skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Bigger issue is the current range limit of 108 miles

If that’s 108 highway miles, it would cover about 80% of my RV trips. Even when I go on a long trip, I usually don’t drive much more than 200 miles in a day, so with a charge stop in the middle, this could work even for a long trip. Assuming, of course, that I can find a DC fast charger so a charge stop is 45 minutes and not 8 hours.

But RV parks will need time to prepare and put in metered chargers, since most aren’t going to be able to handle many eRVs charging at 240v/50a all night long, many already have trouble keeping up with AC loads on a hot day.
Startup is a really good book. People should be very wary of power of monopolies, MSFT also really messed with GO and General Magic.

The example of Palm vs Newton is great because it shows how clear goals trump excellent technology. Newton had this amazing OS where you could turn it on or off at any moment and preserve state. All data was available to all apps. And with that technology -- and probably some other choices-- and a great processor at the time (relative to Palm) it was useless because it was so slow. A handheld device cannot ever be slow. Palm did very little well and survived up until smart phones.
I remember in my 20s going from Having it All Figured Out to single, unemployed, drastically reduced social circle, living in my parents basement, got depressed & anxious, got out of shape, took smoking back up - all in 6 months time. It wasn't all connected, but it did happen all at once, and I definitely let it snowball on me.

The best advice I got was to solve one problem at a time. I went all in on getting a job. Then getting an apt. Then getting in shape. Then reconnecting with friends. Then dating again. Then quitting smoking again.

I definitely had to lean on family/friends for help. Especially my parents, who had their adult son back in their basement for a few months, and a few friends/former colleagues, who worked their networks on my behalf.

> I have expertise in Ruined Life Reclamation

In hindsight, the person who gave me the best advice definitely did have some expertise themselves.
They do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_block

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
> It’s not, as many joke in JPEG-marred Facebook memes, a bunch of if statements stacked on top of each other.

> It’s worse! The computer is just free-associating! it’s just vibing!

Thank you for finally spelling this out in a way that made me laugh.
Afaik all my tpm does is create outlook events and occasionally come to our standup to bitch about how we aren't doing enough jira
Are they? I mean, it's not like they have a million features and some of them haven't been tested thoroughly. Search, Comments and Shorts are central, and they suck. It's like when apple had that reception issue in their iphones, only that this is like ... "oh and you also can't read the display properly, and the speakers cut out every 30 seconds". I can't imagine them being totally ignorant and believing that their product is working great.
Filecoin Announces First Mission to Deploy Decentralized File System in Space
React is now the default choice. Google made everyone aware of page speed with their Core Web Vitals — speed/UX metrics affecting SEO. There’s noise about tools and practices to reduce page weight with JS-heavy sites, but in practice it still goes up linearly: https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight. Your piece is still relevant.
I would love some Live Activities widgets from United, Uber, Lift, Postmates.
Being honest most companies I worked, unit tests have no use at all. They are just writen because someone determined some arbitraty percentage of code that needs to be covered, and because it takes as much time to write the tests as to write the code, people just write useless tests that test absolutaly nothing usefull, and are worth nothing.

And this is not small companies we are talking about. They are banks, big educational institutes, etc. In the end the only thing most managers care is that the litle label in the pipeline dashboard that indicates the test percentage stais green.
"Headcount is too high": TCI Fund Management to Sundar Pichai (Nov 2022) [pdf]
I had my time of being angsty about religion in HS, but now I'm indifferent. Doesn't affect me, at least anymore.

I think it's amusing trying to guess what in my comment caused it to get downvoted. Could be suggesting that religion isn't "fun", calling role playing "dumb", or the note about anime and video game fans. I feel like any one of those things could have been polarizing on HN. I'll imagine it's the last one, since I think that's the funniest interpretation.
Ardupilot

might be what your looking for
Very interested and will try the extension on Monday. Thanks for your contribution.
`XXY` is a valid combination of sex chromosomes. The person has two `X` chromosomes so is female. The person also has one `Y` chromosome so is male. Which sex is the person? Is it a birth defect?
You remember when pirate copies were literally some guy with a camcorder in a cinema? Sometimes you'd get unlucky and the guy had to turn it off because the usher was coming, and you'd miss a random chunk of the film :)

"Good" times.
Enter Nietzche and the revaluation of all values
Yes, there appears to be some sort of auth token expiration going on. Even after setting up Face-ID-based authorization, I occasionally get asked for my AppleID password when using the app store.
Has the Apple Newton really fallen so far out of the public consciousness that this wouldn't be obvious? What about the Palm Pilot? Yes, I know the idea of PDAs has basically disappeared since the advent of smartphones (which are really just PDAs that also work as phones), but even so.
There is soooo much money going into domestic private sector black op.

The enemy is definitely in America, though these programs funding domestic safe houses and off book training facilities (with “detention” licenses, so .. private prison) are funding that enemy, not protecting us from one.

I put that the LV shooting used munitions paid for by the US government, out of a white hate run private domestic safe house. Someone must have cut their funding.

The bullets were government, bought in Phoenix. Smoking freakin gun suckers, and do you know about it?

It’s not a conspiracy theory to say we’re screwed.
I dunno. I know lots of people living in their van conversions, and every one of them uses nice looking, lightweight wood for all those surfaces.

In addition to weighing less than plastic coated particleboard, you can actually run a router along the edges so you don’t bark yourself on the corner of that table every time you walk past.

But this way saves four dollars and looks modern, so mass produced RVs use it.
Is it just me, or is there no way on the linked page to get this thing?
Always gotta ask, is that prudish or kinky?
Very cool. Always interested in these hi-res photos for agricultural field monitoring. A little pricey though.

ETA: 5 sq km seems big for a minimum. Multispectral availability is super cool tho!
Hi, at Grounded we are building a leasing-based electric RV business so that people don't have to drop 6 figures up front on a vehicle. We're shipping our first 3 e-Transit conversions early Spring, and then we are shipping our first BrightDrops (250 miles of range) this summer. https://www.groundedrvs.com
MakeMKV is the easiest option.
What the author is proposing is known in philosophy as the Pragmatic Theory of Truth...

I've read a dozen comments and, except one by some adolph about models, all of you seem to have read a different article.

>>> "None of these statements are true." <<<

>>> "while knowing they are make believe" <<<

That doesn't sound like some alternative theory of truth. To me, at least.
It just seems to me that "agile as directed by management" is pretty much an oxymoron.
exactly this. The creativity process is hampered by forcing every single possibility along the path to a new invention to something that is completely practical and useful.

On top of that he’s probably figured out a bunch of interesting things that he can apply to his next project and other things and so on. this is good stuff.
The world is not a theorem
Useful macOS Apps for the Menubar That I Wish I Had Found Sooner
I use my MessagePad 2100 regularly. It's a really wonderful device waaaaaaaaay ahead of its time.

I am considering getting a reMarkable to use as my "daily driver" replacement, and dedicating the Newton to my home office museum.
Python 2 string handling was really quite a mess compared to Python 3, and fixing it would have required manual intervention in any case (since it wasn't possible to distinguish usage of strings in Python 2 from raw byte sequences in a lot of cases). I think the print statement to function part of it was a way way more minor pain point compared to the str/unicode change, and is a fully automatable transformation anyway.
Not if the company is profitable. Even for unprofitable companies that sounds high.
https://archive.ph/62Q8n
I don't think that much higher dose then prescribed combined with a person that would not be prescribed the drug at all is a good example for your point. Dosage matters for the experience. And, whether your body has issue the drug is supposed to fix matters too. The reasons why people don't take drugs are more complex then that and for so.e of the issues there are simply no know drugs to fix it.
I don't believe that but if you do that contradicts the meme scattered around this thread that Google just can't figure out how to operate a business. Either they are inept or they are the omnipresent default choice of billions of people with monopoly power over multiple large marketplaces. But it can't be both.
I did also "nothing of substance" until I was almost 30 also.. But it's fine I dont regret it. I did what I wanted at the time and I enjoyed that part of my life.

When I was approaching 30 I suddenly got these urges to get my life together and get a career, and I did, it was grand. I guess I am lucky and privileged, I did a free government course in programming and I loved it and that launched my career then.
While I don't entirely agree with your claim, the claim being responded to here is not what you said and opens with "Statistically, FAANG workers are not good engineers". So the reason people are replying to a statement that you didn't make is because someone else did.
Usually the family of jobs you do not see any big tech company. These are the roles that are defined in SAFe framework!
Ok. Yes, ideally you'd allow the user of your VM to implement their own GC. But to make this fast you typically need to support special memory barrier instructions, like a modern CPU does.

Anyway, the GC-included approach is of course the one taken by Javascript and JVM.
That's very much incorrect. I do this for a living and I guarantee you that nothing gets skipped at a deal this size and it doesn't have to take all that long either, depending on how heavy the team is.

As for indemnifications: those are worth about as much as the paper they are written on when you're dealing with a fraudster, the money is probably long gone by the time you activate those clauses.
Elon Musk Shares Personal Experience with Serious Vaccine Side Effects
Yeah, and actually the entire "recession vibe" over the past few months has been largely anticipatory and sentiment driven.

Wages have been rising quickly on average, retail spending is still quite high relative to pre-covid trends, employment has been strong (outside of VC/big tech).

You see headlines about 10k here or 20k there, but in the end there's over 100m jobs in the US economy. The layoffs aren't meaningfully large in and of themselves

It remains to be seen how much worse it gets over the next year or two (if at all).
This feels like a stretch by the CFTC.

The investors’ LPs should have a bone to pick with what happened to their money, but there’s a good reason why you have to be a qualified investor to become an LP. But the funds themselves aren’t CFTC regulated anyway.

The real issue is the utter fraudulence of the whole crypto”currency”* sector, but the CFTC doesn’t have authority over that (not clear anyone does, unfortunately) and that’s not the subject of action here.

* I refuse to overload the abbreviation “crypto” when it has a perfectly useful definition already.
A website that may or may not contain magnet links.
Swift: Guard Let vs. If Let
Here's the real question: why have backup disc sizes stagnated? We went from CD to slightly larger CDs, to DVDs, then double-layer DVDs, but BD-Rs haven't really taken off and we ought to be at something much, much larger by now.
> do things the hard way, it is the only way you will truly own it.

I would qualify that to be about the things you care most about, and to definitely do other things the easy way, to spare time and mental bandwidth for the former.
From submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26866482 and comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867411 by dang:

> Removed in July 2020. I removed 'past' as well but there was more pushback about that so I put it back.

Seems it was removed a long time ago (I didn't really notice), but I cannot find any closer reasons why it was removed. My guess is that it wasn't really used much.
Exact same experience here. When I was in my early 20s. It derailed my life completely at the time but everything got back on track in a couple of years.
Only legally gathered, absolutely "white" datasets could win, because gray/black methods of gathering lack feedback.

You have not methods to ensure, if gray/black really gather data or they faked it.
Kia, Hyundai thefts using USB cords on the rise in TikTok trend, police say
well... https://www.scaledagileframework.com/ has gone so far into the koo koo land that teams are dysfunctional because of them.
I wish HN had a central thread feature for discussing oft-debated topics like TDD, microservices, and agile. This way, we could contribute to the conversation instead of constantly rehashing the same points through new posts.
https://archive.ph/vw9Km
In my experience, when you always have the option of coasting, repeatedly choosing to coast is tempting. You know it leads to a worse outcome. You live in fear of long term regret from the sum of your choices. Suffering arrives in between activities, when you face all this. It's no wonder we like to be distracted.
In ancient Indian philosophy, the Charvakas (materialists) considered the world to be real because it is seen whereas the Advaitins (nondualists) considered the world to be an illusion because it is seen.
A framework for making research papers truly open
Thank you! I feel like all of this Unit test stuff is just a case of Emperor's New Cloths: everyone writes tests, no one knows why but won't admit it. I've never never ever experienced in my life a time where a major problem was automatically found by some unit tests before it got pushed to production.
There should be a bipartisan or third-party investigation on a few fronts:

The lack of biodistribution studies for any of the three vaccines given they used a new delivery vehicle (mRNA) - Telling everyone the injection remains local and disappears from your body quickly; it only creates antibodies to the spike protein introduced to paraphrase the message being given early on.

The unblinding of the control group only six months in. They gave the vaccine to the placebo receivers in the study under the guise of their concern for their lives (yeah, right, thanks for being so considerate, Pfizer!).

The now-known censoring or memory-holing of any contrarian science, opinions or evidence against the vaccines by big pharma, mainstream media, governement and social media.

It's becoming evident COVID hospitalization numbers are in question given they were lumped together whether COVID was a primary or contributing cause, or just present.

The shaming of people who brought up the elephant in the room - obesity as a major comorbidity with diabetes and hypertension.

Not even acknowledging natural immunity to those who had COVID before a vaccine was ready, and then shaming them as anti-vaxxers.

And for those who keep saying they are safe and effective, the long-term safety cannot be asserted until we are 4 to 7 years down the road from the first vaccine, BUT big pharma unblinded their study's control group early on, compromising the process of a long-term blind study.
In sexually dimorphic mammalian species sex is most commonly by the ability to produce either the small or big gametes, not chromosomes.

In humans syndromes that lead to ambiguous (“intersex”) presentation and/or chromosomes are still operating in a binary system, eh Klinefelter affects boys.

The same is true for (very) rare hermaphroditism: in this case both gametes could in theory be produced, in practice though individuals are sterile.
I found it really useful when I got started in numerical computing and machine learning. Now I use the Jax/Numpy stack and Pytorch, but octave still has a special place in my heart due to Andrew Ng's canonical intro to ML Coursera course.
Congrats - this looks a lot like a type of note taking app I've been wishing for myself for some time, especially when eyeballing all the features that are in the pipeline. That said, I don't see a lot of documentation or explanations, for example regarding things like importing from- or exporting to other note taking apps. And honestly, 1$/day for the simplest viable tier might be a bit steep for most, even if all the promised functionality is up and running. Still, I'll definitely bookmark the service and keep an interested eye on the rollout!
Surprised to see this opinion on `guard`! IMO it's such a nice feature for future developers looking at that code, it's a clear indicator to pay attention to this area of code and know exiting the function is important.
> people just write useless tests that test absolutaly nothing usefull, and are worth nothing.

Oh man, those are my favorite. They're super difficult to critique in code review. "This test doesn't really test anything" isn't very helpful but writing a proper "do this" is often more work than writing a proper test yourself.
Poor babies. If those let go from well paying jobs didn't save for a rainy day then they are idiots.
I don't get the obsession with TDD. Maybe it's because I have been in the BI/DE space for awhile, but nothing is defined well enough to justify TDD in the first place. Everything is hobbled together and functional integration tests are much more important. Unit tests aren't going to catch when my CF stacks are broken. Good dev tools and architectural design are much more important in my experience.

I totally understand where TDD shines. When you have a well defined problem to solve, unit tests are the definition itself, and the business logic therein.
Aside from the above, Audienceful is a new company in the emailing space as well: https://www.audienceful.com
Or Zarathustra, by Nietzsche the noble messenger.
What has pissed me most was the way they managed the C++/CX to C++/WinRT transition, because not only does WinDev expect .NET devs to keep their C++ skills up to date for specific APIs, now they want us to author components like in the ATL glory days.

Then we finally have Native AOT, but still fails short from .NET Native capabilities.
opportune time to do beginning of year before new projects..goal measurement and execution get underway.

also remember part of this to help share price. executive leadership teams sending message to market they ready to focus on “value” and cut the excess. earning season getting underway and most company have big miss against estimate, so need data to provide example of what cost cutting happening in earnings call.
Hilarious. First line of the Agile manifesto is lost irony on these people I guess. Scrum and safe and all that nonsense is basically just a cargocult but not even a cargocult or anything useful

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
~$73B, but profits, margins, and cash on hand decreased in the most recent quarter
I knew people were leaning hard into Ghidra because it was free but are you implying that it’s surpassed IDA in terms of functionality?
I assume that's one of the parts of the work done at https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc - not happening any soon yet, but it'll eventually be done.
Execs don't get punished at all because of the collusion between boards of directors and executives. This collusion comes into being because both directors and execs belong to the same class. This is not the case with others (the relationship between execs and middle mgmt, between middle mgmt and worker bees).

Thanks to the dominance of mega index funds and pension funds, there is no way to rein in on boards of directors. Activist investors can control a bit. Remember the fight between Carly Florina and her hand-picked board on one hand and Walter Hewlett on the other hand about HP and Compaq merger.
Raspberry Pi Pico Priority Inversion
I tried to jump up a wall and fell through it while being stretched out :)
What's really nice are the heroes who take those VHS transfers and SD DVD copies and release AI-upscaled versions. Particularly cartoons that never had blu-ray releases look glorious upscaled.
What's interesting to me is that the pricing isn't that unique. That's pretty normal for a list price. $7 sq km + 25 sq km min (basically the size of the image).

That's probably because they're (I think?) buying tasking capacity from other companies, so the pricing can't be below the rate they negotiate. That probably results in then negotiating a below list price from a few companies and then setting prices that wind up being close to the average list price for the industry.

The difference is two very key things:
1) no minimum overall buy
2) fully public pricing

That price is pretty normal, but usually you have to commit to at least a few thousand dollars worth. 25 sq km min per target is also pretty normal, but the contracts usually require you committing to at least a few hundred of those.

Next is public list pricing. Every company has list pricing, and that's basically what smaller customers will pay. Large customers negotiate it down, of course. But just explicitly advertising the list pricing is also a big deal and not normally done. It's usually way too hidden.

A lot of folks (hi there Joe) have been pushing for more transparency in pricing, and a lot of companies have been talking about chasing the "long tail" of small customers for a long time, but it's really good to see someone actually doing it.
I wasn't there, but from what I've read calling Bell Labs an incubator seems very wrong. It was much more of a research facility funded by some mandate that e.g. 1% of the revenue of Western Electric must go to research, or something along those lines.
If Sam feels that people are overhyping the next version, it's probably because it's named "GPT-4", which implies the same (or better) jump from GPT-2 to GPT-3, which was massive. The naming suggests the improvement will be that much. Name it GPT-3+ instead to temper expectations.

This is assuming that he actually cares about it being overhyped though. He could be secretly enjoying and fueling the publicity. In that case, he better deliver, because disappointing your audience is hugely damaging.
TCP and UDP, or the two pillars of the Internet
The big simplicity is that you install octave and you have a gui development environment ready to go. Julia and vscode are great, but setting up a project with all dependencies is a little more work for university students with no programing experience .
It's hit and miss, I guess. I find Google's search also worse than a few years ago, but it'll often find Youtube videos better than YT's search will. To me, YT search looks like the most naive search implementation using some synonyms and then ranking by channel popularity and upload date range, and it's getting flooded by Spam Channels (that you cannot flag and hide, because that would be an obviously good idea, and Google can't have those).
Did the CEO take 'full responsibility' in this layoff too...