skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What happens after 1000 charges?

Usually the end-of-life for traction batteries is specified at 80% of original charge (80% state of health), after that they're recycled as industrial energy storage for grids etc.

But with articles such as these, claiming breakthroughs and whatnot, it's always good to be extra suspicious and verify that they're using the same assumptions.
Clutch them pearls guuuurl.
There's a problem here that is too rarely discussed:

When we do finally achieve substantial decentralized agency for ideas and media, which cannot be censored, it will be tainted in its roots by the fact that these jackasses are the people who will flock to it first.

How can we build a censorship-resistant society where the most creative, peaceful, unifying ideas are the basis of our dialogue?
The battery in a Tesla is about 25% of its weight. So, going to a battery that’s 50% of the current battery’s weight (assumption #1: smaller = equivalently lighter) would cut about 12% of the car’s weight in batteries alone.

I guess designing the car around those lighter batteries can get you a total decrease in weight of around 20%.

If so, and assuming that’s a similar decline in energy used per kilometer, a 50% smaller and lighter battery already can give you 25% more range.

(disclaimer: back-of-the-envelope calculation by a non-expert)
It's hard! Like, I don't think it's reasonable to say "the site needs 6 more Dans" because it's hard enough to find one Dan that no other site like HN has managed to accomplish it.

I appreciate you sticking through it, though. I know this place can get hard to take.
Good point. But YouTube is not controlled by an authoritarian fascist-like government which has a world view in direct opposition to what you could refer handwaveingly as "western" and is currently pushing to become the dominant power in the world.

If you furthermore consider how bad the "western world" (mainly Britten and the East India Company) had treated it in the past, some aspects of the Chinese culture and the current Goverment direction western countries expecting any fair or reasonable treatment once china succeeded to become the worlds dominant power is kinda a sad joke.
I happen to be a lawyer and I would say you would probably want to consult an accountant on this as well. I'm also presuming this is a B2C situation.

My two cents is that you are the one paying VAT to whichever government your business is obliged to pay VAT to. Even if you calculate your prices without VAT you will still need to 20% owed according to your example.

So if you only add a surplus of 5% for VAT the extra 15% would come out of your product price.

I would choose a payment processor that applies the right kind of VAT according to where your buyers are located and have that data directly fed to my accountant. Then you can be sure your are not loosing money to taxes and that your are following the law to the best of your abilities.
Came across this today (no pun intended).

Thought it was worth a revisit given everything going on.

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5620893
The decision to nationalize/socialize something is always political. There is no intrinsic public aspect to anything.

If there were only one food stall in the entire US, does that mean people aren't allowed to hunt, forage or grow their own food, or trade for it from someone who does? If so, then you've got a totally different problem on your hands: regulatory capture. If not, then refusing service to a person is very far from killing them.

Edit: grammar
There is a pretty straight line from 'free market economics' (aka exploiting people who are already down) to white nationalism (aka shitting on people that are not 'white' enough). No need to be surprised.
builds for my 10kLOC project, which is a workspace. These are the commands run from the root of the workspace. We could clean up some deps, we use quite a few crates, and we use a number of proc macros as well. In general I'd say we're fairly "worst case" for compile time.

cargo clean; cargo build;
4m20

Commenting out two lines of code in one of the services + cargo build;
0m14s

cargo clean; cargo build --release
11m43s

change 2 lines, cargo build --release
0m31s

I don't find this egregious.

ChromeOS Linux, which is debian

Intel i7 4 core
32GB RAM
Thus making the case why alternative financial systems outside their power are essential.
This sort of multiple-headlines-in-one-day undermines the argument for bans. In the Alex Jones case in particular it appeared he was being selected for a broader community image rather than actions on specific platforms.

Private companies can't (mechanically, not legally) determine who has a moral right to speak. If we had a magic method for figuring that out it'd have been a feature of politics since at least the Roman Empire. Instead we ended up with things like Robert's Rules of Order where the process is controlled as best as possible to let wildly contradictory opinions get aired.
Just companies taking orders.
> Do you think people verify the code before clicking auto update on their phones?

thats a very good reason then for an app-store to enforce rules and code checking then, isnt it?
Which subreddit? /r/the_donald? I was talking about the site in general, which did have explicit hate subreddits, which Reddit started struggling to grapple with back in 2015. I do find it kinda funny though that you saw an accusation of antisemitism and immediately started defending /r/the_donald.

It is worth noting that I did see explicit and implicit (((antisemitism) on /r/the_donald, but also, no examples are possible anymore, as the subreddit is gone /shrug
> movement for racial equality

It stopped being that within a couple of days of starting and was co-opted to advance other goals. It's for "racial equality" only inasmuch as no sane person will argue _against_ racial equality. Same as "antifascism" is also _nominally_ against something that's unquestionably bad, so no sane person will disagree with the core premise. In practice, it's a militant Stalinist organization, same as it was since inception in Weimar Germany.

But in for a penny in for a pound, so we're now firing people for free speech, toppling statues, doxxing, censoring, organizing "autonomous zones" with weekly shootings, looting, and renaming Yale and Stanford. And by "we" I mean upper middle class young whites, who were told they're racist just by virtue of being born with a little less melanin, and there's nothing they can do about their racism short of lifetime of repentance. This being largely a non-theistic religion, this is how they are trying to atone.
How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coronavirus killer
Multiple experiments have demonstrated that as you follow recommendations it drives you more and more towards extreme content. If you don’t follow recs it obviously has no “drive” to keep you on as you’re not following the journey. Basically the recommendations system always tries to drive you towards slightly more “engaging” content.

Zeynep Tufekci, amongst others, published about it back in 2018.
You see these I.Q. numbers posted around the Internet all the time, but few will mention that they are also highly suspect, to the point of being just about worthless.
What democracies do you think are capable of meeting India's vast demand for consumer goods? Anything in the developed world is going to be prohibitively expensive. Anything outside is most likely a "democracy" just in name, or already within China's sphere of influence.

The trade alliance with China has been materially good to Indians. We've been able to afford more goods at cheaper rates. While we should try and move things back home, it's not going to happen overnight.

In the meantime, a population that was already struggling with income inequality, wage stagnation, unemployment and even growing poverty will see its material wealth slip further.
That's definitely also my impression. The only point against that theory is the moderation. I don't think someone who started that as a joke would let it become what it was at the end. unless maybe someone related to the Trump campaign bought those accounts of course.
>As long as the platforms recommendation and ranking algos are a black box

All platforms recommendation and ranking algos are ultimately a black box. Why is TikTok special here?
I wonder if this policy is valid outside the US. If so, are you allowed to discriminate against veterans of the Wehrmacht, or the SS?
Yaaaaaas...this one salty
interesting to note that the guy who coined the word 'sociology' (Comte) originally wanted to call his theory 'Social Physics,' but his rivals had already claimed that term for different theories.
"Screaming 'racism' at people because blacks are collectively less intelligent...is insane."

“You cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people…these [non-white] immigrants are going to fail...and they're not just going to fail a little, they are going to fail hard…they're not staying on welfare because they’re lazy...they’re doing what is economically the best option for them...you are importing a gene set that is incompatible with success in a free-market economy.”

—YouTube video, The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis, October 4, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eydDN55Vyc&amp=&feature=you...

This is just two quotes from one appearance. There are many more: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
It makes sense right? It's so ridiculous to see Biden and Bernie battle it out in "Stage 1", and then only one of them gets to go against Trump. Instead of Biden, Bernie and Trump and everyone else just run together in a race as it should really be. We might have even had a better person on the Republican side in this case.
> If I sell a dollar bill for $1 that's not income that should be taxed.

You always have overhead so you can’t actually sell 1$ for 1$. Breaking even requires selling assets for more than their worth to cover transaction fees. We let companies deduct those fees, but what’s a fee and what’s an investment gets blurred. Especially when most companies don’t suddenly get destroyed after a single transaction. The classic razor and blade model being a prime example for hiding profits.

Sure, cash flow may make it seem minimally profitable, but that’s only relevant in this quarter or if you run out of cash. Spend X million on software development or brand advertising and can have a tax free transfer from income to capital. Leverage that for a few decades and suddenly your business is worth 10x as much without any apparent profit. Clearly an asset was being invested in.
Exactly.

Just because someone claims something is anti-racist doesn't make it so. Almost all organized evil is done in the name of something good. Look at how laws like the The Patriot Act are named.

The people behind these bans are leftist extremists going after their rightist extremist enemies. Their "good intentions" are paving our path towards hell.
Today, Reddit banned the Chapo Trap House left extremist group. From someone not involved in either extreme, it appears to me like they're being consistent and banning people for behavior and not politics. I've not heard anyone calling for George Will to be deplatformed, for instance.
Yes. It's much more understandable that way (and I don't have a useless Marxist academic position to justify). Frankly, I find it rather difficult to disagree with the premise of historical materialism.

You can disagree with Marx's conclusions about which factors were important, but the basic assumption seems solid. The major exception that comes to mind where ideas might dominate material need is a situation present in the US today where the media so dominantly control narrative, they have been able to mostly squeeze other ideas out of the discourse. This is sort of like fighting entropy, possible, but requires extra energies to do.

I hadn't heard of conflict theory before, so thanks for the tip.
“While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate.”

https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/acc...
You don't see a difference between an ideological party which interns millions of people by ethnicity (among other glaring issues), and a corporation seeking profits from a video platform?
The clever ones are the more dangerous ones. Plenty of people that will strike Spencer and Duke will be lulled to sleep by Molyneux but in the end the agenda is the same.
So much confusion in the comments. AFC will be operated by private 3rd party companies. FCC does not have the data unless they ask to private companies in the case of interference issues. Location information is needed to determine channel availability which is highly dependent on the location.
Competition seems to get shut down whenever this happens.
2.6 million LOC according to https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ (this includes vendored deps, but that still gets built, of course)
That's why I have almost no Apps on my phone. Just a lot of different browsers.
I think the new mobile Vivaldi browser is the first with an option to switch of the 3d sensor for the website
This happened a couple years back when they both made some big policy changes related to guns. I'm pretty sure it's just pressure from major advertisers they both share.

Here is an HN link from it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643040
I am not joking, and yes Obama and Biden are very clearly right-wing politicians. I have not seen a single actually left-wing policy out of either of them.

Also, please don't assume the people you're talking to online are 'joking' when they express their serious views. It's against HN guidelines to assume such bad faith in my answers.

> 'left-wing' views are not 'tolerated', they are celebrated.

I don't see that at all on reddit.
Oddly /r/sino, a CCP, anti-democracy, anti-human rights subreddit that often brigades /r/hongkong is still up.

Edit: oops, this should have been a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681872
Ad hominems are terrible in logical discourse, but with life advice, it's important to know who is dispensing the advice.
>It is coordinated.

Is there any evidence of this besides the announcements just happening on the same day? It could be companies waiting to announce these moves on Monday morning after days of seeing Facebook embroiled in controversy for not doing this. Or maybe one company decided to make this move and other companies fast tracked anything they had planned on this so they wouldn't be viewed as ignoring this issue.

We have no indication one way or another whether this is coordinated. We shouldn't just assume it is coordinated because it is happening on the same day.
That is a fair assessment. For my scholarly activities, I do not go to a public library, but a University library or the internet. I wouldn't denigrate the whole literary genre of fiction as just 'Printed Netflix' though.
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senators-hawley-scott-introduc...
Ranked choice voting is always a semi-poisoned subject because of the IRV adherents' insistence on calling IRV "ranked choice voting". Ranked choice voting is preference capturing mechanism that yields very valuable data. IRV is one of many possible counting implementations.
In China, all headlines are designed to propogate the SAME propoganda. In other parts of the world, all headlines are designed DIFFERENT propagandas.
It's less hubris and more FOMO. The tech landscape is changing rapidly, execs (in many industries, not just entertainment) are increasingly disconnected with young, diverse customer bases, and therefore nobody knows for sure what will become the next big thing.

There's no downside for a CEO who invests in a failed new venture like Quibi. Very easy to explain away. All his peers did the same, it was an investment in the future, attempt to diversify, outside the box thinking, etc. There is MAJOR downside for NOT investing in a new idea that takes off like a rocket ship, that CEO will look like a fool and "the world passed him by" to investors, peers, employees, talent, etc.

Think in terms of "reputation expected value" of the various CEOs and the multitude of major investors makes total sense.
there isn't a big structural difference between the tech and entertainment industries vs., say, healthcare or construction. they're both IP-driven and largely virtual, with lots of winner-take-all dynamics and potential economies of scale and scope.

most ventures fail, whether it's in tech or entertainment. tech has billion dollar flameouts too--webvan, theranos, etc. entertainment has startups that hit big too--parasite for example. founders who exit successfully can more easily raise the next time around, just like directors and producers who have a hit.

each industry thinks it's unique and different, but that's due mainly to ego, not to (many) true differences. even cultures largely overlap. people with gobs of money can (and if warranted, should) fail too.
non-aggression is not the same as non-oppression. I can non-aggressively disenfranchise a group of people. I believe the problem lies in the trust placed in the free market to take the place of empathy and social unity required for creating and protecting civil liberties and equality.
There’s a clue in his username...
Why should India ban a Chinese social media company and not an US social media company, it's a matter of national security? This claim is just xenophobic nonsense.
> I see someone isn’t a fan of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

Organizations change.

In the same way that just because the democratic party has a horribly racist history doesn’t make the current party horribly racist.

> By the by, a lot of the “left wing” violence recently was caused by right wing militia “boogaloo” people.

The “boogaloo” are a conspiracy theory.

Which is more believable:

1) A far-left wing group that has been around for decades and part of many violent protests across Europe and has branches in the US is involved in another set of left wing violent protests.

Or

2) A right wing group that nobody has heard of and doesn’t seem to be associated with any of the exisiting far-right movements has deeply infiltrated left wing protests and is causing trouble.

Since I’m partial to conspiracy theories (2) might be possible if it’s actually the feds.
Actually, Emacs would probably be easier to port, given that a large chunk of it is implemented in Emacs Lisp.
Just to be clear, Molyneux had long been an anarcho-capitalist, which is already an extreme take on free market economics. I wouldn’t look too far into it, and I certainly wouldn’t conclude that white nationalism is the logical conclusion of thinking that free markets have their place in society.
Ahem -- Name conflicts with the collection of deep learning models by Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/artificial-intellige...
No, they banned those subreddits for violating the rules, specifically

> promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability
Rust supporter: Build times are comparable to C++.

Rust critic: Build times are comparable to C++!
Sorry, but what are exactly saying here? That the headlines are false? that they are comparing apples to oranges? That it is out of context? I could believe any of them, but it is unclear what you are implying.

From just looking at the headlines I can only infer a 11/12 death/hours > 8/24 death/hours
> what are you arguing for? no analysis? or do you wish to change the analysis? Or why do you claim that analysis is premature to remain on topic?

There's a difference between a team of academics/statisticians analyzing policing and crime data and then debating the resulting conclusions, and a widespread set of predictive policing tools that are designed to be used by feet on the ground. The former is great! and important. The latter is the problem.

> saying "inherent bias" is very vague and has more value as a political dog whistle than anything else... unless you'd like to suggest what the biases are and point out how you have this special knowledge and other crime experts don't.

The entire point I'm trying to make is that it's very _difficult_ to figure out what your data biases are because usually the data is _all you have_. My point isn't that I have "special knowledge" about where the biases are. I do not have any such special knowledge. Domain experts will have more "special knowledge" and by that I mean through their experience they will have hopefully learned difficult lessons about the limitations of certain types of data available to them, but even they will not have perfect knowledge about where all of the biases in their data are.

> for example, what is the bias in incoming 911 calls?

again, I do not know! Do you? Do you feel 100% sure to say that the propensity of someone to dial 911 would not be dependent on socioeconomic factors, or on the nature of the crime, or on the alleged perpetrator? Do white people feel more comfortable calling 911 on black or brown people than black or brown people calling 911 at all?

You can try to correct for certain biases if you have access to all of the relevant info (e.g. in the above example, we could in fact try to answer this question if (1) we had the actual background rate of crimes being committed, independent of 911 calls, (2) all of the relevant information (e.g. race/income of caller and perpetrator, the crime type, etc.), and even then we would be missing other biases that we may not be consciously trying to "correct" for). But even this is subject to lots of error (how do we get the actual baseline level of crimes? hint: you can't), and will miss other factors that we haven't thought of.
TikTok would be put out of business if it was critical of the head of communist party. Google/FB permit anti-Trump content and propagate articles against the administration without blowback.

TikTok is bound to the CCP in a way that has no comparison in the west.
It's not that simple. Backpropagating a bipartite graph of nodes works out to a series of matrix operations that parallelize efficiently on a GPU as long as the matrices fit into the GPU's working memory. Running a GA (part of neat) doesn't normally work well on a GPU. The good NEAT algorithms even allow different neurons to have different firing response curves. This inherently defies the "same operation multiple values" style of parallelization in GPUs. The way GPUs work just fundamentally isn't well suited to speeding up NEAT.
They do censor american social media. Like china and north korea obviously do
Ten years ago I met him once as a libertarian/free-market conference, he was there with his kids. He seemed like an adorable father at the time.

Wow can people change.
You know, as much as I think the whataboutism is trying to draw equivalencies that don't exist and make excuses for other nation states doing bad things, I'm more accepting of it now. As long as it's called out for being that.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but we should always strive to be better. Just because the US could be doing as bad things as China or Russia, doesn't mean it shouldn't be better than it is now.
As someone with a toddler that really resonated. Thanks.
3/5 board of directors of ByteDance that owns TikTok are western.
The pressure is more directly from advertisers. Major consumer brands don't want their advertisements appearing next to objectionable user generated content.
That's a confusing answer to what I said. I am not defending anyone in the post here but just yesterday, visa banned gab's CEO and his family. Now you need to build a payment processor which is not possible for any individual to do so. To how deep you want to go here?

Put your own cables in the sea?