skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because an automatic transmission is just a waste with the power "curve" of an electric motor. An automatic transmission basically replaces the function of a clutch by letting you put power to the wheels at super low rpm while keeping the engine spinning a decent rpm. An electric motor does not need this, it is just wasted energy in that application.

Some sort of direct gearbox with multiple speeds would probably be useful in a work vehicle application. However, one from an automotive application would be totally overkill because an electric motor's power band is too wide to need more than two or maybe three widely spaced gears. A purpose built high/low gearbox (like on a drill) would be better. Sure, you can always spec a bigger motor but that has trade-offs.

Most early EV conversions had fairly low horsepower motors and retained the manual transmission and used it to avoid overheating the motor when leaving a stop wide open (which you did most of the time when you only had ~50hp). Obviously that's a non-issue with the higher power motors that are commonly used today.
At the very least, it shouldn’t be allowed to put the links to regulatory information (like the terms of service or privacy policy) in a footer below an infinite scroller.
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Apple's CEO says that Apple Pay is growing faster than PayPal
Greece has a similar program if I'm not mistaken.
Mumble has been around for ages and is open source.

https://www.mumble.info

https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble
I can't say about you, but your claim about what end users want is quite strong. End users want all the features (including performance) for free and then pick the currently available option that looks best suited for them.

I didn't say that there are no other frameworks. The ones you provided all break the "transferable skill" requirement (React native a bit less so but still).

If you prefer to install ripchord instead of discord and slack nothing prevents you for doing so. Let me write a few comments about it:

- it made sense building it for the author because those two services already existed and already had enough users. Also the author has the skills needed to build it.

- it won't be free

- it is not feature complete compared to the reproduced services

So it might attract users depending of the perceived gain from a faster software vs its price and the missing features. It also has to win over all the people that have already installed the slack & discord clients. If it gains significant market share there are 2 risks: intentional api breaking changes by slack & discord, and them redoing/optimizing their client to win back the lost users. Most probably: they don't care about the client part. They are selling a service and this new client might make some of their users happier.

So we see that even though ripchord exists, it does not mean that electron hasn't helped in making two new services available. The ripchord author might be able to reproduce a client with a better tech, but that doesn't mean he has the skills to create a whole new offer (market research, sales, backend administration, etc).

edit: format
If it was me, I'd be worrying about fire, from batteries and wiring.
Could someone transcribe the article here? The website wants me to subscribe.
I hadn't heard about this, so I found https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/01/steel-crisi... / https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tata-steel-uk...

Why?

Well, it seems to come back to China.

> Tata Steel’s head of public affairs, warned the Welsh affairs committee in February that the chancellor, George Osborne, was pushing for China to get market economy status at the World Trade Organization, which would protect Beijing from the highest EU trade barriers, and that this could exacerbate the continent’s steel crisis.

This seems to be part of a general plan of China-wooing, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/21/george-osbo... and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-34356097 , culminating in property fraud https://www.egi.co.uk/news/fraud-team-investigates-propertie...

(Mind you, the UK's steel industry is largely a historical contingency built on local deposits of ironstone and coal which are no longer economical to mine)
About the last part,regarding the buying experience:

The way Amazon likes to solve problems is by creating platforms.

So they created FBA, and now others discover products for them.

They also created their affiliate program, and that's a good way(combined with other business Intel methods) to discover online buying experiences with potential, and than scale them.

And when they do see something non-standard with potential, they invest.

For example: printed t-shirts. They copied that idea.

And how do they win here?

A combination of a lot of traffic, the best logistics, and maybe cheaper manufacturing costs(due to scale), combined with Amazon's execution.

And that could be a general method for creating new experiences.
Then ban social media, not a UI feature. Clearly this law is beyond stupid. What next, banning sunglasses because people might have shifty eyes?
That is a social media problem not infinite scrolling problem.
build a CRUD builder.
That’s true, but how much of that extra money you get to keep in the long run is determined by the health lottery. If you end up having cancer for 5 years, you can kiss it all goodbye.

But yes, one thing that's tough for Europeans who haven't lived in the US to comprehend is that Americans really do prefer being able to buy a bigger TV to having proper security when it comes to health care.
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It's the particular jab against systemd I'm calling childish. It's no skin off his back to include a community-provided systemd .service file, for example; and he's precluding that entirely, presumably for some petty disdain.
That's not because of infinite scrolling and autoplay.
You could have a separate provision about deceptive practices or something.
Is this the first bill to reduce something addictive "on the internet"?
How much paid vacation do you get? Sick days? How much maternity leave does your wife get? What sort of employment protection do you have?

The difference isn't as clear cut as it seems on the surface.
Facebook Like button [operator] a controller jointly with Facebook (GDPR ruling) [pdf]
>It can't always just be about being nice, unfortunately. Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children could get us all killed. It's a serious threat.

It's not your job to enforce your views on people. Let the government handle it, no one elected you. At least in the US, the government has proven the best institution to protect the public while also giving due consideration to people's rights.
> I hate it when I am reading a news article and a video autoplays.

Not only that, but the video follows you around while you scroll and most of the time you can't get it off your screen.
I don't have an opinion on how this should be done on a "typical mouse", I haven't used a "typical mouse" for about 15 years.

Unless you have some supporting evidence that clicking and dragging is more intuitive I would suggest that it's not and that you're just used to doing it because you use a mouse and not a trackpad.

Two finger scrolling is used everywhere else on laptops. It handles horizontal scrolling perfectly.

It shouldn't be hijacked by Google for zoom without even the option to restore the default behaviour.

If Google were "good" at UI they would offer the option of pinch zoom on laptops and just leave scrolling alone.
tcp-over-tcp is bad but tcp-over-dns is ok?
man ... get out more
Agreed, if that's the whole story. I was thinking that permission from the manufacturer would be an alternative to doing tests which were infeasible at their scale.
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But that's not an EU-only thing. In essence, immigration process boils down to this question:

- can you support yourself (i.e. have job contract or enough savings)?

Prove that you can and the rest is somewhat easy, providing you follow procedures, official documentation requirements, etc.

It's still by no means an easy task. Moving to another country is hard, one of the hardest things a person can do in their life.
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Apple has had a 13 billion Euro tax bill out of it. Google is adding browser and search selection in Android in a pro-active move. I would say this is certainly a show of teeth.
Why is it childish to not want to put time and effort into supporting things you dislike for the stuff you work on and give out to others for free?
Thanks.. I didn't think of this problem.
Mods - sorry for editorialising the title, I know it’s against HN rules, but the full ruling title is too long to fit into the heading field. “The operator of a website that features a Facebook ‘Like’ button can be a controller jointly with Facebook in respect of the collection and transmission to Facebook of the personal data of visitors to its website“

Related analysis: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/29/eu_gdpr_facebook_li...
How exactly would you accomplish this? It’s not as though you chose the content that plays you simply choose a station on broadcast TV.
Or you could encapsulate OpenVPN inside stunnel to make it indiscernible from regular HTTPS traffic

https://www.perfect-privacy.com/en/manuals/linux_openvpn_ste...
Because 10% of the population have nothing to do in a day and voluntarily plant trees? Hmmm...

I might be underestimating Ethiopians though...
What Does Your Work Truck Say About You?
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>End the war on drugs and alot of the police work will vanish.

Perhaps more importantly, the jails and prisons will empty.
Talk about a nanny state, what’s next, mandatory go outside and play?
> What's gained by people understanding what's happening behind the scenes?

A critical mass of people able to make informed technical decisions — which is what both business & democratic self-government require.

> We don't expect people to understand the details of how their car engine works, or how digital radio signals are encoded and decoded, why should we make it necessary that they do so for the internet?

We don't expect them to know the deep details of those technologies, but we do expect them to know that flammable gasoline powers an engine; we do expect them to know that radio signals can be received by anyone with a receiver (and a key, if encrypted).
The hiding www thing along with AMP in general made me finally leave Chrome after over a decade using it. I don't use Firefox, though.
I wonder if there is a name for this effect.
EasyBCD can give you that, but you must run it to update the boot code each time you add an ISO (ie no dynamic detection).
Why is Kriegspiel difficult to do on web?

As I was reading the description, I immediately felt that a online version of it would be much simpler and quicker to play than real world version. No need for umpire and multiple boards (handled by game server), all the announcements could be automatic and visual, immediate feedback on blocked moves etc.
Tell that to a person in bed, scrolling through Facebook for hours on end. If the content stopped at some point they would do something else hopefully. Compared to TV the pacing is such that people get hooked like on slot machines.
> you get self-contained native executables

Have you ever heard of static linking? Assuming you're using a GUI framework that has a sane license which allows that, it is rather easy to get "self-contained" native executables in most languages.

Lazarus is nice though: Delphi has always been an awesome RAD IDE and Lazarus brings cross-platform support to it.
There are necessary components in devices.

I doubt you'd argue "fewer compoments is good" when someone omits the seat belts from a car.

LED lights need some components to work properly. One is a AC/DC power supply that converts the AC power to properly smoothed DC. This is the largest and most complicated part of the device. The second is a current regulator that regulates the amount of current going through the LED. Third is a capacitor that smoothes out the flickering of the grid and power supply.

In some cases you can merge the DC power supply with the current regulator. If you have a current regulator, your capacitor can be a lot smaller since you already compensate for flickering below the bandwidth limit of that regulator.

The largest part is the DC converter, the cheaper bulbs and filament ones basically abuse the LEDs as a DC converter via their diode properties. You can still add a current regulator but it's harder to do and reducing flickering becomes very hard without introducing a lot of capacitance at the AC side.

Having a proper DC converter also avoids lighting the bulb on capacitance since you can define drop off voltages and burn some wattage in there that will eat any capacitive voltage.
I'm great Rohan.

I guess I have been spotted.
I'm not arguing on the rationality or otherwise, just saying that the dry economic arguments aren't necessarily the ones that have traction with voters. I don't think that's a controversial thing to say.

On those other issues I would say it's more subtle, in that leaving the EU at least opens the door to genuine controls on migration, for example, but the major parties are united in their refusal to offer the choice to the public.
So you let them sit for 8 hours, go home and watch football. What's next? They're happy forever and don't bother you? No, it's likely something from the list.
Why is the jab against systemd childish?

Also he links to systemd script files maintained by someone else, he just doesn't want to do that himself:

https://github.com/jedisct1/dsvpn#thats-it
But isn't the network executive executing the same intent as the machine, just at a lower quality level?
While, I do agree with you that it does seem a bit on the overregulation, I absolutely hate, with all the fiber of my being, infinite scrolling. Especially if I accidentally click something or don't middle click. Then I hit back just to start at the beginning of the fucking page. Normally just get angry and go "fuck it" to do something else. It's also just so janky too. I've never been on a site that does it and feel it's any better than pages. At that, I never felt when on a page site that infinite scrolling is needed. It's a solution with no real problem.

I hate it and will gladly dance on its grave for those reasons alone.
Health care is always "rationed". In the US it's rationed by ability to pay. This is far worse both ethically and practically than any means of rationing it via a cost/benefit calculation.

As far as I know, no presidential candidate is proposing to stop people from buying private medical insurance, so your worries seem entirely unfounded in fact. Even in the UK, you can get private medical insurance if you want to.
The Republican Party in the US is famously anti-regulation of large corporations, and "pro-business," yet this is coming from the Republican side. Is there any sort of rationale provided for this seemingly massive ideological shift? Regulation of industry is usually off the table when this party is in control, at least when it comes to pollution or other consumer harms by business.
If I lived in the London with the salaries they wanted to pay I'd be poor either way. It was enough to live in a tenement block. take public transport and eat cheap food. In the US I own a home, two cars, and support my entire family from just my salary. If I got cancer in the US I'd have be forced to live in a tenement block. take public transport and eat cheap food just like if I was "lucky" in the UK.
> I only expect autoplay when the page I am about to visit is in a video site like YouTube.

Here's the problem with it. There are exceptions, but it's extremely difficult to write the law in a way that can't be gamed if you allow exceptions.
Foolishly naive of them too.

Tying your identity to your country's can never end well, because every country has a nasty past and is full of despicable acts, which are very difficult to come to terms with. The UK, for instance, with its conduct when bombing Dresden, or when dealing with the famine in Bengal.

I am not sure how the EU is imposing upon the community of the UK, when it famously has some of the most stringent requirements for immigrants.
It's really hard for me to understand how this system makes sense.
I get it: if you make it easy for people they get lazy.
But on the other hand you are making it too hard for productive people too and many will leave or not even come.
What's the net result?

I grew up in Europe thinking USA was a great place to live.
Now I wouldn't live there unless some very clear guarantees were made.
It scares me. And I lived in countries many Americans would consider scary.
The UK's remaining manufacturing is high value-add, and much of it is also on a smaller scale than mass car production. The UK satellite industry does very well, for example. We need to appreciate what our real strengths and weaknesses are, and huge armies of semi-skilled workers assembling things are not going to be one of them.
So for you 17.4m voters are equivalent to flat earthers then? Deary me.
The scope of this bill is within social media networks, and is not blanket autoplay and infinite scroll - it seems to be aiming specifically at automated UI that the user has not indicated they want, and has no option to stop. It has a number of other provisions.
It requires the defaults to be "off".
It requires legal agreements' Yes/No buttons be standardized on the site and neutral (no split fonts, colors, sizes, etc).
Not sure what is the benefit of that video that follows you. If I wanted to watch the video, I was going stop scrolling and watch it. In most cases, those videos don't even allow you to pause them. They disable the pause button.
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> You rely on Chromium which is battle-tested and have frequent updates

Chromium has been battle-tested and was wounded severely. Embedding it in your application will not automatically add the regular security patches to it.
For many users, "Google" is already the Internet.
Who would've expected that already long-term established service has slower growth rate than relatively speaking newer one?
Awesome! Maybe some company like that could offer their driver for free to blender community, as a marketing strategy. I believe that even have some space to a sector giant (like autodesk) acquire this type of company.
Not everyone agrees with the privacy marketing of the Librem 5

> The Librem 5 is a phone that is falsely marketed as a secure and private device. This is not true.

> The Librem 5 does nothing for privacy. Installing a Linux distro is no more private than just using an ungooglified ROM. The mic kill switch is useless as they don't block access to the sensors so audio can still be gotten. The camera kill switch is also useless as you could just cover the camera with tape.

> They also weaken security. They use old hardware which doesn't have many hardware security features such as a hardware backed keystore.

> They aren't shipping firmware updates. Now your firmware will be outdated and insecure.

> Instead of using Android, they use PureOS which is a massive security decrease as you won't have kernel hardening, SELinux, seccomp filters, verified boot etc. like Android already has. PureOS doesn't even have a proper app sandbox.

> https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cje7vg/dont_use_pu...
Just did a weeks vacation in Norway, where I live, with my BMW i3 94Ah model. It has a tad over 200km range. The biggest issue was finding an available, working charger. Due to this, we didn't feel safe having less than 50km range when charging. Overall I estimate we spent about 40% of the total stopping time waiting for or finding an available charger.

The main leg was a 350km drive we've done several times before, and due to the charging it took us an extra hour or so compared to previous years with our previous ICE car. Interestingly my girlfriend said she actually felt it was shorter, because the trip was broken up by the longish charging stops. We also felt much less exhausted when we arrived.

I'm sure charging will get better with time though. Increasing range will help a lot, and more charging stations will be built.
You're getting downvoted for making a stupid comment with little to back it, not because you're a martyr who braved the downvotes in order to make sure the truth would out.
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> Can't we do better than this?

Maybe we can, maybe we can't. Regardless, no one has done it.

I'm still holding out on a ReactNative-like solution for all platforms, independent of language. Eg, some type of RPC bridge is opened between a process and a window, and it creates native widgets for each proper platform in the same way ReactNative does; except with no care for the originating language that the process is written in.

Maybe one day.
Yep. I've found the dissonance here particularly jarring - collective shrug when Apple hides the URL, but if Google does so we get huge outrage and assumptions that this must clearly be done primarily for malicious reasons.

I know it's fashionable to hate Google right now, but this reaction seems a little over the top.
i dont think mumble is a sip-client
Would be nice if at the end of the tutorial they let you play with it abit as opposed to just deleting it all and saying thanks for playing :/
https://fullfact.org/europe/is-uk-calling-for-lower-eu-dutie...
I upvoted you, there is nothing wrong in asking.
When a team is short on developer time and code readability is paramount, premature optimization can be a hindrance. But like most things in life, the truth is in the middle: teams should strike a balance between competing priorities rather than throwing around the premature optimization argument.
It depends on the use case and how it is being implemented. I wouldn’t ban a tech because it was not used appropriately once in the past.
> genuine controls on migration

Can you be extremely clear on what you mean by this, and what you expect to achieve by restricting migration of EU nationals to the UK and UK nationals to the EU? And also acknowledge that the UK's controls on non-EU migration are extremely onerous and not a matter of EU policy?
From a profitability standpoint, I am just not seeing how Amazon retail has any chance at the long term success that the market does. Even as they have taken over different verticals, they still had to keep prices down and margins slim. They have no pricing power and have huge fixed cost.

Of course, AWS is a different story.
Well, ban cigarettes instead of the mechanism for gaining and retaining customers (ads). But the gov banned the widespread advertising of cigarettes instead of banning the product. The usa now has around a 14% smoking population, compared to like a 50% back in the 50s.
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It stills has an impact on investment. Having no visibility around the future relationship between the UK and all the countries around the UK is not that great for planning...
Wouldn't the advantage of being able to cruise at low RPMs massively increase range with the same size battery?

And wouldn't not replacing the transmission result in lower costs for the retrofit? If the upfront cost of a retrofit is the major hurdle preventing adoption, then reducing complexity of the retrofit would seem more important than reducing overall complexity of the drivetrain... particularly since you'll still be better-than-parity complexity following an electric retrofit.

I understand the non-trivial power-loss of connecting a motor to a transmission, but to me this seems like an acceptable trade... particularly as someone who enjoys rowing through my gears.
I wonder how it fares compared to VPN over ssh, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH_VPN
I'm from a western European nation (often referred to as "socialist") with none of that licensing BS and as far as I know we don't have perpetual lice outbreaks.