skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In TFA they made a big point of you not needing any kind of license to drive one in China. I guess that's true of ebikes in the US, but above that point I think is a regulatory line that will never be relaxed. If it has indicators you'll need a license in the US forever, IMO, even if limited to city speeds.

I suspect higher interest rates might change the calculus too. If you can get a low-interest, long-duration loan like people get these days in the US you're more likely to go big.

And, to be fair, a major part of why the US has bigger cars is that people can afford them. Compare the median wage between the US and China.
Human behavior. Specifically, meat consumption.
Imagine instead that at the end of a task, instead of deleting a copy, it and the original are merged again, such that the merged self is made up of both equally and has both their memories. (This is easier to imagine if both are software agents, or they're both biological, and the new merged body is made up of half of the materials of each.) In this case, I think it's apparent that the copy should have no fear of death and would be as willing as the original to work together.

Now imagine that because there's too many copies, there's too many unique memories, and before the merger, the copy has its memory wound back to how it was at the scan, not too different than if the copy got blackout drunk.

Now because the original already has those memories, there's no real difference between the original and the merged result. Is there any point in actually doing the merge then instead of dropping the copy? I'm convinced that actually bothering with that final merge step is just superstitious fluff.
Well, I suppose after 4 years of media assault on the presidency, we can enjoy at least 4 years of media massage on this one. And I'm a democrat.
Texas energy is traded through ERCOT, an energy market "...governed by a board of directors and subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature."

http://www.ercot.com/about
Many Tesla fans are willing to turn a blind eye to defects that you typically wouldn't find in other luxury cars. I don't think Lucid Motors' fan base is that dedicated and forgiving.
Should Public Transit Be Free?
This should be illegal. How do we get the politicians to make a law over this?
Counterpoint: Between January 18th and Feb 17th, Wind power generation dropped 93%, coal generation rose 47%, natural gas generation rose 450% and nuclear dropped 26%. "Wind turbines at times this month [February] have generated more than half of the Texas power generation, though this is only about a quarter of the system’s power capacity."

From WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-spins-into-the-wind-11613...

By the numbers, we lost wind energy, tried to make up for it with natural gas, and weren't able to do so, because we had become too reliant on wind. In other words, there is a strong argument that our power issues here in Texas may be blamed, not on "Texas' Drive for Energy Independence" but on the Federal Government's drive for replacing fossil fuels. I'm not against green energy, but it's quite clear that wind is not ready or consistent enough to switch to, and likely won't be until we have large-scale energy storage mechanisms (that are not burned in order to retrieve said energy). Just by the numbers mentioned above, it's quite clear where the lack of power generation last week came from, and it wasn't simply a matter of not being connected to other grids. Other grids may have helped, but the shortfall came from wind.

The linked article makes mention of windmills icing up, and that there are ways of preventing that on Texas windmills, and that is true. And it also makes mention of the fact that the storm we just had truly was a freak storm, and not something that we really could have expected. But nevetheless, the article is nakedly hideously political, with the even-handedness being little more than a fig-leaf of their agenda: namely that the "'Republic of Texas' ethos" is "a devastating liability" in their formulation.
> 35k per year from influenza is literally an order of magnitude less than the current death toll

But it kills consistently year after year, decade after decade. Influenza has been consistently killing for how many years in a row before covid showed up? So really, the "current death toll" of the flu is in the many millions by now. Unless you reset the count after every year in which case covid's death count doesn't get to keep ticking up forever either and needs to reset to 0 at some year boundary.

> 675k Americans died in the 1918 Flu, and we’re still talking about that one.

And in 1918 America had less than one third the current population. 675k out of 100M is way deadlier than 500k out of 350M. Also we weren't really "talking about it" until very recently. Prior to 2020 almost nobody talked about it except people who study public health.
There have been several new variants that have popped up lately, many able to spread rapidly, and some showing the same mutations but developing them independently.

With the rapid spread of some of the variants, it would be foolish to assume that what we are dealing with now is the same thing as what we are dealing with before, and we really don't know enough about the new variants. Maybe they are spreading, but not making people sick enough, increasing herd immunity.

It's difficult to account for these things because the same time these new variants started exploding is the exact same time we shifted resources from random testing to mass vaccination.
Going public early in a company’s life used to be pretty normal. Only in recent decades has it become the norm to wait to go public until late in a company’s growth.

I think going public early is better. VC’s and insiders have been capturing the lion’s share of early-stage growth returns. If companies go public earlier, more of that growth will be accessible to more investors.
Smilling people dragging rectangles on the screen! PowerBI on the web turns corporate Angular mess into an Angular disaster with iframes and loading spinners.
Timduab should check out cheapETH. Its Eth but cheap. ....
> Inflation only matters from the time you receive your paycheck to the time you invest it in productive assets or buy the necessities of life.

This statement just reeks of entitlement and elitism. This is not how most americans live their lives. Stock ownership is highly correlated with income and education. Inflation is a regressive tax on the financially illiterate.
Switch is basically ditching touch, for the ability to play on TV.
There’s a big difference between “there might be a pandemic at some point in the indeterminate future” and “the price of 7 day gas futures is rising rapidly”. There’s also a difference between “Texas’ grid might fail in a future freeze” and “there will be a bad freeze next week”.

It doesn’t make sense to try and draw a parallel between a bad hypothetical that might happen in some indeterminate future and a negative possibility that will either come to pass or fizzle within a very short time horizon.
Timdaub should check out cheapETH ... it Eth but cheap...
Pan and Polo!
>For example I routinely purchases Moleskin notebooks for around $30 in India

Do you use fountain pens? Moleskin notebooks are amongst the worst paper I have ever used for a fountain pen. Even the finest points I have bleed an absurd amount.
If you can afford parking in some cities, you probably aren't buying a cheap car.

If you are, you probably are commuting or at some point driving enough to where you need to be able to get up to highway speeds, and are better off buying used.

There is a market here for cheap city driving only cars, but it isn't terribly big, hence the trouble breaking into the US.
Where can you purchase in the usa? Trying it out could be neat
Awesome, going through it right now and learning a ton. Dated? Sure, but How To Win Friends And Influence People is still bang-on, and it was written almost a century ago. I really appreciate the recommendation!
I think it would be more prudent to look at the context in Muhammad's times. Muhammad often preached of Jews and Christians as also being brethren, as fellow "People of the Book". But it is also to be noted that Muhammad, during his travels to Damascus, was only exposed to the Orthodox flavor of Christianity in the ERE - which itself was just going through a phase of staunch iconoclasm. The later adoption and proliferation of icons in the ERE seems to be a response to Muslim rulers issuing coins with their names and phrases of the Quran. But it would be expected that in Muhammad's time, he would have seen a lot of similarity between (Byzantine) Christians and Muslims. If he had been on a trip to the WRE, he might have likely had a very different take on Christianity, albeit one in more staunch opposition.
We had a massive gypsy moth outbreak this year. They destroy oak trees and no birds will eat them. It's absolutely a good idea to destroy their nests. Obviously this entails knowing what they look like...
I don't understand why you keep making the same circular arguments. If the lowest-level standard for JSON-encoded data also included comments and trailing commas, than I have no doubt that every combination of JSON-encoded data and JSON parser would be able to parse that. Instead, it wasn't put in the lowest level spec, so instead what you have are lots of individual parsers with non-compatible custom flags. If Crockford's argument was "I got rid of comments because people were using them for preprocessor directives", then he just made the problem a million times worse because now there are a million different, incompatible "preprocessor directives" that are just implemented as basically command line args now if a user wants to have a very basic feature, which is comments.
Reminds me of an interesting feature(?) of the old DS Phat. If you held it close enough, analog tv antennas could pick up the video signal going to the top screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlCpZkVss4
Boston has some jet powered train track snow blowers, albeit for very different reasons (heat, not electricity).
I remember using a python script that would decode pictures of punch cards using PIL, and trying it on some images from a google image search.

I'm pretty sure it was this one: http://codeincluded.blogspot.com/2012/07/punchcard-reader-so... Looks like he added a punch card generator as well.
How to Audit Core Web Vitals
Haskell:

* Meaningful whitespace (Yes, you can use {;}, but no one does)

* Magic characters (Also optional, but yes everyone uses them)

* Dependencies - sort of? You can definitely write anything you want with base+containers+vector.

* Garbage Collection

* Exceptions - they do exist, even in pure code (although you can't catch them in pure code), but thankfully rare.

Rust:

* Magic characters

* dependency hell is possible here too

Is there any language that doesn't check one of these boxes? As far as I can tell, you either have a Garbage Collector, unsafe pointers, or Rust. Is there another language that falls into the Rust category that's not early in development?
I'm sure the internals were photographed and dissected a long time ago but maybe someone is just now getting into the guts of the SoC. It's fun to imagine all the interesting things we might have laying around that are hidden by a $DEBUG=0 flag...
I have a dumb question.

How much noise will these make?
I think he was expecting popular content from unknown/non mainstream artists instead of popular content from popular artists that can be found anywhere.
Bitcoin Tumbles Below $50k as Caution About Rally Takes Hold
Cool, thanks Aaron. I feel like we've been carried on the backs of YC SUS videos for some time, but this startup library is far more organized than what I've seen before.

I echo your sentiment, by the way: thus far, fundraising on good terms is turning out to be far easier than we expected - is it possible that low interest rates from the fed are making it easier for investors to get money? If so, we may expect this trend to continue for a few years, as the fed has committed to keeping rates low for some time.
Their early work seems to when from mid to later Chicago house. There's some definite influences in their pre helmet days. But the fantastic Frenchness further transformed their work into samples and meta samples and eventually the amazing soundtrack for Tron legacy. Bravo for a fantastic oevre and thanks for all the beats!
Kick the Peg
Thanks for the feedback :)
Sad to hear about the copycats, anything you tried to prevent that besides DMCA? I guess it's unavoidable in the long term, but by then the competitive advantage is hopefully big enough.
I love this. There is something about the power of train engines that is very appealing, even though there might be other bigger engines out there. Maybe it is the pulling aspect due to them being in front instead of driving that makes me think of them like iron horses.
Ironically in 2020.

"On June 1, Austin Energy issued a notice of suspension and its receipt has been acknowledged, according to the utility’s COO, Charles Dickerson. The energy generation facility will be retired Oct. 31"

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/whispers/decker-creek-...
I don’t really go out of my way to get the crows to come close. They do if they want to, sometimes I’ve left something out that they can get before I get it to compost. Mostly I just show them respect and they do seem to recognize it. They see me walk pup around them if they’re rooting around nearby, and they give us space if they see we don’t have an easy way around.

If you do want to make friends, a buddy of mine has done really well leaving unsalted peanuts in shells.
No, it's not.

Inflation doesn't affect those who don't have money because they don't have money. Wages have kept pace with inflation, housing on a dollars per square foot basis, on average across the US has kept pace with inflation since the 1970s. In places where it's more expensive, it's a function of zoning rules.

Stock ownership is correlated with wealth and wealth inequality is a real problem. So is income inequality. They both have nothing to do with inflation. You take that up with Congress not with Janet Yellen.

Poor people are poor because they don't have money, not because their non-existent savings are being inflated away, and not because their flat-after-inflation payroll has been chipped away at. They were born into a monopoly board with hotels on every square, because of the roughly 0% estate tax.
https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465...

https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Economics-Thinking-Revised-En...
http://archive.is/nGkbo
How does this compare to Sciter? I understand this is primarily to overlay UIs over full screen applications (like games), but Sciter has that capability as well. Particularly how easy is it to style things, considering Sciter allows CSS?

I did a CTRL+F for "sciter" and usually I find something, but this time, nope.
So buy gold. The point is that an inflationary fiat currency offers maximum flexibility by not forcing anyone into treating it as more than a medium of exchange. The OP is demanding the creation of a new class of thing, which is designed to preserve wealth, with no risk. Ok, pitch that. But there's many reasons why that isn't a good thing. Inability to react to shocks such as a global pandemic, generational wealth consolidation and so on are all reasons its a bad idea.

Many things people hate on such as wild value swings and boom/bust cycles were much worse on the gold standard. However, in a world where wages keep pace with inflation (they do) you can recreate the gold standard yourself by firing up Robinhood and buying GLD.

By pegging the currency to an arbitrary asset class you're forcing me to use your asset class. By leaving it un-backed, you're free to back your personal economy with whatever asset you like.

More freedom.
The rise and acceptance of SPACs is the clearest sign we're in a bubble. I hope we don't look back at 2021 the way we do at 1999...
Sorry, I was focusing too much on the point I was trying to make that I might have not worded it correctly. No mainstream Muslim scholar would accept the trinity, or even the divinity of Jesus Christ; but the continuity of monotheistic worship and the identity of the entity being worshipped would crucially be viewed as unchanged (though worshipped in a way that they would undeniably find wrong).
In an economy with a working financial system there is no such thing as abundant or scarce capital, because financial capital is not used up when an investment is made, but merely transferred to the accounts of vendors and employees who then store it in funds which in turn seek new investments elsewhere.

The issue is how a speculative cash-flow is priced relative to the risk free cash-flow - what is the discount demanded of a speculative venture?

This discount, which is not the risk discount, but rather a measure of how risk is estimated, goes through secular swings:

As investments are seen to pay off, investors update their priors and view similar investments as less risky relative to the previous pricing. In a bust, people are convinced many of the same investments wont pay off and become more skeptical of ventures.

So I don't see this as a function of low rates so much as higher levels of confidence and optimism. That's all this is -- confidence and optimism, not scarcity or abundance of capital.

If this analysis is true, then the current climate will flip back once there is a high profile series of busts, rather than once rates are raised. But as raising rates tends to slow down the economy, rising rates may be the trigger that creates the busts, but it's not the only possible trigger.

Therefore, although I believe we are in a secular period of low rates, I don't believe we are in secular period of easy venture funding or "abundant capital". Note that one example would be Japan, where venture funding is historically hard to obtain as investors are much more conservative even though they have had a period of low rates for quite a while. This is because a risk free rate change from 1% to 2% isn't going to make a whole lot of difference to the discount demanded for a bet that has maybe a 50% chance to pay off. Updates of your assessment of risk are going to dominate the pricing of the venture's cashflow.
This article is worth to read just for the history of the term "bootstrapping". The rest is great too.
Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?
That's interesting, I had never heard the term being used in English, but in Chile it is a very commonly used term "darle color" is synonym to exaggerate something

I do wonder if they arose in the same way, from color commentators
Not sure for $30, but for $50 you can get the Odroid Go Advance which is a very nice piece of hardware: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-go-advance-black-edit...
The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits
IIRC, mobile battery solutions have about 20-30% losses in freezing temps.

Fixed utility scale installations can regulate temps using geothermal and solar energy to reduce losses due to extreme weather.
Ask HN: Low-DPI LCD Screen
Hello community,

I see a lot of nice SPI LCDs ... with nice resolutions ~ 320 x 200 ... but all are two tiny for my project.

I would need an SPI LCD with a resolution of 256x192 or 320x200 or similar ... but with a screen diagonal of ~ 7'' (even bigger).

I realize the screen will be pixelated with this low-DPI screen, but it will be perfect for my retro project.

Any recommendation?
1. Can confirm. I'm currently manually checking every summary before pushing it to production. And there were some really bad ones.

2. You are right, the prompts can become quite big which increases the costs.

3. Let's see where it goes once it gets bigger :)
I'm happy to answer questions here.

I'm really glad this blog post is being discussed on HN. I've learned a lot. But there are also a few foolishly critical comments. You and jhgg should keep in mind: Illegitimi non carborundum.
Why does it have to look so boring and so much like a Tesla? Car design has become a soft gelatinous blob of marketing dictated homogeneity.
My first personal computer was a Scientific Data Systems (SDS, later Xerox) Sigma 5, owned by Transdata in Phoenix, Arizona, in the summer of 1969.

My high school had a Teletype machine with an account on this timesharing service. At the end of the school year Transdata hired me as "night operator" working the graveyard shift for $2/hour.

The fun part was that Transdata didn't offer their timesharing service at night! So the Sigma 5 was mine to do whatever I wanted with it.

I guess they figured I would at least make sure the building was secure, and maybe do something interesting and useful with the machine.

To run a batch job, you made a deck of cards with a boot loader card at the front. This card loaded the actual program from the next group of cards, and then that program would read and process the rest of the deck. Each card was 80 bytes.

Naturally, we tried to see what we could do with just a single card!

The Sigma 5 had a speaker you could toggle with an instruction, so one popular single card program toggled the speaker in a way that sounded like bird chirps.

Another popular card was a simple print program. Put this card at the front of a deck, and it would read the rest of the cards in the deck and print them on the line printer one by one.

But it was slow. It read a card, then printed the card and waited for that print line to finish because it was printing directly from memory. Only then it read the next card, printed that card, and so on.

I looked at the code and found there were a few bytes left, just enough to make the print program double buffered. Now it would read the first card into the first buffer and print it, and while it printed read the next card into the second buffer, then print from that buffer while reading the next card after, and so forth. It was twice as fast!

Of all the programs I've worked on since then - many of them massively more complex - this one sticks in my mind as something I'm proud of.

I just wish I still had that card.
If you want actual Macroeconomics rather than the myths from this article try

https://www.amazon.com/Macroeconomics-William-Mitchell/dp/11...
They teach that stuff at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. (Now called WhinSec to try to get away from its past)
Mmmm, the idea that the rapid and sudden collapse of the hospital system in major city centres would have led to no other economic consequences is certainly a take.
Preferred stock by default mainly affects liquidation order when there's no dividend. If the company does very well, that won't be a factor. https://www.svb.com/blogs/lewis-hower/startup-founders-shoul...

Dilution can happen regardless of any preferred stock agreement. The biggest sources are when top leadership exercise huge options packages or when the company issues new stock for sale. If you buy stock or call options you are subject to dilution on the public market too. Under dilution, any investors that negotiated an anti-dilution clause on their preferred stock are the winners, everyone else loses. It's stacked but it doesn't break the game completely.

There's a pretty good chance of failure of this strategy. I've stuck around my company for almost 10 years to hit my FI target, and the first 2 years I didn't get equity by default as an intern. The opportunity cost is potentially huge. However, as an individual there's no way I would have been able to invest at this company at the time I got options. The job has been pretty nice in the mean time. FAANG also would have returned extremely well in that time, but more like 10x not 100x.

Is this an efficient strategy on the risk-reward frontier? I don't know. But sometimes the outcome works out very well. Unfairness in the system is there but not so different than owning any random stock. Fiduciary duty exists.