skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no technical reason the charging networks couldn't just swipe cards like gas pumps and almost all of them decided that they needed (weird, terrible) custom apps and (overly complicated) sign up procedures.

Setting up the charging points on the current networks in my experience happens in phone apps and you couldn't use the car's screen if you wanted to anyway.

As everything moves to NACS in the US "plug-and-charge" should get a lot more common where you don't need to fiddle with a charging point's network's app any longer, because the car stores your payment info for you and transmits it when you plug in.
What you are not understanding is how corps are selling fonts. The Font is garbage.
I appreciate that the playground frontend is just a streamlit app.
If they pay the VAT to any EU country, they don’t need to pay it again.

I often order stuff from Germany because their VAT for computer stuff is lower than here.
I tripped, almost lost my grip on the door, was dragged along for a few feet, managed to haul myself up, and eventually jump into my seat and managed to push the clutch in, drop it into gear, and release the clutch, and it was purring like a kitten at the bottom of the hill.
This is exciting.

Execution is everything, including the buttons. Someone designing this might also want to look at the Trackpoint buttons from before Lenovo switched to flat keyboards, and see the tactile merits of that (even when combined with flat keyboards).
Meta saved us from ClosedAi (OpenAi) having full control over this industry
Exactly-
You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).
I'll keep explore the world and its secrets instead, there is something I must do
The biggest harm came from the government grift and 30-40% inflation that came from all the printed money
For sure — a lot of language features need to be generic. But most people aren’t coding language features, and giving them the ability to do so can lead to, well, CodeFactoryFactoryMakerGenericMethodHelpersFactory, rather than good, clear, usable code.
No, but given limited time, it makes sense to evaluate whether a source is (edit: heavily) biased or a crackpot before spending attention on them.
Are any of those things bad by themself or in combination?
If it's too hard to detect, management doesn't have much choice.

It would be smarter for that feature to require a manager's key, and then the manager could actively monitor the situation. But since the manager can't implement that feature, they have to work with what they have.
HN seems to be a Leftist discussion forum that's anti-economic science, among other stances, including anti-biology.
These stories are wonderful:

Excerpts:

> “And she realized… she left money on the table.”

> And Sandy gulped and picked the biggest number she thought anybody would ever rationally pay. And said, “$75,000”. And she said all the buyer did was write down $75,000.

> And she realized, shit, she left money on the table. Sandy Kurtzig was awesome. And she said, “Per year.”

> And the buyer wrote down, “Per year.”

> And she went, oh, crap what else? She said, “There’s maintenance.”

> He said, “How much?”

> “25 percent per year.”

> And he said, “That’s too much.”

> She said, “15 percent.”

> And he said, “OK.”

> [Ed: This is called “flinch pricing.”]

----

> They said, how much is it?

> And I was about to go, “$75,000…” And Gina goes, “Shut up I’m the salesperson.” She said, “A million dollars.”

> ... And the guy looks at Gina and said, “Gina you’re out of your mind. We don’t pay more than $675,000.”

> And Gina said, “All right. We’ll let you have it for $675,000.” ... “But that’s for the base module. What other ones would you like?”
Ultimately, doesn't take much work when they tried very hard to preserve the Nordstrom Valet Parking lot over building a tower block there haha. In the end, Nordstrom left too, so now it's all just blight.
This very thing happened to me, and I was very pleasantly surprised with how this worked. It definitely took some of the embarrassment away from being a dolt
> Most people pick up a library that generates the types and validations for you to solve this. Which works but it's kind of weird that you have to.

Why would it?

Which static languages include automatic parsing at boundaries? Elm sort of does on ports, but that's like the only example I can think of, I'm perfectly sure that I may not know enough about it.
> I intentionally cited an example of someone having access to great density and transit (NYC) but making a different choice

...Did you? I read "you can live in NYC car-free, but many (most?) people move out to the burbs once they have a family", which is not that. It is a claim which ignores:

1. the fact that "many" vs "most" can be colossal - "many" could be 1%.

2. housing being cheaper in the suburbs, which is pretty important for people raising children on a budget

Regarding car ownership... that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the auto industry's lobbying to criminalize pedestrianism (jaywalking is a crime invented to sell cars), to rip out existing transit infrastructure, to block the development of new transit infrastructure (this still happens today lol), to inundate and normalize the idea of car = freedom (even though it's the opposite for day-to-day use) to the public so that we forget we even used to have public transit, to lobby for zoning laws that literally outlaw any kind of city planning that makes it possible to survive without a car in almost the entire continent.
What does your stylus do in a web browser when you drag it?

Used to be it selected text, now it scrolls (which can be easily be done via touch).

These days to select text w/ a stylus you have to press-hold to get a selection.

Do you use any legacy applications? They don't work anymore, unless one disables Windows Ink or enables the option to use stylus as a mouse.
It's fine not to give them public credit for in-house only things, but in this subthread we're speculating about whether Llama 2 would be useful to them, which does depend heavily on the quality of their internal models.
> Every Apple product post reliably brings this same tiresome comment. Most people don’t need (...)

Why are you trying to argue that the baseline specs from 10 years ago are somehow still acceptable today in supposedly high-end product lines?

I can buy a miniPC for 300€ and stick 32GB of RAM in it. Why are you arguing that this is absurd in MacBooks?

This takes corporate worship to another level.

> The memory upgrade prices are competitive with high-end Lenovo and Surface laptops.

Bullshit. They even solder components just to prevent people from actually avoiding price gouging.
>HBO already was a premium service that had demonstrated they were able to produce content people were willing to pay for but...is anyone really shocked that CNN didn't have enough draw to maintain a profitable streaming service?

To be fair to CNN, the creation of that service was a weird saga where an outgoing CEO wanted to push it front and center as a pet project and spent an enormous amount of money on it.

But then when he was forced to leave due to a scandal just as the service launched, the incoming CEO had no love for his predecessor's pet project. So he pulled the plug immediately after all the money had already been spent.

Its a textbook example of the C-suite not actually caring about the business as a whole. Maybe the product could have been successful (although it is hard to see how people would pay for a product they don't want to consume when its free), but due to circumstances unrelated to the product, it never got a fair shot.
A lot of commentary here on HN about this as an "office vs remote" thing but my read is much more a "large organization" vs "small organization" thing.

"We want to ship and try as many things as possible" is often the only way to survive as a small new growing company in a competitive market. But it's rarely what companies maximize for when they're big and successful. The politics and theater comes from normal human interactions in a large group with a lot of intentional overlap/redundancy and not a lot of existential pressure. The org wants to be robust against any individuals leaving, they want to have teams ready to go in case they do need to move quickly in response to something, but most of the time they're just spinning wheels and keeping the money printers going. Remote work isn't going to prevent those dynamics, or the need to make sure you appear to be valuable through all that. If you fail at the "appearing valuable" game in an org like that, you're gonna be at the top of the list to cut when growth slows and the company hits the "reorgs and layoffs" part of the script.

The more intrinsically motivated, "let's directly do impactful things!", sort of person can easily end up bouncing themselves off the wrong incentives for years in an org like this.
NYC has bad traffic, and more cabs/ubers/etc cause traffic waiting around for fares by driving around, is hardly controversial or propaganda.
There's no such thing as unbiased. The pertinent question is whether they're telling truths or lies.
Ha that’s not actually happening though because college admissions aren’t going to be based in knowledge but on ability to jump through hoops perfectly
"No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun."

Tame Impala's Currents is an album written around the same age with a similar theme in mind, and fittingly part of the new guard of psych rock/psychedelia.
As someone who grew up and live around farms, trust me. It's not just a handful of farmers for most things you eat, unless it's literally just corn, wheat, and soy. So many fruits and vegetables still rely on hand picking as so many automated processes damage the produce.

And as others mentioned, you're then ignoring all the steps between the field and the plate. I guess you see the chef at the restaurant or the person stocking the shelves as non-human?
I think default values are a major flaw, much worse than nil. An unintended default value causes data corruption. All types should be nillable in my opinion, using types that have fallback to a default value is source of nasty silent bugs. In Java for example I would never use a primitive data type.
If there is money available the choices will appear. When it stops being about the building and government curriculum and starts becoming about satisfying parents desire to have their child educated, anybody can become a teacher or organize a school. If the teacher fails to deliver the parents will go elsewhere.

The free market for schools and teachers is created the moment Department of Education is eliminated and replaced with education vouchers for all.
Big surprise that an organization like this would adopt an anti-lockdown stance.

Not saying they're ultimately wrong, but it's good to know what their biases are in order to put things in context.
Maybe true but that won't get them a calculus credit on their transcript.

> The reality is for these students, "standard" middle and high school math is mind-numbingly boring.
>The best outcome would be that the best schools and teachers use the surplus time to teach stuff that's off-curriculum like logic, discrete math, stats, programming, etc.

This is also true I was one of these students. My middle school did almost exactly this. They had a per algebra class that explored all sorts of random topics. We did things like clock math, and observed how these other mathematical systems did or did not observe things like the associative property. It was amazing because it made math more than just doing calculations. This class is still one of my fondest educational memories.
Did Sweden end up worse off with no lockdown?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/opinion/sweden-pandemic-c...
How to Pivot Your Startup
> What would be the benefit of completely outsourcing this to a smartphone?

I already have a smartphone, which I chose and replace when it stops getting security updates. Additionally I already essentially use my smartphone to find gas stations in unfamiliar areas. Why does the source of power necessitate IOT?

> You need the app on the smartphone. That's your remote starter.

I worked for a company that made an ebike that you used your phone to start. I hated it. If your phone is dead, so is your bike. I shouldn't need a phone to start my car.
Oh wow this is such an idiotic article I do not know what to say. One of the excuses they used is that hey the virus is already here and spreading so why the lockdowns?
> Microsoft makes fine enterprise software, sadly.

Hum, no they don't. They make shit and use anti-competitive practices to push every other offering out of the market.

The fact that you only see experimental alternatives without the maturity to get any polish is caused by them destroying the competition, not the reason they won.
You are against poor people not having school choice? Rich people already have that choice. Giving poor people choice is the right thing to do.
This depends a lot on the state & county. Where I used to live in VA & NC, property taxes went to the local district to spend, and the wealthier schools had better programs & facilities. In CA, where I live now, property taxes are aggregated at the county level and doled out to districts based purely on student population. Superficially, this results in rough parity when it comes to government-funded services (things like lunches, Pre-K, music/PE/libraries/art/etc). However, this all falls apart because of the piece that can't be controlled this way: direct parent contribution. Some bay area schools receive >$1000/kid/year in direct parent support, not to mention volunteerism. These schools will always do better than ones without this, and not just because of the $. The $ & time investment makes the parents even more vested in how schools spend, and the outcomes.
Wait, did you actually write "[random name]"?
It is new, but it would be interesting to see a list of customers using the system.

One concern is that Email is designed to be highly modular in the UNIX sense. Does this eliminate some of this modularity? For, instance can I still use Dovecot for IMAP, POP3 if I want?
As someone who did all of it and ended up majoring in engineering, in my opinion calc is the least practical of the senior high school math courses— geometry and data management (stats/probability) are both much more likely to be useful to normal people doing their taxes, understanding elections, fitting furniture into rooms, whatever.

That said, I think calculus is helpful in the way that learning a niche programming language is helpful: it teaches you about new kinds of abstractions, how to think in a different way, and gives particular language with which to talk about that kind of thing.
SMTP2GO has been working pretty well for me for the last few years, First 1000 emails/month are free.
Yes I use mite.de
Can Europe Be Carbon Neutral Through Sequestration?
odbc defines multilingual interface that can accept both null terminated and length bounded strings by using NTS sentinel value for null terminated string length.
> Nowadays, more and more websites are moving towards replacing the text links with icons. And some of these icons are so simple and abstract that sometimes it is hard to tell what they even mean!

Indeed. Not just websites, either. A similar trend has taken hold in applications, and it's awful.
How about something better?

Anyone who's there past series A/B of a upward trajectory company is basically deadweight.

Having worked in the past at a tech unicorn, I'll say that the quality of talent that came in later was atrocious. They came from big tech and other impressive places, but they were so rigid and inflexible to work with.. Everything needed "process" or had to be so clear (like following Lego build instructions) otherwise they couldn't operate. I don't wish to bring up a cringe military analogy, but I do believe us early folks had a operator mindset where we understood the mission end goal and executed on it. These guys need calendars, notes, a million SaaS tools, to just ship a new feature that adds a button that makes an API call.

I'm talking software "ENGINEERS" (key word) who spent more time making BS documents that nobody read or found much value in (literally never viewed by anyone else). The worst part were the big tech managers who came in later and just made the place a hellhole to work where nothing got done anymore.

I honestly believe that the future success of the company was only possible due to 90% of the work being done by the 10% who were there early. These later stage employees were just show we were growing on paper.

Honestly that experience has ruined working at companies for me. I just can't do it anymore, especially with people like that who are just bad, full stop period fin. And it sucks to just collect a check because its too easy.
probably just long enough to ruin downtown for a good decade or more
Your incredulity is a bit odd, given that GPT-4 is somewhat numerate, and can compare magnitudes and add/subtract.

You’re directionally right I suppose, in that LLMs have a structural disadvantage due to the architecture and don’t always get the correct answer. But you seem to be claiming that a LLM could never do maths, which is trivially false.

https://chat.openai.com/share/69e4e673-ba78-412a-a8a7-a1b2f8...
Please don’t mistake me for someone having merely theoretical objections. I wrote BASIC code in the 1980s; both games and utility software. It is precisely because I did those things that I object to any BASIC lacking functions. The BASIC I used lacked functions, and I remember it being very difficult to do what I can now call abstractions and subroutines. This would have been vastly more easy if the BASIC I used had had user-defined proper functions.
Can we please not do this with every new chatbot out there?

LLMs have no visibility into their own workings. The results of asking a LLM about itself are unreliable and honestly, uninteresting.
Because they don't want to learn.
Comparison with Emacs: an awesome operating system that still needs a great editor.

Go: amazing tooling/libs, only needs a great language :-)

But a few tweaks, like proper Enums and a Option/Return Type (to avoid excessive err != nil), maybe a compilerflag to force dealing with errors (instead of _ it) - much better. If I can wish for something, then some native map/filter/reduce to avoid excessive for-loops…? :-)
My Toronto high school was like this, back in the early 2000s.
“Lucene HNSW is the future and (pure) vector DB vendors are in trouble.”
This article immediately claims that the Asian Flu in question was far deadlier than COVID. This is categorically false.

In fact, it's not even close. The article claims 116k US deaths attributable to the Asian flu. Meanwhile, there were 10x that number of excess US deaths during the COVID pandemic.

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

As others have pointed out, the AIER is a conservative think-tank. I don't know where they're getting their casualty numbers from, but it's not from any reputable source.

This is clearly biased garbage.

Edit: COVID directly caused 1.1 million verified deaths in the USA. We were second in the world in COVID deaths as a percentage of the population.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Same is true in the OKR world, but your most productive are leaving because they don't want to play the game or perform theater. You still end up with demoralizing situations as people who don't want to play the review game are going to lose.
I lived in a country like that. The "rural hike" was a Big Deal: you'd wake up early, pack your lunches carefully, take a bus, then train, then another train, and eventually arrive. Then hike for a nice, long time (having hike time < commute time seems such a waste), and go back home the same way. By that time, you'd be pretty exhausted, nothing else "big" would get done this day, and you'd take the next day easy too. And you probably would not want to do this too often.. maybe choose a more boring local park instead. In the dense city, one is likely only half an hour away.

Compared to that, now every time I drive to a remote hike it blows my mind how much stuff gets done -- the distance is the same, but it's just a long-ish morning trip. You can hike for a bit, then get back home, get groceries on the way, have lunch, and have the whole evening free. And you are not limited to destinations next to the train line either!

(One thing I miss however is the ability to enter into the forest on one train station, and exit on another one. It's pretty nice when you don't have to do a loop)
Honestly, to add on to what you said, it's amazing about the lack of domain knowledge that developers and product owners have in making systems for people.

For the clerks and workers using the POS, it's often more of a hinderence than it is a help. When you look at less technically reliant societies (i.e. market places in Asia) you'll see this more often. Prices are negotiated, they can be their own warehouse, smaller companies work together (your package getting from maker, middleman, aliexpress to your door is incredibly complex but they can make it happen within 2-3 weeks).
Why Washington gas prices are the nation’s highest
If you’re joking, good one. If you’re not, please explain how you can make this claim?
There already was a chip on the shoulder of a large number of American and that has been fed and grown by certain media and social channels specifically to undermine trust in institutions and checks on power. The lockdown (that wasn't locked down) was just more fuel on that well-feed fire.
I don't follow this debate closely. In the late 1970s, I had the option to take algebra in 8th grade. I was stunned that I was selected, because I was terrible at arithmetic, and honestly I still am. I got Cs, maybe a B every now and then, in math up through 7th grade. My parents didn't apply any pressure (that I know of) to get me in. I remember taking the assessment test for algebra and I didn't even finish it. It was very stressful. But somehow I got in. And starting with algebra, something clicked. I could actually see how math could be used to solve practical problems. I got mostly As in math after that.

More recently, my kids had the option to take algebra in the 8th grade. I don't see any good reason to not keep it available. Sometimes kids need a challenge (or at least need to see a point to it) to engage in a subject.

My guess is that the districts that want to eliminate it are looking at poor math achievement and thinking that applying more resources to getting all the kids up to some minimal level of math literacy is better than diverting some of those resources to a smaller number of kids who are ready for more advanced topics. And yeah, sad to say but there are some teachers who are not themselves capable of teaching algebra or anything more advanced. So teaching it in junior high leaves a smaller pool of qualified teachers for high school math.

So the problems they are trying to solve are really a scarce resource problem. They need more resources to try get the low performers up to some satisfactory level. The real answer of course is always the same whenever you have a supply problem: you need to pay more. Wealthy families will do this. They will hire tutors, either personal or virtual. For the rest of the kids who only have public education available, we've shown a consistent unwillingness to properly fund it. And I don't necessarily mean in terms of total dollars. We spend a lot of money on public education, but we spend it poorly.