skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took my cybertruck on a beautiful road trip through eastern Washington just this past week. I needed nearly all of its advertised 320 mile range because charger coverage is sparse. Sure I may only make trips like that a few times a year but I’m sure glad for the range when I do. After owning EVs for a few years, I find it obnoxious to have to do constant trips to a gas station and expensive maintenance.
Also there are some GPS / location helper stuff that grafene proxies through its own servers by default, but you can switch to google's.
Booms and busts have cyclic effects. Booms provide more capital and credit that can be reinvested and beget more booms; busts collapse demand and can contagiously bust other sectors.
We've asked you before to stop using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. You've not only continued to do it, you're doing it exclusively. That's well over the line at which we ban accounts, so if you don't stop, we're going to have to ban you. When people who actually agree with you start emailing us complaints about how your account is abusing HN, that's quite the data point.

And no, it has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with you; the same applies to any HN user and any political passion. It just has to do with wanting to preserve this place for its intended purpose, which I assume you're well aware of, as you've been on the site for well over a decade and used to post quite differently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
because small companies can't get away with paying poverty wages. amazon jobs are ubiquitous and well-known enough that people treat it as a fallback. if you can't find a better job, you go work in the amazon warehouse or as a wal-mart cashier, because they're always hiring.

companies that don't operate on the same scale aren't constantly hiring, so they can't get the same benefit of being the fallback option for people and have to offer wages that are high enough to actually attract employees.
Don't forget that Amazon (and any other employer that applies for it) gets a $9,600 WOTC tax credit for employing a SNAP recipient (as well as veterans etc)

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
In European cities it's often the opposite:

- A train will take you right into the city center, sometimes even where cars are not allowed. OTOH entering the city from suburbia can take an hour of being stuck in traffic.

- metro and trams can skip traffic. Bus lanes are common. There are no "stroads". Average car speed in London is 12mph. That's slower than a bike.

- Finding a parking place can easily take longer than waiting for public transport, and it will probably be an underground garage, far away from your destination. Bus stops are much denser than parking garages, so they usually involve less walking.

The US experience of driving on an 8-lane highway and arriving at a mandatory-parking-quota asphalt desert in front of your destination is rare in Europe. The closest we get is a 3-lane motorway to an IKEA on the city outskirts.
Amazon is in Washington state, which doesn't have an income tax. In my opinion, if they need Amazon to pay more they should try having one of those.
one can be good at both
> No one who can hold down a job and is currently employed should need government assistance to survive.

The outcome of absolutes like these is that we would remove government assistance to those who are employed (excluding those who are handicapped, etc). You could fix it by raising the minimum wage higher - up to a point where government assistance is unnecessary. And it's on the government and the voters that they don't do that, not on Amazon.

Absolutes come with hard boundaries, and collectively, we've decided that those hard boundaries are suboptimal. Hence the status quo.

Companies exist by paying market wages. The whole point of the minimum wage is to eliminate jobs whose market pay would be below the minimum wage.

Lots of anti-Amazon ranting in the comments, but no one's outlining a clear solution beyond raising the minimum wage. (Yes, it's hopelessly naive to expect a large, powerful company to pay above market wages just out of principle - when their competitors don't need to).

Anti-disclaimers: I dislike Amazon. I avoid shopping there. I avoid working there. Yet, my biases aren't going to let me discount the fact that I personally know two people who've worked for Amazon - one also at other warehouses - and they liked the job more than the other places they've worked at.
Those branches are unnecessary and easily avoided.
Better, thanks.
Older vehicles get shipped overseas from the US. An old Toyota hybrid we owned and sold to CarMax during COVID was shipped to South America, for example.
can't access that message. please quote it.
I was amazed when an ex told me she was on food stamps as a part of the financial aid package for the Oregon university she was attending. Don't even believe she was an Oregon resident at the time (or ever), if you reside in a California county bordering a different state they let you attend university in the other state (or the other way around) without paying out-of-state tuition.
I’m encoding a set of runs. Each run has a value component and a length. The only difference from traditional RLE is that, when expanded, the values are computed from the base+offset rather than repeated. Eg the IDs expand to 1000,1001,1002,… instead of just repeating; 1000,1000,1000,…

What would you call that?
Or people put more work into keeping vehicles roadworthy, anywhere in the vehicle re-cycle, because they're expensive to replace.

That is, if vehicles are currently more expensive, the threshold where a vehicle isn't worth maintaining would go up.

So this suggests that it isn't necessarily that vehicles are inherently becoming more durable.
Is that "McDonald's" or is it "McDonald's franchisees"?
Maxima, the math CAS.
Your comment is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing... to a Chinese person ;)
I agree, my personal take: if you don't want to get your hands dirty, WebAssembly is not ready for you yet. It'll take at least 5 more years before the tooling gets into a state where things should just work (especially DWARF support). I mean, we still cannot free memory! (actually there is a crazy way by recreating a new WebAssembly instance with a shrunk'd `ArrayBuffer`, but it requires you writing your own memory allocator)

My point is: if you're comfortable working with a slightly obscure microcontroller, then you won't have much problems. LLVM supports WebAssembly out of the box, so it mostly feels like programming for one of those.

Anecdotally: we run a large Rust app in under 1 MB of WebAssembly at Zscaler.
TAX AMAZON! TAX BEZOS! That is all.
When you say not advertised do you mean not even posted on LinkedIn and you have to go through the company's website yourself?
This trope is very near the top of my list of things that I wish we could get rid of in conversation. It's a kind of reversal that I suppose is born of frustration rather than being a genuine holistic opinion, but using words like "naive" creates the impression that you would rather criticize people for wanting better behavior from executives than criticize executives for misbehaving. That's a pretty hideous position, and I don't think it's the position you're actually trying to take.
Have you asked exiting customers?
>Capitalists (large business owners)

You don't know what a capitalist is and that's on you. Regardless, benefits and job security are abysmal at small businesses so even if you were right, the aggregate effect is the same. Productivity goes up and wages don't.

>But also, wages generally go up

Just utter nonsense. Accounting for COL, wages more often remain stagnant in the US over the past 50 years.
You’re forgetting all the billionaires that were flying places like Epstein Island.

Bill Gates had something like 23 or more visits there.
Humans are bad at processing large sets of similar data occurring repeatedly.

It comes up everywhere:

- On-Call alerts received by my engineering team for our microservices that usually self-resolve result in the first action being taken by the engineers to be "just wait and see if it's a false alarm." We work to reduce the number alerts overall to reduce the noise.

- I'm reminded of "Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35304017 In order to keep up with the claims, they just auto-rejected them to see if they were appealed in a way to filter out the "noise."

- We hear so much about Tesla's "FSD (Supervised)" and it's request that drivers "don't become complacent" but it happens anyway. After enough time behind the wheel with FSD enabled, we are swayed by the string of successes to become overly trusting of the tech.
Yep. The only difference between struct and class in C++ is that class defaults to private while struct defaults to public.

100% of the using structs like they are C structs vs using class as objects is cultural not a part of the language.
"Typical convention" is also an Appeal to Tradition. Different traditions though!

Incidentally, people used to be /really/ against Python because of its use of significant whitespace. The number of people who bounced off it because they would try to type something and then get a mysterious syntax error that turned out to be that they didn't type space or tab the right amount of times! It used to be what people would immediately post whenever anyone said anything about Python.

I think now people get introduced to IDEs at the same time as Python, or something happens at that early teaching moment that gets them over that hump. The same, in theory at least, happens when you play with a lisp long enough.
$4.4 billion per Keyhole satellite. Comparable to an aircraft carrier. I wonder how they spent that much.
Does it scale? Comparing auth providers pricing
why does that distinction matter? are you saying it's okay for workers to be on medicaid or food stamps if they work in a warehouse, but not if they work in a different position?
A person with no skills that works 40+ hrs a week should be earning enough to live on.
To cut them some slack: There are German car manufacturers who have the nerve to in 2024 release new models that do not even have a heat pump build in.

When it came to the actual EV technology, Tesla really had the lead. But they stopped innovating in this area, sadly. Now you are seeing the first 800V vehicles driving around, and suddenly charging at a Supercharger does no longer feel Super.

If they'd change direction and immediately focus on what they are good at, they might stand a chance. But thanks to Elon it's become a huge circus of one distraction after another.

In Europe for a complex set of reasons car manufacturers tend to put out SUV designs only, while most potential EV buyers want SMALL cars. The "model 2" (or whatever it would have been called) would have beat German car manufacturers here easily.

Cancelling this project and to instead launch the Cybertruck... lunacy.
The chip shortage hit car makers much worse than a lot of markets, so used cars skyrocketed in value. It’s only just now really starting to return to normal

I took my car in for maintenance and the dealer offered me more than I paid for it on the spot.
I emailed the dev and they responded by pointing me to this post and explaining that this was because of a design decision by Apple and not something they are able to fix. https://www.obdev.at/blog/three-way-handshake-bypassing-litt...

Perhaps just VPN + little snitch is your best bet if you're still worried
> ...had a spike in popularity despite being very hostile to newcomers.

To be fair the community itself, as humans, was very welcoming to newcomers. Really super nice and helpful folks.

If anything was "hostile" it was the dominance of emacs and very limited options for other tooling. That, and the horrifically unhelpful leaky abstractions in the stack trace when something went wrong. It's a big step, if you don't already know emacs to learn emacs (at a fairly advanced level) AND a new very different programming language.

I see now there's a vscode option with Calva. I haven't tried it. Might do that someday. Really wanted to like this language!
I spent a few months writing a decent sized Clojure program just using my IDE's matching bracket highlighting and some sort of rainbow parentheses settings, and never found it very annoying. I'm not sure there are that many more parentheses than curly-bracket languages, it's just that all of the closing parentheses are more likely to cluster together at the end.
You can reduce the branches by just eliminating the early return returns. And short circuits, but you can use bitwise and instead to encourage the compiler not to generate extra branches (the compiler is generally free to do this anyway as there isn't any side effect in the example code which would prohibit optimization). Therefore, what we should really compare the improved version against is:

bool IsEveryComponentGreaterThanOrEqual(uint16_t x, uint16_t y)
{
int rv;
auto xr = x & 0xF100;
auto yr = y & 0xF100;
rv = xr >= yr;

auto xg = x & 0x07E0;
auto yg = y & 0x07E0;
rv &= xg >= yg;

auto xb = x & 0x001F;
auto yb = y & 0x001F;
rv &= xb >= yb;

return rv != 0;
}

According to the Compiler Explorer, the one presented in the article still has far fewer instructions on x86_64. Interestingly, the optimization of eliminating the bitshifts doesn't change how it is compiled which says something about trusting your compiler for some of this stuff. https://godbolt.org/z/zWf5GnPPb

However, one more interesting thing is that the modified version I made is nearly identical in size on ARMv8 for the one in the article vs my version (12 vs 11 instructions). https://godbolt.org/z/d4TPqGhKe
Surprised Dan Price keeps getting attention here. I thought he got busted for his “altruism” being a way to deflect from his women’s abuse/harassment and stealing from his brother.
>To add insult to injury, means testing[2] often costs more than the cost of fraud in social benefit programs! Not to mention, the biggest fraudsters with Medicaid are providers not recipients.

Intuitively, I'd expect fraud to go up (at least to some degree) as means testing goes down like a differential equation. The depressing part of this is that it doesn't matter what is actually true, or what either of us are convinced is true, as the system will do its own thing.
Inside EV's is usually fairly Tesla-critical, and their review says that the refreshed 2024 Model 3 is best in class: https://insideevs.com/reviews/719484/tesla-model3-long-range...

Obviously not everybody agrees, but if enough people think Tesla is the best they'll still sell well.
Sounds reasonable. In a project I used to work in I disabled stdlib, exceptions, RTTI. Not sure what else to disable to essentially have C with different syntax.
I think the fact that the state state initiated and brought about this situation has a major influence on my opinion. The state created the problem which it is now presumably struggling to resolve.
Right. Or the celebrities who are photographed landing with a date which isn't their spouse? There have been some high-profile divorces that started from evidence like that. The larger point is that this is for the benefit of "The League of the Very Special" and not out of an actual interest in privacy of PII.
Kodak did invest heavily into chemicals, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Chemical_Company
Interesting read, thanks for sharing!

If you have some benchmark results, it'd be great to see how it compares to traditional data structures in practice, for different datasets and varying k-mer lengths
Show HN: Simple and fast resume document generation with AI
The lowest skilled workers at the bottom of the productivity scale don't generate enough value to justify paying them a living wage. If the company is forced to pay a living wage to such workers then management will send the work offshore, or automate it, or just not do it at all. The worker will then have zero wage.

Instead of artificially raising the minimum wage we should put more funding into job training. Help those marginal workers build the skills they need to earn higher wages.
London Traffic Cameras
I was really tempted to try sailfish a few times in the past.

Do you have any issues with banking apps?

It's a little scandalous that using a bank is so difficult these days without a smart phone.
> export both the coal and the iron ore when shipping finished steel is obviously about half the weight

Wait until you hear about 2% lithium ore shipped 5000km for refining ..
You are being needlessly harsh.
The action was real action with a real person interacting with a real object.

The things that moved really moved. The static background that no one touches is less useful as a practical object, because it doesn't get uncanny valley.

Practical effect doesn't mean the film looks the same as if you were standing there live.

A practical effect is still full of weird equipment and often done using miniatures and foam replicas of the fictional object.
Thanks for linking it. Pomodoro is something that I come across every couple of years but I can never remember what's interesting about it and quickly forget what it is again.
We'll have the option to turn it off until that option is removed for being a maintenance burden. See e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755593
Bigger tendency of discourse to draw quick association lines instead of looking at the product holistically.

A handful of bad video games released with poor micro-transactions, so micro-transactions leads to bad games. A lot of bad movies released with over-reliance on poor CGI, so CGI leads to bad movies. But in both of those cases I can see where the underlying methods could be a net positive for the product - if implemented well and with good intent.

In the case of Fury Road, tons of great choices that are a net positive on the product. Including practical stunts and CGI and lots of artfully done color saturation. A lesser movie will try to ape everything Fury Road did just to make a quick buck on its success, but not really taking into account how the color saturation or the stunts enhanced parts of the story and theme.

People with an opinion on a piece of work: judge it how it should be judged on the whole! These little shortcuts in discourse are boring and tiresome.
Never underestimate the power that the Swifties wield.
David Cohen Returns as CEO of Techstars
Roadsidearchitecture.com
Incredibly, this site is still being updated and added to. The site owner as been at it for over 20 years.

If you are in California or the US, enter your town's name in the search bar and you will be surprised by what you learn about buildings you have noticed in your daily life.
Hey HN, my brother put a lot of effort into releasing his first app ever. Feel free to show some love on the product launch as well: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cvgist?utm_source=badge-fe...

Feedback welcome of course!
I agree with your assessment that a lot of this stuff is BPO. There is only so much customer service that can be automated. That being said, AI is a big tent and has been around for decades, despite the media claiming that OpenAI has been the first company to take it into the mainstream. AI flies fighter jets without any human pilots. I personally think there is already a lot of impressive stuff happening with reinforcement learning and am excited to see where large action models go, despite rabbit's failures.
Great suggestions. I'd also add that learning how the DHT works is a great jumping off point.
Flight plans still have to be filed, right? And are any of those details public, as in would a flight tracker show the destination of a plane in flight?

If so, time for some traditional intelligence work: someone at the airport with a telephoto lens to document just who disembarked from the plane.
My point is that you claimed this is a rebuff against those claiming models don’t understand themselves. Your interpretation seems to assign intelligence to the algorithms.

While this research allows us to interpret larger models in an amazing way, it doesn’t mean the models themselves ‘understand’ anything.

You can use this on much smaller scale models as well, as they showed 8 months ago. Does that research tell us about how models understand themselves? Or does it help us understand how the models work?
I kind of emphatize with the author raging at "just copy C++ bro" proposals because at $TWO_JOBS_AGO I had to deal with an "Architecture Team" full of Very Senior(tm) people who would show up uninvited and give advice like "did you know you can pee and poo at the same time?"

Of course, but if you bothered at all to understand the constraints, you would have seen it is not actually that simple in our case.

And my project was several orders of magnitude simpler than the C standard.
Google: "In the wake of many security incidents with Microsoft, we are safer." [pdf]
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/students has the details, basically if you're not at least half time in college you'll almost certainly qualify, but there are ways to qualify as a full-time student.
> Of course, it’s worth pointing out that, unlike someone like Musk, Swift actually had a pretty good reason to travel a lot last year: she was on tour.

Yes, because the richest man on the planet, heading up multiple billion dollar companies, couldn’t possibly have any legit reason to travel anywhere.
This looks like an idea for a Show HN: an article summary bot which posts a three to five bullet point summary of articles submitted to HN...
I don’t think it’s a shame thing. It’s just that some of us don’t care to partake in the American culture wars. Especially us Asians. We don’t tend to use Reddit or X or read that much Western news media, which relentlessly push the anti-Elon opinions. That’s why almost every Asian family I know drives an X or Y, and will continue doing so as long as the cars are still good.
Yes, as a best effort to restrict behavior abroad.
Had to adjust the title because of length, it's right there on page one though.

Definitely a bold approach.
I suppose it could be materially different, in that it's even worse than just hiring a soundalike.

And I don't think the issue here is so much copyright as it is likeness rights.
Ask HN: Creating a language/runtime for fun, is this idea dumb or not
I was thinking of writing a language/runtime on top of Golang for fun and self-education. It'd be interpreted and use an event loop, sorta like JS except with opposite defaults: every function is async unless otherwise marked sync. A lot of built-in stuff like math would be sync, and it'd warn you if the event loop is spinning very fast (meaning you should probably paint more stuff as sync).

No strong reason for using Golang other than it's the one sorta popular language I've never used, so I'd get to learn it.

But I don't want to do a project that's pointless even in theory. For applications with lots of blocking I/O, I feel like an event loop can be more efficient than Golang greenthreading. Does anyone want to talk me into or out of this?
Yes, indeed. Bookmarked that a while ago!
That sounds like technical editing but for LLM output instead of technical writers.
Do you see heavy usage for a bit and then they cancel?

(Are they getting the value and then they are done; or do you still have an issue with pmf and they are not getting the value you are aiming for yet?)
The Amber installer is itself created from Amber. I suppose that makes sense....

I would prefer that it produces code with a bit more whitespace for readability.
How is that a problem with rust? Like any language it's a tool with strengths and weaknesses. Don't use it when it doesn't make sense
It should be trivial to add with all the promise of data immutability :)
Maybe in ten years... for now they are mostly under 18.
That's a great introduction, but... how to do an if statement would've been cool to add in the tutorial.