skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think those are the issues. As an EV owner, I do most of my charging at home, and speed/availability of chargers has yet to become an issue. We don’t have to replace every gas station. Transportation corridors and destinations

I believe the bigger issues are supply availability for nickel, cobalt, lithium, and silicon carbide.
-Nickel and cobalt are key materials in high performing cathodes. Iron-phosphate is now being used for cheaper EVs, but the energy density is lower. Next breakthrough we are waiting for on the cathode side is iron-fluoride, which has a higher energy density, but doesn’t work outside of lab conditions yet.
-There is not enough actively mined lithium to complete the EV transition, and we are also putting it in boxes on the ground for energy storage.
-Silicon carbide chips are rapidly replacing IGBTs and MOSFETs in the engine and charging hardware, and the ramp to meet demand is going to take years
Cities manage to build things like parking meters even in old neighborhoods. It is doable, it's just a matter of priorities.

Next time the street needs maintenance, lay some cable.
The decision log is good for reflection, but as a mechanism it seems prone to luck. Maybe situations are more repeatable than I assume, though.
I think the complexity arrives when the 14-year-old asks the follow up question "why?"
I think you are missing my point. The Nukes were built by the soviets, but after the breakup, Russia had control of them in Ukraine. In order for Ukraine to take full possession of the nukes in their country, they would have to fight through Russians at military bases.
So basically these laws perpetuate the status quo while consolidating power in the more evil and violent organizations that dodge these sanctions while subjugating the privacy conscious.
Sure, but we're talking about general adoption of EVs here, so it's more appropriate to use the much more highly adopted example than one that's relatively uncommon.
> The advice I hear is to get a credit card and use it like a debit card, always paying off on schedule. Why can't decades of debit card use and living within my means demonstrate the same thing?

Having a history of using a debit card to only spend as much money as you have does not really reflect much about how you will behave when given the ability to spend money that you don't have (credit).
You are asking about what I would call founding/inception costs. I was replying to an absolutely wrong comment that was about scaling/growth/marketing costs.

From my own experience, I helped cofound a now-successful small business that we retain 100% ownership of. Founders used <1> the “sweat equity” of our own time (even with kids and mortgages), and <2> one person did some consultancy work, and <3> we had one initial large-business customer (although nowhere enough to pay our usual wages, it helped a little).

There is a lot of “bootstrapping-pr0n” videos and websites with a variety of techniques to build a business without extreme inception costs (e.g. techniques to avoid requiring paid staff when starting - staffing being the main cost for most software startups). The fabulously good video I linked alludes to some of that, and you can find other videos from those conferences.

If you do want to get initial funding, I think that ycombinator is an astonishingly valuable deal. Even applying should get you back more value than the time it costs you: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

Edit: I strongly recommend you avoid the “go big or not at all” culture/mentality: most founders fail and the median payoff for founders is quite negative. Venture capital and startup-pr0n encourages you to aim for billions: VCs can spread their bets; VCs have asymmetric information and payoffs; VCs only invest in less than 1% of the potential businesses they see; VCs get paid a base rate by their limited partners; VCs get preferential shares. For an individual it is more like a lottery because an individual’s risk profile is absolutely different from a VCs.
Android's developer docs are the only ones from Google I've used extensively enough to have an opinion on them, and that not in the last three years or so, but those spent at least a decade being notably poor.
Blosxom is awesome! I use it all the time myself http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/

If you’re interested in Perl, Prolog, or NetBSD maybe there’s something of interest for you. Mostly a lot of coding experiments.
Wow they all really got suckered by the AI grifters didn't they?
I tried it a lot and I think it works ok for simple, mundane, trivial prompts, but when you start to ask for sophisticated stuff it gets weird.
Yeah, even a 120V outlet would be sufficient for the vast majority.

Ideally we would have EVSEs everywhere, but I'll settle for a lowly outlet.
That sounds a lot like cultural idiocy to me.
Tithing is common in most christian denominations, and is legally mandated (and automated) in several European countries via a "church tax" if you're officially registered as a member.

Even the 10% number is derived from the Bible (LEV. 27:30–34). There's nothing particularly nefarious about the Mormons here.
I don't know why people are downvoting you you're right. The firefox engine has been struggling to keep up with chrome. We'd just be losing a worse browser engine which, while sad, isn't really that terrible. If we need a new engine someone can fork Chrome or write a new engine from scratch if chrome is a lost cause. The firefox foundation has stopped innovating and it isn't worth trying to keep them alive for a worse browser
What makes credit cards "credit cards" is not some technical difference but the fee schedule and repayment terms, which are currently intentionally obtuse and "sharp" so that people who get "cut" subsidize perks for those who know how to play the system to their advantage. If you regulate those away it will just become the equivalent of a debit card with an overdraft attached, essentially abolishing them.

> far better is to reduce the number of careless people through education.

Maybe. If there's no safer way to achieve the task at hand (like with power tools - the tool is inherently designed to cut things and will cut limbs if misused), sure. But when the danger is intentionally introduced into the system with no other purpose than to subsidize perks for the well-off, is it worth keeping?

Why not also extrapolate this and make fraud and scamming legal and instead blame victims for their lack of care and education?
…via the judicial system (warrant or subpoena) and still protected by US law.

An EU company can just be hacked legally.
ClickHouse for Data Nerds
Sounds like a apt comparison to Tornado Cash then, as exactly the same applies with it. It's used for obviously legal use cases too. Just because some groups use it for less legal things, doesn't mean the thing itself should be illegal.
Not everything is about yourself. And once everyone is using some terrible format you won't be able to avoid it anyway.
Biker Glen could fairly trivially get a job at Blackmagic if he's doing this kind of thing for fun. Should send them a CV, and a hyperlink.
>Way over the top to a fault.

way over the type as a style

it's like the über-modern modern art. the next level of those goofy over-the-top meme images that make the rounds in socials

while you may not like it, you just know that this will be a thing on how to create AI-like images without AI. I used to refer to that as grade school ;P
> Without knowledge to the contrary, swallowing a panic and YOLO'ing execution is driving full speed down the road of very poorly defined behavior.

I mean, if you’re worried about code “corrupting” things such that it may not be safe to even serve the next request, you probably need to worry about successful requests as well. I mean, if all bets are off, all bets are truly off.

At some point, if you decide to colocate code from multiple “apps” in one server, you gotta have some level of trust in said apps. You’d obviously never do this for untrusted code. And you’d never do this for code that (hand-waving as you have) “corrupts” things in such a way that it’s not safe to handle the next request, panic or no.
> Possibly because you don’t have a good point to make.

Consider the other possibilities. If someone confidently told you that our flat Earth is 6,000 years old, where would you begin? There's a lot to unpack, and you're not even certain if all the work will be worth doing or just a waste of time.

> Most people that grow up in bad places or situations don’t become criminals.

Most people who smoke don't get lung cancer. So by your logic have we proven that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer?

Poverty, in the US and globally, is correlated with higher crime rates. Isn't it such a strange coincidence that people who happen to be born into poverty also consistently happen to "choose" to commit more crimes, given that their environment has nothing to do with their choices? Shouldn't crime rates be equal across all socioeconomic classes?

> I grew up around a lot of these types of “horrible situations” and most the kids turned out.

Again, most people who do X don't end up Y is in no way a valid argument that X doesn't cause Y.
Most of the math for structural engineering is already done through software, we just don't call it AI. The difficult part and valuable part of being a good structural engineer is translating requirements and dealing with clients. The actual math and engineering work is often not much more difficult than what's done taught in their undergrad, and much of it is offloaded to designers anyway.

Source: My family owns one of the largest civil engineering firms in my home province.
Fusion Turns Up the Heat
> There are probably thousands of companies and individuals who have wanted to release Apple software from non-macOS operating systems. (The existence and popularity of tools like fastlane seems to confirm this.)

I'm not sure the existence/popularity of fastlane supports the non-macOS operating systems argument since its primary purpose is as a wrapper around Apple's clunky/undocumented build and upload tools on macOS.
Congrats on working around their dark-patterns, but that doesn't mean their dark-pattern business model isn't deserving of critique and warning others to avoid.
> Intelligence is inheritable. Intelligence is correlated with educational attainment and wealth.

Wealth is also correlated with inheriting money...
> Tornado Cash exists for money laundering

Maybe you don't know exactly what "money laundering" is. That you want to hide whatever you are doing doesn't mean that what you're doing is illegal, which is a prerequisite for something to be "money laundering". Just like E2E doesn't exists solely for hiding criminals doing criminal things.
This is an excellent question, and I struggle to answer it.

Part of why I don't trust the "Code of Conduct" things is because of how they started off -- the desire to "protect marginalized people's safety over privileged people's comfort" is inherently prejudiced. Who decides who is privileged and who is marginalized?

What this boils down to is there are favored people to which the rules do not apply. Although the language is no longer there, in many instances the result is the same. See the aforementioned Node TSC drama.

But none of that is listed in the Contributor Covenant, which Ehmke authored. Version 2.1 pledges to make participation a "harassment free experience for everyone".

As a software maintainer, how can I make good on that pledge? How can I arbitrate disputes between members? Especially when this involves conduct outside of git, and with sensitive users who consider many innocuous things as harassment?

But furthermore, WHY should I arbitrate members conduct? I have enough on my plate just writing software. Now I have to decide who is right in a "he/him said, they/xir said", and decide who gets voted off the island?

You'll note that I have referred to Ehmke without pronouns, and this is intentional. While I do not wish to be offensive, I can't use Ehmke's pronouns in good conscience. According to one version of the Stack Overflow guidelines on pronoun usage, this constitutes harassment. I firmly disagree -- harassment is "you call me a woman, or I will have you removed from the project".

As Ehmke said, this is a political document. But politics does not belong in software development.
North vs South Korea would be an example of nurture/environment, not nature/genes.

An example of Nature would be comparing well fed children of basket ball players vs children of horse jockeys.
The VWs will be mass adopted in Europe when production ramps up and protectionist policies which punish Tesla will be implemented when VW is threatened. It's business as usual in Europe. That's why I use VW as an example. It's what Europeans will drive when they go hard on electric. When it comes to cars VW is "Europe, Inc." and resistance is futile. I jest.

Many European megacorporations also offer electric cars as a job perk because personal car ownership is heavily taxed in many countries. The megacorps will choose home market manufacturers run by their friends preferentially.
sam altman once said in an interview that YC has an AI tool that reads applications and produces a score, and that score matches pretty well with their human evaluations. I don't know if they only rely on that score though.
This is a great idea. Of course, it's not new. Looks like Wisp was first described in 2013, the same year SRFI 110 [1] describing largely the same idea was also published. That SRFI helpfully includes a "related" section describing prior art and more detailed raionale / tradeoff analysis that some might find interesting.

[1]: https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html

Everybody seems to want to describe these ideas as "Python-like". I personally think the JSON / YAML distinction is a more apt comparison, since the latter is a backwards-compatible "superset" of the former, and it's also a nod to the duality of data / code in Lisp :)
I was reading this for a bit wondering why a professor/doctor would make these statements, then I looked him up- he's an economist. He does not have the necessary medical or scientific credibility to make the accusations he's making, nor does he provide any reliable evidence supporting his claims. The Lancet commision shut itself down (https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2414) after it was made clear that their choice of investigator (Daszak) was about the last person you'd want to have involved.

In short: this claim is extremely serious but lacks the necessary evidence to convince anybody to run an investigation. Also, this sort of reminds me of how many times Lancet has looked foolish during COVID.
The issue is the misuse of the term "heritable" to mean "genetically determined". Toe count is genetically determined; virtually all people are coded for 10 toes. But they have very low heritability: variance in toes is environmental. Conversely: dress-wearing isn't at all genetically determined; anyone can put a dress on. But dress-wearing is highly heritable: the variance is (almost) entirely due to genetic differences.
From what I can tell, the BSA does not prohibit a private individual from paying a large sum of cash to another private individual. It simply adds reporting requirements to businesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act

If you know a specific provision of any law that does prohibit such transactions, please post a link.
>You can call that strange if you want

To ask the most relevant question--do you call it strange?
These are good enough for 99% of blogs out there.

Just like AI generated articles are good enough for 99% of content farms out there.
You can do this now. The technology is here. But bear in mind that each application requires a specific mechanical interface, and that's the problem. People swap ICE motors in cars all the time, but they are skilled enough to adapt them as needed.
> The faster you refuel the more exponentially quickly you permanently damage the battery.

Eh, not exactly true. Sure, if I take my Leaf's battery and somehow jury-rig a quickcharger delivering twice the current, assuming I won't fry any contacts, the battery would die a very early death.

However, note that batteries are made out of cells. They all can charge in parallel. If you compare older EVs with small batteries against more modern ones with much more range, you'll notice that the charging times haven't changed all that much, as long as the charge can provide the current requested. Newer EVs generally have larger batteries, with more cells.

Sure, if your metric is filling back up to 100%, that's a problem. But if the metric is getting enough range for your next leg, then the charging times have been _decreasing_
Good way to win yourself an assassination.
The paper that seemed to have prompted this Physics Viewpoint is:

Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

And a PDF link: https://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRev...
Where do you find an online tutor? My first guess would be fiver but there's probably some sites with a more academic focus?
Ugh, this immediately drives home the realization that representative images are soon going to be devalued and useless, to the point that we'll all be ignoring them soon. Possibly even stripping them with ad blockers or similar tools.

I actually think it's really awesome to be able to do this with a series of blog posts, and even if you look past the stylistic inconsistencies and oddities, this particular usage is good and adds value.

Which is kind of the problem. Relatively low cost, currently high benefit? It's going to be driven into the ground.

We've seen this over and over again. Some reliable form of signal, or of value, becomes inexpensive enough to produce that it gets commoditized, monetized, and weaponized against us all.

Email is a major productivity advance that gives a low-friction way of communicating for mutual gain? Well, now we're drowning in spam and phishing attempts and people won't read random unsolicited messages—if they even make it pass the automated filters. Same for text messages. Bold images and lettering used to be good for highlighting and accentuating important information. Now we don't see them, even if they make it past our ad blockers, because the neural networks living in our skulls know to filter them out as negative-value advertisements.

The same thing will happen here. Nearly all blogs will soon be sprouting cutesy images to go along with the posts. Initially, many of them will be useful and add value, suggesting a metaphor or analogy or simply providing a visual anchor to make the content more memorable.

But they'll quickly become expected and necessary and we'll have the usual race to the bottom. Everyone will have some image because it boosts engagement by 8%... wait now 6%... oops it's too common, we're awash in crappy irrelevant images just added for the boost, which is down to 2%... oh crap, now the absence of an image is a good signal for content quality, we're at -1%!

(If you put work into the prompt and curate carefully, it will still be a net positive to your content. But it won't matter for long in terms of traffic/engagement, because everyone will be mentally ignoring it.)
I used to (a year ago): the only problem I had is debugging Python with PyCharm, everything else worked flawlessly. It even has working proprietary Nvidia drivers.
What's https://www.supermemo.com/ then? I just signed up to give it a go (requires CC #, but free for a month). Still haven't found good spaced repetition vocab learning site that works well for me.
Yes, OP is serious. I have to ask if you're serious.

There was an extensive interview with an Australian ISIS recruiter in The Atlantic (I think) several years ago. The guy wholeheartedly believed he was doing good, and felt sadness and compassion for Muslims outside the caliphate because they weren't getting into heaven.

What if he was also a developer and forbade you from using his software because you weren't using it for his definition of good?
“[Mormons] are just the worst type of people, from what I’ve experienced and what other people have also experienced.”

Can you imagine that being printed about any other minority in any serious publication? This article was published days ago and I’m still in awe at that line. (From the second link)
I suspect the person who came up with

(((((((((((((((((((((( In Stereo, Where Available )))))))))))))))))))))))))))

had prior experience/trauma with Lisp.

And one of you fuckers is going to tell me that there are more closing parens than open ones. I did that on purpose, and you've fallen into my trap.
The problem with using the right techniques is that there are essentially three kinds of techniques:

a) fast at the beginning, then gradually slow down, e.g. rote memorization;

b) slow at the beginning, then gradually speed up, e.g. deep understanding;

c) slow at the beginning, then remain slow forever, e.g. doing something chaotic and stupid.

The problem is that sometimes you have incompetent people who use the third kind of method. Then, when things blow up, people start paying close attention to the speed, and reject any method that is slow at the beginning, because they suspect it would be the same story.

(In other words: premature optimization, technical debt.)
I think this is a good answer. People should use `expect` for this "I'm sure this is fine" case, with descriptive text about why it's fine.
tell that to the mozilla execs
That's fine then. Buy an electric car today! So much of the world is ready for them. But some of us prefer the versatility of ICE because we're crazy and do crazy things and go crazy places.
I want a very quick intro to context switching that I can show to laypeople that don't do knowledge work.

So many people I interact with don't understand the toll of interruptions.
> they can't be values because you can use them to modify other values

That seems like an arbitrary criterion. They're values because they behave like values when copying them around etc. You can't even use them to modify other values implicitly - you still need to use * to get an actual dereferenceable/assignable lvalue out of the pointer.
Problem is it seems you're then throwing under the bus all those items you recall perfectly well that have 6+ year intervals, which don't require yearly review. Arguably, you could just retire those; but then sometimes they lapse, as I noted: how do you decide what to retire?
And temperature :-) Warming or cooling the must etc.
AI is great for recommendation systems and art because they are fuzzy. "Good enough" results are relatively easy to achieve. There is lots of tolerance for errors, because human preferences are flexible and fuzzy themselves.

Engineering is a different ballgame... If anything, all the code monkeys will simply become QA monkeys/test-engineers, because you need to be really sure that your black box algorithm is actually doing what you think it should be doing.
What if your gas station is full and you have to wait a long time for your turn...

Oh wait, that happens every day at Costco.
It didn't actually mention the British bombsight; only that the RAF asked to see the Norden and were denied.
If you ever shop for professional video devices, you'll know exactly why people are DIY'ing this kind of stuff. When you're on set on a "real" shoot, every mistake is expensive, so the gear is priced to reflect how "solid" it is. For those on a lower budget but want the same look/features, the microcontroller world has been a gawd send. I've built so many little motion controllers, lens controllers, ultrasonic digital tape, etc types of things that I'd never purchase the "legit" models. I tried building an auto-focus for manual cinema lens with the ultrasonic sensor telling range, a motor on the focus ring, and a whole lot of patience. I would never ever bring that onto a real set, but it was an interesting couple of weekends worth of learning.