skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't service their own cars any more, much less dispose of them. This makes it easier to regulate recycling, by imposing the mandate on service facilities. Today, every car shop recycles lead-acid batteries and used engine oil. They are required to take used oil from DIY'ers. If you replace your own battery, as I've done, you trade the old one in or pay an extra charge that you get back when you return the old battery.
Russian Ruble Is World’s Best Currency This Year
I keep seeing these articles, and I can't help thinking it is a solution looking for a problem and being popularized by various interests to make EVs look less green. People and companies want to use these old batteries. Why pay for a brand new battery to stick in a shed when you can use a much cheaper 10 year old car battery for the same purpose? Or my ride on lawn mower, which doesn't need a 250km range. But it isn't much cheaper, because you can't actually buy 10 year old car batteries. They are scarce. Where are these piles of millions of batteries, like the piles of millions of tires? Sure, we will want to recycle them eventually, but in a non-wasteful world that will be in about 20 years time. Do the research, put together your recycling business plans, and be ready when there is actually a market. Pleading for funding to recycle perfectly useful batteries people want to buy is just wrong.
Making My Robotic Piano Play Exactly Like Me
Nice! quick question. How do you handle returns and refunds? In case, if a wrong product is shipped or if it is damaged or buyer do not like it after receiving it?
> It’s strange to think about how different my life might have been without that computer.

Isn't this the honest truth.
> I find the advice 'all sun exposure is bad' pretty unhelpful. It is on the same level as teaching abstinence as sex education.

> Our bodies deal with some form of damage all the time.

Yet in the frequent “leaded gasoline” threads here, the “no amount of lead exposure is acceptable” meme gets trotted out every time. No spectrum, no trade offs, no caveats. As if the minute you eat a paint chip as a toddler, you’re hopelessly contaminated! When dealing with hazards to health, it’s important to frame things in terms of higher/lower probability and higher/lower risk rather than these zero tolerance simplifications.

I’m not saying we should go out and drink a pint of airplane gasoline but entire generations grew up with lead paint and regular gasoline and are still here—just statistically worse off health wise than the generation that grew up without them.
I don’t think you realize how incredibly racist your comment is against black people. Read it and parse the implication.
How so not?

del.icio.us is specifically listed as an example.

(I'm aware that you're more than casually familiar with del.icio.us. I'm just confused by your response.)
Especially for reporting, I'm just as happy to write a serious piece of SQL and execute it directly.

This is the joy of SQLAlchemy: great features when you want to use them; escape hatches when you don't.
C++ should be renamed to "Go 18465927"
Really good stuff but I disagree with the need for professional references as it just adds a bias for socially competent which may not be a part of the responsibilities.
Same. Around then, I requested MySQL and was told no for the same reasons you were. So I implemented my database as flat files and proceeded to use up all the inodes a few weeks later on a large call center server used for interviewing and data collection.

I received a panicked call from the admin that turned down my request. He wasn’t happy with me but understood the role he played in creating an expensive disaster.

Plenty of learning to go around in that experience :)
Virtual dispatch always has a cost, it's "free" in Java in the sense that it's always done at the VM level, so you might as well just use it, even final methods are just an agreement with the compiler, the VM doesn't care, it will dynamically look up the method in the class hierarchy like God intended. C++ makes it painful and obvious what you're getting yourself into.

The JVM is off course very clever and is, I'm sure, doing tons of shenanigans to reduce the cost, but that's not free, that's someone else investing tons of time and effort and complexity to reduce the cost of a fundamentally expensive operation.
There’s a similar thing with ADHD, i think, also allegedly on the rise and alarming people: modern life is just a lot more distracting, and we have so many more things in our lives that disrupt concentration that you can’t really say with certainty that people who are adhd weren’t just far less likely to fall through the cracks before.

Ironically, it’s likely adhd people (and other neurodivergent people) who basically built that modern world that’s no longer particularly well suited to us (or at least to us being employed).
Please let me know when we can get these things commercially, either by prescription or direct from the manufacturer.

I'd love to be able to replace the crap "Libre" CGM that I'm wearing.
not disagreeing but, a part that is missing is the consent of the user to be in such an arrangement to use a computer. Next is the chain of custody for data linked to you personally and legally. Both the consent or lack-thereof, and the use and abuse of that persistant, highly-transmissible security data bundle. in short, if it were only in a formal environment for the right reasons, then sure, locks are useful; not that? problems
> Just don't say that you Americans are more free than other nations. Because you are simply not.

But your example is shit, because Americans are free to move a place without an HOA (I’m in one).
The writing in the article cringey and trite.
Tell LibreOffice to save the file as Flat XML.
APNS?

"Apple Push Notification service is a platform notification service created by Apple Inc. that enables third party application developers to send notification data to applications installed on Apple devices. The notification information sent can include badges, sounds, newsstand updates, or custom text alerts."

So, notifications.

If an app annoys me with notifications then I disable the app’s notifications.
My only criticism of this piece, is that it's so dry and well articulated, some might not realize it's satire.

There is some conversation here about the number of instances something has to happen before you should abstract it, which is a handy rule of thumb. You should also consider the tradeoff of complexity, sometimes even if you have 5, 10, 15 snippets of code that are almost the same you still don't need to abstract it, because the differences are not complex to manage, but an abstraction would be.
The Goto Language.
I'm not really interested in isolated political incidents but rather how they fit into trends across long spans of time. This dichotomy of collective vs individual is also very interesting to me, and through that interest I've determined that some people seem to believe that this plane of existence is an engineering problem. That if you for instance, want to do away with scarcity or whatever, achieve anything at all, well then all that is required is a proper catalogue of inputs and corresponding outputs with as few and as limited variables as possible, and like I said, that to acquire such a catalogue is inherently good for it enables any beneficence.

So, regarding free will and self determinations about one's own body, that is to say, one's own inputs into this catalogue, right; if your question is why would some people be so obsessive about micromanaging those aspects of your life, well that's why. It's because they believe that to do so is to master the laws of nature, and therefore to be able to reformulate the world in such a way that they estimate mankind would be happier and better off.
That's the closest I've come to understanding the why of this stuff anyway, and it doesn't sit right with me because the premise is nihilistic, and it seems to me to mirror parts of my own life in which others derived their own life satisfaction from making demands of me and making me do things I didn't want to do without my consent and in such a way that I was worse off for those things having happened to me.
Home sweet home, made from shipping containers
My view is: why have an article management system that's limited to only a single document format?

Pocket provides a place to archive and tag or organise content. What format that content is in ... I could care less.

For PDFs, my main problem is in organising metadata. Especially on a tablet, where despite having ample storage, the only real organisation schemes I can come up with are expressive filenames (which are a pain to apply) and directory-based storage.

For both, my best way of accomplishing this is through a Linux environment such as Termux, and an external keyboard.

Tools such as Calibre or Zotero would be handy. Niether has a full-featured tablet port.
"Progress means: humanity emerges from its spellbound state no longer under the spell of progress as well, itself nature, by becoming aware of its own indigenousness to nature and by halting the mastery over nature through which nature continues its mastery." (Adorno)
However Getters/Setters are often the worst place to implement cross-cutting concerns, like caching, memoization and logging.

Of course, in more limited languages/environments they're probably the only tool you have, so there's that.
This doesn't make sense or you are omitting key information.

If a homeowner rents their place for more than it costs them in mortgage + property taxes and makes $200 on top, that's fine and quite a nice deal. However you're suggesting they're also subsidizing their own rental and +$200.

That only makes sense if they're renting well below their means or in a different market entirely while their home is in an ultra prime location. If not the renter of their home should simply have rented out the place the owners are living at a substantial discount.
> access basic life needs like food and transportation and social services

You are so very right. Do we even realize that smart cell phones have become a required utility? So 25 years ago I would have had a $50 phone bill instead of a $500 phone bill for phones that are required for me to do anything with my government, like renew a driver's license.

Many made fun of "Obama phones," but I think I understand the point of them. I'm not a fan of these phones (and technology in general) leaving people behind because they cannot pay for it.

> or are we being spied on and stolen from by an increasingly ubiquitous industry with no conscience or self awareness

In the name of "security." Yes, we are being spied on and treated as human batteries, just like in the Matrix.
I think the last two paragraphs, which I quoted below, sum up exactly something that has been on my mind for a while now.

Somehow, while we were all busy debating for or against this or that political view, we, common people, lost control of more and more of our existence.

We lost control of the food we eat, the kind of houses we live in (as this article explains), the way we invest our money, our work schedules, our means of production, our means of transportation (and more).

Saying this, immediately triggers alarm bells (ah! He is saying that buildings should not be regulated, he must be a libertarian right winger! Oh! He says we need to own the means of production? He's obviously a communist!) and this prevents us from discussing many of the things that really matter.

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> I want you, dear reader, to set aside all the squirrelly feelings you may have about the political Left or Right. Perhaps you hate the evils of Big Government or the evils of Corporate Capitalism. Maybe you like cities. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you like the kinds of people who live in them. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you like places that are a bit messy. Maybe you need a place that’s orderly and tidy. That’s not the point I’m making here.

> Look at these images of the Summerlin West development on the far edge of Las Vegas. The scale is massive and the same dynamics are at work. Everything about this place is enormous and predicated on vast amounts of institutional complexity and debt. Somehow, as a society, we’ve drifted from ordinary people being able to build their own homes on a cash basis in an interactive iterative way, to these immense hyper elaborate habitats. You may not aspire to live in a small underground home that takes years to complete. The Summerlin West homes may be better in many ways. But there are trade offs involved. Both individuals and the larger society have agreed to a set of interlocking delicate systems that are simultaneously highly effective and spectacularly vulnerable to disruption. That’s my point.
Real title: Colin Cantwell, Concept Artist Who Designed Iconic ‘Star Wars’ Spacecraft, Dies at 90
Yeah if the use case is “user might need to click several times abruptly” time to NOT animate.

But there are places it works.
No bets on which one is buggier. Or which one's bugs (and also their fixes) break more networks.
Do people genuinely like the tongue?
I mean there's pleasure in biting lips but tongue to tongue don't bring feelings to me?
Your greatest enjoyment in life... So the most upvoted post chose the flow state in order to momentarily forget the existence of suffering that is life and the second most upvoted post chose Netflix and aimlessly driving around in the car. I wonder if this indicates something about the state of modern society.
Hah tongue is the best part. As much tongue as possible, please.
How anyone can look at how the war is going in Ukraine and think that it's any measure of success for Russia is simply not basing this in reality. Russia has already been decisively defeated in Ukraine. Their success is taking Mariupol is like if the US invaded Tijuana and then got stopped on the way to Ensenada. And what Donbas encirclement? The Russians "started" trying to encircle the Donbas in February. They've had no fundamental improvement in their position in the region since then, in fact, their facing their own issues with their defeat in Kharkiv.
It takes me twice a long to get my integration tests to work if I don't have unit tests making sure the parts work along the way.

If you write an integration test, and it fails, what's broken?
I haven't seen anyone else point out: One of the ways you can often identify really experienced programmers is by them being able to pretty accurately separate thing-that-probably-will-change from things-that-probably-won't.

Finding a good way to balance YAGNI with this-will-definitely-change-in-a-few-months-because-it-always-does is incredibly hard, and I've really appreciated working with engineers who make that prediction correctly.
From the abstract of the cited study: "Changes in reporting practices can account for most (60%) of the increase in the observed prevalence of ASDs in children born from 1980 through 1991 in Denmark."

In other words, 40% of the increase could not be accounted for changes in reporting practices. That's quite a bit and not consistent with the tone of the essay.

One has to be careful with these types of arguments, at least in the US, because clinicians tend to use different diagnostic standards, especially with things like autism. If they don't fit one definition, they use a "not otherwise specified" or "not elsewhere classified" diagnosis. That is, even if the DSM or ICD or whoever changes its criteria, it doesn't necessarily impact clinicians, who might have been using a different standard all along.
I'd much rather just have BEVs with a standardized external range extender interface similar to how trailer light/brake connectors work, accompanying a trailer hitch.

When I need to do a long trip I'll just have the power pack thrown on the back at the neighborhood depot next to the propane tanks at the gas station. It can have a fossil fuel powered generator, or just be batteries, I don't care.

What I do care about is not having to cart around an ICE 100% of the time for the sake of trips I do <=10% of the time. Maintaining ICE garbage is not something I see in my future, and I'm an experienced graybeard grease monkey.
Gun ownership is common here, as is (apparently) leaving the guns in cars. Criminals need an illegal source of guns, since they can't pass a background check, so they steal them from the copious amounts of cars containing them.
And clearly written by a nerd ... Stop the research and go do some practicing!
I had an idea about this just today: What I want is to be able to quickly save things off without cluttering up tabs (like a "read later") but be periodically reminded what's in there. My thinking is a daily digest pulling a random sample of the saved articles, with quick actions to either leave things on the pile if I'm still interested but still don't have time to read or to remove them if I've lost interest.

Anyone know of anything like this?
The carrier (bike seat) I had for her had a kind of "roll cage" (more like a frame) around the perimeter such that if the bike went down on one side or the other, she would not be grinding against the pavement. Plus helmet.

Safe? Well, as you say, nothing is truly safe. But I stuck to back roads and probably never exceeded 15 MPH. We would ride to the local park where she could play in the sand for a bit before we rode home again.
> Speaking of arousal, most females won’t willingly have sex with someone before kissing them and use kisses to gauge commitment, while males generally view them as a way to advance to sex.

I mean how true is that?
I'm pretty sure women can bypass the kissing step from time to time willingly
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8 Gen 1: Moving to TSMC for More Speed
It’s worth bearing in mind that the experience of those living through your extreme scenario will vary greatly based on age.

Someone just starting their career benefits from cheap assets, high rates mean down payments will probably be cheaper, stock declines don’t matter if you don’t hold stocks. High inflation means their wages relative to debts such as student loans or first mortgages will increase.

Retirees with fixed incomes might get crushed. These folks were pushed into stocks and alternatives due to low interest, declining assets remove income and high inflation reduces the real value of the income.

There are a lot of people in between who will experience churn. However given the current demographics of the US, having two groups experiencing different versions of the economy will pose political as well as economic challenges.
things work great on 2000$ workstations and laptops, with low to no network latency, in a demo unburdened by the rest of garbage on the website

on a 8 year old device, with 200ms network latency, while the browser performs three hundred TLS handshakes with all the ads and tracking services... not so great
So tether could be theoretically backed by...bitcoin?
Article is from April 29, 2022. Things can change quickly with regards to zoning, so make sure you're up-to-date on these things before you jump to conclusions.

I know what my own feelings on the subject are, but I am not convinced that I am fully up to date on this topic, so I will withhold my thoughts for now.
Oh my God. I had not heard about this. I have no words.
> Shorter people

Remote work should help with this. I have no idea how tall my coworkers are.

> Introversion

In my corner of the world - the tech industry - it's taken to be a baseline, so there is no discrimination.

There IS insufficient accordances made for neuroatypical (ADHD, Autistic) people with interviews, but there is active discussion happening about it.

> "White students" from poor backgrounds now struggle to move up even more

So long as any part of our society remains not a pure meritocracy, of course some people will struggle against others. Money is still the best way to get ahead. So poor people will struggle, and there is not enough opportunities for everyone. White people still get selected to "move up" by the forces that be, they just aren't the ONLY ones that do so. Instead of 99% of the scholarships going to white students, maybe 50%% are. But if that reflects the demographics of the part of society that is making that choice, where is the problem?

> diversity in the most superficial sense

It's a correction for discrimination in the most superficial sense. It's a start. It's a stepping stone towards not having any discrimination, and not needing corrective action like diversity initiatives.
That's almost exactly what the Xeon Phi was, both in coprocessor form and in machine form. It included MCDRAM, too, which was a high-bandwidth memory. Very efficient, but lacked sales; people didn't want it.

Part of that, I think, was lack of parallelism in applications: in order to fully take advantage of those cores, you need to have a nearly-embarrassingly-parallel problem. Otherwise, you're not going to get the performance that you'd expect (but you'll get power efficiency!).

The fact of the matter is, that's not "all anybody wants."
True.

Another problem (from a class/library-consumer point of view) is having getters/setters suddenly becoming more expensive to call, blocking, or even having side effects after an update.

It often only affect the runtime behavior of the code.

Changing the interface, however, will give me a hit that something else has changed.
Useless Use of "dd" (2015)
As a reminder, human pheromones have effects empirically. However despite the proven studies, there is no third party lab tested legit Pheromone seller out there that I know of. There are sellers but no idea how pure is their product..
Page transitions on the web are just horrible. There is a reason that most websites these days are going for side sheets and pop up modals while apps still show real full pages.

Apps animate between making it look less janky and they also hold your position when you return while a web app will reload the whole thing including requests when you move back, losing your state and position.
New marketing site for Apple Cash? Looks like they also added https://www.apple.com/wallet/ and https://www.apple.com/apple-pay/.
There are services to help with this problem. If you're in the Austin area, I can give you some suggestions.

Decluttering is a good thing.
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That's nice that you think the dictionary definition is an newer academic construct
A language is nothing but the code it engenders. Bad code, bad language.

A language that evolves "is" the new code that is written in it, with deep legacy substrata written to previous versions. You can have a good top level but an embarrassing legacy. We should always strive to make our legacy embarrassing, because that marks improvement.

If ten-year-old code in your language is not an embarrassment, your language is stagnating.
OP may have speculated on outlook for the next decade, it’s possible that interest rates rise and inflation remains. This would be the case if inflation is not a domestic phenomena land is instead driven by war, china, and tariffs.
It's pretty hard for me and maybe some others to take you seriously when you are knocking a product that sells well at a wide spread of price points and which will last decades if maintained properly.

So, for the record, what do you personally drive and what manufacturers have produced vehicles you personally owned? What is your favorite vehicle, the one that you wish you had never sold and would buy again? How old are you and how long have you been driving? Where do you live?
Why don't you solve a bunch of problems you don't have with tools you don't need? You might want them in the future. Thats good engineering
That Nightwish video already gets into the flow half a minute before peaking at the time stamp. Very effective. The Dream Theater track does nothing for me, it sounds too clean cut.

One I remember from my childhood that always did the trick is the Yu-Gi-Oh theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjdNz071O4E.