skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Importantly, EVs are half the cost per mile to operate versus a combustion vehicle, so their total cost of ownership is lower the longer you own it (with higher upfront capital costs).

For now, but by the time the average working person has the ability to purchase an EV they will have become more expensive to run. Bare in mind that currently green energy is subsidized with fossil fuel money and governments around the world will be forced to tax electric vehicles by distance in order to make up for missed tax income.

And we are still missing massive pieces of infrastructure in order to power EVs, I'm not aware of a single place in the world that could handle all residents driving around in EVs without significant infrastructure changes.

The point is that we are not even close and that working class people will not nearly see the benefits that are claimed.
China's Vaccine Diplomacy (2021) [video]
There was Kibbo (now Kift) that was doing something along those lines but think it was more for remote working people on temporary basis.
> Back in my day my parents donated Kleenex boxes and other classroom supplies. This isn’t really any different.

Except for the fact that this Kleenex box can cost costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars and most families don't even own a Kleenex box or they only have one.

Just like how it's no problem for most people to buy enough pencils and paper for every member of the household so picking up a little more for school supplies isn't a big deal but if the school expects a kid to use a laptop or a Wacom Cintiq Pro not every parent is going to be able to afford that and nobody is donating them.
Every ethicical framework has issues at the edges. Whether they be based in categorical imperatives or utilitarianism.

> utilitarianism (ethics come from the outcome) is the better option.

Is murder ethical then, if the murderer uses the victim's organs to save the lives of 10 other people?

You always have to watch out for the edge cases lest you get cut.

At the end of the day, all ethics is rooted in selfishness. The weighing of what we want to happen to us, what we want to do to others and what we don't want to happen to us. There is no universal or natural or absolute ethical framework. It's just a human invention born out of human selfishness.
Electricity is indirectly subsidized in most countries through coal and gas subsidies (which are then used for generation).

There also countries where national grid and generation are state owned and there again a second tier of government financing exists.
Burger King's app has always sucked. They refuse to fix it. McDonald's works better because they have better quality IT than BK. Don't go to BK anymore, boycott them until they fix their app.
I don't think the computer performance came up in the design of this protocol. After all, one of the foundations of it is _immutable_, append only data structure where all the information is stored (I-stream). Surely it was clear even in 1984 that this can not be achieved with the computers of the day?

And if you are postulating unlimited storage, why not put videos there as well?
>I wouldn't say that coders as an industry are destroying the road behind us

What worries me more than it happening is how many seem to either be blind or proud that they are.
> local administrator account (which isnt really a thing on ChromeOS).

The first user to sign in on a chromebook has limited special powers. I don't think they involve reading other people's data though.
> feel comfortable lowering wages once they have a secure grip on the market

unless amazon is a monopoly employer, this isn't gonna happen. Or they can collude with other employers to lower wages (or indirectly, like no-poaching policy, or do what google+apple did with their wage collusion).

And if programming is valuable, why wouldn't these "low paid" programmers quit and take their skills elsewhere, including starting their own business selling their output?
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Thanks for explaining and I understand your point.

Regarding others or myself sacrificing: It is necessary in anything, if we are to accomplish much, for many people to contribute; not much happens alone. So generally no one person can do most of the sacrifice (and I'm not sure it's such a sacrifice), but I definitely believe in doing more than my share.

The other part I think is rooted in common-on-HN perspective on government that I don't happen share. To me, doing it through local government or through organizing neighbors aren't much different. Democracy is another mechanism for how we get together and do things: We take a vote, we agree that we'll go along with the results - sometimes what I like to a greater degree, sometimes to a lesser one, but we also agree that we need to act as a community sometimes and can't be paralyzed, and that others' preferences are just as deserving as mine; and we have the enlightenment and good will and, failing that, the enlightened self-interest, to see that by working together in good faith we can achieve so much more for ourselves.

To me, the idea of compulsion as the basis of democratic government is an interesting philosophical and theoretical question - and answered largely by free elections, representation, free speech, and limited government. Anarchy is similar to me - a philosophical / theoretical question but not reality. They seem to me like some things on HN, in a intellectual atmosphere - a theory taken to the extreme of thinking it's real, or of testing its boundaries by insisting it's real and challenging people to disprove it, rather than something used a tool for exploring reality. Because as a practical matter, I don't see the compulsion: People follow the rules and laws because they want to; we are social beings, even evolved to live socially and emotionally fall apart if alone. I pay my taxes, follow most laws because I would anyway (e.g., I don't want to murder or steal), and others because I want to do my part for my neighbors; I respect my neighbors votes. Compulsion isn't the basis, it's just a band-aid solution we sometimes use; there aren't nearly enough resources to make everyone obey if they don't want to.

You seem to think differently, which is fine, but I think it's factually wrong to assume that everyone - who almost all live in democracies - agrees. Also, I think the compulsion theory is yet another attempt by certain groups (not you) to attack our democracy, to politicize the very idea of it, by transforming it from an achievement of humanity and a way we can live with hope and progress, to something dark and pernicious.
Does this mean to assume that when the person consistently makes wrong decisions, it's due to a shortage of competence?
Make this a chrome extension, and you will have a great time selling it.
Emoji Are Not Born, They Are Made
Wow. That's amazing. Any other stories you know like that one?
Agreed, domain admins can also lock down Windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS.

The school is effectively making the computer a terminal into their system. Their system, their rules.

I know the OP won't like this answer but the OP should buy their kid another computer for their non-school activities. Of course they could also complain to their school/district to change the polices. Personally, I'm used to it. I have a personal computer for my own use and a corp computer that's managed by corp and is locked down. I don't complain the corp computer is locked down (except when it gets in the way of doing my actual job). For all personal stuff I use my personal computer.
You're talking past each other.

The electronics perform two key functions:

* Choosing pitch angles for efficiency and turbine safety. You can, for smaller turbines, just synchronize the turbine to the grid, but this is becoming uncommon practice.

* Converting the produced AC power to DC, and then choosing the proper frequency output and voltage to feed power to the grid, and inverting the DC to make this power. This should usually be trying to "speed up" the frequency of the grid a little if it's not already way too fast and regulate the voltage appropriately.

The second link you have, on page 3, shows (active) rectification (d) of the wind turbine AC power to make positive and negative DC buses, and then inversion of that DC (f) to make 3 phase AC output power.
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they can still provide an insane amount of performance if used properly.

In other words, software bloat has eaten up the bulk of the performance.
It's explained here:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-not-accessible...

and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

Who is to "blame" is up to you, but the archive.is operator is (was?) specifically not responding to CloudFlare DNS requests. It is intentionally "broken" on the archive.is side.
Please explain the "joke explanations" to me, using statistical methods.
You should see the arguments gardeners can get into over lawnmowers
>"in which employees are awarded virtual stars and badges for activities that “add direct business value,”"

Sure, sure. I'll take your virtual crap in exchange for my virtual work. Well fuck you Amazon.
and that's why smart sw eng should start transitioning into management...
The legal mechanism to split up Russia is in the UN Charter. But the two problems that make it impossible, near as I can tell, (a) it would require a massive military intervention and occupation to do it. It would take a decade to deprogram Russians. (b) Only the Security Council can take such action and Russia and China are permanent members. Clearly they will veto any action holding Russia accountable let alone split it up.

The UN Charter can only be amended by unanimous agreement of the Security Council. So Russia can't be removed from the Charter. The Charter could effectively be dissolved, and a new membership could agree that Russia needs to be split up, therby declaring war on them. But Russia, China, and likely Indian out of such a system, how legal is that really? How legal is international law that only 1/2 the world agrees on?

We've moving past the stage of ever making things right with Ukraine, or Russia. I don't think any of the outcomes look good. Nuclear proliferation will start again. And absent institutions designed to avoid conflict.
The sad/bizarre thing is that I've seen a number of serious articles/commentery that Queen Charlotte was actually black or biracial, which is basically invented nonsense. Even if you give too much credence to a piece of her ancestry 15 generations back, given all the intermarriage of European royalty, most of Europe's royals have Madragana as an ancestor, including King George III.

I think this is especially sad because there are much more fascinating true stories of European nobility with Sub-Saharan ancestry, e.g. the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's great grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was black.
Those are guidelines for writing code, not for doing software architecture.
What are you using to make the comparison to a 3070? Not close in any benchmarks I've come across.
> The payout is also potentially far better than grinding at a soul sucking FAANG position for years.

if you consider financial pay out, i really can't agree that it's a better payout for the risk you're taking. A startup can be a lottery, and "winning" can be difficult and has a chance element. On average, i think the payout is lower than employment at the FAANGs, esp. if you do good salary negotiation and move often to ensure you're not missing out any uptick in the market rate.

Of course, a startup, like winning the lottery, pays out a lot more when successful, and some people prefer the high risk high reward - it's not a wrong choice. But that should be understood first.
Actually the regions have comparable life satisfaction, but people say California because they think of the weather and fail to take account of other things, such as the fact that California is full of tedious hippies.

Hahaha. He just slipped that one in there :p;) xx ;p x
The calls for regulation recognise that these problems won't be solved by individual actions by employees. Only collective action, or political action will solve this.

Given that unions among tech workers are a non-factor; that leaves political action as the only thing left to call for.
I would merge this PR.
Ask HN: Exploring ways of living the creative and intellectual life
I've always been fascinated by the creative process and how it intertwines with intellectual life (or, some would say they are one and the same). From seemingly simple activities like observing nature, to writing notes, to collecting stuff, to actually producing something, to conversations that spark our mind, etc.

I'm fascinated not only because they are to me intrinsically interesting, but also because many of these activities seem so "regular" or sometimes even regarded as "unproductive" (eg collecting stuff). I think there's so much potential in these things that we do, so much potential in ourselves, if only we could explore them more and understand the process better.

Anyway, this fascination led me to dream up two things:

1. To interview a bunch of creative/intellectual people and ask them about their process (ie their various activities and habits and how these influence the creative process).

2. To dig into books and articles and archives to find out the creative and intellectual processes of historical figures (e.g., Charles Darwin).

Unsurprisingly, I didn't do either as the tasks were just too overwhelming. But then I thought, could we possibly "crowdsource" this, here on HN?

And so, for whoever's interested:

1. I would love to hear about your own specific intellectual and creative process, all the details from input to output and everything in between (I think there are insights to be gained from studying the specifics).

And/or:

2. You could share resources (books, articles etc) that describe the processes of historical figures. And maybe give us some highlights for taste.

:D
This echos the same problem that I had with the older Lenovo "docks" (hub). The newer ones work without an issue.
Don't worry, there are other implementations of the ActivityPub protocol if you don't like the name.
She was so prominent that Eva Green played her as the main character of the forgotten sequel to 300!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300:_Rise_of_an_Empire
Oh right, the output is parametrized by the input. I suppose this is what dependent types are.

That's really awesome. Thanks for the explanation.
Interesting. I know of a religion that spends 10-20MM USD per "temple" and has built about 150 of these in the past twenty years.

So what I'm hearing is that we could future proof the Netherlands fairly substantially for a fraction of this particular religion's profits (let alone all religions).
>did not provide a CORS header

If you only have a specific target your dealing with then maybe handle it by proxy on your own server:

[1] https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere
$2k is $10k at a 5 year loan (+ ongoing!), so a considerable part of the economic equation for most car buyers (avg US car purchase is $47k).
USA is by far the most religious of the developed nations.
If someone in NYC came up to me and started acting friendly on the street I'd assume they were trying to scam me, sell me something, or get me to sign a pamphlet. It's more considerate to offer the help with no ceremony.
https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/89q4/halting.760.html
In Table Tennis we call it "being an EJ" or "EJ-ing" where EJ stands for Equipment Junkie.
My hazy recollection of Eminent Victorians is that the tone was a little meaner- Florence Nightingale working her assistants to exhaustion, the foolishly earnest priest grappling with the soul of Anglicanism- people too crazed and earnest for this world.
School choice would do a lot of get schools to compete and be the best possible.

Charter schools is something we use now. Hardly perfect but it’s a lot nicer.
> skip FAANG’s 300k salaries and still do fine with 180k at a more ethical company. Those people are responsible.

they are ethical, or altruistic, but certainly can't claim they are financially responsible.

If they don't have dependents (now or in the future), then they can remain financially irresponsible, because it will have little effect. But if they plan on having dependents such as children, they will need the funds to compete for scarce resources such as housing and school etc. They will also need to provide for their own retirement.

If they choose to take a lower paying job (when a higher paying one is definitely available), they are making a sacrifice on behalf of their dependents, who may or may not appreciate this choice being made for them.
Attempting to transmute a metal in the material was a ritual act coinciding with the "Great Work". That tandem practice is built into the philosophy of performing the act. That is, to the "mundane" it was just chemical experimentation, but to the initiates of the magical (or other enlightenment) orders was a dual act reflecting one of their core intuitions (paraphrased): "as above, so below" or what is external to the mind is reflective of what is internal. In other words, irreducible to one or the other (mental or physical act).https://news.ycombinator.com/news

I'm teasing at proposing, after Keynes, that maybe his alchemy worked, and he just didn't understand how.

But there's no salvaging the storybook version of Newton here. Newton was many things, but the innocent, curious monkey sitting under an apple tree he was not. (well, he was—at least insofar as we all are, anyway)
Your first hand experience here doesn't matter. You must listen to and believe the stories repeated by wealthy techies, who do not know a single person who ever worked an Amazon warehouse job, and likely don't know a person who worked a minimum wage job either.
"Octavian subsequently became the Roman Emperor Augustus, thereby ushering in the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of peace and prosperity that lasted until 180 CE."

Not sure I'd call the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero "peace"...
https://mobile.twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/151100189918462...

"The head of the DNR, Denis Pushilin, awarding a medal to Lieutenant Colonel Timur Kurilkin for "destroying 250 Nazis" - which is ironic, considering Kurilkin has two neo-Nazi patches clearly visible on his uniform."
The Azure Portal is the next level of hell for users who need a responsive, out-of-the-way interface to do their work.

There is a trend to make UIs more and more noisy every release, to the point where you have to be engaged on everything.

Example #1: When I quit a Teams meeting, I randomly get asked to rate the meeting (unwanted behavior), instead of going back to the last application I have open (desired behavior)

Example #2: When I edit an Azure DevOps wiki page and paste a link into the text editor, I expect no other behavior than the typical paste behavior. Instead, I get a vestigial popup which steals focus and prevents me from typing or moving the cursor with the up/down keys until I hit Escape. Imagine if you have to link to multiple pages to this wiki. It completely kills my productivity by over 50%.

Example #3: When I use the mobile version of the Vivaldi browser, closing a tab should just bring me back to the last tab. It does that, but then has a pop-down dialog telling me I closed the tab, blocking the bottom of the browser. Dumb.

Example #4: Screenshots in Android. Instead of just flashing the screen once to indicate the screenshot was taken, it now adds more context-related garbage to the bottom left corner of the screen, sometimes blocking controls. Really dumb.

Example #5: Opening a Teams meeting. I click on the Outlook reminder to open the calendar invite, then click on Join Teams Meeting that brings Teams to the foreground, then opens the meeting window. It takes multiple clicks and open windows to just join a simple meeting, as well as multiple clicks to close all the open windows I don't need. I guess the idea of one click, one windows is too hard to figure out.

I wouldn't be so angry about this if there was a way to just disable some of these anti-features. And it's never just one thing. It when you use multiple applications during the day and you can never get into any kind of flow. It's just interruption after interruption, with zero regard to cohesiveness.

It's unfortunate that some UI/UX designers really do believe that the stuff that the FAANGs are doing is good design, because they end up perpetuating it through other software with little regard to the user or context.

The MongoDBCompass client comes to mind. It's a gigantic beast of an Electron application that takes almost 30 seconds to load up on first start. Simple things like CTRL-A will not select all the text in a textbox, but the entire rendered webpage instead. Or double-clicking some value in a document will shift the interface around and put it into editing mode, when all you want to do is just copy a value.
https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/alu-with-user-interf...
who would want banality to persist. id like them all down the drain.
Practical advice? Forget it, move on. The system has far more resources and time than you, it costs them nothing to ignore you and by taking no action. Any potential "win" from you can be delayed by them almost indefinitely -- they have salaried legal teams that can deal with any legal action taken by you. It is possible some kind soul may find it in the budget to settle this for $50 and admit no wrongdoing. Would that be satisfying?

Some rather hard experiences have taught us that the system is structured to deal with complaints in a fairly standard way. That is its genius. It's just a laptop, nothing more. You're lucky.
Do you actually trust google not to be collecting data on both accounts and link them together somewhere? When I was in school we used to get told that bad behavior would end up in our "permanent record" which would follow us for life, but while that was a lie we all have a permanent record now and nearly every action no matter how mundane or benign gets saved to it.

When I got my cell phone the default keyboard was sending everything I typed to a 3rd party whose privacy policy stated they were collecting data for everything from market research to trying to understand my intelligence/cognitive abilities. I replaced the default keyboard. I can't imagine the wealth of data Google could be collecting form children, their test scores and their associations with other children. They may claim not to collect and store data on your kids, but there are no regulations and nobody is checking. Only a whistleblower could tell you what Google is actually doing. I haven't seen much reason to trust them.
The airports are private owned so your argument goes either way with the CEO/investors deciding to demolish whole suburbs and plonk an airport with all its detrimental effects on human health in the middle of a city. Crazy how a single/few individuals can do that.
"The UN and Geneva Conventions institutional system of international law is dissolving"

It dissolved years ago. "Unlawful combatant", the various UN resolutions about Gaza, etc.
At what point are we as a society going to call out this self interested promotion and self entitled freeloading for what it is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not the width of cannonball, but perhaps made wide enough such that you could not fire a cannonball from a cannon at the city without having to move across open land.

I'm not sure if that's an urban legend though. I can't find any references to that line of reasoning in historic recounts of Colonel Light's initial plans for Adelaide.
It's known as "generalizing from fictional evidence", https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rHBdcHGLJ7KvLJQPk/the-logica...
Interesting! I think Cerebras is exciting too, the problem is that it's so expensive that there will never be a software ecosystem for it. The people who would develop it will never have access to one.
HVDC is used in distribution for specific transfer between point A and point B, HVDC is not used _for_ distribution.

Distribution implies a network that keeps getting downstepped until it reaches consumer nodes.