skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lightyear One is developing a solar car. https://lightyear.one
The panels wouldn't be that much heavier than a regular steel panel. The real weight is in the batteries.

It's not a fake if its still in development, which it clearly is
I have a similar learning style. As with all things I think there is a tradeoff.

It feels superior when you aren't doing anything too complex and when you can iterate quickly with little cost because it's far more time efficient than thorough learning with only minor drawbacks.

When I think it falls short is if the problem you're working on requires deep domain knowledge or failure is costly. In this situation, someone who has deep knowledge and who will thoroughly work through the problem will be far better off than the person who learns on demand.

The caveat to this is that I think the former situation is _far_ more common in industry than the latter, so to me a learn on demand style is far more useful in practice. I'm sure that some domains would heavily favour a thorough learning style though.
Myelin seems a step or two down the causation chain. There is interesting theorising that the root cause in regular aging is lossy copying of the epigenome.
https://www.aptera.us/ is another
oligo-dendro-cyte = few-branch-cell

My biggest regret is to have never studied ancient-greek. So much mental load associated to pure mnemonics would just disappear in favor of upfront understanding.
>The desire to have fewer moving parts

This actually got me thinking. Do we really need CDN? This is one of those thing we take and use without actually thinking whether we could do without it.

Interesting thought experiment.
Why Hannibal looks better and brighter on Netflix
And yet, in practice, none of the engineers at Rockstar has done this work in 7 years and a half. I do not believe that it is fair to value *a posteriori* a one-million-dollar fix with "if" sentences.

Let us spin it differently: contact Rockstar before publishing the details of the fix, and offer to help them on this issue. How much do you believe that Rockstar would value the fix *a priori*?

The truth is this kind of fix is worth a lot, but it is always tempting for the company to be penny-pinching (and come up with justifications for being so) after the fact.
Sure, you're perfectly right, this is a different point polarizing the discussions. There is a lot of misunderstandings around modalities (should/has to; is possible/is necessary) in common arguments:

- substance is legal = there is a free access to the substance

- you have right to protest = you can go around the city and do anything, as long you make a point

- there is freedom of speech = you can speak anything you want without consequences
You're misrepresenting the current argument. This is not about "electric cars will never be viable", the current argument is "this particular electric car has significant downsides and nearly no advantages compared to existing electric cars".
It is easy to romanticize Proenneke's films, they are cinematically beautiful but also don't highlight the hardship and practice the man had to go through to get to where he was in his mastery.

Proenneke was a trained mechanic, who spent most of his life around farms and who's father was a carpenter and welder. He was also a very happy introvert. At age 53 the man had enough skills under his belt to fully appreciate the risks and work needed to survive in that harsh environment.

McCandless was unfortunately just a young man in search of himself.
> a story that involves several million dollars in seed and development capital from Radio Free Asia, a CIA spinoff whose history goes back to 1951 and involves all sorts of weird shit, including its association in the 1970s with the Moonies, the hardcore anti-communist Korean cult.

It's hard to take a blog post serious which makes lots of big accusations and promotes conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence. I am not against conspiracy theories, it's something I find often very entertaining when people provide some evidence to support their views, but this article was just poor.

The above sentence alone could have had at least a few linked sources to support these statements:

- from Radio Free Asia, a CIA spinoff

- whose history goes back to 1951 and involves all sorts of weird shit

- including its association in the 1970s with the Moonies

- the hardcore anti-communist Korean cult

Sure, I can go on a hunt for evidence for these things myself, but I won't because I'm not the one claiming these things to be true and I've got better things to do. If you're taking me (a reader) on a journey to open my mind to the possibility of those conspiracy theories then at least provide something to back them up.
I have a security key active but it still offers to send me an SMS code for some reason (worryingly, to a phone number I no longer have... should probably get on to changing that)
Don't be so flippant. The standard warning for cipro includes: "Taking ciprofloxacin may affect your brain or nervous system and cause serious side effects. This can occur after the first dose of ciprofloxacin."
Unfortunately, the only remedy to this i've found is to travel like james bond with two cell phones. I keep a second android phone with my 'back home' sim on the cheapest monthly plan possible and only turn it on to read sms codes. It really comes in handy when needing to sign up to a new service in your home country while abroad. Just don't forget to keep data roaming turned off
Correct. Therefore, the winning combination for city dwellers is public transit + carsharing. Public transit operators are catching on to this: In my city, there is a tie-in offer where a subscription to public transit gives you a rebate with a partnered carsharing provider.
It looks like they skirt pretty closely around "submerging" the device. At no point in the commercial is it actually submerged in a body of water.
iPhones are all locked up, so ifixit's advice is worse than useless... it just serves to frustrate. What use is telling people to open up an iPhone when regular people don't have the tools to do so?
Twilio has a (US-only) API for this: https://www.twilio.com/docs/lookup/tutorials/carrier-and-cal...

Im not sure what banks use, but I have had UK VOIP numbers flagged before when trying to register them for 2FA, so theres likely API providers for other countries.
Kinda genius, but also kinda make me think that the Apple Watch is useless near water? Lots of people here have said they prefer the Apple Watch to a more dedicated fitness watch (like a Garmin FR 945), but looks like that's only possible in dry conditions.
i-Flex (now Oracle Financials as you have pointed out) is not a service company - Flexcube is their own product.
To some people it was. I have wondered then and I wonder now how it wasn't clear.
"Raised hoods" does not mean american truck hoods that hit you center mass, then throw you under.

Unless you are a kid of course, then not only will the driver never see you, trucks positively decapitate you.
Amusingly, the 2011 Nissan Leaf actually had a solar panel on its roof. It would help charge its internal battery–not the main one, but the 12V auxiliary battery. Trying to actually power the car itself is generally infeasible with solar panels attached to the car.
Talasbaun uses real log working in their log cabin, which they are building for the purpose of moving from their current log cabin. This video seems misguided in comparison. https://youtu.be/ycRjXW2aW_s
I’ve wondered about this too. I’m guessing a lot of the effort going into society is from other countries. People picking fruits and growing food is hard working going in. But it probably becomes a problem of definition. Is a tech CEO / Wall Street banker giving or taking value if they enable millions of people to do work but consume a great deal themselves. Everything’s all too muddled up
For the first time in years, someone is building a web browser from scratch
Yeah, even if you got $0 it would still probably be worth it. If you company fails you still end up with an insane network.
You know nothing about Darfur, so why are you having opinions about it. Also the issue is that America DOESN'T intervene in genocides and neither does the international community - not consistently. Kosovo is one "good" example, but the international community waited far too long to act really.

What people object to is the rhetoric of intervening in Iraq becuase of the suffering of the Iraqis. This is just a complete lie. People critise America becuase its "intervention" or "invasion" of Iraq causes hundreds of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions. It WAS NOT about saving Iraqis from Sadam.

The reason we didn't intervene in Syria was becuase we couldn't work out who's side we were on and so we're not interested. We couldn't internationally organise to try and prevent the violence becuase everyone was trying to work out who the "good guys" were like some bunch of stupid children. This whilst doctors from round the world travelled there and worked in the most awful conditions to try and save as many human lives as possible. Trying to stop loads of people dying should be the focus imo, not being on the 'right side' as you suggest.
Maybe you should build a ride sharing app......oh.
Beyond it being insecure, I see it used too often as the only alternative to yet another proprietary MFA app.

Like Microsoft Authenticator. It wanted way too many permissions on my phone, and provided less security than my Yubikey authenticator. My yubikey provides a standard open OTP but requires the device to generate it (phone tap or plugin via USB to computer or phone).

Open standards are better. I don't want a different authenticator app for every website. It's so much simpler to use a single app.
Are you implying Apple software and devices are "easy"?

I think that's marketing, and not borne out of real experience.

Try setting up a new Apple device, there is very little in IT that is as frustrating and confusing.
Which shows you that before that blog post they valued the fix less than that.
It's worse than that.

These people (as will many lawyers, outsourced or not) will go out of their way to ruin the image of your company and brand in the eyes of customers, even when there is absolutely nothing to be gained.

It just doesn't look great when a devoted fanbase starts getting takedown notices and legal threats over memes, supplementary content, etc.

A legal department with agency is not a good idea. There should be very specific instructions as to what they can initiate on their own.
What looks ‘ugly’ today could very well look great in five years. The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco debuted to reception as an eyesore, but now it’s one of the main icons if the city. Weird is almost always good in my opinion. If it looks weird, that indicates it challenges assumptions and pushes the envelope forward.
Lots of car commercials show them performing well in an accident, but nobody expects crash damage to be covered by warranty. Why must phones be held to a different standard?
Wasn't there an ad shown on that loading screen?
And Flash enabled such a rich multimedia experience on the web in a time when broadband wasn't to be assumed. I remember playing very in-depth games on Newgrounds back in the day via Flash, via a very slow 56k dialup connection. There's no way to replicate that experience these days (easily anyway). The tooling around Flash was all very impressive. Sure the web changed and people turned on Flash, but that doesn't mean it didn't fill a very important niche for a long time.
Why would anyone ever be embarrassed that their code from 2021 is not working on IE3 or Netscape?
We need to have a DMCA day every year where everyone sends a 100 notices each to take down random content and preferably targeting content of politicians. Its the only way to raise awareness and also make companies not blindly remove content. If costs become high, they will lobby for more restrictive use of these notices.
With increasing density of batteries and lightening of cars, there's no reason why it should die
No. They willfully misrepresented their importance so that civilians didn’t buy them before the hospitals could. They were unprepared to respond to the increase in demand due to their complete incompetence. Anyone using a shred of logic saw through the “masks don’t work” insanity.
You're forgetting many people live in apartments in dense urban areas, and basically the only place they CAN put solar panels IS on the top of their car. Of course, they could just buy/use electricity produced elsewhere in dedicated solar farms, but that doesn't make you self-reliant, and could in theory cost the end user more money, depending on maintenance and cost of the vehicle.
> brakes get a respite from regen

The brake cylinders might seize instead. The pads and disks are quite cheap to replace.

How many private cars actually change brake systems because of braking too much and not environment attrition.
And somebody think about the extra load on the power grid!

It's not that these aren't valid concerns, they have to be addressed, they're just so minute they don't change the calculation even slightly.

EVs at that speed may lose a bit more (already more efficiently generated and used) power in regen - vs. a guaranteed 100% loss on a gas vehicle.
Have you thoroughly researched fluoroquinolones? Millions of people like myself have experienced tendon or nerve damage from one course. And besides the known cases, it often goes unreported because people don't realize their sore ankle might have anything to do with the pill they've been prescribed for a cough.
Point 1 is not all that disputable nor is it an assumption. The scientific studies on the matter tend to support alcohol being one of the worse drugs we know about, in terms of harm to the individual, addiction potential and harm to society. It is exceeded by heroin, cocaine and tobacco, but little else (maybe meth I guess).

Point 2 is not an interpretation - it's again a fact, most people (over half) in western societies like the US and UK drink alcohol, a proportion which rises if we just look at the adult population. I'm not making the argument that alcohol should be legal, I'm saying that most people already think that.
I agree here, if you want to be pedantic, that their consumption does not prove that, only implies it, but there is also likely a proportion of non-drinkers who think it should be legal. So again - I'm not making any claims about whether alcohol should be legal, I am making claims about the likely views of your interlocutor in a debate about legalisation.

Point 3 is simply stating that given point 1 is true (which it is, empirically, to the best of our current knowledge) and you are talking to someone in group 2 (which you probably are), then if they want to be self-consistent they ought to examine any negative views on legalisation.

This is an explanation of why an argument along the lines of "booze is legal" is often made and may be effective. NOT an attempt at a formal proof for why any particular drugs should be legal in isolation or a justification of alcohol's status. As such I'm afraid I find your response overly nit-picky.

A perfectly valid response to the argument is "But I don't necessarily agree that alcohol should be legal", which then widens the terms of the debate.
This family is even more fascinating:

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-rus...

Lykov Family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family

The Lykov family (Russian: Лыков, romanized: L'ikov) is a Russian family of Old Believers. The family of six spent 42 years in partial isolation from human society in an otherwise uninhabited upland of Abakan Range, in Tashtypsky District of Khakassia (southern Siberia). Since 1988, only one daughter, Agafia, survives. In a 2019 interview, Agafia explained how locals were in contact with the family through the years and in the 1950s there was a newspaper article about their family.

Agafia Lykova: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agafia_Lykova
An app that installs without the permissions it really wants and then refuses to function AT ALL until granted those additional permissions has got to be some kind of violation. It's basically lying about the permissions it needs to function in order to make it into the appstore.
When I travel out of country I stick my SIM card in some old rooted android phone and configure it to forward sms messages to my email, only because of banking 2fs sms messages
> simply that it isn't UNIX and doesn't adhere to the UNIX philosophy.

I talked earlier about three different definitions of UNIX – "trademark/certified UNIX", "heritage/genealogical UNIX" and "UNIX-like/UNIX-compatible". Maybe we could add a fourth, "philosophical UNIX". I don't know why we should say that is the only valid definition and ignore the validity of the other three.

The fact is that opinions differ on exactly what the "UNIX philosophy" is, and on how well various systems comply with it. The other three definitions have the advantage of being more objective/clearcut and less subject to debate or differing personal opinions.

Some would argue that UNIX itself doesn't always follow the UNIX philosophy – or at least not as well as it could – which leads to the conclusion that maybe UNIX itself isn't UNIX, and that maybe a "real UNIX" system has never actually existed.

It is claimed that one part of the UNIX philosophy is that "everything is a file". And yet, UNIX started out not treating processes as files, which leads to various problems, like how do I wait on a subprocess to terminate and a file descriptor at the same time? Even if I have an API to wait on a set of file descriptors, I can't wait on a subprocess to terminate using that API since a subprocess isn't a file descriptor.

People often point to /proc in Linux as an answer to this, but it didn't really solve the problem, since Linux's /proc was mostly read-only and the file descriptor returned by open(/proc/PID) didn't let you control or wait on the process – this is no longer true with the introduction of pidfd, but that's a rather new feature, only since 2019; Plan 9's /proc is much closer, due to the ctl file; V8 Unix's is better than the traditional Linux /proc (you can manipulate the process using ioctl) but not as good as Plan 9's (its ioctls expose more limited functionality than Plan 9's ctl file); FreeBSD's pdfork/pdkill is a good approach but they've only been around since 2012.
I know a number of people, myself included, who task their loved ones with "helping" them code by as if asking a college. None of the loved ones in question have the least qualifications or interest in coding, yet they are all immensely helpful, and they get more time together, and feel valued.

Just explaining what the problem is out loud is very often all that is needed.
On the other hand I had the pleasure to have the opposite experience with Dell almost 10 years ago: called to ask for a refund of the Windows license after buying the laptop and was quickly refunded ~140€ for Windows and all pre-installed software, no questions asked. Funny how customer experiences can be so wildly different...
European Medical Agency still says AZ should go ahead. And, thankfully, several EU countries still do continue (including mine, Finland).

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/astrazeneca-vaccine-saf...
> [...] Sono Motors is providing a warranty for the Sion of probably two years or 100,000 kilometers [...]
> They say a lot of definitive things without knowing anything definitive.

As opposed to who? I see tons of scientists proclaim things as ‘proven’ which later turn out not so true after all.
The hatred is because it costs 16 dollars to take over a number:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-1...
> Anyway, I think this product is fake and scam.

Indeed.

I feel it is now like 1 in 3 EV projects as of late is a pure scam driven by stratospheric Tesla valuation.
Sorry for the negativity but does this matter? Like, at all?

The CANSPAM act was implemented a decade ago and I still receive spam emails without unsubscribe links from salespeople at Fortune 500s. Reporting it does nothing. There is no real enforcement of any of this.
Curious if you tried this on an EC2 instance in AWS? The IOPS for EBS volume are notoriously low, and possibly why a lot of self-hosted DB instances feel very slow vs similarly priced AWS services.
Personal anecdote, but moving to a a dedicated server from EC2 increased the max throughput by a factor of 80 for us.
>But who gets the best rewards?

Somebody else. Which is the case for 99.999% of the population, so?
I tried to get T-Mobile to stop giving my location to anyone that hits their APIs with a 'Yes I have permission' flag set.

There's no opt-out for it, and no enforcement of the permission requirement. Their support had me snail mail a letter to some PO box. I never got a response.

And now they're going to start outright selling their customer activity after forcibly un-opt-outing* everyone who opted out in their privacy settings previously..

*un-opt-outing -- ??? I don't know what to call this. It's not 'opting-in' since nobody has a choice.. 'resetting user selection without notification or consent' seems too mild and wordy.
Well, the phone being dunked in water, the end result being advertised, is that it is still a fully functional device, not that it was sacrificed to protect oneself from physical harm.

The cars, after they crash, do not work anymore.
> As a lone wolf programmer, I avoid talking to people

I've built things solo with my PhD (dropped out), and collaboratively in a startup.

The biggest mistake we make is building the wrong thing. We need to talk to people, whether it's customers, co-founders or colleagues to correct all the incorrect assumptions we've made, but can't see.

If you're building something new, there's likely to be many, many incorrect assumptions...
Looks good to who? When i see all this kind of froth on a CV, that's a red flag to me, or at best, effectively empty space, where another candidate might be telling me about experience and skills that are actually valuable.
They didnt say its useless because it was true but because they wanted to reserve them for healthcare people. They did the same in France.

I mean some people were looting pharmacies for chloroquine so lying at that point on masks is almost a security issue..
It was a pretty big market. There were word processors, spreadsheets, drawing programs, music editors, etc. Not (most?) IDEs though; their GUIs tended to be in text mode. There was even at least one pre-emptive multitasking system for running multiple applications at the same time (full screen) and switching between them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

Running one graphical app under DOS needed less system resources than running one under Windows, so you could get more bang for buck. Also, at that point Windows was still not great at interacting with some hardware devices in real time, so some devices needed DOS to work well.
It's never as simple as "slap an exe and launch it" : even super simple MVCs need some server state ( lucky you if you don't ! ) : this means db migrations, configs ... Not that docker solves this though. Also I disagree with the "can't do this with java" : any JVM based framework offers self sustained jars packaging ( might be slightly bloated, OK ).
What if you live in an apartment and only use your car for weekend activities?
You can not get good sunlight at dense places anyways. Almost always there is going to be a shadow.
I Cooked a Chicken by Slapping It
Can you use numbers for probabilities, then multiply them by population, please? 4000 people died between your message and mine.
True! Where I live now, that would fund my whole neighborhood working together on a startup for a year.
>only the FAANG level companies will get me where I want to go

So? You might never go "where you want to go" (some monetary compensasion?). It might be unreachable or a pipe dream for most and/or for you.
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