skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we were to try to switch all vehicles to EV “overnight”, we’d almost certainly also mandate PV on all car rooftops.

I have observed that discussion of this solution normally divides into these two groups:

(1) “That’s ridiculous, a car covered in with PV will only make enough electricity to go 10-30 miles per day!”

(2) “That’s a great idea, a car covered with PV will make enough electricity to go 10-30 miles power day, and most people only go 12-35 miles per day!”

When there is serious concern if the grid can cope, we should take all the mitigations we can get. Reducing aggregate charging demand by 90% is good even when every single driver still needs to use an external charger.
I think your takes on BBC World News and Al Jazeera don't really count for much unless they're based on analysis of the full content of these organizations. I listen to a moderate amount of BBC World News, and I've almost never heard Russia come up. However, my listening habits barely cover 10% of their output. Maybe you just happen to tune into some subsection that does indeed focus on Russia, which seems entirely possible.
My use of "prima facie" specifically flagged that I was not assuming the conclusion, only that it's good evidence that shifts the burden of proof.
This is a good article on the topic http://www.bawiki.com/wiki/Waterfall.html
I think introversion and extroversion are just different skill sets that you can develop and are not mutually exclusive.
> So yes, when you come in and single out my response as needing a very specific test before you'll consider it plausible, aren't being epistemically fair.

It seems you felt attacked by my comment, which was not the intent. Apologies if it came off confrontationally. I never asked you to supply “a specific test”, I asked if there was one. Not sure why you took it as a personal attack on your point. I was genuinely interested in if the topic has been studied/tested.
SHA-1 as cryptography was broken in 2005. The first collision created by humans was in 2017.

See https://shattered.it for the practicals.
Using Ethernet to communicate between the connected devices doesn't mean that either device is acting as a router to send packets beyond that direct link.
That was a great article!

I really appreciate it, when people write from hard-won personal experience.

For myself, I write in Swift, and it’s quite possible to write totally inscrutable code in Swift. I am guilty of making code harder to read, and less grokkable, in my “cleanup” sweeps.

I am currently doing a bit of navel-gazing, on this very topic. I have gotten into the habit of writing very “swifty” code, and am thinking that I should probably back off a bit from that.
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yes, the form sends a POST request to your matrix server

matrix indeed does have it's own login UI, which you can embed in other applications (but it is quirky)
Anything trying to use that risible xkcd panel to make a point is instantly, easily dismissed.
They claim find substring question as their own art? I was asked this in the early 2000s and i am sure i asked this question to candidates in the mids 2000s. Someone should find proof of any early example they asked a candidate and DMCA hacker ranks cloud provider.
I think “deep commitment” is rather debatable. We’ve moved in the right direction, generally, but only slowly and with far too much foot dragging. Remember, gay marriage was only legalized six years ago. Six!

And that’s just one example out of many.
What's wrong with sending login token via Matrix and asking user to copy it into login form (or just sending auth link)?
"horrible mistake"? This isn't an "oops I forgot to pick up milk on the way home from work" or "oops I got in a bar fight and had to spend the night in jail"

People who cheat do it consciously.
> Within the actual language, there isn't a universal syntax just to use a package.

There is. The issue is one of mindset. You recognize Maven and Gradle as belonging to a sort of "parastandard" set of technology, offering proprietary (albeit free/open source) glimpses of how one could conceivably solve the set of problems that they're meant to be used for, but when it comes to JS, you're elevating the parastandard stuff to the level of being part of "JS".

Neither CommonJS nor NodeJS's `require` nor package.json nor TypeScript nor esbuild are part of JS. You shouldn't give them any privileged status that you aren't willing to give to Maven or Gradle when you think of Java.
One major downside I can see of this sort of construction compared to almost anything else is that if anything gets damaged, I can see it being a right pain to fix.
We've had this with the push against post-Covid antibodies in favour of (less effective) vaccination. A study of 2.5 million people in Israel - the largest to date - shows post-Covid antibodies are 6-13x more effective than vaccines.
nice idea but I think not knowing exactly when the animation will change is really a negative. it's fine if you are reading and scrolling slowly in a linear manner, but whenever you want to do other things like jump 3 sentences etc. it becomes confusing for me. I see that you put visual indicators on the left of the text whenever theres an animation,but maybe a better idea would be to put permanent indicators so the reader knows where are these animations are triggered.
I think a corollary to this is that no one will CARE as much about your health than you, even your doctor. It is perhaps scary to realize it fully, but no one is as invested in getting to the root cause of your issues, and no one has as. much intimate information about how it feels/manifests itself etc. than you. I think taken together this surely spells out that you ought to have a much more active role in your care than you may otherwise think to do, especially in situations where those factors may be more pronounced.

I speak from experience. I was born with serious congenital issues which are non-evident from looking at me or a simple examination. Switching doctors, for instance, is quite the ordeal, and it is always a few sessions before I get someone to be "leveled" up to where I need them to.

My parents have a remarkable story related to me being born that ties into this as well. Apparently my mother suffered from severe pain later acknowledged to be polyhydramnios. They went to several doctors, did many ultrasounds, etc. From the first to the forth doctor, she got anything from needing to stress, to rest, to this is normal, etc. But luckily one hinted just slightly that he thought there MIGHT be something, and suggested she go see this other specialist who was at the tail end of his career. Apparently a minute or two into the ultrasound, he apparently mentioned it with utter certainty: It could be one of two things, either anencephaly or esophageal atresia; I'd either be stillborn or would need surgery shortly after birth. Guess there's not much suspense for the reader for which one of these it turned out to be, but I always remember that story -- and my parents relentless pursuit to find someone until they were convinced they had it "right" -- whenever folks bring up searching for medical advice.
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No, but the github server is configured as remote for anything checked out from Github. And I don't know how the remote will handle a merge (push) from a repo with rewritten history.
It's the same for most of the FAANG giants. The Amazon Prime Video app for Windows is basically unusable (frequently lags, stutters, crashes). Google Drive Windows app frequently crashes (or crashed, I think they replaced it with something else recently). Apple's iTunes was always a confusing mess. Microsoft's Windows 10 is obviously a giant failure in terms of UI if nothing else (because half of the functionality uses old Win7 UI style, the other half uses the new Win10 style - and for many features, some aspects of the feature are found in the old Win7 window, while other aspects in the new Win10 window...). Uber/UberEats - what a mess (my user experience on their website showed everything that is wrong with using "eventual consistency" approach to data).

The one tech giant that is IMO delivering a product that meets minimum quality bar is Netflix. I've never seen a bug in their service. Having said that, what they do is simple compared to what other tech giants do, but then again, even a audio/video streaming service can be completely screwed up (see Windows app for Amazon Prime Video).

In general, software development is very hard and the way these companies do it - with a team of always-new engineers (few people stay on a team for more than 2-3 years and thus few people understand what's going on on a deeper level), with apparently little testing - is not conducive to quality products. [1] Also, the recent trend of microservices means basically companies have given up on delivering a cohesive, tested product - instead every team if deploying their crap to prod and hope they don't introduce bugs that break downstream consumers - and downstream consumers protect against that with failover in circuit breakers etc. It's basically as if the companies admit that they don't know how to do cross-team coordination, quality assurance etc. and every team is fending off for themselves.

[1] IIRC someone from Microsoft openly admitted that the reason for why they decided to make Win10 a Frankenstein with two different UIs stitched together was that nobody understood the Win7 code any more (relevant people changed teams/left company), so any rewrite to use Win10 widgets was out of question.
Agreed.

Also importantly, the more complex the cable is, the more expensive it will be to replace if someone comes along with some bolt sheers and clips the cable.

Our "current" (pun intended) cables can deliver 350kW of juice. That's already more than most car battery chemistries can accept for more than a few minutes before doing harm to the battery.

Not to mention the fact that even if you could deliver such high amounts of power, that'd translate into insane requirements on the grid, likely necessitating onsite storage to act as a buffer.

All in all, the recharge time problem is overblown. There isn't as much need for high speed charge infrastructure as you'd imagine. That's because most charging is happening at home at lower speeds. Your car almost certainly sits idle for more than 8 hours every day which is plenty of time to refill. Fast charging really only matters for long range excursions, which aren't terribly common.
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But in "no true Scotsman" there's an assumption that there's an external definition of the Scotsman category that is invariant from the fallacious clause, whereas here the definition of the grilled cheese category is the system under question. Otherwise, I could say "yes, I like grilled cheese, especially when it isn't grilled and contains neither cheese nor bread."
I for one really like this. Great work, and I would absolutely use (and pay for) this once it gets a bit more mature!
I used to struggle with "function color" until I realized that the functions just have a different type. Async functions return a future `Task<Thing>`, while normal function return a plain `Thing`. Of course they are incompatible.

A different way of looking at it is that in asyncs functions you should only do things that have negligible runtime (compared to the response time of your GUI or network service). If your task needs more time, you mark the call site and the called function "async" and the task will suspend somewhere "down in the call stack". (Without looking into it too much, I think something similar actually happens with these virtual threads. They modified IO functions to do cooperative multitasking under the hood?)

As to async functions being contagious, I found it helps to split "imperative" procedures and "pure" functions, and the async color mostly applies to the previous.
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The website does get your credentials. To be fair, this is how password login with any of the web clients works as well. Which makes it hazardous to use clients not hosted by the homeserver or a trusted third party.

However, if the homeserver is using OIDC, the user credentials are handled entirely by the external OIDC provider and the client doesn't get them. But then you should be using OIDC directly and not "Sign in with Matrix."
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> FWIW, even if TSA is bad at stopping terrorists, I AM glad that all of these people punching flight attendants are

Seriously, how often does this happen? I've flown a fair amount in my life (in Europe though) and I've never seen any commotion on a plane. I've read about some incidents, but I've read about a lot of fucked up stuff that I'm not concerned about in my life.

It's along the lines with everything these days. Someone does something bad and someone else gets shocked and then everyone wants to stop something like that from happening ever again, through whatever means, without realizing the incredible inconvenience (and complexity) this causes over time when repeated ad infinitum.
Two of the biggest crypto miners are in Texas, where (until very recently) power was essentially free at night. The winter storm this past February changed the economics a little bit, but for the most part, the Texas Power Grid creates more power than can be consumed at night. And supposedly if the power grid (ERCOT) has enough consumption, they will pay the miners to shut down.
> A delightful take from a non-Western newsmonger, using the language the West uses when analyzing corrupt far-flung lands

Author has a vast megathread on Twitter using similar language: https://twitter.com/gathara/status/1351038226581118986

"Winter storm batters huge swathe of covid-ravaged, politically troubled US, as it struggles to emerge from deadly coup amid dire humanitarian crisis that has killed nearly 500,000 and left one in seven households, including 18 million children, without enough to eat."
Combined solar+battery is not just cost effective at dealing with the duck curve it is downright cheap. Hawaii canceled an inter-island grid interconnect because of this.
“Yes, Minister”, and it’s spiritual successor “The Thick of It” are incredible shows.
TIL strace[1] exists. What a handy tool!

1. https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/04/03/what-problems-do-people-solv...
So to bribe again, basically. Africa is sinkhole of aid, maybe time to stop? People in lush tropical forest rely on fallen worms from a tree as a source of protein and a frog is a special treat. (this is a another solid point for low protein high carb diet you should eat) How can people not able to farm (raise a chicken at least) understand about such high dimension problem like rainforest preservation?
Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
> Everyone thinks like that. Everyone thinks they're the bright shining star who knows medicine better than the doctor.

This seems more truthy than True.
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This is so important and most people don't realize this. Ability to build things quickly, make tools, write/rewrite stuff. All this is so much more important than memory skills, or even for that matter novel algorithm design skills(even questions that demand novel algorithms are rare in most production environments).

That given, it's a shame that our interview skills are no where close to hiring people who can build anything at all.

The problem is a lot of these top companies have tons of money and time, to spend doing these things. They can even end up hiring the wrong people and it wouldn't matter all that much because they have lots of money, and every once in a while a genuine contributor slips in and makes up for everyone else.

Now everyone wants to do this, when they don't have the same conditions.
I understand this UX argument: there's however arguments against it as well. For example, "taking a call" (at all) while driving could be illegal in your jurisdiction, and is in any case a safety risk.

The computerization of the car has other negative consequences:

- cars are increasingly more expensive due to electronics (which represent up to 50% of the price of a car nowadays), and are victims of chip shortage

- cars are much harder to repair and require cracked firmware downloaded from sketchy websites or an official and super-expensive maintenance kit, which of course only works for one brand/manufacturer

- cars are much less reliable and electronics are responsible for a great number of recalled products

I miss my old autoradio with a jack input. Overall, i miss when my car was not a computer: we computer people can barely display a few pixels on a screen without writing a dozen bugs, why the hell would we responsible for making software for cars?! see also boeing scandals.

So while bluetooth is a safety improvement over the worst-case of using a mechanical car and a phone at the same time, it's part of a trend that overwhelmingly makes cars less safe and reliable.
i'm all for it and considering adding more ways to login

this project is less than a week old at the time, so only password-based method is implemented
On the contrary, I’m fairly sure you could do that with the Harry Potter books. What jurisdiction are you in?
Does matrix have anything on their roadmap for signing in without user/password in 3rd party apps? maybe the homeserver can act as an oauth provider somehow.
It might be, but not always.

Family member’s wife started experiencing gradually pronounced schizophrenia over a few years and she became abusive to her husband until it ended with a short stay in a mental institute and then medication. She still wonders who she was at that time…

Some people suffer diabetes as they age, and more than you would guess start experiencing mental breakdown that can manifest as abuse to a partner.
PlanetScale is now generally available
Credit where credit is due... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
> Snails are part of lifecycle of parasite that is spreading malaria.

Hum... That claim sounds really strange to me. Plasmodium falciparum cycle has been thoroughly studied and it never mentions a snail. I think that you are confusing it with other organisms like Schistosoma (not even in the same Kingdom), but maybe is a recent discovery and I could be wrong.

Can you share a link?
Funnily, that's exactly what the early Tesla Semis do. They have a charger aggregator which takes multiple supercharging stalls to charge one truck.

The issue is, of course, not one of delivering the power, but rather that the battery chemistries we have today can't accept that much power without being damaged.
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>> Your resume would get pretty barren if all you do is fixing bugs. Shipping features/products is how you get promoted.

Counterpoint: If you don't fix enough bugs, you won't have any customers. Customers don't care about new features or products if they are buggy messes that don't work correctly.

virologist's commentary and question to the community is whether it makes sense for FAANG companies to ship so many new features when many of them offer little core product value.
They constantly make small changes to the UI to improve it. These are good-faith changes aimed at making things clearer, easier to use, and more consistent overall.

Since I use blender a lot I can absorb these changes easily. If you're not using it very often it might be harder. However, I'd contest the idea that the "UI changes every month" since there are usually only two or three releases a year.
If you just want to ask questions, serverfault would be a good start.
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Just a few minutes ago I was writing in notes on my phone when everything I was writing was backspaced and my phone typed tye used you. Can we please discuss whether or not this occurrence was a glitch, a hacker, or my insanity slipping away. I am using an iPhone SE if that matters. Thanks everyone.
From "Yes, Prime Minister": https://vimeo.com/110662596
I agree to some extent, but I believe they were mostly trying to convey that much of the work is done by volunteers who are largely only motivated/have the resources to test a small subset of potential deployment scenarios. Those contributions are still valuable and contributors themselves don't owe you anything. The best way to fix this issue would be to get involved (or switch languages as you suggested, that's fine too).
Well, for one, I'm not claiming that religious affiliation is a sole determinant of future success. Also, Prussia was subsequently steam-rolled by the USSR machine. But compare general attitudes in France, Italy, Spain vs. Netherlands and the Nordics. Or Austria vs. Germany.

I think the overall point is quite valid. If you look at a whole host of societal norms in the US, they will be quite puritanical, compared to a bunch of [formerly] Catholic places, even though the US is far more socially liberal than many (most?) Catholic countries.

You can always argue about what words to use to quantify, is it "extremely" puritan or merely "strongly influenced", not sure this can lead anywhere.
At a minimum, this should be password protected by default.

One of the security lessons from the late 1990s and early 2000s is that things like this quickly get hacked. Many developers forget that a service where all security is handled client-side are easy targets for hacking.

Furthermore: In a lot of cases, people will ship prototypes and run their stuff on top of them long after they have outgrown a critical component.

I have tried to write a universal backend... It's possible, but you really have to work in a permissions model from the beginning. What you'll find is that basic read/write/own enables very basic functionality. Unfortunately, to do anything complicated, you will need to write server-side queries that verify that the user is allowed to do what they are trying to do.
I am glad that we have pets and that we take such good care of them. That said, it is very amazing to me that even our animals have food preferences.
Don't think the Russians really care about the ISS for now its just a stop gap until the Chinese space station is more developed. At least relationships between Russia and China is warm and the leaders respect each other.
Don't think Russia and EU really see eye to eye and EU leaders are really disrespectful in their diplomacy(if you can call what the west does diplomacy). Super weird because the EU and US aren't really talking from a position of strength in 2021 as Milley said we are now in a period where there are 3 great powers the US, China and Russia.
Yes the mass media are spineless Aljazeera is one of the worst, pointing at the rest of mass media like they are any different.
Man I spent so many hours playing Alien 8. Such a great game.
Just because you can't think of a solution does not mean others have not already thought of solutions. Rooftop solar for example. Doesn't work for all buildings, but we are talking about the aggregate effect on the grid, which it does work for in most locales. In other locales, there are other solutions. You mention hydrogen. Pretty corrosive and explosive stuff, but maybe.
As I understand it, the general concensus is that the newspapers in the UK are ghastly in much the same way as TV news is in the US. Whereas TV news in the UK, isn’t nearly as horrendous as the US.
Especially in the case of ISP cable modems.
> one of my moost loyal colleagues is cheating on his wife for years. and yet, he is loyal to the tasks and to the company.

This loyal colleague was probably extremely loyal to his wife for a time, too.