skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have those fast chargers. The average EV gets 3-4 miles/kwh. 50 miles would be about 15 kwh. To deliver 15kwh in 5 minutes, you'd need 180kw charging. The fastest widely available chargers currently go up to 350kw. Kia EV6/Hyundai Ioniq 5 charge from 10-80% (>200 miles) in 18 minutes (due to battery limitations).
What are you talking about exactly? As far as I've been able to find, they don't even have a history of harassment, let alone something illegal, not as a forum/community. As we saw with this "threat" here.. it was reported and deleted as soon as the mods saw it and the user perma banned.. Just like every other attempt by a "member" to post something illegal or interact with someone off site.
The worst is Telekom in DE. They required you to host a website with your address, contact e-mail and phone number. If you don't, your e-mail is just blocked.
At the moment, the main focus in on the core.

"Once the official release shipped, the big focus will be to build many skills along with the community and cover most of the basic cases and beyond of existing closed source assistants"

You can find more here: https://blog.getleon.ai/a-much-better-nlp-and-future-1-0-0-b... and there: https://blog.getleon.ai/a-much-better-nlp-and-future-1-0-0-b...
> if you're going 'all in' on their branded phone

This inference doesn't make any sense. The Pixel isn't some weird niche project. The Pixel and the Galaxy SXX are perennials on the lists you find from a cursory "best android phone" Google query. This is about as casual as it gets, beyond walking into a Best Buy or Verizon and asking for an Android phone (which will also steer you to these two phones pretty often, assuming they're in-budget)
This looks like a problem for general intelligence that trains itself, as the data is this world. It is full of violence, ignorance and bias. So how would such an ai keep from becoming “mentally ill”?
https://www.cuinsight.com/how-voice-assistants-can-benefit-p...

People with limited or no use of hands may use voice assistants, as may people with limited or no sight
Running out of gas is an easy fix, go get a jerry can of petrol. What happens to an ev? Tow to the nearest charger?
It seems that we are redefining things such that the only way to cause "damage" to the world is via carbon emissions (humans are very good at focusing on one metric to the exclusion of all others). Is there any "damage" done in having greater numbers of the world's poor die of starvation since we've reduced agricultural output in our quest to reduce carbon emissions? Perhaps we can dabble in fertilizer reduction after we've exhausted carbon capture from coal fired electricity plants (particularly in China and the US who are the largest emitters and still use a lot of coal) or at least converted those to natural gas. Messing with agriculture, particularly right now with the current geopolitical situation is very stupid.
Game Design, Yoga for the Mind
Namesilo, Porkbun, Sav.
Meaningful social connections are built with coworkers by doing your job well, making sure you're communicating your work with them, and generally being a pleasant, trustworthy human being.

Coworkers are, generally, not the same as "real" friends. Certainly not those on your immediate team. Keep the relationship professional.

It's going to be a challenge to share deep personal feelings and views, because at the end of the day, the things you say to them can put your employment at risk.
Ask HN: Which strategies work best to reduce/eliminate alcohol use?
There was a recent HN post [1] on an article from Nature titled "Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity".

Whether you need to go to absolutely no alcohol or not is not the issue here (it was discussed at length in [1] and [2]). Rather, I am interested to know what HN readers did to cut down on their drinking.

One helpful comment in [1] was the book "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace. Any other tips/experiences?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714527

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30009529
I don't think this response is fair. RSS is dead as a widely used medium for distributing hypertext and media. A tiny number of people continue to use and promote it (myself very much included). Even for podcasts, where RSS represents the most obvious as well as original mode of distribution, a tiny number of people, probably < 5%, use RSS rather than a centralized platform.

The OP was not giving a take on whether that's a good thing or bad thing, let alone saying that everyone should "switch to TikTok" or "communicate with memes", but rather simply commenting on the above hard to dispute fact.
If Tesla wasn't designing chips, they wouldn't have any chip designers to get bored.
Racketeering is when the only solution offered to you out of a problem someone created for you is to pay the person who created the problem. In the context of email: "you have to pay us to send your email because we have created a system in which only we can send email." Seems pretty close to racketeering.

Anyway, telling someone they don't understand what something means is almost never a good way to start a conversation.
> my registered address (zip code) in the States

Are you applying from outside America? Playing devil’s advocate, a college friend skipped paying a bunch of loans by emigrating outside the reach of collectors. It informs why creditors are wary about lending to international clients with whom they have no prior relationship. Hence the advice to work through your bank and financial advisor; they know you, and that relationship builds trust.
What would the copyright situation be for that? Would it be possible for games you own? Or in the example for Morrowind, what if you used OpenMW to render the landscape?
Maybe related to https://openspeedtest.com/ ?

So maybe you can have your own OpenSpeedTest widget on your website, instead of pointing people at Speedtest.net?

Or perhaps even download code to run on your own servers?

Is there a public repo for the code being run?
No mega corp, I'm just a passionate guy who spend my free time to work on Leon. Is there anything wrong with that?
What make and model?
It’s a weird case IMO — CreditKarma played a role but it seems like all the actual harm was elsewhere.

1. The Criteria are given by the banks via 'Lightbox'. If they were misrepresenting those criteria, it seems like the harm was to the banks, but this isn't mentioned. And if they couldn’t express their criteria via lightbox and used it anyway… again it seems like that’s mostly on the banks.

2. I suspect these estimates were better than nothing, which is basically what bank websites usually give you before you apply.

3. CreditKarma isn’t making the applications. The lenders are the ones forcing a 'hard pull' before telling you if the loan is available to you.

4. The credit score companies are the ones that decided that the 'hard pulls' would reduce people’s credit score for a significant period. Why is this only a problem if they used CreditKarma?

5. The new lender is the one rejecting loan applications based on credit score changes caused by the client shopping around. Why is this only a problem if they used CreditKarma?

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It seems like there’s a need for a 'credit lock' that absolutely tanks your credit score while you are being checked, to avoid people applying for multiple lines of credit simultaneously.

Having lasting impacts beyond that seems anti-consumer, since it means you’re penalised for shopping around.

CreditKarma was an imperfect band-aid over that, but penalising them for that seems like treating the symptoms and not the cause.
That's why he said he will delete if you request, GDPR or not. They've helped me delete a previous account, change usernames, and delete comments- they are nice people and aren't trying to make anything difficult. They just don't want deleting to be as instant as reddit with a delete button which can easily disrupt archives- such as when you go into old threads on reddit on google, you see like half the comments deleted and that makes for a poor reader experience.
Do you mind me asking: Did you get that job through a job board or connections?
I don't see a free tier on their site, care to point me in the right direction?
Someone else also suggested using Mailgun, I'll put that in there too
You mean the county with the largest(and still expanding) indirect potable reuse plant in the world?
Poseidon HB desalination was rejected for a variety of reasons: enormously risky in terms of finance and water reliability(located in a flood zone, for example), excessive costs, lack of committed buyers, environmental impact, etc.. The CCC uniformly rejected it for many of those reasons with the staff report also including the lack of mitigation steps Poseidon have yet to undertake for their Carlsbad plant.
Doheny desalination is still under consideration due to the use of slant wells, municipally owned, and the lack of aquifers in south county make it more viable as a means of water security.
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Python, Solidity, Etherjs, Nodejs, MongoDB

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TddctMMOIr1wxK6RR52h...

Email: lakshk886@gmail.com
Current 60W bulbs are about 10W, probably giving off 3W of light.

If it's on for 8hrs a day and you capture all of it, on 1/5000th of a room, you get... 4mWh, or in reality, 0.7mWh because panels aren't perfect?

You could make a call in a few months of charge time. with a 3x3inch panel. But yeah, I suppose I was wrong and "eventually" is a bit of an understatement.
> As a matter of fact mmWave isn't even 1% of the initial 5G ( 3GPP R15 ) spec

What a silly argument. I'm sorry about nitpicking on one minor point of a long post, but percentage of the text of the standard is a rediculous thing to bring up and very irrelavent.
That's a good idea. Thanks for the feedback!
Surprised to see nothing about the C++ interop work using cxx (and friends).

I looked into using this approach when I was playing around with the idea. Writing lots and lots of C wrappers seemed … wasteful.
Looks like wearable display is a useful search term:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wearable+display

Also HUD glasses:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hud+glasses
That's one of the big selling points of crypto. In the same way that the web made it possible for everyone and their brother to publish information to the world, crypto will make it easy for everyone to finance a company by a group of investors anywhere in the world. The technology will be there. There are going to be many more companies in the world. I'm sure many will be great and many more, by a long shot, will be crap.
Kinda yes. It's consequence of subsequence. Been 7 years that I don't have to rely on my old social circle for connection and work benefit, and I wanted out in the first place too. So I think it's profit with, of course, cost. Co-workers? Idk, I only like one guy, my boss, he's the nicest despite I didn't meet him in real life, I'd fly 18hrs to meet him someday, no problems!
A 30 mph ebike under $2k is absolutely doable. That's the top speed of mine, built with a Craigslist hardtail MTB and a $200 hub motor kit, powered by an electric lawn mower battery I found in an ewaste bin (14s, 7.5ah Samsung 25R cells). This battery can propel me about 8-10 miles (depending on wind, hills, etc.) at full throttle without much pedaling.

The problem is 60 miles range @ 30 mph needs a lot of battery. You can't really pedal fast enough to add a meaningful amount of leg power here, and even if you could, the extra wind resistance compared to tucking your legs in is a wash at best.

There's certainly room for efficiency improvements on my bike, but either way, enough battery to do 60 miles at 30mph SHOULD cost at least $1200-1500. Now if you want to go 20 mph that's a different story.
IKEA self assembly is not a good analogy for “Not invented here”. IKEA is more like the opposite of NIH.

“NIH” from the manager’s perspective would be more like contracting a professional bookshelf maker to build a bookshelf for you. They go to the lumber yard, select wood, cutting, planing and nailing it together to build a perfect bookshelf.

In the IKEA case you get something that works but might not fit your requirements exactly. In the NIH case you get something that is exactly what you need (hopefully), but will be much more expensive to construct and will take orders of magnitude more time.

There’s no right or wrong answers. Sometimes an IKEA bookshelf is suitable. Sometimes it isn’t.
No, this is not a real problem. I never liked forced socializing and don’t intend to perpetuate it in my company.
Ask HN: If there is no time, will you just focus on leetcode only for interviews
And forget about learning these new programming languages or frameworks (the craftsmanship) of a software engineer
Rule of thumb in dealing with domain and hosting vendors - always gauge how educated their support staff is. They should be at least slightly more educated than the average developer who admins their own stuff. And do judge based on website design - if their design looks like it'd would also be appropriate for selling quick ways to lose fat, you should know to stay away.
It's actually feasible to live outside the USA without medical insurance. In the USA, medical fees are crazy expensive, especially without insurance. But this is not the case in other countries.

For example: Korean medical fees are controlled by the government, to the point some doctors may struggle to make a living. And Korea offers pretty high quality healthcare.

I thought I broke a rib so I got two x-rays. This only cost $15 including consultation with the doctor. Without insurance.

Later when I got insurance, I had 5 x-rays of my knee taken. Only cost $5. The non-insurance rate would have been about $20. (Korean public health insurance generally covers 70% of covered fees.)

Another example: I can get a 6-month supply of generic Accutane for about $50 (not covered by Korean health insurance). This would likely cost thousands of dollars in the US.

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Finally, if you plan to be abroad for only about a year, traveler's health insurance for non-US countries is usually very reasonably priced.
Lol maybe take a look at Canada where towns are 100km apart and an ambulance can potentially be driving constantly on an 8 hour shift. Not to mention the Fact they have huge alternators on them to power all the medical stuff.
Good point but maddy's README says "IMAP storage is beta" and AFAICT some of the other suggestions don't support SPF+DKIM out of the box.
Yeah I remember hearing that announcement about incentives and thought it was obvious that crappy apps would come to dominate the store.
Two things would’ve made the App Store better:

- First-party apps using the same SDK as third-party apps. This would’ve forced the third-party sdk to be awesome from the beginning, but it also would’ve delayed the launch of WP7 by at least 4-6 months. It wasn’t until a couple years later that some first-party apps switched to the public sdk and improvements were made, but by then it was too late.

- Google allowing us to build official apps for YouTube and maps. We even offered to build and maintain it, but they simply refused to allow those apps to exist on our platform.

I still had a wonderful time working on the product 2008-2012, but it’s really a shame WP never made it as a viable third platform.
Maybe there needs to be a self-hosting association/union that self-hosters can join? It could advocate for adherence to open standards, and an equal standing for small servers. It could also be a repository of advice for current best practise in small server administration and configuration. Should it be under the auspices of an existing group such as FreedomBox?
Many years too late for this site to come into the public eye, but I guess this is better than never.

I see the "Drop Kiwi Farms Campaign" statement indicates they will continue to pursue them with the goal of targeting hosting resources until they're snuffed out. I personally don't think this is an achievable goal, and it will probably peter out when they get to a disinterested provider that hosts other abuse sites or if KF decides to assemble their own infrastructure like VanWaTech did for 8kun.

Incidentally, it already has a .ru backup running, so it's not like this is even a meaningful victory at the moment.
Considering recycling is stupidly uneconomic for all but a tiny selection of materials and just makes the whole carbon issue even worse, why would we do that?

Hell, for plastic throwing it in a landfill is only second best to never making it in the first place.
I’ve been WFH since Jan 2020. Sometimes I like it… most of the time I really miss being in the office.

Miss chatting, going out for an hour at lunch with co-workers.

Miss being able to do whiteboard sessions and have proper discussions.

I also feel less productive at home. It’s more difficult to focus at home, much easier to get distracted.
Buy in to one of the 3 euro countries with "golden visas", Portugal, Greece, Spain are reasonable - Portugal is a 300k investment to get a visa, but I think it takes 3 years. Then you can live there, have health insurance.
You're missing your 'second place'. And, for a lot of modern society, your 'third place', too. This exacerbates the loss you feel for your second place. First is 'home', second is 'work', third is 'community'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

You don't _need_ a 'second place', but you may find it helpful to double down on the first and third.

The original book, The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg, is a bit dated. It was written at the cusp of modern connected life (late 80s?). While it does bore a few faults, the concept has helped me immensely in being purposeful and direct in adopting a 'third' place.
Ask HN: Modern BI stack 2022 for low entry and cheap license dashboards
Hi all,
I'm looking to get into niche dashboards for my special interest (cycling adjacent and adrenaline junkie). This world has tons of users, but no 'whales'.

I simply want to host a dashboard and allow people to access it for 10-15 dollars a month while making a bit of meat for myself (to allow full-time work on the project). I considered PowerBI, but learnt that the user account license would run 10 dollars a pop, per month. So say I scale to 10k users, almost all of my money would be going straight to the MS.

What are the best modern ways to do this? Looking around, it seems I can use an Azure SQL server or Amazon dynamoDB to host the database and get good reliability and concurrency somewhat cheaply. How can I do the same with the dashboard itself? (if I was doing time series data, an Amazon managed Grafana looks like a winner, but I'm doing a simple dashboard with little time series data).

Thanks!
We can already do more than 50 miles of range in 5 minutes. For example a Tesla Model Y is rated at about 0.234 kWh/mile, round up to 0.25 kWh/mile. To get 50 miles of range you need 12.5 kWh, in order to get that in 5 minutes you need a charging speed of 150 kW. Tesla V2 superchargers already do 150 kW and V3 does 250 kW, which would only take 3 minutes to get 50 miles of range. Of course the actual charging curve depends on your battery state of charge but 50 miles in 5 minutes is very achievable in most cases, at least with Tesla.

Now doing this in a portable way is the difficult part. There are a few trucks now that can do 7-10 kW output to charge cars, but that's only about 30-40 miles of range per hour, which is still quite slow. But it might be enough to top you up for 15-20 mins to get you 10-15 miles down the road to a charger. I imagine this will improve though quite a bit as more EVs are adopted. I think if we can get to 50 kW chargers from service vehicles that's good enough. On a 50 kW charger 15 minutes of charging will give you 50 miles of range on a Tesla, and on less efficient cars it will still give you at 30+ miles.
Yeah, accurate positioning is the inevitable end result of massive-MIMO.
You need to know where the handset is to point the antenna beam towards it.

And it needs to update fast enough that it can be in a vehicle on the highway or a high speed train and still maintain connectivity.

The need to have more users on the same spevtrum requires sharper antenna beamwidths and smaller cells. All of which either require more precise positioning or make it possible.

All of this is linked with the technology used.
Sadly I only see legistlation limiting what can be collected and used being a counter for this getting exploited.
I don’t feel disconnected. My workplace/manager is pretty exceptional about scheduling some time for us to get to know each other.

That said, I’ll acknowledge my bias - I’m fairly quiet and introverted, I feel more comfortable with video chats than water cooler talk.
I just remembered it exists in 2012. https://www.softbank.jp/support/faq/view/11235 http://k-tai.sharp.co.jp/support/s/205sh/r_attention.html
That’s partially the point I intended but failed to make. We can grow lentils easily, then just eat them! It’s insanely efficient.

Feeding crops to cows is bizarrely wasteful when you look at the big picture. Especially once you look at the subsidies that make meat affordable, the water usage we can no longer afford, the pathogens animal agriculture generates, etc. It seems completely untenable from my perspective. Which is strange to consider at times, because I was once a huge proponent of eating meat.
Depends on what is doing (see, Tesla sentry mode which keeps the cameras on) but otherwise self-discharge is well under 1%/day for most EVs
I'm sure Mr. Stoner would be very pleased.
You'll quickly run of out 16. You'll always need some apps that are bad at memory management.
You can use JavaScript to help with iteration time: https://github.com/ncsoft/Unreal.js.
I keep a jerry fan on the back of my truck in the parking garage.
With WFH there's this "forced" element to socialisation which I think is a problem.

When we were all working in an office together, the socialisation was way more natural. Someone did something funny, you all laughed together. You made a coffee/tea in the kitchen, had a brief, totally natural & lovely chat with someone, then went back to work.

But with WFH there's no spontaneity. We have a morning meeting with brief status-updates and fixed time for "chit-chat". Everyone just awkwardly goes quiet. What the hell do you talk about in a hangout where you're addressing 20 people?

I think this speaks to the way we form bonds with people. But maybe it's just me.

We form bonds by experiencing stuff together. All of my friends I either went to work with or studied with. We weren't stuck in a room and told "now be friends!" Even my brother-in-law. All the family dinners stuck making small talk couldn't amount to one day when we fixed up a car together.

WFH we've definitely lost the opportunity for those moments. There's social events (lawn bowls lol), but those are often outside of working hours and require people to divert time that could be spent with their own family/friends.
Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them
You sure can keep a couple on your vehicle
+1. Maybe it should be like ham radio, where the association tries to police its own members.
I defaulted on debt and was in the military for a few years after 2008. I challenged my debt and won. When I started fresh I had a 500 credit score (which sounds like what you have). What I learned is that credit offers come to one of two kinds of people: people with really good credit and people with moderately shitty credit. If you have no credit then there's no offer for you. The best way I found to improve my credit was to pay bills. Things like a cellphone, rent, utilities, etc all get reported to credit bureaus.

My working theory is that this case exists because they have no data to calculate and classify risk on you with.