skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*Cars as defined by “car people”. Personally I couldn’t care less if my “car looks like a car.” (I don’t even know what that means.) I want it to get me from A to B with a minimum of financial and environmental expense.
> Now if you're wondering why there's an epidemic of homelessness and poverty in California, and it's become the state with the largest income gap in the USA, well, that's why.

Because companies moved low skill labor elsewhere because it is cheaper there?
SBF more or less admitted in the leaked Twitter DMs that the “effective altruism” was just PR (surprising no one, I hope)
Eh, it’s substack. Not expecting much.
This is already entirely doable: just create some executable "test" program in $language_of_choice (shell script, Python, compiled C binary if you really want to) and run that in the CI. You're still going to have to need a wee bit of CI configuration (usually YAML) to tell it which containers to run and whatnot, but this usually isn't all that much.
"Optimised" code according to the author. What can we do to optimise further?

- Read file in one thread pool, streaming the chunks to...

- ...another thread pool, tokenise, count, sort the chunks and send them to ...

- ... merge in another thread pool. (basically map-reduce).

- please stop malloc'ing for each token

- prealloc map for found tokens (better to just allocate room for 200k words).

- SIMD would optimise your inner-loop quite a lot. However, there are optimised libraries for this, so you don't have to write this yourself.

- `word = append(word, c)` <= this is very slow

Why is there no profiling? Why don't you check how the compiler interpreted your code and benchmark the subparts?

In addition, there are at least some errors in your optimised program:

- you can't lower-case by substract like you do. Non-ascii characters would fail.

- also you can't tokenising by comparing with c <= ' '. There are many characters which would break a string. See this exercise: https://campus.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-natural-...
A language isn't just a collection of vocabulary words and grammar rules. A language, beyond being a cultural artifact in and of itself, forms part of the system by which a community processes, discusses, reacts to each other and the world around them. Some folks might be familiar with Spanish's gendering of inanimate objects, but even things like counting on linear counting scales are in play here! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610411/

The value isn't just "the culture": language is indelible from the way one sees and understands the world. That's what's worth preserving.
Merging on to freeways? Turning in to traffic? Passing a slow car in fast traffic?

I spent years driving a $500 shit box car. There are loads of situations where acceleration mitigates other people's mistakes. I lost that car getting rear ended - not my fault, but it could have been avoided with more power (saving myself weeks of neck pain).
The right to a speedy trial means it is often better to build out a comprehensive case rather than do charges immediately when the first crime is found.
I can see how that sucks during the exam, but knowing how to do it from first principles will stick with you for much longer. When I told my students that I went into mathematics because my memory is so bad, they never believed me. But it is the truth (at least somewhat).
I think you seriously underestimate the pace of AI innovation these days. My conservative guess is 5 years for a single-human-supervised full length movie of this sort.
There’s an entire philosophy behind any anti-piracy strategy. For me, it’s about adding enough obfuscation to make it challenging for a pirate while simultaneously keeping the price low enough so that cracking isn’t a juicy target. Most users want to support you, but they won’t put up with much purchase friction.

The wild thing about electron, and my app specifically, is that it relies on a handful of native modules and at least one WASM “binary” - and let me tell you, if you think you understand how it works in both dev and prod, I don’t believe you… because it’s incredibly complex and confusing. Throw in cross platform code signing, notarization, start praying.

But for everything else there’s webpack “optimizations” via uglify or similar to mangle variables and function names. Feel free to email if you’re looking for specific configs or recommendations. I’m sure there’s room for improvement on what I’ve created. Good luck!
Absolutely agree that programming and writing have lots in common. I usually don't write anything longer than a blog post, but even a short blog post takes a lot of time for me. Expressing your thoughts in words is hard! Likewise for programming :-)

When I thought about the similarities I came up with:

- both are about communicating your ideas clearly. For that you need good structure, and having a logical order.

- editing and revising is key. Also, compare with refactoring in coding.

- style - there are lots of ways you can have a unique style, even in programming.

More here: https://henrikwarne.com/2019/03/30/programming-math-or-writi...
Many different auto companies have produced numerous different cars over a very long period of time. Which one is the “official” template of what a car should look like?
It'd be interesting to know what tech stack OnX is using to achieve their outcomes. Looks pretty slick!
Theoretically, yes. Practically lots of companies still ignore GDPR rules or have just not prioritized doing so (yet). If the business is tracking people and selling data, some just keep going until a fine hits...
Why is that? I've noticed that nearly all of these new toys don't improve my quality of life. Do people buy things as a dopamine hit and form of escapism? It certainly seems that way.
https://archive.today/FC4AJ
So far it seems to be very popular as an alternative to buying a scooter for the kid, for parents with enough income. Especially with the £100/month plan.

The nimbleness and ease of charge (the thing comes with what's essentially a hoover charging cord) make it rather convenient for city dwellers or close suburbanites.

It's also much cheaper than license-free cars (Aixam, Chatenet, Ligier).
What is decided are the rules of the game, the outcome is then somewhat obvious.
If you find this article and comments thought provoking I recommend you read Central Banking 101 by Joseph Wang.
Because there is a market in Europe they can service.

Microsoft and Google are not shoestring budget bootstrapped startups - they can afford to run multiple products, or multiple variants of the same product adjusted for market need, and they will do it, as long as it's net profitable for them. Sure, it's nicer to earn X than X/2 or X/10, but as long as it's a positive amount, it's still worth doing.

That is, as long as it's more profitable to do it by the books than what a lot of industry players did so far, which is to spend money on malicious compliance and sabotaging GDPR.
Me too. I think Physics taught as history class would be extremely fun. Say you have to follow the steps of Kepler and do a few observations by yourself.
No worries! It’s a relatively common (and amusing) mistake.
Even if that’s the case (which is not) negligence is considered a crime in the brave new world of world finance.
More direct democracy would be nice.

However, as a citizen of EU member, I’d say GDPR pretty well aligns with the general notion of the people.

Sometimes people ain’t happy when government uses GDPR as a scapegoat to keep iffy data private. E.g. hiding final beneficiaries of companies. But I don’t see people unhappy that GDPR prevents crappy software practices.

Same deal as credit cards. Here in Europe cards processing fees are capped. Thus we don’t have US-style kickbacks or points programmes. Which probably limits credit card issuers innovations and business models. But I don’t see people complaining about that.
I think some information is lost in the comparison between fighter aircraft and home security cameras.
Technically maybe. Though I think it's a much stronger case for objectivity when one is murdering, imprisoning, and enslaving fellow humans to please imaginary friends or destructive traditions.
The sampling for "regular" Gore-TEX (read: layers added by manufacturer) makes sense from a product standpoint.

If your selling point is waterproofness, and waterproofness can be destroyed by bad assembly... assembly is directly linked to your perceived product value.
> average reporters of that period, with a decent patronage; just documenting things on paper as they hear/research/study it; without the intention of publishing for widespread readership.

We don’t really have that anymore though right?

The current internet is economy strongly incentivizes people to write things in favor of engagement.

Sometimes this aligns with ground truth (e.g. Gergely Orosz, who has documented Musk’s Twitter takeover via daily updates). Many times it does not.

Who is supposed to be the historical record keeper, at this time, when trust in record keepers is at an all time low?

I find myself uncomfortable asking such controversial questions, but I do feel like they should be asked
They’ve been running that experiment with great success in the Netherlands since the 1970s. It’s great to see, and even better to experience in your everyday life. I love feeling connected to my environment.
This is not surprising as Austria, France and Denmark have already concluded the same.
I'm not sure I understand what's missing in python compared with BASIC.

Sure, you can teach students to write `print(" ".join(str(x) for x in range(1, 11)))` to print numbers from 1 to 10... but you don't have to do that. In fact, `X = X + 1` works just fine. The old school BASIC style like `X = 1; while X <= 10: print(X); X = X + 1` still works in python. (sorry for the lack of indentation)

What am I missing? (besides the misguided social expectation that you need to teach the fancy generator stuff to a total beginner...)
Imagine things would move towards every electronic document in American companies going through the servers of a European country, say in France. Do you really believe, there wouldn't be an outcry in Washington? Do you really believe, Congress would just watch? Do you really believe, US security agencies would just sit idly by? I don't.

This has nothing to do with totalitarian countries. Regardless of the political system, this is about a loss of control. About industrial espionage. Ask anyone who's work concerns US national security how much they trust foreign democries, like for instance France.
>> ""PCB [printed circuit board] manufacturing and assembly is a very low-margin business and is largely located in Asia. It comes down to access to low-cost labor, a vast ecosystem of factory infrastructure, and flexibility. It is hard to replicate the ecosystem in the US today," said Kundojjala. "

I have a section in The Big Bucks about "PCB manufacture": it used to be [1970's] outsourced on a piecework basis to people in my neighborhood [SV] who did it in their garages. Some of the very old timers around here still remember it. It was before my time.

The electronics companies would deliver the boards & the parts, and the neighbors would stuff them. One of those companies was Apple, I believe.

If you were really good they might have you solder.
I absolutely believe we should strive to improve the lives of all living beings in the world. But purely to provide an alternative perspective and spark some lively conversation, I want to explore a different point of view:

No one is forcing these workers in China to take these jobs. The workers willingly choose to take them because they are an improvement over their status quo. The jobs pay more, and offer better benefits for them and their families, than they may be able to obtain elsewhere.

That's one of the great benefits of globalization. A factory job manufacturing cell phones may offer substandard wages in the US, but it's a big step forward for workers in a developing country. In this way both countries benefit.

Obviously everyone wants to continue to improve their lot, and a Chinese worker may BOTH realize that their factory job is better than they can attain elsewhere, AND they may suffer under poor conditions at that job. But they can always quit, and odds are someone else will immediately jump on that same job. That says a lot about the comparative quality of the opportunity. In the end these jobs, as flawed as they are, are still living millions out of even worse conditions every day across the globe.
This is the most interesting aspect of all of this. It works for music, too: what if your audio playback device could modify a song in real-time to add or remove instruments, or play in a different style. The same could be done with a movie. This also has great applications for musicians looking to learn a piece. YouTube's ability to slow a video without modifying pitch has been really great for this application, too.
As someone who has grown up with "Freedom to roam"[0] laws, it seems so weird that you would need to keep track of who owns the land where you are hiking. (To be fair you can't just hunt wherever you want in Sweden either.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Sweden
You are not meant to take it on a highway, either. It's a bit like saying "pedestrians have zero airbags, crush crumple zones are bones" - you are soo close to getting it!
It's hard to get precise velocity changes with a solid fuel rocket. So must orbital class rockets have a liquid fuel stage at the end. And most rockets don't use oxygen for a propellant, because that's cryogenic, and hard to keep liquid. So called storable propellants are frequently used, especially for military rockets. That said, the most launched rocket last year was a cryogenic fueled rocket.
I've heard this same sentiment for years but my refrigerator/freezer went out approx 3 months ago and I was dreading having to find a dumb replacement. But when I went to our local Lowe's, surprisingly there was only one smart refrigerator option out of the approx. 30 dumb units. So I was able to easily purchase a nice, high quality, dumb replacement.

Obviously that's just anecdotal, but was a pleasant surprise.
Figure 1 here from the state:

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4014

Homelessness is far higher than a rounding error, it's 5% of UC students, 10% of CSU students, and 20% of community college students.

I live in a town with a UC campus, and come across packs of students living in their cars. They do everything they can to have minimal impact and hide from view. It makes me terribly sad, and shocked every time I see it.
As I hiker I definitely disagree with the notion that no roads = no access. I've been plenty of places you could not construct a road without some pretty hefty engineering.

And note that this article is about a case where there were no roads but the hunters were there anyway. I'm definitely on the side of the corner-crossers, you don't get to control public land by land-locking it. I'd say the owner of the land that land-locks it gets to within reason decide the route that is permitted, but they have to grant it. And I would say that any corner like this should automatically become shared access to both owners of the corner (in this case one of those owners is public, but I would apply the same standard if both were private), they can move anything between their properties so long as they minimize the intrusion and neither can do anything to hinder the other's ability to do so.

Locally, we have an interesting hiking area that's been a matter of dispute for many years and it isn't even due to a hostile land owner. There is private land with an old mine inside a national recreation area here. Unfortunately, it cuts the only way you can reach a canyon without encountering terrain obstacles. Reportedly, somebody's car got damaged while parked there, their insurance company tried to go after the landowner and the landowner's insurance company responded by requiring him to keep people off the land (he hadn't cared about us hikers, our passage did not harm him.) There is also the issue of a couple of mineshafts that idiots (the timbers do not look safe to me!) like to explore. Some states have gone partway towards addressing this--exempting the landowner from liability for any natural hazards (hey, nature doesn't come OSHA-sanitized, us backcountry guys know we need to make our own safety evaluation of the situation!), but this doesn't deal with the issue of old mineshafts. I'd like to see it go farther, exempt the landowner for all natural or old hazards, they're only liable if they create a hazard.
Strongly concur. I'll concede some cons:

* GNU make is sometimes unavailable

* syntax is an acquired taste

* not everything fits in a rule body

Imho, these are far outweighed by the flexibility, portability, and "least surprise" convention embodied in a Makefile.
In another jurisdiction, the tornado cash developer is arrested almost immediately after the system was sanctioned. Still held under arrest as of today. For writing code? Might there be more to it but it really makes you think specially with all those puff articles stating that SBF was some robin hood that was poised to save the world until some bad luck strikes his plans.
And now the document foundation, which is behind LibreOffice (the active fork of the dead OpenOffice) is also german based. And they put a lot of work into it, also the modernisation.
But to be honest, I am not sure, if they could ever become a serious competition. I think they would have to do a fresh UI start and be 100 microsoft office compatible. Then they would have a chance. With more official backing, this is maybe remotely possible, but I do not count on it. Rather political pressure for a slight modification for Microsofts operations for germany.
Yes, but the usefulness of such a tool depends on what exactly you want to achieve.
Whe you consider China's restrictions against US companies, these things are a drop in a bucket.
In most European countries, a third party is never involved in the tax filing process. The tax agency sends you a prefilled form that you just have to approve in most cases.

Also, all tax records in my country used to be public until recently and I think even now that information is somewhat easy to get.
> You pratically need an external company to manage your cookie banner because it is a legal risk.

Don't set cookies for visitors. Notify on signup for everyone else.
It's fine and defensible to reject the religious perspective, but to refuse to admit religious perspectives to the discourse at all is to take pride in ignorance.

In the Christian faith alone, there are over two thousand years worth of literature to contend with, much of it concerned with evergreen concerns like how to be a decent person or what our relationship to be to money and possessions should be. That literature is being added to every week: fresh sermons, both populist and abstruse, are written and delivered every week.

Rejection of the keystone of that writing is something I disagree with, but not on any rational basis. Many who do so, however, also admit into their own hearts and minds a false caricature of the religious intellectual tradition. And that is well worth knocking down.
Still, I don’t understand. If it’s illegal for a data point to be stored, how could it be used anywhere with confidence? If your microservice returns an illegal datum, and a consuming service needs to use it somewhere, how is that secondary usage not a form of storage? This is before taking into consideration things such as cached responses, temporary files, RAM, and other downstream services. You would also have to prove that datum wasn’t derived from anywhere else. What a legislative nightmare this sounds like!
FTX's Salame donated half as much as SBF donated to democrats to republicans, and I believe within a few million of SBF's if you include super PACs.
You are arguing against a completely fictional point which you have made up in your head.

None of what you are saying is even remotely a response to my criticism. You can tell me that I failed basic logic all you want, but your reading comprehension sucks so much that you still have not been able to figure out what I am even talking about.

I think you still haven't understood that I never said his intended reasoning was wrong. But that his statement as written is plainly false. There is no argument against the logic by me, so the fact that you keep going on and on about "logic" just shows that you haven't even understood yet that nobody disagrees with the logic. I know how a proof by contradiction works, you do not seem to want to understand that "computes" and "implements" are different words. And that by repeatedly arguing that the authors reasoning is valid if you change the statement to make it correct you are proving my point again and again.
You can find the comments from the ESBuild author here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336284
> If we can figure out how to efficiently print the PCBs in Denmark/EU

see my other post. It used to be part of a garage-shop economy here in Silicon Valley.
That's a common stance in right-leaning circles, unfortunately.
> Is there any communities for programming language developers? Where do all the language developers meet up and talk theory and implementation? I am on eatonphil's discord and we talk there.

There is a discord for that: https://proglangdesign.net/wiki/discord

I've briefly looked into it. It looks like it is fairly active and has the types of discussions you're looking for. It seems there are a lot of people out there trying to write languages.

I've done some small expression languages for work (and customized rhino js for a work project). I plan to build out a small language (self hosting, dependent typed, compile to JS) as a learning exercise, but at the moment I'm learning dependent type theory and contributing to Idris.
You might be able to turn yours into one, just start driving one!

https://www.clubcar.com/en-us/personal/street-legal-vehicles
Low range means fewer batteries cells (or pouches) means less parallelization means slower charge speeds. However this is probably not a huge issue since the use case for a short range car like this is charge at home at night, and use it only around town.
And you can use unsafe.
> Eyes not quite the same size, breasts pointing in markedly different directions, bone structure on the face markedly different to each side.

Jodorowsky would absolutely cast actors with those physical characteristics if they could be found, so in this case I’d say feature not bug.
People hold their iPhone to their ear or mouth as if a tea cup saucer at horizontal orientation. It looks they are doin' it wrong. A slate display panel in one hand and on the other hand a pen stylus plus handset for ear and mouth makes sense. You see and communicate cripsly.
> You are not meant to take it on a highway, either.

At a top speed of 28mph, it's literally illegal to take it on a highway in most of the world.
His vision wasn't too different from a lot of other pundits', and it came a year or two too late.
Over here in America we’re at the forefront of developing pedestrians with airbags and crumple zones.

Unfortunately actually walking seems to remove them again, but top scientists are on it.