skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living in China it's quite amazing how the business culture differs from many western markets. People seem to throw themselves in to ventures without business plans, market research or specific costings. I suppose that when the cost of failure is reduced, dynamism results, because reaction times to opportunities are reduced and people are able to take the risk of following a new path. These days, when I think of analysis paralysis, I think of conservative traditional western business mindsets. The worst of which, frankly, seem to be continental European and governmental bureaucracies.

FWIW in the last 18 months I recall pitching one major European industrial group requesting specifically disruptive technology for established industries. Considered at the board level, their feedback was unanimously positive: but they could not take the opportunity because it was "too far from existing business lines". If you thought corporate VC was bad, try that in an old-Europe context...
Does it really matter though? You can just alias them over the originals or something close-by.
Somewhere, off in the distance, a coal or gas-fired generator is producing a significant majority portion of that electric energy.

Some food for thought: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2020/03/30/yes-electr...

Then, once more and more EV's are on the road, the benefits of moving to cleaner energy will be even greater.
The Secret Ways the Oil Industry Brainwashes You – Smog and Mirrors
Retirement of Rgdal, Rgeos and Maptools
The real problem is still the moral one they indicated. If someone leaves a stable job where they perform adequately and you fire them from the new one, you've removed their source of income and probably healthcare. With no knowledge of who they're supporting or what resources they have access to, this could be a very damaging thing to do.

If you limit your hiring only to people whose resources can handle that risk, you're limiting your pool to only financially stable individuals who don't have eg a child or spouse with an expensive medical condition.

Morally treacherous territory either way in the absence of a trustworthy economic safety net that the US absolutely doesn't have.
I thought this till I listened to a very nuanced, long discussion on the topic. It turns out that politicians actually need information from the industry to make educated decisions. Where to draw that line between getting information and corruption/ regulatory capture is easy on some cases but hard in general, especially given that those forms of corruption can happen over time not through a single event
Japan: What's behind Okinawans' falling life expectancy?
Put a sign up that tells EV customers that they have to pay $0.01 for charging with their bill, then never actually charge them.

Better yet, start a political group in NC that accepts donations from restaurants for the amount paid for by EV drivers to charge. The majority of EV drivers would happily pay it, and the money might go to a good cause.
My most vocal hens make quite a bit more racket than my pair of roos.
Omg yes. I'm not donating to any political campaigns again unless I can do so without giving my contact information. I donated to a Democratic campaign years ago and I've had hundreds of emails and calls since then, despite clicking several unsubscribe links, telling several people over the phone to take me off their list. It never ends. I've managed to create a Gmail filter that is pretty good at catching them, but it has some false positives every now and then. And I've just been ignoring the calls and texts for the last year.

I would love to give more but I simply cannot abide any organization that has zero respect for privacy as politicians do. I've given to a handful of charities but only when they have a clear privacy policy that is explicit about not sharing or selling information and has explicit opt-in for marketing materials
People keep saying that, but billions more will be lost this week as the next crypto exchanges fail. Most people were not doing research. Nothing paying 20% returns will last. Yet millions of people put their money into investments like this.
Good! Why do already rich people who can afford these cars get all the benefits? They are already saving boatloads in costs, why not tax the nation's and use that money to help more people get electric cars or subsidize people to build charging stations>
The Boudin recall crashed MUNI’s $400M bond. The same consulting firm led both
Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite
I posted this a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709273

I thought I hated programming and was ready to quit or even divorce my wife. I was not able to have a normal conversation with anyone. I was burned out but I thought I was having midlife crisis.

My wife wanted to buy a big house and I kept blaming her for the stress.

My job was easy and I had a lot of control over my time, work location, etc. I didn't think it could be the job that was causing me feel depressed.

What I didn't realize while my work gave me freedom on work schedule, it didn't give me any real freedom to make important decisions. We were checkmark driven company. I was forced to do a lot of compliance and security related tasks which added zero benefit to our service.

After my post, I decided that I either move into management at my last company or get a new job. I worked longer hours and spent all my free time doing LeetCode.

LeetCode was hard and pointless. But I was motivated and was able to solve most easy and medium question in 30 mins. However, that was not good enough for FAANGs.

I applied to some smaller companies and got a few offers. I picked one really great Series D startup. I believe in their mission and I have freedom to make real decisions here. I got a decent bump in my salary but not really FAANG TC.

However, more importantly, work is 1000 times more exciting. I feel alive again. Wife and I are not fighting anymore. I work longer hours but have more energy at the end of day.

I just want to thank everyone that responded to my post and tell everyone that if you find your work or life unfulfilling, change your job now!
Why is another piece of meat different? It's just the same quarks.
Bench trials are honestly equally absurd, particularly when one party is a big tech company. Judges in the 9th circuit (CA) are known to be extremely favorable to big tech, and the conflicts of interest are obvious - big tech controls the judge's reputation and can offer a lot of future opportunities for people who agree with them on the law. It's like what happens when you sue the New York Times in New York.

Juries with competing experts are probably the fairest option, honestly. The people in the jury often don't have a horse in the race. Their job is to go through the elements of the patent and match them up to the supposed infringement and see if everything is there. It's not that hard.

Certain technology patents have also been subject to appeals based on what is patentable and what isn't (see Alice vs CLS Bank which invalidated a ton of patents). Those questions are more about technical issues than following the elements.
Rust does prevent data races (as in multiple threads writing to the same memory location is explicitly forbidden by the borrow checker), but it doesn’t prevent race conditions, which is a more general family of concurrency bugs.

In short, the borrow checker allows a single owner at all times, or it allows references to the object, abiding these rules: it may have any number of read-only references (they are safe to share), OR a single read-write reference.
No, no it is not. No thank you.
I actually started with screen, but I only used it for daemonising some foreground processes, I work in Zellij daily.
Anthropically - whatever it would be like to be one of these abstractions is what we would call conscious.

A society of only p-zombies would call p-zombieness consciousness and they would be no less correct than us.
> It might make more sense to just buy those people out, but that would take budget, and a proposal like this doesn't.

Gas stations (underground tanks especially) have a finite life span. As tanks age out, most simply won't get replaced, so the amount of gas stations will shrink that way over time. Owners will quit taking care of the buildings when they realize the tanks won't make sense to replace in a few years.

It's not like we're going to be closing vibrant, well-kept businesses - there will be a natural attrition as the ownership starts investing in other businesses instead of re-investing in keeping the gas station up to date.

It's not like we burned every horse barn to the ground when cars were invented - rather they were re-purposed or not replaced over time.
> It costs <$5 to charge a Model Y.

Is that typical of North Carolina? Seems cheap.

At $0.24/kWh (that's my off-peak EV rate in the Bay Area), it's over $18 to charge a 75 kwh battery.
Stick a sign charging 1cent/hour on the non-free charger that requires no steps to prepay or sign up for anything for charging. Install a box for the honest citizens of North Carolina to deposit what they calculate their own bill to be.
>Ohio has a somewhat notorious billboard that reads "Hell is real."

What an odd way to welcome people to Ohio, surely they already know where they are? /s
"Because I think, I am" implies more that existence is necessary for thoughts, which is true. If you didn't exist, you couldn't think.
Is LaMDA Sentient? – An Interview [pdf]
> This is behavioral issue, not a mental health issue

I agree completely. And you're right on the Elliot Rogers part, I'm sorry that I wasn't quite clear on that. The issue was 100% the thought of being "owed" something.

Perhaps trying to put another way: He thought he was owed something because he felt that he fit some profile of a young, handsome, gentleman, who's a son of an actor, and life doesn't follow scripts.

My point is that if we keep saying "young white males have it all" when they don't, they will start to think "well why don't I feel complete, if I have it all?" - it's a genuine question. I think the answer is that we need to stop demonising "straight white males" lest they become demons*.

I'm not saying that they don't fit the profile. I'm saying that it's not because they are white and male. Black males fit a distinctive criminal perpetrator profile as well, but it's not due to being black. You can't have one without the other. Either you believe this is due to their race or not.

* I just recently had a newborn daughter, and my mother-in-law said something along these lines: whatever I call her: "princess", "monster", etc. is what she will become.

I think it's the same thing here: the more we demonise and stigmatise "straight white males" the more there's going to be a lash back from young males who don't feel like they have the power you claim they have, yet.
> lol, why buy them out? They made money for decades. It's alright to hang up a successful business after a good run imo.

Come on, put yourself in their shoes. It's a small business. They made money, but probably not tons. Their personal capital is tied up in an obsolete business, which has had its value drop due to technology changes, so they probably can't sell it for whatever they expected. They'll probably see large personal losses, and it's never easy transitioning to a new line of work.

Thought experiment time: say you're a 40 year old software engineer, and some new AI gizmo comes out an obsoletes your career and all your work experience. You're going to have to start at the entry level in some new industry. On top of that, the gizmo can out-compete all those tech stocks you invested in, so your net worth is down 50%. You've got a family and 25 years left in your career. Should I be like "LOL. You made money for decades. It's alright to hang up a successful career after a good run imo"?
Maybe I'm misreading it but it sounds like your intuitive interpretation is correct?

> Always address the user as "you."
>
> Use "we" to refer to your own perspective. It's welcoming and helps the user feel like part of the experience.

Sounds to me like "you" = user, "we" = the app.
There are some videos that do this comparison in a mostly non-scientific manner if you'd be interested to see the performance differences of a snapdragon 4100 to a 2100/3100 [1]. There's even a few videos compare Apples to Mobvois [2]. Again, fairly non-scientific. Was interesting to note that in video [2], the reviewer even goes into depth on how the TW3PG (phew) performs while connected to an iOS device (spoiler alert: he doesn't hate it!).

Since I'm a full Google boy, I couldn't entertain the idea of trying an Apple Watch even if I wanted.

I didn't search far and wide, so I'm sure - as with everything - people can cherry pick reviews one way or the other. These were the first two I found that weren't "IT'S YA BOI WATCHMAN666 COMING AT YOU WITH A SPONSORED VIDEO" when looking.

At this point, I'd maybe wait to see what the official Google Wear OS watch will look and act like - purely because it's an OEM watch for Wear OS, "surely destined for greatness" (lol), but feature-for-feature, ounce-for-ounce, and kwhrs-to-kwhrs, the TicWatch Pro 3 GPS has really impressed me. I was waiting around for the Google Pixel Watch or whatever they'd name it, when I was gifted this one.

The only negative experience I had was Google Assistant (yes, on my watch) wouldn't speak out loud with my Pixel 2XL phone's language was set to English (Canada). I had to set it to English (US) for my watch to speak results to me.

It should also upgrade to WearOS 3 "in the second half of 2022" (no citation on this one)

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zBICoXBbLg - side-by-side comparison to SD4100 vs SD3100/SD2100

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSarvfv3YY - Feature & Compatibility Comparison, GW3, TW3PG, Apple Watch 6

Best of luck in your travels
Fraud in Electric Vehicle SPACs
Of course, the lower income people living in apartments who can afford the min. ~$60,000 EV will of course then spend even more at charging stations. Poor people should try not being poor, right?

I sometimes wonder if this whole EV thing will be known as the “let them eat cake” type of moment, capturing a sentiment of ruling strata detached from reality on the ground until their heads end up rolling around on it.

“Just buy a $60,000 EV”, tells the HN technocrat to someone who delivers them food to their $1M+ home, working for a delivery service that digs them deeper into a financial hole as millions more low wage foreign laborers stream into the country and inflation eats away at any progress that the HN technocrat has only benefited from.
> Strategic mistakes will be made by rulers, but will also be made by local rulers and individual families. "Should we plant corn or wheat this year?" - someone with intellect may read a book to discover the best crop or do a small scale trial, while someone with lead poisoning may just do the same as he did last year because it takes less mental effort.

That seems to be transplanting modern education and growth norms onto a historic situation. Roman literacy was exceptionally high by the standards of ancient civilisation, which meant that one in ten people (probably not farmers) could read a book and doing the same as last year or as their ancestors was the rule rather than some sort of anomaly. People smart enough to make substantial changes would tend to be stopped far more by social structures than any minor slowdown to their cognitive abilities. In that sense, if lead poisoning had effects on modern information and intellect driven civilisations so small it took some pretty thorough statistical analysis against a backdrop of rapid growth to convince us there was anything to the theory at all, it seems unlikely it could have made so much more difference to daily life in Ancient Rome. A cognitively impaired Emperor could do a lot of damage, but the inherent flaw in the system was that sort of power also flowed to natural born idiots and every civilisation has those.
> Do you feel the same way about lawyers?

No. Do you feel the same way about plumbers?

> Personally I think the people that actually enforce the law should be some of the most educated on the topic and the justice system, much of which is far too in depth to learn while also being a full time police offer.

I disagree. I think they should be well versed in peoples' rights, and the common types of crimes they encounter as part of their job (which is a tiny slice of the justice system -- contract law or securities fraud is not something a beat cop is going to encounter).

The law part of it is actually the least important (or easiest) part of the job in my opinion, if you're talking what people usually think of as a "cop". Having empathy, good personal and communication skills, learning how to project authority and confidence, also de-escalation techniques, learning about mental illness and how to deal with sufferers, first aid skills, etc etc. (and that's before we even get to physically restraining people and defending themselves) -- are all more important than a rigorous knowledge of the legal system.
If Docker-compose and K9S had a baby (without the containers gene)
I can shove Lambda server in an "MRI" and see that it does stuff evern when it is not answering your questions.

> People need to stop confusing machines doing useful work with consciousness.

We can't confuse anything with cosciousness since we don't know what it is. I am not claiming lamda is consc. but that your arguments are invalid.

> You are conscious because there is an 'I', a self, that experiences that process.

I maybe can tell about my I, but not about yours, there is a whole philosphy movement behind it.

> It has as much neurological activity as a rock

Slime mold doesn't have neurological activity. Is it sentient? It sure knows how to find food and solve problems that are considered very hard for humans.

> when it isn't doing that, it's not doing anything

You also go to sleep every day...

No matter what I believe any kind of argument I heard so far is just wishfull thinking.

We simply don't know if anything is sentient or what does it even mean to be sentient.
> Again things vary from state to state, but in CA, I couldn't give my foster children Tylenol without a doctor's orders, and all psychotropic medication was due to referrals by county appointed psychologists.

I understand California had this particular scandal in 2016 and passed some reforms. This is probably a consequence.
I'm pretty sure experiences like this, reading about Greek mythology, and paranormal fraudsters as a kid inoculated me to religion.

I will never understand how a grown ass adult can take the supernatural seriously.
> This is why medical care (human or pet) and capitalism don't mix well. If you are having a heart attack, you aren't comparing prices, and if your animal "child" is throwing up, you aren't calling around various vets.

Comparing human and (non-human, but I'll omit that) animal healthcare is flawed. Humans are paying for healthcare themselves and place an infinite financial value on their own lives. Animals don't pay for their own healthcare, so it doesn't matter how much they value their own lives, what matters is how much the owner values its life, which is in many cases not at all infinite.
Turing's tests involved 3 parties, and that was a key part of the test. If you design it as an acceptance test rather than a sort, real people are going to fail and computers are going to pass, with embarrassing results. To use one of your examples, the job of the interrogator is not to decide whether someone has been to Spain, it's to decide which of 2 people has been to Spain.

Turing didn't just consider whether a computer could embody complex psycho-social identities (eg womanhood, intelligence, self), but first had to give this question some objective quantifiable meaning, by blinding the experiment and introducing a control group. It's not perfect, but at least it grounds the questions in a concrete framework, and acknowledges that most of the categories in question are only revealed by social dynamics. The only update to it I would make, based on modern developments, would be to consider more the performance of the interrogator, rather than the two competing subjects.
It's easy to fall in love with someone who is young, hip and all that. When it comes done to work on my loved UNIX systems though, I still prefer to stay with the old-school tools given by coreutils et. al. They are a quasi-standard, I can rely on them and I always know what to expect. Better yet, I will find them on every system and can reduce my mental load to learn and internalize something new. Sure, they're not perfect, but these advantages trump the disadvantages, and it's all worked out pretty well for decades. Here, I don't have to chase the next bride.
As mentioned in my other posts, the big difference is the second set of virtual desktops that's afforded by a second monitor, as well as physical prioritization of secondary, tertiary, etc windows.

It also means you have a far wider selection of models at your disposal for both screens – in my case I like my primary monitor to be HiDPI while the secondary monitor can be a more run of the mill 1440p 27" monitor that you might find at a yard sale.
And they love it when you do digging projects and come over next to you to see if there's anything good to eat.
network effects take time to develop. unfortunately it doesn't have a major company or foundation pushing it forward aggressively. That said, I'm hopeful. its defiantly the BEST platform for building anything websocket based. the killer apps for picking elixir will be anything requiring soft realtime.

case in point, I built my startup in elixir. completely agree on the difficulty in hiring but its not hard to teach. It was harder for me to find people who knew sql well. Unlike active record, ecto embraces sql so you have to know sql to use it.

anyways, its time will come. more and more companies are adopting it from discord to supabase to <cringe> trump media group.</cringe>
Well we already have QANon, so I guess your idea isn’t so far fetched after all.
The original purpose of money is seignorage, the difference between face value and actual value of the currency. It doesn't get better then printing hundred dollar bills that get out of circulation - almost pure profit.

Taxing in kind is way better, it's inflation proof.
I am aware about what Deno is. But it is yet simply not the major leap forward that will get rid of NodeJS with that large ecosystem.

React was the first framework that requires the coder to really understand and utilize the modern features of JS.

Scripting something simple or spinning up a simple endpoint have always been arguments for NodeJS. R always talks about this. Terrible ground for decision making.
I think you mean they Keystone XL pipeline. The Keystone pipeline has been running and Biden didn’t cancel it.

Keystone XL is a zombie project which abandoned by the development/infrastructure company. It had been stuck in regulatory review and litigation for a decade.

Environmental reviews by both the Obama Admin and Trump admin state that Keystone XL would not have lowered gasoline prices. You are pretending like all oil/gas products are fungible, when in reality most refineries in the US are not capable of refining all raw product. Hence “Energy Independence” is purely a marketing term and we still need to export lots of raw material and import other kinds of raw material to match what we are capable of refining.
It's hard to imagine there would be very many people who care that much that also go to the types of places that have free electric chargers
You don't need thousands of servers to make it worthwhile. If you have code that runs constantly on 11 servers (possibly in k8s) that each cost $1k/month in AWS, and you spend a few weaks optimizing it down to needing 1 server, those weeks just generated the equivalent of a YEARLY $120k revenue stream.

If you require an ROI of 5 years, no interest included, you just created $600k in value over a few weeks.