skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how long a local small business used car dealership could last if it was unprofitable. This seems like another example of how technology doesn't 'disrupt' markets via savvy new ways of operating, so much as injecting venture capital and loss leading disrupts markets. I know car dealers that were struggling to maintain inventory during the pandemic because Carvana was driving up the price of cars at the auctions. It's a shame because it's big investors taking that inventory out of the hands of small businesses only to turn around and sell the car at a loss.
Unfortunately, here in AR-15 land that's considered dirty communism.
> ...hyper-online cabal mentally-ill secretly controlling the world really says more about you than anything.

I didn't read that comment as saying that they "secretly control the world," but rather that the combination of changes in communication technology and those mental disorders leads those people to have a wildly disproportionate voice and impact.

I mean: elections are often won or lost based on which candidate can run the most ads. It's not too hard to believe that a disorders associated with excessive internet use would have an undue impact on society right now, due to something like having disproportionate share of social media posts and/or a greater ability to mob and bully.
My understanding of fungus, a side interest, is that you probably don't need to genetically modify them. There is probably a fungus already doing what you want somewhere. You just need to find it. Fungus are amazing, and we understand really nothing about them.
Is age a social construct? What about race?
Just ordered the Ioniq 6 this week in Germany and maximum wait time is 9 months.
Deep packet inspection hardware/software that was sold to controversial governments/militaries who ended up in a coup and used to track and ** opposition.
shodan ;)

* https://www.shodan.io/
I wasn't planning on selling my car and was wanting to buy a new one this/next year.

It's nice to just be able to sit back, but I understand many people couldn't -- but also many people famously do overpurchase their car and did use the "free" money from pandemic to get a car, that, they still could trade in today for the "same price" they bought new. Which is crazy.
Also, let’s be real, English translations of Japanese titles are absolutely the worst offenders. I don’t speak Japanese, so I can’t say whether or not coherent dialogue gets lost in translation but like: Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, literally any JRPG at random. Nobody I know talks like they do in these titles, and I still don’t understand why it’s fashionable to write inane character dialogue like they do in these games.
> Mercury is an element so even if it gets broken down into other forms that are less toxic, isn't it still present and not "cleared" as the article claims? Are the new molecules less volitaile/unlikely to revert to their toxic organic forms or more liekly to drain off into waterways?

I have zero specific knowledge, but I can talk about the kind of thing that's generally happening with poisons.

Mercury is extremely toxic. That is probably because various of your enzymes respond to it as if it were a different organic chemical, and use it as a building block in important molecules that they are responsible for building. (It might also be because mercury naturally reacts with important molecules, expelling important functional parts and taking their place. In either case, you're left with defective functional molecules that have useless mercury where they were supposed to have something important.)

Since mercury is an element, it can't be broken down into other forms. But it can be used to build compounds that include mercury atoms. You then have the question of whether these compounds are toxic in the same way that elemental mercury is, whether because they are still (wrongly) recognized as a substitute for something else, or because they still react with proteins to replace important parts of the proteins with mercury atoms, or because the compounds react with something else in the body in a way that ejects their mercury atoms (leaving those atoms free to do their toxic thing).

The goal would be to form mercury compounds that are (1) chemically stable, trapping the mercury atoms; and (2) biologically inert. Ideally those compounds would then either filter through the digestive tract and be excreted in feces, or they'd make their way into the bloodstream, get filtered out by the liver/kidneys, and be excreted in urine.
This article feels like every hackernews comment thread. it's amazing. 5 stars

*****
No, there is no loss. No one is selling at a loss, NADA book values increased because of more buyers, more demand from pandemic and increased marketing channels with the news saying production stopped, etc. Then the "chips" stopping production as well.

A dealership, small pop or carvana does not go into used car auctions to overbid, to sell at a loss. Car Dealerships also operate trade in strategies to grab cars to resell at below market price.
How about have children play a "game" so they help you commit xenocide? [Ender's Game]
The world cup doesn't matter.
But can they add the birthday date to the settings page? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
> This reminded me of the two-party system...

Yes, well spotted - the two party system definitely employs the same mechanic: all the evils are projected out to the 'enemy', and all the wrongs in their own group are ignored. This provides group cohesion and allows them to avoid cognitive dissonance and taking responsibility for the results of their own choices.

If there were more than two viable parties, or, god forbid 3-4 viable parties like in many European countries, this would be near impossible to make work. You cant vilify 2-3 other groups as the 'ultimate' evil at the same time...
I count at least a dozen open-source alternatives to
@Retool and they are all growing nicely. Feels like devs don't like to be trapped!
The Cascades are well under 90 miles from Seattle. A complete trip to the Cascades and back can be done in well under 250 miles, and regen breaking will be your best friend on the way back home!

I'll grant that going to the Olympic national forest is 122 miles one way, so some range issues there for sure.

> AV4 Prime with 600 mile range is the dream,

Boise is 500 miles one way!

The entire point of living in Seattle is to that nature is insanely close by. (Sure as heck isn't for the friendly faces on the street or the affordable tasty food!)
An ex-coworker asked me to do a 3-month contracting stint at his company where he was the head of IT. The task was to "clean up the environment" because the servers were crashing often and performance was poor.

I quickly found the source of the crashes: misconfigured ethernet switch MAC address limits applied to VMware ESXi. I also cleansed the environment by finding the one working server in each cluster and then cloning it out to replace the faulty ones. These were all "pets" on life support, and I tried to make them more like identical "cattle".

I went back a year later and half of the IT support team was gone. I asked what happened and the answer was: me.

Apparently after I fixed up the platform the number of support requests plummeted, and a bunch of the helpdesk staff were made redundant.

Oops.
> You might still need a license to produce hemp, so they could plausibly consult the license list, notice your cannabis, see you're not on the list, and get a warrant either way.

You;ll only appear on that list if you do so for commercial purposes and are required to get a license, furthermore you can legally grow MJ or Hemp without one provided you live in a legal state: where you are allowed up to 6 plants per Adult resident of your home above the age of 21. So you can legally have a large compliant grow if you live in a CO-OP as is common in several legalized States.

And this very thing was disputed in CO in the early phases of Amendment 64 (legalizing recreational MJ and Industrial hemp in 2012), and then was made law of the land after the Farm bill of 2018 wherein hemp could be grown in all 50 stares as it was codified as a matter that was to be handled by their respective Department of Ag in their state/city.

In short, their is nothing stopping anyone growing Industrial hemp as a crop for their own usage in a legal state if it is not used for commercial purposes, it is however, not wise to do so because the DEA can get a warrant and sill do a search and seizure and continue to use things like asset forfeiture to ruin your life in the process so it's best to limit such grows not because the Law doesn't allow it, but for the sheer fear of having an agency that is growing in irrelevance to come inot your Life when a rather easy to get license/permit will do--some States even distinguish between commercial and R/D for this very purpose and to skirt around Laws where Federal funding can be threatened as was the case with CU Boulder/Denver.

> They're getting a warrant, not a conviction.

While true, you can still have your Life ruined in the process of said search warrant and be subject to asset forfeiture. Personally speaking, i think that is a direct violation of one's 4th Amendment Right, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen and it's best to be avoided.

Source: My startup was providing financial services and payment processing to the Legal Hemp Industry (2015-2018), and my co-founder was one of the first to legally do so under the seed/breeding program in CO.
>There are lots of kids born with ambiguous & differing genitals where parents & doctors make an assignment for that kid outside the womb.

I don’t think most people would argue against medically intersex people identifying outside of traditional norms, which I would imagine is a small subset of people identifying as trans.
Because if there's anything the Musk brand is known for, it's taking things seriously.
If a small dealership has higb fixed costs and they only turn a small profit per car, and don't sell enough volume they are operating at a loss. Sure each car might not be a loss, but if you can't keep the lights on then what's the point?

Carvana is losing money. In one year their losses for q3 increased by 200 million. You can apply all the fancy metrics you want about how much profit each car generates, but you still have a company that shouldn't be able to continue business without huge investor backing.
Sergey's XT BIOS does have a license. It is GPL3. There is no license file in the repo but each source file contains the copyright and license information.
Surely at least you have your life - look at the Russians being sent to the meat grinder without having a say in it, because they let things rot over a few decades. And it keeps getting worse, the Z-propaganda in schools indoctrinating the future soldiers there is terrifying...

IDK why people find it hard to imagine something worse than losing your savings, seems pretty easy and history is ripe with examples.
I live in South TX, I'd have to drive 600 miles just to get out of the state. Even if I did it once a year, I'd rather not pay several hundred dollars for a rental.
True, and good catch.
Hm I don't agree that example means it's "not uncommon" -- why would you want to hash the float rather than the bucket number?

Hashing the floats themselves isn't going to give you a useful histogram.

Is there a codebase that hashes float to a useful effect? If it exists, I'd be interested to see it
If that happened today you'd be famous online.

Anyway, I think automation and its consequences are much more complex these days and beyond the understanding of any non-technical / "not in the know" person. People used to know that "robots would take our jobs" but now that's not always true. The people writing completely "harmless" software are likely responsible for many, many bad things that would be difficult to even assign the blame for.
I regret becoming a software developer. It was a dumb financial decision in the country I live in.

Also, systems knowledge and critical thinking skills have brought me anguish and made me cynical. I see problems and logical contradictions everywhere and it makes everything and everyone unbearably frustrating.

I should have been a lawyer and done software as a hobby. I don't think law rewires your brain like decades of coding does... You're still human. There's something about being constantly corrected by a compiler for over a decade which changes the way your mind works in a fundamental way.
You need Go 1.19
I live in Seattle.

Lots of hills. Hills everywhere. Going to the grocery store a mile away involves more elevation changes than people living in Florida go through in a year. Seriously, tons of hills in every direction.

Driving around the city, my current compact ICE, 1.6L turbo, tiny hatchback, gets around 22 miles to the gallon.

My other car, ICE, subcompact, 2L engine, 140 horse power, barely hits 20 MPG.

For my city's topography, EVs make a ton of sense.
the source code

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/radeon_raytracing_analyzer
its all a conspiracy

OMG we are going to hell

I don't qualify as I'm a recent observer

cast me as one who has not vaxxed
I used Ubuntu for 8 years and switched about 10 months ago and never going back. Ubuntu feels primitive like VAX or TRS80 in comparison.
I guess it is too soon to say impact-wise one way or another, but I'm the author of libavif (and the avifenc/avifdec tools), which is the reference library for AVIF. I helped it get integrated into Chrome* and I worked with the author of the AVIF layer for Firefox too (it does not use libavif). I've been taking a more advisory/administrative role in the library's development over the last year, but it is basically my brainchild (for better or worse; just the library, not the standard). The folks that have contributed many changes over the last year are some really smart folks and I look forward to seeing where the library goes. I've also put a bunch of work into our HDR rendering pipeline and analysis tools at my current job, which doesn't necessarily have public impact, but mattered/matters a lot to a few teams at work.

* Before anyone asks, I was not involved in any of the recent JPEG-XL removal choices happening over at Google (I don't work there). I was as surprised as everyone else was. I'll admit I haven't given JPEG-XL as much of a R&D spin as I should, but it seems like it has a lot of cool features and if people prefer it to AVIF, game on. I'm proud of the library, but I'd rather people used their preferred format in any avenue and not be locked into something they dislike. I'd certainly rather that any technology succeed or fail on its own merits than any other possible reason.
The creator of Homebrew has a plan to get open source contributors paid
Sure, but so does BitTorrent and they were previously using just that. A comparison of the two technologies is interesting regardless.
If women don’t agree with being a large part of their identity being renamed, then it doesn’t feel inclusive.
> Nature put a barbed stinger on bees, but didn't intend for the stinger to leave the bee.

In the sense that any natural development is intended, it's intended for the stinger to leave the bee. Compare wasps, which have reusable stingers.
Agreed; this is gross. If I've signed up for an account on someone's site, all I'm implicitly consenting to are transactional emails related to the service (or product, if there is one). Things like shipping notifications and billing reminders and such.

And if you at least have a checkbox for consent for marketing emails during signup, it should be unchecked by default. I'm so tired of this crap.
Running user provided js in quickjs in webassembly in a worker in an sandboxed iframe on a different domain would offer many layers of security
Sure, go ahead, just remember to attribute.
you're kidding, but at the South Pole, you have to cross a skiway when walking from station to some of the experiment buildings. (There is a flashing beacon during airplane operations, but still, it's better to look...)
> True, but in many respects that failure mode is academic, and localized. Normal people who aren't way too online don't sit around and debate...

But for instance, journalists are often "way too online," and people in general seem to have a bad habit of seeing social media activity as some kind of representation of society as a whole (because it's easy). It doesn't matter what "normal people" think or do, if the media as a whole starts saying something different.
0.13% -> 1% doesn’t feel like rounding (it’s actually nearly a 10x change). 0.13 is not a large fraction.

Assuming good intentions based on your other comments, but these things can elicit negative responses.
> The only people who can be flippant with regards to marketability are those who have family money, an extremely supportive spouse, a patron or are willing to live in poverty.

Art has always been pursued under these exact circumstances, and literature was no exception historically. Mass-marketable art is very much the exception, not the rule. And often it's even the least interesting kind, because it's the most predictable in its features - more of a skilled craft than art in a narrowly creative sense.
Yeah, this weighs on me too sometimes. I've spent man-decades of work time writing proprietary code for companies that will never see life outside of those companies. And many of the products I've written the code for have since been shut down, or never shipped in the first place.

I've recently gotten re-involved with an open source project that I used to work on in the mid-00s, and it's really satisfying to see code I wrote so long ago, still in use, and get to work on it again.
I've also heard that since it's necessary to arc the shot a reasonable amount for the ball to go in (or else it will hit the rim and bounce away), being shorter than the hoop can actually be an advantage. If the hoop is above you, the ball already has to travel vertically to be able to get there in the first place, but if you're close to the same height, you have to throw it relatively higher to achieve a good arc. It tends to be harder to aim at something if you need to add extra height before hitting it; the angle and speed needed to accurately throw a ball at a target is easier to "calculate" with hand/eye coordination if you throw directly at it rather than trying to throw the ball up in the air and have it hit the target on the way down.

That said, it still seems reasonable that if you're going to be paid millions of dollars a year to throw a ball in a hole, it wouldn't be crazy to be expected to practice and get good enough not to miss if literally no one is trying to block you (e.g. free throws). I guess that if you're good enough at the other skills, it still helps your team win enough to sign you even if you don't get good at that, but it still feels like fairly low hanging fruit...
> That meant that existing scripting code that used those libraries would need to be rewritten to use an equivalent .NET library. We naively thought that was what people would do...

AFAIK, that's what JRuby does but Java had (has?) a bigger community and is more platform independent. Microsoft was a different company back then and wasn't supported on Linux. Betting on IronRuby/IronPython meant you had to use Windows as your platform.
Somehow I remember being on similar concerts with other bands 30 years ago, playing similar tunes, this industry is so fashionable.
Are you in Chaos Monkeys?
> Also, systems knowledge and critical thinking skills have brought me mostly anguish; it has made me cynical. […] I should have been a lawyer

If software made you cynical and miserable I don’t think you’d have survived law.
Of course they are important.

But do they hold more weight to rename how the 99.9% of the population is referred to?

it’s the latter that frustrates people IMO. I think if people focused on simple acceptance of themselves instead of trying to rewrite the social fabric, it would help.

Also, even though Hydrogen and Helium are by far the most common elements, oxygen is still a different element.
I am sure it is against the wto rules; hopefully diplomatic efforts by Europe and others will have it stopped before implementation otherwise we will likely enter another unconstructive trade war.
Meanwhile they could have accepted the many times which the Soviet Union tried to accommodate the west from Stalin to Krushchev and afterwards.
I disagree, plenty of people have stated quite the opposite - that there exists one definition only and the other definitions are incorrect.

I believe language is descriptive, and therefore definitions follow usage. If there exists new usage in common enough use, then the definition follows that use.

And I don't believe the traditional use of a word makes one a bigot by default. I think that there are both bigots and non bigots that use the words traditionally.

But this thread is absolutely stock full of people refusing to acknowledge that there might be multiple correct definitions.
You monster.

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Why did reddit use such a shitty design, anyway? To maximize clicks / number of pages visited?

old.reddit.com is the only sensible reddit interface, the mobile app sucks. Even the old m.reddit.com was pretty great..
Sometimes code is written in younger languages that are still maturing. Javascript, React, PHP, the Android SDK, CSS, etc. are very different today than 10 years ago.

A codebase from that era will be harder to maintain, and get worse over time, because they use language features that have either fallen out of favor or sometimes been outright deprecated. It's legacy code that has a finite lifespan, and usually the longer you wait the harder it will be to eventually upgrade.

You don't have to be bleeding edge all the time, but sometimes it really is quicker, safer, cheaper, better just to rewrite from scratch using modern practices. Especially if the old code was poorly documented and or tested or relied on idiosyncratic nonstandard code that kept trying to reinvent the wheel.

It's tech debt when there is some identifiable reason to upgrade it or rewrite it, but that work for whatever reason was postponed and deprioritized. When enough of that builds up, the foundation of your codebase is weak and new features and bandaids begin to add more debt than they fix, if only because they perpetuate existing problems and scale them up across the codebase.
Plenty of us are using it. But it would be great if it were more mainstream, yes.
Tracking Mastodon user numbers over time with a bucket of tricks
Naughty Cat Detector Using Lobe
Your argument is skewed.

Z-Library guys didn't extradite any site users who didn't pay for their servers and handed them effective life sentences.
You can apply that basically on anything. Its a part of our life to deal with problems.

I'm sure a lot of people well have damaged neurotypical development if someone, who is clearly "he" would eventually let everyone around call him "she" or whatever. If gender is social construct we are "it". Sorry, I'm not playing this game, it is quite boring actually.
The one that really threw me was writing a function to solve a pretty advanced calculus problem. My degree isn't in CS, so I only took high school calculus and it's been so long since then it took me a couple days of study to even understand the challenge. I was interviewing for a front-end position, so it seems like overkill but I'm not going to fault them for looking for someone of that level.
Elon: fucking society one fanboy at a time.
I think that is what Figma does: https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/
Where does Map.__proto__ point to? There's your answer :)

Everything in JS is an Object, therefore everything can have hashed keys. Including Arrays, because Array.__proto__ also points to Object.
Oh, nice. I wonder how much work it would be to get that working on desktop Linux.
Also, if they really want to succeed in the labor market, birds should teach more of their offspring to be like cuckoos. Everybody can be a cuckoo, if they work hard enough.