skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought an EV with a 220-ish mile range, but that's really a 160ish mile range given fast charge craps out at 80%.

I drove it ~900 miles and I had to recharge seven times. This added 3.5 to 4 hours to the trip. I'd say the first 2 of those were good for my mental health but the remaining 90 minutes were spent at broken charging stations with low charging rates or just broken.

Love the car, hate the current charging infrastructure. And the anxiety induced when power drops below 20% and you're approaching the next charger sucks, doubly so when you get there and it's broken and now you have to find another fast charger before you run out of juice.

There's fancy route planning software (ABRP for example) that will try to minimize charging times and total travel time but it seems to make the assumption that you will always hit a perfectly functional fast charger and it doesn't seem to take weather into account.

I was averaging 3 to 3.5 miles per kWh until I approached the Bay area in 100+ degree weather and it dropped to 2 miles per kWh.

Fortunately having been burned many times already (every single Fred Meyer seemed to have a broken charger for example but the navigation software kept directing me to them), I had instituted a hard rule to always charge to 80%. So I made it to Richmond and the next charger before I ran out of power. America's clean electrical future remains a work in progress.

So what you really seem to need is about ~400 miles of range which translates to ~300 miles of range at an 80% charge or so. I think we're getting there.
Digitize analog cassettes (VHS or 8mm) with Linux
Melbourne U, Facebook and Twitter Expose Novel Numerical Errors in NMT Systems
Isn’t it like dieting? What I mean is that digital escapism is a symptom, not a problem. Before social media existed, people used to fill up their time with:
1) Having many children
2) Watching TV
3) Excessive alcohol use etc.

Media addiction is a manifestation of something, not the root cause.
This is interesting. It will certainly give a boost to Meson, which is in part a better CMake (the compilation model is very similar). It probably makes a lot of sense for SciPy given the alternatives, but from an ecosystem perspective it's not clear whether it is better enough to justify the churn. For example, caching seems like a secondary concern and outsourced to Linux-specific technologies. This is unfortunate given the implications of build time for individual and team (CI) productivity, as well as the environmental considerations of redundant compilation at scale.

I haven't followed Meson closely in about 3 years, but I also got the sense that Windows support sometimes lagged. If that's true, it's going to be a tough sell for the many large C++ projects who adopted CMake almost exclusively due to its support for Windows and Visual Studio.
Obviously they did. That's what the new guy is competing with.
What about my freedom not to be plowed into by some half-asleep yahoo? Really you can cast an argument for anything at all in terms of freedom if you want.
It's not really corruption unless it's for personal gain.
Fluffychat is mentioned a lot here as a good UI/UX alternative to Element. Just wanted to bring up another that I'm working on called Syphon. It's not at the stage where it can compete with Fluffychat in terms of spec parity or maturity, but I think it's worth discussing as an effort.

https://syphon.org

https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon

Like I said, it's still very much in Alpha and needs quite a bit of work, but the UX flows and design have been well received by others. Though there is an opinionated default UX and design paradigm, there is a focus is to make everything customizable and the theming options are growing over every release.

The goal is to eventually find a sweet spot between Discord and Signal and bridge the gap to Matrix between those communities.

I have a demanding day job and other obligations that keep me busy, but I spend nearly all my free time and every vacation in the last year working on this project. We're constantly looking for other contributors and there's several other ways to help including donations. Feel free to join the official room for updates to track progress and please feel free to reach out with feedback!

https://matrix.to/#/#syphon:matrix.org

Additionally, I just merged Multi-account support this week and it will be in the next release. Not sure of any other Matrix client that has this feature, so there's some unique features that we're focusing on to set it apart.
Here is a good high level slide deck on z/OS 2.5 new features: https://github.com/IBM/IBM-Z-zOS/blob/main/zOS-Education/zOS...

It starts out with the marketing buzzwords but then drills down into the technical nitty-gritty. In terms of what the "AI" stuff actually means, one answer is contained on slide 121 – support for running Tensorflow and ONNX inside a Linux Docker container using zCX (which lets you run z/Linux Docker containers under z/OS). The zCX SIMD support referenced on slide 102 is probably highly relevant to this.
> The industry is a perfect example of the rampant "consultant effect", where people create massively complicated stacks that often don't accomplish anything that their forebears couldn't manage, and then get paid bloated salaries for mastering the tools and workflows that are ostensibly meant to solve the very problems that they are responsible for foisting onto the world in the first place.

Organizations want to buy a solution to their problem instead of reorganizing themselves to develop the fundamentals required to not have the problem. It's like managing your back-pain with pain killers without actually doing any physical therapy or lifestyle changes to fix your body mechanics. It's a temporary solution that puts you on a ladder to needing ever more intensive interventions.
Some software was written for Mainframes that effectively NEVER reboots. So you have to modify it to support reboots easily, but it was written in COBOL or and old version of C and compiled with an old compiler. So it isn't that easy to fix.
I'd parse that as customers which have mainframes are also doing hybrid cloud. They don't overtly state that the mainframe workloads are going to cloud, just that some number of customers who have mainframes also have cloud workloads, and that number will probably be bigger than it was before.

When dealing with IBM, it's always safest to assume the weaseleiest interpretation of their weasel words.
Tesla should make a trailer with a huge battery in it for those with range anxiety for camping trips etc. You could haul your gear and never charge that way.
I'd love to do mainframe development. Sounds like it would be fun. I could never afford one though and my industry doesn't use them either. Uptimes of decades is seriously impressive.
Why did you think they keep pushing hydrogen fuel cells as the future? They know we're no where close to solving that problem, and if they ever do, the oil industry owns all the relevant patents. This is a simple case of the currently rich caring more about staying rich than if all the infrastructure collapses. A few of them believe the apocalypse is coming, and actually believe they can arrange matters so that they can control the remaining population'access to food and water after it happens, allowing them to become regional dictators. It's a lot of blind stupidity from idiots with inherited wealth. We should seriously consider upping the inheritance taxes to 100% for any amount over $5 million. The founders put that tax in place specifically to try and prevent idiots from inheriting extreme wealth they could never have earned through thier own efforts. Any argument that the US is a meritocracy kind of falls apart as soon as you consider that small, but extremely consequential point.
Olympians Who Were Head of State
I think we'll see this issues solved by on-street charging, at work charging, or at shop charging.

Here in the UK there are significant incentives for employers to put in car chargers, and councils in cities and towns are installing on street charging at a hell of a rate. In addition we now have big grocers providing free car charging in their car parks to provide a competitive advantage.

So in short, people may not be able to charge at home. But in the near future they'll be able to charge at every destination, so really won't need at-home charging any more (not to mention destination chargers are frequently used as loss-leaders and thus free to use). After all, what's the point of having a car if it's just gonna sit in your drive way 24/7.
Spinners versus Skeletons in the Battle of Hasting
A technical article where we examine how to identify intermediate states while loading using React Suspense. We tried to explain which method is the best when you’re faced with data load.
Hopefully this gains traction, but it can't be with a "dousign" type signature that has no legal validity. We should champion Qualified Electronic Signatures
I'm just tired of "commuter" EVs that don't have enough range for my 30-minute commute (17 miles each way).

I'd need at least a 60 mile range to be able to get to the farthest reaches of the nearest city and back. That seems to put me in Tesla territory, and the price doesn't make sense for the purpose.
There are many organizations (worldwide) that deal with digital addictions; it might be worth reaching out to them as well, or getting known in those circles.
Seed Accelerators
If you’re doing transaction processing on the mainframe I could imagine wanting to score something (eg fraud) mid transaction, which might call for some additional platform capabilities. But it’s also plausible someone in marketing demanded more AI.
> It's true that IE6 took more flak than it really deserved because people forget how good it was for the time when it first became available.

This makes the same mistake as many sibling commenters here in that it equates "new features" with "good".

You're making out that IE6 didn't deserve flak in the early days because it had innovative new (non-standard, incompatible) features. You're making out that this was somehow a good thing. It wasn't. This was the cause of IE6 problems.

The general argument in comments is that IE5.5 / IE6 ~circa 2000-2004 was not problematic; that it only became problematic later due to the lack of updates or new features. In fact, the problems were present from the start: in 2004 developers were developing exclusively for IE6, putting "works in IE" badges at the bottom of their pages and excluding all Opera & Firebird users.

This was then exacerbated by the lack of updates to IE, but again–the reason this became more problematic wasn't because IE wasn't updated, it's because IE was different in the first place. In ways that are unlike Safari today.

> you can't seriously claim that Safari isn't falling far behind in the same way today

I can seriously claim it because it's fundamentally different: Safari is falling behind in a standards-compliant, consistent, detectable and progressively-enhanceable way. IE6 differed radically from specifications when released, and then proceeded to fall behind in fixing this divergence.

What I'm pointing out is that IE6 falling behind would not have been a massive problem if it hadn't first diverged radically from agreed compatibility with other browsers.

The box-model is the biggest example: specifying any padding AT ALL in CSS in 2005 meant you were making a choice between showing the specified padding correctly in IE, or in every other browser. Without brittle hacks discovered by tireless volunteers, there was no way around this: the same property did radically different things in IE vs others.

In 2021, if Safari doesn't support a feature, it doesn't support it: the property simply does nothing (neither useful nor harmful). Yes, maybe there are exceptions for edge-case bugs but these are fixed in patch releases, since (unlike IE6's different "features"), they're actually considered bugs by Apple.
I'm sure the comment you're replying to is being downvoted by employees of your company and your fanboys, but it isn't false, even if you contradict the claims without evidence.

And yes, I know who you are. It's very unprofessional how you conduct yourself on HN, wading into the comments. People are allowed to question the motivations of your company.

I know I do, and your petty replies on HN continually convince me that Matrix is a joke; the CEO can't even let the community handle criticism of the project, no, he always takes it personally.

Call me when dendrite is feature complete (never) or when a third party homeserver is completed (definitely will never happen, you list some and your site has listed them for years, but they aren't usable. It's a lie, one I'm flabbergasted you have repeated above, frankly. A bald faced lie, but since Matrix is a fake federation protocol the layers of lies shouldn't surprise me)

Wake me up when you figure out how to do username account routing with DNS like XMPP does so that you don't need a centralized identity server

Or does it benefit you somehow that Matrix isn't able to be implemented by a third party? Does the centralized identity server benefit you? Probably.

Enjoy fleecing more investors and sucking the air out of the federated chat space!
> our space is inherently non viral

There are communities on the internet that are specifically for these issues. Light advertisement with the consent of various moderators would not be bad idea. /r/NoFap comes to mind specifically, but also various religious communities where the desire for NoFap extends more from religious obligations would still find this interesting, I imagine.
The standard of evidence is very different between civil cases (preponderance of the evidence) and criminal cases (beyond a reasonable doubt).
> Charging an EV takes significantly more time than filling up a gas tank.

Not if you use HVDC superchargers. I've taken several cross-country trips in a Tesla and it's not an issue. It takes 20 minutes to recharge and I do so about every 150 miles. Time enough to get out, stretch, pee, buy a snack, get back in your air-conditioned car (climate controls are fully functional while charging), check your email, and then it's time to go.
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This app is phenomenal! So far it's picked up everything I've thrown at it. Can't say that of the other two plant ID apps I've tried before. I think it uses geocoding to some extent - it asked for my location (which is fine by me) but it required a leaf, fruit, and bark pic to figure out Northern Catalpa, which isn't common around here. Everything else has been leaf and maybe a fruit or whole plant pic.
> using a PWA means their desktop site should be their mobile app

There's tons of mobile apps that never needed to be anything other than desktop sites honestly. Facebook, actually, is a perfect example.
"Now you will see videos of politicians saying something and even then you cannot be sure whether this is actual video or a fake."

This is actually already the case with Biden and Trump video clips even without being deepfaked. Often they are presented out of context to the point of completely reversing reality. It's helpful to assume any clip is fake by default, especially if it's a viral one that makes one side look bad.

By the time deepfakes are common, it'll be best practice to assume fake by default.
on android, adult content within social media apps will also be blocked. but, in iOS it's quite difficult, user will be able to access adult content on apps.
The question is "what values are we willing to abandon to stay competitive?" If America can compete by squeezing more out of their labour and operating in a deregulated environment, do we really want to walk down that path?
Tesla is worth more than all the other automakers combined. They'll have to be much more than a car maker to accomplish what this valuation requires.
Kubernetes makes IBM's 1990s-era mainframe framework Parallel Sysplex look simple.
The data collection part IMHO is a prime responsibility of the product owner. She needs to clarify what should be collected and also what should NOT be collected.

While the latter part is the prime responsibility of the developer team. You need a culture of skepticism towards 3rd party access to you (customers, users, company) data.
Case in point, vSphere Fault Tolerance is a software approach that runs your workload in a VM where the CPU instructions are mirrored to another VM on another physical server to deliver redundancy against physical server loss.
Yeah you're right.

It may be that I'm coming from a more philosophical perspective. What is randomness?

If randomness involves free will then only an entity with free will can create that random variable aka only another person or yourself can create randomness.

Pedant-ism aside, can you think of a "truly random" data generative process that doesn't involve someone with their hand on the switch?

I guess this is the assumption I am making in my explanation: Only people with this magical thing called "free will" can generate random data, nothing else can be trusted to be truly random so you or another person has to have their hand on the switch in order to establish causality.

Note that even your example stayed within the limits of this assumption. You were possibly unable to choose another example that didn't involve someone with free will. Either I have my hand on a switch, or I'm observing another engineer who has his hand on the switch.

Typically to illustrate a point one would usually pick an outlandish example that strays very far from a human having his hand on a switch and show that the example is STILL true. But you didn't do this and that may mean something.
I see. Some professional editor would have to chime in and tell us. :)

I as an amateur have proofread texts for my friends many times and I often missed very visible mistakes. But it's not my job of course, maybe specialists have some methods beyond reading carefully.
Uncertainty and Learning as Tech Debt
Something like digiKam? It's a desktop GUI application with custom metadata support to manage personal photo collections. https://www.digikam.org

I don't know if image database and digital asset management are the same as photo management software or something more. digiKam doesn't have auth, security, multi-tenant etc. if that's what you're looking for - it's not a backend server.
I can see that, but mainframes are perfectly capable of calling out to external services, and that's not new. I guess I really don't know what they are saying in regards to AI and mainframes.
I have spent less than a week of my life the Bay Area, so you can stop repeating that line. Here is a source: https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...

> And they might also protest that trucks provide capabilities that other vehicles lack. But, as it turns out, a significant portion of truck owners never use their trucks for these capabilities. According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.
And that's irrelevant, Mozilla's decision-making is quite independent of Google's.

Firefox on Android is an excellent browser. Firefox on iOS could be the same if Apple let go of its chokehold.
This is really interesting. Glad to see a new solution.

I do wonder if there's a way to take constant screenshots of the screen, use a ML model to recognize any "porn" and then disable it.

It's a terrible idea but my mind immediately went to it.
The Philosophy of Super Mario: Magic Mushrooms, Pipes, and the Plumber-Hero
Judging by the european vaccination certificates, noone ever verifies a signature.

I know there are cameras that digitally sign the data. However, you hardly ever get to see raw footage. It is always edited.
To be fair, this tech has been around for years and I've yet to see it be used successfully in social media misinformation. The stuff I see on my in-law's facebook is usually some clunky meme photo with shocking text.

A video needs to actually be watched, that takes more effort, and then it would be widely debunked as fake. The "fake news" memes are usually at least partially true which helps convince people that the misinformation is legit.
There was a coaster at King's Dominion in Virginia called Rebel Yell (since renamed Racer 75) that ran backwards on one of the 2 tracks from 1992 to 2008. I remember it being fun but I preferred the forward facing ride.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racer_75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adES4jZpAHk
What One Starbucks Coffee a Day Is Worth in 30 Years
A guide to magic links: how they work and why you should use them
I know this isn't your fault, but I dislike society's tendency of trying to band-aid things instead of solving the actual issue. People wouldn't be addicted to sex if the media wasn't shoving it down your throat 24/7. If I open Netflix now, I guarantee at least half of the recommended shows are about sexual relationships, if not porn/sex worker stories explicitly. You can't get away from it.
> web devs are among the least educated, least sophisticated, most entitled and most whiny bunch there is

Of course, you're not spitting out generic flamebait with no backing evidence. That would be very low effort.
Were replaced for something worse, more primitive and less accurate. Sign of the times.
I remember hearing a story (probably apocryphal) about a mainframe that was so redundant that it had to be physically dismantled and moved from one datacentre to another across town, and did so whilst remaining up the entire time.
It's not that "multiple pasts can exist", it's that "multiple pasts _would be sufficient to explain_ the effect that is being observed now".

E. g. "The apple hit Newton on the head" could be explained by:

1. The apple was hanging on the tree at `t - 1` and the wind shook it loose.

2. The apple was flying through the air because his mother threw it and it collided with his head

3. The apple spontaneously generated due to as-yet-not-understood quantum fluctuations 3 meters above his head.
Why yes. Running a fever is dangerous because that's exactly the point where the blood starts to boil. Let it simmer too long and smoke comes out of your ears.
There is no supply-chain accountability without liability.

When adding a dependency, knowing it exposes you to prosecution if it becomes a vector for security violation would give pause. A premium on attested-secure components might develop. If Facebook depended on Zst being secure to be able to stay in business, we might be more inclined to use Zst than e.g. unmaintained Zlib.
mtxclient mostly implements the API calls and some crypto primitives. A lot of stuff still lives in Nheko, because we couldn't figure out how to fit it neatly into mtxclient (like the storage layer, device verification flows, etc). But apart from that, probably. It is pure C++, so you don't even need to use Qt to create a client with it. (In general it may be better to contribute to an existing client though. There are a lot and they could use some help to become more polished.)
Users care about 'Native experience' when they actually want to use the app. There's good reason why companies like Starbucks or IG or your Email app are not PWAs.

The word users tend to have for non-native apps isn't about performance or such, it's about UX.

That word is 'shit'.

Nearly every single PWA developer thinks about how brilliant it is that they can write for two platforms at once but forgets that it means that you ALSO have to do every single last bit of legwork that Apple and Google did for you to give a good, correct-feeling UX on mobile and that the more you do the more you pay that performance cost and build yourself a tech debt prison. And don't get me started on the nightmare that is Ionic and Angular.

PWAs absolutely have their place: Apps that you might want to use...sometimes.. with notifications. That's it. Nothing more makes any sense.