skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming this statement is about the shortage of battery components and that over generational time scales we'll run out of the parts for that, since otherwise it's very similar components between ICE vs EV.

Lead acid batteries are recycled at a rate of ~99%[0], is there a good argument for why we won't end in a similar regulatory environment for other transport scale batteries?

I'm a big fan of non-car solutions (I just biked back from my neighborhood grocery store), but if someone's gonna buy a car, I'd rather it not be combusting continuously to run.

[0]https://www.energy-storage.news/lead-acid-batteries-are-us-m...
> In Canada immigrants vote for the Liberal party who are currently in power. It doesn't take long before many of those immigrants forget their past and vote against their best interest for the Conservative party

I suspect these folks know what’s in their own best interest, and the problem is instead that you fail to perceive that brown people aren’t all the same and don’t all have the same interests.
You need to stop playing Sim City, walkable cities are a fantasy in the US. You need broad political support to basically redesign every city outside NYC and some parts of SF, Seattle, and Boston. It will never happen.
Several years ago I wrote a couple of articles for a luxury magazine that you could only get with a $500+/year newspaper subscription, and the newspaper itself was a luxury product before it went downmarket to access a more aspirational readership.

The big question is what concepts like luxury and premium really mean. There's an "I know it when I see it," aspect to it, and when it's not real, it seems cheap. While making a living in the early 00's as a vulnerability researcher and pen-tester, I moonlighted as a writer and was part of a clique of fashion writers who had access to events, products, and perks from global luxury brands and haute fashion houses, and what I learned from it is that when people use words like "cool" and "sexy" what they mean is "powerful." The question of what luxury is is whether it signals alignment to power, and not just narrative, but to the only real power that prevails, which is human desire.

Trouble is, what's changed in the last decade or so is that the people who are powerful now are no longer desirable. They have no eros. Politicians are mostly vapid, unattractive celebrities mouthing talking points like actors, and desirable celebrities like actors and musicians are just disposable commodities. Tech has produced a superclass of uncanny and unfuckable weirdos who regular people don't even envy because even for the billions of dollars, nobody wants to be like them. I think a fundamental disconnect between power and desire has emerged, where undesirable people have the reins of power, and all of our media is produced based what somebody thinks someone else -should- want. The result is that our current media is a reflected simulacrum of art that is not the product of a single persons actual belief or love, and it doesn't bear fruit in the form of inspiration to others. The culture changed from admiring and appreciating artists to competing to worship gatekeepers for access to attention, and the media business of mediating art is spectacularly dead.

The only true luxury now is privacy, which is "free to those who can afford it, and very expensive to those who can't," and that's the one thing a mass media business cannot survive in. It's also the one thing that these new undesirable powers can't tolerate, because a place for sharing genuine desire necessarily excludes them. Luxury media now is the ability to access niche views based on your level of competence or education, free from the compromises and hustles of mobs and influencers. It's practically membership in a conspiracy. Maybe that's the play. A conspiracy of craft, maybe.
I always thought it interesting how most tech companies prioritize shrinking the hardware but GPU's seem to be an exception.
From now on, we mount the motherboard on the GPU.
Electricity is analogous to the the road that you traveled on to the way to the party.

> Is it out of the realm of possibility that a conscientious electrical supplier might not want to power a racist's computer?

Isn’t this the case that these same people are making for why ISPs should NOT be neutral, even though they’re much more like electricity and roads than private garden parties?
CNN says Iran's president tried to make a hijab condition for Amanpour interview
The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire
You’re asking if Motorola can’t just sell a phone that cannot run most of published android apps out of the box.

> unless an alternative ecosystem is created

That can’t happen while Google is free to do anything to crush potential competitors (they’re also found bullying makers out of bundling stuff like third party stores on their phones, and the chinese makers seem to be the only ones getting away with it), so the only way out is basically to lawsuit the hell out of the situation.
Musk’s service will never fly, it’s pure fantasy. There’s no way that governments are going to allow an ICBM through their airspace just because some businessman is willing to risk his life to get to a meeting on time. To say nothing of the environmental costs.
If the government is regulating speech via dependent proxies, that is in violation of the First Amendment. There is actually developed case law as to what constitutes sufficient government coercion that turns a third party into a state actor, and some of things that have been done actually cut close enough to that threshold to be viably argued at trial.

The problem is that no one filing these various cases against social media is properly alleging sufficient facts to suggest government coercion: it's that Twitter (et al.) are state actors because §230, or yappy politician said they should do this [1], or even merely arguing that First Amendment applies to social media absent showing of state actor just because. All of which are stupid arguments so facially wrong that they're not going to survive a motion to dismiss.

[1] While threatening legislation is in fact illegal government coercion, this needs to be understood on the same grounds as true threats: namely, it has to be reasonably believed and understood to be a specific threat, and not hyperbole or puffery or the like. Also, and there are some people who fail to recognize the basic linearity of time, a supposed threat made after the action in question was taken cannot have been a cause of that action.
Does the bill in fact restrict anyone from saying the word "gay"? If not, continuing to use the misnomer is spreading misinformation.
>You buy a CD and dub the CD onto a blank MD. It'll still sound better than a cassette by a lot. Pre-recorded MDs were a rarity even in Japan.

Ah, ok, I didn't get this part. Were the blank MDs overpriced?
Recommendations for Corporate Taxes?
Hi startups! We're in the market for a new corporate tax service? We've used GBS taxkeeping in the past and loved them, but they were horrible to us this year.

They charged us for a basic tax service, and then told us that we needed to pay $350 extra (because we had over $5000 in expenses for our startup and their pricing was based on net income) after we'd already started the process with them and been working together for six months. This was even though we'd had $5000 in expenses for every previous year. We asked if they could waive the unexpected fee and they refused and then accused us of bullying them when we expressed our frustration with the unexpected expenses. They claimed that they'd "been kind" in previous years. A little confusing to see how they'd been kind since they'd simply never told us that additional expense cost extra money.

Would love to hear if anyone can recommend another company that's more transparent about pricing? Sad to see such a great company try to do dishonest upselling after having a great relationship for so many years.

Thanks for your recommendations!
>Obviously.

Apparently not, as you insist on only a single value in your own post.

> The number I suggested is 1) an upper limit not a lower limit

How is that related to anything? Did you consider going even faster in rain and snow?
Doesn't seem odd to me at all. Growing up, I almost never heard my teachers talk about their partners or spouses or romantic relationships. I remember my year 6 teacher got married and decided to change her surname as a result – but that's all I can remember ever hearing about her marriage, and if she hadn't decided to change her surname, I doubt I would have heard about it at all.

Even now, we know very little about the romantic lives of our son's teachers – and I expect our son knows even less than we do. Even when we do know things, it is through gossip among parents, or socialising with teachers – not from teachers telling the children about it in class.
That’s cool but I don’t think it’s very useful once you’re familiar with the codebase. It’s quicker to scan the code at that point.

If it could give you some context about the implications I could see it being handy for static analysis one day.
No, we're designed to do it in all of our skeletal muscle
And OpenArt, PromptBase, PromptHero, Libraire… and who knows how many more will pop up in the next months… or shall I say hours ;-)?
The governments of Chile and Bolivia afe now far-left. I wonder what their stance is on extractive industries?
> Most non ARM devices can be fully unlocked to run bare metal linux. Just https://mrchromebox.tech/

The fact that you can unlock it and run regular Linux isn't really the point. Selling a laptop that is pre-loaded with ChromeOS means that it's intended that buyers actually run ChromeOS on it, and I expect most that buy it, will (otherwise they would just get the regular or DIY version). Framework simply endorsing ChromeOS in this fashion is enough of a problem.

> Though there are certain privacy issues that may be warranted, you seems to make remarks without base.

I don't think that's the case, and nothing you've written here seems to contradict what I've said.

> One will always get locked to some ecosystem. Some friends use Facebook as photo storage as REAL-WORLD-USERS do not want to run NAS, RAID, off-site backup. Others having $$$ have iCloud.

That doesn't have to be the state of the world, though. I think all of that is not great, and the solution isn't just to throw up our hands and endorse closed-ecosystem environments.

There are other, less-extreme options in between "I live inside Facebook" and "I run a home server and NAS and host my own social network at home". Unfortunately many of them still aren't quite user-friendly -- though some are -- and the Facebooks of the world wield far too much market power.

> Lets be honest, Framework knows what is IMPORTANT for themselves than you.

You seem to be unreasonably angry over what I said. Maybe cool off a bit? I even acknowledged that there might be good reasons for Framework's business to offer ChromeOS as a product, but you seem to have intentionally ignored that bit.
Ok, but if they allowed users to do any moderation at all they would be putting themselves in legal jeopardy. And lets be real, 99% of moderation is done by users.
> Political prisoners are people imprisoned for their speech and influence.

If so, that is the clearest violation of the 1st amendment. A common misunderstanding is that there is no unfettered right to free speech anywhere, anytime, free of any consequence. The 1st amendment only guarantees that the government shall not impose consequences based on speech alone (with the exception of the crowded movie theater example or incitements to imminent violence). That is very different from a movie theater asking someone to leave because they are talking (which the movie theater is perfectly in their right to deny service to anyone)

AFAIK, all Jan 6 convictions have been for trespass, obstruction of government, assault, etc.. If you know of any examples that do not fall into similar categories, that would be extremely interesting.
This is partly incorrect -- USDC is regulated and audited. You're confusing it with Tether

https://www.circle.com/blog/how-to-build-trust-usdc-audits-a...
How would that work? I admit I never even thought of PCIe cables, thought it was always just a physical slot you have to put stuff in.
I can't decipher if this is a satire or not. It reads like it was written by a character from Silicon Valley series.
Yeahhhh...I recently merged a PR that should fix this though! let me know if it's still performing badly!

https://github.com/steven-tey/dub/pull/13
> Both of these concepts have been considered unethical.

Considered unethical by who? I wouldn't classify me disagreeing with those who consider those two concepts as unethical as a "lack of understanding"
That's a great angle, hasn't thought about it like that. I'm not sure it solves the "stack" problem that alternatives would face. Would that go so far as to regulate payment processors that are accepting and handling payments via internet?
Also, governments are just about the last organization on earth who should be trusted to be the sole arbiters and deciders of what The Science™ is, and who may and may not question it and in what manner.

Truth (and therefore science) is the most powerful tools we have to hold corrupt tyrants and authoritarians who would rule us to account. It's not ta all disturbing or surprising to me to see the ruling government/corporate power structure censor and bully and attack anybody questioning their authority. This is what these people do, it's their nature.

What was disturbing to me was how many self-proclaimed people of science, brave resisters of government and corporate abuse, and fighters for rights and freedom immediately turned into government apologists and bullies.
They are obligated by law to do what they said they would, even at their cost, if above and beyond what they expected and not covered by the contact as a cost-plus, or risk losing their contractors license and being civilly liable. At least in the vast majority of US jurisdictions.

You saved them a lot of hassle by being flexible, but were under no obligation to be.

Smart contractors build in the odds of this happening in their contracts. Dumb ones expect everything to go right all the time, and then try to run away or cheat when it doesn’t. Or lose their shirts.
Not only that, I don't go on the docs to find the most optimized design on factorio like I have to do on code. 90% of the fun to me is to arise at those designs by myself.

Jank is fun on your factory, not so much on a company product :)
Everyone has to start somewhere. These young lads “worked around” couple of educational platforms. 35 years ago I was hex dumping ZX Spectrum game saves and disassembling the program files to get more lives, infinite lives or just more ammo or whatever. That seemed easier and more interesting than getting good at games themselves.

I sometimes wonder if that kind of “not approved” intellectual curiosity can be used to augment education. Sort of like having old school alarm clocks that are designed to be disassembled.
If you Google "0x5f3759df" and the first result is the Fast Inverse Square Root wikipedia article.

Other similar situations would probably confused it, but 0x5f3759df is pretty famous at this point.
The most expensive part of GPU operation (power-wise) isn't computation, it's actually moving information around.

Moving the GPU further away from the CPU and storage is going to lead to worse latency and power requirements.

Over the next 10-15 years, we'll probably see CPU+GPU packages become mainstream instead of CPU (with basic integrated graphics) and a separate GPU.
Nobody wants a small gpu.
You had it right at the first sentence. Becoming publicly listed at a time when total garbage was getting on the market via SPACs (which is what NuScale did) is not validation of anything.

Boom has a 99.999% chance of failing. Without an engine lined up, they aren't even in the business they're claiming they are, and haven't been for years.
I'm not sure where you got this info from but my relatives in the US sends money via Xoom. Nobody's touching crypto.
One doesn't have to trust that at all. One would be a fool to. If this is what the system is than it should fall apart.
The trust is not deserved, the original intent was malicious, and the whole system is a rotting corpse.
EVs don't work by burning lithium into the atmosphere.
It may be royalty free but it's not truly open — there's an annual administration fee for hardware implementors to get a license (TVs/SOCs): https://hdr10plus.org/license-program/
Honestly kind of impressed that the HegartyMaths guy independently found this and then handled it without (explicitly) threatening to sue you.
historically cases had a bracket at the front to support full length cards. I even remember I once had a reference amd card that had an odd extension so that it would be supported by the forward full length brackets.

I have to admit I have not seen that front bracket for a long time. some server chassis have a bar across the top to support large cards. this would bet great except gfx card manufacturers like to exceed the pci spec for height. that bar had to be removed on my last two builds. now days I just put my case horizontal and pray.
Having worked in a fuel cell lab, and remembering when the gas companies were toting fuel cell's as the red herring back in the aughts I find it very funny that we're still holding off on electrifying cars for the hope that fuel cells might finally start to be even remotely useful for personal transport.

If you want to make an argument at the grid scale, go ahead, but hydrogen's just too big a pain in the butt to work with.
I did CS at University of Washington in the early 2000s and I still have nightmares about it. I loved the coursework itself, but the whole meta game of the program was pretty traumatizing.

They (along with some other STEM programs) used first and second year calculus and physics courses to select who they would admit. So you needed to be within some top percentile of the students in those courses at the end of your second year or else you would need to transfer schools or choose a different major.

On top of this, the course registration system was similar to trying to get a PS5 on launch day. If you didn’t get your courses registered without time conflicts within 5 minutes of opening well, better luck next quarter. And then if you didn’t get the course you needed this quarter then you were at risk of having to overload yourself the following quarter to get back on track.

One strategy to mitigate the registration crunch was to sign up for more courses than you actually intended to take. You had a grace period of I think a week during which you could drop a course with no consequence (and folks on the wait list could take your place). This mechanic is the source of my recurring nightmares. In my dreams, I forget to drop the extra course in my schedule, and I only realize it after the second midterm.
I use this link, it's just what you liked in reverse chronological order woth some ads: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

I unfriend and unsubscribe from everything/anyone annoying.
Yeah, I do that for a long time. Had a few accidents where I panicked until it turned out the card was just sagging and the PCIe connection was being stopped.

After it happened the 3rd time I just cleaned up a little space and put the PC lying on its side. Zero problems since then.
Abundance doesnt mean its easy or clean to mine. Al is one the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust, but extracting it is brutally destructive.

Now, you can say the same thing for oil. Sure. But EVs are bad for the environment and its not obvious they're even a net good.
The only people crazy enough to drive in Boston would be rideshare people.
I can assume why, but ports 80 and 443 make it a no go a lot of places.
... It's an element? Do you mean are there losses/leaks in the recycle/process/usage loop?
Here's a nice intro to some of the difficulties in researching exercise science: https://sci-fit.net/research-limitations/ For more, the Stronger by Science podcast regularly discusses methodology.
this interview process is biased against people who hate video games
I wonder why it is surprising,

It is basically saying like "most rich people have a high resolution TV."
Here is an LTT video about how many PCI-E extensions one can daisychain without problems.

The limit is around 3 meters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5xvwPa3r7M
Lead acid batteries have an energy density about 1/10th that of lithium ion.

Perhaps enough for some uses, but challenging for most cars.
That's a bit of an uncharitable interpretation of what I said. I have nothing against immigration. The US was built by immigrants, and continues to be built by immigrants. My ancestors have been in the US for only a little over 100 years, and I've benefited greatly from the lack of immigration controls we had a century ago.

My point was simply that the poster I originally replied to seemed to be taking the angle that the US is pretty much the only game in town if you want "social and political stability, less crime, and generally fewer risks in life" (their words). That's demonstrably untrue! Many countries other than the US provide those things, and many of them treat potential immigrants (especially those with in-demand professional qualifications) a lot better than the US government does. I can certainly understand someone wanting to move to the US, specifically, for whatever reason, but if the goal is just to move from somewhere socially/politically unstable, with lots of crime and risks to life, to somewhere that is... not that... then there are many great choices that are not the US.

The reason I bring that up is because I have quite a few close friends who are in various stages of US immigration, some on H-1Bs for over a decade now, and I wouldn't wish that level of life uncertainty on anyone. They've chosen to stick it out over time until they get their green cards, but if someone is considering getting an H-1B today, especially if they are from a country with a huge green card line, I would probably try to dissuade them, as there are many other options with a great quality of life, where they wouldn't have to feel like their held hostage to the US immigration system -- and, by extension, the employer sponsoring their visa.
Because school is horrifying! Why would anyone even wonder about that? Being tortured for 10-14 years, and all of this while being young and full of hopes too!
A tool that could provide example inputs for Regex could be really useful. Especially if it could also provide similar examples inputs where it doesn't match and evaluate edge cases.
there are PCIe riser cables that you can imagine as an extension cord for a PCIe slot. they're popular in some thin server chassis or in miniITX builds where the form factor dictates the GPU must be in a certain orientation to fit.

there's also the method of external GPUs via Thunderbolt (which carries PCIe) that is more practical for putting a GPU in an entirely separate enclosure
I am the TypeScript client author here. Tigris exposes native HTTP apis and we have openapi YAML available at https://github.com/tigrisdata/tigris-api/blob/main/server/v1...

The native Javascript SDK is on our roadmap. In the meantime if you would like you can generate Javascript client using openapi generator such as https://blog.logrocket.com/generating-integrating-openapi-se...

We would be happy to accept your contribution.
I think you passed the take home interview and phone screen for this company.
There's a lot there, but you know, I'm just tired of seeing people die from what are almost certainly (vaccine) preventable illnesses. I've stood in enough funeral processions. I wonder if there is any way for the government to try and prevent that? It seems like they attempted to work with private companies (and passed no laws to coerce them into it). And what about the companies? Perhaps they agreed with those in government they were in contact with and worked to police their platforms. Would that look much different from coercion?