skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crowdfunded dongle brings wireless Android Auto to more cars
A lot of the innovations come from funding from the government. Things like green energy, the internet, and soon self driving cars all come from funding for the government, either through incentives (like the DARPA self driving challenges a few years ago) or just straight up state sponsored research. You don't need billionaires to make things happen. Also, I will ask, where are all the billionaires who actually spend their money to do good once they've amassed their wealth? Bill Gates has done this, but lots of these people are abject failures at actually using their money directly to do good. They might have innovated in while they were acquiring their money, but once they get it they don't seem so innovative anymore.
Is there really a shortage of school computers? Unrequested: my kids got sent a chrome book and MSFT surface for school this year, when they already had better home computers.

The US has never spent a higher percent of GDP on education,

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending

so why is this a problem and what does it have to do with Right to Repair?
Why would it be crazy? Local autonomy is a very important concept. That's why many regions want more of it. (Eg. Catalonia in Spain, Scotland in the UK, and HK in China.)

There's also the tradition of cities being "free" as in they were not feudal land.

Of course self-determination doesn't mean complete total independence. Sometimes cities/regions/states lack the ability to control their currency supply (see the problem with in the Eurozone due to the differing interests of Germany and Greece), but inclusive institutions should maximize the ability of the member to work within the institutional framework to have its problem addressed. And that's why democracy is such an institution, and in theory other institutions built on democracy have this ability too. Of course it needs many things for it to work well. (For example empathy of the other members.)
Agree. I have passed up opportunities to take LSD on several occasions as I knew my emotional state baseline positive enough. The time I did do it was at one of the happiest times of my life and it was a fun experience.

The time element of a deep LSD trip can make it very challenging. Being stuck in your thoughts for 18 hours is not for the light hearted
We can talk about the problematic experiences of immigrant minorities without bringing race into it. For example, my friend's father moved from Uruguay to Australia in the 1970s, and my friend told me his dad was teased at work for his accent and gaps in knowledge of English. Like most Uruguayans, he is of European descent, so arguably just as "white" as the English-speaking Australians who were teasing him were.

You chose to bring race into the discussion, when one can make the same point without any reference to race.
Germany is just one country further; flights are fast and dirt cheap. If you go abroad, might as well go to a place where salaries are higher.
He's probably not super religious or you're super progressive. While I respect and appreciate what you said, many many people still think in terms of us and them.
You might be thinking of a different animal. An ox isn't a good choice as an milking animal, as it typically is a castrated male bovine. If female, it would at least produce milk, but then it would just be a cow used for plowing, and would have the same milk as a dairy cow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox. Maybe you mean a water buffalo?
> Then why aren’t you rocking an iPhone 5s? Still gets security updates. Or an iPhone 4? Probably still works on all phone networks.

Well, close to that, I have a first-generation Google Pixel because iOS is too crippled for my taste. And, yes, I've replaced the battery twice and the glued-down screen is a major nuisance.
NSCache (2012)
> AFAIK, before the iphone all phones had a swappable battery.

they also had wildly lower power demands.
Interesting, I think you'd get more participants if you made it an actual website.

Instead of having to open the devtools and manually paste in the script, why not just have a script on a HTML page?
I agree that how tech is used & what it enables is a good discussion.

I think folks interested in this topic should get a basic education.

I resend starting with intents & desires the project started with, by reading the ietf draft of the use cases,

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yasskin-wpack-use-cases-01
I have multiple raspberry pi’s running in the office. Two Zero Ws in Lamps, a raspberry pi 4 as a controller for our 3D printer (octoprint) and a raspberry pi 1 as a pihole.

At home I am using one raspberry pi 4 as a pihole, sorting Mails with imapfilter and controlling our smart home with node-red.

No desktop use, don’t even have the GUI installed.
This actually gets back to the issue of web bundles. Google doesn't have to worry about the 8 MB because they have an extensive CDN, but smaller sites have to save every bit because they are being charged for it.
If Google can leverage its CDN to serve the smaller sites, everyone wins.
C++20 approved, C++23 meetings and schedule update
Wow I kinda thought the article would go into police departments and unions paying social media management firms to send bad-faith takedown notices for YouTube videos that cast them in a bad light, but uhh yeah some protesters are kinda trying to do the same thing with far less resources.
That's just semantics. Sure, nothing in the license says you can't make money, but the basic rules of capitalism say you won't. Every single model I've heard of is unsustainable because of the cost of development puts the developer at a permanent disadvantage.

A "repackager" can charge less than the developer while also having much higher margins. Lower price leads to more market share, which brings more total revenue. In addition, these companies now have more to spend on advertising etc., bringing in even more money, none of which ever has to go to the original devs.

This is simply unavoidable and the only reason we don't see it more often is that most of us with the required skills have morals telling us to not do that and those who don't have much better ways of getting money without creating value.
that's not a correct point of view. Your theory would be valid, if this didn't happen in other european countries that had no marketing whatsoever or 'evil big milk' industry behind....

Almost all former communist countries, gave lots of milk of children, whenever they could as it was universally considered healthy and nutritional.

Also Milk, yogurt and cheese are staples of most Mediterranean diets, since like forever.
Mostly agree, and no doubt that was the intent of LW: it is shorn of non-functional ornaments, but I propose that aesthetic choice determined the form of that door handle. Various forms would have worked.
Absolutely right. Yet visible minorities usually have it worse. Your friend could at least go to the supermarket without getting stares.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

The right to repair requires the right to root!
Same disappointment here. I've had some fun experiences - shooting out the side of a water tank to put out a fire below - but they are sadly few and far between.
Same, love this idea
> I just assumed people would learn to type better by being at the computer all day

I've noticed that with doctors. Maybe it's just where I live, but most doctors I've met hunt and peck. It's painful to watch them struggling to type their prescriptions. Considering how valuable their time is, it's a shame they don't spend time learning this skill.
"Web scale" isn't a real thing and I don't know what "shared data access layer" refers to but relational databases have decades of features and tooling that prove to be very useful in most cases. Even if you don't use ACID, transactions, key relations and other features, maintaining the basic type information in the database still has numerous advantages in data consistency, integrity and performance.

Also everything can scale, and it's all using the same fundamental primitives (sharding, etc) to do so anyway. Some just make it easier with built-in functionality vs external layers.

This is not to say that non-relational systems aren't useful, but that they are rarely used correctly instead of chosen for marketing hype, and hearing things like "adding a column is easier" from an architect usually points to the later situation.
I have to solve a CAPTCHA to update my graphics drivers
"The best ideas might not be ours , they might be already invented." I find biomimicry fascinating in how it promotes egoless engineering. Solving problems rather than being _right_.
I thought it was interesting because in my circles we like to have all-night study sessions where we eat a lot of oily fish (herring, sprats, etc), deep fried chicken skins fried in chicken fat, fatty chopped chicken liver pate, etc. followed by ample amounts of vodka. Not beef fat, but nobody I know has liver disease. :-)
So you want developers to spend a lot of time making new features on spec?
Not to be critical but this sounds a bit like cognitive dissonance.
I had shorts with pockets that made it feel like the phone was put away, but when I stood up they would catch the phone and tumble out.
For anybody looking to try psychedelics without the sketchiness of finding a dealer or buying online, you should know that you can discretely grow psilocybin mushrooms in your home for less than a hundred dollars initial investment, and with very little effort. It's legal to buy the spores in most states, and it only takes a couple of months to grow a nice canopy.

The best guide is https://www.reddit.com/r/unclebens/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/8e7g6n/how_to_grow.... Expect to read a lot before you start growing.
The DRM module is available for ARM by now. Performance might be an issue, not sure if the Pi 4 is fast enough for 1080p now.
Typing isn't the bottleneck for coding sure. But time wasted on text editing, especially mechanical/repetitious nonsense, is valuable keyboard time stolen from any more productive computing chores of which I have a seemingly endless supply of.
The whole stock market is built on the premise that you don’t have to work for the company to benefit from its success. Why is a family’s success any different? If a parent works hard, makes money, pays his taxes and wants to give that money to a child, it seems obscene to me that the government steps in and takes yet another cut of the money.

The parent paid their income taxes on the money already. I believe in his death he owes capital gains on his stock holdings. So all the money that’s passed down has been taxed fairly already.
Off topic, but I love your phrasing.
Then they can also afford an SE2.
Struggling with Motivation in Programming
Personally I like not having alerts. I'm sick of every site having a little bell with a red number on it... It's great to leave comments, and check back every once and a while...
Not denying it but in order for a cow to produce milk, it has to give birth to a calf every year. So you are getting new cows as a byproduct.

Today, male calves are usually separated from their mother early and slaughtered for their meat, while females can be used to replenish stock. But if you prefer you can slaughter them later for more meat and less milk.
The Pascal's Wager of the omnipresent environmental doomsday cult.
Most Albanian Muslims are not "super religious". His family is about as Muslim as my own family is Catholic (i.e. not very devoutly), but I believe his family's degree of religiosity is pretty much the norm for Albanian Muslims both in Australia and in Europe.

I am definitely not "super progressive".
“No net benefit to society” is your personal value judgement. Other people necessarily made different value judgements when they exchanged billions of dollars in value for those things.
Super! My understand is that Krita's distribution through app stores has a similar flavor - it's pure GPL, no tricks, but people pay for the convenience and assurance of downloading the official version of the app.

My personal feeling is that as PC's become more locked down and less under user control, paying for the digitally signed version might increasingly become a viable business model. Trademarks and TOS enforcement might be a more effective moat against being undercut than copyrights and licenses.
C++ is almost a perfect superset of old C before C99. There are odd corner cases where prograns are parsed differently, but these are quite contrived. The 3rd edition of The C++ Programming language lists a few cases. Since then, C has had may additions to the language that made it diverge from C++. Your linked article is almost entirely about these new C additions.
That's Finegold. So what? He's wrong. There's a lot of chess audiences, and not all chess is about grandmaster level playing -- some of it is just pure entertainment, and that requires entertainers. Nakamura isn't just training chess talent -- he's creating entertainment and training entertainers.

I'd rather watch Hikaru Nakamura's streaming to any games featuring Magnus Carlsen (unless his opponent is Nakamura). You get the sense that Nakamura is one of the kindest and most generous people around, and he's plenty funny too. Compare and contrast the ways in which Nakamura and Carlsen are going about the business of building chess business. The world champion sets up traditional chess events, such as competitions and tours. Nakamura streams, and not just alone but with other streamers, and makes a show of training xqc even though xqc is mediocre at chess and probably always will be -- this is entertaining!

Either Finegold gets this and is playing his part to add to the drama (entertainment) or he doesn't get it and is missing out on all the fun. Either way he contributes to Nakamura's efforts!

Yes, yes, Finegold makes awesome videos to teach children chess, and he is entertaining in his own way, but there's no need to dump on Nakamura's efforts. Different markets.
How many computers (not phones/tablets) have some sort of activation lock turned on? That part of the article is unclear.
Patent would be invalidated by prior art.
We're just looking at the data and making comparisons to similar situations that have played out elsewhere in the country. That it doesn't affect you right now is irrelevant to the public health concerns. The whole point is to make sure it doesn't affect you.
> It's fascinating that a monthly visit to your local shaman may still be more safe and effective for depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline than anything western medicine has been able to produce.

I get the romanticized enthusiasm but let’s not crap on scientific process that easily. Sure there has been political pressures that stagnated psychedelic research, but for a while western medicine has been trying to work this out in a replicable and safely administrable manner. Shamans don’t operate under those limitations, hence the apparent “superiority”, with all associated, undocumented risks.

To get to the point of this paper, there are “western” substances that help with BDNF and cognitive decline too, eg. lithium, which is not as psychoactive and has a perfectly well documented risk profile (not saying risk free).
Sounds radicałly similar to:
https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
> They did not fire employees working on Firefox.

They did, and some pretty notable ones at that. Filtering https://talentdirectory.mozilla.org/ to the "Engineering" department is largely people who worked on Firefox. The loss of David Baron for one has got to be felt: he's one of the few people who had a good high-level view of all layout and style work in Gecko and its integration with the rest of the engine. And he's not the only pretty senior engineer who was let go: there's definitely some dubious lay-offs there.

The Servo team was pretty small (around half a dozen people by the end, I think), and many would've been fantastic people to keep within Mozilla, even if refocused to Gecko.

And it must be said that Mozilla have been trying to diversify for years, largely to little success. Losing Mozilla entirely would unquestionably be a loss for the web, and it would be a real shame to lose another browser engine.
Cheese has about the same lactose as milk, doesn't it?
Water resistance is not new, nor required to be as repair toxic as Apple methods often are.

And the recycling is itself toxic. Recycling, in the view of people seeking more robust, enduring gear, is mitigation, not a solution.

It is entirely possible to make things that last.

Like big pharma sees real cures as bad for business, buy once, use for a very long time is also bad for business.

There are huge costs associated with both ideas.
Please don't be obtuse and intentionally ignore all the of the legitimate reasons why they are doing all these things. You're clearly and obviously smart enough to know what those reasons are. Hint: they're not "planned obsolescence" or any such bullshit. It would be better if we could discuss those issues honestly.
Haven't gone line-by-line on this one, but I like the new trend of "time limit" licenses. If I'm trying to start a business, something AGPL-ish might make sense in the short term to avoid bigger competitors copying everything we're doing. But that doesn't mean I want my great-grandchildren to be able to sue for violations 90 years from now. "AGPL for now, MIT later" seems like a good compromise.
How much of a pain in the butt is making sure your prints are food-safe?
"Lenovo, HP, and Dell have told school districts they have a shortage of nearly 5 million laptops"

https://nypost.com/2020/08/23/us-faces-back-to-school-laptop...
Depends on the operating system. This is one reason why it is folly to try to abstract away the differences between operating systems.

Ordinary Linux file i/o for example cannot be made non-blocking and ignores O_NONBLOCK flag. See open(2).
I linked to the supplementary information [1] in my previous comment, but here's the link for the paper [2]. The method is implemented by the Colorspacious library [3] for Python, and the source for my color picker [4] contains both JavaScript and WebGL implementations.

[1] https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~oliveira/pubs_files/CVD_Simulation...
[2] https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2009.113
[3] https://colorspacious.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html...
[4] https://github.com/mpetroff/color-cycle-picker
We built a sub-100ms OCR system for Mac and built an accompanying app that sort of did this, but eventually pivoted away. It’s on my GitHub though, two different versions of it.
Except that certain things were illegal to publish, even in a country like the USA with its 1st Amendment rights. And some of the printing presses were fully utilized already, so your pamphlet about the true cost of capital concentration or QAnon wasn't about to get printed. And as for your screed against the owners of printing presses ... yep, you guessed it.
I think the best case to be made for learning how to use a "power editor" is that editing text "manually" can sometimes be seriously disruptive to your flow. If I can do a regex replace-all with vim, I get to go back to thinking about my real problems much more quickly than I would if I had to hand-edit.
Prior to 2015, Intel believed they would have production ready, 7nm chips by 2018 using EUV, which would indeed have catapulted them far ahead of the competition. Obviously, many people were skeptical about this, but if it had worked out I don't think we'd be having this conversation, nor would people have cared about them missing the 10nm target.
What's the difference between a front end developer and back end developer?
That's excellent, that is not nearly as difficult of syntax as I was expecting.
Greeks did use butter, but not milk.

But Illyrians, (northern neighbors, in modern day Albania) did drink milk. At some point they were invaded/incorporated by the Roman empire, and about 190 B.c. 'drinking milk' was not such a unfathomed thing. (but, albeit, might have been not a 'aristocratic' thing to do).

http://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Docum...

So, romans didn't drink milk originally, but their neighbors across the sea did.
Part of what excites me is that it decentralizes where assets have to come from. Yes it means Google can serve stuff, which will help some all operators at who knows exactly what cost of privacy.

But what absolutely electrifies me is that I can share content with other people: even in an offline scenario I can give then a webbundle with a site if the site supports it, and the friend's browser can crytographically check everything out, & trust that the bundle is from the bundler.

> Right now, requests on the web are kind of p2p.

Today's web is decentralized, because there are many domains. But there is little peering among peers: everything is client-server.

This, imo, enables a much more p2p web. It enables a distributed web. Where even if an endpoint is under attack, the web can go on. Where folks who fall over the edge (go offline) can still operate. But yes, seems likely Google intends to be a rather large peer among this newly distributed web.

I recommend the IETF draft of use cases for getting a taste of what WebBundles is for, which hints at this new distributed architecture, by way of describing characteristics a WebBundled web has,

https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-wpack-use-ca...
Success is not being made evil. That is a highly perverse twisting of the idea.

Nearly all success in the world involves no billionaire. SpaceX’s achievements are at least partially the credit of Elon, and it is a possibility that his billionaire status was necessary for getting SpaceX off the ground, but a massive government loan was also involved.

Also, man went to the moon 60 years ago with no billionaire involved. A massive success.
Do you have a citation for that? Because all the Kiwis I know have to get ESTAs when they go through LAX.

Here's Air NewZealand's page which says you need an ESTA to go through LAX: https://www.airnewzealand.co.uk/flights-to-auckland

"All passengers that travel via Los Angeles International Airport, must be travelling on their own machine readable passports and complete the ESTA online form at least 72 hours prior to departure from the UK."

They also link to https://www.airnewzealand.co.uk/us-entry-and-transit-require... which is fairly clear to me that you're going through US security and customs.
> The saddest thing I see in these comments are always people hating on some minor thing like Pocket or something and who has decided to go with Chrome instead :-/

What should people do? Quietly put up with Firefox being hostile to them simply because it's Firefox?

Firefox has to pay its own way by being good. It can't just assume user blind loyalty because they think they're the good guys.
> how often they get distracted or go down rabbit holes when tweaking editor config or using advanced features. I've worked with people who seem to spend half their day on this stuff.

> So while it can certainly be impressive to watch someone who has mastered their editor

I'd say anyone who spends a significant amount of time tweaking their editor while they should be working, outside of (infrequent) setup periods, has not mastered their editor (or is just slacking off). The entire point of setting this up is to make you more efficient.
Apple likely to announce iPhone 12 event date this week
Influencer Danielle Bernstein gets Covid-19 amid Hamptons backlash
How long before someone(s) decide to try to jumpstart Mars terraforming via CubeSat or an equivalent?
Microsoft warns digital currency owners to be aware of new malware
I recommend giving VSCode a try. It's at the same level of polish as Visual Studio (it has fewer years of refinement, but also fewer years of feature-bloat) and because it's Electron, it works equally well on all three OSes. I haven't used it for C(++) but I've used its debugger integration with both Node and Rust and been pretty happy, at least with the basic debugging features that I end up using.