skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "you say a number first" game has to end. I had a memorably surreal conversation with a recruiter that kind of went like this:

RECRUITER: Tell me what your current salary is.

ME: No. I'm not going to disclose this. Why don't you tell me what the range is for this role.

RECRUITER: It depends on what you're currently making.

ME: How does what I'm currently making change what value I'm offering to the company? I have a range, you have a range, let's just figure out where it overlaps.

RECRUITER: OK then you tell me how much do you want.

ME: $500K (knowing this was a ridiculous number)

RECRUITER: HAHAHAHAROTFL

ME: See how stupid this is? You obviously have a range and that number is outside of it. I'm not going to negotiate against myself.

We didn't get much farther than that.
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Every stylistic choice to make a vehicle "look electric" is always a failure, IMO. I don't like the LED unibrow at all.
Its more like:

- "Eu não gosto de bolo" ("I don't like cake")

- "Eu também [não gosto de bolo]" ("Me too [I don't like cake]")
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It absolutely is a partisanship problem, and you're just echoing a partisan line. If you look at it from outside the bubbles, it's clear that both sides have lost their minds, and MSNBC and CNN are just as bad as Fox News. Arguably even worse in effect, because unlike Fox, their propaganda is still taken seriously by the rest of the media, most of tech, most of the government and academia. They have far more institutional power.
I'm really happy Ford and others are starting to actually deliver on EV's. I do however think there will be a long list of issues as they scale the roll out, given the newness and complexity of this product. Here are some concerns I think people should be aware of:

1. No comprehensive supercharger network. This is a real big deal still. Using existing non-supercharging networks is not feasible for any long distance. You cannot do a roadtrip only charging 30~ mph. Thats 2 hours charging for every 1 hour driving.

2. Battery range for certain use cases. The base model is rated for 230 miles. If you've ever driven a Tesla on a highway you know you'll not get the full 230 at highspeeds. And so what happens when a truck is pulling a heavy load? You may end up literally getting half that range. This will be quite a shock for some users.

3. Software rollouts. Ford has been working on this but it is still not Solved. They've already bricked Mach-E's (1), and I expect there to be many more technical issues popping up.

4. No Autopilot. This is a big sell for many EV users. As far as I know Ford is no where close to having a viable competitor.

Anyways, I'm sure these things will smooth out over the coming years and I wish them all the best with this amazing migration to electric vehicles.

(1) https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22373903/mustang-mach-e-de...
I can't hear a single engine, but I can hear the hum of tires a long way away. Sure, I can sometimes hear a loud exhaust but those come and go in seconds. Tire noise is a 24x7 sound until winter (snow attenuates sound really well).

Source: typing this in a city with lots of roads and traffic.
> TBH asking that kind of question at interview is a big red flag for me, means that they don't understand how to interview tech people and therefore probably don't understand how to manage tech people.

This means Google and others don't understand how to manage tech people... which I guess it may be true.
I think the information age has introduced a lot of people to the public square who've no idea what rhetoric is.
why thank you! I'd say to look for me at bailey's on occasion, but alas those days are no more.

perhaps when level 3 opens up, I'll make an appearance every once in a while!
If you list three levels, you end up with [i] a lot more applications to sift through especially at the extreme end of the spectrum (which might be an advantage sometimes, but often isn't) and [ii] otherwise perfectly hire-able people applying to the wrong bracket or anchoring their expectations to the top end of a bracket they're actually not at the top end of. Worse still, your existing employees see top ends of ranges too.

You also create the impression of massive growth (or team turnover) when actually you only want the one engineer.
> The former staff leave, destroying the network andits community in the process

Baffling lack of self reflection on display.

Own your mistakes.
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Could have been the same reason: if they had announced the incoming belugas, they could have been intercepted in-flight by the same people behind the lawsuits?
So the standard "house battery backup" systems are around the 20-30kWH range, and they are good for about 1-2 days depending on your usage.

The F150 Lighting has up to a 150kWH battery, so somewhere in the 1-2 week range, depending on use.
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My god the writing of that article is horrible. I was genuinely curious about the content, but every single sentence is so dripping with condescension that it's unreadable.

We get it, you hate these boys and you want us to despise and disrespect them too... do you need every single sentence to ooze disgust?
Some people will never let go "Gender" out of anything good. Does sky fall down when the book says "him/he"? Does message not delivered? Is book about "Gender" study?
Because then somebody applies for the top band, the company says they're slotted in the bottom band, and they've effectively recreated the situation as it stands before Colorado's worthless regulation, since they now have some 80k - 200k range which is effectively useless information.
I really hope Ford accounted for the possibility of a gas-powered range extender. Gas powered generators are extremely common on work trucks. And a moderately sized one could probably produce enough power to maintain this truck at highways speeds, or at least produce enough power to drastically improve range.
There’s a lot of stereotyping of truck owners going on in this thread which is kind of funny given how pro-EV HN normally is. It’s like the aesthetics of a pickup truck is offensive to some people. Kind of bizarre and not something I’m used to seeing but I guess I live in Ohio so that probably has something to do with it.

A lot of people just want to move stuff, they don’t want to like…burn your house down while wearing a MAGA hat or something. There’s no reason to have an irrational hatred of a vehicle that is pretty practical in non-urban settings.

Edit: since this ended up as the top comment I’ll add some thoughts on the truck itself in the spirit of not being overly-negative. I’m interested to see what exactly is included in the base model and when that will become available since they’ve only given us information on higher trims so far. $40K for this vehicle is very affordable, that’s about as cheap as you can get a new Model 3 right now but at least for awhile it could be eligible for electric vehicle tax credits. Especially if the government extended these credits they could get A LOT of people to buy these trucks (and more Teslas which would help with EV adoption since demand for the Bolt and Leaf seem pretty low)
>What is the psychology

Americans want it because everyone else has one. Down here in TX, the number of pristine trucks that have never seen a speck of dirt, never had anything in the bed, and that are parked on their 1/8 acre lots in the city is staggering.
Really? I've found Vim slows to a crawl on multi-GB files. Maybe that's changed recently or it was down to the plug-ins I was using?
To be clear, the assessment of the US NSA, FBI, and CIA was that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to assist Donald Trump, and multiple people affiliated with the Trump election have been arrested for violating election laws. You making a false equivalency here is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about that is specific to the modern conservative movement.
Even when people are giving their opinions to their best knowledge they can be spreading misinformation.
Thanks for the link!

I'll post the conclusion for the light trucks weight reduction part (fatalities part, there is also non-serious injuries part in the paper) here as TL;DR for other people.

Reducing the mass of light trucks would significantly increase the fatality risk of their occupants in
collisions with objects and big trucks. But downsizing of light trucks would significantly reduce risk
to pedestrians, motorcyclists and, above all, passenger car occupants. There would be little effect
on rollovers because, historically, there has been little correlation between the mass of light trucks
and their rollover stability (width relative to center-of-gravity height). There would also be little
change in collisions between two light trucks, if both trucks are reduced in mass.
Even though the effect of mass reductions is statistically significant in four of the six types of
crashes, the net effect for all types of crashes combined is small, because some of the individual
effects are positive and others are negative. The benefits of truck downsizing for pedestrians and
car occupants could more than offset the fatality increase for light truck occupants. It is estimated
that a 100-pound reduction could result in a modest net savings of 40 lives, (0.26 percent of baseline
fatalities). However, this estimate is not statistically significant, the 2-sigma confidence bounds
range from a savings of 100 to an increase of 20 fatalities; the 3-sigma bounds range from a savings
of 130 to an increase of 50 fatalities. It is concluded that a reduction in the weight of light trucks
would have a negligible overall effect, but if there is an effect, it is most likely a modest reduction
of fatalities
Nobody could have anticipated that YouTube poop would be more compelling than professionally produced television.
How does this project compare to luftdaten? Have you considered if the projects could share data?

https://sensor.community/en/sensors/airrohr/
I hope this displaces a lot of the adventure Sprinter vans out there. Obviously, the built-out vans for long-term living won't get replaced by a truck, but I live in Tahoe and could use an adventure ready vehicle for winter skiing and summer trail running and MTB excursions with the family.

The frunk makes a big difference for those kinds of things.
This truck will do very, very well in a fleet context. The price point here will mean that commercial and government buyers who pencil out TCO(total cost of ownership) will have a compelling cost savings in maintenance and fuel.
The FreeNode staff (rightly) don't want FreeNode's operations taken over by the owner of a VPN company and former CFO of Mt Gox.

They're not obliged to work for this cretin.
Why not rent something occasionally then?
What technology problem is not a social problem :)
Article says it's not manual: "F-150 will seamlessly transfer its stored energy back into the home and automatically notify the owner via a push notification sent to their phone"
first of all, despite its prominence in marketing materials, engine torque doesn't tell you much about a vehicle's performance characteristics. torque is meaningless without knowing the overall gear reduction. a 911 gt3 is about as fast in a straight line as a tesla, despite having way less torque.

> compared to an ICE where there's only a slim power bad where that max torque range is hit.

second, this is only true of naturally aspirated engines, which are pretty rare these days. engines with turbos or superchargers are usually tuned to make (roughly) peak torque all the way from 2000 rpm to redline.

this is a lot of fretting over the peak acceleration of a truck. I believe the thing does 0-60 in something like 4.5 seconds. that's really quick for a truck, but only above average compared to performance sedans. in any case, most people (even the crazy ones) do not often hit peak acceleration from a red light, especially in an EV.
A more recent example was GM limited charging capacity on the Bolt when they identified a production issue that could result in a fire.

I bought a Honda once that was never brought in for a service recall and thus had an issue I had to pay the dealer to fix because it was outside of the recall window.

Tesla was able to push an OTA update to the Model 3 to improve performance after a CR article criticizing it's braking distance.

I think OTA or remote updates should be possible, and I think it should be something the owner of the vehicle has control over.
I've a Roborock S5(0) and, to my great surprise, always makes it way out of any place it managed to get into - where it physically fits through, it well get through - and out again.
In general, the electrical code requires that you install a transfer switch that switches your home between grid and local power.

The easiest way to do this in the US is with a "lockout device" on the panel where you're mechanically prevented from turning on the generator feed breaker until you've turned off the main breaker, or you can use what is effectively a manual DPDT switch rated for house power. For automatic backup generators, there are automatic transfer systems that start the generator and switch without user action. I would hope part of Ford's solution is an integrated automatic transfer switch that only requires one heavy cable between the main panel and the charger/inlet, rather than the two that a traditional transfer switch would require.

FWIW The practical problem isn't really line workers (they assume all wires are live anyway), but rather that your local power generation won't work if it's trying to power the whole grid.
The more Jews in a field the worse Mafia behavior and ethics.
"Guarantee certain properties about the software".
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Disagree. I can fit lots of oddly shaped things in the bed of a truck. Vans have walls and doors that create hard limits.
What reason are pickup trucks tall for, other than assuaging the drivers doubts about their own masculinity? You can get just as much construction work done with a Toyota Tacoma or even a Mercedes utility van.
As a professional developer, if I am faced with the task of dealing with binary trees at work, I would never:

- implement my own binary tree

- implement my own "invert a binary tree" algorithm

Reasons:

- my own implementation would be way worse than any other open source implementation (which has been reviewed extensively) in terms of: performance, number of bugs, correctness

- it would be a hell to maintain for future developers that have to maintain my code

- it just makes sense. Well understood algorithms do not require re-implementation
Does anybody know if there is a secondary market for home inspection reports? I know that the two times I was involved with a home purchase in the U.S., I needed to hire a home inspector. But the interested party in front of me also had to hire a home inspector. Would it not make sense for the interested parties to split the cost for one home inspector rather than reproducing the work? After all, copying information is almost free, but paying for the time of multiple inspectors is a redundant cost.

Does anybody do this?
Agreed, if by "helpful" you mean "painful but necessary because the asshole that wrote it didn't put a unique class on the main target of the div." But nesting doesn't necessarily imply long selectors, if done properly IMHO. If I have full control, I can put a class on the likely-to-be-selected element (ultimate target- the content) that allows me to get to it immediately so that I can, say, change the font.

In other words, I like nested CSS when I have a nested structure on the page. Then each class relates to one thing, and I can maintain continuity of the outer containers (say) as I change the inner ones.

In the old days, we didn't have column inside of content inside of page inside of ..... We just had whatever we had and css nesting wasn't as logically congruent with the structure.

Now, though, we have hugely nested pages (which stinks, but whatever), including a lot of inline-written CSS and the only way to get to it is long selectors. I agree it's an anti-pattern.

But you can have nesting and not require long selectors. And if you do need them for some god-forsaken reason, they are easy to find from a SASS structure.
Yes, the headline is awful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27234386
If you've got kids, you need bathroom breaks. On our cross-country trip in our Model Y we calculated that we spent a whole 15 minutes waiting for the charger, every other time we charged while we were toileting, eating or sleeping.

That being said, the F-150 will be a lot worse than the Y. It only supports 150kWh charging instead of Tesla's 250kWh, it uses a lot more watts per mile, and it doesn't have access to Tesla's Supercharger network.
Can you provide any evidence whatsoever for this claim? Because as far as I can tell you are just engaging in projection.
The only difference is that now echo chambers and communication speeds are so fast and far reaching that every kind of lie can spread like wildfire in seconds, with basically no consequence of sort.

Now you can close yourself in a bubble without ever having to confront any view you do not like.

I think it's kinda like how technology hasn't changed the reasons behind wars, or their intrinsic nature, but has definitely changed their impact and their scale.

You can now lie yourself into and out of basically anything, without ever having to face the reality of what you are saying or suffering basically any consequence. I think that in one way or another, our society and political structures will have to evolve in order to take this into account.
At least in Europe, pretty much _all_ chargers are designed to be installed outdoors, as pretty much no-one has a garage anyway.

So outdoor charging should not be an issue.
Pre covid, we had one professor who did lectures with videos (of him presenting) combined with in-person tasks and discussions. Each week you had to take a 10-minute test on the content of that weeks videos. It worked quite well.

The biggest disadvantage was that with a live audience the professor got cues from the audience if we understood him or if he had to slow down. In his videos he constantly assumed he had to repeat everything slightly differently, so you had to watch at 1.5x speed to get to something bearable.
Show HN: Chaoskasten – note taking app with integrated learning
https://chaoskasten.com/

Some time ago, I set out to build a minimal note taking app inspired by Luhmann's Zettelkasten. In the spirit of having a single source of truth, it also supports learning your notes with a spaced repetition algorithm.

It is not finished, but I think it is ready to be shown. Let me know what you think!
If I drove it a lot yes but I typically only do 4000-6000 miles a year. Even with this vehicle I average less emissions than a typical commuter would. That being said I will probably replace it with an EV as a daily driver when it’s paid off & use it on an as needed basis.
Lots of VC funds do first round investments though
Having no UI is an insight more developers should embrace. Getting a UI/UX design right is extremely hard for small systems and down-right impossible in larger ones.

When you have simple problems try not to overthink them and avoid designing or adding feature that will lead to the need for more UI interaction.

I worked on simple problems (e-commerce) where we added different purchase options, payment methodes that would only be preferred by a tiny minority and weird shipping companies. It complicated everything, just so we could have options only a few percentage of users would care about. It generated a ton of work for support. The main question was: “Don’t people read?” No, mostly they don’t. Users rely on imagery and visual clues, not line after line of text. If your UI is so complex that people are fequired to read, then you already lost.
you're comparing a text/code editor with a full fledge IDE. VSCode is _not_ an IDE, it is a glorified text editor with an amazing plugin system. if you need an IDE for what you do, use PHPStorm. I myself still use Visual Studio for a lot of the stuff that I do in .Net as I find I need the features it has.
If I was going to drop the kind of money that I did on my house on retail stocks, then you can bet that I'd be doing some due diligence on my end that's worth at least the same few hundred bucks
A hammer is a tool. A democratic process is a tool.

It's always weird to me to hear people talk about "democracy" as an abstract moral philosophy or a system of government. It sounds to me like people talking about "hammerism" or something, like the Builder faction from the Thief series.

There are many, many faults of democratic methods. But, let it be succinctly said: human beings are easily manipulated on short time scales. Anything left to a decision of the "majority of the people" is easily influenced by propogandists. In a system that is based entirely on the tool of democracy, power is accumulated by those most adept at manipulation.

A robust system of government that protects liberty, dignity, and enables people to improve their quality of life, will include democratic processes, which are useful, but will also need to employ a variety of other governmental and moral decision making tools.
I'm sure there's some societal tradeoff between global electrification and pedestrian deaths. Until the government adds pedestrian safety to US crash standards, Ford will make what the image conscious truck market wants.
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I think the flashpoint was the nasty lawyerese received by the newly-instated head of staff (tomaw) after he had been elected. The story is impenetrable because, from what I gather, the lawyerese contained a gag order not to discuss the contents of the letter.
If they have the capacity to produce the battery en masse, which is doubtful given what they announced so far. Only Tesla and VW seem to be serious about this.
Does the article only show the two first paragraphs for anyone else?
Weird how in your scenario only people riding bikes need food.
Agreed, which makes it strange that it’s only available as a crew cab.
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Exactly this. When you're starting something _new_ it's possible that you don't care at all about the history. It's when you inherit something _old_ that the history becomes very important.
To be fair, MSNBC has a smaller viewership and is taken with a "grain of salt" by even the most consistent viewers. Fox News is scripture for many people in ways that are scary to see.
> In 2017, Christel, the former owner of freenode, asked me for assistance with funding and asked me to acquire it. I oblige.

Was Christel ever the owner of Freenode? I thought Freenode was anarchically-organised.
Yeah, the most hilarious part of the TAB report is that one of the hypocrite commits which was supposed to be incorrect was in fact accidentally correct because the authors failed to understand how the code worked. This was also the only commit which got accepted. This makes the conclusions and way data was presented in the paper extremely questionable.
None of them have ever had to carry planks of wood from Home Depot.
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