skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends - The vast majority of 4x4s never go far enough off road that the advantages of gas matter. For the tiny number of people who do that, the ability to bring extra gas with is important. Note that batteries are so heavy that it isn't an option to bring batteries with - the weight is a negative in many 4x4 situations even if the truck could handle it.
> If you have even a small solar install—which makes tons of sense in California—the load on the grid is near zero.

Will most people be plugging in their cars during the day, though? Or will they be charging at night, at home?
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Effectively sovereign is pretty much already the deal in some countries if you're rich enough..

The only problem with Sahara is that no one will bother - there's also not much to govern except sand. If people wanted to spend billions to seed the place I don't think any of the government in Africa is going to say no, it's just that nobody is doing it.
There's lots of info about this online but it really depends on your country. For me, things like my commute to work, expenses for my home office (even though I worked in an actual office until corona), and other things can be deducted. The most ironic category is expenses necessary to file taxes.

Most countries also seem to have savings plans where you put money away until retirement and pay taxes only when you're allowed to take it out, after retirement age (after retirement, you have a lower income, so pay a lower tax rate). Of course, you still pay those taxes (wouldn't be a certainty of life, now, would it?), but they're lower.
Based on Red Planet it might not end up well.
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Right. Without the legitimacy of legislative backing, there is no roadblock to a future Governor undoing this using the same Executive powers.
What good is another macbook if you already have one?

I know what good a meal is if I already had one.
I personally like to use https://iconsvg.xyz/, which not only lets you pick the icon, but it also allows you to customize it.
I well understand that. My question is whether modern day residents of, or emigrants from, Samaria feel comfortable with the Bad Samaritan characterization. If it were a large demographic in the U.S., there might be a reaction. Then the question becomes, how large a population do you need before you have to speak carefully about a group.
I just hope that it doesn't get one of those reactive designs, where, when I put two browser windows side by side on a 1920px wide display, the content gets displayed in tablet mode, instead of keeping it in desktop mode.

These reactive sites have broken half of the web for me because of this.
Yes. And it's currently my goto approach. but It's just base of the work (the parsing and traversing) and you should do all the other tasks manually.
"North America’s first lithium-ion battery recycling hub is coming to New York"

Li-Cycle, a Canadian battery recycling firm has chosen the location for its first commercial lithium-ion battery recycling Hub: Eastman Business Park in Rochester, New York.

Construction of the $175 million Hub facility is set to begin in 2021 and the facility is planned to be fully operational in 2022.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/09/21/north-americas-first-...
Also, the mobile version collapsing the zippies, which means search doesn't work.
All EVs are good EVs. As long as you're displacing combustion, you're doing your part.
Again, you’re speaking from ignorance alone here.

This is only required in some cases. In a “union shoot” as it were. These are rare in comparison to non-union films. Every actor has many examples of non-union films they participate in.

Usually big stars work in non-union roles and films to give younger professionals an opportunity. The star provides marketing power for a smaller Non-union production. Then people can join the union as well.
Many nuclear power plants suck in water from the ocean. In fact, 3 of the 4 in California are on the coast. You can see one of them on the drive between LA and San Diego.

EDIT: That one is being decommissioned

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=1t0te1lvPsMd0...
That can change quick. When landlords start losing renters (or have to reduce rent to get them) they will react. The longer wait doesn't do anything to help - most landlords won't spend money on outlets until there is demand.
I think it's written with 8chan in mind.
There's like a 2% chance that ICE sales will be more than a single-digit percent of the market by 2035.

Yawn
As far as Twitter goes, the Twitter streaming importer on Gephi is very powerful, and the software is moderately interoperable; unfortunately the project as a whole is lacking funding/development except for specific modules. You should also look into pushift.io which archives/indexes huge amounts of publicly accessible social media data, and which I think supplies some of the backend infrastructure for this project.
Typewriters are wonderful. When I was in High School, was into buying any typewriter that an antique shop owner would say was 'completely broken and worthless' and getting it back to a functional state. A typewriter is both a very complex and simple system. The complexity really comes from the weird ways you have to contort the components to get them in and out of the frame. Since the older models were all built by hand, there's always a way to get access to something for repairs. The 'fun' part, however, is always determining the way that that part can be removed. There's always a way, but often there's only one.

Ended up with a completely anachronistic skill, but there's so much that you can get out of doing this kind of apparently pointless repair work.
This is the change I understand the least. If it was about actually collapsing the sidebar I'd understand, but it seems to literally just hide features and replace them with a useless grey area.
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Same in my last role.
That's so tragic. "Might need a fresh install" used to be a windows thing.
Haskell certainly is not the pinnacle in language design.

IMHO it is the first successfully implemented research language, though. I think that Haskell is the first language that, at the same time, had substantial commercial and research applications[1]. As such, it showed that the CS of PL is indeed of practical relevance.

Rust on the other hand, mostly applies this scientific research. And successfully so. Hence I call it the "engineering" part.

[1] To a certain degree this is also true for Lisp and SML, of course. But I think SML fell out of fashion quite quickly both in academia and industry. Lisp is, well, lisp. People that start using it seldom search for another language afterwards.
An anti-8chan interpretation. "If everyone is Anonymous, we're just going to treat it like the actions coming from your service are your actions."

Fascinating.
There are definitely more physically accurate ways to render soft shadows, but AFAIK they all involve some kind of bounce lighting where light bounces off of objects in the scene and indirectly lights other parts of it.

This looks great when combined with area light sources, like you suggest, but in my experience it's too slow for interactive demos.

I'd love to be proven wrong on this :)
Who does that? I think most people browse the web with many tabs open at once, and switch between them constantly. I don't think it should be on the user to resize their browser viewport every time they switch tabs to maintain a comfortable measure. That's the website's responsibility.
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The damage from changes to local climate are likely to outweigh that benefit for many species of plant.
That's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainport
If you have a user, you can set the skin permanently on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...

I use Monobook, which is more compact than the default (Vector). It used to be the default.

Having a user also enables you to toggle "Gadgets" which can provide productivity boosts, especially for editors.
I'm not that familiar with copyright law.

Is he legally allowed to make a guitar cover of any song he wants to and distribute it?

It's also not clear if there were ads on the videos. Would that play a role?
If you tell people that housing is an investment and treat it like an investment, people resisting changes which would hurt their investment is entirely predictable. You can't complain about NIMBYism when the system is explicitly designed to promote it. The system is the problem.
I don't maximize anything, but site that expects me to raise browser is obnoxious. It is not the only tab and idon't want to resize especially separately for each
I agree. I'd say anything above $15k for a car is not affordable.
There are also `?useskinversion=1` and `?useskinversion=2` which are useful to force the use of the legacy version of skins.
I have a friend who suffered permanent nerve damage from a simple local dental anaesthetic. Given a large enough sample size, I guess unlikely things will crop up?
There's Mozilla Corporation (for-profit) and Mozilla Foundation (non-profit).

The URL links to Mozilla Foundation, so I don't think it's safe to state that the platform is a product of Mozilla Corporation.
Any reason why they suggest to use/send bugs? Chitin is also present in Fungi, seems like a much better source of that especially if we can engineer Fungi to over-express Chitin.
Wrong. Most plants have a small range of extreme (and average) temperatures (low and high) they can tolerate.
> I'd think people who operate in a realm where text becomes action executed by a machine designed wholly around faithful, reliable execution of text fed to it would come to learn the reality-defining power of rules.

Ah, but don't forget how often the code that gets written doesn't do exactly what the writer expected! Or is exploited by another party...
> Networked software systems generally have completely unknown and unpredictable failure modes.

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." -- Leslie Lamport, 1987 (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.tx...)
Interesting. Sounds like my brain after getting sleep apnea.
You haven’t met many police officers lately, I guess. They all agree that they have the right to break the law, and a duty to protect anyone in their group (not just police officers, but almost any other government employee) from the law. At the very least until that paedophile teacher manages to get into the newspaper just by the shear number of victims he makes. By far the biggest group of child abuse perpetrators are physical Ed teachers (which is even pretty obvious, if you were a paedophile, what job would you take?) and the agencies protecting children all get regularly caught abusing children, and generally getting away with it.

The child argument is stupid because government employees, and children themselves share about 90% of child abuse crimes between them. Of course, one might make the point that children abusing other children at school is also technically their responsibility ... as it’s on their watch. There’s no point protecting against the 1% case ...

That’s what I find so hard to believe. Governments know they themselves are the big problem when it comes to child abuse, but the reaction is always more, and ever more powerful bureaucrats, some of which have excellent positions to abuse children with (like youth services psychiatrists, who decide on the use of state violence against children. Doesn’t take an expert how that post can be abused to get an 11 year old girl to ... you). We know no-one is taking any of these jobs for the excellent benefits or pay ...
It’s interesting watching the 1980s cyberpunk predictions come true, from prosthetic limbs to visual implants to wild inequality and corporate power.
My take is it's actually a reactive move to counter his issuing more fracking permits in 2020 than 2019. This is CA, he's vulnerable on climate issues. I do believe he (like most CA residents) are acutely worried about climate change, but I think this particular action is more about optics than change.
Sounds a lot like an Addict to me. Have you considered recording his behavior on the weekend? (cameras)
The best warmth for a given species of plant is usually the one its adapted to. At the very least warmer temperatures can lead to populations of harmful insects to go out of control. Like bark eating beetles
I’m sure the Martian crust has plenty of carbon to form an atmosphere. It’s a very common crustal element, and extracting it in situ is going to beat out any approach that involves transporting material through space.
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I liked the technical content of both articles, but wow, those are a lot of words to cover their respective content. I get it that it is like long-form journalism, it adds personality and humor, but I also find that (for me) it takes away from the learning.

Also, after skimming through the second article, I had to wonder: if the first article found dropped cameras and other problems in flange-to-sensor data, wouldn't they also find mount tilt if they looked for it? Given that drops don't usually impact the camera exactly orthogonal to the plane of the flange, it seems like flange-to-sensor distance won't be their only problem. But maybe replacing the flange on these also fixes any tilt. Then again, there may be damage that affects the tilt but not the flange-to-sensor distance.

Someone posted technical illustration of the Denz measuring equipment, and I wonder if they couldn't make a similar apparatus with 3 or 4 pairs of measuring beams (or 2 in a cross pattern), thus it could measure the distance at several points and thus the parallelism of the 2 planes.
> This move feels radical

My understanding is that, at least depending on your goal, this isn't nearly radical enough. Some experts think we not only need to stop selling gas-powered cars _immediately_, but also actively remove existing fossil fuel cars/appliance from the economy.

I found this podcast helpful in understanding the level of effort needed to decarbonize in the near future: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/8/27/21403184/saul-griffit...
How is hydrogen a greenhouse gas (and what do you mean by "indirect") ?
And affordable healthcare
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I actually didn't know that – very cool!

There's definitely a lot more to a political process than district sizing, though. For example:

- open primaries

- approval/score/ranked choice voting

- banning political ads

- ending two-party system (some of the above would help)

- effective voter education (the state pamphlet is a start...)

I know many of these sound pie-in-the-sky, but it's hard to imagine truly responsive government (ie; higher quality government than consumer services) without all or most of them.
Agreed. Thinking about it, it actually seems like a major achievement that even after so long, Wikipedia's design doesn't feel clunky or unintuitive. I still think of this as the "new" design, and I'm still happy with it.
No, it's not literally just an ad. They give some instructions on how to do deep breathing or progressive muscle relaxation, for example.
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Many people who are blind since birth (including myself) are pretty skeptical of such technologies. There's some research claiming that sight is almost useless if you get it past the age of five. An adult brain just can't make sense of those impulses.

Even if that wasn't true, re-learning how to do literally everything with sight would be extremely hard. With such low resolutions, it probably wouldn't even be worth it, considering how much modern tech makes our lifes easier.

It's still a huge thing for blind newborns and those who could see in the past, though.
Could you use ICE cars by buying gas backed by carbon credits with this law?
It's not clear what "zero-emissions" should mean, but in the context of California environmental regulations it refers specifically to vehicles that don't emit any pollutants from their onboard power source, e.g. electric or fuel-cell cars.

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/about/glossary
> It’s a good time right now because the fires in California have put a spotlight on environmental issues.

Some people are blaming the wildfires on global warming, but many (on the left and the right) are saying forest maintenance has been the primary cause. [1]

Also, the recent rolling blackouts have shown the risk of relying too much on solar and wind power. I'm not sure that the specific timing makes too much sense, unless the goal is to have this largely overshadowed by the presidential election and recent passing of Justice Ginsburg.

1: https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-...
We're acutely aware, I think, of the vast gap between computer interpreted rules and human interpreted ones. The computer's interpretation may be hard to fathom but is ultimately rigorous. Human interpreted rules are basically vacuous: a human can make anything mean anything, no matter how rigorous it may seem.

All it requires is for other humans to accept your interpretation. That depends both on the text, your position in society, and that of the other person. The text will convince a few people when the difference in power is small. When the difference in position is large, no text will support the person in the subordinate position.

Lawyers pretend that this is not the case, and that they have mastered objective interpretation of the rules. It is unclear whether they say that because they are stupid, or because they think you are stupid. As programmers, who really are trained in objective interpretation of rules, it's laughable either way.
PSA: old.reddit.com is so much better in these regards. I use it on my phone too, with some custom css to make things bigger.

There is also i.reddit.com.
A guy who sold "millions" in piano courses and now is trying to sell how to "make millions" on online courses... sounds a little bit suspicious.
I was underplaying the severity of it. It was quite the site of battle. It was actually one of the two routes the US was planning to use to attack Tokyo, the other being the Philippines.
> If you don't mind a suggestion, take lots of video and get lots of audio recording of them.

Totally agree. The firsts are a source of joy and the lasts make me melancholy.
> Every actor has many examples of non-union films they participate in.

Actors aren't allowed to participate in non-union films. They sometimes do anyway but the contract says they can't.

> SAG-AFTRA members cannot accept an acting role in any studio, independent, low-budget, pilot, experimental, non-profit, interactive, educational, student, or ANY production, unless that producer has signed a Contract or Letter of Agreement with SAG-AFTRA.

> Members who are found in violation of these rules are subject to serious fines and discipline by a panel of union peers.

https://www.sagaftra.org/what-happens-if-i-accept-non-union-...
I really like that it looks like the initial evidence was a discovery made on accident:

“The key to this discovery has been the talented, multi-disciplinary team that NASA Glenn assembled to investigate temperature anomalies and material transmutations that had been observed with highly deuterated metals,”

meaning that they had noticed weird shit happening in deuterated metals from some other experiment and had the opportunity to investigate said weird shit in detail.

I'm glad that they were able to convince the management of looking into it rather than setting it aside and let it be forgotten. I don't like how strict top-down directed research can be at forcing us to focus on what was in the initial proposal and thus we let go of potential new discoveries because they want us to follow the script.
Also, tables on mobile.
In principle, you could ionize the hydrogen and then accelerate a proton beam in the direction of Venus. But I think Venus has an active magnetic field powerful enough that it would be deflected off into space. Plus, accelerating mass out of the gravity well of a gas giant would be extremely energy intensive. Better to go looking for sources that aren’t at the bottom of a giant gravity well.
Yup. This follows from the way corporations look at IT security. The two main things they care about are:

- Compliance - because they need to tick checkboxes to get certifications, get contracts, and minimize liability;

- Annualized expected losses - which they estimate by a process only slightly better than reading tea leaves, and then minimize by turning whatever knobs were identified as most impactful in the divination process. The assumption here is that in a large enough enterprise, breaches and outages are a fact of life - so the question is how much it'll cost and how to minimize that number.

Source: I worked for a company building the product that automates the reading of tea leaves part. What I've learned is that the quality of risk estimates depends primarily on how diligent the people doing them are, and how good understanding of statistics they have - which is about the worst combination of requirements for busy executives.
He remained CTO for 2 years after his donations became widely known. People just weren't willing to trust him as CEO.
Part of the reasoning for this move is to create an incentive for battery researchers and manufacturers to serve the massive California auto market by or before 2035.
Oh, I didn't like the LAT formulation either. I thought you were referring mostly to the JPL press release. (The JPL work was really about CH4's contribution to greenhouse warming, not at all to personal health -- I'm very familiar with that work.)

The LAT didn't say anything about whether the emission levels they suggest (~100 kg/hour = ~200 m^3/hour) are large from a health perspective, and they didn't say anything about the actual risk from CH4.

A BOE calculation shows that if the wind is 5km/hour, and the CH4 disperses over a cross-section 100m x 20m (very tight), then the steady-state concentration in the plume would be about 20ppm, which is a bit over the overall atmosphere (~2ppm). The NIOSH maximum safe concentration, however, is 1000ppm.

This makes me guess that the leak isn't very consequential from a health POV. It would be nice to have the LAT ask someone who knows more!
I've been starting to watch things on nebula. There's a lot less content than youtube, but what's there is top notch.
All this effort just to get sick at the bottom of another gravity well... Surely there's a nice moon of jupiter where the slippers would be a bit cheaper?
I always forget YouTube has ads until someone else shows me a video on their device and I'm like "Why do we have deal with 2 minutes of insurance sales for a 30 second video of two dogs playing?"
I agree but you would think the world leading company in AI would be smart enough to detect bans that deserve further investigation such as in this case: a channel with more than 770k subscribers, no content with nudity or violence whatsoever in 10 years, no controversies in the comments or downvotes, no automatic detection of copyright violation in 10 years etc. There aren't that many channels with these characteristics and google certainly has the money to investigate manually the very few channels that reach this threshold and they certainly have the AI to detect even more heuristics to avoid false positives like this one.

They are just so arrogant and know that they will never get in trouble with the law that they just won't even spend a dime or a second thought on these issues no matter how life ruining they can be. Pretty sad.
Hackers are specifically interested in exploring/exploiting the way human nature makes all machines vulnerable. IE taking a reasonably well-defined system of rules built with good intentions and using them for something entirely unintended.

In this sense, law is similar to code, but far easier to exploit.