skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are still large market gaps in terms of the types of EV you can buy. I am waiting for an AWD EV with high ground clearance and decent range, which doesn't seem to exist currently. You can get all of this in an inexpensive gas car and there are substantial parts of the US where these checkboxes are legitimately non-negotiable. And this is before the issues surrounding charging.

Maybe in five years the situation will have improved.
I think it would only be a Ponzi if social media shout-outs were zero-sum. But they're not. I can tell my audience to check out your stuff, you tell your audience to check out my stuff, and there's the potential for mutual benefit. Maybe some disengaged people in my audience engage much more with your content. Or maybe our followers just spend more time on Tiktok overall, or more time on our Tiktoks as opposed to other peoples' Tiktoks.

Another point is the rich get richer on social media. Having followers is how you gain followers. Social proof is important. People like to talk about what everyone else is talking about. Once a new client reaches critical mass, they're going to passively gain followers due to this effect (e.g. creators with more followers are more likely to be recommended by the platform -- at least I would assume this is generally the case). So adding in a new client and gaining followers for them is an investment in the long term.

I think YC companies buying services from each other could be a good analogy actually.
> how can I trust that the OS images of this company don't contain any spyware?

Software from board manufacturers shouldn't be used anyway, if not because in a few years it is often discontinued and not updated anymore because they're pushing newer models. Thankfully we have Armbian and Dietpi which are the distros of choice for all boards that don't run major PC oriented distros (and a nice alternative for those that do).
The number of boards supported by these two distros is astonishing:

https://www.armbian.com/download/

https://dietpi.com/#download

The NanoPC-T6 is already supported by Armbian build system:

https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/config/boards
Yeh, its already happening in a lot of regions across the world. We see a future that will have more open standards, it is precisely the reason we are working on this solution now.
I don't think it's -technically- impossible, I just think it's intellectually impossible for governments to allow such valuable information to actually be anonymous and would provide backdoors to aggregate the data and associate it with citizenry.
> aren't fully conscious

They're conscious in the way that I can understand and explain them, but not in the way that I came up with the idea to do them. They just happened and I haven't done anything to change that. Part of that is ADHD's fault, because as soon as I started stimulants, I could just Decide that I didn't want my OCD anymore and it would go away. It's legitimately life-changing when that happens.

> Your world sounds chaotic.

Yeah, especially when there are multiple of me living multiple lives in parallel, and they interact in really weird ways ;-;

> Also, be wary of mistaking coping mechanisms with a pathology.

I know a lot about coping mechanisms. Basically everything I do is a coping mechanism. Even reading HN is a coping mechanism!

But I know I have the potential for dark things given the right "push", considering my entire DID system died and basically started over when one person left.
can't speak for ecuador but the quality of a place you're spending 1400 for in medellin is going to vastly surpass what you get for the price in america. 1400 doesn't get you luxury whatsoever.

you're absolutely right that third world accommodations can't compare to first world 1:1 but you'd have to spend significantly more in the united states to live in a place with a comparable quality of life regardless. And this is based on my experiences in mexico, colombia, peru, srilanka, thailand, and indonesia. of course there are some countries where the market inefficiencies mean that even luxury accommodations just aren't going to match up. my experiences ihe the phillpines sounds a lot like what you're describing in ecuador.
Based repo
The todos gave me a belly laugh.
The hardware acceleration that is problematic is that of the Arm Mali GPU and of the video codecs.

This is normally provided in all Arm SoCs by binary blobs. Nevertheless, at least for the Mali GPU there is a reverse-engineered driver in the Linux kernel, which might be usable with RK3588.

In any case, this hardware acceleration is the same in all RK3588 boards, regardless of the vendor, it is not specific to NanoPC-T6.
I first heard of it from the transit union here in Seattle when they axed the downtown free bus zone like 10 years ago. There was some vague mention of the bus drivers in ... somewhere in Texas... like 30 years before that.

Beyond that I haven't heard much of it because as I understand it, there isn't much free transit anywhere big.
As far as I understand, that's because older systems don't use a digital image sensor to scan these, but rather a rotating laser beam and a simple photo diode registering the variations in brightness caused by varying reflections of the laser beam by the white and black parts of the barcode.

A camera-based scanner doesn't care where the illumination of the barcode is coming from (i.e. ambient light, its own LED illuminating a piece of paper, or an active backlit screen); that laser-based system is purely based on its own reflected light, though, and won't work with actively backlit screens at all. (I wonder if it works with e-ink or passive LCD displays!)
This.

In the US it’s a multi-faceted issue of mental health, lack of effective enforcement of existing laws, acceptance and promotion of gun and gang culture in music and movies, and the political utility of a continuing problem. Democrats in particular need ongoing crisis and a large dependent population to stay in power - this is why they so visibly pander to the social movement of the moment. They need the “gun issue” to stay present and emotional, they have zero solutions on iffer.
Crying “Ban assault weapons!” and then being completely unwilling to define it or describe how they’d enforce it effectively just lays bare their cowardice and intellectual weakness.
I was giving advice for how to learn a subject. The text is obviously satire even without the warnings if you understand the fundamentals of ML. I'm not saying they need a PhD or something.

I have no problem with open access, and would rather journals were required to be open access. But reading brand new results that haven't had any peer review without familiarity with the field is putting the cart before the horse. I certainly don't learn a new subject by reading the hottest papers on arxiv.
not sure you what you're thinking of, but most amateur radio can be done with an omni antenna.
Battery fires do seem a legitimate concern for the electric-everything future. And a multi-storey car park inferno started by a battery pack is no longer a hypothetical situation.

Would you charge a cheap chinese e-scooter in your home unattended? Would you even want a Tesla Powerwall in your home, given that even the Tesla Megapack grid-scale storage has had fire incidents?

But the real problems with EVs in the UK are more related to charging infrastructure (large percentage of the population who can't charge at home due to living in a flat or relying on on-street parking), and the cost of electricity going up massively. And the cost of the EV to begin with, with an ever-rising cost of living and stagnant salaries.
It means you can transmit Morse code by blinking a light on and off in the correct manner.
> Tell windows ppl to just use WSL

Ah yes more non-portable code.
> I wish we would give tech writers and generally the art of writing more respect.

I started my technical writer career ~11 years ago. We seemed to get much less respect back then. Gotta hand it to Stripe for really helping everyone see how much docs can contribute to a company's success. I still hear lots of other technical writers struggling with lack-of-respect though so maybe it depends on the company and maybe I'm just personally more sure of myself now that I've been at it for a while.

Also, thank you for respecting us!

> So we burn a lot of expensive engineering hours on writing bad-quality documents instead of hiring a few writers who could make sure things are in consistent style and filed correctly.

If you just need help with consistent style and filing correctly you might just need technical editors, not technical writers. I believe technical editors in general are a bit cheaper than technical writers, but I may be mistaken about that. Technical writers are much more involved in the overall creation and management of organizational knowledge. More on that after the next quote.

> I am 100% convinced this would be way cheaper and produce better quality.

We do consistently earn less than SWEs so yes, I think this is a pretty defensible argument to make. If you fall into the trap of thinking that you can offload all documentation work to technical writers, I would argue you might be making a very expensive mistake. The simple fact is that for any given domain there is a vast ocean of knowledge far bigger than the capacity of any technical writing team to document. We simply can't do it on our own, we always need the broader org contributing to the docs, too.

The more complicated fact is that docs are intricately connected to knowledge sharing in general. Teams think they're just offloading docs but what ends up happening is that their own knowledge-sharing tools / habits / processes atrophy. And the tragedy is that they possess knowledge not found anywhere else in the org. So everything gets less efficient.

There was a really interesting report that showed that high-quality docs correlate with above-average performance across an entire org. Unfortunately I don't think the report was presented compellingly but when you look at it in the light of "technical writers are shepherds of organizational knowledge" it makes a lot of sense and suggests the correlations are real: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/deep-dive-...

So ironically, if you work with a senior technical writer, you probably won't actually find yourself writing less docs. We'll just make it less painful / more straightforward and you'll be more motivated to write docs because we keep hammering home how docs are connected to the greater mission :D
> fairly massive

It really depends on your definition of your massive. Discord seems to have a few hundreds to a thousand employees in total. I am from a typical tech company. So I could estimate that their total engineers count is probably just a couple of hundreds, which is about our director/senior director's team size.

In our definition of massive, we could have even hundreds of ppl to touch the same portion of the code base frequently. We regularly have to deal with code which are about 10 years old and it's a moving target. You have to deliver quickly with migration requirement in mind. Also we frequently collaborate with the other teams and you have to be able to understand others' code quickly.

Typing is critical as you don't have time to deal with the constant stream of the new projects to dig deeper in to the objects. And you really want to have some understanding of the code in the first glance. We also want to offload lots of the things to compiler and ide as much as possible.

It doesn't have to be full on static typing like Java, type annotation in python/ruby already helped a lot
Great, but using it to fact check your own comments on HN? When will that become viable?
That's really neat! Real-life Doctor Who psychic paper, basically :)
big fan of your "/rpc/rce" endpoint
Gave it a try some time ago and it was at Bing's level in terms of the search quality. Even simple queries for something as trivial like (Windows) API function names came back with a lot of noise and junk as a top result. Less trivial stuff was worse. I love the idea behind it, but it's not a real alternative for Google, not yet.
Why wouldn't they just predict confidences and then set a threshold?
I'm in the same boat. I bought a small ICE car a few years ago, figuring that the fact I drive so little (under 5000 miles a year) gets me most of the fuel and environmental benefits of an EV without the cost or inconvenience.
OK, cool science project and all, but . . . why? The problem in COBOL land isn't being able to execute snippets embedded in another language. It's a) migrating the COBOL to something else before all the devs who know it retire/die and b) getting stuff on to commodity hardware or other solutions as things like Solaris aren't supported anymore.
Indeed. Clearly I shouldn’t do math in the morning! It seemed like an impossibly good number.
The Bolt was “affordable” because despite government incentives the MFG was losing 9 bills on each one sold.

They won’t “make it up with volume” as the saying goes.
the alternative is to force parents to do their jobs. We don't need the government protecting us from everything. What do they want to protect us from next? Car accidents (stop allowing private car ownership). Being fat (monthly weigh ins with fines if you don't get down to your target weight?). Where does it stop?
You are right, that is precisely the route we will also have to take for certain regions. For example in India, there are only 3 entities that are authorized by the government to enable Aadhaar based e-signature. We will have to integrate with any of those in order to be compliant. We have already started working in this direction.
Your CONTRIBUTING.md file says "By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under its MIT License." Since OpenSign is AGPLv3, why don't you allow contributions under the same license, if the self hosted version will always be free? I'm worried that the purpose of that might be to let you make it proprietary later.
As someone who has had several cars like that (built in the late 70s and late 90s), I'll note that operating costs get much harder to quantify with an older car... I suppose it depends on your maintenance philosophy and risk tolerance, but the cost per distance goes up dramatically for infrequent use and as the car ages. Many fluids and components don't just wear out by distance driven, but also by time since manufacture or time exposed to the environment.

I keep wondering how EVs might behave in this regard. Can they be effectively parked to defer their useful lifetime, or will batteries and power electronics also degrade whether you drive or not? Imagine power electronics succumbing to "bad capacitor" fiascos like other consumer electronics, or batteries being cooked by poor charge controllers when a car is constantly on standby.

But I also wonder this about the ever growing informatics systems, regardless of whether it is EV or ICE. Will modern cars be able to be used 10-20 years later, or will some crucial systems fail with no cost-effective service option because manufacturers have moved on to completely different tech? I'm very disheartened to see the smartphone obsolescence mentality seeming to infect car designs.

I followed the "buy and hold" strategy for the past 30 years, but I start to wonder if I'll be forced into leasing due to these concerns about the practical longevity of all the newer tech. It seems the only way to make the manufacturer somewhat responsible for the residual utility of the car after its prime years.
FWIW, I'm the same, and one (admittedly minor) motivation was not having to decide what kind of car to get next.
Better link with more information on their blog: https://ipinfo.io/blog/great-ip-hunt-halloween-2023
UETA has been substantially adopted by 49 states. The state of New York has their own statute.

So, if you look at e-sign, UETA, and NY’s Electronic Signatures and Records Act, then you have fairly comprehensive coverage across the US.

Also not an attorney, and this is also definitely not definitive legal advice!
duck duck go and kagi are the only 2 real options

i pay the 10 for kagi and I'm happy with it. tons of ability to customize searches
Yup, I use this too for all my loyalty cards. Works a treat, also brightens the display when you have a barcode up.
Mastodon is a reasonable replacement for some subset of Twitter’s userbase. It works for me, say, because the sort of people I followed on Twitter largely ended up on Mastodon. It would work less well if, say, you were into influencers (dunno where if anywhere those are going), celebs (Threads), crypto-people/metaverse-people/AI-people/other-tech-hype-people (still committed to Twitter, I think), or journalists (there are some experimenting with Mastodon, but Bluesky is generally their Twitter-in-Exile).

I’m not sure that there will ultimately be _one_ Twitter replacement; with the exception of Digg->Reddit, it’s actually rather unusual for that to happen when a social media site dies. Livejournalers-in-exile mostly didn’t go to Dreamwidth, say; they scattered to a bunch of rather dissimilar social networks.
I use GNU Barcode: <https://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/>
Interesting, why is that? Due to character boundaries and encoded-character-as-symbol boundaries not overlapping for the other codes?

And do you know if that was a conscious design choice?
In the latest win 11 update the never combine and labels on taksbar where bring back https://youtu.be/GPxiPRHQ2Tg
Except that the first outlet not only linked to the video, but posted the video itself, and every subsequent outlet to cover the story was in fact just repeating what it saw on Twitter.
What you're saying is very wrong.

Morse is the ultimate narrowband mode. The cleaner your oscillator and the narrower your output the better. On the receive side, you can make your receiver as narrow at the transmitters oscillator.

The only comparable digital mode is on-off keying which is used by cheap, low data rate devices. Even 'narrow' digital modes are wideband compared to morse code.
Heads of state and billionaires are not subject to the same set of laws as us plebeians.
That’s very fair. I would call what you described as “reference” and it may have the benefit of an audience that has an explicit question that you already know they are asking. Agree that’s a little easier to “nail”
> Conspiracy theories are rampant - somebody told me they thought the tires on EVs would give them cancer

Well I mean, they're not really wrong. Tires release 100 times the amount of volatile organic compounds as a modern tailpipe [0] and those emissions are roughly 20% higher for EVs on average simply because they weigh more. Pollution is strongly linked to numerous types of cancer and tires are a big culprit here.

[0] https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...
> I don't think hiding manipulative content is the right path here.

True; shadowbanning would be more effective as it doesn't require a user to install and maintain their own filter(s).

> I don't think hiding manipulative content is the right path here. Instead of burying your head in the sand, it would be better to make people aware of the manipulation and expose the techniques and messages they use to that end. What do they want you to believe, and why? That puts you in a much more powerful position.

Fair take but would you argue same regarding ad blocking and adblocking circumvention? You can only focus on so much. There are people in OSINT community who exposed IRA projects. But who's gonna read up on that? Primarily those who can benefit from it. Very few people would read into that out of sheer curiosity. I'm a very curious person (ha-ha!) and I only have so much time. If I were to respond to all my curiosity signals I'd get no work done. And, most working adults on this planet (they got 'em voting rights therefore interesting target) have very little leisure time.
It's really distressing that I can't tell this from the usual physics crank gibberish. He's smarter than that. Or at least he used to be.

It's scary because I was never as smart as he used to be. I could be even more off base with even less to back it up, and equally unable to see that.
I saw the 400 number in the abstract of the paper. And yes, terrible math on my part!
Where do you live that gas stations are "dangerous, high crime places"? That is extremely abnormal, I don't identify with that at all. Of the hundreds of different gas stations across the country I have frequented in my life, there have only been a couple that might be described as "sketchy".
I find the tooling excellent. `mix` just works, and `alchemist` mode in emacs provides everything I could imagine needing. I've never heard of credo, but adding a call to `elixir-format` on save solves any linting needs I've had.
someone might find a boots-on-the-ground, in-context treatment of arena allocation particularly interesting, moreso than just reading about it in the abstract on wikipedia

someone might have never heard of anything of the sort

someone might be interested to see lispers present a use case where they care about reaching down to the finer points of memory allocation in a language that typically benefits from being above that; see also the wealth of info on the garbage collector in the ocaml documentation

the number of users on this website who might get some sort of kick out of this link is nonzero which is the generally agreed-upon criterion for being worth posting
Marginalia, perhaps?
That is a better answer than the article.
Pretty sure Google capitalizes AD in embedded content
Synthetic fuel is the way to go.
Kagi is great if you're willing to pay. DuckDuckGo is...okay if you aren't.
Software updates aren't just for distributing first party malware, you know -- they could also conceivably be used to update a device database. We have the technology.

This is probably an "all of the above" situation. Implement on AirPods and push for a standard and make measurements of popular old models and have a fallback that assumes industry averages. On the scale of Apple, this is not much to ask.
I think the person you're replying to is using the term in its academic form. Conservatism seeks to conserve [the status quo]. This transcends any colloquial gobbledygook.
On the whole (macro-level) you're probably right, but HN is pretty fragmented by interest. For example on this article (micro-level) there aren't as many mac users because the headline doesn't interest them. But if you go to a mac-related headline, it will be 90+% Apple lovers and any criticism whatsoever will get your comment obliviated.
For a while email was perfect. Then spam came and it was unusable. Then spam filters came, and email is outstanding again (the end).

For a while the web was great, then everything was an ad. Will the ability for consumers to adblock be the technology free us from capitalist web enhsit?
Found this to be useful. Good explanation.
Arduino Builds a Bridge to the Raspberry Pi Ecosystem with Its New Portenta H
I'd pay Apple $99 before I asked another developer to do that for me, probably putting their agreement with Apple at risk.

Taking a principled stance against Apple is fine. I'm totally onboard with that. I only think it's uncool to take that stance and then use another developer's cert without their permission. Even though it's unlikely, it can only harm that other developer.

Based on all the downvotes HN seems to disagree, but I don't see what's so unreasonable about my position.
Sorry but this just sounds salty and like an anecdote (hn edition). If the status quo was conservatism you would expect to see that reflected in elections globally wouldn't you.
Big if true...

This could enable fertilizer production with no CO2 emissions. The numbers in the paper suggest that it might prove cheaper than natural gas based production which is common today. Fertilizer production is 2.1% of all CO2 emissions right now.
Maybe "best word processor for mac" is a better search for you?