skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is for example how CPUs and GPUs are sold

This is not true. They are binned by capability, and sold at different price points.

I don't mind that idea - if it turned out installing heated seats failed in say... 28% of installations, fine - charge me more for a model with functioning heated seats.

Instead - this is introducing a fixed, recurring charge, and undermining the concept of ownership. That heated seat has zero cost for the manufacturer after installation, and that should be reflected in the costs to the consumer.

I find this a pretty un-ethical (appalling - really) attack on ownership, and long term, a way to undermine the used market for these goods (attack on doctrine of first sale).

Frankly - I think this should absolutely be targeted with regulation. This is literally rent-seeking, with no potential upside.
In addition to a emulating certain teachers dogged insistence of making sure students can't have nice things (an absolute no-brainer feature like generics only showed up recently...!), last time I tried to use Go for a web project a few years ago I was also amused by the lack of templating libraries - the way to make pages was to string together header + main + footer, the old PHP way...! Not a single library supported template composition.
To label the dicks or to have your dick labeled? :)
Go is not predisposed to write terse code. This is a feature, built into the language design. And it's great when working with a team of people with a wide variety of skill levels, but it's explicitly not a code golf language.
It is not "incredibly expensive". Top 4 exchanges already hold > 50% of stake. Users give away their coins for free. For users, it's more expensive to run their own validator nodes than staking on a centralized service.
Yes, I think it is vital to understand which subscriptions people are willing to pay for.

People are most willing to pay for things where they understand that there is an underlying cost to providing the service, and where they derive value from updates or ongoing service. The service should also be provided at a competitive price - for example you cannot charge for navigation in most cases because people can use free nav services (Google Maps etc)
You think Europe is setup to handle this? Have you seen the electricity prices in Germany??? They are barely able to keep the street lights on, and struggling with the current EV usage. Not only that most Europeans are not rich and they would struggle with even more power being spent on EV charging.
Configure your IDE, to help you write SELECT queries. It should be easy to insert a template with jump points in the desired order e.g., a generic YASnippet in Emacs should be able to do it.

Thus by the time you are writing the column expression after the SELECT, the FROM table expression would be filled already (enabling scope-dependent column completion).
FWIW I just got an EV - Chevy Bolt. The car is quiet and performant. It probably costs $12 to "fill up". And I realize how little I actually drive- the range of 260+ miles is more than enough unless I'm going to take a large road trip.

I've wanted an EV for a while. The Bolt is very competitively priced right now.

I hope more people hop on the EV train. Every little bit counts. While I do not like regulation, I see more and more giant cars on the road, and it kindof makes me sad that this is the direction people seem to continue to be going.
In a general PoS system like you describe, what prevents a bistable situation from emerging? If there is any significant level of cheating, then running a slasher is profitable, which makes cheating very unprofitable, driving it to zero. But in the absence of cheating, what's the motivation to develop, maintain, test, and operate a slasher node? Isn't this prone to long periods of time with negligible cheating where all the slashers die out, followed by one big malicious attack that isn't caught promptly?
I'd argue that the technology isn't the problem; the costs are currently the problem.

We're now starting to see affordable EVs (e.g. Bolt EV/EUV) but one of the ways they keep costs down is making a trade-off for slower charging making road trips painful (and limiting their mass appeal).

And while costs are coming down, demand is also shooting up as multiple countries/areas roll out EV mandates and incentives. The high[er] demand is offsetting low[er] costs.
> IMO the quality and process of the fundamental software enabling all of this is inexcusable - it's not like they're wanting for resources to do this right.

If anything, this just shows how complex the system is. Distributed systems are hard to write.

The recent Geth 1.10.22 bug only occurs on shutdown- an edge case I imagine they will be testing from now on.
I have no idea why you'd be this cynical. New cars only 13 years from now is not an ambitious goal at all and totally doable. They did pretty well with toxic emissions. When I was a kid, it was a pretty regular thing to see recess and outdoor sports canceled and children not allowed to play outside because of "smog days" where the air wasn't even safe to breathe. You don't see that kind of thing happen any more and it really didn't take that long.
Virtue signalling from an organization with a whopping 16 locations.
The patentability standard is non-obvious to one ordinarily skilled in the art. If it's useful, and obvious, then it's already used - it's not novel.

There is no situation I can conceive of where people are saying "Sure, we should do X. It's obvious that it would be better. But we're going to do Y instead anyway." I mean, a company might do that. But everybody in the whole "trade"? Not if there's any competition.

What usually happens instead is "X is clearly better than Y, but we can't use that because of Z" (where Z is cost, safety, durability, reliability, maintainability, regulation, or whatever). Then someone figures out how to do X without Z being an issue, and that's what gets patented, because that part wasn't obvious.
Even if free will isn't a binary of "have it or don't have it", the extent to which we live lives of our own choosing seems very limited. There are some who have the resources to make big changes in their lives, but for most of humanity, the opportunities for change are quite limited.

Our laws and economic systems are structured as if we all have complete autonomy. What if we don't?

“Moreover, the deterministic perspective allows for compassion towards others. And this applies to anyone — those who are criminals, members of the opposite political party, the guy who cut you off on the highway on-ramp, and anyone less fortunate than you. Because these humans did not choose their parents, did not choose the society they were born into, and did not create the cells in their body, they cannot be to blame for their actions — they have merely been dealt some unfortunate life playing cards. In a certain sense, awareness of the deterministic model can be an antidote to the arrogance and hatred that are rampant in modern society.”
The article mentions regular (pedal) bikes are included.

"Pedal bicycles are also included in the generous incentive package, though e-bikes are contributing to one of the biggest jumps in cycling ever across Europe and much of the world."
"I am sure the app you wrote does not have millions of users daily, either"

This argument is weak. Its not like millions of people are crammed within the app all at the same time, while integrated with AD, or other microsoft bloatware. It may impress inexperienced devs, but it's really not much of an architectural challenge. MS could have done a better job.

But to satisfy your curiosity, my background is in developing some rather large systems, used by hundreds of millions. Not these apps specifically (although they do handle large amounts of data, a lot more than teams), and it's a good indicator that I know what I am talking about and without bragging I can smell poor design and a lazy job.
Am I an outlier? I think probably most people could focus on a red triangle for 10 minutes or something, if they wanted to, to "prove" that they had free will.

Changing major habits is much harder, I would agree, but it's just something you have to work at & study. Nobody will change if they aren't motivated to do so. I don't think that really is a free will issue.
Can you substantiate this point? What do you mean?
Great job! Did a similar study for Germany about 7 years ago based on their published 30-minute production and demand data and arrived to very similar conclusions. It's not as good as in Australia because both wind and solar in Germany is less reliable, also good enough.
Maybe we could have laws that protect us from these kind of cameras instead of enforcing them. I'm against saying "No you can't do this" but I'm all for "You must show us how you do this" or "This thing must be optional".
Whatever governments decide, you will not be able to buy a gasoline car after 2030 because the car manufacturers do not want to make them.

A gasoline car will not be able to compete with an electric car in terms of performance and cost. The only reason electric cars are more expensive than gasoline cars is because of the lower production volumes at the moment + the car manufacturers can charge a premium for an electric car at the moment.

Charging stations will be available everywhere. It's fairly easy and cheap to install and consumers will require it from the restaurants, stores, municipalities etc. It's a selling point and also a source of additional income.

(I'm talking consumer cars here, not some heavy duty vehicles or other special vehicles which might still benefit from a combustion engine).
What was the point of BTC and ETH then? We already have the system you describe with fiat currency and traditional banks.
> I am baffled they are still on the market.

Given the long mean time it takes to crack Denuvo games currently. I'm not surprised, it keeps games out of the pirate market long enough that by the time it's cracked the game is old enough that it's probably already at a reduced price.
Or you call them trailers in the movie theater (which also have ads). I don't mind them and they're pretty easy to skip in my experience.
Moreover, the partially spent fuel* can be reprocessed to the point of getting more than 99% of the potential energy out of it, and then chemically processed into a safe and stable state beyond that -- if only such processing was permitted everywhere Uranium is being used to make heat for generating electricity.

*calling partially spent fuel "waste" ignores that current policy only allows for 5 to 10% of the energy in a unit of uranium fuel to be extracted and used. It's not "waste" until all of the usable fuel has been extracted through recycling.
I live in California and the charger network is barely adequate for the current number of electric cars. If everyone had them, there would be hours-long lines for chargers.

Electric cars are still a luxury for people who have dedicated parking spaces with chargers at home, and the voters all know it.

By the way, I am not against electric cars. I own one. I'm just being realistic about their practicality for the general population.
You're not forced to use your cellphone. But society might hypothetically get to a point where it's extremely inconvenient not to.
Just like you’re not forced to use a smartphone, or a car?
That is wild, thank you both for for the link/explanation.
Americans support measured and reasonable policies. The ones presented politically are often unreasonable and relatively extreme, or try to smuggle in fringe ideological objectives that have little to do with the nominal problem. This is where the perception that the political class is not serious about these problems comes from.

Just because people want solutions to these problems doesn't mean they will support stupid or wasteful policies to address them.
The term "virtue signaling" has always confused me. Doing anything is better than doing nothing. I suppose you think California is doing nothing though.

Regardless, I prefer seeing "virtue signaling" over "vice signaling" — for example: "Drill Baby Drill".
>First, those streaming services are ad-free. Cable is not.

like that will never change. Also in the case of Disney at least, and maybe HBOMax, the existence of the service itself is one giant platform for the media of the studio.

furthermore, where the studio based platform is concerned, it used to be when you bought product placement in a movie you were thinking not about how it would do after theatrical release, but in the case of product placement in the large studio associated movies, especially the ones Disney own of shared universes, I think that should be a real consideration and also in the coming years a selling point.
"Privacy protection is a growing concern in the digital era, with machine vision techniques widely used throughout public and private settings. Existing methods address this growing problem by, e.g., encrypting camera images or obscuring/blurring the imaged information through digital algorithms. Here, we demonstrate a camera design that performs class-specific imaging of target objects with instantaneous all-optical erasure of other classes of objects. This diffractive camera consists of transmissive surfaces structured using deep learning to perform selective imaging of target classes of objects positioned at its input field-of-view. After their fabrication, the thin diffractive layers collectively perform optical mode filtering to accurately form images of the objects that belong to a target data class or group of classes, while instantaneously erasing objects of the other data classes at the output field-of-view."

This only works for the privacy-minded, naive among us. If you want to exclude something from a picture or video. Do NOT record it, at all, EVER! If it can record anything it can record the wrong thing.
It's complete horseshit because public toilets contribute a statistically insignificant amount of sewage to the sewage system.

And it is horseshit not bullshit because the people offering it care that people like you buy it. If it was bullshit, they wouldn't actually care if people like you buy it.

And it has to be horseshit because unaffected people aren't going to buy into the idea of toilets having poor toilet paper just to make using them suck.
I actually don't care as much for iterators as I thought I would. Beyond some simpler map().reduce() stuff they tend to fall over pretty fast, and I end up spending too much time trying to make iterator chains work before defaulting to for loops. I also dislike how anemic Rust's stdlib is. I'm sure there are good reasons, but I like that I can just reach for Go's stdlib for annotating errors or dealing with JSON. Other than that, I like the API design in Rust's stdlib.

Here's an example where the iterator-chain version is way more complex:

let posts = read_dir(source_directory)?
.filter_map(|result| {
(|| {
let entry = result?;
let os_file_name = entry.file_name();
let file_name = os_file_name.to_string_lossy();
if Self::is_bundle(&entry)? {
self.parse_post_bundle(&file_name, &entry.path())
.map(Some)
} else if file_name.ends_with(MARKDOWN_EXTENSION) {
self.parse_post(
file_name.trim_end_matches(MARKDOWN_EXTENSION),
&mut File::open(&entry.path())?,
)
.map(Some)
} else {
Ok(None)
}
})()
.transpose()
})
.collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;

Here's the imperative version:

let mut posts = Vec::new();
for result in read_dir(source_directory)? {
let entry = result?;
let os_file_name = entry.file_name();
let file_name = os_file_name.to_string_lossy();
if Self::is_bundle(&entry)? {
posts.push(self.parse_post_bundle(&file_name, &entry.path())?);
} else if file_name.ends_with(MARKDOWN_EXTENSION) {
posts.push(self.parse_post(
file_name.trim_end_matches(MARKDOWN_EXTENSION),
&mut File::open(&entry.path())?,
)?);
}
}
Only the impotent have the luxury of purity.
Facebook,Twitter Take Down US Propaganda Operation Targeting Russia, China, Iran
Yes, that was my thinking. A lot of urban core drivers come in from the suburbs. I'd be willing to bet that people from outside the city are behind a disproportionate share of aggressive incidents.
https://sambleckley.com/
The raft of anti-automobile measures taking place in true-blue areas are facing backlash already. People talk a big game about phasing out cars and forcing people to take public transit or ride bicycles, but once those measures start to directly affect people the backlash is significant. Losing street parking makes business owners angry, losing a lane on your commute because it was converted to a bike lane no one seems to ever use causes a lot of resentment. I can also see a lot of middle class people becoming angry about the fact that if they want an automobile they have to pay for a more expensive electric car - perhaps even making it unaffordable. Then they realize this is by design because their leaders want to force them to take public transportation.

It can be argued that these measures ultimately need to happen, but it really seems like the strategy is to make the automobile experience worse and the backlash from ordinary citizens can't be diminished or dismissed.
I use torrents frequently for downloading Linux distros. Last weekend I downloaded Debian[0].

Plex has many legitimate use cases. More recently they've pushed into streaming by licensing free content[1], and adding a UI to show where to watch a given show given a set of streaming services that you subscribe to[2].

Aside from that they have their streaming Live TV/DVR[3] feature where you plug a TV tuner into your computer to stream your TV from anywhere, and record it to disk. I have this setup, and it can be useful when watching sports with friends because nobody I know has cable setup 24/7 -- they usually plug an antenna in when they want to watch a game.

The more common Plex features of managing a TV, movie, and music library have legitimate use cases of providing a way to stream media that you have purchased and copied to disk.

Lastly, just yesterday I uploaded all of the lecture videos of a course I'm taking to my Plex instance which allows me to stream them from anywhere or download them for offline viewing using a reliable app instead of the Canvas UI.

Out of honesty I'll admit that I do use Plex for piracy. I previously had subscriptions to Netflix and HBO, and I'll often purchase a subscription when there's a new show that I want to watch (e.g. the new Game of Thrones series). I'm not going to subscribe to 10 different streaming services to watch what I want (which is often just background noise while I work), which is what the industry is moving to.

[0]: https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/

[1]: https://watch.plex.tv/live-tv

[2]: https://www.plex.tv/blog/end-the-streaming-struggle-with-ple...

[3]: https://support.plex.tv/articles/225877347-live-tv-dvr/
Perhaps, but they are not banning gas stations or driving gasoline cars. So, the infrastructure does not all have to be in place for all drivers by then. Question is, will EVs actually be affordable by then. The vehicle repair market for gasoline vehicles might get a decent boost.
yeah, the grandparent comment is utterly absurd. if it's cheaper for them to make, then they're making it an upsell even though it could be a standard feature. and if that's happening, but no competitor is coming along to take advantage of this cost situation and standardize the upsell, then there's something wrong with the market.

this subscription approach is just rent-seeking behavior, which is another sign that there's something wrong with the market.
Cars are smart enough. My 2022 Mini Cooper SE lets you set or schedule departure time. Most new electric cars let you set desired charge level as well, and will delay charging until it's needed.
In my day job I use Thunderbird on a Mac, with HTML turned off. Because too many colleagues send Office attachments. So you don't need to use a command line to turn HTML off (but neither do you need to be afraid to use it CLI ;-)

Citations:

"HTML Email: Whenever Possible, Turn It Off!"
https://subversion.american.edu/aisaac/notes/htmlmail.htm

https://phishingtackle.com/articles/phishing-emails-with-htm...
Well Empress does seem to be a total lunatic, but they have been cracking denuvo games recently. eg. dying light 2 and deathloop
it simply is not because EV cars are far out of reach for most Americans. Unless they are providing upto 95% subsidy most will not sell their ICE cars and will keep buying used ICE cars

In fact this type of virtue signaling only hurts the people on the fringes because now the ICE car market and dealers will just cite this ban to markup their cars even more on top of the supply chain excuse.

This is a "let them eat cake" moment on already widened wealth gap. The people at the top sure do care more about these things than their fellow Americans who are barely above the poverty line.
Given that electric cars are already cheaper to run than ICE cars, especially older and less efficient ICE cars, the transition should be net positive for poorer people. I'm being somewhat panglossian here of course, but lower fuelling and maintenance costs have the potential to help, not hinder. We just have to get there.
Consider the party affiliation of the people who receive the money and the people who will be paying for it, and all will become clear.
If you have multiple tables, how do you avoid suggesting a wrong column, before filling out the table name?

You could suggest all columns up front, and then afterwards tell the user “this suggestion doesn’t exist”, which would just erode trust in the autocomplete.
This is how we can tell you are not a cyclist.

It is very difficult to use the brakes and indicate a change in direction at the same time.

While cyclists should indicate, the nature of the vehicle does make it hard under some conditions.

Here's a question for you. If i am stopped at a red light on my bike in what is clearly a left turn lane, why do cars attempt to pull up in front of me anyhow?

Cant be bothered waiting for me to make the left so they just force themselves in front of me? is this because i didn't signal?
I'm genuinely curious (because I'd like to apply for the correct jobs in the future)...what are the differences, specifically what duties might each role do at a job that differentiates an engineer from a programmer?
US Cities Try Luring Remote Tech Workers with Cash
How long until home appliance companies charges you a monthly fee for feature like "steam wash" or ice cube machine on a fridge?
> but it's the twin meanings of NULL that really kills me

NULL only has one meaning: NULL. This is roughly analogous to unknown.

The one that his a lot of people is WHERE <value> NOT IN (<set>) where <set> contains a NULL. Because NOT IN unrolls to “<value> <> <s1> AND <value> <> <s2> AND … AND <value> <> <sx>” any NULL values in the set makes one predicate NULL which makes the whole expression NULL even if one or more of the other values match.

> I have no way of knowing if that means there's a record [5, NULL] in table y, or if there's no record in table y that starts with 5.

Not directly, but you can infer the difference going by the value of (in your example) y.a - if it is NULL then there was no match, otherwise a NULL for y.b is a NULL from the source not an indication of no match.

> SQL should have specified another NULL-like value

This sort of thing causes problems of its own. Are the unknowns equivalent? Where are they relevant? How do they affect each other? Do you need more to cover other edge cases? I have memories of VB6's four constants of the apocalypse (null, empty, missing, nothing).

This is one of the reasons some purists argue against NULL existing in SQL at all, rather than needing a family of NULL-a-likes.