skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So I wouldn't call it a knee-jerk reaction when I consider what he says as basically being "trust me bro".

Well, in a Bayesian way, he has done a great deal to earn that trust. This is not just a "trust me bro" from some random bro, but a "trust me bro" from someone who has a proven track record as an investigative journalism. In some of the most important stories of the last 50 years, which he broke.

It's not like someone can just "take him for a ride" or is the kind who makes things up. And it's not like a journalist with experience like that just takes a source on blind faith.

While trust is not the same as irrefutable proof, trust on a proven track record goes a long way.

In the end, in the absense of proof, there's two sides to trust: a government caught lying again and again (on a story whose official line was nonsense to begin with), versus a guy who has caught them with their pants down again and again.

Still, I bet there will be proof too, and not that far in the future: perhaps just when it doesn't matter anymore, because "that's behind us now, let's focus on current stuff".

>I would go even further and say that if his story was sound he wouldn't need to write a defense on why he's published it on Substack.

He'd need a defense on why he's published on Substack anyway - whether the story is sound doesn't come into it.

He had to defend his stories hard, even when those were totally proven true, with ample proof, and published on major respectable newspapers. They still denied him with BS (the government and friendly pro-state press) until they couldn't spin it anymore.

So to publish it on Substack, in today's climate? He'd definitely need a defense.
The only reason I would be upset, is that it appears to me that new EV's come loaded with software that I don't much care for. It appears that they are MUCH easier to track than a traditional ice vehicle.

Or am I incorrect?
It’s a good thing then that Tesla is building 40GWh/year of storage at their new Megapack factory in Lathrop, CA, although the more utility scale storage manufacturing capacity built, the better. We’re going to need a lot as you mentioned, and they’re currently sold out for the next two and a half years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvSmMUdC_nA
> product managers from Twitter during this time frame

I kind of assume they don't have any anymore. That would certainly be consistent with observed behaviour.
It wouldn't be an HN comment about a survey without noting that correlation != causation. :)

Assuming their statistics are sound, could it simply be that companies with good product-market fit can afford offices? Going full-remote seems to be a popular cost-cutting measure at some of the companies doing layoffs these days (e.g. GitHub), and especially pre-revenue it may not make sense to spend thousands of dollars a month on office space.

Additionally: For startups that start in a garage, like Apple originally, is that in office or remote?
I'm surprised companies even have CEOs their role is redundant - just put chatGPT in charge /S
It’s actually fine and great and decently performant for making web apps. Declarative code is much nicer than mutating the DOM, components are a great way to reuse code compositionally, hooks are nice building blocks for reusable logic within them. The JS world is indeed mad but that doesn’t mean React isn’t a highly pragmatic way of building GUI applications.

Just because style, logic, and result are logically grouped it doesn’t mean you’re losing “separation of concerns”. If in fact your definition of that is so shallow it amounts to simply having things in different files, you can do that anyway. It’s an organisational choice.
hm it implicitly decides to be KW_ONLY? OK

does not work:

from pydantic import dataclasses

@dataclasses.dataclass
class Base:
a: int
b: int = 1

@dataclasses.dataclass
class Child(Base):
c: int

error

File "pydantic/dataclasses.py", line 265, in pydantic.dataclasses.dataclass
...
File "/opt/python-3.10.0/lib/python3.10/dataclasses.py", line 539, in _init_fn
raise TypeError(f'non-default argument {f.name!r} '
TypeError: non-default argument 'c' follows default argument

it works with KW_ONLY though awkward that pydantic.dataclasses doesn't supply it directly, need to split up imports among pydantic.dataclasses and dataclasses.
Am I the only one who read this as "Google's fully homophobic encryption compiler"?
Consulting companies will gladly bill you for telling you what you already know. This gets them a foot in the door to start the outsourcing process. For the "leaders" the implicit allure is the personal risk mitigation factor for when things go wrong.
I’m guessing people will be stockpiling them. Used ICEs will probably retain lots of value for years after this mandate goes into effect. Especially when people figure out the electrical to their home doesn’t have enough to charge reliably.
And most of them are also started by heirs of generational wealth.

Just because the companies change doesn't mean the owners do.
I did to Azure and Cloudflare. 0 responses. No one cares.
Do you think any of his employees could have even afforded that vacation? Do you think he sees the people he laid off as people? Why should we give him that courtesy?
Every talk I've seen on Haskell linear types is that at best they can do some specific compuatations more efficiently (especially with arrays) but are not a good fit in Haskell to significantly elide GC.
Yeah I think the balance should be hiring people local to your office who are willing to go in (ideally WANT to go in) but also give them the option to decide for themselves when they want to be in office vs at home. As much as I love working from home, if most of my team was together in an office that's a reasonable commute from my home, I'd definitely not want to be left out/behind by staying home everyday - personally.
Modern automobiles are so durable that they can last almost indefinitely with maintenance. There's a lot of evidence, especially with demographic projections, to suggest that all the cars that will ever be needed (in the EU) have already been produced.

Think about steel. Very little steel is now produced from raw materials. 95% or more of steel production is recycling. Cars will be the same. Want to get into a growth industry? Start investing in businesses that go far beyond normal car repair and will be able to refresh an old car to feel new again, especially car interiors and tech.
as opposed to staying at work where they can be held accountable? why would they do that instead of enjoying some freshly paved runway on the balance sheet
Ironically, the Raspberry Pi started as a failed set-top box.
We are talking abt decision makers that effectively label having a health job market as a problem.

Jobs = bad

Says the same clowns who printed in excess of 40% of all dollars in existence within the last few years.

All that liquidity is still in their hands today, but those being punished are the poor folks who did nothing wrong.
Should also note: "In Offices" includes "Associated with an office, but work from home; available as needed."
A bit longer now that the government is busy poisoning the existing ones in Ohio
When I was riding bikes to the store we had dialup and floppies were giving way to CDs.

It’s been over a decade since I’ve used BitTorrent and I didn’t know magnet links were still popular. I hate seeding and there was also a lot of malware hidden in public trackers.

Once I switched to Usenet I never looked back. P2P file sharing has never been a good experience for me.
True, you could elide by using something like "first country on the Euro" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See–European_Union_relati...
But, to be clear, was absolutely never at 5251 Westheimer.

Nor, to the best of my knowledge, were any software companies or restaurants or retail. It's an office building that was primarily leased by my former employer, which another commenter correctly noted was TeleCheck.
In the all-hands call the day after layoffs, Benioff compared losing employees to layoffs to mourning people who died. Insider reported that he showed up around 18 minutes late to a company-wide meeting the day after announcing layoffs, and then, as the Times of London reported, he joked, "Did I miss something?"

Salesforce is a 100bn USD company. this type of tonedeaf behavior from a key leadership position during a recession and in the midst of layoffs would be expected from a startup --heck Bird fired nearly everyone over a five minute Zoom-- but here its just pathetic.

actual leadership is present and accounted for during the worst of times and the only reason youd flee to a remote island away from your "digital life" is because youre concerned you might be up next for termination.
Almost all my friends in France have a old ISP modem router that their former ISP did not bother getting their hands back onto when they changed providers.

I would love to repurpose them. Where do I start with ?
>Free markets would eventually find a cost-effective solution

Yeah Norfolk Southern really showed the dang gubmint how it's done. Raise your glass of contaminated Ohio River water to private enterprise!
What to do with your new observability tool
> executives don't care about people they are robots and don't deserve breaks

i mean.... the only part i disagree with is the 'dont deserve breaks'. we all read the book, everybody poops.
> The grid is not being upgraded and electricity production is not keeping up.

Why do you believe this is the case?

I cannot see any evidence of this probpem, in fact. Octopus energy for example is very happy about using Evs to help balance the grid and their 'virtual powerplant'

Charging ooint, yes, they are an issue

PS: this https://octopus.energy/press/octopus-energy-grows-uks-larges...
while that is true, long commutes in the mid west is not the same as long commutes in the city.

For some in the midwest, the Long Commute is a way to unwind at the end of the day, Open Road, jamming to music, or catching up on PodCasts, etc.

For some it is relaxing.

City Commuting is just stress.
You are talking about Tesla, who will give you a 40h contract, then expect you to work for 60h with no extra pay. Who is the bigger thief?
>I think you have it backwards and that late 2034 ICE cars are going to sell like hotcakes and the market for keeping used cars alive will thrive like we’ve never seen.

I suspect the ever-increasing cost of fossil fuels will prevent such a thriving market in ICE repair being long-lived...
This is too easy. Some forced office time means you have employees from a big tech hub working for you. Fully remote seed stage companies aren’t paying anything close to
paying rent in Sunnyvale or NYC.

If you broke this down hiding the office situation, comparing startups from Kansas or Minnesota to seed stage startups in SV or Seattle, guess who would grow faster
> Parents need and should have a say about what it's taught to their children in public schools.

I strongly disagree. If parents think they know better how to educate children than professional teachers, they're free to homeschool. Most voters are not educators, and what materials are appropriate for educational purposes isn't a matter that should be put to a vote of the general population.
Right, it's extremely unlikely that prices will ever go down in aggregate, unless we have a very long and sustained deflationary period.
Yes he does, he was responsible for overhiring, and now he has taken responsibility for fixing that by laying off the employees no longer required. Problem solved in the eyes of the shareholders, responsibility fulfilled.
Indeed. My intention was answering OPs claim that python is "weird" because

> "dataclasses" have been called struct or record in other languages
It also provides ample opportunity for a different regime to come in and extend or cancel the ban.
Could it be used to charge that external battery and significantly improve its autonomy? :D
Will get eventually reversed when politicians figure out that it is so easy for populists to grab votes of poor people just by pointing on expensive EVs.
> A) is easy to write one off scripts that do a job fast, with minimal thinking and effort. I am thinking of Python and Ruby. For me I can write code with high velocity in these languages.

Once I wrap up some other projects, I plan to explore this space a little bit within Rust.

imo the biggest bang for the buck is just having good `#!` support. Probably mid-year I expect to have a Pre-RFC up for single-file cargo packages. See https://github.com/epage/cargo-script-mvs/discussions/15.

A bigger effort is a batteries included, non-zero cost stdlib. I've started writing up my thoughts at https://github.com/ergo-rs/ergo.

For more background on why I think these are important, see https://epage.github.io/blog/2021/09/learning-rust/.

Would love feedback on these ideas and other ways to make Rust easy to use without sacrificing what makes Rust it is.
Looks like you’ve found a bunch of other people in the club here. I don’t think I can muster the energy to type my story up, but it’s comforting in some way to know I’m not alone.
GDPR is a headache and makes doing the right thing harder.
ReFS is not a new term for most Windows admins or people who follow what MS is doing, but I didn't think that someone might misinterpret that name. Thank you.
Not from my perspective.

Petrol is 100 units of bad for CO2, diesel is (say) 95 units, batteries are perhaps 20, bicycles 5, good shoes and walkable neighbourhoods 1.

But petrol has cost ($ up front not TCO or non-CO2 pollution) of 20, diesel 22, batteries were 100 and are now 25, bicycles 1-2, and I'm not sure how to make even this level of wild guess for walkable neighbourhoods.

The reduction in cost of batteries is what's made this viable. Before this was viable, diesel was sill less bad.
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Seems like dismantling the hundreds of millions of ICE cars for valuable parts and materials should have some money to be made.

Even better if some of them can be converted - but that might be too difficult
Yeah, the last two Ghandis in charge in the Congress party are a little baffling. I have no idea why they thought that would work, electorally.

Do you know why third parties haven't come to the fore? I can see that the Congress party has a bunch of problems that are pretty inherent to the party DNA, but did the people who used to vote Congress because they liked secularism and universalism just stop liking those things?
Even an old 5 MHz scope will do for audio applications, though that generation is getting on in years and likely to be a problem to maintain.
10 - 100x vs what?
You should put some money on your predictions, you stand to earn a ton as everyone else is thinking only a 0.25% increase is in the cards right now.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
What makes you think inflation is a year-over-year (YoY) metric? At the end of the day, inflation is an increase in the general level of prices. Whether you use YoY or month-over-month (MoM) doesn't really change that.

Now, you more commonly see YoY numbers cited because annualizing MoM numbers results in a lot of volatility. Seasonally adjusted MoM numbers are actually what the CPI report mentions first [1].

If you look at macroeconomic models, the inflation variable is typically defined as a one period change in prices (or potentially instantaneous, for continuous time models) as that makes the math easier to work with.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
> Working from home may offer more distractions by chores, family, network issues. Do those little things add up to meaningful productivity differences?

When you say "more", you have to compare both sides. Working in an office "distracts" me with noise, questions by others, spontaneous meetings, socializing in general, as well as other interruptions. I find it always baffling that in such arguments, the office is per default fine, and it's always remote which is the culprit.
My personal favorite are the emails with a image at the bottom reminding me not to print to save the trees/environment with out realizing that in most cases the image has at least doubled the size of the mail and everything that goes with it from a a transfer storage and display perspective even if miniscule.
IIUC, VeraCrypt is TrueCrypt; i.e. the same code, forked/continued.
Midjourney generates accurate post-earthquake photos
Since these were all education related would be helpful to know exactly what that means since that could also directly affect this result.
At some point they come home and can do it then. Any parent that becomes a servant to their teenager is doing a disservice to them. Your job is to teach them skills so they can become self sufficient adults.
> by no means is it an authoritarian state

The linked article would indicate otherwise? I think one's standards of democracy have to be fairly low, to not see that Indian state is at least proto-authoritarian.

From what I can see, India is doing pretty badly in most indicators, be it democracy indices, HDI, employment (The usual response to this from Right wing is that these are "western indicators", and the government doesn't have any data).

I don't think your nationality matters to witness the sequence of events and come to an objective conclusion.
The Delayed Gratification Delusion
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Yes the fed has been fairly transparent that they intend to raise unemployment via higher rates in order to combat inflation. Well unemployment is still very low and inflation is still relatively high. Perhaps they will decide to do another 50bps hike instead of 25bps.
Try to identify a serial port on the PCB, connect a serial adaptor to it (careful to get the pins and voltage right!) and take it from there

(Edit: or google the PCB board markings, maybe somebody already did this)
Send Dang an email. They’ve responded personally when I’ve sent stuff to the admin email in the FAQs.

They will be polite and responsive even if you both don’t agree on something.
How do you know? We used them at a previous employer for 1000's of numbers, and who knows how many messages and calls (tons...)
"Average % Revenue growth in pre-seed companies" is a very noisy metric.

Example:

Suppose you had one company doing $10 in sales a year, now it's doing $100 per year. 900% growth!

When you average 900% with the rest, it will skew the results wildly.
So you will again damage your voting base without offering a way out (Expensive ICE or expensive BEV?) and give populists ability to raise up.
Hypothetically, given the state of the internet today, would it be such a loss?
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> yes and no

Having to understand monad transformers or another kind of effect system to get anything working is a heavy load that's unnecessary in other languages.
Who is responsible for the revenue growth in the very early stages? Think about that person who's job is to pull cash from someone. Well, that person probably has a background in sales, and I would argue, is fairly extroverted. IMHO it might be to do with the ability to attract talented extroverted people and ask them to work remotely.
What would be an example of significant elision in this context?
Honestly it would probably be just as bad, but in different ways.
That would explain the vultr blocking https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34758393
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Nobody would pay for such maintenance, it would end up costing more than new cars. Checking every valve, bolt, tube, sealing etc. Metal parts get fatigue. Plastics and sealants get weird chemical reactions over time. You would end up with same looking car without most of original components, and that's ridiculously expensive proposition.

Since we talk about systems comprised of at least few thousands of pieces, and failure of most will degrade usability/safety of the car or render it unable to drive, I can't agree with some of your statements. Recycling of course is a valid point but those are not same cars.

Also its trivial for bureaucracies to tax older more polluting cars to hell... people are sensitive to costs. And older cars do pollute more.
Why not RSUs? You're going to find it hard to get a job making more than ~220ish in base salary but with RSUs the sky is the limit (although right now it is much harder to score one of these jobs than normal)
Honestly this is a pretty weak argument. The number of companies taking part in the survey is pitifully inadequate to gain any real useful insight.
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> There are many ways to approach this, use your imagination and consider how science could be funded freed from its current shackles. A certain percentage of funds can be earmarked for particle physics, but that doesn't mean a new collider should get most of it. You can separate the decision of how much funding a sub field gets from how much of that funding goes to specific projects in that sub field, and each decision could be made by different sets of people, as but one example.

This is an outstanding non-reply! Is this how you actually think reasoning works, or are just getting replies from ChatGPT?
You might want to check if your router/firewall/ISP blocks/throttles torrent traffic, I'm seeing 173 seeds and just 18 peers (for the first part), it should quickly go up to full speed.
The ban is just for new sales so the transition isn't a cliff, it will smear over at least an additional 10-20+ years (probably more like 30+) as the remaining gas cars slowly break down and electric cars become the main available option.
I hope everyone would object to that. It's an extremely influential book, and I don't see how you can pass a "civics" course without at least discussing it. And how can you discuss a book, if nobody is allowed to actually read it?
There is a lot on a modern car that won't last without expensive maintenance. You can keep it going down the road, after 10 years you learn to live with a few broken body parts, wear on the seats, and electronics that don't work. That all could be fixed - but it is cheaper to just buy a brand new car (the type of people driving a car that could either cannot afford a new car, or are too cheap to buy one). I've seen collector cars restored to better than factory new, but it the car was cheaper new (inflation adjusted) than the restore costs. Or more likely the costs were about the same as factory new, but the person doing the restore did it for himself and counted labor costs as zero.
Even if what you say is true, wouldn't that still be an ok outcome? We're in a climate crisis and need to starkly reduce the number of carbon sources on the planet so if EV cars didn't get broad adoption and used petrol cars double in value (but no more of them are produced), that still seems like a good outcome. Obviously some players will lose but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
What do you mean by using EVs to balance the grid? How is drawing more power from it balancing it?