skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth mentioning that they upgraded the packs in 2013/2014 to be more resistant to hotter climates, but in colder parts of the world the range degradation seen in hotter places didn’t happen anyway.

When I bought mine it had been through something like 900 rapid charge cycles (the Nissan battery report scored it 0/5 which was helpful for getting the price down). Even now years later it’s capacity is about 80-85% of new.
Adding to this, properly defending against enumeration also sacrifices a level of security in addition to privacy, since the average user would likely need to store some additional identifiable data (such as an email) in our database in plaintext that would be compromised in a breach.
Kotatsu
There will be gas stations for generations to come. If California can meet its sales ban for new ICE cars in 2035, which is a tall order, ICE cars will still be on the road. Contributing to this trend will be people keeping their cars for years; used cars which represent two thirds of car sales; and cars driven into California from other states. As an example, I have a 2007 Honda and it will be on the road until it falls apart or I die.
There's a lot of great videos on YouTube about it; how to make it, how to use it, capabilities of it, etc., etc.

Apparently it can be made cheaply, with relatively modest tools...

If graphene is the new wonder material for electronics and electronic devices -- then certainly aircrete is the "new" wonder material for housing construction...

Also great is that it saves builders from using as much wood; which in turn saves forests/prevents tree depopulation, etc.
>The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah,[c] was the World War II genocide of the European Jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

I don't think you can get more of the zeitgeist than the first sentence of a wiki article.
The same thing happened to me. I was at university loving C but learning Java and hating every minute of it.

One day, with the help of another student, I managed to install Snow Leopard on my Acer notebook and the first thing I wanted to do was figure out how iPhone programming worked. However I was instantly confused at the syntax of the language and that threw me off.

I did try again two more times though, and in the last one it just clicked. That was mid-2012. I dropped out of university for a job opportunity in 2015 and have been an iPhone developer ever since.

Thank you, Brad Cox.
Anti-nuclear antibody
It's actually pretty much the same. As long as the government programs you are funding aren't too wasteful - and if they are the solution is to fix the waste - incurring sovereign debt is not that much different from foregoing revenue. The difference is that if you forego revenue from the top 1% you get worse outcomes than if you tax them or cut useful government spending or print debt.
Very interesting from a public policy perspective. As an American citizen should I be more concerned about an American government agency obtaining location data about me than a company getting that data?
Haha, good question, but to answer: you can have black mamba aggresive, and black bear friendly. Both are fearsome predators but you can definitely say that a black mamba is way more aggresive. Unrelated, but after googling I also found capybaras to be the most friendly animals.
We really need to get the cube root rule passed.[0] Gerrymandering wouldn't really be useful if each district were smaller, and then we'd get Representatives that have a similar breakdown to the people they represent.

For example in the US each representative would represent ~475K people instead of ~755K. So California would have 84 representatives instead of 53.

It's a lot harder to gerrymander when the districts are much smaller.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root_rule
Yes, but it also carries the connotation of being the highest complement you can say about someone. I don't use the word lightly. It's Yiddish in this context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch
Digging themselves into a regulation hole is one thing. But they're digging the rest of us into that hole with them as they refuse to stop. The regulations applied to them will affect all of us as well.
That makes sense.

In addition, the telecomms were generally not interested in the very early Internet (TCP/IP) because they couldn't figure out how to do per-packet metering, and they assumed that was necessary.

All 3 examples show that trying to do fine-grained metering, in ways that cause tremendous overhead, often don't work. It is sometimes better to make something so that it is "too cheap to meter".
I'd argue this is a good thing. Facebook is not immortal. Every user that Facebook alienates is a win. Already many non-technical people have been moving to Signal after Facebook's new privacy policy.

We need better alternatives, not better Facebook.
It's probably relevant to point out that it's digital, not analog, despite not being electronic.

However, I would say that boardgame mechanic that used for example a comparison between the height of piles of cards could be argued to be analog.
> We manage to be perfectly civil to each other.

Huh? People get "censored" all the time on this site due to incivility.

Edit: I misread the parent comment, sorry :)
Didn't Mozilla recently-ish put out a statement about possibly having a black-list of sorts to remove bad sites / "think of the children"? On mobile so can't search for it but surely someone here remembers the link.
> evolved to be a very functional approach

Is this actually advantageous though over class components? The creator of React said he thought moving to functional components would make it harder for people to learn.

I've found that sometimes hooks can make things less flexible, more verbose, more error prone, and harder to reason about. Sometimes a class might have made things easier to understand.

I loved the fact that `useEffect` could modularize code that was otherwise split between `componentDidMount/Unmount/Update`...but couldn't a new class API also have solved this.

Maybe I just need to read the docs again to remind me. I'm all in for hooks, but it's rare that I think about what life could have been like if we kept class components.
Your model is nice, but it is missing one important step: At the beginning of the experiment, all people who were not at the bottom of the company pyramid are shot, and their roles are filled by randomly selected remaining employees. So the company starts with nobody in the management having any idea about anything, and it takes a few decades of trial and error to regain some knowledge about how to run things. In the meanwhile, many employees starve to death.

At the end, Wallmart finally regains its former functionality. The management proudly opens the windows that have been locked for decades. On the outside, they see drones flying everywhere, a personal teleport at every street corner, and rockets regularly flying to Mars. In despair, the entire project is abandoned.
Pfizer Will Ship Fewer Vaccine Vials to Account for ‘Extra’ Doses
> It's still a little disingenuous because most performance parameters

That's your bias. To a process engineer the parameter that matters is what wavelength you are blasting the mask with and what size a feature it can create.
At least in the US, that statement was much more true 20 years ago than it is today [0]. Today, swapping “natural gas” out for coal is more accurate. There are three big points to consider:

- Overall, the (US) electricity mix is lower-emitting than gasoline.

- The US electricity mix is trending greener. (Gasoline cars are also getting more efficient, but many of those changes also apply to electric cars)

- The electricity sector is easier to move than automobiles. We’ve already seen a couple of major shifts (coal->nat gas->renewables), while we’re still very slow on the first big paradigm shift for cars.

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
They have the same outcome, though, relative to future debts. Isn't this a distinction without a difference?
One of my favorite parts of the "curse narrative" is the part where they had the foresight that "HD" TV resolutions were coming, decided to shoot in proper widescreen film and tried to keep the digital files for the special effects reworkable for when it was time to quickly remaster. But somewhere along the way Warner Brothers lost the digital files and the cost to remaster ballooned significantly and in this timeline we'll likely never see a Blu-Ray release of the show despite it being filmed for something like it.

One of the twisty roads in that story is that one of the arguments that WB has for how they lost the digital files involves Sierra On-Line's especially cursed attempt at a Babylon 5 videogame and that one argument is that one place that could turn up the lost files is somewhere in the cursed bowels of Activision Blizzard. (Just as WB and Activision Blizzard lost the contracts for NOLF and its sequels somewhere and no one knows who has the rights today.)
> Anonymity seems to just bring the worst out of people (that's not a tech problem, that's a human/culture problem).

I used to believe that for a while, up until I started using Facebook. Then I experienced that people under their real names are just the same as the anonymous crowd. All it takes is to view the comments under any news article, or visit a group for regular people dealing with regular things.

That's why I stick to niche, focused communities - like HN. There you can find some semblance of civilization. The "general" Internet takes away whatever faith in humanity I have left.

There's something about commenting on-line in general, that seems to bring the worst out of people. My hypothesis is that you have to have a certain set of values around civility and rationality to be able to interact with other people on-line in a sane way. Without it - and I think most people haven't developed these values - it's just a mess. Why it doesn't happen so much in meatspace? I think it's a combination of social customs, taboos, and having more control over participating in conversations with random strangers.
>This idea that "Let's give people the ability to be anonymous, and somehow, that's gonna make us all bond together and be better" is pretty hilarious in hindsight.

I get irritated by this logic. I don't think many people are arguing that anonymous access makes us more likely to get along. There are lots of areas where we have the freedom to do something, that access objectively makes things worse in terms of social cost, but we keep it because it's what is right. Installing a breathalyzer lockout device on every new car sold would decrease drunk driving. There's a few religious sects that could be eliminated that would overnight reduce the amount of vile rhetoric in the world. We all make choices as to how much regulation we deem acceptable in daily life. Many of us see no valid reason to permanently tie online access to personal identification.
You may be interested in the cube root rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root_rule) which strikes a nice balance between number of people represented and number of people in the House.
I want these people to have the freedom to speak so I can point out how stupid their beliefs are.
Her father Gregory was deemed a Great Person by the Whole Earth / Countercultural set.
It's the avoiding dots pattern [1].

The idea is that referencing the `append` method in the for grouping loop, i.e. doing

d[key(item)].append(item)

takes more time than rebuilding the _rv_ groups dictionary with lists instead of `append` methods.
Of course, a benchmark should be run and see how much longer the input sequence needs to be than the resulting groups, for this to happen.

[1]: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips#Avo......
I think it refers to the type of break the joint makes?

However, while searching I found this search excerpt:

Which metals diffuse into other metals and how? | Naked ...
www.thenakedscientists.com › forum
Sodium and potassium metal (both *soft solids, like cold butter*) react

So perhaps it is used to designate 'soft solids' versus 'hard solids'
i think we,re kidding ourselves about human space exploration. machines are taking over and soon they,ll be able to do it autonomously or near so. we,ll be stuck on earth for a good while... with this biome we,re so intent on wiping out right now
> now that ICQ and AIM are dead

ICQ is alive and well, and has native clients for most modern OSes.

https://icq.com/

It got bought out and spun off when AOL were shutting down.
Is there a frontend framework you can choose that suits .NET devs? Maybe this would have been a better choice if there was. Maybe Angular was better. Or Ember.
The article is reporting an interview that happened on Russian state TV, so it's almost certainly a translation.
You and your op are both idiots, pardon my wording.

People don't care: real names, real faces on Facebook, yet they still act as raging lunatics.

The old, actually anonymous internet 20+ years ago was much better.

EDIT: clarification: anonymity is not what's causing the dumpster fire, it's the people, and the companies driving them into vicious circles to get more attention - and thus, advertisement time and money - out of them.
This. Although I think it will happen.

Thankfully I charge my car at home and that’s enough for me about 99% of the time. There’s a fairly reliable CHADEMO pretty close by regardless, which helps.

The infrastructure in the UK has been really neglected though. They pushed hard early on, but since then they just let the L2’s fail for months then it’s a coin toss as to whether they fix them or just decommission them.
The comment was talking about irl.
I think the question is where we want to be in 5 years, not being blinded by aiming for perfect or nothing today.

The ability to charge will drive infrastructure investments from the bottom up. Especially if it's cheaper than fossil fuels. My guess is we will start to see charging mentioned as a selling point in real estate ads in the coming years. Same with charging at stores or similar, although that is more limited.

All while helping BEVs become even more attractive.
Sorry for saying the parent commenter was arguing in bad faith. What I meant to say is that the parent commenter used rhetoric which was unhelpful to the conversation.
But then you just further entrench the political parties.
> Citizens will require a personal licence to access the internet, and anonymous use will be illegal

The new war on drugs would be coming.
Linktree is incredibly popular. What I've never quite understood is the number of people that have a linktree with one of the links pointing to their homepage. Why don't they just host the lot on their own homepage, if they have one?
Is there any reason to park in at a Lagrange point instead of just a high orbit?

There aren't that many Lagrange points, so we should probably avoid cluttering them with objects that don't need to be there.
I think that's very likely, but I've never seen a post mortum from Apple where they track down what happened.

I wish they would be more open about what happened. Mistakes happen. It's better for the industry if we can all learn from them.
I'm not sure what makes you believe this. The voter turnout for the 2020 election was merely 62%, and that was a record high. American voters being more aware of various issues is another myth. Look at how quickly a politician that straight up denied facts made it to the highest office in the land.

Political leaders in the US are not really all that beholden to their voters, and very frequently strive to push self-serving agendas ($) over the needs of the public.

As dystopian as it sounds, we're already well on our way toward the Balkanization of the internet. Russia and China have their own firewalls bearing down on global network access. Many other authoritarian countries are following suit. It's going to be hard to stop that train regardless of if/how Facebook or Google are regulated.

We shouldn't confuse a throttled Internet with a fractured, balkanized one.
Charging in much of Europe is really not a great experience. It's a fragmented market, different electricity providers (this matters, some chargers really want you to be a customer of a specific electricity provider, some just offer different prices depending on this), different charging networks, different plugs, different apps and payment methods, different behavior even if you're seemingly in the same network, wildly different prices, etc.

Every app shows different chargers and different status on whether they're occupied or not. Most are broken anyway. Some are on hotel or supermarket grounds so they're accessible only to some people, and even in the same network might have a different price because the owner of the land asks for a cut (yes, that's a thing). Some are inside a parking lot so you pay the parking on top of the charging. Some are on a free parking spot for EVs so someone will park there all day. Some charge per KWh, per minute, or a combination, plus maybe another one time fee.

Chargers need to be as ubiquitous as gas stations, and provide an experience that's just as frictionless. Drive in, pick a plug and start fast charging, get a maximum allotted time to charge, then pay like you'd do in any store, or better yet have the car talk to the charger and handle this for you (ISO 15118) and be on your way. Alternatively, to take advantage of how different electricity is from gas and maybe also use those cars as electricity storage, governments could invest to put charging points on every street parking, in every streetlight, etc.
Well... not exactly.

I mean it is true they did it. But they got help.

Because I remember when all this was starting up two decades ago there were a lot of pressures to block this or that. Maybe hate speech, or maybe you crossed RIAA, or maybe you were of dark complexion and Middle East descent and nobody could tell what your arabic said but it defenitely had to be dangerous.

So it became pretty customary to have corporations bring content down when asked to do so and this recent wave of deplatforming is just extension.

Basically, that's what happens when you start to compromise on principles and choose the easy path.

Instead of letting people exercise their free speech and using existing laws to chase people for when they are impinging on somebody elses rights, we chose to compromise and asked companies to do this without due process.

And that was beginning of the slippery slope which now suddenly got much steeper than before.
> Having developed only one small iOS app with Objective-C code, I was mostly turned off by its overall verbosity in the context of NS prefixes.

This is actually a blessing because NS-/name prefixes are a simple approach to naming that keeps you humble. If you let programmers have namespacing they will invent enterprise software frameworks where every class is six layers deep in a namespace of random tech buzzwords they thought up.

> Hence, I ask the question on behalf myself and others who did not appreciate the language and did not give it a proper chance... what did I miss and what are its top appeals?

It implements message-based programming, which is "real" OOP and more powerful than something like C++, where OOP just means function calls where the first parameter goes to the left of the function name instead of the right.

In particular it implements this pattern: https://wiki.c2.com/?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers
which is great for UI programming and lets you define the UI in data rather than code. Although iOS programmers seem to like doing it in code anyway.
> Yet we're all perfectly civil.

There are no real-world consequences for being an anonymous jerk online, so you are comparing apples and oranges.

> On the other hand, you have to show government ID to walk into a bar and yet people are kicked out for bad behavior all the time.

That's because under the influence of alcohol, one stops caring as much about real world consequences.

Being anon online is (somewhat) like being a drunk in a bar (for some people).

Your examples here have proven the opposite of what you were trying to say.
> 1. Held accountable how? 2. Toward what end?

In the case of the Nazis, the answers are 1. Executed. 2. Justice. For Facebook, I think executions should be off the table, but the second answer is the same.

Facebook's engineers aren't gods, I get that. Knowing their engineers aren't gods, Facebook proceeded to use them to create imperfect but profitable systems anyway. Systems they knew or should have known would harm society while enriching their shareholders. This is facebook's crime. If they couldn't create moderation systems that operate well at a massive scale, they never should have operated at that scale in the first place. They couldn't, should have known they couldn't, but tried anyway.
K. Sorry.
Growing up in the midwest, if you didn’t hit a deer with a car yourself, you knew half a dozen people who did.
Yep, they get censored. We manage a totally reasonable level of moderation in an anonymous environment. RealIDs wouldn't improve on that.
It is very sad. Us Russian kids didn't get to see Star Treks, so B5 was the first real sci-fi TV show that we saw in mid 90s, and it still has a very special place in my heart.
Assignment expressions were "unpythonic" based on PEP 20 until they weren't. Modern languages have multi-line anonymous functions, and developer expectations have changed in the 17 years since PEP 20 was published.
This is an inversion of reality.

If someone chooses to say "happy holidays" rather than "merry Christmas" out of sensitivity or political correctness, that does not constitute cancelling. The term cancelling is usually used for deliberate and sustained social pressure and boycotting campaigns. As far as I am aware this has not occurred on any significant scale to try to stop people from saying "merry Christmas".

In the other direction, however, this has very much happened. Conservative Christian organizations have called for boycotts of companies who don't mention Christmas in their Christmas marketing (or, in some cases, even just for mentioning non-Christian holidays) repeatedly over the last two decades. [0]

To avoid weak-manning here: I'm sure this is a pretty fringe group and not at all representative of Christians in general. But it is clear that the campaign to force people to use traditional Christmas greetings and imagery has always been more prominent and aggressive than the campaign to abolish traditional Christmas greetings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversies#Retail...
Was having this conversation with a neighbour the other day.

I have a 7kw charger at my house, but the loop for our street is 21kw, which is typical here. It’s going to be a big problem to solve when it comes to it.

I wouldn’t mind if I had to charge at 3.3kw, but if every car is an EV the current grid just isn’t going to be able to carry enough juice.
The Toolz version has a different purpose than the one from Python's stdlib (itertools). One is unsorted input, while the other one is for sorted input. The Toolz version is not a replacement and the documentation states

> Not to be confused with ``itertools.groupby``
There is a great book on all kind of benefits of fasting (it provides also ideas for diet on periods of normal eating): The Longevity Diet by Valter Longo (legitimate scientist).
Maybe it’s because you can’t get your ass kicked by being uncivil on the internet anonymously?

People are kicked out of bars for being assholes and it’s because they have been drinking their inhibitions are lowered and judgement of consequences is disrupted. Similarity to anonymous assholes on the Internet - their inhibitions are lowered because there’s no consequence.

I don’t think we should require names use or prohibit anonymous contributions. But the culture of the internet is pretty bad in this regard today when millions of anonymous people spend millions of hours getting riled up at shit posts from anonymous people.