skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's understandable. But we still prefer to make it clear to everyone.
Majority rule and minority rights are democracy. Otherwise once vote in everyone is save … might as well no democracy.
Electric motor controls have been around a very long time. That isn't to say they haven't gotten better but I would say the largest part of the motor controllers that requires sophistication is regenerative braking and such. But just controlling a motor speed has been around for many years, example hybrid electric trains, elevators, water pumps. Motor controllers were not the limiting factor for EVs it was battery tech. Not sure what metrics you are looking at but EVs cost less per mile to operate, accelerate faster, are quieter, and have lower maintenance. Those may not be the metrics you look for but saying EVs can't compete is ridiculous.
This was called an LRA (local registration authority) in the PKI world, where you would delegate authority to verify the identity of users in person to enroll them. Doctors in Canada have had to do this for their network logins. Security clearance processes at different levels of govt work in a similar way, where you have to be physically present to be enrolled into a clearance, and to get a PIV card for login access to many federal systems in the US.

There is a general problem of "strong identity proofing for user enrollment" that comes up in security a lot. The invention of Zoom and other common video conference software and services that sound like truly, or whatever you are used widely for this purpose today. However, this is also what "notary public" people do as well.

Is it possible that a retail franchise model of notary services that provides LRA services to tech platforms and other companies may be the support model they are looking for? Maybe. Even though I think I would probably switch away from that email service if I had to show up somewhere to reset it, I would also go to an Apple Store to reset an appleid password - which the product manager urge sees as a way to bring people into the stores to buy things as well. Retail stores may even compete to offer other platform reset services (msft, amzn, samsung, etc.) to get people into their shops, and the platforms could convert their account reset problem into a services product with a private platform interface, for which they sell the licenses.

A SaaS for public notaries who provide notary services for things like account reactivations, identity assurance for user enrollment, front line service for the credit reporting agencies, and what are essentially appointments for compliance checks of any kind, creates a layer of corruptable low level regional administrators intermediating normal life, and that seems pretty dystopian. That said, everything seems dystopian until you run it, then it's a platform.
I was looking for the reference to The Garin Death Ray book in comments, didn't found, so here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garin_Death_Ray

The writer Aleksey Tolstoy came up with the idea of the laser-like machine that melts the rock in 1920s (maybe also influenced by H.G.Walls), when his science fiction book was first published. In this book a genial engineer Garin creates a beam that can be used both in mining (he wants to get the gold from the mantle, so uses American VC funding to set up a mining operation in Pacific) and as a weapon (he also wants to rule the world, so he uses his machine to destroy German and American competitors).
The problem is that there are so many different permutations of this that the reminder service (and every other service) would then need to accomodate for hundreds of other scenarios, such as:

- When I arrive at home, turn on the lights
- After five minutes, play this song
- Lock the front door at 10pm

And then the reminders service (which is a to-do app!) suddenly becomes 100x more complicated than it was to accoomodate all these strange use-cases that are outside of it's bounded context.

It's easy to implement a single use case, it's practically impossible to manually code every possible use case (which would also probably create a huge amount of tech debt).
What is Augmented Reality (For)
Yes. We as a society should stop taxing income and profits, and start taxing resource use and externalities. Go full Georgist.
> people don't buy that

People that typically buy new cars don't want that. Those of us who only buy second hand cars are stuck with their choices.
I thought this was a DATA demand-side platform.

Since we're living a dumb client-terminal life now anyway, only nobody realizes it.
Sounds plausible. Is the idea to build pipes out of the same stuff? Might be worth mentioning that fibre composite essentially means epoxy with fibres in, which is not necessarily environmentally superb in the thousands of miles of pipes format.

Wonder how people will deal with burying very stiff pipes without them breaking when the ground moves. Maybe sections with rubber joints, though the joints would leak.
Here you go!

https://www.microsoft.com/design/inclusive/

Also check out their AI design related doc, which specifically mentions how they try to avoid association bias, for example, those related to gender:

https://www.microsoft.com/design/assets/inclusive/InclusiveD...
>Nobody can actually do it

They can.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/these-companies-are-sucking-...
Good technical writing is good writing. Just learn how to write well in general. I recommend going through The Elements of Style and basically any college level writing course materials.
Global energy usage is 15TW. The earth's core currently dissipates 47TW through passive cooling. The core has a mass 528,000 times that of the atmosphere.
If you've got an interest in ML and you're also interested in embedded/low power devices then we're looking for this rare combination. Preference is for people who are in the UK due to admin overhead.

My email is in my profile.
> I'd like to 'do my own thing' yet don't know how. I'd like the 'thing' to be entrepreneurial along the lines of: this was hard to do before and now it's easy vs this is brand new/revolutionary.

If you're going to be a solo developer-entrepreneur, assume that you're going to spend 1/3rd of your time coding, 1/3rd of your time finding customers, and 1/3rd of your time interacting with your customers. Also assume that you'll be too busy to write complicated / interesting / creative software.

What I suggest is that you instead focus on getting real good at choosing who you work with: This can either be who you partner with in a startup, who you work for in a small company, or who you choose as a client. Remember, "entrepreneurial" can mean working in young business unit in a larger company, or joining a company that's so small that you need to jump out of your developer role from time to time.

> Alternately how do you meet someone with a complimentary skill set that has similar goals?

What I do is, when I look for a job, I favor early stage startups where I can work directly with the founders. It often takes legwork to find these jobs, but my most recent one I found on the monthly "Who's Hiring" thread on Hacker News.
> DoorDash itself is predatory and harmful to local restaurants and worldwide labor practices.

And why would they change when people who know this still use their service?

All these Silicon Valley companies get away with this stuff because people value the convenience over the small businesses getting screwed over.
Well, I tried my best. Another commenter summed it up better without using the term "anthropomorphizing" at all, but it came out a bit more condescending than necessary.
What lab-grown 'mini-brains' are revealing about this mysterious organ
"Should they succeed, their lab-grown brains could model development and disease in the real thing in greater detail than ever before, paving the way to new insights and treatments."
Fair challenges. I don’t think that all the inflation we are seeing is fuel or supply chain constraints. I think we are also seeing demand side effects of the record low unemployment (albeit due to record low participation rate), high levels of personal savings (boosted during Covid), high property price inflation along with ongoing effects from fiscal and monetary stimulus over the past few years. Raising interest rates should remove some demand from the economy. These demand pressures all still remain IMHO.

Interest rates are a blunt instrument and unfortunately the least able to afford them are likely to suffer most. I’d support targeted government spending to those most impacted during a high inflation recession to limit the pain. I believe the PM candidate (Truss) policy to reduce taxes is misguided.

The truth is, we are probably both going to be wrong about the best way to solve this.
I also would have preferred to spend more time with my friends than with my parents. Due to conflict with my parents I have no real desire to talk more to them nowadays either.

I think one of the reasons is because children are generally building their personality at high school, where as by the time we reach work we've already built over personality and we are no longer flexible.
"Taxing" for change rarely works.

what happens is the "jet fuel tax" goes into general government revenue. Politicians seeking re-election use said money to create new programs instead and effectively "buy votes" with your own money.

Can you provide an example of this ever working? I can give you several of it being an absolute failure and having no impact.

In Canada we have "sin" taxes (Alcohol, cigarettes, gasoline).

- Smoking has declined, but more because of the negative marketing (ugly pictures on a pack of smokes). It is also less "socially acceptable" and so young people dont pick up the habit.

- Alcohol - Slight downtrend, but sales are still very strong https://www.statista.com/topics/2998/alcohol-consumption-in-...

- Gas https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=231000.... Covid caused a decline, but it will trend back up.
I think that's math.
Well, w/ the aid of gitbook.com, pretty literally authored:

https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/

which is an attempt to document how to make projects such as boxes w/ joinery on a CNC.

and there's somewhere on GitHub where the underlying files are stored/referenced from -- does that count?
Well, if cost was not a factor, I'd prefer traveling long hauls with a space visiting rocket thingy, not a mundane private jet.

Shorter ones, again, if cost was not a factor, I'd prefer high-speed rail or supersonic Hyperloop stations next to my origin and destination.
I agree. It's easier to build TUI apps (and more portable usually) then fully native GUI applications.

Another point for TUI apps is that they are usually keyboard focused unlike GUI and webapps which require using the mouse (and are therefore less efficient)
Teaching is indeed the best way to become an expert at something. Whenever I want to learn a new technology I like to hang out in support forums for it and start answering other people's questions. With one particular product, after about 5 years I had the vendor trying to hire me as a support engineer so there can be other tangible benefits aside from you expanding your knowledge as well as helping others.
> Texas will claim jurisdiction since in its eyes a citizen was murdered.

But this just isn't how it works, right? "Claiming" jurisdiction I mean. Take your previous example but instead imagine the woman from Texas took a trip with her husband to New Mexico and paid a hitman to murder him during the trip. The suspected hitman would most certainly be arrested on a layover in Texas (or any other state) but that state wouldn't have jurisdiction to prosecute for a murder that happened in New Mexico. The suspect would instead be extradited to New Mexico to face charges there.

> Would you be willing to risk arrest if you were a doctor in New Mexico and a Texas resident comes to you for an abortion? Even the threat of arrest has consequences on peoples’ actions.

I certainly agree there and definitely cannot speak to the risk assessment that abortion providers might unfortunately be contending with but I can't imagine that this will remain a question for long. Federal courts definitely do not like legal ambiguities between states.
This car could do Power to Grid in 2008
I've doing my own thing since I'm 14.

I've done a few things, but the most important is why do you want to do your own thing.

I run a couple of services, I categorize them in: Projects that I can work on whenever I want and projects that my require my attention whenever something goes wrong.

I mostly aim for the former, as I like to have free time to explore ideas. But I have one of the latter because it is really good at paying the bills.
In my case it's been at least a decade since I looked at materials science and hydrogen destroys steel isn't as well known as hydrogen blows up easily.
> Edit: Why disagree without reply? Most of us (even on HN) are just normal devs and nothing we do on here will make us money.

Because your personal anecdote of "Nope." doesn't really add much value to the thread, and the second sentence is an assumption (so it may not even be correct), and either way, it also doesn't really contribute to the discussion.
https://itch.io

Itch is a great indie game community where individual developers are easily share/sell their games.
Banking on all politicians in the USA and Europe to vote and maintain forever a carbon import tax is a big bet.

And it won't affect exchanges of goods between Asia, Russia, South America and Africa, or internally in each country lika China or India. Internally use goods will not be taxed, and be cheap, so they will import less, use more internal good, and pollute more.
My favorite is every article about the Ford Maverick people would comment how they want a single cab long bed truck. Ford and Chevy still make those vehicles and regular consumers simply don't buy them.
Momentum is a massive benefit that trucks try to leverage. I fully support truck lanes though, as cars are generally the cause for losing momentum on on ramps etc.
No. But professionals will communicate and compromise - not throw a hissy fit over disagreements.
That’s an ad.
I guess there is going to be a number of people whose parents were basically abusive.
One directly, one indirectly. :)

The article "Screw it, I'll host it myself" was on the first page for some time, and the traffic was crazy. Some people used my referral link for Vultr, earning me enough hosting credits to last me for a year for my little websites and development projects. [0]

Later that year, I posted a collection of my favorite hacking/coding movies and literature[1], and several people bought a book I wrote[2]. I did put a disclaimer for both, being a good netizen I am. :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26725185

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29501157

[2] https://codeofwar.xyz/
Even if it is hard wired as long as it works and a lot of us using macOS, it is a start. Just a warning the whole thing will change is good.

Open is for others to be involved. In fact I am ok to play with Ccl and macOS.
> You cannot pay for other projects. We considered it but decided not to add this.

Out of curiosity, why's that?
I find "gifted" is usually a derisive term for "hard worker" :p
No need to qualify your statement, as a native speaker myself I can confirm your assessment is 100% on point.
Ask HN: What relatively new project/movement are you excited about?
"Converting" yes but it's exponentially more effort to maintain.
It's also not like a fact or law of nature or anything. Just kind of an idea of something that might happen.
Not much difference between an "environment tax" and "financing maintenance." We need to finance the maintenance of our atmosphere. Probably eventually literally, in a "planting forests in order to hit CO2 targets" sense.
Ask HN: Anyone can give my kids a tour of Google or Apple campus?
Taking my kids on a road trip along CA coast this coming week. A few places they really want to visit are Google campus, Apple HQ, and Roblox. Anyone here could help us out? We'll be in the area this Monday 8/6/2022.
Thank you!
hypothesis: a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences

conclusion: an act or instance of concluding. concluding: to form a final judgment.

These don't seem to be the same thing at all.
Just use hydrogen if you can't build enough batteries. Make it into methane or ammonia if you have trouble storing it.
I just wanted to say that I LOVE this book. It did a much better job of explaining how to render things than my graphics class back in college did, and in a much shorter timeframe.
My AP high school English teacher taught me "garbage in, garbage out." His point was that if you want to write high level prose, you need to be reading the best prose stylists and be influenced by them. Read the best writers and stop reading garbage.
The big issue with geothermal energy is that rock doesn't conduct heat very well. When you first bore a hole and pump some water down, it's easy to use the hot rocks to generate steam which can in turn drive a turbine, but doing so cools down the rock the water comes in contact with. Digging deeper, the rock starts out hotter, maybe it takes twice as long to exhaust the initial heat, but it's still going to happen in a matter of hours. Long term, a geothermal well can't extract heat faster than heat flows into the well from lower in the Earth. This heat flow rate is in the milliwatts per square meter range. Now with horizontal boring technology, a single drilling rig might be able to plumb a large area, but even if they got all the energy in a 10km radius, which is about 3 times what current technology is capable of, you're still looking at around 30 MW of thermal heat flux, which would at best produce about 20 MW of electricity. That's like 8 on shore windmills or a 100 acre solar plant. It's a little better given that the heat flow is continuous rather than intermittent, and multiple borehole locations can be connected by pipeline to a single generator station to keep capital costs down, but still this is not a lot of power.

For context, to provide the electricity demand for kansas would require about 35% of the total geothermal flux into kansas. New Jersey's electricity demand is 7 times higher than what its geothermal heat flux could provide. For the whole US, electricity consumption is about 75% of geothermal heat flux if you ignore variations like the yellowstone hotspot.

Geothermal certainly makes sense in certain locations where the heat flux is high and other power sources are problematic - for example iceland is probably the most ideal spot on earth. The technology for extracting geothermal power may also be useful for future efforts to control volcanism (though at this point such plans are highly speculative), so research is warranted. But it is unlikely to ever be more than a minor slice of the world's energy supply, and certainly anyone claiming to solve the issue by just digging deeper is selling snake oil.
That won't be banned of course. Not even taxed additionally. Well, maybe that's OK, since there's near unlimited funds paid for by the tax payers.
The Guardian piece now does include a link to the paper cited - replacing the previous internal link.

No mention that a change has been made though.
He is right in terms of major cities in Europe. I grew up in a small-mid sized town and I still get surprised when I meet someone I know, let alone cities the size of Atlanta.
I see this more as the corporate equivalent of posting tech support issues on HN
How did this hit the front page? Your comment is word for word the same as "Leclerc1", and every other comment is by someone identifying themselves as associated with the company.
I totally agree, but maybe it’s best to have some of both. A professor who knows the subject inside and out and a TA who’s two weeks ahead.

When I was first learning to code, it took some effort for me to understand what a function did, particularly the concept of returning an expression, or what happens if you write `foo() + bar()`. (In what order are `foo` and `bar` called?)

Now of course those concepts are trivial. But it’s easy to forget their initial difficulty when teaching, so I might be liable to just breeze through functions and leave most students behind. A freshly-learned TA would remember what was hard and be able to tell students the intuition-pumps that helped them, while directing more advanced questions to the professor.

For example, a TA might know to explicitly say that every time you call a function, it remembers where it was called so it can `return` there at the end of the function’s execution. Then if a student wants more detail about that, they can ask the professor who can explain how a function call is invisibly being converted to code that allocates a new stack frame and sets the execution pointer.
Entirely untrue. Politicians are not the only type of role that a person on a private jet falls under. Executives, Religious, etc.
The Core movie had a gatling laser miner to get to the core of the Earth.
It's fucking weird. If you're not wearing a military uniform, with rank, you're a civilian. This includes all scientists, except some folks at the NOAA and Public Health Service Commissioned Corps maybe.
It is climate neutral if you make it from renewable electricity and you burn it afterwards.
In a couple of minutes someone would start telling you about some unsolved problems in whatever niches where you can offer a solution. Without any slightest hint on how to even get in touch with such „niches“. From my long journey of scraping indiehacker, reddit and IRL stories most found their „niche“ either by pure chance doing something tangent or by directly solving their own personal problems and scaling the solution to broader audiences. Bad news if you are just a regular 9to5 codemonkey with below-average social circle :/
Knowledge Is Not Understanding
I'm currently on this path, been developing/designing for the last year and a half, and will be launching my product relatively soon.

The issue I've been facing lately is self doubt. There's definitely a market, it solves a problem for that market and myself, and the product has shaped up to be something that I can be proud of and share/help with others. But there's this nagging contrasting feeling that's hard to describe, that could very well be fear of the unknown.

What's your experience been like developing a product that solves a problem ypu faced? What was your journey leading up to its release? How'd things work out after release?