skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EVs have less than 20 moving parts in their drivetrain. Scheduled maintenance is brake fluid every few years (as it absorbs moisture over time), cabin air filter every 2-3 years, and tire rotations (~7k miles) and replacements (as needed). Brake pads and rotors under normal duty cycles should last the life of the vehicle due to aggressive regenerative braking (at least that's what Tesla is seeing).
Please be mindful of the predatory monetisation in Pokemon Unite
Ask HN: Books that improved your career?
Hello HN,

Recently I finished Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. All I can say is I wish I read this years ago. I'm a software engineer and didn't know a lot of the things I learned from that book.

This got me thinking, what other books have I missed out on reading to advance my (software / tech) career?
It would also miss all the pages that are built from ajax-requests on the client side. Which, nowadays, is a large amount. The client is the one assembling all the content into the thing you read and so it is the most likely candidate to offer the copy that you want indexed.
Yeah, as a bit of an old-timer, I'm trying to learn to stop worrying and learn to love watching everybody reinvent wheels? For me it's "why are you people doing that in Javascript?" that continually comes up in my own head, but I suppose I should try to be patient and see if anything comes of it.
The original post I commented to said nothing about million dollar inheritances. It only spoke about inequality. If you accept the premise that we must make everything as equitable as possible, you don't clearly stop and million dollar + inheritances. You eventually lead to banning gifted classes in public high schools.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/learning/should-gifted-an...
Probably because neither the market nor the real supply chain was ready. Ford sells more F-150s per year than Tesla sells across all models. When the F-150 Lightning takes off and ramps up production you can expect the consequences to be felt across the entire Ford lineup and for things to start moving quickly. (As others have noted, Toyota bought into hydrogen and its hybrids so it is not going to be an EV leader any time soon, but other majors are moving fast and will soon leave Tesla behind.)
Mechanically simpler, but (at least in Tesla's case) can be harder to get replacement parts for. Obviously their repair network isn't going to be as complete as a more established brand, but it doesn't really sound like they're prioritizing repairability at all.
'Cause it's commercial paper from the exchanges? We know they've made "loans" to Bitfinex, after all.
Because the “practical” timeline was one started 30 years ago. But proposals were met then with the exact same “now let’s not be hasty” counterarguments. The more time that elapses, the more drastic actions are required, no matter how painful.
For anyone who wants the Old Reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/oopfvl/
If we want to rely on this technology as being unbiased and accurate, then it must be a purely one-directional flow of information. Data should only flow from SpotShotter to the police, and never in the other direction. No questions, no inquiries, no anything. As soon as you do, you introduce bias or at least the ability for bias to exist, intentional or otherwise.

If the SpotShotter technology is as good as they claim, there should never be a need. And if the police can't make a case with what SpotShotter gives them, they shouldn't rely on it.
That is complete nonsense. The study you're quoting was discredited. They essentially grouped a bunch of random symptoms together and said they were the same thing. If you run enough tests for different things you'll eventually find something "wrong", that doesn't mean there actually is.
I know a lot of people in XR and FF who are against crypto because of the environment.
Thanks for response.

> Do you have a link to an open issue tracking this problem?

Yes [#41642](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41642)

> The main reason for the divergence is that Julia’s libuv fork has a significantly more flexible event loop model that allows using libuv from multiple threads efficiently.

Glad to hear this. That's impressive.
They don't just cancel out.

Wealthy people invest in things that wealthy people want to invest it.

(Democratic-ish) governments, for all their many issues, tend to invest in things that can be justified to much broader populations (yes, I know, lots of exceptions to prove the rule)

Increasing private investment and decreasing public investment isn't a "cancel each other out" situation.
Sure, but China doesn't appear to be short-sighted.

In 10 years will this be the case? Nuclear takes a long time to bring online, they've at least got the process in motion and reasons to be polluting right now. Polluters like Australia don't and that's my point.

Or maybe it'd be better that China stops producing renewable technologies for the rest of the world? One big area I see them improving is with use of electric vehicles. Can't do EV's if your grid can't supply the energy. Should they push gas and diesel vehicles instead for the next decade or two?
Can they though?

(1) US persons and entities cannot redeem, period, so that leaves out all of Coinbase doesn't it? [edit] originally I mentioned FTX but of course they're based on Antigua and Barbuda and Hong Kong. [1 - Section 3/ and 3/3].

(2) Only individuals Tether deems as customers at their sole discretion are permitted to redeem. [1 - Section 9/ - "Tether in its absolute and sole discretion may determine that you are a customer of TIL or TLTD"]

(3) Tether may delay redemptions arbitrarily at their sole discretion. [1 - Section 3/]

(4) Tether may substitute whatever is in their reserves in lieu of cash at their sole discretion, and themselves admit to only having 3% of the cash needed to satisfy the "obligations" (and I air-quote say that because ... [1 - Section 3/]

(5) Holding tether tokens is not a claim to any backing assets. Any redemptions are strictly goodwill.

(6) Tether has identified their absconding with all the funds as a risk in their white paper [2 page 10].

This is all on their website. [1] Roughly speaking nobody has tried to redeem any - for obvious reasons. They know they can't.

To your point it's the largest exchanges with their hands in this particular cookie jar, and their fates are entwined. The exchanges are holding the bags, Binance alone has 17,000,000,000 USDT. They won't do anything to potentially upset the peg, and are incentivized to do whatever they can to maintain it. Otherwise, to your point, RIP.

[1] tether.to/legal

[2] https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TetherWhitePape...
Equipment costs, limited city budgets, permit process, labor availability, local transformer capacity, etc.
Mobile Verification Toolkit
It's easy to do. There are electric cables everywhere (every street lamp, for example).

Also, I'm old enough to remember when one had to pay for wifi at hotels and restaurants. I bet we won't pay for charging a car at some point and/or at some time of the day (plugging your car will help the grid due to the share of renewables, you may even be paid for the service). See https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/powerwall/own/californi...
You mean the answering machine didn't take off until after the wars and great depression ended, suburban life started becoming the default for large groups of people, and they were starting to be away from home for long periods of time, and that before then it saw only limited use by the fairly small numbers of people who were away from their home for long periods of time?

Well now I'm convinced. Guess I better buy tickets to El Salvador because clearly crypto is going to the mooooon.
Waking the Raspberry Pico with an external trigger
You're on HN. Crypto isnt liked because it might steal jobs/shake up the status quo. More threads will be posted as user adoption continues and especially when price rises.

Last temper tantrum was like 6 months ago so its probably about that time.
When there will be money and the profit in BEV, be sure they will be part of it. By the way Toyota has advanced the research with solid state batteries the most
Did you take the cookie?

No

But there is one less in the jar?

My friends up and down the road have looked in the jar and have assured that no cookie was taken.

But there is one less in the jar?

You have no idea what you are talking about pal.

EDIT: Here is the mental gymnastics the article plays to justify it

>That makes it hard to say whether the altered virus’ ability to invade human cells was a function “gained” or was merely uncovered by WIV scientists.

It is not hard and it is quite simple. Because since "gaining" has to happen before "uncovering", either of the alternative will imply "gain of function".
clickbait explainer spam from thehustle

how about something like this arstechnica/Financial Times post about the inflation impact from June

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27422182
I worked some years as a full stack web dev, and css was mostly what blew up my time needed. I recently built a small landing page and now I officially gave up on CSS. I just don't want it to be a part of my professional life anymore. I guess I lack some fundamental design and layout concepts but I don't want to fix this. I might as well run a bakery.
I'm going to reply the exact same way I did to another comment: Mein Kampf sold 240,000 copies before he became chancellor, so it seems like it was already an important part of the conversation. I'm not advocating for censorship, but obviously the argument that Mein Kampf is available therefore we should stop trying to limit violent speech is not a good one.
Which FANG so I can avoid?
Interesting, thanks for the link :) !
USDC doesn't have a leg to stand on either and as far as "other stable coins", it's pretty dumb to compete with someone who is able to undercut you on cost, so they're either doing the same or not competitive.
Be that as it may, that doesn't make "Y!" Y Combinator.

I'm taking your lack of meaningful response as a tacit withdrawal of your criticism.
British scientist explores terrain 35,000 feet below the surface
How are urban car owners with street parking going to charge EV's is also a great question. There's zero infrastructure in place for that and it will be expensive when it does come.
Older versions IE used to have something like this. "Favourites" had a "Make available offline" box that could be ticked to keep an offline copy of the page. But they were not searchable.
> and Lisp or Smalltalk or Forth or Erlang, can be the final step

Nah. Final boss programmers (Fabrice Bellard, Mike Pall, etc.) work in C. (Or maybe sometimes a bit of C++.)
The UI reminds me of super apps [1] like WeChat, Grab, Gojek, etc. I wonder if that's the endgame here? Super app for immigrants.

[1] https://web.dev/mini-app-super-apps/#what-are-super-apps
> And it's still well below Japan in per capita emission

For how long?

> I don't think any reason to put China front and center in this discussion "who should start closing coal power plant".

Focusing on per-capita data inevitably leads to whataboutism, and that's exactly the narrative the CCP wants to push! But when looking at emissions over time, it becomes pretty obvious that some countries are working hard doing their parts while some others are simply polluting at an accelerating pace.
This post is not very fair, and seems to have started with a conclusion "big company screwing their customers," instead of really digging in to learn why things are the way they are for good non-customer-screwing reasons.

The post DOES actually call out that wholesale bandwidth is symmetric, but then jumps to the OPPOSITE of the correct interpretation of that: That AWS's pricing to the end customer should be equally symmetric, and the fact that it isn't is evidence of AWS's customer-screwing behavior.

The actual reason is that AWS's customers, like those of other cloud providers, are running externally-facing services that mostly send data OUT to their users. Given the inherent symmetry in wholesale bandwidth, it means that AWS has to build out based on their total egress bandwidth. As customers egress more data their users (or wherever/whoever), AWS has to not only pay for more wholesale bandwidth, they also have to build out all the additional infrastructure (routers, etc) to support it. It's very expensive.

The ingress bandwidth, being less than the egress bandwidth already noted above, therefore is effectively free to AWS, and they can charge very low rates to their customers for it.
Well if Toyota is "bad" then Tesla is at best on par with some eastern European manufacturers.
> A Prius will not last as long as an EV.

If I had to buy a car to drive 300K miles and pay for the purchase and maintenance on it, I'd buy a Prius long before buying any EV. (I daily drive an EV; I'm not anti-EV by any means, but the Toyota HSD is extremely well-proven and I think is likely to have a lower cost of ownership than any current EV.)
I don't think Julia is trying to be anything like Go and it shouldn't be.

Probably Julia's best feature is the powerful metaprogramming support that allows you to, e.g., create array packages that automatically run code on GPU. You can't have such features with a simple language.
I can see that it would be useful in a professional capacity where having 50,000 photos was part of the job. But I must ask, what do you do with those photos? Do you really cull through them and share them or use them again? 50,000 of them? It seems like you've made the case for the memory hole I was talking about.

Of course, any software always had edge cases and niche uses. My complaint primarily was that this seems to fall in the bucket of not-terribly-useful-whiz-bang-stuff that Apple (and, by all means, not only Apple) likes to include so they have something to do PR about. Animoji was definitely in this category and every FAANG company is guilty of this to some degree.

I cannot imagine that, if you surveyed 10,000 users, even one of them would list "on-device facial recognition" as a feature that they need or want from their phones.
> I've said this so many times: But what does it doooooo??? Name one project that isn't "speculation" or "loans" built on cryptocurrency that has seen any uptick or utility. NFTs sure ain't it. DAOs sure ain't it. Supply chain tracking sure ain't it.

In developing nations where the residents do not have access to regulated and "safe" investment vehicles like stock exchanges, where can they invest their saves? Physical bullion that can get stolen or damaged? Cash (and then real estate)?
This is very uninformed.

This person has not actually encountered tesla solar.

If you compared Tesla Solar even to solarcity or ANY of the other players it's actually significantly IMPROVED.

The terms are very public and transparent.

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/VT_Energy_Purchase...

is an example. Importantly - they will file warranty claims ON YOUR BEHALF if needed - plenty of other installers will just send you on the wild goose chase between panel / inverter warranty handling.

They offer two products where I live, purchase for cash or use a loan.

This is pretty much as vanilla as you get.
Coal: per Wikipedia: Germany has been opening new coal power plants until recently, following a 2007 plan to build 26 new coal plants. This has been controversial in light of Germany's commitment to curbing carbon emissions.

But they changed direction - I didn't know that: On 26 January 2019, [a decision was made] to close all 84 coal plants in the country by 2038...Coal was used to generate almost 40% of the country's electricity in 2018 and is expected to be replaced by renewable energy and natural gas. 24 coal plants are planned to be closed by 2022 with all but 8 closed by 2030.

Nuclear: per Wikipedia: A coalition government of Gerhard Schroeder took the decision in 2002 to phaseout all nuclear power by 2022...Within days of the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, large anti-nuclear protests occurred in Germany...Merkel's government announced that it would close all of its nuclear power plants by 2022. Eight of the seventeen operating reactors in Germany were permanently shut down following Fukushima in 2011. German coal consumption has risen during 2011, 2012 and 2013. (but is now decreasing)

Germany nuclear is 13%, but most of that is imported from France at this point, I think. So, no coal, no nuclear, hate natural gas - depend on renewables.
"JIT" (ELAOT) compilation and tail latencies.

Python is a GP pl (not a very good one, IMO, but it is one). For a long time for some distros Linux CLI and even GUI tools were in python. Can you imagine such an ecosystem in Julia? I can't, nor would I want Julia to make the sacrifices it would need to make to fulfill such a role. There are so many things that python is "mediocre, but good enough" at, that Julia is quite frankly terrible at, because of the (good for what it does) choices that Julia made.

I wouldn't write a quick CLI using Julia (versus a long-running or test runner CLI - I have done this professionally [0]). I wouldn't write a web server that is expected to take a load (a personal website is probably fine, though probably still quite painful). I wouldn't write Anything embedded.

[0] Wrote a containerized storage block device performance measurement tool. Julia was useful to generate and track statistical distributions of random reads and writes with very clear and concise code.

I also think Julia's concurrency story is not that great. But I'm biased against every PL since I have spent a ton of time in erlang/elixir-land which currently has the only (high level) concurrency story that makes any sense IMO.

I liked when Julia's concurrency was done per-process (still lives on in Distributed.jl, iirc). I get that this has performance implications, especially around spawning and expensive communications, even with MPI, but I kind of wanted some sort of non-locality of data to be acknowledged, and maybe I would have preferred the new threading concurrency to work with the Distributed.jl abstraction. I think it would have been even more awesome if Julia GPU treated computation against gpu arrays in the same fashion as a distributed job... But as of the last time I used julia (it's been a while) that wasn't the case.
Thank you so much.. We currently provide services to Pakistani migrants but will expand in the near future.
In agreement. Meritocracy seeks to purposefully confuse the idea that anyone can succeed with the idea that everyone can succeed. It's an individualizing ideology which short-circuits systems-level thinking. I'm immediately suspicious of ideas which entangle concepts and shut down systems-level thinking. I expect that anyone who calls themselves a critical thinker to do the same.
At one point, I had a 90+ minute commute maybe half the time. I could often do it by train which made it almost tolerable but almost certainly not over the long term.
this would indeed be a serious blow to current price of crypto. Many projects would die and tons of liquidity would leave. Liken to a mass extinction event. But like all gov attempts to ban something, there would still be a cohort who believe in the product and keep it alive. And over time, from the ashes, the value would grow again
I don't know - it could operate in a totally different way to ours.
Its a very much pie in the sky thought but EV theoretically could actually help the electrical infrastructure.

Part of the issue is that supply & demand have to match, but demand for electrical systems is not static. You could theoretically use the EV batteries as reservoirs to store surplus energy during low demands periods, and supply energy during high demand periods. While I doubt it would flatten the duck curve, it could help to smooth it out some.
> and all but saying that the reason there are hackings to things like critical infrastructure is because crypto exists

Just to play devil's advocate, how do you imagine ransomware would work outside of crypto?

There had been a few toy ransomware attacks before Bitcoin, but the regulated payment industry ultimately prevented any major ransomware industry from developing.

Bitcoin has changed all of that. Since the release of CryptoLocker, the industry has exploded into a multi-billion dollar racket.

From my perspective, this industry did not and cannot exist absent cryptocurrency.

I don't think this is cause to shutdown crypto convertibility, but it also can't be dismissed out of hand.
This article almost seems like a falseflag, in how it cheerfully provides a benediction for an ugly hack to deal with controversial inadequacies of the Go type system.
MD5 isn't particularly fast. Basic non-vector BLAKE3 beats it, and SHA1 beats it by even more.
Hmm, I read the paper, on page 12, showing the top 10 polluting power plants in 2018 and 2009, in 2018, the lists goes, there is only 1 from China and India, respectively, how is that translate to "The paper lists the top 10 polluting plants... unsurprisingly many of them are in China and India"

1 Belchatow Poland 37,600,000 Coal 27 5298 1.756

2 Vindhyachal India 33,877,953 Coal 14 4760 1.485

3 Dangjin South Korea 33,500,000 Coal 10 6115 1.473

4 Taean South Korea 31,400,000 Coal 12 6100 1.481

5 Taichung Taiwan 29,900,000 Coal 22 5834 1.282

6 Tuoketuo China 29,460,000 Coal 10 6720 1.450

7 Niederaussem Germany 27,200,000 Coal 38 3826 1.451
The Transhuman Olympics
At the end of the day, from a macro perspective, it's going to come down to the "war for talent".

Businesses with the best talent, over time, win; those without, lose. As so, this is the most pertinent part of the article:

"As much as Mr. Gross wants people back at his ad agency, he is worried about retaining young talent at a time when churn is increasing."

At the end of the day workers do have the power here. If young people decide it matters businesses will adjust or die.

From a personal perspective, for me, it came down to money. I like living in NYC, but not enough to pay 3x for everything. Right now I pay $60 p/h for a personal boxing trainer. In NYC, I was paying $150. My kids want a backyard. Stuff like that.

I'm also a little worried about finance. The prestige there is lowering. They used to get the best students in the class. Now those students go to tech companies and they are getting the 4th, 5th, and 6th best students in the class. If they stick people in cubicles, eventually that's going to lower to 10th, and then we will have C students making trillion dollar bets with our financial system. Only half joking.
The nominal return (9%) is:

40000 * (1.09 ^ 70) = $16,669,203.

The first calculation uses 7%. It is the real return. You'll actually have $16m, but the purchasing power would be $4.5m in 2021 dollars.
What's new? HN shadowbans any account that speak out.
Expect boba8 soon.
I don't think it's advisable to actually read the whole Bible. A lot of it is far too cryptic to be worthwhile. Go to a church service if you want to learn about the Bible
> It’s crazy enough that half this country is eager to slide down this slippery slope.

It's crazy enough that the other half of the country expects fascism to prevail, too, no?
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/americas-rough-draft.html
Two EVs is way easier to manage than an ICE car and an EV.

If you have no charging at home but a walkable charger nearby, with two EVs, you can drive the second one to your vehicle that is already at a charge station, and trade off, driving the first one home and leaving the second one to charge. Then trade off again later. With an ICE car as the second car, you would either do more walking (nothing wrong with that, sure, but it takes time) or you need a second driver.

You’re possibly falling into the trap of thinking EVs are hard to use for long distance road trips. Depends on which EV though. Not true for at least one brand.