skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon is Elon. If he was too interested in other people's opinions, he wouldn't be where he is. That applies basically to all successful CEOs. Nonetheless he currently has a Teitter poll up if he should step down as a head of Twitter (and the majority voted Yes) and says he will do it if yes wins. Soooo...
Dramatic irony
How much energy does it take to heat a battery pack from -30c to 1c?

ICE engines definitely have their own set of cold-related issues, but I can't imagine heating a 150 kg engine block would require the same amounts of energy required to heat 500 kgs of battery twice (charging and before driving).

Mind you, I'm not arguing against EV's or anything; I'm just saying it sounds like there's an engineering problem that needs to be solved before EV's can replace ICE cars in very cold climates, which incidentally, also tend to be where the most range is needed.
What he says in the end is - you can just ask for the specs and often they give it to you.

What I understand - currently there is not even a model of an "operating system" as such that would even consider those secondary processors.
You'll probably get that if Musk steps down as CEO... The best part about Mastodon IMO is that it's NOT Twitter, speaking as a Mastodon user of course. It feels way more manual and it feels like I need to build my feed and community myself, but it's empowering for specifically those reasons.
Having unlisted version on Youtube “before” the audio was filtered would make it easier to hear the true difference, but agree the quality is impressive as is.
There are more English speakers than Chinese speakers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num... .

> You gain nothing by having never played a console-based game, so try one.

Your advice does not consider the opportunity cost.

Suppose the OP has a to-learn list including, from highest to lowest priority: 1. play the harmonica, 2. cross-stitch, 3. speak Swahili, and (far behind), 4. play console-based games.

Previous experience suggests #4 will likely not be enjoyable.

Then why spend the time on growing #4 when the other forms of growth are more likely to provide joy in life?

It isn't possible to do everything. Prioritize what seems best for you.
I heavily dislike the subscription model, but I don't feel like it impacts my life. I have only used two services so far: Netflix and Humble Bundle.

I picked Netflix because after hearing about it for years and having some people swear by it I decided to finally try it out. It wasn't worth it, most of the content I was interested in was on other services so I stopped and went back to TPB because every other streaming service has the same problem and I refuse to partake in such a broken system.

Humble Bundle was a quite good deal for a while. While there's a subscription it's not really a classic subscription model, as you get to keep the games. They even had a pause option so it was possible to skip months that did not interest you. Unfortunately at one point they lowered the price and started shifting the billing days in order to confuse the clients. They've billed me twice for the stuff I didn't really want and after that I've realized I have been pausing Humble Bundle for the past year or so, so I just unsubscribed. I don't miss it at all.

The rest? I don't really need Spotify, I'm building back a curated stash of MP3s like it's the early 2000s and for everything else YouTube is good enough for me. Each other piece of software I use is either free or open source. I can't recall any moment in the past 10 years where I would think something along the lines of "a subscription to X would make my life so much easier".

The only software I feel like I might be interested in that is subscription-only might be Adobe products. The problem here is that the prices on their page are either in EUR or USD and none of this is a currency I earn money in. This means the pricing is very inadequate considering the average purchasing power of Western Europe or the USA, so it feels very overpriced. It doesn't help that this kind of pricing is bound to exchange rates, which means there's no real way to calculate the exact cost.
before you can be productive you need to be unproductive first.
> The whole purpose of electrical grids is to stabilize such things.

Except it doesn't. Which is why Germany didn't decrease its gas plant capacity. They're needed when there's no wind.

> The forced outage rate of solar is almost 0, wind is about 1%.

The issue with wind/solar isn't forced outage. It's that the wind doesn't blow all the time, so comparing how much cost 1MWh of wind when the wind blows with 1MWh of coal is dishonest. You're comparing apple and oranges.
First, click polls are garbage and alllllways have been, second, he runs the platform with no dissent the poll will say whatever he wants it to say.
Twitter bankrupt by FTC date for the report on privacy compliance which is Jan 2023.

It was the plan B all along.
Not Look & Read? "Magic, magic e" stayed with me a long time (and Dark Towers too)
Why is this comment downvoted ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_11

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

Support for Android apps sounds nice, but you can't even reposition the taskbar anymore.
CodeQue: Multiline search, replace VS Code extension for TypeScript / JavaScript
Random Excellence: Jill Krementz
How would you solve the issue without breaking literally every single security feature of modern browsers?
> If you want to dox prior management for good faith efforts to keep the place to a standard, then randomly ban people who are annoying you, fine.

Except that has the potential to cause real world harm, so no, that's not fine.
Most people wearing necklaces are not first generation Christians. After you eliminate those, why are the remaining necklace-wearing ones doing it?
It is evidence that Paul Graham is frustrated with Twitter politics. Now using him as evidence for anything else is more of a personality cult around Paul Graham.

> You are very obviously inside an “anti-woke” bubble[...]

Anyone outside the woke bubble is considered anti-woke. If you're not part of them you're the enemy. I find it really refreshing to see them whine about reinstating accounts of "the enemy" which is as I said basically anyone of differing opinion. It's also fun that people on here throwing a tantrum about this. So sweet.

PS.: Delicious was the word I was looking for. The only tool they have here is downvoting, which is like confirmation in this case. Delicious!
I hope this ridiculous debacle helps to show all the Twitter addicts that they don't really need that website in their lives.

Has social media been a benefit for humanity? I think most of us were happier before being drawn into these advertisement honeytraps of outrage.
> It's not a browser, it's a WOWser!

I just died a little inside; well done :D
Skill for the rider or the horse?
No it doesn't. It just requires an auxiliary heater, which has been a common feature in cars sold in Europe for at least 20 years. It's a feature you can find in cars sold during the 80s, like the W214.

> This is not a common feature in Europe, except in EVs.

It's a common feature in fancy cars and has been so for ages. Most EVs definitely fall into the fancy car category.
Do you really think it's not normal to post links?
An ad hominem is where you use someone's character as a faulty reason their argument is flawed. Pointing out someone's argument is flawed and is a standard part of the coal propaganda machine as a valid reason to question their motives is not ad hominem.

The absolute most generous interpretation of the report you linked is that it was a mastubatory exercise by a completely naive person who thought he was the first person to think of problems that have been studied for decades and have detailed roadmaps for overcoming the real roadblocks (which are not even issues he considers).

> We will literally never run out of fissile material.

There are no commercially viable or even prototype closed loop breeding programs and there never have been. The current stock of economically accessible fissile material is around 40,000 tonnes and each GW of reactor needs 3-20 tonnes. There are no processes with a doubling time under 10 years because spent fuel needs time to cool, so rolling out your non-existent reactor in place of renewables rather than after one or two generations still requires mining all of it.

Even in the scifi world where breeding is viable, we still need a 70-95% renewable transition to fill the 20-40 year gap.
The entire comment feels weird, but this part strikes me as particularly odd -

> By this point, the idea of "owning" software feels positively archaic to me, as strange as "owning" a music album.

You would have to be very young to not have owned (physical) music albums - and I'm a pretty young person myself.

I really hope this isn't a bot/paid PR thing, because boy would someone have wasted their money.
> Consider contributing to them.

I've been thinking the same lately. This is a critical public service.
The golden age of streaming TV is over
> Probably "productive" distractions, since you can do them a lot more before feeling bad and going back to work. Especially if you can silently get into the "fun" territory.

I feel like this is the case for a lot of productivity tools; every once in a while I find myself browsing the status-quo of the next generation of todo apps that have had far too much design work spent on their website for what it does. 9 times out of 10 it's a grift to sell a $15 / month subscription for syncing across devices and its added value is tiny compared to just using a text editor, lol.
Postmodern relativism has encouraged viewing all knowledge on an equal footing, which is ridiculous, because the application of knowledge has varying consequences.

If you care about what's real and you care about progress, scientific explanations are better than traditional ones. But when one's identity is partially composed of traditional explanations, contradictions are seen as an attack on identity itself.

In other words, some people find comfort and meaning in the familiarity of relative ignorance, especially when that ignorance is culturally shared. Processing new and contrary information is uncomfortable.

But no one has the right to insist that others validate their own ignorance, which is effectively what equating skepticism with violence is. And these days, at the extreme, you may even be accused of trying to "erase" someone if you question their cherished ignorance.

And yes, everyone is ignorant, although not equally. One true mark of a person is how they navigate and synthesize new information. Seeking better knowledge is directional, even if it's also asymptotic.
To nitpick, cannot say if it comes from the journalist writing the article or from the archeologists, the jewel seems to sport a cross, not a crucifix.
Also: $1 trillion Defense spending is not enough, vote more so the USA does not run out of ammo!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-war-depleting-u-s-ammun...
Faster to steal too?
No one's commenting on the self sustaining part. Would it have kept going without external energy input if they had more fuel?

I don't think the 1% system wide would matter if it just went on after the first few seconds.
> It has a significantly higher living standard than Moldova, one of the worst nations in Europe, which its citizens do not want to join.

citation needed?
Coinbase makes their money on the 1% spread they charge. Kraken is in this ballpark too, with a little more variance. Binance, like FTX, charges a tenth of that. If they're not making up for that disparity somewhere, in a not so great way, I'll be quite surprised.

Binance offers margin, with tiers including up to 10x leverage. This is a level you can only typically get to with Treasury securities in the US, which otherwise hearkens back to the 1920s before regulations to avoid this were put in place for very good reason, on securities that are much more stable than cryptocurrencies.

Solvency is dubious at best.
You shouldn't have boilerplate in a policy. It's easy enough to find a dozen sites (Shopify, termly.io, etc.) that will generate a tailored policy for you based on your intentions.
I was shocked at how good it worked in this case. Thanks for the examples!
By just using Twitter instead. And therein lies the problem.
And if you're pissed off at this in relation to software, think that something way worse is coming: cars, house appliances, you name it.
I don't really care much about the actual substance here. I'm sure they'll figure out EVs. I'm sure EVs will get better over time.

On a more meta note, nobody degrades online automotive discourse to a very low common denominator quite as reliably as Toyota fanboys and the vast majority of those people are secondarily EV fans so it really brings a tear of joy to my eye seeing this topic sow division among a group of mild-grade trolls.
Have you actually driven an EV though? The first time I drove one I was pretty surprised how fun it is.

Anything that doesn’t have two exhaust pipes doesn’t even come close to your median EV appliance as far as pure driving fun is considered.
> No diving, ...

Did you not see the first penalty??

That was a Neymar class performance worthy of a Fallon d'Floor award.
This is what pathological inclusion gives us - a lack of conflict between ideas, which means there can be no proper evolution of ideas. So inferior ideas end up wallowing in their own pools of self-aggrandizing ignorance.
Jugaad would be same as Redneck Engineering.
But it’s software defined, so it’s much quicker to work around failures of those centralised points.
Somebody beat me to it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33349736)

From Beat The Devil (1953):

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.
I'm reading this on an OLED display with about 90% of the gamut of Rec.2020.

It's just a laptop, nothing special.

Restricting colour to sRGB is going to be the CGA/EGA in a VGA world of the future.
Musk has revealed himself to be just an outright liar. I used to believe the story about 'Elon time's being an artifact of optimism, but now I'm sure he's willing to just lie his @ss off to get people on his side. Really makes me wonder about his commitment to making life multiplanetary...
Note that one of the two papers she quoted as evidence for the claimed growing trend of "Anthropology of the self" has been retracted: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14687941221096...

The rest of the article also seems to be mostly hot air.

Respecting whether people want to be touched or prefer distance? Woke horror!

Being accessible to blind people? Ridiculous!

Reflecting about colonialism and problematic aspects of anthropology? I better clutch my pearls even harder!

Caring about the wishes of indigenous people? Literally 1984

Now yes we might have a discussion about Anthropology "over correcting" a bit too much in certain aspects but not with right-wing media that tries to push a certain narrative.

(Like I do think professionals should be able to cope with seeing pictures of mummies. You don't really need to have a trigger warning for every image, just one general warning for the whole presentation. But hey, it's a nice gesture. People trying to be mindful of other people is hardly the beginning of a woke dictatorship though.)
Browser extension

E.g. https://mstdn.social/@feditips/109507990803168318
They also deleted the tweets.
If you’re ok with just dying when life is no longer pleasant it’s not that bad.
Exactly. Most people just aren't that vested in this so long as they aren't facing a cost increase or substantial convienince downgrade.
> Having to wait almost 20 minutes on a 60 minutes commute is far from ideal.

Yes, you'll need have enough battery to get there or charge before you leave.

> That time is very good when one recharges at home

You won't get that charge time at home unless you decide to put in a 350 kW charger at your house, which will be expensive.

An 18 minute charge time on a fast charger can support about three cars per hour. There still need to be better batteries that can sustain higher C-rates to make fuller use of the existing 350 kW chargers and future 400 kW chargers and beyond.

For a future, high C-rate battery with 100 kWh usable capacity, 10 to 80% would be 70 kWh. If it could charge 10-80% at a flat 350 kW then that would take 12 minutes. At 400 kW it would take 10.5 minutes.

Battery swaps can currently be done in 6 minutes. Swapping in a 100 kWh battery charged to 90% in 6 minutes is equivalent to a flat 0-90% charge curve at 900 kW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmWL1hZQmD0
So when Elon steps down you'll apologize for confidently claiming that Elon manipulates his polls?
Yea, and I wonder how much our need, at a cultural level, for progress will factor into this. If we feel like we need to progress and can't go "backward" with our energy technology, there may just be an irrational impetus to make it happen.

Solar and wind etc may just feel too "primitive" and nuclear too old and toxic and Chernobyl. Fusion though, once there's enough buy in and enough of a sense of it being doable, would fit our expectation of technological progress.
It's a toot on Mastodon that's why
I think a big factor for indie developers is this:

If you have a subscription model you don't have to prioritize marketing and sales as much and can grow at a more gentle pace and focus more on the quality of the product.
I'd rather spend time and money on preventing churn by making the product better, instead of investing in shiny stuff and ads to keep the existing revenue stream at a constant level.
First impression of your link: Cryptocurrency scam

Second impression: Still have no information what the website is about, what you're trying to sell or express. The navigation links do not work. The images do not display on my browser that doesn't have WebP support.

Third impression: I found working links in the footer, the page is selling some kind of server hosting solution.
Microfinance and the Backlash
I have more than 20% of my twitter follows on Mastodon at this point. Content discovery is a bit different, need to adjust to it, but so far it's the best experience I've had at decentralized social networks since 20-y. ago IRC.
That preprocessor variables are compiled out of existence is a feature. There are certainly situations where Custom Properties are useful, but if you don’t need that power, then using something simpler or inlining them out of existence produces results that are faster to run, use less memory, and are almost always smaller to ship.
I am in the same boat and this is why I have high hopes in tagging as I am more likely to remember a general tag that keywords of notes.

I have always relied a lot on memory and on documentation. My approach was that I need to know where to find things rather that always have the information handy.

This means that I look-up a lot (I started before the Google era and the relief digital search brings is insane) and end up remembering the really important things.

I sometimes find on Stack Overflow my own questions I forgot I asked and now have the same problem :) This is also why I like to follow-up on such questions, enhance answers etc.
The hard right, and their conspiracy theories about Pizzagate, Voting Machines, Mail-in Balloting and Fake school shootings are crazy and disgraceful, in my opinion. And I lost any respect I might have had for Trump after the aftermath of the 2020 election.

But I'm equally disapproving of the left in their handling of the 2016 election and its aftermath, and the way they represented it as "stolen", as well as their narratives during the BLM "protests" and January 6 "insurrection". Imo, if Trump had really wanted a coup, he would have placed his people in top positions of the armed forces, and used actual armed soldiers. Q-anon and others involved on January 6 did not seem to have anywhere near the kind of organization to carry out an actual coup.

Also, Twitter and outher outlets suppressing (then and even now) the Hunter laptop (not the porn, but the actual evidence of corruption that looked like it involved Joe) made it look super-partisan.

Later on, the partisan divide arround covid, with crazy anti-vaxxers on one side, and similarly irrational support for excessive lockdowns and suppression of the WIV story on the other, it seemed like Twitter was contributing to the excesses of both sides.

The world (and perhaps especially the US) needs a platform where moderates of both sides can meet to discuss their differences, and where moderation is (to the extent it is carried out) applied to the crazy people of BOTH sides when it becomes excessive.

That way, one can hope, it may be possible to separate facts from matters of opinion from outrights falsehoods.

If too many people consistently tow the party line (which many be the case for anyone consistently agreeing with their own side on all issues above), I think a breakup of the USA is inevitable. The result will be one Woke-merica and one Maga-merica, and quite possibly civil war.

When Musk took over, I was hoping he would take the platform in a direction where it would support a moderate centre.

So far, he has not made much progress.
> Has social media been a benefit for humanity?

Definitely yes. It was a miracle when in started, it changed everything. But at a later stage it was ruined by engagement and ads and recommended content and crippled ux. I’ve not used any social network for years because I just couldn’t force myself to get through the piles of crap just to connect with my friends and contacts. I’ve been using other methods since then.
This is pretty cool. Back in the nineties when I worked at Canopus, a very clever Japanese engineer named Tom wrote a software defined video routine that would read the raw ouput of a sampled composite video stream and decode it to an RGB stream at a higher quality than what the hardware could do. This was a nice competitive advantage over other cards which used the same chip for composite video recording.
By which you mean that if you have a fusee-glecee (sic) compatible switch, no hardware mods are necessary beyond turning it on holding a usually inaccessible button combination, right? After that, everything is perfectly legal backup and format shifting.
Twitter is drama entertainment. As far as I can see Elon and the platform are perfect for eachother. Messy as it is. Twitter hasn't gotten as much attention since so seems like he is doing something's right.
And yet, they need to keep making announcements, else their funding will be cut.

They knew all along that fusion energy would take decades to develop, and every year they need billions in funding to keep pushing for advancements.

They can't just go radio silent until they're like "we've done it", they need to regularly publish papers and make big media announcements etc.

Come to think of it, the LHC has been silent for a good while. Edit: It had a 3 year hiatus, started up again April this year.
Oh really? What other options do you recommend?
I think we live in a world where local politics has disappeared under the weight of national or international politics.

It would be good to have a comparative poll over time of do you know who your democratic representative is and what they believe. I suspect today most just vote for a party.

Representative democracy might be past it's sell by, but let us hope any replacement is some better sort of democracy.
And by nothing, you mean shipping the Tesla Roadster to customers before he became CEO.

Don’t rewrite history… it’s beneath HN. Do better.