skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The root cause of this and many problems is people not auditing computers by hand.

How many Fortune 100 companies do absurdly stupid things because nobody audited a spreadsheet that had errors in it?

You can use computers for day-to-day operations, but you must periodically audit every thing they do (for one day, for example) by hand.

As a teacher I double-check Canvas' grade book in Excel.

Not auditing computers eventually leads to disaster.
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Only other observation has been that the common failure mode is screen wrapping while the ghost is fleeing but without enough time to kill him. Don’t do this. Just wait until he is chasing you to screen wrap.
Hi, architect here. I'll completely sidestep specific arguments or a criticism of the critic, except one thing. The idea that there's some kind of competition of ideologies inside the entire discipline of architecture is dated.

It would be impossible to summarize the entire "architectural dialog" as one thing, but let's be general. Inside these discussions, a lot of us laugh a people like Patrik Schumacher for constantly trying to make some battle of the -isms happen. Rybczynski has had a long and prolific career, and can be forgiven for being of an older generation who were taught that there was some ideological battle for what was "right" or good or beautiful in "architecture."

But today your typical architect is going to have their own design "style" or method, but also a pluralistic view that it's the diversity of approaches that makes architecture richer. Most architects I know could expound on their love for say Olson Kundig, David Chipperfield, Freddie Mamani, and Kengo Kuma in a single sitting.

I couldn't tell you a single architect who doesn't actively want to make beautiful buildings that elevate the human spirit. Rybczynski only uses the word "developer" once in the entire piece (even then it's just to mention that Wagner was one). In reality, it's the economic logic of modern development that has driven the enshittification of architecture hated by everyone - architects most of all.
My home has muntins, and I have to say they are incredibly convenient. If a ball goes through a window or something, it's extremely easy to replace; and very cheap. Highly recommend.

As for glazing... I'm not 100% sure. I've heard there are ways to get glass panes that are better insulated. My other guess is that, had muntins continued to be popular, the market would have found something. There's nothing inherently inefficient about them.

For example, one option a local window company gave to me was to simple add some plastic covering on the inside of the window. It would not reduce the outward appearance at all, but would provide some insulation. As it is, our house is quite efficient and we don't actually have any insulation. The way they used to build houses (not open floor plan, multiple stories, etc) actually make them more pleasant to live in, in my opinion. Our only issue was that, when adding AC, the original forced air venting leads to a noticeable temperature differential due to the lack of an intake on the second floor, but we'll be fixing this soon. Plus, ceiling fans have basically eliminated the worst of the problem.
Well…

2024 Camry XLE with Nav and Cold Weather - $36,965

Tesla Model 3 - $38,990 - without any credits or subsidies.

But worth noting two things - first, there may be significant State tax credits for buying a Model 3, and the base Model 3 currently doesn’t qualify for the $7,500 Federal subsidy, only as of 12/31/23.

In other words, last week the base Model 3 was at least $7,500 cheaper than $38,990.
You have to read and parse the entire file to find the place names.
Merely finding the start/end of each line will use more computation (in the inner loop) than the approach I outlined. Let alone converting the number from ascii to a float, or looking up the place name in a has table (oh, and the name is variable length, so you're gonna need to find how long the name is first).
I just don't think this is a huge threat. If there's a viable open source community, detaching your proprietary kernel from it just causes your company to be stuck with an old version, not able to benefit from the larger development community.

There are already plenty of de facto proprietary forks of Linux. Practically every embedded SDK comes with one. Yes they have to publish the source because of the GPL, but they never bother doing that in a form that helps getting any of the work merged into upstream Linux. All those vendor-specific forks end up stuck at some random old kernel with dozens of known issues, effectively abandoned. This has effectively ruined the ARM landscape, and of the end-user visible SBC choices only RPi has a decent reputation for working well enough with upstream Linux devs.

Submitting your changes to upstream Linux is a competitive advantage. (With the trade-off that you can't hide your sooper sekrit hardware designs as well.)

Google/Android has put in a huge amount of effort to drag the hardware vendors out of this pit where they get stuck on old kernel versions...
Doesn’t sound like an EV is going to fit in the exact experience you want. That’s ok.

I don’t have an EV, but do drive long distances a lot. I regularly drive for six hours without stopping. I have been scoping out the feasibility of getting an EV and it seems that the Long Range style vehicles would just almost fit into my traveling without any disruption.

To each their own.
Performance Characteristics of Python's Tarfile
I still write a few checks every month and use a dedicated medium-nib TWISBI Classic with Noodler’s Heart of Darkness Bulletproof ink to write them.
- "a plagiarism charge that could have been leveled at anyone we know via the power of text mining"

I don't see the problem? If they've plagiarized stuff and published it, I think it's fair game to run algorithms on large public datasets and find every instance of this. Why would anyone oppose that?

(Wasn't there a thread on HN about a project similar to this?)
But then when scientist say "there is 99% chance that asteroid will hit", the other characters says "so there is some wiggle room, lets call it 60% and move on".

Some people need to understand science is never exact. Like you are saying, they should understand it isn't exact.

Then others are like, since it isn't exact, then it isn't real.

I've heard arguments that since Climate Models have some range of error, then it isn't real, "see, there is some uncertainty". Climate change isn't real, because the models have some error. So for these people you need to be more forcefully confident in the predictions since they can't handle the nuance in discussing error ranges.
I think it could undermine their credibility. They then begin to look like another bunch of party hacks, of which we have too many already (on whatever side).
I don't actually mind the center screen on mine - it is actually fine and there is no 'wheel overlaps gauge cluster' issue. I also like the 'air directly hits my face though the wheel factor' That said, I'm weirder than most about airflow.
The auto wipers suck, there is no dance around it.
My issue is that the silly choices seem to be rapidly worsening.

My 2018 model 3 has fantastic parking sensors. The new cars without them will conveniently tell you to stop when the wall is currently sitting on the hood of the car after you hit it. It is a dumb choice that doesn't work.
No turn stalk is just why most drivers don't use signals anymore...which sucks.
No drive stalk means confusion about drive direction and if the throttle is armed. I ALREADY have this issue in my model 3, it is incredibly easy to end up going the wrong directly rapidly. The lack of creep means that a model 3 in autohold is easy to confuse for a car in park. They really need to make the P icon bigger.

No online catalog sucks, though I think with volume, that will happen via a third party. A big issue is the fact they they did agile changes to cars in a single model year so it is hard to know which part you need in some cases.

Battery - eh. For a comparable ICE vehicle - my old Volvo XC40 - A motor replacement is not massively far off from a battery, easily close to $10K.
I hope that solid state batteries make huge jumps.

My tesla was $30/mo more to insure than the XC40 - that is material. I do save more than $30/mo on gas though, but the Xc40 was a 25mpg premium gas car so that is exceptional.
So... I have a really interesting anecdote on "Power over fiber"

In ~2004 I was the technology designer for the Lucas Arts Presidio Campus - I designed all the physical network, custom cable tray in the DC, the DC power infrastructure for the DC and did all the layout of the devices collapsing into the DC from ILM, Big Rock and other locations.

When we designed the network, it was the largest 10G network in the world, all based on FORCE10 equipment, as spec'd by ILM's Raleigh Mann (later netword head for Google)...

The original design was for fiber to the desktop, as they wanted all desktop machines to become a part of the render farm when not being used.

--

We were doing vendor selection from the RFP and holding interviews for each vendor to present their response to the RFP (The network was ~$50 million (this was 2004, so that was a really large number back then)

In the meeting with Cisco, Cisco performed a clown show, but the CTO for Lucas seriously (remember, Cisco 6500s was the core king at the time)

Lucas CTO: "Yeah, well we have CAT6 and Fiber to the desktop. When can you give me power over fiber so I can just run fiber to the desktop"

Blank stares from everyone.

(He sadly died of heart attack shortly after)

---

But here we are. We thought a fool, but I guess he was a visionary.
Hmm, not sure. The first thing I do in Firefox is disable smooth scroll.

And in a terminal I'm usually scrolling with pgup/pgdown or using search in a pager.

Scrolling line-by-line at a fixed speed like in the video is very rare.
No kidding. Can you imagine the meetings at Lexus HQ that must've followed those survey releases...
EVs that catch fire are impossible to extinguish. EVs that are involved in accidents are recommended to be stored 50 feet apart and monitored by thermal cameras due to the tremendous risk of battery fires. It is not economical to fix EVs at this time. Someone was just quoted $60k to fix a Hyundai Ioniq because of dents on the bottom panel. Insurance companies, parking garages, and ferries are beginning to wise up and want nothing to do with EVs.

Nevermind that half of the EVs out there don't have conventional mechanical door latches to let people out of the car should the power fail. EVs are far heavier than standard cars. I heard that they don't crumple as much either, to protect the battery from causing a bigger disaster. Rigid vehicles cause much more harsh deceleration in a crash, which is likely much worse for the people in the car. Look up the Youtube channels MGUY Australia or Geoff Buys Cars if you want some real dirt on EVs.

Passenger EVs are barely practical, risky, and not nearly as environmentally sustainable as the marketing says. EV trucks (consumer and commercial) are a sick joke.
For another fascinating technique, see STORM in which making subjects twinkle over time allows you to construct an image exceeding the highest zoom of a microscope.
I think the market for the current lineup of EVs is tapping out.

My wife and I own one that was very comparably equipped to a similar luxury crossover / SUV, and the type of driving we do in that car is perfectly within the capabilities of our range & charging habits. Never going to gas stations or getting the annual oil change is a nice convenient perk for us. But we fit right in this targeted demographic:

1) Can afford an expensive, new car
2) Own a home and can install an EV charger
3) Have a second ICE vehicle for long trips

However, I can't imagine many people wanting EVs who fit this criteria don't have one by now. If the manufacturers want to keep selling EVs, they'll need to figure out how to replace the 2015 Accords and Tahoes without access to charging at home.
Yes, but isn't it more like if there is perhaps a factor X you don't belong to the 1/8 risk group that the chances that with subsequent infections you get long covid-19 is smaller (or near zero)?
It's likely that this factor exists as lots of people got infected multiple times and not everybody has long covid-19.
Is it a matter of rolling those odds every time for everyone or is that only for 1 in 8 people or would they get long covid-19 100% after each infection. Would mRNA vaccines adequately protect this group from long COVID-19?
> > This is a tech and nerd forum. Let us be excited about new technology.

It's the same old re-inventing the wheel with Musk cult of personality marketing slapped on top of it.

New thing of the 2020s is the mRNA vaccine which solved a big problem, people took it and then endlessly bitched about it while mirin and salivating at the Tesla cybertruck or the 300k Tesla Roadster which will never enter into production.

It doesn't pay to build stuff and innovate nowadays, it's more about conning people into thinking that some stuff will be built sometime in the future™ and it will be revolutionary, and then move the goalposts perpetually into the future™
Next up: an AI that can watch a deceptive mobile game ad and actually create the game that they're falsely advertising!

Jokes aside, this is very cool. There's always the interesting tension of vendor lock-in vs. portability that defines the low-code space. Roblox's social ecosystem allowed it to make exclusivity to its platform a selling point to incentivize creators, but that might be harder for browser delivery - will people use you to prototype, then need to leave you once they want to move towards commercialization? To engender that ecosystem, finding a way to keep people on platform beyond a single game session will be an interesting challenge - but you have a tremendous ability to recommend related games to people and understand engagement with specific parts of a game.

On another note:

> Rosebud is in fact a reference to the cheat code in The Sims

There's something incredibly poetic about Citizen Kane being remembered more for its influence on a game than anything else - which, I think, would delight the character.
Many people's (including mine) first experience with Pascal was with Apple Pascal on the Apple II. This was a port of the UCSD Pascal system by Apple itself and was basically its own operating system with its own editor and even disk format. It compiled to "P-code" which meant in theory you could run your compiled software on the various big machines UCSD was developed for (not that I ever tried that). Yes, it was pricey if purchased legally, but as with almost all Apple ][ software, that wasn't how people generally obtained software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pascal
I want to try it but I'm not sure how to? The author gives a control sequence to enable it, but I don't see a download page or git repo.
As opposed to taking so long that you can go shopping and have a sit down restaurant meal?
Full context also makes the snippets easier to integrate into automated tests, which should be a requirement for examples in supported software.
It might be kind of exciting if it stopped people from traveling around so damn much. But of course everyone will still take 2-4 weeks every year to fly to one of the same generic vacation destinations and double or quadruple their lifetime energy footprint.
> most of things flying seem more dangerous

And yet somehow flying is safer than driving! As a sibling comment mentions, a lot of that has to do with all of the safety controls in place.

My point is that driving at modern speeds in modern vehicles is actually pretty dangerous, even if not as dangerous as aviation, and yet we as a society exercise very little oversight over the activity.

There are good reasons to not have "ADS-B for cars", mostly related to privacy. Unlike flying, many people heavily rely on cars to carry out their day-to-day activities. But I think it's at least worth thinking about.
America gave away it's manufacturing base to Japan in the 70s and Japan gave it to Korea and China, and China gave it to Vietnam.

There are more Chinese iPhones in American hands than in any other country. Some of them run a particularly nefarious Israeli Spyware that could get you killed if deployed on behalf of a particular kind of customer.
I meet all the requirements you listed, but I _also_ need to make a 310 mile trip (1 way) fairly regularly. In a Prius, I can do that on one tank. In an EV, you've added at least 30-60 minutes to each leg of the trip, unless you spring for higher end models.
Lamy pens are great. Safari is a really nice choice, it's hard to beat price/value -wise
Because washing it every day would drastically raise the lifetime cost of the building.

We spend millions in the year before a building opens, then millions every decade it exists on maintenance and repairs. Having a full time washer would raise that quite a bit.

Window washers make hazard pay and have higher insurance costs than janitors because of the physical danger, do they not?
What about a spectrum of long Covid? Maybe you can be fine but you are actually 80%, not enough to notice but enough to affect your full potential?
Sufficient for what? That is the question, and the answer is entirely open-ended, presumedly on purpose. It's nonsense on the level of grammar alone.
Thanks, and sure, quote away.
"Next gas {100+} miles" is a reminder for some cars to fill up their tank... and a significant obstacle for many EVs.

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=5335.0

(I once paid close to $10 USD / gallon (after converting from cpl) diving from Banff to Jasper at a station that had 4 pumps and on that day, a 10 minute wait to get to one of the pumps)
Can you imagine the complexity of hiding a bunker digitally? Starts with paper records. Then no phones on crew working the site, no gps devices probably, surveillance satellite records would need to be avoided… on and on.
We had smooth scrolling on the VT-100. I hated it. I found it far too slow, even on low baud rates.

The line was there, and you’re just waiting for it to materialize. This was a far different experience from watching the cursor crawl across the screen. There you didn’t know what was coming next. With the smooth scrolling, you did and were just, stuck, waiting on it.

Personal taste, to each their own, but I hated it.
Maintaining sum+count is more expensive than you'd imagine... Because to maintain the sum, you need to convert the numbers from ascii to decimal. And to do that you at least need to know the memory alignment of the number and the position of the decimal point.

All far more expensive than the state machine approach which is pretty much 'alignment doesn't matter, ascii doesn't matter, we're gonna just handle all possible states that could end up in a 32 bit register').
Securing the Web: Rustls on track to outperform OpenSSL
https://www.sciencealert.com/every-covid-infection-increases... (just saw this one today, links to studies in the article)
Yes, to anyone who was there the difference between computing in 1980 vs 1989 is night and day. Personal computing changed completely and you really either wanted assembly or BASIC (OK Fourth if you're kinky) in the early 80s with 4k of RAM... because that's what other people had. TurboPascal was released about '84, but I didn't see anyone using it until '86.

I feel like Pascal was a nice gateway into C from Fortran/BASIC, but it arrived so late I'm not sure it was really efficient in terms of learning.
It's not hilarious.

And I'm not offended. I just have zero idea what your issue is. I never gave it any second thought what gender the person is. I don't care and I wonder what you're reading into it.
How many satellites does it have up in space?
What's the difference? Either way <less money> is available for <useful things> because it was allocated towards <luxury purchases>
1. CS programs tend to focus on fundamentals that are building blocks for many things in the industry, even with a fast-pace of change (or more often high level of churn) so "keeping up" is probably better left to specialized programs or bootcamps to teach very specific technology rather than academic/foundational principles. However it'd probably serve CS tracks well to introduce something like a CompTIA A+ course as a 101 class since a lot of the tracks are predicated on students knowing the basics of a computer, which is increasingly less common as the post-PC era kids are becoming college aged.

2. It depends. There aren't really any shortcuts to becoming a well-versed or competent engineer. Being self-taught still requires putting in as many hours (or probably much, much more) than going through a traditional 4yr CS program and that probably is a much more difficult path in almost every case.

3. I don't know how much weight is put on this in general, but my experience is that not having a degree results in a lot of applications being discarded immediately. I personally don't care about someone's background as long as they know what they are doing or are capable learners.

4. I think this is kind of flipping in the opposite direction in the last handful of years. There was a sweet spot in the 2010s where self-teaching using online resources was very doable and it wasn't terribly hard to find high quality content- but with the rise of CV-boosting blogspam that just rewrites the "Getting Started" page of a popular framework (a large chunk of Medium) and AI-generated content being pumped to the top of web search results it is becoming very difficult to find high-quality, accurate content to base learning off of and I think returning to books or forms of learning provided by traditional ed will become more common as there is some curation and signals for quality.

5. My background is self-taught through being generally interested in computers and just learning anything I could through using Linux/FOSS tools/engaging with various communities adjacent to those interests. College wasn't accessible to me for cost reasons, so I got a job as a tech support rep after high school to get a foot in the door of a software company and climbed through QA to software engineer, to infrastructure, devops and whatever else in-between. I think college is still the best path for most people because self-learning either requires insane amounts of discipline or an unusually deep interest in computers and tech for its own sake (not just as a means to an end of a job). I also think the tech industry has matured a lot and the era of getting hired by being self-taught with some demonstrable skills is over just due to the sheer volume of job seekers in the industry and a degree being the minimum gate used when evaluating new hires.
… and somebody gets the bright idea to replace the sysadmins with “managed cloud” and S3 file storage, leaving the sticker price as a “digital transformation” cost until they can work out the cross-org billing using an app someone built in their spare time to read itemized bills and re-bill internal budget numbers for their fair share of resources?
WebAssembly: Predictions for 2024
Well then I'm wrong. It happens :)
Tesla can still use those CCS chargers tho, so you would only lose chargers by not getting one?
TOU-D-PRIME rate is a god-send compared DTO what PG&E gives its EV owners.

Here the EV time of use rate is 50-60 cents per kWh between 3pm and midnight and 34 cents the rest of the day.

Without spending another 10-20k on Solar, EV is a losing proposition at these rates.

In California of all places
Yeah, let's cut the arm out so the finger does not itch
You keep bringing that up, but Long Covid is exceptionally well documented at this point. We can't pretend it's entirely in peoples heads like you seem to be doing.
They often target countries that are not able to effectively police or defend their waters.
Good suggestion. It's on the plan to add more control over individual channels (things like positioning in 3D space, high-pass/low-pass, reverb etc) so a 'drift' mode would fit nicely in there