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In a strange time we live in, a red guard journalist gets a struggle session from pro-democracy activists in China's most freewheeling city
Of course, Sam Harris himself has a meditation app (Waking Up). I think might be the best option for the HN crowd.
About 300,000 cars cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge every day.

I think the author's point is that if they were all electric, there would _still_ be 300,000 cars crossing the bridge each day, and the problems of road maintenance costs, pedestrian safety, and soul-deadening commute times remain. Fewer GHG emissions, to be sure.

A good next step would be to focus on reducing the total energy of the system. Minimizing 1/2 m v^2 is your friend here -- reduce weight and reduce speed.
Quantum Virtual Cooling
I am not subtlely shifting the argument.

I'm giving you at least one clear example where someone in public had an expectation of privacy and that was upheld by English courts.

I've also showed that English data protection laws provide an expectation of privacy and restrict what type of filming and photography people do in public places.

> But I will say that there is no legal restriction on filming a public space in England.

For fuck's sake, there are at least 3 and probably more.

1) Naomi Campbell case above

2) Data protection forbids certain kinds of filming in public

3) "This is a prohibited place within the meaning of the Official Secrets Act" -- try standing on a public street filming a location that has these signs up and see how far you get.
This is what I see for the search terms "iphone charge audio", it's the exact same thing as you:

Headphone Adapter for iPhone 8 Adapter AUX Audio Jack Adapter for iPhone X Dongle Splitter [Audio+Charge+Volume Control+Call ] Dual Earphone Cable Converter for iPhone XR/XS/7 Plus Support iOS 13
by VNKSUG

https://www.amazon.com/Headphone-Adapter-Splitter-Earphone-C...

Archive links:

http://archive.is/wPamU

https://web.archive.org/web/20190816155627/https://www.amazo...

It's got an Amazon Choice badge, but most of the reviews appear to be for a workout/fitness band and a dice bag.

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Here's the archive of my search results page for those terms. It's interesting to note the ARCHIVE IS NOT WHAT I SEE outside of the archive. I see the VNKSUG item first, and I don't see the AmazonBasics cables at all.

http://archive.is/qoW11

https://web.archive.org/web/20190816155946/http://www.amazon...
We add mercaptan (an horrible smelling, innocuous gas) to natural gas (methane), so we get a chance to notice leaks before an explosion.
I don’t think it affected the adoption of VR much.
OTOH it might be very beneficial in the long run that VR had a slow start.
Probably the most dangerous thing to happen here is if customers are forever scared away due to bad but expensive early experiences.

As far as I can tell, the hardware development continued and the next wave of VR will have much higher quality and more performant GPUs to make a good first impression.

It would look differently if the entire VR field would’ve collapsed due to low sales but tbh it looks like it’s maturing slow and steady and that’s how it should be

So essentially high gpu prices might have given the field just enough time to mature with patient early adopters before it goes main stream. At least that’s how I hope it will be
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710565
I'm not referring to "gaming the system", I'm referring to the refusal to hand over appeals to an independent third party, or in some cases flatly refusing appeals. The contentid, moderation and banning decisions should be subject to public scrutiny, they shouldn't be the unassailable result of a backroom process.

it sounds like you believe removing videos that are not illegal in and of themselves is itself illegal.

It's not even on my radar. I'm concerned with the transparency and consistency of the process, not the outcome of individual decisions.
Good question. By default mpv will automatically insert the 'scaletempo' filter to adjust pitch when speeding up or slowing down audio, and it does a reasonable job at modest speed changes. And it's fast; very little CPU load. However at more dramatic speed changes it starts to sound choppy with parts of words getting cut out which limits how fast it can go while maintaining comprehensibility. Scaletempo sounds choppy at high speeds because the way it works is by playing small snippets of the audio stream at 1x, skipping ahead past some audio to keep pace with the sped up video. There is also some blending of those snippets, but in principle it's a very simple approach that generally works well enough.

How precisely rubberband works is something I've not looked into deeply, but the end result is increased CPU load and less choppy audio at high speeds. If you throw together a little script to switch back and forth between rubberband and scaletempo in realtime, I think the difference is pretty dramatic.
How to Fix Big Corporations
The paper by Prof A.T.K Assis called "Gravitation as a Fourth Order Electromagnetic Effect" written in 1995 discusses gravitation as an effect of electric dipoles at the atomic level. He has a couple of papers discussing this on his website https://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~assis/papers.htm.

What I found interesting with this idea is that it gives an explanation for only ever observing gravitational attraction and the size of the calculated resultant forces was at the experimentally measured order of magnitude. Whether or not it can be further developed and appropriate experiments designed, who knows.
The author talks about a lot more than the cost of energy to power the car. For one, there is the cost in energy of building and maintaining the roads.
But the flip side of all those choices are all massive privacy invasions or security risks.

Apple App Store is a walled Garden but the Banking App you get from the Apple Store is guaranteed to be the actual app from the bank it says it is. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/24/google-pl...)
Plus the apps on the App Store are often of much higher quality than the Google Play store because of how much more revenue app developers can make on the Apple Store and the better demographics there for most company's targeted audiences.

Apple's voice software is worse because it doesn't do as much machine learning off device and it doesn't try to learn as much about you and communicate it home.

I haven't found any "TV box" to work all that well with a phone. AppleTV does seem to be comparable to others.

These are all trade-offs and subject to the individuals preferences. But saying Non-Apple products don't also "force you" or have trade-offs is misleading.
> Have one fewer child. (is the best way to reduce climate change) But nobody wants to do that.

I mean, a small-but-growing number of young adults are already doing exactly that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/some-millennials-climat...

https://qz.com/1590642/these-millennials-are-going-on-birth-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-americans-worry-...

> The point of the post is that we’re trying to consume our way out of a consumption problem,

I don't think that's true. People are trying to find better ways to solve the minimum amount of consumption they need to continue to exist. That's not the same thing as what you've described, that's not "consuming our way out".

People aren't buying EVs because they want to vacation all the time and/or take fun extra road trips 24/7. It's mainly about "I have to be able to get to Work/School/Home in a quick and safe manner, because capitalism demands it for my survival. How can I emit as little CO2 into the air as possible, while still meeting the requirements a capitalist nation demands of me. Which of these solutions can I afford?"

> it talks about family planning for the third world...something other people can do, so that you don’t have to change your life.

Because many "first world" nation birthrates are already abstaining pretty significantly. In the US specifically, birthrates have fallen to all-time record lows - https://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/birth-rate-low...
Never use Air India.
There was a previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710565

But to answer your question, It is actually running stock Apple iOS firmware on a ARM hypervisor which Corellium has created and they are relaying the screen output onto the web from the hypervisor.

You can think of Corellium as like a enterprise-grade Docker, but for iOS and Android apps.
Vinge’s definition of the singularity is the creation of human-level AI. After we have superhuman AI governments will be irrelevant. What ever the AI wants it gets.
I agree with the other responses you've got, but to make this point explicit: each meditation session is an exercise. Any definition of "success" has to be in the long term. If you're having a rough day, sitting calmly and breathing is going to help in the moment, of course. But the ongoing practice and its spillover into awareness in daily life is the goal. And, like learning any new skill, you can't necessarily see that development day-to-day, just in retrospect over months.

I also posted this the other day, about "failing" at the exercise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20675811
I didn't want to be that comment, but the constant animation in the background is distracting me from the reading and hogging my CPU. Not sure why the NYT web design team chose this presentation.
That was briefly touched on in the article:

> One approach that has been discussed recently is to create a pointcloud using stereo cameras (similar to how our eyes use parallax to judge distance). So far this hasn’t proved to be a great alternative since you would need unrealistically high-resolution cameras to measure objects at any significant distance.

Doing some very rough math, assuming a pair of 4K cameras with 50 degree FOV on opposite sides of the vehicle (for maximum stereo separation) and assuming you could perfectly align the pixels from both cameras, it seems you could theoretically measure depth with a precision of +/-75 cm for an object 70 meters away (a typical braking distance at highway speeds.) In practice, I imagine most of the difficulty is in matching up the pixels from both cameras precisely enough.
You can learn to make your whole day a meditation, so that sitting becomes a way of strengthening your practice.
You could use your preferred RSS client and configure a keyword alert.
Mr. Hiroyasu Kobayashi’s t-shirt is a total swag
Care to expand this comment? Do ceramic bearings have a higher wear-rate than a traditional steel ball bearing?
> I fail to see how an apology is an acceptable excuse for the protesters' behaviour, regardless of their cause.

Presumably you think the same thing about the behaviour of the police. But they are lacking even an apology.
Everything useful I do with a smartphone now, I was already doing in 2008 on a BlackBerry.
I bat you don’t need the timer now. I have been doing this for more than a year now and these days I open my eyes right around 20 mins mark. It’s freaky, try it.
"gets their news from old media."

which extensively quotes Twitter and gets much of their leads and sources from Twitter.
Tiny lensless endoscope captures 3-D images of objects smaller than a cell
Man it has very little to do with government and everything to do with your worship of free market nonsense. In a capitalist society capitalists own the government. AKA private power. So the judiary being corrupted to benefit corporate interests is a no brainer since that is the way the system is designed. It is working as intended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9T3w6vrUis
Yeah. Some companies seem to think this stuff isn't important.

It really is, when first looking through a website to see if they have their stuff together.
> So, while you sit there waiting for the perfect solution (which is completely unrealistic) people actively working on real solutions.

The author acknowledges electric cars are a modest improvement.

And who is working on the better solution?
You fell victim to marketing. Full ceramic bearings tend to shatter. They aren't suitable for high impact applications, and just plain expensive for everything else. Hybrid ceramic bearings (ceramic balls, steel races) are cheaper, but the races will wear out at the rate of steel, so they are an expensive option that needs to be maintained.

Your best value if you want fast bearings is to clean out the grease and replace it with something lighter like sewing machine oil or Bones speed cream. The downside is that you have to maintain it more often because oil doesn't stick around as long as grease does.

Also, the difference between ceramic and regular bearings is on the order of 1 watt. You'd save way more time in a BMX race by wearing tighter fitting clothes, and if you are doing tricks instead of racing then ceramic bearings on a BMX bike makes no sense.
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Alibaba Co-Founder Joseph Tsai Becomes Sole Owner of Brooklyn Nets
Only if you equate “having fewer children” to “killing yourself”, which is transparently incorrect, not to mention tasteless.

However, the responses to this simple fact continue to be enlightening: people would rather commit all sorts of tortured fallacies of reasoning than change their lifestyles in any meaningful way.
The Beatles would have sounded very different.
You can see from recent news about speculation of backdoors in hardware that any sort of trust has to start from the bottom up.
40 years ago telegrams were as obsolete for most communication as they are today, sending them was (as it is now [0]) largely a way of saying “this message is important enough for me to pay an exorbitant fee to have physical media remotely produced and hand delivered”.

[0] you can still send telegrams: https://www.itelegram.com/
Yeah it is called an ecosystem, ace.
Last I checked:

Actual text of convo: not yet but soon.
Metadata: yes.
Its pretty interesting that Apple, who pride themselves so much on form, chose that undeniably unpleasant shade of green.
The Astros Are Major League Baseball’s Happy Place
A coordinated bot campaign is a bit hard to miss though. Now they just look pathetic.
I feel like this book was more in line with the Pirx the Pilot stories & remixed Asimov's robot puzzle stories too much to be his best. Cyberiad is the most fun, The Chain of Chance & The Investigation are better mysteries, Fiasco is a better veilled critique of Soviet groupthink (collective decision making) & alien encounters.

A Perfect Vacuum is my pick for his best, as it's heavily inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' works.
This naming is very unfortunate, but hilarious to any Brits.
Why not both ? Both are hard to achieve in long term..thanks to chatty mind.
that is a very important project. Thank you!
Google's privacy controls have been very good over the years.
Of course, AI wasn’t just luck. NVIDIA have been a player in super computing way before deep learning wave started. CUDA was released in 2007
What's interesting in Lem, as well as the Strugatsky, is first how alien their aliens are; then how powerless humans are. In contrast to the too common US trope of "everything is possible, and if you want it you can make it", their heroes are constantly sent back to their limitations and deep powerlessness.
> but if they can get their hands on iOS images

They are freely available for download from Apple.

See here for handy index: https://ipsw.me/
> The problem is that dependent types (and the very idea of "correctness by construction") suffer from fundamental, serious limitations -- both in theory and in practice -- that the author does not seem to be aware of

I don't want to argue with you on the theory side since I am not an expert, but I can assure you that Idris is a nice language to work with. I prefer haskell due not non-dependently typed stuff, but I think otherwise it clearly shows that a practical dependent programming language to do actual real-world work is possible and ergonomic.

EDIT: I also don't think that verification is the main advantage of dependent types. Haskells type-system is already unsound (f:: a -> b, f=unsafeCoerce, the universal proving function). I like it because it makes it easy to express more complicated constraints in an ergonomic and approachable way and therefore make the compiler just accept less programs. I see it as minimizing the chance for stupid bugs and give the programmer more information about what's going on by providing richer types.
Somehow you've completely misunderstood the comment above.
I simply don't see how someone could simultaneously support self-determination and yet determine "legitimacy" via some nation-state government elites and not by the actual people living there. If you believe in democratic values, it's irrelevant if Hong Kong is "legitimate" in the eyes of the CCP. This type of self-determining situation can be tricky in other circumstances (see: U.S. Civil War or Catalonia for some examples) but the simple fact is that China is an authoritarian, totalitarian, anti-democratic state, while Hong Kong is not.

> Why exactly aren't the UK rushing to HK's aid?

For numerous reasons, none of which have to do with a nuanced view of history: Brexit, internal domestic politics, fear of upsetting China, fear of impacting the British economy, etc. Britain in particular and the West in general have zero qualms about intervening in other countries' affairs when it suits them.
He’s claiming that sure, take the 5k, but don’t let that fool you into believing you’re done. You still have to plan on finding the other 95k.

Specifically, from reading through the rest of the site, the author seems to be arguing that we need to give up technology and go back to farming with our neighbors. Oh and no entertainment either, just working on sustaining your existence.

Edit: Someone downvoted me, but in another article one of the things the author states we must do is quit any job where you are paid and start working locally to help your community directly. Which means just about anyone reading Hacker News needs to leave their job right this moment.
Lies. Governments and critical institutions publish information, and court feedback, on Twitter.

Everyone is compelled to use Twitter. Its success, influence, and profit, derive largely from its semi-official adoption by so many corporations and government actors.

It isn't private, and if it wants to be, it can't be used for public business.
got it. against the rules.

perhaps the rules need a review imo because this directly reflects our industry. passing this conversation to another platform is the easiest thing to do. When do we start having brave conversations?
Goodbye PCS, it's been nice knowing you. Hello, desktop as a service
Not sure this is really the same thing. However in my case I like it harder because I use bluetooth multiple times a day with my phone and it's annoying having a persistent icon showing me it's on despite not caring.
Other commenters touched on the funding side, but it's also important to remember the military distills much more concrete goals than your grandmother's application. 'Modest mechanical assist' is quite vague, from an engineering perspective. Especially when you have to consider that your grandmother is part of a statistical population. How far would the machine need to go? How inconvenient can it possibly be? What is your grandmother's pre-existing physical fitness level?

All of these questions are very straightforward in a military application.

Later moving a military-developed device to a medical-use situation is much easier when it has already been engineered for a much more specific use-case.
> That second barrier, the company argues, allows only data to pass from one part of the network to the other, rather than the executable commands that would be necessary to affect the plane's critical systems.

Assuming planes don't use something like CAN-bus but regular TCP protocol, this can't really be true right? Perhaps they talk about which services are allowed to connect (listen for incoming connections).
Mandatory opt-out is part of the CAN SPAM act, and has nothing to do with liability for the content of the messages.
The insurers paid their own investigators to investigate the insurance claims. When those investigations generated evidence that in retrospect was defective or weak, the companies handed the file to the police. I don't know who pays whose salary in Pennsylvania, but the article goes after all kinds of public/private coordination in the SIU space, from NICB on down for alleged collusion, and from that perspective simply has it wrong.
The interesting thing about electric cars is that many of them sorry scheduled charging (my charging station also supports remote configuration of when I can charge).
If my electric provider was willing (and able) to control when I could charge my car, they could use the the batteries to level out peaks in production to a degree.

Off peak charging already exists today, however there aren't enough electric cars to make utilities heavily incentivise of peak charging solutions (it would only make sense for me to do so if my car was fully electric and not a hybrid due to initial installation costs)
In my defence I did not pay for those components :) These were companies seeking my endorsement, and I like to put such components to use in the way I enjoy rather than the way they hope.
AWS also has AWS Graviton processors (Arm based)
You don't buy apps from Apple, you buy them through Apple's app store (an important difference).

You can use other voice assistants, you just can't set them as the default (which is a reasonable complaint)

As an Android guy, I have to say that after trying Rokus, Fire TVs, and chromecasts the Apple TV is far from crappy and is honestly one of the best smart TV boxes. Anyway, you can also buy a lightning to HDMI adapter if you want to mirror your screen.
I'm sure Anno has another project to direct in between.
Same thing yellowapple based their baseless assumption on.
Evolution is a game of risk and reward - there's no piece of biology that is optimal, it is all 100% "all things considered, good enough". We're in a place where we don't have to balance those same energy/material concerns on a biological scale anymore, and can introduce energy sources that don't place nice with biology.
The moral code of "living fucking sucks". If somebody makes the choice to stop living, they should be allowed to fulfil thart choice instead of being stopped, forcibly or otherwise.

The last one is bad because those people unfortunately chose to live that day.
Ask HN: Recommendation for Ergonomic Office Setup
I'm looking for recommendation for a decent desk/chair and maybe other accessories you find to help with reducing knuckles, wrist and joint pains and risk of RSI.

I've been looking at offerings from here, but would like to hear what folks on here think about them

1. Uplift V2 Standing Desk (https://www.upliftdesk.com/uplift-v2-standing-desk-v2-or-v2-commercial/)

2. Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk (https://www.fully.com/standing-desks/jarvis-adjustable-height-desk-bamboo.html)

3. Autonomous Standing Desks (https://www.autonomous.ai/standing-desks/smart-desk-2-home)
If you're a tinkerer, and you like swapping tires, doing all your own maintenance, etc, then I agree with you 100%.

However, my bike is my car. I'd no sooner swap out my own bike tire than I'd swap out my own car tire. Not that I can't, it's just not something I enjoy doing. My hub-geared, belt drive, hydraulic-disc bike is incredibly difficult to maintain... but I also just bring it in to my local bike shop once per winter. That one trip is all the maintenance it needs for the 3200 miles I put on it per year, mostly in the rain. I'd never go back to lubing a chain every week, putting new pads on every month, replacing the chain every 3, etc. 6 months after I bought this bike I gave away my repair stand and it was glorious.
Yes, you are in agreement with the author — do both.

Anyone who has been to Tokyo knows that you can survive without a car.