skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Koenigsegg's Tiny Electric Motor Makes 335 HP and 443 LB-FT of Torque
Another alternative is ask them to turn it down and turn on CC.

I wish more of these places would have CC on. Especially if multiple programs are on, you can't have the audio. There's a solution right there, built right in, just waiting.... page in the conversation about how accessibility can be useful to more than just the immediately disabled.
People have probably forgotten. Old media had (has) about 20% of its space (newspaper pages or media time) taken up by advertising. That was the steady state for media. I don't think it was accidental, it was the equilibrium needed to fund the media. Plus advertising frequently was one of the flashiest bits.

We're going to go back there, it's just going to take a few decades until the new media companies stabilize. Netflix has already started to ramp up its subscription prices, just give it some more time and more pressure to shareholders to increase revenue, ads will come and new subscription tiers will appear.

C'est la vie, I guess. That's who and what we are as humanity.
Zero guilts felt.

The art of not feeling guilt
I've been using and loving this: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
Why would people want to listen to a historical show but not experience it as it was?
History will I believe judge the Roberts court harshly for all the negative effects and misery it has caused in the 2010s. The gutting of campaign finance reform means politicians are effectively owned by PACs and corporations now. Gutting the Civil Rights Act because "we don't need Federal preclearance anymore" (followed quickly by 20+ states quickly enacting the kinds of voting restrictions the Civil Rights Act was intended to curb). And of course the accessibility of gambling in the form of sports betting.

It should be clear that gambling is really bad for some people. Gambling addicts have the highest rate of suicide of any addicts [1].

Most people either don't gamble or can gamble responsibly. What kept this system in check was that gambling was relatively inaccessible in our daily lives. That provided a useful barrier to entry. It's simply too convenient for people who can gamble on their phones while waiting for their Starbucks.

This became an issue on Twitch last year with the rise of gambling (ie slots) streams. Some streamers defended it as entertainment (never mind that they're getting paid millions of dollars). But we restrict access (or at least convenient access) to many activities that can become more problematic if they're too convenient. Liquor licensing, age restrictions, locations of venues, that sort of thing.

We've seen this in Australia with poker machines ("pokies" aka slot machines). In the Eastern States social clubs, pubs and the likes can have them. And they make a fortune. This creates huge gambling problems and has for decades. By comparison, Western Australia does not have pokies and is better off for it.

Sports betting is gambling really no different to slot machines. It's slightly better because there's not the immediate feedback loop and there is some skill but it is gambling and easy access to it is bad for many people.

[1]: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/problem-gambl...
The very top image in the article shows the card:

> Please don't weigh me unless it's (really) medically necessary. If you really need my weight, please tell me why so that I can give you my informed consent.

Not as "daft" as the headline, is it?
Ask HN: Who does omni-platform code sharing?
At my IoT company we share domain specific code between iOS, Android, Web, and the device itself. We use TypeScript as the basis for transpiling. Frameworks are React, React Native, QT QML (Javascript support). I was wondering if anyone else does this sort of thing? What tools do you use? Anyone do it with UI code?
Radiocarbon dating of samples, maybe?
I live in Oakland and my XFinity internet was broken by this, and the cable TV service was not affected. I have an alternate connection through AT&T fiber, so on our mobile devices we just switched to the other WiFi and carried on.

Unfortunately our TiVo Edge uses an Ethernet connection to the XFinity cable modem, and TiVo's OS responds to an internet outage by deciding your TiVo account is closed and it silently stops recording anything, even after the network comes back. It takes a reboot to fix this.

It deliberately skipped recording some things on Sunday night I'd been looking forward to. If I hadn't noticed this morning and forced a reboot it would still be stuck in that state. I am really annoyed that they coded their software like that. It's like withdrawing service the second it can't be verified is TiVo's top priority and they don't even bother trying to restore service afterwards.
You can get some pretty nice non-smart cars and they will put a massive grin on your face!

Proper old school stuff.
9ff
https://youtu.be/P-BTTquGvAw?t=628

Von Schmidt Resto-Mod built to your spec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzVr4cpNC58

Ruf CTR
https://youtu.be/ZJwF1BX5uQc?t=1147

Personally though, I'd like to see the knobs for the essentials like fan speed and temperature as these get changed all the time, radio channels, mp3/disc selection, and then the less likely things to be fiddled with can go on screen and activated with maybe a few buttons.

For example, the roads in the UK are full of potholes, the state use this to keep the speed down on the road, but when driving in Germany on the autobahns (or the continent in general), the roads are better made so being able to setup on the touch screen different car setups which control suspension, ride height, steering input, engine tuning which can then be activated by pushing a button to cycle through comfort mode and sports, would seem to be a better bet, a more efficient way of setting up a car.

I hope the car companies log all the buttons pushed and touchscreen settings so that they can optimise their "UX" within the cars better because what I hate about the touchscreen is even on dark mode, at night it still interferes with your night vision a bit, and I'd like to turn it off like I think Saab used to do with their console display at night.

Bluetooth, GPS sat nav and all that sort of stuff, its handy in my opinion, but I'm also aware of how you can hack satnav to make a target take routes the satnav wouldnt normally select. The way to do that is to make your targets satnav think there are massive delays on the road, and then it reroutes. I havent heard of anyone who has reported this in the media, but its a doable form of hacking.

For the speed freaks, if you havent seen a car doing 259mph (417kph) on the unrestricted German autobahn, this is the link.
https://youtu.be/7pg1hhW5qhM?t=153

The Countach that killed the Cannonball, but it shows you need technology if you want to drive fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b7erU_DOfE
App and lab kit turns your smartphone into a Covid-19 and flu detection test
Polkit or ASKPASS?
Hi everyone! I just turned my Practical Python Projects book free to read online. It is published with Sphinx (HTML + paid PDF). Will write an article in the future about my learnings regarding publishing using Sphinx.

I am looking forward to your feedback :)
If you only have freedom 1, you must be a software developer (with a lot of free time) to benefit from that.
As opposed to stupider and more tedious ways to do firmware updates.

Real-world examples:

(1) Download firmware, stick it on a USB drive, put USB drive in device, go through arcane menus or button press sequence to do an update. I have two devices that work this way, an aftermarket car stereo Bluetooth adapter and a (musical) keyboard.

(2) Install some app (and maybe a driver) on a Windows computer, connect device to computer, and have the app push the firmware to the device. I have an old Garmin GPS watch that does it this way. (Which is extra annoying because the watch has an Android companion app which communicates with the watch over Bluetooth, and it can tell you an update is available but can't apply it.)
I'm glad it was recommended to me.

> If you love challenging books, you are neither the norm nor the audience of this post.

If you read books on programming and computer science in general you are not the norm, and perhaps shouldn't be the audience of this post either?

> the prose itself is so dense and archaic

I'm not sure what in particular you feel is archaic, but density is a selling point here. One of the things that makes SICP attractive is the high information density. There are already too many books that are full of fluff that appears to exist only to hit a page count.

> it requires such a level of competence in math and physics

Can you give some specific examples of the math and physics that you think are beyond the capabilities of a bright high school graduate (that seems like a reasonable minimum bar to expect for someone picking up a book targeted at freshmen at MIT)?
Show HN: Bliss scale – build your customers journey
Employers are desperate for data scientists as demand booms
I both pay for my ISP to connect to the web. I also pay to host web sites that I own which are low cost to me. I also want people to see them and don't run any sort of advertising or data collection on them. It's worth it to me to have my work and information available on the web for other people to use, and even has resulted in me profiting indirectly from it.

If someone wants to turn a profit on their site, that's fine. Do I need to accept whatever they want to serve me when I visit their page? No. Do I need to buy a product from their store if it's not something I'm interested in, even though the payment may go to helping their hosting costs? No.
You absolutely can argue the Earth isn’t round. You won’t win the argument, but it’s an acceptable idea to challenge.

Indeed, having to defend the position that the Earth is in fact round can help you gain understanding and have confidence in your conclusion.

Not to belabor the point, but the idea that the Earth is flat is actually natural. It seems to be flat based on our senses. I think it’s a great teaching moment about how things are not as they seem.
Matter of time? The World Series has already been thrown, it was called the black Sox scandal and as far as I know it didn’t even require sports betting to be legal
I got an under desk treadmill. It's flat (no bar up front) and only supports walking up to 5mph. I've been regularly putting in 15,000+ steps on day that I work.
Because then nothing would ever get done. We would debate endlessly whether declaring the war on Germany was a good idea, or whether going to the Moon is a stupid goal, etc. etc. There’s certainly no shortage of arguments against any decision. Once the decision is made, continuing to doubt it is often not helpful.

I actually think this was one failure in our response to the pandemic. Take N95 masks or testing or what have you. There’s been so much back and forth on how well things work and changes of messaging - often driven by real studies, thus reflecting the uncertainty we’re talking about! - and I think that’s the cause of some distrust you’re talking about. In an alternate reality CDC would came out on day one to say “N95s are obviously good, and so are widely available rapid tests so let’s make a ton of them” and stay on this message. It’s the uncertainty and doubt that creates distrust, not the other way around.
For network TV the show producers know ahead of time where the ad breaks will be and structure the story so that they come between acts.

I have noticed when things originally on network television end up on ad-supported streaming services the ad breaks sometimes no longer happen during natural breaks. When those same things end up in syndication on non-streaming cable or OTA channels the ad breaks usually do align with the natural story breaks. I wonder why OTA and cable channels can time things better than streaming services? Are the shows distributed in different formats to the two, and only one includes metadata on when the act breaks occur?
I'm much closer to "let's burn down capitalism" than "the market knows best", but I don't get food waste concerns. There's waste because it's very cheap. There'd be less waste if it were more expensive—but then poor people would suffer (more). That goes for waste in the field, waste in the kitchen, waste in the supply chain and at grocery stores, all of it. Most people don't save veggie scraps or chicken bones to make broth or stock or whatever, unless they really value the improved flavor over store-bought, because it's a really expensive (time-cost) and inconvenient (goes bad faster than store-bought stuff in a factory-sealed container) way to get broth, to pick one example. Same goes for waste at restaurants. A few good apples rot on the ground because you'd lose money saving them, because apples are so cheap. You want less waste, raise prices. Turns out almost no one wants less waste that bad.
I think Mazda fills this space perfectly. I recently purchased a CX-5, and I am incredibly happy with the balance of smart and non smart features. Everything else felt smart to the point of taking control away from me.
Sports betting has been legal in Europe for a very long time and we have yet to see a UEFA Champions League thrown.
This is why I really appreciate YT channels like Project Farm.
Looks like it. I thought I'd heard the name before...
GoToMeeting is just as bad under LogMeIn as it was under Citrix. It’s barely changed in years so I assume no resources are being invested and they’re just milking the revenue until it eventually dies.
Particularly since the prestigious sites like NYTimes are having their valuable users be tracked and monetized by otherpeople via the ad nwtworks. And the people paying for ads are paying for a lot of fraud. It is another industry where they got rid of scruples and now have bad actors up and down the whole ecosystem. fortunately/hopefully the whole experience is so unpleasant it is ripe for disruption.
Using the await keyword in C# a TaskCanceledException will be thrown automatically regardless if you check it or not, it just won't stop your code once running the task starts, it checks before start and at the end to set the task and sets to a canceled state which leads to an exception.

Rust seems to just have exceptions you can't catch (Panics) they are like ThreadAbortExceptions in .Net. That is if task threw ThreadAbortExceptions instead of TaskCanceledException and you called await with an already cancelled token you would get similar behavior it seems.
That doesn't make sense for Youtube videos? Unless Alphabet doesn't trust itself?
Are those recommendation based on user ratings only?
The issue with extensions is they can get hijacked and get malicious.
A Mozilla created extension or endorsed would offer the warranty that there is no intentional malicious code in it. After your comment I checked the extensions page, seems there is something claimed about "security" but is too vague IMO.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-badges?utm_conte...
That's why you have to use a POST request. GET should be read-only and a browser will not re-issue a POST for things like most-visited, tab restore, pre-fetch, etc.
If you have any good sources, you can update the article yourself
I feel similarly. My default browsing mode is Firefox with enhanced protection on, but other than that, I don't use any kind of ad-blocking. But I also pay for Spotify and YouTube Premium. Other than that, sites like HN, SO, shopping sites, etc. don't have a lot of ads anyway. On the rare occasion I find myself on a site plastered with tons of ads, I just deal with it for a short while (local news I need to read) or leave. I'm actually kind of struggling here to find a site with a lot of ads. It seems to me like despite the concerning growth of ad-tech, for the internet that I care about, ads are either optional (removable for a fee), unobtrusive (like DDG), or a signal of poor quality and I won't want to go the site anyway.
Is there any user data that passes through Google owned servers that DOESN'T get data mined?
I've seen legal depts fight against this. They're worried the recording will capture some question or comment that could be evidence of discrimination. (e.g. someone asks "Did you have a good Christmas?" and is later accused of discriminating against non-Christians)
The last time I used AdBlock Plus, I was horrified to discover that they considered Taboola (the clickbait network that, at least at the time, used shocking images to draw attention) to be "acceptable".

I was browsing the web with AdBlock Plus and found myself assaulted by an image of someone's fungus-infected toenail or something similarly nauseating. I went to report it as a mistake on their forums only to find there was already a thread about Taboola, and they were firm that Taboola was "acceptable". The only way I can imagine ads like that made it onto their list was by paying really good money.

I went to uBlock that day and haven't looked back. Whatever definition of "acceptable" they were using, I wanted no part of it.
Long Covid
I do complex math without using greek letters and other untypable characters all the time. It's called programming. The order of operations is explicit, the operations themselves are explicit, and there is very little room for ambiguity. The notation is only for saving space, not because it's the be-all end-all absolute best solution for representing mathematics.
The correct response to this headline is "No, she wasnt."

>She told the paper that she has been suffering from anxiety ever since.

Oh c'mon.
This started with Twitter's cancel culture. They gamified it in the earlier years, and saw it as a challenge (mostly teenagers and trolls), and now it's used to actually silence dissenting views. It's ingrained in the population that this is the new way of handling disagreement.
yes. totally agree. I LOVE adaptive cruise control, but also love/need the ability to work the music and environment selection buttons - switch stations, switch cds, change sources, turn heat up down etc - with just an instantaneous glance followed by touch only.
> So it's a fair representation. If someone wants to appreciate this product, they probably have to adapt a slightly different mindset, not fully communicable by a review.

Yes but the review could and should be within that mindset, while making clear that it differs from a mainstream consumer product. Instead this review is like 'I guess if you care about <mindset>, then you're fine with <subpar spec>', while never really reviewing <subpar spec> within the context of other comparable options.

Like why did they choose a Freescale quad A53, rather than say the hex-core RK3399 of the Pinebook Pro? I assume it's because the system-on-module makes it possible to upgrade. Explaining that in-mindset tradeoff would be valuable, but it's completely missing.

Furthermore there is a comparison of mindsets to be done. For example if you are concerned with servicability but not Free software or ARM, this probably isn't the machine for you.

FWIW personally I segregate my usage of modern bloatware to separate machines, rather than taking a clean trustable machine (that I'm paying for in other ways) and then polluting it with unknown blobs. Devices have become inexpensive ($1300 price tag on this notwithstanding), and it's easier to give proprietary bloatware the environment it expects rather than trying to swim upstream.
It makes me wonder how long hedge funds have been tracking private flights for persons of interest
That's a curious statement. It is not at all clear to me what you mean by this.
adding a backup cam is like $20, dude. it cost me a little more to put Bluetooth, Apple CarPlay, front and rear dashcams, and a touchscreen into my 97 Honda, but it still wasn't an unreasonable amount. my other car's a 97 BMW (with far less miles on it, well under 100K) and I'll do a slightly more deluxe version of all the same upgrades once the weather gets nice.

of course both my cars have power windows. the Honda interior is nothing to write home about but the BMW's all leather and wood. neither has heated seats, but I don't really need them where I live, and if I did, I'd just buy them on eBay.

it'll get harder in future, of course, but for now, if you want to skip all the excess computation in modern cars, all you have to do is know a little bit about cars. it's not rocket science.

what I'm really looking forward to is when electric vehicle aftermarket conversion kits become more common. you can find them for certain models already but it's very early days.
I wonder, how many engineers will switch their jobs because they have to work with boring tech?

Sure, the stack you're using isn't everything and other parts of a project can be just as exciting. But I often heard engineers complain about their company being stuck in the past and they wish to use all the cool tech they see in the news.
I don't mean a two-day power interruption, I mean a two-year power interruption.

And if they intend to feed the generator in perpetuity, I'll happily shift the goalposts to some other critical supplier not providing their services.
In the US in May of 2018, a federal law went into effect saying all new cars require a backup camera. This means that there needs to be an LCD screen visible to the driver for the camera. This is sort of a slippery slope as far as feature creep. Now that you have this screen, aren't drivers going to expect to see something on it 99% of the time when they aren't backing up?

Actually this leads me to realize why some automakers like Ford integrate the screen into the rear view mirror, so when it isn't on, it disappears behind a one way mirror.
I tried to enforce ad blocking at the router level (pihole) but eventually had to change it to opt-in (DNS) because my wife wouldn’t stop telling me to turn it off when she wanted to click on Google ads.
Because then you have to run a dynamic site. Static site hosts are much easier to come by for free.
Is there a way to get the textual transcript? I don't want to a video of somebody holding a mobile phone to their face while apologizing for being obtuse.
Original press release: https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/IAVI-...
There was a time when I purposely unblocked Facebook ads because they were actually showing me some interesting content and products in a fairly non-invasive way.

And occasionally I still get those but lately almost all ads I see are some interesting headline that then takes me to a page with an for nonsense products every paragraph and an extremely fluffy article to tell me that dinosaurs had feathers / the Romans had steam engines or something similar.
This strategy is smarter than it sounds at first. If you don't have any obvious criteria for comparison available, failing fast and iterating on that is a way to come up with criteria by yourself.
5x energy density (is that what this article is about? Kind of unclear to me) would mean a whole lot more than just longer range EVs. Thinking electric personal jetpacks, VTOL aircraft, etc.
Very unreal engine blueprint-like. I always wondered why that caught on with game engines but (partial) visual programming isn’t used by folks pretty much anywhere else besides some introductory programming courses/tutorials or kids projects. Personally, I think the abstractions could be useful for other domains like building/prototyping ML models too but so far no user demand for the tools.
Did you try one of the many tech subreddits on Reddit?
What's stopping a bank of fish, or a whale from eating the whole thing?