skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if I missed this, but do you plan on integrating with issues outside of github? For example, we use Linear, but it is connected to github to automatically pull PR information. It would be interesting to do basically the exact same thing as what you're doing, but do it with a Linear issue instead.
Did you use https://bubble.io/ to build this?
Brave has all of that AND built in ad blocking on both desktop and mobile (which is why I switched. Mobile browsing is finally sane)
The arms race started the first time a Tesla shipped. They've had some serious security folks on the Tesla side since the early days.
It’s all fun and games until you accidentally summon Mothra.
IRS to offer paperless tax filing and returns in 2024
I get it that some suggest the graph is a complicated/over-engineer while other suggest just stick to SI. Well, my rationale is that not everything has a SI conversion, and simple SI/hub/spoke would need you to maintain a unit -> SI (or base unit like USD in currency conversion).

What I like about the graph solution is that you don’t have to use SI or base unit at all! If your graph has km -> m, now you add (updating your graph) for m -> feet, you could traverse from km -> feet. Later on, you can add nautical mile -> feet, using this graph you could basically get km -> nautical mile if you need to.
Id suggest reading the rules of this site and posting something more productive next time.
Leaked Secrets and Unlimited Miles: Hacking the Largest Rewards Vendor
"On May 2nd, 2023, we identified that the Flask session secret for the points[.]com global administration website used to manage all airline tenant and customer accounts was the word 'secret'."

And so many insane vulnerabilities found and exposed by these guys. Hats off!
This is identical to 5, in my view. Its not licensed. Is anyone upset that if you download a version of software that has a "basic" and a "premium" version, but the premium costs more money, that you don't get the premium functionality? Just like you "can't change" whether you get premium functions if you don't pay for it, the same could be said for fsd or seat heaters.
> The problem is getting people to use that modern tooling, even static analysis is hardly used and lint was created in 1979

Maybe; rest to see if using modern tooling is easier or harder on the average programmer than learning a new language.

> This is what memory safe systems languages offer, there is no way around avoiding such tooling, it is part of the language and needs to be explicitly disabled.

The programming language is just one part of the chain. The goal is to detect/prevent bad code pattern and address them. There is no rules about this happening at the language level.
Level 5 is exactly where it bugs me. Levels 1-4 are all concrete (if marginal) cost savings as compared to the full version. But your level 5 means someone spent _extra_ money and engineering time to make something _less_ functional.

Boo. Hiss.
Just one more lane bro, I promise it will fix traffic, come on please bro I know it will work this time
Sure, here are three off the top of my head that have affected me personally (not to mention the million other possible different scenarios that might exist):

1. In one case, I have multiple machines on the same network but simply speaking, none of them are turned on 24/7 (except for the router), so none of them can be configured to be a common caching resolver. The router is a proprietary Unifi gateway device, for which it is not possible to configure it to use DNS-over-TLS, neither on the local side nor when forwarding to the public DNS server.

2. The other common case for me are my mobile devices (laptops and smartphones). I simply cannot configure them to use a common local caching DNS server because there isn't one, as these devices frequently connect over multiple networks (such as 5G networks, hotel Wi-Fi, etc) and you cannot just use the network-provided DNS server without being vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, censored and hijacked results, etc.

3. Another issue is public Wi-Fi networks. In large hotels, stadiums, etc, there might be hundreds or even thousands of devices behind the public same IP address(es), and as a user yourself, you have no control over them or the network.

And obviously, you cannot just use their provided DNS server on these Wi-Fi networks, for multiple reasons: 1) why would you trust the DNS server of a random Wi-Fi network in the first place?, 2) even if you trusted the provider, it is not possible to authenticate these networks, so you could be talking to a man-in-the-middle attacker without realizing, and 3) even if there isn't a man-in-the-middle attacker and the provider is trustworthy, often these DNS servers are extremely poor, as they often censor and hijack results, pollute the DNS cache, don't support DNSSEC queries, etc.

And I'm not even mentioning the privacy issues.

To be clear, I always use local caching resolvers. But on these systems, I am forced to configure them to forward queries directly to public DNS servers, which means that they don't have a common caching resolver except for the public DNS server itself, hence the rate limit issue when they are all behind the same IP address.
Sad. Chinese cuisine is arguably the best in the world, and I've heard the streets are finally clean and the air is getting better. Despite those both being major issues in India, people still go there in droves, so maybe politics > experience?

Would love to go to Chengdu either way.
Medicaid drops nearly 4M people since pandemic protections expired
You reminded me of this: https://www.wired.com/2011/04/amazon-flies-24-million/
There's some functionality loss but it's mostly been mitigated. I have a custom app I wrote since I can't use the stock app.

The one feature I miss is that there's no voice commands since that requires Tesla's servers but at the same time I also haven't been bothered enough to plug in a custom backend
Black markers are/were very obviously not illegal. The law doesn’t work like code, it’s filtered by humans.

No court would ever come to the conclusion that something as mundane as black markers are illegal to possess.
Our running gag is: Once such a runbook has been sufficiently refined and clarified to the point of being really comprehensive and easy to follow.... someone turns it into a jenkins job and we don't need it anymore.
How does the royal family own more than 90% of Canada? This is insane!
Kubrick was going to actually get 10k+ soldiers for his Napoleon though.
That isn't the only way to sell software, it is a relatively recent invention, I honestly wouldn't care if that went away.
I follow a TV writer and show runner on Instagram, and he pointed out a consequence of AI that I think a lot of people are missing.

You know how people get really creeped out with ultra-targeted ads? Imagine if you had an entire TV show that was ultra-targeted. How creeped out would you be?
Surprised that's still around. Had a fairly large airgapped Pegasus deployment (1000 seats) on Netware back in 1998.
Last I knew the Boring company wasn't making full size tunnels, but weird undersized tunnels that just barely fit a Tesla and have zero room for emergencies.
Now comes the funny part, were tesla tries to make the platform trusted and locked down, and then people start to flash there own firmware and solder chip-mods, cause there is nothing GNUnder the sun.

Wouldn't be surprised if Tesla has a defeat-device buried somewhere that allows for remote permanent deactivation once parked in case of piracy
There is a lot of analysis that goes with it. I worked in both medical devices and also transportation.(Rolling stock signalling systems). It is definitely not a joke when you are moving such huge mass of metal with people in it.
There was no judgement in my statement, just a simple joke, because everyone who contributes to OSS must make their own local fork for the reason I specified (and this is inherently utterly baffling and confusing to newcomers, who often barely grasp branches)
Tunnels are not a new thing. Making the tunnel slightly smaller is not innovation.
Immune cells that fight cancer become exhausted hrs after encountering tumors
> If you're relying on a dam to fulfill periods of non-production, you need a way to put the excess energy during periods of overproduction back into the dam. If you're relying on a dam to fulfill periods of non-production, you need a way to put the excess energy during periods of overproduction back into the dam.

I understand your point but it’s based on faulty assumptions.

Simply not using existing water means it’s still there. If you have 10,000$ in your bank account and you don’t buy something you still have the 10,000$. Dams are the same way if you have 20,000 MWh worth of water and can average 20 MWh for the next 1,000 hours then generating 10 MW for the 500 hours of those hours and 30 MW for the other 500 hours hits zero at exactly the same time.

Recharge is important long term but irrelevant in the short term. You might expect to receive water from the spring thaw, but that’s a long way away. Large dams like the hover are built to contain multiple years worth of average flow for a river. It took more than a full year just to collect enough water for them to start generating hydropower.

As to your analysis,

> 500 GWh globally

That’s an outdated estimate for last year even just EV’s broke 500 GWh. “Automotive lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery demand increased by about 65% to 550 GWh in 2022, from about 330 GWh in 2021” https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2023/trends-in...

Your number was an estimate for 2022 total production made during 2022, and they got it wrong which isn’t that surprising as EV sales ended up 55% from 2021 and average battery sizes also increased. 2023 numbers are hard to estimate for similar reasons.

> Production of batteries may grow in the future

Again, the rates have been increasing by double digits per year for a long time, that’s wildly faster than the increase in electricity demand. We don’t need to talk in hypothetical terms here just current factories already wildly invalidate your calculation let alone any kind of longer term estimates when grid storage may start to pick up.

> 12 hours

As I mentioned that’s a monumental overestimate, but not particularly relevant compared to the first two issues. We can quibble about specifics here but compared to even a 50% EV world grid storage simply isn’t a major factor.
For mobile applications wh/kg and wh/liter both matter, and they can vary independently. With the titanium electrode you’ve got a lighter battery per unit of volume. That said, a vehicle battery has to propel itself, so a lighter battery requires less capacity and thus a bit less volume.
I think for the EV skeptics it’s easy to forget how fast battery chemistry has been evolving. There’s an common assumption that the EV status quo of 300 mile range at barely-affordable prices will continue forever, and therefore with all the woes surrounding charging and bad weather affecting range, EVs are dead in the water.

Ten years ago $30k got you 75 miles of range out of a Nissan Leaf. Fast forward to present day and you will spend less money before adjusting for inflation and get 259 miles of range in the same class of vehicle (Chevy Bolt EV).

When many automakers say they will only sell EVs by ~2035, it sounds a bit far-fetched, but in the context of the past 10 years it’s hard to deny the high probability that gasoline vehicles will make basically no sense by the 2030s on the basis of value.

Gasoline cars will simply cost more to own, end of story.
It would have been better if Bobby Tables was listed as an officer.
However the next Xbox added active countermeasures against glitching attacks which force a reboot if the clocks, temperatures or voltages go outside of reasonable bounds, and that's never been defeated. Glitching attacks can be very powerful, but they have a limited shelf life if the hardware manufacturer cares to prevent them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
Related:

; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27815396 - July 2021 (30 comments)

Drop Table “Companies”;-- LTD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21534156 - Nov 2019 (7 comments)

Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583540 - Aug 2019 (2 comments)

Drop Table Companies Ltd - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17003588 - May 2018 (27 comments)

Drop Table Companies Ltd - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280494 - Dec 2016 (23 comments)
There are semantic games at play here, I suspect.

The manufacturer sold the hardware configured in a certain state; the same device could have been configured differently depending on price. Once the device is sold, the new owner is a petty tyrant over the state of his own property.

But if I don't own the heating "feature" (promise of a result), I don't care. I am pretty sure that the warranty indemnifies the company against the hardware actually being fit for said purpose and therefore will not guarantee a result anyway, so what do you "own" in the first place, if not the device itself?

[edit: grammar, readability]
Interestingly you can do audio rate patterning with Tidal, I’ve tried it up to around 10kHz!
Yeah, have these people never heard of ratting? Perfect size dog for that.
Kawa: The Event Processor for the Grug Brained Developer
The cheapest Tesla's offered a one time unlock for rear seat seat heaters. Not any different from bmw, except bmw also offered a subscription option (bmw also offered a lifetime unlock... at a much higher price).
> For example, a programmer writing payroll software has to deal with the government because of taxes, so the government will decide what names are valid.

(IANAL.) Hehe … but which government? (And perhaps which bureau within the government?) My birth certificate & driver's license — both issued by the same state — had different names on them. (Mostly because my state has the IQ of a rock.) (A situation I've since resolved by moving…)

But yes … prompt only for the exact bits you need to feed upstream … ideally. The problem is that PMs want the UI to be "simple".

Even today, there's no requirement that driver's license (state A) == birth cert (state B) == SSN (feds).

(Although — again, IANAL — that last one can, AIUI, only be temporarily out of sync, as there's a requirement that if you change your legal nameᵃ that you must then change your legal nameᵇ.)

(ᵃwith a state government; ᵇwith the SSA. I got no idea what the SSA does with differing legal names between states, which some states force because de jure you're not permitted to reconcile the differences. Aforementioned rock-IQ state does this.)
That requires Elon actually wanting to improve public transportation instead of kneecapping it to push more car sales.
> Using a copyrighted work without license is copyright infringement

Only for the kinds of “use” that involve the exclusive rights of the copyright owner (“use” generally does not), and even then not always, because there are exceptions to copyright.
>Smithfield was bought by WH Group, a Chinese company, in 2013.

Correct, Smithfield seems to have consolidated the market _before_ being acquired by WH Group. Which he says in the video. But the fact that they are still controlled by China and that they have a massive market share of the industry is still true.

>This appears to be fiction

I just went back and rewatched the video, sorry my bad. They control 80% of hog production _in North Carolina_.

They control 26% of all US pork processing and 15% of pork production.

It's hard to remember this stuff when posting on here casually during work.

However Smithfield was in fact guilty of price fixing:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/pork-consumers-75-million-pric...

Which means they are big and powerful enough to manipulate markets like this.
We will have AI-suggested corrections in the near future! There are a lot of applications for AI here around structure and understandability of an app for the accessible user. We also plan to increase rule coverage to as many WCAG rules (78 total) as possible, starting with the most common offenders.
Like I said: linode will charge you about $2.5K for half a petabyte of data.
There was a rather weird episode in British political history just after the first wave of COVID lockdowns. The performance arts, limited to outdoor events, were struggling, leading to jokes mocking the government's advice for these performers to 'upskill' as computer programmers. Simultaneously, the lack of temporary residents from other EU countries (who comprise the majority of truck/lorry drivers) due to Brexit meant that computer programmers were joking about 'upskilling' to become drivers with double a programmer's salary!
Visual Studio Code July 2023
That one could go either way. Home improvement stuff can be CAD modeled just as much as megaprojects. I tend to go straight to CAD for a lot of things that would otherwise require a paper sketch.

Maybe not the best for brain health, but definitely convenient!
Python is growing well, even relative to Java, for $$$ data stack stuff that VCs have a reason to like

Compare:

Funding databases is some of the most appealing for sw infra VC b/c as business fundamentals like monetization (pay for hosting, data, etc), growth, retention, are some of the most successful & low-risk

Funding the sw compute tier is a peg down but appealing for similar reasons. Basically same-but-weaker than DBs on the above dimensions, but still worth it as customers struggle w/ compute at scale (technical + business), so still works. Think early databricks vs snowflake, and how databricks grew to owning more than compute to data lakehouse, dashboards, etc: started as pure compute and now closer to snowflake.

Python is popular for a lot of these compute tier stacks. Orchestrators, AI, ETL, etc. The technical, social, & economic reasons are all interesting & relevant for why.
Been freelancing for ~20 years now. Mostly high-end contracts. Did develop burnout that morphed into depression. Avoided social contact for a good while but then a guy who was much worse off, came into my life and dragged me out street drumming as a part of a rag-tag improv group. Turns out I was pretty good at it. That pretty much cured me, having people - perfect strangers - react happily and wildly to the beats and grooves.

At age 50 I finally got that drivers license and find now that driving is therapy: having to concentrate on one thing only.

TLDR; do something that's fun and is outside of what you'd normally do. Reset your brain!
US infrastructure is a joke
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History
Bing hiding "tank man" is not "woke" by any common definition of the term.

Got a reference on the Google incident? Sounds like misinformation.
GDS are great - and at the time this company was registered they were even better, hence this doesn't cause any problems.

However that doesn't mean downstream users of the data treat data sources correctly
Related:

Pegasus Mail Newsflashes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31413891 - May 2022 (3 comments)

Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21975087 - Jan 2020 (46 comments)

Pegasus Mail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14144731 - April 2017 (49 comments)

Pegasus Mail: Twenty years and counting... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115730 - Jan 2011 (12 comments)
Or airplane passengers vs those on the ground.

Something like 59 micro-seconds per 10 million frequent flier miles.
Don't give your tables reasonable names.
Just merged my first simple PR with sweep. This is going to be so useful for the kind of things that would take 5 minutes to do but get procrastinated for weeks because you just can't find the time to context switch for it.

Congrats on the launch!
Are batteries still on a roughly 3-4% annual rate of improvement? Or has that shifted? So,e of that will have been aerodynamics (the industry is slowly boiling the frog on styling vs aerodynamics) and motor efficiency, which has climbed a lot in the last 15 years.
The only local first we do these days is iOS apps. We develop those for our users who work outside the office in locations having spotty cell coverage.
Also reported here: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/03/brave_cuts_ties_with_...
Hi, I'm David and I've worked along other engineers at Brave on this! Thanks for your feedback, it would certainly be a nice addition, although we may want to focus a bit more on quality first. Thanks!
> google returning a list of exclusively black people when you searched for "american inventors"

There's no way that's intentional. For starters, DuckDuckGo, Google and Brave image search all do the same thing here.

Maybe it's some weirdness involving "american inventors" appearing in the phrase "african american inventors" or something.
There really isn't room for much else.

Decisions making in our universe is a 1-dimensional slider between deterministic and random. That's it.

Write a program that makes non-deterministic, non-random (or any combination) decisions. You can't. It's like asking to create a new primary color.
Serious question, and I dont mean the following to be offensive, v. objective:

Why should we preclude/promote computers, which have zero moral compass to make descisions about what is "offensive"

Serious - this is a hard model to figure out.

I dont agree with pretty much ANY religious bias, so Why should my computer systems prevent me based on OTHERS' bias they dont want to hear?

KTHEY ARE COMPUTERS - Block those people from seeing what I am asking for?
Startup time is another. For example:

$ elixir test.exs
hello, world!

$ hyperfine "elixir test.exs"
Benchmark 1: elixir test.exs
Time (mean ± σ): 471.1 ms ± 2.6 ms [User: 187.4 ms, System: 83.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 467.1 ms … 475.6 ms 10 runs

Compared to:

$ ruby test.rb
hello, world!

$ hyperfine "ruby test.rb"
Benchmark 1: ruby test.rb
Time (mean ± σ): 36.3 ms ± 2.6 ms [User: 26.0 ms, System: 8.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 34.5 ms … 53.6 ms 53 runs

In practice, I've been able to get the ruby startup time to as low as 6ms - this is what I use for scripts running as keyboard macros, for example. I cannot practically use elixir for that.
I definitely didn't know that.
Producing the extra weight of the seat heater requires extra fuel to burn. Now multiply that by the number of cars on the road. Will cost the customer a (small) amount extra in fuel costs for a part that is not being used. So there is an economic argument that ya, we can subsidize manufactures by taxing people more. Seems like a bad deal to me.

Now lets talk about CO2 output of driving around extra dead weight. Makes it worse.
Wow, that's crazy! I guess I missed the 1 in front. I'd say the more I read the more optimistic I become. Fingers crossed!!
Look carefully at these goals and tell me if these are materially falsifiable. Can you imagine a test that determines whether or not a system has self consciousness?

If such a test exists we could interrogate if a system of some design might pass it, but if such a test does not exist and we cannot even imagine it then you’re talking about something that is unfalsifiable - which is another way of saying “effectively fake”.
The link is about execution speed, I think if you start talking about 'scale' that's a diversion, since that isn't about the language and is more about the architecture of the program.
I loved Pegasus back in the day. I'm happy to see this recent wave of nostalgia here.
Maybe that’s why DFW chose not to mention it then
In other news: If you intercept the boot process of a system and open a root shell there, you can access the system.
Yup! We used to use https://synclinear.com/ but you can also use Zapier to automatically redirect Linear issues to GitHub. It's a nice experience since we also had a Discord to Linear hook.
Dismantling the myth that ancient slavery ‘wasn’t that bad’
Hell I’ve tried those just to get some income coming in, but nothing. They claim “fast hiring process”, and then it’s two weeks later and I just see the same damn positions reposted.