skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a similar comment about this on a different post.

They're unlikely to still be subsidized (or if it is it is small) but their subsidies did happen. China's industrial policy play book goes like this:

1. Erect barriers to foreign competitors. Subsidize domestic makers. This creates a chaotic fields of many domestic players that aren't particularly good nor efficient.

2. Remove or reduce subsidies and force the domestic players to fight for survival and thus innovate. The weaker ones will die off or get absorbed until there are only a few major domestic makers.

3. Lower barriers to foreign competitors (ie. invite Tesla to build a factory in Shanghai) to really ratchet up the competition and force innovation even more

4. Start exporting

It's not traditional subsidies but that early governmental incubation phase was a huge help in companies building up their infrastructure (subsidized by government) and know how.

Also, I want to point out this isn't an exclusively Chinese playbook but one that has been used by Japan and South Korea as well. The origin actually goes all the way back to Germany during their industrialization. The US doesn't do this because of our strong adherence to free market capitalism but people, even GOP Senator Rubio, is starting to reconsider this position.
Knock yourself out. The only other thing I'll say is that you're looking in the wrong place if trading volume excites you. The market cap of all digital currency is circus peanuts compared to the IMF's lingua franca.

But you do you. I'm sure you're well acquainted with the nay-sayers.
There are two standards for bicycle helmet and the more stringent one was intended to prevent concussion from a fall from normal riding height. How that works when you hit a car at 15 mph I cannot say.

But those are one and done helmets. The helmet destroys itself to save your noggin.

There was talk of putting blue gel inserts into football helmets to provide some of that same protection but in a reusable form. I don’t recall if those became standard though.
Why do you think a lynch mob would stop using social media when they are excellent tools for them to use to organise lynchings?
I've had a kindle for years now. A while back I jailbroke it and stuck KOReader which has been so awesome. (Custom fonts? Yes please! Gestures for going to the TOC or bookmarks or back in history? Absolutely!)

Problem: it was a lot of work getting my kindle to this state. I'm terrified to turn on WiFi for fear Amazon will send an OTA update and nuke KOReader from orbit.

So, when this kindle dies, I am thinking I'd like to get something that KOReader runs on without any of the shenanigans I had to go through. Would folks here recommend Kobo? Seems like a nice equivalent.
Do you have any feel for the performance compared to the M3 Max?
Don't forget the depreciation, interest, maintenance, and tax accounts if you want to track those against the real estate cost basis for various purposes. You also need to figure out how to create and map accounts to IRS rules or you could put yourself in a real bind when it comes to figuring out tax liabilities or deductions.
New hydrogel can stretch to 15 times its original size
There are plenty of small cars made outside of China. Why do you think not a single auto manufacturer worldwide bothers to export their best selling models to the US? The market here wants SUVs and trucks, not $15K subcompacts.
Going through the official Python tutorial is a must:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

Use multiprocessing not multithreading due to the GIL.

Python optimization is generally at a higher level, you use a better algorithm to get a result faster, rather than you saved an unnecessary copy.

Know when to use Python async.

Python is slow but you can always move work over into the database or dedicated library like NumPy.

Use the faster Python interpreter PyPy, which does JIT.

Do a multiprocessing pipeline with your CPU bound work broken down into stages.
We already have it with YugabyteDB, which is open source (unlike Neon), but doesn't seem to be the success story it should have been. At least I've heard barely a peep about it. Maybe they're not so great at marketing.

Yugabyte is architected similarly to other similar databases, with an SQL layer on top of a distributed, replicated key/value store based on RocksDB. The different being that the SQL layer is Postgres.

Yugabyte tightly couples the two, though, though it seems like this is mostly for convenience, in that the "TServer" (tablet server) is managed by Yugabyte itself. I wonder if it could support an architecture more similar to TiDB, where the storage is independently scalable from compute.

CockroachDB and TiDB are based on a similar design, but Yugabyte stands out as being a "real" Postgres. It even supports normal Postgres extensions via "CREATE EXTENSION".
Fighters often don't have ADS-B, but there are lots of other military aircraft that routinely use it (transports, etc.). Go to https://globe.adsbexchange.com and press U to show only military.
I'm confident that the technical skills can almost (e.g. disabilities) always be trained, given sufficient time.

Creativity/inspiration seems to be missing culturally. Consider for example Maths or Physics, where creativity is essential to internalize the material, but the teachings usually emphasize memorizing a few tricks to solve well-known problems and pass the year.

But even if it could be trained, there's 1) the luck factor 2) inborn quality variations. Some people just have it in their bones more than others, even if it manifests "just" as being more relentless in practicing.

That's to say, I mostly agree with you, but I'm curious as to how far we could reach with different teaching approaches.
Honestly this entire article was a red flag, and the fact that thats a quesiton they expect everyone to go home and build out for an INTERVIEW is a massive MASSIVE red flag, like are you kidding me you want a prospective employee to basically give you a solution for one of the main challenges of your company lol.
'BYD said just last month that it has no plans to enter the U.S. auto market anytime soon'

No US automaker is thinking of anything like this or even losing a minute of sleep. Crank out some more 3 ton truck!
I think the point is that this person has spent so much time experiencing this phenomenon on the internet, that the effects are bleeding into reality.
Providing rationales for your beliefs is hard work, but it's worth it. I'm not saying you deserve to be bullied, but I have no trouble saying what I think online, and supporting my positions with evidence—admittedly, behind a pseudonym, but that is necessary when one targets violent men for critique, which is 90% of why I bother going online in the first place.
If you're not gaming or doing serious gpgpu stuff, the on-board GPU has been a sweet spot for well over a decade now.
That's what he was found guilty. It's not what he did.

What he did was embarrass the system. That's what the prison sentence was for.

The piece of PVC pipe found in a junk pile.elsewhere in the park was just the excuse they pointed at.
is this what they're doing here but with polarization instead of wavelength?
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070247553A1/en
It's really hard to call - see how much push back you also get from fighters when the ref calls it too early and so much stakes are on the line.

Some extra awareness will hopefully help
Final draft version of the book available here for personal research and education:

https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book
Tesla had to move production to China originally because of import tariffs. The USA did not establish the bilateral tariffs to protect its car markets, these were in place to protect China's. It seems a bit unfair that the USA is getting flack for this two decades later.
I think the "everything app" already exists. It's called a web browser.
From the image, that does not look to be PVC but a metal pipe. It is possible to create a firearm from a pipe that can fire shotgun shells. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUtEnCLVUI
Notice how the government made lynchings illegal, not the method of communicating such actions.
How is this not just a thin, expensive wrapper around https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-qrcode-logo?
Have you seen _The Matrix_?
Cool, I thought you were sarcastic there but just didn't want to assume.

My point was only that purpose isn't what you do, its why you do it. I'd actually argue that curing cancer isn't a purpose either, its what someone is trying to do while the purpose could be a desire to help others or fame or fortune.
Nah that would be crazy.
Yeah, I source my ledger from multiple places like bank transactions, investments accounts, cash transactions etc.

I can't really think of a case where I have made a mistake, but if, for example, I sold something to a friend I would debit (+) their "reimbursement" account with the amount they owe me. If I typoed that to 10x the amount, I would just go and correct the typo, I wouldn't make two new entries to revert then correct the mistake.
Also: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalik...

Here's my try in ruby from a prior life: https://github.com/chef/mixlib-shellout/blob/main/lib/mixlib...
Yea seriously, some of the rural areas in decline have been in the news because they actively oppose any new development that might actually revive the area. Be it cries of "think of the traffic" or noise or whatever.
Rumor: iOS 18 to include new 'Safari browsing assistant' AI feature
Why can't low cost car have bigger body? If the whole car cost 10k, maybe they can enlarge the body with extra 2k.
If you're looking for ways to measure the carbon footprint of your website, my team and I put together a bunch of tools and resources to get started with the Green Software Foundation's Impact Framework as part of Carbon Hack 24.

The Impact Framework allows you to build and use a system of plugins for any software stack to measure its environmental impacts, and our approach focuses on the web.

You can check out all of the resources here:

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Or get an overview of what we put together by watching this video:

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By that line of analysis, we'd expect a Whiggist regime to have optimistic propaganda with contemporary scifi being pessimistic because the Whiggist faction is ineffectual?
She seems like an interesting person, not the crazy brute "they" made her sound like in her losses in UFC.

Concussions should be taken seriously. The idea of waving off a rattled brain as a headache, and keep playing through, makes me cringe in the literal sense.

I've had 3-4 of them, and I worry about my memory and mental performance over time. I'm only in my mid 30s.
Mozilla Stands Against Google's New Advertising Tech
I admit I could totally fail, the learning is the exercise.
> I think the way he's handled Twitter has demonstrated that he might not be the genius we thought; I wonder how many of his dumb ideas were quietly rejected when he had some oversight

Reminiscent of George Lucas and the first Star Wars trilogy (IV-VI) versus the second (I-III): in one he had people around him pushing back (being part of a team), and the other he basically had carte blanche.
I tried using John Wiegley's Ledger, which uses negative numbers. Everything was great about Ledger except for that part - I just couldn't wrap my head around it.
> I recently found out that helmets do nothing to prevent concussion regardless of the sport.

This is false. Or you misspoke in some way.

New helmet designs do indeed help prevent concussions by deforming to take the blow and lessen the brain movement in the head, hence reducing concussions.

https://theathletic.com/4776016/2023/08/28/vicis-helmets-nfl...

> According to the NFL and NFLPA, the safer helmet designs that have resulted from the innovations of VICIS and other companies have eliminated between 20 and 25 NFL concussions per year over the last five to seven seasons.
Fighters will try to hide broken arms and try to continue the fight.
The consequences of repeated head injuries from sports and fighting are well known and understood since 1920.

Doing impact sports (football!) professionally or fighting professionally and staying healthy is just not possible without neutering the sports. Maybe this should be made even clearer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
You are correct. Dicts are ordered by insertion. Also, I'd like to add that, maybe surprisingly, sets are not.

>>> set([3, 2, 1])
{1, 2, 3}

>>> set([10, 100, 1000])
{1000, 10, 100}
Do you have any evidence of this?

It is a borderline racist trope that keeps being repeated (mostly by ex-Twitter developers with a chip on their shoulder) without any hard proof. It is equally likely they are upset over a lack of solidarity in quitting and are perpetuating a lie based on someone's citizenship status.
Does someone know if it can work in web assembly ?
I wonder how this would compare to a random sample of humans choosing a number between 1 and 100. I assume 42 is frequent due to showing up in the training data a good amount (Answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything", Jackie Robinson's number and the movie about him), but would that correlate well to how humans would pick a random number?
In Germany in work-related traffic (commuting I guess) there are 1.1 persons per car in average. I guess it's similar in many other countries. So a small car like this would be perfect for most commuters. I always dream of a one/two-seat vehicle for that purpose, something alike the Renault Twizy.
better habits and cultural norms is not the business of the state to enforce
You guessed right -- mirrors are expensive, and also heavy; plus it's yet another piece to align (in infrared, so you can't use unaided vision to align the optics; yes, you can use a coaxial visible beam to help with this but that's also expensive and hard for various reasons). If you're using an incoherent light source there's also the problem of collecting all that light and focusing it onto the sample, and each optical element incurs some loss of light.

In the end, the actual LEDs themselves are tiny; a PCB containing the LEDs + driver ICs is smaller, lighter, and brighter than any mirror/lens assembly I could easily source with the requisite coatings to operate efficiently in this frequency band.

For a laser source, a fiber optic source can make a lot of sense, but fiber optics optimized for this frequency of light turn out to be pretty expensive, and the termination of the fiber optic still needs a collimator lens. At the end of the day, the net weight and cost budget still works out in favor of mounting a laser diode directly on the microscope head, so long as the power requirement is under a watt. Beyond that, the weight of the heat sink starts to be a factor, and an off-board laser starts to make more sense.
Adrenaline makes you stupid. And fighters may be using PEDs that make them even dumber.

We didn’t catch Lance Armstrong using PEDs for something like eight years.
He owned x.com before he went to PayPal (they acquired his company which was called: x.com). When ousted, the domain continued to be owned by PayPal until later they ended up selling it and eventually he bought it back.
The last age of the small car, which was pretty much the late 1970s in the US:

- oil embargo

- cars went downhill very quickly (planned obsolesence)

- inflation meant new car buyers could buy less.

Small cars died steadily under four decades of cheap gas, globalized production and financing keeping larger cars affordable (or at least, financable). Cars got a lot better, so used cars would work perfectly fine so you chose between a crappy small new car and a much better used one.

Now?

- used cars since COVID are still really expensive

- inflation again, and even before inflation, the 7-10 year car loan was becoming really common

- gas prices are a lot more volatile in the consumer perspective, and from a political long term standpoint carbon taxes may come into play soon in addition to reduced financing for new petroleum projects

- cash for clunkers will likely appear again in the next decade / recession as a way to usher off old ICE cars off the market

- increasing urbanization of the US combined with decreased tolerance for car traffic may result in SUVs being banned from cities, or an exhorbitant tax

- the war on the younger generations means along with increased global warming awareness means that an affordable small EV is likely much more "socially" acceptable, maybe even desirable.

- All US car companies are global, and the Chinese car companies are doing quite well in international markets. If China wins this market segment (especially in the Indian/Chinese market where there are 2.5 billion people) then that provides enormous scale to assault all other market segments. They are already climbing the model ladder in Europe.

The SUV/Pickup is still king of the US, but let's face it that was always a product of marketing. Marketing can falter quickly. The most popular vehicles aren't even SUVs, they are station wagons dressed up in marketese as "crossovers". That shift has already begun.
Why would they do that instead of using some SaaS that promises to do everything better like Snowflake or Tableau or whatever?
Yes, Python dicts remember insertion order. This is different from C++ std::map, which maintains the keys in sorted order. For example, std::map::lower_bound(X) finds "the smallest key in the map which is greater than or equal to X" in O(log(N)) time. I don't think Python has any data structure in the standard library that supports this operation while also supporting insertion in O(log(N)) time.
Tape-deck, a user-unfriendly design
I meant it in jest
> The amount of dumb and uneducated people that couldn't even listen to expert advice during a fucking pandemic is driving me up the wall.

The amount of dumb, educated people that blindly accepted everything that was fed to them during the fucking pandemic is driving me up the wall.

"Just two weeks to flatten the curve!"
Lentils are great too. What do you think protein powders are made of? Chickpeas are another delicious and inexpensive option. There's also seitan, yum.
It's interesting to see that the cardinal directions are everywhere since they're used locally:

https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6Ik5vcnRoIiwiY29...
At some point, "not taking security seriously" is simply negligence. Other fields already have ways of punishing people for negligence (up to and including suspension of licensure and/or prosecution). Why are software developers immune to consequences for not realizing they need to use parameter binding in their SQL statements?
Ive had a similar problem to you, but I have mostly solved it by using the Outrun app (which is free and open source), and going into the settings and turning up the GPS smoothing. The setting is called GPS accuracy, and you can play with the settings a bit. I mostly run in central london, and it seems to work with the tall buildings here.

https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun
Against who and for what?

How are serious injuries during high impact sports and professional fighting even treated from a legal perspective? To contestants sign waivers? -> "I consent to my enemy breaking my nose, making me lose my eye or tear off my ear."?
Chechnya is banning music that's too fast or slow.
fwiw i'm not ok with either overt government interference or covert warrantless surveillance
It's baffling to me, that despite how famous McLuhan still is today, that people somehow do not follow the implications of his criticism (and that of Ellul, Debord, Kaczinsky ;), ...). Technology, in and of itself, the actual physical _thing_, shapes the world, our dispositions, our aspirations, in its own image, and does so in absence of our judgement.
I think the argument is that if you can't defend against 3 head shots in quick succession, you've lost, period. As in, that should be a statutory definition of losing a match.

It would change the strategy of the sport, but it may help prevent brain damage over time.
It's really just an extreme version of a boat. They seem like fun, but they're money pits, and a lot of work goes into keeping them running. Alternatively, it's the Cartmanland scenario.
Vocabulary, Granularity, and Terministic Screens
Bigger body = higher shipping cost because bigger and heavier, also they need a bigger battery or put up with less range for the extra weight, the heavier battery itself has weight so they need even more weight still to counteract that. So maybe they'd be able to add an inch or two for 2K, then what's the point of that?
My point is that you are criticising beliefs while presenting a belief of your own.

We don't know if AGI is even possible, but we also don't know which technologies are going to lead to it. LLMs including.
> is the cost of prioritising work over family

It's worse than that. At the same time families were broken, the children also stopped having freedom to roam around and make friends on their own on the real world.
Saying Americans only want big cars is just as ignorant as saying Europeans only want small cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWi1pCR3peg

NerdForge recently helped her boyfriend learn to draw from scratch, and she lists all the stuff she used to help him get there, and you can watch him go through parts of them as well.
As someone that knows people that use Matrix bridges, I feel confident that 99% of those people would blame Apple and not Beeper. Either the exploit is bad and Apple would have shut it down regardless, or it's benign and Apple is trying to secure their manifest destiny. The monetization aspect of it feels completely tangential when there is no sanctioned "free" route anyways.
CSV is an awful non-standard standard that nobody should use.

To understand how awful it is, you just have to ask two questions "How do I represent empty values?" "What do I do when my separator is contained in the data?"

There are answers to these questions, but there's not a standard backing up those answers. And that's what makes CSV is PITA to deal with. It's such a loose "standard" that anything goes.

xml and json are FAR better options even when you just want a table of data.
> Imagine futuretopia with me for a moment; when you are hired at a company they send a very secure cryptographic keygen to your subdermal ID implant. Maybe with 3 different fields for "employee" "division" "role"

This is immediately the wrong design and is confusing authentication with authorisation.

Your "subdermal implant" needs only one feature, (two if we wanted greater privacy than exists for employees today, but let's not get ahead of ourselves)

1. "I am still me". The implant can produce a copy of its public key, and will cheerfully sign simple freshness challenges allowing the employer to confirm that this is the same implant that the person hired had.

That's all you need, that's the whole thing. The question of whether you're in Org Unit A9 or ZQ, whether you're a Deputy Senior Assistant or a Senior Deputy Assistant, whether you're part of Divison F or not, these aren't authentication they are authorisation questions and there is no need for them to belong to you, they can live near the decision since they can be changed by other people - you can be demoted or promoted, moved, reshuffled, fired - that's not a decision for you it's a decision for somebody else.
Sub $20k is not realistic in 2024.

Even barebones ICE cars without AC and with everything cheap plastic start higher and return no margin. The last car that was widely available below $20,000 was the manual, no-ac Honda civic from the widely panned post-housing bubble model generation. Mitsubishi also sold a widely panned barebones model, their Mirage, that sold poorly.

Cheap cars with no margin is a suckers bet. The auto industry carries way too much debt and can’t deliver such a product and remain in business for long.
An out group of people to be blamed.

In this case, the lame corporate kind of people.