skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also everything was new at one time.

Hah, this is a good point, but in my eyes lots of things that were new... never really grew up and were just deprecated and died.

For example, if someone based their setup on IronFunctions, they might have run into a bit of a painful situation, seeing as the project has been largely abandoned: https://github.com/iron-io/functions

Same for a database solution like Clusterpoint, the support for which just ended and you were left to migrate away to something else: https://github.com/clusterpoint

Ergo, I'd say that it's good for others to suffer the consequences (in a manner of speaking) of being trend setters and making wild bets on new and risky products and to just reap the benefits of their efforts later yourself, when things are safer. If a project has survived for a reasonably long time, it's a good indicator that it'll probably keep surviving in the future as well (there was a name for this, sadly can't recall what that was).
The paper does contain (rough) cost estimates, specifically the cost per unit of energy storage (about $13/kWh) and the cost per unit of power (from $0.20-0.27/W depending on the choice of gas.) See section V, "Cost".

I'm not impressed with the costing methodology used, but it's probably at least in the ballpark.
That’s even better; the cost of an employee resigning after being hired is much more than one dropping out of the hiring process. This gives you significantly more leverage should you resign or even threaten to resign as a result.
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>I stumbled the USAF dorms near NW Texas and got a very verbal warning

Wait, did you just... drive up to the dorms? Did you get pulled over by an MP or something?

I'm not in the military, but I've definitely at least once had to give someone a warning to get off my personal wifi. (I'm not a communist... get your own!!)
This book is from 2008, and, while reportedly very good for its time, now out of date.

https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2017/3/30/l6qcqgoedse1...

In particular, nobody back then anticipated how quickly solar PV prices would drop.

https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-c...
It can have some repercussions. Few decisions in life are really easy…
But we know driving is possible because people can do it.
Luckily my country is already so creepy this qatar thing is a fully non-issue for me. In fact, i wouldn't even have to know about the app before travelling to deal with this.

ANY time I go through US airport security, I don't take my phone. I take a burner phone that doesn't have any of my accounts logged in or personal data on it.

From my understanding, they can and will dd your whole phone image to some national security database while holding you for 'enhanced screening.'
The world is changing. We only have one world. You can choose to live inside your containers though.
Earth size? When was the last time you drove in Madagascar? Most driven miles are the same commute in the same city 10 times a week.
Fewer people owning cars and instead hailing from a shared pool of autonomous EVs as needed sounds like a solid improvement over the current situation.
> Everything has been carefully mapped out ahead of time

This doesn’t scale. This is also how Zoox, Tesla, and Cruise do their demo videos to scam more money out of investors: they collect ultra-HD maps in a very narrow area or a very specific route. Then they drive the route/area about a thousand times, recording each drive. Then they upload the drive with the fewest mistakes to YouTube. Just like me taking a thousand half-court shots with a basketball, hitting one, and then claiming I can do it every try. There, I just gave you the formula to raise $100mm from FOMOing VCs.

There’s also no such thing as a Level 4 Autonomous vehicle. It doesn’t exist.
gsocket: Connect like there is no firewall. Securely.
If you are able to resign, it will make them reconsider this decision.
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See my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33214006
Ideally you’d do both.
But you could say that about a lot of things. Instead of going to Starbucks you could have fed a starving African for a week.

Instead of wasting research money on computer networking, you could spend it on stamps and envelopes.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. But you don't know what's going to come out of that research before hand.
I recently drove a rented Tesla 3. On a highway in Norway it failed to detect speed limit signs in like 25% of cases. And if the speed limit sign was a temporary one due to road repairs it failed with those like 50% of times.

And this is with stationary objects designed to be seen and easily grasped by humans.
not an expert, but it seems to me the vector extension should be able to do this.
Giving the benefit of the doubt to naivety is reckless in a security context.
Then public transit should be built to wherever you live. given the amount of investment to self driving cars and maintenance of roads that are way bigger than they should be, we could be using that capital for transit.
Upload it to Wigle and flaunt your ranking to other war drivers :)

And demos. Get an audience, setup a PI with Kismet, show the audience their phones are permanently broadcasting ALL the SSIDs their phones have ever connected to, enjoy the stunned faces.

Pick one phone's list of SSIDs (make sure you agreed with the "victim" that this is ok) and map the list of SSIDs with Wigle to locations.
They should have hired game developers, they have a headstart
Fun, years ago I bought a T60 and I locked it by accident only to spend the night trying to fix it.
I used the same method described here and I actually remember this page http://www.ja.axxs.net/t60_t60p.htm

I had a post on Reddit shit it and people kept finding years later. I would receive a message every once in a while about it, until they stopped completely.
Here is the full agreement from the new coalition in power. Below "3. Reformer som ska genomföras i projektet". I am very happy with these reforms, it looks like exactly what is needed.

https://kristdemokraterna.se/download/18.715f6f45183890627fc...
Then someone spray paints the sign, a taxi parks in the bike lane just behind a box truck blocking half the entrance to where you're going, meanwhile a cyclist rides the other direction directly toward you because human agents are chaotic and cities are full of them. Oh, a racoon!

Less tongue in cheek: I think we should optimize city centers for human scales and activities, rather than sending cars right through them at all. We already sacrifice so much for cars in their current state, if we have to optimize for their mobility even moreso we are going in the wrong direction I feel.

I'm not saying get rid of cars, just keep them out of the denser parts of cities and the CBD. Put them on roads, not streets.
I'd be impressed a train service that had 8 parallel lines plus dedicated lines at each station so that it was economical for 1-5 people to alight directly at their destination.
Whether you code is declarative/imperative or whether it has all the hot new packages as featured in HN has very little to do with making software products "competitive" or having "comparative advantage". It's always going to be about whether the product is solving the customer's problem more conveniently than the competition does.
I agree. But give it some years and we'll get a proper AI "Joe Rogan & Steve Jobs" podcast (although I'm personally more interested in hearing more about Wozniak than Jobs).
And meanwhile Volvo has three fully electrical semis in serial production and Mercedes started serial production of an electric Actros.
I have personally seen this within organizations. Certain leaders can appreciate the simple approach, but not others, because it doesn’t increase headcount. For other leadership types it is drama and increasing headcount that drive their careers.

Also you the developer will get scant recognition for finding the simplest solution. That’s the kind of thing that doesn’t get appreciation up the management chain (usually.) It should but it doesn’t.

The perception is not: wow this will save us millions over time by allowing us to do more with less. The perception is: so this guy did this project that turned out to be simple.
(Two of the authors are security researchers, firing up a disassembler is something they do every day.)
Sheep are worse. They run from one side of the road across you to get away from you.
Still diving into this domain, is this akin to tensor basis in terms of Euclidean stores, e.g. a basis of 1 in this posts storage notation of objects shared between 8 devices, hence covariant allocation?
Yeah, efficiency for a train means cargo divided by the cost of the driver and the costs of the locomotive.

Take the driver out of the equation, and suddenly making the train longer doesn’t provide any savings. You might as well switch to smaller and cheaper engines and divide one train into 10.

There are a lot of variables that affect efficiency but new technology alters the landscape. Self driving public transit is one such thing. Would you rather be on a bus with one driver or a self driving taxi that costs the same?
That could be more than just a joke though: special lanes for computerized slipstream driving could make cars and trucks approach railroad efficiency. A "driver agent" posts its itinerary to the routing network, finds peers going the same direction at roughly the same time, accelerates/decelerates to find them and hook (contactlessly) into the moving paceline, at a position that fits the vehicle's frontal area (you wouldn't want small cars breaking the slipstream between trucks). The routing network bills some of the slipstream savings on behalf of the vehicle(s) in less favorable positions at the front.

Like the visionary dream of individually routed rail cars, but built bottom-up, with cars/trucks that are perfectly useful in standalone driving on regular roads. And it could scale even closer to rail: perhaps some long-haul connections get metal rails integrated in the floor like tram rails, that some long-haul trucks with a special bogey option could slot in, in the fly? That would be an impressive stunt if performed by humans, but easy for computers. Perhaps some connections add overhead wires? Perhaps some trucks, with the overhead wire pantograph option, add a robotic power handover arm because that's cheaper than wear and tear on two pantographs? Could all start bottom up, with few installations.
I think the goal is to solve public transport by having a fleet of autonomous vehicles that pick you up where you are and drop you off where you need to go and would roam freely in between - basically driverless, electric ueber.

As cars need charging, they would congregate at some charging plot outside the busy areas.

Personally, I rather like this vision as it combines the best of public transport and car traffic. Especially, if the existing, personally owned cars that just stand around 99% of the time vanish over time.
A very small benefit for society but potentially a very large benefit for a select few stakeholders.

Musk largely became the richest person on the planet off the back of the promise that nobody else would have decent EV tech (turns out, they do), nobody else would have the battery production capacity (turns out, they do, plus super ironic when Tesla is partnering with Panasonic for battery production), AND the promise of fully self driving cars (which will happen for Tesla immediately after flying cars).

I don't have a good term for this, but it's basically corruption: a few benefit at the cost of everyone else.
You're making a completely false dichotomy. The complaint is not that people are just protesting the movie. It's that they're applying a lot of pressure on many parties to cancel the movie.

E.g. we're not talking about holding signs at the conference. We're talking about calling translators who worked on the movie, and telling them "denounce this film or we will make sure you never get another arab translation job again".

Not all speech is equivalent. Speech which is arranging a hit job is not protected free speech. Speech which is fraud is not free speech.
When I was recently in SF, one early morning I came across a Cruise vehicle on a one way street at a 30 degree angle blocking traffic (of which there was very little at the time). Another was pulling up behind it (maintenance vehicle?). Not sure what the story was with it.
But not politically palatable :-)
You get safer drivers, less crashes and less death.
Editing text efficiently is not the same as being a productive dev

That's like saying suturing dexterity does not a good surgeon make.
Anything that reduces cognitive friction, including the ease with which
keystrokes go from your brain to the screen, makes you a better dev.

I'd say vim wins the fewest-keystrokes battle. But emacs wins the war
because it leads you to lisp, and lisp makes you a better programmer.
Agree, off topic. Solidarity was in reference to other members of the union. Which I thought had some weight as to why the plant ran in first place. I’m not knowledgeable in this but since it affects me greatly tried to understand the problem in more detail last few months.
Btw, here's an example of how even a very simple zero-shot/prompt-engineering attempt to introduce a bit of system 2 reasoning into a language model can improve results.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903
"Lithium is one of the most abundant materials in the Earth's crust."

Abundance alone is irrelevant; you need certain concentrations for the mining process to be viable. AFAIK that is the challenge with Li: the necessary concentrations are only found in several places of the world.
EV promotes energy independence of a country. In the worst case they can use electricity from coal that is widely available on this planet. And as long as the coal plant is modern they still will generate less CO2 than petrol-based cars.
Companies are going to die on that hill.
I would not call it a waste of money.

It might work in the end, and even if the current tech is not sufficient to attain the goal of fully autonomous driving, the car is a very good guinea pig for robotic research.

We're collectively learning a lot in this process.

I am not surprised that it turns out to be much more difficult than anticipated.

I think it is 95% vaporware, but I liked the ideas behind the latest Nvidia presentation.

Machine learning is all about the training quality, useful robots (such as autonomous vehicles) have to operate in the real world.

We can't have robots that kills by accident.

It is difficult/risky/costly to train them in the real world. Good virtual twins are needed to achieve safe training with infinite repetitions in extreme situations.

Not sure if that is sufficient, but it is worth trying.
US’s tech industry is built on violating everyone’s privacy and generally treating consumers like shit. A GDPR equivalent that’s actually enforced has no chance of passing in the US, and should it do so by some miracle, half the tech industry will disappear overnight and a lot of oxygen wasters will be out of a job.
If you're not limited to the written word, then some podcasts are very good.

As a software developer, I've really enjoyed "Corecursive".

As a religious agnostic, I get a lot out of Tim Keller's "Gospel in Life" podcast. It lets me examine a particular Christian theology without the awkwardness of attending church services as a non-Christian.

Edit: I just realized the question is how one finds such things. Unfortunately I don't remember how I came across either of these.
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Signs are nice but the simplest way to know the speed is to store it in a database and look it up from position.

In fact roads should have barcoded position markers everywhere. That way you could navigate without gps and all road signs could become virtual. Just download a road marker update.
Any headline starting with "Here's why..." reeks of clickbait, or at least low-value content.
Developer can be a programmer or a software engineer ( my definitions).

Programmers tend to be interested in cool new paradigms, tools, libraries, etc...

Software engineers tend to be interested in delivering robust and correct features. Consequently they are more conservative.

When companies hire, they should be clear what sort of developer they want. Programmer in a software engineering role will damage the code base and eventually leave in frustration.
This isn't going to work for the most obvious case: rush hour. Which is the case that is the root cause of most issues.

If you're still stuck with peak road usage nearly equivalent to that today, your goal isn't to solve prominent issues today.
Current trains? Not directly.

But with the levels of investment in cars and roads, we could have mini trains on reduced tracks (think stuff like mine tracks) going almost anywhere, probably for a fraction of maintaining our road infrastructure and cars.
I too rather like rainbows, unicorns, chocolate waterfalls and free happiness growing on trees as a solution to all problems.
No, because there are thousands of potential battery chemistries (and storage technologies other than batteries), and also because the oft-repeated falsehood that PV contains rare earths is still false.
Yes, it's "clean energy as long as" - unlike coal or oil or gas which is dirty energy no matter what. So realistically let's enjoy our blessings and stop fearing such an incredible energy source just because somewhere someday something might go wrong.

Those "extremely high downsides" are a few tens of square km dead lands and a few irradiated workers. Not such a bad perspective for a worst case scenario.
As with wave after wave of munitions to Ukraine targeting Russia this latest round of export control tightening against China reeks of desperation.

All this does is push Russia and China into each others arms – not a strategy designed to maintain a globally dominant position.
Nowhere in the grandparent's post says that it was a "walled garden", or even that it was closed source. The fact that only one person was needed doesn't mean there's only one person available. OP even said he worked for a company in a reply. The rationalisation automatically assumes that the grandparent is either incompetent or lying by omission, which is very uncharitable.

Even if all those problems were true, if it was really analysed as risky, the proper thing to do is to bring in one or two more engineers, perform audits, ask for the full source if it's not available. Ask for documentation. Heck, OP said it's not minified: try to reverse engineer it, if need be. Perhaps it's not even necessary!

There's absolutely no need to bring a 9-digit-sum team to replace a working system made by one person, even if this is common practice in our industry. Not before all other rational avenues are pursued if there are problems.

What also pisses me off is that what happened on the other side might have been caused by companies like the ones I worked for. For a long time I worked for consultancies, and it was routine for sales to "translate" our feature lists into procurement rules (sorry don't know the term in english) and give that to companies and government so we would be the only ones able to answer.

And the worst part is that software engineers go on with this tune because they enjoy so much overengineering everything from scratch.
Just go through the vim tutorial and use a vim extension for your favorite editor
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It works with pure Javascript without any add-ons to the language or user-space code and supports highly dynamic features, such as the modification of prototypes.

It is still in the very early stage, which offers almost all ES5 features and a select set of ES6 features like array/object destructing. I'm working hard to bring all ES6+ features into it incrementally.

If you heavily use javascript/typescript and do NOT want to write the type annotation sh*ts anymore, give it a try :)
Ask HN: Why can't I comment on this?
There is a post "Svix, the Enterprise Ready Webhook Service (YC W21) Is Hiring (Remote) (svix.com)" which doesn't have a comment link on it. Why can't I comment on it?
Thanks... I lack the math background to grok "ould solve an nP problem in polynomial time." without doing some refreshing, but I really appreciate you distilling that into one plain sentence. (I never took Calc, I'd get impatient because I skipped geometry and trig and a few other things before I went off to uni.)

>If true, our lock-in functions for encrypted data might need to be revised because a quantum computer could solve them faster.

Yikes, though it was my understanding symmetric ciphers (ex: AES) wouldn't be as impacted. I tried to find a cite, and all I found was an attack paper backing up the assertion previous attacks were mostly on asyymetric ciphers. (Not a cryptographer, so I often can just repeat the takeaways from what others explained in detail their reasoning on):

> So far, in cryptography, the impact of quantum computing is analyzed mostly for asymmetric cryptography and less is known about its consequences on symmetric cryptography

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00457...

I try to keep things offline, but it's hard to keep up with all these... heuristics :-)
In what way is social life zero sum?
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Convicted of Securities Fraud
You need to work on the copywriting. There are grammar errors. (e.g., “and much more save time and more done”, “access things you in faster than ever before”)
You make the assumption this unlaunch was Nvidia's idea rather than the AIBs approaching Nvidia and informing them the mislabeled GPUs won't sell well.
The cost of combustion turbine power plants is well established since so many have been built. The cost of nuclear plants built recently in the west is also readily available.

Given that, it gives me pause that you don't actually know that information, given how eager you are to represent your "knowledge" on this subject.
I guess it's just a question of capacity. If you can cram a lot of travelers into a subway train during rush hour, you could just as well imagine an uber pool type function where clever route finding combines riders into a single car during rush hour.
Denmark is like the happiest place on earth… what do they do?
Embrace the Grind
What's more, you can apply evolution to your Petri dish.
> Technical leaders have a fine balance between keeping developers happy, keeping development velocity high and keeping onboarding speed high.

Very much in agreement that the best developers love experimentation and tinkering. I think about this kind of balancing act quite a bit and I personally like very small teams of folks who are not afraid of a lot of spice as long as the tools either have decent community or are not impossible to hack.
Humans are freight units that embark and disembark and change vehicles autonomously with very little instruction. Other freight units aren't. Parcel hubs are a hard problem that's far from solved enough to set them up in masses.
But this is basically due to Elons reckless tweeting. It’s quite different to faking the creation of an electric car like Trevor Milton.

Elon may be guilty of being an idiot and not thinking before he tweets, but he pushed forward electric cars and rocketry more than any other person currently living I would say.
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