skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Loneliness is eliminated is when that delta is small or zero.

And when the delta becomes negative, loneliness turns into tiredness. E.g. when an introvert doesn't desire social connection and has too much.
That sounds like an awesome group and I wish that was what was happening at my college. If for no reason than to get a spotter for the weird times I worked out at hahaha. I'm curious how the high fives and hugs thing worked, because it sounds more uhh, consensual?
Very well-put.

California also keeps homeless people down with their insane rents and requirements.

Even working people have a hard time getting and keeping a 650 credit score, as well as first and last month's rent and a security deposit. Used to be the last month's rent was the security deposit.

Couple that with the fact that 99% of properties are run by the same handful of 'property management firms', and it's nigh impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Perhaps instead of spending so much money on what I saw accurately dubbed as 'the homeless industrial complex' it could better use the funds to assist home-buyers and even renters to get off the streets.

California offers a form of assistance in helping you by paying your first, last, deposit, and three months rent at a new place. They issue you a letter but inform you that it takes 90+ days to pay out. No one will accept the paper in lieu of real money now, so the case worker's advice? 'Pay it up front and we can pay you back instead'...because homeless people have several grand on hand and a good credit score. Three months of searching until the letter expired and all I had to show for it was approximately $600+ spent on rental applications that were supposed to be paid back by the entity providing the assistance but never was. I stopped paying for them when I realized this. Also some places had literally hundreds of pending applications for the same places and were still accepting more- how is that legal?

Good ideas killed by bureaucracy should be termed 'Californication'.

Edit to add- they also have insane income requirements like 4-6x and up. So $1200/mo for a one bedroom would easily be $4800+/mo required income. On top of $3600+ to move in. At minimum wage if you're lucky enough to find full time you will barely make $2400 pre-tax.
Thanks to the good graces of the internet I can speak candidly about this.

When I was young it was drilled into me about making sure everyone is accepted and has friends, all that. So I would be the kid who would go make friends with the lonely kid.

But then I would learn why they don't have friends, and I wouldn't want to be their friend either. Which makes the whole thing even worse, because now you came to them and then left them. So I kind of gave up on it.
Check baserow.io then ;)
Sometimes I feel like people live in a different universe than me. Do you know how many electric vehicles Tesla is likely to deliver in 2023? 2 million.

Do you know how many GM is hoping to deliver? 150,000. Do you know how many they have delivered YTD? 40,000. And they're ahead of Ford, Rivian, and all other US EV manufacturers. Only cheap Chinese only EV brands have a similar volume.

"Easily overtaking" Tesla is not happening at this point. It will be a real fight to ramp production up to Tesla numbers. Did you know that the Tesla model Y was the best selling car in the world thus far in 2023? Not EV, car. It beat out the gas powered Toyota Corolla.

https://www.motor1.com/news/669135/tesla-model-y-worlds-best...
My uncle lied about his age to join the Army during the Korean War. He was 16 I believe.
Flashback to 2016...

https://medium.com/@Gannettco./gannett-launches-with-google-...
This is true. Though the electric batteries do have the advantage of having already paid the "thermodynamics tax". Some of the energy in gas will go towards heat losses; energy that cannot be converted to movement.
Given that gastic stapling/restrictive surgeries exist, perhaps this is related?

I have a severely obese friend who got such a surgery. He is substantially healthier now, shedding over half his original body weight.

EDIT:
But see other replies on satiation vs fullness.
Surely there's a money angle. I'm looking for a new career.
There’s a huge subset of people who just desperately want to “prove” that the popular company is bad. Apple bad, Tesla bad, etc.
Depending on your location, I have several positions open that would easily get you another decade.

9-5, not many meetings, plenty of room to innovate.
I was wondering the same thing, it was a let down to realize later that the article took a hard turn away from some kind of future-proofing for a time when RAM might not be as ubiquitous, and chose something that is likely to be ridiculed in the years to come.
> Only idiots buy black-box based car insurance

Monitored policies are almost always significantly cheaper. That's why people buy them. I won't engage on who the "idiot" is in that analysis except to say that Adam Smith probably has an opinion.

The reason this works is that it forces the consumers to self-partition into those who think they drive safely and those who know they don't. That doesn't correlate perfectly with actual safety, but it's clear that it's a good proxy signal. Insurance companies may be renowned for "slippery policy wordings", but they're even better known for doing good statistics.
That was the conclusion that I came to over 10 years ago. Sometimes the scheduler flips and uses odd numbered "processors" for a while.
What does an election year have to do with it?
Tesla is working with those companies. But Tesla also has its own batteries, their own battery IP, their own manufacturing lines and so on. They even manufacture some of their own manufacturing equipment.

The have factories in Germany and Canada building dedicated battery manufacturing equipment.

They have their own battery factory in California, in Texas and in Berlin. Model Y are already being sold with these batteries in it.

And Tesla own batteries are very innovative specially in terms of their manufacturing.
Thank you for open sourcing it! That's a really neat thing to do. Further, thanks for open sourcing it as is and not doing the whole "it's not ready to open source" feet dragging thing.

And thanks for not closing it back up if you find another payment provider!

I would actually bet that open sourcing it is the best thing you could do for it if you end up wanting to grow the business, especially with how niche it is. There are people like me who wouldn't even consider using the service with it being closed, but it being open gets my attention. It would be absolutely bad ass if the official hosting solution could:

- Let me put in a backblaze token and bucket name

- Store all my uploads in the aforementioned bucket, in a format that I could switch back and forth between open source and hosted versions

I self host a ton of stuff but I'd gladly pay $10 to $15 a year for that service
so I can easily switch to self-host in the future but don't have to manage yet-another-service. Given that the bulk of the expense would be backblaze and that would be paid for directly by me, that's almost entirely profit margin for you.

I can see really neat future ideas along this line too, like possibly even point a (to be created in the future) desktop app like Strawberry straight at the bucket and have it play/download my music!
If only there were a single other way to navigate a modern city without walking, driving, or purchasing a bike...
Wait. CCS1 cant handle three-phase power?

I just read about it and no wonder its not that popular.

You can charge 7.4kw maximum in the US at home with CCS1.

In Europe you can charge up to 22kw without going DC.
Interesting lack of discussion around animal agriculture in these comments. Closest convo we get is about alfalfa for horse food.

Hmm, wouldn’t want to address the elephant in the room though.
Ask HN: Which book/course made you fall in love with your favorite subject?
Also at what point in your life did you take that course or read that book that eventually made you love the subject?
A lot of the technical and medical revolutions have meant you can focus on the one kid having a good life rather than needing another five to be confident enough of them will be around to providing for you in later life...
That's been the trend regardless of what metric you choose, people with higher income have fewer children, more educated people have fewer children, etc.
Be careful if you have sequences as those are not replicated. https://www.jacobreed.dev/blog/migrate-postgres-instances
I understand the sentiment, to an extent, but I find myself simultaneously wondering how our great/grandparents didn't become similarly disillusioned by World Wars, Great Depressions. To them, it could have very well been the end of the world more than once or twice. I'm sure there were certainly those who saw that and thought "nope, not bringing life into this mess" — but us being here proves at least some people thought otherwise.
> for all I know there is some amazing pocket somewhere that I can have it all

IME there is a pretty large middle band between the extremes of urban and the boondocks where you can come really close to having it all. It's easiest to find if instead of shooting for "all" you make the concession of having to own and use a car a lot - it's an unfortunate tradeoff, but once you accept it, it becomes relatively easy to find places that check the other boxes: decent cost of living, lots of culture/arts opportunities, great food, lots of outdoor activities, good weather, good schools, good safety, good job market, real feeling of community, etc.

The following won't guarantee success and isn't the only method, but it yields lots of good results: take a list of the 50 largest U.S. cities. Cross off the top 15. Cross off any in FL or CA. Randomly pick a remaining city. On a map, find neighboring cities/towns that are 35-45 miles away from that city. For each that looks interesting, go look at their city website. How big is their public library? How many parks do they have? Do they have any sort of annual city history celebration or other big community event? What community service organizations seem most active? (the idea here is to eliminate any that are a soulless suburban sprawl) If you're able, go visit one and even get an airbnb for a couple of weeks and just live there to try it out.
>Can you explain why the private vote only works when all votes are anonymous?

As you alluded to further down, if it is not illegal for people to publish a photograph of their ballot or a recording of their vote submission - then they can be coerced into doing just that. The idea of a secret ballot providing systemic protection against coercive influence only really works by requiring all ballots to be cast in secret, in my opinion.

>This won’t surprise you…

You are certainly not alone in the opinion that allowing ballot photographs to be made public is a big mistake, and maybe it will prove to be.

The citizens making a show of force toward voters is concerning, and I wish things were more civil and less partisan… but indeed, tensions have been escalating for several years.

Even if it is an unfounded belief and evidenced of outcome changing election fraud doesn’t exist, a growing minority of citizens losing confidence and loudly calling into question the integrity of elections is a very dangerous development.

In recent elections, election administrators on both sides of the aisle from several states have displayed incompetent failures to follow electoral processes that are designed to ensure transparency and fulfill audit requirements. This, of course, only makes matters worse. I hope it’s mostly online sensationalism and this sentiment will be quelled… bc when significant minorities of a population start to dispute the authority of leadership, stricter authoritarianism tends to be the government response, which tends to lead toward civil unrest and violent events. I share the concerns you warn about.
> if all the people that feared having children due to climate change didn't have children, the only people having children would be those who had no fear of climate change

How correlated are the climate views of the parent and child correlated in the West? (I’m also sceptical the real reason isn’t economic insecurity.)
Would a good strategy be to open up competing paper fully staffed, win the market then sell out. Rise, repeat profit?
I think the overall point is that a large set of people, myself included, wholly disagree
Enjoy life and make friends.

If you really love some particular topic or technology, try to build a small project in it. If it is tech related, try putting it up on a public facing git repo for others to see.
It's an anti-Project92 initiative:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/10/metas-...

https://fortune.com/2023/06/08/meta-instagram-chris-cox-buil...

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-exec-taunts-elon-musk-w...
There should be a client that aggregates the entire thing and makes it look like a cohesive experience.
The author should investigate their networking setup. I can run their Go fetchall example in no more than 70ms. Their benchmarks are surely dominated by noise.
53% of parents in India, Mexico, Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom say climate change impacts their decision to have more kids.

No cherry picking here at all.
Matt.sh bad, Apple good
If it's a myth, the myth seems driven by the TCL team itself.

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/everything+is+a+string

Yes, there is some detail about internal dual representation.
Hey, I made that! Awesome job on improving it!
I'm not talking total income, I'm talking profit per effort. Does a developer really want to take the big risk of hoping they can find a property management client to take the large apartment building off their hands for a probably minimal profit since they are also a business with strong connections looking to earn maximum profit off minimum work?

It's so much easier for the average development group or individual to just build a single mcmansion, where the profit margin can be easily raised with stupid water fixtures or other pointless things, and with clients that are not at all price sensitive. A single moderately expensive mcmansion is probably also easier to get financing for than a competitively priced apartment building where you basically have to hope you keep a good market position for 15 years to start actually making money.
I will update the readme to mention this - but the lib takes care of updating sequence with the data catchup: https://github.com/shayonj/pg_easy_replicate/blob/13ad6af51f...
I'm pretty sure that on HN, being pedantic is basically required by law.
Those volunteers took the wrong approach, since they didn’t ask the people they were trying to help, what help they actually needed. But in my experience, the group they were targeting is very difficult to productively converse about their needs with.

People with mental health issues oftentimes don’t know what their problem is or how they can be helped. Sometimes they can’t conceive of solutions outside their current mental space or understanding. Additionally, sometimes simply asking them what amounts to “I noticed something wrong with you and I’d like to help” exacerbates the feeling of “something is wrong with me” rather than “I’d like to help”.

The above is true for more issues than just mental health issues, as well. I definitely support asking people what they need and tailoring solutions to their individual or group needs, but it’s not as easy as your post makes it sound.

If you or others have advice regarding specifically how to help people struggling with mental health, I’d love to hear it. I have a lot of loved ones who have struggled or are struggling with mental health issues, and I haven’t found any approach which does work.
Here is SLC’s program, including all the community work they have to do to mollify the NIMBYs:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/06/1134230388/village-salt-lake-...

Median rent in SLC: 1.8k/mo, 21.6k/yr

Federal prison: ~39k/yr

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/01/2021-18...

Median rent in CA: 2.9k/mo, 34.8k/yr (according to Zillow)

CA prison: 106k/yr (!)

https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost

Incarcerating the homeless is not an economic decision, it’s an emotional one. Society doesn’t mind wasting endless amounts of money doing it, because the cruelty is the point.
PortableAppsQt – Run Appimage in a Portable Mode
Hi, I'm a student and this is the project I'm working to learn more about python , pyqt6. Right now it's very basic so any help is appreciated. This app lets the user to execute AppImages and save its data inside the a folder so that it can be transferred easily
Um, no?

Why would a source of signal that has aligned incentives for all three major parties (individual, manufacturer, and insurance company) not be selected for by the market?

It's not as if people are buying meteor insurance here. Automotive accidents are frequent enough to where if a policy provider fails to cover damage that really is in-policy they'll be sued, regulated, and shamed.

Even more so, since Tesla has a financial incentive to ensure that these benefits really do accrue to the driver.
This looks pretty neat and I might try it out for personal stuff.

That said, in comparison to other similar software:

- For standalone use: there's a lot of similar software like budibase, baserow, nocodb, etc. which is heavier weight (distributed as a docker container) but more featureful

- For use with a custom frontend: I'm not sure I would pick it when it's AGPL, since PocketBase is roughly comparable as a single-file sqlite-based backend and it's MIT license.
Sometimes when pondering a question I stop to think: "why is this important?"

And if I cannot answer I just stop pondering the question altogether.
Love pglogical. I was thinking, it'd be nice to orchestrate this setup using pglogical too. Would attempt it if there is interest. Especially with bi-directional replication setup.
Hi I’m not sure I understand the question. Avalanche and local sensitivity are opposing goals, so typically the more avalanche, the less locally sensitive, and vice versa. You could even state the avalanche goal as being locally insensitive - the whole idea of avalanche is one bit change in the input produces a maximally different and uniformly distributed output.
Google Employee Helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong
Ask HN: Dealing with Quality Issues, Customers and Company Culture
Hi,

I'm currently working as a developer for a small (< 20 people) software company in Western Europe. We develop individual applications for big customers and have a few, not very successful products. I've been here for about two years. Most of the software has been badly cobbled together by inexperienced, overambitious people who have left shortly before I came in. We further developed the software. One project we are currently cleaning up heavily. Another is a hellish mess, and we need to reimplement it. There are almost no proper processes to deal with all the quality management in development. We get better at testing and quality management, but we're still far away from it.

We have issues with customers, where manuals contain wrong information (this is definitely on us). Customer employees misunderstand simple instructions to a point how I don't understand why these people have the title of systems administrator.

Most stuff that is more complex or requires experience gets stuck with me. Most other developers here are either very inexperienced or have worked here very long and are caught up in bad habits. These bad habits have been developed inside the very "incestuous" company culture. Trainees showed trainees how to develop software. Nobody thought very much ahead. In the end, you got a lot of badly written software. Most have no experience in ways outside the ones somebody showed them years ago. Most seem to have a hard time to get to the thought: "This is a working way to do it, but could there be a better way?"

It's a lot to deal with. I, too, make mistakes - as does everybody. But it's hard to manage development infrastructure, proper installation procedures and manuals, giving feedback and providing knowledge. (Not to toot my own horn.) Our bosses are relatively negligent about this. They hope for the best and seem to believe everything will work out for the best. But they're always willing to listen to suggestions and making things better.

My point/question is: How do you people deal with stuff like:
Annoyed customers, because you made mistakes (but they did too)
Internal workflows that lead to mistakes, that lead to annoyed customers, that berate us.
Ensuring quality when delivering updates to customers.
Enforcing testing, code styles, further and constant education for developers etc.
How do I ensure we have proper installation guides for the customers?
How do I ensure our software has been tested properly when we made changes? (We have some integration and unit testing already, but it's far from complete)

Any feedback is welcome
> Oh god. I hate that Apple helped stick this BS in people's heads.

You do realize that without apple pushing the others froward, most laptops would still be 1366x768, right?
> The people that killed him got to write history so they made him into a bad guy.

The people who killed him lost. Caesar Augustus, caesar's adopted son, ultimately prevailed. The history we get from that era is mostly the one that julius caesar himself wrote and what his allies wrote. As churchill said, history will be kind to me because I intend to write it. That's why millenia after caesar's death, everywhere from Russia (czar) to germany ( kaiser ) exalt him. Dante didn't put caesar in the mouth of satan in the center of hell. Dante put Brutus and Cassius in the mout of satan for eternity. You yourself quoted a shakespearean play that praises caesar and denigrates his killers.

Brutus is reviled like Judas or Benedict Arnold. It's a name that lives in infamy.
Pretty sure Tesla's moat is that people think they are cool and other EVs aren't.
Thanks for giving it a try. Please don't hesitate to open bugs/feature requests.
I develop calculang, a language for calculations. It converts concise formulae into Javascript.

Since calculation formulae are usually inherently pure, a `--memo` flag to the compiler memoizes the lot.

Many of my models are written in this recursive style and only work because of memoization. Sometimes other tricks are needed e.g. careful ordering of the calls, so that the memo is available before the stack breaks.

My first calculang example is a bouncing ball: the position at t depends on speed and the position at previous t. With loops we'll usually discover the same thing, but it can be so much harder to follow.

First-class memoization to proliferate this style is a really neat thing.

[0] https://github.com/calculang/calculang

[1] bouncing ball code: https://github.com/declann/calculang-miscellaneous-models/bl...

[2] bouncing ball initial post: https://observablehq.com/@declann/calculang-bouncing-ball?co...

[3] if you can tolerate my slow-load WIP devtools and are on a Desktop, this is better, with buttons to navigate through the model development (only some of which are working now!): https://models-on-a-plane.pages.dev/stories/bounce/