skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So I was an electrical engineer and designed a drive system for an electric vehicle company. Electric car has, in some sense, all of those. It has a motor(s) instead of a starter. It has an inverter and gearbox instead of a 'transmission' [0]. It has a rectifier / charging system instead of a fuel pump. It has a DC/DC converter instead of an alternator. It has HV electrical distribution network instead of gas lines. Instead of the metals in a catalytic converter or a gas tank, you have hundreds of pounds of chemistries such as lithium nickel cobalt aluminium oxide. Instead of a muffler or air intake, you have air and fluid cooling systems for the batteries. There are 'all various sensors' for battery temperature and status monitoring as well as for positioning and feedback of the motors.

The point is that in a plug-in hybrid you still need all that. You're carrying around two full drivetrains instead of one, for a benefit that might actually be pretty marginal.
A safety incident that results in the unsafe worker or someone with him dying is usually considered a regrettable occurrence. A safety issue that could irradiate a portion of the city is a bit higher.

Same reason we investigate air and rail incidents much more than we investigate most car crashes.
Most password managers will already do this, right? Like the iOS and Firefox built in ones will remember a username/password pair.
that is built into bitwarden actually
I've had my eye on Carp[1], if you're interested. Uses ownership like Rust instead of GC, sort of a rust-like typed lisp.

1: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
they mean generator
15k NOW. The downward cost of batteries means replacements will cost less in the future.

If you have a nickel-cobalt Tesla battery right now, there is going to be at a minimum LFP (no nickel/cobalt) replacements available. Or Li-S, or Solid State, or some sodium ion or maybe sodium sulfur.

If your car lasts ten years, that is going to a completely different ballgame given what is coming down the pipe from technology and scaling.

Even if it drops to 150 mile range, guess what? That is still a car with a ton of use cases: city car, cab, delivery car, etc. Unlike an ICE where the engine or transmission breaks, a battery losing range is still a battery that works.
Funny how we will easily spend that on something ephemeral like a phone or vacation but question it for something that will last forever.
I think the idea is that a for-profit motive forces you to choose "cheap". And if your contract has productivity targets, it constrains you to also select "fast".

These types of contracts are often selected for lowest bidder. I know of one such example where the contractor was pressed during the bid process about how they could be so competitive with their quote. The retort was to the effect of "Our secret is we do more with less." Unless there really is a vast difference in capability of the competing contractors, this naturally puts downward pressure on just doing less (in the form of following certain requirements).
If you don’t want to anchor a band for face pulls, at least do band pull aparts. I do about 10 every hour on the hour. Shoulders feel great.
> If I need to touch 3D hardware, I now have to deal with different API's on different platforms.

Been programming since late 70s. Graphics in many ways WAY easier than they were in the 70s, 80s, 90s. Sure there's Metal, DirectX, Vulkan, and OpenGL but you can still use OpenGL on pretty much all platform or use something like ANGLE.

Back in the 80s, 90s, you didn't even have APIs, you just manipulated the hardware directly and every hardware was entirely different. Apple II was different than Atari 800, which was different than C64, which was different than Amiga, which was different than CGA, and different than EGA, and different than Tandy, and different than VGA, and different than MCGA. NES was different than Sega Master System which was different the SNES which was different than Genesis which was different than 3DO which was different than Saturn which was different than PS1 etc... It's only about 2005-2010 that it all kind of settled down into various APIs that execute shaders and everything basically became the mostly the same. The data and shaders at an algorithmic level that you're using for your PC game are the same or close to it On Xbox 360, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Mac, Linux. Where as all those previous systems were so different you had to redo all a ton more stuff.

On top of which there are now various libraries that will hide most of the differences from you. ANGLE, Dawn, wgpu, WebGL, Canvas, Skia, Unreal, Unity, etc...
Unless all your user names are your email address
I'm currently on a team at a big well known tech company. I would argue we actually don't have the right talent to solve the problem at hand. A very complex technical vision, and a team of 10 all making > 300k. And yet, the execution and technical architecture is mediocre. Companies are hemorrhaging money on developers that can execute, but struggle to create innovative flexible ground breaking software.
1. As far as i'm aware there's no way to reliably catch all panics. catch_unwind does not catch all panics.
2. The whole point is that consequences of a panic are worse than the consequences of memory corruption. That's how the kernel was designed. There was an explicit design decision not to kernel panic in every situation where a logic error occurs.
This page shows like 15 copies of the same mildly NSFW ad. Surprised this is a thing on Spacedaily.
The amount of hot takes in this threat with half completed math and reasoning is amazing.
I'm of the opinion the cost of climate change is likely to exceed the cost of free parking.
The Aptera will do over 300 miles at highway speed, probably over 600: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiH-Y-HOvE
I admit it's alluring. It's just a chunk of greyish metal, how dangerous could it be?

Radioactivity is already a mysterious and fascinating and alluring phenomenon, and somehow radioactive things not looking particularly dangerous only adds to that effect.

There's something strange about ionizing radiation: it's extremely dangerous, yet we have never evolved the ability to detect it and have no intuition for it.
Using oil to generate oil is very very rare. It really only happens on small islands where some other power plant doesn’t make sense and there is no connection to a larger grid. For example, many places in Hawaii used oil before solar became cheap enough. Alaska would have also, if it weren’t for abundant hydro that villages and towns off the grid have always been able to tap into.
Because Brazil belongs to BRICS (Brazil Russia India China South Africa), Lula previous government was already amicable with the economic block. He wouln't shoot his own foot to openly condenmn Russia and potentially lose a big economic partner
https://blog.djha.skin/blog/developing-common-lisp-using-gnu...
I would love nothing more than to have an EV, a Tesla battery and solar panels at home. But like most Australians, I rent. And when you rent here you can barely put a hook up on the wall without the owners permission (and usually them saying ‘no’ [and don’t even get me started on how paranoid it makes a renter feel to have to ask the owner for permission for something. There’s always the thought of ‘if I ask too much, will they not renew my lease and will I ever be able to find another rental in these conditions?’… but that’s another story])

And that doesn’t even take into account how expensive EVs are here, either.

So for now, it’s my ‘99 Camry all the way.
Two non-linear learning curves are happening. Indian GDP is increasing and battery costs are decreasing.
A mere 6 fast chargers at 20% utilization would roughly double the electricity needs of a store.

Double.

Not to mention, we haven’t had to increase the capacity of our electric grid in decades (and it’s still falling down regularly), yet getting everyone in EVs quickly would increase the average need by a fair bit.

I did the calculations some time ago, and it was about 43,000 GWh/y for CA (15m cars * .24 KWh/m * 12,000 annual miles). For reference CA has a yearly electricity generation capacity of just under 200k GWH/y.
Engine work, transmission maintenance or rebuild, replacing fuel pump, belts, alternator, etc. these are all totally standard and very common repairs for ICE vehicles no matter how many miles you say you’ve driven without having to touch them…

EV maintenance costs have been well studied at this point and are lower than ICE, and for very sensible reasons, it’s not a mystery or a canard.

There have been many many studies. Here’s a random one;

https://www.consumerreports.org/hybrids-evs/evs-offer-big-sa...
Seconding this - in the last ummm... almost 30 years I've been in the industry, the whole industry has only expanded, and you gain value as you gain skills - if you feel like you're not learning or not enjoying or no longer able to find valuable roles as eg. a programmer, branch into infra or security or data tech or any of a bunch of different places that have grown - your expertise in any field inside IT will make you more valuable in others.

As an example, I've recently shifted from manager back to hands-on tech, and then from platform work (building tools for devs) to security - and knowing the engineering space makes me more valuable in the security space. I'll do this for a few years, then look for the next interesting jump. Nothing I've learnt is ever wasted - and I started when everything had to be patched to work on linux and sendmail.cf files were state of the art ;)

Also, flipping between the big three types of workplace - startup, enterprise, and consulting - adds to your understanding of the world and overall value.

When I started out, old engineers weren't a thing - it used to be accepted wisdom that this was a young person's field. That's not true any more, and I doubt it'll ever be - just keep learning, pace yourself (marathon, not sprint), enjoy yourself, and keep expanding your awareness/knowledge.
Well, either steeper penalties via regulation, or via competition for labour:

> [...] the threshold most people are comfortable risking their lives for a job for [...]

This suggests that employers with a reputation for danger would have higher labour costs.
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people who can't / don't want to learn to create stuff directly.

That’s 99% of the people. I mean even to learn prompt engineering will probably be too much for majority of those 99% people, but it’s a huge step forward in user friendliness, compared to, say, photoshop.

”what itch does this scratch"?

How many people post pictures on social media? Many of those pictures are not personal, they show something pretty, cool, or interesting in some way. All of those people can potentially use image generators to achieve the same effect.
Part of the difference between a junior and a senior role is that people in a senior role are expected to fill in missing details independently, without detailed directions. If you only test people on their ability to follow detailed directions, then you will only be able to test for junior roles.

When I give candidates prompts / questions / scenarios, I try to include some specific instructions, but also leave some details out. The idea is to come up with a prompt that junior developers can still work with by going head-on, but which has some open-ended nature to it, to see how people respond to things which are open-ended or even ambiguous. It's not a trick or trap; candidates are explicitly told what's up, and that I'm evaluating not only their ability to solve a problem, but to define the problem in the first place.
Also expensive, to provide a roof that’s able to withstand snow and solar panels.
That seems to be a feature of lowest-bid procurement, no matter whether the bidders are non-profits or whatever.
Dude, Tata just released a new EV, Tata Tiago, which has a range of 250 km, charges in 7 hours (or 1 hour fast charging).

Costs Rs. 9 lakhs, about 11,000 USD. They give a 7 year battery warranty.

For coty commutes, which is most of car usage in India, this is a perfect spot.

And Tata, has proven EV tech, via its Nexon EV range (400 km range, 22000 USD for the highest end version).

Tata cars have solid build quality, great resale value and are blindly trusted by many Indians.
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I'm tired of outsized banker bonuses and socialized losses. Cleaning out the disease allows for new owners to step in. Take out some cash money for some bills, and let's get started with the cleanup.
I didn't claim I agree or disagree with this. I answered GP's question on Haidt's argument, especially because I found the other reponses didn't do justice to Haidt by focusing on research that would contradict the dominant narrative. As far as I could tell from the article he didn't allude to that.

The question that triggered his reaction is (quoting from the article) 'whether and how this submission advances the equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals of SPSP.' Indeed in principle they could just answer that it doesn't. What is left out here is why they are asking this. If the purpose of the question is unclear then researchers may feel incentivised to lie to 'fit' the requirements.

My personal view is that this is much ado about nothing. More likely than not most people will ignore the answers. There will, however, be reviewers who use that to reject papers.
By all the accounts I've read, there should be some lag time sufficient to commit suicide, unless you're knocked out (they usually wake before the worst of it, though not always), and excepting temperature burns.

But somewhat like quantum suicide, it may be the type of experiment where even a tiny chance of the corner case is still a complete turn-off. Your insides slowly liquifying seems to be one of the worst ways--possibly the worst way--to meet your end.

EDIT: In retrospect, if you're the Los Alamos version of the Hold-my-beer type--judging by the article and especially the photo, such people apparently exist--I suppose it might not be a complete turn-off. (I'm imagining the guy handing his beer and a bullet to his buddy, instructing to give him one or the other depending on the outcome.)
That linked document must be written for a very specific target audience because it seems to use a lot of words without providing context of the problem it's solving. The example in their GH repo is a little more "this does what?": https://github.com/jina-ai/docarray#example-1-represent-mult... although even that is a little "don't worry where there seemingly random methods on Document came from" which https://docarray.jina.ai/api/docarray.document/#docarray.doc... seems to fill in a little more

Then again, I guess folks were similarly confused in the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jina.ai

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/jina-ai
Are you okay with companies being politically involved when it comes to their business?
Counter example: electronic medical records.

Billions was poured into this and I remember it being a big item in healthcare reform. But im still answering the same questions and filling out the same forms every time I go see a doctor.

Generally more money and mandates from top down don't work
How many Basij attend Sharif again? Zero, right? So not a "student vs student". Also Sharif students carry books, basij chains, sticks, and other weapons.

+I can start posting letters of professors demanding release of abducted -- "arrested" implies a sort of civilized police behavior, which is not applicable here -- students.

> Some of the students were arrested because of rioting.

Save it for the trials. In fact, if I were a beneficiary of "Islamic Republic" I would pray that there will be trials.

You guys will reap the whirlwind. Mark my words.
> I've found that simple function based code written around algebraic data types tends to be much more fluid and able to conform to changing worlds.

How do you explain that?
Don't forget about neutron moderators like water or graphite. Pouring water on a pile of fissile material can be enough to induce criticality. The fast neutrons interact with hydrogen atoms in water to produce thermal neutrons which are much more likely to participate in a chain reaction.
Isn't "correcting past wrongs" how wars usually start? Anti-racists don't want justice in the future, they want revenge for the past.
That depends on whether we're talking about hard-realtime or soft-realtime.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=hard-realtime+soft-realtime

> A hard-real time system is a system in which a failure to meet even a single deadline may lead to complete or appalling system failure. A soft real-time system is a system in which one or more failures to meet the deadline are not considered complete system failure, but that performance is considered to be degraded.
It is easier in some ways, agreed. I kinda miss the olden days of doing page flipping in DOS through EMS :) You're right, it was the wild wild west up until D3D and OGL standardized everything, and a big shift happened in the shift from fixed function to programmable pipelines. I love this kind of stuff!

I can still program mode 13h from memory, and I can only imagine the cool, arcane witchcraft that you have acquired having started much before me.

To me, at least, OpenGL was my favorite, I miss its death, but Metal, Vulkan and DX are close enough. What drives me up a wall is 3D in the browser, since the difficulties of dispatch cost from JS land are profound.
This is a very narrow view that probably stems from the fact that people in the US tend to think only of Teslas and other luxury cars when they think of EVs. Low end EVs, of kinds that either wouldn't obtain road safety approval in the US or appeal to consumers who are looking for large comfort cars, are rapidly emerging and are poised to dominate China, India and other non-Western countries in coming years
Hmm.

There are various fantasy name generators, for D&D and the like.
Alright we can call the FDA-regulations-on-top-of-capitalism thing Americaism, and say there's something wrong with that then. Because whatever part you want to blame it on, regulation bug or capitalism or corporate greed, something has gone wrong. Here's a medical technology that improves people's lives, but it's being held back from dying patients (an estimated 7% of men with depression go on to commit suicide) because they couldn't make enough money from it. I guess the real question is how could you structure regulations so as to incentivize getting FDA approval for unpatenable life-saving medicine?
Consider adding an RSS feed to your blog! I tried to add it to my NetNewsWire and was disappointed.
And when there's nice weather.
I'd describe Ubisoft, Bungie and Rockstar mediocre companies as well. Their best games were made decades ago. The only thing that's improved is graphical fidelity.
Technical debt is a metaphor about intentionally making tradeoffs. If engineers are unskilled, it's unlikely that they can do that.

All problem code is not technical debt.

https://www.castsoftware.com/blog/ward-cunningham-capers-jon...
It appears that LANL is a safer workplace than average

"Average workplace" probably isn't the appropriate comparison.

Some industries (like construction) probably wouldn't be a good comparison. By contrast, the article states LANL had more incidents than all other 23 DOE combined.
Yes, thank you. That's what I thought I pasted! :}
And some apartment and office space owners outright refuse to add chargers. With all that copper, they’re outright magnets for thieves.
The core did nothing wrong.
If almost everyone transitions to EVs, wouldn’t that reduce demand enough for oil to bring it down to < $5? The big problem would then be distribution as gas stations go out of business, but if long distance trucks still use diesel, truck stops could service legacy ICE passenger cars.
> conspiracy theorists
Heh, when was the last time they had credibility
Oh, definitely. Microsoft likely put that feature in because there was some demand for it from some important enough customers.
> EVs are definitely going to remain a first-world item for my lifetime at least.

In India there are some relatively cheap EVs on sale, and they're all picking up stream.

By cheap, this is what I mean: the price of Tata Nexon EV is slightly over the price of Hyundai Accent (called "Verna" over here) and maybe equivalent to the price of a Kia Seltos. The Nexon EV is now a fairly common sight in Indian cities.

Then there's the slightly more expensive MG ZS EV, which at this point I'm seeing on the roads fairly frequently.

Haven't seen too many Hyundai Kona on the road. Tesla is unfortunately not in India yet. There are some super-expensive EV models from Mercedes and the likes, but those are very expensive.

(Disclaimer: I'm NOT affiliated in any way with any of the brands I mentioned).
You forgot that they maybee need everyday drive to the work that is not in the city and other people that life not in the city needs to drive in the city.
As far as I'm aware there's no way to reliably catch all panics. catch_unwind does not catch all panics. Handlers don't stop the program from terminating abruptly.
I hear that, but also predatory marketing does work. We have to take responsibility for our actions, but I do see times when other are also culpable for bad decisions people make.
That almost seems a shame because smeagull is a fantastic username.
Only history can tell. But all these are temporary as once the infrastructure is everywhere, the extra baggage and maintenance of gas based car will kill its infra first. And hydrogen … sigh.
Great, so replace all the ICE parking lanes with electric bus rapid transit lanes. It will do much more for climate change than car chargers.

Edit: Should have mentioned the climate change is one of the biggest components of the cost of free parking. Without all the government-mandated parking spaces for the past 60 years, there would be far fewer cars today. It's not too late to reverse that.
I live in one of the top ten largest cities in the US. 5GHz doesn't go that far through walls.

I live walking distance to a train to take me to an airport non stop around the world.

Try again.
This is going to work great on me, having spent most of my life pouncing on this name on every platform.