skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please do put a submission into Australia's currently open inquiry into the Right to Repair, being run by the Productivity Commission! Submissions are due by Friday 23rd of July.

https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/current/repair/draft

They are after real world information and examples about how the Right to Repair is being nobbled by current laws, and they will recommend changes to Australia's law. So far they are leaning towards copyright exemptions for service material, such as manuals, and the removal of "Technical Protection Measures".

The Australian Government frequently implements Productivity Commission recommendations, so this is a real opportunity for positive change to Australia's laws (which might also have international flow ons). Please do make a thoughtful submission!
It is mentioned in the article that the person was actually driving without the right insurance due to an error when moving his policy from his old to his new car so while it sucks, the liability is not with Tesla nor should it considering the consumer made the error.
To be honest, I'd really like the ability to read my email, see my day planner and read my RSS feed on one of those.
The point is that the endpoint can be anything, it doesn't need to have anything to do with images. But because of the context of the request, it's no cors.
They're amazing little machines. I have a predecessor to that model, whose battery still works since purchased new for my school year starting in 2000. It's not solar-charged, either.
> How condescending do you have to be to attribute any act of dissent from Cubans towards their own government as an act of interference from the USA?

GP didn't attribute any dissent to the CIA, they insinuated that the CIA would be expected to actively exploit any dissent as a propaganda opportunity.
"Turning around" is just stopping at some point (ie. some inertial reference frame) and then accelerating in the opposite direction with your FTL drive. You have all the time in the world to do this maneuver because you're already effectively in the past: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/54242
The buffer itself, being a Java array, is checked. You'll get an exception but you won't get undefined behaviour.
> we discovered extraordinarily large, diverse DNA sequences that primarily encode hypothetical proteins.

> Gene sequence similarity, phylogeny, and local divergence of sequence composition indicate that many of their genes were assimilated from methane-oxidizing Methanoperedens archaea. We refer to these elements as “Borgs”.

We are borg. You will be assimilated. We will add your biological distinctiveness to our own.
Joust was a different design team, John Newcomer and Bill Pfutzenreuter. But the hardware was the same as Robotron.
Obviously the infrastructure to monitor texts for badthought to which they will respond with factcheckfacts is a necessary precursor to outright censorship.
We're all traveling through spacetime at the speed of light, most of our velocity is in the time dimension, the faster you translate in the x,y,z dimensions, the less is left over for the time dimension, and thus time seems to slow down. (That's how this non-physicist things about it, anyway)

In a warp field, you're just somehow shrinking X,Y,Z while not doing the same to time. I see no reason to think you'd travel backwards in time.
At some point you gotta ask yourself: why am I still in NY?
The github page is short on details of why or how this game is notable and important. To someone not familiar with the game, then the rest of the info on the page seems lacking in context.
Previous work seemed to conclude pretty strongly that superluminal warp travel required negative energy. What's the insight here that gets around that?
> The problem with Tesla's approach has always been that Elon wanted to sell it before he actually knew anything about how to solve it.

Wasn’t there recently a medical testing company that completely blew up, with associated felony charges, for attempting this sort of strategy?
Maybe microbes will evolve to get better at reductive defluorination. Microbes that can use chlorinated solvents as terminal electron acceptors are pretty widespread. https://sci-hub.se/10.1021/acs.est.0c04483
The smart way to launder money is to create a company that "rates and pays" stuff like your electric bill then vastly overcharges you to do it.
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>At this point, I think we can reasonably say that it's easier to land people on the moon than teach a car to drive.

I think this is pretty well understood to be the case. Level 5 FSD is magnitudes harder.
thanks for the sources. I'll be digging deeper.
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Look, I wanted to keep this debate going, but your reference to MULE totally derailed my train of thought.
Damn you, now I’ve got to go find an emulator and see how bad the C64 days were all over again.

I’ve only been on the web since the mid-late 90s, but it has changed so much for the worse, perhaps not in usefulness, but in… Idealsim? I remember reading the hacker manifesto and it moving me. That crappy little text inspired so much in me. I just hope that in todays overly commercial, algorithmically driven, ML curated world, there is room for life changing chance encounters.
Because the airpod is a small device, this is true. However in general I believe open source hardware and infinitely repairable devices across the board would lead to less waste than proprietary technology with restricted repair.

My vision is not that one person designs open source headphones. My vision is that the primary suppliers of consumer products make their products open source. That would be a very different world, but I argue that it would be one with significantly less material waste.

In such a world, headphones would be both well designed and infinitely repairable.

By the way I have a new design that is more attractive.
https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1403968653406597122
Via risk miscalculation or bad luck on the side of the manufacturer. The lease conditions are usually fixed at the start; if the car ends up requiring a lot of warranty covered repairs or deprecates faster than anticipated (for example because they cheated on emissions), the manufacturer ends up with a bad deal.
Clubhouse has already solved this for free.
But it does require some initial effort for the older user to find an appropriate room to speak in.. and use the hand-wave + mic button.
I am a bit behind. Sounds like a good update, since before it was effectively just a C++ compiler that implemented parts of C when it was convenient.
We treat people the same way. If someone can sing very well or is very rich, but is also a murderer or rapist, those negative traits tend to be how we categorize them. And that's even if they don't murder or rape for 364 days per year.

> It also mocks hope for the future of our ability to change by then. Which is pretty bullshit because the rate of all those things is declining.

If you really think this quote is just about sneakers with lights in the heels, I can't help you.

> If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

-- Stephen Hawking

> Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.

-- Jean-Paul Marat

> The frightening coincidence of the modern population explosion with the discovery of technical devices that, through automation, will make large sections of the population 'superfluous' even in terms of labor, and that, through nuclear energy, make it possible to deal with this twofold threat by the use of instruments beside which Hitler's gassing installations look like an evil child's fumbling toys, should be enough to make us tremble.

-- Hannah Arendt

If someone, rather than trembling, speaks of how it's better than it ever was.. I frankly couldn't care less what they consider "shit".
It’s certainly possible. But you seem to be mostly appealing to what “everyone knows”. But in our society basically everyone has a dysregulated metabolism. My hypothesis is that is you don’t let your system get out of whack, it is possible to maintain lean mass and be lean.

Indeed this study found that resistance training can halt the accumulation of visceral fat. So unless somehow the resistance training led to no muscle, this seems to contradict what you’re arguing?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018766/
The article is oblivious of the context that this provision only applies to group exercises.
It might inspire the rule, but it's a terrible way to write the rule. Restrictions on toxic chemicals shouldn't apply to non-toxic chemicals. CO2 is even on the list of safe food additives.
Maybe I am misunderstanding but the difference between mini/micro and OLED is that mini/micro are an LCD with lots of backlights while OLED has every pixel self emitting.

Is micro not just a regular LCD with lots of backlights individually controllable rather than 1 big one. And mini being lots but not quite so many?
> [Windrush] was largely down to incompetence and not malice.

The screwup with documentation was negligence. It's incompetence if it's just a screwup. It's negligence when it can be foreseen to cause material harm, which it clearly could by those working in the same office as sets the enforcement policies.

Policies intended to cause immediate harm to whoever's documentation happens to be screwed up - which is inevitable (known to be inevitable from appeal court statistics) - instead of treating people reasonably while sorting out the documentation. That part is malice.

The Home Office policy of "deport first, appeal later" is not designed to allow errors to be sorted out while treating people in a civil manner. (It often prevents people from accessing their own belongings and paperwork.) It's designed to prevent people from sorting things out unless they have someone still in the UK to do it on their behalf. That boosts the deportation quotas and keeps the appeal rate unjustly low.
FDA “Corruption” Letter Authenticated: Lawyers, Start Your Engines! (2010)
A number of ex-Williams engineers donated old work materials to the Strong Museum of Play in the last few years. It looks like this includes Sam Dicker's work:

http://archives.museumofplay.org/repositories/3/resources/22...

So perhaps it was scanned and distributed from there? Seems unlikely since the code was either printed on paper or stored on old 8" floppies from the development system. But you never know.

EDIT: looking at Historical Source's repo, they have a LOT of old Williams IP here. This was copied from someone's development machine somewhere.
A bit off topic, but tar should only be used as temp repair to prevent further damage from water and moisture. For example its winter and you have asphalt shingle roof. Asphalt shingles are brittle when cold so attempting a proper repair could damage more shingles on what was a rather localized problem. Also ice and snow makes working on a roof more hazardous.

An other possible reason would be you don't have enough money on hand at the moment the issue was discovered giving you a few months to set asside enough money. Similar, thing the contractors schedule is packed so a quick temp repair can hold you off while you wait the week or two for his crew to begin work. An other similar issue is waiting on materials if your roof uses a material that is not locally stocked.

Tar also has a nasty problem of becoming brittle from UV light something roofs get plenty of. So instead of flexing under thermal expansion and contraction it just cracks. So its not ideal for anything but a temporary fix.

Now for choosing the most expensive contractor that is on your condo. Although they could have certainly been valid reasons.
This is exactly why tokenizers should provide offsets into the original text! The Spacy tokenizer provides this, though the original wordpiece tokenizer provided for BERT does not. It is relatively easy to add offset information to that tokenizer, though. After you have start and end offsets for each token, it's not hard to just align tokens by offset overlap.
The timing belt and water pump are each <2 hour jobs if done preventatively.

Head gasket shouldn't be a problem if the pump and coolant are changed before they go bad.

Anecdotal source; bought a 7 year old bmw at 123k miles (timing chain is still good at 185k), clutch is still good, brake parts cost $250, shocks less than $500, a valve cover gasket and oil filter housing gasket. Coolant expansion tank has to be replaced every 5 years ($150). My 10 years, 180k miles has been a better experience than many friend's first 5 years.
How is that relevant to the US’s mass (warrantless) collection of surveillance data?
Is a "sand land" a specific type of desert? I can't find any other similar uses of this phrase.
The part Musk did: inserted a step 1.5 of building a mythos as someone essentially worshipped by one of history's biggest group of fanboys.

You can find a nameless CEO guilty. No one cares. No popular Twitter account or quirky pop culture aspects! But Musk knows his place he has created in our culture has made him untouchable.
What is the difference between "expertise in using computing power to advance a field" and "expertise in that field"
Someone on Twitter told me “you obviously don’t care about the fawn that will lose a leg from the harvester” as if vegetable farmers are out there mowing down deer every chance they get. People come up with weird reasons why “actually the vegans are the monsters”. And this is just me talking about being vegan, I do not criticize people for eating meat.
Anecdotal. But I haven't spent $5k in repairs to my 17 year old bmw in the 10 years I've owned it. I do budget for $1k a year though.
When I met Eugene I asked him to autograph the instruction card from my High Speed pinball machine. I had already got Steve Ritchie's autograph, so I remarked to him "Now all I need is Larry DeMar's signature." And Eugene went ahead and forged Larry's signature! What a guy.

https://twitter.com/txsector/status/488077919630409728
I'm sure you don't actually think this, if you think about it for a second longer. "What's wrong with drunk drivers? They're only harming themselves?"
If I understand your argument correctly, it's that GitHub Copilot does not produce functioning code, yes?

If that's the case, I agree with your assessment, that GitHub Copilot isn't delivering on its promise and I would not be using it.

My understanding, however, was the GitHub Copilot does produce functioning code. If you're saying, as I think you are, "No, GitHub is lying about Copilot." I find that claim fascinating (How the hell did we get to the point where a software company could release a product that literally does not do even the most basic version of what it says it does, and only a few people notice?), but I'd need more specific information from you before I'd believe it.
I don't see why chemotherapy is something future generations would be appalled by us approving off. It works and it saves lives and is the best we can manage. Most people don't see the saving of lives given the best means possible as something to be appalled about people doing. They may be appalled at the the fact the was no other option but not at the people who actually did it. It's like condemning a doctor in rural Africa for not using cutting edge medicine but only what they can scrounge up, no sane person would do so but would rather view them more favorably for persevering despite such limitations.
Yep, cars are bouncing off Seattle monorail pillars constantly.
> Damon argues (and I think he’s exactly right) that the prevalence of online relationships rooted in affinity or faction help explain our toxic politics.

Politics in the US has usually been toxic, but hasn't usually had “online relationships”; its pretty much a staple of a two-party system in a coherent ideological alignment, especially the longer its been in the ideological alignment.

I think people start attributing it to all kinds of mostly-irrelevant hypermodern causes because their view of history is focussed on the relatively modern (say, post-WW2) period, most of which prior (coincidentally, not causally) to the rise of the internet as a public medium was in an unusually long transitory period of incoherent alignment (where salient ideological groupings weren't aligned with major party divides) due to the overlapping New Deal- and Civil Rights-triggered realignments from the 1930s to about the mid-1990s.
The goal of warp drive is to produce a modified region of spacetime that makes it feasible to travel faster than light. There are an infinitude of different approaches. The authors in this paper find that if you impose specific constraints on the way the modified region of spacetime is shaped and evolves over time, you don't need the negative energy anymore.

However, you do need a very high energy density, strong enough to create a black hole. And there is, of course, no guarantee that such an energy source is feasible or even possible. But you no longer need exotic matter — you just need enough regular matter in one spot.
> Perhaps the best we can do for now is develop some sort of []polite[] shorthand for saying "You might be Attribution Erroring", which can be used for calling out bad news reporting, bad social media posts, and unhelpful framing of issues when people are having conversations.

FWIW, we tried this against (what is now know as) political correctness, and now I'm starting to see people actively defend political-correctness-as-such. Not saying it can't work, but it might be important to make sure it's a impolite shorthand. Other than that, though, this sounds like a good idea.
You can teach someone to use a fixed set of macros. But again, in that case why use a language with macro features? If you're never going to use a non-built-in macro with the complexity of the built-in macros, why does the language need this complex macro system rather than a set of built-in keywords and a simpler extension system?
"What do the authors of these warp drive papers think will happen causality-wise"

According to §3.3, they aren't sure. If I parsed it correctly, they haven't mathematically resolved whether closed timelike curves are necessary, or precluded, or neither.
Yeah, it was similar, though I could even hear the mouse coursor move. Very faintly though, it was pretty much unnoticeable when the computer was playing sound. It also didn't sound as much as static like in the video, it was really high-pitched (probably a lot of it was beyond my hearing threshold). All in all I would love to have it as an option.
Why Code Snippets from Stack Overflow Can Break Your Project
I'm guessing they mean processed foods. Like, vegetables: fine. Stuff that comes in a box/bag etc: not fine. Obviously you also can get vegetables at a supermarket.
Here's an interesting thread:

https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=19987
The piping is essentially house plumbing level stuff.

Much lower pressure, actually - domestic water is supplied closer to 50-60psi.

This fix is only inferior to Tesla because it exposed a design flaw and removed their chance to massively overcharge for a tiny repair.
Arch Linux speedrun – 1:14 (2020) [video]
Clubhouse Drove Sign-Ups and Engagement via Exclusivity ($1B in 8 Months)
It seems here SBOMs are being considered from a security perspective, but in the hardware world BOMs are ubiquitous. Hardware BOMs are made and maintained so that the buyer of the hardware knows what exactly they are getting.
Tiger Global $34M investment into Unit21, no-code AML and fraud prevention
I can imagine that many hallways in many fully mundane and fully inhabited buildings across the world look far more depressing. This is in Japan after all...
And politicians who pander irrational beliefs are known to get as many votes as those that pander to rational beliefs.
Espressif guy here: Actually, unless the crash is so bad that it triggers a RTC watchdog or manages to mess up with clocks somehow, the C3 USB thing will also stay active if your program crashes. Unlike the USB in e.g. the ESP32S2, this is a hardware implementation that is more like we took an external usb-to-serial implementation and integrated it into the ESP32C3 silicon.
I don't disagree. My point was simply that the idea of the need for what we now call "cybersecurity" isn't new, even in the zeitgeist of the public at large. Computer professionals should be even more aware and should be more familiar with the intricacies of course.
Many of those Capitol Theatre videos are excellent. Talking Heads played there 3 days earlier: https://youtu.be/BFvgWguaC9g
Well, the problem with drunk driving is that it kills other people. We’ve witnessed it. We know it happens. Because we have seen it occur.

Tesla FSD driving assist has never killed someone not in the car.

Considering that rampant safetyism is par for the course here, I’m hardly convinced of the “he could’ve killed someone” school of thought.
It's important because you might be asking for comparison to an average IQ person. But given this additional information obviously not, since we know they don't do any of those activities. But so? There's still a correlation. You say "disproportionate" but how do you determine that? What's the proportionate correlation that "normal" high IQ people will assign? Read the research and quote the numbers? OK but won't the Mensa member be doing the same? If it's just a hand-wavy idea like I gave, how can you compare?
drawing on my kobo using the Plato sketch program is actually super responsive. I'm not sure why but it seems that the refresh rate is fine and e.g. flipping a page or scrolling takes a long time for other reasons than the refresh rate
AMD CEO says chip shortages will continue through 2021
Why is it always about Apple being so bad? Sure, I’ll agree their market share and ecosystem let’s them take advantage of their customers, but Apple is one of the few companies where normies are still comfortably using 5+ year old phones and computers. I’ve heard MacBooks make great Linux machines, too. They are far above the curve for longevity of devices.

If AirPods are making people lose sleep because they aren’t environmentally friendly, then let me introduce you to PuffBars or any of those disposable nicotine vapes that aren’t rechargeable or refillable and often lose all battery life before juice. Or simply the entire lithium lifecycle is incredibly wasteful regardless of the product it is in.

I want to point out EVs aren’t going to last significantly longer than a MacBook will and contain much more lithium that needs to be dealt with.

I get that it’s fun or hip to be anti-Apple, and I’ll agree that they could be better from an environmental standpoint, but they are doing a lot better than most and there are a lot more environmental travesties occurring than the small batteries in AirPods.