skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Model 3 has around half a ton worth of battery and weights around 2 tons. the GMC Hummer EV weights over 9,000 pounds, around 4.5 tons, which is roughly three times the weight of a Honda Civic. The hummer has around 1.4 tons in just battery (https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/07/business/electric-vehicles-we...)

The law in my country has a combined maximum weight limit (car + trailer) as part of their driving license, which has cause a bit of a problem with EVs. The extra weight from battery mean that there isn't much room to drive the car with a trailer, a problem which political is starting to gain some traction. The argument being put forth is that people are forced to use ICE car to pull things like boat trailer just because the law was designed for more lighter ICE cars.

If there is no additional weight with EVs then the law doesn't need to change. Are you saying that the people arguing that EV is being hindered are wrong?

Just as a small hint about that. EU has recently change their rules. The previous allowed max was 3.5 tons, but electric and gas powered cars has been given an exception to increase the max to 4.25 tons in acknowledgement that those cars tend to be heavier, and that the previous limit restricted the use of lower emission transportation. Source: Revision of the Directive on Driving Licences.

Of course politicians could be wrong and there is nothing to make it physical impossible to build a light weight EV. Restricting weight reduces road maintenance and decreases the breaking distance and if there is no need for increasing the maximum then everyone is better off with the old maximum.
Hah, I'm on the same boat.

When I'm checking interesting jobs then only C++ seems like other viable language for me

but on the other hand it's C++, painful environment.
It's the same problem. People are afraid to face reality, internally or externally.
> you can learn for free which lets face it, is the only thing people would want to do in its present state

Deciding to learn something in the first place is a question of how I want to use my limited time. I don't think I want to learn something with a presently-bad EULA that might change arbitrarily in the future.

It's totally fine that your team wants to keep this project close to you, it is your work and copyright privileges after all. You don't have to be open source if you don't want to. [1] Don't let anyone tell you what to do with your own work.

Just don't be surprised when you find that nobody's interested in it.

[1] I do think it's a bit hypocritical to require people to be "a part of the community" to download the thing when the license doesn't resemble a community or copyleft license. This is no different than downloading from the Oracle Download Center.
Oh, come on. Everybody likes a good, juicy airing of dirty laundry.
I am a CS student, three years away from being a software engineer.

Since last year, I began reading the code of popular open source projects I use in order to determine the source of a problem I was having, and a lot of those times ended up as bug reports.

I now take the time to explain my whole reasoning into finding the bug and linking appropriate code snippets, but I'm still a bit afraid to start a PR on my own to fix it.

Since I did so on popular projects, with lots of issues/PR about half of them got ignored, or responded to a year later saying "not applicable to latest version".

That demotivates me a little about starting simple bug fixing PRs for big projects.
Final Approach - 1982

https://www.mobygames.com/game/final-approach
> This is a dealbreaker for most developers working on Windows

Yes but how many JS developers use Windows?
We can go all bayesian about predictions but at the end of the day dropbox didn't build itself. At some point we need to act on it.
Almost reads like a detective story as if not only mass layoffs, but poorly managed ones are unique to Klarna.
Feels like the author has not really understood how incredibly common mass layffs as a tool for keeping profit margins really are.

Layoffs sucks no doubt but I cant say I feel as "outraged" as the author seems to intend.
My current employer cut 10% of the workforce about 3 years ago (1800 ppl).My preevious one did that twice (about 3500 people in total). Another former employer would cut 2-3% every other month or so. Then go on a hiring spree, and then cut again.

Laying off 5% every year Microsoft style because of a crazy in house performance review system, now thats a news worthy evil story.
This is just standard bad management vs profit margin not really interesting.

Yea Sweden, it happened to you too. Welcome to the club.
You’re doing the same thing now.

Valid, level-headed criticism isn’t “shitting on someone”.
AI will solve all humanity problems (Macro Optimism)

AI is currently shit (too resource intensive, too biased, lots of details still to be worked on) (Micro Pessimism)

So, let's work on addressing each of this
> Very few people would watch Olympic Games performed by realistic androids.

Why not? a cyclist is a "realistic android" to a runner. It would just be different, more like F1.
I'm not sure it's a problem since newer versions of CPython usually introduce only minor updates to bytecode ops.
Why not? Is writing a function to calculate a fibonacci number not programming? If no, why is it the introduction to a lot of functional language tutorials?
Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone
By which you mean, of course, the least difficult part, and the part that is needed only after all the hard parts, the ones that actually produce energy in useful form, have been built out.
And this was the nail in the coffin for me. I’ve never seen so much delusion.
You don't seem to know prolog well if you consider more "algorithmic" or "procedural" than, say, smalltalk. Sure, it's not 100% declarative, because even prolog is bound by such down-to-earth concerns as performance and termination. But there is no such thing as a "function call" in prolog.

I for one would like to see you put your claims to the test and implement a prolog in objective-S, indeed. Half of it is backtracking; the other half is unification as the main connector. Good luck.
Disco Elysium delves into this a little bit. It's a text-based RPG game that's surprisingly engaging.
Lol wow. What a complete shit show. Gotta love when a billionaire also shits on unions.

And still people in this industry will forever think that unions are a waste of time.
They're a great companion book, but you really need a book that guides you through derivations and computations. Some techniques are non-obvious like choosing coordinate systems to make integrals easier, clever contours when applying residue theorem, change of variables using orthogonal matrices to diagonalize symmetric matrices, etc.
> which is a worthy goal in itself.

I'd like us to focus on practical power generation. It will be the most defining aspect of future of US and largely the world. Everything is tied to energy and if we can make energy cheap enough so that its not worth metering; we'd secure the future from literally any calamity (including CC). Even the shittiest efficiency of carbon capture can be put to use when energy is cheap. 4% efficiency? Cool. Entropy increase from residual heat loss wouldn't make meaningful dent on the world's temperature. It is the carbon that is the problem (greenhouse effect).

We have an almost unlimited source of energy from nuclear + solar. There are always going to be people and ideologies that oppose technological progress and prevent humanity from propelling forward. I belong to the camp where I'd want us to become a Kardeshev Type 1 civilization. Fusion would be a direct contributing factor for it.
I am extremely confident you are 100% wrong
50% of Americans can't read a book written at an 8th grade reading level[0]. It's one of the reasons politicians don't use jargon and fancy words. I think they'd probably laugh if you told them they should be talking above their constituents' understanding.

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/11/...
I never heard this before. I thought unions were always involved, regardless of kollektivavtal or not. Would like to hear from a Swedish expert on this.
Modern capitalism is effectively local optimization. Academic research doesn't follow that same flow, so to claim capitalism is responsible for academic progress is an interesting claim.
San Francisco's high density, active street life, and big tourist industry mean the trash cans get a huge amount of use relative to normal expectations. I've seen several of the new designs in place and they are quite impressive: functional and built to last.

The last iteration of this put in place the Big Belly designs, but they were vulnerable to vandalism and even minor vehicle collisions. Also their built in compaction was efficient but resulted in super heavy wads of garbage that collectors found difficult to reliably move.
Claims approximately $30 vs previous $170 on a 200 mile trip. I have not checked the math.

Is there a loss of payload capacity? That is the concern I have frequently heard.
You could apply extra data props as hooks that describe certain states. This is the approach taken by Cypress.

E.g.

<div data-state=“success”>

Then check for existence of the prop rather than CSS classes.
These are all really atrocious predictions, and the newest ones don't really seem any less stupid than those whose time has already come to pass. People also seem to have a weird inability to construct grammatically correct sentences that start with the phrase "I predict."
The Product Culture Shift
$100, but you're also doing a good deed.

Donating blood doesn't pay that well either, but people still do it.
For the simplest benchmarks the performance disparity might come down to the difference between JavaScriptCore (which Bun uses) and V8 (which Node uses), but for anything non-trivial there's a significant amount of overhead introduced by the Node runtime.

Someone wrote a barebones V8 wrapper called Just Js, which is based on V8 just like Node, but it crushed Node in the Techempower benchmarks [1].

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...
Would it shock you to learn that mass shootings aren't the results of guns, but actually the result of mind-altering medications by pharmaceutical industry that are legal - but 1) in the clinical trials showed an actual increase in suicide [e.g. you're less likely to kill yourself if you didn't take the medication], and 2) that homicide (and homicidal ideation) are also increased due to these medications?

But we don't hear about that? Why? Because pharma, at least in the US, is something like 80% of the advertising revenues of all mainstream-mass media channels - so it's one of the big elephants in the room that they prevent from society being alerted to; health and education institutions have also been corrupted by pharma and their profits.

Otherwise, your arguments are still only at the shallow level - and don't address or even acknowledge that gun control, or gun rights being enacted, may in fact be an authoritarian effort - and most always implemented through the guise of "doing what's good for society."

So is it possible that in Canada, where the Trudeau government is planning to implement a mandatory gun buyback program [for certain guns to begin, but illogically, and that does practically nothing to reduce crime] - using fear mongering and opportunities of US atrocities or Canadian atrocities that the vast majority of weapons used were illegally obtained firearms] is aiming for tyrannical control - or you can't even open your mind to that possibility? If not, it makes me wonder what relatively shallow and skewed information/propaganda/perspective you've been exposed to?
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How was that the “best layoff”?

Instead of being an actual fucking leader and making a difficult decision, your boss just said “lol so who wants to leave.”

I swear sometimes the shit I read here makes me go insane.
Matrix? Assuming you don't want to host your own homeserver you can make a room/space on matrix.org
This site has some more interesting graphics: https://www.gamifiera.com/
You know what? This is a very good idea.

There is a ton of jargon and extremely cryptic terminology used in many tokens which that jargon makes the project creators appear too smarter than the investors and that gets diluted in the hype where many people don't critique their flaws or see the problems early on; but only until it is too late.

Education on the basics needs to be clearer and simpler to translate and untangle the cryptic jargon used to blind and manipulate investors. Your proposal is close to that.

> But recently, he told me that he really has no idea what he's doing when he invests in crypto. He told me that there are too many tokens for him to keep track of.

This is the problem.

Over-diversifying into a countless amount of tokens and coins isn't really a good idea and they're highly likely to lose more money by doing that. It's better to focus on a very few number of coins or an extremely few amount of tokens that have been around for years or have a valid use case, rather than jumping into thousands of ERC-20, SPL governance tokens that are just all the same but have little reason to exist.

Hence this, I rarely look at tokens. For the long term, it is the coins that have stood the test of time for years that matter and one hint to look out for is regulations. Ask yourself is it realistic for 20,000 coins and tokens to all survive regulations?

If the answer is no then you would agree that not all of them will survive and that the top 30 exceptional coins or a very few selected tokens and the ISO 20020 compliant coins would survive this.

Therefore, there is no need to look at hundreds of new tokens at all. (This is not investment advice) But, please keep building.
It won't get rid of the bad ones, it'll hollow out the middle just like similar processes have everywhere else. There will be a few superstar concept artists making ridiculous amounts of money, a lump of often barely-competent copypasters/LLM-prompters doing it for $5, and no more space at all for people to have a career to comfortably grow and train their skills.
During covid we did online classes where teachers present the slides and everything was recorded. I built a simple program that sliced videopresentation into slides and also sliced the audio for every slide. It was convinient to go through presentation slide by slide and play audio what teacher said during the slide.
they are banned on the london transport network, supposedly due to danger of lithium battery fires. But self-built ebikes are not banned
I don't need a web browser to be a nanny.
Python has an ‘else’ block for ‘while’ and ‘for’ which executes when the loop completes without a break or return.

Never used it myself but it is probably handy, handy enough to be included in the language at least.
She was a great leader. She recognized that our team was cohesive and could make a better decision than she could. She was one of the best managers I ever had.
Over COVID I wrote a novel-length... thing. I hesitate to call it a text adventure, or a game, even though that's what it looks like on the surface. I'm not sure what to call it.

The joke at the beginning was that it's a "travel simulator" for a period in time when you couldn't travel. I worked on it every day for about eight months, and I think I showed it to maybe six people. It was mostly a writing exercise, and an excuse to do research.

It's "abandoned" in the sense that I'm not driven to do more work on it, but it is "content complete" at about 300 pages, and it can be played.
Do they get a tracking pixel or something on all the checkout pages where they are a payment option? They get to embed code?
I predict disappointment. -untog (2012)

I don't even need context. Always applicable.

https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=3337

EDIT: this is a fun one:
I predict lots of people will make predictions, but we'll never go back to check and see if they were right. — the reckoning has come, tlrobinson!

https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=247
This sounds similar to complaints I've heard about music for film/TV. Often stock music is used as a placeholder during post-production, and then composers are told by producers to just rework the stock music instead of being given time to make something original. This leads to most shows having very "samey" soundtracks.
> I predict the sun will run out of steam and we are all gonna die.

To be fair, all of us are indeed going to live a normalish distribution of lifespans and the sun is too.
> and that if the error rate improves even a little bit they're not all that far from what most people would describe as an acceptable error rate.

A 2% error rate is not super acceptable depending on the outcomes. IMO, the big issue: most of the cost of errors is externalized to random consumers.

e.g. I ended up having to fight with multiple agencies as they shared information with each other. They were each, at one time or another when I was 18-22, utterly convinced that I was an alias of a 45 year old guy racking up medical debts a few states away (who happened to have transposed his SSN to give mine on a form once). I also received harassing calls from collectors that I couldn't identify who enjoyed mocking my predicament and not complying with statutory requirements to stop calling me. It's not very fun to be really excited about a girl, and after you take her home for the first time, to receive a call that plays on your answering machine mocking you for being a deadbeat.

I was unable to access credit, which greatly complicated business travel, etc. For many years to come, ordinary transactions-- even buying a car with a cashier's check-- were complicated.

It was an ongoing ordeal that lasted years, despite me having some degree of know-how on how to address it (but relatively little time to do so). It is an embarrassing ordeal to have to constantly have awkward discussion with bankers when this bad data happens to pop up and rear its ugly head again.

And, I didn't end up making a CFPB complaint, because as angry as I was, I had other things to do-- so, I'm not included in your counts.
Clear communication is not easy…
In a free market, socialists could create a lot for profit collective fusion power coop. Funny how that never happens.
all businesses are risky. that's why we have capitalism and there are bunch of people who are willing to take the risk and rewarded for taking that risk
I remember mine. Pandemics and mass shootings targeting rich people. 1 for 2

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jostmey&next=2229115...
Debloat Windows 10 with Windows Debloater
No argument here. But the state is not one entity.

Licensing for many professions is bullshit. Licensing for engineering requires mentorship and certification by non-government societies in the US. They determine the amount of rigor to join their group and hold the status as a professional engineer.

Everything after that is just registration, which confirms you have evidence of the the prior
Presumably many remarkable artists did or maybe even still do have unremarkable day jobs where they can get paid to refine their skills.
Not just at Spotify, at both of my previous jobs we were joking about picking up Klarna employees that has managed to disconnect from the Matrix.
Polars and data fusion
Better they keep a cadre of smart people who can do this stuff than lose the institutional knowledge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
Modern tractors are more technologically advanced than a Tesla.

If you can run a modern planter or sprayer with autodrive/gps then copy/pasting a string of text into a terminal is not going to be a problem.
> But our society has conditioned us to believe that consumption and status are the only things that provide happiness: the smartest children of our generation are going to Stanford and MIT to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and FAANG

I take slight issue with this framing. Why is there an implicit assumption that these really smart kids end up working at these places because they’re deluded that money and status are all that provide happiness? I’m sure there are lots of people on HN that work at these places/know lots of people that work at these places, and I’m willing to bet that a significant portion choose to work there because it’s intellectually stimulating for them. Sure, you can argue that too much value accumulates to these jobs for reasons outside of their control, but I think the assumption that that’s why they’re doing it is wrong.

This also ties in with the article’s mention of the general public resentment towards tech, see how widely used the derisive term “techbro” is used in online discussions. There’s this perception that everybody in tech is only in it for the money, and they enjoy using their smarts to exploit everybody else. I’ve been hit with this from people I know personally, and it’s insulting.
The idea of a government run debtor blacklist has been thoroughly demonized in America for the past decade through news stories about “social credit” in China. Maybe it works in Europe but if you wanted something similar in America it’s going take a long time for people to forget that stuff, even if it was sensationalized.
I agree that many are just trying to undercut the competition. My pet theory is this is having an effect on consumers' expectations for tech-based products. Specifically, nobody thinks anything is worth paying for, or at least only want to pay a small price. That leads to only big companies being able to compete in markets since they can subsidize products for a long time.
Embrace the Blub.
20th Anniversary of ModDB
It's surprisingly difficult to fake years worth of conversations with family and friends...

The loanshark can say "show me the conversation with your boss. Show me the conversation with your mom.". They can cross reference things between the person's memory and the conversations. They can download all the conversations and put them in a database so the same conversation set can't be used to take out another loan.

They can also call your contacts to confirm details - ie. 'can you confirm Mary is your daughter? Does she have 2 cats and a dog?'
That is not a good analogy.

But I will add that professional chemist licensing should be required and revocable
https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/ didn't predict precisely this step of the process, but it's still the solution.
Predictions and probabilites seem unrelated, except in mathematical models which attempt to make "predictions" through probabalistic models. Perhaps you've spent so much time reading about machine learning that you've gotten the concepts confused. I would go so far as to say that a prediction that comes with a probability is not a true prediction, but an estimate masquarading as one.
People celebrate F1 drivers a lot more than the automakers. Senna and Schumacher are far more famous as individuals than the teams they drove for.

I guarantee that if there is ever a self-driving cup, people will be mostly focused on the human engineering talent.
Canada 'far behind' other countries on digital ID
> I predict the predictions will remain very dire until December 2020.

-RickJWagner (2020)[0,1]

[0] https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=1233

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22279436
That looks fantastic! I think Pimoroni will take care of the entire manufacturing and marketing process for you, if you want to contact them. Their CEO emailed me way back about this, but he hasn't replied to my multiple emails since, so YMMV.
Very very well. I don't think I'll ever regret getting into Rust. The whole development experience is a great delight !

I'm now an sort of evangelist for data-heavy projects that want to use more Rust instead of Python.
Yes, it takes more energy to build a BEV than an ICE car. It's not massively different and the lifetime emissions of a BEV are still lower than an ICE car even on a pretty dirty grid.

good breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM
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