skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gack... one of my pet peeves: 90% of my friends compare car millage in terms of "how much money I spend to refuel", completely ignoring:

1. Significantly different tank sizes - 53L to 70L on regular cars.

2. Different prices of gas (suburbs vs downtown, 87 vs 91 octane, etc)

3. Different habits - some refuel at 1/3 left, 1/4 left, 50km left, yellow light on, needle at the end of the gauge, etc

It drives me absolutely bonkers banana berserk, but... nothing I've been able to do so far :-/
I'm at a relatively early stage VC-backed startup and from day 1 it's been written in Elixir. It was a fantastic choice, for many reasons, with some being:

- Elixir is good for just getting stuff done. I came from a previous startup that used Go and Elm.

- The community isn't as small as people make it out to be, or, it's quality over quantity. ;)

- There's a lot of good modules out there, and if you need to write your own, it's easy and there's well-defined patterns. E.g. I recently improved our internal Zendesk client and it was a breeze.

- https://dashbit.co/ for paid support/advice is amazing.

- The console for experimentation, debugging, inspection, etc. is fantastic.

- The let it crash, and other Elixir/Erlang philosophies, have been very helpful.

- There's a solid amount of batteries-included, but not in an overbearing/restrictive way.

- It's such a pleasant day-to-day dev experience.

I didn't know Elixir before joining this startup. For myself, and workmates who also didn't have prior experience, it's been a breeze to get up to speed in.
Don't focus on tooling, focus on their complaints about not having enough senior engineers familiar with the language.

We're in a similar boat. I don't know the full history of how we came to use Elixir, but I would wager that early on in the company, someone really loved it and evangelized it. But now, we don't have that many senior people who know it well. I can count the ones I talk to regularly on one hand, and once I run out of fingers, I'm probably sixth place runner up, which makes me very uncomfortable.

That's why I wouldn't suggest Elixir. Unless you're incredibly sure you won't have significant churn for the lifetime of your business, or have money to burn specifically hiring Elixir folks, I wouldn't recommend it.
When I was a schoolboy all my medical records were hand-written in a notebook I carried with me every time I went to another medical specialist (and I visited a lot - my health was way below the norm) and nobody used fax machines or duplicated anything. I really want my medical data to only exist in single instance like during those days.
Employers are greatly interested in how prospective employees feel about following the law. Learning about your "street pharmacy side-gig" gives a clear answer of that.
This is at 66.9 km/h (40 mph) in order to greatly increase its range due to lower drag compared to normal highway speeds.

As a comparison a Tesla Model 3 got 975km (606 miles) at 40 km/h (25 mph) [1]. I can't seem to find any range tests at a similar speed as the Nexo.

I found an EPA dyno test for the Model 3 at 77 km/h (48mph) for 708 km (440 miles).

The Nexo and Model 3 have similar dimension and weight and price, while the Nexo advertises 380 miles vs 353 miles.

It doesn't seem like current fuels cell have much of a energy density / range advantage even though hydrogen itself is much more energy dense, the fuel cell weight and efficiency and high pressure liquid hydrogen tanks must be accounted for.

Also fuel cell cars seem to use a buffer battery and have lower power output than BEV's as current fuel cells can't output as much burst power and can't store power from regenerative braking with out a battery somewhere.

Pretty skeptical about hydrogen fuel cells compared to the continued advancement in battery tech.

1.https://electrek.co/2018/05/27/tesla-model-3-range-new-hyper...

Edit: very good efficiency comparison of hydrogen vs batteries by Volkswagen, which to me shows the biggest issue with using hydrogen in cars the "well to wheel" efficiency:

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2019/08/hydroge...
https://archive.md/kcONP
Can you name a few of the libraries you didn't find?
> Most of the time I can moderate my response, sometimes not. But I think getting better at this comes with practise, and without inviting those kinds of conversations, I'll never get better.

The intent of some mindfulness and meditation exercises is to become more attuned to one's lower-level physical responses as a grounding point for being able to more readily identify one's higher-level emotional responses.

In the moment, it might be difficult to recognize and moderate the higher-level reaction without first becoming adept at recognizing the lower ones (e.g., sweaty palms or tense muscles).
Collecting comic books? Memorizing all the Star Wars and Star Trek quotes, and reading side fan fictions about each of the characters?
Dos and Don'ts for New Projects
When you have to justify to yourself why you're a millionaire or a billionaire and "dumb luck, some modicum of skill, and being first" isn't a satisfying reason, you have to rationalize to yourself that you deserve it because you've got something that those ivory-tower eggheads and non-nerdy simpletons don't. And that thing is fierceness.

I've never seen a blog post more worthy of a good old fashioned fisking. I mean come on - "confidence is a self-fullfilling prophecy" - are we being serious here? It's only self-fulfilling because of survivorship bias. Maybe he's running with a crew of super successful founders and that's true, but from my point of view, I remember the dudes at my place of work that could very confidently talk my ear off about something that they half-understood (or very confidently describe an unworkable solution to a problem) and then got fired a month later because they weren't productive enough to meet even the super-low requirements of software development at a car insurance company. It's easy to spin narratives about confidence and restlessness and intelligence when you've surrounded yourself with the winners. Less visible are the people who go all-in on a fintech startup and end up broke a year later. Those people have all the same traits and end up in the same boat as all the other un-fierce nerds.
I think the OP wants to buy, not sell. I have never had the experience of not getting at least a 30 minute meeting with someone I've wanted to buy from.
Is the SEC and FTC ever going to do their job? They have failed us in the 21st century. Shareholder value over everything else. It would be nice for some regulation to attack all this rent seeking.
Clean Water from a Roof Rainwater System
I think he meant fire safety of hydrogen requires more consideration than an electric charger.
I don't see the point in inventing some arbitrary social category, when it's only backed by what seems like little more than speculative drivel.

> Another solution may be to somehow turn off your fierceness, by devoting yourself to meditation...

Huh? Lots of highly successful and effective people (who he would probably call fierce) cite meditation as a crucial tool for increasing their focus and mental discipline. This is just a bizarre take.
> ~55% of adult Americans drank alcohol in the last month, it’s hard to find illegal drugs that would be safe at that scale and level of use.

In that same month about 8000 people in the US died from alcohol-related issues. So I'm losing sight of your point?

Booze just is well established in the literature (AFAICT) as more addictive and more deadly than many/most other recreational drugs. Generally excluding tobacco, opiates, cocaine or methamphetamine, sure, but experts in the field tend to rank it more or less with them. If you don't think the people studying this stuff have taken the widespread nature of alcohol's use into account ... well I think they likely have.

LSD, your example there, is generally considered non (or relatively non) habit-forming, we'd be unlikely ever to see chronic health effects there. At the doses it's commonly used we'd be unlikely to see acute mortalities (though vasoconstriction can be a side-effect), though I imagine some idiots would still take it and get in the car. Result - even if available freely and used widely, it's very likely it would cause fewer deaths and other societal problems than booze.
Ha OK, if it's Amsterdam-specific then I just haven't climbed that many Amsterdam staircases it seems.
The key part there being "scientific research server." The Amazon Graviton2 ARM chips have something like 64 cores but that makes sense for machines that are powering AWS. Unless the point of these Mac pros is to be at supercomputer speeds or to pack massive specs like VM packs a Bughatti Veyron (because we can) I don't see much of a point beyond the highest of high end video editing and scientific research.
Ah, thanks for clarifying. No doubt racism can explain arrests and undue charges, but the context of the thread is about institutional extortive practices (bail loans, etc). So we still need “financial incentives” to explain these extortive practices.
> Knowing Apple, I think they probably wanted to offer lossless but the record companies are still paranoid about lossless copies... philistines.

You can buy digital lossless audio files on countless stores. Sure, iTunes is a different scale compared to Bandcamp, but buying lossless digital audio files isn't exactly new.
No, I don't. It was a super fast way to deploy an API. It is Active-Active, it is cheap, and it gets the job done.
Open-source Ecommerce free online event (with case studies)
I literally have a Simpsons-Mendoza meme printed out on my desk, except instead of "MENDOZAAAAAA", McBain is screaming "DIALYZEEEEER".

What a god-awful piece of software.
It isn’t that much of a value proposition. Modern EVs do fast charging pretty well. Given that it takes on the order of 10 minutes to pull off a freeway, navigate a traffic light or two, select a pump, pay, use the restroom, grab a snack from the store, and then navigate another intersection to get back on the freeway, adding 5 more minutes to that time to make it a fast charging stop is not really a big deal.
Fair enough. Well met.

I know how it is when you find something that works for you and you really want to share it.

FWIW, I see the popularization of these things as a net positive.
Cold emailing people has an incredibly low success rate. Though getting a professional looking website and email address might help.

The emails often end up at some assistant who's afraid to bother the big boss. If you can, try to get in direct contact with people who call the shots, and ask them to take a 10 min meeting or phone call.
i can relate. this is the reason i ditched fb in 09', you are the product.
> They have admitted that they weren't pricing the drug based on what it cost to develop but based on what that person's [function] is worth to them.

That's bog-normal value-based pricing which is used almost everywhere, especially in the software industry. You'll find many, many upvoted blog posts on HN that explain why you should do this.

Now you can certainly argue that this should not be done for medical products, especially those granted a monopoly via patents so that there is no price competition.

But you better have a really good idea of how exactly you're going to prevent it and how you avoid destroying the incentives for doing the (very, very costly) research and clinical trials to create these drugs in the first place.
A luz natural pode fazer maravilhas para o seu bem-estar
> The bad news is that if it's not exercised, your fierceness will turn to bitterness, and you will become an intellectual playground bully: the grumpy sysadmin, the forum troll, the hater, the shooter down of new ideas.

Can’t stress this enough. Some reach for what others have. Others reach for what they need but get trolled into thinking they have nothing and start reaching for what others have.

This is the equation for misery. And the opposite is the equation for success. But I admit this is just one dimension and datum on the look of life.
Hey friend, two things.

First, this is a really exceptional product. I’m excited enough to try it that my local outdoors shop opens at 9:30 - I’ll be there bitching and moaning at 9:31. :)

Second, if you’ve got a stranger so damned excited about this that he’s going to make a spectacle of himself just to try it, you’ve got something really really special.

All that said, I need you to stop what you’re doing and give yourself a big pat on the back. Sales is damned tough even if you feel comfortable doing it. Everyone struggles especially with new products. Frankly, if you’re caring and loving enough to come up with something so great, you’ve got this.

Sorry I don’t have any specific advice. Maybe I’ll have more after I complain my way to a local supplier. :)
My work-issued XPS has a normal webcam position... but I cannot speak to models before or after this one.
> If rockets are fired at Bnei Brak, the residents there can flee to the rest of Israel.

When rockets rain down on their homes, citizens of Bnei Brak can flee from their homes in car or on foot, go ??? somewhere (where exactly?) and hope they’re not blown to bits along the way. Wow, those privileged Israelis. The very lap of luxury.
This was not too bad considering PGs latest writings, which have been various degrees of underwhelming and tone deaf. This is like, at least, a rally call or something. But I'm just a bitter forum troll so...
I don't think this is an issue with the latest models.
"funds were drained"

"speculation that this bitcoin had been seized"

Seems like a case of yet another reporter not understanding how Bitcoin works. You can not drain funds, you can only transfer them to a new wallet. So where did they go? Why not just link the wallet's public key?

Also Bitcoins can not be seized. Reminds me of that funny story where German media reported Bitcoins worth over 50 million Euros had been "seized" from a criminal, but he wouldn't tell them the password. What the police had actually seized was an encrypted hard disk or hardware wallet. Some time later it was reported with surprise that someone had "drained" funds from the wallet despite it being in the hands of the authorities.
Those advantages are really overblown and not worth the hit in missing libraries or missing hires.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-court-terminates-para...

Not as of Aug 2020.
This article reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to college and expects it to be exactly like Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds.
It looks like some folks have made it work on linux: https://corellium.com/blog/linux-m1

For Windows support, I thought Apple said something along the lines of: "If Windows wants to add support, we are fine with it" - but I could be mistaken.
> Using dialyzer gives you so much static analysis for free as opposed to the default ruby vscode plugin. I have never heard of complaints about tooling.

ctrl-f for "dialyzer" in this thread, and you will :)
Hydrogen isn't used in rockets much. It's actually not energy dense enough compared to more exotic fuels.
Ask HN: Should I go for a Staff Engineer promotion or remain a Senior Engineer?
I’m at a bit of a cross-roads in my career - I’m a senior engineer at a decent tech company (not FAANG tier but not too far off), 10 years into my software engineering career. I’ve been at my current company for a couple of years and have built a good reputation for myself within my org area. My manager has been encouraging me to think about going for a Staff Engineer promotion, I’m not ready to apply for it, but ready to start making choices about what I work on and how I work to get me there.

What I’m wondering is - do I really want to go down this route? I’m not interested in the management track, so this is the only career progression (in a promotion sense) available to me. I’ve been reading some of the articles on staffeng.com and listening to the podcast (both excellent resources!), and it’s alluded to that going beyond senior isn’t the right fit for everyone.

My passion has always been about being hands on and learning new tech, and I worry that a Staff+ role would take me further away from that and I’d spend my time in meetings and writing documents, leaving me unmotivated and longing to code.

I have some experience leading architecture, helping other engineers organise around a problem, setting up calls between teams to resolve conflicts and so on, those are some of the things expected of a staff role as I understand it. I know I can do some of that work, there’s lots for me to learn and improve on in those areas too, but I have had a mental block with those tasks where I feel like it’s not really “work” and has felt unsatisfying/tedious to me.

Any stories from people deliberately choosing to stay as a senior engineer long term, or from engineers that have gone Staff+ and can relate to some of this?

FWIW I don’t need a promotion from a financial perspective, it’s more about career progression and fear of stagnating in my current role.
Russia launches T15-MD, an upgraded tokamak
Just like you, I assume that. I double check msftliveapps@gmail.com, and guess what, it's legit.

Check this blog: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/02/05/simpl...
Stargate coming to Amazon prime video! Maybe Jeff Bezos enjoys SG as much as The Expanse.
> I've got a Leaf that I've had for almost 2 years

Isn't the Leaf known for poor battery temperature management? This causes the battery perform way worse over time than other EVs. A battery performing way poorer over time is a common fear that I've noticed. If someone notices this and doesn't know it's unique (caused by manufacturer not doing enough) then I'd expect some Leaf-owning people to dislike EVs.

The huge price difference between charging an EV at home vs anywhere else is why I dislike an EV. Though I actually do not dislike EVs, I dislike the price difference.
The postman was late. It doesn't mean there's no evidence

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1394631387265777666
It happened to me on the big sur upgrade. Apparently there wasn't enough space on the internal HDD to finish the upgrade, but it tried anyways, got halfway done and just... failed.
Ask HN: Does Stacooverflow Teams help team collaboration?
I'd expect those ambitious PMs to pitch new projects that do the same thing under a new name.
Hydrogen has the same infrastructure as gasoline. A "recharge" takes as much as 40 seconds. EVs have a negative impact in the quality of life of those who buy them because they cost more and have the problem of recharging time. It's simply an own goal you are doing to your team which in this case is your family because of woke ideals.

Lower mantainence costs is also a legend unless we are talking about Toyotas and Benz build quality. Teslas have lots of issues, don't know about the Leaf.
I used to Google things on mobile and append `site:reddit.com` to filter out SEO-laden blogspam and zero in on the familiar confirmation bias of other reddit addicts. Then I had to tolerate the following antipattern of the modern web:

1. tap a Google search result link

2. tap the tiny "i" icon on the left side of the stupid AMP page header to display the actual URL of the page I'm trying to navigate to

3. tap the displayed URL itself in the AMP header

4. close reddit's "this looks better in the app!" bottom banner

5. scroll down and tap "VIEW ALL X COMMENTS"

So fast. So usable.

On the bright side, this rigmarole has really done wonders for my productivity because I've simply stopped bothering.
Lessons All Founders Can Learn from Slack’s Famous Second Act
My two cents here, as someone who deplores modern sales tactics. Free samples.

Go to climbing gyms, ask if they would be interested in trying out your product, and if they like it, can they hand some out to their climbers to get product feedback. They'll likely agree to do it; almost every gym I've been to loves giving out freebies to their members.

This is probably a great time to do this. It's not summer climbing season yet, still rainy in a lot of places, and gyms over here on the west coast are opening up. People want to get in shape for the summer climbs.

If your product is good, when the summer climbing season hits, these climbers will go all over the place and chat with other climbers about your product. It's a really good chance to build up both credibility and interest! I wouldn't worry so much about online marketing, if they like your product, they'll paste it all over climbing groups for you.
I've gotten emails from random people/ companies in the past. They found my name on LinkedIn and proceed to spam firstname.lastname@company.domain

These get ignored first time round. Second time they get marked as spam. Third time onwards, well I just get a bit annoyed. But I never reply. I should probably try to block that email straight up.

For example, I've received emails from someone every Monday for 5 weeks in a row. And then a few weeks of silence, and then a "circle back on this" email, followed by another few weeks of emails.
Amazon already is a studio, i.e. someone who makes bets and writes checks (and owns the rights to content--personally I don't mind that not being as fragmented as it is). Acquiring another studio given the way things operate in the film/TV industry today seems fairly uninteresting from a monopoly perspective.
Perhaps, or they were seeing an uptick in DDG usage on mobile.
Expertise with people, technology, and finances could be view as three legs of a startup. Each has their own form of fierceness. As a casual observer, it seems to me that the ideal founder formula is a fierce networker/marketer, a fierce nerd, and a fierce businessperson.
I agree. The focus should be on something that makes sense on its own, like "preserve the climbing environment".
Constraints breed elegant designs.
Why do we use base ten?

Because we have ten digits on our hands. Maybe a shrug or open palms to mean “nothing”.

But base ten has nine digits: 1 to 9 and a 0 for nothing.
Unfortunately, AMP has a lot of inertia. I just tried a bunch of different queries on Chrome/Android, and all the carousel entries still have the AMP lighting bolt.

Newspaper dev shops probably don't have the money to justify a standalone "get rid of AMP" project. So it will take a while to see some migration away.

Anyone have a query that results in a carousel story that isn't an AMP one?

Edit: Found one. "Biden Covid" results in an NPR story in the carousel that is not AMP.
Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
The first rush of comments are all negative, mostly of the ad hominem sort, accusing PG of publicly psychoanalyzing himself. And yet, I really liked the essay because it reads like a lifeline to those who doubt themselves, perhaps profoundly. To PG the same qualities that alienate a "fierce nerd" in so many contexts are precisely the same qualities that could lead to success (even dominance) in other contexts.

The useful follow on to this essay, I would think, is to give a list, as long as possible, of places where "fierce nerds" are wanted, demanded, needed - both well-known institutions and startups.

Another useful follow up would be to give better advice about achieving harmony. Everyone deserves peace; to put it another way, progress that requires a human to sacrifice love isn't worth making.
Good riddance. A thinly veiled power grab to make the web a walled garden. Now lets do the obvious thing and just do preferential treatment for fast loading pages.