skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're going to have to do this for cars soon.

More long term, we're going to need a digital revolution against corporate overreach, hopefully leading to a constitutional amendment.
A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Soft
You should try tofu
While the final output should be the same, the development tools are not and that's really where all the subtle problems are.

One of the reason WSL exists is to solve this problem.

(assuming bun doesn't work on native windows but works under wsl)
Which country is this by the way?
Yup I was watching old James Bond movies recently and there is barely any visual effects. But it's still pretty entertaining.
Norvig commented on this:

http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html

The last section, "What did PAIP Accomplish?" summarizes his view on PAIPs legacy.
These days now that I'm fully in charge of building my own product, I often wonder if we place too much emphasis on centralized documentation sites that users have to deliberately seek out and visit vs in-context documentation snippets that show up as closely as possible to where users might actually need them, deeply integrated into the product and user journeys.

Users don't search for documentation for the sake of finding documentation. They search for documentation because they want to know how or if our product can solve a particular problem they have. My hypothesis is that the documentation discoverability problem is really just a symptom of the product discoverability problem, and that centralizing docs in 1 searchable website to make docs "discoverable" is only addressing the symptom, when that effort can be much better spent addressing the root cause by making the product itself more discoverable and deeply integrating useful documentation into it.
I'm starting a subsidiary of a start-up in Germany in Sweden.

It's not my experience that Sweden is a great place for startups, the bureaucracy is extremely hit/miss. Setting up tax information for example is really difficult as a non-Swedish speaker and even tripped up my Swedish speaking friend (who is a project coordinator on the new Skane hospital: so she's somewhat aware of the tax system). How much of your daily work will be administration, how much will be selling services, how much money will you make do you estimate; you must give us an estimation: if it's too far off then we will fine you!

Information in English is... scarce, but gives the illusion of being available.

Hiring is also very complicated, you have to be very explicit in your contracts because anything not spelled out immediately falls in favour of the employed; which is nice, but as a novice employer that's very scary, because I don't know everything obviously.

What in your mind makes you think it's a good place?
I didnt realize this place was so infested with people that have swallowed the environmental catastrophe koolaid. Even if we accept the models as correct (they likely are not, but lets ignore that) the timelines to destruction are measured in centuries in all but the most insane models and pretty much all the models fail to take into account the likely topping out of population growth and beginning of.population shrinking that will almost certainly happen later this century. The faster we get to Mars (or oneill cylinders or some other viable off planet backup) the faster we can get them to self sustaining. So in the face of uncertainty it is insane to have the opinion that we shouldn't be working on offside backup because we very well could have it self sustaining before a catastrophe actually happens because we don't really know when the catastrophe will occur and our predictions are likely dramatically incorrectly biased to pessimism
Another Amazon acquisition brings us closer to the death of privacy
Collect street level imagery (in Japan)
Optimistic? This isn't going to be over in a month.

Depending on the cause, this will take decades to centuries.
I started reading articles randomly, but the most efficient way I found is to take the archives of "narcissism", and start from the oldest post. Here's a list of link of the most relevant according to me:

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/10/the_story_of_narciss...

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/06/hes_not_yelling_at_y...

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/07/being_the_main_chara...

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/a_generational_patho...

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/02/the_other_ego_epidem...

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/12/infidelity_and_other...

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/12/taboos_are_the_ways_...

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/06/amy_schumer_offers_y...
Side hustle nation

Nomad Capitalist

Behind the Bastards

Citations Needed (I highly recommend this one)

Love Fruit - the fruit fest podcast

My no code story
The transition is still a mess and probably ever be on some distros.
A phone call works great for a remote “pop-in”. Has worked for 100 years.
>how did you arrive to conclusion that eating chicken is better than eating lentils, beans, etc

I haven't made such a claim (here "better" would be solely in terms of emissions). What was implied was that the delta of the emissions from switching from beef to chicken/fish is (far) larger than the delta from switching from them to veganism (it's important to note that per grams of protein, dairy is comparable in emmissions to non-beef meats - so really veganism (or veganism + eggs) is required).

Also, this claim "we know that eating animals is not required to be healthy at any stage of life" is most likely false at the margin.
Quantum computer made of 6 super-sized atoms could imitate the brain
Creator of the list here. For some of the companies on the list the label "startup or scaleup" is debatable ofc. But I often find it not to be a clear-cut thing in those cases.

I tried to use a mix of "criteria" such as company age, whether it acts like a startup/scaleup (rapid innovation, invests heavily in growth, needs external funding to get going), whether it's covered intensely by the startup-focused tech media etc.

To me, Klarna ticks those boxes.
You have $100K. What business would you get into?
If you had $100K to invest in a business new or existing, what would it be? Say you didn’t need to worry about living expenses or retirement. You don’t have time pressure other than you need to make enough money to cover expenses before you run out. Other than that, the only constraints are you need to love 2/3 of your day so 1/3 of your day is spent on things you don’t enjoy but need to get done. With the 2/3 of the day you love, it needs to be something you jump out of bed and can’t wait to do
I never shopped at Frys but did shop at The Wiz (basically the NorthEast equivalent). The last thing i remember buying was a DVD for the Lord of the Rings
What makes you think that setting up a subsidiary is a "DIY" thing anywhere, especially if you don't speak the language?

(Sweden is still probably easier than Germany, though that's a low barrier tbh)

Edit: good to know about the UK
Is the Galaxy S21 Ultra using AI to fake detailed Moon photos?
Microsoft’s Share in Web Servers Is Down to Just 3%
I left out a heck of a lot more than Islam! No mention of Hindu or Christian or Jewish mysticism either. But I do love the Sufi poets.

I'm unaware of any Islamic mysticism that specifically discusses multiplicity of self - any tips?
I had to supplement my machine with cloud hosting and mainly work from the command line.
I also need to say that my “actually pays the bills” work was done on company computers, which were modern but not purchased by me.
I play games on a video game console, so that was never an issue. I’m primarily a C++ programmer, so making software always worked well on a Pentium 4 and is developed in the terminal. GNU/Linux, of course, still runs great on this old system. The biggest issue had been that web browsing had become a chore. The bloat of the web is well established, and loading huge websites was out of the question. Ad-blocking has become more difficult but was absolutely necessary, not loading JavaScript makes many pages unreadable, and so on… I got to the point where the fun of extending the life of my old laptop needed to be balanced against my lack of free time. I also really started to consider that a raspberry pi would be more powerful and consume less power, that my machine was not a collector item, and that the “greenest” thing may be upgrading.
Honestly, though my new machine is faster, I’m still not convinced that it provides me and added benefits or capability other than websites now working as intended. I think I was expecting more.
A friend and I recently started a dev collective (https://pico.sh) to work on projects targeting the smol web. We decided that many popular communication and collaboration tools would not fit into our stack. Things like GitHub and discord were out of the question pretty quickly.

Instead we opted for Sourcehut and irc and have been pretty happy with the results.
Time and motivation. Personally, I just dont see the point in writing a book.
Stiff, achy knees? Lab-made cartilage gel outperforms the real thing
I don't see what's confusing here: emoji visible "images" are implemented in fonts, and thus covered by the exact same laws that cover fonts already.
You might want to rename the title by adding “Ask HN:” at the beginning so that more people will see it.
With no cash, and no end.
For me that is the appeal. I don’t listen regularly but do occasionally enjoy his interviews depending on the guest.

But yeah, if you don’t like long rambling discussions it’s safe to say it’s not for you.
If you’re interested in software design please give us a listen!

https://changelog.com/podcasts
> At the same time we have study upon study that shows that people are happier in places where they can walk/bike instead of driving.

People prefer living in places they can dress in t-shirts and shorts. But trying to dress in a t-shirt in the snow won't make you happy.

It's true that all else being equal, a walkable city is the best. But we don't have that, and we're not likely to have it soon. All we can do is work on a solution for today and tomorrow. And I really don't see OP's original point of trying to skip EVs.
Show HN: Open-source web voxel engine
Because I did it in the UK and it was very much a DIY thing.

14GBP to Companies House, extra 10GBP to reserve the right to your name.

File your books every year, expect to be audited randomly for a few years.
>It has no relation whatsoever to what “regulation” means nowadays.

So it doesn't mean background checks or proper record keeping? The meaning of the word has not changed since the 18th century and certainly doesn't mean no rules whatsoever.

>But almost everyone can own a machine gun or a rocket launcher, where not forbidden by state law. Just pay a $200 transfer tax and wait 3-12 months for the ATF to process your transfer form.

So no nuclear arms or chemical / biological arms correct? The right to bear one is infringed.

Machine guns only if made before 1986, no new machine guns due to FOPA. So extremely limited supply and high cost along with the 3-12 month wait is due to more extensive background checks along with a high tax. The right to bear one is infringed.

Missile launchers are approved and taxed not only for the launcher but each round and you also must get a federal explosives permit for the rounds. The right to bear one is infringed.

State are also allowed to regulate them even more so, kind of like state level assault weapons bans and handgun laws? The right to bear one is infringed.

If you are ok with that kind of heavy regulation then doing that for semi-auto assault rifles or hand guns should not be an issue correct? That was my point, the second amendment does not mean you can own any arm you want and the heavy regulation on title 2 weapons, explosives and WMD's seems to work well in preventing their use in crimes without leading to tyranny and genocide.
Genuinely not. Maybe the really big shops have it somewhere and I did not noticed. It is not shocking it exists, but it is genuinely far from dominating stores. It is vegetables and ice scream dominating here.
Unless they're acting on each other through another euclidian dimension that we can't currently perceive in our three dimensional perspective
I think Tesla would still object to seeing quantum phenomena through such a classical lens. It is very much ”not seeing the forest for the trees”.

In fact, Tesla might even object to the usage of the word ”quantum”, since it implies that same top-down view. Tesla would start from the field(s) and let whatever phenomena emerge from that, quantized or not.
>> No, people can't make wire transfers anymore. All bank accounts are frozen

This is only true for old funds (precrisis). However, you can wire any "fresh money", AKA funds put in a lebanese bank from a foreign bank

>>The local currency collapsed, lost more than 90% of its value.... they play money conversion tricks

'Lost value' as measured in the black market float. The peg has been fixed for decades and its never floated freely. In fact, banks are giving you the official central bank conversion rate, which is awful and benefits banks (which is why it was never changed)

>> because his father (and some people said his child as well) were in the hospital

This is not true.

>> Why is this all happening? Bad economic and financial policies for 40 years, rampant corruption

No. This is happening because the federal govt issued sovereign debt that was primarily purchased by local lebanese banks, using depositors money. The government budget was chronically in deficit, with exoenses exceeding taxes for decades, so the govt resorted to pay its debt with more debt. Finally they run out of other people's money to keep buying debt, the govt couldnt raise taxes to pay (remember the laughable WhatsApp msg tax??), so govt could not pay banks, thus banks couldn't pay people, so people's cash was turned out to be fake numbers stuck in a bank screen. Banks have since refused to lose money (insolvency really) on their govt debt purchases, so the bank holiday ensued.

Its important that we spell this out because to put a face to Lebanons predicament. There was no 'corruption' vodoo. Its just debt.

The only differences between USA and Lebanon are Lebanon's gdp/debt ratio is higher , and USA quick ratio (interest expense/tax collection) is better vs Lebanon.
Yeah, it is.

But heat recovery is also paired with diesel, depending on the usage, with nearly complete conversion efficiency.

All the calcs for electric are bullshit. Every engineer that isn't a bleeding heart acknowledges this. They have either fudged the production cost or disregarded the recycling cost or ignored the mining expense, drive like a puritan with no climate control... on and on.

Well then how about an electric car driving full out in freezing temps? Or with the A/C max?

I can take nearly 100% of the waste heat from a diesel genset working at maximum efficiency with 42% conversion
From the start of the project, at least from when I first saw it, it seemed to me that the author already has a long-term vision for the project, and the direction it should go.

There was a list of super ambitious goals, like replacing Node.js, NPM, Webpack, etc. It's been impressive to watch how the project is making such progress in achieving them.

So I think the rapid growth is a good sign that the project has communal support and momentum. I'm looking forward to seeing what Bun becomes, maybe more excited about it than Deno.
In theory, the flexibility is great. In practice it is itself a problem, as those decisions are avoided throughout production and instead accumulate into post. Where they get further kicked down the road - client for first 80% of schedule: "looks alright". client for remaining 80% of schedule: "[now that we've actually thought about this] we want it to be this way". The artists lament what they could have done had they gotten this direction earlier, ultimately just polish the turd with weekly extensions until the client is satisfied-slash-actual-deadline, and look forward to the next show where things might not go as awry.

Like everything in our society, the real problem is that the people in charge of managing don't know how to do the work, and rather than listening to, taking feeding, and trusting the people doing the work, they act as if their job is to blindly push orders downwards and micromanage whatever catches their attention. The article ('s followup) touches on this, ("managed to get themselves into really high positions but don’t know how a green screen works... People in the traditional leadership roles are boomers or Gen X guys, and what we do now didn’t exist when they were coming up"), but is naive in thinking that it's going to get better over time. In actuality, the "creatives" of tomorrow are busy gladhanding today, and the dynamic will persist.

I think this is why the production setup of Mandalorian got many VFX people excited, despite Engine being so counter to the standard workflow. It pushed the bulk of CGI to where it belongs - as a backdrop for actual acting and storytelling, and directly fed into the director's real time decision making. There are always going to be touch ups and last minute changes, but those are only practical in the context of having larger structure locked down. There are definitely constraints of the digital backdrop technique (watch Mandalorian again after that video, and you see it in everything), but I look forward to seeing how it might trickle out into the rest of the industry.
Does discord not just have away messages?
> Even if we accept the models as correct

They were not correct. They were overly optimistic.
If gift cards were everything Apple did, yes thatbwould be true. Since obviously gift cards are not everything Apple does, it is clearly not true.
I agree a lot of podcasts are just rehashing the same sets of ideas. The same can be said about books released these days - most of these books should be a ten page article at best.

That said, there are definitely gems waiting to be discovered. The trick here is to spend some time looking for podcasts and episodes. For example - there is this podcast called elite man podcast. Most of the episodes are duds and the host also has weird opinions about vaccines, Trump etc. But there are a few really nice guests on the podcast. I don’t recommend the podcast, but some episodes sure are worth listening to.
Only if you ignore manufacturing and battery replacement.

"The emissions from Materials production and refining of the ICE are roughly 40 per cent less than for the BEV"

https://www.volvocars.com/images/v/-/media/project/contentpl...
I agree, was just being witty. Impressive list -- cheers!
France Waives Nuclear Plant Environmental Rules in Energy Crunch
Plant 2 trillion trees.

I recently read somewhere that the neutral target was 1 trillion, so make it 2.

Make it mandatory for all population, age 10-60, to plant 1 or more trees per year.

Make a tracking app and bind it to a social credit. If you cannot prove that your planted tree (i.e. ID Tag) is alive and healthy growing, then you cannot get employment, a loan at bank, register a car, driver license, etc.
Yes its important to acknowledge the market dynamics. Whenever you hear PG or some other entrepreneur rave about the possibilities, remember that most of them started during the very early days of the internet. When there were plenty of greenfield and low hanging fruit ideas.

Honestly, i cringe whenever i heard these ppl give advice right now: its a totally differeny market for startups. They are better off trying to start another startup, and then tell us what has changed
We've set up a UK subsidiary so I can relate, but the process in Sweden was approximately 10x simpler: more automated, less bureaucracy, less ongoing admin work when the company is up and running.

As with all countries there are definitely things you need to learn. We relied on our lawyers to draft employment agreements because we were already using them as part of our seed fundraise. There are companies like Pocketlaw (https://pocketlaw.com) that provide solid, standard agreements that you could use.
Much more reliable than gasoline and the added benefit of always operating in the peak performance range as a generator.

Diesels require higher compression than gasoline and must be built stronger as a result. Which explains the higher cost of diesel engines in general.
> If I understand the core underlying issue (as opposed to downstream result) is
> a currency that lost majority of its value through volatility

No, that is incorrect, the Lebanese pound did not lose it’s value through volatility. It lost it’s value through debasement, a fractional reserve and outright theft by the central bank of Lebanon.

Here is an article that explains the process [1].

Successive governments used bank savings as a piggy bank beginning after the 1975-1990 civil war. Things accelerated in 2016 when the banks started paying unsustainable interest rates on savings to entice savers in a grand government-sponsored Ponzi scheme that ended in 2019 when banks could no longer pay back savers and froze accounts.

Had the savings been held in Bitcoin, on-chain, no government or central bank could have stolen the savings. 1 BTC=1 BTC on-chain and there can be no debasement, no freezing of funds, and no ponzinomics. Despite Bitcoin’s short-term volatility, as a self-custody asset, it would have been the ideal store of value for Lebanese savers. Remember, the Lebanese pound has been debased by 10x, even if you can access those funds. Bitcoin truly does fix this.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-financial...
Wouldn't rinsing this filter just throw all the plastic back into the water system?
That’s what kaseya is doing with their software, basically having contextual assistance for each feature as an “AI Buddy”, where users can choose to listen/learn or just continue using the product, all integrated as one
This might be the case in your specific social circle, but it doesn't seem to be generally true https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...
For software design, I highly recommend the Metamuse podcast.

It's by the team behind the Muse 2.0 app [0], but the podcast is about building software in general. There are episodes about native Mac development, visual programming tools, design choices in games etc.

As someone who's more of a data guy than a software person, I always feel like I learn something new listening to these discussions.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31494498
I'm not sure I understand how the question goes from how would you invest $100k to how you spend your day.

Are we talking investment here, or starting a business that you run?
Thanks! Fortunately, I have been using the same structure in all my 171 previous weekly newsletter issues. So while it was a huge amount of copy & paste, the mental work was fortunately limited. Still I do feel exhausted now.
Link should probably be changed to the actual site instead of blogspam:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/
While I agree with that, microplastics aren't really because of plastic bottles.

"Most of the microplastic pollution in the world doesn’t come from discarded bottles. It comes from textiles, tyres and city dust. These three sources account for over 80% of all microplastic pollution in the environment and the seas."[1]

Also the world is running out of the sand that's good for making glass (also concrete)[2], so that's not a great solution either.

We should probably just stop using both of them entirely for canned drinks. But that's a tall ask, I know (and I also struggle with).

[1]: https://www.eib.org/en/essays/plastic-pollution

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...
Any on Mars have been subject to weather, so are ordinary caves.

Lunar lava tubes are wholly unique. They will probably be filled with incredible filigreed crystal structures grown by differential vacuum sublimation over uninterrupted hundreds of millions of years.
Unfortunately taxes are high. 20.6% corporation tax and 30% capital gains tax.
Cars, as far as impact (not qty of units).