skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I expect you're right. When I read "higher energy density" I think "closer to being an actual bomb", ha ha.

https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Hammond's_Rimac_Crash_(TGT)

That Rimac caught fire and they couldn't stop the fire for days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thegrandtour/comments/7in8bc/commen...

With higher energy density, for the most part the application will be that we provide a smaller battery for the same range and lower cost. that fire will still be a thing, it's just so much energy.

Here's the flipside. Did you know like 1/4 of firemen calls are for gasoline vehicles catching fire? I had a rust bucket that if you braked hard enough gasoline came out of the tank. We are dealing with explosive flammable fluid.

EV cars are tremendously safer and even if we invented a battery that only needed recharging twice a year and held immense power. It wouldn't be a bomb. It would just be a crazy fire.
Sorry, that post was my attempt at a bit of data humor :-) I actually agree with everything you're saying.
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I'm not at all a morning person. I get interesting things done in the afternoon/night.

My job allows me to work whenever I want.

So, I wake up early and start work so that I'll be done by early afternoon. That leaves me plenty of time to get useful things done.

Because it's work, I'm kind of motivated to get up early. Had I decided to do some other activity in the morning — non-work coding, exercise, reading etc — I wouldn't get out of bed.
It depends on what you are optimizing for. Personally, I would like to optimize for a roadway that's more /safe for me/. I am not concerned with /me/ causing an accident, I am concerned with someone else causing an accident with me by doing something grossly negligent or downright stupid. I am a very skilled and comfortable driver compared to the average in the US.

The speed of me and the other driver only comes into a factor in this calculation after the accident has happened. If the accident never happens, the speed is irrelevant. So I am focused on what reduces the probability of accidents occurring (not to mention that they are a problem to deal with even when it's low-speed).

I'm nearly 40 and I've managed to avoid ever being in any accidents other than being rear-ended while stopped (and in one case while parked and not even in the car), because I'm a skilled driver who pays attention and can generally avoid the mass quantity of idiots on the roadway. It's not for lack of trying to hit me on the part of others, though. I'd much rather have a less stressful driving experience (that's probably materially impacting the number of quality adjusted years of living I have) by everyone driving more attentively and reasonably.
It's not an environmentalist agenda as much as a technique that media uses to mislead people. The more random statistics writers include, even if they are totally irrelevant, based on nonsense, or logically inconsistent, the more "informed" the readers feel when they skim the article. Once you include statistics it's no longer an opinion piece, but cold, hard fact backed by science... or something.
fancy UIs usually don't even attempt to solve the primary problem that IaC does, which is change management. Systems where changes (rather than operations) are made through interactive UIs are a horror to manage; it works for extremely simple systems, but most systems don't qualify for that.
I understand. A dead man's handle seems to be what you're looking for.
You want a cron script on a well secured VPS that will de-alloc and
garbage collect your whole life if you don't check in every month or
so.
You don’t have to leave drinks unattended for someone to spike it

It can happen very fast, while you are holding it
That’s very fair. Most people, regardless of age, would listen to Elon Musk especially in SV. I actually like Parag so it wasn’t meant as a knock on him.
Comey didn't read anybody's mind. He explained why the case wasn't prosecutable.

"In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here."

Flynn's case followed existing precedent.
The part starting at 1:51 where there are demons up on the ledge running back and forth casting shadows was pretty cool.
AFAIK it's the machine gun that really led to entrenched positions because the death toll of charging or advancing on such positions was huge. Early in the war, generals (who are known for fighting the last war) kept trying. This is one of the reasons the casualties were so high (sometimes >100K in a single day).

But the real story of WWI (IMHO) was artillery. Here's a story I heard: at the start of WWI, Russia produced 35,000 artillery shells per month and was using 25,000 a day. By 1917, there were battles on the Western Front where between both sides over a million artillery shells were fired in a matter of hours.

As for tanks, this was clearly a huge development. It really nullified machine guns and small arms fire. But the writing was already on the wall for trench warfare. Artillery accuracy and tactics had improved (eg the creeping barrage became possible) and tactics in trench assault (on both sides) were improving.
Putting aside the fact that I do try to help people out financially where I can - this is just a deflection from reform. We ended slavery because it was immoral, and I'm sure there were people saying "if you love slaves so much, why don't you buy slaves and free them yourself" at the time. While it's possible to do that on an individual basis, that doesn't lead to the end of slavery, which itself should not exist at all. Neither should exploitation of poor countries by rich ones. I'm sure you realise that this is bad.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but isn't it rarely illegal to drive under the speed limit?
I'm in the same boat and my takeaway is that the vast majority of a "silent" on-disk corruption actually happens on the way to the storage, i.e. the data gets corrupted in some RAM it passes through and then just ends up being written out in corrupted state. This is because, virtually all modern drives implement per-sector FEC coding, so if a bit does flip on the disk, you will either get back original data (now FEC-corrected) or you will get a read error.

That is, the so-called "bitrot" phenomenon is largely mis-attributed. Bitrot doesn't happen at rest. It happens in transit.
> As one person that played along, my understanding was that by playing along, all of that would end earlier and we could go back to normal faster. This didn't happen, so I have learned my lesson for the next time.

If that's the lesson, it should be formulated: we can't have nice things because those will fuck it up, so I might as well join the assholes and let the fabric of society get a little more tattered.
Have a look at the references listed in this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule#:~:text=2%20Particip....
> it totally makes sense to point out that this politician who builds cool stuff isn’t necessarily a good guy.

Ok, and you're doing this why? To "save" the rest of us from being corrupted by this bad man?

No. You're doing this purely to redirect the conversation toward yourself and what you think is right or wrong.

Obvious, shameless attention seeking. That is boring and has no place here, IMO.
Okay...wouldn't it then be easier to simply scrap all the stuff they are now handing out guides for? Because, if I just want people to pass the BS so I can get to the actually relevant part of the interview process...why not just remove the redundancy?
Because users always use things exactly as intended. How soon until this is monetized and people are trying to make a buck by recording videos while being behind the wheel? That'll surely lower the accident rates.
Very interesting. I joined the waiting list.
Scrapbooks. Seriously.

Pay the money to have photos printed, and put them into a scrapbook. If you have kids, this is a fantastic weekend project that everybody loves. If not, just having them in a physical photo album is good too.

Quantity is a quality on its own, but not when it comes to photographs. Edit ruthlessly.
There are exemptions for strictly necessary cookies, in which case explicit user consent isn't required. However, you still have to inform users about these cookies.

The question is, though, what constitutes strictly necessary cookies in which use case. It also isn't clearly stated anywhere - or otherwise agreed upon, in which way you have to inform your users about these cookies.

Hence, many website providers opt for the legally-safest, but terrible in terms of UX, alternative of displaying a cookie banner.
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Google "Pareto principle" for infinite examples.
Can you give some tips on what do you mean by "less than rudimentary analysis"? Considering adopting Clickhouse and wondering whether we will encounter problems down the road.
Elon’s flight records are public, but the account aggregated them and made them available to the public in a different form.

A better example would be: a Twitter account reports your position when you are in a public space every five minutes, including pictures of you at the bar, jogging, on a date at a restaurant, etc…

All of these are public informations, but the way they are aggregated amounts to stalking in my opinion.

I admit this is very borderline, tough!
Collectively it's not totally unreasonable to limit things for environmental reasons (afaik the reduced fuel consumption in light of the Ukraine invasion might finally provide the impetus for limiting the Autobahn a little) -- laws exist to balance the desires of people, and the desire to drive faster might be found legally to be less important in its totality than whatever miniscule impact a 20% reduction in CO2 might have.

The stats seem off though, almost exactly as if they normalized by time rather than distance. Most cars increase their fuel economy till 40-50, and the only way you'd see that significant of a jump in CO2 emissions per mile from 30 -> 36 is if it were coupled with an insane amount of stopping and also waiting to stop as long as possible so that the excess energy would have to be consumed by your brakes rather than air resistance (if you have regenerative braking obviously that point is a bit moot).
There is a widely-known Internet rule of thumb that 1% of users add content, and 99% lurk. There have been several studies that seek to validate that, several of which are outlined in the Wiki summary:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
As far as I can see, the app in question is in the UK, which does not fund its police forces via fines. Of course other dynamics can appear in locales that do.
I don't see why this was downvoted; you're right, even if the idea you're conveying is an old one. This is an inherent problem with blanket substance prohibition.

Here would be my proposal: I'm sure there are already research labs around the US and other developed nations that produce and test all kinds of illicit substances. They could fund themselves and even bring in extra tax dollars for the state by allowing members of the public who are over 21 to show ID, sign waivers, then order a small amount of whatever drug they want for research or recreation. Time limits between purchases could be imposed as well to discourage addicts, e.g. one order every two weeks. The drugs from these labs would have to meet certain purity and dosage standards, leading to fewer accidental deaths and injuries. Dangerous substances could also be distributed in containers with a label or pamphlet attached that details proper handling and storage, which would be a huge step up from the empty M&M bag or cigarette box I've seen people receive their drugs in.
Yes, install an ad blocker. uBlock Origin is the best.
Giant hosts lists like Energized Unified [0] block such domains too - use adAway [1] or similar.

How are people still complaining?

[0] https://block.energized.pro/unified/formats/hosts

[1] https://adaway.org/ ; https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dnsfilter.android/
To answer your question: You should probably get checked for ADHD. I don't say that to stigmatise, but issues focusing should really be treated by a mental health professional and not a bunch of internet nerds on a forum.

That being said: focus on solving a particular problem to completion is more about having discipline than having motivation, do a little every day without fail and you will succeed, often the hardest part is to start.

As for more personal advice (as a person who has ADHD, this will be like the blind leading the blind unfortunately), but it helps me, and it comes in two forms.

First form (easy to accomplish, shallow focus)

1) The night before going to bed, think about what you want to do first thing in the morning.

It helps to keep a task list, but set a single (even easy) goal for the next morning.

That morning goal can be anything such as closing a small ticket or reading a chapter of that computer book you've been avoiding.

2) In the morning, resist the urge to touch your phone, do not check email. Your day has not started until you complete that task.

Why? Because the world does not exist to you yet. Thus: no distractions.

Quickly you realise your FOMO from social media can be tapered.

---

Second form (hard to accomplish, deep focus):

This one unfortunately requires rigor in your working habits, discipline and reading of the book "time management for systems administrators" by Tom Limmoncelli.

It applies to everyone, not just sysadmins, but sysadmins used to do the kind of ad-hoc work that makes focus impossible. The first chapter of the book is literally titled "How to find time to read this book".

But keeping a journal of what you want to accomplish each day and then being aggressive about what is actually possible is the essense of the book, it goes into much more detail and is much stronger than the notions behind bullet journalling than it sounds on the surface.
Agreed, pop is probably the wrong word. But if the demon core incidents are anything to go by [0], then I can well imaging an unsuspecting worker putting one more block of U238 onto a stack, and feeling a sudden wave of heat and seeing a flash of blue light. And then if they don't have the ability to shove the pile over into a more favourable geometry, seeing the whole pile start to melt into a puddle (which would thankfully also have a more favourable geometry). And then dying of acute radiation syndrome a week later.

(Seriously, kids, don't try this at home.)

Extreme heat will moderate the reaction to some extent, because the expansion of the metal means it is further apart and therefore has lower reactivity, however the temperature at which it stabilises could well be above the melting point of Uranium.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
> Slow drivers in the left lane toodling along and impeding traffic, forcing people to make dangerous lane changes

In most cities, the left lane is not designated as a faster lane, unless on a highway. Most accidents occur in cities and not highways. Putting this in the list seems silly.

Also, at least on the highways in/near my city, people are as likely to overtake on the right than on the left (e.g. if a car is in a center lane, it's not a given that other cars will overtake on the left). This is a strong signal that it's not merely the slow drivers that are the problem.
I mean it really does matter. You got lucky. Compare yourself with the millions of people working at restaurants with no health insurance and nothing they own worth any value. That's the norm, not your experience.

The problem is there is a huge income gap between the people with degrees and good jobs and people with just high school educations. Much of that is due to offshoring / NAFTA / etc.

"We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, ... have no health care—that's the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south."

-Ross Perot

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

BTW, that dollar amount is double in todays dollars vs 1992 when that debate happened. Imagine if we had millions of jobs for people without college degrees paying $28 an hour with health care. That's a stark contrast with the $15 minimum wage people are clawing to get with massive resistance. Something as simple as NAFTA causing so much destruction 30 years after the fact is amazing. Imagine kids where both parents didn't have to work to make ends meet. Imagine kids where their parent's weren't exhausted from working all the time and could spend more quality time with them. Imagine kids who could have a future where they didn't have to attend college and the pressure that comes with it. imagine kids who can get regular health checkups without breaking the bank. The cascade effects are immense. But hey, look on the bright side, PROFITS!
More than 98% of Reddit users don't post or comment on posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/b5f9wi/let...
A lot of bartender pure "date-rape" alcohol into the drinks under the eyes of the customers.
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Since I have quite the experience with USB video capture... after three or four failures, I went with a Thunderbolt case and a BlackMagic DeckLink Quad HDMI PCI Express card.

If that is too large, unfortunately the next option is the BlackMagic Web Presenter HD. It is really expensive at ~440-500€, but the BlackMagic stuff in general is worth every single cent. No troubles, no incompatibilities, no crap.
I find technology of war to be fascinating but the reality of demographics and geography seem to be historically more important, and interesting in the balance.

Look at Afghanistan or Ukraine and see how geography trumps even modern tech. Aviation units struggle with mountains and mechanized units struggle with wet ground.

Technology doesn’t enable an elderly population to wage war effectively.
My understanding is no one wanted to work on it for precisely that reason.
You're mixing up elements and element attributes. There is an <cite> element, which it appears Standard Ebooks uses, and a cite attribute, which is seldom used, probably because it's not exposed to the user in any way.

Writing "<download>", with the word in angle brackets, makes it look like an element but it's not, download is an element attribute.
"Also, some Chinese sellers will flat-out lie in the specs, so when you're a cheapskate like me, buy from a marketplace that offers hassle-free refunds."

This is the takeaway. Some lie about it knowingly, and some just don't know any better as they are just reselling devices they bought in bulk from the manufacturer who lied about the specs.

This mode of operation is systematic with cheap Chinese products and the sales of such, because every time one of those few alert customers bother themselves with raising the issue, the seller instantly negotiates a discount - now they still made a buck and you still accepted to pay for a faulty product, because it's less hassle than returning it, and shipping it back often costs more than the device itself.

Whenever I pick up some cheap Chinese trinket I understand it will be a gamble.
Flickr says "The Internet Archive Book Images recently deleted their Flickr account. Flickr and Internet Archive were in agreement on this because..." so from the sounds of that, Flickr didn't delete it, they both agreed it wasn't what they wanted?
> The guy knows how to hire smart people and keep them around

I mean he's clearly doing something right. But the people at the top are most definitely not staying around.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-executives-who-report-...
Why on earth would you come to that conclusion?
Yeah, Apple obsoletes a product 7 years from when they last offered it. The 2014 models of Macbook Air/Pro go obsolete this year and won't get the next macOS. The 2015 models will go obsolete next year, 2023. Windows 10 will still be supported on the grandparent's skylake vintage 2015 PC until 2025 when Apple will be obsoleting the 2018 Mac hardware.
ah sorry, the medium doesn't always lend itself to tone-based jokes! I see it now, haha
Ask HN: SaaS Billing?
Hey everyone!

As title says, looking for billing for a new saas.

My research has given me a list of stripe, Mollie, Adyen, braintree and cardinity.

multiple payment types/options is obviously a requirement, and paypal in there would be absolute plus.

Is there any other suggestion? I would love to use maybe a new up and comer, perhaps even ran by someone here on hackernews.

grateful for some suggestions,
have an awesome day!
There is a great amount of envy that drives many people’s opinions of Elon. Sorry, but that’s how it appears to normal people who don’t care or spend much time worrying about musk or trying to “take him down.” Pretty cringe tbh.
I think that large tech companies giving a snapshot of what cool or interesting things they do is great but if there are bigger problems that don’t seem to have that kind of focus it just feels like a marketing / recruiting post (which isn’t that bad). But, the problem would be if they made public antispam systems they can’t give that to spammers which presents as a catch22. Also if you have humans in the loop to evade a spam system it is basically impossible .
Muggers literally take phones physically from people; despite full knowledge the phone is being taken, and physical proximity to the person, they still get away. A watch notification that your phone is getting stolen is just gonna give you a nice view of them disappearing out the door of the bar.

The solution to date rape is not setting up your phone on a tripod in a bar.