skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is bugs which worries you, but rather the completely wrong concept of modern day car production. Almost all cars built in the past 20-years have 0 compliance with the laws of physics, being extremely front-heavy and with transversely-mounted engines - disbalanced even on the Y-axis. What keeps them from spinning is the so-called DSC/ESC/ESP which is basically a neural network. We all know how reliable those are. It is in fact a very similar situation to the 737 Max, just on wheels.

Due to regulations you will not be able to find a non-veteran vehicle without those systems, nor you'd want to, but BMW, Mercedes, Subaru and Lexus still have models which are well balanced and don't rely on those to such a heavy degree. This would be my advise as well.

Disclaimer: I am not against (almost) perfectly deterministic safety systems such as ABS. On the contrary - I consider them to be a massive advantage or almost mandatory.
Since when are intro to programming courses using FOTM languages? At "max", some use Python, but aren't most still C++ or Java?
You could buy the game and dump the ROM yourself. You also need to get the original console and dump the BIOS from it.

Nobody does it, torrents are the way people actually do it.

Nevermind that people would actually pay money to have legal, licensed, digital copies of both - but the game companies don't care or want the money.
Show HN: Nearly Magical-Automated time tracking,like Self-driving car
First product to measure your work-life balance. Until now it was only talked about, but now you have a tool which can take care of your productivity.
Tool does not require you to record time, start/stop timers, tag time to customer. All of this is automated for ease of use.
Helps you stay focus on you work, while Rombi Productivty is taking care of your time tracking, productivity, billing and work life balance.
Many furnaces use third-party controller boards with well-known suppliers. You might find in the furnace manual that there are different wire-to-board permutations to allow different fan (interior recirculating blower) speeds. From home testing a few years ago, I recall RMS currents 50%-80% of peak rated draw, but could be mistaken.
Using a Key2 until it blows up. Just recently replaced the battery in it. Still works well for day-to-day work... once it becomes outdated I think I'll be forced to finally go fully touch like the rest of the world.
26262 covers system failures that produce unsafety, like broken accelerator sensors. ISO 21448 (SOTIF) covers system failure to detect and respond to the environment appropriately (e.g. does the radar detect small children?), which is also a common concern for people in my experience.

Both are acceptable standards, but ISO 26262 is a behemoth of a standard that most people have never read. Many companies don't even make the full standard available to their development teams, let alone educate people to employ it effectively. Similarly, MISRA is fine in theory, but the practical usage often ends with running code through an automatic checker that can only detect half the rules.
Yeah so to me the key problem is that it is just for six months. In the long term, you definitely will see someone take advantage of that margin reduction to price compete you down, but over six months there is no way market mechanics are going to cause the price to suddenly drop.

Also, it is key that a VAT is collected behind the scenes. With a sales tax, the change at least could be immediate, as the money is individually itemized at the point of sale to the customer, and it would take time to raise prices to somehow compensate for the mess.

...but, with a VAT? This makes no sense: the food likely already had VAT charges added to it months ago during the various stages of it being produced. Apparently this was a big controversy in Turkey, where stores noted their inventory had already been purchased with some high VAT and it wasn't like anyone was going to give them a refund.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/amp/market-and-grocery-store-ow...
my KeePass vault is backed up with the rest of my files using Borg. I sync between my computers using SyncThing.
Yes!! Thanks for reminding me.

Turbo Pascal was the ultimate in text editing. In fact, it was a complete IDE in a TUI. And the most-used commands were single keystrokes. Edit-run cycles were so fast that I was writing programs to do regular automation tasks.
Flex Mex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTwrVAbV56o

> However it is imperfect: for it is not yet delicious.
Good point, we get two-for-one disasters!
I always opt out ( with one time exception when my employer submitted stuff for me without even letting me know - HR.. ) and I tend to get a speech about how it is safe and I get more radiation getting on the plane ( which is technically true ), but I always truthfully respond that my family has some history for cancer ( and radiation is cumulative ) and I hope he considers this as he continues his employment.

I am thankful that I do not have a job that requires me to travel much and I can allow myself to do a roadtrip ( and it helps that I actually enjoy stopping by biggest corn castle ).

I absolutely understand the parent. It is not impossible that I would react similarly if I had to fly more often.
This is terrible, possibly toxic advice. Software devs are people too. They burn out, take time off to travel, reflect, take care of family, or just down on their luck being unemployed.

The only advice I'd consider paramount is to take stock of themselves financially and mentally, to assure themselves that they can take on the chaos and uncertainty that follows.

Honestly, if someone showed up with a gap in their resume and claimed that they were doing start-up, open source, etc. for an interview, I'd dig deep into that hard. The open source contribution/project would have to have a sufficiently high bar for it to be even considered. Else, I'd just assume they were being less than honest. I'd rather someone tell me they spent a year working on themselves, playing video games, hiking, etc.
This solution seems to have a lot of “gimbal lock” positions so I’m not sure 3 degrees is really accurate. The gears are so large that you lose 120° of rotation along one axis. 2.6 DoF is probably more accurate.
Did you get a job this way? Do you know anyone who got a job this way?
Unihertz phones are bricks. BlackBerry keyboard patent was sold to a holding company that won't do squat with it unless someone pays big $ most likely. RIP.
As someone who also writes and thinks a lot, truth #6 applies particularly to us. People REALLY don't want to hear hard truths from people who think about what they are saying. If you are saying something that is less thought out, honesty can be a good policy - after all, they have probably heard whatever you are saying before.
First they help users connect with each other then they make them pay with their attention, attention spans, memory and mood. Then they show you therapy ads as well. Loop.

A decade ago I used to think how difficult it would be to compete in this world when everyone around me was so smart at what they did. Fast forward, it has never been easier to progress as I see the matrix (sort of).

My experience with de-addiction: I left Facebook long ago(~10yrs), Instagram 1 yr ago, Twitter 1 month ago. No addictions now apart from reading hacker news once a day, TL;DR newsletter and morning brew at EoD.

I can not express in words how good life feels right now. There is just- no noise, absolute clarity and bliss - coupled with workout regime and balanced diet. I feel sad for my friends who can not get rid of those addictions and I know it’s difficult as I’ve experienced first hand. However, once you have left those apps and some time passes, there’s no going back. Instagram really is an addictive app but I have lost the urge to open it now in a year. In contrast, all I see wherever I go is people hooked to their phones and me staring at the utter cognitive chaos in the society today due to these petty apps that have actually disconnected the society the most ever. One should be mindful of what they put inside their body and into their brain as those are only things that stay with us till our last breath.

People have forgotten to enjoy reading fiction on a sunny day. Play with friends and family often. Throw surprises to each other.

Just last week I saw two diff posts on hacker news referencing these two beautiful articles which sum up what I feel:

1. Sam Altman: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...

2. Paul Graham: http://paulgraham.com/vb.html

Good day!
We did the same but the idea was to do it in different paradigms: iterative, OO, functional, etc. And the code was very different
Yes but it only requires a couple hundred watts to power the blower motor and electronics of a gas furnace. They're easy to power off of a small portable generator or even a cheap inverter hooked up to your car. The same cannot be said of a heat pump or resistive heater.
> modal editing doesn’t really fit my mental model of how an editor should work

The whole point of vim is that you change your mental model to become faster at editing text. People don't come into programming with a blank slate about editors, they were introduced to wysiwyg editors from an early age because of Microsoft Word, web based text input, and now phones (with emojis too). A mental model had been impressed already, but that doesn't make it the "default" or the best.

I used notpad++ in college, then switched to vim after I saw my boss edit some code while I was looking over his shoulder. He could do complex editing tasks with just a couple keystrokes and doing them so fast that I couldn't keep up just watching. It seemed like he was editing at the same speed as he was thinking which didn't seem possible to me at the time.
I agree. I still use the iPhone dock that supports the whole weight of the phone with the lightning port. I've had no issues.

It was totally designed to enable a minimalist Apple retail store aesthetic. I'm convinced that's the only reason for the design. Totally unnecessary design constraint, but very cool...talk about a company with a holistic view of their products, thinking about how details of the design will aid retail display.

I'm still looking forward to a USB-C iPhone, if Apple doesn't go portless (fingers crossed on that).
Are you seriously suggesting that Robert A. Heinlein, former naval officer, wouldn't care about the distinction between a ship and a boat?

And you still ignored the two most difficult ones.
How could these lotteries be made more fair to those born in the most populous countries?
> They made it clear after the fact that this was done because there wasn't an adequate supply of masks for 330M people, and they needed to secure a supply for first responders.

That claim is what I've been disagreeing with in all my text above. I don't think there's been any rational explanation, let alone apology, for what were at best unsubstantiated claims early in the pandemic, and at worst, lies to the public. Probably somewhere in between.

Jerome Adams is perhaps the worst culprit, but he was not alone in saying that masks don't work, and the CDC never offered a lucid explanation.
I feel like this idea of no need for responsibility is a massive trend in the US here and imo it needs to stop. You are completely blaming the us here when in fact the responsibility of this is on the parents. If the law had changed then while the child was growing up, sure say this is cruelty on the part of the US but in this case if you are going to say its cruelty then that cruelty falls on their parents who knowingly put them in this position.

If I tell you not to go to the top of mount Everest as you will die and no one will come save you, then you choose to go to the top of Everest and freeze is who is at fault? The Nepal government or you? Imo that is 100% your fault.
You must live in a very nice part of Montana if houses are that expensive. I live in a suburb of Portland and paid $350k for a home with a garage.

Stealing a charging cable is extremely high risk. A thief would be dealing with lethal currents. Also almost every EV has a phone app that notifies the owner if charging is interrupted. If you're home you'll almost certainly be able confront the thief. If it's a Tesla, sentry mode means you'll also have camera footage of the thief.

If you're worried about thieves, you should get an EV. Combustion vehicles have catalytic converters. In terms of risk-reward they are much juicier targets than charging cables. I don't know a single EV owner who has had their cable stolen. I know plenty of people who have had their catalytic converters stolen. (Yes, far fewer people have EVs, but you'd think I'd have heard of it happening at least once by now, especially in the Portland area.) EVs don't have cats, and they're basically rolling iPhones that record their surroundings, so they're less likely to be messed with.
> Facebook really has little to do with this... if it wasnt facebook, it would be youtube, instagram, watching tv, or sleeping all day.

…or you could end up doing something to improve your situation, like taking a walk outside or going to the gym. It’s kinda like saying vapes aren’t a problem because you would just get a cigarette.
a "systems engineer" is synonymous with "system administrator" and is someone who manages "the machines" (servers, workstations, laptops). this involves using some sort of asset management and rmm (remote monitoring and management) like NCentral, SCSM, Ninja RMM, Connectwise (you get the picture, as there are dozens in this space) to make sure that machines are setup, patched, accounted for and protected.

i don't understand why this term is so foreign as i literally all the time.
That's not what the comment you're replying to said.
I customized your script for myself and thought I'd share it - https://github.com/Meekelis/Hacker-News-Readability-Tweaks.

I included a link to your original repository in my README.md as it would have taken some effort to fork just one directory properly. Thanks for the script.
I'm about to get laid off, there's sliver of hope that something might come through before the end of the week but we all pretty much know now that the company is finished. I dedicated the last 7 years of my life to this and I'm disappointed that the investors don't share our optimism and confidence in the future of the company.

I've been laid off before and I share the OP's perspective that it can be a cathartic singular moment in life that presents an opportunity for re-invention.
They would still likely suffer heavy losses due to disease and infection they have no immunity for.
I'm pretty sure that the lack of police accountability is a far worse problem, to be honest. It eliminates any chance that we can reform law enforcement to any significant degree.
I would argue that a Bachelors degree is more or less obsolete for a 90% of job listings that require that if you have 2-4 verifiable experience in the field. Unless you need formal certification or clearance for the nature of the work you would be doing, you can get by without it.

That’s not to say there isn’t value in having a degree, like every component of a resume, it’s part of someone’s story on how they got to now. When I am hiring for tech roles, I staunchly cut back almost all requirements, limiting entry level SWE roles to something so basic as “Comfortable working with (almost) any programming language.”

People can learn the basics of Python in a weekend, but even senior engineers take some non-trivial time to onboard to how a sufficiently complicated and interconnected system works, team works style and dynamics, and repo/project layout and organization.
FAANG uses them because they're effective and scalable: https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/zhgtmr/o...

They're derived from cognitive sciences research and they have a high false negative rate, but it's more valuable to these companies to capture the true positives.
Tech skillsets are in demand because there's a huge backlog of unfilled positions at non-tech companies

This is the crux of the problem for many younger job seekers, is that they see "tech-first" / FAANG as the only career path.

But every Fortune 1,000 company today is fundamentally "tech-first". And it could be argued that "advertising-first" companies no longer offer the cutting edge tech opportunities of say, Financial Services or Transportation, who have all shifted to Cloud/GPS/AI in recent years.
What's the model number of your furnace / blower? I've been doing a ton of research in this area as I'm remodeling my place and have several furnaces and duct loops to deal with.

From what I've seen so far, unless your unit is super old, the 8.5A is almost certainly just a 'peak' startup current that's overstated as well. Your blower should say something like "1/3 HP" and from there it's straightforward conversion of 1HP = ~750W so a 1/3HP would be 250W. On a 120v service, that's 2 Amp. With maybe 15% efficiency loss, at peak speed, the blower motor wouldn't be drawing more than 2.5A. It could/will draw more than that to start, but literally just for a second or two.
Definitely not, but those aren't particularly well-known, whereas the Twitter thing is dramatically, embarrassingly, unavoidably public.
> there is no throttling on Apple Silicon when running on battery

... yet. The computational demand of typical work will increase to eat up the extra capacity, as it always does - and the only way for a laptop to handle the same workload plugged or unplugged is to cap its plugged-in performance.
Lots of colleges have steam tunnels too. With individual heat pumps you probably lose some efficiency but the source doesn't have to get as hot or as cold. Doing a residential retrofit sounds like herding cats but in somewhere like Phoenix or Tucson the efficiency gains might be worth it.
You're assuming that that awareness of how to solve a problem and immediate hands-on-keyboard test for materially different success rates while actually employed. My experience is that by the time you've gotten the job, most of the crammed-in Leetcode specifics have leaked back out and you're in the same place as somebody who knows the thing from school or from using it in prior projects, but didn't have it in their fingertips during the interview--you're looking it up again, because you know what you need but don't have the details top-of-mind.

The insistence on being able to spew out code-first answers to contrived problems during an interview situation is silly gatekeeping, but it makes the people who pass feel good, and that's why it persists.
>What situation are people in that they have to result to this?

Widespread interview advice targets the "worst-case technical interview scenario" which is doing leetcode and running a gauntlet of interviews. This casts the widest net possible in terms of how many interviews you'll pass. There's also a little bit of reasoning like "if you can handle this, you'll be able to ace the easier interviews".

The other things for job hunting - like using your network and being contacted first - are additional layers that you go through.

>In my 10 years of being an employed dev, I have never had to do leetcode interviews.

I think the reason you hear prep advice so often is that no one has any real data on how many companies are doing leetcode interviews vs. non-leetcode interviews. Because of this ambiguity, that's why you hear so much advice about preparing for the worst case.
Good one...
When I was laid off in 2010, I found another way in which honesty bit me. Or maybe it was a lesson in recognizing the limits of offers of help, because it wasn't my "transparency" which was the problem.

Of course I had my friends looking for opportunities and making referrals. One of them had a kind of clunky opportunity for me as an independent contractor for their company. It was a lengthy process to get it done, in part because they didn't really have their own contractor infrastructure so I organized an LLC, got my proper insurance, etc. Of course, I didn't tell me other friends about this opportunity because it wasn't a done deal yet, and I kind of knew the contracting thing was going to be short-lived anyway. Well, it turned out to fall through completely, which wasn't a huge surprise; but I found out that the hiring manager had told all my other friends to stop looking for jobs for me, because I was coming to work for him! So I was back to square one.
That mutability is what Firefox XUL offered to extensions for many years, and when it was taken away there were — and still are — cries of outrage from devoted extensions users who expected to be able to modify anything.

So the model has lots of downsides, but certainly it’s not a dealbreaker.
>It'll be like a cool guy is just following you around 24/7 making sure you know what to buy and do and think

Can they animate him (or her) so I don't feel lonely too?
-22F / -30C capable heat pumps already exist, e.g.:

* https://www.spacepak.com/solstice-inverter-extreme
My big complaint is with the transition of controls from dedicated, tactile knobs, switches, and levers to touch-screen buttons or menus which demand more visual attention (i.e. distraction from driving) to operate.
Suggestion: parse any number like 12:03 as 12 minutes and 3 seconds (and 04:12:03 with hours) and represent it as seconds. It makes working with durations a lot easier. This is just an additional parsing rule (could also use 12m3 or 4h12m3) like 1e3 for 1*10^3 but is typically not implemented.
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/an-update-on-yc-china/

In short, yes, legit.
Note for people who don't know much about FreePascal. It is a full-featured and very fast compiler. The resulting program is a rival for the best output of C/CPP compilers. It can be used in the style of simpler languages like Go and is almost as safe as Rust in a much faster manner. It has a great but old-looking IDE, Lazarus. It has been under active development for decades and is used for proper projects like:

https://dadroit.com/
https://peazip.github.io/
https://cudatext.github.io/
https://lazpaint.github.io/

As far as I know, there is no toolkit out there that lets you make fine looking applications for multiple platforms with proper speed.

The old Pascal you may know is not the new Pascal. The development of Pascal is mostly focused on ease of development while maintaining low-level programming and backward compatibility. It looks old on its face, but it is young at heart.

I recommend starting with Lazarus, https://www.lazarus-ide.org, a much lighter IDE compared to so-called light projects like VSCode, with many more features and components to play with.

Friendly word: don't let the comments with outdated information make you miss a great and fun tool.
Peer review is just people looking at a report and deciding whether or not your conclusions and findings are based on the data you reported.

What it's not is replication or in any way an indication that the original research was independent. The person reviewing your report has no way to know if your data is totally fabricated or not unless they try to replicate your study.
Show HN: Researcher – answer questions using Google and GPT-3
Oy Ye! Which comment was antisemitic?

Is any criticism of Israel now antisemitism?

"A nation that doesn't know its past, has a dull present and a future shrouded in fog" --Yigal Alon
There's been equivalent posts on hn, about equivalent articles, for like 6 months.

The "GRAD" is a precursor to layoffs thing really doesn't make sense, as much as people seem to be trying to make it a reality.

(Also what YouTube layoffs?)
If a tree falls and HN doesn't post it, did it ever happen?

I was not on HN prior to covid. The early news I read was likely the plague scare[0], but I definitely read the reuters article[1] when it came out which prompted me to talk to my coworkers about it. I was not sounding any alarms though, more like "check this out..." in the lunchroom.

[0]https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-ou...

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/ch...