skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the closest one gets to an electric work van, for sure, but it's pretty small. It's more comparable to e.g. a Fiat Doblo (sold as the strangely named Dodge Ram ProMaster City in the US).

Next to a proper work van like a VW Transporter or Toyota ProAce, you're looking at less than half the load volume (~4.2 m^3 versus ~9.5m^3).
Investigating the Geography of Open Source Software Through GitHub [pdf](2010)
Yes, that's the point.
There's a couple of spots by a charger in a plaza where I often go, posted as "reserved for hybrid/electric". Well, they didn't make it explicit enough, because someone with a non-plugin hybrid was using one of them, the last time I was there. It would suck if I had an electric car and someone like that was blocking me.
>Based on customer feedback, we are extending support for Skype 7 (Skype classic) for some time. Our customers can continue to use Skype classic until then.

Yeah right, they'll kill it when fewer people are looking then.
Wow, I had to keep checking the url to make sure it wasn't the onion.

That's an extremely toxic company culture.
How much of the carbon in those weeds will stay out of the atmosphere?
What's this poking fun at: "because everything is terrible"?
Moving Computing Education Past Argument from Authority
Minor logistics issue to be fixed.
There are two things happening, both because of the negative externalities that traditional sources produce, but aren't factored in to prices. One is subsidies, the other is source prioritization both of which favor renewables. Plants that can provide that peaker gap on windless+cloudy days should be rewarded by the market by very high kwh purchase prices, but that's all. The current benefits that renewables receive are aligned with the true costs. Alternatively you could replace the prioritization and subsidies with a heavy carbon tax on traditional sources but the result would be the same.
There's “large a part of the left” that supported legislation under which the executive branch would have discretionary regulatory power over Facebook and Google?
Sounds in the same ballpark as China's "social credit score."

Don't think this is satire that can't happen.
Presumably because the "fake it" time is invested in a fake solution that is scalable, so they can fake many projects at once.
Top ten reasons why I haven't yet published any blog posts. Number #4 will shock and worry you:

1) It takes time to write and time is hard to manage. I have many priorities in life which I have to juggle and do not know how to manufacture time.

2) When I start writing, multiple competing and mutually exclusive descriptions of reality try to press themselves out of my head at once. My instinct is to try to resolve the confusion of ideas before getting the ideas out on paper, and that doesn't work.

3) When I start writing something and questions pop up as I am writing, I still hear an internal self-narrative "bullshit! just write the damned essay." This makes it hard for me to actually get those questions explicitly stated, determine which ones are important, and find the answers to them. It turns out that getting answers to questions like "Why should this be written?", "Whom are we writing this for?", or "How do I know I'm not making an error of judgement here?" are pretty important.

4) When I look at a blank text document or piece of paper, I sometimes feel a feeling of dread which makes me want to take a roofing nail and scrape it across my forearm until I draw blood. I've never done this, and I've been getting a lot better at managing the feeling.

5) When I try to get around the challenge of drafting by dictating my ideas into my phone, all of the dictation software I try ends up stopping after 2 minutes. This makes it really hard for me to just free-ramble 3 pages which I then edit later. If you know of an app which will let you ramble for 20 minutes into your phone and will poorly transcribe it into a text file, for you to edit please let me know. [EDIT: I just checked a thread where I had asked about this and someone recommended Otter. Will report back]

6) Because I'm not very experienced at successfully drafting things except when I used to write college papers up against the deadline, I am really not practised at editing my work to be more coherent. Therefore, it takes longer.

7) I am not very practiced at writing for an audience, actually taking into account how they would interpret what I'm saying, and then getting feedback as to how well I've done. Therefore this takes longer.

8) I would like to express concepts and relationships with diagrams, but I'm shite at drawing.

9) I don't knot that I have a group of people with whom I can check my drafts and who will spend the time/effort to give me feedback and help me organize my ideas better.

10) I can, in general, find it difficult to organise my thoughts. Beyond a certain length of ramble, writing requires structure so that you can look back on what you wrote and think of what needs to be said next. Coming up with that structure is hard and I have very little practice in it. That is why I wrote this response in BuzzFeed listicle style: to give myself a structure.

So yea, despite "publish three blog posts" being on my new years resolutions and me having done reasonably well at sticking to the others, I still haven't.
When the four largest protests in US history can happen over the course of 24 months without most of the general public even knowing, then it's time to seriously start reconsidering whether the right to freedom of speech is effective under its current legal interpretation.
Check out ethereum swarm [1]. Optionally private (hosting and accessing), decentralized, p2p data hosting protocol with baked in payments if you want to pay the network to host your data for you.

[1] https://swarm-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.ht...
> I'm fascinated by the notion that requiring disclosure of people's physical location, as well as demanding that they prove their identity, would be conducive to an online culture of free and healthy expression.

"Fascinated" isn't the word I would choose to describe it..
There is also podcast about discussion of startupschool at https://blog.ycombinator.com/geoff-ralston-and-adora-cheung-...
Trying to figure out how a cake baker with 1 store front is NOT allowed to discriminate, but multi billion dollar multinational companies are allowed to... ?

BTW Facebook and Google have both received large amounts of government tax rebates etc. for their datacenters, so there is some government involvement. e.g. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-microsoft-facebo...
Speaking only for myself, I get irritated every time a new model comes out without a spare tire. I know it's possible to fit a spare into a hybrid, because some models of Prius have one. But many don't.
"We should create trustworthy independent organisations that can name and shame..."

I thought that is what news and reporters are suppose to do
It's not clear to me what the role of Congress should be, perhaps the appropriation of funding to explore/build technologies and legal structures that are more distributed and less subject to concentrations of power.

Paul Frazee's 2018 JSConf EU talk on "Formalizing User Rights on the Web" makes an important observation: technology doesn't just interact with civics, it actually drives civics; it defines what the civic structure of a community is going to be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ffpAkviM0&t=920).
I've come to the conclusion that we need two cars. 1. an EV car for around town and 2. a gasoline powered car for when we are on a road trip to very rural places (which is quite frequent). I'm hoping that at some point even in the hinterlands of the US there will always be an available charging station, but we aren't there yet.
Practically speaking though, a mortar would be cheaper, simpler, and more deadly. Same(ish) range, high rate of fire, designed to be anti-personnel, provides plenty of time to vacate the area after initiating a bombardment.

Bringing tech into the equation doesn't add much when you're talking about a payload in the single-digit pounds region.
Yes, that's the part that's wrong/misleading (or at least one interpretation of it). See my earlier comment.
Forecasting Market Movements Using Tensorflow
you don't need a quad/octo copter to do this, it could be a winged aircraft, and those are several orders of magnitude more efficient.
I did the math on this a while ago and calculated I could travel my normal commute back and forth on the battery of a plug-in hybrid. I would only need the petrol engine on longer trips. I'd probably spend 80% of the driving in electric mode and 20% in gas mode. I wouldn't really say that's just a slightly lower consumption.
Imaginary Numbers are Real
> I've never heard of any utility in the US buying solar production at more than retail rates.

That doesn't refute the parent's claim of it being greater than the market rate. The residential retail rate [1] usually doesn't change, except on a long time scale, after regulatory approval, while the market rate changes intra-day, based on supply and demand.

If peak sun doesn't correspond to peak demand (and, from what I've read, it doesn't), those periods are where the utility could be taking a huge loss. For example, if PG&E has a customer in the top marginal usage tier is "selling" power at 25c/kWh when the wholesale market is selling it at 4c, that's a pretty tremendous loss.

[1] Often not even a single rate but a tiered one, so a heavy residential user could be "selling back" power at a particularly high retail rate, much higher than average.
They also held that slavery was fine, until it wasn't. We have major problems in this country and the failures of our legal system are prime among them.
A great series that explains how imaginary should be thought of as, not imaginary, but "lateral" to real numbers - meaning they extend real numbers into another dimension.
The Lindy Effect predicts that their future life expectancies are proportional to their current ages. Although the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, China has been around in one form or another since 1600BC. The USA has only been around since 1776 (or 1783).
Agreed. Also, those are all categories that notably correlate strongly with money.
Well great! People with enough time, money, and know-how to start their own ISP don't have to worry about Facebook and Google censoring them.

Not looking to good for the rest of us, though.
> Otherwise, democracy devolves into two me's and a Jeff Bezos voting on who pays for my stuff.

Democracy does not "devolve" into that, that is what democracy is.
Also, huge flywheels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_storage_power_system
> He has suggested that America’s government was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1993 and the September 11th terrorist attacks. He says that vaccinating children will give them autism.

There is always a two-way relationship between the regulated and the regulator. Therefore, all regulated companies are, in a sense, merged with government. The greater the regulatory regime, the more deeply society becomes impressed with the features of fascism.

Do the stakeholders of the banking, pharmaceutical, media, and war cartels, forged in government agencies (whose charters they themselves drafted) and nurtured through regulation, hold sway over Alphabet and Facebook? It's a simple enough question to research and answer.
That's nonsense.

Having a cellphone != understanding the technology and how it works. People don't get this stuff, and something as fundamental as your civil liberties should not be predicated on a black box no one person can understand.

Re: ballot lobby:

If there's any paper ballot lobby it's HP - when I've voted it was on ballots printed by a traditional office printer/Xerox.

You don't need bizarre forms and crank levers to make a ballot, just a piece of paper and a marking device.
> How about not stressing about it now?

Well that's what I'm doing by using Windows. I don't like it, but it doesn't consume any of my time - even after not having used Windows for many years, I was productive on my new machine within an hour. Windows is a mess compared to OS X, but a fairly productive one for me.

I haven't had time to try a Linux install on this machine yet, but have set aside some SSD space for doing so at some point. I have to say though from past experience, I'm not optimistic that it will ever be more than an experiment.
Yeah, when I was younger and had lots of time but little money I totally would have built a hackintosh. Now? I have lots of money but little time so I'll happily pay for a system that requires nearly zero upkeep.
Hmmm, interesting. I wonder how important self advertising is in this case, though. I know that she usually posts content she can't get done with her normal freelancers on this writer's freelance site. Freelancers make bids, negotiate terms, etc, through the website. After she's worked with someone she likes through it she tends to keep their email and ask them directly next time.

I think you're right that this type of model benefits freelancers that manage their own group of clients rather than through an agency, however.
It would seem to me that doing it this way is ideal, because you can run the ICE at one specific optimised RPM. Would the losses from from charging the battery would be less than those from running an ICE in inefficient ranges?

Is the only downside that you can't get a combined peak power from ICE+electric that's higher than the electric on its own?

Am electrical engineer, not mechanical, so I'd be interested in someone who knows about these things chiming in.
Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens
It seems to me that houses will always run on electricity, but that doesn't mean backup generators will ever become obsolete, because electricity isn't 100% reliable.

For the same reason I think the end state of cars in the forseeable future will/should be PHEVs, not BEVs. People who disdain the former in favor of the later are responding to vague, illogical ideas of purity and simplicity, in my opinion.
Got some bad news on that front: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/piper-dead-dog-airport-mi...
I'd say it's more "slightly elastic" than "very elastic". A lot of people won't spend the mental energy to optimize anything more than the most major consumptions, and even then most of what they can do is rearranging loads, not reducing them.
The financial industry is enormous and diverse. What I was referring to specifically was the US equity markets and FINRA. They have been very stable and reliable through the years. Commercial and mortgage lending is a whole other ball of wax.
I've used Upwork in the past with no problems (from Upwork, I've had problems with clients). I ready the links you posted and not one of them mentions Upwork cheating or clawing back payments. Only the first article is really critical of Upwork per se, and all the truly damning stuff, if it exists, has been removed, so it's hard to judge.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but you made a pretty contentious statement and your evidence is lacking. Do you have a more explicit link to what you're talking about?
To be fair, the only power people in Congress have is to pass legislation, so people in Congress will probably propose legislation if people with the power to do the other things you mention don't act to change things. The status quo you favor is most definitely _not_ what the vast majority prefers. And while it's unlikely that Congress will take the right tack here, Facebook and Twitter are at best willfully negligent actors. Their continued unwillingness to sincerely address the problems their platforms have created is shameful at this point. They have tremendous power and are using it poorly and for the wrong purposes. No one is in a better position to change the storyline than they are at this moment.
Heck, you could even go to town running an icemaker at noon when power is cheap, and set out trays of ice in the evening with a fan blowing over it. That can even be turned into an appliance that would be an accessory to your HVAC system.
You can air-quote explanatory power, but it remains a useful way to refer to the relative utility of a scientific theory.

An approximate model is fine, but its variables require an interpretation under some theory, which is not accomplished with a trained ANN.

It’s like saying a histogram is useful: sure is but not as a theory.
> Free speech is a much broader concept than this.

Free speech is exactly and specifically the right to control what expression you and your property are deployed to support. Private censorship isn't merely consistent with it, it is the core of it.
Honda has multiple hybrids now that have essentially no transmission - either the engine charges the battery, or it is connected to the wheels as if in top gear. I haven't spent a lot of time driving one, but it seems elegant on paper. Perhaps not quite as smooth as the Toyota hybrid transmissions because it has the clutch engaging or disengaging the direct drive.
You've defined a rapid peaker plant, which no one is implying we should lose. The destruction of the market for this type of bad-actor legacy baseload is a market opportunity for those who can provide the services you're talking about. Whoever can provide it should earn a premium for doing it.
> you either get paid retail or wholesale rates

So above market rates. Sorry, your 10kw of intermittent unreliable power provided at your whim into a random neighborhood grid is not worth the same amount per kwh as reliable base/load following generation. And that's wholesale.

Retail priced net zero metering is even worse - that's simply poor people subsidizing rich folks with solar panels.

Maybe the subsidization is ok overall due to the system changes it (might) bring about - but man it's bothered me for decades that rich folks who can afford to blow $25k+ on solar installs act so smug about net-metering - when it's them simply stealing from other ratepayers for their free battery.
Yes but Upwork wants a metric that doesn’t need a software engineer to adjudicate. If you say “this XHMTL validator works as specified because RFC 1913 was never formally accepted” it takes someone with a clue to figure out what you mean. Upwork would rather say “you types all day, you get paid.”
What about using the energy for various forms of carbon sequestration? Making biochar [1] for example? An area's biodegradable waste could be collected according to existing garbage schedules, and the grid's excess electricity used to create biochar from it at garbage/recycling sites.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar#Production
Not exactly. What you are describing is correct for things like a Prius, with dual drivetrains. It is certainly not correct for cars like the Chevy Volt (or the BMW i3), with the main engine being the electric one, and a gasoline generator. This combination is less complex than a normal car – for one, you can remove basically the entire transmission and hook up the eletric engine directly (with maybe a reduction gear like a Leaf). The gasoline engine can be much smaller and simpler as it is only driving a generator (and maybe not even running all the time, depending on battery and workload).

Such a design is not as clean as a pure EV, but it is definitely better than what we currently have.
Pardon my ignorance (though apparently I’m in good company), what protests are you talking about?
Burn Parties
Also probably the same machines that are installed for crowd control already a lot of military installations (microwave emitters) can do this already.
I saw the same split, but went with a PHEV (Toyota Prius Prime). Most of my in-town driving is free (PV on my roof makes a lot of power, and my utility gives me credits which expire with the calendar year otherwise), but out of town it's just like any other hybrid.
So, like an extension of the BBB?
I'm in France, so my answer might not apply to where you live, but we typically have yearly festivals, monthly open mics in theaters, plus the occasional one-shot in theaters (where a famous storyteller is invited for his new/famous set of stories).

We are considered as actors/comedian and are paid accordingly (or not at all, for open mics, obviously).
Howcome gasoline is so cheap in the US? Here in Belgium prices are between 1.5 and 1.6 euro/liter, which corresponds to 6.5 to 7 dollar/gallon.
I'm not a big fan of conspiracy ... but I fear this is going to be an all-to-likely scenario. Someone's gonna do it and it will change aviation for a while; restrictions, mega investment in new tech i.e. special radar, anti-drone kind of stuff. Won't be able to fly a drone anywhere remotely near an airport. And there are a lot of airports!
Technically `git push --signed` also exists which could fix the issue of rolling back commits. It would verify that the person doing the push also holds the GPG key at least. But as far as I can tell you have to manually do something with it in the post-receive hook and GitHub doesn't support it at all.
The Prius has been redesigned three times since then, so I'm not sure what that tells you.

Gasoline engines lose power at altitude, as it happens.
> Panasonic is the one who manufacturers Tesla's batteries, that's not a operational advantage for them. Many other car companies have similar deals with other battery manufacturers, like Toyota/Mastushita. Also, I don't get why you think battery margins will be huge? What is the major reason that prevents significant supplier competition?

There is a shortage of battery production. As I have already said, the reason EV are not sold is because the large manufactures can not make a profit on it.

Tesla has massive internal work on everything from the pack to the chemistry on the cell and that is licences technology by Tesla that Panasonic can not sell to anybody else. Tesla is simply ramping up production because they know demand will exists.

As with many industries, EV are not profitable and the car manufacturers or not gone order millions of battery packs, so there is not quite the large scale investment there yet. What you say is simply not true, the integration battery tech and production into Tesla is far deeper then for the other manufacturers.

And the video I provide is by a company that is reputable for cost analysis and that is the conclusion they come to.

> Yes, it was mainly built for compliance reasons as a compromise vehicle, but it isn't that Tesla has been able to construct a vehicle for less price than Chevy constructs the Bolt.

It is not relevant to compare direct production cost. The question is how much does it cost to product to how much you sell. Tesla can make 20-30% margin on the avg Model 3. While the Bold loses GM 5-10k per car sold.

> What cheapish car? The Model 3 is $49,000 as you can configure it currently?

Fair enough, cheapish is not the right word. Lets say a mass market car, meaning a car they can product 300k to 500k off and make a healthy profit on each car sold.

For the class that they are operating in that is competitive price and that is why they have 50% market share already, and that is gone jump up quite a bit more. It simply makes sense for them to focus on high value cars for now, ramping production on higher value cars gives you better cashflow in a time where you need it.

Even at 35k its not really a cheap car, but independent analysis and their own guidance has shown that they can make and expect to make a profit on that and they will have to do this in the next half year or so.