skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>To be fair, they are focusing on easier tasks, like changing tires, ...

Even changing tires requires at least some training, including proper threading of the lug nuts and especially proper torquing. Too much or too little torque will both lead to problems, and just braaapp-ing them on with the air wrench is definitely not cool (and no, the "torque bars" between the drive lug and socket do not work properly either, I've had to redo more nuts some yahoo put on with those than I can count).

So, ya, this is really not cool.
From this tweet: https://twitter.com/TroyTeslike/status/1537232387553099776?t...

"36% of Model 3 buyers in Q1 2022 didn't have any service visits during the first 30 days of ownership while 54% had one and 10% had two visits."

Only a minority of Model 3 buyers get a car that isn't broken in the first month.
I think it has to do more with the compromise between sound engineering practices and the legitimate demands of marketing rather than any inherent nature of electronic parts. I don't mean to suggest that the electronic parts that fail are poorly engineered, but their inclusion in the vehicle is (often) because it'll help sales rather than because they belong in a vehicle.
What do "woke politics" have to do with Mozilla's failure? What is woke about that company to you in particular? Their political leanings are basically unchanged dating back to before Chrome even existed.
But is it permanent? I'm sure some chemicals can undo the fear & anxiety.

As our knowledge increases we invent new ways to decrease the population.

Knowledge is power.
I’ve yet to find a better watering hole for technologists. If you know of one, I’m all ears.
‘Transitory’ was the ‘worst inflation call in the history’ of the Fed (2021)
Tesla reuses parts same as any manufacture. When there were computer chip supply problems they swap out for alternatives. So only refering to some chips
There is an argument to be made wrt the deleterious effects of modern recruitment's overreliance on informal personal networks.
I was just talking about DJ9 the other day. You are missed!
+1 on Jelte's sentiment

Btw HN, if you share the sentiment about more open source, please feel free to star us on GitHub :)
Let me dDRY THESE FOR YOU.

"_________ is [crashing, a scam, has been stolen], Crypto Investors are spooked"

There, now we can predict 99% of future crypto headlines
It's an interesting article but probably needs "2019" in the title.
I’m commenting specifically on the blog post provided by GP, which the parent comment made some pretty derogatory comments about.

I’ve made no attempt to deeply research what QuestDB have said else where, because I don’t care. I don’t use, or have a need, for any of the products mentioned in any of the linked articles. I’m only interested in the narrow discussion of the original blog post provided by GP, to which OP post is replying to.
Ah. Guess I still have some learning to do with how things work here a little differently than elsewhere.
Mozilla is every bit as weak when it comes to privacy defaults.
Why does the world need another Chromium reskin? What's the point of a Firefox that's just Chrome? How is it competing to slap your brand on top of a competitor's product like you're reselling wholesale electronics from an overseas manufacturer?

Look at Edge's market share and explain to me how Mozilla is going to deliver a better Chrome reskin than Microsoft with a tiny fraction of the budget.
FYI "Beware! Academics are getting reeled in by scam journals"

"This past year, when an undergraduate biology student at the University of the Fraser Valley approached dean of science Lucy Lee for $2,000 to publish a paper in an academic journal, Dr. Lee had immediate concerns about the request. She’d had a bad experience with the journal in question, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, while doing a review for the publication. She discovered a lack of rigour in some of the journal’s articles, was alarmed at its many retractions and corrections, and had concerns with the journal’s practice of publishing an “acknowledgement” issue with a very long list of reviewers to make it look credible."[1]

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/be...

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Controversies
Any evidence that Google pays masnick or techdirt?
However, this doesn't include defining responsibility. This definition comes from elsewhere and involves and includes other positions, as well.

Also, "final" implies an iterative process of multiple steps, like a discussion. (Which in turn implies a certain degree of openness to such a process.) Otherwise, it would be "exclusive" or "total".
The 90% have less than 90% influence. If you are a researcher, you don't need 51% of people against you to get kicked out. 5% of very vocal opponents and 95% indifferent is all it takes.
That's related to national security, which has (little to) nothing to do with antitrust?

Also, I don't really think the courts would agree with you based on their interpretation of civil forfeiture laws. The only unusual thing in the Huawei case is that it happened to someone with serious money.
>The Amiga was unimaginably powerful by comparison.

Interesting that the two systems were only about two years apart in development. The first C64 prototype would have been in 1981 and the Amiga 1983 but of course they were targeting different price points.
The Westinghouse Total Electric Home (1960) [video]
Windows-only recommendation so this is only somewhat related - but if you want a powerful, (mostly) well-thought-out, (seemingly) lightweight screenshot taker + editor on Windows, do have a look at ShareX[1].

It's completely free and you can tweak various workflows and map them to key combinations. I've had a "manual screenshot -> optional editing -> upload to imgur/save to clipboard" workflow bound to a mouse button (Logitech G600) for over 5 years and use it multiple times a day.

I downloaded it through Steam but whatever other download options they have should auto-update just fine as well, I would guess.

I only see this now but apparently the program is open-source. Never even knew that.

[1] https://getsharex.com/
VLAAP: "Virus Loader as a Platform"
According to this comment, Acorn does that? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31769907
My understanding (from undergrad a while back) is that they already jimmy the numbers. It used to be that X nm meant that the gate width was X nm. Now it (usually) means that the smallest feature you can find is maybe X nm. Closer to a marketing term like '3G'.

Not that this isn't a real technical and industrial achievement, you just can't take the X nm at face value.
The rise and fall of a celebrity scientist who fooled almost everyone (2017)
"We are disadvantaged by the fact that current and future Firefox users, many of whom are privacy and security focused, cannot easily install and keep Firefox as their preferred browser because of confusing operating system messages and settings."

uhhh really?
Kudos to BB on some fascinating local reportage. I just wish Larry Ellison sat down for the interview! Reading about SV Billionaires' sustainability plans for their Hawaiian islands is right out of Aldous Huxley or J G Ballard ;)
An oligopoly, then? A cartel?
Would you want someone with no experience cutting your hair?

We're in a profession that requires next to no training (except for maybe an odd "leet code" test that has no relevance to our day-to-day work, though there are plenty of jobs that don't even need that.) Maybe we're spoiled.
That's him. His "laws" probably arose from his frustrations when he was in the parliament, and he didn't intend anyone to take them too seriously.

Today, as far as I understand, people who are trying to be serious communications professionals approach the same issues from a constructive angle. They try to minimize the chances for misunderstanding, which leads to those bland and thoroughly vetted corporate communications.
> Unfortunately, when people see you own a Tesla, they assume you are a fan of Musk.

I see. Musk being an asshole attracts assholes who act like assholes towards you for your choice of car. I have to admit that would also be a factor in me wanting to sell a Tesla if I owned one.
Descript probably fits the bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl9wqNe5J8U

HN had some good discussions last year with alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641205
What something else? Be more specific
None of those things are in the best interests of the people involved. Homosexuals who engage in same sex activity are more propense to addictions and self harming behaviour, children of divorced couples do far worse than of couples that remained married. Abortion is killing your own child, and child abuse is reprehensible but it happens at any major institution religious or not, if you don't believe me look up how many kids are sexually harrased at secular high schools or worse see how many secular people want to talk to middle schoolers about sex
And if you wrote your instructions in assembly, it would be even faster!

/s

Sorry for the rude sarcasm, but isn't this a post truly just about the efficiency pitfalls of Python? (or any language / framework choice for that matter)

Of course modern computers are lightning fast. The overhead of every language, framework, and tool will add significant additional compute however, reducing this lightning speed more and more with each complex abstraction level.

I don't know, I guess I'm just surprised this post is so popular, this stuff seems quite obvious.
SponsorBlock is available for iOS. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Safari
> I'm not a fan of the man but that shouldn't really be a factor in whether or not I use a product he's involved in.

Everyone else is disagreeing with you, but I'll take a different tack:

Why shouldn't his behavior be a factor?
You should instead

pushd /my/path && command && popd

Both in bash AND in fish!
ReacType 12.0 – Context Management and Prototyping Tool for React
And yet it’s the top comment, for some reason.
Approximately nobody is “white nationalist”. Believing nonsense like that is not helping you.
The Open Group (Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, Huawei, Philips etc)

https://www.opengroup.org/about-us/who-we-are

https://www.opengroup.org/trademarks

Together with IEEE they are the ones giving the POSIX certification http://get.posixcertified.ieee.org/certification_guide.html
Either way they’re both going to be gone when everything is electric.
...... ? BYD, NIO, and XPeng aren't exactly small startups either. Just AFAIK they haven't made inroads into North America.
There was also an odd clustering among early Google employees who all came from a place called "Stanford."

It may be difficult to distinguish between these two hiring patterns without asking the sorts of questions that are illegal for employers to ask.
I don't think there's anything in the wording of the Lindy effect that means it's only a one way inference. It says the life expectancy of a thing is proportional to its age. That makes sense to me. If a product is going to die, it's likely to die fast. If a product sticks around five years, it's more likely it'll be around for ten more. It's why startups go under all the time, but you don't hear of a lot of 50 year old companies going out of business.

I think the error is interpreting these things literally. If we did, then if it were 1990 we'd say Windows wouldn't be see the next century. Probabilities are attached.
" Less in one's control, their parents were financially successful or were in competitive positions"

Yeah that's 50% right there and 'learning strategies' is only a part of it.

The other 'strategy' is 'being rich' or 'connected' or knowing a few arcane insights that do not amount to 'competitive strategies' so much as 'inside knowledge'.

"Long story short: there is absolutely a culture of improvement that is primarily offline and less visible"

Let's not conflate 'climbing the social ladder' with 'improvement'.
set output (echo captured)
echo $output
> captured

And if you wanna run a command in another dir:

pushd other_dir
run_command
popd
>First, questioning whether someone read the article is against the guidelines. Please don't do that.

This thread is an excellent illustration of what's likely an unintended consequence of that guideline, and of all the places to raise it, this is probably the least constructive and least in conformance with any possible intention of the guideline.

If someone doesn't RTFA but contributes really interesting thoughts on, say, AI, or the efficiency of a programming language, such scolding chills valuable discussion. That's understandable. Even responding as a scold to low effort comments is not very readable and the exercise in scolding, however correct, isn't conducive to good discussion. So it's understandable there too.

But here, you're using it in response to a constructive comment expressing a legitimate point over something that's crucial to undestanding and engaging with the article. I can't fathom what purpose you think that rule has if you think this is the right place to invoke it.
I think child comments become parent comments if the original parent is removed by mods
> My intuition is that there are an infinite number of ways to fail, and the number of ways to succeed are much more scarce

This may well be true, but the factors for success are hyper-sensitive to the context of the time with a hefty dash of randomness thrown in. By the time we've observed the factors, the circumstances have changed so they're not entirely repeatable. Sticking to the formula may work, or may lead to wildly different results. But altering the formula is just as unpredictable. Context is critical.
Cults are not “obscure religious groups.” It varies widely by state (and in federal jurisprudence), but most states have a “free association”-style test: if members aren’t free to come and go, it’s a cult and not a religion.

Google would not be exposed to any significant liability here. Particularly not when the cult has a well-documented history of sexual abuse.
If an injured war veteran is paying their internet bill with government disability payouts, are they not allowed to criticize the government on the internet?
Little late for that if you already bought it.
Friedman explained inflation decades ago. It’s a monetary phenomenon. Years of easy money, coupled with extreme government spending, supply chain disruptions, and the entire overreaction to the COVID virus has left the US teetering on the brink of financial collapse. It’s not a surprise nor was it accidental.
1) The canonical use case is "steal your login credentials/crypto keys". So yes you have to care about single users, if the single user has access to sensitive info.

2) No, most people (not just engineers) are bad at risk assessment. Like thinking "my single user system shouldn't care about this".

3) I was talking about prod environments, not your random laptop.
Thanks for bringing this up. It's important not to easily forget (even if some may forgive) and that's what a community is for.
You realize how ubiquitous plastics are in healthcare? I mean we even implant plastics into the human body.

But regardless, IV solutions are manufactured and stored for months in plastic bags.

I think you’re understating what we know about safety.
I'll pass that along to our terribly talented UX writer, who pretty much single-handedly maintains it.
Ask for pureness meant we do not deal with the dirtiness. Moz can bite its feeding hand. The real question is where are those who ask for pureness … I am not paying but you continue to fight for me?
"kiss the ring"
If someone is an unhinged asshole on personal time, I'm not inclined to trust the long term success of their business.

I also wouldn't want to be funding a future political play by Musk by buying a Tesla now.
While I'll take a bite at this, I think it's also fair to say how poorly portable C is. Can an mobile or web engineer quickly take some C code and use it in their stack somehow? I would guess not. While it's indeed an important lesson to see the speed of some of these 'close to the metal' languages, the question of how practical they are to use is a different question.
Elon Musk sued for $258B over alleged Dogecoin pyramid scheme
Tesla is a public company. The board could fire him if they wanted and might if he further escalates his trolling.
> It sounds like you disagree with me and believe that being trans is likely caused by a hormone imbalance in the the first way I ascribed to the original commenter.

No I don't agree with that characterization (I think being trans is more complicated than a hormone imbalance for some people and you can be perfectly "normal" balanced and still identify as whatever you want while also it being possible that some people experience gender dysphoria because of a hormone imbalance that can be corrected if desired). That's why I'm confused. I don't understand what stance you're taking. I don't understand why you're bringing gay into the mix. I'm genuinely confused because the way you worded things make in ambiguous whether you were supporting the comment you first responded to but didn't think last bit was the right way to approach the argument, or if you disagreed with the comment you were responding to because of the way the last part was worded. I'm not trying to have any argument just share my context because I'm actually confused.
For sure. Performance has not been anywhere near as big a challenge as my own productivity. This EAV approach has enabled me to do at least more than an order of magnitude more solutions for customers in the same time.

I basically manage 2 EAV databases - a production one with the 7 tables (discussed) and a development one with the same 7 tables, where I will do imports, migrations, and such. One thing that is truly chaos is when you have hundreds of "virtual" EAV tables with 10's of millions of records (or more) in just 7 tables .... and the house of cards comes down for whatever reason (master-master replication failure, clustering failure etc). Gives you a whole new appreciation of the beauty of a simple flat file database.
Google literally positioned the Chrome team in the SF office building shared by Mozilla, then did PR stunts like baking cakes and crap to create pretext to poach key employees to cripple the org.

Originally the intent was they were a search company, that would pay well, and folks could donate to charities... like Mozilla. Then they decided to start their own browser, and... well here we are today.
Here’s Medicare for All. It’s 130 pages. But double spaced with massive margins and indentation space and geriatric sized fonts so really probably about 20 pages. You can read it pretty quickly (I have).

https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr1976/BILLS-117hr1976ih....
They read stuff off disk 1-4 bytes at a time and malloc() in a loop, then deserialize which calls its own malloc(). Its tiny malloc()s all the way down, and strlens for sure https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

The result is usually one CPU core running at 40% with sporadic disk access while you stare at Loading progress bar.
Small crypto funds are next to fall. Case study: Finblox
If push notifications are so bad why does every mobile app spam me with them?

All of these things "users don't want" are right there for use in App Store apps. They're only held back from the browser because they want you to give them 30%. In some cases they literally added features to Safari but restricted them for use in advertisements only (WebGL for one example, IIRC) because the features aren't the problem, the problem is developers accessing customers without paying 30%.
The ones I talk to all complain about the poor pay, relative to how much people make in industry. A few make the jump, especially those whose discipline allow them to transition easily to industry.

But try to be a tenure-track professor in biology at a mid academic institution. You are fed up, you want more money, money you think you deserve. Where do you go at, say, fifty years old?
NY Times also covered it at "How a Religious Sect Landed Google in a Lawsuit" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/technology/google-fellows...
Maybe privacy focussed users have just moved somewhere else or given up and installed Chrome after disasters like Firefox Focus, Firefox Suggest, Leanplum or the TV series Mr. Robot extension that was silently installed.
I work at Epic. This is not true. Hospitals have the ability to customize the portal we offer and add in what they want. We're not shipping with Meta Pixel enabled. They added this and didn't understand the full consequences (I hope). When we learned and understood the consequences, we called every customer to share what we know and investigate if they're impacted.

I can't speak to why the consequences weren't more obvious. I don't know. I do know that Epic cares deeply about this and I know that it pisses me off that this happens. But the tech people at hospitals are people and make mistakes. They're likely driven by the business needs and don't have time to fully vet everything.

I think this is a consequence of the American health system and want to implement these products to increase profitability.
> The power of a Union is entirely in it's ability to negotiate with the company.

I often hear this misunderstanding in the US. Of course it's a within the power of a union to hire lawyers who can help defend its members against the cooperation within the rules of the law. In fact, to highly paid employees like tech workers, this kind of legal support is much more valuable than wage negotiation. Having somebody you can reach out to, who know the company well, and don't charge you a lot of money, is super valuable and why I wish more tech companies had unions.
GNU units may be of interest here.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=elon+musk+promises
Successful founders choose GCP over AWS or Azure.
It's worse than you think. The definition of a Covered Platform is so overbroad that basically if you allow any kind of user interaction on your website (or OPERATING SYSTEM!) then yours is a covered platform. So imagine you run a restaurant and allow for a customer feedback form that is visible on the website... congratulations, you've now become a covered platform and are obliged to allow other people to sell products on your website. No, I'm not kidding. That is precisely how badly written this thing is.
100M people in the US are not sick and struggling to pay.
The data is conclusive on Single Parent vs. Two Parent and it's not even close.

The 'moralizing' is from those who want to equivocate.

This is also from deep life experience myself, with close family and colleagues.

In everything but the best scenarios: 'Everything Is Hard' in a single family household, whereas things 'Can Be Hard' in regular family scenarios.

I think a 'single mentor' can make a big difference, but nowhere near most of the other things put together.

And FYI I don't think parents provide very good 'professional mentorship' for the most part. They're there for other reasons.

i.e. if I found out that a mom was coming to pick up her kids laundry and leave some meals because 'Uni Exams' ... I will be $1000 immediately that kid will do well without knowing a single other thing about that family or situation. Not a guarantee of anything, but an easy bet.