skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does the origin story matter, outside of political motivations? If we knew 100% how it came into being, what specific information does that give us that helps the world eradicate it, or deal with future pandemics?

The whole "lab leak investigation" is a political side show attempt to distract people away from the real question, which is how did almost every country on earth utterly fail to control the spread and avert catastrophe? Both questions are fine to answer, but one of them might provide actionable information for future pandemics, and the other one is purely political blame-game.
Cranky FreeBSD admin is cranky. News at 11.
There is no strict laws on foreign ownership, most of the time this falls under the idea that people/foreigners think owning land gives you a right to reside in the country. It does not.

Then not knowing procedures or having a Hanko is extremely detrimental to doing any paperwork in Japan.

Internet is not an issue, NTT will give you internet within 3 months, and there is always unlimited 4g/5g subscriptions.

Being in the Inaka is an experience itself, and you need to know the language. I agree.
I am way more concerned by all the batteries in my house than the one parked in the garage.
There are probably so many powerbanks, laptop batteries and other things lying around and in drawers where they are forgotten that it's a lot more likely that a house catches fire because of those batteries than an EV
Nothing yet, but next personal computer purchase will almost certainly be system76 or similar. Phone will be non-Apple. I’d like to get my photos out of iCloud but I’ve been trying to move them from Google to Apple for like 2 years and still haven’t finished that lol.

I’ve hidden iMessage on my phone and put Signal on the dock so I use it more.
I like this. Looking for a good way to encourage people to switch, even though Linux phones do seem inferior. That's exactly why people need to buy them -- and then tell the manufacturers what they really want. Be a vocal System76 customer, or Purism customer, tell those companies what you really want.

This inspired me to write both companies about my buying experience. Off to do that!
There are anti-dummy laws in Japan.
In a lot parts of the world, you cannot sell anything bigger, or more expensive than a Japanese kei car.

Most of South Asia, and Africa drives Suzuki Altos, and Suzuki SX4s are considered there as big cars.

It's definitely, definitely possible to make small, cheap cars on batteries. In fact, easier than bigger ones as power to weight, and driving range scale non-linearly with the car size.

Big, heavy cars pay big premiums for not being able to use stamped parts in suspension for example. Small cars use stamped parts for almost everything.

Heavier cars almost invariably have to use more sophisticated suspension designs, with more parts to provide an equal level of comfort to lighter cars of the same class.

The amount of energy you lose in rolling resistance also varies non-linearly. You often can get an increase in driving efficiency if you have softer tires when you drive on less than idea roads. Etc, etc, etc
As an aside, what's with everyone creating these discord servers for their communities. A chat server seems so bad for long term knowledge storage.
> A DNS/HTTP challenge hybrid

Either (a) no one thought of cross-protocol validation signalling, or (b) they thought of it and concluded that it was too convoluted and easy to screw up.

As to why no HTTP check, an observation from another recent thread on LE/ACME:

> For example, `nrmitchi.com` is pointed at Netlify. Netlify can obtain a certificate for `nrmitchi.com` (and `www.nrmitchi.com`, which is also pointed at them). It does not allow Netlify to obtain a cert for `.nrmitchi.com`, nor should it.*

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28244246#unv_28249719
Long term I see housing collapsing and going negative maybe around 2030 (ie countries like Japan/Spain/South Korea) paying foreigners to move into akiya, it's a compelling case for young remote workers in the US who have been priced out of the real estate market in nice cities en masse to abandon their landlords in favor of something like this.
I am aware of their reputation. I added it because was the only reference in German I found. Wanted to provide a reference closer to the events. And they are just reporting the facts as found from the first reference in English I added.

If they say the time is 9.00 AM, and its actually 9.00 AM
it does not make it 10.00 AM, just because it was reported in the Bild :-)
I disagree that programs-as-text is bad idea for beginers. Anyone with a bit of abstract thinking can understand program as text just like how they can understand a multi step mathematical operation.
The small roads of Poland and the Czech Republic are flanked by abandoned houses. Parts of France and Germany are the same.

Most jobs are in the city, as are schools and interesting places. Village life isn't for everyone.

I'm considering those all the time when I drive by them, but the price likely isn't low enough to get me to live there, away from everything I enjoy.
100% this. As long as there's substantial unemployment, there's no labor shortage, but the jobs are hard, the hours are long and the pay is bad. Pay more, and people will take the job. Or don't pay them more individually, but add more people, and you'll also get more applicants, because the job will be less taxing on all fronts.
Tehran is similarly situated to the Caspian as Reno is to the Pacific. Maybe closer but certainly at high altitude.
How does the Mitsubishi i-MIEV compare in price to an ICR kei car?
What is basic economics for you? The supply and demand model which only works if you assume 2 to 10 things (depending on the author), where atleast 1 of them is completely irrational or doesn't reflect reality?
> Fingerprints aren't "junk science"

Fingerprints are directly-recorded facts. What may be junk science is what expert witnesses present about the interpretation of fingerprints.

> The problem is that many juries, judges, prosecutors, and even defenders forget about this.

Juries as triers of fact, and judges insofar as they are ruling on the facts of the case, aren't, in any case, supposed to allow themselves fo be guided by extrinsic knowledge, they are supposed to act based on facts (both direct and the expert knowledge relating to the import of direct facts) provided as evidence, both testimony and exhibits, in the case.
Similar to making a ZFS snapshot, maybe?
C++20 Concepts: The Definitive Guide
Historically it was exceptionally common to grow unproductive jobs up to the limit that the economy could support e.g. the Edo era of Japan. It's quite plausible/likely that part of the industrial revolutions magic was that economic growth outpaced the economies ability to add unproductive jobs.

Note that by unproductive jobs I'm specifically refferring to what could be called BS jobs. Jobs that were previously done by one person, but are now done by 10 people without an increase in measurable output.
I disagree. I think compartmentalization is important.
Font licensing is ill, please help heal it
Well, if it isn't binding, then there's no right to reuse it (beyond certain fair use exceptions) under the copyright law that applies by default.

For me the question is whether the misleading blog post would be found by a court to be an implicit license separate from the one in the codebase. My guess is that it would depend on several factors including the specific circumstances of the accused infringer and the specifics of contract/copyright law in the relevant jurisdiction, but probably at least sometimes yes.
While I like the channel in general, these attempts at justifying click bait are just annoying. Just do it if you deem it necessary, but don't pretend like you have the moral high ground for doing it. You don't.

That being said, Veritasium is among the least clickbaity clickbaiters.
“Full warning: this presentation is still quite technical”

Fifty pages of pure flim-flam follow. This author has no idea what they are talking about.
Does the Tesla semi have hot-swappable battery packs?
Per a sibling comment, GSS has timestamps to prevent replays:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSIG
Yes especially folks here are in a position to lead as early adopters.
Given that these require residency, there is a defacto restriction on ownership for those without the means to get a long term visa or residency permit.

I was not aware of NTT getting you internet; thanks for that info!

I seem to recall the wireless unlimited plans being rather expensive, but it's been a while.

Yes, Japanese government is it's own special issue. Hanko being an always fun issue for people!

I absolutely LOVE being in the Inaka. When my in-laws shut down their business they moved a little ways out, and we regularly visit their family friends in the mountains at their Onsen, which is a solid 40 minutes from anyone else at all.
Same goes for Sicilian real estate. Houses require a major restoration, but they cost just 1 euro.
Then this would be a wonderful place to put your ego down and better explain what point you were making, because that's how "hasn't gotten that much closer" reads.
There's another way using switch if I recall properly.

That said I don't like C++'s library additions just to stay modern. They are not expressive, increase build times, make debug builds slower and can fail compiler optimizers.
yeah, there's that, but the real problem is how much do we trust Apple not to expand the reach of the program, and how much weaker is the security going to be as a result? These are both somewhat unanswered questions at this point.
In this case, not matching the range of existing trucks means that you need to have more trucks and more drivers.
These require residence at the property, and if you can't get a residency permit (rather difficult for the amount of time needed by this agreement) then it's a defacto no foreigners rule for these homes.
Which part of the URL would you want to see more of? YouTube doesn't include the creator's username in the URL unfortunately. Maybe they should!
Kei cars seem like an ideal candidate for electrification though; they don't need to have high top speeds and are also significantly more lightweight than regular-sized cars.
Apocalypse Never Slide Deck
Maybe I'm putting the cart before the horse here, but what if there's a human reason why 10m videos are popular. Maybe 10 minutes is just the minimum time needed to get across a non-trivial idea to a broad audience. Sure, the platform itself encourages that length implicitly but maybe that's not an arbitrary decision and is based on the human capacity to absorb information.
Didn't know you could get a phd in that
I found another source for the paper (via its DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101044) because the page did not work too well here:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5... (Open Access!)
> behavior choices

I really wish this weren't the case, but "choice" isn't a thing - as far as anyone can tell. All the complexity on display in the world appears to be a result of feedback loops, it really doesn't take much to generate a continuous low interval stream of pseudo random feedback - predictable after enough observation. People who regularly purchase chunky peanut butter and cat litter have a significantly higher probability of driving a VW bug. That isn't the result of limited alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register
Somewhat unrelated but I think there should be a law to force all of these big corps to give people an opt out button to disable algorithmic feeds and recommendations.
Imagine this happening in a parking garage packed with EVs.
Migrate to Java 11 from Java 8
Evidently a translation to American English! In the UK we'd call it 999, though 112 does work too.
We had originally planned on moving to Portugal on a Golden Visa (real estate investment) but through a stoke of luck my partner is able to obtain Italian citizenship, so now we’ve shifted to looking for a rural Italian property to fully renovate (“1 Euro houses”). Similar benefits to rural American living (less congestion and density, more open spaces) but in a country with a functioning healthcare system and short flights to most of Europe.
You start studying chemistry before 12 years old? Around 11-12 is when elementary school ends [1]. I don't think I've ever heard of that in California and they don't usually start until high school in Sweden either [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_schools_in_the_Unit...

2. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_A
The engines in a hybrid are mechanically the same as their traditional counterparts (except they run Atkinson cycle instead of Otto cycle)

The big mechanical advantage in simplicity is the transmission. While they’re called “eCVTs” in some cases, the transmission is better described as “almost no transmission”. They do not use the same belt and cone system that gasoline CVT vehicles use.

In Toyota systems they use a simple fixed planetary gearset and can vary the output speed simply by varying the ratios of speed of the two electric motors and the gasoline engine, rather than mechanically changing the ratio of the gears like a traditional transmission.

The Honda hybrid system is even more simple. They just directly drive the wheels with an electric motor and use the gasoline engine as a generator. (With the exception of a single lockup clutch that allows the engine to drive the wheels at a fixed ratio at highway speeds)

Hyundai is a weird exception. Their hybrids have traditional transmissions attached to them.

Except for some computerized parts of the system, the majority of them can be worked on by any mechanic, or even shade tree mechanics. The high voltage system requires care, but there are simple procedures to work on it safely. You can find many YouTube videos with instructions on tasks like rebuilding a battery pack, that dealers won’t even do. Most parts on a car aren’t the high voltage system anyway.
He specifically said in the video that he hasn't been doing this in the past, but plans to "get better at it".

I think one of his videos that qualifies as pure clickbait is "Can a Wind-Powered Car Go Faster Than The Wind?". It was 20 minutes, and nearly completely devoid of any real information. Certainly not 20 minutes worth, and very different from the rest of his videos. It did spawn more videos about how the car actually worked that were worth watching.
The website already serves a 496 byte CSS file (359 minified, even less gzipped), addition of a max-width to make it readable on large screens wouldn't make a difference.
Won't be long until they decide to implement this on un-vaccinated humans. All this over a mild flu, too.
Thank you for your response, these discussions have certainly given me some food for thought.
Those are some very compelling salaries.
I currently work for a SaaS company (started in YC) and make about $260k TC. I live in San Diego and have some pretty excellent work life balance (I surf or kayak everyday, walk my two dogs a lot, am full remote+async). I also own a condo and spend about 1-2 months a year in Hawaii or traveling elsewhere.
While I’m good about not always viewing the grass as greener elsewhere, the current market makes me think if I should look for a new job. I’m a backend dev with about 5 years of experience
In Defense of Henry David Thoreau
The typical diesel semi drives 950-1050km per day [in the US].
I'd be curious to hear where you think all of that complexity has moved. While ICE are definitely more reliable these days than they were 50 years ago, I don't think the major issue is with them directly, but with the sheer amount of ancillary components they imply - ie belts, alternator, fuel injectors, spark plugs, transmission, radiator, starter motor, starter battery, etc. Those are the source of the vast majority of problems and maintenance for ICE cars. EVs need none of them. For electric vehicles, I'd view the cooling system as the largest source of complexity. And I think those will simplify as batteries become better designed (lower internal resistance from tabless for instance), more dense and less expensive.

I think it's important not to conflate Tesla and electric vehicles. They are building luxury vehicles that have the added complexity and added unreliability that implies.
Hey, thanks for the reply. The discussion has been centred on explaining why you have to type the spaces, but I never really cared about that -- my problem was with reading. That's my fault, the usual complaint about whitespace sensitivity is about having to type it, and this is different. I'm talking mixed kebab-idents and really any math operators in the same expression. Unrealistic example but: `(n-1 + n-2) / (n-1 - n-2)`. We may naturally differ on that through familiarity, but it really does get my brain stuck. It doesn't surprise me at all that the mechanics of adding spaces were so easy to learn, but I'm not totally convinced you would have received explicit feedback on readability from students who don't have much to compare to. On the flipside, if you don't get feedback on reading tricky numeric expressions, then they don't care, it doesn't come up for beginners as they're not optimising sqrt routines, and it doesn't matter to a language made for them. I think that's the end of the road.

On the binops, it may be that forcing whitespace around them is a good idea even for a language without kebab-idents, and perhaps the risk you took there was worth it to find that out. I could get around a world in which C's `a & b` and `&ptr` were completely incompatible. (I'm sure you could find a CVE or two for that one.) Heck, every code formatter out there does it. Compared to some suggestions around here and apparently back in 2013 as well to ditch BODMAS, the one bit of math that everyone on the planet learns in school, in favour of whitespace-sensitive precedence... goodness me. Give me forced spaces around binops any day.
US zoos have been vaccinating some mammals

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bears-bab...
An interesting project would be to reconstruct the audio from the USSR rockets that went to venus
A disillusioned straw man leaves?

Send the MOD Squad!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking
I didn't say FPaxos brought throughput benefits. I pointed out that you can still have a correct implementation without requiring majority quorums.

But since you brought it up, FPaxos can have both lower latency and higher throughput than MultiPaxos/Raft[0] ;)

0 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3299869.3319893
I don’t understand this sort of explanation. A “tacit admission” by who? “The economy” does not actually take actions, and definitely doesn’t have objectives; it just describes the broad system resulting from many individual agents.

Are you suggesting that corporate VPs hire managers with a goal of distributing money unequally so their products get sold? That seems like a huge stretch - they benefit so little in that way from their individual hiring decisions.

Are you suggesting that there is an “invisible hand” which pushes systems towards hiring do-nothing managers, because companies that don’t get outcompeted? I don’t see how that would happen - it seems like the opposite would occur.
If this 665 Tw figure is a yearly estimate, they project 1.8 Tw/day for 2030. That figure includes EV.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-2030-power-use-f...
You can try group by and then count.
I flagged this article because it seemed to be a bunch of random sentences that made no sense.
My Journey with SerenityOS, So Far
It's not optimized to that level. There's 1.1k of inline tracking javascript. And a reference to an external stylesheet for the styling, along with a bunch of wastefully long hex identifiers.
last i checked electric vehicles also use the same braking mechanisms and could catch fire for the same reasons : https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/hyundai-... , please post an actual link to a known case of an ICE vehicle spontaneously combusting while being turned off due to some component of the gas/gas system being the main cause of the combustion.
Yeah, lots of comparisons and claims that just don't make any sense.
We got a Rav 4 plug-in a couple of months ago. It's fantastic - it sometimes gives us 45 miles entirely on battery, which means most of our trips don't use any gas at all.

When we were looking at plug-in hybrid options nothing else even came close in terms of mileage, which I found really surprising. It was our top criteria when selecting a vehicle.
Google refused China's requests and got banned there. Apple did neither.
> It should be noted that no country are planning to ban fossil fuel-burning power plants.

There are EU-wide plans of phasing out coal powerplants by 2030, and it's ahead of schedule so far. "Half of Europe’s 324 coal-fuelled power plants have either closed or announced a retirement date before 2030" [1]

EU is doing this mostly by financial incentives not by outright ban on coal, but the effect is the same. Recently a new block of coal-fired powerplant in Ostrołęka, Poland was cancelled and demolished, because it makes no economical sense to build new coal powerplants.

Of course coal isn't the only fossil fuel, but it's by far the most important when it comes to powerplants. Some gas powerplants will probably remain as a way to balance electrical networks during peaks (because they can be throttled faster than other types of powerplants), but it's relatively minor percentage.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/eu...
Ask HN: Are there contemporary notebooks up for tinkerers?
I have been using Thinkpad T420s with an upgraded screen and beefed-up internals as a personal laptop. It's showing its age, but I have a hard time finding a device to personalize.

Tried Pinebook Pro, and while the screen is bearable, its keyboard is really not good for long stretches of work. And then, it can not sleep properly, so it's not really ready to be the daily driver.

Would like to try Getac s410, but it's difficult to find A-ware refurbished devices.

Are the tinkerers running out of options?
By waiting on the sidelines they risk being left behind by expanding technologies that they’re not a part of because they don’t believe in them like other companies.

While a car is a car, an full BEV is not pretty much the same as an ICE vehicle. This is the same mistake that Toyota and others seem to be making.
The trick is probably the voltage. It's very probable that all the "working" chargers in your list can supply 15V or 20V, while the chargers on the "not working" list probably top at 9V or 5V. Unless the laptop has a circuit to boost the voltage to the battery voltage, it will not be able to charge.

The statement works better if it's restricted to "for modern laptops, USB-C makes it possible to charge with any laptop USB-C charger".
I've taken the Go bus from Toronto to Barrie, I think the transfer stop was in Bradford.

From the Barrie bus stop you need to get on Ontario Northland to go further, but that is a regional bus and is significantly costlier. I paid over $90 each for the regional bus to Toronto - compared to some of the pre-pandemic flight deals: Abbostford BC to Hamilton ON for $17! Greyhound is no longer in Canada - you used to be able to cross the country using Greyhound. The Bolt Bus and others can be good options, I've gone overnight from Toronto to New York. I've also taken these buses in Europe, and yes you do transfer in Lille.

Our hack was to take the CasinoRama bus from Toronto to Rama for $5, or on the first trip it was free and they gave us play money to spend at the casino.
There are places in the US where you can buy houses for a tiny fraction of what a condo would cost in a major city, but the problem are the same--you will have to invest in rehab, the local economy is probably not good, etc. On the other hand, if you can still do remote work and get money that way, you could make a go of it. But it wouldn't be easy.
I see opposite in EU. Renta in city centers are very cheap now.