skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BEV market was already picking up in Asia before Tesla rose to prominence. And Asia prefers small electric cars for the city, and many other small electric vehicles like electric scooters, bikes, motorcycles, which make a lot more sense than the electric sedans, SUVs and trucks, that Tesla is offering.

For bigger cars, a hybrid is much superior from engineering perspective with the state of current tech, it uses a lot less Lithium, and still promotes the development of a charging network that could then charge small EVs.

And for even bigger vehicles, for industrial transport and public transport, we've had the electric train, tram, subway and trolleybus for decades. Decades. All running without batteries, which vastly reduces their weight and improves their safety and performance.

Tesla's contribution to the EV market are overblown. It's by far the most well known EV brand in the West, and it did open many people minds' to the prospect of getting an EV. But Tesla is offering product quality of continuous decline, and is in the process of being replaced by the very competitors in Asia I referred to earlier, who have been in this game for much longer than Tesla, and without peddling vaporware like the always broken FSD. Not to mention Optimus.

Tesla seems like they invented something. And changed the world. But they were just a huge distraction that sucked up the capital for other startups coming up with similar products, at a similar time, due to Elon Musk's empty promises and boatsmanship. Tesla is a distraction and will be forgotten, except for two things: their charging plug standard, and their supercharger network. Those will likely stick around.

Shame really, because I really liked the Tesla brand, and I really like the look of the Model 3/Y (not the interior nor the quality, but it's a nice looking car, simple, elegant). Unfortunately Tesla is currently in decay and they're putting up increasingly weirder rabbits from their hat to hide that fact (and why the CFO left).
The first launch of SpaceX's Crew Dragon with astronauts on-board holds the record for the most concurrent internet viewers on a stream tracked by NASA at 10 million.

Of course if you drop the internet requirement, Apollo 11 still is by far the most live viewed at 600 million viewers.
This concept is so foreign to anyone in the USA where Zelle was only just invented and there was no mechanism for individuals (non-business-entities) to make ACH payments.
Even when there are limit's its tough to enforce. A better strategy is to remove legal tender above $20. It makes makes hoarding cash a logistical problem for criminals.

If a million dollars in $100 fits in a briefcase, Then it's a suitcase or more for $20 etc. And then banking that money becomes tedious as well.

Anyway, without enforcement it's really just tokenism.
It is a very slippery slope to use the "why would you need it" argument. To me it's on par with "if you have nothing to hide, why would you care".

While we can indeed discuss whether it makes sense in most case to pay large sums in cash, this is not the issue. The issue is whether this should be illegal.

Some people hoard gold and jewellery, should that be illegal? Maybe I am hoarding cash and maybe that's not a great idea but in a free society people should be free to make their own decisions on this.
This is the most disappointing rule ever.

It makes my dream of returning money in thousands of 1 cent coins out of spite impossible
Sounds like my next book then :)
"I'm ok with having my freedoms restricted so you should too"
You ruin notes if you put them in your pocket. Coins you can just drop in the coin pocket on jeans. I wish the 1USD coin was more than a legal tender collector item. Maybe up to 2USD would be nice.
The codenaming of the recent Debian releases has been particularly bad, with Debian 10 codenamed "Buster", Debian 11 codenamed "Bullseye", and Debian 12 codenamed "Bookworm".

Not only do they all start with the same letter, but the initial sound is nearly the same, too. It's way too easy to confuse them.
And the fix was probably editing 1 line of code then running `git pull` on the server. If even.

That's simplicity!
What happened to the Farmers' rebellion?
I use a Resmed P30i, which I find really comfortable, but if either of the tubes on the side of my head get compressed, it gets noiser, or if the vent at the top of the head is too close to a surface, which means I now sleep in pretty specific positions to avoid disturbing my wife.

Still, better than keeping her up with my incessant snoring, I guess.
I'm virtually certain that is illegal. Usually the rules are about currency or negotiable instruments or whatever and gold would count. Deceiving custom officials is not the same as legally bringing something across the border.
Why should one have to explain themselves?
Too true. I think the quote hits on this part where Edsgar is saying that it takes education to appreciate simplicity. Some problems have an inherent complexity to them and to appreciate an elegant solution that is sufficient to the task requires some training and understanding of the problem. It's a bit subtle perhaps but I think it's important to understand!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKiSPUc2Jck
Sounds good to me. It's hard to imagine anyone actually legitimately paying amounts like that cash these days.
There are still unbanked citizens in all EU countries, although admittedly not very many of them.

The UK has an "exceptions service" via the post office for taking your pension as cash. https://www.postoffice.co.uk/payment-exception-service
> But also have been feeling out of my depth recently, perhaps regretting my lack of solid CS background. But, above all I feel like I haven't been challenging myself enough and I've begun to lose interest.

I think you need to elaborate on this a lot in order to get relevant feedback. Speaking from experience, a lot of the answers you're getting here won't work for someone who's started a family—you need to be very precise in identifying and targeting the root cause, and you don't have tons of free time for side projects and after-work learning.

In what aspects of your work have you felt out of your depth? Is this sense in comparison to others around you, or to the work itself? When do you most often feel it?

How long have you been in your current company? Are you losing interest in your job, or in web development, or in computers in general?

What you need to do will depend a lot on how you answer questions like these. It honestly might be as simple as getting a new job that stretches and engages you more than your current one.
If you find a reference (or anyone does), please share. This is too good a story not to be told widely.

Edit: here, at least, is a mention of the thing with her daughter in a Google Blog article: https://blog.google/products/maps/margaret-hamilton-apollo-1...
SQLite is a pretty darn good solution for any file(set) that needs atomic / consistent writes
And also why selling Sun to Oracle was like selling the rabbit to the wolf. Not sure Oracle can go three minutes without an exec at some level deliberately slamming right through moral and legal guardrails.
Who is the Vexl Foundation and why should I care about their index or what they think? I could create any index I want, along with a slick website, to deride or elevate any cause that I want.
Buying a Macbook Pro 16" M2 and a Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 at the same time from the same place.
Terrible practice? That's your opinion.
they famously called the 500 euro bills -bin ladens- for how hard they became to secure since all the unofficial transactions where mostly done with those high denomination bills
Yes, we will do translations in the future!
Loved the way polia's explained the basics of solving challenges by asking questions -
- Can you find a problem analogous to your problem and solve that?
- Can you add some new element to your problem to get closer to a solution? etc
we always asks new onboard people to read this .It's like a bible for problem solving .
India became the 4th to land successfully with Chandrayaan-3 just now. Others have crashed or deliberately impacted.
> center in US means right-wing everywhere else.

So? This can also be said: "The US leads the world in individual freedoms" or whatever. This unspoken implication that "everywhere else" is better is interesting; quite common assumption but not actually a point that gets discussed... we're just to assume it for the purpose of engaging in the discussion, right?
The politicians are finding it hard to kick their habits.
> what would be the back up plan for in case of war, solar flare* or other natural disaster?

Does it need to be a natural disaster? Things like a widespread network failure, a major bank's systems going down for a while (happened not so long ago here), or even a country-wide blackout (we had one last week, triggered by a fault in a fault detection system mistakenly powering down a high-voltage transmission line, and for some yet to be determined reason that led to an instability which triggered other fault detection systems) can be a pain if you depend on an online system.
I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Thanks for finding this bug. We'll get it fixed soon.
His face was bigger than the landing feed!
For a long time I have casually suggested a fuel tax that goes up by a dime per gallon per month, and just keeps increasing at that rate until the situation improves. It would take years for America to equal the OECD average fuel tax at that pace.
That is machine learning or more colloquially: AI. A pretty cool result regardless.
Only if they know the rule tho
The entire thread is about people not being able to go across borders with x amount of cash without declaring it. I could walk across a border with 100k in stablecoins and never declare it, and then have immediate access to those funds like I would cash. My point is to show the absurdity of these kinds of laws.
Yea, these are 100% exactly how you should approach a research problem, in mathematics or otherwise.

Literally the first part of almost every research paper is outlining how this thing you're about to talk about is similar and dissimilar to other things. That's often followed by a simplified description of the idea. Then that's usually followed by the thing in full generality.
Here's the actual story about that quote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#First_Moon_walk
“By 2016, only about 2% of the value transacted in Sweden was by cash, and only about 20% of retail transactions were in cash. Fewer than half of bank branches in the country conducted cash transactions.“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashless_society
They are. I could not pay in cash for my lasik surgery some years ago due to this.

I wasn't planning on paying in cash but they dily informed me.
I would imagine one would invest in a van that could carry pallets.
Frustrating to see more laws like this that can readily throw a wrench in the day to day lives of regular working people, when money laundering and tax evasion at a scale multiple orders of magnitude larger than this is so shamelessly visible in the form of nine-figure real estate transactions, art auctions, and Caymans-based shell corporations.
Nothing wrong with this point of view, except that it's not shared by Europeans as far as I know (and feel).

The "none of your business" doesn't work in the long run.
Before the days of digital maps I'd only ever quickly glance at a paper map to get a feel for where my destination is and then... just drive. You get there. Maybe you go an intersection too far sometimes, but who cares? If you've chosen a motorcycle over a car, it is no doubt because you enjoy riding. Enjoy it.
But solar flares that powerful are an actual serious threat, and have been recorded throughout history. It's just we have been so lucky to develop a heavy dependence on electricity in a quiet period.

The Carrington Event is the "most recent" in 1859
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

That would in the 2000s cause serious damage

>In June 2013, a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the US used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the cost of a similar event in the present to the US alone at US$600 billion to $2.6 trillion (equivalent to $698 billion to $3.02 trillion in 2021[28]),[3] which, at the time, equated to roughly 3.6 to 15.5 per cent of annual GDP.

NOAA currently puts Carrington Events at a 1 in 500 year occurrence on Earth.
I don't know, motorcycle engines can be designed to be well balanced and mounted on dampers. Meanwhile there are lots of bicycles without suspensions. Apples and oranges are both fruits with considerable fructose contents.
The animations poses are actually very impressive, it is something I would more associate with a modern platform game.
Also common for car purchases. Put lower amount on documents to pay less tax.

Which often causes problem when the cars is defective and seller goes "sure, I will pay you back in full, the amount that is on documents". And buyer got no recourse for that.
I'm not a european but I do have an example. A few years back I purchased a project car in cash. I don't carry checks, who does anymore? And my bank would have given me grief trying to transfer an amount that large at once. I had tried before and it would trigger their fraud detection and give me headaches. Its good its there but can be a barrier when I'm just trying to buy something. So going to branch and withdrawing the cash was the most convenient option.
Cars still kill people at high speed, human bodies haven't adapted to get hit by cars better.
>Why does that matter to the government?

It doesn't. It matters to the law, which is a different thing from the government.

And it matters because it matters to society whether someone with insufficient training and testing rides a huge motorcycle, or a truck, or whatever. Especially something like a sports motorcycle which needs more skill than an average car, and is much easier to slip (as accidents stats tell).

>Non-motorized cyclists can hit speeds of over 120 km/h

Rarely and in extreme conditions. Big motorcycles can do it trivially.

The world cycle record is 130 km/h, under very special circumstances and for just 200m or so. The highest end of the speed pros usually achieve is (according to wiki) around 70 km/h, quite less than 120 km/h. Not to mention a motorcycle (especially the kind more heavily regulated) has much more weight than a bike, and thus much more momentum even for the same speed.

>It requires skill to use a knife, and if it's mishandled it can cause severe bodily harm; should we require people to get a license to use a knife in their own kitchen?

I'm pretty sure people are allowed to ride any size of motorcycle in their own kitches or their backyard even. It's when they ride them on the road, and this can kill others, that it gets to be a concern for the law.

The same holds for knives btw. Carrying a knife in the streets in many jurisdictions is considered an offense, similar to carrying a gun. It sure is in mine.

And in general, for all over the US I read "(...) there are often limits on knives or bladed weapons that may be carried. Most states regulate an individual’s ability to carry a knife based on the following characteristics of the knife itself: The type of knife, including the purpose in which it is typically used for; (...) The length of the blade.".
Have any companies tried renting out space in major metro areas to accommodate RTO vs. demanding everyone come back to HQ?
The rules in Spain apply for business transactions, i.e.: Business <-> Business and Individual <-> Business, NOT between individuals. The funny thing about it is that in the hypothetical case you would be caught, whichever party reports it first, before getting caught, would not be penalised.
His Fox interview seems to have upset some of his fans. https://www.stereogum.com/2233996/viral-country-singer-olive...
Food, shelter, transportation, adult entertainment, and adult beverages
it has two wheels

it has a motor

behold: a motorcycle https://productnotes.com/uploads/default/optimized/2X/5/5313...
Not being able to spend €3k cash is a wrench in the day to day lives of regular working people?
> There's the small matter of millions of undocumented migrants entering Europe who will be trapped in this now-illegal-cash underclass

Are these migrants frequently making cash payments in excess of €3000?
We can't be #1 at anything. I would assume a depression support forum would be worse.
> why are the supposed users of "Hacker News" site oblivious to these things?

Because some people on this site aren't hackers and aren't even technical. They're from old media and are looking for "useful people" to help take down Google and Facebook.

Think Rupert Murdock browsing here globbing onto any anti-tech thread with the understanding of a typical 80yo.
>Cheques have not been a thing for 20y+, I wonder if they are still issued.

At least here in Poland there were only theoretical option ( I have not seen one in person once for 20+ years), and removed few years back
Semver makes sense for things that have dependents, that's always the case for a library, sometimes it's the case for applications as well.
It might not stop transactions for drugs, but it might make laundering the money harder and more necessary
Works with technology as well, the speed limits in your neighborhood were probably set when cars had drum brakes and poor visibility.

Speed limits are far more complicated than that.

They're used to reduce noise, create gaps in traffic so people can make left turns, give pedestrians time to cross a street, encourage people to see nearby businesses, and a hundred other reasons.

I've read a number of traffic studies in the last few decades. Some of them are fascinating in their technical depth.
I mean, yeah. If the entire world transacted in stablecoins, it would be a much much better UX.
That is why we focus on files you use for work and try to bring files and information to the forefront that gives you all the information you need.

Let me give you two examples of how we are different from :
1) Someone posts a link to a competitor's website in Slack, with Sense I then get to see all the other conversations that have been had on Slack about that link and which files also include that link or are "related" to that link.
2) Many projects have all the required information in a combination of Jira tickets, Miro boards, Google docs, and emails. With Sense I can easily get them altogether into one space and have them at top of my fingertips.

Do you think that is different from the other projects you have seen?
Meta's Facebook Video Annouces Threads for the Web
Yes but this is not really exodus. What happened at the onset of COVID was that the domestic migration out of coastal megacities continued apace, and the international migration into coastal cities abruptly stopped. You have to look at both flows to understand the population process.
Ow, I'm rusty with my US knowledge, I thought it was a reference to Richmond the confederate capital, and rich northerners industrialists.
Could you elaborate how that applies here? Communication is out of the question - there's nothing the people on the ground can correct. And the lander apparently failed because it tried to navigate its way back to the designated landing site.
I have a CS degree, but I had to teach myself the theory due to my school's sad excuse for professors.

Here are the two things I did that taught me the most about programming: learning how operating systems and programming languages work, and writing a raytracer and a software rasterizer.

The former two put all my years of tinkering on computers into perspective. The latter tested my programming and problem solving skills in a novel way. Both made me more well rounded as a developer. Not to mention they were extremely satisfying!!
its nice to see 'journalists' finally putting screenshots instead of embedded tweets in articles, a loss for accessibility for sure but the only way to preserve such tweets in the future. Embedding was obviously a bad idea a decade ago, nice to see they finally realize it too.
When US life expectancy stops going down, we can start talking seriously about comparing quality of life here vs everywhere else.
You mean like Wired magazine? How about the Wall Street Journal?

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nuclear-weapons-testing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-russias-tactical-nuclear-we...

Wait, how about the New York Times? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/us/politics/russia-nuclea...

Paradoxically a google search would have helped.
It does sound like a classic cargo cult.
you will see, next they will start dismantling roads and start putting in bicycle infrastructure, horrors!
End completely, no. But the "civilized" way of exchanging cash for goods will be gone for quite a little bit. Long enough that we can figure out how to make more cash. Not that the existing one will be miraculously gone either.
If you have a criminal mindset, yes. Otherwise, let them be and be happy.
I like to keep the phone in my pocket, but put in a single airpod for directions.
Very sad news. Digital faschism is coming. I always withdraw money and use cash to pay wherever possible. I used to do the opposite throughout mthe most of my life until I understood what's that all about and what are we coming to. Coincidentally or not I have switched soon after watching the Black Mirror TV show :-) (I wouldn't say it was the only and direct influence - I thought about this subject before and after watching it but it impressed me). Fun fact: the very Netherlands have recently filmed another nice TV show about this (Arcadia). I always viewed the Netherlands as arguably the best nation in the world (I am not Dutch myself), sad to see they are going this way.
Freedom from government surveillance and potential overreach?

In reality, there’s hardly any 3,000 euros+ transaction where a business or individual will accept cash. That’s too much money to have on hand when a bank transfer is much more comfortable…still happens rarely though so I think this law is overreaching.

Disclosure: I’m not Dutch nor European so my opinion hardly matters here.
A Man-Made Lake in Alabama Is Giving the Gulf Coast a Run for Its Money
What worked for me:

I started out chasing my curiosity: wanted to make a simple video game, so I Googled my way to one as my first real programming project. I think passion projects are the way to start, because learning programming is frustrating no matter what (but totally doable, and totally worth it).

Some folks prefer guided courses; they're great, but they just don't work for me (I get impatient and bored). There are tons of very good free ones around these days.

Stepping away or switching to different challenges when stuck have saved me countless hours.

Focus on building a foundation of understanding as you go. Copy/paste is totally fine as you learn, but try to read the code, error messages, Stack Overflow posts etc. to garner deeper insights. A lot of it won't make sense at first...that's ok. Things start to click eventually.

I strongly recommend using ChatGPT as a tutor. It's already way better than Google or Stack Overflow, and you can ask specific follow up questions so you can understand the "why" better. I'm currently using ChatGPT to learn Swift (for a new iOS project I've started).

And, reading HN helped me a lot. At first it was mostly Greek, but I read the articles that sounded interesting and can't even describe how much I've learned from reading the comments on this site.

Most importantly, have fun with it :) This is probably the most important point. The field is vast, so pick the route that draws your attention.

Best of luck!