skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're sliding around the issue, because the point is not about SpaceX and Tesla relative to their industries, which is debatable on its own. The point is that the CEO of both of these companies has mislabeled a news agency because he doesn't like them but claims he accurately has done so merely by having single-digit percentages of their total budget, or less depending on how you count from the federal, state, or local sources, from government sources. This is despite his own companies taking in billions of government support in different forms. That is the point. It's beyond hypocrisy, not to mention intentionally misleading and leaning into extreme propaganda.

> These things have to be analyzed more systematically and in comparison to their industry.

So, as mentioned, no they don't. This particular issue is completely independent of comparisons to other car and space companies.

If you really wanted to start comparing things, you need to start looking at other news agencies, the people who control those agencies, and how many tax breaks and kickbacks (a form of indirect and implicit government support) from the politicians they bankroll via donations.
That looks amazing.
Solid argument, but it's funny to call it "pg's reason" when it has been at the forefront of the capital punishment debate for literally hundreds of years.
Along these lines is the Mahindra Jeep knockoff they're about to start selling here
Since the BBC axed The Film Programme, you can try following Eileen Jones at Jacobin.
One of my favorite crazy facts: in 1991 a Hungarian university got an IBM 3090 mainframe as a gift, while outdated it was still insanely more advanced than anything else available in the country. They found a spot on the top floor for it but it was impossible to get it up there so they removed the roof and used a crane.

Memorial page with photos: http://hampage.hu/nosztalgia/netto/ursus/index.html

In 1995, when another university got a VAX 9000 cluster for the bargain basement price of 50 000 CHF (~130 000 USD equivalent today) -- the Swiss basically discarded it as outdated, this truly was cheap -- and they tried to switch it on, it blew the fuse ... of the district. They needed to run a new power line from the nearest substation.
> If you're getting full range of motion exercise, you don't need to stretch, because the exercise itself is doing what needs to be done.

I dropped powerlifting when gyms closed in 2020. I picked it back up recently. With a garage gym it's now so easy to lift without so much dang ceremony, just warm up through the exercises themselves. Sessions all under an hour, PRed all three lifts at my meet, and never got a red light on squats when I used to get one for depth on one side all the time. Stretching is all time fake in my book.
Maybe the real equation is that if the shallow, judgemental connection is made available, people will reach for it because it's easy, and palatable, like junk food. But sooner or later they need a real meal and wouldn't you rather be that occasional quality interaction rather than the quantity interaction?
I don't know what "Turbo-Claude" is, but, like I said, in my experience Claude+ is worse than plain Claude (aka "Claude-Instant") at writing creative works.
What companies are still using Perl on the backend?

I know FastMail does. IMDB was in Perl before Amazon acquisition, and was told was rewritten in java over several years. Any other interesting mentions?
hmm hmm hmm

ps: timeless intro
I'm one of the founders of Evidence - would be happy to chat!
That was the stretch goal. They made it clear several times on the webcast and in tweets that clearing the launch pad was the primary goal and further than that to gather lots of data. The farther they got, the more data they gathered and the more successful it was. You can have varying degrees of success and still be successful.
I ask my company this question and the answer is mostly "it's what we used 20 years ago"
Because some parents can’t afford iPhones in Germany.
What about a sprinter van, or whatever you would call a Renault Kangoo? This is what tradespeople use in Europe. They're absurdly practical.
Did I just get a message from ChatGPT? Because this comment doesn't quite make sense. I said nothing about ARM, and those links don't lead to quite where I'd expect.
Ask HN: Software Engineering adjacent career paths?
Hi,

I've been a software engineer for eight years, working on ML platforms for all of it. The two main paths I see ahead of me are management and IC.

I'd like to poll for ideas on careers that would leverage the technical skills I've built, but that aren't centered on building software systems, or are near-equivalents of software engineers (like DevOps, Data Engineers, ML Engineers, and so on). I'm looking for alternative career paths that also have good prospects for the future. So far, I've got:

- Product manager
- Solutions architect
- Data scientist
- Sales engineer

Are there any other paths that might be worth considering?

Thank you.
> Why is it so hard to empathize with the victims yet so easy for them to empathize with the murderers?

It's not hard. It's in fact very easy to empathize with victims and difficult to empathize with criminals. I just find it very much worthwhile to be empathetic towards all humans, even the ones that do terrible things because doing so allows us to understand humanity better and in turn may help prevent people from doing terrible things in the future.

> "One is too many" is not enough to justify a complete abolition of the death penalty.

Actually, it does in fact, do just that. Why do you think it doesn't? You're basically saying the value of a person who deserves to die's death (or many of their deaths) is more valuable than an innocent person's life. To me it's quite clear that's not the case.
Because we have to share the road with other people's vehicles, and bad drivers in giant pickups are a hazard to others' health.
Yes, stage separation failed apparently. Then the flight termination system was triggered.
> If you're programming in C++, you probably do care about this level of performance, and in that case, it's nice to program in a style that guarantees it instead of hoping for a sufficiently smart compiler.

Neither implementation guarantees any particular sequence of assembly instructions. Both require hoping that a sufficiently smart compiler will compile it to a sufficiently optimal sequence of instructions.
Depends how old you are and what you're doing with your life. The construction workers might eat one several times a week from a cart. An office worker might only eat one late at night as 2 am food after the bars closed. When I was in college there maybe once a month. The under appreciated chicken cheese steak is probably worse for you.
For us, a significant reason was the ClickHouse cloud-hosted offering, rather than having to manage a cluster ourselves. Their use of S3 as the backing storage medium means that large-scale data retention is quite affordable.

A good comparison we've referenced: https://leventov.medium.com/comparison-of-the-open-source-ol...
this is so nice! I shall be making my game with this! just kidding I need to learn
- linear algebra first
- then that opengltutorial
- learn 3d modeling, animation, rigging, uv, texturing.
It wasn’t a comment about this specific routine but more a reply to the GP.

One of the reasons why I don’t like this specific routine is that it doesn’t stretch under load, to actually improve mobility your stretches need to be accompanied with a dynamic load such as body weight, balancing, free weight or a resistive band or cable.

I also do not think that a routine that does not have a test to identify which muscles are too weak and which are overused and one which does not allow you to set specific mobility goals is going to be productive either.
It isn't even a hypothetical. There is a long list of people who were proven to be innocent after they were executed, using DNA testing, someone else confessing or however else.
Adding for completeness sake, that site is out of date for my state. Street legal UTV's and mini-trucks are called "Multipurpose vehicles" in Wyoming and can be registered to operate on streets and highways. They even issue these nifty little Wyoming license plates that are UTV sized. The requirements are in the linked PDF.

Funny side note, my state even has a picture of one of the Japanese mini-trucks in the PDF. [1]

I think people should look up the DoT website for their state to get the current legal requirements for street legal UTV's and mini-trucks.

[1] - https://www.dot.state.wy.us/files/live/sites/wydot/files/sha...
Another cloud based password security solution. The cloud is as reliable as the weather. Fairly reliable for the next 24 hours, until it isn't. Because gremlins. This is the reason I have to migrate away from 1password this year, what with manifest v2 deprecation and them abandoning personal vaults.
craigslist is the first one that comes to mind
Athena Health's entire backend is/was in Perl as of the mid 2010s (note: I didn't work there, only interviewed once).
My two favorite languages: Perl and Go. Both have very simple one file deployment, but my favorite use of Perl requires no file deployment, just one-liners on the command line.
> A really spectacularly expensive whole lot of nothing.

Wait until you find out about the DOD.

At least the NIH salaries aren't going to warmongers & building weapons.
Of course Google and Microsoft is more secure than OpenAI.

And Google and Microsoft don't care about your privacy but they do care about being the only ones to profit off your data. OpenAI don't make profit off of your data, but they are collecting it; how they choose to make profit off of it in the future could be completely orthogonal to your interests.

Hell, China or any other of the numerous wealthy baddys could buy OpenAI and have access to all the data they're storing.

Amazing that you're so blase about this
This is amazing. It's much more interesting when you enter your own responses, but autogenerated ones are also useful sometimes. Is it a finished project or do you have plans for future updates?
I consider it forced when people are threatened with loss of job or livelihood while also having a family to sustain. You may disagree. And technically, you'd be right.
> are you still copying and pasting stuff into this thread?

You bet. And I will keep on keeping on into the future. Though I've probably reached my limit for this back-and-forth.

Calling a 10 year war a 1 year war is "familiar with US history"?

Let's go to another confederated country as an example of what might have happened had the US stayed under the Articles of Confederation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Switzer...

It looks like, after the founding and expansion of Switzerland, they had to deal with a number of civil wars (at least one involving no conflict, though others had deaths), as well as periodic wars with surrounding great powers.
The suppliers and the demanders can’t agree on an efficient price if the demanders don’t know what the price is.
Yeah, but Ilya left. Doesn't that prove your point?
This is already continuously tried. All it creates is a lack of trust in the justice system. If you remove the ability of the justice system to make the people feel that justice has been served, people will revert to vigilante justice. You need confidence in the system.

It's all well and good to say that that's irrational, and has no place in a logical society - but this isn't a logical, rational society. That's why we need a justice system in the first place.

Ultimately, until you can change human nature, some amount of tangible consequences that make the victims, their family, and the public at large feel that justice has been served, perpetrators have received appropriate consequences, and vigilante justice is unnecessary.

Finally, has the infinite-empathy approach been shown to work anywhere where there is an existing, significant crime problem, and where it's liable to being abused - that is, most of the world? And working is about more than empathy towards violent criminals and the reduction of crime statistics (though anecdotally I doubt it would achieve the latter).

Ultimately the justice system's number one priority should be victims, their interests and welfare, and reducing the amount of new ones. Criminals have made their decision; victims are innocent.

I'm not saying the American justice system doesn't have issues. I'm not American personally, but it appears to have a lot of problems. However, I don't think incurring consequences for people's actions is the root problem here.
I mean I call plenty of things "so-and-so's reason" for something, even if they're not the originator of the idea but just the person I and whomever I'm talking with happen to know about it from.

This seems like a silly linguistic nitpick to die on.
That sounds like useful research that future projects without the budget can use.
I upgraded all my machines to 38 today (I stopped running Ubuntu on desktop due to snaps), _except_ servers (which are all Ubuntu LTS except hypervisors). I tend to stick to Ubuntu LTS on servers and never try .10 releases, let alone interim years...
[2018] The Friendship That Made Google Huge
When I was a kid our poodle got heartworms. They shaved the side of her and applied some type of salve there in addition to shots and/or pills. That spot on her stayed pretty much jet black while the rest of her turned grey until she died at 18.
The article is clearly presented as a matter of personal opinion with the framing as the answer to the question 'why does the author use Perl so much'.

I liked it because it is interesting to read other people's examined opinions on topics that I am ignorant of.
When I dig, I only dig with super massive rockets.
More engines make it go fast
I don't care who does it, same shit either way.
How recent is the Wikipedia snapshot used?

Edit, going to [1] the datasets are labelled 2022-12.

[1] https://huggingface.co/Cohere
When talking about controls are you referring to provisioning? What are some examples for missing controls?
I'm confused about the compatibility X for Python. A few years ago, sure, but for an article published a month from now? You write python3 and it's installed everywhere.
... you make enginade?
> So you might need to have a browser that lies and presents configuration information that is common enough not to be unique,

there are so many ways to fingerprint a user that trying to blend in with the crowd is pointless. If anything, it's better to have your browser present a unique fingerprint that regularly changes than to have to pray that you've somehow managed to avoid every single thing that could possibly flag you individually.
It is just cargo cult. The value of these old Toyota and Honda makes no sense. I was looking to buy an old Toyota because of the hype on internet, but there are not a lot of them being in Europe, and 70% of them had an engine issue (threads holding head gasket were missing, common issue on aluminium engine).

At one point, I pondered buying a Toyota previa with this head gasket issue for 3K and planed to repair it myself. Fortunately I got my sense back and bought a Renault Scenic with no issue at all, 2K and I managed to have also the timing belt replaced.
Yes, internet thinks that because it is a French car, it will crumble. Well internet, so far it had no issue and its head gasket is intact.
> The idea that the defense contractors would drive the industry over-estimates just how much code they write. Sure it's millions of lines every year, but compared to worldwide C development it is a drop in the bucket.

The implication I was making, in case it wasn't overt enough, had a lot more to do with money/budget/revenue than lines of code. The US DOD has massive budgets and over-spends those budgets on all kinds of wild things (so long as they can pass Congressional oversight, at least). The amount of money the US DOD spends on defense contractors will always attract a lot of attention, even if the amount of code that the US DOD gets back from all that spending will always be a drop in the bucket to the overall software industry.

A different, unrelated, implication that is often used is that the DOD has increased requirements for safety, security, and oversight and that "defense-grade" or "defense-level" signifies something stronger than consumer-grade. You can see some of that in the 432's attempted marketing: imagine having access to "defense-grade" Ada-capable hardware in the microcomputer form factor at a fraction of then-current mainframe costs. Of course, in reality, not everyone needs "defense-grade" and the "dream" of using the same language and similar tools to the US DOD never had quite the appeal that Intel marketers must have hoped for. But you can certainly see why Intel marketers might have thought there some advantage in "defense grade".

The US DOD and its defense contractors have never exactly "led" the industry, but they've certainly had a large shadow over of it for most of computing history. (Says the person sending this little collection of thoughts and opinions over a vast and incredible inter-network of networks that began as a Defense advanced research project.)
I've never read music reviews of particular releases 'on purpose' so to speak, but I've discovered it's actually great now to read reviews of sub-genres or an article about half a dozen artists, because it's easy to cue up a sample track from each artist as you go along.

There's a lot of great music out there but to get to the "just listen" part, you need to find the artists first.
nodejs snap, there will be errors in using the vm context for javascript sandboxing.

nodejs deb, there wont be errors.

weird snaps.
Recent advances in deep long-horizon forecasting
> What they should be asking you is to show the most optimal way to reverse the array, which is to find a popular highly optimised library and use that

While I don't think those questions should be part of the interviewing process, I disagree with this. Answering "use a library" is not giving an indication of your skillset. I would consider that failing answer. I'd prefer to see someone try to work the answer out and get it wrong instead, because it's the working-out process that gives you any insight into the candidate's skillset.
When Bringing Your ‘Whole Self’ to Work Is Too Much
While I see benefits of TypeScript's type system, I think the lack of a special compilation step is a big win for Perl, at least in the author's eyes. (Yes, I know Deno is a thing, but I'm not sure of the extent which the author considered it).
Discussed at the time:

Why developers should be force-fed state machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649162 - June 2011 (50 comments)
Still reading through it but the detailed explainer looks like what I wanted. Thanks
> So they gave it away, but it is still a product

Except its not, because they gave it away without any kind of commercialization. Its possible to give something away for free in some context and still have it be a product (Stable Diffusion is doing quite a bit of that, though its very unclear if they’ll be able to do it sustainably), but AlphaFold doesn’t seem to be an example. It seems to be an example of something cool they did that they had no desire to make into a product. Which is great! But isn’t the same as executing on product in a space.
I've reduced, not eliminated. Custom keyboard, titanium case and wooden keycaps. Plastic still in switches, wires, and pcb. Normal mouse, I've tried alternatives but nothing fits my expectation.
I'm successfully running it on a 12GB GPU (while it downloads some 12.1GB of model data on first run, the highest GPU memory usage was ~6.5GB, settling back down to around 5GB), however the results are nothing like the samples given on the github page. Using the exact code given and in the runs I've tried the results are rather terrible.

I'm not being negative -- some of the samples are really neat on their page -- and I know there is some idiosyncrasy of my setup that is causing issues, though it is a pretty typical conda + pytorch with CUDA 11.8.

Playing with the text and waveform temp from their defaults 0.7 is yielding some semi-decent results, but it feels essentially random.
I like short articles in general, but this one is short and shallow, plus subjective without explanation as you mentioned.

I spent too much time trying to guess at the author's reasons. Why are Python and JavaScript not extensible but R is?
Nice work! I'm equal parts impressed and terrified that CSS can do this.
Yes, I'm a big fan of the documentation. According to the release blog, they are re-organizing the docs for 6.0 -- hopefully a further improvement:

https://babylonjs.medium.com/announcing-babylon-js-6-0-dcb5f...
How I Made My First $2000 Writing Online
I know it isn’t much in the grand scheme of things, but making $2,000 by writing online is a lot to me. I started my humble Medium blog recently, and while it isn’t producing very much revenue, my writing caught the attention of a popular blog.
I wonder why this is dated a month from now?
And by all excitement and history and nostalgia, if we are honest, the moon landing program was a massive waste of money. Like the Egyptian pyramids. The are impressive, yes ...
> the rights people have for their digital goods

People don't have any rights to their digital goods. Doesn't exist. They are not.

It is wonderful to discuss ideas for how the system SHOULD be. I 100% support a legislated solution for digital ownership of copies of things, with a right to transfer and so on, but that's sadly a hypothetical discussion about what could be.
Perhaps Crafting Interpreters?

https://craftinginterpreters.com/
Until now, every kg we launch has been horrendously expensive. So all things in orbit and sent to other planets have lots of expensive design features to reduce weight or to reduce size in the fairing.

StarShip is so huge and the reuse will be so cheap that it's going to be 100x or more cheaper. We could send heavy equipment into space and on to other planets that just didn't make sense before.

Once Starship can land 100 tons on the moon, the question isn't "what can we fit" but "how do we fill all this capacity usefully?!" So the science objectives we can achieve grow enormously.
Plastic food storage bins are sooooo much nicer. And wildly cheaper. And all the glass alternatives I've seen/owned had plastic lids anyway, so, I guess just be very careful not to let it touch food and hope that's OK? Plus the risk of plasticizers is nebulous and invisible, so, easy to disregard.

Not saying glass isn't better, just... I definitely get it.
just have them pick their own replacement
Eh I would argue huggingface is more like Red Hat? They dont make models and architectures, they package them in a free ecosystem.

Also while I think its a good business, seems like hardware makers (Nvidia, Cerebras and such) are going to have a cost advantage there.
Is it available in windows by default?
> why not market wage

There would be zero public support for giving prisoners free food and housing for building up a nest egg. Market rate is fine, but I imagine a deduction for prison costs would be assessed.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I live in Dallas and this is 100% true.

What’s fun is when you notice that the biggest, flashiest trucks are all concentrated in the fanciest suburbs. Once you get out in the country, off the main roads like where I’m from, suddenly (1) pickup trucks make up a lower percentage of the traffic, and (2) they are generally* smaller, more utilitarian and more beat up.

* except for the occasional F350 dually pulling an actual horse trailer
Genuine question - how is it useful for them to release the server-side code? How do you know for sure that the code they have released is the same as what they are running?

Having the server code would be useful for self-hosting, but if you're relying on Proton to host the code for you, then you have to have a certain level of trust with them regardless.