skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the cost of upgrading EVs to better / cheaper batteries. That is, the ability of a EU citizen to afford an EV car that lasts comparably long with an ICE car.

The charging infrastructure is a fun issue, but it's a separate issue.
Cities: Skylines has that built in, actually. The more money you have saved up the lower your revenue from taxes is.
Signal is for everyone, and everyone is different
Not really, they need inflation to devalue money so they can pay off their foreign and domestic debt.
The way I see it money gives you the potential to do a lot of stuff, but having a potential to do it and actually doing it are 2 very different things.

Regardless of age, preferences that change etc. there is also neuroplasticity that does its thing and for somebody who has thought their whole life about making money then when it's time to spend it 2 big factors come in:

1) Making sure that the expense is only a negligible part of the loot

2) The need for something to be self-sustainable

People who were never as obsessive about money they can pull all stops and make big expenses even if they have much less to their name, and also have zero desire for self-sustainability which is a concept much more in line with the 'bucket list'.

People might have in their bucket list to swim with the whales or visit all National Parks. A guy obsessed with money will try and spin that into a business so the bucket list item become 'owning a whale-watching company' and 'owning a RV rent near National Parks'
Unfortunately those masks are not protecting you against gases and vapours like sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and carbon monoxide which do impact asthmatic people a lot or are the cause of developing asthma.
I'm not necessarily opposed to this line of thinking but we probably need to do a lot more in other areas first, like undaming the Columbia and Snake rivers which were the largest salmon spawning grounds in the world.

Thanks for the link though, I'll take a look at it when I have some time.
ooo they have PC version too https://superiorinteractive.com/

Original publisher in the 80s was 'Superior Software', I'd be interested to know if this is the same people 40 years later

edit: yes its the same people!
The Shrinking Equity Market
lets look at the numbers:

around 65 million new cars are sold per year. toyota/vw do 10m each year each.

sales of super sports cars (ferrari, mclaren, lamborghini) combined are less than 20k units per year.

so, only one in 3.000 cars is a super sports car. additionally those cars usually do extremly low mileage of less than 1000km per year. you'd be very hard pressed to find a used ferrari with more than 30k kilometers, even when looking for very old ones

so if we combine the rough numbers (1/3000 the volume, 1/10 the mileage, 5 times the consumption) we arrive at the conclusion that only 0.016% of the car emissions come from super sports cars. the number is so low it is basically meaningless, especially since private transport is not a huge percentage of emissions to begin with. for the climate it would be better to upgrade a single old tanker or steel factory than to outlaw combustion V12 sports cars. forcing niche manufacturers to EV-only is not about the climate, it is about jealousy and malevolence, as is most of politics.
We have a tiny wealth tax in Norway, so now the richest are moving to Switzerland.
Your instincts are noble and right. Men are made to provide for others. Don't listen to those who are trying to strangle your conscience.

You will be blessed in doing the right thing and the Lord will provide you and your family's needs.
This is the first time I hear this idea to use convergent boundaries to bury anything. It's interesting! However, to my layman understanding, when discussing nuclear waste we need to be precise. If the containers break or leak in an undesirable place (or depth) without us having any access to it or being able to fix it, I imagine it could become quite the catastrophe. And the pressure and sheer power tectonic plates can apply, to my understanding, far exceeds anything we can build. So how is it possible to safely bury radioactive waste in convergent boundaries?
https://archive.is/mQhyv
The best way to reverse the capital hoarding is to deeply understand the way the policy making system works, not to debate the merits of different policies. Folks who believe in a wealth tax also don't believe in putting their noses to the grindstone for decades to engage in the high octane chess game of bureaucratic power politics. So it'll never happen.
Perfectly stated. His argument that morality follows from intelligence is totally wrong.

I think you’re right: he’s biased because of his employment at OpenAI.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
No, this is what happens when you make almost the entire population dependent on the state for retirement, it makes changes and cuts difficult and limits the options the country has to adapt to changing economic, demographic, and other circumstances. Kind of like how at the start of COVID in the US there were arguments like "We can't close down schools because poor kids won't be able to get their free school lunches."

Edit: I looked it up and the net worth of all of France's billionaires is ~half a trillion dollars, so even if you seized it all it would basically cover the French government's budget deficits for a grand total of two years, assuming they were actually able to seize it all and it didn't have disastrous economic side effects. That's France's total deficit, not sure how much of that is directly attributable to the pension system.
That's odd. What's the stated justification for it?
I'd rather have an LED on the same circuit as the microphone. If it's live, it has to send current through it. Easy to observe.
Yes, and even if you aren’t constructing a DFA, only being able to produce a finite number of derivatives from a given RE is still useful:

As there’s only a finite number of derivatives, their length is obviously bounded by a constant for a fixed starting RE (though that constant is still exponential in the length of that RE). This implies your non-DFA-based matcher can only take a bounded time computing the next derivative, so takes a time proportional to the length of a string to process that string (even if the constant of proportionality is exponential in the RE length).

(I’m not good at fitting all of my reasoning into a single comment today, am I?)
You can have both. People can intentionally choose platforms that make them feel less free in exchange for convenience. It just means that the convenience (and network effects) that they get out of using a more convenient platform are more valuable to them than the ability to communicate freely. When most people are using these platforms non-anonymously (i.e. to talk with their friends) they probably also get less out of privacy than people talking to others they've never met in person.

It's worthwhile to consider a balance between convenience, plausible deniability (people don't really want to be that guy in the coffee shop on Tor), and privacy. Privacy platforms nowadays consider privacy above all else because most people heavily into privacy are purists that don't want to sacrifice any privacy in exchange for having more people to talk with. It's one of the reasons I still respect Telegram with all of its shortcomings, because even though it's relatively insecure in comparison to its competitors, it takes convenience into account and as such has more users than most all privacy-centric messengers while still providing end-to-end encryption for the people that desire it (at least in theory, the cryptography's a bit shaky).
From the start I assumed this is a nice playful "Hexing the technical interview" kinda joke. But given the tone of the article, and some of the comments here… Uh, this cannot be serious, right?
Neat, it's a browser extension which is an interesting approach. Do you know if it's open source?
Because he believes victim mentality is an actual societal problem that needs some people to stand up to.

What was the former employee expecting anyway ? Why someone suposedly as "talented" and wealthy as is is would ask and spill all of this publicly ? It's pure attention seeking
Alpine has bitten me on several occasions as well.

Nowadays, both on my previous and current job, we go for Debian slim. Works perfectly and is worth the extra bytes.

I will also never use alpine again :-)
Its nice that people are still writing code for the NES, but I have to ask what makes this better than using ca65... assembly isn't hard to learn.
"rationalist"
Not a lawyer, but AFAIK if one has a valid rx for e.g. adderall, it's still illegal to make it (or even to buy it from a friend who got it via their own valid rx). I'd expect the situation to be similar.
a chunk of our executive team is resigning, that's how it should be done
>EU fuel prices and mandatory technical maintenance costs

Both of which are predicated on continued political will.

I can see the out of touch upper middle class driving things far enough off a cliff that populists get elected and change these things.
The way retirement is done was broken from the start. If you have a fixed age, you will get issues when the population pyramid changes and fewer people are around to support the retired.

What the system ought to be is:

1) Everyone who can't work gets a pension/state support/whatever you want to call it. If you get run over by a car at 25, you are on this list until you die and the state supports you. It's expensive, but there aren't that many people who end up in this state. Maybe a few percent, eg 3%.

2) We set a pensioner ratio. For instance if it's 20%, the 3% of people in cat 1 above get a pension, and the 17% oldest people who aren't in cat 1 get a pension.

This would naturally change the age at which people get to retire, moving it up and down depending on birth rates.

What we have is not workable. There aren't enough young people for the number of boomers who are retiring, and not only that, the older people turn out more and have more votes, enabling them to force worse conditions on everyone else.
It couldn't be replaced by looking at Lodash's source code, because A LOT of the alternatives here are built into Javascript, and the Lodash code is significantly larger.

Check flatten in this website:

array.flat();

Versus Lodash:

function baseFlatten(array, depth, predicate, isStrict, result) {
predicate || (predicate = isFlattenable)
result || (result = [])

if (array == null) {
return result
}

for (const value of array) {
if (depth > 0 && predicate(value)) {
if (depth > 1) {
// Recursively flatten arrays (susceptible to call stack limits).
baseFlatten(value, depth - 1, predicate, isStrict, result)
} else {
result.push(...value)
}
} else if (!isStrict) {
result[result.length] = value
}
}
return result
}

About your point: sure, nobody has to care about all of this. But I don't see why we should give people a hard time because they do on their free time.
If no one cares, then no one needs to upvote it. Flagging is for inappropriate or irrelevant, and this is neither given the recent Elon Twitter spat HN thread.
Uhhhh, ya know that Python has a library for that :-)
Ask HN: Best Deals on 2nd hand monitors?
Hi all, I recently knocked my monitor over, breaking it.

I'm looking for a bargain on a new one - are there any particular sites that sell old stock that companies no longer use? I imagine firms are dumping / reselling these things all the time ...
No lab testing or paperwork, they often just resell generics from India. Luckily, the quality seems to be good but I had no guarantees when first trying it.
I have no comment on the issue at hand, but I've got to give it to the French for their always impressive level of civil engagement. It feels like Americans are far less willing to take to the streets to support/oppose political causes than they were in times past, and I think that's a shame.
> France's deficit is not imaginary

The deficit due to the pension system*, even the governmental agency in charge of it said so
I think this is true if the system is global or there’s model where Sybil resistance is “here everyone, have an access to write to the database”. In a system like HN there’s value in Sybil resistance. On your Twitter feed, almost none.

So I disagree this is a non-starter, because we didn’t find a solution in the past, but rather an ideal place to start and a great space to discover new Sybil resistance mechanisms (which we have over the recent years).
The microphone is located inside the left speaker grille anyways, so it would be terribly muffled in clamshell mode anyways.

Note this is in contrast to previous models where the microphone had a tiny hole on the left edge (next to USB-C ports) and it could be used in clamshell mode.

Which at first I thought felt like a downgrade... but the reality is that your laptop isn't usually in a good position for mic pickup when it's closed anyways -- people often keep it off to the side or something, under a monitor riser, etc. While the speaker grille location, being front-facing rather than side-facing, is far better for picking up voice when using the laptop normally. And that anybody using a mic in clamshell mode usually already has one in their webcam or AirPods or headset or a dedicated mic anyways.

So all in all it seems to work out pretty well.
DN42
Those easy test kits have their own false positive/false negative error rates. So, it give a false sense of security. More effective to just raise the alarm that it could be in most illegal drugs, because it most likely is.
Epcot: Walt Disney's New Urbanist City
If you need a window on the case of your laptop to verify that your hardware hasn't been tampered with, you've got bigger problems.
Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data
Hi HN!
A few days ago I saw a graph[0] that showed the # of job postings on HN was declining. I started wondering what other trends I could glean from the data, so I created this!

You can filter through the top level comments by keyword; for example you can filter by "remote" to see the massive spike around March 2020. Another interesting thing I found is that I can compare hiring across cities.

I hope you enjoy! I made it so that the links to your search are sharable so if you have some interesting data you should be able to just link the page you're on!

[0] https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2023/the-tech-downturn-seen-th...
They're supposed to, and I've heard anecdotes that they sometimes do, but it seems like many of the failures I've experienced were firmware failures (in some cases, upgrading firmware on remaining drives seemed to result in lower failure rates anyway). Firmware failures have no rules; spinner drives sometimes have them too, and they might disappear from the bus as well, although usually those will "just" disappear after a reboot, not in the middle of a request.
It's nice to see a populace willing to defend itself from the ruling class. If only we had this kind of organizational capability in the US.
Incremental Dialyzer: How We Made Dialyzer 7x Faster – Code Beam Europe [video]
And when Australia moves the retirement age to 67... nothing happens. They're already talking about moving it to 69, to pay for stuff like US nuclear submarines and even paying the French $830,000,000 to NOT buy their nuclear submarines!

We can all learn A LOT from how the French hold their elected representatives accountable, and don't let them get away with BS.
Yes.

https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/APU#Registers
https://github.com/cc65/cc65/blob/master/asminc/nes.inc#L44
Yes, as far as I can remember.
A large portion of our fresh water needs to be allowed to flow into the ocean in order to sustain healthy riparian and littoral ecosystems. City governments and residents use relatively little water directly; almost all of it goes to agriculture and industry. Farmers are being blamed because they continue to waste water by failing to adopt more efficient practices such as drip irrigation, and by growing crops that aren't suited to the local climate. Growing alfalfa (and other fodder crops) for export does nothing to provide Californians with affordable food; in fact it does the opposite.

We need to move towards a free market solution where all water users pay market rates instead of subsidizing politically favored sectors. If that means that prices rise for certain water-intensive crops then so be it. That's preferable to a water shortage.
Thinking Outside the Box: A Misguided Idea
One hilarious/dystopian component is that we are paying a company to gather, verify, and sell our data.

Shouldn't this be the other way around? IMO, yes...
The big missing feature for these kinds of tools is a workflow and relationship for dev teams to mark findings. Marking them as "false positive" or "only applies if these other conditions are true", or "yes, but we have a mitigation/exception". etc. A fast workflow that allows for less blockers, reduced noise and a focus on things that actually matter.
As long as Apple's a US company, the US law will dominate its actions because they might make less money in the world but the world won't jail them (well, can't jail anyone who really matters to the owners). If they think they can keep providing a better alternative with a heavy hand, they will, right up to regulation constraints.

This leaves us with your previous observaation

> If Apple won't do what's right, then we'll be forced to.

And I agree. And in a (mostly) free-market system structure like the US, the solution is obvious... There's a reason I haven't used Apple as my primary compute platform for approximately 15 years.
So there is a hole?
Time to bring out the horse. Yee haw.
Wrong URL. Try submitting again.

Also: It's generally a bad idea to submit your whole blog. It's better to pick your best article and submit that. (Or the last one in case you already submitted the best one.)
Their planned place for an Artists Residency is inspiring: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1375562834541752323
Exactly; lodash doesn't use `array.flat()`, so the site does not teach, "how it's implemented."

And I'm not giving people a hard time, I'm saying you don't have to care about all of this to be good at your developer job. If this was an obvious point to you, great!
Why do you think it’s gone to waste? We have large teams of devops/SRE at my (large big tech) company. Are you interested in SRE roles?

I’m not really in this area, but something like Google SRE handbook might get you excited about it.
Domain based identity also enables attestation which could be use to artificially add even more friction. Plus, since it's not constrained to a single platform, you could have 3rd parties that assess trust and reputation.
My wife and I only just started putting money away for retirement. It took us until 40 to get to a financial position where we could. At this rate, we can retire eventually, but it will always be tight. Likely looking at 70 at the earliest.. That's if no one has a major health crisis.
Or maybe the poorer parts of society should stop trying to be overeliant on the tax levied on a minority of skilled earners (so no trust fund kids) creating welfarism/populism, breaking the fabric of society (as in ancient Rome),incentivizing emigration/delocalization of taxbase; and try to be more selfsufficient from a budget stanpoint, like having a self-funded pension system, that in France case would be increasing contribution, raising retirement age, linking pension output to having kids (to stabilize age pyramid)

here France revenues brakdown: https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-france.pdf
The DRAKON Language
Holy crap, same! I had the issue on my M1 MBP and now am having the same issue with my M2 MBA. Please anyone help if they know how to fix it.
The target of those stories isn't marginalized elements, it's boring straight-laced suburban America. That's how you build enthusiasm for cracking down on illicit drug imports—which crackdown apparently mostly results in stopping prescription drugs that aren't fent, which may explain why this is being pushed so hard.
Move into an adjacent field? What do you want to do professionally?
If science had no methodology, it would hardly be able to produce results?

Of course it has and people reading "some Popper" in high school, evidently without understanding any of it, exemplifies my point.
(By the way, evolution does not mean constant change of "everything", but gradual adaptation with most stuff staying constant)

The scientific method is a learning algorithm designed to discern truth. Claiming that was "of very limited use in most jobs" shows all kinds of things, it doesn't say anything about its obviously paramount importance.
Yeah, think for example of leftist (or libertarian for that matter) critique of risks from AI application.

Not "Roko Basilisk"-style crap, but things like encoding bias into systems then used for automated law enforcing, employee screening, etc.
I agree with you, however historically the move from leaded fuel to lead-free fuel proved that we could do it or the protection of the ozon layer (one of the few times in history that we took collectively action against something damaging humanity, but it doesn't happen often enough). Curious what would cause a tipping point for improving air quality or any of the other multiple crises you mentioned and if we could learn something from history.
iSIMs aren’t new. Sony Altair has had them in the IOT lte modem space for a while
Don’t worry, those free school lunches won’t last for much longer at the rate things are going.
Show HN: I made an open site that links random resources for art practice
Hi HN,

I built a site where you can find links to drawing references, sorted by topic (e.g. hands, people, cars, ...). Clicking on a link opens a random resource.

You can check out the site here: https://inspirationbot.art/versions/collage/main.html

I know HN isn't an art community, but since one aim of the project was to keep it as vanilla and plain as possible (HTML & CSS, no frameworks, no backend as such) I thought it may be of interest.

Another intent of the project is to use it to try out different web design styles, so if the link above is a bit too gaudy for your taste, you may enjoy the plain HTML version: https://inspirationbot.art/versions/plainhtml/main.html

The project is also open source (as well as free, no sign-up, no ads), see repo here: https://github.com/koljapluemer/inspirationbot

This is the first time I am trying to properly open source something (as opposed to code-dumping on GH), so: Please tell me what you think; technical feedback and any input in regards to the open source part is especially welcome.

Thanks!
I am personally using it to leverage vast amounts of cash off people and using that to do stuff I actually give a crap about. The difference between me and you is that I have come to terms with this being purely an earner, which there is nothing wrong with.
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us [video]
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly...

https://www.tf1info.fr/economie/reforme-des-retraites-2023-y...

https://www.cor-retraites.fr/node/595

https://linsoumission.fr/2023/01/16/retraites-milliardaires-...
I found this with my first MacBook Air. Ever since, I keep the little paper insert that comes with a new MacBook. It stays in my laptop case, solves this issue perfectly.
Yes, much better to leave them to their own devices. Then the state is free to just let those inconvenient poor people die.