skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you kidding me? Not sure??? After all this?

I for one am absolutely sure NOT to trust Elon Musk. By now doesn't everyone realize he's an impulsive narcissistic liar?

Raise your hand if you're gullible enough to believe his cockamamie story that he was just about to roll out a brand new much better upgraded suicide prevention system, but simply shut down the current system in advance for a while exactly around Christmas Suicide Season, because ...?

Funny how he didn't need to turn off the entire twitter feed for a day to implement impression counts, just like he shut down the entire Twitter Spaces system when a journalist asked him an obvious question he didn't like.

I'm astounded how willingly and enthusiastically and shamelessly gullible some people are.
Can I come stay and help out? I also know nothing about coffee other than it’s delicious. Maybe you could turn it into a bit of a learning experience and document your journey as part of marketing. I’m a writer and can do video production and socials so could help with that.
Agree, I can lose Twitter, Reddit, what ever. If I lose HN I feel that would affect me the most. I appreciate a community that is not focused on politics, news, and what ever nonsense is happening in the world. Just focused on a core topic revolving around computers/technology/startups.

Merry Christmas and any other holiday you may celebrate at this time.
I agree. All topics I read about on news aggregation sites are for the topic themselves. I don’t want to spend eight paragraphs of “my mother tends to get pensive and quiet around Christmas now, eight years after my father passed” in order to figure out that the article is about the new iPad.

So for me it’s not a good style.
That definitely worked for a decade but I have to say it’s rare that I find better results on Google than Duck Duck Go, which is a big change.
That's not really true. Password managers should be, and good ones are, way more safe than that.
People are aware the PR isn't going to be accepted; they just want to publish it somewhere.
500 passwords? That sounds like alot of digital identity!
If it was hard for everyone it wouldn't be such a problem, as presumably people would be more tolerant of others getting it "wrong". As it is, it seems that there's a large cadre of people who not only find it easy, but find the "correct" behaviours so self-evident that they tend to assume that people who don't notice these things (or whose natural preferences are different from the unwritten social norm) are being wilfully offensive.
Also it was a therapy of last resort for which there is a special fast track process.
At Pinkpop, a Dutch festival, the audience to Faithless created such a tremor that it was recorded as an earthquake.

Salva tea, Maxi.
No. The result is just as interesting (if not more) if it only applies to some population segments...
I do! tinydns and dnscache all the way (although considering alternatives that aren't BIND[1]); only problem I've had was the auto-SOA generation which the .is people didn't like (they want each NS to have the same SOA) but since I generate the data file with a script anyway, it was an easy tweak to make that SOA a known value.

[1] Historical issues with running at an ISP in the late 90s and the various security issues since.
But maybe it’s a good thing that people say these things out loud so we can discuss them and maybe convince them otherwise? Or learn that in some cases they might be right?
This is right after some Electrify America co-produced/co-designed stations didn't work in the cold, with his hypothesis being the voltage leak detection system within the charger breaking and thus not allowing current to flow: https://youtu.be/fq0RAjJ1PKQ
There's a long distance motorcycle travel series with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman called "Long Way Up" where they go from the bottom of South America to LA on electric motorcycles. They had a lot issues with both range and charging the motorbikes in the first few episodes when they were dealing with the cold winter climate in Tierra del Fuego. Once they got far enough north into warmer climates the bikes were charging a lot quicker and getting a lot more range.

Either someone is going to have to come up with an ingenious solution or electric vehicles are going to be of limited use in cold weather locations where space is not abundant enough for garages (quite a lot of European cities). Infrared heating seems quite efficient, maybe the solution lies there.

Based on the article, that Tesla is looking pretty impressive though!
Same was true (symmetrically more it less) at summer temps north of Phoenix: all the power went to cool the battery leaving nearly uselessly slow recharge times.
it doesn't explain why you failed to disclose that salient fact in your silly argument.

Am I obligated to disclose that I held a particular job years ago? I didn't know that was a requirement on HN. I see that you also haven't disclosed your resume and that your profile is blank. Is there a reason for that? Maybe you have a false conscience and knew it would immediately discredit you?

So far, all you've contributed to the discussion is hyperbole and name calling:

"Touchy... silly... general ignorance... boneheaded... ignorant... discourse police... propagandists... some of the lowest forms of human life... the only reasonable feelings are contempt and pity"

How is anyone supposed to take you seriously when you present no facts, no cogent argument, just attacks and vitriol?

I don't think there's any point in continuing this conversation any further. You are convinced of your position beyond the ability to reason and listen. I hope that some day you find peace within yourself and the ability to imagine that other human beings are not your enemy.

You should probably also switch to decaf.
Maybe the party rules are applied arbitrary to get rid of students that annoy the admin somehow. I believe alot of rules that are not followed are set up for that purpose.
TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users as effort to ban the app heats up
It's also a little beside the point. Dispensaries operate openly. DEA can just Google "weed" and they will get a list of places to raid.
I mean, how do you communicate with someone that has no ability to make quantitative estimates? Yes, getting rid of prop 13 would require the administrative complexity of one specific job of one department to increase. No, this does not contradict the goal of reducing administrative waste. Fire a million bureaucrats (15% of the population of California works for state and local government), shut down 20 departments, and the 1000 people you need to hire for prop 13 rollback will not reduce the overall goal.

And by shifting responsibilities, you could easily do this without hiring anyone else - almost all states have a value-based property tax system, and this includes states with extremely lean administrative load compared to California, so your claim that following their model is some self-contradictory nut to crack is specious.
Bootstrap 5.3.0-Alpha1
I limited my hypotheticals to a single generation because I was interested in learning specifically what it is about inheritence that people find unfair.

Your response would seem to posit a different set of questions, namely should capital be used to make decisions for society and does a concentration of capital force those without to work a lifetime of menial jobs?

I'm less interested in addressing these questions since I've heard a lot about them before and I think it will take us on a further tangent from the original discussion. But I will just say that I see no difference between a first generation person who doesn't work and a tenth generation person who doesn't work beyond perhaps an abstract greater disconnection from the rest of society and the concept of hard working. And that for capital to have influence over society it must be deployed which carries with it the risk of losing said capital.
I had an M1 pro and have an M1 air, both with screen protectors (that are matte but quick to show smudges) and haven't noticed this.
Of course I have custom build scripts that build a target from its dependencies. The point is that there are several such targets as part of building a single plugin. It is the build system that decides whether to run such build script and in what order in order to build the final result, depending on which sources and intermediate targets were updated.

The entire point of having functions is to capture a "recipe" for building one type of target, and then be able to reuse it again and again.
You would be surprised how developed is Monero.
People relating stories around a campfire and people writing stories for the Web are not comparable. I certainly don’t have the capacity to be drawn in to some writers day whom I don’t know with the amount of content that is out there.

And even less now these days when some of them might be AI-written.
Ask HN: Good Fitness Band?
I recently got the flu and was thinking it would be interesting to have a graph of my body temperature, which made me consider buying a fitness band. Are there any that HN likes?

Factors I care about:
- Slim design and good battery life
- No subscription required to unlock any features
- Lots of interesting sensors (heart rate, SpO2, skin temp, pedometer, others?)
- Open data access, reverse engineered APIs, 3rd party data analysis apps

Happy holidays!
Vega C fails after launch with two Earth observation satellites
I will have to look that up, thanks for the tip.
The problem with delivery issues is you often don't know you have them ; I was paying for mail hosting to a small-ish hosting provider, and after 16 years of essentially perfect service, I started realizing that gmail delivers ~25% of the mail I sent through them as spam - but not consistently.

I spent hours trying to diagnose this, and so did the hosting service - to no avail, because we'd try something, a delivery worked ... and the next day, to a different recipient, it didn't - and it is sometimes hard to get feedback about those things.

I really wanted to support the smallish hosting service - but I couldn't afford to lose so many deliveries. I sadly switched to FastMail and not a single mail that I know of was lost for a few years now.

You say you are investing 2-4/year troubleshooting delivery issues; How do you know that the things you don't troubleshoot actually reach the receipient's inbox?
while literacy is an advantage, its hardly unfair.
It's also notable that they're only able to do this with the cooperation of the federal government. For the most part, asset forfeiture without due process isn't a thing in California. But it is at the federal level, so local cops can launder money by sending it to the federal DOJ, who take a 20% cut and return the rest of the money to the local police through something called the "equitable sharing program"
Not well known, but an awesome track: Woozy, also on the The Beach soundtrack.

https://youtu.be/j8m68wL9hYw
WarpedPerception solved this problem by installing a 400cc generator in his Tesla that ran continuously on his 1800 mile road trip
> ...When Stanford could not remove a student organization for bad behavior, they found other justifications. One such case was the end of Outdoor House, an innocuous haven on the far side of campus for students who liked hiking. The official explanation from Stanford for eliminating the house was that the Outdoor theme “fell short of diversity, equity and inclusion expectations.” ...

> Next year, Outdoor House will be reinstated, but only because house members promised to refocus their theme on “racial and environmental justice in the outdoors.” Upholding diversity, equity, and inclusion is the first of four “ResX principles” that now govern undergraduate housing. Stanford reserves the right to unhouse any organization that does not, in their opinion, uphold these principles.
Anecdotally last winter, had a Model Y up in maine for a trip home. I arrived at a backwoods house with ~60 miles left. It was around 10 farenheit the next day when I hooked up a 110 volt line to the car. Over the next 30 minutes the mileage dropped to 55 as it took more energy to heat the battery than the line could deliver.

I unhooked it and planned to drive 20 miles to the nearest charger, but after 1 mile of travel, it had dropped to 40 miles left. I turned around and drove back, now with ~20 miles left.

I parked the car in an unheated garage and plugged it back in, praying that the car would heat the garage to the point it could start charging. Maybe 2-3 hours later it started to take a charge, and 3 days later it was up to 150 miles, and I drove it to a super charger.

I realized after that, if I ever moved back to Maine and wanted a tesla I

- would need a heated garage

- I could never expect to leave my car overnight at a friends / trip during the winter.
I did indeed, but you can't have too many Christmas greetings!
Render.com Pricing Changes
I suspect that the role of the CCP in TikTok's management plays a significant role.

The CCP is less directly involved with Facebook.

(Though I'd be more than happy to see Facebook destroyed entirely.)
Akon's Wakanda, grazing goats and a crumbling crypto dream
CEO of the Boring Company slept at Twitter HQ with his partner and newborn baby
The Internet community :)

E.g.:

https://github.com/learn-anything/youtube

https://github.com/JoseDeFreitas/awesome-youtubers
Encouraging legal businesses to deal in cash outside of the standard Federal banking system (with its various AML/CTF protections) seems like it's a bad thing, at least if one believes bank compliance is an important goal.
Hopefully we discover a new battery chemistry

We seem to stumble on new chemistries that get to production every few decades so cross your fingers
> I take a dim view of "approve more density or we'll sue you".

That's not the rule.

The rule is “approve developments such that you meet state housing requirements or lose your ability to deny planning approval to otherwise legally-compliant developments”.

There is no suing involved: the requirements are known up front, and the consequence of not meeting them is automatic.

> Like, the state already had targets set for cities for a long time, and most cities just kinda ignored them.

Yes, that's why they changed the consequences from just “lose access to certain funding, and lose preference points in applications for other funding” to be that plus losing the ability to block housing developments.

And those new teeth have been biting very hard.
When I ran a datacenter in California, our company was acquired by a company in Texas. The Texans came out and started pulling that crap. I advised the customers the causes of their outages and it stopped given it impacted their rather expensive service level agreements.

I suppose in this case Elon can absorb any revenue losses but surely there is a better way to ease-in a chaos monkey test in a more professional and strategic manor. One could come up with a tech-refresh plan that implements a design retrofit for anything that does not have n+1 automated redundancy.
They're different problems, you've got programming in the small, medium and large.

Computer Science tends to focus on programming in the small to medium, and software engineering tends to focus more on programming in the medium to large.

It's one thing to optimize a small piece of functionality fully, but it's another thing to put together a product that has thousands of live users, hundreds of features, multitude of configuration modes, distributed globally, etc.

If I ask you to clean a bathroom in 3 hours, and then I ask you to clean the whole house in 3 hours, your approach to the cleaning will be very different between the two, and the first thing that will be cut is your attention to details.
I've lost thousands of dollars of digital content at google. I was really salty about it for a while, but sacrifice is the price of liberty. It is a small sacrifice to not do business with companies that demand I do business with other companies that refuse to provide customer service.

I do a lot more business in cash locally as a result. Finding a good local bank that will let me physically show up to deal with problems with my money was the hardest part due to the massive consolidation in that industry, but the result is that I am more connected to my community and more resilient to many types of problems.
Happy Holidays HN.

I’ve spent Christmas alone more than I care to admit over the last decade but this community never fails to offer insight, inspiration, and compassion.

This is a great community and I look forward to another decade of being privileged to be a member of it.
During that MDMA experience of mine I was the only one tripping, and I met all people in that small club, went backstage to chat with the band, joined two ladies and smoothly started dancing and flirting with one of them (but I was too high to take it further. People on ecstasy have a rather unattractive pale look)

The next day I remember how easy it felt, and that the fear of strangers was completely irrational; Certainly, sober I make an even better impression than when I'm high as a kite.
Joyeux Noël l'ami !
Puisse-tu trouver le temps d'écrire le beau code libre.
> By comparison an EV charged with a domestic solar array would probably more liberating

By comparison, yes. But where are you going to go, or what are you going to do, that isn't dependent on other ppl in some way? I like the idea of being self-supporting as much as anyone, but that doesn't change the fact that we're all interdependent in modern society.
It's not a chemical thing, it's just temperatures. Cold batteries have lower cell voltage, so the current available drops into the non-linear ("off") range at a lower state of discharge than a hot battery. The energy is still there[1], you just can't get it out without warming it up.

Teslas[2] (and a handful of other models) have heat pumps to warm the batteries. It's as simple as that. The same system is integrated with navigation too, because even on warm days unused/empty cells will be colder, and you want those to be warm when you reach the supercharger.

[1] Which is to say this isn't strictly a change in "range", if you can drive somewhere warm you can keep going to the rated distance.

[2] Ones built over the last three years anyway -- older ones didn't have this. I think Y's and all but the oldest 3's have heat pumps, but older S/X models might not. Something to be aware of when buying on the used market.
In practice: pretty simple. You can do it at home if you have decently reliable internet and power.

You don't need five nines of uptime, you need like, two.

You don't get subject to slashing for your node going offline, you only get slashed if your node is doing shit out of consensus like actively cooperating in double spends.
> I own a Tesla which has some of the lowest impact.

I have a suspicioun those cars that seem to have no impact on range due to temperature just increase the deepth of discharge in colder weather.

I.e. Tesla and Jaguar.
Tangent: I also wonder if this correlates with preferring static typing over dynamic typing on programming languages. (Or maybe more generally, using strong contracts at subsystem interfaces.)

The common thread being that everyone agrees up front what the rules are, and then expects all parties to adhere to them.
It occasionally happens that even research does not prepare you for an actual experience.
Not a Christian, but appreciate the sentiment. Family is all dead so it's just another weekend for me, no big deal. Hope the rest of you enjoy your festivities, whatever it is you're doing.
I wonder if these tools will ultimately force a better appreciation for artistic intent. A Visual artist might meticulously design the shape, color, positions, shadows, etc of every object in a piece in order to achieve their goals and direct the viewer's focus with surgical precision. It seems like the amount of essential information encoded in such a work could be much more than would be possible to compress into a text prompt.

I think this will be the key differentiator between human professionals and AI. AI will replace photos from people like me who aren't photographers and just need a picture with a simple description i.e. "thing A in front of thing B."
You might be being a bit too vague here for a lot of operational advice, but from what I gather both projects are contingent on a lot of user uptake, but you have no budget. Especially the first project since it is a social app and will require a minimum userbase within a city to be useful. the second you are unsure if you have a "clear business model" or if "business-wise not so [well defined]" and the purpose is not clear to you.

Might I suggest pursuing neither right now, and identifying a smaller project that won't have a minimum threshold required for any commercial success (that might be impossible to reach without a marketing budget or tons of luck)
I wish a happy and merry Christmas to each and every one of you, may your celebration of the birth of Jesus be a pleasant one.
From the article:

> the policy that Charlotte approved last week: abolishing single-family zoning. Charlotte’s Comprehensive Plan prescribes legalizing duplexes and triplexes citywide, giving more people more access to more types of housing in more neighborhoods, and undoing a policy originally intended to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ban on racial zoning by keeping renters out.

There are a number of places reversing the dominance of single-family single-use zoning for residential real-estate that has existed for the past several decades.

I think this is a good thing. Other countries have been doing this all along and have much more people-friendly neighborhoods, also allowing low-impact businesses to be mixed in with residential, still having rules for height, setbacks, etc.

Single-family single-use zoning ended up being convenient for large developers, being the cheapest way for them to turn land on the outskirts of town into profits, with little regard for the people who would live in these corporate-constructed neighborhoods and how far away from everything else in the rest of their lives they would be - the cost of car dependence, the commuting time, the lack of nearby places to socialize, kids far away from their friends, etc. Many of these places are going to have trouble paying their infrastructure replacement costs in the coming decades, there's not enough taxpayers per mile.
Realizing that was when I moved on.

I'm looking for a good alternative to the office suite, Microsoft has better customer service but not by much and it's not always easy to use cross platform(I wind up using Win, Mac, and Linux weekly and play with FreeBSD occasionally
Idk the central metaphor of the article reads as legible and correct to me. The take home message is that it seems complex-but-stable systems must spend a lot of complexity on achieving hysteresis across scales, and the degradation of such systems can cascade into failure modes unexpectedly. Does that help?