skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean "try them out"? I said I drove one and i did not like it. It is not just the rattling interior that i dislike. The pedals, the wheel size, the rear passenger space, the trunk space, no speedo and no HUD in front of me, the electrical shifter... it is just not a car for me, even if i would accept the worse rattling for a car that is literally 50 times the price of my car.
Or maintain them.
If people don't mind a bulge in their phone, I doubt they'd mind a camera bulge sticking out the back of their laptop.
Adding to this: Getting back dev mindshare was IMO critical for their success.

90% of https://webcompat.com/ is sites that are broken in Firefox, not necessarily because FF isn't standard compliant, but because many Web devs just dont bother testing their sites/apps with it anymore.

As for better tech I suppose they chose a 80/20 approach, but I'm not sure it will suffice.
I worry a bit about the physics/mechanics of "charging" infrastructure.

Last week some company announced (in some sense) non-graphite anodes that will (theoretically) make 5 minute recharges of a car battery system possible. Given the amount of energy stored in the system, this is a LOT of juice to have flowing down a wire.

Now imagine that it's about that time of day when a bunch of cars get parked curbside, and plug in to the "new" charging infrastructure. I don't know the numbers, I think we're talking about insane current levels, meaning insane wire sizes being buried in the street.

Anyone know anything about this?
I find it odd they suspended an account for this, and not for twitting his vaccine conspiracy theory, while banning use of US/British/French made vaccines. The Supreme Leader's banning of vaccines has and will have far more deadly consequences than his idle threats against Trump.
> While a cause of death has yet not been revealed, Straczynski said the cast and crew of “Babylon 5” had “known for some time now that Mira’s health was fading.”

She died of consequences of infection from West Nile virus transmitted through mosquito. I read it from my local news paper.
I've just started to get into microcontrollers, but I have been playing with boards based on the NRF52840[0]. I'm using them to build an air quality monitor to measure CO2[1], volatile organic compounds[2], temperature and humidity.

I'd recommend the Adafruit NRF52840 Feather[3] or if you want a smaller version (that doesn't include a LiPo battery charger) get the ItsyBitsy nRF52840 Express[4].

I haven't used the Arduino or CircuitPython programming environments, I've just been using Arm GCC and Nordic's SDK.

[0] https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Low-power-short-range-wi...

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4867

[2] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3709

[3] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4062

[4] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4481
I come to HN for the incredibly out-of-touch takes like this.
And personal savings are way up. But it's unlikely either of these trends will hold after 2021.
So flipping my original question around a little, how did you get into learning these things?

I've always wished I had taken a hardware course or two while in University. I can't seem to think of anything practical enough to keep my motivation while I deal with learning about all the actual hardware bits.
This moral conundrum has been explored before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24740791

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25542949

Sometimes I fear people don't see the difference ethically based on HN discussions on other issues.
That's just downright false since the Bentley Continental GT, Rolls-Royce Wraith and Rolls-Royce Dawn exist.
> My Model 3 SR+ doesn't weigh any more than a regular gasoline car.

It absolutely does. The Honda Civic hatchback has 3. cubic feet more cargo room than the Tesla 3 with the seats down (including the frunk) and weighs 600 lb less.
I tend to use the term battle rifle as representing rifles utilized by world militaries, I fully yield that you are correct, but I tend to try to stay away from the word assault rifle when trying to convey what I am saying due to it being an extremely loaded word now. Because the conversation can devolve into weather the AR-15, civilian AK etc. are classified in that group, by utilizing the term battle while not technically correct, infers meaning to the reader that I am specifically talking about rifles utilized by the military. That being said, I acknowledge that there is a stricter classification for the two groups and that my utilization of the term is not technically correct.
React 101: A Quick Intro
Yeah, the subliminal message - Russians (except Navalny) are stupid and cannot do any shit right.
That sounds like something Apple would never do. Though I might have said the same thing about the camera notch on the iPhone.
When I finally took the time to learn how the proof of The Halting Problem worked, I was fascinated by just how "edge-case" it actually is: it's less a general principle, than a proof that a black-hat exploit can always exist that will break any given halting-prediction algorithm.

With the caveat that I'm a Chomskyan free-speech absolutist, and I generally agree with you: it's not hard to apply the same Halting Problem concept to free expression. Such an exploit can manifest many ways: QAnon, Red Guards, literal Nazis, Woke "Neo-Marxists", etc; but regardless, scale the intersection of extremist ideology and human social behavior until they approach infinity, and it's easy to see how they can (and historically have) resulted in a systemic collapse of free expression and free thought. (This was what Popper was trying to capture in his now-oft-quoted Paradox of Tolerance, which is now ironically over-applied as a lever of pre-emptive intolerance of challenges to orthodoxy!)

I do agree that it's both a categorical and strategic mistake to succumb to an epidemiological model of memetic extremism. Even to the extent that model applies, extremist ideas only spread under social preconditions of susceptibility (as described by Hoffer [0]), and I don't think pre-emptive idea suppression is either right, or wise, or helpful. Extremist ideological infection is more a symptom than a root cause.

And yet: we can still recognize that certain taboos might exist for a reason, such as the one against openly voicing "maybe we should just kill the people who disagree with us". James Lindsay (perhaps the second-most infamous opponent of postmodernist thought) has described postmodernism as a "universal solvent", capable of taking apart any idea. It's not that you never use such a cognitive tool; rather, one uses it cautiously and judiciously, when one has the wisdom to wield it properly. Similarly, we need safe spaces for dangerous thoughts, even of the Popperian or Halting Problem variety; yet it may be appropriate to hold social taboos against those ideas being used casually in polite society and the public discourse, lest they dissolve polite society and public discourse themselves.

[0] https://samzdat.com/2017/06/28/without-belief-in-a-god-but-n...
Thanks. Will take some time to read & parse.

However, from skimming the text, I would have to agree with the sibling commentator, that pointed to the reconstructed Proto-Dravidian language, rather than Tamil. The book you've shared suggests links of the IVC with Proto-Dravidian, not Tamil directly. Tamil as a distinct language is not attested before the 3rd Century BCE, making it a contemporary of the Prakrits in the North, around the time of Ashoka. The Sangam Literature period starts from the 1st Century BCE, roughly contemporaneous with the advent of Indo-Greeks in the North. Tamil =/= Proto-Dravidian, which would indeed have been around at the time of the IVC. Whether the IVC had contact with Proto-Dravidian or were Proto-Dravidian themselves is still an open question. Even the preliminary Ancient DNA evidence from the IVC does not settle this matter conclusively. (I'm a Geneticist, not a linguist)
+1. It is amazing seeing how well they’ve managed this.

There were educational launch videos out from the authorised Indian resellers on the day of launch, even.
5 minute charging:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/19/electric...
Do you have a link with more info? I just popped 2 of these [1] an hour ago as I had eaten some kind of food/protein bar that tasted like it contains pea protein, a known trigger of mine. I live in a country where I can't read the language so I'm not sure exactly what I ate.

https://www.nowfoods.com/supplements/cordyceps-750-mg-veg-ca...
I have 3 monitors, I very frequently have one monitor empty so it's nice to have something pretty on it.
It's really not a monopoly though? There are quite a few cloud providers.

AWS has lots of services. Customers like it when all of their cloud is managed under one roof (apparently).

AWS is definitely competing fairly, it's just... people like their offering better.
I know enough about GPU to know how interesting this is, but not enough to fully get it.

I wish there were some "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU for Dummies".
The EU is not really voted by the people. Very indirectly at max. And even then there are many people with cars who want to keep their cars but still vote green here. For some obscure reasons.
MARTY already exists, and has full-self-drifting mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x3SqeSdrAE
How do chip manufacturers determine the price of chips?
When I made my comment above, I didn't know Valinor was from LoTR, and I do see now why that would be kind of weird to some people. That part of comment was overly aggressive, and I should have done more research into the community and the name before I made my comment. My apologies for my tone, and for not doing my part to be informed.

However, personally, I still don't think it makes sense as an argument, for a few reasons. For one, I doubt he came up with that name - hell, unless I missed something, I don't even know if Scott actually likes LoTR. In most cases, the name of the housing community would not even be a consideration I would make when determining to live there, as the cost/amenities/location are far more important, so even if he is a LoTR fan, I highly doubt that the name was a factor in why he lives there. Maybe Scott's priorities for housing differ, but I've not seen anything that would indicate that.

EDIT: Not sure how to do a strikethrough on HN, but I just found out "Lorien" is also from LoTR, so I think it's safe to assume that Scott is a LoTR fan in some regard, and did probably have a hand in naming the housing community, and that my assumptions in the above paragraph are incorrect. I don't want to delete them, for context, so I'll just leave this edit here. However, I still don't think that matters; what matters (to me) is his professional competence.

Second, it doesn't matter to me where my psychiatrist lives. They're a psychiatrist, not a real estate agent. I also don't think my psychiatrist liking LoTR would a bad thing. All I care about is that they do their job well, and while I understand your concerns about it being a "hipster" housing community and the possibility of it signaling my psychiatrist's values, extrapolating their professional performance from their housing choice seems like a bit of a stretch in this case.
Fleet emission rules have the weird (but entirely intended!) effect that they make it economic to sell (nominally or actually) low emission cars at a loss if they compensate highly profitable high-emission cars elsewhere in the portfolio.

Originally this meant that small economy cars got subsidized by expensive guzzlers, but with regulations clamping down on emissions ever harder and with the "Tesla insight" that electric cars just don't work on a budget (not just plain battery cost, also what if you don't have a convenient garage and all that), it's flipping over to electrics from the premium brand in the portfolio cross-subsidizing ICE for the less affluent (e.g. Audi electrics compensating for Seat four cylinders)
Back in the XP days, there were generally two kinds of UIs: the ones that used the system theme, sometimes as much as trying their best to apply it to their custom controls, and the ones that disregarded the system appearance altogether and drew everything themselves, including the window borders.

> Since user feedback is rarely sought and routinely ignored in computing

This needs to change, too. I collect user feedback and act on it and my users love me more often than not. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing this.
The reason desktops were customizable in the 90s is that they followed strict GUI rules and used the same toolkits. Nowadays, apps want to have control of their UI to a higher degree, which makes it difficult to provide customization. The same applies to the web: since every app wants to have it own UI, there is no space for user-level customization.
My comment wasn't about me or my understanding. I am saying that people do not universally agree with, recognize, or are even aware of OSI's definition.
Apple plans new MacBook Air with Magsafe, MacBook Pro with SD Card Slot
Do wild animals "push" themselves? No. So theres your answer.

Humans are crazy.
That looks more like ultrabooks but not watered down again - I'm not impressed.
Ah, that's a shame... Nuts and seeds actually make me feel a lot better (was my only snack for a while, when I couldn't eat fruit) and I feel lucky to be able to eat brown rice. If I eat wheat-based pasta or bread however, my body will let me know in minutes.

It really is awesome that we can find what fits us with large store brands that deliver! Never knew how many forms of vegan protein exist out there
Excellent reminder/point. Thanks!
Seconding this experience. Western medicine is bad in general at treating chronic conditions that aren't immediately life threatening, but you would really think that general doctors would be more aware of autoimmune issues considering how common they are.

For anyone going through this fresh hell currently, I'd estimate my hit rate at about one out of 6 or 7 for doctors who'll actually look in depth versus those who were apparently just good at memorizing things for tests and can't diagnose their way out of a wet paper bag. If you haven't gotten at least that many opinions and are still suffering, keep trying.

Also, quacks are a problem too. Too many of those promising cure-alls.
You know who owns Porsche and Bentley, right?

There's zero overlap when it comes to Polestar models and Volvo models. The Polestar 2 just shares the platform with Volvo's SUV.
For the last few years I have always rooted (or rather I hoped) for Matrix/Riot->Element. So much that for my recreational and token FOSS IM usage (because for mainstream conversation in my country it all has moved to WhatsApp) with select friends I made it a point to request/convince them to use Matrix.

But when this WhatsApp T&C thingie happened I had to make a choice and ask all my friends and important IM contacts to move to Signal because let's face it Matrix is simply not usable for the average user as of now and I guess they will take forever to figure out Signal/WhatsApp and Slack/IRC/Zoom are not two different types of animals but are aliens to each other, especially from an end user's UX expectation point of view. So yeah it had to be Signal because no one was going to move to Wire or Threema.

Telegram is perfect for casual groups like the ones which form off places like subreddits — e.g. my country's book/lit subreddit. Besides their apps are a couple of hundred kilometres ahead of others including WhatsApp.

So as of now I am going to use Signal. Come 6-7 Feb, and I am deleting my WhatsApp account. Because I am pissed and as someone who deleted Fb, Instagram 6-7 years ago, I just don't want to accept that T&C even though I know Fb may get my data or would track me by using other means anyway. It'd be my personal tiny F.Y. to Zuck.

Having said that Signal does and have always made me very uncomfortable:

— It's headed literally by a benevolent dictator, and boy he does benevolent dictator.

— After a while I literally gave up on trying to make sense of their feature/dev priority and delivery.

— (As you've pointed out) Dev model of their server code is very much questionable and for an app that is "Signal", this thing has no reason, no excuse — it's either there in the open, regularly, and latest, or it's not.

— It's centralized — a catastrophe waiting to happen (oh wait, a technical one just happened).

Hell, Telegram and Signal both have open source apps (in fact I can make my own in case of Telegram but in case of Signal — naah!) and they both essentially have closed source servers (even if you discount that for a centralized service you don't know what's on the server).

I really wish there was a Telegram like Matrix — esp. the UX — not like Signal/WhatsApp.

https://builtformars.com/creating-an-account-with-signal/ this is good.
A military leader that planned, funded, and supplied attacks against U.S. bases. Less an act of war and more of a restrained quid pro quo.
Source? Anecdotally most folks I know have had to burn through their savings after living off of unemployment or going through underemployment this past year.
Wow how much was that domain name?!
I would say avoid blanket advice like "don't push yourself hard you'll burn out". Burnout is a real thing but it's ridiculously overblown. I get burned out often but it usually only lasts a few days. Successful people mitigate this by taking vacation days, not by deciding to coast through the year.

Some people are healthier, happier and thrive through the feeling of productivity - whether it be work, a hobby, or a side project. I'd say depression is more common with people who don't have anything to do.
With the rising popularity of streaming, a lot of people are getting a mirrorless camera and capture card. This is ridiculous overkill, and I imagine that a "premium" webcam could provide the desired features* at a much lower price point and smaller package

* Good auto-focus, depth of field, "natural" color, high resolution.
Right, got it. I think it is the lag time involved in the pipeline. Once a developer clicks merge, CI has to run, an artifact has to be created and uploaded, then usually a deployment to dev or staging is kicked off. That takes somewhere between 5 minutes and 2 hours in my research. Then, once done, the dev can click a button to push to prod, though often that is just to a canary, so another 5-30 minutes, then repeated for other prod environments. That whole process takes a lot of babysitting, and realistically, the dev has started on another task and forgot about it, making it take even longer.

By making it automated, the dev can immediately start on a new task and the deployment can go out quicker, meaning the next dev can start on their deployment. Therefore, I see it as helping preventing costly context switching and therefore, improving efficiency.
I'm irrationally missing the hotdog stand Windows 3.1 theme.

I use KDE at home and will occasionally try a different theme or cursor set when the mood strikes me. But that's the linux way. You're free to customize to a crazy extent. Once you get it setup the way you like it, you can achieve some nice workflow enhancements.
O Fenômeno DA Corrupção?
The Ruby Object Model (2009) [Dave Thomas]
Sounds like de-centralized power generation, maximizing remote work, and delivery vehicles powered by electricity and hydrogen is the way forward.
Well that is what the other major cloud providers arranged with Elastic (licensing deals).

AWS chose not to, and that's OK too. Elastic still pulled in $500M in revenue last year, so clearly you can compete with AWS in the market.
How about some context books:

“The Idea Factory” by Gertner
“Linked” by Barabasi
“Deep Simplicity” by Gribbin
“The Black Swan” by Talib
“Chaos” by Gleick
“The Experience Economy” by Gilmore & Pine
The nrf52840 has a reasonable programming interface, good power consumption and can be bought as a USB breakout dongle for 10$.
Pidgin fork?
We did, it resulted in smartphones and tablets, so what the OP is saying applies still. I would argue that's "general" computing now. They finished what the webTV started, providing a basic platform for people who had only very basic needs.
I do think that's a relevant point for desktops. The M1 is incredible, but if you don't care about TDP, desktop can catch up fairly quickly for either Intel or AMD.

I don't see an obvious player currently working on a "broad market" high performance ARM chip for the commodity desktop.
> I don't see anyone else making only mobile arm chips for laptops other than trying to be like a Windows Chromebook. The software compatability will be a nightmare.

I'd expect Microsoft to make a run at this with their Surface line.

They've been trying to make ARM tablets for a years (see Windows RT), and they just recently added the x86-64 compatibility layer so that it could be actually useful instead of "it's an iPad but worse".

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/introdu...

Will it see any success with 3rd party developers probably not bothering to support ARM? Maybe for some people who spend most of their time in Edge, Mail, or Office. I have a hard time seeing it being as successful as Apple's change, since the messaging from Apple is "This is happening in 2 years, get on board or you'll be left behind" and the messaging from Microsoft is "Look, we made an ARM tablet, and will probably sell at least 10 of them."
I doubt making a Soyuz and throwing it away is cheaper than building an F9 and reusing the first stage and booster 10 times. At that point the second stage would have to cost almost as much as an entire Soyuz stack.
As an art form, video games may have been a victim of their own success. It took film 50 years to develop its own language and style (first film recorded in 1888, first successful long form narrative in film 1915, citizen Kane, arguably the turning point for modern cinema in the mainstream in 1941, before that film copied stage plays in style and form), so maybe the unique properties of games will become more mainstream, instead of the brief bursts of genius we see from the indie segment are still on track. It also may be a generational thing - there’s no way I could ever convince my mom that games can be deep experiences that question agency and identity in a way passive media can’t, but someone my age may not agree but at least they buy that it’s a possibility, growing up with a medium and internalizing the language and symbols might be a prerequisite to having that kind of connection to art.

But it’s amazing to see that commitment to that future from those early days - as a yearly attendant to (non-COVID) GDC I’m amazed I haven’t heard of this talk, but it really resonates with me
> the most slick and stylish desktops are now on Linux (of course there's 99% trash

I read that as 99% of the Linux desktops being trash.

There are a number of desktop environments, but calling any of these "trash" is pretty harsh and subjective, even for something as barebones as weston.

For theme, icon, color packs, etc, for any desktop environment, I agree. That's always been the case for most user-generated content anyway.

But you do see a lot of subjectively great styles on reddit.com/r/unixporn, even for environments such as windowmaker or fluxbox!
Remember that time photo film got cheaper as more and more people switched to digital cameras? Combustion engine powered cars will be relegated to hipsters, museums, hardcore enthusiasts and specialist/niche applications.
> why one wouldn’t just create a defaultdict(list)?

One shouldn't even do that. groupby is supposed to assume that the input is already sorted by the given key, so it can be implemented as a generator. What's more, it should be implemented as a generator (that's the way the Python stlib's itertools.groupby does it), to avoid having to realize the entire iterable at once.
"Sign Up" goes straight to logging in with Google, which is pretty jarring since it doesn't even mention Google on the button.
Access Control for GitHub Pages
WOW throwback!!!