skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> The Tesla Model 3 automatically adjusts the speed of the wipers depending on how heavy its sensors believe the rain is.
> It can be switched on and off from the steering wheel, but adjusting the interval needs to be done on the touchscreen.

And, more relevant:

> ...the driver complained to the higher regional court. Windscreen wiper control was, he argued, a safety-related feature that he needed to access.

Your attack on "judges" is misplaced too:

> The higher court disagreed, backing the first judgement. Whether or not the screen was a permanent part of the car was irrelevant, it decided - and it did not matter why the driver was looking at a touchscreen while driving, only that he did so.

I'm not saying you are, but from your comment it really seems you did not read the article and only rushed into the comments to defend Tesla.
It doesn't work for me after I enter a password to lock it. I cannot type in anything.
Misuse of technology --- technology that actually detracts from usability.

Provide essential info and control in the simplest possible manner. If you feel the need for additional gadgetry, use voice recognition and response --- something with minimal distraction from the essential task at hand.
Once upon a time it was quite elegant. Then, like everything Facebook acquires, it grew into a bloated "why not?" monster.
books 1 to 3 are awesome. after that the author forgets how to advance the plot while still churning out a new book more than once/year.

I gave up on book 7, so yeah, I tried sticking with it.
I still cannot believe that Twitter bought Vine, couldn't figure out what to do with it, shut it down, then had to bring it back as a read-only archive because there was so much popular outcry.

At the time, the story was that all these other platforms like Instagram and Snapchat were adopting short videos, so Vine could not compete anymore. But obviously it was possible to compete, since an entirely new service--Tik Tok--was able to rise against them.

That said, I do think there may be a human-oriented life cycle to these sorts of social apps. Once a social platform is around long enough, it becomes the thing that old people use (since its original users grow older with it). Then the next round of teens seek a new platform--even if the functionality is the same--just so they can have it to themselves.

Under this theory, there's nothing Twitter could have done with Vine to make it beat Tik Tok, since a crucial feature of Tik Tok is simply that it's new.

The business strategy in the face of this theory would be to continuously start or buy new social platforms with similar feature sets, but each time with a new brand that is totally separate from the (older) parent brand so teens don't get scared off.
This is a long time coming. Glad that they've done the lifting to expose these resources to higher-order analysis.

I took a look at this potential a couple of years ago but on PubMed:

https://techbio.org/b-tracing-psych-signals-lit.php
They should call it the Jiggle-No
The Wikipedia article on DC-X is interesting.

> In a post-accident report, NASA's Brand Commission blamed the accident on a burnt-out field crew who had been operating under on-again/off-again funding and constant threats of outright cancellation.

That is the reason why SpaceX is so much more efficient and revolutionary, compared to what Boeing/ULA on US side and EADS/Ariane on EU are doing - they are cutting politics out of the equation and with it, a whole boatload of issues.
There's no way that's the reason. I just recently bought an instance of the cheapest car Honda still markets in the USA and it has _great_ steering wheel controls, improved even from the ergonomics of my last Honda which was a top-of-the-line model and trim. 18 functions on the face of the wheel, more stuff on two paddles and two stalks behind the wheel. It's one of the cheapest cars you can buy.

https://ef2a5a53b98055d22ce3-7a5c64ec0d36aa3941021bc0fe9ef43...
I think the trouble is that it's really hard to start a new social network from scratch, so when Facebook wants to compete in a new segment they just tack on the feature to one of their existing social products. However, as you pointed out this leads to feature creep and pushes users to simpler platforms.

What I would do to solve this problem if I were at Facebook is to start new features out on an established platform (like they already do) until they reach a critical mass. Then I would completely break the feature out into its own app with separate branding. Hopefully I could get 10-20% of the active users of that feature to move to the new app and then grow it from there.

It's a very delicate process each time you do it but I think in the long run it would diversify Facebook's revenue across many independent brands and solve the feature creep problem.
> rep for elegance

Back in 2013-2014 it was a quite simple to use and elegant app. Then Facebook happened.
http://www.projectoberon.com/ has all of the source and the Oberon book
ANFO is only ~3/4 as powerful as TNT per kilogram and this was just amonium nitrate, not much fuel for it to combust (hence the nice brown smoke). Additionally, "pile of junk in a warehouse" is second only to "pile of junk not in a building" when it comes to having the least efficient yield for a given amount of explosives. Doubtful this is over a kiloton.

It's really hard to make big efficient explosions by accident.
are posts in a static order by time posted or does it vary based on upvotes?

Want to be sure I'm seeing new posts when I scroll through.
Can confirm it is infuriating.

Even worse when it's retail customer facing and it works for all developers. This broke our chat widget and is probably the explanation for our declining chat numbers. Nobody connected the dots until some developers got included in the rollout. Now all hell broke lose because the business realized we've been serving a broken chat feature to some users for months.
This is a weird phenomenon. There seems to be two conflicting philosophies in regards to reducing accidental complexity in software.

The "less is more" crowd adheres to avoiding and reducing feature bloat and writes lower level, often efficient, very consistent code that is easy to grok.

And the "correctness by concept" crowd, with many variants thereof. Expressive type systems, functional programming, abstraction and general "higher order-ness" are dominating themes here.

Languages and paradigms often land on the spectrum of these two. I wonder if these concepts can be married in some way and what we would have to give up to do so.
Reminds me of the OpenVMS clusters.. Police in Amsterdam celebrated in 2007 an uptime of 10 years of their cluster. In this period, all hardware was replace, and half of it was moved to another location 7 km away. All data moved from DAS disks to SAN without one application needed to be stopped. Also VMS was upgraded from 6.2 to 7.3-2. The VMS cluster did not go down during all of these changes. I <3 OpenVMS
Terran: A Human Perception Library
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Full flow staged combustion cycle, never been flown* before, explained here:

https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/

* The Russians built one in the 60s but it never got past static fire tests
> the horrible thing we still have is courts with clueless/uninterested judge

The judge is not ruling about the UI/UX or Tesla or the car, only that the driver chose or allowed himself to be distracted and become a danger. You seem to agree that it's the driver's fucking problem to learn how to use the car without becoming a danger, so why would you then go insult the judge?
In a linked blog post [0] and on the Rust performance page [1] the performance metric "instructions" is used. What exactly is meant by that? Number of instructions executed?

[0] https://nikic.github.io/2020/05/10/Make-LLVM-fast-again.html

[1] https://perf.rust-lang.org/
The raptor is a "full flow staged combustion engine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staged_combustion_cycle#Full-f...

AFAIK it's the only flying, non-research example of such an engine.
Not Toyota.. They always have stuff that's 1 gen behind, but it always works the way it should.
OctoSQL v0.3.0: Streaming, Temporal SQL on Event Streams in Go
this is a pretty common practice on many (if not all) government networked devices

that...or the USB port is permanently blocked (saw that when I was at a finserv years back: all USB ports (except the one the mouse plugged into) were epoxied
Ah yes, I recall something about this. They tried to pretend the fans were a safety feature to keep kids/dogs safe in parked cars, except the fans didn't automatically turn on until the car was already hot enough to be lethal.
As a Roblox user, I believe it might be their tool that allows Luau code to be stored on the filesystem and automatically synced to games. There are references to "FileSyncService" in the binaries, but the engineers refuse to open it up for some reason.
VKontakte is not a national security risk in other Western countries, because it's only popular in Russian-speaking world. And Ukraine is currently the only country that is actively trying to break away from it.
Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever
National security of EU countries is provided by NATO, though. Few EU countries spend a lot on defense.
IIRC, all GCPs IPv6 support is complicated by the fact that they adopted IPv6 from the get-go for internal routing, and layer the user-visible virtual address space on top of it, embedding the user-visible addresses inside the invisible "actual" VM addresses, and that layering strategy allows for something super amazing or fast or something. Something like that.

So then you ask the engineers, "when are you going to adopt IPv6?" And they're like: "What do you mean? We've never NOT used IPv6 for everything important."

On the one had my GCP server's "native" IP address that the OS sees is always an IPv4 address. On the other hand, it's always in the 10.x.x.x/8 range. Everything else is NAT and LB.
Pac-Man at 40: A conversation with creator Toru Iwatani
This sounds like a great idea for many sectors.
When I said “amortized” in this case, I just mean that the cost of the initial page load is spread out throughout the length of the session. Like you said, if you just want to quickly open an email then close the app, the session time will he short and the page load cost will be a large percentage of the session time.

I’m having trouble comprehending some of your sentences (there’s some running on going on). So I don’t understand what you mean by “waiting for advanced search” - is that better or worse in the multi page world? I think it’s worse. With an SPA, all of the UI navigation can happen on the client, which is as quick as possible (no server round trip). The actual searching in an SPA would be via an API and you get a nice spinner in the meantime, again with no page load. All smooth UI transitions which indicate to the user what exactly is happening. No blank page while a new page is computed without knowing what exactly is going on.
It's so helpful that it's jarring when it's not - hah.

Ie, i tried out Diesel for a few projects and after several months, i'm moving away from it. The compiler messages can be insane due to Diesel's rather.. excessive use of generics haha.
The interior couldn't handle the heat of being parked in the sun? This is a very basic standard. Every BMW, ford, Ferrari or Honda is tested in a chamber with heat lamps. I cannot imagine any Honda engineer suggesting that the car run the AC in order to protect the interior parts.

And it isn't all about the customer. Would one of these teslas survived on a used car lot? Could it survive being transported across the country on the back of a truck? A car that cannot survive direct sunlight is a logistical nightmare.
I never understood this feature. Why not use an addon instead? Ublock origin for example is much better compared to the firefox tracking protection.
plus, i would imagine turning them on and bringing them online isn't just a press of a button.
That spectrogramme view really is phenomenal, so effortlessly fast even while being kind of 3d.

I was talking about this the other day with someone, why don't DAWs push the spectrogramme view more forcefully, instead of the default wave view? There's so much more information to be gleaned in spectrogramme view than the waveform view.

I'm trying to learn to sing these days, and I'd been wondering if this was a good way to practice a song: look at a vocal stem of the song I'm trying to sing, and observe visual feedback of the spectrogramme.
The downvotes without counterargument are frankly chilling given what I'm saying. But I am actually interested in dialog, so let me expand a little:

American (online or not) media, advertising and tech companies have been vastly successful all over the world, and that has - rightfully, to a large degree - been attributed to the quality of their products.

Now there's a successful tech company from China, and you're saying that means they must be banned or expropriated because they could influence public opinion? That's peak hypocrisy.

Yes, China has done similar things. But that's an unfree, communist country! Stooping to their lows makes you wrong, not right.

The other comments here pointing to how the EU could act similarly towards FAANG or Tesla are spot on. It definitely shouldn't in my opinion, but if it did I guarantee you you'd hear the same gleeful "good for you" rhetoric from this side of the Atlantic.

It would make a few people feel all fuzzy and energized for a while, but in the long term it would simply destroy the free, open exchange of goods, people and ideas that has done so much for us and that's dear to so many of us. Thankfully, EU leaders aren't (yet) that unwise apparently.
Improving Postmortems from Chores to Masterclass with Under Armour's Paul Osman
Tim Dodd explains it very well: https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/

It's basically a sweet-spot between being very powerful, very efficient, cheap and easy to operate and highly reusable. To get all these, they implemented a design that never got past the basic demo stage before, which included independently working out the secret sauce of the best Russian-made engine.
> I prefer an "exact" guarantee that the result is as close-as-possible rather than merely "within some relative epsilon".

This is the core requirement of any system that quantizes the real numbers in order to perform arithmetic. The thing that distinguishes fixed-point from floating-point systems is the quantization error that gets introduced in this process:

For floating point, the error is proportional to the magnitude of the number being reprsented. The article is primarily exploring the implications of this property.

For fixed point, the quantization error has an absolute magnitude that doesn’t depend on the size of the input numbers. This has a completely different set of benefits and drawbacks, but still maintains your “preferred” property.
Maybe I should!

I sometimes feel like sending one to Bjarne Stroustrup too, because C++ is still an incredible language. I see Rob and Ken talking about how they hate C++ and I worry about poor Bjarne's feelings.
This was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24025100
I don't feel the need to go beyond SMS/TOTP MFA for my personal, private, security. I can just call my banks and recover if I lose my phone and SIM somehow.

However, I have an open source project with at least a thousand users who could be severely harmed by both compromise of my account (malicious code changes) or loss of my account (having to fork without being able to update the original).

With this change, in order to protect my users I have to go beyond an anti-compromise standard of MFA to an anti-loss standard of MFA (e.g. by buying many physical devices). I also have to be constantly vigilant as if I mess up and break my MFA, lose that piece of paper, have my house burn down, I harm many people.

So, do I choose to disable MFA, and risk my users machines being compromised?

Or do I enable MFA, and risk my mental health?

Or do I just stop supporting this open source project?
That is what they want you to believe, as everything in China must look reasonable. Google left because it decided censoring according to law was too much for them. Really? They suddenly got tired of censoring after doing it for years? Or is it [1]?

The timing of Uber leaving China - Aug 2016 - coincided suspiciously with the Chinese government legalizing ridesharing - announced in July 2016 to kick in November 2016. Isn’t that interesting? Per HBR:

> Under the new regulations, the data collected by Uber would come under the purview of the government. There would be no more subsidies. Market prices would prevail, the regulations state, “except when municipal government officials believe it is necessary to implement government-guided pricing.” According to Xinhua, ride-hailing companies would be urged to merge with taxi companies. (Many of those also happen to be owned by the local governments.) Uber would have to get both provincial and national regulatory approval for its activities anywhere in China. Online and offline services would be regulated separately.

> Moreover, foreign companies like Uber would be subject to even more regulation than their competitors.

This has always been the MO of Chinese government: blackmail though selective enforcement of broad-stroke laws. They tell you to leave without having to mouth it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
[2] https://hbr.org/2016/08/the-real-reason-uber-is-giving-up-in...
> It's not magic, the horrible thing we still have is courts with clueless/uninterested judges.

The driver fiddled with the touchscreen and caused a crash, and was punished for that. So you are saying the driver shouldn't have been punished for fiddling with the touchscreen because he didn't have to use the touchscreen? Wouldn't that be a bigger reason to think the driver is at fault?
> Finally, there's also voice controls: "Wipers increase" and you're done.

If the driver had used voice control he would not have been fined.

> It's not magic, the horrible thing we still have is courts with clueless/uninterested judges.

In Germany, judges are supposed to apply existing laws, not to amend or alter them based on their "clues" and "interests".
I looked into getting a Tesla but decided against it because of the all touchscreen UX.
During Y2K I've also had to shutdown various OpenVMS servers with uptime over 10 years... Only because of company policies, not because OpenVMS required the reboot.
Camo lets you use your iPhone camera as your computer webcam
Anytime I see a service that pays for ranking then I intentionally avoid them.
This might be the way to go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdwy9fzQzl4
You should be able to determine the constant experimentally by running controlled experiments. Preferably with smaller amounts of explosives.

(It’s been too long since I read Taylor’s paper. I thought he had relied upon such experimental data, but it appears I misremembered.)
Moving online webserver using public transport
How are other countries handling schools? I know that the US has been conspicuously bad at controlling the disease, and other countries are starting to open up, but schools in particular are warehouses for contagion. Are they opening schools?
> Are you sure your network is not compromised?

It's definitely not. Also used 3 different browsers - each one showed the same dialog but with the name and version of that browser. It doesn't happen on my mobile over WiFi (rules out network injection).

This is what I'm seeing: https://imgur.com/a/o9PNmaU

It's being inserted via a .js file on static.remove.bg:

https://static.remove.bg/remove-bg-web/38c6be57b031c26a2186b...

(search for 'out of date' )

So either the site owner is complicit, or they've been hacked.

Edit: Fired up a VM of Windows 7 - Same message - so unless my routers been hacked to inject that script somehow, i'm 99% certain it's not me.
I needed to restart a server where I worked. My boss was complaining about the revenue loss during the down time. I knew the revenue loss (if there even was any, as opposed to a couple of minutes of revenue simply shifting to a few minutes later...) would be well under a dollar.

So I listened to him whine for a couple minutes, then tossed a dollar on his desk, told him that would cover it so he could shut up now, and rebooted the server.

Warning: you should probably only try this if you are good friends with your boss. That boss had been my best friend for years before I came to work for his company.
Added to this, the additional light, especially so close to the front window, reduces your visibility, certainly on pitch dark roads. You'd be amazed how well you can see on a pitch dark road, if all the interior light is switched off (or dimmed to a minimum), with just the running lights. No need for high beams in most cases. Big interior screens make a huge impact on this too.
I'm pro renewables but Asimov made an impact on how nuclear is the power of the future and it would be nice to have it in our portfolio.

The only likelihood of nuclear power succeeding would be to containerize the reactors to ensure build quality, keep costs down, and to address scaling.

A quick search hit this company that appears to be promoting this very thing: http://www.holosgen.com/
This is one of the reasons I chose not to purchase a Model 3. Two of my co-workers bought one and raved about it, I just couldn't get over the fact that the touchscreen was a single point of failure for the entire car.
just as a note, tiktok was not an entirely new service. they bought and then transformed musical.ly.
it will not. more direct resources:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/beirut-explosions-l...
Because the default should be to block tracking. We just shouldn't allow it. Imagine someone telling you a popup blocker (something even IE8 had standard) should be acquire separately.
The “that” I intended is TikTok, a reference to this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/07/07/tiktok-...

TikTok tends to be apolitical and heavily moderated, so having this go viral was unusual.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91177/how-our-eyes-see-e...

Until we can understand and correct unconcious inferences, how can we ever understand intelligence.
Tracking Protection is quite explicitly not an ad blocker. It blocks tracking, and that's not the same thing.
> Why not use an addon instead?

The general population has no idea such an addon is necessary. I applaud Mozilla including at least basic privacy blocking by default now.