skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you insane? EVs don't increase energy useage. It shift energy usage from pure fossil fuels to a mix of fossil fuels, renewables and nuclear energy. Renewables are growing way faster than fossil fuels now, so by the time EVs is really starting to add demand to electricity production, most of that will be renewable.

If you add up all the electricity needed to refine, transport and pump fuel, you end up with a decent percentage of that needed to drive an EV anyway.

What's more, EVs have several other benefits to society. They're more quiet, there's less local pollution, you can save millions on reduced ventilation in tunnels, etc. These are objective benefits.

The benefits of cryptocurrency in a modern democracy is mostly subjective and speculative at the moment. So far it seems to be purely a speculative investment object, sometimes pure gambling and scams. I'm not saying I don't think cryptocurrency can be a good thing in the end, I just don't think Bitcoin is it. IMO exchanges should be banned from trading purely speculative PoW cryptocurrencies with no guaranteed reserves behind them. (Ethereum 2.0 or stable-coins are OK in my view)

> Money uses lots of electric

Traditional digital money uses several orders of magnitude less electricity. So the "replacement" is just simply worse in this regard.

Yes, I've heard some idiotic claims that traditional banking uses more resources, but this generally includes cash and things like investment banking, which is not what Bitcoin is replacing. Personally I don't use cash at all anymore anyway.

> Is electricity 100% powered by renewables yet?

Irrelevant. We can't transition to 100% renewables first, and only then start building EVs. That'll take too much time. We develop both in parallel and aim at hitting 100% renewables and 100% EVs around the same time.

> But, if it's anything similar to the IPv4 to IPv6 transition we have a few decades yet.

IPv6 didn't offer enough benefits until we started running out of IPv4 addresses. The benefits of EVs are massive to society as a whole. Yes, there are infrastructure challenges, but they're simpler. A lot of people can transition just by plugging in in their garage.

Norway went from ~0% sale of electric cars to over 50% (~75% with PHEV) in just 10 years. And that's with way more primitive infrastructure, and really crappy EVs for the first 7 of those 10 years. Even from 2016 - when our HOA prepared the garage for EVs - until now, the solutions are just so much better. Used to be you needed an individual circuit from the circuit box to each charger. Now you just have one shared channel where you can connect a charging station at any point along it. When we got our EV in 2015, 50kW fast charging was the highest. Now there's 350kW fast chargers. Even my tiny local supermarket has two 150kW fast chargers.

No, I'm in the camp that this transition will happen surprisingly fast. It already has in Norway. It'll probably be faster in many other countries since EVs and infrastructure tech is so much better now. I think the transition from feature phones to smart phones (after the iPhone was launched) is a better comparison.
Chrome does superficial ui updates way less than Firefox. One of them got the priority right. Honestly these kinds of change can be welcomed by some people and not by some others, I personally don't like that thick ass tab bar.
The “pay for it once, own it forever” is appealing. However. I think recent engineering has shown this to be unsustainable. My initial thought was “they don’t plan to update this; no point buying in”.
Obviously, people are different. Some people prefer to work from an office (like me) just because you get to spend time with people (I live alone). Me and my teammates also become more efficient when we work together in the same physical space than remotely (we've tried bunch of things like perpetual video calls, among other things). We all live in the same city, the longest commute in our team is ~30 minutes, but we all feel like it's worth it to go to the same physical space and work together instead.

Unless you live outside big cities, I'm not sure if 2 hours of commute is that common (at least with my South West European perspective, maybe is different in the US/elsewhere?).
IBM's technical guide also says it's eDRAM

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248851.pdf
Or, you know, it's may be by design? There are n number of countries where you'll be deported immediately if you don't have the right documents, precisely to discourage the kind of challenges you mentioned. The only difference between those countries and the EU is that they actually enforce their laws almost immediately while the EU (and to an extent, the US) don't. A fixed address is practically required in any part of the world to avail of government services, insurance, healthcare and banks, from Mozambique to Monaco.
I'm not interested in the redesigned UI and this just might push me over the fence to the Nyxt browser.
FWIW, I encountered quite a few bugs in the initial Fenix versions, but I've found that they've managed to get rid of most of the bugs now.

This should be less drastic, as Fenix was a complete rewrite. Whereas this seems more of an incremental update to the styling.
Nerves is based on the Buildroot distribution of Linux and will never be able to run on an ESP32 nor any other microcontroller that lacks MMU.
Multi-account containers are awesome: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Also good to keep non-chrome browsers alive.
Technically the unit quaterions are not Spin(3), but only isomorphic to it, they are properly Sp(1) = GL(1, H). It's all fuzzy because the low dimensional classical groups are all isomorphic to each other: SU(2) ~ Sp(1) ~ Spin(3).
> Work blends into life and it is very hard to keep it from. This gets worse depending on the company/role but in general these things tend to go the employers way not yours.

Am I one of the few that sees this as an enormous benefit? Work becomes a series of tasks I need to achieve throughout the day, like all the other tasks like laundry and doctors appointments.

I get to restructure what I need to do in a way that suits me best. I can push code at 11PM and go for a nap at 4PM if I choose (assuming no meetings).

Then my life isn't segmented into exclusive blocks. It is just one seamless integrated life.
I encourage anyone with enough interest in this matter to read "Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact" and "The Invisible College" by Jacques Vallée. Vallée is an astrophysicist and computer scientist who spent a solid chunk of his life studying UFOs.

In Confrontation, he describe his try to find proofs that UFOs are from an ET origin, only to be swallowed in a maelstrom of cults, governement disinfo campaigns, high-strangeness, bullshit artists, and all around memetic pollution making the field opaque to scientific inquiry. The conclusion of this book is that studying UFOs is not a scientific problem as much as an intelligence one, where getting access to reliable data is almost impossible.

In the Invisible College, he provides a lot of data compiled by him and peers from UFO encounters cases he studied, most of them never appearing in the media for preventing witness testimony contamination, and show that this data doesn't fit any simple to digest narrative, such as "aliens", the psychosocial hypothesis or "advanced human tech prototypes".
I too am not sure what these buzzword means. To me, however, it looks company culture bullshit is controlling my time instead of work. So this way they can keep me feeling guilty if I take break, go to doctor's appointment, or myriad little bit of things when there is no work/meeting pending. If it were just about work that'd be done well within reasonable and agreed upon timelines.

The hilarious thing about office for me was most meeting including daily morning meetings still happen over webex. So nothing of that in-place collaboration crap.

We even had those staged bullshit videos with management where they tried to show how they were in office during pandemic. Basically if they can manage to work from office with their executive compensation then anyone with 1/10th or 1/100th of salary should be able to do that.
I think 34/35 is when I began to notice actual age related differences - relatively small things like not being able to take it for granted that your sore back will be good tomorrow and I'd accrued enough general injuries over time that they were noticeable and compounding - sore/weak knee from a car accident, stiff shoulder from a motorcycle crash, etc.

When you're 35, 35 feels pretty old compared to the personal status quo.
It isn't possible to upgrade every HVAC system in the country in one year. there are not enough HVAC people in any country to do it.

What is possible is a 30 year plan. Between new buildings getting the new codes, and remodeling for best practices we can get 75% of all buildings to updated HVAC over 30 years, and we have reason to believe that will make a big difference to colds and flus.
Yeah, though apparently they have a tendency to slowly leak and cause the parts to fail - very limited lifespan.
open-minded and critical thinking skills are orthogonal.
I found an excuse to learn PIO in sampling linear CCD sensor. The gist of it is: sensor needs accurate (us) shutter signal, then a strobe on another signal to start clocking the data out. On each clock you'd like to acquire an ADC sample (but ADC sampling should happen some time after clock edge, as that's when the sensor changes it's output multiplexer to select next pixel).

Doable to solve on an STM32 by bitbanging, but PIO makes more elegant solution (start the PIO program, read acquired samples via DMA).
Still can't use it. The tabs have the close button on the wrong side, for me as a Mac user. And yes, this is a serious issue. So far Opera and Vivaldi got it right. Brave and Firefox lack behind here.
We've got a good 15-20 years before EV density becomes an issue in most countries.

Japan, with their 1-phase 110V network won't be converting to EVs soon.

But here in the Nordics pretty much every house has 3-phase 230V and already wired for electric saunas and multi-kilowatt heaters. Adding a plug to charge an EV is a non-issue.
In the US maybe. Certainly not in Europe.
Is this Max/MSP for JSON? Pretty cool!
I've been using it for a while now with Firefox developer edition and I can't figure out a reason why it was done. Does it give a new look? Sure, but I too don't know if anything was made better because of it.
The radar issue is discussed in the video. What he says is entirely accurate. Despite how capable these radars are, they don't prevent the operator doing the equivalent of asking the wrong question.

Eyewitness testimony, even from experts, is notoriously unreliable. However everything in the testimonies so far is consistent with misunderstanding parallax.
Facetime or Hangout with a personal account.

Also, a lot of people at my work are on Discord. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the common channel for semi-private employee chats.
I stopped updating firefox on version 74 since the UI became unusably bad (it was already bad at 74, even with my userchrome.css hacks, but it went over the edge to unusable at 75).

They need to separate out the UI updates from the the rest of it. Then they'd actually have a browser for people.
San Jose to Mountain View commute
Ali v0.7.0 – HTTP load testing tool that comes with a time-series DB
But IIUC you would at least need to pass the heat of the CPU though the RAM. So if you want to keep a lot of memory near the CPU you are at the very least adding some sort of "blanket" between the heat source and the heat sink.
If open mindedness is a weakness, then you’re talking about something else.

Conspiracy theories have nothing to do with open mindedness. The latter is about asking questions, not outright rejecting established ideas.
My 15 mile commute has reached 45 minutes and withing the next couple years it will be 60 minutes. American cities have given up on public transportaion and infrastructrure and are crumbling under the weight of capitalism.
A 2-hour round trip commute is insane.

Let's look at a 1-hour round trip commute assuming 240 working days per year. This means 240 hours gone in a year to your commute. That's 10 full whole days. A 2-hour round trip commute means 20 full whole days... almost a whole month gone. 3-hour round trip commute = 30 full days.. and so on.
"Company culture" has always been an elusive thing for me. The more you try to be specific about it, the more the generalist corp-speak terms shimmer, flutter and dissolve into nothing. The only places where there was some "culture" (in my experience) were some of the tiny startups I worked at. Nobody talked it up, it just existed.

So my rule of thumb for that is, if they're talking about Corporate Culture, it means there is none.
Maybe they're just trolling us for pure entertainment. I imagine it would get boring up there for them, silently watching an intellectually inferior lifeform day after day.
Early movers will snatch up the currently open remote positions. If remote really becomes the standard then companies who want to remain competitive will have no choice but to adapt and adjust policies.
> I'm not sure writing a blog post or tweet is displaying the necessary levels of sensitivity (at least on an interpersonal level) to meet this criteria.

This is an unnecessary dig on the author, and is just a bit pompous. I would counter: writing a blog post on the loss of a close friend and exploring how and why for them and in society at large; displays a high level of introspection, self awareness, and a mature relationship with their emotions. When anger and blame are the typical reactions for such an outcome, it was a mature and reasoned exploration.
Why no more icons in menus? :(
So this is a shameless bit of marketing collateral but I also learned from it. I hadn't heard of Toit before.
Firefox 89 Total Cookie Protection
I Launched my Product on Reddit to get 1,500 Sign-ups and 300k Page-views
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Anyone here has experience with Xeon Phi (Knights landing) processor which had 16GB L4 cache. Was it useful.
Too bad that Intel botched up their process tech, and this line of processors had to be stopped.
If you dig into the UFO reports out there - most of which are much less detailed and documented, but also more various and flat out weird than the ones the Pentagon is giving the thumbs up to - then you start to see parallels and linkage with reports of cryptids, with ghosts and spirits, and with fairies and other historical folklore critters. The "ETs in nuts-and-bolts spaceships with a Prime Directive" hypothesis doesn't really hold up as a general explanation for a number of reasons. But that leaves a much stranger and more confusing phenomenon.
A World First – Using Rice Hulls to Solve Water Scarcity
Scientific analysis of why the "it's probably not extraordinary" claim on the Navy sensor data is bullshit:

ESTIMATING FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS OF ANOMALOUS UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL VEHICLES[0]

More like that: https://www.explorescu.org/publications

[0]: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/10/939
Meat producer JBS USA suffers cyberattack
> "We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use."

Why does the UI change with every single Firefox release? I find myself having to re-adjust every time a new update is shipped.

What's wrong with having a consistent experience that survives for more than 6 months? It's just a URL bar, and a bunch of tabs. Just leave it be already.
Probably an outlier but I've had a 90 minute commute through some combination of car and transit in the past and an hour or so (so 2 hours per day) is very common, especially if you're commuting into a city from suburbs/exurbs.
The culture of all companies is a hierarchy of power and control. Any time the status quo changes those who gain the most from it like JP Morgan will fight against it for no other reason than the status quo being good for them.

Company culture is just a way of saying we want to control you out of work and we want you to like it.
How do you disable the tab bar?
Smart Grids have been a thing for a good 20 years now. They're actually a reality in many many countries, people just don't know it since it doesn't affect their everyday lives in any way.

Mostly issues about EV charging aren't technical, but political.
Even processors don't always actually have the capability of doing math on 64 bit numbers, in general, because they're nonsensically large.
It can't download the video in the same sense that I can't expect to point YouTube-dl at a Netflix URL and have it download that. You need to login.
> Chrome does superficial ui updates way less than Firefox. One of them got the priority right.

Yeah, why change how things look when you've got data to harvest?

But really I agree, the look is definitely not an improvement.
> gossip is generally a net negative in the workplace that tends to build cliques and factions that often manifest in a bigger problem

It isn’t useful at lower levels. It’s pretty much the definition of senior management. I wouldn’t have wanted to discuss replacing a senior person, whom I found to be ineffective, on corporate Zoom, for example. That said, temporary hierarchical rigidity and some people explicitly opting out of the promotion race isn’t a bad thing.
In MBA speak, company culture is a euphemism for median tenure / employee churn rate.

Remote work lowers switching costs for employees, and makes it harder to distribute and monitor the consumption of corporate “sweeteners”.

It tilts favor in the direction of companies that are actually fulfilling to work for, and not merely “sticky” (in the high fructose corn syrup way). I think executives are right to be worried, to the extent they fall in the latter camp.

As to why they’re worried about it: if you have high churn, it means your training costs and hiring costs are much higher. And this directly impacts profitability and productivity, which like you say is what they “actually” care about.
Anyone remembers these old Win 95-era programs that faked tabs and tab panes by having a number of buttons in a row and switching the content of the pane below? The new tab bar certainly gives off these vibes. :/
Because "designers".

I'm absolutely sick of this trend of dumbing-down lowest-common-denominator UI, removing useful features and affordances for learning. Insanely huge buttons, rounded corners everywhere, floating controls in a sea-of-white/blackspace...

On the bright side, I believe the UI is still highly customisable so it should be possible to make it look exactly as you want, but it's not exactly straightforward.
The UFOs Arent News
There is (yet another) aspect that the author didn't cover: internalized rejection.

Imagine you burn out during college, so you pivot and get a professional certification instead. You pass the exam and have the certificate in hand, and you start looking for jobs. You scroll and scroll through indeed, glassdoor, the job sites for the organizations that would hire someone with your certification and training, and...
they all require that degree you don't have. They all require N years of experience that you haven't gotten.

How many visits like this does it take before you stop looking altogether?
Agreed; 7-figures is part vanity metric and part value realization exercise. There is a path to it that preserves his lifestyle. Getting to a few million in the bank would allow him to live off the interest for the remainder of his life, provided he invests it well.

Regarding his risks on going it solo, you're spot on! In his AMA he called out attempting to hire but pulled back afterwards. I'm assuming it was a poor hire so I'd focus on learning what went wrong and trying it again. Even at just a couple employees, he could grow while preserving his massive profit margin and gain the ability to take time away or weather an illness or family mishaps.

He even mentioned he maintains a full-time job to hedge his bets. If he's keeping it because he wants benefits, I'd think it would make more sense to invest in those himself. If he's keeping it because the work is minimal and the reward (pay) is high enough to offset the revenue from what X number of additional clients would generate, I'd say that could make sense as well. Very specific circumstances.
if there is a new vaccine required or some follow up procedure or whatever it would make more sense to hand out a new certificate that validates this fact instead of revoking the old one that is actually still perfectly able to validate your previous actions. In fact it might be very beneficial to keep them around to give approval to another step like lets say you will only get that booster shot after you are able to present validation of your vaccination or similar... invalidating these certificates by giving them a date until they are valid is very easy without explicitly revoking certificates.
Well for a one hour commute, you lose 2 hours of your day. That's massive and equals around 1/8 to 1/9 of your time awake depending on your sleeping habits.
2 hrs each way is 4 hrs per day.
I don't think that democracy is not synonymous with a 51% majority. There's super-majorities, consensus, and unanimous votes.

A lot of people who strongly believe in democracy (real democracy) don't believe that 51% of the people should be allowed to impose their views on the other 49%. That can lead to big problems. They would say to keep talking, negotiating, and compromising, and that it you can't reach consensus then the proposal should not be passed.
Thank you for this. While searching I also found `browser.uidensity`. Setting it to 1 makes the whole UI more compact, which gives some more vertical pixels for the website window.
What are the typical use-cases for things like this?

I've used Paw and Postman in the past, but never for more than 2 endpoints in one go, never for more than an hour or so in one session. I've only ever got value out of them as "slightly quicker than a Python notebook" solutions for testing out a hypothesis.

The only other thing I can think of is maybe as a way to pass the understanding of an API's nuances from one developer to another, but I've never needed to do that at any higher level than writing the one-weird-trick to make it work into an email to pass on that knowledge.
You may want to reconsider this.

Over use will cause your threshold of normal to be far lower than normal as you will have retrained your hearing to perceive when ANC on = normal. Then when ANC off = everything will be too loud.
Everything.
yeah honestly I don't understand why they don't just freeze the UI and focus on some privacy incentives, that's what end users care as well as where VC money is.
Aside from the massively misleading HN title, I don't see the point of replacing one machine language with another machine language. Even if the latter is a virtual machine language.

The microcontrollers you would use this on (i.e. not the absolute bottom end, which would be too slow for a VM) may not have a MMU, but they do have a MPU. That's enough to get process isolation. And implementing relocation to load an ELF image isn't rocket science.

Also, I'd like to point out the billions of embedded systems implementing safety critical functions like huge industrial robot controls, or the brakes in your car. They're all built (and certified) without a VM. As a matter of fact, the VM would probably make them fail certification, unless it is specified and verified itself to a very fine degree.
Can we keep human inconsistency from confusing expert advice?
Check out the slicing pie model if you are unsure.
It's the plugins and the possibilities they bring that makes Firefox great. It means that you aren't held hostage by Google and whatever their corporate goals for the quarter might be, that you can customize Firefox to fit your needs.
Sounds like it'll be similar to BankId[1] but for all of Europe instead of just Sweden. I like it! Hopefully someone will make swish[2] for the rest of Europe shortly afterwards!

[1]https://www.bankid.com/en

[2]https://www.swish.nu/