skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at page 29 of this LCA by Audi, you can see that they show an ICE car's impact at about 20% manufacturing, 80% usage, and around 1% recycling at the end of life:

https://www.audi.com/content/dam/com/EN/corporate-responsibi...
It also doesn't highlight all search results on the page, only the currently selected one. FF on page search is my biggest complaint.
They're not macbooks though. We bought a ROG Zepherus for someone doing 3d stuff at the place I work, it's fine, has a GTX 1080, but it's no mac book. And you can't run OSX. I'm a (relatively) happy member of the cult with the latest upgrades.
While few people still use horses for transportation there are many people who still have horses as a hobby and they are readily available with many places to take them. I suspect internal combustion cars will remain in a similiar hobby niche. There will be mechanics, race tracks, drag strips, etc for a while.
Entire broadband industry sues California to stop net neutrality law
Windows supports S3:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/power/syste...
Businesses are mostly just complicated cybernetic programs that try to turn money into more money. But it's like shitty spaghetti code where you have to understand years of debt to understand why A needs to talk to B, C, D and process the results into some new form E. Maybe they do this manually with a spreadsheet and arcane business rules passed down from generation to generation or maybe those rules are encoded in some awful program written twenty years ago that is terrible by any modern measure but is bespoke tailed to their shop/industry/regulatory environment.

You could probably automate this process but it requires a holistic understanding of the whole system which no one may even have, much less someone with the technical skills to automate. Plus it's like refactoring spaghetti code with little to no documentation, no specification except the current output, no tests, and likely involves a some combination of multiple technologies and manual human-powered processing.
I'm guessing economies of scale will finish the job somewhere over the next decade already. If you operating any kind of vehicles commercially, eliminating fuel cost should be high on your agenda. Whether it is taxi's, buses, police vehicles, delivery vehicles, etc. For that kind of market what matters is the total cost of ownership. This is why many taxis were early adopters of hybrids. As soon as they become affordable enough, they'll be going full electric.

Currently battery cost and production volumes are the main limitation. As that improves, the market will gobble up whatever is being produced. This just puts the pressure on a bit more. 2030 is not even that ambitious.
The parent was arguing that it was less wrong because Google was motivated to do it by self-interest. That's simply not a mitigating factor in any case.
Its buggy, extremely feature limited, and slow.
Why does GM need to put up their own money when Japan is falling over over itself to fund their R&D program?
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I had a similar idea where your registration fees are determined by the number of times you honked your horn the previous year.
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That's a shame because there are some remarkable cars, both modern and classic, that will no longer be able to drive on the roads if we ban all ICE.

It would be the equivalent of banning steam engines, which although no longer in normal use, are still running as tourist attractions and remarkable pieces of engineering that are fantastic to see and experience.
> Wi-Fi Alliance is naming the not-yet-complete IEEE 802.11ax standard as Wi-Fi 6, with ac being 5, and n being 4. One can guess then a is supposed to 1, b as 2, and g as 3, but this isn't mentioned anywhere I can see.

Most 802.11b and 802.11g devices didn't support 802.11a (due to it requiring 5Ghz), so I'm guessing version 1 is 802.11 and 802.11a isn't part of the version numbers.
>> Microsoft has the best hardware lineup

> WSL still has some serious gaps and isn't as productive as Linux

I wonder how well Linux runs on (semi-)recent Surfaces.

I'm spoiled by the very good Linux support on Thinkpads, but recent Thinkpads are not what they used to be. OTOH Surface hardware is pretty pleasant, judging by the short periods when I had a chance to play with it.
Ask HN: What are some good video resources to learn Object Oriented Programming
Hi, my cousin is studying CS as minor in university but he is having some hard time grasping the OOP concepts. Videos are his preferred way of learning instead of text books. Are there some good video resources which teach object oriented programming in a clear and maybe more intuitive way than the text books? Thanks :)
Europe's political diversity is a benefit here though - the EU Council as a governing body, provided it got to the point where it promised not to change anything, would easily look like a stable administrator. Business is more then happy to ignore all sorts of legal inconsistency if the trade off is predictable year over year behavior.
If we're sticking to the topic of NATO, I'd love to leave it. I have no desire to keep the EU free. They've stepped up to say they are their own unified power equal to the US. Let them defend themselves. The US has a natural moat and friendly neighbors. The Russians couldn't invade the US and keep its troops supplied for the long haul. Not even if they successfully conquered a portion of Canada. Neither can the Chinese. I'm not sure who we're afraid of.

The US military is largely worthless in a true asymmetric war without our territory. There are better options in both law enforcement and the true concept of the US citizenry being part of an independent State militia. If we let the EU fall or stand on its own, the US could get rid of the majority of its standing military. We wouldn't need friendly bases because we could scrap the idea of a volunteer army. Such armies make foreign adventures palatable since the soldiers asked to join. An army that is mostly conscripted does not go abroad unless it has too. A conscripted army is not large enough to threaten the homeland.

If we collapsed our military to just Navy and Air force, enough to keep trade routes open and secure our airspace, we could free up 300-400 billion dollars. The US could pay down some of its 20 trillion dollar debt year after year after year.
I don't know about "meaningless" as much as "not something normal people need to care about."
I absolutely agree with you about infrastructure. Its definitely coming and will cover most use cases.

But I do wonder how we're gonna cover that last mile. Adding hundreds of miles of range to an ICE car is hilariously simple, just a couple of plastic containers in the trunk and you're good to go.

Can't add extra batteries like that. Energy density is not a truism.

Maybe portable ICE generators, sort of like hybrid addons for full EVs.

I really liked the hybrid tech. I don't know why its not dominating.
This is personal preference. I just bought a 13” mbp with the touchbar and I’m not complaining at all.
Whenever I was to use the standard F keys on the mid-2015 mbp, I had to look at them before pressing anyway. No change in workflow.
The US can, and does, use its control of the US payment system to punish anyone who deals with states it wants to sanction, such as Iran.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iran-...

> The power of U.S. sanctions lies in the use of the U.S. dollar in most international transactions. A foreign company that sends its proceeds from trade with Iran through an international bank would likely face sanctions because part of it would be conducted in dollars. An international company with an American employee who has something to do with a transaction, no matter how inconsequential, could also run afoul of U.S. sanctions.

> Only a handful of countries agree with the U.S. decision to abandon the nuclear deal. The European Union said Monday that its member countries would establish a system to allow oil companies and private businesses to keep trading with Iran. But many international corporations have already stopped doing business with Iran because so much international business is conducted partially in U.S. dollars.
The advantage of a ban is that you can also eliminate production and importation. If you have a legal path, that path will be diverted into the black market.
He'd probably have to restart his degree completely - many universities will not recognize credits for incomplete degrees past 5 years of their accrual (institution-dependent, of course).

Considering he stopped ~6 years ago, he'd probably have to start his degree again from scratch.
"Same people who footed the bill for petrol/gas stations?"

That would be me, and I don't want to foot that bill, because at a gas station I can fill up the tank in under five minutes, and at a recharging station I'd have to wait a minimum of half an hour, so I wouldn't be getting the same level of service as I do today. As far as my wallet and especially my time (which is far more expensive) are concerned: no!
Meh, if DDG takes off MS will likely either cut them off or charge, leading to DDG needing to run their own search. If they can do that is unproven, and if running a web-wide search engine with DDG's business model is profitable is unproven too. I agree it's irrelevant to users medium-term, but if you're happy with DDG you kind of have to hope they don't become too successful.
> petro dollar

Petrodollar hypotheses get the dollar's hegemony in international trade backwards. Petrodollars (i.e. oil producers' surplus revenues invested in U.S. dollar denominated instruments [1]) don't cause the hegemony. The United States being (a) the only advanced economy not bombed to the 19th century post-WWII and (b) the world's largest single consumer market [2] created and create international holders of U.S. dollars. (In the initial case, thanks to Bretton Woods. In the recurring case, since Americans pay with U.S. dollars.) Those holders, in turn, drive demand for dollar-denominated investments.

The interaction between these processes, international consumption by Americans and the reinvestment of international dollars, drives economies of scale in the American financial system. (It is why, until very recently, it was cheaper and faster to send U.S. dollars between two European capitals than initiate a Euro-denominated transfer.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_marke...
This is absolutely true, but it mostly applies when your code is in development. Inevitably you will be asked to troubleshoot problems in production. So you'll need to learn how to read and understand log files. You should also learn how and when to log actions in your program.

That last sentence is part of my piece of advice: Try to add stuff (comments, logging statements, etc) to your projects that will make things easier in the future, either for you or other developers.
It's not only about the money. The receiving person gets a prestigious job and the donor gets good PR for his/her charity.
Right. Because you personally don't find the touchbar useful/find it actively worse than the physical keys it replaces, and the comment you replied to only detailed a dozen or more things that they personally find better, the entire account must be dismissed.

Sure, that makes sense.
> Do you understand that USB-C is also an HDMI port and you just need a USB-C to HDMI cable if your monitor/tv doesn't have yet the USB-C port (which they are starting to come with)?

Yes. But I have tons of perfectly good legacy equipment, and no incentive to go buy a whole raft of new cable or dongles.

> What's so good about having a port that can only serve one purpose and not be generic purpose?

In an ideal world, sure. But in the real world, we've already got a clusterfuck of different cables and ports that all say that they are USB-C on the tin, but have wildly different capabilities in practice. If I've got ports that are special purpose, they might as well advertise the fact - Ethernet goes in the RJ45, display out goes in the HDMI, power goes into the power adapter.

Of course I also like having lots of ports, so in addition to power, HDMI, Ethernet, 3.5mm audio in and out, SD card reader, I look for 4-6 USB A ports. A 17" screen and a dedicated graphics card are nice. I'm not really a ultrabook person...
Is your ISP and service really that bad? If it is I think you have bigger problems you should address before working on personal projects.

I've been running my personal website from home for almost 2 decades on Comcast and I've never had a problem. I can always access my sites when I'm not home. And additionally I can access all my other media. Even when I only had a megabit or so of upload it was more than enough. Downtimes have been very rare and usually only for a couple hours once per year in the middle of local night.

That said, of course you can't run a mailserver from home. For that, because of residential IP blacklists, I run from a rented VPS. In fact I run webservers on them too, but only for hosting large files. It's easier to just cp whatever ~/www than always have to upload things.
This is excellent advice, and I would suggest reading warnings (e.g., compiler warnings) as well – even if they don't indicate a problem, understanding why a warning is thrown is often a very worthwhile exercise.
>>Banks don't want to deal with volatile currency, even Russian banks make out mortgage loans in USDs.

But Russians get paid in local currency. If that crashes in relation to the usd, go ahead, make the $280 mortgage payment. It will be xx% more expensive this month while your salary and expenses stayed the same.
NoScript blocks that nicely. The page looks fine without JS.
I always wonder at this. I've seen those expensive repair bills and they're usually expensive relative to the value of the car to be repaired, but they're cheap relative to the cost of a brand new car.
But then aren't hybrids better than BEV, given a few miles of range?

Why make a 90KwHr battery for a car, if you can make 3 cars out of it. After all current reserves of Cobalt, nickel, and lithium are finite.
1) I love the domain name. So relevant to the topic.

2) I fundamentally disagree with the premise and content of this article. It is ALL window dressing.

Organizational Design is a field that deals with this issue in depth. The OODA loop is one of the key ideas for understanding decision latency. Basically, it takes time to take in data, figure out what to do with it, decide on a solution, and then enact it. Basically the quicker you run through this loop, the quicker your organization's clock speed is.

But why would that speed change depending on the size of the organization? Well, because the first three steps in the loop take more time with more stakeholders even if the final one wouldn't change.

Humans do not think infinitely fast. As more stakeholders become involved, more thinking is required. But we systematically ignore this cost, despite it being very present and observable, because it involves thinking about thinking. See that article on the front page about how K8s are cost efficient for personal projects? It fully discounts the cost of the thinking required to learn and understand the system.

The head of your multi-billion dollar corporation wouldn't need board slide deck summaries of financials broken out by division, or updates regarding process change initiatives at the [X] level if they had infinite clock speed. They'd just parse the inhuman levels of data and come to a sensible conclusion. But they can't. This means there is a ton of work repackaging and communicating information across levels of an organization to fit the available thinking time available at each level.

From the perspective of someone dealing with the organization, however, things appear monolithic: when a customer service agent gives us an absurd reply to a query, we assume the entire organization is stupid.
In my experience, the progression of skill comes almost full circle. Juniors don't read error messages and try to debug "from first principles". Seniors pay attention to error messages. Experts often don't (initially) read the error message, because the very fact that there is an error immediately clues them in on its likely cause.
I think this policy would ban new sales, not outright ban all old cars.
>A reboot can be delayed for up to 5 days and you can actually schedule a specific day/time for the reboot to occur. There is a setting to enable enhanced notifications around updates and scheduled reboots. You can pause updates for 35 days after which a forced update occurs.

And that's why 9 out of 10 people turn them off for good.

And because of people not installing security updates because of that, Windows is such attractive target as a botnet breeding ground.
Theoretically those jobs would be pushed into distribution, which the article seems to hint at, large amount of small automated farms spread out, rather than small amount of large farms concentrated, could mean more jobs on the middle and tail end of the supply chain.

Tbh, I have my doubts it would play out like that, but it does seem they're conscious of it, at the very least.
Provisioning hardware still matters depending on requirements. I think you oversimplified a bit here. The user in your scenario probably needs to talk to the devops team and discuss expected resource needs unless it's really a tiny webapp that could have run on a shared server in the past anyway or in a VM.

K8s definitively helps with better resource usage and it can make deployment much more straightforward but it doesn't abstract the need to think of capacity and provision hardware.
> Re advertisements in the start menu: They shouldn't be there in the first place, but you CAN disable them. https://www.groovypost.com/howto/turn-off-windows-10-start-m....

And every major Windows update have undo my setting to bring it back. I've reported it to MS, MS attempted to fix it (listed in some Windows 10 update) and they're still failing to fix it.

How about not doing it in the first place, period?

These things should be opt-in, not opt-out.
Cool, reminds me of this [0], it's 850 chars before gzipping.

[0]: https://curiosity-driven.org/minimal-loader
proper terminal APIs are coming in w10 october update, so then we will see how a real win10 terminal would work, and not just another cmd reskin as it has always been...
I believe the point of the question was to ask if drivers are readily available for the specific combination of hardware Microsoft uses, not to imply that Microsoft should support it.
You could do both. Which is what Tesla did. They licensed MobilEye for AP1 while developing their own AP2 which was only deployed once they had a falling out with MobilEye (and IIRC the initial rollout of AP2 was a bit rocky, at the time MobilEye tech was still superior)
Duck Duck Go uses search result API's from various venders, including Bing- that is mentioned in the history section of the Wikipedia article. (Originally they used Yahoo's search API, and Yahoo of course changed to using results from Bing). They also have their own web crawler.
For me, it's the length of individual videos that matter.

I prefer those with 4-7 minutes minutes per video. I've noticed that many long videos can be much shorter with minimal editing to remove unnecessary pauses, uhmms...
> Surface is a weird hybrid of laptop and tablet, and I haven't been impressed by its floppy keyboard

I agree, but only as far as the Surface Pro/Go are concerned. The Surface Book and Surface Laptop have no such issues, and have a very good keyboard feel.

I don't currently recommend a Surface Pro or Go for that reason. I will happily recommend the Book or Surface Laptop however.
I did, and it helped the speed.

But is was plenty buggy, so much that I had to switch it off.
Firefox extensions _used_ to offer much more access and control of the browser, but they've since switched to a Chrome-like model that isn't near feature parity with Chrome. It was a huge step back.
Not quite. The source package has to be packaged by someone, then dpkg knows what to do with it.

A Buildpack instead takes source as it is. You use Maven? The relevant buildpacks recognise pom.xml and know what to do. Bundler? Ruby buildpack sees the Gemfile and takes responsibility. And so on.

I as a developer can send the same sourcecode I have in my git repo or on my local filesystem, with no additional effort to prep it. The buildpack does all the work.

Putting it another way: it makes sense to create a debian source package buildpack. There are apt buildpacks in the wild, I expect they'll be revisited.
Hi, GitLab PM here, thanks for the mention. We're indeed trying to make use of kubernetes inside GitLab as simple as possible. And just to add to your comment, you can try out kubernetes integration (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/) independent of auto devops and vice-versa (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/). Both of these are available in our core offering.
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> is it not possible that the big bang occurred an infinite time ago?

It depends on what you mean by "the big bang". The strictly correct meaning of "the big bang" is "the hot, dense, rapidly expanding state of the universe that is the earliest state for which we have good evidence". We know that state occurred a finite time ago--about 13.7 billion years.

What we don't know for sure is what came before that state, or how far into the past whatever came before it extends. The current best theory we have is that it was some kind of inflationary epoch, but different models of inflation give different answers to the question of how far back in time that epoch extended. AFAIK the possibility that inflation extended infinitely far back in time (i.e., that there was never any "initial singularity") has not been ruled out.
When there's no enforcement, the rules don't matter.

A particularly timely example would be to look at what Donald Trump's 501c3 has been up to over the last several years.
Denmark is small enough that with typical EVs today, you can drive tip to tip, pretty much. There are some journeys you might need to charge for, but not many of the journeys most people would make very often.
Do what makes you happy, but don’t neglect your health (mental as well as physical) and take breaks/holidays. I spent too much of this year hating computers due to burnout and it’s extremely draining and depressing to have your primary passion leaving you feeling annoyed, frustrated and empty. It’s taken me pretty much all year (most of which I spent out of work) to get to the point where I can work without feeling too bad, but I still struggle to get any code written for passion projects despite having tons of ideas that excite me (until I sit down to work on them). It’s nuch easier to prevent the problems than to fix them after the fact.

In my personal experience, the way to prevent burnout for me is to have other hobbies, to stay physically healthy (especially to get enough sleep, but exercise and diet are super important too), to take plenty of holiday time, and to work on passion projects that are meaningful to you. Working on stuff to make someone else rich isn’t meaningful to me (especially when you see people getting burned by employers again and again — it’s rare that companies will return the favour)

Also, go easy on the coffee. Caffeine is a bad substitute for sleep.
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