skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Car crashes are actually the perfect example, because car fatalities aren't just a function of engineering a safe and sturdy car, and human inattention both can't be eliminated, but also isn't independent of design.

For instance, how many people ride in the car? What is the average car trip length? Why and when are people driving? Speed profiles, line of site in both car and environment. Does traffic all flow one way, can a car ever land in incoming traffic if it loses control, are traffic barriers designed to bring an out of control car safely to rest with good line of sight to the accident? Are features keeping drivers alert or distracting them?

The difference between lots of fender benders with a bit of panel beating and constant fatalities can come down to multiple causes, many outside of engineering a safe car.
These foldable phones are $2k plus. I hope they are aiming for multiple times the old life span.

The current flagships are over 1k. I’m not upgrading for the next 4years minimum.
Yes, and one can have their own subjective judgments about whether they should or shouldn't disallow certain kinds of content.

My subjective judgment is that it would be wrong for YouTube to disallow/remove antivax content, despite also personally thinking antivax rhetoric is unfounded and extremely dangerous.

But everyone's going to have their own opinion about it.
I love how your mind spiraled with this and even came to a headline of "meatless masses."
I'm ashamed to realize that despite being well aware of Pathfinder, and of Mozilla's somewhat surprising pivot toward "mixed reality", this connection had never occurred to me.
I haven't been on IRC in years but auth has been standardized no? Msg the auth bot with your authentication phrase or you get your nick changed
Jussie Smollett Story Shows Rise of Victimhood Culture
What the thread parent (bgorman) saying is that boutique desktop systems (as with any niche product) have to add significant markup. But, for computers, the target market of these manufacturers can also often build a computer themselves and avoid the huge markup.

If you sell ultra high quality waterproof headsets to audiophiles for $2500, including a $1000 markup, your customers have only the choices of A) not buying or B) paying the markup. With desktops, they get the 3rd choice of building it themselves for $1600/1700.
As a mindfulness-building experiment, I'll occasionally try writing down everything I do on a given day (before I do it). Even small things, like reading an article on hacker news, or responding to a text.

It's kind of the inverse approach to what is described in the article. I don't necessarily forbid myself from doing any smart-phone related activity. As long as I intentionally make some mental note of what I'm about to do before I do it. For some reason this seems to be more effective for me than the elimination approach.
Hm, I think we might have just misunderstood each other.

I originally thought you meant it was impossible to fix the cursor position after it was messed up. So I was just saying it _was_ possible:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputEl...

(Which _can_ be done seamlessly while the user is typing.)

So everything since then felt like moving the goalposts. But I think in the end that was just a misinterpretation.

I mean, I do also disagree that it's impossible to do well, but in hindsight that's not really something I want to argue about further.
Even the chat application mentioned previously could be viewed as (and implemented as) "documents with forms". This oversimplification doesn't help us much. It's the powerful, real-time interactivity that javascript provides that is being debated here.
This is perhaps the most compelling reason to get that phone. Once it launches, I'll be watching reviews to see if it's usable as a phone.

It's a really exciting project and I hope other phone manufacturers integrate some of those ideas.
Mattermark has relaunched as an independent company
Your analysis is good but there is one element you're missing: chargebacks. People who accept a lot of donations get hit with chargebacks from time to time and they can be so difficult to deal with that they actually cost the recipient money.

This is a common complaint among people who take donations for a living, such as Twitch streamers. If you ask any streamer, they will tell you they prefer Twitch "bits" over any one-off donation specifically because bits are non-refundable.

Unfortunately, there are people out there who go around donating and then doing a chargeback just to troll streamers they don't like. It's a really frustrating element of the system which happens to be set up to prefer the customer over the vendor in all disputes, making it ripe for abuse.
You must have an old BlackBerry, because new ones are just like any other Android phone.
I mean, if this thing replaces a high-end phone and a high-end tablet, the price is about right. Still, pricey.
> Nobody is thrown in jail ever for a airplane failure analysis

...in the United States. I definitely recall watching multiple episodes of Air Disasters [1] where surviving pilots in crashes in other countries that killed passengers went to jail for things that in the US would have at most resulted in a suspended license and demotion or termination from their airline.

For example, Air France Flight 296 in 1988. Another example is Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 in 2006 in Brazil.

[1] AKA Air Emergency, Mayday, or Air Crash Investigation, depending on what country you watch in and what channel it is on.
A number of reasons. First, you may end-up paying some middle-man twice. Second, you may have to declare any donations as income and be taxed for them (more paperwork for you). Third, in order to reclaim the tax you paid for the donations, you will probably have to distribute them to charities within your (already rich) country.
Funnily enough, it's the more expensive casual restaurant chain burgers that tend to contain textured soy protein and other things. Fast food is pretty much always 100% beef as others have pointed out.
Many individual nations have simultaneously reduced total fossil fuel generation while increasing renewable use. At least in some places in the world, replacing is probably the right word.
>I also predict that meat substitutes, if made cheaper than meat, will be deemed inferior in quality (cheap = inferior, because psychology) and reserved for those who cannot afford real meat (the "meatless masses").

I think there will be such a period, but eventually it'll swap.

Both because more affluent people will tend to be more pro-animal welfare and so synthetic meat will be more associated with the successful, and because eventually (probably distant future, but who knows) all the meat substitutes will just taste better than real meat and anyone who's ever had a meal won't be able to deny the reality.
QBasic on FreeDOS running in an emulator on a RaspberryPi?
Gcc 3.3 and before had one, but they decided to write one by hand going forward. I don't think it's reasonable to do so without keeping context.
Needs 2013 tag.
Good luck getting beef and pork off my table
Airplanes have software. It works very well without bugs. Because that is what is demanded in the aviation industry.
For Insert/update/delete, that makes sense.

However, many times it makes sense to just do the join in the database rather than make an n^2 join in user space. This becomes problematic in collection cases - 100 cases belonging to 70 users. It's a quick left hand join but a slowdown in application space.
> It's a shame that thinkpads are becoming less and less modular and functional.

The new T490/T490s/T590 ThinkPads are even worse in terms of upgradability.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T490s-T490-T59...

> It seems that Lenovo prioritized sleeker designs over flexibility with the newest T ThinkPads, as the manufacturer is making some rather drastic changes to the internals and ports of the new models. Features like the SD card slot (replaced with MicroSD) or full-size RJ45-Ethernet on the T490s are getting the axe, the same is true for the 2.5 inch storage bay on the T490 and T590. Also, Lenovo is relying more on soldered RAM than before. The ThinkPad T490s has a maximum of 32 GB of soldered RAM, while the T490 and the T590 both have up to 16 GB of soldered RAM plus a single DDR4 RAM slot (up to 48 GB RAM in total). All of those changes will likely result in some fierce discussions among the ThinkPad fans.
It's one of the better electron apps I've used. I also like to avoid them (actually you can just run the website in a browser), but "open source" definitely is far in front of "doesn't use electron/any web tech" in my list of priorities.
The pay is good but working conditions?
Looks really cool, I can imagine re-purposing it as a general purpose remote for my custom hardware. Very nice looking interface, and I use the ESP32 on the other ends usually anyway!

What is involved in doing something like writing an "app" that would run on the device and send wifi commands out? Am I looking at low level C++ to interface with a LCD, or is this all in a nice API?

How do you connect an API for a smartphone to an Arduino? I assume the phone part is running on the second core, does it have a lot of cycles leftover?
I didn't say all fish taste the same. But I maintain that once you have decided to stop eating meat, it becomes more fun to experiment with different textures of meat substitutes once you consider carefully how different meats are vs how we imagine meats to be.

FWIW I grew up in Japan and live in New England. I know from fish. Good fish is hard to substitute but it can be done, e.g. Sichuan food is great with the fake stuff. But most fish eaten in America is in fact bland and rubbery (most of it is eaten at places like Red Lobster).

PG's essay is about companies inventing the perfect tuna steak substitute. My point is you can use a lot of existing substitutes, in the right dishes.
Yeah. I think a lot of people have that issue.

I have read about and understood a lot of physicalist theories of consciousness, but I have yet to see one that explains my subjective bubble of experience. I could see how this is all an illusion, but I can't see why I can perceive it then, why I have these vivid subjective experiences.

Conciousness is really quite odd, especially because I realized that most of the important functions in the brain are unconcious.

I don't find dualism satisfying either; it is not a testable theory.
Indeed. I don't want to sound flippant as obviously a lot of hard work has gone into this but I would have thought that a lisp and a parser should be able to achieve the same no?

Some even come with Turing Complete type systems and prolog subsystems. http://www.shenlanguage.org/
Why would you run a database on NFS?
What about PEGs? You can get the benefits of writing down a grammar that you can analyze yourself, and you can call methods on the production results, etc.
> Let it fail all the way away.

Given that just about everyone here recognizes the bad faith shown by ICANN on this issue, it seems to be an act of desperation on their part. Why? They've invested a lot into DNSSEC and are emotionally wrapped up in it, despite better alternatives. And maybe more importantly, if you consider DNS an asset, then its value rises by stuffing more "value" into it such as key escrow. Therefore DNS's principal holders (ICANN, TLDs) would see their asset depreciate if DNSSEC fizzles and dies.
I think the author was approaching it from a sense of “what do I need to make a certain drink” rather than “how do these drinks actually differ?” The “edit” in this case is going out and buying a bottle of something. In that sense, it makes sense to say that if you want a whiskey on the rocks, and you have the ingredients for a vodka martini, the “edit distance” represents “you don’t need that vodka and vermouth- you do need to go buy whiskey”.

Which seems obvious, but the idea is to apply it to less-obvious drinks: if I have a fairly well-stocked bar, should I buy Angostura bitters or créme de violette to maximize the range of things I can make?

(I’ll admit, the author kinda buried the lede, but I think that was their idea.)
So it says all over the site that it says it's open source, but I can't find a link to the source code.

Why are there embedded Facebook and Google tracking scripts in your site about a supposedly privacy-focused phone?

The website doesn't the website have https.

I see a lot of claims of privacy focused and openness on this page, but not a lot to back those claims up.

EDIT: So I guess the source code isn't available, so I'll have to ask here: how are phone calls on this oh-so-privacy-focsed phone secured? It says VoIP, does that mean it's SIP? Does the SIP use TLS? Is the TLS verified? is the media encrypted? Is it end-to-end encrypted? What encryption is used?
> makes HD voice calls, for free, over WiFi

What SIP gateway are they using for free, that doesn't track you or monetize your metadata somehow?

I can't find any info on the page.
You hear the same kind of thing about atheists. Consider that the few outspoken individuals you meet who are like this are rare and most people in that group are just quietly trying to live their lives. They're not seeking an argument or your approval, and you aren't even aware of most of the people you know who fit into that group. So your known encounters with that group are rare, and you carry your own personal bias, so any negative experience is magnified.
>There but for the grace of God go I

I like to entertain the idea that humans are the host of a species of sentient alien bacteria that lives in our guts and controls us through the vagus nerve and uses humans to build technology to advance to the point where they can build space ships to colonize other planets. Could make a good sci-fi book if anything...
This is effectively Max Tegemark’s TOE, the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypoth...

Tegmark's MUH is: Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.[3] That is, the physical universe is not merely described by mathematics, but is mathematics (specifically, a mathematical structure). Mathematical existence equals physical existence, and all structures that exist mathematically exist physically as well. Observers, including humans, are "self-aware substructures (SASs)". In any mathematical structure complex enough to contain such substructures, they "will subjectively perceive themselves as existing in a physically 'real' world".[4]
> If you need an always-connected phone capable of making calls from the side of the road or wherever you happen to be, WiPhone is not that phone. However, if you're like most of us, 80% or more of your time is spent near accessable WiFi.

So this looks like a VoIP phone? I can't see myself using this, since I still need my phone to work the other 20% of the time…
Ask HN: When was the last time you were surprised by something with a low price?
Have you ever bought a product or use a service that is "cheap" (ie very low priced) but is reliable and better than a higher priced alternatives?

For example: computer mouse, car, hosting provider, a food brand, etc.
At risk of sparking an ethics debate, why do most people who turn vegetarian out of conscientiousness seem to very disproportionately do it for environmental reasons?

I mean, on one hand, it makes complete rational sense, because it's self/species-interest: reduced meat consumption should decrease the effects of global warming and other issues, and you want a world that you and future generations of people can safely and healthily live in. I get it.

But are you then still not doing it for selfish reasons, or at least species-selfish reasons? If hypothetically some new technology could suck all of the excess carbon out of the atmosphere and replant things and otherwise 100% negate all of the environmental effects of all the different kinds of meat production, would you and other vegetarians with similar motivations no longer feel any reason, or ethical obligation, to be vegetarian?
Same for Apple. Just add a root authority and you can even decrypt iCloud traffic.
> Expecting developers to rewrite everything in Erlang is nuts.

...But I never said that?

You are correct on your points and I don't disagree. Golang is certainly a much better choice than Bash indeed. You are also correct on developer willingness to work with Golang.

I am aware that K8s and Erlang/OTP are apples to oranges comparison; they serve different needs. Whereas Erlang's runtime (the BEAM VM) can give you fault-tolerance, K8s tries to do roughly the same on a higher level - it tries to give you throwaway containers that can be switched off and on at any time.

As I mentioned in my parent comment, I admire their work.

What my point was that if you squint your eyes hard, it kind of looks like K8s wants to invent Erlang/OTP for infrastructure (as opposed to Erlang/OTP which gives its guarantees per node).
> Even there an argument could be made that humane husbandry is positive-utility rather than the neutral of lab-grown, while also coming out ahead environmentally.

Can that be true? Animals from U.S. factory farms generate >1 million tons of manure per day (open-air lagoons of animal waste are a special treat) and are responsible for an impressive percentage of methane emissions.
Does it have snake?
Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Ch. Info
I've had relatives drinking negroni for decades, but I had never heard of those variations - thanks for the tip.

As I know them, these are the classic variations of negroni:

- sbagliato: prosecco instead of gin

- Americano: soda instead of gin

- bicicletta: white wine instead of Martini; soda instead of gin

Of course, there's also the spritz - prosecco, Aperol, and soda. The Aperol can be swapped with Campari or amaro to your taste.

One more random tidbit regarding Italian liquors - the traditional after dinner drink in Italy is an amaro. It's both quite strong (~40% alc) and quite sweet - almost syrupy. The name comes from the bitter herbs that give it its flavor/aroma. ("Amaro" literally means "bitter.") Amaro is served in a shot glass, but sipped like a bourbon.

Each village/region makes its own amaro, with its own blend of herbs. For instance, Braulio is a minty amaro that comes from Bormio, a mountain town in the Alps. Over the past few years, it's become much easier to find amari in the US. We even have some varietals that my Italian friends don't know. (In Italy, Nonino is a grapa, not an amaro.)

You have probably heard of amaretto - the almond liqueur. Its name means "little amaro." The most well-known brand is Disaronno. Saronno is a town near the Milan airport. Disaronno is "di Saronno," the amaro from the town of Saronno.
The target market niche for meat substitutes is very plainly not former vegetarians who don’t like the taste of meat.
From what I understand there are a number of reasons.

One of them is that domestic oil and gas production was on the decline until the tech for horizontal drilling and fracking started the shale boom of the last 10-12 years. Combined with demographics (big boomer generation, small generation X, big millennial generation) this means you have to find and train all these millennials who probably had other plans. And then, I'm told, the highly cyclical dynamics of the industry make any kind of long-term investment difficult, so there's high overhead for a labor market that still relies on fax machines.

If you're macro-minded and you want policies that keep that labor price high so alternative energy becomes more attractive, something like the Green New Deal is probably a good bet.
Terrible article.

Bad things done by Nvidia is Linux problem? Adobe stopped developing flash for Linux is also Linux problem? Linux is "a lot less" secure than windows because updates are not forced like in windows? I can't this person seriously.
What tastes good is salt, pepper, butter, thyme, dijon mustard, not to mention garlic, root vegetables, and more salt. I eat chicken, I have enjoyed it - all I'm saying is I've learned that going without chicken is doable, not by abstaining but by substituting.

It's not apples-to-apples. Chicken tastes different than something that is not chicken. Having experienced both, I really prefer the not chicken.
Maybe it won't do much for you, but for people like me whose governments actively try everything from DNS Cache poisoning to HTTP/HTML injection to censor the internet—DNSSEC would be amazing.
The safety cultures of agencies like the FAA, NTSB and international counterparts such as the EU's EASA is amazing, but not without its downsides.

Certification costs have been going up as a portion of overall development costs[1], this leads to more expensive planes, less competition and technological development.

There's some amount of safety that's counterproductive, since people will just opt for e.g. driving which is much less safer, but the way these agencies are set up means they can't ever address that question. They're never going to declare a system as unreasonably too safe and expensive.

So we really should be careful to wish that aviation safety be applied to other industries.

1. https://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/what-certificat...
I think he's confusion consciousness for self awareness. That's not the hard problem that needs solving, it's actually one of the easy problems.
And what "HD" codec are they using?
In the FAQ, under the Technical section it says:

> Q: Where can I download the code?

> Probably Github. After we ship the rewards.

So, unfortunately, it looks like it'll only be open-sourced after it ships.
Yeah it’s pretty disappointing since an LTE module is cheaper than ever.
I wonder what the chances of Apple jumping on bendable phones is. Apple has transformed into a company that lags in innovation and only makes safe moves. I wonder how long it will take for bendable to become “safe”.
I don't think it'll be released until the phone is.
Agreed, and Purism should have used Plasma Mobile as well, instead of reinventing the wheel for Librem 5.
I only eat DNA-free.
Thanks! Yes, one of the major design motivations wasn't so much to make a phone, but to make a nicely packaged device hackers can use at the hardware level for other purposes (we are practically locked out of modern phones for a variety of reasons).

Apps: The end goal is to embed a Python interpreter in the firmware, and then it would be a matter of interacting with an API in Python. Right now it's C++.

I'm not sure what you mean by "connect an API for a smartphone to an Arduino". Do you mean: What does the plumbing look like between the code that calls the API and some physical pin?
https://github.com/ESP32-WiPhone only has the keypad as open source.
Maybe their display yeilds are a lot lower.