skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't think it matters whether the efficiency is 100% or 1%; as it happens, i just pumped up my bike tire from dead flat earlier tonight, and i did on the order of 2 kilojoules of work with a hand pump to do that. 1% of that would be 20 joules, which would be 20000 seconds of full-speed 1-milliwatt zorzpad usage

and conceivably the pneumatic storage option could help to solve the problem of 'where do you store those joules until you're ready to use them?' this is a problem at the electrical level because batteries and electrolytic capacitors are not long-lived, and non-electrolytic capacitors max out at about 1 microfarad for ferroelectric mlccs. 10 volts at a microfarad is 50 microjoules, so storing an entire joule in long-lived capacitors would require about 20000 capacitors

but you still have the problem of how to convert the pneumatically stored energy into electrical energy at milliwatt rates (plus or minus a few microjoules, anyway) with decades of mtbf

if you're willing to require manual labor to pump up the palmtop with energy, though, a pullstring can store the energy in a steel spring, which can easily hold several joules and parcel them out at milliwatt rates to an electromechanical generator, with efficiencies in the neighborhood of 90% if you care about that. maybe you could even make it reliable, but it isn't obvious how. (grossly overspecced gears on bronze oilite bushings, maybe, driving a grossly overspecced generator?) a single heavy pull on a bowstring routinely stores around 100 joules, so i think a pullstring could be competitive

a manually powered computer like this could harness more energy at night than the purely-solar-powered zorzpad can. in the daytime, though, the sun provides more energy than you can comfortably provide by hand. consider a 150×90 pocket-sized notebook; in full sunlight it's collecting 20 watts, the equivalent of that heavy bowstring pull every 5 seconds. if only 30% of the notebook is covered in solar panels and they're only 10% efficient, you're still collecting 600 milliwatts, the equivalent of that heavy bowstring pull every 2½ minutes
To hell with cross platform. Developing for windows perpetuates a harmful ecosystem. It's really no different than selling ammo to the Sineloa drug cartel.
The technical reason is that they break the end-to-end principle. In computer networking in general, it is a desirable property for an opaque message to remain opaque, and agnostic to every server and system that it passes through. This is part of what makes TCP/IP so powerful: you can send an IP packet through Ethernet or Token Ring or Wi-Fi or carrier pigeon, and it doesn't matter, it's just a bunch of bytes that get passed through by the network topology.

Protobufs generally respect this property, but required fields break it. If you have a field that is marked 'required' and then a message omitting it passes through a server with that schema, the whole message will fail to parse. Even if the schema definition on both the sender and the recipient omits the field entirely.

Consider what happens when you add a new required field to a protobuf message, which might be embedded deep in a hierarchy, and then send it through a network of heterogenous binaries. You make the change in your source repository and expect that everything in your distributed system will instantly reflect that reality.
However, binaries get pushed at different times. The sender may not have picked up the new schema, and so doesn't know to populate it. The recipient may not have picked up the new schema, and so doesn't expect to read it. Some message-bus middleware did pick up the new schema, and so the containing message which embeds your new field fails to parse, and the middleware binary crashes with an assertion failure, bringing down a lot of unrelated services too.
It's a chicken egg problem... as usual there is no right solution. China is the largest example of building transit infrastructure first, my understanding is that there are a lot of issues there, but most of them are due to how the effort was structured. On the other hand when housing is built first there is a lot of demand for transit infrastructure, but it becomes extremely hard and expensive as seen in every metro area in USA.
> Doctors, did not .. The reason, the person who discovered it was a vet.

You’re wildly incorrect, nobody involved was a vet.

Barry Marshall shared that Nobel and is a Doctor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall

Robin Warren received his M.B.B.S. an undergraduate degree focused on medical research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Warren He worked at: “SA Pathology, (formerly the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS)), is an organisation providing diagnostic and clinical pathology services throughout South Australia for the public health sector.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA_Pathology

So whatever source you read that misinformation from is not trustworthy.

> Opioids where addictive

Hindsight bias here. We don’t want medical professionals to discard new information in favor of older treatments. There’s no way doctors can on their own replicate the medical research linking Ulcers with a bacterial infection and independently judge oxycodone’s effectiveness, and a dozen other drugs etc. Extended-release (ER) oxycodone was literally a new drug and described as not having the same issues associated with other Opioids on labeling approved by the FDA.

The crazy thing is how effective this all was. Medical schools were teaching students to hand out more opioids.
Show HN: An extension for transforming website content into bilingual text
Hey HN,

I am solopreneu and I am not a native English speaker. I love scrolling technology newsletter to grab some interesting information or tools. Since my English skill doesn't allow me to find interesting things as quickly as my native language does, forcing myself to skim through English news with the idea of working on my English only frustrates me and doesn't always allow me to understand the information correctly. Then, I thought maybe an bilingual display of web content will be helpful. So here is BiRead!

I also design a learning mode on BiRead. When this mode is activated, the translation on the web page becomes blurred, leaving only the foreign language visible. The translation (e.g. your mother language) will only become clear when you hover your mouse over the blurred text. Our goal with this design is to allow learners to make the first understand through the foreign language, and then check the translation to confirm whether their understanding is correct. Just click to our page to see how it works on use cases!

BTW, BiRead also supports AI-powered translation.

I hope this extension will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback pls

Luke
Youre wrong. Python is outpacing R in usage. Every metric you can find proves it. R also has fundamental issues and lacks serious development.
Congestion pricing is cutting off the nose to spite the face.

It's dumb, but it does "stop the problem", the same way charging 5x more for petrol would, or closing all the highways into the city.... whilst also hurting a bunch of people.
Are these versions reimplemtations or like so many other apps just packaged websites? And are they full featured?
The NYT is predictable: imagine an upper-middle-class woman and her concerns, and the NYT coverage will reflect that. My wife is a subscriber and has been for years, though we live far from NY and actually have only been there once together.
> That's cool, since it eases distribution a lot, way better than Java web start or Microsoft's ClickOnce could.

One argument against Electron Apps is the existence of software like GIMP, Calibre, Blender, VLC,... which manage to be multi-platform without being built by a multi-million dollars company. And on Linux, it's very easy to get them with the package manager. Web Technologies may be a faster way to build a prototype, but it does not tend to efficient software. And I prefer not to have a hard dependency on someone's servers for my workflows [1].

[1]: I still use internet based services, but I prefer to have my data offline (music, photos, documents, books,...).
Maybe this doesn't matter but bars that I've been to (and I'm an alcoholic) never charged for watching NFL. Some, rarely, might charge for UFC. So, this is a cost that should go to the bars and not the customers. You might have a small case for UFC but even then, I think it would be so minimal. I've never seen a bar charge a cover charge for NFL... but I've seen it a handful of times for UFC.

Just my 2c.
You might be interested in what we’re building over at Evidence.dev

It’s basically RMarkdown for SQL
Neat. Too add a few: Blackmagic Davinci Resolve is a free alternative to Adobe Premiere, but limited to 1080p exports (not a big deal for most). Dia works as a partial alternative to Microsoft project. Kicad PCB is an excellent alternative to eagle. FreeCAD is a free CAD package as well.
There is no effect to the average American—at worst, they get some creepy ads from Facebook. People will not care about it until it affects them as much as something like soul-crushing medical / student debt.
If that were true then I shouldn’t be allowed to drive to a restaurant, order to go food, drive home to eat.
You're not going to get anywhere with boycotts. Write and contact decision makers/representatives, on a fairly regular basis. You might end up just screaming into the wind, but you might also make a difference. A boycott by sesame allergy suffers of companies that aren't mindful will always have zero impact.
Why is congestion pricing not going to help anyone?
In East Asia the problem is that the developments are so good, and nearly always get done with support for infrastructure that there are so many cronies in the government or with insider knowledge that can make bank off the outcome. Leads to some serious issues.

I highly, highly doubt it would be harder for those problems to happen here. In fact I think if it ever happened, it would be a huge corrupt mess.
by engines I'm assuming you mean something with a stroking piston which is going to reduce the total volume by somewhere from 4:1 to 13:1, so that's going to increase major pis increases by itself even before explosion. You don't have compression with butane into a potato gun, just the efffects of the rapid combustion. So it wouldn't really be a fair comparison.
Will you start writing one?
Not to be pedantic, but you suggested general statistics up front (how often people get away with it) then delivered anecdotes later: examples from several people.
IMO it should be 'fix anything when you feel like it.'

"Sprints" have given agile a bad name (to the extent it has a bad name, as in gp's complaint). The point is to optimize for changes, as they're inevitable, by:
1. Keep the code in a 'clean' (testable, free from cruft, etc) state continuously
2. Release continuously
3. Embrace YAGNI

If short, regular sprints help with those things, use them. But sometimes they don't
MTA finances are unsustainable if they demand bailout and try to hide it under the label of "congestion pricing".

If you look at what CP advocates say: it is all about ecology, emissions, congestion, freeing up the road for cyclists, etc.
Some people mention MTA capital projects and ADA compliance, etc.

But no CP advocate has actually and honestly told the truth: MTA is underwater, its finances, collective bargaining agreement is unsustainable, fraud is rampant, without this extra tax they will simply go bankrupt.

This is the clearest case of mismanagement and dishonest communication with the taxpayers. CP funding should go directly to the city, and any capital MTA funding should come from loans that are repayable (either via additional citywide tax/tolls/fares/City general fund/etc).

You can't keep throwing good money after bad money into this financial black hole
Yeah, cities that got big before cars aren’t designed around cars… seems like a logical result.
This is only ever a problem in hosted C and its standard library malloc and free, right? If you write freestanding C with your own memory allocator you made from scratch, then the compiler will never make such assumptions. Right?

That wheel is certainly in need of some serious reinvention anyway. This seems like a good starting point:

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/12/17/
Maryland’s constitution has a separation of powers just like the U.S. Constitution. Do you think the Maryland legislature could authorize police to give tickets and have a different police department employee decide guilt and impose fines? You could have an appeal to a real court, but they would have to give deference to the factual determinations of the police department employee and overturn them only if there was essentially no evidence in the record to support the conclusion of guilt.
It isn't just those subreddits, comments are broken all over. New threads currently are showing comments as a part of the topic API, but the actual threads then return 0 comments. I do think the influx of traffic is probably responsible though.

I'd love to know what actually happened in detail behind the scenes.
The private sector would ruthlessly fire people, cut and restructure costs. I see none of this happening.

Airlines seem to have no problem fixing their finances and their bankruptcy arguably made them only better
This hasn't played out in other cities, so I don't know why you think this.

Notably, NYC congestion pricing does not affect the highways into the city: if you take a highway into the city and stay on the highway, you won't be charged. The charge is only for entering the city grid, where the (reasonable) argument is that the transportation system is more than sufficient and the traffic, noise, and tailpipe emissions of your car do more harm to local residents than they fairly benefit you.
Wouldn't these establishments that subscribed to the service have passed on their costs to customers?

They can only do this if they have the pricing power to do so. If there are a sufficient number of sports bars relative to the number of patrons in a given area they won’t have the pricing power to do so.
I live in NYC and I don’t agree that congestion pricing would not help anyone. Also saying there are more bike lanes than real roads is just false? I’m not sure where you’re getting that. I want congestion pricing and still hope it goes through. I’m honestly surprised someone who lives in NYC believes it won’t be useful, especially since similar setups have been working in other cities.
I’ve been visiting NYC for a few weeks, so definitely and outsider, but keen to hear your take on why congestion pricing won’t work.

Because I look at your traffic and, god, it’s awful. I watched an ambulance and a fire engine get stuck behind traffic and basically grind to a halt, which seems…extremely not ideal to me.
Over decades of doing HTTP requests via command line, I think I have only seen this used once. I often see the chunk sizes, i.e., the "0" at the end. But I never see a trailer.
Wonder if they decided to return the revenue from the congestion pricing to the cities residents if they would get more support… just take the total revenue, divide it by the number of citizens, and cut everyone a check for their share. It would still reduce congestion, and would transfer money from people who drive to people who use public transit. People might support it if it meant money in their pockets.
He reads like smug sandpaper.
Those with an iOS device can make the exact same choice - to get an Android device. If I don't want Apple to be my custodian, that's the choice I have.

I don't understand why people feel the need to force Apple into a specific strategy when they are not a monopoly. They aren't the only game in town, you don't _need_ an iPhone. Every single person who has an iPhone has chosen to have that device.

Perhaps the reason people don't like the idea that if you want choice you choose the platform that gives you choice, is because Android is a steaming pile of garbage.
The idea that this is censorship is laughable. Reddit fails whenever the wind blows too hard. It isn't too much of a stretch to think one of the most anticipated presidential debates collapsed Reddit.
I agree in some regard - I do wish there were restrictions as protein bars, snacks, beef, processed chicken, etc are not healthy. But it’s different for everyone what is healthy - IE I need a ton of simple carbs for long bike rides and missing those would cause issues. Some people don’t need those though and I don’t trust consumers (or agencies) to make good decisions.
The rather incomplete list of things I've worked out I was doing with improper form in my early 20s:

- Standing

- Sitting

- Sleeping

- Exercise

- Doing Nothing

- Diet

- Working Hard

- Compliments

It is a miracle that mankind gets anything complex done given how hard the basics are in practice. People who document their findings like this are a helpful resource.
There does not seem to be widespread censorship happening among Biden-friendly news outlets:

Congress' Democrats in "state of shock" over Biden debate performance https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/house-democrats-biden-debat...

It’s time: The Democrats must replace Joe Biden with California Gov. Gavin Newsom https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article289600484.html

Ditch Biden. That Debate Performance Was a Disaster. https://newrepublic.com/article/183242/joe-biden-debate-perf...

Democrats consider the unthinkable: It’s time for Biden to go https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/27/biden-democrats-rep...

Who Won the Debate? Biden Stumbles Left Trump on Top https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/us/politics/biden-trump-d...

The NYT piece includes these quotes from Biden allies as well:

Kate Bedingfield (Mr. Biden’s former White House communications director):

“It was a really disappointing debate performance from Joe Biden. I don’t think there’s any other way to slice it. His biggest issue was to prove to the American people that he had the energy, the stamina — and he didn’t do that.”

Andrew Yang:

“Look, I debated Joe 7 times in 2020. He’s a different guy in 2024.”

Steve Schmidt (co-founder of the Lincoln Project):

“Joe Biden lost the country tonight, and will not get it back. If Trump is a threat and democracy is on the line, then Biden must step aside. His duty, oath and legacy require an act of humility and selflessness.”
The article vastly underplays how mismanaged the MTA is and how poorly the subway is run on a massive budget. It is one of the last organizations that should be receiving this level of additional revenue, regardless of any sunk costs that have been put towards congestion pricing. This whole thing has been a mess for years so why double down on it when it would punish a set of residents and commuters and have very little chance of improving things for riders?
> Smash it, don’t rub it. Rubbing your muscles mainly just increases bloodflow, which is nice, but isn’t going to break up the years of fascia and adhesions or release chronically stiff muscles. You need to smash them instead.

This is true! Years ago, as a runner, I got hit with an IT band problem. It came on quite suddenly. Lots of pain on the right side of the knee. This just wouldn't go away and put a damper on the running. Half a lame mile and I wold be out.

This zero improvement situation went on for a month. I got fed up and so I went all kung-fu on that area. I massaged it very hard and tried to wrap my fingers around the fascia and yank it really hard this way and that.

Next day, I ran for a mile. No problem! Couldn't believe it. I cut it short at that to be safe. Day after that, two miles. Then 4, 8, ... and back in the game. I never "heard from" that body part ever again.
Nobody is talking about ripping up roads. The city obviously needs roads, at the very least for the kinds of public and business services you've mentioned.

(One of the virtues of congestion pricing is that it makes obligate uses of the road better: fewer personal cars on lower Manhattan's grid means faster grocery store deliveries, fewer construction trucks double parked, faster garbage pickup, etc.).
I keep saying it and getting savaged, but as someone who lives here and doesn't own a car, it's been obvious to me that "congestion pricing" was a lot more about collecting an additional tax from residents, and a lot less about "congestion", than anyone in power was letting on. The entire thing was heavy handed and dumb, but branded just well enough to capture the passions of NYC city people who really really really hate cars (and New Jersey) and don't think too deeply about it beyond that.

The plan was structured in a way that it would affect every resident of the city via higher prices on goods and services, surcharges on delivery, taxis, construction, etc. Setting aside the issue of local residents with cars (which I could care less about), the planners refused to make sensible carve-outs for things like cargo trucks, construction vehicles, and so on. They could have done it, they just didn't. It was about maximizing revenue for the MTA, not about making sensible policy.

Maybe the fees would be small when amortized over a truck full of groceries or a tanker full of oil, but that didn't change the fact that it was a regressive tax on everyone who lives here, and taxes here are already amongst the highest in the country. This stuff adds up.
> Ideally, national (voter) ids should be free and obtainable with minimum effort.

Except they definitely won't be. See: the entire south. Election integrity can be maintained without voter IDs as evidenced by the fact that we have a couple centuries of successful elections without them. The concept exists only as a way to disenfranchise voters.
i live in nyc. i reread this twice and still don't understand what he is trying to say.
Yeah but that tiny % of healthcare spending is enough to fund a lot of other stuff. Don't get thrown off by the orders of magnitude: a small fraction of a big number is still a big number.

Imagine what $2.7B could do for transit or housing or relocating migrants or student loan debt relief or wildland firefighter pay raises or invasive species remediation. Hell, imagine what even 1% of $2.7B could do for independent journalism or the arts.
I live in NYC too, I agree that it’s a mess. But you totally lost me after that part.

> The congestion pricing is not going to help anyone

The plans for the congestion charge funding were made very clear. It would have helped transit riders across the city. I don’t see how you can sensibly claim otherwise. To pick the most direct and obvious example that I can: the MTA has announced that in light of the loss of funding they would have gotten from the congestion charge they’re cancelling plans to add accessible entrances to a whole bunch of subway stations in the city. So right there we have a group that would have been helped.

The “real people” in NYC are the ones that take public transit. They vastly, vastly outnumber car drivers (who are disproportionately wealthy). As you yourself assert the roads are a mess. There are simply too many cars for the city to accommodate.

I think it’s valid to criticize the congestion charging plan but it’s notable that no one is proposing an alternative. The current situation is clearly not tenable but everyone opposing congestion charging just shrugs their shoulders. Why? At least have the courage to suggest Robert Moses-style highways slicing the city into pieces, because that’s what it would take.
It was crystal clear that what happened in the last few hours showed to the whole world that there was no debate and no contest.

Biden did not take any cognitive tests before the show, and his incompetence was on full display on national television.

There is no mixer that can spin this catastrophe into anything positive for Biden.

He must do the right thing and admit he is not fit for another 4 years and resign after that disaster.
Huawei's Harmony aims to end China's reliance on Windows, Android