skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is your average farmer going to know what to do with a root terminal?

Who cares?

The question is 1) whether your exceptional farmer will have a root terminal available to them if they want to use it, and 2) if your average farmer calls a programmer, will they have a root terminal available to work on the farmer's behalf?

> A suite of hacked Deere software with various troubleshooting modules? Or is it just going to be a bargaining chip to encourage Deere to further open up its platform?

I don't understand how you don't think these would be massive achievements.

The goal isn't to stick it to John Deere. Who cares about John Deere? The goal is to push John Deere the company out of the tractor you bought.
Well, that's some seriously incompetent management. Thing is, when these reports get out and later I'm assessing tech to potentially use I go back in my head "Oh yeah Klarna - incompetence. Moving on."
This turned out correct: https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=1149

The rest I’ve seen are useless since they’re from 2020 or further
> it very well may be in industry wide problem, but Tesla seems to be front-and-center of this problem.

I don't agree with this.

> paying $8 to use your remote start

An $8/month subscription, not an $8 one-time payment.

> why are there so many stories like this one

Again, when was the last time this happened?

> Tesla will disable features before reselling a used vehicle that’s traded into it

This isn't the same thing at all. There's nothing wrong with removing features from a vehicle while you're the owner of it. If someone traded in an ICE car with a turbocharger, would it be wrong for a dealer to remove that before selling it?

> What isn’t so common is the situation that led to one owner walking out of his house one day to find his Model S with 80 miles less range than just a few minutes previous." Is this not "john Deere" type activities?

Yes, that's definitely wrong of them and "John Deere" type activities. But you originally made a stronger statement, that Tesla is the John Deere of automobiles. For that to be true, they'd have to do significantly more of these "John Deere" type activities than other automakers do, which they don't.

> how about this: "Tesla’s $16,000 Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters"

They originally asked for $16,000 to replace a part that someone else later successfully repaired for $700. They didn't stop him from doing so, remotely brick the vehicle afterward, or anything like that. Isn't this how things are supposed to work?

> or this: Hundreds of Tesla drivers were locked out of their cars at the start of the weekend after the manufacturer’s mobile app suffered an outage – and dozens voiced their complaints on social media.

This wasn't wrongdoing either. First of all, the outage was an accident. Second of all, the cars could still be unlocked and driven through a local Bluetooth connection from the app, or with the key cards that are included free with every vehicle.

> If the software doesn't work, neither does your car, is this not things "John Deere" is known for?

But as I said above, the cars did work even when their software didn't.

> i dont drive an Ioniq so i wouldn't know the answer to your question.

My point was that on a Tesla, independent mechanics can do a lot of things but not everything, and I expect the same to be true about a Hyundai too.
New use for generative AI?
It’s a work in progress, it’s definitely not meant to be ready for production workloads yet. It’s in beta, I’m assuming if they do get to a full stable release, node compatibility will be far better, Express will work, official docs will be improved, etc.
Show HN: Belua, Beautifully Organised Contacts
Manage and present your contacts with the Belua app on iPhone.

Features:

Organise
- Display generative art for contacts without photo.
- Use tags to categorise your contacts.
- Use the touch action to surface contacts in recent.
- Sort by recent, by recently added, by tag or by country.
- Privacy Built-In from the start.
- Actions such as favourite, tag and hide work across devices if you are using iCloud.
- Works offline

Search
- Search text in contacts
- Diacritic insensitive [a diacritic is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph].
- Works with natural language text to ensure correct behaviour in multiple scripts and languages such as Chinese or Japanese.
I mean the warning signs of the overvaluation and hype around Klarna was there ever since a private early investor unloaded their shares on to retail via an online investment [0] [1] platform at $45B, last year December. [2]

Those 6,000+ retail investors who FOMOed and bought in are now down more than 80% of their investment due to the down-rounds, with the private early investor escaping and banking $8 million. So it is no surprise that the layoffs had to happen especially with the recent rate hikes which are accelerating the costs at Klarna.

[0] https://www.crowdcube.com/cubex/klarna

[1] https://milled.com/navia/klarna-pitch-is-launching-tomorrow-...

[2] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/online-investment-platfor...
> Crash of EU or USA economy will be glorious.

Outside of disaster porn enthusiasts, glorious for who? If EU, USA, or China falter the whole world will suffer. With the worst of it falling, as always, on the poorest. The wealthiest (countries and people) tend to gain ground in a global crisis.
Why overthinkers struggle with remote work
Most point to Amazon as the example of it will turn around once they start to dominate their space
No problem, glad it was useful for someone. It really is so many different hobbies and sciences all wrapped into one, it's easy to get entralled. Even getting a system like RDWC which is what I run too, airtight is an adventure. All of the atlas gear is great from a DIY and budget perspective, you'll end up with professional grade feedback about your environment.
> Garden leave is when an employer requests that an employee, upon submitting their notice, need not return to the office. This is a type of absence where an employee is asked not to work during their notice period, in anticipation of their departure, while still being kept on the payroll.

https://www.personio.com/hr-lexicon/garden-leave-uk/
Your Makefiles Are Wrong
I also have a much simpler version: salaries don't matter as much as they used to. People simply get bigger chunk of their income in different ways - by contracting, by running side gigs, by leasing their extra properties.
Agreed, and the opposite is true: I started at a small public company which had stopped growing and become profitable. It was targeted for a hostile takeover by PE who thought it could grow more.

To their credit it did, and (to the extent your willing to believe unaudited financials) again became profitable.
California university accidentally kills 21,000 fish
There is lots of sci-fi where the reactors go in full overload. Startrek, Starwars, Stargate. Don’t quite recall where I got the idea exactly from to be honest.
I am a bit late at the game but let me contribute this:

Programming Pearls - by Jon L. Bentley (1986)
ISBN:9780201103311

It's an amazing collection of... small stories (the chapters were originally published as ACM articles I believe).
Nowadays they read like a crossover between Codegolf and Martin Fowler's collected articles, but I still like to pull by paper copy out every 10 years or so and reread it.

(There was also a second volume, and I believe a "re-edition" published in year 2000, but I'd go for the original for its specific charm).
>We all believed that we were awesome and would continue growing and winning.

Hilarious since Klarna has one of the worst customer service experiences I have ever witnessed.

Their real monetization strategy seems to be to get your mobile information. It is not necessary to micro-finance through them, just to do anything at all after that!

They actually have a website, which you might think would be an alternative way to manage your account, however it also requires your verified mobile device (not a phone number) to access.

Now, they never tell you any of this and none of the people that work there seem to know that this is policy and are shocked that you can't do things like check your balance, pay off your balance, basically anything you might want to do.
How about zipping pure text or Markdown files, splitting them into QR-code sized chunks (1.5-3KB), converting them to QR-codes and printing all those on a single paper sheet? You can choose their sizes depending on how redundant you want them to be. And restoring them is just doing the same in reverse.

I believe you can fit pretty big texts this way without delving into a rabbit-hole of some obscure formats.

Python app code for decoding that, using existing modules, should fit on a single A4 sheet too without any encoding.
The Great Salt Lake in Utah is split into two lakes by a railroad causeway, creating two very different ecologies with much higher salinity in the northern lake. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/08/the-great-salt-lakes-r...
What's up with all these two-dimensional solid color people graphics that often have unrealistic colors or body shapes? I see them everywhere. Here are a few examples from the list:

* https://metry.io/img/metry-product-information.png

* https://norban.se/assets/img/front-page/section-1/room_7@1x....

* https://nordtechgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/undrawd...

* https://www.nuvoair.com/_nuxt/img/home-enterprise-img.97f461...

* https://sanitation360.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/puff_pro...

* https://securifid.se/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/kvinna-locki...

* https://www.sinch.com/sites/default/files/styles/medium_hq/p...

* https://workamo.com/img/hero-image.png

* https://www.airmee.com/images/icon_airmee_delivery-fresh.png

* https://www.budid.se/images/video-min.png
Apple Shortcuts Are My Lego Mindstorms
Hugs are super common in California, even when meeting people for the first time. It freaked me out when I moved there.

I don't know you, buddy, get away from me.
You’re right that they’re not the same. I’d say a bill in 2009 and another in 2021 do not give me the feeling that they’re fighting particularly hard for labor rights either. Though I’m sure there are more and you’re just listing a couple from memory.
The Unix License Plate
I can't believe how well this article described me at work. I've done 7 years of remote work interleaved in my career, and didn't notice that making things worse or better. Perhaps other issues eclipsed that in those cases. But the general issue, for both good and bad, totally describes me.
If you mean meaningful with regards to the topic, I'd agree with you and knew it from the start, hence the "off-topic" warning.

My intention was to confront my experience and behavior (towards certain categories of posts of high upvotes/comment ratio) with the rest of the HN crowd, in a contextualized environment where it applies.

I'm sorry that the conversation now revolves around my own comment. Kinda ironic.
Zutty – Zero-Cost Unicode Teletype
My understanding was that, at least in Scandinavia, their debt collection was a separate company. I may have gotten that wrong, but we had a few customers who paid us using Klarna. When Klarna didn't get their money after some period of time they'd normally let some 3rd. party handle debt collection. In some cases they just reverse the charges and leave us to eat the lose arguing that: The customer claim to have never received the item, or straight up let us know that they weren't about to lose money on this transaction, reverse the charge on us, the retailer, and leave debt collection to us.
OP's response said: "the best programmers"... not "top-tier companies".
Ask HN: Why don't web browsers discourage words that not everyone will know?
Given the international nature of the web, wouldn't it make sense for web browsers to discourage you from using English words in your posts that not everyone will know?
These are pretty handy devices for embedded development. I’m currently working on my own similar one using a wifi enabled SD card and a slightly alternative set of parts since these cost significantly more than the SD cards I can get from A reliable store on AliExpress (they make their own hardware but are based in china so it’s effectively just their storefront) I don’t have any working software to show yet, I wouldn’t have bothered given how good these ones are… but I needed a couple dozen and at 79€ that was going to cost a lot more than a couple dozen at ~$10 USD
I agree with that, I am actually georgist. Of course, again, human right to land won't satisfy people calling for "housing as a human right". There's tons of cheap land everywhere, including close to cities, and in major cities. It's really "housing with amenities near where I like the weather, jobs and culture is a human right"
The main thing that prevents it from being applied at scale is the availability of cheap natural gas unburdened by CO2 charges.

But right now, renewable electrolytic hydrogen would be far cheaper than natural gas in Europe, where NG prices have reached 8x those in the US.
A technique I learned from possibly the worst project/product manager ever was to have loads of meetings. And over schedule them. And show up late. It makes everything so slow, and you have to have more people so that somehow, in between meetings a line of code could be written.
I worked for a company where the C-suite used the phrase "drinking our own champagne" instead of "eating our own dog food". To me, this just oozed insecurity about the product and the company.
What takes years and costs $20K? A San Francisco trash can
It could quite literally save the world in terms of clean energy. I can understand why one would at least try.
Nothing matters as long as a company is growing. You don't have to improve or have the best tech or the best sales or do everything right or have the best culture. The only thing that matter for a company is to grow.
Your last point is a bit off. Text pages are shared iff they come from the same file. So your point works if the 90k processes are the same program. Else: shared libs...
The Prolog programming language implementation is just 139 lines of Lisp code. Never the less, Prolog is a really powerful tool.
How lovely to live in a world where api contracts are absolute and complicated internal behaviors never conflict in unforeseen ways. We’ve really gotten on top of the software complexity problem
Needs some work because it doesn't seem to extract the whole sentence.

Original: "The place where I predict we'll disagree is whether to evacuate the machine's workloads prior to servicing."

What was shown: "I predict we'll disagree is whether to evacuate the machine's workloads prior to servicing."

Which is gibberish if you omit the beginning.

Original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322241
This. The statelessness of the OTLP is by design. I did consider stateful designs with e.g. shared state dictionary compression but eventually chose not to, so that the intermediaries can remain stateless.

An extension to OTLP that uses shared state (and columnar encoding) to achieve more compact representation and is suitable for the last network leg in the data delivery path has been proposed and may become a reality in the future: https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/pull/171
New concepts and vocabulary is why I read HN.
Given the existence of and easy access to translators and dictionaries, language barriers are somewhat less of an issue, I'd presume.
"I predict the 2020s will be strikingly similar to the 2010s."

https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=4346

I guess it's hard to predict, especially about the future.
Even if the already-invested money can’t be recouped, marginal additional investment could theoretically be with favorable (LIFO) terms offered typically offered to later investment.

So sure, acknowledge a bad $300 million bet, but then throw your next $50 million at the same bet if it looks like the best place to put a marginal $50 million.

I don’t always think investors are doing this rationally - sunk cost fallacy / gamblers paradox / greater fool theory / FOMO all play a part, but also recognize that lots of these super large investments are led by a small team using lots of other peoples money so there are ways for the decision-makers to come out closer to breakeven if much of the pot is lost.

Also with potential IPO’s and sky high rate of valuation growth over the past decade, the “greater fool theory” isn’t necessarily an irrational motivation to invest.

Not all smart investments are value-based.
Yah, that's true-- sometimes there's a SRO available. But I'm not really a fan of the SRO thing.

You'll find both administrators and SRO's abusing their powers, but I think the SRO potential for abuses are larger.
A lot of interesting things in this article and the work on what it is based.

Still, I think (that is a personal theory) one key element not mentioned here is what the protesters demand (how big will be the impact), and who will be impacted.

Recently, looks like more than 3.5% of the Lebanese population protested without any impact...But they were asking BIG changes, protesting against ALL the "elites" (and a big chuck of the bourgeoisie). Army leaders, politician around the spectrum, even some cleric had a lot to lose, and quite no one in a power position had anything to win.

In Tunisia or in Egypt, they were asking more freedom and a bit less nepotism (that is relatively cheap). Armies (and army leaders) had quite nothing to lose to support such big protests, and this "regime change" was an opportunity for a big chunk of the elite and of the "bourgeoisie" to "capture" more business and power.

I guess if 2.5 millions of French people would protest to end capitalism and make a big "equalization" of capital, their chances of achieving it by just protesting are 0. The stakes are too high, and all the element of the "power structure" would be totally against and ready to do a lot of think to preserve the status quo. Same protests regularly asking a 20% pay bump and more referendums like in Swissterland, would have serious chance to get something...
The stock and exuberance are the product.
It is not ”my conception”, it is scientific fact.

From the frame of reference of a transmitted photon, the transmission is instantaneous, and the spatial distance traveled is zero.

From our perspective, it is a different story. If you are having difficulty grasping this, perhaps you are thinking that photons are like tennis balls but with a very high velocity. Perhaps you even entertain the sci-fi notion of faster than light travel.

However, speed of light in a vacuum is a much more fundamental limit than an inherent velocity limit of some particle.

It is essentially the default propagation speed of all physical information. Interaction of light with matter causes absorption and re-emission of photons, which causes light to both slow down in a medium and pick up some information about whatever it went through.
They’ve analyzed the data from the experiment to prove that they achieved it (i.e. ruling out all possible other explanations). Assuming there’s been no fraud, then it’s likely they did achieve it. They’re trying to figure out what the problems are that make reproducibility difficult & I think there’s a new reactor being built that addresses the challenges with reproducing in the current design.

It’s an early signal indicating that we may have line of sight to someone demonstrating working fusion within the next 5 years. Is that not impressive?
heh, I'm surprised it didn't include the automatic HN front-page keyword "... in Rust" https://github.com/jdno/auto-traffic-control/blob/main/Cargo...

but, seriously, I wondered if one needed to deal with waypoints, but it seems that no, they are liberally available: https://auto-traffic-control.com/docs/coordinates#routing-gr...

I like Zachtronics games as much as the next crazy person, but the thought of having to implement this for a game gives me anxiety
> If you aren't succeeding, you are failing - and I was expected and taught to succeed by default.

That sounds messed up too. Maybe you need a break now and then from trying to succeed all the time.
Not disagreeing that you need to enable all levels of provider, that's not what I'm saying. I also agree all levels of provider should have an easy career path to the top.

The point is there's a system requirement for interfacing one provider to the next, so that if you're receiving a handoff from someone else you know they prepared the patient for the next guy. There's also a malpractice/liability component.
Well bless your heart! Come on over here and let Texas show you how it's done!
Terrapintonics.com is a sticker site that we got overwhelmed with trying to fullfil orders with so many unique SKUs.

Each decal is different, how do you organize 1,000 different ones on a website, much less the stock of physical decals?

We've decided to just print and list batches of 10 at a time or uncut sheets instead, and we don't market to keep the orders light so it's manageable to ship decal packs in a timely manner.
100% serious question, does iOS prevent this? Or is the demographic of iOS vastly different?
Where does the government get the money? It still checks out to forced labor, once or N times removed. Not that I'm saying it's never acceptable - it's a trade-off, but we should call it as what it is, if used - a gift from others, a privilege. Not a human right. And, we should be strongly biased against it by default, not trivialize it.
Thanks for commenting constructively. As you have umderstood, my intention was never to point fingers at you or your article, but rather use it as a suitable context to confront with the HN crowd.

Thanks for having seen this from the start :)
Persiflage and unprovoked sesquipedalianism in whatever language is the very core of the web. Indeed, one might say its the essence of humanity.
My understanding is that one big reason so much money was invested in this lab is because the research has direct applications to nuclear weapon design. It's a dual use lab so to speak. The process they are studying is very similar to what's happening in the core of a thermonuclear bomb.

> 1978: This report reviews aspects of the military applications of the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) program at Sandia Laboratories

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6412035

> Today, research on inertial confinement fusion—the other leading approach—remains largely under the control of US national weapons labs. The military focus has had profound impacts on the development of inertial fusion energy.

https://thebulletin.org/2013/07/nuclear-weapons-the-death-of...
> I predict that within 2 years the iPhone OS will allow you to run unapproved apps provided you click through enough, "Hey, we're warning you! Don't come crying to us when you manage to blow up your dock connector", messages.

-DannoHung (2010)

I'm so sorry Danno. We're still waiting.

> I predict within 2 years no one will even hear about an Nvidia GPU in an Intel-based laptop (unless we're talking $2000+ machines - maybe).

-higherpurpose (2015)

(this is probably about AMD CPUs?) Looks like it's going to be wrong for many more years.

> I predict the sun will run out of steam and we are all gonna die.

-the-dude (2020)

I dunno about that, sun looks fine to me!

footnote: sorry for adding dupes to your data
Because it's legally extortion. There have been a number of times where:

A. Business owner discovers an employee has stolen property.

B. Business owner demands return of the property or the owner will notify police.

C. Employee pays, and business owner is charged with extortion or is found civilly liable for extortion.
till OP fixes this you can search the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/