skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> humans are more flexible. They can look around and see interesting things and change plans to look at that instead.

That's true, but that doesn't matter so much floating in the Venusian clouds. Making a manned blimp has zero advantages over a robot blimp controlled from a space station. The only thing a manned blimp would have over a robot one is the humans could potentially do unplanned maintenance. However, the cost of that is orders of magnitude more complexity and cost over a robot blimp (life support and rockets to get back into orbit) and a hard deadline to end the mission. You could probably send five robot blimps or more for the cost of a manned one, which could potentially remain operational long past their design life. Send them one or two at a time, so ad-hoc modifications can be made.

It's really a no-brainer to chose options besides human exploration of the Venusian atmosphere.
The fact that PG&E is clearly advocating for electric cars should give everyone pause.

Gasoline cars can be filled by gas from any company, so there's actual competition. But an electric car mandate will expand PG&E's monopoly by billions of dollars per year. Imagine how poorly they will behave when they have a lock on both electricity and transportation.
My understanding is that they do (or will do) some tree shaking to only transmit the bits of the runtime that are actually used. It's not like you will download a 60MB binary on every refresh. And it's not like a typical SPA doesn't come with its own bloat of js libraries. I do expect it so be slightly heavier. But to the point that a user will notice?
If we evaluated software according to this policy, software would have been abandoned as unworkable and we would be using obviously more practical abacuses.
Sounds similar to how Paypal users routinely had their assets frozen. There was even a website about it, I think it was paypalsucks.com.
Going to space to mine a nickel-iron asteroid makes a lot of sense, because the material is then already in space and you can use it for orbital manufacturing without having to pay the energy cost of getting it out of Earth’s gravity well.
Details schmetails, this is clearly Trump's promise to retaliate against Twitter for making his posts as dubious.
The man is so fabulously self obsessed.
Once in a prior life I collapsed into bed, exhausted, around midnight. Woke up feeling refreshed. Glanced at my (analog) watch, saw that it was about 07:10. Got up, got dressed, shaved. Glanced at my watch again: It was now about 01:50. I'd been asleep for just a couple of hours. Back to the rack.
In 2017, for example, the vaccine didn't work all that well, because of this exact problem. My dad, who lived in an eldercare facility, was confined to his room many days of the winter, which is something I sympathized with at the time, but sympathize a whole lot more with after this April's shelter-in-place order.

The deaths in the U.S. in 2017 were about 61,000, compared to the normal 40,000 or so.

Long story short: you don't know, but it's the best guess of those in charge of making that call.
There was a public doc talking about the golang linker that addressed this issue at the end. My comment at the time and the post can be found here [0]. I guess there's some hope, but I haven't looked into it again, so I don't know whether anything is moving forward or not.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20957741
If I had intended a "pretty extreme bad faith response", I would've done it in a sentence, not several paragraphs.

To use your analogy, it'd be as if u/deadmik3 were asking, "Why must apples be called 'apples', when oranges are called 'oranges'?" It's a question that isn't coherent enough for a single answer, as it seems to be based on flawed foundational assumptions on the part of the asker, e.g. "Who says you 'must' call apples 'apples'" and "Do you actually think English people named oranges after the color, 'orange'?"

Here's deadmik3's original question/assertion [0]:

> Why is speech the only part of 1A that gets this treatment? You wouldn't say the same thing about religion

I would've thought u/kube-system's response was clear enough (e.g. it's the Civil Rights Act, not the 1A, that protects religion), but apparently it hasn't been. So I genuinely don't know what deadmik3's issue is. Do they think laws (and/or the process of making them) are merely a "semantic" concept? Do they think that religion and speech, being in the "First" amendment, confers to them a special overriding priority (i.e. in the way that being in Amendments 2-27 do not)? And if so, have they considered that the 1A explicitly mentions 3 other freedoms – press, assembly, and petition/lobbying – that, like speech, do not have the protection for religion?

Without knowing the presumptions behind their confusing question, it's hard to answer or otherwise debate it. I mean, the natural rebuttal would be to point out that the CRA's protections for religion is far from clear cut and indisputable – has deadmik3 never heard of the gay wedding cake case, which after 6 years ended in a narrowly defined Supreme Court decision? [1] – which means that similar protections for free speech would be even more contentious and logistically complicated, which is likely a key factor why that legislation doesn't exist/has never passed.

But why get into that if someone believes lawmaking is a semantic designation, rather than an actual process that requires considering how a law (and its enforcement) will actually operate in reality?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24570504

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
> His examples are pretty embarrassing

Some of the political ones show what is more easily described as bias, but his points about Global Warming or the MMR vaccine show exactly why "NPOV" for any extent is a bad idea, and why the new policy of "avoiding false balance" actually makes a lot of sense.
> When is electric going to be affordable for the average person?

Maybe never... A lot of today's technology runs on fossil fuel. It may very well be the case that our standard of living will decrease as we won't find comparable source of energy.
It is a part of EU law, so at least the EU countries.
> It's similar to the benefit of teaching

I would throw in "rubber duck debugging" as another similar activity known to produce similar results.
But it isn't strictly just for that. For example, I can quickly check the VIN of the car, and what version of software was on the car the last time I was able to connect. It also seems to wake up the bluetooth on my phone on occasion.
A lot of people already voiced their concerns much better than I can [1]. But I'll try.

Because of law.

Uber CEO stepped down after a number of scandals.

I do not work at Mozilla. What I see is several people ask to leave another because who he is. And I do not see mirror action "please leave because who you are". This is discrimination. Law has not helped that person. He was honest not to lie about his believes. He left the company.

I do not know how honest current CEO is. I've heard at least some people left the company because of management actions. I know a lot were fired. I think people hacking source code, helping with bug tracking feel uneasy, I do.

[1] Mozilla employees tell Brendan Eich he needs to “step down” [2014] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482017
Is it possible to use Graal's ahead-of-time compilation with Bazel? Or perhaps something like Nailgun? ( http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/background.html )
I'm glad it seems reasonable to you. It does not seem reasonable to me.

This is essentially the Google philosophy, and it stands in contrast to the Apple philosophy. Yes, Nest is ex-Apple people and followed this bad pattern before their acquisition by Google, but still.

Apple HomeKit-certified devices don't communicate with Apple. They establish secure local connections and operate locally. For home devices, this makes good sense to me. It means, however, that HomeKit-certified devices have to be powerful enough to establish secure local connections, which the first couple of generations of IoT devices were not.

I'm willing to wait longer and pay extra to get devices that don't require a third-party corporate intermediary. Anything else seems unreasonable to me.
I'm curious about this as well. How does that work with books too? Like can I read a book on Youtube and make money with that even if the book is copyrighted?
Preventing explosions in the event of H2 leaks is difficult too. H2 has one of the lowest ignition energy curves of any gas. Electronics used in areas with H2 must follow very strict regulations (worse than medical requirements in many ways).
Had a severe stutter as a child. It wasn't until I started meditating about 4 years back, that my stutter no longer holds me back.

My experience here lines up with the experience cited by others on the thread.

To phrase what seems to have worked for me in a more systematic manner -

A. Micro level - deep breathing helps. At the end of a long day, when I am fatigued, my words get slower and harder to get out clean. I take a deep breath or a series of breaths and this usually helps.

B. Marco - meditation really has helped me deal with my own thoughts and insecurities ( which unfortunately stuttering tends to push more of), and find a core of Calm. The more I reconnect with that sense of calm, the more I feel like stuttering is within my control, and the more it helps.

Wouldn't wish it upon anyone - many days ended with me cursing and hating myself. Many days I would blame my father for it (easier to blame him, as a young boy) for not doing anything about it.

I would certainly hug every little kid I see with a stutter. Not just for what they are going through then, but to just let them know that "it will be OK".
All these languages existed 5 years ago... I’m not sold on the time travel premise.
Yes, in those rather short time periods, energy prices are free. But for those periods, batteries are the better storage solution, as the total amount of "free" energy is rather small. Electrolysis plants would have to run basically 24/7 to be viable.
More battery electric cars on the roads also mean a lot of storage for excess electricity. Just use the top 10 to 20 percent of the capacity to absorb production peaks.
As a couple of other responses have indicated, this is not a reliable way to translate terms.

Another bit of anecdotal evidence on translation: I recently wanted to find the idiomatic French for "electronics packaging." Google Translate gets it wrong, and there's no French wiki page to refer to. The source that came up with the goods was the "translations in context" snippets here: https://www.linguee.com/english-french/translation/electroni...
I can't reply to the below comment, but it's worth pointing out that we also have an open primary system in California, where all the candidates of every political party are on the primary ballot and the top two vote getters advance to a runoff in the general election. Also, several of our cities do have ranked choice voting, including in the Bay Area. California's government is the result of effective democracy reform.
Why is California (and perhaps the political left in general) obsessed with banning or requiring things? Bit by bit the choice individuals could make privately or locally is being taken away from them. In a very real way, freedom is being replaced with decision-making by the state at broader and broader levels of jurisdiction. This is not a good way to manage society.

If the value in adopting electric vehicles is there, let people recognize that value on their own and decide on their own to adopt it. Alter incentive structures in minor ways but don't override an open-ended libertarian choice architecture with top-down authoritarian decision-making. More about this in a book called Nudge, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_%28book%29
I wonder if you can script youtube-dl into doing something like this. as coayer said, ublock-origin will remove ads but this way you'll never lose your watch history to DMCA nonsense.

Maybe scrape your watch history nightly and take a delta of what you haven't downloaded yet.
its not the governments job to deal with this. europe made the same bullshit law. if electric can beat gas at the same price point people will naturally pick that. especially if elon is correct about his telsa stuff. if you could spend 25k and get a model 3 that did almost 400 miles and RWD i think it would kill a lot of car models.
I am currently using it for a pesonal project and so far it's been great.

Expect from a few quirks here and there with new integrations and the fact that I hate hibernate and there is no other option for persistance, it's great.

Super fast reload, easy to implement, good developer tools.
It would be great to make sure: (1) our grid is safe and ready for that and (2) we don’t buy dirty electricity (like we do now more and more buy buying from Utah) and instead use renewables + nuclear mix
Yeah, to me he seems like he's got a lot of thoughts going on in his mind, and so there's always something making him hesitate to put out the next word. It's like when you're in deep thought about something and trying to explain it to someone at the same time, you end up with contention on the stdout and it looks weird.

A huge number of HN folks seem to have a stutter issue, maybe because they are also having a lot of thoughts while talking.

Interestingly another guy who interrupts his current thoughts is currently campaigning for re-election.
I do recall Microsoft using a similar tactic to try to get Windows Mobile more widely used.
EV’s could use in road charging to get effectively unlimited range on highways. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-f... But, I think that’s completely unnecessary. Charging at home actually saves time traveling to gas stations more than making up for spending an extra 5-10 minutes on the extremely unusual 400+ mile road trip.

Remember, we are talking about 50+% of cars being EV that means plentiful charging infrastructure.

EV’s are already shipping with 400+ mile ranges and 180 miles of charging in 15 minutes. 2 different 15 minute stops for food, bathroom breaks, and just stretching over 10 hours means your EV is doing 750~ miles per day, that’s well past what most people are willing to spend in their cars, and it can completely charge overnight.
What's the legitimate government interest in disallowing shadowbanning?
Pretty sure the original concept of representative democracy didn't involve campaigning on issues at all, it was more like "the people decide who they want to represent them by picking the wisest and most honorable citizens, and then the representatives decide what to do about the issues."
The size and amount of JS doesn't really matter. Whether it's well written and integrated matters. How many round-trips it introduces matters.

The stuff that gives JS a bad reputation is sites that slap together nested widgets that each load their resources sequentially.

If you serve a 1 MB blob of all_the_things.min.js on the first page load, then gzip reduces that to ~300 KB, which will take ~2.5 seconds to load on a 1 Mbps connection, and then it will likely be cached.

If you serve a widget that loads another widget that adds a third widget, on the other hand, elements will keep popping in and your user experience will suck.
ZEROe: Hydrogen-hybrid aircraft concept
that's really cool. After some code I posted here on HN got featured on top 10, another Brazilian guy from Google asked me if he could refer me. I accepted right away. Stopped everything I was doing to study for the interview. I Applied for 3 job openings using their internal tool (two outside Brazil and one here), but never got called to an interview. Probably for the best, I suck at programming with a timer on.
Talk of civil war is the newest fear porn.
Freedom of association doesn't rely on law.
Is this actually an online course about selling online courses?
> a bad electric car is outright better than almost any ICE car.

You are right, and I want to add more perspective that in your proposal there are now 2 cars on the road. Your electric and your used ICE car. The better situation is to drive your ICE car to its end, and only then replace it.

Our over consumption is a part of the problem as well.
It's way too early to tell, but it seems like in the long run of history, they could plausibly become most well-known for creating Rust, and mostly forgotten for everything else they've done. Based on adoption trends from huge organizations and projects, we might very well see Rust (or a "Rust++" type analog) powering a lot of key software in 20 or 30 years from now, and who knows, maybe even a lot longer than that. (Maybe a lot shorter, too, but I'm just thinking about hypotheticals.)

I know it's probably not practical to monetize an open source programming language, and they don't centrally manage it, but that seems to be their big differentiator and contribution to the software world as of 2020, as far as I can tell. They were pioneering back when they were driving a lot of the evolution of browsers and web APIs, and providing a way less awful alternative to IE, but by 2020 Google's basically upstaged them in all those areas, and I don't see that trend ever reversing at this point. But Rust might live on in a big or huge way, possibly even long past their solvency as an organization.

So I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say with this post, and I don't know how it could help them financially, but maybe leaning into Rust or other similar very ambitious attempts at fundamentally shifting the software ecosystem could let them remain if not successful, at least relevant and acclaimed. Maybe Servo could've been one of those, but it seems like vaporware at this point (besides the parts Firefox cannibalized, like Stylo).
I believe you are underestimating the work lawyers do.

I try to avoid the error of confusing my lack of knowledge of the grammar of a system with the system itself being stupid. Law and its application have flaws, but it's not an "anything goes" system as you seem to be describing it here.
At least they chose the heaviest & most metalish place to dispose of the ashes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiKz7r86aT8
I don't think anybody is criticizing the tool itself. The authors are trying to pitch this as an anti disinformation tool. Which makes it look like one of these Twitter "bot" detection sites used to harass legitimate users. I don't think anybody would have a problem with this if it was marketed as a simple trend tracking tool.
Right.

So I am sick and tired of the media repeating that "Americans don't want to buy small cars" when the fact is that "American car manufacturers don't want to sell small cars."
> Most people have a mental model of budgeting which is roughly linear. If you spend half as much money, your money will last twice as long. As you approach zero spending, your runway goes up to infinity.

Well sure, but if you have investments, then it's not zero spending you need to approach, but your annual investment returns...Which is basically what the rest of the page discusses.

The author is basically asserting that most people who budget assume a 0% rate of return on their investment. But since that's a nonsensical assertion, they instead rearrange the logic a bit to make a functionally identical statement which sounds less obviously flawed.

The content in the article is good, but it could stand to have the "most people think...but they are wrong" section replaced with something more friendly and inviting. I'm personally not a fan of articles that start assert that a bunch of people are dumb.

The author is going for a MMM vibe, but I think what makes his articles so successful is he criticizes behaviors instead of calling people dumb (usually).
I understand and agree with what you mean, but that's what I'd associate with Engineers. I was thinking Hackers understand that the code running on the machine can be exploited.
Who's working on expanding electric vehicle infrastructure in rural California? This will become increasingly important late next year when electric trucks begin hitting the market.
What's the audience like on those? I assume pretty small compared to YouTube.
Someone watched battery day ...
oof, I noticed that they referenced a different interpreter; didn't realize they also created it. My bad.
Over the last few years, a number of mostly European countries have passed regulations to ban new petrol/diesel cars by 2030-2040, with some cities to ban then as early as 2025. So from the industry's point of view, this is more of the same, and not unexpected. It would arguably be weird if the markets moved much; this sort of thing should be priced in.
Actually, the only one that is still running is Diablo Canyon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
Could you elaborate what you mean? While it'd be ideal to store certs in vault, I'm having it run fine in orchestrated containerization with the cert storage on a distributed filesystem.
Opening the dev tools works
This Landin paper predates SASL by about a decade: http://thecorememory.com/Next_700.pdf
Did you mean a skyhook?
Great excuse to rewrite user-space utilities - https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv/tree/riscv/user
When did he say that?

From what I have read he has stated that it forced purity and I’d be interested to see the context where he calls it a “mistake”.
What are the advantages to ... let's say ... Spring Boot?
'Balanced' is a red herring and useless in-and-of itself. Conversation should be a collaboration to find the truth, not a 'balanced' battle between two opponents. Bullshit on the internet doesn't further the goal of finding the truth or arriving at consensus.
I’m surprised that I had to scroll to the bottom of this thread to find a greyed our comment saying this...

Adblock with safari on iOS works great
> If you have linter settings it will ask if you want the linter installed.

And then, despite automatically identifying the local python venv, install the linter elsewhere so it doesn't work.

But it integrates it wonderfully when you install the linter yourself, or if you use the bundled pylance.
These changes are driven by actual issues actual end users were having, as opposed to the usual "we want this feature [no one asked for] to be used more so we gave it more exposure [at the expense of the UX]". That's what software development should be like. You serve your users. Not the other way around.