skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They funniest (saddest) answer is the Pirate Bay.
It is mounted transverse it's kind of set out in a way I can see it fitting in the 900 chassis ok. I haven't physically measured it, but I think it could drop in from eyeballing it.

But the big reason is that the Tesla units include the gear reduction to directly attach to the short axles. The 900 has a funny arrangement where the engine is part of a whole transaxle unit which sits on top of the transmission and oil pan, drives the transmission by a chain, and then the axles hang out the side of the unit. I think the Tesla units could drop right in there, just need new axles.

There's a couple Model S rear drive units hanging around in local classifieds. I've been tempted but I don't think I can justify spending $$ on yet another project I'd never finish.
> I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline

Not exactly sure what that is, but yeah that sounds like stuff that has an impact on everything.

Otherwise, just remember that the Meaning of Life is: "Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."

Oh and super-achievers aren't less miserable.
First, I would say if you're worried about your mental health, don't wait, go get help. It does sound to me like you might be a little depressed, but don't take the word of a random internet stranger.

With that being said, when I get like this, I take a step back and look at the bigger picture. First, there's plenty of people in the world who would look at your situation and be floored. "If only I could pay my bills / stay out of trouble with the law / stay off drugs / etc.". There's always someone better and always someone worse.

Second, ask yourself what do you want. Would you be satisfied if you made the next Rollercoaster Tycoon... Or would you say yeah, but X developer did way more in a shorter time and made more money? Like, would it actually be enough? Instead chase what you enjoy.

But it sounds like you don't know what you want. That's not bad, that's exciting! Try things! Maybe you always had an interest in cooking, or writing poetry, or hiking, or whatever. Or society is so obsessed with external validation, instead focus on intrinsic value.
That's a horrible difference. You're talking about phrasing determining morals and ethics? I mean, do you condemn politicians who talk about helping a specific person with a policy to try to make it real? Obviously Amazon's lobbyists are trying to protect Amazon's interests.

If you think Alexa should be regulated, you can think it's immoral. But I have no problem with Amazon identifying why they care. Unless you think that the lobbyists read that as "make sure there is an Alexa named exemption".
Most of them aren't so much "bad" as "of narrow taste". They certainly look awful to me, but Netflix isn't just throwing money away. They've got a ton of data on what people want to watch. Somebody is watching this dreck.

Some of it is genuinely a failure. Funding an entertainment project is always a pig in a poke. Even promising things sometimes just flop. But streaming makes it possible to lower the opportunity costs of those flops, so they can take bigger chances.
Look I understand in making the statement I made that I was hanging myself out there for further critique. My points were simply that:

1) The person doing the work often has limited say in the cost / compensation model unless they are also an owner.

2) Yes, there will always be people who prioritize money over the quality of their services. But reputation has a way of reducing their effectiveness.
What's interesting is that most of these people didn't start with OP's mindset. They didn't say "I want to pour thousands of hours into this one thing until I see results so I can compare myself against other people and feel satisfied." Starting from that mindset is already putting you behind. Doing something because you love doing it and not because you have any expectations will get you there faster, but only if you can do it. It's all survivor bias.
> Several times the compression/decompression speed of gzip

Just be careful that you're comparing against the best implementation of gzip. One recent re-implementation of zcat was 3.1x faster than /bin/zcat (and the CRC-32 implementation within was 7.3x faster than /bin/crc32). Both programs decode exactly the same file format. They're just different implementations. For details, see:
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/fastest-safest-png-deco...
> This solves that problem squarely.

Does it? How do you know? It sounds like that may just be an aspiration at this point.

Has this technology actually been used to solve a real world problem? If so where?
If chargebacks was something people wanted, then they would not have used systems in the first place that doesn't have chargebacks. Maybe in the future there will be another layer on top of cryptocurrencies that introduces that feature, but from hanging around in the community for a while, it doesn't seem to be that much requested.
Right on. I have a 2019 work truck. It has electric locks/windows/mirrors, Bluetooth, and cellular modem/onstar.

It's definitely not bare bones, but I like that the screen isn't really needed for anything, and has knobs for every control.
Yeah I can totally see that. I guess in this case the OP could try to stand strong and refuse to go along without any sort of court order, but even in that case it's not like the OP can stop the registry from going through with the change. So really if the registry decides to do it anyway, then I guess the OP could try to pursue legal options. I guess maybe the domain would be worth it.
Another option would be the base model VW e-Golf, has traditional gauges but does have a bit more infotainment things. A lot of the controls still remain separate from the touchscreen, climate control for example does not require touchscreen.

The problem with VW's lower market EVs will be the range though, not even half the range of a model 3. The ID.4/3 has better range but they ruin it IMO with screens for everything.
Just reiterating. They set out to make a no-compromise, feature-complete board, and succeeded. I have 2 that I use every day, one on a Mac, and the other on a PC. Their dip-switch configurator to determine which system they're plugged into is, IMO, a perfect solution. I would buy another in a heartbeat.
Thanks for the detailed response. I appreciate this.

I've been wanting to play around with pfsense for a while, I'll have to give this a shot.
Think of the children is literally one of the major propaganda tactics the far right has used recently. You can look up save the children sort of stuff. No one doesn’t want to help children. It’s bizarre that Q anon sort of people are able to spin things as if they care about children more than others.

Every one cares about children.

> I’m not sure what makes you right wing

The person consistently bashes the left and praises conservatives. I said that too. Not just school closures in isolation. What would you call someone who does that? Also I brought up the only association they do quickly make is saying they used to be progressive. Another common tactic taken by people who either never were and definitely aren’t now left of center at all. However they will keep leaning right without ever saying they lean right.

A number of political internet personalities in the intellectual dark web continue to do this ploy to varying degrees. Two less egregious examples are Stephen Pinker and Joe Rogan. Two more obviously slanted examples are the Pool and Rubin guy.

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> Alcoholism? Up. Drug abuse? Up. Domestic abuse? Up.

I stated this in another comment. The status quo has never been good for children who were lower socioeconomically. All metrics: school funding, the amount learned, correlation between exam scores and going to university, all are unfair with our status quo.

Why is there suddenly this behavior of caring for all children as if mostly the right and maybe some centrists who want schools open are the ones who care about children. The blogger specially said the left is bad because they kept schools closed. As if the left doesn’t care about children as much.

All the issues you mentioned effect lower socioeconomic families more than any any other group of people. Where is the care for them when the war on drugs screwed stuff up for so long? It’s hard to believe these things are truly cared about when they have never been a focus for the vast majority of the country, both left and right, until the pandemic became insanely politicize and the right didn’t like the lockdowns.
Seems like that's not nearly enough time to really give a whole different kind of keyswitch? For me, at least, I need at least a few days with a new keyboard before my muscle memory is used to it; up until that point it's guaranteed to feel weird and uncomfortable no matter what.
As someone who lived with the pony express this brings back memories :)

I like this micro-blogging distribution concept. It's like a micro substack distribution.

As someone who generally abhors social networking, I like anything that has substance and limits spam.
For you reality is only about the price of the stock.

By the same token you'd have thought that Amazon was the best thing since sliced bread back in 1999

Then when it crashed 97% you'd have thought it was on its deathbed ready to be cannibalized by Barnes&Noble

Then when it reached new peaks after 2010 up to now...right back up there being the best thing since sliced bread.

In reality the analysis of the balance sheets through the years + Bezos letters to investors point out to a much more nuanced and steady climb, independent of stock price action. Amazon didn't need to look at stock price at all ,because it achieved its growth via internally produced FCF and the re-investment of it.

FCF which Tesla never produced and so they decided to create a cult to oversell overhyped equity to disciples/bigger fools who trade based on sentiment and without understanding any fundamentals.

Finally if you can't see any evidence in a carmaker with quality issues trading at 310 times earnings, then you won't accept any other evidence (which btw I provided)
> All of this technology contains properties that identify your vehicle from similar vehicles WHILE making the roads safer.

This is simply not true. Things like touchscreens are cheap gimmicks and the roads do not get any safer by using them in a car [1]. Mazda recently announced its decision [2,3] to replace touchscreens with analog controls as they provide more tactile feedback and I hope more manufacturers follow.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277965

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335

[3] https://www.autoblog.com/2020/08/25/2021-mazda-cx-5-updates/
Can't believe I've never heard of this. Thanks!
> Isn't that how we got the IBM PC Clones?

IBM encouraging developers to target their BIOS and not the hardware, and BIOS clean room designs is where we got the IBM PC clones - but that's still the world of software. (Note: IBM managed to take clones by Eagle Computer and Corona Data Systems off the market because the software wasn't a clean room design).

The IBM PC's pluggable design with already existing standard ports made it easy to build clones, because it wasn't the hardware that was being interfaced with. If you could clone the BIOS and have that speak to your components however you wanted, then you could make an IBM compatible.
If only the Bollinger offerings weren't 100k+ MSRP :(
My internet provider is the cable monopoly, so they win anyway.

I could get DSL, but it's shit here and anyway only ~$25 cheaper than the cable (which is 5x faster...).

For $15, I could get cable tv, apparently diverting what I currently pay for internet away from profit and over towards channel fees.

I've never fully digested them, but Michigan seems to have shitty franchise laws written in service of the large cable companies.
In the video itself, he stated that electricity propagates from the battery at the speed of light when he describes the diagram.

I think what he has missed describing is that the wire folds carry capacitance (and inductance). The capacitance leads to current flow paths shorter than resistive paths (where resistance is assumed zero).

Some commentors have asked what happens if the wire at the extreme end is cut.

If it is not cut, then intially some current goes via capacitance, making the bulb light up sooner. Ultimately, assuming DC battery output, capacitive current decays down. However, the time-consuming resistive path establishes.

If the wire is cut, capatance makes the bulb light up at first, however, the capacitive current soon decays without establishing of the resistive path, hence the bulb glow would decay.

The 'electrical' model above does not contradict the 'energy flow via fields' description, as the two are one and the same thing at the basic level.
I wrote:

If you're consulting, you absolutely need to have
estimates -- because that constitutes the bulk of
the Statement of Work (SOW), that is, the
contract.

Please don't quote me out of context. That fairly screams bad faith.

Context matters. That you chose to ignore it in this case says more about you than the topic at hand, IMHO.

If you disagree with what I actually said, please feel free to make a relevant argument.

In fact, please do explain exactly how one might draw up a legal contract for services that contains no goals, milestones or time/cost estimates. At least one that any client with half a brain would sign off on.

This is a very exciting prospect, and I'll be awaiting your response with bated breath, as you could revolutionize the consulting business with that.

>"But we need estimates, therefore they are possible. I win."

You seem to be under the misapprehension that I'm somehow trying to one-up some unknown other person or persons. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I merely shared my (decade plus) experience providing professional services. If you are uninterested, that's fine. If you disagree, that's fine.

However, your comment didn't add anything to the discussion, nor did it provide useful information of any kind. Please try again.

Edit : Fixed formatting.
The notion that a capacitive switch is somehow expensive to manufacture because the PCB is allegedly "special" (doubt) seems odd to me. All other capacitive sensing stuff uses bog-standard PCBs with nothing special about them at all and it's not like the rubberdome is hard to manufacture either (considering that a more complex kind of rubberdome mat is the centerpiece in cheap rubberdome membrane keyboards).

And then of course the "Rigorous Japanese Quality Standards", because obviously QC is better if the factory is located in a country containing people of the Japanese ethnicity compared to other ethnicities.

Topres are expensive because it's a luxury item and they get away with it.
Thanks for the response. I hadn't heard of Zerotier. Going to check it out.
Movie budgets don't have to be huge. Most A24 films cost 10 million to make.
I understand where you're coming from, but a person in the situation that the OP is in has only two options: Do nothing, or do something.

Yes, achieving "greatness" is sadly not in the cards for most of us. But to try is a choice anyone can make. In the end, would you rather have tried and failed or not tried at all?
I recently bought Volkswagen e-up! which meets my criteria for a city car:

- Zero* pollution.

- Big rebate from the government (6k + 3k)

- No fancy digital gimmics like touchscreen or digital distractions. I have to plug in my phone to listen to music and the knobs and physical buttons are much more ergonomic to me.

- Small and compact build for grocey runs and dropping kids to school

- 1/3 cost of charging compared to gasoline.

- Free parkings all over the city with chargers.

- Simple but superior technology. Driving an ICE is a chore for me now with so much vibrations and noise.

- Low maintenance, no engine oils to change and spark plugs/carburetors to tweak.

* I am aware that we offset the pollution to power plants, but I still feel this is better compared to ICE pollution.

P.S. I live in Berlin, Germany and we have top notch public transport here.
Someone in the twitter thread probably discovered why: Apple Podcasts apparently asks to rate the app after each podcast now. So people think they're rating the podcast, not the app. Nice manipulation right there Apple, they can even claim plausible deniability, it's brilliant actually
I believe this is what's happening. I read something recently from Raymond Chen that it works like:

1. Open file with the delete flag
2. Call a function to set the new file information
3. Close the handle.

The signal that a file was renamed happens in step 2, and that signal/event is what many applications subscribe to.
Explorer will wait until the rename is fully completed with the handle closed before showing the change.
It's okay to be average or below average. Most of us are. We just have to make peace with what we can reasonably do in this short life. History remembers almost no individuals, and to be one so lucky as to be remembered by history is beyond our right to ask for.
Perhaps, but I believe it is a mindset worth pushing forward.
I dont think Dropbox even use Ruby. They have been a Python shop since day one?

Stripe doesn't use Rails either. That was a pretty bad article. And it is somehow from Spree.
Norbauer still does releases afaik. In fact it looks like polycarb Norbaforces are still available. I'm pretty sure I saw a run of the metal housings earlier in the year, too.
Is 24/7 carbon-free energy the right goal?
Oh neat, is there a name for that idea of "Tons if custom blockchains" vs "a few centralized ones like BTC and ETH"?

Today it seems like 90% of the marketcap of these things is in BTC or in ETH/tokens. But marketcap =! Value necessarily, so perhaps the future is a ton of interoperable blockchains.
Me too. I'm just hoping to save up enough to get out of the industry before my skills rot to the point I'm (effectively) forced out.
There's always a bigger fish. Always someone better than you, to such a degree you cannot imagine competing. There's only one thing you can always be better at than everyone though: living your life in a way that fulfills you, without the need to win the right genetic & environmental lottery to be the best of the best.

A large amount of people at the very top of any field have problems in other parts of their life. That is because intelligence can also be a drawback. It leads to heavy introspection for one, which you need to control or enjoy heavy depressions and anxieties. That is not to say that many high-performance people are not perfectly happy too. They are, and that is fine: you can focus on making yourself perfectly happy. It's not a zero-sum game.

I hope this makes some sense, it's the best way I can put it.
The term "fermion" is often used for everything with a half-integer spin. This is because their wave-functions are still anti-symmetric and therefore the Pauli exclusion principle applies leading to Fermi-Dirac statistics.

A lot of terms are reused for what are technically compound particles, especially since it isn't always too obvious which properties of a particle are intrinsic and which are caused by interactions.
> The Balkan states in particular come to mind, they also had a chance to start anew with a clean slate in the 90's

This is an ignorant thing to say and it borders on orientalism and ignores all the facts that led to them being "basket cases".

I would say it's unfair but it's mostly lazy.
A physical in ear device which does real time translation of almost all major languages.

A successful drone assassination of a world leader by terrorists.

Massive explosion in international tourism at some point.

Great leaps in biotechnology which has surprising implications.

Increasing geopolitical tensions due to a flexing China and insecure America.
Something that makes me feel better has been to read Einstein or Feynman or other physicist who helped advance mankind knowledge. They all share two things, first they profoundly understand their subject and explain it as simply as possible, two they have no shame talking about their weaknesses since they have nothing to prove. We re only human and what you perceive as you being dumb and other being geniuses is just an illusion. We all are knowledgeable about different subjects and the one on the top are their being some amazing alignment of luck…
Each time I visit Amazon I am now reminded of Bezos' yacht and space trip, which is great because I now tend to look around elsewhere. Geizhals and Idealo are helpful for finding alternative dealerships.

Usually Amazon isn't the cheapest anyways.
> The predicted fracture has started

They'll eat themselves then. We're being nickeled and dimed to death with all the streaming services and the kids at least are not going to pay: they'll share accounts. And when that stops working they'll just go somewhere else where the content is free.
> the people who created the US constitution were very aware of how democracy ended the first time.

Being conquered by a foreign power?

How does that relate?
Seems like the Nix people would be interested in enabling this kind of thing for Nix packages…
App isn't working. I tried to login with Facebook and a new Xperia phone and it just went back to the login screen.
I'm surprised by the tone of the responses here so far. As much as we might or might not like the new digital user interfaces in modern cars, the value of the safety features like automatic braking and collision avoidance is pretty much beyond contest at this point[0]. Before you buy a car without these features, consider that you are probably not as good of a driver as you think you are.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037779/
There is, its risk. They are rich and risk averse, we are poor and have nothing to lose except our tiny paychecks. Wealthy people have assets, poor people have time. There is very little freedom and social mobility left in our decaying system and crypto is all there is left.

There is of course the possibility that the current aristocracy will apropriate our tools for themselves (they sure are trying), but I see the potential for a much better world, one where democracy is restored and enhanced by technology.
This is one of those things that is both very true, and very much easier to say than do.
Not working for new Facebook login via Android (Xperia 5ii)
Lots of problems with this idea. I doubt it will ever see the light of day.
When we write laws about speeding should we ask sports car owners to supplement the legislative record with their specialist knowledge?
In terms of "unified IP registry' I'm not talking about a single centralized organisation, but a super-ecosystem of multiple sub- NFT ecosystems:

- Each do due diligence of creator ownership before an NFT can be sold on their platform.

- In addition, they test the candidate-NFT against the file and perceptual hashes on other trusted peer ecosystems

- Due diligence signatures are portable and transferrable, so ex. Sotheby's validation could be used as evidence when token is resold within OpenSea ecosystem - even if Sotheby's was to hypothetically disappear (assuming old signatures are still trustworthy).

(caveat: Perceptual hashes are starting to push past my technical expertise, not sure to what extent perceptual hashes would be economically feasible: can they be specific enough to not cause excessive false positives while still identifying true positive subtle image manipulations without drastically increasing on-chain storage costs?)

I think the benefits of decentralization would be nice, but it's certainly arguable that an ICANN-like international centralized consortium could be a better solution - it certainly can be more energy and cost efficient but at the expense of that entity being a single point of failure.