skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something doesn't really add up with the timelines in this story. I launched my own Angular2 site with SSR in the summer of 2017.

There were some rough edges, but it only took me a few days of hacking to get it working. Thankfully, the ecosystem is much better today
Weird article.

1. It's a model in theory, nothing has been built yet.

2. The model is for a motor that's 88% efficient.

3. There's already motors built in mass-manufactured cars (e.g. Tesla) >90% efficiency.

4. The objective is to have a car that doesn't need to plug-in

5. Such cars already exist, but if you don't plug in you just can't go very far

6. You'll never be able to go very far with such cars, even if they achieve their aim of 88% or even 100%.

7. There's absolutely no detail on why this is technically novel, other than the buzzword of the day 'AI algorithm'

8. There's no technical expertise by the writer, who is an uncritical mouthpiece of the researchers, but also offers no real context as to what competing technology offers in comparison

Why is this deemed relevant or interesting enough for HN?
I gotta think it was more than just JS? Some non JS assets and etc maybe?
AfD accuses Twitter of election interference
China’s entire economy is about to collapse – Double dip crash
You're assuming that the system is the same in both cases. It's not.

1. You run the A/C all day: the gas stays both cold, and dry. Cold, dry air is, it turns out, ok as an insulator. Not very good thermal conductivity at all.

2. You turn the A/C on at the end of the day in a warm, humid environment. The air is moist, which causes two compounding problems: first, the volume of air you need to cool just holds more energy than it would if it was dry. But second, because moist air is more thermally conductive, it's better at coupling heat in from the outside, so more energy is coming into the system as you're trying to cool it.

At least, that's the argument. I haven't run the numbers to check orders of magnitude or anything. I wasn't expecting the difference in thermal properties of dry and moist air to be that significant, but there are some very interesting numbers at https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/moist-air-properties-d_12....
I’ve played all of them. For some reason completely irrational warfare with giant robot exoskeletons is the only thing that makes me want to enlist in a land-war.

It was also Voltron, but we seem to have lost the fantasy of boarding your component mech on a freaking zipline!
Specifically, IIRC, it was in test cuts of the film, and identified as baffling by test audiences.

I don't think anything substantive in the films is inconsistent with it (and the behavior of the agents throughout the films is suggestive of it), just the in-character exposition.

Which, to get really meta, you can explain as the filmmakers incorporating the inability of audiences to grasp, and projecting it into the film as an inability of the “free” humans to do so, so that (as part of the system of control it is established that Zion is) instead they were fed the “battery” story.
Living in London is best done by moving progressively further out and treat going in to the centre as tourist trips. I spent my first couple of years at Marble Arch, and then moved to zone 3, and now I live in zone 5. I couldn't imagine living further in. Too little for the money, and too busy.

I only go in to the centre to go to fancy bars and restaurants for date nights etc., or for other touristy stuff.
That issue with Android is what made me decide to give up smartphones. I cannot adequately secure a phone without installing a custom ROM (and even then, it's iffier than ever), and the integrity/attestation checks make custom ROMs very problematic.

So, once my smartphone dies, I'll be switching to a dumbphone.
The idea is to only allow user accounts in the wheel group to invoke su to take on root privileges. So, if someone had access to a random user account and knew the root password it wouldn’t do them any good.
I reckon it has got to do with bein rural and poor, or maybe different kinds of european family cultures preserving different attitudes? Where I'm from in the south you didn't ask at all if you knew what was good for you all about keepin up appearances and you had to be all sly about helping people out. More poor somebody is more sly you got to be. Bein in a city nobody gives a darn but way back when that darn was given pretty darn hard.

Just a guess but could be that attitude has lots more to do with how many are poor or not and how many generations they've been poor, or lived in cities, like a lag time sorta thing. Nothing I really know about just sharing because it might be interesting even if wrong
The best systems I've created came from iteratively experimenting with the language / API / whatever. Build something for the sake of learning, throw it away, build another experiment to learn, throw it away, take a shot at the real thing, throw it away, etc. It starts to feel like if you rewrite and think about the problem enough you'll eventually reach a point where you can write or rewrite the whole system in a week. Which leads me to conclude:

Systems that can be rewritten should not be rewritten. Systems that cannot be rewritten should be rewritten.

It's not quite true (not in all circumstances), but it's close. I think most enterprise / pile-of-business-rules software falls into the latter category, those systems cannot be rewritten, but they should be.
I‘ve gone through a ton of comments below and see a lot of contradicting evidence to your thoughtful suggestion. Also my girlfriend and I are both from north Europe and I notice a similar difference. Maybe the difference is mostly

> she had been brought up to feel extreme insecurity

This reminds me of a quote from Buffett from about 40 years ago. He said something along the lines of "when women are raised, they hear and see a million reasons why they cannot do things whereas men see and hear a million reasons why they can do things". If I would be convinced by the world that I am not good, then sure I would treat guests amazingly well. If I would be convinced by the world I‘m amazing, then why bother treating guests well? They can say it if they need anything.

I‘m happy to hear counterarguments if you have them
Performed a search for "google biased search results"
here's one result... https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=google+biased+search+results&...
I believe Google `tweak' results to favour companies that reward Google in return.
A Russian joke that comes to mind:

A monkey enters a restaurant and orders a short of vodka and a large bowl of sour cream. They serve. The monkey drinks the vodka and puts the bowl of sour cream over on his head.

- What are you doing?
- I'm so mysterious.
Sucked more in 1816, which according to CNN was the coldest summer in two centuries.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/world/tambora-eruption-year-w...

"The global temperature dropped between one and three degrees Celsius. It was the coldest year in at least the last 250 years ... led to crop failure, the death of livestock and famine."
59 in 2023 means born in 1964. That's very late baby boom, early Gen X.

The peak baby boom was born in 1960/61, those folks are at least 62. Most baby boomers are already retired, so I'm guessing not much effect, or maybe the effect is the labor shortage typically blamed on COVID.
Which microcontroller are you using? Rust support for embedded targets is slowly improving, so there might be a beta build for your chip.
> A virtuoso at the piano may experiment with discordant notes. A novice banging on the piano keys and calling it music is not the same thing.

That's why I always chuckle at people scowling at learning music theory because of "originality, like, if you don't you'd just reinvent most of it on your own...
Distributed RPC, i.e. dbus over the network, is an incredibly complex and still basically unsolved problem. To really do it right and guarantee correctness across systems (which may be in different states of working or failed!) you need a perfect message queue with exactly once delivery... but in practice implementing that is incredibly storage intensive (you'd have to store every message forever). You're basically asking for something as complex and difficult to run as kafka--it's not as simple as just send dbus messages over a network socket.
> Estimates are that only around 10% of Chinese carbon emissions are for foreign exports

Here it says 33%: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14412-33-of-chinas-ca...

> They are uniquely bad in this regard, compared to their peers like India and other developing economies.

Of course India is nowhere close to China, they basically don't exist in term of exports. These countries have almost nothing in common besides having a large population

https://statisticsanddata.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Top...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports

> while China is moving in the wrong direction.

You sure about that ?

https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/267233/renewable-energy-c...

Again it's easy to pollute less when you literally shut down all your industries. You can't ask for more and more growth, cheaper and cheaper prices and 0 pollution.

> China does not care about climate change in the slightest.

Not more or less than 99% of countries on this earth, including the US and most of Europe. If they did they'd have stopped their Chinese imports a long time ago, as well as most of their exports and massively reduced their energy usage (daily reminder than the average US household uses 4 times more energy than a German one)
It's not fear, or not just fear.

It's grief.

The concept of a corporation and instutional society has died and we don't really want to admit it.

The government is the last leg standing.. otherwise it's just everyone out for themselves.

Rational thinking and debate is not leading the way, it's following. Getting the kind of verbal and rational agreements the baby boomers enjoyed, in today's system, is not happening.

It is trivially easy to release personalized media that pumps up the grief and isolates people even more, then offer political and commercial products as a salve.

We all pretend the primary cause is an great computing conspiracy, and we are being manipulated by our devices.

Primarily, people have changed and tech is capitalizing on a more emotional and feelings based populace, whilst it's leaders head for dry land and buy up farmland.

The popular Nietschze quote about the death of God and washing away infinite blood, doesn't go far enough. The conscious, alienated, knowledge of what should be and the subconscious social experience of grief - combined together - is absolutely deadly.
Thank you for this, you made me laugh. I don't feel like giving in to my inner child so I will not engage any further in this shenanigans, I would just like to answer your question.

I am not "crying", but I would be pissed of as well if Hotmail or anybody else was doing the same. This is not about being a predominant platform, but about hurting legitimate email senders to "combat spam" in a way where using their platform, or one of the big players, is the "safest" way to get your emails delivered in a timely manner and land in the recipients Inbox.
On that topic, ever noticed how ChatGPT's answers are animated?
Aptera has a solar-charged reverse trike EV that manages some impressive range from a day's worth of LA sun. If the panels ever get closer to 100% efficiency it'd make a great little commuter for sunny locales.
Just ban Meta from Canada entirely.
And of course the classic "oh no they flatlined, use a defib to restart their heart " when they're not in V-fib or V-tach.
TFoC – A Minimal Computer (2017)
The fact that those things existed does not refute the GP's point. Many companies well into the 80s at least had programmers and codebases that had to be weaned away from assembly, despite the fact that higher-level alternatives had existed for a while. That's just empirical fact, regardless of the reasons. I myself started programming in 68K assembly on the original Mac because I couldn't afford a compiler and interpreted languages (there were at least Lisp and Forth) couldn't be used to write things like desk accessories. Remember, gcc wasn't always something one could just assume for any given platform. The original statement is correct; yours is not, because of limited perspective.
KDE, for one, is a big bag of specialized tools, built using a set of libraries that are also very modular.

But I agree with your general view.
> But god forbid you ask them to wear a mask to prevent the spread of a deadly disease, they want to see long-term studies in triplicate with massive p-factors.

That's a strange example to use to try to back up your argument, especially considering the data and observations we now have available to us.

It's scientifically established at this point that those who questioned masking were absolutely correct: masking did not have a significant preventative, nor even mitigative, impact on case counts.

What might be among some of the largest and most extensive scientific experiments ever performed confirm this.

For example, tens of millions of people across Canada were forced to mask for well over a year in most regions, and two straight years in Toronto (the fourth-most populous city in North America).

Yet, despite masking being universal in public for an extended duration, there were multiple significant increases and decreases in case counts over time in such regions.

Had masking been effective at preventing, or even just mitigating, the spread, then those observed case count fluctuations would not have happened to begin with.

Even scientific observation as basic as watching masked individuals outdoors in colder autumn and winter temperatures showed why masking was ineffective: notable and visible clouds of water vapour would be expelled with each breath the masked individuals took, despite the masks supposedly limiting or preventing that from happening.

For most of the widely-used masks, and even respirators as commonly worn, the vapour would often be concentrated as it exited the mask and was directed through gaps where it contacted the wearer's face.

In busier urban settings, this would effectively expose those in the vicinity to a concentrated dose of another individual's breath. Masks that didn't prevent egress of such vapour also didn't prevent ingress.

The same effect was happening indoors, and during warmer conditions, but just not as easily observable as during colder temperatures.

So, it's scientifically established at this point that there is no epidemiological nor physical basis to support masking.

Maybe there's a better example you could have found to support your argument.
Dwarf Fortress answers that last question with: mushrooms!

I think the fantasy city problem is at its worst in 3D video games, where you visit some impressive capital city, massive walls, towers...and enough housing for about a hundred people.
In 2023, you'll be hard pushed to find a GNOME application actually using C# and Mono. The vast majority of GNOME components are written in C, with a large number of them written in Vala and some in Rust and JavaScript.
The "formal" in "formal argument" does not mean "the opposite of casual". Rather, it refers to arguments which take a particular form: those that assume a set of premises, and use formal logical tools to prove a conclusion from those premises. To accuse an argument of containing a formal fallacy means: the tools you tried to use to prove that conclusion from those premises is defective, and you have not actually proven the conclusion.

However, proving a conclusion is only one possible thing that an argument may set out to do. Oftentimes, we are more interested in probabilistic evidence than in absolute proof. Thus, an argument which does not prove anything (and which would thus be fallacious if treated as a formal argument) can nonetheless be useful.
We could get into a semantic argument about what "lots" means. But open source is very much a corporate thing now, and lots of dev companies do indeed have an agile-inspired workflow at least.

Re: that fun thing, yes, but most projects aren't fun on a daily basis.

In any case, what I originally meant was that agile is not perfect, but if you've seen startups who don't know any development workflow (ie neither agile nor cascade), software dev grinds to a halt really quickly as they try to reinvent an entire field of management.
That "cheddar" isn't cheddar. It's probably not even cheese. It's a yellow melting slab. Not a lot of people actually eat real cheddar.
Lets be realistic about this, if Marcy tried to bring a suit over this, he would not prevail. A lot of people have a very reasonable belief that he's a sex-criminal of some description, including his former employers and a number of former co-workers.
The energy that they could harvest from that panel would move an electric bicycle or scooter nicely around 15km/hour on flat ground.

It would give you 5-7 minutes in a small electric car with a full days charge.
3-5 minutes in a regular electric car.

You might possibly get as much as an 45 minutes with an electric cargo trike or one of those tiny 2 seat cars with the 1500w drive train.

So sort of can work if you aren’t meaning “car” in the contemporary sense of the word.
I can't really say without exposing my identity in a way I'm not comfortable with, but I took a lot of work at night if I could, and if not, I took flexible jobs like Uber/Lyft that allowed me to make my own hours. My main gig allowed me to reschedule and move stuff around if I had to, which was critical.

I'm not saying it's easy, but especially in today's age with the popularity of online degrees, it's not impossible.
What, have the remaining "libs" blocked enough Qanons that trolling isn't fun any more?
I live in a very Hasidic Jewish neighbourhood in North America; they (almost) uniquely use flip phones instead of smart phones.

I've even seen women with cordless landline phones mounted to their shpitzel so that they can use it "hands-free", but without breaking their rules around kosher technology.

Some context:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/kosher-phone-d...
r=.22, p=.016, from the BEIP Romanian foster care RCT project; there was a >15 point adult difference between low and high infant theta activity
It's more of a "unlimited AC when parked" than a "unlimited range" type of thing
> American culture tends to not be so aligned with this shape of organization. Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese - perhaps more so.

Is it a matter of pay? Because I bet you could get this sort of compliance for the right price.
Mostly yes. Your applications run in a standard Linux environment and if you pop up a terminal, hey, it's your favorite distro and it works.

There's some learning curve for features which exist for valid reasons, especially around communicating between domains. For instance, copy-and-paste between qubes requires extra steps. Plugging in a USB keyboard or mouse doesn't just work - you have to authorize it first (just click the OK button using a PS/2 mouse, or laptop's touchpad). You have to learn how to move files between qubes. USB drives, cameras, and microphones aren't globally available to all applications - you have to attach them to a qube first. You can install software using apt-get inside a qube, but it won't persist across reboots - you have to update the OS template.

I want those extra steps and complications - they are features, not a bugs! The first few days you'll be looking things up in the FAQ. After that it's pretty easy.

There are a few sore points that don't go away. You don't get GPU acceleration in your web browser, so rendering is slower. Gaming is not an option. Your application qubes live behind a firewall qube, so things that require network broadcast like Chromecast won't work. Those are fine for me but not for everyone.
I wonder why the author doesn't use Teal [0] - a typed dialect of lua.

[O] https://github.com/teal-language/tl
I don't know anything about this situation, so this is hypothetical. Suppose that the editors who refused publication are personally convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt, perhaps because they know one or more of the victims personally. In that case, I think they have the moral right to refuse to have anything to do with him, like publishing work that he's a co-author of.

There is a (very small) number of people I refuse to have anything to do with, despite them not being convicted of anything. I mean, I'd still hit the brakes if they stepped in front of my car. But I wouldn't invest in a startup they were a co-founder of, which seems analogous to publishing a paper they're a co-author of.

Scientists sometimes talk as if certain journals have such a monopoly on a field that being banned from them is fatal to their career (and even to The Science.) But IDK, I've never felt like I can't read a paper if it wasn't published in a prestigious journal. The author should upload the paper to their website and email the link to colleagues, who can decide whether to read it or not.
This is a much larger issue than just a media related one.

There's a friend I've had for years. He's a physicist. I always ask him questions about physics. I've often referred to him as the smartest guy I know.

I have another friend, also a physicist. Less accomplished, but just as smart. Friend 2 hates Friend 1. Calls him an idiot. I generally dismissed it as arrogance or jealously.

Then, a few years ago, Friend 1 told me he'd been doing a lot of Python lately. I use Python a lot. Have for 15 years.

Over a group dinner, he was explaining a problem he was facing, specifically he was explaining how Python handles dictionaries. It was … very wrong. But he sounded like he REALLY knew what he was talking about.

It occurred to me that maybe Friend 2 was right all along. Friend 1 isn't that smart. He seems smart to me because I don't know physics. He's good at saying things that sound right. Maybe they are sometimes. But maybe they aren't sometimes, and it was that "sometimes he's wrong" thing Friend 2 picked up on, just like I picked up on the Python stuff.

Media, journalism, etc is likely the same way. 90% of the story can be right, or technically accurate, but if 1 fact is wrong, and you KNOW that fact, it's going to bother you. A lot, and will shade your opinion of everything else.
The article is bad but the premise is not wrong. The things that fly and a lot of the things that stay on the ground are analyzed with NASTRAN whose solver kernel dates back to 1964. At its heart it is still the old FORTRAN code because reproducibility is king.
Eagerness doesn't scale.
> Other professions should be paid more, software engineers should generally not be paid less.

Sure, but only one of those is a realistic option, and it’s not the former.
Did we forget how to draw... or are there so many people involved in the arts these days that there are far more poor artists? This article is completely subjective in the sense is there is no statistics of how many 'good' artists there were in their supposed golden days versus what we have now.

I fully expected the article to end in 'git off muh lawn'.
Global civilization wasn’t around before the last ice age, I’m not sure what your point is.

Clearly the planet will be fine if temperatures keep rising, Earth has seen far greater catastrophes and temperature swings.

It remains to be seen whether humans will be fine if the climate keeps warming.
Pines’ demon observed as a 3D acoustic plasmon in Sr2RuO4
Does Linux have this backwards compatibility? What about macOS?

I know instruction sets changed from PowerPC to Intel to ARM, so probably not macOS at least. But this is a CLI and I doubt old system calls changed
Pre-planned sales for execs are often buybacks or are sold to selected investors/shareholders.

Companies often impose limits on how many shares execs and employees in general can hold at any give. time, and most regulatory/legal frameworks put caps too.

In the UK for example when employees own more than 5% share in a company they are no longer treated as regular employees.