skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a solid example considering those consultancies employ a large number of h1b visas
I agree. It's a super weird "language". There are flaws of course, like the grid syntax is a bit wild. But love the very basics: the cascade, the selectors, and the ability to separate styling from the structure.
Thought-terminating cliché detected
There’s usefulness but also the pure science that RNA is a highly versatile part of living systems. Specifically, RNA can play the role of a genetic coding material but it can also play the enzyme role that proteins play. It’s possible that before “life as we know it” existed there was an “RNA world” where RNA played the role that RNA plays today, plus the role of DNA, plus the role of proteins.

Thus there has to be a lot to learn about tricks RNA can play and also a large range of technical applications. There has been talk about pharmaceutical applications of RNA since the 1970s but it has taken decades for it to arrive, for instance now we have the mRNA vaccine platforms, RNA silencing pesticides and it may well turn out to be practical to engineer RNA enzymes so it’s an exciting area of practical research too.
Hideo Kojima Missing from Metal Gear Solid Collection's Credits on PS5, PS4
Been there, done that. I also decided to move to FreeCAD and it was a real pain at first. But I got used to it surprisingly soon. I found two Youtube channels really useful:

- https://www.youtube.com/@OffsetCAD - a lot of practice exercises. Just watching these is already helpful, working together even more so. It helped to remove a lot of "how do I ...?" road blocks for me.

- https://www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutions is about stuff all over the FreeCAD - from beginners tutorials to really advanced deepdives.
Tangent: Are there any rough guides for kilometer per kWh?

I briefly gathered some data, intending to infer the relationship. Model, curb weight, battery size, estimated range. Sadly, I apparently didn't save that notebook.

IIRC the BYD Dolphin is cheapest (~$22k), lightest model in production. Weighs ~1700 kg, has ~30 kWh battery, has ~400 km range.

My conclusion (guesstimate) was: a converted 1980s VW Rabbit/Golf @ 750 kg w/ 10 kHw would likely have a 100-150 km range. More than enough for my casual city driving. (Hardware store, dog park, errands.)

Cheap Li batteries ~$140 per kWh. A running (ugly) Rabbit is ~$3k. So $1.5k for a beater, $2k to fix stuff, $1500 for battery pack, and $??k for the conversion kit (motor, transmission, brakes, BCM, etc).

I'd happily pay < $10k for converted Rabbit. Some kids could make a decent living doing BEV conversions.

(I have a few acquaintances that each specialize in a niche classic car. Saab, Volvo, Fiats, Alfa Romeo, etc. Each of them has a backlog of work. My 17yo nephew is restoring a Jaguar and has already been asked to do work.)
Be on the lookout for someone asking to tour an Acrylic fabrication facility.
That is just plain stupid rhetoric as a talking point. When are we going to start splitting up nations to prevent them from compromising their sanity for reaching multi-billion dollar budgets? Arbitrary caps inevitably run into problems, especially when they aren't inflation indexed.
Zipcar hit with feds' first-ever fine for renting out recalled cars
>depending on who you are.

The writers definitely intended towards that spectrum's latter.

As a piece of enforceable legislation, it is heavily-flawed.
You're welcome -- or I should say thank you:)
I crossed the Darien gap escaping from Cuba to the US. I still have nightmares about it 8 years later, the nature was impressing now that i think back and we found some nice/helpful communities there but got some kind of parasite on my feet from crossing a river and had to stay 10 days in a village taking herbs to continue the path.
Everything has a cost. In the cases where the computing cost or degraded user experience is high enough efficiency is optimized for (see ML models for example). In other cases it's not because the end user doesn't actually want that at the cost of fewer features. Cars used to be gas guzzlers until fuel costs and environmental concerns caused customers to want something different.

A lot of engineers forget that they are in fact paid to build a product for customers.

edit: It also seems OP has never had to wait for older Windows or Linux machines to fully boot. Modern versions boot much faster because customers wanted that. Phones are on 24/7 so customers don't care if it takes longer to boot once every few months.
After a week or two, they'd probably call Sherlock Holmes.
A $10b company is pocket change to the beomouths that run the world.

Sure $10b seems like a lot to you and me, but to split Apple, Microsoft, Google to just $10b would require hundreds of different companies to form from their split. To go to $1b companies would make that thousands of companies.

You could split apple into 3000 companies and still need to split further. The CEO would be able to spend less than 1 minute a week on each company.
This is an awesome tool, I love cmd tools that make it easier to manipulate and work with tabular data. I work with a lot of tabular data, mainly in s3, and I put together "s3head" for easily streaming s3 data into stdout:

https://github.com/dbragdon1/s3head

and I'm gonna have a good time piping the output from s3head into pypipe.
We're entering a pretty strong El Niño
I've seen almost-blue stop lights (go lights?) in the USA, and before everything was LED the color variation between various lights was pretty wide. You could almost always figure it out in context, but absolutely speaking some red lights were almost as yellow as some other light's yellow.
Consider: is "red hair" a color you would consider "red" in a generic context? How about "red cabbage"? Are they the same color?
I hope we can un-slime them now to find out all of their secrets.
A novel engine powered by light
Full Stack Deep Learning – LLM Bootcamp
But this sort of tax allows governments to use businesses & corporations to tax the general population through increased prices without it being noticed as being a tax by that same population. It's not terribly efficient, as it has to be filtered through those myriad businesses, but it does the job of removing wealth from the lower classes.
I am getting really tired of these extremely low effort "manifestos". They complain about the state of software, but make no attempt at understanding why it is that way or what tradeoffs had to be managed. There are just these vague claims that "we should be better" because the problem is that we're just "lazy". It's the writing that is lazy, not the industry. The software industry is arguably one of the most productive spaces that the world has ever seen.

If you're going to criticize the state of software, you have to:

1. Demonstrate you understand the systemic incentives in place that encourage this behavior,

2. persuasively argue why this condition needs to be improved,

3. and propose concrete policies or incentives that counteract these tendencies.

Otherwise it's just whining about something you don't really understand, and the proposed "solution" is to just start all over because this time it'll be different I swear.
CHERIoT: Complete Memory Safety for Embedded Devices [pdf]
Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected
How Siskel and Ebert Got Their Thumbs [podcast]
This discussion is weird, because the Kanji 青 in Japanese was borrowed from classical Chinese (presumably during the Tang dynasty around the 7th to 9th century).

So using Chinese as an example of "another language" having green-blue confusion isn't very meaningful since modern Chinese aka Mandarin also inherits pretty much the same 青 albeit popular usage differs somewhat.

Yet the fact that there's no blue traffic light in China just hinges on the fact that people don't commonly refer to the "green" in traffic lights as 青 in China (but you could). The word 青 is used to refer to a broad spectrum of green and blue in different contexts, just happens people generally refer to the traffic lights as "綠" instead. And since there's no ambiguity to "綠" there's no confusion of whether the traffic lights should be "green" or "blue", and thus you don't see blue traffic in China (hopefully).
> I love the porn industry. I cherish it, it's been so good to me, and I have always tried my hardest to be giving back and seeing what I can do.

I know that a lot, and I mean a lot of people watch porn - yet I don’t know anyone who would describe themselves as “cherishing” the industry for being good to them. Heck, most “performers” say… it’s absolutely merciless to them; because the moment they aren’t in the perfect prime of their lives, they’re done.
Twelve Days of Shell
Steel Perlot sounds like a grocery store checkout romance novel.
NASA just patched Voyager 2's software but spared Voyager 1 the risky rewrite
Relying solely on VAT has big issues too - it is a regressive tax (VAT paid as a percentage of net household income tends to be higher for poorer households), B2B businesses would be fully untaxed, and it doesn't really tax the businesses (the tax is on the consumer price rather than the business profit).

> You have to tax the income at the source, at the point of sale. It’s why most of the EU shifted to VAT’s decades ago.

This is misleading - the EU put in place VAT as well as a minimum 15% corporation tax.
Yes, if it's already been converted, it's too late - the original full text that was in the paste buffer or the automatic import from the .csv file that your user just blindly double-clicked is gone.

But no, if you first set the formatting of the destination cell to text and subsequently paste in your data, it won't do the conversion. If you're using a Data->From Text/CSV Power Query import that establishes a persistent data source, well, fix your import so that it sets the proper formatting on the destination. But that requires changing the defaults, and given the stickiness of defaults and the number of Excel installs anything that's not the default is going to result in data loss.

This does establish global preferences that a system administrator at your college or workplace can change to protect users from themselves. I wish it was the default for new Excel installations, but that's not how they did it.
Some places have the lights sideways, and usually red is on the left, but it's not always consistent.

If I were designing them I'd always have the red be noticeably larger.
The map-reduce is not the territory
It seems like a reasonable system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
Not a solution for Mac, but PowerToys includes an option to make Ctrl+Shift+V plain text paste globally.
>Even in the early days

I'd go so far as to say "especially in the early days". When I got my first domain in ~'92, it was just a personal domain, and they wouldn't let me get a .net because I wasn't an ISP, or a .org because I wasn't a non-profit. And .edu was right out.
It is true that they often choose mark securities to market on their balance sheets, and by doing that, they need to put that change in the balance sheet on their income statement. When that happens, in accrual accounting terms, it's income.

Those markings don't create cash, though. In cash terms, they are no different. Individuals are largely taxed in cash terms.
Which is even worse. I grew up in an area with only vertical lights. After several years of driving I ended up in an area with a horizontal light, one end was white and I had no clue if that meant stop or go. (I'm colorblind so I normally think top=stop, bottom=go)
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe
Right. Many of my performance enhancements added by caring Devs are kept secret from the PMs, because they are out of scope, don't have tickets, and/or may increase complexity.
If anyone else was just wondering what the company even was...

> Schmidt later described it as “an AI and analytics company of companies” that would invest in a fruit salad of verticals from virtual reality to space. Elaborating on that mission to some employees, Ritter invoked the empires of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk as an array of world changing companies run under the aegis of a single person, according to three former employees.

Also the name...

> Steel Perlot’s name is something of a mystery, and several former employees said they still don’t know its origins. Forbes found an image of Ritter standing next to a small teak sailboat, named Steel Perlot. She described it as a gift from a friend that she named after the company, not vice versa. Beyond that, she would say only that she uses the name’s origins as an interview question for prospective hires. “It's a secret no one knows other than me,”
There is a seductive aspect to articles like these that play on a lot of common insecurities. The articles always lead with a story about a person being charming and charismatic and then attribute the readers disappointment in them to some deeply pathological evil.

Given the exceptional occurrance of extreme charm and charisma, let alone co-occurring with high intelligence, statistically for them to co-occur with these other pathological traits makes this sociopath character a kind of evil unicorn, and effectively an object of superstition. They may plausibly exist, but the likelihood of encountering one, or that the person you are mad at happens to be one - is vanishingly small. They aren't masterminds, and they shouldn't be elevated to the level of a folk devil. Like most people, they're just people with some shitty tools. Sympathy pieces like this that encourage readers to call the people they don't like sociopaths are misleading, dehumanizing, and actively stupefying. I hope the author sees this comment.

What's more likely, that someone reading that article has encountered one of these evil unicorns, or that the article is cooing and excusing for normal and flawed people people whose own occasional malice, fibs, and viciousness doesn't have the patina of charm and charisma they envy? Take care of yourself, set boundaries and standards for yourself, and these bogeymen just aren't a thing. I'm surprised "victimhood porn," isn't a more widely known commonsense filter, as I would recommend not being seduced by something that is about as healthy and edifying as porn.
See also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415786
Anecdata: I have a netbook from around 2009 with an Atom processor. Default clock is 1.6 GHz but I ran it at 800 MHz. With an SSD inside, it sips power and ran 24/7 basic web services for years.
I didn't say it in the post I wrote about C [1], but this is a big reason why I use C: I will have a hard time bloating my software. I can add features, yes, but adding a singular feature struggles to add even 100 kb to the executable.

I don't work for anyone right now, but I do have a "work" machine. This machine is beefy.

But I still run Neovim and tmux instead of an IDE. [2]

I don't run a typical Linux distro; I use a heavily-modified Gentoo, and that includes using OpenRC over systemd. [3]

I don't use a full desktop; I run a TWM called Qtile. [4]

All of this is so my machine is not bloated. When my machine boots up, and I just barely log in, it is running only 40 processes (including the terminal and htop I use to check).

As of right now, I'm engineering software. Truly engineering; I am spending the effort to effectively mitigate all of C's problems, while keeping the software lean and fast. I hope to someday build a business on that software.

I guess I'll see if there even is a market for non-bloated, sleek software anymore.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/why-i-use-c-when-i-believe-i...

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2020/12/my-development-environment-a...

[3]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/06/an-apology-to-the-gentoo-aut...

[4]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/09/lessons-learned-as-a-user-3-...
Mosern microcontrollers are extremely capable, I agree. But they aren't running a recognizable OS yet. It seems like the only thing holding them back is the ram size generally. The processors on these things obliterate my first linux machine. Is there a reason we have the offerings we do? A kiosk could absolutely be run on a rp2040 if it had more memory.
Amen. Single address OSs would be cool to run trusted code with minimal overhead in-kernel while avoiding crashing the machine because of a bug. But I want more sandboxing, not less, when running untrusted code.
You cite things to give evidence for other people to check, as opposed to taking your word for it.
They're common in at least four states still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXbHdKJ1D78
Octopus Energy were talking about being able to do this using machine learning given only real-time access only to the total power consumption.

https://youtu.be/g-RQ0dOPTtc?t=474&si=r0zhDUr3OaMieHOz

They offer things like discounted rates for charging electric vehicles. And are talking about being able to tell people when they're using more power than usual that they forgot to turn the oven off or they're using their dishwasher during peak or whatever.

Edit: he mentioned Voltaware which seems to be this: https://voltaware.com/blog/2021-07-01/voltaware-octopus-insi...
Driver's failure to laugh at odd question during stop not reasonable suspicion
By printing more money, the government gains money by reducing the value of money in everyone else's accounts. Its effectively a flat tax on holding cash.
> while Sweden wants to exempt communications over mobile networks

So let me get that straight: they want to allow Chat Control only on fixed-line networks? Do they have landline phones in Sweden that can run chat apps?

That looks like a spoiler tactic to me.
SpaceX: FAA Is Slowing Progress to the Moon
This is a disingenous take. They are comparing the marginal rate on the poorest 10% of Americans without deductions applied to the rate after all deductions and tax avoidance of billionaires. Most of the bottom 10% pay very little in income tax.
Expanding the supply of housing in cities is good, but in a free market the homes will be occupied by productive people who can pay for the housing, not vagrants. There are many people who work in cities like SF and NYC who commute, sometimes long distances, because they cannot afford to live in those cities. They would be the natural buyers and renters of new housing, and vagrants camping out on the streets should not be given preference over them.
As a beginner gardener, I'm curious. How is this applied in practical terms? (eli5)
But then why is does their reduced sodium "sweet" pickle recipe have about half that sugar as their "dill" recipe? Anyway, I've got a recipe that I use that has no salt or sugar in it, but I treat them as refrigerator pickles as I don't want to trust that they'd stay preserved correctly with only the vinegar.
>I disagree. The difficulty of replacing tech changes one's relationship to one's devices

It does, but does it stay after the budget increases? Or is it a side-effect of the budget that goes away when it's not an issue?
It may be me living in a (wrong) bubble, but I have the impression that everything must be more gruesome nowadays. Take Hollywood movies where every shot must splatter blood on the walls behind, successful comics are all gory, even in books you'd see all this described in every detail. So these journalists are simply following a trend.
They were getting a badge because of their advertising budget
They stopped paying for it, so…
https://twitter.com/xDaily/status/1715231084307509429
Well then, thank god we got rid of them with Agile and inserted Product Owners in their place.
>> requirements of Section 512

Which include :

> Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number and email address
> it doesn’t actually matter what convention they pick, so long as everyone agrees on it and sticks to it.

That would be a good point, if that actually happened, but Japanese traffic lights have a mixture of green for go and blue for go (with most of them being green).
What is it with Walgreens and adopting terrible tech ideas? This apparently started in 2017, shortly after Walgreens had terminated their Theranos partnership; you'd think that would have given them pause.
EP have power to reject or amend these laws and cannot be bypassed.
Gonna be real with you, I have no idea what you mean. My point in asking was that scaling Google to infinity might in fact not be a good thing.
Gta V mod makes it a better social media platform than Twitter
She's selling a product here, you can't be sure the quotes are sincere.
It's very, very good. It's one of the best Netflix-sponsored things I've seen. Most of Poe's work has been incorporated -- not just the title story.

FotHoU is possibly the best love letter to Poe since Alan Parsons made his album in the 1970s.
Stress in Research. Part I: The Tournament and the Axe
By 1960 the overwhelming majority of households in America already had cars. Increasing number of cars beyond that (to modern times where many households have 2 or even more cars) is unlikely to have played a significant role. This is indirectly corroborated by the fact that near to every other form of crime was much lower in 1960 than modern times, as well. The two exceptions being burglary, whose levels we fell below and have stayed below since 2014 (well at least as of 2019 data), and murder which was just statistical noise.

Historically what happened is that crime started rising in the mid 60s and then reached catastrophic levels in 80s-90s to the point that many were predicting the complete collapse of society. This is what drove all of the 'tough on crime' rhetoric and legislation of that era, or a certain politician's choice of referring to a certain demographic group as 'super-predators.' Crime rates then began plummeting over the next 30 years into modern times. And now we're back to seeing a rise in many forms of crime. What remains to be seen is whether it's noise, or whether we're headed 'into the 80s' again.

Or maybe 30 years from now we'll learn that we've all poisoned ourselves inadvertently, again.. The lead-crime hypothesis [1] is one explanation for the absurdly high rates of crime in the 80s-90s, and then it's subsequent collapse.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
Not everyone who cans is necessarily scientists or chefs or writers, etc. Nuance may be lost when folk chefs try to write down their process, especially if they don't fully understand the process or which exact steps are important. This isn't because nuance is lost when you write this stuff down, it's because they aren't trained writers or don't understand the process enough themselves to explain in well enough in words.

I think learning this stuff from books is easy. It's not about the subject, it's about both your learning style and starting from good material. Preserving by Ginette Mathiot is good material.
TBH I often waste 0.5% of my money.
I think I lost the lede when the author implied text editors were simple and easy. My understanding is that text editing uses sophisticated data structures and is actually a really difficult problem to solve. Especially when combined with lock free replication used in multi-user editing. This is not easy or simple and comparing it to a terminal editor felt disingenuous.

I can relate to the disenchantment but I found the argument here to fall flat.
> - A megacorp that pays 0% in income taxes still pays a ton of sales tax on things it buys

I wonder if they can set up an entity in Delaware (where the most corps are incorporated anyway) and pay zero sales tax.
> We need to deliver: reliably, predictably, ...

Every divorce starts with a marriage. Any delay starts with a planning.
History might play out differently if the targets could escape to lunar habitats in their respective private rockets.

We're almost in James Bond supervillain territory.
>You have to tax the income at the source, at the point of sale. It’s why most of the EU shifted to VAT’s decades ago.

The USA already has sales tax at the state and local level. Corporate tax is a separate tax on profits.