skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people claim to be Christians but don't forgive, turn the other cheek or love their neighbors because it doesn't suit them to but it does suit them to claim to be Christian.

So any successfully communicated methodology is going to be claimed by lots of hypocrits and then perverted while they simultaneously boast how much they love it.

And then you'll get the opposite kind of person who doesn't believe in forgiveness or loving their neighbors and sees a great chance to attack those ideas by supporting the hypocrits deception and claiming that their perversion is the real (evil) religion.

None of this helps software get built but is just a power struggle between developers who don't want to reduce the bus factor or despecialise or write tests or do maintenance or change their great plans to suit circumstances.
I don't think that part is so much about the job titles themselves. It's more about the interests/motivations. As in "I said smoking was bad and a lot of people that worked in selling tobacco told me I was wrong and that smoking was perfectly healthy".
The "challenging activity" stuff comes from the fact that my brain just can't compute the "I'd rather have all these great experiences than having kids"-type statements and not seeing any potential for great experiences in child-rearing, especially when those experiences often seem to be a lot more copy-paste.

"Challenging" also maybe doesn't quite capture what I meant. Do you know how you sometimes have to bike somewhere two hours on a slow, heavy MTB that makes it a slog for a 15min downhill descent? It's more that kind of challenge.
> Hmm that sounds appealing /s

I mean, it's better than 'buy a mac and pay us $100/year'.
The ancient machines were more reliable. I worked at a McDonalds for about 5 years in the 1980s and cannot recall one day when the Taylor machines didn't work.

The old machines had higher training and labor costs though, and over thousands of stores this was an issue. Presumably the newer machines are overall less expensive, even accounting for the lost sales on days where they are offline, and the associated repair costs. They may also be necessary for the newer ice cream products. In my day we only had vanilla soft-serve (cones or sundaes) and shakes with three flavors.

McDonald's isn't in business to keep Taylor repair techs employed. If it was costing them more than the alternatives, they would make a change.
It would be one thing if companies have had (1) zero turnover since the COVID WFH started, and (2) could clearly show that WFH hurt their productivity; in that case a "y'all come back to the office now" makes sense.

The company I was working for when WFH started was concerned about a drop in productivity but instead saw an INCREASE in productivity, so much so they never mandated RTO after that.
I should have put that my understanding was old. I'm happy to see things have come even farther along than I would have expected. But I honestly don't get why this didn't happen early 2000s. The specific thing that always baffled me was how the PSPs couldn't interact with the Playstation at the time. Heck, after the first PSP, I don't know why the next Playstation couldn't take those disks in to let you play on your TV. Why build up a completely separate ecosystem? I see they are moving away from that now, with the PS5 being able to do PS4 games. That is good to see.
Slow chargers at destinations (home, work, hotels, cabins, ski resorts) should be dumb. At most they should take payment directly via contactless or via a shared kiosk in a parking lot, no app or account required. Most Level 2 chargers are pretty dumb. They are not much more than an integrated AC outlet, cable, contractor, GFCI, and optionally a payment terminal.

Fast chargers should be smart. They should report their status and availability, so you (and your in-car nav) know which chargers are working or congested.

The car should be smart, and navigate you to these chargers (with options of course if you have preferred routes, stops, charger brands, etc.). The car knows when to schedule a charge so you will arrive with an optimal battery charge (low) and not spend extra time charging all the way to 100% when it is faster to move on to the next trip segment.

Fast chargers should also take payment either via plug-and-charge that bills a single account linked to your car (ie Ford BlueOval pass), or take tap-to-pay directly on the charger without an app or account requirement. The latter is a requirement of the federal infrastructure funding for EV fast chargers.

Destination chargers are great and can absolutely make EVs a daily convenience for many. But I've taken many road trips in my EV that simply would not have been possible with basic dumb outlets as my only way to charge.
You'd have a credit card terminal connected to a relay, ammeter, and ground fault protection circuits. Credit card authorized, engage the relay, track the current, calculate some rate * amps * time. But if you're there, you're already most the way there to the "complicated" EVSE.
Even in the north, someone from Himachal Pradesh is not going to be able to identify someone’s caste in Bihar or West Bengal
My landlord recently had the opportunity of paying $1 so that I could avoid paying $2.50. They didn't do that. Never underestimate the willingness of some short-sighted companies to nickel and dime you to death, even for the slimmest margins. A hotel should just add free L2 chargers for their guests, but many will see it as an opportunity to profit rather than a perk of the overall experience.
In Canada the supercharger experience is great. In 3 years I’ve never had to wait for a spot. The superchargers are usually located in convenient locations in mall marking lots or next to coffee shops or restaurants. I’d love to switch try a different EV but the lack of a supercharger network prevents that.
Good. Companies should be able to charge the prices they want, but if that's the case they should be required to disclose the full price and nothing but the price.
There are lots of things people prefer doing that arent the best for them.
you can set up a self-hosted Ray infra to achieve this.
I still can't get over how wild it is to look back at even Windows 1.0 documentation and see familiar functions.
Keep in mind that this is limited to the Safari’s traffic. The traffic from apps or other browsers doesn’t go through iCloud relay.
Unfortunately corporations are unable to allow your valuable data to be "left on the table".
No. In fact, given the dishonest behavior of ISPs, the FCC should go even further, and require all ISPs to list the full sticker price of any offered services, and ONLY the full price, in all advertising.

They shouldn't even be allowed to list a price that doesn't yet include the fees. No asterisks. No appendices. No see below. No fine print. Just list the real price. Always.
As someone who's lived car-free my entire life (yay EU and good public transport), I'm baffled to find out charging a car even requires an app.

How did we manage to fuck up something as basic as delivering power? We've been doing this for like, dunno, 150 years? I understand charging requires payment - why not a simple credit card terminal? Or gosh - a clerk that would accept cash, like what every single gas station in existence has been doing for over a century?
Open Letter of Justice Thomas's clerks vouching for his integrity [pdf]
"Justice Thomas has never strayed from those beginnings. A bust of his grandfather—himself raised
by a grandmother born into slavery—watches over his office. It is an ever-present reminder that he
is no ordinary Justice. Come the first Monday in October, the Justice, born into poverty few can
fathom and educated in a segregated Savannah school room, will take the bench and begin his thirty-
third year on the U.S. Supreme Court. He will ask a question most haven’t considered. And he will
cast his votes and write opinions based on his mind alone.
We are proud to have been his clerks and to remain his friends, and we unequivocally reject attacks
on his integrity, his character, or his ethics."
> the only purpose for publishing someone's home address, place of employment, phone number, etc.

I do not recall seeing those in the threads I looked at (which all have an opening post collecting information about the individual).

Can you confirm what proportion, if any, of main posts had that info? Can you also confirm that KF does not have a policy of removing that info?

I can't access kiwifarms at the moment to check, but I strongly suspect that information is in obscure posts by individuals and their "community" as a whole does not condone it and it is removed where obvious.

Edit: I have now accessed the site and confirm a culture of doxxing, with 3 of the 10 opening posts proudly having "doxx" sections.
nope.
The standard plug is inadequate for full duty, long time high current.
The contacts oxidise because they heat up, then the contact get worse, they heat more until the plastic melt.
It can work for a short time, but it’s not a good long term solution.

The Tesla plug and charger is a way better system, and is currently being adopted by almost all EV in north america.
Why would that be pretty bizarre? The entire goal of the GPL was to use copyright law against itself (hence the term copyleft): the stronger copyright law gets, the stronger GPL protection gets. So to me, it's pretty much in the spirit of the GPL to wield additional copyright legislation to protect open source software.
>In my area, it is less than <$.15/kwh (often _much_ less). Even for a Lucid, that'd be $16.50 at most. The parking spots here tend to be $50 and up and most RVs would be running A/C off the power most of the day anyway. So the real difference is maybe ~half of that?

I'm not following, you're saying RV parks would have no issues with EVs swinging by every day, using $15 of electricity, and not ever paying a dime? I'm not sure about your area, but around here campgrounds aren't exactly printing money... they would very much not be cool with someone stealing their power.

If you're suggesting someone paying $50 for a parking spot and then plugging in - sure the RV park isn't going to care at all. The author of the article appears to have just taken the power without paying a dime though...
> Kids are a choice, not a mandatory checkbox. That is the thesis.

One I certainly agree with.
I remember listening to a great podcast about digital circuit breakers that seems relevant to this discussion:

https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-digital-circuit-breaker-and-why#...
Eh Sri Ganganagar Meel biradari de siga? Those guys are an elite Feudal Family (they're related to the Jakkhars in neighboring Fazilka Punjab, who have been MPs and MLAs for that area since the 1970s).
You had bad engineers.

If you inflict all that process on any good engineers in your company because of the bad engineers, you'll probably chase them off and be left with only the bad engineers who need all that process to keep them in line.

And what is weird is that processes like those can get justified by the fact that they produce objective measures to terminate bad employees if the violate the process, but in reality its the bad ones that are going to hang around and put up with it passive aggressively.
So it’s like playing a fake victim card?
In at least one instance, Google's Project Zero found an RCE vulnerability that could be triggered by just being nearby.

More common exploits target things like the GPU drivers. They require code execution on the device (i.e., an app you've downloaded) but they can be an easy path to root access for attackers targeting specific devices.

Realistically, people use phones long beyond their official software support lifetime. Plenty of unhacked phones going around still running Android 8. Android's fragmentation makes it hard to write a one-size-fits-all exploit chain like on you can on iOS.

Just make sure to only run apps from sources you trust and to update your browser, and I'm sure you should be fine for another few years.

If you want to, you can run ROMs like LineageOS. They won't fix the binary blobs, but they'll patch the open source version of Android and keep you up to date in that regard. My phone stopped receiving updates after an Android 11 update and now it's running last week's Android 13 build, patching a whole bunch of Android runtime vulnerabilities. Many phones in use today are vulnerable to a zero-click Bluetooth exploit that would be fixed by installing LineageOS or something similar to that. The newer Android version also provides me with all of the privacy improvements that have been made in Android 12 and 13. I'm hopeful that it'll run Android 14 as well, though depending on a volunteer project isn't a guarantee of course.

In theory my phone could probably be hacked quite easily though the outdated GPU drivers, but in practice I don't think I'm at that great a risk unless I try to start pirating games or something.
I want discrmination, of any shape, form and kond and for all reasons, to go away in the private sector as well. Your, and my, personal freedom stop where someone elses begins. And that explicitly includes caste based discrimination, among all other forms.
TIL SK babies are needier than babies in rest of the world.
Lol and why don’t they qualify?

Because of centuries of discrimination that has kept them poorer and less educated.

You might be able to argue that there is no discrimination today and that the hiring process itself is not discriminatory, but the outcomes are entirely the result of discrimination in society.
"forgot to bring along a NACS-to-CCS adapter" and that's where I stopped reading.

Step 1. Please understand the technology before you complain about it.

There is no such thing as NACS-to-CCS adapter currently. If there was it would do no good at a AC charging station.
Hi Robin Hood. I wonder about the "continue their work without the pressure to generate financial returns" part. I don't see an expectation to work on non-commercial, or socially conscious, applications, just to commit to open source (what level of commitment also being unclear). It would actually be great if support programs along these lines were being offered by governments and public service institutions, with some serious governance and transparency around the process.

Surely there are also some interesting econometrics on the "GPU poverty line" - someone has literature to share?
I'm sure they'll claim that it's too difficult, or too confusing for consumers, etc., etc.
I just tried it out, Edge showed the banner twice, once over the Chrome download confirmation (when the browsers asks if you're sure you want to keep an .exe file), and the second didn't obey the X to close. I had to click on the downloads list to be able to tell Edge to keep the Chrome installer.
Not OP but short answer: In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death), brain augmentation, AI/machines able to do many things for us, fusion/renewable-based energy abundance, and more. In almost every measurable way the world is better now than it was 20 years ago, and 20 years before that. This is likely to continue.

Climate change is concerning, but totally addressable with technology. We absolutely can fix ground water, ocean warming, carbon ratios. It involves will, resources, and the technology to be thoughtful of how we impact the planet, instead of randomly doing it as side effects. There are some "trivial" fixes for many issues that can be implemented if we decide we want to (paint 1/4 the sahara white, solar shades in space, etc). They are not hard and if things get bad we will take them more seriously.

Healthcare affordability is essentially a policy issue, but there is no reason in 40 years that healthcare can't be effectively free with AI/Robotics driving down the cost.
Url changed from https://latlong.blog/2023/08/new-map-apis-from-google.html, which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network
How dare the evil WEF curtail my RIGHT as a CAPITALIST to pay my employees as I deem fit?
Woa the whole country? I had assumed that with a place that big and varied, there’d be large regional differences for this stuff.

Wow that’s pretty bad then.
I've worked at places where we really could have used one. It might have stopped one of the most devastating project failures I was involved in.
I think you misunderstood me to think I want a crossover. I do not. The definition of a crossover is that it's a unibody chassis like a car, with car-like suspension and drivetrain, but shaped like an SUV with a similar ride height. An SUV is a truck that has an extended enclosed passenger cabin with fold-down seats.

A crossover is effectively trying to replace the minivan segment, because it can't actually do any of the things an SUV can do effectively, like towing. Minivans are actually better than crossovers in pretty much every way that matters, except for their CAFE classification.

My perfect vehicle would be a small AWD electric hatchback w/ sport suspension. A compact AWD electric sedan w/ sport suspension would be a close second. A bloated POS with a high center of gravity is pretty much everything that I loathe in the world.
But if they didn't pay for the spot they're not a customer they're just someone who took >$16 worth of resources and left.

And if you're paying $50 for the spot, you're massively overpaying for your charging.
Yes. I think so. It has an algol type/ style syntax.

If you can wrap your mind around immutability of data structures and understand how to use enumerators instead of loops for iterators, you're golden.
Yeah, and you can always tell someone's full financial position from little details like that. (eyeroll)

So someone who got a benefit from the state that addresses a serious, well-proven injustice, and wasn't crawling on their knees and begging for it. Sounds like the system is working.

Even if your anecdote is real, and their use of an Audi indicated they were well able to pay full school fees, so what? We give such benefits to the parents because we want to target the child. Sometimes the parents might make different financial choices, obtain a car that's more than they need. (And you don't know how they got it, whether it's used, or whether they feel they need it to "keep up appearances" with others so peers, like you, don't judge them by their car.)

In any case that's why the benefit is delivered as reduced school fees. TLDR the children aren't the ones who bought the Audi.
Does this mean Epoxy must execute all the calls to the underlying services? If so, how is the data to be stored in each db communicated to Epoxy?
Very different.

From the article, the current process uses forging, which is kind of like a big stamp to smash a solid block into shape, possibly in multiple steps. Can only stamp from 2 directions, so need CNC to make holes in the sides and then still do some fine machining afterwards to get things nice and smooth.

With the 3D printing process, you print sinter and go straight to the fine machining.

Much less waste, tooling, transferring the pieces from machine to machine even, maybe.

I'd say 3D printing takes longer overall, but I don't know exactly what they're planning and how fast either process is in this case.
Robots do what humans tell them. Humans make bad decisions.
Appreciate it Max! We definitely had some challenges initially, but going into full startup mode helped us get way deeper with users and iterate more quickly
Yeah it can be terrible... on a trip I was recently waiting for a DC fast charger to become available, the guy using it was charging from 80 to get to 100%. I had a car full of kids that I couldn't get home because I was at 15%. I asked if I could at least charge for 15-20 minutes and he said "I was here first, not my problem."

I charge at home 99% of the time so it's rarely an issue, but I need to be more cautious on road trips than I hoped. Next time I'll plan ahead to charge earlier.
I have seen a lot of L2 chargers (J1772) that had broken clips and would not charge my vehicle. Also lots that were just turned off or broken.
> I find the push for "back to the office" one of the most astonishing things to come out of corporate America.

Really? Because this was obvious to me from the beginning and ever since. When we were hearing "remote working is going so well" there was also a white hot labor market and companies wanted to keep employees on board. That an everyone was doing remote.

Now that full remote is less common they can do more and more. Executives were not happy with this from the beginning. Even team/department leads would often prefer commute themselves so they can see their team being good worker bees for them and see "who the lazy ones are".

Also, I haven't seen this mentioned much, but it gives them more power to claim someone is a bad worker. They can see them not at their desk, or write them up for not making it in, being late, etc.

There may be many companies that would never be this direct: you were late once, so here's a write-up, especially while other employees get a pass. In any case it gives a much better position to negotiate these things, however the employer chooses.
I agree this initiative helps solve real pain points, and I'm not trying to defend "Crypto" with my question here but isn't solving a "real pain" kinda subjective? For example, many people/companies have the real pain/need to improve ad click-through-rates and reduce crypto/gas fees but maybe these aren't problems you care about.
Our 15 minute standups were about an hour, sometimes longer. The project manager aka scrum master spent at least 80% of those minutes talking. They were scheduled for 11:30am, right when everyone was either wanting to go to lunch, or for people not taking lunch probably the most productive middle part of the day. For those who went to lunch afterward, they never got to start before 12:30pm, and were out to at least 1:30pm. So it sort of wrecked the start of the afternoon too. Not that it didn't wreck the lead-up either, because if you have that crap looming over you at 10:45am you sort of shut down any important thinking you need to do... best not get caught up in what you are doing, because if you're 1 minute late for the standup, there's hell to pay.

But, what little progress there was, was easily measured. That seems to be the important part.

Lunatics run this asylum.
Complete bs.

>Caste-based surnames are extremely uncommon in South India (20% of India's population), and it's not even a recent thing.

No, caste-based surnames are uncommon among some upper caste communities. A significant chunk (Gowdas, Reddys, Nairs etc.) have surnames strongly linked to castes. And what you might refer to being a "recent thing" is having a western style surname at all.

>FWIW, as someone who has spent considerable time in Indian academia, this article reeks of BS. No one cares about your caste in Indian academia. The languages you speak, the part of India you come from, etc., cause a bigger divide than caste.

I've also spent time in Indian academia (and left it, for unrelated reasons) and can say that caste matters a lot, in a very insidious way. Respectfully, if you can't tell that Bulsara is a Gujarati surname (which means it could be a Hindu, Parsi or a Muslim surname, so may not even be linked to a caste as is the case with Freddie Mercury), then you may not know enough to comment on caste.

>How exactly did the author find their castes?

Perhaps try reading the article? He has even linked the RTI responses if you doubt him so much.
I lived across the street from Warner Brothers Ranch. It was surreal to watch a show like the Sarah Connor Chronicles and see a town blow up and look out my window and see the same church steeple. My nightly walk took me past the backyard of the Wanda/Vision home. Apparently I was trapped in the Hex.