skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they are increasing demand by being cheaper (because they can ignore fire safety regulations and a ton of others that hotels have to follow, therefore having an unfair advantage).

They are increasing demand in the same way more and bigger roads do not reduce but instead increase traffic. This paradox is well-known among city planners (but often ignored by those who make the decisions because it is counterintuitive).

In addition to that they can ignore zoning laws and therefore move rent prices up in areas where hotels are not allowed to be.
They also have https://github.com/google/jsonnet and https://cue.googlesource.com/cue.
It’s also more expensive than ProtonMail or Tutanota.
Then you would be googling it, not asking questions simply to undermine people answering you in good faith. What a fucking asshole.
> Yeah probably true, I didn't post a source because I thought it was common knowledge which in retrospect I'm not sure why I thought that.

There's a name for this phenomenon! It's a cognitive bias called the "Curse of Knowledge": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

In a nutshell, we instinctively assume others know what we know. This was probably true when we lived in small tribes on the Serengeti, but not so much in the global information age.

It takes practice, but you can grow the habit of always providing a little extra context without sounding patronizing, as well, at least in-person, a better sense for when people are following the conversation.

What helped me grow this skill was lots of pair-programming, because that daily pair rotation forces you to be really good at context-sharing on the quick.
> The main problem here is that it's still dependent on Lithium, and we've really got to get off that.

Yeah, I'm more interested in other salt batteries for thermal storage with high delta_k combined with efficient thermoelectric couples but it seems like big money is behind all things Li electrochemical for the forseable future.
Probably they'll keep making cars, and people will keep buying them. In the long run, maybe they stop being relevant and turn into just another car company.

In the short run, there just isn't enough battery manufacturing capacity for everyone who wants one to buy an electric car with two or three hundred plus miles of range. Toyota can fill some of that demand but probably not all of it.
From the article:

> In October, the Trump administration approved Taipei’s request to buy 400 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and associated launchers, transporters and radar systems that will boost the island’s defenses against naval and amphibious attack. In the same month, it approved the sale of 135 advanced, air-launched cruise missiles for Taiwan’s air force.
Maybe porn will be the first business to adopt cryptos. Would love for it to happen and it seems quite easy considering Pornhub already has some infrastructure for fraud detection
How interesting. The title of the report itself is "false news".

It's not the "truth" or "falsity" of the news that affects the speed of the spread, but the novelty.

"We found that false news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information."

Of course more "novel/interesting/salacious/etc" news travels faster. That's why the authors of the study created a "novel" headline.

The only interesting part is that rather than bots/algorithms/etc, it's the humans primarily responsible for the spread of novel news.

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."

I bet the true news about 9/11 attacks spread just as fast as the Orson Welles false news about Martian invasion since they were both equally novel.
> Additionally, there has recently been a lot of investment into EV chargers with built-in batteries that charge at slower rates when a vehicle is not present, and operate independently from the grid once a vehicle is connected.

Is this even going to be required in most cases? Charging at that speed is only really useful for road trips where you're sitting there waiting for charging to complete so you can go. If you're charging while the car is parked at home for the night, what does it matter if it's ten minutes or ten hours?

So then you only really need the very fast chargers at truck stops on the highway and the like, and then couldn't those chargers just be given a hefty grid connection? The high voltage lines already run parallel to major highways.
Nope, this doesn't work at all. Early prototypes starts in 2028. Charging requires 1000A and 15kV. It's only marketing bullshit which doesn't' have any ground in reality.
> I'll consider Google alternatives when there is a better alternative.

Sure, you do you, nothing wrong with that. I'd rather use 'inferior' technology if that means better privacy standards.
There are more cryptocurrencies than bitcoin
You basically dodged his question there.

Increasing I^2R heat loss by 5% doesn't let you shrink the cable much. You go from "humongously phat cable" to "really phat cable". The problem remains.

Also remember that the cost of the petroleum distribution infrastructure is shared between in-town drivers and road-trip drivers. If these "fast chargers" are only supposed to be used by people who need more than one batteryful of driving in a given day (i.e. people on a road trip), the budget available to pay for the refueling infrastructure is going to be tiny compared to the petroleum infrastructure. EVs will simply never "catch on" for non-commuter use if we go down that road.
If Brexit hadn’t happened, the Recovery Fund would’ve pushed the UK out. As proven by the American experience, on collective debt is the last step in becoming a single country. It seems insane to me that Europe would do this, with America out there as a warning sign, but it’s their funeral I guess.
Thanks and I will.
I'm not convinced this will work. Clearly it hasn't yet. Some people just can't be trusted to be responsible. Rather than teach people to be responsible with plastic, the most responsible thing might be to just put less out these. But I see where you're coming from. I think that can work in certain areas, maybe the more well to do ones
I know its a weird ask, but can anyone tell me some privacy focused yet free alts to Google Finance?
Time to start praying (or do something about it).

Artificial water shortages are already a thing it seems.
I'm sure there are. There's a team at my company (retail, not UPS) whose sole responsibility is figuring out how to optimize getting from Point A to Point B. At least 6 people on the team, probably more involved that I don't realize. At the scale my company and UPS operate in, even minor efficiency gains can add up to gazillions of dollars in savings.
My local area has even stopped recycling glass citing costs.
I haven't read it, but this article might address your performance question: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2017-06-30-dissecti...
seems like completely arbitrary garbage
Let's just go superconducting cable and we're good to go!
I don't think I do. Though it might be hidden on a hardrive somewhere. I didn't do the curriculum so much as the "reference" implementation.

This was for BYU CS 340. If you search those on GitHub you can probably find some students' implementations. The whole class was about working as a group and design patterns.
Yes, I should have thought more about it. So these BB(N) numbers are direct complexity bounds on various mathematical statements.
I understand what you're saying but that's not what in getting at. It is a little hard to articulate exactly what I'm curious about.

So in the insect species', the eusocial behavior is genetic. Worker ants are more closely related to their sisters than they would be to their daughters, the enforcement mechanisms in their systems are done by chemical communication, the pheromones are coded by DNA and can even differ slightly in different colonies. It is very very complex. You get behaviors in colonies that are very interesting, such as farming fungus in leafcutter ants (different species farm different species of fungus and use different plant material, and in many cases the fungus species only exist within the ant colonies). It is like the genetics of the colony itself is some sort of intelligent mechanism.

This cannot really be called "intelligence". But we intuitively see a similarity with intelligence when we look at it that we cannot quite nail down.

A brain of another animal does intelligent things, but with human beings we do something more that we consider the defining feature of our intelligence: we create things, synthesize things, go into space, all sorts of things. This behavior cannot be definitively chocked up to increased complexity of neurons.

What is the commonality with all this stuff? Is there some connection between the mechanics of amino acids and intelligence? What fundamentally about the universe makes it so that intelligence occurs inside it? It's all really interesting stuff.
How are they commonly implemented?
Every German soldier was an instrument of mass murder. How is this bullshit about individual soldiers brought up only when losers try to defend the german military being tools of nazi murder but not the individual brave soldier in pol pots army or the honorable spanish fascist? Maybe you think your grandpa was a nice soldier but he contributed to systemic genocide.
Pornhub has always had trouble with payment processors. They even had to make their own stripe.

Porn is so ill viewed that this is hardly a surprise. Plenty of disgusting content is published to most user-generated content platform, yet the easy target is always porn. The old "protect the children" used yet again for some dubious purposes.
I have market knowledge in this sector and can confirm the impact. Once the pandemic hit, Airbnb's from private landlords flooded the market due to travel nosediving.

see: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/world/europe/airbnb-dubli...
> Take your example, and imagine that it is Facebook the gatekeeper of the unique store?

Key point: Apple isn’t Facebook, and Apple has made it a key of their marketing that they are protecting their user’s privacy. This isn’t a fact that you can gloss over as if they are equivalent companies seeking only profit. Notably, if Apple ceases to protect my privacy, I can move to another platform (one that won’t protect it either, but what can you do?).
What are the benefits over selenium ide? It’s been years since I worked heavily on testing but I don’t recall there ever being a good record/playback testing tool. I’m intrigued.
I knew about paperclip maximizers but had never seen this game. I just spent about 3 hours playing it. It was fun.
> What electric sports car will be your first purchase

Disclaimer: I can't afford a Roadster II.

I've had enough high HP cars and super sport bikes on the street to know they're a waste of time and energy 90% of the time.

I'll take a Cybertruck and haul my car/bike (the only ones I'm keeping) to the track when I want to get that excitement back and use them to their full potential; both have amazing power/weight ratios that rival many modern'ish super cars--the bike will outrun a Ferrari Enzo in a straight and will embarrass one in the turns, don't ask me how I know.

Perhaps I'll even buy a shifter kart before I buy another 'sports car' ICE or EV ever again.

But, if I had to choose and money were no object it would definitely be the Plaid Version Roadster 2, I'm excited to see what Nissan comes out with (if they survive) but other than that not I'm really interested in EV sports cars for the street enough to care.

I used to run the indoor K1 karts for fun and to keep fit and sharp in the off-season, and its just not the same.
ProtonMail and Tutanota don’t primarily support IMAP (well, ProtonMail does as an option with an additional “bridge application“).

Take a look at Posteo.de (if you’re fine with no support for custom domains) and mailbox.org and runbox.com if you want custom domain support.

If you’re fine with the provider being in the U.S. and want a cheap solution for multiple domains, then mxroute may be good. It also has some very cheap plans and offers going on (check the lowendtalk.com forums).
Plastics create the management issue in the first place. That’s ok, we get value from plastics, so you’re right in that we can just better manage the plastic problem and have less of a problem. but the plastic problem, even if reduced, still scales with net plastic creation.

I can agree with you fully, and still think it’s a good idea to reduce plastic creation.

i’m curious why you don’t think it’s a reasonable value to also reduce plastics? if we tackle from both sides it’s even more effective.

(btw sorry i cannot give you what you want in terms of rigorous scientific proofs, i’m a philosophizer)
Why, then, does it have a definite article? One does not catch a flight to "the New York".

(Some place names in English do have "the", but then it is capitalised, for example "The Pines" or "The Hague".)
If by OP you mean me, then let’s be clear. I didn’t think the rewrite was necessary.
Ask HN: Should Cloud Service Providers adhere to a standard pricing model?
Suppose that your cloud stack is the same across different cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, Digital Ocean, etc.), then shouldn't it cost the same? Our organization launched a mandate to architect our tech stack across multiple cloud providers. We tried to use cloud agnostic frameworks such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and the serverless framework to make it easier.

Of course, it wasn't that simple. Each cloud has different services and those services have different dependencies. We had to re-evaluate the architecture on each cloud platform to ensure we were leveraging resources in a cost-effective and sane way. The architecture turned out highly different on each cloud platform. Moreover, the work to design with the cost in mind was significant. There are so many resources and "savings plans". Of course, these differentiators are what drives competition among the cloud providers but I think it is hurting adoption instead of helping in the long run.

The cost of resources on each cloud provider is a major factor in how we architect our apps. I think it would revolutionize the cloud industry and accelerate adoption if there existed a standard pricing model for cloud computing (at least for a subset of common services/compute/storage resources). That way, the cost of a design on one cloud provider is a reasonable estimate of the cost on another provider adhering to the standard pricing model. Moreover, advances in technology that drive prices down for resources in the standard pricing model can drive costs down across providers.

It's a naive ask from a neophyte cloud architect. But I think it's the future. What are your thoughts?
I imagine the 10c doesn't encourage as many people as a +1 public recycling score on one of your social media profiles would.
It's cheaper both economically and energy-efficent to just produce new glass bottles rather than to sort, clean, crush and melt old ones.
Yes- it is a joint development with BMW, who developed the engine. So if you want a hardtop, get the Supra, if you want a convertible, BMW sells the same vehicle as the Z4.
Woof.

Literally nobody likes x509. Is anyone seriously working on an alternative? I think there’s room for a more modern, simpler cert format.

Sort of relatedly, I actually really like JWK for representing keys.

Do you think a professionally built solution that gets the details right is possible?
Yippee.the world was waiting for this search engine.
Pat Govender
Realistically, limited. Passenger aircraft are routinely struck by lightning, which isn't entirely the same but is relatively similar. Given warning, I don't see airlines taking the risk, but that's driven by perceived liability rather than real risk.

Civilian FBW systems (essentially all of which are digital at this point, analog would likely be more vulnerable) are multiply-redundant which provides reasonable protection against upset events. The primary threat from solar events is the induced currents, not direct radiation that is a bigger threat to transistorized digital electronics. Flying aircraft are obviously electrically isolated from the electrical grid (which is where the real damage would take place), and relatively small (compared to hundreds of km of power lines), which would limit the range of induced currents in the airframe.

The real risk to aviation would be a loss of air traffic control which would risk mid-air collisions in busy areas.
The list is a bit fragmented. It doesn't really give Nextcloud enough credit. Nextcloud can replace _most_ of google in one shot -- calendar, reminders, contacts, drive, docs, hangouts, maps, photos, and more (https://apps.nextcloud.com/). I think it's not as popular because 1. it's not free (as in beer, but it is free as in speech) and 2. it's kind of fiddly to get up and running. You can either host it yourself or sign up with a provider, but either way it's not super intuitive and nowhere near as polished as what we're used to these days. But, if you're looking to get off of Google and don't want to sign up for 10 different things, Nextcloud is worth a look.
Top 10:

- Python: salt, core (https://github.com/home-assistant/core), pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, airflow, erpnext, matplotlib, pytest & pip

- Rust: servo, cargo, rust-clippy, tokio, rust-analyzer, tock, tikv, alacritty, libc & substrate

- JS: node, react-native, react, gatsby, three.js, bootstrap, material-ui, odoo, next.js & Rocket.Chat

- Java: elasticsearch, flink, spring-boot, hadoop, netty, jenkins, beam, bazel, alluxio & pmd

- C++: tensorflow, ceph, pytorch, bitcoin, electron, Marlin, Cataclysm-DDA, llvm-project, rocksdb & QGIS

- C: git, linux, linux, php-src, openssl, systemd, curl, u-boot, qemu & mbed-os
I recently switched back to Firefox from Chrome. The reasons I switched to Chrome to begin with...

- Firefox was slower

- Worse, Firefox was laggier, with a drunk feeling when interacting with UI elements

- Firefox became increasingly buggy. For about two years it was impossible to use Firefox with a PIV/CAC card on Mac (after they broke loading external security modules and before security.osclientcerts.autoload / security.enterprise_roots.enabled were stable)

- Breaking webpages intentionally with "experiments" (Mr. Robot)

- Forcing Pocket down your throat

- Other similar user-hostile behavior

I'm glad Firefox is better again, and I'm glad to be back on it, but it's a bit ridiculous to wage war on your users and then wonder why you lose market share.
Google is becoming more annoying by the day.
It has become customary for it to force the user to accept privacy-leaking features by grouping them together with other useful features. This kind of sneaky behavior I don't like at all.
i’ve had much lower false-negative browser based testing with cypress than any other framework
The NEC is basically the fire code for building wiring.

It's not a general safety code.

It's 80% about making sure buildings don't burn down, and 20% about peoples expectations about what parts of their house can shock them if a fork is stuck into them. That's it.
Yep. Google+ became brilliant a couple of years before ot shuttered.

It had working pseudonymity.

I could also post to different contexts from the same persona.

It was easy to read.

I experienced little spam and next to no politics.

Probably more.
Isn't DDG just a frontend for bing.com?
You're arguing about standing up to titans…by living in the shadow of one?
They'd probably like it in that light. Less fraud to detect with crypto payments. No charge backs are possible.
I’d be fascinated to see some of these sources. I’ve been curious for awhile what online connectivity is going to look like across the solar system.
i found this article interesting and beautiful, and your snarky comment unhelpful.
>She didn't have all the facts, and she then incorrectly assumed that the data was being censored.

So the solution is to raid her house? How about we raid the people that allege that biden fraudulently won the election?
And stiff!

I can't bend a 24mm-diameter solid copper rod with my bare hands. Can you?

Going stranded enough to feel even remotely like a "cord" or "cable" will bloat that diameter far, far beyond 24mm.

I used to work with ~9mm diameter solid copper and even for that I treated it like EMT and used task-specific benders to shape it.
"""We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve things like misspellings."""

- https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s4
"Best" is a subjective measure. For a lot of people being tracked all around the internet is a non-starter. I would also argue that a lot of Google products have stagnated and are not the best on offer anymore. Hey and Protonmail for mail, Notion for docs/keep, and Sync for file syncing come to mind, but of course that's just me :)
That’s okay, Chrome is the only browser.
Hey, that is contrary to our entire newsroom's ethics and policies. It's called a native, uh, something-or-another, and we promise that we stand behind our journalistic integrity.

On an unrelated note, we thank our sponsors and benefactors for bringing us drafts and notes we occasionally might use to augment our impeccable news coverage.
Visa and MC are in fact removing themselves from the situation.

The downvotes are probably because the comment shows a lack of understanding of a few things.
For two

- Coke changed from glass bottle to plastic bottle. Or they popularized plastic bottle to put in another way

- They launched campaign to "recycle" bottles. So people focus less on consuming "less" bottles

From Citizen Coke
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28789663-citizen-coke
What specifically are those criticisms that you think have merit?
> The raw feeling of man and machine coming into one wasn't there at all, although it was a lot of fun to drive, which is why I'm giving up my collection of ICE stuff besides my first car and bike and getting a Cybertruck.

I wonder if this is more of a Telsa thing than an electric car thing? I test-drove a dual-motor model-3, and while the acceleration was very impressive, it felt kind of boring to drive in general. Not that I'm some automotive connoisseur, I've been mostly driving boring stick-shift Hondas for the last couple decades.

(My current project is to convert a Mazda RX-8 I picked up cheap with a bad engine to electric. I thought about getting a Tesla model 3, but in the end it wasn't quite the car I wanted, and was more expensive than I wanted to pay, and too locked down. If I can get the RX-8 going, it'll have a lot less range and not any better in terms of storage space, but it should at least be fun to drive and I can configure it however I like.)
I feel like all that's ever talked about here as bad about search is privacy. But what about good results? Google search results have an extremely heavy commercial bias. What would the internet look like without that? I would really like to have a say in how the ranking algorithm works. If I could, for example, exclude results from the Alexa Top 100k with a toggle, I bet I'd find interesting content a lot easier.

Most "privacy-centric" search engines I've seen – especially DDG – do not approach this, probably since they use Bing results, which is just as inflexible and SEO-able as Google. Has anyone had a good experience with a search engine that implements a novel crawler and/or ranking algorithm?

I've been trying Yandex for some searches lately, and it's results seem a little less commercially catered, but there are indeed some serious privacy concerns with it [0].

I have been holding a belief lately that a nonprofit search engine that scrapes & ranks in a way that is not commercially-driven is the single most important missing piece of digital infrastructure... anyone share this view?

[0] https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/facial-recogniti...