skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the history between the two countries, and have taken an interest into studying it.

I'm also literally younger than the events which spawned the "Death to America" meme... and I recognize that my similarly aged peers don't give a crap about history.

At this point, the saber-rattling on both sides is just typical American / Iranian foreign policy. It gets crazy because nukes are involved now, but that's life.

Hopefully, my knowledge of history will better inform me over whether or not the actions of my country (and leaders) are doing the right thing. But... I'm not expecting any of the saber-rattling to end in my lifetime.
> should run fine without a port

Sure. Was saying that this should work out of the box (at least for the most part) on a linux phone. No port necessary.
Are you talking about the analytics? Which most package managers have. You can easily disable it: https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics#opting-out
You're both saying the same thing - only that parent used the negated form of your statement.
Everyone called it GChat, and the ~5 people I still communicate with on it still do.
Their side of the case is that they want money and they have the power to get it by influencing politicians and the public.
> And the once in a blue moon they do have to drive more than 300 miles, they'll need to have a spare car to do it. They'll buy their new shiny very expensive Telsa and still have to keep a gasoline-powered car around.

I don't think this is the way EV owners deal with long trips.

Most Tesla owners seem to just use the Supercharger network and deal with waiting 20 minutes instead of 5 minutes. After 4 hours driving I usually take a lunch or dinner break regardless.
Let's assume that this is true (I don't think that languages like C/C++ have this but I may be wrong).

If I use 4 programming languages why learn 4 tools instead of one (Docker)?
Texts – One inbox. All your messages
The Most Powerful Laptop in the World: Threadripper 16C/32T
In a world of billions there are bound to be a few truly delusional people.

Given the evidence, I'm convinced he's one of them.
Right. This spanner thing is new to me, but looking at it, I don't see why spanner doesn't/couldn't shard by modulo / checksum to reduce this risk. And I think other systems do
Can't reproduce.

For me the only buttons are 1, 2 and more. There's no page 3 button.
In Vancouver BC for example it's common for residential streets to be "parking for residents only" and bylaw officers will ticket/tow any vehicle that is lacking a pass. The pass comes with your house/apartment.
In the US, depends on the city and probably on the neighborhood. A lot of my friends in NYC for example don't even have cars.

I've lived in Texas a long time and parking space in residential areas was never a problem. Nearly every apartment complex comes with a giant parking lot and private houses either have a garage/driveway or the street is isolated enough to where on street parking isn't an issue, but it's practically impossible or at least extremely inconvenient to live in Texas without a car.

There are a few places where parking is tight, like for instance at a university living space,so you either have to pay for a space somewhere or get a house/apt with dedicated parking (a lot of students don't really need cars though) or take the chance that you will have to play the street parking lottery.
Where are you getting the data on Tesla interiors? I’ve had my model 3 for 2 years and there hasn’t been a single problem.
> My experience was that almost all doctors will declare you depressed.

This is so painfully true. My lupus was repeatedly treated with prozac despite my insistence that I didn't feel at all depressed.
It was released as a standalone app in 2006 (after having a labs beta period prior) as Google Talk, and integrated into Gmail in 2007. While the widget in Gmail (which was only removed very recently to replace it with a Meet widget!) was labelled Chats, the service itself never was.
Audi sells almost four times the number of cars that Tesla sells annually, and in my opinion it's likely that we will see some ICE models sold alongside EVs as the world slowly transitions away from gasoline engines.

Also, Tesla's growth is not an overnight story.
Cafe style.
If you're buying lossless music files, it's not a matter of CDs sounding better. The audio compression you're hearing is a result of the loudness wars and pop music trends.
I used pidgin along time ago when I was using aim/msn/yahoo.

It's been a REALLY long time.
Me too, right now using pidgin to communicate with coworkers via Hangouts. Tried everything to set it up with KDE Telepathy (I know, I know - it's just my personal account is still working with it) to no avail.
Tangentially gas cars are convenient because you just don't have to think about the length of your next trip: there will be gas available wherever you go. Long trips with an EV require planning due to missing infrastructure, longer "fueling" times, and shorter ranges.

But if we break out off the assumption that you can go anywhere any time in your electric car because there's another option available (rental? ride sharing? public transportation?) and EVs are at least for now meant for shorter trips then it becomes less of an issue.

But you're right - the freedom to just hop in an EV and go isn't here yet. I look forward to when it is. Can't come soon enough for me.
The iPhone Front Facing Camera Module is already thicker than the whole MacBook Pro Screen + Glass + Casing.
“Condemns” hahahaha. Xi won’t be sleeping tonight.
US lawmakers ask FBI to investigate Parler app's role in Capitol attack
I mean if you accept that fossil fuel emissions are bad for the planet, why on earth would you want to disincentivize purchasing electric vehicles?
Can anyone suggest BLE-only microcontroller?

I wanted to build a smart-lock, but all the boards either also have Wi-Fi on-board (that eats a lot of power) or don’t have anything at all.
Not all of the tax money on gasoline goes directly to road maintenance I would guess, it also goes to environmental cleanup projects I believe. Also, remember that EV's are not as heavy in all cases. My 3 SR+ weighs just 3627 lb

Also note that here in CA if the car costs more the registration fee for the EV is more than $100 so I think that helps make up for the difference as well.
Using Pidgin with OTR was the way to go for private chats. shrug
2 ways.
I started tracking my memory score over time.
https://memtrax.com/
At my lowest it would frighten people to watch me take the test.

“You just saw that image 3 times in the last 60 seconds” Me: I have never seen that image before.
At my best I could outscore most anyone in the office.

Second is more arbitrary, but more important.

Been programming for decades. Since I was a kid. A task that normally would take me a few minutes might take me a week. Harder concepts were beyond me, felt like I was trying to tackle calculus after learning fractions.
I “knew” I could do it, except I couldn’t anymore.

Then I would have some good days, and I would go around the office solving all the really hard problems for people.
Don't forget full coverage insurance for the length of the loan. The insurance companies must love pickup buyers.

I will say that most 3/4- and 1-ton pickups will last 10-20 minimum under "farm life" conditions if maintained. This said, maintenance isn't cheap.
Given the economics of personal EV cars (they are expensive), wouldn't it be difficult to justify the investment (spending) given a growing wealth divide (spending everybody's money on rich folks to enable buying expensive things)?

I acknowledge that EV transport has a chicken/egg problem of standing up a support infrastructure as adoption grows and that there are collective interests in decreasing point of service emissions and shifting energy generation away from sources with harmful emissions. However, the problem can be viewed from perspectives outside the personal car paradigm. Why would a rationally goal-oriented city or similar organization spend money/effort on supporting the personal ownership model instead of improving transportation for all people? For example, the same decrease in emissions might be achieved by improved bus/tram service, or public/private partnership to provide EV charging for car sharing services.

What are the cities that have provided street-side charging, what were their goals and by what criteria did they decide to do street-side charging instead of choosing other methods to achieve their goals?
The problem is that news media run terrible ads that don't make them money and the paradox of choice makes subscribing to individual news organizations a losing proposition for just about everyone.

Music and video producers make money because they license their content for streaming and online purchases. I'm at a loss for why the news media hasn't figured out how to do this yet. My fear is that ultimately the market values news too little.
It's amazing how much robots.txt, nosnippet, and noindex are ignored in the reporting and comments about this topic. The controls are already there for Google to do whatever the news outlets want.

The anti-Google argument in this case should be along the lines that they force the news organizations into a prisoner's dilemma. They might be better off if none showed snippets but as long as some are they are better off showing them.
What I see around silicon valley is that rent is down allot, condos and attached house are down a little. But asking prices for single family houses are still rising. And the good ones are still getting multiple offers over the asking price. There is plenty of tear down and build a bigger house going on, too, which drives up prices even faster by reducing the supply of smaller houses.
Its weird.

I had an Iranian teacher, here in USA. Despite the calls to violence, its clear that we hate each other's countries, but not each other's peoples.

Well... by and large anyway. I'm sure there are assholes who actually wish death personally on both sides. But there's an understanding of the global political stage. There's still a way to communicate. I think there's a path forward for diplomacy even in these tense times.

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Knowing these things really helps put ideas into context. Ex: Iranians got really pissed off at the movie 300 for example (after all: Iranians see themselves as the Persians. So seeing a bunch of Persians get slaughtered by the "Western-world Greeks" on a big Hollywood movie is not exactly nice to them either...)

These sorts of things are just accepted. Iranians know that the Persians are by-and-large demonized by the history books that our culture teaches, and we know the same for their side. These conflicts and tensions have been around for literally centuries and millennia.
>charitable actions

I just choked on my Tea. Did you perhaps miss the fact they stole Loon technology from a company they were in talks of acquiring? got sued, lost, and finally quietly settled?

https://www.wired.com/story/the-lawsuit-that-could-pop-alpha...

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/07/29/google-settles-ip...
More like I want to come back later and read more comments but I don't want to have to scroll or search for the story again.
Tired of this rhetoric. People will consume, no need to shame them.
Teaching Cyber Citizenship Must Become a National Priority
I believe Winamp became so popular because it had such a unique UI, that was also incredibly customizable. Compare that to Windows media player at the time...

On the flip side I want me email client, my desktop authoring tools and admin tools to all look and act the same.
Oh, I’ve been looking for this for a long time.

Ben Johnson (boltdb). Nice.

I’ve wanted to run SQLite in production. Lack of replication has scared me away.

Streaming backup for now. And live replication in the issues.

https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/issues/8
Elon Musk is not an engineer. He hasn't built a thing is his entire life. His biggest accomplishment is hitching a ride on the success of Paypal before getting fired for trying to move their infrastructure to Windows (lol).

My niece, on the other hand, just built a pretty cool rocket out of a soda bottle!

If SpaceX is less comically incompetent than Tesla, I'd wager it's because Elon Musk hasn't been paying as much attention to it.
If you haven't, try going into your video settings on Zoom and selecting "Enable HD". This solution has fixed the aspect ratio problem you're describing for my company's customers in almost every case.
I assumed they would spin for only a short period of time only then fallback to a real lock.

This is usually done to avoid blocking the thread before the end of it's time slice if there is a chance the lock would become available.

If instead they implement a pure spin loop with sleep I can see why it does not perform well.
Yes. The version before was like going nowhere.
But this is the government paying, just with Google serving as the middle man. There's no actual economic linkage here, which means that Google's payments to the news organizations are actually a tax that skips the public coffers and goes straight to the news owners. But it's no different than if the government levied a tax specifically on Google and paid the whole of that tax to the news orgs. Both approaches make an equal amount of economic sense.

Personally I think it would make much more sense to raise a general corporate profit tax, and use the proceeds of that tax to pay the news. But there's a convenient devil to extract money from, so there it is.
One of the things I discovered a few years ago is that I can order my own lab tests and pay out of pocket (in the US, not sure how this works in other countries with functional healthcare systems). This way instead of wasting 1 doctor visit on ordering a test I can go to my doctor directly with test results in hand and discuss any outliers, etc
Yes. Did you notice where I wrote ”fast enough to toggle a CAN transceiver”.

The point is the PIO may be great at wiggling pins, but that doesn’t mean you can “support hardware protocols” you don’t have peripherals for. It means it gets you a pin wiggler, and the rest of the protocol would have to be software.
Some stacks are quite complicated, involve various kinds of mobile devices with different app versions, custom hardware, offline functionality. It's just that not all systems are easy to replicate. But that's another problem.
And you assumed everyone who wanted a desktop chat app used pidgin and nothing else? Because there were plenty of "multi-service" apps. It's just that Pidgin was the more popular among Linux users.
> When I was freelancing one guy asked me to clone meebo for $500 .. and I accepted :facepalm.

We've all said yes to those kinds of deals at least once. I once did a website for a company full-stack from setting up the backend to design and frontend JS for ~$600. I wasn't as experienced so I didn't value my work as much as I should have.
Especially for $6k/mo starting
So it looks like you can now distribute SQLite at the:

Stmt level: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

VFS Level: https://github.com/canonical/dqlite

Block Level: https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream

Really cool enhancements to an awesome project!
Apple reportedly planning thinner and lighter MacBook Air with MagSafe charging
[*Sure I get it, it's not interesting to talk meta about whether a post is interesting. I'm already downvoted off the planet. Fine.]

I'm sure it's a good blog post for the right reader, but for something to land on HN front page, I generally look for either:

1) a story that, while specialized, reveals something accessibly technical and interesting to a semi-expert crowd, or

2) explains something at a sufficient level of expertise/detail that people not in the middle of it can grasp and apply to their own knowledge.

This story seems not accessible to the general reader. Or it reads like someone's private notes. I think it needs a level of abstraction or summary to be accessible to the readership here.
for hurting fweelings
You have to do your own research. You will be dismissed as a hypochondriac.
Learning to live with all the labels from a chronic condition is one of the hardest parts.
This is tangential, but depending on your sql needs, CouchDB's replication story is amazing, and you can replicate to the browser using PouchDB. There is an optional SQL layer, but obviously the good replication story comes with some trade-offs.
I keep hearing that gas stations aren't great businesses as they are, and if they do make money it is not on fuel. I found one article that is particularly negative, but not necessarily objective [1].

The closest gas station to me, on foot, has converted its mechanics bays to a great taco shop, its "office" to a liquor store with a great selection of spirits, and it has a full-size car wash operation wrapped around it.

So it seems like the most likely conversion would be that the gas station would swap gas pumps for chargers, in phases. Of course the best layout for chargers where charging takes the time it currently does is not the same as the best layout for fuel pumps, so it will be interesting to see how the transition goes.

So at present all the gas stations that I know of that seem viable are embedded in businesses that take up even more space, and the retail fuel business is just a part of it.

[1] https://www.franchise.city/buy-a-gas-station
Which are mostly useless, since "everybody" has CSS on their site ...
Also not Jewish, and easily my favorite read of the 2010's, both in thought-provocation and pure enjoyment. Not since Douglas Adams have I been tickled pink by every word.

As someone who skews atheist but is fascinated by religion, the Kabbalistic mysticism was not only fascinating in its own right, but also a superb lens to examine theological questions without triggering the reflexive aversions many of us non-believers have developed w/r/t Christianity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs is an interview with SiFive's Chris Lattner. RISC-V & SiFive looks like the next step once Moore's Law ends and we need another option to increase perf/watt and perf/$. Creating device-specific chips that drop the unwanted general purpose silicon seems like the way forward.
This is not a required item. It is suggested that the termination is 120ohms, but depends entirely on the length of the bus and number of modules. You can have short runs of can with no transceiver and no termination.
> did not build a commercial case

Selling stolen technology you tried to patent from under the company you suckered into believing into buyout, and then having those patents stripped by the Judge might have something to do with it.
I'm not sure I agree that non-bay tech hubs will have it worse; post-pandemic there will still be plenty of demand for the traditional office experience, and just like before the pandemic, there are big financial incentives for companies to provide that in places like Austin and Miami vs the Bay.
And yet the molten-sodium and molten-lead reactors, which sound quite unsafe, actually exist and used even today, since the seventies, actually.
Rsnapshot creates a backup and then creates filesystem diffs from that backup. The backup can be local and/or remote.
https://outline.com/FNmejg
Heh, writing about "EV cars* on your personal PC computer".

*vehicle cars
These are all fair points and I'm going just off quick Googling. But here's what I found regarding the Falcon 9 [1][2] which puts it around 425 Metric Tons per flight. And for a fully loaded airliner there are CO2 emission numbers per seat which can put it up in the 500 Metric Ton range [3] for a long flight. Our numbers are not that far apart. 3 flights vs 1 flight is a rounding error in the scale of global CO2 emissions.

The Starship numbers are much harder to analyze though, it entirely depends on how you get the methane, because yes, it will put out a LOT more CO2 per flight. Methane can be collected from the production of coal/natural gas/oil where it is burned anyway, or as SpaceX has said they would like to do, from the Sabatier process which would actually be carbon neutral given that you can produce Methane by extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.

I can't deny that it will spread the CO2 further through the atmosphere even if it is carbon neutral, but when it comes down to it, rocket launches are now and for the foreseeable future a minuscule portion of CO2 output and airplanes, cars, and industry are all orders of magnitude greater emitters.

And then when it comes to Musk, it just seems weird to say he isn't doing enough to combat CO2 on a post about him donating $100M to help improve CO2 removal and also ignore what electrification of cars can and already has done for CO2 emission reduction.

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/13082/calculate-fa...
[2] https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/
[3] https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/energy/downloads/jardine09...
I think Amazon already has mastered logistic, and it's a pretty difficult field to get into. Similarly, Apple has decades of experience in hardware now. It is definitely hard to find a sector that is large enough yet under developed.

One example of a new one they're trying is Stadia. Gaming in general is an already large and growing sector, and while there have been some attempt at game streaming, none of been as serious. You can see it will be big by the fact that Microsoft (xCloud) and Amazon (Luna) both also jumped in a year later also.

As far as actual moonshots/X go, I believe they have (or had) a few around energy tech. They've funded quite a lot of research into various fusion tech [1]. They also have a lot efforts in Biotech, may it be with Verily, or just DeepMind doing interesting research, such as solving Protein Folding recently [2].

So I definitely wouldn't say they are lacking breadth, honestly if anything it's hard to remember everything they do, as you pointed out :)

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/05/29/135179/google-ha...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
Please see this https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/wcs.htm...
Amazing!! This is progresssing literally 10 times faster then I expected.
I've never worked on GPUs, will likely never work on drivers even, yet was able to follow along and find it interesting.

I'm going to upvote pretty much any reverse engineering monologue, especially one as accessible as this.
Maybe charge for the download all feature?
Yes, this is a brilliant development!
US cities where 'street-only' parking is common generally use a combination of approaches in different areas (sometimes a linear portion of a street; sometimes a 'zone' consisting of a geographic area bounded by certain streets).

Approaches I have encountered are:

* Meter-only parking - reserved exclusively for short-term use, usually in highly commercialized areas; long-term use by residents generally prohibited

* Unrestricted street parking - Any car with a valid registration may park in any space not otherwise designated as off-limits (e.g. loading zones, metered zones, specially designated zones for those with mobility impairments). May require periodic relocation to facilitate street sweeping, snow plowing, or other activities sanctioned by the municipality (e.g. clearing space for loading/unloading moving trucks or construction equipment).

* Zoned street parking - Parking in the zone follows the same general pattern of 'unrestricted' above, except vehicles need a specially-issued identifier (usually a sticker) from the municipality to park in the zone.

* Reserved street parking - In conventional circumstances, usually limited to parking spaces for those with mobility impairments, or some special circumstance (e.g. a city might lease spots to a car-sharing service to improve transport access for residents). Sometimes found in cases where there are parking spaces directly off the street (e.g. "pull-in angle parking") in less heavily trafficked areas/neighborhoods.