skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use extremely expensive charging stations like the non-Tesla so-called "fast" chargers that are the only option for non-Teslas, they tend to do price gouging.

Superchargers also vary in price and can be non-competitive with home electric rates, depending on region, but they don't seem to gouge severely like their competition. At least their pricing for Teslas is good. And maybe the poster lives in a place with very cheap gas as well. It remains to be seen what kind of premium they will charge to non-Teslas which tend to charge more slowly. Because of this slow charging issue, when they roll out more third party charging, Tesla will make non-Teslas pay not only for power, but also for time spent, because taking up a slot for a longer time has an impact on everyone.
I actually recognize those clothes. They are the ones I walked pass in the malls because they were too expensive.
I was thinking about this recently, and came to the conclusion that the generations from WW2 to Gen-X constructed a very tightly-optimized society - with no room for their grandchildren in it. Basically the economy today is a complex system that is overconstrained: there is no way to change it without the whole thing coming down, and yet it was also built for a population level that was less than half what we have now. As a result, all of the excess 1987+ births literally have nowhere to go in the society we have now, and they just float around as disaffected youth or never leave their parents' basement.

Think of all the problems facing young people today, and envision the logical solution for them. Housing: why don't young underhoused people simply pick up a hammer, saw, and some wood and build themselves a house? If you do this in any major metropolitan area today, you will get a stop-work order and a zillion zoning and building code violations. Health care: if somebody is sick, go read a few textbooks and do what they say you should do. If you do this, you'll be arrested for practicing medicine without a license, and the number of residencies (and hence new licenses granted) is strictly capped to keep wages high. Aviation: with how dysfunctional Boeing is, why haven't competitors arisen? Because building a plane is so tightly regulated that a startup that can satisfy the regulations would basically look like Boeing, have roughly the same cost structure, and move as slowly.

The one exception that lucky Millennials got into was tech, which was notoriously unregulated until about 5 years ago. That unregulation meant there was space for new people to enter the industry, and for new firms to take over other parts of the economy. Everybody else has had to fight for the limited new positions that open up in industries whose structure has already been decided.
Absolutely fucking bonkers that it's legal to just eyeball a stranger and inject them with drugs if working under the watchful eye of a badge, that this "technique" is approved without any evidence that it actually helps.

> Ho was a leading researcher on Taser safety and an expert witness for the company in wrongful death lawsuits. In a 2007 deposition in one such case, he argued for a potentially “life-saving tactic” of having sedative injections quickly follow Taser shocks, saying the combination could shorten struggles that, if prolonged, might end in death.

> Some doctors at his public hospital in Minneapolis were using “something called ketamine, which is an analog to LSD,” he said. “It’s sort of an animal tranquilizer.”

> The drug became more common outside the hospital in 2008 when Hennepin County paramedics were given permission to use it.

> An American College of Emergency Physicians panel that included Ho said in 2009 that ketamine had shown “excellent results and safety” while acknowledging no research proved it would save lives.

These people come off as a bunch of clowns, holy cow.
Sometimes we even give them really nice names:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumenoshima

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeshima

(Both places' names translate to Dream Island.)
> If forced sedation is banned the critical nationwide shortage of EMS personnel will become much worse than it already is.

Nationwide shortage gets worse because people can't kill other people without consequence? Fine. At least I won't be worked on by people that have no concern[s] about killing someone - just because they're scared.

To whit: What is the point in being an EMT/EMS, if you do not care if you're killing people, as is demonstrated by the article? It seems entirely antithetical to the entire point of your role/job, does it not?
> There is no obligation on any company to deliberately create paper trails of everyday conversations b/w employees.

You know, those everyday conversations around the water-cooler about how we're going to respond to a DOJ anti-trust lawsuit...
I use makefiles a lot as make-do but I must admit the syntax does my head in at times. If anyone has a good resource that teaches makefile progressively, I'd be interested.

The main issue I have is that it goes from dead simple to pit of what the hell is happening with various things interacting with each others.
People have to stop building on Google software/apis. You’re just doing it to yourself at this point if you have any other alternative (obviously Android isn’t included in this).
You may already know this: there were pretty decent chess programs for 6502 CPUs back in the day; you don’t really need an ARM unless you want to run a modern chess engine.
You're going to have to do better than this.
I'm not familiar with how it worked out with the Algerians, and whether attacks on civilians were a deciding factor. Of course, similar situations still occur today, when you have a colonising power with overwhelming military superiority, and the dispossessed resort to attacks on civilians.
There’s a song for that, too. Tragic Comic by Extreme. https://youtu.be/_44jokODfzM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Elijah_McClain

Perhaps there are legitimate uses of appropriate doses where there is immediate risk of harm, but reckless and unregulated use of using serious medications like ketamine to control people violates informed consent and the spirit of the hippocratic oath.
how do you close a door you're required to have open? and how do you notify customers if a fisa order prevents you from doing so?

i wouldn't want to be a network appliance vendor in the usa or cn at this last decade!
might not be exactly what you're thinking, but schadenfreude
"I'd like to see that film." | "I'd like to watch that film." (interchangeable)

"I see birds." / "I watch birds." (very different)

"I'm seeing birds." ~ "I'm watching birds." (semantic'ly identical, but the first one is unusual)

"I'll see you home." / "I'll watch you home." (second on is word choice error)
Going forward? We probably shouldn't. Unfortunately, there's no way to go back to 2008 and build a rival dataset. Not without an elaborate space mirror/FTL craft/telescope set-up, at least.

As to your question, if I may wax poetic: the history of America (the nation) is short and filled with episodes its residents would like to forget. That brevity makes those events (and the desire to bury them) all the more poignant. As way of an example, which I only recently learned about: Why is much of the East Coast forested? It's not because we didn't clear cut hundreds of thousands of acres of old-growth timber to use for slave-worked farmland which was scarred by the over-planting of cash crops, apparently.

I'm sure that's not the whole story, but I imagine that it's part of it. It's so much easier to push New Thing if people don't know what Old Thing is being demolished to make way for it.
Even if you decide to get rid of your cars prematurely (that's your choice), the increased cost of ownership is reflected in their terrible resale value. Look at the trend lines of Tesla resale values.

I've owned Mercedes with over 300k and Hondas with over 250k.
“a link to what the site looked like last week, before Google made me make it worse on purpose to make money.”

Sounds like you sold out. You should own up to your agency in the matter.

They made me make it worse so I could make more money - it’s like you think you are under unique pressure to pay bills, thus excusing you, but everyone else in the world shouldn’t be excused.
i always hated make. until i read the manual...
I changed the title to just 'Stop Trying To Be Perfect' as you're right about it initially being slightly misleading. But hey that's what it's about iterating until we get better and better. Thank you again for input. If you'd like I'd love for you to sign up to my weekly newsletter :) I think you might enjoy it

https://teji.io/library/newsletter
This is sort of on topic, except I haven’t finished.

I’ve been working on making a magnetic stirrer with an integrated scale and heating. It isn’t specific to esp or esphome stuff, but I happen to be using an esp32 to power it.

I wanted to buy a stirrer and discovered even the most basic equipment is extremely expensive. Once you add heat, let alone heat control that’s accurate with a digital readout, or a scale, prices are in the multiple thousands.

I know the one I make isn’t going to be as precise or accurate, the build quality won’t be as good, but it’ll be good enough for my purposes.

I’ve found very cheap models online, but oddly a lot of them can’t be shipped here and not surprisingly, the reviews are reliably terrible anyways.

I’ve been having a hard time figuring out the stirring part, ironically. The heat and scale part struck me as the trickiest initially, but I’m not smart enough to know how to protect the magnets from the heat.

My intuition at this point is that maybe I can accomplish this using electromagnets since they won’t be permanently damaged by heat, but I have no idea how to program this to work with a stirrer at a distance. It might be the completely wrong path to take, too.

In any case it’ll be worth it. I’ve been wanting a proper stirrer for quite a while, and the one I’m using at the moment is a computer fan hooked up to a potentiometer and an nmos, glued into a 3d printed platform.
I just see:

> Loading... if you can still see this message, this post probably doesn't exist.
I found it useful. (Your comments too.)
Presumably the vape shop owner wants the person gone, and so the cop then gets involved to remove them by force. Arguably, if medication isn't used, the outcome will be worse for everyone involved. Can a mentally unfit person be shot by a cop for trying to bite them? Yes.
Without commenting on the rest of the article I want to take issue with this specific line

> Gowens rushed to the hospital 500 miles away, where she was told he’d been injected with ketamine. She searched online and was stunned to read it’s used to tranquilize horses.

Medicines are used on both humans and animals all the time. Verbiage like this does nothing but spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about a medication, when used in a controlled, safe manner is absolutely helpful for humans. The fact that it’s also used as a horse tranquilizer is completely irrelevant and is really just lazy reporting intended to incite fear.

Note that I am not saying I agree with the medication’s use at all here. But the fact that it’s also used on animals for some purpose is completely irrelevant.
I think Go is unique in this list in that the only other language that fills the same niche is Java, and Google can't afford to let the licensing whims of Oracle decide its fate.

That said, I'm actively rooting for the demise of some of the others.
They built a prototype (probably in Rails, lol). Thousands of people built Twitter, including many who have never written a line of code in their lives.
I always refuse to answer, as a matter of principle. The HR people will fill it in themselves, anyway.
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A film (well worth watching) about this sort of place is Manufactured Landscapes: https://archive.org/details/ManufacturedLandscapes_201902 -- you don't really get the whole scale of things until you see something like this.

Trivia note: This movie has the longest opening tracking shot of any movie of the time (according to a film professor friend).
I really appreciate this point and I've had similar thoughts. A lot of people nowadays point back to the peak of American civilization post world war II and think or expect that that will continue but like you said it was tightly optimized and I think a flash in the pan mostly from Europe being completely destroyed while the United States remained unscathed causing a massive boon. What I haven't considered are your points about everything being overly regulated to the point that no one can run a business or build their own home without so much BS and red tape that they are guaranteed failure. College was the entry point into success but even that is slowly collapsing. I don't know much about medieval Europe but my basic understanding makes me think that we live in a similar space where you don't really pick your job, you just work for the local Lord who happens to be a corporation that pays you enough to survive.

I don't think it's as big as it used to be, but I think a lot of people bet their hopes and dreams on moonshots such as becoming streamers or athletes but that's just another way to keep everyone placated.

I appreciate your comment
Thanks! A long thread with good insights.
I just tried it in the online playground. I didn't get any sort of error with one of the cases unhandled. https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?noFallthroughCasesInSwi...
The problem is that the ephemeralitt of a chat between two peers requires physical colocation. The regulations on message retention kicked in when we started leveraging networks to increase the distance across which these messages could propagate.

The "crime" is not the chatting. It's using the wires to do it. The danger is the utilization of network infrastructure to facilitate criminal activity.

Or at least that seems to be my view of things.
I ran into this as well about 2 years ago. I thought it’d be cool to create a site that’d algorithmically estimate the snowpack for mountains based on observations and elevation. It was a very rough estimate, but still better than using 1 square mile observations, which obviously could vary by 10k+ feet of elevation.

When I tried putting a few Google Ads on it to pay the hosting costs, it rejected it until I added long-form descriptions of the content. So instead of a useful chart and table, I ended up having long-winded descriptions of the location, algorithm, search, elevation’s effect on snowpack, and all that.

It was so fucking stupid I just up and deleted the whole project and never looked back. I’m sure I could have made the tool better and charged a subscription or something if it was actually useful, but it just kind of made me jaded on the modern web. I gave up and went hiking.
So many people say "1984 wasn't supposed to be a guidebook!" but this is 100% The Trial.
Sundar take a pay cut yet?
Hot Tub Wi-Fi remote controller from https://github.com/visualapproach/WiFi-remote-for-Bestway-La...
Not me, I wear clothes from the thrift store.
>I’m sure this type of thing is fairly common.

Unfortunately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecomafia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_death_(Italy)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3b7m9n/the-mob-made-southen-...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/j59xap/europes-biggest-illeg...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/23/buried-...
> This makes perfect sense, given that the thumb is the least dexterous finger

I disagree on this. For an item you are looking at, the thumb's range of motion covers the most area, and the joint angles of the thumb means it has more degrees of freedom of movement across that area. An index finger can be more precise but a thumb can reach more positions.
They were maintaining Python itself, likely very well (as one would expect) compensated. It’d be a waste to have these devs do product development.
Now I want Apple Crisp
I think you can get a bot allowed by all of Cloudflare at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqYNuULEypMnp4i5pR.... The blog post I read didn't make it clear if it would apply to all of Cloudflare or just customer sites though.
thanks for the interesting read, one amusing thing: I went to the site and "where is the adds?", then I remembered I'm using a add-hardened firefox to view it ;) Sure enough using safari showed me the horror. Serious question: why do we put up with this as readers?
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I use smartphones (including typing) by pecking at the screen with my ring finger, I find pecking with my index finger uncomfortable and my thumb too short to reach everywhere.

I'm probably a useless sample, though. Because the "proper" way to thumb a smartphone is to hold it in both hands and use both thumbs to smother the phone. I find this impossible because I have unusually sweaty hands.
This article acts like Apple is going to get anything more than a slap on the wrist anywhere outside of the EU.

Even in the EU, Apple is complying with alternate App Store requirements as minimally as possible.

I’ll believe that Apple’s walled garden is tumbling down when I see it. The iPhone is still a money printing machine, and their users aren’t going to go through the hassle of doing a huge cloud data migration to leave.

Yes, replacement cycles are getting longer, but we are talking about averaging replacements every 2.5 years to every three years. https://www.statista.com/statistics/619788/average-smartphon...

On top of that, Apple’s marketshare is increasing in many of its important markets. The only one that is in some peril IIRC is China.

Finally, Apple’s service revenue is their fastest growing segment, and they don’t need a walled garden to earn that revenue.
It's wrong to call using a privacy preserving messaging app "destroying evidence".
>However, how on earth do you mount a wheel backwards

Put the side of the tire rim that has the car's company logo that normally faces out to the world so that it faces into the wheel well instead, with the tire itself sticking out far more then normal.

Assuming the wheel spokes doesn't grind off part of the brake calipers, it unfortunately can work. It'll drive badly mind you, and does significant cosmetic damage to the rim once you realize the mistake, but it does "drive".
It calculates the minimal bounding box that encompasses all visible elements within the SVG and crops.
Intel is trying to compete with TSMC, and AMD and Apple and to some extent NVIDIA and Samsung. Their problem isn't the capital required for building fabs and designing chips. Their problem is that spending that capital hasn't been producing compelling or timely results.
As I've wondered some time ago about these questionnaires, as I've got, answers are not visible to HR, at least to hiring manager. Collected into separate DB, not connected to applications.

And once in a while may be checked by some internal/external audit to compare rates: e.g. black/white applied vs. black/white hired.

Not an expert, have no insight, just my romantic believe in how it should work :)
Nadella has been the CEO of Microsoft for more than 10 years.

In the last year there have been multiple huge security breaches at Microsoft. And it's not just that there were bugs. It's that these cases showed a shocking negligence in security systems and processes, and no defense in depth.

So why exactly does Nadella deserve any trust on security? All of this happened on his watch. And like, it's not even a close call where he could plausibly blame his predecessors. He had a decade to get his house in order, and appears to have done nothing at all. If anything, it's the opposite: his words on are empty and can't be trusted, until they actually deliver.
Ninja is simple and fast, but intentionally limited in order to not be programmable. Make is powerful and versatile (especially the GNU variant) but has an arcane syntax and lots of pitfalls. I feel that there is a niche between make and ninja for the task runner.
> HN tells me that there's only one more step left after embracing and extending.

Perhaps you should read HN less then. Along this line of thinking, any business adopting any open standard is a bad thing. Don't you think it's a very weird take?
> I feel that there is a niche between make and ninja for the task runner.

I think that's called CMake.
Is there an example of Microsoft ever actually "extinguishing" something? The extinguish bit is more about making the competing services non-viable. Microsoft's whole strategy was built around making it so a user on its platform either couldn't or wouldn't want to use a particular technology without their proprietary extensions. That perfectly describes iMessage if we're to believe all the commentary on social media about how iPhone users get the "ick" from seeing a green bubble.

In fact, I'd argue that iMessage has been one of the most successful implementations of EEE ever. Maybe only behind ActiveX and Microsoft's slow adoption of web standards in the late 90s - mid 00s (but MS never actually replaced HTML or JavaScript with its proprietary stuff).
The police also use "mental reasons" as an excuse to arrest anyone they don't like or who challenges their egos. It's often used to cover-up uses of excessive force.
Millions of people are on medications that could very easily have lethal interactions with IV sedatives.
The economy is moving us back into the 19th century as fertility rates plunge
> Do you think the officer who tackled her down and then climbed on top of her should also have the authority to inject her with a sedative at his discretion?

The person you're replying to is, assuming they're not lying, a medical professional.

> Do you think that, in an environment where simply not following directions promptly to the full satisfaction of the arresting officer can result in being tased or even shot

Are you suggesting that a person trying to bite folks is on equal legal footing with a college professor tapping an officer on the shoulder? In any case, sedatives are unquestionably less lethal than guns (and probably tasers, where Google suggests hundreds of people die in the US from being tased by the police each year). Putting aside whether the officer's discretion in such a situation is being wielded appropriately, sedation (by the numbers) is essentially never a worse option than what police have at their disposal already, no?
> I did a big remodel recently, I had a bunch of perfectly good hardware, an entire kitchen of appliances, cabinets, etc, and such items.

Put them outside by the curb. If it's usable, it'll get picked up. Certainly working (and non-working) appliances would.
and what she did should be illegal as well.

we should have privacy for individuals / citizens and no privacy for those with power, whether they’re a government official or company.

it’s wild to me how quickly this is flipping on its heads, we’re now entering a space where citizens get less and less privacy while billionaires, corps, and governments are getting more.

it’s becoming a genuine two tier system, those who get ultimate privacy and those who get none.
I just keep wearing old clothes even if they got holes or something. A benefit of being a geek is the social expectations are pretty low.

EDIT: This also reminds me of the story about the containers the Philippines forced Canada to take back: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/canadian-garbage-from-philip...

A lot of "recycling" is "ship somewhere they don't care" or "another route to the dump".