skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't sound that reliable if you've had to replace that much already with just 100k miles.

My observation is that it depends on the brand of the car. If it's a Toyota or Honda, or other well to do brand that people with credit scores reminiscent of FDA minimum cooking temperatures cannot afford it's the owner's fault that the timing belt snapped at exactly six miles more than the recommended change interval, they should have got it done proactively.

If it's a Nissan, GM or <clutches pearls> Chrysler then it's obviously the car's fault that it needs a fair number of suspension parts after spending 120k being fully sent over rural gravel roads with 300lb of tools in the trunk.

This pattern of double standards that absolves "things that should be nice" from blame when they fail to meet those expectations and blames more modest products even when their failures are reasonable can be seen across many classes of products, not just cars.
I've tried Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Brave Search. I desperately want a better privacy-centric search engine. But nothing could ever give me results as good as Google. Then several months ago I heard about a pilot for Kagi. I decided to give it a shot. I would have to say that I am very satisfied. The results consistently show me what I seek. I haven't seen any reason to revert back to Google now. I have decided to pay the monthly fee to support this effort further. Here's a small list of why I like Kagi:

- Ad free
- Ability to apply lenses to my results.
- I have the ability to rank certain sights as low or higher priority.
- I have the ability to outright block certain domains!
- I love the "Discussions" lens. Makes it easy to find results exclusively from forums, reddit, and the like.
I was under the impression that VSCode originally had pieces of the open source licensed Atom editor, as well as other bits here and there. I haven't confirmed this to be 100% true, but I've seen articles like this

https://thenextweb.com/news/microsofts-cross-platform-visual...

If there is open source licensed code within VSCode, then they actually do need to release the source code, both from a moral and legal standpoint.
I'm using Mapless [1] for persistency in Smalltalk.
And Svelte for a multi-platform frontend app I'm working on [2]. It's a local or remote native Smalltalk IDE.

[1] https://github.com/sebastianconcept/Mapless
[2] https://github.com/sebastianconcept/lobster-ui
> Russia over-estimated the capabilities of a generation of the Sidewinder missile and built their equivalent to match what they thought it must contain

No. The K-13/AA-2 Atoll is a literal copy of an AIM-9 reverse-engineered from an example captured by the Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-13_(missile)
My man! Another backbone.js user. It's so simple to standup an webapp with backbone I don't know why more people don't use it.
> What you memorize with Loki will be forgotten, no matter how good the method is.

Not sure about that, as I mentioned I still remember things from years ago via loci.
The article says the guy isn’t crazy… but the rest of the article does not paint the picture of a particularly sane man.

But, a man who is successful in some acceptable way, is considered eccentric rather than nuts. :)
Do you find the Chinese Room argument convincing?

Do you feel that the human mind is more than an "appropriately" trained "biological" neural network?

What do you consider the limits of a DALL-E like system compared to a "true" mind?

My personal opinion is that the Chinese Room argument is fancy handwaving that crucially relies on never being explicit about what it means by "understanding", combined with an appeal to intuition.

I strongly believe that there is nothing "magical" about the human mind or brain (that could not be replicated artificially), and thus that a comparably trained, appropriately designed system ("DALL-E successor") OR a copy OR a simulation of a human brain would be all just as capable and "understanding"/"conscious" as another human...
One could ask the same about this post…
I heard Google has a good work-life balance. Any changes at Google of late? Like 10% pip?
> Finance is like 6x larger than real economy

How are you measuring this? By conventional metrics, it's less than 10% [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/VAPGDPFI
Now if we could just get LG to introduce a new WebOS phone. Add android support and native Qt in addition to web apps while switching to the proposed Mochi style would make for a very nice device.
Xenobiology Codex
A wild COVID variant has appeared!
Using my experience with a ICE Chevrolet from 20k-120k miles basically nothing big happened before 100k, especially nothing that wouldn't happen in an EV. One set of tires replaced, front brakes, and a couple tire alignments. I did transmission fluid and spark plugs at 100k, and had a catalytic converter replaced and a coolant leak after 100k. None of that went to a dealership though.
To add to this, another 'green' idea - plastic recycling - is equally a marketing ploy by the industry. [0]

They always knew full well that it would never be feasible for the large majority of plastic types but to claim that it 'could' be recyclable somehow makes it seem like it is on you. When really we would have to live an ascetic live to avoid plastic as a consumer.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
I remember years ago when I didn't know that much about software engineering, discovering and playing with MPFR was like magic. "I have super-science power in my hands, how many bits of precision can I fit in my RAM". It was a fun time. Can I do big integer? Bigger integer? HUGER integers!
That's just Stockholm syndrome with a dash of ignorance thrown in.

Their idea of a "good dealer" was one who only ripped them off moderately.
Yeah, there's a difference between utility riders and hobby riders. You wouldn't be able to keep up on my Saturday rides on a hybrid unless you've got world-tour legs. The riding position and gearing are just not intended for go-fast go-far riding.

You don't really even see many hybrids on large-scale charity rides, at least in the US. And yeah, quite often people do load up bikes to drive to a ride. I guess for transportation riders this sounds weird, but if you live in location A and the you want to do a group ride at location B that's 20 miles away (not unusual in a big urban area), then I'm not sure what else you'd do.

I'm likely going to a ride out in the southwestern suburbs here in Houston on Saturday, for example. The start is 23 miles from my house, and there's not a great cycling-friendly way to get there, so I'll load up and drive.

I do share your concern about long-term use. We're far enough into the electronic shifting era that early systems are falling out of the support window. Shimano's earliest Di2 systems were only 10-speed, for example; I imagine finding replacement rear derailleurs for that system is nearly impossible now, but OTOH lifespan of a rear derailleur is pretty long.

The version of SRAM's eTap on my bike is 11-speed; it's been updated since, so new bikes come with a 12-speed version called AXS. I don't know if I could easily get a replacement derailleur for mine, but TBH I also wonder that about the mechanical Ultegra derailleur on my other road bike.
This is the kind of thing that's interesting to document for a potential anti-trust case. Blocking the entire domain because it's "spammy" could be argued as fair - but only blocking the main links is more suspect.
Dry cleaning being the exception, I believe I spend more in my local neighborhood than ever before. If anything I’m giving more to the local stores rather than some far downtown area or sprawling office complex area.
Precisely this. We've been looking at too many startups raising money constantly and still have not been making any money.

We'll now see who will survive this correction, no matter how long it takes.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/webos-lives-lg-to-resurrect...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5278015
The cakePHP website uses (almost) white font on white background, doesn't work in Reader mode, and many links point to 404s (eg: https://api.cakephp.org/4.3/namespace-Controller.html)... Is it still maintained?
Using more than double the power?
Those producing cars in the factory have never worked from home. The discussion is only about R&D, legal, finance whatever. And most of those don't differ significantly between Yahoo or Tesla.
Maybe the loneliness is a good thing? It seems like everyone (in America at least) hates each other, so extreme isolation may be just what we need in this country.
Amuses me deeply that Microsoft still has something similar, and much more detailed, but instead of research it's purpose is to stream map data to people playing Flight Simulator.
We are kind of already there (not having entertainment in common). It is hard to find a TV series or film that everyone in my friendship circle knows equally well -- the last one was Breaking Bad, and that was over 10 years ago. Everyone finds their niche interest I suppose. Its almost the same with music -- the last decade where our musical interests converged were the 90ies.
At least your username is on point. Should all these new riders also get off your lawn with electronic shifting, GPS computers, and carbon frames?
There was a somewhat accepted view after QE that the next crash is going to be worse because of all the money that is being pumped into the system, and I think that logically makes sense. Although I agree we don't have shitty financial instruments this time, but it's still a lot of leverage in the system right? It must have accumulated somewhere? Or did something happen such that it's no longer the case and a danger? Did the economy actually grow into the leverage such that it's no longer a problem?
TypeScript: Nestjs

If you have used a good batteries included MVC like Django before, you’ll feel at home. I made a production ready app in a few weeks with it and Prisma as ORM, that’s been the base of our startup and served us wonderfully. Can’t recommend it enough, as it is really powerful and is very extensible and as obvious by the number of plugins and examples available.
Quick recession, then back to the market always going up. And for longer time spans, it has always gone up.
No, this is arguably "monopolization", which is illegal under the Sherman Act. Even the 9th Circuit, which has adopted an implausibly broad reading of 230, does not think that 230 is a defense against antitrust claims.
I'm curious, when there is code like:

case let matches: [][]regex::capture =>
defer regex::free_matches(matches);

is there a gap between those two statements where memory for matches has been allocated in regex but won't be freed because the defer hasn't happened?

For example, in Python I'd write:

fd = None
try:
fd = os.open(...)
(do stuff with fd)
except Exception, err:
(report err)
finally:
if fd is not None:
os.close(fd)

so that there is no gap. It might be tempting to write:

try:
fd = os.open(...)
(do stuff with fd)
except Exception, err:
(report err)
finally:
os.close(fd)

That works if (do stuff with fd) fails but blows up with fd uninitialized in os.close if os.open fails.
> He doesn't have the cash, so one way or another he's leveraging up

He's illiquid, not insolvent. Selling equity in Twitter or selling his equity in Tesla would be two ways to gain liquidity without leverage.
Tesla is already far behind other companies (Waymo in particular) with self-driving. I imagine Musk's behavior on/around Twitter, his abusive management style, the end of remote work at the company, and now these layoffs will drive a lot of their software talent to other places.
Those questions can also work against you if your career has been relatively drama free.

Like yeah, there have been some incidents during my background as a software engineer, good and bad, but they were pretty straight forward events. Incidents were simple to correct. The further I got into my career, the less often anything memorable has happened. I'd struggle to remember the last time I had to put out a fire or struggle to implement a novel solution. As you say, I have lessons I've learned, but my memory doesn't linger on a lot of individual events.

I think I've gotten pretty good at handling said interview questions, but internally I'm shrugging my mind's shoulders.
Why amazing?

It is like how every self-made rich person is extremely stingy. They need those instincts to be that rich.

Plus one of their founding legends is that they were too cheap to buy desks. So they bought doors and legs and assembled them into desks. Plus as a bonus the doors come with a hole to route cables through.
I think it's not the broken windows fallacy when it increases many remote workers' savings rate. That's different from the parable of paying a glazier for the window instead of a tailor for a suit, but rather having less money circulating in the economy when 20 days a month, I don't burn $5 of gasoline, eat a $2 lunch instead of a $15 lunch, and wear sweat pants instead of office clothes.

That could be $3000 of spending reduction for me that isn't replaced with $3000 of other consumption, but rather a significant portion of it goes into savings/investments.
On the contrary, I find the speedup due to rust to be quite large and the productivity to be quite acceptable. Refactoring for me is so much easier when I can rely on the compiler to catch so much.
Curious… i see .eu, .nl, and .de domains on Gandi cost like 3 times as much (€15 vs €5) compared to for example inwx.com or strato.com.

What is the reason, surely there must be some service/quality difference or… something?
Obviously, people who value their jobs show up earlier to claim a parking space and a desk. Coffee is for closers.
Would you agree that it is "easier to do it correctly?" Because rust makes lifetimes explicit? I think that's what rustaceans are trying to say generally.

I don't think anyone is trying to claim that rust is some trivial language. It's not. But it makes systems level concerns explicit, flying blind is much harder in my opinion. The complexity is technically the same, but the language has training wheels that other languages don't.
Ask HN: Recommendations for a open source framework for Tezos?
I am looking for a tool with basically the same functionality as hicetnunc or teia, only not using a web interface. I would like to be able to organise media, metadata, etc., locally, and then mint/manage them programmatically. It would be a great project, but I feel it would be too much for me right now, so I'm wondering if anyone had seen something that can be extended or built upon.
Ok? They are a private company and they can block links that they don't like. Facebook has done the exact same thing and nothing happened.

You are free to complain, criticise them, scream at these companies or protest, but like I have said many times before they will not change and it is futile to believe that they ever will as long as they 'moderate' or do whatever they want to do on their own platforms.

So unsurprising this is.
Or at they at home thinking about revamping their kitchens, bathrooms, gardens and upsizing the place they spend 23 hours a day?
Oh man I'd definitely buy large headphones and a baseball cap with a huuuge bill!
A measurable amount of Tesla’s profit margin comes from pre-selling a $10,000 software package that does not yet exist.
I live in a flat place, so I know a LOT of folks who set up their crit (racing) bikes as 1x. 1x on gravel and MTB has become almost the standard.

It happens because the cassettes have gotten SO WIDE -- 12 speed is pretty normal now -- that you don't so much need the extra chainring in front to get a pretty wonderful gear range, especially in contexts where having close ratios may not matter (e.g., mtb or gravel).
> Musk is the world’s wealthiest individual.

On paper.

He bet big on EVs, which the market rewarded. Same happened with Microsoft and computers maybe thirty years ago, main difference being that Tesla is not holding a semi monopoly, and competitors are catching up quickly.
>but those problems were solved in the early 1990s by oversampling in the DAC, and then using some basic analog filtering far above the human hearing range.

You're writing about the sampling end. I said the physical speaker creates high frequencies on playback based on material properties of the device - and I gave a decent reference where you can read the discussion on it.

No amount of filtering at the sampling end will remove physically created noise due to the physical playback membrane that moves air to create sound waves.

I am fully aware of using bandpass filters during sampling. I use them all the time to remove things I don't need before doing things like wavelet transforms to pull music information out of the result. And I often design things up front based on the physical playback mechanism if I know it ahead of time. Or if the hardware (such as embedded devices) will only sample at certain rates, or certain bit depths. Knowing as much about the entire audio path up front helps design each and every piece of the complete signal path.

Here's a simple example: basic speakers are an electromagnet coil - apply voltage V and the membrane jumps to a position. Different values for V make different positions.

Quantized playback, going through an DAC, will create distinct voltage levels. 8 bits will give 256 such levels. 16 bits, 65536 levels.

When that hits a speaker, the speaker membrane jumps to that level. There is some noise with inertia and momentum and point to point, but the end effect is the same - the speaker trying to make a square wave edge. There is no uniformly smooth movement from position to position - only jumps.

This can be seen by putting a mirror on the speaker, and bouncing a laser off it to a large wall, and record the wall in high speed - you see jumpy movement. Fiddle sometime with a pure tone sent at various bit depths to a speaker and watch the laser.

Now, these movements create frequencies in output not in the original analog signal, not in the digital signal, but purely as a physical artifact. And they depend on the playback device - all sorts of work and research is spent on speaker tech, materials, reproducible construction, and on and on, to make the output physical waveform as uniform and smooth as possible over all the possible input voltage jumps and frequencies desired. But all are imperfect, similarly to how all physical lenses (well, except 1-1 and flips) must distort images. It is all about the tradeoffs.
maybe these are authorized leaks so that these armies can see how well their hardware does in a big simulation?
They do not consider eating meat 'dirty' as much as they consider it 'violent'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa
Earlier in Rust, I saw people recommending `#![deny(warnings)]` (always turn warnings into errors) but I think the community has shifted since then because I feel like I don't see that as much and instead see people disabling warnings in CI.

Speaking of warnings, something I appreciate about Rust is you only see warnings for your own code and not for your dependencies so you can crank up the warnings to whatever level you want without being blocked by dependencies (minus macros). Granted, there could be times where looking at high risk warnings for dependencies could be important.
I've been using ForgoJS ( https://forgojs.org/ ) over the past year, and have become a maintainer on the project.

I like it because it just gets out of my way. I get declarative DOM updates like in React, but without any heavy-handed idioms, behavior that's tricky to understand, or subtle footguns.

It feels more like using a library than integrating with a framework. Most of my code is just boring variables and function calls, as if I have a simple declarative layer between me and the DOM but I'm otherwise writing vanilla JS/TS.
Javascript: SvelteJS

Using it for some personal projects with Vite and it is a breath of fresh air. I use React for work during the day, but coding in Svelte just brings me joy.
My advice is to use your commonsense. Almost all of what you have seen/experienced can be explained by one Human Animal trying to "eat" another within our Cultural/Social frameworks using whatever means is available at hand. Thus you can have Nepotism, Favouritism, Spitefulness, Back-stabbing, Victim role-playing etc. You have to figure it out based on the person and the context. Don't jump to preconceived notions like Casteism which has a very low probability amongst educated Indians.

PS: The study of the subject itself is fascinating and you can start with the wikipedia page i have referenced and then follow the links from there.
I use Bottle [1] a lot for toy projects.

[1] http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/
weeks?

I have a ton of respect for what he's accomplished, but from my perspective, I think he's been pretty chaotic in communications for years.
JavaScript: AdonisJS

Arguably the first JS equivalent of web development frameworks such as Laravel/Rails
> The author is 17 and writing code (and posts) at this level? The kids are all right.

He is a talented kid from Kazakhstan. So nice to see this here after all that Borat nonsense badmouthing Kazakhstan just for cheap gigs.
Opt in telemetry is near useless. The default case effect is very strong, as seen in the book Nudge.
Scala: Akka-Http

If you want something that scales out horizontally akka-http + an distributed akka stack (cluster, sharding, etc) works beautifully. Especially pairing it with websockets/grpc streaming, you can end-to-end stream pretty effortlessly.
I've been using Python's Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/) for years now.

Now on version 6, it's fast, well maintained, mature, and has good docs with readable code.

@bdarnell has done an excellent job maintaining it.

Here's one example:

Tornado supported async style coroutines before asyncio was a thing. Now it uses asyncio under the hood by default -- and it did so with an exceptionally smooth transition.
Hmm. How interesting. Monopolization, you say. I’ll have to remember that.

Well, I’m just glad https://www.laarc.io is unblocked here now after many years.
> Sure it's slavery with extra steps, plus so many people hate Musk there's not even a cultural downside!

Musk is a slave? Best conspiracy theory I've heard this month.
I developed Dominus 8 years ago and it's still being played. https://dominusgame.net/ https://github.com/dan335/dominus
I don't know the details of anyone's specific strategy, but in general, you start with an educated guess (might involve a lot of the factors you highlight) and then you monitor how people respond with bets. If more people are betting one way then the odds shift to encourage betting the other way. This shift is no longer really based on factors other than "as the house, we must come out ahead after the winners are paid".
I've been using the vacation reasoning for a long time. I've just about convinced myself to get an EV and to rent an ICE for vacations. It keeps the mileage off my odometer that way, too.
Depend on your values.

Most job are bullshit job these day.

A lot of companies are actively making society worse for their profits.

Almost all product fabrication have left the US for China.
I'd buy that in a heartbeat!
I've had surprisingly good luck in my area finding brand-new furnace filters at Goodwill for quite cheap. HEPA, too. If you're making your own setup the size doesn't matter as much so that can be a good way to go.
Poles get OK to gather firewood as energy prices soar
> this is arguably "monopolization", which is illegal under the Sherman Act

What does Twitter have a monopoly on? Twitter users? By that definition by local dry cleaner has a monopoly on me.
Regulations often require that the stock exchange is told before the average hiring manager.