skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved a bunch of sheet goods with my Civic coupe, by which I mean I moved sheet goods on a bunch of occasions, one or two each time. The problem comes out to be weight, and ease of loading/driving.

The real solution for moving larger things is a trailer. UHaul rents trailers for the occasional use ~$20/day, no mileage charge. I say occasional use because it takes effort to go and get it, and UHaul builds them like brick shithouses. So you can get a lighter one that's nicer to tow if you buy one for a few kilobucks.

I inherited a light crossover SUV that's more than capable of towing a 5x10 trailer with a modest amount of weight around town. It does highways too, but keeping ~65 rather than ~80. If I were still limited to the Civic and needed to move stuff on the regular, I'd buy an even lighter trailer.

And a trailer has very little maintenance compared to getting another motor vehicle. I've started bringing a pallet or two and putting them down under whatever I get so I can just fork stuff off at home (and then in the case of stuff from big box stores, fork the rejects right back on to get returned).

These Kei trucks look neat, but I don't think they would actually solve many problems I have. A dump bed would be fantastic, but if I really needed that I could just bite the supply shortage bullet and get a dump trailer.
I mean, I am emphasizing anything with any measurable signal is life.
Meh, I just use it to follow certain people who share good content.
Does nature even exist anymore? Even remote areas often have roads or hiking paths carved through, or huts to sleep in. Or worse, they are dumping sites of plastic.

The concept of nature as someone 2000 years ago might have imagined it is consigned to history. There's just spaces between towns.
You could consider wifi6e; the 6GHz band probably isn't too noisy, for now.
Ask HN: Career change, from civil engineer to tech
Hello everyone,
I feel like I'm at a crossroad professionally.

For a little background, I'm a 37 year old civil engineer living in Canada. My experience resolve mainly around environmental risk management, project manager and management (team of 4 to 20).

I'm currently pursuing (free time) a master in philosophy around the ethics of AI. This is actually for the fun of it, work load is negligible (compared to engineering school).

I have found that I do not enjoy management in big organisation (which I'm doing right now) and civil engineering is a field that is really conservative and I do not fit in the mentality of the industry.

I am a very fast learner and when I stop learning, I lose interest. I'm a problem solver, but not that good in the day to day operations, I lose interest.

Basically, I don't see myself being happy in management role. I do see myself in a more specialized role, being a consultant, teaching. I'm at my best when I'm solving problems.

In order to do that, I need to at least get a master degree and this is where I'm not sure what I'll be doing. I don't want to redo a bachelor degree, so I'll have to stay close to engineering.

A) I stay in civil engineering, pursue a master in a speciality. That doesn't solve my problem with the industry and the conservative mentality I don't fit in with.

B) I do a certificate (10 classes) in computer science that will be enough for me to get in a master in computer science. I would probably pursue AI development or cybersecurity. I think those 2 field have a lot ahead. I don't think the market is saturated, there is always room for good talents.

Option B) is a bit longer to take (1 year to 2 year max), but I feel it has more potential for growth. Pay is also a factor, in civil engineering, unless you want to manage huge team or have your own firm, salary are around 90K at the moment. I, maybe wrongly, believe software have higher pay for individual contributor and the possibility of making your own thing is higher (civil engineering is way harder to have your own company, needs a lot of cash).

Is it really hard to change career at my age (heard there was some ageism in the industry, might be false).

Thanks for your input.
OK, but that's not the question I asked. What I want to know is how we can make refactoring as much a non-negotiable part of the process as code review, tests, CI/CD, or whatever you consider essential, non-skippable, even under a short timeframe?
> I've never seen anything even resembling a "don't punish kids if they say they don't know why they misbehaved".

I don't know very much about parenting strategies (I don't have any children yet so I've never taken the time), but I feel like that's compatible with some things I've heard about responsive parenting. I'm guessing you'd know more though?
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In San Francisco of all places
For those who don't know Phil Burk is a computer music pioneer, and HMSL is a pioneering computer music system. This pay-to-play nonsense from Apple is frustrating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Music_Specificati...
Why authenticate the device and not the user?
The argument that the nuclear power industry suffers from "insane" over-engineering for safety and that this is the reason for the cost is brought up again and again, except there is no real evidence for this.

In fact it's easy to see that a large proportion of a the construction cost is the same as any other (e.g. gas, coal) thermal power plant, because they all need the same steam turbine. Now nuclear power plants have additional costs, also due to safety (and I would argue that we should expect that, a nuclear power plant has more challenges to a coal plant).

Moreover if you look at the cost increases for nuclear power plant projects, they are pretty much inline with the cost increases we have seen for most large infrastructure projects. They all have become significantly more expensive (recently build coal plant also went significantly over budget). Even the world nuclear forum says (https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...):
> Nuclear power plant construction is typical of large infrastructure projects around the world, whose costs and delivery challenges tend to be under-estimated.

The reality is that nuclear power is just not cost-competitive (see also this analysis somebody else (in a counter solar argument) posted https://www.lazard.com/media/typdgxmm/lazards-lcoeplus-april...).
Especially considering that renewables are on an exponential curve and nuclear is not (and doesn't show any indication of how to get onto one). Because so much of the cost (and energy) is in the construction of a nuclear power plant, it is actually counter-productive to invest into nuclear power plants, because we will increase CO2 compared to an investment into renewables.
Chat is about the only thing Slack does ok.

Video & voice on slack is pretty bad.
The ability to destroy other cars in an accident is a selling point in some… cultures. I remember sitting at the bar back in my very red state home town listening to a guy go on and on about how his new Dodge Ram would absolutely obliterate a “liberal’s Prius” if he crashed into it. He was not talking about the relative occupant safety difference between the two cars. He was specifically boasting about how he believed his truck can destroy other vehicles.
On a side note - it would be also interesting how invalid instructions detection is implemented in later processors. It's hard to imagine giant lookup table because that sounds like waste of resources.
What is the language you're working on now?
Both Mk and Rc started out with Research Unix, some years before Plan 9.
That's putting a lot on the assumption of exponential growth over the time span of 10,000 years.
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem

and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

the story seems pretty basic to the human condition. i think its an articulation of our fear of our kids.
Twitter wants you to pay up.
Seems doomed to failure. Football/soccer has had some success because it's a fast, exciting game that's easy to follow.

Cricket occupies the same ecological niche in the Commonwealth that baseball does in America, a slow moving bat-and-ball sport with a long tradition. The problem is that it looks a bit like baseball except it's totally different, and takes real effort to understand.

Kids in America have played soccer forever, so you've got that foothold. Cricket will always be foreign.
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You know what, your comment the last straw for me. This is the last time I open this website. Who has time for this shit? I'm here for tech content ant not being told there is something wrong with me because of what genitals I was born with.
Encryption Keeps Kids Safe Online
I guess when I put "every time" in all caps twice I was being too subtle.
There are simply an army of far better solutions out there. Solid depends on a poor model, but receives the most attention because the leader of it is famous.

The problem is that if these tools are hosted by someone else, you cannot verify they do not also have your data. Once you grant them access to it, they can copy it, sell it and send it elsewhere, etc. Since, yes, we have decades of experience that companies do evil things with your data, we can easily recognize sharing your data with hosted applications is a recipe for abuse.

Meanwhile, there is almost no downside to requiring apps be runnable on a service/storage provider you trust. If I trust my storage provider, I can trust apps won't be permitted to do bad things on my platform. Whether that's a self-hosted service or a trustworthy SaaS, you are far better off demanding apps be put in containers you can host where you want rather than opening up your data to various destinations.
We have folks playing around with it mostly through the playground / raw HTTP endpoints as opposed to the Python API. And we've got some batch jobs running, which adds further traffic.
It's from Seventh Edition Unix, actually. So a decade before Mk, for example.
In the USA, your SSN is supposed to be kept confidential, almost like a PIN for an account. When you think about it, that's an absurdly bad system. It's like if it was a security risk to let people know your real name.
I don't know what the future holds, but traditional "newspapers" and "magazines" died once in print, and now they're dying again online. Big entertainment is also struggling. Things are happening. AI and social media will fill this void. Somehow. But I don't think the result will be superior, in fact things keep getting worse all the time, we get more quantity, less quality, more fragmentation, less alignment. Entropy creeping up. I see how technology is progressing and often wonder if this is why the skies look empty.
Your question was not clear to me because it conflates containers (Docker) with runtimes and VMs.

No container at all will give the smallest production container, so a compiled language with no runtime (C) or one with a small runtime (Go) answers your question.

If you must use containers for some reason, the container stuff (e.g. Docker) imposes a constant overhead regardless of the contents, so you can set that aside and just add up the size of the application binary plus runtime plus dependencies. C will likely come out at the top of the list, .NET and Java at the bottom.
These kind of self-contained start-from-scratch projects are comforting, and can be intellectually interesting, but it would make much more practical sense to me to spec out some simple hardware than can run linux, or a porting toolkit to make it easier to run on phones etc.
I think most trucks nowadays (even "small" ones, which used to be considered "normal" sized) are big enough that you won't see an average sized 9 year old standing right in front of the hood.
> If you have technology skills and reasonably expect to experience some sort of apocalyptic scenario, ISTM you'd be better off with a solar charger, a few rugged smartphones, and several SD cards containing backups of Wikipedia and as much reference material as you can collect.

That will buy you a decade. I'd go for a paper version of the stuff that you think is important enough to haul around in physical form for many decades and immediately start spreading these around in numbers large enough to ensure that some copies would survive. And even that assumes literacy, some level of schooling to survive, and enough specialization to be able to set aside time for people to study all of this. The best mechanism for something like that would probably be a priesthood of sorts... they tend to be long lived and good at preserving knowledge (and eventually to use it as a power base for domination of the unwashed masses which they work hard to keep dumb but that's already many steps down the line).
I wouldn't claim I'm anything other than "well read". Definitely not an expert.

Based on past exchanges, there's a 20% chance of someone linking to something from 10 or 15 years ago titled "Don't punish your kids if they say they don't know why they misbehaved".

If so, I'll be happy to see it. If not, still a decent chance that it's out there, and no one knew it to link to it.

But I'm unwilling to assume it exists merely because I'd like to live in a world where it was true. Someone's going to have to show me.
It's uncertain that these people were in-fact drugged up and the guards themselves killed themselves as well. Moreover, it doesn't really excuse the point. It was insane. Insane for the people to be there. Insane for the guards to keep them there. Insane for their leaders to tell them to die.
Are we in agreement then that it’s best for PE not to be able to buy hospitals? Do we agree that nonprofit (as that term is applied colloquially) entities should run healthcare? I hope we are in agreement on this. If not then I hope your view does not gain support.
The simple rule that will always get you out of a maze
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Can I be too smug when I follow the story link and all I get is "Error establishing a database connection"?
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> whereas France has a deep storage facility on the way.

That has been "on the way" for how many years exactly? The reality is that after almost > 50 years of nuclear power we have exactly one long-term storage facility world-wide which has been commissioned last year (Finland). And somehow that was hailed as a success.

Also what do you think the storage cost for deep storage facilities are?
That looks like a lot of fun. The green display of the Apple II brings back memories. Looking at the pictures of LEGO parts and electronics, I see that the spirit lives on this day - as I turn my head to my box of ESP32s, Raspberry Pi, and various microcontrollers, sensors, relays. It makes me realize the continuity of history, and how I've managed to play from childhood until now.
A lot of the focus on simplicity is about ease of implementation. A compiler/interpreter for a language without syntax (Forth) is much faster/easier/simpler to write than one with syntax. Originally Forth was an OS as much as a programming language, and the strength of the concatenative paradigm for command languages can be seen in the enduring popularity of pipes in *nix shell. The syntax is not considered a problem because it will be invented as you go along and write the words that implement your application.
China Unveils 2nd Quarter GDP as World’s No. 2 Economy Loses Steam [Live Blog]
Locks keep honest people and opportunistic criminals out. A high end lock does you no good if it's left unlocked or an employee props open the door with a chair. If someone is willing to break and enter the lock is no longer the weakest point.

Cameras and alarms help a bit more.

The possibility of someone being home or men with guns responding is a big deterrent. Smash and grabs are usually done on cars not homes.
The 'free market' always collapses to a monopoly (or colluding duopoly) in every field. It can take decades but it always gets there in the end.

After all, what could be more efficient for shareholders than having no competition?
I learned LOGO when I was 10 or so, in mid-90s, in India. I had just learned Basic the year before, and it did useful math things, so I was not impressed by LOGO. Off course LOGO does more than what I played around with on the lab computers with (even more than Basic), in a limited amount of time.
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Research Unix wasn't easily available, AFAIK Bell Labs were trying to sell it as a product, so it lost to more free alternatives. It only got open-sourced recently AFAIK, years after being abandoned.
People don't buy Rigol because they want a secure device, they just want a low cost oscilloscope.
The OP seems to be confusing the concept of API and library layering with the idea that something is something else.

To be clear: in software almost everything is built on top of other things using libraries. This doesn't mean the new thing that is built is that thing at all, and indeed that new thing may be able to switch out the lower level library for a different implementation.
>the data engineers, who got their jobs because they kinda knew SQL a decade ago, are incompetent.

I don't think I've ever been called out more in my life.
So you believe that humanity’s current knowledge is complete enough that an advanced civilization — say 100,000 years ahead of us — would behave in ways that are wholly understandable to us, is that correct?

Or are you going to offer up more sarcasm and/or ridicule? That in an of itself is problematic, by the way. The refusal to treat this subject honestly and in good faith by so many is deeply unscientific.
unless you are saying Google research is garbage because they get into the habit of canceling their products.

Bravo! Now you're getting it!

(actually it's worse than garbage because they'll lock it all behind patents before abandoning any finished product)
So your F250 is an accessory for your recreational vehicle.
What does active threads represent?
I love everything about the idea except safety. You look like a frugal genius until a routine fender bender becomes fatal.

Unfortunately this isn’t Japan and you’ll be driving on stroads designed for high speed driving with too many conflict points, sharing the road with drunk drivers in their RAM 1500 who barely needed to have a pulse to qualify for a license.

Alternatives:

- Vans, commercial or just an old minivan, like OP’s dad bought. They don’t have the popularity tax of trucks. I also think that the closed cabin of a van is better than a truck bed 90% of the time.

- If you can handle the shorter bed, the Ford Maverick is priced very well with a high mpg hybrid powertrain, and you can use it as a comfortable daily family vehicle.

- Big box home improvement store rentals. These often beat U-Haul prices and convenience in my experience.

- Suck it up and buy a truck. While they cost a lot they’re also designed to be do-all family vehicles with good amenities, ride quality, and comfort.

- Haul less stuff. Do you need to haul things? If your job is hauling stuff you can probably justify the truck investment and deduct it from your taxes. If not then maybe you don’t need to haul things.

- Instacart? I’m pretty sure people with trucks will do Home Depot runs for you.

In my opinion, judging by OP’s other blog post about finance and debt, he’s letting an excessively frugal mentality get in the way of getting the right tool for the job. OP quipped that old trucks still have insanely high values, and that goes both ways: if he buys a $30k truck and sells it in 10 years it’s probably still going to be worth $15k. Spending $15k in 10 years is the same cost as a bus pass.
Have you seen Vale? They're working on a new type of analyzer for memory errors, that apparently is simply and safer than Rust's [0].

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/first-regions-prototype
Dr. Strangelove had a different opinion on what was needed after civilization collapse…
Saves one byte since BP is 09xx on start for MS-DOS >= 4.0. Old demoscene sizecoding trick.
Please use an archive that doesn't get warnings like:

This site can’t provide a secure connection

archive.ph uses an unsupported protocol.

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
I hope it’s good! What’s the main difference relative to the other tools that work on this? I’ve used probably a dozen movie finding tools over the years including a few that I paid for and liked quite a few of them. Currently mostly use google’s what to watch, but I’d definitely be interested in a better alternative.
American-style trucks get in and cause more accidents per mile

They don't. I used to own an F-350 for a race team and when I sold it for a Corolla I had a long argument with my insurance agent as to why the Corolla was going to cost me more to insure.

Despite their outrageous cost to own (which you would think would primarily be the driver of insurance fees), apparently large trucks are both stolen much less and get in fewer accidents due to their size. Hard to argue with the insurance company on the stats there.
Shocking. No one predicted this would happen.
I'm not referring to the technical aspects of filming, I'm referring to the huge differences between them as a storytelling medium. A movie only has 1.5-3 hours of screen time available to tell the complete story (unless you do something like the recent "Dune" movies, or make a trilogy like LotR), but in addition to that, a lot of things that work for books don't work the same way for movies: pacing, etc.
How do companies organize or visualize their businesses?
Im curious how YC companies, startups or even medium to large businesses organize themselves overall and keep track of or visualize everything? Is there a dashboard for your entire business?
None, why? Are paywalled articles written in the traditional way since they already have a revenue source and don’t need to addict people?
CEO of Vercel was also the creator of socket.io and mongoose
US restrictions on vehicle imports seem very odd from a British perspective.

Over here, we can freely import pretty much anything. If it's more than 10 years old, you just register it. If it's less than 10 years old, you can still bring it in as a personal import, but it'll need to pass a slightly enhanced version of the normal annual inspection. It's a point of principle that any vehicle that passes inspection should be road legal, hence oddities like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paIGBOlkQr0

Because we're a right-hand-drive country, Japanese imports are commonplace. If you want a Kei car or a JDM-only luxury minivan, you can just have one. That taken-for-granted freedom gives me a certain degree of empathy for the 2nd amendment lobby.
Every word Musk says is oriented not to reflecting facts as they happened, and are, but facts as he wishes they would happen. He's selling something, all the time, and looking for someone to buy it. A claim, an idea, a startup pitch, an excuse for an action, a product that is only but a figment of his imagination, but he's dead certain is almost done. At some point this becomes a habit, it becomes intoxicating, and compulsive.

I don't think reading the memoir of such a man would be illuminating and informative, it'd be just another dose of the same. You're being sold something. And he's hoping you buy it.
I see this kind of “ads? I didn’t see any ads in my ad-blocking browser!” response practically every time someone mentions ads on here. Can I ask what you’re trying to achieve? Do you think the HN audience is unaware of ad blockers?