skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A "no" response for the first question could save everyone from wasting their time with the second.

If I have a question that takes time to write up, I'll need to spend that time either way. Better to write the question up front so I can copy/paste it wherever I need until I get the help I need than to ask "any Java experts around" and proceed to waste anyone who responds' time while they wait for me to actually compose the question.
Gitlab's Enterprise Dimensional Model
It's not available in any recent cars, but one of my cars has a mechanical fuel injection system that was commonly used on VWs, Porsches, Mercedes, and SAABs in the 80s. Working on this car I really get the sense that I do own it (for better or for worse)!
Do women specifically want steering wheels or something? I’m not sure I understand.
This is some very whatabouty whataboutism.
The C preprocessor does not have types.

But things like `struct S *` with no definition of `S` are handled properly.
Jaguar experimented with putting eyes on the vehicle itself:

https://www.businessinsider.com/jaguar-land-rover-eyes-on-ca...
I assume that the UK is like the US in providing separate commercial electricity rates, so I'm not sure that there's a meaningful comparison to be made directly here.
IMO KVM Switches with display support are luxury items.

Who has 2 computers? People who can afford them.
Shopify's Data Science and Engineering Foundations (2020)
The article says the ban was instant, so it's probably their automated detection models. I can see them having some AI that auto-bans all posts with a photo with that symbol. And I can also see them having an exclusion list for some accounts that they think would be bad PR if they accidentally banned which I'd guess right now would include the official Ukrainian accounts and the NATO accounts.

Seems sometimes these models backfire, it can't distinguish between an account promoting the symbol versus an account denouncing the symbol. My guess is the models were meant to ban accounts promoting the symbol.

But also, it's possible Twitter just wants to ban all conversations related to it, since no matter where the account stands, it's probably going to put them in a bad spot.
I own an eight years old electric vehicle. It’s not connected to the internet anymore, and it is fine. The maintenance is done by professionals. Sometimes they do software updates.

I also own a new electric vehicle connected to the internet that updates itself once in a while. I know various non-official garages in my area that can fix it when it’s out of warranty. I guess if I remove the modem, it will simply stop updating automatically, and I will lose a few features like the smartphone app, like my other car.
As soon as I typed that I knew someone would reply with this. :). I agree it would be nice and I sometimes miss physical switches, but imagine how clunky a Raspberry Pi would be with a physical switch.

And besides, I almost never used the switch on the computer anyway. I was always told to put it into a power strip and use that, because it was a lot cheaper to replace the power strip than the broken power switch on the PC!
Why can't the widgets connect to a Raspberry Pi using USB ports? Using plain old USB ports as a connector is a downgrade in terms of aesthetics, but it's a massive upgrade in terms of reusability and versatility. All of a sudden, you can connect your sensors to laptops, PCs and Raspberry Pis alike. You can already get a webcam on eBay for $6. You could design any sensor and actuator to have a USB interface.

Don't get me wrong, like I said, USB devices would look less cute and tidy than the Pockit, and the Pockit is a great achievement, but USB devices truly are more simple and versatile.
I completely agree.

This is the approach that I took with murex. It comes with a stack of builtins for json, jsonlines, yaml, toml, csv, sqlite3, and others. So you have all the power of data types and intelligent management of structured data but also works with regular POSIX CLI commands without any additional boilerplate code when swapping between murex code and coreutils (et al). So one could say I’ve spent a fair amount of time studying this point you’ve raised :)
That is what hurts me the most: want to be untouchable? Get nukes!

Iraq has been invaded for a lot less; Kuwait population back then was 1/20 than current Ukraine, but Saddam never had nukes (as any other WMDs, but I digress).
So what happens if say 3 years from now Russia decides to invade an EU or NATO country? Will it make any difference that the invaded country is part of the EU or NATO? They still have nukes, so what would be the western response? Will the nuclear deterrent magically disappear because of a NATO or EU stamp somewhere?
That is not a trivial issue; ignoring the nuclear threat is for sure the safest way, but can create a nasty precedent in which every nation with nuclear weapons could be entitled to do what they want if they become rogue as Russia is today.
But... isn't that the point? Bitcoin was designed to evade such controls. And it can't.
EULAs absolutely are enforceable contracts at least insofar as “click-wrap” software licenses are concerned; the law here is well settled.
It’s amazing to me, because at this point I probably would not be able to tell the difference between a Ukrainian and a Russian if I met one for the first time and there was no speaking involved.
I don't necessarily disagree with your larger point, but I don't think the picture you're thinking of is actually worth making a hypothetical exception for, FWIW. The genre of which it is a member is censored regularly on all platforms. Just be consistent and point to the rules and live with the ridicule.
Could I use this to figure out what I might he able to achieve from adding solar to my home if I hooked it up to homeassistant?

I'm in the UK and trying to work out if it's worth it with our subjectively poor sunlight.
thanks for the examples. i vaguely recognize the term 'electromagnetic tensor', but i have to admit i didn't know that it was special in that way. i can barely spell 'tensor' at this point.

ps - one thing that always annoyed me was the limitation of linearity in so many of these models (which i totally understand why, but still). all the interesting real-world stuff happens non-linearly...
whataboutism is a great way to make any questioning of certain behaviors justifyable.

I agree advertising companies tend to be on the low ethical side of the spectrum, and often surf on the borderline of legal practices.

it doesn't in any way make those practice acceptable. but it doesn't grant another actor to step in and act in turn unethically.

I was thinking at first that any product that helps minimise ads and their diversion of attention is a win, but it's rather obvious that not any necessary evil is OK to exist so long as it fights another evil.

I find ublock origin doing its part without falling for the evil temptation.
It's free and open source. I see little to no appeal to use a paid for ad blocker made by a developer with questionable ethics. even if that product happens to be superior. let's just make ublock better. and let's donate if we get value from it.
I agree with you almost completely, except where you have gripes about "lagging data."

Every finance professional reads 10-K and 10-Qs, so I have no idea where you're coming from with this complaint. Where else are you getting finance information? CNBC? Teslarati?

The technical analysis and analyst ratings crap needs to go, for sure. I'm tired of seeing that bs. They're immediate signals someone's peddling amateur hour.
Not OP but I've been using MusicBrainz Picard[1] to manage tags on my collection (much of it was ripped 20 years ago and has traveled with me; I now use Plex and Plexamp for all music listening). Picard does sonic analysis and compares it against its database to find matches and then allows you to preview, change, and approve new tags and album art.

1: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
Mike Monteiro was good (but I haven't heard much from him, lately). He seems to channel "The Angry Designer." I enjoyed his "F**k You, Pay Me" talk[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
Valid point. I'll remove it from the conversation.
D's ImportC also allows the C code to be extended with D-ish features, like forward references, compile time function execution, and modules.
Yes, 4 day work weeks are amazing. So is ending your day at 2pm.
I have many CDs bought around 2000 which I cannot read anymore.
I couldn't resist taking a look at the code, because, well, the sound generation should be in there, and I found this:

function qt(n) {
return n !== n
}
Simply choosing what gets reporter time or page space or air time or whatever introduces huge bias, even if the coverage itself is meaningfully "objective". Listen to NPR (let alone anything else) and you'd think there's rarely labor action happening. Listen to Democracy Now and you'd think there's constantly labor action happening.
Nice website/stories.
"25% of American Jews consider Israel to be an apartheid state" [0]

"Young evangelicals are increasingly turning away from Israel" [1]

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/a-quarter-of-u-s-jews-agree-...

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/a...
Recently had water ingress on an Audi hybrid (thankfully covered by warranty). It turned out, after many calls, there is one service centre that could do the work in Scotland. It’s 250 miles away.
It would seem even the official channels are struggling to fix the vehicles.
Any young people looking for a career you won’t go far wrong training up to fix EV’s
Ask HN: Video chat apps that don't mute crosstalk
One of my biggest pet peeves/downsides of video chat is that they (by necessity) mute all other lines when someone is talking, to prevent feedback. If everyone is wearing headphones rather than listening via speakerphone/computer, it's not longer necessary to do that.

When crosstalk is muted, it removes a huge interpersonal dynamic in natural conversation. If I can convince my team to use e.g. airpods for all video calls, I'd like to find a video service where we can talk over each other as well.

Do you know of any?
thanks for your comments, really interesting. I'll come back to this post for ideas ;-). I like the precondition, maybe I'd like to structure it so that it passes when 1+ rows are returned and fails if 0 rows... should be equivalent and doesn't make any assumption on rows _and_ columns being there... but I'll think about it. Thank you again!
Failure to act.
The problem for me is that there seems to be a lot of overhead in getting to do productive work (ramping up, accumulating knowledge and experience to be productive in solving a problem). It might make more sense for part time to mean 6 months a year vs. 3 days a week, but that has its own drawback.

I'm not really sure how to reduce time in work without falling off a cliff given that problems at the senior level tend to require so much focus.
if someone really wants something they can call :)

disable desktop notifications and sounds and when you are finished with something switch to slack to see who wrote what

doesn't this work?
This is extremely close to what we're building at https://pibox.io if you're interested - although after some polls we decided to drop PoE on our first model. Just improved the mDNS support last night!
This is from 2019, does not appear useful at all.
“I believe that the fact that one with 200$ hardware would actually be able to broadcast at 1090MHz and produce some fake ADS-B aircraft tracks highlights a serious weakness in ADS-B design.”
Does this means there is no way to validate an ADS-B message whether it is from a real aircraft? This sounds too easy to tigger a wide scale ADS-B spoof attack and websites like Flightradar24 or FlightAware cannot protect against it at all?
They will do what we want when it matters. Even better that their people die in our service than ours.
All the paranoia about consumers copying movies is hilarious. It was not a thing. We owned two video stores and didn't even copy movies, with plenty of extra VCRs available. Most people didn't have extra VCRs to copy with and wouldn't even know how to do it if they did. Their paranoia propped up the video rental industry for over a decade until they figured out sell-though.
I use sponsorblock now and my exposure to VPN ads has fallen to approximately zero, as it is meant to be.
No, I'm commenting on the fact that search engines do block propaganda sources in the US when they think they're a significant source of harmful propaganda, but very obviously they don't block propaganda sources that they don't think are propaganda.

Your problem is that these engines disagree with you about what is and isn't a harmful propaganda source. That's a reasonable disagreement to have. But you're trying to phrase this like it's some kind of deliberate action or general policy on their part, and it just doesn't make any sense. They do block American sites when they think those sites are significant sources of misinformation. And for extremely obvious reasons that should not be confusing or surprising to anyone, they don't block sites for violating policies that they don't think the sites have violated, because that would be an absurd system for moderating content.

It's like asking, "why won't the police officers arrest all of the guilty people that they think are innocent?" Because they think they're innocent.
Your loss, it's pretty neat
just installed it today on my father's partner's laptop.

in my opinion ublock origin is by now an integral part of the internet infrastructure.

it's also the only piece of software which I consistently install on every platform I use (Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS).

Raymond deserves some sort of Nobel prize or something for this. The internet is not usable for me without it.
"Harbor freight tools has discount tools that are perfect for occasional or light duty use."

I sort of agree. If they are manual tools, then they can work fine. Anything electronic or even pneumatic has a chance at being junk from the start. Warranty can help with that, but you're still going to be screwed if your air compressor fails in the middle of painting your car...
You're right, and yet I disagree with your main point. For every article about Azov or other far-right nationalists, there are like 100 saying Russia is spreading misinformation about Nazism in Ukraine (which can of course be true too). The ratio is not appropriate in my very subjective opinion.

Another point about you mentioning The Guardian- I've always found before, specially so during this conflict, British media presents comparatively balanced narrative than American ones. Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" is being staged right in front of our eyes.
For the same total pay - yes.

For less pay - no.
Network Topology: Definition, Types with Diagrams, and Selection Best Practices
For me the ritual of deliberately choosing what I want to listen to from a somewhat limited/curated selection of music is the magic. Although seeing a diamond rubbing over a piece of plastic and knowing that's how the sound is made is pretty cool too...
This annoys me too, because I dislike ads, but to be fair, newspapers and magazines have always had ads as their primary revenue source, and also almost always charged for the print copy as well. About 30 years ago, when physical newspapers were still more popular than virtual newspapers, you'd pay about 50 cents for the daily edition and $1.50 for the Sunday edition. That adds up to more than the current monthly fees for the online versions. In fact, way back in 1990, the New York Times cost $5/week for home delivery[1]. It's $17/mo now for the digital-only version[2]. Granted, if you want both digital and daily home delivery now, it's $40/mo. If you look at old free print papers (like the Village Voice), the volume of ads is enormous compared to something like the Times.

In any event, paying for a product with ads has always been part of the print media/news business. I'm far more annoyed by paying for cable TV (or streaming services) and still getting ads.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/21/business/the-times-raises...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/subscription
"- Lots of things are software intensive these days. This is not unique to EVs. Why single those out?"

Very much this. The description in the article sounds like owning a laptop vs a desktop pc. People don't care that they can't upgrade their car if they're just going to get a new one every three years anyway that has better features and twice the range. It's not how I buy cars, but the majority of car buyers don't buy cars like I buy cars.
"Completely objective and fair rules are impossible, so Calvinball it is" is not a credible stance.

Facebook's big recent decisions have been:

* posting news articles about Hunter Biden's laptop: banned

* posting about possible Covid lab leak: banned

* calling for death of Russians: thumbs up

* praising Azov neo-Nazis: thumbs up

Their consistent and comprehensive principle is just serving TPTB. Let's not dress it up beyond that.
FYI: Neither 'tu es' nor 'tu aies' make any sense to me (disclaimer: I have only learnt Spanish on the street). https://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/ser

Perhaps you were trying to write down what you heard? 99% of the time there is a single canonical translation from verbal to written and vice-versa; English speakers have trouble learning that for some reason.
Something to bare in mind when you're looking at both of those is the price is highly dependent on a number of factors;

- Type of generation, looking at the NY data they have a huge hydro generation, obviously the UK grid has much less of that

- Time of day, the Elexon graph is showing you the system price per 30 minute settlement period. You can see that some of those periods weren't anywhere near what you're quoting (there was literally a period where the system price was 0£ in the last 24h). https://www.bmreports.com/bmrs/?q=balancing/systemsellbuypri... makes the volatility much more obvious.

- The weather, it plays a big part in the system price due to price disparity of renewables (commonly wind in the UK grid) compared to oil based and gas generation.

- The interconnect, the UK grid has interconnectors to the EU grid so there's some price impact from that
I'm ashamed to admit that I will never be compensated for the four minutes it took to rip the hour long CD that I will listen to for the next few decades of my life.

Instead, I invoiced HN for the time it took me to browse this forum and post this comment, and I strongly urge HN to require registered users to include personal payment information so we can bill each other for our time spent reading and replying to each other.

Life is a tax on my time, and I will not be cheated.
i am not sure i would personally use this library/approach when scripting, a few reasons:

Using a third-party libraries as core part of your infrastructure (ci/cd scripts, provisioning, automation) implies a greater risk to potential security issues, "framework tax" ie. having to comply, learn, document, debug its custom APIs, having to deal with potential limitations, issues that either needs to be fixed upstream or result in the library being forked and therefore maintained in house. I would rather either put together a set of bash commands or - if the problem entails a more comprehensive endeavour with greater complexity - put together a in-house tool/library where i can make the right compromises from day one
Judging from SmartTVs, if you buy a car with a Samsung radio you won't be able to change the volume without reinstalling the audio drivers five times a week.
200-366 days at the top end is an enormous range (substantially larger than all the others, for some reason) - nearly half the year. I hate hot weather, and this didn't really help me filter out places that have horrible summers, because the summer is, yes, less than 166 days long. I assume people who dislike cold weather would feel similarly. So this is...kind of useless?
> “Companies survived for centuries without internet ads, tracking, targeting, etc.”

As far back as ancient Rome, vendors still used advertising and marketing. This included word-of-mouth advertisements and billboards (such as in Pompeii before the volcanic eruption). [0]

In the 1900s, newspaper advertising was a major source of advertising. Now that fewer people read print newspapers, advertising has shifted to internet ads and email newsletter ads.

Technology evolves, and marketing evolves to keep up. Even non-profits have significant marketing investments today. I encourage you to actually try to run an organization, for-profit or non-profit, and try to sustainably achieve the mission while rigidly adhering to the ideal that companies shouldn’t use marketing.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4387300.pdf
"The committee reports directly to President Vladimir Putin."

Of course. It's so ridiculous at this point.
We actually added this as a feature to our sharing software at Plane Finder using our own modelling.
If you sign up and then view your stats on the web you can compare your actual to the predicted.
https://planefinder.net/coverage
Shallow dismissal. Don’t assume everyone lives in the same year as you.
Just because most of the EVs are software heavy, it doesn't mean that all of them are.

The upcoming Dacia Spring EV is a perfect counter-example.
Bill Gates called it when interviewed about the upcoming Blu-Ray format in 2005. "Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be. Everything's going to be streamed directly or on a hard disk. So, in this way, it's even unclear how much this one counts."
You can flag anything you find off topic, and I'd encourage you to do so. What the community wants, the community gets. Flagging is a key way to say "no thanks" :).

As a long time user, I think the mods are mostly concerned about stopping flamewars and moderating obviously 'un-HNish' content, but a lot of what they do is about fostering the community.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30630915 and actually most of dang's comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang
It does seem like in the last several years, the quality of ThinkPads has declined as other business lines like Dell Latitude/Precision and HP EliteBook/ZBook have improved.
A few thoughts harvesting wheat with a scythe (2020)
> You can praise nazis when they are on your side?

In WW2 Finland was allied with Nazi Germany because the Soviet Union invaded them.

The UK was allied with the Soviet Union because the Nazis invaded them.

You don't have the luxury the choose your friends when the enemy is blowing up your children.
THat's a sign of a possible issue with your gums. You should probably floss more.
I don’t know where you live or what your circumstances are, but $10-15/month is less than Netflix or Spotify. It’s less than YouTube Premium. All those things are essentially you paying for content in a way that results in you being less advertised to. It’s not a lot of money.
I think it is relevant though if the original point was that grammar is a new thing to solidify class structures. I’m not saying that class structures and correct grammar aren’t relevant, I’ve been corrected by drunk humanity-studying Etonians enough times at the pub, but I don’t believe that it’s some recent invention to solidify class structures.
Apple StudiO's – The Future of Breakfast
> may not
prohibit a parent from accessing any of his or her minor child's education records created, maintained, or used by the school
district.

How is this controversial?

Are you saying parents should not have access to their child's public school records?
The Compaq "Portable" released March 1983; 39 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable

http://www.markrichards.com/Core_MemoryCollection/coreview/c...