skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, in conversations with other drivers, it seems that far too many people overestimate their driving habits.

A standard wall outlet will charge a car perfectly fine for your average driver assuming you can park the car for several hours. I would hope the vast majority of Americans who have access to a driveway will be able to find a block of time for this. Perhaps this duration may be found overnight when one sleeps.

If the worst happens and you need to travel for an emergency, you just need enough juice to get you to a DC fast charger. You’d only be spending 10 minutes charging anyways to carry on. I would place bets that most people do not keep their gas cars filled to 100% in case they need to do that weekly emergency 300-mile drive that everyone seems to have.

The bigger and most realistic issue is capacity for travel rushes. When everyone’s driving to relatives for the holidays, finding a line at chargers isn’t ideal. Fortunately this isn’t a problem in the vast majority places today and I hope continued investment in fast charging networks ensures this remains a limited problem.
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Forget it. Folks have been thinking about this battery swap thing for years and years, and it is not going to happen.

However what I like about NIO model is that you might be able to swap out a smaller, lighter city-driving oriented battery to a large 100kWh+ one when you go on a road trip. And then swap it back when you're back home.
Yes.

https://youtu.be/jCg7Pda_3Gw?si=c9AuabaYp49Hduwr
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DLSS has to run in some small fraction of 16ms (as everything else still needs to run in that time) to keep 60fps- granted it’s running on a GPU.

But they can be quite fast.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were and audio is routed through a neural network before relay.
That's because a house 100km away from the nearest job is not cheap. Even rural area houses are very expensive compared to what jobs in those rural areas pay.

This makes them even more of a trap. The rents will go up. And yet, even more jobs will leave those places. And then you haven't saved up, because the amounts were tiny
Some file managers (e.g. Volkov Commander) used that too. Actually still do: Total Commander[0] can use to show a short description for each file.

I used it in a game i wrote for an MSDOS game jam a few years ago[1][2] to add some era relevant flavor (and also dirinfo for Norton Commander and clones).

[0] https://www.ghisler.com/

[1] https://bad-sector.itch.io/post-apocalyptic-petra

[2] https://codeberg.org/badsector/PetraEngine/src/commit/bc6531...
You have academic theories, I'm getting practical information from my electricity invoice. The energy regulation office informed me about the necessary power grid operation budget increase through it when they doubled the distribution fee at the end of 2023. The budget (and fee) was stable for decades before this after accounting for inflation.

What grid impacts? The grid here has worked well for decades, there is no comparable grid impact from replacing coal and gas with nuclear. I guess it's different in Australia but this is a very densely populated small country, replacing 3 thermal power plants with 1 nuclear has zero impact on the grid and you can reuse parts of the thermal plant and infrastructure around it.

The politicians are busy talking about migrants and the Russian war, so I can't read anything about this from them even if I wanted to.
The strange thing is that while I definitely see it happening in many places around the world, not all the causes are the same. I think @moralestapia has it right: massive inflation is likely a root cause.
This is a great test / question. More generally, it tests knowledge with basic linux tooling and mindset as well as experience level with data sizes. 6TiB really isn't that much data these days, depending on context and storage format, etc. of course.
But what participants in this study were actually asked to do is:

> predict what action the code would produce

So "this code looks at the pathname, then some cookies, and then either calls the signin function or returns True" seems to align with that.
It's only fair to say that SRE's attitude towards complexity can be very different to SWE's, reinforced by how their performance is reviewed.

Though there's still hypocrisy in SRE complaining about how SWE builds projects while building equally contrived projects for other SRE to use.
In a lot of ways this is a problem creating itself.

The reason Home Ownership is desirable is that the pricing of houses go up faster then both inflation and depreciation caused by wear decreases the utility value of a dwelling, and the reason that houses are expensive is that the state actors are invested enough in this cycle to make sure it never really breaks.

In a real functional market there would be no real benefit to house ownership over long term leases. but were dealing with a market thats been deliberately broken by policies promoting home ownership for reasons that's fundamentally religious/dogmatic in nature.
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Hah, wow. You come across like a total ahole, by the way.
Who cares if others think it's a midlife crisis, do what makes you happy. I'm nearing 40 and still get a couple tattoos a year. I love the feeling of a new tattoo, it boosts my confidence and gives me a sense of accomplishment for sitting through the fairly painful process.
Yes, but about half the arsenic has been transferred to the cooking water, which you can pour down the drain.
Doubt he's going to talk bad about an Elon company while inking the 100,000 GPU deal for this xAI cluster.
New market rate housing gives wealthier people something to buy so they stop bidding up the price of older homes. This immediately relieves price pressure on the older housing stock.

Leftist dreams of a government funded social housing utopia in the United States and the UK are just that: dreams. Reforming zoning on the other hand will strongly encourage developers to quickly add higher density housing in job rich urban areas.
I think you’ll find the real problem is that younger homeowners face the same incentives as old ones
It depends on the kind of beginner. GNU Emacs has a built-in tutorial to get started on using the editor. After that, there's an introduction to Emacs Lisp as part of the info documentation in most packaged versions of Emacs. Extending Emacs is as practical a way to learn Lisp as others.
I know that in my head.
I dunno, spending years giving someone the same price as a mortgage (for me at least, back when i rented and decided to buy) and seeing almost nothing in return but convenience seems a pretty strong argument no?

Yea, renting has some advantages. However in my view many people are simply too poor to spend that kind of money on the convenience of not managing a house. Is it more work and liability to own a home? Yes, definitely. However i was looking at throwing away $168,000 when i was renting over the next ten years (assuming no price fluctuations, which also doesn't happen lol). I couldn't afford to spend that kind of money on convenience.

Plus there's America's (imo bad) idea that home ownership is an investment. Unfortunately, my home has doubled in price. So not only could i not afford to waste the money renting before, but now i've made significant money by simply not renting before. Where as i'd get the privilege to lose even more money by renting if i had stayed where i was before, since the rent has gone up - many times.

Is there another angle i'm missing? I rented for years, and now have owned for ~8 years or something. Renting has upsides, yes - if you've got the money. I don't think most people do, especially these days. Is there an argument i missed?
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It doesn't return 50 pages of BS.

Only 10 insights that are actually relevant.

Let me know you like it.
Back when they were pushing public literacy, reading books was disparaged as a morbid activity. (Sitting unmoving for a long time, staring...)

But now everybody does it.
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I assume that if speakers are not set too loud then either you're close and the algorithm works or you're far and sound is quiet enough that it's not an issue.
In addition to others point out the timing issue, in many cases you'd end up buying a home that has been lived in for 40 years and is likely well due for expensive updates. Sure its a house and that's not nothing, but it may not really help with the "affordable" part that's missing today.
Senior living centers are often atrocious and still can set people back over $10,000 a month. I think a program could be designed without being a handout.

One option could be if you’re going into a government run senior living center you need to pass that money down to whoever was going to inherit it/receive it through donation. And that has to be a taxable event to cover the cost of the subsidy on senior living.

People would hate that option because no one likes taxes but the private market is not getting us where we need to be. If people don’t like the option, no subsidy for them and they are free to figure out their own senior care. That money goes surprisingly fast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress
It's actually getting a foothold in American politics.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/23/2024/is-congress-havin...

There is no solution that doesn't involve building lots more houses.
Honestly i see that sort of pro-rent logic quite a bit on HN. Not sure if they're all biased or what, but yeesh.
And in audio, that meets the definition of really bad latency.
> Do something independent, and work at a large corporation only if necessary

What you're suggesting is for young people to take the burden of completely re-orienting the economy upon themselves.

The entire political and economic structure we have today is built around catering to the needs of the large corporations.
> What kind of business just has a static set of 6TiB data that people are loading on their laptops.

Most business have static sets of data that people load on their PCs. (Why do you assume laptops?)

The only weird part of that question is that 6TiB is so big it's not realistic.
I dont know anything but when doing that I always end up next Thursday having the same with 4TB and the next with 17 at which point I regret picking a solution that fit so exactly.
I am a younger homeowner and am aggressively YIMBY. YMMV. Could not care less about value appreciation, it is housing, not an investment.
This is nice. Thanks for sharing.

When I heard "react" I immediately thought SPA and Event handling in the browser.

This is more close to ASP .NET ( organizing views on the server side).

This is very useful but this is not for handling events on the client.

Thanks again for sharing.
I've been jokingly predicting to myself for quite a while now that a tattoo fashion is imminent of studios offering deliberately blurred designs so that the result looks as if it was done before the design became cool.
I wonder if training customer service reps in VR will further hinder abilities to empathize with customers. I guess we’ll know if they start killing, looting, then teabagging clients.
I live in Portugal and here the situation is outright ridiculous.

1. There are a ridiculous amount of abandoned properties, when I walk the streets of major cities, sometimes more than half of the buildings even in expensive areas are boarded-up.

2. Meanwhile I am afraid of being homeless soon, I lost my job recently, and the unemployment benefit I can receive is literally half of my rent. Thing is, there is no "worse but cheaper" place to move to. I already live in a "0" apartment, with the "0" referring to the number of rooms. The apartment is literally just an empty square with kitchen sink and bathroom stuff. I don't even have my workstation anymore because literally there is no physical place for it inside the apartment.

People are like: "Build more homes". Yet the amount of abandoned properties (by the way, this also include abandoned farmland! Government is upset that there are tons of that, and the result is land with zero management, with wildfires, poachers, drug traffickers...) is greater than the number of families needing.
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Unfortunately, similar to the housing crisis , there’s a retirement home crisis and many people can’t afford long term care without selling the home they wanted to leave to their children.
Yes, the “just build houses” contingent seems unaware that people (and as Mitt Romney famously said, “corporations are people too”) can own more than one house. Supply is certainly an issue, but inequality is as well.
> The extra hours I do are more for my sense of perfectionism than to do with keeping up

Then why the heck do you do them?

Instead of thinking of yourself as a perfectionist, start thinking of yourself as an insecure person. You’re insecure about the quality of your work so you pretend that if you spend more time on them your insecurity will go away because then they’ll be done perfectly.

Make a list of 10 or 20 things you’ve done perfectly recently. It shouldn’t be hard since you’re a perfectionist, right?
I love React too, but it pulls in a lot of dependencies and the dependencies need periodic maintenance.

Sometimes you get the feeling that you're spending a significant chunk of your time not writing code but fighting with configs and dependency churn.

Using Go's html/template definitely makes the UI feel dated because of re-rendering, but I rarely notice it in my side project. My next exploration is to use HTMX.

I'm planning to gradually add dependencies like HTMX to see how far I can go to reach React's smoothness.
> Anything Musk is now too many inferior products

Tesla:
"Tesla maintains an 87% brand retention rate, with Lexus (68%) and Toyota (54%) trailing, according to a new Bloomberg Intelligence survey. Moreover, 81% of prospective US Tesla drivers are new customers switching from competing EV brands." -- https://electrek.co/2024/04/09/87-percent-us-tesla-drivers-s...

I think you would be hard pressed to find any serious thinker exclaiming that SpaceX and Starling are inferior products.
"Need to live near jobs" is a good point. People forget how mobile our society has become compared to our grand-parents generation. Nowadays you have the possibility to get your "dream job" and move for it wherever you want. Your grand-parents most likely took the first best job and career available in the area, not thinking about "self fulfilment" in their careers. In a lot of cases you do not need to move to have a job, but we rather want to be a software engineer in a Hotshot Company in a "culture rich city" rather than a farmer in your rural home town.
I wouldn't be surprised if they have insider information on upcoming government contract.
> Clojure (/ˈkloʊʒər/, like closure)] is a dynamic and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language on the Java platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure

I believe I've said this to you before in the context of Scheme: the Common Lisp community doesn't get the final vote as to what is or is not a Lisp.

As to your example, it's at least as likely that someone would be turned off Lisp by using Common Lisp, and someone else might suggest Clojure as a remedy to whatever issues they had with it.
a year or more
This is why I personally just can’t find motivation to even pay attention to most AI developments. It’s a toy, it does some neat things, but there’s no problem I’ve heard of or encountered where LLM style AI was the only tool for the job, or even the best tool. The main use seems to be content creation and manipulation at scale, which the vast majority of companies simply don’t have to deal with.

Similarly, a lot of companies talk about how they have tons of data, but there’s never any real application or game changing insight from it. Just a couple neat tricks and product managers patting themselves on the back.

Setting up a good database is probably the peak of a typical company’s tech journey.
This is such a simple scheme.

I wonder how they dealt with common storage issues like backups and disks having bad sectors.
Some very old remotes used what effectively amounted to high frequency tuning forks. Example: https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remot...
It owns the room.
6 billion dollars less for really innovative ventures.
6 billion dollars less for us hackers.

And certainly 6 billion dollars down the drain, funneled to stave the collapse of X/Twitter and Musk paying his dues.
Personally I can't hear much above 15.5 kHz and I can hear these devices, so they're not even particularly high-pitched.
Headline 100 years ago: "How many gas stations does the US need to replace Hay and farriers?"

Obviously for the first few years it was difficult to drive an automobile very far.. and every year it got better and better.
House prices are supply and demand. More units, lower price. Imagine 1000 homebuyers for 950 houses. Capitalism says the houses go to the top bidders. Communists might use social credit or something. Technocrats might score on IQ. But there is no system that could possibly result in fewer than 50 people being homeless.
You mean "job that you want or like". If you make it "any job that pays a roof and food on the table" you will hardly have to travel 100km.
Expansion of housing vouchers at the US federal level would significantly address the needs of those who can’t afford market rate housing. Vouchers are more flexible, time-limited, and face less political opposition than local subsidized housing options.
Why pay for something that was never agreed to be so?
Why estimate and not just calculate ? It’s not a hard calculation, walking calorie burn calculators are reasonably accurate. Walking just takes time, which you may value a little higher than burning calories.
What format would you recommend instead?
Parquet is not a database, it's a storage format that allows efficient column reads so you can get just the data you need without having to parse and read the whole file.

Most tools can run queries across parquet files.

Like everything, it has its strengths and weaknesses, but in most cases, it has better trade-offs over CSV if you have more than a few thousand rows.
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Given how abundant land is, does it imply that supply shortages are purely man-made? (e.g. policies not allowing large swaths of land to be built on).

Otherwise it doesn't make sense that prices are high for a good (housing) whose primary input (land) is in great supply.
It's always in the room with us. And outside the room as well.
I started getting them at 37, and haven’t looked back. You’re more likely to get ones you like now you’re a bit older. I got a triceratops on my forearm last year because it’s my favourite dinosaur, and also why not?
In my mind I redefine the housing crisis in Canada as a business clustering problem. I think the percentage of attractive businesses that are concentrated in a few areas is too high. This comes in conflict with the human desire to not live in a sardine can. I would leave my city, but where would I work? My options to have a dignified life feel limited to me, especially in tech. Tech bros like me are pretty constrained to cities, which I really don't like.
> right wing politicians and press?

Is nuclear right-wing now? I thought the right wing were all for coal; nuclear is an ideal replacement for coal. Non-dispatchable renewables play nice with fossil fuels since the plants have to stay online for bad days; the fossil fuel lovers should love them too (though I agree that they don't seem to)
I have lived through the hype of Big data it was a time of HDFS+HTable I guess and Hapoop etc.

One can't go wrong with DuckDB+SQLite+Open/Elasticsearch either with 6 to 8 even 10 TB of data.

[0]. https://duckdb.org/
I worked through the first 9 chapters of the Touretzky book as a preparation for PAIP recently. It's very thorough. If you work through the exercises in the book, you'll learn a lot.
I am not French but I live a country or two over. Here it's mostly people who own 1-5 apartments in the city they live in, they definitely pay taxes there. And short term rentals are definitely not as simple as "profiting from land value".

Anyways I don't have an opinion about this, just wanted to answer why would people protest - because it's not some faceless corporation but them directly you're taxing.
Could AI help cure 'downward spiral' of human loneliness?
don't call me a monkey for not using a tool that I don't need, thank you!
Here is a collection of 1.1 MILLION FILE_ID.DIZ files from back in the day: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?q=FILE_ID.DIZ&qfield...
Use mixed/braid then. My point is, reuse some of the technical decisions that were made when creating almost the exact same mechanism.

What is the point of standard decisions if they change every time?
Single family homes are profoundly inefficient in so many ways. They're pretty much doomed to be expensive housing.
Perfect timing for Steadfast Defender 24[1].

https://www.flyingmag.com/nato-launches-exercise-with-90000-...
Yep. Homes can either be for shelter or for investment, but not both. We are experiencing this as a global culture.

I dream of a 100% tax rate on second homes, foreign ownership, and corporations owning single family homes and condos. Or even better, make it illegal. But any politician who pushes such a bill would immediately get removed from office and the law repealed.
> It's the corporations doing ALL this. The people don't have the money.

Maybe it's like that in America. In EU, where the investment 'culture' is different, there are hordes of people not knowing what to do with their money and buying homes only to sell them at a higher price (flippers). Case in point: Poland, where the housing market is quite bonkers - especially in big cities.
Are you not able to find mean things about Elon or alt-right people on Twitter? How hard did you look?
I was charging my car on a 120V, 15A circuit (12A draw to the car) for over a year. I'd use about 8kWh per day with a 20 mile round trip commute + extras; that translated to needing about 5.5 hours of charging.

It really was fine, but it was near the limit of what's practical without using a fast charger. Extra trips around town would put me at a deficit, and it'd take a few nights of charging to bring things back up to my set point of 80%. Additionally, I had to think a few days out for when I'd know I'd be doing a bunch of driving to make sure I gave myself enough buffer. Now, having a charging circuit that can put out over 9kW means I can think about it a lot less.

But I thoroughly agree with you: a normal mains outlet is often fine, and holiday road trips can be messy.
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I killed my first chicken when I was ~9 I think, maybe 10 at a push, my dad handed me the axe and said 'have fun'.

Still eat meat.
> for example, why would a donut shop give receipts?

Because of members of a social club, whose turn it is to buy the donuts, wants to have it to give to the treasurer so that it can count against their monthly dues.

The more general answer is because, at this point in time, a receipt is universally expected. I'm not denying that businesses have internal reasons to hand them out, and keep a copy, I'm saying that customer demand played a role at the time this convention was established. They've become increasingly useless on the customer side, except for business expenses, where they remain vital.
Be angry at the currently retiring generation. This was consciously and deliberately engineered for their benefit. They even had the wisdom to carve out property tax exemptions for themselves. Perhaps they did not bother to consider what the long term consequences would be, but that is to be expected. The politicians merely did their bidding.
This is great: I like both the concept and how responsive the implementation is. Please consider open sourcing it.