skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the hardest thing to get across is that _LIFE IS BETTER_ this way. Having 2,000 kgs of metal hurtling by at 80 kph half a meter from your six your old's head while you walk to school SUCKS. It's horrible. But hopping with my 4 year old in the cargo bike and my 6 year old on her own bike is sheer, utter, bliss. Little kids ringing their bells and chatting with new friends on the way to school is a joy that I feel privileged to be able to experience with them.

And when you don't surround every building with 3 acres of parking, everything is closer together. It's so much closer together that, for the most part, you don't even need to drive for much.

I didn't even _want_ to move to the Netherlands. I wanted to live somewhere I could be car-free and feel safe with my kids biking to school. It's ludicrous that cars have utterly conquered the entire damn planet, and all humans have is a desperate rearguard action in a tiny country largely below sea level. And even here, there's more cars than I'd like.
> Also, if everyone has the same retirement and insurance plan but they are not good plans or the pay isn't good, are they not getting ripped off ?

Um. Not necessarily. If I sell you a car that has no tires and no engine, are you getting ripped off? Not necessarily. So I'd like to know the specifics of this case.

FWIW, I understand that just because my employees have the same compensation as I do, it may still be unfair. If I have no job responsibilities and they have to perform death-defying tasks, they might benefit from a union.

Then again, they might benefit even more from quitting and finding a different job.
Maybe you mean haven't yet released?
I was about to give up on MSFT and sell back in the aughts. But then Nadella took over, and boy am I glad I didn't sell.

A friend of mine who worked at Microsoft in the 90s told me that Gates lamented in a meeting that nobody was coming up with new ideas on how to leverage their expertise and make money.

If only they knew !!!
Ha ha ha, some TicketMaster/LiveNation shill actually down-modded that.

Pathetic.
This kind of technical debt in lawmaking is a huge scourge on the USA. Even if you agree with the policy stances of the Republican Party having a completely dysfunctional and incapable legislature has a huge impact on our everyday lives. At this point no law can ever be made or fixed unless people stop voting for clowns.
It's "whether". (weather is eg sunny or raining)
Coral is 4 years old, and it's both shocking & not that there aren't many competitors out there today.

Also a bit sad PyCoral requires python 3.9! Yikes!
Public school quality and levels of crime (or at least perception of crime) are also huge factors driving parents of small children out of dense cities and into suburbs. Somehow most city governments have been taken over by progressive idealogues who are intent on pushing their luxury beliefs regardless of the negative impact on education or middle-class quality of life. This is how we end up with schools run for the benefit of teacher's unions rather than students, fentanyl dealers in the neighborhood parks, homeless tents on the sidewalks, and organized shoplifting rings excused as reparations for the oppressed.

If we want to give people the option of living without cars then let's start by fixing our cities.
yeah I agree but when you look at the slope not the y-intercept it’s getting obviously better.

one advantage the government would have is training/fine-tuning on a hundred million lines of domain specific cobol.
No surprise there. Increased demand -> increased economies of scale over time. What I'm really curious about is if a new battery with increased density heavily disrupts this. If you double density, then naively you need half the batteries / half the materials, or half the cost.
I didn't say that your rate at a govt focussed consultancy would be identical to your rate elsewhere. I probably should have been more explicit.

I rejected the idea that the consultancy would get a rate increase based on "market rates being higher" and then just capture it all - in my (admittedly somewhat limited and path dependent) experience that just isn't how it works. It's more like we pay randmeerkat $X, we bill them out at $X * factor + overhead. "Market forces" mean we have to go Y > X in renewal or we will lose randmeerkat & friends, so now they get $Y and we bill $Y * factor + overhead. It's of course usually more complicated in general, and overhead especially likely isn't that simple.

Nowhere in there is the assertion that X or Y is what randmeerkat would get on the open market. Importantly, their market isn't really "programmers", but "programmers that work in govt + contracting halo". Which is part of why the idea: I could get $N more in SF tech may be compelling for you, but isn't compelling for them (unless too many people actually make that change, instead of just talk about it).

Also there are many other ways they can raise there rates, but if the claim is that it is due to market on the developer salaries that are going to be a line item, there is going to be at least first pass look at a) is that true (find some market data and wave hands) b) did it actually get spent that way (may come up in an audit).

So the real answer seems to be not "They get more and I get nothing" but "I get a bit more, and they get more scaled by what I get", i.e. "win-win".

There is lots wrong with the system of contracting, but I don't think criticizing a cartoony straw-man of it gets anywhere useful.
What's the container story like?

It might be fun running my homelab on FreeBSD 14...
X pushing the subscription model only works if people subscribe. And the amount of subscription you need to service this level of debt is.... pretty high.
Yes, but the corporate entity does not; the (possibly contradictory) emotions of the people who have some role in a corporation are not features of the corporate entity.
It's worse than that, more roughly weight^4

https://pavementinteractive.org/reference-desk/design/design...
Whether it is a specification or a reference doesn't really matter for this discussion. What matters is that it is the closest thing to a specification that exists for Python. Assuming anything beyond it ties the program to internals of a specific implementation. Internals for which the vendor might have different intentions about keeping stable or change than users expect.
> All large companies

when a company goes from small to large, original owners lose their ownership? Wouldn't they stop themselves from becoming large in order not lose their ownership .
In some Canadian cities, they build the residential streets with only one lane (there’s still traffic in two directions), and it solves both the speed problem and helps with the density problem. I hated it at first, but once I’ve parked my car (probably to take the bus, no less), I’ve thought, gee this is nice.
It depends on the pay-off period. This is determined by heating costs, the insulation costs, and the interest rate. It could take many years to pay for some kinds of insulation.
High frequency trading (measuring latency, inferring event ordering, etc). Since most crypto derivatives trading takes place at ap-northeast-1, it feels like AWS is orienting this release towards financial markets customers.
It likely would never happen. It doesn't really change any of this equation though
I do this with my kids and it's still pretty fun. Though admittedly it's nicer when the weather is good (just like driving).
The Alphago move seemed like a bad move to humans but then ended up being amazing many steps later.

The human move seemed like an incredibly improbable move by Alphago, and ended up giving the human an upper hand.
Link to the actual Google Photos replacement: https://immich.app/
They haven’t been doing them for very long at all and have had better results pretty much every year since they started.
So this is going to depend a lot on your driving habits, the cost of fuel in your area, the cost of electricity, and what kind of car you want/need, but I bought a new car earlier this year and the combination of those factors meant that an EV was cheaper than all comparable ICE vehicles (admittedly the EV was slightly smaller than we wanted and similar ICE vehicles would have better matched the size we wanted).

The main thing is that the cost of fuel vs. the cost of electricity meant that we are saving ~$100/month and the difference in car payments for ICE vehicles vs EV was smaller than that.

Although I'm pretty sure this only holds for new vs. new. The "used" market for EVs is almost non-existent and the savings you get is not nearly as large in used as it is for ICE. So if you are willing to buy used, then yes, ICE is still going to have an advantage for a while. But for new vehicles at least, modulo all those factors up above, it's already the case that some EVs are cheaper than comparable ICE vehicles.
Coming from a non-American perspective here, which sometimes leaves me perplexed on the weird, sometimes toxic if not dangerous, state of American politics.

The article's content read as overly inflammatory for what amounts to basically students organizing a mailing campaign with a green-orange-red color code where, as far as I can see, the word blacklist is never used. Chalk it up to a few overzealous students banging pots at their teachers' door, which has turned nasty at some institutions in the past mind you, but the article is making a mound out of little.

I've checked what the website is, and it's just the right-wing journal of the campus [1]. Gotta drive the clicks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanford_Review
> The Polish railways network consists of around 18,510 kilometres (11,500 mi) of track as of 2019, of which 11,998 km (7,455 mi) is electrified. [1]

As only ~65% of the polish rail network are electrified, I'm sure there are still plenty of Diesel powered trains operating in Poland.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Poland
The clue was in the first sentence: "BLM riots ", the far-left media outlets called it "unrest" when their allies do it, but "insurrection" when it was done at the US Capitol.
No stretch is necessary. Musk has tweeted his feelings pretty plainly.
Norway is not nearly as woke as Sweden, so I doubt it.
Sonny: Yes! Rapidly and repeatedly. [then add the actual quote:] Can you?

Human: ...

Oh how the tables have turned.
Ford was spreading antisemitic pamphlet long time after it was know that it is hoax.
Well this is generally a US focused site, though if we are getting more input internationally here these days that would make me very happy.
How unfortunate. Perhaps they should strike until they get better law-makers.
I kept selling them on this opportunity. The market of APIs front run by intelligence will be even more valuable than ads.

So I built their Business Messaging program to try to get access to those apis.

What took me too long to discover is that an API market of 100% confirmed conversions will be worthy less than an intent market with a 10% or 1% chance. Because you can show more ads across the intent market that aggregates to more revenue than a 100% confirmed transaction being auctioned off. (Specifically because an ad can’t go for more than the cost of the transaction of course, but multiple ads can)

TLDR. Google became the same as the newspaper ads they disrupted. Making more money off the failure of their ads to convert than their successful ones.
Imagine if you go to your work at the bank tomorrow and instead of a well documented, maintainable and formatted code see a gibberish. And your neural coworker tells you that it is just a problem with your capabilities if you cannot understand it. He just refactored it to improve performance. That's the situation with machine learning today.
i've never been in rome but i visited trieste - a very walkable city - a few weeks ago and i was shocked how cars were clogging up everything there. not necessarily cars driving, but parked cars. maybe trieste is a bit special because big parts of it are on a steep hill so it's not that well suited for cycling but none the less, i was very disappointed. not a pleasure with kids. i asked an italian friend about it and his answer was: "welcome to italy".

so, walkable - yes, maybe. but cities that get rid of cars are still on a completely different level when it comes to quality.
I don't think you truly understand Houston-like climates. A 10 meter walk to the mailbox often causes you to break into sweat. Another concern is it can and often does have random showers; often quite heavy and difficult to plan for.
Thanks for bringing this up. I usually wonder which of the styles is correct..
You really shouldn't post it as a finished product here unless you have an Android version as well
I don't the know the situation now, but in the UK you could break into an empty place, then change the locks, and from that point on they could not evict you without a long process involving going to court. There was (is?) a huge squatters community because of this.
The link is at the end of the post: https://github.com/jawj/perfcompare

I should maybe refactor them out into their own repo, though.
Not sure about the downvotes, but I was curious which part you were referring to because it is a broad group and can be an ambiguous term depending on who you're talking to. The part I personally think of as middle class arent really Walmart shoppers.
It's pretty elitist to make me pay for your parking in my city.
>I have no idea, but I'd imagine like payroll and taxes are pretty much perfect.

It is well-known in the military that WHEN you inevitably get a screwed-up paycheck, if you get too much, it's your problem, because they're 100% sucking that money back out of your account or simply not paying you the next month. If you get too little... well that's also your problem. Good luck - go find someone to spare the time to fix it. It's a pain in the ass.

The system is ancient, unfortunately.
I immediately got a déjà vu feeling from the intro like I had seen this already in a Noclip documentary. Nice to finally get this 'episode 3' in the documentary series.
No the downvotes are likely for responding to a comment with the exact same drivel as the GP it responded to. Make a new point
It's only great for the rest of us until someone emerges a clear winner. Then the cycle starts over again.
But... But... I thought Microsoft ♥ open source?
This podcast is talking about Immich and partially its latest (v1.86.0) release.

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v1.86.0
Sounds tempting, but every time I try something like this, the momentum runs out after a few months to a year, and I'm left with a decaying side-project consuming more of my time and energy.

Is there a reasonably priced alternative to Google Photos that comes with fault tolerance, privacy, and a functional, cross-platform interface?
> https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac7cfc

Very interesting!! Especially Fig. 5. Thanks for the link.

Summary:

* ICE vs battery crossover at 18k-24k miles (1.5-2.0 years avg usage) and Hybrid vs battery crossover approx 36k-48k miles (3-4 years avg usage). Reducing car usage obviously extends those timelines.

* ICE with 12k-18k miles is equal to battery with 0 miles, Hybrid with 18k-24k miles is equal to battery with 0 miles.

Temperature and energy generation sources affect the calculations quite a bit by region regarding engine and battery efficiency and cleanliness of generation sources.

Appreciate your inputs, updating my priors.
Paying dividends is just moving money from the company's bank account to the share owners, it doesn't have anything to do with the value of the rest of the company.
The Zoe has pretty horrendous crash ratings, sadly.
Apparently it's only available for paid plans so you can't test it out
Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
What I get from Google Photos is that, regardless of bad luck or incompetence on my part, someone else takes care of backing up a copy (at reduced quality) of all my photos no matter when I take them, and does so for €0 additional spend or effort on my part. That proposition is tough to beat.
In the 1970s I tried to create an Advent-like game (Advent was the predecessor of Zork). The user interface was plain English text commands.

I rapidly discovered there were so many common ways to express the same thing in English, that trying to enumerate them was impossible. At least impossible on a PDP-10.
My 60-cent 32678 Hz crystal at 12.5pf is specified at +/- 20ppm (aka: 0.002% accuracy). But with a caveat: I need to load the crystal with exactly 12.5pf capacitance.

So sure, I can go grab 2x 25pF capacitors and load the crystal to ground (series capacitors half the capacitance, so 2x 25pF in series == 12.5pf). Except... what?

Trace-capacitance and on-chip capacitance hasn't been factored in.

Hmmmmm... okay. Does anyone have a picoFarad accurate multimeter? Oh snap, those are expensive.

No, the easiest way to tune a crystal oscillator to its appropriate accuracy is through the use of a ground truth clock, and comparing that ground-truth clock vs the clock. So I make my guess with 2x 9pF capacitors (5pF internal capacitance on the chip x2 pins + 2pF estimated trace capacitance) and measure the result against the ground truth.

Well, to calibrate a 20ppm crystal oscillator means I need a time sync service that has 20ppm accuracy or better. That's ya know: +/- 20 microseconds per second accuracy.

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That's my cheap 60-cent crystal by the way. If you go with a temperature-controlled oven crystal oscillator for better accuracy, you'll need more accuracy to tune that.
I tried rocket back then and reached similar conclusions - then I just picked the most popular choice (actix at the time). Actix had its highs and lows but always delivered.

Nowadays I'm on axum (mainly because the API is nice and because it feels like the community is moving in that direction) and the experience is great.

I'm working to rewrite my node.js and python service to Rust to simplify my stack and take care of unreliability and hard to debug occasional bugs.

And I'm also adopting leptos to do frontend development (moving from solid.js - which is already pretty nice)
Out of curiosity, why wait until just now to torrent it?
More to the point: Perhaps it's a feature, not a bug.
If the calculus is that "Twitter with Elon" is valueless and "Twitter without Elon" is not, then perhaps this will be the exception that proves the rule.
What then did you think it relevant to point out that Python does not have a prescriptive document if you didn't think it was somehow useful?

Here's another fact: Python doesn't have its own typeface either. Yet that fact is hardly germane to the thread.

A prescriptive document is a formal specification. The Python Language Reference is a less formal specification. It's still a specification.

It is also not a single document, but then again even a formal specification may incorporate other specifications by reference.
Fourth power of axle weight, apparently. So (weight/2)^4 for a car or SUV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

Also, squishy humans really
prefer to not be hit by heavier objects travelling at similar speeds.
The truck is not 74 tons, it's capable of moving that weight in cargo. Title update would be nice.
But more tires, more tire wear, more micro-plastic pollution from the tire wear, etc.
Show HN: Turn your kid's drawing into a hardcover storybook (using GPT vision)
Here's a video demo if you're just curious to see it in action: https://x.com/abhiondemand/status/1725599691956482390?s=20

Feedback welcome.
> Twitter has been pushing the subscription model a lot and I suspect that will likely be the long term solution.

That's obviously the intent, but you’d need a lot of paying subscribers to replace the ad revenue they’ve lost, even without the additional debt from the acquisition.

There's no realistic way it works.
If the optimistic guess is $40M, wouldn't things have to go really, really, really wrong for it to be anywhere near the $1.3 Billion? I mean, those numbers aren't exactly close at all. Even if it's naively optimistic, it still seems unquestionable that it'll be a lot cheaper, no? Am I missing something?
> Should you be able to knowingly create a product which harms consumers and provide it to them while failing to disclose that fact?

With only this question as a guide the answer should be a resounding yes. Mainly because there are trade offs for everything. The downside to every trade off can be harm.

There are an immeasurable amount of ways harm can manifest, also answering no to this questions clearly incentivizes less, not more product transparency. I so desperately want to restate the question in a manner that accounts for the inevitability of discovered future liability, however it's not coming to me at the moment.
This is the gist of the whole thing. The conventionally repeated argument is that bigger is better, but I'm not sure if that's true, all things considered. I don't think it is.

I think that mass manufacturing unlocks a cycle of cumulative improvement through rapid iteration, which eventually leads to way lower costs per energy production capacity. However, scaling energy production profitably requires that energy consumption is scaled as well, i.e. there needs to be new applications which consume a lot of energy, and in general people should be encouraged to use as much energy as possible.
Apple spends tens of millions on Twitter.. this is huge. and opens the gates for any other brand to stop advertising
Maybe then auto-updating is the problem here. Why can't users have the agency to decide if they want to update or not? I know Microsoft/Google for one spearheaded the whole It's For Your Own Good movement, but opting out should at least be an option...
SQLGlot – Python no-dependency SQL parser, transpiler, optimizer, and engine
I am looking for something better than nextcloud for images in particular, but whatever i choose must integrate with nextcloud. i don't want two backup services, i just need a better interface/app/enrichment.
So for anything that's not serious the model is becoming better?
Headline seems to contradict the article? It's predicting that prices will fall in the future.
Yan LeCun is generally advocating for open models and regulation at the product level which is very closely aligned with my own ideological beliefs so I keep track of everything he shares on social media. There's too many doomers sucking up all the air in online discourse, IMO.

In general I've just started following the actual researchers on social media to keep track of what they're saying or their perspectives on various issues. Go directly to the source.
I would recommend getting quotes for solar from EnergySage and consider going without a battery.

Incentives and prices will vary over time. While there is new "tech" for solar in the pipeline, it will take time to reach market. As prices decrease, incentives will as well. Be mindful of how incentives and financing may stack, EnergySage will provide all the info you need to make an informed decision.
Especially since it only has like 8 MB of memory I think?
Effects of Alzheimer's Cognitive Dysfunction and Aging on Brain Network
I rather like google photos. Is there a good reason I shouldn’t? We pay for 2TB usage for the family photos on all our phones, it works great.
> Increased demand -> increased economies

With the caveat that demand is decreasing right now. [0]

0. https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ev-makers-turn-to-discoun...
Yes, Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 are both more playable because they don't use x87 to the same extent. It's only HL that uses it heavily enough that it becomes unplayable.

Side note, I think HL2 does for physics, or something; fast moving objects and explosions cause drastic frame drops via Rosetta. I haven't been able to look into it in detail to confirm the cause.

Edit: The best "official" way to play Half-Life on an Apple Silicon machine is through Parallels, which uses WoW64's x87 translation instead of Rosetta. I've also heard you can compile Half-Life yourself using the leaked Source Engine code, but I haven't tried it myself.