skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I leased my first EV this past summer, a VW id4, and had a 240v/30A charger installed at home. I live in the Boston metro area.

It's really nice the majority of the time - I never need to go on a gas run, acceleration is _significantly_ better than any previous car I've had, there's much less maintenance involved.

Range on longer trips is an issue, with us going to Maine for vacation or to see in-laws in Connecticut we needed to plan around chargers. I was really surprised by the amount of range lost in the winter, going from ~260 miles to ~200.

I'm still very happy with the decision, but it feels like we're in early adopter territory for at least five more years.
They're using efficiency in a different (and certainly confusing) sense.

Their gas guzzling car example explains their thought process: humans, whilst hunting, are running hot. They're inefficient at the task of maintaining themselves between meals.

That's made irrelevant by the fact that they're collecting more food on average, so they're actually more efficient overall, but that only becomes true once you factor in food intake.

Sort of like saying that a lorry is a less efficient way to travel than a car. True until you mention that the lorry has many tons of cargo which must make the journey with you (or in subsequent trips), _then_ the reverse holds.
Don't think Russia matter much but whole market is risk off right now. Worse bets to make than buying now imho.
Lst.sh – Portable Shell Array Library
> it has other types than strings

But isn't the config file just a string?
Without looking into the details, the problem might be that two n-bit numbers x and y might have continued fractions for sqrt(x) and sqrt(y) which differ very far along. Also, the continued fractions themselves can get more and more expensive to compute as you go along; possible exponentially more, but I'm not sure.

Also, two continued fractions are not necessarily easy to compare. It's not a positional notation like decimal or binary.
I saw no difference for between unwind's two versions with current GCC, clang, or icc with -O3: https://godbolt.org/z/n6avo5ovq. Did you possibly forgot to use optimization? I was surprised though to see that icc inlined the call to strlen!
FreeBSD Wifibox – Linux Bhyve VM to Support WiFi Card with PCI Passthrough
> It's not "really" part of FANG in my head

What do you thought the "N" stood for or you thought it was a placeholder so that acronym is not offensive.
Why FreeBSD Desktop and My Linux Rant
I wonder if the disk on a $40 Hetzner server would be fast/big enough for him. All the searching and storing of massive password hash collections.

He has a writeup here on how he gets costs down in a big way:
https://www.troyhunt.com/serverless-to-the-max-doing-big-thi...
There are savings, but they require work to realize.

Let's use your driving example (because car examples are always great!)...

>You want to waste money? Hire a car, with a driver, when you need it.

>Want to save money. Learn to drive.

This is true. You can save more money if you need to drive often if you own a car. But there are two scenarios that it still makes sense to rent.

1) What if you need a car in a different city? You just flew from JFK to SFO. You already have a car in NYC, but need one in SF. You're not going to buy a car in SF that you'll need to sell in a week. Sure, if you're going to be there longer, you might consider it, but then you're still carrying the costs of two cars.

2) Sometimes you need a truck. Maybe you have an IKEA run to make to get a bunch of desks, or stop at the hardware store for a few dozen bags of mulch, or ... But sometimes you just need a truck to get the job done. You could just buy a truck and be done with it. But trucks can be more expensive than a compact car, and they definitely have higher fuel costs. In this case, you'd probably be better off with a fuel efficient (or electric) compact car and rent a truck only when you need it.

This is how you save money with the cloud. But you definitely don't save money when you effectively rent a truck to drive to work everyday (even if you are in construction). There is a cost to renting -- it is more expensive on a per-use basis than it is if you buy. Cloud servers are more expensive than bare metal -- if you're constantly using them. It is only cheaper when you stop paying for the parts you don't need. And that also takes expertise.

Once, at a new job, I inherited a cloud server. It was costing us a ton of money per month and running 24/7 because the person who set it up never turned it off. After 3 months of those costs, they could have bought a new server with no other renting. They paid for a cloud server for three reasons: 1) they had no experience with hardware, 2) it was a pain to setup local hosting, and 3) it was faster to get running without waiting for a vendor to build a server, deliver it to the datacenter, etc... These were real impediments to the first person and the cloud server helped to get them moving. They just didn't have the longer term view of what their decision was going to cost in the long term.

The first thing I did was order a new server and make friends with our datacenter ops people. And now the only thing we really use the cloud for is archival (write-once, read-never) storage. If we ever really need these data, it will be super expensive. But, if that ends up happening, we'd be happy to pay the cloud tax.
Always has been (c) meme. They never had an independent audit, just like Tethers. They were lower on the radar because previously they were much smaller fish. They are still smaller, but catching up while Giancarlo and Paolo aren't printing.
Like a mattress in a mattress store.
Neither does crypto. Out of all things that's about the least "low risk" I've seen yet.
If you own cryptocurrency, and its all gone down, you're invested and can do two things. You can keep hold of your assets, or you can sell. If you sell, you can decide to share such or not, but since you are no longer invested, there's no incentive to share such (and if you're part of a pump and dump scheme, you don't want people to lose trust so your incentive is to say HODL while doing otherwise). So it makes sense we see a lot of HODL posts; these are people who are invested and don't want an implosion. There's also no way to verify whether the people who claim HODL actually do as they say. Thinking about it, seems awfully close to game theory like prisoner's dilemma.
> Now that I think of it, maybe IDEs should highlight non-const references in function calls.

CLion highlights this with an off-color "&:" in front of the parameter.
Arm 30 Years On: Episode One – Small Beginnings in Cambridge
If you're interested about (formerly) classified satellites, Dwayne Day's articles on The Space Review are a great place to find out more.

https://www.thespacereview.com/

I remember one story - might be from him, might be someowhere else - of an engineer breaking down when one of the classified programs (GAMBIT, maybe) was finally revealed, because he could finally explain to his family what he was doing all those long nights. For all the engineers that get to discuss what they do on sites like this one, there are others that won't for decades - and I assume that's still true today.
Looks like one of the big features they added in their fork was the ability to login via a QR code. This is a really nice feature that I have enjoyed using on Nextcloud. I hope they upstream the change!
My $300 Costco Pelican Kayak is probably the best $ spent on the amount of fun experiences I've had with it. It turned out that there's an Island I can kayak to in under an hour from my house, that is teeming with birds and wildlife and has a secluded sandy beach. It feels like being transported to Hawaii every time. But I've kayaked to other places with it too and its such an awesome experience. It's something you can do on your own or with a friend, go hard to get exercise or easy to relax. Antidote to the lockdowns. Maybe pair it with a bike or rollerblades. And you have a full upper/lower body workout better than a gym.
It's annoying, but it doesn't matter too much unless you're retiring soon.

I suspect it will drop another 20% though, back to mid 2020 levels. Fed will start to intervene if it goes beyond that, too many votes. Its like house prices in the UK, the government won't allow them to drop.
It's not just a crypto meme to call price dips a sale. Same language has been used on stocks prior to the existence of crypto.
I find recreational travel to be the height of consumerism. It's massively polluting and wasteful.

I do it a bit myself, but I'm not going to pretend I'm better than someone else becausethey wastefully buy different things while I wastefully got to different places.
Not really - USDC is backed/owned by Coinbase with more stability (and hopefully more USD backing)…

Tether - we’ll tether is not
Same here. I use Windows since ever on the desktop, and Linux on the servers (ever is ca. 1994)

I like Windows very much on the client side - everything pretty much works without any problems. I used to use Classic Shell but I got rid of it when I realized that I actually always start programs though a search (pressing the Win key and starting to type).

As I said somewhere else, once every year or so I install Linux desktop on a laptop to see how it goes. It does not go very well on my Thinkpad with two monitors attached.

It may be very well that with some tinkering it will work - the difference is that with Windows it works off the shelf.

I would not install Windows on a server because i) I do not know Windows enough, ii) there is too much clicking and iii) there is too much magic going on.

The magic on the laptop does not bother me - worst case I will reinstall (though I was forced to do that only once, when moving from the Insider ring)
Look on the bottom right of that webpage:

> Scheduled to launch Q1 2022: "You can choose a chain from multiple chains to write to"

I ain't reading the rest of your comment.
The real break for me using NixOS as a regular driver was that I just could not figure out how to get Ruby on Rails to play nice with it. NixOS breaks a lot of assumptions that programs make about $PATH, and even if it's done for good reasons it plays holy hell with the development stack of some languages. I eventually gave up and moved my dev setup back to OSX (and then that PC died anyways). Maybe they've fixed it since then, I haven't tried.

I do continue to use it for my homelab infrastructure though. It is extremely good at handling new versions of configuration of Prometheus, and I would never consider anything else at this point. Just not what I'd use as a dev environment.
My motto is buy what makes you happy. Some people like going on trips, fancy restaurants, but others like the latest tech, car, etc. Up to you to know what is good for you.
You can create a trivial wrapper:

https://godbolt.org/z/c5YeP6feG

The usual issue with these sort of things is that they are not idiomatic (but then again, there is no single idiomatic C++).

edit: std::reference_wrapper is of course the standard blessed way to do this, but still not idiomatic.
The US mail still operates. So no, nothing stopped.
The GotoBLAS paper (“Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication”, https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/pubs/GotoTOMS_final.pd...) is really a masterpiece.

It’s worth internalizing almost every single detail if you’re an engineer interested in writing high performance numerical codes on modern hardware.
Similar issue to yours :

- Pre-pandemic, was hitting the gym 4+ times a week and was my way to blow steam off.

- Early parts of pandemic, was able to do workout-from-home using kettlbells and bodyweight, but motivation eventually died and I started relying almost exclusively walked [was based out of NYC, so 7-10k steps was almost a given]

- Moved to a more suburban setting a couple of months ago, walking died quite a bit and so did motivation along with it. Starting piling up the pounds and generally felt unhealthy.

- Invested in a peloton and it just arrived! First two days, hit a couple of 20 minute workouts. Starting slowly, but hoping to make a sustainable workout out of biking, yoga and other things!
I love the components part, my personal webiste is in Next.js but I really struggle to understand the "state mental model" and I guess thats what puts me off :)

Even from tutorial perspective, people tend to explain react like here is useState and if you do this, you can now update other parts. But I am a newbie so I guess its either sucking up and spending more time with it or just struggling with trying to solve the same things with more code in vanilla ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>My experience with Linux has been that you have the same install running for 10+ years (this is especially true for Arch because you have fewer risky distribution upgrades),

Arch is needy; it commits seppuku if you abandon it for too long. Every update on Arch is a "risky distribution upgrade", and it insists that you update every day.

On the other hand, I have kept Debian installs going for a great many years, with dist-upgrades never failing, and I know that some people have maintained the same Debian install since they first installed it in the 90s.
Why do you believe there is only one way to structure a c suite?
I think this is poorly argued by the author.

"Now that even the poor can afford material goods, let’s denigrate goods while highlighting the remaining luxuries that only the affluent can enjoy and show off to their friends."

The author turns to classism, claiming that experience-ism is some Rich person's luxury to put down the poor...this sentence comes across as assuming rich people delight in the misfortune of the poor. Further, he casts aside the obvious environmental degradation that the acquisition of things causes, claiming somehow that experiences are all heavily lush and use tons of resources.

"The advocates of the new minimalism are, by and large, urban dwellers..."
Where is the evidence for this? He's just pulling this out of a hat.

Furthermore, he blurs the lines between experiences and things so far to make his entire argument banal. If, as he claims, things lead to experiences, and they're not mutually exclusive, then there's no counter-argument...all experience-ists are actually thing-lovers in disguise, because experiences rely on things to occur. This is like saying "everything is a thing, so experiences are a thing, check-mate".

To me, the author decided on the clickbait title, then wrote a few meager, one-sided points which don't hold water.
Once upon a time there was a guy who called himself "Eli" who wrote a blog post called "SEO Empire" which proposed that a person who was serious about SEO wouldn't need to go begging for links or even creating content that attracts links, but rather they could create a vast pyramid of sites that would generate PageRank out of thin air.

Such a person would make a vast number of low-quality sites that make hyperlinks to medium-quality sites that in turn would make hyperlinks to high-quality sites.

I could say the idea captivated me completely for a while. I couldn't think about work when I was at work because my mind was filled with thoughts about that sort of thing.

Unfortunately Eli's post is no longer on the web. He still has a "Blue Hat SEO" site but like too many other sites today his SSL configuration is broken. He got in a lot of trouble after he posted a neural network written in PHP that could crack CAPTCHAs. That attracted attention from Russian Hackers, the FBI, and a person who couldn't tell the difference between anime and reality.
"certainly not true after the initial objective of getting Osama bin Laden was achieved."

Which is the ironie in this whole topic - he was caught in pakistan.
I wonder how it even works? A contract, to be binding, must have 'value received' as I understand it. What value does the corporation offer? Am I being paid to interview? No? Then there is no contract.
Those are almost always “chain swaps” meaning the same amount is burned off of another chain, and the total supply remains the same.

You can look at the market cap here: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

IF the type of "printing" you were talking about were happening, you would see the market cap increasing with every print.
Only for people who invested (I mean, speculated) before 2017. Those who started to speculate when BTC was 50k stepped right into the big pile of poo, and they have the choice to take their losses for current price, or to keep their assets ('HODL'). Either way, it remains speculation.
Thank you DizzyDoo for the details. It does help to understand what others are doing, so I can maybe emulate the successes and avoid failures ;) I haven't heard of Spine and DaVinci Resolve, I'll look into those. Thank you again and best of luck!
There is no cryptocurrency in the top 10 pretending to be low-risk. There are probably way more financial advisors claiming that US equity is low-risk than there are people claiming the same for any cryptocurrency.
> Maybe this is nitpicking, but: the Nix language is about as straightforward as "JSON plus functions". Maybe that is difficult for people who haven't had an experience with pure/functional programming?

I've programmed professionally in Lisp (SBCL) and Clojure, and done a lot of hobby work in Haskell and Rust. I found Nix the language utterly incomprehensible largely because of documentation and tooling reasons.
Can I sue Matt Damon?
A stable crypto-currency will not attract any investment. Crypto is useless for anything but money laundering and speculation.
Sure, just make the spying opt-in and I will stop complaining.
i am from eastern europe eu nato country too, so please do not speak in my name. probably unlike most people i have seen what war looks like (as a child). it is definitely not something you want for people dearbto you. talking and taking into account everyone's concerns should definitely be the first approach. russia says that NATO encroaching on its borders is a huge security issue for them (remember that NATO promissed not to do this in the 90s). also stationing anti missile systems on its border is a security threat (it deminishes their deterrant). is it so hard to understand these are real concerns? it is hard to immagine US acting differently if a hostile alliance formed in South America
I do think a fork was the right decision, after reading their reasoning and what changes they made. The client-changes sound great for young children in a school context and not federating is imo a necessety in this case to protect the users — we are talking about children in elementary school!

They also clearly stated which software to use and where the upstream is. Other schools/uiversity pay for a proprietary system, which can't be used the moment the company goes out of business (Happened to my uni — now we are using a 8 years old web-interface which can't be updated because the company no longer exists.

NOT good is, that they are still using 0.26.1, instead of 0.40+ or the new 1.0. There version is 10 months old, which is bad because FluffyChat developed extremely fast all this time.
Hopefully they will make a big upgrade every year, else they won't profit from incoming changes like native voice calls, like in Discord, instead of using jitsi. I just hope they updated synapse properly...

Edit: typo
An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't even notice
It historically has grown reliably overall at the market level, but individual equities are not that at all. BTC specifically was supposed to be that, and it isn't.
FreeRDP is a wonderful RDP server replacement: https://www.freerdp.com/

It's so good that Microsoft uses it for WSLg.
I agree. That doesn't negate the fact that it took me a while to understand what the issue was, see if I could get around it, work out how to disable the font downloading in Flutter, etc, etc. I may have been trying to force a round peg into a square hole but NixOS didn't do much to help me see the shape of the pegs and holes in the first place.
The Teflon Robe (2020)
Store of value.

US money printer.

Inflation hedge.

Do you think we forget what the crypto-bros said just a few months ago?
Don’t all major browsers have this feature? My Firefox account syncs bookmarks/history, and I can share tabs between devices.
I imagine even at the time the coin was in use it was a significant amount of money. I imagine some poor merchant in incredible distress trying to find the coin that fell out of his pocket on the way home from the market and never succeeding.
Exactly this - however I do find the commentary and community pretty honest in their opinions. It gives good guidance for my decision making.
Do not worry, there will be no war.

A war require the players to show their cards, which is in nobody interest. Also, there is a chance they you might lose.
> How do you reconcile this idea with the fact that Bitcoin seems quite popular among Internet fraudsters and scammers (e.g. ransomware)? Or that most Bitcoin thieves are never caught?

I believe it's due to ignorance of the increasing risks associated with bitcoin and of the existence of better technology. Smarter criminals are already using Monero.

> You really can't infer that much from looking at the blockchain, especially when there is no address re-use.

You don't even have to infer anything. Just look up a known address and you can see its entire transaction history. There are rich lists which allow you to track whales. You can literally see them deposit the coins on Binance when they're about to dump on the market.

> Even less when CoinJoin is used. You can make some probabilistic guesses at best.

This is not a good idea. The coin anonymizer transactions will be there for all to see. Your money is tainted the second it passes through these systems even if you do it for privacy reasons. Exchanges will refuse these coins and as a result so will everyone else because they won't be able to cash them out. They might as well be worthless.

This sort of anonymizing feature has to be built into the system in such a way that it is always enabled for everyone and can't be turned off. Anonymous money should be the rule and it should be impossible to break it. That way nobody can be discriminated against for protecting their privacy. If you can discriminate against coins based on their origin, they are not fungible.

> Ross Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pirate Roberts", was using Bitcoin extensively and never got identified through the blockchain

That was years ago.
It's not just crypto buyers with this mindset.. it's been part of stock market investing for a while. Buy low when everyone else is selling
I wonder what a future version of The Dectorists would be? Maybe "The Isotopists" that find materials with isotopes from exotic places.

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/tracking-movements-isoto...
Wait, who are you saying would be suing whom?
> There’s a known, reasonably fast algorithm (in BPP) for checking equality of sums of square roots

What is it?
While the peak usage is the same, they have other differences. The ten-charger setup will cause many fairly modest load changes on the electricity network, while the one-charger setup will cause a few giant changes. That may plausibly have some impact on the price of the infrastructure needed and what the power company will charge.
If the drivers aren’t there then Linux is bad on that hardware for anyone attempting to use it. It doesn’t matter to the end user that the lack of drivers is the manufacturer’s fault.