skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nio's car is capable of battery swapping. There is a swap station and a robotic arm take out the battery from your car a change a new one in 3 mins. What is interesting is that they have this program where when you buy a car, you don't buy the battery, you pay a price for the car, then a subscription fee for the battery. And then you can do unlimited free changes at these battery stations. The idea is that you use the entire battery like "fuel". You don't care the ownership of a battery. They make sure the battery is always healthy and full of charge. It also allow you to upgrade to a bigger capacity battery on your car just buy changing a tier in the subscription. Back then nio cars were launched with 75kw battery. Now users can upgrade their car to a 100kw battery by changing a tier of the sub on their phone and pay more monthly fee. Oh you can also downgrade the tier too, say you don't need the single charge range of the 100kw, you can switch to the 75kw and have lower per month fee. China population mostly live in dense apartments, and many old apartments cannot be retrofited with car chargers. This is vastly different from the US where people live in houses. This system allow nio cars to be used like gas cars. And if your swap speed is fast, you don't need as many "energy refill" stations. The way I see it, it's really hard to get ev charging speed equal to gas refills. But it's not technically difficult to a build a robot that changes out battery fast. There was another car company that made a prototype battery change station that can swap battery in 1 mins. And you can always charge the battery as well. So fast charging, destination charging, at home charging for the capable. The combination is able to cover more scenarios and more flexibility. I think it will be interesting to see how this system gets developed in the future. See if it could work well. It will bring a new solution to this industry problem. So far, it seems to work well for both nio and consumers.
Interesting on how he is honest about the current state of Qt and QML support on platforms like Android, and how they are moving into platform specific APIs for future versions.

Probably not the kind of content that KDAD was expecting.
In “A Pattern Language” Alexander says people almost never use balconies unless they’re at least six feet deep.
The West’s Failure on Covid Is Even More Staggering Than You Think
Apple: No Mac-in-Touch
The problem is EU regulators see industries impacted by Google but forget all the Google users who benefit tremendously from Google existence. It's the same with Amazon. If Amazon was based on Mars, shipped from there and never paid a penny in taxes it would still be valuable to have because cheap quality services make lives better.
It's still the case of they kill several inefficient industries along the way. We would all be worse of just so French bookshop or German legacy media publisher can make money again.
> Sounds like this is less about whether RoR was the right tool for the job and more that no one other the implementer was familiar with Ruby/Rails (and maybe not even them).

Isn't that already an operational problem? I mean, consider the mental burden alone of being forced to onboard to a completely different and relatively obscure tech stack, including the quirky programming language that serves as it's base, and all just to keep a web service up and running.
But all three are by no means junior.
I'm surprised by the (lack of) choices made in the article. jQuery is almost 15 years old; Moment is only 9. Missing are such libraries as Prototype.js, Dojo, MooTools, Underscore, YUI, and (my favourite) Modernizr.
I suspect if you doggedly pursued this strategy without a strong stem background, you would have one before long.
>I can't imagine that the UK government and the private sector will get their act together and somehow, in 9 years, the infrastructure will be amazing, and they will find answers to questions like how do you charge at an apartment or a house with no dedicated parking space. I'm eagerly awaiting to hear about these solutions.

They have much longer than 9 years to get the infrastructure right.

The average car age in the US is roughly 12 years old. I imagine is is roughly the same in the UK. That means even if they stop selling new ICE cars in 2030 the average car might still be an ICE into the 2040s. Assuming no further restrictions it probably wouldn't be until the 2050s that it would become truly difficult to find a used ICE car.

Obviously the UK would need to improve in the meantime, but they would basically have 30 years to get their EV infrastructure into the position it works for every car owner.
My apologies; I was being sarcastic, but my writing ability does not match my intent, which in any case was not in good faith.

My point is that many on the right claim there is no attempt at empathy from the left, meanwhile there are many on the right (not always the same people, I acknowledge) who will say "fuck your feelings" and use (from their POV) epithets against leftists instead of addressing grievances or even ideologies.

I myself have what I consider enough perspective on the heartland; my parents grew up in Iowa, and both sets of my grandparents worked in the agricultural fields. This is not to claim I have first hand knowledge, but I am white and I recognize the many aspects of privilege I am afforded. I feel I have enough of that perspective.

Meanwhile, it seems glaringly obvious that many on the right are not even making attempts at understanding why BLM exists, and can't seem to comprehend systemic racism, because they've never been a victim of it. FFS, when Bloomberg admitted to stop and and frisk, that I felt should have been a turning point. For decades people of color have been telling us about this, but they were commonly dismissed by white americans as imagining it.

To elaborate on why I am not willing to empathize further than I have, I have no wish to empathize with bigotry. One set of my grandparents were also homophobes, which was laid bare in their will when their estate left out my homosexual brother completely. I hope I don't have to cite Popper's paradox of tolerance.

"Fred the farmboy" wants understanding and compassion? I'm all for that, I even want to put policy in place to help! But I have zero tolerance for intolerance, and will call it as I see it.
I'm curious, and I know this is a random thread to post this question, but how do you handle the fact that the Elixir process might be shut down with regards to necessary persistence of any message queues? Put differently: I consider both message queues and databases in my system to be part of the stateful workloads and the web app part of the stateless workloads (can-be-killed-at-any-time). How do you handle the case where your stateful workload (queueing) now lives within your Elixir process which might be killed at any instance?
Actually agree with the original comment

This is an ASSUMPTION that all startups are VC funded startups or the goal of building a company is to get VC funding

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That shows a very VC centric viewpoint, as opposed to a more balanced viewpoint

2nd wrong assumption -> That you can break it into 3 stages

That everyone else is wrong, and you are somehow right

3rd wrong assumption -> Growth is a stage, as opposed to something that has to be there from Day 1 until forever basically. Even if building hardware or Enterprise. You have to have a growth strategy from Day 1
Fine, but at least have the courtesy to communicate this to your users.

When you publish open source, people don't want to fork and compete with you, partly out of laziness, sure, but also because it's just really bad manners.

If you're maintaining OSS and ghost your users, why act like you're the victim when people are confused and upset? Give me a break.

Sure, being in a relationship with somebody doesn't mean "I'm going to marry you and spend my life with you" but you should at least have the decency to communicate clearly with the ones who depend on you.
> this is another nail in the coffin for the hobby of building and modding cars.

I confess ignorance about this hobby, but I had imagined it might be easier for a hobbyist to build an electric car than an ICE one (once the parts become more available). I thought there were fewer moving parts in electric cars, and maybe fewer fluids (gasoline obviously being the big one)?
> I can open up the source and debug and figure out a workaround or a fix.

I use a lot of open source software I'm not even remotely capable of understanding, much less fixing. I figured I was at least an average coder but maybe I've been fooling myself.
I don’t have any experience with Steam engines, but IC engines have made huge improvements in efficiency in the last 10 years or so.
My favourite example is the Indiana Bell Telephone Company headquarters in Indianapolis. It was moved 46m while operating, and retained connection to all grid utilities including electricity, gas, and sewage...

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/10/an-incredible-move-ind...
Very ad heavy. Didn’t see anything interesting. Would love to see something relevant.
I slightly disagree about your reasoning on the PhD thing, for some roles. Having a PhD in an experimental science is a (weak) indicator that you’ve learned how to design, conduct, and analyze an experiment on your own.
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed"
This research is as terrific as it is terrifying. These are some terrific insights into the evolution of intelligence. I doubt that it was one gene alone that drove the whole thing, but as the article mentions, the ethical dilemmas already arise, and it's easy to see how scientifically valuable it would be to study the impact of the gene further by allowing the transgenic animals to be born. The ethical dilemmas cut both ways - research like this might be crucial to understanding Alzheimer's and other serious diseases. Complicated and difficult questions to be sure, but it's extraordinary and a testament to the power of science that we're even in a position to be asking those questions. Lets hope we answer them correctly.
Why? Because it's missing hate groups?
Why wouldn't Terraform be sufficient? I use Terraform to manage real deployments, but the UI is very useful to scan the environment. This is partly because the aws-cli is so awful^h^h^h^h^h hard to use as an interactive tool.
> it took my around a decade before I was sufficiently jaded that almost all I want to do is write actual business logic

It's comforting to see I'm not alone. I just wanna ship clean code and contribute value to the business, while all the young bucks in my team are more interested in rewriting our REST apis in Graphql (with all kinds of rationalizations). Looks like the younger you are the more eager you are to explore new tech and the older you are the more keen you are in just delivering value in a boring old stack.
The climate doesn't care also for political choices based on nothing else than PR

EV are cool, they make people who supports them blindly look cool too

Banning fast fashion is not, it'll make anyone who proposed it sound like a sad trombone or a "boomer" who wants to stop youth expression of inner self

But I know which is worse and I know that if we ban the first, we should obviously ban the other 5 years before

p.s. I do not own a car anymore (sold the last one 7 years ago) and I only make an average of less than 1 thousand Kms/year - this year I still have to surpass the 500 Kms - on rented cars (mainly inside the city, on electric cars)
I didn't know that strawmanning is the way to the truth /sarcasm.

I put conspircy theorists in quotes because the news organisations label people as such when they look away from an official narrative. This is known as dissent. If you are an American your country is founded on dissent.

That why I gave you the the Rothbard quote (not a conspiracy theorist btw but an Anarcho Capitalist) because it specifically talks about how dissenters are dismissed. You are doing exactly that. You should be very worried when large media organisations and news are talking about "fact checking" and "stopping mis-information". What they are really saying is that they wish to silence dissenters.
It wasn’t so long ago that credit card companies would just send out cards to everyone in a postal code, the idea was you had to return it if you didn’t want it, or they assumed you did and charged you the annual fee. Or you accept the fee and start using the card. It took an act of congress to stop them from doing that.

Around that same time the credit card companies were also getting a lot of flack for issuing cards to newborns, pets, and the deceased. That also took an act of congress to stop.

The US credit agencies themselves are only a few decades old, people have been borrowing and lending for a bit longer then that - you can read about it in the Old Testament.
The key difference here is that the speech is already highly managed and influenced to a degree never before seen in history. To think otherwise would be foolish.

Twitter isn't some natural state of the world that is pristine and unassailable; Facebook isn't the square in the park where people can speak their voice, and other choose to listen, participate, or walk along. Neither are anything like a book or newspaper.

If you're saying we shouldn't optimize or manage or turn the dials of these systems, then that's accepting that the current management and optimization and dials are somehow, inexplicably, acceptable or natural.

Someone has designed these systems and is influencing speech with their decisions. I don't have any power over them, but someone does, and the dials and designs of the system and the type of speech and communication they reinforce or encourage will change over time.

What gives them, the designers of the systems, any more right to manage their own system and the speech on it by their design choices? Are we to simply accept the corporations' design of their systems without critique or argument?

Not taking any action is to accept the current action, which still influences society. Not managing systems is to accept the current state of those systems, which still manages speech.

I do not see any difference whatsoever in those paths, so I will argue for trying to improve the systems.
and java devs
and c++ devs
and php devs
and python devs
etc. etc.
Laser-Guided Lightning May Help Prevent Wildfires
> I think rigid hierarchy is more advantageous for overall survival

I can see how one can see it that way, it is probably what those who rigging the game were thinking when they first started, and like the saying goes "those who play a rigged game gets stupid over a long period of time". That's probably why empires collapse, too much corruption and too many people playing the rigged game. A rigged game kinda corrupt workability of the whole system. The short term advantage may not be so good in the long run.
I think it is FATIGUE

So many people drumming up - this young person did something that FOR HIS AGE is impressive

Who the @#$#$ cares

why is it on Hacker News?

It should benefit the people visting in HAcker News in some way

ain't none of us 10 and get inspired by a 13 year old doing something that FOR HIS AGE is impressive

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Share something that helps people here or is TRULY IMPRESSIVE in the Field
There is KDE Connect. You can easily respond to texts from that.

Barring that, sending a text is a simple one-liner in the terminal. Worst case, you can just run the command via ssh or whatever other workflow you may want.
If the future looks like London. I don't want to go there.
Launch of NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Mission Live
India is a big place, I'd guess it varies a lot by region and by status.
They should just go for markets that aren't made up of lawyers that want to sue everyone and medical companies that want to rip everyone off. So somewhere outside the US. The EU would likely be a more welcoming market for open source.
Meh, put React into your build, maintain the thing, make the website download and parse React - all that just for one page? Better be a damn dynamic page. I wouldn't do it even if it's a big form with some dynamic fields.
Repost of the killed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25102858 . While literally having anti-trump posts on the frontpage, pro-free speech is [dead]ed. It's back for the moment though.
It was with 10°C. I put -10°C and it takes 8 minutes longer according to the app.
The female mathematician who changed the course of physics (2015)
Probably way easier to just fire up the web browser in that case.
If someone is older than 50, they most likely have a cable subscription and watch it there. Fox News has never been on broadcast (antenna) television
For vintage products, restoring to factory settings often has to be done through torrents or Github. Other then that no complaints.
> A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

I had thought that cats could fall from any height safely, but that's not quite true: observational studies suggest [0] they have a 50% or 90% survival rate from terminal-velocity height onto hard surfaces, but not without injury.

Still, I'd expect a rat could also "walk away". It's quite a lot smaller than a cat, though it may lack other evolutionary adaptations for falling. And a rat is a mouse, taxonomically: we just informally call the bigger species of mice rats.

[0] http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/domestic-cat...
Would another manufacturer automatically inherit your certifications? I'm ignorant here, but I would be very surprised to learn that merely having the same basic schematics means no certification cost.
+1

I'm also open to the idea that a HN'er teaches us.

Yes, I know what I'm asking.

You don't have to do it ;-)

It would just be really nice :)
Parler will fail. Twitter has the respectable center ground. If Hard Righters (Being polite there) cant have manners and stop saying some of the things they are saying then that has consequences for their accounts on a private business site.

Parler will fail because teh very people who will flock to parler wont stay there as there is no non "hard righters" to antagonize.
> The problem goes further than the police into the prosecutors

Yes.

> Hence the refusal to prosecute in cases of murder by police of black people.

No. They refuse to prosecute cases of murder by police regardless of race. The race of the person killed is largely irrelevant, which is the point I was making in the previous comment. Black officers aren't prosecuted, white officers aren't prosecuted. They aren't prosecuted when they kill white people or people of color. The problem is that police (and the prosecutors) aren't accountable, and they know it.

You make it about race rather than accountability and the problem will not be fixed.
Just learned about Gab 'invading' Mastodon :

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentr...
Don't forget "fact checks are a form of censorship".

How did we, as a species, drop so low that to say that the thing a person says is disputed gets blown up into a huge issue.

I have no problem with people of ANY political persuasion being fact checked - is it perfect? No. But is it better than nothing? On balance, it appears so.
What's the carbon footprint of all the extra copper needed for the heavy gauge wiring?
That last point is the kicker to me.

We need to start understanding that there is no such thing as a natural state of freedom; there is only freedom from and freedom to, within specific environmental constraints and power structures. We are always influenced--the question is just what influences we want to prevent, design, or control and which we want to leave undesigned or "free."
Holy crap! you were paid to work on a Rails app and you actually had to learn Ruby/Rails to get stuff done? The horror! I would seek compensation from my employer for that, not way is that legal.
I went to try and download matrix just now. Did it rename itself to riot or element? Are there multiple apps? Is it encrypted? It’s a little confusing
The ACLU increasingly responds to events reflexively without thoughtful regard to constitutional rights.

Example #2 would be the police shooting of Deon Kay which the ACLU immediately called the shooting "murder". This was after video was released showing Kay lifting a gun at officers.

For decades, the ACLU has prided itself on its defense of due process and free speech. That time is fading quickly.

That this submission was flagged and marked dead after dozens of upvotes, makes the author's points a bit stronger.
Which EV is competitive? Even the best have lower driving range, longer charging times, much more expensive and cold in the winter.

I’d love to buy an EV but I can get a decent petrol/diesel car for 30k EUR and no comparable EV.
I love writing software for Linux, but tbh I'm glad I never got into writing GUI apps. Between Qt, GTK, X.org, Wayland, Mir, whacky hidpi support, etc, it sounds like an absolute nightmare.
Because of where we are in the lab for better chemistries.
> But you can't just simply waltz to mankind and actively make their lives measurably more miserable 'because future and polar bears', suck it up.

It's not for the polar bears, it's for us. Massive droughts and rampant storms are going to be far worse than needing to charge electric cars.

What is your alternate plan? I would love to have a less disruptive path forward.
Another approach for Firefox (not sure about other browsers):

Right click on the search box on a website and 'Add a keyword for this search', save it then edit the bookmark to end up with something like https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=-site:example.com %s
Lithium doesn’t have any memory effect.
Why not learn R? In the last year I've spent around 80% of my time working with R, coming from the last five years almost exclusively with Python, and there are some great reasons to use R. Although if the tidyverse didn't exist I'm not sure I'd be saying that. I find that suite of packages together to be a very cohesive set of tools for doing data science.
I get the point, it's not completely invalid.
And still, calling Rails "obscure" is a stretch. In web dev world it's still a pretty dominant framework. There shouldn't really be any problem to hire Ruby guys afaik.
We should be encouraging people to keep their car for longer and to use it less. Even electric cars have most of the negative externalities of regular cars (with the emphasis moved around a little). The UK government should make life without car ownership viable and the default option for most people. What does this mean in practice? It means reallocating road space from cars to pedestrians and cyclists; legalising and properly integrating electric scooters; creating a functioning rail network, potentially with new lines and (least sexy of all) affordable and frequent bus services, including in rural communities.
To me makes more sense an iPad with macOS. Because if you press the screen it can flips. Apple should rethink the MacBook but there’s already the iPad with keyboard and trackpad that can be both.
Yeah that would probably do it
I have no idea what you are talking about, you should describe what a 'salute' emoji would look like or what it is supposed to represent. Alexis Ohanian worked to get a hijab emoji added to Unicode, you could research his process and look at Unicode's website for more info.