skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s because they know there isn’t enough lithium supply for 100% of their sales to be electric. They’ve also stated that many consumers can’t afford fully electric vehicles.

If they get something working with iron based batteries and have a path to fully electricity their sales then the world is a better place. Their sales volume is immense.
Correct. Deployments are paid. But we still have a free (development) tier.
Thanks for the explanation and the link.

So the goal is to find real numbers f_I, f_A, ...f_ABC such that

result = f_I + f_A*v_A + f_B*v_B + f_AB*v_A*v_B + ... + f_ABC*v_A*v_B*v_C

where v_A is 1 or -1 depending on whether A is present or absent in the experiment.
f_AB is being abbreviated to AB, which is causing some confusion, since when heading a column, AB means v_A*v_B. The article should say that we can't tell the difference between the effect associated with B and the effect associated the 3-way interaction (for this definition of the effect associated with the 3-way interaction).
All that you are describing matches Sweden quite well. Still, my niece who lives there (and only barely counts as middle class, working at a burger joint in Stockholm) regularly rants about that she doesn't have the money to get care for her dog. Maybe she should just not have a dog.

Will say: In theory it sounds great what you are saying, and for many other areas of life it really is great (I've heard lots of storries from her indicating that it's basically paradise), but that doesn't take away from that people don't understand that having a pet is not a human right but a huge responsibility and a luxury that one needs to understand the consequences of having. Instead of crying for daddy/the government when things inevitably come around that were not in the rosy picture when that puppy looked at you.
The fact that this is on the front page shows how steep the decline in intelligence of the average HN reader has been.

People literally don't read articles anymore. They just upvoted based on the title (and if they agree with it)
There seems to be a bit of activity at https://gitlab.libresilicon.com/explore/projects.
Is this actually a good idea? Won't you be investing in a lot of obsolete skills?
This thread is my first time hearing of it, it doesn't seem particularly established/mature (e.g. I can't find cloud services offering managed instances, whereas there are plenty of those for Redis)
Jetbrains' model is really the best of both worlds.

One reason I never could get into OmniGraffle: I can't just pass a file to a coworker to continue editing on their side, if they doesn't also pay for OmniGraffle. In contrast a plantUml/mermaid diagram will work, and they'll have the choice on how they want to edit it (albeit I don't think there is any good, non text based visual editors...)

A commercial player coming up with a very good plantUml/mermaid compatible visual editor would be a godsend (albeit, such a niche market I don't know if it would be profitable)
That is possible, but not guaranteed. I don't think the federal government has any authority to regulate the traffic that remains in one state only the traffic that goes through another state. I would also mention that not all traffic would be commerce as well. Going to HN isn't commerce so I don't think the federal government would have any authority even if the traffic crosses state boundaries unless it is genuinely commerce.
It's been down for 3 hours...
You seem to forget why companies hire people in the first place: for the sake of making more money and growing while paying those employees for services rendered as long as those services are needed.

A business, particularly one that isn't some state-subsidized, leeching megacorp, doesn't have an obligation (nor should it) to operate as a make-work office. Its most fundamental purpose is to benefit itself. There's nothing morally wrong with this. I'm sure you've hired people in the past for temporary work and then stopped hiring them when you don't need it.
To call the guy the scum of the earth is absurd and smugly hypocritical. He did what he felt necessary for his company and was rather fair in helping the laid-off staff transition.

Dynamic economies work with these kinds of rights for companies. Countries that forbid it also tend to suffer stagnant employment numbers in which business are very careful about hiring in the first place. I'd prefer the former, it certainly helps younger people find jobs more easily than we see in some of the 50% youth unemployment countries where "workers are always protected". I'd suggest getting off your high horse.
170-250ns was what they were saying a year ago, which they were saying was 2x native latency. https://www.servethehome.com/compute-express-link-cxl-latenc...

But with Genoa for example, socket to socket latency has climbed up to 220ns, and going across nodes on a socket is 110ns. I feel like CXL will be less than 2x a hit, if only because cores themselves are having higher and higher latencies. https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/07/17/genoa-x-server-v-cache...
Except it uses a language no one knows, unfortunately. I considered Flutter, but fat chance finding contractors who know Dart.

We ended up building a cross-platform desktop app in Qt and QML, and it works great.
Yes, cold weather can reduce range. A lot of newer EVs use heat pumps which help with that efficiency. It all depends on distances and charger availability.

If you have home charging and go on hikes in cold mountain weather within a ~100mi radius of home, or a fast charging station, you're probably fine with a lot of EVs on the market.
We don't watch Sesame Street (or much TV at all), but if we did, we'd probably stick to the pre-elmo stuff. Jim Henson died when I was an infant so I imagine he'd not be much worse off if we did pirate it. Fred Rogers would probably similarly not have much to complain about if we copied his show. Or Tex Avery, etc. etc.
Slack is retiring its status account on X
I currently host a personal VPN and my website (which includes a static blog, a Rust API, and a Postgres database), all on a $6/m VPS. Being a first-time customer, the service provider offered a 100% bonus on the credit I deposited making it even half as expensive. It probably won't hold up when the site has decent traffic, but for now it's the best money I've spent.
Interesting, can you say more about why you prefer Playwright’s selectors? Helpful to have some anecdotes from real experience!
"Your trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen!"
States could choose to cooperate with other states and not be subject to the same laws, I assumed this much was obvious.

If you want to see meaningful change in the world, you need to make a meaningful change. Leaving much of anything up to the federal government is just a boon to political elite.
They're already cheaper. The base trims of the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y are now less expensive than the average gas car in the US: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/tesla.... That's before any tax incentives.

(This is purchase price. I don't know which math you're using for your "factoring all costs" conclusion, so I have no opinion about that comparison.)
I find pure accounting confusing in its principles, regardless of country and details. The doubling of transactions and balances, and the non intuitive signs, mess me up every time. This article goes some small way for me to not be completely angry every time I try to learn accounting (next step:French language :).
I find that the differences leap out at me. Even just a `err == nil` instead of `err!= nil` is noticeable.

I do have to spend a second reading the action if it's not just `return result, fmt.Errorf("failed to do the thing: %w", err)` but that's good, I think.

And all of this is way easier than trying to trace up through the stack to the nearest exception handler and work out what it will do with the error

edit: also, verbosity doesn't make code harder to understand, imho. If anything the other way around. Packing 5 statements into a single line is massively harder to read than separating those same 5 statements into 20 lines with error handlers.
Care to elaborate on what points you're saying are strawmans? Sure it's a gizmodo piece, written in the typical style, but that doesn't preclude it from making legitimate criticisms.
And I keep telling you, that is a dual income stat family of four. Dude. You are trying to cohort into an irrelevant corner of data and then still finding it not satisfactory. Stop, just take the L.
I've used earlier versons of this kind of thing from Zotac that were not bad but the Asus PN 5X series (entirely passively cooled) is enough better that I wouldn't go back. This new line would have to be somewhere south of $200 to make me think of using it in future builds.
Andreeson is hardly bourgeoisie.
Never mind that the attacks are against US bases in ... Iraq, which the US invaded and occupied in 2003, "left" in 2011, but somehow still has military bases in 2023.

I can't believe we have been occupying Iraq for 20 years. I feel old.
I tried building a fairly basic app with swift ui and at this point I suppose I’d say I gave up. I got maybe 90% of the way fairly easily, but the final 10% seemed like it would be misery given the documentation and the issues I was encountering.

There’s a ton of potential there and I’m looking forward to having sufficient APIs and documentation to work efficiently with it. At this point it’s kind of painful for a hobbyist like me.
> any condition that doesn't impact survival until sexual maturity

Diseases that impact even just appearance can surely make you less attractive as a mate though. And larger goiters can impede breathing or swallowing. So I'd be suspicious of the idea that we've been significantly deficient in iodine for extended periods of our evolutionary history.
That said, I wouldn't have known about and read (skimmed) the bad idea without the reference via the bad take-down.
Could this work for other languages, for example, R?
it discounts the entire parent post. BAMTech wasn't a shitty in-house development, it was a billion dollar buyout of the widely acclaimed MLB streamer.
To be fair, this happens to Nobel Prize laureates as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
cough 1899 cough

I'd been a Netflix streaming subscriber since.. I don't know when? As long as the service has existed, most likely, and DVDs before that. Even so, by earlier this year I'd already been thinking about cancelling for a while. Much of their content seems pretty mediocre these days, and there's just so much of it. When they cancelled a well executed first season show that was so clearly an introduction to a bigger story.. that really made the decision to cancel a no brainer.
I don't understand why pattern matching is seen as more readable, safer or simpler. Why do you think this?
I'd like to see NY getting food on their own.
That doesn't seem the right question. I think the main question people are raising is whether they should, not whether they would.
I hate to break it to you but if your job is automatable it won't be you reaping the benefits, it will be the people who have the most capital to deploy automating. That ain't you buddy, sorry. Your world view is basically peak HN techbro-iterianisim. I hope you never get the opportunity to experience exactly how wrong you are.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ccs-vs-nacs-teslas-sneaky-ado...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nacs-vs-ccs-part-ii-europe-wo...

https://www.tesla.com/support/charging/product-guides#NACS-r...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/28/2023-03...
Netflix's tech is unremarkable now, though it was impressive 10 years ago.

The tech difference from a user's perspective between HBO, Disney, Hulu, and Netflix today is nil.
The Worm and the Welsh Mountain (2018)
lol..

Congrats on trying to make a 35+ year old reference apply to remote work now.
Bit of a side note on grains being "God's true food" - I read a book about the formation of the earliest states (Against the Grain by James C. Scott) where the author argues basically that grains prevailed as states developed because of their suitability as a currency for taxation compared to other staples like potatoes/root vegetables. Grains are usually harvested all at once at predictable times (so harder to lie to tax collectors), have a relatively long shelf life, and are easy to weigh/standardize. I believe they're also more laborious to grow which might benefit a fledgling state trying to maintain control over its subjects.

The author has a noted anarchist bent, but definitely an interesting read and that take is kind of a funny parallel with the "God's true food" rhetoric.
I think that relying on a free service in a production environment that could cause an outage is a really, really bad idea because you have no SLA or relationship with the vendor. In that sense, you are very much getting what you paid for.
Well it did catch my eye. I need to publicize an open source project I'm working on soon, so perhaps I can learn from the techniques used.

Maybe I will write badly on why my project will fail, encouraging rubberneckers...
- Simple and lots of duplicated code. Golang took DRY overuse and turned it on its head to be dupliate everthing everywhere
- Its duplicated everywhere which means I need to mentally figure whether I need to figure out this path or ignore. Mental load of typing is small, load of reading is not

Golang has alot of good things about it. This is not one of them and is a wart on the language that is tolerated because the genesis of the language is to be an entirely inverted approach to verbosity than Java. Its not something to be praised.
LLM quantization severely damages model quality and perplexity
Not accounting related, but this guy's book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" is a very, very well written book for people interested in that sort of thing!
It’s sounds like Andreessen and the Accelerationists are foolishly optimistic and out of touch, but the author seems to be trying his best to make you take their side by offering the worst counter-arguments in the most disingenuous way.

Everyone in heaven is an Accelerationist these days. I like to think Sam gave up his crusade and went sailing with Jan and Renfrew.
> There are two main mediums for digital documents: PDFs and web pages. PDFs were designed to mirror physical documents, so they impose the real-world constraints of paper: page breaks, fixed width, and immutable styling. Web pages, by contrast, provides an essential dynamism. Web pages are undeniably the future of digital documents.

I actually don't agree with this. I think _not_ having "essential dynamism" where it's not needed is actually a feature, not a bug.
I use Linode (now Akamai Cloud). Oddly the "Linode 1GB" plan doesn't seem to have a link - you can find it in the shared cpu section under "Nanode 1GB" https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared.

The impression I get is that most $5 VPSes are basically the same, although I've really only used Linode. They give you some useful free stuff like an external firewall/router and monitoring (with only 24 hours of history, but that's plenty). Their docs and scripts are really good too if, like me, you're only a dilettante sysadmin.
three days later. Crickets.....
A foaming-at-the-mouth screed punctuated only by short quotes, which, even in their brevity and without context, are a hundred times more interesting than the article's replies to them.

"We believe the measure of abundance is falling prices. Every time a price falls, the universe of people who buy it get a raise in buying power, which is the same as a raise in income. If a lot of goods and services drop in price, the result is an upward explosion of buying power, real income, and quality of life."

Lower prices are always nice, sure, that’s true. But it’s also true that totally unfettered capitalism of the kind Andreessen envisions does not lead to falling prices. Actually, one of the best ways to lower prices on goods (some of them, at least) is to subsidize them through public funding.

Ah yes, "that's not true", the hallmark of considered economic thinking.

I hate articles like this, because I want to defend folks like Andreessen like I want a hole on my head, but here I am!
What stood out to me about the original piece was how much it sounded like a less articulate version of the Italian Futurist Manifesto[1], which today primarily is relevant for the not so great ideologies it influenced, to put it mildly.

That also gives the entire thing accidentally a completely retrofuturistic tone. It's ironic that a movement if you can call it that which claims to be aligned with the future, has adopted the tone and imagery of a 20th century World Fair.

[1]https://www.societyforasianart.org/sites/default/files/manif...
Hope comes from negative situations, you hope things will get better. There wouldn't be any reason for hope if everything was going well.

Of course, hoping for change and actually changing yourself are two very different things.
Man, of all the possible examples you picked one of the worst.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_partition_of_Be...
Every Software Business Has the Same Playbook
There is wealth and power accumulation in every known human social system. Capitalism just makes the wealth and power contingent on having delivered value to a large number of people, were “value” is judged by those same people. The problem comes when the people do not judge value correctly, such as when they weigh positive first order effects over much worse Nth order effects (for example obesity inducing foods). Tearing down the current system would not address the problem of wealth or power concentration, it would just change where it is concentrated. Better regulation is needed. Definitely removing the ability of the wealthy to directly influence regulation is needed.
There are only two certainties in life:

1. There’s an xkcd for that

2. Simpsons did it

https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/The_Simpsons_Already_Did_I...
>Andreessen’s newly espoused ideology did not spring up in a vacuum. Instead, it’s part of a broader movement that seeks to take all the guardrails off of technological development and push forward with “progress,” whatever the cost may be.

Pretty clear strawman starting at the third paragraph. I'm sure we could dig up many more.

This article is just a snarky rant. Embarassing.
The question should be why the U.S is not doing more not why it has a military base in Syria.

The lesson from Afghanistan is that military alone is not sufficient. Social and political issues(i.e bribery vulnerabilities, education level of the locals, Turkey's relation with the kurds) needs to be addressed as well. However you can't train local troops without a military base in the first place regardless of their education level nor you can enforce social changes.
My point is not “wah wah I have to self-host.” I maintain a CMS backend for a living. I know how to host a website. I’m just saying that this transition has been made particularly annoying for the hobbyists being left behind, because it’s costing not only money but also time. There’s no “just let me pay for the existing service” option. It’s like an acqui-hire where they shut the service down instead of just keeping it running and taking people’s money.
Oh really? I'd suggest it's equally or more true that we live in an age where we have to endure the pseudo-intellectual dross of the perpetually insecure and envious who want to inflict their neocommunist agenda upon the world and have us settle for a universal level of bland instead of permitting those with vision to make the world better.

Well if it addressed their fundamental insecurity, it might be an argument with at least some validity. Sadly, I suspect they'll remain insecure irrespective.
Indeed. I'm sure a reasonable case can be made to oppose Andressen's screed. But this author doesn't make one. The entire article can be summed up as: I disagree, and Andreessen is a poo poo head! It's sorta ironic that the author writes for gizmodo, literally living off the backs of what tecno-utopists built (or at least financed). The lack of self-awareness is just... I can't find the words.
I do wildlife photography and generally do a few days camping out in the national parks. EVs do not work for me. Between getting to the park and driving around, I get a lot of range anxiety with a potential expensive tow if I run out. For urban usage, EVs are great.
> If you pay for Spotify rather than hacking it, you're really not supporting artists financially very much, right? Paying someone a millionth of a dollar to stream their music seems to me like kind of an insult, actually, and recording their song to a cassette from the radio like kind of a compliment.

This is absurd. One is paying them, the other isn’t. It’s not a “compliment” to not receive income, even if you think the income received is meaningless.

Further, the radio argument is flawed - the radio station paid to play that music for people who might record it. Johnny Torrent didn’t.

I dunno, every one of these arguments always comes down to “but I want it” and other nonsense to try to pretend that it’s ok to steal from artists. It’s the same justification I used when I was twelve and stole a pack of gum from 7-11, and it’s no less lame when the people making it are ostensibly adults.
wait, did it or didn't it bypass ECC? First sentence doesnt line up with last sentence in the quote?
Several threads in the comments about Tesla's loan. To put that in proper context ..

Chrysler Bailout of 1979, $1.5 billion

In 2008, $17.4 billion bailout to General Motors and Chrysler

In 2009, $3 billion, cash for clunkers

Ford's loan: $5.9 Billion, September 2009, Loan fully repaid in June 2022. (~13 years)
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/ford

Nissan loan: $1.45 billion, Jan 2010, repaid Sep 2017
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/nissan

Total net to date: -12.4B (https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list/category/Auto%2...), losses from ICE manufacturers.

Tesla's loan: $465 million, January 2010, Loan fully repaid in May 2013 (~3.5 years)
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla

There are quite possibly a lot more if we dig up the ~100 years of ICE manufacturing history.

Also, don't forget the $7 trillion subsidies just in 2022 for fossil fuels: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climat...

And ethanol subsidies! The federal government pays oil companies about $6 billion a year to blend ethanol into your gasoline; it's been subsidizing ethanol for 33 years now: https://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138543233/ethanol-industry-to...

And billions of dollars to oil companies for carbon capture.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2020/07/29/ford-...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/19/bush-bails-out-us-...

Final tally: Taxpayers auto bailout loss $9.3B
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/12/30/auto-ba...
Remote IT workers sent wages to North Korea to help fund weapons program
Also Japanese people regularly eat mozuku, mekabu, and include seaweed in just about everything in the cuisine at least through dashi but also in many other forms. Seaweed is and always has been huge in Japanese cuisine.
> The outrage on your part is just as false as the outrage he spews.

You think this is outrage? I think you're missing the forest for the trees.
Many years ago, I got sidetracked with sorting, joining, and processing (grepping, counting, etc) large text files ... until I realized I was just re-inventing a very slow database.