skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a simple example: you probably buy on Amazon and find it's order history webpage simple and nice. Now let's say you want to collect such history in your desktop, link it to the corresponding bank transactions per any order (you have bought many things and they are charged separately on your bank), link to some bought items notes like when the warranty period end in your agenda. What do you need to achieve such result?

In CLIs you need a way to query in text all such elements, you are limited by the limited and limiting Amazon WebUI who do not offer anything cat-able, even not anymore a manual *sv export. Not much different is the situation on your bank side where if you are lucky you just get manual ofx/qif export.

In a classic CLI world you wold have a remote service who can be queried ssh-in it and locally process the output. In modern Emacs you can do the same in a modern 2D DOCUMENT-BASED GUIs. You just need a bit of math to mach items to bank transactions, nothing more than 20 SLoC. With the WebUI paradigms you need perhaps a WebVM extension with around 5-10k SLoC to achieve something similar...
Statements about X specialized task requiring AGI are questionable now, just like they were questionable when they were said about Chess, Go and Video Games.
I think you may be biased towards the reasons to replace it, given that it was your creation, and we're not hearing the whole story.

It may well be that the system was difficult to maintain _because_ it used a bespoke framework of vanilla JS and handcrafted SQL Server queries.

Or that they wanted to improve the workflow of importing CSVs, and build modern features around it, which would be a mountain of work.

Or that the company outgrew it and it was difficult to scale.

Or, you might be right, and it was politically and financially driven. But then the technology choice wouldn't have mattered, and you could've chosen a more complex stack just as well.

I appreciate the sentiment of trying to keep things simple and not jumping on the bandwagon of the latest trends, but sometimes choosing a popular framework is not a bad idea. Particularly in corporate environments where the project is not owned by a single person, churn is high, and new developers are expected to eventually take over maintenance.
Oh yes, and when I paid my speeding ticket last week I proved I was smuggling drugs down the interstate.
>There may be good technical and legal reasons why the certificates can't be updated remotely or are set to expire, but if I were the companies involved I would take in some devices, 'refurbish' them with new certificates and send them out to medical practices for drop in replacement, rather than sending out new devices.

It's about that the Devices DON'T accept new certificates over a certain date, like when your iphone just accept certificates who are valid up to 2022, then you need a new iphone, that should be illegal, and the firm should have to pay the technician/fw-update.
Cheaper, and insufficient. We've got less than 30 years to reduce our emissions to zero. Replace a little more than 3% of fossil plants annually and you decarbonize the grid in that time, but there's also transportation. You'll need way more electricity for electric cars, and then there's ships and airplanes, for which we'll need some kind of carbon-neutral liquid fuel. We have to replace all the steel plants, and figure out some kind of carbon-neutral cement, and somehow stop all the emissions from agriculture, and do something about all the high-temperature industrial processes that burn their own fossil. Meanwhile, our energy usage is increasing by a couple percent a year, which is why with all the wind/solar/storage we've built so far, we haven't made a dent in decreasing emissions.
Breaking Test Assumptions
I've been working on a new way to build product, borne out of my own experiences and frustrations. I would love to validate these ideas, so I have started writing them down.

This is my first blog article, based on changing the way we test. If we represent our products in the way our users do, as flows, we by proxy start solving a lot of unnecessarily held beliefs.

I would love to discuss, having been just a long time lurker on HN in the past.
Friendly reminder to call your mom, you won’t always be able to.
Agreed. Though not strictly a counterpoint. I do enjoy novelty (and benefit from it). I just want the right amount of it
Trains won't do last mile delivery.
Check Nikola spots like the subreddit, Twitter, Stocktwits. Lots of bag holders who are technically investors, but really just ordinary middle class people in deep losses from Nikola.

Still nothing close to the examples you gave but Theranos is as blatantly a con from the get go as Nikola.
> The current model can be made sustainable with time, proper policy and technological advancement. If for whatever reason we can't manage that, we're screwed.

Given history, the human psyche, as well as "progress" to date...then I'm betting on the fact that there are better odds of oil and water mixing.

We'd have a better chance 100 or 200 years ago when the masses we comfortable with and embraced sacrifice. Now it's all about comfort sans any sort of sacrifice. In addition, there's a destructive symbiotic relationship with those expectations and how leaders lead and how political parties think (i.e., short term, at best).

Climate change aside, the current model in the USA simply isn't sustainable. Infant mortality rate, obesity, mental health, gun violence, opioids...the list goes on and on. Covid was an opportunity to adjust course. Maybe even pivot. But we didn't have the will and our commitment to "back to normal" (which is corrupt and problematic at best) is stronger than ever.

We can't get off the sofa. How we gonna face climate change?

As far as technology solutions, we're headed for some form of The Matrix. The masses will be comfortable and consumption and pollution will be far less.
"Clean" energy as long as everything goes right for the next fifty to a hundred years. No war fighting in the vicinity, no terrorist attacks, no "impossible accident" through unforeseen natural catastrophes, negligence, suicidal airline pilots (it has happened, fortunately they didn't try to hit a nuclear plant)... And of course the long-term storage problem, which almost no other country has solved so far, has to be solved, otherwise the timeline extends by a couple thousand years.

Yeah, I'm no fan of nuclear power. I'd like to be, but I subscribe to the "black swan" school of thought, basically refusing to accept miniscule probabilities with extremely high downsides predicted over long timespans...
Why is the Ukraine empty?
Germany not Spain....

>>difficult to imagine ways to end up more incompetent than literally all German public

I think that pretty much sums it up perfectly.
"Treating metabolic disorders is as complex as treating ADHD."

This sentence presumes ADHD is a medical discovery, not a social construct, and several other things other things which are debatable.

(This is not to discount the suffering of anyone being treated by a psychiatrist, suffering is real, diagnostic criteria, the objective reality of mental health categories, and what percentage of people benefit from drugs is debatable).

"the last 10 years of technology have reshaped the entire landscape of medical diagnosis and treatment."

I care about whether people are healthier than they are 10 years ago, not how exciting it is to read an article with the words "cancer" juxtaposed with "A.I."

This quote suggests people aren't getting any healthier, which suggests your claims about the wonderous advances over the last 10 year may be overblown:

"Suicide rates haven't come down. The rate of prevalence for many of these disorders, if anything, has gone up, not down. That tells you that whatever we've been doing is probably not adequate,"
Ok, I gotta ask. How does NIST source a large supply of mud that's stable in composition over a long period of time, both in terms of supply chain and storage?

That seems to be the case for a lot of these items. Either they have a process for making these products with sourced ingredients that are somehow hyper stable or they buy up 1000lbs of breakfast cereal, grind it into powder, then vacuum seal and freeze it in a vault somewhere alongside powdered sewage, all the time assuming nobody in the future of the planet will need more than 1000lbs of reference powdered breakfast cereal total.
It seems to me like the same phenomenon that affects many (not all) programmers/web developers, what they experience on their latest-latest computer with a zillion GB of RAM and high quality display connected to fast-fast fibre is very different from what a home user with a few years old entry level laptop connected via slow DSL will.
The definitions I see for group all use "a number",e.g. "a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together". So if you're willing to accept 1 as a possible value for a number, it's not an oxymoron.
True, true. However, if I had to bet... I'd bet in a fully self driving world (using today's tech) there'd be overall far fewer fatal accidents. However there'd also be a lot of bullshit we are simply unwilling to deal with (e.g. cars going 10mph in the rain; slow motion fender benders; car unwilling to turn left; gridlock at intersections; lots of random oddities). I guess my point is that safety metrics are certainly important stats to gauge self driving progress, but certainly not the only metrics that matter, and perhaps not even the most important.
>Paradoxically, traveling Africa can be very expensive, because many parts are so poor and unvisited that there is no demand (and hence no supply) for reasonable transport, hotels, etc.

You just use "unreasonable transport, hotels", which is fine if you're the kind of "traveller" the author claims to be. Due to cost of living differences, they are still much cheaper than Thailand and Vietnam.

It's only "very expensive" if you go for luxury in those places (and even then, due to cost of living, it's cheaper than comparable luxury elsewhere, except if you go to some place that only caters to the elite). For exampke, if there's no transport in a country in Africa, you can usually just hire a guy to serve as a driver for several days - and it's often less than what you pay for a simple train ride betweem countries in Europe.
For anything except sparsely populated rural areas, a train gets you to the city/town, and a mix of public transport + e-bike/e-scooter gets you to your final destination. This is potentially quicker, and much much more efficient than lugging 2-ton capsules around and needing hundreds of thousands of square km of land to keep the things parked 95% of the time.
Is that what he was addressing in his TED talk here
https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM

At 27:46 mark?
That doesn't really match my experience of depression unless you somehow redefine all those terms to mean something else.

It's hard to see where the libido is in someone who doesn't want to get out of bed, even to eat. Or in the case from the article, someone who feels like a piece of wood, and who paces the hospital like a Roomba.

All effects of drugs are effects and they become side effects when they are undesirable. You used to be able to buy the same medication as either a decongestant and an appetite suppressant. In either case, the other effect is a side effect.

On the other hand, if you took an antacid every day for your depression, and had no effect on it, for years, you might consider that it didn't work. However, the analysts didn't think that was possible to say about analysis.
The ice is a reason for SRM. There are proposals to use aerosols specifically to protect arctic ice. Otherwise it's very likely to melt away before we're able to reduce emissions to zero, much less draw CO2 back down to safe levels.
I'm not sure I get your valuation model.
"we're" not investing in self driving it's the car companies, because (presumably) they believe that self driving will make their cars more sellable compared with other brands.

If after another $50B or $100B spent some companies start to pull back on funding because they think diverting funds to other areas will give a better return (better batteries, cheaper manufacturing etc), it's likely others will too.
> The best articles I've read have come from non-content creators, just some person somewhere that decided to write or do a video on a subject they happen to be really passionate about

Totally agree, this is my approach right now and I find a lot of hidden gems but this feels like leaving it to luck. I'm trying to see if there's a more systemic way, similar to HN but small and more focused (maybe curated newsletters)
A bit of a weird tangent, I don't see how this is related to the topic? A private company operates this plant, it will run the plant if it's profitable. It has absolutely nothing to do with "solidarity".
> don't cripple your own horizontal scalability by always reaching for local storage (e.g. when S3 might be better suited) or local application memory (e.g. when Redis might be a good idea).

Is reaching for local storage\memory crippling or not?

Where does the 12factor talk about it?
Musk coined Hyperloop as a distraction to high speed rail. He wanted people to buy Teslas instead of thinking about high speed rail in California. A lot of people fell for his con.
Matt Butcher on Web Assembly as the Next Wave of Cloud Computing
> there was nothing specific that the mobile app could do that a simple website couldn’t … I’m sure even a printed QR code would of sufficed.

I don’t know about that app specifically, but most of the major ticketing providers are doing dynamic barcodes[1] now that are effectively TOTPs for entry. You can’t do this reliably on the web for a major event because you can’t assume network connectivity, and obviously a printout or screenshot won’t work.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/16/ticketmaster-put-an-end-to...
> They literally cannot support their populations without these imports.

That's no accident. It's by intent. Those countries can't develop their own healthy local economies when most everything is shipped in.

Look up clothing donations to Africa. Long to short, there was no way to have say a local cotton + clothing economy when free clothing was been dumped on a given economy.
Ctrl-W in certain contexts (especially shells) deletes the previous word. Shells vary in their behavior, but in this situation partOfAWor^w is essentially the same as using strike through. It implies the writer started writing a word and changed their mind on which word to use.

In this case, they're implying lobbying and corruption are one and the same, as far as I can tell.
I think if we change our assumptions of a headset from what it is today to where it could get to - something like eating glasses every day (seems like a long way away) then this sounds very plausible to me. It’s a race to work out how convenient we can make these headsets.
How do you know this? A size 140 Arsenal jersey wearer I know would beg to differ, the Quatar catastrophe being clear for any age to understand. How do you think it would be inferior? The rules of football would be respected, and also it would match EA's official console football game!
This sounds interesting to me!
I don’t actually mind that the authors you linked have an agenda, their arguments are independent of themselves. I just thought the entire things was odd compared to any of the actually peer reviewed studies I had seen on the subject.

If I wanted to attack the paper I would have pointed out their anti school lockdown examples actually locked down schools thus invalidating their argument. It’s an argument that state governments could have opened schools and restaurants more frequently, not that closing them was never useful.

There are hundreds of peer review studies you can chose from and the vast majority show closing schools was useful. The better ones point out that they could have been open sooner in most areas as long as they where willing to close them should cases rise.
If you chose to build a train with only two stops, yes you could get from one side to the other in only a few minutes. That would have its downsides, like the station not being near your destination, which is why it's rarely done. You would also need a very straight track, which means lots of space for points (places where trains separate from the route onto platforms). This constraint is also shared by Hyperloop.
The difference is that in russia corruption is "in theory" illegal, in germany no one (if you are a politician) gets hurt.

You forgot the mask-scandal ;)
Single-use plastic is a serious problem, but it's insignificant compared to crossing the tipping point on climate.
Mentioning 2^N variants on this specific proposal is probably the worst place to do so - Zca, Zcf, Zcd are all subsets of the 'c' extension, and Zcmp is incompatible with the 'c' extension, which severely cuts down the combinations - having the 'c' extension, which Linux expects, makes all (but Zcb I think?) extensions here either implicitly supported, or incompatible.

And, given the scope & purpose of these extensions, most things (distributed binary programs, OSes, all but a few compilers) won't need to use nor care about these. The alternative to these extensions, to those that need them, would be either suffering decreased performance/increased ROM size, choosing a different architecture, or making proprietary extensions (at which point you could have multiple vendors with incompatible extensions doing the same thing) - all of which are bad alternatives.
This is the logical answer but companies need to profit off something and EVs are what “save the world” right now.

Everyone is committed to being green as long as their lifestyle isn’t inconvenienced and they have the funds to buy the green equivalent technology.
Any recommendations you have in mind?
Why you should post your story to HN on the weekend (and it should be in Rust)
Typically from what I've seen computers go a long period being hopeless at a task, then slightly subhuman-par-superhuman very quickly. It seems to me that as far as algorithm-and-Hz cares human intelligence lives in a very narrow window and once computers get close to it they tend to jump over it.

I'd judge self driving to be slightly subhuman right now - there are definitely worse drivers on the road (typically impaired - drunk, near-blind or high). I'd expect superhuman performance this decade just based on that and the rate of improvement in anything AI related right now.
Where is this kind-of-a-wrapper-article you write about? What am I missing?
One day of maintenance per year is not "difficult", that's basically the point!

I didn't use or create any JS frameworks, which is a part of why the maintenance was easy!

The customer was a government department, and their scale changed only with population. That is: slowly.

> sometimes choosing a popular framework is not a bad idea.

Ironically, the replacement product used a popular but out-of-date technologies such as Enterprise Java Beans. They overused OO paradigms to a hilarious degree, and needed something like 2000x the server capacity to host their application.

Keep in mind that the data, userbase, requiements, etc... are all identical. This is a like-for-like replacement.

They needed an entire team of people just to babysit the infrastructure, which now took a decent chunk of a data center. My app could have handled the production workload while running on my laptop.
Yeah, American corporations typically don't allow it. But, they don't extraordinally well in Poland anyway, so they can just be avoided.
We need better app sandboxing on phones yesterday, with system call filtering so it would be possible to just fake the data app requests
Print media.

NYT Sunday Paper, Atlantic, Economist, New Yorker
That'd be one expensive cocktail.

Always remember to drink in (neutron) moderation!
> The question is, why does food production need a subsidy in the first place?

Short answer, it's how politicians buy votes. Subsidies get the votes of the farmers. Lower food prices get the votes of the masses.

To your point, if politicans don't have the backbone to reduce such subsidies, and the masses don't have the will to demand it...how are we going to address a problem 100x as big?
On the long term I was thinking more along the lines of aligning externalities and economy.

On the short term we might need something before those nuclear plants are up and running.
For Middle East, Lawrence In Arabia by Scott Anderson.

For computing history, Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond.

For inspirational American stories, David McCullough (1933-2022) is
peerless. The Wright Brothers nearly brought me to tears.
Something i occasionally enjoy: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read
Musk knew at the time fsd was nowhere close to working every time he asserted that buying a tesla was a great investment that would make money for you as an autonomous taxi. Blatant fraud, no question about it.
Well, but everyone can read a couple hundreds of JS LOC, and SQL unless you use some obscure rdbms doesn't really change.

Same with HTML.

I'm siding with parent. It's not a technological problem it's a societal one.

Sadly job security involves making everyone's life difficult.
Should "old Shatterhands" have a capital O? (and maybe no s?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Shatterhand
https://github.com/netdata/netdata for real-time monitoring/troubleshooting.
Yet remove all the cycling and public transport and everybody's journey would be slower due to the road filling up with traffic.
Would be nice to have paragraphs
Vancouver's Skytrain has been fully autonomous since, I think, the 1980s.
Perhaps the latest attempt to construct a new nuclear plant in France has something to do with it?

Construction on a new reactor, Flamanville 3, began on 4 December 2007.[4] The new unit is an Areva European Pressurized Reactor type and is planned to have a nameplate capacity of 1,650 MWe. EDF estimated the cost at €3.3 billion[4] and stated it would start commercial operations in 2012, after construction lasting 54 months.[5] The latest cost estimate (July 2020) is at €19.1 billion, with commissioning planned tentatively at the end of 2022.

Oh wait, that was what Wikipedia said a year ago! Now it continues:

In January 2022, more delays were announced, with fuel loading continuing until mid-2023.[4][5]

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

Perhaps if we account for an additional unexpected half year of delay for every year that passes, we might see it in operation in Spring 2024?
Having standards is one of the more important functions of government and this work has broad implications for consumer protection. The price is mot even cheap so at least the largest beneficiaries pay to brunt of the cost. If you’re serious about government waste I would suggest looking at larger budget items like Lockheed or it’s partners in the military first.
I actually skip the search engine and directly go to the reference section of the wikipedia page of the said subject (after skimming for the page once or twice).
If a so-called AI needs help reading a road sign then it stands no chance dealing with the rest of it's surroundings.
Because we are nowhere close to Artificial Intelligence in layman's sense of understanding. Not even close, as long our computing principles are still based on zero and one.
>reads more like NYC is a great show, go their for entertainment and spectacle of what it is, but somehow that's not real america.

Well, statistically it's true. I've visited most of the US, and NYC is very different and not represenative. If you want to see how "the other 96%" lives, better visit elsewhere. The same is not true for most if not all other states: they have their unique culture and might be rich or poor and so on, but not is as different to the rest as NYC. Not even Los Angeles or Miami.