skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow, thats quite a bit more remote than I imagined and goes far beyond the typical urban/rural spectrum, there's probably nothing that extreme in the EU. Since this is a very niche issue, I fear that will be a hard problem to solve.

EVs will kill regular gasoline vehicles and AFAICT hydrogen cars won't work out at all (the latter regardless of any co2 related regulations, mostly due to low efficiency and high, not easily optimizable, costs) over the medium term.

That area of concern will probably simply get "googled" (ignored since too niche) by the car manufacturers, so I'm not quite sure what will happen, but I can imagine a couple outcomes:

1. Tough luck, simply not workable with equipment affordable by "regular people". The "these people disappear [to somewhere else]" solution, locally unpopular but probably not significant enough to get a lot of attention from the federal government

2. Retaining old gasoline vehicles, with high taxes due to carbon emissions and high costs, due to gas stations and repair expertise disappearing. Would probably work for a couple decades, since I imagine that gasoline will still get produced for quite some time for niche legacy stuff with the issue being "how do you get it?", but very expensive and not sustainable due to vehicles dying

3. Recharge stations in the middle of nowhere: probably not in sufficient quantities, niche interest & very expensive with lots of them needed due to the large distances & high power demand when in use. Maybe something PV & battery based if traffic is low enough? Would still mean that they need a satellite connection and you'd probably need to "reserve" the charge beforehand, so no one gets stranded at one. Also probably not easy with very low temperatures.

4. Something conceptually to a modern power bank but hydrogen powered? Maybe a roof rack with some hydrogen & electrically connected to the charging socket. Would probably be cheaper than a special car & more feasible in lower quantities.

I feel like retaining production for this is not gonna work out and there won't be a single solution, but a combination of them. In the worst case, it might be a combination of 1. & 2., with batteries having improved enough to retain a charge > 1000km while heating when 2. comes to an end.
Yes, it's very manipulative. 'You care about the environmental impact of cars, don't you? Well we're not going to do anything about that but you should help us out with our problem instead.'
The two are orthogonal. Even with generics, languages can have an "escape" type like interface{} which is used/necessary for when you do want (or require) run-time type checking.
Ask HN: I was diluted out of a $4B IPO. Can I do anything about it?
Hey all not sure who to ask or how to approach this so I figured I’d give HN a try. I’m a founder of a startup that has decided to IPO this year. The IPO will be somewhere in the ballpark of $2-4B. A couple years ago I left the company due to a disagreement on direction, and signed a document releasing 90% of my equity for further fundraising rounds, leaving me with around 1% total remaining. I am young and this is my first startup experience. I was led to believe this number would not change but don’t have that in writing because I’m inexperienced and didn’t know I should do that.

Fast forward to today, and I’m sitting on 0.02%. Essentially nothing, and I just found out about my dilution this week after learning about the IPO, and excitingly thinking I had 1%.

My question is, is there anything I can do? It feels like my lack of experience is exactly what was leveraged to allow this to happen. Just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it okay. I accepted a drop from 20% of the company to 1% when I left, but being diluted below that point just feels insulting.

Any help would be much appreciated. 1% would be life changing for me and my family.
Yeah I don’t know the laws of private security companies. For example, if you hire private security firm to guard a bank, are they allowed to use lethal force to protect the bank?

It’s scary how close to the real deal vehicle this Citizen patrol van looks like. I think they can even put police lights on legally if I’m not mistaken.
Last year I saw a charge point added to a public curb parking area near me.

It's about half the height of a parking meter. The power is right there under the pavement. Probably cost £800 to install, which could generate £200 in revenue each year.

Not every charger needs to be a super charger.

Getting lots of 11kw chargers in every parking bay would be a higher priority than everywhere having super chargers. Most people could keep topped up and those doing long trips use the faster charging points.
How is this 'so much whinging? He clearly explains what his pain is and also adds the fact that maybe NBC did not optimize for him. He further adds that even for the people NBC is optimizing for, he thinks (his own opinion) that those people might not be best served by this approach.
Everything You'll Lose from Windows 10 When You Upgrade to Windows 11
To put even a slightly finer point on it -- isn't this, in a sense, journalism without a filter? Video can lie, but it's probably a bit harder to make a live streamed video lie than an article that recapitulates the content of such a stream.

Video "lying" involves video distorting the entirety of a situation by only showing one and part of an overall action. The thing about such lying is it easy, effortless. A perfectly sincere person can walk into the middle of situation, film it, show an incorrect picture and not know it.

And the problem here is that many/most people operate with the assumption "either X is true or he's a liar" and videos that a bad picture of an event may have no intentional liars attached, which can give them more credibility than should have.
In context of broader geopolitical developments, it was also "really stupid" for TSMC to build new US fabs after already planning record capex in TW proper in 2019. Few thought TW would erode their silicon shield by allow TSMC to expand fabs abroad. Right now both US/EU wants to reshore semi supply chain, and both have the leverage to coerce TSMC/TW into submitting against their own interests since TSMC is wholey reliant on US/EU tech. Side considerations like semi subsidies and vaccines are there to sweeten pot. The timing is interesting since this follows shortly after TSMC Biontech deal. IMO there was never any doubt EU would get TSMC expansion, question was who had the leverage to determine where. Most of interviews by Morris Chang suggest he's not enthused about fragmenting supply chains, yet we keep seeing new fabs outside of TW being proposed. Whether these proposals are serious or performative is another qusetion.
I live and have lived in a "rural" environment for most of my life.
Also the slowness of Python is overstated - for many of the niches Julia is targeting, Python is plenty fast if you use NumPy / CuPy / SciPi.

Yes, it's easier to write the equivalent for Julia using native Julia code, but it's not clear to me that the average user will care.
A Butt-Hurt Liberal Snowflake Makes a Case Against Defunding the Police
Under the second link you provided I'm seeing:

$14.33 / hour
Avg. Base Hourly Rate (USD)

So not only are you seriously quibbling over a $0.67 per hour discrepancy - but you're doing so dishonestly (attempting to make a 5 percent discrepancy look more like 15 percent).
not to mention millions of dollars are being loaned out and moved around platforms like yearn and aave right now.

There was also a crypto-downturn in their years of operation and these two protocols didn't need "bailouts" to survive.
A friend and I who have known each other for decades say we manage to stay friends because we only see each other a couple of times a year.

Why burden business relationships with forced several hours /week physical presence and face time when nobody would impose that on a customer or a vendor, and lockdowns have shown that even (especially) marriages aren't designed for people to be stuck together that long.

The only other situation you spend that amount of time with someone is a cellmate in prison, and the inevitable and necessary conseqeunce is micro-power struggles over the least significant things because in spending that much time together, you literally exhaust every other way to relate.

Show me someone who loves office life and being around people who are forced to be together, and I will show you someone with a perverse addiction to confict. When extroversion becomes immoderate, they become masochists who crave attention and interpersonal intensity. As a result, whenever someone tells me they are a "people person," I give them a wide berth because I remember the advice I was given as a young boy which was, "you are what you eat."

I can't imagine re-adapting to something so insane as an office ever again.
This is a pretty great article but I don't get the hate for futures not executing immediately and requiring an .await.

It's great to have pure futures-returning functions and being able to isolate side effects easily.

I find it much easier to reason with (coming from mainly JS, where everything is executed as soon as a promise is created).
"If it came down to it being absolutely essential, you could have one office take the camera off (but leave it running), and hand it to their partner to point at the bathroom door as that officer enters and uses the bathroom, and they put it back on as they exit the bathroom."

This is probably the most foolproof. The fabric idea wouldn't be a good idea considering many public restrooms are multi-person. So the concern is with the privacy of others, not just the officer.
For some reason this isn't a felony offense by anybody involved.
that’s tilted up because of rich people. who actually buy cars more often as well.

and of course misses used cars. your average person making 50k isn’t buying a 37k car
> Also guess what, if you drive uphill with cargo in extreme temperatures you also use more gas and your car doesn't get its normal mileage.

Yes, but gas vehicles still have higher max range and they have easily extensible range. An SUV can literally carry the equivalent of a second tank of fuel in gas cans and still have tons of space for people and cargo.

> Also, this is probably less then 0.1% of all miles driven. So it really doesn't work as an argument and doesn't apply to 95% of the people. And for another 3% it likely doesn't apply for more then 1-2 a year.

I disagree. Those trips may be a small percentage of all miles driven but an overwhelming majority of car owners still take those trips and want their vehicle to be capable of supporting those trips. Most people who own a car take trips with increased load or increased mileage frequently enough that it is an important use case for their vehicle. The percentage of total miles driven is not really an important metric in considering a vehicle. It is critical for me to be able to take extended day trips with my family and friends even if I do it only once a month. EVs are better for the majority of road miles driven, but not for the majority of people.
I thought he was going to say "they always start with 'in this video...', or 'today...'".
Where do you live that this is the case?
> computers stay silent on the matter.

I don’t know, their fans complain quite loudly.
Trustless banking is the killer app.

Credit card payments, bank deposits, stock holdings: nearly everywhere humans hold value currently is a trust-based system that leaves you at the whims of more powerful counterparties.

If the bank decides to zero out your account balance, they can. You can sue them, and should be able to get you money back if you take them to court, but they have the absolute ability to destroy your wealth.

Bitcoin gives technologically savvy people the opportunity to store value in a way which is not subject to any other party. If I lock 1BTC up in an encrypted wallet, nobody can deprive me of that 1BTC without my consent and participation. That is the killer app.
People in some service jobs, many independent contractors, tradespeople, etc. have to drive from place to place, sometimes many places per day, to do their jobs. I agree that for people with well-defined commute and shopping patterns an EV may be perfectly acceptable.
Almost no one sits in their car while charging. This is just FUD.
> 100% of new vehicles being EV in 9 years isn’t that fast. Assuming the average vehicle lasts ~25 years that’s a ~30+ year transition that simply looks scary to start with.

I feel this distinction needs to be made every time there's talk about banning ICE.

I have yet to see any proposed laws that completely ban ICE. It's always a ban on selling new ICE. You'll still be able to buy used ICE, and they will eventually fade away through attrition.
It's not so much up to the vaccine manufacturers as the Secretary of HHS under a law dating back to 2005 (https://www.congress.gov/109/plaws/publ148/PLAW-109publ148.p...).

And the incentives seem self-evident: given a global pandemic with a known high fatality and infectivity rate, Congress provided the power to "clear the runway" for potential mitigators to a pandemic by limiting civil liability. Lacking that power, there's a risk that manufacturers would decide the liability potential of administering a drug to >99% of the population (regardless of its efficacy) would be too high to justify being the ones to assume the risk, which could slow development or deployment of a preventative treatment during a crisis. If only 1 in 100,000 Americans suffered an adverse effect from a COVID-19 vaccine, that would stack up to a class-action lawsuit that could top a billion dollars.

Injured parties (as per https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10443) may still be eligible for direct compensation from the US federal government under https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/.

No medical procedure is zero-risk. The relevant question is whether the risk of long-term complications from a COVID-19 vaccine is higher than risk from COVID-19 itself. Since the long-term complication of COVID-19 is "death," the risk-tradeoff curve for long-term consequences from a vaccine is pretty steep.
The commit hash of the blamed commit and all ones after that change, so the system works. One day we may be able to reliably/easily generate SHA-1 collisions to really get someone else to take the blame :-)
'Nobody's Gonna Talk': The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping
"hot-desking"/"hotelling". All the productivity downsides of open office, plus opaque social hierarchies
https://archive.is/7xfPn
Thanks for the bug report (assuming that’s you that filed it). The change that broke this was made first in Julia’s libuv fork but is being upstreamed into libuv main. It simulates UNIX chmod functionality on Windows, which is (apparently) tricky to get right across all versions and all corner cases. Supporting that correctly has been an outstanding TODO in libuv for a long time — what you’re seeing is Julia driving the development of libuv and therefore hitting the bugs first.

This issue was reported seven days ago and is now slated to be fixed in the next release of all affected versions.
> What makes it even harder is that chess elo is a zero sum game.

It's not zero-sum though, because as more Chess players enter the ranks the pie itself grows larger, meaning there will be more total players who can attain an Elo of 2,500+ and thus become a Grandmaster.

Zero-sum typically means that the entire pool is of fixed size, but that's not the case here. I'd say that Chess is win-lose but not zero-sum.
I don't love a definition of journalism that includes journalists getting to decide what I am allowed to know. Analysis, interpretation, calling to attention that which is important, these are all great things. The filter part I'm less sure about.

Of course we should be sensitive to victims and I don't think sensationalizing things is beneficial, but I also think that most of what I personally use Citizen for is to figure out what is happening near me in the neighborhood in real time. Like, "why is it suddenly smoky outside," or, "why are there a lot of police helicopters flying over us right now?"
Not just monotone but nasally. As if they have a bad cold. I'll be honest I don't personally know a single person that finds any American accents pleasent or attractive.
Traveller (Role-Playing Game)
> Instead there will be the smart contract (which will require funding so there will be a very small fee per transaction)

So you are saying there are still middlemen who take a cut of the transactions?
I know noone on HN cares about the environment, it's all about CO2, but in case anyone pops in, if you could use carbon credits to eliminate pigs, and this is a ok amount of carbon credits combined with rural money (pigs damage crops (which also increases crop size) and other funding, it could make a big deal to the environment.

Drones and infra tech are changing things a bit. It's still very hard for elimination. But it could be a ok little moon shoot. Drones were tried with the recent mouse plague - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/03/are-p...

Australia has no native hoofed animals. So they damage a lot.

An issue that is being seen is these introduced animals are becoming an important part of culture. Pig hunting is big deal for rural youth. Similar with the beauty of wild horse. Complex.

I think with pigs, because the hunting community is the same as the farming community, there would be very good support.
IMHO. The effort is going to added complexity. Not doing the simplest thing that could possibly work. I suspect managers and directors allow this because they are just trying to grow the own teams as much as possible thus growing their careers.
> regular and performance-independent salary increases for all employees

What country are you talking about?
Worth remembering that cubicles were invented as being good for workers as it replaced what amounted to the standard open office floor plan with the bossman looking over the workers.

Cubicles provided privacy and focusing ability.

Of course, like all technology, cubicles, work-from-home, and open floor plans all have pluses and minuses.

Personally, I have started to consider the possibility that the problem is we keep thinking about The One Perfect Solution To Rule Them All rather than realizing that no system is good for 40 to 60 hours of work a week with the varied tasks and times needed at each.

For most office work you need places for private and individual focus time, places for quick informal chats that don't disturb others, places for small meetings, places for small work groups to collaborate, places for larger meetings, and others.

That's without getting into individual worker preference - some love cafe settings for focus, some want bright sunny windows, some dark basements, most will have different preferences for different work.

I suppose with enough redundant space you could offer all those things, but that's expensive.

Work from home, with proper infrastructure for meeting and collaboration spaces is likely the best fit for many office jobs, but I know from experience that such things also have "work" invade private life and time in ways that can be very off-putting (and vice-versa).
I get what Toyota is doing here. Going full EV isn't a fully thought out or well planned approach. The lack of charging infrastructure for one.

Most of the world and as Texas has shown even the US sometimes lacks reliable and clean electricity supply. With warming related increase in demand things will get even worse. Then there's the question of how world's electricity is generated and how that contributes to pollution.

Besides, Toyota is doing the right thing with their suppliers in not saying screw you no more ICE - they're taking a more humane approach by doing a longer transition from ICE to hybrid to EV or hydrogen. There is a reason they can still find enough chips when almost all of their competitors are struggling - good supplier relations and investment.

This also gives them time to work with say Panasonic to improve battery tech to their standards. In the meanwhile if their hybrids offer great mileage and prime offers 40 mile full EV range that's much greener already.
A lot of people think this song is about driving an illegal gas engine, but its really about driving a car with illegally low safety features. Honestly the cyber truck feels like what the source material was envisioning, but not due to the electric part
Why? At equal level, sure, but when so far above it'd be surprising not to win.
This assumes the engine, fuel infrastructure, and weight of the ICE engine is free. It also assumes that the electric infrastructure cannot be fully converted to carbon neutral sources. Lastly it assumes that battery technology will improve at a comparable rate to ICE technology which has been extremely wrong in the last 10 years.
Firing isn't decertification and the punishment isn't even that bad.

>It's up to your city leaders to enforce this, and override the local police union's resistance, if possible.

It's only possible in jurisdictions where DAs and/or Mayors can get elected without an endorsement from law-enforcement, and look at SF for an example of what police do when one slips through the cracks.

By far, most US government is ruled by law enforcement, not the other way around, and this isn't even touching the nationwide police rebellion we've been enduring.
- Active denial of language specification
Part of accommodating people who have a disability is introducing equity and equality into the process, and making it possible for all candidates to use those options. There might be a perception that one route is easier than another, and if that’s the case, it’s a failure on the part of the interview process.

Options provided for equality and equity are not supposed to ease requirements for a subset of people, but ensure that their evaluation doesn’t punish or discount them.
According to wikipedia, they have been around since early pleistocene, about 2 million years ago. So their contribution has been part of a sustainable equilibrium for that long.
It does help with the interview process. A lot of communication lies in body language and tone of voice. Taking that out of the equation, absent a good reason, is going to eliminate useful information.

Some people might exhibit behaviors that are problematic in a professional environment. To go into a hiring decision without that information would be a mistake, in my opinion.
Volume is not synonymous with flows. For example ~50% of US equity market volume is HFT. Yet this trading has virtually no impact on the large-scale direction of the market. That's because they don't accumulate sizable positions. Most of the volume is very high turnover, so there's no large aggregate impact.

Similarly, most of crypto volume is Tether, because Tether is used to arbitrage between exchanges. Tether is a way to transfer money significantly faster than the fiat banking system. Particularly for exchanges in segmented banking markets. It's much cheaper/faster to get USDT from Coinbase to ByBit than it is to send an ACH wire.
Do you have any advice for a technical 1-dev-army who wants to expand out to a small product-focused team and outsource (most of) the commercial and sales aspects to a partner?

Thanks for being a class act, based just on your presence here I might go Borg for a backup solution in the near future
counterfactuals based definition of causality is one of many definitions of causality