skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a crime against humanity how much food is thrown away because it's "not appealing" enough to the eye when we have so many in this world who go to bed hungry.

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.

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.)
Can't speak for everyone, but my expectation was bigger car = bigger battery = longer range. If aerodynamics are that much of a factor, then electric pickup trucks are doomed to be rich people toys until we get better batteries.
Mhm i wonder why Tesla wants false advertising to be considered free speech.

(No onion article)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38626078
In other words, having your cheese a predictable colour allows you to recognise when something else is growing on it.
Wait, you are defending multiple points at the same time: "only pure Go", "only open source", "reproducible builds", "static linking". Not that I disagree with all of that, but I think that they don't all go as an argument against shared libraries (shared libraries can benefit from reproducible builds, for instance).

Also you can go check the recipe of your package, and if you choose a distro that only ships open source software, then it gives you the sources that were used to built it. You can even build it yourself. But again those are not points that I believe go into a "static vs shared" debate. Or do you disagree with that?

> How do you make that choice? Where do you draw the line? Why does Emacs make the cut, but VS Codium doesn't?

That's a distro philosophy. That's all a distro does, and you choose the distro that you like. Some distros will ship everything they can, some will be minimal, some will ship only free software, etc.

IMO it is not the developer's decision how I want my software packaged. It's a distribution question. The developer should provide the code open source, and let package maintainers build it and ship it in their distribution. If the developer (and the language tooling) can make it easy for maintainers to make their choices, then that's good. On the contrary, when the language officially refuses shared libraries, I think it oversteps.
yeah caretaker is a good word but guardian is sth else
Whats annoying is Tesla internally knows the real range. On a trip, it picks a charging stop 180 miles away and says I will be at 5% charge when I arrive. But the mileage still says "310". If they actually adjusted the mileage display to be the real number, it would be SO much more helpful.
That's a weird distinction you've constructed to make it sound more okay to be offended if you feel you hold the more traditional position.

> take offense (idiom) : to become angry or upset by something that another person has said or done : to be offended by something - Merriam-Webster

That's all it means. If you're upset because someone says something different to what you consider the natural default you're still offended.

People take offence to changes to and transgression against cultural norms all the time - offence at public gay affection, offence at interracial relationships, offence at not respecting christianity and religious norms, offence at use of swears, offence at the normalisation of talking about sex etc etc.

Taking offence to certain changes to language isn't necessarily wrong, but it's still taking offence. "Taking offence" is what happens to you when something transgresses against your belief system, it's not just what the bad people do.
> maintain respect as a neutral party

It seems like most of their headline-worthy actions have been reversing the times that the court did not act as a neutral party in the past.
I will quite happily say that I also think utilitarianism is bad, but not because of the founder.

I think it's bad because it comes across as someone discovering basic numeracy as an adult and going "what happens if we treat happiness as a countable object and do basic adding up on it?", and then never gets past either of two major stumbling blocks: (1) how do you compare the happiness of two different people, and (2) there's a lot more to maths than adding things up, important maths at that, such as "when is it OK to treat discrete things as continuums and when is this a bad idea?" and "do you really want to say that m people who are n happy is the same value as one person who is m*n happy, or is there some kind of discounting for bigger values like there seems to be with the utility of money going down as people get richer?"

> *Everybody* understands that when the founder of a Thing does something as daffy as Having Themselves Mummified in Victorian England the rest of their thinking is automatically suspect.

The main thing with Rationalists is that they recognise everyone's thinking is suspect.

> It's the kind of informal heuristic which is almost never wrong. We should not ignore it.

I grew up in the UK, with a prime minister who promoted what she thought were "Victorian Values". Amongst other various things, when she went to see Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, she was informed of Mozart's scatological humour and is reported to have responded thusly:

"""She was not pleased. In her best headmistress style, she gave me a severe wigging for putting on a play that depicted Mozart as a scatological imp with a love of four-letter words. It was inconceivable, she said, that a man who wrote such exquisite and elegant music could be so foul-mouthed. I said that Mozart's letters proved he was just that: he had an extraordinarily infantile sense of humour ... "I don't think you heard what I said", replied the Prime Minister. "He couldn't have been like that". I offered (and sent) a copy of Mozart's letters to Number Ten the next day; I was even thanked by the appropriate Private Secretary. But it was useless: the Prime Minister said I was wrong, so wrong I was.""" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology

Lord Byron is also famous both for his poetry and for bringing a pet bear to his university accommodation to spite the rules about no dogs.

There's weird anecdotes about virtually every famous figure, 'cause humans are weird.
Washington now requires laminated paper temp plates that are displayed outside before the real plates can arrive.
TIL: all code posted for review on https://codereview.stackexchange.com/ has to be compilable.

I noted that a function wasn't available in the snippet in my post, but 2 users still voted to remove the question without any feedback, person-to-person communication, etc., because it broke the rules.

While I'm a rule-breaker, and the problem, maybe GPT4 is where to go for code reviews.
Highway miles are generally the most efficient miles for a vehicle because there's less energy wasted in slowing and speed changes, at least for gasoline cars though I imagine the same factors are present in electric vehicles minus maybe the braking losses since they can use regenerative braking. Is that alone enough to make city more efficient for electric vehicles?

edit: Just judging from my own observations (and the EPA estimated differences) I get way better mpg when I take long drives on the highway cruising at 65-70 than I do on periods with mostly city driving. I keep track when I fill up as a check against the car's slightly wonky mpg calculation and it's a difference of 5ish mpg more for highway like the EPA estimates suggest.
Some people aren't aware it's de-facto legal to go into a SF store and steal $949 worth of stuff and leave and there's nothing anyone will do. Shop owners who call the police will get in trouble themselves.

Unbelievable that it got to this in the first place but that's a political mono-culture for you, they get to try wild and different policies without push back hoping for positive counterintuitive results that somehow lessens crime and improves equity but all they're doing is creating food deserts as business flees.
Concrete tunnels and permafrost: How Sweden is future-proofing skiing
> Because interfacing via API is expensive. Writing APIs for others to use productively isn't easy and change management also adds a lot of overhead.

I agree in principle, but there is a lot of “unseen coordination/communication” costs that it’s easy taken for granted.

When I was working on telecom doing interfacing with carriers (e.g T-Mobile, Verizon, etc.) on thing that I noticed was how simple was to work with those folks: Ok, this is the standard XML, those are the endpoints, that’s the list of error codes, the rate limit is X requests per second, a bunch of files will be on this FTP at 5AM daily basis, and if you face more than 100ms latency from our side just call this number.

Working with “product” companies without silos most of the time it’s design by committee, folks that won’t keep the service running wanting to have a say in our payload wanting us to change our overly reliable RabbitMQ to use their Kafka.
Those would have to be some rather corrupt courts to agree to such theft. What's next? Agreeing that if you are out on the street it's fair game to be robbed?
What makes it late stage is that these decrepit monopolies or pseudo-monopolies are so ensconced in their markets that the share price will not fall appreciably long after calcification has set in.
The range seems unclear - the title of this post takes the lower range, but they also did a test at a steady 70mph, probably the worst case for a boxy vehicle due to wind resistance, and got 254 miles. I'd expect going slower to yield much better range.

Maybe there's variance in the trucks themselves?
Are you saying Big Tech was the primary beneficiary of free money? That doesn't seem as accurate as saying it is/was all ventures that couldn't be funded by revenues and profit, from the largest to smallest players.
Are they going to put licence plates on the homeless to track them?
> Well, that wasn't the end of the sentence. They also mentioned "the car is 'a dream to drive.'” Seems relevant and quite a bit less brutal.

Many Tesla owners are coming from Toyota or BMW 3 series.

So Tesla owners’ bar for “dream to drive” is very low.
Yea, that's exactly what Delta Lake does. All the table metadata is stored in a Parquet file (it's initially stored in JSON files, but eventually compacted into Parquet files). These tables are sometimes so huge that the table metadata is big data also.
> I guess Steve Jobs just liked that design

Think he looked at the home screen like ad space and didn't want the YT logo on all the iPhone marketing and being the first thing people see when they unlock it every time.
Ask HN: What's the term for job displacement-replacement ratio?
Hi all,

I'm looking for a term, which may not exist/have consensus yet.

It's to describe the fallacy of thinking that the issue is job displacement (and artificially restrict automation accordingly) but where the actual issue is the job replacement ability/speed (ensuring that the displaced workers skills are liquid, that there are clear paths to new roles, and that the new opportunities are being created faster than the displaced jobs are disappearing).

These terms don't cover the scope of the above fully:

- Job transition

- Job market elasticity

- Market evolution

- Neo-Ludditism

- Employment adaption

- Workforce transition

- Tech Displacement Absorption Rate

- Structural unemployment

- Technological unemployment

- Compensatory job creation

etc.

Many thanks
> The Show HN should be clearer, Android only.

It's not on Android yet either.
How Huxlian. What a brave new world we live in.
i don't think anyone who has been to any of the world's top 100 biggest cities could in good faith say SF has too many people. it's barely got a midwestern suburb's level of density.
Imagine the pain of programming a Cray-1 to do the work of a Raspberry Pi in those use instances.
> There's a reason that kids use TikTok as search engine on mobile.

That's because kids are dumb and have no attention span to read anything.

Source: I am from the same generation you talk of.
Delta Live Tables and automatic vacuuming are the two big features I'm missing.
be sure to post again when you next emerge from you backyard bunker
A nostalgia-driven critique of HN and of tech, delicious

Tim Bray has been shared on this site for the last seventeen years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=11&prefix=false&q...
I'm far from a great programmer, but working I'm towards it every day. Something I've just realized more and more is that the raw programming ability is really the baseline. It really feels like good design and architecture is where the heart of programming comes from. Maintaining code I wrote two years ago has shown me how bad certain decisions where and how great other were and then I have that knowledge going forward.

As I've worked with more senior engineers who have done this over and over again, I've noticed that the raw programming part isn't any different. I still know all the same things. But they have the most valuable ideas from experience. Their foresight to lean towards a specific implementation because they've seen where this plan falls short in the past ends up being a massive time and money saver.

Dealing with tricky problems has provided the largest growth for me. I worked at a scrappy startup where I wrote a ton of CRUD endpoints and got to do something interesting here and there. You don't learn anything new when you write the same code over and over with some basic stuff in place. I've found that I've learned the most from problems that are intimidating at first.

It's honestly comforting to know I can write similar code to more experienced engineers but I'm lacking their foresight and experience.
Yes I remember Bababooey calling it a bit of a stumble.
> To me it sounds like it's still true that artificial banana tastes different that what we can get now.

But that's not whats being claimed. He's rebutting the claim (which the original commenter may or may not have implied) that artificial banana flavor is like the old banana's that dont exist anymore. He, nor anyone here, is saying artificial banana tastes like real banana. And if someone like that shows up lets get them.
Produce almost never gets sent to shops "as is" straight from the field - everything gets sorted into classes, 1st class, 2nd class, 3rd class etc......1st class should already be perfect and nice and even - that's usually what supermarkets buy. There might be an occassional "ugly" bunch of stuff that falls through, and I guess yes in that case it will probably be thrown out. And yes it's also a tragedy that a lot of food at supermarkets gets thrown out when unsold. But I'd bet that 99% of "ugly" produce never makes it to the shelves in the first place, it just gets turned into processed food.
I think there is also another issue on top of that - once you establish yourself as a big money maker (a part of FAANG), a lot of tech people start treating a position there as a way to pad resume or make a ton of money. I am convinced it will shift the culture inside the company towards more corporate mindset.
I was in Tokyo recently and didn’t see much talk building growth m, maybe I didn’t go to the right neighborhoods.

China leveraged construction techniques that use unskilled and lower skilled migrant labor, so building height is limited. Other countries that import Chinese and Indian to build (like Singapore) get similar limitations.
Dreaming of going farther than 200mi? Seems like a sensible dream.

400-500mi I can understand. My gas truck goes about that far. But <200mi is a joke…
Not the case for electric. Batteries are heavy, and it takes more current to maintain a faster speed than a slower speed. Plus as you point out you don't get as much regenerative breaking.

You can see this in regular gas hybrids that get better city mileage than highway mileage. The effect is even more pronounced in full electric vehicles.
> Electron has become huge for desktop applications

Electron isn't the same as PWA and runs in Chrome for starters and also has an underbelly you can control and extend with native code. Apple intentionally limits Safari's multimedia capabilities to push you towards making apps.
Official Gameplay Reveal: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle [video]
Original title which was edited for length:

Official Gameplay Reveal: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Developer_Direct 2024

Related:

Lashings of fun? Microsoft reveals new Indiana Jones game

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/jan/19/lashings-of-fu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056217
Nice idea! You may be interested in a repo I created for a small programming course I'm going to give at the school of my kids, also for 9+. It's not 3D, I figured that's way too complicated on a number of fronts to start with. It's a simple 2D platform game in typescript. The dialogue is in Dutch I'm afraid, but it could still serve as inspiration: https://github.com/WimYedema/alan-and-ada
Oh, and I rely heavily on GitHub codespaces to give them a reliable working environment.
I grew up down the street from Hans. I did not know him well, as he was the age of my older brother. I remember they worked on a couple of teenage electrical engineering projects together. Some of the filtered down to me. Hans was autistic and had the mind blindness thing going on, which sometimes made social interaction difficult for him. I think that most of my family did not want to believe that he killed his wife; and that some of his bizarre behavior could be explained by just not having that instinct that drives people to conform to social norms. But once he led police to the body the realization set in for us. Maybe we were the last know.

Our understanding was that it was a crime of passion - a heated argument over custody of children. He was not mean, evil, or a bully or anything - growing up in Oakland I have met a few of those. He is someone who lost it and made a really bad decision that ended a life and destroyed his family. I wonder if things might have turned out differently for him if he had been born 20 years later when there was more awareness and resources for neurodivergent people.
To use the Sun, the focal point would have to be situated about 542 AUs. Certainly not impossible, and the resolution would be quite good, good enough to see surface details of an exoplanet.
My only caveat is that if someone shares with me that they don't refer to themselves as a parent I'd respect that. I just would expect that to be a pretty rare outlier all things considered, and benign if I incorrectly refer to them as a parent initially.
Aristotle on Friendship: What Does It Take to Be a Good Friend? (2023)
The cops aren't interested in work. The rate at which the SF DA brings and wins cases had been about the same throughout history. The rate at which the cops arrest people and present cases had fallen almost to zero.
"The dilemma here is that fixing these things with software is very hard, almost always requiring practical operation experience in trucking in addition to deep tech knowledge."

But...why? Surely we have the tech, data, processing, and decades of collective analog wisdom to do this. If Amazon can optimize their entire delivery network, why not trucking?

(I get it's still a challenge but surely not insurmountable? And likely incredibly profitable as a saas... so what are some of the less obvious complicating factors?)
Yep! Like clockwork, once a week!
> The cooled seats, passenger visibility, handling characteristics, acceleration, speed, and steer-by-wire system were also appreciated ... All in all, the Cybertruck is “a dream to drive”

I feel like the claim that the sound was the best thing about it is slightly negative editorialising. It sounds pretty cool, except for range, charging time, bay needs better waterproofing, and road noise. Those all seem improvable.
> Adblocking is not available for Safari, Chrome or Firefox? You don't need to be an IT person to figure out how to enable them.

How then? If I can block ads with Chrome on mobile then I'd switch back from Firefox.
It may be partially intentional, or at least advantageous to the companies. There's a common model where a company pays for the driving school and then the driver leases a truck from the company.

The driver is technically an owner-operator, and has all the expenses and risks of that, but are contracted to the company to "pay off" the school fees and so are effectively an employee. If they quit the company gets the truck back and the driver has to repay the school fees. A very cheap & low risk way for the company to have drivers, if they can manage the turnover.
That’s “164 miles with 80% charge” not a full battery. Still curious what the difference is here. Heavy acceleration, extremely cold temperatures, or some defect could make the difference, but 206 miles on a full charge is a lot worse than the 320 claimed.

“When InsideEVs alum Kyle Conner from Out of Spec Motoring drove a dual-motor Cybertruck through the night to see how far the EV would go on a full charge, he got a total of 254 miles, 20% less than the advertised 320 miles (on all-terrain tires).”
Again, you're taking refuge in vagueness to erase meaningful difference. What did they consider dangerous ideology, and what do anti fascists? Furthermore, that was far from the only thing they did or believed. The fascists considered different people just existing and being themselves and taking part in society and doing art "dangerous ideology." Anti fascists target an actual group of ideologies that's been proven to do harm.
I did something similar by cutting down the PCB of a standard Microsoft game controller and wiring it into an old Wico Command Control joystick (the only thing I kept when I gave away all my C64 stuff - before it became collectible).

https://wandel.ca/pic.cgi?49ceb103

Totally authentic for playing old C64 games in an emulator. But these days, I'd leave the joystick alone and just use an Arduino to do a DB9 to USB translator.
That's one approach to use the sun as a gravitational lens for looking at exoplanets. There's another approach that instead of one big telescope sends a series of much smaller telescopes, small enough that light sails would be effective for getting them to where they need to go.

Here's a PBS Space Time episode [1] that talks about this general topic, and then about the series of smaller telescopes approach.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc
I'm old skool so it is still AskBing for me...
how do you view the *** password as text? It shows my account appeared in the hack any the password was p**k I don’t remember ever using a password with P and K, curious how I can view what is being the **
As a coda to this, I think that we are entering a new world where services truly can have minimal operational overhead.

At my last company, we were all in on serverless, with AWS tools like SQS coupling things together. It worked extremely well for keeping the architecture simple to operate and approachable for new people.

But even better, I think we want logical services that interface with each other as though they were in a single process. We want the ability to write code as though it is monolithic (e.g. lexical scope and native-language APIs), while availing ourselves of the advantages of independently deployed services. I believe projects like Temporal point the way. I haven't had the opportunity to use it, but philosophically, I think it's the right direction.
Please. We have been estimating mpg just fine for a long time and people have come to expect accurate range estimations.