skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's the worst part about bad weather - you have to ride much slower and be on high alert - so you're in shitty conditions for even longer - and ebike only makes that worse. For some reason people on ebikes don't realize that they are riding on a shitty motorcycle and how risky it is to remove speed restrictions/zip around traffic on those things - at least that's my impression of the few friends that really got into it. And the accident rate statistics seem to back my impressions.
To add some context: this is capped at EUR 2400 per month (or lower depending on state and if one has kids)
This is great! For any SWEs that would be more comfortable in a Python REPL, you can do the same thing like this:

import subprocess
import json

def osquery(query):
return json.loads(subprocess.check_output(["osqueryi", "--json", query]))

#>>> osquery("select * from routes where destination = '::1'")

#>>> [{'destination': '::1', 'flags': '2098181', 'gateway': '::1', 'hopcount': '0', 'interface': 'lo0', 'metric': '0', 'mtu': '16384', 'netmask': '128', 'source': '', 'type': 'local'}]

I hadn't heard of osquery - thanks for pointing me to that!
It seems really odd to view a law granting individuals the right to use land for personal recreation as "authoritarian" and not "individualist".
That's a perfect example of how we have allowed cars to endanger the public space. We all live in a constant fear to be hurt or killed by a motorist: watch both sides, do it again, are you _very_, _very_ certain? Then attempt to cross a street. And STILL 35.000 people die every DAY worldwide in traffic accidents. It's dystopian.
QEdit was my favorite editor on DOS. So fast. I actually had read the whole Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy on QEdit.
Maybe all of these things are true in Scotland, especially your part of Scotland.

In your particular use case, it would be prudent to have a faster charger installed at your home. It’s an additional expense, but your use case is not typical, so I don’t think that’s unreasonable. With a slightly faster charger, you can go from low to full overnight. I have a $20 adapter that can plug into my dryer outlet (which is next to my garage) for days I take long day trips.

The only folks I know who drive over 100 miles minimum every time they drive is folks with long commutes, salespeople, and folks who live in extremely rural areas.

For some of those folks, EVs may not be the right car for them. That’s ok — different people have different needs in vehicles.

The reasons I like my Tesla:

- I live in a relatively small beach town/city, so almost everyone drives. Some things are close. Others are not. 10 miles to the center of town.

- very low maintenance. Just tires, windshield wiper fluid, and air filter. Maybe brakes after 5-7 years (probably will not own it then).

- no gas stations while starting each day at full. It’s easy to charge in my garage. Not everyone has a garage, but superchargers are very common where I am, and it’s easy to charge while shopping if necessary.

- it’s relatively quiet in the car

- the ride is smooth

- the acceleration is good on a few short on ramps that are unfortunately too common in my part of California. Otherwise, I drive fairly conservatively.

- I love the clean dash design. I also love the voice controls and screen controls (when needed, which is rare).

- the autopilot is very useful for my use case.

- overall a very positive driving experience. It’s just fun to drive.

- Total cost of ownership is relatively low, although the purchase price is high. When I bought my model y, the purchase price was comparable to a highlander hybrid, but the cost of ownership after purchase is much lower for the Tesla (mainly due to less maintenance).

Overall, my comment to people is that you will be miserable if you bring an ICE mentality to an EV. But the opposite is also true — bringing an EV mentality to an ICE vehicle will be a miserable experience. ICE and EVs just have different patterns of use, especially regarding refueling/recharging and maintenance.
> Based on some of the feedback I'm getting here I don't know if I should open source this even though it really wasn't that hard to make.

I'd say you should. I'd rather see this as being publicly and freely available to everyone rather than some shady "Big Tech" analytics company.

If the "weapons" exist, I would feel more comfortable knowing everyone can access them, not just an elite that can use it for their own (selfish) purposes.
I think the best intro to computers is assembly language.

My actual intro was Fortran for a few months, then IBM 1401 assembler for the next 4 years, as the limitations of fortran were obliterated when writing assembler.

Assembler gets you to appreciate -- in your 'bones' -- what a computer really is, and how it really works.

You can then see how so-called higher-level languages work after understand their foundation.

Top assembly people generate DSLs for every problem domain, and have a hefty library of subroutines and ready macros. I still believe that, if you are good, really good, you'll do best in assembly. That is, you have the detailed machine knowledge, the proper mindset, the subroutines to do <whatever-is-commonly-needed>, and useful macros (which are a kind of specialized subroutine).

Now. This is true for small machines, and x86 or 68k; but. With the rampant complexity in amd64+ archs, with ultra-complicated instruction sets, it's harder to know every instruction with exquisite detail to produce better assembly than the best C or (probably) Rust compilers.

Still, even if you only use a subset of the instructions of amd64 or arm, you'll learn quite a bit how the machine actually 'does stuff'.

And, if you really take to this sort of thing, there is a future for you in Embedded. Good Luck!
Did it? At this point what it's famous for is the 2-to-3 drama and the 20 competing packaging tools and standards.
Very interesting especially since he was the leading role in that movie.
I actually use a scrolling document for most of my talks at work. I do this for a few reasons:

I am lazy. I just want write in Markdown. I have a dynamic HTML renderer so I don't even have to render the document myself. https://github.com/superjamie/emdee

Usually the stuff I write is intended to be consumed either as written or as video. I don't want a bunch of slides with incomplete talking points.

It works for me.
This is looking at it from the wrong perspective though. People, by and large, optimize their choices for their self, not for "society". Replacement rate is a concept that exists at an abstraction level above the individual. It's not something that an individual can fix, and optimizing for it doesn't necessarily help the individual. At best its something that you may see cultural push for.
The most common performance problems I've encountered in our projects are: 1) lack of indexes resulting in extensive table scans 2) I/O calls in a loop without batching.

I don't know if it counts as "I/O bottlenecks" or not.
Incredible! There was a very active throwaway account here a while back that I always enjoyed interacting with. I suspected the person had more than one account and this found one that is incredibly close, down to the topics.
Yeah. I understand that for some people, personal wealth is their primary goal, but for me I’d prefer a modest life where those in my community are also able to achieve something similar. I’d rather be a worker in a healthy cooperative than a land owner extracting rents from hard working people earning minimum wage. So books about how to be a land owner seem to me to undermine the society I’d like to see.
After a few tries on boring accounts, I thought to try the account of somebody who was notorious for an incident outside of HN, and had a (deservedly) bad time at HN for a couple of years before the account went dark.

And yeah, there's a bunch of high confidence (.6-.8) hits for that account, and from a quick browse of the comments of the recently active ones, they look really likely to be alts. Like, all three that I looked at had comments that made it very clear it was this person writing pseudonymously. (E.g. writing on their signature issue, and saying they couldn't go into more detail due to fear of self-doxxing; or somebody literally saying that the alt's claims reminded them of the public writings of the notorious guy years ago).

Obviously I'm not naming the account, but this functionality turned out way creepier than I thought the moment I tried it on the account of somebody who has a reason to disassociate from an existing public persona, but still wants to participate here.
Quit voluntarily in April, have been working on my own project since then, if it doesn't work I will start interviewing in Jan/Feb/Mar based on how the job market is looking. I find it hard to believe there wont be some recovery and would rather apply during a time where job seekers have a bit more leverage.
Unauthorised third-party modifications and add-ons may end up being part of the solution here. It's already established that this can be a viable business model with e.g. car accessories, games consoles and printer inks. I can see a market for one-off DIY modifications to various things that unlock what was intended to be a subscription feature.

A related issue is the increasing possiblity of devices being effectively bricked because some cloud service or online system has ceased support. Could there be a niche for a company selling improved after-market firmware for other companies' devices?
A successful system is robust to tampering from external and internal actors.
If progressives not getting behind capitalists and autocrats building their own personal fiefdoms on Mars is the big tragedy of the moment, I'm not entirely sure what a small tragedy would be. A stubbed toe? A temporary shortage of Don Perignon?
"Pretty soon the only advertiser left on Twitter will be My Pillow."

Also gold buyers, fortune tellers, astrologers, snake-oil salesmen, sports betting bookies, personal injury lawyers, for-profit schools, reverse mortgages: all the bottom-feeders of advertising.
I have seen a lot of people with PTSD and I'm thankful for your consciousness of it and care about veterans. I wonder if there might be a way of going about discussing it that would be more effective in winning people over, though.
I agree, but restrictions on one almost invariably restrict the other as well.
That LFP price can't be right. That's $1000/kWh! Batteries have been cheaper than that for at least half a decade. And I'm pretty sure Na-ion (at room temperature) hasn't even hit the market yet! Googling "sodium-ion battery price" just gave me textbooks.
Yeah, that’s what I meant by it being very weird. Assuming no illicit purpose, it’s a terrible deal, but this is FTX so it was probably a scam somehow, or money laundering. The bank appears partially owned by Deltec which is connected to Tether, there could be something there
If you're referring to the article posted last week, you need to read more than just the headlines
Gp is saying that no, it doesn't increase identity theft. Other (better) methods of verification are used instead.
"SGI has also been advertising their leadership on the Internet including servers and authoring tools. Their ads are very business focused. They are backing the 3D image standard, VRML, which will allow the Internet to support virtual reality type shopping, gaming, and socializing."

Metaverse, 27 years too early
Poorly equipped German army awaits financial reinforcement from Berlin
I'm not that smart - my site is basically just doing some calculations on word frequencies. You can read https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article-abstract/17/3/267/92927... and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09296174.2011.53... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755898 for more information.
Surprisingly little information for such an impactful event. How did people respond? Did people not get angry with the king? And I would have expected some architectural information, technical drawings of how this could have happened etc.
Such speech would only place you in legal jeopardy if it contains a direct and credible incitement to violence. If you simply said something like, "Let's kill all the Elbonians!” and nothing more then it would still be considered protected speech under current US Supreme Court precedents.
I've complained a lot about Haskell and now it thinks I like Haskell =(

Needs sentiment analysis IMO, otherwise you'll get "Here's a bunch of people who are JUST LIKE YOU", except they use a similar grammar style but hold opposite opinions on the same nouns.
the actual purpose IS nefarious.
What I (non-US) observed:

non-U.S. people when talking about their own medical issues: I have this medical issue, I wonder if I should see a doctor, the cause may be this.

U.S. people when talking about their own medical issues: I had this medical issue, I saw a doctor, and the cause was this.

non-U.S. people when talking about their own divorce: I am thinking about divorcing my wife/husband.

U.S. people when talking about their own divorce: We divorced last week.
It favors the collective rather than the individuals right to personal property, it’s not an odd view.
Thanks mostly to Google themselves, with their algorithms rewarding useless copied content.
The issue is that people are not willingly alone, not that they aren't comfortable being alone.
For those of you feeling down about being ignored, keep in mind this is the slowest hiring time of the year, with holidays and vacations, and end of year budgets.

Even in down markets, hiring tends to pick up in January as managers get their hiring budgets for the new year and are back in the office.

Hang in there!
Hah, so this becomes the same trap as thinking that way about a primary home. Do they have a plan for selling to realize their gains? Do we get to look forward to car-equity lines of credit or reverse car loans where people try to have their cake and eat it?
These are two distinct points:

1- The magnitude of the leap (in technical terms)

2- Its implication for Culture/Economy/Society

Concerning the first point (magnitude of the leap) :

- Friends, family often don't fully understand even how normal computer software work. So they don't have a "mental model” of what a computer can/can't do. As long as it is not 100% quality (like those Stable Diffusion ET hands) they will find a reason to laugh at you.

- Technical colleagues, even Top AI specialists, still view deep learning as a dark art. And it is really
difficult to qualify it with terms like "intelligence" and such. So discussions get very muddy.

Concerning the second point (implications) :

- This is just a usual failure of the imagination. How many were impressed by the "The Mother of All Demos" in 1968 ? You tell me.

- For some, it could also be a "psychological repression" as a way to deal with those implications.
I really liked the informative and straight-to-the-point about page - describing how the algorithm works in a way that is easy to understand. All the important details are summarised there. Well done!

Edit:
From the "How to avoid .." page, there is the following sentence:

> Also, most authorship identification algorithms have poor accuracy when working with small amounts of words. This means the optimal strategy would be discarding an account either after every comment or after a small number of comments. Unfortunately, this is against HN rules and may result in a ban.

Can you clarify what this means and why it would result in a ban?
Ehh. Sort of.

Congress can investigate anything they want - the thinking is that this power is necessary to effectively legislate and conduct oversight.

The ban came from the executive branch. Nobody has a right to bring anything they want into the country. Wether you’re a citizen returning from vacation in Tahiti, or ZTE, you need permission. This ban is removing everyone’s permission to bring this stuff into the country.
It is a better definition, but it's still not complete. For example, if I'm talking to Fred about a movie we both saw, and Fred found it really funny and I found it really tragic, and I can't manage to get my point accross, I will feel lonely. That means that for me, increasing the amount of social interactions can make the problem worse, as that will reinforce that idea in my head that I can't be understood by other people.
The Samsung PM9A1 is the OEM version of the 980 Pro, a top-tier PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD. What about an older SATA SSD(one without DRAM buffer or HMB), or a 5400RPM hard drive? Also as others have pointed out, random I/O will tank perf, especially simultaneous r/w operations to the same media.
It's definitely harder to count the time spent speeding when that speeding doesn't end in a crash, but the NHTSA still tries to do it [0]. About 19% of vehicle miles are driven at more than 10 mph above the speed limit on highways, somewhat fewer on city streets.

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/812485...
Public opinion and conflict seem to have a complex relation and
predictable phases that follow the seasons of war.

Before the show starts, jingoism is emergent and it ought to be
illegal to rattle sabres and call for blood where peace is still
possible. That changes quickly, there is a definite threshold.

Once the game is on, one has to move with the crowd. To not support
the war is demoralising, treacherous even. And this rises as the first
body bags come home and mothers weep.

In the middle phase, people are stoic and quiet. Soldiers have "a job
to do" and we must "grin and bear it".

Without swift victory, then comes the point of fatigue and economic
pain. Too many dead children on the TV. But the protestors are in a
minority and need great courage to point the way to an exit. That's
when tactical silencing of dissent can happen. The idea that opposing
the war is the same as siding with the enemy comes to the fore.

As the tide turns, even millions on the streets (Vietnam, Iraq), or
the advice of generals (Afghanistan) cannot overcome the pride of
miscalculating leaders. But at that point public opinion has passed
the threshold the other way.

By the end it is shameful to still support a lost war (and sometimes,
depending on the cost, even a victorious one).

Long before it ended WWI was universally seen as "insane" by all
sides.

Perhaps my historical education is wanting, but only the second world
war seems to have a clear narrative of victory over evil, with a
constancy of support for Allied triumph which I think even the
exhausted Germans and Japanese felt toward the end. That "just war"
model is wheeled out and is still active apropos Ukraine.
> That's an entirely different topic/point.

The fact we have a system where 97% of all the equipment isn't used to ever do anything useful and instead "increase security" is an insanely wasteful system. Nobody has quantified what level of "security" is required. There's no feedback mechanism to pull back based on need because the need is fundamentally unquantified. It's a grey goo style uncontrolled positive feedback loop.

Each time more miners come online it's lauded as "more security is better" - but how much security do you need! The answer isn't "as much as you can afford period no follow-up questions."

You don't have 75 seatbelts in your car because "security." You don't use a dump truck to take your kids to school because "security." And you don't use a global army of computers consuming 100+TWh/yr to process 2-3 tx/sec because "security."

Ultimately it's a half-baked security model, and Bitcoin is a half-baked proof of concept that escaped the lab and gained a cult following.

> What is your source around Hal Finney? I have not heard that.

My source is Hal Finney [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1153096538
I know this may not be the correct thread for this, and hope it doesn't come across as not being empathetic:

I'm paying $100/hr (negotiable) for skills in { Rust/Actix webdev, Unreal Engine plugin development, computer vision, audio processing, signal processing, ML }. These roles will convert to salary/equity later on, once the project outgrows my ability to self-fund.

We're building a cloud-based AI film and music production suite.

https://storyteller.io

In any case, I'm sorry to anyone impacted by this down tech cycle. The world will get back to its senses, and tech will continue to eat everything else not-tech.

Edit: I broke the contact form. Email me directly. echelon@gmail.com
PowerPoint is better. Removes a lot of bike shedding over “turn of phrase” and sounding smart, writing good, etc.

Also, more multimedia, better aligned with current communications tech, and designed specifically with the intention of presenting thoughts, persuasion, non-fiction. Books are great, but not optimized for today’s world.
> The workers at this factory rioted because they had been held there against their will due to a Covid lockdown

Literally the opposite.

Foxconn was trying to kick workers OUT of factory which had to shutter due to covid - the riot was over lack of compensation + bonuses. Which is about Foxconn who is infamous for mistreating workers in plants across east Asia, hence Apple doing +1 shift with Foxconn doesn't change anything, see Indian plant riotting over similar issue. Mac Studio still assembled by Foxconn. Root of problem is TW business culture, the shit practices in PRC are learned from OG TW base manufacturers who hasn't changed much, Gigabyte isn't spared.
Mostly because mining trona (actually Na3H(CO3)2*2H2O) is cheaper than the Solvay process. It's not a matter of possibility, it's just the path of least resistance.
Serves you right for disparaging The One True Language!

Ok, fine, we'll present Idris with a fig leaf.
This is silly pearl clutching, do you have any refutation of the arguments?

I believe there is very credible reporting on ccp-sponsored hacking of industrial, military, government dbs, etc. Even if we don’t have hard evidence of this type of hardware compromise, it seems to be wise to believe there are serious risks, and to take action until such risks are investigated.

Despite all the expertise on HN, i would guess almost no one here has a clue what kinds of elite military spy tech are being tested/used.

Further, the ccp has shown the world who they are - bad faith and anti-global-cooperation. Trust should be a two way street. I think we’re foolish to do any business with them.
This has been a great way to find people whose commentary I enjoy!
I was laid off from an over leveraged startup-type company you haven’t heard of.

The search so far has been pretty bad. Probably in part because of the timing (a week before thanksgiving, but it’s the same story every time. Any job I want I won’t get and any job I don’t want I can get.

I expect things to maybe pick up a little in early December, but I’m honestly kinda defeated. My last job was far from perfect, but I was planning on using to save up the industry afterwards which ofc won’t happen now, at least not in the timeframe I envisioned. Worst case I have to accept a pay cut that will nip those plans very quickly.
> But prior to bitcoin, that perfect solution was not really implemented. In this sense, bitcoin mining of flare gas is a step forward.

Prior to bitcoin they flared it - or didn't. Now there's an economic incentive not to find another solution. Now the oil and gas companies are incentivized to prevent that better solution because there's something in it for them not to. So we make it harder to solve 100% of the problem because this gets us 5% of the way there and pays us not to.
In somewhere like the UK the "authority" can be the large land owner/aristocrat. And individuals own relatively little land. It is the kind of thing that Americans escaped from! In that context public access is a defence of individual rights. And often rights will have existed for hundreds or even thousands of years. Public access is a defence of that.

But I think the different culture of America is a really good practical reason against improving access for the public. Guns alone would make it risky.
Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener