skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If storage losses are sufficiently low and the converter hardware is small/cheap enough maybe the process could also find a market as a sealed system, a factory-recyclable single use battery. How about a 3HU rack form factor that if installed in groups automatically coordinates depletion to oldest-first? Main market would be what is currently served by rarely refueled backup generators but it could have a huge long tail of undiscovered use cases wherever power density of batteries is insufficient and diesel generators suffer from noise or bad maintenance, but where fuel price isn't the main concern. Pricing model could be as easy as implementing effectively fuel + rent with a deposit that shrinks over time (blockchain the device log if it makes you feel better somehow). Once established for server rooms, fishing cabins and whatever other niche it will find it might even end up mainstream with BEV that opt for just offering an RX rack over killing range anxiety with half a ton of extra rechargeable that is never really needed. Approaches like this are usually made impossible by chicken/egg problems, but if it starts in a niche both technology and distribution can grow organically. Remember how Tesla was "the laptop battery car" while incumbents insisted on starting all their BEV projects (they did exist) by reinventing the battery?
PsFzf + ZLocation for Powershell :)
There's a British children's adventure film called "Swallows and Amazons". A family of children want to go on a sailing trip without adult supervision to camp on an island. Their mother sends a telegram to her husband, who's an officer on a navy ship asking his advice (or permission, it was another time). He sends a telegram back "If not duffers won't drown, if duffers better drowned".
It's not really 7.3%, since you need to account for the Zusatzbeitrag, and the Pflegeversicherung. In total, it's half of (14.6 + ~1.2 + 3.3)%, so around 9.5% assuming you don't hit the price limit.

The article linked above gives better, more recent figures on those limits.

Yes, the Pflegeversicherung is a separate thing, but it's charged by the health insurer, it's mandatory, and private insurers include it into the price. It's much simpler to bundle those things together.
> Humans are social creatures

Yes, humans evolved to live in groups. However, we did not evolve to live in huge cities, surrounded by millions of people and tall concrete boxes. That would scare the soul out of our ancestors. My point is that we can't always judge the technology by what's "natural" to us. Brain is extremely flexible, and children who grew up with VR might just want to live in it, instead of the "real" world.
That’s exactly the feature that’s causing the problem in this article.
> I assumed previously that they were having the business owner pay them out, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

In the silliest case, they might just be doing the VC funded growth thing where they're subsidising the cost of your restaurant meal with VC money in order to grow the base of users who are in the habit of using the app, without the restaurant being involved.
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Haha, this was me a couple of weeks ago. You see my car had been broken into right outside my home around three in the morning and someone had trashed my motorcycle (this whole thing was going to cost me $5000). I sort of don't pick fights with people so this was unusual. So when someone was walking around slowly outside my home at three, I assumed he was the criminal. By the time I was outside, all I saw was him in his sedan racing down the street.

So I went inside and texted my neighbour and asked him for his video. At first he thought it was the perp but then on looking closely he said "Oh he's delivering newspapers".

I was absolutely mortified but he understood, having had his car broken into as well. Being a victim of crime really twists you. I was very angry for a while. But I'm through it now. When I was rushing out to confront the poor newspaper guy, I fantasized about blocking him in to the cul de sac and calling the police. Can you imagine if I'd done that? Ugh. The real complaint, I think I have about the whole incident is the damage it did to my psyche.
We forget, the main reason we post a comment is to be read by others. So there's nothing wrong because it is "you" wrote the comments and it is "you". Sure you already read their Terms of Service (ToS) before embedding their product in your website. There is no free lunch as there are some costs to develop and maintain a product. If you are a coder, develop your own commenting system is not hard. They just do what they do for survival, like everybody else.
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>Not some junkies slapping half-baked libs together.

This is offensive. Whether the people who work hard to make and share (for free) half baked libraries are addicted to drugs is really not part of the main thrust of your argument. You could leave it out, save words, and not have distracting comments from people like me while still making your point.
Why will it need to be 90 or 120 Hz?
Does Apple manufacture any display panels?
Reddit has crippled their mobile browsing experience to push people towards the app. I'd prefer not to force all readers to download another app.
Even better: you're in IMAX movies, but nobody is chewing nachos.
The real advantage of fzy over fzf is that fzy is actually better at guessing what you want (the documentation claims it's also faster but I never noticed a difference).

That fzy also forces you to think about good input providers (like fd instead of find) is just following the Unix philosophy of one tool doing what it's best at.
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It's been a huge transfer of wealth from wall street fat cats to nerds on an Internet forum.

Once you factor in all the "nerds" who bought at 100+ and are now massively in the hole and all the "fat cats" who made millions playing the WSB crowd, I suspect you'll find a there will be a roughly net zero wealth transfer from the "wall street fat cats".
The private system is a bit of a problem. People with a high income (and the self-employed) end up switching to it save money, depriving the public system from their high contributions. It also means wealthy people get better access to healthcare, particularly mental health.

It also means that in a bid to save money, self-employed people pick an option that's cheaper now (private), but will cost them a lot more over time, with no option to switch back.

Normally, if you switch to private, you must stay on private. This prevents people from getting cheap private insurance when they're young, and cheap public insurance when they're old. In practice, you can just get a low income job for a year at age 50, and get forced back onto the cheaper public system. It's a solid financial decision.
Cool! Are there any competitors in the space?
> If a service is paid while allowing itself to engage in data mining and monetisation, it will lose most of its paying users

Will it lose some users? Sure. Most? No.

You can buy a tv costing 4 digits that happily will harvest data and show you ads.
I should correct that to "deductibles are a non-issue"
To some extent the problem exists in all languages that overload the less than and greater than symbols to also mean angle brackets. C++ infamously has to disambiguate using either the `template` or `typename` keyword in some cases; Rust on the other hand uses the shorter `::` sigil but also more consistently so the programmer doesn’t have to guess or memorize complex rules. Java uses the rather awkward `object.<Type>method()` syntax when you need to explicitly specify a type parameter in a method invocation (which luckily is not very often, and to be fair does mirror the method declaration syntax so there’s that).
These fun bits of software also sometimes topple governments, lift billions into or out of poverty, permanently alter the meaning of labor, enable mass surveillance and end the concept of privacy, hasten (or help) global warming... If anything we need to take everything we are doing a lot more seriously.
I have a hunch that in five years, the global-state package manager built into python will be a feature because we will all be working exclusively in dev-containers.

What does it matter to you if there are features in the standard library you don't use? The full python embedded distribution is only 8MB including runtime.
In the end he'll always be Scotty from marketing.
Yes. Just to illustrate that, a high-earning self-employed developer would pay the maximum ~895€ amount, while they'd pay roughly half on the private system.
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I've moved to https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/ from z, as it can also show you a list of matching directories using fzf
The two statements can live in unison you know; you can be a prick AND be at the helm of a company that makes products.

But be aware that you don't have to be a prick to make great products; that's cargo cult thinking.

And just because his company makes/made great products does not excuse his behaviour. The two are separate statements.
Absolutely. Picasso's journey was to transition from stunning realism to a child-like surrealism in later years. In some respects he was trying to unlearn form but keep the aesthetic.

And to be honest some of these MOBA pictures do that too, they're actually not bad at all. It's just perhaps not intentional, but does that matter?

So to call it bad art, is going a bit far.
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"Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes ofwebsite [sic] accessibility"

This is a new one. A site especially designed to be accessible that nevertheless can not - will not, even - display a 500 word plain text article without JavaScript.
Your email is not in your profile by the way
If you’re a dick, it doesn’t matter how successful you are, you’re still a dick.
You haven't used the right flagship Android phones the last few years. Android on a recent Sony flagship feels smoother than iOS on an iPhone X to me.
It's perfectly acceptable to both like a company's products and dislike the person at the helm.
This was interesting, although slightly confusing to read since it was written in the context of using the author's "Friendly Traceback" [1] system.

I would humbly suggest that maybe the name "friendly traceback" is not the most beginner-friendly thing, since if you are a beginner programmer you are perhaps not 100% sure what a "traceback" is, and why you would benefit from friendlier tracebacks.

[1] https://github.com/aroberge/friendly-traceback
TFA mentions that such newly formed county-like local governments would have courthouses. It doesn't talk about police, sheriffs, boys-in-blue. Does the first imply the second?

Is this William Gibson's future of HR with guns?
It’s also most probably a small part of the story about the second port.

We know from this interview with Schiller [0] that there was a clear price target for the first iPad, set early on at under $500, and that cutting everything superfluous was key in reaching the low price target (nearly all journalists were expecting a much higher price for an Apple tablet at the time)

“Well, if we’re going to get to a price point like that, we need to remove things aggressively.”

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/15/technology/de...
I struggled with Python dependency hell often until I started using Conda. I wish it were faster, but it rarely surprises me.
>it will lose most of its paying users to a more ethical competitor as soon as someone bothers to read the ToS

So never? People don't read the ToS and certainly don't judge services by it. It seems people have come to accept surveillance capitalism as a fact of life
It is indeed unfortunate Rust settled on <> for generics. Looking back, [] is obviously a superior choice. But alas, that train passed.
100% agree. Most large mobile phones are useless. Can't feel the keys, or have touch.
They aren't until they are. Things change rapidly in life.
Isn't Adobe Animate the same thing, keyframes and everything, just with html output?
Because Python is easier to start programming with, BASIC like, but a large majority fails to actually read the official documentation.

If they would do that, then they would realize Python is as powerful as Common Lisp, Ada, C++,.... with similar doc size in pages.
Python honestly did not learn from many things that were already well known when it was designed.

It wasn't arcane at the time that using exceptions for decision logic, or letting loops run by assignment, rather than by creating a new scope, were not the most salient ideas.

The following Python code contains a bug:

list_of_adders = []
for x in iterator:
list_of_adders.append(lambda y: y+x)

Namely, since `x` is assigned with each iteration of the loop, rather than that a new scope is created, the `x` that the closure encloses is re-assigned with it, so all anonymous functions contain the value that `x` had in the last loop, which is almost certainly not what the programmer intended.

In fact, if within the same scope, which is quite large, since Python does not like block scope, x ever be re-assigned, which is quite likely, as Python uses the same syntax for initialization and assignment, then all the closures collected in the list shall thenceon refer to the new value that x is assigned to.

These are not design choices that many other programming languages at the time made; they were bad with the knowledge of the time, and continue to be bad now. There is no justification to have loops be implemented by assignment, and not create a new scope.
Is that possibly because in order to play the games in downloads the content on execution and I am pretty sure you have to be a logged in user to access the games.
And probably only a small part of the real reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26034351
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I mean the article mentioned he had "restricted stock" (I guess it's like options?); I don't know how many he was entitled to, but the stock price of Apple has gone through a split and has become 40x worth as much today.
This is a gem, thanks!
"aren't properly vetted"

Malware distribution by negligence and "malware site" are a hairs breadth apart on my scale, especially when it's negligence on behalf of an ad-broker.

That kind of negligence is what gives their entire industry a bad name. But then I consider trackers as malware anyway, as is my personal bias.
Obligatory reference to Blessings [1], a very pythonic approach to terminal manipulation, inspired by curses and the complete opposite of it.

See the 'Before and After' example in the readme for enlightenment.

[1] https://github.com/erikrose/blessings
The starlink antenna may look like an ordinarry satelite dish -- but it is a super-advanced phased array antenna which uses a lot of signal processing to electronically steer the beam. This electronic beam steering should have no problems keeping up with boat motion.
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> Seems like you could make about as much over the course of a career working at a wal mart and have much better hours and health coverage to go along with it

There’s a lot of camaraderie in the chaotic grind and anyone who thrives in that environment would probably not fare well in the Walmart environment.

AB mentions it some in the OP article, certain types of people find fulfillment in the kitchen and would wither into a depressive/destructive mess without it.
Explicit typing causes errors to be reported early, aka fail fast. This is very helpful to debugging, because the closer the error is to its source, the easier it is to understand the cause. In a language with dynamic typing, it's not uncommon for the "wrong thing" to be passed around for a very long time before some piece of code actually tries to use it, and blows up because it's not what it expected it to be. Tracking down where such a value came from can be very tedious in large codebases.

(In statically typed languages with implicit nullability, nulls create the same problem.)

Basically, explicit contracts are Good, and types are a subset of explicit contracts that are more easily enforceable than most.
I wonder if they'd think the same about a side port with the Lightning or USB-C connector nowadays.

That said, we'll see the end of physical connectors within five years I'm sure, at which point it won't be an issue anymore.
I set the timestamp to where the discussion about the shipping date starts. Fasinating to watch how the young woman calls Jobs out for distorting reality. It's the classic conversation between development team and management.
No it won't. Samsung has 3 upgrades policy now. With security updates it is 4 years or more.
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If works it seems like that would solve the problem of somebody looking over your shoulder, when reading in a public space, too.
Yeah, I think the problem with self-hosting vs. Medium is that it is harder for the authors to reach a large audience.

I mean, even if you don't want to make money from your cool project or tutorial or whatever, you still want people to see it.

But man, I really hate Medium.
While I agree that more people should be willing to pay for services, I'm less certain that it would actually make a huge difference.

Once upon a time premium TV stations, like HBO, had no ads. After all, you were paying for them directly. Then they realized they could charge you a monthly subscription fee and show ads.

And all the theorizing about "but then a competitor that doesn't show ads would take all their customers" hasn't really panned out.

So I imagine the same thing would happen on the internet. Companies have all discovered that most people are willing to tolerate ads almost everywhere, giving them "free" revenue. So we get ads on things we pay for: Kindles, Microsoft Windows, etc.
They don't have satellite-to-satellite links yet, so to serve a customer the satellite also has to be able to see a downlink base station below it at the same time, and there's only a handful of those in one geographic region.

If they doubled the number of base stations in a new area (with satellite coverage) they would double the number of customers they could serve right now. So the constraint at the moment is mainly the number of base stations. The thing is once they have the sat-to-sat laser links working, they will be able to scale up with a lot fewer base stations, so there's no point deploying masses of base stations right now.
My only hate Python is how hard it is to push for JIT adoption versus other dynamic language communities.
Where did the older people go?
I hear you. At the same time there is light at the end of the tunnel. Once you grind through the boring and lengthy part you get to have a working software. That's rewarding and worth it.
And good native code compilers to choose from.
> That might not be what they meant, of course, but it's not hard to come to that conclusion.

The overlap between Ocaml and Rust is approximately similar to the one between Python and C (except Ocaml actually has relatively good performance). I have trouble envisionning a situation where having to choose between one and the other would make sense.
This is why I dropped disqus and made my own comment system

https://bsdnerds.org/comments-static-site/
One relatively easy feature to implement would be a smart accellerator the 'knew' if you stomped on the gas pedal in front of a store you didn't really mean to launch your car into the shop.

It would help our elderly maintain their independance a bit longer.
Non-English world, perhaps?
> This is only a dozen users per active starlink satellite.

Most of the users are in the northern US at present. Satellites passing over that area will be supporting far more users.
Supposedly it’s meant I work in airplanes and trains, so sailboats I’d imagine too. +/- constant swaying etc.
I definitely do not want a person flailing hands in their VR world, while sitting near me on an airplane/bus/whatever.
And a few golf balls.
The author of the post runs a competitor called Hyvor Talk (he discloses this at the end). I've had hyvor talk for more than a year. I don't run a blog thats very popular, but it has been quite easy to integrate (I use React, Gatsby/ static side generation, and Hyvor Talk has a react component). An example of the system is at the bottom of that blog post. There used to be a free tier, but now there isn't. I am only still using it because existing customers have the free tier and haven't bothered to look for alternatives. Unfortunately, you can't get it free anymore. I would love to see free tier reintroduced.

I did find some bugs with the React component itself, but it wasn't bad enough to make me stop using it.
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Not the OP, Common Lisp relates to the genesis of IDEs alongside Smalltalk, as such it has a very good developer experience, alongside native compilation, which can only be fully appreciated when using the surviving commercial offerings.
I have worked on this side project for few days. I initially started to collect for myself to find advice and save it for later use. But I realised it could help so many like me.

Please provide feedback if I need to make any changes.
Bound hydrogen is what is in gasoline and any other hydrocarbons. So it is nothing new, but a method for storing energy already used for a few billions of years, since free dioxygen appeared on Earth.

The only chemical substances that can approach hydrocarbons in energy density must be composed of light elements, preferably able to lose many electrons by oxidation.

So aluminum hydride would be better from this point of view than the magnesium hydride and ammonia is a very good solution if it is desired to avoid making hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide.

Nevertheless, nothing practically usable beats hydrocarbons in energy density. However it is unknown yet whether another form of storage, e.g. ammonia or another hydride a.k.a. "bound hydrogen", would not be better for the efficiency of a complete cycle of storing the energy by chemical synthesis, then recovering it using a fuel cell or a thermal engine.
OP here:

She also can barely hear, so giving voice commands might work, but understanding the machine-generated audio feedback doesn't work. Also, she can't fix problems, like accidental activation. It's too overwhelming. And that's while she's technologically curious and adopted mobile phones and smartphones to some extent. She just can't use these things properly.

I bet we will have an easier time with these things because we learned how to use them while everything was fine.
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You need a high refresh rate to keep convincing your brain of the illusion. If you dip down to 60hz and below, VR sickness can be a real problem.
it's as if r/bitcoinmarkets metastasized into the stock market at large. all wsb is missing are the "moon" and "HODL" chants
A person sleeping in -13C is a serious medical emergency. There is a high probability he could die from hypothermia.
Totally! I often wonder how much accidental functional ADHD we are training ourselves to suffer from when I see how elderly people including my granny react to modern tech devices and all the movement, flashes, animations, notifications, ...