skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So not only is the author wrong about the point that he obviously did not make, but he is wrong about the point that everyone else understands him to have made too, even though you are still unable to understand it.

I don't know man, how hard is it to just admit that you were wrong.
> Ward presents it in a sort of "optimal development" context, where what we did last year was the right thing last year, but we know more now/things have changed and we know what the right thing would be today [...]

Oh I suspect Ward's context was even more idealistic. That there was a problem to be solved, and there were few to no moving targets, the only differences over time were in the programmer's heads as they learned about the problem domain.

This is not the only factor in software development today, which is mostly a moving target (although I kinda wish it was, it's my favourite form of development, a clear goal and end state to achieve - aiming for maintenance mode on 1st release, or pretending you are getting a bunch of discs stamped - and I really like trying to break real world problems into these types of mini projects, but that's another story). Perhaps this is why it was inevitable for the phrase to take on a new meaning, and honestly maybe "debt" wasn't the best analogy anyway, your "impedance mismatch" is probably already a lot better as the sibling commenter points out.

> [...] but doesn't allow for a lot of other real-world reasons for this mismatch between the current and ideal state. The effect is the roughly the same though, there is an impedance mismatch between what you want to do to/with the system today, and what the system actual is today, and that has a cost. The work of reducing this impedance is real work, and can be thought of as "paying off debt".

The effect may be similar, but I think it's useful to distinguish the forces at play. In particular I believe conceptual mismatches as per the original definition of technical debt are catalysts of the "other" debts... The original form of technical debt is the most common attribute I notice in the vast majority of source: code is accreted, existing code, existing decisions are rarely questioned with intention beyond what is necessary to make the next requirement on the todo list function, and this tends to result in a lot of unnecessary artificial work and code to work around the exiting code base - which of course only makes it even harder to change.
I don't understand your comment. Tesla sells a charger for $230 that comes with 120V/15A and 240V/50A connectors (https://shop.tesla.com/product/mobile-connector). You can also buy a connectors for every type of socket there is (https://shop.tesla.com/product/gen-2-nema-adapters).

I had a 240V outlet installed in my garage and plug that in there to charge. I also bring it with me if I go to cottages, etc. I've used that with questionable sockets and extension cables and the charging speed automatically switches to lower amps if it can't draw the full 12A. You install a dedicated charger if you want 80A or to mount it outside (it's weatherproof)

What am I missing?
> On my Windoze machines, on my Macs, on my Unixen, and maybe, if it's feasable, on my Newt2k.

what is Newt2k supposed to mean? Google isn't helping
Interesting from that link that concorde could use in-flight reverse thrust to achieve an increased rate of descent. I wonder if this was regularly used, or only so concorde could descend rapidly enough from cruise altitude if they lost cabin pressure? The oxygen masks aren't effective at cruise altitude, which is one reason the windows are so small - if one fails, they needed to descend quickly before cabin pressure was fully lost.
U.S. Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards for Children
And they have the right to refuse. Do you know how many times my PRs have been turned down after I already finished the work? Sometimes they only accept PRs if you're in their click lol. That's all fine but clicking on a star is so despicable right? What a joke.
America is huge and its people are very spread out. Its cities are sprawling and low density.

For what it's worth, I don't actually shop at the supermarket closest to my house that is within walking distance because they don't offer good prices.
we're coming full circle to $('<div>').appendTo(parent)
Fine! Same objection. https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

> In addition to the functionality and features of Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot also includes:

> Navigate on Autopilot: Actively guides your car from a highway’s on-ramp to off-ramp, including suggesting lane changes, navigating interchanges, automatically engaging the turn signal and taking the correct exit.

> Auto Lane Change: Assists in moving to an adjacent lane on the highway when Autosteer is engaged.

> Autopark: Helps automatically parallel or perpendicular park your car, with a single touch.

> Summon: Moves your car in and out of a tight space using the mobile app or key.

> Smart Summon: Your car will navigate more complex environments and parking spaces, maneuvering around objects as necessary to come find you in a parking lot.
So stop in Tonopah NV,which is half way inbetween. Most EVs have the range to make it that far. I just picked that town by looking at a map - I'm sure there are a couple other choices even tough it is a desolate area.

I don't know if there is a charger there today, but it is an obvious place where one is likely to be added sometime.
Interestingly I recently saw an MQ broker written in Java and it seemed to have some pretty impressive performance. I'm not a huge fan of Java's DX but I have to admit, that's some serious performance. Can't remember the name but it was on the homepage this week I believe.
Yes. I have this strange desire not to die in a completely avoidable manner because people who shouldn't be driving are driving.

I lived for a time in Germany, drivers there seem to have no problem with that kind of basic thing. And mind you, not only German drivers, but people who came from all over the world, no matter how fucked the traffic on their home countries is, seem to learn quite well how to drive in a civilized and efficient manner like the Germans.

I don't care if people think they are entitled to drive no matter how badly they approach this task as long as they don't risk my fucking life. Do someone want to be a jerk, text and drive at 100 mph? Them buy themselves a farm, build themselves a road, propel themselves into a wall to die in a ball of fire: not my fucking business. Doing the same stuff in the same road other people are using? Well, now I have a problem with that person, and it is only reasonable that I expect them to show some respect for other's people lives.

It is not that hard. People should be expected to pay attention when controlling a fucking heavy bolide of steel death.
>I would be pretty surprised if it was being that clever.

"I would be pretty surprised if a website known for clever wit and satire was being clever."

Even if it's referencing conspiracy theories, it's still satire. Congrats, you played yourself.
Neo4rs – A Neo4j database driver for Rust
Some context: Neo4j is a graph database that uses cypher query language. You can find more information here: https://neo4j.com/docs/getting-started/cypher-intro/
I knew it. Rising food costs are the real reason college is no longer affordable. Monsanto strikes again.
Or they would if they ever actually interacted with my posts...
minneapolis, mn to kitty hawk, nc
Show HN: Managed Cron Jobs for Python devs
Did Tesla not release all of their patents a few years back? Can people not just… use the stuff?
Do you have a few 30 seconds samples?
Google doesn't want to admit fault instead it tries to silence the dissidents.

Idk seems way too off to me. Maybe we should have other organizations step in and smack the big G around until the call uncle.
I agree. This article is for SciAm readers rather than tech billionaires. The examples they give leave a lot out of the equation.

> Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars.

SpaceX seems to be doing just fine as an investment at its current valuation. With any such endeavor there tends to be innovations that can be applied on Earth.

> Peter Thiel is funding research into artificial intelligence, life extension and “seasteading.”

Both AI research and life extension is something that people will always strive to do. The tech billionaires are being singled-out for having the money to do it faster at scale.

> Mark Zuckerberg has blown $10 billion trying to create the Metaverse from Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash.

The incentive was to own an emerging platform since they are merely participants on mobile/tablet and even desktop. Now they're fighting for AI which is new unowned territory which can be claimed.

The above all looks like capitalism working as intended. Don't blame the players, blame the game.
You should have looked up what was really said about cars (both gas and electric!) when they were first invented. Some of them look much like your list, but others it looks like you made up something when reality already had an example.
You could design all vehicles to be capable of some basic rescue functions.

I would bet the most common situation is the stuck vehicle is just stalled and could be pushed and/or pulled by the car behind or in front of it.

For pulling, you might use an automatic coupler like railways use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_coupling#Automatic_cou...
> https every[where] is literally[1] throwing [out] the baby with the bathwater[2].

1) That would be figuratively, not literally, as there's no literal baby in HTTPS-everywhere that I know of.

2) What is HTTPS-everywhere throwing out? Which part is the baby and which is the bathwater? I don't think this is the right expresion to use here, not even figuratively.
It's a very well rounded language is why, and whatever papercuts exist are either on the way out in newer/future java versions, or made up for by the tooling ecosystem.
WHAT?!
Aw, man that's terrible news that I'd not heard yet.

I worked with Ray in the late 90's in NYC. I remember that "I'm working on a Lisa Emulator" distracted us for an extra hour of geeking out during his job interview.
The Next Frontier of Drugs Like Ozempic
The Boring Company.
Small typo: it says permisions instead of permissions in the feature sidebar
It's also not 150 meters long (nearly 500 feet), which I think is also part of why it was funny to include the sentence in the README.
do you have some further reading i can do to understand how this maps? thanks!
Don't suffer in silence!
Ha, reading first part I got incorrect feeling you are actually proud of that approach, I thought 'geez not again this'. Luckily I read till the end :) I see it all the time, well most of the time these days. I call those folks smart juniors, and it literally doesn't matter if they have 1 or 20 years of experience.

Smart juniors know most if not all design patterns, read Mythical man month, and so on, and... is super eager to try new technologies, languages, frameworks and is literally running around with shiny new hammers desperately looking for anything resembling nails. And then they do some stupid decisions because they don't grok the power an optimized boring old DB can bring in.

Then comes a guy like me with 20 years of experience who has seen damn well how such projects end up 5-10 years down the line with half if not most of the original team gone, and cuts half of that crap out while keeping genuine added value, because we are not running kindergarten for devs who want to have fun at all costs all the time, we work for our business who pays us and expects good, stable and relatively quick deliveries, rest are details on our side. You can't be taken seriously by business if you behave like that, no matter how good your intentions are.

IMHE bleeding edge stuff and trying new things for the sake or avoiding boredom will consistently break more down the road than it will help fixing. We incorporate technologies which whole team can grok and be proficient in, not just some bored superstar. Build your CV elsewhere if you desperately want as many technology entries as possible, there are companies like that, and good for them. IMHO these folks anyway don't stay around for too long so full added value is even questionable, the grass is always greener elsewhere, at least till they get there. Could be boring for some, I call it seasoned (yet still endless amount of stuff to learn, but that's fine this won't change till my retirement).
Similar article on the same subject also discussed previously, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706781
This is all fun and games until that person leaves the team or goes on vacation and some other project's tight deadline unexpectedly depends on understanding and fixing their poorly written code. People really discount the value of maintainable and understandable code until they've been in this position multiple times. Some people never learn it because they "fix" or modify things without understanding them, cause problems, and never reflect on how that happened.
Something changed: government agencies are now clear that they can carry on, build more of it, and get away with it. Even try and build more of it into law (see EU). It was an expensive test but successful.
Saying the post docs might have it worse than musicians.
Yep. Regular petrol stations figured out pay at the pump decades ago. Why is this such a problem for EV charging?
> And you don't see yourself doing the same [i.e., painting with a broad brush] to the "other" side?

No — I'm making specific accusations about Donald Trump and some of his followers in and out of government.
I don’t know what you mean. “Liberal” was in scare-quotes because that’s just the word that rightwing talk radio used to describe anyone on the left (or even center), and they said the word with disgust.

Yes, I know libertarians call themselves “classical liberals” and the left uses “neoliberal” as a similar epithet for anyone more centrist than themselves, but that was the connotation of the word.
The United States is producing more oil than any country in history
> Unless I'm missing something, hashing function is fast compared to random bouncing around inside ram – very much faster then random memory accesses. So I can't see how it make a difference.

In a GROUP BY, you may have a few hundred million rows, but only a few hundred groups within them. A slow function would slow down things dramatically in that case since the hash table remain small and data access is potentially linear.

> Then you've got sorted data, in which case use a merge join instead of a hash join surely.

This property is beneficial for GROUP BY which includes a timestamp or a function over timestamp. QuestDB organizes data sorted by time, so relying on insertion order may help to avoid redundant sorting if there is an ORDER BY clause with the timestamp column.

As for merge join, we also use it in ASOF join: https://questdb.io/docs/reference/sql/join/#asof-join
Why Indian universities are ditching English-only education
Any thoughts on having a credit card reader instead?
Anyone who has an ICE car will probably still prefer that for long trips. Most people are multiple car families and so will have that choice today.

Even if the EV was the choice, a lot of people will fly (or take a train) for longer trips and so never hit the limits.
That’s not at all where it comes from though. It’s referring to a “way” forward in “mo”bility.
Your car is rear-wheel-drive and the extra weight you are carrying around in the fuel tank helps your acceleration in the snow?
That's a weird document, from a units perspective. Mass is reported in lbs while distances are in cm.

Notwithstanding the units used for reporting, though, I had always heard that the actual work was done in metric (to avoid potential conversion errors).[1] Is that not correct?

[1] But see https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/
Most of the real IP is hidden behind ITAR.
I mean, Mamba is much easier to remember than what you said. It’s good to have short names for techniques.
I can think of many reasons:

* Batteries are really expensive and have a limited life. If my batteries were wearing out, could I go to one of these swaps and hope for a fresher set?

* Different sized cars require different battery capacities (EV Ford F150 vs Nissan Leaf). Not a problem with charging cables, but a big issue with battery swapping.

* Battery swapping stations would be orders of magnitude more expensive than charging stations.

* This is not really useful for many (or maybe most) users. If you are driving around town or commuting, charging overnight at home should be good enough for most people. (The main hurdle here would be convincing landlords of the importance of charging).

* It is a lot easier to standardize on a charging port, than to standardize one a battery pack. A standardized battery pack would dictate how the car is structured.

* It would make innovation harder on battery packs. It could make it impractical to try a new battery chemistry or capacity, whereas these are fairly easy changes to make without changing the charging port.
this really is such an underplayed story. No one - not Russia, not Venezuela, not Saudi Arabia - NO ONE is producing more oil than the US.
Hey everyone,

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We build this demo example with our sandboxes. Our sandboxes are isolated microVMs (Firecrackers) that you can quickly spawn (~1s) and control with our SDK. It's like a playground for AI agents.

We took GPT-4-Turbo, connected it to GitHub, and gave it our cloud sandbox as a playground.

The AI can:

- clone repo

- list, read, and edit files

- make commits and make PRs

You control everything from your terminal. The whole code is open source.
> I don't. Something I use depends on something depends on something... Depends on it, and I might not even agree with the dependency. I'm not rewarding something because of someone else's decision to use it.

That's your problem, this project is not responsible for your dependency on it with or without your choice!

> Someone requests an action of me and people are confused by my response. So yes, it is about me. I can and do just say "no" and move on, but if people want me to clarify I will.

Ok, so long as we agree it is their right to require arbitrary things as is yours to ditch them.

> Well they just made me a part of it

In the same way every human is a part of it? I don't follow.

> A lack of a star is not a downvote. And I'm very glad you can't downvote a repo.

No kidding. HN'ers are downvoting on the issue if you care to click on the link of the post and see.

I don't care about your inaction, I care about the negative entitled jerk sentiment on this thread!
I would've loved to look at xFormers, but I avoided looking at other implementations to make sure that ours is a clean room implementation.

Curated Transformers started as a very small library just for spaCy (spaCy 3.7 transformer pipelines use Curated Transformers) with just the older encoder models (BERT, RoBERTa, etc.). spaCy used Hugging Face Transformers prior for the provided transformer models, but we wanted something where we could easily hook into different parts of the model (e.g. for distillation).

After the functionality needed for spaCy was done, Matt @ Explosion encouraged us to extend it into a more general PyTorch library that would also support decoder architectures, generation, etc.
What do you think of Arcan as an alternative to Wayland and X?
That’s a subset of the behaviour beeper is enabling, so yes it is different.

And you’re not sending it - you’re asking Apple to send it for you, and using their resources in the process. And, as you haven’t paid them a dime, they can rightly say no.

Just as you did when I asked to use your computer for crypto mining.

Feel free to say yes to that, but understand that while you say no you’re also understanding why apple says no.
Although I empathize with the struggle of the journey, having gone through a similar path of math team -> Stanford (where I briefly ran into the author), I think this is a particularly uncharitable characterization of math competitions.

Yes, there are many students (even more these days) that are in the grind for the accolades and college admissions, but math competitions were genuinely my favorite part of high school. They helped hone my problem solving, grit (!), work ethic, social skills, and leadership skills in a way that I continue to see pay off 15 years later. I am forever grateful for my high school teacher who supported me during this time.

It helped that I was actually passionate about it, which I think is the underlying point here. Weird constructs like math competitions that help kids channel their passions? Incredible. Forced hoop-jumping for the purpose of college admissions? Horrible.
I just had another thought. What if you could have a bank of assertions? Like this pseudocode:

```

assertion acceptableBlastNumber (int x) {
x < 25;
x > 5;
}

assertion acceptableBlastRadius (int x) {
x > 500;
x < 1000;
! (x > 750 && x < 800)
}

assertion acceptableBlastAddedNumber (int x) {
x < 1025;
x > 505;
}

public acceptableBlastAddedNumber int addBlastNumbers (acceptableBlastNumber int x, acceptableBlastRadius int y) {
return x + y;
}

addBlastNumbers (10, 720) => 730

addBlastNumbers (26, 750) => Exception

```

Though I suppose that this is getting really close to just... classes. It would just be a little more... inline? Less complicated because it would never hold state? Though I suppose, this would also mean your class can just focus on being an objec, and not on having all the definitions for the things inside it, because you can have an <assertion> <object> rather than just <object>.
Which 7B model are you using? 4bit I assume?
>His magazine’s strain of SF promoted the combination of the American dream of capitalist success, combined with uncritical technological solutionism and a side order of frontier colonialism.

>TESCREAL is also heavily contaminated with Christian theological reasoning, Campbellian white supremacism

>imperialist subtext of colonizing the universe.

>elitism, “scientific” racism, eugenics, fascism and a blithe belief today in technology as the solution to societal problems.

This is a purely political article, how the heck does this meet the criteria to be on this site? It’s just anti-science, anti-technology bait.
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/messagepad/stats/newton_m...
I imagine there must be countless other ways to accomplish this. Seems like CYA?
It's 220/240 volt RMS to neutral, which is about 312 volt maximum to neutral at the top of the phase.
Learn English for Developers – FreeCodeCamp A2 English Curriculum
clojurescript and elm would perhaps interest you =)
I am 50 miles outside the nearest major city. I'm on a busy but 2-lane total country road where my two nearest neighbors are on 10s of acres. There are no nearby businesses (much less stroads) until you get to a nearby small (20K) person city. I don't know how you solve that with mass transit. And it's considered urban as the US Census defines it.

You may not approve that such places exist but they do. And folks like to live in them.
The meat of the article:

> the billionaires behind the steering wheel have mistaken cautionary tales and entertainments for a road map, and we’re trapped in the passenger seat. Let’s hope there isn’t a cliff in front of us.

I think the (well esteemed) author is overestimating the marginal impact of science fiction, and has mistaken correlation for causation.

Humans expanding their habitats is just plain old humanity doing its thing.