skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who doesn't want to own a car I am biased, but to me there are still a few usecases where a car still makes sense:

- If you don't live in a big city, public transportation is far from enough

- When you want to go on vacation you not only want to travel from A to B, you also want to be able to transport all your stuff and not be bound by infrequent scheduling, and you want some kind of mobility freedom at your destination

- For your bi-weekly grocery shopping you need to be able to haul a few dozens of kg of stuff that takes something like half a m^3

For all of those, there's no easy alternative, and I understand why people used to this way of life don't really want to change. Bikes can replace some of it, electric bikes even more, and why not electric cargo bikes. But it's still very expensive, especially when you can't totally replace your car. I think the intermediate solution will be some carsharing solution, where 1 car is not owned by 1 person or 1 family but shared on average with a few families, accross a whole city.
I tried to speak cicada but I ended up just annoying the shit out of everyone and then dying after 3 days.
When I was in high school and university decades ago, before social media and even stable phone numbers, friends used to come and go all the time; co-workers at summer and co-op jobs, classmates, roommates, ...

You'd have beers and a few good times and then the next term/year would happen and you might never see them again. It didn't feel like rejection because there really wasn't a practical way to stay in touch. You only felt rejected by romantic partners and old friends who decided to move on.

Now, we "connect" to everyone; we follow each other on Facebook/Twitter/Signal/WeChat and we have each others emails.

I'm trying to imagine the roommates I had one summer, who I had almost nothing in common with but who shared their stash with me because I would bring good steaks and fresh vegetables from home, reaching out to me a year later and saying "hey man, why did you ghost us?". What would you even say to that?

So, now, when these temporary friendships are over ... we have this lingering connection that doesn't just go away at the end of term. Someone has to take the extra step of closure.

I get that this feels like rejection but that feeling is a new thing.

Summer loves and friendships were meant to end with a sobbing farewell at the end of August, not with a unfollow and block in November.
https://www.siliconmechanics.com/systems/storage/storform

They mainly use SuperMicro. They have been around for decades and have top notch service and pricing.

Also note, check out the Server section as well since there’s a few more in that section that have high NVMe capacity. Like below https://www.siliconmechanics.com/systems/servers/rackform#fe...
By taxing electric cars. (Back to) taxing per KW/HP or just raising the other taxes, I guess. Why would they give up that income?
Bees also have an advanced and partially decoded language. They can even point direction and distance to the beehive when they find flowers.
Yet another blanket-statement blog post criticizing one usage of something with opinions disguised as "fact".
Can you give us your definition of communism?
I think you should cite a source for that 1.5 kWh/litre number. It seems there are a lot of varying claims here [0].

Looking at the US statistics for 2019, it seems refineries used 47 140 million kWh of electricity [1], and produced 3 199 032 thousand barrels of Finished Motor Gasoline [2], plus a lot of other products. That makes 0.093 kWh per litre, for the package of a litre of gasoline plus a bundle of other products. If gasoline is half of the output of refineries, then the rate is more like 0.05 kWh per litre.

This is just for refining, and doesn't include the energy cost of drilling, transport, etc. But 0.05 is a long way from 1.5.

[0] https://greentransportation.info/energy-transportation/gasol...

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_capfuel_dcu_nus_a.htm

[2] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_refp_dc_nus_mbbl_a.htm
Jim Jefferies-Secret to Happiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvYJeLUXMG8
Don't overthink it. People read this question as, do you want people to give you money because you are popular? And they responded with a resounding, "I guess".
World-Renowned Academic Physician on Covid Vaccines
Looking at PMs over the last 50 years

Heath, son of carpenter/builder, Scholarship to Oxford

Wilson, father was an industrial chemist, scholarship to go to school, bursary to go to university

Callaghan, father enlisted man in the Navy, then the coastgard, and died young leaving family relying on charity. Got a place at uni but couldn't afford to go

Thatcher, father was a grocer. Got to Oxford on a scholarship, studied Chemistry

Major, Parents were in theatre, then ran a garden shop, lived in a rented flat, left school at 16, did a banking correspondence course while failing to get a job as a bus conductor

Blair, Father was a university lecturer, went to boarding school at Fettes, took a gap year then did Law at Oxford

Blair brought in the posh = good, Champagne Socialists era. It's also what powered Labour - the alliance of the metropolitan left and the working class left (the latter having gone to the tories now)

Brown and May had normal backgrounds, but Blair, Cameron and Johnson are very different to Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Brown and May.
Why should a civilized country just revoke certification once you're fully vaccinated?

Why would a civilized country just force an airplane down flying over it's territory because of a made-up bomb threat to remove a journalist?
> But it would have nothing to do with European Union (the current entity

We are going into hypotheticals here. I am pretty convinced you are wrong, but only time will tell.

> I don't see what you are trying to prove ?

It was mentioned that the EU "cannot even enforce <some law>", but the reality is that the US federal government, that model of global cohesive superpower, more often than not cannot do that either. Do we go around saying the US government cannot do anything right, because coordinating 50 states is impossible? No, of course they can do some stuff right. Same for the EU. Already the fact that there is one "supreme tribunal" across the continent is quite remarkable, as well as a single currency for most of the Union, or a single arrest warrant, etc etc. Things move slowly but they do move, and if enough people keep pushing for a united Europe, sooner or later we'll get there.
That was my first thought as well. It could be a powerful weapon
This is centralisation from the bottom up! You don’t want this. If everything talks the same protocol, some giant will eventually own the protocol in the same way Google stole the web with Chrome.

Can you imagine if Android licensed iMessage instead of building Hangouts? Yes, we’d all be texting on the same protocol, and yes we’d have a choice of clients, but at what cost?
Not necessarily, no.

It's typically the story of the prodigal son in the bible : it's unfair that the son that squandered away his inheritance gets back and is celebrated, while the son that was wise and helped his father does not get anything special.
Yeah, what motivation would there be to pretend to be Italian?

It's not like one crazy person is going to discredit Italy or Italians, and the poster is not going to be any more likely to be succesful at spamming because it's in Italian, or reach a wider audience.
They are already discussing yearly / bi-yearly boosters. Very good revenue stream.

- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/pfizer-ceo-says-third-covid-...
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-annua...
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/covid-19-boost...
I think the article somewhat underplays the role of people getting sick. Just last week, a major port in Shenzhen shut down due to a COVID outbreak. [1] I remember the same thing happening last year in American meat plants, car factories, and ports.

Relying too much on just in time manufacturing has its own problems, but I think it's just plain hard as a single company to mitigate global catastrophic risk like COVID inflicted on the world. Relying on multiple suppliers might not help if every supplier is affected.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-29/china-s-y...
The parent obviously means standard in the statistical sense not the bureaucratic sense.

The standard definition is more or less "someone who posts glamorous shots of themselves on social media to build an audience they can influence and then monetize". A non-standard definition would be one which most people would find misleading or not fitting for the term.

I also wonder what the poll looked like, I find it hard to believe people over 30 would want to become influencers unless it was worded something like "Would you like to make millions of dollars if it meant becoming an influencer?"
Switching all fossil-fuel powered appliances (including electric cars) to electric will reduce our total energy needs by half due to the inherent efficiencies in electric machinery. Source: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/handbook, page i

Unfortunately the IPCC report on climate change doesn't take into account "committed emissions", meaning that once you buy a fossil fuel-powered car it keeps emitting CO2 for its lifetime. If we take into account committed emissions from existing cars, gas water heaters, driers, etc, then we're already near 1.8C of warming. Source: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/handbook page 11

This is one of the biggest coordinated behavior changes we'll have to make: every time a fossil fuel-powered machine in our home dies, we have to replace it with one powered by electricity. The good news is that with the right financing this will save people money. Source: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/household-savings-report
I agree what would have been really interesting for me is if the pico board had had wifi and support for pi camera… then you’d have a board to compete nicely with the Esp32 cam
Ford has an all-electric SUV now.
The AI/ML meaning of "algorithm" (a computationally-derived heuristic for search or filtering) is not the mathematical sense (a precise formula providing an exact solution to a given problem).

But in the sense that an opaque, poorly-understood, by either users or the Internet monopolists themselves, black box has made yet another inscruitable, unanswerable, decision which cannot be explained or described, the phrase is accurate. Over the past decade, I've observed that Google's own staff can increasingly not answer why specific actions occur. The solution seems to be to tweak the training data and/or desired results set. Given the gradual extirpation of computer-language dedicated Usenet groups, this process seems at best slow, if not utterly futile.

It's not "an arbitrary program" either, at least not strictly, as the process is itself the end-result of a specific set of steps and processes. That happen to involve machine-learning and AI.

Pointedly, the decision isn't one that's based on a human agent, review board, or process.

If you'd prefer, "because a machine-learning based AI said so" would be more accurate. But it's also more of a mouthful.

Any alternate language you'd prefer?
Redis looks like the perfect tool, with reliable inbuilt expire mechanic.
I believe the point is "no wifi whatsoever".

If you need wifi, by all means, go integrated. But not everybody does.
The New York one is different in that it’s just an assertion of good/not good based on NY’s standards.

The EU model is a little different as there is a whole laundry list of data.
Connectivity-as-a-Service from Space
Managing an Online Shoe Business with a Task Management Tool
> Yes, in theory people can walk away.

In practice, they do, all the time, in every place I've ever worked, including min wage jobs.

> they're dependent on their employer for healthcare coverage

That's because of stupid government laws. Besides, if you leave you get COBRA for 18 months or something like that.

> survival,

Not in the US. Don't exaggerate.

> general life stability...

??

> a majority of Americans cannot afford a $500 dollar surprise expense out of pocket (0).

That doesn't mean they're poor. It's easy to have a quarter million dollar salary and spend 110% of it.

> in an area without a lot of jobs

Hop on the Bus, Gus. Go where the jobs are. My extended family moved all over the US for better jobs. Heck, I wound up in Seattle to get a better job. Cost me a couple hundred clams worth of gas driving my bucket of bolts there from Kansas. Heck, somehow the penniless migrants manage to travel all over the US to get work.

> So are the legal advantages, political influence, legal accountability, etc when comparing companies to individuals.

The courts are heavily biased in favor of the worker in legal disputes. And have you ever seen the press take the side of Amazon in any dispute with labor? Or any company?
AVR chips are among the worst for power consumption. An Atmega328p will draw ~24mA at 16MHz.

Compare that to an Atmel SAM-L that draws ~400uA (0.4mA) at the same 16MHz, and is on a 32-bit Arm Cortex platform.
>> The Buddhists think you don’t quit addictions, you become a new person who isn’t an addict.

The Buddhists believe that you ARE the person that does not need anything, f.e. smoking, to be happy. The only thing you have to do is finding your true nature that is already there.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Anaconda? CUDA, Python and Tensor versioning are a mess in the ML era, having wrestled these dependencies manually multiple times I feel I need to take a chance to praise Anaconda when ever possible.
Does the LDF do a lot of bomb disposal?
Thank you very much for this comment. I've installed hospital-grade power outlets and been using hospital grade power cords in my home office for some time now. I don't agree that folks won't appreciate it, it makes a big difference in my opinion as to preventing accidental unplugging when moving things, and reduces arcing.

I'm going to go get some catalogs and start shopping, I might just be replacing all the light switches in my house in a few weekends from now :)
That's only possible if you change zoning and people are against changes in zoning to increase affordability. They won't change their mind for something "optional" like walkability.
>>Most electric car owners don’t rely on public charging infrastructure at all.

Will this be the case going forward? I wouldn't consider apartment dwellers a niche case. It is a lot to ask for apartment building to install chargers at every parking place.
Step by step implementing React wrapper for a Svelte component
I had a teacher in high school that liked to dole out life advice. Even looking back decades later, most of it was actually pretty good. One of them was:

You can be smart -or- hard-working and do fine anywhere. But you will always be bested by those who are smart -and- hard working.

> The two guys I knew, who attended Oxf. and Camb. were both fired because they were more talk then action.

Talk is easy but action is hard. There's a chance they never actually had to "put up or shut up" before in their life. And if that's true, there's going to be a strong aversion to actually taking action because that's when they might actually fail -- potentially for the first time in their life.
In Swiss culture, dependability is valued a lot. People prefer to know for sure that they are guaranteed to be exempt from quarantine restrictions for at least six months (which may be extended indefinitely down the road), over the alternative of assuring indefinite immunity right away and then curtailing that in case the vaccines do not offer long-term protection.

It gives people a certain peace of mind and allows them to make travel plans with confidence.
Depends on region, age and wealth.

The typical apartment around here is a triple decker with on and off street parking totaling about the same number of spaced as combined number of bedrooms in the unit +/- 20%

I've never seen one with an EV charger but you could string a 120v cord to the nearest outlet if you wanted. There's usually an exterior one somewhere. It's a tossup whether it's on nobody's bill or is billed to a random unit.

Typically you'll find chargers in parking garages. The commercial property companies tend to build them out about a little bit ahead of demand.
Still not enough for Electron.
People buy for optionality. Otherwise pickup trucks and second homes wouldn’t be so popular.
In the US today usage based taxes such as gas fund only half the money spent on roads. They should probably add in some sort of usage tax based on weight/size/emissions/noise that will apply to all vehicles.
Have these people forgotten how to live in the world without these apps? I understand how some folks get there with technology, but put the apps and screens down and go live in the real world. This concept that people are somehow captive to these apps blows my mind a little. I am generation X though, I grew up being kicked out of the house during the day and was forced to run around and play outside when not in school when I was younger.
No. You're not entitled to these things. They are superfluous in that they go beyond mere justice and are like a gift.
> suspect we'll hit limitations in our energy infrastructure that prevent this from happening. Energy use for cars is substantial, a significant percentage of the energy usage of homes.

I'm not sure this is true. I've been driving a electric car in the US for multiple years now (approximately 50 miles of driving daily), it's only added about ~15% to my electric bill, if that.

Charging the car only requires ~800 to ~1400 watts, is done for about 10 to 12 hours all overnight, and can be done on any regular household AC outlet. If your home has the electricity for a Desktop Gaming PC, or any Window Air Conditioner, then it already has enough electricity for a EV car. Similarly, if plugging in a new Window AC doesn't bring your grid service down today, a new EV shouldn't either.

Obviously in aggregate, utilities will need more capacity. But it's not that much more, it should only be an issue in places where the grid is already unregulated, broken, underserviced and/or under-maintained today -- only an issue in places where brownouts/blackouts already regularly happen (places like Texas, California, maybe NYC).
It sounds like you’re in a bind. Truly hope everything is ok-ish in any case. I’m rubin55 on Libera.chat, rann on OFTC. If you ever feel like having a chat, send me a dm. You can also send me a message on me@rubin55.org. Don’t know if I can make a difference, but your message rings true with me.. life and relationships with peeps really got strange in the last decade(s) or so, and all this COVID business didn’t help much either! In any case, hang in there and try not to get too much down about the apparent bleakness of it all; sometimes a few days/some time makes all the difference in how a particular moment feels.
That sounds like a lot to me, almost once a week. Then again it's normal to drink that often without being considered an alcoholic.
I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night noticing that it's trouble breathing that wakes me up, it happened the last weeks and months more often than before. However, I also feel this has a lot to do with how much I weigh. Due to corona I did a lot less sports (because I like team sports much more than running etc.) etc. and gained a few pounds. It feels like weighing a few pounds too much (maybe 10 or so) have a really big impact on my [!] sleeping habits. That's why losing weight is the thing I will do now before trying these solutions. Hope it suffices.
Are... you sure about those numbers? That would be one interview per ten thousand applications, and one offer per million applications. I know you have to submit a lot of job applications, but, uh, that seems excessive!
As opposed to the first stage of their life where they do only one thing, suck on tree roots.
TCP alternative QUIC reaches IETF Standards Track after eight years of evolution
Usenet is a distributed and open protocol.

Its superiority has been in question since September of 1993, when it noticeably buckled under the load of a million or so (and quite probably fewer) commercial dial-up service subscribers. Previously Usenet had a maximum user base genereally of less than 1 million. The pre-AOL Usenet probably measured less than 1 million potential users, and a small fraction of that active.[1] It dragged on for another decade, more or less, but was largely no longer freely available to dial-up / residential users by the early 2000s, largely due to its inability to police against antisocial behaviour, or mount a credible political defence against claims of rampant criminal activity (at least some of it reasonably well evidenced).

As such, actually offering Usnet access became a net liability to most commercial operators.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_use...

________________________________

Notes:

1. Relying on Brian Reid's "USENET Readership Summary Reports", as of April, 1988, there were 381 newsgroups, 57,979 messages, an estimated 141,000 readers, of a total user population on connected hosts of 880,000. Cited in John S. Quarterman, The Matrix, 1990.
The tone of the article was something else. What a great writer. That sentence was equally impactful to me. The closing two sentences were as well.
Yes. Actually I've not noticed it in the last 10 years and seemingly everybody has stopped smoking, but before that...

Taking many smoke breaks per day - no problem. Standing in the office kitchen for 5 minutes with a fresh coffee "why aren't you working" in voiced form or just the looks.

In some companies we just made "team smoke breaks" with non-smokers randomly joining, either to chat or continue discussing work and I felt that was the best solution (unless people wanted to be alone for 5 minutes). Either you have stuff to talk about anyway or depending on the ratio of smokers to non-smokers there was some form of interaction.
very different thing from vanced
They will not take over any time soon. Tesla and co had a decade now, I have seen a handful (literally) of electric cars in the last 3 first world countries I have resided, all of them 30+ million population, and I have been to the cities.
Now explain to me how the adaption will happen in the poorer countries(the people just ride a cheap motorbike) with no infrastructure and money.
Forgive me my scepticism on the matter, but I will believe it when I see it.
Windows 10 Desktop
Nah, for C64 or SAM coupé class hardware would be quite alright.
Public transit is for dense cities. Works brilliantly on Manhattan; can't be made reasonable in Houston.

Western Europe is densely populated and has passenger railways since 19th century. Bus service (of sorts) started in Paris in mid-17th century.
Denmark use a similar app called “Coronapas”. Works similar to the Swiss one, displaying latest test results and vaccine status. It’s currently required to enter any restaurants or public spaces and has been very successful in returning some degree of normality to the country. Singapore are trialing a similar solution where the “Trace Together” app displays my vaccine status, possible exposure as well as test results. Very efficient.
Different countries, different traditions. The US seems quite opposed to federally enforcing vaccine registration and passports, yet they find it ok to conduct mass surveillance of its citizens (and foreigners). On the contrary, Germany have strict privacy laws; yet they push for digital vaccine passports.
Yeah the stuff was great when it existed _in addition_ to the existing stuff, not when it replaced them.
In China cicadas used to be held as pets, although never as popular as crickets. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
What should you do if a client asks you to implement something “extra”?
Way less carbon dioxide per joule produced, also, no sulfuric dioxide.
CVE-2020-7200: Critical HPE Vulnerability Now Patched
They put a tiny Cs vapor cell in there? That's pretty neat.