skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rented a model 3 yesterday. I generally like the car, but the autopilot* was indeed a big letdown. It would exit cruise control/lane keeping mode occasionally due to 'system error'. This precipitated a DEFCON 5 type emergency with visual and audible alerts, not to mention sudden drop in speed and loss of automatic steering.

Even when it runs nominally, it prompts you every 20 seconds or so to apply turning force to the wheel (counterintuitively, as you want to go straight in the lane). If you are momentarily distracted (like having a relaxed conversation) and miss the warning, boom, DEFCON 5. Do that a few times and now the car will actively prevent you using autopilot, like an overbearing mother.

The feature that is supposed to make driving more enjoyable, instead ratcheting up anxiety towards almost giving everyone a heart attack. I drive other cars all the time and they do this fine. So weird.

*autopilot = I am just talking about cruise control + lane keeping, i.e. press down on the stalk. Not sure about the naming.
That’s it! That’s the documentary! Weird choice for a documentary to have the laugh track though.
not instantaneously, and with outrageously big fees (which will only increase due to the limited supply). And no recourse if someone manages to steal stuff? No, that is the opposite of protection.
Similar experience as the sibling reply. I have plenty of colleagues that care about quality and details. Engineers are expected to fill the gaps on specs. Only few of them are 4x+ and we are all cheap because we live in central Europe.

The key is to have good company culture and pay above average (in local rates so 3x and more cheaper than USA). This give you great retention. People are loyal and aren't switching jobs every 2 years. Many of us are with the same company for 5+ years.

Which creates a sense of ownership. Give engineers freedom to make decisions [1], give them challenges. Not deadline challenges that lead to burnout. Foster collaboration and reward seniors teaching juniors. Maintain lean processes.

But truth to be told the dream starts to crumble. Our small to mid size company got acquired by a bigger one and the process bullshit and top down decisions start to creep up. I won't probably last long here but I am worried if I can find a company with a mindset we used to have.

[1] Perhaps controversial hot take: discard architects. Teams should own the technical design. If it's a huge project spanning multiple teams, host in-person designathon for a week. You should have staff engineers on board steering it, but involve seniors or even lower ranks. The people designing should be the same people who are going to implement it. Again, sense if ownership, lower communication overhead. If you are worried teams would stray in different ways, have guilds around core tech/architecture areas. Designs can be reviewed cross team. Let people join other teams for quarter or so to cross-pollinate ideas and best practices.
I watch Sandy Munro sometimes. His comments on how to cut costs sometimes sound brilliant, and sometimes sound like a race to the bottom. I suspect that's the problem: even the experts don't know what the consequences of a certain cost cutting measure is.

At a polar opposite, I'm reminded of the wonder of walking across the Brooklyn bridge and thinking, "they don't make them like this anymore".
The best thing we can do besides innovation is probably to put a brake on overconsumption by killing modern advertising practices.
Here's hoping everyone associated with Hacker News a joyous holiday season. I discovered HN this past year and wonder how I ever lived without it. Merry Christmas
mostlysimple
I don’t celebrate Christmas but Happy Holidays.
Thank you - this makes a lot of sense as. :)
I'd like to know as well
From an end user perspective the better label would be "Fix internet"
I don't know much about JabRef itself, but a quick search seems to indicate that one of the key differences is word document integration - JabRef is focused on bibtex.
Honestly, that should be the mindset of IT experts in general. Any reset/reset should fix everything and bring the system to a known functional state before doing any work.

Obviously you don't want to have to restart to fix issues, but having that as a fallback (especially for issues you didn't predict during development) is great UX.
sonder (uncountable) (neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it. For them, you are the distant car light, a silhouette in a window, a footprint on a beach, a trash next to the sidewalk.
Years ago I bought a Nikon Coolscan V to scan in all of my parents' old 110 slides. I would have loved a solution like this at the time, although that worked well (and way better than I thought) and the price ended up reasonable. I wish scanners like that were still made.

Here's an old httrack image of the page I had documenting the process: https://nuxx.net/wiki_archive/A/110_Slide_/_35mm_Negative_Sc...

Unfortunately it's not really repeatable as these scanners command quite a high price used and are fairly hard to come by.
> rad-hydro

These are incredibly expensive even on today’s hardware. If you look through some of the unclassified ASCI reports from the early 2000s, 3D calculations of this equation set were implied to be leadership-class computations. At the time of the Cray, it must’ve been coarse-grid 1D as the standard, with 2D as the dream.
Merry Christmas. I am very grateful for this community, I hope everyone has an amazing 2024.
The vast majority of those sales are for GTA online, which this leak doesn't inherently give you access to. I don't see this leak financially harming Rockstar more than the cost of the presumed ransom, people still have to pay to play GTA online.
There is this paradox of technology where despite a ton of technology it seems that productivity is not shooting up for society as a whole.

I'll try to find the article.

It looks more like technology is <<redistributing>> wealth, which is SUPER scary since technology inherently allows concentration.

Facebook killed 1 million newspapers, yay, now 1 American corporation can siphon all those profits to... no one even knows where, since it's probably parked in some tax haven. It created 10k jobs paid 500k each by killing 10 million jobs each paid 60k. I'm not super convinced the end result is better.

Edit:

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/produ...

> The productivity paradox (also the Solow computer paradox) is the peculiar observation made in business process analysis that, as more investment is made in information technology, worker productivity may go down instead of up. This observation has been firmly supported with empirical evidence from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
The only mechanical fault I've had with my model 3 in five years of ownership was the bushings in the front upper control arms (part of the suspension, for anyone unfamiliar with car suspension parts.) Tesla replaced the UCAs under warranty. This occurred at around 50k miles, which is a fairly early but not unheard of failure timeframe (normally, I'd expect UCAs to to last around 100k miles and for it to be a crap shoot as to whether the bushings or the ball joint fail.)
"Where hast tha bin since ah saw thee....?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8MWb1FlODQ
Alcohol? What? XD
It's much more likely that T-Mobile sends a fine to Bandwidth (who then just forwards it to the customer). T-Mobile can't just terminate business with Bandwidth along with all of their genuine customers, so a fine encourages them to implement measures themselves.
Have you read the Twilio Acceptable Use Policy[1]?

> Prohibited Activities. Do not use the Services to engage in or encourage any activity that is illegal, deceptive, harmful, a violation of others’ rights, or harmful to Twilio’s business operations or reputation

I mean sending messages about selling CBD products could easily fall under the “encouraging and activity that is illegal”. CBD at the federal level is mostly illegal, depending on exactly how the product was created. The U.S. cannabis industry sits a weird legal gray area. Why are you surprised that large communication firm that operate in every state don’t want to get involved in that business, and the legal mess it comes with.

Get upset with T-Mobile for passing on the costs of that legal risk is foolish. They’re just doing the smart thing. If you’re in the cannabis industry, and you’ve done your due dil, then your business should be prepared for these types of events, because it comes with the territory.

[1] https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/aup
asm goto is really useful in this context. It means you can pick the branch instructions and define the exact control flow graph you want. Intrinsics, normal C, inline asm defining basic blocks and asm goto defining the CFG lets you emit exactly the instructions you want, albeit with somewhat challenging syntax.

The pinning local variables to registers thing didn't work in llvm a couple of years ago (which seems consistent with the gcc docs) but does work at the boundaries of inline asm and that's generally enough. I like a pin-register intrinsic, something like `u64 pin(u64, enum reg)` where the compile time constant enum names the register and the semantics are a no-op other than constraining the register allocator, but that doesn't seem to be readily available in gcc/clang.

I don't have a good answer to constraining instruction scheduling.

On reflection it's all somewhat more horrible than it needs to be, perhaps inline compiler IR is a better idea.
Because people running sidekiq with their Ruby app on production don’t care about cross-language queue. If you pay for Pro or Enterprise you don’t want any major changes that are potentially breaking.
The underlying issue is with the driver not paying attention to the road.
> How was this recorded? User error.

This is clearly BS, since it was either coincidence or an electrical/systems problem. The shamelessness of making that claim that is incredible.

Some might question that this could be an electrical or systems problem, but the gas cap on my Kia, a relatively flimsy piece of plastic, will disable the car if not replaced properly. How does this manifest itself? With a check engine light on the dash.

This is the most stupendously idiotic misfeature in an otherwise well designed (and reliable) car.
I use zoo for zotero on my e-ink android tablet (Boox Tab X). It lacks quite a few zotero features but works well for my workflow—I manage my library on my desktop (downloading papers, adding tags, etc.), then sync to my Tab X where I can read and mark up the pdfs and sync them back to my desktop. It’s a great paper reading experience.
Data point of one but: I did!
Numerically, I’m currently what this would have looked like. I’m talking about the governing equation set, discretization methods, data, etc. It would be a fun project to try and implement a toy model like that.
A bunch of years ago, there was an article about Yellowstone tapping into the supervolcano, which would ease off of the pressure building up, while providing Wyoming with electricity that is "too cheap too meter".

If they succeeded, the demand would increase (by new uses people would find for cheap electricity, and by people who would move into Wyoming to take advantage of the price) which would affect production.

And the State would use it as a source of income, not start giving it for free or at a fixed price.
What card could you have bought that lost support months later? I can't think of any new card you could have bought that'd lose support that quickly as far back as 2016
Pokemon Red/Blue Map
No. That would mean the button needs to stay pressed indefinitely.
The interior is cheap. Even my 10 year old BMW 1 series interior feels better and is much sturdier.
> Do you have some evidence to back any of this up?

The paper that I linked?

> In that case, why not buy a smaller machine?

Because they needed to support an entire department or university worth of users, many of them at the same time.

> It sounds completely fantastical/fabricated to me.

Have you ever done serious work on a time-shared system? The kind where you type `w` and see a bunch of people who aren't you?

Nowadays everybody gets their own workstation and can use as much or as little of it as they see fit, but on a shared system trying to use the whole thing is a great way to get people mad at you, because you're taking away resources they need for their own work.

Not that you'd necessarily be allowed to use all that much in the first place, that's why things like `ulimit` exist.
What is the best? Managing personal data is so "personal", the slightest annoyance could make all the difference.

For me, the best is a feature-rich, well-maintained, and well-designed app.

Today I saw Zotero for Android on HN. I always recommend Zotero.

If OSS/local is not an issue, raindrop.io is my best (following my criteria).
Lina Khan's Rough Year Running the Federal Trade Commission
Happy xmas nerds :D
The best theory I’ve seen is that it was more of an attempt to generally juice the market:

https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beepl...
> If you don't care about your environmental impact

My point is the environmental effect is de minimis. Possibly positive. The old car is still being driven, just by someone else. Given it’s an EV, it’s likely—on the margin—pushing an ICE vehicle off the road.
I assume you're using Tesla. Do you live in one of their core markets? I doubt Tesla Maps or whatever it's called holds a candle to Google Maps for non-US, non-Western Europe regions.
> It's incredibly complicated for likely no real world reason

Can you explain or link to somewhere to read about this? Isn't psABI quite simple?
Here's a completely different perspective on Xojo:
https://timdietrich.me/blog/xojo-netsuite-development/

My advice to developers that are interested in Xojo, or looking for something different in terms of languages / development platforms, is to give Xojo a try. You can build and run apps in debug mode for as long as you'd like, all at no charge. It's only when you want to compile apps so that you can run them as executables and/or for distribution that you'll need to purchase a license.
So far in life, I've coped with annoyances better by guarding my inputs rather than attempting to control other peoples' outputs - My wording, but the concept will be as old as the hills.

Some I've seen, liked, and noted :

"Every action has its pleasures and its price" - Socrates

"Build a life you don't need to regularly escape from."

"Find the hard work you're willing to do."
I refuse.

I stand my ground on using quotes.

"Reset" "Internet".
It does work on other reflective actions, parent is just wrong; in the paper, they specifically run the experiment on a dataset of political affiliation over time
My partner and I share a Tesla. It's 'mained' under her account. About 25%-50% of the times I enter the driver's seat - it varies depending on the version it's on - it forgets my driver profile and I have to reconfigure the mirrors and seat. This bug was first reported in 2020 IIRC and never fixed. Never buying another Tesla. Their only advantage is the network of superchargers.
I paid for Neocites but had to cancel and move elsewhere (Cloudflare atm) because it wasn't always updating files. I forget the exact issue but I went to report it on their Github and found a one or two year old issue opened already with no dev response, so I moved on.
Do you have any examples of meaningful real-world usage? Boosters have tried hard to make this argument but haven’t found much adoption due to the greater cost and inconvenience.
Do you have any source to support this claim? Or from what do you conclude this?
For me the compile time increases are a killer, even if the api is considerably nicer.
In Argentina the portable toilets used by people lying in bed are called chata. Also pickup trucks.
struct S {
int A;
int B = A;
int C;
};

int i = 0;
S s = {.C = i++, .A = ++i};

What would you expect code like this to do?
Immutable OS FTW!
Has a lot to do with Goodheart's law as well.

But basically anything moderately complicated allows for this mathematical bullying. "It's complicated, the experts have said xyz, don't you try to deny it!"

Anything moderately complex is also going to be infused with judgements that vary in how well justified they are. VAM models like they are talking about in the paper are like this as well, and require discussion to understand. The risk is you make everyone think the evidence is a lot more certain than it is.
Oh yes, the users don’t want OR, but they want sliders where the useful range is in the two first pixels due to some insanely large value at the end.
Hmm, I should do some benchmarks I guess... Thanks for the datapoints :)
Yes that is the actual benefit of NFTs. It's happening.
A few years ago, I made that as a YouTube channel based on LibriVox audiobooks, maybe you'll enjoy it:

Simplified Mandarin: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVlVz7EDz7fprPeVpqQCvlkMI...

Traditional Mandarin: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVlVz7EDz7fpQZr29P5hqVveL...

... also 33 other languages https://youtube.com/@literature_for_eyes_and_ears/playlists

I left it to languish once I discovered the demand wasn't that great and I was spending more time making the videos than people ultimately spent watching them.
DarkForum Update
New update for DarkForum , nitro 10 CHF in Bitcoin green mode/blue mode for 30 days, 40 CHF in Bitcoin green mode/blue mode for year.
DEFCON 5 is the lowest level, “normal”.
I don’t have a browser on my computer. Can you help me install it?
Really? They net generate electricity ? Then it seems like a no-brainer, except for the NIMBY angle.
Technically the button breaks the internet then fixes it.
Lessons learned from seed phrase backup solutions
You forgot the very "unimportant" detail which was that electric cars in Norway were zero VAT and tax for electric cars until this year (normal VAT is 25%).

Well, gee, no wonder that people were buying them left and right when the tax discount was about 16-20k NOK per car on average!

And that is just buying the car - Norway subsidizes electric mobility in many other ways so even today registering a new electric is cheaper than a gasoline car, despite the gas powered vehicles normally costing about 50% less.

So, please, when waving this sort of argument about, don't "forget" to put it in context.

Norway is a special case because of government policies, not because Tesla did anything particularly great there. They were just the only ones on the market at the time so people essentially had to buy a Tesla if they wanted to benefit from the generous subsidies because there simply wasn't anything else available. Today the situation is different, though.
Guessing an eight year old Volvo still has a working speedometer during a restart, though.
Do they move fast, though? The Model S is ancient history now, and the Model X is aging too. Both models are in need of a successor.
It's mandatory in Oregon and New Jersey. Which are not exactly Wyoming, in terms of population, but they are just two states.

Outside of that, there's a full-service station down the street from me, but it's about 30 cents per gallon more to get full service (though it is full service and they will check your oil, tire pressure, coolant, windshield washer fluid, etc., and refill the washer fluid and air up tires). It's the only one I know of at all outside of those two states (though of course there must be others still out there).
A loose gas cap triggers an EVAP leak code + check engine light on pretty much every car made since the early 2000s. Now depending on said car, all traction control and ABS might be half-disabled as soon as the CE light turns on. Usually newer cars will disable more systems to bring you back to the dealer.

ex. my current car had an intermittent O2 sensor issue, which would turn the traction control in lazy mode and try to kill me in snow/ice conditions by reenabling itself at the worst possible moment when detecting slippery conditions. My previous car had traction controls completely independent from engine faults.
The manual clearly states that the breaking discs need to be cleaned every, what was it, 25k km. Thats a job for a mechanic. Also in the DIY section it says that the brakes should be burnished as well.
Godzilla defeated the Smog Monster. Surely he can whomp the bejeezus out of the Los Angeles Landfill Monster.
A better way to phrase this: why has it had no real impact on the market if those claims are true? Companies like PayPal and Western Union don’t seem worried, people never suggest it for in-country transactions, etc. suggest that the marketing isn’t true and the high transaction costs and lack of security matter more.
I would have thought maybe 1M LOC at most, but 10M?
I do the Seattle / Portland road trip quite often. My Tesla easily does it without needing a stop to charge the car.
> I'm not super convinced the end result is better.

He said from the warm comfort of his home, with a full belly, writing on a supercomputer created in SV, with software written in SV, on a platform build by SV on a global network created, of course, by the SV.

Would you give up technology then? Nobody stops you but I seriously doubt the productivity of hand-plowing fields is in any way higher than that of modern farm equipment.
Sure, just Google for Firefox and install that.
https://en.magazedia.wiki/

(OP posted it in a different comment.)
It wasn't too long ago you were supposed to do an oil change every 3000 miles which for the average American will happen in less than a quarter.
In Dominican Spanish, "chi chi" just means "baby" while it means something horrible elsewhere. And I would say a similar idea might be true here too considering where "chata" came from.
> This expectation of donorship is a recent fad

Actually, patronage was the default form of compensation for the arts during most of human history. You should question your world view.

> do you feel obliged to buy the products being advertised

Irrelevant to the conversation, let's dispense with straw man arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage
How is Tesla still considered a startup? It’s a 20 years old company with a 80billion valuation and more than 100k employees

Edit: I even missed a zero, it has a 800billion valuation
I'm a priest who was a software engineer for twenty years. This morning during the service in a small semi-rural church, the bluetooth speaker broke. I paused the service briefly, joked that I knew what to do, and turned it off and on. The IT Crowd got that part of the industry right!
Is there a framework that helps to reliably determine which side of the two extremes - too cheap to meter (internet access) or induced demand (roads) - the problem will fall into and how to nudge it in the desired direction? Is this even the right framing of the question? Seems like an important management and policy problem for the humanity to get a grip on, so we can prevent negative outcomes.
Don’t understand how that guy ended up paying for the failure as under UK Consumer Law that fault is presumed to be a manufacturing one on a car that new and Tesla should replace the card
With 162MPH top speed, a Tesla Model 3 is not a slow car by any means, alas it breaks things (which are generally mounted on itself).
> Because these are bonus features and not necessary for driving unlike tires that won't fall off.

> Seems like Tesla fails at the core feature of a car.

Thank god the existing manufacturers have this nailed down, like Toyota[0], Dodge [1], Ford[2], Mazda[3], or even high end manufacturers like Lamborghini[4].

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-recalls-new-ev-over-risk...

[1]: https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/dodge-ram-trucks-recalle...

[2]: https://www.thedrive.com/news/2022-ford-f-150-raptors-recall...

[3]: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/nation-world/2019/07/03/...

[4]: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/lamborghini-aventador-sv-...
Merry Christmas to all men of goodwill