skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nissan Leaf had no battery management system when it launched.

Citation needed?

As far as I know even the 2012 Leafs had a per cell thermal management.

I think in the earlier Leafs a lot of the intelligence on charging operation and battery cooling/heating was offloaded to the BCM module but it is a bit of a hyperbole to say that there was no battery management.

They may not have had a dedicated BMS module in the OEM sense of BMS (like what Infineon now makes) but they certainly had temperature/charge management controls.
You appear to have confused "requiring a helmet" with "has great cycle infrastructure, terrain, climate, population density and generations of social pressure".

The Dutch cycle because it's easier than driving. The reason it's safer comes down to many factors. Just the city planning and redevelopment to make it safe counts for most of it. They didn't get to this point by not requiring helmets.
how many sides do you suppose political thought has? Assuming there is more than one, how do you find the geometric center to avoid bias? If your training data is English text, will the AI be biased against early German philosophers and French political theorists? Of by "unbiased", you are simply referring to the American left-right axis? If so, do you mean the fiscal axis, or the social one?
I have never had any app crash on me and I’ve been using M1 Pro daily for a couple months now. For solving window management I use yabai which lets me navigate my machine (mostly) with the keyboard, just as I’m used to from my Linux daily driver
Right now AFAIK batteries are placed deep in the guts of the car, cf the "electric skateboard" design. This is because they are large and heavy so you have to spread the weight around.

Thus hard to replace.
Not everyone, other than for a specific customer project, I have mostly worked in SQL Server or Oracle, and slowly approaching 50 now.

There are still quite a few enterprise workloads that only the likes of stuff like DB2 are a match for them.
>Typically they start with the byte \u00b1 called the ASCII ESC character. ESC is the 27th ASCII character.

27 ..... b1 ..... I am amazed this person wrote an entire article and never once noticed the absurdity.
I've done something like this with CircleCI and Github labels. The Continuation orb[1] allows you to dynamically generate your CI yml rather than using a static workflow. A Python script is executed which uses information about the PR (author, timestamp, labels applied to the PR, etc) and a CI template yml to add, remove, or skip jobs from the workflow. Some use cases are:

- Replacing a job with a newer job for testing purposes, as described in the article.
- Opting out of jobs, like "skip-deploy" or "skip-unit" labels, to speed up CI in some cases when these jobs aren't needed.
- Making some optional jobs required depending on the files that have been modified in the PR. You can get a list of modified files in a PR using the Github API. We use this for example if a new feature necessitates a new CI job but you want this job to be optional for branches that don't have this feature code yet.

The additional complexity can make this a non-starter for some teams. In our case these use cases are more convenient for us than confusing for the eng team.

1: https://circleci.com/developer/orbs/orb/circleci/continuatio...
There was this post last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33221901

Haven't looked through the comments, but there are a lot of them. Maybe there's something there.

I think the idea is brilliant too and wish I'd found this earlier.
IEEE 802.11bf aims to standardize through-wall motion sensing for Wi-Fi 7 in 2024, https://www.originwirelessai.com/insights/what-is-the-802-11... & https://www.originwirelessai.com/insights/origins-next-chapt.... It can be done today with custom firmware on low-cost WiFi devices. Over the past decade, hundreds of Wi-Fi sensing papers have been published, for different categories of motion.

> capture tiny, vital movements of human breathing, even when people are not in the line-of-sight of a device ... whole home coverage to detect falls, breathing rates, abnormal behaviors ... Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Security, Health & Wellness, Automotive, and IoT

The images in the DensePose paper are helpful: https://twitter.com/aibreakfast/status/1613550599144091650

Prior HN threads on Wi-Fi 7 Sensing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33758434

Counter-measures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27121918#27133079
There was a workshop turning out the Antikythera mechanism, it wasn't a one-off device. It had a user manual.

Lathes go ever further back.

Whoever built the pyramids had sufficient precision to make flat surfaces similar to modern surface plates.

The machines have been around for a very long time, powering them with other machines was part of it.

There's a lot to untangle here.
Except that they won't because a) EV manufacturers won't allow it (Tesla doesn't), b) EV owners won't want to drain their EVs' batteries for others' benefit, c) even if EV owners wanted to allow it, they wouldn't necessarily all have their EVs plugged in when needed.
thank you for the correction! typing with a hand injury today :-/
> good for everyone else

Content creators are tied economically to advertisers.
Wouldn't that make things worse? Those applications usually expect to be able to make these calls. So now, instead of lagging once in a while when the home base is having troubles, it will lag all the time.
I read it as the story of someone whose brother (Jeff) has multiple personality disorder, where Jeff's personality split to build a Michelle personality that was capable of standing up to and meeting not only his parents' expectations, but his sister's (the narrator's), as she also approves of who Jeff is as his Michelle personality. The bit about Michelle being a puppeteer is how Jeff self-reconciles having a separate personality "in control"; the bit about rich children being able to afford puppeteers is how Jeff reconciles how effortlessly the rich children at Stanford seem to be able to achieve success. The bits about Michelle stepping outside, about being contactable directly after Jeff disappears, are literary devices.

Jeff disappears from his parents', sister's, and wife's life, because none of them accept Jeff + Michelle as an integrated person, someone whose anxiety and depression is unacceptable to them (unacceptable to any of them) but neither is his attempt to pull himself together and become happy and well-adjusted (acceptable to his wife, unacceptable to his parents, acceptable to his sister but only on the condition that he make amends with his parents). Danny is Jeff's true biological son, and when the narrator thinks that she sees Jeff "pulling Danny's strings," what the narrator is really claiming to understand in the end is that she isn't capable of trusting that anyone can be genuinely happy in-and-of themselves, that the projection of happiness must be a front, intended to meet roles and expectations, and not from a genuine inner source.

The story is a tragedy, but not about Jeff. It's a tragedy about the unrealistic expectations often fostered in immigrant families (including the narrator's failure to land a rich husband or build a life outside her parents' conflict management issues and control), and how these expectations can wreck family life.
>The difference is that serfs are attached to the manor instead of being owned by the planter

just want to point out (though I'm not an expert) attaching serfs to the land was a step forward in serf rights. I think (particularly in eastern europe), serfs didn't necessarily have the right to stay on the land.
Unpopular opinion - as someone who uses only Thinkpads for last quarter century I think trackpoint is overrated, sure it was great when there was no touchpad, but I feel touchpad is much more intuitive and easier to control. The reason to go with thinkpads for me is keyboard (well at least in past, they are ruining it now with each update) and upgradability.

As for headline - trackpoint was never replacement for mouse, it's just necessity while travelling, mouse is still superior if you have desk available. I thought this will be about some mouse improvements like vertical mouse.
> Risk evaluation is weird that way, and your answer will depend on your role in the conversation. What I would recommend for you may not be the best for me.

Asking the "why" one or two more levels, we end up in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias. Which suggests you should let someone else evaluate the risk to you.
China tells world that the Maoist madness is over – we can all make money again
In case you're not aware, 3B1B has a Github repo for the engine he uses for the math animations so that others can use it to make similar things: https://github.com/3b1b/manim

There's also a loose group of people already doing the visual learners "explainers" thing over here: https://explorabl.es/ (you can scroll down for links to tools they use to make their explainers).

But yes, I also feel this is an important development and that this should be an ongoing way of teaching people things. Formal education has IMO stalled out around the printing press but there are massive opportunities on computers (and especially on globally networked computers) to take that a step further and leverage the capabilities of computers to make education even more engaging and information-dense.
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The position of the Swiss president by design (i.e. the Swiss constitution) doesn't hold any special powers. That's quite different than the US president or even European PMs. A Swiss-style executive in the US would be a fascinating scenario, but it's really not how the systems in the US are set up (nor would the non-required aspects of it necessarily form the same way, e.g. the many-party nature is not strictly required and it could devolve into a two-party-system in Switzerland too in theory)
People employed in big tech companies in Silicon Valley probably don't have to worry so much about their tax burden and thus are relatively free to vote based on their values.
Yeah actually they do ;)
https://twitter.com/robo8080/status/1615582189881798661
As I understand it, yes. See also https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/unified-extension...
It definitely misses some features that are considered bad: e.g implementation inheritance or memory handling by exceptions. Those are not essential for anything and are not planned.
Quite and good ol' anecdotic evidence
Indeed a blade is one of the most useful things that you can’t replicate with naturally occurring items (a log or a rock can be used to hammer things, for example, or vines can be twisted into rope).

Opinel knives in particular are quite handy, thanks to the good quality of the blade. They can take a beating and keep their edge, plus they fold and fit in the pocket (up to No. 9 with ease), so they can fulfill the functions of fancier “survival knives”.

Add a ferrocerium rod for easy fire starting, and a good book for downtime by the fire, and you’re golden.
I don't follow, whats the absurdity?
Sounds good in theory. For many, though, there won't be any intersection (which has any representation in job offerings).

Only persistence and perseverance through failures builds the necessary skills and the right attitude for the thing you need to do. "Career" can be a secondary thing.
MsgPack is great. However I’ve been curious about Amazon’s Ion. Mainly since the namespace stuff allow you to define tags upfront into ints. MagPack transfers field names as strings still unless you crest your own string to int conversion.
He should have kept the better type safety from C++ and expose C like API surface, as actually libc is implemented by MSVC and clang.

No big rewrite effort, better type safety.

Get ready for CVEs.
I've installed OpenShell as a start menu replacement since Windows 8.
Diva: Liquid Staking Powered by Distributed Validators
> What if your clients are using Chrome extensions that affect how the page is rendered? How can you replicate that?

You should not rely on anything on the client side, just accept the fact you don't control the code that is run there.

If you care about a few cases like adblockers, just test them in a headless browser.
I tried datasette for the first time not long ago. To me it wasn't obvious what it gave me compared to my local Postgres setup.

I have a single docker-compose file with Postgres + pgAdmin and a host mount which I use for data exploration and ad-hoc analysis. I get a nice Web UI and can ingest quickly using the awesome Postgres FDWs.

Compared to datasette, it allows me to also transform the data by creating derived views and tables. The UI of pgAdmin also is much more fully-featured, but depending on the user that could well be a disadvantage. I guess the other thing datasette might be better at is the sharing use case by somehow exposing your instance and sharing links, I can do that with pgAdmin as well though.

Overall I'd probably need to try it out some more but currently lack the motivation because I can't think of any big advantage over my old setup.
Rectangle, Rectangle Pro, Magnet are all very nice and make the window management ok-ish on Mac imho. I've made the switch a couple of months ago and the window management without those apps seemed both different but also somehow worse. Now, I'm all used to it and it works good.
>I actually mentioned that: “English merchants where happy to participate in the American slave trade”

You didn't actually mention that slavery was legal in many British crown colonies including the American colonies, which wasn't just "happy participation by merchants", but was day to day life for many UK subjects. "Slavery ended in the British Empire after the Slavery Abolition Act came into play in 1833", about 30 years before it ended in the US, a former British Colony independent less than 100 years at that time, a short time by any standards.
> 2. I thought the industry has moved onto HLS/Dash or stream via websockets for live streaming.

Industry consensus doesn't mean best performance, unfortunately. Maybe it means works well enough for existing participants, but going your own way can be more efficient or less efficient, or a waste of time. Industry solutions tend to take more round trips in search of flexibility, and number of round trips is a big factor in download time if the round trip time is large, as is common on mobile.
> have a clear "Getty Images" copyright watermark

If they had clearly copied Getty Images watermarks, sure... The problem is, they don't.
No absurdity, just typo. It should have been 1b, not b1.
Interactive Map of Active Volcanoes and recent Earthquakes world-wide
> So we've walked it back from...

No. Let's not move the goalposts. Those are two different things. One is not incorporating not mature technologies into the product, the other is trying to push a known technology further. They tried and failed for 4 years, and gave up.

If OLED was already a mature technology for large HiDPI panels and TVs, people wouldn't have been doing panel endurance tests, and TV manufacturers wouldn't hide panel-life sucking balance and recalibration features into their products.

I have used a couple of Macs with butterfly switch keyboards. The problem was not the switch idea itself, but how the key depth has been reduced to make it thinner. They have gone beyond the comfortable depth for speed typing and made a mistake. Also, the minuscule tolerances made it susceptible to jamming due to dirt I didn't like the keyboards with butterfly switches, to be honest. The depth and weight in 2020 MacBook Air (M1) is much, much better.

Yes. We criticize every company, but I think everything should be balanced. I'm not a fanboy of any company. There are ones which I enjoy using, and ones I don't prefer to use. The gist is, I try to objectively reflect my opinion on my comments, and I get replies in the tone of "my experience does not match to yours, so you're most probably lying", I'm genuinely disappointed. Because I never think the other party is not telling the truth. I'm just pointing out and saying "I'm in that state, so it's possible". But I never discount others' state and/or experience.
You sit on the Sugar Cane Council?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/p...
> Wouldn't that make things worse? Those applications usually expect to be able to make these calls. So now, instead of lagging once in a while when the home base is having troubles, it will lag all the time.

Not necessarily. The lag may be waiting for the remote server to respond to a request, and the app may move on quickly if it can't open a connection at all. It's not totally uncommon to work totally offline (e.g. on an airplane), so there's a decent chance the test that scenario.
Can you use Capn’proto outside of C++? Last time I looked into it there seemed to be lots of dependencies.
It's not comparing 'the things it's doing' it's comparing the UX. That's apples to apples. Begone radish farm.
It can be the case that an immediate, explicit failure is faster than waiting for success (or worse, timing out).
Your favorite part is not OpenAIs favorite part. And it will be replaced the second that company thinks it is profitable to do so.
Looks cool, will try it out.
They are really ubiquitous in some cities, and travelling there I took pictures of one from each city I visted. It felt like collecting challenge coins or something.

Not much more to add except that I felt cities in general were very good at self-awareness, branding and collectiveness at a face value level.
I use Moom, it gives me basically perfect snapping and keyboard controls
Hah! When I took the first steps on my career path I wasn’t good at anything, had no idea what I really liked because I hadn’t had the opportunity to try most stuff and the top paying jobs of today didn’t even exist.

I know you are a smart person, but this advice will hold young people back.

Try stuff. Don’t sweat it. You’ll fail and you’ll succeed and you won’t know which is which until years later when you tell a story about your life and force it into a narrative.
Take a look at Figure 10, mind blowing.

This tech will make it into every device with an RF receiver. Your TV, phone, router, computer, tablet, fridge, lightbulb will know your pulse and waste size at all locations in your house.
Shall we rename "Hacker News" to "Elno News"?

Why do we keep giving an individual our attention EVERY SINGLE TIME HE TWEETS?
On the Limits of Knowledge (2010)
General question for the class... Is there any way to stop this? Is there some entries we can add to the hosts file so that Windows and Office will instantly return as failed, rather than timing out?
Write a C program that does something interesting or useful then compile it with -S and inspect the assembly.

I am a beginner at assembly and learned everything from GCC.

There's so many details. I learned about rbp+rsp registers recently. And from Reddit post on the compiler someone told me I need to keep the stack aligned.
I just tried putting the sensitivity on my trackpoint to max, and the cursor literally doesn't move if I swipe my finger across the trackpoint. I have to actively apply downward force for the trackpoint to register. When I use an Apple touchpad, I only ever have to lift my finger if I exhaust the pad's surface area, and the force required to click is lower than what is required to activate the trackpoint.
> Industrial Revolution of course requires industrial machines. So as long as the machines are not invented, no revolution can start.

you clearly are not giving enough credit to slavery which is the whole point of this exercise. How are we going to build a case for reparations with you talking like that? :)

I'm not defending anything about slavery, but just as impoverished working class Britons contributed little to the British industrial revolution, but did both suffer and benefit from it, the same goes for slaves. The industrialization of industry would not have been possible without the industrialization of agriculture which created an unemployed labor pool available for urban industrial revolutionary work, just as we saw play out in the recent history of China.
Blocking radio waves and electromagnetic interference with the flip of a switch
So far we've mostly replaced coal with gas. That is a questionable improvement. Total carbon emissions are still rising quickly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
Fascinating how few people are involved. It would be nice to get a sense of the number of employees who work at the control software company and the semi-automatic steel smelting robot companies too. It’s so exciting to see real human progress like this in my lifetime — jobs getting better for everyone, we hope.

What’s not getting better is iOS accessibility! Am I missing something, or does iOS 16 still not support closed captions on full screen videos?
Take a look at Alfred: https://www.alfredapp.com/

I’ve been using it since v1, it’s extremely configurable, very very snappy and doesn’t suffer from the common AI-problems, that seems to be forced into searches everywhere these days.

(EDIT: it’s a Spotlight replacement)
Ask HN: Light Phone Alternative for the Web?
So I saw the thread about dumb phone yesterday and was so happy to discover the light phone 2 with it's simplistic black and white display and focus on utility tools and services. It made me wonder how much of this could purely be a UX on top of existing services. Maybe a new web based OS that drives a simpler experience purely through text. I was wondering if anyone else felt the same? If there was a demand for such a thing? You'd still be able to use your existing device with its camera, GPS, etc but just swap apps for a simpler text based service.
> I plugged in a broken cd Rom drive that apparently nuked the USB ports

While USB has resettable fuses and whatnot to protect itself, every protection circuit has its limits. There are even tools which can nuke the whole mainboards by charging capacitors and dumping all that energy to data lines.

> I guess if u keep a laptop stationary at your desk and plugged in at all times, then it could last 11 years.

Yes. Mine has seen quite a few countries and spent considerable amount of time trying to cool itself off while I'm developing my Ph.D. and try to get every bit of performance from its processor, all while using my first Mac's power adapter.

While I take care of my computer the best I can, it's not a "house PC" in any sense.
CIDR 2023 Database Conference from Memgraph's Perspective
The Father of the Abortion Pill
Had both Mac and pc. Made switch with latest M1 Pro to replace windows pc desktop. Got 49inch ultra wide and 27inch using magnet works great.
Clicked because I thought at first this was a retro computing post about a Commodore cassette tape drive. Thanks for the intro to this useful tool.
Hm, that may contain Go, Rust and C#?
When other children read comic books - I had a subscription to Byte magazine. OK I didn't fully understand everything but it sure was fascinating and I did learn a lot as well!
- Because some like it better than Python/Julia/<INSERT NEXT language>.
- Because they want data analytics in a ruby application
- Because Ruby is awesome
I have a buddy who seems to be crazy good at pretty much every game. He always chooses the hardest difficulty for every game. His secret? He will deliberately learn the meta for the game in question by watching YouTube. That and good reflexes.
I came across https://teamup.com while searching for a similar application. Their calendar has a useful year view.
He is saying that "FSD" is unlikely to launch any time soon so either you spin it in your favour or you don't.