skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of cheap cars.

You can walk onto any Nissan dealer's lot anywhere in the country and drive off in a brand new Nissan Versa for just about the same inflation-adjusted price of a Volkswagen Beetle from the 60s and 70s and the Beetle was the lowest-priced new car you could buy back then for almost its entire production run.

The Versa is better in every measurable way-- it even gets better gas mileage despite weight of all of the extra safety equipment, air conditioning, and camera.

A base optionless Beetle cost $12,000 in 2023 dollars, a Super Beetle (a slightly larger model with brakes that wouldn't kill you, a better suspension, and optional extras like a locking glovebox, map pocket, and day/night mirror) cost $16,500.

A Versa costs $15,500 but you can get $1,000-3,000 off based on how desperate the dealer is to get rid of it.

Nissan dealers won't even try to steer you towards a more expensive car. Dealers want to sell them because they're just sitting on their lots taking up space not selling.

If you don't like Nissan there are plenty of other options in the "what grandma and grandpa paid for your mom's first car when she went off to college 50 years ago" price range.

People don't want cheap cars.

Customers aren't being tricked, or hoodwinked, or gadzooked, or pressured into buying larger SUVs with heated seats, sunroofs, huge infotainment displays, wireless charging, and wifi hotspots. They want them and can afford them.

They'll walk right past all of the Versas and buy an SUV.
I don't know. But that's not unique to ruff. Plenty of Python linting tools had issues with new Python syntax in the past. Rust's rustfmt can still not format some of the most recent syntax additions and rust-analyzer has some limitations with new stuff as well.
> Q1: Is Apple QCing everything before shipping to assembly?

Maybe they (seemingly justifiably) had sufficient upfront concerns about quality that they are sampling at a much higher rate than they would normally.
The United States and Europe still have the capability to make these casings, but it's "too expensive." I imagine so is Japan for that matter.
I'm using the davinci-3 model as a sort of programming macro. You need to know something about what you want to do and how you want to do it. Then you just poke the model so it gives you what you want. It's also very handy to have it mock test data and even write unit tests that aim to cover your cases as well. It's just fantastic.
GPT3 doesn't create "responses". Not till it's been trained to via RLHF.
How dramatic! If only the world worked in such a just and fair way. From what I've seen of the recent layoffs, it was totally uncorrelated to how virtuous your career has been. People got laid off from Google that had been there like 15 years. Likewise people get huge payouts from startups after joining the bandwagon at just the right time.

The whole thing seems like a false dichotomy. Most people I know (including myself) fit into neither category. Some job hops, with stretches of stability. Keeping up with the latest tech/trends, but mostly realistic about applicability to their day to day problems. And someone being annoying at parties is hardly relevant. You'll find those people everywhere.
Well, if you don't pass on knowledge this happens.

If all of your life's lessons are left in your brain instead of properly written down, and with reasoning ("we do this because this", not just "we do this because we did this") attached to it, no wonder next generation needs to re-learn that
Every bootcamp was churning out "production-ready" coders....
Unfortunate it is one of those "inquire now" things, if there was a "buy now" link I'd pick a few up right away.
> It isn't possible anymore to book a dining reservation sans app

The website? [0]

> likewise to check queue times (unless you walk to the ride entrance)

There's giant digital signage around the park with wait times? [1]

> likewise fastpasses

Don't exist anymore, but correct (except for CS options in the park) for the new paid version. Previously you could get them at kiosks around the park.

> The quality of the rides, the scenery, the staff/cast, and the mis en scene have all been slowly degrading over the past 10+ years or so.

Fully agree.

[0]: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/#/reservations-acce...

[1]: https://www.micechat.com/247615-disneyland-update-the-resist...
Sure the second person sounds awful to be around, but correlating this with corporate loyalty is disgusting especially in times like these.
I thought they banned burns?

In any case, I will cede the environmental case to local ecologists. But if it's already farming of grouse, that seems less intensive use than farming of sheep, as an outsider I would be interested in learning more as to why grouse moors are preferable to sheep land. It seems that grouse moors would be far more amenable to rewinding. But as I said, I only have my non-expert opinion!
Dereck Lowe ("In the Pipeline") has a good article on germicidal 222-nm: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/two-twenty-two
Because the code iterates per character, not per pixel.

If a pixel's value is '7' and in the redacted zone, the program will iterate over the single character and output '0'. If the pixel's value is actually '174', the program will iterate over all three characters, outputting '000'. Any normal PPM image viewer will display these identically, but high contrast areas like text will be recoverable.
People love the underdog, and even though M$ is huge, Bing/OpenAI are clearly the underdog here.
Like Toyota (Prius), Nissan (Leaf), or Chevy (Bolt)? Among others.
That's something I would expect from more advanced static analysis like mypy, but not flake8? Maybe just different use cases under the same category name.
(I was one of Supergrain's (now Supaglue) competitors in the metric store space)

Great to see you guys pivot and move on to something new.

I'm obviously biased here (we've done the same) but pivoting is good for most early stage companies that haven't taken off in a big way (fundraising != taking off). IMO more companies would have good outcomes if Founders were more flexible and actually focused on building a good business as opposed to banging their heads against the wall on something that's clearly not working.

Wish you guys the best of luck with Supaglue!
In a war with a near peer, yeah, not only luxury goods but also civil rights.
When first qualifying a supplier, I expect IQC to fairly exhaustively test every incoming part. As the supplier gets better at OQC you can start dialing back your IQC.

This is all fairly normal for large scale manufacturing in my experience.

You want everything to meet spec, but the spec won't cover everything, and especially at the beginning the supplier may or may not even be able to meet spec in volume.
I don't have any reference but I expand it from any war to any crisis. Ask for a new server at work and you are ignored for years until the old server crashes and cannot be recovered. Suddenly they will be funding for new server and approvals done within the hour. It is sad humans too often need a crisis to realise what is important and focus on it. No crisis no focus everyone just pulling in different directions.
I've had trouble sourcing reliable SD cards for these SBCs. I have had the Le Potato, ODROIDs, RasPis. And they will generally work really well 98% of the time. But I keep them in a closet and I hate that I need to service them once a year or so. I tried buying SD cards from several different retailers and never got reliable results like from SATA SSDs (or even rotating disks it seems).

I eventually just bought an intel NUC which I saw as a big defeat but also a remarkably practical solution.
Car theft for joy riding is a really common reason for kids(!) and adolescents to end up "in the system". I don't know how many car thefts that activity accounts for, but it's got to be a non-trivial amount.
Like GM, who had their EV packs fail and catch fire?
Like Toyota, who had their HEV software fail in extreme cold and need an update?

No automaker is perfect.
I've had similar experiences. Sometimes it just knows what you want and saves you a minute searching. Sometimes way more than a minute.

But I find it also hallucinates in code, coming up with function calls that aren't in the API but would sound like a natural thing to call.

Overall it's a positive though, it's pretty easy to tell for your other coding tools if the suggestion is for something made up, and the benefits of filling in your next little thought are very real.
> I wonder how a war over Taiwan would impact that time table?

There won't be any war if China invades Taiwan, merely devastating impact.

If China were to invade Taiwan, the most-advanced chip factory in the world would be rendered “not operable,” TSMC Chair Mark Liu said. “The war brings no winners, everybody's losers,” Liu said. He said an invasion would cause economic turmoil for China, Taiwan and Western countries.[0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/02/apple-chipmaker-tsmc-warns-t...
You mean Toyota? Or is Telsa implied? Model 3 had 15 recalls in 2020, 14 in 2021, 9 in 2022 with basics like "One or both taillights may intermittently fail to illuminate."
India is not China. And it will never compare. Chinese people are just born ingénue engineers, every and each one of them. Indians are just Indians...

https://www.ft.com/content/0d70a823-0fba-49ae-a453-2518afcb0...

> Operations in India are not running at that sort of pace, said a former Apple engineer briefed on the matter: “There just isn’t a sense of urgency.”

> In China, suppliers and government officials took a “whatever it takes” approach to win iPhone orders. Former Apple employees describe instances in which they would estimate a certain task might take several weeks, only to show up the next morning to find it already completed at inexplicable speed.

> Operations in India are not running at that sort of pace, said a former Apple engineer briefed on the matter: “There just isn’t a sense of urgency.”
...would a screenshot of the product be so hard?
USB-Cereal is your friend in USB-C embedded development
As someone who has done this don’t do this. I get so much crap e-mail.
You should probably use a spellchecker too. I saw "Embeded" on the Kanaries homepage and "comming" on https://kanaries.net/products. Also, when navigating from the Kanaries homepage to https://kanaries.net/products it's not a proper page load and doesn't reset the scroll position.
> I think performance simply just isn't on the radar of a big chunk of devs these days, especially self-taught ones

My experience is the opposite of this. It's usually the self-taught devs that care a lot about performance, and the formally educated ones who are willing to trade it away.
I feel that if you have thousands of lines of changes in one squashed commit, you're not breaking down work enough. IMO, each feature or bugfix should be on its own branch, and then all the commits from that branch get squashed during the merge to a develop/release branch or to the main branch. If merging to a develop/release branch first, then merges from there to main do not get squashed.
It depends on the software in question, but yeah, a lot of it actually was faster even on era-appropriate hardware.

An example that stands out in my mind is Photoshop 7, CS1, and maybe (memory is a little blurry) CS2. It felt considerably more responsive running on a thermally-non-ideal iMac with a single core PowerPC G5 and spinning rust hard disk than PS CC does today on a well cooled M-series MBP or custom built Ryzen 5950X tower with a 7000MB/s PCI-E 4.0 SSD.

That's just ridiculous. Yes, Photoshop has taken on some functionality since then but there is no excuse for anything to feel laggardly on such powerful hardware when it ran great on comparatively pedestrian machines 15 years ago.
https://archive.ph/mEWhf
Yes, people do care, but if they are not the ones making the purchasing decision (and instead it gets made by someone else who never has to suffer the software themselves) the problem will proliferate.
Not just in hindsight. Buildings not built to code crumbling when an inevitable earthquake hits was foreseeable.
What is the best CRM tool for B2B SaaS out there?
Looking for a CRM tool that can connect to many sources like Calendly, Notion, Gmail. Tried out Folk which seems new but emails do not get delivered when sent from their platform.
But the man does own the courts and pretty much all politicians, so there's very little anyone can do.

He threw his biggest political opponent in jail so he can win the next presidential "election" in peace.
U.S. jet missed with first missile while downing object over Lake Huron
We need more studies, or maybe metastudies, that compare the germicidal benefits of UV lamps with the health disadvantages (skin cancer, ozone).

It seems that there is consensus on both effects, but I can't find anything conclusive that allows the scale of the effects to be measured sufficiently to do a benefit/cost analysis for each type of light spectrum and usecase.
> I have not had a discussion at all with anyone, that says "people should be banned from the office"

Just look around, most of the threads here have someone chime in saying "i'm 10x productive at home with my wife and my dogs by my side, so my RTO CEO is an idiot". In plenty of these discussions, people don't even think about anything but themselves, in the most narrow way.
Yes, but the winner also refused to get with the times and embrace the operating system twice. First, they were abysmally slow to Windows 3.1, despite having years to get something together (in part b/c they understood that Microsoft wanted to win at word processing but they underestimated the importance of being on the OS anyway) and then a few years later with Windows 95.

Word Perfect had the OS changed from under them but also had every warning that the change was coming and refused to move to sturdier ground.
Really creepy is seeing, "Your friend X bought this." on Amazon, regarding a friend on Facebook... can only imagine if it was something embarrassing.
> Standard germicidal UV-C lights are ~250nm.

The article is about KrCl 222-nm lights, which people want because they're safe [1] to shine on people, unlike Hg 254-nm lights.

[1] Probably -- I'd like to seem some specific additional experiments before widespread deployment.
what is it, how many seats, why not maintain it yourself if it is so useful? i can't believe that there is no closed source doing the same thing

FOSS means free, depending on what you want from the software - if you want more than the FOSS offering does, you may have to pay for improvements, or you may not.
The issue linked seems to cover it.
Japan may be one of the very few countries where real estate is not an investment, precisely because of their strict, and ever evolving, safety standards, essentially prioritizing people over economic gains.

I don't see how Turkey would commit to such an economic turnaround.
One thing I recommend in this situation is forming alumni groups if they don't already exist. Regardless of whether it's layoffs or through just reaching the end of your journey it's a great time to form and/or retain your community.

I'm part of several alumni groups on slack and they continue to be one of the most important networks for all kinds of opportunities. Way way better than Linked In.

Essentially all the trust benefits and social capital of being part of the corporate tribe continue beyond the end of employment.

Edit: fix really long sentence
>reform are happening

Same as in China.

>factually that millions

The highest estimates, by Zenz, only go up to a million. And it’s not factual at all.

>eradicate the Uighur language

I suppose that’s why you have official Chinese banknotes with Uighur text on them, and that’s why Uighur kids are being taught their native language in schools.

>well documented cases of forced sterilization

We have the same in USA.

Generally speaking: you’re repeating rhetorics (propaganda) instead of focusing on verifiable information.
Are you certain that you can adequately judge when the lack of performance is starting to become a problem for people who aren't you?
> the new person's judgment is basically always ignored, and that's a mistake

Remember, the new person has something that nobody else on the team can ever learn, no matter how much they study or how long they work. The new person has a fresh perspective.
Yeah, doesn't really say much.
Noise complaints help bring down launch startup SpaceRyde
I agree that in the general case it does not work, but if we were to introduce an alternate dataclass/class definition syntax, I feel like something lightweight like this would be nice. (Local functions could just be prefixed with underscores, no need to distinguish them from private methods.)
Maybe the internet is actually that terrible now, and Google is just the messenger?
Ask HN: Open-source ChatGPT alternatives?
What's the state of the art in open source GPT models right now, in practical terms? If your typical use case is taking a pretrained model and fine tuning it to a specific task, which LLM would yield the best results while running on consumer hardware? Note that I'm specifically asking for software that I can run on my own hardware, I'm not interested in paying OpenAI $0.02 per API request.

I'll start the recommendations with Karpathy's nanoGPT: https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

What else do we have?
Few corrections since I can’t edit now there are replies:

1849 not 1847

74 days not 78

The trimaran actually beat the record by less than 2 days.
Just call them "indulgences" to align with history.

With foresight everyone knew it would end badly. The safety measures whose variances were being indulged were the result of bitter experience.

How much concrete (and GHG emission and coal inputs) were just wasted?
I am not sure what you are trying to say.
My f150 pack did not explode (presumably what an 'incidence' would be in this case) but is still being recalled.
> I was told by my art teacher in high school that they intentionally didn't go for total realism as that was imitating God's work

I heard this story as well and always suspected that it was an urban legend. I heard the same story about a Buddhist painter who intentionally added a poor brushstroke to every painting, to reflect that everything is imperfect and changing. Neither story makes sense in the context of Christian belief or Buddhist conviction. A Christian would have to be incredibly arrogant to think they had to take special measures to avoid rivaling the work of God — it would be hard to call such a person Christian. Similarly for the Buddhist. If they believed that everything that can be experienced has a certain characteristic, then it wouldn't be necessary to impose that characteristic on their artwork.
What Steam did for Linux is very similar to what Ubuntu did for Linux: made the actual work to make sure there's something for non-nerds to use.

No one cared about the "non-nerd" until these two came along. Because sure "you can alway select <one of thousands distributions> and <build/compile/config your own stuff>", but this doesn't scale.

Even if this started as a way to keep being relevant in the world of competing OS-level stores and shenanigans (IIRC Steam for Linux started shortly after Windows Store was announced), the achievement is still nothing short of miracle: there are actually games you can play on Linux now.
I can't imagine working for so long at a place burning huge piles of cash every quarter. Looking for the exit is something I'd have done at least 5 years ago.
I don't buy that North Korea would have nuclear weapons right now if the US and Germany didn't develop them first and lose international goodwill in the process.

Also, while NK having nukes is scary, their nuclear/ballistics capabilities are still not at existential threat level, even by their own exaggerated claims.
We had a similar story in Belgium.

Politicians decided that houses could now safely be built in flood zones because "we had no major flood for the last 20-40 years". (and it could safely be assumed that at least some of them benefited privately from those decisions, it’s a common practice here)

Guess what happened in 2021 ? yep… The most deadly flood in human memory.

Guess what happened to those politicians ? Yep, absolutely nothing.
Nothing is a useful and meaningful result in a lot of cases. This is essentially a degenerate case of a discriminated union.

There are other choices that can be used to the same effect, such as exceptions or sealed classes. Of course, you can still use Optional<T>. But with null safety, a nullable return type is often most elegant and it's idiomatic in Kotlin.
Proton is great.

I have played some games on it and mostly it is parasite apps like EA App or whatever that is a problem.

It Takes Two worked great when running but lunching was always 5-20 minutes of restarts. And two times out of like 8 EA bricked their launcher app with updates and the game stopped working for some days.

The next gaming rig will surely be Linux only for me.
Not that it matters much as a matter of labor policy, but the factory in question is Gigafactory 2, which is a photovoltaic cell fab that employs (per Wikipedia) 1500 people. They make the roofing products, not cars or batteries.
Boeing, Airbus Sell 470 Planes to Air India in Record Deal
In current tech not much comes to mine. Maybe it could be reprocessed into dry graphite lubricant but there's not much need for raw carbon or principally carbon materials in a submarine. That's another reason it just gets tossed there's just not a real use for it. On a hypothetical extraplanetary colony though it's a pretty important material just to keep people alive.
Remember when we needed germs to exercise our immune systems? Remember immune systems?
Man, I got confused why the steam Linux sale wasn't on the front page when I noticed that this is a ten year old post. I thought it was a celebration for 10 years of Linux support lol. Also got excited for the Tux TF2 item and I feel a little let down that I am 10 years too late
Wouldn't it be smarter to build on the far side of the moon? Then you don't need to worry about the Earth obscuring the sun at all, right? Or were you referring to some other phenomena?
> So out of endless ways to ruin your day, you claim all financial fraud only comes from US proxies (?!?!?!), and ignore all other threats.

If you're referring to banking fraud I'm pretty sure the answer is mostly yes. Maybe sometimes fraudsters are lazy.

> So getting hacked never happens from Russia? Russian IPs only scan, but never crack in, takeover, deface, or work their way deep?

It does, I'm just saying it's almost entirely automated scans and bruteforce using default password combinations and several year old CVEs. If you are vulnerable to those you have bigger problems.

> And spam has 0 cost, right?

Unless you are running some ancient configuration the cost is lower than the amount of engineering work and mental capacity you appear to devoting to stopping it.

I'm not saying you shouldn't make the tradeoff or that it's wrong to do it, just that the amount of security you think you are gaining from it is not as high as you think.
> People tend to drastically underestimate the both the scale and sophistication of manufacturing in China.

Also how little tech workers in India care about what they do.

This isn't a racial observation - Indians outside India are just as conscientious as Asians or Europeans are and are not included in this observation. Rather it's a cultural observation that's probably come about as a result of the outsourcing culture and lack of advancement opportunities that comes along with it.