skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afaik in the US e-bikes can be much more powerful than in EU, they’re almost electric mopeds.

In EU there’s no such problem, but there’re more E-bikes around because they appeal to elder or people that wouldn’t generally feel comfortable riding a normal bike, so yeah, numbers are increasing and some older people aren’t happy.

About the “bikes need dedicated infrastructure”: every time a dedicated bike lane is proposed around my region in Italy, the project gets scrapped because it would remove parking lots, or make some car lane narrower.

You can’t have bike infra without sacrificing car infra, and that’s the big deal.
I was wondering if I should substitute the book for the movie, but then:

> Spanning the years 1971–1997 and based on the 1984 book

:thonk:

Though apparently there are editions from 2000 and 2014, which are quite some gaps. Dunno yet what's included in them.
Ask HN: Good Sunday night downloads to try?
Hi all,

I like software, and sometimes I don't want to continue
the usual internet free-time browsing habits: news websites, YouTube, video streaming, reading tech articles. And I really just want to "try stuff out".

New software, I guess. Anything. Could be games. Tools. Utils. GUI preferably. For Mac. Command line, ok. I'm just wondering anyone have any suggestions for some cool software to download on a Sunday night to play around with?

Thanks!
Yeah I can't keep it on for more than an hour. Otherwise I start getting headaches and feeling nauseous.
I support your wish about the war or "special operation".

About trust to binary packages: some ppl do build CudaText from source, we have even the bash-script to download the sources + compile them. https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText#How_to_compile_...

If you afraid to get Pascal code with backdoors: Pascal code does not use any internet libs. Python Addons-Manager uses inet-libs though.
1) that's a prolonged effect, not just mid-high

2) exactly, the long term effects on a lifestyle are unknown

3) i'm asking, not jumping. personal experience and lack of long term studies
In Germany, your e-scooter needs to be insured, and definitely have to follow traffic laws when on the road, can be ridden on bike paths and lanes, and cannot be ridden on pavements. It's pretty simple. The problem is e-scooter retailers have no interest in teaching people how to use the things they sell.
Kind of like asking "which is heavier, Love or Guilt?"

append the phrase "in this particular encoded form" to "which has more entropy" and the question can be answered; but the answer is determined by your choice of code.

Pi can certainly be encoded in such a way as to take more space than all of english literature to date (and probably in the future). Or you could encode it in a numerical system based on Pi and represent it with a single symbol. Then your "entropy" in Pi is an artifact of how finely you're quantifying, which is still potentially infinite.
Maybe you can load a single interpreter instance once on app startup and reuse that in different contexts? Not much experience with this, but I assume there are possibilities.
Check out the book “Behave” by Sapolsky. It gives an excellent overview of how biology effects and doesn’t effect behavior.
The day the music died? Denmark Street’s new ‘digitally enabled streetscape’
Building Stronger, Happier Engineering Teams with Team Topologies
The Definitive Guide to Sitemaps with Python
They are trying to buy their way into a lead.

We don't know how good Intel 18A is yet. It could be equivalent or only slightly better than TSMC's N3E or further enhancements of TSMC 3N. Keep in mind that the
base TSMC N3 node is scheduled for volume production in Q4 2022. So the TSMC is still likely quite ahead.

This is all assuming that everything goes well for Intel. If 18A is simply better than TSMC N3E, then TSMC won't have anything to compete until 2025 - 2026 when they release N2.

For TSMC, they have real paying customers that need to plan years ahead so all their date estimates are very conservative. For Intel, they're desperately trying to catch up so they're much more aggressive in their estimates.

According to Anandtech, TSMC's N2 could come in 2025 if things go well, which is roughly the same as 18A. So basically, if things go PERFECTLY for Intel, they'd be in the lead for a few quarters - not 2 years like you said.
Maybe because for the vast, vast majority of people that 30% is the boring grind they have to do to survive?
Author said they want a "West Coast" accent.

Author failed to say what their present accent is. I enjoy regional accents; I find it sad that people would want to dispose of their heritage, and adopt some neutral "white-bread" speaking style instead.

People's accents change through immersion. My parents lived in Liverpool, but sent me away to school. But my sister went to school in Liverpool, and began to acquire a scouse twang. I hated it, because I thought it was put on; I don't think that any more. She was just talking the way her schoolfriends talked.

So I think the best way to acquire a particular speaking style is to hang around exclusively with people who talk the way you want to talk. In particular, it seems to me that hiring elocution tutors from Mexico and Spain respectively, can't be a good idea. My guess is that the author is hispanic.

I've seen this "immersion drift" in accents many times. I've even done it myself; when living in London as a youth, I started talking in a sort of mockney street style. It wasn't deliberate, or even conscious; in fact when I realised it was happening, it embarrassed me.
Pirsig's first book talks a bit about classical vs romantic thinking.
Which is a loot like the articles description of functional and aesthetical quality.
Not really a computer - there is no way to program it. At best it is a mechanical RAM with some operations.
Third decade living in NYC. For the last 12 we’ve been raising kids here.

Sure when we travel the grass other places looks green. And life seems so much easier in the burbs or a less hectic city (most US cities are essentially suburbs once NYC gets in your blood…). And it’s expensive as all hell. But it would be so hard to leave.

If you are a person with interests you can find it here. What do I mean by that? If you get interested in something you are almost guaranteed to find a world class way to pursue it here with world class people. I don’t just mean business or career pursuits. If you get passionate about learning things and doing new things you will almost never be limited by who and what exist around you. It’s here.

But it has to be for you. For some people the energy fits like a glove. For some people, all they feel from the “energy” is an invasion into their private sphere. If you are footloose and free try it out for a year!
> And we should remember that there are no angels in a war

Except, of course, for the War in Heaven[1], where it was only angels warring. But seriously, I'm not sure the sentiment is entirely true. Oskar Schindler, Nicholas Winton, Raoul Wallenberg, Jeannie de Clarens, and plenty of others that risked their lives to save thousands, not to mention the Red Cross.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Heaven
Why is car park solar not more expensive then?

Say you have 1000 car parks, 1000 plans you need to send to local governments, 1000 architectural plans to deal with, and son on.

Some of the things will scale but a lot wont.
> I bet this saves the money, too; a muffler is an extra component you need to source and/or build. Bending some extra pipe seems a lot cheaper.

Now hold on, extra length on the exhaust manifold / headers are not going to reduce sound so much you don’t need a muffler. And the muffler is far from the most expensive part in the exhaust system, which would be the catalytic converter.
Turning Redis streams into typed Go channels in just a few lines
I agree. At $dayjob, we are currently employing a nix consulting company comparable to the one in the link. They are very vocal about all the great things Nix is able to do, but when we actually attempt to do something in Nix, we run into countless bugs and problems, including inaccurate documentation.

Unfortunately many private FOSS enthusiasts do not know that reliability and documentation is a must for serious engineering environments.

Plus, a coworker pointed out that while its supposed to be pure and functional, many recipes still basically wrap a shell script. So its not that far from the build system we already have...
USB-A ports output 5V as long as the device is on. But with most USB-C ports, to save power no power is supplied until the device requests what voltage it wants. Requesting 5V is very simple, just two resistors which cost fractions of a cent, but somehow a lot of cheap devices forget to include them.
Looks like artwork from a game studio. Does he use similar tools?
The sound from an engine doesn’t come from it rattling, tolerances in modern engines are very tight. Sound comes from the explosions.
I’ve read that LED light bulbs have the same problem. The LED will easily last 25 years, as written on the box, but the electronics that power the LED won’t.

I haven’t owned an LED bulb long enough to see this myself, so take it with a grain of salt.
I wouldn't describe UTF-8 in those exact terms!
Arguably, if the court ends up agreeing that you did have an account and that Valve needs to give control of it back to you, would that not be evidence that you had agreed to the terms, then broken them by rejecting arbitration? (Leading to Valve being able to take your account away because you broke the ToS.)
Do you know how one would this for Python? Would one use it as a replacement for, say, VSCode, or can it be integrated to an existing IDE?
I don't think so.

Intel's roadmap is Intel 4 (TSMC N5P) --> 20A (TSMC N3) --> 18A (TSMC N3E)
One alternative interface could be pen and paper. I’ve used it a lot, but mostly when I was learning to program, these days, not so much.
> Centering treatment and diets around reducing and avoiding inflammation always struck me as the realm of alternative medicine

Have you spoken to an allergist? They might as well be called inflammationologists, given their gist is identifying and managing instigators of inflammation.
From the Wikipedia article:

> The radar intercept officer in the rear seat, Lt. Matthew Klemish, initiated ejection for himself and Hultgreen as soon as it was apparent the aircraft was becoming uncontrollable. First in the automated ejection sequence, Klemish survived. However, by the time Hultgreen's seat fired 0.4 seconds later, the plane had exceeded 90 degrees of roll, and she was ejected downward into the water, killing her instantly.

It seems that she was just 0.4 seconds too late, otherwise she could have survived like Klemish.
They are tools to help create the next tools.
> Who cares about the numbers when it is the effect that is desired?

People who know about the placebo effect.
There isn't a whole lot of software that has turned their Git repository into a Flake yet (i.e. added a flake.nix)

As long as the project developers are not going to use Nix themselves, there are going to be a lot of unmaintained, broken flakes. All dependencies are pinned, but the project itself may move on from what is specified in the flake. A bunch of my own projects were flakes [1], but they would regularly break, because the project would move on (e.g. requiring a newer version of libtorch), but I forgot to update flake.nix/lock.

Of course, you can still run historical versions, but when the main path doesn't work, many users will just move on. So, including Nix flake files becomes more of a liability to a project than an asset.

(Besides that, it probably fills your store with many, potentially vulnerable versions of glibc and whatnot due to use of many different nixpkgs revisions, a problem that the centralized nixpkgs package set doesn't have.)

[1] I even implemented/contributed the cargoLock functionality, so that you can use buildRustPackage (rather than an external solution) without needing to specify the Cargo vendoring hash to make it easier to use buildRustPackage in your own repositories:

https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#importing-a-cargo.l...
I've seen a lot of these in the Southwest, but I'm surprised I don't see them more.

One church I know did this to most of its parking lot, and has tons of spare energy to sell back to the grid.
> It doesn't support map/tables/dictionaries. This is actually huge. I get that there might be

> some pattern where you don't want to allow this but for the majority of situations working with json api's you'll end up with a {[key: string] : T} somewhere

Please don’t use maps in API responses. Rarely do they map well and in all cases you can instead use a list of objects which is substantially easier to parse.
Scanned it. Absolutely excruciating reading but seems like there’s something meaningful in there. Will go look for a readable synopsis of his thesis…

This is way better; “editing” FTW:

https://fst.net.au/industry-insights/whos-who/mitch_weiss_ha...
For what it's worth, I would take a beautiful Texan drawl all day every day over most other American accents (which tend to sound really nasally)!
And multiplication is very often written as two variables just sitting next to each other with no additional operator character in between.

((2*a) + (2*b)) / c

in math would be

2a + 2b
-------
c

Traditional precedence rules make more sense with traditional handwritten notation.
Sorry, I should have thought and explained more. I agree that it's not Spangler's problem that Sam's Club makes Dum Dums into a loss leader; you're right that Spangler is getting paid for whatever leaves their factory regardless of what happens downstream.

The problem is the Amazon drop-ship hustle is generating revenue, from the flow of Dum Dums, which is not reaching Spangler, but arguably should. When a drop-shipper buys from Sam's Club, paying the artificially very low price of that loss leader, but then turns around and sells on Amazon at a tiny bit under Spangler's price on Amazon (the article says $25 vs $26), then people will end up buying on Amazon from the drop-shipper instead of from Spangler.

Spangler points to this and says: look, there's demand on Amazon for our product, and we should be getting the revenue from meeting that demand, but instead some of that demand is being met by drop-shippers making huge profits.

I think you and I may be disagreeing on whether the drop-shippers gain is actually Spangler's loss. I think Spangler has a legit complaint, and that's probably why Amazon says the practice is against the rules (while sucking at enforcement).
You are correct. Re-read it while replacing that with plant-based and my points stand.
This is the 1% of cases!
Rebuild supply chain with buzzwords like blockchain and AI?
I think the old vesta system used to do something like that: https://web.archive.org/web/20151018150600/http://www.vestas...
Of whatever else one could choose to invest in instead of the solar installation.
How do recent Mac have spywares?
Java and AWS Lambda – Best of Frenemies?
Yes, OK, I will own up to that. It was poorly phrased.

"Cheaper than RAM, but in the size range of SSDs, with performance in between the two," would have been a better way to express it.
Honestly looking back at my situation which paralleled yours, life’s not worth suffering through. Took 7 years to sort it out here which was a big chunk of my life. If you’re not happy, get out of the situation that makes you unhappy as soon as you can. The regrets hurt more than the relationship problems did.
It sounds pretty miserable, but there are plenty of people of have committed no crime, work, pay their expenses, and are miserable. Yet the government pays no bills and provides no help.
> If TSMC get destroyed, it will likely set back the whole Semiconductor industry by 10 years.

If that is true, why doesn't TSMC crank up its prices?

Or why don't they build a consumer brand? They could fade out Apple if they start building their own consumer products.
IIRC, NVidia and Qualcomm fab at Samsung. Others would have to compete for limited remaining quantity or use slightly inferior chips.

All this difficulty with high end smartphones and gaming consoles is completely insignificant compared to the 'normal' economic damage a war would cause.
Thanks, yes, I mentioned OpenFaaS in a sibling and find it very interesting as a possible standard, but realistically there isn't currently a way to deploy OpenFaaS compatible functions to hosted providers (I actually couldn't find anyone offering a hosted OpenFaaS service).

So currently, one would have to maintain the OpenFaaS control plane themselves, which takes away most of the benefits for an end user using serverless (would still have ops and no multi-tenant cost benefit).
rnix-lsp is a language server for Nix that provides go to definition. I'm using it with the "Nix IDE" extension in VS Code. It doesn't handle imports though afaict, so it's only useful for local definitions.
I stocked up on Urbanears Plattan 2 during the last sale, they are both bluetooth and cable headphones but you need to buy the cable yourself, I bought kramer cables.

For $25 a pair they are easily the best headphones I have ever had, my last pair was a Plattan 1 that lasted 8 years!!! (cable broke once)
[Author here]

Yes, that's exactly right.

The mindset was apt when RAM was tiny and expensive, and the only way to get large amounts of space was disks.

That is no longer true.
as that turns a simple 'nix build' into

Which reveals another annoying thing about using flakes for development. It copies every time you build something the whole darn project into the Nix store. Fine when you have a small project, but with large projects this becomes a significant overhead.
> my wifi routers have ECC memory

This is really weird. How come even routers have ECC memory while our actual computers don't?

Why can't all memory just be ECC memory? I don't even see the point of non-ECC memory. Everything has error correction built-in: hard drives, SSDs, even optical media. Yet RAM doesn't?
I would agree if we were on McDonald's employee forum, but on HN, where everyone lives under endless baragge of linkedin offers? That indicates questionable life choices then.
Tangentially related, there are issues when making .iso's, depending on the ISO level used (this is independent from the OS), it is a capitalization issue that affects - besides german or other language characters - also more common ones in any languages, most notably the - (dash/minus) is capitalized as _ (underscore).

JFYI:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/182116-winsetupfromusb-problem-...
> Your statement was "If you're not interested in the legal minutia", and I replied that I'm neither interested nor disinterested, in the legal minutia.

This topic is legal minutia of Twitter's counter-argument to Elon Musk's legal-claims. The very topic of discussion, is Musk's bot analysis tool behind his legal claims. (Which is beginning to look a lot like bullshit).

> Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot

The topic of discussion. Are you interested in this topic or not? Do you have something relevant (not necessarily correct, but at least __relevant__) to the stated topic at hand?

Because as far as I can tell, you're just interested in publicly declaring that you're ignoring the topic of discussion.
How practical is homebrew open codec support, like building Bluetooth headphones or receivers with software/hardware Opus decoding support (as opposed to conflict-of-interest proprietary codecs that the Bluetooth standards authors add to the standards, then profit from license fees)?
I'd love to learn phonetics, but with written materials like this it feels like learning to ride a bike by reading a book. I'm still at a loss with regards to how to actually make the sound. Without a teacher, I don't think I even realize my own mistakes.

How did you learn to physically make the sound? How much time did you spend practicing daily?

Thanks so much for the advice. I too hope to do stand up one day.
I thought this just came out for mobile? There's reviews that say 7 years ago.
I've got a lot of different brands of LED light bulbs and I think maybe one has "burned out" over the years. I have to wonder if maybe the power in their house is less "clean" than it should be, or if their area has a lot of power spikes or brownouts and they just don't realize it.
Reminds me to the infamous "Type /wave to Gor'groth" from WoW
Your panels are still working fine. Essentially, your problem is that you supplier is unwilling to invest in storage and management systems and doesn't provide inter-connectivity to the grid.

Could you create a separate grid in your home? Off-grid or maybe hybrid, having no connection to your domestic power connections nor the supply. You'll be able to reuse nearly all of the existing solar equipment and will just need to invest a bit more to re-architect some of the electrical system in your home.

It may be a little awkward to use, since you'll be sometimes unplugging appliances from one supply to another. But if you were willing to invest in energy storage too, there'd be more consistency from your solar and less need to unplug appliances.
The unconscious component is crazy, my otalian SO was trying to teach me to do some of the gestures correctly but she was not able to execute the gestures consciously, only in the flow of speech
Want Faster Extrusion but Don’t Have a Volcano? Nuts
I ride my bike on the Erie Canal path, a restricted-access path intended for pedestrians and bicycles. Having vehicles capable of 30 mph on that same path is just asking for trouble. I hate them.
Your time is so important you can’t send an email? What company do you work for? Should we test their customer service?
Students != teachers

They are not equal nor do we need to pretend that they are
So … to1y is correct
A lot of parking lots in dense cities are just property in reserve to be redeveloped. They were built 30-40 years ago and redevelopment will surely go with a parking garage because the land is too valuable to be used that way. Developers then must make decisions to redevelop (which is often limited based on finite construction workers, planners, and so on, and they are also waiting for the best opportunity, alignment with other plans in the area, etc…). No, they aren’t going to invest in solar covering for the parking lots because they won’t be around for much longer.
I thought it would ivolve estimating an arc-tan by memory. Thankfully it’s just a geometric feature that the distance to the thumb is ~10 times the distance between the eyes.
Not only gone, I’ve heard internet and/or local imageboard slang from people who surely never visited the source of it. It feels strange to conceal your own subculture from those who speak it freely.
I would use black screws (they're usually painted) for the external mount because it looks better. Really cool project, btw. And apparently thanks to them releasing the CAD files. Fantastic!
> Error messages that tell you absolutely nothing about what went wrong were pretty common.

Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but I almost never get useful error messages from Nix (NixOS and NixOps). Almost every error is deep within some module with no trace to the option I set. Just nix barfing its 300-line eval traceback where my own code doesn't even appear.