skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading an article of the same nature back when Obama was president, and the elections were coming up. I don't think this qualifies as "interesting new phenomenon. "
Because the state EPA sets the rules and the EPA is an executive branch function. State congress can overrule it by passing a law, but policy of an executive branch of government can be decided at whim by the governor.
Although his reputation would suffer by signing an order and then not taking steps to implement it, the current governor will almost certainly be retired or holding national office by the time it becomes possible (near 2035) to take practical implementation steps, and as far as I know there is no way for proponents of this measure to compel or pressure future California governments to implement this order.

So unless I am missing something, unlike most executive orders, this order is merely symbolic and does not commit the government or anyone else to anything.

Am I missing something?
Show HN: Alto.lol – Spontaneous video chats with college classmates
Hello HN! I'm Wen Bo from alto.lol (https://alto.lol). I'm building a safe virtual space for students who attend the same university to meet and connect via video chat. It's like Zoom breakout rooms but any user is free to create/join/leave rooms and invite others to a room.

I moved to San Francisco, away from my family and friends, a few months before the start of Covid. I was still working for my job back in NYC and was the only one on my team who was fully remote. The isolation from my co-workers was challenging but video chatting with them on a regular basis helped with the transition.

After I was laid off, I began experimenting with real-time communication apps to alleviate the isolation that people felt due to working remotely and sheltering in place. I also searched for volunteer opportunities on helpwithcovid.com and worked with a project owner on ideating and planning a video chat app he wanted to build.

Around early August, I learned that a number of universities were going to be either fully remote or limit capacity on campus for the fall semester. I envisioned a video chat app where students were free to hang out and meet new classmates since it'd be difficult, if not impossible, to do so in person.

Alto (short for Alone Together) enables you to sign up with your university email, enter the lobby, and:

1) join a room where other classmates are already chatting

2) invite a classmate that is in the lobby to chat

3) create a room and send the link to your school friends to start chatting

I've worked with Python/JS for the past three years, but after being laid off, I wanted to try something new. I heard great things about Elixir back in my product management days, so I spent the last month learning a new stack (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView/Tailwind) and building the MVP. Video chat is built using WebRTC.

I'm happy to share this project with the HN community! Thanks for reading about it and please let me know what you think in the comments below!
Meaning now you will have to click to even learn if the language you are interested in is available.
You're comparing banning evictions to solid gold toilets?

Interesting.
Aluminum Hydride doesn't require a pressure vessel at all -- hydrogen is released at low pressure through heating -- which dramatically reduces the weight of the system.
> then what's the point of the law?

Ostensibly, to reduce CO2 emissions.

> This is going to be terrible for everyone who doesn't drive new cars

Unfortunately, cars have been pumping out negative externalities for more than a century. You can't avoid these negative externalities forever.
Bay Area planning agency advances 60% work from home mandate
The name "Dreamhaven" is very clever.

* To players it sounds like a typical company stuido name. Quite nice

* To current and ex-blizzard staff it is a beacon call. "Come and dream again here"

* To Activision management it seems like a bit of an insult in that Blizzard was no longer a place where you could dream.

But maybe I am reading too much into it.
Germany was actually planning to give away masks for free to other countries as they seemingly ordered too much. And before they are aging past their best-used-by date in storage, better give them away.
I don't understand. To do that you just need to pass the subdir with your CMakeLists.txt to add_subdirectory(). Exactly which problems did you experienced?
How does that follow? Traffic lights aren't the subject of copyright claims.
> Rental properties are an investment, why in the world would we subsidize investment losses?

Unless you can change the reality that rental properties are investments, making them artificially riskier will reduce new housing construction and lead to less affordable housing overall.
Unfortunately none of them pay like YouTube!
Exactly what I said.
If you are suggesting that justice and security can arise from executive orders being tested in court on the basis of efficacy alone, rather than being attributable to a specific enumerated power, then I view this as a very naive and privileged view.

If the "necessary and proper" clause subsumes the entire limitation on power in Washington DC, it is the most disadvantaged in society who will suffer for it.

No matter how good a decision Congress or POTUS might want to make, I prefer that they be strictly restrained.

The idea of "the united States of America" as the default political unit (rather than more localized decision-making) is a relic of an age without the kind of communication technology we have today. I am especially cautious at agencies like CDC, which have blundered their way through some important decision-making, being given expanded powers at a time when more local agencies are capable of consuming precisely the same wealth of information.
If DropBox were substantially better, why wouldn’t enough people pay for it to make it a successful product? If they didn’t, the market has said it wasn’t better.

This is just hypothetical. I’m not making a judgment about DropBox.

But, in the case of DropBox, Steve Jobs said a decade ago that it was feature not a product. That is coming to pass.
> It's not any inherently greener then synthetic hydrocarbon production, which can be produced from atmospheric carbon for zero net carbon impact

As I understand it, the production of complex hydrocarbons that can be used as a replacement for jet fuel is even more inefficient when compared to the production of hydrogen, as many of the known processes that start from CO2 actually use hydrogen in the process. So, although you could get energy-denser fuels, that would be at the cost of even more end-to-end efficiency.

Finally, hydrogen has a great energy / kg ratio, making it a very interesting fuel for aviation if the material science problems of hydrogen can be overcome, as it allows for longer distance flights / flights with more/heavier cargo.
I think the point of the law is to paint a picture of where we want to go as a society (of Californians). It’s 15 years away, so these things are more a signal that “hey this is where we’re going”. This in turn makes you think “hmm maybe I should buy electric” which in turn makes manufacturers go “hmm I guess we should go electric if we want to sell in California.” Its a self fulfilling prophecy, a mission statement and a confirmation of what we already know: electric cars are here to stay, they are likely to improve massively over 15 years, and they are the future of transportation for CA.
Metropolitan Opera cancels 2020-21 season
https://archive.vn/sn7am
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike from [being evicted from their homes]"
We're supposed to assume good faith, right? What he said he meant sounds plausible if I do.
From the picture of the 9mm by 9mm tile, it looks like it has about 30 electrodes, each something like 0.1 mm wide maybe? (The article says they are "hair-thin"). They are obviously large enough to be somewhat stiff and have a fixed position on the tile. Presumably they are implanted by pushing the tile onto the brain surface.

According to the paper Neuralink published last year[1], Neuralink's system has 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 threads. The threads are flexible and 4 to 6 micrometer wide, and are inserted individually by a robot that avoids hitting blood vessels.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703801v3
I would just play WoW focusing on similar things to you and then watch a youtube video for the lore :)
The curb weight of the Toyota Mirai is 4,075lbs. The Model 3 is 3,552-4,100lbs depending on the configuration. As you noted, range is similar. What's very different is performance. The Mirai goes from 0-60mph in 9 seconds. The slowest Model 3 does it in 5.6 seconds. The fastest Model 3 gets to 60mph in 3.2 seconds. The Toyota's acceleration is limited by the power output of the fuel cell. Its maximum output is 114kW or 153hp. The Tesla's battery can output over 350kW, allowing it to drive much more powerful motors.
Then you stop for a quick battery charge, stretch your legs and drive some more hours. No need to put on diapers to drive a long range EV with supercharging capability.
I have felt this quite strongly but never quite articulated it. Thank you for the clarity.
With such proposed laws on the books, I don't see how anyone would start a new company that does anything at all with user generated content, as the risk for significant criminal liability is just too high. Only billion dollar companies would be able to afford to curate and make sure not a single law was broken ever, at any time, by one of their users.

Imagine having your home raided in the middle of the night because someone thought it would be funny to upload illegal content to your startup's servers. Now imagine being bankrupted and sent to prison afterwards.
So, of those sites, I had only heard of dailymotion. The others I had never visited before, so they will have no history on me, and will get clean recommendations. Upon going to each one, here's what I got:

lbry.tv - Shows 6 videos on the front page above the fold. 3 are appear to be strongly political, and 1 is pushing a far right conspiracy. NEXT.

bitchute.com - Front page appears to be entirely far right propaganda and conspiracy theories. Lots of race baiting. NEXT

diive.tv - Front page appears to indicate this is a streaming site ala twitch.tv. Mostly game videos on front page, along with 3 race riot videos. Due to titles about "no-go zones", I assume they are all going to be far right propaganda.

bittube.tv - Half of the videos on the front page are not in English. Not a bad thing, but surprising to me. The rest of the videos seem to be focusing on bitcoin scams, bill gates vaccines, and videos calling the corona-virus a left wing conspiracy.

Based on what I have seen, I now assume most of these sites are for people banned from Youtube for spouting far-right propaganda. Would not recommend any of them, and will likely not be back.
Excellent post, thank you.

It does seem to me that blaming the whole situation on climate change is an exaggeration. However, it is a politically savvy move from Newsom et al. as west coast states are solid blue. They are pandering to their audience. It also happens on the right with different issues.
You can post to YouTube and also another platform, then on Patreon/Twitter/Facebook/etc always link the other platform instead of YouTube. That way you would still be discoverable on YouTube, but hopefully get some amount of traffic funneled over to the other platform in case YouTube kicks you off.
I can actually get behind a lot of what you say, but you go too claiming the death count is inflated. It is not.

You can look at excess mortality all around the world, and there are large, otherwise-unexplained spikes in mortality everywhere. Sweden has the same large spike in deaths from all causes.
Our design creates a visual pattern from combinations of up to 172 spots of light

The article goes on to state that the trial used 10 of these. So I guess the quality would work equivalently to a 40x40 pixel resolution or something.
This isn't just optimistic thinking. A lot of the current American consumer laws, emissions standards etc. are de facto set by California rather than the Federal government.
Clearly Twitter and reddit should be consulted for the armchair experts to tell them how much money they're going to lose and how some extra people dying is worth it.
They pay better than YouTube if you also post to Youtube.
Google has a history of either cutting products (even successful ones) with poor offerings of migration (i.e. this from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24548876 where they aren't even allowing bulk export of accounts), or cancelling your entire google account for issues in a single product with only automated systems there to respond to you (i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4013799)
Well here's GTK hello world in freaking C. One file that you can gcc and run "./a.out". Not 79 files with a build system that breaks every time you hit "upgrade", and which requires me to install gigabytes worth of SDK API bloat and agree to 10 different license agreements. Want a free build system that works for this for every version of Linux in the past decade and probably the coming decade? All you need is ONE "Makefile" and you're done.

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-getting-started....

Any higher level language and ecosystem than C should be less verbose and less involved than this. Otherwise, what's the point of being higher level?
I don’t deny that COVID has caused deaths, I am just stating that a huge chunk of these so-called COVID deaths are not. Excess mortality is real, I agree (altho not solely due to COVID obviously).

I believe that lockdown policies worsen COVID-19 mortality. Severe COVID-19 is an immunoregulatory disorder, and lack of vit d / nitric oxide, lack of exercise/sleep, unwarranted fear/anxiety, lack of socialization all make the immune system incapable of regulating itself properly.

So I believe we would have less COVID death amortized over a year without lockdown. Look at New York’s absurd mortality rate, it’s worse than having done nothing. (NY was iatrogenic harm from early invasive ventilation which in retrospect was a horrible idea, plus lockdown depriving people of sunlight and exercise, plus Cuomo’s famous nursing home gambit)
Its funny the comment above you says CA Governor signed a law that he doesn't have to follow through since he would retire by then.

You comment indicate why it discourages people buying non electric cars even now.

So it's a good win for Earth?
USCIS's proposal to expand collection of biometrics of immigrants and citizens
> Per the video it sounds like he received 5 DMCA copyright strikes to which he issues counter-claims.

Actually, I believe YouTube uses a mechanism which is explicitly not-DMCA for its copyright claims.

Under the DMCA, a user has the right of counterclaim, where the user says "your claim is wrong, here's why, see you in court", and the service provider has to reinstate the claimed material (unless it actually goes to court). I don't believe YouTube's ToS gives the user that provision.
> each build file is independent (unlike CMake where the project is one big script with global scope and side effects)

I don't understand your point. CMake projects specify build targets per module, and it's up to the developer to choose what he thinks should be a module. What value do you see in specifying build targets per file?
$5B fintech firm TransferWise posts fourth straight year of profitability
Yeah I guess my point was at that point you'll have different APIs for square and circle.
Non-technical users want easy solutions, and they need to be invested enough in your content to pass whatever barrier you put there. Projects like Floatplane[1] only capture a tiny segment of your audience.

Personally, I'd try a simple app that OAuths from YouTube/Google accounts and collects an email, so you control content announcements, even in case YouTube fails. It also has the advantage of being independent from other social media platforms.

[1]: https://www.floatplane.com/
Anyone buying a Camry in 2020 should have done an analysis of the TCO of a Camry versus a base config Tesla Model 3.

Same goes for most SUVs versus Model Y. Many gas cars at this point are already a very bad economic decision especially when you consider tanking resale value. In a few years it will be the same for trucks versus electric trucks which will have up to 600 miles range.

Legislation though... that is a longer topic. Basically the gas car companies have a lot of reasons to resist and come up with seeming deals so without a law they will perpetuate gas for much longer.
> Again, sure maybe people will NOT do this, but you cannot blame Tesla for this.

Are you serious? Of course you can blame Tesla for this. Their car is a goddamn touch screen on wheels, and it doesn't function.
Pleased to meet you digitally, and thank you for that.

There are some articles which I've linked elsewhere which quoted some Mozilla employees at the time, which seemed pretty strong evidence to me (names, dates). Of course that is a fraction of the workforce there and it could have easily been blown out of proportion but there were at least some employees who thought like that.
Think serverless not K8S: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'
Long story short:

This guy defends cybercriminals, and his main goal is to avoid going to trial. He does this by trying unconventional plea bargains wherein his clients write some code that they effectively trade for a decreased sentence, like, something to help find other cybercriminals, or to utilize some domain knowledge they have.

I'd be curious if he goes even further, and that his clients aren't even responsible for the code/systems they are offering and in fact, he could have a team of hackers that helps produce appealing enough tools for the government and he's effectively recruiting his own talent by defending the hackers - which raises some questions about his motives to me if that absolutely made up hypothetical were a reality. If it were, I don't think Bukh would broadcast it, or maybe he would if it would help him get more clients :)
>My motorcycle already gets like 80mpg.

Motorcycles also pollutes more per mile than a light truck. They generate less carbon dioxide but produces four times more hydrocarbons, thirty times more nitrogen oxides, and eighty times more carbon monoxide.
Yes but the answer would be somewhere in the middle — you need some level of overhead expenses above the bare minimum otherwise the ship will slowly start creaking and falling apart. I didn’t see that much evidence that they were overpaying staff (in contrast to Mozilla), which I apologise to the Author if I missed it.
I skipped a few steps; here’s the layman’s interpretation.

Rental stock doesn’t spring into existence; it comes from private investment, predicated on reliable returns made possible by the laws surrounding rental. Suspending those laws in turn destroys this investment/return equation. No more rental stock.

Similar calculus for wage controls; no more profits - no more jobs/wages.

You can demand whatever you want; you just get to live with the results of your demands, long-term.
Temporary or permanent?
It's unknown whether disparate startups would do a better job with things like attacks from state actors compared to the giants. Obviously, as things become more consequential, people would rather have entities they can hold accountable. However I think our mechanisms of holding entities to account are ineffective, big or small.
People hurt, usually both sides. Mutual acknowledgement is a start of a dialog. To expect empathy one should first give it back.

The way you do not see how behavior was not balanced you hurt me. I expect my words could hurt you. I try my best to avoid it.

Equality is a line on the sand. For some reason you've decided only your line is true. Tradition says another line is true. From that point of view your line is subverting the language. And language got hurt a lot, like some words are bastards and there is no equality for them.

The loss of clarity. I am not native language speaker yet I feel language becoming slippery, that hurts. Entire generations could loss sharp of mind just because some people want to change meaning instead of inventing new words. What's in "marriage" for you? How about "unity"? Why do you want all the baggage of forced marriage, child marriage? What would you do with "father" and "mother", "uncle" and "aunt"? What about that stream of he/she? Get noun genders like many other languages if you care that much.

Language is alive. Current state can be just a swing waiting to turn back into nonsense babbling criticized by Orwell [1]. Invent your own metaphors. We have had grammar nazi, now we've got LGBT nazi. Fear us, lie to us, conform us or mob will lynch. Can you imagine what would happen if Brendan asked LGBT employees to step down? If no, please, do not respond.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20200808042031/https://www.orwell...
Creators that spend years and thousands of hours building on a platform deserve better representation. I am guessing that because he is mounting a protest, his case will get extra consideration and probably won't get deleted. This seems like the norm now with all the social and cloud platforms - people facing issues have to take complaints public to get any response.
Banks paid the loans back with a hefty interest on top.
What are the "items" in this analogy?
Since you posted almost exactly the same comment further up the thread. It's important to consider that ICE vehicles have been puking out air pollution and CO2 for more than a century, killing thousands, if not millions of people and contributing greatly to climate change, which is getting worse.

It frustrates me that people take umbrage at being charged money for using energy and polluting the environment.
Feels like regional outages. Doesn't bode well about 45 days out from this election.
Unfortunately with a split congress nothing is going to be done.

Which is why CDC waited to see where the talks are going and realized that they can't wait too long.

At some point lives become more important than political process.
Here's where I'm at. Does some weird/shady shit happen? Yes. But one would think with all of the firings and forced resignations he's done, that would be a department he would 'clean up'?
To anyone following this comment thread, this is exactly where the belief “others should be compelled to give me resources” leads. Thanks for illustrating where your hateful ideology ends up.
Where GREP Came from (2018)
How much night time solar can Arizona and Nevada give them, today, or in say ten years? Serious question.

The nice thing about Nuclear is that it's boringly reliable. You buy a 500MW nuclear power plant, you're getting ~500MW from that maybe 80-90% of the time. Own a half dozen of those (3GW nameplate capacity) and you can have 2GW or more pretty much always.

You buy 3GW of solar panels obviously they don't do anything for a big portion of every day because the sun is on the far side of the planet, so then either you're also buying a lot of storage and more panels, or you don't have a replacement for the nuke plant.

Now, if you have 3GW of molten salt concentrated solar maybe you can hit that 80-90% reliability on the individual units and replace the nuke plant, but do Nevada and Arizona have any of those today? Are they expected to build a California nuke plant's worth any time soon?