skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even Los Angeles and Dallas – much bigger cities than Alexandria

Well... LA is huge but Dallas is not that much bigger than DC.
IIRC, this design does allow for switching over to manufacturing an EV powertrain relatively easily. Not sure if this is also true for conversion of already built vehicles but even if not, over time attrition would move most over to EV.
>patch installers were a thing before Steam

That would essentially be a launcher. We are talking about a downloaded on a website. A website can't patch a file, not know what patches you need to get up to date.
Ledit: Simple, GPU-rendered, no bullshit text editor
This actually made me wince. It's the nerdiest thing to say, but this actually made me understand better. (And I say this as someone who does have porn of myself on the internet - without my consent - but I suppose I'm not the sort of person who really cares or gets embarrassed about that sort of stuff. I don't have that sense of pudeur. But this made me understand how it would feel to be that way.)
There's a ton of that, just like Devops was a "hot market" for a while and then was diluted. We'll have a new name in a few years, or we'll find some other way of distinguising ourselves... I am not one to promote unions, but at some point we do need a systems Engineering, ENGINEERING, Iron Ring, because our tools are increasingly infrastructural in the same way bridges are.
> I get the impression that many are just salivating over the chance to be the new elite

No impression. It's pretty much written in the comments elsewhere in this thread.

That's what makes them exploitable.
> But a simple test is to start your engine and then disconnect the positive battery terminal.

Do not do that. The battery acts like a buffer to smooth out voltage spikes put out by the alternator. Without it, system voltage can spike to dangerous levels and potentially damage electronics.
It's really a matter of creating a false positive to give the officer permission to search a car or a phone and find more incriminating evidence. End of story.
Constant stopping and starting. This is where most car energy is expended. Cars are most fuel efficient when they're rolling about 50MPH.
They spend lots of time accelerating, braking, and idling.
Give it two years and we might have passable agents running on phones. There'll be a sufficiently powerful and small model that you can use with 8gb ram or less on desktop within a year.

These first large language models are naive, unoptimized implementations of data structures we're learning to inspect and optimize. Something like retro that runs locally with a "just clever enough" service agent is so close to workable. I can't wait to see what happens in ML over the next two years, and who knows what kind of radical evolution the next big algorithm is going to bring.
> At some point, an ex-boyfriend is not likely to want to keep modifying a video to piss off his ex

It is not only the ex who keeps uploading again and again. Once videos get into the wild, you have all sorts of people/bots who do this, some just for the kinks, some for money / promoting the next pill/crypto whatever spam, some "fans" genuinely wouldn't know that the video was made without consent and that she is really high, There is so much "situational" or "incest" porn out there many cannot differentiate acting high and being actually high.

Also lines get blurry, how much of any actual porn (amateur or professional) is with real informed consent, do actors really know what they are getting into? . How many young OF streamers are doing it for small money and it will haunt them later in life ?

A ton of legal porn is exploitative too, we don't have solutions for any of this.
It does make it easier to get hired since hiring doesn't carry as much risk for the employer. Some companies do offer employment contracts that restrict their own ability to fire as well. Both options are available.
I just want to comment that, my interest in a VR headset is precisely for standard terminal-based editing, except that now the focal point is at infinity and my eyes can relax better. That might be an underappreciated draw.

Consider seeing if that holds and including that as a use case. You'd have +1 consumers here and I cannot be alone.
> Apple had the legal right, sure, but they should have just respected Sagan's desire for them not to use his name without being dicks about it.

To me, it sounds like Carl Sagan is being a dick. It was an internal name, so who cares. It's kind of an honor. I don't really understand the cringe-inducing sainthood that the online tech/nerd community bestowed upon Carl Sagan over the past 30 years. I don't even think he did that much original research.
This might be the lobbying. If so, just cut them a check for the EV cost delta and installing EV charging stations at USPS facilities where vehicles are parked.

Assuming outrageous costs (~$50k per usps branch) and 6000 USPS facilities, that’s $300M to install EV chargers. Say you do it over five years (slowly working from highest to lowest utilization geographies), that’s only $60M a year.

USPS spends $300M a year on fuel, and vehicle fuel accounts for half of their energy use. Per the GAO, USPS spends $2B a year maintaining their bespoke Grumman LLVs. The costs savings are blindingly obvious.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/4/22/2122913...
Duffel is interesting, I wonder what they use on their back end. I've written airline booking API when I was at an OTA (now sadly gone like so many) on top of our parent company's res system. It can be complex, made more in my case so by the pathetic res system itself and its limitations. In fact at the time we had no way to do test bookings without real money (and mostly un-refundable except for a single route).
Yep. Airlines are one of the few brand apps where there probably is a significant business case for spending developer time optimising an app for download size, since customers who make the decision to try to download United's app on slow or metered connections at the airport or overseas are probably customers ready to be upsold stuff via the app.
"follow the money" would actually give you the opposite conclusion.

It's not free to switch to electric. Infrastructure costs like building charging stations and maintenance, labor costs like retraining drivers, and a huge number of other costs must be modeled before understanding the true economics.

Merely saying "someone is probably pocketing" demonstrates a shallow analysis of the situation.
God forbid I wouldn't get junkmail littered through my mail slot one day.
We don't allow driving without a seatbelt in most states. We have rules saying you must be 21 with ID to purchase alcohol. We ban minors from purchasing firearms. Giving drugs to a child will see you behind bars for a very long time.

But heaven forbid that we regulate porn even though it has been scientifically shown to have effects similar to meth in addictiveness in the brain, has caused erectile dysfunction diagnosis to explode, and has caused societal damage from changing the brain to view women as sex objects. It's not extremist to say, considering the above, it needs to be controlled and potentially even banned.

Also, the article is the story of a former porn moderator. Of course he would classify anyone opposed to the industry he worked in and anyone who wants to hold him accountable as extremist.
You can’t drive 8 hrs on a single charge. Particularly in colder climates with less population density. My mail is delivered by someone driving a jeep down a creek lol

From a cost-benefit perspective gas is still king. Otherwise you’ll need 1.5-2x EV trucks for every one gas powered.
Because they spend the vast majority of their operating time stopping, idling, and accelerating at low speeds, . They are pretty much a worst case scenario for ICE efficiency.
The grandparent poster seems to be commenting about relative risk rather than personal expertise. You may not make a good elementary school teacher or administrator, but it would make sense for you to have an opinion on how the school manages traffic. Certainly you wouldn't value my opinion since I don't live by the school and even if I had expertise in school traffic management I might not have your interests in mind.

That said, I don't agree with the poster's attitude. (For the record, I live next to, and essentially in a large forest.) A controlled burn could get out of hand, but in general, controlled burns will do so less frequently than an unplanned wildfire if we aren't doing controlled burns. Or, in other words, whatever short term risk there is from a controlled burn near me is paid back by a reduced overall long term risk. Since I have no plans to sell my home (and even if I did, because I care about other people) controlled burns is a clear path forward from my point of view.
Bootstrap was/is an extremely popular front end framework, probably still in the top five.
TBF, that calculation is only necessary in some circumstances.

Want to get into FAANG? Corporate HR is dominated by women, better clean up your act.

Wanna get hired by the hot bro-startup to be single-digit-employee? No purge necessary - if anything, those blue entries will score more points.
Absolutely. There are factors that make it more likely. But regardless, I don't know a single person who has _never_ been stopped by police.
DIY Wireless Induction Charger
Why the no welding requirement?
It looks like it has a chainring clutch, though without a chainguard cover, you have the risk of clothing, body parts, shoelaces, etc getting sucked into the chain, yeah.

The motor sticks out uncomfortably close to the pedals and particularly on a MTB I could see a rider accidentally stepping on it...and it looks like an outrunner, so that would also be quite bad, as the foot would get launched backwards pretty violently.

This is a lot of effort compared to just bolting on a Baofang mid-drive motor. The components are also placed such that unless you have a pretty good front fender, they'll be covered in crap in no time.
If there's enough juice to power a fuel pump, ignition coil, etc there should definitely be enough to excite the alternator. Old alternators' excitation terminal used to be powered through the "battery charge" indicator lamp so very little current would get through (and indeed the wire gauge was very thin).
I love this app. But after a while using it I found it suffers the same problem as most other Internet radio apps - obsessed with location. I started making a list of stations based on genre or general vibe and ended up building https://muso.fm
It's a refined list of good Internet radio stations playing good music.
> I've never used it, but apparently you can hash a image in such a way that small changes will result in the same hash

This is equivalent to image recognition. It works ok, but has lots of false positives and false negatives.
Exactly this. Every OSS project is going to have a slightly different arrangement, but many contributions to OSS projects are subject to conflict of interest agreements. I work full-time on a large OSS project that has thousands of community contributors, and also has a few hundred paid full-time contributors as well. Our COI agreement limits what we can accept as gifts and outside payments. I would be open to speaking of course -- in fact, it's our responsibility to the community as core contributors. But taking a paid Zoom call with a commercial entity is very different than speaking at a conference or responding to Github issues (at my company, at least).

I'm genuinely not certain how someone would approach my company to do this, which is also exactly to the author's first point quoted in the parent comment. My guess is likely that someone would pay my company, and my company would compensate me to speak as a normal part of my day-to-day role.
We are talking about radar here the receiver will be receiving weak signals that are reflected. They may also have slight shifting in frequency due to reflection and the doppler effect. The noise floor is much lower for radar than communications. A radar receiver also will generally read a wider frequency band than communications. 200Mhz between frequency bands may seem like a lot for communication purposes, but that is not necessarily true for radar.

Also you can't make a perfect band pass filter, also for radar the band your going to be filtering is gonna be wider to begin with. Also all transmitters will emit higher order harmonics of the primary frequency, if the broadcast power is high enough those harmonics could very well be above the noise floor of other frequencies.
Most of what people love about Carl Sagan is really just Ann Druyan showing through.
With all due respect, that is trivial to do in C++, hell it will be actually readable and much safer than malloc(n*sizeof(something)) and then for looping over that to initialize values.
Bad reporting, simply.

This issue hits ALL PLANES that use standard frequency radar altimeters. Including Airbus, Bombardier, Cessna, Learjet, Dassault, etc.

What happened is that aside from trying to put limits on transmission characteristics for C-band near airports, there is a concerted action to verify how the many different models of radar altimeters interact with 5G interference. This is a report on configurations sold by Boeing, from Boeing, as they went over all configurations they've sold of specific types.
> It isn't supposed to be profitable!

It’s supposed to break even. It’s supposed to be a service that provides value. If it isn’t providing value, it loses its reason to exist.

You can argue that the consumer captures a lot of surplus value from the postal service. But it doesn’t exist just to please people who like public programs.

The same with libraries.
I'm fine with that so long as the burden of proof rests on those claiming that the modifications make the device "substantially more dangerous"—keeping in mind that the most dangerous component of any vehicle tends to be the one sitting in the driver's seat.
Another reminder of what Bitcoin is good for. The article currently links to another one that says they froze 200 bank accounts and are now unfreezing most of them: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergency-bank-measures-fin... https://archive.fo/lAT62

It's a terrifying reminder of how vulnerable we've become to arbitrary and lawless government actions in our near-cashless society.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30446703
So, suppose there is a new kind of cocktail that is popular in bars near me that nobody has written about under it's new trendy name.

How do I ask this system about the recipe, or the history of the cocktail? Someone has to write an article about it, right? How do they get paid if it gets scraped once and people go to the scraping model for the answer instead of visiting the original article's page?
I live in a location that is more or less impervious to the effects of climate change and rising sea levels but I still support the development of technology like dams that will save lives in the face of rising sea levels. This is no different
This would also go nicely with arbitrary-width integers. Load/store instructions would just need to set aside a few opcode bits to define the number of bits to load or store, and pointers would just get 3 bits wider (basically left-shifted 3 bits, the upper bits in a 64-bit pointer are not used anyway). Pointer alignment could be the same as the bit width, e.g. 2-bit load/store could require 2-bit alignment, byte load/store byte alignment, and so forth...
Couldn't immediately find a good explanation of what STAR1 and STAR2 were. Looks like it's 256x256 bitmap that's scrollable and cycles automatically through a color palette. So you can make the stars "twinkle" by it just shifting through the palette

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/video/c...

edit: didn't see that "col" also contained an x-offset. So like (256*16)x256 but presumably "sparse", so I get more where the "star" idea comes from
Ngrok is a high-quality, well-engineered, bootstrapped product. Honest question, why be stunned and perplexed that it is successful enough to build a company around? Plenty of software companies start this way. And there's a huge spectrum between "having employees" and "being Google".
You're right, I should have pointed out that the data about coal going up in 2021 after two years of going down was restricted to the US ; my bad.

We'll have to wait for data about the global trend in 2021- I suspect we'll have a rebound effect after the pandemic.

That still leaves plenty to replace "on your left"... Let's do that, shall we ?
How will this change how we evaluate content? Will digital media be socially and culturally devalued? Will print media gain greater status? Live spoken word? Curated content with a reputation layer? Obviously it's pure speculation, but let's indulge for a moment.
base the drones on an airship that can loiter for days/weeks.

airship could also assist in surveillance.
https://electrek.co/2016/02/25/mail-man-tesla-model-s/

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/customer-stories/electric-mail

With an EV, it’s a function of route distance, not route time. Minnesota gets pretty cold! Also, an EV costs half per mile of a combustion vehicle.

Your next rural mail carrier (where the vehicle decision is local) could be driving a Model Y!
> Give me a break. If the admin wants the postal service to go EV, pay for it. The very fact that the USPS remains solvent under the conditions they are forced to operate is a damn miracle. Put up or shut up.

From the article:

> President Biden's social spending package proposal unveiled last year included $6 billion for the USPS to purchase new vehicles, but that proposal is still being debated in Congress.

So it looks like the administration has, in fact, tried to "put up".
So, an essentially impossible proposal, which you're proposing because ... why?
the amount of people who are able to fix anything non-trivial on their car is miniscule. Producing cars is so prohibitively expensive that it only makes sense at industrial scale.

Hence there will not be a FOSS car.
>If a TV station started leaking over another channel, you can bet that'd be shut down almost immediately, regardless of the cost to the station for putting up faulty broadcasting equipment.

Any leaking that happens is caused by the 5G transmitters in the case under consideration. You are confusing two issues. The issue here is that strong and close transmitters can not be properly blocked by some of the radar altimeters in use under the separation rules established by the FCC.

An important job of the FCC is separating TV transmitters that are close in frequency so that they do not cause problems. If you live next door to a TV transmitter you will have no hope of receiving signals on adjacent channels. That is because of the physical limitation of your receiver and has nothing to do with the transmitter leaking anything.
I posit it could not, but I guess we are probably going to find out.
They are adopting a mix, looking to inject 5,000 EVs into their fleet by sometime next year.
I think you misunderstand. It's not that they took a picture. It's that they used some vague algorithm to determine if they have permission to rifle through your private life. Or arrest you even if you haven't committed a crime.
Why Bidirectional Gateways Matter
Yes, this is a bigger policy and legislative failure that let the previous gen trucks get so old and the new contract go through without a mandate and funding for reduced emissions.
Servers require maintenance. Time is money
> Premium view nets more money to the creator than the average ad-supported view.

How does that compare to just donating directly?

> I haven't personally seen any content creators explicitly dissuade people from paying for Premium.

If they were to do that anywhere in YouTube, you'd think that would be some kind of TOS violation.
You can easily get all of these features in the official YouTube app by subscribing to YouTube Premium, which also provides revenue to content creators.
>>You can’t drive 8 hrs on a single charge

If you're doing a grand total of a 100 miles in those 8 hours, you sure can - and city delivery vehicles will do even less than that. Yes sure it won't work if you're driving hundreds of miles every day - but even with postal services that's extremely rare, those are last mile delivery trucks not long distance transporters
Airbus has the same issue. So does Bombardier. So does Dassault.

Using the eviction notice metaphor , this is a developer building a stadium with sound system rocking your walls every night, because someone sold them a parcel too close for noise abatement.
I really think this is a best-case scenario for a hybrid. You get EV-ish efficiency in the city, a decrease in wear on mechanical parts, especially things like brakes, and no range related issues that come with a BEV - if using hybrid SUV's as a datapoint, modern hybrid systems even get better MPG on the highway then their gas counterparts.

It's clear that if you buy a consumer vehicle, the extra cost a hybrid pays quickly off over the course of ownership, and maintenance isn't nearly as expensive as it was when the came out 20 years ago.

I totally get why hybrid 18-wheelers don't exist - there's very little stopping involved, so the benefits of the regenerative braking, and the off-the-line electric efficiency are null, but USPS trucks have to stop hundreds of times per trip.

Modern day hybrids are fuel efficient, generally more powerful then their gas counterparts, and are bullet-proof enough to be used as taxi cab fleets in NYC. Someone's going to say that you need to haul a bunch of stuff. The F150 Hybrid gets 25mpg vs the 20mpg of the gas. It really doesn't make sense to me.
> I have two options, one is to pass in an in-out parameter, the other is to the throw an exception.

Another one would be not using constructors at all, instead implement initialize() or create() method in the class.

> Now you have the issue that every single operation can throw an exception

Depends on the code. I tend to avoid exceptions when I can.

> you need to write code that wraps every possible resource in RAII logic.

That’s generally a good idea regardless of whether exceptions are used or not. Without RAII for file handles, next day/month/year another programmer will write `if(condition) return;` and leak the handle.

> And when it comes to implementing move and copy constructors you are left feeling like you’ve definitely done something wrong

For many classes in my code, I disable both with =delete; copy constructor. This makes a class which can be neither moved nor copied, which simplifies things substantially. For instance, if you need a RAII equivalent of CAtlFile [0] over FILE* from stdio.h, immovable file handles might be a good idea. Another thing, if the class owns many gigabytes of data in some collections, you wouldn’t want to copy anyway, too expensive. In some cases I want to move such objects, for that I define a swap() method. An explicit swap() method is IMO more readable than std::move.

For many other classes in my code, I declare no constructors at all because the default compiler-generated ones already doing what I want.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/atl/reference/catlfile-...
But it's your car and the name on your driver's license matches the name on the title and the DMV registration?
I’ve heard this many times, but I’ve never actually seen it cited.
That's interesting, since electric vehicles should be cheaper in the long run -- especially if they can arrange lower prices for overnight charging.

Perhaps the up-front costs of an electric vehicle are prohibitive for their constrained financial situation. If so, that is an unfortunate bind, if it causes more financial costs in the long run.
Meanwhile, history also rewards communities who support and listen to the underserved in order to improve collective wellbeing. You can build a movement based on inclusion.