skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. And the Model 3 (132mpge) and Model Y (124mpge) are FAR more efficient, using less than half the electricity per mile than the Hummer EV (47mpge).

The one thing about a Hummer EV with a huge battery is it can be used for work requiring towing large payloads. With large tow jobs, the thing that matters most for range is the kWhs of the battery of the vehicle, so it’s somewhat justified to have such a big and heavy vehicle.
> There are 6m construction/mining workers, 6m installation workers, and 4m building maintenance workers.

What’s this random collection of jobs and why do you think they’re the only people who use a truck for work?

Have you ever met for example a farmer? Crazy concept for people in tech, I know.
Who else would pay for the maintenance for said roads?
The most dirty a grid can be is just the same as an ICE car, and even then the EV would still be way more efficient.
Just creating a system that tells you the current speed limit is a herculean task, with signs being frequently wrong and generally terrible. The same stretch of road can have different speed limits depending from where you entered it, at least in Germany.
I really thought Keybase had potential to take over this space. It was easy to set up, came with encrypted messaging and file storage, and gave end users ways to assert their identity that didn't rely on traditional certificate authorities. I wish they had found a way to make Keybase a sustainable business instead of selling to Zoom.
Easy to say in hindsight, but every company has random influential people (some a lot worse than Kissinger) on the board, and a lot of them turn out very successful.
Yes. Screenshots with the desktop clock included, because that way you can be sure of exactly when the screenshot was taken.
Guilty on all 12 charges against former Theranos exec Sunny Balwani
If we're comparing price to a $5,000/month offering, I think it's totally reasonable to compare it to the $149/month package of Iridium.
This seems like a very nice laptop for the cost, but for a bit more you could have the framework laptop. A few hundred bucks more seems like a reasonable trade for something reparable and upgradable in place of a rebranded white box laptop.
That's because redistributing wealth is not a goal of America
We are betting big on moving to liveview and are hiring.

We run a half dozen elixir apps in the healthcare and research sectors.

people@polkadotskysoftware.com
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Most rank-and-file employees don't have material nonpublic information, though.

Blackout periods are more of a CYA thing.

Once you leave the company, you only have to follow the actual law, not the stricter rules that the company sets for its employees.
New hires won’t have vested equity that is blocked, so I don’t understand the relevance.

It’s also not clear that Twitter would be able to block sales once you are no longer an employee; my guess is that they can’t.
> The state’s monopoly on violence should be used judiciously and sparingly to secure our individual rights, not as a catch-all tool for coercing (or outright forcing) people into making the choices you want them to.

May I steal this, please? I know a few people who don't get my political philosophy, and I want to help them understand.
Count how many people have died in these accidents directly and possibly from thyroid cancers, and compare to lung cancers attributed to coal. Coal kills way more people. It's killing right now.

There are estimates that more people died from fuel poverty due to closure of Fukushima and subsequent raise in fuel prices, than the Fukushima accident itself.

Coal power plants release more radioactive pollution than nuclear power plants, simply because coal is never 100% pure and the sheer volume of coal burned.

So you are demanding perfection. Your fear of hypothetical future risk of harm is perpetuating the actual harm currently happening.
When our kid was little, she spent sooo much time trying to talk to me while I was working. I didn't mind - I couldn't understand a word of it, and it wasn't distracting. As soon as she started piecing enough English together to make basic statements, it was all downhill from there.
Volkswagen announces $20B effort to build its own EV batteries
It's not "virtue signaling" when you're actually walking the walk. The person you're replying to didn't want to work for Kissinger et al, so they turned down what looked like a good job.
Nobody cared about Balwani before Theranos went down either.
Some historical fun, around 2008 there were various articles analyzing whether a Gas-powered Hummer H2 had less embodied co2 emissions than a Toyota Prius: https://slate.com/technology/2008/03/is-it-possible-that-a-h... (google and you'll find a number of other articles)
Since when has google been making slaughterbots?

Or do you mean those dogs they were building for the military?
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You can approximately half the power consumption by eliminating starlink's wifi router and using a DC POE injector to power the square terminal. I have not done it yet but have seen others report ~30 watts.
All good, just wanted to make sure I was understanding ya correctly.
I'm not seeing that trend. We haven't even seen down side in pricing or a full downaward trend in in new construction and most of the modern developments are doing mixed developments of retail, business and living spaces.

There were a few % points drop at times - but most of that was supply dynamics and supply pricing.

so much demand for commercial real estate that prices are up 24%

It's probably a good thing for the market to cool
Element (Matrix) launches Chatterbox, end-to-end encrypted embedded chat
Ps. Netherlands sentiment from an audience similar to HN

Ps. Not positive against china ( has never been) - https://tweakers.net/nieuws/198750/vs-wil-dat-nederland-expo...
Roblox must die, the monster that eats children.
I don’t see the motivation of raising a family and paying such a high rent in SF, particularly when Twitter has stated just about all their employees can work remote.
Of course it is, if you're not taking anything with you. I moved thousands of miles for $0 once, because everything I was taking fit in a suitcase that I already owned, and my flight was paid for by the company I was moving to work for. I'm talking about people who have to move apartments, and possibly families. You aren't doing that for $20.
Ah, you don't just dislike credentialism, you dislike the credentialed.
> The only unknown is how fast, accurate, and reliable the laser-based intersat comms will be.

Those communications are still an unsolved and hugely difficult engineering problem. It will be awesome if SpaceX has actually achieved this: getting the kind of precision required to communicate over direct laser links between specks of dust hundreds of km apart traveling at thousands of km per hour is no easy feat.
That is a viewpoint none of the NATO members shared or they wouldn’t have responded to the Article 5. There’s no ifs ands or buts about it. Their end decision was that it was a valid reason to attack as a bloc.
a16z crypto fund will be in the toilet in 10 years.
This comment has me wondering about how software could help sort through timelines like this. Given a corpus of historical periodicals referencing individuals and entities, sort them in order by date. Surely this has been / is being done? I searched for "automated historiography" but didn't find anything resembling that.
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I just recalled windows media player animations seeing this.
(Is this thing still kicking ? I wouldn't know. I ditched Windows quite some time ago)
Again..this isn't possible because we would have seen its use already and why the FBI uses the iCloud backup strategy for investigations.
Does your phone company let you configure their spam filter? Do your medical providers let you secure their EMR systems? It sure looks like there is precedent for regulating companies to require them to provide secure services.

> Mostly, I was trying to point out the absurdity of this position while at the same time taking a dig at Apple for their "cute friendly monopoly" tactics.

Yes, and you let the desire for a quick jibe lead to oversimplification. The level of access which is needed to implement things like this also allows very powerful attacks. It’s not unsophisticated but realistic to recognize that allowing that level of access would have some benefits but would also reliably produce a large number of victims who trusted the wrong vendor. Reducing the number of parties who have to get it right to keep you secure has a significant benefit, especially if you’re familiar with the long history of companies which were acting in bad faith or compromised.
I'm amused by the "grams per mile" emissions measure - if you're going to mix SI and imperial, why not "ounces per kilometre"?
sure, if FB was such an amazing brand trusted by the billions why would the CEO ditch it and go for a full company re-brand?

Clearly the FB brand is damaged beyond any hope, and this whole metaverse
is just a desperate attempt to stay relevant for the next decade. But it is
a very long shot.
They've launched satellites that have lasers, but I don't think they've actually demonstrated they have the ability to aim those lasers precisely enough to actually communicate between satellites in orbit.
If by individuals you mean white men, that is.
> compassion are fine ideals to hold for any of our working class cohort.

“Working class” lol. Class-wise, engineers are like the junior executives in the Mad Men era, or junior lawyers and bankers today. They are not only well compensated, but have tons of impact (and therefore leverage) as individual contributors.

The “working class” are the folks cleaning the building who are fungible commodities. You can be a 10x janitor and it won’t give you any leverage in the organization, and you have no pathway to upward mobility in the executive ranks.
She was in the news all the time before the fraud, I don't think anyone had heard of balwani before the her trial.
Thank you! I love seeing the technical posts, I'm such a nerd. I haven't had much to contribute, just absorbing. This post was different, I learned about flânerie in college, loved the concept and tried it, and got a reality check. Thought it would be worth a comment.
Thanks so much for your comments over the years on this, I've read a lot of them with great interest and to my edification since I'm not remotely as deep in the field as you are. It's a little frustrating though to see comments just rushing to compare it to their cable modem or something, like even if one has zero knowledge surely there'd be some intellectual curiosity over the cool and difficult problems one would have to solve to get packets to the middle of an ocean and back? If going to geostationary like ViaSat that's ~36000km out, that's a long ways for a wireless signal! The conditions are fairly intense, ships travel all over the place through massive storms and temperature differences and very heavy seas, saltwater is massively corrosive. Wondering about that would lead someone to a bit of basic searching and in turn to pricing, platform stabilization etc. Or wondering how Starlink can possibly track LEO sats, just 500km away but moving at something like 17000 miles per hour, and then learning about electronically steerable phased arrays. The terminals themselves already represent a really cool achievement in bringing something like that down to consumer prices. Heck, I'd love to see that brought elsewhere, it'd be a treat for terrestrial 11-60 GHz PtP/PtMP links even if they could just perfectly aim themselves and correct with near zero technician requirements, merely roughly pointing it in the right direction, for $500. Doing intersat optical links is also amazing, everything about the system really helps to reinforce other aspects, it's a heck of a vision executed well.

"[A]imed at the champagne caviar, St Barts crowd" really? :(. And Starlink is an amazing experience, it's been life changing for a few clients even just in rural New England. The only "high speed" improvement they'd gotten over 20 years was the offer of a 10 Mbps connection for $300/month. People dump on even regular Starlink pricing anyway. Having to live constantly on dial up or regular MEO/HEO satellite then moving to Starlink is eye opening already and gave me at least a tiny taste of what it might be like for people on ships or platforms way out there (I've done multiweek zero connected expeditions too but that's not doing "regular business" or work it's a different mental space). And at least in this case it's possible to drive an hour and then have a solid net connection somewhere, so like for big software downloads one could work around it a little. No such luck at sea.
That didn't stop Germany from reducing its oil, coal and gas consumption though. Those reduced over time or at least stayed the same while renewables steadily increased.

Source: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
Not really because this about emissions per mile driven. It takes energy to refine and deliver energy (both electricity and gasoline) so it makes sense to take that into account when comparing total emissions (comparing local emissions just makes ICE vehicles look bad). If you included the battery pack you would need to include the drivetrain of the ICE vehicle to make it commensurate. At that point it is just a different analysis, a fine analysis to do of course, but a different one.
Two steps forward, one step back. It’s like people complaining a decade ago that the electricity was from coal, which is now 20% of US electricity. Although, globally we’re still at 40% coal power generation.

What’s important is that the technology is developed, improved, then improved again until it finally becomes a viable technology.
I'm not sure about ToolJet, but I know it's possible to use external auth systems with AppSmith.

It supports at least Firebase and Supabase. I think self-hosting Supabase + AppSmith could be a good combo for quickly hashing out prototypes or internal company apps.
I remember reading an article (SF-Bay-based), that, if you live in Palo Alto, and make $175K, you are considered "low income," and actually have access to some benefits.

I never made that much in my entire career. HCOL is pretty crazy, out there.

I wish them well.

I wouldn't bet on them being able to get new jobs as quickly as people think. It seems that every tech company is hemorrhaging jobs.
Also: Dreamstate Logic, Stellardrone, AES Dana, H.U.V.A Network, Miktek, Astopilot.

Recently I frequently just play this Space Ambient playlist:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuqZTQ_5gsppMEJWlJo...
Old news people. This pops up every time the short sellers are on the prowl.
Unfortunately half of our government is against any common sense regulations or rules. Mass shootings are becoming a daily occurrence that happens in no other first world country but instead the gop has spent the last decades trying to weaken what little gun regulations there are. Enough of The public seems totally okay with that, and would absolutely go batshit if they perceived someone as wanting to ban trucks.

Tell me in that climate how the government does it’s job? People keep electing government officials who are expressly against what you’re suggesting.
Yes, because income tax brackets aren’t progressive (all the income is taxed at 35%, and no standard deduction). People should definitely live a lifestyle with no slack for savings.

It’s <someone else’s> fault I couldn’t save anything with 3.5x the median household income.
Why isn't heavy equipment depreciated?
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So you must not be familiar with NAICS codes. They are a mutually exclusive completely exhaustive categorization of jobs, as defined by the US government.

Here's the other ones:

11-0000 Management Occupations

13-0000 Business and Financial Operations Occupations

15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations

17-0000 Architecture and Engineering Occupations

19-0000 Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

21-0000 Community and Social Service Occupations

23-0000 Legal Occupations

25-0000 Educational Instruction and Library Occupations

27-0000 Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media
Occupations

29-0000 Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

31-0000 Healthcare Support Occupations

33-0000 Protective Service Occupations

35-0000 Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

37-0000 Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

39-0000 Personal Care and Service Occupations

41-0000 Sales and Related Occupations

43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations

45-0000 Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

47-0000 Construction and Extraction Occupations

49-0000 Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

51-0000 Production Occupations

53-0000 Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Sure, maybe the 500k farming, fishing, and Forestry workers should be added to the list, but I'm curious as to what else you think should be.

EDIT: HN is banning me so this doesn't turn into a flamewar, but I'll leave you with this:

I am trying not to personally attack you, but I think you're kind of dipping into ad hominen attacks because you regret making statement that is not supported by data.

If you want to know why I think they shouldn't be included (and why I think you're really over your skis here), it's because the reality of farm work in the US is as follows:

1) The majority of the <1m US farm workers do the following job [0] [1]:

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives.

It is not clear to me that this requires a truck (especially not one for each worker).

2) The average wage of farmworkers is $15/hour [1] and the average cost of a used F-150 in the US is $40k ($30k pre-pandemic) [2], so it's not immediately clear to me that this group of people own a large number of pick-ups.

Ultimately though, for someone to work at a large tech company, make their identity publicly available and to be so aggressive on a forum like this seems like a weird risk to take. If you want to delete all of this stuff and just move on, I'm ok with that.

[0]https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes452092.htm
[1]https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/#wag...
[2] https://pickuptrucktalk.com/2021/07/used-pickup-truck-prices...
Could it be...
...
... the self driving CARS?
I'm financially illiterate. Where can I find a good high yield savings account?
You are absolutely spot on. The market isn’t competitive, it’s artificial highway robbery to even be in business. The entry requirements and expenses are insanely high, preventing a lot of competition to begin with, and the few players are free to drive up their prices to disgusting altitudes while providing services of disgusting quality. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they have agreements going on between themselves. SpaceX’s going to have a field day and brutally rip some inflated executives out of their cozy decade-old comfort zone.
makes sense. They've been in a hiring freeze for a while now. Not much sense paying recruiters to sit on their hands I guess.
I agree. That's why people are leaving in droves.
I would think someone would be happy to lend you the number of shares you have blacked out for a large fee, with a contract you release that to the lender afterwards. Something like "we lend you 75% face of your blackout shares now, in return we get all your blackout shares when they're released."

Edit: Per below comment, don't do this :)
How about hydro? There have been catastrophic damm
faillures in the past, too.

Not a damm failure, but last year there was ~250 death in Europe and 10 billions of euros of damages because of the floods. [1] That's much more damages than Fukushima and comparable to Chernobyl.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_European_floods
Crypto has the worst parts of regular finance without the safeguards
You need some sort of a tag if you want to pattern match at runtime, which is the usual use case for tagged unions. Now, a tagged union like

type Option a = Some a | None # here Some and None are tags, not types themselves

could also be written as an untagged union by using types as tags:

type Some a # a wrapper type for an a
type None # a unit type
type Option a = Some a | None

but for that to be useful you still need to be able to check at runtime whether you have a Some or a None… which means that the tags are still there, just hidden by the language.

But the more typical use case for untagged unions is different: given a type such as

type StringOrInt = String | Int

you're not even supposed to be able to check whether you in fact have a String or an Int, rather the language only allows you to use the subset of operations defined for both String and Int. In other words, slightly ironically, the type StringOrInt exposes the intersection of String API and Int API.
Not when deaths caused by nuclear energy are incredibly hard to quantify.
I am pretty sure my bees feel pain and not just a "reflex", I couldn't prove it before.

I hope this will be proved in a definitive way.
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Yes but depends on why that person left the bank and joined the startup. I have hired a few people who came from similar backgrounds and they pretty much brought on the same work ethic which unfortunately doesn't work for smaller fast moving teams.
> Electron and PHPDesktop might be considered the future of desktop development as they allow rapid development of desktop like software.

And unfortunately also Flutter.

I am developing my own cross-platform, desktop-only GUI system. It is rough going for me, but the ideas in it are really not that hard. What surprises me is that no company has stepped up to fill the gap left by GTK, Qt, wxWidgets, and the OS-specific frameworks other than Flutter and Electron. Flutter and Electron can't even manage multiple windows. It's a shame. Because for a team of competent folks, I really don't see any massive barrier to creating a cross-platform, desktop-only GUI framework. And for some reason, academia doesn't seem to be interested at all in GUIs and other such things, despite there being a lot of interesting and difficult problems.
Which could be sooner than we expect considering her egregious crimes. She's a master manipulator working the system to the max.

Lots of people get incarcerated for 30+ years for way, way, way less significant crimes.
The employees (including Balwani & Holmes) follow the board and funders instructions...
Are highly educated, highly compensated, and highly privileged folk considered working class now?

Financial literacy is something that desperately needs to be part of the curriculum in high school and I can empathize with people that will struggle as a result of their layoffs even if it's due to their own money mismanagement, but software engineers being laid off from a tech giant are definitely not working class in any sense.
To be fair, a non vertically integrated geostationary-satellite-owning company like intelsat, ses, eutelsat or arabsat or similar has little to no control over how much Boeing charges for a fully equipped 702 series satellite bus, or the disposable rocket launch costs.