skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For one point of reference, a 10 year old Nissan LEAF EV battery -- which were tiny compared to the batteries that come in new EVs today -- will still have more usable capacity in it than a brand new $11,000 Tesla Powerwall for whole-home battery backup and solar storage.

Before the pandemic sent used cars prices to the moon, there were people buying used Bolts (and probably Leafs, I imagine) to park them permanently just to use the battery capacity for their off-grid home. Apparently it was cost effective, and the Bolt wiring is pretty straightforward to work with.
Half an hour through the ~90min presentation, I was wondering about speech-to-text solutions out there to really skim through it. For anyone else who would similarly like to be able to skim through a transcription:

https://pastebin.com/Fgrh68WY

Ran it through the Goog's speech to text. It's a quick paste of the raw pass, with no clean-up, although I added a couple of timestamps. Some irony in the choice of transcription engine, I know.

I was mostly attracted to the OP's coverage of the upcoming "GNU C manual" publishing, and if anyone knows anything more about it, I'd love to hear it.

With the light digging I've done so far, I'm not sure if it's supposed to be the same GNU C manual as listed at https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/ for which the latest revision was published in '16.
https://joewintergreendev.tumblr.com/post/152188146576/repos... Here are a set of videos that compare UE4 to Valve's stuff. Just like making it easy to drop a bunch of stuff in and texture things nicely.
E-cigarettes using synthetic nicotine come under FDA oversight
> In an ideal world, there would be multiple companies offering search ads who compete to give advertisers the best RoI.

There are multiple companies that offer search ads, and they compete aggressively, they just compete primarily on the consumer experience so that they will be in a position to charge a higher price to advertisers because satisfying consumers makes their corporation-facing product (search ad slots) more valuable. This is what we as a society want. Consumer protection laws do not exist to protect businesses. Nobody is owed a viable business model. The cost of buying search ads is (mostly) dictated by how much other businesses are willing to bid for those ad slots.

> There would be multiple realistic options at good prices for companies who need office productivity software, Microsoft still has nearly 90%.

There are. It's a hard market to compete in, but Microsoft has several competitors in this space, notably Google Workspace, but also some lesser known ones like Amazon WorkDocs. Recently Apple has been targeting this market as well.

> If I wanted to sell in-app purchases, there would be multiple payment processors I should be able to use and I can chose who takes the smallest cut which would be way less than Play Store and App store

This topic has been beaten to death on HN, and nothing valuable will come of further discussing it. I'll suffice it to say that Apple's product is the iPhone ecosystem in its entirety, and defining a market as a single company's product and declaring them to be engaged in anticompetitive practices within that market amounts to a misuse of terminology.
In San Francisco (due to what I hope was a uniquely bad system), calling and scheduling a cab was theoretically possible, but in practice unreliable and frustrating. Dispatchers had no way to locate an available cab in any reasonable time, and even cabs that agreed to pick up a call would often not arrive because (I was told) they would pick up hailed rides on the way to a pick-up. I missed many appointments when dispatchers took thirty minutes to tell me that there were no cabs available, or when an agreed cab never turned up.

I don't think this problem is true of every city, but Uber was clearly an improvement on the existing taxi system in San Francisco. (In fact for many years the main topic of conversation between me and cab-drivers was speculating on how the SF cab system could be improved, and we'd often end up inventing something like Uber, or now Curb. I'm pretty sure SF would not have got to a reasonable system without pressure from Uber and Lyft -- it took them many years to get to what we have now.)
> “the boat sank in a river, which swiftly buried it and preserved it for the next 4,000 years. That ancient river has long since silted up, but a few years ago, it began to yield at least one long-held secret: erosion revealed the outline of the boat”

Just seeing the phrase “ancient river” in the context of a human artifact is enough to make my head spin a bit. This boat is so old, not only has the civilization that created it come and gone, but the river is gone too.

What other secrets of our past still lie buried beneath the sands and waves of our changing planet?
> There are a few other problems, like accumulating ice in the tray at the bottom, but this is not really a Samsung-specific problem, lots of fridges develop this issue.

I have a totally different fridge, and it has a heater at the bottom... but I needed to physically bend the heater a smidge so it was close enough to the drain to keep the drain clear and prevent ice build up. Might help if there's something similar.
We "protected" people from heroin addiction by getting a State-sponsored opiod addiction.
I've seen the term "pedantic" frequently used.
Cost me $1000 for a rack and weights, but I’ve already saved it back in gym fees.
> I have seen politically motivated questions pop up in math questions for my kids.

Can you provide examples?
holy cow!!! thanks for this now i can point clients to this when they insist on Terraform.
The FSF has been chronically incapable of doing anything about SaaS. What good is GPL software if I'm forced to use an opaque version of it in a device out of my control to do my business? The FSF made the AGPL as a stopgap but it's been an unpopular license.

So no, the world just moved proprietary software to the cloud with parts spun-off and GPLed on paper.
> Llano County, where nearly 80 percent of the majority-White population voted for President Donald Trump

> The all-female board is overwhelmingly White and Republican, records show.

Yeah, we know, the Post is overwhelmed by the fact that the board of a public library in a very Republican county is mostly Republican.

And the fact that it's 100% female is exempt from being overwhelming, apparently.
I wasn't sure what the poster was referring to there. Hard to understand it in good faith. The examples given are good examples of things which can and have been measured and tested empirically.
Yes, something that has the in-depth city building mechanics of SimCity with the social modeling of Pharaoh, Caesar, or Europa 1400: The Guild would be incredible.
> I believe this is the idea behind the https://fast.com speed test.

Or maybe the idea was that Netflix would get the speedtest treatment.
> So Taxi services have gone through these stages ... Defacto de-regulation (via effective non-enforcement)

Could you talk a bit more about that part? I'm glad that Uber exists, but I don't understand how they got around the "government enforced monopoly" you mentioned. Why didn't the local taxi companies go to their city government and get Uber shut down as soon as Uber starting operating in their city? Wouldn't the city government be far more receptive to the local taxi company than to an upstart 1000 miles away? Did Uber spend a fortune to fight this city by city in court? If someone told me Uber's business plan 13 years ago, I would have said it'd be shut down instantly by the local regulators.
Not swapped. The pedestrian warning sound got played on top of the arbitrary MP3.
> I'll admit that a normal blockchain would be impossible to store that level of transactional data. Of course that doesn't mean that it isn't possible to store it in a decentralized manner

Translation: blockchain a) doesn't solve this problem, and b) isn't required for this
You often don’t know if the feature you are building is worth building or not. You might have a strong feeling either way but you don’t really know. You will only know after the feature has been exposed to customers. So adding a feature is a business risk. However taking risks is what running a business is all about. You make the best guess possible and try it out in the market place. And then you learn from feedback.
What proof do you have that Bezos uses WaPo for this?
> There was a super specific timeline in terms of what month features would land out as far as 2-3 years (e.g. "support for $os in $current_year + 2, open source in $current_year + 3), and but then as the months went by, the items on the timeline would not land, and the timeline would get revised pushing things out with no announcement of any sort.

That just strikes me as youth and inexperience
Source code access in Unity is available but very expensive, even for large studios.

Coming from a background of working with engines where the source is available it has been frustrating to me being unable to dig into or modify the engine. Especially when I'm at the mercy of some obscure engine bug. But most of the time I've managed to make do.
I do not know how to put it into words, but the simplistic morality expressed here makes me uncomfortable. While I also find remote controlled war to be abhorrent, nevertheless this attitude seems… overly simplistic?
Not sure how it's now, but some oldish proprietary games were moddable. You didn't have all source, but you had relevant source - the game script, and it could be changed and run, I did it.
The race which committed the most violent crime in the last 5, 4, 3, 2, & 1 centuries are whites but I suspect you wouldnt like that answer. Just because we conveniently don't include mass murder (Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, WW2, etc) durings wars on the white tally, it doesn't change that fact.

Generally, most framing in the western world is self serving to a particular group of people, so these kinds of facts don't go over so well.
McNamara’s Project 100,000 did not stop at 100,000.
There are some cheats like wallhacks, trigger bot, fake lag, backtrack, etc that aren't really possible to catch with just server side checks.
I buy a broken down camaro. The windshield is gone. The sheetmetal is rusted. The frame is bent. The motor needs rebuilt. I patch/replace the sheetmetal, and paint it. I straighten the frame. I rebuild the motor, and put a supercharger on it to boot. It’s a pretty nice little hot rod, and it was busted before. But you tell me, did I buy it or build it?
Oh hell yeah! I love this!!
Alongside probably whitelisting :
Most speed test sites hit the ISP cache or peered traffic and hence are much faster.

you can inspect fast.com and see this in action:
It will show up something like "ipv4-c209-sea001-ix.1.oca.nflxvideo.net"
Which is their openconnect [1] location in Seattle IX.

In many cases you will probably see a prefix indicating your ISP - Most ISPs with some scale host their own caches or peer with an internet exchange directly.

Incase of speedtest - its the same story
most ISPs host servers locally and speedtest's website generally tests from it

Most of my ISP screw ups are involve content which isnt cached and its difficult to convey that when your netflix is able to stream 4K content easily but struggling to download a 100mb file of some AWS region :/

I sometimes use proof.ovh.net and ping.online.net to test using iperf
also ec2-reachability.amazonaws.com helps debug if ISP is having issues with connecting to AWS (more open than not thats the case with mine)

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[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com
What a coincidence

Today I downloaded a free game and having fun [1]

$ colossal-cave-adventure
WELCOME TO ADVENTURE!! WOULD YOU LIKE INSTRUCTIONS?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
> What, you want a druggie at the controls of lethal weapons?

I don’t care in slightest what someone does in their own time if it does no direct harm to anyone else.

As long as he’s not under the influence on the job, I don’t care.
What about artillery operators? Why are drones special?
Why would he? Aren't children free software (if you didn't sell copyright on your DNA)?
Health clubs rely on 90% of their members never showing up. If they all cancelled, there'd be no more health clubs.
Sounds a lot like war crimes to me.
Wow this brought back some memories! Its interesting thinking back to a time when riding in a Prius with 3 other strangers seemed perfectly normal haha.
US Navy shoots down drone using all-electric laser for the first time
> the fact that writes cost gas

You realize that if free speech has a price, it's no longer free, right? Like it's only "free" if you can afford it.
> drivers are taken advantage of / not making profit and also not getting proper benefits.

I hear people say this all the time. None of those people are Uber drivers.

I can't speak to Europe but that's been my experience in California.

This kind of "we know what's good for you" elitism is that turns people off from the left and why I don't want to be associated with the democratic party despite my voting history.
Or indeed, the "customer" who is ordering that these dubious strikes go ahead.
Unreal engine has native support for networking. You add some configuration to your objects to determine how they should be replicated over the net and flip a switch in the settings, and now you have a multiplayer game.
Have a look around on the GNU site. He's a great, inspiring writer.

e.g. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html
Oh nice, I hadn't heard of Whoogle. Giggle requires a Google account to log into the Programmable Search Engine service and get a list of the account's Custom Search Engines. This is necessary because Google doesn't currently offer an API to do it.

As far as speed, I can't really say because I haven't used Whoogle before. From what I've seen so far, result responses are pretty snappy. I will say the results could be considered more accurate since you can filter in/out the sites you actually care about and curate site lists any way you want. They both use Google search so I'm sure the quality of the results is the same.
By and large, excessive drinking is seen completely differently to ‘drug taking’. One is ok, or funny. The other isn’t.
> History is what people want history to be

Yes

> .Always was, always will be.History is always the tool to justify the status quo.

No and yes. We have various sources to determine what happened. To create a specific kind of narrative using that data is a choice that many can make. But historical data is still there, and different narratives might still arise.

Liberal democracies and the freedom of speech create the fertile ground required for historians to look at past records and explain what happened.
Given that they're specifically hiring for high-performance database work in C++, I think it's a appropriate to have a pretty dang high bar. For less-intense work, I would definitely want to formulate a less intense version of this style of problem.
> This solution is vulnerable to a data race if another user concurrently updates the value.

And this, of course, they are expected to understand in an unfamiliar code base with 3 hours total for the whole task. LOL
Missing a reflection about how abundance of F/OSS has pushed us towards SaaS as one of the few places left to make a living from pure software dev, and the oligopolies arising out of it. What about Linux (Android) being used as the prime spyware vector, and Linux being used for cloud lock-in (k8s et al)?

Also missing a discussion about the role of open standards as opposed to open implementations, such as POSIX/LSB, picture and A/V formats for personal storage and streaming, standards for messaging, and the absence of a GNU/Browser despite the presence of so-called web standards.
That "stated position" is not a legal defense.
"Acceptable"? It wouldn't even be code.
What books and/or papers could you recommend for learning all about this, distributed hash tables, cosign distance, reputation systems, the whole deal?
I hope more people from the STEM-world do as James Lindsay has done: dive into the scientific world of Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Fat Studies etcetera.

I have taken up the strange hobby of subscribing to research papers from those fields and I am appalled by the low quality of the 'scientific body of knowledge'.

Lindsey recently published a book where he laid out the origins of these fields tracing it back to Marxism in the sixties. The book focuses on CRT (he calls it Race Marxism).

According to many people (on both sides of the isle) these fields represent the 'long march through the institutions', and we're starting to see the effects everywhere now, in DIE initiatives, school board fights, trans vs women's rights etcetera.
Not really shortsighted, when it comes to games, it was laughable then and its laughable now.
Ugh. That sounds terrible.

I'm sure you've already considered it, but move north were there are seasons and no pine trees :-/ The rain in Seattle tends to wash the pollen out of the air, too.

For me its grass. Even walking in grass with shorts on is a no-no.
The motives aren’t hidden. They are indeed glossed over. But are you telling me that alone makes it a worse community? In other words, if they were explicit you would regard this site as the better one?

To me HN is an order of magnitude better than Slashdot but of course your mileage obviously varies.
It's (shocks in disgust) a Realtek one, I forgot which specifically, but the "smart" switch (ugh, I hate the naming everything smart) definitely said that it's only a 10M Ethernet connection. So definitely double-checked that.
A bit off tangent: Why do we still use the phrase “women & children” in 2022 in times of war? That language seems to exclude men that aren’t involved. Why not innocent adults & children?
I don't think that's fair. Sure HH has been going on for eight years, but on average Casey is only putting in 3-4 hours per week. That's not even half a work-day per week. Not to mention that he spends a lot of time explaining every single decision he makes and does black-boarded lectures on pretty much every subject covered in the series.

I think it's reasonable to assume progress would be at least 3-4 times faster if his focus was solely on the code. So what you call "a billion years" is actually more like a total 2-4 months of fulltime coding.
I’ve watched Dr. Strangelove no less than 3 times and I don’t recall psychedelics ever being mentioned.

So it’s probably not Strangelove.
True but the thorny question is not “what happened” but “what happened that was important?” What do we focus on investigating and how do we connect it to a broader narrative (and when writing a paper, a book, or a lecture, there is always a narrative because that’s how we communicate).
This is a pretty "hot" take.

The Chinese government are funding/supporting all kinds of unsavoury things all around the world (yes, the same way as the US does), in addition to the political abuse that is doled out domestically (Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Shanghai, and depending on your definition of "domestic", the constant threats of invasion aimed at Taiwan).
Hopefully you'll see this, my daughter has a frame TV.

You need to keep your finger pressing the off button on the remote until the whole thing turns off.
Async-rdma v0.2: A rust lib for writing high performance net apps simply
You are right! This is why I appreciate HN so much. I don't see how to edit my comment but thank you for the correction.
Running machine learning jobs distributedly on Kubernetes
Isn't Cloud Formation more like Terraform? k8s pretty much abstracts the whole cloud platform and makes it deployable anywhere (theoretically). Although practically there's usually lock-in to some managed services.
With electricity you don’t care where your energy is coming from. It’s not like “Oh! I only charge my laptop with nuclear energy because it runs better”.

With internet, where the data comes from and goes to is the whole point.
The most fun I had, with people who give 0 thoughts about free software, were Teeworlds, Hedgewars, Xonotic, OpenTTD and OpenRCT and OpenRA, and Apple Flinger. These were genuinely fun, with relatively straightforward onboarding, and we sunk a good number of hours into them. This is not to say that they're better or worse than closed-source games, just my recommendation of what games proved to be actually fun under real life circumstances.
>The goal of these services is to make money by remaining popular, not to ban as many people as possible.

Many would argue that this isn't the case, and the "goal" of these services is actually to manage the public narrative at the behest (both directly and indirectly) of the wealthy and the powerful. Did Jeff Bezos really buy the Washington Post because he thought that it would offer the best return on his investment, or because he wanted to hold the bullhorn of one of the largest and most influential newspapers in the USA? Does Twitter choose which people to ban and what information gets promoted/demoted based on what's most popular, or based on the narrative they want to create and/or reinforce? Did the Twitter board really reject Musk's offer because it was too low or because they didn't want to give up control of the narrative to Musk?
Analysis of my website traffic after the Hacker News #1 ranking
Story Points: Why is this so hard?
Team Metrics in Depth
Top Chinese university here. In China we had to use proxies to access certain foreign sites, such as Google and Hacker News, because of censorship. Proxies were slow but speedtest was fast, so one of the guys tried including "speedtest" as a fake hostname for the proxies. Speed was immediately up to 1Gbps rather than 10Mbps.
It is possible and necessary to divorce pure learning from some version of politics.

Real mathematicians respect math
Not ban.

Remove from the curriculum.
Fire protection =|= curration. As far as insurance goes, we are talking about a state, slef insurance can work pretty well in those cases.

The fire alarm system was acobbled together legacy system, no big surprise in a century old building. Thr number of cathedral fires, or similar fires in other hostorical buildings is negligible. In a sense Notre Dame served as a wake up call.
Apparently in Mexico it used to be the case 5years ago but nowadays you can't rely on Uber either anymore if you are a woman and you don't want to just be a dead raped corpse the next morning.

Source: mexican gf and her family still living there.

Not sure if the issue comes from Uber not giving out drivers info, drivers blaming someone borrowed their car but not disclosing identity of supposed borrower or police not even asking but it seems to be the true reality.

Also a quick google search shows there are occurences of this in the USA as well. The fact the driver may be charged and found guilty after that sadly do not prevent the crime from happening in the first place.
Just guesswork here, but I think they have an agreement that is cheaper and also includes CDPR engine developers contributing code back to UE that makes it better to use for open-world games.

In the UE5 Keynote it seemed more like a technical partnership than just CDPR licensing UE5 for a price.
Definitely agree.

Nowadays I have Uber drivers sit around the corner refusing to show up and calling me to tell me I should cancel so that I have to pay the $5 fine. Sure I can contact support to get that $5 back but it has happened to me so many times there really should be a button for it. It’s hard for me to believe Uber is not aware of this behavior.
Dubai is one of the main places where people from my country emigrate to for servant work. However safe it is in regards to crime, it's not really safer for the immigrant underclass who makes up maidservants and construction workers.

If you have immigrated to a country where you don't speak the language, don't share customs or culture, and your religion is illegal to practice (ergo no social safety net) then it's not particularly 'safe' for you if you have a disagreement with your employer.