skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineering was literally taught to me in a well respected engineering university as making an appropriate cost/reward trade off and being careful in taking that risk. But the economics of the business were important too as it was part of the competition of driving more efficiency into a system. In classical engineering, there can be more risk because you’re dealing with people’s lives and so you have to be more careful and add extra margins of error even if more expensive.

One person’s recklessness is another person’s calculated risk. The consequences of FB engineering mistakes are minimal in both impact to customers and FB’s business. As FB scaled, the impact to individual people is still largely minimal (perhaps even beneficial) but the impact to their own business is larger and same for their customers if their ads aren’t getting eyeballs. So they shifted as big companies do. It’s kind of the best case of thoughtful risk taking - we’re rolling out a new system and we don’t know what could go wrong at scale and we put in monitoring of what we think we need. If there’s problems we’ll catch it with our monitoring/alerting and rollback or fix. You see the outages but not 99% of changes that go in without anything going wrong which lets the business resolve issues quickly and cheaply.

As for Boeing and Fujistsu, I’d say those are very different situations and aren’t an engineering problem nor do they indicate a move fast and break things mentality. As with many things like that, the engineering mistakes are a small detail within the overall larger picture of corruption. Boeing wanted to escape being classified as a new aircraft and met a perfect storm of skimping on hardware and corrupting the FAA through regulatory capture. I don’t fully understand Boeing’s role with the recent failures as a subcontractor is involved, but my hunch is that they’re nominally responsible for that subcontractor anyways. Same goes for Fujitsu - bad SW combined with an overly aggressive prosecution mandate and then cover ups around having made mistakes based on the assumption that the SW was correct rather than assuming new SW that hadn’t run anywhere before may contain bugs (not really sure whether Fujitsu hid the bugs or if politicians did or what happened but certainly the Post Office officials hid the reports of the auditors that found bugs in the sw and continued with prosecutions anyway).

Btw in engineering classes, all the large scale failures we were taught about involved some level of corruption or chain of mistakes. A contractor not conforming to the engineering specs to save on costs (valid optimization but should be done extra carefully), overlooking some kind of physical modeling that wasn’t considered industry standard yet, kickbacks, etc.
Sounds like you are confusing imports with sales. If you import 1000 Tesla's, they surely won't all sell at the same time? I'd expect them to be spread out across several months until the next shipment comes in to replenish. It would however make sense if the deliveries are late and the market had been waiting for months.
I am all for fairness. Then explain why people are being criminally charged for car theft when there is none. It was malicious reporting with the purpose of settling later. Meanwhile no one at Hertz is currently facing criminal penalties for initiating the false arrests with law enforcement.

>"I don't see why companies should be treated differently."

In this case I'd love people to get away with fraud / theft / etc. After all big companies commit it left and right and gets away with it.
I remember one of the Car-Talk guys use the term "binary chop" once when talking to a caller about diagnosing a problem.
I would be in favor of a fee that is 1024 * 2^n USD where n is the nth year you want to keep the patent.

1st year = 2000 USD

10th year = 1m USD per year

20th year = 1bn USD per year

It becomes prohibitively expensive if you don't use it. After 23 years it would make only sense for the most insane blockbuster drugs to keep going for another year.
> Probably every pharmaceutical patent.

Great, they've played their role, then. I'm ready for that stage to be over now. IMO if there's an incentive to manufacture distribute the product, let that be the incentive.
...Okay? These quotes were when Hyundai decided that the warranty did not cover supposed damage to the batteries. But either way, unwarrantied battery replacement costs of 60k CAD is obscene. On an otherwise new Tesla, a 15-20k (USD) replacement would still be economic but the Ioniq 5 is just going to be "totaled".
> Furthermore, the Gates foundation’s support for treatments that offer the best chances of accumulating returns on intellectual property risks eclipsing the development of preventive public-health solutions, Schwab notes.

In other words, profiteering disguised as philanthropy. Arata Kochi had already ringed the alarm back in the aughts.
starves to death
While rose-tinted glasses are a common bias, it is likewise a simplistic fallacy to assume that things only improve with time.

The Internet WAS more fun.
Are we discounting fast food? I can't speak for everywhere, but in Dallas, many chains are open 24/7. Whataburger is a Texas franchise that has been 24/7 for basically it's entire history in all locations. They are closed for Christmas and Thanksgiving only. McDonalds is 24/7 in most major cities. In Dallas proper, there are some smaller (local) chains that are frequently open until 2 or 3am but admittedly they mostly cater to the bar crowd who wants something to eat before heading home after drinking all night. Café Brazil is a local Denny's/IHOP type diner that is open 24/7 including major holidays!

Your addition of "abundantly" makes things more ambiguous, but I think the choices available in most large US cities is _decent_ after midnight. Can you get absolutely anything like NYC? No, probably, not. But burgers, diners, and fast food are all generally available. That's also ignoring 24/7 grocery stores like Walmart that can fill in the gaps if you're craving something hyper specific. Perhaps you can't buy it ready-made, but you can buy the ingredients!
ssh also used to use source port 22. At least a popular implementation of it did. A bit of websearching didn't find it; anyone else remember this?
But it's deep in the noise, 150g is a tiny amount of difference in how much water you drank before you left that morning.

It's like when people say they 'lost half a pound', no, you just went to the loo. Or you had one less coffee today. It's not significant.
Then fair enough.

However, there's no shame in the actual hustle. But that is what's happening in the tipping system.

I'm not trying to start a flamewar. Accusing others of that is just as intellectually dishonest as you think I was. And inflammatory in and of itself.

As to "you can believe what you want, but you're just wrong", is the belief that the incentives are misaligned. The cost to keep the kitchen open is prohibitive enough to not do it for the random straggler. You need better than half a customer an hour.

Servers do not want tipping to end. They want to be tipped and to be prorated when they're not actively tipped. They want it both ways.
Please don't start flamewars on HN. This was a doozy.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39341055.
I’ve also heard a number of folks getting into Vert.x.

Tho I’ve never used it and didn’t know how it compares.
It has been consistent across the following hubs/zwave adapters:

Micasa Verde

Smart Things

Hubitat

Home Assistant with the Zooz Zwave radio.
>Flip-flop button controls are very efficient.They save space by controlling two mutually exclusive options with a single control.

Compared to what?
Definitely not a checkbox.

The problem of a checkbox is just it's not very visually appealing but pretty good on carrying zhe necessary information.
> Sony has somehow made it work

And yet every post about phones there's people acting like no phones that meet their requirements exist. They definitely exist. I think what they really intend to say is "Why doesn't Samsung put these exact features I want on the Galaxy S Whatever"
I think the military serves to protect the country, not the government. I doubt that the main reason to have an army is financial. There were armies way before the concept of money.
It's worse if you're parents.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/news/a33900/...
It's not a sale until it's delivered. It's an order before then.
This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test

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And more frequent, it seems.

One every few years has become (at least in the past several years) multiples per year, or month, particularly along the west coast of North America, from Mexico to Canada.
Do you have examples of Gilmore's writing that you object to?
I agree with you about how we probably haven’t reached the point where the governments are supposed to worry, but I don’t think looking at a point in time in the past is right. Even though we have a long way to go for the decline to reach the population levels of 1950s, the demographic pyramid is pretty much inverted. Same applies to China and South Korea in some degree. Most of the women after the age of 40 aren’t going to have a kid, yet alone 2.1+ to revert the population decline.

But you’re right, more drastic measures will be taken in political and economical senses once absolute numbers start ramping up. It’s fairly obvious our current system isn’t the best for aging population with not as many children. Unfortunately, we just haven’t come up with anything better that gives some sort of stability and peace.
I'd say Django. Its fast to get things running, security and CSRF out of the box. Very mature framework with a huge following.
Tesla generally ships cars on a JIT basis and avoids large inventory.

When a ship arrives with imported cars, the majority are likely already spoken for with pending orders and will be delivered within a month.
Dear lord, I really hate how so much of problem framing in the world today is to pick on some rich tech related person. Worse, it is framed in a way that this is a unique to today problem.

I'm open to the idea that the scale of things can be worse. I'm less sure that is the case for stuff like this. We had plenty of seemingly bad science in the past, by the knowledge of today. From all evidence I know, nobody has a monopoly on causing bad science. Similarly, nobody has a monopoly on good science.
I'll try later with projects in which I had issues to make it work like TortoiseTTS. I'm not expecting comparable Nvidia speeds but definitely faster than pure CPU.
It seems that Tesla is still using NACS in Korea:, from https://news.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20231123000609

> Once a user presses the connector button on the charger, it allows access to an adapter called “Magic Dock,” which can be plugged into Tesla’s North American Charging Standard or NACS port. The Magic Dock makes Tesla’s NACS ports compatible with Hyundai and Kia vehicles, and others that use the Combined Charging System or CCS in Korea.

Then it sort of makes sense that not having lots of superchargers would be bad for Tesla, since they need to use an adapter with other charging infra if Kia/Hyundai need to use an adapter with theirs.
Customize Tailscale at Work with MDM Policies
Are you saying that they have no inventory control?
Are we blaming Waymo now for letting one car driving through a busy street ?

It does not warrant to set the car on fire.
> Another classic essay showing how textbooks repeat other textbooks without properly questioning what should be taught is https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf. If you've taken some variant of the differential equations course that he discusses, I highly recommend reading his essay. I guarantee that it is far from the only standard course with such levels of silliness.

Thank you for sharing Rota's delightful lecture! I wish more professors/instructors took a critical look at their material, which is nearly always is taught in the order that was put in place for some now utterly irrelevant or forgotten reasons. If the science progresses at the speed of the hearse, the education of scientific subjects barely moves at all.
> is definitely what any functioning society is ostensibly designed to handle

That's how I know you grew up in an Upper Middle Class American household.

Newsflash - humans suck.

America used to be this corrupt 50-60 years ago as well, but it required generational bipartisan reforms to change.

You can't expect a county that's still in the economic equivalent of the 1910s-20s to speedrun generational legislative changes.

Take a look at European countries like Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Greece, etc. They might be "developed" in the sense that there are shiny buildings and people aren't starving to death anymore, but wheeling and dealing, cronyism, and judicial+legislative tampering still occur.

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Also, view corruption as a feature, not a bug.

In developing countries, you don't rule by ideology, you rule by pure unadulterated power.

Before the internet, you could shoot someone in a ditch and it won't trend on Twitter or IG.

Now it will, so the best solution to maintain compliance is to use corruption as a way to keep everyone in line - all politicians in these countries partake in it, but if they don't listen to leadership, they will be prosecuted for it.
I agree but this is a surface level issue impacting the very beginner phase only. Once you get familiar with the vocabulary, the hard stuff will be the actual material, understanding the thing itself, not its description. This differentiates fields that have an actual subject matter from fields that are essentially terminology and categorizations all the way through, a self-referential map with no territory.

In math/physics/engineering the terminology is unfamiliar at first but very precise and hence learnable. The vast majority of STEM textbooks (at least from good US university publishers) make their best effort in presenting the material understandably without any intentional obscurantism or additional fanciness. Academic joirnal/conference papers do sometimes intentionally confuse to game the publication metrics but intro materials are an earnest effort at educating. The subject matter has some inherent complexity, there's no need to prop it up artificially for prestige (that happens more in other fields that are insecure about their level of inherent complexity).
Having children still fuels consumption though. The difference is what is being consumed vs if that consumption spending were not spent on children. I think you are mixing up the colloquial definition of consumption of ie random plastic crap with the economic definition that is very broad and includes things like paying teachers.

Similarly regarding manufacturing and production glute, if the hard capital is fixed then so too typically is the hard production (not the case for many kinds of capital but it is for manufacturing) or at least capped. Just like with consumption, it’s a problem of what portion of capital is being expended on increasing production of things for children (housing, schools, kid stuff) or not. In both cases this is ultimately driven by the supply and demand stemming from parents themselves. But I don’t think there is a feedback loop because capitalism does not itself care whether capital goes to kids or not, only whether there is enough demand for capital expenditure to be profitable.
Hi! Blog author. This was an attempt a couple years ago to understand and write about this paper in a detailed way. Here is a video going through this topic as well: https://youtu.be/dKJEpOtVgXc?si=PDNO0B0qi6ARHaeb

Section 2 of the blog post is no longer very relevant. A lot of advances (DSS, S4D) simplified that part of the process. Arguably also this all should be updated for Mamba (same authors).
You "order" your Tesla before it arrives in country, Tesla doesn't have dealerships.
I don't disagree with you for ref. I don't mind working on defensive capability for sure and that's what I was involved in but the discussions moving to first strike capability were not where I wanted to be.
> modern on-shore wind turbines seem to supply 3-4MW

That sounds like the very largest of the most recent wind turbines. I think most of the in-production wind turbines people are used to seeing these days are closer to the 2 megawatt range.
There's a term Employers use: "time theft". For the time that employees were paid for but didn't do work.

Plenty of good examples: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22time+theft%22+us
So you spend billions($2.5 billion being average) inventing a new drug and anyone should be allowed to copy and sell it? That would foster innovation and not kill pharmaceutical market?
We know Open AI ARR, competitive landscape, the reason why they raised the capital at that valuation (MSFT's goals). We also know that they DO NOT make money, which isn't great considering that there's a bunch of other competitors ramping up to compete with Open AI.

We also know that this is an incredibly dynamic sector/business, which means there's a high chance Open AI may not even get close to achieving its objectives.

Roadmap is one thing, how you value it is another. No, far from a leading AI expert, but I don't need to be a leading AI expert to think.

Do I need to work at Open AI to make an assessment of the company's current valuation? Come on now...if you've been an investor for long enough you know that employees very rarely have a good understanding of the company they work at.

Whether private or public, I have used limited information to make an assessment of the $100bln valuation, and yes for me, it's ridiculous.

I do appreciate your feedback however and constructive criticism.
I agree with you. However, the discussion about housing is normally around how it's worse now than it was in the past, and these types of dynamics have existed for a long time.
Completely agree - I made https://notchbegone.com to help mask it visually when it came out expecting Apple to quickly obviate via their own design updates and yet years later we're still having this conversation.

My tinfoil hat take is that the true primary purpose of the notch is to drive upgrade purchases at some point in the future whenever serious technical advancements are waning.
Batteries are replaceable, just not by you. Do some people replace their phone when the battery sucks? Sure, maybe. But then that phone probably gets refurbished for someone else to buy.

The main use of user replaceable batteries for me was always when my phone only lasted a few hours so I had to swap another one. My Samsung Blackjack with 3G would die in like an hour if I was actively using the 3g connection lol. G1 and HTC Evo also didn't last a whole shift at work.
> Multiple applications sharing a database [regret]

The industry has known this to be a stereotypically bad idea for generations now. It lead to things like the enterprise sevice bus, service-oriented architectures, and finally "micro services". Recently I've seen "micro services" that share the same database, so we've come full-circle.

Yet, every place I've worked was either laboring under a project to decouple two or more applications that were conjoined at the DB, or were still at the "this sucks but no one wants to fix it" stage.

How do we keep making this same mistake in industry?
Maybe we should be giving these tests as part of college admissions. I'd like to know if I can't pass these tests before taking out a six figure loan only to find I have the wrong personality for employment.
That has been Tesla's model from the beginning right? They don't have dealerships, they don't have inventory, you order your car, the car is made and then delivered.
Java EE is pretty much dead in the traditional it was marketed and spoken of. Trendy things in the Java ecosystem nowadays are frameworks such as Spring Boot and MicroProfile (which took the good stuff from the old Java EE. Think JAX-RS for REST API's etc).

Django works with Python and in the AI space you'll want to iterate as quickly as possible, so I think that's probably going to be the preferred choice for beginners.
Oh fair. I just saw credible reports floating around about these unwarrantied repairs and looked for something referencing this. I have not seen any statements from Hyundai refuting the claims. If indeed battery replacements are available at reasonable prices, I'd be happy to know this.
There is no evidence patents increase innovation. I suggest reading 'The Case Against Patents':

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/wp/2012/2012-035.p...
Suppose an author uploads their book to ExamplePrint Inc, a one stop shop that prints made-to-order books for customers.

The reader goes to ExamplePrint and buys the book.

ExamplePrint prints a softcover copy of the book on the spot and ships it out to the reader.

The user pays ExamplePrint, who pays the author some fraction of the user's money.

The reader is a customer of ExamplePrint and reading the author's book.

This is the analogy Apple would like to use for their app store. Apple's print time is almost instantaneous and the marginal costs are closer to zero.
The Japanese electronics giants of that era had an alterntive to MIX, in the ITRON [1] initiative, which included plans for a system-wide virtual machine to be used for compatibility purposes .. Knuths' books, while popular among Japanese computer scientists of the era, had some stiff competition in the Japanese industrial sector .. a few of the major players produced ITRON kernels with this capability, it would be interesting to research which of the personal computing toys of the era were ITRON machines in disguise ..

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITRON_project
Automatic Emergency Braking and adaptive cruise are difficult features to avoid. The IIHS dings vehicle safety ratings if they do not have AEB. Because of that, even entry level vehicles like the Elantra have AEB.

Almost every manufacture has committed AEB on their entire lineup.
What do you think I'd want to correct? That page says the same thing you've already been told twice: there is no underlying mathematics, and the meaning of the notation is defined by the notation. Here's a quote:

> These rules are meaningful only when the usual notation (called infix notation) is used. When functional or Polish notation are used for all operations, the order of operations results from the notation itself.

You could "correct" that to observe that "the order of operations results from the notation itself" is true of all notation, including infix notation, but why? It's not wrong now.

Can you really not tell the difference between "notation" and "math"?
> The Guardian never publishes a link or an academic reference to the source of scientific articles it pretends to quote.

This is not true. A single counter-example is all that is needed to disprove the assertion "the guardian never.." Counter-example:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/10/asthma-of-th...

In this section, the source article is linked (which is: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035232/), that section is:

> When Attwood first identified EoE in the late 1980s, it was vanishingly rare, with estimated rates of less than 10 per 100,000 people. But just like food allergies, which are also mediated by eosinophils, EoE has become increasingly common in all age groups, from young children to the over-70s, for reasons we do not fully understand.

> Estimates from the British Society of Gastroenterology suggest that it now affects approximately 63 in 100,000 people, which Attwood says is sufficient to make it technically “a common disease”.

The same article links other studies..
You can’t steal people, just like you can’t “poach” them. There’s nothing wrong with paying people more and delivering a better product.