skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some ways, the 10000+ previous days of my life are a fairly reasonable promise of tomorrow.
"I'm atheist. Was born one, will die one, so you are correct"

Cool. You do you!

"What makes you draw that conclusion?"

You're foreign (both by incident of birth, or effort of study) of to the matter at hand but bless us with your opinion.

"I'm an immigrant, have been exposed to everything from Islam to Catholicism to Southern Baptist, Hinduism, Buddhism, various other sects

Good for you? So's half the people on this forum including yours truly.

"I'd rather look inward, if I were, you, as colonialism in the name of Catholicism is why so many native cultures and religions have been erased from history and existence"

Who says that Im Catholic? Or that I haven't? That being said, I see a lot more brown faces crossing Rio Grande into Mexico where Catholic Spain ruled than North of it.

"And it remains a death cult at its core, despite sparkling it up with positions of corpses..."

Sure.

"I've read enough to know it's all BS."

Pray, what?

"My close friend and cousin, someone who [...] He is an atheist thanks to that education."

And we've come full circle: good for him! He does he, you do you and the monks do the monks.

As to myself I'll do me and pour myself some Chartreuse. I'll raise a glass and offer a blessing to you, my wonderful internet interlocutor!
> You may be thinking "what?"

Exactly. But I guess it makes sense, because Framework wants to occupy the economic niche of repairable electronics. And the Steam Deck is definitely a good starting point for expansion, so that they can serve a bigger market.
Thank you. I believe all environmentalists need to curb their fear and absorb a healthy dose of science. It would limit the outpouring of outrageous, fear-mongering statements to leave some room for serious adult discussions on how to tackle the energy problems we face as a species.
Yes, these are called food deserts, some people "grocery shop" at Walgreens, 7-11, Rite Aid, or CVS and have very limited access to fresh produce.
Ask HN: How do you find and choose a mental health therapist?
Asking here because I suspect some people in this community will have had similar experiences with therapists as I've had. I think that when the patient is a combination of intelligent, well-read, and defensive, it's very easy to look down at therapists with a bit of disdain and contept, rendering them ineffective.

I find this is particularly true when discussing things that get serious or dark: heavy trauma, suicide, addiction, things like that.

The vast majority of therapists are IMHO out of their league/depth.

Cost has in my experience not been a good proxy for quality: expensive therapists are simply more capable jiving with the mores of the elites.

How do you find/choose/vet a therapist that works for you?
It’s like everyone decided that after a billion shady ‘AI chatbot that doesn’t work’ startups in 2015 that ML was a scam.
Love reading about these random things.
Sandra Powers (who finally figured the problem out) and her husband have been writing and running their own MMO for quite a while now. Check out http://projectgorgon.com/ if you’re interested in something handcrafted, quirky, and high quality.
Re 2 - we are talking about stocks, they are taxed independently of your tax bracket. Tax % on stocks changes only when law changes, and this can only rise, given our current situation.

Overall, the article is against tax planning, picturing it (deliberately? due to math incompetence?) as tax avoidance. You do not need to be Steve Balmer to wish to use some tax planning, ask me how I know - and I am just a software engineer.
Tesla to Replace Car After Steering Wheel Detaches While Driving on Highway
Aren't EV conversions a horrible idea? All the EV conversions I have seen have all kinds of quirks and safety issues as well. Most could be consider project cars and would be illegal to operate in Europe (not sure about California).

Safety calculations like crumble zones and weigh distribution go out the window. The car will weight more and the other parts may not support it, breaking distance may change, etc.
Let's hope chatgpt&co will not end up like no-code which overpromised for decades and didn't deliver. But surely I'm only having a negative outburst here. ;)
I dunno about that. I was at Facebook for five years, it doubled in headcount basically every year. The culture when I joined was very, very different to the culture when I left. And even after the layoffs they're still double the size they were when I left.
The grand majority of Tesla buyers don’t purchase the FSD package. At the same time, Tesla grows revenues by 50% every year. Yet somehow Tesla’s death is just around the corner?
It's pretty much a necessity for conditionally compiled platform-specific code if you don't have a text-based preprocessor with #ifdef/#endif.

All statically compiled languages need to skip compiling such code one way or another. Zig is just thinking this idea to the end and doesn't compile any dead code. I guess the recommended workflow is to have good test coverage. The test basically turns dead code back into live code.
The site is pretty new, I am the webmaster, maybe I should analyze the log and choose better hosting. I am sorry about the inconvenience!
When their employer's parking lot has charging spots, presumably yes? Charging during the day will only become more common as more people buy EVs and demand for more charging locations increases.
companies borrowed billions (startups via equity raise, publics via debt offering at almost zero % rates) and quickly increased headcount in the name of chasing growth
I'm not sure they're saying that.

BTW, your questions are exactly those that I've been ask over the last few months, but also with a lot of focus over the last few days. Still learning as much as I can so the following might not be true.

For what it's worth, there's a difference between using duckdb to query a set of files vs loading a bunch of files in to a table. But once the data has been loaded into a table it can be backed up as a duckdb db file.

Therefore it might be more performant to preprocess duckdb db files (perhaps a process that works in conjunction with whatever manages your external tables) and load these db files into duckdb as needed (on the fly analysis) instead of loading datafiles into duckdb, transforming and CTAS every time.

https://duckdb.org/docs/sql/statements/attach

Of course all of this might be introducing more latency esp if you're trying to do NRT analytics.

I assume you could partition your data into multiple db files similar to how you would probably do it with your data files (managing external tables).
> Is that the AI is good at generating "mostly correct" code, that will have subtle errors, so less skilled coders just take the output of whatever the LLM spits and assume it's correct, later it turns out there is a bug.

Not unlike the code generated by the fresh out of bootcamp, careless rookie, who isn't trying to make things work so-much-as collect a paycheck. But hell, at this point I need a job too, maybe I should swallow my morals and submit AI solutions as well?
Sounds a lot like "Having trouble multi-player video gaming? Try disabling your firewall."

"Just turn off modern but now industry-standard security" is almost never the right answer.

More background:

"By far, the biggest leap forward in WiFi security from WPA2 to WPA3 is seen on the Personal class of networks that use passphrases."

https://securityuncorked.com/2022/08/wifi-security-wpa2-vs-w...

Or more of a summary: https://themescene.tv/blog/wpa2-vs-wpa3/

Of course, turning it off at network level depends whether you care, but preferably leave it on for your devices.

Finally, generally good advice for how your WiFi network should be configured:

https://support.apple.com/en-kw/HT202068
He does, but he omits a lot of important considerations that make heat pumps impractical for normal Americans.

If he touches on them, it's briefly - if at all, e.g.:

- More expensive units, and more expensive to run power wise. It's always difficult to get adoption of new technology that's "better" but more expensive to buy & repair - to the point where RoI may never happen.

- Power grid implications during very low/record low temps e.g. shortages/blackouts, likely worse than those in summer if heat pump uptake is widespread.

- With a heat pump, you -need- an alternative source of heat - since some days when it's particularly cold, they just won't work, or work very inefficiently. Plus, if the power goes out... you're definitely not powering a whole house heat pump with a small generator like you could a natural gas furnace.

Edit: FWIW, I'd researched this topic heavily & seriously considered getting a heat pump to pair with a solar power setup. For a number of reasons (chief among them: no return on investment before the end of the heat pump's expected service life), I will not be getting a heat pump any time soon. That may change if prices drop dramatically, but that seems unlikely given their increased mechanical/electrical complexity.
You can write a program. You can publish the program. Other people can pay to use your program.

It is distributed application hosting.
>I learned that I had been confusing waste from nuclear energy with waste from nuclear weapons.

That is a rhetorical tactic that kind of misses the point - it's not that weapons reactors produce fundamentally leakier waste than civilian reactors, it's that the military has a long history of not disposing of dangerous chemicals the right way. It happens with non-radioactive toxic waste too and a lot of bases and the areas around them are contaminated.

If you want to use this as an argument for the safety of nuclear waste disposal, you would have to explain why the armed force's problems with waste disposal are specific to them and will never spread to regulated private industry. (P.S. the history of that is not great either and you might end up arguing that something which has already happened never will.)
There are companies in the US specializing in EV conversion as well, but AFAIK they're all aiming at the high-end of the market, where a $2000 incentive won't matter much. I'm thinking about folks like Zelectric converting old Porsche 911s: https://www.zelectricmotors.com

This bill appears to be backed by Specialty Equipment Market Association, an industry group that represents the automotive aftermarket, so I guess they're attempting to do what you suggest - support more companies that aim to do such conversions.

https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/news/2023-02-02/senator-portantin...
> How does USB A deliver power differently such that it works with devices which don’t support USB PD?

USB A devices (and by extension, USB A to USB C cables) always delivers power. USB C devices only deliver power once they see a specific resistor to ground on a control pin. If the device is missing that resistor (actually a pair of resistors, one for each side of the cable), a USB C device on the end of a USB C to USB C cable won't provide power.

(Preemptive nitpicking: actually, USB C devices provide a bit of power in that control pin, which is how they detect that resistor to ground; but that's separate from the main power pins.)
Madrona probably doesn’t have anywhere to rent, it’s just enormous old houses. 6 of the 9 are downtown+surrounds, all very expensive. Ballard and Green Lake are going to be the cheapest on the list, and I would guess they’re in the most expensive quarter of neighborhoods?
You can pry my Motorola StarMax out of my cold dead hands.

... the fact that the StarMax product hasn't been powered on for over two decades is beside the point. I want my nostalgia!
Opening a can of worms, perhaps, but... wouldn't converting ICE cars to be able to run on flex fuel be a better intermediate stage? From what I've seen/read, many cars can be converted for under $1000. With more FF cars on the road, more stations would have incentive to carry the fuel, and... fewer emissions, etc.

Full on move to EV has always seemed like the big moonshot, and is being pushed back on heavily, but we have other levers to pull to help slow emissions while a more gradual shift to EV happens.

I say this as someone who bought a car a few years back that supports flex fuel, and have been more keen to use it when I can over the last couple years. MPG goes down around... 10-15%, but the cost is usually.... 10-15% less, so that seems to balance out some, but flex fuels reduce emissions (no?) which would seem to be the more pressing concern.
I was waiting for them to say something like "then we take the random variable and multiply it by 3 to correct for this" and then explain some other, more subtle, bug. Looks like we all make stupid mistakes like this sometimes. I made a bug where I tried to get the month number for the next month, so you had to wrap at 12, but I just did "(current_month + 1) % 12" and left it at that, thinking for some reason that modulo works differently than it does in reality. Some stuff broke recently, due to that, and it was quite embarrassing.
What about scraping PDFs on the web? Anyone have suggestions for that?
JIT works cross-platform with a single deliverable.
Not a lot, but it doesn't surprise me. With Xbox in particular, I can imagine that the slight reduction is a sign that MSFT thinks the Activision-Blizzard acquistion will go through and some positions were inevitably redundant.
We are already ok with letting the oil/gas distribution network dictate when and how far we can travel. But since, as you note, people HATE having any kind of limitation on their movement, that network has scaled up to the point where there’s almost never a felt limitation. And that will happen with electrical too. The electrical distribution system for vehicles is already better than the oil/gas one was when ICE cars were coming into use.
Or we could do both? Personal transportation is never going away completely. Personal transportation should absolutely subsidize public transportation such as through car tabs. But we can still incentivize the types of personal transportation we want to see on the road through subsidy, especially when those markets are still emerging.
I work with a US-based compliance testing lab. It was $7k to do both FCC and CE testing. I'll share the name over email if you'd like.

I also talked to UL, who's like the gold standard for compliance testing, but they were pretty hard to deal with and wanted something in the $20-30k range.
One question I have in all of this: are people building and using these apps actually marking all transactions as capital losses or gains? [1] A big thing that stops me from even playing around in these systems is not wanting to deal with the tax hassle.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
In the USA, yes. For example, the unanimous ruling in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. determined that parody is fair use, even if the parody is of a commercial nature:

> Held: 2 Live Crew's commercial parody may be a fair use within the meaning of § 107. Pp. 574-594.

The ruling states explicitly that commercial usage can be a determining factor in determining whether usage is fair or not, but that it does not in and of itself make the use "unfair".

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/510/569/
fMRI will never have the resolution necessary for something like this. But Neuralink or other precision implants might, if they can put enough probes in enough of the right places.
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I really don't think this is it. I've not heard of many tech companies just shifting their existing efforts onto crypto. A notable exception are big tech companies that are used to making lots of bets, so of course they allocate some of their resources in order to dabble. Personally, what I like about crypto as an eco-system is that it has a very low barrier to entry and there is lots of room for scrappy startups. If a few people want to get together and and build a protocol or dapp to run on top of Ethereum, they can do so, deploy their code, and if the market responds positively to their project, they can start collecting revenue immediately.
We didn't, hence we may have inadvertently improved the wrong areas. Although we have been receiving feedback from the community, it was never backed by concrete data and thus, we had to rely on our best guess.
Aaaand then introduce a weight-based tax, Norway style.
Interesting someone could downvote this question without at least giving a response.
> I think this would be a fun project for a vehicle hobbyist but I can't even fathom doing this for $14k and a $2k rebate is not much of an incentive in my opinion.

The point to the rebate, FWIW, is to increase uptake at the margins. The assumption is that there is a population of users desiring the change for some external reason, and that a significant number of those are "on the edge" because of cost. So for comparably little public expenditure you can get an amplified signal. Think of the rebate spending as the base current in a transistor.

Given that you're already in a population (truck owners) who are heavily anticorrelated with the target population (people who want an EV), you aren't likely to be well served.

If the government wanted to get everyone to drive an EV from first principles, they'd just buy you a Rivian.
Youre conflating currency with the non currency parts.
I was a kid who started shaping surfboards as a hobby shortly before this happened. The hectic-ness was real — it was almost impossible to find a foam blank afterwards, they were more expensive, and they felt noticeably lower quality. I thought my hobby was going to see a quick end. Glad it's turned around over the years for the better!
Web 2.0 was built atop the graves of the Dotcom boom.
> Only with foreigners who [...] could act as [...] a bridge

Hmm, or perhaps some other subculture which addresses both language overlap and (sub)cultural openness? Like local alumni, or some software-related community (eg ruby, or XR, or ...), or ... ? HN people? In context of TFA, perhaps something surfing? One dream the net was weaving a world where you could have a friend in every city.
What if you give self baked cookies to a restaurant owner, and he sells them? Then the commercial entity assumes the risks and is supposed to safety check them.
What are some of the limits of TLA+ for dynamic analysis? Which other tools model variable-latency distributed systems?
> A unit test would have caught this, but didn't

The first unit testing library, JUnit (Java), was released in 1997.

Asheron's Call was released in 1999 after four years of development. It's quite possible that this bug was introduced before the concept of unit testing even existed or was widely known.
FCC approves Amazon’s satellite broadband plan over SpaceX’s objections
That’s income restricted senior housing, isn’t it?
Disclaimer: I did not watch the video linked.

For what it's worth, I do agree, but I think we'll probably need to have (subsidized) nuclear as part of the solution anyways, especially in places where we don't have ample room for wind/solar/battery storage.
How telepathy might work outside the realm of sci-fi
To say that a man is a PR department is the most grave of insults.
Well, this is the Trusted Computing Base. You trust Apple and Google every day with the devices, OS, browsers etc. They can impersonate you, and sure, you can say that for this reason we cannot have finalized transactions (because they can always be disputed).

But you’d be wrong. First of all, each participant can control a small portion of the overall value (eg one vote in an election, or one student paying one teacher). Even if their keys are hacked, the real value is for the network itself to be secured. And the business logic to be followed no matter what! No corruption of the database, ever!

For example, UniSwap is a smart contract factory and you trust every instance that comes out of it to be an battle tested and heavily audited piece of code you can trust. As of right now we are forced to trust the value and control of YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK to a big tech company that has all the infrastructure. That’s the best we have today, like how we trusted the Post Office to deliver mail and not tamper with it, until SMTP got adopted over the Internet.

For more info, click here: https://community.intercoin.app/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...
You make a blanket statement as if it is never (or not even often) true that a JIT that has seen the actual runtime usage patterns can beat C++ and other static compilation. Maybe you haven't seen it. That isn't the same.

One advantage of JIT (eg Java) over (eg C++) static AOT compilation is not needing to build (and test) binaries for each target, nor have the bloat that a static compilation can bring, especially with decent debug support or heavy optimisation. (I'm remembering impossible 2GB library binaries back in the late 90s IIRC.)

JITs support running cross-platform with a single often relatively-small image, faster than a pure interpreter such as Python or shell, often much faster.

I regularly build a small app and test it on my MacBook (Air M1), ship it to my RPi (2+) and run it unchanged on a somewhat different JDK version, and it's plenty fast enough. No cross-compilation needed, no build environment on the target needed.]

And that's before gettin into things that AOT cannot easily do, such as dynamically load or even generate new code at run-time.
Method 1 (popping PC off the stack) and Method 3 (mov pc,lr) do not work on the earliest ARM processors that support THUMB, as it will not switch to THUMB mode without executing a BX instruction.

Checking reference manuals:

ARMV4T (ARM7TDMI/ARM9TDMI): Does NOT switch to THUMB mode automatically

ARMV5: Does NOT switch to THUMB mode automatically

ARMV7: Does switch to THUMB mode automatically
I don't think that question is particularly relevant to the case. A newspaper can publish, for profit, a book review which quotes excerpts. As far as I understand it, the case hinges on the distribution of major portions of copyrighted works and derivatives thereof, in violation of their licenses. Likewise, see Aaron Swartz, sci-hub, etc -- distribution of copyrighted works need not be for profit to be a violation.
All intellectual property law is a tradeoff between efficiency and monetizability. It would be a huge productivity booster to copy/paste source code wholesale as well. Or to implement existing patents instead of having to work around them. But then the market for software would look very different than it does today.

If that's the future people want, that's fine - but everyone should play by the same rules.
But that’s the entire point: the planes are using those museum piece engines purely because these are certified, and certifying new engines is an extremely hard, close to impossible proposition from business perspective. Sure, there is a way to work around the overly onerous (the mere fact that almost no new piston engines are getting certified is a clear proof that the requirements are excessive), but what would be great is if we simply could innovate in GA like we can in cars or boats or electric scooters.
Great post! Thanks for sharing - very inspiring info on life as a founder.

It seems like he picked a specific solvable 'small' problem and has built a solution. Great idea!
> Here are a few things we all know are true:

> Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 thanks to a huge increase in anti-immigrant sentiment

> Nobody was worried about climate change in the 1990s, but now lots of people are freaking out about it

> Mass shootings have led to a spike in support for gun control

That's not my common understanding for any of these things, though they sound like forgotten hot takes from the perpetual news cycle. None of them even make sense.