skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do self hosted virtual desktop software exist? If not. Why not?
I've always searched and failed to find a solution which would allow me to have my powerhouse desktop run my dev environment, perhaps in one room in my house, then from another room connect to it and control and launch and run devices as if it was native.

Does any such toppings like this exist. It's kind of like steam link but for a multi monitor desktop.
Yes, but that doesn't stop you from using the car. The app is for remote convenience functions.
> length of the URL

Also the length of the response, which is significantly more 'helpful', although probably not enough for a working attack unless you're willing to harrass a significant fraction of your intellectual workforce over false positives.
So this will stop the fires then? Better than say mandating forest management?
Just like Tesla aggressively overselling you auto pilot but in the fine print it's you fault if it doesn't work... /s

At what point does the manufacturer take some responsibility for their blatant lies to sell cars?
The smallest daughterboard mentioned has 3072 memristors.
So can I drill down into the individual tweets or posts? I would find that useful - and would love to get to the firehose for some NLP style analysis.

I just don't have the bandwidth to download all of reddit and make it searchable ...

EDIT: weirdly searching for "Hacker news" leads to a really odd trend on Twitter - between 2010 and 2013 lots of activity, then a massive drought till 2019 and back up again. Very odd - I cannot think of a cause
They're here already, commenting all over this page.
Compared to how radically, how often, and how pointlessly most popular websites get redesigned, this is so... subtle.

When I saw the title I assumed there's going to be a full redesign, with all the bad modern web design trends like giant everything and plentiful useless whitespace. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it's not the case and they're actually keeping their dense desktop layout and making some rather minor changes to it.

That's the kind of miracle you get when you aren't optimizing your product for KPIs and stock value.
> I don't understand why people complain about line length when that really means you should just resize the window to your preference.

Different people have different workflows. Many people I know only have 1 browser window open, always maximized, with a ton of tabs open in it. They definitely won't go about resizing the window for no good reason. I don't think any mainstream website relies on the user resizing the browser window for, what I think are, good reasons.
I agree with much else said here about the failure -> crank -> taboo problem, but it bears noting that the Fermi paradox is not really a paradox. There is this https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404 . The 2 minute layman's version is that multiplying several to many very uncertain numbers "drives your error bars to the fringes". So, there is not some credible, high probability estimate that we are not (EDIT: locally) alone. Without that estimate there is no paradox.
Not so. You need the key card to add the phone key. The car won't let you add a phone key without the key card.
I’ve never been able to find what the power density would be on a superconducting coil battery.
Every angle of all-electric VW ID.4 crossover that’s coming to America
You still have to figure out how to fill your battery as fast as you can fill at tank of gas.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for web scraping?
I mostly use python. I have tried Scrapy, it's nice but I think it has much overhead for some simple tasks and it's not much easy to learn imo. What tools do you use? Also is there any api to get js rendered content of the pages? I can use headless chrome but I want to know if there's a more lightweight way (despite ajax calls). And my last question, what do you use to overcome captchas?
Thanks
This is a great start but I'd want to visualize/analyze transmission across the social graph
Multiple publications are describing it as $40K base:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/23/21444141/volkswagen-vw-id...

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34114103/2021-vw-id4-reve...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/volkswagens-new-id-4-el...
Setting? Where?
"I'm not suggesting that the answer is to never change or improve any UI ever"

Honestly, why not? Or at least have the option to keep as much of the old ui as possible? Dwarf fortress, famous for its awful borderline incomprehensible ui, is having a complete redisign for its upcoming steam release and yet they remain committed to keeping everything about the old ui usable if you wish, on a ui that is only remotely usable if you have memorized every keybind for every menu and use third party tools to manage some parts of it.
Print media also doesn't have to deal with: resizable windows, accessibility, user styles, navigation, mixed media, comment sections, SEO, browser compatibility, load times, or security.

I understand we are just talking about page layout, but web designers still have to simultaneously contend with everything I've listed.

You mention a solution for 3 different sizes (desktop, tablet, and phone), but a responsive site often has to subdivide further. Even so, "tablet" does not have a standard size. Rotating a tablet/phone also changes the view size.

Size is not the only usability difference between desktop and mobile devices.

Columns in such a way would likely be hell in terms of accessibility (remember, the user can change the font size).

Of course, there are (potentially) ways to solve each of those, but they will depend heavily on the individual sites' and users' needs. This brings us right back to the issue of non-standard design across sites.

I wouldn't expect well-designed print media from a web designer any more than I would expect a well-designed site from a print professional. They are different professions and problem spaces that sometimes overlap.

Instead of disparaging all web designers as unprofessional morons, perhaps consider that they balanced all of the above along with your points and still landed on a different conclusion from you.

tl;dr the user can (rightfully) control a lot of factors in how they view the web that traditional print and graphic design do not have to deal with.
I just buyed an air cleaner, and amongst other I looked at the one by Xioami. To operate, requires you to install an app which tracks you locations and sends it to Xiaomi servers. This really troubled me.

I ended up buying one which can be operated without an app, which there seems to be fewer and fewer.
The problem is the big three have massive pension costs inflating their assembly costs. For them, it makes perfect sense to focus on larger cars, SUVs and trucks where cost of assembly is way lower proportion of sales costs.
WHO unveils global plan to fairly distribute Covid-19 vaccine
How can this be done by executive order? It really seems like the kind of thing you’d want your legislature involved in.
The USA, among others, tried very hard to get rid of crack cocaine, arguably way too hard to the point of making things way worse in poor neighborhoods.
"But when Chana Joffe-Walt, a reporter, looked at inequality in education, she saw that most reforms focused on whom schools were failing: Black and brown kids. But what about whom the schools are serving? In this five-part series, she turns her attention to what is arguably the most powerful force in our schools: white parents."

My children are brown Indian Americans and do well in school. Since the success of Asian American children in supposedly white-dominated schools does not fit the discrimination narrative, they are written out of existence.
No. Did they announce a cost reduction in their vehicles?
> Some small fraction of less than 1% consider "without opening the pandora's box that is JavaScript" a "clear value-add".

I think all the discussion and attention about trackers, paywalls, popups, etc paints a different picture. JS is turing-complete, which makes it extremely hard to in many cases impossible to predict what a particular JS program will do. It's much easier to verify that a HTML-only page won't do anything shady.
> Do you really want important infrastructure like your automobile dependent on networked software?

Is the automobile actually dependent on this infrastructure, or does that infra just provide some nice perks and extra features? If the car will still lock, unlock, drive, and refuel -- indefinitely -- without the network components, then I wouldn't consider it dependent on the network.

Of course, when adding extra features, we should strive to only make them dependent on the network if they truly require the network as a part of their basic premise. I suspect the Tesla has some extra features that could work fine without the network, but are probably broken because of this, and that's... not great.
At least the plants are happy. Co2 is food for them.
Beyond Semantic Versioning
Ask HN: How does the 2nd amendment apply to cyber warfare?
For example does one have a right to maintain digital/cyber defenses? Could government encroachment on algorithms (eg forcing backdoors) be considered a violation of 2nd Amendment?

Could someone use a 0day in the pursuit of self defense? eg: disable an attacker's vehicle in a scenario where lethal force would be permissible.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24568695
like MSTSC for windows or XRDP for linux?
Do you enjoy greater habitability or do you use technology to compensate for habitability? Using air and water filters to offset for pollution we've added to the natural environment, for instance.
You have to compare TCO. According to https://ev.pge.com/vehicles/Tesla_Model_3_Standard_Range_Plu..., a model 3 is $1700 cheaper than a Toyota Camry Hybrid over 5 years.
Vertx 3.9.3 Release Notes
GitHub Org got 1.6k+ views in 3 days – 10-lines-of-code
qxresearch is an online developer community in collaboration with Mozilla Campus Club where you get a chance to develop you projects and contribute to our projects.
https://archive.vn/t1Q15
Considering the average transaction price of a new car is $39k now, $35k is right in line with what the market can bear.
So the levels increased from 300 to 400 ppm and in that same time frame the quality of life and length of life improved dramatically. What catastrophe? You think we can prevent periodic droughts from hitting the West Coast even though there's fossil evidence of such droughts occurring regularly over the past several thousand years? The increase from 300ppm to 400ppm saw marginal differences in temperature and dramatically improved yields in crop farming. 100 years ago millions would still regularly perish from famine. Today that's almost unheard of, even in most developing countries. Your idea of a crisis is quite different from that of your ancestors from the pre-300ppm days.
My car keys have never run out of battery.

Also, I usually only use my car keys for one purpose. I'm using my phone all the time, for a variety of purposes. I've had my phone stolen from me when I was using it for one of those purposes, and meanwhile, my car keys were still in my pocket.
It's also posted in the car when the phone key is added. In my case, the handover agent specifically told me to keep my key card with me. It's not really a secret, nor is Tesla saying you should only use your phone as a key and nothing else. Tesla's marketing is that you can use your phone as your key - and they're right, and it's also very convenient. It's not the same thing to say that users should only rely on their phones. They can't anyway, since the car will require the key card when adding a phone.
I run numbers and then years later only remember the rough result. But for a gasoline powered car 10-20% of the CO2 emissions are from manufacturing. So EV's help reduce CO2 emissions a lot. EV's emissions during manufacture are currently a bit higher than gasoline powered cars but not by much.

That said cars and the infrastructure needed to support them requires enormous amounts of resources, EV's don't change that much. But what what are you going to do?

On the other hand for California zero emission also means no NOx, SOX and PM2.5 tail pipe emissions in cities where most people live. Granted EV's produce some PM2.5 from tires and brakes. But that's a percentage of tail pipe emissions.
Still way closer to the reality than A = B = C that you get with the approval voting.
Turkish novelist sues Netflix series for plagiarism
US manufacturers can’t make small cars profitably with their labor costs, but are required to sell them because of CAFE. They are only going to make enough to reduce their CAFE costs, no more.
Hey, sorry about my knee-jerk reaction to your article. Makes more sense after reading the above post! Looking back it was well referenced, I just went down the wrong thought path. I should think about things more before commenting. :)
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Why is that? Do the Swedes use Angelscript pretty exclusively?
But if the big company behind it doesn't do anything, what difference does it make?

Or, if the big company doesn't do anything more than is done for other languages (Rust, say), what difference does it make? Is Rust marketed in the same way Go is? Per your definitions, I would say yes, even though the Mozilla Foundation isn't a big company.

But then, is Haskell marketed in the same way? I see lots of posts on it, at least here. Lots of blogposts on it. But there's no big company, or even foundation, behind it. Is that marketing?

Why do you define a set of actions as marketing when people who work for Google do it, but not when others do it?
> they are using data and research to improve their UI

That's what every UI/UX ''expert'' says and 99% of them are full of shit.
I don't want to talk about what my electric bill was like when I lived in California, and the number of 100+ degree days has gotten worse since we moved out.
> emacs has plugins that provide all the essential features of an IDE with minimal fuss

I vehemently disagree. There is no such thing as minimal fuss in emacs, especially when it comes down essential IDE features.

> for specific languages like Clojure or Common Lisp

Common Lisp is esoteric language at this point, not relevant here, IMO.
Other car manufacturers are producing EVs today. Not Toyota, they did bet on hydrogen cars and lost years.

Also, I would argue that Nissan was first to release an good enough and affordable EV in 2011.

The concurrence for EVs is strong in Europe now, and Tesla is not the best selling car company anymore. See for example the Norwegian stats : https://elbilstatistikk.no/ That may change when Tesla will make smaller and more affordable vehicles in Europe.
Yes, and warmth is good for them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/ixjjmf/dotty_becomes...
> Thermodynamic evidence for a two-component superconducting order parameter in Sr2RuO4

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-1032-4
The monadic interface is not the only API surface those types have in Haskell. It very rarely is. There’s no “cramming,” they either have monadic structure or they don’t, and if they do it’s very convenient to be able to treat them as monads.
we aren't going to take climate change seriously unless we move to nuclear.

A nuclear plant is still a steam engine, so it would require significant amounts of water to cool, which aren't that easy to come by in a land where droughts happen so often.

Also there's so much sun there and solar panels are so cheap nowadays that waiting 7-odd years for a plant to start producing power doesn't look like a viable option.

China is leading the world in new nuclear power deployment, but still in terms of delivered GWh wind overtook nuclear there in 2012 and the gap is widening. Solar will cross that point in a few years.

If even a totalitarian state can't deploy nuclear at a pace competitive with alternatives, how is a place like California supposed to?
Since when were politicians not allowed to do things they didn't explicitly campaign for?

California is on fire, seems only reasonable to react to that as Governor.
Right wing 'material' is often refused for inciting violence, targeted harassment, and more now explicit lies on matters of significant civic importance - such as when/where to vote, lying health info in the middle of a pandemic, etc.

It's bad faith content, then when their crap is reasonably removed, there's endless crying. In fact a lot of the bad faith content is mixed up deliberately with political speech to incite action which allows them to claim marytrdom. If you do a long youtube video that is mostly political speech, and then you mix in a 5 minute targeted violent harassment in the middle, youtube is going to remove the whole thing. This is total bad faith.

The ironic thing is right-wing "alternative forums" to reddit/youtube/twitter, all have extensive moderation because, surprise surprise, trolling behavior degrades the value of online discussion boards. Don't be surprised if all you do is stand in a theater yelling you are shown the door. Or worse, you start yelling threats at another movie goer. That's the real analogy of 'right wing content' being banned.
Did you try Beautiful Soup? I found that super easy to use.
I believe this is Arthur Benjamin is using at the end of this demonstration. Super fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vqr3_ROIk&vl=en
> That's how language works.

I agree. It sounds like we have disagreeing estimates regarding how popular each definition is. We may be at an impasse on this, unless you know of a good source of reliable data for it.
What censorship-related rules are they not playing by now that everyone else is?
Millions of curbs and apartment lots don't have electrical outlets, much less metered 50 kW supplies that would enable the public to move past hybrids.
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Other people might decide to hang a weight on the steering wheel and go to sleep while driving at 90mph[1]. That doesn't make it a good idea.

[1]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tesla-driver-napping...
My "how I got a job at Google" story is even more bananas.

Roughly around this same time, I was a very burned out game developer at EA. My job was doing data analytics on telemetry data reported by games. Basically, any time you started a game of Madden, the game would phone home to an EA server and tell EA which stadium you picked, which teams, game mode, etc. EA wanted to use that data to know what to prioritize in future versions. I was working on some rudimentary code to scrape those log files. Nothing that felt like making games in the least.

At the same time, my employment contract prevented me from doing game stuff on my free time. Most game companies essentially own your brain and don't let you do your own game-related stuff on non-work hours. So here I was nominally in the game industry and because of that, I was doing less stuff that felt like making games than ever before. It sucked.

In a fit of pique, I made a throwaway account on Reddit to whine about this. A complete stranger saw and said, "Well, if you know C++, Google is hiring and I could give you a referral..." I already had an interview lined up at ArenaNet in Seattle at the time. The recruiter for Google rushed to get an interview with Google going while I was in Seattle. I wasn't super interested because what the hell do I know about working on search engines and server stuff? However, I wasn't about to turn down the opportunity to see a Google office. My plan was to stay in games.

Then I bombed the ArenaNet interview because the interviewer didn't know what amortized complexity was and I couldn't do a good job of explaining it. (They asked what the cost to append to a growable array was and I said "constant time on average" and they looked at me like I was an idiot.)

Somehow, I managed to squeak through the Google interview. I had no idea at the time how few people get offers. If I did, I probably would have been a lot more nervous and fucked up the whole thing.

So, yeah, I got a job at Google and moved across the country because of a whiny throwaway account I created on Reddit.
California Plans to Ban Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars in 15 Years
Regardless of what Tesla markets, it would seem to be incredibly foolish to rely on your phone in this manner. If you're miles away from home, and you drop your phone and it breaks, or your phone's battery simply dies, I bet you'll feel pretty stupid when you walk up to your car and are unable to unlock or start it via any other means.

Carrying around the key cards just seems like taking a basic amount of responsibility.
Phantom brakes did kill the dream for me. I simply can't drive a car that will randomly brake hard for no good reasons when using basic features such as adaptative cruise control. It's uncomfortable, scary, and dangerous.
Just don't go to /r/nootopics. A better name for that sub would be /r/placebo.
Interesting! I think Morhaime retained a lot of the "Blizzard spirit" that many feel has been lost in recent years. In a sense, Morhaime leaving Blizzard felt like the transition to the new "Activision-Blizzard" model was now finally complete. Something more than Morhaime alone left Blizzard that day and it felt terrible to watch Blizzcon and not really see a happy man.

It was apparently Morhaime who gave us Diablo 3 fans the scraps of the cancelled second expansion as free content update as pure fan service. Without these and the concepts they introduced, Diablo 3 would have lacked major end game features essential for its longevity like Greater Rifts and Kanai's Cube. He truly understood the importance of gamer relations and from others it sounds like he has a big gaming heart.
Preparing to Refactor with Property Tests
The thing is, it benefits the people in professional management roles to promote this point of view and institutionalize practices like outside hires in order to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. They don't need to conspire about this (in the Adam Smith sense), just echo the notion of corporate management as such a distinct skillset that it needs to be sought out rather than grown and that will eventually come to have its own moat effect.

Eventually you get CEOs making statements that amount to 'I deliver 10x or 20x more value to this company than you, all my CEO peers say so.'
I'm confused, how is that a good outcome, being limited to re-skinning Safari?
rereading ... again is redundant.
I think they threw out a guesstimate being able to sell a low end model for around $25k three years from now.
Of course, if you read that literally, none of those things ("phone has a dead battery, or is lost or stolen") happened, and Tesla's screwup still caused a problem.

(Note, both my wife and I own Model 3's and I own $TSLA, so I'm no hater... I do carry a card key in my wallet, but I don't carry my wallet 100% of the time that I need to get into my car.)
Is there already a way to recycle batteries efficiently? Without one this bill would lead to millions of cars with unrecyclable toxic batteries.
Sorry, my han supremacy leaked through.

I would have just spray-painted the han supremacy equivalent of a swastika onto a few walls, but there's no such thing. No Chinese KKK to join either. We really are lagging behind the west!
You are probably right, I don't see any movement in car stocks at all. Seems like nobody thinks this matters.
> These are some of the best resources I've ever read on-line! Thank you for doing those!

You're welcome! :)
Youtube is just so beyond broken at this point. I wish everyone could move somewhere else, but it's a catch 22. They're so cemented as the standard
Well the first amendment isn't Article 19 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Not sure where you're going with that.
Reminds me of a quote by David Foster Wallace:

> If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.