skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So hybrids are not as exempt as earlier discussion would suggest.

Any thoughts on converting a hybrid to an EV?

Edit: The engine cavity should be able to hold a lithium battery ~250+ lbs, and the 1.6 kWh NiMH battery is another ~250+ lbs that can be replaced with another lithium battery pack. If a Powerwall were used for each, the car would have 27.4 kWh, which I think would power my Camry Hybrid only about 30 miles. So maybe not very feasible until after another battery technology upgrade.
Cannot upvote this enough. IMO every thing else is secondary to finding the right mentor.

Applies esp. early, but also later, in ones career.
How three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals (2015)
Discovery of First Genetic Variants Associated with Meaning of Life
Virtually nobody buys new cars in Denmark because of the taxes anyway, and even if they did, it's a very small country (~5M) and would only account for a very small percentage of global sales. I doubt the subject of Denmark come up in automobile companies' board rooms at all outside of a small footnote on the occasional pie chart.
Came here to say much the same. I spent much of my youth reading reading ERights.org [0] and related capabilities-based security sites (Hardy, Shapiro, etc.). Weird how it seems nothing ever came of it (or am I wrong?).

[0] http://www.erights.org
I set up a single-node cluster for a personal project on DO and it took me some time, but it's up and running and has been fine for over a year. I used a decently beefy instance ($20/monthly on DO) because the Kubernetes processes are actually too resource intensive for the $5 instance. It runs several processes (the main Python app and a helper Go-based API), automatic SSL renewal, a daily cleanup Cronjob, etc.

I really like being able to push a completely new container whenever I push to master - this is done with CircleCI, which builds the image, pushes to Docker Hub, and just does the kubectl apply. I couldn't think of any other way to do it that wouldn't result in some downtime if I had to change or upgrade packages.

I wrote about it here a bit: https://hackernoon.com/lessons-learned-from-moving-my-side-p...
Glad Microsoft is catching up, competition is always good for us. But they are still severely lacking in the software department imo. It's just too complicated (see below) and on top of that the disregard for privacy and including ads in the OS is a no-go.
Small anecdote: Last time I had windows 10 installed on my MBP, the screen was funnily dark, although set to 100% brightness via the corresponding keys. Searching deep down in the system settings I found something like 2-3 different settings (power saving settings, profiles etc) which COULD have affected screen brightness, but weren't the culprit. Took me a good couple minutes to dig through the new metro settings app and then the older settings menus to find the right option.
Now, it might have been my Bootcamp installation which was configured incorrectly so it was more vetted towards saving power, still doesn't matter: the settings shouldn't be so complicated. It's not really close to "it just works". On mac, the user-facing system architecture is much more comprehensive and easy to figure out.
Gotcha. Yeah, I personally "enjoy" both of those types of rides!
I never used Salt, but I've used Puppet extensively. Obviously you know virtualization and containerization existed before Docker and k8s, but you're simplifying and conflating a lot of stuff here.
How is the universe infinite by definition?

Wikipedia for one says the following. There is no mention of infinity.

"The Universe is all of space and time[a] and their contents,[10] including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. While the spatial size of the entire Universe is still unknown,[3] it is possible to measure the observable universe."
Dark matter is an observed phenomenon that can be explain by the existence of an additional, unknown kind of matter. I don't think scientists are unduly hung up on that explanation, though. It's merely the most likely. Plenty of scientists are looking for alternative explanations and I'm sure the rest will get on board if they find something convincing.
Incentives are probably the most influential factor in the success of this effort. I wish them the best in making the world a better place but the cynic in me is skeptical. Generally top-down legislative approaches like, "it's illegal to sell a new internal combustion engine" flop, for example people will just buy and resell new cars to get around it. Better example, how corporations navigate tax laws. However if the incentives are carefully thought out, making ownership of a car that passes standards cheaper and less hassle to own, it can work. Controlling behavior is all about incentives, so behavioral economics bears no exception. In general I think a disparate amount of attention is paid to making top-down laws instead of addressing incentive. But that is beside the point.
Now if only we could convince the 7 most polluting cargoships to curb emissions...
ML on Android: Build your first app with a custom TensorFlow Lite model
No, but you don't need a complex drive train, like modern plug-in hybrids have.
Yeah, I was referring to the fact that the regulation won't come into force and will keep getting pushed back.
This sounds just like my experience with the Surface Book.

It's the best laptop I've ever owned, but the OS still requires some improvement.

With that being said, for the first time in years I've felt that Windows isn't a million miles away from becoming a developer-friendly OS.
Don't always test your code. Always test code that needs testing (i.e production code) but never cargo cult.

It's just fine to bang out scripts or hobby projects you can see work easily enough without formal tests. In the real world not everything is tested (although probably more stuff should be than is).
Or, you know, creating a functional healthcare system, funding education, or any number of non-violents ends that conservatives like to pretend aren't possibilities while they work to dismantle public opportunity.
Yep, love ranger. And if you use the right terminal emulator, there's a flag that will enable honest-to-god image previews in your console!
Yeah..but like most here I didn't want to be the one to bark about crypto. The settlement tech and security of crypto absolutly sucks.
Building and Documenting Python REST APIs with Flask and Connexion – Part 2
It should be Community-centric package delivery. A local place with people you know, that manages ordering, delivery, payments, returns and helps with selections. The local "store" should be a community asset where smaller, friendlier and closer are all better than discount big-box.

The key is having large scale services that the community store can manage. Deliver of large or expensive items as a service, like college movers. Instead of Amazon grocery delivery vs other grocery delivery, use the community store to manage the interaction -- they choose quality and price, or decide what combinations to offer. This is good for Amazon too: it lets them compete on the supply chain and outsource customer service.

Community stores wouldn't just have online prices, they could offer innovative things like local individual services (lawn mowing, computer repair) with local ratings and local trust. Clothing from online stores, where people try it on before buying, and the community store manages shipping and damage, etc.. in a relationship with the online retailer.

Creating open software that manages a market for the store/supplier B2B relationships would let the local stay-at-home person start small, a few neighbors, and grow into a larger service and eventually a community store.
crypto currencies are supposed to fill that role.
>I never understood how anyone possibly felt the ridiculously extremist state of affairs of automobile/fuel regulations/taxes/etc in Denmark is appropriate.

You will never understand it because those people have a completely different world view than you or I when it comes to taxation. You will also probably never understand a lot of other crazy things that people with different world views believe.

The idea that taxes and government involvement in everything should be the minimum possible is foreign to them in the same way that a woman is CEO of GM and that's not a problem to us is completely foreign to the Taliban.

Obviously it's a two way street and the idea that someone would want gas to cost $5/L and that someone might not be ok with a female CEO is equally foreign and impossible for us to relate to.
That's just zeno's paradox. It applies equally to any motion in any point in time.
Apple will now sell me a laptop with: 6 core i9, 32 gig of RAM and 1TB. As a bedroom producer this is truly incredible - and, yes, incredibly priced. The sheer capability of this machine is awe-inspiring, then you remember that it's super portable. 2018 is great.
Technology as a replacement, no; as an augmentation, definitely. A computer could be a powerful tool in improving tutors effectiveness. I just saw a paper on using DNN for generating questions from text which could be used for interactive flash cards (spaced repetition, quizes, etc).
Is this not enough charging stations?

https://i.imgur.com/dd9Jdzf.png (Orange are high power chargers, green are lower power chargers, source is plugshare.com)
While any migration of an invasive species generally situates the species in its new region permanently until something kills it off (and as such you must continually guard against invasive species entering), we would only have to prevent re-migrations of the "tainted" species back to their native regions for the amount of time that it would take them to die out due to the sterilization. Much easier.

Edit: relaxed claims.
I wonder how this relates to LinuxKit.
The only practical way to enforce this is to fine the telecom carriers that let the overseas junk calls onto their networks in the first place.

Speaking of which, it would be great to have a 'no foreign origination' inbound policy. That would require VOIP providers to step up, and that seems like a very complex problem.

At this point, I consider telephone communication to be almost a complete loss. We need an entirely new system.
Good job Google.

I'm a very harsh critique of Google due to the threat they pose for privacy, however here they are doing a good thing, along the lines of the public DNS servers they provide, which I know have helped people [1].

Having your requests go through Google is not ideal, however not many people have the capacity to search for better, but more obscure solutions.

Also this isn't about privacy, but about working around censorship at the DNS level. If you want privacy, you use an anonymous VPN or Tor. And frankly, if you can't trust Google's privacy policy for this service, then you shouldn't use a Google phone.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
The article contradicts itself

> It took years to get here, but Microsoft has nailed it. By comparison, the competition is

> flailing around arguing about whether or not touchscreens have a place on laptops. The

> answer? Just let people choose.

Or if you are Microsoft just put a touchscreen on all your devices

> Every single one of these machines has a touchscreen, supports a high-quality stylus, and current generation chipsets.
> You mean, I'm welcome to find supporting evidence for your argument? Shouldn't that be your responsibility?

Fair enough.

I had some trouble finding the original better example I had mentioned earlier ("I recall a study looking at such impossible aggregate statistics leading to several retractions of articles whose data had been made up outright."), but while trying to find it, I stumbled on another.

Example 1: https://andrewgelman.com/2018/08/21/scandal-isnt-whats-retra...

A study gets published finding a large effect, large enough to cause a replication attempt: "The effort to replicate the original study was successful in everything except the creation of the PSU-level structural stigma variable."

The suspected reason for this replication failure (imputation of missing data) turns out to be wrong when the original authors have someone check their code for data analysis, which is found to contain an error.

If that code had been checked during peer review (or at least afterwards, by including it with the publication), the effort would have been less than a full-blown replication attempt.

Example 2: https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/the-grim-test-a-method-for...

(Which is what I was referring to earlier.)

Simply checking reported means and sample sizes for consistency revealed mathematically impossible results in 50% of tested papers.

He goes to great lengths to stress that such inconsistencies don't necessarily imply fraud (some are honest mistakes), but the behavior of some of the contacted authors when asked for their data appears very sketchy.

Again, if there were a culture of looking at raw data and inspecting analysis code during peer review, those studies reporting obviously incorrect results would not have been published, saving everyone who relies on such studies a lot of trouble.

So, who's going to do that work and who pays for it? I'd be surprised if I managed a working plan on the first attempt, but here's my proposal:

- Authors prepare their data and code together with instructions in such a way that an expert in their field can work with them without having to ask the authors for additional information. It should be attached to the paper as supplementary material. If the data is privacy-sensitive, it should at least be made available to reviewers to check that the results follow from the data. Who pays for it: whoever pays the authors to be writing papers in the first place.

- Reviewers do that sanity-check of running the code on the data to verify that the instructions are complete and the results match what is reported in the paper. They scrutinize the code to the level they'd apply to a methodology section. Who pays for it: the readers of the published paper, since they benefit from not having to do the peer review themselves when they just want to use the results.

Maybe that's unrealistic and the review process is

> already as rigorous as it can reasonably be, given the reality of human frailty and limited resources

but that would be sad.
I noticed a similar trend in JS dev: asking/looking for (video) tutorials instead of reading the official doc. Even when the doc is good and quick too read (React, Redux, Vue, etc).
Getting a deduction on 20% capital gains tax and having a family member pay ~35% of income tax on it is not exactly a sustainable strategy for wealth transfer.
> That was also the breaking point for me. I've switched back to firefox, I bought a new iPhone XS (moving off the pixel), I'm in the process of getting my own email server up (though I may just switch to proton mail we'll see)

Fastmail's another option. Their 2FA authentication options are about as robust as Google's.
Some companies have internal mentoring schemes - perhaps more likely the larger the company.

Professional institutions typically do too.

Either option takes the burden off asking someone, since you're merely applying to a pool of people that have declared a priori their willingness to be a mentor!
C++: “model of the hardware” vs. “model of the compiler”
The idea is that EVs are fully taxed the danish 150% car tax (on top og the danish 25% sales tax) but get a discount of about 50.000 DKK or just under 8.000USD..

For a base Tesla Model S, that would mean a tax of about 120.000 USD..
You mean, did inflation end? Yes, it did.
Thanks for your kind comments.

It might be interesting to reflect on the secondary and unanticipated effects of surfacing those rules by making them legible.
"Best of all, it's not unidirectional; your phone/tablet is now a VT100, and you can log into your computer over it, even if the display server or login manager or desktop environment is wedged."

And wanting to interact is the least of the reasons to not want to hook up an external screen for something that could easily be on your main screen.
You wouldn't want to be mentally ill though. Two cases spring to mind where (young, inexperienced) police shot people without cause. In one case, at a large park, shot a youth, with no one nearby, because he had a $2 steak knife. In another case, in the person's home, where the police had forcefully entered because of a report they might have been suicidal.
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I have a project, but I take courses to expand the abilities to which I need for that project

For every project I do, I will have many shitty project follow alongs from MOOC's

Its far more efficient I learn the big picture in the shallowest way possible, than deep dive into a project
What Frankenstein's creature can really tell us about AI
Fair enough, I could have been more specific. Instead of a dialer calling vast quantities of people and a telemarketer only connecting to the calls that actually go through, the telemarketer should be required to initiate the call (through whatever interface), wait to see if the recipient picks up, and then choose to end the call when they see fit. The point is to allow telemarketing but to keep it a fair and symmetrical affair. One person calling one other person as opposed to me being on the receiving end of hundreds of auto-dialed calls while the telemarketers only have to spend their time with the calls that succeed.
I'm on a 2014 MBP as well, and dreading the same transition. Until now I've been eyeing the Dell XP 13 as my next machine, but the Surface Laptop 2 also looks very compelling. Anyone know what the port story is? Looks to be USB-C-free, which I'm quite okay with, but I don't know if that's a MDP or Thunderbolt on there.
They way to prevent irrational markets out running your solvency is to avoid easy lending/borrowing in the good times.
This will be just as enforceable as the Do Not Call Registry.
Tesla is already selling all the cars they can make. If the goal is a higher percentage of electric cars on the road, subsidizing them won't help. The more important thing is to incentivize other manufacturers to produce more electric vehicles.
Learn to learn.
Just use the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). I was able to install Ubuntu 18.04, do "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade", install additional packages, all on Windows 10. I also managed to compile and run on Linux/Ubuntu/WSL the SageMath package (a complicated piece of Math software complete with Jupyter, Python 2.7, Python numpy, scipy, etc., packages, lots of C/C++/Fortran libraries, other math products/libraries, and an integrated web server (Django I believe)) ... and it ran just fine under Ubuntu-on-Windows just like native Ubuntu. It was as almost as easy as a macOS/Homebrew install.
Thank you for your answer. I'll take my downvotes with a sense of responsibility that I have for HN to keep it unpolluted by manipulation. I just thought remaining was it 8 hours on the front-page with 1 comment seemed weird.

I do sometimes go to the /new and find actually many fascinating articles which I sometimes think should gain more visibility. How an article eventually ends up on the front-page is a bit of a mystery to me and I think there's a lot of hidden factors involved for anything that is not hugely important news. If the article is good and interesting it has an advantage but the rest of it is just luck.
If you assume the status quo for all of those items mentioned are good, then perhaps, yes the US is leaving its role. If you assume that most of those are bad (except in the case of PRK), the the US is asserting its role.

Take the PRK. Will it collapse any time soon? Probably not. The government disarmed the populace. They are internally too weak to oust Kim. Does bringing the PRK into the less violent world benefit people? Yes. The US would have to spend far less on Korea. So the US could save anywhere from 350 million to 1 billion by not having to be there. [1]

TPP was terrible for rights of the individual. It was a promotion by the media companies, among others, to strip ownership rights. It also pushed a greater term for copyright, which at the current levels already stagnates the economy.

Reducing NATO has the benefit that it's making EU members start to think about spending their money on defense. The US has funded the EU social systems for too long. The EU countries mock the US saying, "If you spent less on your worthless bombs, perhaps you could provide good medical systems to your population." I'm tired of this lie. They don't spend much on their defense. They don't spend what they should with Russia parked on their front lawn. Is it good leadership to have your crew, who appear to be of little worth, make you spend on every outing?

Initiating trade conflicts is not necessarily wrong if the deals are bad. Are Americans better off under these new deals? I don't know; not enough details nor time. If they are, isn't pushing such negotiations ago thing? Could the same ends been achieved with different means?

1 - https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-the-US-spend-on-defendin...

On the idea of free trade https://youtu.be/rw7PUrgU3N0
Yeah, to the best of my knowledge.
As I explained elsewhere - hybrids are exempt. And all current manufacturers can make all of their models into some extremely mild hybrids just to get around the ban. So expect to see a lot of models with 1bhp electric motors just to classify as hybrids coming out soon. And cars made before the ban will obviously be still allowed, so there's no issues there.
Powerful and easy-to-use URL routing library in iOS that supports URL Rewrite
Surface book can't draw enough power from its own brick to power its video card at full draw, so when doing graphics intensive stuff the battery drains.

Other than that, it's a dream machine, minus that I hate working in windows. Usually will just work in a VM in virtual box with Debian. I can't get wsl to work well for me - for example, I'll be using git in there, but vscode will be open directly in windows, and get super confused with it's own git implementation.

The reason I went with the surface like was stylus+touchpad. I'm a huge annotator and handwritten note taker. The better platform for this turned out to be thinkpad x1 yoga, cause I could just install Ubuntu natively.

Edit: by the way, windows update has fucked me more than any human. That was a big reason to switch off for me. That and Candy crush.
Show HN: Bitmia, an investing/personal finance community
Hello Hacker News,

I'd like to share an investing/personal finance social news site I've pushed live a couple of days ago. It's based on the lobste.rs codebase, slightly repurposed to be more focused on discussion rather than link aggregation.

I assume there’s a significant userbase overlap with HN since most of you who work in computing are well-positioned to retire early. There’s a running joke on /r/financialindependence that they are 99% software engineers.

It's live at https://bitmia.com – if you’d like an invite, feel free to request one on the site. Hopefully when/if this catches fire it will be a nice addition to your daily reading.

Would be great to get your feedback.