skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best people who do this are those that ask stupid questions in a way that makes it seem like the question they’re asking is because the other person is stupid
Same here. I value my YouTube Premium subscription more than other streaming services.
> and Apple's loss is Google's gain.

Elaborate? Apple is not involved in the search market, and I don’t see how them not making as much money on their own platform benefits Google in any way.

Note: I still think the value that Google Play and App Store provide to developers is not worth the 30% (or 15% in this case), but just want to understand your reasoning.
I have KunTeng controller and disply, with a GS Motor hub drive, pushing 2.5kW peak right now with a 1.5kWh battery pack.

The motor itself is capable of 6kW+peak power with a bit of statorade, but my battery and controller aren't up to snuff

I'm personally pushing 60kph :) But it's pretty scary at those speeds even with the best tires I could find and pretty good disc brakes, so I'm generally at 20mph or under.

I'm planning a 4kWh battery eventually... but not yet.

It's a super budget build for now - a BTwin Rockrider 520 with a battery from salvaged modem packs and an overvolted KunTeng controller and a hub motor. It's super fun though and I've done over a 1000km on it which is very nice.
I really enjoy the scholar.social instance for my particular usecase, but yeah the network effects are real :(
It is not a matter of translation. This isn’t a “word cloud”:

“freedom is the most beautiful of social harmonies; fairness is the best policy.

Christianity introduced the great principle of human brotherhood into the world. It is addressed to the heart, to the feeling, to the noble instincts. Political economy comes to make cold reason accept the same principle, and, showing the linkage of effects to causes, reconciles, in a consoling agreement, the calculations of the most vigilant interest with the inspirations of the most gorgeous.”
http://bastiat.org/fr/conclusion_eo_harmonies.html
There was a proposal for that, but it wasn't accepted https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/890
A safe deposit box is at a bank, at which point, why not just put your money in the bank?

And fire-proof safes aren't "fire proof". They're generally rated for a reasonable amount of fire resistance - 1 to 2 hours - which is usually enough time for a house to burn down around them and be extinguished (they also only promise to protect paper, for example).

Whether they would survive the inferno of a bushfire, wherein the house is not extinguished, is far less clear.
Sorry, totally forgot to provide a link to it [0]. I bought a cargo version specifically to use as a total car replacement. It has a 300lb capacity, so that's the why of the big motor. I wish I had done it sooner. I've only had it a couple of weeks, but I've already used it for trips to the hardware store, grocery trips, firewood (i'm sure some people laughed at that), and all sorts of stuff I'd have never attempted on a pedal bike.

[0]https://www.radpowerbikes.com/products/radwagon-electric-car...
Imagine a "Tweet to Fart" extension in the same vein as "Cloud to Butt". Lets see: "How could you refart that fart?! :angry_face: That's a terrible fart." Maybe I'm just juvenile but that might be funny enough to make twitter usable again.

In other words, I don't really mind "toot". It casts the medium with a healthy perspective on itself.
Other "personal search engines"

https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/ written in personal language, takes multiple doc sources

https://apse.io interesting because it takes periodic screenshots and performs OCR

https://keminglabs.com/finda/ rust, fast, seemingly abandonded
The math on this is great.

Every engineer worth retaining is realistically responsible for at least $2000 more in real corporate income or institutional savings than was anticipated in any single year. The bigger the organization the more I would think they leverage the same engineering successes to higher dollar amounts than that.

Many of course get bonuses well in excess of this baseline when even larger contributions are recognized.

I would like to see someone prosperous & generous donate to the Syslinux Project so they can update to a point where they have a Microsoft-signed SecureBoot universal multiboot solution for UEFI so it will be as useful as it was under BIOS booting. Ideally, if a signed "shim" is involved it would be universal so it would boot any form of Linux using either GRUB or Syslinux, once the official update is released and adopted by the distros.
China Evergrande Makes Overdue Interest Payment on Dollar Bonds
I'm learning to program with SICP. Best book to get a grip on C and C++?
I felt my fundamentals were lacking so I've been working my way through SICP and it has been illuminating. However, realistically I expect to wind up working in c++ or java, which I loosely understand is a rather different paradigm. What do I need to understand about the differences? Or should SICP adequately prepare me, even if I'll miss some features?
Roku sells between 25 and 40 percent of all smart TV's in the US. I wouldn't be shocked if Roku TV makes up a significant amount of their userbase.
So they’re trying to kill it before it even gets off the ground.
Recoll and the underlying search Xapian are incredibly powerful. I am surprised that almost all server side search use such bloated frameworks. Xapian seemed really easy to theme but their site and docs need some love. I also don't recall, but if they had a way to parse JSON search hints I'm sure that it would be perfect as a lightweight server side search for static sites. Not that JS search isn't cool, but until browsers implement a native site searcb feature, it is nice to have a way to search from non-JS browsers and clients.
I guess they heard you because now it's "last updated 50m ago".
Recycling waste water is a whole science, this goes for car washes, dishwashers (which now use less water than doing the same thing by hand) and industrial washing of all kinds of materials. The times when water was used just once are long gone, and that's before we get into thermal recycling to ensure that the maximum amount of energy is extracted from whatever waste remains.
If you've got the wherewithal to grow significant wheat and an avocado tree to fruition, I would think you could afford to give out more than just one sandwich along the way.

So, do both.
Modern banking was also basically invented because of this very problem - gold was inconvenient so you had gold coins with insigna's which promised a standard weight of gold and could be reasonably trusted due to being hard to forge.

Which gave way to IOUs from gold smiths, since carrying large amounts of coins was still hard. Which, well, everyone knows the rest.
Meanwhile Colorado is in the top 5 states for educational attainment, and the fittest state in the Union (for many years now). It's interesting that altitude has a noticeable effect on birth weight, but it clearly doesn't really affect the outcome a whole lot.
Recoll isn't just a personal search engine and it does all the things you mentioned and more. It is built on Xapian.
> a jumbled mess of different priorities that everybody resents

Sounds par for the course. Link to Pentagon Wars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
Put Your React on a Diet
The SciML tutorials are a good start: https://github.com/SciML/SciMLTutorials.jl

And also the 18.337 lecture notes (probably also has videos available): https://github.com/mitmath/18337
Let's just say that this decision made me reinstall Elixir and open up Phoenix docs... I've been meaning to take a look at them and now I got the push.

Now, I don't think I'll rewrite my current projects in Elixir, far from it, but just in case...
> And if you did, there’s plenty of examples where it would void your warranty. Eg John Deere, Tesla, etc can only be serviced by the manufacturer otherwise it void warranty.

Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act says otherwise.
Simulink -- probably the most popular modeling toolbox.
Robe de mariée nature en dentelle de lotus longueur au ras du sol
probably does add up, but... there's loads of folks with no cash... which might balance it out...?

i've got ... ~$1000/cash in the house. There's an occasional consideration of regional power outages where we might need to leave the area for a day or two (has happened yet, but we came close twice). Mostly useful to pay handyman/lawn guys now and then, then top it up now and then. Have considered holding on to a bit more, but we've never really needed more than a few hundred at any one point, so not sure there's much utility.
That's the most difficult part is finding who to follow (likely strangers) when you first start. You could watch the global timeline or search some #hashtags for things you are interested in or try to pick the right server with a like-minded userbase from the get-go. However, these issues aren't too different than any other social media tbf. And eventually you find interesting people exclusive to the Fediverse or post different content on it that is more interesting. Mastodon and others never force being social and following others though.
Being a hitman is more likely to have actual moral consequences affecting other people, although e.g. a hitman killing a warlord might be more moral than a software developer working on Great Firewall.

All of the rest comes down to baseless mental hangups, although e.g. withholding random sex has basis in safety considerations. There's also reputational damage, but that cannot be used to to justify reputational damage, that would be circular. It sadly has to be managed, though, so even those without mental hangups and safety concerns might withhold sex.

The answers are "yes, probably" and "yes, if that's the best option in terms of income and safety". To the extent that it gives me pause, I can recognize those are just bugs in my thinking. It's often helpful to analyze your reactions and conclude they are broken, not trust your gut with no justification, e.g. instinctively get angry when someone cuts you off in traffic, or in this case are instinctively disgusted by sex work.
Well, a few points - the A6 is comparable price wise to the Model Y. Depending on trim, the dual motor 3's are comparable to the A6, the base model to the A4. But an A4 trim isn't much different to an A6, and still above a Model 3
Hey, I've done something similar with a Lenovo battery. If you're willing to scrap a battery pack, it's definitely doable by reusing the electronics. You should add your own BMS though. It's fine to run them in parallel for the balance wires, but connect the phase wires to your own BMS. It should work :) I recommend Daly BMS's, they're not too expensive and they kept my 1.5kWh pack in balance and protected it from a few accidents.
Does it OCR periodic screencaps? I.e. the subtitle text of something you're watching on netflix? There's no saved file to index.
That's one very mean bike. I think I have enough steel in one leg to keep me off rides like that but consider me impressed that you are taking that into traffic. Is this street legal where you live? You'll be doing wheelies if you are not careful :)

How much does the whole thing weigh? Mine is at 29 Kg, and that's with only a 500Wh pack, I figure about 6 Kg/KWh so by the time I'm done building the new pack it will be around 40 Kg in total or so.
I think you're missing the point focused on your point. We all understand the internals are probably coming from the same factory line. The problem is that they don't connect universally. As someone up the chain elsewhere stated, if the markets can be forced to use the same USB charging port, there should be a similar regulation for these kinds of things as well. Whether that's a universal battery shape/connector for tools, eBikes, whatever. We've unified things like 110v mains plugs, 220v mains, etc.

The fact that they do all use the same internals makes this even more egregious.
Am I the only one who thinks that it’s extremely messed up this is even happening? Private companies, operating on their own initiative and without any serious oversight, are slowly and irrevocably degrading the night sky, a precious and irreplaceable resource. How are governments allowing it?
Hmm, it's better than others, but I can still find Li-ion for a better price. Besides, I'm outside of the EU, I can't imagine the shipping costs haha
That seems to be outdated news (from 10/12/2021). The WSJ just reported a few minutes ago that:

"China Evergrande Group made an overdue interest payment to international bondholders, the state-owned Securities Times reported Friday, an unexpected move that allows the struggling property giant to stave off a default."

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28953114

Also, as per HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case, the Reddit post was just a link to an article in the Washington Post.
What's the best way to find interesting people if you've already got an account and don't want to switch instances but your local instance is a little slow these days and you'd like to liven up your feed?
I saw this here and was annoyed enough to [blog about it]. There's probably a joke there...

[blog about it]: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/21/twitter-threads-chest...
Ingold is a great game designer. Fail-Safe is a classic and he's been working and building for so many years now, just getting better and more creative IMO. Inkle puts out some great stuff and open source tech (Ink) too.
Previous commentary on Safe Deposit Boxes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27106695
Clickhouse is nothing like snowflake. A Postgres user can be useful in Clickhouse in minutes, not even close for snowflake.
John Wayne Airport sucks. Terrible transit access, and Lyft has been flakier in that area than hiking through the parkag garage then over a few blocks to get to a bus stop.

Flying into San Diego is a much better experience in comparison.
The internals are completely interchangeable. You'll even find the same model with different internals.

I agree with you 100% about the need for regulation.
Great. Good to see more possibilities for these platforms which address the real or perceived biases and disagreements about moderation that conservatives and Trump supporters seem to have with big existing players.

I hope it works out well for them and gives them more options to voice and discuss their ideas.

I still don't think it would justify the "they're a private copmany they can do what they want" argument about social media and internet giants who absolutely work to influence public opinion and discussion for their own benefit. I think there are real externalities to society there that probably need regulation, not just competition.
i love tweets because they're short. most writers write too much. for example, op's post could have fit in a single tweet.

"i dislike twitter threads because they're hard to follow. it's hard to find a tweet's context in a long thread like <link>. unfortunately, people use threads because they get followers from threads. they should host a blog instead."
Federal authorities in Washington, DC, are also working to crack into Gerrish's phone in order to glean more information, such as whether he had tried to call for help.

I guess we now have good reason why we need backdoors in all our phone.
Supply chains are disrupted everywhere, wouldn't it be a quite reasonable precaution to have a large amount of cash on hand, like having a months worth of toilet paper, just in case? Running out of either is not fun.

I also have 1 real US dollar that I keep in my wallet as a reminder, it was minted in New Orleans in 1901, it's 120 years old, and can't be inflated away like Johnson sandwiches or paper money.
There are numerous studies on the myriad bad health effects of PM2.5.

The sooner we can transition to EVs, the better.
Why would an ambitious person run for office if the pay is low? We’ve already tried this experiment with government industries like teaching, and then we wonder why American educational policy is loosing global competitiveness.
That's exactly the plan, with one very small modification, I'll be adding a 1A balancer that gets triggered on the 'charge' signal, and I'll replace the balance wires to the original BMS with a laddernetwork of resistors to fool the old BMS into thinking it is still seeing a nicely balanced pack.

This is the balancer (not a BMS, just an active balancer):

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32945565819.html

What's neat about this one is that it uses two supercaps as a chargepump so it can rebalance quite effectively without producing a lot of waste heat or wasting power (of course you waste some but a small fraction of a resistance based balancer, which just burns off the power in the cells that are highest voltage).

I'm building a small test pack (20 cells) right now, and if that works properly I'll scale it up eight fold for full range. It will still plug into the standard charger and I'll have a switch that will allow the pack to be charged to 100% capacity in case it is needed for an even longer trip.
Plus with fees ($10/month if balance drops below $1500) it sometimes makes sence to close down your bank account.

Not to mention close to zero rates on savings.
I've often thought about having a 'meet' tab in the top bar, alongside 'ask' and 'show' and 'jobs', where people could post meetups. HN has connected a lot of people over the years, both with each other and with significant opportunities. It would be nice to foster more real-world connections.

Edit: not a new idea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1310849
I mean, that's should be a reasonable understanding for most people. Sure, there are companies out there I don't support because I don't like what they do. But there are others with opinions I disagree with, but I still patronize them.

And its important to recognize that the stores I refuse to patronize, and those I do that hold views I dislike, are probably not given the same distinctions by others, even those with ideals like mine.

But the core point should be we can have a calm, rational discussion on it, and leave with the understanding that your thoughts and views are not 100% my thoughts and views, and that's ok as long as neither of us hold views promoting violence or hatred.

I've never met a person in my life I 100% agreed with about everything. Not my mom, not my dad, not my sister, or my wife .

Talking and finding commonality is more important and necessary than finding reasons to dislike each other.
I had similar trouble when I was trying to make it work on a Fedora VM. When I gave up, admitted to myself I was a pleb, and switched to Ubuntu, it was entirely smooth. Dunno how/why.
Sacrifice long term happiness for short term gain? Yes brilliant move on your part, totally brilliant!!!
>>"Is it worth paying for YouTube?"

>I think that largely depends on your personal ratio of income vs perceived value of time vs annoyance by ads.

What boggles my mind, is the number of YouTube channels that have jumped on the reaction video genre, and amass thousands upon thousands of views, and occasionally have the video they are reacting to interrupted by ads?! And consequently, all of their viewers now have the same interruption! I generally give up on channels that can't do the minimum effort towards their production.
Unlocking Oculus Go
Archive of full article: https://archive.md/UtfEQ
The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]
Right, so again, what do these people think they are solving? There's plenty of logic flaws with the doomsday preppers, but returning to the gold economy is just where I draw the straw. Sure, store all the food, guns/ammo, fuel, water, etc you can, but if the world is that screwed up, we've all seen the movies on how well best laid plans workout.
From Twitter:

> We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider. We're working with them to block the attack and restore access.

https://twitter.com/Fastmail/status/1451374471344918533
Fastmail now reports they're "under attack":

> We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider. We're working with them to block the attack and restore access.
Enphase has a self installer certification program that I used to DIY the design. I still hired a licensed electrician for the physical installation, though.
The one-minute courtroom drama "Over Macho Grande" from Airplane II, while not a Zucker credit, is worth a mention here because it's so immaculate => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JswFF2dKiLM
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28943886.
If only Apple would protect us from the thousands of bad actor developers selling physical goods that they give free reign to take our credit card information and abuse it however they please.
in what is your phd?
Ah yes, that complicates matters considerably. And true, Li-Ion is still a better price (and higher density to boot). But it's worth monitoring this because at some point there will be a crossover.
The US can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance as it is, let alone moving to materials with shorter lifespans and more maintenance
But there is operational cost like bandwidth for Google, which is not there for Stripe.
Internet Archive Turns 25 [video]
This would carry more weight if Stripe were to maintain a mobile operating system, and an app store to help developers get customers.
> Why would an ambitious person run for office if the pay is low?

Power. Exposure. Experience and connections that are useful in highly-paid lobbying and other political influence positions. Serving their own direct, or others who will be thankful, financial interests in ways that will generate orders of magnitude more returns than the direct pay of the position. Etc.
I think the idea is that gold is a universally desired good that can be exchange for money or anything of value in any situation or place.

So if you decide to flee the country, five pounds of gold is $150K and can easily be carried in a small backpack. Let's say you keep it in 1 troy oz pieces, so you have 80 of them worth about $1800 each. You can go to any nation on earth, and whatever currency they have, they will be happy to sell it to you for gold. Yes, only in $1800 pieces. That's fine, you can exchange it for whatever local currency is being used as you need it.

You can do this anonymously and privately. You don't need to worry about whether the US dollar has collapsed. Gold does go up and down, but it never goes to zero, and tends to do well in crisis situations and maintain value over the long term. It is not - or shouldn't be viewed as -- an "investment", it's insurance. It costs money.

Moreover even if you do not flee the country, having assets that you possess - true bearer assets -- is superior than assets others hold for you in a custodial account. How secure is your 401K? Secure until congress passes a law to take some of it. How secure is your bank account? It is as secure as someone who can convince the bank to freeze your account or close your account. So having a bit of gold or cash as a type of hedge for unlikely events makes sense to a lot of people.

You have to keep in mind that for a household living in Silesia, between 1880 and 2000, they would have lived through one hyperinflation, two world wars, two revolutions and three uprisings, and four foreign invasions. They would have been ruled by Prussia, Poland, Nazi Germany, Soviet-controlled Poland, finally free Poland. Each of these had their own currency regimes and currency reforms. That household would have been well off having a bit of gold tucked away. They would have been able to trade some of it for food during the Weimar collapse, and to transport some wealth through the dark days of communism -- maybe even bribing someone to let them escape the country with something more useful that worthless zlotys in whichever nation they landed.
How many potential customers do you lose with your home brew subscription workflow though? If I don’t think it will be easy to cancel, I probably won’t be signing up.