skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How depressing. The world's best-selling car is now a 2 tonne behemoth. 20 years ago I dreamed of us progressing and correcting some of the mistakes of the past. Since then we've only regressed further down the exact same paths as previous generations. I hold no hope for humanity going forward.
Coming from finance where we've been trying to wean FO off excel, every time I see things like this, I'm reminded why we shouldn't get comfy relying so heavily on Excel: https://www.businessinsider.com/excel-partly-to-blame-for-tr...
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The Model Y looks a lot like the Model 3.

Took me maybe 50 cars of training to learn to recognise the difference when passing Teslas on the streets.. but now I finally do! :)
Am I the Unethical One?
GM probably centralizes decision making in the US and no matter how much you try, not everything can be piloted from the US. Several big US tech companies do the same and we'll keep seeing them failing in the international arena for the same reason.

For some strange reason, not everyone in the world is an American or thinks like one :-)
woah this looks good
appreciate making new UI components similar to the HN style
I agree with you: such a weak read on the main.
Also, there's noone combats fake positive reviews on these sites.

Glassdoor won't upset the company buying the fake reviews, the company won't review it and users aren't allowed to.
Hi.

Thanks for trying it out.

I can certainly provide font-size customisation in-app, but for now one could adapt the font-size in their liking with browser's zoom capability (ctrl+ or ctrl - key combination).
The CO2 levels are all about absolute emissions. Per capita is irrelevant when we’re talking about total damage being done. 2 new coal plants a week is terrible.
Personally I feel like the media inhibiting freedom of speech when they're pushing their list of OK things to think down people's throat and stigmatize even discussing certain topics.
Oh, I need to check that out. The universal language and portability of a spreadsheet is really hard to beat.

Seeing how people often read xls-sheets by backtracking formulas, it would be great if MS could add support for comments within formulas (multiline formulas being a thing for many years now)

That wouldn't blow up the whole complexity of formulas, but still allow at least to explain some of these huge formulas people have to deal with on a daily basis.
> It's a small piece of bone broken on both ends with two holes in it, and a hint of a third hole.

Did you watch the video? There are four holes, two complete and two very strongly hinted. Each in very precise positions, so as to make a flute that plays a large portion of modern rock music.

I don't have any problem with analysis being done, but the analysis makes no attempt to put such an absurd coincidence into perspective; neither mathematically, or historically.

It seems disingenuous, or at the very least strongly blinkered, to neglect to even mention the other flutes dated back tens of thousands of years, or the astronomical odds of a hyena biting a bone in such a way.
Zooming out to ~65% at the browser level makes it a lot more usable for me
The fact that you started talking about DNA being an optimizer, that's evolution.
THIS!

Apple finally provides a modicum variant of Zero Knowledge password.

But that is only available in next iOS version 16.2. [1]

But, but ... BUT the Apple macOS/iOS issue of Three Form of Authentication being still being reduced into Two-Form with their merge (OR-logic) of what you have (FaceID/TouchID) and what you know (PIN/passcode) ... remains.

That reduction of authentication is still the greatest weakest link to individual security (whether ADP is used after v16.2 or not).

https://support.apple.com/en-ph/HT202303#:~:text=Apple%20wil...
> This is available today and already used by millions.

> The US government will never endorse it or allow major banks to give their full support through because they want control over the network to "keep the bad guys out".

If I can't use it for bank to bank transfers or paying for things in a supermarket or another person, that means it is not available today.
The 'some we may be able to reverse' - I'm thinking of things like a lake bursting it's banks - once that happens it may then turn into a river and all the benefit of the lake may be lost - though it may (with will and funding) be reversible. But yes, may of the tipping points we face will be irreversible. As once the lake banks burst once, they are very likely to again and again.
Conflict explanation in CDCL is entirely based around resolution, the idea being to take a conflicting set of clauses and apply resolution a bunch of times to “simplify” the conflict into its most general form.
This is an interview with the authors of "Data Science in Context", https://datascienceincontext.com/, about their intentions behind the book, which I'll describe as a framework for applied data science. The book looks like a textbook for people outside CS, as written by luminaries in CS - Norvig, Wing...
>They think Amazon reviews are useful

Amazon reviews are still useful because many times, people will point out some negative aspects and nonobvious defects of the product that I didn't think of. This helps me avoid buying a lot of junk. (My previous mattress shopping example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197305)

Yes, reviews can be gamed but there's still some signal in the noise.

On the other hand, many product categories on Amazon have useless reviews because they group unrelated SKUs together into 1 page. E.g. different harddrive models of different capacities made across different years and manufactured in different countries of origin. E.g. everybody writing 1-star reviews of the bad Seagate 3TB drives is irrelevant to assessing the other 10TB and 16TB drives. E.g. 24000+ combined reviews for unrelated harddrives released across 15+ years : https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-IronWolf-12TB-Internal-Drive/...
have you calculated amount of CO2 required to produce a new car? Why no one is fighting to convert those existing vehicles to electric? Why nobody produces filters for used cars?

Maybe because companies do not have interest in it? And this way there is nothing change: just produce the same, but with new type of engine. Even better, because more money is earned. Meanwhile ecology is about putting down the production, but the production blossoms for some reason...
But there are several boards you've been able to buy for a while already using the BL808 they show between their board and the Pico: the Sipeed M1s, and the Pine64 Ox64.
Before trying to disrupt any product, it would be good to identify the failures of competitors, determine whether they’re actually “failures” (i.e. will people pay for an improvement) and make your solutions to those issues part of your core identity.

To say Glassdoor is a good candidate for disruption is not the same thing as saying they have some problems. Every product has some problems.
Not recognising slippery slopes early on is what leads to large scale social regression.

As night follows day the next stage of 2FA will be biometrically based and there will be no escape route for "junior developers".
> I would not say that this is "smart"... You might get people to accept offers but if the work environment is bad they'll leave so the end result is just to increase turnover and to trash the company's reputation (which will make hiring more difficult).

They can kick the can down the road and make money.

IBM coasted on its reputation for decades and even now it's a big company and still respected in many arenas.

Reputational damage is hyper overrated.

The average individual doesn't have the time or inclination to do research.
The Quest for 2k Pints
I stopped cycling a few years ago. It just isn't fun or safe any more. It's been getting worse and worse. I would go out and literally every single ride would involve a near-death experience.

Cars were a huge mistake.
Just installed it, works flawlessly on Orion Browser (WebKit that can use Chrome & Firefox extensions).

Off the bat, I like the two column view with infinite scroll. I also like the bigger text size, although it could be just a tad smaller.

My only real complaint is I no longer have my custom header color -- I liked the splash of color it added!
If his dream involves people dying using FSD along the way, it's a nightmare.
I honestly don't get the obsession with top speed and power, and I live in Germany. I do know the top speed of every single car I ever drove (I had a time I travelled a lot for work, and thus ended up with a nice list of rentals). First, the only place top speed has any, theoretical, relevance in Germany. Everywhere else anything above 150 km/h is wasted, I'll ignore track days here. Acceleration is nice, but again everything below, say, 8-9 sec. for 0-100 km/h is plenty enough.

And practically, even on the German Autobahn, a top speed difference of 220 to the rare 250 km/h plus doesn't show. One traffic jam, or even just enougj traffic, and everybody ends up next to each other anyways.

Power is nice, because cars simply a nicer to drive. Plus you can pull better, which is also important. Going back in time so, 150-180 bhp was considered top knotch performance, the Audi A3 gained a lot of his reputation in the early 2000s due to two models, just below the S3, having that power output.

I din't know, all the engine size, top speed, power and acceleration discussions feel like me playing top trump (the card game for children were you compare numbers for e.g. cars), and less than an adult objevtively evaluating cars. Not that car evaluations and buying decissions need to be objevtive so, mine aren't. But up talking one model / brand by down talking others, based on purely subjective criteria, is childish. It does allow for great marketing campaigns so.
Wow - never done the math. My home rate is 30 cents a KWh (in NH). So each mile is 10 cents. So let's compare to Prius at say 50mpg. Breakeven gas cost is then $5 for it to cost 10 cents per mile. Seems like a Prius is actually cheaper per mile?
Your model would get you a grand total of 5 users.
Leave in dust in what sense?

Italy and Spain are heavily based on tourism and snobbery (e.g. high fashion). They ain't competing against US/China/India. And that's OK. But they need different economical policies than, for example, Germany.
Typing this using the extension. I like it, through I think one of the reasons I like browsing HN is that the website is intentionally very simple / I don't have to think around navigation at all (everything is very linear, I click something I get a page reload with the thing I'm expecting). This adds just a bit more cognitive load around navigating.

I'll keep using it for a bit to give it a fair shot however since I can imagine the split pane being super useful in certain cases.
The Swarm
I hope this practice is never extended to their more expensive (i.e. a few hundred euros/dollars) laser printers. I would not touch a cheap consumer-grade HP printer if you paid me, but have generally found that their more expensive printers are still a sane choice for someone who needs to do a lot of printing.
Yeah it definitely improves with zoom out, i just dont like the idea of having custom zooms per page but thats just being very picky me.

Also, have you thought of supporting the custom hn top bar color? I think you get that setting after some karma and ppl change it, for me is not a big deal but it may be something people want to keep.
> We should also seek to build, _collectively_

Capitalism has demonstrated over and over it's the best system to produce positive outcomes for the maximum number of people -- including the fastest and most effective way to reduce poverty. Yet somehow people continue to point to "collectivism", whether that is socialism, communism, or something else, as a superior alternative. Good luck to you.
That has nothing to do with Kafka, or Java as a language.

Distributed big data processing systems need big data to actually be useful. Small data that fits on a single machine can also be processed on a single machine, which will always be faster than using a cluster with orchestration, distribution and network overhead.
OpenAI CEO rolls back threat to quit Europe over regulation
Back and forth, carrot and stick, fool me once.
Feel like there's an "Ask HN: How do you approach a solution you are not sure has a problem?" counter thread opportunity here.
Functional Python, Part III: The Ghost in the Machine
My approach: Divide and conquer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
The resolution is actually also what 2SAT algorithm is doing.
As usual, the crypto hate is strong to the point of going full-bore irrational from all the enlightened souls on this site, despite this ethereum event being far from a typical crypto bro crank job and instead being a sincere effort to improve the quality of something with plausible usability, that these people have invested lots of time in working on. This makes it different from so many other complex if imperfect programming projects how? Or perhaps now that Ether has shifted from the so lovingly hated PoW mechanism to PoS, some other thing has to be scorned, rational analysis be damned?

Might add that much of the crypto hate on HN comes from the same circle of people who more recently swallow nearly anything AI-related with absurdly wide eyed applause. People who actually insinuate that LLM systems are some genuine new form of intelligence, despite absolutely no factual signs of that and plenty of reasons for worry about perfectly human use-case dangers, which make the worst of crypto seem minor in comparison.
While it obviously depends on what other cars you’re considering, Saabs are very safe cars [0]. Could help in convincing your wife!

[0] https://youtu.be/c1Z284Fv0cc
When you find something that doesn't work, you should consider that a win. That means you can celebrate getting closer to the solution.

Reminds me of the Edison quote: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
API access is not coupled with being a ChatGPT+ subscriber, and I believe GPT-4 API access is also not included in that. That means you can use GPT-3.5-turbo via API right now, and GPT-4 through API is available via waitlist.
A friend of mine, an auto mechanic and Saab lover, drives an old Saab 99 from the early 80s. It has gone over 45k Scandinavian miles (~300k US miles) on the original engine and still going. He will swear any day that no better cars than the pre-1999 Saabs were ever made.
Yes I felt the same - if I was on desktop it would’ve been ok but I’m on mobile and it opened up the GitHub app. Love the concept though and can definitely see myself using the site.
Mapping the Milky Way in a Can of Olive Oil
> Still not sure what it does and why it is relevant

I wonder the same about "AI".
Also just noticed that the chrome link preview that appears when hoving over a link comes on top of your menu since its aligned to the left. Maybe having it aligned to center as the header bar makes more sense?
Yes, I mostly look at critical reviews and really pay attention to things mentioned by a few employees in different words. I usually do this while interviewing, so I am only interested in the negative takes as the company will readily tell me every positive aspect they can boast of.

Just apply a bit of common sense to the comments and they will be a great source of insight. Some things they say can even be verified elsewhere (like if people from management keep getting into harassment lawsuits, if the company mistreats its clients, and similar).
What climate change-induced mechanism could cause a global rice crop failure? Would it also cause global failure of grain, corn, beans, potatoes, etc? The hypothesis seems so far fetched to me as to be dismissible out of hand.

I can understand how, over a period of years, farms near the equator may become less tenable and land farther from the equator more arable, but, at the scales I've seen (single digit average degrees up over the next 100 years), we should be able to account for that.

Edit: I don't know the Carlin bit you refer to. Link?
One thing I noticed is that pressing `edit` does not let me edit anymore. It just opens my post on the left pane (and still isn't in edit mode) so my only option to add this feedback is to reply to myself :)
Usually you would just use one of the common user.js files for fixing firefox, for example https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox
National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin 2023 MIT Bitcoin Expo [video]
Freedom of the press as practiced has never been better than today. A single individual with a message can reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of people with almost no budget at all. Even if her message is something that the government, commercial interests, traditional media and the law wants to have suppressed. Either individually or together.
It does. Primarily, worker threads query the DB for jobs to pick up. They can write state back when running a job, and they can have configurable (per job type) retry rules.

So in your case, the crash would likely leave it in an open/running state if it was already picked up, at which point timeout/retry rules would kick in after a restart.

If the job wasn’t running yet, just queued, then it would be business as usual upon restart.
> but I want to be more than "just" a software developer or sysadmin

It's not clear from what you've written what you offer to prospective employers that suggests that you're capable of a more responsible/critical role. Do you know what you offer that they need? Have you articulated it? How did they react?

For example, your feeling postdoc pressure to be intolerable doesn't suggest to me that you're necessarily prepared for something other than a junior role yet. Of course, I could be completely wrong as I'm basing that on very little. But can you articulate why you believe you're capable of a non-junior role at an employer when you've struggled in a junior role in academia?

I guess another way of saying all this is: have you put yourself in their shoes and seen what you offer to them that others don't have? What is it about you that is sufficiently special that you can skip, say, the first few years of experience and jump into a bigger role? A PhD is nice in that regard, for sure, assuming it has some relevancy. But it isn't a golden ticket.

Source, I don't have a PhD but I employ quite a few.
With HN, medium is the message as well
In this particular case... HNers tend to be familiar with tech industry business models and investment models, more than the average person who doesn't work in tech.

So I think it's plausible we'll tend to have a somewhat better awareness of the dynamics around reviews that are posted online.

(But I don't think we're more savvy about the world in general. If anything, we tend to have STEM-like narrower exposure to the world than many, coupled with the overconfidence that comes from income level.)
Your website says:

>Vanna.AI “trains” a model for your specific database

(Quotes mine)

When you say “trains”, I guess you don’t mean training in the true ML sense of updating model parameters, but rather you use a vector-db plus retrieval to augment queries (the usual recipe for “chat with my data”)?
That’s the means. Putting things in print or on air has no value in itself; it’s having a viable avenue to have them heard and propagated that’s important. (It doesn’t matter that you typed your samizdat issue on your own typewriter and not commandeered a printing press, you’re still going to prison. Hell, as we know nailing a piece of paper to a church door can be bad enough.)

The point is that public thought stagnates and rots once it’s impossible to publish dissenting opinions and a sucking swamp of apparent conformity sets in. A central government is inordinately efficient at enforcing such conformity, so it shouldn’t get the chance to, thus the conventional formulation.

I’d expect that when that when the idea was first being established, a government was perhaps the only kind of entity with wide enough reach to enforce this. (Maybe along with a couple of paragovernments like the Catholic Church and the India Companies.) That’s not the case today. It’s telling that GP mentions a radio broadcaster, because radio caused a centralization of news like nothing before it (as often outside the direct control of governments as under it), and while the Internet had an opportunity to reverse that, except for a brief moment it mostly did not.
This is my dilemma as well. New LEAF is 40+K CAD. I think I’ll try and find a used 2018 or newer for $20K and convince myself the battery will last.
Typo in the landing page, I assume "EXLORE FROM LISTS" was supposed to be "EXPLORE"
I work in fields where we usually deal with projects where we are not sure has a solution. This includes computer security, system programming, and research. I am in a management role now but have worked in all positions of the company, many times simultaneuously.

First, it is important that your customer and/or team know that you are in that problem context. If you are alone there is a big issue and you should communicate this immediately. There is a saying (Knuth?) about how to differente between an exercise or research problem: if you can solve it it is an exercise, if you can't it is a research problem.

Anxiety probably comes from a mismatch between the complexity of the problem you have in front of you and the expectations others have on you.
If the PCB was connecting two connectors together with testpoints in the middle that might have been the case.

But it is much simpler than that. Right above photo there is a gif showing that all the pins for one connector are connected to battery, while other connector connects to LEDS and afterwards ground.
Boring?? My MR2 Spyder is anything but!

The newer Supras and now GR Corolla also seem pretty exciting to me. Toyota is also (one of) the last manufacturer still making mid-sized trucks with manual transmissions.
> i just dont like the idea of having custom zooms per page

I understand. It's just a workaround for now.

> have you thought of supporting the custom hn top bar color?

Thanks. I will add support for it in the next update.
JSX is a templating language, not hypertext.
The norm for planet Earth is for the environment to change drastically over millions of billions of years, though sometimes in mere moments (eg: asteroid smack). Life as we know it since its inception has also survived all of those changes.

So Earth will be fine and life will go on, the only thing that will destroy everything is when the Sun goes om nom nom many billions of years from now as it feasts upon its inner children to become a red giant.
Side question: How do you deal with micromanagement or incessant demands for estimations on a problem that you're not sure has a solution?
I remember the change from Transit to Transmit. That is how long I'm using that app :)
It is very unlikely. NEVS ran out of money and fired everybody except a small skeleton crew back in March [1]. You hear about their would-be Saab successor designs now because they are trying to find an acquirer for them [2].

[1] https://www.carscoops.com/2023/03/saabs-ghost-comes-back-to-...

[2] https://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/flera-foretag-intresserade...
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