skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did many of these in the course of a CS degree 25 years ago, IE: scientific calculator, a server, interpreter, a VM… I would expect people working in industry who have completed a degree have done most of this list in the course of their studies?
Inertia will keep the status quo for a very very very long time. Combine that with heterogeneity (i.e. not everyone will be using local solar plants) and that the distribution concerns noted still apply to local plants outside your house and it doesn’t seem like it’ll go away without some kind of central planning forcing the issue.
This article smells so much the "if you want the eternal life, give me more money right now".
Are you specifically anti-Tesla? Let me help you, since you can't seem to find these on Google, here's two:

Kia EV6 Manual: https://www.kia.com/content/dam/kwcms/au/en/files/owners-man...

Excerpt:

> Insects, tar, tree sap, bird droppings, industrial pollution and similar deposits can damage your vehicle's finish if not removed immediately. Even prompt washing with plain water may not completely remove all these deposits. A mild soap, safe for use on painted surfaces, may be used. After washing, rinse the vehicle thoroughly with lukewarm or cold water. Do not allow soap to dry on the finish.

Mustang Mach-E Manual: https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/Catalog/owne...

Excerpt:

> Immediately remove fuel spillages, additive residuals, bird droppings, insect deposits and road tar. These may cause damage to your vehicle’s paintwork or trim over time.

Just because Tesla (and many others) say it may/can damage finishes, doesn't mean it's because of something unique about Tesla. This isn't a failing on Tesla's part, it's just a industry standard 'cover your ass' statement.
Abolish the borders. Anyone who can pass a criminal background check gets in, no more questions asked. Immigration is our #1 competitive advantage in the US, as the entire rest of the industrialized world slips into a demographic abyss.
- Things will be the same, except for X.

- Maybe other things will be different too.

- Oh, so everything will be different?!
I wonder if the landlord was compensated. The costs associated with owning a listed building are much higher than if it's unlisted.
I was thinking of implementing refraction in my distribution raytracer (stochastic, not parallel). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ray_tracing

I would randomly sample a frequency, calculate its color and use it to modulate ray color. I would have to scale the result by 3 to account for the pure refracted color being 1/3 brightness.
>> " " C-b C-y C-a C-SPC C-e M-( info C-a C-k C-/

> Ohh emacs. lol

This may seem like a lot of work but at least for me this is all muscle memory, so I happen to type them without even realising what I am typing.

It is sort of like playing the piano. When you play your favourite song on the piano, you don’t think of the keys you are pressing. It is all muscle memory. You just let your brain and fingers do the work and your conscious being can simply enjoy the music. It’s like that with Emacs too!

Also, since this is Emacs we are talking about, of course we have a simpler alternative that involves only a couple of keystrokes: C-0 c. This is discussed in the next section of the post.
And it was better spent at SpaceX than the usual cost plus defense industry players.
The most significant shift in my opinion of him happened as a result of my reading of his authorized biography (from Isaacson). I don't read much "legacy media".
If you stack spent fuel bad things occur. And no, I don't agree. The volume and mass of PV panels in the world is already negligible and making the waste stream smaller is not important or relevant to anyone. Even in an extreme case nobody would pursue, it doesn't take any space. In a sane case it is a high quality silicon feedstock.
Is there a list or database of countries, ranked by how easy it is to get into from other countries? Something that can be used as a reference when organizing a global conference.

The opposite of the "Henley Passport index", if you will.
Thanks! Appreciate the reference. :)
Nothing like a 3 tonne EV accelerating by mistake... I can't belive someone actually approved this vehicle to be street legal considering how many design flaws and lack of regard for security it has.
Do you have them well cataloged in zip up DVD binders?
The policy is enforceable through moderation. They're probably looking for multiple indicators then doing a manual review. The only way to monetize Medium is through the partner program, which is reliant on high volume of posts or a post to go viral. It's unlikely an AI generated post will go viral, but it is very likely people will spam the system and start posting 3-5x a day to get a few dollars. I don't think they're as concerned with someone using AI as an assistant to write a few posts a month, but rather AI slowly draining their payouts from real people.
0.16% of Singapore's population had Dengue in 2022. 1.4% of Brazil's population had Dengue in 2023.
When we use medium, we tell our audience we don't care if they get bombarded with bad UX, like subscription popups. And we tell our accessibility activist audience that we don't want them to read us at all.

I immediately nope out of medium articles. I black list medium on my search engines. And I criticize medium authors on HN instead of reading their articles. This is all with the hope of bringing back more accessible old school blogs.

If I wrote a blog in 2024, I would use a free GitHub Pages site, and use a markdown based blog generator. This distributes my message for free, without attacking my audience's attention with sign up screens.
In startup.sh, here are a few things to think about.

Instead of setting RED/GREEN/BLUE, you could do this:

N=$(printf \\033)
N="$N[" x=30

for a in Bl R G Y B M C W # Black Red Green Yellow Blue Magenta Cyan White
do eval $a='$N'"'"$(( x))"m'" \
b$a='$N'"'"$((60 + x))"m'" \
${a}bg='$N'"'"$((10 + x))"m'" \
b${a}bg='$N'"'"$((70 + x))"m'" # bX=bright Xbg=background bXbg=brgt bgnd
x=$(( x + 1 ))
done # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

Unless you have "set -e" this:

if [ ! "$HOSTNAME" ]; then
HOSTNAME="$(hostname -s)"
fi

Is more succinctly expressed as this:

[ -z "$HOSTNAME" ] && HOSTNAME="$(hostname -s)"
Britain Is Leaving the U.S. Gender-Medicine Debate Behind
It was not forced in the sense that git itself still allow you to use master and still is the default but it was definitely stunt from big company to gain/test good faith of the people without achieving nothing.

Still relevant:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854
I think the point that @pjmlp was making was that "Microsoft couldn't care less." But, while that may or may not be true, I see it more like microsft using open source software against possible open source customers...or rather against customers who have the potential to leverage open source. And, if that's true, then i would gather that microsoft does indeed care...its merely using a different set of tactics and tools (open source software), as compared to its tactics and tools from decades ago.
Rio Grande Valley orgs suing to protect sacred tribal land from Musk's SpaceX
Just like many of these schemes, the first person to do it will probably make a good amount of money, but every nth person after that will make much less. There has always been a large group of people trying to spam their way through the Medium partner program.
A criminal background check is more investigation than is currently done. That’s usually only done for multi-year visas.
Ask HN: What is the essential mathematics for tech and best resources for it?
That, I agree with. But the article is advocating for much more.

Unfortunately, there is a fundamental problem with sharing market cap and number of outstanding shares with all employees (and prospective ones). This data would quickly leak to the competition and other unwanted hands.
Synchronization is a one time event. Once the networks are coupled the physics itself keeps it in sync.

The problem is that physics also dictates that the interconnection links need to be big enough to handle the power imbalance between the different parts of the networks. So grid management is mostly about balancing production and demand as a whole and in sub-grids.
Tesla fans should go to the Olympics and compete in mental gymnastics
Anecdotes aren't data. But literally everyone I know in Canada uses iMessage.
"The exception that proves the rule" is an idiom that depends on a different meaning of the word "prove" from what you have in mind.
Could you help me understand which Copilots are involved in this?

Your tweet at https://twitter.com/ataiiam/status/1765089261374914957 mentions "Cursor's copilot".

The blog post at https://rtpg.co/2024/03/07/parsing-copilots-type-spaghetti/ talks about GitHub Copilot - did they make a mistake there?

And your product is CopilotKit - is that related to the GitHub and Cursor Copilots in some way or is it something different?
> Manage our resources, as offering free email addresses that are never used is unsustainable.

But offering free email addresses that are used (just by logging in once a year) is sustainable? This point doesn’t make sense to me. It could be reworded to state the real intent.

The biggest drawback of ProtonMail and similar services (such as Tuta/Tutanota) is that you can’t get your mails out and move to another service if you’re on a free plan. With Proton, if you pay, you can use the IMAP bridge application to download emails.
Headline: "Tesla Cybertruck Production Halted"

Article: "Tesla has stopped all Cybertruck deliveries"

It's a minor distinction but these are not the same thing.
My bike is protected by Anti-Theft Aesthetics (tm).
I accidentially captured a quadcopter in the corona of my eclipse photo
Immigration isn’t a competitive advantage; it’s a symptom not a cause. America was already the richest country in the world per capita in the early days of the republic. That wealth attracted immigration, not the other way around.

Immigrants bring their “deep culture” with them to their new countries: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-transplant-review-i.... Even generations later, Americans originating from different parts of Europe depict the same differences in basic cultural attitudes like social trust as their counterparts in Europe. (E.g. German Americans are much more trusting than Italian Americans, as are Germans versus Italians in Europe.) Eliminating the border would be a great way to turn the US into Mexico.
>It's harder for websites to track individual users and block them. What's not to like about this?

It's a double edged sword. Other websites can't track you, simultaneously that also means other internet users can't reach you.

The most obvious consequence is that to host a server, you must purchase a VPS or rent an public IP address from your ISP, and the price for a public IPv4 address is getting higher and higher.

The less obvious consequence is that you're giving up control to the VPS providers (and other centralized services).

It's rather ironic that people on HN, a website whose name literally includes the term "hackers", would support things like CGNAT which hurt hackers/hobbyists the most.

>Show me one person that had performance problems with ipv4

Me. My ISP's CGNAT gateway was temporarily overloaded during one of the holidays earlier this year. I was thoroughly unimpressed by the dialup-like experience.
Sigh, academic politics. you first lay some unreasonable foundation. such as an extremely stressful environment where you don't know who pays you next paycheck and you have to move away from your friends and family o stay competitive.

then you work up. from that unreasonable environment and assign privilege to those who are able to even be a part of it.

the last thing you'd want for researcher is a calm environment to work...
Ask HN: How has your remote team solved communication across time zones?
I have worked remotely before, and communicating with someone in multiple time zones away is a major issue. The conversations can ping-pong back and forth over multiple days.

I have noticed that a lot of startups are fully remote and hire globally, so I'm just wondering what the solution to this communication problem is.
After CPAP fail, I tried one of these and it worked GREAT. N=1.
In the Netherlands we need to add 22% of the list price to our income with the high income tax rate being 49.5%.
Yeah, as I say, people are a lot less tolerant now about people sharing simple mistakes they make than they were when I first started posting here. People used to grimace in sympathy, acknowledge that they've also made simple mistakes, and move on.

Now things like that get flagged, even though there's clearly a sizeable proportion of people who do still find it useful[0].

The demographics have changed[1].

So I'll remember, on your advice, that if ever I write up any simple mistakes I make, I won't post them here.

[0] FWIW, I think flags required to kill something is far fewer than votes required to get to the front page. So even if a vast majority of people think something is interesting, a far smaller collection of people can get it killed.

[1] Or my memory is faulty. I've been here 15 years now ... maybe it was always like this.
The reason is simple. Tesla now makes more cars than they can sell at list price. And they'd rather lower price than lower volume.

inventory used to be cancelled orders and fairly scarce. Now it's more.
> The demand for technology leads to advancements that meet our needs.

Or does the desire for technology leads to advancements that meet
our wants? Wants versus needs, and desires versus demands get
confusing sometimes.

> It concerns me when some individuals attempt to control others'
resource usage,

From a psychological point of view that's understandable. And it does
portend an ugly authoritarianism. From a realist standing, it's
inevitable if resources are limited. Right now we seem to be limited
by the heat capacity of the planetary ecosphere. To avoid that
becoming an open conflict I think we need to enrich the debate to talk
about appetites rather than needs.
Ionos prices go up after Broadcom acquires VMware
The design is old enough that it needed a fair amount of tweaking to be tolerable. It doesn't really have a workable notion of projects, out of the box. Lots of stuff like that.
It did make it to the front page 4 days ago. https://hnrankings.info/40002712/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40002712)

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40017272
I don’t mind paying more for a non-Chinese vehicle, but I think some of the price gouging by US companies could calm down.
I use an external drive for my main desktop drive. It is pretty nice to be able plug it into my laptop, and access my desktop /home without even going over the network.

But, I never went all the way and got the install set up with drivers for both systems. I think that would be the dream. Only one filesystem to think about.

I wonder if there’s some clever overlay way to plug the drive into my laptop, boot off that, have it copy everything over, then unplug the drive, work for a bit, and then have it automatically send it all back next time I plug the drive in…
I primarily use it as a tool to aggregate logs, alerts, and to proactively audit configurations.

It's great at finding people who can't remember passwords or misbehaving services or software.
So the goal is to have a Redis-like API but not actually be an in-memory data store and reduce memory consumption this way? For example, for a project/service that started with Redis, but then priorities shifted and small memory footprint became more important than performance? Did I get it right?
Smells like Tesla is car Boeing.
pydoc has saved me many times! And doesn't require me dropping down into a shell too. help() is still invaluable, especially in debug shells when tab completion isn't helping me as much as I'de hoped.
A decent article until it devolves into skin-colour based racism at the end (the UK is predominantly white, so of course professors are too - and skin colour has nothing do with the national discrimination anyway).

But really more of the world should follow the great example of Nayib Bukele in just offering full citizenship to productive scientists and engineers.

Also surprised it didn't mention when Chinese nationals were banned from the 2nd Kepler Science Conference.
Location: Europe (GMT+1)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe, for a very good proposition

Technologies: GoLang, Java, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Azure

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matelang/

Email: langmatelaszlo@gmail.com

GitHub Contributions:
https://github.com/matelang/jwt-go-aws-kms ,
https://github.com/welthee/dinonce ,
https://github.com/welthee/go-ethereum-aws-kms-tx-signer ,
https://github.com/binhatch/go-turnstile (in progress)

Dear Community,

I am looking for CTO or fractional CTO roles, maybe Principal Engineer roles, having 13 years experience in SaaS startups, in industries like fintech, blockchain, ed tech, ad tech and IoT. I am successfully operating as a remote contractor and can help both on shaping a product and on defining and executing your product vision.

I have also taught university students distributed computing for many years and am frequently auditing engineering teams and codebases, making sure they adhere to Software Engineering best practices and are in line to founders' and managements' expectations.

I regularly am a speaker at tech conferences (one time I was even talking about StartUps at a TedX event) and do internal, hands-on trainings on various engineering topics for companies.
notably, the above mode lacks the single feature the grandparent uses: collapsing sub headings. In addition, it requires an external tool to export

org of course can be exported into many formats without an external tool, including several plain text formats and HTML, and is also understood by pandoc
Yocto or Buildroot are rather common for embedded Linux. They tend to be a bit easier for the mostly static embedded systems, where everything gets cross-compiled and distributed together. They also make it pretty simple to generate a manifest with all the licenses and attributions and source files needed for every package included in the build that's under an OSS license.
No matter how obnoxious the politics were around the change, "main" is objectively better. It's shorter hence quicker to type and nicer looking.
The cars are terribly manufactured, there are many videos of them falling completely, sometimes right off the lot.

They don't meet their reported towing spec, they haul about as much as a cargo bike, they can't off-road.

The only reason to own one is to participate in the culture war. That sort of thing tends to cycle quickly.
> Also, unless you're driving some kind of monstrously powerful performance special, your brakes can overpower your engine.

I've seen a few combinations of engine power and breaking power of car, and if I remember correctly, the breaking power was around 5x to 10x that of the engine.

It kinda makes sense, if you accelerate to 100km in 6s, you certainly don't want the breaking process to take the same time, but significantly less. 0.6s to 1.2s sound more reasonable to me.

If anybody has good data that compares these two powers in common vehicles, I'd like to see it, a quick search didn't find much useful.
Right, but they only received that money by delivering completed milestones and missions. They didn't get money to blow things up with no results.
OK, so you eject. You're safe.

Meanwhile your 3 ton vehicle plummets onto the people below. I guess that's their own fault for living at street level.
That's not at all what was said. It's fair to assume that this is one additioanal issue we've seen with the Cybertruck, and when you add all those things up, you realize the Cybertruck is doomed.

Why do you think this person meant that this single deficiency is the reason it's doomed? Have you thought that way in the past about things?
They mean "entire posts generated by LLMs". They aren't going after AI-assistance. They are telling you not to set up your content spam farm on Medium.
Local dev drop-in replacement for Redis seems like a really good usecase, thanks!
I think municipality-sized microgrids are a big part of the future, but they still don't remove the requirement for a grid, simply because of weather. Most renewables are very dependent on local weather conditions: you don't get solar when it's cloudy, and you don't get wind when it's calm. The grid needs to equalize power generation and consumption, and it's probably more economical to have a few transmission lines running between cities and to remote power generation facilities than it is add the utility-scale batteries needed to power through a week of cloudy weather.

I could however see a future where cities refuse to subsidize rural homeowners and communities, disconnect from the country-level grids that exist today, let them de-energize and fall into disrepair, and then maintain only a few transmission links over major transportation corridors to connect with other major cities.
Batteries are recyclable and a bunch of companies are already doing it, for example: https://li-cycle.com/press-releases/li-cycle-reports-full-ye.... As demand for battery materials grows I think recycling will become more profitable and widespread.

Solar panels are also largely recyclable, especially since most of the panel is metal and glass (which we've been recycling for millennia): https://www.epa.gov/hw/solar-panel-recycling. I don't know as much about recycling the actual useful part of the panel, and I'm sure it depends on the type, but there are companies doing this as well: https://www.solarcycle.us/.

However efficient the recycling is, it can't possibly be worse than what we do with used oil, gas, and coal (set it on fire immediately and then pretend it magically disappeared).
Not sure if you're joking, but if it's unlikely to be taken apart, rivets are fine.
I think this misses the point of org-mode. Markdown is even one of its outputs. Org-mode lets you write in an environment that is aware of the semantic meaning and structure of your content, from headlines, latex, diagrams and lists to blocks that can execute code or make web requests, tables that can have spreadsheet calculations not to mention the time tracking features.
I can understand wanting a simpler text format to focus on writing, but there are many editing tasks such as writing a blog or making project and study notes that really benefit from a more capable environment.
Can you buy them over the counter or does it require a visit to a provider for a prescription?
It's incredible how much effort Twitch puts into bypassing adblockers, compared to how little effort they put into actually selling ad space. At any given time they have maybe 2 or 3 different ads in rotation, and they often resort to running ads for other Amazon services because they don't have enough real ad sales to fill the ad breaks.

There was a months-long period where 95% of the ads I saw were one of two different Audible ads, endlessly repeating, and those were a case of Amazon buying ads from itself since apparently nobody else was buying.
Yep, it has a nonsensical name, that's the point I wanted to convey.

Actual "dynamic programming" would be self-modifying code, or something just as sophisticated, IMO. Or Prolog =)

What about "memoization optimized backtracking"?
Yea it’s generally available
Congrats, Neon!