skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My memory isn't awesome, and I do find it helpful to rediscover old, half-discarded ideas and reassess them with fresh eyes. Sometimes I genuinely won't even remember writing them, other than that they appear in my files and sound like me. It's a great way to cut through my own inner cheerleader/critic and basically ask, without emotions running high, is this any good?

I can't speak to the potential benefits of good memory, since that's not something I have, but there are certain obvious downsides to having a crummy memory. One specific to the creative process is that I have a tendency to fall into particular habits, get frustrated, and forget about other techniques/approaches/tips I've read about or practiced in the past to break out of that frustration. My mental toolbox feels smaller than it should be.
Those users aren't leaving the platform. They have no incentive to do so. Hard to gain imaginary internet points on a slow, broken federated system.
Yes kind of, although if they fix it they could become the de-facto home for startups. That kind of market ubiquity is hugely valuable. Every time something like OP happens it pushes people (like me) away from using Stripe. I don't want to spend time integrating with a service that might pull the plug from me, and I don't have time to research all the various little ways that my business might be "too risky" to extreme regulation. I get that some stuff is too risky, but a service that lets me talk to a human before wiping me out would be real nice.
I wish there was a single source of truth website that was like a status page for this whole issue.

A dashboard of the stats and what is being done about it.

From the outside it seems blatantly obvious that it's simply a lack of policing.

I really don't get the animosity of the left-wingers about police, and the way everyone has to pussy-foot around these issues. No one is having issues with police if they aren't breaking the law. This view of the police is so distorted.

The unwavering KPI of every city should be: citizen safety. This is the basic human need, and it should override every other concern.

Here is the solution:

1. You are not allowed to setup a tent on the street. You must stay in housing provided by the government outside of the city in a cheap area. You will be given free transporation there.

2. If you are a repeat offender found to be sleeping on the street, then you will be arrested, and imprisoned.

3. A mental health disorder is not an excuse. If necessary, build a jail that is a mental health treatment center.

I don't get what is so hard about this.

Just make it clear: it's illegal to sleep on the street, loiter, do drugs on the street.

What is the worst thing that happens from this policy implemented fully?
> "curated" and "algorithm" are opposites.

Not at all. An algorithm is curation at scale. Algorithms are made by humans and encode the biases humans want to apply without having to push the buttons themselves to properly bin new input every time it comes in.
Indeed, definitely worth a second dimm. Careful some chromeboxes cheap out and offer only a single dimm. This is also why memory is often limited as 1x8GB or 2x4Gb. The second dimm is definitely worthwhile for improve GPU performance.
I suspect tsuujin was not privy to that information and that Stripe were vague and ambiguous regarding the details.
Benzene is in sunscreen... at least some of the spray stuff. Apparently it doesn't get on your skin but it's important to apply it in a well ventilated area to make sure you don't breathe any of it.
Britain Is Still Making Dumb Bets on Crypto
How safe is your bike, even chained up, in downtown SF?
archive https://archive.is/Xumjm
Section Seven would benefit from a few more entries: the MIT Scheme chips, the Texas Instruments Explorer II / microExplorer, and the Symbolics Ivory.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5731

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1317224.1317226

https://gwern.net/doc/cs/hardware/1987-baker.pdf
Coinbase is the "big entrant". They were backed by a ton of deep-pocketed VCs that are tied up with dizzing array of powerful LPs that range from government pensions to sovereign wealth funds. It then went public and is now probably tied up in everything.
Thanks! Really helpful comment. Especially this bit:

> People who have really thrived with Nix are often at the intersection of 'FP people' and 'extremely stubborn Linux people'

As an extremely stubborn Linux person, that makes total sense to me. But I also almost never recommend Linux to average folks, because I'm keenly aware how far along certain bell curves I am. I would love it if more advocates reflected on whether the personal characteristic that makes a technology great for them is one that makes it bad for others.

Thanks also for the pointers to projects inspired by Nix. I'll check them out.
But of course there is the 'paradigm limitation',
like when young people can think up new untried combinations,
versus when old people are stuck in 'no no we tried that not gonna work', so I guess there is some truth to it. It's all about fresh perspectives on prior art(?)
Silicon Valley VCS rush into defence technology startups
The man the myth the legend. Hard to exactly where somene was murdered, probably with history and an age before digital it is only so accurate. Even today we get it slightly wrong.

This is pretty cool though.
> Why aren't there non-profit (or benefit corporation) versions of these services?

From a quick search, it seems that the operating costs for Meta in 2022 was USD $87.66 billion. Twitter was $5.6 billion in 2021. Reddit's is a mystery but it has 192 million more monthly active users than Twitter (not that they necessarily post the same amount of content or that the content is as expensive to store/serve, but in any case it's not going to be cheap either.)

So to run something like Facebook, you'd have to have one of the best-funded non-profits ever. Non-profit doesn't mean it has to be a charitable foundation (so you could run ads and sell services, which you'll need to, because you're not getting $87.66 billion through donations), but even non-profit companies with a decent amount of revenue do not come close to that amount. I don't think it's impossible to create an ethical, non-profit alternative to Facebook, but I understand why one hasn't been created (there are non-profit social networks, but most seem to be distributed/federated social networks, which are a very different experience for most users.)

Even if you created something with perfect feature-parity of Facebook, it'd still be extremely difficult to convince users to switch. For messaging platforms, there is a non-profit organization that has a secure and private messaging app (Signal) but few people use it compared to Facebook Messenger, Telegram and KakaoTalk (which by default don't use end-to-end encryption) or even Snapchat (doesn't use E2EE for messages aside from photos) (WhatsApp at least always uses E2EE, not sure about Line.)

> Enshitification requires the profit motive.

Not really. Firefox killed support for WPAs: that alone is enough reason for some to switch to a Chromium-based browser. They've done several questionable UI redesigns that their users don't seem to like (people like a consistent UI.) They're also starting a bad trend of adding new features that they're killing within a year or two (their password manager, their E2EE file sharing service, their encrypted notes.) I personally didn't use any of those features, but for any user who used those new features that they promoted, having to switch a year or two later is a good way to turn them off your products. Google is obviously far worse with this with their various services, but the point is that quality can decrease even when their is no profit motive. I'll agree with you that it's certainly more likely to happy when there's a profit motive though.
>TL;DR you're still not going to have a supercharger at home any time soon.

Yep, and even if you have 3 phases and a large main fuse, the issue remains when you sum all the power needed on a same street in a city.

And I apologize if I seemed to improperly generalize.
Yeah frankly I'd rather fat people stay fat and focus on lifestyle changes to health, fat or not, than eating life threatening explosives to get thin.
If you feel uncomfortable around homeless people, there are plenty of other areas that the city allows housing construction, like the Dogpatch area without large homeless populations. I would not necessarily recommend that area either, but it is a tradeoff.
> Do you seriously think an insurance company having access to your driving data is really being done for your benefit ?

Well yes, there's marginal value for both you and Tesla in excluding aggressive drivers from the program. Some company with worse telemetry eats the cost of the accidents from those drivers.

It's fine to argue that this is a privacy tradeoff you don't think should be legal but there's pretty obviously value to be had for both insurance and customer.
Paymentech. It's a hassle to get started but it's worth it. It's also a lot cheaper than Stripe and you don't have to worry about random account closures.
This gives me and my descendants a competitive advantage!
If you're aiming to be maximally compliant that makes sense.

> Over 70% of the market is either Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, or Bitcoin Cash. Why did I name those 4? They're not securities.

- Gary Gensler
This is a silly meme. Plants contain phytoestrogen, which is not the same thing as estrogen. Ingestion of phytoestrogen actually seems to reduce the body's own natural estrogen production, which has the effect of reducing female fertility. Eating soy does not turn men into women, despite what insecure dudes on the internet may have told you. (Amusingly, despite all the hand-wringing about soy, I have never seen a similar campaign to decry milk, which actually does contain estrogen (although inert)).
I originally started using ad blockers because of the number of people being accused of clicking their own ads. Idk how they can be sure their systems are working properly when it's basically impossible to appeal and show that it's gone wrong.
I like cats, but like politics, that topic is out of scope for HN. There’s so many other places to discuss politics, HN is at its best when it stays more on topic. All the political noise drowns out the signal here lately.
People can't even tell the difference between 4k and 8k. You need a microscope.
You have interpreted programs and compiled programs.
A script is a series of instructions to a program - a script of actions for it to follow.
I'm fairly sure that you do get scripts that are compiled and linked to the application they are controlling, but mostly they are interpreted.
Gorilla LLM: Going deeper with the team at UC Berkeley
> "A few years ago there was no good option besides tesla, but in another couple years tesla will have fallen behind the competition"

Much of the competition still struggles with software. Sure you can use Apple CarPlay or whatever for the basics, but as far as the full software suite goes, there isn't yet much that comes close to Tesla's performance, ease-of-use, UX, functionality, hardware integration, automatic over-the-air updates, etc...
I've found that GPT4 is particularly good at generating TCL code. Possibly because what's out there is generally high-quality, possibly because there's very little syntax for it to keep track of.
When charging, the Tesla shows you a little miles per hour figure (how many miles of range you gain per hour of charging) and it can often reach 1000 or so on the super chargers I use frequently. It’s fun to calculate the miles per hour of gas (around 12,000).
It could be cool to add a feature around different "heights" like this one: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/shadow-palette/

You almost have something like that in the library of different shadows.

Having a couple different heights is something I've used a lot.
> Could they just have some drills with diamond-tipped bits stored inside for emergency use? If needed, drill through the whole shell, stick an arm out and unbolt from the outside.

A shaped charge might be a more sensible solution, but it's still within incredibly dangerous territory.
I did this the "hard way" a year ago. This blog post came in handy:

https://jstaf.github.io/posts/pglogical/

pglogical is magic. Keeping an eye on this project for the future, looks great.
If you thinking about buying an EV between now and 2025 in North America, you need to be a very very big enthusiast of any other brand but not Tesla.

You have a non zero risk of your non tesla car turn into a pumpkin few years after a purchase.

Basically any non tesla EV sold in North America before 2025 will depend on a proper work of that adapter with a particular network. And I explore lots of them the other direction, they are all ugly and make your experience horrible. Compare to just plug and go grab a coffee, with find a converter, plug it, make sure it work, get to the tesla app, make sure that part works...

Your traveling will be a charade of opportunity to charge in a particular network.

On the opposite side of it, if you buy a new or a used Tesla made in 2015, it will still charge you 5 years away from now with no issues in basically any network in North America. Not only tesla.
I've heard almonds need a lot of water, but I think the biggest culprit is exported alfalfa.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/colorado...
It is easy to write that, but I invite anyone to pencil it out. Same situation with healthcare. "Billions" seem like a big number, until you dig into the cost of emergency heart surgery, NICU babies, cancer treatments, etc.

Note the problems you will be up against.

Homeless populations are likelier to have more mentally ill, drug addicted, and people with criminal history among them. Any people around proposed sites would be obviously opposed to any new facilities being built near them. That is why the west coast states pay $200k+ per key to buy hotels and motels and convert them to homeless shelters, because locals cannot fight it since it is already zoned for multi tenant housing.

And then you have induced demand. Taxpayers in any other place would have no problem keeping their taxes lower by paying for flights and buses to anyone who needs them to get to SF.
Very tangentially related -- I keep hearing "disorientated" in the audio edition of The Economist (which is British).

It drives me bonkers. I'm cool with neologisms if they add value -- but a 400-year old[1] neologism that's merely a longer way to say something we already have a word for is still too young for me to consider valid.

[1] https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/01/disoriented-disor...
Sure that stuff is nice, but is it worth burning $200 and 30 hours every month?
> They're also the leading battery storage company and their battery storage business has been growing like crazy.

Do you have a source on this? I assumed Tesla outsourced most of their batteries from CATL, Panasonic, and LG.

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/2023060514-catl-drops-despi...

CATL seems to be ahead of everyone.

https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker...
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An ecommerce search engine for consumer products, in the same vein as https://snapshop.netlify.app/ but obviously generic / not restricted to Shopify.

You would be doing the world a favor, the existing options for this are owned by corrupt / retrograde companies.
https://systemsatscale.io/the-foundational-component-of-syst...
>The only people who stand to lose are those weirdos who reverse into parking places. ;)

As a weirdo who reverses into parking spaces, I find that it's almost always safer doing that in a crowded parking lot than it is to park nose in.

When you're driving up to the spot you're already (hopefully) fully attentive to any risks (children, animals, people crossing, whatever), and can wait or carefully drive around those obstacles. Then when you're ready to leave you're already facing the optimal angle to slowly inch out and look in all directions for hazards.

If you're backing out of a car space you have to trust your ability to look at all three mirrors simultaneously + ideally also straining your neck to cover blind spots.
They find sufficient usage; even if their utility hasn't become relevant for you, yet.
You are right, it's not a database, so I call it undb :P
>force the reduction and footprint of local news at a time when it’s needed most.

Why are local news currently needed most?
I spend more time pumping gas for my ICE than I do waiting on my EV to charge, by hours a year.

Lets say it takes 5 minutes on average to turn off to the gas station, go to the pump, pay to start the pump, get the handle into the car, actually pump the gas, return the pump handle, close it all up, get in the car, and rejoin traffic. In my testing its often more than 5 minutes from my times, but lets just say 5 to make things easy. I get gas about every other week in my ICE, so 5 minutes every other week, but I do take some vacations so lets round to a 50 week year, half of that is 25, times 5, 125. That's 125 minutes of pumping gas that I do every year. A little over 2 hours. And that's excluding any kind of road trips where I might have done several of those 5 minute stops in a single week.

Guess how much time I had to spend waiting on public DCFC last year? I took a road trip and stopped for maybe 40 minutes total. Outside of that, 0 minutes.

I spend more time waiting to recharge my ICE than I do my EV, by a good bit.

Lets take a look at US averages though instead of just my use case. Average miles driven is what, ~13,500? Average range of a car is ~400mi? That means ~33.75 fill ups a year instead of just 25? 33.75 * 5 = 168.75 minutes, or 2.8 hours a year pumping gas. If someone can charge at home and public chargers where they're already going to be (work/shop/relax places), they might not ever even need to wait on a public charger, so 2.8 hours compared to literally 0 minutes waiting for charging.
Even when it was true, it was more like they wanted to have a small presence in crypto just so they could say they're hip with the times. For others, it was FOMO. None of them were true believers.
Thanks for sharing, that's really interesting -- but do those contaminants remain in the soil?

It seems like one of the following should be true:

- the treated wastewater being pumped into the ground has been so successfully treated that it doesn't contain more harmful contaminants than ground water, and so it could be just piped through to the same treatment as ground water, saving a pump-into-ground + pump-out-of-ground cycle

- the treated wastewater being pumped into the ground contains harmful contaminants at a greater concentration than existing ground water, which the soil may mediate before being pumped back up for further treatment -- but the concentration of these contaminants in the soil will increase as a result
Good idea. As an extension, I would love a directory of all communities online. Something Yahoo-esque. I often have trouble finding the right place to ask a question or discuss a topic.
More like saying that an oil worker is different from some guy quoting There Will Be Blood. The problem is that the difference in credibility between the two isn't easily accounted for once their posts are vacuumed up into a giant dataset.
A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS, part 1
Even adding half-baked, not compile/runtime checked types such as "Python's Type annotations", "Python's Type Stubs", "Javascript @type-infused-jsdocs" and "Javascript with Typescript Declaration Files" manages to make those modern IDEs a lot smarter for things like checking if you're doing really obvious bad things until you go really ham into metaprogramming.
Waldrop's Dream Machines (2001) feels like the definitive book to read about this era & the internet. It personalizes all these people a good bit, weaves the story. Nice to hear it again in short form from Bob Kahn.
Sure its good but its a one off script, so who really cares how fast the startup is? Or how elegant it is? I can literally ask LLMs to write a rough working code in seconds and I only need to fix it up a little bit. There's way more resources to find solutions in Python out in the wild that I can leverage.

I would imagine if you just have a tiny bit harder problems, the Tcl code quickly becomes unwieldy and you end up digging through the archives to find some wizard's tome (or maybe there's a large community of Tcl users out there? IDK).

I can easily spin up a GUI in an hour tinkering with PyQt. Can you do the same in Tcl?

DSLs like this tend to have a very nice local maxima. But once you stray away from its original use case you start writing some really confusing code.
In Overhaul, Alibaba’s Boss Moves Aside and Two Co-Founders Step Up
If wages are up and CPI is accurate why are living standards down?
I have an ECS mini pc with a Core i3 and dual nic that I use as a router at home. For normal internet usage it stays well within that 5-10 watt range. Only slightly more than a raspberry pi but with much, much more performance.
Are you a time traveler from 2014?

Tesla is now closing in on run rates of 1.5-2 million. They are on bath to overtake companies like BMW in total sales. They are already far more profitable.

You seem to still think of Tesla as some small fish. Tesla is the biggest BEV producer in the world by a large margin. They produce more EV then all of the major German producers put together and at better margins.

Volkswagen is the 2nd largest car company in the world and they have been all in on EV for many years now, and Tesla is highly competitive with them and actually makes far higher profits.

A high level Toyota engineer said of the Model Y 'its a piece of art' (and that was not even the newest generation). Volkswagen CEO said that Tesla is beating them on production efficiency.

If you want a reality check, go look at Toyota first EV and compare it to Model Y. They are not even in the same class, Tesla beats it on literally every metric.

If you still think large car companies can just easily spin up millions of EV per year, you are deluding yourself. You are even more optimistic then the car companies own incredibly optimistic predictions. Ford and GM have even stopped saying they will catch Tesla, its now a race for Nr.2.

> Tesla isn’t good at making cars.

Based on what? Your subjective insights?

Tesla cars have very high margin and are cheaper then competitors in the same class. But they suck at building cars?

Tesla cars have high costumer loyalty and high consumer satisfaction in every survey? But they suck at making cars?

Are you sure your not mixing up your personal feeling with the real world.

> And every year my confidence in full self driving goes down.

They don't need self driving to be highly profitable.

> They are good at charging though and will print money doing that.

Actually charging doesn't make much money, its a terrible business.
There absolutely is an epidemic of troll answers on Reddit but not on programming subs, presumably precisely because of the aforementioned reasons. The kind of person that knows the actual answer (or has sufficient background knowledge to BS a believable answer) is the kind of person that won't post a troll answer in a programming sub. The kind of person that will post a troll answer won't have the requisite background knowledge and will be immediately "outed" and downvoted on the more legitimate (not r/all) subs, and eventually be discouraged from trying.

ChatGPT is immune to this organic feedback loop.
MB's system accomplishes the levels of quality defined in the SAE standard. Tesla is taking a different strategy by focusing on quantity of features, although many of them fail to meet the reliability standards of the higher SAE specs.

Tesla is stuck at level 2 because the level of reliability required at level 3 would mean they'd have to remove features to meet it.