skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think for the purposes of sending a car over to drive through a street its pretty good.

The article discusses instances where it is used in trial and for that it is obviously pretty weak - surprised it can be used at all.
Thanks!

According to their Wikipedia page, they paid 12.5 M$ to settle in 2007 and continued to operate for another 4 years before being bought for half a billion USD. Not exactly what I would consider "sued to pieces" ;-)
Estimating CPU cache size with the memory mountain
The MicroFreak is also somewhat interesting regarding copyright and open-source: Generally, since circuits can't easily be protected, clones are very common in music electronics (with a wide range of opinions when and how it's "fair" to sell clones). The MicroFreak is somewhat based on designs by Mutable Instruments that are explicitly open-source (thus clear in that regard, although not everyone necessarily agreed on the "fair" part), but at launch Arturia went over the line and claimed it was an official collaboration with MI.
I think that they are, in fact, intending to open new fabs in both Japan and Europe. Given the presence of GlobalFoundries and others in Germany, that would make sense for a European base.

This doesn't mean that it's not _also_ intended to help with negotiations, of course. It can be both true, and stated out loud for the purpose of seeing what other offers come up.
I think it depends on the family and on the person. I for one hugely value autonomy and the ability to change my life on a whim, I've been working towards a very self-sufficient lifestyle of sailing the world and working in a location-independent manner. If I have kids they'll likely inherit at least some of my nature which drives them away from a traditional life and towards the semi-nomadic life I'm embracing, so it would be immensely cruel (as well as hypocritical) of me to bring a human life into the world knowing full well I'd be denying them the chance of such a life themselves. My future children would honour my wishes far better by living in a way that makes them happy (whatever that may be) rather than shackling themselves to a particular location or burning up their inheritance for the purpose of keeping what remains of my demented mind alive beyond its time.

I don't like this idea kids owe their parents anything simply for existing. Nobody asks to be born, and since there's no meaningful consent it would be wrong of me to impose a duty of care on my future children when they have no say in the matter. I owe them a decent childhood because I chose to bring them into existence, they don't owe me a decent old age just because of social expectations. In fact, I'd be proud of them for rejecting those expectations because grudgingly making those kind of sacrifices can only breed resentment.
For systems works maybe.

Most impressive application programs and games I've seen were in C++.

But I've seen boss programmers do wonders in all kinds of languages. Didn't this Notch guy make 2.5 billion in a game he wrote in Java?
Physicist here. I don't understand to what exactly "the angels" are supposed to refer here. Could you elaborate?
Why can't software engineers work from home most of the time? (2016)
Based on my understanding from the article...

Iterators change over space, Futures change over time.

In iterator, every time you call 'next' you get a value until the end when you get nothing. In Future, every time you call 'poll' you get nothing until the end when you get a value.
Yes, it includes your spouse and any number of children up to the age of 26 I think. So the classical family model with a stay-home spouse and children will be covered by the breadwinner's health insurance.

If any family member works full-time, then they have to cover their own health insurance. Exceptions apply.

If you make more than 40.000 EUR / year you have the option to get a private insurance policy with more "benefits". Then, the employer will pay out the amount that went to the public health system and you will use it (and whatever you can afford on top) to your private health insurance.

When you go private, you're in the wild west, meaning you'll need to be extremely cautious of what contracts you sign. Or you'll end up with a 3000 EUR per month plan at old age, with no way back into the public system.

Many people end up poor after retirement because their whole 401k and savings go towards the health insurance which is way to luxurious for their needs and isn't capped.
How could this possibly go wrong?

Offering a monetary reward for streaming crimes would bias our perceptions of poorer communities, where individuals would most benefit from the money. A poor community is incentivized with this plan to reinforce the message that they are crime-ridden, while rich neighborhoods won't receive the same level of coverage because fewer individuals care about the payoff.

What's the phrase? "Fair and Balanced".
Accepting the non-local option is not an ultimatum, given there are multiple competing interpretations of these mechanics, and non-locality is just ONE of them.

You continue to insist the world has agreed in unison with the interpretation you personally like, but that's not the case.

Do you realize many worlds doesn't require collapse?
A zero-sized type + hashmap for sets is also done in Go with a `struct{}`. [1][2]

But without generics it must be implemented again for each entry type ...

Kubernetes uses a code generator to automate this, but it's a bit kludge. [3]

[1]: https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets#Empty

[2]: https://dave.cheney.net/2014/03/25/the-empty-struct

[3]: https://github.com/kubernetes/code-generator/blob/master/cmd...
Simone:

How about you take your covid-19 propaganda and shove it up your ass?

Or you can go back to Italy.

We don't do this shit in the USA. FUCK OFF.
FWIW, I remember this case well when it was in the news, and saying it "left a strain on US-Singapore relations" is a bit of a stretch.

Most importantly, there were plenty of Americans, I'd bet a majority, that agreed with Singapore. Not necessarily that we want caning in the US, but more that this boy didn't deserve any special treatment just because he was American.

To me it felt like the media (and, in fairness, the boy's parents) were really trying to play this up because it had the elements of a good story.
The issues I see are that EVs can't charge quickly, charging stations can't cycle cars quickly, EV range varies on additional conditions like temperature, and you can't self-sufficiently extend an EV's range. To clarify that last issue, you could fill a gas can with additional gallons of fuel to extend your range, cover yourself for an emergency situation, etc. But you cannot do this with EVs. You can't just carry a jug of extra charge or operate without the grid being nearby, online, and available. I understand that there is always some level of dependency we have on large infrastructure, but gas vehicles let you have a longer period of reliable self-sufficiency compared to EVs.

I am confident the vast majority of daily trips can be covered by an EV. But I still need a gas car to do things on the weekend, to go places on holidays, to feel secure in my ability to transport myself or loved ones at will, etc. When hauling people and gear, can I really rely on the stated range of an electric SUV to go offroad to a campsite and come back? I'd feel better if they let me carry an additional battery pack in the trunk/bed to extend range but that seems to not be a focus right now. So EVs basically seem like they preclude certain use cases entirely. In a multi-car household, I still see the need for at least one gas vehicle, and don't agree with bans that try to phase them out entirely as a result.
> One major thing they fail to take into account is that people have grown accustomed to certain freedoms (like not asking permission to go somewhere, or waiting for a bus), and a naive attempt to start solving the world's problems by curtailing other people's freedoms is a non-starter.

It's easy, people want flexibility, shorter and more comfortable commute. If you offer that, they'll ditch their cars.

I'm not certain bureaucrats can innovate to make it a reality, so instead you'll get endless committee on transportation and ever ballooning pension funds.
Umm, a quite few McDonalds in Finland have 350kW chargers. [0]

Your car is done charging before you get your Big Mac and eat it.

[0] https://kempower.com/information-center/news/kempowers-leadi...
I agree that intelligence is partially heritable. But there is also "regression to the mean" - where, for example, we should expect children of taller parents to be taller than average, but often not as tall as their parents.

There is likely tremendous potential that we as a society waste by not providing resources and opportunities for and and encouragement of better education at earlier stages of life.

Personally, I learned to read by 3 years old, but not because I was a prodigy -- but because my mom spent numerous hours encouraging me and building in me a love of it. I am confident more than 50% of children can learn to read by age 5 - meanwhile in the US we don't expect that kind of success until after a few years of schooling.
You seem like someone very "plugged in" (ha!) to the cryptocurrency world, so I have to ask: what's the best kind of epoxy to fill my ethernet ports with?
Considerably more radical than it has been at the peak of US economic productivity. Remember laissez faire and the Gilded Age? People forget that radically less regulation produces bad results, too.
No one thinks deeply about the meaning of stories. They just like including pop cultural references.

When the U.S. military creates an advanced android soldier there is a 100% chance it will unironically be called "Project Terminator" at some point in its development.
A friend had the app and did nothing but post local incidents to a group chat on a daily basis. We told him to stop or get the boot which he did. It illustrated just how uptight this app makes people. He wound up deleting it after a few months because it made him afraid to go outside as if he was surrounded by crime when in fact nothing had changed. (This is in south-west Queens NYC)

Bad things happen on a daily basis. These apps wont stop or deter crime. The best you can do is stay alert and aware of your surroundings.
> Curve25519, for instance, where keys are --- don't @ me --- just simple random byte strings

IIRC, just simple random byte strings with a couple of specific bits forced to 0 and another couple of specific bits forced to 1.
I never considered that there would be viruses that infect Archaea. That sounds incredibly cool!

Any fun tidbits about them you'd like to share?
Sure there is! Innovating new ways to separate suckers from their money. It's a tough pill to swallow for the laser-eyed, I know.

The problem is there's a lot for the HN community to like in it, if you're willfully blind to it's hypercapitalist and manipulative nature: fun technical challenges, little-guy-vs-the-world. I get it, I really do.
> Did you read the settlement?

Yes. It says that tether held securities/receivables denominated in dollars rather than actual dollars, despite Tether's claim that they held dollars.

I could not find anywhere that the settlement claimed "no reserves", despite CNBC's quote. [edit: It came out of the AG press release, not the settlement. As near as I can tell the settlement makes no representation that tether is unbacked, only that it is unbacked directly by US dollars, which was the Tether advertising up until 2017.]
"Predictions are unreliable. Estimates are not promises"

Ha, I wish that were the case. Everyone wants a date and gets upset when the deadline is missed.
> Thus, I do not consider big-O to be synonymous with speed. They are different, because the best possible big-O, O(1), does not necessarily mean the fastest.

Maybe not synonymous in the sense of technically exactly equal, but certainly a pretty good approximation -- and absolutely synonymous in the sense that the whole purpose of big-O notation is to be able to reason about speed in more general terms, comparing algorithms in pseudo code in stead of having to actually write the program so you can run it through a benchmark.

So, no: If "the best possible big-O, O(1), does not necessarily mean the fastest," then it isn't actually the best.
Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal
Well explained. Thank you!
Well if they can do anything about car break-ins and larceny in SF I think they'll get a lot of business. Bet they can
also package their service when renting a car at the airport. Almost dystopian, but I can see it.
I think that depends on the city/neighborhood. We heard fireworks pretty regularly throughout the year when we lived in San Jose. And they became more frequent after the Flyod protests.

On the flip side, we heard far more gunshots than fireworks when we lived in Kansas City.
Infrastructure Processing Unit IPU offloads some CPU overheads just like GPU
> opening the developer to runtime type errors purely for ideological reasons...

To be fair, there are also language-implementor-laziness reasons.
The microdrive was IBM with Hitachi (another Japanese company). That was first used with the mini. Probably not enough capacity at its 1.0in at launch of original iPod. The original iPod with Toshiba drive was 1.8in.
Haha. Yep, same here. Just saw an email from our corporate HR head saying that we're paying an extra $1500 per referral for people considered a "minority" by the federal government definitions. I work at a tech co. where white people are a minority (less than 39%), so not sure what type of gobment subsidy they're after now?
Your definition of “most” is wrong. MOST people don’t want or need to do any of the things you mention.

BUT let’s talk about them:

1. The ROM. Sure, hardware hacking is probably going to require specialized tools not available in iOS. Most people don’t do this, though.

2. There’s nothing about “simple room diagrams” that suggests this is a task you need a traditional desktop/laptop to do — unless you’re insisting on using a drawing program that only exists on those platforms. No points here.

3. I’m taking your word for it that your software won’t work in Safari, but plenty of us played RPGs for decades without having any computers around at all, and I’ve definitely been party to game nights where an iPad was entirely sufficient.

4. I mostly live in text files, too. You know what works great on my iPad? Text files. No idea what you’ve done to your workflow to make it impossible to do on a tablet, but suffice it to say it’s not an inherent limit to iOS (or, I presume, Android).

All that said, nobody is arguing that YOU should switch tools. But it’s hilariously wrong to insist that iPads aren’t “real” computers, or aren’t capable of handling a broad range of general computing tasks that formerly required full-on laptops or desktops.
> Ignoring the fact that there isn't just $1 trillion cash sitting in a vault somewhere,

When my team of 100 crack assassins/financial shenanigan wizards target the richest 100 Americans individually in their own homes, I don't think this will matter too much. We'll get the money.

>after your 20 million American's burned through their $50k, they'd be back to square one.

Sure, but their standard of living would meanwhile have increased.

Obviously, it's a reductio ad absurdum, but I'm using it to prove a point.

Your use of Somalia merely proves that a certain level of productivity (shall we call it GDP?) is required for this thought experiment to even make sense. Yes, a certain level of society-wide wealth is necessary for redistribution to even be possible. And indeed, one could try to improve productivity instead of or in addition to redistribution.

But none of that means that in a society with as much productivity (a high GDP, if you like) as the USA, redistribution could not also be used to increase the standard of living.
It's already helping the grid https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/powerwall/own/californi...
False. They even had a "nazi punks fuck off logo" in a release.
Sure, but how that translate to the statement that among the top 10, "many are from China and India". China is the target everyone wants to beat. But for India, India's per capita emission is so small. That means Indian people are living a far lower standard than average. And put the label on such a nation, ask them to continuously living a bad life. Isn't that malicious?
We're watching the destruction of what's left of Japanese culture and hegemony in real time.
I have the same experience. I estimate around 80-90% of my work can be done fully remotely, but the remainder requires careful communication and planning and it's often best done face to face. Real whiteboards are simply better. Gesticulation is more important than people seem to think. We have scientists in labs and there's simply no way we'd get the info we need without stepping into the labs and watching them work.

I fully believe that some software can be developed 100% remotely (you only need to look at all the free/open source software as evidence for this). But for the kind I do, I can't imagine the developers being fully remote. We need to be local enough to be physically present at least every now and then. Some people are calling this a "hybrid" approach. We predominantly work remotely, but we live nearby.

What seems absurd is expecting people to be in the office 100% of the time for the maybe 10% that would benefit from it. I don't ever want to go back to a 100% office job. I'm so glad COVID happened.
1300 street lights already converted as chargers: https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/analysis/...
Maybe in countries like the US where healthcare is run by predatory loan sharks, in the civilised world the economic advantages of keeping skilled workers with plenty of knowledge in the workforce longer will be obvious.
The window manager manages windows. It has nothing to do with the filesystem or how it's presented to the user.
The climate impact of wild pigs greater than a million cars
>1. Any environmental impact from lithium mining needs to be weighed against the impact of continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels

Why? If we're comparing EVs and hydrogen powered cars then we shouldn't. We should compare lithium usage to what hydrogen powered cars need.

>2. Lithium is recyclable

But do we actually recycle lithium in enough quantities?

>Currently, globally, it's very hard to get detailed figures for what percentage of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, but the value everyone quotes is about 5%," says Dr Anderson. "In some parts of the world it's considerably less."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56574779

Lithium-ion batteries can be the most recyclable thing in the world, but if we don't actually recycle them then it makes no difference.
> Hybrids were a mediocre half-measure and hydrogen was a worse solution to the problem.

I believe it is more sinister - most of hydrogen currently available is made "almost free" from natural gas. So behind hydrogen, I would expect current Oil and Gas companies that are trying to stay relevant - and hydrogen is perfect for greenwashing, since it could in theory be made from green electricity and thus zero emission - but that will never be price competitive with hydrogen from natural gas, unless we start counting externalities.
Thames Barrier should be enough at least till 2030.
I like this idea. People often ask if maths is "created" or "discovered". Maybe we can say that it's "excavated" and that we know it's down there somewhere, we just need to put in a few years of shoveling.
These problems are also true for nearly every country except China and a few others. UK, Germany, etc., also import huge amounts of energy and they too will need a way of importing energy in the future. Furthermore, none of these countries have any meaningful supply of battery related minerals nor any substantial battery manufacturing capacity.
This feels somewhat light. Might take a long time to get used to the UI. Anyway, thanks.
Target Display Mode is fantastic, but it's not likely to return. iMacs haven't supported it since 2013, after the introduction of the 5K. And it's gotten flaky as OS upgrades have gone on. I don't believe that it's even officially supported if the iMac is running Big Sur.
https://archive.is/dTKra
To put even a slightly finer point on it -- isn't this, in a sense, journalism without a filter? Video can lie, but it's probably a bit harder to make a live streamed video lie than an article that recapitulates the content of such a stream.

One thing I do seem to see over and over is a pattern where journalists are a little annoyed when companies encroach on the role of journalists but do so for less money. I'm sure this doesn't rise to a level of conscious bias, but it does sometimes feel that anything that threatens their gatekeeping is going to get a lot of flak in the opinion section.
Or just stage it with some friends in masks.
Thats very true. I also have reservations around facial recognition / ALPR systems if they are saving data of people who are not currently "flagged" related to a crime. I can see the usefulness to find stolen cars, or track down murder suspects but only after they are entered as a suspect. There shouldn't be a historical database of previous movements. There should also be states/federal guidelines around who can be entered.
There's a world of difference between a 1.5 kWh battery and an 80 kWh battery.
Society 5.0.
Lightmatter
But inheritance taxes have existed pretty much everywhere, so that's hardly some unique characteristic that can be used to indicate a supposed American disdain for intergenerational wealth.
Thanks! I don't speak German but it looks like there were 341 who took the vaccine, 319 who took the placebo and 1 who got sick in each of those groups. Solve for e in (1 - e) * (1 / 319) = 1 /341 and you get 6.5%. Almost...
Wikipedia has several:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_rust
You shouldn't go to meetings unless you know what it is you are expected to contribute. Actively ask for clarification if it's not clear and decline meetings if necessary.
It seems it's some arbitrary strawman, so the overall point is my question about how we interpret the apparent waveform collapse is stupid by implication.
All of the AR examples are legitimately AR. It’s a massive field.

VR, on the other hand, isn’t such a broad field. Take your 360 videos for example, there’s no interaction with the content.

Even 90s era VR was very specifically referring to interactive worlds. Whereas Augmented Reality has always just meant having our real world senses enhanced with digital technology. That means phone apps are legitimate examples. Google Glass is a legitimate example. The barrier for entry is much lower yet the possible utilities for AR are much higher than with VR. Which is why I’m surprised it hasn’t taken off in a much bigger way with all the hype that VR has.
Win10 home doesn't have that.

And I speak from experience that defender likes to magic away files to quarantine without any user interaction. Yes I didn't believe it either but it does. Indignation!
Bitcoin does a lot. A store of value that hedges against government inflation is by definition a valuable service.

I don't understand why everyone is looking for a swiss-army knife like application from BTC. The value has already been proven in the marketplace, hence why everyone is buying it.
On the other hand, if the fuel cells contain expensive materials then we're more likely to actually recycle them.
Why couldn't you put an access panel right next to them, or even a slide out tray? They both seem to be near the outside of the car in that diagram.
> What happens if there is a precipitous sale of the assets that currently back the Tether token?

If Tether is thusly backed, it's a non-interest bearing money market fund. We saw how those break down in the last crisis. In reality, Tether would just halt redemptions. (Unlike a money market fund, there is nothing holding them to convertibility.)