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> The extended range is nice and all, but if somebody makes a car that can run the AC without running/draining the battery while it's parked, even if it's just a little to keep the car interior at 35°C or so, I would, without exaggeration, buy it the day it's released here.

Tesla's dog mode does this. Draining the battery isn't really something to worry about; AC uses <300 watts over long periods (turns on and off at <1 kW). Leaving it on for 8+ hours you're talking about <5% capacity loss, at a cost of <50 cents. For short trips you could leave the AC on full blast without even noticing a drop.
Doesn't answer your question but I just saw that you can get ordinary 100W panels for 65€ on eBay now (in pack of 2)!
Just let candidates that want to build/operate these things pay the costs for a cleanup upfront.
Last year I implemented zip reading and zip writing in a hobby project of mine. I'm not an expert, but I know enough to write a working zip reader/writer.

> Zip format can be de/compressed progressively, which is one reason why it’s nice for HTTP transport encoding.

Do you mean HTTP transfer encoding? If so then it's not the zip archive format that's used, but rather the deflate compression algorithm (which zip also uses.)

> The file format is decompressed one record at a time

But not necessarily in the order they appear.

> many or most libraries can give you this as a stream, so it never has to hit disk or be “sent to dev/null”.

My point is that the compressed bytes have to be decompressed and checksummed in both extraction and checking, but after that the bytes may either be written or discarded.

> If you take responsibility for streaming the records to disk (trivial), then you can check the canonical path before writing, and any other filesystem sanity tests you want to do.

That's true but there's nothing wrong with the paths in this case.
If you take a fresh orange, squeeze it and drink/eat ALL of the result, then that's fairly healthy. You're balancing out the fructose with lots of fiber which are supposed to help slow the absorption of that sugar. Also by consuming it right away, the other nutrients don't have time to oxidate.

Orange juice as sold in stores has a lot less pulp (even the "high pulp" has less than what you'd get from an orange. It is also pasteurized, and the taste is harmonized by adding various types of extracts of oranges—though since those extracts came from oranges, they are allowed to call the result 100% orange juice, which I find rather misleading.
It is the term used for illegal off the book cabs, and Gypsy is actually used by some Romany organisations.

Shortening the name to(I wont repeat it) is a slur and possibly a slur depandant on how its used similar to the shortening of Pakistani is a slur but the full name isn't.
Some random Factorio-themed things of my own:

https://imgur.com/c51pTnP - here I tried to invent a way to solve the accessibility issues of moving walkways; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17703131 for context.

https://mastodon.technology/@temporal/100646861775747986 - Factorio-inspired tootstorm about what I'd like to see in an IDE/debugger.
Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network
The form of carbon is also important - if methane is produced during decomposition it is much worse as a greenhouse gas than CO2
I can see why this article with a very basic premise is so popular.

* It's short, so the average reader here has enough attention span for it.

* It's obvious, so that leaves plenty of room for patting oneself on the back.

* It's simple, so one can reference their own writings about a similar topic or related to it in some way.

* It's about a topic that lets the commenter here show off their own website and bloviate about themselves.

This is nothing against the author, but against Hacker News and how so much interesting material fails to ever reach the front page.
Maybe someone should do that, then. I'd be onboard with it. Then I could reference it by a better name and feel more OK with recommending it.

The problem is, how many large Linux distros will accept a new package into their package managers that is essentially the exact same thing as an existing package, just with a different name and logo assets? For this to be truly successful, it has to be as easy as `apt-get install gpaint` (insert better name here).
If you're located in the Bay Area I'm up for it. Or even working together remotely. I'm somewhat junior (3 years of experience) but mentorship is something I've been looking for in my career.
Long Island City’s real estate is booming without Amazon’s HQ2
can't speak for everyone, but as a software engineer, it's about getting as close to my ideal editing workflow as possible. with vim i get to stay in my terminal, and my fingers rarely leave home row. it's just quicker to do things and hard to go back once muscle memory sets in.

and since i write code for a living, the time spent hacking vim to work just how i want it to is definitely worth it. with a "modern editor" i'd probably spend a similar amount of time configuring it to be vim-like, so might as well use the real thing :) i use neovim tho lol
I've never seen triple junction GaAs raw cells sell for less than $6/watt stc rating.

For comparison I can buy pallet loads of 72 cell, 370W panels built from high efficiency mono Si cells for under $0.55/watt stc.
That's bizarre. Do they dose themselves with CO2 to manage their body's alkaline pH then?
My point was more about a big part of Wikipedia being ideologically biased. This Feminist Economics page was just an example.

A lot of articles in Wikipedia are inside the battle ground for politics. I like to talk about it and point it out. But would rather stay a safe distance away.
Hybrids are the future for most of the market worldwide. It will take decades to build out the charging infrastructure necessary to support battery electric vehicles. Some industrialized countries will move faster.
Push architectures put all of the control on the producer, but become quite painful in the face of an unreliable consumer. Pull architectures put all of the control on the consumer, but become quite painful in the face of an unreliable producer.

Message queues allow the producer to think it's participating in a push architecture, while the consumer believes it's a pull-based arch. Because the message queue itself does very little work, it gets to play a very well-behaved consumer insofar as the producer is concerned, while behaving like a well-behaved producer for the consumer. The queue's buffering then allows both the producer and the consumer to misbehave to some degree while the queue itself keeps the illusion of good behaviour.

Kafka specifically falls under the category of log-oriented message queues, which are eminently useful for distributing any workload that looks like "tail a log and process each line as it comes in" across a large number of nodes.
I've just received my Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB.

For someone who grew up in the 80s and played with computers at the time, this is science fiction that you can actually touch and hold in your hand. (and the manufacturing quality is flawless...)
Walmart.com is also using React, and Walmart labs developed significant tooling for server-side render and partial render caching for specific components. They've published a lot of articles on their technology choices and how well they do.

Amazon's above the fold render does appear a little faster, but their total payload and load time is much larger/slower.
This may be one component, but certainly not sufficient
Funny, brilliant and super frustrating at the same time.
Nicely done!
Not really, this guy is kinda missing the point of FreeBSD - which is stability not security. Many of these problems are overstated or non-issues for desktop systems. If you do have a need for any of the changes this guy is talking about, then you can make the change. If you just want max security, OpenBSD is a thing. But this list of complaints probably isn't much worse than many linux distros.
Well, the delays in adding ASLR and W^X (have the added W^X yet?) aren't something you can work around by hardening.
It's scary how easily GPT-2 slips into writing absurdist humor.

I used to be able to tell pretty easily when people were making up "an AI wrote this" stories and jokes because they were absurd but made too much sense. A context was held for too long. But this is starting to push it into the realm of possibility.
Everett never called it "multiple worlds", he called it "relative state", which is IMHO much less misleading

Also note that Everett's dissertation was titled The Theory of the Universal Wave Function, which puts a different emphasis on the thing as well.

He did believe in quantum immortality, though, and assumed the alternate 'worlds' were real. That's the standard interpretation of MWI: While there's just a single wave function, it factors into 'branches' entangling measurement results and states of consciousness, with all the different versions of yourself coexisting in a realist sense. However, as these branches tend to no longer interact, that's an unfalsifiable claim.
I understand your point and certainly sympathize with it. A counterpoint, I suppose, is that the old internet may have still informed you about the plight of marginalized people in a foreign country. And if you were a good person, you might care, and learn more, and see if there was anything you could do which might help.

The new internet does this as well, but along with it is the modern scarlet letter: the plague of judgement, outrage, and moral hysteria. It's a technological "Scarlet Letter" or "Rape of the Lock." Importantly, it's not just that I personally might want to escape these things, it's that society as a whole is being transformed by them. Is it good that people can apparently easily be manipulated in Burma by Facebook groups? For sure, there is some good with the bad. I'm not suggesting that the modern internet doesn't do any good for people. But, it brings with it all the problems of society.
Wikipedia says 3kW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_air_conditioning#Po...

It also says that the most efficient photovoltaics yield 175W per square meter. (Though I've seen figures as high as 200W.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel#Efficiencies
And building massive, complex nuclear reactors somehow doesn't incur tons of fossil fuel usage? How much carbon is associated with the years' worth of human activity and material supply chain to build a reactor? How about the ongoing maintenance and the carbon footprint of all of the specialized staff to maintain the safety of the reactor? How many scarce nuclear trained specialists must be flown around in fossil fueled planes to inspect reactors? How long does it take to break even, carbon debt wise? How does the carbon usage of the real world dependencies of nuclear measure up to the building and maintenance of solar panels and wind turbines? If you're going to make a minor note about renewables, it's only fair to make the same about nuclear.
While the worm in question, C.Elegens, is vastly simpler than the human brain, the numbers don't paint the complete picture. When you look at the product of evolution in such a system, every single neuron has a very precise role. Moreover, the balance/interaction between those 302 neurons are also very difficult to disentangle. There are also some pretty big biological differences, for instance, C.elegens neurons don't typically transmit information through spikes! Instead they show gradual polarization and depolarization. Now you look at the human brain, and the immense complexity means that there's no way that every neuron can have a precise genetically encoded role - there simply wouldn't be enough information. Instead, we assume that there have to be more generalizable patterns of how neurons are organized and communicate. For example, we know that the way the visual cortex organizes information between the two eyes is dependent on correlated input from the eyes themselves ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance_column) and that without sensory information provided by the eyes this organization will never develop.

All this to say that there are important differences between being able to fully model a small, tightly optimized bundle of specialized neurons (and non-neuronal cells, we've only recently begun understanding how important glial cells are to brain function), and searching for general abstractions of information processing in the human brain.
Poland moves to exempt young workers from income tax
How hard would it be to write laws that punish companies in ways that will shape their behavior, like we do with people? All you have to do is take away their ability to business in your jurisdiction. That's corporate jail.
The accuracy is terrible, try searching for "Bitzighoferstr 6 6060 Switzerland" and you get "Embassy of Switzerland in Moscow". https://www.qwant.com/maps/place/osm:node:698892171@Embassy_...

It should return: https://geocode.xyz/Bitzighoferstr%206+6060+Switzerland "6 Bitzighoferstrasse, Sarnen, Switzerland 6060 / 46.90353,8.2472 "

Even adding the latitude,longitude manually for reverse geocoding returns some strange results: https://www.qwant.com/maps/place/osm:node:1024510041@353_km#...
To be honest, the complicated parts are not where the mistakes are made. Routing 40Gb/s is hard. Placing one or two resistors is not.

But agreed that marking could be better—maybe marking lower cables as "charge" cable somehow. At least Thunderbolt cables are distinctly marked, and will become merged in USB4.
>and perhaps other factors such as language used) and extrapolate from there.

I'm curious about this statement. Which languages do you think indicate greater security, which ones tend to indicate the opposite?
I probably do literal coding only about half my work hours. Even if I'm at a place where there's not many meetings or other bureaucratic time, there are other things like general planning, organization, documentation, working on architectural strategy, investigating potential new tools, etc.

What I have learned to do is to keep a list of these kinds of things, that have to be done "soon" but not immediately. When I get to the part of the day where my coding brain is getting weak, I switch over to that list. Sometimes for the rest of the day, but often just for half an hour or so until I am refreshed. Mostly, if you self-monitor, and have a ready list so you don't find your brain blanks out when it's time to think of a non-coding task that needs doing, you can balance coding and non-coding as needed throughout the day.
Yes, a company that will have a $23B profit in FY2019 will be out of business in 10 years.

I'm sure if they really want to get serious about EV's they can find a scrappy little startup to acquire. I hear there's at least one that could use their production expertise that is struggling each quarter to turn a profit.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14263842
We used to fight for the shady parking spots.

Imagine the future when you fight for the sunny ones.
On face value that sounds absurd, though in reality seed distribution may be automated and scaled in a feasible manner. Certainly the number of corn plans planted in the US alone must be an astonishing number if calculated per capita.
I think third party sellers is a huge mistake... I will usually tick store only sales, but Amazon co-mingles inventory making the problem worse.
Ah...I see. I am not much of a gambler either, so this is a very useful piece to know why Roulette gambling, in the long run, turns negative for the gambler. Thank you.
I will literally believe somebody has successfully commercialized triple junction GaAs cells, when I can pull out my Visa card and order a pallet of 20 assembled modules from a distributor. As I can do now for 54, 60 and 72 cell panels built from high quality 156mm monocrystalline Si cells.

Until then I think triple junction GaAs is going to see the most use in experimental UAVs funded by research money, and satellites.
This probably isn't the most reliable source, but the infotainment screen on my VW estimates the hourly gas consumption for the climate system.

Running on Max A/C, the screen reads just under 1/8 gal/hr. With the A/C on and with the fans at 50%, consumption is a little less but still around 1/8 gal/hr. Consumption drops too low to get a reading when A/C is off with fans 50%.
> I would ... buy it the day it’s released

Sounds like this “dog mode” does exactly what you’re wanting. I see a new Tesla in your future :)
Pretty off topic, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't use "____ crack" as a way to describe something that is addictive.
Corporations can, however, have sanctions imposed on them, like Huawei or ZTE. Perhaps we ought to explore placing companies that routinely lie to consumers on the BIS Entity List, and bar other American companies from doing business with them until they change their ways.
Window units range from 700 W to 2+ kW. The Model 3 has a pretty powerful one, at least 1 kW. That's peak draw, and it'll turn on and off intermittently[1]. Average draw should work out to 200-300 watts for medium.

[1]: Like a fridge. Refrigeration systems are most efficient at full power. IIRC it's due to the restrictor plate separating the hot and cold radiators- it's designed to work at a certain rate of flow, so you'll get gas and liquid mixing at lower power.
An acolyte of the conspiracy...

Seriously though, for anyone interested in understanding this interesting statistical principle, check out the "Intuitive Explanation of Bayes Theorem" [1]

[1]: https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-and-short-...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703655/#!po=1....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4869589/#!po=0....

I could go on...

The original commenter is encountering a lot of negative reaction because of his reliance on new age language to make his points in this community that hews strenuously to a concept of scientific methodology, but nonetheless he is correct that fever is mostly a protective adaptation that decreases infection mortality rates. Obviously there are temps above which fever can be damaging, so a complete abdication of intervention is not the way, but allowing fever for the most part to do its thing is helpful according to decades of mainstream medical research since the 80s.
We've hopped perhaps, but not jumped the shark. You did invoke morality and the human condition as the basis of your statements about the Internet. So a rebuttal on that front is fair game.

We mustn't disregard that other people are applying the dangerous-tribe mentality to their reasoning about the Internet. There are extant fears of hackers and terrorists organizing and funding their operations online, right alongside the bake sales and peaceful marches. Some of those fears may be justified, and the actors may represent a danger to our way of life. But even if they were all boogeymen, the fear is real, and people act dangerously and irrationally when they are afraid. The existence of an open forum where even boogeymen can converse, itself, leads to a general unease and reactionist policy making.

Balance is needed in these discussions, but we can't achieve that without acknowledging that there may be a few Vandals in our midst who've already made it past the gates. If we pretend otherwise, we will be constantly talking past each other.
HardenedBSD fixes several of these issues.
That analogy shouldn't work but does.
A young mother dies after refusing chemotherapy
That's for a belt-driven A/C, tied directly to the engine RPM. They're inherently much less efficient because they have to work over a wide range of speeds. A motor-driven A/C will be 1-2 kW.

That's also the peak power, and a motorized A/C will instead be turned on and off leading to a much lower power draw that also depends less on the peak power. Typically a 50-30% duty cycle, so 200-300 watts very roughly. More depending on the insulation, sun, and outside temperature.
>The ability to directly and freely communicate with leaders (and for them to communicate with one another) is incredibly revolutionary.

I agree with you, but why do you believe the discourse is so bad?
I'm not sure how true that would be in extremely hot weather, but it is probably the only reason I'm considering a Tesla if it ever comes to my city, my commute is really short so even if it cut 200 miles off the range it'd be worth it for me.

Having a car with remote start alleviates the problem a little bit, but I'd rather not run an ICE engine while I'm not in the car for obvious reasons.
>From day one, [human] life has been about sticking together to accomplish more than the sum of our parts.

Please explain warring tribes and city states.
Doesn't sound too bad to me. I mean, moral implications aside this is a fairly successful technical achievement.
Had you used a monochrome filter on software while adding accessibility you probably wouldn't suggest using shade as method of differentiation (it's simple to try, i recommend it). We already use luminescence mainly for discerning shape, when you throw "shades" into the mix it's usually too subtle for the purpose of differentiation.

Additionally in the physical world how are you going to determine the shade of something relative to something that is not present? i.e if you only have one cable in front of you. We don't have absolute perception, it tends to be affected by context, additionally the lighting now seriously affects your judgement... The reason this is so different to colour is because luminescence is a single receptor type (rods), with which you are trying to compare intensity of an area of one type of signal filled with other detailed information; whereas with colour you have three signal types (cones), in combination and at a lower detail than rods, so it's effectively separate information with at least 2^3 completely distinct permutations to differentiate in almost any lighting or context. This also explains why the absence of only a single cone receptor type has a significant impact on perception since it drops to 2^2 halfing the completely distinct permutations, of which two are merely black and white, so you actually drop from 6 to 2 non-monochromatic permutations - so you see it is far more challenging using either shade or partial cone types.
We don't have these other words in our language so I don't know
So I've come around to the belief that we're on the verge of another massive civilization-level change that will be transformative. Think flight, electricity, motorized transport, plastic, writing, agriculture, domestication, firearms, etc (and no I'm not just listing techs from Civ).

That change will be when we have cheaper mass power generation than fossil fuels.

The reason this will be transformative is that a lot of problems basically go away when this happens.

Take burning hydrocarbons for energy. We can make hydrocarbons from the atmosphere. It's simple chemistry. It just makes no sense to spend hydrocarbons to make hydrocarbons from air. That's a net loss of power. If wind or solar (both of which have problems with inconsistent power generation, which is an issue of using them for the power grid). Batteries are of course one solution to this. Another is making fuel from air and using it when it's calm or at night or cloudy (respectively) to smooth out power output.

Bringing this back to sand, we can make sand. It's really just ground up stone and we have plenty of stone. Current sand is made from millions of years of erosion by water. But we can make more sand. It's just cost-prohibitive to do so now because energy is too expensive.

On a side note, I honestly don't think humanity can pull back on carbon emissions. Trying to change behaviour is largely going to be fruitless. What will change behaviour is other power sources being cheaper so that's what we need to strive towards.
Wouldn't darkening just absorb more heat? How about turning white, or a reflective coating? (Maybe not something liquid crystals could do, but a car with mirror shades would look cool.)