skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The model in the article is slow for a 911, but I can tell you as a 911 (992) owner the acceleration is plenty fast enough, well, it’s borderline terrifying for public roads (mine’s around 3.2s).

It may not be at the level of the best EVs, but honestly I think off-the-line acceleration is a massively overrated stat because it’s not something you can really leverage, safely, most of the time - I hardly ever use launch control (it’s not even particularly useful for the track). Once you get sub 4 seconds, any faster is just shredding tyres. My last car, a Maserati, was 4.5s and that felt plenty fast enough too (and I still shredded tyres!)

Everything else is important: handling, steering responsiveness, brake responsiveness, mid-range ‘grunt’, and depending where you are in the world: top speed and how quickly you can get there. A 911 will leave a Tesla in the dirt at high speeds [1] - on a clear road I could sail up to 200 mph without any drama [2] (seriously, watch that video to see how utterly drama free 200mph is in a 911 on a public road).

It’s impossible to communicate how much confidence the car gives you, it’s utterly planted at speed and in corners. The 911 has a long history of being one of the best driving experiences, it is a true supercar with 50+ years of engineering refinement, that’s hard to beat.

Along with the badge and elegant design, that’s what you pay for.

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38453459/tesla-model-s-pl...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bXRyy-RBuzc&pp=ygUecG9yc2NoZSA...
I use Keepass with it just fine.
Homosexuality is present in some social animals. I'm not talking about homosexual comportement (present amongst Bonobo, where they'll fuck to resolve conflict, but also in a lot of species), I'm talking about homosexual relationships. AMongst penguin and wolves, it seems to strengthen the pack (or whatever it's called for penguins).
As an American I constantly hear about how the Nordic model of social democracy is superior. I feel like it's underdiscussed that the Nordic countries have very high wealth inequality though. According to 2019 Gini numbers, both the Netherlands and Sweden have more wealth inequality than the US. (1) Denmark, BTW, is quite close to the US- #8 in Gini to America's #4. If wealth inequality is so bad, are the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark doing poorly? I'd like to hear this discussed more.

In terms of income inequality, the US is #61 out of 168 countries by 2020 World Bank numbers. (2) Hardly seems shocking to me. Anyways, just trying to inject some facts into what's usually a quite emotional subject. I hear a lot of comparing how the US is doing now to say 40 or 50 years ago, but less comparing objective stats on the US to other developed countries

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_we...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
It’s easy to just assume the position that this is entirely, 100% a question of personal choice, that each individual will make this choice with no consequences whatsoever to the environment they are in. I don’t pretend to know better and I can accept this without too much trouble.

On the other hand, I wonder if there is space to discuss the possibility that raising children (whether biological or adopted) is actually a service to society and to the community that you’re a part of? If we take the above stance, from the perspective of the individual (regarding your own personal interests, your ability to save money and spend it on progressively more expensive hobbies, the freedom of movement and expression of self, adventure, etc.) it wouldn’t be so outlandish to conclude that having kids is an almost absolute net negative. It’s not surprising that people don’t want to do this; the world offers more and requires more and more from us day after day, and the perspective of suddenly losing maybe 80% or more of your free time can be quite scary. Plus of course all the inherent responsibilities involved that will take not only your actual time but also most of your mind space.

As such, one might ask, why then should you have kids anyway? Sure, there’s the “love” aspect but, are we then to assume that childless adults have no need for love, or have access to less love than us parents? Is “not needing so much love” then an actual advantage in the social competition, because you can then have all the time in the world to improve yourself while parents are basically stuck in an endless loop of exhaustion and routine? I know what you’re thinking: “it was your choice” and it sure was, and that is exactly the point. I feel like there is a philosophical question/gap here about making the sacrifice of raising children (not only for the greater good, but certainly a bit for it) and being rewarded by it, somehow. If only because the opposite-being rewarded by not having kids-sounds a bit weird to me.

I’ve suggested this once or twice but the response from childless adults is (obviously?) quite negative. I wonder if I am just being crazy here.
I think you should expand on this or it will leave a 'middlebrow dismissal' vibe.
I wrote about this here: https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2023/ethics-self-attestation...

Too many jaded technologists throw their hands up and just ignore ethics. At least ACM are _doing something_ about it.
Harmonism Enhanced with e/acc Principles
Harmonism Enhanced with E/acc Principles
Harmonism, as a lifestyle philosophy, is enhanced with the principles of Effective Accelerationism (E/acc) to align with the rapid technological advancements of our time, focusing on ethical and sustainable living.
There's a book called A City On Mars. It pulls together all the reasons why that's not happening anytime soon.
> I've personally had about half of the parents I know tell me "never have kids."

People say that to communicate or exaggerate how much work they’re doing as a parent. They might also be fishing for sympathy or trying to signal that they want you to cut them some slack.

Personally, I’ve lost patience for parents who think they’re martyrs or who think that complaining about their kids is a great casual conversation topic. As a parent of young children myself I find I’m much happier spending time with other parents who acknowledge that parent is work, but aren’t fishing for sympathy or pretending to be martyrs at every turn.

Yeah, parenting is more work than not being a parent, but people who pretend like it’s the end of their lives or the worst thing in the world are just unnecessarily cynical or have a martyrdom complex.
JS and Python are simply bad languages that were simple and good enough to become popular. Now people are trying to fix them to meet needs they were not designed for.

It's a common trope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Jealousy of what exactly? :)
if you set aggressive goals, people will start cheating or abusing a system to hit those goals
People think that the brain is like a micromanager dealing with all parts of the body manually, but it seems like various levels of 'intelligence' in our body is very much decentralised.
"Advent of Technical Writing" is a great idea. Looking forward to reading the whole series.

In general it's very helpful to study lots of docs sites to get fresh ideas about different ways to order docs. But I also recommend being careful about apples-to-oranges comparisons. The intuitive ordering for a narrow Python math library is probably different than the intuitive ordering for a sprawling web framework, for example.
Scrolled the homepage until I saw "...earn a new digital currency" - then immediately closed the tab. Dead on arrival.
> biologically speaking it doesn’t make any sense to be child-free.

It makes total sense. Not all members of a species reproduces... it's actually common that only a few do. Bees are the extreme case where basically only one female in a whole hive reproduces... with chimps we know that it's mostly the alpha male who does and most males do not get a chance. Most animals actually die very young, before even being mature enough for reproduction.

Your hypothesized "everyone should have kids" world doesn't exist. In fact, biologically, you could say it's "better" if only the strongest multiply while all the others just "care" for their young. Don't confuse your morals and wishes with what biology actually entails.
Is there some actual justification for using the terms "carbon emissions" and "energy consumption" interchangeably, or do they just have to do that because they're lying?
It looks open source.
> Why should they care about Firefox?

Maybe that's a question for them to answer since they actively block it with user agent checks

If they truely did not care about Firefox, it would have worked.
just tried Booking.com the other day and seems like... most of those have gone away? Or maybe they're gone in Australia b/c of the consumer protection laws here?
Is that part mandatory?

Developers: https://manual.grid.tf/developers/developers.html

Sysadmins: https://manual.grid.tf/system_administrators/system_administ...

Edit: added sysadmin and..

Haven’t finished reading yet, but generally the internet is never free and always costs some one. I’d be concerned how it would be paid for.
Because it comes from a time when the go team was really enamored with using interfaces for logic. c.f. the sort package before the introduction of sort.Slice, where you'd cast your slice to different types to get different sort functions.
Was it ever sustainable?
Can vouch, all three of the SIM swapping attacks that have been done on Enterprise T-Mobile accounts I'm involved in were done using stolen employee credentials, and the records would just say that the store employee verified the ID of the customer.

Store employees do not ask for the security pin or password on the account, even if it's notated that they should be asked for every time. Pretty much any account security notes like "Please email this address to request authorization for any account changes" get ignored by store reps.

T-Mobile's fraud team will tell you to file a police report about the incident, then they will ghost the police department and provide no details about what occurred, who was involved, where it happened and such. Without a subpoena you are SOL, about the only action you can take is filing a small claims court case against them and subpoenaing T-Mobile in the process. They do freak out when you send a friend to show up in Bellevue to serve the notice of said court case and the subpoena, but it's the only way to get them to acknowledge what happened and provide details so you can mitigate the compromise that occurred.
The infirm will more reliably obtain the aid of honest people by ties of love, rather than of money.
> Men, well… men will be men.

This is a very toxic saying.
The market's really rough right now, so if you're thinking of leaving, find another position before quitting.
I have spent weeks just trying to log onto Teams to communicate with an MS contracting shop. I still have not managed to log in. It is infuriating beyond belief.
I have a CIO who stated, our churn is no worse than anyone elses, on average. The problem with that statement was that our churn was department specific, so if you looked at the average, it looked great. But if you zoomed in, the highly skilled IT workers were fleeing, and we were left with huge holes that caused real problems.

In the graph you link to, I would love to see that with the top 10%, perhaps even 20% removed. I really wonder how a few hundred people like Elon or Bezos skew the median, plus the thousands of CIOs making 400X what I make.
It's amazing how many cables there are routing through the Suez Canal, especially directly connecting Mumbai all the way through to Marseille.

I wonder how well protected they are specifically in the Suez Canal. Presumably the whole area is pretty well surveilled by the Egyptian government, but I have no clue. I just think it's really interesting how many cables are (understandably) routed this way and wonder whether there is full backup redundancy in the few cables running around south of Africa.
I used to use the compose key lot, currently I really like Espanso.
It does arbitrary text replacement, has some pretty fancy features, but is also quite useful for turning \alpha or :laughing: into the symbols I want.

https://espanso.org/
I skip gears in my 6 speed too (1-2-4-6 on acceleration, 6-3-2 on deceleration). I'd love a 7th gear for quieter high speed cruising but the number of shifts I do would be the same.

Cars like these have more than enough power to not need to go through every ratio, and you're not exactly buying these things to maximize fuel economy.
It took me several readings to figure out what on earth you were talking about. Maybe rewrite this as a blog post and include context for those of us who are not psychic. If your card got stopped for fraud it seems like you should be talking to your bank/card issuer, it's not clear to me why you care more about your ad campaign than your card.
~40%-50% of pregnancies, in the US and internationally, are unintended each year. A significant component of the story are simply accidents.

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-u...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449999/

https://www.unfpa.org/press/nearly-half-all-pregnancies-are-...
They care enough to make to it specifically /not/ work on Firefox, because it works if Firefox lies about what it is.
Any ideas on how to help my engineer colleagues write good documentation that actually helps? Most of the problems that I see come from a lack of empathy - they assume the reader has previous knowledge about things that are only inside their head, so after reading the docs there's always the need for further clarification.

I suggested some technical writing courses, but they got weird ideas from them, like writing documentation in a conversational style, which makes it somehow even worse...
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/threefold/
They actually went out of their way to block Firefox here. The authentication protocol is a standard supported by all browsers, and if you change the user–agent string to look like Chrome’s then magically it starts working again.
If you can read a blog post by 1 person on this subject seriously, you can read a summary of an interview of 15 people. I downloaded the epub. This line sold me to read it.

>In this article, we coin the term ‘mundane emotions’ to draw attention to everyday routines and the distinctive emotions that flow from them (De Certeau 1988; Lefebvre 2004). For example, commuting, cleaning or cooking routines, for some, may provide precious moments of comfort and calm after the daily grind. These very same routines may leave others feeling empty and bemoaning the absence of spontaneity, excitement and joy in their lives
Social darwinism seems to be back 'en force' in the past decade, when we have so much science to be wrong about :/

Very disappointed reading some on the forum to be honest.
Now divide that trend by cost of housing rather than consumer price index. The market is saying "get in the box, pay the rent we are illegally fixing, and don't even think you'll be building equity or gaining security over the course of your life". If you don't have any anxiety about an aging society or living in a declining empire: you should.
At what point are Firefox going to drop having a unique user-agent and just adopt chromes? There are so many support issues they could avoid if they just did this, I really don't see what the benefit is anymore.
How is that a smoking gun indicating malice?
I worked at a VC funded startup many years ago and we were essentially forced to do something like this for one of the other VC’s failing companies. We spent our limited funds on them, which we didn’t need, and it ended up sinking us. So in my opinion, the article is more about a shell game than anything positive.
Cool! Can you do this and write up the steps like the article?
Simple math puts renting/owning a(n) apartment/house out of reach for many. So, yeah.
I find them amazing, but. I also have significant experience in macro photography, and knowing just how difficult it is to get a focus stack properly processed, etc plays in to my appreciation of the imagery. I can also see how these wouldn't look any different than any other random saturated oddity that is so pervasive on the tubes.

I say this without judgement one way or another.
It might be that there’s simply so much more content on the internet about pandas that the LLM internalized all of it. Rust is a much more complex language with less written about it. IOW my use case is a perfect match for the tool, yours is less so and there isn’t anything more to it.
The majority of people who choose to be child-free are doing just that - making a choice. Unless you are referring to the extreme minority of people who castrate or kill themselves to avoid conception, you're not actually describing people being "removed" from anything. They're just making choices that don't result in conception.

If someone is gay, they are most likely still capable of conceiving with the opposite sex. They are making a series of conscious decisions that preclude that conception, but they haven't been "removed" from the gene pool any more than a straight couple using a condom has been. Unless you don't believe in free will, most people are not at a "dead-end" at all.
Falcon 9 is fine. Presumably it can be refined and upgraded and it will be even better. But starship is a space spruce goose.
Never heard of it, but it looks like a competitor to TiDB. Does anyone here with any experience care to comment?

https://medium.com/@acmilanellosw/oceanbase-vs-tidb-a-compar...
that is exaxtly what it does ;) if you don't feel comfortable with curl | sh , you can download clickhouse binary from the repo here https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/releases

;)
That's how we do it. 2 days a week everyone I work with goes to the office, then the other days it's sales teams or whatever. Means you actually get a lot of value out of the time in.
Chances are you only complain why they hardly ever visit or call. But even that is far from having nobody at all except for your last surviving generational peers.

Parents and grandparents perceive their descendants' life as if it was a third person view game. Much of it happens of-screen and the controls are terrible, often worse than absent, but it still keeps them interested in the next day/month/year. If you only have your own remaining years to look forward to you have much less.
TIL: Thanks for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_soap_radio
Too late.

We're Doomed.
We are moving to support fiat as well, as well. You can literally build anything (we recently built a students platform to deploy their workloads without concerns about tokenomics)

Tokenomics aside, I'm sure https://manual.grid.tf will show very interesting bit, And please keep in mind that the system works .. quite well actually (and it's opensource if you like the idea, and don't like the execution :)
Do you have experience working with such systems? I'd love to drink deeply of your knowledge if possible, past experiences, interesting technologies, how to start, the big players in safe systems etc.

I've seen PikeOS, LyncSecure and VxWorks also. There's an interesting related book Embedded Systems Security and... I suppose I should investigate Ada etc.
Code of Ethics are useless and toothless without a licensing agency that gatekeeps who a company is allowed to hire.

That is why it can make sense for medicine and law but makes absolutely no sense for programmers since there is basically no barrier to entry.
Because it is not a bug or mistake in the code but a deliberate loss in functionality based only on the name of the browser.
Not sure what your point is exactly. For me it is quite simple; you either feel you want children and you try to get them, it's a hormone thing and you don't have a choice. Or you don't feel so much about it, and if you think rationaly you don't want them. Either way, you don't have much of a say in it.
Lenovo Lenovo Legion Y530-15ICH, Intel® Core™ i5-8300H × 8, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 32 gb ram.

Maybe not "crappy", but 5 years old by now and not high end for its time. Like mid range.

"Write a Python function that converts a dict to an html-table" takes about 60s locally, while ChatGPT takes about 8s.
Nothing in particular that requires an S3. I’m just running a Bluetooth proxy for home assistant, which can run on a basic esp32.
Did you actually read the comment, or the part that I quoted? It was just a reminder that a "default" accent does not exist. That would have been fine. It was a full throated condemnation of a person without evidence. That's quite a bit more than just a reminder about defautl accents.
The statistic from Paul Graham reminds me of a time when I tried to bring my grade in a mathematical computer science course up during exam inspection. I explained to the very formal (mathematical formal; he was also friendly) that I should have gotten half the points for one of the questions because I got it partially right. Without much thinking, he responded with "No. It’s wrong."

It has been a great life lesson for me. You can come up with all kinds of nice stories about how right you are but sometimes you’re just wrong.
> Yeah, parenting is more work than not being a parent, but people who pretend like it’s the end of their lives or the worst thing in the world are just unnecessarily cynical or have a martyrdom complex.

Probably. But also seems to me very likely to be a lack of proper orientation in what considers good, ascribes value to, etc.
The Google keyword for you is “deontology”.
So what? This is just one class of the mistakes you can make. For the sake of argument, if you do have both "$result" and "$reslut" (they don't need to be named like this, of course, just continuing your example) with very different purposes, and you use the wrong one, the result is ... just as wrong.

I think all popular linters for Python catch the mistake you have shown since a decade or so. You create a variable and then don't use it.

On the other hand, I've been screwed over by wild list context suddenly appearing and swallowing my undefs (that I needed to be there) countless times. To this, Perl doesn't have a remedy. It won't even warn me that a function returned an undef but the list context squashed it into nothingness. This causes, for example, off-by-one errors that lead to creation of malformed hashes which sometimes may look almost right except the data is corrupted now. Even worse, two undefs instead of one will silence the warning about odd number of elements forming a hash, and that hash will be just as corrupted.

Perl weenies very much like to brag about crutches their language invented to bravely overcome the problems it itself has created, and it prevents them from realizing how limited those crutches are.
Definitely Forth and Factor. Every programmer should get a little bit familiar with the concatenative style. 3 days ago i discovered a channel on YT which talks about Forth, even Chuck Moore himself did a talk there talking about GreenThreads and the like.

Given that webassembly is a stack language with no GC, i do expect a comeback of concatenative programming some time in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/@siliconvalleyforthinterest1736
Honeybee overclocking?
Looks cool. Reminds me of Steampipe except this works on a local git repository.
Lets play to "who can say the most flippant feel-good thing in biology?".

The fact that there is not such thing as an 1000-year old bark or a 1000 year old buds does not matter. The growing part of the tree is only a few years old, and the buds lie in that part. Old cork is dead. Old wood is dead; just a bunch of tubes. Cambium is the alive part.

I predict that there will be a severe wildfire season in US in 2024. If you read this articles, you will feel much better about the loss in any case.