skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I assume Tesla will never sell a car with lidar because it would be a tacit admission that the hardware associated with a bunch of Full Self-Driving sales was never going to be able to drive itself. I suppose there's nothing wrong with _removing_ some hardware (radar) but it seems like it kinda makes the job even harder. Maybe the angular resolution was so low that it wasn't really providing any value.
This probably isn't much help, but if you've got an arbitrary waveform you can do a Fourier transform on it to decompose it into a list of additive sine waves (each wave parameterized by amplitude and frequency, ignoring phase), and then play all those sine waves together to make your sound. I have no idea about the implementation details here (I can imagine that this might get computationally intensive!) but in theory this should work.
Well this thread is not really interesting, But those three links you posted do not show there is no rule of law in India. Nor do I believe that to be the case currently.
> I wonder why some commercial focused companies make it so hard for non-commercial customers to access their business (I'm including companies that have websites but make it clear they only sell to contractors)?

Too much effort for too little revenue. The probability of a customer spending only $50, but also needing 2 hours of customer service might be too high. Once you engage in a transaction with someone, there’s a lot of possible future liability that comes with it.
newlines are explicitly allowed in json. https://www.json.org/json-en.html

See "whitespace". In order to be used in ndjson, valid json must have its newlines removed.
The circumstantial evidence both then and now was largely favor of lab leaks. Members of the scientific community with a potential culpability in a lab leak helped silence discourse by framing it as a political issue as opposed to a scientific one, helped by America’s ever so controversial President coming out in support of a lab leak.

With Trump gone and even more time elapsing with no reasonable natural origin of COVID found, a lab leak is back in the mainstream, even though we should’ve been discussing it from the beginning based on circumstantial evidence. It’s plainly evident that allowing these platforms to regulate our speech in this manner is poisonous. But whatever it takes to silence Trump and his ilk, I guess.

Edit: I see I’ve been downvoted for this. I suggest people look at the facts themselves and decide whether a lab leak should’ve ever been dismissed as a crockpot theory.

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
"Dark Side" is used here to describe something that cannot be easily seen or is not well known... as in "I cannot see because it's dark". What else would you call it... "un-light"?

It literally has nothing to do with race or skin color.
I've done a similar thing with Lisp sometimes: implementing hacks so that a list in a file always looks like this:

((lorem ipsum ..)
(quorat est demonstrandum ...)
...
...)

Only major line-breaks between top-level elements.
Oxford comma please, thanks.
It's not. It's a single proof about a set, a set that's assumed to be uncountable in standard ZF set theory.

The "axiom system" that (supposedly) contain a countable number of axioms. But these too are constructs of set theory. We still create proofs one by one of theories about axiom systems with infinite axiom - so we have a countable/enumerable set of such theories.

The proof systems to we can see or touch involve this enumerable properties. Perhaps you could change that with an analogue computer that a person could input "any" "quantity" into. But that's outside math as things stand.
I have a couple people who use a wall of boiler plate to do something 3 lines of mocks could handle, and not couple the tests to each other in the process.

Every time I have to add a feature I end up rewriting the tests. But you know, code coverage, so yay.
Have they made recent claims, or are you referring to the less ambitious plans described in the article?

> Last year, Tesla pledged to use lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, which do not contain cobalt, in some of its electric cars. Huayou stock plummeted. Still, Reuters noted, “it was not clear to what extent Tesla intends to use L.F.P. batteries,” and the company “has no plans to stop” using batteries that contain cobalt.
Ask HN: What future for native desktop apps?
Is the native desktop app in danger of extinction?

A whole category of desktop apps, call it the "office productivity" category, appears to have been swallowed whole by the SaaS model (Software as a Service).

Some apps are still rooted in the desktop space: graphics, animation and video. Yet even here, browser-based SaaS apps are making inroads. For example, Figma is hugely popular - prompting their Mac-only desktop rival Sketch to publish a blog post extolling the benefits of native apps [1][2].

If there is a future for desktop apps, it looks increasingly to be based on Electron. A technology that is arguably not nimble, light or performant.

Given the unstoppable juggernaut that is SaaS, is there still space for native desktop apps? If you're a business, is SaaS always more appealing?

Are there any developers who still find the prospect of developing a native desktop app more appealing than the SaaS route?

If you are developing a native desktop app, already support one, or simply prefer using native over cloud, how do you see the future of desktop apps?

[1] Sketch: Why we’re proud to build a truly native Mac app https://www.sketch.com/blog/2020/10/26/part-of-your-world-why-we-re-proud-to-build-a-truly-native-mac-app/

[2] HN discussion of Sketch post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24899391
Since then Google has abandoned Polymer and now has a new toy called lit-html. And is now busy writing stuff in lit-html.

Last year they shipped Constructible Stylesheets by default in Chrome despite the fact that both Safari and Mozilla were against the state of the spec and the proposed implementation.

The only reason? lit-html was going to use it. And the justification for not hiding it back behind the flag? "Oh, our internal metrics show 0.8% of sites using them", which, at the time, was exclusively Google-developed lit-html exclusively on Google-developed properties.
GameStop Is Creating a NFT Platform
That is not how copyright in USA works and it did not worked that way for decades and probably never.
"I think we should stop asserting that what we perceive to be the right view is the right one for all."

Nobody is asserting that, or even hinting at it. You have to have the most sensitive, assumptive and skeptical, upside reading of that to suggest that 'Having Facebook Available' as some kind of statement in support of 'One Truth'.

Modi's government is one of the most corrupt and dysfunctional in thew world and becoming excessively authoritarian.

Facebook, with it's obvious shortcomings, is one reasonably managed voice among many.

On the whole, having a fairly open Facebook is considerably better than having a Completely Corrupt Modi Facebook.

Facebook is not a tool or organ of the US and is not an organ of US state propaganda.

While some of the 'New Rules' seem reasonable, others definitely do not, and have authoritarian implications [1] including direct government oversight over some forms of content.

" I am quite sure the local people there are not wishing for someone from outside to come and save them."

I'm pretty sure that people would like access to critical information wherever they are.

I don't use FB, I don't care about it, but I would go to my first protest ever if my government tried to politicize it.

[1] https://theprint.in/india/governance/modi-govt-announces-tou...
A self-driving car is defined as "a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving safely with little or no human input" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car, but Tesla's Full Self-Driving
feature actually requires human input. This is confusing.
"undriving"
Well, it is what the feature has been called for ages. So maybe by now it isn’t Full-Self Driving but the feature we call “Full-Self Driving”.
Some people may be fooled, but more importantly, if you are an ally of the regime it helps you to an alternative story (fairy tale) that you can claim to believe in, and then pressure others to act on the premisse that the fairy tale is true.
Please make telemetry opt in, not opt out. And please honor the disableTelemetry setting by disabling the ping.
GMO -- separated from the pure research angle -- is a tool, a method of production. And like any tool in an industrial capitalist society, the primary purpose of it is to increase profits. Industrial capitalism increases profits through mechanization. This isn't a recipe for diversity. In fact, given the fact that the primary use of GMO at this point is to allow for large monocrop farms via wide application of herbicides to resistant plants, it is having the opposite effect.

I know personally what happens when the farmer next door to my hobby farm (and forest) sprays his field of GMO soy. And is the opposite of an increase in plant (or animal) diversity, let me tell you that. The effects of spray drift is visually obvious immediately, god knows what it does in the long term.

The science behind genetic engineering has the possibility of increasing diversity. Market forces do not. At least not for now. Perhaps some competitive pressure will eventually get us there. But primarily this is just about making lots of soy, maize, and sorghum. Mostly to put into animal feed.
That is literally how art always worked.
>If so, where do you propose the line exists?

The line is drawn where an actual crime is committed.

I'm not really a fan of pre-crime control measures, but that's a personal opinion.
We've had taxis for 100 years. It's obviously a sustainable business.
The Pragmatic Programmer, Refactoring (I'm rereading it after many years with the 2018 edition, opinion not totally formed on this one), Working Effectively With Legacy Code, A Philosophy of Software Design. It's been a long time since I've read Clean Code, I don't quite get the hate from the other thread here today so I'm rereading it now. I figure it'll take me a couple days and worst case I'll agree with the criticism and stop recommending it.
Their mistake to target French influencers. With US ones this would have worked.
My first advice to anyone who expresses a desire to learn to program is to identify an itch to scratch. What problem do you want to solve? What do you wish you could improve or automate in your life, that you think could be done by a computer? Why do you want to learn to program?

If you have a goal which is not about programming, but requires programming to reach, then you are more likely to learn programming by reaching that goal than by choosing "I would like to learn to program too".
Plausible deniability
I didn't know about hexo - it's Jekyll for node.

https://hexo.io/
> It could make sense to artificially create a demand by the government requiring it for, say, safety critical software but I have a feeling companies wouldn't want this out of their own accord because that license gives the employee a bit more bargaining power.

For any software purchase above a certain amount the government should be forced to have someone with some kind of license sign on the request. So many projects have doubled or tripled in price after it was discovered the initial spec didn't make any sense.
Why can't the vendors just contribute their drivers to the kernel? Why is it so hard? Looks like Intel is doing it and their products just work on Linux as a result. Why can't these shitty mobile hardware manufacturers do the same?
Will my Model Y continue to use radar as backup? Or will it be turned off?
For a long time I thought that companies like Uber, lyft and Doordash were the super rich subsidizing the lives of the upper middle class on the backs of the poor. We might never be able to retire but we can get cheap rides home from the bar. The bread and circuses of the modern age.

Having worked as an engineer at one of the above it was clear that the amount people are willing to pay for a ride or food delivery is fundamentally less than what you need to pay a driver.

Now I believe it was a ponzi scheme by the investors. If you sell hundred dollar bills for ten dollars you’ll have lots of customers. Even if you start selling the hundred bills for fifty dollars or even 95 you’ll have lots of customers and be able to claim you are the path to profitability. The numbers almost work.
And it was a successful Ponzi scheme. All of the original vcs and investors were able to cash out with massive reruns. When these companies eventually (and inevitably) collapse it will be average investors and pension funds left holding the bag.
They do but almost no in order design can manage to load a value from memory and then launch another load from the location based on that value before the branch resolves and the speculation is aborted. IIRC the Cortex A8 and Power 6 are the only two in order processors vulnerable to Specter.
Do you have Independent judiciary and media in your country?
I took rapsey's item #3 to mean that languages tend to grow well when they're required—or at the very least considered the first-class option—for accessing a desirable ecosystem or platform, which does seem to be one major way language adoption grows. Not just that they let developers do things they maybe weren't before (but could have been, in another language).
These are all such cool projects. We took some early inspiration from TermKit! I think the tricky thing is that you need to switch terminal emulators in order to use the new features.

We've tried to make everything as backwards compatible as possible. Our goal is for Fig to integrate seamlessly with your existing tools and workflows.
It baffles me that "poor people being mistreated by large corporations" is such a non-story for American media, while "poor people being mistreated by large corporations that make EVs or iPhones" is such a recurring theme, to the extent that it seems it's the iPhones or the EVs that are the issue, rather than the mistreatment.

The optimistic take is that the author is trying to motivate the people who already care about "saving the planet" to also care about exploited workers, though I would have hoped for more constructive suggestions on how to help if that was the case.

The pessimistic take is that this is just a long form essay version of a YouTube thumbnail with a shocked face on it, randomly pressing emotional buttons to attract attention and using any random psychological lever that seems to work.

If this article interested you, I'd recommend the 2011 documentary, Empire of Dust about Chinese engineers working to build roads in the Congo for their mines in this area. Fascinating look at the human side of this from both the Chinese and Congolese perspective:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2148945/

> Lao Yang and Eddy both work for a company called CREC (Chinese Railway Engineering Company). They have just set up camp near the remote mining town of Kolwezi in the Katanga province of the RDC. The goal of the company i..
Observable Templates
I doubt that windows users would care, mac users maybe. Number one complaint is lack of pro software like photoshop or ms office.
> “How do you report someone who has done something, but hasn’t done something to you specifically?"

Rather "how do you report someone that might possibly do something in the future, because he said mean things in a book a few years ago so obviously he's evil.

The answer is: you don't.

If he mistreats women or anyone else at work then fire him. If he doesn't, don't.

You can even have a policy against employees saying things on twitter, and fire him if he breaks that.

But you can't fire people because you think they probably have the wrong opinions based on things they said 5 years ago, that's Soviet level repression.
This from the company that can't get their vision-based rain sensor to work properly doesn't inspire a ton of confidence.
Yes, Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" is not autonomous enough to operate without you paying attention to the road at all times.

But they advertise it as if you can sleep in the driver's seat (I think they literally have said that in the past).
I am somewhat familiar with the standard foundation of maths in set theory, and slightly less familiar with the program to ground maths in Category theory (although I do know a fair bit of category theory).

Maybe I am biased but I do not find the category theory foundations any less obtuse than the standard formulations. Like its pretty cool that you can do this stuff with category theory, but I think there is a reason the set theory was done first.
I thought the 'infect' was just used because it's a 'viral' license - it fits the medical analogy/broad usage of the terms 'viral' and 'infect'.

Is there a standard way to put it that doesn't have negative connotations?
Maybe parent is still salty about the UI change... several years ago.

I remember not being happy but that's no longer the case for me... but I also don't read it regularly.

What I'd miss most is if the hackaday.io project site were to go away. Makes documenting my projects very easy.
I don’t think it is telling you to be happy not making connections if you want to make connections with people.

It is saying - don’t wait on others to come and change or complete you; you have to make the changes yourself first.

In your situation; if you truly believe you need to stretch your skillset to be more extroverted at times, that is something you need to take personal responsibility for. You need to add to your capabilities through effort.

So I don’t think it’s really saying you don’t need others ever; it’s saying don’t look to others to “fix” you; if you need to be less introverted at times, that’s something you can work to control.
Suppression is not the only problem information endures. False information and overall narrative engineering is capable of doing equal, and probably more, harm than mere absence of information.

> With these platforms banned, it will be more easy for Indians to encounter information that challenges the dominant narrative of the elites.

You assume the "free range" information flowing around is free from the influence of 'the elites'. It might not be by the elites you particularly resent, but rest assured it is still going to be a strata of elites, who have the massive resources to organize, build, publish, market, brand, filter, "fact check" etc what information is allowed to flow around with what credibility.
Apple has been launching the "M1" piece by piece for years now. They started with Qualcomm/PowerVR cores and ended up with custom designs over years of iterative product launches.

I have no idea why do you think M1 is such a green field effort when it obviously shares so much of it's design with A series SoCs you've been seeing in your favorite iDevice.
His face is very obviously covered in makeup, it's almost glaringly apparent that he's been abused heavily.
You can't rewrite the history of blocks that have already been distributed. You may fool SPV nodes but any node with a copy of the blockchain (even if pruned) will reject your version.
I will honestly state I don't know the terms you buy a Tesla on, but it wouldn't surprise me if holding on to the vehicles impacted cash flow somehow.
Surely judicial decisions shouldn't be dictated by "the popular vote" anyway.

But then, one of the tragedies of modern America is that the Supreme Court seems to have become as much a political entity as a judicial one.
An interesting question and one that's been running around my head for a while. Out of interest this looks quite good: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/02/17/net-6-p...
Curious if anyone around here has tested it and if it's made any headway in the parked/stopped car/semi dilemma that has caused a few of the major accidents.

I guess I'm not sure if there's really a safe way to test that as I believe they've all occurred at high speeds.
Yeah there's a big difference between a 1 Million square foot factory for a major manufacturer and a couple used tormachs in a garage.
The point of specifying JSON is so a client can parse the the stream of messages.

This is as useful/useless as JSON itself.
I love that you’re getting downvoted for telling the actual truth instead of everyone else who is now rewriting history to explain why they’ve had this sudden change of heart. At least CNN was honest yesterday when they said “trump said it so we immediately took the other side, no we look kinda foolish”
But that doesn't prevent said conversations from happening on a large social network.

Email, Facebook, SMS, Twitter, and Discord are all massive networks that all can also facilitate small group conversations.
or just:

[
{ ... },
{ ... },
{ ... },
]
A lot of people are speculating that the current delivery delays are due to a shortage of radar units, and that this timeline was rushed forward so that they don't have to wait anymore.
If you're interested in learning a little more about the Congo's history, I highly recommend Michela Wrong's book In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. Ignore the sensationalized title and apparently cliche reference to Heart of Darkness, the writing is much smarter than that. She wrote it shortly after Mobutu's death in 1997, after living in the country for several years. You might also know her from a more recent book about Paul Kagame [1].

Perhaps surprisingly, the least sympathetic characters post-independence in In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz might be the World Bank and IMF employees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Disturb_(book)
You are buying the print number in a specific blockchain, tomorrow anyone can create a few thousand blockchains from scratch where this print number doesn't exist; just like one has to believe a currency has value to assume any value on one of its coins/tokens.
Blockchain voting is both overrated and underrated
Working on it! A Payment Links API is coming very soon.
The time it took you to ask what a lakh or crore is in this comment was probably longer than googling what these units used by a billion people are.
I'm curious if any AI/vision researchers without a dog in the fight can share their thoughts if Tesla has any chance of a pure vision system where every other company I'm aware of is decking out their cars with LIDAR?

My personal impression is that given how cost prohibitive it is of putting LIDAR in every Tesla to their business model, they're relying on safety assist features with the hopes that ~~eventually~~ data can solve the problem? But are Waymo's/Cruise/et al. completely convinced that that's impossible in in the medium term future? Outside the consumer market, is the Tesla marketing considered impossible?
The solution I outline is exactly how countless real-world systems, from cloud computing to web browsers to eBPF, safely run user-provided arbitrary code.
Can you recommend some Faulkner mysteries? I loved his style and the world he built and could always go for more.
Tesla calls this feature "Full Self-Driving Capability" and pretends that the word "capability" is understood to mean it could eventually be capable of it, somehow.

It's like if Apple were selling a smartphone with 80 Megapixel Photo Capability, and the fine print reads:

"Devices equipped with 80MP Photo Capability do not have an 80MP sensor. The capability refers to the hardware's ability to potentially upscale images to this resolution. We don't yet ship software that enables the 80MP resolution."

(I was stupid enough to pay for this bullshit FSD feature on a Model 3. Nice car otherwise, but with Musk it's always caveat emptor.)
Will we see GNU/Fucshia someday maybe then? :P