skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agreed.

Electric cars are for the rich. And of course they say it's the future and everyone should do it, without realizing it's literally impossible. No grid in the US could come close to handling that, much less in developing countries.

Not to mention due to range limitations, many people and companies are ruled out automatically.

I don't think electric is bad, or should go away. But it's not meant for the masses. I think H has a brighter future worldwide.
This just sounds like blaming the researchers to me. How would i ever know if my "boring code completion" was actually copyright infringement?

Your argument just disallows discussing the problem while doing absolutely nothing about it.

If you train your dog to NOT attack random passersby and it still does, that dog is euthanized no matter your intentions.
> their “no logs“ policy lets them turn over whatever information $law_enforcement_agency asks for

You're treating this as a "black and white" scenario, which is wrong in my opinion. There are also a few trustworthy VPN services which don't log, and do respect privacy.

However, obviously they can be forced to log your connection, in case a government wants to solve some crime/threat. But this is just the same for VPS providers, so there's no advantage there.
> Removal of color from icons.

Software is getting very depressing as designers decide that everything needs to be shades of grey. It's really sad.
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Oh wow. You’re right. That is dumb. When I glanced over the example config file it looked like frontend and backend was intended to run in parallel (because that would have been the sensible way to design it).

It’s such a shame that the authors aren’t receptive to the problem because the longer they leave it the bigger the issue to change it will be.
The old UI should still be available in the settings. atleast, that's what they promised after the first UI beta

Also Fleet isn't replacing the other IDEs
>It has never taken me more than a few minutes to go through security in a train station in China. You're exaggerating here.

I lived in China for years and I can guarantee you it took me NEVER just few minutes to pass through all checks. But if you visited tier 88 shithole I can see how it's not comparable with Beijing experience.

> In European airports, it can take a good hour to go through security and get to your gate, if you arrive at a busy time.

Hahahah, I just traveled in peak summer season clusterfuck this year and it took me for sure less than 10 minutes to pass through automated ticket gate and immigration check for non schengen flight to get to my security gate at boarding, all while at extremely crowded airport. I can't only imagine what experience it would be off season on Schengen flight.

> However, on a route like Beijing-Shanghai (just over 4 hours), most people would choose to take the train.

Yeah no, I also travelled this route for work few times, each time rather took flight for comparable price than slow train plus the HSR train station is further from city than old airport (which has maglev). So much faster and more comfortable experience for pretty much same price.

> Yes, the German model of open platforms without ticket checks is nicer than the Chinese model of ticket checks in front of the platform, but let's not exaggerate here.

Just out of curiosity how many years have you lived in China? Because I am not exagerating here. No delays. ROFL It must been my imagination to be stuck in middle of nowhere in train for hours, but I guess whether you travel 20 or 25 hours does not make much of an difference in the end, right... Unless you are going towards the most famous tier 1 cities delay was standard with slow trains, for sure worse than European trains at same time. It was well known fact in China trains towards Beijing had always priority because can't arrive in Beijing with delay to lose face, meanwhile facing opposite direction like Xian or Chengdu NGAF.
I just wish the panels would default hide. I run bazel sync and half my window is build logs until I get around to closing them. If it’s not in active use, maybe after 5s, get it out of the way of code.
Mentally 6$ is a lot for a bookmarking service to me at first, but I can imagine getting a lot of value out of it.

> Users will always have access to all of their previously saved content regardless of subscription status.

> There will always be a quick and easy way to export all of your content

I like the respect you're showing your users. I would feel more at ease using a service that I know I could host myself, but this is probably the next best thing.
"Almost 1/3 of San Francisco charging stations are broken"

https://www.electrive.com/2022/05/13/almost-1-3-of-san-franc...

There are... a lot of problems yet to be solved in the perfect electrified future. I hope it happens, if only to move all the pollution from cars to the power plants far away. I have found it hard to discuss the negative / illogical aspects with true believers, which is normally fine, except now the developed world is paying a shitload of taxes to fund the dreams of true believers - logic and economics be damned.
This is like HN candy. Complain about “modern UI trends” even if it isn’t true. Even if you explicitly admit it isn’t true because you speculate it might someday be true. Bash the nearest Electron app that isn’t even involved in the thing being hypothesized about. Modern UI Trends front page post here we go!
The names we have been able to know by now would indicate that theory to be wrong - or Microsoft has a warped idea of what constitutes as a low-performer.
I'm always amazed how little people know about how companies operate. Amazon does the same thing as many many companies and is treated as news. People are shocked that they are profit seeking, that they do barely legal but legal things, that they don't actively knowingly pay their workers more than they have to etc.
> I don’t mind a UI refresh, it’s going to be just like the gmail refresh everyone hated it and now we’re all fine with it.

We are not fine with it. It really sucks. It's just out of our hands.

To this day I hate the gmail interface. It used to be so much better back in the day.
Ask HN: How to Know if We Should Pivot? And What Should We Pivot?
Hi there,

We're building a product called Curator Bio, a bio site for creators to share their curations and get supported directly by their audience.

Why do we want to build this product: https://www.curator.bio/charles/62e2b183/26c2ee8f11

We've built this product for almost 3 months and it has some users and tractions for now, but we expect it still has a long time to go to start making profits because the business model we think is like "Substack", we only receive the subscription fee as you grow and the percentage once you start earning.

However, with limited resources, we found that we might not be able to wait for the day to make a profit. And here is the topic, how to know if we should pivot? and what should we pivot?

Our team all believe the concept of this product is right, but it takes too long to make a profit. So should we keep working on this product but change our business model to a freemium subscription? But maybe this model won't work on this product.

Or should we change to another idea based on the insight we had before, although it's a smaller idea, we think it's more specific and can profit faster.
So company internal proof of work produces UI Components, that over time make a "breaking" change necessary destroying user work worth in the billions and a pr-word of mouth disaster.
Worser still, all those features accumulating over time (nobody deletes codes) destroy the product.
So as a product manager you can
a)

Anticipate it, create UIs that allow for large scale changes without breaking the old user flow and automatically prioritize hotkey-commands by user usage if there is a conflict. You also need to stop the Designers from going amok, rendering the whole tutorial section of your product on youtube obsolete. It will always be a paint point, but as you anticipated the bloat on success you integrated it into the architecture.

b)
Phoenix Lifecycle it. When it all becomes to much, a smaller, more lightweight version of your product emerges out of the ashes, capable of integrating the newest, shiniest changes, without having the weight of all the bloat, it is first ignored, laughed at, finally emulated and it becomes your new product.
There it slowly aggregates the same bloat, waiting for a challenger to appear.
Its inevitable.

Is your IDE still a program, or is it in fact a OS for interacting addons and a really hungry text editor?
Grandfathering in electrical codes seems quite dangerous. At some point wouldn't the city just require it or deem the property unsafe?
Pycharm has always been great at Django. But it’s autocomplete, even for project specific stuff is now superseded by copilot.
The surface of the Earth is the only place we know of where a natural satellite appears exactly the same size as the primary / only star.
Life is too short to spend time just to know what ripgrep is/does.
I mean, yes, you all look so cool and I look so dumb.
But, c'mon, is this software so complex that its description doesn't fit 42 words?
Is like having a shop with no sign and no window. Everyone is saying it's great and worth shopping. But still no sign. Ridiculuos.
Uhm, strangely I get a Connection Reset error in the browser when I try to access the URL from the corporate network, but it works without problems from my phone
Calculators are kind of a special case. When you are not pressing a button they are doing literally nothing, and maintaining the state of the LCD takes only microwatts.

They use so little power that many "solar" calculators are fake, the "solar panel" is decorative only and a hidden button cell battery provides a decade of battery life: https://youtu.be/uLTDuGhqE2w
The electrical code has evolved not only to enrich electricians, but also to provide a safer environment for the occupants of the buildings. So noting/complaining about having to upgrade an 82 year old rental duplex to modern standards because of electric car charging is a little disingenuous. That wiring is already past the end of life and ought to be updated for the safety of the occupants.

But I wouldn't be surprised if the 2023 (maybe 2026) NEC will require at least 30A 240V service to garages with electrical service.
As a counterpoint, even in the public square, not all types of speech are allowed. For a frivolous example, many cities have noise ordinances and laws against breaking the public peace. So you get tossed in jail for a night for being a public nuisance.

We treat Twitter and Internet forums less seriously, as if someone can say whatever the fuck they want with no consequences at all. That’s not how it works in the public square, so why should it be that way on Twitter?
I have customers who have paid me thousands of dollars every month, for years. I haven't met most of them face-to-face. It comes down to trust. Since 2014 I have worked through an agency that takes care of contracts, billing, payment, so that's one route. But even before going on with the agency I never had a problem getting paid.

You should not put yourself in a position where a customer owes you a lot of money. I define "a lot" as an amount I would consider legal action to recover. Charge for deliverables with clear expectations and definition of "done." If you get a sketchy or slow-pay customer who argues about your bills, drop them, they're not worth it.

Anecdotally I have known lots of freelancers in my career and slow pay/no pay is not a big problem for the freelancers who deliver what they promise and avoid the fringe customers. It's the customers who want you to clone eBay for $5,000 in a month who won't pay you. Reputable companies and organizations might take a while to cut a check but they won't screw you.
Hydrogen isn't either. The real solution is to not have so many gas vehicles.

There's also no reason we can't provide charging at destinations rather than homes. Workplaces, shopping centers, etc.

Transit, trains, ebikes, etc. are all significantly more efficient, less polluting, and just better solutions all around.
I too was initially put off by those requirements. Now we run our Nomad server on a single t3.medium instance that sits at a 0.1 15 minute load average and has ~500MB of RAM used.

This manages about 100 client nodes. No need for a cluster since we don't need high availability on our control plane, and there's no actual state stored there that isn't created from our CI pipeline.
> This means Fleet will co-exist with our established products

This means it will take resources away from the development of the established products. You cannot have the cake and eat it.
Is there a side-by-side comparison?
They're just kids. Thrown into a hellscape of their parents' creation :) Do you think they're supposed to just somehow intuit out of thin air that there's such a thing as "literature" and that one is supposed to "understand it"? I thought they were supposed to teach them things like that in school - otherwise what's the excuse for having those classes in the first place?
Unpopular opinion: so the majority has to suffer for the minority? Just give us the option to have both and the users can decide for themselves whether they need a special UI or not.
I have a really good sense of direction.

In the southern hemisphere.

When I travel in the US your "sun in the south at midday" _really_ messes things up.

And when I'm in London and there's no detectable angle to the sun through the clouds, and all medium distance travel happens on the underground, I'm even more completely lost. I have friends in Maida Vale, Edgeware Rd and Marylebone , and I _know_ they're all within walking distance, but there's no way I could dead reckon my way from one to the other. All I know is how to get from there right tube station exit to their houses or nearest pub/cafe...
Yeah what a tumultuous life! Really good insight into the lengths some people go to sabotage their own life in order to feed their addictions.
The git client is easy, the db and docker clients are useful, the kube integration is useful, ideavim is pretty seamless, the autocomplete is great, the jupyter and scientific modes are perfect, the remote debugger and remote interpreter thing is very useful, the debugger is great across languages…I mean there’s so many things that are good and I get them all uniformly across languages without needing to hassle with configurations and plugins.

I did make an attempt to be the million line vimrc, t480, arch Linux guy (from reading HN) for a month or two but I found it was taking up so much time it was basically a hobby. I would rather just have something that works out the box (Mac + jetbrains) and be able to spend work and hobby time coding interesting stuff.

The fancy vim configuration just becomes more and more frustrating the more languages that you use and you start to run into weird things like when you start a new line in markdown the cursor doesn’t start at the same bullet indentation level so now you need to debug which plugin is messing that up.
I agree, especially if you are a landlord.
Because by buying that coin you created money and circumvented all Fiat protection off it.
As an active hoarder I think there is problem with "6. Distribution: Packaging it up in torrents, announcing it somewhere, getting people to spread it.".

I miss a p2p application with torrent packaging and Kademlia like per-file advertising and discovery, where I could point it to my hefty NAS directory of random things and they could be wired to released torrents. This way we could make torrents live much longer, even partially complete. In super extra option the app could even notify me to load DVD because somebody asked for a file which I indexed and advertised previously.

For years my program preferences changed, file locations changed - I have moved files around, made them offline, burned on DVDs, deleted some parts of torrent just to keep interesting stuff. Now these torrents are lost, at least my seeding contribution is gone. But I almost never change the content of these files, their checksum stays the same forever, so they could be still discoverable.

The digital preservation needs better distribution system.
They haven't all been base two (binary.) But the efficiency of designing and building logic circuits for base two won out, soon enough. Building a circuit to say, add or divide numbers in base ten is more awkward, but it has been done. I think base three has been tried, too.
> It would be sad if someone succeeded in shutting down CoPilot for this kind of copyright stuff.

It enables the large scale theft of code. It completely ignores licenses. There are plenty of open source licenses that allow code use with proper attribution yet Copilot doesn't (and probably can't) figure a way to comply with all of them.

Copilot, as the article suggests, is a marketing stunt. To me it's more than that. It's Microsoft pushing the boundaries of law using it's money muscle again. I have been screaming from the rooftops that VSCode was just M$ spyware and I get legitimately made fun of for it. Now we have Copilot as well and they aren't even hiding it.

To address your point more directly if you do any work for monetary gain Copilot is a defacto liability. You can't just take 20 lines of completely stolen code, modify a few things, and call it your own. That's why legal reverse engineering has an entire black-box method of development. QA, researchers, and developers aren't even allowed to talk to each other directly.

I hope Copilot does get shutdown. Along with everything like it. It is one thing to have an AI trained on your workplace's code, or specific code following specific licenses, but the blatant theft of not only licensed open source code, but also private code, is a terrible precedent to have.
'Consider'?

Starlink is a force multiplier which enables Ukraine to maintain informational superiority over Russia, a critical component in the battlefield. $60Billion already going to the other private sector corporations like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon etc, $20 million to Musk is not at all unreasonable
Profanity alert. Don’t read this if you are sensitive.

You. Do. Fucking. Not. Need. An EV charger, to charge your EV. A 110 or 220 outlet with a cord and an adapter will work just fine. Apologies for the US centric terminology but I expect the situation is roughly the same (though numbers vary) elsewhere.

We did TWO Teslas in an apartment for two years sharing (alternating cars) a single plug of a single 110 outlet. It was fine. Yes, on days where you do big trips, there’s a supercharger visit, But normally, an outlet is totally sufficient.

An installed charger does add some very, very minor convenience (no adapter, big deal… not worth the cost). And if it needs to be shared and bills split, that’s different. But for basic charging no special installation is needed as long as you can reach.
Access to patents?
It’s risky to hire an engineer to be solutions architect because they deal with large clients. Most engineers don’t have soft skills and could easily offend people without knowing. Try and have an old colleague that is non-technical refer you. I think it’s a great role to do 1-2 years; especially, if you have strong technicals. Lot of C level roles requires interpersonal skills and dealing with external stakeholders. Don’t worry about it being a downlevel unless your goal is to stay technical your entire career. There are plenty of technical people and not many technical people that can communicate well with non-technical. Figure out what your end goal is.
I get that he does not call out your exact favorites in there but the last few paragraphs talk quite a bit about the potential for energy demand going down for reasons that could be extended or even include yours.

Also I would say passive solar design is only one part (and seemingly becoming less important) of Passivhaus way of building. Why not include all energy efficiency improvements?
It's automatic: all one has to do is specify the sync interval as "hh:mm:ss" for each mirrored repo.
If you are a professional developer, and plan to be working for several decades, is it really that much of an investment to maintain your editor config a la vim or emacs? I did a lot of work setting up vim 10 years ago, and have only had to tweak it since. It works exactly as I expect, anywhere, in a terminal, for free, and setup is as easy as checking out a repo and running a script.

JetBrains is good for stuff I rarely do in the editor, like certain types of debugging, but otherwise feels too heavy, expensive, and hard to configure across installs. Finding a particular config option is always a hunt.
Circadian rhythm disruption: working across many timezones, lack of sleep, etc. could be one explanation. Stress could also be a factor?
There’s a mirror now https://youtu.be/HbeYKOqzBVk
Ask HN: I wanted to delete my OpenAI account but couldn’t. What can I do?
Hi HN. I’ve been contacting OpenAI support but never heard back.

My account is suspended due to the unpaid $0.07 invoice. I couldn’t pay because I live in a country where OpenAI API is not available. Fair enough. Although I've stated that I owned a US LLC and was using the US debit card.

So I wanted to remove all my personal info, including payment methods but I just couldn’t. It keeps throwing the same error message[0]

I send a request asking for account closure. Still never heard anything from them[1]. Like I was shadow-banned or something. What can I do to have my account deleted? I live in Vietnam, so I have something like GDPR rights?

Thanks.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/qwzLcox
[1]: https://imgur.com/a/3OGnKhb
Some of the most bicycle-obsessed people that I know are clearly boomers
Last time I tried remote development with PyCharm was when they released their "Remote development" beta in version 2021.3 [1]. It was a bad experience. Before that they only had some complicated sync workaround for remote development which I could not get used to.

I gave up on remote development with PyCharm and went with VSCode.

Based on your comment it seems they still haven't figured it out?

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/2021-3/#remote-de...
But but if we actually listened to what people saying then how would we achieve mass-hysterical outrage 24/7?
2 things will make this happen:

1. rapidly deteriorating quality of software;
2. The goal of software is shifting from actually solving problems and simplifying workflows to doing data farming and enforcing workflows for people who like control

Lately I am fighting with few organisations who claim they can't do that because their IT system "doesn't have this selection therefore we can not do that" although they are legally obligated to do so.

People are becoming extremely reliant on all sorts of software and amend their own beliefs to adjust to what the IT system tells you.

If you don't find this trend at least severely concerning, I am not sure what it.
What would you think if models were bundled with a second model, the "copyright filter". Just as humans know to keep their creations sufficiently far away from copyrighted material, you could distribute models which are trained on copyrighted materials but know well enough not to produce anything so close so something copyrighted that it infringes.

This would prevent anybody from accidentally infringing when using these tools. Does that seem like a reasonable solution, or is your concern greater than accidental infringement?
I’ve used gmail pretty much since day 1, but I can’t recall any of the previous interfaces. What were the good features of previous ones?
You can prompt with images, which let's you control colour and composition, and with masking you can iteratively work on sections to guide the image to what you are picturing. That can shift the creative part more towards the user.