skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the UK's commitment to ban the sale of new fossil fuel cars, and the likelihood of the EU following suit, I think Tesla's lunch is about to be eaten.

Why do I think this? Well, up until now none of the European car manufacturers have made any real efforts to design, build and market a corporate road warrior car (think Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall/Opel/GM Vectra, BMW 3 series etc). The kinda thing that batters up and down the M1, M4, M6 etc with a member off staff, a laptop and their suitcase.

I reckon their R&D depts have been quietly busy on the problem of extended battery life etc, but for now they're milking the ICE for all they can get. It takes on average 6-10 years to bring a new car to market, when properly focused. I reckon the big European names are now very focused. It's tick-tock time for Tesla.
Or just send an email with an easy action 'Yep, still going strong' alongside the existing review update option.
That's Workday, except it's a web gui.
No logo? So the Apple logo is ok? My 2017 14" 1060 Razer seemed exactly like a black Macbook Pro (which I also owned at the same time). Metal case, Razer logo where the Apple logo was. HD-DPI display.
Very nice and detailed analysis.

I don't see zoho mail on that list though, they seem to be a popular email provider for businesses that don't want to go the usual Google/Microsoft route.
Really interesting. There's an empty spot in my building that's a coffee shop storefront. When we moved in, I saw that it was vacant (beginning of 2020) and asked about rent. It was $9k/mo. I offered them $5k and they declined. Still vacant. That's a lot of lost income, but perhaps it makes sense in the sense of commercial real estate.
Ray Dalio: Capitalism Needs to Change (podcast)
We have this at work with a `/afk` command in slack.
Like private APIs, they ultimately transfer power from consumers to Apple. They surely do have documentation internally, they just don’t want to commit to anything.
Similarly, I made a conscious effort during university to eradicate (a) drama and (b) anger from my life. It is almost surreal the extent to which I succeeded. When I see people experiencing these emotions, I almost marvel at the novelty of them because I haven't had them in so long. I distinctly remember watching a man one time walking on the sidewalks of NYC screaming into his phone with pure rage - "the angriest man I've ever seen" I recall - and I couldn't help but feel near admiration: He had truly reached some pinnacle of human experience. That said, there are parts of the human condition I feel better for having left behind.
> and being someone's beta tester. Its not a sharp edge and its a very mature beta, but there's a sort of agreement you sign your name to when you buy a Mac.

Complaints that you commonly see about Apple products are, I find, similar to reading complaints when you're apartment shopping: those who complain have reason to do so, and those with good experiences don't necessarily feel the need to write about them.

For instance: those who experienced botched Catalina upgrades that caused Mail.app issues? I never experienced that, and I've two significantly sized accounts attached. In fact I upgraded my last machine from High Sierra to Catalina with no issues at all. The "beta" parts of macOS that people call out are just never things I've fought against - and I run a fairly custom-ish setup to boot.

On that same note, I could throw a rock and find a KDE user who complains about KMail having issues... but you won't find many KMail users saying "yeah it just works and life is great".

Software is complex. I wouldn't call macOS "beta" and by the same token I'm not going to label other OS/DE combos that either.

(They also fixed the keyboard, so I'm over that complaint. Would I prefer the ThinkPad keyboard? Absolutely. But the new one works fine and fits the design aesthetic of the device.)

tl;dr: The only "agreement" I find myself signing is that the thing looks and feels, and functions, like a premium product. I find myself endlessly frustrated that if I go car shopping for a premium item, I have different options... yet I just don't feel like I have this with computers.

> No one is going to win here because no one else can have Apple's market. The incentives to win on the PC side are just too different.

This is exactly why I'm saying that my ideal product wouldn't compete with the PC market. I fully recognize that's a losing battle.
Yea so great, until you are struck by a pandemic and your minimalist home is basically now a prison cell where you can't do much because everything there is to do was outside your tiny home.

Now I know people shitting on suburbs is the fashion, but the fact is if you are the kind of person who has hobbies that don't involve going out and socializing a bedroom community is perfect. You get your own land and a detached home with plenty of space to do mostly whatever you want. Woodwork, swimming in a pool, running around with your dog, playing loud music and movies, hosting dinner parties, whatever. It's so much more comfortable for people who don't have urges to just "hang out".
everything requires a measurement of the physical world.

A hurricane's initial conditions cannot be absolutely specified and controlled.

A system of qubits can.

Edit:
The research cannot currently control the circuit that defines the wave function evolution (not programmable). But a computation is still being performed. This is a philosophical rabbit hole, though.
If I could kill the Apple logo, I would. :)
Do you have to amputate? My mom has had hip replacement surgery twice.
I disagree with that assessment, and it isn’t what I was referring to. Of course advances in healthcare are good for people, especially for things that address disorders that strongly affect someone’s health and quality of life and also those that prematurely end life. But these things are already under heavy research and development. So it calls into question what the original commenter and I suppose you are searching for. Why do we have a need for additional work on explicitly increasing human longevity whenever such a thing is already a secondary or tertiary effect of what we’re already doing?

But a cure for cancer, for example and if it ever happens, will have no effect on poverty, lack of education, inequalities of all kinds, mental disorders, and the multitude of other societal and environmental problems.

There are tons of things we can be doing that can improve people’s quality of life, standard of living, enjoyment of life, reducing stress, and more that have little if nothing to do with healthcare advances.

Even advances in the fields of psychology and psychiatry are a bit like trying to plug a leak with bubble gum. Certainly helping people to recover from and live with mental disorders is a good thing, although seemingly underfunded in current times, but one must understand that humans are not emotionally built for the societies we’ve created. I just don’t see how longevity should be an explicit goal when the lives for so many people are a complete struggle.
I wonder about using these for science data archival, although these days I suppose that most projects can just provision archival from a commercial vendor.
Voice over IP and it's connection to the old system is basically a solved problem. VoIP is very widespread, e.g. in Germany basically all new landline contracts are VoIP.

Also the backhaul of mobile networks is usually VoIP (references to this on Wikipedia date back to 2011 [1]), i.e. even calls starting and ending over the old analog network are converted to VoIP in between.

So what's stopping us is not technology, but exactly these local carriers with their national phone numbers and often also national law around selling these services (e.g. in Japan you need to identify yourself as a resident to buy a phone number). Why do we still need carriers? Because they are operating the local physical infrastructure necessary to connect your phone to the network.

So the problem to solve is to cooperate on an international level to use the physical infrastructure of a country/carrier free of charge while you are paying a different carrier in another country. We just recently (~2 years back?) "solved" this in Europe ("solved" because it only works within time limits generous enough for long term travel but not for permanent relocation). It will eventually happen on a global scale.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110809025050/http://www.eetime...
> Consumer reports apparently reviews dishwasher detergent without following the dishwasher manufacturer's recommendation to put detergent in the "pre wash" cup.

Wow, I never would've guessed (and doubt I've bothered to read) - I'm already living on the edge (in the UK) by pouring it in the drawer instead of putting the cap directly in the drum anyway - I'll check that later...
It probably references the density within the data tape world, which is significant as there could be other ways to achieve a higher total storage, but this is one of the major components here it seems
“ When I refereed the Science paper, I asked why the authors directly verified the results of their experiment only for up to 26-30 photons, relying on plausible extrapolations beyond that. While directly verifying the results of n-photon BosonSampling takes ~2n time for any known classical algorithm, I said, surely it should be possible with existing computers to go up to n=40 or n=50?

A couple weeks later, the authors responded, saying that they’d now verified their results up to n=40, but it burned $400,000 worth of supercomputer time so they decided to stop there. This was by far the most expensive referee report I ever wrote!”

Whoa!
The source is available here under a BSD style license: https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module

I don't know the paid/OS history of the module but all I had to do to get it was check a checkbox on FreeBSD since it was configured as an option in the port.
If your drive uses ZFS you apparently need to power it on more regularly than that to avoid bit rot.
Re: "If anything, there's a genuine threat to industrial societies in that their birth rates are almost all sub-replacement."

That's because budgets etc. assume population growth out of institutional habit. If population stops growing, then the usual assumptions and habits of governing shaped by past patterns are suddenly "wrong". Also known as "poor planning".
Also UnsafeCell’s purpose in life is to make sure noalias is removed where appropriate.
There was absolutely a question.

morsch said: "The cask survived re-entry, as it was designed to do,[18] and no release of plutonium has been detected. The corrosion resistant materials of the capsule are expected to contain it for 10 half-lives (870 years).[19]"

nafizh asked: "So after 870 years, it begins to pollute the water?"

It was a question about the Apollo 13 SNAP-27 unit, which was spilled in a freak accident that is unlikely to be repeated.
I'm actually not surprised it's hard. Bodies are surprisingly resilient, so disabling their functions without secondary consequences is usually hard.
Can't we beat Google by being better than them at solving the search problem?

Google launches approximately one new and helpful search feature per year. What if you launched a company or conjured up a community that could give birth to two helpful features per year, wouldn't that company or community catch up and eventually surpass them in functionality?

This company wouldn't have to come up with a new paradigm for information access. Instead, they would have to come up with a way to launch helpful search features that wasn't dependent on PII. To me that doesn't sound as scary as having to come up with a new paradigm for information retrieval. To me it sounds fully doable.
> with the rise of remote work, social disconnection is only going to rise

No, it's going to drop. Think immigrants who can move from crowded cities back to their country or a place that feels more like home
The best part is this:

> "In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs," notes Levin. "A report commissioned last year by the school district documented a pattern of school leaders ignoring the widespread use of racial slurs by both students and teachers, fostering a 'growing sense of despair' among students of color, some of whom faced disproportionate disciplinary measures compared with white students."

> Levin connects the outcry from aggrieved students to the broader Black Lives Matter movement and protests that occurred this summer following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police. But nowhere does his article reckon with a very basic fact: The New York Times has opted to assist a teenager's desperate quest to ruin the life of a young woman who said something stupid when she was 15.

The entire place is rampant with racial bullshit and the article writer is like, "But this poor girl's life is ruined!"

They then equivocate the experience of racial prejudice with cheating on a math test, amongst other relative frivolities:

> Or better yet, he could have simply not written this story, which concerns bad but by no means uncommon teenager behavior. If Groves had cheated on her math test, or planted a kick-me sign on a rival's back, would this constitute national news? No crime was committed; the utterance of the word did not even take place at school. The only thing novel about this situation is that it attracted the national media's attention.

Like, you just got finished explaining there's a whole big racial problem at the joint, confirmed by third-parties and yet we're still talking about how there's "no crime" and "it didn't happen at school"... like, what? Amazing feats of hand-waving going on.

I'd take the writer more seriously if they gave any kind of weight to the racist experiences occuring there, but those just aren't actual problems to them. Like, where do you think racist behavior comes from?

This entire culture of looking the other way when casual racism is happening is a massive problem, and I've seen this stuff from educated, affluent people (whom apparently are also the subjects of the article). You can't really talk about how society is crumbling when you don't give two shits about recognizing the qualms at hand.
Roasted crickets are actually very tasty. I’d compare them to Cheetos. To each their own, sure, and I won’t tease you for refusing, but I can completely see then as something you wouldn’t be surprised to find in a corner deli, as complementary snacks in a bar, or while gaming at a friend’s. I prefer peanuts but many people are allergic. You want alternatives.
> Unless you depend on no code written by other people.

Yeah that is me. I can certainly see how a program that uses a lot of libraries would have issues with pure though. Not sure what the solution to that would be other than going full haskell mode, which isn't what people who use C++/D would want anyways
Call me old fashioned, but I remember using stow in 2003/2004, about a year before git existed.

Yes though, use a repo for sync, but stow takes care of at linking your dot files in the right place.
A vendor like what AWS does with Glacier
Biometrics are ultimately just a password that you cannot change and share all over the place. They're convenient, sure, but are a step back in security.
> Certain functional programmers corrupted this idea to somehow mean pure functions are free; that these functions can be executed one to infinity times and the result is the same.

I think you are conflating two things and attacking a strawperson. As someone who is very involved in the functional programming community, I've never heard anyone say that pure functions are "free", and if this has been said it's certainly not the majority perspective. The fact that a function gives you the same result given the same arguments is not meant to be some kind of encouragement to redundantly call a function many times. It's meant to give you a tool to better reason about the program logically. You don't have to worry about _when_ a pure function is called, because it doesn't depend on hidden state that may change over time, and it doesn't change anything about its environment.

In a sense, I think you seem to have been given the _opposite_ idea (not necessarily saying it was your misunderstanding vs. someone else poorly communicating to you); the fact that a function always gives you consistent results means that you never have to invoke it multiple times. In some sense, this viewpoint recognizes the cost of function execution even more than the zeitgeist.
I checked the webpage and i must say that i am totally confused. First, it says buttplug is a library. Then, in architecture overview there are 'protocol' and 'client/server', which does not make sense for a library. So it is not a library, but a deamon handling these devices? Wh then call it library? If it is a deamon, is there any user configuration? Am i only one who is totally confused?

Perhaps some picture with components and relations between them would be helpful?
Not every country enforces radio spectrum guidelines.

I made some 868Mhz lora sensors for a pacific island client in 2016. The customer had a lot of interference from the local TV station and after talking to the island mayor we just changed them to 877Mhz which was quiet
In less developed countries, kids are free labor, so unsurprisingly countries with high population growth are poor. I'm not sure sure what you expect these countries to do.
Time for the ever golden quote: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
The razer logo looks like a trampstamp
My VR headset has voice recognition. The problem? I talk to myself when gaming and trying to figure something out. So I end up "opening" random programs when I say, "huh, I guess I need to open that next." Detecting that I want something with this technology is the "easy part," detecting that I actually want something right this second and I want actually desire for the device to commit, is the hard part.
I would argue cryptocurrencies are so much more than simple stores of value that it (luckily) keeps a lot of rich and/or powerful people in the upper echelons of finance confused and dismissive. If they truly understood it would have been banned a long time ago.
expert systems;

ML is great, but at the end of the day you need some logic in order to make sense. Maybe some combined system could try to take on the knowledge acquisition problem?
What, specifically, are you lacking wrt text to speech?
> disproportionately punishing individuals for societal failures is pervasive

This is exactly what mob justice is. It is always an emotional overreaction to a legitimate transgression.

> Hopefully this will encourage administrators, teachers, and parents to take this as seriously as the rest of the world does.

Unlikely. The reaction I've seen at other schools is to be so terrified of these mob overreactions that they stifle all critical thinking with draconian rules that limit any form of expression.

For that same reason, we are seeing many school districts banning classical literature, because it doesn't conform to the modern ethical norms. Works like The Odyssey and works of Shakespeare...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-homer-gets-mobbed-11609095...

We are creating a culture of fear and regression.
Just the media
This is just plain false. Google attractiveness and bald. Lowering your possible attractiveness by 75% to 50% is not an easy choice. Your confidence has nothing to do with it. Especially in a world where people are chosen via pictures. It works for some men. I might be attracted to DuWayne Johnson but there are plenty of men who look awful bald.
In order to proceed to your pre-determined talking point, reliability, you ignored my entire comment and its contens. This is because you are following a playbook from inside an echo chamber that hasn't looked to the reality of new tech that's developing.

I said, the cost to generate electricity when asked to, i.e. whatever is needed to make the grid function. I talked about capacity markets, the guarantees against "parasitism."

Therefore, the cost is actually reflected in the functioning of the grid.

The idea of "parasitic" energy sources is preposterous. If they can't be relied upon, then during those unreliable moments the fuel-based generators can make all their profits.

If it were actually somehow cheaper to keep these fossil-based plants in force, point out the market failure to us. We have two entirely different market structures, energy-only in ERCOT, and energy+capacity in PJM, and they are both coalescing away from fossil fuels and towards renewables and storage.

Your arguments are years out of date. Everybody knows that fossil fuels have limited lifespan on the grid, the only question is how much they can manipulate market regulations to keep them going for a few more years. Exxon is already paying heavily for their foolishness in overinvesting in assets that were clearly stranded at the time of purchase. How many more years of taking out loans to pay dividends can these companies endure?
• Speech synthesis for games

• Social connection apps (dating/friends/hangouts) that aren’t optimized for fleecing users

• VR tourism

• Some way to digitally record and recreate smells, scents and odors

• A unified paradigm for controlling machines from fridges to elevators. Like tiny touchscreens with a modern and accessible UI you can hook up to with your phones
Personal server. If there were an open source project that made running server applications (personal blog, email, game server, file backups, mastodon, etc) easy for non-technical people, it would open up whole new use cases (in the same sense there are kinds of software now that wouldn't have made sense before everyone carried around a phone).

It would also be a whalefall for the hosted vm industry if it caught on, which is why I'm surprised it isn't being worked on by Amazon or similar. The only company I know of working on this is Urbit, which seems at this point unlikely to take off for a variety of reasons.
If you're worried about labor, cook using a pressure cooker eg. instant pot. You prepare your ingredients, throw it into a pot, and press a button - coming back to perfectly cooked food with zero monitoring. I work from home and so use mine daily.
There are a ton of utilities for managing dotfiles. Some of them are listed here: http://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/
Not sure why you're being down voted, perhaps for telling the obvious?

I can foresee Morris Worm v2 coming up sooner rather than later but this time it won't just targeting UNIX systems. It is the obvious killer application for WORA library that use C, whether we like it or not.

On the bright side, for a start this probably can solve the many redundant VC++ compiler versions installation in a single computer just before we get to the 2030 VC++ compiler versions :-)

Anyway kudos to the library's author, when the late Dennis Ritchie invented C for portable OS, he had probably never envision how far it can be made portable.
Let’s write a game for the original Playstation
Permanent memoization is not your only option.

Caching the result of common inputs and discarding not-recently-used results can be useful on functions with huge - but nonuniformly distributed - input and output spaces. At the extreme, you might have procedural image or texture generation - perhaps the postprocessing of another image or texture, for example. Impurity is a great way to end up with serious cache invalidation bugs when untracked inputs are changed, and purity a great way to avoid them.
Loveliest part was the part right before that:

“Just let me geek out for a second”

Absolutely IBM storage person, the more geeking out the better!