skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla used to have "Standard" and "Low" settings for how strong the regenerative braking is, but just found an article that says they removed the low option, which would be a bummer in my opinion.
I'm not sure if Chrome is exclusively to blame. I used to have an RSS feed button on my Firefox toolbar for news sites, and it was cleaner than having to go to the site itself for updates. This would be around 2007 or so.

I stopped using RSS altogether because at some point, every RSS button I clicked started taking me to a page with XML markup. Previously, clicking the button would add the site to my feed. I didn't understand how RSS worked, so over time I just stopped clicking the button.
> would convey the same meaning

Disagree, as clearly did the author.
This is a really cool project and as a hacker of the Raspberry Pi since v1b I love to see it.

Clicking on the Monterail about page I really do appreciate when companies list their teams. It's that small bit of credit that I feel goes a long way. It appears more common in European companies. American companies will typically list the board and executives; ICs are treated as interchangeable cogs with no credit given except internally.
Pentkovski was a student when the decision to axe domestic development was made.

His achievement is overstated in Russia (mainly from the urban legend that his surname led to Pentium). He is a great engineer, but Intel never had a shortage of people of his caliber.
Interesting. Curious to hear why they went with Kuma/Envoy and not Istio or Consul
With the new LFP batteries the recommended charge level is always 100%.
> I've learned when you have a question for someone you need to say their name at the begining of the question, not the end, and give a few seconds of background

I think this is necessary for me in person or online. My mind tends to wander during meetings, especially meetings that don’t specifically involve (say, group status meetings where people just read their completed items and backlogs that we all already see).
the website hang up
The SoC is not that slow if you only use Firefox to read Hacker News and Stackoverflow, and the rest of the work happens in the terminal.

I am more bothered by unreliable suspend to ram. It kind of works, but then it does not for me.
Well, the insurance rate would depend on the performance of the system, wouldn't it? So if it were good, they could sell it cheap.
Depends a lot on use case.

I have some experience with visual inspection of aerial optical fiber. You can rent a very large and expensive helicopter to fly uncomfortably close to swaying fiber and power lines, or fly this thing up and down the line.

There's also a lot of money in visual inspection of power lines. Not in California, LOL, where they just let it burn, but in better areas, when trees or vines get too close to the power lines, even during droughts, they trim them rather than letting them catch fire and burn off. But I live in a civilized area far from the coasts LOL.

I imagine this will get militarized and police-militarized very quickly. Thirty seconds before kicking the door in over unpaid library fines or writing the wrong politics on twitter, fly the plane over the building and look in all the windows and make some decisions about letting the team kick the door in, or land the plane on the roof or try to find the best vantage point to observe or illuminate the situation. In 12 minutes everyone in the house or everyone in the swat team will be dead, one way or the other. Might be good for last minute verification its the correct house, not that there's ever any punishment for shooting the wrong people, in either military or civilian or militarized police situations.

I suspect there are entire classes of non-tactical military-type use. Aircraft crashes next to the aircraft carrier, a few minutes/seconds of nearly instantly arriving and hovering over the pilot will help the "real" helicopters and rescue crews find the pilot. A human piloted electric drone could hover over a pilot before a turbine helicopter finishes spinning up the rotor... Its not powerful enough to lift people in a rescue situation but is strong enough to drop lightweight supplies.

There are some limited situations where a human being on site making judgement calls is safer and more efficient than a pre-programmed drone or a human very far away and uncoordinated with the folks on site.

I suspect battlefield communications is in a stage much like anti-aircraft defense in Vietnam in the early days, before surface to air missiles existed. I think the USA, and probably the world, has seen the last battlefield of total emcom superiority. In 2030 trying to fly a FPV observation drone will just get automatic counterbattery fire on both the drone and operator, on both sides, etc. The days of you just freely transmit are over. The land battlefield is going to look a lot more like naval sonar situation where if you active sonar ping you get blown up by someone you never even hear. So everyone's got a radio and blue force tracker and all that is kinda over now.
oh, now I wonder if I can cite GDPR (and Dutch government for their BRP thing) and ask my bank to spell my name in a proper Ukrainian Cyrillic the same way it is done in my id.
Wonder if this will be picked up by users here. Evidence of crypto adoption which was often lamented as lacking, seems to go unnoticed here a lot.

> Houston Pension Buys Crypto, an Asset ‘We Could Not Ignore’ (Bloomberg) [1]

>
Fixed-income titan Pimco is starting to embrace cryptocurrencies, CIO says (cnbc.com) [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945833
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28936897
Well... you can do it in reverse with iconv too...

$ echo trÃ¨s intÃ©ressant | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1

très intéressant

Admittedly no autodetection. Luckily EU mangling is usually just one or two encodings.
Pay Over Time is a new "feature", which traditionally was not possible on an Amex card. Technically speaking, if we want to be pedantic, American Express is a banking and finance entity and offers many account types including typical credit cards (American Express Blue, any of the branded Amex like the Delta or Hilton Amex).

The traditional American Express card, though, is a charge card and not-withstanding the new Pay Over Time "feature", requires the entire balance to be paid in full every billing cycle. The entire reason they're popular with businesses is it provides an easy way to effectively do Net 30 payment terms without having to deal with POs and invoicing.
I wouldn't discount human connection enough to quote it. I've been the only remote person on a team pre-pandemic. It was easy to see others as assholes who just cause work for me if you never/rarely put a face to
> So... if you don't understand someone else's reasons for doing something, you assume they aren't being honest with you?

I feel you are getting somewhere with this train of thought, so far I've replied a few people on this thread that seems to think this way and project this need of having a camera on because they don't understand how that can negatively affect others and assume people are being dishonest.
A non-profit that gets the lion's share of its contributions from Google.
> They had already been elected to the government in both Italy and France though, in a coalition with more centrist socialist parties.

Sure, communists were elected to the government of the Czech republic up until the latest election. That only tells you that a share of the nation is radicals -- enough to elect some radical candidates to represent them.

But to actually become a communist nation, you need to confiscate the means of production from the rest of the nation. First, you don't get that just by winning some seats. You don't even get that by winning a majority of seats. That's a constitutional rewrite situation, not a political party situation. Something like that requires seizing control of much of the organs of civil society -- you have to get courts to not honor private property, for instance.

> In both countries they already held ministerial positions, so this just isn't true

Holding a ministerial position does not correspond to being able to eliminate private ownership of capital. The two are rather different.

> In practice they'd likely end up becoming more moderate, like happened in San Marino

The Most Serene Republic of San Marino? The 10 square mile tourist trap? Now you've lost me. If your claim is that these communist ministers would realize that they can't actually make their nation communist and just keep the name of communism while advocating for vaguely social democratic reforms, then absolutely. But that does not make the nation a "moderately communist" nation, it makes it a social democracy. Or are you one of those people who thinks social security is "communism" and your definition of a "moderately communist" country is present-day France? Is that what you mean?
I can honestly say I hadn't thought of it, but I think you're right. I'd love to have that layer of anonymity, as it were, at work, since I'm a completely different person on the job anyway.
That's a nice looking panel, would like to hear a little more detail on the wiring and switching of AC loads. At work we're only allowed to go up to 50V, for everything else we have to call in an electrician and that costs $$$.

edit: found some more detail in the direct link - very interesting. I wonder if you have to get something like that inspected wherever it was installed.
I am an avid powerlifter and used to compete in submission grappling. Now I write TypeScript code.
Nice. This is good to see. It makes sense for rental companies and its great way for people to use a Tesla if they don't know someone with one.
Even then, engine braking isn't exactly a foreign concept in the ICE world. Lots of vehicles have a mode or gear option that enables engine braking.
With FSD?
Everyone with a bit of AI/ML knowledge already knew this but from this story it should be clear that Tesla's plan to convert their fleet into self-driving Taxis is basically dead.
Cost depends on local electricity prices. In Bay Area, it would cost $21-25
If the underlying data store is SQL capable, then dataloaders are just a hack trying to do what the SQL engine already does in much more efficient way. Much better to map the GraphQL query to proper SQL query avoiding the round trips.
Haugen isn’t a whistleblower. She’s being paid by FB likely.

Real whistleblowers go into exile or jail, not the hot seat before congress to advocated for exactly what FB has said it want. Y’know, like Snowden, or Manning. Not like Vindman, Ciaramella, or Haugen, who receive widespread support of everyone.
Listen to Eminem from the early 00s.

And what’s so bad about medical misinformation vs say talking about murdering people? This is a rabbit hole and the left is gleefully throwing us down it.
Hope they disable some of the Tesla Easter eggs. Having the road diagram turn into a rainbow and Don’t Fear The Reaper blast out of the speakers because you hit an on screen button four times is pretty unnerving if you’re familiar with the car and really wouldn’t be what you want having just got off a long flight and driving in a city you don’t know in a car you don’t know.
The UK Secretary of State for Digital (DCMS) who is piloting the draft UK Online Safety Bill set out her position for the first time with:

"Rest assured, this Bill will end anonymous abuse, because it will end abuse, full stop."
The Roaring 2020s, the Beginnings: A Silicon Valley Money Tsunami
LFP batteries can be fully charged and Tesla is switching their standard range vehicles to LFP. It's possible that Hertz is ordering standard range / LFP Teslas.
I predict the emergence of a cottage industry of rentable towable generators. Unfortunately you can't charge a Tesla while driving, but there have been EVs that let you do this. Regardless, I think there are certain situations (camping and long road trips) where having some electric peace of mind would be valuable, knowing you won't get stranded if you can't find a charger.

Also I suspect we will need underground tanks of dinosaur squeezings for longer than 20 years. Cars being sold today routinely last over 15 years, plus yard equipment, generators, etc.
I am surprise this didn't install.

But I'm not sure it would work in recent android versions anyway thanks to all security. Well, unless he is going to MITM termux applications.
The article’s claims of non sugar sweetened soda being healthier than sugary sweetened seems to be a fair claim.

> For me, drinking a sugary soda is an infrequent, deliberate decision - one I don't take lightly. There's a guilt that comes with it, but I think that's a good thing to make me think twice. But I also see people drinking diet soda all day, every day, thinking there are essentially no negative consequences (when there obviously are).

I notice people eating excess sugar and carbs all day. Even without drinking a sugar sweetened soda, more people are consuming excess sugar and carbs. Therefore sugar sweetened soda is still worse than non sugar sweetened soda.

But that’s neither here nor there when comparing the consumption of just sugar sweetened and non sugar sweetened soda.
Scandinavia is in no way communist, not even "moderate' communist. For the nearest equivalent to that, Yugoslavia would be a better comparison.

If you look at the rapid industrialisation and growth of Italy through to the 60s starting from a similarly dire start, they leaped ahead of Yugoslavia. Yes Italy suffered recession through the 80s and 90s, but the Yugoslav economy completely collapsed. 150% inflation in Italy spread over a decade? Try 9,000% inflation in Yugoslavia over just 6 years in the same era. They were even a net importer agricultural produce despite 29% of their work force being in agriculture.

More recently since you brought him up yes Berlusconi was an idiot that hurt Italy, no question, but to really wipe out an economy right down to the roots there's no substitute for Marxism.
Do you give people COVID by listening to a song?
The business model of rental companies require them to resell their cars every 2 or 3 years.
Probably they were afraid because a used electric cars market is still something that is not very established.
I love this idea, one of my peeves is that I tend to accidentally scan the next paragraph or bottom of the page and it can really ruin pacing in tense moments.

Great concept!
The technical detail blog post has a bit more information. At first I was wondering why they decided to go with an RPi instead of a few enterprise servers, and it looks like they're utilizing the GPIO interfaces to interact with relays to power some of it.

https://www.monterail.com/blog/2016/smart-office-raspberry-p...
Question: does the bank have the right to say, "I'm sorry Mr potential customer, but we can't meet your requirements so are unable to give you an account"? Or is it essentially required that everyone doing business must do things like keep all computer systems modernized?
> well we have the proper name in this database over here". And so could the bank.

I expect this is how they will eventually solve the issue - the customer-visible parts will be insulated from the old system with stuff that can handle Unicode. Chances are they currently don't have such insulation, producing documents with the wrong names, hence the complaint (bank statements are often used as proof of ID).

Btw this is not a stupid law. Accents are important parts of languages, the tech to handle them has been around for decades now, there is no excuse for willful illiteracy.
Serverless and Microservices Architecture
So now everybody has to change speech for a very very small minority?
> Car-rental firm, recently emerged from bankruptcy under new ownership, orders vehicles by the end of 2022

That does sound crazy that they re doing it while they ll be still in pandemic, which bankrupted them in the first place. I guess in the US people can always find a charger. I wonder how many people will rent those cars for the novelty factor, and novelty only works once. And it will be interesting to see what people think after they have rented one
Because complexity kills. Something that has yet to be learned by the new generation of developers. While disciples of FAANG create a gazillion microservices that they spend most of their time debugging in production ("observability"), smaller teams just get shit done.

Since "monolith" has become a dirty word, it would be instructive to remember that some of the major companies out there are still light on distributed systems, which we all knew even back in the olden days of the internet were an absolute killer of efficiency and productivity. Yes, "microservices" is just another word for it - believe it or not, there was life before Node and Docker.

Whatsapp, Dropbox, Instagram, StackOverflow - all existed or still exist as one easy-to-maintain application. But go ahead, "be like Google".
Thanks for sharing the details. Will try it out - if this drastically improves performance some setup overhead is worth it.
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Faces UK Parliament
Facebook is suing the Ukrainian national in US District Court.

I assume what follows is that he never responds, FB is awarded a judgement & our Ukrainian scraper never visits the US.
Colour me skeptical.

Hertz just declared itself bankrupt a year ago, now they have 4bn cash to spare? Both things cannot be true in such a small timespan.

Either the 'bankruptcy' was a fraud, or the Tesla deal has some small letters like "of which we will acquire 1,000 per year for the next 100 years".

Sure, the official story is "we were bankrupt but we found new investors at the most convenient time", but that could've easily planned beforehand. Also, they raise 1.65bn [1], but suddenly spend 4bn? The math doesn't add up.

1: https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/hertz-funding-stock-soar...
It's only happened to me once, so I haven't bothered to change it but at least on Linux Mint it's just Settings -> Power Management -> When the power button is pressed -> Do nothing. Problem solved! Bit of a waste of a good button, though and it doesn't look trivial to rebind (IE: not supported by the builtin Shortcuts GUI even though pressing the power button obviously elicits a flicker of the input box).
I don't think a rolling release will ever work for casual users, there are too many configurations of hardware and things you might not know people are using, some package update could affect someone printer and you cost this person a job opportunity.

You would at least have to block the AUR on such a distro, there are too many patched kernels/packages there and too many recommendations to install X from the AUR.

Then you have the GUI chnanges in apps, it is too frustrating to make the user learn weekly some new GUI workflow because app X decided to improve stuff.

Arch has a great use case for people that actually need latest stuff and for the people that just really want the latest stuff to satisfy their appetite of checking new features.
I've been following Enso since it was Luna. Can you be a bit more explicit about 'in-dev'? Not to be used yet in production? Thanks.
Hehe, fair. It was late and my first time commenting on HN and for some reason felt it necessary to point out that my grammatical incorrectness is intentional, not based on ignorance. In retrospect, i see that was unnecessary.

I currently use Notepad++ for programming related todos/notes with a file/tab per project, partly because i'm always at a PC, so it's quick and convenient, no extra clicks, the active/undone stuff stays at the top, and i scroll down or search for historical references, split up by each date as a markdown header.

My personal todos, routines, lists, and the family's grocery shopping and the like are managed by my own app that works ok for our current needs, but not quite ready for MVP. Perhaps i'll post a ShowHN someday ;)
That's pretty cool. I mean I've worked in offices with tons on Pi's but they've been mainly just driving monitoring and visualisation displays. Seeing some other automation and streaming stuff in neat.
> lethality of around 1.8% (lousy weapon)

The worldwide average estimate (including asymptomatic) is 0.15% - right around the same as the flu (0.05% - 0.1% depending on the year, IIRC).
In slightly related news, Ontario just last year finally allowed people to use accented characters in their official legal names, birth certificates, and so on. French has been an official language in Ontario for over half a century. The reason it wasn't possible until recently was entirely technical. The systems were limited by ASCII or, yeah, possibly EBCDIC. (I don't have the details.) Still no guidance on how the average government clerk with the very common US-style layout is supposed to type them in, though.

https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/58538/ontario-introduces-...
Game That Gave 'Cuts, Blisters and Burns' Returns to Mario Party with a Warning
Car rental companies aren't in it for the long term. iirc they hang on to a vehicle for an average of something like 8 or 9 months (Was told this many, many years ago, so probably a bit out of date, but probably not off by much.)
They'll probably ask Tesla to put in a brief training video for people who haven't driven one before.

But a Model 3 is absolutely a perfect rental car. Compact, zippy, comfortable, and makes you look good if you pull up to a meeting out of town in one.
There are lots of examples of Americans being kidnapped and tortured.

Remarkably the CIA Station Chief of Lebanon was captured tortured and executed back in the 80’s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley
Not just Intel but a funny low-end Intel. They only name their worst CPUs "Pentium" today. I can hardly expect this working any good.
I helped Facebook build the Platform, even going so far as convincing Dave Morin to leave Apple and work on it, because I was worried about evils of Murdoch. So trust me, I know all about exactly what you cited.

Facebook is a very different sort of devil. To the point where all of the other devils are afraid of them. Even I didn’t realize how insane these people were, and continue to be. They’d be toast by now, if they hadn’t been able to successfully hijack the governmental and political machines to keep themselves seen as “essential” and worthy of protection — there’s that Death Star at work.

I know, I need to write about this in more detail. It’s on my to-do list. I have spent a long time waiting to see if society would figure out what a giant scam these people were — I am pleasantly surprised. You’ve got to remember that, 10 years ago, people wanted to nominate those lunatics for the Nobel Peace Prize. Being an enemy of Facebook was equivalent to being an enemy of the state.
I get that. Curious, what do you think of prettier, which appears to philosophically align with next.js based on the issues you linked? Personally, prettier is more palatable specifically because it does one thing.
Hello, would love to learn more about what hardware you are using. I am in the market for a high quality condenser mic and arm to hold it. I am already using a Scarlett Solo interface. But would appreciate any info you can share on your light and audio setup. Also why do you need multiple elgatos? Just for convenience?