skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because those documents were from 2018 and nothing came out of it after Tesla responded with data and "facts" provided by NHTSA themselves.
> owned by the creators of the largest social network in Russia

Another way to describe them is people who lost the largest social network in Russia and are now Russian expats and dissidents.

> Signal, open source [...] With founders that are known to care about organizational transparency and user privacy.

Not open source, only partly, just like Telegram. And founders are known to have a radical position on trading privacy for centralizing as much control over the app as they can, tying identity to phone numbers, etc. They have exactly as much control over the app as Telegram has. But they are not dissidents or expats and who knows what they are going to do or did with covert or overt government backdooring attempts. Still, despite all the flaws both Signal and Telegram are in a bit better situation wrt privacy than Facebook owned Whatsapp, being in a business of compromising privacy and all.
> Not to mention that this type of app is treating people as incapable of following directions

Seems like a legit solution to the common problem of people standing around trying to work out which direction they're actually pointing.
As you subdivide the workload you get to a point where the time it takes to issue work to a thread and collect/coordinate the results is greater than the time it takes for the thread to perform the work itself.

Back in the AMD Q6600 days, in my early experimentation in multi-threading I found that my MT quicksort routine hit this limit at about 50k elements. At that point further subdivision just made it go slower. The exact limit depends on how expensive the comparison operator is and the synchronization overhead for the thread pool/work queue, but there will be a limit.

Not sure if this is what's going on here, but is one aspect at least.
I disagree because being able to resell will also factor into the first hand buyers expectation to recooperate values by selling it. If it is made known reselling is difficult then there will be diminished first hand buyers. So being able to resell is also a feature of a product.
I might disagree.... if you were a kid in the 90s, you were player at Peak 2D, (NES,SNES, Arcade, Neo Geo), and early 3D, both in PC and consoles where publishers were experimenting.

You had completely new genres of games being invented almost every other year.

Today it is the same type of games, just re-hashing of the same content, maybe with more/better graphics.

The only most recent completely new type of game is Minecraft.... and walking simulators type of games. (although some one can say that they are just like old time RPGs).
Information is defined as relative to existing sets. Mistakes can change how many bits they leak if other mistakes didn't happen - but they did. And in a broader sense, most of these mistakes are dependent on a prior mistake: the FBI team wouldn't've been there if not for the Tailor mistake, and so on.
There are games that are focused on being profit-driven to a fault. Pretty much anything from Activision, and most of the stuff produced by EA.

But there's plenty of games that match what you describe. Sony has published a solid lineup for the last few years. The dark souls series is a very solid example of modern skill based progression.

DLC used to exist - we just used to call them expansions.

There's also free to play games that use microtransactions as funding - but they're all either cosmetic or slight quality-of-life boosts that don't have direct gameplay impact (see: warframe and path of exile)

And that's not even talking about indies. There's plenty of indie titles that are pretty much 90s games with modern quality of life upgrades.

Some quality games that meet or exceed the quality of the 90s era from the last few years (in no particular order):

- God of War

- Horizon Zero Dawn

- Dark souls series (including bloodborne)

- Zelda Breath of the Wild

- Hyper light drifter

- Enter the Gungeon

- Spiderman

- Rimworld

- The Witcher Series

There's a ton more.. and there's also a glut of games coming out in the next couple years that also look amazing.

The thing that exists today that didn't in the past, is companies exploiting psychology to produce endorphin rushes tied to microtransactions. Companies tying gambling mechanics to gameplay advantage (FIFA and Madden are egregious examples of this).
The mods marked this as a dupe. I only can guess why by based in previous cases/comments. Different reports of this story had been submitted like 15 or 20 times from different sources. I'm not tracking everyone of them, but I think most of them are just a variation of "He is dead. It looks like a suicide. We don have more information." And some notes of the recent events that lead here. Usually the mods mark something as a dupe even if it is not an exact dupe.

Is there some new information in this post? I guess it is not surprising that if an important prisoner in an important case appears dead then there will be an investigation. Perhaps I should rewrite my question: Is there some new surprising information in this post?

If there is new (surprising) info you can write to the mods, so they may decide to remove the [dupe] hn@ycombinator.com

[I've done this in the past for 2 or 3 scientific articles. Usually the press release is cut&paste in a few (5) sites with more or less exaggeration and destruction of the original information. Sometimes after a few submissions there is a new coverage that is much better or has new insight or explain why all the other coverages are wrong. Sometimes the mods or users don't understand the difference and mark it as a dupe. So if there is something surprising new the mods may removed the dupe mark. But most of the time it is just cut&paste.]
“I’m not sure what fuel injectors and electronic ignition got the industry, but it wasn’t real world fuel economy.”

Actually it is fuel economy. Your old truck [0] doesn’t have a bunch of mpg sapping emissions rules to deal with.

The fuel injector allow for more power for the same amount of fuel giving the engineer the power budget to spend on reducing non carbon emissions and increasing weight (ie safety)

[0] your truck appears to be tuned slightly lean, or at stoichiometry. Otherwise there’s no way you’d get similar mph.
US rail crossing gates tend to move vertically, and there’s never a barrier that crosses the tracks, only the road. Sometimes, they only block the road in the direction of travel which leaves an easy path for drivers to go around the gates if they’re feeling impatient.
I haven't read the original paper... it sounds as if they're comparing 100% renewables at 95% and 100% reliability against the current mix at current reliability levels. Is that correct?
Right now it works best for python. We’ve got early versions of JavaScript and Java out too. We’re also releasing HTML and CSS soon.
That’s doubtful, they need the user to be there (and sleeping) for it to work.
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out
An Actor Lost in the Background
Yes, politically Telegram is in the best position between all three.
Part of it is the massive expansion to include more people by making the games and mechanics as basic as possible, but the major driver is the rise of streaming and multiplayer becoming the default and most important mode for games, if not the only option.

Strong single-player storytelling and action has been sidelined, and most multiplayer games tend to be the same. Some have unique mechanics and gameplay but they all depend on your team and unless you have a very good group of people to play with, it just ends up feeling bland and repetitive.
What makes webapps bloated is the require-at-the-top pattern. Type system makes no difference here. What most devs don't realize is that if their precious app written in holy C plus plus or Java got compiled into a standalone binary that could run on any device inside a browser, it would be a 150 MB mess that wouldn't even boot. All these nice frameworks, libs and utils would need to be downloaded before the app can start. We'll see this soon with wasm, btw.
> Mario Kart

The best Mario Kart came out in 2008, so.
Desktop is a first class citizen, so much that encrypted chats aren't supported yet.
I feel like the point of a group chat is to have a channel to speak to a set of people. By having a rate at which you can send messages seems to defeat the purpose of having the communication channel. What if you made a typo or forgot to say something?

At the same time group chat does encourage background chatter and it's a bit annoying to put your phone down and see the notification bubble say there is a ton of unread.

Sub-channels really can help because people can create specific channels for a specific events, hangouts, topics etc... and not have to get everyone's attention. Though, invariably there will be someone who will go into the #general chat and send a message to @everyone. But sub-channels hasn't made it into SMS, and WhatsApp.

Maybe the real problem is people aren't mindful of how wide their messages are being sent and how annoying it can be to get a bunch of messages that aren't relevant to you?
The big question would be where will they source all of those batteries?
I have both Signal and Telegram and although I don't use as much Telegram to say this with absolute certainty, but Signal definitely has issues on all platforms I use (Android, macOS, Linux) - not deal-breakers, but issues. Telegram on the other hand has had none thus far.
The $1m is for "Zero-click kernel code execution with persistence".

Lock screen bypass is worth $100k.
Taking to my friends who are heavy WhatsApp users it's less about text chatting and more about voice chat over data because it's far cheaper per minute than crossing the PSTN.
I could certainly imagine that if e.g. Waze warned about railroad crossings that it could prevent some small percentage of almost sleeping drivers/truckers getting hit.

It's a numbers game. 999/1000 will be watching just fine without a warning from their navigation app; that warning might bring awareness to 999.8/1000 or so. Or something like that. That could result in a pretty dramatic decrease of accidents.

This seems like a no-brainer to me - they should add a (visual) warning about this.
That applies to pretty much every sport. Why choose one that puts your life at risk?
Signal will also lose all your messaging history and kick you out of all your group conversations if your phone breaks or you lose it. It also has no usable automated backup solution or sync.

It's also completely unable to work on multiple devices. Not really comparable in usability.
It is interesting to consider how the ability to speak code with the specificity necessary for a computer to know what to do would probably also vastly improve your ability to communicate in pair-programming type situations.
Maybe. That could have described the solar photovoltaic manufacturing business in the first decade of the 21st century, but it would have been a real gamble making money trying to invest in any of the individual companies or even baskets of companies. Commoditization comes quickly, and with "too much" competition even proprietary advances benefit buyers more than manufacturers.

The fracking revolution looks similar, for that matter. So far it has delivered a lot more value to buyers of fossil fuels than to producers.
ok, that makes sense. I thought it connects to a 3G/LTE network for internet connection. There are a few Raspberry HAT that offers this -- although that would be extremely costly for a live video feed
I didn't read much of the report from which this is sourced from, but it appears that they base their numbers on current farming practices. In the U.S., those practices (for beef, pork, etc.) are, for the most part, horrible and irresponsible. Responsible practices work in concert with and support of the environment, not against it. Cows graze on and replenish lush grasslands. Pigs forage through and replenish forested areas. The animals are allowed to work within the cycle of nature and act as integral parts of healthy land management instead of being removed from it and treated as industrial outputs.

Cows aren't the problem. Pigs aren't the problem. Chickens aren't the problem. Mankind's industrialization of cows, pigs, and chickens is the problem.

So, for me, that's why we're still having this debate.
> And you can do that back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back... for an hour (with say 50 standing starts), non-stop. You'll see little variation in the result, and the car won't throw up its hands and say the party's over until it takes a rest.

Funny you say that, Road & Track did exactly that in 2014 with a Porsche 911 Turbo[1] and they were able to do 61 back-to-back launches.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DRCTW-Q7o
Also, the PCR reaction was effectively described in an earlier 1971 paper from Gobind Khorana (see final paragraph):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022283671...
> I'm surprised more aren't using Signal

It's just no polished like Telegram. It's painful to use compared to other apps.
"They can survive a wide range of temperatures and situations. Research has found that tardigrades can withstand environments as cold as minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 Celsius) or highs of more than 300 degrees F (148.9 C), according to Smithsonian magazine"

https://www.livescience.com/57985-tardigrade-facts.html

"The average temperature on the Moon (at the equator and mid latitudes) varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit (-183 degrees Celsius), at night, to 224 degrees Fahrenheit (106 degrees Celsius) during the day."

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/168-What-is-the-tempe...

I should have looked up the specific species of tardigrades and where they crashed to be sure, but it looks like they might be okay with the temperature swings.
They also added a feature to send silent messages, which is a pretty nice idea.
I had a great day. It was not I who chose to take the conversation in a scatalogical direction; I just encouraged the person who did so to stick with their stated area of expertise.
Many people (myself included) use the ? suffix in Common Lisp as well. IMO it is a better convention.
Barrel should have been drum. Like what the Dayton shooter used to hit 14 people in 30 seconds.

100% irrelevant. Just because there's a lot of heart disease doesn't mean we don't care about gun deaths. If we passed all this legislation and the net result is that the next mass shooters only kills 5 people instead of 10, then it's still worth it. You don't need 100 round clip to defend your home. You don't need a flash suppressors or 1000 yards of range and you don't need an arsenal.
Additional details here:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29356/russia-admits-my...
A coder does two things:

* He gets this Keyboard: https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

* He reads this blog: https://www.thepaleomom.com/start-here/the-autoimmune-protoc...

And fixes himself...
I'd guess that some keywords are ranked higher. Put telegram, crypto, Trump and guns in the title, and it'll make to the top with 1 vote.
Try Greg Egan's Axiomatic. I picked it up from a free books charity knowing nothing about it, and found the author to be a little "harder" than Chiang but with the same focus on the humanity to be found in sci-fi.
I've done my research. Whatsapp has encrypted chats by default, Telegram doesn't.

Also Whatsapp UX is much simpler and I value simplicity. Telegram is starting to look like a spaceship with so many features.
> Not open source, only partly, just like Telegram.

Signal is completely open source. I'm not sure why you think it's only partly open source.

Quoting Wikipedia[1]:

> All Signal software are free and open-source. The clients are published under the GPLv3 license, while the server code is published under the AGPLv3 license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)
FBI Records:The Vault; Nikola Tesla
Moderators will sometimes rescue a post which didn't receive a lot of upvotes and reset the submission time on the post. This is part of an experiment in giving good HN submissions multiple
chances at the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
I saw for coinbase it returns client_oid. Is that a user account? Does that mean you could build a user's history on coinbase?
Liability like car ownership. Failure to secure your weapons imparts liability. Guns stolen or sold without a background check that are used in a crime carry a punishment for the last registered owner. Punishment ramps up rapidly with multiple offenses. This will punish traffickers but also encourage safety.
Why are the headlines so often so misleading? Requiring the unwitting cooperation of the victim and treating it as a footnote seems borderline dishonest and certainly clickbait. Yes, I clicked to see what the actual much more nuanced situation might be.
Not many people will watch shows where D&D are involved I suspect
I'm curious. What about a foot keyboard, where one can type with one's toes?
> The company cannot cannot just buy the last stock because the stock itself is worth all the cash the company holds and the future profits it will make.

The last share is worth whatever the person that holds it is willing to sell it for, right? A share of IBM is worth $136 right now because there are two parties willing to buy/sell a share of IBM at that price.

I realize this would never happen in a million years, but could a company exist that is owned by nobody?
> How do you know? And even if it doesn't for starters, there's no telling it'll stay that way.

Same way I know there's no pagan god hiding in my phone whispering my secrets to evil aliens: by actually working with the technology, observing the behaviour of my device and reading the privacy policies and activity log published by Google and not finding any proof.

Of course you can argue that Google might lie for whatever reason... but then you probably shouldn't be using Google Maps at all. Or any product built by a corporation.
Secret Communication System (patent)
A Porsche like this is going to be built with motorsport in mind. So you expect to buy your Porsche and be able to srive around on the streets but also take it to a local track day. In that context, it needs to perform consistently lap after lap else you can't compare and improve your driving and the whole experience is just a bit deflated.
There are risks inherent to climbing, but I would not agree that it is incredibly dangerous. In the US, an average of 30 people die annually in climbing accidents. It's difficult to find a denominator to put that number in perspective, but somewhere on the order of a million people climb outdoors each year in the United States and about 5 million participate in indoor climbing. I feel far less safe biking to my climbing gym than I do climbing.
You don't have to buy the games with loot boxes. They still make the other kind as well. If anyone is looking for a game with "a well defined start, end, and progression dependent on your skill", I'd recommend checking out Celeste.
Total Annihilation was so ground breaking when they introduced Boneyards.

https://totalannihilation.fandom.com/wiki/Boneyards
This is super cool! I'd be really curious to see how the messaging to particular demographics compares as well. Wild that the Trump campaign is spending so much money...
I wasn't trying to say that playing guitar was a treatment or therapy for RSI symptoms. Obviously any type of hand exercise can make things worse while your hand/wrist/ligaments are inflamed or you're otherwise subject to flareups of RSI.

The general idea in this thread was that increasing finger/hand strength could be a preventative action for people worried about RSI, and I think that's a reasonable train of thought - and playing guitar certainly does improve hand strength.

I think it's fair to say that no preventative action is 100% effective for the kinds of things we're talking about. I'm pretty sure other activities and factors, including genetics and luck play a lot into whether that increased hand strength is enough to prevent RSI in any individual case.

I do think it's good to bring it up as a warning though - it's very possible for any activity that uses the hands a lot to contribute to RSI symptoms rather than help, and people should really pay attention to what their body is telling them :)

Sorry to hear you're not able to play as much as you'd like - it's been one of my favorite things to do when I need to get away from the computer, and I'm super grateful it hasn't caused my RSI to return.
> "player benefits from minimizing risk", which is usually boring.

If the player is enjoying themself exploiting these attributes, then how is it boring? Is it boring to the spectator? If so, what does that say about the act of playing a game?
Perhaps it's time to disrupt the world of compass physics by inventing one that doesn't get influenced by other magnetized objects?

Because that's the only way you'll fix that.
>Since Escape Rooms have 0 replay-ability, you're not really competing for "regulars".

The escape room in my town reconfigures every once in a while, I've done about 5 different "rooms" there that have all been very different. Sometimes the theme requires you to know something about the topic to solve the room (examples: star wars room, comic book room). To be honest they probably rotate the rooms.
Alphabet's DeepMind Losses Soared to $570M in 2018
> store it for 6 months, and use it for heating during winter.

I wonder when we will get high voltage transmission systems between the northern and southern hemisphere? Actually solar farms in Southern Spain, Morocco or Arabic countries would make more sense.

Also seasonal thermal energy storage does that. Avoids solar electricity altogether, although has other limitations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_stor...
Also, it will snark on you to all contacts whenever you move to a new device. And plead with you to let it handle your ordinary sms texting, then hold your text messages hostage, not exportable back to any other app.
Reading this article made me think of many of the boss encounters in the first Destiny. Levels were usually a long, multi part corridor for the first half and a bullet sponge boss at the end. Many of the boss arenas were poorly designed with so many spawn points that most cover was nearly ineffective. So the optimal game play was to stand in the entry way, funnel trash mobs into the entry and kill them, go out and shot the boss for a bit until the next wave of trash spawned, retreat to the entrance and repeat. They did get better with design and started dropping you into arenas to remove the doorway.

I think the designers did fill the arenas with these mechanics to make them interesting. But so many of the main objectives included a bullet sponge enemy, that while you were addressing the objective new trash mobs would spawn in unpredictable places, and usually more than one wave would spawn during the objective. This made most of the cover feel worthless. Instead it was just as viable to fly around with you jet pack or super jump, keep moving, and hope to dodge random enemy fire.
Thanks for the feedback! We’re actively working on improving the speech engine, apologies it didn’t work well for you. We’re starting with editor plugins, but eventually want to expand to other apps as well. Definitely want to support customization down the line too.