skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different strokes for different folks.

To me, the "hellish landscape" is the NYC subway system (arguably the best in the US).

While I live in NYC and not LA, I'm a frequent visitor to LA. I'd gladly sit through LA traffic over riding the NYC subway. Sitting in my own personal, clean, climate controlled space, listening to music I enjoy.
You can still do that with day-rate billing! Your client cares about (a) the calendar date your project is completed on and (b) the total price tag. They don't want to care about anything else. Asking them to care about whether you worked a full or half Tuesday is counterproductive.
Former NYC resident. Those things are everywhere in Manhattan and in surprisingly good condition most of the times.
The real issue is that not every situation can be perfectly modeled, real human systems aren't (and can't be!) perfect, so sometimes you need to think outside of the box and with human priorities.
This is not true. Dependent claims are often viewed as "backup" claims in case the independent claims are rejected in prosecution by the patent examiner or found invalid by a court.

It's not hard to find online sources to back this up, for example:

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2008/05/theory-of-depen.html

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/patent-owner-tip-12-sur...
The only voting choices you have in America are Republican and not Republican. The non Republican party is a disorganized mess. Its the world we live in.
> According to Cruise, which collects camera and sensor data from its testing vehicles, the fire truck was able to move forward approximately 25 seconds after it first encountered the autonomous vehicle.
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Boston/Cambridge proper is pretty pricey. Although if you don't need/want to live in the city, you can get to pretty reasonable housing fairly quickly. I live a bit further out still.
> Given that often human-driven, or human-parked, cars create similar temporary obstacles, the most important question here is: does this happen more-often, or for longer-periods, with autonomous cars?

Honestly the article is pure tech-scare bait. It blames a car that stopped (while it was driving) when a truck was driving at it head on, but tries to glance over the fact that a (human driven) garbage truck is the reason the fire truck had to go into oncoming traffic in the first place.

> a San Francisco Fire Department truck responding to a fire tried to pass a doubled-parked garbage truck by using the opposing lane.
Specifically for the Trucker's Hitch, this video is quite popular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUHgGK-tImY
We moved to async stand-ups and never looked back
When this topic came up the last time, I plotted the probability distribution. It was far from 50x, the range was several orders of magnitude, which seems to be the correct behavior. See https://gist.github.com/mormegil-cz/84d0cc34eb5f1234be8966f7...
I'm much the same, but what I don't get are the worst of both buyers.

I live on the outskirts of a city, where each house has at least an acre. It's peaceful, but not close to much. The nearest grocery is about 15 mins by car on the expressway.

Just last year, they started building a new subdivision behind us. 5000ish sq ft plots. I can't figure out who in the world would choose a commute and no space...
> The secret to America's success has always been immigration,

Actually, no. Every few decades, American has mostly shut-down immigration for a few decades. The last opening was in 1965.
In my (20y+) experience, as soon as a methodology/process gets a name for itself, it has lost its original meaning and starts undermining the productivity. At that time all sorts of consultants crawl out of the woodwork and start converting companies to that process. Making good money of course. After that, following the process becomes more important than whatever the actual product is. Turning a large corporation into a new process takes years. Lots of documents created and new roles with funny names etc. And then someone invents a new cool process....
In my opinion, the basics is just to plan ahead only as far as realistic, communicate freely and directly in all levels including customer, document what makes sense, learn from mistakes and don't be afraid to throw away and redo things that don't work. Which, in my opinion, is pretty much the core of most of the processes anyway. But please don't start calling it with some name....
Looking at one software development agency I worked with for a large corporate client, everyone wanted to use Scrum, but there was massive inefficiency (maybe it was just the way they were doing it, although I've seen such things a few different companies now). The project managers at the customer were bright and competent, as were the team. Nobody was lazy. So why did they decide to work that way, and why did they put up with it?

I came to the conclusion Scrum offers two key advantages to the stakeholders on each side of a client/agency relationship:

- In a large company, mistakes are punished more harshly than successes are celebrated. (Mainly because your competition for the next promotion are going to promote your failures.) So it's important not to get things wrong. The most certain way to not get decisions wrong is to not decide anything at all. By using Scrum and planning only a sprint ahead, and not having any long-term vision, they achieve that.

- The agency is billing by time. The longer things take the better. If all their team spend 30% of their time on Scrum meetings (the amount I currently spend at my current employer), the manager of the agency sees that and isn't unhappy about the situation. Soon progress slows down and the customer requests more people get put on the project, the manager of the agency isn't unhappy about that either.

So both parties want to use Scrum, therefore of course an agreement is reached and Scrum is used.

It's not about delivering great software, or delivering it quickly, etc. Neither the middle manager at the customer nor the boss of an agency directly benefit from those things.
I see it similarly! A team should leverage only what helps it, and no more. In fact, i have quoted to teams (that are thinking how to adopt agile, scrum, whatever) some lines from Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do: "...I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves"...Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of...Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back..." Some teams get it, while others just follow what a paid consultant suggested (based on tech zeitgeist).
the garbage truck might be double parked because another car was illegally parked, even if there's a loading zone...

In practice, double parking is extremely common in all cities...
> ...but the text formatting in your comment makes me so conscience of way the text looks...

not to be pedantic but my text formatting makes you "a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations..."[0] is certainly interesting commentary. perhaps it should be interpreted as a compliment? thanks.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience
If they do, that has to be limited to "broadcast" cameras. Digital cinema cameras all pretty prominently use a single sensor.
>I lived in the US for ~8 years and used T-Mobile. i dont find the T-Moble price to be too far off my freedom monthly rates.

I pay Sprint (now T-Mobile) $20 total for two unlimited lines. Yes, that includes all taxes and fees.

Admittedly, I got a fantastic deal (only available for two weeks) for one of the two lines, got the other line as a free promotion also only briefly available, and then got the taxes/fees incorporated into the total when the account moved over to T-Mobile. But if I didn't have those deals, I'd pay $25 (after a group discount that's trivial to get) to Visible for an unlimited line on the Verizon network, or Mint Mobile's[1] $30/month for unlimited plan, or $20/month for 10GB plan (which might as well be unlimited for me, and probably 95% of others). My understanding is that nothing in Canada comes close to these rates.

[1] Canadian Ryan Reynolds as spokesman and part owner
I don't think that's a reasonable interpretation of what you said earlier, though. You were talking about a union "showing up and dictating to the company", not "showing up and recruiting employees to join the union through the normal legal process, then bargain collectively with the company the way unions do".
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You're actually being given the choice between "my initial pick contains the prize" or "the prize is contained in any of the other 99 boxes". Okay - the host does a routine to add to the "drama" by revealing 98 non-prize boxes but since he will never reveal the prize during this process, he isn't giving you any more information.
> software manifestly incompatible with its hardware,

An iPhone 6S with a new battery works incredibly well on iOS 15. There are no real architecture issues, with the only difference being the A9's lower performance and efficiency.
I've experimented in the past with putting a node at the top left to say to people "Scroll down", or "Scroll right", depending on which layout I've used, but folks giving usability feedback who are experienced with it say that it's annoying and irritating constantly to be told something they know.

So it's the usual problem of helping the novices versus annoying the experienced. Given that there's no login or other persistence I'm pretty sure I can't solve that. I'll probably put the top-left node back in.

Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for the question, i can speak for what we've encountered in these years of web scraping and nothing beats API and JSON, but i'm sure there are formats even more friendly to read.
Hyperbole is a literary tool - please don't pedantically pick at my word choice. It doesn't lead to interesting discussion.
There are plenty of non-US places which used to have transit and now do not. Britain's 1960s "Beeching Axe" comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts
So for a colony to last centuries in interstellar space with little to no prospect of resupply of any kind, you have to build in an awful lot of redundancy. You also need to cater for growth. You need a lot of infrastructure for long term care (eg hospitals). What you're building is living quarters for a thousand years over multiple generations.

But for a rogue planet you need far less. Consider the Moon. It has lava tubes. You can seal these, fill them with air and live in them. You don't need to accelerate that living space. Sure you still need to bring some things but it's far, far less.

What's more, if you have several such settlements in different lava tubes you have automatic redundancy. A single catastrophe won't snuff out the entire colony.

So for a true interstellar colony you really have to build a fleet because a single colony is too big of a failure mode.
I don't know why, but this is a part of the language's syntax, for example when matching a union type each named variant also has that period. Same with the argument for print statements (`print("{s}", .{var})`).
According to the article, the autonomous car didn't move, the garbage truck did.
But if you had a raw image from a camera with a bayer pattern, and you were tasked to compress it, anyone with decent knowledge about compression and the technology they're working with should be able to come up with compressing before de-bayering. Is something really patentable just because it applies to non-mainstream technology?

From the sounds of it, the patent literally seems to be about... compressing the data you get off of the image sensor. And that's it. Or are there important details I'm missing?
> The most common reason for hyperinflation is that the productive capabilities of society has gone down the crapper. That mean everyone is a loser.

Correction: The most common reason for hyperinflation is that the productive capabilities of the local economy has gone down the crapper. That mean everyone entirely dependent on the local economy is a loser. But, in the places where hyperinflation has occurred, it's not uncommon for elites to have significant foreign investments.
> If you like Ubuntu, you actually like Debian and just put up with Ubuntu.

I came to the same conclusion as well.

I've been using Debian for 1+ years. This is the best decision I've made regarding an OS ever since I started using Ubuntu many years ago.
1 million dollars might get you a two-bedroom condo. Median house price is 1.6 million

https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/
If you can show an actual example of that, rather than an example of people taxing objectively negative behaviour in an attempt to reduce it, then I might take your point more seriously.
Top result for “do heavier vehicles emit more brake dust?” is https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259016212...

> Heavier vehicles emit higher levels of brake and tire particles
They have a word for that: Slavery.
> Without more brains to push technology forward, progress might stall.

This is utter nonsense. Progress never stalls (except if we happen to extinguish ourselves). It did not stall the last 10,000+ years despite very low population numbers except in the last 300 years. Of course, it might go a bit slower or faster depending on demographics.

But that is not important. We already have all the technology that could make a decent life possible for everyone on this planet. It's more a matter of applying what we already know. Of course, better technology might help with that -- as could a decrease in population. But if we do not get better in applying our knowledge for the benefit of all, we are doomed.
"That's still automatic updates."

I see what you're getting at, but the vast majority of users don't define "automatic updates" in that way. Automatic updates (to almost everyone) means an update that requires no user interaction or approval. If you have to click a button, it's not automatic. The user could, if they wanted to, download the latest version and examine it, check the diffs on Github if the project is open source, etc. before updating.

What you're referring to I guess could be called an 'unprompted update'. But in practice, it's important for users to be aware of updates that include bug fixes, even if they haven't hit those bugs yet, so I don't think this is really desirable behavior.

"Those aren't logicless"

They're not logicless for the service providers (AWS and Github) but are logicless from the perspective of the software provider. Up to the point that you trust AWS or Github, you can trust that a link to a static Github/S3 file will serve the same file to every user, and the software provider can't change that.
But where's all the production going?
Contrariwise, I absolutely love org-babel. When I’m taking notes learning a new system I can embed runnable examples and their results in my notes.

Honestly if you just want linkable and searchable notes plain text with tags and whatever flavor of grep floats your boat will get you there.
> I think the real issue here is a double parked garbage truck forcing the fire truck to go into oncoming traffic in the first place. Maybe there's a need for a loading only zone there so that the garbage truck doesn't have to block the travel lane.

I disagree. Driverless vehicles NEED to be able to handle these unexpected situations in an appropriate manner. That they don't currently is in fact a "real issue" and in this case at least is evidence this tech may not be ready for primetime.
What was the podcast?
Hey HN, I'm building an open source search platform that lives on your device,
indexing what you want, exposing it to you in a super simple & super fast interface.

I took the idea of adding "site:reddit.com" to your Google searches and expanded on it with the idea of "lenses" to add context to your search query and give the crawler direction in terms of what to crawl & index. This means that all queries are run locally, it does not relay your search to any 3rd-party search engine. Think of it as your personal bookcase at home vs. the Library of Congress.

It's still in a super early state but would love for people to start using it and
providing some feedback and see what sort of lenses people want to build and search through!

Some details about the stack for the interested:

* All Rust w/ some HTML/CSS for the client.

* Client is built w/ yew + tauri

* Backend uses tantivy to index the web pages, sqlite3 to hold metadata / crawl queue

Thanks in advance!
It’s funny reading “autonomous car” and “self-driving car”. We can be certain that will eventually sound as silly as the old name for cars “horseless carriage”.
> Musk doesn't promote or even allow non-Tesla owners to charge electric vehicles at Supercharging stations

That's changing slowly:

https://electrek.co/2022/05/18/tesla-expands-supercharger-pi...

But it has been hypocritical for Tesla to claim that its mission is to "accelerate the advent of sustainable transport" while also blocking other EVs from its chargers.

The next thing Tesla has to do is put CCS plugs on its North American chargers (the European ones already have CCS type 2 combo plugs):

https://insideevs.com/news/585238/elon-musk-ccs1-plugs-comin...

And then Tesla might as well put CCS inlets on its North American cars. The European Teslas can use any charger on any charging network with no need for an adapter (Model 3 and Y anyway, S and X are still stuck with the old modified type 2 inlet and use an adapter).
The trend of autonomous cars is one of the things that I believe is not practical. Even the most sophisticated machine learning algorithm requires repetition and constant input to be optimized. But there is infinitely many variables when it comes to driving on a street level.

Driving is intuitive on a city street. The scope of autonomous vehicles should be limited to places where there is clarity of transit and very few variables. I would be comfortable if a fleet of autonomous vehicles driving 200 miles/hour on a a dedicated side on a highway but not in a city or even an empty suburban neighborhood. I think for those intuitive situations the vehicles could even be driven remotely by a real person in a data center.
Uh, what? All else equal, a heavier vehicle will emit more brake dust. Basic physics says so. If you want to claim otherwise, bring a source.

It may be the case that electric cars, thanks to regenerative braking, do not emit more brake dust than a lighter non-electric car, but that's not what the parent comment here was saying.
Sure, but most who leave SF will choose a smaller metro area, not a rural area. What I have found in my time in the Bay Area is a general ignorance of how many smaller metro areas have developed more vibrant urban centers over the past 10 years. The people from these cities who went home for the first time in a decade are finding surprisingly livable metros waiting for them, closer to aging family.
That's not an indication of frequency which is what matters.
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Even on the issue of accelerating and decelerating to a system you fly through or near, in the case of a colony ship you would need to carry that fuel and pay the energy costs for housing it, accelerating it and decelerating it.

With a rogue planet you should be able to refuel from that rogue body so your fuel payload required is really only to get to the rogue planet.
That is unfortunate indeed. The basic idea that you can run a software team by collecting a set of useful and moderately sized projects to do and then picking the most important ones to do first is reasonable enough. It's the extra process that goes way too far, full of formulaic time-wasting meetings and participants whose roles need silly names because no-one can explain or justify them on merit alone. But it's hard to sell tickets to a conference where the keynote speech is five minutes long and the same as last year.
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> The price of electricity is through the roof (in some cities like Brussels it simply doubled YOY)

Belgium probably buys a lot of France nuclear and France has been retrofitting their reactors and there have been a lot of them off-grid for the last year or two. Add to this the Ukraine war energy issues and lack of alternative sources and you get a short-term mess.

Belgium and France really need to look at how to get their respective countries more solarized like Germany - then use solar+batteries to balance the crazy electricity spikes.
could they at least open source the Graffiti interpretation library? stupid device made me change how I write for what, three or four years of use?

I got the Handera with the add on cards and for a glorious afternoon I had my phone's sim card installed. Why it had to use AAA batteries for that.. oh yeah, batteries still sucked back then.
I think the parent was me :-) I actually like SF but some of the most expensive housing in the country is a high bar if you don't either have enough money that it's a non-issue or have to live there for employment or other reasons. There are many cities with solid city activities that aren't SF.
There is a Microsoft store online, why not?
The biggest problem is not in Agile itself, but indeed in the dogmatism of its practitioners. I believe that stems from the fact that agile methods became too "productized": there's a whole market of books, lectures, certifications, courses etc and lots of people willing to profit from it.

Eventually it became a sort of a religion. If you question it, it's because you don't understand it; if it yields bad results, it's because you did it wrong; if it doesn't fit the dynamics of the rest of the company, it's because the company is immature. All the methods have known limitations and prerequisites. All but Agile, which is perfect.

It's a ridiculous lack of empiricism for a discipline like software engineering.
> does this happen more-often, or for longer-periods, with autonomous cars?

How would one go about finding that data? Is there an authority that tracks how often and for how long emergency vehicles are impeded by human drivers? You might get something along the lines of average time to first response on the scene.

> Human drivers sometimes fail-to-notice sirens or other high-priority demands on road capacity. But, an automated system could broadcast the planned-routes of dispatched priority vehicles to every autonomous car in the city, allowing the autonomous cars to preemptively clear paths, before it even becomes an issue of local-reasoning about an exceptional-situation.

This doesn't comfort me. We already live in a society whose leadership doesn't believe in net neutrality, I have a hard time believing that an automated driving system that programmatically prioritizes vehicles on the road won't be co-opted in the same manner to benefit those with capital at the expense of those that don't.
You raise a good point, and I’ve seen this in other contexts.

Team wants to be better at X. Y is a tool or process that helps them get there.

At some point, the goal of X is forgotten and Y subsumes everything, sometimes to the detriment of X.

It’s like a weird correlate or inversion of the XY problem and I’ve seen it in a lot of contexts.
There is one model still sold by sony using these! https://pro.sony/en_GB/products/shoulder-camcorders/pxw-z750

All the others have now switched to bayer sensors.
Unless you're just distributing .pyc files, I think for Python you are distributing the source for "free"
Citing your link

"Therefore, future research is needed to better understand the overall impact of vehicle electrification on brake and tire wear emissions"
I entered 2020 thinking I'd settle in the Bay Area, but stats like these accelerating over the past couple year make me feel fortunate I sat it out.