skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a BS quote, the deck was financially stacked against EV procurement from the start. For example:

1. EV proposals had to account for a 100% EV fleet. The small percentage of rural routes where this was difficult created a long tail of costs. There's no reason why this couldn't have been scaled down to a more reasonable 90% of routes (or whatever the breakdown happens to be).

2. TCO calculations were inadequate. The real benefit of EVs come from operating costs (much lower electricity costs compared to gas, much lower maintenance). Interest rates are so low right now, there would have been some way to capitalize the initial purchases, if the USPS leadership had appetite.
Not just good practice, it's default with Xcode. Someone must have messed up some configuration/flags while they were breaking the frameworks up maybe?
It does not have to be an all-or-nothing affair.

The USPS doesn't even provide vehicles to a lot of rural route carriers; they get a stipend and have to purchase their own. They've been replacing LLVs with various sprinter vans and minivans for certain areas and route types.

They recently solicited designs for a new mail truck and that should have included drivetrain flexibility. Major car manufacturers have been doing this for at least half a decade, designing cars that are built to take an ICE, hybrid, or EV drivetrain instead of an EV or hybrid drivetrain being shoe-horned into a body only intended for an ICE drivetrain.
> I mean, pretty much everyone associates puritanism with the right-wing, but ok my bad...

The fact that the right wing is puritan doesn't mean that puritanism entails being right-wing. This is, like, Logic 101, 'Socrates is a man'-level shit.
> Cars are most fuel efficient when they're rolling about 50MPH.

They're even more efficient rolling at 40 MPH or 30 MPH or even 20 MPH, as long as it's consistent (not stop-start). Air resistance scales with something like the cube of velocity and begins to be noticeable around 20 MPH.
I don‘t use Vanced but something similar for iOS. I actually do pay for YT Premium but what the app also gives me is SponsorBlock, so thanks the other viewers flagging sections in videos, it will also skip baked-in ad slots. As I have YT Premium and assumed that the creators get paid for their baked-in spot according to their reach (channel size, engagement, etc) and not how many people don‘t skip that section of the video, I don‘t feel bad but frustrated that I have to go so far to simply watch videos without getting constantly bombarded with ads. If my assumption is wrong I would be grateful to get more info on how these baked-in ad spots are arranged.
The router table breaks the "no CNC" rule though...
Looks interesting, I wonder how does it handle floating windows.
It's even simpler than that. [0]

You work with providers to measure impact and to reduce interference around airports. You issue NOTAMs (Notice To Air Missions) to all pilots know where this 5G interference is known to be a problem, and you wrap it all up with AD (Airworthiness Directive) for the 737 itself which specifies that those NOTAMs apply directly to the equipment on this make and type of aircraft.

[0]: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-03967.pdf
What I'm confused about is, why are the FCC and FAA suddenly running into this problem now? Hasn't 5G been coming for a long time? What did they expect would happen instead?
It is a geniune method to speed up computation if you can put all the operands in the instruction (VLWI)
What solution are you using now? I am using Standard Notes right now but I wish there were more alternatives.
Is the parent OP light gray because of the status of the poster or due to downvotes?

If it's the latter, it saddens me that this Reddit-esque behavior is finding footing on HN. You may (vehemently, even) disagree with what the parent post states (I do too), but that should not be a basis to downvote, especially when they stated their POV respectfully.
Wow...that was a good zinger. I'm going to have to steal that.
ngrok related question.

Since ngrok is written on Go here is some pure C clone:
https://github.com/dosgo/ngrok-c

I will appreciate if someone assist how to run it.

Here is issue:
https://github.com/dosgo/ngrok-c/issues/84
Music tastes are surprisingly more homogeneous around the world than I thought. It's also interesting to see how reggaeton/latin trap has taken over all the Spanish speaking world.
> The FAA's TSO-C87 doesn't have any requirements for rx filtering either. So there's no legal grounds to fine anyone.

Then the FCC should proceed with the rollout of this allocation and let the clowns at Boeing and the FAA handle the fallout.
Sure, I do. Almost everyone in my generation does. But, this is not about us, we can't go back... it's about future generations who will be aware of the concerns about AI before they put their images on the internet. They should be able to choose if they want that. This is a powerful and potentially dangerous thing that needs to be carefully considered.
Juan Browne is an ex-military and current commercial pilot. I trust him to explain how radar altimeters work and what they are used for.
... because the test driving cycle is based on 8 miles city, 6 miles freeway, and then 11 miles stop/go with 700 stops; and if I remember correctly is based on all accessories (i.e. air conditioning) running for the entire time.

This is not your EPA passenger vehicle test cycle.
hi folks, i’m the founder/creator of ngrok. happy to answer any questions.

we’ve got some exciting improvements we’re looking to share with the community very soon here

<3 to you all
Commercial aviation works the way it works regardless of whether you think its practical.

And you're grossly overstating how many suppliers are on a commercial aircraft. There are in total an average of 30 tier-1s on a modern airframe, and yes, airlines are expected to work with all of them. Radio Altimeters are typically made by avionics suppliers i.e. Collins, Thales, or Honeywell for Part-25 commercial airliners.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/opo.12406

and

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...

and

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29404551/

aaaand

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29786830/
Is this one of those cases when xenophobia is ok?
Unsure why USPS wouldn't look up to another company that is all based on logistics and delivery. If Pepsico is already buying Tesla Semi trucks af of last Q of '21 [1] then they clearly did the homework and decided electric trucks makes more economical sense than other means. After all, Pepsico as a publicly traded company, is all about squeezing the last cent out of the cost of freight.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/08/pepsico-ceo-says-he-expects-...
I wonder if the accurate deliver of fire retardant could be achieved using automated mortars or similar, maybe terminal guidance munition delivered from a high level loitering airship. Your cost may be higher, but I'm thinking that there will be a significant loss rate with drones, and you lose the cost of prepositioning.
While I agree with the sentiment, there are real issues with a truly p2p internet. Even if we switched to IPv6 overnight, everything would still be locked down with firewalls. And what if someone decides to DDoS your blog or geo-locate your IP to figure out what town you live in?

In order to get to a p2p world, I think maybe the best balance point is for most people to connect to the internet through a local tunneling/VPN company which also provides them with a public inbound IP. This has many benefits including:

* Hides all your behavior from your ISP, turning them into a dumb pipe and encouraging net neutrality.

* Since VPNs don't necessarily require hardware, it's much cheaper for VPN companies to start up and compete with each other. This can also have the effect of decentralizing a lot of power into many small local companies, as opposed to large (inter)national ISPs.

* Allows new protocols like IPv6, HTTP/3, etc to be adopted more quickly because VPN companies can implement them for all their users at once.

Unfortunately this technology might need a rebranding first, as a lot of VPN companies these days feel quite scammy and make some dubious claims about what they accomplish.
> pretty much everyone associates puritanism with the right-wing

That "everyone" must be old. The new phenomena are already lampooned in plenty of memes. The boomers aged pretty badly.

> It's not out of a hatred of alcohol that drinking ages exist, it's because alcohol abuse has been proven to ruin lives

If that were the case, alcohol would just be banned outright. The limits are basically virtual anyway, anybody can attest that getting alcohol is trivial once you start to really want it. Just like porn.

A lot of law is effectively performative morality, and no more so than in the area of personal pleasures. Prohibitionism always fails, eventually, because people want to feel.
Whatever, but I don't want crumpets.
> Not that you'd want to mmap() if you cared about performance.

So far I never used mmap (no usecase that pushed me to find alternatives for the usual open&seek), but I was always curious about it.

Your statement made me search & find this ( https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/474926/how-does-mem... ) => interesting.

Thanks :)
And what's even more wild is that every single one of those videos has a click-bait title and thumbnail.

I think it's always telling which creatives are the first to 'defect' to a new platform and it seems like all of these 'open streaming alternatives' just attract the people who failed to gain traction on closed platforms (rather than people who actually care about the technology).
> it’s enough to just say that catchphrase and not even bother looking into it. The argument wins itself.

And that is why it's thought suppression.
Yes, I think so in the sense that it peaked several years ago. For awhile it was getting smarter because so many niche communities were being created and good information was being shared freely, which attracted more expertise. More companies were also interested in using subreddits as their community software or support forum which endorsed sections of it for specialized knowledge. Those trends have peaked and companies are more likely to set up a Discord and create nice documentation as static sites have become easier to generate and GitHub mindshare has grown.
Yeah, I often read about porn sites for their engineering (I'm not being sarcastic, I mean that 100% sincerely). It's a shadow world that counts among it some of the most highly-trafficked sites on the internet - and then bear in mind that most of the few sites above them are not devoted to serving high-quality long-duration videos. These sites are phenomenal feats of engineering. Anyone who discounts them just because of some silly pudeur about their content is not an engineer in my eyes.
Lambda's Machine Learning Infrastructure Playbook and Best Practices
Yes—Roe protects abortion through the end of the second trimester, which is out of sync with what 70% of the public believes: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730183531/poll-majority-want-...

Mississippi’s 15-week ban, for example, would make the timing there somewhat more liberal than France or Denmark. It would also be consistent with the 70% of the public that thinks abortion should be legal, but only in the first trimester.

Conservatives are very much in a defensive crouch on Roe.
We have a lot of bandwidth for our CDN and DDoS services.
IANAL, but from the US stand point there are a few specific occupations that make a person a "mandatory reporter"[1] but for the general public I am not aware of any statute that requires a normal citizen to report any crime at all. Edit: Except 3 states that appear to have laws for all persons....

If you are a police officer, a medical professional, social worker, etc then you likely are a mandatory reporter[1] but other then those occupations... In some states IT workers are included in that as well but not all.

[1]https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/manda.pdf
Right, it's a conversion.
I originally put this together for a conference last year and finally got a chance to upload it to youtube. Here's the full document & video presentation associated with it:

video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EnIW0EZkr4
slide pdf: https://files.lambdalabs.com/lambda-machine-learning-infrast...
Reddit goes through periodic user purges - although they do occasionally get a true positive when they do, for the most part they just end up purging the users who are capable of critical thinking, hence the current critical mass of folks who only know how to go with the flow.
To be sure, what I'm suggesting would require a reworking of how those cameras are used and disclosed, and probably would require technical solutions in addition to policy ones. I'm definitely suggesting going far beyond the status quo in an attempt for transparency (pretty much "open sourcing" the camera footage)
Hard to imagine a workshop with some pretty fancy sheetmetal equipment but no welding equipment. A welder is, like, the first metalwork tool you buy.
Reddit started out with that status and it became accepted by some of the masses.
I was more concerned about the pedals being spun about by a high-torque motor and banging into your shins...
> Relatedly, I hope we ever get CPUs where pointers are bit addressed.

You mean like the famous PDP-6 from 1964? The width of a byte was variable and could be as small as 1: http://pdp10.nocrew.org/docs/instruction-set/Byte.html

(That's the PDP-10 instruction set documentation, but the PDP-6's instruction set was essentially identical).

I never wrote PDP-6 code but wrote a lot of PDP-10 code and the byte instructions were used heavily. In particular characters were commonly six or seven bits wide so string manipulation used byte pointers and was quite fast, but they were also good for packed arrays of all sorts of sizes.
In 1996 electronic design automation tools were also hitting the limits of 32 bit address spaces. I don't remember the exact timing of when they were able to use more than 4GB in a single process; I think there might have been an in-between period where a Solaris machine running on a 64 bit SPARC CPU could use more than >4GB, but a single process was limited to that amount. Within a few years the tools were ported to use more than 4GB in a single process.
Also India. $1.27
> no range related issues that come with a BEV

The average USPS route covered by these vehicles per day is 20 miles (and median is probably even lower). Range isn't a concern for the vast majority.
Tons of colleges just give you a public IP and route all traffic to you.
> It’s supposed to break even. It’s supposed to be a service that provides value.

Do SNAP, Medicaid, etc. provide value? Do they "break even"?

Who/what says it has to break even at all?
Man, how crazy. Continuing like this, they could create their own identification keys for machines and despise us. It seems that in this whole game only they end up winning.
Redhat exists
Second data wiper attack hits Ukraine computer networks
The concept is interesting, but would not be easy to deploy the extinguisher agent like they where some kind of artillery shell? Use drones to patrol and find fires, and then just bombard the position from distance?
If we switched to EVs, how would I know the mail is near without the sound of a vehicle accelerating as fast as it can and then to braking as hard as it can every fifty feet? /s
> has caused erectile dysfunction diagnosis to explode

Is there really a documented causal link here?
Ask HN: Looking for a web app for collecting small bits of information
Hi. Looking for help finding an open-source project (again).

Some time within the last ~6 months I came across a blog (or HackerNews) post about a piece of software (very likely a web app) that I found interesting and thought could be used for keeping track of small pieces of information (small text notes, book quotes, jokes, code snippets, CLI commands, …). It had a content area with multiple cards on the right, dark mode, list of tags/filters on the left.

Looked somewhat similar to the screenshots [1] [2] [3] … the layout of the cards themselves had more details/content from what I can remember. Also I'm quite sure besides tags it also had key-value attributes (like e.g. “author:Kipling”). It _might_ also have used individual markdown files as source for the content cards.

Now that I have some time to play with it, I can’t find it anymore.
Maybe someone can help. Any ideas on what open-source project that is?
Or some similar software that fits this use case (especially the individual markdown files feature)?

Things it's not: Notion, DailyNotes, Walling, pawelmalak/snippet-box

[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pawelmalak/snippet-box/master/.github/img/snippets.png

[2]: https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/2906169/screenshots/16279872/media/a74ab09ab4efd8e96aa9372f0a8d4cf3.png

[3]: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b42ba5ee9701f2bbedd5f1f7e6706f211591c8d59b061f8f2b86aba7b9e59816/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f4a4b71486c68542e706e67
Larry: You mean to tell me, that I'll get paid $$$$ and all I have to say about their product is "nah"? Sure, I'll do it.

Jeff: GREAT! I'll send the paperwork over first thing tomorrow. This is going to be good, you won't regret this.

theme music plays
It looks like we're now understanding each other.

> It won't scale to a large number of streams.

Galene was designed for lectures and conferences, where a small number (1-5) of streams are sent to hundreds or thousands of receivers (and the budget is virtually nonexistent, because teaching and public research are eternally underfnded). It works beautifully for that particular application. It also happens to work well for medium-size meetings (25 senders, 50 receivers), which is a nice bonus, but not what the software was designed for.

> I'd be interested to hear how many you can have running at the same time before you notice problems.

We've been doing staff meetings with 25 senders and 50 receivers (50 people attending, half of which have their camera switched off). However, our main goal is supporting large lectures (2 flows distributed to hundreds of students, with students only switching their camera on in order to ask a question or show their cat): the commercial offerings work reasonably well for meetings, but are completely inadapted to lecturing.

> You can't easily prioritize one stream over the others if you want an "active speaker" view.

Oh, that. We simply forcibly switch the background streams to the lowest spatial layer. It works very well, but relies on the senders implementing either simulcast or SVC. Which is something we may safely assume (all desktop browsers implement at least simulcast, and lecturing is done with laptops).
Your reasoning is too convoluted and unclear to argue against.
Shouldn't they secure that funding before they require this?
Being anti-porn is hardly limited to neocons, unless you think the totality of FAANGs are neocons. This is the sort of live wire that cuts right across all political groups.
"5G" doesn't refer to one specific set of bands. Radar has been operating this way for decades, and only last year did the FAA decide to allocate the nearby spectrum to high power transmitters.
>A lot of ad-subsidized content only "works" because by the time the user realizes that the content is subpar it's already too late and they've "paid" and can't take their money back.

Citation needed, because this sounds more like preference projection of someone who prefers subscription content than the majority of actual ad-subsidized content consumers.
Again, the type of customer who pays for a subscription is going to consume vastly different content than the freemium customer.
>>Youtube is built on copyright infringment

> I think this is a [citation needed] kind of thing, I'd assume that original content and fair use content is the vast majority of their revenue. But I don't know that for sure either.

I read it more as being a historical record kind of thing. Early days when youtube was first getting content it was a repository for all sorts of copyrighted content - music, movies (clip 1 of 20 style due to upload limits), scans of entire books and comics being put up. It was really the wild west of "throw every piece of media at the wall and see what sticks" in terms of what was on there.

There's a fair argument to be made that youtube gained a lot of visibility as a platform in hosting that content and outcompeted places like vimeo, metacafe, etc., as a result.

It was the acquisition by Google that provided the resources and talent to start building out automated systems to detect media and issue a strike (as well as pay the CDN fees and build the hosting network for such a load). Youtube today doesn't rely on copyright infringement for sure, but it certainly took advantage of it in when it was first starting out.
With the current state of things with news agencies, we need to assume these are carefully handpicked facts that give a false impression. Those 50 billions likely come with lots of strings attached and USPS can't just use 5 billions per year; the bill was riddled with irrelevant provisions that have nothing to do with mail, and that senator's vote didnt really decide anything. Need to verify all this to make any conclusions.
Yeah, no social media can (or should) scale massively without appropriate moderation. If the history of social media can give us some lessons, it should be that there must be someone who takes control of the social platform and should be accountable for its impacts on society.
> since electric vehicles should be cheaper in the long run

Do you have a reference for this? I'm curious to see where the costs went. For someone like USPS, who purchases mostly one model, in bulk, with long term maintenance as part of the plan, the math might be a little different.
Does the "much better C" include constructors are not? Smart pointers (which you include) are primarily designed for types with ~Type destructors, and difficult to use with C-style types with free functions for deallocation. And ~Type is difficult (unsure if impossible) to use without constructors, through either new Type or placement new into malloc'd memory. There is the trick of defining a passthrough constructor and moving initialization logic to a separate function calling the constructor. But if you want placement initialization, I'm unsure if C++ allows the C trick of casting malloc'd memory into Type * and passing it into a placement-init function that isn't a Type() constructor (pretty sure it's illegal to do so if Type contains std::vector, or shared_ptr, possibly unique_ptr). And constructors cannot report failures outside of out-parameters or exceptions, both of which were criticized in the article. So "most of the complications can be ignored that way" isn't true in my experience.

If you want fallible placement initialization, perhaps you could define a static method or free function taking a void* to malloc'd memory, which performs some logic then conditionally calls a placement constructor on the void*, then [[nodiscard]] return whether you succeeded. I find this awkward and not much better than C. Personally I give up placement initialization and return a std::optional<T>.

>references... generics via templates

Implicit copy constructors are a footgun not found in C, and references decay to copies at every opportunity (auto, templates).
Nice, I didn't realize there was a C port of the ngrok client. Since this seems intended for embedded devices/routers, you might also be interested in rathole:

https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole
> As the years pass and I pick up new niche interests, my instinct is to turn to Reddit to find like minded individuals, but more and more increasingly I find that misinformed and poorly researched content is becoming the default and taking over the more quality content.

I think this is becoming the default for the internet/society in general. Rather than it being a Reddit problem, it’s simply manifesting on Reddit, as it is most other popular websites.