skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Li-ion batteries perform better at low temperatures than Lead-acid. The traction battery is also a lot bigger so it retains heat for much longer. And in some models, the car's battery management software can kick in some heating to prevent it from getting excessively cold if necessary.
If your blog is noncommercial, it's not spamming to crosspost new blog items to social media.

My blog gets posted to HN sometimes by people who aren't me, and sometimes by me (when I post something I think is important for HN to read in a timely fashion). I also have a mailing list that people sign up for on my website, and I mail it a few times per year (although I hate taking up people's time so right now I usually mail about 0.5 times per year).

Also, why worry about "getting traffic"? Just write; let readers worry about discoverability. If it's good, people will find it.
I am wrong. To absorb an electron would need a coincident neutrino.

Instead, a neutron strikes ³He producing T, H and a photon.
Well, he didn't call it empire building himself :D That's my word. And I have been working with him for several years already, so discussions are frank!

TBF, it can be a justifiable POV from a /r/antiwork POV. Why work terrible hours to make someone else rich!
Show HN: White Glove open source email templates
This does not translate well to EVs as they have nothing to start and don't use air to move.
My experience with an attempted carjacking is like this. Even now there’s the crystal clear memory an ultra slow tap pause tap of a pistol on the window and the accomplices beelining to the passenger door.

Intellectually I know that it all went down in a few seconds but I have no access to a normal speed memory of the event. Only tapppppp delay taaaappp (and then flooring it and nimbly pivoting between accomplice one and two).
There are two types of cancer. One that you will die with, the other you will die from. Unfortunately you never know which is which until it is too late. I hope that some immune treatments will be approved soon. Seem to be promising
I am not sure about geese but crows definitely do things out of spite.
I'm an atheist, but I think that there's infinitely more value in Christian beliefs than whatever Logan Paul is preaching.
This seems like a smart money grab. Keep the hot titles on streaming to keep your subscriber base, and those who really want to watch the fringe shows will probably pay for them, earning HBO more money.

Just recently paid for Angry Boys. It’s totally obvious why they would want to remove it from their platform in this culture, and even more so when they are still selling it elsewhere.

I wonder if other titles removed are similarly as politically incorrect, or if it’s another reason like not drawing in a huge audience.
What’s epic is that A16Z actually just invested a shit ton with Neumann again

August 2022
https://a16z.com/2022/08/15/investing-in-flow/
As best I can tell they're unbanned now. e.g. https://mobile.twitter.com/RMac18/
> "It's my belief that the forward passage of time is mostly a human construct"

This is the most mundane concept of time. Time is just causality. Clocks tick because atoms have an effect on each other. Using a computational model of the Universe, we could ask the same question in a different way, "how are the interactions of matter and energy being computed (and why is the limit the speed of light)?"

> In physics equations, time is used to keep track of the sequence of things as events unfold.

I thought equations where time invariant and worked with reversed time. I thought the article would get more philosophical, but it just scratches the surface.
No joke :/. My cousin recently passed from Hodgkin's Lymphoma- they told her that the vast majority of patients have at least five years, many of whom have at least ten. That was a little over two years ago.
Swans are also mean. You don't want to mess with one.
Yes, a car can bring people point to point, however it still isn't space efficient. Each traveller in their own vehicle is read of a compact bus or train. Still requiring broad roads and space in the attractive areas.
It depends on how cold you are talking about. Lead acid batteries run into issues, but portable jump starter is a cheap and easy solution for that. However, if your talking -40C both oil and fuel both run into problems with ultra low temperatures so people need to use heating blankets.

The nice thing about EV’s is you can have them warmup while plugged in an unheated parking space. The bad thing is cars are poorly insulated so at ultra low temperatures they need to use a lot of energy to keep warm.
Sounds like a dystopian reality where we revert back to only really functioning when the sun is in the sky.
Can you elaborate on "manage translations on your own"?

I am working on dev-first localization infrastructure after being frustrated with i18n from a dev perspective myself. Your remarks seem like they fit into the infrastructure approach I am taking. See https://github.com/inlang/inlang
TL;DR: promotes an NFT project.
Would that be a showstopper? Then we would just produce less stuff when energy is expensive, and more when it is cheap. We'd build houses to keep a pleasant temperature for longer. We'd combine local energy generation with a strong grid to transport energy over longer distances.

Stuff will become more expensive, economic activity might be somewhat dampened, but that might be offset by the cheapness of wind and solar, and by the fact that building the new infrastructure will create a lot of growth. And in the end, it will literally save the planet. I'd choose a bit slower economic activity over accelerating climate change any time.
> I think this illustrates that the monopoly on “legitimate” violence held by the state comes with a very clear obligation to either use that monopoly or allow others to use violence, otherwise people will see the state as having abdicated its fundamental duty.

That part after the 'or' is quite sloppy as written. It's unclear if you are merely warning that vigilante justice may follow if the police don't do their job-- a truism; arguing for citizen's arrest that follows the same (or more stringent) basic procedures as police use; or whether you are attempting to rationalize expansion of violence to everyday citizens as those citizens see fit to protect their property.
Helion and similar methods side-step the issue by using (mostly) aneutronic fusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

Also, discussing solar and wind without discussing the base load/storage problem skews the discussion towards solar/wind. Steam plants don’t face those challenges in the way those two do; storage is as much a challenge for solar as steam is for nuclear.
Indeed. I never meant to blanket all of religion, and amended my word use a few minutes ago. I mean the personalities who go on TV and ask for your money in the name of a god.
This is first account from meetings I attended as part of the big data value association with W3C presenting on technology convergence for data spaces. Alot was on DIDs which seem to be a pillar of the European Blockchain service infrastructure standardized by W3C [1]

[1] https://www.eqar.eu/qa-results/synergies/european-blockchain...
Yes. But I think I would be more anxious if I had not read these two books.

* book "Staring into the Sun"
* book "How we Die"

Eliding my 2c on these books -- it's your 2c that matters.

LLAP
I'm not an active user of twitter, but so far it seems like almost no one left the platform. There's no direct equivalent of it, and the main user base is quite addicted. I took a bet a couple of days ago that twitter will lose 50% of active users by the end of 23, but I'm not super confident about it, and I think it is contingent on major security flaws being widely publicised.
The papers I linked are empirical evidence, not assumptions. There’s two specifically on the UK that find no evidence of this.

They also find that skilled immigration systems don’t always work, because all immigrants tend to be unusually highly educated anyway, but also significantly downskill the jobs they choose after arriving. So you’d expect them to always compete with low end natives, but in fact they don’t because they mainly compete with other immigrants instead. And “compete” isn’t how labor works anyway, since all workers are also customers.
Hi HN,

I posted a few weeks back about making email templates with our open source tool, Mailing.

Since then, we’ve worked with several wonderful companies and we have an open source gallery of starter templates coming together. In the process we’ve fixed a ton of bugs with the tool and identified several features to add.

With all that said, we’re going to keep building up the open source template library with paid engagements and made a little website to explain the service. Bookings are limited (we can do 1-2 a week without compromising the rest of our product roadmap).

Let me know if you have any questions.
I don’t think they really want to solve the problem. They just want to keep giving money to friends and family to “try to solve the problem”.
That is exactly how an early-adopter outlier would feel about that. And I'm not saying you're wrong; those are valid feelings. But if you look at the distribution of people like that [1], it's not representative. Imagine how most people would feel if a taxi driver did that to them: "Oh, sorry, I'm scared to turn the car around; please wait until a supervisor can pick you up." They'd be annoyed at the delay and would be less likely to rely on the service again.

Props to Waymo for what they've accomplished; they've been very clever in working around the limitations of the tech. But it sounds like it has a long way to go before they're ready for general-audience usage.

[1] E.g., the Crossing the Chasm model, although this is more the behavior of the "visionary" segment than what he calls "early adopter"; scroll down to the first big graph here: https://thinkinsights.net/strategy/crossing-the-chasm/
There’s a platform where they won’t disappear. (:
I had seriously contemplated suicide multiple times in my life (about 6 so far), and every time I managed to escape the intrusive thoughts. I have a heart condition and I may just drop dead, thus living alone means that there is nobody to regurgitate me.

The way I have reconciled this is through accepting that I have already died, thus every day is a gift.
Sure, but the question was "how do they do this" not "why would they do this"
Will ChatGPT struggle to compete with Google. Which way do you perceive it?
Checked integer arithmetic in the prospect of C23
Messi's captured the hearts of the casual World Cup fan unlike anyone else. I don't know a whole lot about soccer -- more or less all I know is that the World Cup happens every few years, is played by national teams, and Messi makes impossible plays. What I do know is all because of Messi, whose wholesome relatability and exceptional ability brings casual viewers like me; I generally avoid sports because the players are hard to relate to or have personal flaws, but I love Messi's strong family roots. I would propose that merely for being a truly exceptional face of the sport he's the GOAT.

Maybe Maradona was that way in his day -- I'm barely aware that he was a good player of yesteryear -- but his drug problems (and the fact that his heyday was so long ago) make him much less relatable or exciting to investigate as a inspiration.
It's somewhat generous to call it a He3 generator though, since the half life of tritium is 12 years, you'd need to make sure you made most of the He3 you need over a decade in advance.

He3 has uses besides as a fusion fuel though, so maybe they can overshoot their estimated consumption rate by an order of magnitude and sell or stockpile the surplus 10 years later?
FWIW, my own investigations into this from a location that is currently 0:

I’m going with a plug-in hybrid.

There are precious few charging stations in the Midwest (especially those affiliated with the Subaru/Toyota brands), and a lot of miles between cities. A majority of my driving is inside the 45 mile range so the batteries, and the ability to fill up conventionally eases my worries about detours or delays.

Hopefully when this new vehicle dies, the charging (and cold weather) story will have improved.
How much do we spend in the US each year on military to ward off some supposed future threat to our existence? Is it deemed “economical” to do so? I think nuclear should be viewed in the same light given the threat we know that it solves for.
> There are two types of cancer. One that you will die with, the other you will die from. Unfortunately you never know which is which until it is too late.

Spot on.
For everyone doing social media (semi-)professionally, followers are pretty much all that matters. That sounds like it gives server operators leverage against journalists and the like that happen to be on their server. They can move server, sure, but they lose their reach, that's ugly especially for smaller publications or individuals who can't easily hire staff to run their own instance.
It's always been a pet-peeve of mine. People from the Mid-west of America always use it for hyperbole. -10C is cold, I get it. You don't have to go all dramatic and tell me it's -40C windchill, you're not naked. (if you are, I'm fine with windchill)
You're assuming energy companies switch to hourly priced billing.

But nationwide nearly everyone is on a fixed price per kWh deal, and current electricity meters don't usually even support pricing that chances every few minutes, as would need to happen to incentivize people to only use power when the wind blows.

The cost of simply upgrading every electricity meter to a modern one is many years of profits for most energy companies.
It was your suggestion that people be allowed to use violence if the state didn't use it. Why do I need to think of moral ways for that violence to be applied?
"Most terrible things at least some people love. That doesn't mean they're not terrible."

4chan, as a website, is far more varied than you think at first glance. Most people only hear about 4chan when "something happens", and with the news cycle, that's pretty much always bad things. For example, an anonymous 4chan post solved a 25-year-old math problem[0]. It's unfair to paint a whole popular website by the activities of some of its users on one or two of its discussion boards.

There are some boards dedicated to sharing anime porn. Others, discussing technology. There's one for discussing favorite toys, one for wrestling, and another for the Hasbro show My Little Pony.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/how-an-anonymous-4chan-post-help...
That homepage is straight outta 2002! Oh my
If only that were true. Sometimes it disappears while you’re downloading it.
> Shame what’s happened to Bam Margera

Considering how much he’s refused support, this was predicted for years. It’s all on him.
Best practices for security and access management with object storage
I see it differently; I'd be OK with an upload if the alternative is death, but only under strong protections: the digital version is legally treated as a human, I have full autonomy, the compute resources to run me (and the simulated environment of my choice) indefinitely are assured, and I can still interact with the real world. I'd just go on doing my usual stuff, like writing software for fun, enthusing over new discoveries in astronomy...

I can recommend Greg Egan's novels that touch on this:

1) Permutation City (mind uploading tech in its infancy)

2) Diaspora (mind uploading well established)
Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
I think it's because the concept of having a stable career that allows people to have a good life, family, house and retirement seems more and more out of reach for a lot of people. So get-rich-quick schemes appear the only way out. And after the 2008 bailouts it became pretty clear that there are different rules for different people and it's ok to lie to people if you are just brazen enough.
A few years ago, I helped a friend move an entire book collection that he'd bought from the seller's house to his house, and while waiting I flicked open one of the books, when I noticed a little insect crawling around. That's when I learnt about booklice. I can never look at old books the same way again, knowing that there might be bugs living in them.
Interestingly, China has been steadily improving in steam. US coal plants average around 33% efficiency, and the latest coal plants in China are close to 50%. The way electricity price controls work in China if a plant isn’t at 300g per kWh or better, the more you generate the more you lose.
Also a good point. Do you know what the exact distribution would be when sampling randomly and rejecting all values below some threshold? You can tell it would at least be Pereto-ish in general shape.
This is an incredibly naive view of the world. Violence is, whether you like it or not, the absolute apex power, from which all other power is derived.

Laws only hold power because if you break them, someone will forcefully put you in jail, and hurt you if you try to escape. If your punishment is a fine rather than jail time, someone will forcefully remove money from your bank account or valuable items from your house, and they will use force and potentially hurt you if you don't comply.

I might not agree with shooting shoplifters in the back but if the police won't investigate and stop even organized shoplifting (they're boasting about doing this just very recently, hence the article) at some point you have to be allowed to open up some level of enforcement and use of violence to the public, because otherwise bad behaviour is rewarded. Maybe you beat them up or publicly humiliate them, which is often seen in less developed countries. But I'd much prefer the police just enforce the law, and retain their monopoly on violence.
Exactly. They likely didn't have enough data, because a)it doesn't actually get that cold for very long, even in the coldest parts of the US and b)there aren't many people in those locations (North Dakota, grandparent comment's home state, has the same population as Boston, Massachusetts. Not the region - just the city itself) and c)there aren't many EVs, either - due to lack of infrastructure for them, lower income levels, and (drumroll please) their lower ranges.

Contrary to the knee jerk reaction some people seem to be having, this isn't an conspiratorial attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of Real Americans(TM).

I don't understand the reaction, anyway - ICE vehicles plunge in range with cold temperatures too, and there are a bunch of reasons why EVs seem well-suited to rural life.

The range reduction doesn't mean squat when the longest average commute in the US - Maine - is 10 miles. Who cares if your 300-350 mile EV only gets 200 miles, when that's still 20 days of commuting, and every hour your car is in your garage, it's "gassing up" with no intervention on your part beyond a few seconds to plug in a cord when you get home?

FYI, looking at a smattering of temperature charts, "much colder than 20 degrees for extended periods" is a slight exaggeration for Minnesota.
For me, the answer is: years after I wrote it, and they will comment or email me and ask for help on something I wrote once for fun then discarded :) I try to help, but it's often hard.

Best thing is to write for your own satisfaction, share links to HN now and then if you write something you think is interesting - you'll pick up a few readers and get some interesting interactions.
> For decades before the invention of the VCR, any TV show that aired on any given Tuesday night might never be available again,While I was doing research for The Encyclopedia of New York, I spoke with a curator at the Paley Center in New York about how to find out what aired on NBC in its earliest years as a TV broadcasting company and learned there was no way to watch any of it. There were no tapes. The only record is a filing cabinet, which is part of the Paley collection, full of the carefully typed index cards where secretaries kept track of everything that aired on the network. and certainly never in a way that viewers could control.

Yeah okay... but we are in a post-VCR world. Are any of these [modern, but removed from streaming] shows not preserved and available through online filesharing? I think they probably all are.
Yes! New treatments at the UofIowa are sending patients home cured. Not in remission. Only very specific cancers, and at great cost. But there may be light at the end of the tunnel.
I've looked and didn't find one, I'm sorry!
Gah that sucks. The randomness of it all is maddening.

I buried an uncle a few months ago, he had a very nasty case of cancer and was in so much pain that we were all so grateful that at least here in NL there was the option to throw in the towel. He was a super nice man and I regret not having more contact with him in my life (my family is rather fragmented). But so much suffering is just too much to inflict on anybody. I can't seem to get through six months right now without a funeral and given the age of my extended family members that trend is likely not going to change for a long time to come.
it isn't even economical to transfer electricity from north africa to europe
I assume it's because temperatures like that during the day (when most car travel takes place) is less common than at night. It's more representative of the general use case.
it's still a pretty bad peaker. it's cheaper than a tomumak but it still needs a ton of capacitors and incredibly precise machining.
What is the Johnny 5 all in one super weapon?
No, they’re not. They’re only possible in the Web PKI because of the coercive power the browser root programs have over CAs. No such influence exists in the DNS.

Mozilla will dis-trust your CA if you try to evade CT. It can’t revoke .io.
you could try using https://libuv.org/ and https://github.com/h2o/picohttpparser
Thanks! That's very interesting.

Toyota lost a lot of money the first few years they sold the Prius, but they were happy to do it because they believed they'd work out the production cost issues over time. And they were right. Clearly Waymo's going for a similar strategy here. But one difference is that Toyota at that point had decades of experience wrangling the cost curve for cars. It'll be interesting to see if they can get capital cost plus mapping cost plus operational cost down low enough so that they can at least break even on a ride.
That is incredibly good news, let's hope they manage to expand this kind of treatment.
I stumbled upon this repo by accident a few days ago when its source code appeared to contain the only usage the term "GH_COPILOT_TOKEN" in any repo on Github:

https://github.com/search?q=GH_COPILOT_TOKEN&type=code

(My Copilot was broken and this was in the error output I was seeing, see: https://github.com/community/community/discussions/41878)

What I found there was some truly impressive reverse-engineering work by a single individual. I really like the "JOURNAL" daily-diary they kept of progress and random thoughts so you could see the progression day-by-day.

--------

One thing I found interesting: The author says that it queries only the 20 recently most opened files of the same language.

But in an AMA, I asked about how much "context" Copilot has available, and one of the devs says it can, for example, read header files that pair with C/C++ files that are open in separate tabs:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/29932#discussi...

> "I assume Copilot uses the contents of the current project (IE, all files) as contextual information to offer suggestions. Is this the case?"

> "Yes, copilot looks at what we call "related tabs", for example .c files are often paired with .h files, so copilot considers the contents of other tabs open in the editor to try to feed a more complete prompt to the model."