skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, but what has that to do with Big X suppressing a diet that cures Crohn's disease?
This is untrue.

1) Burning fossil fuels is why we are facing global warming right now.

2) Anti-nuclear sentiment is why we aren't living in a nuclear waste right now. Even nuclear advocate's argument that "nuclear plants are much safer now and the accidents that happened at 3 Mile Island/Chernobyl/Fukushima are impossible now" implies that anti-nuclear sentiment was correct in the 1960's, 70's, 80's, 90's and early 2000s at the very least!
Mushrooms also work, don't they?
> oxalic acid is just not good for you even small quantities. We’ve managed to get oxalic acid out of everything we’ve domesticated

Doesn't sound right. WP has this table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid#Content_in_food_it.... I see a lot of commonly eaten foods with at least a small amount of it.
Yeah, it's unauthenticated in asymmetric mode https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/59
The issue many "folks like us" have with crypto is not that it "will never work" but precisely that it works all too well facilitating scams, asset bubbles, risky lending practices, financial hacks, ransomware, and various kinds of illicit financial activity (wash trading, money laundering, etc.). With say, I don't know, quantum computing, there is an understanding that it has its own issues but that these are improving and we will eventually find good use cases for this technology. People are upfront about the costs, the risks, and the very fact that it is developing still. In the current market froth, this is not the case with cryptocurrency which - despite several major hacks in the multimillion range, rug pulling, questionable stablecoin pegs/reserves, not to mention the rather serious technical challenges - people are insisting already is the future. People are not so pessimistic about quantum computing and other developing technologies because those are not inherently harmful as cryptocurrency has proved to be.
preview: https://twitter.com/js1024fun/status/1547183423239897089

This is insane.
Yes, in Netherlands, rents are higher than mortgage + insurance + maintenance + taxes - tax breaks. That's why everyone wants a house.

A bit odd that you talk about liquidity. The house itself isn't liquid, but you finance it so you don't need a huge liquidity up front. Also, rents paid are no longer liquid to you either.

A mortgage ends one day. Rents do not.

House prices increase 20% year on year in Amsterdam. Even during the 2008 financial crisis did they barely drop in value.
Torus-Earth (2014)
One thing I did not notice in the article is that the frequency of spam and scammers might make people more cynical and mistrustful of others in general. Just speculating based on my own experience. People treating me and people close to me like trash reinforces my belief that the world in general just sucks. And if I want to resist that attitude for the sake of my emotional well-being, I have to consciously go looking for counterexamples. It's tiresome.
The git docs are the most complete pieces of information. if you read and understood them, you understand git.
Refreshing my memory on the '4046, I came across this thread, which may be of interest to others curious about this part:

https://eevblog.com/forum/projects/basic-74hc4046-pll-questi...

W2AEW's videos (one of which is embedded in the link above) are all fantastic for anyone wanting to learn about radio and analog electronics.
The core problem I see is Rust tried too hard to avoid allocations/copies and a heavy async runtime. The result is confusing and difficult types and very unclear errors due to apis producing ridiculous types like Future<Arc<Box<dyn Thing>>>.

The language should have defined a consistent async model (like coroutines with message passing) and kept "raw async" confined to high performance special libraries and embedded use cases.
> Why couldn't we have a private crypto currency backed by dollars or euros? There's no technical reason, indeed several groups are building this.

That's what Monero is, right? It doesn't really matter how stable it is, if I'm just going to convert to USD/EUR immediately after my transaction.
It's been 7 months since I didn't write async code so it will be difficult for me to give u a proper answer but I'll try.

the learning curve, the cryptic lifetime compiler errors, the lack of async trait, no async Fn but async block instead, differents libraries using different runtimes, spending hours to compile a trivial code, the box pin Dyn boxfuture thingy, the compile time, issues with analyzer etc.

But most important the fact that you couldn't write code just as you would in sync rust.
Most of the features of sync rust don't compose well with async rust. At every step, async rust feels like it's a proof of concept, an half baked feature that should never had reached stable in that state.

Rushing it was a mistake to me. You shouldn't need a PhD in async await to use it properly. It should feel like writing normal rust code. Unfortunately, it's not.
While this is correct, I can understand any confusion. I've never seen a Canadian address form that said "Province or Territory: _______". I'm pleased if a form switches from asking for 'State' to 'Province' when the country is changed.
It's messaging in the sense of message passing between processes. You put messages into it when you want them to be processed asynchronously.

They go into queues based on attributes of the messages ("routing keys") matched against rules you set up ("bindings").

Other things pick up messages off of those queues and process them.

When they're done, they acknowledge the message and it's removed from the queue. If they crash, the message doesn't get acknowledged and it goes back to the queue.
Because power is more important than money?
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
> To the point that I avoid using rust for web /networking stuff, any other option is better

How can you write networking concurrent code in Golang then? It doesn't support async traits either. Well, it doesn't support async at all, only green threads ;) And somehow people are ok with it, and say it is simple.

Hint: you can use the same style of concurrency in Rust. Don't use futures. Spawn frequently and communicate with channels.
I drove 17 for about 20 years, my parents drove it when there was a suicide lane and no center barrier. I am well aware.

Santa Cruz (and other isolated liberal enclaves) will be it's own death. They literally tried a 0.5% sales tax measure (for the city) mentioning basically paying for homeless services. Where, when you count police and first responder budgets, a double digit percentage of the yearly budget (between about 12-20%) deals with issues resulting from homelessness (and drug issues). They have no idea or competence to handle the problem aside from begging for more money.

My partner's family has a shitty little bungalow off of West Cliff surrounded by houses that have sold for $4m. The transient issue still propagates into those neighborhoods with attempted breakins.

I can go on for days, having been involved at the civic level there and getting burnt out. It's a beautiful place with an inability to cure it's own woes.
Not the person you replied to, but I could think of something like certain countries avoiding sanctions as an example.

Or someone selling illegal weapons online. I realize that can be done in cash now, but it's easier with an untraceable digital currency.
> Am I missing something? Isn't it significantly more efficient for a van/truck to follow a computer optimized route to deliver 100s-1000s of orders per tank of gas than me driving to and from Home Depot to buy one thing?

Maybe, maybe not. Packaging takes energy. This alone tends to mean the breakeven distance is many miles-- very rural and low density suburban may come out slightly ahead, but most other uses don't.

But beyond that, the trend for e-commerce is many small orders and individual boxes and more trips, while the typical person taking a single purpose trip to Home Depot will buy more. (Or-- has an urgent need for something that can't be satisfied soon enough by e-commerce).
i7 Macbooks. Great thought points. Thank you!

I agree that the different VS Studio development on Apple Silicon vs Intel will probably be problematic. Mainly thinking build pipelines and package management.
>Are you claiming that DoorDash would be more affordable if (and only if) they reduced wages?

No, I am claiming all delivery services would be cheaper if they had to pay less for labor.

>I don’t really understand the assertion that of all of the possible factors that go into pricing that it’s important to focus on driver compensation.

It sets a bottom limit on the price on the service. Driving 1 minute costs $0.60 (rough estimate from IRS milage rate), and then you have to add driver's profit to actually do the job. Even if you assume the IRS rate is on the high side, you're still looking at at least ~$15 of costs for the delivery recipient for a 15 min delivery.

Maybe you can get this down by bundling deliveries a bit, but I think it remains to be seen if it can really be brought down enough to make it cheap enough to drum up the volume DoorDash would need to sustain their operations.
> Let me first say: impeccable article from The New Yorker. It's the only mainstream bastion of proper editing and spelling left (maybe The Economist, too). I don't think I've ever found a typo in their articles; as opposed to CNN/WaPo/NYT/FOX where I find typos and grammar errors routinely (even on their front pages).

The Guardian has the nickname Grauniad (coined by Private Eye, a far better publication) because of its frequent spelling errors. I had a girlfriend who became a sub-editor, and she was told not to use a spellchecker because it would lead to negligence and hence, mistakes. I understand their logic but I think it's wrong, just use all the tools at your disposal and be diligent.
In the Netherlands, there are no places where rents are below mortgages. Unless you apply for social housing, but that requires you to be below a certain income threshold, which means that you couldn't have bought a house anyway. Social housing also have 20 years waiting list.
he's been doing it on starlink too, but he gets a pass on HN for that one.
I always find it surprising when a company gets sued for sexual harassment/assault instead of the person who allegedly committed it.
The original client was a massive burden on the API, and the new client was rewritten to solve that (as far as I know).
The simpler explanation would be that spirituality is not as mutually exclusive with logic and reason as one might have been led to believe.
Don’t commit financial crimes. Ever. It’s not worth it. Losing everything you own and your reputation is better than spending a meaningful chunk of your life in federal prison.

Burning Bellatorum is an excellent example of how hubris and an economic crisis (Covid) drove a great business into the ground, damaged countless lives, and will likely lead to prison time for the CEO. Definitely worth reading if you’ve ever raised capital or plan to in the future.

https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Bellatorum-Priceless-Investor...
I am just giving my anecdotal experience. I hope I can have a better one by the time I try a later Tesla model.
Enroll him in the armed forces...
Hadn't looked at it that way yet, that actually sounds really attractive. If they can be maintained and operated at under 1k per house per year then that's competitive with what I pay now.

I wonder why it's so cheap when calculated this way it seems competitive with solar panels when I expected it to be a factor ten more expensive (of course solar panels wouldn't really work that far north).
This rings so true for me. Doing an 8-hour a day internship for the first time this summer (college freshman), and even with it being remote and at home, I struggle to find the time to balance 2h at the gym, meals, walks w/ family/dog, and most importantly, Leetcode and working on independent skills. There’s never enough time in the day and I don’t know how I can fix it.
I worked in Automotive for 7 years until late last year, though never directly on Autonomous Driving.

It is my belief (opinions are solely my own) that level 4 driving is 10 years away at best, and true level 5 will never ever happen with any manufacturer. I think Tesla has done well in the space of demonstrating self-driving, but Musk’s continued promises of full self-driving have gone from eyebrow-raising to eye-rolling.

I just sincerely doubt the magical future we’re hoping for will arrive.
Not that it's at all relevant, but at UofR?
> In the last month over ~15 interviews the questions have been all over the map.

While I wasn't in your interviews, my experience is that this feeling disappears as you get better at these skills. I know that's also been the feeling over dozens of other engineers I've helped practice for these interviews.

My experience from the interviewer side of things is that candidates often aren't strong enough to see the small number of core concepts backing these questions whether it be certain data structures and algorithms or more general architectural know-how. This occurs because their knowledge of those concepts is usually very surface level.
Yep agreed. For me it's welcome because this latest generation of churn feels like it has leveled up DX considerably. The churn in between Backbone up until ~ Angular 1 brought a lot less value in my experience at least.
The restaurant could, or could not. It is certainly not "dystopian" though for a restauranteur to decide to save time and streamline by simply requiring verification that the person picking up the food is the person who paid for the food.
Consider the Octopus and How It Could Change Our Ideas About Meat
That's flexible! Does this flexibility derive from have a simpler threat model at Netflix? How damaging would insider risk be?
Pokémon Go served a purpose, and it was not indeed to be neither a “game” nor excel in “AR”.

Niantic’s (an Alphabet company) founder John Hanke (Google Earth, Google Maps, Street View…) achieved with Pokémon Go the most relevant production proof of concept that besides creating predictive products based on the “behavioural surplus” they could in fact, and globally, increase the effectiveness by simply herding people into bars, McDonald’s restaurants, shops and transforming the predictions into an actual increase of outcome. Users where instrumented into a predictable outcome.

With this Niantic in my opinion serves a greater and historical purpose: to demonstrate that this behaviourist approach to generate predictable results and monetise it was possible at a global scale.

It was surveillance capitalism at its prime.
Renewables, with storage included are cost competitive with coal now.

Utility scale wind = $26-$50/MWh + wholesale 100MWh storage ($55-$97) = $81-$147

Coal = $65-$152/MWh

Nuclear: $131-$204/MWh

These don't include pump-hydro which is a widely used and very cheap storage mechanism.

It's much cheaper and better to overbuild renewables and put a few cheap gas peaker plants around as backup.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
Except those are just market forces and it is more convenient to use electronic payment. I'm not sure what you mean by China, it's China's government that is forcing all merchants to accept cash [1].

> The People's Bank of China (PBOC) is looking to close the widening digital divide and has warned merchants that they must accept cash or face disciplinary action,...

[1] https://www.pymnts.com/cash/2020/china-issues-edict-warning-...
Sure, but I am not sure how it relates to my statement disputing that a business verifying the recipient of products/services is the payer is dystopian.
Yea my bad. Territories. But maybe not for long! [1]

[1] https://www.nunavutnews.com/news/quassa-says-next-step-for-n...
Almost everyone faced an industrial attack in the last year
Well written and harrowing tale of the CAP theorem striking at 4:45AM.
I wonder if the ordinary, average guys realize they get more responses if they identify as ... not guys?
It's not TBL personally who's the problem, but people all over the world not seeing an issue in driving something ad absurdum over the course of 30 years, thereby creating the information and technology monopoly they claim to prevent. Including HNers: whenever some new CSS shite is coming out of the mouth of someone at W3C's CSS WG (the last holdout of W3C's power over "web standards") and then implemented by one of the extant players in the browser cartel, there's a big yippieh by "web developers"; not considering at all the out-of-control complexity. Is there an adult in the room? Please take a look at the state and quality of the CSS specs, and tell me when was the last time there was, on balance, an actual need for features introduced in the last 5-10 years, as opposed to the browser cartel pulling up the ladder. And yes, TBL is complicit in this.
The only AR gaming experience that would immersive to me is... VR. Reality just ain't all that.
I think you're misunderstanding. You're getting less from your scattered reading than he is from investing in a few, well-packaged publications, assuming you spend the same amount of effort reading. A regular reader of a publication gains an expertise that saves a lot of time and allows for much more reading between the lines. That's a big part of what people are paying for. It wouldn't make sense to pay for more publications than you can master, even if they cost what you'd consider a fair per-article rate. It's not really about minimizing cost per article by buying articles in bulk, especially in the digital age, as you previously noted.
> Things like traffic signals that actively communicate their status

This is a thing in Europe, and even some US cities - my Audi has traffic sign recognition and when at a compatible intersection knows what the light is at (by radio, not by light), and how long until it changes (will show a countdown in seconds til the next light change).
The pace of change in the last fifteen years has been nonlinear.

Let's not take it for granted, for sure, but let's maybe dial back on the "fusion is always 20 years away" jokes. There isn't a bigger win for civilization than fusion, leaving aside unknowns: immortality might be possible, fusion was our only source of energy until the discovery of fission.
At 18, no he’s an adult he can buy a data plan and use the internet all day.

You’re looking at the symptom and not the root problem by the way.
Eh, for me edibles are way more effective and are legal where I currently live. This is more effective (though arguably less healthy) than even 100mi on a bike. The problem for me is more in staying asleep than going to sleep.
Absolutely lol, I joke with my girlfriend that 50 shades of gray was the best thing to ever happen for my sex life. I had a Tinder profile with some kink stuff in my bio, my collection of gear/toys and (with her permission) a technically SFW picture from a previous encounter of a girl tied up and suspended. Went from a few matches a week to getting literally dozens a day as soon as I added that stuff to my profile, my current girlfriend being one of them actually.
I feel there’s a huge caveat here: they aggressively punish financial crimes that impact the rich.
>The confusion over the bots is real.

The confusion is real, but it's entirely due to EM's "fake news" campaign.

The core of EM's PR campaign against Twitter has been to represent the denominator of the 5% figure as all "Twitterers" rather than mDAUs.

This may work on any member of the public who is sympathetic, conspiratorial minded, and not interested in details.

But do you think it will get him anything in court?

I read Twitter's complaint, and I will say they did not seem to be laser focused on the question of whether there is an obvious contradiction between Twitter being 90% bots and the 5% figure in SEC filings.

If I were their lawyers, I would emphasize that there is no contradiction at all because the latter is a percentage of mDAUs...but apparently in their judgement it's not a particularly essential part of the complaint.
I’ve been using Cryptomator for a few months now. Very happy with it. Closest to “main stream” file encryption tool that I’ve used. Confident anyone in my family could use it without much instruction.
Captive Portals
I think of it is as the nervous system of our infrastructure. Our infra has all these moving parts like schedulers, storage, virtual machines, networking and so on. Rabbit is the thing that all the moving parts use to coordinate with all the other moving parts.
Or build smaller cars. Not everybody needs an 80kwh SUV. That's just the current market, which seems to favor stupidly big, heavy, and inefficient cars. That's not going to stay that way and VW is already planning to build smaller and cheaper cars. There are some cool vehicles hitting the market now that emphasize efficiency and range over just being big. E.g. Lightyear has very good aerodynamics and weight and a few other manufacturers are focusing on that as well.

A light city car like a Nissan Leaf does pretty well with just 40kwh. The original one shipped with just 20kwh and that was a relatively heavy vehicle. Imagine the same vehicle with twice the energy density. It would have a lot more range. A few kwh go a long way on light vehicles. Electrical motor cycles have somewhere in the range of only 4-8kwh. A lot of electrical bicycles have less than 1 kwh. 10kwh is plenty for a light vehicle.

Anyway, hybrids have all the downsides of owning an ICE car (lots of moving parts, pollution, expensive fuel, maintenance cost, etc.) with only some of the upsides of owning an EV (torque, fuel economy, etc.). Basically, in terms of cost and complexity, they don't make a lot of sense. The cheaper batteries get, the less sense they make. Right now EVs are just really expensive which means not everybody can afford one. However, cheaper, smaller EVs are perfectly feasible and a lot cheaper to make. Once the high end market saturates, smaller, lighter and cheaper EVs are the next obvious growth market. From next to nothing to many millions in volume is going to happen relatively quickly. In such a market, hybrids don't really stand a chance.

Those hundreds of millions of vehicles will be replaced over the course of 2-3 decades. Annual production volume of cars will be mostly EVs by mid next decade; in about 15 years. From then on, another 15 years or so later, most ICE vehicles will have been decommissioned. The value proposition at 2022 cost levels is already pretty great for EVs (with incentives and if you can afford them). Another 3 decades of technical improvements, economies of scale, etc. is going to only improve the economics.
Of course I have. I’m an above average man in many ways but I’ve lived in Seattle and SF primarily for most of my “dating” years where men heavily outnumber women. Unfortunately add on - I am neither white nor tall. Nor muscular nor good looking. I am completely average in many ways superficially but well within the 1% in many others.

I’m not sure if you live in the US but it’s incredibly competitive here for young men. You’re also in your 40s. So, your time might’ve been different as online dating wasn’t as prolific/normalized in your 20s as it was in my 20s. When I was in my 20s, close to 40% of people met through online dating. On top of this - sex for men in their 20s plummeted in my 20s while in yours - it didn’t suffer at all.

Also - I take “average looking white guy” with a grain of salt. I’ve seen 6’4” models describe themselves as average in person and online.