skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the curve may be a similar shape for electric bikes and scooters. IMHO an e-bike is the fastest way to get kids across town to school, it's interesting to watch the world discover this.

I found this micromobility market analysis. It'd be fun if someone who does market sizing compared it to the electric car study: https://micromobility.io/blog/2021/4/26/the-market-for-micro...
https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/

it will probably take 4+ days to become faster editing text with vim than nano, and then you likely won't look back. Come back to the guide with decreasing frequency to add more knowledge to your vim arsenal.
Your threat model likely involves simple robbery; making you “look here” is quick and painless, and increases the loot value significantly. And yes, biometrics in general are not good. The best protection remains a pin or passcode.
I have trained GANs on raw JPEG coefficients with moderate success as a pet project. Read the raw DCT coefficients without decompressing and train in this space. JPEG-decompress the output of the net to reconstruct an image in the pixel space. There are few papers doing similar things for supervised learning tasks iirc
even just something like "don't include a mortgage or vehicle payments here" on the debt screen. give more example ("cc debt, student loan, etc"). "unsecured debt" vs "secured debt", with examples, I guess??
I guess the point is that if lockdowns are ineffective, you are going to reach the overload point regardless. The fact that it did not happen means that I would not have happened anyway.
Xen is a full-fledged hypervisor that hosts VMs. It uses QEMU for I/O emulation in VMs, which increases the attack surface.

Kwarantine is a thin hypervisor that hosts containers. It uses hardware virtualization extensions, MMU, and page tables to provide the same level of security as VMs. Each container runs with a separate copy of the host kernel so that vulnerabilities/bugs are isolated. It does not use QEMU.
Where do people get their NFT knowledge from?
I've got a number of concerns with the accuracy of your historical analysis here, but I'll limit myself to a couple:

> (WW2 in Europe started due to US isolationism. Both Germany and Japan thought of the US as country bumpkins in 1940.

In 1940, Hitler's actual words, which presumably were not too different from the rest of the Nazi leadership, were "WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?" That doesn't sound much like bumpkinism to me. (Not to mention the Henry Ford connection, or the IBM one)

> Considering Germany couldn't invade Britain, which is only 20 or so miles from France, you can see how 80 miles is a very strong deterrent.

How do you explain June 6th 1944? The Nazis didn't do Operation Sealion because it was too far, they didn't do it because they didn't have air and naval superiority.
> It seemed to me from that same documentary that pretty much all writing systems appeared independently from spoken language: In a sense, written and spoken appeared independently, and then the Rébus principle, and then this "acrophonic principle" made the writing system, and thus "language", sort of subdued to the spoken language. Is that true?

I must admit to being confused as to what you’re asking here. What exactly do you mean by ‘appearing independently’, and writing systems being ‘subdued to the spoken language’?

> Did "putting things in writing" help formalize such languages, or did it have no impact?

Hmm… not sure. I suppose it depends on what you mean by ‘formalise’, and even then this isn’t really an area I’ve looked into. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the presence of a writing system assists in the preservation of archaic forms (not that this affects the rate of language change, mind you).

> Any good reference on these questions?

For writing systems in general, a good place to start is Omniglot (https://www.omniglot.com/), but I can’t think of anything more relevant to your specific questions.
Kids play games on the platforms that are available to them. I used to play playstation on a tiny screen that mounted onto the back of a playstation because it was the only option to play in the car and when my parents dragged me along to boring events.

I didnt love the tiny screen but given the option between no playstation and playstation I was going to play on the tiny screen.
For god's sake don't put Salesforce on your LinkedIn profile, or you'll never get anything but recruiters spamming you about terrible jobs writing Apex.
Exactly, I want to go visit the Deep Creek Mountains in western Utah, and I've heard that bringing your own gasoline is a good idea because of just how far the Deep Creeks are from a gas station or civilization for that matter. I love exploring the deserts of Utah, and that just wouldn't be possible with current electric vehicles.
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Curbside parking in city centers should go away. So much space is given to those tons of metal blocking the sidewalk and the streets, taking freedom to move from pedestrians, cyclists and also moving cars. Underground parking and parking further away from the city center can take its place.
Yeah, but some claim overall "deaths of despair" went up [1], which is probably better to use here.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/deaths-of-despair-during-c...
Conversely a lot of non tech folks are stuck suffering with Salesforce being poorly configured or operating for them.

Small, meaningful efforts in such cases can vastly improve the actual quality of life of so many people.

The dream of tech working for people instead of people working for tech should include the majority, not a technical minority, no?
It is highly likely that Salesforce will be around in some form or another for at least 10 years. Even if it isn’t, your knowledge of customer requirements and how they can be met will be portable beyond just 1 company.
This has been my major concern since 2018. When it was clear their vision of "Service" Revenue is something different to what I had in mind.

In 2014 I thought the Services Revenue Growth will be coming from bundling of iPhone + iCloud + AppleCare+ in subscription like services. Sort of like the current iPhone upgrade programme, with upsell of other things like Apple Music, Netflix or HBO where they get some sort of commissions. ( Similar to current App Store sign up commission ). Using something like Apple Credit Card ( that was long rumoured and somehow only launched in 2019 ) where Apple could afford to have revenue spread over a much longer period of time all while increases iPhone affordability. Think 36 Months instead of the usual 24 months. Apple has too much cash on hand and this delayed account receivable is something that could be used to Apple's advantage.

Instead they went with AppleTV+, Apple News+ Apple Fitness+, Apple PodCast+, Apple Arcade, and bundling them into ONE all to dilute their $10+Billion Annual raw profits from having Google as default search engine. I mean what's next? "Apple Bank" because their Hardware features and customer data which Apple do collect so they can provide better Banking services? "Apple Insurance" because Apple Watch provides Data to Apple and Apple cant share to other for privacy reason? Apple Cars with special design U1 integration of whatever that only works with Apple Find My Network? And "Apple Taxi" once Apple figure out how to do LV5 AV?

This is not Steves-Apple. This is very Tim Cook's Apple.
My impression (over a few decades) is that news stories about a unionization vote (won, lost, or upcoming) near-always proclaim the employer's "vote no" campaign to be exceptionally aggressive and underhanded. Perhaps my news sources quietly ignore the ~99% of unionization votes where such is not the case. But I suspect that both pro- and anti-union readers feel quite flattered by such characterizations, and so journalists have learned to proclaim that in near-all their stories upon the subject.

Whether or not that suspicion is correct, I get the impression that even a slightly-competent union would have fully expected Amazon to fight hard and nasty in this case. A couple stories (from seemingly-pro-union sources) seemed to say that the location was one which Amazon would have chosen, if they had to face a union vote. Compared to other Amazon warehouses, this one paid notably less-bad wages (relative to the local job market), had notably less-evil managers (again, relative), etc.

If that's vaguely correct, then how can the union's decision to fight in Bessemer, AL be explained? "The union is a sock puppet of Amazon's, and losing was the secret plan..." sounds cool. But there are many different unions in this world. Perhaps while a noisy one was picking and losing a fight in Bessemer, the savvier ones were quietly continuing with their own plans for Amazon.
A delightfully opaque version name, as ever. Does anyone know what it's referencing?
I'm all for looking at incarceration rates and sentencing disparities, etc. - if there are actual imbalances after controlling for relevant factors, then it makes sense to root them out and fix them.

That said, studies like the one you're citing appear to be flawed because they fail to account for rates of crime (especially violent crime) as well as socioeconomic factors. Correlation is not causation and all that.

(see e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-rac...)
> How did the citizens feel about these lavish displays? (i.e., Queen Victoria's funeral)

A certain amount of pomp is probably worthwhile for its contribution to social cohesion. But that probably hits the point of diminishing returns fairly quickly — not to mention the risk of having it go to the heads of those involved. And good lord are there ever enough other needs on which the resources could be profitably spent; as President Eisenhower said in his famous Cross of Iron speech: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." [0] The same could be said about excessive pomp.

Footnote: One of the things I've always admired about Ike is that he directed that he be buried in an ordinary G.I. coffin and wearing his plain, everyday Army working uniform from WWII. "The casket is $80 government issue requested by Eisenhower. The only difference between his casket and those furnished for any soldier buried by the Army is an inner glass seal that cost an extra $115. It was lined with tailored eggshell crepe." [1]

[0] https://www.nps.gov/features/eise/jrranger/quotes2.htm

[1] https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/dwight-d-eisen...
Android? Stay Focused app is gold.
I learned Pico in college (part of our email system IIRC.) I don't code in terminal windows (prefer IDEs) and I can get by in vim. Inevitably I reach for nano when I'm editing config files.
We could at least stop subsidizing ICE, then.
Here's a decent twitter thread (2019) with some background on the project:

https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136631437514272768
Personally, I will always buy what's most economical and convenient.

I tried really hard to skew the numbers in favor of a Tesla back in 2017/2018 when rebates were all the range and I still couldn't swing it.

Maybe it's a different story now that the used car market has tightened though.
> Which never really pans out (field hospitals, hospital ship sent to NYC, etc.) - they got strained and perhaps local spots overwhelmed, but never doomsday scenarios we hear bandied about without any evidence.

"The thing you were trying to prevent didn't happen, therefore you didn't need to try to prevent it" is really curious reasoning. "It didn't happen, therefore it was because we did this things" is also a weak claim, but the reverse seems far sillier. Especially if you look at the hot spots where things got worst, like Italy or India. Instead of being glad we avoided that, we're whining that we had to do anything at all.

> His point is that lockdown doesn't really change behavior and places that don't have strong mandates end up largely practicing safer behavior anyway.

Again, this is a curious claim. If lockdown doesn't really change behavior, how can lockdown be responsible for the things it's being blamed for like isolation and economic impact? That is then the fault of the pandemic, and the natural behavior changes that resulted, instead!

Note how toilet paper was gone from grocery stores BEFORE any official action was taken.
Every function can be made continuous if you add one dimension in it's output for defined/not defined.
I've installed nano on every Linux system I've ever worked on, if it wasn't already there of course. For me, it's so much easier to work with than vim, for changing config files etc.

I only wish line numbers were enabled by default, or at least there was a simple and easily discoverable way to enable them.
Define "middle of nowhere", I guess? Not a lot of places, even in Utah and Wyoming, are more than 100mi from an interstate. Also recognize that "a charger" is any building with an electrical drop. A regular 120v 15a plug in someone's wall will give you 100 miles of range in 6-7 hours. If they have a 240V dryer or cooktop or whatever you can cut that down to 1-2.

You can play with tools at https://abetterrouteplanner.com/ to get some guidance as to how this would work.

Broadly: EVs are absolutely going to be slower going on long road trips, but it's not that bad. A routine gas car trying to make good time will have an average driving pattern like "drive for four hours, stop for 15 minutes for gas/food/potty". So you're getting 16/17ths of your highway speed on average. A typical long range EV is more like "drive for two hours[1], stop at a supercharger for half an hour", which is more like 4/5ths efficiency. That's a net difference in average speed of 18%, or roughly the difference between someone on that interstate going 75mph vs. 65mph.

Is that a killer problem? Up to you to decide. It wasn't for me.

[1] The cars charge much faster with emptier batteries (just like your phone), so topping up isn't something you typically do on the road, you just put enough in to get to your next stop plus a safety margin.
One thing people forget (and that I have realised once I bought an EV) is that you save a lot of time never having to go out of your way to a petrol station for that 95%.

Plugging in at home takes 10 seconds. That does add up to a fair amount of time saved over the year.
This is a "cheating" answer, but we have a plug-in hybrid minivan. We get ~30 miles on the battery, which covers the vast majority of our day to day driving, but still have the ICE option for longer trips.
> 2-3x more people, max

Rounding, that's possibly another 1-2 million people. Those are big numbers!

Also one quibble in that most of the US did not have an extended lockdown. Here in GA ours lasted basically a month. As others have said, people voluntarily stayed home, in part because the exponents of letting the disease "run its course" tended to exhibit a level of comfort with millions of deaths that perhaps is not widely shared in the population.
Same here. Bought a car very recently, wanted it to be an electric car, but I live in the city center and charging is just a pain, plus the car is frequently used for long trips. So, I am skipping on the (pure)electric cars until we get 1000km range per charge with good charging networks. Hopefully, we will be reaching that point soon.
Oh thanks, I remember laughing at that comic 15 years ago or so, back when I had "trance sucks" as an avatar on at least one dance music-related forum :)

The fact that it's originally a Jack Chick tract about how evil Muslims are makes it even better lol.
I used to organize corporate trainings. A basic [language here] one would take 2 weeks and barely get people comfortable with what they learned. You could do more with an intensive format of 40hrs/week, but to think you can train people in two weeks for completely different roles an have them come out effective employees is just... wishful thinking to be polite.

If that was possible you’d see your peers changing career all the time to chase higher pay. The closest thing would be a bootcamp which usually are 3-6 months long, and again, doesn’t make up for the lack of work experience.

Also we have no idea what kind of switch this would be about, so it’s pure speculation on your part.
Hi Sverhagen, thanks for such an interesting insight. I do feel bad for the guy too, tough gig to have the cycling world analysing you just trying to do your job - especially when there are so many variables he'd have to account for.

And 99.9% of the time it wouldn't make a difference, he's just very unlucky that this time it may have (or may not have, but either way it's brought a focus to the camera position).

I see you're now a software engineer. How did you end up moving from photo-finish operations to software?
>So here we are, on the brink of war with a President who can't climb a flight of stairs on his own.

I seem to remember a major conflict in the last century where we had a POTUS that similarly couldn't climb a flight of stairs on his own and we seemed to do just fine...

But great to have some diversity of thought from MAGA facebook here on HN, it does get a bit echo-chamber-ish
>and I expect this will continue.

I expect it to end sooner than later, for two reasons: first, where I'm from (Canada), the vast majority of fuel surcharges go towards road maintenance. That revenue disappears with EVs under current policy. Second, the vast majority of EV subsidies are going to, essentially, rich people, who in most other aspects of their lives have disproportionate carbon footprints. It's not progressive policy.
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You're assuming that you can only round to the nearest 1% which is not true at all. If you round to the nearest confidence interval and the CI is 5% then you would round to 20%. That said, I would prefer both the precise number and CI communicated together like sibling comment mentions.
I could, but nobody else on my current team is based in my office in New York now.
Maybe they should stop advertising NFTs to the average people and only focus on the art-collection market. I'm real tired of seeing NFTs everywhere like it's the next stock market panacea.
I'm actually more sympathetic than the average libertarian to marginalized groups, because social marginalization itself is a terrible thing and it seems hard to address without some sort of community-oriented focus that goes beyond conventional "libertarian" politics and its focus on mere individual equality.

However, I also thinking most advocacy is falling way short of acheving stronger community ties for marginalized groups. Indeed, a lot of such advocacy is clearly counterproductive, in pushing for "liberal" social atomization and further marginalization.
The federal tax credit in the US is nothing to sneeze at! I'd prefer investment in better infrastructure (in the form of more charging locations) to remove or at least reduce the fear people have about range.
It completely depends on the vehicle, and what the charging options are where you're going. Teslas have pretty quick fast-charging options that may line up quite comfortably with ordinary travel breaks, some other vehicles may not.

I think the reality is that people will need to accept that their use of the vehicle will just be a bit different than ICE vehicles for some cases. In some cases people will just need to have or rent or share specialty-purpose vehicles for things like camping or off-road experiences, at least until things like fast-charging stations are as common as gas stations are.

Buying vehicles that are optimized for the 5% use case seems really wasteful, but we do it now because the real (environmental) cost of that inefficiency is not paid for directly by the consumer.
Ah yes, when HN decided that poor people in India shouldn't have any internet, because Facebook was providing it.

To be fair though, the zero rating/internet.org stuff does appear to have made a massive difference to internet availability in developing countries, and it juiced FB's user growth numbers, as it was intended to do.
OCaml-pandoc: a native OCaml library to write filters for pandoc
The transferable skill being missed here is the customization and integration between such systems.

That skillet really doesn’t seem to go out of date or demand.

Spending a few years in any ecosystem and applying oneself will almost always lead one to the next thing.
> Its literally named subtle to discourage the general developer.

“It is named SubtleCrypto to reflect the fact that many of these algorithms have subtle usage requirements in order to provide the required algorithmic security guarantees.”[1]

This was the closest to an explicit mention of the name I could find right now. It could read both as ‘the api provide security guarantees’ or ‘the developer provides security guarantees’. The article goes on to mention the customary warnings for developers about to do dangerous things.

So yes, I believe you are right on this one. My memory served me otherwise. I still think developers would do themselves and their users a service by learning about applied cryptography and how to securely implement it.

> In the https web model, there are very few situations where using this api actually makes sense. (Seriously, i challenge you to name one in a typical server-client web app)

There are no situations where using this api without HTTPS is even possible. SubtleCrypto is only available in secure context. Making an argument that the api then doesn't make sense in said secure context doesn't resonate with the design choices behind it.

About server-client apps, client-side cryptographic schemes are a thing. I access my encrypted cloud storage provider right now which implements client-side crypto. So are end-to-end cryptography, e.g. two users messaging each other througn a common server. These use-cases are not covered by HTTPS as we know.

Here's a link to some part of Matrix[2] that seem to use this api, but don't take my word for it.

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[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#subtlecrypto-interface

[2]: https://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-js-sdk/8.1.0/crypto_aes....
Ancient continental blocks soldered from below
FDA releases plan to ban menthol cigarettes
I can't be bothered by a tool I don't use.
Subsidizing them will make the cost of new EV cars more competitive with used ICE cars, which is what someone is much more likely to buy now. Also, subsidizing car sales indirectly funds development of more attractive EV car tech, which will increase people's desire to buy them in the next few years instead of having to wait decades for their personal killer feature.
I'm suprised by the number of people arguing for and against the lockdowns using just deaths statistics.

Lockdowns of the duration that we experienced should be illegal because they take away the citizens' liberties to an extent that no government should be able to take them away. It has nothing to do with health.
Thanks for sharing this. If I may ask, would Ilograph (diagramming tool I made) alleviate the two issues you've raised? It aims to show cross-cutting dependencies via perspectives, and has an interactive layout to make complex perspectives easier to read. It's definitely a "long term" diagram solution, as opposed to quick sketches. Would love to know how close it gets to the mark.

Example: https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Ilograph/Request
> due to a more modern design

nano is a clone of pico, the text editor for the pine email client, so "modern" is definitely a matter of some interpretation here. :)