skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric on short haul flights really doesn't make sense to me either in most real-world scenarios given the energy densities possible from current batteries. Although you may be able to pull off the flights themselves without any issues, you will be unable to use the plane continuously because of the time you will need between flights to recharge. Of course, in scenarios where the plane is in use for only a small fraction of the time, this isn't a problem, but that does not apply to most commercial situations

The most realistic way to attain "green" flights seems to me to be some variant of a high energy density fuel such as hydogen produced from green electricity... so-called "green hydrogen". This also solves the range limitations of batteries, besides charging time. There are however significant problems with using hydrogen too, as other comments in this thread point out.
How developers used OSS to contribute to the Afghanistan evacuation effort
> Or it could mean ASAP

Reading this as written, you're requiring your staff to read every message immediately but they only need to respond if you think they need to.

That's no different than 24/7 on call when it comes to making some people's lives miserable.
In modern JS wouldn't you use an arrow function?

someObj.someMethod(something => something);
That's not completely wrong unfortunately. By now, we have the OS, the browser and individual websites all using dark patterns to some extent, sometimes even against each other - e.g., by now, Windows will nag you if you try to switch to Chrome while Google will nag you if you don't switch to Chrome...

Sometimes it feels like modern UI has become a battlefield between different companies with the only one losing with certainty being the user.
What Founders Can Learn from Lawyers About Storytelling and the Art of Brevity
The purpose of government SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) is certainly not to catch terrorists/pedophiles/money-launderers. Those activities are generally tolerated/endorsed by intelligence agencies, as they are not heinous enough to garner their ire, even helping them whenever they coerce someone into committing a terrorist attack. The true purpose of all of those data is to create a metadata map and to assess who is up to what and who can do what, such that the powers of their nations over the world can be maintained as long as possible.
Surely top speed matters more than pedaling?

No one argues that people in electric wheel chairs are really driving ATV quads.
Are there any tax implications with this type of setup? e.g. equity granted in the US, but then perhaps eventually vest and get exercised in Canada.
Well.... except when the package doesn't match the import path. Then you can get stuck in a merry search for "what the heck is X and why is it not in our lockfile".
The only part of this I disagree with is mocking Linux users for being paranoid. I will mock Linux users for many things, but paranoia about Microsoft is not one of them.
(Portuguese here)
Portuguese Parliament and Government publish law every day and afterhours[1], as a citizen I have to keep up with this. MPs believe they are doing a great job by producing more Law, instead of checking if what is in place is accountable. A common behaviour is when a "crime" case is well covered by the media, the first thing is said "we need to change the Law", trying to dodge blame.

I have been working remote for 17 years, and the teams I worked in, work asynchronously. It is fine to text, slack, discord and email after hours, people don't expect to get answers immediately, they will reply according to their schedule or contract.

One case is that employers have to compensate employees for electricity and utilities for working remote, in my case that is a cost of €10.58, I save much more for not commuting, financially and psychologically.

[1] https://dre.pt/dre/home
What I currently track:

- Hours of sleep per day
- Calories burned per day
- Calorie intake per day
- Caffeine per day (mg)
- Financial Portfolio performance every few days
- Monthly spend on different categories (eg. food, housing, misc)
- Squat, bench, deadlift numbers

What I want to track:

- Water per day
- Blood levels. I'd love to get bloodwork done very 6months to a year?
- Books read (mostly so I read more)
- Blogposts written
- Code written? Whether its a personal project, random scripts, leetcode puzzles. Helps me realize if I'm doing what I want vs. spending my time elsewhere.

Definitely more I want to track. Love seeing everyone else's ideas.
New Cars Will Have to Detect Drunk Drivers as Early as 2026
As with so many discussions around GraphQL vs REST, this is a category error.

Quoting Roy Fielding[1]:

> REST APIs must be hypertext-driven

> I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today’s example is the SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating.

> What needs to be done to make the REST architectural style clear on the notion that hypertext is a constraint? In other words, if the engine of application state (and hence the API) is not being driven by hypertext, then it cannot be RESTful and cannot be a REST API. Period. Is there some broken manual somewhere that needs to be fixed?

There are certainly issues with GraphQL, not the least of which is security. (Facebook, I am told, generates a whitelist of allowed queries at build time. Do you?) But this article is discussing two different RPC implementations that have nothing to do with REST, properly understood.

That being said, I agree entirely that people should consider REST-ful system architectures, but within the context of hypermedia, rather than in term of JSON RPC.

[1] - https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...
"Snow White" was a hit movie in 2012 but who knows.
Needing money is the #1 excuse for avoiding founding a business.

I have helped found two businesses. The first I put in all I had (~10k), and the second was founded a year later because the first was failing and I was essentially broke. The 3 co-founders who all had small children drew down mortgages to fund themselves. Being hungry for money, we started doing some irrelevant consulting to pay ourselves some money: which was about minimum wage for the first year (not enough to pay all bills). I lived in a derelict building with opiate addicts (not my scene, but it was my friend’s addiction). As founders we were fortunate that we couldn’t get VC funding, since now we still own all of the business. The business hasn’t turned into a unicorn, but has been mildly successful, and now the founders have a better financial story than most first employees (@1%).

YC provides living expenses while you validate your idea and get funding.

There is usually a way to succeed but you must have the right thought patterns. If you are the sort of person who finds excuses, you are far better off being an employee. The amount of money a good engineer in the US can earn is astonishing.

On average, being a founder is a financially stupid decision. Most VC funds fail, and VC has seniority for any business sale, so founders have a much higher risk than VC. The chance of a 20% payout is nowhere near enough to cover the risks of failing. Be an employee, take your 1%, value it at $0, and enjoy banking your low risk salary and avoid screwing your health and have a social life and look after your family.

Please, try to avoid selection bias where you see a founder win $200M but you ignore the other majority of founders who failed and ended up with $0 and a broken life.
This a weird argument; It's like asking why graphic designers use Photoshop instead of coming up with their own image manipulation application. Word is literally the top-tier application for developing documents and lawyers are using it for exactly what it's designed for.
I'm only talking about why you would choose a cloud provider over VPS/dedicated, not that they're the only possible choice if you want to scale, so I don't see what is "not true" about my comment.
Ask HN: Would you build a new search engine today?
We've recently seen the launch of a new search engine funded by Marc Benioff.

I think that Search Engines have been mostly commoditized, and that the company with the biggest budget pretty much wins the game.

However, maybe there's space for a different kind of search engine.

Would you build a new one today? If so, what would make it different from anything else?
Well, that mixin has never been the standard way and has been deprecated for years (and for good reasons)
Move any windows around if it is not instant, save everything (just in case) and kill dwm.exe (DWM will restarts on its own)
Seems to be a bug that it slowly gets slower and slower especially if many windows are open.
Flushing subnormals to zero produces speed gains only on certain CPU models, while on others it almost does not have any effect.

For example Zen CPUs have negligible penalties for handling denormals, but many Intel models have a penalty between 100 and 200 clock cycles for an operation with denormals.

Even on the CPU models with slow denormal processing, a speedup between 100 and 1000 exists only for the operation with denormals itself and only when the operation belonged to a stream of operations working at the maximum CPU SIMD speed, when during the one hundred and something lost clock cycles the CPU could have done 4 or 8 operations during every clock cycle.

Any complete computations cannot have a significant percentage of operations with denormals, unless they are written in an extremely bad way.

So for a complete computation, even on the models with bad denormal handling, a speedup of more than a few times would be abnormal.

The only controversy that has ever existed about denormals is that handling them at full speed increases the cost of the FPU, so lazy or greedy companies, i.e. mainly Intel, have preferred to add the flush-to-zero option for gamers, instead of designing the FPU in the right way.

When the correctness of the results is not important, like in many graphic or machine-learning applications, using flush-to-zero is OK, otherwise it is not.
What’s your practice area? Most big law firms outsourced photocopying 15 years ago. Not to mention outsourced doc review and ediscovery hosting.

See generally FRE 502(b).
Wow! Congratulations, you beast!
So then you just sideload the messaging app instead of using the official build that complies with the legal system. Just like many crime groups do already - look at the EncroChat phones that gangs were using.

This just isn't enforceable. Yet more laws made by people that don't understand the technology.
Show HN: Data collaboration outside your organization
Are you seeing the backlog for prevailing wage determination / documentation as 9+ months, as indicated by the DOL (https://flag.dol.gov/processingtimes)? For some visas there are other sources of documentation that are acceptable, but without a safe harbor provision. Curious whether you've seen things speeding up at all lately.

Thank you for taking questions!
In the US a lot of places don't have sidewalks or bike lanes and you're encouraged to cycle in the middle of a road lane so that you don't get killed when a driver hits you at full speed from the side. Also, you're legally entitled to a lane.

In most other places that don't have dedicated bike lanes drive on the side of the road, same places scooters normally drive.
While I agree with this, there are the caveats that both light electric bicycles and heavy analog bicycles exist, and that in many cases the additional mass of the motor and battery may not contribute much to the overall momentum once the mass of cyclist and cargo are factored in.

Note: I commuted by electric bicycle before I switched to working remote, and I have to say that riding a vehicle that tops out at ~30mph when you're slamming the throttle _and_ pedaling as hard as you can on a road with cars and trucks going 45mph (or faster) is a harrowing experience. The few miles where I rode on bicycle paths, though, I capped my speed at 15-20mph (around what a decent cyclist would do) and slowed to 5-10mph when I was approaching foot traffic or other cyclists - and nobody ever batted an eye (except a few people who wanted to know where they could get one, heh).
It's going to happen at some point, I agree, but I wouldn't count on it by mid-2022, which is important if you are looking to buy a GPU. The fact that my 1060 is valued at 150% it's launch price indicates that miners are also pessimistic about the speed of a full POS transition.

Plus, I'm not convinced that the transition will go entirely smoothly. Obviously it would be in miners interest to prevent the POS transition, and if there's a bug or problems with the new chain I could totally see a fork or political pressure to delay things further (I don't think either is likely, simply possible).
Exactly, so the legal team and the founders didn't do a good deal. They agreed to those terms. Nothing was "re-negotiated" as the article said.
I am surprised velomobiles are never mentioned: they are much faster than traditional bicycles, have some protection from the weather and can be electric assisted too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile
PopOS! Gnome & Wayland. Native Zoom works very well. Never crashes. And finally has virtual backgrounds.
Only issue is Firefox windows are invisible when screen sharing, so I use Chromium for those sessions if I need to show a browser.
It's not the safety perspective that drives the legislation, but trying to create meaningful classes of vehicles that then can be used to drive safety. The classification comes first. And s-pedelecs are a bit of a weird in-between thing. From a technical perspective a bike, from a speed perspective potentially as fast as a scooter (but rarely so in practice), a bit faster than a normal bike or e-bike and a lot lighter than a scooter. So it's a tricky thing to classify.

In the end the governments decided to limit the power for e-bikes, limit their speed and tie it in with pedalling. S-pedelecs have all those restrictions but they're a bit higher, so you can have more power, go a bit faster but you still have to work to get to some speed. On 'takeoff' my bike can briefly do 350 Watt bursts but that quickly falls off to 150 and at the maximum speed (45 kph) it's like driving into a wall if you want to go above, the motor cuts out completely and there is considerable drag.
I read that IPFS purposefully has mechanisms in it to allow banning content. While hypothetically you could still run a custom client that won't ban content, peered nodes might still ban the content leaving you with no source.

Based on what i read long, long ago - IPFS is very much not intended to be censorship resistant.
> a shady company that plays cowboy will do the bare minimum to get the badge.

Isn't that part of the point of having a standard? That the bare minimum done by shady companies is actually enough to prevent adverse outcomes?
Lack of liquidity.

Algorithmic pricing works in liquid markets. Housing is not a liquid market.
My Framework is amazing and probably one of my favorite laptops in quite some time. I think the build quality is great all things considered
Linus Tech Tips, right now, is doing a series on switching fully to Linux and their WAN show from last week also talk about it.

For the average consumer, Linux can be a very, very bad time, in a way Windows doesn’t seem to be.

It can be very hard to imagine what kind of difficulties an average user has; but their videos give a small window into “no, it really isn’t ‘just that easy’ for everybody”.

Commandline is hard.
Speed (or better, momentum) is important. But pedal assistance is definitely material to me. Switching from pedal-assist to throttle-controlled changes the proportionality between impulse and real-world results.

As a kid my first response to pretty much anything with a dial was to turn it up all the way and see what happened. That's a behavior I saw quite a bit during the brief plague of VC-funded scooters: novices at 100% motor output rocketing down sidewalks, etc. That's much less likely to happen it they have to pedal hard to get the top speed.
Something seems wrong here. Over 1second on average to handle 1k http requests? I'm not sure the conclusion is valid. The test seems very wrong. Http being slow seems like a wild thing to say. Apache can serve that much
Hi Peter. Thanks as always for the valuable info you provide in these AMAs. I'm an engineer on a TN visa who's building a hobby project on the side with the eventual goal of turning it into a startup. To what degree can I continue working on this project without violating the terms of my visa? My understanding is that I cannot be self-employed while on the TN, so am I basically free to do what I want with the project as long as I don't incorporate?
Is this option unique to Australia, or apply globally?
That's yet another consumer choice rather than an exertion of political will. The point of political ideas is to change reality, to exert will and make it manifest. Individual consumer choices absent a movement don't do diddly squat.
I tried to answer my own question, but can't find any specifics. CNN says "phone, message or email", AP says "contact", thehill says "email". None of them have a link to more details or the text of the law (which ought to be the bare fucking minimum in a news article about a law, but this is the internet now I guess).
> However, working with Clojure and Scheme, I understand the power of repl driven development that is difficult to explain outside the experience of it.

The only lisp I've dabbled with was Racket and I found the repl driven development to be a frustrating necessity. I would spend a lot of time trying to figure out the actual type of the thing that I a given function (even a stdlib function) needed, and futzing around in the repl seemed to be the fastest way to do it, but it was still quite slow.

It reminded me a lot of my extensive experience with Python where things that are easy in, say, Go, are quite hard. People rave about their repl, but it feels like they're comparing it to a script iteration loop rather than static analysis tooling.

That said, I completely buy the argument that Python's REPL is particularly bad and that there are other use cases where REPL-driven development shines. My mind is open, but these are the sorts of experiences the pro-REPL folk should be prepared to engage with in their evangelism. :)
Pax airlines over oceans etc using batteries is a bad joke. It's pure garbage hype.

Some fantastic value around reliability and maintenance (two huge issues in GA market) with electric.

If EPA bans leaded fuels (which they should immediately) there may be additional demand here.

But it's going to have to be SHORT flights - think 30 - 45 minutes. Even then the payload (useful) is going to be pretty poor I'd imagine.
This is why you should benchmark like you test.

Spot regressions early (locally) but make the decisions based on the big the picture.
Algorithmic tracking is ‘damaging mental health’ of UK workers
I've tried driving over the top of the motor on this bike and it is almost impossible. I'm a pretty strong cyclist and I never managed more than 48 kph and that only very briefly. The drag is insane.
Standards, building codes, especially residential building codes. Any time violating code is effectively violating the law, codes should be free (online) or very very low cost (hard copy).
Do you think Google could make a good pitch to consumers about how much great stuff they produce and how critical they are to modern life so the consumer should give them at least 30% of their 5,000? I bet they could, and words like 'advert' wouldn't be a consideration. Asking the average person to decide what gets funded is probably just as bad as asking VCs.
I don't know if you're being serious or trolling, but those are reasonable questions.
Or you build a bit more capacity and use excess production on good days to produce co2 neutral gas (power to hydrogen to methan) that can also be stored in existing infrastructure.
> The problem is that the book doesn't real proscribe anything practical so it does not actually translate into any coherent political position.

The book wasn't written to promote a practical (political?) position. It's an anthropology of debt. I'll give an examples of something I learned from it that I personally found incredibly interesting:

* Economists all tell the same story about the origin of currency. "People used to barter, but that was impractical, so they invented money to make exchange easier." There is literally no example of that happening in any society anywhere on Earth at any known time. He details instead how, in China, the government needed to raise a large, professional army, so the gov't paid soldiers in their new currency and forced the population to pay taxes in that currency. Poof! Society has reoriented itself to start using currency.

> He very clearly has so much distaste for economist that he couldn't even be bother to actually research the history of economics.

Can you give a specific example where he got the history of economics wrong? Because he cites specific cases where, for example Adam Smith borrowed from Islamic texts on finance; I don't know of anywhere he makes "fundamental mistakes," but I'd love to be proven wrong on that.
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/10/08/analyzing-connecti...
How would you feel if:

(1) The law books were pretty expensive...but some minimum number of public libraries had copies of the books in their Reference (may not be checked out) sections?

(2) The expensive law books were pretty much all in subjects that didn't concern you - building code for steel mills, regulations for operating an ocean freighter, depreciation rules for oil refineries?

(3) "The letter of the law" was freely available - but it's a muddled mess of vagueness, insider jargon, "gotta be a lawyer to understand the mental framework here", and just so hellishly long that you would have to devote your life to some sub-sub-sub-section of the law (plus the administrative regulations based on it, rulings in related court cases, etc.) to have any chance of knowing and understanding it?
The only halfway valid technical reasons I could imagine for those microsoft-edge:// urls would be that they provide some special features that make only sense in a Windows installation - but none of the situations we have seen so far seem to use such a feature.
Because the Protestants told us that sex is "special", and we've been happily carrying on that tradition for nearly 300 years. We consider it sacrilege to talk about satisfying your sexual desires in the same way that you would satisfy your desire for a milkshake.

It's not a way that we're used to looking at it, which makes us feel uncomfortable.

Looked at from another angle, if we analyzed what filters different dating apps allow you to use, I would bet proximity is 100% present. You can't usually filter on professions, or political beliefs, or whether they have a job, but you can filter by whether they're close to you or not.

It's also not like this is some kind of Peeping Tom situation. The performer is well aware their pictures are being sent, and what they'll be used for. Some people may even enjoy it more since they've met the performer in person; again, both sides are consenting adults. It's possible for the client to become a creepy stalker, but even a strong preference for porn from people they've actually met doesn't automatically make someone a creepy stalker.

Creepy situations happen when someone makes someone else feel uncomfortable. Nobody actually involved in the situation seems uncomfortable, so I don't see how it can be creepy. You might be uncomfortable, but that says nothing about how the two of them interact.

I find it more humorous than creepy to mirror the language of the farm-to-table crowd. Brings to mind images of a Portlandia style character riding one of those big-wheel-in-the-front bicycles to go buy fresh vintage nudes from the farmer's market, explained as images that have just become old enough to be considered vintage.