skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The claim that electric cars are good for the environment is a lie. They are not "good", they are not even "neutral". They are "bad".

So....exactly like normal cars then? Buying a brand new car is bad for the environment, full stop, ICE or EV.

The statement above makes sense if taken in isolation - take an existing ICE car and an existing EV car - the EV car is undoubtedly better for the environment, there is no discussion. But it would also be a lot better if neither existed, as manufacturing new cars is EXTREMELY wasteful and produces incredible amounts of CO2 debt, again, EV or not.

>>oday we just ship car batteries oversees to be scrapped for parts in the cheapest possible way by children.

As opposed to stripping out electronics and precious metals from ICE cars, which is only ever done by well
regulated workers in rich western countries, right? /s

Like, come on - I get your point. Shitty "recycling" practices exist. That doesn't mean that's the standard or the default, and it definitely can be fixed going forward. We aren't destined or doomed to only recycle our lithium batteries with 10 year old children with rocks, and for some reason you're framing it as if that's the only available method.
Yes, as I mentioned it's fine if you're developing the C implementation. You can then choose what to do if any of them get used by a new revision of the C standard, your libc, or your compiler, since you'd be packaging your compiler, libc, and picking what C standard version you support.

It's also trivial to change them, if you get a conflict, since it's a header-only library.
No information is that important.
What are the easiest and best web scraping tools for non-technical users?
First of all, that wasn't my claim. Second, the amount of circulating car that might be a vector for a cyberattack is so small that the 0 in the statistic could very well fall in the range of expected deaths when corrected for other factors.

I.e. if there's one vulnerable car every million 0 is what you'd expect deaths to be, not an astounding result.
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> Note that (void *)0 is always NULL, as mandated by the standard.

Also note that this is distinct from the memory representation of (void *)0 being all 0 bits, which is explicitly not mandated.
On the contrary, it's super profitable since loads of them are never spent or only partially spent, to the tune of $3B/yr:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/24/how-amazon-and-walmart-make-...
Store Builder and Lead Conversion - My new journey
Hi, As a web developer I love to create eCommerce solutions for my clients. So, I want to build a SaaS like Shopify but for small businesses to sell differently and creatively.

Main goals of online store created with my SaaS:
- Lower Bounce Rates
- Lead Conversions
- More Cash

What is the problem with Shopify?
The problem is as a small business you need to spend a lot of money to have all the important tools these days.

Tools like:

- Socials integrations

- Exit-intent popup, % Announced Bar...etc.

- Upselling

- Cart abandonment

- Coupons & discounts

- Selling subscriptions and digital products

- Selling a bunch of products = 1 offer

- Geolocation targeting

- Countdown timer

- Push notifications

These tools and much more will come up with one single SaaS. I also will be concentrate in special on integrations with socials networks and many popular tools.

As for the shop's admin part, the main mission is to build #NoCode an extremely easy online store to sell. The design of store will be possible to create by customize each block/module (colors, padding, alignment...etc.). Also, you can select a template(as in Notion) and each template can be customized.

A much more important thing is to have an online store that will extremely simple to use for your customers, to be fast and SEO friendly out of the box.

What do you think? Is there a place for a new product like mine?
Worse that that; the WHO has become a political organization. Their unforgivable cover -up of China's seismic incompetence is nothing short of disgraceful. Up until very late they were silently abetting China's cover - up, blindly swallowing their lies that the disease wasn't infectious and advising the world not to restrict travel to and from China. We need to take a long, long look at the WHO. If not for their colossal failings of biblical proportions, who (ha, ha) knows if we would still be needing to wear masks now. Also China, but everybody seems to be more than willing to avert their gaze and pretend nothing happened there.
I changed back to Sublime after using VSCode because the UI is just significantly snappier. VSCode has a ton more features but personally I don't think I need them, and the occasional lag when opening files or typing drove me mad. Sublime provides a perfect compromise between terminal-based editors like vim and fully-fledged IDEs, IMHO.
I think the issue with this is that politicians have a tendency to think about problems only long after the fact.

For example, in the EU, they've banned some plastic single-use food containers, like straws, etc. The other day I was reading an article in a local French paper about how some organization did a study on the replacement products used and found them to be pretty terrible. Both for the environment and for the human body.

The kicker was that some of those containers were sold as being "bio-degradable" but it turned out they weren't.

Now batteries and similar are a "new" thing, so they probably didn't have enough time to think about this, but selling something as something that it's not, even if we leave aside the whole ecology thing, sounds pretty much like fraud to me. But apparently they're looking into ways of banning these, not taking up the suppliers for fraud.
>Chia plotting is extremely I/O intensive and destroys most SSDs in under a few weeks

Is this true? Back in 2015, techreport tested a bunch of SSDs to failure and it took 18 months to kill them all. This was a while ago, but I'd been lead to believe write endurance had only improved since then.

https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experi...
The idea that wind turbine blades need to be recycled is more of a fetish than a requirement.
I really liked this game "stolen in 60 seconds"
in my 8th grade I played this for hous on my nokia phone
https://www.getjar.com/categories/all-games/puzzle-and-strat...

They never released android or ios version and probably the company is closed now. one of the best mobile hames I have ever played!
This is a very first world take.
How you will "tell" the door when to unlatch itself without expending energy?
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You're right, and the Internet is a cesspool of imoral time wasters, supporting a whole industry of pornography sex deviants, child abusers and terrorists. We should ban encryption and mandate government issued Internet IDs /s

If you supported something like a ban on encryption or government issues Internet ID, I would honestly be contempt and respect your principled view, but I doubt you do.
>I'll keep my very efficient Audi diesel car (79g/km CO2) for now thanks.

I bet that's the exact reason why you drive that exact car. Because of course the coolant, oil, acid batteries, etc. your car uses is disposed of correctly, or one of the hundreds of parts that needs replacing every X amount of time in an ICE. Never mind the waste that oil production itself causes.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/01/fossil-fuel...

New modes of transportation and energy generation will not be 100% clean and waste free, I think it would be naive to think we could actually do that. But they can be steps in the right direction.

If your cynical assumption is that we can't do it right anyway, why do you even pretend that driving your old car is somehow better? If we won't dispose of lithium batteries properly, we won't dispose of all the things your old car produces either.
It’s a noble thing to help others escape from poverty and abuse but you should do so without imposing on others. The option to buck the trend and plant a more ecologically friendly yard is precisely the type of thing that private property allows to flourish where regulation or communal ownership would require herculean feats of bureaucratic rangling. Same goes for rooftop solar, choosing to buy an electric car, or growing your own food in your back yard. I acknowledge that some people do not have the capacity or desire to manage their own homes or property, I’m all for there being many options. People should be allowed to experiment with different ownership or rental accommodations many of which would probably ease the housing burden. Housing speculation also needs to end since it greatly distorts the market. There is a lot that should be changed I just don’t think it should be done through further regulation or some form of communal ownership.
The new crash safety features that actually prevent crashes are a step up from what was offered in the 00s.
What you should not forget is, that CO2 isn't the only gas emitted by diesel cars.

Gases and dust, that are a serious health hazard en masse in cities.

Also I doubt that the 79g/100km is the full number, that includes drilling for, refining and transporting that diesel to your car, before you can burn it there.

And btw., those kids in africa are poisening themself with ICE car parts too.

So I don't think anyone said, we should all wreck our ice cars today and go all electric immediately. That clearly makes no sense ressource wise.

But in the long run, yes. I want noise, smoke, fumes and dust free cities as soon as possible, along with a somewhat stable and intact environment. You have to start somewhere.
Not just researchers, wrecking yards are dealing with this problem today. I've read that wrecked EVs have to be isolated because they can catch fire or even explode days after a crash!

Speaking as an environmentalist, this is a huge smack in the face. Electric cars are supposed to be "green" but in fact it's the same old story. It just seems so short-sighted!

- - - -

Anyway...

There's got to be a better way!

And there is: alcohol fuel.

It burns clean and is carbon-neutral. Anyone can make it from anything that has starch or sugar. It's non-toxic(-ish).
TMX Replay Investigation
It shouldn't be recycled if it's a net economic loss to do so.
It's a personal choice ... but if you study Chinese politics I think you'll find their lack of aggression isn't an orientation, its a historical lack of capability ... which is now changing.

The US Empire is corrupt, but its processes of decision making and power are relatively transparent (open elections, senate trials, etc.). The Chinese system is entirely opaque. In a sense, all citizens in China are ultimately completely vulnerable to the whims of the state ... there is no recourse for arbitrary detention, seizure of property, etc. This is a model China seeks to export in the long run ... either directly, or through affiliates.

America sucks ... but as people often say about Democracy, its the worst system of governance except all the rest.
Philanthropist if you consider depopulating minorities Philanthropy. I call it human rights violation.
Why wouldn't they cut the blade up in situ for transportation at the end of its working life? Seems better than having huge convoys to take them away for recycling.
>It sounds like a problem that encompasses all of global trade, manufacturing and modern technology.

It is, which is why it is absurd on its face that supposedly more "sustainable" solutions to transport and electricity generation increase all three of those.
That was my experience too. I got into a taxi with my wife and I tried to make sure he took credit card. I asked "credit card" in as clear English I could. The driver was confused. Tried again. My wife asked "curedito cado" and he said yes immediately. (Caveat, wife is Korean but Korean transliteration of credit card is not that same as Japanese.)

I thought people would understand clear, slow English (I assumed after school they'd most pick up from American/British movies?) but I guess after a while they only hear the local transliterated version of words. Or only remember that version? I don't know.
Fedora tippers and fundies alike seem to vehemently agree on one really weird point - that God can not or will not create things through some kind of procedural generation. Both parts seem to think that evolution means that nobody could have deliberately and knowingly set up the initial conditions for it to happen. Which as far as I can tell doesn't follow from any of the data, whether religious or scientific.

Apart from that, all the evidence is actually on the side of the Christians, even though it's all anecdotal: scripture, patristic documents, traditions, etc. It's not quite enough to convince me, but the other side has exactly nothing, not even anecdotal evidence, on why there is something rather than nothing.
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What's wrong about it? As long as materials are not wasted.
Don't. You'll thank me.
Speaking about drugs, cryptocurrencies have enabled drug marketplaces that are generally quite safe for the buyer (escrow, better quality through reviews). The situation is now way better than buying something on the street.

I'm not saying it's a good example of a negative consequence of "restrict the ability to transact large amounts anonymously" since you mention large amounts though.
> Audi diesel car (79g/km CO2) for now thanks

If CO2 was the problem, diesels would be fine. We would recapture CO2 in the future. The bigger problem is particulates and NOx
You never start completely new, you always carry your previous experiences and knowledge you gained. This will be valuable to your progress even if it doesn't seem relevant right now.
Speaking from experience, switching career at 28 was the best decision of my life.
These people are natives with dialects. As an immigrant you face prejudices sometimes and being in a negative interaction makes you more wary of the other parties intent.
A plausible explanation is that it's doing some kind of preprocessing of the file into a data structure that allows for faster or more responsive scrolling and editing of huge files. For example a rope or similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
Not really. Batteries like AAA are already being recycled because it makes economical sense. In fact thieves steal it and need vigilance.

You are confused with "electrical components" that are mostly plastic, very hard to disassemble and not worth it economically.

A Tesla battery cost over $6000. Materials like Cobalt or Lithium are worth a lot in a concentrated form, much easier than extracting it from the mine. As technology improves, the metals in those batteries are worth more.

So what is going to happen is:

Short term: people will use their old car batteries for electrical network support.

Medium term: Governments are going to require recycling protocols like they already do with ICEs cars.

Long term: Companies will develop protocols to recycle it. A battery is the same thing repeated hundreds of times. The individual cells are standardized,and platforms will be shared between different manufacturers, that makes it way easier to recycle.
UltraEdit is probably the best text editor there is. Not the best IDE or anything, just the best text editor. It seems thoroughly underappreciated, though, for some reason.

It's the only editor I'm aware of that can do do disk-based editing, that is you can open a file of multiple gigabytes quickly and edit it because it doesn't load the whole file into RAM.
Video Games Inspire Great UX (2019)
Working of DC Generator – Electrical and Electronics Engineering
The news snippet: https://www.innovationaus.com/data61-dumps-world-class-sel4-...
Nice. This reminds me a lot of the 'String Art Generator' https://github.com/halfmonty/StringArtGenerator to recreate 'Pin and Thread' art.

Also see a '
weaving algorithm' here : https://github.com/i-make-robots/weaving_algorithm
Excellent work! Don't want to pile on because the overall work is excellent; but starting with focus on the first element in the form and the jumping to the first error both break accessibility rules. As a sighted user, I love them, but when I was doing accessibility work it was one of the things we had to remove from the site to be fully compliant.

A lot of your other items take view-ability into account are very much required for accessibility, so you may want to caveat those two items.
Yeah, that's usually associated with woke leftists these days. On the right, it isn't as common because being on the right isn't really a popular position to be in in this current political climate.
How does the ideal job post you created compare to those posted by your employer? What feedback did you get when you shared your ideal job post with your team lead?
> Shitty "recycling" practices exist. That doesn't mean that's the standard or the default

Who wants to tell him?
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Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
> I wonder why UltraEdit has not much love here.

Just from looking at the screenshots on their site I wouldn't install it (because of it's ugly UI).
Do you have any reason to believe the situation would have been handled much differently if the outbreak originated in say, for example, the US?

I am not too sure the result would have been much different.
I recently discovered that a friend of mine was a big fan of Sublime. Said friend doesn't do any coding, and isn't at all technical, so I was curious. Turns out that it's used a lot by their circle of colleagues in the editorial text world as a fast and approachable tool for bulk editing large, raw text files (as in manuscripts, books, manuals, etc.). Makes sense!
Hiking with a naturalist on their home turf can be amazing. As they "read the landscape" and tell you its stories. Plant mixes telling of long-term changes in progress, seen frozen in time. Tales of long- and short-term environmental history. "This area was logged last century; here are fire scars from a decade ago; here this biome is slowly taking over from that biome; this stream dries out some summers, or these <plant> would instead be <other plant>; etc". Similarly for geology. History.

Some stories can be stably linked to location. "The geology of this roadside exposure is ...". Others need some dynamic recognition. "That's a finch". Others need a blend. Or tracking and/or modeling environment state. Mapped buildings vs "that's a car" vs "today's chalkboard menu with updates".

Then guide story selection by user long-term and attentional interests, understanding, and educational learning objectives. Tree and pebble identification become stories of deep-time geological and evolutionary history and processes. Ambient dinosaurs.

Some of what a good guide, or teacher, or tutor might do... if they spent their days perched on your ear.

The future could be a blast. Sad we're moving so very sloowwwwwwwwly.
People have reported their SSDs filling up (in terms of total writes) much faster on Apple Silicon machines. If IOAccelerator can leak like this then it would definitely explain it. 25GB swap for one image is absurd. Multiply that by a few months of usage. It may not be a smoking gun but it is a fingerprint in the pool of blood.
How remote work helped us move past old-school ‘professionalism’
I think of this as coupled with the "paged" form suggestion, if you actually need this much information, page it out into individual information blocks instead of one looooong form.

Maybe move these two sections together?
One option used currently is battery leasing. When you buy an electric Renault Zoe, they don't sell you the battery.
As someone who has went through way too many KYC/AML dances, this method means nothing. The moment you try to pocket fiat into a regulated bank or exchange, they will look at the entire chain of transactions.

Mixers are a red flag. Unregulated exchanges are a red flag. There is no way in hell those funds are laundered back into the existing banking system.
I don't think you can buy monitors over 43" without paying huge amounts of money.
I will suggest a less harsh approach to the topic than the author...

Traditionally, physicists and mathematicians develop the technology, engineers apply the technology by designing things for commercial applications, and technicians try to build the design and make corrections based on experience.

Consider a large building: architects, structural and architectural engineers, and trades people.

In software, there used to be a formal design phase. The computer hardware and operating system was not a given (sometimes you were designing the computer at the same time). So the software engineer was the job of figuring out the optimal way to marry the hardware and the software to the requirements. And, how to get it done on a budget. Formal reviews were required to make sure everything was going to work together.

Now, the computing system is well-defined, very little design (if any) is done before coding begins, and the “engineering” aspect of software is not evident.

In my opinion, the general confusion on HN around this topic stems from the fact that “software engineers” are programmers, who are in turn technicians. The distinction now may have more to do with number of years of experience and credentials than with job function. I know this is a generalization, but I have been in the engineering business for almost 40 years, so I have lived through the transition.

In my opinion, the jump to writing software before design is a mistake. Yes, you get some code in a hurry, and it’s a good way to develop a rapid prototype to talk about. But is it optimal? This is where good software engineering comes in.
It does appear there is a solution for this on the way.
https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/wind-turbine-mak...

TL;DR: It appears Vestas is partnering up with another company to bring to market a process to break down the epoxy resins that bind the fiberglass in the blades. The resulting base chemicals are useful for the production of further resins and new windmill blades. This process could be useful in other industries.
Could not a lot of these degraded batteries be moved into stationary power applications?
In any case they could've used a trebuchet, the superior siege engine.
For everyone working from home without a dedicated office I can only recommend getting some lamps/LED stripes etc. A great method to effectively change the whole atmosphere of a room and distinguish between working place and living room.
> Increasing the energy usage of our species is not "irresponsible" or "malicious".

Right now, yes it is. we do not have unlimited clean energy.

> Every technological improvement increases the energy usage of our species.

This is a huge assertion.

> If you want to decrease fossil fuel consumption then you should be crusading for worldwide carbon taxes, not bans on new technologies.

Great, and in the mean time, until we get there, spinning up a new financial instrument that uses more power than the Netherlands is massively irresponsible if not outright malicious.
Let me explain my comment:

For a while it was really hard to do something in the OS, security or embedded system field of it didn't align with the L4 way of doing things. This harmed progress, and in particular young researchers with new controversial ideas.
It's easy to motivate using a picture. If you draw the parabola x^2 + bx + c then the minimum is at x = -b/2 and you can visually see that the average of the x-values of the roots is that minimum x = -b/2. So then u is simply the x-distance from the minimum to the roots.

The more problematic step is the assumption that you can write the parabola as (x - r1)(x - r2). It isn't obvious why that is possible.