skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes all new vehicles have computers and can be upgraded. Mercedes even has a car where you are not allowed to open the hood. Welcome to the modern world.

> four wheels, a bunch of batteries, and that's it.

Go watch tear-down the car, there is a lot more.

However I don't think cheap EV like the Bold are nearly as managed and basically work like an old school car.
In the text, they distinguish the Harry Potter fallacy from the fallacy fallacy and a few others.
A bunch of reasons:
1. I am no longer excited about the product.
2. The sales teams is pretty weak. Growth suffers as a result.
3. The team is good. The CEO is very challenging to work with.
4. Kind of Burnout. I fight myself to get the work done.
> With modern technology, we could probably take any building and through regular maintenance, keep it forever.

But with modern politics we do the exact opposite.
This starts off very strange and quirky and the moment it clicks was a very magical one for me the first time I watched it many years ago. It's one of my all time favorite talks.
The article you linked talks about cacao being the raw bean and cocoa being the processed powder. It also says you can get cacao from chocolate bars. I don't think there is a difference between cocoa powder and cacao powder.

> “Think of cacao, cocoa and chocolate like a pipeline,” says Fazio. “Cacao [fruit] grows from a tree and is raw and unprocessed. It’s the precursor to cocoa, and cocoa is the precursor to chocolate.”

> “The taste of cacao is earthy and bitter, and it has a grittier mouthfeel than chocolate,” says Fazio. “Cocoa powder tastes more like chocolate than cacao, but it doesn’t have a creamy mouthfeel either because most of the cocoa butter has been removed.”

> Some experts use “cacao” for the pods, beans and ground-up contents of the beans, reserving “cocoa” for the powder left after pressing the fat out of the ground beans (1Trusted Source).
But the farmer still kill the cow just the same for slaughter, and another one replaces it. Please meet Sally2, I say to my 10 year old pet dog. Note, the farmer doesn’t have any bots and even the tractor is a pet.

Analogy is fine and I prefer to get these points of view on Portlandia.
> 8. The technology should provide a moat against every amateur trying to start a company.

Just my opinion, but technology moats are very hard to achieve, and almost impossible if you're a solo founder. How exactly are you going to achieve a technology moat with no capital as a solo founder? Do you honestly believe you are such a good developer that no one is going to be able to recreate what you've done? Probably not.

Technology moats generally take two forms: Either they prohibitively expensive, or they're prohibitively complex - or both. If you're not a multi-millionaire or you don't have a 100 person team, in all likeliness you're not doing either.

As a solo founder what you to look for is something that has network effects, that you can brand effectively, or a market that's has some non-tech barrier to entry. A non-tech barriers to entry might include geographical constraints or trust.

Another thing I'd add about high-tech startups is that they're probably one of the hardest ways to make money. You want to build some kind of AI tool? Okay, good luck competing with some of the smartest people on Earth to build that. Personally I like to look for places where people much less intelligent than me are making good money then see if I can improve on what they're doing with some simple technology. This is the genius of startups like Uber. The taxi industry was an incredibly low-tech industry prior to Uber. It was a great candidate for how some relatively simple tech combined with network-effects can become a multi-billion dollar company.
> Not sure how an autonomous vehicle would honor this.

The company operating them tells their engineers to implement the change in the routing algorithm.

> or how police would be able to stop them.

By flashing their lights and pulling the autonomous truck over, just like they do with any normal vehicle.
Learn it while working on a programming project that does not present any other learning challenges
That's really interesting.

doTheThing(readFromUser())

What does the compiler do in cases where you have strings coming in like this?
In OpenCL C a char refers to 8 bits:

https://registry.khronos.org/OpenCL/specs/2.2/html/OpenCL_C....
resists learning anything about the other technologies in his projects' tech stacks

Sorry for quoting out of context, but I also do that. The reasoning goes: when I have to do something and it’s clear how to do it, there is no need for “the other way”. I perceive it as changing routes daily just for novelty, against boredom. Old tools have nuances, so do new ones. But the work is done by me + tools, so the best combination is me + what I know to the bone.

Is this bad for a developer? Does that stress colleagues often? No catch, just asking.

And I do learn ofc, after some “it sucks too much” threshold. But years of early development taught me to raise that bar much higher than my procrastination pikes, otherwise I end up in a loop of jumping tech and never get satisfied.

Edit: to make it clear, other described “traits” I do not have.
If you are like me and love vibrant colours and struggle to understand the postmodern(?) obsession with drab palettes, I recommend the book Chromophobia by David Batchelor [1]. It contextualizes this phenomenon within broader western art history and is just generally super interesting to someone who has an interest in art and design but isn't embedded in that world. The main takeaway, iirc, is that this isn't a particularly new thing.

[1] <https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/351621.Chromophobia>
Author of the article here and just came across this comment. Here's how I did it. By working at Uber in Amsterdam for 4 years where I made more than twice as much as a senior engineer as I did before when I was at Skyscanner, in London where I was a principal engineer.

Saved the difference and I had about 3-4 years of savings. Decided to "risk" 6 months of it and dip into it.

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1552615944446525442
To this day High DPI displays don't work right everywhere. Even when they do, they don't look better than 1920x1080. Perhaps if I did a lot of image or video editing I would feel different, but as a human being it just isn't that important.
I don’t understand your last comment.

I rule out precisely because they never were the best offer in the table for me. There are companies that do not pay location-adjusted salaries that pay better. I was able to get a job in those the last two times I switched jobs.
> "It seems that you are having a hard time eating this yeti corpse? stop eating?"

No

> "You choke on your food and die after 20200 moves"

> "It seems that you are having a hard time eating this dragon corpse? stop eating?"

Hum... yes?

"You choke on your food and die after 40678789 moves"

Well, this is simply ridiculous.

In the last 20 years playing nethack, consulting the oracle, reading the wiki, and learning, I reached gehennon... once. This is like the 30% of the game or so. Don't even
reached a quest. After a while, solving sokoban and gnome mines by the 800 time is just... meh; Wesnoth is better.

The game would greatly benefit of something like: You lose 70 of your 71 points just descending the stairs into a bones level and become stressed, unable to move and surrounded by enemies. This is your last point, do you want to try something?
Slang: The subset of Smalltalk that can translate to C or other languages (2019)
My toaster is cherry red.
There’s a ton of astronomy YouTube channels but this is now my favorite, dethroned pbs space time. The video that converted me was his supernova explanation https://youtu.be/RZkR9zdUv-E - for all the content out there no one else has anything this good about supernovae.
The study of colors seems to neglect that back before taking photos were ubiquitous, photographers would have a higher likelihood of taking photos of colorful, more interesting things (why waste a photo on something boring?)

Regarding cars however, this is likely due to costs of colorful paint as scale.
"According to Larry Wall, the original author of the Perl programming language, there are three great virtues of a programmer; Laziness, Impatience and Hubris

Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it.

Impatience: The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to.

Hubris: The quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about."

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150205083209/http://threevirtu... [1]

[1] NB that threevirtues.com, in this late year, has been taken over by some sort of sea salt seller
"Guess this how medieval times felt, with oppossing faiths."

And we all know that led to...crusades?

Welp.
Stripe is going the way of PayPal it seems. Many people learned this lesson the hard way with PayPal now they will learn it with Stripe I guess. You have no real recourse when these companies decide to steal your money and their incentives are very much to do so as they get to hang onto it for extended periods.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this happened as we go into economic downturn and layoffs. Too bad they're not a public company, if they were I would be shorting their stock right now.
Could it be that the majority of those 12 hours were taken by running tests?
Yeah. Mobile phone keyboard are the bane of communication
> the best case - maximum bonus - just equates to a "meh"

Can you elaborate on this? I find it surprising since bonus pays are very commonly used in many industries (and, in fact, relied on very heavily in e.g. finance)
i will be keeping all of this in mind the next time im making payment processing decisions for small businesses.
It's periwinkle, no?
Hosts and guests scrambling after AirBNB cancels 100s of bookings
It looks like their precipitation is fairly similarly distributed through the year, so it's not like London is just very slightly rainy all the time and NYC has a monsoon season. In any case, the point is that the characterisation of London as too rainy for solar is not right.
More specifically, if you are a market maker and are in the business of selling options you want to hedge your portfolio. To do that you need to buy a certain amount of shares of the underlying that you sold calls on. As the price of the stock goes up you need to buy more stock (delta) but also the rate at which you need to keep buying stock increases (gamma). The fact that you keep buying stock as the price goes up further pushes the price up and can shoot the price to the moon (gamma squeeze)
Ill tell you a little secret. You live in a bubble and 90% of costumers don't give a shit or know about the culture war battles on twitter.

And another thing, most people in the world don't give a shit either, and Tesla sells most of their car not in the US.

Tesla base of costumers if far more then the online techno crowd. The are a global car maker that is most strongly associated with electric vehicles. And most people probably don't even know that fact.

> you'll be filing for bankruptcy protection before you know it

MMhh given the companies growth and demand shortfall, pissing of existing costumer base because of some tweets is miles away from causing bankruptcy.
Two things come to mind here.

First is the urban myth (well, I don't know if it happened or not) of the student arriving late to class just as homework assignments are being handed out, and the student diligently works at the problems though the last one is very hard, and hands them in. The teacher approaches him later and is shocked that he was able to solve the last question which was actually an unsolved problem in the field. The student arrived after that information was shared with the class, and hence simply thought he had to solve it and so did.

Second the phrase "if you don't know how it breaks, you don't know how it works".
(Related to recent conversations on HN of impossibility of receiving helpful service even as a top paid customer of modern tech companies)
We're getting a bit binary and reductive here, taxing fossil fuels is like 80% of the answer, but the details matter too.

For example, the production of fossil fuels releases both carbon and methane. You want to tax those as well, to incentivise cleaner production methods.

If a single country taxes their production, then products made with carbon intense methods in other countries will be imported, so international co-operation is required.

And outside fossil fuels, which we already have great low-carbon replacements for 80% of the uses of, there's other stuff that matters, like not destroying forests and peat bogs.

We don't need to figure this out from first principles on a nerd forum, the entire planet has been figuring out the details for the last few decades and publicly published the best answers we have collectively found, and continually update them:

https://www.ipcc.ch/2022/04/04/ipcc-ar6-wgiii-pressrelease/
> it's crazy to give that much of (mostly) your youth's attention to an adversary.

You mean an adversary from China rather than an adversary from the US?

There's a small, but not that significant advantage in having the company having ~questionable~ societal effects be from your own country, especially if you're not going to regulate them anyway.
It would be great to also count the access to comments - I usually start with the comments and then maybe read the actual post.

Comments for less political things are usually really deep and contentful.
It’s my fault that AD replication can use SMTP
TinyLD – Simple and Performant Language Detection Library for Node.js
That's right. The initial layout in neato (which is really statistical multidimensional scaling) treats nodes as points, then draws shapes on top of the points without considering overlap. overlap=false or overlap=prism invokes a second layout phase as described in this report: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-642-0021...

There may be better methods by now - it would be a good intern project to look at that.

It would be a good idea to simply take the state centroids as an initial placement and onyl run the overlap removal phase.

In edge routing, we were really impressed with the "repulsive curve" work by Keenan Crane at CMU, https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RepulsiveCurves/ind... - scroll halfway down for the graph layout examples.
I don't think commenters are denying there was a legal threat; I think they seem to be denying that threat was the motivation for Unity.
Constant acceleration will cause the surface of your coffee to tilt, but not spill it unless the cup is almost full. Jerky motion (non-constant acceleration) causes it to slosh around and can create resonances that disturb the fluid level far more than a constant acceleration of the same magnitude would.
I recently used a package that converts typescript to JSON Schema, which I thought was pretty nice.

I get the legibility (and IntelliSense) of typescript interfaces but can make use of the all the validation libraries that use JSON Schema.
It should have the option to be seen as a snapshot at the time of to avoid skewing numbers with new views.
And hopefully stays small. And does processing for any country, not just 3 states in the US :/
Nope. This was with Gentoo, no tests were run.
> When I see Stripe's apology here it will not be enough for me

I'm actually just starting a business using Stripe for handling payments, and this makes me very concerned.

Is there an alternative service one could use? Is there a way not to give these shady companies power to steal all my money?
Was ET the first really pre-hyped video game that you remember?
I still use coffeescript over javascript because I feel like I can be as expressive as I want. I understand why most left for typescript (type safety), but I feel like everyone just gave up on reducing boilerplate for things in javascript. Switch statements, list comprehensions, array slicing, better equality operators... a lot of things that made coffeescript a great experience have never carried over.
Not always, many are RGBW since the sole white LED consumes less power than the RGB LEDs shining together to produce white (I believe so at least) and the white color coming off the single white LED is nicer than the mixed color.
„Too Big To Care“
"Using a meter-class telescope one can produce images of the exoplanet with a surface resolution measured in tens of kilometers and to identify signs of habitability."

Here's gmaps satellite view at ~10km/px

EDIT: fixed permalink
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4220797,-93.7912673,6877284m...

also:
https://imgur.com/a/JwHmaIY

Wow.
No, I think people in the past probably just had a weaker preference for designs that go together in color and style.
> My only consolation is that every other provider is just as terrible.

My experience with Authorize.net support was really good. Their tech stack/api was absolutely archaic, but you could talk to real humans.
> As to boots in the ground, you are just naive. The only thing that stops China or Russia from invading US is US military potential. The money that goes into military buys you peace.

No, i am not naïve, you just have no idea how militaries, amphibious assaults and logistics work. How many hundreds of thousands, or millions of soldiers are required to conquer the US? How do you supply them? For reference, the invasion of Sicily had 160 thousand, and had the advantage of being against an enemy with no will to fight and within less than a hundred kilometres from a friendly shore for supplies. And then you have a population, which again, is highly armed.

The US spent more than half of its existence with practically no armed forces. Yes, warfare has drastically changed and various amphibious assault and supply ships now exist, but there are still none in anything close to the quantity required to supply multiple hundreds of thousands of soldiers and their equipment across an ocean, and there's also a much heavier need for logistics.

The US can cut the entirety of its army and air force tomorrow and just keep the navy and marines, and it's still invincible from invasion and will remain so.

It's like the misconception that the US armed forces somehow have anything to do with freedom ("protecting"), of American citizens or otherwise. It's just stupid American propaganda that doesn't make sense if you think about it for a bit.
In the EU most countries have a financial sector regulator. If this happens in the EU and a payment provider does not respond contact them as it will light a fire under their seats.
This is exactly what the author is talking about. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes I like to trot out often at work - "There are two kinds of software: software people complain about, and software nobody uses." You see one way to look at it is "complaints", the other way to look at it is "engagement". Crappiness, for lack of a better word, creates engagement and that engagement can have network effects.
I remember going through performnace-related bonuses. If somebody tried super-hard and got a "level 5", they got a £5K bonus. Somebody ticking along without being outstanding got £3K. Most people realised the extra £2K wasn't worth the extra effort required to get it.
Stripe responded to a Twitter post about it, Reddit helped retweeting it.

https://twitter.com/GenosAtHonda/status/1552588035077726208
This is how I've used HN for years. It wasn't until recently I actually registered an account to take part of some discussions my self
If it bleeds it leads
Appeal to the stone fallacy!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone
> I'm not sure why silver cars escape the stigma of white cars here since they have the same issues, but they do.

Most cars ads show off new models in some variation of metalic grey. Perhaps this creates a subliminal impression in how people perceive metalic grey as an 'elegant' car colour.
At least for now we still have the yelling matches where people of different faiths can yell at each other without fear of burning at a stake. Getting "cancelled" as a result of yelling the unpopular thing is still less painful than torture and execution on the town's plaza.

"For now" and "still" are the words which I had to insert in the above, and their forced presence seriously scares me.
> perhaps it's now actually impossible for an American company to be compliant

If they store and process PII, then this has been the case since the CLOUD Act.

They can be compliant by not dealing with PII.

> I quite like the spirit of the original GDPR, but some of the more recent execution is just bad.

This particular bit of it is fantastic IMO. I'm still waiting for big fines or other punishments to happen though. Hopefully soon but I'm not holding my breath.

> even though there are no EU based competitors that are viable to use

Hopefully this will open up the market for companies based everywhere to compete against the US giants. Not just in the EU -- like I said, this is not about where the company is based, except in the case of the US where the CLOUD Act exists. That would be very healthy for the Internet.
You should be able to put the GA loading script behind your cookie banner -- never even load the script until the user allows third party cookies.

Is there an issue with this technique? I've not managed to poke holes in it yet but have at it.
Right, but they don't actively scan everything uploaded to iCloud, is my understanding - they will decrypt your iCloud storage when asked, but they don't scan the contents by default. At least that's how I understand it.
I used to constantly upgrade Linux (usually Debian/Ubuntu, but also Fedora at some point) since 1994. It was an exercise I hated.

Some 5 or 8 years ago I discovered Docker and it is truly a game changer for self hosted stuff. I do not care about the OS anymore, I can upgrade/reinstall in a breeze. I actually now run Arch to be independent of upgrades and just roll. if the thing breaks it is not a problem - I can reinstall and have everything running in an hour.

This changed my life of a home sysadmin.
> My final question about any tool is more personal: "Does it use C++?" because, if it does, then integrating with anything other than C++ is going to be a gigantic PITA. At this point there are plenty of fine alternatives to C++ that don't suck. If you don't have a clean, pleasant way of talking to things that only understand C library conventions, you fail and I'm moving on.

I think you've got that the wrong way around; if you can talk to things using the C library, you automatically get reusability from Java, C#, Python, various Lisps, Ruby, Rust (Go?), and almost every halfway popular language in existence.

What alternative do you know off that is more widely supported by all programming languages?
While I do understand 'security theater' and think we could do better, I have to wonder what it's like crossing from an EU country to a non-EU country. People abroad look at our border crossings and react strongly, but I think most of the time they're going from France to Germany (example).

I'd love to see tunnels like this for easy transit that doesn't waste surface area/acreage.
The 60TB Isilon I ordered for video storage was 115k... (5 years ago granted)
> in April of 2014, a crew excavated the site and uncovered 1.3k games.

So ... 1300.

Insignificant detail - but its great to see "k" becoming as prevalent as "m", even for non-technical English uses. /humor? /sarcasm? /not sure!