skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a term everyone should know. It’s not just to protect technology. It’s used to launder what would otherwise be unconstitutional spying.

This is effectively what we’re learning the government does through its FVEY[1] “partnerships”. Can’t spy on a US citizen? Have our neighbor do it and pass it back to us!

1. https://theintercept.com/2018/03/01/nsa-global-surveillance-...
Didn't Github just launch open source projects storage inside literal glacier?
> They don’t tell developers that apps must be iOS-exclusive to be in the app store.

They do force us to build the package on their devices though. Which is a wholly arbitrary demand which is frustrating to map into a build process that is already automated on the cloud. Prior to services that rent out Apple devices its an awkward fit.

They're very aggressive with their posturing and they ruthlessly exploit the power they have. Just reading the dev EULA in full is evidence of that.
It doesn't have the answer to everything and it's exactly the reason to research it.
"If quantum immortality is true, and I, knowing that, step in front of a car, how is it going to prevent my bones from breaking?"

Quantum immortality doesn't promise health. It promises consciousness.

It is in fact a horrible idea and you better damned well hope it is false, because it looks a lot less like "I'm going to live forever in at least some fraction of the multiverse and be healthy and happy!" and rather a lot more like SCP-2718 [1]. Probably without the pain in question, but certainly with your consciousness stuck in a body that is literally minimally capable of being conscious and nothing else, past the heat-death of the universe, until the point where even quantum randomness isn't enough to keep you conscious, assuming that such a point can even arrive. QI doesn't protect your mobility, your senses, your health or happiness... just your consciousness. On the plus side, "minimal consciousness" doesn't necessarily entail a great deal of awareness of time passing.

[1]: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2718 , for those not familiar with the format of the site, be sure to click the "► Play" on the bottom for the text I'm referring to. On the topic of SCP, the "End of Death" canon rather resembles your story, albeit moreso: http://www.scp-wiki.net/end-of-death-hub
I must be getting old <g/> ligatures:false all the way at this point...
Uppercase 'G' looks very odd to me. Lowercase 'u' looks liek a 'v' at a quick glance. The height of the crossbar in the uppercase 'A' is too high. The numeric characters look big and out of place.

Disclaimer: my current font of choice is Camingo Code - https://www.janfromm.de/typefaces/camingomono/camingocode/
When did anyone called a large company to ask them to operate differently ? and succeeded into being heard ?
I know, it really feels like the future. One day I hope we're all traveling around on electric scooters, skateboard and bikes.
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I'm proud to say that my vehicle has zero tracking, is user serviceable, and my purchase of it had zero carbon impact.

It's also 32 years old, gets 14-15mpg, and drives like a truck. It's a 1988 Chevy Suburban. I bought it a few years ago, for $1450 and really haven't put much into it overall. It runs reasonable well (still some things to figure out) and is comfortable. If I had some money I'd fix some of the things wrong with it and update the interior with seats out of a newer model, but overall, it just works.

And that's what I see going UP in value over time. To think I could own a car that could tell some corporate partner where I went for lunch is just unfathomable. I can't afford to own a car that "cool" and I'm glad for it.
I agree completely. When I see ligatures, I have to mentally stop and wonder what the actual characters are "underneath". So annoying.
Here's one: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

From the conclusion: "Our results show that the safest level of drinking is none."
Mac browsers user agent strings contain “Macintosh”.

I know this because I develop a library for parsing them and just days ago someone filed an issue telling me that “Macintosh” was old timey and I should be transliterating to “Mac”. I did not accept the change.
It's Elon Musk, who cares about minor things like law.
I've installed it and will try it out for a while. My immediate reaction is that it looks nice. Very nice in VS Code, but oddly it has some funky issues in Visual Studio 2019 (particularly with lowercase 'a') at 100% zoom and font size 11 on my monitor. Not sure if it's an aliasing or TrueType issue.
> I like the idea that we're all immortal from our own perspective

I think of this everytime I'm in a situation where I just almost died. I don't really think it's the case but everytime it happens I update my my credences and add 0.00000000000000001% to the chances that it could be true :-)
I have family in the industry (digital ads, bidding for ads) and some of the stuff they have explained to me is pretty gnarly. One cousin was explaining an idea he had for a new business and it was essentially just about collecting as much personal data as possible. Imagine a simple DB table with 'user_id' as primary key. Then you just start adding data on top of data with new columns or joins. After a while you have hundreds (thousands) of datapoints per person, then you start selling that data.

So i want to help my family out b/c i have the tech skills and building some prototypes would be easy. But i'm also not sure i want to feed the advertising beast. Shit is whack right now man they listen to you talking to your wife through your phone about buying a mattress, going to a concert, taking a trip somewhere. Next time you open the browser you are bombarded with relevant ads. too creepy no thanks!
Feel free to thanks VirnetX about that...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/10/17222380/apple-virtnetx-p...

It tough to blame Apple for not open-sourcing a protocol they are sued about by a patent troll. Until resolved properly this would be a toxic code-base anyway.

Of course they could restart from scratch, but I guess they have no incentive to make efforts about that. What will be meaningful however is be what they'll do after patent exhaustion date of infringed VirnetX "patents".
I guess you should have ponied up the $89k and fixed it up how you seen fit.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and?

I don't think fuel economy is the reason people purchase a Tesla. The Model 3 beats the Camry on cool-points alone.
> If they previously had a house in San Diego they probably aren't hurting financially.

That's not necessarily true, it really depends on when they bought their home. Housing prices in California have nearly quadrupled in the last two decades. Families that could afford a house in the 2000s are priced out of the market today. If you entered at the right time you could be paying more in property taxes than mortgage, or living paycheck to paycheck with a three figure salary.

The article says they bought it outright and used the equity from the sale of their CA home to fund the initial remodeling costs, and they've put an additional $40k into it. The reddit post says they sold their home in San Diego for $700k, which at that price is a sub 2000 sq ft ranch.

Just looking at the photos in the article, there don't appear to be hundreds of thousands of dollars in renovations. In fact most of the living spaces shown appear to have been done on a budget. So if we assume the kitchen was the additional $40k in renovation costs, we can assume they didn't get all that much out of their house in San Diego. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say $150k.
Congrats on the job! Seeing your commits on git are inspiring!!
> In that scenario, the cost of charging your Tesla Model 3 is therefore zero. In the Toyota Camry LE hybrid it’s $0.05 per mile. How long would it take you to make up for the Toyota’s $11,805 up-front price advantage?

> For the average American who drives 1,000 miles per month, $0.05 per mile is $50 per month, or $600 per year. Divide $11,805 with $600 and you get almost 20 years.

At least the article offers a generous alternative for comparison.
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That's incredible. My gas bill in the winter for a 100yo house is more than that. Very jealous.
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He specifically addresses that point when he says most people live in apartments without dedicated superchargers. I'm not sure how accurate that statement is but it makes sense to me. I haven't seen very many apartment buildings with electric chargers in my area, if any.
Banking is a "consistent eventually" system, with delays in days.

But why does it work within the same day (or partially virtually instantenous) with SEPA payments 1) between banks in different European countries?

Why isn't there such a thing as IBAN 2) outside of Europe, which really helps to make bank transfers seamless and unambiguous?

It sometimes seems that regulation and standardization is not such a bad thing.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Number
> I was a huge google fanboy

Allowed or actually made the following happen

> Google got stale, then monopolistic

> so I won't shut up about it

Please stop and let it go. Nobody is talking about google except google and you. It's not helping your case, just helping google.
Hold on, assumption 2 does not seem right. There should be lots of versions of you cheerfully experiencing timelines that involve an imminent lightning strike, gamma ray burst, etc. Those things haven't happened yet, so those worlds still have a conscious you in them. Retroactively declaring those selves unconscious seems to be a much stronger idea than quantum immortality.

Also, there is a way to test quantum immortality for everyone, not just yourself. Build a world-spanning doomsday machine. Give it to highly unstable, paranoid people, and distribute the ability to trigger it widely. Perhaps add in some geopolitical tensions, technical failures, ego, and military-industrial collusion. Make it really unlikely that it will remain untriggered. The longer we experience a world with such a device armed and ready, the more likely quantum immortality is true. There would be all sorts of bizarre close calls, and the world history would get more deranged by the year as timelines trigger the device and drop out, leaving progressively weirder timelines to survive.

But that would be crazy, nobody would ever build such a thing.
Considering how many electrek.co articles are shared on here about Tesla (and how biased those are), is this really a hill people want to die on?

Plus the article is using difficult to dispute numbers (average cost of gas, cost of electricity Tesla charges, and cost of both vehicle). So I guess when you run out of answers to the critique, just critique the messenger themselves instead, that way you never really have to address the point made.
You're right...that's an actually bucket they're using for the sink. It's a little embarrassing to look at.
"Let’s further assume that I live like most people do in the world today, in an apartment, and I park on the street."

That's quite an assumption. I have to park on the street. I would not choose an EV as long as this is true. Duh.

The article also factors in the price of the vehicle, which doesn't make sense. Yes my used Honda is cheaper than a Tesla vehicle overall. I'm also not driving as nice a car.
If it looks like a cult, and quacks like a cult...
Ask HN: How do you feel about products that piggyback off other products
Explanation for what I mean by "piggybacking": Say you create a Gmail extension that does something that Gmail doesn't ship with. I would define this as "piggybacking" because the product relies on the existence of Gmail. Without Gmail, you don't have a product.

What does HN think of projects that do this sort of piggybacking vs those who don't?

I personally have mixed feelings about these sorts of products/services. On the one hand it can be a great way to bring value and generate revenue because so many people are already using the product or service that you are piggybacking off of and likely have the exact problem you are tying to fix.

On the other hand I see it as potentially dangerous. If that product or service either goes belly up or changes how it works, your product or service as a result can be rendered moot overnight.
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Unfortunately the Hamilton waterfalls have been so overrun by GTAers (probably due to Instagram) that the city has cut back access, including banning people from Albion Falls.
I'm skeptical of the resale estimate 5 years into the future. What percentage of Teslas are older than 5 years? Like 1%? What's the oldest model 3? Like 3 years?

I'm sure there's enough car sales that even with a small-ish sample size they can make pretty good predictions, even for a new make & model.

But I'll be surprised if the Model 3 estimate turns out to be as accurate as the Camry.
The problem isn't the pure math. It's the assumptions and conclusions.
Who is this comment directed to? The author of the article, or their customers?
Sony. Microsoft. Steam. Nintendo. Many physical retailers.
> A lot of the details they spent so much effort on didn't make any sense to me as to why that particular design detail would be important.

IMHO, fonts have been studied too deeply for too long for some graphic designer at J. Random Corporation to be able to easily make improvements. In situations like that, most changes and new ideas end up being regressions.
The headline is based off of a big assumption: that the Tesla cannot be charged off of home power, but instead has to always be charged at a supercharger at about double the average residential electricity rate.

> First of all, this article deals with the large group of people who don’t have any ability to charge at home. For them, talking about charging at home is as irrelevant as a vegan cook book serving up a steak recipe. It just isn’t relevant to them. Yes, some people live in houses and can charge at home. Most people in this world can’t. So, Supercharging it is.

According to the Department of Energy [1], 63% of residential units have a garage or carport, including 37% of rental units.

(There's also a complaint here about the Tesla just being substantially more expensive, which, true enough.)

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-958-january-2-2017...
Agreed. Presumably the only thing they'd be able to reliably connect to is things like xfinity hotspots.

The idea that they'd have some kind of generic login for this would be hilariously insane and definitely make headlines.

But the idea of eg samsung brokering a deal with comcast to get conditional access to comcast modems to upload telemetry data in exchange for a modest access fee?

You could even market this feature directly to consumers: If you're in a house that rents a modem from comcast, your samsung smart TV "just works", and nobody has to fiddle with the wifi password.

There's no evidence that this happens today, but I'd be surprised if it hadn't been pitched repeatedly, and was currently under construction in some form.
> Might I suggest being the change you wish to see in the world

I don't use google, and don't talk either positively or negatively about it.

> If you would like to see more positive stories and comments on Google

I don't want this.
The inconvenience factor of running out of fuel is a pretty big difference too, a quick ride to the gas station and back for a gallon of gas versus a tow and recharge time.
yes. people don’t charge their teslas primarily at supercharging stations.
This is not legal advice, and you should consult an attorney if you believe that an OEM may come after you for tampering with your own vehicle.

That said, I believe that there is very limited legal recourse for a vehicle OEM who wants to prevent an end user from changing the data collection and upload features of their vehicles. The worst thing would be potentially voiding the warranty, but for 10-15 year old used vehicles, that's not an issue.

I work as an in-house counsel at a vehicle OEM (likely not one you've heard of). Our end customers are generally large companies, so it may be different for personal passenger vehicles, but we actively plan for the contingencies where our end users switch out their telematics module, or request to have the telematics data stream be directed to another service provider. Further, in our market, the idea that the customer wouldn't want telematics at all is not really likely, but we also plan for that possibility.

So, I don't believe the used market isn't as big of a deal as you may think. The real concern for personal vehicles is losing essential warranty or service options for new vehicles by turning off the data collection.
It’s my understanding that radioactive decay is a quantum random.

Radioactive decay emits particles that can interfere with dna and cause cancer.

So some number of people would have/not have cancer in these many worlds. Not all these people would have profound impacts, but the background noise would start to add up quickly.
I find the whole QI following so weird... Do people really argue that QM can provide cartoon-like effects like a convenient truck under the bridge?

Do people really argue that conscience is so special that the universe refuses to end one?

The universe don't differentiate between a dead human and a living one. From a QM point of view, both body masses, correctly placed, can work as an "observer" to cause waveform collapse.
Agreed there, I know not to mess with plumbing, electric, and/or heating myself. Was debating going with spray on insulation done professionally, although I understand costs will rise the more I hire contractors.
Ask HN: Why should variable shadowing be allowed?
Today I came across a term I had not heard of before: variable shadowing.

The general opinion about variable shadowing is that it is frowned upon for code readability and comprehension.

What would be a use case for programming languages to allow variable shadowing?
In the 90s, a large percentage of LSD manufacture in the US took place in an old nuclear missile silo in Kansas.
My house gets on- and off-peak usage rates, so if I charge at night I get a better rate. My last bill had an on-peak rate of $.0886, but the off-peak rate was $.0327. So it's even better if I set the timer and only charge after a certain time.
> In that scenario, the cost of charging your Tesla Model 3 is therefore zero. In the Toyota Camry LE hybrid it’s $0.05 per mile. How long would it take you to make up for the Toyota’s $11,805 up-front price advantage?

> For the average American who drives 1,000 miles per month, $0.05 per mile is $50 per month, or $600 per year. Divide $11,805 with $600 and you get almost 20 years.

Read the whole article.
PSA: "government resigns" in a Parliamentary system does not mean what it sounds like it means to an American.
I'm not sure this really advances what we know; the "100% intermittent renewables + storage" strategy does get asymptotically more expensive as you move towards 100%. So the referenced article points out that a blend of dispatchable gas+capture and "advanced" nuclear can produce a cheaper overall result.

But! Nuclear takes ages to build, advanced nuclear even longer, and gas+capture is deployed almost nowhere because there's no negative carbon pricing for it.

So perhaps they are viable in the long term. For 2020? Countries need to be accelerating their wind and solar rollouts and using them to push carbon-emitting sources down the dispatch order as far as possible.

The UK is surprisingly far ahead on this, having eliminated coal for most of the year and running a gas/nuclear/wind mix currently at 30% wind.
Sounds very similar to "The Dresden Files". The main character is forced to drive around in an old car, since his magic interferes with electronics.
Even in rural Indiana isn't $89k for a 20k sq.ft. home really cheap?
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You still need storage when you go 80% renewable, so any extra production by renewables can be used to generate hydrogen or charge batteries or something so that the nuclear plants can still sell their energy. It's not like they don't get any subsidies today, there is no reason why they shouldn't get any in the future.

It's just a question of what is cheaper or faster to achieve. I don't know enough details to say either way.
It is very possible. In fact, it happened.

There were very successful banking systems without deposit insurance. Less crisis prone than our current systems.

I can provide some sources, if you are actually interested.

See eg https://www.alt-m.org/2016/08/12/capital-and-cash-reserves/ but I can look for something more appropriate:

> Of course, not all banks catered to depositors whose primary interest was safety: there was a market for riskier bank deposits also. But, despite what apologists for central banking and deposit insurance claim, it was not especially difficult to tell safer banks from less safe ones. The problem in places like the U.S. before 1934 and England before 1826 was not so much one of distinguishing relatively safe banks from relatively risky ones, but one of legal restrictions that prevented well-capitalized banks from emerging in many communities. In the U.S. the restrictions consisted of laws preventing branch banking; in England they consisted of laws preventing English banks other than the Bank of England from having more than six partners. (In 1826 other public or "joint-stock" banks were permitted, but only if they did not operate in the greater London area–itself a major limitation; while in 1833 other joint-stock banks were admitted into the London area, but only provided they gave up the right to issue banknotes.) These regulations limited the capitalization of U.S. and English banks while at the same time limiting those banks' opportunities for financial diversification–a recipe for failure. In both instances the regulations were products of politicians' catering to rent-seeking behavior on the part of banking industry insiders. Yet the resulting, unusual frequency of bank failures and substantial creditor losses stemming from such failures helped to sustain the belief that fractional reserve banking could only be made safe by means of further government intervention.

> Where laws did not prevent banks from diversifying their balance sheets, especially by establishing widespread branch networks, or from securing large amounts of capital by "going public" (or, in the case of some Scottish and most Canadian banks, by making shareholders liable beyond the par value of their shares, which from creditors' point of view is equivalent to having more capital), bank failures have been relatively less common, and losses to creditors stemming from occasional failures that did occur have been relatively minor. Indeed, even such a spectacular failure as that of Scotland's Ayr Bank did not ultimately prevent the bank's creditors from being paid in full, without need for any sort of bailout.
You could join the data to billboard locations and sell it to advertisers who want to know what kind of emotional impact their highway campaigns are having.
This is a ridiculous assumption. In the US, 63% of units (including rental units) include a garage or carport, and the majority of Americans live in a detached unit. That's an environmental problem of its own, but reduces the friction associated with this kind of last-meter infrastructure.

EDIT: regarding apartment buildings, in California, if a lease includes a parking spot the landlord is legally required to allow the tenant to install a car charging station at their spot.
> So there is literally no point talking about anything positively here

Point being there is no one to argue against or defend google here in our echo chamber. Most here agree about it already, maybe tell someone in your family and try to convince them.