skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a fundamental question though. Will EVs (Li battery based) achieve the holy grail of IC engine replacement?

Earth's Lithium deposits.................. 88,000,000,000 Kilograms [2], [3]

@25% Viable for mining.................... 22,000,000,000 Kilograms [2], [3]

Tesla S battery weight.................... 540 Kilograms per car [4]

Lithium weight per Tesla S battery........ 63 Kilograms per battery [4]

Max Tesla S (global) production possible.. 349,206,349 units (See Edit below)

Number of automobiles running in the USA.. 102,000,000 units [1]

Number of automobiles running in the World 1,500,000,000 units [5]

So, even if we theoretically assume that the earth's entire known Li reserves are used for EV usage, we cannot replace more than 25% of the currently running cars in the world.

So, we have a bigger problem ahead of us (over the next decade) that will act as an opposing force against EV penetration and replacement of the IC engine.

Solutions possibly lie in exploring other battery chemistries while improving the efficiency of Li extraction.

Edit: As some of the comments below point out, the Li content in a Tesla Model S battery is approx. 63 Kg. That makes the Max Tesla S (production) possible to 349 million units. So, in theory, one could replace all IC engines in automobiles plying in the USA. That then leaves the rest of the world. So, the problem still remains.

[1]: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2021/m...

[2]: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a42417327/li...

[3]: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-c...

[4]: https://blog.evbox.com/ev-battery-weight

[5]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/the-number-of-cars-wo...
Moore's law-ish like optimization.

You Z80 computer cost $700 in the lat 70's...they're now in sub-$1 embedded controllers.
Yes! And that's the same Justinian, btw. Not a lucky guy.
You should still be able to use them freely. "Who profits" is what should be regulated. If this can't be mandated at a global level, autarky starts looking like a pretty good option.
This made me check if there is a similar thing for fictional bands. Not really; but there’s a few articles, like: https://variety.com/lists/best-fictional-bands-movies-tv-sho...
US to start training Ukrainian troops on Abrams tanks within weeks
These days, lots of businesses seem to be based on Nostalgia as a Service, almost.

Maybe it's not a new idea. I don't know.
Rust is a great language until you want to hire someone to improve your code. Most developers aren’t familiar with it unfortunately and it would take some time to bring a new person up to speed.
"Progress for the sake of progress is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
I’ve never heard a more cynical AI take. There’s always a market for intelligence, whatever that means. The word intelligence is misleading anyway. No one said the AI needed to compete with the smartest person on the planet. It just needs to be smart enough to do some tasks that are “bullshit jobs”
It’s Time to Build. In Healthcare
The Animate and the Inanimate [pdf]
On a related theme, here's the Spectrum Next, Issue 2:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectru...

(Delayed about two years due to supply chain problems -- their FPGA was back-ordered for over a year -- but due to ship in 3-6 months' time: the ultimate Sinclair Spectrum revival.)
Nobody gave this person this advice because it is bad advice, period.

Give your contractual notice, whether thats 2 weeks in the US, or a month or 3 months in the UK or whatever and be prepared to actually leave at the end of it.

Any other advice is actually harmful to the majority of people.
> 31mpg

mpg = miles per gallon
That was usually in draft mode, since the left-to-right and right-to-left lines wouldn't quite line up perfectly.
People who were laid off or quit recently, how are you doing?
-meh. I have had to take a job outside my field & well below my earning potential just to stay afloat.

People who were laid off or quit recently, how are you doing?
-See above. Im making it. Would much rather be doing what I have been doing for the past 10+ years, which is Creative Director - Motion Graphics.

How have your feelings about the industry changed?
More jaded than ever.
IJava: A Jupyter kernel for executing Java code
The Youtube channel "stuff made here" made a robot barber, might be around the corner.
802.11 isn't Ethernet (though does have a larger frame size) and A-MSDU in particular standardizes aggregation of multiple MAC frames not an extension of the MAC frame. However larger frame envelopes are definitely a standardized thing for Ethernet but the IEEE folks will fight to the death it's a separate concept as you say.
I'm confident its not about beating anything. Its about great building blocks for web and healthy competition is vital or both to succeed.
The player's demo page (https://peaberberian.github.io/wasp-hls/) includes links to several test contents (you can click the "+" button to see them all).

Only one of the three playlists is linked to ts segments, the others rely on fmp4 segments (another segment format authorized in HLS).

Note that this is the same HLS format you'll usually find on streaming websites. I've been playing for example a lot of twitch contents through that player.
Well, I don't know. I guess we'll find out sooner or later.

>> The big problem left is to have the right architecture such that AGI is in the solution-space.

They'd have to train with AGI examples for that, though.
Granted I've not checked recently, I want to say this was pre-Blink, but Safari (iOS and OSX) struggled massively with SVGs that Firefox and Chrome handled with ease – maps in my case. If we're at the point where Safari is finally faster than Inkscape that's great news, although I still don't want a browser based utility.
My company did an initial evaluation of Rust web development just to see what the options were. Put out some feelers to our web developers to see if they had any opinions about it. It was almost universally negative. Not because the ecosystem or technology is immature, but because our JavaScript/Typescript devs simply could not grok Rust at all. It was too different, or too difficult, or whatever. So we didn't really pursue it any further. At some point though we'll probably just have to hire Rust engineers instead of trying to convert JS devs.
> Perl 5 is an old language. Period.

That's an odd way of looking at it. C is an old language. C++ is an old language. Java is an old language. Nobody is arguing against them because they're "old".

Moreover, just because something is old doesn't mean you throw it away. How many newer languages have come, and gone, just in the time since Perl hit its peak?
With all due respect but this sounds far fetched to put it mildly.
I would have said only TypeScript has been successful, despite it being backed by Microsoft. ;) (I like MS, but just know many who don't.)
> That said, posting links to original content tends to get low engagement and is generally disliked on downstream social networks.

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but do people on, say, reddit or hacker news general dislike it when people post links to original content on other sites?
I met with someone recently who is working as a reseller/integrator with an innovative Indian company in the wireless space. This person had tons of ideas about how to use this technology: in assisted living facilities, at sporting events, and at hospitals.

This integrator wants to use this wireless technology at sporting events. I keep thinking about how Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks, has clearly stated he does not want people staring at their phones during a game.

This integrator wants to offer this wireless broadcasting technologies to hospital. I keep thinking about HIPAA and the intense concentration of wealthy doctors and hospital admins who will probably fight tooth and nail against any new technology that threatens their livelihood and regulatory capture situation.

This integrator wants to offer this technology to elderly people at assisted living facilities. If I'm 90, will I really want to pay $50/month for monitoring when I can watch Fox News for free in my apartment and get the same basic level of satisfaction?

I'm simplifying things a lot here. This integrator might have something transformative to offer and a transformative business model. But, at least in America where I live, our sales are always limited by the people that are directly standing in the way of utilizing our technology.

The recent AI is incredible and transformative. And, there will be some industries where it will knock out incumbents. And, I predict there will be lots of industries which will actively resist introduction of these technologies, especially when companies are firing people like they are now.

I haven't seen a demo of ChatGPT where someone got it to give a good answer on how to simplify integration of technology that protects the vendor from HIPAA requirements, or Sarbanes-Oxley regulation. Until that happens, other skills will become even more valuable: human connection, communication and the hard grind of selling.
But what is being optimized? Hardware sure isn't getting faster in a hurry, and I don't see anything on the horizon that will aid in optimizing software.
I suspect the number will go higher since right now you are limited to 25 queries every 3 hours. They will definitely introduce higher tiers which removes or expands that limit.
>Our account of consciousness addresses the hard problem and proposes a candidate mechanism to account for conscious experiences.

So what is their solution? Simply saying 'consciousness is caused by feelings' just leaves us with an equally intractable "hard problem of feelings".
Poland has 3 months for some cases. It is unusual in the rest of the world.

In Romania you give 2 weeks notice as an IC and 4 weeks as a manager. It can be shorter if the company agrees, but it cannot be longer by law: you can tell them in advance if you want, they cannot force you to stay if you don't.
Someone needs to remake http://conferencecall.biz but with lots of AI references thrown in.
I'm also amazed by the stories of managers who immediately layoff workers who said they will quit.

Why ?

Is this like some "Oh no you're not deciding to quit, I decided first you're fired, I call dibs !" ?

The dude said they will leave anyway. And doing the layoff will just allow him to leave without extensively teaching someone else.

This should be illegal as well.
Binary searching SST file blocks is a stretch, I agree. The key-value pairs would need to have a specific shape. Enabling compression makes it completely impossible. I'll remove this from the article, thanks for the feedback!
Show HN: CyclicBoosting – efficient, general-purpose machine learning methods
Known Earth's Lithium deposits =/= Earth's Lithium Deposits
After some years chasing exprssivity with Typescript and Scala, I now really enjoy the dumb simplicity of Go.

I do think we'll see more simplicity (not Lisp-like) in the future.
When I worked for a Microsoft contractor in 2015, the owners took it very personally whenever someone wanted to leave. If you gave any notice they would accept it without question, but a couple of days later security would suddenly show up and escort you out of the building. That taught me that when I do give notice to prepare to be let go immediately, have everything wrapped up and ready to go.
how much did you have to bribe them?
I would think that labour laws most definitely are different in those countries. Although USA does have variability by state
Can you? You can label feelings and hope that other people mean the same thing when you say those labels. You can relate them to common experiences and hope other people have had similar reactions. But I often self-examine on emotional experiences which I can only gesture at verbally, with low confidence that I would be able to express them to someone who hadn’t experienced the same thing.
No Octan. No love.
We have support for duckdb (and CSVs and Parquet through duckdb). We don't support python, but some people have also told us they have used evidence as the front-end for a python project - used python to do data transformation and calculations, then dumped the results into a duckdb file in an evidence project and built the visuals and narrative in evidence.

"Containerized" approaches with evidence are also quite interesting - lets you combine several tools and use evidence as the last mile. Here's a great example: https://github.com/matsonj/nba-monte-carlo
I handed this to a 12-year-old and am now having trouble getting him off the site for day #2 in a row; between Space Elevator and the rest of Neal.fun it's a whole new world for him - love it!
In the US, it's generally considered important to the economy that employees have good job mobility. There's plenty of stories of awful employers / managers; so job mobility is generally considered how workers protect themselves.

In general, because workers can pretty much leave whenever they want, employers need to make sure there's good financial incentives and good working conditions. Some employers will provide things like retention bonuses, stock plans tied to staying employed for a certain length, or other incentives that employees give up when they quit.

As far as a mandatory 3 month notice period: As an American, the few times I've been in a "bad" job, I've just wanted to leave. A 3 month period would just make me miserable. I'd rather have some kind of financial incentive to stay to a certain date.
This is terrible advice, the company will never give you a heads up if they are going to fire you. Do what's best for you. Keeping a good relationship with your current employer comes second.
What evolution optimises for isn't what you'd call "good" if it came up in any other context.

It's as much why covid happened as it is why we happened.
To be fair to the OP, they said they kept asking for more concise recipes and they acknowledge they'd only use it as a shopping list. We don't know what the less concise recipes looked like but there's no reason to assume they would be particularly bad. There must be literally tense of thousands of examples of carbonara recipes on the web...
I expect a lot of optimization will come in the next few months (weeks?)... it may be hanging together by threads behinds the scenes - this is often the case when things are moving this quickly.
Not that it’s a particularly good workflow, but there is a series of advanced save options that can produce much better SVGs that are very clean without all the inkscape cruft. Might be worth checking out.
More about Indian classical music here: https://www.parrikar.org
... and is also the ideology of every single species on Earth from bacteria to higher mammals and humans (we're not special). And it applies within species and across species.

The evolutionary equilibrium can only appear from matched competitors which implies that each advancement (or its counter) gets eventually distributed around which means - AI for all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment
Personally, I expected dynamic languages to ever match or at least get close to the performance of static languages. That seems that it will never happen, and there's a point where I can't afford that much hardware just to run a website. Think of Twitter abandoning RoR, etc.
whats the ecological cost re: power/cooling the data centers/compute?
Amprius has 400+Wh/kg that are commercially available. I'm sure they ain't cheap, but the tech exists.

https://amprius.com/products/

Edit: well, I'm a dummy and OP said mass-produced. Sorry.
2022: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08383 ( old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31080519 )

"I think I discovered a military base in the middle of the ocean' -- Null Island, the most real of fictional places"

by: Levente Juhasz, Peter Mooney

"This paper explores Null Island, a fictional place located at 0∘ latitude and 0∘ longitude in the WGS84 geographic coordinate system. Null Island is erroneously associated with large amounts of geographic data in a wide variety of location-based services, place databases, social media and web-based maps. While it was originally considered a joke within the geospatial community, this article will demonstrate implications of its existence, both technological and social in nature, promoting Null Island as a fundamental issue of geographic information that requires more widespread awareness. The article summarizes error sources that lead to data being associated with Null Island. We identify four evolutionary phases which help explain how this fictional place evolved and established itself as an entity reaching beyond the geospatial profession to the point of being discovered by the visual arts and the general population. After providing an accurate account of data that can be found at (0, 0), geospatial, technological and social implications of Null Island are discussed. Guidelines to avoid misplacing data to Null Island are provided. Since data will likely continue to appear at this location, our contribution is aimed at both GIScientists and the general population to promote awareness of this error source."
Giving notice? Be ready to be walked out of the building, which I believe would be as likely as the Pollyanna scenario outlined in the OP.

{In which case the part about 'get benefits longer' goes out the window.}
Is 540KG per car just Lithium?

A quick google returned this ~63KG

https://electrek.co/2016/11/01/breakdown-raw-materials-tesla....
dang's put me on notice, so I'm walking on eggshells here.

But truth isn't political. As long as we think it is, we will continue to follow the descent into madness. Truth is just that: truth.

The only reason we think truth is political, is because our chosen leaders so heavily depend on lies that the truth would destroy their reign.
Rust engineers coming from a different niche than frontend development will just LOVE web development.
I have started incorporating ChatGPT into my side project. I'm not integrating it into software or anything like that, but using it as a tool for product ideas, product photo ideas, funny social media captions, figuring out the best hashtags to use, product tagging and categorization.

It has proven to be a great way to get everything to around 70%, then send off to my assistant for the remaining 30% of polish. So at $20/month, it was such a no-brainer, that I had to do it. Even at $75/mo it would more than pay for itself.

It even understands the concept of a "shit post". So - its more social media savvy than I am, thats for sure.
Yes, people usually call this "Full lifecycle analysis". It takes about as much electricity (or energy) to refine a tank of gas as to charge an EV, so there isn't necessarily an increase in load on the grid by electrifying transport. However some energy generation used by refineries that isn't electricity from the grid would have to get re-arranged.

Anyway maintaining a more robust grid should be much cheaper than maintaining thousands of gas stations and the trucking routes used to keep them filled up.
It’s worth every cent. Better than wasting the same amount on Bitcoin mining.
We are already moving our electric grid to renewables. Wind and solar are both cheap sources of power, and have a lot of potential to account for more of the electric load. Putting electric on renewables, plus switching cars to EVs (charged by renewables) should eliminate 50% of that chart - and this is something we can pull off in less than 20 years. Some of the other 50% is also easy to switch to battery powered, but they are all small niches that each need to be worked on separately. (If you are in one of those niches please think about this!)
So let's say I'm building a webapp.

Why would i want to choose Rust? "Speed" and "not requiring as much of a memory footprint as well as more service uptime with less crashes".

I dunno man. I'm not saying those aren't interesting but I'm not sure that when it comes to web development that those are big hang ups.

There's got to be something more compelling IMO before you swing away from a fairly rich and frankly developer rich pool in JavaScript land...

Granted I enjoyed the article and my interest is piqued but that's it.
definitely better than "moving fast and crashing planes"!
<raises hand> I can.

I'm surprised this has been your experience. I've known some pretty strong Rust devs.
In most US states, you can go into the boss' office and say "I quit" and walk out the door.
A weakness electrical systems and biological systems both have is they dont always know where the instructions were issues from, so if the can bus is viewed like a nervous system, injecting messages can cause problems especially if the device doesnt verify the authenticity of said message. Biological systems cant do this, but digital can take steps to improve the authenticity of said messages.

In a way its a problem CPU's suffer as well, when thinking of code that pretends its a USB mouse and keyboard and then destroys stuff off the computer whilst masquerading as the user. Until such devices have self preservation built into them as standard, the ability to hack devices remains easy.
Would they be effective?

The Su-25, which is roughly analogous to the A-10, doesn’t seem to be doing so well there.
Wow didn't even wait before busting out "what if CO2 doesn't cause global warming" and very obviously didn't read your own links.

Running the denialist playbook as usual: slip in a insinuation that the issue has stopped without evidence, then drop a bunch of articles which don't support it while continuing to say "what if all the data supported me?" And then started alluding to a conspiracy with language choices like "dogma". Throw in some upfront tone policing because heaven forbid you have to defend your position vigorously and the recipe is complete.

Go on: hit me with "climate cycles are natural" and then lean into how the media just don't talk about the controversy.
China regularly devalues the Yuan because they want it weaker to boost exports
That's fine with me, so long as they don't get a PS3 or newer.
It feels like Microsoft realized that sales/support matters way more than technology when it comes to cloud services. See how Azure has a ton of users despite being much worse than AWS or GCP by every objective metric.

I would imagine that Google's reputation as a company where it is impossible to ever talk to a human (even when you have a 7 figure annual spend) hurts them in this space.
Another python implementation in golang:

https://github.com/go-python/gpython
My corn piles are only for squirrels, coons, beavers, possums, and squatches, and are clearly labeled as such. Any deer, found engorging itself on my corn, will be shot.
I mainly test with a combination of unit tests and using selenium https://github.com/stevepryde/thirtyfour for integration tests

I wrote it up here https://rust-on-nails.com/docs/continuous-integration/integr...
I think Chinese was usually written right to left when written horizontally. This can still be seen for instance at the front of temples and gates.
Why I joined Cloudflare as Chief Security Officer
> If it understands language at all, an LLM only does so in a statistical, rather than a grammatical, way. It is much more like an abacus than it is like a mind.

This analogy puzzled me. An abacus does not strike me as statistical in the way it functions. And minds do seem to be statistical, as far as I know.
Generating Temporally Coherent High Resolution Video with Stable Diffusion