skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really poor training and empowerment. Frontline employees should never be stuck saying "I am unable to provide an adjustment" because supposedly "you were fully aware" of the broken thing per the contract. They just lost a Presidents Circle customer over their own error.

Ritz Carlton famously provides each employee $2,000 in discretionary spending to make things right for a guest without bureaucracy. Hire good people, trust good people, empower good people.
If you are asking renter to charge upon return you are killing most of the incentives to use a rental EV in the first place.

The price should be simply accounted for in the rental price.
I don’t like the government forcing business owners to assist in controlling the populace either, but this is hardly a unique situation. The best example I can think of is requiring employers to pay deduct employees’ income tax.

Should we stop requiring employers to deduct income tax? For the record, I think the answer to both is yes, but I’m in the minority.
I think it will be better if you create events automatically based on commit events in wal.
I have my doubts.
That doesn't matter in practice. If two programming languages have the same underlying feature but one has syntactic sugar to make it very easy to use and the other does not (so is quite cumbersome to use) then you'll find that the library ecosystem for the former language will see the feature in widespread use whereas the ecosystem of the latter will tend to shun the feature.

This is one of the social factors of programming language design and it's one of the main reasons successful programming languages work so hard to establish a coherent philosophy and a set of best practices or idioms within the language. For similar reasons, I believe this is why "anything goes" languages such as LISP have struggled to gain widespread adoption: with no philosophy every programmer becomes an island unto themselves.
I guess I will be able to get this cheap when we finally have smart meters in Germany in like 20 years
Thank you!

Mouse over each abbreviation and you should see a tooltip. This specific row would mean "2 knit, Knit Front Back, 6 knit, with yarn in front 3 slip."

This may also help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting_abbreviations
For one thing, allocating every object on the heap leads to a lot of cache misses because the data you're working with is not contiguous in memory. It may also make it harder for the CPU to do speculative fetches from memory because it needs to resolve the value of a pointer before it knows where to fetch data. With the stack, the address is much more obvious since it's all constant offsets relative to the frame pointer.

Also, heap allocation is unpredictable. It is more likely to cause unexpected page faults or thread congestion (multiple threads often share the same heap so they need to synchronize access to memory book-keeping structures). Especially when it comes to kernel drivers, a page fault can lead to a deadlock, infinite recursion, or timeouts.

I'm not saying heap is always bad, not even that it's bad most of the time. But if a language doesn't at least give you the _option_ of having objects live on the stack, I wouldn't consider it a serious systems programming language.
I don't really think it's useful to do that though?? Can you give an example?

By the way, I would claim Java's sum types are less limited than Rust because in Rust, variants don't have their own type. The consequence is that you can't have functions that only accept some variant, as far as I know (I remember having this problem once), or add "methods" only to one variant... while in Java, because variants are just normal types, you can do both, and doing that is pretty damn useful.
> The entire article is a huge waste of time

The publicity from the articles about this situation is the only reason why Hertz corrected the overcharge.
I expected at least an "FSD coming next year" tweet.
> I picked it up with a 98% charge.

> This customer actually returned the car with a 96% charge, the same as they’d picked it up at.

96% is not 98%. Agreed the fee is ridiculous, and it does appear it should have been a max of $35, and the update states Hertz corrected the overcharge.

Somehow the author is confused and thinks these charge levels are equal when they are clearly not.
Cheap consumer goods ON. THE. MOON!
> You still need to procure the chemicals and work with them in very careful ways, often for a long time, in a highly controlled environment. It's still biology lab work, even if you know exactly what you have to do.

You can get that as-a-Service, and I imagine that successes in computational biology will make mail-order protein synthesis broadly available. At that point, making a bioweapon or creating a grey goo (green goo) scenario will be a divide-and-conquer issue: how many pieces you need to procure independently from different facilities, so that no one suspects what you're doing until you mix them together and the world goes poof.
The law would not ban arbitration, only forced arbitration agreements in contracts.
Of course this is anecdotal but it's obvious for me I do share several personality traits with my parents. I can see the same in many of my close acquaintances.

Of course this warrants a lot of social issues we simply don't want to face, but I always felt we were just trying to make them a tabu to discuss.
That's not true... what publicity? Some random website blog nobody has ever hear about before?

The issue was resolved before it even made its way to HN...
Where does it say that?

They doubled down that the refueling “service was provided.” Follow up phone calls couldn’t get Hertz to reverse these charges.

The driver is disputing the charge with his credit card company, however that is likely to get his descendants placed on the company’s No Rent list.
Think of e.g. the development of optics that brought us the eyeglasses first, and the telescopic sight on a sniper rifle second. Now imagine an army of median humans that need to fight the army of genetically-modified humans that can see in the dark.
The rental car market needs more regulation. I remember car rental companies erroneously calling the police on renters for stealing cars, and billing for "wear and tear." The fuel surcharges and everything else is just a continuation of the same anti-consumer practices.

Car rental agencies are King's when it comes to BS fees and practices.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Dinged-for-normal-wear...
DRM only really works if you're not root on your own machine, and with Linux you're always root on your own machine. Quite frankly I think DRM (the normalization of rootkits) is dangerous.
The advantage is: if you already have PostreSQL running, you don't have to add RabbitMQ or any other technology.
Currently, a Thinkpad T14. Before that, a Thinkpad T480. Before that, a T460. Before that... etc. Solid hardware that runs Linux well - that's what I want.

I would like to try a Framework laptop, but given the long wait and high price, my next machine will likely end up being another Thinkpad.
Personally I'd rather not have a streamer buy, collect, trade my data so it can build a profile on me to optimize which ads they show me, what shows goes on my home screen, and what thumbnails they think will get me to watch what they want me to watch.
After hearing that he advocates for nicotine use to prevent Alzheimer's I'm pretty skeptical of him. He seems to entirely ignore the risks associated with nicotine drive vasoconstriction all for a possible minor benefit.

I suppose you don't need to worry about neurodegeneration if you die from a heart attack or aneurysm before you get that old
So, just as a fun exercise - what would it take to remove the top 250m from Mount Everest, making it only the second highest mountain?
The whole point of past AI winters is that genuinely useful technologies were preposterously overhyped as representing "human cognition," despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The bubble bursts - and the money evaporates - because expectations come crashing down, not because the usefulness was a mirage. Lisp was hardly the key to human symbolic thought like some hoped it would be, but it helped improve programming languages across the board. Perceptrons really are quite limited and there's absolutely no way you could emulate a human brain with them alone, but they're still essential for more advanced ML.

But you would think after 70 years AI practitioners would learn some humility! It is very obvious that GPT-4 is dumber than a honeybee, let alone a cat, let alone a crow. But for over a year I've heard dozens of tech folks insist it's smarter than most people.
Yeah I don't really understand the nimbys who think that building more housing will make their house prices go down. Nearly everywhere in the world, house prices are way higher in densely populated cities than in the sparsely populated suburbs. Perhaps the Bay Area is more of an exception (expensive suburb).
Something nobody seems to mention that could be a convoluting factor...

I wonder if this operates bidirectionally - if parents learn traits from their offspring, maybe to a lesser extent. If you have a group of people that constantly spend time around each other, they all seem to average out their social tendencies over time, to some degree. As children get older and develop more defined characteristics, it's possible this isn't a one-way street.
Short selling does not explain it, as there are way more examples of heavily-shorted stocks simply going to zero despite the high borr0owing costs and the occasional short-squeezes. DJT seems to be an exception in that it keeps going up.
Wow. That's just maddening levels of stupidity.

Yet Hertz tried to basically have all these cases dropped when they went through bankruptcy. Never change, corporate America.
(Without wanting to sound negative or cynical) I don’t think it is, but maybe I haven’t been here long enough to notice. It skews towards technical and science and technology-minded people, which makes it automatically a bit ‘cynical’, but I feel like 95% of commenters are doing so at least in good faith. The same cannot be said of many comparable discussion forums or social media websites.

Jokes are also not banned; I see plenty on here. Low-effort ones and chains of unfunny wordplay or banter seem to be frowned upon though. And that makes it cleaner.
It’s a total scam it’s basically impossible to hit
This article is really about the layoffs, rather than the removal of the job postings. Obviously that'd be the case: what else is there to talk about other than that there were some job postings, but they aren't there anymore?

It's become pretty common to use job postings as a diagnostic or predictive source. I remember when I first noticed an article inferring that such-and-such a company must be developing such-and-such a type of video game, because they were hiring for people with particular technical skills which implied a certain development path. I thought "oh, that's clever, I never would have thought to monitor job boards to learn about the future, but it makes sense". Now that practice of reporting on hiring is just de rigeur across coverage of many different industries, I think.

I wonder if there will be some kind of response from companies, to try to hide or obfuscate such information—which may sometimes amount to a trade secret, or sometimes (as in this Tesla case) just a present kernel for bad publicity to form around. Maybe leaving up positions with no intention of filling them, or posting fake positions to send confusing signals to people watching you? They probably already do this, come to think of it.

The end result would be increased annoyance and frustration for people applying to those jobs.
Seems to be the nature of the beast sadly. Huberman, Attia, Ferris, to me all started in super niche subjects and now it's like anyone can come on. I've lost interest in almost all podcasts now because they've all converged into one hive mind of read the stoics, lift weights, do an ice bath, blah blah blah.
Congrats on the launch!! Collaborative browsing is something I've been looking for a few use cases of mine. Excited to try it out.
Is there a listing of what data is sent back to your servers and how that data is stored/handled?

I work in a secure environment. I like the idea of this app, but leakage is a huge factor for my teams.

That aside, I've already downloaded a copy and plan to try it out in a non-secure environment. The concepts here look like a great idea. GL and thanks!
This doesn't sound like the behavior of a growing company that can afford to pay it's CEO $50 billion.
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Is it nature vs nurture? If, so, how does your anecdote untangle that?
I live near a major airport. There are plenty of other fish in the sea :)
I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding regarding exit. exit is not a keyword or a REPL command, it's actually a function exposed in the builtin package. you can run "import builtins; builtins.exit()" and see that is there

To clarify, there are two things here: why exit exists in the REPL, and why it's a function. The exit() function is available only in the REPL, and it appears built-in, but it isn't part of the built-in namespace. Instead, exit is loaded automatically by the site module.

Heres is the code with the function site.main that is doing it: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8af84b503d0b62a3db0d8... and more specifically here https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8af84b503d0b62a3db0d8... on setquit

The line builtins.exit = _sitebuiltins.Quitter('exit', eof) shows that exit is set as a function. The Quitter class, which exit is an instance of, has a __call__ method, making it callable, so it as a function.

I don't believe you're wrong not understanding it; it's just that the process isn’t typically explained in detail, especially what happens when you start the REPL. This is why the message "Use exit() instead..." exists in the REPL, because of the need for clarification.

In a nutshell, exit is a function loaded into the built-ins by the site.py module, which automatically activates when the REPL starts. This automatic loading is what makes exit, help, __copyright__ and others available only in the interactive sessions.
Don't you need Cygwin or Git Bash if you don't use WSL? That's kind of fussy.
I'll give that a look: the feature set of GPU-accelerated ops seems just up my alley for this pipeline: https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml

EDIT: looking through the docs it's just GPU-acceletated UMAP, not a parametric UMAP which trains a NN model. That's easy to work around though by training a new NN model to predict the reduced dimensionality values and minimizing rMSE.
I wonder if the main obstacle is the ability for a few obstructionists to stop everything. Maybe there should be some kind of imminent domain system.
> It's true that he didn't refill the gas tank before returning the car.

He could have played that game, too—"yes, I filled the gas tank completely". What are they going to say? If they say "no you didn't", he could ask them to prove it. If they claim he couldn't have because there is no gas tank, then he could ask what he should have done, that they were charging him to not do?
We talk a little bit in https://tembo.io/blog/managed-postgres-rust about how we use PGMQ to run our SaaS at Tembo.io. We could have ran a Redis instance and used RSMQ, but it simplified our architecture to stick with Postgres rather than bringing in Redis.

As for scaling - normal Postgres scaling rules apply. max_connections will determine how many concurrent applications can connect. The queue workload (many insert, read, update, delete) is very OLTP-like IMO, and Postgres handles that very well. We wrote some about dealing with bloat in this blog: https://tembo.io/blog/optimizing-postgres-auto-vacuum
Yeah I know. I'm not actually seriously entertaining the hope that 2 or 3 happen. Eliminating DST would be I think also be a genuine benefit to almost everyone with very little downside.
What if Google lays off the Go team?
FISA allows these governmental agencies to force/compel businesses to share this information without users being notified of it.

Requiring employers to deduct employee's pay for income taxes notifies the employee in question before it is done.

The notice is the important bit here.
Coming from a perspective of the company believing its charges are legitimate, this doesn't seem like an unreasonable policy. If someone found a way to reverse a payment they made to me after the fact, I probably wouldn't do business with them again either.

The problem here was the company not having a reasonable way for the customer to reach someone with both common sense and the authority to reverse the charges.
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It would be interesting to stop all employer collected things (including/especially health insurance) and have folks pay directly for them. Unless you read your paystubs, you don't realize how much this stuff costs you.
No it's not pedantics, you just used a word totally wrong. CAD software preventing you from making a bomb is not fascism at all.
We know the principles of how to make very powerful and dangerous anorganic compounds today, with extreme precision. Do you see any chemistry-as-a-service products that sell to the general public? Is it easy to obtain the components and expertise to make sarin gas, a clearly existing and much simpler to synthesize substance than some hypothetical green goo bioweapon?
The article doesn't say the customer's car was at 98% when he picked it up. It says the last time the author rented a Tesla it was at 98%. It also says 96% is "the same as they'd [the customer with the fee] picked it up at".
I guess it's a touchy topic these days. Some believe we shouldn't cater to people's beliefs and choices (is identity a choice? up to a point..); and especially not cater to what people might find offensive. I understand their point, because there are people who are overly sensitive and are offended by many normal things.

The use of the word "cure" in this context is a perfectly logical choice of wording. Should we even consider whether some deaf people are offended by this word? It seems like the polite thing to do, but maybe it's a slippery slope that compromises the objectivity of science and clear communication of scientific findings.
Do you use your own product in that way?
A person living in UK teaching us how to manage our land.
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If you can enable preview features, you can use pattern matching since Java 17 (though the final syntax in Java 21 was slightly changed - still you may want to use preview features, it's mostly fine in Java as they tend to change very little, and when you do upgrade, the compiler will tell you where you need to update your code).
From a very cynical marketing/VC-pitch perspective, un-curated datasets full of random crap have the benefit of sometimes producing totally surprising, unplanned "features", which helps sell the idea that one-size-fits-all black-box machine learning can solve any problem.
A more sneaky thing to do would be to keep the job listings but never interview anyone or extend any offer.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301045
As I grow older, the number of "oh shit, I sound like my dad" moments grows exponentially. Good thing people seem to like him - if he was a gigantic ass, I'd be in trouble. ;)
Please, what do you use for bigints? GMP?
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One could argue this is just like how the ATF arbitrary can interpret the law and changes what's consider legal or not. Their is not method the truly balances any position where you can constantly change the definition of words and ths interpretation of the law.
> giving the right to bare arms in the absence of a formal militia

That's not what the 2nd amendment says. It says "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". That doesn't mean that if the government decides to organize a formal militia, people's individual right to keep and bear arms goes away; that would defeat the whole purpose of the amendment, which is to enable the people to resist a tyrannical government, just as the Americans resisted British tyranny using their own individual arms. In other words, the "well-regulated militia" is the entire body of armed citizens. The "well-regulated" part means that the citizens themselves are supposed to regulate their own and each other's use of arms so that they are not used to promote tyranny instead of resist it.
Ok, but who cares?

Do people want Palo Alto to look like Manhattan? There will always be ways to make the number go up. Finding them might make getting a loan possible, but it doesn't mean they're good ideas. Usually, the fact that they haven't been done yet is an indicator that they're bad ideas in ways that a one-dimensional number-go-up model fails to represent.
Honestly, I wouldn't worry about bioterrorism as much as handling mishap. Stick new proteins into a bacteria the wrong way, don't wash hands thoroughly enough, and suddenly something is eating all the trees in the region, or whatnot.

Designing an effective, lethal pathogen - fast enough to do damage, but slow enough to not burn itself out - is hard. Accidentally making something ecologically damaging is probably much simpler, and I imagine the future holds plenty such localized minor ecophagy[0] event.

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[0] - Yes, I totally just learned that term from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo a minute ago.
Not to the one linked on HN—not sure why the poster picked that one—but to thedrive.com:

> Update May 9, 12:45 p.m. ET: After this story was published, Hertz informed The Drive that its Customer Care team would be "reaching out to Mr. Lee to apologize and will refund this erroneous charge."
Maybe that would be a good thing. I wouldn't mourn the destruction of the stock market as it's just a giant wealth-gap increasing casino. Trading has nothing to do with underlying value.
Or of a company run by a competent board.
I agree it would take longer to map them all. This is fine if you never need or want to map them. I've worked in this industry for 15 years and I have never had a need to do it.

The FDA already has information on product codes. here is the one for this device [1]. What is the useful trend and data one gets from grouping an iPhone app with a physical test strip for measuring glucose.

I think there is a lot of confusion in the general public about the 510k process is and what substantial equivalence means. Product drift is an intentional feature of the process, not a bug. 510k filing is not intended to be a single point control for safety and efficacy, but is implemented in context of other controls like medical device reporting and quality management.

Devices are primarily regulated at the device level, sometimes at the group level, but never at the lineage level. Im not sure what it would mean to trend and regulate as a lineage. Would that mean recalling a safe and effective product because of bad ancestor?

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfTPLC/tp...
I think the taboo the poster was referring to was more along the lines of discussion of actual free will, level of control of self, etc.

My take is that free will is, 90% of the time, a necessary lie. Because if we didn’t believe it, everything would get far far worse.
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