skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't about looking down on others. It is that in communities where the extra resource are spent on things like slightly better cars or houses eventually many of the local stores, restaurants or other places ends up closing.

Many on Hacker News have some sort of ambition. To create a startup, a side business, an open source project or have a hobby, be more knowledgeable or become better programmer. In theory that can happen having a home office and extra space in the garage. In reality it often doesn't because making any greater strides often requires coming together with others forming connections, exchanging information and sharing resource.

Yes, I can learn to cook for example Chinese food. But that isn't the same as having a good food industry with restaurants, entertainment, staff, importers and whatever else that actually enable a numbers of different experiences for many people.

Eventually many tend to realize that it isn't that great. But then they often end up blaming the government, the taxes, major cities, lack of investment or support, or anything other than the reality that they didn't invest in their local community neither through taxes for services or with their own income. But instead there are millions of dollars standing around in things like more expensive cars.

It isn't like I don't understand why someone would want those thing. I just don't think many who do want those things understand that to have a decent career many of their kids are going to have move somewhere where there are good education, successful companies, major airports or other resources. And then, while they get some use of their guest room, won't see them much overall.
I guess just hard to tell how much of that is attributable to cognition inside the brain of each ant, and how much is network effects with each ant responding in individually stupid ways to the pheromone (and other) signals they create.

Each ant could be very dumb while the system of ants as a whole are quite "smart" (I.e. exhibit complex and interesting behaviours).
Daniel Lemire has an interesting talk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvKAT7SZIQ. They key takeaway is that the disk is rarely the bottleneck.
They are all charging and bathroom stops. On the Tesla charging network, you are stopping at: malls, hotels, target, grocery stores, or occasionally restaurants. In the absolute worst case they are at a place like buc-ees or those highway access 'travel hubs' with a food court in the middle of the highway.

I've only had one stop ever where the bathroom was a hassle, it was a 'locked for paying customers', at a mall Starbucks in Arizona.
I suppose that the external tanks may have been commissioned for specific missions, like Atlas IV and Delta V rockets were. Maybe this tank was commissioned for a mission that never flew, like the current museum Saturn Vs.

I remember, possibly incorrectly, that there was a contingency rescue mission stacked but not flown, though I think that the stack did fly on a NASA designated mission (as opposed to the usual Congress designated missions). Though I think that was Atlantis.
Thanks. I really just needed that acknowledgement to restore a sense of fairness, because I did assume if a response is called out, the context would at least be looked at. I am fine with adhering the guidelines though it's not always fair, or even when the other kids started it, etc. -- but using flags against a comment that is a reply to me, in a debate type situation, is just not something I can bring myself to do. Even in debates I am involved in maybe. Knowing that I if I called it out, I'd get a fair hearing, as I just did, is really all I needed.
>Yet across America, millions of dining rooms sit empty for months at a spread, screaming to be made into something that more accurately reflects the lifestyles of their owners.

Every day, my money sits in my bank account screaming to be spent on something intangible...
> What part of my comment made it sound like I was presenting something newsworthy?

Can you clarify what the point of your comment was? I'm just a little bit confused about the point of responding to a range-anxiety post with a link to a news article that demonstrates 100km/day range.

It's my understanding that no one is discussing and/or concerned about a range of 100km off a full charge, so my interpretation of your initial post was that it was an attempt to alleviate fears about range, so ... I (naturally) thought that you were presenting the 100km/day range as something new that I (and others) might not have know about.

[PS. Hi from another South African :-)]
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I have their T-Echo and several T-Beam and T-Display-S3. I'm pretty happy with them so far, but have to admit that none of my projects is finished and so far I just have been playing around.

I'm based in Germany and delivery from their German warehouse was pretty fast, some parts came from China but didn't take much longer.

They don't ship batteries though so you have to get them elsewhere.
This was a bit of a challenge for me because I had no prior experience with industrial type batteries and the market is confusing. I was also afraid of fakes that, in the worst case, explode in my face or burn my place down. I finally ordered some from the Netherlands which have not exploded so far.

Anyways, I learned a ton for next to no money, so I can definitely recommend the devices mentioned above for educational purposes.
If you're not using a train you're burning the only inhabitable planet as well. So stop feeling superior to others while doing the same crap they all do.
Exactly. Many frequently cite the lower cost of charging the car vs paying for gas, but don't acknowledge the extra time spent.

Let's say I spend $500/mo on gas for an ICE car. That's roughly 6 fill-ups per month at the gas prices where I live for a full tank that gets me 350 miles of range. How long does charging up an EV take for the same kind of range? How long does it take for 6 full recharges per month? Filling up the gas tank takes me 3 minutes on average, that's about 20 minutes per month. I bet EV recharging takes a lot longer, but even if we're generous and we say 20 minutes for a full 0-100 charge, that's 2 hours a month. 2 wasted hours of my time is worth far more than $500 to me.

When I'm driving my car, and specifically refueling, most often it is not on some long journey where I could use the 20 minute break from driving to stretch, go to the bathroom, etc. It's during commuting where I have other stuff to do. That extra time spent waiting for the EV to charge is just wasted time to me -- I don't want to sit around futzing with my phone or 'relaxing' -- I have shit to do. And no, I can't charge at home because there's no way that's happening where I live, nor do I frequent any shops/malls that have charging stations that I can rely on, nor does my workplace offer such a service.
I get that, but in this specific case it kinda sucks for you. We shouldn’t be making a system that penalizes offenders for life without explicit sentencing for such. Whether that information is useful to your business is relatively irrelevant to me because denying people proper employment does a lot more harm to them than the harm done to the people in businesses like yours by not penalizing them.
Do you seriously suggest that banks outsource the maintenance of the mainframes that process their money transfers? If so I'd like to see a source, because the only articles I have read about on this topic (e.g. [0]) tell me the exact opposite: it's all in-house the risks are too high. For larger banks it's practically a national security risk. Maybe the software they use is from abroad (usually ancient IBM shit), but that's not the same.

[0] https://ezali.substack.com/p/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainfr...
No, it's the fact Cash for Clunkers ruined the used car economy. I've always driven used cars. A 2007 VW Jetta. A 2008 Mazda Protege, a 2002 Oldsmobile (until 2018). From 2018 to 2023 a 2007 Toyota Prius. 2023 a 2013 RAV4.

I looked at EVERY used car in a 100 mile radius on every platform you can think of and the 2013 RAV4 with 105,000 miles at 15k hit the dealer lot the night before I purchased (they had multiple calls for that vehicle while I was filling out paperwork). Its because all the old people sold off there late 90's and 2000's cars that there STILL are no used cars anymore that aren't absolute junk (155k mileage plus junk selling for 15k - 20k). This lets dealerships sell new cars & trucks for way, way too much. If Cash for Clunkers never happened, used cars would be the competition for new cars like the Toyota Camry which are uncomfortable, basic vehicles but which set the pricing floor for the other manufacturers vehicle lines. No competition so set it at a high price point marketing it as new even though the rest of it is junk and then you can charge a premium on oyher vehicle options. (Hate the Canry but I love Toyota vehicles don't get me wrong).

All us poor people who just want a to work and back vehicle & who would buy off craigslist from private sellers don't have a market anymore and have to go dealerships. Pickups are overpriced I'll agree, and are faux status symbols, but the used market itself reaked havoc on trucks too.
Turn off balloons, thumbs up, fireworks that appear during macOS video calls
could you just add the character values eg 49 for ascii 1, and then subtract off the offset once at the end instead of doing atoi on each line?

edit: doh that works for min and max but the average overflows.
Link to the PDF of the research itself for those interested:

https://www.journalofscience.net/showpdf/MjY4a2FsYWkxNDc4NTI...
Free Pascal does very infrequent releases though the compiler is under active development and even has a bunch of new features both for the compiler (e.g. a wasm backend) and the language itself. There are always multiple daily commits in the git log by several developers.
No, Australian.
https://www.liveatc.net/legal/

(liveatc.net seems to be the most well-known website for live atc audio)

It sounds like they just don't want you to create an app for livestreaming contents of liveatc.net and that they allegedly own all rights to the content.

Maybe you could contact them, and ask if you could use some recordings.
GDPR would prohibit this, and since they never ask about consent, I would assume that they have no legal basis to collect personally identifiable information on anyone.

If you have evidence of the contrary, I would love to know.
What would you have done differently? Built a better relationship with the middle managers? Kept your ear to the ground and left before the CTO did? Interviewed every quarter so you'd be able to leave and land elsewhere? Something else?
> I believe the author was actually trying to show it is actually feasible and range is not a concern.

I don't think that even the most anti-EV person is going to think that range is a concern for doing 100km off a full charge.

In a discussion where almost all of us are open to being convinced, it's even more pointless to link to a practical range of 100km/day.

(Also South African, so ... Hi? :-))
What are you talking about?
The BMW i3 with range extender was exactly that.

It wasn't practical and didn't sell and was hence cancelled.
The article mentions the fact that a successful second preimage attack is not always necessary.

A successful second preimage attack is needed if you want to make a second variant with the same hash like an already existing legal document.

However, when the original document is not yet in the possession of others (or there might be a way to destroy or replace their older copies), you can make more or less invisible modifications to it, so that a second different document will have the same hash with it. Then the altered original document can be handed to other parties, who will not notice changes from whatever had been agreed, while keeping an alternative document that can be shown later as having the same hash.

While opportunities for such a forgery should happen less often, it is much better to use a collision-resistant hash to completely remove this possibility.
Tragedy of the commons. Your decision to abandon ICE car will not change anything in the grand scheme of things besides inconveniencing you so long as other people are allowed to use ICE cars and a myriad of other fossil fuel based conveniences.
This is an interesting point. I'd like to see some stats on the cost of battery usage.

I'd also like to know how fast charging a lot but only from 20% to 80% works out cost wise over time. i.e. more stops to fast charge on a long journey but spending less time at each stop.

I have a feeling that if the car companies could get battery leasing and fast charging costs under control then a good charging network would cure a lot of range anxiety.

I've done long journeys in someone else's EV in the UK. Fast charging at motorway stops we'd make anyway really wasn't a problem but I don't know how that affects the cost depreciation.

(I still have the same old diesel car I've had from new for the last 10 years. I'd buy an electric car but I don't really drive much and I don't really like the current offerings).
Light. Especially sunlight, the exact effects of artificial light are not completely clear (or rather, it seems to have an effect, but it's not completely obvious which parts and how: this is part of the theory of why avoiding blue light in the evening can help with sleep but it's not actually been demonstrated that it works as an intervention).

People's daily clock is naturally (i.e if kept in a dim light constantly) slightly longer than a day (exactly how long varies by a few hours), but it becomes synchronised to changes in light level (there are actually specific light receptors in your eyes that do this, independent of vision). Exactly what 'phase' this clock has compared to the change in light levels varies from person to person, and throughout their life. There's a decent body of evidence that teenagers naturally shift towards being more delayed as they go through puberty. There are even disorders where it can become very far out of whack: people who will want to sleep very early or very late, or in the most extreme case (usually people who are totally blind in a way that also disrupts these specialised receptors, but also some people who have functioning sight), where the synchronisation doesn't work at all and their natural sleep cycle will drift freely with respect to the day-night cycle.
So sad seeing nuclear energy falling despite all the other good news
Yeah i suppose it’s not fair to say that the entirety of economics is designed around “selfish” actors.
I already worked for companies where there were management changes at a crazy pace, I'm not sure that all of them got promoted and I have the impression that some of them might have been fired as well.

I don't want to start a flame war but it's much easier to replace a manager than a technical person, a technical job is boring and most people don't want to do it while management relies more on soft skills, something that most people can do at a minimum level. Being a manager who's always employed is more about social connections, if you don't befriend the right people your job security might also be at risk.
I've only used LLaVA / BakLLaVA. It falls under the LLAMA 2 Community License. Not sure if you consider that open source or not.
No, you don't have a choice, if you want to work on building rockets that actually ship (thanks to constant government backing and de facto monopoly, confirmed in recent years after the failure of Blue Origin and others to dethrone them).

The compelling state interest is to keep working with ethical companies.
I mean in practice that's what most people's dinning rooms are. I of course know some exceptions but they have more money than sense.
> All that though is an edge case that probably doesn't apply 99% of the time.

The same could be said for many necessary security measures.
That's why we need reproducibility, or at least some info on how this list was put together. You don't need sentiment analysis, the creator could just have removed accounts manually from the list.
Interesting how few windows there are on the bottom of this building, I wonder if it's related to how pedestrian unfriendly streets in the US are?
I didn’t just say cocaine, I said crack cocaine. Crack is cooked by the dealers to be a cheaper and more addictive form of cocaine. I saw first hand what it did to LA in the back half of the last century, so yeah “your body your choice” or whatever you want to tell yourself, but the people dealing it knew what they were doing and it was blatantly immoral. There was no “gray area” about it. They invented a more profitable formula and destroyed their communities to make a little more cash.
> you could host them at a fancy restaurant

That’s great until it’s like, Christmas or Thanksgiving or New Years, and everyone else in town also wants to host a party.
You can at least attempt to aim towards the average and allow for flexibility in it where reasonable, as opposed to viewing the incompatibilty as some moral failing on the part of people who's rhythm does not match up.
Another big factor is that devs know that startups can (and, as in this case, will) go out of business, so they’d rather go with an FOSS offering that can’t just disappear with two months to transition off of the platform.
Yep! CheerpX's documentation is available here: https://labs.leaningtech.com/cheerpx
Why are you cherry picking edge cases for a global issue?

Most people in the US are driving from their suburbs downtown or from two close cities.

As an European I lived 6 months in Columbus, Ohio, and it was crazy to me that a trip from suburbs 10 miles off downtown could take you multiple hours.

Dayton to Columbus is connected only through bus, and it's a 2 hours trip!

Should be a 25 minutes train.

In Europe public transport isn't perfect, but it's way better than in US.

I live in a small village not far off Rome.

Going to city center is a 1 hour drive, way more during peak time, but in train it takes you 20 minutes, and guess what, most people take the train. It's comfortable, quick, cheap.

This also means that many people in my village do not need multiple cars per household, me and my SO have just one and it sits in the garage most of the time.

Hell, I remember being in LA and it was impossible to walk 1 mile distance. You had to call Uber for such things. Crazy.
Hmmm,

if his head had been frozen and cryogenically preserved would his copyright(s) have persisted . . .

Do any of the cryo crowd on ice get their artistic rights back if they were ever successfully decanted?

I suspect legally dead is dead wrt rights and I doubt anyone frozen to date is coming back .. but it's potboiler for when ... sometime in some future.
Ironically, we're also losing a lot of efficiency because cities are demanding setbacks, bumps, differences in height etc. for bigger buildings to avoid ending up with drab rectangular blocks, but that leads to more heat loss due to more surface exposed to the environment, higher use of materials and a higher risk of water ingress because there's a ton of weak points where different surfaces connect. (It also just doesn't look very good.)

Ornament might be an alternative: just make massed buildings look nice instead of demanding that they are broken up into a bunch of lego blocks.

A good thread by Alfred Twu here: https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1715230266531475702

I also wonder if the trend away from ornament has something to do with the trend towards fancier materials and bolder colors -- wasserstrich bricks, wood facades, decorative plasters in bathrooms, highly polished pigmented concrete floors, aluminium window frames in unusual colors, etc. People need their interestingness fix :-)
It's not a book on how to make money. It's in a small business niche.
> USA (33)

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> Europe (5)

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> EU (1)

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The filters need a bit of consolidation.
Anecdata: We have a model Y, and find that in the city it's an incredible car. We couldn't be happier. For road trips, it's definitely slower and more stressful because charging takes longer and the car by default stretches things out sometimes making it feel risky, especially in winter.
Just a landing page and a form to signup for the "beta", no pricing page, no explanation or screenshot of what this actually is or does.
I don't mind a subscription model. For me, it represents additional options.

Why do I want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for a perpetual license of photoshop when I hardly use it? A 30 day subscription once a year is perfect for me.

Even for those of us who are heavy users - can you see the game theory? The provider of your services has to deal with a huge amount of inertia in their product because of the continuous distribution model. The bigger the subscriber base, the more inertia there is. The consequence of this is that you are essentially guaranteed that impacting changes will be delivered slow enough that you or your business can adapt to them. Contrast this with a big bang software upgrade that requires explicit retraining and disruption to ops.

Not all subscription products are run this way, but the good ones are. Any product that has a 4 digit number in its name is a bad example. Visual Studio 2022 is not how a subscription model should go. Netflix is.
I have used BlackBerry phones extensively when they were all the rage, and I was more productive on their keyboards than I ever was on any smartphone keyboard, Android or iOS, that came after.
The Meshtastic iOS app is fantastic. Many commercial apps could take a leaf out of their book.

(I cannot speak for Android because I never tried it.)
Another framing of this is whether companies treat their engineering organizations as a cost center or a profit center. Cost centers suppress salaries as much as possible optimizing the budget. There's little growth within these companies which is why the zero-sum philosophy is passed down to their compensation strategy. Whereas profit centers encourage more and more investment as compounding profits come in from previous dividends. Growth is what powers everything, higher pay has a positive-sum gravitational pull on talent sustaining a flywheel for more profits to come in (hopefully).

All the companies that pay very well such as on https://levels.fyi/2023/ are profit centers encouraging investment in talent, competing for the best across companies because they know its worth it. Each hire even at extremely competitive wages will make back their salary manyfold if they're successful.
There is a fix for the U2 issue : https://beepy.space/t/shorted-tps61030-u2/21
I think that the "i" sound like in "wit" does not exist in German. The Germans pronounce "i" like English speakers pronounce "ee".
> You will always have solar on your roof.

Methinks you assume too much. Rooftop solar is only really an option for someone that owns a SFH, or is in a townhome with a fairly permissive HOA (In the US).

Someone living in an apartment probably has no ability to access reliable solar except via the primary grid (which we assume will be down in case of emergency.) And in other places, like California, having solar panels is growing increasingly expensive due to the additional fees imposed by the electric utilities (and nevermind the initial costs.)

Gas is relatively easy to stockpile in large volumes, it has a huge energy density, and is highly useful for other things, not to mention being fairly portable. You can even use it for producing electricity by using a generator.
Not wanting to dox myself of attract competition. It's in a small business niche. A catchy title and concept was key.