skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard not to look at this and think that battery technology would have progressed far more had the electric car been chosen rather than gas and how that would have meant all the investment into efficiency that the gasoline engine got, batteries and electric motors would have gotten all of that investment instead.

I was trying to find the range of gas cars vs electric in 1912, and it looks like gas cars at that period tended to be a little over 100 miles and the best electrics were 80, with most at 50. It’s too bad the Model T wasn’t electric.

“ While the prototypes seemed to work well enough, in Ford’s view they had a fatal flaw. His development crew had been unable to get the Edison batteries to perform as required. While nickel-iron batteries have a long service life, they are slow to charge, produce less voltage per cell, and as we’ve already seen, are considerably more expensive. To move the project along, the team substituted ordinary lead-acid batteries, and at that point Ford’s patience reached its limit. Without the Edison batteries, the electric flivver no longer had any reason to exist, in Ford’s mind anyway. After a reported expenditure of $1.5 million, mainly in Edison batteries, Henry pulled the plug.”

https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/henry-fords-electric-mod...
The entire security certification syllabus is this way.
Correcto is OpenJDK with Amazon branding, I left it out on purpose.

Still, a dynamic language winning out a strongly typed one, only for those that don't have a clue about how compilers work, or how to write winning micro benchmarks.
Wow, this is super cool. Thank you! I love the straight-to-the-point nature of the articles, constraining them to a single page.
Ask HN: Why empty Safari connects to zoom.us even after zoom app was deleted
Background.
pi-hole reported that my mac laptop requests zoom.us address every few minutes, even when zoom app is not running and no zoom website is open. Some investigation narrowed down the issue:

1. When Safari is closed, connection to zoom.us is closed
2. Once empty safari window (no other windows, no tabs) has been launched, it establishes TCP/443 encrypted connection to zoom.us and keeps it alive
3. Zoom desktop app is not running, also prohibited from running in background in macbook settings. No any zoom plug-ins anywhere, only desktop app is installed. Even when I deleted the app and rebooted, safari still connects to zoom.us
4. Wireshark shows active communication with zoom.us, but because it's TLSv1.3 encrypted, not much could be figured out what's exactly is being sent. See screenshot for details ([https://imgur.com/a/RF0Ygfx](https://imgur.com/a/RF0Ygfx))
5. Fiddler only shows TLS handshake, not much info there

What I tried:
1. disabled preload top hits in Safari
2. deleted zoom cookies
3. closed all tabs on icloud devices that could have caused connection
4. Deleted Zoom app and cleaned all related files (daemons,agents,settings,etc)

Details
1. TCP 443 port, SSLv1.3
2. process establishing the connection is com.apple.WebKit.Networking (/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/Incoming/OS/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.WebKit.Networking.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.Networking)
3. zoom.us resolves as 170.114.52.2
4. Latest macos

Question: Any idea what I can do to investigate further?
https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_draw
For small codebases, sure. For large ones you want the machine to do the most heavy lifting as much as possible and a type compiler is one more layer in which this can be done. Granted it can also be abused and become a bottleneck, so it's a double edged sword type of tool like most things in software.
Do you mind posting some recipes or ideas for types of bread that do not need sugar? Most of the simple recipes I have found that are not sourdough or flatbread require a bit of sugar for the yeast, though not sure how much sugar the yeast consumes.
> Web browsers are a terrible place to do innovations, a major problem being the absolute backwards compatibility they need to maintain.

How so? The biggest innovations in the browser in recent years have been shadow-DOM type stuff like React/Vue, plus WASM and WebGL. None of these are backwards compatible with older browsers.
Can't disagree with that. I think the order of importance is why > how > what, because the first two are the least likely / possible to infer from the commit contents. So an explicit record is most crucial.
Show HN: Write Today, Designing our writing habit
I think this just reflects a sales strategy. Back when it didn't look like commercial was risky, you could win business by advertising a low monthly payment.

Interest-only works for commercial because the building is (hopefully) making money, so some of that can be set aside to handle the last payment. That doesn't work for residential, because single-family homes don't usually make money, so residential homebuyers don't typically have ~$200,000-$2,000,000 in cash at the end of the 30 year period. But if that was feasible, you would see some loan officers trying to win business through offering interest-only mortgages with a balloon payment.

As for why underwriting didn't catch this? Underwriting is a lot like actuaries, they've got a bias towards recent population-level data. So for the last 30 years the rates of commercial default have been predictable, and it's tough to push back to execs on the risk. You're claiming that a potential wide-scale change in the way the U.S. works should impact sales strategy today, and before Covid that risk was very abstract. Very few execs would side with their underwriters over their sales team, and there's been subtle pressure on underwriters to price commercial real estate as though systemic risk isn't real.
The estimated value of $20K seems low, unless it's in poor condition and/or there are many other copies around. Google says the same auction house sold one for $100K in 2012:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8AT04H/
Newly Discovered Turing Notebook Tops Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale
Why do you call that security theater? I found and provided the information, but didn’t make it clickable. Anyone can decide for themselves to navigate there.

Your comment comes off as passive aggressive.
Expert Predicts Bitcoin's Landmark Surge
I created a little program in C++/Qt for using Markov chains to re-write text. But it works on character sequences, rather than words. There are examples and binaries for Windows and Mac:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2019/04/02/bloviate/
You could probably drop the server and use Cloudflare Pages and a SSG. I use Astro for https://sabine.press/

Edit: oh and Lambda for a total of 2 server functions
Yes — in that case you can bail out mom and dad personally.

If the 0.1% owns a disproportional amount of wealth any financial bailout will disproportionately help them.
This is the rumor at my work about management’s push for RTO. Some amount of tax incentives were provided because the office would drive additional downtown spending. Spending and tax income which does not materialize if the peons can stay at home.
A few phone calls from the mayor , and “our company culture works best in person”.
It’s being developed in C++, not C
Could you explain more of the reasoning for Bitcoin and Ethereum being proof of non-existence of a useful quantum computer?
At 20 or so mph. A lot different than 65mph
Is it the dominant mental model, or the dominant marketing model? After all, marketing must appeal to "techies" too, not just non-techies.
Why? It's already a C++ program, so C it's out. What would be the point?
I think we must distinguish between onpage and offpage seo. This proposal is only relevant for onpage seo, for which i would mostly agree with your comment. However, inbound links are and will be the most important signal for search. What else would be left for ranking?
I wonder if a scan -> OCR -> LLM proofreading pipeline is possible?
I understand the sentiment, and often feel this way too, but I think it's reductive to assume the answer is to let large companies/investors to fail.

Ideally, if we ensure adequate diversity in the market, then having companies default makes sense -- then one company going under won't trigger a string of defaults that can cripple a sector of the economy.

But when we let businesses concentrate effort or corner markets, then there can be catastrophic consequences to the economy when these large entities go belly up. Efforts should be put in place to mitigate these issues.

Ultimately, I think the pragmatic approach is to assess defaulting on debt on a case-by-case basis. I'd prefer if a panel of economists across the ideological spectrum came to a consensus for each case based on the latest understanding of the market, but I know it's more likely going to be politicians choosing the argument that best fits their worldview.
Real time translation in the speakers own voice.
> Opening the history search in vi mode switches to insert mode correctly (#10141).

I didn't realize how much this bothered me, but I got unreasonably happy reading that just now, so there was clearly something there.

Little QoL improvements like this are the hallmark of a healthy project.
> In Amsterdam a lot of the officials that collected the coins actually took a lot for themselves even.

Considering the fact that the machine counts the coins it receives, and a value of coins gets deposited in a bank, this seems like the easiest fraud in the world to catch.

If that went on for a long time, that is some horrifically incompetent oversight.

Edit: I'm suddenly realizing this was probably about the pre-digital coin-operated parking meters. Which makes me wonder how could you prevent widespread skimming? Unless they had tamper-proof "odometers" inside that you had to record the value of each time you emptied them?
> The program I used (DBeaver) saw the empty 3rd line, and ignored the 4th line.

This is weird. SQL has ; as a command separator, why treat empty lines specially?
Cadences, Resolutions and the Pleasure of Uncertainty
Economy continues to slide? US Q3 GDP was up +4.9% the economy is about as good as it has ever been.
Thank you for Standard Books!

I remember when Manybooks used to be what you want. But quality dropped precipitously with self-published new novels, I suspect some money is changing hands somewhere.

What happened to Manybooks? Does Standard Books have a plan for avoiding that?
There’s something grounded in a very particular kind of 1980s/90s BBC Television content in the values Tom Scott’s videos embody. It’s sort of like he managed to give himself a job roleplaying as a Blue Peter/Tomorrow’s World presenter. He basically carried forward the kind of Reithian ‘mission to inform’ BBC values that largely disappeared in the John Birt era and somehow brought them onto YouTube.
Can you explain what you mean by "going greyscale only"?
This raise an interesting question. Is improving the battery tech an inherently more difficult problem than the efficiency of a thermic motor?

I'd intuitively think so, as it's mostly chemical compared to mechanical work, and that would explain why thermic engine were favoured at the time. (On top of economic reasons)
Or by adding a base like baking soda.
I did a markov reworking of some of Trump's speeches and got:

"Hillary brought death and disaster to Iraq, Syria and Libya, she empowered Iran, and she unleashed ISIS. Now she wants to raise your taxes very substantially. Highest taxed nation in the world is a tenant of mine in Manhattan, so many great people. These are people that have been stolen, stolen by either very stupid politicians ask me the question, how are you going to get rid of all the emails?” “Yes, ma’am, they’re gonna stay in this country blind. My contract with the American voter begins with a plan to end government that will not protect its people is a government corruption at the State Department of Justice is trying as hard as they can to protect religious liberty"

Details at: https://successfulsoftware.net/2019/04/02/bloviate/
This kind of mortgage was very popular before 2008. Many US homes were mortgaged at interest only rates. People however saw how dangerous this can be in the aftermath of the great recession, as a record number of Americans lost their homes.
I tried going full no sugar for a year. Improvement to cholesterol levels for sure. But I had extra stress. I switched to intermittent fasting+no sugar drinks/snacks. Blood levels are pretty much the same, except I do desserts almost daily (sometimes I skip a day) with no bad effects, and have better mood overall.
SQL really sucks. DELETE without WHERE should be a syntax error. Use `where id=id` if you really want everything gone.
The thing is - I'm not sure the bank wants to own any of those buildings, even profitable ones. It's a bank, not a real estate investment fund. The amount of money spent on upkeep, taxes, land, finding a buyer, etc... can be and often is quite significant and for a bank, that's capital that could be better deployed elsewhere (which also more often than not aligns better with the core functionalities of the bank).
Relax. The largest US pension funds have only limited exposure to office real estate.

https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/investments/about-investment...
Designed lifespans like "2-6 years for a cell phone" are a red herring. The notched logs in Zambia weren't intended to last to the present day either. A cell phone might stop functioning as a cell phone after 10 years or so, but it will be recognizable as an ex-cell phone for a long, long time after that.
I've considered running a campaign to finance a print run of some of our (SE's) books. But the fact is that it's just so easy to find super cheap paper copies of these books almost anywhere. As long as you buy a copy that was printed before, say, 2005 - or from a reputable publisher like Oxford or Penguin - then the edition will already be pro quality. (After that, it's much more likely that you're buying a print-on-demand copy of a raw Project Gutenberg text.)

If we did offer print books, I think the value-add would be making them extremely ornate, one-of-a-kind editions like Arion Press or Folio Society make, and we'd charge a lot for a copy. But even then I'm still not sure the juice would be worth the squeeze, because that's also been done to death... how many more fancy editions of Dracula or whatever does the world need?
> she randomly decided to courtmatial someone

Well, you can't stave off fate - you've got to face the music eventually.
In a number of his videos, they'll use different colours for different speakers. As best as I can see, while also choosing bright colours unlikely to cause problems for people with colour-blindness. It makes such a difference.
I'd rather just be able to own the pixels that hit my screen. They gave me the information and it's now mine - sorry!

I would tape rented VHSes back in the day too.

At least Blockbuster charged me for the original. YouTube just makes me "watch" an ad before I get my copy [1]

[1] A computer watches the ad for me
Have you seen H3+ ? it looks like its an HC2 with a more powerful CPU.
I just received one and my plan to install OpenBSD on it some time this week.
This is the reason why you should use a Privilege Access Management or Data Access governance tools. You won't be allowed to run these queries in production as is with you proper session review and access review.

Accidental operations can be avoided with data access governance tools.
StuffMadeHere is also an absolute gem. Truly incredible feats of engineering for a single person to tackle, explained in an entertaining way.
In the UK it’s going this way. You can tap your contactless payment card to pre-auth then charge
I was going to write a long winded reply about the differences between "hate speech" directed at "israelis" vs "jews" and how easy it is to conflate the two, especially with the constant israeli attempts to force people to treat the two as the same thing, but instead let me ask you a question:

Do you honestly think that the president of harvard wishes for, hopes for, or even wants, the mass murder of jewish people all over the world?

And following up on that, do you honestly believe that the students at harvard want all jewish people all over the world to be murdered?

Isn't it more likely that the students in question want the israelis to stop committing acts of violence against palestinians and perhaps don't view the palestinian violence as any worse than what the israelis are doing?

One thing I've noticed over the years is that it seems really easy for people who benefit from the current status quo to condemn violence meant to change the status quo. It's pretty easy to come up with restrictions for people's protests when you're not the one living in an oppressive society.
High school cliques 4evah!!!!
Congratulations! You have just discovered - Milk!

In Sweden we drink it all the time especially kids.

(11g means 11g/cup, right? That sounds like normal milk...)
Agree. I could see this being a “do your business or get off the toilet” moment. One option is repurposing that real estate to better purposes, like residential or industrial depending on location. It would take significant amounts of investment, but that’s actually the market working as intended.

I am aware of attempts to repurpose such properties, cheaply, to residential have generally sucked. That just indicates better, costlier options will need to be explored. High rises and high density living actually exist many places.

Does not yet sound like a hair on fire/bailouts level problem. We would need to see some Ts instead of Bs for that.

Then there’s the reality of the US economy still responding to the changes following the pandemic. Literally all modern markets have not experienced anything like this since the last pandemic was 1918. That was a very different time in international and national trade.

The market is a hugely decentralized grouping of economies. Each economy itself composed of millions to billions of individuals making individual decisions with finite resources. That’s precisely the genius of the system. No single person or policy maker could take on and make all the most optimized decisions for all the people in the global market.
> fish 3.7.0 and any future releases in the 3.7 series remain C++ programs.

How would forking this project help? They have not ceased development on C++ side.
Opinionated formatters are the way out of this. Black, as you mention, is a godsend.

I'm really disappointed by how weak the dotnet formatter is in comparison.
There is more to an economy than GDP.
I was wondering where the new players were coming from! Thanks for the mention :)
And some cheats happen on a different device. There is no way anti-cheat software can defeat those (even eye trackers are not perfect).

The design question is about software that abuses the game state, which is sent to the client, but not displayed to the player (e.g. wall-hacks), and software that sends impossible input (e.g. speed hacks). Anything that manipulates mouse input is very hard to counter.

In the end, all the technical solutions have limits and you need other means to solve the issue (e.g. play with friends/live events). However, anti-cheat software tries to counter many cases that can be solved by better implementations (e.g. servers that send very limited information to the client).
Agreed.

If you want to have some app-based loyalty programs or whatever, the way supermarkets do, that's fine.

But this seems to be a perfect area for consumer regulation.
You’re hitting on the distinction between duplication and training.

I own hundreds of paperback books. Copyright law does not limit what I can learn from them.

It may be that assembling a corpus for training is illegal, but if so, that would be true even if it was never used for training. The act of training an AI is orthogonal to the collection of the corpus.
One more vote for Steve Mould. I don't follow him directly but I still end up watching a bunch of his content through random suggestions, he's quite good.
Stuff Made Here
How to Securely Let Front End Apps to Directly Access AWS Services
What’s special about driving a Tesla that makes the experience remarkable ? I’ve test driven recent Model 3 and Model Ys and found the experience subpar compared to other EVs: noisy, uncomfortable suspension, lack of parking assistant systems, lack of reliable speed limit recognition and lane keeping assistant system, no matrix headlights or even HUD. Basically every new technology you can have in new mid/high range cars compares to my old 2008 VW Golf is missing on modern Model 3/Ys. I loved the spacious interior, but felt also cheap. The UI of the screen is also very nice and smooth, but I still prefer using Apple CarPlay. People compliment Tesla supercharger network, and I have to admit I’ve never used it, but I also have to say I never had an issue with other HPC networks like Ionity or Fastned in Europe.
Why, then, is that not the reality for every day people?
UPDATE orders
SET is_deleted = true

I mean, you didn't really delete the orders... does anyone DELETE things now a days?
Careful, you’re saying the quiet part out loud; freedom is about profiting off the uncompensated work of others.
> 3. Cook several times per week with recipes that don't call for adding sugar

Which savory recipes call for sugar? The only time I can remember using sugar is for speeding up onion caramelization and bbq sauce.
In my experiments 64+ kB of RAM works pretty with Nina allocator. It’s also a O(1) allocator. Still limiting allocations is important on embedded.
If you are wondering why you are returning to office (RTO) despite 3-4 years of profitable quarters… It’s not because of “cUlTuRe”, “wOrK pRoDuCtIvItY”, “coMmUnIcaTiOn gApS”, or “iNcReAsInG cOlLabOraTiOn”

It’s because the bag holders of these assets (ie, REITs, ibanks, hedge funds, foreign ibanks and investors) are at risk. Ultimately, the US government and to a certain degree state and local governments have guaranteed a large portion of these assets.

These investors need to pump their numbers (ie, occupancy rates, leases, …) in order to keep the con going. Often the building managers will dangle “free” upgrades in the faces of these corporate real estate managers to keep the leases active in exchange for guaranteed occupancy rates.

I hate this country sometimes. Shit like this is why we will never have a sustainable economy
And they drove 1000 miles with it in 1910: https://sweetbeacon.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/edison-elect...
https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/Jovian-NixOS
> I always viewed copyright extensions as being good for the masses

I have a hard time to find cases when it's true in the context of media content.
You can get residential interest only mortgages - at least here in the UK.

I used to have one, but remortgaged to repayment ten years ago.

It's quite common to see "buy to let" mortgages as interest only rather than repayment, where the owner is concerned with cashflow rather than the asset itself.
Not quite in the same theme, but as far as gaming goes I'd put both videogamedunkey and MandaloreGaming there.

Dunkey doesn't post hour long video essays, but I find that apart from the occasional filler and joke content, his focus is on fun and it is completely infused with an empathetic passion for gaming.

Mandalore does the occasional deep dives into the weird and obscure but he's thorough and doesn't take it too seriously. Again, seems like a guy who is passionate about games but prefers to go off the beaten path in terms of game coverage.
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You're right, it's definitely one data point.

If you look at your algorithm's ROC: you really want to avoid false negatives ("nope, not a real friend" when they actually could be).

Whereas a false positive ("yep, could be a real friend" and they turn out not to be) is something you will notice & correct eventually.
This thunderf00t video made me avoid "Undecided by Matt Ferrell": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDXqOfC61U