skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been considering buying an apple watch just for the stats. I really don't like how my co-workers watches light up when the move, or when they receive a message, so I wonder if I can turn off everything except health stat collection, at which point the whole thing seems a bit absurd.
Has anyone here played losers chess? Some of the top players on ICC (chessclub.com) back in the day played losers…
This leads to analysis paralysis. Building things helps you think clearer.
it feels terrible when incompetent people take over and start pissing away our money, essentially holding whatever defense concern they managed to monopolize as a hostage. So that part to me is very depressing.

My bigger point was that this process is not linear or predictable. Saturn rocket was a miracle that seemingly no market forces could afford to build. Organizations that built that miracle have exhausted and are nowadays essentially welfare. Now, SpaceX and starlink are a private miracle that was hard to imagine just a couple decades ago. Not sure what the moral is here, but somehow we seem to find a way, whether private or public.
Paywalled: https://archive.is/kbDS0
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I switched from Lightroom to ACDSee since they still sell a perpetual license + they do AI face and scene detection on-device.
Coincidentally, ...or not..., a Catholic priest used John Cage's 4'33 in a German radio devotional that piqued my interest on last Holy Saturday while driving to the hardware store, picking up on Johann Baptist Metz' idea that the shortest definition of religion is 'interruption'.
You may understand my amused confusion when I discovered this thread on HN yesterday.
To deepen the discussion, I'll add a quote from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow about some special kind of silence:

"A screaming comes across the sky…He won’t hear the thing come in. It travels faster than the speed of sound. The first news you get of it is the blast. Then, if you’re still around, you hear the sound of it coming in."
The local Starbucks over the years has had many turnovers in the staff. It usually takes about 3 days for a new worker to learn the job.

That makes it unskilled labor.

Skilled labor is something like welding, where it can take a year to get good at it. Or things that require calculus, which take 4 years of specialized training to even get an entry job at it. Or flying an airplane - you can't just flip through the instruction booklet and fly an airplane.
That's what I've been waiting for too. The URL params always seemed rather sketch to me. No bundlers seem to be using it that way though.
> the amount of gas purchased (and therefore taxed) is directly proportional to the negative externality of CO2 emissions.

This doesn't mean the gas taxes are big enough to correct the market failure. Your comment would be true even if we multiply gas taxes by 0.01, 0.1 or 10.0.

I would prefer it if we just used properly calibrated (larger) gas taxes as the single mechanism. But voters hate that, so we're left with second best solutions.
Have you checked prices recently? EVs are $30k brand new. You can find 2 year old Model 3s for $17k. EVs like the Leaf from 2015/2016 are below $10k. The 8 year old equivalent in 2035 hasn't even been released yet.

Battery costs are continuing to decrease even today. And the deadline isn't for another 11 years.
Yes, their LS-120 drives could store ~120MB on a special disk, or allegedly 32MB on a regular 3.5" high-density disk[1]. It used SMR recording just like the modern spinny-rust hard drives of late that none of us particularly like to accomplish the latter trick.

(I owned an ATAPI variant of this drive for time, but I sadly only ever used it for reading and writing normal disks of normal formatting.)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk
Hi, is Remote only from the US, or can it be from LATAM?
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Did you not consider solar cells when you wrote this?
As a Taiwanese, I got used to it.
I think the price has always been the reason why PHEV never took off, especially in Australia.

My last three cars have all been Hybrids and I'm still not comfortable with EV and range anxiety etc.
I'd happily swap to a PHEV if I had a decent option (in australia) but the range of options is very few and very pricey and with poor options/capabilities in the ranges.
With any luck, it will happen in just a few centuries as waste heat from industrial processes grows without bound, unless industrial expansion moves off-world before then.
Oil and gas subsidies don't exist.
Hindsight bias.

The industry believed 15 years ago that ASML would fail to make EUV work.
Allowing plug-in hybrids to continue to be sold simply ensures that people will buy plug-in hybrids that are never plugged in and simply carry around extra weight for no useful purpose. And when those cars are passed on to the used market, I wonder if anyone will ever bother to replace the batteries.

Personally, I'm looking to buy exclusively hybrids in the near future. But I'm a weird case because I keep vehicles for decades. I have a lot of bad feelings about this legislation.
> If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks.

That's crazy, I wouldn't think anyone would first and foremost associate 3M with floppies instead of adhesives, even those with a few grays like myself.

They make post-its for chrissake, and we're gonna pretend they're most known for floppies?
> This is nearly all jobs.

All unskilled labor jobs.

You're not going to learn welding in 30 days. Nor are you going to learn how to design a bridge. Or program in C++. Or diagnose a patient. Or be a lawyer. Or drive a race car. Etc.
All 8 states are run by Democrats. The bans are ultimately motivated by Democratic Party leaders and influencers who believe a) that climate is changing, b) that this change is for sure going to lead to a climate apocalypse which will kill billions of people and irrevocably destroy the ecosystem, c) that the anthropogenic component of this climate change is decisive, d) that the portion of anthropogenic change due to Co2 emissions is also decisive, and that the decisive factor in Co2 emissions comes from consumption of fossil fuels.

Which are all fine. I don't know enough to question their beliefs.

But I do know enough about math and engineering to know that the only realistic way to deal with the disaster they are predicting is an immediate and massive expansion of nuclear power. But instead of arguing in favor of this immediate and massive expansion of nuclear power, which Republicans would likely support, they push stuff like this.
It's funny you should say that, because Microsoft does it the other way round. And they have the absolute worse premium support ever. I remember a slide from the CIO conference a few years ago that made the rounds saying that the rule for Microsoft Premium support is you don't buy Microsoft Premium support. It's obviously a joke, since without those contracts Microsoft is pretty unlikely to ever respond to your mail.
If it is... they're doing a really good job staying composed, because I couldn't tell. It would be amusing if true.
> With the two examples you chose, I‘d say there is not much of a skill gap.

Unless we're talking about really high end burgers, you can take almost anyone off the street and train them to flip burger patties within a day. They might not willingly do it on account of it being boring/tiring/poorly paid work, but it's not exactly hard to learn either. I doubt you can do the same for an accountant, unless your idea of an accountant is something like "manually copying entries into a ledger". Even teaching excel to someone who hasn't used excel ever, to a capacity where they can do meaningful financial reporting probably can't be done within a day.
More to the point, geo-engineering is guaranteed to fail if emissions are unchecked. Whatever gains the former can offer, the latter may easily overwhelm. Our only hope is for emitting processes to become much more expensive than non-emitting alternatives. Fortunately we are on that path, although entrenched interests force emitting processes to continue well beyond economic rationality. E.g., new coal burning infrastructure being built even now.
Love this, I’m going to steal it
In the past 15 years, what’s kept me from keeping a collection of CDs and blurays is the space they take up. It’s nothing compared to say vinyl records or VHS tapes, but it’s still substantial if you have more than just a handful and makes moving that much more of a pain.

Now that I own a house I have a few favorite CDs that get frequent listening, but still no blurays, mainly because there’s not much I rewatch often enough for owning them to make sense. If I went out and bought everything I could justify right now I might have maybe 5-10 tops.

It’d be cool if a physical medium that’s sized similarly to regular SD cards caught on. You could keep a decent number of albums or movies in a case the same size as a bluray/DVD case, or a full-on library in something similar to an early 2000s portable CD flip case.
Before you sold it to anyone it will only create bills. Development is such a minuscule part of a successful startup
Stuff like this makes me think, but with a different view looking back than when I lived through it.

For example, the hole punch thing. 10 year old me would have never pondered this, but... was there someone at Stedmans' HQ, wondering why there was an 18% uptick in hole-punch sales? Some old, crusty and cantankerous beatnik squirreled away, staring at sales charts and projections, perplexed as to why?

How many households had no hole-punch, but did once the floppy appeared in home?
> high security packages like this that effect ssh and main parts of the OS critical for security and safety should be maintained by actual enterprises not by one developer.

I don’t remember the company names, but I guess people will remember the incidents.

- Solarwinds have been breached end to end.

- A company has been bribed (forced?) to ship backdoored encryption algorithms.

- A network hardware supplier’s firmware had been backdoored by Chinese IIRC.

- NSA backdoored national standards.

- Microsoft has been breached end to end.

In short, even if you’re a company, you’re one NSL, one bad actor, one misstep away from “total pwnage”.

I trust some individuals for developing critical software than entire “enterprise”s.

Everything is as strong as their weakest link.
There are a lot of metaphors and "thought experiments" in that article. It shows how empty this whole debate is. No one is even near anything that could be called AGI. There's just a bunch of corporate savvy tech types getting a lot of money to run expensive labs by impressing people with chatbots and rendering algos.
With smart disjunctors placed before every EV chargers. Source: I work on that kind of device.
Is this true?

I find creating, then deleting to be more grounding. Explore a couple paths and pick the good one, don’t just stay home.
100k miles is the minimum warranty you get from manufacturers, in California it’s 150k miles. More realistic is 200k miles.
And then your still left with 80% capacity.

And then you can recycle them. There’s almost no capacity yet because there’s also no demand, but it seems like it will be a no-brainer financially to recycle them.
In high school, we had a virtual stock portfolio competition. At the time, I was an assistant manager (making minimum wage because I was a depressed kid who looked about 12) at a nationwide small store software (and hardware) store. Zip drives were flying off the shelves, so naturally I checked the company's P&L, SEC statements, and stock data. So I assigned 88% of my stock in IOMG because I could tell it was severely undervalued by market cap compared to projected current sales and frontline buzz. I laid waste to that econ-history class of BMW-driving rich kids and all of their "not cheating" help from their dads. As a bit of bittersweet irony, my teacher's investment club lost on IOMG because they got in late and sold early, just 2 months previously. If they had just been patient enough to wait for that 2 week window where the market appreciated excellent sales, they would've realized significant gains rather than losses.

PS: Yeah, I had a SCSI Zip drive. It was an improvement over floppies that were notoriously unreliable and not very durable even in 3.5" form. 3.5" floppies were traded at school, but you'd never loan original media. In general, the first thing you'd do with pristine media of real product without copy protection was make a backup copy or 2 of it. Some programs would burn serial numbers into floppy media on first installation irreversibly, and sometimes (okay, often) original media would go bad.
Gas and diesel have relatively short shelf lives.

They last around 12 months (way less for gas with added ethanol) if stored properly meaning not too cold or hot and no big temperature changes.

This can be extended with preservatives/stabilizers to a few years but after that you are fucked if you don’t run a refinery.

So yeah preppers should go with electric. Batteries also have a limited lifespan but it should be longer if managed properly.
To the last point you made: probably big corp stuff. This developer for Microsoft Teams is on a team which doesn’t have the necessary skills to understand ffmpeg, and cannot tap into any other resources in the organization because of politics / budgets / whatever. They’re still faced with bugs in their project, and as such, do the most pragmatic thing: try to work with the developers of the OSS project in question to get it resolved.
Oh, they are setting up for a massive shortage of useful people in a few years unless AI knocks productivity out of the park.
I have a similar, though not quite the same, concern. I wonder if it would be better, instead of outright banning gas powered cars, to tax the emissions. If by some magic we could get 150mpg cars, that could be competitive with a relatively green grid. Or alternatively if mileage can't go up but it's possible to recapture some of the carbon before it leaves the tailpipe - that could also cut down the emissions, achieving the same climate goal.

That said challenges with any such regime:
- it's probably easier to tax the gas directly than the released emissions
- it's definitely a problem to be raising the cost of living for lower-income Americans, who already don't have wiggle room in their budgets

It's pretty likely that EVs will get cheaper over time, as production of them reaches better economies of scale which get optimized more with each new generation. How much cheaper of course is the big open question that remains to be seen, but some European countries have already seen mass adoption as the EVs get cheaper than ICE vehicles (Norway in particular, via a subsidy: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23939076/norway-electric-...). That said it's not yet the case that EVs can be made cheaper without policies shifting some of the cost.

One partial answer may be extending cheap credit for buying EVs, as EVs should have cheaper maintenance in the long run and can have cheaper operating costs (though... that depends on the local price of energy, which we don't seem to be great about keeping under control) so it appears the bigger problem with EVs is upfront cost rather than total cost of ownership - a problem better credit could smooth over. Of course this then gets tied up with the problems of interest rates. <nervously glances at the Fed>
Clock per clock is a bad metric in comparing how fast CPUs are, it's like normalizing for engine CC or RPM. CPU designers make a chip do more work per clock cycle while trading off how fast it can clock, and vice versa.

(It can be a useful number in analyzing CPU design tradeoffs or other details of course)
Indeed, unskilled labor is a large part of the job market.
Glad to find this gem
I am confident the technology issues will be solved having studied the market for many years. What you see now for products does not represent the state of the art which is mostly coming out of China.

Most automakers are currently redesigning and retooling for the new reality of very cheap BEVs with lots of range and very fast charging. The largest shift currently underway is a major change over to LFP packs with cell-to-pack technology and large format prismatic cells like the BYD blade and CATL qilin. We also inch closer to solid state and sodium batteries which is likely the enablers for the next wave of innovative products at all price points in 5 years.

I don’t think 500-600 mile range BEVs with 500kW+ charging will be that rare in 11 years. We already have some current examples like the 2024 Zeeker 001. Based on those figures recharging is on par with refueling an ICE car.
This reducer is certainly pure, you are confusing it with `st => st++`
>>You are just desperate.

You've taken it waaaaaay too personally. No one is attacking you, your statement, it wasn't even meant to be a rebuttal of what you said, I literally just wanted to share a story from my experience.

>>Childish

Now that's uncalled for.
If you actually use the batttery for daily driving, smaller battery means you have many more battery cycles for a given distance, meaning the battery degrades faster.

I’ve been in favour of EVs or plugins with small batteries myself. But in the long term I’m wondering if it’s a bad idea if the battery doesn’t last as long as the car. Replacing them is very expensive.

Maybe with it’s more responsible with modern LFP battery packs. They should handle many charging cycles fairly well
Mostly true, but IPC is not the only thing influencing power consumption - process node also plays a significant part, so Apple will be ahead as long as they use the newest nodes at TSMC.

Apple's IPC mostly comes from their 8-wide instruction decoder that isn't possible in x86_64 because of variable instruction lengths.
I completely agree with this take.

LLM's have been hyped up to replace developers, but have repeatedly shown that the code at best can do the job.

It will replace the offshore sweatshops that Accenture and IBM have made, where they literally pull people off the streets and give them a couple of hours course so they can meet headcount for contracts. Those people were never productive.

I've seen the outputs that people who have tried to use in my codebase, and the amount of SQL injections and XSS exploits that get churned out because the model doesn't understand context is terrible.

I'm just waiting for the big hack to come along because of too much faith in these systems that have cold indifference in your systems reliability.
This is essentially rumor on the basis of an anonymous forum comment saying 40% on SPECint. Cool if it's true but we cannot evaluate that and there are zero interesting details.
It's still faster. `bun test` is like a gajillion times faster than jest + all the voodoo to make it run TS.
I think that depends on the exact KPI.
Credentialism has certainly gone too far in many fields, but I’d still like my doctors, lawyers, and engineers to have more than 30 days of training in their field.
Boring, repetitive take. Microsoft is a large company with some crap products and some really cool stuff. Their work to bring SQL Server to Linux[1] seemed very cool.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13206438
In the old world there were hardly any digital content creators. Nowadays you have more millionaires on Youtube than total content creators back in the days.
That's just playing with words. Putting Gordon Ramsay in the same bucket as "burger flipper" makes as much sense as putting Linus Torvalds in the same bucket as "keyboard monkey".
Let me get this right …

FFmpeg open sourced their software for all to use without having to pay for it. This was a choice they made.

Then on their own web site, they only accept 1-time donations and state “If you find FFmpeg useful, you are welcome to contribute by donating.” [0]

Then someone comes along to donate (and play by the rules they’ve set), and they publicly complain about it?

Some Advice: if you want to monetize Fortune 500 use, don’t open source it. Or at least, create a strategy that allows you to monetize it (like what Sidekiq has done).

[0] https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
I was wondering why they didn’t extend their workaround (certificate cross-sign). Turns out they could but:

- Android devices which needed the cross-sign compatibility dropped to 6.1%.

- “dropping the cross-sign will reduce the number of certificate bytes sent in a TLS handshake by over 40%.”

- “it will significantly reduce our operating costs”

Too bad for those who use their old Android devices to access the public library and can’t afford to upgrade.

It’s not ideal, but using Firefox Mobile to access Libby web app should still work?
They may just put restrictions on when you can charge and drive.
“This,” “that,” “the other thing.”

Or as the Beatles said, “Here, There, and Everywhere”

Linguistic references which are relative to the speakers context and viewpoint.
Where I work, things seem to take about 5-10 years longer than anyone plans.

Even if there are companies on the cutting edge of AI, there will always be those that take more time to adopt it. Others will never adopt it in any meaningful way, unless there is something affordable and off the shelf that can actually fulfill the business needs.

I’m going to remain highly skeptical of the promises of AI, until I see them actually come to fruition.

WYSIWYG HTML editors were supposed to be the end of needing web developers, now those are mostly gone, some template based services exist, and there are more web developers than ever.

Low-code was also supposed to be the end of needing developers, as anyone who knew the business requirements could plug some LEGO blocks together. That also seems to be dying, as the logic still needs to exist and that’s where people get lost, not to mention the lack of flexibility and customization than those systems can lead to.

Will AI replacing software engineers be any different? Only time will tell.
Yes the Zeeker 001 is very impressive. Another 500kW+ charging EV is the Li Auto Mega van.

https://insideevs.com/news/710508/li-auto-mega-fast-charging...
A literal reading of this comment is easily falsifiable[1][2], so can you explain what you mean?

[1] <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/climate/tax-breaks-oil-ga...>

[2] a few examples under <https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/subtitle-A/chapte...>
> the A17 certainly isn't competitive with the reckless horsepower of desktop CPUs

Except when they put it into a laptop/desktop and crank the power up to typical levels ...