skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An electric drive train is mechanically a lot simpler than a combustion engine based one. But you still need a battery management and charging control system to keep the battery alive. I think that this is the other half of the battle for efficient electric cars (besides battery chemistry and manufacturing).
I've been saying this for a long time now.

Modern universities are a mix of two contradictory ideas. It's a place for "higher learning"; trying to fit the same role as institutions from hundreds of years ago where academic learning was much rarer and was fitted for the aristocracy. While simultaneously being something that you need for a job to make money. Oh, and also the people doing the teaching are more interested in their research than actually teaching. Forget teachers putting in 100% of their effort into teaching and making sure people really get the material (here's some slides the T.A. made, deal with it), you're lucky if a professor is a half-way decent orator.

There are so many better ways to get different kinds of education, particularly for humanities. There are books, online videos, etc. that provide a better education on writing, philosophy, etc. than what a single professor charging thousands of dollars can provide.
I didn't know Turbo Pascal was available on CP/M. In case it was I bet it's the best language available there.
I think if you think the people who handle pandemics are the same people who handle dieting I have a bridge to sell you.
FYI - The Dodge Charger Hellcat is a car made by Stellantis, which formed from the merger of a French car group and an Italian/American car group. Its brands are:
Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram and Vauxhall.

This company was just created and listed on the NYSE on Jan. 19th, 2021.
Are waterfront houses not usually built to withstand flooding?
As of 2012 Amazon sells more Kindle books than physical books in the UK. I suspect that hasn't changed since then. So I'd argue defaulting to kindle is the right product decision as it's the option the majority of users want.

Amazon Prime on the other hand is definitely a dark pattern.
Don't believe so. I got hellbanned for selling, buying something new, and selling that all in one day. Hey, I'm easily confused. You can sell and immediately buy with the proceeds but cannot sell the newly purchased shares until the original trades settle.

Fortunately they make it easy to create new accounts and transfer from one to another. Now my banned account is empty and I'm more careful.
I wonder about the lithium after seeing musk's battery day video. He said they could do all the lithium locally (since it's not really a scarce item)
This is an unfortunate example of a core danger of the app store (or Play Store, in this case) business model.

With devices, by default, configured to make it difficult to install apps directly, the store becomes the single point of failure.

And we engineers know, all too well, the dangers of single points of failure in any business-critical solution.

What well-run fortune 500 company, or government agency, would fully embrace and build a key business process around apps which can be made to vanish on the whim of an Apple or Google employee who takes issue with how someone fully disconnected from your organization (and maybe even in a different country) uses the same app you have rolled out to thousands of staff members?

In my opinion, the next logical step in “decentralization” of technology is to give mobile device users the same application control, logging, and monitoring powers over their devices that desktop, server, and notebook users have always enjoyed.

Does anyone else here see another logical path?
Kudos. I loved M2. I haven't replicated the sublime satisfaction I enjoyed from writing M2 since, in any other language. I felt like I could produce most any business solution with it, one module at a time.
Oh yeah. Just look at Alex Jones. Do I support anything he says? Not really, but he should not be deplatformed. These objectionable voices are going to get much stronger as a result.
What a lot of you are missing is that this isn't happening within your little WSB playground anymore. It's just a regular stock frenzy now, it's not even really all that relevant anymore how it started.
The world has lost its collective mind.
BLM is neutral at best. I do think the cause is sound but it really attracted bad people who took advantage and destroy things over the summer.

> He dismissed criticism that BLM is violent, citing data that shows 93% of Black Lives Matter demonstrations do not cause serious harm to people or property.

That also means at least 7% of demonstrations did... cities were burning for months. There's even a video of a BLM protester outright executing a Trump supporter in the street.
Exactly, everyone jumped in when they realised the WSB memes actually made sense
actually, it turns out this is no longer a limitation: https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

"Publishing signed binaries from elsewhere (e.g. the upstream developer) is now possible after verifying that they match ones built using a recipe. Publishing only takes place if there is a proper match."
> Reading that administrators actually outnumber teaching staff at some American universities today

This is an issue in the US, but it is worth noting this particular administrative maneuver is at University of Leicester which is in the UK. [0]

[0] https://le.ac.uk/about
I've been running 2 Ubuntu servers running 3 gaming VMs. I agree to a certain extent that hardware choice is key. I got burned by AMD GPUs not resetting so switched to NVidia GPUs.

Didn't have issues for almost a year.

Rule of the thumb for me is: AMD GPU for host, NVidia for guests. I use AMD GPUs for host because open source drivers are awesome and makes kernel/version updating easy. NVidia for guests is no brainer since they don't have PCIe reset issues. For motherboard, pick one that has good IOMMU groupings, usually x<3|4|5>70 for AM4 or x299 for Intel, or go Threadripper.
> I see your point on the sandbox, and I agree that Windows is in many ways even worse as a consumer platform. I wasn't aware that things had gotten so bad there.

its because exaggeration
> provide the students with leisure, varsity sports and regular events on the currently hot social justice topics.

It's already happening. I went to a Canadian university. The marketing material says the school wanted to give the students a "great student experience". What's great student experience? The glossy pamphlets shows varsity sports facilities, bright lecture halls and students hanging out in residences.
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I would actually like to see a nation state try to ban private cryptocurrency use. How would they do it?
Been running LineageOS on my OP3 for years already. Never had any problems that weren't caused by myself.
The 'problem' is introduced by you. The subtitle is "The glittering city-states of the Persian Gulf fit the classicist Moses Finley’s criteria of genuine slave societies" and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century which expands on the topic worldwide, isn't about working long hours in a white collar job.
It's true that the Volt does have a lot of complexity - however you also have access to the existing infrastructure for gas cars.
I love when you get little glimpses like these into the mindset of leadership and realize they are just ordinary people who don't know what they're doing either. I'm not a crypto enthusiast but even I have to chuckle and shake my head at situations like this. An official cryptocurrency run by the Reserve Bank of India defeats one of the main selling points of a decentralized cryptocurrency...
> events on the currently hot social justice topics.

Namespace collision detected:

1. a lecture series or seminar by a researcher specializing in social justice movements, civil rights leaders, abolitionists, etc. Possibly focusing on insights from newly discovered primary documents.

2. events hosted by any political college organization whose participants may be painted with the derisive term "social justice warrior"

Definition #1 isn't an edge case-- most universities are chock full of such events and seminars. Shit like this: a linguist who was tasked with helping a Northern California tribe fill in the blanks in the documentation of their dead language so they could revive it. If your curiosity isn't peaked by that concept and it's associated practical challenges and sets of choices, I'm not sure what you're doing on HN.

Definition #2 is like HN's version of cheating celebrity stories in the Enquirer. If you wanted to spend the rest of your life enumerating each case, you certainly wouldn't run out of bona fide material. But if all you talk about 99% of the time is that-- to the extent that you forget definition #1 even exists-- you have to admit at least part of your outrage is due not to your own free will but due to people clicking upvote buttons as if nudging trays of junk food close to where you're sitting.

Edit: typo
My hot take is that what they are doing is illegal, but when it comes down to it rulings are done by people, and the extent of their sympathy for the little guy will determine the outcome.
It's more like garbage men not being given gloves to do their work, or not provided health care when they slice their hand open on a broken bottle.
There is ton of overnight capacity but it’s mostly non renewables right now, which drives up your CO2 emitted per mile.

We really need, in California at least, to ramp up workplace charging, otherwise we’re going to have a lot of unused solar :-/.
Is this sustainable though? Won't the middle boxes adapt?
I don’t think violating Hyrum’s law should be considered a breaking change, but I suppose that that’s a matter of opinion.
Jen Psaki's brother is portfolio manager at Citadel.
Sure, and no one needs GCC for their existence either, but that sets a pretty high bar, doesn't it?

Wouldn't a better bar for judging software choices be "does this make you more or less productive?" rather than "is this an existential necessity as a software developer"?
No one person is short selling over 100% of the stock. Its a combination of many different actors each one of them shorting a small %. What % of a company can you short without going to jail do you predict?
At ~$10 per print, I feel a little weird about spending the money, time & time again, to get photos.

But buying a $1000 Epson with an EcoTank- it comes with two free years of ink, and will be cheap to run after that- it might/might not make financial sense. 100 photos is a lot to print out. But I feel like it's something that I'd want to use, would be happy to use, am incentivized to use. Where-as I would be hestitant to keep throwing $10 after prints, that I wasn't super sure about. Buying my own printer lets me leave the scarcity model behind. It frees me from the act of deliberation. It gives me faster turn around, to experiment.

I'm not sure why people keep foisting what seems like such terrible & limiting advice on me, to not invest in ownership, not invest in myself. It's confusing. It's not backed up with arguments. This is the 3rd time I've had this exact same encounter on HN. I welcome some healthy questioning, but no one has given me any arguments, anything to go on.

I should probably start by ordering some prints. See how that goes. Sample the idea. But even throwing $60 at some prints- it feels like a lot of money, that could be better invested.
This is good. Too long have universities maintained the illusion that all subjects are worth studying. They are not. And we have a valuation mechanism - pay. The truth is that some subjects need far fewer participants than others. You don’t need the marginal new mathematician or historian or geographer.

We do need the marginal electrical engineer or software engineer. It is crucial that we signal to students their prospects accurately and operate our collective learning facilities in the interest of the public.

The number of support staff required to service a bug organization does grow super linearly which is a reason to have smaller universities. These institutions suffer massive diseconomies of scale past a certain size as information transfer suffers.

Unfortunately, support staff grow more support staff at a higher rate than productive staff so it is necessary to keep university size small.

But of course, Tim Gowers is a bit of a luminary, so maybe I’m entirely wrong on all of this.
Question: running GTK apps in a Linux VM under Parallels in “coherence mode” provides a better user-experience (in several ways: smoother, better accessibility, etc.) than running a native-macOS-compiled GTK apps under XQuartz does. Why is this?

• Is it a difference of display model? Where/when compositing is done? Is X11 really that high-overhead of a protocol, that putting a “compositor in your compositor” like Parallels’ video driver does, can do better?

• Is it that macOS GTK apps are relying on macOS as the window manager / window decorator (which those apps were never heavily tested for), while “coherence mode” GTK apps are bringing their own DE (GNOME or what-have-you) along with them onto the macOS desktop, which “knows” what to do with those apps much better?

• Something else I’m not thinking of?
Depends on the program! - I've never minded using Emacs that way, even just over wifi, but a lot of more modern stuff is basically unusable. (I assume these programs draw everything to a local buffer, and then copy that to the screen. Probably fine locally, and I'm sure you do get more control, but it's a lot of data to go over a network!)
More regulation is coming for the US as well, so it's something to be prepared for. There's going to be some interesting times ahead.
Ha! My apologies. Your correct, my initial question was about liquid cooling for the stations themselves.

I then switched to the EVs themselves as a follow up.

Thanks for your help!
This is the barrier for me too— my family lives in a walkable, downtown community and our overall driving is 5-10k km/yr. It would be fun to have an EV, but from both a $$ and eco point of view, I think if you're already committed to a low car lifestyle, your best option for some time yet is to carry on buying lower-efficiency vehicles that are at least 4 years old.

This prevents an existing vehicle (for which the carbon cost to manufacture it is sunk) from being abandoned, but using it as a backup vehicle means it won't be driven more than a minimum, and having your gas be "expensive" on a per-km basis creates the proper incentives to avoid driving except where necessary.
Nobel "mostly peaceful" Prize
Someone else committing a crime isn't really a defense to one's own crime though.
Perhaps we can establish a nonprofit research institution where people can do research. There are whole towns for sale in various places, we could get one for free probably. Get an endowment together, a few million, that could pay for a bit of food and refurbishment. Brew beer or some sort of herbal liqueur, might cover some expenses.
Congrats on the launch! Scena 360 is definitely a more unique approach to virtual meet ups. I don't exactly follow how the experience works jumping from accessing via laptop vs. accessing with a VR hardware? Do you just move your mouse to look around if sitting at a PC?
Yep, of course that's what is happening. There is a story all over the news that reads to most people as exactly this: "this stock is going up and making everyone rich, you are missing out".
Digital currency can different than crypto currencies. The point is they want centralization.
On his first day in office, the president signed away women’s sex-based rights
Well, I disagree with your disagreement. Part of the value of F-Droid is that the main repository can host packages that are vetted and maintained by uninvolved parties. Second, if the Matrix-run repository does reproducible builds, then... there's no problem. (That's the nature of reproducible builds.) Third, F-Droid was conceived to be distributed and decentralized. That's why it allows you to add other sources in the first place, there's even a feature baked in that lets you get/share apps (including F-Droid itself) in-person with people around you, and under the hood the whole thing uses a DVCS-style model where the package index is "dead" data and your device manages a copy. Fourth, an app author choosing to run their own repository means that they're invested in F-Droid, moreso than instances where F-Droid's role is to achieve "mere availability" for the package.

What's more, this incident is evidence that we need more decentralization, not less. In instances where decentralization is either already working or is up for consideration, we should encourage it, not try to eradicate it.
Here in Bulgaria we had Pravetz computers and Pascal was learned in past on schools.
Urban Heat Island
I started following WSB just before this one.. it was calm then.

There was also a post along the lines of "there are ~50M public shares, 2M of us, if everyone bought 25 shares, we own GME!" At that stage, it was trading between $5-10 so for ~$250, it was silly but not impossible.

But the point is that NONE of this information or analysis was secret, conducted in back rooms, or even hard to find. If you didn't know the terminology and implications, it might be hard to decipher without someone else doing the heavy lifting but that's no different than any other market analysis.

For WSB, this is a perfect positive black swan. The downside was capped ($250 at the time) and the upside is unlimited.

CNBC, et al need to look past the shitposting and see this is a new creature.
Hardly surprising - India has been at the forefront of this insane "digital cash" only agenda that is being pushed worldwide. Their policies are almost always set by flown-in experts from the US and by random NGOs and compromised bureaucrats, who almost always give the same advice.

Little wonder that even with the pompous BJP at the helm, all they can manage to do is implement policies that they themselves had blocked the previous set of kleptocrats from implementing earlier.
I spent a few minutes on the site trying to find a code sample without launching into the playground... Even the “Getting Started” and “Tutorial” pages just repeat the features from the front page with zero code.

I’ve seen this from other new languages lately. Please, study the Swift or TypeScript sites!
You can watch premium content on pornhub with dogecoin. An example.
Wow, those are big performance differences (660 MB/s for fast-double vs 1042 MB/s for the 'newer' fast-float), although most of the numbers (for the different libraries being tested) are all over the place, and even 'strtod' more than doubled in speed between the two tests (70 MB/s fast-double vs 190 fast-float MB/s). It wouldn't surprise me if those two code bases are essentially the same.

That highlights the complexity of benchmarking in general and the importance of comparing within the same benchmark. I haven't looked at this in a while but I thought some of the newer JSON parsers were standards compliant (maybe not?).

Anyway, that other blog post answers my question as it looks like the big insight is that you use the fast approach (that everyone uses) when you can, and fall back to slow if you really have to. From that blog link:

"The full idea requires a whole blog post to explain, but the gist of it is that we can attempt to compute the answer, optimistically using a fast algorithm, and fall back on something else (like the standard library) as needed. It turns out that for the kind of numbers we find in JSON documents, we can parse 99% of them using a simple approach. All we have to do is correctly detect the error cases and bail out."

Again, I swear I've seen this in one of the other JSON parsers but maybe I'm misremembering. And again, good for them for breaking it out into a header library for others to use.
Ignoring the last year, how often do you need to code while flying. I can't even use a laptop in a seat unless I pay extra for the extra leg room seats.
The parent has edited their comment, but the issue is that the sticker price on the Model 3 is still too high— you need to drive it for a super long time/distance to recoup those costs.
> A 100K-sized company is going to have a BYOD or corporate device issuance program

Some will, some might run a more open org, with a lot of rather independent contractors, focusing on providing services on standard platforms (email, chat, wiki, bugtracker etc).
You could arguably say they've been working on electric drivetrains longer than anyone with the EV-1, then volt, spark, bolt, etc..

Now were they GOOD drivetrains, I don't know. There are a lot of tradeoffs there I don't understand, like is AC induction what we want, or should permanent magnets be a part of the design.
> for an important part of the exam he candidly said "I haven't understood what you did here so I didn't assigned any points to that" -- which is really bullshit.

> You've got a phd in this shit, you're supposed to be a world-class expert on the matter, how could you not understand this? It's not that you haven't understood, it's that you didn't bother spending 30 seconds to look at the piece of paper.

I can't speak to this specific case. And awarding no points at all does sound quite unusual. But, speaking as a professor, it's disturbing to see how often and how badly students overestimate the intelligibility of their work.

Important qualification: I am thinking of student essays and prose answers to exam questions. The situation may be very different in circuit theory and other areas in which answers to exam questions often aren't in prose.
Note that many people have been nominated, even Hitler, but curiously when the committee was in the perfect position to recognize Ghandi, they declined to nominate anyone, stating that that “there was no suitable living candidate”. IMO the Nobel committee has zero credibility.

https://qz.com/803976/adolf-hitler-was-nominated-for-the-nob...
I remember a reddit response to someone saying "Why would you live there, you're just condoning the slavery", the person wrote (I'll paraphrase), "Look around you, who made your clothes (probably underpaid Bangladeshi working in unsafe factories), who made your tech [or who mined the rare-earth metals needed], the difference is, in the West, you're a few steps further from this slavery.".
This seems to be the sentiment of a lot of people, but the SEC has in fact prosecuted hedge fund managers for just this tactic in the past. It is generally hard to prosecute because smart hedge fund managers don't leave a paper trail and leave a trail of plausible deniability.

But in this case, people are literally admitting "Yes, I would like to engage in your proposed felony." Even manipulation aside... conspiracy itself is a crime. I don't think conspiracies suddenly become legal just because they were very large.
I seen that show, and I enjoyed it--though, not because it offered insight into hedge funds or wall street. I enjoyed it because they dramatized wall street. one hopes a good drama will say something 'right' about suffering, triumph, betrayal, love, in the process all while putting likable and interesting actors in key roles. I agree; good show.
It's a government that was tasked with procuring vaccines, and has done a worse job.

I don't see any inherent constraint preventing them for agreeing contacts under the same terms, approving vaccines reviewing the same analysis and distributing using the same logistical processes as the UK and USA.

They had the same information and access to funds as other programs, and failed to effectively prepare and execute an adequate plan.
IIRC the first prison in the US was established in Auburn, NY specifically because slavery had been outlawed and some sociopath was like “ok, yeah, technically, but if we just convict them of a crime first...”
Of course. This is an obvious tradeoff. For just this reason, I don’t think these typefaces are ideal for regular text, but can be an improvement for labels, buttons, numbers in tables, etc.