skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would you mind linking to ones you are aware of. it would be super helpful.
As an additional wrinkle, any baseline curriculum that involves any reasonable amount of computing theory will put a lot of self-taught professional software engineers on the outside. That seems like it might be a hurdle to getting buy-in.
>The authentication program relies on cryptography to validate and digitally sign USB Type-C devices with 128-bit security.

Seems... low, esp for an offline device that you can get hands on both sides of. How many chargers are going to use as cheap a micro as possible for this?

Also, adding an encryption layer and further fragmenting - does have the benefit that Apple may make iPhones with TypeC connectors... so, hooray?
Could you get the best of both worlds by having a monorepo of submodules? Code would live in separate repos, but references would be declared in the monorepo. Checkins and rollbacks to the monorepo would trigger CI.
> anyone I interact with who is tech savvy doesn't use email

You live in a strange bubble.
No, thanks, I do not ask on some vendor's forum. I prefer ask people I can trust as sources, not eventually disguised marketing guys or bot.

As I write before I say most of them are on Renault, But one is on a Tesla. This last one essentially stop using it because it's too large for him in city and it can't use it because of reduced range to go to it's country house or on mountains to ski without recharge...

The problem, beside battery life, Renault ZE have and nobody like to recall it in marketing is 85 euro/month fee for battery (mandatory) rental.

BTW battery tech is the very same of phones, laptop, cordless drill etc, any other devices that use lithium ion battery. Only very few vendors offer other option that last even less than Li-Ion battery.
Why in this case maker of decoder should go to jail and not creator of google logo? To really make it difficult - let's assume both image and decoder was made at the same time.
Meanwhile, Toyota, which is only at 3x the market cap of Tesla, sold >2,200,000 vehicles in Q4. It ships more combined battery capacity in its hybrids, then Tesla does in its EVs.
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It seems that the Linux desktop will never be a close 2nd to Microsoft Windows in my lifetime.
The reason most US cars lack hitch receivers is liability. In most of Europe, it is expected you drive slower when towing a trailer. Not so in the US. Even the same models have different tow ratings (usually zero in the US) - see VW Sportwagon for example (rated to 3500lbs in most of EU, and not rated at all in US, despite being the exact same car).
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That makes sense (but wow the variability on their initial plots!).

It would be nice to see plots for ranges of temps below 0C or temperatures where AC is desired.

I think a lot of people think of Norway in winter like they think of N. Minnesota in winter.
> Note: Yes, both these methods are synchronous. But, given that neither of these methods require any I/O orNetwork requests, its pretty safe to compute them synchronously.

Found this amusing. Are node devs so used to async that disclaimers like this are necessary?
Is that why we have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world ?
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There needs to be a balance between the powers of employers, employees and government (as a regulator and moderator between the other two parties). I think any reasonable comparison of this power balance between the US and other successful democracies would show that employers have more power in the US than most places.

I believe the US system of political clientelism has been especially unfavorable for US workers since the mid-nineties. Globalization has taken away their bargaining power, and politics have been taken over by business interests.

I think this shift in the power structure is the major reason for the continued worsening of inequality-measures (e.g GINI-coefficient) in the US, to a level now only comparable to third world and less democratic countries.
How to build the Red Dead Redemption 2 Compass for the real world using Mapbox
What Blade Runner got wrong and right about life in 2019
4 hours of storage is enough for a PV system to serve the early-evening period when demand is at its highest.

For example, here's the demand curve for California's CAISO today:

http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx

The peak demand is between 6 and 7 PM. Since the sun sets at 4:55 PM today in Los Angeles, and solar output dips significantly starting a couple of hours before sunset, solar cannot supply any of the peak-demand load at this time of year. Even with later sunsets in the summer, solar can supply only a fraction of peak-period demand. But solar coupled with 4 hours of storage can cover the most important hours just before and just after sunset. By the later evening, demand is lower and wind output has often increased.

The two most interesting cases:

Standalone 100-MW PV system with one-axis tracking ($111 million) -- this is a pretty typical configuration for a new solar farm being built today.

Co-located, AC-coupled PV (100 MW) plus storage (60 MW/240 MWh, 4-hour duration) system ($188 million) -- this is a battery system plus the solar farm at the same facility. AC coupling is a little bit more expensive than DC coupling but it is more flexible; it can be installed as part of the original solar project or as a retrofit. Most utility scale PV projects that are already built have ample room for a battery system on the same site.

A year ago, XCel Energy in Colorado received median bids of $36/MWh ($0.036/kWh) for PV plus 4 hours of storage:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/record-low-sola...

However, those bids are for projects to be completed in 2023 and NREL's cost estimates are for projects built now. That can explain part of why NREL's cost premium for adding storage appears to be higher than the premium assigned in recent auctions.
lurk around on the uni websites and look at c.v. for the facultyand current grads, then check out thier lit reviews and citations, and maybe, also they may have a few minutes here and there to speak with someone genuinely versed and interested regarding advanced topics.
One of the most important roles of a scientist for example , is to disseminate information
Agree with your comments.

Adding few other points:

* China's new infrastructures are good and modern. (+)

* Education system is reasonable - produce large number of engineers, college educated young people. (+)

* Entrepreneurial spirits/activities are very high in a lot of cities. (+)

* The new roads system are mostly build/own with private money and adding non-trivial cost to the normal business when they need to transport goods. As compare to the highway system in the US. (-)

* The society is NOT govern by the rule of law. It is govern by the will of the Party and who ever is in power. As shown recently by the some famous actors, actress go fine massive amount because of tax issues. The new rules show up one day can cause the majority movie industry disappear in a few weeks. (-)

* The housing bubble is a big issue similar to what happen to Japan 20+ years ago. (-)

* The debt in private industries and local government are BIG issue. (-)

* The central government has recently created new much stricter rules about people (local/business ) taking the money out of China. It looks good on the surface for majority of population when present as rich people's issue. But imagine a bank allow for deposit but only allow for redraw of $100 per day. With that kind of policy, no business would trust a country enough to do new or continue investments.

* The old reformer (DengXiaoPeng)'s believe: It doesn't matter if it is a black cat or a white cat, if it can catch a mouse, it is a good cat.

* The new believe: Those black/write cats who turn into fat cats have served their purposes. It is harvest time.....

* Overall, it don't look good for China in near/long term.
Wait: that's NOT an EV. That's an hybrid car that can run on electricity only for a very limited distance and limited speed. You basically do not use your battery, only move it around.
Yes, you are right. Edited post
>Average wage growth and employment rates across a country are irrelevant for, well, almost anyone that's not specifically studying them.

True, it doesn't directly address any single person's wallet but it paints a picture that actually includes every single person with an income. I don't know, maybe there's a better metric, but specifically the point I'm trying to make is this:

>By contrast, the stock market is at least interesting to anyone who has any savings (because market return is your baseline expectation for an investment).

This is exactly the "elite projection" the article is talking about. For most people, "savings" refers to a checking account or savings account that can be withdrawn from on a rainy day. These will always have a negligible return rate. I believe that around 13 percent of families own stocks directly, less than that for other major types of non-retirement investments, and 53 percent a retirement account ( see https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf17.pdf table 3 on page 18 ).

I mean, the stock market IS interesting in it's own right, and I can see why the news reports on a big correction and what not. But it's interesting in the same way that currency conversion rates can be interesting - because it holds some kind of macroeconomic significance. Not because a large percentage of Americans regularly move a large amount of cash between countries.
I mean are they more reasonably priced? A quick comparison against similar Ray Ban glasses in my market (Canada) shows the Ray Bans are the better deal by $5.

https://www.clearly.ca/sunglasses/ray-ban/ray-ban-rb3025-58?...

https://ca.warbyparker.com/sunglasses/men/raider/gold
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> It’s almost impossible to get developers to move to newer APIs as long as you allow them to use old APIs.

Even if the old APIs requires the user to manually right click the executable, go into properties, and enable compatibility mode? It's not hard for the user to do, but I wouldn't want it to be my users's first experience with something I made.
Solidworks is way more expensive than OnShape or Fusion360. It's in a different league. It also has a number of its own problems (random crashes, windows required, annoying license management, horrible UI).

I would not pick Solidworks anymore, unless I really required features that are only there. It used to be that you had to use Solidworks to keep your sanity while designing for injection molding, but these days it is no longer the case, unless your design is very complex.
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Minecraft (in particular their Creative mode) seems to be the closest software to a paint program, as far as artistic expression is concerned. I haven't seen any other software where so many people have created their own worlds and objects in 3D, painstakingly, brick by brick, that can be explored and interacted with in first person.

I even built a small city in the game myself several years ago, and would spend some nights just watching tv while strip mining in the game, in order to gather the raw materials to build with. No other game before or since has compelled me to do that.

There's probably a market for a dedicated paint program where you are essentially placing different shapes and colored/textured 3d blocks on an invisible grid, with the focus on providing features for that, not making a game around it.
App user-friendliness checklist
> See any post that links to a website that doesn't adhere to whatever the latest web design fad is

Legibility is not a fad, and it certainly isn't limited to web design. Legibility has been studied for decades, font foundries have worked to perfect the balance between style and legibility, and the principles are well-understood.

This goes back to your crack at Material design, something wholly irrelevant to what is being talked about by me and GP. Design frameworks are not the arbiters of the legibility of text.

That you think legibility is an optional extra for text is simply bizarre. Sure, it mightn't be the author's number one priority, but that doesn't put it out of criticism's way. Legibility is not simply a passing trend.
And I logged in a few mins ago just to post this, but I am happy to see the community is like-minded!!
> few percent

They missed by less than a percent. The miss isn't even statistically relevant.
A grammar for motherboard operational equations sounds fun to me at least.
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IMO: I don't like unions in politics. Organized labor has done a lot of good, but they need to stay out of politics.
Some Leaf generations are more sensitive than others (chemistry was slightly different). Sustained heat will still degrade them more quickly than expected though.
Tesla has active temperature management, but also has a different chemistry which should be more sensitive than the one used in the Leaf.
Am I missing something? It’s a $75 difference from what I’m seeing.
While we can argue whether the $50B market cap is too much, i was only commenting on a hard rule around valuation and earnings for a company in growth mode. I mean, I haven't looked at the P/E ratios but I bet Amazon's will look out of whack compared to Walmart's
You dislike the very idea of voice interfaces or the current state of voice interfaces?
There is a charity that my family supports that works with developmentally disabled people. One of the interesting things I learned when I attended one of their fundraisers was that part of their mission was finding jobs that developmentally disabled people would excel at due to their disability.

For instance: the guy who takes the ticket at the theaters in my city (Phoenix) is often a DD person. I thought this was odd, until I made the connection that this is literally a partnership between that company an the charity I'm talking about.

Most punk kids will get bored at this job, be snarky, not want to do it, etc. But some people with certtain DDs actually really enjoy it. They get to talk to people, they feel useful instead of feeling like a burden, they get a paycheck, etc. And for the company (harkins theaters) they get a happy, competent employee that enjoys their job.

It's a win win. And it's a perfect example of embracing the concept of "differently abled" instead of disabled. Made me really happy to learn that.
For those wondering which novel: John Scalzi's Lock In. I enjoyed it, though I generally find his work hit-and-miss. It' s a detective story set in the near future where a significant percentage of the population is paralyzed due to a pandemic. The paralyzed operate in society by using android avatars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_In
That does make sense. The whole world of Docker and so forth is still pretty mysterious to me. I mean, I get how it works in principle, but I'd have to seriously update my skills to teach an advanced course. Though, if I get what you're saying, it's that fewer training wheels—IDEs, etc.—are better in the beginning. Which is good (hopefully?), since I typically force them to use a text editor for everything.
"willingly" implies "willfully" and even "wittingly" and near-zero of the people Facebook tracks actually understand the depth of tracking or even a hint of it.

Facebook is abusively invasive, and no amount of appeals to user choice changes that. Victim-blaming is a real thing and a real problem.
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Performance tuning tips to run Spark SQL on Alluxio