “Music” with its generic generic icon just can’t bring me the same joy.
In this case solid state refers to replacing the electrolyte gel with a solid material. That gel can move out of the way as dendrites grow within the cell causing short circuits between the anode and cathode layers.
> I'm not sure that's an accurate description of the law.

When I worked at Microsoft we were explicitly forbidden from looking at any software patents, Just To Be Safe.

Kind of defeated the entire idea of patents being published to help improve innovation. Basically other company's patents were treated like poison that were to be avoided looked at at all cost.