skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An important point to be made is that as electric vehicles take off, we'll soon start to find ourselves with an avalanche of worn batteries that no longer adequately support EVs, but work just fine as grid storage.

There are 280 million vehicles in the US. If fifty million of those were electric vehicles, then ten years later we'd have enough already-produced batteries to power the entire United States overnight.

There were 300,000 EVs sold in the US in 2020. There were 600,000 in 2021.

This doesn't help right now, but over time, it's becoming clear there will be a flood of cheap batteries available for grid storage.

As a nice side effect, as the market for these used batteries takes off, this might help to assuage fears about expensive battery pack replacements, fueling more EV adoption.
Around here, concentrate + water costs as much the dilute, or even more, so why bother?
> I’m also never going to rely on anything but .com because I don’t trust ICANN.

what's wrong with the other 2 of the "original 3" gLTDs: .net and .org?

i spent an afternoon digging into the ownership of all of this stuff, and .org felt like the safest option. .com and .net are more directly owned/operated by a US for-profit company (Verisign) who has complied with US requests to seize .com domains in the past. .org at least still has structural ties to a non-profit with chapters across the globe, even if it's incorporated in the US.
US has "not from concentrate" juice. That's the primary reason people buy Tropicana instead of store brand.
I would say com net and org but beyond that nope dont trust it for the most part. ICANN will fuck it up in a short sided ill advised money grab eventually
> When the EPA devised MPGe in the early 2000s, the government agency calculated that 33.7 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity is comparable to a gallon of fuel in terms of its energy content.

This (or some other) baseline should be used. A $/gallon price should be displayed per this figure, for electricity, in all signage & at the pump.

I think there deserve to be a lot of super pissed off angry electric car drivers, who rightfully see & understand they are paying an equivalent of like $8/gallon for gas. Electricity costs should be on par per dollar with energy delivery costs of gas. But we accept shitty infrastructure & dont even realize how sickeningly maddeningly cheap car drivers are handed energy. Absolutely uncool, unacceptable.
Every industry murders people. Car companies have risk analysts determine how many people have to die before it's worth it to issue a recall. Food companies cause diabetes and heart disease in an effort to make food more addictive to increase their margins. The difference is that the ratio of profit/human life is lower in criminal industries, more people die for less profit.

The distinction between greed and evil is pointless. Evil isn't a cartoon villain scheming to harm others, evil is boring and banal and happens every day. Evil is the negative externalities of decisions that are made for some greater purpose whether it's national security, profit, or greater benefit to society.
Someone has to assume ownership over the TLD, since ICANN’s halfway-official stance is that the country itself owns the TLD and ICANN simply acknowledges its existence. On top of that, unless it’s contracted out, the TLD registry operator is the country, so actual servers and operations would need to be taken over by another registry operator (I’m sure Google would be happy to do it).
90% of the time, nothing is the right thing to do
No such thing as free time

No such thing as down time

No such thing as free time

All you have is life time.

- Henry Rollins

I run a cybersecurity firm and have lots of prioritizing of my time. I live by this motto.
> it just keeps immigrants in precarious positions for much longe

That is entirely the point of the system. Let's say if anyone could get a GC, X people would. Let's say you need a work visa and it takes 3 years, Y people would. If you need a Masters+ and it takes 15 years then Z people would. X > Y > Z. The system is designed to discourage certain people and/or just have them drop out of the system out of frustration or ill fortune. It is arbitrary, capricious and punitive. By design.

> I don't see any reason to keep per-country GC quotas in place.

The US is a country founded on white supremacy (eg [1]). The fact that the system makes it harder for some countries is not an accident. It's by design. Take the green card lottery (which, again, Indian nationals aren't eligible for by design). It was invented largely to benefit the Irish [2].

> it doesn't actually prevent immigration (since we still grant work visas with temporary residence - that's a separate process from getting a GC),

It's exactly what it does. Children age out of the immigration system. Others fall out of the pipeline for other reasons and have to leave the country. That's the definition of preventing (certain) immigration.

[1]: https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...

[2]: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/01/diversity...
Doubtless, some marketroid at Tropicana wanted to position the brand to appeal to $YOUNG_DEMOGRAPHIC (millennials, Zoomers, whatever). And since $YOUNG_DEMOGRAPHIC is on their phones all the time, they reasoned the best way to connect with them is to mimic the clean, flat design of their smartphone OS and apps.

You may think this is phenomenally stupid. And you'd be right, but sometimes it pays off: the original TV Dinner was only television themed. The practice of eating it in front of the TV was not part of the branding or marketing, at least not at first.
No. Bind creates a new function, call and apply do not.
You actually can do that, I had to dig around to find the page lol.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/vehicle-industry-regi...

Some plates have retention fees, some don't. YMMV.
Unsure what's going on under the hood but C# allows access to fields transparently to the caller. One of the nicer features of the language.

foo.baz = 1; // baz could be a int or could be a setter.
int baz = foo.baz; // same
play hard, work harder.
Voting with your wallet isn't about changing the company.

It's about not ordering a plate of shit then asking for seconds.

You don't need to change the company.

Just stop buying their shitty products if you don't like them!

You might say - but nobody else is selling a rhinestone studded shit pacifier...

You don't need it, you just want it.
Because the internet is async, people have time to think and/or choose to be on communities to discuss issues. "Real people" actually have other things to do when you try to engage them.
Crushing ore is part of the typical milling process, so depending on the source of your material, it's already milled to a pretty fine dust.

I'm way more concerned with the side effects of the process as others have mentioned. Maybe not heavy metals, but soil PH, and other poisons.
I think the only thing they'll find interesting would be a letter from a lawyer
Everyone responds with your exact comment.

100 people in a room. All of them might have bitcoin. None might have bitcoin. One might have bitcoin. Five might have bitcoin. 99 might have bitcoin. Two might have bitcoin. One guy might have heard of bitcoin.

Good luck rubber hosing their bitcoin.
Sorry, I don't know what you mean by the thing about "the y-coordinate corresponds to the centre of the circle" .

Do you mean that the y coordinate is the y coordinate of the center of the circle? or, is the y coordinate a position and not just a number?

Do you just mean that you have one parameter which determines the center of the circle, and another (which you called x), which determines the radius?

no, that can't be it, because you then talk about moving the y coordinate outside the circle.

Do you mean, if you have a given y value, and you are describing "is the point (x,y) inside the circle" as a function of x,
then if you pick the y value to be further than r away from the the y coordinate of the center of the circle, where r is the radius, that the function stops depending on x and for all x, is "no" ?

I'm really not sure what point you are trying to make.

I'm not convinced that whatever your point is applies to the results I linked.

iirc, they did, for a handful of the neurons, try replacing them with human-designed ones using the same principles, and I believe that that generally worked without all that much degradation of the functioning? I could be accidentally making that up though (as in, possibly I'm wrong in thinking they did that)
This is probably part of the appeal of BTC as a value store. Gold typically sits in a vault, it’s hard and energy intensive to mine.

BTC marginally improves upon gold as a value store, it’s trade able as a hard asset across national borders in real time.

Time will tell if BTC is as durable as gold.
Looking at this with sadness from the point of view of being a Rotel preamp+amp owner with equally old Infinity speakers. Onkyo has had some quality products over the years.

The Kappas all lost their surrounds but was able to replace them 15 years ago - they came back better than new, and still sound amazing.

Preamp only has a DB25 connector for 5.1 surround; hooks up to RCA outputs on an archaic, yet high end ASUS Xonar sound card. And all of my media goes through my 10 year old Windows 10 HTPC (recently refurbished with a new case, cooling and storage) and controlled by a Logitech wireless keyboard.

I love watching movies, YouTube etc on my 6 year old 65" Samsung that's simply a dumb display like that. Couldn't be easier to use; very performant. Beats a "tv app only" experience out of the waters.
You can do better than that
in practice does anyone actually use the generic tld's? i know many big companies splurged large amounts of money on them but i never see any of them.
While the plight of Indian nationals is undeniable, arbitrary and capricious, I would strongly suggest not citing figures like "Indians must wait 150 years" because it simply won't engender any sympathy at all from anyone not already sympathetic because it's a patently ridiculous claim. People don't live 150 years. Even if they did they don't work for 150 years.

This is a case where simplistic mathematical extrapolation and hyperbole is really (IMHO counterproductive. It actually reminds me of this [1].

[1]: https://xkcd.com/605/
Sounds like updated phrenology.
Race to grow the hottest chili pepper
California regulator rejects desalination plant despite historic drought
It doesnt. These people want everyone hosting things online to have to meet some ill defined mystical special status as "publishers" to be able to decide anything for themselves (with ill-defined requirements/consequences for declaring so) or be forced to host whatever trashy hoi-poi shows up & starts screaming hell. They want to insist platforms have no right to taste or discernment.

Everyone who doesnt qualify for this weird made up non-legal term "publisher" is a "platform", which clearly to these folk (and no one else) implies a public utility subject to complete government regulation that far outstrips any rights of either the company, or the public, either of which maybe perhaps just would never vote with their feat/want to use a so called "platform" which insisted upon letting the shouting braying class into their feeds in the first place.

It's bitter, it's shallow, it's insanely hyper-regulatory to tell people & companies they have to accept private intrusion to support some loudmouth shouting class's "right" to yell at all of us. This right to yell, this particular deranged psycho-world rendition of free speech, trumps all other rights anyone might have
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When slack was acquired by salesforce everyone (that I remember) on HN and Twitter were congratulating each other rather than recognizing it (imo) as a failure to compete and a mediocre outcome.

Pair that with their full page ad they took out mocking Microsoft and teams (then slack sued because teams was crushing them) and it was even worse.

If you’re going to copy apple’s marketing you probably should be just as good.
Correct but how do I know what my browser cache is doing . To be clear my context is coming from this article here: https://infrequently.org/2022/03/cache-and-prizes/ which clearly makes sense as a browser vendor but as my enterprise I want to push objects to my employee's cache using an API
There is ITAR, and no you can't just get an advanced degree and work in defense and space industry on sensitive projects.

The half the article is talking about likely fall into the following categories: (I) they got their advanced degree many years ago when it was easier to get a green card and are permanent residents/citizens by now. Tons of people like this in NASA, ONR, etc. (ii) they work for a defense subcontractor on something that's not classified as sensitive.
that is actually an interesting question. it would be nice to see some statistics of how many people viewed the discussions, like the number of comments and upvotes.

maybe dang could give us an idea about the average number of views related to number of comments and votes.

is it 10 to one? 100 to 1?
is it a similar factor for most stories? actually, i don't think it's linear because higher upvoted stories have a higher likelihood of being read because some of us use tools to only see stories with a high vote threshold
Yeah.

The article has all this stuff about emotional attachment, blah blah blah.

Really, orange juice is kinda hit and miss, so I prefer to stick with a particular brand (Tropicana). The redesign is

1) totally unrecognizable

2) pretty generic looking

It is literally just hard to spot next to the other juices.
What seems to be lost in these “redesigns” is the why: why are you doing it? If there isn’t a list of benefits long enough to justify the cost and possible risk, well, that’s a problem.

There’s also a tendency for companies to be super proud of what they’ve done so they neglect methods like A/B testing and instead just bet the farm on their great new design. After all, it cost a lot of money and looks cool to the decision-makers so what could go wrong? Um, maybe before you throw out all of your packaging everywhere and double-down, you could tone it down a little and try it out in a few small markets first? Then watch and see if sales are going up or down? Then think about going further?

And at this point there is also a tendency to ignore history. This is far from the first big failed redesign; what is going on that no one is looking at past failures (plenty of which have had high costs to other brands too), and imagining that there might be a downside?
That would be CA's interest because those employees will definitely be paying state income tax.
True but no other western country I know of allows it at all.
You need to look back a little further. The middle east has typically been in chaos at least since the fall of the Roman Empire.
If it doesn’t already exist, I anticipate a awesome-framework will get created on GH.
> It feels weird for anyone to be a fan of a company at all.

Some companies routinely put out products people find immensely useful or enjoyable at fair prices. They might put out products far superior to anything else currently available or invest in artistic works that few other companies are willing to take risks on becoming a godsend to an under-served market. Things like marketing and nostalgia play a role too, but when a company keeps bringing good things into people's lives it's only natural for them to build up some good will.

The trouble is that companies are always changing (along with their goals and ideals) and eventually somebody will take over or get greedy enough and they'll ruin a good thing. If a
company is doing great things by all means, be a fan of their work and give them your support to encourage more of the same, just don't expect it to last forever.
I don't speak for HN, but why do bitcoin proponents always assume people to be ignorant on a website with some of the smartest people on the planet? I've never got this, and never will.

No offense, but it's the most incurious form of argument on a website dedicated to curiosity.
No a/b testing?
Operation Result Pattern
I find it interesting that how giving visa to foreign skilled workers issue somehow gets turned into open border discussion. That's quite a leap. We all know when people say "open border", it's not open border for a specific group of people. If you are not in that group, then it's too bad that no one cares about you. [1]

[1] https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-senator-richard...
ACA/medicaid pays healthcare expenses for elderly parents in US - no problems here. Technically government can go after sponsor for first 5 years after immigration for medicaid money but there are no known cases of government actually doing it. If parents qualify for ACA (need to make 20k/year - can be childcare “payment” for grandkid) then it’s like $20/month and sponsor is not even on theoretical hook to repay.
Something like this could fork the internet dns into multiple versions
Kobo e-ink device with a Vario+GPS – XCSoar Glide Computer
Unfortunately I think discrete is far off for that tech
These are known as "chorded" keyboards, and for most people are more of an esoteric curiosity than a practical tool, with the exception of stenographers and their special steno keyboards.
DSLR just got replaced by mirrorless basically same thing but without a mirror, cameras still have a more tech advancements to come, better EVF,global shutter, lower noise, higher fps, better AF, better metering, better IS, better battery life etc etc, a bit difference to a speaker that can only improve audio quality and at this point i probably can't tell the difference between a good 20 year old speaker and one bought today.
It's a good companion to the PC itself, also being the about crappiest hardware design you could somewhat get away with (but very expandable..).
> if your source outputs in DTS

This was (finally) remedied relatively recently, but Sonos sound bars now support DTS.
Hell no. We're being pushed into draconian closed systems, this is starting to infect the PC, and it's only because there's little opposition.
My favorite quote from Arnell around that logo:

> "When I design things, I design in a pure vacuum. When I did the Pepsi logo, I told Pepsi that I wanted to go to Asia, to China and Japan, for a month and tuck myself away and just design it and study it and create it," he said. "There was a lot of research, a lot of consumer data points ... and dialogue that I had with the folks at Pepsi, consumers and retailers. We knew what we were doing."

There was a lot of data. But I also design in a vacuum. But I talked to consumers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090121113422/http://adage.com/...

edit: also, how could I forget the Lemon Demon song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAG7pye0V1g
This is one of the things that multicast is designed for.

It's a bit janky, but VLC Player can act as both the client and server, here. Shoutcast did multicast, too, the last I checked.
I'd like to read more about what you're thinking here.
Yes, I need to fix the search. It's quite primitive right now.
Yeah, if .ca disappears it means I probably have a bigger problem.
This seems deeply correct. Do you have an idea why it seems half the people on Reddit and twitter are trans?
yea but AVRs didn't get replaced with better tech like DSLRs did with MLC's
I'm sorry. There are people in the world who will care about your honest answer even if they don't understand or it is of no "value" to them (I put quotes because it should be valuable to them because YOU value it not because they can "use" it). To me that's what a friend is, a relationship that is non-transactional where you connect with and support each other because you want to.

Hope you keep looking people who you can express your feelings and ideas to.
China's first C919 passenger plane completes maiden test flight before delivery
I don't have anything to contribute, but the fact that you are in a senior position of an important project is good news to hear. I have been anxious for some time that my horrible working memory and executive function are going to stunt my career growth unless I start snorting lines of adderall, which I don't want to do.
I had that on the lowest setting already, it doesn't make a difference. I suspect that iOS already thinks its playing music quite softly and therefore won't know to down correct.
>Given that most liquid orange just is just reconstituted concentrate anyways, buying the liquid form means paying for the shipping and space cost of the water.

You're incorrect. The "fresh" non-concentrated market is a lot bigger than the concentrate market in the US, at least. Has been since the 80's. It's more than a 10:1 ratio, actually.
That constraint is perfectly reasonable and rational, not a thumbsuck.
Yes, I have lost, literally lost things I liked to buy at the grocery, due to changed packaging.

One time I had to Google images for a 20 minutes to find old images, then write down the brand/ type.

Another, the package changed, and the new package stated some strange "new" ingredient, which left me struggling to know if the flavour changed.

I honestly would just prefer a package never changes for my entire life.

Edit: also, I don't want my favourite food to be "new and improved!". Leave it alone!
I suspect the "why" is most simply explained by "because designers had to justify their salaries."
> But SPDIF is limiting you to DD at best which is 640kbit/s IIRC. Steaming services are often DD+ which won't go over SPDIF.

Yeah, but an Apple TV or HTPC or w/e can transcode your DD+ media to DD in realtime.

(And current Sonos products support HDMI.)
With DSLRs my main complaint to this day is still the lack of a good modular lens system for phones (I understand some of the challenges and tradeoffs). For most people's camera habits (selfies, food shots, group pictures...) the lenses your modern flagship phone provides are mostly great.

What's seriously lacking though is in the say 50-70+mm focal length range. I have an old Canon DSLR in my office storage collecting dust I had to quickly dust off and throw some batteries in to get some shots at the edge of my yard a few weeks back to capture some unique wildlife that was hanging out. With my flagship premiere phone I simply couldn't capture the moment, no matter the hope of digital zoom techniques and a built in "zoom" lens. Stepping closer would have killed the opportunity.

My 10+ year old DSLR was there to save the day. Quickly rummaged out my 400 mm lens and simply stabilized on a table and got mostly the shots I wanted. My smartphone cameras have been good enough and convient enough to capture most things I want but I really wish there was a mount system for small portable optics
Find a good resource with lots of difficult problems to solve. The resource is basically useless if it doesn't come with a well written answer key.

Leetcode is good for learning leetcode. The Art of Problem Solving books are good for pure math. Stuff like that.

That'll get you through the "basics" if you really like math and also go to undergrad/grad school for it. If you want to be "the best" then you'll have to compete with people who actually are geniuses. Idk how to compete with them, maybe read their blogs and try to replicate their practice methods?

Here's a really smart guy's blog:
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/
The overwhelming majority of H1B holders are Indians. Which diversity initiative is pushing for more Indians?
> As well as focusing on bodily signs of perceived dominance, the researchers also focused on facial appearance: they had groups of independent raters view participants’ faces and rate whether they saw the men as dominant and attractive. They also used software to analyse faces in terms of the masculinity of their shape.

Yep
This was when executives didn't have their own computers. Everyone at the top worked like Warren Buffet.