skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nonsense.

I have owned an EV for 8 years. It cost $300 to buy and install my EVSE ("charge station") because I already had a 240v plug in my garage. If a 240v line had to be run from my breaker box to my garage it would have been about $2k. But it also wouldn't have been necessary, as 110v charge speed would have been fine. Also that $300 got reimbursed via tax credit.

Stop pushing FUD. This is total nonsense. EV ownership is awesome and has been for years. The only issue is that people living in apartments or condos without a garage usually can't charge at home. These places need to start adding charging infrastructure to parking spaces.
YMMV, has any technologist found a dashboard useful?

I've had a very bad history with dashboards. All I've seen get ordered up by nontechnical leadership, not looked at, and involved endless fiddling with painful corporate applications.

The non-technical stakeholders I've had a good relationship with, I vend a SQL script/Jupyter Notebook and educate. They're happy to up-skill.

I've only had dashboards requested by users with a dysfunctional relationship with engineering, in companies where the data is irrelevant.

In environments where data matters, fast moving consumer goods, web, etc, stakeholders speak SQL/Jupyter. I've seen remarkably non-technological people learn SQL and query read replicas because they need sales aggregates.

In environments where data doesn't matter, dashboards are requested as a corporate power play.

A director who doesn't care about your project asks for a dashboard to assert their authority, and remind you your budget can be cancelled.
If you're referring to gold, etc., then I'd agree. Even despite their real-world utility, I don't buy them.

If you're referring to stocks and bonds, those can have objective value in the form of dividends and coupons.
It would work equally well with 3 tokens (fundamentally), but the human psychology would differ.
Haha I just googled lumi etymology I think
From their docs:

> It makes it easier to share and discuss the model interpretability with non-data specialists: business analysts, managers, end-users

Yeah, sure. I’ve tried to use modern interpretable machine learning techniques with “non-data specialists” and it’s always gone over like a lead balloon. Even a shap-based explanation is too complex — it just confuses them. They want the simplest possible story.

If I tried to present that example web app to non-technical stakeholders I’d get laughed out of the room at best.
The way I type compute always involves deleting the r at the end. :)
Some people are always pessimistic and some people are always doomy. Let's look at some of the factors causing inflation:

* Office workers move from cities to poor / rural areas - suddenly they need to drive more, serving their needs is less efficient, they need more cars, goods. You can see this by looking at the distribution of inflation across the US - it is highest in the office worker migration destinations. Maybe the cities will get cheaper as they empty out, maybe now everyone who bought a much bigger house and needs furniture has it. The increased demand due to less efficient living will be sticky.

* There are supply shocks - sanctions on russian oil, grain, disruptions to Ukrainian exports, china shutdown. These are probably temporary in the medium term.

* The demands side is still suppressed - Chinese economy is stalled for multiple reasons, Asia generally is not fully out of COVID, US consumer confidence is falling. If / when China suddenly decides to stimulate with big infrastructure projects we will see more demand pressure.

* OPEC previously supressed oil prices to fight american shale and arguably russian oil. These high prices will lead to a resurgence in these competitors. At some point they will turn the taps back on to maintain their monopoly.

Writing this incomplete list above, the case I hope to make is that things can get better or worse than here driven by events, but high inflation is probably with us for a while.
> Dude, I Want To Believe™ just as much as you, but citing the NYPost does not constitute “truth” at all.

Well, in this case there is not much to believe. Straight from the horse's mouth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjF3-4IcvoA

Note this is not the official channel of Ria Novosti, I believe they have been banned, but their ridiculous video is out there in numerous copies. It doesn't matter if it's FSB or some rank-and file soldiers, someone had to approve this ridiculous material to air it worldwide. I know the target is their internal audience, but still.

On the other hand, I have to say I wasn't that surprised. The level of their sophistication at all levels is quite consistent.
> 1.4B vehicles one earth

Most of which spend approximately 90% of their time stationary and unoccupied.
Here in Canada we have a high ratio of uneducated fools in government, as is the case when elections are like a grade 10 popularity contest.
Governmental elected officials, by and large, have near zero technical minds.
What this means is the can not tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one. They flock to the confidence men, they have seen the enemy and he is us, (Pogo)
Most of your gravity methods are workable. Deep sea compressed air looks like an efficiency loser. The towers and cement weights seem like winners, but concrete is both brittle and expensive. Make it with cemented earth(5% cement 95% earth/sand) and it is cheaper - but fragile. Make a steel container - ($$)
Your mine will hold a weight shaped like a shaft - as long as you want. What about mine water tables? 95% of Canada's mines need 24/7 pumping = flood to near surface all year. Some desert areas might work as deep hole, but there are many many deserts underlaid by aquifers down a few hundred feet = limit of use of gravity.
We do not have much already = stupid politicians, if it not done in my term so I can keep the con going, I will not support it. Look at US bridges that fall down a lot.
So, a couple of trillion upfront for Europe's part of a decarbonised economic future, whose states have splurged on massive green economic infrastructure and managed to sustain social wellbeing in the interim, so the children of tomorrow breathe clean air, live in solar/wind powered clean houses, cheap and plentiful subsidised education and work in clean industries, at the cost of some temporary price increases and a higher tax rate down the line (maybe), is somehow worse than continuing toward environmental destruction, circling the wagons around private wealth (and lower tax)? Read some Marx, at least understand what alienation is.
I agree. Paying someone to go vegan is only a smidge better than paying them to get sterilized.
I think it is similar in that it is possible for a fund to become insolvent, but consumers are protected by the Investment Company Act of 1940. This requires the companies that run mutual funds to rely on a custodian bank to hold their assets. This way, if the fund does go bankrupt, the company operating it cannot access them to ensure that investors are paid out instead of being rug pulled. It limits the amount of leverage the fund can have, requires them to maintain a cash buffer, and required them to report regularly on their financial condition.

Fraud is still possible, of course, but consumers have WAY more protections with fiat investments.

https://www.sec.gov/investment/laws-and-rules
Not sure if accepting $1 is perfectly rational. Unless you ignore the fact that other player is a human. Otherwise you know, that if they can win more and if you do not cooperate they will pass much bigger opportunity you can very well assume that they will be willing to pay way more than just one $1. Supply and demand.
Nice to see Charlie collapsing Elon's sails years (2010) before their inflation.

To wit: Starship is totally inadequate to make a Mars colony. Or, really, even a Mars outpost. Enough for a comfortable moon base, maybe.
Oh it's another case of Libertarians deceptively portraying national "debt" as the same as personal debt.

There are plenty of countries with a higher national "debt" ratio that provide much better quality of life to the bottom 95% of the population than the US.
Just another Apollo? Part two (2005)
Not really - in the break room there will also be 5 other people saying 'Don't be daft - cafeine doesn't cause skull fractures - talk to a doctor'.
Where do you live?

I certainly have the spontaneity of going to a shop - I cycled to one yesterday; much more fun than waiting for a delivery.

I share public transport - its much cheaper than getting an Uber, something I haven't done for a couple of years.
Yeah, also it is quite a surprise for most people, how ridiculous inefficient ICE engines are.
Most of the chemic energy just goes into the air as heat.
That only worked, because oil was (and still is relativly) so cheap.
And the surface area of a battery pack is orders of magnitude larger than that of an ICE, which greatly helps the thermal transfer.

For a different comparison, 7.2kW is roughly equivalent to 20x 3090 GPUs. The area of a battery pack is (much) larger than the size of 20x GA102 dies. We've got a lot lot of experience extracting large amounts of heat from very tiny spaces. It's an engineering challenge, sure, but it's very well within our means.
> I may not "need" a 60 kW Kohler diesel generator, but I have it.

Those run about $20k don't they? If you'd come on here complaining that generator technology wasn't ready yet because you'd been quoted $20k for your 60kW Kohler, you'd probably get the same response: you don't really need it.

GP clearly doesn't want that 22kW charging station that much, because they've been told how much it costs (same as your generator) and they're unwilling to pay that.

And they don't need it.
Ask HN: Do people want a LinkedIn alternative?
I was wondering if the HN community wants a LinkedIn alternative. I hear many people complaining that it has become a place for humble bragger. If you were to replace LinkedIn, what would you want it to be? What to emphasize more or less on?

Update: I am thinking of building a LinkedIn alternative. Could you please kindly drop your email here (https://forms.gle/RT6pmzEqpxPccG5q7) so I can reach out to you? I need validation from people that want a better LinkedIn.
Unfortunately English only...

I use https://t.me/transcriber_bot god knows what they do with my personal stuff though...
Worth pointing out that El Salvador's tourism was double its "post Bitcoin" level in 2019, and the majority of 2020 visitors came from neighbouring countries in Central America because international flights were banned for half the year. Almost like Bitcoin isn't a major driver in recent tourism trends

I don't doubt that some tourism is a result of Bitcoin (and that shouting about Bitcoin could definitely be net positive in the short run for a smaller country competing for tax-exile dollars), but we have much better data on the 1/500 of the government budget lost on a speculative investment and El Salvador's increased borrowing cost, and whilst those aren't El Salvador's only problems they're quite big numbers to make up from people seeking the novelty of paying for their cheap beers and beach huts with apps linked to their Bitcoin wallet.
FYI it's failing for me with:

urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: This app has encountered an error. The original error message is redacted to prevent data leaks. Full error details have been recorded in the logs (if you're on Streamlit Cloud, click on 'Manage app' in the lower right of your app).
Traceback:
File "/home/appuser/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/streamlit/scriptrunner/script_runner.py", line 475, in _run_script
exec(code, module.__dict__)
File "/app/bible-semantic-search/app.py", line 50, in <module>
query_results = controller.query(
File "/app/bible-semantic-search/controller.py", line 127, in query
results = self.index.query(query_emb, top_k, namespace)
File "/app/bible-semantic-search/pinecone_index.py", line 63, in query
return self.index.query(
objective morality is real and it comes from the Bible
>I bet LUMI researchers won't be doing data analysis on their laptops from Linux distributions.

I did just that when I used one of LUMI's predecessors. Linux desktops weren't uncommon in my corner of academia.
> Such functions can be called in the usual way as if they were methods of the original class. This mechanism is called an extension function.

well, that's not exactly true, because extension functions can't access private fields.
> You don't need "a good, respectable career" to have a good life.

Unless you're willing to live as a hermit in the wild or as a hobo/beggar on the streets - which if it suits you is fine, not taking that away - you don't have another choice because you all but need a very well paying job simply to afford a shack to live in.

The number one thing that forces young people into the crushing grinds of big corporate life is the enormous explosion of cost of living, particularly cost of housing and corresponding with it the complete disconnect between the minimum wage and the cost of living.

And yes there are "the trades" aka manual labor which also pay somewhat well, the problem with these is that you won't make it to retirement in these jobs and enjoy your retirement. The trades are brutal on your body and that brutality is rarely acknowledged.
I hate Kafka with a passion. We’re driving it with Kafka Streams, and our Streams threads have been blowing up left and right with undecipherable error messages whenever we look at it slightly wrong. We also don’t have the resources to babysit it hourly so here we are, plagued with undebuggable production downtime and no way out of this.

I’ve been writing software for a living for more than two decades, and Kafka is the most horrible, impossible-to-grasp boat anchor I’ve ever had to deal with.

I hate every minute of my working day that I have to deal with Kafka Streams’s hissy fits.
Coinbase recently offered a bond that paid 3.3750% interest. As long as they don't default on their payments, that will have objective returns outside of any market forces and greater fools. The price you can sell it for fluctuates but is immaterial if you hold it to maturity.

Of course, it's very unlikely that anybody in this thread bought them because in reality we are looking for gains correlated to hype/market performance/inflation/interest.
That was the year 1971. We still use the almost 100-year-old combustion engine 50 years later. There is a huge problem in the world.
It means non-reassignable, nothing more.
Fun fact: in the United Kingdom, the King James Version is still copyrighted—perpetually copyrighted, in fact—by (who else?) the British monarchy.

Since the author of this app is based in the United States, he should be safe… we have a bit of precedent for ignoring royal prerogatives here :)
It is not related to either the lump of labor fallacy, nor how Henry Ford payed his workers. It’s simply the laws of supply and demand. If you increase the supply of something, the equilibrium prices decreases. This is true in basically all cases, except where there are highly unique confounding factors.

If your argument is based on the premise that the laws of supply and demand are wrong, then you can pretty much guarantee that it’s actually your argument that’s wrong every single time.
Some comments in a previous thread suggested that the refactoring support for Kotlin is not on par with those for Java. Has there been any change in that area?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27183571
i oversimplified. of course it takes more than just love, support and teamwork. you also need to act.

those other changes are the result of love support and teamwork. love, support and teamwork are the necessary conditions to find out what changes are necessary, and to be able to carry them out.
One problem with paying some person with few resources to go vegan, is that they may not have the capacity to find vegan food that provides all essential nutrients, meaning you can actually cause them to suffer from malnutrition.

That's kind of like paying for sex, when you have an STD. Not only do you pay people for something they may find disgusting, there is even a risk that you cause actual harm to them.
> That does not change the fact that vaccinated people are infected less frequently and recover more quickly than non-vaccinated people, and so they don't spread the disease as efficiently as unvaccinated people.

Disease spread is an exponential process. That will delay the date that everyone has gotten COVID by for a week or two. Who cares?

> That's about 6.5 million cases shy of the worst case.

2.4 recorded cases is evidence that literally everyone was exposed to COVID. Worst case for what I could have predicted in advance (8 million residents, 70% reduction from vaccine-induced symptomlessness so people don't get teted, predicts around ~2.4 million cases expected if everyone is exposed to COVID. Which is about what happened.

High vaccination rates did nothing to delay the spread. The idea that it could has been debunked. It didn't.

> The rate of spread matters a lot.

That is a different argument, but the evidence I've seen is that that isn't true either - and I already have reason to believe you aren't cross-checking your assumptions against ground truths. The high vaccination rates basically meant that speed of spread was a non-issue.

The targeted attacks against unvaccinated people were unwarranted and have look even worse than expected in hindisight. I too was expecting the vaccine to do something about the spread. It just turns out it doesn't.
The latest additions to the standard library generally follow that approach: java.time, java.nio etc. But of course the older API are still fully mutable OO. A new collections API, immutable by default, is still needed and that's not happening any time soon.
If you can read any MIDI file, you should seriously consider hosting a twitch broadcast where subscribers may upload their own MIDI files and hear them played live by the floppotron.
This view point is never endingly naive. The confidence which people who never seem to have a deep grasp on the topic repeat it never gets old.

They are issuing fixed coupon, fixed term credit obligations. What do you want to call it? A bicycle?

There happens to be a word for this particular scenario where someone lends you money and you create a contract to pay it back. It's called debt.

The entire finance world isn't reworking itself around your misunderstanding of the issue.
http://man.cat-v.org/clive/4/upasfs
Yeah no. GP is arguing that most people should not buy an electric car for a reason that's invalid for the 99th percentile of people, and saying that it's too expensive to install a solution that is not what you need to make an electric car viable.

I can go buy a $50k top of rack switch to route data between my WiFi APs, yes, and I might want to! But it's not valid to then go around telling people that they're not ready for multiple access points because the tech to link them costs $50k. And it's certainly not 'arrogant' to correct people of their misconceptions, because this is a huge EV misconception.
What I've found helpful is to configure IDE to use a separate formatting for mutable variables. You don't even need `var`/`val` for that, just smart enough IDE. Something like single underline for those variables. This way they're obvious and you'll know it when reading the code.
Could just be me, but in some cases I find it easier to explain/understand complex ideas succinctly with a voice note.
Slow Software Development
Inflation is good for those who hold debt. 5% inflation means you owe 5% less, in real terms.
I'll get hate for this, but I have to say it.
Thunderbird devs are horribly exclusive and ignorant.

Spam is an everyday issue. Every time I use Thunderbird I use "Mark as Junk" and "Delete Mail marked as Junk in Folder".

I created an issue asking for buttons for those often used actions instead of having to go to tools, mark, mark as junk. 3 clicks vs 1 button press.
It was closed, essentially saying that I'm just one guy and there is no interest in this.
This was 10 or more years ago.

So excuse me if I'm not very enthusiastic about this.
I personally tried K9 but opted for Fairemail, even with it being trialware.
A proper email client on Android would very much desired.

But then again I would love slypheed or claws. Sylpeed-claws was the best mail client back in the 2000s, much better than Thunderbird imho.
We had Gnu/Linux now we have to deal with Android/Linux.
Because Google. Why couldn't we just build on Gnu/Linux and have the best "of both worlds", because monetary interests.
Bleh.
>It seems like there's something darker and more perverse at play here.

For me, the more distracted I am, the more shit I can tolerate. I'm sure many work the same. I believe that this is the "circus" part of the ancient "bread and circuses" phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
I would guess that if something seems rude or off then they might actually play the voice message.
I really like this feature of Scala, but I do understand the reason why Java went with final var instead.
I have a collection of broken pens on my desk... in theory I could also use them as units of currencies, I just have to find a sucker^W person willing to accept them as such...
There are quite a few mortgages in the states that don't pay the principal until the end, but it creates drama at the end. Some friends of mine went that route and when the principal came due after 5 years, lots of assumptions turned out to be wrong and they had to sell to pay back the principal.
> what's causing this vast increase in myopia is not spending enough time in bright environments (i.e. outside) during one's formative years.

I'd like a source on that. AFAIK the leading factor is so called "near activities", or more specifically, lack of "far activities" (i.e. lack of looking at a distance, which makes your eyeballs get and keep proper shape and characteristics).

> In that regard cellphones (since they can be used outdoors) are a huge improvement over e.g. television.

Again, environment brightness, AFAIK, is way less important than the distance at which you are looking. Hence, looking at the TV is better than at your phone. And I suspect both are better than reading a paper book.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34142457/
I don't like how this article turns communication into a means for career climbing. Sometimes we have something we need to express to someone simply because it's true. And speaking truthfully is beneficial in ways beyond the scope of a career.
Rust is a great choice for startups because most startups fold and so will not need to try to find people who know how to maintain it.
But they do have demand - their country is paying for imported fossil fuel. That is an energy demand and a cost they could develop away from.

> With bitcoin mining comes incentives from deploying infrastructure and strengthening their grid

Not really, just stick miners next to the generators, job done.