skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Evidence for this? Any at all? Because I can’t imagine someone getting caught in the act of frowning in disgust which then immediately causes a shop owner to toss out that and similar-looking produce in the hopes that no one else will be disgusted. And how you would cook up such a causal connection is beyond me.

Yeah that'd be pretty crazy, probably why that's not what happens. It's far likelier that the produce is filtered on the farm before it even gets to a supplier.

https://econreview.berkeley.edu/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugl...

> What actually happens—and which just trivially follows from good old “economics”—is that perfectly good food is thrown out because you make more money by eliminating supply that can’t be sold. (Maybe also food regulations, I don’t know.)

I think that's more why they lock the dumpsters behind grocery stores and/or dump bleach on the food, but that's also disgusting, so, lateral move I think.
How many are they tearing down to rebuild? Buildings only last ~20-30 years in Japan, so a lot of those are just replacing something that was torn down.
> it was expected that we knew where the runway was and would call the tower for takeoff in due course
> But pilots botched up from time to time, blundering into blind-alley taxiways or heading across an active runway. So taxi instructions gradually got more complex and wordy

Amusingly there's now Foreflight so you really shouldn't need directions now unless there's some unpublished barrier to getting there via the shortest route. I imagine this adaptation to previous issues is now a contributing factor to present issues.
I do not have a straight answer, but one thing that I saw working is the concept of “Good fences” where folks still act as a team but has clear touch points related with problems and when things goes south everyone knows what to do.
Lots of Parquet files in the same directory are typically referred to as a "Parquet table".

Yes, Parquet can be compressed with zip, but snappy is much more common because it's splittable.

Parquet tables can be registered in a Hive metastore. Delta metadata can be added to a Parquet table to make it a Delta table.
You appear to be the first person to mention Naughty Old Mr Car...
>"And now, in Anno Domini 2024, Google has lost its edge in search. There are plenty of things it can’t find. There are compelling alternatives."

I wished the author had elaborated on both of these points. Can people say what are the things that Google can't find? What do people consider the compelling alternatives in 2024?
look in a mirror
I read it more as "losing knowledge of why things are the way they are today" i.e. the earlier technical context & nuance that caused things to evolve in the way they have.

Nice example from a link in this thread is a Dr. Mill's talk at udel: https://youtu.be/08jBmCvxkv4?feature=shared It's packed with interesting context and history stretching back to 1968
Typically, the fuel source, be it a gas tank or battery, would be sized appropriately based on the car/truck it’s in to get fairly consistent range with typical vehicles in the same class.

If the Cybertruck is big and boxy, I would expect the battery to be large enough to compensate for that, so range is compatible to other vehicles (300+ miles per charge).
Well a century is hardly a long time unless someone think that 1987 was deadline or some such. And even during failing only few bemoan, large number of people adjust to new/worse reality.
For EV cars(1), air drag is the highest range killer. There's a huge difference in range depending if you go 65, 70 or 80. And if you follow cars or push the air by yourself.

Stop and go doesn't really impact range that much, and the low overall speed is a better regime. Although these cars accelerate like crazy so it's hard to resist the pedal when doing stop-and-go.

(1) in fact for all cars, but ICE cars are so inefficient in other regimes that air drag is not a prominent problem until much higher speeds.
The data does not support the conclusion. Cops bring cases based on what’s chargeable. The conviction rate staying the same may be an indictment of the DA, since the composition of cases brought has changed.

For example, if you used “overdoses reversed by narcan”, you’d think SFPD only started working in the mid-2010s and has been on a tear in the last two years. Meanwhile, their booking rates for public intoxication are on the historic floor.
The Four "Ions", or How to Provision CIAM Users
Ah, finally catching up with the us in UK who have enough of these on the road to track most motor journeys start to finish.

Naturally, crime has all but disappeared here. /s
Two common mistakes regarding oil and gas:

1. it's not goopy, bubbling tar in giant cavernous pools
2. it's not dinosaurs, at least in the sense being discussed here
The biggest loss at highway speeds is actually wind. I think wind resistance goes up with the cube of speed.

As a result, electric cars are more efficient in typical city driving. You can see it in the MPG stickers , which are higher in city than highway for EVs

For gas cars, their most efficient speed is typically a steady 35-40 mph. For an electric, it’s 15-20. If there were no wind resistance both these numbers would be substantially higher.
This is not accurate. The policies of the office of the district attorney haven't changed. The SFPD on the other hand has reached all-time-low productivity.
Oh sweet summer child. New York City has tons of ALPRs and cameras of all kinds, but it also has an epidemic of unsolved hit and runs, unlicensed drivers and a police force where a large proportion of cops will deface and mangle the license plates of personal and municipal vehicles to evade law enforcement.

Stop believing a magic tool can fix policing.
The real joke is choosing a 3-ton pickup truck for a road trip.
I wouldn't go that far. Fossil fuels helped for sure, but we still had wood as a renewable resource that would have served until we discovered nuclear power.
No, the best MPG is at 30-40 mph with ICE vehicles due to auxiliary loads and losses at lower speeds and wind at higher.

I would guess BEVs have their breaking point at even lower due to lower idle power losses.
Yeah, I've wondered if Amazon is using Twitch's AWS fees as paper losses to lower taxes. I.e., Twitch is actually making profits but Amazon wants the AWS fees on its books so that Twitch isn't recording profits (and therefore taxes) and Amazon profits off the AWS fees.
If you're making a home made arcade stick, check out the GP2040-CE project - https://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-CE

It's got low latency and good compatibility for a bunch of platforms. Even some compatibility for PS4.
> The vehicle in question is an all-wheel drive unit that had 72 miles on the odometer when it was delivered.

I've bought eight brand new cars in my lifetime (some co-bought with a partner). I don't think any of them had more than 20 miles on them. Some were as low as single digits. I would be mad if I were paying a premium for a brand new car and it arrived with 72 miles on it.

At least with an electric car I'm not worried about how the engine/drivetrain might have been abused, but there is still wear and tear on the surfaces (interior and exterior).
I’m not even sure it is describing a dystopia. I’ve often wondered how many people would go vegan if we were required to directly participate in the slaughter of animals rather than shrink-wrapping a product called “meat” for mass consumption. It’s far too easy in this day and age to launder morality, to make the uncomfortable effectively invisible so as to not live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance.
It supports conventional Playstation/Xbox style game controllers, but it doesn't currently have any equivalent to the Quests motion controllers for spatial applications which need more motion fidelity or inputs than are practical with just hand and eye tracking. It'll be a struggle to port a lot of existing VR games over to it.
Controllers that cheap generally are made of terrible creeky plastic, mushy buttons and generally poor assembly.

You can get decent retro styled USB controllers, but they will be a bit more expensive than this one.
I have a four stroke trimmer that I can change out to a pole saw. I can run it at any angle I've had to so far. It sees some weird angles with the pole saw.
10k miles... When you love round numbers but somehow still can't stomach the metric system.
Afaik most car manufacturers determine their advertised mileage based on highway drives at an average speed, because stop and go driving consumes more fuel. I would think this would literally be the ideal case for their car, even if it is boxy.
That is because the "range" and the "energy use for this route" are two different things. Really you -always- want the latter but people seem to think that it can be simplified to the former, it just can't.

Spherical cows in a vacuum and all of that.

Telsa puts a bunch of work into estimating energy use for a given route using elevation data etc, it's why they have their own route planner (that you can also tweak the behavior of).

From memory the only thing that goes into the "range" calc is current temperature, it otherwise just has to assume averages for everything else without knowing the route a priori.
Why does being grown from cuttings and grafts make them a poor choice to look at? Wouldn't there be local varieties with different flavors that people would want to consume. You can cut and graft those just the same? It seems they optimized for the varieties that are easier to ship and preserve.
There are plenty of “child raisers” who provide more care than a daycare and less than a parent.

And since we’re being technically correct, raising a child is always optional (even for the parent).
Brave Browser: Sunsetting Strict Fingerprinting Mode
Of course, any excuse to surveil us more.

How much of SF’s crime is committed by car owners?
we pay 2k/month here in chicago, so that number kind of makes sense to me.
Looking at the described protocol it seems the SNES controller uses a simple 16-bit parallel-in-serial-out shift register - and a quick Google confirmed that.

This means the timing is almost certainly quite loose, and there's a pretty decent chance you might even be able to poll it as the 1kHz "needed" for "serious" gaming. And it'd be pretty trivial to offload the readout to the MCU's SPI peripheral.
I use smtp2go for that, it's dead easy.
That's hefty. I've been to Dachau, too. I still have tears in my eyes by time of writing.

My hope: this times will never ever come back.

As a member of a democratic society of Germany, I see it as my duty to go to elections and do what ever can be done legally to minimize the possibilities of right wing coming into power.

I have to accept that others may have different views on this topic. That includes others voting for right wing parties.

But, no one will ever stop me from speaking up! From openly exercising criticism. From going to demonstrations.

I'm against all war. I'm against killing people because they are different or have something I don't like. I'm again patriotism. All sorts of patriotism should be punished in my eyes - because it's the beginning of every worse! Nazis are uber-patriots. Party "alternative for Germany" is full of patriotic thinking.
Each other parties, that support patriotism are right wing.

On the left side, it's not the patriotism which is a problem, but rather the thinking that communism and forced "sharing of wealth" are THE ONLY way to go. It's very extreme, too.

So, I will fight the extremes without weapons, but with my spoken words as my deadliest weapon.

No More!
Like any other salary, it’s the cost of doing business.
Common misconception, fossil fuels didn't come from dinosaurs. Oil is mostly from aquatic phytoplankton and zooplankton, and coals are from plants.
A friend of mine attempted to iron a shirt they were wearing... Other than that they really are pretty damn intelligent.
You would be unproductive too if 100% of your arrests led to the immediate reslease of the suspect.
Right, it is always that vast right wing conspiracy.
I Have a Stockpile of Servers and GPUs
I have a stockpile of 22 8 GPUs servers with AMD Mi50s(see notes about Mi50s below). I've been able to get PyTorch working on these GPUs and have been able to do inference for different large language models. I originally wanted to use these GPUs to serve up LLMs, but VLLM cuda kernels don't work out of the box with the Mi50s, and Llama CPP has a bug where it only supports up to 4 AMD GPUs at once.

So TLDR, I don't want these servers sitting around and if anybody has any creative useful ideas for the servers, I'm happy to grant them SSH access to piddle around.

Mi50 Specs:
- 16GB VRAM
- 1TB/s VRAM BW
- 25 TFLOPs
there are exceptions to every rule. Alaska and aviation is literally the wild west. The dynamics are they essentially have to make it work.
Related:

Official Gameplay Reveal: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yp7_ImMV1Iw

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056276
> Lots of Parquet files in the same directory are typically referred to as a "Parquet table".

This is my point though? This is an apples to oranges comparison. A directory of Parquet files is not a table format. Comparing Delta to Hive or Iceberg is a more apt comparison. I have worked with all types of companies and I have yet to work with one that is just using a directory of Parquet files and calling it a day without using something like Hive with it.
There's no need to start your message off being patronizing. It doesn't make you look as clever as you think it does.

The post you're responding to definitely didn't describe anything as a magic tool. It's just a regular tool that helps to catch some crime without additional manpower. That's a good thing, and exactly the type of thing we should invest in.
The first Cybertruck deliveries were apparently on 11/30, 46 days before the odometers hit 10,000 on 1/15 (per the article). Assuming a day 1 delivery, that's over 217 miles every single day.
Nobody says it’s an exploit
YouTube and Google Drive large file uploads sorted? Also google meet no longer randomly fail to load?

If so I will be very excited since I want off of Chrome but for work it was broken last time I check and that was like early December.
Fennec (Mozilla Firefox for Mobile) was already a thing before iPhone was released.

The distortion here is that capacitive touch took on with iPhone release. Which lead to a surge of websites supporting such (albeit usually optimized for iPhone/iOS + Safari).
If you do the math for power to maintain a given speed, you'll see an exponential curve. Air drag starts to dominate the energy budget very quickly. Anything you can do to minimize drag (don't carry aftermarket accessories, follow cars) will help tremendously.
> That test was done at a relatively constant speed of 70 miles per hour while the outside temperature was about 45 degrees.

It's winter so the battery is not going to be at peak performance. 20% less range is pretty much what you should expect with temperatures like this. It's actually pretty good.
The weight of the battery won’t affect the energy needed to keep a car at a steady highway speed. The energy needed is just whatever losses come from friction, air resistance, etc
What do you do in the first 100 miles in your new car, or fear others would be doing, that makes it worth the premium?
Don't think the Bell Labs people were pulling Google tier TC.
The reviews of the Cybertruck on release said that it feels like driving a car, not like a truck. I think that is meant with it.

Why don’t you like BMW 3?
Once you hit 65mph and above your gas mileage and electric wh/mi drop like a rock due to air resistance scaling non-linearly.
What do you bet they look like crabs?
I've never noticed interesting apple cultivars in places like Whole Foods. I've noticed apples that had different names, but looked and tasted like Gala apples :).
I tried to learn Shavian and struggled with it because of its phonetic nature. Every time I wanted to spell something, I had to think about how I pronounce the word.
Well, the OP seems to know a few lofty theorists and cites Hegel, yet resorts to the inflammatory meaningless epithet, so their post is all over the place. No level of depth is easily gleaned from the post; it is one of contrasts. Whatta dialectic.
> "The city is rampant with crime, and police needs to crack down on it."

> "Police budgets are bloated, and we need to cut them."

The synthesis of this is that essentially these police are the "government employees" that conservatives keep telling horror stories about: they're unaccountable, overpaid, lazy, and incompetent, but protected by their union. They have their own ideas about which crimes to investigate or not bother with. Because they're not very good at clearup, they prefer situations where the crime comes to them.

The solution is to police the police. Sack those found to be committing abuse of citizens or overtime fraud. Investigate differential clearup rates for crime. Divert some of the money into social services in problem areas. Copy the highly successful Scottish Violence Reduction Unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Reduction_Unit (itself inspired by work in Boston).
The City of Ottawa (Canada) has gone in big on traffic cams and its paying huge dividends. $0.5 million + from one camera alone over a ~4 month period.
The views aren't necessarily self-contradictory, and in fact could be self-affirming. Relevant question:

Is the city rampant with the types of crime that cameras and license plate readers address?
> Plus as you point out you don't get as much regenerative breaking

Regenerative breaking is not a benefit compared to steady driving, it's a waste of energy due to the second law of thermodynamics.

It's only a benefit when you compare it to non-regenerative breaking.
Someone's working on that.

http://www.clustered-pi.com/blog/clustered-pi-zero.html
Sounds like the real world for a non-trivial percentage of the population.
Real Tesla Range = Advertised Range * 0.80
Ok but it knows the route you are on and the mileage.
Their booking rates for murder, robbery, rape, assault and all other major crimes are also on the floor. No thinking person believes the police fail to solve rapes because they're just demoralized over whether the case will go to trial. It's because they are incompetent.
Where could I find this in France?
I’d argue that most (or at least very many) guns that Americans actually own are specifically designed for killing humans, not hunting.
Yes. When I had a Nissan Leaf for a couple of months, I couldn't make it to the office and back without a partial recharge on the way home. But I discovered if I got off at an exit fifteen miles earlier than normal and took surface streets, I could make it home with a bit of capacity to spare. That's not something that would have been good for the battery if I did it every day but at the time I was going into the office about once a week so it worked out fine. Plus I was using the 110V charger at home, which would take more than the next morning to charge the battery fully.
This is a very hot take, but does mesh with my own experience with mentors, friends, and family at GOOG at the time.

I remember plenty of early career people around the time were given advice to start your career elsewhere, and then join GOOG in order to maximize the rest-and-vest life.

There needs to be a middle ground between Google's QoL and Amazon's laser focus on execution and customer value.

Makes sense that Google of 2024 is basically like Microsoft in 2009.
> I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets.

My grandfather founded a construction company that became quite successful and remained privately owned by him. When it was time for him to retire, he sold the company to the employees who turned it into a worker cooperative. They have since seen wild success and many dozens of people have made some incredible amounts of money. The culture my grandfather established remains present. I believe the key was never going public and therefore avoiding being controlled by external investors with no stake in the company’s culture.
Drive it like it's new. Baby the engine, baby the transmission, baby the entire system. Avoid problems when you run it like it's stolen when everything is brand new.

It USED to be the break-in period was super important. I've been told that it's not anymore, but that comes from salesmen. So. Who knows if it's accurate or not. I also do not know how that applies to the electric motors on a new electric vehicle.

But I'm betting that's the reason.
This was a cool video: No, Tesla Cybertruck Is Not Faster Than Porsche (While Towing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRYS5VWXZts
What's the Over/Under on how long until Netflix capitulates?
6 months? A year? Never?
It's not never.
You might like the Unihertz Titan series. The Titan Pocket is very similar to the E71: https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket
Dave Mills was helpful to me as a student. I did some research into NTP in 1999. I knew a little bit about it but not a lot and I said and did a lot of brash things (including sending query packets to every NTP server on the Internet). In response to my random poorly written mailing list and questions Dave answered me and gave me some useful pointers. I felt a little like I was talking to a celebrity.

NTP is a remarkable technology. Getting millisecond synchronization out of megahertz computers and barely-megabit computers was not easy. Honestly I'm not sure I would have thought it was even possible until I read the papers explaining how it worked. And Mills didn't just make it on his own, he helped create a small community of timekeeping experts on the Internet that persists to this day.
You are right there will be a flamewar, and others will discount some of what you say because of your bias, you will get criticism and personal remarks (mostly off base) and you will suffer tremendous heat for it. I have been there in a past life re: unix wars.

But, particularly if you acknowledge opposing views in your content and don't hide counterarguments via cherry picking, you will really add value to the data community in exposing the truth, and educating people both on your team and the other team which ultimately spurs improvements where both sides have gaps and performs a greater benefit for the broader community.

It takes courage and care to put a controversial rigorous viewpoint out there; you do risk your "reputation". But, particularly if you make corrections where appropriate, people will recognize you as genuine.

It is not bad to have a point of view. What is bad is to hide your bias or counterarguments to deceive people.

Be part of the thesis + antithesis-> synthesis Hegelian dialog that brings progress. Ultimately as you advocate for your customers (developers/data users), not "your team", you will perform a true service to the community, even if only you and a few others recognize it.
Shorthand was never a commonly used technology by "normal" people and as I understand it even proficient users would not use it for their personal notes. It was used in situations where minimizing writing time was important, and then transcribed into standard writing shortly afterwards, while it was still fresh in their minds. It's not a replacement for writing, it's a replacement for a tape recorder.
Review: Nvidia's $600 GeForce RTX 4070 Super is one of its best values