skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the local road taxes that EV chargers pay equivalent to gas? I don't own an EV, so I don't know. If EV doesn't include the same taxes then it seems like the majority of the cost benefits of owning an EV amount to simply avoiding taxes for roads, schools, etc.

Quick google search found: https://www.cbs8.com/article/traffic/gas-prices/gap-between-...

Which yields:

1. 54 cents in state excise tax: among the highest in the nation

2. 18.4 cents in federal excise tax

3. 23 cents for California's cap-and-trade program to lower greenhouse gas emissions

4. 18 cents for the state's low-carbon fuel programs

5. 2 cents for underground gas storage fees

6. An average of 3.7% in state and local sales taxes

Removing 3, 4, and 5 seems like a pretty decent gain. But the others are pretty hefty. Unsure how these are added into EVs?
Let's say you have SwingButton and FLTKButton. I'd have a common Button that uses the fancy new pattern matching features.

I like me some if statements. Debugger friendly.
> Most of us have an intuitive notion of NM already. I remember having the notion that if I threw a rock, it accelerated for a time after leaving my hand, before decelerating. I was disabused of that in physics class.

And it took a long time for people to figure that out (or how you see, or tons of other "intuitive" concepts). IMHO, if you had to chose only door one or door two, it would be better for students to leave school with an understanding of what the scientific process is (not even baconian scientific method) rather than the idea that science has some sort of weird epistemology of "facts" and "non-facts". The worst and loudest Gradgrinds of STEM education policy clearly have no idea of this.
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Would you please report that user (if you haven’t already) to the OpenSUSE moderators? This is very much not the community we are trying to build!
I'm going to start calling construction apprenticeships "builder builders".
Its one of the primal needs.

Its why some companies are so effective at selling Veblen goods to status seekers.

When I was growing up, I got abercrombie/american eagle because it was cool to girls. Today teens get Apple/Nike products.

Not that any of these actually change your status, but the marketers were able to sell that idea/feeling.

As an adult, you see people buying/leasing Tesla's or more expensive cars to do the same thing.

People desperate for social acceptance, which leads to girls, will pay anything. I get it, I used to spend half my time looking for girls before I got married. (other half of my time school, presumably so I could always get a gold digger if need be.)

Can you tell I was ugly growing up? (Lift weights my pals, it changed everything)
Here's the entire script that determines the commit message:

const ems = [ ':)' , ':-o' , ':(' ]; // etc

process.stdout.write(ems[Math.floor(Math.random() * ems.length)]);

Sometimes I'll see a carnival tent or horse face during a late night coding session and think to myself, "Wow this emoji perfectly captures how I'm feeling right now!"

I know it's stupid, but it makes me smile :)
A walled garden prevents you from doing a lot of things, not just over architecting. It inhibits the top tier engineers as much as the bottom tier ones.
Instagram offered the same system (pay for blue check) shortly after twitter. But yes, they didn't revoke anyone's existing tick or make it a prerequisite for future "notable" people.
Objective truth is a casualty of the culture war. Pervasive censorship precludes reliance upon the scientific method because it’s impossible to have confidence results are truthfully reported. Faith and tradition are the most true among what’s left.
1. Get rid of the JavaScript. All of it. If you need JavaScript, you're doing it wrong.

2. Information density is way too low, the entire page could fit on one 1080p monitor.

3. I don't know what I'm even looking at immediately after opening the page. What is the information you want to convey? Put it front and center on the page, make it the first thing I see. That interactive text box is useless to me, because I don't know what anything is.

4. Gray text on white background is an insult to peoples' eyes. Use black text on white for maximum readability. You're trying to convey information here, this is not an art piece for your high school project.
I'm familiar with the GPL -- one of the key provisions is that users can redistribute the code -- whether RedHat decides to release one version or zero versions of their code should not prevent anybody from redistributing that code when there is an associated binary.

Yes you can charge people for that binary and sell the code as well, but if somebody takes the code and redistributes it and even sells it, then they also have to allow others to distribute it -- its like a river of open source that everybody benefits from. Maybe I'm missing the magic sentence in the GPLv2 or v3 license that says something like "if your user takes the code you provided that was under GPL license and sells it, you can sue to stop them."

If RHEL succeeds in creating a model that other companies clone where because they provided valuable work they get to stop others from getting a copy of their source code, then the GPL license is basically dead.
Oppenheimer, Nullified and Vindicated
The portion on HN users that are happy Facebook users would be interesting to know.

My perception is that a lot here have accounts (though less than the portion of society at large), but few use them much.

Not sure how to get actual data on this though.
I just don’t know why much of the Lisp ecosystem is closed/commercial, like if you wanna do Common lisp you have to pay for Lisp Works. Could it be one reason for Lisp’s low popularity? If I want to pick up Python now, there’s amazing free tooling for it. If I want to pick up Common lisp, well …
It hurts the trust mostly.

If they cannot handle basic things like PGP correctly, how should I trust other part of their software. Especially they are a "Privacy-first" company.

"Privacy" becomes a marketing term nowadays.
I use Copilot via the VSCode plugin.

It really does help, but most every code review reveals some slight issues with something that it has generated, be it syntax, nomenclature, what have ya.

Still more beneficial than detrimental for me.
I'm in the process of doing this now, using Postmark's SMTP relay. Hopefully one day I'll meet their requirements for not retaining logs:

1. Account must be Approved and in good standing for at least 6 months

2. Account must be on a paid monthly plan for 6 consecutive months (or have purchase credits)

3. Account must have a lifetime sending volume of over 10,000 messages

https://postmarkapp.com/smtp-service

https://postmarkapp.com/support/article/1139-can-i-hide-or-d...
I have this quote bookmarked, about ERPS:

"Most companies spend way too much time and money trying to make software work for their processes. Some of these processes haven't changed in years or even decades. Rather than customizing software to work for your processes, it's often easier to reevaluate processes around modern software."

You can have your ERP customized, but you cannot have your cake and eat it (without cost). Ramping up new trading partners, onboarding new staff, whatever it is.

One reason accounting people have it easier than us tech people is they've got a very good clear process. It's rare that anyone mucks with Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable / Payroll.

So yeah, go on pretending your SMB that manufactures/ships/resells/distributes product/service _________ is unique and needs your own processes, it _will_ bite you in the butt.
yes it does. the phrase OP used was likely a reference to this Apple issue, not that PM is literally doing this
While the 13/15 had poor build, the Librem 14 is quite well built and the most secure laptop on the market today (outside of proprietary closed-source.)
uh - is it a legit, say, interview experience - or is participating in such teams, which are unpaid, just a harvesting of free ideas for DARPA?

Or a secret recruiting method to weed-out those who wont pull whatever narrative is rq'd around said *'needs of the department head'*?
This looks like exactly what I've been looking for. I just want strong typing, json <-> struct and validation. Seems like it ticks all the boxes + speed benefits which is always nice. I especially find it useful that I can use messagepack for internal service chatter but still support json for external stuff and dump astuple to sqlite.
> Yeah but jupyter notebooks suck at providing reproducible data science.

Why? I have no problem with reproducibility when I use a little bit of discipline.

Your workflow does indeed sound nice but also sounds like it involves way more tooling and institutional knowledge. Anywhere I can learn more about it or see the scripts you use?
I had to leave during COVID due to a layoff in 2020. I still defend SF (and California) because all of what you said. It makes it impossible to work on the ground to make any changes. I remember a particular NIMBY resistance against a safe use site in 2019 that brought out a number of them with all the shadowy work you describe. It's so frustrating.
GPL3 kinda cleans this up a bit, doesn't it?
I think they are using the AI to generate test data but the site is so obtuse I am not sure. When I hear performance my first thought is throughout, latency and such. If it were a search engine people might consider accuracy as a kind of “performance” and if it were selling stuff the effectiveness it has at that could also be considered “performance”. (e.g. a salesperson gets “performance-based” pay.)

So they are doing really bad at explaining themselves and it’s particularly dangerous in a field like A.I. that attracts so many bullshitters.
The first claim is not true. The second claim is a dishonest distortion of facts. It is an "indirect" greenhouse gas whereby it extends the life of methane in the atmosphere. This is a pretty meaningless thing to say because it is directly replacing methane. So the more hydrogen we use, the less global warming there will be.
They were assimilated.
s/with/against!
Until your comment I didn’t think about that Streisand Effect Elon Musk brought on by filing that lawsuit over Threads. And his tweeting about it.
that’s what the author said a bit further down.

> And if you look straight down while lifting a weight, your back and neck will do bad things they were never supposed to do.
Lisps have linkage via symbols. Loading a shared library on Unix via dlopen() is just a frankenstein version of loading a compiled Lisp file.

Linkage is a very abstract concept; it just means name references in this piece here connect with name definitions in that piece over there. The tech may change, but the concept won't easily go away.

Function bindings being established or replaced, and used by code in other files, is linkage.

If you load a proprietary compiled file (.fasl or whatever) into a GPLed Lisp program/image such that either uses symbols in the other, that is a GPL violation.

However, a given Lisp can spell out exceptions to the rule. Like that a proprietary module may be used, provided it only uses certain symbols (in the module -> program direction), and certain registration mechanisms for its code being hooked in (program -> module direction). If it uses GPL symbols then it must be GPLed. Likewise, if the program is hacked to bypass the GPL-free module registration mechanism, so that it calls some proprietary symbols directly, that is also a GPL violation.

Same as Linux kernel .ko modules, basically. If you hack the kernel to call some function in a proprietary .ko, then that's a tainting situation. A .ko calling non-GPL functions, likewise. A proprietary .ko's module_init function being called by the kernel is not a GPL violation, and that module_init calling a non-GPL symbol to register something is also okay.
The first thing is a prompt to enter a Swagger definition url. Without context, how do I know if I am singing up for DDoS as a service or something legit? It doesn't tell what it does but prompts me...
Between tax software and security software, I really need to shift careers into something so boring and bureaucratic that all I do every day is stamp my seal on random requirements documents that meet some qualification. Imagine working at Avatax and just getting money hand over foot because the US can't make a decent tax code system
Feel free to point to a single example of restricting the right to vote in a Democratic society improving that society.

Hell I would love to hear an example of such a restriction that wasn't beneficial to a particular part of society.

This isn't a "need better rules" thing it is a "access to voting is not our problem" thing.
The US military is planning for a war with almost everyone. Arming and mobilization is another matter, and the construction of the new “divert air field” on Tinian is an example of kinetic preparation for war (rather than theoretical planning).
It’s getting re-litigated now, if you missed it the first time. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-sues-law-fi...
These days I get riled up about the word "technical" and the general absence of risk in these conversations about "debt". I wrote a long post [1], which basically says:

1. The "Technical" word pigeonholes responsibility to the "technical" people. This creates all manner of problems (management, strategy, resource allocation etc.). It ought to be seen as "Software" debt, because the whole software company owns it.

2. Software debt packages risk. We need better mental models of that risk.

- This perception is commonly muddied by personal bias---how we think of finances and debt in our daily lives.

- However, it requires thinking like a strategist and/or economist (much more abstract, nuanced terms). The trouble is that the "debt" is rooted in complexity, which, like rocket mass, is inevitable. And we abhor it because solving for complexity is like solving for rocket mass; requires recursive tree-networked thinking.

- The debt is also inevitable because we want some complexity (rocket mass). It's just that it needs be the exact kind we need, which choice-making is difficult.

- This sort of complexity-debt always compounds and each decision to add or remove items from any part of the system changes the principal and the rate of interest and the repayment terms.

- It is layered because software parts compose into software "stacks" and hierarchies, and each part mutates/evolves up and down the towers.

- It is networked. Because software itself is networked. Small local changes can turn into literal chain reactions of events. The meltdown of Knight Capital stands out starkly as an example of unmitigated, un-hedged software debt.

Ultimately, the "debt" part of "software debt" is better seen as if it were a complex opaque financial derivative. Unchecked creation of software debt is exactly analogous to how the 2008 financial crisis came to be. It's all composed of "simple" debt.

Much as I dislike all this doom-speak, I have to acknowledge it is material, and to side with Andy Grove. Only the paranoid survive.

The only real hedge we have is the creativity and intelligence of our people.

More at my blog post here: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/software-debt/
This already exists. One example posted elsewhere in these comments is tst-reflect[1], with which you can write this:

const fooType = getType<Foo>();

Which is exactly what you wanted, just as a plugin to TypeScript rather than built into the official compiler.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tst-reflect
>That being said, it's also obvious that a criminal isn't really a good authority on the justness of the crime they commit...

How is that obvious? It's not at all obvious to me that, for example, MLK Jr was not an authority on the justice of civil disobedience because he himself practiced civil disobedience.

If we disregard the opinions of people who think doing X is justified and therefore proceed to do X, then we bias ourselves toward the opinions of people who oppose X, as they will be overrepresented in the sample of people who choose not to do X.

Such cherry picking is not a logically sound method for developing an honest, unbiased worldview.
It’s okay, I don’t think I’m very funny either
It’d be interesting to know, aren’t the people who have vested interests such as owning propery in SF the same people claiming a new boom on the horizon?
>>> About a fifth of the women’s names in the brothel indicate they were free.

Can anyone explain this?
I scrolled on mobile and took 3 seconds to appear. Awful ;)
Right, we need a longitudinal study.
Could you adapt this to finding fast inverses?
It costs money and attention to insist on full headers. Unless the lawyers think there's something worth digging for, technical details would be omitted from copies just like they are in your email GUI.

And, on the other hand, either party can demand the other prove via live witness that the evidence is authentic, reliable and useful. If the witness isnt credible, the document can be excluded.
Definitely some interesting features there. I'm actually a little surprised that Reddit never used karma as a virtual currency of any sort. It seems almost like a no-brainer from an engagement perspective.
Just use SBCL - https://www.sbcl.org/

Pick an editor: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...

Good enough for games (and other commercial offerings) - https://kandria.com/
How ironic that Strom Thurmond had anything to do with any limits on tenure for such posts...

This guy was in grifting senate/etc for 48!!!!! YEARS...

https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-strom-thurmond/micha... (I do not know if these are true - but its not the first time hearing about some of these allegations)
This isn't far from the truth. Have you seen the list of App Store data collection permissions it requests? For what amounts in functionality to little more than a terminal session to a BBS? Holy shit. I verified it's longer than TikTok's which is widely assumed to be a hostile state-backed surveillance tool at this point.

For Threads, the following may be "collected and linked to your identity":

Health & Fitness

Purchases

Financial info

Location

Contact info

Contacts

User content

Search history

Browsing history

Identifiers

Usage data

Sensitive Info - whatever the hell that is [1]

Diagnostics

And my favorite, "other data" I.e. it collects so much we don't even have a category for it

[1] Apple's definition includes: racial/ethnic data, sexual orientation, pregnancy or childbirth information, disability, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, political opinion, genetic information, or biometric data

I'm sure there's a valid reason for all this...
Probably won’t matter, but maybe it’d be advantageous to pretend it will. “Burn your ships” so to speak.
I assume you are working on a side (now full-time) project in order to accomplish a specific goal. Perhaps it is to make money. Wouldn't it be better to be optimistic and focus on it being successful? Thus not needing to look for a job in the future?
For others: this is the classic Out of the Tar Pit paper, which I also adore so so much. It promotes very explicit state management and functional programming to reduce accidental complexity.

our friend ChatGPT summarizes the paper thus:

"In summary, "Out of the Tar Pit" argues for a shift in software design principles, advocating for the reduction of accidental complexity through functional programming and dataflow concepts, proper state management, and the use of formal methods. By focusing on these principles, the authors believe that software systems can be made simpler, more robust, and easier to understand and maintain."
Can I at least have 8 stones?
And the concept of intuition is discussed in ch22 of thinking fast and slow (can’t find my copy atm) with regards to how firefighters are able to make those split second decisions.

If you’re interested/havent already read: https://stenzelclinical.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Kahne...
I disagree with you. Facebook, instagram, telegram, and discord are all very different. People use them in different contexts for different reasons.

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Discord, Youtube, Twitch all have specific niches in which they are dominant and cannot be unseated except through their own fault.

Messaging apps are a little more loose, I’ll give you that.
Yes, but Disney also had a Registered Trademark on Mickey Mouse, so any usage of the photo has to be in accordance with that representation.
Build something more impressive than you would work on while employed and it’s probably a plus. Following your interests (if you have the privilege to do so) can result in some really cool / impressive work to show off later.
Some engineers see a chain of if statements as the problem, others see it as the solution. Who’s right is very subjective.
So what? I'm sure the US military has a plan somewhere to invade Canada or the Antarctic. That's what they do.
Re: notebook in the attic, one of the things I've recommended historical societies do is conduct public scanning days so that individuals/families can preserve their pics and docs and at the same time share them in a curated collection with DPLA (dp.la), Digital Public Library of America. Few organizations are interested. I've never expected them to drop everything to do it, but I at least expect them to contemplate broader community engagement, increasing membership, generating interest in families beyond those already interested in genealogy, etc.
Editor usually chooses the title. Editor is incompetent.

(Dunno if krebs is a one man show or not)
> For business travel I’m not going to risk it.

Things just as simple as arriving become major pains. "Oh the key code isn't working, I'm sorry, I'll send the handyman to meet you, he's at dinner then he's 40 minutes away so he'll be there in two hours."

I'm on vacation, I want to show up when I show up. Hotels are nice because you can just check in when you get there.

After one key code box that wasn't working and another where they were clearly renting the airbnb in secret from their neighbors and had a bunch of rules like no carrying your luggage through the common areas (um, okay how are we supposed to bring our stuff in then?), I'm done with airbnb.

Hotels might not be as sexy but at least they functionally work.
The combined net worth of all billionaires in Portugal[1] is about 10% of annual government spending [2].

So to within a rounding error, no, it's a poor country full of poor people with an irrelevant number of billionaires. You could destroy all foreign investment and future growth by confiscating literally all of their wealth for 1 year of modestly higher government spending.

[1] https://profilbaru.com/article/List_of_Portuguese_by_net_wor..., ignoring people who nominal "citizens" but live and hold money elsewhere.

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/275337/government-revenu....
They only encrypt mail by default when it stays within Proton’s domain.
It's definitely good enough for Google: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/yes-google-develops-comm...