skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And SF wrt cars only to some degree. I know a couple who decamped to SF and sold their cars when their kids got older. They do indeed live without owning cars. They also use Ubers, ZipCars, and regular rental all the time.

I think a lot depends on what you're used to. I think a lot of folks accept the limited mobility they knew through school when they graduate. It becomes less acceptable as they get older. Many exceptions of course.
The "last-mile" problem has been around for a long time and doesn't seem to be going away, although wireless solutions (including Starlink) is one way to bypass that problem.
The only thing I post is about job openings that I have on my team.
I once wrote a line of code to delete a file. I hated that file so much.
> Plus, WSL is now eating the market of linux on PCs.

I would like to see evidence for that. People don't track Linux installs on formerly Windows laptops.

From my experience, Macs have done a lot more damage to Linux laptops than anything else just by being good laptops with a reasonable Unix on them.
I think they mean a fork of the codebase.
Meanwhile the American military burns up the vast majority of fossil fuels.

So you know let’s make sure China is singled out for being utter shit.

“There’s a warning sign on the road ahead, a lotta people saying we’d be better off dead. Don’t feel like satan, but I am to them. So I try to forget it any way I can.”

Nation state semantics will never paper over the fact humans everywhere are doing this.

Grow up, reality.
Yes, I was living rural (trying to write my dissertation without distractions) and 45min was wonderfully close! My mail was most of a mile away, and the closest "convenience store" was ~5 miles. I never thought I would say that I loved being "near" a 24hr walmart (it was also where the farmers market was held), but after 6 months you learn how important that is. I will say that the ability to buy RAM, HD, Monitor, etc along with groceries at 3am (with a 30day return warranty) was also pretty amazing.

Try getting more RAM in SiliValley or SF at 3am today!
20 years ago you needed that kind of filter.
Current x86 vs. Apple M1 Performance Measurements Are Somewhat Flawed
As someone who worked in the industry, there are a couple of different approaches, incredible amounts of hype, and disappointing amounts of progress to fully autonomous vehicles.

* Tesla driver assistance features that they market as self-driving features. You need a driver that is alert and monitoring the vehicle because it can return control to the driver without warning.

* Waymo has launched limited L4 pilot in the "easy" Tempe, AZ area. They have remote teleoperation / monitoring but no driving in the car.

* ATG has prototypes that run with safety drivers

* Cruise has prototypes that run with safety drivers + they are working on tele-monitoring / teleoperation.

* Comma.AI has a consumer-available L2 driver-assistance device that you can add to your car to do ACC and lane keeping.

* Aurora has prototypes that run with safety drivers

* Zoox (bought by AMZN) has prototypes that run with safety drivers

* Smattering of other companies that are working on the tech, but are no where close to a product launch (Lyft, Toyota, Argo etc)

In general, there was a bunch of hype and bunch of money poured into the industry in 2016-2018. Others saw people pouring money into it and assumed a breakthrough was close and so they poured more money in. The cycle continued to spiral into huge multi-billion dollar investments into technology that is still IMO quite far away from a public launch. Turns out that several years later, it's really hard and no one is actually that close to useful AVs.

Waymo has a publicly available product launched, but I'm confident they are running that program at a significant loss.

Cruise has struggled to hit the milestones set in their funding deals to unlock the next levels of funding.

In my opinion, Comma is going to crush it in the next 2 years, Tesla will keep refining their AP tech, but still won't be FSD. I think autonomous robotaxis will be the norm eventually but not until after 2025.
> Pretty much any laptop with integrated graphics(no nvidia) and no fancy rare hardware parts will run most distros with a recent kernel perfectly.

Indeed. You need to try really hard to screw yourself into Linux-incompatible hardware. And you'll end up paying more for it.
What's astounding is that the base game -- Falcon 4.0 -- was released in 1998. I vaguely remember struggling to play it back then, being very proud to get a hit in a BVR engagement. I suppose 20 years later I've got the hardware to enable all the graphical bells and whistles (flaps and ailerons?).
Keep your thermostat at 66 to 68 (or whatever temp is comfortable). I disabled all the smart Nest stuff. If you don't have the neutral wire the Nest can cause control board issues as it sips current. I think the battery backup ones are probably the best in retrospect.

If you Google your furnace model you may find you tube videos with similar issues or things to check.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25335638 for account merging.

There isn't really a plan for private/invite-only rooms but we could possibly support `virtualUsers` in the `sd.extraMembers`(security descriptor) field to allow inviting Matrix people to a private Gitter room.
It sets an extremely dangerous precedent whether it's just a single mailbox or not.
"But in March, when shelter-in-place began, vehicle break-ins dropped by 38% — with 1,040 incidents reported this year compared to 1,691 last year."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Pandemic-hit-the...

Downtown, tourist areas suffer heavy predatory car robberies. Living near one, a summer weekend does not go by on my block with tourists being shocked leaving their laptops/luggage visible in SUV back's window didn't turn out well (smashers are in SUVs with right side passenger efficiently scanning while they drive by). Until tourists re-arrived in numbers last month, I hadn't seen a smashed window in 6 months.

Have not seen a local car on my block of ~40 cars with a broken window in well over a year.
• Car companies have a much higher marketing budget, and will sponsor their cars appearing in mass-market films.

• Good luck getting your car around a fallen tree. A bicycle is far better in this situation. In what situation would you risk serious damage to a car by driving into a tree?!

• Bicycles used for transport (as opposed to sport/exercise) have a rack over the rear wheel, which can support two or three pannier bags. On a flat journey, it's easy to carry 20kg+ of goods this way.
Maybe. The amount of work to make a taxi service is much, much smaller than that to make a self driving car. I could see Waymo entering lots of industries like that to capture easy profits.
We actually do have high quality produce and food here in North Texas, too.
on android I use evie it lets you choose different speech engines pretty good https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lenntt.evo...
Cue supports most of this as primary features in a purpose built language that interops with yaml, json, and more
Some historian somewhere must have come across records of how long a chariot wheel lasted. It seems like that would have as close to a similar loading as a bicycle. 100 miles? 1,000?
So why not apply for a ZEC grant and make it better?
I imagine the US will come on board some time after January 20.
What's your favourite ramen restaurants? My wife is Japanese and she hasn't found anything that rivals Japan yet.
> appeal is that you can leave in a quiet suburb

People I know dislike the fact that most of SV is a typical suburb indistinguishable from what you see in any random Florida city. And consider how many busses bring workers from their apartments in SF down to the office in the burbs.
Anyone have any ideas how they might have technically 'extrapolated estimates' of intelligence? Would they have used a language-based metric like 'idea density'? Or is there another aspect to this? Would love to hear from someone with psychometric and/or data sci experience. It's very dystopian but I am curious how something like this is even possible
He is on the Wall of Honor at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum: https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/dr-chaim-es...
Uber's true mission is a charitable effort by SV capitalists to subsidize the cost of taxi rides. Of course they're not meant to make money. How silly to think so!
It’ll move SOME burning. Some burning will be replaced by other fuels sources, and as more alternatives are ramped up less and less of that moved gas will be burned. Whereas if it’s a stove, you’re committing to 20+ years of 100% gas burning on that stove. If you think ÇA can’t make a dent in gas consumption in 20 years then we just disagree about that.
It only affects new incoming mails as they cannot decrypt the old ones.

My understanding of the German wiretapping law is also that they can only record messages from the point of the wiretapping court order so no older messages can be accessed by it.
You can donate to the EFF and they’ll match all donations until Wednesday if you send shielded ZEC with the memo “powerup”.
Is Lyft going to follow suit with Lyft L5?
>You don't need to overtly harass people to be deliberately abrasive and annoying.

Yes, it's enough that others are cry-babies who can't stand criticism...
It has already happened for manufacturing. Now US still is home to lot of high end manufacturing. But the point it no longer offers middle class living to millions of Americans.

Now I do understand that of software people believe that programing is somehow special and can't be done in effective manner remotely or third world site at far lower cost.

I have few observations here:

1) With massive proliferation of frameworks the creative/ intellectual input is increasing minimal for most of commercial work. And that's where most of the software devs are employed.

2) A lot of work is low quality that companies do not care because same mentality of cheap use and throw stuff is prevailing now for enterprise apps as it is for consumer stuff.

3) Looking at lot of software produced by top valley companies is buggy, bloated and feels generally crappy. I do not believe all of it is just due to companies' strategy of being first to market. A lot of it seems because of same low quality CRUD peddlers who fill office floors of fortune 500 companies.
1/5th or so of California power is from Hydro, and that could increase if the water supply was increased.

Using daytime solar excess to pump water uphill lets you get double duty out of the hydro and looks to be about the right amount of after hours energy use.
Really great article!
The Monero Community Crowdfunding System (CCS) has funded a lot of fundamental research and implementations https://ccs.getmonero.org/

Also Monero is superior to ZCash in both tech and ethos.
That doesn't appear to be a defect inherent to nations since there seems to be a pretty even split between free and non-free nations[0] Rather, it seems to be a problem of bad governance, corruption, ineffective or non-existent institutions, etc. My reason for favouring a world with many nations is that failures of those varieties are generally limited by the borders of the nations in which they occur. A world with a single governing body is a world with a single point of failure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices#:~:tex....
I think colonizing Mars is pretty small sink compared to climate change and many others. With how SpaceX going, I think for the first stage it's comparable to something like one modern Olympic games event cost.
I wish! The self driving delusion is more than alive and kicking. It’s just that the hype is moving from the vertically integrated options (Waymo) to the disaggregated ‘stack’ players (Luminar, Scale, Aurora)
Credentials:

https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/dr-chaim-es...

Reuters 2007: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL11678080

He was literally in charge of Israel's space and satellite operations.
Pressing the left cursor seems to work.

Edit: sometimes
They could, but that’s a completely different business to building middleware to facilitate unlicensed taxis. It’s like saying “AirB&B will help people rent their spare rooms out until they launch their own hotel chain.”
Until the employer is forced to cut their own prices to stay competitive, and then they aren't making the extra $40K on you anymore.
How long would roads last without cars and especially large trucks driving on them?
"Uber sells"
"Uber takes stake"

I....cannot put +/- signs on the balance sheet for this transaction.
So the browser can get throttled but there's no way to throttle windows update?

Bandwidth is not cheap in most of the US (by area.)
I've had something similar happen. If there was a startup tackling this problem, I would certainly want to know about it!
More and more you'll see false accusations of disinformation and conspiracy theory to discredit opposition.
Yes, sending your enemies to Mars is the best defense for sure. Nobody in their right mind would voluntarily spend the rest of their lives in a can filled with a few cubic feet of recycled air.
Why aren't partials a substitution in the context of Tailwind? The only goal is to keep classes DRY.
> California, by contrast, reacted to an identical court ruling in 2008 by banning same-sex marriage until all such laws were overturned in 2015.

This is a cherry-picked example and a bad-faith argument.

You're trying to portray the CA Prop 8 battle as demonstrating that CA was/is regressive. It does not show that. It's more accurate to say that there was a national debate going on at the time, and the open-ness of the CA initiative process allowed it to play out here for a brief period of time. Prop 8 was immediately challenged and was never implemented.

I don't like arguing with bad-faith actors, so I won't go further than saying you're taking all context away from this to get to a conclusion you want.

> Folks in California might be surprised about what the rest of the country is really like.

I visit the urban midwest frequently, and it's simply not as socially progressive as urban California is. There are progressive pockets! There are progressive and kind people! (And in CA, there are socially regressive places.)

But the support for LGBTQ rights in urban CA goes much, much deeper than it does in Midwest cities. Arguing the point is laughable, ridiculous, and out of touch. Come on, we're talking San Francisco and West Hollywood here!
Never rely on Americans to spot irony
Another angle for car companies to develop their own tech might be (claimed) competitive edge.

Not many car manufacturer would market the airbags, breaks or tires as superior. However, car makers that develop their own engine constantly brag about how efficient or powerful their cars are compared to their competitors (e.g. Mazda and their Skyactiv, Toyota and their Hybrid).
>mchurch is basically resentful of anyone else successful

Doesn't sound like an illogical principle, if you start from the premise that society is unfair, and being succesful in it (as opposed in the abstract) means accepting and benefiting from an unfair society.

Not saying that this is the case or that I agree with this. But it's not an illogical position to have, nor an illogical axion that's not somewhat supported by empirical observation.
Most people really do prefer justified text. Lots of webdevs probably get excited when they realize browsers have built-in justification too.
If you accept that it is true, then you also have to accept that aliens could have ways of transport we haven't even dreamt of (resembling teleportation, perhaps?).

The claimant hints that our understanding of space and time is wrong, so it's not far fetched to imagine that if we knew how it actually worked getting to Mars would be easier.
We used our proprietary AI to see which NFL videos performed on YouTube
"I could have made this"

That is a common trope but it misses the immediate counter...."but you didn't".

Many can code, not all come up with something that takes off, regardless of talent or skill. Any number of things can go into that. Art is very similar in that regard.

I say this as someone with a bias; I've worked in tech for the last 20 years and I've been a paid illustrator and painter since high school (Art and Commerce isn't alien to me).
In some places “easily accessible nature” means you can drive just a few hours. But pull up a map of Cupertino or Mountain View and zoom out just a little. There are dozens and dozens of parks in biking distance. Austin and Atlanta are not like this. Haven’t been to Charlotte or Raleigh in ages but, maybe. It’s a nice climate for sure. Denver is really pretty but it depends how you feel about real winter.
Yes, in a competitive market, rent is your cash flow. It pays recurring property taxes, maintenance, and interest. It's a cliche but you really have two opportunities to make money in rental property: when you buy, and when you sell.
Check out this video, it works really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJ0GvsQeak ("Riding in a Self Driving Car - With Nobody Up Front")
That's the ideal, but there's a kind of magical "nits of the gaps" effect where some folks will find gaps in what can be automatically handled, and zero in on them.

I once had a colleague who loved to nitpick variable names. Should that flag be named "continue" or "shouldContinue"? Or maybe the i variable should be renamed to index. Or maybe "row" and "column" should be renamed to "i" and "j". Sometimes "buffer" should be renamed to "data" and sometimes "data" should be renamed to "buffer".

It does not make sense to say that variable names don't matter just because there's no way to automate a style guide on the semantic content of variable names. Sometimes variable names matter quite a lot.

So interpret that particular part of their code review guide as being less about the value of automation, and more about how to guard against some of these social headaches. A culture of breaking ties toward the requester discourages nitpicking. A culture of breaking ties toward the reviewer encourages it. Even in the presence of linters.
If they can get a better deal than Uber did. Almost certainly.
>And I also don't see a lot of fervent denials from Uber in this regard.

Why would there be? If it's helping their stock price or even neutral to it then why deny it and risk it going down?
Oh my god, it just keeps on getting worse!

Sure, let's take long strings of barely-scrutable utility classes and make them transform into CSS-in-JS statements under the hood via an overcomplicated build pipeline—WTAF.

What I find so ironic is pure, native, truly-modern CSS with properties/variables, Flexbox, Grid, encapsulation via Shadow DOM if you want it, etc. has gotten so-o-o-o good, you barely even need a framework anymore. Stuff like Tailwind feels like it's solving the problems CSS might have had…er, ten years ago.
History of FreeBSD – Part 3 – Early Days of FreeBSD
Welcome to the US, where cities are constantly sucked dry of money to pay for people to move in to rural areas and destroy nature. Yay!
Fancy enough to be invisible to the user, such that games behave like native apps, and to give performance which is better than Windows in some cases.

UX was the biggest obstacle to gaming on Linux, and proton solves it
Gift Ideas for Developers
"Rail Mania" era in the UK preceded the bicycle development article. Before that, the canals and shipping networks were pretty elaborate.

I think it likely that the majority of 1870s factory made penny-farthing's were shipped worldwide to their customers via steam power.

Admittedly the transcontinental railroad took until about 1870 in the USA, then again the entire bicycle article is eurocentric. Which is also interesting, how come only Europeans ever got involved in bicycle invention? The rest of the world at least occasionally had two wheeled chariots and carts so ...

WRT the transcontinental railroad taking decades longer to cover the USA than it took to cover the UK, its worth considering that the state of Texas is about 4.5 "Irelands" wide, and we have 49 other states to cover, so covering the UK with nationwide rail service decades before the USA had transcontinental service is pretty easy. I'm told by a former native that no part of the UK is more than 75 miles from the sea.
Suppose I've been living under a rock this whole time and my knowledge of JS is something along `it's a language you use when you want a message box to appear and annoy your visitors`, i.e. completely out of touch.

How could you explain me, strictly from the language design point, not practicality/how widespread it is/how easy is to find a job/etc, why JS? What are the strong points which make it a better language than lua/python/lisp/tcl/ruby? Thanks.
how is it walkable when the majority of people need to live over 50 miles away because nothing remotely close to SF costs low enough to afford?

CA prides itself on being green and yet, the oppressive housing policies force everyone to commute vast distances resulting in even worse global warming outcomes.

It wasn't until covid came along that we finally even allowed people to start telecommute on a wide scale
Stem Employment Opportunities with U.S. Department of Defense Organizations
I think it might be for graduates like Alexandr Wang who went to good schools and have more or less lead comfortable lives. If someone's had a less privileged upbringing and a career in software enables them to improve their lot, maybe a big corp would help them more than the lottery ticket of a startup. I worry the romantic narrative PG presents clouds the risk involved in investing a portion of your life into a startup.

I think it's useful to criticize both the Pope and PG for situations like you mention. They have sizeable resources and influence and are deserving of a gadfly in the public sphere.
EPA declines to tighten soot pollution standards
The problem with protect and conserve is that is leads to limited resources mentality.
"There is not enough to go around" becomes ugly very fast.

https://mobile.twitter.com/robert_zubrin/status/101347705748...

Edit: Will surely invest considerable resources to convert Earth to a national park once we have outgrown earth's economy 100x
Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone
I imagine that the $2k price point is not entirely arbitrary - people seem to be going for that price point. I know I certainly would, and the only reason why I am not paying the scammer directly is because I doubt they would keep their word.
Linux gamer here. I spend a lot of money on the steam store.
Uber abandons dreams of self-driving domination, sells self-driving unit
German native here. Your translation is mostly correct.

The court seems to have forced Tutanota to store new incoming non-encrypted emails in plaintext for a specific mailbox that was used to blackmail an automotive supplier.

But the article is not entirely clear on whether that is for that specific mailbox only. At one point, the article mentions that storing emails in plain text could be used on "specific mailboxes" (plural).

> Ein Urteil des Landgerichts Köln zwingt das hannoversche Unternehmen nun jedoch zum Einbau einer Funktion, mit der Ermittler einzelne Postfächer überwachen und Mails im Klartext lesen können.
>We deal with the inadequacies of living in such big population dense areas because we want to; not because it's efficient.

>Turns out it's not efficient to stack up as many people vertically as possible.

>It over-burdens local municipal systems to the point of skyrocketing economic costs, creates more job scarcity due to sheer population and high real-estate costs, and creates untenable situations during times where population density is a net-negative, like during a pandemic.

These are all exactly the opposite of true? It's very efficient to stack people vertically. What's not efficient is delivering sewer service to people whose houses are a half mile apart or having someone drive 60 miles round trip in a single occupancy vehicle to get to work every day.