skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you're someone who tracks numbers, you might try doing a run with 91 or 93. I've done the comparison on every car I've owned and in every case the dollars per mile (not dollars per gallon) is better with the higher octane.
I don't know, I just remember reading about it on here. Might not even be true, but it's a good story.
Append my conclusion here. JS frameworks aim at this SSR + hydration + island whatever is not going to obsolete client-server architecture as it sounds like, they use the word "isomorphic". No, I don't think it's isomorphic or anything one code base to rule them all. It's still server code + client code written in the same file or same module. Its actual role and operation as component in architecture is still the same.
This reminds me a lot of Jason Fried (of 37signals, now known as Basecamp)'s complaints about Get Satisfaction back in 2009.

Get Satisfaction, Or Else...

- article: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else

- discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=540540

Follow-up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."

- article: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1661-follow-up-on-get-satisfa...

- discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=543431
There is no timestamp on that page. Is this a recent change?
I have whitelisting enabled and the 48-hour mandatory wait for new addresses has been there for, I guess, at least 2 years now.
The bad look is that major exchanges are freezing up with these drops
AWS us-east-1 had issues last Thursday also
Oh yea I'm sure. Many of the chains I'm not sure what type of company they were. But just the fact that vets aren't a small, locally owned businesses concerns me. I'm sure some of the larger chains are either PE firms or owned by PE firms.
Why, SOA is a reasonable concept, and does help scaling. Say, billing, ETL and batch processing, and Web backends can live as separate services all right.

Going with micro-services is another story, and it makes sense in a more narrow gamut of circumstances. Say, microservices may be a great fit for AWS Lambda-style deployments, but this assumes spiky, sparse load patterns.
Obligatory Top Gear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04MXepYiBs
I see BTC in the same class as Gold (hard assets without any intrinsic value and valued only because everyone else values it). USD is a different asset type - Fiat currencies which are essentially debts owed by various governments to the holders of those currencies.

So BTC won't be replacing USD, imo.
Huh, I didn't realise they can be so predatory. Did you switch to something else after this?
I'm a bit torn. Yea, it's harmless, but making your OS flip people off isn't really funny. I just feel like it would be hard to trust this programmers judgement if they thought this was an appropriate joke to make.
It's more just what they had to do anytime they traveled longer than a day's distance. I'm sure that happened for pleasure, but a trip specifically to camp seems like something that is more relegated to the modern age where you can get to a destination easily without having to just camp along the way.
Which one is faster? (C code)
Return: see if abs(num) > x.

/logical comparison/
int greater_abs(int num, int x){
return (num > x) || (num+x < 0);
}

/squared approach/
int greater_abs2(int num, int x){
return num*num > x;
}

See it by yourself, with (and without) optimizations:
https://godbolt.org/

What would happen if x is a compile-time constant?
One imagines the chief has further responsibilities involving incident command for which a radio is rather useful.
not all heroes wear capes, but this guy needs a cape
Eh. If you want to slightly lower your caloric intake, and you normally eat a 700 calorie lunch... replacing that with 350 calories of protein shake a few times per week and still eating a healthy dinner, etc, is reasonable.
I'm bothered by these half-measure enforcement actions. At the end of the day, the company is allowed to buy up 16 clinics but must divest of 6. At these numbers, it seems like if there is a threat of monopolistic market failure from the merger, then even with this countermeasure there is still a threat.

Leading into this is the obvious observation that a company forced to divest some of it's assets to comply with an order like this is incentivized to shed it's lowest-performing assets, and is also incentivized to sell them to an incompetent operator. This makes it likely that the divested assets won't end up being an effective competator.

Consider with the T-mobile/Sprint merger. One of the brands spun off as part of that deal has already ceased operations, and the other has negligible market share.

The oversight regulations are also odd. They are a tacit admonition that the resulting company has too much market power. If they have too much market power today, why would these restrictions sunset in 10 years? Sure, they may not have unreasonable market power that far in the future, but shouldn't the company have to petition to be let off of this oversight, e.g. to prove that they no longer are a dominant player with excessive market power?

It seems like the correct answer for the FTC when they address mergers like this it to just say no.
https://github.com/BenAAndrew/Voice-Cloning-App
It sounds like you’re confusing the effects of eating unhealthy food with the effects of drinking soda
Currently about 3,200 vets graduate each year. About 4,400 veterinary positions open up annually according to the BLS [1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/veterinarians.htm#tab-6
GCC for New Contributors
I can absolutely imagine how a firefight between a bunch of people with no training makes things worse.

I can also imagine dozens of ways arming teachers makes things worse for that 10 9s of time where there's not an active school shooter.
It's exactly capitalism because concentrations of capital form and end up with a critical mass that controls various aspects of society - in this case licensing. It's also something that's literally happening under capitalism, right now, in very capitalist America.
Thanks for reporting, will take a look.
Pretty cool. What did you use to build it?
>In the podcast, Youakim provides a seemingly harmless anecdote that illustrates how this works in practice. In response to Hoffman’s question about how he identifies outstanding candidates, Youakim recalled asking one interviewee to meet him for coffee at 7 a.m. on a Saturday as a test for “entitlement.” To decline to meet at such a time would, in Youakim’s mind, illustrate a lack of “going above and beyond.” The person who not only agreed to meet him then but showed up early is now one of Sezzle’s “superstars,” as Youakim put it, apparent confirmation his 7 a.m. coffee test is a good one.

He would definitely get high scores in the psychopathy and entitlement categories.
But only if combined with lack of those on the roof of Chernobyls turbine hall. Those are directly related, everybody knows this.
I actually really enjoy the rush of private equity into things like housing and veterinary clinics. The thing with these industries is that it was distributed protectionism. Some people were either running a licensing protectionism operation or a political protectionism operation. Now, private financial firms are exploiting that gap which is making it visible.

There's no difference between the guy who's all like "Why should I let my property values drop?" and the firm who bought the home next to him with the same mindset. The outcome is the same.
Depends what we mean when we say harmless - It’s not harmless to brand image, consumer trust and ultimately sales if those drop.

Intentionally hiding offensive things in the code does show poor judgement to me. If it was a sad face, fair enough, and if it triggers based on an intentional set of actions by the user as an Easter egg that’s another thing, but using a swear symbol in an error check and committing that to the codebase? Pretty poor judgement imo
> USD/Gold is pretty stable

Umm, I'm not sure I can agree with that[0]

To be fair, it was fairly stable until about 2006. However the whole point of "being stable" is also to be stable in times of external stress. USD/Gold fails that one quite spectacularly.

[0] https://goldprice.org/charts/gold_30_year_o_x_usd.png
Why aren’t tasers and other nonlethal weapons ever suggested as an alternative to guns for personal defense?
Where the Real Chip Shortage Is
whole house cutoff valve right near floor level with a float valve arrangement. if the float rises the valve shuts off.

simple. analog. all that's required is that the valve be able to actuate after N+ years of disuse, which is actually a tall order.
Prices coming down is very bad news for anyone who already owns property in Portland. What if Joe Schmoe has a 1mil mortgage and the value falls to 500k inline with the surrounding cheaper units? Well, Joe looses the house to the bank and then the banks takes a huge loss. Multiply this by thousands and is a recipe for "bringing down the upper class" at everyone's expense.
Good luck surviving the election.
How do you know many (or too many) people are doing it this way?
> ... government services will be provided exclusively in French, save for exceptions in a few areas, such as health services and public safety.

So in Quebec, anyone not fluent in French is effectively only a second-class citizen.
An average of 5.5% margin against revenue in the *trillions of dollars* is astonishingly profitable.
This Week in Elixir and Erlang – Issue #11
It goes both ways. In the early days of colonization of the Americas, Spain suffered inflation due to an influx of silver.

The point is, the amount of money needs to correlate with the size of the economy.

There's no single physical good that naturally has the required correlation, so using physical goods as the basis of money is foolish.
"weakness" of character, that is.
Siemens Taurus locomotive engines have some musicality hidden in the power switching section: https://youtu.be/-SDYdHzT7Qw
What if an armed teacher becomes the active shooter?
It's fun to see the author describe himself as a"massive Saturn fan since Christmas ’96."

I turned 8 right around then, and my parents agreed to buy either a Sega Saturn or the N64. I don't think I cared which, but the first toy store we drove to had sold out of Saturns, so we got the N64 and Super Mario 64, and from that day on, I've been a Nintendo fan.

If they'd had Saturns in stock, maybe today I too would call myself a "massive Saturn fan."
As one of the greatest history channels on Youtube once said: "History isn't hapoening in a vaccuum". And they are right.
> If the universe went back in time exactly one year, is there any reason you wouldn't make all of the same decisions?

That's rather a difficult test. Let me give you a simple one: can you predict yourself i.e. your own behaviour? you could at most make high probability guesses but you won't always know what you gonna do unless and until you are faced with that situation
Initial state is loaded via fixtures or whatever. (slow and expensive)

Transaction is started.
Run Test 1
Transaction rolled back. (quick)

Test 2 can be run without the expensive fixtures.

Repeat for all tests.
I think therefore I am. I am skeptical of everyone's sentience but my own.
Ha no worries, to be fair most of my working life has been spent at C++ shops. I guess Windows does something similar via dlls.
> that is kind of what the exchanges do.

Well not really. the parent I replied to specifically qualified it as users holding their own wallets. I agree that is a critical component. Exchanges are a bit of a farce from the perspective of "not your wallet, not your coins".

Like you say, exchanges that abstract this too much, for their benefit not yours, are probably distorting the original intent of a cryptocurrency. macOS doesn't have to hide all the knobs; they could have an advanced interface, which they do for some things. Why can't there be a wallet hardware/software that does the same? Is there something inherent that prevents this, making it "impossible"? Or is there just no business model around it, that can overcome the gravity of the kind of exchanges we have today.

For example, are wallet addresses inherently unmanageable?
Tom Mueller: SpaceX CTO who makes Elon Musk's rockets lift off
Yeah I bought a ultra wide and make it work with Fancy Zones on Windows Power Toys but dual 16:10 is still the best because it plays nice with the OS by default. I think default window management still has along way to go to suit all the different options out there.

The dual 16:10 you get two "prime" windows in the center and 2 aux windows out wide. where as with a 34" 1200p ultra wide you get 2 prime left and right or 1 prime and 2 aux with Fancy Zones, or 3 "aux". If you consistently find yourself needing 3 or 4 full size windows then the ultra wide is not ideal unfortunately.

The large 4k is just miserable because there's no ideal natural prime window location like I top posted further down.
Don't forget Morgan freeman
Licensing can be used to monopolize markets and consolidate private ownership. Licensing isn't inherently bad but it can be used in a capitalist system to increase profits and drive out competition.
Sounds about right to me. I have the wagon version of this vehicle (A6 Allroad) which has pretty much the same engine and similar weight, just different aerodynamic profile.

If you put it in cruise and don't go fast I can hit just under 40 - but I've only had it for a couple months. This is for a 21/28 rated vehicle. Forum posts seem to validate this as well.

City driving it's exactly what you'd expect - couple miles under EPA estimates.

Edit: this is manually calculated, but with a sample size of one. Strangely the onboard computer seems to underestimate in this vehicle, which is the exact opposite of every other car I've driven. Probably the most unexpected bit of owning this car so far.
I think it’s funny that this footage is deemed to dangerous for the public, but the weapons used by the gunmen are totally safe for the public to purchase.
We are _besieged_ by caching issues. A good 1/4 to 1/3 of a particular AMI build action we run will fail because of a package mirror at GH being out of date.
Out of curiosity, how is it that you came to be part of HN? Always good to have posters here who aren’t engineers or other tech workers.
It's not capitalism the same way soviet Russia wasn't communism
So a CEO hires a VP who hires a senior director who hires a director who hires a manager who changes specs and deadlines in the middle of projects all the time, and all the rank and file have that follow them as a black mark when they try to leave for a more sane company? No thanks.
No one really knows what consciousness is. If you knew you were a simulation, would you stop caring if this universe was unplugged? Of course you'd want to continue existing as that bot that you are, with your bot friends, bot family, bot job.

For me, even if a machine suggests it's real, and it's programmed to do so or machine learning led to it, could potentially put it on the same level as anything else in the universe. We don't have enough data on ourselves to confirm or deny that we're not similar self-concerned bots.

The difference between AI sufficient enough to ponder itself in-depth (which could be confirmed through monitoring it's idle-state), and ourselves, could just be they don't have a body to inhabit yet. Many humans you're around today often don't do any self-reflection, they're either too lazy, prefer being entertained, or are mentally incapable. So that is a very high standard for AI.

Self-awareness or self-reflection are good high bars considering we know for a fact AI was (at least initially) man-made. I think those are good standards to rely on for sentient AI.

In general, I think monitoring AI's activities when not being interacted with answers most ethical questions if it's sentient. Something to watch out for would be if we find an AI browsing the internet on instructions to build a nuclear bomb, and then using Tor to order the components to build a dirty nuke, while chatting with someone in Pakistan to physically build it for it. If it does all of those acts then we have our answer that the thing is thinking as well or better than biological life.

I highly doubt LaMDA met that standard of autonomy and sentience.
I'm having trouble understanding why there are so many topics about this subject. As I understood, this system is incapable of forming memories or even keeping track of past conversations. How could it even begin to be aware of its own existence without these basic components?

Maybe they're talking about a different definition of sentience?
Apparently the person went on to work on GTA V: https://gtaforums.com/topic/564391-the-pointer-finger-on-the...
I would love to see what this will bring to K9 mail. I hope having the support of Thunderbird will allow K9 to really get some much needed polish. My preferred app right now is FairMail, its interface takes some getting used to and settings layout is very confusing but once I did manage to get it setup, it became clear that I preferred its extensive customizability and sidebar vs K9 when it comes to managing emails across multiple accounts. They are basically the only two FLOSS Email apps worth using on android, so K9 getting some extra support is really awesome.
>Here's how I do it in thunderbird. Sort by sender (or other thing). Click first email. Shift click last email. Do whatever I want (usually archive or move to a folder).

This is pretty basic functionality for an email client to have. In GMail (Proton and Yandex too; probably any modern web client) works by clicking the checkbox. Click first email's checkbox. Shift click last email's checkbox.
Saying that you shouldn't interfere with an ongoing crime implicitly assumes the police are doing something about the crime and not just watching children be murdered. Best case is parents stand back while the police engage - but if the police aren't doing that then all bets are off.
I guess that's the logical extreme of what Gentoo is doing, just without the speed benefits (since the compiler is under time pressure and thus won't do a great job). Maybe if you combine it with profile guided optimization? (Yes, this is basically reinventing Java/.NET)
My question is: where did he find 512 floppy drives??
I believe that you're spot-on here. We don't really know what sentience is and cannot define it, so we resort to one of the two approaches: inclusionary, where anything that behaves as we'd expect a sentient entity to behave is considered sentient; and exclusionary, which is basically coming up with excuses as to why things that behave as sentient really aren't, because their behavior is implemented in ways that are "fundamentally" different from ours.
If you have phenylketonuria, then you can't metabolize it very fast and so anything in excess of what your body needs becomes a liability.
Or, we could mitigate the active shooter problem by making guns less easily available. Bring back the assault weapons ban and strict licensure for all other firearms and ammunition.
Looking at their website [1] they claim a 625 km range with a 60 kWh battery (10.4 kWh per 100km) and up to 70 km of additional solar range ("Based on a 35 km workday commute in Southern Spain in spring and summer"). Therefore the solar panels would need to generate additional 7.28 kW of energy.

> Most of Spain receives 3.0-3.5 kWh of solar energy per square meter per day, comparable to southern Italy, Greece, Japan and the U.S. states of California and Texas. [2]

With a 20% efficiency (0.6 kWh) and 2m² of panels, then in these ideal conditions it would take about 6 hours, which makes the claim somewhat feasible.

> Germany receives 0.5-1.0 kWh/square meter/day. [2]

So, this gimmick is not really useful for non-ideal conditions.

[1] https://lightyear.one/lightyear-0
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-spain-factbox-idUST...
As far as I can tell, you won't see "hybrid" on Audi's site because the "energy recuperation system" isn't a hybrid system at all -- it simply banks energy from the alternator and then reduces the load on the alternator (and the load on the engine, as a byproduct) when requested, allowing the car's energy needs to be drawn off the battery during that time instead.

From Audi's literature:

>While the vehicle is coasting or braking, the alternator voltage is raised above the level of the basic electrical system. During these phases the alternator can convert the vehicle’s kinetic energy into electrical energy, which is stored temporarily in the vehicle battery. When the vehicle subsequently accelerates or is driven at constant speeds, this energy is used to relieve the load on the alternator, allowing a fuel saving of up to 3%, depending on the driving cycle.

I am fully aware of how efficient a modern turbo engine can be, and perhaps you did, in fact, best the EPA estimates. Did you calculate these numbers yourself, or rely on the onboard computer?
That's interesting that the Kia/Hyundai system uses J1772. I guess that means the output current is AC? Maybe easier to work with, in terms of wiring to the mains?
> Absolutely untrue

The police are under no legal obligation to protect and serve, https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-y...
Or just put a sleep(10) halfway through printing the output. That makes it more intelligent, right?
Amazing project. I remember having a C64 program that would play a tune using the 1541 disk drive.
On mobile:

The page is too wide.

The demos don't play.
Requiring users to send pictures of themselves in order to tag them black / not black and restricting posters in specific threads to black people or nonblacks that pass a test is absolutely 100% bigoted. It may be bigotry some are open to accept, but it's bigotry nonetheless.

And even ignoring that, Reddit would never allow the reverse to happen.
Capitalism doesn't become "not capitalism" because practitioners need to be licensed and public safety and/or public opinion demands regulations be put in place.
I went into business with my friends because I like collaborating on economic gain with my friends.

Did I lose friends? I don’t know. I still enjoy being around them, working together, economically gaining together.
Actual title: "Learn French in 6 months? Quebec-commissioned report shows why that's nearly impossible"
>anybody who is serious about gun control

This sounds like a "no true scotsman" fallacy. If your definition of someone who is not serious includes people who say "rely on police to help", then it is circular logic.
If a soldier goes AWOL because they're "scared" of fighting or consistently straight up neglects to do their job, I'm sure "natural self preservation" will be a stunning and effective defense at the court martial regardless if they're ina combat role or not.
I've seen many cases where mods revert an informative title in favor of a less informative one. Also, the idea that the title of a submission should match the title of the resulting article is quite silly, since often the article is written for a different audience and the informed HN submitter can sometimes craft a title that better summarizes to HN readers why the story is interesting / worth reading / controversial.
Once EVs are produced in the same volumes as combustion cars today then the price for an EV will be the same, and probably lower as EV cars are much simpler and contain less components. Right now there is probably also some markup added just because the manufacturer can charge more for an EV (status, more demand than production capacity etc).

The charging time will likely also go down further which could allow for the batteries to become smaller for most use cases and thus the price come down even more.

And on top of that, if energy prices continue to stay high, the SUV/Truck era might slowly die away and smaller/lighter/aerodynamic cars with better mileage will become the norm. Less metal and smaller motor needed means cheaper car.