skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tesla's dog mode does this.

Dog mode is the main thing keeping me from trading in my Tesla for something else.
My local grocery store (New York City) has lots of kinder eggs always. So do some local corner stores.
This feature doesn't really make sense if you combine it with PayPal's aggressive notifications about the original transaction. If I'm being notified about a relatively large transaction, I should also be notified if it's changed or canceled.
>Wonder how many people who are up in arms about the name actually use GIMP?

literally nobody but these people with way too much time on their hands. NOBODY IS OFFENDED BY GIMP, and if you are, WHO CARES
> And there's a section where you can pick up guns and ammo while you're buying milk and eggs!

Please please, this is impossible in America. The guns aren't in the fridge!
Show HN: Panalyze, Minimal Port Scanner Written in Node.js
All BMW had to do was put an electric engine in a 3 series body. Nope. Couldn't do it.

Instead, they ditched their history, customer base and treated the EV market as a total joke: i3.
That seems.... strange.

>it hopes to "recapitalize"

That doesn't sound like they are going dark just to update the app....
The Git Up Challenge on Rollerskates
Collisions can absolutely eject debris at a higher velocity than either of the initial impactors.
An hour's bus ride (assuming you catch the schedule right) each way is pretty ruinous for someone working long hours or with kids to look after. I think it hardly counts as "local".
Or the dirty look the cashier gives you when you do weigh out your bananas, but slap the sticker on the fruit itself instead of a bag...
When I visit a foreign country I always make sure I go to a junkyard (preferably a self service one) and buy something. You tend to have very "authentic" interactions with the locals in that kind of setting. It makes for great stories that simultaneously allow you to brag to your coworkers about how "authentic" (or whatever) your tourism experience was while also making them uncomfortable. 10/10, highly recommend.
Black friend had a common first and last name. Every interaction with the police involved being held at gunpoint. He changed his last name when he got married to something unique. And now the cops don't pull guns on him anymore.

What happens to a poor sap who the facial detection system thinks looks like a known violent criminal? In the UK it means constant harassment. In the US it means eventually getting shot.
Unless the customers would have come to your site directly and maybe visited your restaurant. This smells a lot like affiliate code stuffing that some shady websites and toolbars do.
A quarter to half the thickness of a strand of human hair? That seems like an insane innovation (and difficult to produce/keep reliable in the field).
I've stopped reading the above comment after "Stopped reading after".

I've never read anything insightful and not knee-jerky coming after those words...
Look around the supermarket too.

In France, a bakery can thrive next to a supermarket because enough people mistrust the supermarket's quality.

In N. America, a supermarket opening is a death sentence for nearby food vendors.
Well, it's not cooked either and certainly it's not "oil", which the article presents as the only tolerable alternative, so there's that.
I recall being in a tiny store in Lourdes, France and seeing packets of Tim Tams for sale (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tam). It was the last thing I expected to see from home (Oz). Of course, I bought a pack and thought of home...
Sorry, super-busy and couldn’t reply earlier.

I like the idea of citizens communicating with their representatives, but that isn’t what happens when people reply to Trump, or Kamala Harris, or whomever.

We all see those replies, so the incentive is to basically spam those Tweets with stuff that people want amplified on DJT’s coattails.

I’d be delighted if Twitter hid replies from people I don’t follow, but that’s not how it works, and it’s not how they want it to work.

And in my opinion, it doesn’t work. JM2C.
How would that change the status quo for using bots? Without free speech would corporations that aren't also people just be completely disallowed from conveying information, or is there some particular law you think should be passed but is prevented by the first amendment?

Could corporations get around the restrictions you have in mind by subcontracting speech to people?
The traditional justification for the government to own utilities is because they are a natural monopoly (e.g., the sewers), not because they are utilities. We should celebrate when technological advances changing things that previously were natural monopolies into competitive markets, like satellite internet.

At the very least, this has to be be better than the terribly regulated private monopolies we see in the stagnant, captive-audience-holding cable internet industry.
Commonwealth countries that have a monarch (which is not all of them) are under different crowns held by the same person. It's a somewhat technical distinction, but it does legally matter. She is the queen of Canada and the queen of the UK, not the queen of Canada and the UK.
I dunno, was it? It starts with "Thank goodness we figured out how to press olives into oil, because eating them raw is not a pleasant option." -- which implies pressing olives into oil is the only option, and goes downhill from there.
I like to think that Bigfoot did exist at some point. There is fossil evidence of large upright walking apes in Asia (gigantopithecus) contemporary with early homo sapiens. Those creatures could have come to North America the same way humans did.
When Europeans showed up, the indigenous humans were ravaged by Old World disease. It seems logical that any contact between humans and Bigfoot would have similar consequences.
I could believe that some small populations survived long enough to inspire stories. If there are any left, I imagine they would be spread pretty thin.
In any case, there are no verified bodies to study, so we are left with our imaginations.
Except that example is a bit trivial. How about a harder example. Is it "disrespectful" to say that one of the reasons there are fewer women in engineering is because engineering simply doesn't interest women?

This is something that can't be "wondered about" out loud in some circles, including HN. I've seen threads get removed even when the comments on it seemed somewhat in good faith.
I'm in my 40s and was raised in a town that was 99% white and leaned republican. Casual racism and violently anti-gay speech was the norm.

Living today in a world of political correctness just feels like we're finally all being responsible. I haven't changed my speech or how I address people one iota. I work at a certifiably woke organization and all I see is people celebrating their cultures and treating people like people. Anyone who thinks they have to watch what they say are people who are just used to being assholes to minorities and aren't used to being judged for it.
Catching up on Westworld?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bicameral_Mind
> I wish it (had) less bicycle-like tires.

Agree completely. I absolutely love the i3 (especially the futuristic design, and the rex engineering), and was going to try to get one at some point -- until I discovered the bicycle tires.

I'm not sure it's even safe to drive on US roads with tires like that. Did BMW forget that potholes are a thing?
Only parts of the U.S. I've lived in Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, California, and Virginia, and I don't think I've ever had Good Humor. Mostly Blue Bell.
Oh come now, the industry gives you both kinds of design: “Two box” and “Three box!”
A plane makes an autonomous landing
“Tree planting will make the rest of your life feel easier.”
> Electric charge points aren’t abundant just yet.

Every wall socket is a charge point, and most people have dozens of those around their house. They're surely more abundant than petrol stations.
The problem actually affected any USB 1.1 device, not just keyboards and mice (which are almost exclusively USB 1.1). Video streams from cheap webcams were getting corrupted as well, for instance (that's how I got introduced to this bug).
> One of my favorite pastimes is listening and reading about paranormal/alien encounters and theories. I don’t believe a lick of it, but I find it entertaining to hear theories that make you question reality, if just for a moment.

The thing is, when you think about it, reality is probably much stranger than you give it credit for. All we know about reality is what we perceive and infer from those perceptions... among which is quite a bit of knowledge about how fallible our ability to perceive reality actually is. Most of what you think you know is inferred from memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and/or relayed by others, which is at least as unreliable. And the kicker is, our understanding of what reality is relies on the assumption that reality is even understandable to us in the first place, which is not a given.
The largest car-sharing company is run by a chain of parking lots, so you could say that the parking lot business is subsidizing the car-sharing business.

Anyway, I just looked up some actual prices for central Tokyo:

* Parking, 1 hour: 900 yen

* Car sharing, 1 hour: 900-1,800 yen (depending on car class)

* Cybercafe, 1 hour: 550 yen

So sitting in a car actually costs twice as much as a cybercafe
First thought that came to mind was Westworld. That's where I've first stumbled on the hypothesis.
This doesn't pass a very basic sniff test. All marginalized groups need is to be called some specific terms? This is entirely a question of terminology rather than a fight by marginalized people to achieve specific, better outcomes?

That view is so convenient that I have a hard time believing that it's right.

edited to remove a typo
Jaynes's "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" was used as a significant reference for the design of the Boeing 757 and 767 cockpits. Even though the flight decks of the two aircraft were of significantly different scales, Boeing managed to design the two so that they appeared identical to the flight crew, for example, larger windows in the 767 but further away so that they covered the exact same field of view. The goal was to, for the first time, create two quite different aircraft with identical certification so that a pilot certified in one is also certified in the other. It was successful.
It’s less the risk of them getting stuck together than it is the fact that they sound better if you don’t create that partial vacuum.
I'm 46 with a 3 year old I spend a lot of time with (21-24 hours a week). I love that time but it's a little depressing to only have 5 years of free time left.

Pretty eye opening to see it as a total number.
ya lets start a petition and protest!
> It's sort of like a modern anthropological exhibit in more ways than any other single city structure.

I seem to mainly recall the negative experiences.

In Rome, on vacation, I remember a grocery store where there were only two cashier lanes open, and long lines, and the two cashiers were facing each other, just havin' a five-minute chat about something unrelated to their work. This might have been an unusual event, since I've never lived in Italy.

In Portugal, where I lived several years, you're just out of luck. The cashiers are as slow as molasses. Also, one particular major chain seemed to have this weird occurrence of always looking ransacked and constantly being restocked during every one of their opening hours. And the "we're opening a new lane" thing wasn't "next person in current line is first in the new line". It would be a free-for-all, especially for newcomers.

In Netherlands, a major chain in Amsterdam would only take cash or a Dutch credit card. Visa/Mastercard from elsewhere were not accepted forms of payment.
Did it actually happen that way though? It’s my understanding that we don’t know (the people at those meetings are dead) and HBO/Sky made it up in a way to add drama.

Likewise with the 3 plant workers on a suicide mission to open the sluice gates, who were supposedly sent to their deaths. They’re still alive and healthy today (except one who died of non-nuclear causes).
Sometimes I worry if ISPs aren't incentivized to chose IPv6 over just having CG-NAT. Of the ISPs that are available in my area, some are doing just CG-NAT and no IPv6.
This usually does not come up until you are 45-50, so tech people tend not to know about it. I was lucky to have a teacher that warned about this in school already. Watch out for when it takes several seconds to switch between close and far focus :)
If you enjoy the time with your kid, you're probably okay :)
False negative rate seems like it would matter here as well, if it leads to people being discarded and _never_ considered.
Nuclear isn’t intrinsically expensive. Most of the cost is due to safety regulations, which in principle safer designs would need less of.
This concept was explored by the show "Westworld" (don't worry if you haven't seen it, this point isn't all that relevant to the plot). From what I can tell, this theory, like most theories of consciousness, has fallen out of favor as more materialist views take hold. But it seems like that's only because we abandoned studying a more colloquial definition of consciousness (consciousness = subjective experience) in favor of one that we can observe (consciousness = integrated information theory). It seems to me that these arent mutually exclusive, i.e. we have a physical reality that lends itself to the emergent behavior of language, and language gives us a rich inner life of experience? Or is what Im saying nonsensical, or already how people look at things?
> Marijuana is illegal, so human tracking should be illegal too.

I'm not sure I really see the connection here.
"It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius; Nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets." - Richard Dawkins

I think the theory's genius lies in its radical approach to what primitive consciousness might have been like to experience subjectively, however wildly off the mark the theory may be. That experience is likely to have been so different from the modern mind that imaginative hypotheses like Jaynes's should be welcome food for thought.
> with a 3 year old

This was my first thought. The calculator is fine, but not all free time is equal. If the kid's having a not-great night, and is _finally_ asleep by 10pm, I theoretically have an hour before I have to go to sleep, but I'm tired and realistically I'm just going to click around for awhile before going to bed. Ditto if I'm up at 6:30; I theoretically have 30 minutes, but who knows when the kid'll wake up. Maybe I have 30 minutes, maybe I have zero.

It's as if free time had a half-life.
I’m not sure i get how a theory of the human mind being divided in a master/follower model relates to designing cockpits that appear identical despite being different sized. Could you elaborate?
> I want it to look like all the other cars.

So buy a LEAF (which looks just like a Prius) or buy a Bolt (which looks just like a Spark) or an Outlander EV (which is almost identical to a regular Outlander) or an Ioniq (which looks like an Elantra) or a Kona EV (which is almost identical to a regular Kona SUV).

There are plenty of electric cars that look like traditional boring cars, if that's really the only thing holding you back.
We need integrated pop up solar car awnings that provide energy and shade. They actually make funky pop up car awnings, but a sleeker, solar option would probably take hold in hotter climates.
Thorium reactors can’t make weapons grade material. It’s just not part of the process.

Thorium is also more abundant and easier to work with. The only reason why we have an uranium/plutonium nuclear industry is because those fuels permit dual-purpose (weapons generating) designs. Now it is just industrial* inertia.

Edit: *industrial and regulatory.
I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing!
I am not familiar with nuclear technology and I do have a question: Is the technology used to make Thorium power plant very similar to that of making Uranium rode?

This question aside, I feel states can not resist the temptation to get nuclear bomb technology: It's a great equalizer for power. Looking at how North Korea was able to repeatedly get U.S to the bargaining table, I think none of the nuclear powered country would want any other country on Earth to gain such technology.
“Around their house”- key point when youre not near home.
> Yes but many such active adversarial networks prevent most traffic besides http/tls leaving the network. DoH solves this problem.

So do VPN tunnels over HTTPS/TLS.

There is also happy eyeballs. Use DNSCurve and DoH at the same time and accept whichever answers first, which will be DNSCurve whenever it isn't blocked. Then in a few years when middleboxes have given up trying to block DNSCurve because the alternative is no advantage to them, we can deprecate inefficient DoH to a strict fallback and eventually be rid of it entirely (because they couldn't block DNSCurve anymore if it was 95% of DNS traffic).
One obvious solution is to put them in an orbit low enough that they'll fall back within a few years.
> Why do you think the strongest of the strong bacteria are found in hospitals?

I presume you mean strong against antibiotics and sterilisation. The evolved bacteria are likely weaker along other dimensions (that are less important for survival in a hospital setting). Some evolution is compromises, improving X has cost Y.

Aside: the mega-plate video is an unbelievably good demonstration of bacterial evolution: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8 especially note the tree at the end showing how many different mutations evolved.
I mean duh you'd cook food for your child and not feed him/her crackers. The same goes for dogs/cats. They are family members and deserve to eat god food too.
As I understand it, fly ash can replace a fair amount of the cement, and cement production is CO2-intensive.
> I've heard that at least with the SpaceX satellites, they have full plans for decommissioning with these satellites re-entering the atmosphere.

It's not just that they have plans to do so, they're low enough that they'll de-orbit fairly quickly on their own without active control (boost from their ion engines). Something pretty strange would have to happen for them not to eventually burn up.
For every criminal found that means 4 innocent people are flagged. Hence the 80% rate.

But if there are 1 in 10,000 people which are criminals, then 5 total people out of 10,000 will be flagged. So the chance of being flagged would be 5 in 10,000 or 1 in 2,000 which would be about a .05% false positive rate overall.

I think everyone forgets about in a situation like this is the false negative rate -- or missing a flagged person. If they miss 90% of the people they flag, then the system is pretty much worthless.
The podcast “Revolutions” by Mike Duncan makes these protests a fascinating watch - are they the tipping point that causes a regime to shift, or the effort that later generations point to for inspiration if change does not happen?
A lot of the criticisms of the Jaynes hypothesis tend to surround the word “consciousness,” which Jaynes defined very precisely for the sake of his argument (internal mind space, analog I, and something else, been a while since I read origin of consciousness).

Either way I’d heavily recommend Origin of Consciousness, it’s an endlessly entertaining piece of work.
Nope, submitter posted about it on HN earlier in response to a story about hearing voices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363387
I've stopped reading altogether. Is there a Youtube tutorial?
To that point, I routinely travel to London without ID (nearest ID would be at home two hours away). Last time I went there, I just had cash, Oyster card probably not in my name (I borrow one from family if I can't find me mine), and my phone. Getting stopped and asked for ID could be a problem, and I don't feel like I should have to carry any.
Yucca Mountain was never built and the project defunded in 2011.
While there aren't any borders officially being redrawn, China is rapidly buying exclusive rights to territorial waters, ports and agricultural land from countries across SE Asia, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Australia, Africa, Argentina and more, where they operate semi-autonomously.
Yes, the march of human progress can be measured in the decrease in prices of all of the things we produce.
wow seriously..

So ancient hebrews were just writing stories about their hallucinations for no reason at all other than entertainment? Because some fragment of the hebrew canon doesn't contain language concerning introspection means that introspection doesn't exist? What do blockbuster movies then say about southern californians living in the proximity of hollywood ca 2019??

Ditto for greek mythology and all of the other pseudoscientific grasps that are made here..

If one wanted to make the argument that pre homo sapiens had this mentality, as purely a theory of cognitive development, fine, but holding on to this until the freaking bronze age and using random cultural tidbits out of context and ignoring the vast philosophical/cultural/spiritual/psychological teaching precisely related to managing ones own conciousness that these tidbits were bound up in seems more than a little bit far fetched..
PayPal allows directly adding totp now? When I added 2fa, I had to use a python script that emulates the stupid Symantec software they were using in order to get the secret; it instead gave you a code to give the Symantec app, which prevented you from using 3rd party apps.
At the personal level, I prefer to consume from and do business with Taiwan anyway. The CCP and their third-rate institutions and lapdogs have caused me considerable inconvenience, and they are completely unaccountable, so it's an easy choice.
tl;dr - C has some undefined behavior, if you plan on things working based on your experience with one compiler and one computer, you will be surprised.
Nobody wants to sell Alaska or the Louisiana Purchase again.
C programer here. I try to never think assume I know C.
It really is. The entire body is carbon fiber. We had a major hailstorm about a year back and it trashed everyone's car except mine at my office. No damage. I also had a joker run a light and clip my left-rear quarter panel - moving me about 1.5 feet in the process - also no damage.

I'm actually leasing mine and plan on buying one used. You can find them for sub-25k and quite honestly it's one of the best values EV-wise you can find.
While a lot of analog measurement tools have been replaced by digital ones, Gauge Blocks are still often used as the de facto reference(Though CMM machines[1] are becoming more and more common).

You have a 'Master Set' of expensive Gauge Blocks that you use as a definite reference. Stacks of which can be combined with various tools for various purposes.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2d-hGd_kYLc/maxresdefault.jpg
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61RhwssKaBL...
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n572qMo3g0A/maxresdefault.jpg

The 1 Inch block always seems to go missing.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate-measuring_machine
Casimir forces are probably involved- gage blocks work with flatness/separation (tens of nanometers) that is too high for intermolecular attraction (hundreds of picometers). Casimir attraction works at longer distances, but it's far from well understood. It's most likely a combination of all the common guesses, although the air pressure one is pretty weak.
There were a lot of reported issues with Qualcomm licensing for standards essential patents. In particular they weren’t necessarily abiding by FRAND rules.
The tone is insufferable, the test is beyond useless.
All you gotta do is call me Your Royal Highness.