skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is not modular despite being composed of several individual cells, and often you are not allowed to work on it yourself.

At least with current tech, battery chemistry makes such replacement extremely tricky without a full replacement. You can technically swap individual packs in a Model S/X battery[0], but it'll inevitably die[1][2] because of how voltage balancing works.

Packs each with their own BMS would be interesting but I'm sure the automakers have already considered the tradeoffs for a lot of ideas like this.

0: https://electrek.co/2021/09/13/tesla-battery-pack-replacemen...

1: https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1437607772959428608?s=20&t=...

2: https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1480403593794621442
My (probably useless 2c) opinion is that this something like "cheating", in the sense of conceding defeat and inability to deal with it, in a similar sense to the saying "if you hate something, you are defeated by it".

The stronger way to deal with it is to work out a relationship with the medium that doesn't harm me, and leaves me access to it should that ever be useful someday. Otherwise you're only waiting for the next mega addictive thing (say, TikTok) to come round and facing the same problem all over.

As someone with addiction problems (particularly of the computer variety) I know it's easier said than done, but I see shades of the "abstinence instead of safe sex" argument in there.
Reading what happened to Ouchi makes me think two things:
1. Anyone who has not gotten that far, skip the "Ghastly deaths after the blue glow" part.
2. Euthanasia for someone exposed to lethal radiation should be the recommended treatment. Give the patient a choice, but also the option.
EVs "quick charge" at 350-1000V. The charging stations today typically go up to 350 amps.
> Unfortunately the circumstances where this is useful is very limited.

Even worse: Advancing missile technology has mostly invalidated the need for aircraft in a major war since a long while, and drones will literally sweep what's left of it.

The Iranian drones' amazing performance in Ukraine shows that warfare has changed forever. The drones can travel 1700 km autonomously, very hard to jam, and they are cheaper than the missiles that are used to shoot them. So that at this point you could bankrupt an enemy by just sending drones. If they can destroy them, they go bankrupt due to missile costs. If they cant or dont, you hit all the targets.

The only way to deal with this will be miniaturization of warfare, ie creation of mini drones and mini missiles to hunt drones. Which is still difficult to do and yet to be done because miniaturization is difficult.

Aircraft are old news. If you can destroy a target by sending an autonomous drone that travels 1700km, which costs less than a fraction of one sortie of an aircraft, leave aside the cost of aircraft, its armament and pilot training, it means that drones rule warfare now.
That's one. And, I'll even grant that many bands would like to see their poorer fans get tickets, vs. rich fans (I mean they are still fans, right? Nobody rich is buying a ticket so they can see a band they hate... unless it's a gift. To a fan.). Anyhow that's a really tiny segment of the economy.
Yes, but I don't see that happening in the near and not so near future.
Weakly typed languages are like that, once you start practicing programming as a team sport, the type system is your friend.

Another factor usually ignored, is that when coding as a team, code is read way more often than written/modified.

The success of a language has a lot to do on how easy it is to read code written by others, but without making readability too cumbersome to write for (e.g. AppleScript is easy to read, but hard to write).

Too much flexibility hampers understanding.

It's a balancing act, and in the end, a popularity contest.

The most widely used languages are likely best for most projects. There's a reason why they are successful.
people have like... expectations.

I miss the days where you could hate your users and the code didn't have to like have a SLA.

/s
Yep, uncle died from this late into his 50s.
Between Stellarium and Space Engine, you are in for a treat. Find an object in the sky with the former, and then visit it with the latter.
Electron wins because it allows a single language to do what java failed: write on e, run everywhere.
I'm kinda joking but can the solution be a... Roof? (Like, over the parking lot, place to install solar panels or just a simply a roof from elements?)

Of course, this would probably (?) be a bit absurd for street parking, that's true.
Conspiracy to cover up a mistake, maybe. There's no way to know, but given what is known about the origin of covid it's too plausible to just dismiss. We'll just have to live with the ambiguity.
Lifting weights, kettlebells. Very important to do face pulls, in my opinion, given how much time we spent at a desk and over a computer.
What about smog checks, belts, and making sure the gas tank doesn't dry out?

Also, the transmission for an ICE is far more complicated, fuel pumps could fail, the muffler / exhaust manifold could get knocked off by something, the radiator could leak...

At least one of those things is likely to happen over the 10 year warranty that new car batteries come with (by law, moving forward) in the US.
Oh yeah, only 56% of the world's population live in cities, then lets forget about that.
You're suggesting large scale compromise of millions of voting machines. These machines are heavily guarded and secure. They are audited by members of parties and the civil society. I'm not saying such a thing is impossible but it more or less is.
Do you have a link to the nsp file?
Ultralight dev here-- I remember the KDE days too and have released a fair amount of my software free and open-source.

I had indeed contemplated making Ultralight fully LGPL and charging for support but decided that the incentives really didn't align with making a quality product (quite the opposite-- there would be some motivation to make the product difficult to use to increase revenue which is not something I would ever want to do).

The current license (free for most, but a license is needed past a certain revenue threshold) is my best compromise at making the software free and accessible while still making sure I can keep the lights on and ensure the product continues to be developed into the future.

If you have any concerns about licensing you can always hit me up in our Discord.
Looking into this, I have most of the names wrong. For anyone interested this site is a decent guide to the basics: https://n3b-la.com/mda/
Heap of sand has more parts than ingot of gold.

It doesn't really really matter how many parts you have when your input is made out of rare resources
Before insultingly telling me to “read the fucking article” maybe you should read what I wrote. The article quote is completely unrelated. Of course we don’t have the infrastructure, but what I'm saying is that we can build it, and we don’t need some giant government plan to do it.

> I also don't think that affordable infrastructure actually gets built without government support - but happy to consider any counterexamples.

You’ve never been to a gas station?

This isn’t going to involve blowing holes in mountains. All you need is a wire and a payment system.
Toyota leads the world in developing volume electric vehicles and it's not hard to see the logic of remaining focused on hybrid for the foreseeable future. No one has done more to bring affordable mass market hybrids to market while the BEV world is an endless cycle of hype and overpromising. In most of the world we have massive electricity supply issues and there are huge questions around what problems BEVs are actually solving and the new problems they are creating.

'Here's What It Takes To Recycle 1 EV Battery' https://youtube.com/shorts/Sj5hI_IiQ7A?feature=share
Motorola developed the MC6839 which allowed one to do floating point math with the MC6809. The MC6839 was not a floating point CPU, but an actual 8K ROM of 6809 machine code that implemented floating point math (with position independent code so it could be mapped anywhere in the memory map). This is about the closest I have ever seen of a "software IC" in my life.
not very many. most streets already have power lines. you just need a few extra feet to get to the car.
I feel like this is ultra vires? It's a common sentiment now that just hashing passwords is terrible, but we did this at every startup I worked at previously and it was fine. Is it really an issue? For an early-stage startup, almost nobody sees the app anyways lol--we'd all be lucky if we were popular enough to hack

For my current startup, my cofounder, who is the CTO, insisted we use auth0, so we do, but it's a pain. It's such overhead. Sometimes it's buggy. There is a lot of stuff we have done and (are trying to do) that would have been so much faster to build if we had just done it my way.

I wonder if I am very naive or cavalier about the security risks.
> Kingman was provost at the time, not president...

Oops. I initially wrote "Provost" and then changed it. I gotta learn to trust my gut more.

I stand by the rest of my reply.

> These days, it is common for students to shout down undesired speakers...

And speakers show up to be shouted down. I think all the clapping and pwnage is lame.

But what do I know?

Remember when Bernie got shouted down in Seattle? As a Bernie fan, I was confused. Why would those kids mess with the candidate closest to their own views?

I actually know one of the persons who climbed onto the stage. Afterwards, I asked the Gen Z and Y people I know, and that person on stage, about the incident.

A kid name Xander, who I respected very much, said something very interesting. Paraphrasing: "All politicians should be challenged." So he agreed with the action, despite being a Bernie fan.

I can't speak to what's happening in higher ed. And I really don't, truly don't care. All that drama is just performance art.

But clearly something has changed. Direct action and confrontation are the norms again. For better or worse.
ruzzia propagandist is getting angry - perhaps you should go likeminded Z-forums
I was using a 300 baud acoustic-coupled modem in the late 1970's to connect to Compuserve via Tymnet.

If you were a fast reader you had no problems keeping up with incoming text.
ok please describe in detail or advise where I can get the full ritual of sauna in Finland, that sounds like blast.
Bolsonaro, because Leonardo di Caprio said so /s.
I don't know anyone who uses "Auth" to refer to the right-wing of the political spectrum--where are you located?
Banning political parties would fall afoul of the First Amendment's protections of both free speech and association.

You can possibly remove laws which create specific parties but you can't make creating political parties altogether illegal.
EVs are definitely going to remain a first-world item for my lifetime at least. If everyone other than Toyota goes completely electric, Toyota is going to be the monopoly automaker in every underdeveloped country and will be laughing all the way to the bank. I’m with the Toyota CEO on this one. If you’ve stepped outside a devolved country for even a few days… I just can’t fathom how all-electric is going to be realistic
My Model 100 had a built in 300 baud modem. It was a modular plug vs an acoustic coupler, but still 300 baud.

The nice thing about the terminal program on the 100 was that you could upload text files. So, on a BBS you’d enter New Message, then upload the text file. And it loaded just like typing it in.

No Xmodem or anything, just “type it in”. Not a real problem at 300 baud.

But the nice feature of the 100 was that even though it was a 40 column display, you could set the right margin to something like 78 or 80, and it would word wrap your lines. So it would format fine for the BBS. Hardly rocket science but just super useful.

Also, 300 baud worked really well with a 40 x 8 display. Filled it up “fast enough” vs a 80 x 24 display.

More than usable for BBSing in bed (difficult to do with a VT100).
Sounds like a shitty function. Count your lucky stars it's at least statically typed! TS unfortunately can't solve people not understanding the benefits of a type system as it pertains to foundational design - they have to learn that on their own.
So can I buy VW Jetta for a price of Jetta with a range of Jetta in EV version? I can't.
I wonder what can be done. Will the situation be better If western countries start sending weapons to opposition and Iran becomes like Syria? I personally would love to see the Islamic government get abolished and replaced by a democratic freedom-loving liberal government. However the plans in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria didn't go well to this day.
"Codes" is absolutely standard and common in settings like numeric or scientific computing (like, fluid dynamic simulation, large matrix linear algebra, constrained optimization). You could say this is because that community more often has old people who talk different.

Or, imho, you could imagine that those pieces of code, for doing very precise things under specific constraints (of memory, or CPU, etc) is software that received maybe thousands of person-hours of attention and wisdom, over many years or decades, so they are battle-tested, esteemed, and highly trusted objects. Software that was written in Fortran when Fortran was the only language with good optimizing compiler, and the software is still running in Fortran because the Elders were wiser than we are. A collection of such software is sensibly called “codes”.

Software in many other circumstances is more of a fluid and maleable thing, shifting in form and purpose in response to a changes in needs and fashion. “Code” here is more like air or bread, a medium we inhale and emit, not a collection of specific venerated objects.

Anyway, that’s how I understand the code vs codes divide, having seen both sides of it.
On the other hand, having to learn 17 different DSLs (from crontab to AWS policy) isn't that far fetched from reality and it puts a lot of burden on people. Every product has a specialized DSL with unique restrictions and just never general enough. Stack Overflow is overflowing with such questions. People are thoroughly confused by "127.0.0.1:9090" vs. "127.0.0.1:9090:9090" or "9090:9090" or "0.0.0.0:9090"... docker network configs. Good lord, it is terrible, sorry, not to shed bad light on Docker; but to exemplify that this is a common thing.

One of the worst experiences in programming is writing CI/CD pipelines. One wonders why...
This is my project! I'm extremely happy to see that other people have found my work useful.

The problem that these scripts solve is something that was encountered by my company when trying to enforce git commit signature verifications. We had given out yubikeys to every employee but not kept the public keys after provisioning them! This is a bit problem because it's next to impossible to extract the full public key from a yubikey without knowing three different incantations and the internals of how GnuPG deals with smartcards. That said, I wrote these scripts to automate the re-provisioning of the company's yubikeys (specifically just the PGP applet) so we could have our public keys stored it our own in-house PKI.

Obligatory: if you see any way this project can be improved, please open a pull request. I'm also open to work :)
Apart from this and https://github.com/python-social-auth , which languages have such meta-libraries providing uniform interface to authentication through a lot of social platforms?
This thread has motivated me to try and tackle my current audio drop out problem. Every 5-10 minutes, the audio drops out for a second. I'm currently updating the firmware on my soundbar as a shot in the dark...
This is major issue in my experience. Even introducing new benign chemicals can lead to lengthy reviews and project delays. I've also found that when I've asked directly how to safely handle something the safety people don't have an answer and end up with an extremely conservative approach that doesn't appear to be driven by actual risks (severity or probability).
I learned it takes a lot of grid power to extract, ship, process, store and sell gasoline than it takes to just charge an EV… seems that the reduction of demand of fuel would also reduce grid loads.. plus, just charge at night. cheaper rates usually.
The NYTimes The Daily podcast described the voluntary request as “the state asked people to not charge their EVs” (paraphrase). Poor quality information everywhere.
Yes, object oriented design promised a lot of re-use that never happened (at least not like that).

Instead in the real world, re-use happened via libraries. And very much along the lines you sketched.
March 1979 background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1979_Iranian_Islamic_Rep...

Entire recent generations of Iranians are responsible for this. What did they expect when they voted for an Islamic republic? Sunshine lollipops and rainbows?
Wait till your battery capacity is halved and you have to pay half the price of the car to get it replaced
> The only way our economy works is when there are winners and losers. If everyone’s a winner, the whole thing fails.

If by winning the author means artificially living without constraints and if losing means retaining some restraints then the conclusion might be valid but that is not how this paragraph reads. Winning in life is removing restraints, improving conditions, not trying to drink from the firehose of irrational exuberance. It is absolutely possible to have almost no real losers economically in the current US economic system albeit with unequally positive outcomes. The fact that we do have (economic) losers is a scandal because it’s unnecessary.
That seems overly optimistic. Knowledge can get lost. Both on an individual level and on an organisational level.
it’s going to be cheaper for them to skip out on fossil fuel industry and go EV. It could be more modes of EV than americans are bothered with such as bikes, motorcycles, smaller cars…
The price difference between a new Nissan leaf and a five year old one is currently less than the federal tax subsidy.

Teslas are similar.
Pick an Arduino, enjoy basically the same full control.

The choice of languages is wider, but normally it's the same choice of two, C or assembly.

You can attach more interesting peripherals.
Looks cool. Anyone knows if there's a similar project for webcam privacy? Kinda like "salting" the webcam feed
https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...

^ The article links to this Catalangate rundown, which has more details on the various exploits involved.
India just got a $10K electric car.

https://www.motor1.com/news/613494/tata-tiago-electric-vehic...
ActivityPub for WordPress – Implements ActivityPub on WP Site
I was on ISDN for about a year, using a 3Com modem. Compared to dial-up, it was amazing as the connect time was only 3-4 seconds. No more listening to the buzzy connect sequence trying to guess what rate it would negotiate.

But something happened to the line and BellSouth could not get it working again. After a couple of rounds of "It passes our tests" and "It still doesn't work" I gave up and went to Time-Warner's RoadRunner cable internet.

My ISDN ISP was Uzi Nissan, of nissan-dot-com fame.
Even in the hand, he was laughing while knowing that he lost.

He only freaked out (okay, his eyes did) when he saw her actual hand.
Two reasons:

(1) I've been driving EVs for 8 years now and have yet to see a DC fast charging station at a grocery store. Electrify America uses Wal-Mart and Target as site hosts often, but not everyone does their grocery shopping there. Grocery stores mainly have L2 AC charging stations, which only put about 10 miles of charge in a car in 30 minutes.

(2) DC fast charging stations on almost every charging network will charge idle fees if you remain plugged in after you're done charging, or after a set time like 20-30 minutes, as they want you to move and let the next customer charge their car. So you need to sit in the car and move it when you're done, or it will become unaffordable.
These days you can get a 12 speed Gruppo and get even more favorable gearing ratios, ie 48/30 and 10/36. And it will be lighter than an 11 speed triple.
Remember that if everesting for time you will want as large of an outer ring upfront as possible.
How does this compare against CEF/WebKit/Electron or any other browser security wise?
It is always the individual when they have a choice. The moment you start blaming society or the gods or whatever you have basically given up.
> Technical debt should be managed like credit card debt. Absolutely take it on in emergencies, but build the discipline of paying it down when the emergency has passed.

Technical debt is a misnomer. It's a bit more like 'technical equity'.

It's more equity like in that it doesn't have a fixed interest rate. And if the project your 'technical debt' sits on becomes less valuable, so does the value of dealing with the tech debt.

But I am not sure comparing code smells to concepts in finance is necessarily a good idea.
Hmm, I see. Interesting! I think of regexps as state machines, so I think of the implicit loop to find a starting position as extra complexity, which can give rise to for example performance problems, though it's true that in many languages you can't avoid it.
The kind of operation involved in PF-4 isn't only for manufacturing nuclear weapons, but also all kind of scientific works as well as dismantling warheads or turning plutonium into fuel for peaceful use.
It's hard to take anyone's marzipan seriously, if all the marzipan they sell must be flavored with something. 90 percent of their "marzipan" products are covered in chocolate. If your marzipan is good, other flavors aren't necessary.

Chocolate covered marzipan, yuck!
Flexport is hiring engineers to build technology to power supply chains
Of the cars I've had in the past 15 years, the engine has never been the problem. Routine oil changes, maybe spark plugs, but saying engines need major maintenance just isn't true.

NOW, 2 of the 3 cars I've had in the past 15 years have destroyed their catalytic converters. Almost certainly from the fact that much of their driving is short-quick trips. Catalytic converter can't heat up to optimal temps and burn off residual combustion material.

PHEV almost entirely solve this problem. Run on battery for the short hops. Run on the engine for long trips. Additionally, PHEV can utilize both a smaller ICE engine and run it at more efficient workloads. PHEVs can rely on the electric motor to provide surge capacity during acceleration then recharge during cruising.

On top off all of that, PHEV can do regenerative breaking. An ICE engine has simply no way to recover energy while braking.
> Amazon was never a bookseller.

I remember it differently. Also, actual history is different too.

> Bezos finally decided that his new business would sell books online, because of the large worldwide demand for literature, the low unit price for books, and the huge number of titles available in print.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Amazon#Online_books...
What will happen is lower operating costs, independence of charging, and cheaper repairs will win out with vehicle types are maybe around standard vehicle tradeoffs decided existing carmakers.
Easy. Linus for being insufferable.
Yeah fuck those 20 year olds for not voting on a referendum that happened the year they were born.
Yes-- WebCore has an internal Accessibility API that I'm going to expose in 1.4 to be either handled by the embedder (so you can determine the best way to display / navigate that information) or handled by AppCore (we provide stock implementations of most of the platform API there).
Toyota is different. They’re also making EVs… they’re just not _only_ making EVs. If EVs really start to take off on their own, Toyota will already have multiple offerings to fill that gap
Wait until gas is $10. How much is invested in oil changes over an ICEs life? Thousands of dollars.