skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past aftermarket parts makers came in to support popular cars after OEMs retired replacement part making for older model cars. Now if you so much as breathe on an aftermarket mod for your brand new software driven EV ( I won't name names here of course but you know who), the manufacturer may brick your car, or worse yet declare your warranty and/or any future support null & void.

My 2017 Volvo XC 90 somehow begins to casually malfunction whenever I drive it beyond a few service warnings. The car is HEAVILY software dependent. It can technically drive itself and park itself too. This behavior somehow disappears once the dealer performs software updates. It's pretty strange, and I worry it's a ticking time bomb for when I reach the end of my warranty on the car.
Here's a text-only version, so to speak. lynx --dump's output: https://pastebin.com/3wP3mL75
If you want to stick with Linux, I can vouch for Dell's XPS range. I've been running Ubuntu and Arch on various generations of XPS 13 for about 8 years now with minimal issues. Honestly, my work-issued Macbooks have been more problematic than my XPS laptops. It definitely helps that Dell actively support Ubuntu and provide kernel patches.
This is just the nature of public transit. Half of car commutes in LA are under 30 minutes: https://www.geotab.com/time-to-commute. Just 7% of public transit commutes are under 30%, and 27% are over an hour. Part of this is because U.S. public transit is bad. But driving in the U.S. is still faster than taking public transit in other countries. The average commute in the U.S. (where 5% take public transit) is half as long as in Korea (where 55% use public transit): https://www.oecd.org/social/family/LMF2_6_Time_spent_travell....

I used to have what was a pretty great commute. I'd walk a block from my high-rise apartment in westchester to the train station. In 35 minutes I was at Grand Central, and then I'd walk another block to my high-rise office. Now, I dream of working at the suburban office park I can get to in 5 minutes (during rush hour) from my house, which is right across the street from my kid's day care. Maybe in an electric car even.
Somewhere on Twitter that I can't find, this survey was charted back into the 1970s. The lowest the positive response was reported was during stagflation, oil embargo, post-Vietnam years, and it was in the 70%.
I'm usually not a fan of this kind of interface but for some reason I felt like this one worked pretty well and it was a good read. Would probably not have worked well if I didn't have a decent scroll wheel though so they should definitly offer an alternative UI as well.
That's not a good baseline for comparison. The MSA you're looking at covers a much bigger area, lumping in parts with lower population density which, no surprise, don't all have subways every five minutes that the GP was referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area
Except for the occasional horrible creepy deformed things seen sometimes... Or is that your family too?
Does audiobook/podcast work better for public transit? I know it's the only way I consume literature these days as a car (EV but still car) commuter.
>No one understands how the engines on the Saturn V work anymore.

That's not really true [1]. Although the project is dead AFAIK a fair bit of work went into reviving the F-1 engine in the early 2010s.

>And the guidance systems would have to be built back up from scratch.

As with many things, you can't easily replicate complex old artifacts because you don't even have the tools to make the tools to make the tools... No, we couldn't build an Apollo Guidance Computer today. I doubt you could easily get things like rope core memory or just about any of the components. But you wouldn't want to anyway. (The guidance computer would probably be the least of your challenges; this is a pretty well-understood technology and the company that made it is even still around.)

[1] https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3724/1
I have a 3-year old, and he loves the Paw Patrol. When it comes to children's cartoons there are very few I can tolerate watching myself, but Paw Patrol isn't the worst.

As you say the themes are largely positive, there's a decent range of characters and locations, and usually he's happy to watch an episode a day.

But I do admit I find myself wondering far too much about the backstories! Where does all the technology come from? Who is Ryder? Is he a mad scientist? How did the Mayor get elected? Why does the other Mayor, of Foggy-Bottom, never actually spend time in his own town? And finally at what point (I guess I missed this episode) did the evil-cats become mirrors of the Paw Patrol?

(Also: Sea Patrol? What a crazy and impractial dock for the boat!)

Maybe I should take it less seriously.
I guess it's not really surprising for American engineers. Food and drink are measured in Imperial units. Technical doodads are measured in metric.

You don't really need them to be compatible in this case: even though it appears that you're talking about multiples of units of length, you don't really compare them. You're not going to do the calculation that this is "1.58 micrometers per second" or ".447 feet per day", which is what this is.

I mean, I guess if it helps you visualize a half-foot of water growing on top of the object every day, great. But I feel like "volumes of water" and "areas of solar panel" are quite different units, and it's kinda helpful that the system distinction helps make that clear.
Tesla seems to have admitted that they removed this feature when they weren't the owner, according to the picture of the in the invoice that says AP was removed on Nov 18, after Tesla had sold the car (on Nov 15).

I imagine their actions were based on the idea that AP is software and not included in the sale of the car. That's how computers are sold, but it is tremendously surprising for a car and a dangerous precedent.

A modern car (especially a Tesla) is driven by software. If used car buyers don't own the software in the car, do they even own the firmware that drives the car?
It’s not a direct answer to your question and I don’t have a reference to hand but I found it interesting. I read that the 74-75 fires were a fairly different situation - the year before there was anomalously high rainfall which lead to a large amount of unsupportable grass growth. The grass grew over a huge but primarily uninhabited area, died, and dried out. When it caught fire the next year it was allowed to burn uncontrolled. So it was primarily grass being allowed to burn in remote areas versus the current situation which involves more forest and is being actively fought.
> 1 billion gallons of water per day

* How much of that water need be drinkable?

* How much of that water can be salinated (e.g. for flushing)?

* How much of that water can be partially desalinated (e.g. for showering)?
Other studies have shown that happiness does not increase with income after the point at which people can afford to be comfortable.

Consider Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: income can help you with several parts of the hierarchy, but it cannot buy all of them.
No, this didn’t happen. It was on the window sticker, and the feature was never removed from the vehicle until after the new owner already had it. Tesla may be within their rights to remove it while they own it and then sell it as a car without, but they didn’t remove it. They sold it with it. Then later they removed it. That’s unacceptable.
If you sold FCP back to Apple with the computer, it’s all fine. Problem is - Apple gives laptop with licensed FCP to computer dealer to sell, dealer puts up price for “MBP+FCP”, then Apple remotely wipes it claiming it was there by mistake. At the very least a large misstep for Apple, and misrepresentation on the dealer’s part. Customer who buys it did nothing wrong.
Most serious carbon market proposals are not primarily related to removal/sequestration. They are related to reducing emissions. You get credits for emitting less and/or producing low emission technologies (solar panels, EVs, etc.), and can sell them or use them to reduce your tax burden.

This type of thing works, when done right.
If you are not confident that the next bus will be there in less than 5 minutes, then my criteria are not met.

It costs about $500,000 to run a bus for a year (every day, 16 hours a day). If you have that extra half a million in the budget you should run another bus someplace (preferably getting some existing route to the under 5 minutes headway). If you don't have that much in the budget but have something spending money on shelters isn't a bad use of money but it is way down on the list of what riders really want.
Because it's fast enough you don't notice it's "slow" outside of benchmarks?
I find it really depressing that as I write this comment, the other top-most comments are complaining about the article's UX.

Meanwhile we are radically altering the natural environment. As the TFA spells out, so superbly.
The new dev edition comes with ubuntu out of the box I believe
The images and gifs contribute to the story so I'd still recommend that people scroll through the original article even if they read the text here instead.
For "algorithms", I mean, some really do care about insertion order. Like idk, if you have a priority queue, then you generally want FIFO ordering when the priority is the same? It like a pretty obvious desire in most cases... imagine a thread scheduler or a packet scheduler or what have you.

But generally it's about determinism and avoiding loss of information, not just whether a particular algorithm needs it. For example, you'd want serialize(obj) and serialize(deserialize(serialize(obj))) to produce the same output, otherwise you e.g. might not be able to cache stuf. But for a data structure like a hashtable, it's pretty tough (not logically impossible, but rather pointlessly difficult) to make that happen without preserving insertion order.

As another example, it's incredibly handy for a user to see items in the order in which they were inserted. Like say you're parsing command-line arguments, and the command is ./foo --x=y --w. If the user sees {x: y, w: None} then that tells them w was passed after x. That can be extremely useful for debugging; e.g. maybe you expected the caller to specify w earlier, in a different context and for an entirely different reason. Seeing that it came afterward immediately tells you something is wrong. But when such information is lost it's harder to debug code.
It would also be good if the US didn't try to prevent migrants from reducing their birth rate before setting off.
I have a new macbook air, no complaints except that the keyboard is still butterfly. They DO jam.

If I were in your shoe, I'd wait for a longer traveling version of the keyboard that's not butterfly.
I tend to open & read articles on a vertical (Portrait-mode) 27" monitor. The amount of scrolling required to read a single sentence is... epic-legendary :=O

Edit: At the same time, my wife, who tends to prefer her phone:
"I haven't finished it.. But such a visual treat. Interesting how they did that. Makes it feel very interactive."

So I'm clearly just not the target audience, which is fair enough :-)
I started a YIMBY group in my city. How are cities are built determines so much else about our lives, like how far people have to drive - or if maybe they could ride bikes or walk instead.

I don't see a path to doing that full time, though.
I’ve been eying FreeBSD for my next project once feature parity is finalized and I begin to lock down the build chain for long term storage. I think one nice thing about FreeBSD is how the entire ecosystem is maintained by the same team of core developers vs. Linux which focuses on the kernel and has a wider more heterogeneous ecosystem. I want something stable, that has great console mode, and has great Ethernet support, and is absolutely rock solid. Does FreeBSD fit the bill there?
Whatever the strange presentation, there's something about it for sure. A friend of mine used to run a skilift in Norway, and he's noticed how the length of the season has changed for the worse. In the end he sold it, didn't seem as good a business as it once was.
The T480s has so much better build quality. Its all metal vs T480 which is plasticity and soft touch. Not sure why you would choose T480 unless you REALLY need > 24gb ram or giant extended battery.

Even the inside is better built. The plastic front clips of the T480 backplate break super easily, whereas the T480s has replaceable clips.
A very Modest Proposal.
Research should not stop with the research paper
Online School Ratings and Segregation in America (2019)
Your point got me thinking...

PHP arrays may have been one of the "killer features" that lead to it taking hold of the web. It's so frictionless, powerful, and you can bend them to your will with ease.
Of course you can. If you bought the car with auto pilot, you can sell a car with auto pilot. Tesla has nothing to do with it. The article describes a case, where the dealer seems to have bought a car without autopilot.
$300 but that got me a Samsung Galaxy Note 9. Headphone jack and all.
Too late, I already bought one a few months back. And I am absolutely concerned about what incidents like this will do to the resale value. Thankfully I don't have any optional features like FSD on my car, but still, perception is more important than reality and reduced demand will definitely have an effect on the value.
It may not be the best name, but it sure is better than the names of the projects it was based on: PIK and FUIF. At least if you speak Dutch. A "pik" is a penis and a "fuif" is a party, so the combination would be the "penis party" image codec. I prefer "JPEG XL".

The etymology of the name "XL" is as follows: JPEG has called all its new standards since j2k something that starts with an X: XR, XT, XS (S for speed, since it is very fast and ultra-low-latency), and now XL. The L is supposed to mean Long term, since the goal is to make something that can replace the legacy JPEG and last as long as it did.
Is Android still built on Linux?
I hate the trackpad/nubbins on those things. At least for Win10. the response/behavior isn't really consistent between it seeming to want a swipe, a tap, right or left buttons and whatnot.
Well, a BSD-branded BSD isn't. (MacOS is technically a BSD.)
No, if you buy a car with FSD or Autopilot, Tesla won't remove it on a whim.
This somewhat legendary teardown of an Apple charger is a fun read: http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-...

Basically, they seem to do a pretty good job isolating high- and low-voltage circuits. As far as I understand it, it is air-gapped, and physically impossible to induce dangerously high voltage on the device side without some mechanical failure that bridges the gap.
Given the agricultural issues in that movie, perhaps the purification device was intended more to collect and concentrate the urea than to purify the water.

But that assumes the scriptwriter would have thought of that, which may be a stretch, given that Earth has insufficient water to cover all landmasses to a depth of 7 km. That would require about 3.6 billion cubic kilometers more water than already exists in the oceans, and there are only about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water on Earth to begin with, . Certainly there isn't that much locked up in glacial ice. That is only 26.5 million km^3, which is enough to raise sea level by a maximum of 52 m, far short of the 8 km it would take to cover everything but Mt. Everest.

Anyone who would skip that bar-napkin math was probably only putting that scene in specifically for the gross-out factor. It's just like Mad Max eating the can of dog food. Which is an apples-to-apples comparison, because Waterworld was written specifically to be an ersatz Mad Max.
I saw them contributing often to ZFS on FreeBSD, what is their product? Is it equivalent to NetApp?
I for one am waiting for us to be able to setup a McDonalds and Walmart round them parts! YeeeHaw!

Honestly the thing that concerns me more is our new zombie overlords who will come from this melting process. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a30643717/vi...
Indeed. That scene where he's running on the treadmill with a recorded heartbeat is so true to life.
Personally, I like how this website is styled. It’s really well executed. I think it caters to a very broad audience - people have become used to full screen pictures and small bites of texts evenly distributed (eg in Instagram Stories).
Well, this is HackerNews, started by a technology company accelerator focused largely on web applications, for which UX is a top line discussion point.

The point being, the takes here are pretty on-brand.
This is a well-known approach known as multistage flash distillation:

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

It's surprising they didn't mention this in the article. (It is, of course, mentioned in the paper, because its authors are decent and honest people.)

> more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour

I don't understand. Are those imperial gallons, US gallons, US dry gallons, or Irish gallons, which are all different sizes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon#Sizes_of_gallons How many hamburgers is that the same weight as? How many ngogns is that? Or maybe acre-feet, pony shots, or Olympic swimming pools? MIT should be ashamed of their News Office.

The abstract of the paper https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ee/c9ee0... does give the result in modern units, and to a much higher precision:

> a production rate of 5.78 L m⁻² h⁻¹ under one-sun illumination

In Dercuano http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano I wrote a note about multistage distillation, which I didn't realize was already a known technique until later; see notes/recycling-distillation.html or p. 1776 in the PDF. The basic summary is that modern reverse-osmosis distillation plants require on the order of 7 kJ/ℓ to get freshwater from seawater (which works out to about 50 kJ of sunlight per liter with a cheap 16%-efficient solar panel) while multistage distillation requires a few hundred kJ/ℓ.

The number given by the paper abstract works out to 623 kJ/ℓ if we assume one sun is 1000 W/m² (a common figure for the solar constant at the surface). So if you use those square meters to run photovoltaic panels which you then use to drive a reverse-osmosis machine, you can get dozens of times as much fresh water from the same solar energy. But you need to build or buy a reverse-osmosis machine, and then you need to defoul it, so this device might be a good choice in some circumstances. (You might need to defoul the distillation apparatus as well, though.)
I'm sure he has - I have too. It's not comparable. Sure, if you only care about range vs. dollars, it's close to a base model 3... but it feels like a cheap Chevy, doesn't have nearly the acceleration performance, and the driver assist isn't in the same league.

Keep in mind, this is coming from someone who owns Chevy Spark EV (the smaller, cheaper, precursor of the Bolt basically).

For a full replacement for ICE cars (instead of owning 1 ICE and 1 EV), there's really no substitute for a Tesla.
It’s not an article, it’s a slideshow with pictures. Who actually wants to consume information like this?
802.11a is not just slow in benchmarks. That’s easily perceptibly slow, even when doing ordinary web browsing (given that web pages are orders of magnitude larger than when 802.11a was mainstream)

Theoretically 802.11a is the same speed as 802.11g, but in practice it drops off super quickly and means a “simple” page (like gmail/outlook) is loading in 30s-1m.
If Tesla were thinking ahead, they'd have already realized that FSD should be offered as a license assigned to the user, not the car. Someone who has $7K of sunk cost into the brand itself is definitely going to lean towards a Tesla as their next vehicle, if buying a Ford/Kia/Hyundia/Jaguar/Audi/Porsche/whatever means losing that license.
Apple fined $27M in France for throttling old iPhones without telling users
I see. I guess I just got unlucky going with Google - it was the first entry in a new phone line after all. I went with them due to the impression they were the "official" Android manufacturer, the OS was as close to stock as possible and it got the latest security updates quickly (an annoying issue with Samsung when I had one). People said good things about the Nexus also.

Having to install LineageOS just to be able to keep using it invalidates the "first-party" argument though.
console.log(object)

{
keys
in
headache
less
order
}

I find this use case severely undervalued in
this thread and have no idea why. It helps so much in logging and/or debugging.
I think this is one of those instances where the UX makes it better.

It forced me to slow down, parse each line one at a time, read line-by-line, image-by-image, and let the gravity sink in. I would have just skimmed it if it were a text article with a photo gallery, to no great effect.
New ‘Trump’ Token Giving 62% Odds of US President’s Reelection
How about the trackpad?
And the power switch?

I've been running Ubuntu and Kali on a Dell machine for a few years and the trackpad has always been unusuable and the power switch is always power-down (instead of sleep, standby).

Yes, I've messed with the xorg settings for the trackpad and the ACPI settings for the button, but gave up.
Then why not put it in order while you're hand crafting it?
In commercial OSes I meant. Otherwise yes, linux has always been more oxygen for your old machine.
On one side, I think it's nice that a company decides to explore/fund new ideas and products by giving someone an entrepreneurial-like offer.

At the same time, a great founder shouldn't need to do this via Carta, and I'd be worried a lot about Carta's real intention.

Not sure how Carta could defuse these concerns, though. Perhaps they're well intentioned but it's hard for them to prove it.
The original monroney sticker had EAP and FSD listed, so nobody pirated it.
While not for most people, it is realtively easy to replace the screen with a higher quality panel. I have a T495, and replaced the panel with a higher quality one. No screws, just sticky stuff, I was concerned about this at first, as I didn't know of the sticky substance would remain viable after swaping thescreen, but it is working great. Since I am not changing panels everyday, it isn't an issue.
The timeline in the story seems to confirm that assumption.
I wouldn’t. It’s bad and not worth the caloric swiping effort.
> JS objects are ordered maps

So currently (now that there are Symbols in JS), the order is: array-indexed properties first (integers), then string-key properties, in insertion order, then Symbol-keyed properties in insertion order.

The reason for the funny behavior in treating integer keys differently is that property keys are always treated as strings, so obj["3"] and obj[3] can't be distinguished, and arrays are also ordinary objects, so setting obj[3] was made to do the same thing on any object rather than special-casing arrays and non-array plain objects...

Today, JavaScript is a small, reasonably elegant scripting language with reasonable semantics, buried in a medium-sized, reasonably expressive scripting language with reasonable but different semantics, added 20 years later. The kitchen-sink disease is far enough along that it'll probably never recover the appeal it once had as a beginners' language. It still has the advantage of backwards compatibility, and it's become more practical as a compilation target.
It looks super shady.

If you believe these are fields of potential massive growth, then why you don't develop them in situ?

And if someone else is working on that already... why you don't acqui-hire them?
During the day, the salt collects in the capillary material. If it was working 24/7, then it would continuously increase in salinity until you had to do something about it.

However he sun goes down, which means that osmosis works in its favour. The less salty water wicks into the matting, the matting over saturates and leaks back down, equalising the salinity.