skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’ve owned any EV besides a Tesla you know this is sadly the cold hard truth. I’m not sure why EV owners rush in to try and refute the problems with charging but as a Bolt EV owner it was a terrible experience.

Imagine if every time you tried to use a gas station you needed to install a buggy, crashing phone App that required you to type in your credit card and other personal information. Imagine if 50% of gas stations simply didn’t work and you get stranded somewhere far from home having to sleep in your car. This is the reality of owning a non-Tesla EV. After a year of this and owning a rapidly depreciating car I said screw it and went back to gas.
Right, things seem to have gotten a lot worse.
That decorator syntax thing was a mess. The original syntax seemed like it was far enough along. Many folks adopted it because it seemed like "a sure thing". I ended up pulling it from a project in 2017 because so few of the folks on my team wanted to truly understand what problem those were meant to solve. It was easier to "decorate" in a more manual way (wrapping a function with a function).

The way TC39 handles stages now should stop things like that from happening. (You implement a Stage 1 or 2 feature fully knowing it could change)
I think some US states have cat eyes, but they can’t really be installed anywhere you plow snow. Or at least you need to install different ones.
Did Tesla keep their connector from becoming a standard or used by other manufactures and services?

I understand that they would want to initially restrict their charging network to just Teslas, but that could be enforced through the software/service.

Surely it would be in Tesla's interest to allow Tesla owners to have the greatest flexibility as well as potentially opening things up to others in the future? (I know there is an optional adapter for Tesla owners to use to connect to non-Tesla chargers, but it always nicer/better/more-convenient to not have to use adapters)

Perhaps they were worried about the quality and safety of others producing a subpar equivalent/variant that might have led to incidents that tarnish Tesla's name and reputation? Similar to a few years back when there was a lot of controversy around USB-C chargers and how some deviate from the standard and could potentially damage your phone/device.

I know a few years ago Tesla "opened" up a lot of patents other auto-manufactures could use for "free". I'd be surprised if there wasn't anything related to charging (including connectors) included in these "open" patents?
You can find unflattering footage of anybody's supporters.

I was never a Trump supporter, but as someone who has friends and family who are/were supporters, I resent the situation where people think like you do.

In fact, I think that attitude is part of why these people end up voting for Trump. They know what the cool kids on the blue team say about them when they aren't in the room (hell, even when they are in the room). Not to give all Trump supporters a pass, but they're not all (or even most) the cartoon character you have in mind.
As a European, this is yet another aspect of American life that surprises me... although perhaps it shouldn't be surprising.

British cars need to pass a yearly inspection (called the MOT) to be legally allowed on the road, and if you drive around with a failed or expired MOT then you WILL get caught and the punishment will hurt.

It's quick and easy to get the test done yearly and it's not a big deal; the system works well. You can even go online and look up the MOT history of any car, which is handy if you're about to buy the car as it'll let you know about any historical faults.

I assume there's something similar in most developed countries... why does America not do this?
There's nothing wrong with the website though. Ugly is highly subjective
Same here, takes a bit of work but it can be exactly what you want if you are interested in excel formulas. They are pretty powerful
Show HN: I made a site to generate cold emails based on job descriptions
Well, hard to say if it is a better resource. But it will appeal to those who are in a hurry (and yes, it is okay to be in a hurry). For example, fast.ai first chapter will have you build a dogs vs cats classifier. But how do they build it? By doing `from fastai.vision import *`. They justify it by claiming to use Teaching the whole game approach. If you are a somewhat experienced engineer who already knows Python, what is Jupyter then this approach will get you started quickly. For someone who feels did I spend my time/money but nothing exciting is happening yet, this is a good start. But for some it is crazy and makes them feel even more scared (what is happening with all this imports, how does it work).

My criticism with fast.ai, (I am part time educator), is that this approach is an information overload and poor sequencing. Their comparison with Teach whole game approach is flawed because a game of, say Football, is essentially simple. So you can say just start kicking around. But we don't teach chess this way. It is accepted that you have to spend some time upfront to learn the rules before you can play even simple game. Sure one need not learn castling or en-passant upfront. But you get the drift.

This book (looking at the preview chapters) is going to follow the lego blocks approach or bottoms up approach to build it. For me, this is correct way to teach supervised ML focussed on neural networks and deep learning. We have a problem of too many library plumbers in the ML field currently. People who can piece together library function calls without knowing why it is working. But this house of cards is not sustainable strategy to build AI based application over long term.

Long story short, the book will need patience but that patience will be worth it!
I would just try it, honestly. Knowing the huge amount of SKUs Lenovo has, it might be a grid of models & “factory BIOS version” that support it.
Ask HN: Best examples of software documentation that you've come across?
Hi all. I'm currently trying to revamp the software documentation of a library that I'm trying to build. I would like to see examples of documentation that allows you to easily find the information you need. Thanks!
Reminds me of Gertie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQnqTjhv1h8
To me this seems like Stripe for Flights. No for a moment let's think beyond applications that would like you to book your flight through them (where Links seems super useful IMO) and start thinking about future voice assistants and copilot like products, Duffels API is the interface to book flights, how else do you offer this? No affiliation with the company, just genuinely positive about what they're doing.

p.s. It looks like my HN account from almost a decade ago with the same username got deleted (had to recreate). How is this possible?
I've been writing code professionally, full-time for over twenty-five years. I've never had a period of unemployment that lasted more than a few weeks.

The truth about remaining an individual contributor and staying out of management is just to flatly turn down any offers of management positions. You'll likely make less money because of this. Management will tell you this isn't the case, but in most orgs, power is centered around management. As an example, people with fifteen years at Google were laid off by a management team with less tenure. Maybe they're next, but you'll be first.

The longest I have ever stayed at a job is about seven years and that was several years too long. If you've been at a company more than a few years, your salary is stagnating.

Don't do free labor. That includes an expectation for regular work beyond 40 hours. Learn on the job. Not just by doing new things. Read books, blogs, practice coding during work hours. This is how all other professions operate. I have no side-hustle. I'm a professional programmer.

No one knows what the future will bring. I've professionally written code in a dozen languages and as many platforms. Stay intellectually curious and learn how businesses operate.
Yeah, I think he was referring to ICE vehicle road trips for some odd reason. Some people can be very aloof.
Just looked up the price of a headlight assembly for my Porsche Macan. $4K MSRP, ~$3.1 Street price. But it is pretty cool to see it adjust in real time when going around turns or up and down hills.
I don't know enough about it, is DoH better/different from using DNSSEC upstream servers in Pi-hole?
I went from Pi-Hole to NextDNS to (now) AdGuard (alongside AdGuard DNS and their VPN).
You cannot reliably assess for prostate cancer using an ultrasound. PSA blood test in concert with rectal examination of prostate, with MRI of prostate of abnormality detected as the next step.
Just taking a stab at "who the customer is":

My friend runs a theatre in SF and would offer crazy packages for their VIP seating, think Uber Black taking you to the event, with a private entrance and red carpet.

I could see high end event sellers offering to include a flight to the event with the purchase of the ticket.
Not listed on that page is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go, which has the same i5-1135G7 as the X1 Carbon listed.

It appears that MS is clearing out their remaining stock with discounts, and they are really nice little machines with outstanding build quality, very good keyboards, and a 3:2 touchscreen.

It was never a popular machine, I think it had very unfortunate naming which leads people to confuse it with other MS products. You have to think of it as something like a super-premium Chromebook to understand what it is for. But regardless, you can dump Windows and install Linux just fine.
Indeed, if you can only withstand the treadmill so long, be ready to hop off at some point. That’s why (imho) a lot of tech folks subscribe to early financial independence; the recognition that we have a shelf life and the odds of continuing employment (voluntarily or not) diminish as we approach late 40s and early 50s.

It’s fine to be willing to spend significant amounts of your personal time earlier in life staying current on whatever the new hotness is, but it gets old later in life and can encroach on having a quality life with loved ones and friends.
You convinced me (and I edited my post). Thanks :)
There's no "if". And the when is just a matter of time required to bring up mineral/battery supply chains.

EVs are already (in most cases) cheaper than equivalent ICE vehicles over the lifetime of a vehicle. Soon they will become cheaper upfront as well. ICE won't compete very well after that, except in the luxury/enthusiast market.

Consumers choose automobiles over horse and buggy. They are choosing EV over ICE too, in greater quantities every year.
Closure Library
You should play the lottery because you sound like the luckiest person alive.
As a parent member of a PTA, I can say most parents I speak with or attend the meetings demand coding, robotics and chess as part of the curriculum. My questions about increasing arts, drama, music, natural sciences, mindfulness, civics, etc etc are usually met with polite nods and comments along the lines of "I thought you said you have a science PhD and worked at like Cal Tech or something?"

So, supply and demand and a total lack of appreciation of non-tech fields
He has already completed cliff diving. Messi style. But, If he wants to start a cliff diving shorts brand empire sure. Then “Air Hunt it is.
> The best conceptualization of the concept of number that I've come across is Von Staudt's construction of the rationals using the concept of harmonic tetrads.

Do you have any more material for this? Google seems to give me no good results.
Don’t studies show that you have to make users do something that requires friction to boost conversion? Otherwise they’re not valuable leads
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127
Don't forget translate!
>LEDs are... a rounding error against a car’s total energy usage

It's more about economizing the power supply package and heatsink integrated within the bulb or lamp assembly.
Takes balls/confidence or just plain ignorance of competition to do just another simple budgeting app!

Is a good looking app!
That is a good, comprehensive link.

I would also say that matches the academic viewpoint fairly well. It shows how my reductionistic view of actors as the important thing being the binding of data to a specific thread of execution is a fairly heterodox view. I don't want to hide that. Note how that link does discuss data, but it isn't anywhere near as front-and-center as I would put it. If I were writing a similar survey, it would probably be my organizing metaphor, rather than message passing. I'm not criticizing that organization; it's a completely valid handle on the problem as well. It's just not what I would use.

At the end, they disclaim Communicating Sequential Processes as not being an actor model. By their terminology, this is correct. By my heterodox view, though, I would still put them under the "actor" category, at least in general (I don't know if it's strictly speaking necessary for the processes to have isolated data, but even if not specified one does wonder what the point of all the communication is on a practical level if the processes can just reach in to each other's data sets), and to me they would be another example of the various elaborations you can apply to them.

Ultimately what kept me out of academia is I had too much of a hybrid engineering/academic view to fit into either one comfortably, and I could tell there wasn't much room for an "in between" all protestations to the theoretical desirability of cross-discipline cooperation notwithstanding. There's a sense in which all the details in that link matter. But there's another sense in which 75% of the problem is solved just by ensuring that you've got some data that can only be accessed by a given thread of execution, another 20% that you can't hardly help but solve beyond that (e.g., you will come up with some sort of messaging solution, and the details of that solution may affect your architecture but broadly speaking any half-sane solution will generally be able in some way to solve any problems you have somehow), and the remaining 5% is academically interesting but from an engineering perspective will generally only start to bite you at very large scales, so are only worth worrying about if you expect to scale that far. The latter point of view is... not the common approach academics take.

But you don't need to worry about a lot of that stuff to just get started. The guidelines I've given in these couple of posts will get you the vast bulk of real value with a fraction of the concepts, and while you will need to choose some sort of system to use your actors, the complexity is less than it appears because most of the time any of these solutions will work for you, or you'll be choosing them on completely other criteria like implementation language or network protocol compatibility.
I don’t have a twitter account. I just followed a link because the linked content seems interesting.

But thank you for the tip!
I think it's some combination of laziness or not knowing how their vehicle works. Some are coming equipped with auto high beams, but I'd wager those don't work on windy roads and therefore don't automatically dim.

On the other hand, I was driving at dusk last night to church and someone had his high beams on (still fairly light outside as the sun had only just set) and it was an older vehicle. So, I'm sure there's some laziness/ignorance to the high beam problem.

You're definitely not the only one noticing this!

(Don't get me started on squatted trucks...)
> which can be recharged off of otherwise-wasted energy from the engine idling

That’s not how it works. When charging, the alternator will put more load on the engine and that will increase fuel input to keep rpm up enough to keep the engine from stalling.

Overall, every vehicle designer will seek to minimize any and all loads (even small ones).

Worst is when they remove the spare tire, grrrrrr.
Yep, no thanks. Not even for free when the military offered it to me as a carrot to reenlist. You only have one set of eyes. There are no guaranteed results. I have blue eyes and astigmatisms which I was told by multiple doctors could affect the results. I've met more than a couple people that have had chronic dry eye and other issues after their LASIK. I'm totally fine with my glasses and rare use of contacts. I'm not gambling my only set of eyes with perhaps half my life left on this planet.
responding with violence is also "being affected by words". It also enforces the point that words can incite violence.
Ghostwriter Chat: The first conversational AI programmer
All due respect I don't think you've been poor. They don't care if it has fillers. They want a full stomach. They're going to optimize for the cheapest ways to fill those calories. You know what's subsidized? It's not the fresh fruit or veggies. Even my middle class friends in sleepy Colorado Springs didn't know what a proper home cooked meal was until they came over to my house. Some were even astonished we ate meals together as a family consistently rather than send everyone to their own rooms with TV dinner trays.

Those kids that didn't grow up with cooked meals are very unlikely to cook for themselves or their own eventual children. They're going to stick to 90 second rice pouches, ramen packs, mac n cheese, "salad kits". I can tell you right now a Kraft Mac n cheese cup is cheaper than what I would spend on pasta & the cheeses to make a roux. Easier to prepare, too.

I don't see people in Walmart buying produce. If they wanted that they'd go to one of the Latino grocery stores or the farmer market. If they wanted pantry staples (flour, bread, eggs, milk) they generally go to Costco. Who goes to Walmart to buy anything fresh?
Like, we could both be thinking and talking about things like, “I wonder which programming languages are better or worse for these tasks? Is it harder to translate to NASM or ARM64? Or C? Or Lisp? Which lisp performs better? What’s the relationship between training data and programming languages and is this separate from an inherent complexity of a programming language? Can we use LLMs to make objective measurements about programming language complexity?

I have done a little bit of testing and LLMs are objectively worse at writing ASM than JavaScript, which makes sense, because ASM is closer to the metal and properly transcribing into functional ASM requires knowledge of the complexities of a specific CPU, specific calling conventions for an OS, while in contrast JavaScript is closer to natural language so there’s less “work” for the translation task.

But no, instead you want to prove to me that ChatGPT is some parlor trick…
The Homebrew folks think this is a non-problem. You may agree or disagree, but the pull request is certainly a non-solution to this maybe-problem. Not just because it gained zero traction and did not get merged anywhere, but also because it's just an obscure band-aid. Either opt-out anonymous telemetry is a good idea, or it's a problem. If to you it's a problem, advocate for its removal in its entirety.

So even if I have an issue with telemetry, good on the Homebrew maintainers for ignoring this MR.
No, I didn’t say that. You’re insinuating that.

There is a balance. I’ve lived all over the US and I appreciate the fact that MI is less user hostile than other states in this regard. We still have regulations. California and Virginia are oppressive.
> In that case there is no option to fall back to SMS when authenticating.

That's not true. The option is there. (Edit: at least for now, some changes in that area are upcoming)

> In that case there is no option to fall back to SMS when authenticating.

The attack usually happens at night. By the time you wake up, all your chat histories are already downloaded and the secret police is on its way.
When I ask myself this I always come back to the Ikigai: https://zekluu.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/noticia2_def.p...
I don't remember that one, but I do remember fox talking about how obama was "disrespecting the office" because he took his suit jacket off in the oval office. It was at that point that I realized fox is not a serious news organization, because who could seriously think that was worth talking about? And then when trump got two scoops of ice cream, every major "news" outlet except fox ran stories about it, and I decided to stop taking any of them seriously, because they exist to make money by pissing people off, not to help us understand what's going on in the world.
I recently went from Pi-Hole to NextDNS - What made you move to AdGuard?
There are no legal aftermarket led headlights anyway.

They are all "for offroad use only", which is the biggest scam
The "respectable" ones don't lie, but they do choose what to not cover and what to draw attention to.

For example, the lack of coverage of the train derailment in Ohio. And zero articles since the government said the UFOs they shot down were benign asking "Hey, government, that's it? No explanation as to why you wasted millions of dollars shooting down benign objects? With all your capabilities you really can't find the debris?"
> Test installing the full software suite, make it work

Are you paying for the compute?
People should be more educated, but blaming misinformation on uninformed people is like blaming climate change on consumers for driving and not recycling. Why doesn't 'real' news get more views and better advertising money? Wouldn't a trustworthy brand be more valuable for advertizers? Why don't more media orgs have independent funding? Are there any reporter / user owned media?
> and it could be argued that giving someone like that airtime would harm the lizard-people conspiracy. It's the more mainstream (but still niche) be

Not necessarily. The thing about arguments is that it’s like businesses. What determines your success isn’t if you have the best product. It’s that you have the best business. Marketing , connections , etc. The best product , and likewise the best argument, doesn’t necessarily win on merit alone. You just have to make it look good enough for it to be viable , even if the idea isn’t viable at all.

I’m not saying that I could get on TV and argue about lizard-people. But there certainly is someone who could and that’s enough.
I don't think the parent asks "what is available in Emacs in different places" or "what is theorically possible", but whether org mode has feature parity with what he uses, and the answer is not.

There might be a way to have plots inside org mode (e.g. org-plot) but you don't have "arbitrary html/js" plots (except as links to other in a browser, and I doubt you get even close to the same level of interactivity.

And even what you get regarding plotting is not turn-key that way VSCode Jupiter and Polyglot are.
With the right brain and sensory abilities you don’t need numbers. You can make computations by interpreting quantities as sort of temperatures or waves. This however is not something a human can comprehend, nor is their mind and body optimized for it.
Technology from Tay went on to power Xiaoice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoice), apparently 660 million users.