skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What was the biggest surprise?

PM's make significantly less & are significantly less in demand
Yep - https://www.engadget.com/2007-03-28-hands-on-with-the-samsun...

IP would be absolutely trivial to spoof so that's not a proof of anything really.
Facebook has basically been a magical money printing machine for political fundraising. Put a dollar in with a nice outrageous ad and get two back in donations.
Just stick everything in the same file until it actually hurts. This presentation[0] gets it right.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDsk374LDE
I'm not sure we do (whatever we normalize by to compare the 2 big areas), freight trains are not big in Europe, because of size. Our most populous and wealthy countries are next to each other. For trains, you need to amortize the cost of loading/unloading.

basically if it's worth it to put it on slow transportation "coast to coast" we have a single continuous boat path between the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, whereas the US does have to think twice when sending a ton of things from LA to Texas, it's either train or Panama Canal.
Grandfather. If you look at the website, it explains in detail:

A “grandfather” clause, “grandfather” policy or “grandfathering” in IT s a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases. Those exempt from the new rule are said to have grandfather rights, acquired rights, or to have been grandfathered in.

Why it’s problematic:

“Grandfathering” or “grandfather clause” was used as a way to exempt some people from a change because of conditions that existed before the change (e.g., we’ve grandfathered some users on an unlimited data plan.”) “Grandfather clause” originated in the American South in the 1890s as a way to defy the 15th Amendment and prevent black Americans from voting.
In a land free of constraints all problems are simple.
Regarding power usage: old lightbulbs used to be 100W, but now I get to high speed internet by connecting to low orbit satellites at my rural property... I'm not going to complain about 100W.

Propriety connectors: it's not a laptop which i need to connect to many things. I set it up and leave it.

Lack of ethernet: sure, that's a legitimate problem for me... $20 fix.

Wifi 6: as author said, Starlink isn't fast enough to utilize Wifi 6. If author wants Wifi 6 connected devices within the home, that's not Starlink's issue.
they don't need insurance, they could probably just build another one if the current one burns down...
Honestly, this feels like a bit of a red herring. The net metering issue is getting more airtime lately, but it isn't nearly as big of an issue as the proposed connectivity fee that is only targeted at solar customers and based on the nameplate capacity of solar.

That fee is directly designed to capture the benefits of solar for the utility and has little to do with real costs to the grid.
Exactly. The irony of Mercedes-Benz engineers marveling at how unsophisticated a simply-engineered vehicle is brought a smile to my face. Most owner-operator truck drivers want to be able to fix and maintain their trucks on their own, not bring the truck into the dealer every 3 months like some temperamental S-class.

Although I guess Mercedes was still pretty reliable back in the 80's.
I see. It could be a metropolitan/regional divide too. Most the trucks I see are metropolitan traversing from the port to inner city destinations.

I imagine the composition is different on, say, the Nullarbor plain.
I wouldn't say that I question my choices. Before going into tech about 10 years ago, I spent 15 years in construction, farming and mechanic type work.

I love welding, (I went to welding school out of high school but decided it would be a better hobby than job).

I love the crops we make. The whole thing started when we couldn't buy what we wanted in the quantity and quality we wanted.

My whole family lives around the farm so while I didn't enjoy digging a ditch on Christmas, I did do it with my father in law, and then we went in and had Christmas dinner and a stiff whisky with the whole family. It's not something I'm doing alone, and lots of it is stuff I love doing.

I'll often stay up till 2AM+ on the weekends just building random shit in the shop and listening to music. I'm working on soil moisture and temperature sensors to put into the fields to target watering and start collecting some data. I'm working on turning one of the old 70s fords into a battery motor, I've got the old tractors all tuned up and running and to me this is my idea of taking a break from my desk.

I'm not sure what to tell you. Have you done farming and gardening and other types of manual labor before? If you wanna hit me up and chat a bit about this I'd love to understand a little more and maybe I have tips or perspective that can help out here.
If it's when they are slowing down it's likely the jake-brakes j-brakes you are hearing especially if they have straight pipes. Diesel engines don't have engine braking by design so a mechanism was added to the heads to create artificial engine braking that can be toggled on per head.

[ Edit for clarification: ] I have created some confusion with this statement. For clarification diesel engines never had engine braking due to the lack of a throttle plate but this has been worked around with add-ons using different techniques. On a big-rig this is jake-brakes. On smaller modern vehicles this is usually a small turbo or an exhaust baffle. The operator of a modern diesel vehicle will effectively experience engine braking when they let off the throttle. On older diesel pickups and cars there was no engine braking.
I've hiked both and they are very different experiences. The JMT offers natural beauty and (relative) solitude. The camino is a cultural and social experience. The little passport book is a cute and benign part of camino culture.
Brilliant idea!

That logo however is the most repulsive piece of artwork I've seen in a long time.

(I am sorry for being blunt)
I agree, I went away from OOP in JS/TS years ago and don't see any need to use `this` these days with the functional approach.

Requirements, unfortunately, often are not clear from the very start, and more than that change, and actually their change is the part of agile processes, so I cannot dictate business to change this approach.

For tests and investigating bugs - totally agree, I always try to adopt the technique of providing the stakeholders with steps to reproduce a bug, including the very smallest factors - user/login, resetting data to the initial state before reproducing, checking the OS, date, language and so on.

In regards of the bad env, I try to improve it step by step. Even a small step is good, because it's always better to go through 15 steps rather than 16 to start app, to perform some user operation etc.

Thanks for your notes!
Here's a link to the actual preprint study.

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1121993/v1

The researchers used the original wild type SARS-CoV-2 variant so it's questionable how applicable the results are to Omicron and other more recent variants. But still it's good to at least have a testing protocol established.
The obvious problem is solved by making it universal. You do not need to choose which poor people, just make it everyone, and then collect a marginal income tax. Although, I would prefer marginal sales taxes, but that seems technically impossible with current technology.

The reason why it is not done is because it would lay bare all the inequities in the system, as well as require higher taxes due to not being able to hide the inequities in various forms of price discrimination/segmentation.

Keeping prices obfuscated means costs can be distributed across the population in an unfair manner / benefits reaped in an unfair manner, as well as ability to punt costs into the future.
I'd never heard of a "semi-truck". I've always known of them as "artics" - short for articulated.

Source: my childhood best friend's dad was a truck driver (not artic though) and a day out in the lorry was one of the best things to do in the school holidays.

EDIT: I notice the linked article "why are they called semis" actually calls them articulated.
>> Greenhouse gas emissions are a classic instance: polluters don’t pay for the carbon they emit. This is the ultimate distorted price: emissions have a high cost, but the price we charge polluters is $0. That price is a colossal lie.

I always say if you want to make someone pay for carbon emissions, the easiest way is to tax its extraction from the ground. Tax coal, oil, and gas extraction (or import) and call it a day. No sense creating artificial markets for carbon credits or other such nonsense that just encourages gaming a system and feeding middlemen.

The author IMHO totally blew it by digressing from the net-metering thing. Its a really good example of how pricing doesn't match costs, but he offers absolutely nothing as a fix for that situation. Charging people a base rate for the infrastructure plus usage sounds nice, but that causes problems for poor people and kind of subsidizes large users. The current pricing scheme which increases costs with usage (progressive pricing?) seems more fair. Or what about splitting the bill into infra and usage portions, then solar installations would pay infra for power flowing in either direction. I'm sure there are plenty more ideas out there, but the author offers none.
Not so. In fact I took a critical theory class in college (fell under religious studies, rather than political economy, interestingly). The professor started off the class with two things:

1. critical theory is about the study of what makes suffering persist in modern life

2. much of the critical theory works of the twentieth century are about the rise of fascism as well as the reality of the failure of Marxism.

You'd do well to pinpoint the origins of your opinion -- someone fleeced you.
The house takes (Sportbook, track, casino) takes between 9-25% of every bet. So, yes, relative to those options, crypto lotteries/gambling can be set up to be practically free. That is, one can (and have) set up lotteries where there is no take (provably so) save for the cost of the transaction, which on proof of stake chains or L2s, are very very cheap.

There are many aspects of blockchain that just don't make sense, but the opportunities in providing more equitable gambling opportunities are, in a word, staggering.
I've heard multiple times that people will put themselves behind trucks while driving on the highway and consume only half of the gas they would have used if they weren't behind them. It's probably related to that.
It would be interesting to factor in the higher maintenance costs, including road maintenance.
This is exactly right. Now that PG&E has built a sizable solar installation base, the NEM3.0 move is to make sure they can capture more profit. Their plan for passing NEM3.0 seems to be to cry and moan about how they're being taken advantage of by individuals who paid $30k to install solar panels on their homes.
Inflation is not a direct cost of interest. If we are going to included opportunity costs in the definition of profit and loss, then we should include the opportunity cost of tax revenue plummeting if the financial system collapsed.
Idk about significantly less. Based on some research I've done, they make less, but nothing that I can't live comfortably with. Also just because something is in demand doesn't mean that I enjoy doing it still.
I would not mind a culture of people dunking on the submitter rather than the article. (Of course, it would be best if we didn't dunk at all, but that doesn't seem to be happening...)
Luckily you can still go with a bone marrow transplant.
The (privatized) power utility in Nova Scotia, Canada just this week proposed a fee of $8/kWh for solar power entering the grid. It was met with a pretty ferocious response to the point the government started re-writing the legislation that governs utility regulation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/premier-vows-to-p...

A very large solar industry has been established around these pricing discrepancies. Not easy to undo (and I guess not obvious if it should be undone).
Spaces like ... search engines, where you go and search specifically for the business you want?

Are you arguing that only Google should be allowed to make money from advertising online?
Hey dang--

HN should implement per-sentence votes. The first sentence here is just a reference to Adorno's influence as part of the Frankfurt School.

The second sentence is low-effort speculation.

I need to be able to highlight the 2nd sentence and click the downvote button for it.
Clip to onenote, and onenote in general is a pretty amazing tool, it allows for everything I saw in the demo video, but has a interface that makes it much quicker to accomplish those task.

If you have access to the office 365 ecosystem, I would recommend checking it out (which that said, I strongly discourage the use of the native window10 version of oneNote, its a dumpster fire on wheels)
GraphCore to Power European Data Centers
> No upstart carrier could possibly compete with the alliances; they couldn’t afford the massive startup costs to build or lease their own mega-ship.

This is such a common pattern with optimization. Something starts small-ish, but gets optimized and optimized to the point that newcomers aren’t viable and everything gets locked in. It happens all over the economy, and the unprecedented scale of everything only makes the effect stronger. What’s the way out?
One thing that's missing from this is that with current California net metering, for new solar customers, you can't dump a kWh on the grid at noon and then swap it for one at 7pm at the top of the duck curve.

New plans are all time-of-use rated, meaning that you can only swap kWh within the same time of use band. At least, that's how it's been explained to me, I have not yet been able to find any explicit rules on PG&E's site explaining how time of use and net metering interact. (And for that matter, PG&E goes to nearly excessive length to avoid describing how anything works, what the actual rates and charges are, or generally putting the most useless pablum on their website.)

I think that all of these market designs and pricing schemes need to be made with an eye on getting to the lowest cost zero-carbon grid. Current best models are coming from Christopher Clack at Vibrant Clean Energy, and all his modeling shows that if we deploy lots of distributed solar and storage at meters, and upgrade distribution, we end up saving massive amounts of money over the decades. The reason is that by having distributed solar and storage, you can massively reduce other fixed cost parts of the grid as they age out.

So really we need net metering policy that encourages that sort of capital investments today, and not just in the wealthiest neighborhoods that have good credit scores or $20k to spend on home improvement on homes occupied by owners, but all over the grid, including rentals.

That's going to take not only good net metering policy, but also new innovation in financing and entrepreneurship. Figuring out how to convince landlords to let you install solar and storage all over, and integrating that into a virtual power plant is a nut that somebody needs to crack. Maybe it won't be entrepreneurs, maybe it will be cities making municipal Virtual Power Plants to meet their own ambitious climate goals. But there are a few key pieces missing from the best possible, most economical efficient, energy transition. And if we just let the utilities dictate policy, we will not be getting anything like the most economically efficient grid, we will get grids where they can make maximum profit.
Yes, but by disconnecting you aren’t contributing to the tragedy of the commons sort of issue the author talks about.

wHaT iF eVeRyOnE dId It?!

Everyone isn’t doing it, and ideally more people would be taking advantage of net metering. Until such time that it is causing real issues with the utility companies being able to keep the lights on, this is all a moot point. If it encourages solar adoption, then it’s a good policy, for now. Revisit discussion when it’s actually close to being an issue.
I have the exact opposite observations.
Criticising Israel is a big no-no and most media won't cover anything bad about Israel.
> You're defining "happy" as "not quite pissed off enough to leave"

No I'm not, I literally mean happy. Starlink is by far the best ROI internet option for many.
It's been a while since I made a new project with the intention that it be distributed, so maybe it's changed, but if your projects requirements are available in the distribution, and it's easy to build (./configure.sh, make and make install and no other BS) then someone will pick it up if it's usable.

It used to help to do a "release" on sourceforge, maybe it still does, or do a release on github.
Haha, took me a minute to remember the reference. Great stuff!
Drag is proportional to the square of speed
It can be both real and "less than ye olden times".

Perhaps everyone is always combative and I'm just sensitive to it lately.
What if I had prior infection of Covid before vaccines were available? Why would I need to be forced to be vaccinated? Given that my health care system actually registers this prior infection. While we don't have vaccines for everyone in the world.
I doubt there's been any significant change in mood. Truly negative stuff gets downvoted or flagged. I think it's mostly going to come down to your perception of things, unless you've been unlucky and happened to read all the wrong comments.
Training speaks to the truism in consulting rates -- you can only command up to the value you deliver to the customer.

With training, you're playing one of the strongest cards: delivering value to many people at the same time, where your time required scales sub-linearly with the number of people.

Consequently, the more people, the more value to the customer, the more they can realistically pay you and still get good value for their money. Win/win.
I'm literally English. I just suck at thinking.
European trucks seem to generally have better fuel economy, but this might simply be because fuel economy isn't a focus of US manufacturers.
Minimalistic or nordic would be a more accurate description. At least that how this style goes on Instagram, Pinterest and AliExpress :)
Curiosity has its bounds. Some topics, arguably, are the equivalent of discussing the temperature and color of the fire as the house burns.

I too am getting older, and while I don’t feel I’m becoming galvanized per se, I think my tolerance for those not acting in good faith has rapidly approached zero. If the data speaks and the counterparty opposes facts, there is no way to have a productive discussion. An example from my own experience would be when talking to someone about climate change, which they don’t believe in because “God will make sure it all works out”. There is no value in engaging in those situations, and similar anecdotes can be found here. Belief systems and mental models can be rigid.
seconded. please consider increasing the limit, perhaps based on karma points.
We took a ‘self-driving’ Tesla for a spin in Boston. Here’s how it did
Rail is rarely used for freight in smaller countries, because you have to move it to trucks anyway to get it moved the last 0 - 200km anyway. So if the country is only 400km wide, you’re wasting to much time load and unloading.
Basically, they're semi trucks because they pull semi trailers... which are trailers with rear axles only
And the house has wood siding with a flat roof and grass growing on the roof! Yikes!
Seems right. In my and my close friends/family experience it’s all the same - all the cool/interesting people stopped posting many years ago and with each one, more and more followed them or got bored and stopped going. Now it’s just the dorks posting stale memes or boring updates. I haven’t posted anything actively for many years now but still check it now and then and shake my head.

I think it started a slow bleed when they removed the chronological view. After that it became “evil” and not about social connection anymore. No longer was my post being seen by my friends unless the algo thought it was saucy enough. It was a great business but I dont think you’ll ever get the people who are fed up to come back.
They seem like two different companies to me.
Nah, but browsing pouet.net is fun from time to time. I think I kinda got into it seeing some game dev from xra_ on Twitch for Memory of a Broken Dimension.
Compiler Adventures, part 1: No-op Instructions
What are the other countries that aren't being covered?
I wonder if you could apply this principle by writing a tool that goes through your git history and identifies distant regions of code that are often changed at the same time, so you can take some action to link those regions. At a minimum, adding "see also" cross-references, if not refactoring to bring them closer.
This is a beautifully succinct animation of how AES works: https://youtu.be/gP4PqVGudtg
TL;DR overall length restrictions.

The US had cab-overs too back when we had length restrictions but the marginally more expensive operating cost and greatly reduced operator comfort resulted in conventional trucks taking over once those restrictions were lifted. Applications where length matters a lot still use cabovers.
But also extra effort from the driver = more tired driver, higher chance of accident, more mistakes and issues with every delivery.

I have not driven a truck like that personally, but I know what sort of difference all the modern assistance systems have done on my cross-continental drives. Previously a 12 hour drive would leave me absolutely exhausted, like I'd need a full day to recover after that - in a modern car with lane assist and adaptive cruise and comfortable seats and what not - I arrive relaxed every time. Long dull stretches of road don't take such a mental toll anymore.

I imagine the exact same principle applies to trucks.
Entropy Is Fatal
The question mark is not necessary in this title.
I'm shocked that they haven't been able to figure it out,

The problem is that it used to work just fine, things broke with iOS 13. I would be happy if they reverted to the Podcasts app circa iOS 11 or 12.
The one I had years ago did have GPS, I was told the reason was for accurate 911 locating. It was a hassle because we were trying to use it in an office and the GPS antenna needed to be near a window.
How can you find jobs in Canada. I have been trying to find some side cnosulting work but i am not sure which avenues to start from.
Don't say that! We are launching a new device that keeps the user virtually paralyzed on his chair for up to 12 hours a day!
I don't think this matters much at all though. It's a pretty cool house and it's not like their pov needs to match everyone else's. You could find interesting stuff here just like someone describing their perfect vanagon/compact apartment/log cabin.
Also, maybe they have fixed costs per transaction? If they have to pay, say $0.50 per (totally made up), that would eat up 50% of a $1 contribution, but only 10% of a $5 one. It wouldn't make much sense to go through the trouble of soliciting donations if they lost too much of it to fees.
Why on earth would anyone read cryptocoin news.
The only problem I have with it is big companies find it easy to avoid corporation tax, smaller companies find it much harder. It tilts the balance in favour of the larger businesses.
If you were to take it abroad your provider would also not have a license to use the frequencies it needs.
I have noticed this with startup discussion, although I cannot really blame people.

A lot of it seems to be formerly excited about startups people screwed over by bad management in one way or another who now are happy to hang out at FAANG and focus on money.

I get it. My last employer made a lot of their employees want to join large companies and focus on stuffing their pockets rather than caring about any higher goal.