skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the manufacturers don't seem to aim for the single car household in America. I guess they assume most of us either live in the burbs and have two cars or live in the city and have no cars.

The truth is where I live I'm just too far to have single car. Most of the time we only need one car, but we have just enough cases of my wife and I needing to go two different places that it doesn't make sense to rent or Uber/Lyft. And maybe that's why they don't cater to that segment. There just isn't enough people who want one car.

My ideal would be a plug in hybrid van. Our van gets the most use because I often have to drive around my in-laws, so I need the six seats. But almost all of our trips are within 20 miles round trip. But sometimes we go 400 miles to LA. I'd love it if I had a van that could do that.

If Honda made an all-electric or hybrid Odyssey, I'd buy it the day it came out, pretty much regardless of price. It would be the perfect car for us.
… to distinguish the subset of jerks from regular Tesla drivers, with whom I have no complaint.
Google will now let Android users log in to some services without a password
I think you need to understand this from the perspective of those of us who lean fiscally conservative. Large government projects like The Big Dig and Second Avenue Subway have a history in this country of being horribly mismanaged and wasting enormous amounts of money. And you're basically arguing that this augurs that we should be funding these projects more not less.

Analogously imagine you have a relative who gets sloppy drunk and wreaks havoc every time he's around alcohol. Then he makes the argument that it's because he doesn't have enough alcohol. That maybe if he had a constant secure supply he wouldn't feel the need to binge every time he gets his hand on a bottle of vodka.

I'm not saying that your argument is wrong. But poorly run government projects prima facie justify less government spending not more. If you want to make the case that it's the opposite, there's a pretty high burden of proof.
Similarly I used to wonder how awful it would have been to own example.com ... until I found out it was an IANA special-use domain.

But someone still owns test.com, and I can't imagine what that mail server goes through.
I thought that motorcycles already didn't really show up on the photoradar scanners. That's the way it is here, but I can totally see that being a jurisdiction by jurisdiction thing.
The British Museum has a few pictures showing some highlights of Sutton Hoo [0]. There's also a great fairly in-depth documentary on Youtube [1]. The craftsmanship associated with some of the pieces is incredible and well-worth the visit if you're at the British Museum.

[0] https://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/galleries/europe/room...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZaK78BWeO0
Starting a company in the U.S. on a visa (founders tell their true stories)
Bing does not have this problem (yet):
https://www.bing.com/search?q=is+diet+soda+bad+for+health
If the accounts payable system is still working and can handle eBay's volume, why spend the money to "upgrade" it?

Not everything old needs to be remade anew.
There is no maintenance or reliability compromise. Go look at owner's reports.
We can do what we do in the boating community - put a honda generator on top of it ;)
>The short answer: to buy back shares.

I don't understand the issue. Why should "you" have any say in how others decide to spend their money? The tax cuts are a separate argument.

>year later, we’re able to see how businesses used all that extra cash.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Corporate cash balances have been inflated for a decade. The previous high was in 2007.
Is that a political problem? Surely, a person who lives in rural NZ might think, "Oh, my tax dollars are being used to help those in Auckland; I'm being shafted", but if NZ is anything like the United States, urban centers are the producers of tax units and rural areas consume tax units.
Nah, it's not that someone at Google doesn't like them. Mercola is much more 'SEO'ed' than Examine.
> Broadcom is now actually a former HP spin-off spin- off (HP->Agilent->Avago)

Um... Not Strictly true. Broadcom is; Broadcom. Avago purchased Broadcom, and uses its name, but traded using AVGO ( I could never understand why ).
Completely agree. Add to this the tiny (wealthy) municipalities built into existing communities that create favorable tax scenarios for themselves while living close to and using public infrastructure that they effectively aren't paying for. The Westlake and Rollingwood municipalities in the Austin area come to mind.

2019 taxes paid on a $1M home in Rollingwood: $2,053 [0]

2019 taxes paid on a $1M home in Austin: $20-30k

0: https://www.statesman.com/news/local/rollingwood-taxes-set-i...
Irish driving licences didn't start to use the standard credit-card-sized EU format until a few years ago. They were paper booklets which had long since been phased out in the rest of Europe.
> "At one point I was completely fascinated with the Fiat 500e ... I realized that FCA hated producing this car."

There is an all-new electric Fiat 500, based on a new electric-only platform, in development for a 2020 release. This will be built in much higher volumes than the old 500e, on a dedicated production line in Italy.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-...
Throwaway account for obvious reasons:

While the words of warning in this article may be true, they (sadly) sound like a thinly veiled complaint about competition increasing pressure on YC's investment turf.

Founders should be grateful for, not skeptical of, increased funding and competition in early rounds as it should help them raise on better terms!
> or not be able to afford, like now.

The top 250 million adult Americans are richer than the top 250 million adults in Europe, Asia, Latin America, or Africa. So what are you talking about?

The median American is far richer - with a far higher income and disposable income - than the median in Europe, Asia, Latin America or Africa. It's not remotely close in fact.

The median in Europe for example, pegs you down toward an income of just $12,000 and a net worth of only a few thousand dollars.

The US is a country of 330 million people where the median person is wealthier than Germany or Sweden. The US is by a considerable margin the wealthiest per capita large population in world history.
These missiles take a long a time to reach destination, and the time can be extended by a prolonged voyage (circle the globe a few times). The only people who can disarm the warhead are the enemies. You're not going to blow up your enemies while the missile is in the air. It's a great political tool. Launch a missile and everyone starts talking and giving in to your demands.
I've scaled back my expectations. By now, I'm shooting for laws and books. I think the question is not so much about whether the human race will survive (though surely it will be smaller in number) but whether it will be recognizable at all (aka "civilized").
Earlier this summer I decided that I'd found a loophole and ordered 'N0 TAG' and 'N0NE' (zeros) for my motorcycles. The license plate font doesn't distinguish between 0 and O but the computers seem to account for visually similar characters -- I could not order the same plates with Os after they'd issued.

Haven't caught anyone else's tickets so far. SunPass won't accept 'N0 TAG' being associated with my transponder tho (have not tried 'N0NE' yet).

I did get pulled over on my very first ride with 'N0 TAG' and the first words out of the cop's mouth were 'Is that tag legit?' That may or may not have been a factor in catching a warning instead of a ticket that I absolutely earned.
Looking to compare degreed programs only unfortunately.
Show HN: LMS – Lightweight Music server written in C++
That's gold, right there.
I like how you phrased that and take it to the system level to think about it.

It reminds me of Indianapolis, Cleveland, and their metropolitan areas. In 1969 Indianapolis created a "Unigov" merging with its surrounding county, and all of the suburbs within it.[0]

The Unigov concept has been studied a lot. General view is it was a net positive, with one of those benefits being a shared vision, shared tax base, etc.

Contrast that with the city of Cleveland and its metropolitan area. The city and its suburbs are distinct places. Suburbs on the east side and west side compete with downtown to give economic incentives to draw businesses away from each other.

For example, American Greetings (the card maker) moved its long-time HQ from Brooklyn, Ohio (a Cleveland suburb) to Westlake, Ohio (another Cleveland suburb). Westlake lured American Greetings with incentives that Brooklyn could not match.

The net benefit to the region is likely nil, but the benefit to Westlake, and the loss to the other suburb is demonstrable.

[0] https://www.cgr.org/consensuscny/docs/CaseStudies_ec-unigov5...
1) Adding getters and setters does not make a program stateless. Your race-conditions and side-effects just take more steps.

2) "A monad is a type that wraps an object of another type. There is no direct way to get that ‘inside’ object. Instead you ask the monad to act on it for you." Your objection to this quote is right, because the quote is wrong.
Hacking the fundraising process with a comic book
Yes, OpenTracing (+ OpenMetrics) are API specs. OpenCensus is a competing project with API specs and libraries. They're merging into a single project called OpenTelemetry with API specs + libraries for tracing + metrics now and logs later.

These APIs/libraries are just the collection part in your app and the actual data can be sent to various backends, like Zipkin, Jaeger, Stackdriver and even ApplicationInsights. Microsoft is also working on making the existing (asp).net APM hooks more extensible to work better with these standards.
I'd especially enjoy seeing "15 minutes between comments, sitewide" without regard to where they're posted. If you only got 96 comments a day, and they had to be "at least one attention span" apart, what changes would occur to the tone of discussion at HN and would the quality of discussion end up higher or lower as a result?
We're pretty much banking on technology that doesn't exist yet. Global-scale air scrubbers to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, etc.

Why didn't we give a shit? Politics and money, same as anything.
When a Trump Donor Owns Stuff You Love in Cities
I feel like you misunderstood several of my points.

First, async infects the call graph, that is, going up the stack. Not down.

Secondly, by "manually" I mean using the future API -- and_then() and so forth.

Thirdly, "defer vec.len()" doesn't make sense unless you want to execute it asynchronously and get a future. And that doesn't make sense unless you know it to be an expensive operation you want to run concurrently. I'm proposing that the hypothetical "defer" would act like Go's "go", except it would return a future.

Lastly, my point was that most code is serial and relies on awaits. For example, if you're doing a name lookup, then opening a socket, then writing to it -- three async calls that must be serialized with await because the actions depend on each other. Not awaiting is needed when you intend to use the future for some purpose, such as adding to a queue or putting in a map, or perhaps you're doing N connections that you put in a vector to ask the runtime to wait for all of them (does Rust's await syntax support awaiting multiple futures?). But most high-level "user" code doesn't juggle futures, it just awaits whenever it needs a result. From a language-ergonomics perspective, it makes more sense to optimize for the common case.

I've never written any async/await code in Rust, but I've written plenty in JavaScript, and it's the same story.
I have experience with solar and boats and it is generally the same problem.

No, you won't ever be able to power a boat or a car only on solar for long distances, unfortunately. Maybe if you are driving a few miles.
no, check your math.

number of characters required for 128 bit entropy password using alphanumerics: 21.49[1]. round off to 22

number of characters required for 128 bit entropy password using all printable characters: 19.5[2]. round off to 20.

22/20 = 110%

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=solve+log_2(62%5Ex)%3D... (under "real solution", click on "approximate form")

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=solve+log_2(94%5Ex)%3D...
Don't underestimate the value of the angel investor being a person you can talk to. I've made several angel investments, and sometimes the company needed to restructure in a way that a strictly profit-focused institutional investor would not have allowed. Since I invest mainly because it's interesting and it helps people, I've never said no to what the founders wanted to do.

Of course, individual angels can be hard-asses. But an institutional fund is legally required to be a hard-ass. So I agree with Aaron's advice: you should know exactly whose money you're taking, and go for as long as possible only taking money from people you can reason with. If you don't have a good sense of the investor, ask a founder they invested in where the company ran into trouble.
Just remember in the beginning. It’s basically 3 things that will make a baby cry. Those are needing a diaper changed, hungry or tired. Also if you want to gain brownie points with the wife. Switch off with her for caring for the baby. Just realize your both going to be tired. The switching back and forth with the care not only helps avoid arguments but also is nice getting a few extra hours of sleep.
I appreciate that this is a problem, especially in denser cities; hopefully there will be a clever curbside solution, but in the meantime what about at work or while shopping?
"LP dollars", LPs = Limited Partners = https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-limited...
Have you looked at Graphiti? Haven't had a chance to use it but it looks great for creating APIs in rails:

https://www.graphiti.dev/guides/
NetNewsWire 5.0b2 is now available
Whole Event Serverless Observability
I suspect it's about reducing peak acceleration, jerk, and snap.
I'm genuinely happy to see this depressing information on a .gov domain. I'd assumed the official federal government climate policy is 'Hoax, everything's fine.'

Were the folks at NOAA allowed to publish this? Did they have to clear it by someone? Did anyone get fired?
We could if we really wanted to and would pay for it. But we don't and probably won't. Too much disconnect between action and eventual long term consequence. Not enough global political support.
A lot of people can't easily leave PHP, because they work at companies that use it. Tools like [Psalm](https://psalm.dev), [Phan](https://github.com/phan/phan) and [PHPStan](https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) have cropped up to help users deal with PHP's slight type system.
That's absolutely how bits of entropy work.
What point are you trying to communicate in this comment?
That's the incorrect framing. There is no "fixing" this short term. But we can prevent a great deal of future damage by immediate, drastic action.

Don't come up with excuses for your daughter, just simply start acting in a way where you do not have to make excuses.
Hello,

Please feel free to provide any feedback on this project.

I tried my best to make a README as complete as possible, but any remark/suggestion is welcome (English is not my native language).
Here it is easier to avoid getting a photo with motorcycle because there are places where it targets front plate. If photoradar targets back plate then you will get a ticket for a motorcycle just like any car.
Yeah, but I intend to keep living in my house for decades, and sic'ing the cops on a neighbor is a somewhat unpleasant way to introduce oneself, and sometimes a prelude to lengthy feuds.

Since I've never met them, I'm still pondering the best way to address the problem. Cops, anonymous note, signed note, each have their drawbacks. So for the time being, I content myself with passive aggressive whining to third parties.
Are you talking about negative SEO attacks?
I've seen people get far too comfy with bears before in Yosemite and with Elk in rut at Rocky Mountain National Park, but this takes the cake! Having your babys pose with a black bear is one thing (yes, really, I wasn't the only one rushing for the kids). But actually going up to an adult rhino and then molesting it's horn with a file?! I'm actually speechless, I've not idea what to make of that type of idiot. To me, that is clearly a suicide attempt.
I mean, Google always was, even in the PageRank days. Even if you can perfectly recreate the numbers as to why so and so site is ranked higher in your system, its still your system choosing to rank so and so site higher.
Absolutely. The building reminded me of my time at Lockheed Martin.
I think all of the above comments hint at this but don't state this explicitly:

One of the general problems with growth is that it always and necessarily plateaus, and the growth stage has different dynamics compared to the plateau stage. When your town/business/country is growing it is easy to leverage the future because there is more wealth to spare.

In the growth period, investing in a new park/office space/spending program is totally rational if it helps improve growth and quality of life now, given that repaying that debt will be easy later. But once growth slows down, our expectations of progress must also wane. This is hard for many people to accept because they think that past growth was paid for with past success, when the reality is that it was paid for with current success.
> not even taking engineering and marketing costs as a factor.

It looks like engineering is included as "Development" in the original report: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-generalmotors-volt/factbo...
That sort of technology, if scale was not an issue, could allow you to make a miniaturized version of the situation and use your hands to move the ship among the other elements, and that input would then be translated into engine/thruster settings. The model ship would resist movement as needed.
I think this goes against the initial concept of the US National Parks. It's owned by the people, and meant to be seen and experienced at any time.

There are days that I needed to be recharged emotionally and could drive to Yosemite Valley and sit on a rock and listen to the wind. Yes, there we lots of people, but the quiet and calm was respected and maintained.

Perhaps a better solution would be stronger consequences to those who violate trash, light, and sound pollution or those who damage the wildness intentionally.

But people need to have the freedom to visit these places on a whim.
Except that examine is an excellent site, and their cursory look was actually more of a "motivated reasoning look". If you land directly on an examine page for a supplement, it's quite clear the site is really well done.

I'm a designer as well, not just a developer, and it's layout is really well done: clean, straightforward, clearly presented, and the data is easy to find. They link to studies and always err on the side of caution in their descriptions.
It looks like there is some infrastructure ROI studies dating back to at least the 1980s

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/otps/060320a/forum.cfm
After I read the 2014 IPCC Report in grad school I was pretty convinced that we have no hope of stopping it. We are almost surely going to pass 2 Degrees of atmospheric warming if not significantly more and this says nothing about warming in the ocean which will continue and persist for thousands of years as well as Ocean Acidification, the ramifications of which we can barely grasp but a dead ocean is not out of the realm of possibility. If you think 1M Migrants to Europe from the Middle East or a tens of thousands to the US form Central/South America is bad just wait until we have 100M+ climate refugees in the next century. Modern political systems simply cannot cope and imo will fail in favor of populism and fascism or worse. I feel bad for people who had kids in this generation because they will likely be adults in a world of starvation, suffering, pain and war.
The stats at popcon.ubuntu.com show Thunar and XFWM installations at around a quarter of a million. Of course, that only includes Ubuntu users who opted in to stats tracking, so the global count would be higher.
It is true in Norway if someone is practice driving; the grown up in the passenger seat is the driver.
> Right now, the bulk of public stations in Canada are Level 2 (there are nearly 3,500 of them), But to get a full charge, you’ll have to leave your car there for hours, and many of the country’s chargers are clustered in major urban centres like Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Even if you live in a city where many chargers exist, there might not be one located conveniently close to where you live.

That's okay, Trudeau will invest in this area by running a few copper wires along the trans-mountain pipeline expansion.
I've actually won that lottery before. The process of going through it was looming large in by mind when I came up with this model. As we were packing to go, a friend of means asked if he could join. I had to tell him that there was no way for him to buy-in on joining. We would have gladly endowed Yosemite a bench to be able to join. That experience also loomed.
The Ideological Death of Catholic Education
Right, so slap the largest fine on each one. They had 2 years to prepare and obviously didn't.

Before the GDPR this would have been stamped "identity theft" putting the company in the clear. As if you were somehow responsible for the company not verifying the identity of their customers.

[Edit]

I should mention that around here there is an established 2FA solution used by banks and the government so verification has been de facto standardized.
one of the cofounders of Thinknum here, we had very few connections and Marta's idea for a comic book helped us get meetings with the many top VCs.
Wise move. All Boeing aircraft designed, built or remanufactured in the past 30 years (since regulation has been very weak / absent) are at systematic risk of being deficient in potentially an unlimited number of areas.

Another example of a MAX-like issue is in 2010 Al Jazeera uncovered the plot to hide the facts about the substandard Ducommun critical structural parts that were used on 737 NG (-600 .. -900) and covered-up by Boeing management. The story barely made headlines even though several 737 NG fuselages have broken up on hard landings and runway overruns, killing several passengers, whereas previous fuselages have survived such stresses.

It is a shame that regulatory capture (through political corruption) has been allowed to fester and decay the output of Boeing.
Ask HN: How did you choose your current career?
I see your point, but in this case they are blacklisting domains by hand because of their content, which they don't agree with. And that is very bad. Maybe it was my mistake, thinking that their organic search was holy, which no longer is the case it seems.
Someone tried that on me on campus but I noticed. I wasn’t supposed to be parked there either and was skating by on a technicality that worked as long as no one looked too closely into it. Otherwise I’d have called security and made his life uncomfortable for awhile. As far as I’m concerned, it’s fraud.
1.3kW/m^2 * 20% efficiency = 260w/m^2

260w/m^2 * 5m^2 = 1.3kW

1.3kW * 4 hours daily sun = 5.2kW/day

265 miles range / 85kW full charge capacity = 3.1 miles/kW

5.2kW/day * 3.1 miles/kW = 16.12 miles / day

Still sounds too good, what did I miss?