skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am hoping that VW and others can get to scale quickly. If priced correctly (not too high), I don’t see why VW won’t be able to sell every car they are able to make. The key thing when looking at these metrics are that it is primarily a supply defined market rather than a demand defined one. And, it is about offering a low enough price such that the market will buy it - while hopefully gaining some positive margin on each.

The outselling of Tesla I’m not going to take at face value yet until Tesla’s Berlin factory comes online. Note that Europe sales thus far have been dependent on imports and that it’s quite likely Tesla has been focused on delivering and collecting cash on NA/Asia sales and having the European customers wait a few quarters.
Not exactly. "gain of function" [0] research, if I understand correctly, tries to understand how to make a virus more virulent. Or make it affect hosts it wouldn't normally affect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain_of_function_research
Reinkstone 10.1” Color E-Paper Tablet Powered by Android 11
What is India doing ?
Depends on what you view as natural. They have been doing "Gain of Function" research which is designed to enhance viruses.

https://www.newsweek.com/controversial-wuhan-lab-experiments...
I can speak to this as a graphic designer.

In the Battle of Naboo in the Phantom Menace (2001, 115m budget,) you see a CGI battle between a million zillion CGI robots and CGI aliens with CGI force fields, etc. It's a proud display of state-of-the-art CGI capability, circa 2001.

To this day, when you watch Jurassic Park (1993, 65m budget,) you're looking at a fucking dinosaur.

Great typography is like great special effects in a movie (most of the time,)— the viewer shouldn't realize it's there. "Good typography is invisible" is the most commonly repeated maxim for typographers. Typography is good if it's readable, legible, all elements on the page serve their purpose without needing to be labelled or puzzled over, and the most noticeable thing on the page is the information being conveyed. (Postmodernism challenged this in some interesting ways but for most practical purposes, this still holds true.) A designer might notice the typeface choice, paper choice, tracking, leading, margins, kerning, paragraph 'rag,' line length/column width element hierarchy and placement. The user probably won't notice the greater reading speed, lessened eye fatigue, fewer incidents of losing their place, easier scanning for pertinent bits, and things like that. But it will certainly be there.

I remember the first time I listened to a perfect-condition vinyl of something that I had always only streamed— I was immediately struck by how much more spatially-open it was. I imagine that was pretty deliberately done by the producer and with the necessary high-end loss in lossily compressed music, it just doesn't make it through. Not sure if I would still be able to tell as much of a difference in my 40s as I did in my early 30s, but I think most people would be subtly more engrossed in the music, even if not consciously. That was also sitting at home directly in front of my modest but competent stereo. The real question is context. Will the listening devices convey those subtleties? I know a lot of people are using streaming services as sources for home audio these days, so maybe it would to them? Certainly wouldn't to me as I was listening to music while riding the subway. I might enjoy having it available for a nice sit-down critical listening session.
Are you looking at a 7-8 figure upside to your deal? It's reasonable. Are you looking for fun? Unreasonable.
Engineering resourses are limited. It takes significant effort to transfer and verify a design for a new process. Why pull off engineers working on the next gen products to retapeout an old product on an old node? I doubt it would have ROI.
Some music videos already seem to support Spacial Audio: https://music.apple.com/gb/music-video/alone-live/1444596368
Perhaps, but I would be cautious in saying that even present-day Sufis from traditional orders are especially representative of a normative ideal of 'Sufism', especially those who have exposure by social media and the internet to huge audiences and to the West. This is partially what I think is common sense and partially from some personal experience. My working conjecture is that if such people like Rumi and other ancient Sufis like Hallaj, Junayd, Ibn Arabi, &c. genuinely exist today, they won't be easily found without intense search.

There is probably no doubt that the line from Barks' translation has much to offer readers who ponder it. If it provides benefit, people should keep using it. But they should be more clear in attribution - I would be happy if the quote was always presented alongside Coleman Barks' name, the same way Ezra Pound's translations of Li Bai are attributed more to Ezra Pound than to Li Bai.
Well, 90% of this field relies heavily on Java so someone's wrong here. I guess that's not you, right?
I don't care? "That's the point being glossed over by the majority of commenters and the point the original author is making - benchmarks are interesting, but nothing beats real world experience and in real world experience there are a suite of factors contributing to the M1 and Apples SOC approach spanking the crap out of their competitors."

I don't know what point would be proved by maxing out the cores other than confirming what seems to be pretty obvious - a hybrid approach has multiple benefits - not just in power efficiency but the user experience as well.

It's not just one aspect of the design choices - but all of them in concert.
"Oceanbird's huge 80-meter sails reduce cargo shipping emissions by 90%"

https://newatlas.com/marine/oceanbird-wallenius-wing-sail-ca...
> They will just silently embellish minor transgressions, or take things out of context to paint you in a negative light...

And it doesn't really require embellishment. Context is everything in this case. The difference between a small joke meant to be endearing and an attack can be entirely in the eye of the beholder. Even something as inane as "working hard or hardly working?" can be taken negatively if you're already primed to expect it that way.

It's very, very hard to get back to even neutral with people that have negative assumptions about you. Even if you point out that some initial interaction that gave them a negative impression was entirely mistaken on their part or unfounded, it's not like people go back through all the interactions after that point which they interpreted negatively because of that, so these self-reinforced opinions are very hard to shake for people.

It really brings into perspective that old adage, "you never get a second chance to make a first impression."
This is more or less the business model of Planet [0], which is imaging the whole Earth every day with around 200 satellites. (No affiliation, but I previously worked for a different smallsat company.) It would be possible to get a higher visitation than that with more satellites, but it may not be cost-effective (e.g. someone might be willing to pay $X for a subscription to daily images, but not $(48*X) for half-hour images).

I also doubt you could just slap a camera on Starlink satellites. Even ignoring payload size/weight, power consumption, etc, you're typically fighting 3 different constraints when you decide which way to rotate your satellite (sun exposure for power, antenna direction for high-bandwidth network, payload direction if you have cameras or other directional sensors). They're not going to want to try to deal with that for the first iteration of their fleet.

[0] https://www.planet.com/products/planet-imagery/
>Why not just ask the current jvm what version it is and act accordingly?

I would! That's more or less what I was saying. But earlier on in the life of Java, there were technologies like Web Start and applets that could be embedded in webpages and the idea was that they would run on the client much like JavaScript does today, and you would have little idea of what the client environment was like, other than "it's a JVM." That turned out to be a bad idea for a number of reasons, most famously security, and the situations in which you can't just bundle your JVM are dwindling.
I dunno, Apple tossed the headphone jack to the curb and has been preaching the wonders of wireless and now they've introduced a product that can't use wireless. Seems relevant to me.
What limits the field of view of these LEO satellites? Why can we not have high resolution images of wider swaths? Is it something like the number of "receptors" on an imaging cell, or would wider angle lenses significantly distort the imagery?
at a submarine watchfloor (the 'shore side' of submarine communications) we had a wild schedule: 5am to 5pm for two days, then 5pm to 5am for the next two days. Four days off after that, but then the cycle continues. I can't count the number of times I woke up several hundred yards from where I last was conscious - freeways, intersections, etc. Most of my coworkers had this issue as well. we finally convinced the command to go to a more normal policy, but this took decades.
Also look at the azrieli mall in tel aviv...

there is a huge military base there which is blocked/blurred
Nature leaves a trail, so if you don’t find a trail then it becomes increasingly implausible that COVID resulted from a natural process. There are currently several intermediate steps that have not been uncovered anywhere, and which would have to have happened in order for this to be a natural process.
Mods can ban everyone for almost any or even no reason. Unless some racist or otherwise illegal reason would be given, the Reddit admins keep their hands off bans.

But the recommendation level came from Reddit, not from the mods of /r/india.
One small piece of good news for Let's Encrypt is that it's so common chances are even your most hardcore fans, who presumably first notice this issue on your site because they visit so often, will then also get the same problem on half a dozen other sites they visit.

This applies especially for the case where what goes wrong is exactly that the visitor doesn't trust ISRG and ceases to trust DST Root CA X3 when its self-signed root expires. A lot of other problems will bite those who get new certificates first, but this problem will bite every site with a Let's Encrypt certificate at essentially the same moment regardless.

So at least the blame will be spread around thinly and for most users there will be an overwhelming impression they need to actually do something on their side and not just moan and hope the problem goes away.
Good thought! LTT was a big help when I was building a PC for the first time in years. Might see if he has any interest in trying it out.
Most of what I recalling at the time doesn't match that description. It was more disparaged as pointless speculation mostly being used to fuel political finger pointing when people had far more important things to figure out.

Sampling bias acknowledged.
He seems to have an excellent sense of the underlying value of assets and enough cash to hold plays for a few years until they are where he thinks they should be. On timing, he seems to be far too early to maximize profits, but I seem to recall him saying something to the effect of he'd rather be too early than too late.

However, I could be very wrong. All I know about the man is what I've read about him.
IME, most of those functions tend to get implemented in the DE when it turns out they're actually useful, or some other mechanism can be used to activate them. So no reason to get hung up on that particular method to do it either.
Clicking a product scrolls to the top of the page, it's quite annoying.
It looks like Panasonic has been planning the deployment of a 10MW energy storage system at its own facility in India since 2016. Nothing I can find says whether they actually built it or not, or what phase the project is in. Tesla is capable of mass-producing 10MW battery packs and shipping them today, with manufacturing in the US, and is winning contracts to deploy them internationally.
Small correction: "bit for bit identical sound data as it was rendered at the final stage of production (mastering)"†.

Technically, our hearing plays no role in this, the requirement is just preserving the same sampling rate and dynamic range.

†NB: industrial standard is preparing a master pack of different files from the same final render, including lossy mp3.
> Study: Drivers who experience shift work sleep disorder are 3x more likely to be involved in a vehicle crash

This would mean (potentially) 200% higher risk, not 300%.

PS.: Further down a 300% additional risk is stated, but it's confusing at best.
I'm not a big fan of Reddit as a company but that's not really their fault – that's a moderation problem (from the mods of /r/india). You liked the sub enough to comment in it so clearly it was a good rec!
Yep. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a344285...
Shaping Design Work (With Star)
Reddit has disclosed that even your upvotes on other posts and comments that they deem unsavory can be used to automatically ban you.
skepticism is an “attack” on certainty, particularly unjustified uncertainty, for which blindly trusting (esp. only government-sanctioned) experts plainly qualifies. only by shedding our false veils of certainty do we inch ever closer to seeing the world as it truly is.

there are a plethora of open questions in vaccine science and epidemiological policy that naturally allow for skepticism. it’s not only political or partisan. you can strip away the political and still be left with plenty valid skepticism.

and yes, skepticism challenges the notion of expertise itself. it suggests humility is undervalued, that an ‘expert’ knows so little against the backdrop of the world’s knowledge (much less the world itself), especially when the ego becomes intertwined with the ideological. experts over time trend toward surety rather than openness and inquiry, especially as stature rises in a field. it’s so common that the out-of-touch know-it-all is a storytelling caricature.

while it’s not always a valid line of attack, questioning the basis of “expertise” can certainly unveil erroneous assumptions, poor methodology/data, and faulty reasoning. the raison d'être of skepticism is to push knowledge forward, not hold it back, and this sort of challenge is just as valid as any other in this regard.

finally, authoritarian governments are hostile toward academic institutions due to concerns over its power and legitimacy as embodied by... skepticism (of the state and its propaganda).
They already are betting the company on a bunch of things. Their cash on hand is almost entirely debt.

Additionally, they are merely meeting demand on Model 3 sales right now, don't forget that they spun down production rate on the 3/Y and are slowing China production as well. US charging networks are growing at a faster rate than Superchargers as well, so in roughly 2 years you are looking at a market where Electrify America is as big as the Supercharger network, the current NY to LA EV record is held by a Taycan on EA's network, not a Tesla.

The Model 3 is not very profitable at all either, sure it sells well (as it should, it's a great car being sold at almost a loss!) but a M3 without AP is not profitable. Still, to this day, they haven't made a penny on their business other than with selling credits but they are not even investing that heavily back into the business right now.
Finally, the Cybertruck was told to reservation holders to be shipping in 2021... which isn't happening.

What I find kinda funny is this: You call the truck a distraction..when it is the #1 best selling category in the US AND they have fast encroaching competition that owns the market. That's like calling the Rav4 a distraction for Toyota. The Ford F150 Lightning will likely outsell the cycbertruck in the US as Ford will have two years to scale and keep it in that scale by time the Cybertruck does actually launch. It has been Ford's #1 R&D goal for the last three years as it should be, it's their #1 selling vehicle. Ford sells two F150s in the US for every car Tesla makes globally and the margin is way more per unit.

I'm not saying they are going to go out of business today or this decade. I'm just saying that their differentiation will disappear, customer's will to deal with terrible timelines will evaporate when they can go the next door over and get it today, and once Elon is gone from TSLA (which will happen and should terrify shareholders; he clearly wants little to do with Tesla), the stock will fall like a rock and the debt leverage will fall with it finding Tesla way upside down on a LOT of money that they can't borrow more to cover and without the market and profit explosion the company is betting on.
Disagree. The Iridium phone constellation covers the entire planet (which means it has line of sight to the entire planet) and has for about two decades. Starlink will, soon, as well. They’ve already solved the choreography issue you mentioned.

The entire globe has about 500 billion square meters. 24 bit uncompressed imagery is thus 1.5TB per global image. With some modest compression, you could get a video stream of that from the Starlink network, although the current design of Starlink would make it hard to have room for an aperture with better than, say, 3 meter resolution.
If you are interested in an account of how it was to sail tall ships I can recommend “Around Cape Horn” [0]

If you are curious about sailing tall ships. And have the means. Apply to one of these ships [1]. I have gone sailing a couple of times and it’s one of the most rewarding experiences I have had so far.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9tuTKhqWZso
[1] https://sailtraininginternational.org/sailtraining/
Stable person yes. The stable genius, hell no.

Stable genius, if they can find one, yes!!
Bad News: Engaging kragen in plain conversation was my error. Had I known he would prove a jackass (e.g., here he using "cancel culture" methods to smear my statements on this thread by suggesting readers pause to read all my past posts on HN!) I would have never posted on this thread.

But as his own internet posting history shows, he seems quick to anger and, while quite well-schooled in some respects, he is unable to recognize that there's something seriously inherently flawed in his thought processes. And before that flaw, whatever it is, can fully reveal itself, he goes off screaming "troll!".

I'm not in bad company, apparently kragen also said some very bad things about Eric Naggum, although kragen raged after Naggum died (wish he'd done the same for me, but...) And the comparison is unfair in that I'm neither so talented nor so demanding as Naggum was. And I love a good laugh.

Good News: this is the first such person I've met on HN so I think such is a rarity.
With ICE vehicles being 98% of the market it's not about competition for a sliver of the market. It's about who can scale. And that is a function of batteries and car bodies.

Tesla probably leads in batteries, whereas VW leads in factory capacity.
Proficient spoken French (not necessarily correct but usable) is perfectly attainable in an academic year for a native speaker of English. I watched students at my alma mater, which has a summer language program, go from nothing to conversational fluency in a nine-week intensive course. They still made lots of mistakes, but they could freely interact with native speakers and make themselves understood on most topics.

I get that gender especially is hard on learners coming to French from English, but you also get about a quarter of the vocabulary for free, which is a treat.
It was a choice of the game. There were definitely truly 60FPS interlaced games during the PS2 generation.
Somehow the landscape of low-latency Java doesn't include other JVM languages so I don't think it's easy to achieve with Scala or Kotlin.
> I've found that the maps match the GPS of my phone exactly

I can use OpenStreetMap fine in China. But that's not Chinese data.

If a Chinese person sends me a location marker on WeChat, the marker will show up (for me, in WeChat) at some other, unintended, location; I can't use that feature at all.
Huh? 5800x laptop? The 5800x is a desktop chip.
Should be feasible at very high altitudes where gravity is low.
FARA registrations does not necessarily equate with trying to influence Americans per se. The mainly Chinese news agencies and all their US employees are registered under FARA. The consumption of their news is probably primarily consumers in China and China-watchers. My guess is their main desire is to influence the Chinese populace only.

During the cold war all Kremlinolgists would read Pravda to figure out the truth (pun definitely intended for the multilinguals). I doubt any Americans that read it were ever swayed by their coverage of blacks and civil rights. When atrocities against say blacks were highlighted, or bombing countries like Laos or Vietnam, the ensuing inevitable recriminations would always be on charges of whataboutism or disinformation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlinology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation

“A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes” - which ironically is misattributed to Mark Twain
I can only imagine someone condescendingly explaining that this was a test of your ethical character. By participating in it or other subreddits, like /r/BigChungus, you exposed yourself as an agent of hate. And then someone who might as well have had their image traced for a picture on the also-banned /r/smuggies would say "The only winning move is not to play."

Between that sort of nonsense and the redesign, they've Digg-ed themselves a hole and as soon as a viable competitor appears, it might just collapse as catastrophically.
Oh wow, I did not realize that floppy discs used the same exact encoding that was used on tape drives of the era, e.g. the TI-99/4A [1]. The wave file in the article is the exact same sound I'd listen to as a child, loading programs from cassettes.

Total coincidence -- I recently have been recovering games from my old TI-99/4A cassettes, also using an oscilloscope (the same model in fact; for no particularly good reason beyond it was the most convenient way to record off the only tape player I still own), Audacity, and two open-source tools to recover such data [2] and [3].

[1] http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/cassette.htm

[2] https://github.com/dimhoff/ti99_4a_tape_decode

[3] http://www.mrousseau.org/programs/ti99sim/
Legalese – Computational Law
This sounds like they need to push some higher quality Bluetooth codecs/profiles to be consistent with themselves.

But they also haven't made an attempt to solve the disastrous Bluetooth telephony situation (for context: there are exactly 0 practical ways of using a Bluetooth microphone without sounding like you're calling from the last millennium).

Maybe with LE Audio ...
Yeah someone else also replied with this same set of knobs. So what?

I fully understand you are very upset about this 15 year old unsubstantiated post about expensive knobs, but it will
relieve you to know that you could easily take 10 seconds and Google "wooden audiophile mods" and see hundreds of kits for stereos, headphones and DACs for $20-50 depending on what you're modding.
Great explanation, thanks. Do you happen to know far out these contract dates tend to be? Is it standardized, or a thing you negotiate (at normal levels and at giant $0.5B levels like in the article)?
One thing to note is the pricing. Clustering is not supported with the micro instance, so if you need it, you must go with at least mq.m5.large [1] and you need three of them, so the total cost is around $620 per month (or closer to $700 for example in eu-central-1).

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide...
Hey! Lots of people at work love your lnav tool! Thanks for making it!

Can't wait to try this feature.