skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Volt may not be simpler (Not saying it isn’t, but many of the parts you listed are in regular ICE cars, just in different proportions) — but that’s not inherently because it’s a hybrid.

Look at Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive. It is rather beautiful in its simplicity, and bypasses the need for a traditional automatic transmission — a part so complicated the big auto makers have mostly given up on designing in-house. Toyota’s HSD scales from the tiny Prius to Hylander, something a CVT can’t do reliably.

Hondas’s hybrids are also mechanically simpler by bypassing a transmission as well, and the ICE motor driving the wheels directly at highway speeds.

Failing transmissions are often the cause of a totaled older car, because it is an extremely complex and expensive part to replace.
"So I hate it when people like you are incredibly lazy, only doing cursory looks at things, and then pretend that those of us who have done hundreds of hours of research are the lazy ones."

Then maybe look into how to present yourself as something other than a wide-eyed lunatic.

To me, if not mindlessly taking the word of an online hype squad sets them off, that's a big, red flag.
Kudos to the GR team. Now I have some stuff to move to 3.8.
For the most part it is fine, apart from the "auto auto" breakpoint.

edit: Demo is changed slightly on smaller screens to better demonstrate the blur.
That is true however how do we think it works if you loose your credit card ? You would call and cancel. This would be the case most of the time as none is going to trust website to cancel the card. You would need a human intersection here.

IMO you are less likely to loose your phone then credit card. We think of actual physical credit card only when we need to pay with it. 99% of the time it is just sitting in the wallet being all useless. Phone is something we are using every 5 min or more so chances are less that one would loose phone like that. Now if you do loose it, and hopefully it is locked then no one can use your card. However one can just cancel the card by calling it from borrowed phone or something like that.
It is notable, not only China does that. Almost any single country, just within different scales. If you take Japan, Europe, they build infrastructure too, and a lot of it.
Anxiousness, alertness to danger, and the imperative not to show it, is an essence of the male human condition surely?
> I'll tell you what does make me uncomfortable: people jumping to conclusions and accusing us of ugly motivations based on their own made-up interpretation of almost zero information.

1) You're a moderator - literally a person with more power than everyone else. People tend to get upset around the decisions of people more powerful than them, and jump to conclusions. It has happened in every single organization I have ever seen, including freaking yoga studios. It's on page 1 of your job description. So while I have sympathy for you, I don't have pity.

2) Sharing more detail about your changes can make a huge difference to the people that are affected by them. It may not always make people happy, but often a lack of understanding creates frustration. I appreciate the information you added after the fact, and suggest to add these details with your initial changes.

3) I don't know why you made the original change. Perhaps you didn't realize where the story came from, and just wanted to avoid any conflict at all, and so erased whatever seemed like it might generate controversy. But in doing so, you generated controversy. Like I mentioned multiple times in my comments, it appeared that the change was racially motivated ("Unless I missed something ...", "If true, ..."), even if unintentional, as a side-effect of trying to avoid a difficult discussion. And I may have been wrong, and made an unfair accusation. For that I apologize. But it turns out that the motivation didn't matter at all, because the effect was the same regardless of intent.

4) Sometimes we need to have difficult discussions. Yes, even on the fantasy land called HN, where the real world doesn't happen, and all that exists are interesting stories about technology. In this case, the really interesting discussion is not about beehives, it's about the way people interpret what they read, and how they act based on that. As one example, people may see a word that signals in them an unacceptable idea or scenario and jump to conclusions. For another, it's possible for someone to completely unintentionally have a negative effect on a minority community without even realizing it; which is a really important thing to realize, face, and learn from, but that most people in such a position won't want to accept. And another is that sometimes something that could cause a flame war might be there for a good reason, and people may need to learn to deal with it (as we used to say growing up, "like adults").

What could have been a flame war is (to me) a very important lesson about personal bias, how people interpret the world around them, and the effect they have on others. I'm saving this article as a favorite story to remind myself.
This doesn't change flying being a more efficient means of travel. Despite many incentives to carpool and take public transportation, planes are still more efficient because the high travel speed makes being packed like sadines worth it
I don't have a SSN (I'm not an American citizen), but I've spent quite a bit of time in the US. I had a bank account, drivers license, registered a car in my name, etc. etc.

What stops you from just refusing to give out your SSN, or simply saying you don't have one (even if you do?)

Obviously getting a credit card might be annoying, but to get around that I just put down a $500 "bond" and got a Credit Card with a $500 limit (so the bank was guaranteed not to lose it's money).

Can you not just refuse to give out your SSN and still get on with life in America? (I get on OK without one)
yeah thats not quite right:
Microsoft announced that Skype for Business online will retire on July 31, 2021.

They still sell the product, and the hybrid/on premises solution is going to be around for a while.
MS Teams will replace the "Online" only. There is no "on Premises" solution for Teams so S4B will be around a while I think.
Also have to agree. I picked up the book based on the parent comment and read it in two days. Highly entertaining and informative. Just as Low absconds with seven figures of cash he does it again! Eye opening and worth the read.
He's being salty elsewhere because HN commenters are being rude to him. Here, he's just directly addressing the parent comment, without providing any color at all.
I don't know what state you're in, but both NY and CA have paid family leave laws on the books that entitle you to at least six weeks off. I don't know the full details, but you should seriously look into it.

And don't write off getting a new job. I started a new job a few months before my child was born, I was told that if I quit my job within the first year then I would have to refund the company for the parental leave I was given so soon in my time with them. I happily accepted that condition.
Actually if I loose my phone, then high probability that I am outside and I am not waiting on going to a website to cancel my card. I would absolutely call them by borrowing someone's phone. How would you do this if you are outside and need to cancel your credit card ? Would you try to go online login to bank website and look for the option to cancel the card or call them ? It is a low priority feature. You will want a human interaction here.
I'm quite fond of Canada's system for parental leave

You mean the system where, in upwards of 90% of cases, women take 50 weeks of leave and men take 5 weeks? I wouldn't call that a great system, personally.
Borrow someone's phone. Even right now, not all credit cards can be canceled from website. If you loose your wallet and phone then what are your options ?
There are many levels of software engineering where you don't need to know algorithms and data structures to complete a job.

Keep in mind that to many programmers programming is a job, not a devotion so they only want to know what they need to get their job done.
Just curious about your just curious; what is the architecture of the current Tumblr back end?

This appears to be 6 years old. Is it still relevant?

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architectur...
Why do you attribute this to 5-HTP and magnesium? I take both, and other nootropics, and also experience similar symptoms when I’m stressed.
We're in Canada, and my wife is taking 18 months. It's great, but as a correction, it's 55%/33% of your EI insurable earnings, which is a maximum of $53,100 (2019). There are modifiers for single parents and/or local unemployment rates.

Also, they recently added a new parental leave benefit for the secondary caregiver so they can take 5/8 weeks off. It's a "use or it lose it" benefit, meaning you can't add it to the primary caregiver's leave. This effectively amounts to a paternal leave benefit that most everyone will now take, shifting the focus away from women (slightly) when a child is on the way.
Adding the word “bank” is problematic on its own as the naming itself is regulated.

There’s a separate rule that you can’t name a new bank “America” or “USA” or anything like that. The existing ones are grandfathered but no new ones are allowed.
It’s worth noting that the 55% is capped at the equivalent ~29k/yr, and the 33% is capped at ~17k/yr.

Many employers will top off to 80% or 100% for some period of time, but I don’t know of any companies that do 18 months.

> Interestingly, often you hear about people getting in at businesses because "they had a temp opening because of a mat-leave!". This works a lot like an internship, where the employer gets to test out a potential employee while not committing to them since the person on leave will be back on a specific date. Great way to get experience and networking for young people.

You’re failing to articulate the down side of this. Both as a direct consequence (backfill) and indirect consequence (not wanting FTEs that can disappear for multiple 18 month periods with no recourse), there are far more recurring contract-only positions.

I know multiple people that are stuck in perpetually-renewed annual contracts, no security and no benefits. At least two of those cases started as backfill, and as you note.. they did a good enough job that the employer wanted them to stay. But why would they actually risk hiring young women of child bearing age?

(Just to cut off the obvious criticism, several of the people that I’m aware of actually work for the government, directly and indirectly. Canada has a big public sector.)
Well, I get that you want the world to function in a slightly different way, and you don't want people to associate advertised product to content around it; I'm fine with that. However, the world around us functions in a way where people subconsciously associate the product and content.

This is, in fact, a billion dollar opportunity -- ads on porn sites are so abundant and so cheap, first person who will help sell more premium product by advertising it on porn sites will become a billionaire. Not happened yet, and most porn sites advertise, well, other porn sites. There might be a reason for that (and it's not a hidden cabal of puritans who run marketing departments of well-known brands being haters of porn. trust me, those folks will sell their souls to the devil for 10% uptick in sales).
PhD would be computer science related. Maybe related to compilers or programming languages.

I think what I'm saying is a 2-4 week holiday is a good way to test if you like travelling, and what sort of travelling you like. If you don't like travelling as in constantly moving, maybe a holiday in once place for a while might give you the cultural experience without all the hassles. Depends on what you like. I've met people doing back to back organised tours for months, not sure how they do that without going mad!
Email is great and all, but not for regular topical discussions that may interest dynamic groups of people. A persistent, shared and searchable history and threading enables more effective discussion on a larger scale than practical with email.
This is an idiosyncratic (most would say incorrect) definition of sync and async.
Hmm, I didn't see where it says 10 GtC/year, but perhaps I missed it. Could you be more specific?

Looking at Figure 2.7 [1] they have "Fossil fuels and industry" at what looks like about 37, which agrees with your other source?

The discrepancy in numbers might just be from measuring different things.

[1] https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/
> Between 2006 and 1010, an average of 152,280 passenger cars caught fire

IIRC 300 people a year are killed by car fires in the States while self-filling gas cars due to static electric sparks from their clothing, and/ or shoes off the cars carpeting. Nasty that, huh?
This source from US govt shows that planes are very efficient in MPG https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10311

Cabron density of kerosine vs gasoline isn't that different.

Maybe the carbon footprint website doesn't consider average occupancy? Cars and busses usually cruise around at far less than their passenger capacity, not so for planes
This goes doubly true for multiple births (having had a single then twins, it was more than twice the difficulty). You have enough to worry about with just keeping them alive and all the questions on early development. Work can wait.
https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/

National park admissions are public records. There seems to less attendance now than in the 90s.
I would. I think, personally investing in people makes for better people. A lot of times, that's done with time and not money. Money is a poor man's substitute for spending time with his children.
> avoid backticks in passwords

I learned that lesson a different way: When I had a Windows phone my email password had a backtick, and the only way to enter it on the phone was to long-press the apostrophe, pick backtick from the three or four apostrophe variants that appeared, and pray I didn't fat-finger it and enter the wrong character. In general, there are just some second class citizen characters you should always avoid, because you never know how hard they're going to be to enter when you're on a phone or a kiosk or whatever. (Tilde, I'm looking at you, too.)
have most people heard of Verizon OR Yahoo OR AOL or ICQ? They are sitting on a bunch of brand names that DO have some sort of recognition.

If facebook can have three separately branded interoperable products, why cant someone else try. They can market the four products to different markets with different aesthetics, and under the hood, its one messenger base. Verizon absolutely has the power to force and plow themselves into the market through sheer will and stubbornness.
If you are struggling with social exclusion, and for no good reason, there is a manipulator in the ranks and for whatever reason the people in the group have no capacity to think for themselves. There are billions of people on this earth, many of whom have developed brains. Make your friends with those people, not the ones without the ability to formulate their own opinion.
Thats just an untapped opportunity. How do they get there? It’s either bus, car, train, or plane. Raise fares or tax rentals so you can build to ease the burden from their traffic.
I have a hard time reasoning about multiprocessing code, for various reasons. It's bitten me in a lot of weird, distinct ways, not really worth listing here.

To communicate across mp you use pickle, which is a pretty significant performance impact relative to something like threading. There's also the issue of copy on write memory + reference counting interacting poorly.
CW Old man comment: I tried to use tumblr years ago but the UI was so baffling I quickly gave up. Specifically: I never knew what would happen if I clicked on something. Does this “favorite” the post? Reblog it? Take me to the users page? How do I see the original post page (not the reblog)? How do I see the 6000 people who responded to this post?

Maximal violation of principal of least surprise. I could never figure anything out so I gave up.
The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America
i m happy that they are black, but it s totally irrelevant to the article
I have heard some pretty amazing nick names in my previous life, but I cannot share them. Oh well.
didnt they censor a bunch of nutrition sites today?

i cant bring u a citation from the future. it's speculation
I like it. How are the summaries generated?
>Moreover, by your logic, infrastructure would be better in liberal cities and states. But it’s not.

What metric are you using to make this claim? I don’t even know of any non liberal cities. And whatever their faults may be, liberal cities and states are more desirable to live in or near, based on price data.
Been using nats for a few projects lately and really enjoying it. One of the many great golang projects. Resource utilization compared to kafka is tiny.

Re: msq: Looks like segment are using kafka these days despite the praise for nsq in this dated article.
It's only a "great way to create statistical fraud" if you assume that the statisticians, and the FDA, are either stupid or corrupt. And contrary to popular belief, they tend to be competent enough to at least cope with the sort of hair-brained schemes HN believes would fool them.[0]

Stopping a trial early and it's statistical implications should, by the way, be somewhat familiar with web developers: it's commonly done with A/B tests, and the related problem is the "One-armed bandit" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit#Empirical_m...)

[0]: Legend says they are even familiar with correlation != causation, and some have mastered the advanced skill of knowing that trial size matters, which is why they started, a few years back, to test drugs on more than one person.
Congrats and hang in there. Mine are 8 months old, and if one gets sick you can bet the other will follow soon. People who have had twins assure me that it does get easier.
This seems perhaps over stated and the second half is extremely elitist in its phrasing. I think my favorite version of a character like this is Wonko the Sane from HHG who lives 'Outside the Asylum.'
CI.

I want to cache HTTPS responses to npm, Github, etc. so I have fast response times and reduce uptime dependence.

And I have no scruples about proxying my build robots.
My take is that lidar is like ray tracing from decades ago. It was an expensive impractical "holy grail".

But presently lidar sensors cost as much as a car.

If the new lidar startups ship lidar sensors inexpensively at scale, then the economics will change and adding lidar to cameras and ultrasonics will help the cars drive.

So right now it would save more lives to put more people in reasonably priced cars with cameras.

I'm also reminded of the study where bicycle helmet laws kill more people than they save (because the benefits of having more people exercise outweighs the risks of unhelmeted riders)
I realise the significance of your comment about the histrionic now. Rather than ideas, the premise and the article both focus on this ideal of the person.
Some Stock Prices Delayed as Glitch Hits NYSE-Run Data Feed
I did this once, too. YMMV based on meter maids in your city;

My own unpaid ticket from weeks ago should become an asset. protect my car from violations with cast Invisibility.

I put the decoy on windshield, under the wiper blade, and wandered off for a bit.

But this upset the coin gods. When I went to my car an hour later, neatly tucked above my original ticket was a fresh new one. Balls.

Maybe using 2 old tickets will work. :)
Not really the same. Rock & roll still had melody and lyrics. Both are continually being simplified every year.

You should read this:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/01/15/231230/is-pop-mu...

5. A researcher put 15,000 Billboard Hot 100 song lyrics through the well-known Lev-Zimpel-Vogt (LZV1) data compression algorithm, which is good at finding repetitions in data. He found that songs have steadily become more repetitive over the years, and that song lyrics from today compress 22% better on average than less repetitive song lyrics from the 1960s. The most repetitive year in song lyrics was 2014 in this study.

Conclusion: There is some scientific evidence backing the widely voiced complaint -- on the internet in particular -- that pop music is getting worse and worse in the 2000s and the 2010s. The music is slower, melodically simpler, louder, more repetitive, more "I" (first-person) focused, and more angry with anti-social sentiments. The 2010s got by far the most music quality down votes with 42% from people polled on which decade has produced the worst music since the 1970s.
examine.com is definitely an authority site and should be ranked very highly.
The original quote is too ambiguous for me to parse, but I feel compelled to mention that we should be careful with time-energy uncertainty. Time is usually not considered an observable in quantum theory, so it can be tricky to talk about time uncertainty.
thanks, I updated the title
A bit late to this thread, but here's a response by the owner of a Model 3 Performance edition to the Taycan video: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-performance-31-hard-...
Make of this what you will:

https://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_t...

https://archive.fo/lmHPC

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/don-lemon-terror-threat/

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2018/06/10/why_can039t_we_... (Sorry, couldn't find something without a paywall)

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/26/politics/michael-moore-2016-e...

https://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nungesser-comp...

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w31B49W03io and see how many times the phrase "uneducated white men" is said with a sneer.

https://www.chicagoreporter.com/the-us-white-majority-will-s...

https://lithub.com/do-we-even-need-men/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/17/row-after-...
So irrelevant to the article that the race is not even mentioned anywhere in the body, only the title.

Textbook clickbait.
>> EVs lose out here because of battery degradation. You can quite happily buy a 10 year old ICE car and get good reliability at a good price. Trying to do the same with an EV just gets you a car with a worn out battery and low range.

Can you back this up with actual data? Because this is simply not true:

https://www.tesloop.com/blog/2018/7/16/tesloops-tesla-model-...

TESLOOP’S TESLA MODEL S SURPASSES 400,000 MILES (643,737 KM)

"Battery degradation over the course of the first 194,000 miles was ~6% with multiple supercharges a day to 95-100%, instead of the recommended 90-95%. Between 194,000 and 324,000 miles Tesloop experienced battery degradation of ~22% (see below for details)."

What's important to note is that the vehicle was mainly charged using dc fast chargers (often multiple times a day). Had this not been the case, degradation would have been even lower.

Additional data: https://www.tesloop.com/blog/2019/2/6/tesloops-high-mileage-...
Return of the Oppressed
Thank you for the quick reply; good to know others have experienced this. I'm in CA & my wife will be submitting her PFL claim in the coming weeks so I'll be doing the research in parallel with her, probably starting here:

https://www.edd.ca.gov/Disability/PFL_Fathers.htm