skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know why foreign media outlets (especially in the West) are so keen to criticize Bukele? Searching his name on WaPo or CNN comes up almost exclusively with hit pieces or scare-bait about the 'mega prisons', yet I read the other day he's polling at a record 93% approval in El Salvador. That seems the result of a politician doing their job well, no?

Where is this discrepancy coming from?
Iirc Apple basically bribed Cingular I think to get a toe in the market, at the time Apple fans would go to great lengths to get things working (including installing FireWire to use iPods on windows) so it worked out. AT&T later bought Cingular.
Except this Android can mow down a farmers market full of people if you get things wrong.
There is also something about the Indian government subsidizing extremely ineffective outdated farming practices that waste a lot of water.
> What's more it seems very difficult to defend against.

Perhaps a better word than "difficult" is "expensive." If drones are effective modern armies have no choice about defending against them. (Unless they want to lose.)
I sometimes use my job title as a higher level senior or lead to say vulnerable things like:

"This change is hard for me to read and understand"

or

"This is a large PR, and it may be difficult for me to schedule time to review it. Can it be split up into a series?"

I also configure linters and code quality tools to automatically flag some of the more egregious problems.
I do not believe there is a literal "sonic boom" when clapping. It's possible to cap very slowly and still make a small noise and I don't believe my slow-clapping is pushing air around at 343 meters per second.
It's all just work, and different organizations are better at different flavors of work. Some have a broader range than others.
Maybe it would be distasteful, but a trailer with an ICE engine that could charge the battery while driving. Might be a trick to make it so that the generator could supply more energy than is consumed per minute.
> one possible union architecture

It's the one used by all the major ones: airlines, auto manufacturers, and teachers. What institution do you know of that has a greater emphasis on measuring performance?
16 TB enterprise SSDs are only 50% more expensive than consumer and used ones are even cheaper.
I wish there was some standard to add short term battery capacity for EVs and PHEVs. An e-scooter battery can get most EVs 5 miles down the road. A standardized battery pack and wiring harness in the trunk could allow roadside assistance to get you unstrained or rent a bigger pack for road trips.

I'm sure OEMs don't want to warranty 3rd party equipment connecting to their vehicles and making charge/discharge, cooling, securing heavy packs, etc. reliable.
Alternate lesson: If your manager is telling you to complete tickets, don’t go months and months not doing that thing until you’re on the verge of being fired because — despite being a valuable member of the team — your manager is all confused.

Communication skills. Week 1 Tim could’ve brought up the issue of overall developer productivity with his manager and his manager would’ve at least been aware that Tim wasn’t just playing Minecraft all day.
My car (a hybrid) has a long-standing bug in the radio system that can make it "freeze" and stay on forever. Only way out once it's frozen is to pull the right fuse (or wait for it to drain your battery all the way).
russians have large area jammers. the problem that it jams their own stuff. they also fly drone with some jammers and sdrs in order to detect presence of other drones

also, i saw some clip, Ukrainians are working on automated "final approach/chase" mode for drones.
The saddest thing is that some bosses want throwaway code. I had a short stint once in a company where the owner wanted the web service rewritten from scratch every 6 months so they could use the newest web framework and follow the current fashion. He would hire a 5000 LoC per week hero on the spot.
CDC warns doctors to look out for rare, deadly flesh-eating bacteria
>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday issued a national alert warning health-care professionals to watch out for infections of Vibrio vulnificus, a rare flesh-eating bacteria that has killed at least 13 people on the Eastern Seaboard this year.
ok. most managers suck. but ultimately you have to have at least one adult in the room.
You think a gentle clap is pushing air around at 343 meters per second?
Word Online requires sending docs to MS cloud and VSCode doesn't provide text formatting, so they are different things.
I have no qualms with voluntary monitoring and reporting. However the inclusion of the penalty imposes a tangible duty. That tangible duty is enough to convince me this act is effectively a de facto deputization. The act of searching is, in essence "look out for, raise signal when found". This Act does everything it can to try to cast the process that happens after the search phase as "the search forbidden by the 4th Amendment" instead of the explicitly penalized activity, which is couched as "voluntary, and not State mandated despite a $150000 price tag assessed by... The State". Even going so far as creating a quasi-government entity, primarily funded by the State whose entire purpose is explocitly intended to act as a legal facade to create sufficient "abstract distance" through which the State can claim "it twas not I who did it, but a private organization, Constitional protections do not apply"

Words mean things, and we've gotten damned loose with it these days in my opinion when the want strikes. "Voluntary" anything with a $150000 fine for not doing it is no longer voluntary. It's now your job. If it's your job, and the State punishes you for not doing it, you are a deputy of the State. I do not care how many layers of legal fiction and indirection are between you and the State.

If you can't not comply without jeopardy, it ain't voluntary.
> it has no sense of whether a task has been fulfilled

I've definitely seen it say it's implementation is fine if just asked to identify problems or compare to the original problem statement (and alternatively fix issues it identifies).
With a little server-side support it wasn't all that rare an approach back in the early-mid 2000s days of web dev, when none of us had any idea what we were doing and couldn't wait to find out.

"Exciting" is certainly a word I would use to describe the results, especially in the common case where no VCS was in use.
> No normal person can repair

No, it takes two.

Seriously, I've read that some EV makers require that two persons be present when working on the HV system, the second one on watch with a pull-up hook in case the first one seizes up touching some 400 or 800 V DC part.
AFAIK Teslas use 12V like everyone else, do you have a source for 48V?

However EVs (and hybrids) do tend to have pretty small 12V batteries and I think some of them have switched off of lead-acid: they only need the 12V to boot up the electronics, not to power a starter engine.
Whew, I'm so happy I've always been right in my predictions, unlike this poor fellow, who has probably been unemployed since this inexcusable prediction failure.
The reader replies were good.

https://www.theregister.com/2007/01/09/apple_iphone_letters/
> or people would start buying up the lowest-cost EVs just to pull the battery out of them (like "shucking" external drives) and resell all the other parts.

That sounds amazing.
Most people, even when being quite generous and patient, need to have some involvement in the story to remain interested. For me it's a similar annoyance as listening to someone's long vacation story or about a project idea they have that you know they won't actually start. But at least with a vacation story you can imagine yourself taking the vacation someday, but with a dream you can never go there or experience the same things so it's intensely boring.
I once read an interview with Anssi Vanjoki, who was one of the top executives at Nokia. He said indeed that when he first held an iPhone he knew it was over for Nokia.

If I remember correctly, Nokia had good tech for smart phones, but no vision or courage to drive the market in that direction. It was not a well-managed company.
I'll see your five shotgun shells and raise you six drones.
Not having a smartphone is a human right.
Can you capture any federal, state, and local/utility incentives to get battery storage now so you’re ready to go off grid in the future?
I'm honestly not familiar with this "I had no choice but to approve" mindset. In the greenfield projects I've worked on there was always at least one person, sometimes several, who had the authority to just say "no, this is far too complex, scratch it all and we'll meet tomorrow to discuss next steps." Sometimes it ended up with breaking the PR into several more manageable pieces, sometimes it ended up with a wholesale rewrite / refactor of that component.
After skimming https://alexanderobenauer.com/articles/os/1/ - I think the items are more like objects than files. Files have a uniform I/O interface, while items seem like they can have unique properties instead of having a uniform interface.
Yeah, maybe if it has the original context.

Although, there's no shame in asking one of the walking, talking neural nets that have traditionally been willing to supply clarification, especially when they created the bit of context that is the source of confusion.
> ADL is a PR firm

It's not just a PR firm, it's a pressure group. And they absolutely suck.

They literally classify 17% of the numbers between 1 to 100 as "hate symbols": 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 28, 33, 38, 43, 52, 83, 88, 90. [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1697401610018738183
That criticism feels weak to me outside of the scope of "StrictYaml vs TOML". Within that context, I might agree, having just heard of StrictYaml today. Having dealt with the full blast of complexity YAML and especially XML and XML Schema has in store... TOML is probably one of the top 2-3 config languages I'd use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Beam has entered chat room
Not Everyone Is On Board OpenTF Manifesto
Perceus Reference Counting in OCaml
My bank (or Zelle) removed the ability to send money to an individual from the web interface. You have to use the smartphone app.
Ok, but a few sentences explaining what each of those terms mean would be ideal.
And yet it used to be that code would be handed in on paper, and you'd get the output days (weeks?) later. I heard people quickly learned to double check their programs!

Though I think it's computationally cheaper for GPT to actually run the code than to double check its work...
> I'm not talking about whether the scheduler can block the task on IO. This is trivial.

The whole point of coroutines is that they are trivial to block and resume, right? So the way to deal with limited resources... is to block on them.

So when you need a connection, you await until one from the pool becomes available. From the point of view of the consumer it's very natural because grabbing a connection is just a standard async call, and returning it to the pool can be done the same way you would usually close it. If anything, it's a lot easier to manage them like this because unlike in a non async program you don't have to worry too much about blocking progress.
> You can’t even jump another car with your Tesla

That's pretty common for EVs (and hybrids), since they don't have (or need) a traditional starter engine and only use the 12V to boot up the car they downsize the 12V and / or switch to lithium chemistries.
Medium has deleted her old posts, but many are archived here: https://archive.ph/p1sII#selection-1125.0-1131.348
and here:
https://archive.is/https://medium.com/@kris-nova/*
What do you want me to say? You didn't provide a reference, you just proclaimed that I was wrong. Fine, you're right, I was wrong. It is not the vast majority that are chains, it's just a lot of them. (Apparently your Multiple Philosophy Degrees didn't equip you to recognize non-sequiturs either.)

And, to go back to my original point which is apparently too difficult for you to grasp, I am not overlooking "corruption". I am simply observing that what you call "corruption" is ubiquitous, mostly legal, and necessary for anyone who wants to advance in politics under our current system. That is simply a fact. You cannot succeed in politics without shmoozing donors. You can call that "corruption" if you want, but I'm not interested in quibbling over terminology.

I'm also not interested in having a discussion with someone who thinks that having Multiple Philosophy Degrees actually matters. Ben Carson has an M.D. but he's still a blithering idiot. Ted Kazinsky had a Ph.D. but he was still a psychopath. I see your Multiple Phislosophy Degrees and raise you my Ph.D. in computer science -- and them I'm folding my hand because this is not a game I am interested in playing.
Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: No preference, as long as I don't have to move away from Bay Area.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: I'm a backend/SRE and low-level coder type: Python, C, Rust, Golang, Haskell, AWS, Terraform. I've worked with all layers of the stack but I'm at my strongest in this stuff.

I also know some Machine Learning engineering: I know PyTorch, and I've implemented some recurrent neural network implementations in AVX2+Rust code, and hand-written gradient calculations for them. I also made a LLaMA implementation from scratch. I've followed the open source movement on AI and know most of the developments that have been going on. (Links to projects in the CV)

CV: https://submarination.space/public/cv2023_mikjuo.pdf

Email: mikko.juola@iki.fi

~~~

I'm a software engineer of around 7 years of experience, although I've been coding since a young age. My professional experience is in AdTech and I worked at Pinterest doing some billing pipeline work.

I'm looking for work that is interesting in some way, either in the coding department or the product is something unique. Or in an area I'm less familiar with: e.g. mobile development so I can learn.

For example, if you are doing something like err let's say: writing compilers, embedded coding, machine learning engineering stuff, research projects, teaching, FinTech. Or e.g. Haskell or a Rust job because they seem something very rarely hired for.

Cheers.
Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands
Yup, that did it. I am now convinced that some classes Ken took 45 years ago make him a modern day, professional economist. Guess I’m an economist too! I’m sure Paul Krugman would love the comparison.
Tesla has talked about that. The main issue with swappable batteries is that the whole battery has to be accessible from the bottom or side of the car. This provides design constraints on battery size. Most automakers don't want to compromise on battery size, they want to pack as much battery as possible in the space that's available.

The next biggest issue with swappable batteries is responsibility. If all of the batteries are shared, who pays for a new battery when a battery reaches its end of life? This problem will have to be solved at some point anyway since nobody likes paying $15K+ when their vehicle battery reaches end of life. It would make much more sense to amortize this cost over the life of the vehicle. It would be easy to do that with higher fees of battery swaps, but people don't normally like higher upfront costs even if it works out to the same in the end.
I read the whole thing, but I know just as much as when I started. This is the least amount of substance I've seen in a while.
russians (and ukrainians) do you sdrs extensively to detect drones, communication and jamming equipment. for some values of extensively
Somehow someway everything in the uk, for some, revolves around immigrants. Bravos.
Annoyed? I’d love it: it would be an incredible door opener anywhere you went.
Reads like the product of a co-marketing deal:

> ... Fellow is at the top of the gooseneck game with their Stagg EKG electric kettle line. Let’s see how they manage to achieve unmatched precision in temperature control ...

FWIW, I owned a Fellow, until it failed. Now happily replaced with an OXO kettle: 1500W; much better ergonomics, at least for those with larger hands; fewer steam burns; more readable temperature display.
I don’t recall the precise details, but one of the key Android people was watching the keynote and had that immediate realization: their prototypes had just been obsoleted.
Reading these articles is always amusing. The iPhone became one of the most successful products in modern history. With that, doomer articles like these are bound to be used for decades as examples of how predictions can backfire catastrophically. No journalist wants to be known as the guy who predicted the iPhone would fail.
That is just what Continuous Delivery is though. Quicker release cycles keeps breakage short. It's a lot easier to manage "this edge case broke because of something we changed in the past day/week" compared to "something we changed in the past 3 months broke this edge case"

The lack of release notes is probably just not the effort, or even confusing for users and can deter them, or make them never read the release notes when they happen. I don't think most users know what semantic versioning is.

Like, if the only thing you did last week was refactor some module, add more unreachable code for a flagged feature, and update third party libraries, do the users need that info every week?

But not releasing all those small changes daily/weekly makes the releases more and more dangerous as they stack up.
Yet despite such advantages the war in Ukraine is effectively a stalemate at this moment. It looks to me as if mines have been a bigger factor current operations than drones.

I'm not minimizing drones by any means but there are many causes and effects in war.
Knowledge Graph Prompting: A New Approach for Multi-Document Question Answering
>Multi-document question answering (MD-QA) involves answering questions that require synthesizing information across multiple documents.
So all these comments claiming that an article about the GPT's responses is wrong are useless.

There are also such comments on this article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361521
We need a Framework for EVs perhaps to get this going.

The EV I want is a simple super reliable easily repairable one.

I personally went for the Nissan Leaf in lieu of this because it’s basically a Nissan Versa with a motor and batteries where the engine and gas tank go. Not good for road trips but a nice city car and decently repairable. (I have an older ICE for road trips that I don’t drive much otherwise.)
Maybe Tim could have also added his name to the tickets as he was pairing and helping the others complete them...
I guess I wasn’t specifically trying to use 3 words but more just demonstrate that 10 decimal digits is about as simple as it gets in terms of clearly being able to communicate with that much precision over a low quality connection.
On an individual level: So what? I stopped giving a f. I'd rather do what I believe is right than earn another $100k a year at a certain point. If it gets to the point of being laid off, hey, maybe it's the nudge you needed to find a better place anyway. Meanwhile, you could play the game all you want and still have your entire business unit shuffled away next year.

I'm not going to drive off a cliff just because the OKR tells me there's actually a road there but I wonder about some people...
I once drove back to SF from Castle Lake with a dead alternator by hanging an 85W portable solar panel over the rear window of my mx-5, connected to the battery in the trunk.

It supplied enough juice to run the car with no accessories most of the way back, until a combination of overcast sky and uncooperative route direction started making the car hesitate at the slightest throttle input.

So it'd definitely give a little MPG boost by taking a load off the alternator, in addition to keeping the battery topped up like you said. I was tempted to epoxy a cheap flexible one permanently on the trunk-lid. With the trunk-mounted battery it'd be trivial.
“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reminds me of this video about the origin of the name Tiffany: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI

"I didn't fly across the Atlantic to... Of course I did"
The design that allows 12V to completely discharge while there's charge in high voltage batteries is idiotic. I ran into that in Toyota hybrid. Why there's no manual override that enables charging of 12V battery? It could be under the hood and turn off automatically when the voltage in 12V battery is high enough.
I find the friction with deep hierarchical data to be a benefit of TOML as a configuration file. You shouldn't have deep hierarchies in your configs.
The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11730
I can relate though I wish I could get into a position that I could say such things and not get fired. In some circles "This change is hard to me to read and understand" would be interpreted as "I'm an aging dinosaur who doesn't understand this new tech; you youngsters are too clever for me." (though I realize how completely wrong it is).

I'm 33 but I feel like I already have to make an effort to avoid the dinosaur label. I disagree with a lot of modern tech trends but I simply cannot express my view about them even though I could explain the problems very clearly and logically and can provide far better and simpler alternatives. Unfortunately, hype does not yield to reasoning... And sometimes, you're too far into the tech debt and it doesn't make financial sense to rewrite.
https://archive.ph/p9TPo
My last two (android) phones showed a screen that included my current coordinates whenever I call any emergency number. I would say putting your phone on speaker and reading out the numbers that are right there on the screen could be considered "easy".
Oh interesting! I’m curious how they deal with FCC compliance. I’ve worked with espressif chips, and the way they stay compliant is to insert binary blobs in the final binary so that you can’t access the radio except through their API. Without this you’d have to get FCC certification yourself, possibly with each update.
So you think the article uses the term "spiritual" differently?

I confess, did not read.

I'm getting kinda alienated from reading. Anything more than a sentence and I drift.

But ya. You know what helps you understand the taste of a lemon? Here's a clue, it ain't a deep complex story about a lemon.
Ask HN: Starting new ecommerce site for clothes, what should I know for success?
Some background info:

1. Stack: Shopify.
2. Theme on shopify: undecided still.
3. Market Research: selling goods offline through exhibitions to understand logistics and sales.
4. Target audience: mid-range clothes.
5. Sourcing of inventory: through wholesale suppliers.

I am interested in learning:
1. What are some practical tips to make a successful online business?
2. Are there any books/podcasts/resources that can help me improve the business aspect of running a small business?
3. I do not think tech is going to be complicated at surface (shopify etc. etc.), and I am not averse to getting my hands dirty if needed, but time is of essence, and getting into a theme's code, for example, is going to consume a lot of it. So avoiding that for now, but any recommendations?
4. Any questions I may not be asking?

thanks.
I don't think "questions that may have ambiguous answers" applies when you use a term like "perfectly accurate" which has a very specific meaning.