skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For cars, they are much more than a stop gap. How will hydrogen work in cars? We need to build hydrogen filling infrastructure across the world, and then manufacture and ship hydrogen across the world.

Electricity on the other hand - we already have that infrastructure, and it basically costs nothing to move it huge distances.

We are no where near the edge of what is possible for batteries, every couple of years cars are released with 10+% more range. There is more efficiency, and chemistry to be done here.

Also hydrogen vehicles ARE EVs so how can you say batteries are a stop gap while also saying they are the obvious future… the fuel cell charges a battery, the battery delivers the energy to the motor.
You reminded me of the HikariCP library and it’s documentation: Clear and simple with references to other libraries trying to accomplish the same thing. It is not in the clojure space though.

https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP
All about QBasic and QuickBasic
I’ve got one of those, and it was such a pita I didn’t even bring it for the trip I’m on now. It was always freezing up, requiring a re-boot, captive portals were a nightmare to get through, etc. I installed Wireguard on every one of my family’s devices instead.

However! Now I’ve learned that there’s no DNS support for Mac, and all kinds of other problems which basically make Wireguard unusable. Might go back to that darn router. I dunno…
Can you actually spin up local "ec2" vms with localstack? If so does it go as far as launching a KVM instance?
This all sounds very inane. These measures are part of Germany's demand that all EU countries reduce their gas consumption by 15% . Countries like spain do not depend on russian gas so this does not benefit them in any substantial way. And airconditioning is hardly the highest in energy consuption. It is more efficient if people share the A/C of a crowded place, rather than every person going back home to use their home A/C alone. And this is august, when PVs are most productive and wind as well. And, i m sorry but 27C with 52% humidity is intolerable to me, i cant work and i can barely function, So goodbye work.

The EU could have used this time to maybe seek alternative gas sources , dig for oil and gas in its territories, and ramp up coal and lignite as an alternative to gas.
> you lose strict serializability across the shards

Nope. That's precisely what Accord manages to maintain. It is not the first such protocol to do so, but so far none of the others have left the lab.
Is the "One artifact across dev, test, and production" idea borrowed from cnab.io ?
I was being facetious haha. Spotify will sometimes throw up some good recommendations but the engine seems firmly in the camp of giving me more music that sounds the same as what I'm listening to.

A good example is I might listen to some Depeche Mode. Now, because I listen to Depeche Mode, that doesn't mean I want to listen to more stuff like it from the 80s. However, Spotify will quite happily throw up Erasure, The Cure etc as follow ups.

What I want is stuff with a vibe that's like Depeche Mode but can be in totally different genres. From that era I'd say Sisters of Mercy were closer in vibe but the music isn't as electronica based. Or if I wanted something modern in the same vein, Curses would be similar fit.

I guess Spotify is paying attention to this, but rather than using what is in the same playlist as a signal for shared taste, pay attention to what song someone intentionally plays after the song they're on.
What does scalable mean in this context? In general, Cassandra is much more efficient at writes and can handle higher volumes of write throughput assuming identical hardware, but from what I’ve seen FDB is as efficient (if not more so) for read heavy workloads than Cassandra. A small FDB cluster with no tuning running on small VMs will easily saturate each nodes 10gb NICs for read queries without breaking a sweat.

The cluster size limitations are also greatly overstated and mostly a hold over from stale documentation from 2013. You can (and companies do) run FDB clusters with 100s or 1000s of nodes without issue.

Cassandra supports this too but in my experience it gets quite difficult to operate at that point, although I’m sure recent versions have gotten much better about this.

If you only care about raw write throughout I think your statement is mostly accurate, but for general purpose workloads I would argue that FDB is a system “as scalable as Cassandra” that also offers strictly serializable (and interactive!) transactions which makes it much more broadly applicable to a wide variety of use cases.
this right here ... dont like google? create a better search engine/marketplace. free market be what it be
Hahaha might as well use your social security number if you’re giving out your phone number there glow buddy.
That seems to be what -fstack-check for gcc is doing:

"If neither of the above are true, GCC will generate code to periodically “probe” the stack pointer using the values of the macros defined below."[1]

I guess I'm wondering why this isn't always on if it solves the problem with negligible cost? Genuine question, not trying to make a point.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Stack-Checking.html
By adding 1200 pages of unit tests, of course.
The hell of it is, he still isn't middle class. The US doesn't even have a middle class anymore. He is just no longer at the very bottom of the underclass. He is now mid-lower lower class.

It is impossibly hard for most people not in the upper class in the US to conceive of just how impossibly far they are from that upper class. $100k/yr? Lower class. $200k/yr? Still lower class: you still can't afford to send your kids through college, and still make your house and car payments, replacing your car every year or two. Yes, that was what middle-class people used to do.

What happened to the middle class? It was eliminated, by explicit political policy. The US income curve is now strongly bi-modal. One hump for upper class, another for lower. Very few people are near the middle, where the middle class once was. Those few are either tacking to get to the upper class, probably futilely, or are well on their way out of it, and won't be back.

The Republican Party discovered that they could get lower-class people to vote against their own interests, and for the interests of the upper class, by convincing them they were not lower class. Now half the country votes mainly to try to keep the desperately poor from taking what they have managed to scrabble together, and in the process ensure the extremely rich get extremely richer and don't have to pay for anything, and especially not let any of it go to those same voters.

Up until around 1970, Americans' income was on a relentless rise. That had stopped by 1980, and has been more or less level, since. The income didn't go away, at all. The total amount has skyrocketed, since, going up at the same rate as before. Just, rich people get all of the difference, everything from that line down to the flat line describing what they have left for the rest of us. All this is policy, and the program to get there was spelled out in the Powell Memorandum, which you can read online.

During COVID lockdown and supply-chain upsets, they got insanely more money, somehow, again at the rest of our expense.
Projecting.
Why does this false meme keep coming up? Basic cable was never a premium experience. Cable was first introduced to bring network TV - with ads - to areas that couldn’t get over the air reception,

The only stations that were add free were the same premium channels that you have today like HBO.

Some of the earliest cable “superstations” were just rebroadcast of local channels with ads like TBS and WGzn.
There was an experiment done on training for basketball players where a group was told to train for a couple of weeks 3 point shoots.

One group trained normally, as in, they would position themselves and throw the ball.

Another group trained the same way, except they had no ball. So they had to position themselves and throw an imaginary ball.

A final group was obviously told not to train at all.

The results of this study showed similar progression between the ball group and no ball group and no progression for the no training group. And the study continued on showing that the exercise of repeating the pattern even without the ball strengthened the neural pathways that are usually activated when doing the action. From brain to arm and that a big part of "learning" is not actually adjusting but reinforcing.

So I imagine the players in tennis would definitely be able to hit the ball if they trained without it. At least to a certain point (adjusting is important as well obviously).
I did the same thing for the same reason with the same result and am just posting this to concur with what you said: everyone should do this while you are young and have your memory.

Which makes me thing: we are relatively young and have our memories (again, relatively) intact. Should we be recording ourselves for our kids?

If you don’t have kids or nieces/nephews, but think you might, should you do the same?

With phones, are we recording ourselves anyway and won’t have to worry about this?
> proprietary bacteria harvested from nature

So which is it, proprietary or natural? You can't own something you didn't create.
“Charging time” is such a bullshit term. EV means everyone has a “petrol pump” in their home. So charge time only matters on long distance driving, and we are talking 30-50 minutes per 400 miles. This just doesn’t feel like a real problem to me.

Who on an 800 mile road trip is upset about a 50 minute stop?
Fair enough, good to know. Hadn't heard of bio-tar before.
I think you are giving yourself license to not try. And what you are missing is that there is tremendous value in trying, even if you think you’re ultimately unsuccessful (“the journey not the destination”).

If you resolve that you can’t understand another’s life, then you never will.
Fortunately, we have real lawyers and a real judge in the Epic vs Apple case that ruled that Apple is not a “monopoly”Z
Maybe start sending them your own recordings on some schedule? Not only to get them started but if you were to die before them they would have the recordings.
The recording is not to understand them — whatever that might end up meaning — but to feel their presence when you miss them.
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Format an iPhone and start using it without and Apple ID, you will get blasted with notifications to signup to their services daily.
Vectoring Words (Word Embeddings) - Computerphile

https://youtu.be/gQddtTdmG_8?t=835
I mean it makes sense. If your only tool is fingerpaints, then every blend model will probably start and end with RYB...
Never, I will never stop resisting excel.

I wonder how many of these same companies end up with massive errors in their excel docs because of lack of formula control, input validation, and a whole host of other controls that ERP's are designed to prevent, that excel will happily do

Honestly I think that is why user want Excel, properly written software prevents the user from doing stupid things, excel does not

Human Error is rampant in Excel Docs, I remember a few years ago we had a project to convert some excel docs people were using into a web app, the number of mathematical errors, and invalid controls we found was unreal
> It is more efficient if people share the A/C of a crowded place, rather than every person going back home to use their home A/C alone

The vast majority of homes in Spain do not have AC.
There is also Pkg from Vercel for those things. Happy user.

Package your Node.js project into an executable

https://github.com/vercel/pkg
There are plenty of third party ads in apps
Why would any customer stick with this company when they are so clearly not focused on their products or customer success?

How badly is their corporate culture polluted by this BTC initiative?

I can’t imagine a worse place to work.
My biggest gripes with Protobufs is the language integrations. Why do I need to convert and typecheck back and forth between the proto object and the native dataclass. This was the situation in kotlin (and I believe Java) as of about a year ago though I hope it’s changed by now.

We had to have several hundred lines of totally unnecessary manual type checking to validate input/output when that should be a major strength of protobufs.
Nope, just yandexed for “bucha massacre”, 2nd place is already Rashist propaganda.
Fair criticism, and given how much praise I normally hear for Tyler, it's nice to hear it!
People reports getting much easier puzzles when they use Edge.
And in the meantime, Victoria passes laws raising penalties for environmental protesters at logging sites.
For the safety of workers they say.
Raising significant funds based on neither prototype nor personal record sounds impossible. How would one do so?
That's clearly a prepared question. He sucks at following up AKA actually interviewing.
I have had the thin quite coolness of an M1 with the ThinkPad X1 series for an entire decade now.

I briefly tried the highest spec MacBook Air, but it was incredibly underpowered compared to my older X1's i7 + 32GB of ram in an equally slim, sleek and quite form factor.
> a sad situation given Australia's emissions per capita.

While I understand per capita for fairness, etc, for systems like the GBR this is meaningless compared to absolute output. Australians could individually emit 4x what a Chinese person does and would matter very little given the low population of Australia.
In addition to that:

1. Structure and interpretation of computer programs

2. Software architecture the hard parts

3. Designing data intensive applications
>> You have an assigned "sales engineer" who calls after the first order you make

They stop calling you if you don't order anything from them for 10 years or so.
For people looking for alternatives, Kalshi (YC W19) is a regulated exchange on event contracts. It offers some markets similar to PredictIt (and more).
> Google rewards websites which use keywords in their url, title, headings, and first 100 words

can't say whether this is true for sites but they definitely encourage this behavior in ads -- the ads dashboard will shame you ('poor quality ad! we may not show this' kind of prompts) if you don't obey silly rules about 'how many keywords' appear in your title.
> nonsense social requirements of heels, make-up

Which part of the world has such social requirements?
Sorry for your loss.

Tangential, but for those with easy access to their parents: Contact them, for whatever reason, or none at all. Text, call, facetime, or visit them in person — what really matters is that you're in each other's minds somewhat regularly.

I don't have a perfect relationship with my parents (dad in particular), but even as a grown adults we make an effort to keep in contact regularly. I'm lucky enough to live a few minutes from my parents, and can stop by for lunch on a whim (And mom is more than happy to whip up a home-cooked meal!).

I fully understand that some might have a toxic relationship where this might be impossible, but for those who might have started to drift due to life, there's a lot of upside.
It’s not dishonest at all. There is a very real path to renewable energy with solar and wind.

There is not one for hydrogen manufacture (unless you provision heaps of renewables to do it, in which case why waste time on the hydrogen step - just put the energy straight in the battery)
I saved all kinds of sites on ZIP drives in the mid-90s.

It's amazing how much stuff/information there used to be, instead of whatever it is we have today on the WWW.
Agreed - he somehow gets the most amazing guests, but it's all un-interesting, softball questions that don't challenge the guest at all, delivered at a glacial pace.
There is no middle class anymore. That has been eliminated by deliberate policy.

At best you are mid-upper lower class. If you have any worry about being able to get along if you lost your job and had a major life-threatening illness, you are still lower class like the rest of us.
It might mean a lot to your loved ones, especially a parent to take an interest in their life’s struggles and experiences. It might not make a difference in your life, but it might make one in their life. To many parents, children are their life’s work. I once heard someone remark that “when you look at your children, you are looking at your immortality”. I would look at an interview as a gift to them, not to myself.
Except that “improving search” here means maximizing Google profits, from ads in particular, as opposed to what users would consider an improvement to search.
So in that case every company is a monopoly - Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, Roku, Samsung smart TVs, Amazon Fire OS, etc.

We just had a real judge say that definition is completely false in the Epic vs Apple case.
I might actually check this out, but the screenshot at the top of the article demonstrates so much of what I don't want in a music player. To this day I'm tempted to reinstall old versions of winamp on some of my systems because it is simple, unobtrusive, and can be minimized to to an extremely thin bar (or two) that just sits quietly and does its thing. The lack of support for newer formats is a problem though.

I've tried a few other music players, but I'm not interested in a huge application that will scan my hard drives and network (sometimes constantly) looking for things to index. I don't need it build a "library". I don't need a record of every piece of media I have sent over the internet to be logged by god knows who so it can try to find album art or lyrics. I don't need it to play video. I don't need it to pull "related" content or "suggestions" from the web.

Old winamp didn't do much, but what it did do, it did very well. These days I use VLC, and it comes pretty close, but it is overkill, the UI takes up more space, and it comes with its own little annoyances.
I thought about doing this with my mum.

The problem was she was scared of dying I couldn't broach the subject with her. She left me a bunch of decisions and no stories for my kids.

I wonder if the type of parent who consents to an interview has probably instilled in you a wonderfully inquisitive attitude. My mum did for me to be fair - she just hid her lack of one from me during my childhood.

In fact she hid lots from me. She was not one for looking back. She said my dad left me and never looked back, and neither did she.

As I went through her stuff I found books and books photos. I found every card I've ever written her. I felt like I didn't know her fully.

If I had my time again, I'd push her for the bits I didn't know. Early relationships. How she felt about becoming a grandmother not 1 or 2 but 3 times. Stories not for me, but for my kids. "this is your nana. Not the pictures or the Xmas toys. The imperfect person who hid her idiosyncrasies and addictions from her son so he'd grow up without them"

My wife and I have no remaining parents, so missed this boat.

Final tip: find out passwords, funeral songs, emails of friends, etc, as its way hard once they've gone.
About Forth, by Charles Moore
Especially a trillion dollar company who routinely exploits foreign labor [1] not to mention Apple still collects your data, so long as it is "aggregated and annonymized" [2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/09/apple-a...

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3646190/apple-is-sneak...
Added a blog to my startup in a few seconds
I waited way too long to act on it and the reason was I just felt I didn't know enough to ask relevant questions. When the urgency came, I threw together something that I honestly feel a bit ashamed about and I couldn't execute fully because of time.

Anyway, some thoughts:

* Do it chronologically, start with their birth, their family, the childhood, the house, the toys, the games, school... then their adult life, their work...
* Something I was interested in was how life was like back in the day, food, comfort, customs. Anything that interests you and that they may have a opinion or an historical perspective about.
* You may use world events to help anchor questions but it didn't work well for me.
* A good question template is "what was the best childhood/parenthood/travel/work/X memory?"
* Last, I added the themes (most I didn't have time to ask about): education, religion, regrets, health (especially hereditary issues), war...
* When dealing with memory issues, help if you can but do not contradict too much because it may make them give up. Depending on their mental state, the point may be just to hear them talk and not to have a detailed account of events.
* Cut the phone. I'm very upset that too many of his last waking hours I spent with him he spent on bullshit phone calls (old people get many).

Edit: added some thoughts here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350197

Edit 2: If I had had more time, I would have sorted through photos and start discussing from these.
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what an ugly subject. anecdotally similar to a conversation I recently had about saying derogatory slang about other people. Apparently there are some derogatory words people arent supposed to say but others are ok because the affected group isnt up in arms.
Is it the offended or offender in the wrong?
Epic tried using a side loading. How did that work out?
They seem to be saying that the biggest states have the biggest share of the EV market. Which seems… obvious? Shouldn’t they be looking at the EV share of the total vehicle market?
Just wanted to let you know that your obscured bit.ly links + choice of hiring site which forces applicants to create an account, added so much extra friction to the application process I decided to not bother.
Return it to REI.
Thank you!

I’m claiming it is an improvement in terms of usability, simply because Solarised wasn’t designed with these properties in mind. Whether it’s significant everyone needs to judge for themselves. I personally was mostly annoyed by how some colours are over-emphasised with Solarised, especially magenta and red, to a lesser degree orange.

You could take a fundamentally different approach and use different levels of emphasis for different colours, but I don’t think this was done in a quantitative and purposeful way. It’s also just not the approach I favour as I (and probably others) prefer an overall less busy look more like a text.

And aesthetics in general are of course subjective and were admittedly only of secondary consideration.
Since M2 is now shipping and is based on A15, we'll find out soon enough.