skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made an interesting realisation yesterday.

I already use DDG everywhere, but I was having an issue with a site in Firefox, it just refused to work, so I launched chrome and entered the same term in the box.

Google popped up with the privacy/terms field thing it does and refuses to let you pass this modal popup until you satisfy them.

Immediately, with the results sitting behind it, I realised, all I had to do was stick .com on the end and I don't have any of this to deal with, I was just being lazy.

I remember the early 2000s when we would press CTRL(?)+<something> to complete the www. and .com etc...

I entered the site address in the address bar and hit enter, realising I should really try to be less lazy, or at least set a book mark.
I've seen some terrible code in codebases that I just know has come from Stack Overflow (often I can trace back and find it). Some of it's for security related code, so it's fairly critical to get it right.

Doctors aren't magically smarter than developers.
And then you'd have people who would try to rort the system by swapping a bad set of batteries with a good set from the station, and then sell it for a profit.
In some sense, I think that there is something of a tragedy of plenty happening in the maker/hacker community. When options were few, you had dense groups with deep knowledge about different hackable technologies. The abundance of options, while good in general, limits the usefulness of that kind of deep knowledge in favor of a broader kind of knowledge.

How many ways are there to blink a light or read a potentiometer? Expanding on a simple project can take hundreds of different paths depending on your hardware and software stack.

It's not dead, it's just adapting to the current landscape of abundance.
You miss the point of the comment. Comparing the CCP federal structure to a local school district is a laughably inappropriate comparison.
If you are dealing with other people’s money, the only accurate is accurate. Close enough should not be in any financial engineer’s mindset, imho.
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Yes, exactly. The batteries from customer cars will be recharged and re-used. You'd also have a reserve of extras for peak demand.

You could even automate health check-ups on the batteries this way too, and decommission the rotten ones from the fleet.
I can recommend https://jrnl.sh for a minimal plaintext journal.
There's a link right below. It seems like

1. Constants have arbitrary precision
2. When you assign them, they lose precision (example 2)
3. You can format at as a arbitrary precision in a string (example 3)

In that last example, they are getting 54 significant digits in base 10.
That appears to use password Auth and not oauth?
Page doesn't render without JS enabled. Enabling JS causes questionable CSP requests.
VPNs are a complete red herring placebo, promoted intentionally to distract you from TOR. TOR is one of the only legitimate anonymizing technologies.

Connecting to your own VPN on a VPS is miles better than a retail VPN service, but even for that I wonder what threat model it serves.

• You can ban outgoing unencrypted network traffic without a VPN (a VPN doesn't solve this either btw).

• You can use DNS-over-TLS without a VPN; that solves a big part of traffic analysis.

• If you only have one VPS and only ever connect through that one tunnel, all you accomplished was moving your effective IP to another place. Oh, and you added an extra counterparty in the middle.

The utility of VPNs is, almost as a dumb proxy, to patch malicious/missing functionality from your first-party connection, e.g.: you live in a country that bans IP ranges outside of its borders, your ISP bans BitTorrent traffic, or your ISP is more cooperative with LEO than your VPN provider is. This has nothing to do with anonymization. The VPN or VPS knows who you are.

It's a confusion between privacy and anonymity.
> in terms of software UX, I would say plain text should be used as a starting point while adding interactive elements (e.g., buttons) and layouts only as necessary. By layouts I mean visual separation of categorized information via whitespace and/or color variations. I've found that this results in extremely intuitive interfaces that are both easy for users to digest and developers to maintain.

Is there any software that you think stands out as an example of this approach?
The technical problems might be easyish to solve, but I think the business/operational challenges will prove insurmountable:

- Need to standardize on a small set of form factors across manufacturers
- Limitations to vehicle designs
- How to prevent owners from swapping a battery with 1000 cycles of wear for one with 10 cycles (and vice-versa)
- Getting the cost down to be comparable with plain charging (it would never be cheaper—the batteries need to be charged either way)

I think developments to fast charging will quickly negate any perceived benefit to battery swapping. Increases in capacity will also help, as will changes to expectations and habits for refueling (combining recharging with meals seems like an easy solution).
Self-driving car without “murder pedestrian” mode will never move in Manhattan
I've switched to pass + git for my task list, diary, notes, creative writing. And of course passwords. It's working far better than the mix of things I was using previously.
Yes.

I have numerous interests. There is a madness to the method, I swear! (Or vice versa.)

History of print and media is a somewhat recent interest, though I've had numerous relevant prior experiences. Little by way of formal instruction.
I spent a winter weekend in Portland, Oregon and was surprised by thousands if crows in the sky in the evening.

The top result in a Google search for [crows in portland] is a snippet that answers my question with zero additional clicks required. If I want more info, I can click through the top result to a perfect, in-depth explanation.

It's the Audubon Society, a source I consider authoritative on this topic.

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The top result on DDG requires me to click through to a shitty local news site with an extremely lightweight story.

https://imgur.com/a/4aUZuEz

I'd have to click multiple DDG links to find what Google presented as the top result, and summarized nicely so I probably don't even need to click through.

Advantage: Google
Sick pop culture reference!~
problem is, batteries tend to degrade with time, and it's obviously not fair if you will change your worn out battery for an almost new one and only pay for a single charge.
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this definitely feels like a quirk of the route. kettleman city is right in the middle of the la-sf drive along the 5. it's also basically like one of two stops that has more than just some fast food restaurants, and a good place for kids to run around.

breaking up the monotony of the ~400mi drive stopping at the halfway point because the range is likely just short of the destination (and i assume even shorter if there was traffic due to snow, plus range reduction in cold, plus the elevation through the tejon pass), plus all the other stops along the 5 being much smaller or more inconvenient...

i'd be much more curious about how to handle this kind of demand in usage. i drive a gas car and the gas station lines on this route can be atrocious too, but people are done in a matter of minutes so it makes no real dent on travel time.
I used to store bookmarks in the browser. But they wouldn't survive changing the browser, upgrading the browser, reinstalling the operating system, or moving to another device. Besides, I didn't really want to share my bookmarks with the browser vendor, every browser app vendor, and random web sites.

Now I just store them in a .txt file. My text editor recognizes URLs and I can just click on them. Matching { } is also supported, which is all one needs for a tree-style database.
Yep, same for me. Did you put your email in the link above? I'd love to chat more about this and show you what I've been working on
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Almost, but not quite right. Usually doctors and medical professionals use reference guides like Merk Drug Manual and Up To Date. They essentially fill in the gap somewhere between review articles (which can be a bit too specifically focused) and medical textbooks (which can be a bit overly broad in how they describe topics). These guides often provide the "typical" routine, but is then augmented by a physicians judgement.
From Wikipedia:

> From 1975 to 1979, Xi studied chemical engineering at Beijing's Tsinghua University as a "Worker-Peasant-Soldier student". The engineering majors there spent about 15 percent of their time studying Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong thought and 5 percent of their time doing farm work and "learning from the People's Liberation Army".

So, university education in chemical engineering, with 20% political content. Still, not "only an elementary education".
Why? If the modus operandi is to swap batteries instead of charging then you are effectively leasing the batteries and just buying the charge on them.
Person doing simulations in plasma physics / astro physics here. I google tons of stuff every day. And I have a hard copy of https://www.nrl.navy.mil/ppd/content/nrl-plasma-formulary on my desk. And the PDF on just about any of my devices. Once every few years I ask the Navy for 20 copies and hand them out to grad students and colleagues.
And stored and moved around. You have to have a stack of batteries ready to swap. You need someone to manage it whereas most chargers are unattended.

And when do you swap the battery? If you have 50% left but that's not far enough to get where you're going do you swap it out then or do you charge? And if you're charging anyway what's the value of the expense of the swapping system?
I agree. Just pointed it out given that if you are willing to pick back up the lance for workers, don't be surprised if businesses start getting just as ambivalent over whatever fetters it implemented.

Just a word of caution. I do think it is about time for labor to organize in a big way, and to be frank, with tech people supplying the technical knowhow to implement the blueprints for C&C, I have a feeling if things do get as rowdy as they did at the peak of Labor's power last century, there will be an even more impressive fallout than ever seen before if escalation on either side gets out of hand.
I find it hard to imagine that. How do they stay in business?

At my supermarket, I have never observed proper going-out-the-door shoplifting. I am still able to get offended when somebody eats a grape that they haven't purchased. I'm sure worse crime happens, but in-store grape consumption is the worst I've ever observed.
No, it really isn't. The majority of the gun deaths in the US belong to suicides compared to homicides.
I think what that commentator meant is that floating-point math is not an accurate model of rational-number arithmetic, not that there aren't certain computations that are in fact exact. (As you point out, there are: 1.5 + 4.25 is indeed exact)
There would be measures in place to prevent this, of course. They'd have to be more robust than Redbox scanning for fake DVD returns, but you could sign the battery firmware, do challenge/response, etc. before allowing the swap to happen. All automatic of course. And if your battery turns out to be an elaborate fake - well, we know whose car it came from, considering they drove it to the station with a license plate attached.
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So how have other cities solved this?

Or do you claim it's like this in every city?
Check out NotePlan too.
Not sure if you have access to it, but reaxsys[1] is an amazing database for stuff like this. I've used it many times for looking for (un)safe reaction paths for particular drugs. It looks like the ``free'' version might let you get a lot of information from it.

Also, pubchem[2] might be of help as well. This is entirely free.

[1]https://www.reaxys.com/
[2]https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
So each one gives an example that suits their own sales pitch.
Looked at fast api docs and it looks great. Curious how to interface it with an ORM or DB without duplicating model/field definitions?
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This is largely due to the crazy free-supercharging giveaways Elon has been giving away like candy. I see so many Tesla drivers using superchargers as their primary charing spot. Hanging out in their car playing Cuphead or shopping at the target, and topping their battery to 100% taking 1+ hours to do so.

For people like me who charge at home, I just want to quickly jump into a spot and get 90 miles range to get me home. Should take 15-20 minutes max to get my battery there, but waiting line sucks.
As always there is a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/386/
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Once you start using DDG bangs (especially ! for going right to the site), it changes how you use a browser. Ditto for !wikipedia, !gmaps, etc. so so cool
Is there a meaningful distinction between a government that runs a search engine and a government that compels search engines to remove results it doesn't like and forces them to hand over every scrap of data it collects?
If it’s not possible to charge such amounts, what exactly is the point of the accuracy?
it's not convinient to fully disable charging at home, a lot of folks will revolt. and if you have people charging their cars at night, you always have a chance of swapping a worn out battery for a good one.
> The real problem is dealing with SEO spam, not occasional false positives with hyperlink detection.

I mean that's easy to say, the obvious question then is why it's apparently too hard for Google, since they don't do it despite the fact that it would obviously be of value given their algorithm.
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Right, sometimes, but quite frequently not.

Have you worked on ecommerce where you've been given such detailed specs? I have worked on ecommerce, I never have been.

I don't even understand exactly what you mean by "implementing detailed specifications about how to calculate each operation every step of the way" with ruby BigDecimal. Can you provide an example? Ordinarily, you just use ruby `+` and `*` etc operators with BigDecimal values. (Or SQL/postgres arithmetic operators with postgres money type). I don't even know what a "specification about how to calculate each operation every step of the way" would look like. This is something you've had to do with basic ecommerce apps?

I'm not sure what solution you are suggesting could be characterized as "simple stuff that are proven to work and not change over time"

Seriously, most everyone just uses something like BigDecimal or postgres Money type, and it's fine. (IEEE-754 float is NOT though. Neither, probably, is the rational type that you initially suggested... )
It's entirely possible you've met many and didn't notice. Tic's run the gamut. I've had several people in my social circles over the years that have Tourette's and their tics weren't very noticeable; simple things like neck stretches, or little sniffle noises, or circular eyerolls. All things you either wouldn't notice as being a tic, or happen so quickly that unless you're paying direct attention you'd miss them.
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> Collison: But even if technology solved that, I guess my worry would be that the socio-institutional dynamics that have ruined cities or made them less effective or whatever, probably also generalized and applied to other domains.

Reminder that Stripe as a company put out a position opposing Prop C. The hypocrisy, I guess.

Someone needs to update pg's 'founders should live in the future' to specifically include FAGSLC as the future, because otherwise we're just wasting heat.
> Anyone who knows me well (in the tech industry at least) knows that I’m a major Hugo bigot

"Bigot" is likely not the word you are looking for here - it generally has the connotation of someone who looks down or discriminates against those they consider lesser, e.g. racists or sexists. Maybe "champion" or "fanatic"?
> I suspect it's some variant of “amend the US constitution to allow the federal government to ban guns”.

Sigh. You Americans have been taught to think in such black and white terms. It's either "have guns" or "ban guns". You honestly think there is no middle ground, which is utterly and completely moronic because virtually every developed country in the world has a way of dealing with this that America is convinced can't work. Even though the evidence is blatant.

In many, many countries (including the US actually) citizens are allowed to own certain types of guns, and not other types. I ask how many anti-aircraft guns Americans are allowed to own? Or missile launchers? Or tanks with live rounds?

Clearly there are some weapons that regular people can have, and some they can't.

All America needs to do is tighten down what's acceptable, just like other developed countries do. For example, I live in Canada. I have a large calibre hunting rifle, and it isn't even registered. My friend has a handgun which is tightly controlled. Australia is similar.

So people that "want guns" can still "have guns", but the murder rate is much, much lower in those countries than the US, because other more powerful weapons are restricted or even outright banned.

Further to this, it's a simple idea that people should be required to have licenses and training to own a firearm, just like a vehicle. So what if you need to amend the constitution to do that. You've already amended it 27 times - it's not like the thing was perfect the day it was printed and will still be perfect in the year 3500 or some such nonsense.

Be very clear, I am in NO WAY talking about "Ban guns" or "Take guns away". I'm talking about restricting certain types of guns, and restricting certain types of people, which of course America has already done.

It's really not hard. The rest of the world has done it very well, but you guys are still busy arguing black and white while kids are literally being slaughtered in schools, and people at concerts and movie theatres get gunned down.
There's no magic to it - There's a lot more gatekeeping, training, board certification, etc. It's not perfect, but it's a darn sight better than the complete lack of professional standards that we developers are held to (myself included - I'm shipping code today that I wish I weren't, that I believe is unsafe at any speed, but thankfully I don't believe it'll be getting above .1MPH)

You can hire a developer off the street who just happened to be the CEO's nephew. You can't do that with doctors.
Complaining about virtue signaling is virtue signaling. What is really going on is people who are critical of a belief project their own disbelief and thus find the believers to be insincere. In general the intentions of others are difficult to work with so effective arguments and actions tend to focus on the core material instead. Is vegetarianism a good thing? Is carbon pollution damaging the environment? What people feel about these issues is secondary to core science and possible actions.
So how much do 2 CCs of gasoline cost?
News at 11: Professionals (and everyone else) uses the internet to plug gaps in their knowledge. (We used to make do with books, journals,schools, guilds, coffee shops)
California appears to be the sample of what full electrification implies.
This is perhaps the only post I've ever seen where this "relevant XKCD" is relevant.
I echo this sentiment exactly. I don't feel like OSS projects achieve this kind of success by accident. I'd love to see some write-up of some kind on how they do it. They're definitely the gold standard in my mind.
They are great. Just want to point out you can use !w for wikipedia and !gm for google maps.
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I don't see any problem with it if it's decimal. Here's an accepted answer on stack overflow with hundreds of upvotes recommending the use of `decimal` to store currency amounts in C#. That's a decimal floating point type.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/693376/44743
So some bigger charging stations are needed in some inter-city locations. Not that hard. That's the Madonna Inn, by the way, a famous sex hotel since the 1950s. Maybe they could offer a deal where you get valet charging with a short stay.

This is a serious charging station, in Shenzhen.[1] 637 chargers.

[1] https://thedriven.io/2019/05/24/worlds-largest-charging-stat...
Less propaganda that the whole "do no evil" stuff.

Windows 10 telemetry is a child's game compared how much Google and FB spy on people's lives, yet most MS haters just jump of joy to use any tech that comes out from them.

Legions of US parents just put their kids under Google surveillance getting them Chromebooks.
I run my own wireguard server. took me 1 hour to setup everything.
Tesla tried this and interest was poor. It is also convoluted given you need to swap your battery out and put your battery back in.
Frankly I have no intention to write an update to the article.

Anyone who, after reading that list of issues and seeing the repeated sketchy behaviour of MongoDB (the company), still doesn't recognize the deep-seated issues behind how MongoDB is being developed and marketed, isn't going to be convinced by an updated list of grievances either. It'd be a waste of my time and energy.

But if you insist on evidence that they haven't actually meaningfully improved, this is their latest problem, from a few months ago: https://www.ongres.com/blog/benchmarking-do-it-with-transpar...

Seriously. My original article wasn't just a to-do list for the MongoDB developers. It was meant to illustrate the deeper problems with MongoDB, and how it's a database that was developed just to have a product to sell, not to actually build a better database.

If that message still hasn't gotten through to people, well, I've tried.