skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The in-dash systems these days do a lot more than they used to. Mine (VW Atlas) has 50% of the temperature control, all vehicle settings, etc baked in. All could theoretically be maintained and upgraded, but these are not really separable from the car itself.

I like the idea of them being upgradable, but it would seem to depend on more software and API discipline than I imagine VW or any the other manufacturers being interested in.

Relatedly, the lifecycle of a lease is much closer to a phone, so for owners of the 30%[1] of cars out there that are leased, the upgrade cycle will presumably keep them "up to date". If the car manufacturers are pushing us more towards away from ownership (analogous to phones, software, etc.) then there is little incentive for them to make significant investments in upgrade-ability. And like legacy phone hardware companies, they are too busy preparing new phones to give much love to upgrading older ones.

[1] https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/buying-vs-leasing
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Exactly. My 4 year old sometimes surprises me like that. Last week she asked me how you can talk into a mobile phone. So I said, there's a tiny transmitter in there, and it sends the voice over waves in the air. So she's like, "OK" and I thought it went over her head.

Then yesterday she asked: "Why couldn't you call gramps when we were on the plane?" I told her that the mobile phone wasn't close enough to the receivers on the ground.

It amazed me that obviously some facts had been stewing for a week in that tiny head. And out comes another question.
There's also a healthy way to eat arsenic - in moderation - about 12.5 μg/day
Well it is free so people have freedom to edit and have a repository of free software without jokes. But nobody has right to demand what goes to someone else's repository.

If glibc maintainers choose to make their own repository which Stallman has has no right demand anything they are free to do so. And then it becomes distributors freedom to choose who's repository they prefer.
Do know what kind of things are required for the job, what technologies (actual names of stack, not concepts) the candidate would work on. If asked, let the candidate talk to the hiring manager of the team to see if they're a good fit. (this is usually done last, but I find it to be one of the most important parts)
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These were 16 and 32mm film documentaries, commissioned by public and private enterprises in the 1960s and earlier. They were used by the BBC as 'trade' test transmission broadcasts during the commissioning of new broadcast services.

I watched almost all of them as a child. The story of plastic, and paint, and oil exploration are probably my favourites but the one about constructing Liverpool cathedral is pretty good and most people who watched these love 'to build a car' and 'Giuseppina'

You have to forgive the quality and age. They are artifacts of their time.
Another question- how do you comply with GDPR and do that? What if a black hat sends you a SAR request?
No, more like 15-20%. If you're getting 10%, you're being ripped off.
United could burn luggage for fuel. They're gonna lose it anyway.
These days, there's also:

https://github.com/erkin/ponysay

My latest find is to use a combination of weechat and wee-slack for most of my slack usage (it's note quite there when it comes to editing, or in-line reactions). But works well for the chat part:

https://weechat.org/

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack

As a former BitchX and sometime irssi user, weechat feel cozy. And it doesn't eat all your ram just for chat.
Anecdotal, and also not true.
I don’t like that many of the climate articles are just alarming and not actionable. So now what? Naming alternatives would be good. Don’t travel ever again? Travel locally? Hitchhike?
I think tptacek's implicit point is this: all the problems you're trying to address with the tools listed are the problems you shouldn't be having in the first place, so, to quote, "focus on removing attack surface, rather than continuously monitoring it".
US life expectancy was 8 years less in 1970. There are lots of things that can do you in that people kind of put up with.
How is designing for blockchain different from designing for fintech?
That's not even a North America only thing, as far as I know the format mm-%R/D" (175-65R14) is used universal. Of course only vintage cars have diagonal tires now so you will probably not see a tire with D
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The history is a little more interesting than that:

> Lumber's nominal dimensions are larger than the actual standard dimensions of finished lumber. Historically, the nominal dimensions were the size of the green (not dried), rough (unfinished) boards that eventually became smaller finished lumber through drying and planing (to smooth the wood). Today, the standards specify the final finished dimensions and the mill cuts the logs to whatever size it needs to achieve those final dimensions. Typically, that rough cut is smaller than the nominal dimensions because modern technology makes it possible and it uses the logs more efficiently. For example, a "2×4" board historically started out as a green, rough board actually 2 by 4 inches (51 mm × 102 mm). After drying and planing, it would be smaller, by a nonstandard amount. Today, a "2×4" board starts out as something smaller than 2 inches by 4 inches and not specified by standards, and after drying and planing is reliably 1½ by 3½ inches (38 mm × 89 mm).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber#North_American_softwood...
Like a 4.5" so-called six inch sandwich at Subway.
It seems like smart carbon to generate if you're gathering people who can help solve the problem.
I didn't take the Udacity ML Nanodegree, though I did do the Deep Learning Nanodegree.

I found it to be disappointing especially since they had hyped the collaboration with Siraj, which was nothing more than linking to certain YouTube videos.

The project feedback was sometimes helpful. I felt like most of the time though, the feedback was "you did this wrong, read this article" instead of something more personal like an elaborate explanation on why you should do things a certain way. I even once explained why I initialized a model a certain way and the reviewer ignored it when critiquing my model, which almost felt like "all students have to do it this way."

It wasn't all bad. My favorite parts were learning about GAN's with videos and a notebook from Goodfellow. And when I was trying to build more intuition about CNN's, the videos with Vincent Vanhoucke were helpful.

But altogether I felt a little disappointed in the actual projects. Maybe it was because I felt like the math was glossed over and it was too many topics with shallow exploration for a single course. I actually wished that Udacity offered a single course for say, CNN's and GAN's, going very deep into the math and processes behind them.

I'm taking another Udacity course taught by Thrun (this time, it's free) and again, he kind of glosses over why certain mathematical operations are done, at which point I spent a lot of time watching lectures by other professors who spent more time explaining it.

I think that's my biggest criticism about MOOC's in general, they can be very hand-wavy about very important concepts that underly a process. I've spent a great deal of time reading papers and course material from other colleges, writing throw away code, and watching videos from other profs in order to shore up an intuition that was simply not strongly built by the MOOC.
Do we know what she was looking at? I haven't read anything conclusive of that.

What would the driver have been convicted of? Would you be willing to get second opinions from prosecutors in your state as to whether or not they would have persued a conviction of that crime?
The level of depth of knowledge and research was at least 0.5x that of your day job? :)

Genuinely curious about how hard the book was to write/research.
> Where they meet is the equilibrium.

You're not answering the question, just tautologically rephrasing it.
Totally. I'm a bit shocked how effective this is. For years the sight of a torx or rarer socket would stop me from even thinking about opening a device. I don't know if it was impossible to find before but today you can buy most heads easily. And when you think about it, it's just a damn contact surface for a lever.. don't stop (unless there's a real safety hazard)
WiFi or USB now, IIRC.
I still don't buy it.

That said, I sincerely wish you prove me wrong and pull it off.

It's a huge risk and certainly deserves to be rewarded.
1) Traveling is one of biggest value for money you could buy.

2) Sibling comment mentions traveling more, but not on plane. Some careers could afford that, I guess. Business owner can have a vacation, return after a year and continue where he left. But simple math and reason says we cannot all be in this priveleged position
Unless you use LISP sockets
It is well know that first-born are more risk averse than not-first-born when adults (e.g., they buy more insurances).

See references here: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5802/do-first-b...
> in general /tmp is not suitable for such inter-process communication.

Yeah, it is not like X11 uses it for precisely that purpose or anything. ^_^
I wouldn't specify mp3, unless you need to support legacy/device playback - there are often better audio versions available (ogg, aac etc).
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I’ll echo this from the position of having been one of the direct reports under a person like this. He was eventually fired and replaced by the board, but not before costing us months pursuing what everyone knew was the wrong strategy, and costing us three excellent people who had enough and quit.

It’ll likely be painful and messy, but the best thing you can do is force him out in some way.
No, tptacek just doesn't give proper answers here because he thinks he can afford it with his status here. He could have just left links to further links/literature.
> That's cute and all, it's just not how human psychology works. There are endless examples of this, from the pettiest thieves to the biggest mass murderers.

This argument fails on both moral and statistical grounds: most people are not petty thieves or mass murderers nor should we accept that "getting away with it" is an acceptable basis for human behavior.
Nobody is saying you can't choose things for yourself. Where did you interpret that?

It's not about ad-based revenue. Every single company relies on marketing for success, and so the economy is tied to advertising. There's a reason that some of the largest companies in the world are advertising businesses. People are also bad at judging value and dont/wont pay for things like news. Like I said before, plenty of publications sell subscriptions but HN threads still whine incessantly about paywalls, while also ignoring how many people can't afford to pay but would still like access.

Also, adblockers are not really a big deal, there are plenty of ways around them, especially if you want the content, and you're at best blocking about 10% of the advertising that's reaching you anyway.
Maybe this is all not such a bad thing. The worst case scenario is a mass extinction that kills off large animals, clearing the way for whatever is next, not unlike the Cambrian explosion. We elected Donald J Trump. We (large animals at the top of the food chain) kind of deserve what's coming to us.
The tune in the first video at about 1:14 is indeed used in Jewish synogogues. Particularly those of Middle Eastern / North African Jewish communities.

As this video demonstrates:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lGh2hfk8NvY
> this same argument could be used again any improvement in poverty

UBI is particularly susceptible because it is a one-time universal increase in income. The increaes is very predictable by landlords and housing sellers.

> If this is the wrong direction, should we make opposite changes - concentrate wealth in fewer hands?

Means-tested welfare, minincome, negative tax, minimum wage increases - all these are better than UBI. UBI needs to die as a meme.

> in general it is not the case that prices would rise to consume all citizens' disposable income

I believe that this is the case under UBI. Based just on housing alone! Even minimum wage increases are subverted by price rises. UBI would be costly and have minimal positive impact with the possibility of massive negative impact. It is the worst of all worlds.

People need to understand that there are two UBIs -
- Right wing UBI where welfare is liquidated and the proceeds distributed (to the tune of $8k/yr) -> increased income inequality, medieval levels of poverty
- Democratic UBI where $24k is given to all and sundry funded by taxes on high income individuals and corporations + printing money -> hyperinflation, economic collapse

Neither of these are futures that we want. Please consider alternatives.
I think it's less about complexity and more about precision. A simple law can be extremely difficult to encode if it lacks specification.
> said it retained Christopher Hart

Ah I see, you're talking about "hiring" as in paying a retainer fee. I thought you were saying he was hired as a full time employee, my apologies.

Assuming Reuters' wording is accurate, that actually seems fairly reasonable and in line with how I understood it.
Not our children though
I've read multiple times on HN that Amazon isn't doing very well in other countries (like US, Canada, Argentina, etc.) and that Prime is super expensive as well.

In India, Amazon is so good its hard to imagine how it will be sustainable. I paid $8/year for prime (yes a year) and they're now selling it at $16/year for free 24 hours delivery.

However, I can foresee how it may not be as good in the near future. Try buying a pair of Apple Airpods and one soon figures AMZN is not best place to make the purchase, it's so hard to tell which seller / product is genuine!
Now here's a "blockchain" example which could have been useful, but it's just another "coin" and a lot of hype.[1]
The idea is to have a DRM system for assets in virtual worlds, which might be useful if VR ever gets anywhere.

When I heard about this, I thought, "they're going to use this to make assets portable". A game/VR/virtual world asset is basically a file, which has to be decrypted to be useful. It has a creator, who owns the IP rights, and an owner, who owns the copy. Currently, such property is slaved to a single game/VR/virtual world, and the owner can't move it to another one.

Think of a user A wanting to move an encrypted graphical asset created by creator B from Facebook Places to Apple's VR world. Creator B has to approve of portability between the two worlds, and user A has to request the transfer, but Facebook Places has no say, because they don't own the asset.

Now that's what I thought High Fidelity was doing. Nah. It's just another token with a complex backstory that doesn't do much. They're talking about a way for creators to prove ownership. All you need for that is a cryptographic time-stamping service. Those already exist. When you create something, you take the hash of it and get that time-stamped. Now you can show priority. No blockchain needed.

[1] https://blog.highfidelity.com/tagged/blockchain
Yeah I'm familiar with groff et al. I used to get this issue on old UNIX boxes but not seen it in any of the Linux distros I use daily (not Freebase).

The other thing worth trying is seeing whether your locals are set correctly and/or set the GROFF_TYPESETTER environment variable. Though this might only by GNU specific. Or just redirect the output (as suggested by the other reply) which is how I used to get around the issue on SunOS at least.
Yeah I meant 2 Thessalonians. The context is the whole of chapter 3 verses 6 through 15. Basically the Apostle Paul is writing to the church in Thessalonica with advice on how to make the communal lifestyle there work. Because if everyone is living together and working together, you're bound to have some issues with some people taking advantage of that. So the Apostle is saying, first of all, set a good example, and secondly, go ahead and exercise some discipline in the community.

Verse 15 hints at how you might want to interpret these verses as compared to the references you cited: "Do not regard them as enemies, but warn them as believers." You see, a Christian has rather different conduct when he is dealing with a believer or a non-believer. If someone is your brother in Christ, it's ok to be a little hard on him. Same way you have the right to be a little harder on your own family members than I would. It's all supposed to be done in love, of course.

Hope that helps.
That must be Julia Evans, she's awesome! https://twitter.com/b0rk
You still need to worry about the domain, in general there are plenty of real valued discontinuous linear functions (or functionals) from an infinite dimensional Banach space to R.

In finite dimension however linear functions are continuous
someone who is a role model

But is he? Who considers rms as a role model generally? Barely anyone even knows his positions on anything other than software, and those are often derided. And that's on HN, where he's actually known. My colleagues wouldn't even know his name.
IMHO, the Phillips head is pure evil and persists mostly because it’s one of the best ways to cause consumer-induced early obsolescence in any product that requires assembly by the end-consumer. It’s a huge unspoken conspiracy in the manufacturing world: “You supply Phillips screws. I supply Phillips screws. Everybody supplies Phillips screws. Everybody stays happy (except the consumers).”

“You stripped the screw head because you didn’t apply enough pressure.” O’RLY?

I wish governments would gradually outlaw Phillips. And I predict that the EU will be the pioneers in doing this.

I’m half kidding and half ranting.
Interesting quote.
XAML never went away.

WPF is still pretty much alive in applications that need to target Windows 7 and lower.
"may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services"
This is a bit broad though isn't it? They could argue they can use any code you enter into VSCode without paying you.
Google does not just drop enterprise products and services. They definitely have a problem with consumer (messaging) apps, but that's completely different.
It's fine if the article does not have any actionable items. It's fine for an article to just be informative.

Reduce international tourism? Sounds completely fine as a potential solution. We survived for 99.99% of our species' and civilization's lifetime without it.
> No countries win the gold-geography lottery (Your country that has no gold reserves can still accumulate)

> You can use latent renewable energy to mine bitcoin (the way that miners remain profitable is by using cheap hydro power that would be wasted if not consumed) No need to blow up mountains to sift for gold.

... you do realize that this is a contradiction, right?

i mean yeah, its technically no longer a literal gold mine, but renewable energy sources where you can place power plants such as your mentioned hydro power aren't that abundant.
I use logwatch. It gives a large informative report every day. Mostly it shows me that fail2ban and my secure configuration are doing what they are supposed to do.
I'm sorry but that is splitting hairs. The comment used a name but it was not name calling, it was the core of his argument. He was being relatively civil, it's clear from the comment. And are you really going to delete someone's comment because you think it's engaging in a straw man argument? Can't the other commenter defend himself?

Sorry I think you sometimes get too heavy handed around here.
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Good advice on how to stop procrastinating
Just out of curiosity: Bombardier C-Series?

For what it's worth. As a passenger it's my preferred ride on short and medium distances.
Are you serious about these links as examples of nice things that Amazon has open sourced? Most of the projects there are development kits to work with Amazon products only.
You can’t do anything about problems you don’t know exist, and you can’t prioritize systematically without some understanding of where the bottlenecks are.

There’s no problem if some researchers exclusively focus their time on discovering and describing problems. Someone else can explore possible solutions. Someone else can try to plan/develop an implementation of each of those. Someone else can work on political advocacy to build support for one or another solution. Etc.

It seems you have already brainstormed a few personal steps you could take to combat this problem at an individual level. But that isn’t going to cut it at a societal level.

For that we probably need some combination of (a) less carbon-intensive but still convenient modes of transportation, (b) globally implemented carbon taxes [or the like] which force consumers to confront the true costs of their consumption, including plane flights, (c) large-scale public education campaigning, possibly including discouraging the public from traveling halfway around the world multiple times per year, etc.
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I wonder how overlanding compares to flying for carbon emissions.

Next year, I plan on overlanding from Bali to London, possibly kicking on to New York and then the West Coast of the USA or Canada, depending on how much money I have and spend on the way.

It would be interesting to see how that compares to flying for carbon emissions.

Now I'm interested, so lets crunch some numbers:

The drive from Bali to London is roughly 18,000 km (Bali -> Bangkok -> Hanoi -> Beijing -> Ulan Bator -> Moscow -> London). Using numbers from a spreadsheet I found [1], a bus emits roughly 27 grams of CO2 per passenger km. So the bus trip is 490 kg of CO2.

Flying emits 280 grams of CO2 per passenger km (from the same spreadsheet), the flight is about 13,000 km (DPS-KUL-LHR). That's 3600 kg of CO2 emitted. Clearly I'm saving the planet by taking the bus.

However, it takes time to drive from Bali to London, and just existing causes CO2 emissions. According to Rome2Rio [2] it's almost 7 days (168 hours) of non-stop travel. Let's assume 12 hours of travel a day, because we aren't complete masochists, that's 14 days of traveling. The Rome2Rio route does include trains, but let's imagine that it's busses all the way and they're magically as fast as a train (which they are certainly not).

Apparently as a New Zealander I emit somewhere around 10 tonnes of CO2 per year [3], let's imagine that I continue emitting that much while travelling through the developing world. That's 27 kg per day. For 14 days that's 380 kg. So the total emissions from overlanding from Bali to London is roughly 870 kg of CO2, or around a quarter that of flying.

So, in summary: If you have too much time on your hands and want to save the world, don't fly, take a bus. Of course, it will probably take me closer to 3 months than 14 days to get from Bali to London, which would clearly tip the balance in favour of flying, but the trip isn't about getting from A to B, but getting from A to Z and visiting the 24 letters in between, to terribly paraphrase Grace Slick.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02...

[2] https://www.rome2rio.com/trip/sbcgbmie

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02...
So is carbon offsetting really a thing, or not? If it is, well, these sites that tell you how much to give based on flight length say it is really cheap. So just make offsetting mandatory. The end.
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