skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YMMV--but, in my experience, a single user multiple vehicles in the US can be pretty tough (at least, going from 1 to 2; it seems a lot easier when you go from 2 to 3). I am looking at a new, single vehicle, and this electric F-150 might be it--because I need to be able to carry plywood sheets and my Hyundai subcompact isn't gonna cut it.

I can't speak to the more general, aspirational subculture to which you refer, but the aggravation of multiple vehicles is in some ways the first stop on this tour.
> anywhere I know

I was recently quite disillusioned about that by the series "The Vuilnisman" (The Garbage Man) in The Netherlands, where point for point the entire responsible waste disposal and recycling was shown to be mostly a paper reality. For instance numerous tricks exist to label trash as building material and it can be dumped anywhere for a good profit. If only we knew.
thank you! it’s been a while (lyime and i were both in YC S11) — looking forward to your feedback.

Terminal49 looks fascinating!!
> my longest update took 28 minutes

How does it work? Is it automatic during the night when the car is parked and you're asleep (that would be ideal) or does it updates when you start the car and would be ready to go (that would be a nightmare)? Maybe something in between.
> The negative tone of the comments feels like a an old car salesman trying to sell you a diesel engine instead of an EV.

Considering the top comment when I got here was almost exactly that, I'm not surprised one bit. There's a lot of money to be lost by the FF and ICE industries.
I hate the hypocrisy because it doesn't solve any problems, it creates even more and just makes the whole system more dysfunctional than it needs to be.

This is a standard government cover up. You fucked up and just blame some bystander. The actual problem never gets solved and people will attack the bystander. You end up with a net loss.
> You only usually bother with one once you've made an offer and the vendor's accepted it.

This is no longer the case in most of North America, where your offer only has a chance of being accepted if it's unconditional.
Five Oregon counties plot move to Idaho
And in the US, the inspector is typically only liable up to the cost of the inspection, or some pre-arranged value. He also isn't an actual engineer, so is mostly worthless. He'll check the roof with a pain of binoculars, but not necessarily get onto the roof. He'll check the age of appliances, but that's mostly obvious to anybody willing to do a base amount of research. Etc.

If there's anything remotely questionable, they'll punt and tell the buyer to hire an actual engineer (or plumber or electrician), so even more money out of pocket.
In reality though, those intermediaries make use of Bitcoin easier. They are not a requirement. I can buy Bitcoin from individuals directly providing I can find one who wants something to trade for it and I have a way of delivering the goods. I can also send my Bitcoins to individuals without any intermediary. All I need is the official Bitcoin application on my computer. No need for any intermediaries.
I know you are heavily downvoted, and my experience is anecdotal, but I proudly bought a Ford Fusion sedan in 2010 (my first "new" car) and I have had nothing but trouble with its electrical systems. It burns out lights every year or other year. It even managed to melt the receptacle for one of the front headlights at one point in time. It eats through car batteries (I'm on battery number 5 in 11 years of ownership) and has had a ton more maintenance costs compared to my 2008 Toyota Sienna that I bought used and has literally had no unplanned maintenance issues.

I'm really happy to see Ford step up in the EV field. The Mach-E looks fantastic, as does the F-150. I have no ill-will towards them and I want them to succeed. But there just isn't anyway I can get over the sour taste in my mouth from owning my Ford Fusion and it is hard to take a leap of faith with them when they are new at the EV game.
From https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45956

> About 25% of U.S. power plants can start up—going from being shut down to fully operating—within one hour, based on data collected in EIA’s annual survey of electric generators. Some power plants, especially those powered by coal and nuclear fuel, require more than half a day to reach full operations. The time it takes a power plant to reach full operations can affect the reliability and operations of the electric grid.

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/7394/why-doe... goes into it a bit more.
Very few legacy codebases from the tabled 90s still using tables. Yes, a few exist but not that hard to grok.
Non fiber upload is a farce. I assume when they sell you more upload, they’re just placing you in a higher priority in the 30Mbps they have allocated for the whole neighborhood.

It is a hardware limitation as far as I know, so unless you see utility workers running new fiber, I would not expect much.
It’s a vehicle, not a mental disorder. Some people just want to be able to occasionally tow a boat or haul some furniture without needing to rent a truck.

I think the attitude of “you don’t need a truck unless you’re a blue collar worker” is pretty elitist and ignorant, honestly. As if the decision to buy a truck is somehow invalid because white collar workers don’t see the need for one.
It is interesting that this uses a podcast + text rather than what would have been a more conventional video based tutorial. The use of a podcast for describing something so fundamentally visual as CSS looks really unusual. I just started going through and came back here to note that it somehow seems to work well!
The way jury trials are portrayed in American media -selection bias of jurors, prosecutor deciding what evidence and significantly limiting the power of juries - I rather prefer the way it's done in European countries (and in Latin American ones like mine which copy Europe usually).
Payload capacity is lower then I'd like to see (tops out at 900kg I think?). So still short of the something you could get a bulka-bag dropped on at a distributor and just drive home with.
I'm sure you don't have time for this; none of us strugglers do. Gotta do it anyway though-- can't save the republic without saving a few voters. Please recognize that the culture we've inherited comes with a lot of liberal values and also massive amount of hypocrisy-- strong values loosely held if you like; and that liberal whiners necessary to align those values with actions in a real nation. Making money is the bottom line.. unless you're approaching a failed state; then all of a sudden avoiding instability is the bottom line. Spitting on someone who is trying to gently and sensitively remind you that we are starting to look a little more like a failed state... seems really disrespectful of the process that got us here.
Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants
The 13th Amendment decidedly wasn't the first law banning slavery. In fact, it was preceded was a rather notable war between states that already had laws banning it and those that didn't.
In Notepad++ you would just alt+drag, no need to enable a special mode. It looks pretty much exactly like what's in that video.
That's the price of the one you can't buy though, commercial version
> OnAir is a new product with strict validation protocols, which we failed to follow.

Not sure that's how it works.
It's awful. It's a pain to keep up-to-date, pain to keep track of the software's data, pain to force to adhere to conventions, pain to theme, it's absolute dogshite.
Quote: "In upstate New York, an idled coal plant has been restarted, fueled by natural gas, to mine cryptocurrency. A once-struggling Montana coal plant is now scaling up to do the same."
Now the interesting thing will what fraction of F-150 sales will be electric and how that fraction changes over the next several years.
I ride a motorcycle, and it seems like 30% of the drivers I see on the road have their phones out.
Thanks for these recommendations/descriptions/reviews.

>I worry a little about gun games and inclusivity, but it's the only app that's consistently allowed the 8 of us to get together without spending 30 minutes troubleshooting.

Interesting pivot/fork for them - spin out a vr-group-chat service. 'Population 8'? ha
In the meantime, those looking for work in Colorado, particularly for low paid work, will be able to find out whether they can make more per hour at one place than another.

This is the "intended consequences" and the slight impact on remote IT workers in Colorado is an unfortunate side-effect that is likely to be allieviated when the power of labor vs capital swings back towards labor, after 40 years of swinging in the other direction.
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It’s not that unusual that players get famous for playing games rather than developers. Games are much more active way of engaging with media and playing the game is a far more common experience than making it.

Streaming and gaming personalities both pre-date Minecraft but for sure it’s had a massive cultural impact. Particularly in terms of the growth of an audience through all the kids participating.
Ford missed a trick by not making it magnetic and easily removable.
I was reading that list and burst out laughing. I tend to lean right of center but realize we have a Kakistocracy.....
> "Userfox"

That memorable era when names were just things plus animals.

> really hard to create an email that performed really well because if an email is too long users will skim over it

On the other hand, how do you know, really, that videos convert more? They too can be tedious.

> choose your own adventure sales story

This is a phenomenal concept. Is it really this interface in your demo? My feeling is your leaning into the TurboTax wizard - that the kind of person too stupid to read in order to help themselves benefits immensely by reframing their problem as a chore with a deadline and these nice people will do it for you for $100 - is "choose your own adventure sales story."
I'm buying from a custom builder nearby who charges for delivery
Not just a notification, a Livestream with repeated misinformation and aggressive goading.
Your second point is also untrue. The shape and structure of traditional car crumple zones and impact areas like the hood and headlights have a significant impact on pedestrian survivability: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257775117_Crumple_z...

These zones are explicitly designed with pedestrian safety in mind, as it is a specific area of testing for roadworthiness certifications: https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...
Survive the Strain
It really won't. It will make money obsolete if/when governments are okay with not having control of their currency. No sane government will do that, especially not the likes of the UK, US and EU.
What is really sad, is that this could be a good pen-test for the kernel. Especially the idea of introducing bugs that are only vulnerabilities when they all come in together.

If only they had contacted the Linux Foundation ahead of time to get permission, and set up terms, like a real pen-test. Then work could be done on detecting, and preventing these sorts of attacks, maybe resulting in a system that could help everyone. At the very least a database for security researchers that are registered, but unknown to maintainers, where they could store hashes of bad commits. Then a check if any of those commits made it through. I know the kernel makes use of rebasing, so that might not be the best approach technically, but something like that. To ease the pain of wasting developers time, sponsors could put up money that the maintainer gets if they catch it, and maybe a smaller amount if they have to revert it.

EDIT: if the Linux Foundation said no, they could have tried another large open source project with a governing body, Apache, Python, Postgres, Firefox, etc. It wouldn't have been as flashy and high profile, but it would have still been the same research, and odds are you would find at least one project willing to participate.
You are contending that there is no difference in pedestrian fatalities between vehicles? And also that it isn’t harder to see children in an unnecessarily tall vehicle?
Great question!

v:("select";,"*";"from";"tacos")

us:{$[#i:&{(y~*K)&"*"~*x}':x;@[x;i;:[;,"_"]];x]}
\t:100000 us v
233
us:{$[(*K;,"*")~(y;x);,"_";x]}':
\t:100000 us v
206
w:(*K;,"*");us:{$[w~(y;x);,"_";x]}':
\t:100000 us v
179
us:{$[x~(z;y);,"_";y]}[(*K;,"*")]':
\t:100000 us v
129

I think it's important to remember just how simple k is: We the programmer know that (*K;,"*") isn't supposed to change, so we should be explicit so k "knows" this as well. In addition to never changing, we also know the value is only used once, so we really don't want to look anything up in the workspace every time we call us: Again, let us be explicit.

On the other hand, this:

us:{$[#i:& XXX ;@[x;i;:[; YYY ]];x]}

is an extremely recognisable idiom. It occurs several times in sql.k so the reader is probably used to seeing it at this point. It also has a similar syntactic structure to the APL '@' so it may be more "obvious" to an APL programmer. Maybe the reason I write it this way is that I'm not a very experienced APL programmer :)
Is there a typing latency penalty to GPU rendering?
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
First, a USD-denominated investment is not the same thing as an investment in USD. Second, I am from "other countries" and no one around here is investing in USD. Can you point me to a specific example of people from other countries who are investing in USD? Thank you!
The best class I ever had was one where the teacher explained things for half the time and then we worked on homework for the other half.

I think that is probably the best model. Letting students watch lectures on their own time is hardly better than expecting them to read on their own time.
We are all assigned opinions - some of us have self-awareness to acknowledge it.
how do you measure mask wearing percentages? Socal seemed to have a lot of unmasked private gatherings throughout the pandemic. The draconian lockdown measures just pushed the spread underground.
I'm curious how it will perform off road. No need for a locking diff anymore if it has 1 motor per wheel.
I gotta say, I am very impressed by what I've seen with the F-150. It's clear that a LOT of thought has gone into this product and Ford clearly understands their target audience extremely well. There are so many nice features that are so well tailored to folks who buy trucks. All the features to power job sites, etc is really sweet and I can totally see that being super handy. Heck, it would make it super easy to work on projects in my driveway without any worries.

Storage with the massive frunk is awesome. Lots of features around hitches and making it easier to use them and tow with them. Pretty good price point, good acceleration to appeal to the macho truck crowd who will hold their nose while making the plunge to electric so they can feel good about themselves when they floor the accelerator at stoplights and onramps.

There is something for everyone here. Yes, it plays it safe on the aesthetics side of things, but I don't see anything wrong with it. The "safer" aesthetics also make it more useful than the Cybertruck, what with the massive Frunk. Really glad to see some good competition in this space. The next 2 years are going to be really exciting in the EV space!
I assume because they want to see less vehicle traffic on the road. Arguments along these lines are thrown out by people that hate cars on the road to help change the argument from facts to 'what about the children'.
Dolphins are understood well enough that we know there are regional dialects, and they broadcast individual name identifiers.

We know they're talking at least enough to have a sense of self, but AFAIK we haven't deciphered the culture/language enough to say anything meaningful to them.
Craig Mod puts Sublime Text in the “fast software” category: https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/

> (…) Sublime Text has — in my experience — only gotten faster. I love software that does this: Software that unbloats over time. This should be the goal of all software. The longer it’s around, the more elegant it should become. Smooth over like a river stone. I have full trust in the engineering of Sublime Text because I’ve used it for over a decade, but also because it always feels like a fast, focused tool (even though it’s actually very complicated) and has only become faster the longer I’ve used it.

The whole essay is a nice read.

EDIT: Something else I wanted to add: I’ve tried other programs (file managers, for instance) that attempt to emulate Sublime Text both in interface (keyboard-driven, command palette, etc.) and speed, but they mostly manage to hit the former while blowing the latter. Fast software is hard!
In cities we should be encouraging e-bikes more in my opinion. They take up much less space than cars, are quieter, cheaper, and healthier. Even electric cars make almost the same amount of noise at speed as ICE cars and still emit dust from breaking down tires.
The Typical Unicorn Founder Started Their Business at 34
It's not really a Maxwell's Demon, but it kind of acts like one: the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube [1].

It's a simple mechanical device with no moving parts invented in 1931 with one input port and two output ports.

Force compressed air into the input port, and hot air (up to 200 ℃) comes out one of the outputs and cold air (down to -50 ℃) out the other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube
Roads are made for large dangerous machines that move fast and can hurt you.
Starting Out in AppSec and Dealing with DevSecOps Fatigue
Touchscreens aren't as bad as the cheap capacitive switches that seem to be taking over the Appliance product space. Every appliance in my new house's kitchen has those damn capacitive switches and they only work ~10% of the time.
Happy to see another satisfied BBEdit user. Been my go-to Mac editor since Mac Plus.
Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine
I own an F150 I use primarily for commuting but it also has a comfortable ride, >20 highway mpg, good visibility, utility for when I need to move furniture etc, and it’s relatively affordable and holds its value. Trucks depreciate slower than any other category of vehicle. Literally the only downside is that it’s a pain to park sometimes.
Monitoring and the Law: CA and LA laws against radio receivers in cars
That's the problem with bad-faith action by an institution... It casts a shadow on the actions of all the other agents of the institution.

Greg's concerns proved to be overblown, but at the time they were raised he had reason to believe them valid.
But they don't and yet you still have a job (I hope).

And the reason is because when you are looking for a job other things are more important than knowing the salary even before you apply or they seriously consider you.

Everyone does whatever they can get away with, and the moment we accept that everything becomes clear. They are all trying to benefit themselves, just as you are by trying to learn some information before the other party feel the need to share it with you.
>And with how the Ercot energy market works, being unreliable can actually be profitable, since it drives the prices of what you are producing up past the generation shortfall.

If the generator can profit off unreliablity it also means a grid storage provider can profit off reliability and undercut the generator.
> Or the situation where a company is very flexible on who they hire and thus would pay a lot more or a lot less depending on what the individual brings to the table.

You're making it sound like the companies are being forced to pay the same salary for the same role - they are not, and this is a straw man argument. The companies should publish the salary range - they are free to adjust the offers within the range depending on skills & experience of the successful candidate. If the range is $20k - $180k to cater for the "rockstar" who brings a lot - then they ought to publish that range and be prepared to explain to a candidate why the company thinks a candidate deserves $20k/yr and see how that goes.

An equivalent scenario to what's happening on the job market outside Colorado would be houses being sold without displaying the asking prices - all potential buyers would be expected to jump through all the hoops and be asked to "make an offer" without being able to make comparisons on how much other similar houses on the market are going for. Instead, they'd be asked "How much did you pay for the last house you bought?" or "How much are you currently paying in rent?"
I am actually very much in favor of this, mostly because I believe the true cost of FF is orders of magnitude higher than the lifetime cost of batteries. Just the cost of deaths from burning FFs alone would make using them as fuel unfeasible.

Also, it'd be nice to do this all the way down the line, then maybe we'd finally see the legislation implemented for disposable packaging that the "Keep America Beautiful" propaganda was designed to counter[0].

[0] - https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...
Soon they will be tailoring ads to improve tulips browsing experience.
That list of bills is...distressing to say the least.
If they have a setup that can display and content that they want to watch in 4K without their laptop burning a mark on their lap, then that's a valid use case. An use case that doesn't work with Firefox at the moment because of Firefox. "You're holding it wrong" is an incredibly inane attitude.
Maybe it could serve as a much needed wake-up call to that person. I was him long ago, and finding out someone made 50% more than me for doing essentially the same job provided exactly the kick in the ass I needed to start job hunting again.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. How do you get to a high correlation between mask usage and political party in that scenario, though? If the underlying factor is truly inconsistency from the CDC rather than tribalism then (I think) you wouldn’t expect that.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3664779
It makes a big difference where one is hit. Being hit in the head by a head-height truck grille is a lot different from being hit in the shins by a 1964 Datsun. There's also the small matter that nobody driving this truck can see anything at all for ten feet to the front.
Hmm...looks like a good way to filter out companies not worth applying to.

That's easy for me to say, though. I am not looking for work; especially not with corporations that want to begin our relationship on a platform of dishonesty. I'm fairly big on that whole "Integrity" thing. I know it's not in fashion, these days, but I'm a bit "old-skool."
Don’t worry, the 10 year old will probably drown in the next 20 years from sea level changes as a result of you smugly burning petrol.
What does a survey consist of and why are they so expensive?

In the US we have home inspectors, and we have surveyors. A home inspector is generally responsible for auditing the structure and mechanicals of the home for issues. A surveyor is only responsible for identifying property boundaries.

A home inspection is under $1000, usually $250-500. I don't know what a survey costs as I've never been involved in a property boundary dispute as US homes are generally on large enough plots that encroachment issues aren't that common.