skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how does the market know what's the true inflation rate?

if they use a sampling (basket of goods as proxy) method like other statistical agencies then why do we think the stats agencies are worse?
I'm not super happy about using 'writing' to mean 'publishing articles online with the goal of maximizing your subscriber count'.
A short overview of the capabilities and a walkthrough on automating 2 or 3 common tasks, biased toward less experienced programmers. It's important to give people the feeling of being able to get something done straight away so they have a feeling of success to refer back to as the learning curve steepens.
The author means not knowing it at compile-time. The expression you mention must be evaluated at runtime.
There is no "Google" for these purposes. Every org has their own practices and there's minimal central review. GFoo is in vogue in some parts of the company, but you won't see that branding in YouTube, Chrome, Android, Fuschia, etc.
> Rust is guilty of this as well, mind you

#[derive(Hash)]
struct X{ ... }

Seems easy enough to me? The only annoyance is if a third party type didn't implement Hash, but you can solve that with a manual implementation instead of a derive.
It still affects all compiled languages that offer inheritance, and OOP ABIs like COM.
Why do I have to think of the Apes, Dogs, and cats with a plug in their skull, for neuroscience? What about the countless bunnies and dogs, used for 'dermatologically tested' label for cosmetics, wet wipes, whatever, by rubbing that stuff in their eyes?

One strict ruler up yours!
I don't see why it is being complained about. University has no moral duty to provide social life, their only goal (and, the goal of the students!) should be to teach / learn.
Sure, some people enjoy being stuck with workflows born out of phosphor terminals.
In practice, there are plenty of static analysis programs that will give you the same thing at compile time with @NonNull and similar annotations.
Wordpress does Jazz musicians.
A City-Sized 'Eye' Has Been Discovered on Mars
Rich people get rich in an area and then try to force said area to continue policies that let them get rich. News at 11?

Like of course he's going to do this, it's the libertarian "I got mine but I'm pulling the ladder up" way.
> Lahiri will speak at the 12th International Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) Europe in Mainz, Germany. His presentation at 11:20 a.m. CEST (5:00 a.m. EST) titled “Silicon-Anode Lithium-Ion Batteries for EV Applications,” will provide an update on the company’s EV program.

OT: Funny how they mention an exact time for the presentation at the conference without adding a date. The conference https://www.advancedautobat.com/europe is 13 - 15 June. Small PR failure.
Does Solana have the development capability to fix congestion issues?
This has stayed in my bookmarks for 14 years. Great stuff.
There are reading glasses for short-sightedness? I just take my glasses off, and everything is just perfectly in focus.
I wonder how Turbo Pascal IDE managed to fit into 640 KB....
I can see sodium ion being the right pick for urban ebike rental. It only needs the range to go one way if it's part of a fleet and has the charge infrastructure built out; the rest is a matter of getting enough AV brains in there to minimize issues surrounding safety, parking, self-charging and availability. Once you add that, the bikes become way more appetizing for consumer use and you can expect usage to explode. Several companies are already working on the AV features - and cost is mostly bottlenecked on the batteries.
The second point is a big issue in pretty much anywhere outside of the US. Living in houses with a private garage is not that common.
1. I think the comment is a joke.

2. Nobody said anything about using Fahrenheit as a scientific measurement.
I believe H.G. Wells had a relevant quote for this news.
They don't mean checking at runtime.

Looking at a method/property signature it should be explicitly and unambiguously clear whether or not null is an acceptable value - but in java there is no way to enforce this.
Back in 2019 when this was written, the US was economically doing well. Unemployment was at a 15-year minimum (1), net compensation was increasing for the middle/lower classes at the fastest rate in 20 years (2), and productivity was up. The economic crash started in Jan/Feb 2020 upon Covid worries, and then just kept on going with supply and demand shocks.

(1) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

(2) https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html
I really don’t get what you mean. Java is not the most expressive language, but it is eons ahead of the expressivity of C or Go and yet I don’t believe it would be fair to claim that those languages also externalize their structure?
No. First religions were ancestor's cult, those are polytheism. But even if you don't count them, this is patently false.

The oldest recorded religion is hinduism. Polytheistic. The second oldest is zoroastrism and is duotheistic. The first monotheistic religion is athenism, based of the egyptian polytheistic faith, then Judaism, which probably is a mix of athenism (in the rites) and a mix of caanism and zoroastrism in the myth (lucifer story especially).

My point wasn't that monotheism is false because its better for population control, my point was it was adopted against polytheist faith and ancestor's cults faith across the word by the local ruling class because it was better at population control. I'm saying nothing about the truth of this particular faith

And i don't understand why my last statement is a genetic fallacy. I find people believing in 100% of the gods (or a deist) more interesting than those believing in one specific god.
Azure is having issues, again (West Europe)
Oh yes! I had not seen that. A component template would be so useful for me! Well, that is how one self-learns I guess: through mistakes.
This. You might run into an edge case or two, and the display values might disagree with the actual ones (in case if some of the values are stored in some property list somewhere, that’s used only for display purposes), but ultimately you can change basically everything from the Terminal.
Relationships are like a muscle. They grow with stress, but not with prolonged stress.

It's not just a direct relationship though. Consider your relationship with your spouse's family, friends, community, spiritual stuff. These are usually easiest to strengthen during good periods.
Yeah, it doesn't do this. The transpiled output is cached indefinitely for a given deployment.
Ask HN: What's the most advanced/realistic TTS tool on the market?
Generally speaking, you're right. Nothing is free - esp not for YT to host the data. But I think it's fair to complain about the scope. OP mentioned unskippable 15 sec ads before a 17 sec video. That's bullshit. I've seen it. It's not just on the 4th short video. It's on every video. Sure, you can go elsewhere anytime - nevertheless it's frustrating.
I don't think it's too bad, it just needs a bit more discoverability.

I use KDE now as main driver which has a ton of options compared to macOS and they use the same format. What I do find myself using a lot more is the search. Part of the reason I didn't have to do this with the old macOS preferences was just my muscle memory (only slightly thwarted by Apple's changing of the icons). And the other part was that there's simply less to find there.

But essentially I think the scrolling left and right panes are not a bad idea. The old format consisted of a non-scrolling and non-resizable(!) window that would be replaced, and this caused some issues on really low-res screens in the past, at 800x600 pixels (or even 800x480 like the eeePC) it was impossible to reach all the settings on the old preferences.

At least this is now fixed to a format where more controls don't need to be crammed into the same space, it can simply expand. And the number of "menu" options is now also dynamic and no longer constrained by screen space.

But it's going to mess up decades of muscle memory which is not fun :)
Karate is great - thanks for that. We started using it 2 months ago to run complex test scenarios spanning multiple distributed systems. We are still learning how to use it most efficiently, but its been an asset from day one.
And the same tradeoffs would still apply, you'd still probably want to time your stops to charge from 10-20% to 70-80% when on a long trip to minimise total travel time and slow charge to 100 before you leave and after you arrive.

It would just be even faster than today. Which is why I'm suspicious of any announcement that talks about the unrealistic 0-100% use case. If that is the metric they are chasing they're probably not going to help the average road tripper much compared with more focused engineering for the real use cases.

Something as simple as multiple cables that mean cars can charge without waiting for the others to finish and their owners return, or smarter navs, or cheaper/bigger batteries, building more chargers etc. is likely to have more impact than a magic new battery chemistry, though every different aspect helps.
Countries, let alone empires, are very large entities. I'd argue that they fail long before they collapse. Consider the Soviet Union. While the final reason they collapsed was economic, it would be difficult to argue that it could have continued to persist indefinitely otherwise.

In my opinion the Soviet Union had failed decades prior to its collapse (which is saying something for a system that only lasted 69 years), the root cause being the loss of faith of their own citizenry. And in such a scenario, any bump in the road is suddenly going to turn into a catastrophe. I think blaming the bump is failing to see the forest through all those trees.

The Roman Empire spanned from Great Britain, across Europe, and even along North Africa. And the speed of light was the speed of horseback or sail. Things, even when done with the utmost haste, were slow. And so in this scenario the separation between the failure and collapse was going to be even greater.
This. This is why you don't want analytics on your blog/website/platform. Analytics leads you into crowd-pleasing, veering away from your own insights and truth. I've probably written on the order of that many articles, too, over the past uhh... ? years... and if any of them made a "splash" I probably wouldn't even know! Don't care.

Expanded version of this thinking: https://one.mikro2nd.net/posts/why-no-web-analytics-are-to-b...
What are you referring to with this? What outcomes are you talking about? What are you implying that constituents want?
Existing fast chargers can do 600A, the main trick is they water-cool the cable, which substantially reduces the amount of copper you need. They're about as difficult to handle as a gas pump nozzle. Somehow shifting 80kg batteries in and out of your car seems a lot harder to manage.
> Because bribery and ”persuasion”, as you call it, is illegal and thus carries a lot of risk?

You're thinking like a commoner. Which I get, I'm a commoner, too. I certainly wouldn't try that kind of "persuasion". That'd land me in jail for a million years.

But the the rules are different when you're a member of the ruling class or serving their interests.

It's unfortunate. It really is. But that's how things are.
Among Us will be virtual reality’s killer app
Too bad you need external tools anda lot of boilerplate that you must remember to enforce to achieve this, because it's an after thought and not a language feature.

And there's 7-8 different annotations to mark nullability, all slightly different in some detail.

It's a bloody and messy hell.
Working on nuclear fusion is a 'moral obligation' for this CEO
If we're talking about an actual, modern 68060 CPU running at multiple GHz, then it would be trivial to run Firefox or Chromium -- just install Debian m68k and compile. :)

Apart from the nostalgy factor, I suspect there would be no actual benefit from such a system. I doubt m68k would compare well to ARM or x64 in terms of compatibility or modern-app performance.
This is not the same thing that the person you were responding to was talking about. Swedish civil servants do not lead extravagant lifestyles, even at the highest levels, nor do politicians (not directly by virtue of being in politics, at any rate, although sometimes indirectly).

What they were saying is that the Swedish system is very friendly to wealthy individuals operating in the private sector, while letting the middle class bear the brunt of subsidizing costs for those with lower income, which is true.
I wish they also talked about the recycling strategy, because right now, afak, recycling is almost impossible for all of those batteries.
> That said, I'd be interested in lifespan.

Yep. I used to fly electric rc planes back when NiCads were the best battery available. Most of the cells we used were rated for a 0.1C charge and a 14 hour recharge at that rate. If you bought the right brand and model cells, it was possible to recharge them at 10C and fully charge them from total empty in just over 8 minutes. (Usually about 7 minutes with the low voltage cutoff in the speed controllers I used.)

You'd get noticeable degradation in a pack after 50 or so cycles, and some would become unusable at 100 cycles. (Which was a decent tradeoff, since a catastrophic battery destroying crash was reasonably likely to occur well within 100 flights, at least with the sort of plane and flying me and my friends engaged in...)

For a while I was flying 7 cell Sanyo AR 500mAhr packs and since I owned 3 of them I'd charge them at about 14C (7A, the highest my charger would go) which would let me relaunch every 5 mins (I'd get maybe 3.5mins of mostly full power flying time from a pack, so I'd basically fly until I got bored of landing/swapping-batteries/relaunching, or I'd crashed and broken it again.)

Kids these days with their LiPo packs and brushless motors don't know how good they have it <shakes fist at cloud>
I always thought that for something meant as a currency, it sure is hard to understand, even for a passively interested, financially literate computer scientist.
I think you were distracted, and this ^ comment was written without much thought.

Oh wait. You are on HN. No surprise!
Better Place tried the whole replaceable battery pack idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)

Switching batteries sounds like a good idea to me, but it doesn't seem to scale to this level .
Since new[] does not actually return an array (returns a pointer to 1-past-the last element in "" string/array) and later "this" pointer is calculated using an arithmetic operation that goes out of bounds (for elements that > 0), that would also be UB. ""+2 would be UB for example.

But maybe it is not UB because it is not calculated explicitly by the program, hard to tell
> leave stuff the hell alone when it works fine

Agreed.

However I always take too long to locate stuff in System Preferences. Zig-zag scanning is so inefficient it's easier to just search for stuff: That's a UI failure.
Of course, we should never do anything beneficial unless there is an explicit moral duty to do it.

In this case, all that Standford had to do was nothing and let the emergent social life continue uninterrupted.

Did they have a moral duty to interfere with the students' right to free association?
Maybe try writing a private diary for, say, a year and see what you get. Depending on events you will probably either (a) drift out of the habit after a month or two (b) gain insights into yourself and carry on (c) start to publish selected extracts as a blog/book.

If you become famous then someone will do (c) for you at some point (maybe after you are gone).
TempleOS does this
> 29 dead in the U.S. in the last 12 years.

How does that compare to the number of student deaths falling off ladders, slipping on ice, or bathing over the same time periods?

(or drinking, which I know would be orders of magnitude larger...)
Do any lithium batteries contain any rare earth elements? At least I'm not aware of any usage whatsoever.

NiMH batteries require Cerium, Lanthanum and Neodymium, but those batteries are not used in BEVs at all anymore.

So I think the answer is: zero.
As AIs become more lifelike the pool of humans that consider it enough grows. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if relationships with human level AI won't dominate eventually.
You're last paragraph is on point. I was there a month ago and was planning on spending a day or two there on my way to somewhere else. I lasted about 4 hours and just kept on driving. There's some kind of sadness baked into everything and I just couldn't enjoy it. I've been to many big vibrant cities and some very poor cities. San Francisco seemed to have the worst parts of both.
A wealth gap does not cause NIMBY and homeowners protecting their assets is not the reason these people are homeless. No one needs to live in SF. They're homeless because of their continued terrible decisions--something that could potentially be corrected via discipline. But instead, self deprecating behavior is not only condoned, but funded by tax payers.
Write documentation first, then build
So what does one need to do in order to go from "random person" to "accepted contributor"? Do I need to fix typos on the README for awhile? Do I need to fix random bugs for awhile? Or do I need to go to work for the company that sponsors the project? We shouldn't automatically assume that a more restrictive approach is more "healthy" here. It all comes with tradeoffs.
Can me give you an example of such cases? Because where I live, the grid absolutely does not suffer such horrible losses. "50% best case" would be absolutely unthinkable here -- especially for purpose-built medium-voltage systems like electrical rail.
They can make you unhappy by being not nice with you.

They can help you being more happy by supporting you.

But if you're really unhappy about your life or work, that's usually not enough
As pointed out on the recent Technology Connections YouTube video, EV charging cables are often liquid cooled so they can push extra current through a relatively lightweight cable. (I thought that was a pretty cool innovation.)
They will just look at you with an expression of pity and slight disgust.
Starfield Sounds Way Too Big. Bethesda promising over 1k worlds in its RPG
This is stock example.
Anything else?
Did HN have upvoted posts like this when Bitcoin pumped by 13% or whatever? There seems to be a big asymmetry of interest regarding crypto doing well and doing bad.
The themes are fine but the issue i have with mac os codenames (this can apply to anything else though) is that it would be good to keep them alphabetically ordered so you instantly know how recent/old any version is.
Sure, language-support would be better indeed, but in practice the often encountered annotations are supported by every tool, and the only relevant setting is whether everything is nullable by default or nothing is.
I think there are some parallels between your view of the wasted potential of radio and mine on the wasted potential of the internet. Your thesis could be restated: the potential of radio was never realized because of the choice to be greedy and optimize for low cost and high margins rather than value to listeners. These optimizers that prioritize growth of private wealth naturally gain an advantage over visionary types (the talent, you say) who might prefer to invest into creating universal value. (I.e. music or other audio content which can be shared in a way that makes everyone's lives better on average.) Optimizing their way to economic advantage leads to domination by those optimizers, they continue to optimize even if the audience is worse off for it, and so we all are.

Greedy optimizers have pretty clearly come to dominate the IT space as well, and like in radio, they disrespect the audience. They don't aim to create shared value except in order to have more of the pie. Visionary types that gave us a lot of the foundational ideas which made the internet so great (anywhere to anywhere communications, open protocols allowing global interoperability, www, chat, email, e-commerce) are forced to work within and are stifled by the frameworks now enforced by the dominant, greedy actors.

I suppose it may sound to some like I'm complaining about capitalism, but I don't take issue with money and liberty. I take issue with people's choices within the system. It's their choice to make accumulating power their goal over using what power they have for more utopian goals. (E.g. a higher "net quality of life", or furthering civilization somehow.) I'll concede that self-interest is somewhat indispensable, as it is in nature. However, for us big-brained, civilized humans, there's a balance to be struck against shared interest, and the balance, in many contexts, is off to a degree that is harmful to everyone.
I was talking with my car dealer as I wanted to buy an electric car. He was using the car for his own usage to get a good idea. The main thing that came out is that most available charging stations are 22kW max and very often they are shared using "smart charge", which basically means a lower duty cycle (/N). In practice it means it requires about 7 hours to charge the 50kW/h battery.

After this discussion, I asked my utility company, and it would cost around $20k to install a 22kW charging station in my home. And what the person told me over the phone was basically "the grid is not ready, we would need to upgrade hundred of meters of cable".

This is in Europe (Switzerland), but it shows how impractical super fast charging is with the current state of the grid and infrastructure (we can't start a turbine when you plug your car). I don't know if trying to make it work is possible. The current grid was built over decades. To me it seems way easier to use other form of energy transfer (hydrogen refill or battery swap).

Edit:

I'm at the limit of the current I can draw from the utility line (40A for my house) as I have a geothermal pump that can use up to 25A when running. Even if I put a smaller charging station, the utility will have to change my introduction box, and in all cases it is quite expensive. I asked for 22kW because we live in a remote location, and while not strictly necessary, it might become so in the future, for example if we have visitors with 3 cars, they might need recharge.
If Sidekiq supported Redis 3, maybe they wouldn't need to spend an untenable amount of time and effort on the company, and users wouldn't be impacted.
Maybe I misunderstood you, but you can use structs as keys of a map.
Ok, i get that. I'd rather rent or borrow a car when i need one (some weekends, for a road trip...). My point was that city density isn't really needed to go full public transit. I lived 5 years in a city with a density of 304 hab./km2 (twice that in summer), without a car. I used the bus when i did not felt like riding my bike, and the train for large distances. Now i'm in a city with 2.2k hab./km2, and yes, it is easier, but you don't need that much density to go full public transport.
Have you met my friend.. erlang ?
It's an expression. It means what people say at the end of their life.
OP's point is different though. They're simply asking: "How about we don't treat our food animals horribly". And I agree, personally.
NIO has built its EV batteries to be swappable. You can switch between different capacities as needed:

https://insideevs.com/news/581626/china-nio-900-battery-swap...

https://insideevs.com/news/591837/nio-battery-swapping-stati...