skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For that, sure, but for that even 20 year old cars had good enough structural integrity. By late nineties Japanese cars were already full in into the science of crash safety with concepts like safety volumes, and rigidity belts being fully adopted in mass market cars.

Most advances past that level just got cars getting unreasonably heavy, and more lethal, as a result, in car to car collisions, which in turn results in even higher expectations being placed.

That's why "safety marketing" tells only one side of the story.
Unstated major premise: Buying electric vans is a step in the right direction in the first place.

I'm thinking here of the lessons we've been learning recently about recycling: It would appear that we now need to come to terms with the possibility that recycling has done far more harm than good, by making it easier to justify excessive packaging waste while at the same time mostly only giving consumers the impression that what they put in the recycle bin wasn't going to waste.

I could see something similar happening with electric delivery vans: Perhaps, by ostensibly greening the most consumer-visible part of the process, they can make them feel better about buying into a way of getting their consumer products that relies on a much less efficient supply chain than the one used by the system it's supplanting.

Perhaps, if we dig into it, we'll discover that Amazon is being pennywise here, because properly dealing with the pounds would require rolling back the "free 2 day shipping of pretty much anything to pretty much anywhere" guarantee that underlies so much of Amazon's current business model.
> So what are the options for a consumer willing to pay for privacy?

Don't buy a TV at all. Instead, buy a large monitor and hook it up to a computer to act as a media center.
Hell, photographers know that any iPhone can't compete a midrange camera.

But Apple clearly wants the average person to believe that it can. Why else stick a "pro" description to your phone's camera? Of course they can't spell it clearly, because they will become a laughing stock. But they do imply it at every opportunity: "Pro camera system. We’ve three‑upped ourselves.", review by professional photographer etc.

It would be fair game if they had a professional instagrammer review the new iPhone. Because that's the only kind of "professional" camerawork you can do with any phone.
> it's the fault of the developers who hack away without documentation or regard for maintainability.

but... that seems to be any WP tool that is popular. Many of the WP ecosystem stuff I've seen is popular precisely because it's not maintainable.
Super weird to read this text. I just came home from our first Japan trip and we both had a DSLR with us and three lenses. Heavy to carry around.

I expect 3-4k pictures from dslrs and 2k made by our smartphones. I'm really curious how our end result will look like.

I expect 100-300 images but this is our first holiday where we took considerable amounts of pictures/snapshots by phone.

At least on my Samsung s9 and my wives pixel 3a lots of those images look sharp.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense. Neodymium magnets are much lighter and more compact for the same strength. (I know this from being a guitar player - exact composition of magnets in guitar pickups and speakers is a subject of substantial controversy, both technical and magical.)

But it also seems to me this might be a cost issue... it's possible that neodymium magnets are used because they're cheaper in context than ceramic, alnico, or other materials. That could change if neodymium prices increase substantially due to scarcity.
It's more than theoretical. People in Argentina, Venezuela, etc. do it regularly. If you got paid like that regularly you would just setup automated transfers and it would be largely invisible to the individual.

Since ACH reversals happen so rarely in the US and since the US dollar is stable there is not much incentive to get paid in crypto. Also, there are disincentives, since the US taxes it as property. I'm definitely not arguing that. Only pointing out that what a pain ACH reversals are when they do happen and how crypto doesn't have that problem. Make crypto more stable or easier to convert from/to fiat and I think more people would opt to get paid in it rather than the current direct deposit ACH structure.
Maybe now kids won’t be so enticed into begging their parents for fast food if there isn’t a shiny toy in each meal. Healthier kids is a laudable outcome too, is it not?
Oh shit, you made Halide! Great app, thanks!

Anecdotal experience: bought it knowing that it doesn't record video, got exactly what I expected.

Really looking forward to a new phone so I can take advantage of the exciting new stuff, but I hear the 12 Pro might shrink to a 5.4" screen so I'm going to try and hold out. Once that happens I don't know if I'll touch my SLR again - it's already seeing minimal use because the phone is much more convenient.
There are no good exact indexing structures but there are a lot of very high performance approximate NN structures. Facebook has an open source implementation of some of these in a project called faiss [0] which does a relatively good job of this.

[0] - https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
I guess the main problem is that pumped hydro is not that energy dense - even if you assume you have a lot of space.

Your typical 18650 li-ion battery stores around 12.25Wh - that's enough energy to lift a metric tonne of material 4.5 meters high.

For practical capacities the cost of land becomes significant.
Good for them.

Next can they stand for user freedom?
macOS 10.14.6 Privesc
Makes sense, but are they also counting the externalities of solar and wind as subsidies? Sure, they aren't as much as for fossil fuels, but there ARE externalities for solar cell manufacturing.
>> tracking movement habits through the store

My understanding is that was a passing fad a few years ago. It was hyped by some startups but commercial users found it less than helpful compared to traditional metrics. I met a grocery store consultant (a real job) at a security conference. He said they used cameras to deal with traffic issues (even load between aisles) and predict cashier/customer ratios. They had abandoned the face/eye-tracking tech. Eye-level shelf space is better. They don't need an algorithm to keep telling them that.
Python proposal: add immutable (persistent) dictionaries
They're not all that heavy any more.

The Tesla Model 3 is 3552-4072 lbs, while the new Jeep Wrangler (JL) is 3955-4455 lbs.
Sure, but clearly there's black market production for the latter. I guess I don't see why you think it's difficult for black market production to spring up for the former.

By that I mean: I don't think the e-cigarettes themselves are wildly more complicated to produce than the cartridges--though I might be wrong on that.
For a similar usecase I settled on writing a bash script along the lines of

PARAM=`xclip -o -selection clipboard`
notify-send downloading $PARAM
youtube-dl $PARAM

And setting a keyboard shortcut to invoke it, so downloading is just

CTRL+L (select URL)
CTRL+C (copy selection)
CTRL+ALT+D (trigger download script)
Well, they're not really buying more if they were going to add 100k vans to the fleet regardless? Assuming that's the case, it's just that those will be electric instead of ICE.
Cybernetics is the original "control systems math", which was then forgotten/ignored in the West (the Soviets messed with it some I think) and re-invented as "Control Theory" by people trying to control factories and such.

As the article states, Cybernetics as originally conceived makes no distinctions about the physical (or otherwise) nature of the underlying processes it models, and it was explicitly expected to unify the math of feedback and control in biological as well and mechanical systems.

The fictional "Bionic Man", et. al., was an exploration in the popular imagination of how this might result in e.g. artificial limbs and organs that worked like the real thing and, in the stories at least, even improved on them.

In any event, what this article describes could be called cellular bionics.
I agree that FTS is not optimal, but it uses core CS tricks so I think it's worth learning. Word vectors are also intersting as a concept on their own.
Thoughts on Tiobe's Language Ranking Methodology from Julia Computing
Well, it depends. If the government is perceived as using corporations to do their dirtywork, then it would definitely fall under that law. And we know from government history that the government does indeed do this from time to time.

And certainly the right to say something never guarantees freedom from the repercussions of saying it. That was never implied in my words, although maybe you've pulled that from some groupthink somewhere.
Yes, that was a big issue too. Covered by every newspaper and media organization in the West, multiple investigations by safety agencies and private parties, and their stock was downgraded by analysts during this "saga."

Any idea if Tesla's software is following, say, ISO26262?

With respect to the console? Unknown. With respect to Autopilot? It's clear that they're not, since they're are too many issues and regressions that would have been caught if they were following those standards.
Public letter from IT specialists against Moscow political repercussions
This decision was made by others. I'm not in a position to research the history of alledical procedures.

It is much easier for me to avoid art though.
This article [1] seems to imply the reason for the arrest is a disagreement between the county sheriff's department and the state as to who has the authority to sign off on them attempting to break in to the building.

[1] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-court...
All companies being IT companies was true about 30 years ago, although I agree it becomes more pronounced every year.

If an MBA program only requires accounting/finance and doesn't require IT management at some basic level should get it decredited.
I'm not american. I don't even support america. I'm just anti-genocide. Sorry if that bothers you.
How to Create a Bitcoin Savings Wallet Using Qvault and Sentinel
No Cure for Procrastination: Here Is How to Prevent It
UK porn bill: Throwing our privacy out with the bathwater
There's some good advice in the book, but I found the majority of it seems to be rather goldilocks flavored. Implement the features you need, but don't add too many, but don't omit important ones either. Write some documentation, but not too much or too little. Etc. You read it, and oh yes, very wise, but not really helpful? Not much here would be useful in resolving a dispute between two programmers, one who wants to do things one way and one who wants to do it a different way.
An update to Brex's commitment to user privacy
The "middle ground" you speak of has not been ignored, and in fact has seen an explosion in "visual builders" to compete with the like of Wix.

Example: We use Divi (the theme), which is what we call a theme "framework" (not like Genesis) that allows almost any design & layout. This differs from most themes that typically have 1 or a handful of layouts that you must not stray too far from. While Divi offers pre-baked layouts, you're free as a designer to create something custom and then use the Divi toolset to build. We used to build every WP theme by hand, but Divi allows us to focus on design, and not the intricacies of WP theme development which is not core to our business (client solutions)
"A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes."
It would make more sense if the example were of an app no one ever knew about, if that really was the case. His app provided more of a counterexample, if what you're saying is true.
I suppose you'd have to look back and see what's changed in the world (and particularly in the lives of HN's primarily American demographic) to understand why this is happening. I'd be more explicit in my suspicions as to what that is, but considering the tone of the parent and grandparent comment, I imagine that I'd be courting a very un-HN-like argument in doing so, so I'll hold back. Suffice it to say that the willingness for people to "shriek" at things they hold prejudice to, regardless of the actual facts, didn't so much "change" into its current paradigm as it was "unleashed."
Nintendo Switch Lite is the best portable system Nintendo has ever made
What I was thinking is that maybe we can use the 4th or maybe 5th dimension to hide all that matter. /s
Static Site Generator vs. CMS: Which Is Right for You?
I think it's because the environmental cost of making a brand new electric van has a higher environmental cost than just driving the van you already have until it dies. Basically the world would be better off if people stopped buying new vehicles tomorrow completely, and just drove whatever they have, no matter how polluting it is - it's still better on the planet than making a new one. Of course our economy doesn't work that way and it's a completely unworkable solution for now - so replacing ICE vans with electric ones is second best solution.
How does someone go about finding this kind of unsavory information about a city?
I know not much about him and would need to read up on him to make a proper thought.

Not sure why I would do that. Ghandi doesn't really affect s my life
20yr ago a 40mph partial overlap would have put whatever you were overlapping with in the foot-well.
On the surface, I agree this is a strange PR tactic that hasn't been followed by any private company I can think of recently .

I think it's entirely possible that they are doing this because they expect to have to deal with whatever legal/regulatory issues they face around the world that have been in a grey area since they started and this is basically an invitation to regulators to do something now so that regulatory risks won't be perceived to be this massive red flag to investors as they shop the IPO around.

I'd for sure argue that regulation is Airbnb's greatest existential threat, especially at a time when we're all acutely aware of how expensive housing has become in urban centers where Airbnb makes most of their money.
Of course, they speak for all workers at Microsoft
which gets back to the original point that these languages have chosen to be more powerful over being more immediately readable. you have to know many more features of the language to understand what is going on compared to colloquially used constructs like if/then or for loops. If you understand english you are a lot closer to understanding the latter rather than the former, more domain specific syntax.
Scotiabank source code, credentials found open on GitHub
You can access GMail or YouTube from your browser. I don’t install the apps on my phone.
https://github.com/spotify/annoy
In my experience, it's far easier and more common for companies to simply flood their review pool with bogus positive reviews, rather than bother about negative reviews.

Plenty of startup founders boosted their rating by telling HR, family, friends, and foreign clickfarms to post 5 star Glassdoor reviews.

It's extremely easy to inflate your rating this way. Glassdoor does nothing to prevent it. There are small startups with more 5-star Glassdoor reviews than employees.

As long as your bots also upvote every other 5-star reviews, anyone looking at your review pool, sorted either by recency or "most helpful", will have to scroll through dozens of these bogus 5-star reviews before they get to any real negative review. By that point, the negative review will seem like a biased exception posted by a disgruntled employee - if they even get to it.

The worst aspect of this is how easy it is for truly terrible companies to royally screw their employees yet retain an eye-popping 4.2+ rating on Glassdoor. I've seen a couple of cases where companies badly mistreated employees, got a well-deserved torrent of 1-2 star reviews as a result, then flooded their pool with hundreds of fake 5-star reviews. Now these terrible companies, that truly do mistreat and abuse their workforce, have a Glassdoor page and review pool disguising them as a top 1% employer.
Anyone with an opinion on the new edition? Worth buying if you already read the old one back when it came out?
> Point me to a battery deployment that can store enough energy to power a modern reasonably-sized city for even hours at a time, much less days or weeks.

https://electrek.co/2017/12/21/worlds-largest-battery-200mw-...
I agree with your assessment. I'm in Atlanta and I'd be hard pressed to say I see too many cameras outside of roadway cameras, which we have LOTS of. I'd wager road cams make up a very health proportion of the cameras counted by this article. Pedestrian cameras, not so much.
Lol. Trust me, I've been down that path. I was not only conservative when I was younger, but fairly right-wing, including some beliefs close to NRx decades before that was a thing.

I've read most of the books, been to the conferences (including multiple CPACs), raised money for right-wing causes, and worked for right-wing organizations including some personalities that most politically savvy people would recognize.

Heck, my righ-wing connections were one of the reasons I was an early user of paypal (since one of my boddies was friends with Thiel and the Stanford Review crowd).

So, thanks, but I've already done what you've said and have found it wanting and severely lacking.
To that end, they do appear to be making a genuine effort pushing the Impossible Whopper with a television campaign and, at least in the bay area, placement on the combo board.
Suzuki Mehran dry mass is around 550kg, and it's made of steel, not aluminium.

A more spacious Alto that uses some aluminium and magnesium is around 650kg.

Talking about "not-so-heavy" cars...
I think the fact that your foundation of historical context requires a need to consult Wikipedia to know who/what T. Boone Pickens was is a good predictor of that negative knee-jerk response given popular culture today as so much of it relies on minimal historical context.
Airbnb to Go Public Next Year
The term is stage fright, and most do not believe in it until they feel it.
The trick is to reassure yourself that your judgement is way good enough, and that you can't do worse than try your best. Of course you need to be fine with presenting unclean/broken/bad code. Train with non-code situations, if you can find them. They are less rigid than code, and thus task your judgment much more, so code won't push you as hard.\
Would you please enlighten us and name one (1) country that does not spy on its citizens (with some amount of evidence please)?
fwiw "We suggest that increases in eccrine function are not dependent upon increased physical activity or reduced body hair. Therefore, enhanced sweating capacity may have evolved in Australopithecus or even earlier hominins, driven largely by climate. The additional increase in modern human sweating capacity evolved later, concurrent with long distance walking and running." page 40

"The evolution of eccrine sweat glands in human and nonhuman primates"

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Best4/publicatio...
Why Progressive Web Apps Are the Future of Mobile Web: 2019 Research
I agree that "can factor 15" isn't terribly impressive. (Well, it's kinda impressive, because making a quantum computer do anything at all is really hard.) I very much agree that D-Wave's quantum annealing stuff is bullshit, especially if anyone is claiming it's any good for factoring large numbers. I don't expect you, or anyone, to point out every bit of bullshit in every paper published.

I'm all in favour of pointing out bullshit. But there's a boy-who-cried-wolf problem if you just indiscriminately claim that everything is the same kind of bullshit without checking it.

Of course that doesn't mean that you're obliged to check everything. You can say "I expect this is bullshit of the usual sort but haven't checked". But if you say "this is bullshit of the usual sort" without checking and it turns out that that isn't the case (it looks to me as if the paper I linked to isn't the kind of bullshit you describe) then you take a credibility hit that makes all your bullshit-spotting much less useful than if you were more careful.
I'd be interested to see if anyone has attempted to write legal documents using a logical engineered language like Lojban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

I wonder if the cost of having people learn to use a logical engineered language is greater or less than than the cost of hashing out ambiguities in other languages later.
Not really, because in your example the consumer has a choice whether or not to consume the product. Not that there is no externality - all activities have externalities - but the scales are completely different than with electricity production, and scale is what makes the case of fossil fuels different.

Electricity is considered a human right - it is required maintain the most basic modern standard of living - and the externalities of it's production with fossil fuels are borne by everyone in some way. Therefore it's a matter of massively broader consequence and greater cost than the example you used.
Definition of subsidy, from Merriam-Webster:

a grant or gift of money: such as

a : a sum of money formerly granted by the British Parliament to the crown and raised by special taxation

b : money granted by one state to another

c : a grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public
Or an interest in disruption at any and all available opportunities.
I mean, I would say it is. Why are there quotes around the variable? What happens when I remove the quotes?

The quotes don't function like the parens. If this were a two argument function, you wouldn't put one pair of quotes around the whole thing. They're clearly transforming the variable somehow, but I'm not sure how and/or why they're necessary.
i would love it if every tool in gimp was a separate command-line tool all stitched together by one GUI wrapper app that unifies all of them. imagine being able to use gimp's skew tool on an image from inside a bash script.
Oh interesting, thank you! In that case, I think there are two possible cases - and you're totally right, they're both strictly bad for consumers.

One is that AT&T has absolutely exclusive rights to string those poles. That would be unusual - the Telecommunications Act of 1994 generally requires pole owners to give other users access. But you're in an unusual spot physically, and they might have swung some local rule (e.g. access to the sites instead of the actual poles?), or just cut a deal with Comcast to not touch each other's customers.

The other is that they own the poles, and only have a de facto monopoly on stringing them. The requirement to permit access (the "make ready" rule) isn't very strong, and they can easily delay for months or even years before actually letting anyone else put up a single wire. So legal rights aside, Comcast might just list those poles as "cannot string" because in practice they can't honor any requests to do so.

Either way, it's an absolute mess that's purely bad for consumers. And one that creates some strange incentives... I wonder if anyone without a handy storm has gone and trashed the lines themselves to force a replacement?
The thought of connecting my TV which has super limited security support to the internet seems like madness. It's only a matter of time until it's part of a botnet.
The risk, presuming one can find counterparties and venues to sue, is that this approach raises numerous legal liabilities of its own. Copyright violation carries both civil and criminal penalties, and might be aimed at numerous parties, including claims (DMCA, possibly other) against the hosting site of the pirated content.
> known dangers of Tesla cars that make Teslas more likely to crash than other vehicles

Do you have any stats on this?
Why companies that don’t invest in technology training can’t compete