skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it's a ChatGPT-like interface to Stack Overflow data? What are its advantages over ChatGPT? (it cites sources, but I can't spot any others).

This is also noteworthy [1]:

> we're using AI to take existing knowledge sources (confluence, github, google drive etc) and provide an initial tagging framework and a series of questions and answers from them

What for? Presumably an LLM trained on a company's internal data, but with higher start up cost (time taken for initial tagging).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM9-cYyeaDg&t=2m28s
> to optimize their taxes

I'd love to give you the benefit of the doubt and not interpret that as "dodge taxes". What's your side of the story?
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Death penalty for 500g of cannabis, rather violent. In France it would cause thousands of executions
I encourage you to look up "obtain" and stop being intentionally ignorant.
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> With eSIM there's a tighter coupling between the phone and carrier. Not sure if I like that.

I'm not sure what you mean? Carriers already have the ability to lock a phone to their network, regardless of eSIM or not.
Electronic National ID? Given that people are apparently lining up for Worldcoin iris scans, this would seem to be 'fortuitous" timing.
Alternate link: https://archive.is/mwKra
What is that number though? Do you just assume every driver just mats the go pedal and slams the brakes at every stoplight? Battery life is a bit non deterministic. Yes you can track driving habits but I don’t know that I always drive the same way depending on how much of a rush I’m in and other factors.
I mean, you called it crap and then said it's super important. That's what hoarders say.

Subjectively you may feel that your data is super important, but objectively it probably isn't.

When people talk about 'super important' (totally a technical term), I think of things like DB backups in software companies, backups of financial reporting for firms, etc. Not your tax return from 2008.
Not to defend Teams but having to visit an AppStore to download a separate app is a hassle for most users who tend to use what's already on their system out of the box and tend to happy that way with the lower friction. Those who are unhappy with Teams, can and always do download and use another app.

Similarly, it's why iMessage gained wide adoption, became and stayed the de facto messaging app on iOS despite the users being able to go on the AppStore and download any other free cross platform messenger. It was already on their phones and it worked well enough not to push users to look elsewhere.

So if we can file an antitrust investigation in Microsoft for bundling Teams with Windows, why don't we also go after Apple for bundling iMessage with iOS under the same logic? Or after Google for monopolizing the web browser market with Chrome? Where does the buck stop on these ecosystems that have monopolies in their respective sectors?

We already went through something similar nearly 15 years ago when Windows copies sold in EU would not come with IE preinstalled but would prompt you to choose which of the 4 major browsers at the time (IE, FF, Chrome, Opera) you would like installed (while now those same browsers would be FF and 3 flavors of Chrome, how ironic). Was a good idea at the time that needs updated and refreshed for modern platforms and tools, not just Teams.
Or it's a way to brag about how much space you have.
Personally I'd find the information valuable, it tells me how my habits affect the efficiency.
My bad. Took offense to the notion that there’s nothing courageous about taking bricks out from the foundation of your master’s house.

Do you see a way to this goal without destruction?
What you see is someone who is actually willing and able to learn from any mistakes during this outage, no matter how small. That degree of attention to detail is exactly what I would expect from Colin. Novelty accounts created with the express purpose of slinging crap however are the equivalent of heckling in a theater, they don't contribute and in this case seem to be motivated by malice.

I do tech DD for a living and pretty much every company could do better if and when something goes wrong, but rarely do companies extract the maximum of learnings from an outage. That is what should impress you rather than to perceive it as a negative.

Note that most companies don't make any information about outages public and note that if and when they do it is usually heavily manipulated to make them look good. Colin could have easily done the same thing and the fact that he didn't deserves your respect, not your scorn. Consider the fact that even the best make mistakes. I'm aware of a very big name company that lost a ton of customer data through an interesting series of mishaps that all started with a routine test and not a peep on their website or in the media. Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of customers affected. And yet, you probably would trust them with your data precisely because they are not as honest as Tarsnap.
For 30g of heroin? On what planet is 30g considered "trafficking"?
These numbers are wildly improbable. A multitude of HackerNews in this very comment section assure me that having a child in the US is "financially impossible", but the US is significantly wealthier than any of these nations on a per-capita basis.

If it's too expensive to have children on a software engineer's salary, it's prima facie way too expensive to do it on a Somalian subsistence farmer's salary.

Since HackerNews is never wrong, I can only conclude that these fertility rates are inaccurate.
It is interesting that there's little discussion about the gender aspect of this, given that the job title includes the term "girl." Studies suggest that women place a higher priority on work-life balance compared to men. Moreover, it could imply that women are more inclined to pursue this line of work, particularly in fields like social media and influencing, where attractiveness can be leveraged as an advantage.
I'd like to see more data...

For example, if you get 10 tesla cars of the same model, do the ranges differ?

If you get 1 car and 10 different drivers, do some drivers get the advertised range while others don't?

If you disassemble the battery packs, do you find some bad/degraded cells in cars with reduced range, or is this a design fault?

Do drivers that have trouble have inefficient mods, like roof racks, big wheels, etc?
We don’t have the iX3 in the US (yet?). I was looking at the x5 plug in hybrid with ~40 miles electric range and the normal b58 straight 6 motor. My wife has the X7, we have 3 kids and hobbies so I’m not sure if even an i5 would work. The new X5 headlights are not my favorite.

Do you like the BMW electric system?
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> 'what would we truly lose if this company disappeared tomorrow?'

I guess such a big company is here because they managed to create a need. The question may be: "were we really worse off before we had what this company built?".

Example: if GitHub disappears tomorrow, that's likely a pretty big problem. But we were fine before GitHub, we just had different (not worse) workflows. GitHub created a dependency.
While I am an eSIM proponent, what you're describing could happen with eSIMs as well and is unrelated to the format of the SIM.

For example, I use AT&T and before eSIM I could transfer my physical SIM between phones without calling AT&T. Now, with eSIM I can still transfer my eSIM between phones without calling AT&T so nothing has really changed.
Uh, i never heard this quote. It‘s driving me nuts that people literally interrupt discussions working on solutions by saying how it‘s impossible and blocking… instead of just trying to find a way and think about all the alternatives, that they haven‘t even thought about starting to think about.
Thanks for the quote.
Seems that this could be addressed separately with better enforcement for littering/dumping?

People there don't regularly assault people on the street, brandish firearms, or drive vehicles without number plates. There is a possibility for law enforcement to set social expectations around dumping such that people don't actually do it out of fear of serious legal consequences.
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-l...
I’ll save folks some reading: they’re comparing a very thick straight wall with a much thinner wavy wall.
Multiverse looks great too, wow!!
Political? You are overly optimistic. We wish there would be some notion and attention of the politeia here.

On hypocrisy: Both cancer and cancer surgery are aggressive, doesn't make them the same.
Google violated competition laws, we as individuals don't.
> Really what this convo is doing is underscoring for me how there really is nothing more to be learned from lisp - I had a lingering doubt that I'd missed some aspect but you guys are all repeating the same thing over and over.

No, you keep on misunderstanding what people are trying to tell you. It’s a communication failure. The thing that you think you are doing in Python is not the thing that people are doing in Lisp.

As an example, I suppose that when you’re developing code in Python’s pseudo-REPL you often reimport a file containing class definitions. When you do that, what happens to all the old objects with the old class definition? Nothing, they still belong to the old class.

If you did this on a REPL connected to a server, what would happen to the classes of objects currently being computed on? Nothing, they would still belong to the old class.

In Lisp, it’s different. There is a defined protocol for what happens when a class is redefined. Every single object belonging to the old class gets updated to the new class. You can define code to get called when this happens (say, you added a new mandatory field, or need to calculate a new field based on old ones — and of course ‘calculate’ could also mean ‘open a network connection, dial out to a database and look up the answer’ or even ‘print the old object and offer the system operator a list of options for how to proceed’). And everything that is currently in-flight gets updated, in a regular and easy-to-understand way.

People are telling you ‘with Lisp central air conditioning, I can easily heat my house in the winter’ and you are saying ‘with Python, I can easily build a fire whenever my house gets cold too!’
>HTML-first web framework, where you type server-side JS... first.

Yeah, I think a lot of us are bumping against that. They need to change either their examples or their branding...

>In any case the gigantic pink sheep and clouds that is their entire landing page demonstrate those are either not serious people, or their audience isn't.

...but hard disagree here. Don't change that! That page is fun and positive. You can be serious as in "deliberate" and "thoughtful" without being serious as in "humorless" or "somber". The former types of seriousness are the more important ones when you're trying to get stuff done.
This reminds me of a tattoo idea I'd like to get some day. The word "Helvetica" but printed in a bland serif font like times new roman.
Historically the most prosperous (interior) cities were exactly that. Chicago, St Louis, New York etc
LLM output is scored by another model that produces a reward for the entire sequence emitted by the LLM. The reward model is trained on human preferences or some other metric usually. It's RL because we train on the reward and not some language modeling objective.

The LLM is trained to increase this reward score (or minimize the inverse), which is what makes it RL.
The whole thing is a distraction while the US (and others) are trying to sneak through encryption busting laws.
Pilots are a little special, their panic mode is also a checklist, known as the memory items.

This doesn't work for normal people because normal people don't drill non-normal events until the response is instinctive.
If you're a scientist who works for government, toe the party line. Else you'll get your clearances yanked and you'll be out of a job!

And secondarily, war hawks rule the roost. You cater to making weapons and tools to make weapons, even indirectly. Get comfortable with that, or go work in the private sector, where you harm the american public with weaponized science like DRM and adtech.
I want to summarize because I feel like it cant be repeated enough on this site:

The endless march of optimizing profits by investors who control an ever lopsided share of wealth destroys everything.
Then it is good that Singapore makes laws in Singapore, and France in France, and not the other way around, isn't it.
There are two aspects here. One is child care, although here I think the USA does much better than many other countries where the judge simply gives the children to the mother by default, and often even very strong arguments don't help.

The other issue, probably more relevant, is that you split all you have in half (roughly). In theory, it is to make up for the fact that the woman has to deal with childbirth and all the consequences, including missed opportunities. In practice it means that even if you don't have any children, you need to give her half of everything if she decides so. Some people consider it very unfair, but of course every situation is different.

The fact is, women file for divorce more often than men, and not everybody is comfortable with a prenuptial agreement arguing that marriage is based on trust, and if you don't have that trust at the beginning, why to marry at all?

EDIT: Theory aside, when you read about particular cases like this one, they are depressingly sobering: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-women-have-the-advantage-d...
FWIW the first chapter of "Hawaii" by James Michener gives a feel for the seafaring involved in populating the Pacific.
Cool! I like this :)
Most people don't know all the tools at their disposal, or how to use them. I certainly don't and I consider myself above average in this regard.

Chrome DevTools has that issue since it's always changing, adding new things, and they're not discoverable/learnable from inside of it.

If you had a drawer of 50 kitchen implements, would you even think to search for the mandoline slicer if you didn't already know about it?
First global analysis shows how pesticides leach into the environment
It's not even that neat.

Just slap rsync/syncthing to the backup dir.
Looks almost exactly the same as e.gg, which Meta shut down after a few months.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/18/facebook-launches-e-gg-an-...
> “We’re looking at the range, and you literally see the number decrease in front of your eyes,” he said of his dashboard range meter.

Well, I’m not sure what the range meter is supposed to do? Freeze when an eye tracker detects the driver looks at it?

Or maybe he was idling the car in cold weather. Even without the heater running, the battery cools down and that can reduce the range.

Electric vehicles aren’t perfect and some little education can prevent a lot of frustration.
That is what the CoC is for. Kind of funny to see it used so blatantly so quickly and publicly though.
Wikileaks had their DNS cut off by Dynect - who lied about it being because of a non-existent DoS attack, when in reality they were getting their nuts squeezed by the State Department to deplatform them.

> Non-controversial sites do not get shut down.

A.k.a "nothing to hide, nothing to fear".
IMHO comments like this are much more valuable with some numbers.

The linked figure[0] and associated paper report that efficiency peaks for EVs at around 20mph and then the cost per mile increases roughly linearly, by about 25 watt-hours when the speed increases by 10mph.

Please excuse the archaic units.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ehicle-energy-economy-at...
This.

And it is true of petrol cars as well. In my old clunker going from 110 km/h to 120km/h is a 9% speed increase but nets about 15% extra fuel consumption.
Tesla's VW moment
As the article (or another poster) points out, you get a different algorithm when you look at the dash on a random day vs. when the Tesla knows you are going on a trip. That's even more damning to me.

Edit: Also a different algorithm when below 50% charged. As some of the replies point out, a destination does supply more information. The current charge level does not.
I say this only somewhat in jest:

> The whole idea of “I don’t like this, so I will sue” isn’t really present to nearly such an extent in the rest of the world.

The US is a capitalistic dystopian hellscape where every organization is a parasite trying to extract every dollar of rent it possibly can, regardless of what it does to the host. Without lawsuits, we'd all be serfs.

> I’m just wondering if it’s something they teach in school (like a civics class), or if it’s introduced in a more causal fashion (making jokes like “don’t do that or I’ll sue you”), or is it just popular on the news or TV?

Civics education in the US is crap. We'd honestly be better off if we did teach these things in school.
Except the information value coming out of a chatgpt answer is zero. You are literally best off if you ignore whatever it says.
I believe I've read that some plants do better when planted in the concave portion of a wavy wall, because the bricks absorb warmth during the day and release it at night.
I think I have become a web accelerationist. I hope this newest bit of mendacity succeeds and we abandon this flaming disaster that the modern internet will become. The tiny (just depressing how tiny) subset of its useful functionality can be reimplemented in any other system that might come take its place in minutes.
Related HN discussion on recent finding of how glyphosates impact bees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880639
That only makes sense if there's strong correlation between the first 50% of a charge and the second 50% of a charge, but NOT an equally strong correlation between the previous charge cycle and the current charge cycle.

That can be the case (eg on road trips) but usually isn't.

Why not just always give the more precise estimates?
> there will still be swimming bags of potato chips and cigarette cartons and beer cans and receipts, and all the other junk Parisians tend to toss in there

Time to enforce littering fines.

Seriously, as a French person living in Belgium, I am disgusted with how little of a shit people give about keeping their own city clean.

If we start enforcing littering fines a bit more in western europe, this shit will stop within a couple of years. It's 100% cultural and this is something we absolutely have to change in our culture.
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In the words of the great philosopher Popeye: "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam."
Yeah. Like how Lawns were a way to brag about how much land you have.

"Look, I have so much land I can just grow grass instead of crops, you plebs".
Current cybersecurity standards enforced in the automotive industry will probably completely kill the possibility of after-market car parts and the usage of used parts in cars.

I say this as someone working in this field that has asked a couple of people doing work in this exact direction. I point blank asked them if this will happen, and they just shrugged their shoulders and said... yeah, kinda'.
$500 Lenovo in North America, flips all the way open, had to swap the WiFI ($25), drop that trash RealTek and add Intel. Big SDD, 8 cores. Runs Gentoo+Xfce. Multi touch, webcam, all work a treat. I prefer it to a similar sized Chromebook ($400) cause it's got more power.
the element missing here is an old idea -- appliance versus tool. Post-Industrial revolution, inventions of all kinds could be mass produced and marketed, but to whom? for what? The idea of 'appliance' is as you say.. consumer wants it for a function, they buy it, it should work.
On a lot of ICE cars there's definitely a hit to running the AC.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/hotweather.shtml

Personally my ICE goes from ~22-23mpg to ~19 when it's like 100F outside. That's a 17% drop in mileage. My EV has had a bit of a hit but not nearly as much, <10%. I can even offset that a bit more by ensuring I plug in and precondition before I leave, meanwhile my ICE will always burn it's gas to cool down even if I had remote start.

Heating is usually "free" energy-wise though since the gas motor is just leaking massive amounts of heat all the time.
Long Live Crouton!
Some of us have lots of extra money and like an excuse to give some of it to cperciva so he doesn't have to work a shit job and can apply his skills and talents to bigger, better things?

(People here asking about the low Bus Factor: you don't keep your backups in one service/location, eh? You use Tarsnap and Restic with Backblaze, Rsync.net, S3, etc. right? "Backups are a tax you pay for the luxury of restore.")
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definitely illegal in Europe, never heard of it. Wouldn't that massively hurt the environment???
Not just battery and range.

I've had problems with the passenger side airbag not enabling, and turn signal not working. Both scary issues. Made appointments with the support. Both were cancelled outright by them (!). They tried to convince me that there was no problem, and it was all due to the way I use the car. They seemed to try everything to get out of appointments. My wife had to use the back seat for a month while I argued with them.

Eventually both problems were resolved by software updates, proving that the problems were indeed on their side.
I think you are involuntarily given a great exemple against the point you are trying to make.

WhatsApp is the de facto default messenger even on iOS and despite having to go the AppStore to install it in most of Europe and South America.

The situation has a lot to do with Android not bundling a default messenger. So yes, competition authorities are very much right to be investigating bundling. It’s a real attack against free and fair competition.

Plus it’s not like you are not actually paying for Teams in your subscription. Actually you are even if you don’t use it which is silly. Products should be sold by themselves with a proper price tag.
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You describe the use case for vim, not notebook. Use vim and jupyterlab. It makes working on several projects much smoother.
A good way to end chrome's deathly entanglement of the web is to make chrome untenable.

Supporting chrome in taking over the web is not a neutral act.
Unfortunately we live in a time where the majority of people are practicing illiteracy.
"It's like the ocean, but cleaner"
Not clear if "potential investor" is the $100K or a future round of investment.

$500k is obscenely low for most companies, but not all. Are you building a lemonade stand?

An old expression is "any fool can sell a dollar for 90 cents." Your willingness to take such a low amount of money for a large amount of equity and control says a lot to future investors, and the news isn't good.

Can I now also invest $400K for the other 80%? (I'd never see it again because with 0% of the company left to sell, you have zero financial reason to stay involved in the company).

In the US, a modern day rule of thumb is $10M post money valuation for your first (seed) stock offering. Most states nudge you toward 10M shares for a corporation, the math is pretty simple for $1 a share.

If you can legally revise that sale to maybe 1% of your equity, or cancel the old corporation and create a brand new one where that money goes into the new one at 1%, it'd be perfectly fine with most investors.
I’ll just say, he’s testified under oath to the ICIG who found his claims “urgent and credible” (which are legal terms). So with your idea, the ICIG is in on it too?