skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "But the automakers’ existing expertise — building internal combustion engines — will no longer give them a competitive edge."

Interesting- this would mean that the real innovation in cars comes _after_ electric drivetrains have become the standard, when any moderately capitalised company without substantial experience of internal-combustion motors can create their own take on a car with any kind of new features they see fit.
It'd be interesting, if, at Reddit / Discourse / other places, people's names are hidden, until one clicks the post header, to reveal the username.

Then, when reading a comment, one won't know who wrote it. And can think about the content, more unbiased. And afterwards, one can click the username, in case one wants to know who the author is, because ...

... who wrote it can still matter. For example, if someone says a Linux kernel version should be avoided because of a serious bug, and he is Linus Torvalds, then you can trust that info for sure, just by looking at the name.
FOMO and network effect. Just keep in touch with your friends as we did before facebook took over your social interactions and you'll know what they're up to.

Anyways even if this friend posts about visiting on facebook, this is not guaranteed you will be shown this post, as demonstrated by the actual HN submission you're commenting about.
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how does this compare with https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/vision ?

which one is the cheapest and the most funnest to work with ?
Scuttlebutt is designed deliberately so that you don't see the whole network, only the bits you care about.

Partly this is view-filtering, but also your user agent only requests and stores data if it might be relevant to you, i.e. friends of friends and replies to their messages.

It's not really one network, but a group of potentially-overlapping networks.
For the past year, I've been working on the social isolation problem. Here's the idea we're currently developing. Would love to hear folks' feedback. Would you be excited about using this?

"A social app, like Tinder but for hangouts with friends.

See what your friends want to do, and swipe right to show you’re interested. You can also join hangouts in the global feed to instantly expand your social circle. Hangouts are capped at 10 people so you can actually get to know each other. Post things you want to do, like "Hike in John Muir". When 10 people swipe right, a chat opens up so you can coordinate when to meet & who is down to go."
Messenger and other IM apps are the more modern form of SMS or letters. Facebook and Twitter are broadcasting mediums.
Pretty shitty headline, I know, but one thing, mentioned in the article that was pretty amazing for me:

"Oumuamua is similar to small solar system bodies that are covered in carbon-rich ices,
whose structure is modified by exposure to cosmic rays."

Wich indicates, that carbon is pretty abundant, not just in our solar system, but elsewhere too. This is also not completely new[1], but the first time we had a close encounter with a carbon-rich object that did't originate in our solar system.

[1]: http://www.astronomy.com/News-Observing/News/2009/11/Carbon%...
How can you separate them? From the perspective of an external observer, personality is a set of behavioural traits. Other than self-reported inner insight (which may not be true) there's no other way to establish what someone's personality is or even define it.

I've changed my personality in the past, always for the better (I think). At school I was shy, couldn't talk to women, found it intimidating to socialise in new groups of people, wasn't entertaining, lacked confidence. All the usual stuff. I didn't like any of these traits and set about changing them. I had a bit of help along the way, but it was mostly my own doing.

These days I am confident, can easily entertain women with amusing conversation, do public speaking regularly, can mix in large groups of strangers without problems etc. It's a big change. Once or twice friends who have known me continuously since high school remark on it.

One issue I'm currently pondering is that of personality disorders. To what extent is such a "disorder" something the individual can fix with sufficient self reflection and willpower? My own experience tells me personality is quite plastic. So perhaps I find myself lacking in sympathy for such people. They can and should heal themselves.
I think this actually misses the biggest point. Complex numbers are special because they are an algebraic closure of the real numbers (what makes the real numbers interesting should be more obvious), and because Zorn's lemma tells us that such a closure is unique (up to isomorphism). In other words, complex numbers are precisely what you need to add to real numbers in order to always be able to solve polynomial equations.

TL;DR: complex numbers are the unique algebraic extension to the real numbers
I use C# in my day job and try to learn as much as I can about cool ways to use its type system. Genuinely curious to see some examples if you're able to point me in the right direction?

> I’ve been able to do great things with C# generics + value types
Not sure that TV food shows actually teach people anything. All I see is a lot of people going from fad to fad, not really understanding the core principles.
I live in a country where public transportation is excellent and car sharing exists. I lived 2 months without a car and just could not stand it any longer after that. Now I just do a mix of driving my own car + taking public transportation. If you only live in a big city and only want to do things there, then public transportation is ok.
There is IKVM for those that care about using Java libraries in .NET.

Quantity does not matter, if the relevant libraries are there.

I do consulting mostly using JVM and .NET languages, Web and C++.

Never was a .NET project where I missed having access to a particular Java library.
I've tried Pomorodo a few times, but it hasn't really been working for me. I'm more of a GTD guy. This idea of fixed amounts of time to work just doesn't work for me. I need a few minutes to really get into the zone and then I don't want to stop after 25 minutes but rather after I've completed the task.
These ideas always ended up becoming dating apps in the past so the idea to restrict it to your existing social circle is a smart one. I would consider using it if it was well executed.
Isn't it simpler to enforce-by-convention good ethical practices when developing web apps and sites? The slowness is many times not caused by the site but by the underlying extras underneath - useless and badly done ad tracking, overdose of adverts, video ads, sound - those can go. Good design however, sells. People who'd prefer beigebox internet are a minority. If they weren't the net would be different.
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The battery-swap idea has in fact been fairly well established for a while, but nobody has actually made it work. I believe that Tesla considered going down this route for a while.

Here is a HN classic about "Better Place", a company that rolled out "battery swap" electric cars in Israel. https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
LP = low power = not performance
Unfortunately it's not a bottle. It's just a plastic cup with a lid and a straw. A really big plastic cup that tapers at the bottom so you can fit it in your vehicle's cupholder.
Thanks for writing the post. Although I've heard of graphviz (and dot) before, I didn't take the time to read up on them since the docs were so dense. Thanks for making this accessible.
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I love this part:

> Estonia’s only currency is the euro and this is an essential feature of our EU membership, which we are proud to have. No one here is interested in changing that.

OK, great. Next sentence:

> That’s why we have always referred to estcoin as a proposed ‘crypto token’.

(top highlight!) Wow, clever! It's not a currency! Oppressive EU regulations (that we agree with and are not interested in changing) have been obeyed. Next sentence:

> Governments do need to consider the disruptive impact of how crypto tokens can be used as currency

Hahaha. Sorry, but this "we're launching a currency that we don't call a currency but that everybody, including us, knows is meant to be a currency <wink>" is ridiculous.

All that said, I think issuing some sort of government-backed currency might be one way of experimenting with implementing a universal basic income, in order to combat poverty among your citizens. But I don't see that discussed in the article.
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Thanks Rory - very helpful!
I'm European but didn't gay marriage and (ongoing) weed legalization basically work like that? First it's individual states and eventually it gets to the federal level. Seems to sort-of work for these issues.
Sure, if the costs to the consumer is equal, it doesn't matter much. But I think that's unlikely. In a privatised versus nationalised comparison, I think the costs to the consumer are either going to be higher if it's an area where competition doesn't work efficiently (monopolies, duopolies, cartels), or lower if it's an area where competition does work efficiently (a transparent market with many suppliers).
Thanks! Yes, I'd always shied away from GV and just copy/pasted examples until I used them at work and had to work through some problems.

Is there interest in a deeper post on graphviz from the POV of the casual user?
Well minikube is not for production, so maybe it's buginess is evidence they are focusing their time on the more important components.
It's not just ridiculous, but brilliant. The new German empire is most likely too fragile and legalistic to apply currency regulations to this.
Well you must have updated the whois data or protection options with your domain registrar at the same time, whether intentionally or not. FastMail is just hosting the DNS. It cannot have any effect on your whois data.
So you are on facebook and he's used to you regularly logging in to facebook but you stopped doing that. This is something totally different to what your previous comment said.

It's akin to "I've used this email address for years and decided to stop checking it and use another one but did not tell anyone about it. Now I'm missing messages people send me to my old address I do not check anymore".
in Norway they have free charging in the street for electric cars. https://youtu.be/zSjYra7cYqY?t=4m8s
That can still be in the original contract to transfer 5% of tokens to dev team adress each year. But you can update the contract by spending eth to change it AFAIK.
not sure it's whole goverment speaking here. week ago, Head of Payment and Settlement Systems Department of Eesti Pank told that crypto is a ponzi scheme
> You need more than 64GB for your IDE and electron apps?

"with occasional heavy processing" Yes.

Besides why would you want a powerful machine frozen in amber when it's not a laptop?
> the task is to first create alternatives which are just as accessible and user-friendly as Facebook, and then sell them to the mainstream on terms they actually care about.

That's exactly my point! A term they might care about is: this is so much nicer to use than Facebook; I feel happier using this to keep in touch.

> I do know the answer has nothing to do with open source, anonymity or censorship-resistance.

Scuttlebutt is neither anonymous nor censorship-resistant. It's free of adverts and sponsored content experiences. It's a friendly, co-operative culture (hence the software is open source, but your mom only has to care about those details if she wants to help build the software).
Excellent tale. It is sadly unsurprising that users get so upset about software they don't pay for.

If I may be permitted a brief comment, I recall several years ago a situation where we received complaints that our rather computationally-intensive software was running on some people's laptops without them having installed it, rapidly draining their batteries and heating the machines up, and what did we think we were playing at hijacking their systems?

It turned out that the culprit was a modified version of our software for a distributed computing project that would apply the credit generated to one particular account, presumably belonging to the user who had distributed the cracked version. IIRC (though I may be mistaken) they were distributing it bundled with some other cracked Windows software.
I'm interested in how to do the research. Is that clear from the question and details? Thanks for your comment.
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Every definition of the term "legalistic" that I find seems to be something like "intent on upholding the law". So... you're contradicting yourself?
But the body text has quite a few.
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> cryptocurrencies

FTFY
Is this the worst date format ever?
Really interesting and well written post. Certainly has started some cogs turning in my mind.

Just a note, I think there is some text missing or leftover at the end of the 'Surface Assumptions' paragraph.
Yep, thanks. Silly mistake.
Call me naive, but I'd hope that at least some of the competitive edge with existing auto manufacturers comes from experience in designing workable cars, that also are successful at the various collision tests that are required.

Safety is not easy.
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Unless a blog is popular, it is enough to protect posts with Google capture or similar. On a self-hosting forum with 200-300 daily views and few posts I got up to 30 daily spam attempts by bots that passed through email registration. Google capture removed all of that so far.
This gets mentioned a lot, but I think the point is really over stated. First, there's a huge amount of room for growth in electric vehicle adoption even if we assume that EVs are a non-starter for people who park on the street at night. The problem is worth solving, but we're no where near the point in which it's the main obstacle to further adoption.

Second, cars that are being used will generally spend a fair bit of time parked places other than home. For some subset of street parkers, enough of that parking time will be spent at facilities with public chargers to meet their weekly charging needs. This subset will grow as electric charging infrastructure expands to more places.

My wife and I actually own a Chevy Bolt as our only car and park on the street. We don't drive especially far in a typical week (I take mass transit to work and she works from home), but we generally are able to get all our charging in from our parking when we're out and about. And that's just using Level 2 AC chargers. If we drove further each week (or parked in places with chargers less often) we could easily get enough charging in by shifting some of our grocery shopping to Whole Foods so we can use the DC fast charger there while shopping.

Now this is in a city with pretty decent public charging infrastructure (Berkeley, CA) and obviously even within my city this approach won't work well for everyone. Still, I think it shows a possible way forward that could potentially work for a lot of people without necessarily having to have chargers at every street parking space.
https://monad.network/ Coming up pretty nicely, been working with them for some time.
Ask HN: Starting a startup in Europe while employed
I am currently employed as a software engineer by a small company in a European country (member of the EU). The company itself is part of a group of companies that operate worldwide. This group owns the company works for. The group itself operates from the UK.

I've been working on this idea in my spare time and I am thinking to turn it into a business. It's not in the space my employer operates in. Absolutely not. I am also not using company resources at all. I am very well aware of the legal trouble and the claims my employer could make if I were to do that.

I know that in the US, even this could be problematic. Your employer could make a claim for any side work you do, even if it isn't on company time or using company resources.

How does this work in Europe? Is there someone who started a business while still employed? Did you notify your employer before launching?
> once people realize how dangerous is a car you can't hear coming, they will start adding some sound

Already there... I love this UFO sound from 2010:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motoringvideo/8015988/El...
Only in a tiny handful of places. But it at least shows that it can be done.
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Why would you write scripts or learn LXC commands when you can just write a k8 deployment? Even if you don't consider all the more advanced features, it's just easier and declarative and supported natively by several cloud providers.
Ruby 2 was released 5 years ago, this point is kind of moot.
I am always sad to hear that another part of history dies out. I'm not sure why, since I've never in my life used a telegram, but it's somehow representative of an age that is no more. Including anything from steam engines, trains, intercontinental ship travel and a whole range of things that have long since been improved on, but which I'm still sad to see go.
Great job!
The search can probably be improved. Searching for "Cedric" without the accent aigu (é) does not yield any results, despite there being several Cédric in the database. If this was an educational project I recommend spending some time on search methodologies since they are very interesting. Start with using something like Levenshtein Distance and improve either performance or accuracy from there. Otherwise just use one of the existing open source libraries.
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Maybe synergies can be used here! On HN 1 month ago: The World Is Running Out of Sand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15739917
Thank you for the brilliant link. I've been looking for a good explanation on complex numbers to share with a few struggling students.
>> But being 'on Facebook' should not be a prerequisite for normal social interaction.

>Why not? Collectively it's proven to be the easiest way for groups of loosely and moderately connected people to communicate and coordinate socially

I'd be happy to have a source for this outlandish claim.

As to answer your question, there are many many reason not to let a private transnational company take control of your social interactions.
Easy one: what happens to your social interactions when facebook disappears as every other so called social network before it did (remember friendsted, myspace, etc.)
Another easy one: what happens when your account gets locked and you get banned from facebook ?

Harder ones are not so obvious for people who do not stay informed such as the deep impact on shaping people opinions and thoughts, the disappearance of empathy, intelligence dropping, destruction of internet, support of foreign dictatorship, massive tax fraud and tax evasion, emotional manipulation, organized abuse, sextorsion, and a lot more.
As suggested in the discussion points, thin lines/stripes get muddled up with wider adjacent surfaces. Is this a problem with the goal of the exercise ? Maybe it needs to be more clearly defined. I suppose the idea is that the method and the style fit together nicely, and as a result the paintings are representable quite efficiently with low resolution triangulations. It already mostly fits the bill, except for some exceptions to the main shapes represented. Does the author suggest further work should be devoted to improving the efficiency of the depiction? I guess the thin lines are quite important in keeping the paintings structured but I'm not sure what's to gain from that exercise if straying too far from the original triangulation — I think you'd lose the amusing coincidence of these concepts applying nicely together.
> Whatever your reasons for switching are, privacy really cannot be it.

In a universe where no one is ever wrong about facts, sure.
Cheers, have corrected.
This is the project I am planning to do with my son as he's getting interested in computers and loves nature. The rough aims are -

> Rasp Pi + Camera/PIR to photograph birds
> Connect to internet and post to wp, twitter and instagram

The final aim is to add an AI component to see if we can detect birds and keep a count
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Git LFS is not part of Git.

That’s my point: without LFS it’s even worse to work with large files. If LFS is the best option you have, forget it. That’s an entire area of projects (anything with assets) you can’t use Git for.
Thank you, very interesting example, but I don't necessarily see the added value in the graph form, for this particular example - it implies dependencies where there are none - for example buying GBP only after buying the guide book etc.
I think it is just the example that is wrong. What's typical for a holiday break, is a todo list, which is in no particular order.
Perhaps an actual project would be a better example?
The power train means the parts needed for creating the mechanical power. Batteries are the most essential part in that.
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I think that will happen if it will be needed. But there's plenty of people who can just charge car at home every night, that's a big market for adoption
Someone close to me was in a housing program for homeless youth. They set them up with an apartment in the city, not "low income housing" but just a unit in a random apartment building, one of many around town. Sounds like a great deal. A place to live to get life on track.

Except if you had a job, you had to give half of your income back to the program until your income was above 2x the grant's value per month. (something like $800/mo, not in the bay area)

When you started a job you had to get your management to fill out a form and submit it to the local government.

When you stopped a job you had to get your management to fill out a form and submit it to the local government.

You had to fill out and get your management to sign time sheets showing how much you worked.

You had to save half of your income (and because homeless youth, that usually meant half of a likely barely above minimum wage job) to pay back to the program.

If any paperwork was submitted late you got threatened with getting kicked out of the program.

If you earned too much money you got kicked out of the program.

If your management failed to send in paperwork you got threatened with getting kicked out of the program.

If your case worker who was responsible for submitting your paperwork didn't submit it on time, you got threatened with getting kicked out of the program (this was often the case)

So literally every single month there was a new crisis and the threat of being homeless again. Not an idle threat but an actual "you're going to get kicked out unless..." ... in a program designed to help youth homeless as a result of abuse.

So on top of dealing with whatever severe personal problems, you have to keep down a job that already has a reason to stigmatize you under a program that put you in an apartment which at minimum wage would cost well over 50% of a full time income, but you also have to manage the constant crises of misplaced paperwork and new requirements and poorly understood and explained rules.

It's just a recipe for failure for the most vulnerable people who are the least capable of dealing with uncertainty and stress ... and the very real and constant threat of returning to living on the street, or in a shelter (they're horrible places), going back to the abusive situation you came from, or very likely getting taken advantage of by someone new.

... because a set of well intentioned people with no idea what it is like to be in anything like that situation couldn't come to terms which were simple and straightforward for giving aid to those in need.