skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, just happened with our (ICE) 2016 Kia Sedona Minivan. The head gasket blew, had quotes from 6-10K to fix it. We sold it to an auto auction for 2K. It only had 150K miles on it and we had just paid it off.

We couldn't just swap a new engine into it, too complex, too much to fix.
My bad. I was thinking of total wealth - not sure where I got the figure back then (took longer than this) but wikipedia has total global wealth at 450 Trillion dollars or 57,000 per person (8bn).

I suspect with PPP or different assumptions 70k is quite feasible. I think my main argument is stronger - if everyone had 70,000 of wealth then houses would be less than 70k.

I am reminded of watching a movie with my kids - "Home" about a group of bumbling aliens who take over earth and move all the humans to Australia. (One girl escapes with a friendly alien and has adventures and learns the meaning of ... etc). It's fun for younger kids.

Anyway, the point is that super advanced (but bumbling and ultimately nice) aliens simply transport every human to Australia and plonk them all down in front of instantly created suburban houses. Some people (elites?) will lose out - their houses will be less nice than pre-invasion, but for the vast majority of people it's a major upgrade - a life changing improvement.

And roughly that's what the "if everyone had 70,000" idea is about. As the plot was not challenging especially on the third rewatch, I would try to imagine what happens next in Australia. Do people live pleasent suburban lives and human happiness is complete, or does it devolve into Haiti-like chaos ?

Sadly my money is on Haiti as what keeps us from not killing or eating our neighbours is a sort of common story about how safe we are, how police and other services are there for us etc

My only upside is that the aliens might do a random sorting of humans. If you were say in Fallujah or Haiti or Yemen and you and your neighbours and society all got moved to the same neighbourhood in Australia, then you take the same social structures, the same pressures of expectation and social performance, the same grudges. Disaster.

But randomly spread (families) out and it seems different - the idea you will hold onto political grudges against a Norweigian neighbour and a Brazilian opposite seems odd - especially now you have to overcome the shock of the chnage and frankly the much nicer living standards you now have.

Also lots of ice cream was available which might have helped
Just got the new laptop and ran a few benchmarks, let me know your thoughts. I think it's so fast because of the dedicated ML cores, but could be the CPU too I suppose.
One thing I've taken to pointing out, and it seems like you have way more experience with which to back it up - is that it's not just about scaling to millions, it's also about scaling from zero.

Thoughts? :)
Depression, and almost all mental disorders, can't even be defined or reliably identified by any diagnosis test, leave alone finding a biological cause.

Found a book recently on the topic, "Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry" by James Davies, an expert who worked as a clinical psychiatrist, and was himself present at meetings when organizations like the NHS worked on standardizing definitions for mental disorders (DSM and ICD).

My notes:

* Naming mental disorders is like naming constellations in the sky: the phenomena are real, but finding a pattern is completely subjective and arbitrary.

* There is a growing movement of professional psychiatrists calling for the abandonment of the DSM and ICD and other newly created terms for mental disorders.

* There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for the existence of ANY of the "mental disorders" described in the DSM or ICD, yet these mental health manuals are taken as bibles in the West. The authors of the manuals themselves are publicly quoted to have said that these manuals are simply subjective guidelines, with absolutely no biologically-identified cause for these "diseases".

* Most of these "disorders" are simply describing normal variations in personality found among people at different periods of life. Identifying behavioural patterns and assigning a name to it is a purely subjective matter.
What percentage of successful impersonations are really attributable to 0/O confusion?
Kinda so-so article that gets some issues exactly right (oversized vehicles, too many individual cars vs transit options) and badly misses others, like lithium sources.

Lithium deposits are geologically widespread and abundant, but 95% of global production is currently concentrated in Australia, Chile, China and Argentina. Large new deposits have been found in diverse countries including Mexico, the US, Portugal, Germany, Kazakhstan, Congo and Mali.

There are massive Lithium deposits at the salton Sea in souther California which are just bubbling up out of the ground in heated brine, meaning the earth is doing most of the work bringing it to the surface as mud. Refining it will need significant water, either from contested supplies fed by the Colorado river or as-yet-unbuilt water pipelines from desalination plants at the coast. But these deposits are massive and the extraction part of the process would have minimal environmental impact compared to the open-pit mining required elsewhere. It's odd that this article doesn't mention this at all.
I second this. I would say that I am pretty advanced with Python (and Django) and same with JavaScript (Vue and Nuxt) and have written applications that got used by multiple users. I saw a sharp rise in my productivity when I knew enough about the frameworks. But Elixir + PhoenixLiveView + Tailwind has been life changing.

I learned Elixir for the sake of the joy of learning a new programming language and I kept playing with it for few random days over 5-6 months. Finally, I took the leap of faith and for our startup I started the switch to Elixir + LiveView with minimal JavaScript hooks and I feel a weird bliss that we are two engineer FTEs and I can add features on a daily basis. Why that's the case, I still haven't ruminated myself, but my guess is 1. I have gotten older, 2. Elixir is beautiful and productive by design-- pattern matching, everything is a process (so the dimensionality of time is not an issue at all) and the code is kind of a right balance of simplicity and complexity, and in my opinionated view, there is "one" right way of doing things. 3. Standard tooling (mix, ExUnit). They have enabled us to write really maintainable code and for our next hires, we are willing to pay for them to learn Elixir than switching to other languages. Of course this is only for true for our web app which is actually a weird beast that interfaces farms, sensors, algorithms, and humans.
Right, this strikes me as exactly the kind of "I'm not touching you!" argument that basically never works in a court of law. The law's not like code. "Well it's not any different than publishing a book, so this is just free speech and not legal representation"; "OK, cool, well, we both know that's sophist bullshit, judgement against you, next case."
Yes, absolutely. As a senior software engineer, Copilot has been invaluable in helping me to do things faster. But having an expert human in the loop is key: someone has to know when the AI did it wrong.

What's so bad about this experiment isn't that they tried to use AI in law, it's that they tried to use AI without a knowledgeable human in the loop.
The electrical grid is not capable to fill the role for the electrification of all cars. The current gas distribution is suitable for hydrogen too.
It's a pain, hence for apt as long as it's the same packages, just cleaning is probably fine. But e.g. build-essential is there to handle building extensions pulled in by gems, and that isn't necessary in the actual container if you bring over the files built and/or installed by rubgygems, so the set of packages can be quite different.
> Finally, there are those within the ACLU who scoff at the First Amendment completely, arguing that it is “disproportionately enjoyed by people of power and privilege” and therefore, presumably, of little or no value to others.

The thing about the First Amendment, as it is now interpreted, is that it's a bit like how the law bars rich and poor alike from sleeping on park benches and under bridges. The speech of the privileged is tremendously more powerful than the speech of the marginalized. Allowing the powerful to say any old thing without fear of consequence poses a direct threat of harm to marginalized groups. Therefore, an absolute right to free speech is more threatening to the marginalized than a more measured approach wherein the right of the privileged to spew hate is far less defensible.

I suggest you read Andy Wingo's essay on this subject and let it really sink in: https://www.wingolog.org/archives/2017/09/04/the-hardest-thi...
These findings are replicated across many dating sites, not just okcupid. Here's the stats for Hinge: https://qz.com/1051462/these-statistics-show-why-its-so-hard...

Examining messages is largely moot, because by the time two people have matched we've already filtered out a huge portion of potential partners.
When the battery dies, why is it essentially junk? Can't one just swap a new battery into it? Or are you saying that because it would cost 10K+ to do that?
He's right: this kind of pedantry is almost always useless because it's nearly always bytes unless you know you're talking about line serialisation or codecs.
No, it’s not, because we’re talking about an mvp and not about building an ultra high performance micro service.

And btw, there is no “correct answer” despite how much you like it.

There are many “correct answers” and a lot more wrong ones. Like using assembly code for building a CLI app or Go for an MVP.
In Switzerland, the retailer must provide a two year warranty. The retailers can not shorten that span, but (strangely) can remove it entirely. The customer needs to know this before buying though.

The manufacturers warranty is up to them and is not mandatory.
I think we are talking past eachother.

When I talk about access to learning, I am not talking about obtaining a piece of paper increasing economic mobility. I am talking about learning for the sake of personal enjoyment.

Most poor people are not depressed, so you have to ask what sets the depressed apart from the rest. Why can one person find joy in learning, and not another?

I think this points to something greater than money= happiness. Im not saying it doesnt matter, just that I don't think is accurate simplification.

You constructed an elaborate and plausible narrative why someone is depressed because of their economic situation. However, it ignores the person in identical situation who is happy. What is different between them?
Battling the temptation to laugh in a joking way.
Is it really faster? If you want to modulo with powers of 2, you can use bit-and with a power of two minus 1, that has the good behavior and is definitely faster than what the one outputting negative values does.

Or do you mean if based on integer division? I don't know what is fastest to implement in hardware for that one to be honest.
The even bigger takeaway from OKCupid's stats, IMO, was the fact that divisive profiles performed better than generally okay ones. People were more likely to actually engage with a match they found attractive, but other people didn't.
I'd really love to read about how this was put together. Does anyone have any ideas about the high-level steps?
Anote – Label a few, we label the rest
Anote is an AI Assisted Data Labeling tool, where as a user, after you label a few data points, we label the rest. This saves you time and money, while providing you high quality, accurately labeled training data to enable you to successfully complete your AI project. To do this, Anote leverages novel breakthroughs in NLP and few shot learning to label unstructured text data in a faster and better way, identify and fix mislabels in structured datasets, and access an entirely new universe of data sources.

We created a few tutorial projects to help you get started using our product:

1) Classifying violent tweets in New York City for public safety purposes.

2) Identifying mislabeled rows in the Emotion and Amazon Review datasets.

3) Classifying good resumes / identifying clauses to improve your resume.
i feel like lawyers will be able to legally keep AI out of their field for a while yet. they have the tools at their disposal to do so and a huge incentive.

other fields like journalism not so much.
This entire article is based on unsubstantiated conjecture and probably wrong.

Koji Sato (his replacement) is currently head of Toyota's racing and luxury car divisions. Nothing about this move indicates it is specifically about EVs.

I get that Toyota is still really late with an EV option, but their PHEV selection is still probably best in the industry and they can't make enough of them to keep up with demand.
In the 50k miles I’ve had my EV, I’ve saved at least 48 barrels (~2400 gallons) of gas from being burned vs the gas car it replaced. The (very slow) rate of battery degradation suggests at least 150k+ miles on this battery pack.

I have a hard time envisioning that the impact due to lithium mining for one battery pack is worse than the extraction and pollution from burning ~150 barrels of gas. Plus another 3 barrels of motor oil from oil changes.

Not to mention, they are forecasting out over 25 years, on a technology that has been rapidly changing, and is seeing immense investment. Batteries from 15+ years from now will have very different chemistries, and lithium will likely have safer sources. The Chevy EV1 launched with lead-acid batteries about 25 years ago - modern EVs aren’t remotely similar.
Imagine the ACLU and tolerating people expressing opinions they disagree with.
Yeah I agree. I had an ex that listened to mental health podcasts 8+ hours a day. It's all she'd talk about. It became pretty clear that she was addicted to mental health in a way. Her entire life revolved around grief and trauma. It's good for us to work on ourselves, but you have to actually BE yourself at some point.
Interesting project! You write that creators can monetize without having to be on a 3rd party platform, but on you pricing page it shows that clients have to pay extra to use their own domain - so how are you not a 3rd party platform?
Rare-metals used in batteries are much problematic then steel and Al.
I used to walk to work, it took me 10 minutes. I miss going to the office and all the social interaction that came with it. I’m not against other people working from home but I personally want to get a job that has an office again with coworkers who work in office. Same sentiment from some of my friends.
Someone who wants sex in the context of a relationship might very well have no interest in a prostitute. The thought of sex with a stranger is repulsive to me.
Sadly:

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fne...
I don't deny that EVs have issues that we will have to solve like recycling and reducing the amount of rare earth metals in them. But just saying Hydrogen fixes that glosses over the massive amount of problems that needs to be solved for hydrogen to be viable.

Short list and no nowhere near exhaustive list:

Extremely high pressures required to get sufficient energy density

Hydrogen embrittlement basically requiring expiration dates on tanks in vehicles

Inefficiency/cost of green methods for producing hydrogen

How to create cheap fueling stations like we have with gas stations

That isn't to say these problems are not solvable but we have been working on them a long time and haven't made a ton of progress. Meanwhile EVs have already been able to overcome most of the big hurdles. I think hydrogen has a possible future in aircraft because the issue of cost, maintenance, and special equipment for fueling is status quo for aircraft already.
One of the hardest parts about hydrogen is bootstrapping the infrastructure. You need new production facilities, pipelines, storage tanks, pumps, and probably a lot more. All of which need to handle hydrogen, an extremely flammable gas that likes to squeeze through any material you contain it in due to its tiny size. In terms of switching away from oil, the only options are biofuels (which have their own major issues) or electricity (which already has a distribution system across much of the world). If we run out of Lithium in the ground, we'll start recycling it a lot more efficiently. While mining isn't ideal, at least mining and using Lithium isn't causing climate change.

The fact you can charge you EV at home (from your own solar panels if you have then) is a massive added bonus that's going to be hard to convince people away from once its established.

Thinking about what comes after battery cars (assuming there's a Lithium shortage) - I'd be very surprised if Hydrogen can scale up; I think it's much more likely we move to other battery tech, or perhaps novel liquid fuels. Hydrogen was always a greenwashing ruse by petrolchem companies.
The having to ship it back is a problem with a lot of warranty these days. I have a BenQ monitor that started failing after less than a year, but since I don't have the original packaging I can't get warranty work. As TVs/monitors get larger, are we really expected to keep all of that packaging in case of warranty issues? I'm just eating the loss and will add BenQ to my list of no-gos but there needs to be a better system for this.
This produces some really wonky numbers. "$800+$27.321 = $827.321" is more or less indecipherable
And copyright law deals with the difference between inspiration and copying. To vastly oversimply it, it depends how close the original is to alleged copy.

No reason you can't apply that framework to AI.

Where AI might get into more trouble is that you might be able show literal copying in a way that it's impossible to do in a person mind. Like saving chunks of a work into its model.
Have you seen https://crowdview.ai?

It's a Forum Search Engine I've seen pop up on HN a few times in the past.
See also: 2023 update that adds dictation: https://www.bjnortier.com/2023/01/05/Hello-Transcribe-With-D...
Svelte and Pocketbase
Unbelievable that Toyota had the hybrid, along with Honda in goddamn 1997.

Five years later there should have been huge numbers of hybrids, and the first plug-in hybrids. Ten years later their entire lineup should have been plugin hybrid capable.

When Tesla released the Model S, they should have been heads down with a competitor. The fact that every car company could buy a Model S and drive it around and not have drop-everything skunkworks doing EV development shocks me. The fact that Toyota is among the last to do it is breathtakingly dumb.

When Tesla released the Model S, Toyota should have had, at a minimum, an effective 40 mile range PHEV with all electric mode, and by 2020, should have had options for 50/100 mile hybrids, which make PHEV hybids effectively full EVs for 95% of consumer driving.

The hydrogen shit was ridiculous. JAPAN IS AN ISLAND WITHOUT OIL RESOURCES. They import virtually all their oil. Electrification makes them much more economically independent. The only place hydrogen was coming from was oil, unless they have some unknown methane reserves I am unaware of.

Toyota is full of good engineers still, and are effectively the largest car company in terms of volume production (I know VW may technically be larger, but they seem more balkanized in brands and acquisitions).

Toyota likely could close by simply partner-acquiring one of the bigger Chinese EV makers and battery companies (although there is that wee little China-Japan historical hatred).
I'd discount that entirely until a more-reliable source surfaces.

Given that there are supposedly sorority sisters wearing costumes for which Mein Kampf is somehow a relevant prop, the book seems an odd detail to fixate on.

The only detail the article and anonymous source agree on is that Mein Kampf was the name of the book.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super/System

See also https://www.deepstack.ai/downloads
Japan has no domestic oil, something they have been keenly aware of since WW2. I think they wanted Hydrogen to be the future so badly because it would remove that disadvantage.

Now Japan has to import the batteries, and the fossil fuels to charge them.
Blogs that give the impression of honest reviews but are actually low quality content scraped from the product description. The purpose is to make money on the affiliate links when you buy their recommendations.
Why? What purpose does a slow, expensive, and energy intensive linked list serve?
So why didn't they implement the HLT instruction as simply a 'jump to self' infinite loop?

Then no special logic would be needed, no extra states, etc.

Sure - there would be no power savings, and the memory bus wouldn't be idle, but we're either of those a requirement in 1970?
This is overly reductionist. There are trivially imaginable contexts in which "an image of a student reading a book" can be harassing. Forget the book at all, sending someone "an image of a student" can be harassing depending on the unspoken details.

Political activist groups love to use FERPA to their advantage, and I bet this is that.
What do these do? The latter is, er, ungoogleable.
Civet: a new programming language that transpiles to TypeScript.

Some have called it the ghost of CoffeeScript.

I think it should do a lot better on HN now that it has a better website with tons of examples.

https://civet.dev
So many good answers, and interesting to read the overall technology landscape. The technology debates can be endless, though. I think it's good to consider a few non-technical aspects as well for selecting your stack -

1. Is this stack popular among recent similar successful products?

2. What technology will make it easier to find relevant talent?

3. Does your stack allow for rapidly changing code along with a rapidly changing team? This is important, especially in the early stages of development.

4. Are you trying to do things the Google way? Facebook might never exist had they started with C++ instead of PHP.

5. Do you want to be on the cutting edge for the sake of being on the cutting edge?

I elaborated on this a bit in my blog here if interested - https://sleeksky.com/blog/technology-stack
Dollero - https://dollero.app/

I created a personal budgeting web app which doesn't store any of your financial information in the cloud. Instead your budget data is stored locally in your browser with IndexedDB and is sync'd peer to peer with your other devices using WebRTC.
Yeah, it's definitely a cultural shift from the way most software is built today, but it's a better way to do it in most cases. I was also assuming a startup environment in my comment; established companies can generally afford to do more work up front to make the foundation more robust, and they are (slightly) more likely to have a better idea of what their customers want ahead of time.

But to answer your question more directly, it does happen, it's just uncommon. Where I've seen it done successfully, the rewrites have been piecemeal, not all at once, so that definitely helps with the buy-in factor.
> Yes, society as a whole does not care in the least about giving people viable social "scripts" by which they might get to know each other and pursue intimacy in safe, healthy and effective ways.

The question effectively was, do you know a smart thing the majority of the rest of people doesn't know - and that is for a problem which is older than all of us here. Seems like you believe you do but can't explain :( .
If I've learned anything, its people often never verify the correctness of anything automated.
Bye-bye massages and free food: Big Tech cuts back perks
5. JakartaEE for the backend, Jakarta Faces + Primefaces for the front end, redis for the db, Javalin if API endpoints must be provided. Hetzner server. Only pain point would be the NGINX config, always non trivial.

Why? Very simple, fully featured, ready to scale.