skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Temple Buccees has a supercharger, as do many other places. Still, Texas is not a great place for EVs. Everything’s so far apart. Instead of a Hybrid, how about a PHEV or an EV with a range extender? The problem with hybrids is they have all of the complexity of an ICE as their main drivetrain, whereas an EV drivetrain is much simpler, more powerful and more reliable. If you can get a vehicle where the gas / diesel is just there as a power plant for the EV, you get the best of all worlds, plus the gas engine can run at peak efficiency which gives you better fuel economy and if the ICE has issues you can still drive with just the EV part.
2022; previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428602
Nope - Canadian here, opted out in Austin.
>view the Unix philosophy as a means to an end and not an end to itself

it won't be a means to an end any more if you don't preserve it, so not breaking that aspect of it has to be one of your ends. if you use it to take ls to a new place but that place is not within the ecosystem, it will be an evolutionary dead end, or worse, the first meteor in the meteor storm that ends all life.

current/traditional unix may not be the be-all/end-all, but replacing it/changing it requires viewing it comprehensively and changing all the tools at once or having a plan to. A good example of this is Plan9
Tbh, i dont understand why people want to rewrite ls of all things.

Like don't get me wrong, if they had fun, that's great.

But all i use ls for is getting a list of files. I barely ever even use the -la options. There just doesn't seem like a lot of room for improvement in something so simple.
>Smarter, more knowledgeable people are much harder to manipulate via some trivial emotional tricks.

But also much more capable of manipulating others via the same sorts of tricks, that's my point.
At last, a voice of reason amid the vulgar crowd.

I've held several management positions where I've carried a pager. At one employer I helped keep trading databases operational in 7 time-zones on 3 continents. At another I helped fix a backup issue on Christmas eve. Helping those customers was a core part of my responsibility. I fully understood that and took great pride in it.

But as a developer I too will never accept another on-call rotation.

Companies which assign on-call duties to developers make the mistake that development, management and operations are different kinds of work which require different environments and skill-sets. Other engineering tasks include testing, documentation, training, and maintenance. At small startups the founders and early employees may do some or all of these but that becomes impractical at larger established businesses.

Engineers should learn and do all these things in the course of their career but not all at the same time unless quality isn't a concern.

My experience at a unicorn a few years ago convinced me companies which assign developers on-call rotation either don't understand or don't care about the quality or sustainability of their business. In that company senior management was replaced by folks from Google and Facebook shortly after I joined. I was moved into a team where I had no role in the design, develop or deployment of its services. I had no say in the hiring or firing of the so-called engineers who rushed failing services into place past a wholly ineffective QA department.

I should have seen the writing on the wall when I began to be pressured by managers and recruiters to rubber-stamp candidates who couldn't pass our coding tests but had spent lots of time on-call. The company's priorities slowly became clearer to me as they grew evermore desperate to live up to their promises. Ultimately I suffered an ischemic attack from the stress of this environment and left the company to focus on my health.

Oh and the company? It let go of most of its engineers a year later and was eventually acquired by competitor for a few hundred million after having raised over a billion dollars.
I wish academic papers were more like Wikipedia articles. Currently what I'm working on is really "Building on" one pretty pivotal paper from the 90s, and there's a whole constellation of work that has spawned.

So much ink is spilled re-defining the problem, and reading any paper requires going through the system model every time because tons of arbitrary decisions may have been done different. It makes it hard to compare results, and makes almost every statement that reads "Over in this area we're not innovating on, we used the SOTA" wrong, because some other group is innovating in that corner.

If instead there was one canonical version of it with an edit history, and I could go try to just re-write one little para and argue in the talk section about it with the one-or-two other groups picking away at that, I feel like things could move faster and be done higher quality.

It'd also be a lot easier to peek at other areas. Currently if I have a question like "What's the latest in NeRFs underwater? I remember seeing a paper about that a while ago" I've basically got no idea.
~~It didn't work; PyPy moved away from partial evaluation years ago~~

Sorry, I think I was responding to completely the wrong comment. I would also like a more general-purpose tool for writing fast programming language implementations
Where’s the point where you figure out how to stack chiplets perpendicular to a backplane instead of doing lithography 300 times on the same chip?
If you are into glass UI, you might enjoy this one inspired by visionOS and done with Tailwind CSS. Click on the "show windows" button in the upper left corner. Works on mobile, but definitely better on larger screens.
https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/kitty-os/#the-widget
There is a ton of infrastructure between Austin and Ft. Worth, it’s almost a contiguous city at this point. And there are no mountains in the vast majority of Texas, it’s very flat. There are a lot of chargers on that route, not sure what OP is talking about.
How does it compare to other libs?
> I'm sure that's why you attack someone's understanding.

I "attack" [politely question] your understanding because you really don't seem to know what a metaphor is or how it works, based on the fact that you're complaining about "gaps in logic" rather than engaging with the similarities.

> Saying there are gaps in logic, isn't accusatory or demeaning.

It's a metaphor. It's easy to find "gaps in logic"; that's not why we use them. No one said you were demeaning (at least, until you started using 'autistic' as an insult).

> You guess? Are you the author?

If I were the author I would know. Since I'm not, I can only guess. What a strange thing to ask.

> Is it? Or is it a logical unfolding that has been predicted and theorized for the better part of a century?

Yes, yes it is. That's precisely why people have been writing about it - because it's truly radical and revolutionary. And now it's coming into it's own, as prophesied.

> Who has the most to benefit from some companies' AI products being free?

That could actually a good question. Not the point though.

The point is, you called it a luxury good, which typically implies exclusivity and high cost - yet you admit it's available to everyone at no cost.

You may as well ask, who benefits from free beer promotions? Not the end user, who faces liver cirrhosis and the threat of being lured into buying salty snacks!

> Is that passive aggression? If so, how thoughtful.

No, it's a genuine and sincere question. A lot of people think they know what metaphors are, but actually don't. And your writing gives that impression.

Btw, calling perceived passive aggression "thoughtful" is what passive aggression actually looks like.

> Some people are autistic.

And some people throw around ableist language. Me, I think that using autism as some kind of insult is intellectually lazy, and strongly indicative of poor character.

> All I'm saying is: Show me how much AI has actually changed and for whom.

It's changed humanity, and our future, in ways we can not begin to imagine. We will likely grow at least as dependent on it as we have been for 6,000 years on plows, and much quicker. Even in the area of food production AI can be a revolution. Denying this potential seems absurd to me.

If you want more examples, try asking Claude or ChatGPT lol.

> AI seems very much a top down kind of tool, where a plow is bottom up.

Both tools are designed to dig through big lumps of data/dirt, to make tasks easier and more efficient.

Plows revolutionized agriculture by letting people cultivate more land, while AI helps us process more information and solve complex problems faster.

Both require resources and effort to use effectively. A plow needs animals, workers, and land, while AI needs computing power, data, and human expertise.

Neither works alone, but needs to be guided by a human.

And both can be great equalizers or great dividers - depending on access.
Yeah, that was related to technological limitations of the time in addition to the politics of North/South.

Another alternate form is SKATS (Standard Korean Alphabetic Transliteration System) which is used for representing Korean in Morse Code.

https://korean.stackexchange.com/questions/3417/morse-code-w...

(apparently the Wikipedia article was taken down --- that discussion captures the salient points)
Goatseus Maximus is what you're after.
This is 321 physical layers of silicon in an IC, not 321 charge levels.

QLC flash - with 16 charge levels, for four bits per cell - is pretty common nowadays, but that's as far as it goes so far. And stability is indeed a concern; modern flash devices rely heavily on error correction.
> For example, a lifetime IC job may be ultimately worth less than a management job that gets you to VP level in a decade

How are you positive that you can get to VP level in a decade as a manager? That doesn't sound easy. Just by looking at the number of managers and number of VP in my company it would seemed that around ~2% would eventually become VP if the ratio hold, that's an incredible standard for "reasonably good". Doubly so if you are not even starting from the same track.
I think ripgrep specifically is counted in the comment you reply to as a tool that _does_ do one thing well, and that one should use it (or grep) in combination with an ls, instead of giving ls filtering abilities.
This is nice, but a poor substitute for what Genera was doing.

You see, Genera knows the actual type of everything that is clickable. When a program needs an input, objects of the wrong type _lose their interactivity_ for the duration. So if you list the files in some directory, the names of those files are indeed links that you can click on. Clicking on one would bring up a context menu of relevant actions (view, edit, print, delete, etc). If a program asks for a filename as input then clicking on a file instead supplies the file object to the program. Clicking on objects of other types does nothing.
Discussion (53 points, 6 days ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42145919
Sometimes I write with "downvotes be damned" in mind and connected with the audience exactly how I intended.

But not connecting with the audience is the usual reason.

When it happens to me, I take it as feedback on my writing. Maybe I was unclear. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it was written for a different audience.

In those cases, I just try to improve my writing.

Anyway, where can responses to your original comment go?

They could dispute your maxim and the internet gets another argument where nobody changes their mind.

Or they could agree with it and the internet gets another dog pile of cynicisms.

Generally, those are not why people come to HN...at least when the form is one-liners.

Finally, complaining about downvotes is contrary to the HN guidelines. Good luck.
What makes you think this will make lines move any faster? The bottleneck has always been body/luggage scanning, and that isn't changing.
To my knowledge the largest factory in the world is BASF Ludwigshafen (Germany) with 10 km². Here is an aerial photo: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:LudwigshafenBASF2017-0... Followed by Volkswagen Wolfsburg (also Germany) with 6.5 km². Seems the BYD factory is competing with it for rank #2.
ls is tabular data, and you can format it (ls -1, ls -l, ls -w, plus sorting, field formatting, and more), and you can cut/parse/format in a standard way. Every field sans the filename is fixed length, can be handled with awk/cut/sed according your daily mood and requirements, etc. etc.

So, ls can be chained very nicely, which I do every day, even without thinking.

You don't need to have a "structured data with fields" to parse it. You just need to think it like a tabular data with line/column numbers (ls -l, etc.) or just line numbers (ls -1).

So, as long as ls does one thing well, it's alright.

Ah, some of the "enhanced" ls tools can't distinguish between pipe and a terminal, and always print color/format escape codes to pipe too, doubling the fun of using them. So, thanks, I'll stick with my standard ls. That one works.
C, C++, Rust, Zig, …
Bike lanes and bikes aren't alternatives to most of what motorized transport is providing.
Well, recursive display is nice, I guess, as well as searching on partial filenames
All adjusted to how important the thing you're securing is: one layer of any approach to securing something is generally a bad thing. Making that one layer bespoke doesn't inherently fix that but it does inherently add an enormous burden on you (both cost and time) that could probably have better been spent on another already existing security solution or approach to add in instead.
I don't like TSA or the US security state, but I really find it hard to see why this has attracted so much attention. When you enter the airport, you're surrounded by cameras from numerous government and commercial entities, no doubt performing facial recognition. When you get to your destination, your photo will be taken by the destination country plus countless other surveillance cameras along the way. And unless you like long lines, you've already submitted fingerprints and yet another photo to TSA or CBP for precheck. Even if you didn't, all REAL IDs (except a foreign passport) require digital storage of the ID photo--that's what they are matching your face to at the checkpoint.

(During the pandemic, I had a job that let me--I mean, a friend of my choice--do my own e-verify/I-9 form. When you enter your passport number, the e-Verify system spits out a digital copy of the photo you sent it to prevent counterfeit or altered photos.)

I just don't understand how one more potato quality still capture of your face, that by definition is very similar to those they already have, changes the equation much.
N=2 is common in Việt Nam. (vowel sound + tonal pitch)
How suggestive is this of life elsewhere in the universe?
As has been pointed out, they sure did in the 70's when there was a huge financial incentive.

I expect that acting like all American's want are $60K+ luxury cars is what is going to take the US auto industry into the next massive downward spiral.
> it might completely upend the generational hypothesis

The generational hypothesis is about object lifetime, and that doesn't change.

It does change the relevance of the generational hypothesis to garbage collection.

> Surely someone's done some studies on this?

The go team has, and that's why go doesn't have a generational GC. The complexity of adding generational support, especially in a mutation-based language (so needing memory barriers and the like) was found not to benefit when a significant fraction of the newborn objects don't even reach the youngen. See https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257#discussioncom... from the current discussion of adding opt-in ad-hoc support for memory regions.
When Trump ups everything from China by 100% I guess US would be able to make something with profit?
Because they want access to high-quality (including intellectually stimulating) jobs, which are overwhelmingly in high COL areas.
Nearly all of the work done on Django ninja is by someone who lists their location on GitHub as Kharkiv. I hope that’s not current.
Kids are getting ruder, teachers say. And new research backs that up
I guess I've been lucky in that the more money didn't cause more stress, about the same actually. And my kid is out of college now tho living with us. So I have loads of free time. Was talking with a former coworker this week who has 6 and 8 year old and is currently taking a work break. We realized that I have about as much free time as he does. So yes I'm talking from a place of privilege. And fair on the tradeoffs.

My point was more about prompting people to start thinking about what they'd want to do in retirement if they even retired. I know quite a few people who don't know what they'd do, so it defintitely seems like a thing you need to figure out. Not a pool to jump into all at once one day.

For me I think it also helps me de-stress the idea of retirement, easing. into it.
Use an EcoFlow
Unless you are implying having no security at airports whatsoever (which will never happen), abolishing TSA simply means replacing one central agency with hundreds/thousands of private security agencies and companies in every state and city, which will only increase costs.
> All this to produce machines of 2T to displace 80kg of human on average (think about it, the battery weight more than what it actually need to move on average)

Actually, if you pay attention to scales and sizes, it's so very little to achieve so much. What you're seeing is tremendous efficiencies concentrated on a small piece of land, affecting transportation on a vast scale.
Ask HN: How to Send a Journal into the Future?
I've been keeping a journal for many years, in electronic form. In it I discuss very personal matters about me, my family, my friends, my children, etc. I try to be as honest as possible.

Nobody but me has ever read it, or even knows it exists. I would like to keep it that way.

However, it might have some value for researchers in the future (or it may of course not, and this may just be my ego speaking).

Anyway, how would one proceed to "send" this into the future (after my death) so that

- it has zero chance of being found by the people who knew me, including my children and their children

- it has a fairly good chance of being found, still in usable form, after that (say, in 100 years)?

It should probably be printed on paper, but where to put those?
Show HN: Bluesky Watch
"Kids today have no respect."

-- Socrates, probably
I have long been a fan of petnames, and graph naming systems in general.

I like to use the term “nickname” for what they call “edge names” in the article: a nickname is not as personal as a petname, it’s a name you share with others.

An interesting thing that the article sort of hints at is that these kinds of systems have a fairly smooth range of operating points between globally unique and centralized vs decentralized petnames. The article’s example of the bizdir local business directory is somewhere in between these extremes. It sort of turns Zooko’s triangle into more like a fan, where the “human friendly” point is fixed and there’s an arc describing the tradeoffs, from personal through local to global.

How can a petname system function at the global+centralized point, so it could replace the DNS? It needs to pass the “billboard test”: I type in a name I saw on a billboard and I get to the right place. (It might be a multipart name like a postal address or DNS name, with an extra “edge name” or two to provide enough disambiguating context.) I imagine that an operating system supplier might provide a few preconfigured petnames (well, it probably includes its own petname so the software can update itself securely), a lot like its preconfigured PKIX CA certificates. These petnames would refer to orgs like the “bizdir”, or Verisign, or Nominet, that act as nickname registries. Your collection of petnames is in effect your personal root zone, and the preconfigured petnames are in effect the default TLDs. There would inevitably be something like the CA/Browser forum to mediate between OS suppliers and nickname registries: a petname ICANN.

I wrote an older iteration of these ideas over a decade ago (https://dotat.at/@/2012-02-28-path-names-in-a-rootless-dns.h...). Those notes have a bit too much DNS braindamage, but I included some curious anti-DNS discussion: How you might make use of reaching names by multiple paths? What might it look like to have a shared context for names that is not global but is national or regional or local?
Which utopia? I saw two dystopias. One the likely future of western society, another being one where your very thoughts are programmed
Thanks for the insightful comment! I've just been (re-)reading "Harrison Decoded", it's very difficult to know how much of the "conventional thinking is wrong, Harrison was right" stuff to take seriously.

Harrison definitely had some interesting ideas, and the tests of the Burgess Clock B proves that they had merit.

I'm curious if you can suggest any other good resources for learning about Harrison's precision pendulum clock ideas that I might have missed?
salesforce-ready is an interesting specialization, but makes a ton of sense if you're going after enterprise. Stoked to give this a spin.

lemme know if/when you build the CLI agent that write my gherkin too
UK tracks Russian spy ship amid cable concerns
That's kind of what we're doing already, although the stacking is parallel, not perpendicular. A lot of the innovation is in how the dies are tied together, cf. https://www.anandtech.com/show/9520/toshiba-brings-throughsi...
Why Bluesky Is Different
> triple level cell-based 4D memory

What does 4D memory mean?
Famously

- everything is a string

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/everything+is+a+string
From the article: https://allthingsopen.org/articles/the-case-for-open-source-... :

> currently keeping client journal entries with Apple Pages

Those are "unstructured notes" in medical informatics or health informatics.

Health informatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_informatics

For the medical dictation to transcription to unstructured notes workflow,

OpenAI Whisper is free but not open source, and it hallucinates; https://www.wired.com/story/hospitals-ai-transcription-tools...

Perhaps dictation to unstructured text to chart form fields is the clinical workflow that needs optimization.

Which chart form fields work with other physicians' tools too?

FHIR is an open spec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Healthcare_Interoperabili... :

> FHIR builds on previous data format standards from HL7, like HL7 version 2.x and HL7 version 3.x. But it is easier to implement because it uses a modern web-based suite of API technology, including a HTTP-based RESTful protocol, and a choice of JSON [JSON-LD], XML or RDF for data representation.[1] One of its goals is to facilitate interoperability between legacy health care systems, to make it easy to provide health care information to health care providers and individuals on a wide variety of devices from computers to tablets to cell phones, and to allow third-party application developers to provide medical applications which can be easily integrated into existing systems. [2]

> FHIR provides an alternative to document-centric approaches by directly exposing discrete data elements as services. For example, basic elements of healthcare like patients, admissions, diagnostic reports and medications can each be retrieved and manipulated via their own resource URLs.

FHIR spec:
https://build.fhir.org/

Which EHRs / EMRs support FHIR?

FHIR / Open Source Implementations: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/Open+Source+Implemen...

FHIR / Public Test Servers: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/Public+Test+Servers

/? awesome clinical open source: https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+clinical+open+source
Already exists when entering the US using global entry. No need to show your passport anymore, just walk right through.