skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like this is a temporary hurdle for you - the living arrangement you have.

Regarding not having much to talk about - the more you are in your head, the more true this is :)

Conversations can be about information exchange, and that's where your current comfort level is it sounds like - because it's head-heavy.

There's another way of relating, which's emotion-based - but then if you're a dark cloud of 'life sucks', then of course you stick to intellectual conversations.

Most people put up an emotional wall but you don't have to - a buddy I know went to Japan for a few months, he came back a different person. Not only did he get out of his head while he was there, but now he had an intellectual topic to chat with strangers about - travelling and japan. It got him started on a path toward being able to relate emotionally.

The intellectual stuff gets old - the emotional keeps on giving. My path was making friends with a dude who liked to go out and have a drink, I found that once I got out of the house at least once a week, within a few months I had experiences to talk about, the 'hey have you been to X? My buddy's thinking of doing Y' - it snowballs, but you need to do a little work on yourself and your self esteem, to realize people gravitate towards positive energy and novel experiences - you do too, once you let go of some of the negative barriers you have.
Well, all I can say is if these gasoline car companies - many of whom have actually experimented with EVs - don't follow through, they're going to learn the lesson of Kodak.
Code on GitHub: https://github.com/errozero/midi-pong
On Good Clients
I think the writer is mixing up cause and consequence.

The internet != Facebook

Although for many people internet == Facebook

But that is because for many people Facebook is what they want the internet to be. If people wanted internet to be something else, Facebook would be something else.

The essence of being successful is to give people what they want.

Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump are examples of people who understand very, very well what the masses want. Without loosing focus on their own needs ;-)
Ha! Shard on shopId. ECommerce can be hard, but there's nothing special about what you descibe!
How do you build a system that is stable where an individual is expected to leave some personal gain on the table?

That runs entirely counter to human nature. If you can solve that you may have something workable, but without it "Nonsense" is as good a word as any.
I can imagine a future where the basic standard of living for everyone is like what we give senior citizens today. Everyone is clothed, fed, has a roof over their heads, and has access to medical care.

But if you want more than basic, then you have to perform labour of some sort. Want to take the trip to Mars? Gotta work for it.

Yes, there will be a difference between those who labour and those who don't, but I still think it would be a huge win if noone in society would ever struggle to put food on their table.

There's a struggle between retired pensioners and everyone else in society about how much retired citizens should get, but there's still an understanding on both sides that past labour has some value, but that that value is less than present labour, so there's a balance. I hope the same would be true in a post-labour society.

And, of course, the difference between the labourers and the not-labourers would be an incentive to reach post-scarcity where that difference is wiped out.
No, capsicum is a security sandbox. Resource usage is not governed by capsicum. For that you can use traditional ulimits or RCTL for finer-grained control (similar to Linux cgroups).
Interesting that this is in the "Utopia Planitia." That is starting to look like a probable location to set up a colony.
No it's really not.

Any technologically advanced civilization would have disturbed the earth in ways that would still have shown today (mining, top soil removal, vast irrigation works etc) as well as used at least some of the natural resources, We'd find strangely high concentrations of materials even if it was spoil.

Advanced technologies don't just spring out the ground full formed, you have to bootstrap up the tech tree, something as 'simple' as an iPhone requires vast industrial capabilities backing it from mining and refining the metals, the oils for the plastics, the silicon for the processors, the copper for the traces, each piece of technology is the center of a massive web of interconnected industries and finally people, for advanced technologies you need thousands/tens of thousands of specialists in every single part of the production chain.

As for your Pyramids thing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_century_in_architecture ... yes?

The pyramids while wonders of the world required nothing we'd remotely consider advanced technology to build, ingenuity and a crap load of labour.
Charging a car on a normal outlet is already possible. It just takes for-fucking-ever. You can't draw enough current from an outlet to charge it in a short span, without tripping the breaker or burning out your home wiring.
Self driving cars changes the math of this immensely.

Your car sits idle 98 percent of the time.

Once self driving hits, you only need a 10th of the cars that you needed before. And that 10 percent electric penetration rate becomes 100 percent.
"This is economics 101" is exactly the problem: we're dealing with an economic system that isn't working. Questioning economics 101 is precisely what's needed, and I'd argue that while your arguments are sound, they've been treated as absolutes, which they're not.

This makes as much sense as saying "You say that my magical spacecraft won't work due to the laws of physics, but physics is exactly the problem: We can't travel to Alpha Centauri yet. Questioning the laws of physics is precisely what's needed...".

You don't get to ignore facts simply because they're inconvenient.
Even this justification for changing the rules next time around has little merit.

In this case, it would be like the soccer team picking a really bad goalie, so they want to change the rules so goalies have less effect on game outcome.

If the DNC were correct about their assumptions, they should have won by a landslide. This should not be about changing the rules, it should be reevaluation of our beliefs and course corrections.
I have a nissan leaf. It is plug every night on a normal outlet. It is a 49 month leasing. Battery replacement will not be my problem.
Presumably more accurate than a single human, and you can do it with multiple humans and reaching a consensus. I remember an anecdote in physics class where an experiment required counting a certain number of events in time. A single person would occasionally blink and miss an event. But if you had two people, and you count how many people observed each event, you can solve for super-human accuracy using the estimated error rates of each person.

See also this usage in the context of ML:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.05314v1.pdf
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

--Edward Snowden, my favorite thing he's ever said.
The signal-to-noise ratio on this thread is rapidly approaching zero. I read every comment and learned almost nothing.
As is well known among people who study anxiety, commonly anxiety leads to stress, stress leads to depression, the depression may cause problems, e.g., in career, that leads to more stress and, thus, more depression and eventually clinical depression which is dangerous as in fatal from suicide. Then, for the depression it has been common to give some pills that, bummer, increase the chances of suicide.
I was diagnosed with mild Tourette's as a child, for facial and vocal tics, and a few random incidents of sudden swearing. My mom would tell me I didn't know I was doing these things. I always protested that I was quite aware of my tics. For me, it's like an scratching itch. Hard not to scratch it, but possible with will power. But you can't go through life constantly concentrating on this battle.
Why is it unsustainable? Why must inequality be forever?
Lets just remove left-pad from npm while we're at it again
That pickup part is not true(this is a myth invented by Top Gear). Most(over 80%) of the life cycle emissions of a car come from driving, not manufacturing. During its lifetime a Prius saves more than two metric tonnes of gasoline(comparing to another car of this size) - that's more that it weights.
There are strong network externalities both to Facebook and to Google services. The more people use them, the better they are, and so much more higher are the opportunity costs of switching to other websites. Pleas won't change the incentives involved.

That being said, I think tech journalism overstates the amount of control which either Google and Facebook can actually exert over their users.
> Also Hydrogen vehicles are a thing now.

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Electric cars are absolutely a thing; if you pay close attention you will spot a decent number of them in a day's worth of driving. Dedicated supercharging infrastructure is already fairly widespread, and basic wall electricity is already everywhere and is available as a second resort.

So sure, hydrogen cars themselves may exist, but the infrastructure does not, and I'm not aware of many people who reasonably expect that it ever will exist. Electric cars seem to have already won in the competition of "what renewable will replace gas".
Distributism
Land value tax and state issuance of money via basic income funded by LVT, expansion of said money to be roughly based on projected wealth creation. No income tax. No sales tax or not much of one.

Or we could just stick with boom and bust where the banks clean up every time and the west is slowly sinking.
Yes, I like web apps to be secure, and I believe I can deliver it. Especially when I use C.

But if it really were the case that it is literally impossible to write secure code in C (you'd have to prove it), then my web application should be the least of anyone's worries. Because they are using millions of lines of kernel and library code written in C or C++ to access my web application, which again is hosted on millions of lines of kernel, daemon and library code (including all the crypto) written in C or C++.

And the hypothetical alternative language would likely be implemented in C or C++. And it would be translated to assembly or machine code, a horribly unsafe language. If bugs are inevitable, then no language is safe.
I didn't downvote you, but I believe it didn't come across that way (it's hard to gauge what you tried to convey across the Internet sometimes).
This would be selfish, coercive and has 0 chance of working in the real world: I guarantee you there will be /r/golang2 or /r/gogophers within minutes of the the original subreddit being closed.

As mentioned by someone else in the thread: the subreddit was in existence before being taken over by the golang team, it was fine before them, it will be fine after them if they choose to leave.
Oooh, you read my comment history, aren't we clever? Who so ever dissembles and back tracks twice(!) to explain and justify a banal internet post, they may have something to consider.
Ok, so therapy has moved from lobotomies to...

As I said, therapy seems to be devoid of any real definition.
It's so random it's hard to tell. Like random Blu-ray discs, regular household staples like diapers or shaver blade replacements, etc. And they'll come and go from the exclusive list every couple or weeks or so, it seems. There's a huge long-running thread on Amazon's forum about it.

What amazes me, is given Jeff Bezos' general attitude towards providing excellent customer service, is that Amazon has said nothing about this practice, and it's decidedly anti-consumer. If it was just a Prime discount or something, it wouldn't bother people nearly as much, but Amazon will outright refuse to sell without Prime for a lot of these items, unless it's also being sold by a third party seller you can buy from instead.
I would like a future where I can download the plans for a super-car engine, like Ferrari/Lambo/Porsche/Etc where I can have my 3D printer print me an engine at whatever scale I want and put it into my go-kart...
It exists, it's called the Rimac Concept One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qodSfhk360

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT7KKxoAvvk
LG has other battery factories for EVs. One in Poland, one in China, some in Korea... Also, since the Faraday Future project seems to be tanking, and LG built up battery capacity for that, they probably have some extra capacity.

China is building about 100,000 electric buses a year. That's where the batteries are going right now.
Well, there was one battery swap station, and you had to book it and pay for it. Not exactly encouraging.

Who is going to scale the street-side charger network? In Europe, a lot of cars are parked outdoors during the night. In smaller towns, parking spots around residential areas aren't even painted.

Many other cars are parked in shared garages that don't guarantee one plug per car. I guess garage owners could install the chargers (but that would be hundreds of kW if electric cars were really commonplace---that is expensive infrastructure) and meters, but still it's hard to reach critical mass.
> Once you factor in the cost of the home charging station(and the required charging infra) and the battery and other electric components ,electric cars are(and will stay) more expensive ,meaningfully than ICE-cars. And ICE cars are much more reliable , they don't need an expensive battery swap every 5 years.

Once you factor in the cost of initial purchase (and the the new cables required) and the case and other attachments, touch-screen phones are (and will stay) more expensive, meaningfully than flip-phones. And flip phones are much more reliable, they don't have a screen that breaks when you drop it, etc.
> Not nice.

100% agree. It reminds me of the "yes, and" rather than "yes, but" thing from improv and stuff like that.

If what you've done helps a single person (and it did me), then it is valid. It might not be perfect, and it might not be right for everyone, but it was useful and worth putting the effort into (and this was. Thank you for it).
If you're just going to burn hydrogen in a fuel cell to generate electricity, why even bother? Why not skip the middleman and use all-electricity to start with? The only possible advantage I see hydrogen having here is quicker fill-up times, but that comes at the cost of many other downsides, the worst being lack of existing infrastructure and reduced efficiency.
Wow, you're back and altering my content again?

How is the sub thread not relevant?

It was a direct, positive example of what the person I replied to claimed.

At least make an actual claim, dang.

Edit: and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13037766 still stands

#comedysite
The home charging station is a clothes dryer outlet.
I'm not tired of typing in Slack, I'm tired of the fact that most of my co-workers use it, which in turn forces me to type and waste time in it.
Agreed. They already decided a long time ago to "manipulate" what you saw. That was the point where they decided to not simply show the latest items for all the pages you "liked", but to rather promote the "popular" ones based on what your "interests" are.

Now that they did that, then all of a sudden "oh fake news". If they had just kept it to latest first, from only the pages you liked, then there would be no way for them to "wiggle in" such a thing as "fake news". On the one, the person's choices dictate what they see later on, and on the other Facebook has to "tune" things to your liking.

That's why there is such an dark-pattern on Facebook when you try to "UnLike" a page. I urge everyone to go give it a try and tell me if it's intuitive or obvious.
Perhaps you thought that.

Others saw something different.
>No, actually it's not. That's nonsense.

Your right. And, that outboard you linked to would be even cheaper if it were the motor only.

To add to this, here's[1] a video of a tiny 4-stroke engine.

And here's a video of a tiny V8 4-stroke engine[2] that "sounds like a big American V8".

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLn7xG8vuPQ

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9zt3SF_Flc
> The big question is will the majority be able to maintain enough power to obtain income for those who aren't working, or will we see some kind of serious class warfare/starving populations?

In the United States it will be the class warfare/starving thing. You don't deserve anything here unless you pay for it. Many people believe that taking unemployment compensation is shameful.

I think a lot of us will be fed in prisons.

EDIT: In some places you have to pay to not be vertical. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/18/defensive-ar...

> Sculptor Fabian Brunsing brought a satirical eye to the issue by creating the “pay bench”, an art installation of a park bench that retracts its metal spikes for a limited time when the prospective sitter feeds it a coin. Chinese officials, completely missing the joke, thought that this was a great idea and installed similar benches in Yantai Park of the Shangdong province.
Yeah. Without a doubt I've saved money on shipping with prime, but I've also bought so much shit I don't need.
And the building code means the minimum code required not the maximum. A builder can make it better if they want to when they are building a structure.
As an owner of a pure electric car (and a home renter) for more than 5 years, I logged in specifically to respond to this.

In 5 years, our Leaf has needed new tires, brake fluid, and... windshield wiper fluid and blades. We didn't need any new infrastructure. We plug it into a normal outlet at night, and it's full every morning. We've been taking the money we save on not doing transmission fluid and clutches and oil changes, and all of that stuff and put it in a savings account. In another 3 years, we'll need a new battery, but by then, it will probably be twice the capacity of the old one. (Nissan has discontinued the 24Kwhr battery, so fingers crossed, we'll get a 40KWhr battery when the time comes).

From a more global perspective, even here in Northern California, electricity is very inexpensive at night, because of all the spare generator capacity. Practically everyone can plug in their car at night, and with nothing more sophisticated than a $10 outlet timer, fuel up the fleet no problem.

Will every car be electric in 2040? Probably not, because cars last a long time. But I'll bet there will be very few gas cars sold by then. Battery prices are falling over 7% a year, and that's the most expensive part of an EV.
See tome's law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549
Related short story - http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
... I had a GPU issue on the 2007 model :-). Was a known issue so Apple paid for the repair in 2009. So yes, very prevalent.
Ask HN: Can FOSS be a tool of political change?
Recently I've decided that, for various reasons, I no longer wanted to financially support certain media companies and have found Kodi to be a viable alternative. In many ways, I find it superior to my previous cable subscription.

It was a pain to set up on all my TVs using Raspberry Pi 3's and honestly what I did is beyond the abilities and desire of most "regular" folks.

My question is, if we as techies can modify tools like Kodi to make them basically plug and play for "regular" folks and promote it was a way to "vote with your feet" (like I did), can we make a meaningful impact on the wallets of EvilCorps like the ones I just got away from?
Milankovitch Cycles
There will be some solution to this too, we will come up with some clever hack, like pluggable capacitors, multiple breakers or something. Or better outlets and breakers will become the norm.

I had 2 new breakers put in for an office of mine a few years it cost less than $200. If I could pay this then pay half as much for fueling my car for the next year, I would do it every year.
All basic income does is define a minimum possible level of income. And, for economic purposes it really doesn't matter whether you measure income in goods or currency (economic sustainability remains the same either way).

So what you're really saying is that it's not possible to guarantee any minimum level of living at all, at least not in a way that's economically sustainable. Conversely this would imply that a functioning economy requires some people to fail to reach any standard of living whatsoever (basically they die from lack of food, housing, medical care, etc.).

So sure, any level of basic income might be economically unsustainable, but if so then a functioning economy seems rather overrated.
> Even if my car is self-driving, I still don't want to share one with anyone.

If you can let your self-driving car drive uber and get you something like $10/hour while you are at work, I think some people would do this.
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Ask HN: How would you design a Social Network DB schema?
Let's say you have to handle: Users, Videos, Comments (on each videos), Likes (on each videos) then Connections between Users (Social Graph).

What is the new-fresh-2016-optimized way to design such a database?

Thanks!
Here are a few things to be considered, and have all be well discussed on hn. Some things we know for sure such as:

- Ride sharing means much fewer vehicles needed to do the same thing. Current numbers would indicate by quite a lot, this was before pooled ride sharing was widely used.

Other things we don't know, but we will learn in years ago:

- How do overall global demographic shifts change the demand for vehicles?

- Will employment trend changes reduce the amount of commuting time?

- Will self-driving tech be coupled with all-electric cars?

- Electric seems like it will be a commodity function, but will self driving? Or will there be some other platform effect that makes the vehicle business overall look and behave much more like software?

- How quickly does improved safety from self-driving lead to much lighter vehicles due to regulatory changes? (lower gasoline usage, with or without electric)

- Will regulators decide to impose outright bans on gasoline vehicles for environmental reasons?

- Will there be a carbon tax and if so will it be high enough to make gasoline unfavorable to electric?

- Will regulators decide to ban non-self driving vehicles for safety reasons? Presumably, this would remove old cars from the road quickly.

- Will continued improvements in electric vehicle manufacturing lead to dramatically more favorable economics over gasoline vehicles? (This seems very possible to me, given the simplification of electric motors.)

- Will major ride sharing companies get exclusive transportation rights to municipalities or even nation-states? Will those ride sharing companies be manufacturing their own vehicles?

Whatever parts do or don't happen, it seems like a giant mistake to draw a linear line and predict how things will look in 2044.
Very true: http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
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I'd say that it's disappointing, but not remarkable. Getting a book published doesn't mean nearly as much as it used to; publishers have much lower up-front costs, so they don't need to be as selective in who and what they publish.