skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep hearing this thing about EVs not needing as much maintenance. Apparently nobody has looked at their maintenance schedule on their cars. Most cars don't need anything except a few oil changes by 100,000 miles. So many dealers throw in free oil changes now... and you can still have them done by Jiffy Lube if you want for about $50. People regularly hit 200k miles just doing oil changes, and changing out all the wear items that EV owners also have. If you can't afford the oil changes, you probably can't afford an EV either.

Brakes, coolant, tires, gearbox oils? Your EV still has all that. The power unit itself on an EV may be simpler, but mechanical failures in an engine in an ICE car are pretty damn rare. You're not servicing anything inside the engine, just like you're not taking apart the electric motor in your EV for maintenance.
Not a huge fan of the blog-post-by-twitter-thread pattern.. read the first 6 posts, the. Need to click to read more, then find out it's 50+? tweets long?

Might be interesting, but feels like the wrong format.
Yesterday I saw a strange artifact in a comment. Instead of the usual "[-]", I saw "[2 more]". Did not seem right.
You cannot make everyone happy
Anglophone millennials have a reputation for being humorless, self-righteous and fragile. Hopefully, this is untrue.
>> It goes both ways. Imagine Replit’s attorney going after OP. If OP didn’t take down the site, then suing them is going to be a huge expense & waste of time. Is Replit really gonna pay some corporate attorney $600-ish per hour to harass someone? You don’t even need a lawyer to show up in court and say “I’m a broke ass new grad, and these guys are trying to take down my website. I don’t even know why, but I’m dragging it out because I don’t like being bullied.”

You are really underestimating how petty a lot of people are. I was sued for way less than this and the company suing me stood to gain nothing. Companies often have lawyers on retainer for this reason.

You also underestimate the massive stress a lawsuit entails.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134049
If musk is to believed, (and I think he's on point with this), $50/kWh will likely come within the next 5 years.

So next 9 years? My expectation is beyond Tesla, the rest of the industry will have hit on that sub $50/kwh price point. That is going to make a lot of things really interesting. $2000 for a 30kWh home battery backup? Who wouldn't get one?

To further this, with climate change leading to more and more extreme weather, I'm expecting that power outages are going to be semi-common (assuming the grid doesn't invest in battery backup).
I also agree that a change is needed and I think you're probably right about the designers, but I was a little puzzled by the criticisms in your original comment. I would also enjoy cleaner designs possibly inspired by the Swiss (and I am nostalgic for the expressive and well-researched designs used in older versions of Windows -- though I was unimpressed at the time, everything that came afterward is really not to my taste). On iOS, I'm quite thankful for "Reduce Motion" and I recommend it (however, I have seen this setting break a few apps).
I like the rewards from my bank's credit card for the utilities I use and the purchases I make. I won't get those benefits with just any debit card.
U.S. seizes $2.3 mln in Bitcoin paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers
FALSE! FALSE FALSE FALSE! There are many, many circumstances in the US where the loser has to pay costs and attorneys fees. Like copyright infringement. https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#505
It isn’t necessarily critical, but it does get them a few things:

- Because their processors are so overpowered, their phones last a long time. This adds to the premium experience (e.g. put a 3 year old galaxy and a 3 year old iPhone side by side).

- Fast hardware lets them innovate on the edges; e.g. folks here don’t take AR seriously because they use androids and AR sucks on Android; the power just isn’t there to make it work well. 3 year old iPhone runs AR experience at 60fps no problems. Not many people use it daily, but if you need it, it is nice to have.

- Being able to sell 3 year old devices as new allows Apple to target multiple market segments without having to develop separate low end hardware. They don’t need iOS Go because all recent hardware can run iOS with a flagship like experience, even the low end SE. They also don’t take the reputation hit of selling a $400 device that doesn’t work well or runs ads on the Lock Screen to get a subsidy.

- By ensuring all components in their devices work to a minimum standard, they make the rest of the system look good. Example: compasses in android devices, even flagships, are of variable quality. No one ever writes reviews about the compass, so it goes unnoticed, but trying to get a mapping application working well on Android is an absolute nightmare by comparison. Similar situation applies to: GNSS receivers in phones, gyro/accelerometers, trackpads in laptops, haptics in phones and watches, screens on all devices, among others. They also benefit from being able to assume every recent device has a secure element and a UWB radio, among other features.

- They’re able to innovate through connection to other hardware in the ecosystem. Spatial audio seemed like a gimmic, but I’ve recently come around. It is amazing to have an almost theater-like experience watching Hulu on my iPad in the gym. Microsoft and Google can’t really do that because they don’t ship high-quality earbuds at anything like Apple’s scale/reach. Microsoft and Google can’t use my Watch to log in or authorize purchases because they don’t have a watch business (I mean google’s been trying, they might get somewhere with it someday). Microsoft can’t use their smart speaker as surround sound for the Xbox because they don’t sell a smart speaker. I count the integrations and broad business as part of Apple’s hardware advantage.
> confirm the phone is properly functioning

They could have the user unlock the phone in front of them without revealing the code to confirm this.
Are we really at YES NO YES NO discussion levels?
The only thing morally ambiguous here is the idea that a previous employer gets to somehow own everything you learned while in their employ in perpetuity and can decide whether you are allowed to try to make a living or not.

If he didn't directly copy code or steal IP or some amazing trade secrets that he contracted never to share, then there is nothing wrong either legally or ethically.
I shouldn't have to lie. They didn't accept my "No.", nor that my full legal name was "Donald Fauntleroy Duck", until the case got escalated.
Well there went the last 30 minutes of my life. Turns out I can sustain 86wpm which is better than I expected. Was fun. Thank you :)
They may have abandoned the actual page-rank scoring system (a quite specific implementation) without wholly abandoning the idea of using "who links to who" as a quality signal.
Packer Pushers Podcast on Cisco and NetBeez
> Most people have zero shots, or at best one, in them until they have to get back to paying their bills - and get stuck in the rat race forever. No access to credit, no chance of getting in front of a VC firm to pitch, etc.

I look at it like a baseball game. Most of us are stuck being spectators. We're perpetual employees, living paycheck to paycheck (the lucky ones saving a little) but we will never get to play in the major league. A few people are MLB players. They can afford to get one, maybe two at-bats during the game. If they miss, they're done. If they hit, they're heroes.

Then, you have the extremely lucky few who get infinite at-bats, due to being born into wealth. They swing, miss, fallback on their family, swing, miss, fall back, and so on until they finally swing, get a home run, then spend the rest of their life writing books about how to be talented at baseball.
Exactly. The biggest mistake engineers make is thinking non-technical people think the way they do. They don’t.

Everyone else is thinking about getting new customers, and mostly with new features.

They only love to get into the details when product market fit is not working and they need to buy some time and get the investors off their back by justifying some large technical rewrite.
Well, then earth and life is a fairy tale.
Not sure if it's a lie or not, but region specific constraints should be frequent enough to warrant automatic testing?
Same here. :-)
Why would Apple be afraid of patent trolls? If they wanted to release it as an open-specification, they could.
We tried this and a few other tools, but we ended up with PDF2XL[1] (which works on everything, not just tables).

It's pretty ugly and not cheap, but the data extraction is absolutely magical.

I very rarely feel joy and excitement when using a tool, especially a PDF-related tool, but it saved our dev team at least 100 hours when we first used it. We have it as an automated part of one of our client flows and they happily pay us way more than they should.

1. https://pdf2xl.com/
I don't think they need to resort to clickbait articles.

Dmitry Sklyarov is the same guy that 20 years ago was arrested by the FBI for DMCA violations when visiting the US because he, despite being a Russian citizen working for a Russian company (there's no DMCA in Russia), wrote a software that circumvented Adobe e-books copy protection.
Had social media been around back then, #freedmitry would have been a trending hashtag like all similarly named sites that spawned shortly after the arrest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
> the current spelling of Monterey, California seems to be one of the variations in use locally at the time of the invasion

Seems unlikely as the /rr/ sound and orthography comes from the Latin, before Spanish even existed.
I only switched Google Analytics off last week! I had it on for the whole time before and it made no difference.
US investigators recover the majority of ransom Colonial Pipeline paid hackers
Besides applying security patches, what exactly has needed to be changed in the HN codebase over the last 14 years? Featurewise, it's been essentially static for its whole existence (which is a large part of its appeal to many, including myself).
Is there any evidence regarding that “First Man” anecdote? I remember this being a big thing in the conservative culture sphere in at the time but it seems like a manufactured controversy. Are there not American flags in all manner of big blockbusters that do huge numbers in China? The character “Captain America” doesn’t seem to have stopped the MCU movies from succeeding there. The whole thing feels like people just looking to get angry about something.
We're terrible at bayesian logic all right, but still better than machines lacking most of the data picture. That's why the priority is not to push lab model efficiency but to push for policy changes that encourage sensible gathering of data. And that's _far_ more difficult than theorizing about model efficiency vs. humans.
A versioned filesystem is not reversible (since the pre-reversion version would still exist, only the new version will have the reversion). In that sense it's like normal blockchain where you can append an equal and opposite transaction (so final state looks like a reversion).
I think it's certainly a lie. Even if what they mean is "We accidentally censored in more locales than we wanted" they are lying by trying to conceal what happened rather than reveal it with misleading statements. Microsoft is censoring search results at either the explicit or implicit request of China. It's despicable.
NGS (Illumina style) is high enough quality to identify mutations. You can get a whole human genome for as little as 150 Euros (Dante labs has an offer at this price in 2020). Much cheaper per genome than suggested in the post, and you just send in the sample.

To get a comparable genome using the method suggested in the blog post will be much much expensive, in part because you have to buy all the equipment. But also because it’s Nanopore sequencing which has a much higher baseline error rate.
And had a part in The Disaster Artist.
It's crazy how a little bit of money can turn people into jerks.
It is extremely unlikely that there was no NDA. I've literally only ever had one job that didn't make me sign an NDA, and the company had a whopping <10 employees.
This is blaming users for something they shouldn't have to do. The onus should be on manufacturers to keep private data private by default. And also to sell systems that make it easy for repair shops to back up and restore private data without braking the privacy.

You can't start with "It just works" and then add "As long as you spend hours backing up and restoring your data before you can send it in for repairs, just - you know - in case."

Maybe the millions that were paid out will make Apple think about a more user-oriented solution.
Show HN: Creative, toddler app that encourages kids to think for themselves
I was paying cash. In my country you do not give any details when paying with card, you simply pay and you are on your way.
We made an app that’s filled with digital toys for kids to discover. There are no rules, menus or language at all. No right or wrong way to play. It’s called Pok Pok Playroom.

The story: my co-founders have toddlers and wanted them to have a healthy relationship with their iPad, but found most preschool apps didn’t develop skills beyond memorization. While it’s important for kids to learn academic curriculum, we think that one of the most important skills in the future won’t be something you can learn doing repetitive learning drills: creative thinking. Together, we created an app filled with open-ended toys that spark creativity, imagination and learning to prepare kids for life, not just for school.

Would love to hear what you all think. There’s a 2 week free trial.
Only available on iOS/iPadOS.

It’s for kids 2-6 (and older).
FWIW, my experience has been that, if you're trying to build a system that works in tight coordination with humans, you're better off sticking to algorithms that are 40-80 years old. Save some energy for dealing with the part that's actually hard.
The comments from DarkSide hint that law enforcement requested access to the payment server and transferred from there.

https://twitter.com/BleepinComputer/status/13932171157008302...
Ive seen them on ebay for $850. Seem premium too. From a company that has been around for 12 years.

I wanted to get one for my boat, but they are the wrong size. They seem to make them longer, instead of wider, so can't drop in replace the 2x100ah I have now.
Looks like Amjad doubled down on this:
https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401957368510906369
Internet centralization: is big necessarily bad?
the old [withdrawn] paper apparantly was withdrawn, due to manipulation of data.

there is the issue of sequence similarity, not only to some domains of an HIV protien, but also similarity to a number of other entities. it was this paper that drove the misinfo regarding 2019-CoV being chimeric with HIV [UNTRUE]

one must take convergent selection into account. this means many unrelated organisms evolve the same solution to a problem because it is the only solution to the problem that doesnt produce disadvantage.

i took a look at Steven Quays back story , and it is not to his credit regarding any declaration about the origin of 2019-CoV. his research consists of a bayesian analysis of sequence data, no wet work is produced.

the paper in question here:

https://zenodo.org/record/4642956

is not published in an accredited journal, despite modifications.

this smells like duck seems to walk like a duck, i have yet to recieve any corresponence so i dont know if it sounds like a duck, but im hunching it would.

there is more to this, but i think the direction this is going should be implict by now.
It was some years ago, I haven't been back since.
Not plugging to promote it, just to call attention to a design pattern I used in my 34-key layout (same number as the author's) that made it less hellish to learn (albeit, one has to know dvorak, but it's probably adaptable to something more intuitive.) The layout has two layer keys that can be used together to switch between 4 layers in total, with the default one being dvorak alphas, the left one being Mods for modifiers, the right one being Nums for numbers, and combined Mods and Nums for extra modifiers. Here's an except from the readme:

Hold Mods + Tap E = Enter

Hold Mods + Hold Nums + Tap E = Escape

Hold Mods + Tap B = Backspace

Hold Mods + Tap D = Delete

Hold Mods + Tap T = Tab

So I found this was very easy to adapt to because the most important modifiers are in places that are very intuitively memorized. It's something to consider if you want to go down this road.

Link: https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/_sb4dv/keyb...
> * Mac Mini Late 2014 - Haswell 4th gen CPU and GPU - supported (this came out the same day as aforementioned iMac)

Apple's support policies have historically been tied to the notions of vintage/obsolete hardware, see https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201624. Notably, the timer starts on the last day the product was available for sale, not the first day the product was available for sale.
How? Looks like Darkside transferred the money to an exchange (Coinbase?), didn't hide it well enough, and the FBI just grabbed it?
I fail to see how "you can't copy our product" is the same as "restrain[ing] from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind".

(That also says nothing about whether such a contract has or has not been signed by the relevant parties.)
And indeed: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401957368510906369
Tangentially related: My personal opinion is that github UI should make it bloody obvious by default "this project does not provide support." Maybe even with the issue tracker disabled by default.

There's a kind of pressure that can come from an unsolicited email of a real human explaining how your project is broken for them.
The first commercial/mass produced lithium ion batteries came out in exactly 1991 as a matter of fact! They were used in a Sony camera.
Ok thanks (replying to both). I thought I was being super-charitable asking for evidence instead of just downvoting, flagging and perhaps complaining. I don't hear any charitable interpretation applied to me, rather telling me I was the one exaggerating here!

I'm not in the USA, like about 50% of HN, and know very little about the subjects, so asked only about the HN-part of the claim, that

> a lot of HN ... seem to be fighting to the death for the right to spread holocaust denialism and misinformation.

How many comments or HN users until you get to reasonably call them "a lot"? What percentage? What if it's actually 0.0001%? How bad the "holocaust denialism and misinformation" before "fighting to the death for the right to spread it" is reasonable? Especially in a comment particularly targeting misinformation, such extreme hyperbole and writing like that apparently breaks the guidelines in a lot of ways.

Also, being charitable, different people read different parts of HN, maybe the GP reads mostly the political topics with disgusting comments, and "a lot of HN ... seem to be fighting to the death for the right to spread holocaust denialism and misinformation" is reasonable. UH but no, it's ridiculous exaggeration, is precisely an area such a thing is not helpful, even on a very charitable interpretation. "Fighting to the death" really means literally that, or anything like it? or..just writing one or a few comments on HN?

So, what would you or anyone say the "strongest plausible interpretation" of "a lot of HN ... seem to be fighting to the death for the right to spread holocaust denialism and misinformation" is? (genuine question) I'm struggling to give it any remotely plausible interpretation, even assuming it's extreme exaggeration. Even in the "strongest plausible interpretation", though, it seems to me, drastically changing the meaning of most of its words in favour of the writer, the comment is still hysterical, break a lot of guidelines[0], and is itself misinformation.

Edit: Sorry, I should have had morning coffee before writing above comment. (Also I have the flu!) I reread your comment, you seem to be saying that you thought the GP was trying to say in essence "a lot of people on HN support total free speech" (or whatever you want to call that, if it even makes sense). OK! That does make some sense. But still, describing that as "fighting to the death for the right to spread holocaust denialism and misinformation" seems the kind of writing that regularly gets people banned from HN. It still breaks the same guidelines. Thank you, much appreciated!

[0] You know, like Please don't fulminate, Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive., Eschew flamebait., Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. etc
where's that sweet sweet transaction graph?
Not really honestly. I mean, I thought the microcode update is done by the firmware and/or the OS on boot. Assuming that's correct, whether it's performed or not is entirely dictated by those entities... not by anything related to the CPU. It's like saying "I'm moving to New York" just because there's a car that drives you there from New Jersey every day. And if you really want to call that 'persistent', I'm not sure how one might have a non-persistent update in that case?
OP did take the project offline - which shows there is at least some doubt in his own mind.
If the number of users has grown over the last 14 years, I'm sure some of the code areas have needed to be tuned over 14 years as well.
Oh, I also have a physics background, and I have been waiting for CDF type ideas to become mainstream for almost 10 years now since I finished at MIT and first asked about the iPad to Wolfram’s team.

Obviously, digital documents of the future will have graphs and data that can be manipulated while standing and sharing, and it could be done now if Apple would flip a few bits and remove some restrictions.

It is an exciting future for communication and information exchange, and I’m sure this will happen as people catch up to how great of a user experience that would be (versus sitting and reading documents and manipulating plots on a desktop or laptop) - especially in a noisy environment where standing and movement are necessary.
> fee-for-service model for Radiology

It's not exactly a fee for service model that's the problem. It's the monopoly over the supply of labor.

Any business and union that manages to get its competition outlawed is guaranteed to abuse that position.
Yeah, people aren't rational. But when people start behaving dangerously (making legal threats, etc), I think they ought to be acting rationally — especially if they're in a position of power.

So when a CEO makes legal threats against some random dev's side project, seemingly out of a sense of entitlement to the very idea of a polyglot code sandbox, I'm going to be pretty harsh.
Yikes, should I have shown more discretion in naming the competitor?
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