skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> battery cars are $20,000 more expensive than their ICE counterparts

I’m not sure where you are, but this is certainly not true in the US broadly speaking.

$10k might be believable… sort of… but that typically doesn’t factor in total cost of ownership. Current EVs have quite a bit lower total cost of ownership for most use cases.

Regarding prices, I got a model y in 2021. It was comparable in purchase price and specs to a Toyota Highlander hybrid, but cost of ownership is lower and resell value may be higher.
Capturing or thinking in either is an improvement over people trying to keep everything in their heads, something we're are in the USA completely not taught in public schools.

There are various tools I've tried from this classic HN discussion regarding digital tools, from my infatuation over time with fancy pilot g2 pens, to Casio pdas, to palm treos to the HP Compaq TC1000 with Onenote 2003 (pen computer with electronic notebook!) to my ongoing fountain pen habit to my current desire to make the Microsoft courier concept real life by buying an expensive Lenovo Yoga 9i (why are booklet PC form factors so impossible to find!? I would ask), the tool search is a worthy and never ending hobby.

But it was only when I wrote applied the mental process of "capture clarify organize reflect and engage" taught in David Allen's Getting Things Done system did I manage to find what I was looking for: a mental algorithm to respond to all the novel information in my life so it can take its proper place among my existing life landscape.

I was capturing reams of notes in analog or digital but then I never knew what to DO with them, so I just held them just in case I needed them again.

The GTD book is reputed as a personal organization / filing and email advice and that's useful in its own area, but besides the point of the book, which is to equip you to properly assess, digest, and see the landscape of your life.

I really love the mental clarity and confidence that, armed with these great analog fountain pens or great digital capture with Dragon pro 15, the captured notes not only exist, but I know what they are, what they mean to me, what I need to do with them (if any).

I still try out new personal wikis and other new digital (1) and analog tools (steal like an artist book talks about switching between creating in analog and editing in digital as both are more suited those in a general sense), but I now do it knowing that I don't have the nagging desire for 'something more' that I used to expect the tools to unlock, when the tools really function to be force multipliers for how I approach my life's horizons and projects, both old and new, i get to just enjoy the new toy.

(1) I still try to avoid being nerd sniped trying to write my own digital notebook app like Lorien but saving on sqlite with onenote .one file import so I can have Windows and Linux app parity.
Moreover, even if they can stop the heat, how are they planning to stop ocean acidification? Will they build a wall around the reef and manage pH within?

AFAIK, if the water acidifies even a bit more, no living organisms will be able to have any shells of any kind on them as the water becomes corrosive and simply dissolves the shells over time.
Why? Tying brands to identity is a weird thing. Companies aren't static anyway. I switch brands depending on how the wind blows at the time of purchase.
Interesting that it completely skirts the issue of whether or not these friendships are remote or in-person. That can make a huge difference: texting with someone versus dropping by their place for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon aren't the same and not saying one is better than the other, and in many cases the former is impossible, but it does have an impact.
I think both can be good. We should know how much of a purchase is tax. We should also know upfront. I also think it's okay to question if a tax rate is appropriate and if the money already being taken for tax purposes is being spent well.
I work for a not so small company with a large international user base and wish I could have the option to geoblock sometimes. While you're not wrong about there being more intelligent ways to block traffic it's substantially more time consuming to apply and get it right so that you allow legit traffic and actually block what you need to.

We also aren't just talking about blocking DDoS and other common vulnerability scanning. Depending on your business there are other potentially costly fraud and abuse scenarios that you are blocking just by blocking other countries outright. Until there are tools to block all this that are as easy to apply as a geoblock, this will probably remain the unfortunate state of things. A lot of businesses just don't have the time or resources to manage all of this without applying geoblocks.
Boring answer:

Backend

Less boring answer:
Obfuscated malware payload (a.k.a JS)
American Museum of Natural History to remove all human remains from display
I really like the idea of mining your own browsing history for insight. I think that the value of our browsing history is completely lost to us because the lack of tooling to make saving and searching more accessible.

It's still WIP but I've been building a browser extension for this on GitHub here: https://github.com/lunabrain-ai/lunabrain

My goal is to be able to use the Internet as normal, but have the extension automatically index and rank content I find important. For example, if I spend 5 minutes on a page that I went to after Hackernews, odds are I found that important so it should be considered in my history differently than other things.

The network effect of this data is pretty interesting too. It would be really cool to see what my friends, or other high trust, high signal, groups i am in find interesting. Being on a page where my mentor has stared, annotated, shared this before will probably give me pause and make me consider this page more deeply.

I'm curious if anybody else has any notes to share.
And in that instance was used to demonstrate the excessive shallowness and materialism of the characters.
the dealers in my area had evs I could test drive, but they were test drive vehicles only. you couldn't buy them, you had to order if you liked and wait for your specific one to come
I plan to file a complaint with the FTC and FCC when I get "upgraded".
Good throughput but it is only line of sight as that bw is in high frequency ranges.

2.4 ghz and 900 mhz are not "old" or "outdated." It's all rf spectrum. The lower frequencies are valuable for range/penetration.

We should weigh research on directed rf radiation higher. We can run a lot more devices with better UX if we can avoid blasting radiation in all directions.
> A surprisingly large amount of all human economic activity is around exploiting other people's psyche/biology.

There's a book I am reading about evolutionary psychology that posits that a lot of human behavior has unconscious prior motives that serve our biological interests [1]. According to the author, even the high morals of Charles Darwin can be interpreted as "Darwinian" self-interest that served him well in Victorian England. I am not comfortable with his reasoning, the more so given that a lot of it is speculation.

[1] Richard Wright, The Moral Animal
It's the same for pretty much any language. There is nothing special about header files...

> There’s no rule that they have to only contain declarations

Same thing in Python, you can write statements at the top level of a module, and it will be executed whenever someone first import that module...

> or that they have to appear at the top of source files

Same thing in Python, you can `import` anywhere, and the context/order matters and overwrites existing scope declarations.

> or that they have to be .h files

Same thing in Python, the extension doesn't matter if you use import lib, only if you use the `import` keyword does the name/path matters.
Reading Marvel Comics in the 1990s, Charles Atlas was still just enough part of American culture that parodies appeared of its classic advertisement about a bully at the beach "Hey, quit kicking that sand in our faces!"[0]. I recall "Hey, quit kicking our faces!" and "Hey, quit kicking Sandman in our faces!" Long shot, but if any HN readers have an encyclopedic Marvel Comics knowledge and could find those two parodies, I’d be grateful.

[0] https://www.pinterest.com/pin/406168460114811471/
I remember telling my oldest kid that it was highly unlikely she would still be friends with her best friend in high school after high school. She didn’t believe me. About five years later she asked me if I remembered that conversation and said that I was right.
Man, that YouTube logo... The subtle coloring. The tasteful thickness
The flip side of greedflation is that people keep paying it.

Nobody forces you to buy cell service from AT&T. T-Mobile gives you all prices up front. Anyway, T-Mobile is more expensive, so I can’t say that’s a consumer positive.

Nobody forces you to buy AppleCare. I’ve probably wasted $3,000 on AppleCare. It’s a phone! I mean, who cares!

Nobody forces you to book on United after you discover they cost 20% more than advertised.

Nobody forces you to browse flights on Google Flights.

Nobody forces you to dine in restaurants in San Francisco, as people in this thread are complaining about. When Tartine started charging $8.00 for a croissant, I just stopped going there. It’s a croissant. Though if you really want to get back at restaurants, drink at home.

You talk about American business culture as this big homogenous thing. 60m-70m Americans are employed by bonafide small businesses. The owners are your neighbors, they live in your community. The landlords too! You live there. You’re that community. Nobody forces you to live somewhere with small businesses.

This is a stylized and comic comment: If the crazy conspiracy theorists are right, that a GLP-1 inhibitor is going to be a general over-consumption treatment, okay, greedflation is over. It’s an objective fact that like 10-20% of customers of all the consumables and depreciables (I don’t like “durables”) that keeps getting more expensive deliver 80-90% of the profits. We pay prices tuned for people who can’t control themselves, who may have a serious issue with agency. So it goes. It’s a free country. It’s a fantasy that this law is going to make prices go down.
For the same class of car Y is in, it's comparable in price to an ICE. But there just aren't any 15–30k$ EVs for purchase. OTOH, my TCO for my Y is way better than Tesla represented. It's so good that it comes close to letting me amortize solar panels on my roof.
The progress is mostly unfunded. It's not that the work is especially slow (maybe it is a little?). Mostly it's that barely anyone is working on it.

This is especially frustrating for organizations ostensibly paying vendors for high quality compilers.
Seriously, feels good to see the site is updated too. The reviews are nice and short, I can see why he’s had so much success with it. I especially found the stats on unique page visits from the late 90’s interesting
Hooks gained momentum because of advantages in composability and removing a lot of pain with HOCs. Brevity also helped. The obfuscation about re-renders and memoization of variables is absolutely a downside that I see junior devs really struggle with all the time — something that “just works” with class components.

Anyway, both are fine and usable haha. Just think there are arguments to be made on both sides.
"...to Space"

As opposed to.....?
> I believe this is what the CEO of Toyota was promoting - emphasizing hybrids as most realistic route for most consumers. He was slammed for it.

Hybrids haven’t had much success. The market, at least in Europe, is flooded with slightly used PHEVs.
For anyone as confused by this title as I was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito
> For example, I've been in plenty of situations where all it would take is somebody to turn to me and say...

Do you turn to them and say that?

In my experience, coming up with the opening line is the hardest part. Once you've determined some common ground to start off on, it's easy to keep going. Meeting at some sort of shared interest environment alleviates this.

Without that, it's basically the same as going to an LLM and saying "Hello, how are you?"
Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware
some people travel greater distances, sure. but i bet most people in america commute, shop, etc close to home.

i would be interested to see some stats on it.
Using a LoRa SDXL Fine-Tuned on IKEA Diagrams
I assume templates can only be partly preprocessed (parsed?) but not fully pre compiled, since final code depends on the template types?
useEffect is the biggest source of bugs in any react codebase bar none
It definitely didn't perform better. Each page request would do a giant N+1 query for all the comments and it frequently went down due to load.
Species go extinct, it is part of natures way.

New species will evolve to take over the niche.

Control is a powerful drug.
The OSM chapter in my own town was organized by a startup that provided map-related solutions. When that startup got acquired and its employees were all transferred to the parent corporation’s office several countries over, the chapter sadly disappeared overnight. I miss it.
You are right - but I don't count their implementation because it is incredibly lacking in basic functionality. Notice how the vertical "tabs" don't have a close X and the annoying padding that cuts off the tab name to replace it with "... "

Also, every time I open Safari, I have to manually click the ... and "Show tabs on sidebar" - for each tab group!

This is a total half assed implementation - I seriously doubt there are many who will use it in its current form.
... and medical device vendors and patient record systems have done their very best to make that impossible.

Hospitals can work without water, electricity and sewage ... but not without internet. Well, it's possible, but at 50% or so capacity (and I'm sure that number is going up)

A hospital filled up assuming 100% capacity that falls back to 50% capacity, however is going to be VERY tough to keep running for the doctors.
„STEMMA“ Lego Base Plates
It’s not a criticism of flossing but a criticism for health professionals recommending and putting so much trust in a health procedure that has very little proof it works.
no one gives a sh!t Washington DC butt kissing morons.

Why not end visa? End the banks? End the regulatory capture?

Monopoly laws ensure that small business never becomes a new monopoly and can never even compete. That's why we have these fees.

Bitcoin is the credit default swap for fiat.

You'll understand too late. You deserve the cancer you'll get.
For what it’s worth there is a babel plugin to auto bind arrow functions as methods so you never have to do this.
I've been following this excellent book: https://craftinginterpreters.com/

Also read this:

https://belkadan.com/blog/2016/05/So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Compil...
We need the equivalent of tl;dr for concise communication, for intellectual mood, to mean "Disagree (or there's nuance needed here) but declining to engage." Maybe "Thanks but no"?

And it should be present anyplace there's a Like button.
There should also be a way for the writer to get a sense for whether it's coming from people whose judgment they respect.
(And (someday maybe) also a way to offer to compensate someone for their time, if they'll explain.)

But all of this is predicated on social media remaining viable.
There isn't one for c++ unfortunately
I can imagine teachers with sufficient prior experience, and the self-confidence that came with it, using these methods as supplementation, while those recently out of school and having no mentors would use them exclusively and by-the-book.
Agreed this is overboard. I always wondered what percentage of people would have bought the pirated material given they had no option to pirate it. I have to imagine a large chunk of people pirate things they’d never buy.
Fair enough but it’s still going to be at the low end of the range 700-1000 range given earlier for 100lbs of muscle gain.

I’m ~75kg. Schwarzenegger was ~120kg in his prime. 45kg difference is (2.2lbs to the kg) 100lbs (differences between UK and USA imperial notwithstanding).

The chances of me going from where I am to a AS physique is zero!
For a hands on introduction to Causality, I would recommend
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Well written and to the point.

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No, in a word. What do you hear those phrases saying that points you to a specific actor?

You should look at Kaspersky's Operation Triangulation and Project Zero's In-The-Wild series to understand how researchers are increasingly aggressive toward replaying & capturing these exploit chains. If you want to preserve your exploits & everyone does- you have to implement these checks
Why did they decide to go public, why not continue operating as a small company with a focused product set?
Poor policy. Why would we be surprised they make just as poor mistakes as the US does? Perhaps for different reasons, but mistakes regardless.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-new-coal-plan... (March 2023: "Analysis: China's new coal plants set to become a costly second fiddle to renewables")
Aside: this paperback book I enjoyed as a kid had a full page ad for Newports (cigarettes) in the middle of it.
Caltech ends its Wi-Fi lawsuit against Apple and Broadcom
A programming snippet and a baking recipe are completely different. The first can be statically linted, fact checked against the docs, code reviewed and tested in a few seconds. Mainly it saves you the typing and finding the right name in the docs.

The later: a trip to the store, an hour of rising, then 1h in the oven, then all your guests arrive, not worth the gamble.
> covid showed that despite widespread disruption, technology civilization actually didn't collapse at all.

What I hear: "hey look, I pulled a piece out of the Jenga tower and it didn't collapse! Clearly from this I can infer that more pieces can be pulled without any consequences!"

> if it isn't warming, an asteroid will get us or aliens or nuclear war or ..., so why bother?

Uh, because we don't have control over foreign sentient beings, nor the path of celestial bodies? Do you really not see the difference between those things and anthropogenic warming as a result of rapid industrialization?
Interesting point. Not easy for some people but valuable insight nevertheless.
How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work
Which is better?

1. “After bringing my date to see the Barbie movie, we picked up a pair of blue Ray Bans at Sunglass Hut and a new top from the Gucci pop up across the plaza. Kim Kardashian was debuting a new product line.”

2. “After bringing my date to see the year’s blockbuster film, we picked up a blue pair of designer sun glasses at a mall sunglasses kiosk and a new top from a brand name designer pop up across the plaza. A TV celebrity was debuting a new product line.”

#2 would age better since it’s more generic. But I like #1 since the time and place of the scene is more deeply encoded in the story.
> You make an interesting case, but are you controlling for education level or profession of the parents before they immigrated to the US?

Certain groups, like Nigerians, outperform even conditional on educational attainment: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231211001...

Regardless, as to OP’a anecdote, what difference does that make if everyone is living in the same neighborhood in similar economic circumstances? When my uncles and aunts migrated to the US Canada and Australia, their degrees from Bangladesh were worthless. They worked service jobs or were just unemployed. What benefit did their kids get over other kids who were living in the same rundown subsidized apartment housing?
> What is the point of art entirely, in the context of telling me what I can do and watch with my own Internet connected computing/media devices?

It’s fascinating to see people in this thread pretend like art exists in a vacuum and act like the people who created it shouldn’t be involved in the equation at all.

Something tells me those same people would get very upset if we suggested their own work, code, or labor should be freely used by anyone who wanted to, including their employer. I’m guessing they like to be paid for their work. They just don’t like paying other people for their work.

> Should we fully subsidsize anyone who calls themselves an artist?

Why are you trying to talk about subsidies and how people identify?

You’re throwing out straw man arguments to try to distract from the real point: People get to decide how much to charge for their work. If you don’t want to pay that amount, you are not entitled to receive it for free.

The way some people are pretending like they have a moral entitlement to the labor of other people in this thread is wild.
I heard it said elsewhere that a mouse deprived of food dies in a matter of dys while even a slender built human can with water last approx a month before succumbing to starvation. 3 meals a day is more a modern indulgence than best practice.
Did I miss it or does it not define what a "close friend" is? I speak with two friends almost every day, but I'm unsure I would consider them "close friends" because I rarely see them in person and they're not really invested in my life in any major way (nor I theirs).

For me, close friends would be defined as those you physically visit frequently during the week; where you can share every secret and detail of your life and they'll have your back or come to your aid whenever you need it. If you end up in an accident, they'll come visit you at the hospital.

All that being said, I think the spectrum of what "close friend" means will vary widely for most people.
Please do say the opposite about MySQL. Tell us what is wrong with it? Linkedin use MySQL replication to ship data across regions and rebuild caches the other side because other protocols are too unreliable.

Postgres documents that their replication protocol can lose committed transactions. https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/replication_modes.h...

Looking real good.
Mozilla boss: Don't just leave AI to large corporations
I took a semiotics course in college where the professor asked the question "is the fish aware of the water it swims in?" A rephrasing of an Einstein quote but one that I think 12 year olds need to be aware of when they get smart phones. Advertising sprang right out of the Nazi propaganda ideology and has been a force manipulating children long before these phones. Media literacy is a subject kids need to be learning right along with reading clocks and handwriting.
The problem can be more benign too. My kids lose track of time diving down rabbit holes all day. They have no critical ignoring skills and are using time better spent on experiences taking multi-page "do you have autism" tests that serve them 10 plus ads per page, tempting them to waste even more time.
I am trying to think of a reason for why there are many articles announcing the start of a grand initiative, but few that would announce one coming to fruition. Can't quite put my finger on it.
Postgres doesn't handle replication fine. It has two replication mechanisms, and both lack critical features and are broken by design.

(Most of the problem comes from the fact that Postgres hasn't figured out that they need a standardised replication event wire protocol to do this correctly.)
And the author going the other way can sound very odd. In the Brady Bunch there is a scene where one of the kids asks a friend “hey, are you going to the rock concert this weekend?” The friend replies “yes, I can’t wait to see the rock concert, I’m so excited”. They sound like absolute robots.