skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are all sorts of ethical issues -- just take a look at the industry news over the past couple of decades for a taste.

But the ones that bother me the most are the ones where we abuse our customers for the sake of profit. Issues like data collection and use, "move fast and break things", removing customer autonomy, etc. are all things I struggle to be OK with, but are all things that are heartily embraced by the industry these days.

And don't even get me started on the acceptance of overt law-breaking. Companies like Uber (only an example, they're not the only ones that have done this) achieved success by breaking the law, and overall as an industry, we tend to accept this and even celebrate it -- as long as a successful, profitable business is the result.
Tesla is confident in their economic skills. They have multiple sources of revenue, both one time (they have massive margins on cars) and recurring (selling software on cars, and money from the Energy division, plus now from charging), and they have a LOT in the bank (a sweet 15-20 Billion cash, iirc).

Other legacy companies have loads of baggage, and they cannot compete. [1]

Supercharging is no longer the moat they must have, and they are willing to drain it to increase more revenue from the access instead.

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[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23771407/ford-f150-lightn...
High-tech pastoral as the new aesthetic
> but you know this stuff you’re just willfully ignoring it.

That sure is what it seems like. C-level solidarity, even managed to blame the peons with just as little evidence as everyone else blaming the execs...
You forgot to mention that boomers had high mortgage rates. According to https://themortgagereports.com/61853/30-year-mortgage-rates-... my parents, boomers, would likely have had 16%+ and 12%+ rates when they bought their first homes. Contrast this to myself, a borderline Millennial/Gen X, who bought houses after the 2008 crash and currently have a 3% mortgage. Makes me wonder why Boomers are the always the primary target of younger generation's ire.
Ostentatious displays of wealth. The well connected often want you to know how well connected they are.
Sounds exactly like how rave / techno events used to be here in Bulgaria.

Super loud bass can make you horny. I still remember two dudes playing with each other's nipples standing right next to the huge, double stacked, two-speaker Cerwin Vega bass boxes. This was 25 years ago.
Average Joe Rogan fan.
That is a fair point! As a full counterexample, East Germany stopped existing after the wall fell.
> I'm talking about prevailing attitudes

I disagree. You are presenting strawman attitudes, representing an extreme interpretation of the past. Exactly what you accuse me of. Except I cited counter-examples.

Even your example of "possible to be skeptical and critical of the labs handling of the virus" has strong issues because when the general scientific consensus is along the lines "Although there is insufficient evidence to define upstream events, and exact circumstances remain obscure, our analyses indicate that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 occurred through the live wildlife trade in China and show that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. .... Several lines of evidence support the hypothesis that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from activities associated with the live wildlife trade there." https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715 .

The general response to the lab leak hypothesis is "where's the evidence"? Not "you're racist".

> This was culturally marked in the show Halt and Catch Fire.

A show made, what, 25 years after the era it describes?

Do you know about "Kirk Drift"? The Kirk of the original series is not the womanizer people remember him to be. http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-remem...

Why do you think Halt and Catch Fire accurately describes things, rather than being subject to its own sense of drift?

While my own pop culture example comes from the era you describe.

Here's another 1991 quote, from Lippman's C++ Primer:

"""Object-oriented programming is an evolutionary advance in the design and management of large software systems. It is not, however, the deus ex machina come forth to resolve the many ills of the software industry.""" - https://archive.org/details/cprimer0000lipp/page/530/mode/2u...

That's in the section titled "Living in a Multi-Paradigm Universe".
First - Tesla had to open charging to other manufacturers to receive additional governmental subsidies.
Second - Tesla will get addition 7 plus billions grants to add additional charging infrastructure.
Third - Tesla will add at least another 10 to 20 billion in charging revenue with at least 30 percent profit to the bottom line.
Forth - Once all the other manufacturers signs on, they can offer other services…
IMHO
Makes sense to me. We've offered various subsidies for electric cars for a while now. Why not try to build the industry from the bottom and make the use of an electric bicycle ubiquitous by ensuring that everyone who wants one can afford one? Top down may be working but fomenting from the bottom up will create movement in the correct direction by creating mindshare and making electric vehicles a common thing. There should also be synergies and theoretically incentives to invest in batteries which have always been the weak point on electric vehicles. Might even have advantages for the electric car types too by making charging stations more common as the need for them grows.
If everything is an app, then just... don't download the apps that have bullshit ads.
The volunteer fire service is a prime example. In some towns they have incredible facilities. It’s basically a drinking club.
Well that's a hell of a scam, because contractors built the first rendition of HealthCare.gov that failed miserably:

> Development of the website's interface as well as its supporting back-end services, to make sure that the website could work to help people compare between health insurance plans, were both outsourced to private companies. The front-end of the website was developed by the startup Development Seed. The back-end work was contracted out to CGI Federal Inc., a subsidiary of the Canadian IT Multinational corporation| CGI Group, which subcontracted the work to other companies, as is common on large government contracts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov

This is particularly sad to me because this kind of thing should probably be a core competency of a modern government. The novel Jennifer Government lied to me :(
Tesla isn't doing this out of the kindness of their heart, they make money off of charging cars. I bet the money they make off of charging stations comes easier too. Like they really just need to pay for maintenance. Compared to building cars, delivering them, providing service, etc. it's kind of a no-brainer to just make tesla chargers able to charge all EV's and just keep building out that network.
Phones don't keep a GPS fix in the background 24/7. This would be prohibitively expensive, battery-wise.

iPhones do have approximate location available at all times, via wi-fi scanning/databases and tower ~triangulation. This wouldn't be good enough to infer any sort of acute acceleration/deceleration.

All of that said, none of it helps if you were sitting at a red light for 3 minutes before being rear-ended.
Available in plenty of second hand computer vendors: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225601831181
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This system doesn’t just open a voice line to 999, it dials 999 and then plays an automated message saying something along the lines of “The owner of this iPhone may have been involved in a crash, the device is currently located at [location]” and then repeats it a few times.

Ideally there’d be a better system for this where 999 can be notified in a machine readable format allowing them to filter out automated calls from known sites that are generating false positives, but it’s not like the operators don’t have information to work from.

It’s also possible operators could (maybe they already can) see which mobile cell the call came from, which would also help rule out false alerts because they’d be flagged as coming from the vicinity of a festival. Generally for large events 999 are going to contact the organisers and let them know they need to send out a first aid team anyway, they’re not going to automatically despatch an ambulance without someone having confirmed the need for one.
VAG (Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche), Stellantis (Jeep, Dodge, RAM, Chrysler, Alfa Romeo), Hyundai-KIA, and all the Japanese OEMs are still on CCS.

VAG created Electrify America as part of the dieselgate deal, and since it's the largest CCS network if they switch CCS is pretty much officially done in north america.
All Teslas sold today are compatible with CCS chargers.
Yeah I really regret going into the field now, especially the way I did it.

There’s just no where else to go that isn’t just less of the stuff I like about it and more of the stuff I hate about it. I had a plan to go back to school and switch fields, but the more time passes, the more I realize this isn’t going to happen. Everything keeps getting more and more expensive, both in terms of money, and more notably time.
There was a period of time where self-described woke people identified themselves as woke, and now there's a period of time where people that don't like woke people mock them as woke, and other people just use it as a descriptor, and it all overlaps, and also all sorts of people have a good idea of the corpus of what woke means. At the very least, it's a useful word to refer to the concept it is meant to capture.

I think there's a cultural thing where once a group's use of the word is "outed" to the public the in-group doesn't like it anymore. That's how it makes me feel seeing you react like this- you're going out of your way to be on the bleeding edge of in-group linguistic fashion.
The use of LLMs as a programming aid are another strong indication to me that I need to get out of this business.
XP was the version that started pushing updates despite whatever you would configure and deny executing if you didn't jump through the correct hops.

You still had some amount of control on 95. MS had the power to take your control away at any point, but they didn't at that time.
My 2012 F150 behaves this way (supposedly) - the truck will try to call 911 using your BT-connected phone in the event of a crash. I’ve assumed that’s how GM cars with Onstar worked too, using their built in cell connection.
Interestingly, when people profess a strong opinion and change their mind, this is exactly when we shouldn't be mocking them. Everything we say is due to mental/rational processes applied over data we gather, so... oftentimes it's just an opinion.

Sometimes we'll strongly believe something totally bogus (I used to believe in communism when I was a teenager). And the fact we change our mind when holding very strong beliefs is actually a sign of intellectual honesty.

Unfortunately, I see people being mocked even when transparent and respectful. But I mostly agree with you that being respectful helps receiving respect when you're wrong.
Sorry if this was such a dummy question for others.

What I meant is the default ability to open any links of Hackers news in a new tab. For example, in WordPress, we use 'new tab' option for links or plugin like this - https://wordpress.org/plugins/open-in-new-window-plugin/ so that all external links should open in the new tab.
I think the issue for me is that "pull" requires me to open up lots of services/hosts/sidecars to allow inwards connections. Thats a lot more things to monitor and test to see if its broken.

having a single dns record that I can route based on location/traffic/load/uptime autonomously is, I think, super convenient.

For example, if I want to have a single metrics config for a global service I can say: "server: metrics-host" and depending on the dns search path it'll either get the test, regional or global metrics server. (ie .local, .us-east-1 or *.company.tld)

However for most people its a single DNS record with a load balancer. When a host stops pushing metrics, you check the host aliveness score and alert.
A lot of the world has close cultural ties and a shared history with Britain for some reason.
Thanks! I'm on BSD so this is great to hear!
Super cool, not what you would typically think of when it comes to gen music!
Not sure the descriptions are ideal here, but the 4 levels selected are completely adequate for most purposes in business information systems. If someone really wanted, you could cut it down to INFO & ERROR - I secretly think of DEBUG & WARN as tolerable fluff that keeps fussy people satisfied that things are complicated enough without making a mess.

Per the article's concerns, no, I would not try to use this for auditing, metrics, or anything like that - just as a tool for devs to find out "OK what the heck is going on here?"

I just collect all my logs on a big, fast file server where I can grep the crap out of them, with way more success than I've ever had with Fancy Stack Of Whiz Bang Thingies W/ Web Interface, although I'm always willing to watch someone attempt another Fancy Stack Fail...

I recommend pressuring devs to make log messages coherent with good spelling and grammar - like anything else, it's "Write to be read," i.e. treat your reader with some respect, it's not that hard. Logs often end up thrown in the trash by sysadmins because they look like trash. It's especially hard to convince them that the logs are good enough that they can diagnose problems themselves instead of covering their eyes and asking me to look at the logs for them, and I don't entirely blame them.
> There’s just no where else to go

Yeah, that's a problem. This is literally the only marketable skill I have.
It's worth noting this kind of thing is why the Apple headset OS is designed specifically to keep eye tracking information to an OS-only layer, at least outside of traditional VR style full immersion apps.
Not to dismiss the guts of these explorers, but we have not been to the Moon in 50 years because it costs a fortune to get to when it's not much more than a floating rock (I'm being hyperbolic but the point is that there is no economic incentive to offset the cost). If we could get to it cheaply, but with a high risk of death, I'm sure many would be doing it right now.
NACS for Ford does mean a Supercharger experience.

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2023...

Allegedly once a physical adapter comes out all existing CCS Fords will be able to access the Supercharger network with Plug and Charge.
Thank you for writing this comment so I didn’t have to.

As an additional piece, customize the resume to the job description as much as possible.
If you approach college or any education with the attitude that you know everything already, you will likely learn about as much as if that were actually true.
I’m as excited about LLMs as the next guy, but I am sort of confused about stuff like this.

From the article:
“One of Casetext's key products is CoCounsel, an AI legal assistant launched in 2023 and powered by GPT-4 that delivers document review, legal research memos, deposition preparation, and contract analysis in minutes, Thomson Reuters said in a statement.”

I get using an LLM to generate code snippets or text, where a human developer or author might be able to pick out the good parts and resolve any syntactical mistakes.

But for something like contract analysis or document summary, in a profession where cases have been won and lost on something as precise as comma placement, are LLMs really useful here? Their inherent inexactitude makes me wonder.
What an amazing story! I have to admit, I was a bit apprehensive while reading through it.
I couldn’t disagree more.

Anything that does 0-60 in under 10s is fast enough for me. I’d rather have a quieter and more comfortable ride. I have an actual race car to race on an actual track and don’t need to endanger myself or others going Plaid speeds on public roadways.

I have a 5 year old Avalon Hybrid that was in the bodyshop and rented a Tesla for a month and it was awful. Brand new and it felt like I was driving a Wish.com golf cart. The only redeeming feature was the supercharger in my building.
Agreed. Not the world I live in. My default answer to almost every request from anyone for my extremely limited time is no. Maybe this is cultural or something.
I generally agree with the sentiments here, yet I think it's important to understand the value of the ".0001%" of logs that _are_ used.

Just because log utilization rates are often very low, doesn't meant that the .0001% isn't immensely valuable.
It is crash detection. It has saved some biker's lives.
> Even so, what's the point of all this money splitting?

It eliminates the most proximal cause to the SVB collapse: strongly correlated behavior by large account holders. If banks have many account holders that are diverse, it's hard enough to get a panic that causes illiquidity.

The duration risk would have still been an issue, but a far smaller issue without the need for panicked liquidation. (Even with a healthier balance sheet, most banks would struggle to endure a bank run like SVB).

> Let account holders get on with more useful work.

If you have a massive amount of money, there's a little bit more work to do than dumping it in a random bank.

Ages ago, when my firm had a $15M bank balance, it was close to trivial to work with a vendor to spread the balance among 20 banks. We were still not fully insured, but we had significant insurance and limited exposure to any individual bank failing. 20x the risk of failure, but 1/30th the cost should one happen. We could have also bought some treasuries directly.

> Apply those increased premiums retroactively to all the banks that failed recently, if feasible.

How do you charge a bank that failed and doesn't have the money to pay its depositors money?

I'm in favor of a small increase in the insurance coverage. Maybe $500k or $750k. But I don't think it's good to make bank accounts equivalent in safety to treasuries up to any amount but more liquid.
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That's why I'm still using munin, even for kubernetes clusters, even after 20 years in the business, if I should need a plugin that I wrote back then it would still work!

And I can monitor a whole k8s cluster (around 70 nodes) using 100MB of mem and 3G for storage (up to 1 year).

Keep it simple!!
Not quite sure what you mean by "mind manifestation"? MDMA has significant impacts on your emotional and mental state, and also causes strong audiovisual hallucinations, disorientation and loss of self. What extra experiential effects would you ascribe to a classic psychedelic that aren't found in non-psychedelics?

Generally there's either the experiential (e.g. do you hallucinate?) definition, which regards MDMA, THC etc as psychedelics or the receptor-based definition, which excludes them.
According to thr article postgres supports multidimensional vectors
As with a lot of these dystopian predictions, I think it falls apart at the complete lack of ad blockers.
> I don't see how this works to their advantage

It probably doesn't, apart from some kind of bragging rights about how their charge connector standard won in North America (which however facile, is important to the most zealous among their customer base).

Tesla was forced to open their charging network to become eligible for federal tax credits. If Tesla starts preferencing or discounting charging for their cars in their network going forward, they will lose those credits and perhaps get in other trouble.

Given that, they are making the best of the situation by partnering with their competitors, who themselves failed to have Tesla's foresight about the importance of a comprehensive charging network - even after Tesla clearly demonstrated the value in that. Remember, VW was forced to create Electrify America as part of the Dieselgate settlement.
None of the justices ruled in favor of ISL. The 3 dissents were all because the north carolina supreme court became a republican held institution and overturned the original ruling, making the case moot in their opinion.
If 911 calls go up by an order of magnitude (or more) due to a bug in a device that 25% of the population has, then yes that's a problem as there likely aren't enough 911 operators to handle the increased load.
My company does a lot of things the dumbest way possible but they’re always been good at tracing service requests and telemetry. Any time correlation IDs were missing was considered a regression. And we are quick to agree to action items that increase visibility from a postmortem. The one complaint I have is we don’t move things out of Splunk into graphs as fast as I’m comfortable with.

But the thing I see we are all missing for telemetry is a sense of coverage. We changed backends last year and as we were wrapping that up I found big chunks of code that were missing coverage. Meanwhile we found a bunch of stats that nobody looks at, meaning the SNR goes down over time. There are only so many dashboards I can watch.

So some sense of code blocks missing telemetry, and data that is collected but has no queries, queries that exist but never run (that dashboard nobody remembers making and isn’t in the runbooks anywhere) would be a great goal for a next level of maturity.
Nobody knows why some people are obese and some aren't. It may start with willpower and then reinforce metabolism, sure. Or maybe you caught a virus when you were two years old that disposed you to be fat for life. Or for whatever reason, a specific flora of gut bacteria grew in your belly. We just don't know yet.
I guess that's fair. I don't really run any numbers when I update my beliefs because usually the "winning" hypothesis enjoys near-saturation of my trusted sources and often the "plausible but novel rationalization" turns out to be a unique snowflake in the landscape.

If I notice the same novel argument getting picked up from somewhat-independent multiple directions I revisit it and apply a more rigorous rethink. This is what I mean by a "statistical" approach. Perhaps some other word would have been better.

I do, however, pretty regularly sit down with some graph paper or an envelope and review/diversify my trusted sources.
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The issue is that a technology becomes required for membership in society.

15 years ago you could reasonably tell someone "if you don't like it, then don't get a cell phone" but today that advice is no longer reasonable for cell phones. If AR ends up being a practical technology, we'll face the same issue in the future.
Hey, yes we have the transactionupdate webhook that is triggered when new transactions are available to fetch: https://docs.letsfuse.com/reference/transactionsupdates

Here's an example webhook:
{
type: 'transactions.updates',
financial_connection_id: "financial_connection_id",
environment: "sandbox",
source: "teller",
//Boolean indicating whether historical transaction information (up to 24 months) is ready to be queried.
historical_transactions_available: true,
//An array of string transaction ids indicated the transactions that have been removed and will not be available if the transactions are queried again. Currently only supported by plaid
removed_transaction_ids: [
"tx_1234",
"tx_5677"
]
remote_data: {}
}
Maccy ( https://maccy.app/ ) is a clipboard manager for Mac and by Clicking ALT+M , it shows all the recent copied texts in a popup.
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Nothing more frustrating than going to a full charger with a line and driving over to another place that's open just for it to charge your card but fail to initialize.
Luckily all the CCS chargers I've charged at which were installed within the last year or so had regular credit card terminals which I could pay with phone tap to pay or EMV chipped cards.
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