skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was dismissed as arrogant and egotistical :-)

Was that related or unrelated to the comment? I can manage arrogant and egotistical without even remarking. #engineering.

But more seriously (although that is normally how engineering formulas work) if an engineer is actually using the formula for anything they tend to pick up the intuition quickly. The memorisation in formal teaching is more limbering up the mental muscles so that it is easier to learn when & if the time comes.
Replying to the lower comment by 'alehlopeh' since I don't think threaded replies go this far down.

Right now, I'm looking for people with "naive optimism" who would like to see this world. There are a few of us. I'll share concrete details with those folks.
Plus EV taxis, and private cars only for those with a special need.
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Why can't we have something like a 1980s small Toyota truck with a Tesla motor drivetrain and no onboard computers other than simple microcontrollers for the various systems (charging, etc.), no streaming wifi / GPS data collection, and no need for software updates because everything was properly designed to work with the hardware before the vehicle was sold?

Such a setup would likely be cheaper to manufacture as well. The only way to get anything like that now is to pay a custom mechanic to put a Tesla motor into an old vehicle, which is kind of ridiculous.
Now we are discussing subjectivities and it makes no sense continuing the discussion IMHO.

At some point I also romaticized the idea of being on the beach enjoying myself when the pager goes off. So I jump into a terminal, get the adrenaline rush, fix the problem, save the day, and carry on. That narrative just doesn't work for me anymore.
Very cool. Need to dig around and figure out what the training dataset is. Could be a great way to get some sample fodder.
TFA says we don't know for sure, but is at least honest enough to note up front that it likely came from Steer.

I don't think the fact that redundant systems were actively sharing car data negates the point of the example, though. We know Tesla is collecting this information, and https://www.tesla.com/legal/privacy makes it clear that Tesla will share this data with not only law enforcement but "service providers, business partners and affiliates".
There is some value to the averages, if not the absolute.
As someone with ARPA-related experience, I can say there are some trade-offs (possibly even flaws) in the execution of "the recipe" as practiced in the modern day. However, it's probably also the part of government that most closely resembles the start-up world. In fact, when I was there, we often intentionally modeled certain things after ideas borrowed from that side of the private sector. If you believe in maxims like "being okay with failure", "failing fast", and "going for moonshots", then you might think it's worth the cost (and all the untrimmed fat).

That said, I'd probably like to see high-level visibility on some accounting of cost versus success in, say, the past 15 years. From what I've seen, there haven't really been the kind of big-impact wins you usually see touted from further back in history. Instead it's mostly been PR, shrug-worthy output, and outright graft (e.g., a golden parachute for a certain Solyndra exec).
Bad ideas can be replaced with better concepts. Implementation flaws can be patched.

But the biggest problem is still the human factor aka "you can't patch stupidity".
> They inherit a codebase that successfully made enough of the right quality-vs-speed tradeoffs

Or was lucky enough that all the choices they made did not blow up yet.

I totally understand the value of technical debt. But I have also seen in the wild cases where people thought the codebase was great simply because they hadn't run into cases where its rotten core would be exposed.

Yet.
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Turn off CNN and half these problems disappear.
> actual quarterly profit is 10% of what you claim

"Profit" is an imprecise word. Criteo made $38mm of net income in the six months ending June 2022 [1], or $76mm annualized. €60mm is about is 80% of that. Free cash flow (FCF), on the other hand, was $77mm or $154mm annualized (40%). (OP referenced gross profit. Fines are no longer tax deductible [2][3]. Referencing a post-tax measure, like net income or FCF, is thus more appropriate than gross profit.)

Either way, your broader point stands. Four fifths or two fifths or 12.5% of cash and cash equivalents, potentially a year, is nothing to sneeze at.

[1] https://criteo.investorroom.com/2022-08-03-CRITEO-REPORTS-ST...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/td-9946.pdf

[3] https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2021/jan/irs-regs-...
> Not only are we going to be able to start modifying zygotes like you've mentioned, we're going to be able to start generating them from any genetic material available[0], and bringing them to term in an artificial womb[1].

And then you can bypass the entire “we don’t know which genes do what” problem because we can just clone people who have whatever qualities we want.

Well, maybe. It turns out your first citation has been validated in mice, and if that was the gold standard, we’d be able to put people into suspended animation (this totally works with mice but not larger mammals) among 1000 other things that never panned out.

If you go back a little bit, there are a ton of things (like suspended animation) that briefly seemed extremely promising and never panned out, and they outnumber the things that actually panned out by about 10:1.

I honestly think that even if this sort of thing was possible, it might be politically regulated out of existence or even out of being developed. We cloned a sheep in the 1990’s, but still no human.
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What is the point in this negativity? Some people make apps for money, you know.
Food waste contributes 7% to global warming. We need to figure out how to make food last longer.
The trouble with this is that you need the second key present each time you need to enroll it to an account, meaning you can’t stash it in a safe deposit box as a backup. And you have to remember to add it to each and every account or it’s not really functional as a backup.

Yes, two different keys are more secure, but they have some pretty severe usability problems.
Depends on what you mean by “truly rich” I guess. Most of the tech billionaires come from upper middle class families. They don’t generally have trophy spouses. I do believe that the old money people i interact with are generally more attractive than average, yes.
Where did you get the idea that they are villagers?
> Skip lists are built upon double linked lists,

I've always seen them with singly-linked lists; double doesn't give an average or worst-case order improvement to anything, but it does make some ops faster within the same complexity class.
Nature in this context would be things you have to get done except more of a belief that each person has a specific pre defined role. He's still very much talking about using discipline to accomplish this role and often self admonished for not getting more of his own role done.
I think the answer to this question depends on ones personal ideology. I don't think that this is my governments first goal or reason, but I also don't think that it's not doing that at all.

If you're more of a libertarian kind of person we will probably have different views on this, it also strongly depends on where you're from.

To make an example, the EU at least tries to protect it's citizens in regard to data privacy and ownership, so there's one example.
“The Impossible Mission Force has the technical capabilities to copy anyone’s face and imitate their voice, so don’t base your secops around someone’s appearance.”

… yes, because that worked well.
> ...because we run permanent inflation...

Interest existed for 100's of years before the fiat model.

Interest is not paid on money, its paid on time of allocated capital. If you dont have money you can still collect interest in the form of goods - I give you 100 seeds, you return 1000 seeds to me next year. Without interest there is certainly not lending, so the owner has to invest themselves or consume the capital.

It would definitely be better that investment were not issued as debt and were always equity to prevent many ugly side-effects, but thats not a configuration applicable to everything, so this is what you get.

> In any other context the optimal interest rate is always zero because any higher than that prevents investments due to artificially high profitability requirements beyond what is available in the real economy.

This is mixing macro-economics with micro-economics. Even in a contraction economy you have growing businesses, which mean there is demand for capital for production itself. 0% interest rate means there is no demand for capital, which is not true even in North Korea.

Interest is just a price, like any other good in the economy.
> I'm sure people said exactly this about burger patties before amazing plant-based burger patties existed. There's no physical reason this is not possible.

I'm not too sure, but time will tell. Are plant-based steaks going to be at least as healthy as their animal counterparts though? Plant burgers tend to be on par or worse, which is not great since beef burgers are not the healthiest to begin with.

> most meat that's consumed is not in the form of steaks

Do you have data to back this up? I'm not saying you're wrong but I come from a culture where most of our meat is in the form of grilled steaks or barbecued chunks of fresh meat, seasoned with salt only. Burgers are not necessarily uncommon but are generally seen as what they are - a fast food treat to be had infrequently.

> consider why they started a plant-based meat company in the first place and not a cultured meat one?

To consider this, I'd have to actually know their reasons. :) It could just have been that they thought burgers would have more acceptance for the reasons I stated - they're easier to mimick since their animal-based counterpart is already heavily seasoned and processed, and doesn't actually taste that much like the actual meat.

As a last note, you have my upvote for a thoughtful and thought-provoking response. Thank you! :)
> My advice: get lucky.

That's actually great and actionable advice. The more draws you have the better chances you get to luck out.

The actionable part is the draw participation and you participate with your each interaction multiplied with your relevancy surface.

Do you know who did not luck out with your former manager? Those who did not had a company that does the things you do and those who might have had but did not interact with your ex manager.

IMHO lucking out is a very straightforward strategy and is relevant not only in business but in romantic relationships or friendships or any other partnerships.

Just don't expect to luck out on your first try and multiple participations is much easier than trying to design the luck on first try.
READMEs are a great idea, still
To provide a counterpoint to a couple of the examples you provided:

> Imagine the shock to paternity law once some unscrupulous individual obtains a celebrities DNA through some discarded water bottle and generates children from it to demand child support payments with.

This already happens with women who try to sabotage condoms and/or collect the specimen after the fact. The rapper Drake has put the phenomena in the spotlight. If this becomes an actual problem, court systems will likely adjust to the times and require a higher burden of proof for paternity claims.

> This already happens
How will organized sports handle genetically modified players being vastly superior to ungenetically modified?

China already does extensive genetic modification by way of selective reproduction. Basketball player Yao Ming was the product of a forced marriage between two tall, Chinese basketball players. He was a truly great player until he became plagued by injuries, likely due to overwork. I don’t think that anybody raised any objections due to the (un)fairness of his provenance. In the future, I think that social stigmas will provide an effective barrier to excessive over screening.
Except that GP says it has aged well and isn't a nightmare.
IMHO, modern microcontrollers is where it's at when it comes to preserving the current technological base. They're 32 bits and relatively high powered, yet cheap and reliable enough. They don't need cooling and are robust to be fed from different power sources. If you base your software stack on, say, the ARM Cortex M4 or even M0+, you should be good for long time. You can stash a lot of spare parts and can maintain boards using simple soldering techniques.
Neither the "Impossible" burger nor the Beyond Burger contains Palm Oil.

Given the ethical and environmental market these products target, it's common for "plant based" meat alternatives to proudly advertise that they are free of palm oil.
I would love to see some company produce components someone could purchase and replace an ICE engine with to make it an EV. I'm not talking 300 mile range EV with fancy software, etc. just basic stuff like a battery pack sized to replace a gas tank, electric motor and other components, etc. Some kit that you could take a modern-ish Corolla/Civic and turn it into a 100mi range EV which could satisfy a ton of households that have 2nd/3rd cars. Would be really neat to have them be more like PC components than proprietary.
> Put shoe on head
> Can we bet a little more on the most abundante substance on the universe?

One of those problems is there is no abundant source of hydrogen in isolated form here on earth. You have to use a catalytic agent or an energy-intensive process like electrolysis to get usable hydrogen for your fuel cell.
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Yes, you will get a link to a .zip file of the entire website after uploading too so you can host it yourself. I'll add an option to self-host the tool itself too if it's something people want as I know uploading all your messages to a random website might not be for everyone!
Time for a new hobby maybe?

Certainly for me, it is.
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I'll propose a more utopian future. The end of modernism and a return to humanism. A realization in the West that fetishizing technology has turned people into widgets. A genuine bottom-up counter movement that already exists today, but will be the mainstream. Man will yet again be measure of all things, rather than adapt to the measure. In practice; things like the triumph of the walkable city; more home schooling; disappearance of wage labor and more unionization, cooperative work-arrangements, stock-compensation; the extended family as the main arrangement to raise children; bans on social media and pornography; more GDPR and privacy-laws, ...
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I work with K12 schools in the U.S. and one of our really sad stories is how a calculus students failed to solve a "A t-shirt that costs $15 is 20% off today. How much does it cost after the 20% discount (don't include tax)?" <-- not the exact wording, but you get it.

They responded, "I don't remember the formula for a sale". Only knowing formula's is terrible, it makes knowledge super fragile. So, I for one support your idea of emphasizing understanding over formula memorization!
These screenshots don’t look very sophisticated. Does okta even have a scheduling solution? Who was clicking these links, engineers? Is it normal for Twilio to send corporate communications like this over text (at least without a good reason & an email warning it’s coming and verifiable details)?

I’m also curious how much customer data an attacker should have been able to get into from outside. Is there no 2fa-auth vpn needed to get in? Or is there just lots of customer data hanging out in email/whatever?
Is it time to ditch Svelte, React, and Vue?
I once inherited an old ASP.NET Web Forms code base, I was a solo developer at that time.

I hated it, on my young and inexperienced eyes “everything was a mess”. It didn’t follow any good practice. The code didn’t have any layer, most of the code was written in the view and it didn’t follow the DRY principle, it had just a few libraries to share some code, so there was a lot of repetition.

Of course, I started “improving” it. I chose a layered architecture, I wrote several generic classes to implement the repository pattern, since I was a solo developer it took me a while to migrate big pieces of code to my new implementation.

Bugs came and went and I started noticing something. Even though my implementation was “beautiful”. I hated to fix bugs on the new and “improved” code base. To debug I had to jump around a lot. The bug was always hidden. And sometimes my changes could affect other places in the code base so I had to be really careful.
In the other hand fixing bugs in the old implementation was pretty straightforward and it rarely broke other places.

The project came to an end. The company bought a CRM that had more features so they shut the old code base down.

All my efforts to improve the code were a waste of time. They wasted my time, not only because it was not going to be used in the future, but because even if it lived longer my changes added unnecessary complexity to the code base. This complexity made it difficult to work on a really simple project, it made it fragile and it was simply not fun.

I learned a lot. I don’t judge code bases anymore. Now I can see the benefits of “ugly” code.
C had a Reference Manual (e.g. https://archive.org/details/crefman/cman74/ and https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cman.pdf) which was included as an appendix in the 1st edition of K&R. That was effectively the specification through the 1980s.

At about the time K&R1 was published, the Ritchie's original C compiler was being replaced by pcc, and `lint` was another early (diagnostics-only) implementation. The K&R1 reference manual includes a few mentions of features that were deprecated by pcc, or new in pcc.

So I think C was more mature than "the compiler is the specification" by the end of the 1970s.
On the contrary, or that's the vibe I got (since we're speculating now). He tries really hard to scientifically answer all sorts of mysticism surrounding hypnosis, hallucinations, "the soul", ancient humans etc.
Very cool! Love what Airbnb has done here to better tackle incident response. For companies without the engineering resources to build themselves, a great alternative is https://rootly.com/!
This has been out of the box already for a while. You can literally have your embryo commercially screened for intelligence, height, and other complex traits today
> Nigerian here, also an opponent of the present government, but why would a crackdown on anonymous SIM cards be an issue for debate ?

It's a very authoritarian move to threaten privacy and prevent people having free access to the internet. It hurts people at a minimum and causes the deaths of the most vulnerable in society at worst. Definitely up for debate and probably not one the Nigerian government can win in a fair debate.
The foundational ideas of the secret was found in think and grow rich, an old book.
oh that looks great! I didn't find it when I was looking for Slack export tools, but looks a bit more polished. Not sure if it's fully static though? Seems a bit slower to me, so that might be one key difference.
> The major difference between Rust and [Zig, C] is that the latter are essentially "cocky macro assemblers". They derive their semantics from the semantics of the underlying assembly.

I don't know about Zig, but as for C, this take is not just wrong, but dangerously wrong. The behavior of C code isn't defined by the underlying assembly, but by an abstract machine model that may or may not match your real machine (narrator: It doesn't). As a result, the compiler can and will ignore the intention of your code when it can prove that your code would invoke UB. Good example: signed integer arithmetic and overflow tests. It is very difficult to write overflow tests for signed integer operations without accidentally invoking UB, and modern compilers will simply remove your overflow tests instead of translating them 1:1 to assembly instructions.
The more people we have the more specialization we can have. Do you want 1000 people designing a jet engine or 20?

What problems could we solve if we doubled the scientists and engineers working on it?

Plus every new birth is a lottery ticket for our civilization getting the next Einstein.
> Less experienced programmers are trying to build their sense of taste and style and will associate with whatever they perceive makes them superior. They often have an immediate and strong reaction to a code base. Their opinions and feedback are often couched in absolute terms.

I get that. I also inherited some very awful code in my first job (almost 20 years ago) by some developers who misunderstood basic concepts of programming. They had such fundamental gaps that I (right out of college) was able to clean up their mess in a few hours.

> Too many developers raise their hands, complain that this code is terrible, and suggest re-writing it. Or they burn out and find new jobs else where. Me? I like to stick around, figure things out, and make them go to 11.

I agree completely. I get the best job satisfaction making things go to 11.
That's why I read HN comments. You never know when they'll go on a very interesting tangent. For very loose values of tangent.
I don't know. When automation began to move into the factories toward the end of the last century I was promised that menial factory labor would be a thing of the past.

Instead, some bean counters figured out it was cheaper to manufacture overseas (where labor was cheaper still than robots?) and now we have no factories or industry to speak of left in the U.S.

Either human labor will always be cheaper than these humanoid robots or robot theft will become very lucrative (and then I suppose the winners are the robot insurance companies).
Nebula genomics claims 30x coverage for $299 [0].

[0] https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/
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Okay, but who is actually arguing against READMEs? This article just seems to state the obvious.
TBH ... I absolute hate this AI generated strange images. Most folks are celebrate this technology but I don't know what it's really for other than confusing brains.
I always ask myself "is this real" ... I don't like to ask myself if something is real or don't like to be confused.
Is anyone else out there who feels the same?
What a nonsense of misinformation. Nothing like this is happening. What Amnesty International describes are civilians who have ignored evacuation orders.

It looks like you are here to spread lies.
Good luck trying to figure out how. I desperately want to do this in my new vehicle but I can't find information on where they are or how to get to them. Also it would void my warranty (although I'd do it anyway if I could).
Organizations should definitely think very carefully about creating domains they expect others to trust. @SwiftOnSecurity used [0] a turn of phrase recently that I had not yet encountered and I think it is a great way to put it: "strong DNS governance".

0: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/15535388679192616...
Oh yeah I saw this a while ago on HN. Really mind blowing. I can definitely see us being able to regenerate limbs in the future because of this.
Sounds like climate change can be good, at least for Irish cars.