skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's probably not that much magic left in an electric motor.

I believe this sentence has been said about many technologies in the past that definitely invalidated it. I'm more playing devil's advocate than trying to falsify you, likely for being burned sometimes reading or, worse, stating it, haha.
I've always found the Audacity UX to be cumbersome. I hope they make some big changes. I'm not super optimistic, though.

If your needs are simple, I find mhwaveedit[0] much more pleasant to use than Audacity. It also ships with a ton of high quality filters. Really nice piece of software.

0: https://github.com/magnush/mhwaveedit
Someone reset the counter. Just kidding. This looks pretty great!
Taiwanese workers may find their wages lowered due to lack of China bidding on their salaries, but there's still the rest of the world.
So visa is a few hundred thousand times more efficient. Are we not able to pay people without Bitcoin? The trustlessness and decentralization isn't a value in and of itself, it's value must be measured in its utility.
Compliance rate probably increases when the first penalty arrives for taxes being 9 months late. They are usually lax at first however.
Ask HN: Is there some way for using Hacker News with a “mark as read” function?
basically in Reddit enhancement suite you can filter comments to only show comments that are “unread”, you click on a comment to mark it as read (or with email when clicking on a message marks it as read and you can even mark it as unread).

Is there something like that for hacker news? (a browser addon or some custom client).
Don’t forget to talk about rockets! Although there weight is more important than volume.
> Smokey Yunick

Oh, man. I'm not a huge NASCAR fan, but that guy. That guy. He was an absolute master of "But the rules didn't say I couldn't..." and probably is responsible for half the thickness of the modern rulebook on his own!

"What? The fuel tank capacity can't have an inflated basketball in it that springs a leak during the race, leaving us with more fuel capacity?"

"What? The fuel lines have to be a short path between the tank and engine? Now, look, nowhere in this here book does it say I can't stuff the frame rails with a couple hundred feet of spiraled fuel line. It gets an extra gallon or two in the car? Really? Huh..."

"Nowhere in the book does it say the bodywork has to actually match the size or positioning of the stock car the race car is based on. I can't help it if nobody else has totally redone the bodywork to improve aerodynamics... oh, OK, you're bringing cardboard templates next season, got it, that trick is done."

The guy was an absolute master of "creative advantages that weren't actually illegal at the time they were used."
Pure EVs will reach a fundamental peak percentage similar to any other car class... Hybrid powertrains are really where the next 20-30 years are headed for the bulk of vehicles. Automotive racing and supercars have demonstrated hybrids are the most effective setup for the past decade, and barring some major breakthrough in battery tech that will all trickle down into consumer cars over the next 0-20 years.
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Apart from costs and size there's could be good reasons to do this - power, inteferance, placement and cooling.

Hardware specialisation (doesn't always but) can reduce energy by allowing for more efficient designs. Just think of the power circuitry required to support all the SODIMM variants.

Since soldered ram is smaller it allows greater flexibility in board design - they can be placed to avoid inteferance or to benifit thermals.
Economic interdependence is a deterrent to war. No country's government can easily handle recessions, but a depression in China would severely jeopardize the Faustian bargain the CCP has given to the citizens of PRC: forfeit your liberties and you are guaranteed prosperity.

China is Taiwan's largest trading partner. Taiwan is China's 6th largest trading partner, but the total trade of Taiwan is worth more than 1/3 of China's total trade with America. That is an extraordinary amount for a country almost 14 times smaller than the United States.

If trade is reduced between the two countries, it could lessen the economic damage taken by the PRC if it were to initiate an invasion, or even increase hybrid and gray-area warfare. This would mean such actions would constitute less political risk for the CCP.
If people were willing to pay the higher cost for the same feature set, why would they well them for cheaper? Why not pocket the extra profit?

I don't like this line of thinking but I'm sure it's going to or already is happening.
+1 for LFS. I have learned so much for it and just about linux in general.
We had a see through engine w/strobe system at the uni I studied vehicle engineering at, it was really really educational to be able to adjust ignition timing and fuel mixture and see how it would change the color & shape of the flame front.

Probably a ton easier to simulate it these days but at the time it was absolute magic and really helped me understand how to ear-tune an engine to at least good enough to get on a dyno.
Workmail doesnt have wildcard addresses and you pay per address which is why I was looking at something like this.
Great idea! I'd totally use this if it had Azure support. Is Azure support on its way?
> Third: It's 23 million people who have built an advanced economy. Being able to siphon that wealth will be a massive boon for the CCP and other parts of China.

Right, who's going to buy from China-occupied Taiwan? In this scenario, there's going to be a massive disruption of Taiwanese economy. By the time it's over, someone else will outcompete them. It's not 17th century, capturing land doesn't guarantee any advantages.

> Edit: Does anyone here care that none of the Taiwanese want to be part of China?

I get you. Crimeans don't want to be a part of Ukraine either, yet the "international community" pretends they do. Life isn't fair, and Taiwanese not wanting something isn't going to change anything.
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yah, that’s the investment at the margin, but that’s currently overwhelmed by excess capital looking for any returns, even net negative, as long as it’s less negative than the next best alternative. excess capital decouples the risk-reward relationship. that’s why it makes the most economic sense to tax it back into line (and not other things), leaving money in the hands of spenders & more constrained investors to direct the market back to productivity, rather than extraction (for no good economic reason).
> The idea of a "motel" is to be cheap.

Says who?

The stereotypical cheap motel is almost guaranteed to be an unpleasant experience because of the riff-raff it attracts and the extremely low level of service/cleaning. That said, they exist to serve a need, they're not going to go out of business anytime soon.

The "rebanded" hipster motels are quite nice, I stayed at one in Marfa TX and also a different one somewhere in MA. Such motels can only exist if there's enough visitors to make them worthwhile, they also serve a need.
I wouldn't be surprised if this will become a case study in future in how to self-destruct a successful company with a single bad communication, much like Gerald Ratner (although this may be due to long-term grievances we're not aware of).
If more than a third of your employees think that a single policy change is enough for them to leave, then maybe your policy change is dumb.
People have hard time grasping how much energy chemical bonds can hold. 15 gallons of gasoline store 500kWh of energy. That is 5 tesla model s worth of energy.

Efficiency plays role for our day to day car tasks, but when you have to deal with external forces or higher requirements of momentum, then you need more energy period. Towing, beating high-speed drag / waves, climbing high, cannot be addressed with smarter design. You need to be able to store somehow enough energy to deal with these external forces / additional required momentum
Assuming you've already researched the time and material costs - Why does it matter if more effort is required?

We should put the environment and our own interests as a society ahead of the profits of these already obscenely profitable companies.

We don't allow industries to pollute the planet, we require expensive filters and waste-treatment for chemical plant effluents and catalytic converters for cars, and what not.
I believe Google didn't permit FireTV to carry YoutubeTV because Amazon wouldn't sell Google Chromecast in their store (because it competed w/FireTV I guess).
A belated caveat: I find myself now uncertain - it might have been three twenties, $60? Wasn't four.
I built an LSX (Aftermarket GM) iron block engine (V8 LS) for a CTS V. I had to get some very precise tools (Have to measure to 10,000ths) or they were useless for bearing clearances and verifying cylinder diameters. My cylinders were 4.155 bore, and the bearing clearances were around 1.8 thousandths. Forged pistons, rods and crank.

I had cracked a cylinder/piston on the original LSA. I did not trust anyone to do the work so I did a lot of research and did it all myself. I appreciate someone asking because my friends and software dev co workers aren't interested :)
I don’t see, how this applies as long as this is maintained by the mods. (Surely, they have an eye on the incoming stream anyway and won’t promote any submissions solely based on the fact that there is an incoming email.)
> Aren't part time jobs closer to "8 hours a shift but you come a few times a week" rather than "4 hours a shift but you come in 5 days a week"?.

Maybe. "A few times a week" can mean "I need you to come in tomorrow and I don't care if that conflicts with your second job." It becomes a risk.

> Would you rather be on the streets in 10 months or 5 months? The choice seems clear.

The problem's been going on for months. Homelessness is significantly increased over the past year. The choice made seems clear.
I'm sure you've stumbled on this but the Financially Independent / Retire Early (FIRE) is a pretty cool thread to poke through. My CEO buddy that just sold his company is doing it. https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
I haven't looked, but I imagine a lot of info is now dated. I remember reading HOWTOs about topics like how to set up dial-up and edit XF86Config.
The same way you design interfaces. If you can write good interfaces then you can write good base classes, its all about the contract between methods. Inheritance gets a bad rap because most programmers used it with classes that were never written to have interface contracts and therefore they create unintended coupling. Intended coupling is a good thing though, so as long as you have the same discipline when creating base classes as you have when creating interfaces then inheritance isn't an issue.
It’s too bad the core website didn’t go down with it. I believe the majority of users, at least those in the USA where FB is based, would be better off without it.

A week-long FB outage would surely result in a very interesting study of society’s response and adaptation to said event.
> They claimed a user-generated page on my site was phishing for credentials (because it happened to mention their client's name and had a login form on it).

There was an incident a few years ago where an article talked about Facebook changing its login system. This article ended up being the top Google result for the search "Facebook login". What happens? Hundreds of angry comments asking "Why did you change the login page?!? "How do I login to Facebook, this is so complicated", etc, etc.

The "reputation management company" shouldn't have a case, but well, idiotically, they have a little one.

Another thing I've seen is a blog article talking about how to cancel Amazon Prime. In its comments: several dozen people writing "My Amazon prime account is XYZ, I would like to cancel it please."...
So they can say it's their service.
Using somebody else's email service isn't their "serviceless".
Of course there is a question of where you draw the line.
But IMHO, using somebody's email service is that line here.
Otherwise it's not far from using gmail or aws WorkMail for that matter.
This sparked my curiosity...

Currently gasoline has about 50x more energy per unit weight than a tesla battery pack.

Battery energy densities have tripled in the past 10 years. Keeping on that pace, it would take over 30 years for batteries to be competitive with gas.

When you account for the astoundingly bad efficiency of ICE, though, the gap in usable energy decreases. This is why a tesla can go 300+ miles with a battery that can only store the same energy as 2.4 gallons of gas.
I wish governments would "collude" to ban these types of subsidies, because at the end of the day it's just basically regressive taxation: smaller businesses and startups need to pay their full, fair share of taxes, while huge successful companies pay next to nothing.
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Legal worries on EU's 'green certificates' vaccine passport for Covid travel
For independent repair shops newer devices aren't inhenrantly more ddifcult to repair. It's just more difficult to source the parts or get around the "security features".
Subaru EJ motors munch through rod bearings quite happily.
Many of those stories seem familiar, because they ended up getting lots of votes on their second run. I guess the team of reviewers have good taste!

How much of "page one", ie. the top ranked stories, is made up of stories from those two pools?
My first code was on Planet Source Code, I guess the precursor to GitHub. It was a Visual Basic Tamagotchi-like game, most likely violating copyright laws.
That’s besides the point. Divide both numbers by 2-3x and the argument stands.
You can get clear valve covers for some BMW motorcycles now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE71lpgJ4ng
I think my major hesitation is your pricing model, I don’t want to be surprised by some bill and that is the biggest turn off from your product.

I just want to peacefully launch my side projects without being “locked” into a vendor or framework that will start charging me on a random day after it was free.

That’s why I opted out of porter and learned to deploy and build my own automation pipeline.

Please change my mind porter guys.
Do I need to rush out and stock up on Swisher Sweets? (Cherry-flavored cigars.)

This is kind of a serious question. I haven't smoked one in twenty years, but now I have an intense craving.
How about a skyscraper in downtown New York that can withstand a nuclear blast? [1] Or a bunch of nuclear blast shelters built all over the world? Or every fighter jet or other heavy duty piece of military equipment literally built to withstand guys shooting at them? Engineers design stuff to withstand adversaries all the time, when it's required. Designing with adversaries in mind is always required for connected systems in our field.

The computer equivalent to "three guys with guns are standing in the middle of [a road] shooting at passing drivers" would be three gunmen gaining physical access to a datacenter - game over. We don't try to protect against that attack vector any more than civil engineers protect against terrorists when designing some intersection, except maybe we encrypt some data at rest and they put up some bollards and CCTV.

You're getting hung up on the agency aspect when the most important thing is the attack by attrition. It doesn't matter whether it is a force of nature like corrosion or all the bad actors in human civilization, the point is that it is a known quantity that will eventually degrade and break every nontrivial system.

We don't know which future zero day exploit will break our systems any more than civil engineers know which wave or car will cause the ultimate collapse, but we know that it is inevitable. That's why we have defense in depth. It is the nature of the beast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
Can’t we just put an export ban on asml?
> The U.S. guaranteeing the independence of a free democracy is not "geopolitical aggression".

This is a naïve view of geopolitics. Check out where Kurds ended up by counting on the US.
> Additional cost for regen brakes of course.

Regen braking has no physical cost associated - it's pure software/firmware. The exact same hardware that is used to power the car forwards can be used for regen braking. It can be as simple as a single negative sign in the code to cause the phase to be 180 degrees out, current to flow backwards, torque to go the other way, and the battery to be charged instead of discharged.

One day regen braking will take over hydraulic brakes, and another big cost/complexity of a car will be eliminated. The only reason that doesn't happen today is there are lots of laws and regulations requiring hydraulic brakes, and braking systems typically require more redundancy than power systems.
> I expect that batteries are the only hangup,

Batteries are a huge hangup. For example, we don't know how to recycle them and they aren't good for dumps. And, used car batteries are expensive to replace and you get a lot fewer miles per charge out of older cars. Manufacturing of cars isn't great for the environment so we should want older cars to last. This model helps push people to more new cars faster.
my bad, sorry about that. I think it's too late to edit? The button's no longer there.
How about calling it Last Chance Saloon? (Just to be colourful and dramatic!).
The raw materials may continue to cost more for EVs. Motor windings are generally copper, and batteries contain lithium and (usually) cobalt and nickel. Permanent magnet motors sometimes contain rare earths.

One could make an EV with aluminum motor windings and electrical cabling, no rare earth magnets, and lithium iron phosphate batteries. That would keep expensive materials to a minimum.

EVs don't need a catalytic converter, so that's a big thing in their favor.

I'm looking forward to mass manufacturing continuing to bring down EV component prices. I think we're a long ways from the point where material costs are the bulk of the expense.
It looks like 9 of 30 at the moment, but we don't track that number. Someone else could now.

I feel good when a re-upped post or an invited repost makes #1, like Yayagram did yesterday, and Internal Combustion Engine has now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991300), because that's such a strong indicator of the community finding a story interesting.
Hah.

The Search service is and has always been global.

And _Google_ wanted to inject results from another source (YouTube Music) when you searched (globally) with YouTube TV as the active app (which is not the same as YouTube search, which Google controls and can manipulate however they like), and filter other things out.

Your interpretation is quite misleading.
Oh yeah so for performance you would want to look into kvm which is used by QEMU.
Yeah that's very true for a large portion of the DoD. In my case I was doing theoretical research that was all getting published and pushing the AI field forward. People doing applied research get their stuff used for all sorts of unsavory stuff though.
At the same time, that 'data on users' could be as simple as being able to manage their YouTube TV subscription. Roku right now forces you to go through Roku's payment to sign up for stuff IIRC. That's exactly what happened with Roku and HBO Max:

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/roku-stops-selling-hbo...
competition, a bedrock element of fair markets, capitalism, and efficient economic allocation, something we seem to have collectively lost sight of.
Depends on configuration if you wind up having that many. I use `git branch -v` often to figure out what branch a colleague is working on. I guess I could apply my same logic and use filtering tools here as well. But I don't see the benefit of squashing the merge commits when git CLI, github etc. can give you the same view without the gratuitous data loss.
I find their installation docs for various programs really helpful too since it often walks through what each step is doing. For example, here's installing ffmpeg: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/ff...
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Because the whole nature of market competition? People will still choose the cheaper option if its available.
Seems like the entire iOS team is out.
Curious, what purposes here? What kind of hobbyst we are talking about?
The user that asked the question is me. I got the answers I came for, and didn't feel it necessary to add anything else.
You can definitely still sleep in motels for ~$50/night on a road trip the US. But you're going be staying in a lot of likely-sketchy independent motels next to the highway outside of large urban areas.
Couldn’t agree more :)

It’s full of knowledge. Basically a treasure of knowledge.
If the author is reading this: A great addition would be common breakdown reasons, perhaps on another page.

Something I didn't really think about until recently: solid metal bearings are used on the crank and piston journals as they can handle more force than ball or roller bearings. In other areas, ball and roller bearings are used to minimize energy loss.
People will only discover they can live without FB like I did. Never came back to self glorification platform.
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If your TV and remote support HDMI CEC, you can even control the PS4 mostly fine with just the TV remote. Not enough buttons to play games, but for browsing videos, I find it works.
1 million Taiwan dollars is 30k USD
22 Years later and we still don't have a viable digital equivalent to cash for day to day transactions.
I guess you would find the most up to date resources within the documentation in the source code.
Title can be interpreted like the recent post, "Inheritance was invented as a performance hack"[0] where a user assumed it was going to be about money. And here, the joke about maven.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26989380
Ask HN: Remove the Show HN newest page and list all submissions on show?
Lots of great work submitted to `Show HN` does not get any attention, because it doesn't make it past the 'newest' section. Would it make sense to do it like the 'Ask' section and show all submissions immediately on show?
The problem here is that the JS SDK encompasses all of their products. They don't have a different script or bundle to download for each thing. You just configure your code to point to their JS SDK url, with some params for which version you want, how you want to use it (xml, json), if it should use cookies or some other tracking method. Then it sends you what they think you need based on those params along with your app id so they can see your app configuration, all in one bundle.

This makes it very complicated to say what is actually down or unavailable, which is why I'm guessing the status is "degraded performance", not "down" and they're not calling it an "outage", because technically other parts of the SDK are completely unaffected.

To say that anything in particular is down, they'd have to list a set of API endpoints that are down or a set of very specific features. This is to their advantage though as [1] as already noted, they don't have to say that their SDK is "down", since it's technically not and [2] other people are still going to argue that "hey, it's up for me".

End result, they don't really care how anybody else feels about it. What are people going to do, move to another platform? Stop using facebook to generate traffic and thus revenue? :eye_roll:
it sounds like there was a real, meaningful mismatch in priorities.

Or it was just a good deal. Do we know what the "buy-out" deal was? I mean I like my job and the company I work for well enough, but if they offered a decent enough deal and I'll happily walk away tomorrow and not look back.
What you're describing is a wealth tax, not capital gains. Capital gains taxes are applied to gains on capital, not to held property.