skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may also be interested in the background images Studio Ghibli released for use as virtual backgrounds in online meetings: http://www.ghibli.jp/info/013251/
Not resolved for me. I'm getting the "Car is no longer in your Tesla account" error.
Yes, generally that is true. There are a few words, at least out west, that stand out: "About" "Schedule" "America".

The last one is in jest. The word is pronounced the same--in the US, often the US is called America, seemingly excluding Canada, Central America, South America.

And a fact that I didn't know until recently was that the Philippines prior to WW II was part of the United States. See "How to hide an empire" by Daniel Immerwahr: https://www.amazon.com/How-Hide-Empire-History-Greater/dp/03...
https://www.gwern.net/Nootropics is the best I know. Gwern does a lot of n=1 science on himself, but his articles also feature stellar collection of citations.
> The problem here is obvious, isn’t it? Unlike the Es in “SHATNER” and “LEONARD,” the ones in “DEFOREST KELLEY” have straight corners, not curved ones:

Was this a mistake? Intentional? Are these letters hand drawn? Stenciled?

Any graphic artists in the house?
I agree with some of the broad ideas here, but I also understand that doing this systematically pushes lower income people into higher "nusiance" areas which often end up being higher disease and lower lifespan areas from environmental pollution - which is inherently unfair as well as increasing the costs borne by lower income classes.

So we end up with a pretty ugly societal tradeoff if we only look at this as some sort of voluntary choice, when it is not really so.
The problem is that PDF has already had a few cycles of adding and then shedding off useless, and frankly, dangerous ideas because they keep trying fit a square peg in a round hole.
Does Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have good genes?

Do you think Trump thinks she does?

Who doesn't have good genes?

Given the association between the eugenics movement and "good genes", Trump has a large negative association to overcome if he's trying to say something so anodyne.
I think it would be a lot more fun if CEOs had to show an actual offer from a competitor in order to invoke the "I need to be payed this much to stay" argument.
This is a good idea! I will work in this direction. Thank!
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...this case centred around five of Gree's patents, which protected:

1. A method to improve the usability of city-building games using templates to define the positions of one or more in-game contents that can be applied to in-game areas based on the commands of the player.

2. A server and method for transferring an object between two users, as well as the communication module for sending and receiving requests for transfers from other players.

3. A control method for a touch-screen shooting game which first displays an effective shooting range which then detects whether an attack target is in range and commences the attack base on a command from the player.

4. A recording medium and server method for selecting game content to be used in an in-game battle -- the selected item being replaced by another option for a future turn.

5. A server and control method for selecting character cards from a selection and using them in battle against an enemy character -- the selected item being replaced by another option for a future turn.
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Those are some REALLY broad patents. The fifth one describes pretty much all digital CCGs, more specifically Hearthstone (Blizzard) and Legends of Runeterra (Riot Games).
To the Graduating Class of 2020
I agree. If you have one or two very obvious icons it can work. (Although always include a tooltip as well.) However I often see a toolbar full of similar looking icons and it is so hard to find what I am looking for. (I'm looking at you GMail)
That's not what I meant. I mean why can't the app learn the car's IP address using the cloud and then just connect directly to the car? That way if the cloud goes down it still works as long as its IP doesn't change.

It just amazes me that literally everything has to round trip to the cloud for everything. It's like we forgot that things can connect to each other.
Depth-first capitalist incentives into new and risky territory are laudable, but create duplications of effort. There comes a time when duplication of effort through competition becomes idiocy, babel-tower building, churn, "developer-fatigue" (as developers tire of learning 10,000 paths to the same software and tire of being judged for not knowing the latest idiocy). Ideally, the government would step in at this point and amalgamate the knowledge into a standard we could point to. Misaligned incentives in government break this process, leading to capital and human-future burning.
I was scared for a moment that it's going to be another "we added bunch of whitespace, js and hid a bunch of options away for a cleaner look" redesign.

Was pleasantly surprised with the article. I think current Wikipedia is highly functional design that is content thick and practical. Like HN.
You can already select a more dyslexic-friendly font for Wikipedia articles. In the side-bar, click the gear icon in the "Languages" sub-header. Select "Display" settings in the resulting box, then the "Fonts" tab and check the "Download fonts as needed" option. This will reveal a further option to switch the font for main content in your current language. Select OpenDyslexic in the drop-down box, then Apply Settings. As you can see, it's really easy and usable even for newcomer folks!
> I'm still very academic, so nobody would believe me; if I'm already good at something and I complain that it feels half-capacity, people don't take too kindly to that.

YES! Nail on the head.

It's like if I take a car to the mechanic and they say "Well, its performance hasn't fallen below that of a '93 Escort, runs 0-60 in 12 seconds just like it should", and I say "But it's not an Escort, it's a Taycan Turbo S and it used to do it in 2.42, and there's something severely wrong with it!" and they say "Sorry sir, our diagnostic criteria only allow us to work on it when it's no longer roadworthy"

What a crap mechanic.

I never played enough chess to have that sort of comparison, but at work, there's a machine I built several years ago, in an afternoon, didn't bother writing anything down because it all went together in my head with room to spare. Recently I had to build another identical unit, and even with the first one to look at, I spent a day and a half tracing it out and writing things down to try to figure out how it worked. My brain just wouldn't do the thing. I constantly feel trapped in a fog, some deranged medley of Comfortably Numb and Keep Talking.

I never would've consented to anesthesia if I'd had any idea this could happen. Fuckit, I'll live with weird digestive issues, just give me my mind back.
The lesson to be learned from that book is that we can do some cruel things to people we feel are beneath us, but we can also do some beautiful, empathetic things. The lesson to be learned from that book is not "don't be poor".
AFAIK, EFF is active in the EU: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/eff-eu-commission-arti....
They were supposed to have a Robotaxi network running this year, I wonder how it would have handled it? All cars pull over and wait on further instructions? Return to home base all at once?
Spoilers inside.

I got the impression that Paul saw many possible futures where there was certainty of a bad outcome, and some possible futures with an unknown outcome, and that the path to the unknown outcomes all involved jihad and death. So, at least in the first novel, Paul felt compelled to pursue jihad in order to provide an uncertain future, as avoiding jihad would be worse.

It's been quite some time since I read beyond the first novel though.
Why would you maximize window width on an ultra widescreen? That isn't much of a value proposition for (Western) text consumption.
I think half-arsing is fine if you're able to make a reasonable judgement of what you can and can't half-arse. It's certainly better than relentless perfectionism since this tends to mean you leave a lot of things undone - even things you should have done.

Still, and this is where it's going to be hard to avoid sounding like a snob, the implicit assumption here is that everybody is qualified to decide what they can and can't half-arse. Manifestly this isn't so:

- If you half-arse redecorating your bathroom by painting it with plain old matt emulsion paint rather than dedicated bathroom paint, and refloor it with laminate flooring that isn't water resistent, it's not going to last: the paint will peel and the laminate will, well, delaminate

- If you half-arse building a concrete block wall by not putting in footings it will one day blow over in a strong wind

- If you half-arse electrical wiring you create a serious hazard and risk injury both to yourself and others, as well as the possibility you may burn your house down

The problem is that plenty of people half-arse all of the above along with many more things that are immensely stupid to half-arse.

Hence schools drum into people that it's important to do things "properly" because the world is rammed full of people who can't reliably decide when it makes sense (and is safe) to cut corners.
No, unfortunately not.

People seem to misunderstand how institutionalized most of our infra is.

If we had a 'great car, and great tech' today in 2020, it would take 10 years to start to see common adoption.

But we really don't have proper hydrogen solutions and infra taking shape, so it's unlikely anything material will happen in 10 years.
> I think you misread my argument - It's not a shallow dismissal

I think you've misread mine. And I think you're trying to retcon things.
The radiation would be a significant problem.
Most of the dictatorships are solid following turmoils of Arab spring. Iraq was the only major change, a rare mistake of the American foreign policy.
It's implicit in their having "only" open-sourced the code: you can't actually play the game without the assets, and accessing the assets legally requires buying the game. Unless you want to remake all assets by hand I guess.
I really like how they have opted to make small changes gradually. Look at the feature lists here https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvement.... There's a detailed explanation for why each change is being made complimented by a GIF showing the side by side difference. I've been working on an SPA with a tight deadline and we are building new pages almost every other day. It's nice to see a project take a slow and careful approach.
> it was my impression that there is no firm commitment to stabilizing GAT

Certainly, but not in the sense of being uncertain about whether or not GAT are worthwhile, only in the sense of not wanting to make promises that may not be able to be kept. The Rust developers want GAT--or something analogous to GAT--and much work has been put in towards that goal (work that will have been useful even without GAT), and at this juncture there's no foreseen theoretical impediments; however, that's not to say that some unforeseen impediment won't yet arise. Such a thing happened with specialization, which has been in the works for much longer (current status: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68970), and the lesson has been to not incite expectation until you are extremely certain the promise will be able to be kept. As a mere half-informed bystander it seems that GAT not encountering the problems that specialization did, but don't take this as any sort of promise. :)
What was the work culture like inside of wmf?

Gender balanced?

Cooperative?

I'm curious because my experience of editing, and that of other people I heard from at an editor meet up, was that the culture is heavily male dominated, and unnecessarily adversarial in a bullying way. That said, the CEO at the time (2007 - 2014), Sue Gardner, seemed enlightened, progressive, smart and highly capable.
The car does not have a publicly reachable IP. It is using message bus (Kafka pub-sub, I believe) to bridge phone and car. Tesla does publish an API for anyone that wants to control a car (uses OAUTH for authorization.) Other than being unable to revoke tokens from within the car, it works great and solves the fleet management problem. (It is possible to simply entirely disable remote access from within the car, so this is a partial solution that Tesla does already.)
> Hydrogen 0-60 will be at best grandma speed.

Only if you don't have any batteries in the system, but in general I agree that hydrogen isn't going to be a major factor.
You're not describing compounded growth, you're describing S-curve growth, meaning that they're close to plateauing. Based on numbers out of Europe, it appears that Tesla has already nearly saturated the market of potential upper-class EV buyers, barring the actual introduction of a $25k EV with 500+ miles of range, or substantial upgrades to the interiors of their cars.

Toyota's sales dropped by over 20% this year compared to the same time last year. Ford's global sales dropped over 30% this year and they lost billions of dollars.

True, as did Tesla's sales (see linked pdf below for % sales reduction for 2020). Notably, Tesla's profits were (again) due to higher regulatory credit sales to other car companies. Indeed, this continues the trend of Tesla recording a profit only in quarters in which it is able to make regulatory credit sales. And while Ford reported a loss on vehicle sales...like Tesla...they similarly reported a Q2 profit due to non-vehicle income (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/ford-f-earnings-q2-2020.html).

Tesla's deliveries grew 20% YoY in the first half of 2020.

Yes, it's also a common complaint on the Tesla forums that cars built in 2019 weren't deliverable for months due to shoddy work requiring weeks or months of fixes. It's not surprising that deliveries would grow in 2020 as they finally had the time to fix the cars they already built so they could actually deliver them. Notably, their YoY numbers for H12020 for California are down almost 19%.

The Model 3 outsold even the Camry and Accord in California earlier this year.

This is false. Tesla reported 43,706 new Model 3 registrations in Q1+Q2 2020, while Toyota reported 43,821 new Camry registrations for the same period. (https://www.cncda.org/wp-content/uploads/Cal-Covering-1Q-20-..., https://www.cncda.org/wp-content/uploads/Cal-Covering-2Q-20....)

The horse-breeder laughs at the automobile man because he thinks no one can afford to buy one. Where is the horse breeder today?"

Horse breeders are better off today than they were back then. Horses cost more than cars. And with all due respect, the guy who said that quote knew jack shit about the rarity with which people actually used horses for traveling in the U.S. Most people outside of rural America didn't have space for a horse. Cars took off precisely because they were easier to maintain and store than horses.

Indeed, the comparison is somewhat apt but in a different manner than you intended: EVs are the horses in this situation: most people don't have the means to charge EVs at home (or the money to afford the cost of installing a charger), nor do they have the spare time to spend hours charging their EVs, which severely limits the market of people who can buy EVs. For the foreseeable future, regular ICE cars are still far more convenient...as they were against horses more than a century ago.
Raspberry Pi powered e-paper display takes months to show a movie
I'm gonna listen to the world renowned scientist instead of some random guy named logicslave12 on the internet, but that's just me.
If you have an account (and stay logged in) you can get some of the benefits described in the article with an alternative skin (collapsed menu, limited line width, maybe a better font). Check out the options in the Appearance section of your user preferences.

I like MinervaNeue (sample page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England...)
Morhaime showed up to HomeStory Cup (StarCraft II tournament) in 2019, & took part in their poker night: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/511760157?t=9h20m7s

It lets you see him relaxing as a pretty chill guy. He really cares about creating good games

One of the insightful remarks he made was that StarCraft was easier to balance than WarCraft because it had so much more asymmetry
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A core like the M7 would be invisible to the OS entirely.

The M7 core is likely involved in the bootup process. Modern CPUs are so complicated that you need another microprocessor for assistance to boot the darn thing.

Things like DDR4 initialization, PCIe initialization, SATA initialization (woops, this computer doesn't have any SATA drives, time to turn the attached M.2 drive into a SATA drive... wait, no M.2 drive either. I guess the motherboard wants to boot through PXE, which requires the network controller to be initialized). Etc. etc.

Even something like reading from NAND Flash requires a complicated initialization dance, where a microcontroller would be useful.

I admit I'm mostly ignorant on the bootup process of modern chips: but I understand that they're very complicated beasts now.
>It's a button you click to automatically make a fixed-layout PDF fluid and easier to read on mobile.

But this of course reminds us of the miserable UX we have come to accept from the "mobile web". In the beginning, mobile websites didn't exist, and you just zoomed. Now, it's practically impossible to view the desktop website from a phone at some URLs without jailbreaking your device (if it's iOS). The net effect has been a severe degradation of usability in the worst cases for a small improvement in aesthetics and speed in the best.

I truly hope that PDFs do not meet the same fate, and remain readable on mobile in the correct layout, with no in-document markers that force my iPhone to display it wrong. While that apparently hasn't been proposed here, I don't like even the risk of it being proposed.
Just about breaking even may be seen as good financial management for a not-for-profit in an industry in massive decline.
full details here - https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-Discussion/Incident-...
Cyclopean code blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror...
Did someone think that the higher server bill meant you guys were embezzling money?
Thanks for the link — that subject has been my #1 complaint with Wikipedia for a long time.

I'm glad they're finally doing something about it, even though it seems like I still won't be happy with it — judging by the wikis where the update is active, it's still too wide.

The rationale in the article is interesting, but IMO wrong — the idea that you need to balance scannability and line length suggests that line length is the main factor in improving scannability, when it seems obvious that what wikis have been missing for a while is better, probably sticky tables of contents for quick navigation (which something like Wikiwand figured out a while back).

Making users scroll 25% less is a poor solution to improve scannability, and degrades readability tremendously.

There are issues tied to the variability of layouts on Wikipedia that are more legitimate (how to deal with boxes, etc.) and would involve deeper design changes, but they would probably be worth it considering how important the basic reading experience is to wikipedia.
Linked in TFA, with Roger noting he's been "outgeeked", means it's likely excellent reading.
There is a setting to disable it.

You're welcome.
People should donate to where they think it will do the most good. No NGO is perfect.

[ Same disclaimer :-) ]
FWIW I upvoted you just because the question is reasonable, but I think you're wrong in balance. Last I looked all the current processes for making hydrogen are in fact more environmentally taxing (and worse, CO2 emitting) than the one-time cost of mining lithium.

A LiOn battery is good for many many cycles, and can then be recycled. Hydrogen must be produced and then consumed, and is usually produced from natural gas, itself a greenhouse gas that is on the main a byproduct of the oil industry.
Most of this thread is material for @internetofshit[1].

Hot take: I would rather walk than use my phone to unlock my car, not to mention having my car connected to the internet in the first place. If you're affected by this, you have no one but yourself to blame. This really is the clowniest timeline.

[1]https://twitter.com/internetofshit
> This CEO needs to go, needs to be replaced by someone who is well versed in technology instead of in law.

They did have a person with that profile but then he was asked to resign.
> 2. The JSX transform (part of the JSX spec. & what parser/compiler must represent the language as)

Ah, ok I see where this misunderstanding stems from. See, this is not part of the spec. With JSX, there's a very popular transpiler (Babel's), but it's by no means the only one or even "the official one". The spec actually lists three, and mentions [1]:

> "These are a set of transpilers that all conform to the JSX syntax but use different semantics on the output: [...]"

JSX is most commonly used with React, so if you're making a JSX transpiler it makes sense to make your default output work with React. This is by no means part of the definition of JSX though or a spec requirement.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/jsx/
> But I think the assets are missing, so it is not everything.

It's everything you need to build the game, which is different than everything you need to play the game.

> Maybe they released those somewhere else?

No, studios rarely to never release assets as OSS. In part because most artists don't sign off on this, and in part because especially smaller studios will license existing assets from stores and the like which they literally can not, legally, relicense.
Would you mind giving more examples and step through of the process?
That's how Apple HomeKit works. It's LAN only unless you have an always-connected AppleTV, HomePod or iPad acting as a gateway to the internet
He has literally rolled back emissions regulations to like 2000 levels. Explain to me how that's better for the environment?
JPMorgan Is Set to Pay $1B in Record Spoofing Penalty
This is a valid criticism.

I tried to be careful with my language to not imply things were technically the first, but to describe a lineage. E.g., Sublime Text was clearly at least partly based on TextMate (lifting some technologies, like snippets and language grammars, verbatim), and Atom was so much based on Sublime Text that it's initial design could fairly be called a knockoff.

I think that the major players that lead to VS Code are TextMate, Sublime Text, and Atom, but I'll be the first to admit there's a healthy amount of subjective judgement there. And just me drawing on things I'm familiar with (e.g., the decision to focus on BBEdit, Vim, and Emacs as the earlier examples is simply because I know those editors pretty well). One thing I don't know much about is what TextMate's influences actually are, perhaps jEdit fits into the story there? I'm not sure.

In any event, I appreciate you pointing out these features in jEdit, so far that's the earliest example of a plugin system and an integrated plugin manager that I'm aware of.
True. But the gif in the article indicates they intend to move the language selector to a more prominent location.
That may be, but it still has no real relevance to this article unless people just want any excuse to get on their soapbox to rant about Adobe/PDF without even bothering to read the article and what it is talking about.