skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah of course, if someone has sent a patch I would consider it a duty of the maintainer to review it, maybe rework a little if needed and commit with the necessary attribution. But I don't think it's the end of the world if a patch isn't accepted by the upstream. Assuming the pace of development isn't too fast it is not too much effort to maintain a friendly fork and occasionally rebase it.

There is a fundamental difference between the duties of a maintainer and a developer. Just because some people are both doesn't mean they are the same thing.
Once upon a time, when Tesla was a young company trying to sell an expensive car that was fast, nifty, and nowhere near the build quality or level of polish as its similarly-priced competitors, Tesla offered truly excellent service. Helpful people answered the phone. Helpful people were present at the shops. Actual competent people would run remote diagnostics. Tesla proactively reached out to fix cars (and this happened a lot because a lot was wrong with the early cars).

Now Tesla’s market cap is way up, their production and sales are way up, their cars are more like mass-production vehicles that ought to be polished than bespoke low-volume cars, and their service has gone massively downhill. Good luck getting anyone on the phone. Good luck getting anyone on their messaging system who can tell that an error code is being displayed. Good luck getting an estimate that their app even considers valid. Good luck getting anyone to acknowledge that parts availability is even a valid concept, let alone confirmation of whether a part is in stock or an estimate of when it might show up.

For all that the legacy car dealers are annoying and rip everyone off, at least they try to make sales and compete to provide service.

(Yes, I have a Tesla that’s been operating in a degraded mode for months. No, Tesla has not followed up in the thread in their crappy service message app for about two months despite repeated prodding and a vague promise that parts might show up in late January.)
Nobody, nobody, nobody cares about old hardware, performance, users, etc.
if anyone cared, React wouldn't be a success. The last time I tried to use the react website on an old phone, it was slow as hell.

LetsEncrypt is stopping serving Android 7 this year. Android 7 will be blocked from 19% of the web: https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration
The option is to install Firefox.

Users with old hardware are poor people. Nobody wants poor people around, not even using their website.

“Fuck the user”, that's what we heard from a PO when we tried to defend users, imagine if we tried to defend poor users.
>Let’s look what went really badly: Math.

>We dug through the dataset we used for training, and realized we missed out the entire math dataset (along with a few others) due to an error. Oops.

This is kinda hilarious.
Could you make a three stage cotra rotating prop? How about four?
At some point it becomes almost like the compressor of a turbojet without the compression.
The worst part of programming for me is the loneliness. AI has been a huge help. Just having someone to bounce ideas off of is amazing. It's also been helping me quickly learn the internals of massive repositories so I can do what I want to do.
The experiment didn't need the full power of a station to prove though. I'm not really sure that this is as much innovation as you imply. Channels have been splitting their bandwidth for years. In fact, Congress wasn't really happy with the network's decision to fraction the signal as the intent was a single full bandwidth signal. We've also already seen what the switch from MPEG2 to MPEG4 can do for allowing more channels via cable boxes.

It's also a case of equipment available today is much more robust compared to the cable TV. I was testing the MPEG4 abilities of some of these earlier boxes. Encoding based on the white papers provided for the chips, we found these were not very accurate and required a lot of tweaking to get to work. The chips in today's TVs are much better, so there's a lot more that can be gotten away with.
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The M1 MBA being sold by Best Buy and Walmart are perfectly fine for 99% of the computing world. Maybe not for gamers (most laptops suck for this), or for someone needing to crunch large datasets, but when this first came out, tons of developers were perfectly happy using it, even with small storage. Hell, my iMac I used up until buying a Mac Studio only had 256GB.
I often use a Thinkpad X220 (which still works for a lot of my usage and I'm not too concerned about it being stolen or damaged) and the JS web is terrible to use on it. Mostly resulted in my preference of using native software (non-electron), which generally works perfectly fine and about as well as on my "more modern" computer.
Everything in biology is interconnected random chance use of the same blocks that worked over a long enough time.
No, there are continuities in language. It's changed over time, but it's still descended from those older cultures. French has it's roots in Frankish people that settled there in the migration period, with Latin and other influence. It's not just people arbitrarily claiming lineage. There are also specifics in culture and tradition, e.g. Christmas trees date back to pagan Germanic festivals.
Who is this mythical end-user with an old browser? Because they don’t show up in browser usage statistics.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share

Chrome is evergreen, even on Android. Safari, after a bit of a fallow period, is updated fairly aggressively, and though it’s still coupled with OS updates, it’s no longer married to the annual x.0 releases.

Mind you, I still believe, and practice, you should write semantic HTML with progressive enhancement. But at the same time, I absolutely do not think you should go out of your way to test for some ancient version of Safari running on a first-generation iPad Pro—use basic webdev best practices, and don’t spend time worrying that container queries aren’t going to work for that sliver of the market.
Jesus. This appears to be not a joke.
I pozit partly real effects: EV are made from units with higher cost basis. And partly less real: car manufacturers have an assumed rate of profit on a car, and are converting from one income model (buy price) to another (lifetime maintenance cost) to retain a profit model.
Even if they did 'something else' and produced a bullet-proof implementation they are still dealing with a buggy spec in the first place.

If someone thought their dev chops were 100% infallible why would they bother to fuzz the spec?
I think this is a good thing in the long-run.

Relying on WiFi access points to geolocation was always a bit of a hack and in my experience it's allowed phone manufacturers to roll back on the quality of their satellite-based GPS implementations and worsened phone battery life ; now the phone is constantly scanning for WiFi access points and Bluetooth and shuffling that data back to the mothership(s) on the user's data plan.

My old Samsung S4 could get a GPS lock (sans Internet, WiFI, in airplane mode) in doors usually in < 30s. I had a few different iPhones, 6, 6S, 7 and XS where GPS wouldn't reliably work unless it had "network" (Internet) connectivity due to the reliance on WiFi-geolocation. Similar experience with Pixel 3's, with noticable improvements on Pixel 4s satellite GPS acquisition time.

For Android phone users, if you can use a slightly older version of microG (due to some recent unfortunate change microG made making the use of other backends more difficult), I found this backend to consistently be the best:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fitchfamily.android.gsml...

The above backend lets you use a database of CELL TOWER IDs to speed up location acquisition. As you might expect, cell phone towers rarely (ever?) move and even without a SIM card or celluar connectivity, a phone can scan for CELL IDs.

The other cool thing about this backend is it can create the database from the phone, or you can do it offline on a PC and push a sqlite.db file to phone. I suggest the PC route, the script is pretty simple to understand and you can filter out countries that might not be relevant to you.

And f** Skyhook.
What is driving the increased costs?

Scarcity/cost of parts? Lack of trained maintenance personnel? Hopefully that is an issue that is mitigated by an increase in marketshare.

I've personally watched a man in a powered wheelchair single-handedly and nearly effortlessly completely disassemble an EV battery so my gut tells me it isn't any increase in difficulty of repair due to the battery and it seems that most of the rest of the cars are similar to ICE automobiles-- and surely motors are easier and cheaper to work on than engines?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3G8JGsEjPA
https://archive.is/5Uqf8
And Britannica wasn’t filled with highly moderated propaganda.

Wikipedia is a failed experiment.
Tbf that video came pretty late (post the ZIRP era). Before that, YC was one of the strongest proponents for raising VC because that's ingrained in their business model. I've heard that YC before would be quite disappointed at founders choosing not to raise money, because that meant a lower upside for them via the SAFE model.

Not to mention, most YC exits are usually via acquisitions, and often between YC companies.
How they respond depends on whether the regulation causes or mitigates market power. for example,Something like deregulating the last mile for internet is probably not going to end well because the incumbents control that and that is the mote that is expensive enough to recreate that it causes monopoly. Copyright causes monopoly because it stops marginal price being able to equal marginal cost by allowing only one person the right to provide the copyrighted thing. get rid of it and price goes to zero pretty fast because cost of electronic diatribution is near zero
Yeah, I find this whole thread a bit odd. Cloudflare has been a highly regarded service for years, and suddenly people are blaming them of running a protection racket, without providing a single source or piece of evidence (or a presumably more ethical alternative, for that matter)?

As they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence…
"Mobile web sucks, an it's done on purpose, to push people to use "native" apps which makes things easier when it comes to data collection and ad display for companies such as Apple and Google."

Partly for sure, but Amazon for example? Or Decathlon? (a big sports/outdoor chain in europe)

Their sites are just horrible on a mobile (or in Decathlons case also on a Desktop, that is not high end), but they also don't offer me their app in plain view, so I have to assume it is just incompetence. The devs only testing everything on their high end devices connected to a backbone.
I would assume this is going to have a big part to do with whether the battery is damaged or not. Batteries once damaged are going to be recycle cells and replace the whole unit currently but otherwise the car is going to be pretty similar to an ICE. I also don't imagine as they become the majority of car sales that the hard to find repair shop situation will continue.

I also hope a lot of right to repair legislation and privacy legislation catches up with what has been happening in cars and that will make it easier to choose how a vehicle gets repaired and produce some competition.
> the Vector extensions are horrible

How so?
This is so absurd. If this is legal, it surely shouldn't be.

Remote work works.
Yeah, maybe this place was unusually cheap, but chatting with the owner made it sound like the supply far outstripped the demand, so I don’t think that’s fundamentally true. That said, I’d still take the $1000 solid antique over the $600 mostly solid IKEA piece.
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Yes, but Sony created the Betamax standard while JVC created the VHS standard which won.
Yep! Same with Angola.

The biggest telco player in Mozambique is Viettel - Vietnam's military owned Telcom, but there is also close economic relations with South Africa as it's the neighboring economic hub, and there is a significant Gujarati business community there from the colonial era, along with strong relations with China due to the PLA's support of FRELIMO

By Southern Africa, I meant Anglophone Southern Africa (RSA, Botswana, Malawi, etc)
AppArmor is fairly easy.
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I want to agree, but they're opening themselves up to competition then, and it's coming; Chinese car companies like Aiways, BYD, Hongqi, JAC, Jaecoo, Nio, Ora/Wey, Seres, Xpeng, Zeekr, Lynk & Co (the latter two are both part of Geely, which owns Volvo), MG (in Chinese hands since 2006) and Exlantix are active or will be soon in western Europe and pushing hard to sell generally more affordable cars. Lync & Co is especially popular because they have a rental program, cancelable per month (€650 a month by the looks of it).
This loads faster than native apps serving local content on my device.
Lucky for us Bolt owners who qualified and got their packs replaced under the recall. I will hold on to my 2017 for another decade or so as it now sports a pack that's less than 2 years old. It's almost like getting a brand new car.
I liked the original post title that left me momentarily confused going "why is CNN writing articles in C++?????"
this is behind kombucha being marketed as a "health product" - the establishment of a the right amount of cognitive dissonance so that one day, a guy walks into a bar and orders a 6% kombucha in order to feel like he just went to the gym
Reddit comments here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1bf7eqa/ni...

Mintlify apparently stored customer GitHub access tokens in plaintext in their databases.

Blog appears to downplay severity.

Comments stating that they stored keys plaintext in a database (?!)

Is it worth providing such access to GitHub repos for do
https://archive.is/2024.03.16-142641/https://www.washingtonp...
You are of course completely correct.

However, I still stand by my pseudocode - I claim that it will give a fairly accurate impression of the basic concept of zero-cost access checks to a reader who isn’t familiar with low-level systems programming. (That said, I have updated my comment to make it clear it’s more of a metaphor than a literal description.)
Scuttlebutt I've been reading in the trade press is batteries are likely to outlast the car. Gas engines tend to be trashed after 180-250,000 miles. But batteries may last 500,000 miles or more. That's over 40 years of driving.

Other thing is as energy density increases the weight penalty for EV's is dropping. Possible that eventually EV's will be lighter than gas cars as well.
Also at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39727257 (48 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39728973 (1 comment)
> You're living in complete fantasy land.

You're just arguing against things I am not saying.

> There are many reasons people find it hard to make payments in crypto, other than "just don't want to".

Feel free to elaborate.

> artists need to eat food to live, and artists would be happy to set up payments in crypto, if that would lead to them gaining access to food. But it wouldn't, so they won't.

Can you give reasons why it wouldn't besides people (which includes payers) don't want to use it?

> Ah yes, the thing I always love to do before purchasing a naughty comic book: code reviews!

People are able to make apps. I didn't link an app because I don't know of any, and I don't really care to find one if it already exists. I linked code because this is a hacker forum, and it was trivial to get.
Encyclopedia Britannica was on CDs, not on the internet. I'm old enough to remember.
Sounds like pseudoskepticism to me.

> incompatible with established principles of physics.

Appeal to tradition

> contradicts the known laws of quantum mechanics, which are well-supported by experimental evidence.

Saying it doesn't make it so.

> mathematical errors

This one I approve of if demonstrated. It does seem odd for people to keep saying that for 2 decades while the research progresses. It requires demonstration.

> unjustified assumptions

You can have as wild an hypothesis as you like.

> copied from other texts

grasping at straws

> claims of breakthroughs...

poor claims of refutation!

> ....and imminent commercialization

haha, yes! he has been claiming this for decades and continues to do so. There are even contracts with utility companies from what I understand.

> the company has faced significant challenges in gaining acceptance from the scientific community

How did we end up here? I thought it was simply in violation of well-established experimental evidence, rife with mathematical errors, assumptions, plagiarism, false claims, etc etc? How do we get from all that to gaining acceptance?

> not independently verified

Wait, does that mean that all of the hit pieces, all of the moaning and all of the HOAX screaming littered all over the web is not actually based on anything?

Let me get this straight, so we are burning our world to a crisp, trying to ban food production and energy usage to save our precious environment. People cant pay their energy bills. Everything we consume and do seems to be made from energy primarily.

Then there is a privately funded research project, 20 years ongoing, burned 140 m euro. But we are sure non of it is real based on nonsense clap trap rather than verification? ~Woah!~

It works like this: There are things you know to be true, things you know to be false and then there are things you just don't know. If Undefined evaluates as false there is something wrong with your code. I don't believe a word Mills says but that isn't the same as knowing he is wrong.
This is a dashboard powered by that API

https://mgwalker.github.io/amtrak-api/
Being free to share information is the natural state. The copyright is an artificial restriction introduced to allow authors to benefit from their works, and by proxy, the publishers to whom they sell those rights. Perpetual rent seeking is not now nor was it ever the purpose of those laws. They certainly have nothing to do with some sort of physical copy planned obsolescence system.

One of the best features of Valve's Steam platform is exactly that it gives users the ability to perpetually install the software they have purchased, even if the publisher other removes it from the platform. If users were allowed to resale their purchased games, it would be nearly at full par with first sale doctrine.

Digital systems are a modern bypassing of such prior conventions and laws, and it makes perfect sense to extend them in that direction with time.
Preventative care starts with education. What you're describing is nutritional ignorance, which I agree is part of the problem.

There is a culture of crisis management in the US when it comes to all health issues. This is the direct result, along with all the inefficiency you mention, of private for-profit health insurance.
Okta has a speed test?
“Thou shalt not question”
> major

Selection bias. The median return for a founder is about $0.

If you want to be a billion+ market cap company, sure, use capital to get there. But chances are that the startup will fail. VC investing is diversified - a founder is not.
Contractors pay self employment taxes in lieu of the social security and Medicare payroll tax, and as a result are eligible for both.

The health insurance situation is not great, but it's available through Obamacare. In my experience the actual cost is not much worse than employer provided, but the true cost is often subsidized, so employees don't always realize how much salary they are giving up for health insurance.

No eligibility for unemployment or workers comp though.
Not the parent, but the argument uses quite a few assumptions (axioms) that may not be intuitive to everyone, but which are quite relevant when studying mathematics at the foundational level.

For example, why would one be able to create the diagonal set (those indices of the power set elements that do not contain that index as an element) and the enumeration of the power set (i.e. the entire list of possible sets of numbers) at the same time? The theorem proves that an enumeration of the power set cannot be made. Perhaps some sets cannot be constructed at will just by writing down its properties either?

In computer land, one would quickly run into self-referential problems when constructing sets like these. For mathematics of this kind, most people agree that this is all fine, and one can derive interesting things from it. But one can also reject the approach and still do some elementary fun stuff.

Then again, I might be completely misunderstanding all of this, and I love to be corrected.

Edit: wording
> one hardcover copy of Cook’s latest novel costs the library $18, it costs $55 to lease a digital copy

I buy the used paperback used for $3.

> a price that can't be haggled with publishers.

Of course they can haggle. They just don't know how to.
What excites me the most is if we are successful with projects like https://www.humanimmunomeproject.org/ and to map our findings to the prior Human Microbiome project - https://www.hmpdacc.org/overview/ which tactful AI applications can likely find more novel findings given majority of our immune system is found in the gut. Serotonin is mostly created there, and dopamine has a strong production presence there as well.

So many great books on this recently: I contain multitudes, Immune, Song of the Cell, etc.

Gut + Immune System = Future cures to many diseases
I noticed that too.

I was also surprised that they called out the complexity of EV drivetrains (and charging systems, but I don't know anything about those) as a factor. My prior understanding was that EV drivetrains are significantly simpler than ICE ones, the number of moving parts is comparatively low for EVs, and you don't have the large temperature gradients and intense mechanical impulses that come from repeatedly igniting fuel/air mixtures.

I don't dispute the empirical claims, but as the parent comment implies, I think this is mostly about the maturity of the repair ecosystem, and it's reasonable to expect that that will improve as EVs become more prevalent. It's not a reason to stop, it's a reason to keep going.
Maybe in general but it's not that great on HN and most messageboards.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Which Chinese car companies sell street legal vehicles in the US?
> Free market hardly work there.

Buying things with taxpayer funding and legal mandates is not free market.
> Any insight as to why you think blockchains can't handle this?

As you point out yourself the trust assumptions are fundamentally different. As a result a transparency log can produce an inclusion proof and a consistency proof that is on the order of a few kilobytes large. A trust policy for such a verifier would be of similar size.

How large would the equivalent inclusion- and consistency proofs for a proof-of-work-based blockchain be? What would the trust policy look like? Presumably the verifier would use some historical block as a starting point, which would constitute the trust policy. It would then need to process the entire blockchain from that point and onwards up until the point of inclusion. That's way more than a few kilobytes.

Again, I haven't paid attention to blockchains for a long time so there might be some consensus mechanism out there that has solved this somehow. I'd love to be proven wrong.
Devils advocate, but I code using US spelling for variable names, and avoid using Imperial terms to US English speakers because if they can't wrap their minds around me being in the southern hemisphere and my summer being their winter, they won't be able to cope with "capsicum".
One of the things that complicates this conversation is that people who are huge fans of some specific Ikea furniture model bought it X years ago, and in the meanwhile its construction methods have switched to something cheaper. The "same" product can be both good and bad, depending on the year it was made.