skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get that logic. If people wanted cheap, low-powered cars, they would just use golf carts. If Tesla focused on that market, it would be nothing but just a prototype in someone else's garage.

It's plenty obvious that the only way that EV would have a chance is if they went upmarket and sold to the people willing to pay a premium. People who care about "affordability" are almost by definition the last in the adoption curve.

Now, one could argue that "regulation could help force the manufacturers to push for EV", to which I'd respond "If regulation can do this much, why not just push for regulation that gets the US rid of car-dependency altogether?"
Everyone loves the smell of their own brand!
Sophomore year in college (‘97) was the height of LAN parties for me. Our dorm building wasn’t wired for internet yet so about 12 of us got together and took it upon ourselves to create our own network. We cajoled the NetOps dept at UCSD to give us old repeaters and bought a ton of BNC wire to connect everyone. Of course the facilities dept didn’t like rogue wiring running all over the massive dorm complex so they would cut down the wires, which started a months long escalating battle of more cleverly concealing them. Eventually we found the paint company the school used, ordered the same color/finish, masterfully camouflaged any exposed wires, and the network never went down again.

So many nights of Diablo, Quake, Red Alert, Doom and the genuine excitement across the network when connecting a new dorm apartment are memories seared into my brain.
Show HN: I’m building an uniform blockchain API service
I have to interact with a lot of blockchains in my work and it is really painful. They have different structures, different endpoints, return a lot of noise (transactions that are not value transfers) and existing API services are PITA as well.

So I built my own service in hopes it will make someone's life a little bit easier, I learn something new and if that doesn’t work out I’ll have a bunch of code to show when looking for another job in the future.

My primary goal was to make the API uniform, regardless how the data look like on the underlying blockchain. I haven’t seen that in any APIs we use. They give you uniform endpoints, somewhat similar data structures but they are never uniform and you have to write blockchain-specific code to get the information you look for. I understand that they might want to return data for all transactions - and you can’t do that reasonably well for all blockchains in uniform format. But I think they do not understand what their customers care about - the value transfers, not a bunch of misc transactions.

Another thing that bothered me in existing API services - they don’t let you interact with their API through your browser. You can’t have a quick glance at how responses look like. First you have to sign up, then get a token and finally either POST to the endpoint or include an api key in request headers. That’s why I built the simple preview box on the front page to let users see the responses immediately. Additionally, Stocra api keys can be passed in the query string or in the headers.

Let me know your thoughts!
There were plenty of us who didn’t mind the “grunt work”. Laziness was not the reason for The demise of LAN parties :)
Show HN: Sidebird – A micro tool to boost your Tweets
I built this small app to retweet your content X h after it's posted, so people from other timezones can engage with it.

Completely passive by design.
I'd love to learn (a) Forth. As a beginner, where do you begin? Like Lisp there seems to be different variants. I always struggle with where to start.
It is increasingly clear that SBF was an important piece of a complex network of conspirators to increase the price of the speculative asset class know as crypto. It is also evident that he could have not achieved such a relevance without the institutional support he cemented as the second larges donor to the current administration. The evidence seems to confirm the role played by FTX in defrauding the retail investors to siphon the funds into Ukraine and laundering money for questionable parties across 130 global entities. Anyway you watch this it becomes evident that SBF was playing a central role within a complex and elaborate global network attempting to bring and end to democracy as we know it today in America. Let us remember the only reason we have achieved the greatest advancements in science and technology is because of democracy and free markets enshrined by the US Constitution. Once those principles are gone we can only move backwards into the dark ages where the church and state ruled with an iron fist, the sun circled around us and the inquisition attacked everyone dissenting. Beware of what you ask for technology needs to retain a human aspect algorithms can only capture a fraction of what the real world means...human rights and freedoms must prevail...are god given...humans need to stop playing gods...remember Icarus.
I think you should publish it, with the perspective that in 10 years from now, you'll be equally embarassed about the code you write today. You're constantly growing - and your code tracks your progress. You should be proud of that.
I'm sad...I tested my page and its 14.1k. I suppose I should remove that header image.
> trying to figure out if I was really a trans woman or simply an effeminate man

As someone who has also thought about this a lot, I'd be interested in what conclusion you came to about what the difference is between a trans woman and an effeminate man. The only differences I have been able to come up with are:

1. Dysphoria specifically about the body and/or a desire to change one's body

2. Different views on what gender is (i.e. if you believe gender is performative then you might consider yourself to be a woman whereas someone else with the same personal experience of gender but who views gender as physical might consider themselves to be a man).

Based on you saying deciding you are trans has been expensive, I'm guessing you might fall into category 1? But I'd be particularly interested if you have in mind any differentiating factors that aren't on my list.
In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. – A Personal Recollection
Show HN: Open Platform for How-To Content
I wish elon musk would buy them and fix it.
I agree completely regarding "users want fast enough".

Also: for regular sites, html/css/js optimization is less important than server location. If your server is in Europe and your user is in the US, that's the big one, not your HTML, CSS or JS.

And if you're fetishizing over Lighthouse scores, stop. It's only a very rough measure and shouldn't be treated as a goal itself.
Sorry for your situation, I hope perseverance gets you through to someone.

I’m not hugely surprised that they lack customer support. SpaceX won’t have had any of that in their DNA, won’t be practiced at it, and will have had to scale that function rapidly. Unless they hired amazing leadership for it at the outset, it’s going to take a while I’m sure.

Given customer support experiences at, ahem, related, companies, it may not be a priority for senior leadership. It needs to be something the top care deeply about and treat as an advantage, otherwise it’ll be perpetually underdeveloped and scraping by to provide the bare minimum as it will be treated as a cost centre rather than a differentiator.
That's not the question though. If the grading were made anonymous, and girl's continued to receive better grades, that would diminish the claim a fair bit.
No you see I use a brass abacus to do my tax im not an idiot I'm right thanks.

Yup, saved it jaunty, you've still got it.
Hmmm. I searched for "trains" but didn't find it.
Touch screens are actually lowering the cost for manufacturers and lowering the usability for users. Gimmie buttons!!
I'm not saying that it's easy, just that most work could be done by much fewer people. I'm not talking out of my ass, I have been working on scalable systems for more than a decade.

I'm reminded of when, out of sheer curiosity, I once skimmed the proof for Fermat's last theorem by Andrew Willes. It was a monstrous work of which I could understand very little, but that clearly couldn't have been made by a team of a hundred mathematicians working together.
That's how I found out that the reply button does not work. I wanted to post a link to the issue and explain how they got it wrong.
That might work for a small home parody, but it won’t scale to levels needed by viral parody sites.
And doing this for an established company owned by one of the richest people on Earth is… supposed to make this better?
I don't know if you are making a joke but Monica and Chandler are characters from the TV show Friends.
I suppose you won't have anything but the payment to prove this? Might still be worth taking this to a consumer protection association in your country - Starlink is the kind of service they might be willing to take on if stuff like this happens. It would still be some hassle for you, but you'd have a very good chance of either getting your money back or getting what you ordered.
UK food price inflation hit 16.2% in October – cost of food basics surging
Forgive me if this doesn’t help - I have absolutely no experience with Starlink, but did some digging, found some Reddit threads and have an idea:

1.) To start, open up:

https://auth.starlink.com/

2.) Click “locked out”.

3.) There’s a chance you entered your email incorrectly, but this screen gives you the option to recover by either email or phone.
Tiny lib to scan SQL rows directly to structs, slices, and primitive types
This is a repost from 2013

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511

The comments there are actually funnier
>> IMO, you get better at programing understanding FORTH

Isn't assembly fit the place better?

:)
It advertises other functionality. Typically functionality that allows you to spend money with Amazon.

Siri has started telling me the company that provides it’s weather data every ~10th time I ask for the weather and I feel like even that crosses a line. I do hope Apple have a metric for how many customers swear at HomePods and have someone trying to minimise that.
I have to say, if I was in different circumstances, I would love to go to work at Twitter right now.

But that's because I really enjoy watching weird shit happen, and there's so much weird shit happening there right now. It would be a win-win for me, odds are I'd emerge in a few months, maybe a year, with some great stories about watching a bizarre implosion of a foundational tech company as well as experience a billionaire self destructing. Or, way less likely, but possible I suppose, I would help that crazy billionaire reinvent the tech company and walk away pretty rich.
Yes. No context provided to introduce the tool. It seems to be all too common. It's like they are only speaking to their own team. I've noticed this is all too common in all parts of the web.
Sometimes, after answering your actual query, Alexa continues to blather on about something useless, starting with "By the way..." I wish I knew how to stop it, but telling her "don't say by the way anymore" returns blank stares. Maddening.
Gibberish GPT3 comment from future sock puppet
Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation
"US bullies China because it hates their success" doesn't sound very good, does it? Better call it war so it appears to be a two-sided conflict rather than imperialist aggression.
That market exists and other EV companies are starting to serve it, especially outside the US.
I find the US political donation system a weird mix: is it bribery or a protection racket or both!?
The opportunities for explotation here are just too large.

You're providing a large corporation with a direct line of communication inside your home --- one that you have absolutely no control over.

It's virtually inevitable that they will try to "monetize" this in any way possible --- and not necessarily to your benefit.

Thanks but no thanks.
"lessons learned - speed wins, most of the time"

Further up the article, the author says that nothing came close to its speed, but when it was removed, no tears were shed - a bad smell and poor legibility.

I think the lesson there is that performance isn't everything. It was the fastest printer in the world, but nobody was sad to see it get replaced with slower, but less smelly / more readable printouts.
> Aside from signaling an error, the #\) reader macro is also useful because it changes the rules when reading symbols.

This is wrong. See http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/02_ad....
Kurzweil comes up with some wacky stuff but the core observation/prediction that the amount of compute you get for a dollar has kept going up and will probably keep on doing so a while, which is not a terribly far fetched prediction, has quite a lot of implications.
Lingzhi (Mushroom)
Damn. "Anvil of Stars" blew my mind as a kid with its concepts of information physics.
You: "Alexa, turn off the lights."

Echo: "Okay. By the way, did you know I can do some other random thing wholly unrelated to the task you gave me, the description of which interrupts something that matters and now you've lost it because you are screaming at me to shut up, please god shut up, please never ever make suggestions?"
You don’t have to continue the parody and prove that the OP is right by making more parody comments. We already know he’s right. There has to be a word for that.
Having a lot of them distributed unevenly might incentivise competent participants to focus on these easy pickings.
With my Google Home speaker, I’ll tell it to turn off the lights (which it probably has maybe 95% accuracy of getting right in the first place…). But it will then say “Okay, turning off 5 lights. By the way, you can ask me how long your morning commute will take!” which is just annoying when you’re trying to get to bed.
Tour of Thebes – Ancient Egypt's Holiest City – Bronze Age Documentary [video]
Thanks - I gave up on the posted article after several paragraphs. From looking at just the first illustration of this Wikipedia article, it all became clear. Maybe I will go back to the posted article to see if it has further insights, but not right now.
Berkshirehathaway.com would have made the list if they dropped Google Analytics.
Yes, not being able to filter out background noise is the one thing that makes voice assistants useless.

Whenever I am on the go and tried to get Google Assistant to play me a tune on Spotify, it got it right perhaps 1/20. Worse, around 15/20, it will play me something completely unrelated, that I have no interest in listening to. In the end, I have up on GA, and just stop for a minute, pull the phone out of my pocket and manually pick what I want.
I'd say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho :->
Well, don't. We don't need to make this into a drama. Does anybody really care what individuals do or the choices they make?
Related: "A primer on some C obfuscation tricks"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961054
I'm not sure why this is better than investing in public transit, a tried and tested method that achieves much better density. Aside from Elon's apparent disgust for sharing vehicles with other people.
In that case you'd probably have a lot of empty trips, dropping the average occupancy of cars below 1. I think it's unlikely we'll see a lot of 2-4 person ride sharing (dislike of strangers, longer trip times due to needing to pick-up and drop-off more people). If you don't have higher density, the time for a vehicle to get to you will also be an issue.

It'd increase car-miles (likely increasing congestion) and likely lead to a move away from public transit in denser regions, akin to uber.

I'm highly doubful a large sharing economy for cars will happen anyway. Conventional car sharing (not uber) isn't popular and one reason for that is that people like having a personal car as a second "living room" (leaving personal belongings) without strangers and for the instant and hassle-free access it provides.

Thus I believe that self-driving will just lead to people driving more with their own personal vehicles, since it's becomes easier to do something else while driving and feels like less of a time sink.
Open-source passive radar taken down for regulatory reasons
What Makes Rust Unique?
> What I want from Alexa: “Alexa, do this” Done.

For what it's worth, this is largely how the Google Assistant works from my "smart" speakers.
Wind and solar will get massive capacity overbuild. Cheaply. When the time is right, storage will, too, and not before.
See a yellow ring. “Alexa, give me my messages.” “You have no messages. <pause> You have one notification; would you like me to read it to you?” “Oh FFS, yes.”
And yet all those short good shooters jump.

I know that sounds facetious, but like, there’s a reason no one jumps on a free throw. It’s easier if you don’t. But you have to jump to get your shot over a defender.

If you are sufficiently tall, you could just… jump less, so that your release height is the same.

I actually think the bigger reason is simply that there are more important skills for tall players to work on. If your main job is rebounding , it is better to work on rebounding than shooting.

Of course, the changes to how NBA teams play over the last decade or so have changed this, which is presumably why you now see more players who are both tall _and_ good shooters.
Looks like the author from the OP has an article about that too [0], and it is not "smell ya later" in the original. It is just a causall goodbye, "Welp, be seein’ ya!".

[0]: https://legendsoflocalization.com/qa-smell-ya-later-pokemon/
You don't need a touchscreen for CarPlay/Android Auto.

For example, Mazda has removed touchscreens from their newer vehicles. The display is recessed into the dashboard directly below the windshield, and you use a rotary encoder to navigate. Text entry can be done from your phone's keyboard.

It is a lovely design that helps keep your eyes on the road without sacrificing solid smartphone integration.
That's an extremely smart approach that I sincerely doubt the site operators would have been capable of dealing with.

Part of the art of consultancy is, sometimes to my great annoyance, optimising for "within the customer's budget" and "within the customer's capacity to maintain it after I'm no longer involved" over "best possible solution."

Plus in this particular case I was working pro bono because (a) I quite liked the site in question continuing to exist (b) a Shadowcat alumnus asked me nicely (c) I take great pleasure in ruining a griefer's entire week. So lightest possible touch was strongly indicated.

The end result was not remotely clever, but it's been in production for a while now and has not to my knowledge caused financial or uptime issues, so I'm going to call it a win even if the inelegance of -how- I won continues to irritate me ;)
Regardless what MMT may say about deficit spending or taxation, it definitely doesn't say that it's OK to default on your loans.
The video proper starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8vhWNIDPCU&t=125s
The reason is that a struct doesn't generate a new scope, like in C++. If you define something inside a struct it will also be available outside of the struct.
heh, I built sth like this in 2013-14!

It was a web app using regular browser APIs:

1. use text to speech to create the query text

2. send the query to Wolfram alpha

3. clean up the response and read it using speech to text

I might've used Ivona (a speech to text service later acquired by Amazon IIRC).

It worked really well in Chrome and had for a bonus it was designed to look like HAL. (I used the pulsating dot as a loading spinner).

Edit: I found it! https://github.com/paprikka/sulik
Suffering with Life
What It’s Like to Get Worse at Something
Closed/private social media is the future of social media (if not already the present). Cultures rely on exclusivity. HN is what it is because most people don't use it and it's self-selecting. At the end of the day people don't want to hear just anyone's opinion.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221120133359/https://www.busin...
No, OP is correct.

* You omitted his point about hyper-anal correction.

* You misunderstood the meaning of a parody.

* Here's point of a parody you didn't account for
Originalism is a lot like Biblical interpretation. It says exactly what you want it to say if you twist it in just the right way. And magically, originalism always lines up with whatever the existing Conservative party line happens to be.

If you really want to get technical, the Supreme Court has no business in judicial review, as that is not explicitly stated in the Constitution. Marbury v Madison is more tradition than anything.
Wrong, it's at https://hackernews.com, that weird link you posted is probably a phishing site.
Not enough anecdotes
Should be posted by todsacerdoti + a top comments by Gigachad or tptacek, screenshot of an insightful comment posted to Twitter by swyx.
Now that we have open-source high-quality speech-to-text (OpenAI Whisper) available, I expect to see multiple open-source voice assistants to emerge.
That sounds like Hypervisor.framework (hvf) not Apple's virtualisation framework, which is independent.
"Alexa, Badezimmer aus"

"Ich kann nicht 'Badezimmer' auf Spotify finden"

(We don't even have Spotify set up).
I wasn't even using Twitter before Elon bought it, you'll be hard-pressed to make me join now.
Akamai has very tight relations with the US Government. So what was probably happening is that the USG was fine with Akamai treating it's users like this because it was getting a copy of those URL filters and access logs too. Don't know if that should make you more in or less sorry for being involved.

(It would make me more sorry. Sorry.)
I agree if the website does lots of new connections with no cache, the users have a slow last mile internet, and we are talking about LA to Moscow. Otherwise trans Atlantic is fine, 80-150ms max ping is not that bad.

EDIT max ping of each of our recurring American users on websockets, about a thousand of them. No difference in usage pattern there between Europe and US, but sure we do not have many that have worse ping.
Paid by creditcard? Compile your efforts to get in touch with them (needed to proof you did everything to get them to live up to their promise) and file charge back.
Why says they are done? Next weekend me and 3 friends are doing our annual LAN-party. We are all older, but it is still so much fun. Super excited!
90% of my relationships between 16 and 30 started by flirting with strangers in clubs. Usually the next morning one or other of us would say "That was fun, same again next weekend?" and after a few weeks/months of that we'd be in a relationship.

Sure talking about politics and similar things took some time, we started with the more physical side, but I had a good tendency to choose interesting people so even when it didn't last for any significant amount of time it was still fun, and still worthwhile.
You'd also have the exact same effect with a very good public transport offering. It's more efficient than cars anyway and it exists outside of a marketing video...
Show HN: Life Skills Website
Over a year ago, I purchased a small online business selling life skills curriculum to homeschool and special education families. The main asset was the library of 400+ lessons, each including a short video and PDF. The revenue appeared to reflect meaningful demand for such a program. At the time I purchased the business, the delivery mechanisms were pretty fragmented and browsing the lessons was all behind the paywall. Today I'm releasing a whole new website that brings (I hope) a more modern experience. Principally you can now browse all of the life skills library. I'm also hoping that this approach lends itself to better SEO as well.

While this is pretty far from being able to sustain the family from an income perspective, it's been really neat to connect with families who are taking the initiative to raise capable young adults.