skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm implying that the success of your company does not automatically transfer to you by osmosis. These employees are not going to see any additional payoff for staying to 1AM. Even if this exercise did somehow improve Twitter's profits, that money is going to Musk, not to them. If they are paid the same salary, work 80 hours a week instead of 40, and Twitter does well as a result, what have they gotten? A 50% hourly paycut.
These cars from Hyundai/Kia/Genesis are super cool, but there’s a catch. One must wait years to get them. Kia EV6 in average 15 months in Germany. This corporation wasn’t ready for success. On the long run this will heavily damage image of the brand. Looks like they prioritize Genesis car s delivery, so grab GV60 if possible.
Can you give me some examples of SpaceX innovations that disrupted the industry?

Here are some of my issues with SpaceX marketing:

1) Cost to NASA/DoD seems to be similar to ULA.

2) SpaceX continues to fly expandable boosters for missions above LEO and for heavier payloads. Reusable boosters have lower lift and range and require extensive refurbishment between missions. Upper stage is not reusable.

3) SpaceX hasn't flown a single mission into deep space or Mars despite this being the stated goal of the company. In the same time, others have flown multiple rockets to Mars and to other planets. We have multiple rovers roaming the surface of Mars and satellites orbiting other planes all while SpaceX has contributed nothing to these efforts.

I personally see SpaceX contributions to the industry are mostly incremental:

1) Booster reusability to LEO and for light payloads.

3) Human rated capsule for space station resupply missions.

3) High quality video content from launches.

4) Increased interest in space exploration at the expense of unrealistic expectations in relation to cost and timelines.
You're right. It's mostly nostalgia value :) Although I have been a hosting customer for a while now.

ES3 is nice, and short of prayer or sacrifice one was able to import Crockford's JSON library and Ramda. Server-side Node.js without npm (for better or worse).

With Babel, the idea was to use ES6 constructs and transpile it down to something IIS could run. Or Ruby, or anything else, and VBScript becomes kind of like the "machine language" description of the program.

VBScript is less painful with aspunit [1] and plenty of comisseration/resources with drian bamaged [2], aXe, and even [3].

It was amazing how much could get done with Microsoft SQL Server, a loop, and Response.Write(). Enough to build a company and to get acquired, even. Could have been a right place/right time thing for the owner.

[1] https://github.com/rpeterclark/aspunit
[2] blogsite
[3] the person with the classic ASP book
I didn't quite follow, what are folks giving into?
They’re likely referencing something like this [1]. The “fracking earthquakes” have stemmed lazy disposal of well wastewater. Wells can take millions of gallons of water; ideally we’d be treating reusing that water.

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[1] https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-hydraulic-fracturing-related-e....
> My MIL never got her refund

Sorry man, but that one's on you.
I was involved in building an app that tracks driving behavior for an insurance company. Of course live location data and names are logged in plaintext for all customers.
Here’s the thing man. A lot of the papers coming out of top labs are written in just such a way that it’s hard to figure out exactly what they did, but not so hard that nobody can replicate it. They’ll share code once their papers are out.

So beyond that I agree with my sibling comment that you should learn the underlying math and theory and then figure out how to implement something custom for whatever your situation is, because it’ll be better at the task anyway.
Collapse of Carvana, the 'Amazon of Used Cars', Continues
I wonder if under-floor heating from silicon carbide-doped bricks would have advantages over liquid or coil heaters.
A few years ago I had an idea to make developing web easter eggs easier while sitting in the audience of a conference talk. I coded it and submitted it to Hacker News before the talk was over…and it made the home page!

https://mikeflynn.github.io/egg.js/

Egg.js is still the most popular public project on my GitHub page.
HN why would this flagged? are we that fragile?
I've often heard the "offer a helping hand" advice and made a habit of trying it with coworkers and acquaintances. I've learned, over the years, that many people are uncomfortable accepting casual favors from people they're not close to. And I mean pretty small favors, like offering car rides for people who don't drive or helping haul heavy stuff from Craigslist. I have now started to fight my tendency to offer help until I'm extra sure it's welcome.
Perhaps, but only around E.M.'s intentions re: Twitter, that I've noticed.
One or two about the supposed "real purpose" of HN, but I gather they come up from time to time anyway.
Exactly. I worry good emerging tech will get a bad rep as a result of Web3 shills trying to lump them in with their ‘product’ to pump their crypto holdings.
Per the linked article, the problem is misdiagnosed. Forestry research shows that a) patches of tree stumps emit on the order of 10 tons of CO2 per acre, and b) these emissions go away when loggers thin forests instead of clearing them. Why are we not hearing about such huge yet trivially avoidable emissions? They are an order of magnitude larger than fossil fuels.

There are plenty of good reasons to not like fossil fuels, mind you. But the carbon hockey stick is not one of them.
The first link to the New Yorker article mentions books and studies. The third link goes to research.com, where you can find citations and links. I don't do psychological research myself so I suppose I "absorb from the popular corporate media," as you put it. I know you intended to disparage my sources and understanding of the topic, but I have read articles and books by actual scientists because I have an interest in cognitive biases. I don't call myself an expert on the subject.

You can do your own research if you don't find my "repeating something" persuasive. As Dr. Johnson put it, "I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Infinite values are representable in IEEE floating point.

I think the author didn't understand the concepts of precision, range, or of arbitrary precision calculations, and so mades bullshit proclamations without sufficient understanding of the fundamentals.

PS: I notice many people I work with (in MAANG) lack an understanding of Computer Science, aren't formally educated, and lack curiosity. It's discouraging because they also lack concern for code craftsmanship and don't know how to use a debugger. This and they're paid $350-450k / year. If you had to recommend a computer science postgraduate program, which would you choose?
Seems fishy in retrospect.
What about the software? I was considering it but people were complaining about the very slow infotainment system. The UI also looked a bit dated.
Jealous. So, so jealous.
And then we eventually cool the core so much that the Earth's geodynamo shuts down.
Your comments are opening up a new world for me. Thank you.
I went to physics grad school and stuck with it, more or less. Building physics experiments is great if you want to do a whole bunch of things poorly :).
For some additional context, the original feature genuinely was energy efficiency. <Hotel chain> was trying to get some green certifications for a flagship and went looking for partners to do the actual efficiency stuff. That company found a sub, and so on until I was contracted to do the actual firmware. Everything got done and it was installed in a test hotel in Vegas.

After that initial success, one of the intermediary contractors came up with the surveillance idea (among others) to try and find reasons for <hotel chain> to roll the system out to more facilities.
That doesn't make any sense. Selling yourself doesn't require self-deception. Even if you were deceiving others in order to sell yourself that doesn't require you to be deceiving yourself.
But would you still do it without the cash?
That says you can apply for asylum regardless of entering illegally (or to use the term of art, EWI/entered without inspection). You can also apply if you are in removal proceedings for some other reason, ex. illegal work or false statements.

In and of itself, nothing in that statue allows or removes criminal or monetary penalties for the act of crossing illegally itself. There are cases where people were convicted of the same despite a successful grant of defensive asylum. (https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...)
truth is always an issue
An Emacs story from many years ago:

https://medium.com/@kaveh808/20-why-did-the-programmer-quit-...
Too bad the name sounds idiotic. To even mention it to anyone even in the engineering department is going to make me sound like a super nerd.
Language is often not precise, even in medical context (which internet articles are not a part of).
Twitter has been a product for literally 16 years, pretty sure it’s not a startup.
... this all has already happened. Twitter is private right now. Bought at the $54.20 per share Musk committed to in April.
Nature put a barbed stinger on bees, but didn't intend for the stinger to leave the bee.

On the other hand, the risk of ripping your entrails out while using a sewing needle is quite low.
This is just gambling but with your time instead of your money. I think you're more likely to become rich by starting your own side gig than by working for Elon until 1am on a Friday.
Apple Store link on the site is broken, and there's no such app in the Apple Store?
Is it? OP acted in good faith, had reason to believe the things were on the level, and reacted when given new information. What fault do you lay at their feet?
Thank-you, that looks like the most feasible approach for VBScript: given existing code, run it through something that would convert it to .NET.

That reminds me: it actually happened. An existing VBScript parser was used with a custom C# transpiler to generate the port to .NET, in order to realize performance and maintenance benefits.
No. If anything, this will be shown as a lesson in poor management.
How is this not overtly racist?
Well, come to think of it, if you want your ideas to be implemented in Twitter, tweeting publicly at Elon Musk (and staying the hell away from Twitter HQ) seems like the way to go. Plus, no danger of being fired.
I regret a "let's just rebuild the entire UI" project I proposed, fought for, and implemented. It's been many years since then. I was very much the zealot armed with many opinions and few facts. Good lesson learned, but I feel bad about how much fucking time it wasted.
> but didn't intend for the stinger to leave the bee.

Nature didn't anticipate the hairless apes to get so numerous and infiltrate every environment where bees exist.
>> Suffer how exactly?

> Growing up without their mom for their first decade? Jesus christ man.

Nonsense. The courts, the social welfare system and a significant number of both men and women have already, for decades, formally decided that removing one parent from a child is alright.

Why should they make an exception for this child?
Imagine you could interact with an object that had the API of all data structures. And it looked like a HashMap if you ran hash operations on it or like a linked list if you interacted with it that approach.

Behind the scenes the compiler shall analyse all your calls to that data structure and see what APIs you use to interact with it.

It can then decide which algorithms to use to optimise your interaction with that data structure.

If only computers could do hot/cold analysis. It could detect that you call a hash lookup in a hot for loop but only call the ordered map iterator from the admin screen and outside a loop.

I would then JIT compile the right data structure algorithm used from a bucket of implemented algorithms. So the data is kept optimised for its usage patterns.

Decisions such as use tombstones, compaction, vacuum, LSM trees, btrees, ordered, unordered, LSM trees with separate value storage, a growable array, a std::list or vector. All depend on what your intended access patterns to the data is.

Could also do clever materialized views. If you only use one view of the data rarely, it isn't efficient to maintain that view.
Uhh I meant backdating his name. He was never a woman that’s like the whole point.

So you’re asking why bringing up that he used to be perceived as and treated as a woman which gave him gender dysphoria — a feeling so bad that it causes 80% of trans people to seriously consider taking their own like and 40% of people to actually try — horrible?

You being up a good point about memories. But memories are mutable, first person, and we’re really bad at remembering how our bodies felt at different times so most of his memories probably feature him as he is now.
At least someone knows the science.
FFVII's old English translation was also very bad; it was done in a week or two by a native Japanese speaker.

LoL has only analyzed older games, but there's a long (Tim Rogers, so very long) video series about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeN2KjRHZk&list=PLsiJPoHlPq...
See r/detrans for how detransitioners are bullied mercilessly.
What impact? None. I don't think many actual programmers take Musk seriously, despite his claims to possess expertise in software development, engineering, logistics, management, etc. A dilettante who takes credit for the work of other people remains a dilettante.

People with actual expertise and experience programming have talked and written about simplicity and complexity and managing it for decades. Brian Kernighan wrote "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming" back in 1976 (in Software Tools), and at the time he just expressed what programmers had discovered a long time before.
A knife is just a sharp edge with good marketing. You can't remove sharp edges from the universe.

No such guarantee exists for technology of this sophistication.
This isn't the first time LN/TM have been been through this process.

Ian Hogarth of SongKick describes how he first fought the anti-trust.

https://twitter.com/soundboy/status/1593549611431493632
I'm guessing the stinger evolved in response to most insects, not humans. Here's a video explaining how they don't necessarily always lose their stinger, even when they sting humans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-C77ujnLZo
How to write good documentation and what tools should be used?
Hello,

I’m trying to improve the documentation of our current product and we are moving away from confluence to git and markdown solution for our developers.

What tools should i use and initially i was planning to use MDbook
I think this will lead to OSS becoming a "finite game".
The "go install" part of the installation instructions results in this error:

$ git clone https://github.com/jafarlihi/rssnix --depth=1 && cd rssnix && go install
Cloning into 'rssnix'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 10, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (10/10), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Total 10 (delta 1), reused 4 (delta 1), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.
config.go:8:2: cannot find package "github.com/go-ini/ini" in any of:
/usr/lib/go-1.10/src/github.com/go-ini/ini (from $GOROOT)
/home/user/go/src/github.com/go-ini/ini (from $GOPATH)
feed.go:9:2: cannot find package "github.com/mmcdole/gofeed" in any of:
/usr/lib/go-1.10/src/github.com/mmcdole/gofeed (from $GOROOT)
/home/user/go/src/github.com/mmcdole/gofeed (from $GOPATH)
config.go:9:2: cannot find package "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" in any of:
/usr/lib/go-1.10/src/github.com/sirupsen/logrus (from $GOROOT)
/home/user/go/src/github.com/sirupsen/logrus (from $GOPATH)
main.go:10:2: cannot find package "github.com/urfave/cli/v2" in any of:
/usr/lib/go-1.10/src/github.com/urfave/cli/v2 (from $GOROOT)
/home/user/go/src/github.com/urfave/cli/v2 (from $GOPATH)
feed.go:11:2: cannot find package "golang.org/x/exp/slices" in any of:
/usr/lib/go-1.10/src/golang.org/x/exp/slices (from $GOROOT)
/home/user/go/src/golang.org/x/exp/slices (from $GOPATH)

edit: uname -a => Linux x1 5.4.0-132-generic #148~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Oct 24 20:41:14 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
FakeCatcher: Intel Unveils Real-Time Deepfake Detector
Intel unveils the ‘World’s First Real-Time Deepfake Detector called ‘FakeCatcher’ which can detect a Deepfake Video in Real Time. Intel’s FakeCatcher deepfake detector analyzes “blood flow” in video pixels to determine a video’s authenticity in milliseconds with 96% accuracy. FakeCatcher is the first deepfake detection algorithm that uses heart rates.
Musk was always going to do this. It's amazing how many times Musk lies and people just keep believing anything he says. It's not surprising that Musk likes Trump. Both are pathological liars.
The only way to get reproducible environments is to have an immutable base OS with packages compiled without environment, library, or fs leaks. In the real world, this requires lots of patching and isolation (hypervisor and/or containers).

Unfortunately, Nix suffers the fate of Haskell: so powerful that the masses can't and don't use it. By contrast, Homebrew spreads like cancer. "Worse is better".
Unsurprisingly, it’s restrictions from the publishers.

https://cheshirelibraryblog.com/2019/09/10/why-do-i-have-to-...
Speak for yourself, party pooper! https://sports.yahoo.com/drink-british-pubs-nude-thanks-1535...
If you think all Japanese games are well written, it means your Japanese isn't good enough.

Square-Enix especially, their games almost all have better scripts in English in Japanese. Which makes sense since they have Western settings; if you're in a "pirate city" like Limsa in FFXIV there's no way to sound "piratey" in Japanese. So they just have no character voice.

Actually, this very game was a good example too. Gen 1 Japanese Pokemon names were really lazy - Zapdos and Jolteon are called "Thunder" and "Thunders".
Maybe it’s technologically difficult from a standards perspective, but it works well for humans. If the computer smears an extra second into my day, I won’t notice.
I bet in a hundred years we're using genetically modified fungus to remove all sorts of contaminants from the environment. There's already mushrooms that can feed off radiation.
So how do you call the electric version of motorbike scooters, in a way that the recipient understands what kind of scooter is the subject of the matter?

https://www.piaggio.com/en_EN/piaggio-world/news-piaggio/pia...
There are some folks working on porting SwissTable to Go: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54766

What’s holding it back currently is coming up with a way to do incremental rehash, which Go’s current map provides.
Torsors (2010)
Misread title as kooks, and the answer was many. :)
I agree, many benefits would be realized in a modern framework.

With so much functionality stored in stored procs, VBScript was essentially just looping records and writing things out to tables. But there was lots of business logic there too.

It felt like I had a purpose liberating "old database" logic into application code--the sky castles of Brooks, as it were--where it could be changed "more easily."

Given the app was ported to C#, I suppose the stored procs would be the last to go.

Recently, I learned Cloudflare had started with lots of the domain living in the db. So it is not an unfamiliar technique, but a pleasant surprise to hear of it (for me).
This type of China vs US narrative where existential stakes are implied is just dumb. The technological Cold War we’re in is not going to result in the collapse of either nation.
I love it when this is the first comment
> Mycoremediation is a form of bioremediation in which fungi-based remediation methods are used to decontaminate the environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoremediation
Is that even possible? Any geophysicists here? Eventually I suppose that would also disrupt the Earth's magnetic field.
Lodging only requires a Level 2 charger (because you charge the car while you sleep) and many hotels have them. Most don't even charge you for the electricity, in my experience.

There are many more of these "destination chargers" in the US than fast DC chargers.
You have an apt username, at least.
Torsors are algebraic structures that basically answer the question "why can I subtract two points in space / dates in time, but not add them?". Sure, you can pick an origin (space/time), but that's exactly because they are an affine space, and hence act like torsors.
Oh, which God?
There's also bats who have much more flight control than birds. Since they have a hand in their wing which is covered with skin and muscle, they have a large amount of additional control over birds. Here's a great video of a study.

https://youtu.be/BNNAxCuaYoc

And there's kestrels hovering. I have also seen hawks do this.

https://youtu.be/7j6OsP7zL6w

https://youtu.be/mDRcLAkRZ50

Edit: Now I've gotten on a YouTube binge and landed on New Zealand keas, which I didn't know about before. And damn are those birds intelligent.
Well, in terms of money-making, the bronze age settlement would have made, at best, a small provincial museum that attracted a negligible number of people. Nobody drives an hour to see some stones arranged in the shape of a house.

Builders bulldozing over irreplaceable ancient sites are not exactly unique to Korea, after all. (At least this one got excavated.)
Waymo can now provide fully driverless rides in San Francisco
So many oepn-source alternatives to retool. So what?
Could an _intelligent_ snake on a Nokia 3310 have caused a buffer overflow in an intelligent way such that some intelligent piece of it was capable of escaping the game to get to the OS, and perhaps beyond? And let’s say the snake knew almost nothing of how the OS worked or even what computer code or microprocessors really functioned like outside of what it could observe from its game.

Kind of an interesting philosophical CS thought experiment. The game itself might not have been very isolated from the OS, although applying this to some 4D super beings and our own universe I imagine maybe they’ve got a better handle on things.
find "int32"

replace "int64"

I kid, fixing this will require an even greater amount of effort compared to the Y2K bug considering how many more linux devices have been deployed since then.
> I know you intended to disparage my sources and understanding of the topic

I didn’t, actually.

> but I have read articles and books by actual scientists because I have an interest in cognitive biases

Yes, I was hoping you’d be able to recommend some, but thanks anyway.
I will disown and disinherit any child of mine who cannot build a reactive web-scale application by age 4.
What exactly is the monster you’re talking about here?
The operators of the many GW of floating PV in use seem to have solved your string problem, assuming there was any. My guess, not.

Any competent engineer can design a perfectly workable utility-scale energy storage system. All that is uncertain is which designs will be cheapest, or otherwise most practical. (There are many kinds of cost.) Experience will identify the best. We have lots of pumped hydro storage because we have lots of hydro generation easily retrofitted with a pump.

Other utility storage is not being built out much yet because it would be stupid to build storage there is not renewable generation to charge from, and utility operators are not generally stupid. Small battery arrays that shift just a small excess of energy from midday to early evening, and otherwise stabilize grid fluctuations, have been massively successful.
Except the speed of light is actually pretty small on absolute terms. Modern computers can imagine much larger numbers and have no problem utilizing them.

Edit: or maybe the speed of light is actually represented in Planck lengths/planck times in the 4D simulation computers O.o