skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took my Tesla model 3 places that made people's heads spin. The clearance is bad, and I had to replace the bottom coverings a few times (until I installed skid plates), and I scraped more times than I can count, but it always kept going.

The only time I got stuck was on a sand dune. I had been through rivers, up rocky mountains, middle of deserts, icy cliffs, but sand managed to stop me. A huge lifted truck saw me and got me out with a tow strap around my front tire.

No one would believe or understand the places I went with that car, but I know. Electric drive is just superior, end of story.

I will be waiting for someone to make a rugged, utilitarian all-electric truck or jeep-like offroad vehicle. No touch screens, no extras. Just 4 independent motors with adjustable high-low clearance (4 independent hydraulic lifts would be sweet) and at least 500 miles of range -- or more.

As much range as possible. This lets you use the battery for other purposes -- running power tools, running climate control all night, even cooking with electricity.

My dream is a fully electric off/on road vehicle that can go anywhere, with a foldable 10kw+ solar array for silent charging, totally independent of traditional energy infrastructure.
One post-doc did it once in one University research lab. And even then, how many attempts did it take, how reliable and reproducible is there process, and what was the degree of cherry-picking?

Interesting? Sure! But let me know after it's been reliably reproduced a few times by other groups
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This notion of regulation is just the desire to offload your duties as a responsible and intelligent market participant to a third party.

It’s intellectually lazy, and it should be blindingly obvious that, in a universe with more than one mind in it, the principle of caveat emptor will always be needed regardless of economic system. In fact, you need caveat emptor for daily life, not just economic decisions.

Here’s why: who does the regulating?

The government?

Neither politics nor the civil service rewards honesty. These occupations have feedback loops that stem from popularity with the public or with one’s union and are thus not reality-based.

In fact capitalism comes closest to rewarding honesty in that consumers go on forums such as this one and then make informed choices.

For example, I once bought an AWD car knowing full well it’s not 4WD. It’s still 100x better than 2WD on snow and gravel. I liked my AWD car - money well spent.
100% Agree, We could have $10k electric cars in the US, specifically made in China. It's not going to happen anytime soon for enough reasons that could fill a HN comment section.
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For a "remaster" I would have liked to see them officially integrate the Voxel Doom mod [1], as it's a really impressive and respectful addition while keeping the original look of the game.
The mod is an incredible achievement, it deserves more visibility.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-aVt77epQ4
> This never effected signal as no data that is sensitive was ever sent via that.

How are you still missing the point that this is _about metadata_? No one is sending "sensitive data" through a push notification in the first place. You have to go out of your way to do that. My point was to show you that the authorities _are_ after metadata.
You can enforce strict typing by using MyPy and Rust. Those are part of modern python development stack. If your program can be rewritten in python you are definitely not developing Fullstack Web Development or DataScience / Machine Learning.
Rust isn't good at those since there are no good framework for DL/ML stuff - and working with unstructured data is very much necessary in those field where it is against Rust .
FORTRAN is actually still developed and wicked fast for the things its users do with it.

It's neither left behind nor obsolete.
Almost all regulation favors large entities who can afford the lawyers and consultants to deal with it.

The exception is anti-trust regulation.
OpenFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding
you'd be surprised how few developers today even know what general subject you're talking about
ruby on rails is all you need
I can confirm an approach like this works in practice.

Although instead of levenshtein I use spellfix (maybe it uses that under the covers? not sure). If there is no match from the first search, I use the sqlite spellfix extension [0] to find matches. Then feed those candidates into the terms.

https://www.sqlite.org/spellfix1.html
Not even 1% because of Jevons Paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I'm still waiting for a tesa data storage device!
There’s a demonstrated inhumanity in attacking hospitals and children that really should earn special attention.
> The observation about the militarization of the entire society is a defense against the charge that dropping the bomb was a war crime,

Except there wasn't such “observation” and we cannot be certain that it would have happened. You are assuming that the Japanese would have fought this way, and you use this assumption to defend the idea that they were all legit targets.

> even if the decision makers didn't know it at the time.

What?

> I see you think that even presenting legal arguments in defense against war crime charges is "the reasoning of war criminals". I guess you're not big on the idea of legal defense when charged for a crime.

Except it's not “a legal argument in defense of war crime charge” at all, to accept it as an argument one must adhere to your vision in the first place, which make it a very weak defense to say the least. Akin to “yes I killed my wife but she was completely crazy and I'm sure I'd have killed me first at some point”, which I'd doubt any lawyer would be happy if you said that in court…
True. But neither "our" government, nor the corporations maximizing their profits in the current dystopia, give more than a lip-service sh*t about doing that.
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Oh stop the straw man arguments ask 10 people on the street about traffic laws and you get the same results for what you are fishing now. Ofc everyone will know that a Red Light means stop but than there are more obscure ones like the "Move Over" law in the US which even varies between states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question

If the question's answer was obvious and resolving false then none would have been described thusly, if it was obvious and resolving true then you wouldn't be denying it.

Merely asserting that they are not, in your opinion (though hey, look at those legal cases they have between them…) does nothing to remove the fact that they have been called this.

It also does nothing to help with the lack of legitimacy of vigilantes. Nor, in this case, jurisdiction: part of the problem here is international cooperation, because right now the USA (where the victim is) and China (where the gang is) are a bit chilly towards each other.

> people will take actions into their own hands.

Amateurs sending a bomb their way? That's one way to describe how WW1 started.
You can try https://www.transcripo.com/ for free
Have you used ORDER BY bm25(...)?
That's going to be fun for remote software assistance apps in the corporate world..

Hopefully this can be avoided if the device is in supervised mode.
First patents on solar energy were granted in 1860s. First solar panels were created in 1883. It wasn't so long ago - I still remember - that everybody thought solar energy would stay way too expensive and would never compete with coal or gas, and look what happened.
In the case we are considering, it doesn’t, but it could with other materials.

Consider that the wavelength of the neutron is a function of its energy, and that the cross sections for interaction between nuclei and neutrons are strong and complex functions of energy.

If the cross section for the interaction of interest gets smaller with decreasing energy, then it would be the case that the neutrons mean free path length would increase as energy decreased.
Certainly! Now, I’m no expert and may get some things wrong here, if anyone else knows better I’d be happy to be corrected.

Every browser implements a version of ECMAScript (this is a specification declaring what features of the JS language will be available for the JS engine included with the browser).

This means that every browser on the planet, and every version of them, support different JS features.

For example, let and const are commonly used to define variables, but if someone happens to use an old browser version the use of these would cause an error, which in turn may cause all the rest of JS code to stop executing, resulting in (worst case scenario) your website being rendered useless to that particular person.

On top of that different browsers may use different engines. So even if they define the same ES version the code may still execute differently (this was for example a very big issue with Microsoft browsers in the past).

This may seem trivial, but new JS features emerge all the time. Granted, this was a much bigger problem before ~2015 something, but it’s by no means none existent today.

Thus, you cannot be sure the code you write locally will actually function the same everywhere, and you are unlikely to know how often failures even occur since it all happens client side.
Sounds very good to me. No one knows what the breakthrough technology will be, but if we don't try, we'll never find out. Either there will be a breakthrough with impact like the iphone or it'll just be gradual progress over the next decades. As long as we have progress, it's a good thing
Paranoia and backstabbing happens everywhere.

What happens if stack rank->pip is too obvious is that people and teams will not cooperate with newer fresh meat. They're incentivized to keep knowledge protected for their job. New people struggle to get above the pip mark and it becomes a revolving door.
I guess now is as good a time as any to hire qualified software engineers, because a lot of them are looking for jobs. This is pushing down wages, and making this kind of in-house development more feasible.

The thing is that if you hire the right people, you can probably build something that is better (for your specific use case) than whatever third-party tool you're using now, with a relatively small team and in a relatively small timeframe (by which I mean probably at least a year or two until you have something that you can start to use). You might even end up being able to sell your product to other companies in a similar position, if you want to do that.

But if you hire the wrong people, or you don't have the necessary institutional support, or something else goes wrong, you can throw away millions and end up with nothing.

As for retaining tech talent, give them ownership, acceptable wages, and freedom. And don't hire a scrum master.
commons.mediawiki.org is also a great resource
There sure are a lot of actual 4WD trucks without lockers when they are sold. I have to wonder what the difference is between a Tacoma sport and an AWD vehicle, I think it’s 2WD mode and maybe clearance. I think there are even jeep gladiators without lockers… is that a jeep or like a cool looking suburban pavement car?

“Off-roading” is a big thing that means different things. I live in Colorado, in the front range area (Boulder) and the popular guides sort of divide trails in to three: green easy, blue moderate and red hard. Most of the blue trails you can do in a bone stock 4WD road truck, probably most AWDs with clearance. You’d want to take it easy and think through a couple sections but it’s doable. We’ve gone to multiple 10th mountain division huts in Subarus, made it with no scraping or problems. This is most trails. Now there are the reds and the hard reds, you basically need a modified vehicle for them. There are some “trail ready” trucks coming from the factory now, I’m under the impression that the “off-roading community” usually feels that even those need modification. Modifying the vehicle and the technical trail challenge is the idea for them.

The difference is driving on technical obstacles for that specific challenge, the driving and the building of the vehicle versus driving on rougher terrain to get to a location. NPS probably also frowns on rock stacking and other “recovery” techniques when a vehicle cannot clear an object.
No, super-criticality occurs in a nuclear reactor when ever the neutron population is increasing.

You might be conflating that condition with prompt criticality.
I'll call it the Volkswagen Trap, or more general the ICE one-way street
I think the point they’re trying to make is that determining who is a criminal and what kind of punishment they deserve is a very difficult task that depends largely on perspective.
I went from hosting XMPP to Matrix and then XMPP again in the last 10 years.

- I'm now sure that I will never convert anyone to Matrix or host a Matrix server again.

- Matrix big issues for me are that it's not really decentralized and this design impacts the server admin, the performances and the user's privacy.

- I'm still not happy with XMPP clients for Linux, most are missing Omemo or automatic turn/stun discovery and Dino is in in alpha and bugged.

- I'm sur that XMPP will have a community in 20 years, not sure about Matrix.
I feel like this axiom is true in general.

Don't write [insert lang here] like it's Java.

I've seen this in Ruby code bases, TS code bases, even Erlang code bases (using gen servers like an OO primative.)
You're missing the part where 5% isn't let go at once triggering WARN.

Think of this is as a continuous process of evaluation -> pip -> fire. This means no WARN and no severance.
I would start by defining an MVP. What do you really need to support operations, and what can wait until later? If it can be done by hand for a while, don't put it in the MVP. If you can manage with Excel for a few months, don't put it in the MVP.
That should give you insight into how big of a project you are looking at. The bigger the project, the greater the chance it's not going to go well.

EDIFACT is a bit of a mess, but not that scary. IME the details of logistics are more complex.

If you are in Europe there are a lot of people in software development in non-glamorous industries. I see more risk in judging tech talent. How do you know if you're talking to the right people?
I his eyes he will definitely forced to install all browsers the epic store and fortnite ;)
I dislike the term, but something like goals are useful to have and I enjoy them. But to me, they are more like visions of how I would want things to be. While clearly defined goals can be helpful when dealing with other people who frequently move goalposts, for my personal “goals” I find that those narrowly defined milestones are not helpful for motivation, nor a particularly good proxy for what’s really important.

Weirdly, I’ve been way, way more consistent with my somewhat loose “vision” than I ever saw in corporate life, where goals would change frequently depending on popular buzzwords, reorgs, new grand poobah hires, etc. That’s made me think of goals more as a coping mechanism for a jittery “inner compass” or lack of direction. But of course, all of these terms have different connotations for different people.
When No Building Is Allowed: Inside the Satmar Hassidic Takeover of a Small Town
Yeah, in some cases it’s not too hard to look things up but the metadata is inconsistent (I just saw a date 1700-2006) and since they disable text selection on the info view it feels like they’re trying to discourage that.

Basically, I want what you have on Openverse when I tap the information icon.
Im a product designer who loves these types of roles the most. Im biased obviously but having a designer work with the dev team speeds up results as you will have someone focused on identifying prioritizing and solving important problems for the team.
While I completely agree with the content of the post, I still think that QFN packages in general, and RP2350's in particular, are very hobbyist-averse.

Moving all GND pins to the bottom pad makes this chip usable only by people with a reflow oven. I really hoped to see at least a version released as (T)QFP.
That already exists, right? I’m guessing they are concerned it’s too subtle.
The Pathé newsreel in the video embed at the bottom of the page explicitly states that milk is tasty "when you know how to drink it" while showing a man pouring almost certainly alcoholic liquor into the milk.
It's fairly common for undergrads and graduate students to compile reviews of research technologies to see what is getting commercialized and what isn't.

If you search google scholar or similar for the area you're interested in, and limit it to the last year or two, you can probably find plenty of info.

As an example, here is a search for "commercialization of novel solar technologies" since 2023 and it has plenty of good looking papers: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=commerciali...
A local baker doesn’t have to poison anyone while being dishonest. History is full of examples: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_of_Bread_Act_1757
What about Julia? Fie numeric code, not sure why I'd reach for Go first
If such thin perovskites ever become cheap and stable enough, they will allow creating autonomous, hydrogen filled, cargo transporter dirigibles, which could be faster and cheaper replacement for trucks.
The user experience of "often unreachable" means way more than 3m per week in practice.
That's because Subaru does torque vectoring. Most of these use the brakes to fight the natural tendencies of AWD systems.
I work in logistics and let me tell you what I think would attract high quality developers.

#1 good benefits. More than 2 weeks pto. A paid sick leave policy. Company paid health care. Paternity leave. Company match on 401k.

#2 Leadership that cares about good engineering over deadlines. Logistics is very fast paced. There is often a lot of pressure to deploy things yesterday. Development takes time, trial, and error. You need to be able to have patience for engineering.
I've covered the basics, so I'll leave it to you to explain the 25 thousand different systems that try to compensate for the lack of a differential lock.
Very cool, can I add in Stripe information?
Imagine if they spent the last fifteen years hardening those privileges, rather than fighting like hell to keep everyone out of their treehouse.
it's called a "press release". they are often written by the University own public relations or marketing department and sent en masse to newspapers.

simply printing the press release with minor word and paragraph order change ("cooking the press release") is frowned upon but very common.

usually when you see one of those, the very first thing you do is make a note to never go back to that news company, or at least the journalist signing it. but often cooked press releases are not signed.

there are places which compile press releases as a service to journalists having to fill pages.
>The event has more than 50 pieces of debris that now pose a risk to LEO constellations below 800 km altitude, according to the firm

Lacks any context for contrast. How do other countries launches fare? How large percentage those 50 pieces represent? Is this so importants that it's singling out China or does it represent a drop in the bucket? Or something in between?
I can well believe it, and my sympathies to you.

Hopefully the suggestion gave them an idea to reflect on later — I don't know of anything better that can be done when on the receiving end of a phone call.
> the story of late-stage capitalism and the application of value-extraction to human social structures resulting in comically terrible outcomes

You mean the MBAs. Ban anything related to business administration degrees and fix the problem.
Companies have one responsibility: to make money. This is by design in the system known as capitalism.

Giving companies additional responsibilities is either called adding regulations or it's called ending capitalism. Guess which one is easier.
It's not about them being insufficient, I just didn't know about them. Thank you!
Where are all the security problems of Linux allowing "side loading"? Especially servers are very valuable.
This made my morning, thanks.
University PR is not generally to be trusted, but if we give them the benefit of the doubt, how exactly would their “paint it onto a rucksack” idea work? Where does the electricity come out?
I'm sorry,but I can't tell if you're being serious or not since you commented without qualification.

One of the most stable system archictectures I've built was on Kafka AND it was running with microservices managed by teams across multiple geographies and time zones. It was one of the most reliable systems in the bank. There are situations where it isn't appropriate, which can be said for most tech e.g( K8S vs ECS vs Nomad vs bare metal)

Every system has failure characteristics. Kafka's is defined as Consistent and Available and your system architecture needs to take that into consideration. Also the transactionality of tasks across multiple services and process boundaries is important.

Let's not pretend that kubernetes (or the tech of the day) is at fault while completely ignoring the complex architectural considerations that are being juggled
It’s difficult when the authorities over you have no jurisdiction over the criminals harming you.
Hasn't the use of behaviourless value objects (essentially structs) been commonplace in both the JVM and the related .NET-world for the better part of a decade now, maybe more?
That's the title of the next James Bond movie
Reading the comments here gives me the impression that Intel is indirectly responsible for the Taiwan conflict. If they would have done their job better they would be on TSMC level now and that inside USA.
I'm sympathetic to the reason why: Most people don't read. It's wasted work to write elaborate manuals.

Also, many people are busy. Very busy. Even if someone wanted to read, he's way too tired to immerse in new knowledge. Source: Me. I simply have neither the time nor the energy to bother with learning anymore unless there's a very good reason to.
> Intel passed on making the System on Chip for Apple’s new iPhone

Is "passed on" the right term? I seem to remember reading that Intel quoted an extortionate price for making the chips, hence Apple passed on the offer.
Practically speaking, yes.

The whole conversation is a bit tough because there are a LOT of blurred lines. Some 4WD systems can act like AWD systems. Some AWD systems can act like 4WD systems.
What are the basics? The "front end" (demand side) is that cars are effectively subsidized by cheap and widely available financing, but at a high level where is that money actually going on the "back end" (supply side) that makes cars expensive to manufacture?
I called a while ago this on copium filled people, probably intel employees, about their 1.4 "process" and how they'd surpass TSMC, like buddy, come on, you guys got stuck for 10 years in 14nm, the manufacturing issues nowadays are a showing that Intel is incapable of competing with leading manufacturing companies in the world, they are just too error prone, their GPU business is failing hard because of significant delays, and I don't see a way out, and they are stuck on x86 when ARM is gaining ground.

They have become more of a political tool of a company to receive subsidies like Boeing than a real actual competitor to TSMC
> Does it really matter if it's opt-in when insurance companies are going to make the price without the "discounts" you get for opting in completely unaffordable for most people?

let’s be accurate with statements yes? i was offered one of these devices, refused it, and my rates did not increase. you’re claiming the rates people have been paying are lower than after they refuse the device. This is incorrect.