skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I highly doubt I'm doing this for status

I mention status so much because my current learning goal is to better understand how we tick: why we chase certain goals. I do wonder if I've been countersignalling status for a while!

> back in sales

Ahh - I presumed you were a shape rotator (I skimmed your post) and answered as though you were an engineer, sorry. I respect sales as a career path (maybe not when I was younger).

> congrats on hitting your wealth goal!

I am not sure I hit it. Need 30x post-tax return (as per VC risk-reward for one investment) to justify time investment (2 years $0 income which is negative 2 years of wages). My invisibles (e.g. satisfaction) wasn't any better than working for someone else.

> I'm sure there are points in your life where you're glad to not be in need of [money].

More importantly is having time available to help friends and family.

I find that managing money is a job in itself and it has downsides. Either you tell people you have it (causes some downsides) or you need to be deceptive (uggh). I don't yet feel I have enough retirement funds that would keep me at job level income: so I'm not ready to donate a lot (which has other issues). A metaphor might be that having more food than you can eat is not that helpful.

Most people from developed nations are given similar amounts of time. As I age I dislike the exchange rate from time to money. I donate my time, but I value my time rediculously highly in dollars (and I try to balance saving money against saving time).

> - Joined a startup accelerator. Found it’s like playing the lottery.

Yeah - we learned a lot of negative lessons by being involved with an accelerator. Fortunately government funded and they didn't demand stock. Saw lots of incubees get screwed by bad decisions related to investment (own goals, and poor investor advice).

Sorry - another spiel!
I mostly agree with this, and also think the "magic telephone number" is a very message-boardy kind of argument, sort of like when software developers are aghast at the idea that the criminal justice system adjudicates "intent" ("you can't read people's minds!"). I think outside of message boards, people generally do want a phone number they can call during an armed robbery.
it's perl, of course it's retro.
True, I was thinking of backup tools which tend to consider poor latency in their design.
Small review, 2013 BMW 335xi (drove for a test drive).
Loved iDrive. Remained my benchmark for car infotainment UI for 10+ years. The main thing, you could DRVIE the car, aggressively, and give commands to infotainment without missing a beat.

Truly a lost art today. Fond memories.
I use gohugo templates for my static site and for hosting either you han use github pages or netlify. I use netlify because it has some additional functionality.
A bit meta, but I love how the AI code generation tools show you the code being live-edited rather than just having a loading indicator. It's very visually pleasing.
It seems like if there was a $15-$20k EV in the US market, it would be a no-brainer "around town" second car.

Every few months Electrek publishes a list of EVs that can be leased in the United States for under $200/month. Sometimes they're as cheap as $99 or even $0/month, depending on your state's incentives.
This is new to me. Thank you for sharing. Looks like it hits a lot of notes I am looking for. Excited to keep digging in!
So You Want to Learn About Economics, Pt. II
>You can bet that the 100% tariff on BYD cars in the US isn’t going anywhere with Musk...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq55zd2xjreo

>Musk opposes US tariffs on Chinese electric cars. "In fact, I was surprised when they were announced. Things that inhibit freedom of exchange or distort the market are not good," Mr Musk said on Thursday. “Tesla competes quite well in the market in China with no tariffs and no deferential support. I’m in favour of no tariffs," he added.
You don't have to believe in god to call your product "god's eyes" anymore than you have to believe in dragons to use the word "dragon".

If anything, I would consider using the word "god" in a commercial tech product to be disrespectful to an actual believer.
"“We’re not planning to come to the US,” Stella Li, executive vice president of BYD and CEO of BYD Americas, told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It’s an interesting market, but it is very complicated,” she added, citing growing political pushback on Chinese companies and the slowing rate of growth for EV adoption."

From the largest maker of BEVs.
Nyx: Open-source spaceflight mechanics and mission analysis software
First couple that came up…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/09/19/tesla-m...

https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-y-achieves-5-star-overall-s...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Teslas-come-right-after-RAM-an...
> From a philosophical viewpoint, the danger inherent in the new reality of mankind seems to be that this unity, based on the technical means of communication and violence, destroys all national traditions and buries the authentic origins of all human existence. This destructive process can even be considered a necessary prerequisite for ultimate understanding between men of all cultures, civilizations, races, and nations. Its result would be a shallowness that would transform man, as we have known him in five thousand years of recorded history, beyond recognition. It would be more than mere superficiality; it would be as though the whole dimension of depth, without which human thought, even on the mere level of technical invention, could not exist, would simply disappear. This leveling down would be much more radical than the leveling to the lowest common denominator; it would ultimately arrive at a denominator of which we have hardly any notion today.

-- Hannah Arendt
During final days before my grand mother's death, she was able to recall her childhood memories, asking her sons to bring her brother. Before that, she had some kind of memory loss. Anyway, here, we need some sort of neurological explanation: Childhood memories stay in the lower part of the brain, as I read it somewhere (probably Oliver Sacks'); the neurological basis of many memory loss is on top layers of brain, that's why sometimes people recall vividly of their childhood memories, even playing piano despite with dementia.
It translates into a patron god in Japanese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenjin_(kami)

I think it literally means god in Chinese. There are various ways to get god out sky (like laotian, tianna, etc...).
Honestly, I will never pay for a weather service. If I have to keep an umbrella in my bag, so be it. If it means an unexpected snow day, oh well.

Other services that depend upon weather will pass those fees down to me anyway, no reason to pay for it twice.
its pure paranoia.
first of all, I as a consumer, mature enough to understand risks and carry them myself, I dont need no government to babysit and censor what I am allowed to buy.

second, you assume China will resort to bricking civilian cars, when they have better options like actual weapons. Bricked car can easily be towed away, there is no way China can cause damage.

the best way for China is to keep manufacturing cars and selling them to USA for $$$ - this will ensure the relationships are beneficial to China (mutual trade is better than military conflict)
Jeg byder vores danske overherrer velkommen.
You can also try LangDB or Portkey
It's infinity years in California.
Yes, why not? Open sourcing and standardising it across all Chinese manufacturers would be a logical next step.
Yeah, more instances of having to pay for things twice sounds amazing. But why stop at twice? Maybe we could pay for things three times, even.
Early Leafs ate batteries, so the really cheap used ones often need a potentially unavailable replacement battery.

You can easily get a used EV in good working order for under $15K though:
https://insideevs.com/features/715984/best-used-evs-on-a-bud...
So did this change at the US agency level? Or is this preemptive?
I took a road trip over Christmas from Massachusetts to Florida and back, and used FSD on my Model Y the entire drive.

The number of times I had to manually disengage because it was doing something stupid / dangerous was... a lot. More than a dozen interventions, maybe two dozen.
you can’t without hacksaws and circuit modifications. you’d also lose map updates and any software updates.
"Tesla-like" meaning not really "Full" self driving?
Efficient program analysis using DJ graphs
Subsidies. Basically all savers in China that have money in the bank have to pay for development of what the central Government considers a priority, like steel and aluminium production, solar panels or EV vehicles, or chip manufacturing.

Aluminium and steel costs significantly less in China than the rest of the world, but they now face significant problems because of overcapacity. There are so much factories built and so small demand companies can not survive without help from the Government. They were build thanks to cheap loans from the Government.

So the Government made an investment that is not making money, so basically is a transfer of wealth from bank savers account to industry.

This is also applied in the US and EU, let's remember interest rates below inflation, "Quantitative Easing" and other transfers of wealth the central banks do in the West.

Tesla was also subsidised.
OK so I see that I didn't appreciate the complexity here.

So even a "trivial" compositor like xcompmgr, that runs alongside a WM, has to do all of this dance? The WM still has the authority to tell X, "draw this window here", but X lets xcompmgr take the wheel? (I can tell from here why X was already becoming more of a drag.)
Cloud providers AWS in particular uses storage and transfer pricing as means of lock-in to other products , they can never be cost competitive to Backblaze , they has a thriving prosumer business .

I don’t think it is going anywhere.
The Chevy Bolt was discontinued.
performance/mm2

This strikes me as not a particularly useful metric, or at least one only indirectly related to the stuff that actually matters.

Performance/watt and performance/cost are the only metrics that really matter both to consumer and producer - performance/die size is only used as a metric because die size generally correlates to both of those. But comparing it between different manufacturers and different fabs strikes me as a mistake (although maybe it's just necessary because identifying actual manufacturing costs isn't possible?).
sorry the you was more rhetorical than specifically directed at you!!
We could raise the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25/hour to somewhere in the $13-16/hour range. That would help a lot of people in lower paying jobs.

I picked $13-16/hour because that is what the minimum wage from 1980 would be if it were adjusted to today's dollars and wages.

It was $3.10/hour then which becomes around $12.60/hour if it were adjusted to now based on the CPI. If it were adjusted using the same method the Social Security Administration uses to adjust past earnings when trying to figure your average monthly earnings over you career it would by about $16.50/hour today.

I note that there are several states where the minimum wage is in that range including California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona on the west, Florida in the south, most of the Northeast except Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.

Looking at a map of minimum wage by states and a map of who won the states in the 2024 election, I think every state where the minimum wage is $7.25/hour went to Trump. In states where it is at least $13/hour it looks like most went Harris except for Florida, Arizona, and Missouri.

Speaking of minimum wage and Social Security, the fact that the federal minimum wage has not kept up with inflation has an interesting consequence. Normally when you retire your SS benefit is a significant cut from your working pay. For someone whose retirement age is 67 and retiring this year their benefit is the sum of:

90% of the first $1000 of the AIME
32% of the their AIME over 1000 but less than $6000
15% of the AIME over $6000

where AIME is "average indexed monthly earning". It is simply you average monthly pay over the 35 working years where you earned the most, with each year's pay indexed to current dollars.

For example if your AIME is $6000 your benefit would be 90% of $1000 + 32% of $5000 = $2500, so half of your average, which is probably around 1/3 or 1/4 or less of what you were making in your later years. Big drop. If you didn't manage to save/invest a fair amount for retirement this can mean a big drop in your standard of living.

If you had been earning minimum wage all those years though your AIME now would be $1982 ($11.89/hour) which is more than you would be currently earning in your $7.25/hour job. Your SS benefit would be 90% of $1000 + 32% of 982 = $1214/month. That's $14570/year, which is $70/year more than you would be making at 2000 hours/year @ $7.25/hour. (And that $14570 is all take home. Your $14570/year working minimum wage would be $13391 after SS and Medicare taxes).

So for someone who has worked minimum wage all their life at least their SS will be enough to continue their current lifestyle when they retire. They aren't screwed if they were not able to save/invest much.
An overreaching government?

When you ask “how can we be more like China?” you’ve lost 1/2 the chat…
On the one hand, you probably aren't counting calories right.

On the other hand, studies have shown that almost nobody can count calories right, so it's probably useless to try and rely on outside of basic order-of-magnitude kind of things.
Lurker here, just wanted to comment on your second point to say I agree as a Christian. Although Sanger has clearly delved intellectually into becoming a theist as described here, his conversion to Christianity as a specific religion appears less thorough as detailed in this blog. Though I find various theistic arguments mentioned by the essay to be persuasive, I personally was/am more gripped by the historical arguments put forward for the reliability of the Gospels and Jesus' resurrection, so it was a bit surprising to find no mention of such arguments in this blog.

As a side, to say Christianity is fraudulent if it's false is rather harsh, as fraud indicates intentional deception or malice. Yet skeptical positions that attribute deception or malice to Jesus' disciples are quite rare due to how difficult they are to defend. So if Christianity is false, it would most likely have been an honest mistake by the early Christians rather than an intentional deception, at least in my estimate.
How old are you? All it takes is one bad experience to show you the emperor has no clothes. Corporations, executives, and middle managers are almost by definition self interested and short sighted.

Just look at the over hiring during covid and the methods used to cull that workforce after they realized their mistake. Back handed and inhumane. Executives are more followers than a junior dev is. They just have a lot more terminology to obscure that fact. But they are basically professional bullshitters, like consultant firms.

This is excluding executives with vision. But the market and corporate structure bias towards eliminating those leaders as they are not consistently profitable over every month.
It does seem like unnecessary cruelty, to somebody who is going through one of the lowest points in their life.

Those who know, however, know the truth. Facebook isn't laying off people because the company is in trouble or its people have failed in any way. Ex-Facebook employees are some of the highest-performance people the world has ever seen.
SvelteKit using the static adapter to render everything to static HTML - except a few islands of with dynamic components like for the image gallery - and MDsvex to convert markdown to Svelte components with some extra remark plugins to simplify crosslinking, Tailwind for the CSS with some design copied from the excellent TailwindUI, Github Actions to push the static pages to GitHub Pages, and a CNAME on my domain pointing at the Pages URL. I have an Ink.js TUI utility to manage some bits of the blog like optimize static assets, update metadata or un/publish a post, etc.

For search I just generate a JSON file with all my posts and use Fuse.js to search against it locally in the browser.
This has been the "conventional wisdom" for a very long time. Is this one of those things that get "lost with time" and every generation has to rediscover it?

Like, 25+ years ago I would've bought hard drives for just my personal usage in a software raid making sure I don't get consecutive serial numbers, but ones that are very different. I'd go to my local hardware shop and ask them specifically for that. They'd show me the drives / serial numbers before I ever even bought them for real.

I even used different manufacturers at some point when they didn't have non consecutive serials. I lost some storage because the drives weren't exactly the same size even though the advertized size matched, but better than having the RAID and extra cost be for nothing.

I can't fathom how anyone that is running drives in actual production wouldn't have been doing that.
Musk says a lot of things that are not true. Hard to know if that was a serious take.
Unless your commute is long, charging overnight on a standard outlet is more than sufficient. We have two EVs—one for my daily ~50 mile round trip commute while the other stays in the neighborhood most the time—and we never have to charge outside the home.
> I think Elon wants to compete in that kind of market, not bog it down with regulation.

Exactly what market is that? Where Tesla has 0 responsibility for any issues / defects / deaths-from-FSD? Sure, that market he wants to play in - it has only upside for him.

The one where he has to compete on price/features/whatever, and he can't make rude comments or cut people off who he doesn't like? Please pass the bong..
Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds
I've recommended that we just put up signs on the Interstate highways entering CA...
Solar is super cheap nowadays - you can have a complete 5kW solar install with an 5kWh battery for around $2000 + labor. I'd argue a similar proportion of people have their own houses.

Additionally, a level 2 charger is just a high amperage wall socket plus some safety equipment.
What's your alternative to dominance by China? Dominance by Elon Musk? American industry has been fucking the dog since the 1980's. This is what we deserve.
The fact of the matter is there’s no replacement for a jeep. Not the grand cherokees and other “fake” jeeps but the gladiator and wrangler have no competition in the segment they’re built for. they can get away with a lot for that reason alone.
That was a single example of their value.
It can be done, but usually as a part of a longer term commitment deal. They (understandably) don’t want to give you a pile of credits just for you to flit off to AWS when they’re exhausted.
Can anyone compare to Chevrotain?
Not OP: I have a smartphone for my own personal use but don't use it for work at all. If my employer wants me to use specific phone apps they can provide one for me like they do a laptop.
PSA: Don't try this in rural Wyoming...
> Not any.

Just about any. It's pretty difficult to write code where changing the rounding of the last couple bits breaks it (as happens if you use wider types during the calculation), but other changes don't break it.

What real code have you seen with that behavior?
Oops, I missed that. The Leaf is still for sale.
Exactly. Seems more likely that it's driven but much higher interest rates than AI. AI is likely just how these businesses are trying to justify why/how they've laid off more workers instead of asking the remaining people to do a lot more work for the same pay.
The transmission still works?
It’s not the name, it’s the solid axles and proven platform.
My favorite has been everyday people claiming Elmo will find all sorts of corruption on Fed databases using AI. Trained on what datasets? What biases? Etc.
Given their M/O is seemingly using indentured Uighur servants, it probably wouldn’t work economically here.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chines...
Well, Java is memory safe, and the JVM is fast enough for tons of use-cases.

Before you get at me for "fast enough", let me say that "without compromising on speed" doesn't mean anything either. I can write super slow code in Rust, it's not like the language prevents me from doing it.

My point is that in many cases, the speed is really not the problem with the JVM.
> its pure paranoia. first of all, I as a consumer, mature enough to understand risks and carry them myself, I dont need no government to babysit and censor what I am allowed to buy.

You have the tools to reverse-engineer every single chip in your car to ensure they aren't backdoored?

> second, you assume China will resort to bricking civilian cars, when they have better options like actual weapons.

Again, my argument has nothing to do with China, I'm simply saying cars would be a great thing to weaponize. Much easier than smuggling a weapon into the US, you just sell a car to a consumer and you have functionally a remote-controllable bomb.

> Bricked car can easily be towed away, there is no way China can cause damage.

Not if it's driven away and used in an attack first. did you read my reply? You still haven't actually responded to my point that internet-connected cars would be an excellent weapon by a hostile nation.
Did you contact any of the entities using broken keys? Especially the active users on Git hosting sites.
Hell, modern audio codecs (opus and AAC, but not the ffmpeg opus/AAC encoders) are transparent at ~160-192k. MP3 is a legacy codec these days, and generally needs ~30% more bitrate for similar quality.
> Nissan Leaf now starts at $28k.

Kinda missing the point that you get 50% more range in the Dolphin, plus a lot of additional niceties / tech stuff that is just not available in the Leaf.
Out of sheer curiosity, how do vacations work for you? Do you take vacations, surly you must? I've been using HN daily for years now I can't think I've seen you take a vacation.
Applying copyright law more and more to things like software - and now to AI models - in other words, the status quo, makes little sense.

What is needed instead (I doubt politicians read HN, but someone go and tell them) is a new law that regulates training of these models if we want them to exist and be used in a legally safe way. This is needed for example because most jurisdictions have different copyright laws from one another, but software travels globally.

It would make sense to make all books available for non-commercial, perhaps even commercial R&D in AI, if society elected that to be beneficial in the same way that publishers must donate one copy of each new work to a copyright library (Library of Congress Library in the US, Oxford and Cambridge University libraries and British Library in the UK, Frankfurt and Leipzig Nationalbibliotheken for Germany etc.). Just add extra provisions that they need to send a plain text copy to the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), which manages datasets for NLP. Like for fair use, there can be provisions to make up for that use that happen automatically in the background (in some countries the price of photocopying machine includes a fee that gets passed on to copyright holders).

Otherwise you'll have one LLM being legal in one country but illegal in another because more than 15% from onw book were in the training data, and other messy situations.
what do you like about Svelte in this case?
Thanks for clarifying, went right over my head!
Markdown is the least bad way for humans to write, IME. It definitely beats handwriting, it definitely beats every other markup/formatting language, and subjectively I find it nicer than MS Word style "WYSIWYG" formatting although that part is maybe more arguable.