skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A (non-plug-in) hybrid has been good for me; quiet on electric power on city streets, and can do over 400 miles without refuelling. It claims to be in EV mode over half the time when commuting.
Fuel consumption is 65 mpg compared with 45 mpg in a similar petrol-only car I had 10 years ago.
Electric only would be nice, if I could afford one which could manage 300 miles minimum, accounting for cold weather, battery wear and manufacturers' lies/exaggerations.
Heck, I have a kid in my life who has a severe peanut allergy. Going out to eat is restrictive as we can't go to some restaurants, so cooking at home is way easier on many occasions.

We also like to sit an eat together "just because", so like you point out, a dining room can be used day-to-day, not just for parties (though it's also great for those).
I'm glad to learn that American suburbs are all 15 mn cities...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city
Have you looked at Next Chapter at all? I know several folks who have come through and have amazing careers at tech firms: https://www.nextchapterproject.org/
Totally depends on your workload and hardware. I have a normal consumer SSD in my desktop and it can easily sustain 7GB/s (56gbps) as long as I only use 700GB of the 2TB available. A normal server has enough PCIe lanes for 15 SSDs like mine so a normal server's IO bandwidth is comparable to its memory bandwidth. More expensive servers have faster lanes (PCIe 5.0) and more of those lanes.

Anyway the OP's file only has 1B rows so it'll be ~1GB compressed which fits in memory after the first discarded run. IO bandwidth shouldn't matter in this scenario:

> All submissions will be evaluated by running the program on a Hetzner Cloud CCX33 instance (8 dedicated vCPU, 32 GB RAM). The time program is used for measuring execution times, i.e. end-to-end times are measured. Each contender will be run five times in a row. The slowest and the fastest runs are discarded

Edit: The github repo says it's 12 GB uncompressed. That confirms that IO bandwidth doesn't matter
I’ve done this myself, too. We were building a WhatsApp-based support ticket system, that was the product; for large customers, we’d build chat bots (glorified decision trees) on hourly billing; and internally, we’d have an integrated CRM system and messaging API that other systems would rely on. Over the course of two years, I worked on all three.
what what about the "Copyright" of walt disney who died in 1966. think of the poor descendants
That was not my point at all, the point was that, unlike what was implied in what I commented on, usage of A/C and appliances don't matter for ICE cars, which is not at all true. Energy use is just as for EV cars and has to be taken into consideration. In any case, pricing is different in various places - I own an ICE car, and I have always bought low cost, used cars. That place doesn't currently exist in the EV market.
Wow, i didn't think someone would be crazy enough to take on the ft_penguin project (is it still its name?). Really good job to be honest, when i was still at school (7 years ago now) i thought this was probably one of the project with the worse reward compared to the time needed.

Did you start the project with a friend at first (before the rust rewrite)? Did you work on other projects at the same time?

Looking up at your code, remembering how fun it was, i now kinda want to stop working in devops and start doing embedded or any low-level work like i intended to at first.
Very interesting. Does this work only for long expensive stays (like shown in the screenshots, $3k for a week) or also short travels? If I have to travel for 2 nights in Paris in a few months from now for example, would this service save me money?
Sounds awesome! Thanks for illuminating me. How are these different work streams prioritized?

At first glance seems like the last category would suffer unless someone was "on the bench".
Why is a weed dealer a gray area but cocaine not a gray area both are things people are consuming voluntarily into their own body why is one prohibited from consuming cocaine of their own volition but not marijuana

I'm of the position it all drugs even medical drugs should be free to consume by anybody I should be able to walk in to CVS and get heart medication if I want or cocaine if I want if CVS is willing to sell it to me it's not for the government to decide nor government licensed agents AKA doctors to decide what I consume into my own body

My body my choice
>in the US

Oh, so we're ignoring the massive increase in China.
i can't decode it either but i think you're right. note that this probably gives the bits in big-endian order rather than little-endian order like my original, but for my purposes in that notebook either one would be fine as long as i'm consistent encoding and decoding
At the risk of being shouted down, this is another one of those products that looks great on impulse buy, but when you try to use that tiny keyboard and screen to do any real work with it, the chore of use becomes apparent. I developed my own version using a Featherwing Keyboard awhile back. As much as our brains want to compare it to the old Blackberry we once had, trying to write a quick sketch is so much different than sending the occasional sms with that keyboard. It was a clunky, cramped experience to say the least.
There was a comment on HN a while back to the effect that the well-known stories of COBOL devs being dragged out of retirement to earn massive consulting payments was a myth. They were actually being paid good, but not extremely good, rates for their knowledge of the business logic embedded in old code-bases. The implementation language was largely irrelevant.
> Someone (probably a sysadmin) showed me vi. I thought the whole concepts of modes was stupid. I found someone who used Emacs. I asked them: What happens when I open a file in Emacs and hit the “A” key? They told me it would just insert the letter “A” in the file. I decided I wanted to learn Emacs instead of vi.

This is how I started. You could go with nano/pico, but then you're stuck there... if you start with emacs, you can use it just like you would use nano, but when you need something more, it's always there, just one google search and one key combination needed (and hopfeully you remember that, so you don't need to google it again).
Half true, but getting stuff upstream it's not the same thing as your boss saying "the higher ups said so". Linux development still is a public forum.

Of course Redhat can put what they want into their distro, but there are a lot of choices beyond that.
There's some decent but counterintuitive advice in here, OP: have you tried applying to a job with a clearance requirement? That way your past gets (should get) evaluated within a defined decision making framework, instead of by a spooked recruiter using their lizard brain.
My understanding is that JS running on Node is insanely fast compared to most other interpreted languages. This is because of how much work has been put into the V8 engine, especially the JIT compiler.

Based on this, it’s fair to put Node into a league above languages like Python and Ruby when considering performance.

This might have played a role in their decision to include Node.
If this is real (which for some reason I still doubt) this is going to go the way of other keys that make no sense in 2023\b4
I hope you're not implying that the Chinese government is responsible for its declining fertility rates, because South Korea, Japan, and pretty much all developed countries in East Asia are having the same problem.
The article cleverly groups the budget in three categories:

- A first one that develops a product that creates a value for the company in the present(sales/marketing).

- A second one that develops a product that will possibly create value for the company in the future(research/development).

- And the last one that develops a product that created value for the company in the past and now has only to be maintained(maintenance).

Honestly I think that this division is a bit tautological. Everybody in the industry knows that maintenance project are bad and only are worth it if you're making a good money working in them. Now in practice the hypothetical division between sales/marketing and research/development that the author proposes is pretty blurry and in my opinion doesn't do a great service in categorizing the activity of a developer.
I live in super rural South New Jersey. Even here where I don't see many tesla there are plenty of super chargers.
The problem is that there aren’t enough digits of precision to represent the answer. The exact answer would be 999999.0000001, but let’s say you only have space to store six significant digits. The exact answer is way more precise, so you need to round it to the nearest representable value, 999999.

Floating-point rounding issues are the same thing but with binary digits instead of decimal ones.
We're talking about how those things are impossible to do without a gas car. Half the thread is stumped about how one might go about such things without one.
Remember Janssen, the Belgian Johnson & Johnson subsidiary which developed the single-shot covid vaccine? I always vaguely assumed that it was a subsidiary that they _started_, explaining the name, but it was actually a completely separate company called Janssen that they bought in the 60s. Nominative determinism, but for companies!
You can’t use two instances. They both would have individual selfs.

I think an experiment would be to feed back whatever a LLM says to that same LLM, and see whether they’ll, at some time, say “why are you doing that to me?”
I can totally attest to that. I once worked for a company where the CTO that was 3-4 levels above hired me directly and I reported to him. It felt very empowering and motivating because I was working on what he considered a critical area for the day-to-day of the company. Once he was gone, I suddenly was a huge problem to all the middle managers that disagreed with the CTO.

If you happen to be in that situation, better to watch Game of Thrones (which I did only for entertainment not for work-related reasons). Ignore politics (like I did) at your own peril.
The MDN documentation of strict mode covers approximately the same scope as this article, and quite a bit more, in a way that I find much easier to follow (it’s reference, whereas this article is narrative):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Ants fight deadly wars woth ants of other colonies, even of the same species. So very similar to humans.
> I don't know the backstory on that

After skimming through the threads, it looks like:

1. Bronson's business started out strong right before the pandemic and showed a lot of promise.

2. The pandemic nearly bankrupted it.

3. His business partially recovered after the pandemic, but he was unable to secure high enough wages during a period of high inflation and wage growth and so his employees kept leaving to find higher paid work elsewhere, which he sourly blamed on "The Great Resignation" and shut the whole thing down.

It was a bit of a sad story and arguably a loss of a great resource, but the positive flip side is that it suggests the economy was good enough for his workers to find better work independently rather than relying on a for-profit middleman who I would assume takes some kind of commission/fee out of the deal.
Microsoft Changed Its Keyboard Layout After 30 year!!!
Yeah those points make sense and I hadn't thought of them.
Won't someone think of the (geriatric) children?
If you ditch Linux, you now have to write a kernel, not an application.
They also seem to pass the mirror test:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9881685/#:~:tex....
This must be Decodale's engineering problem disguised as a challenge.
This HN headline is misleading.

The article makes it clear that sales of EVs in the US are still increasing but the rate of increase has slowed.

It says “…sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric — but the pace of adoption has markedly slowed”.

@dang - This headline should be changed to the article headline “What happened to EVs?”
The headline is not true. EV sales are still increasinf YoY. The rate of increase has slowed, but it went from +75% YoY to +42% YoY. So it's still increasing quite rapidly.
Man, Postgres is so cool and powerful.
Way better interpretation that i missed!
Anna's Archive has a blog where they describe their infra. They have multiple DNS names, each of which might map to a subset of backend servers from different providers.

So in theory if Cloudflare cooperates, at least one of the provider is burned, but not all.

Another problem is that with torrents you have to do the initial seed from some public IP. Looking at who seeds Anna's torrents, you can very readily see the first seed currently flows through an IP in Ukraine. That's another way adversaries might identify your providers.

They seem to have prepared for this situation when they built the infra with multi DNS and multi provider in mind. But the cat and mouse game is harder when the providers (like Cloudflare) immediately cooperate. And harder still when you're seeding your own torrents vs just hosting a page through a CDN.
> With how many people in the car?

Is that really relevant? If someone is prepared to drive 600+km one-way, it sounds like they are going whether or not anyone wants to go with them.

> The world is big no matter where you are, but that just sounds like bragging how wasteful you can be.

Someone prepared to drive long distances for a specific $SOMETHING isn't bragging.

You might argue that they must modify their entertainment preferences to suit your morals, but your morals are irrelevant.
I wonder how many people buy such products once it's displayed on the frontpage of HN.
Why not combine them? Both give different insights that could complement each other, no?
Yeah whatever. It’s where we burn several millions of barrels of gasoline per year, stuff that should be kept in the ground instead.

Frankly the amount of Nirvana fallacies in this thread is indicative of the coping stress the petrol-heads are suffering.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/gasoline_consumpti...
Paul Graham agrees with you
https://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
Check "Life on our planet" on Netflix. It's about dinosaurs but also has plenty of bits around evolution. In one episode they talk about ants vs termites and also focus on that particular bit (limbs getting damaged or ripped off)

https://www.netflix.com/title/80213846?preventIntent=true

Also, visually very impressive documentary
One possibility is further collapse of the price of other renewables.

If solar were nearly free (< $0.01/kWh, say) it could make sense to bank that energy as underground heat. The thermal time constant for hot rocks scales as the square of the linear dimensions of the rocks, and can easily reach many years even for relatively shallow systems (this is why geothermal works at all). Such a system would not need to drill as deeply as a natural geothermal system operating at the same temperature, and might be able to get much hotter than anything not drilling near a volcano.
The Seneca Effect: Growth is slow but collapse is rapid (2017) [pdf]
Related wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect
I think this is a US only problem. People in the US probably take longer road trips than the rest of the world. When I take a Roadtrip, I need a 20 minute break every two hours anyway, and as far as I have seen that is enough for a charge for the next two hours. It's not perfect but I don't think it's as bad as the people in this thread are making it out be. I'm in Europe btw.
I only came across it because I subscribed to a weird idealistic music service back in the day, but I really liked Janine Johnson's harpsichord albums. It turns out she is a harpsichord builder first and foremost, which I suppose where why her albums were on Magnatune in the first place.

I've found that I really like it when instrument builders record music on their own instruments. They know their instruments intimately, and that makes up for maybe in theory being 1% less technically brilliant than the star performers.
plus the trailer that has been advertised by the owner :)
> and have less utility

My SO managed to run out of gas twice since she hated filling up on the way home, and forgot to check on the way out.

To her, the utility of being able to charge our BEV at home is immense.
> Not everybody has the same usage patterns as you do.

Sure, but keep in mind that bikers riding on the rolling hills of the French countryside are a significantly smaller demography than the millions driving across the highway infrastructure.
Let's say you're into fly fishing, so instead of a dining room you have a room for making lures, which you do every day. You can still have those parties and utilize that room; in fact, that room will look a lot more interesting, have more to talk about, probably be cozier because it actually gets used so its layout will have been refined through real-world testing. And you can still fold out a dining room table if you really need to.
Perhaps in a way similar to this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09055
I said "technically yes" :)
Using Busy Beavers to prove conjectures
NL? Sul serio? A completely flat tiny country?

The much longer stops translate into needing to sleep at a hotel rather than being at your destination. You clearly haven't accounted for that either.
This has been how I've usually define it too.

I like the addition of the R+D section because I think a good Maintenance oriented team should be doing R+D related to bringing their maintenance costs down the same way a good sales team would be doing R+D to bring their sales profits up.
They are putting the same text that is unrelated to the tweet under each tweet. This seems more like brigading or vandalism than a proper way of using the community notes feature.
100% agree but you have to remember that the mandatory minimums are a reaction to other types of judges that go very soft on violent offenders that end up reoffending and causing more violence and more victims and there are clear evidence that this person was going to reoffend again oftentimes having already offended multiple times and committed multiple crimes against multiple victims and are given fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth 10th chances.... so the reaction to by the politicians is to create laws to hamstring the judges

In reality just like with policing we need better judges we need better officers we need better judges in the system the problem is how to get that nobody has solved that problem and it's easier to just write rules to make things worse for everybody instead of trying to fix the system with better people
Tangentially: Purchasing on-demand PII from non-EU companies to produce some individuals score and deleting the sensitive records right after, appears to be a valid/emerging loophole to circumvent GDPR.

In my effort to find a new flat, I encoutered an unknown bavarian (germany) based rating company that boasted with a partnership in switzerland, which is a non-EU country. I cant remember the companies name.

Credit scores are somewhat different than trust scores because you usally agree to your data being given away to rating companies when you sign eg. a contract for a bank accout. Trust worthines additionally encapsulates stuff like criminal recods, complaints and maybe even mental health.
Sadly, agreed. I love the idea of being self-sufficient and permaculture, but even myself as someone who grows vegetables on an allotment and batch-cooks nearly all my meals at home, I can't ignore the idea that, just as with agriculture, it's way more efficient to prepare food at scale than it is at the individual level -- unless we all shifted to just eating the food as raw as possible.

If we look at the full chains of:

- Equipment distribution (production and delivery of large domestic kitchen appliances)

- Energy distribution (residential delivery of electricity/gas needed to power kitchen appliances, and water)

- Space required in each home for a reasonably kitted out kitchen (more space to heat in winter, more materials used in building)

- Ingredients and materials distribution (including the production and packaging of intermediate food products made from raw products, since everyone's cooking with canned things, packaged things, cured meats, pastes, pasteurized things, grains, ...)

The restaurants, fast-food chains and ready-meal prep companies are able to operate on economies of scale that are vastly more efficient than the individualistic, nuclear-family domestic "you must cook home-made meals for your family, friends and guests" culture.

We've made eating out seem either:

- Decadent (cost)

- Unhealthy (take-out and fast-food)

But neither of those things need to be true.

The problem with scale is the storage aspect - preservatives we use to reduce spoilage etc., which arguably affect the healthiness of the food. "Just-in-time" distribution works well until it doesn't (see: COVID).

But I'd argue that the individual household probably spoils more ingredients than industrial production does - that just isn't evident; everyone has their little compost heaps or things go to landfill. Old ingredients go mouldy at the backs of cupboards, just as things run out their shelf life in supermarkets.

Maybe the raw-food vegans and paleo bros are on to something...
Seems fun! Maybe add a way to let me know if a previous image I generated had a higher score than the one I tweaked and submitted.
I doubt there is any sustainable alterntive to a privately owned two-ton vehicle that is also a privately owned two-ton vehicle. They're all just incredibly inefficient, and pollute in their own way.

> Hybrids can be smaller, cheaper, lighter and gentler on the grid. Each of these matter.

EVs do not affect the grid as much as you would think, and might even benefit the grid once vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home technology (+corresponding economic incentives) becomes more common. Think about it: right now we have enormous amounts of battery storage, sitting idle most of the time, that has already been paid for.

Most people do not charge their EV from empty to full every day, most people aren't using DC fast charging and not during peak hours. Most days the average EV owner probably drives 30 km and charges that amount at home, overnight.

There are probably millions of electric ovens/stovetops in any given country. If they were all turned on at the same time, it would definitely overload the electrical grid. But this doesn't happen, because of their sheer number. We can safely assume each oven will use a fraction of its rated power on average, possibly with a small peak when the average person gets off work.
Interesting piece of speculative thinking here, especially on the role AI will have on separating the human from the service, becoming the mediating layer in between.