skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Battery swap stations are an old idea, but it's really hard to actually pull it off. It requires that all the cars you service have the same battery pack, or that there are at most only a few kinds of battery pack to deal with. The packs have to be stored and charged, so you have the same electrical service requirements plus you need a place to store the batteries, and employees or robots to move them around. You need car owners to accept an ownership model where batteries are leased rather than owned.

Modern EV batteries are almost always liquid cooled, so your removable battery will need some kind of fluid connection that can be disconnected and reconnected without dripping ethylene glycol or whatever on everything, and without getting air bubbles in the line.

Some cars are moving towards structural batteries, which means the car is less sturdy without the battery installed. That might not be a problem if it's just sitting there.

The alternative is to just do DC fast charging, which seems to be good enough for most uses.

Personally I think the long-term solution here is to electrify sections of the major highways at regular intervals, so that cars can charge without stopping. Sweden has some pilot projects involving rails embedded in slots in the road surface. Overhead lines are another option (and they're cheaper), but if they're high enough for trucks to fit, then cars would have to have very tall pantographs to reach.
Teen Arrested in UK, Reportedly in Connection with Rockstar Games Hack
> for safety reasons all the entertainment is paused when they use the public address system.

It's more common for the entertainment to be muted without being paused. I assume that's as a convenience to the passengers.
They would probably notice that but it does seem like some former passenger most likely installed something that's patched into the system. It may just be a recording from a flash drive. Or it could also be more sophisticated and patch into the wifi as well. You could also imagine it having a microphone for added hijinx but none of the interactions seem to suggest that.
Sorry for not linking directly to the source tweet instead of gizmodo:
https://twitter.com/CityPolice/status/1573281533665972225
Typescript is great, for team collaboration, code refactor, etc, but I don't think every project should use it, sometimes javascript is much easier and faster to implement.
Mega landlords own majority of the San Francisco Bay Area
As a sibling commenter pointed out, NIO is already doing this with millions of swaps already in China.

Instead of electrifying roads for cars, why not electrify them for rail cars and trains?
FIPS validation does not have a self certify path
There were also the Atari consoles. The 7800 was contemporary with the NES with slightly better specs, there was also the XEGS, and the Panther was in development at the same time as the SNES before it was cancelled for the Jaguar instead. They all flopped in the market, of course, but Nintendo didn't know that would happen while developing theirs, but they kept their hardware simple rather than ultimately overreaching like the Jaguar.
Sometimes people tuck the grab-loop inside their spray skirt by mistake, which is why it's worth practicing one of the back-up techniques. It's also possible for an improperly burped dry-suit to trap someone in a boat (I know of at least one fatality in this way). I wouldn't expect an instructor to make these mistakes, but it's possible.
Great insight.

The article says "thousands", which makes it difficult to determine how many of the reported excess deaths were due to the heat.
Appreciate your thoughts! The suicide bit was definitely a joke, so no worries there.

I hear what you're saying, and definitely get how the sharing bit that has helped Figma take off like it has is good for the browser. I'm a bit at odds with the industry, though, in that that's probably one of the things I like least about Figma. But a lot of that is because I'm not always the best team player :].

I won't pretend to know enough about what goes into building these programs to say whether the RAM cap or native app collaboration is the more difficult thing to overcome, but it's clear to me that I would prioritize these differently from others.
Meetings?
Many forums prevent you from posting via VPN, and many websites will CAPTCHA or straight-up block you. At least it's becoming obvious at this point: give us your personal data, let us know as much as we can about you, or you are not welcome.
How the Montreal Protocol Helped Save Earth from a Climate Time Bomb
The sysinternals tools make it for me. procexp and procmon are insanely powerful and you can solve really obscure issues really quickly.

I'm on mac right now for my current job, and quite often a few of my cores go nuts due to a kernel_task process which I find it impossible to track down the reason why. Pretty sure I could root cause this in 10 minutes with procexp.
curious how most of the services present nowadays in Internet were already planned in 1994...makes you think where is the innovation?
A genuinely curious question to taxpayers who think they are funding the country:

With 33T debts and deficit spending being the norm, why should I pay taxes? How much of what we pay as taxes actually go to fund "the country"? Part of me still wants to believe I as a responsible citizen should feel good that I pay my taxes but it increasingly feels to me a very small part of what we pay as taxes actually go to things that matter and ultimately deficit spending will be the only way by the time I would be entitled to enjoy some of the social security benefits to fund them.

I live in a state that does not have income taxes.
Secret power players are shaping the Bay Area housing market
I've thought about doing it a few times, but it didn't seem there was much oil in that well.
Actually it is, at least these days.

I tried to use BSD for the past 20 years just to keep my knowledge up to date but only on hobby machines and never for work but frankly gave up using it within the past 5 years.

I don't care about the philosophies as they don't seem to bring much benefit.

What actual benefit do you see with being "more unified"? I never understood that part.

"Better doc" isn't even practical when you google around, you get all the Linux gotchas solved already by someone else when you get far less info on BSD.

And then lack of packages and environments like Docker and Homebrew and all I see is limitations.

The only thing I miss is probably pf firewall but unless I'm running a router to utilize more rules than simple port allowances, ufw is fine enough.

zfs on Ubuntu is darn easy to get started and I just lost much reason to stay with BSD.

And considering that I want to setup monitoring, logging and backing up to a central server to be aligned with other servers, things get pretty tough too.

There were several related topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32369189

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30057549

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22852316

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22024881
Running a Billion Workflows a Month with Netflix Conductor
I don't know if the blame is fzf's or cygwin's, but when i used to use cygwin I would just install everything in Setup, and that meant that i at a certain point i got fzf with (what?) default config.

It was a hot mess and took over several bash/emacs control keys. It did a nice job of searching history, but I hated that it paralyzed my keyboard usage
I work with the creative cloud/suite daily, and judging from what I read on twitter and in various forums, I get the feeling that I must be among the only happy Adobe customers out there.

I appreciate the continual new features and updates (exception: losing the Pantone solid book), but I feel the overall value proposition is better than it’s ever been. I remember spending hundreds annually on design suite upgrades. Now, a regular subscription gets me all of their software, a generous font selection, photoshop brushes, much more.

Taking Adobe for granted and kicking them around online has become a sport for some, but I suspect it’s a very loud but small segment of their customers.
You brought data to a joke fight, how gauche.
Ya, hesitated due to not wanting to steal OP's thunder. But it's on topic.
This article is centered around a report from Mozilla without actually linking to it... Here is the original report

https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/
Strong Ken M vibes here.
Shen Yu was remembered as the one who conquered flood for the first time in history by accommodating, rather than blocking the river flows, which might be why it's chosen.

Just my 2 cents.
Old-school monolith architecture with not-so-boring technology. I went the same path for a project, but in hindsight I would chose popular, well maintained, not necessarily boring, technology and a cloud architecture for most use cases I can think of.
> I have a fair amount of karma here so what does that say about hackernews

That you (in)frequently post spicy hot takes.
Long range riflery is a wicked fun hobby if you're into engineering and/or physics at all.

The hardest part is finding a range that lets you shoot past 300 yards, is near your house, and doesn't require a pricey membership!
Check out https://www.pythonweekly.com/, which includes AI/ML stuff every week.
Sounds like your typical sweatshop.
Well I've just had the weekly "why can't you come here" call with my forign gf, failed to deliver on the couple tickets I have open at work, and posted my daily "barf into ~/stuff/*.c" to /prog/ so lets go through and read this instead of going and being with people.

TFA has no bill number so lets see if we can find it. Actually no, I'm not seeing it. Someone send me an HR? I'll update my comment if you do.
Here's one I'm quickly finding tedious in Fedora:

"Chery"

I'm misspelling CherryTree.

Instead of getting note taking software, VLC starts playing "11 - Pulmonary Archery (Explicit).flac"

This is annoying not just because it's not what I wanted, but also because I already have music playing, music which is now abruptly cut off.
> Is there an MD5 hash string that hashes to itself?

That’s calculable in cpu hours, not GPU years. If the answer is one then you’re done. If it’s not then you test N=2 in 4 GPU years, rather than 8. As N increases the answer becomes less interesting, and the cost goes quadratic.
Remember recently when a Netflix got sued by Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, because they showed Sherlock Holmes being emotional? The argument was that while the early Sherlock stories were in the public domain, it wasn't until the later stories that Sherlock showed more emotion, and those later stories are not yet in the public domain.
> may need to rethink electricity pricing structures as their EV charging needs increase

Duh.

With the ramp up of solar production and the increase of EV demand, there will certainly need to be pricing changes, or simply more people will need to pay more dynamic rates. This will easily shift behaviors, really simple economics at work here.

“At night” is a bad title. People need to not charge their EV right when they get home in the evening which is near peak energy usage, there needs to either be a delay circuit to actually charge at night during the usage minimum (which will actually lower costs and make things more efficient) or during the ever increasing daily solar maximum which is somewhat earlier than the daily usage maximum.

We don’t need rules or morality here, just pricing that motivates people to match their behavior to demand.

Really though charging at home should be fine as long as there’s a “wait until 10pm to save $2” button, or whatever.

It really would be better because raising grid utilization during idle times really helps efficiency.

Some California live power production and usage data:

https://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/Pages/supply.html

TL;DR plug in your car when you go to bed, not when you get home from work.
no because that doesn't just work and involves additional work. A lot of additional work.

Because it mustn't "just work" and then when the project grows you setup something new. It must "just work" and then scale to continue working for the initial and maybe all phases of the software product.

So e.g. security matters, so you rally don't want to maintain an OS. Sure a OCI image has OS like properties, but by using stateless approaches and carefully select a very thin base image and rebuild it automatically with the newest version of the image you can sidestep most of that work load.

Then you need auto scaling.

Then you need to be able to add services on the fly without problems (e.g. another DB) and they need to have their own scaling.

Then there is networking, as you don't create a super complex applications you don't need anything complex but still something solid.

fly.io does provide all that

So not only can you get something running trivially, you can the incrementally improve on it and even ship it in many cases without needing to re-design your deployment.

Looks tbh. pretty grate for small and mid sized companies (or autonomous project of such size in larger companies).
You want firebase?
I wonder if it isn't intentional (human or ghost). Maybe there's a common device to blame.
Privacy Redirect: Redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and more to privacy friendly alternatives.

https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect...
You're right, I forgot because I have just used my phone the last few years. Now I remember I always found it incredibly annoying because I'd miss part of the dialogue of what I was watching.
> Other people are interested in character development, world building, and storytelling. He is saying the show panders to the first group while neglecting the second.

And other people are saying that nothing happens, that it's all character introduction and setup. Peoples' complaints aren't very consistent
When the first explanation fails, it’s aliens!
- Early access. Back in the day the dev would pay you with a free copy of the game for helping with the beta. Now you pay the dev for the privilege of helping with the beta.

- Cosmetics. Tons of games have stuff you can buy (equipment, skins, etc.) to make your character look cool. Extra stuff that can be developed easily by an artist, doesn't affect game balance, and sometimes even costs real money.

- Battle pass. I've never bought one but I think you get stuff on two tracks for progression, a free track and a paid track. Progression resets and there are new tracks like 4 times a year or something. Makes people want to open their wallets for the paid track due to FOMO and "...but I already earned it!"

I think if you switch from free to paid you immediately get all the stuff on the paid track you've already progressed past. Also I think they want to charge you $10 four times a year, every time the new tracks come out.

- itch.io -- Sort of like Steam / Epic / GOG for indie developers too small to be on those sites yet.
It's the ecosystem things like Upstash Redis Database, edgeDB
The important thing is how the law is interpreted. In Florida, "Obscene" is being interpreted (and in some cases written into statute) as far more than just pornagraphic, with the express intent that people like you can motte-bailey like this and claim that it's "just" banning pornography, when it isn't.

For example, the graphic novel "Gender Queer" has been banned under the broad brush of "pornography" in Florida, when it's educational and certainly not intended to grant anyone sexual satisfaction. The key thing is that cis- and hetero-normative "obscenity", like an anatomy textbook is likely acceptable, but the same images in a book that described queerness would not be.

Specifically, to use your source, none of the books banned in Florida would pass the Miller test as all of them taken as a whole, posses "serious artistic, political, or scientific value", and few are "prurient" in nature, nor do they describe sexual conduct in a "patently offensive" way.

To use the examples from above, Kite Runner and Beloved are both critically acclaimed, award-winning novels, to claim they have no artistic merit is...simply wrong.
> The new save dialog is insane. No, I don't want to save a copy just because I want to save a jpeg. Why is this even a question?

I don't like the new save/load stuff either, and much prefer the old versions you can toggle, but that does bring up the fact that /you can toggle stuff/ and really customize the app to your preferences. I don't know any other visual creative tools with the depth of customization that Photoshop affords, between the fully modular GUI, actions, etc. A side note: jpgs saving as a copy has always been the default when you're working with a psd. There used to be a way to turn off the 'copy' appendage (like you can when duplicating layers), but I can't remember if it's still there.

> I know you can duplicate a layer - but not to a different document.

You can, actually! Been able to for a very long time. Right-click on the layer > Duplicate layer > Destination > Document. Pick another document you have open or create a new one with that layer. Pretty handy!
Thanks for sharing. Appreciate your response and experience.

What do you mean by ‘well implemented contingency thinking’?
Ask HN: Quick question for solo developers (one-man teams)
What do you use to manage your multiple side projects, brainstorm and explore ideas, track goals, and plan out tasks for apps? Thanks!
I still can't be logged into multiple Teams accounts from my Windows desktop - but I can from my iOS phone! A Microsoft product that works more cleanly on Apple iOS than it's own Windows.

When you're a consultant working with multiple companies, it's vital to be able to access multiple Teams accounts. Now I have to log out and log in to the various accounts, or use the browser version.

Then fun ensues when you schedule a Teams meeting in Outlook and you don't remember which Teams account you were logged into - I've connected to my own meeting, and I (along with everyone else in the meeting) is waiting for the host (me) to start the meeting - but I created it while logged into some other Teams account. Now I have to log out and log in and try to find the right account.

There also needs to be a way to have it sort the attendee list by the ORDER THEY JOINED. Most recent people at the bottom. Right now, it sorts by name and I have to keep scrolling the list of attendees, which keeps changing as people join, and try to figure out if the person(s) I am waiting for are there.
Increased popularity isn't an ulterior (meaning hidden) motive, it's explicitly the foundation for democracy. The whole premise is that we exploit human selfishness for net good by setting up a system that (in theory) rewards making the largest number of people happy. There's nothing ulterior about that motive, it's the point.

Where things go wrong is when money becomes involved, because then the system rewards making the wealthiest people happy, not the largest number. That's an ulterior motive.
I just tested and I couldn't get it to appear when using Firefox on macOS or Windows or under Edge on macOS, but it appeared right away under Edge for Windows[0] and Safari on macOS[1]. So it seems that they target default browser configs specifically.

On iOS in a private tab, Google doesn't try to push Chrome but instead the Google app, which functions as a browser.

[0]: https://i.ibb.co/Htk645k/Screenshot-2022-09-23-183455.png
[1]: https://i.ibb.co/thnRN7P/Screenshot-2022-09-23-at-6-42-14-PM...
"securing open source software act" would rationally mean funding the NSA or similar experts to help harden open source software, right? Or, hey, telling the NSA to disclose vulnerabilities they find in open source software so they can be patched, instead of sitting on them hoping nobody else notices. Right? No? Wait, what? It's just about telling the federal government to use less open source software? How does that make open source software more secure?
Firewalla has been a good experience for me so far.
The PRISM "conspiracy" was very shady and involved probably hundreds of employees. And if they have hushed people punching holes for the government, it's not crazy to think some data could leak out into other parts of their pipelines too.

I'm not claiming this is real, but I agree with GP.
Weed is More popular with their staff. Politicians tend to prefer blow.
Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends (Or Family, Customers or Communities)
> there almost certainly won't be a way to migrate passkeys from Apple's or Google's keychains to 1password

If that happens it will be 100% the fault of those specific passkey implementations. There's no reason why exporting a passkey database should be any more difficult than exporting a password database.

That isn't to say I disagree with you though.
Yeah, I hate the cloud saving too. Fortunately that's something you can customize: Preferences > File Handling > Default File Location.

There are a lot of other useful settings in that panel for people (like me) who don't like a lot of the changes that have come down with Creative Cloud file handling.
26 U.S.C. § 5845

(f) For the purposes of the National Firearms Act, the term “Destructive Device” means:

(2) Any type of weapon by whatever name known which will, or which may readily be converted to expel a projectile, by the action of an explosive or other propellant, the barrel or barrels of which have a bore greater than one-half inch in diameter.
And you are only thinking in terms of rich home owners. I get paid verg well and I still can't afford a house. How am I going to charge at an apartment? Do you think they will spend millions converting every parking lot into a charger and maintaining it? Or would I have to stand in line at a charging station? This is one the main reasons I vehemently oppose any idea that promotes electric cars the way they are. We still don't get public transport and only you folks who are rich or inherited a house can afford basic transportation if fossil fuel cars go away anytime in the next 10-15 years.

I uber just fine to work the few times I go in, when I need a car it is to drive long distances and it sucks waiting every few hundred miles in a queue then an hour to charge. It sucks getting stuck in the middle of nowhere because the mountain road took too much energy than what the battery meter anticipated. It sucks being late to important appointments if I forgot to charge or there is some technical issue with the charging. All of this and more can be avoided by just swapping the batteries and they are already doing this in china.

> Imagine how much more the car will cost to support this complexity, and for what benefit? Saving a few hours per year? I won't pay the additional thousands of dollars for the "swappable battery" ...

Ugh, NIO is already doing this in China and I'm pretty sure it's cheaper. Also, the government is literally spending hundreds of billions to subsidize electric car infrastructure so if it wasn't for the sentiment you and others have that convinced politicians we could be getting swappable batteries.

Until then, as much as I am for climate change prevention I will fight against electric cars the way they are. Maybe when charging a car fully takes less than 5 minutes and charging stations are at least have as abundant as gas stations (regardless of how far a full charge takes you) I can support this. China and all the countries that follow them will beat us again on this as well because while we are busy debating why not they are actually getting things done.
I will check it out—thanks for the tip!
I was talking about basic string hashing (not images), so I guess that would be even simpler.

> I can retroactively adjust the hex digits in the image without affecting the resultant hash

My point is: I give you a hash H, can you generate a collision by finding a string X, so that when I append an (unknown to you) salt S then MD5(X + S) = H.

EDIT: To make it clear, the only feedback you get when you try X is whether the final hash matches, you don't get the resulting hash each time.