skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The auto repair industry has been getting along just fine with aftermarket parts in the mix. As a customer you have a choice, and need to be aware that the choice exists to competently engage with the market. Being slightly informed about the high level aspects of an industry you're interacting with is just part of being an adult. If you don't want to have a frank conversation with a repair shop about which aftermarket parts are adequate and which are less than ideal, then you can always overpay for the whole job at a dealership to avoid breaking the illusion.

From what I understand, getting to this point has been a long fought battle of pushing manufacturers to open up parts availability and basic documentation (which continues to this day with Automotive Right to Repair and whatnot), Magnuson-Moss on the legal front, etc. Apple is at the early stages of its industry, and due to the power of digital restrictions technology has delusions of completely shutting out the third party ecosystem. But in a free society there's only one way for this topic to evolve, and so the authoritarian arguments about the guarantees of centralized control aren't particularly compelling.
Their computers were probably programmed in Pyramid Scheme.
Yes. Exactly this. No one understands and there isn’t a need to understand. You put money in and either you lose it all or you win some percentage back that you lost before.

I’m not a gambler, but out of all of the ways to lose your money in a casino the video slot machines make the least sense to me; they just don’t seem at all enjoyable win or especially lose.
In the old days (1970s-1980s?) you could ask a casino employee for a card with the gaming odds for the various games / game bets the house was offering the gambler.
About ten years back I was in a casino and had the same feeling of disconnect watching others play slots (IIR, it was in Palm Springs Ca.)
So I see the casino manager walk by and ask him for a card on the odds for slot machines. He let out a long laugh and said "I haven't seen those in a long time but if I even had one to give you, I would get fired for showing you that kind of info."
Can you tell me more, which GET requests, which URLs? I only see requests for the map tiles as the page is scrolling. (Try in incognito window with extensions disabled to make sure you don't have an extension interfering with the page.)
DAW/NLE = digital audio workstation/non-linear editing (you'd have to search both terms in order to get the correct context, especially if used right next to each other).

The author is probably talking about video editing of some kind, whereby he either regrets not saving more source code or taking more screenshots of his work if I had to wager a guess. Not sure what the "non-realtime/static artifact from code" refers to when it comes to video editing -- perhaps much of it was rendered from code? 3D software, programmatic editing, etc.?

Wabi-sabi being used a bit weirdly in this context, but I think they mean the temporality of it all has innate beauty. Sometimes not capturing every single moment/line of code is OK, and there is beauty in a moment not strictly captured, to be appreciated more since you'll never see it again.
Datapane: Build and share data reports in 100% Python
Wow, the last one! I will get there some day!
Once the Wildfires Stop, the Landslides Begin
The comparison to luxury goods is not really accurate here IMO. When you purchase a luxury watch you get something tangible in return. These apps purposely prey on psychological weaknesses to get people addicted - a better comparison would be something like phone call scams.
One side has a magnet, and it firmly attaches the base board (steel). But the other side just has the pogo and is fixed there just by the weight of the thing. It works good if there's enough "bite" and the rest of the system applies force the right way. If not, we'll, it slides off.

In my case for example, it is excellent for test points but somewhat challenging with soldered SMD component pads and very challenging if the density is high.
>But you're already using it for the rest of your site

I'm not
I think we all know it's going to be on-battery DRM.
Tbf they got better. Jquery basically existed because the js builtins were hairy
You missed the memonof a global minimum corporate tax, thatbia being implemented rihht now, didn't you?

It seems the majoroty of people, and governments, have not too much interest to exist in a world of unlimited capitalism only benefiting the largest corporations and richest of people.
Nor do you need to provide an identity that’s not completely made up.
Is it that the CFG version better reflects programmer’s intuition about “what should pass the borrow checker,” or that programmers can more easily predict, after understanding the rules, whether the CFG version will accept or reject particular code?
Poker with buddies is still gambling though and it’s a lot of fun. Maybe more fun than casino gambling (depending on your friend group). I wonder if the GP thinks people who have a Thursday night game with friends are low class as well?
You’d see mass extinctions.
I use spotifyd and control the music from my phone most of the time.

I mostly don't care if I have the latest version of libfoo, but I do care that I have the latest version of anything exposed to the internet (eg, firefox), and any security updates required to libfoo.

What I hate is when I do a pkg update; pkg upgrade firefox and it pulls in 1000+ pkg updates via dependency chains, some of which change how things work. That's why I like the linux jail approach. Back in the old days (early/mid 2000s) when things were simpler, I still ran linux web browsers for the same reason. I could just download the tarball from mozilla or opera or whatever and update to the latest browser binary without taking a chance on fubar'ing my system.
Abiotic oil is a pretty well developed theory. Lab experiments have show that temperature and pressures present in the earths core will form hydrocarbons from carbon and water. There's also all the extensive work by Gold on the deep hot biosphere. Also, the entire atmosphere of Titan is hydrocarbons for example, so it's not like hydrocarbons need life to exist. However, abiotic production is perhaps a few billion barrels of oil globally a year. Not close to enough to sustain our current civilization, but enough to try again in 10 or 20 thousand years.
The problem isn’t how to use lots of energy, but how to produce it.

Before we started using coal as an energy source, wood was a popular source, but that was far from sustainable. See for example the graph in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestry_in_the_United_Kingdom...

If we had to start from that point again, there still would be lots of coal, but mostly not in places that are as easily accessible as what was there in the 1800s. If you have to manually dig a few hundred meters down to even reach coal, and (likely) wouldn’t even know where to dig, would you even consider starting digging?

Oil and gas similarly would be problematic. There’s very little at or near the surface left.

So, likely, the jump would have to be from wood to wind, solar or nuclear.

That has been shown to be possible for wind (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/10/wind-powered-facto...), but it will have to be different from what happened in the Industrial Revolution.
FWIW as a northwest USian, “Danish critical infrastructure” reads like the attack was against critical infrastructure of Danish origin, wherever it might be now.

“Critical Danish infrastructure” tells me it is critical infrastructure perhaps made anywhere but deployed in Denmark.

It is surprisingly ambiguous though.
It's like a yo-yo but faster
I am reading The Laws Of Human Nature by Robert Greene. I love everything that I have read from him.
Not bad, and reminded me of Simple & Useful:

> Can html be styled well enough and simply enough so that anyone can write for the web, using just a text editor, and share that work with anyone else, regardless of the platform they are using, the speed of their connection and any disabilities they may have?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/simpleuseful/index.html

From the old-school Introduction to Web Design:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210414030104/https://www.cours...
Aren't they referring to the person designing the addictive game, not the players? Justifying any methods by starting with "let's put ethics aside" is incredibly callous.

Edit: Based on partitioned's later comments, it looks like I was probably wrong about their intent. Either way, it is certainly a crass comment.
With this comment, I think HN has officially matured to the level of a 13-year old girl.

I'm proud of us.

Congrats on the sarcasm
> That's pretty harsh. Children turn into adults,

No, it's not. It's reality. And you only think it's harsh because you are ignorant. And that ignorance will not prepare you for reality.

> But this idea that you should be responsible for another adult for the rest of their life just because you created them...? That's silly.

No, it's reality. And if you think otherwise, you are not ready to be a parent. Or you'll have a rude awakening when it turns out you are wrong.

Maybe you get lucky and they are able to support themselves, but if you think you raising them to 18 means you are done, it just means you are ignorant.

> Children turn into adults,

No, they don't and that's your ignorance.

Not all children grow up to be adults mentally. Not all children grow up. There are numerous conditions that mean you are responsible for them for the rest of their life, ensuring they get the care they need.

And trying to wave that off as the exception, it just means that you are ignorant. You should go into being a parent understanding that this might happen.

I see way too many parents throwing their kids into the water and letting them sink or swim. Sorry, but if they drown, it's on you as the parent. You failed them. You are the failure.

And that's child abuse, and people that think like that are worthless.

Do better.
If I'm not mistaken 510 millions square kilometer earth surface, 2% of that 10 millions square kilometer, at 200 Wp/m2 gives 2 PW peak.

Current peak electricity production capacity is about 7.5 TW according to:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267358/world-installed-p...
Yeah, Github Actions has its cool parts, but I still prefer Gitlab CI since its just 'dumber', and doing custom things is simpler to achieve.
No, this is unrelated work. But see https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2021/11/05/vie... (only thoughts, nothing concrete or proposal).
Waffle House's Pull Drop Mark System
How many generations before it becomes wild? Even the brutal militaristic conquest of the Native American population recognized the importance of hereditary land in the form of reservations.
This discussion brings to mind a darkly funny scenario where settlers peaceably force natives off their land because the increase in settlement has caused the land value to rise, and the natives haven’t been able to trade for enough currency to hold onto it.
Ireland is doing well directly because of extremely clever biz Dev Irish people who made Ireland top tech and biotech centre in the entire world.
IMO the font size is still too small (ditto for pretty much all stat software). But matplotlib makes it quite easy to change the default look, here is mine:

import matplotlib

theme = {'axes.grid': True,
'grid.linestyle': '--',
'legend.framealpha': 1,
'legend.facecolor': 'white',
'legend.shadow': True,
'legend.fontsize': 14,
'legend.title_fontsize': 16,
'xtick.labelsize': 14,
'ytick.labelsize': 14,
'axes.labelsize': 16,
'axes.titlesize': 20,
'figure.dpi': 100}

matplotlib.rcParams.update(theme)
Also with "onlick" you have to lick it to trigger the event.
As a native, speaker I am.
a github pull request isn't a pull request; a pull request is an email from one of linus torvalds' direct underlings (subsystem maintainers) to linus torvalds "requesting" that he "pull" (hence the name) some tag. an arbitrary example: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/13/229

git request-pull generates these emails.

note that a "pull" is just "merge from a URL", and requires some preexisting trust, hence why it's only for the subsystem maintainers.

github stole this term for their signature misfeature and we've all been suffering since. some of its clones walk back this poor naming by saying "merge request" instead, but the damage to the name is done.
There's still plenty of coal (hundreds of years worth), which is what fueled the original Industrial Revolution.

Petroleum and gas came much later.

Edit: 435 years worth of recoverable coal in the United States alone, of which 53% is recoverable by surface mining.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/how-much-coal-is-le...
It is treated like a secret, so if you come to know someone else’s Social Security number (thanks to a thriving black market you can buy up plenty of them) that’s enough for lenders to start giving you money and then chasing down that other person to pay them back. Are you starting to see an issue yet?
The whole point of this essay is to encourage developers to avoid heavy frameworks like React, Vue, etc and use "lightweight" tools, including vanilla JS and native HTML features, instead.
How do you deal with rogue petrol station owners that sell bad fuel?
They built one of the largest sets ever to house a full sized rocinante, so there's mostly not CGI backgrounds. Which scenes in particular did you think were bad?
Would that run on a GPU? I think the future is having both. Sequential programming is still the best abstraction for most tasks that don’t require immense parallel execution
Vapid atmosphere and high levels of Radiation...sounds charming. I hope they like living underground as trogs.
Oil, yes. Coal, no. There's still plenty of coal, mainly because we switched to burning oil and gas along the way.
I get decriminalization, let people be responsible for their own choices that don’t affect others. But I don’t see why we are also expected to pony up billions, probably more like trillions of dollars to fix the consequences of those decisions. This isn’t cheap at all, supporting an unhoused neighbor with a fent problem runs around $100k/year just to shelter (before treatment can even start, usually they just keep doing drugs because no incentive to stop), sucking the air, empathy, and resources out for the rest of our homelessness problem. And…fent is cheap, taxing it via legalization is a non-starter (the illicit questionable stuff would still exist because the users don’t want to and cannot pay high prices).

If we just decriminalize and let people reap the consequences of their actions, the problem also goes away. I can really admire countries like China that don’t coddle their addicts and instead apply pure tough love.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1027795/europe-primary-a....
Bazel? How many hours per year are you allowed to spend on CI? :D
Battery swapping is much faster, 6 second swap: https://www.gogoro.com/gogoro-network/

With more than 450 million battery swaps globally, Gogoro’s 6-second Swap & Go battery swapping have set the standard for urban two-wheel refuelling by eliminating the traditional EV charging challenges of finding places to charge and then waiting to charge.

Now doing a pilot in India: https://www.gogoro.com/news/india-pilot/
Im doing demo with my projects and record them as videos. They are on youtube, so if I want to show it to someone I just send link to youtube.
Wouldn't that mean that all your web traffic is going through a google server?
I see you are also a fan of lickable.js
Axon runs compute graphs on gpu, but elixirs parallelism abstractions run on cpu
It might be more accurate to say that OP "lost" that fight because the existing semantics of that LLVM attribute were half-baked, and would have resulted in wrong-compile bugs if preserved in LTO. That's something that can be fixed at least in principle, but it requires adding some other extension to LLVM IR, that's closer to what OP is looking for.
Doesn't change what they did. Things might be better now, but they still failed. Being a failure doesn't mean you are always a failure, and you can improve. That you have a good relationship with them now is proof of that. But it doesn't change the fact that they were wrong for what they did.

Don't take their growth away from them.
I'd imagine it wouldn't be very difficult to build language constructs that are able to denote when high parallelism is desirable; and let the compiler deal with this information as necessary.
It’s super gross that Apple and Google are taking a cut of these abusive business models.
This is perfect for Svelte
Zillow's estimates are definitely questionable and I don't want to be seen as defending their precision. However, unless you're referring to an actual house addition or something like earthquake retrofitting, most capital improvements are rounding errors to the value of a house in California. Land alone (vs. "improvements") for a house purchased recently is ~70% of the value and you can see this broken out on a property tax statement. Replacing knob and tube wiring or putting in AC is low tens of thousands of dollars at most and frequently those minor things aren't even reported to the assessor. Sure, an old house that hasn't been updated isn't going to sell for as much as one that has, but unless it's a major change, it isn't going to be hundreds of thousands in difference.

Because I can't query Zillow's data, I don't know any better way to do it than find a neighborhood where most of the houses are old and just see what their property taxes are one by one. In my neighborhood which was built in the 1910s and 1920s, there's quite a few examples of people paying sub $1k in property taxes per year. It isn't a majority or anywhere close to it but within a couple blocks of my house I found nearly 10 examples. I even found a 4-unit multifamily paying just under $1k total.

If you want a pure anecdote, a friend in a nearby house just had the knob and tube in their house replaced with modern electrical (~$35k). The electrician found gas lines in the 1st floor ceiling for indoor gas lighting. Although the lighting fixtures were gone, the gas lines were still hooked up to the main house gas line.
Unfortunately, the "bottom" part of "to the bottom" isn't a very fun place to be.
I can only imagine the boardroom meeting where this idea was first proposed.

"So you're saying it's like a slot machine, except they can't win anything and just give us free money? Are you insane? What kind of idiot would sign up to that?"

Two weeks and a beta test later:

"I'm so sorry I doubted you."
I'm not too invested in ruby but AFAIK they built a new parser from scratch, that was portable, that means that all the other projects like rubocop, solargraph (or how the ruby lsp is called) and all other ruby implementations can use it, so it will be easier from now on to maintain those projects up to date with the official ruby parser.

You can read more about the parser I mentioned here (but it seems that is has/hat a different name before?) https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parse...
I'm curious how much delta-v there X-37B itself has; the Heavy can definitely get it to GEO, but can it get itself back down from there?
You can also rent compute online if you don’t want to immediate plop down 1-2k
I find the magnet is usable but weaker then I'd like if the steel is under an ESD mat, which are usual 2mm thick. If anything they're a just little bit too long which means they can be slightly floppy in the cross-wise direction.

Thinking about it I might try a piece of low-profile bike chain and a copper wire and see if I can do better.
It's a problem like the prisoner dilemma. It's beneficial to the country that "deflects" and gives a discount, but makes everyone worse off than if all countries held line on a higher tax rate.

(disclaimer: I mean it from a direct perspective of maximizing tax income. In this comment I'm not getting into the deeper economics/politics/philosophy of whether higher or lower taxes are better overall).
Thank you. I should have mentioned that as well. People think it's all about cost of labor in China and SE Asia. But it's also a lack of regulation that protects the ecology.

The USA loves to brag about how bad it was in the 70s - remember the TV adverts with the Native American and a tear in his eye? - and how well we cleaned up our act. Lol. Ohhellno. When we offshored the manufacturing, the associated pollution when with it. We didn't clean up as much as we outsourced our pollution.

Point being, when we see the photos of Beijing and the smog, that's not China's smog, we, and the rest of The West "owns" a good chunk of that smog. But the politicians and the corporate leaders aren't going to be transparent about it.
Just learn Rails, it's pretty much what you said. There's a bunch of people that kinda hate where things went, where it takes a couple of teams to do something simple.

Computer graphics and emulation can be hard to get into, lots of people working for free there. I also wished I could find a niche, but didn't manage to, so I'm trying to settle with what I still find some joy.

It's also a great framework for solo dev. I have been doing a lot of JS (+ microservices) for the past years and I can safely say that I'm at least 3x more productive just using Rails.

With JS I always need to pick up libraries, and this creates a lot of ambiguity as every developer likes to do things their own way, working in a team is typically hell.

There are companies that uses Rails and don't use React, nor use microservices, just focus on providing value to their customers.

Unlike the JS community that has plenty of devs, Rails isn't bringing enough new devs in, which makes also finding a job easier and jumping in from another lang into it.
Another christmas approaching, another depressing realization that I'll probably be stuck on ruby 2.6.9 and Rails 5 until I change companies.
I bet Miles Davis would be annoyed by that comma also...
should I wait 2 years then it's fine to use the data science handbook for my interview prep?
"The company has said in previous court filings that only a fraction of the game's players actually spend money."

I was recruited by a sports gambling company and went as far as interviewing with them. I really enjoyed the interview (interesting tech, really smart people) and I've placed a few bets along with friends before in the past without ill effect, so I did some quick checking about how gambling businesses make money. As far as I could tell, across different gambling businesses, the focus is on "whales" -- chronic gamblers who spend as much as they can or more on gambling. The public image of these "whales" is the immensely rich person who visits a casino a few weekends per year and casually loses a hundred million that they won't miss, but a lot of the "whales" are people like the ones in the article, middle class people who lose hundreds of thousands of dollars while desperately trying, and ultimately failing, to stop their addiction from ruining their lives.

Online gambling makes it profitable to pursue smaller and smaller whales, because you aren't limited by the amount of space inside your casino, or the number of people who live near or can afford to visit your casino. Your targets are everybody where you can legally operate, and you're running A/B tests and other optimization technology to increase an addictive behavior. I.e., their business model is to stoke a ruinous addiction across every social and economic class in every jurisdiction they can legally operate in.

Standard disclaimers: I'm not an expert, not an insider, not in the industry at all. Also, none of the information I learned was directly about the company I interviewed with. I'm just talking about my understanding of how gambling businesses work from what I could glean online.

Anyway, I didn't take that job.
Lol our company uses it a lot so I use it a bit. I never learned make properly so I figure I might as well ignore it for now.