skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This project has been around nearly ten years. They've sold hundreds (or possibly thousands) and raised well over a million dollars. Looking through their forum, I'd guess they continually identify faulty parts (O-rings, moisture sensor, belt alignment) and improve these in successive designs. They make effective suggestions for maintenance and replacement of parts.

I do believe this won't necessarily save someone time. It probably just turns two hours of vegetable gardening per week into one hour of vegetable gardening plus one hour of robot gardening. I believe there are enough people in the world who enjoy gardening their mechatronics for this to have a respectable future, but I agree that it will never compete with any commercial venture

... unless someone invents an OpenCV saffron stigma identifier.
Firefox and Chrom(ium) can be installed on almost all major OS. Microsoft has always provided VM images of Windows+IE/Edge in supported configuration in the common formats (VirtualBox, VMWare, etc) for free.

Apple provide nothing after they discontinued Safari on Windows.

I don't mind testing on all major browser as long as I am not required to buy a specific hardware for all the browsers.
I hate the "download" button at the top that points to "#something" on the page that centers on an image that fills the whole screen (on a 4k laptop) so that you can't see the real download button below it.

It's cruel.

I am pumped to try it out however.
They were talking about Trump's attack rally, and this was published on 8th of Jan.
It would be interesting if this is indeed the case. With the government not giving salvadorians custodial wallets. That also explains the idea lower down this thread [1]. That stated this might be done so the government can print their own money.

With the SQL database, that would be quite easy. With actual bitcoin wallets (or the lightning network) essentially not doable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27628739

p.s. for people wondering what LN is, it is essentially:

Pairs of people agree to split some locked up bitcoin a certain way.

If they want to exchange bitcoin, they agree on a different split.

If someone tries to cheat, Hashed Time-locked contracts (the crypt magic that makes this work) means you get to take all of the locked up bitcoin".
It's not as simple as declaring "instant games" as the future. The idea has been around for a long time after Flash got killed. Both WeChat and Facebook made a big deal about "instant games" (e.g. see https://www.facebook.com/games/instantgames), but so far there don't seem to be any breakout hits (at least on FB, don't know what's the situation on WeChat).

There seems to be a general disinterest by investors, developers and gamers, apparently it's very hard to monetize instant games over a longer period. Even if there are some bursts of popularity, those games are soon forgotten because people don't stay around.

A single game can change that, but nobody knows when this will arrive and what it will look like.
> concrete suggestions for better solutions.

Here's a concrete solution -- The US Consumer Product Safety Commission should be given regulatory power over all consumer products, such as to enforce a minimum five (5) year support for repairs and parts availability, and standardized safety + recall notices.

NHTSA already does all of this for cars and vehicles. (They require a minimum 10 year parts availability. They handle recalls via VIN for auto manufacturers, including notices and matching effected model lookups, etc) - https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle

US-CPSC should run a matching mirror'd program exactly like it, but for consumer goods sold in the US.
It's really hard to outsource middle management and executive roles, which are the next step for most dev roles. So the outsourcing effect has lots of limitations.

I welcome outsourcing though. I do quality work and know what it's worth and can advocate for myself. Any foreign worker who can do the same is welcome.
I feel like a lot of time was spent convincing the reader that instant games are the future and not explaining the benefits and potential shortcomings of the area. A significant amount of the article is filling in background information. I didn’t need two pages on why Apple and Steve Jobs are the worst thing to happen to instant games, the explanation of how flash games were once monetized, or a rundown of all the different ways that they (or indeed any digital service in the modern day) could become profitable.

The article starts with a point that there is a huge spectrum between the arcade-style instant game and modern “full” games but then never really addresses that gap. They highlight that these games can be on a maintained third-party streaming service but then go on to focus mainly on browser games and make points that don’t even apply tangentially to things like Game Pass or PlayStation Now.
Even 8 weekends is probably enough.

8 weekends/year * 2 days * 8h/day * 200kW fast charging * 20c/KW premium (over electricity rates) = 5,120$ per year. Fast chargers cost ~50k to install so payback is only 10 years.

Granted this assumes higher than normal rates for those weekends, but not excessively so.
This article takes a while to get to its point. I'm still not sure I understand what "instant" means in this context. Also I find the whole premise pretty claiming a single game => systemic market shift.
But how many people enter their full email and then back out of the form? This seems like a small thing at the end of the day, especially for 3 emails that doubtless contain an unsubscribe link.

Edit: That got a lot of push back. I'm just saying, this is not the hill I'd die on. At best it would spare some small single digit percent of visitors 3 unwanted emails.
Thou dost protest too much
I see it more in the vein of vaccinations. A preventive care activity, not as a reaction to a symptom. Speaking only for myself, I am regularly screened, asymptomatically, for skin, prostate and colon cancers. That screening is a non-event for me because I grew up knowing that we will get screened on a regular basis for these cancers.

With additional asymptomatic testing, there will be false positives. Re-test using a specific test and if still positive, a biopsy. How frequently do false positives lead to unnecessary procedures with the current asymptomatic screening?

What would the rate of unnecessary intervention be, vs the rate of lives saved through early detection?
> Now you can opt-in to a a Rally study where independent researchers can examine the data.

It would have been great if they’d invested the resources to use Solid, here.
IT security isn’t. I work in the public sector and we operate soooo many systems spread out on 876 different departments and around 10.000 employees.

We’re still achieving our NSIS certification. Not because we’re secure, but because all ways to measure IT security come down to documentation, and, we certainly have that part covered.

I guess that somewhere, shops that weren’t already trying to do their best to be as secure as possible with what resources they have, are going to do a GDPR risk analysis and go “hmmmm, maybe we should encrypt those data” or “hmmm, maybe we shouldn’t host our backup locally” or something along those lines. But at the end of the day, you’re still massively understaffed and on insane deadlines and working with tools that simply aren’t designed to be safe.

I think the biggest issue is the illusion that all the documentation and focus will somehow make it safe eventually. It won’t. Not compared to not putting your powergrid on the internet.

We had a big issue with our pools a few years back. For some reason, someone decides to put the pool controls on the internet, so that janitors didn’t have to go work some ledgers or whatever they did before. Of course it was horrible, because pool companies aren’t going to hire the experts or spend the time or money they need to make it as secure as it should be. But the biggest issue I have with it, is why it was done. You may think it was to save money, but the subscription to have the online pool controls were more expensive than having people just to check on them, and it’s not like an organisation with around 150 different buildings aren’t going to have janitors out there anyway.

So there was simply no reason, and nobody really wanted the system, it just came with the pool. Then eventually one of them got hacked and the practice stopped, but do we really need to put these things online?
Very cool, but they should market it for what it is -- backyard farming for people that like automation. Large scale farming is pretty damn automated already. We can probably really improve on pesticide use, soil health, pollination etc (things that relate to optimising the ecological interactions between organisms).
Well, if email was saved secretly, as author wrote, it means users were not aware of that their personal info is saved. Also, since it's Javascript, it means that they weren't first-party, who had the email address anyway.

If they added a text for user like "Your email address is saved by XXX Inc, we will just send you 3 reminders", then it would be ok.

For example of the same dark pattern: if you look at any hotel booking page (not aggregator like booking.com, but hotel-owned), I bet you will see at least 5 third-party tracking scripts, they all store every action you make on the page without user explicit knowledge.
This is why laws that regulate data collection are so necessary. The ethical considerations that apply to software are so nuanced that they are very easy to get lost or ignored in a typical SDLC.

It will be much easier for a developer (or an outsider) to throw up a red flag that is taken seriously if it’s a legal concern.
It's extra silly since there's always a robust aftermarket for any reasonably popular car. You can buy new Model T parts in 2021. A lot of modern cars are built on shared platforms, too, so the odds of someone still making parts go up since the engine is probably the same as 20 other models.
What does “best camera” mean though? Sounds like the poster is talking more about latency and speed than quality, which may be more about the CPU/OS optimization than the camera image quality.
Should be "green" in quotes. Hydro power is devestating for the river ecosystem. But it's low on greenhouse gases and maybe thats what matters at this point.
I did have a similar example to this a year ago. We were partnering with an affiliate marketing agency, and they asked us to include their tracker on our website. When probed about how the tracker worked, they revealed that it worked by scraping everything that looked like an email address and sending it to their servers in order to attribute user signups, and they required it on every page.

I said that was a gross violation of our users' privacy and that we would only implement our own significantly restricted server-side tracking that didn't reveal any user info. Their response implied they really weren't challenged on their practices often at all.
would it be surprising to a user if they received an email from a company they hadn’t given their email to?

if yes, it’s a dark pattern.

if no, it’s not.

i side with, yes.
This brought back bad memories of spending days getting all those rar files, only for the final decompression to fail.
Presented in school? yes (very quickly)

Presented accurately in school? No. Never heard about all the dead children or the abuse. Just this week there was an online course being presented to students in Ontario that was found to require students to list the “positives” of the residential school system. It’s propaganda.
Yeah I mean they are [supposed to be] testing anyway, might as well rent out the equipment during the experiment and sell the produce.
Lightning network helps repeated small transactions between the same pair.

However, the first transaction between a specific pair (channel opening) still needs to occur on-chain. That transaction still pays a full fee.
When photography appeared, it made a lot painters obsolete... It forced many to rethink their skills beyond reproducing faithfully nature.

That's the nature of progress and art.
Then save it to local storage
I would recommend reading/implementing the below:

1. 'Write a Interpreter in Go' by Thorsten Ball

2. 'Write a Compiler in Go' by Thorsten Ball

3. 'Crafting Interpreters' by Bob Nystrom

4. 'Ruby under a Microscope' by Pat Shaughnessy
> "two times the total annual world cobalt production, nearly the entire world production of neodymium, three quarters the world’s lithium production and at least half of the world’s copper" [1]. And this is just UK.

That report seems dubious. The math simply doesn't add up.

For instance, the report claims that to replace all the cars on the road in the UK, it would take "... 2,362,500 tonnes of copper... [which is ] at least half of the world’s copper production during 2018."

But the world produced 16,890,000 tonnes of copper in 2020 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_copper_pr...). From that same page, it seems that the annual copper production has not changed much in the last 5 years.

So it's not half of annual production, it's more like an eight.

Secondly, to replace all the cars on the road in the UK (~33M units), at the current replacement rate of ~2.5M/year (https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/uk-total-auto-industry-sales-f...) would take about 13 years. So now we're talking about about one eight of annual copper production spread over 13 years, which would be about 1% of annual production per year.

Of course ICE vehicles also require quite a bit of copper...

It seems not unreasonable that replacing all vehicles in the 5th largest economy in the world would take ~1% of the copper output of the world (assuming zero recycling!) over a period of 13 years.
FAANG is not the be-all-end-all
That's why LocalStorage exists.
I think this Xkcd strip is missing an important point, which is that voting is exposed to a very broad attack vector: probably quite a large percentage of the population would try to corrupt the results if that could go undetected. The risk that electronic voting is exposed to is corruption, not really accidental failure. The other examples in the strip are talking about accidental failure. So while it's true that software quality management is usually (very) bad compared to in engineering disciplines, this is largely because of missing incentives and arguably missing regulation (for worse in this view), which could be changed, but unlike in the engineering cases, it would be a different level of difficulty for regulation to solve the issue, since the devices in question can be exposed to bad actors on pretty much every level. Or with a corrupt government / dictatorship even the regulation agencies themselves could be compromised.
>I just don’t see an alternate way to implement this.

Increase capacity.

By running the system ever closer to the bone you simply cause more disasters.
Google Sanctions Use of Anti-Semitic Slogan
> The problem is that different versions of the same editorial appear over and over again and many people think it is fresh when they see it and they don't have the perspective to realize that there is nothing fresh about it at all, it's just a message that works cumulatively, soaks into the population, and gets continuously improved over time.

I find nothing strange in the fact that they keep repeating similar messages. It is a public policy institute after all, and politics generally changes very slowly.
DuckDuckGo should have a warrant canary
AWS S3 support is coming to immudb soon for an unlimited tamperproof database
Illumina has made an offer to buy back Grail but several antitrust cases have halted the process for now.
I'm not entirely sure how this would be achiveved.

When you draw in the app, you use a brush and have to pick materials from a palette (like "sky" or "ground" or "stone wall" etc). It doesn't seem to have any sort of "import an image" feature because what would that even mean in their model.

The approach I would probably consider is to use a modified ROM so that the different sprites in the game are different solid colors. Then I'd write some kind of mouse automation to use those captured images and draw the frame in the app, clicking on the various palette options based on color.

The next challenge is that the Canvas app doesn't let you set individual pixels, the smallest brush is ~10px across on its ~550px canvas. Maybe I'd have to settle for picking a Z-ordering and just drawing everything approximately, or maybe you could do some sort of attempt at a path routing algorithm to draw along the edges of the shapes and fill in the centers.
How to get started with a new project or feature: The step zero most people miss
If there is data going to research this isn’t completely private.

I wrote a data sharing platform for the browser that is privacy focused. Privacy first means I couldn’t give any data to any third party no matter how much I want to because the platform won’t let me.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems
5 is pretty low. There are many popular websites that share data with >100 third-parties.
> but still want to help save the world

Not sure how much of an impact you’re planning to have, but EVs are still fairly resource intensive in most metrics, especially manufacturing and space usage in cities.

One option might be to help reducing those, by conceptualizing lighter vehicles, or a way to have fewer standing around (autonomous driving).

Another option would be looking beyond electric cars. Almost any thing requires electricity, so improving its generation would have an immense impact. “Cars as we know them, but electric” is probably not the optimal future. Maybe there are better ways to get around.

Besides those far out ideas and considering your battery interface point: Maybe it’d be possible to standardize some batteries for smaller vehicles/appliances. I’m also surprised there doesn’t seem to be an after-market for EV battery packs (as in: a new pack for your EV) yet (fun fact: I think Renault has DRM on its batteries).
Allowing someone to make a prohibited transaction and then simply pay a 100% penalty after-the-fact, especially when the initial transaction was extremely-low-priced to begin with, is clearly open for abuse. What is to stop me from selling myself a couple houses into my IRA for $5 a piece, saying "whoops, I guess that was a prohibited transaction. I'll pay the 100% penalty of $5."

That is why IRC Section 408(e)(2) stipulates that the IRA itself is fully “disqualified” – which means it loses its tax-deferred status, and is treated as though it was fully liquidated in a taxable distribution as of January 1st of the tax year in which the prohibited transaction occurred.
Thanks for sharing this, it is a great read indeed
The powerpc SoC in that drive is even supported in mainline Linux. And the code for original v2.6.32 Linux and some ancient U-Boot is available on WD website. So people could have made their drives secure after EOL. Some maybe even did.
My car’s check engine light came on and a costly mechanic visit didn’t find any problems so we decided to remove the check engine light.
What’s up with all the black flags and raised fists?
This doesn't look at the potential causes for high energy use. The geographical and infrastructural conditions of the US don't necessarily apply elsewhere.
https://www.inc.com/don-reisinger/why-apple-is-suing-a-forme...
Whoa, TIL Librelancer! I'll have to check this out. Thanks!
There are risks, you need to remain online to catch your counter-party cheating.
There are ways to outsource this to so-called watchtowers. This can generally be done privately, and the watchtowers generally get to take at least some of the cheater's money.

I haven't heard of any successful malicious channel theft. I have read quite a few stories of people losing local data making it much harder to recover the money in the channel.
With the present invasive methods of excising cancer the answer is that on an individual basis you might be better off with early detection but on a statistical basis across a larger population you'll be worse off. The important variables are patient age, how aggressive the cancer is (growth rate), what the risks of that particular type of cancer metastasizing are, what your genetic disposition is etc.
I don't think so. The seller (not the manufacturer) has to make sure that the device is free of faults for up to two years. The first 6 months it's up to the seller to prove that the device had no issues in the first place, afterwards it it up to the buyer to prove that the device was faulty to begin with.

The manufacturer can only provide a warranty and exclude a lot from it. Like Motorola does with the batteries of the smartphones, which only have 3 months of warranty. The seller has to cover the 2 years.

There is no obligation to support a device, like to provide firmware to fix bugs. If the hardware/firmware has a bug, it is a defect, which entitles you to a fault-free replacement within 2 years.
Those numbers are by 2050 and assume a single type of cell do do it all. It assumes no increase in energy density. And worst of all it doesn't account for recycling.

Lithium exists in huge amounts and projects are underway all over the world. Literally in every continent. The lithium market is growing like crazy.

There are also many cobalt, nickel and graphite projects underway. I think the article might have mixed up copper and nickel.

This doesn't account for the huge amount of lower tier cars that will use LFP or High-Manganese cathodes. Or for the fact that even high nickel cathodes will basically remove cobalt as well.

Switching to high density anodes such a Li-Metal or Silicon will massively reduce the materials requirements per car on the cathode side as well.

Not to mention that sometimes in the next decade we might go away from the transition metals completely.

> Car manufacturers are very happy about EV cars,

You clearly don't know anything about car industry.
Umm, yeah. But if I found this while doing background research on a job candidate I'd have to think twice about if this guy was really someone I wanted on my team... be careful what you brag about cheating on, lest you let people see the real you.
One reason why pancreatic is so fatal is it doesn’t tend to get diagnosed until quite late, so this test could help here. But really early cancer (no identified mass) is more of a watch and wait thing.
Oh, we'll do it. And then everyone will die off or be living near the Arctic Circle or in Antartica. But by golly, we'll get it done.
Author should look into surface reconstruction algorithms.

E.g. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/papers/eigentalk.pdf
For something like this you do discounted cash flow. It's closer to $10K.

https://www.mortgagecalculator.org/calcs/business-valuation....
Small things can still be unethical.
So in such cases, why not just use a camera activity or at least expose a configurable choice for which experience the android user prefers? It is unfortunate that the camera API clearly needs more work though.
It’s generally not necessary to replace cars every 5 years due to part shortage.

For years the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) replacement parts fill into the wholesale and retail channels. If the manufacturer stops offering the part, there are still parts in those channels to meet demand, sometimes for many more years to come.

The manufacturer may keep offering parts beyond the requirement, too. Parts can be profitable, and service can be a big part of dealer revenue. Dealers who make money on service put pressure on the manufacturer to keep parts available.

Physical parts are also pretty easy to copy, so if demand persists beyond the availability of OEM parts, you can often get aftermarket parts. There is also a channel of junkyards and enthusiasts who hoard used parts with life still left in them.

I’ve got a couple friends who like old vehicles and they are able to get parts for trucks that are nearing 40 years old. I own a car that just turned 12 and have never had the slightest problem getting parts for it, even OEM.