skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had an EV for almost 5 years now. We first had a BMW i3 94Ah model. It had decent battery thermal management, so it performed fine for us. Yes effective range was down quite a bit, IIRC ~150km in -15C vs ~230km in summer, but it was quite manageable.

It got totaled thanks to someone hitting us, and we ended up with a 24kWh Leaf. It doesn't have much in terms of thermal management, so with that we really notice the winter. Like, to and from work is just fine, but any significant trip in sub-zero (Celsius) conditions ain't fun. We knew it wouldn't be great, and we're looking to replace it.

I'd say for our kind of weather, which have many days below -5C during winter, and living in a city or suburbs like we do, the Leaf is fine as a second car. The i3 was good enough since we didn't do lots of long trips during winter, just a few to the cabin and such. Both the i3 and the Leaf (and others) have climate timers, so you can get the car nice and warm in preparation for a trip, using power from the grid. This helps a fair bit both in comfort and in range.

More modern cars are even better though, obviously more range to start with but also with things like battery preheating which sacrifices some of the battery energy to heat it up in preparation for proper fast charging.

I admit I do get a bit of range anxiety during winter from time to time, mostly because the consequences of running out with -10C or so outside isn't fun. If I was living more on the countryside, there's few competitors to Tesla I think just due to the range and thermal management.

All in all, we're definitely not gonna get another ICE. There's just too many things we like about the EVs.
You can do either if those choices still make sense. Those choices made sense in the past, and they might still make sense currently.
What your percentages don't say is how many pro-legalization want it bad enough for it to matter more than other issues when considering their vote.
Well ChatGPT is absolutely useless for anything that requires immediate and accurate answers in safety critical circumstances such as paramedics, first responders, etc.

Even so, it completely fails at explainability, and after all the initial hype and mania around it, it is still as transparent as a mystery black box, a red flag for many safety critical software.

Paramedics, nurses, and other professions are perfectly not affected by ChatGPT (Or the AI hype in general)
We can need to ban TikTok due to Chinese influence AND can need to fix the fact that the FBI was doing shitty things with Twitter at the same time.

You are not arguing in good faith by framing that as either/or.

The difference between the two problems is quite stark. The ONLY effective hammer that the US has against TikTok is a ban. Against Twitter, there are a range of options that various municipalities, states, etc. can bring to bear.
Email hn@ycombinator.com with your request and justification.
That's true for File objects responding to an :exist? message. For the File class, I think exists? makes more sense.

Anyway, no big deal. Happy to see Ruby getting nicer and nicer every update.
If you're using an email client, chances are you have an offline copy of your emails (depending on how you configured it)
Doesn’t every generation of young people do this? Rebel at least a little against their parent’s way of life to attempt to make their own lives better by their own measure.

Sure a little mind altering experience can be an inspiration to some, but it’s not at all unique or required for young people to want change.
It would be the libel/slander equivalent of copyright trolling. That works by just legally extorting a few thousand dollars per target, under the threat of much larger penalties if they are forced to go to court.
People sleep the least from early 30s to early 50s, finds study
What does it mean to 'flip' the plate? A cupcake sitting on an upside down plate is a valid configuration. If you rotate just the plate, and put a cupcake on top of it, congrats-- you have one cupcake on an upside down plate. The setup of "I have a cupcake on a plate, and I flip the plate" is ambiguous.

Have you tried better explaining how you flip the plate to ChatGPT and seeing what it replies?
Covert Sabotage Campaign in Russia Under CIA Direction
> Two days before February’s invasion of Ukraine, the allied spy service through which the CIA is running the sabotage campaign used a covert communications system to activate its sleeper cells across Russia, according to a former military official and a person who has been briefed on the campaign. Those cells discreetly moved to the locations of buried munitions caches around the country and dug up explosives and other material needed for upcoming operations. After inventorying and checking their equipment, the operatives waited for the orders to hit their targets.

> JSOC has also supported the sabotage operations with targeting information from intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, such as drones, that can see and hear deep into Russia, they said.

> “Drones we don’t even know about yet are loitering all over the Ukrainian and Russian airspace,” the person said.

> The longer the war lasts, the more likely it is that the sabotage campaign will become more brazen, according to a former special operations official, particularly if Putin escalates to the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction. “As we need to send a stronger message to Putin, you may see ops in Moscow and other key cities,” the former official said.

Author: Jack Murphy, cofounder of SOFREP, eight-year Army Special Operations veteran who served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Freefall team in 5th Special Forces Group.
Induced demand is a weird edge case that means the road network causes each trip to cover more distance. Usually what they mean is latent demand, which is the number of people who already wanted to go somewhere, but gave up and stayed home due to traffic on roads that haven’t kept up with population.
That's super interesting. I had to within my first couple years of starting my career (I got tasked with writing a scripting language for a product). I'd guess I've parsed something-or-other --- firewall rules, some weird config file or other, C --- about every couple years. It seems super routine to me. But that's just me!
> Idling combustion vehicles is bad.

Not really, you're spending a fraction of the fuel you'd use per minute if you were driving.

So, in terms of pollution it's no worse than taking a short detour to wherever you were going.
I worked a couple co-op work terms at Eicon Technology that made a PostScript and HP PCL interpreters for bare Canon (I think?) laser print engines. There were hardware guys and a team of maybe 3 or 4 working on the PS one, I worked on the PCL one with another co-op on it between my terms. The HP PCL 5/5e interpreted outperformed everything that was benchmarked in a PC Mag article with the exception of memory used per character. It was especially good at not getting overrun, prioritizing printing 'just ahead' of the laser beam since only the full PS version of the hardware had a full page buffer. Later even the $10 hardware blitter got removed and had to write a pretty good software one that also did zoom enlarging.

I made one contribution to the PS interpreter to speed up line join geometry calculations using first principle ratios (prototyped on my Atari 520 ST) rather than trig functions that made it orders of magnitude faster. It was a great time working close to the hardware and trying to perform as well or better as the big brand printers as well as the other competing 'emulators'.
Some common Angular Material gotchas may include...

- Checkbox text doesn't wrap
- There isn't a datetime picker (only date)
- Styling library components / child components is a pain in the ass. Their escape hatch for this (ng-deep) has been deprecated for years without a replacement.
I didn't apply, but if I did they wouldn't let me in, no. I only had a 1500/1600 SAT and didn't have any patents or first author papers when I was 17. I was doomed to a life of failure.

I'm not sure how what you said is supposed to be a "gotcha", it describes literally 99.99% of humanity.
It was the software for flight cancellations. The variables that go into the decision making are such that it would be difficult for anyone on the outside to predict what the most likely flight to be canceled would be.

Interestingly, there was a case of this with my wife’s trip to Mexico where her flight on Aeromexico departed on Thursday while a united flight at the same time was canceled since they couldn’t guarantee that the return flight would be able to travel in a timely fashion.
Sure. I live on one side of a highway; getting to the other side during rush hour is a PITA (limited bridge crossings). So anything that requires me to cross the highway gets put off until the weekend. If the car drivers itself and I can read a book, those errands likely get done as they pop up.
Just the message means a lot :)
And hey, we don’t have to rely on anyone else to work over Xmas.
on call, in case someone has a major cyber incident. so far, so quiet
What parts of the article make it propaganda?

It struck me as balanced since it minimized the harm in this case yet raised the alarm about inconsistencies between what company said was happening and what this instance proves does happen.
I've been using X11-based terminal emulators for 30 years now, and I can't recall ever having the temrinal emulator itself crash.
I assumed the data is spread out in a set of databases. Reading even just a few terabytes of data into a single server is slow and expensive, and then you'd still need to spend a few days cpu time to sort it locally. And for a bit larger datasets you wont be able to handle it with most computers, I think most large companies has some data sets at about a petabyte, so I don't think assuming that amount of data is unreasonable. I worked with data at about an exabyte, not many has that much data, but it starts to get hard to do it locally at just one millionth that amount. But maybe I'm over estimating how common that is.

Another question is how much time it takes. Lets say we have small data, a few gigabytes or so. Sorting that would still take about 10 seconds to a minute, which is annoyingly slow to users. If that data is distributed over many computers that can each read a subset, then the distributed sorting will go much much quicker so you can do a full sort over the entire dataset within a normal 100ms request SLO. But this assumes that the user needs to sort using arbitrary comparisons, otherwise it is of course much better to just pre sort the dataset and serve it that way.

And even if you have all data locally, if that data doesn't fit in memory distributed would still help. Network within a server cluster is typically faster than communicating with local persistent storage, so distributed you can read it once and send it to the different workers instead of having to read and write it over and over as you'd have to do if you sorted it locally. So in other words, making a computer read X data from disk takes about the same time as getting that data to a distributed set of computers, since you can send data faster than you read it, and this is the worst case for distributed.

Note: This assumes that we can't precompute the sort, meaning the user asks for some ordering they want the items to be sorted in and we have to provide that on the fly. Pre-sorting data once is easy, so I'm not sure why we would discuss that case. Also networking tends to cost a ton more when you run it on others computers like AWS or Azure or Google cloud, then it might not be as viable. Don't they take like 10x more than the cost of networking? But when I worked at Google we got to run distributed jobs juggling a petabyte of data without anyone asking questions, so it can't be that expensive. As long as you didn't make an infinite loop in your distributed program or so nobody cares, and even when a guy did that his job ran for a couple of weeks before people noticed that our compute quota ran out, so I'm pretty sure it can't be expensive. But that amount of networking would probably cost a fortune in Gcloud.
Bloom filters have several applications in bioinformatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filters_in_bioinformatic...
A Different Form of Life
Indeed, made worse/better by the need to fetch my Yubikey to sign in. Likewise how Firefox Focus helped me to kick my Facebook habit.
Kudos to you for this. I hope your generosity makes a difference for someone who needs it this holiday season.
Currently putting the finishing touches on a proposal that is, for some unfathomable reason, due the 28th of December.
I don't really want to give personal information to search engines. Thanks anyway.
My problem is that it almost always get stuck in a dreaming state unable to correct bad asumptions when one has been made. Especially when trying to list facts. I. E. It's hard to have a discussion and iterately get the right answer, you have ro take new routes to get factually corrwct answers.
Interesting idea - follow up question: where/how do you back it up? Looking forward to hearing about your whole system.
3 years ago, at my family's Christmas dinner, I shared that my wife had separated and filed for divorce. Worst Christmas ever. I didn't eat anything, threw up, and don't remember much apart from being depressed, angry, and confused.

I just got remarried this year and can confirm that tomorrow will be better if you allow those that love you to help, and choose long term betterment and stability over short term fixing happiness.
Tiktok has been used by the Chinese gov just like the U.S gov has been using its own internet companies(i.e apple, microsoft, google, meta etc). We already know from Snowden. I really dont understand why people act surprised.

If any national or supranational gov(i.e E.U) cares about privacy and security of its citizens it should ban data transfer and data access outside its jurisdiction(i.e require totally separate entity located in each country/jurisdiction). This would be better for taxes and local jobs too.
What's the primary reason people want to host on their own, in your opinion?

I know of two primary reasons, and neither disappears because of smarthosting.
I think it was very precise in its squareness (still unbeatable in joining and matching elements together with no gaps etc), and also well thought out in being keyboard navigable both iteratively via Tab and by shortcut keys through underlined letters (mnemonics). It also strictly followed the guideline saying that anything that would cause subsequent user interaction (like a file dialog) was indicated with “…” as in “Save” vs “Save as…”

No idea how much of this began in Windows but Windows 3.1 was an OS that had it all and it was very strictly followed in a coherent interface.

Sure, I liked the Windows 9x/NT/2K UI too but 3.x was special to me for being early to be so complete in terms of usability.
> It provides audio latency information which is highly unique (why?).

As someone who has worked with WebAudio extensively, and have opened and read many issues in the bug tracker and read many of the proposals... this is just not as nefarious as you are making it seem. I don't disagree that this _can_ be abused by ad tracking networks but I do disagree with the premise that it was somehow an oversight of the spec or implementation which led to this (or even worse, intentional). Providing consistent audio behavior across a wide variety of platforms (Linux, OSX, Windows, Android) along with multiple versions of all those platforms and the myriad hardware in the actual devices is actually just pretty hard. The boring answer here is that to provide low latency audio to support things like games, a lot of decisions have to made about what buffer sizes are appropriate for the underlying hardware and this is what ultimately exposes some information about audio latency on the system. Some of those decisions are limited by the audio APIs of the OS. Some are limited by the capabilities of the hardware. Some are workaround for obscure bugs in either layer. The point is that, as with most software, compromises are made to support an API that people actually need or want to use to make stuff. I also don't think audio latency information is really "highly unique". There are only a handful of buffer sizes which are reasonable based on the desired sample rate and are mostly limited by the OS, meaning at best you can probably identify a persons OS via the AudioContext. Furthermore, I have seen API "improvements" and requests rejected outright due to possibly exposing fingerprinting information. Things that would be really useful to applications which are building audio-centric software won't be implemented because the team takes this issue seriously.
Thanks for the insider perspective. My experience as a dev in this sector is limited to interviewing for a few consultancies and noping out once I got a look at the code. But most massively public systems I interact with regularly seem to track with both our POVs. Of course the client side is definitely at fault too, for being naïve about these consulting firms.

I wholly agree with you that big projects are not the way to go. I think a push towards open source would greatly improve accountability. And I don't see why say the tax reporting system needs to be proprietary besides a thin veil of security through obscurity.
The above commentator was almost certainly being facetious. However with so many highly paid administrators - there could be an alternate world where they simply did serve students in daily needs. Considering this alternate world, it really does beg the question what these administrators are doing.
In this case it seems like it's just an online version of magic which retains the card trading: https://godsunchained.com/
Very grateful for my clusters right now
Running a decentralised network. Some nodes not behaving well.
That is a very good idea. I think I have the germ of an idea for a new set of videos.
Devin Nunes approves.
All that proves is that farming olives in Portugal is hard. Is farming coffee analogous to farming coffee? According to the actual former coffee grower in this thread, no. Is selling green coffee in Madagascar hard? None of us knows.

> When you're used to the kind of income that software can generate farming anything seems like very hard work, even when it works well.

Even if that’s true, so what? They didn’t ask, is this a better path to getting rich than working at a FAANG. They asked if anyone knew how to do it. The only correct answer for the people in this thread would be “nope, no idea”. Thus my point that they’re not being “realistic”, they’re just well-actuallying someone without having any relevant knowledge.

Seek to understand, don’t just be a wet-blanket.
I saw Faithless back in '97 or '98.

It was a pretty small venue, held about 800 or so, but they had the place feeling like it was many times bigger.

Maxi Jazz stuck around at the end as people were leaving giving anyone who wanted one a high five - great era defining band, great MC, great human.
> st is my favorite terminal

The source code is very approachable too. It's the simplest terminal program I could find. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to see how it works or make their own.
> the 2FA auto-copy to clipboard feature in bitwarden

is that if you're using bitwarden's 2FA authenticator instead of e.g. authy?
There's no copyright equivalent of a SLAPP motion, so things would likely go very different than copyright trolling and result in your being held liable for a lot of defendants attorney fees.

That's before even considering that anyone claiming they've been defamed would likely qualify as a public figure, or limit-public figure, so the bar would be very high.
Bat Boy is a strange comparison, considering he's an obviously fictional character.
Theoretically with broad based deflation everything does poorly. Deflation is super destabilizing as suddenly all the debt in the economy are secured by assets less valuable than expected and producing less cash flow (cannot have stable or growing cash flows in the aggregate in a deflationary environment), so the dominoes of debt start falling as borrowers default. You’d want to be in cash so you can take advantage of cheap buying opportunities.

Realistically, it seems central banks and politicians will die on the hill of deflation and do everything in their power to avoid it, even if it means (as it has in ‘89, ‘01, ‘08, and ‘20) just kicking the can down the road and causing greater, less stable bubbles.

That said, look at the stock market - it has been deflationary this year. So cash is King in this environment. Just not so much at the grocery store or when you get your utility bill.
> Segment tree

Note that there are at least two data structures with the same name (three if you also count interval tree): the one used in competitive programming for fast queries on subsegments of a changing array, and two used for storing segments/intervals on a line in slightly different ways. Wikipedia describes the latter.
If you’re near Detroit and need dinner tomorrow. Email me. graham@eger.dev will drop off food no questions asked.
Do you mean secure notes or notes attached to passwords?
I am doing a python freelance job. It sucks.
Absurd. Indians are very racist towards Africans. Where exactly does whiteness come in here?

Simultaneously denying the agency of Indian people and ignoring the plight of the (small) African community in India.
"Consume" is the appropriate word; I do think.

All of these photos are simply "that thing we need to have on our corporate website." They are simply "product".

Very few people "appreciate" or "engage" with art. Art is now background noise. It is something that simply needs to be present but not excellent. This has happened to photography, music, TV, etc.
> The party-planning process will be streamlined and more administrators will be hired to help facilitate student social life.

Where's that essay on bullshit jobs when you need it.
Considering that sea levels were hundreds of feet lower back then, and waterways were critical for both transit and food gathering, it is likely that much of the record of human pre-history from this era has been obliterated. Always glad to see discoveries like this that help shed more light on our distant past.
> at 15 million dollars thats 250,000$ TC on average which is at least double the cost for the vast majority of the world.

250k would be the company's price, not your TC. It depends on where you're working but it's not too far off to expect your company is paying +50-100% on top of your non-options compensation as their all-in cost to employ you.
They do note it as a limitation at least, but yes.
Yes, yes it is. React devs have a much better Material library.
Sadly, I know of no replacement.
Yes, but not so simple. Especially when the alerts are caused by 2 systems down the line and aren't owned by our immediate Team. That and the fact that we're migrating to a better thought out architecture which has been 2 years in the making.
Slow pace at big corps..
As something parallel, I was talking online to someone about various patches I was considering adding to various "going out" jackets. I was explicitly warned to add at least two (2) different antifa patches, lest I be taken for a Nazi and beaten up. The conversation got weird at that point and I realized that I was being told to have something uniform added and give symbolic compliance or I would be physically abused ... by people who thought they were against fascism.
If you load the data properly (creating the index after insertion, which is definitely preferable in this case), it will load extremely quickly (milliseconds).

You should also disclose your relationship with a competing project. For the record, I use DuckDB in personal projects and love it. You seem to be misusing it. :)