skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US and EU EV adoption is very very different.

Tesla factory in Berlin may balance it a little, but I don't expect a full swap.
>It has in many cases purposefully made the system difficult, shifting the burden of public administration onto individuals and discouraging millions of Americans from seeking aid.

This is pretty much it, the design of these programs are this way on purpose to discourage people from taking advantage of these benefits.

>The United States government—whether controlled by Democrats, with their love of too-complicated-by-half, means-tested policy solutions; or Republicans, with their love of paperwork-as-punishment; or both, with their collective neglect of the implementation and maintenance of government programs

Democrats love means-testing so they don't fall victim to attacks from Republicans about "welfare queens" and government waste. Republicans don't believe the government should provide aid to begin with, so their motivations are more clear. There's no real cohort in the US government who believe that benefits should be simple and universal, because they get dismissed as crazed socialists/communists.

I see the future of the USA as dominated by the current gridlock until climate change and climate refugees cause the whole political system to break down. Predictions past that point are useless, kind of like a depressing version of the AI singularity.
Fractons, the hypothetical particles that break quantum physics
First, kudos to the launch, the product seems pretty interesting and compelling to a lot of users here!

In a sense, that's the source of this mini-rant - not the product, but the feeling that something like this is compelling.

Instead of reducing complexity, we simply are trying to manage it, navigate it, index it. "Keep generating more noise, we can always find the signal!"

It just feels like yet another step in the wrong direction for us as a species.
> This is the route I'm taking - I'll update with my progress in 5 years or so

Nice one, mate. Good luck. I'm doing the same, so right behind you :)
Then the person doing the markup becomes the talent you have to pay to make things good.
Is there a federal lawmaker out there that even does this type of paperwork themselves?

How quickly would things change if congresspeople had to do their own taxes and use run-of-the-mill insurance off of their state marketplaces?
It’s also quite lucky that they decided to go with the “too young” Falk, who was then able to play the role for over thirty years!
I share this objection.

If you want to get even crazier, what about fuel economy? Using miles per gallon (or km/l) can also be simplified to reciprocal area, so 40 mpg is just 1.7e7 m^-2. For an electric car you can change 250 miles per 100 kWh to the more perfect representation 0.001 s^2 /(kg m).
But the point of this is that it isn't the "government involved." As with other professional pursuits, the government says "we don't have the desire, expertise, or agility needed to make these decisions in-house, so we designate this organization to be our regulator of it."

For example, here's the Professional Engineers Act in Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/900941

None of it has anything to do with which tools or methods are used for the practice of engineering— it's all defining jurisdiction and constitutional meta-details about how the leadership is to be selected, term lengths, etc.

So no one can achieve regulatory capture about what kind of concrete is to be used in bridges in Ontario by lobbying the Ontario government; you'd have to lobby the PEO. Maybe your argument is that they're effectively equivalent, but they're really not— the PEO is a pretty different kind of organization from just another government office.
I spent nearly 8 years at a fintech startup in London, leaving late last year. It just recently had a liquidity event (private capital) which means that my options will net me a bank deposit worth several times my after-tax annual salary.

And yet, my current total comp at Google is worth more than my final salary + (pre-tax option value at liquidity event / 8). And I reckon I was the highest paid engineer in the company.

I did forgo the options from my most recent grant when I left, but even with them, it wouldn't have exceeded Google's TC, especially considering $GOOG's recent appreciation. Since you only make money on options if the value rises, you need quite a lot late in the day for it to add up. And the 10 year expiration for the initial options was starting to come into view.

I consider myself lucky to have come out of it so well, but in retrospect, I would have been better off joining Google earlier, though it would have been at a lower level.
This article is ridiculous. I’m a farmer and clearly I have time to surf the internet, and separating work from life is absolutely something I do - and my fathers before me. Grandma would’ve never put up with shop talk at the dinner table.
> And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.

contradicts

>> the vast majority of pickups are used to tow or haul once per year or less.

According to your article, 65% of trucks are used for hauling multiple times every year.
That's exactly what I thought up without having any experience in the area.

So, basically do what a person would do -- identify simple features visually and then consult the book to go through decision tree to figure out what you are looking at based on these features.

As you go through decision tree, you keep excluding more and more possibilities until you are left with only one match.

You would never mistake oak with a cactus because there are so many occasions on this decision tree to go one or the other way that you would have to make multiple mistakes.

But that's exactly what the algorithm seems to be doing -- mistaking plants that are very far away from each other when it comes to their build.
I take it you'll get more money selling bugs to other actors.

The story about the guy who only got $5k for owning Starbucks entire user database sticks in my mind.
This is actually already a part of the patent system, but not in the way you're thinking. If a contractor says publicly, "We can frotz quibbins with a turgut for $X," that counts as putting turgut-based quibbin-frotzing "on sale". This means that ⓐ nobody else can patent turgut-based quibbin-frotzing thereafter, and ⓑ the contractor themself only has a year to file a patent on turgut-based quibbin-frotzing from the date of that notice. This is called the "on-sale bar".

The idea is that patents are only supposed to be granted for novel, nonobvious things. If nobody had ever realized that turguts would be advantageous for frotzing quibbins, then you're an inventor if you figured out how to do it, and you can get a government-granted monopoly. But presumably if you're offering to sell someone a turgut-based quibbin-frotzing product, even if you haven't actually built it yet, you must be pretty sure it's workable and worthwhile. And now anybody else can go ahead and start frotzing the quibbins with a turgut now that you've pointed out how, and although the patent law gives you a bit of a grace period to patent it, it doesn't give you unlimited leeway.

If it turns out that the turgut has to be freebled first, then you (or anybody else) might be able to patent the freebling part at any later date, since that wasn't in the original offer to sell. But only if the need for freebling wouldn't be obvious to one skilled in the art.

So, basically, patents are intended for things that are not known to be possible until someone figures out how to do them. Lemelson got away with some pretty shameless exploitation of the loopholes in these criteria, a lot of which are now closed.
I think those "phonehome stats" are exactly what most people are up in arms about. Particularly the exhaustive non-depersonalized nature of them. [0]

It appears that the data which is collected includes [1]:

Message senders
Message senders are never encrypted
Session/device IDs
Due to Matrix's design, encrypting this would break verification
Message timestamps
It's impossible to prevent timestamps from leaking, since the server can simply note when an event is received anyway
Room members (join/leave/invite events)
Join/leave/invite and other room events are never encrypted
Message edit events
While contents are not leaked, an attacker can know when messages are edited
Message reactions
Reactions are never encrypted
Read receipts
Read receipts are never encrypted
Nicknames
Nicknames are never encrypted
Profile pictures
Profile pictures are never encrypted

Put another way [2]:

The Matrix ID of users, usually including their username.
Email addresses, phone numbers of the user and their contacts.
Associations of Email, phone numbers with Matrix IDs.
Usage patterns of the user.
IP address of the user, which can give more or less precise geographical location information.
The user’s devices and system information.
The other servers that users talks to.
Room IDs, potentially identifying the Direct chat ones and the other user/server.

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[0] <https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html>

[1] <https://serpentsec.1337.cx/matrix>

[2] <https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html#facing-the-real-and...>
Good luck to you as well! :)
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Very glad there's other clients supporting this. Thanks for the heads up!

I was under the impression some of the desktop clients had it in the form of swapping CLI flags on start, but it seems to support switching under the settings menu in the latest release. Much like email, many people will have more than one user they'd like to swap between so very glad to see other clients adding this feature with user friendly UX.
I’m not sure Shamook’s results are always better than the originals; many still have that uncanny, mask-like quality that’s still common to a lot of deepfakes today, and they don’t have the benefit of all the additional CG lighting work that clearly went into Disney’s modern films and shows. But perhaps by combining ideas, they can reach new heights.
They pay what they need to pay. I'm sure they're also monitoring the dark web for black hats selling vulnerabilities instead of collecting bounties.
Size of the country has no impact on this - people become tired and distracted during long drives.

At least here in Europe there are laws (for commercial drivers) about how long you are allowed to drive for, and when you must take breaks, e.g.:

> "you must not drive more than: 9 hours in a day - this can be extended to 10 hours twice a week"

> "a break or breaks totalling at least 45 minutes after no more than 4 hours 30 minutes driving"

Perhaps the US has zero laws in this regard, but these sort of rules exist due to lots of lessons learned by tired drivers killing people. Sure these are for commercial drivers, but I'd argue that if you are doing this sort of long-distance driving frequently (i.e. not just once or twice a year) then you are no different from a commercial driver and shouldn't assume these common sense laws don't apply.
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If we do it all again I think we should require the equivalent of functional tests for laws. Or at least regular reviews to find out if they are actually worth having, that they are enforceable, that the people are in favour of them, etc.
At least it didn't identify it as "not hot dog."

I wonder how much funding these guys have, and how much of it I could get by intentionally non-fatally poisoning myself with a misidentified plant? How much indemnity can the whole "WHILE WE ENDEAVOUR TO ENSURE THAT THE INFORMATION ON THE CANDIDE PLATFORM ARE CORRECT, WE DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS [...]" thing actually provide?
You are comparing Tesla on Autopilot vs. no Autopilot, while I was responding to your claim that Tesla on Autopilot are doing worse than ordinary drivers.

> Tesla (...) are doing much worse than those ordinary drivers.

That was response to:

> Those successfully tested ordinary drivers also kill many people every year.

The not-apples-to-apples comparison indicate that Tesla are twice less likely to cause accident/crash when on Autopilot, and even less when not on Autopilot.

I find it also highly likely that Autopilot slightly increases the chances of accident right now.
What possible value is there in holding a farmer's lifestyle as a model or contrast for knowledge workers? Are work/life balance concerns not a problem because someone somewhere collects eggs at 5am and vegetables at 8pm?

Further, suicides and other mental health issues are endemic among farmers. And I'm pretty sure work-life balance is an endless concern for those so engaged.
Anyone can choose for themselves whether or not to use gpg. Your choice doesn't affect anyone else.

https://i.imgur.com/TqbfZaP.png
It can be relevant, though I don’t know whether GP meant this.

It’s usually much easier to get users for shadier services, because they have a dearth of good options (since not many legitimate businesses are interested in addressing the problem).

So much so that the lessons learned in this space may not be applicable at all to the market as a whole.
I'd also like to hear about a reading list the commenter suggests for erroneously-named-but-that's-our-job-title DevOps Engineers who really want to spearhead manifest SRE changes at their workplace
Try Plantnet, it's free and is a research project. Works really well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.plantnet&h...
The truth is that I suffered for depression for all of high school too.

But either way, I credit the program I was in with saving my life essentially. Also, very few people were willing to put in the work needed for this program. My high school was significantly harder than my college, with the exception of a few classes.
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>A fundamental aspect to it is that so many lawmakers are lawyers (especially ALL of the democrats)

I'm pretty sure that this is untrue. Why bring this up at all?
Cabin cameras are a thing now, I am fully expecting Tesla to allow hands free soon(tm). We will see.

> . It also has a much safer disconnect behaviour by slowly and safely pulling the car over to the side of the road rather than expecting the user to just take over.

Maybe? What happens if the shoulder is not really a shoulder, but part of a hill? What happens if no shoulder at all? Being rear-ended on a highway for going too slow is a thing.

The disconnect behavior I generally see is AP turns off, but TACC stays on. So you stay in your lane, staying a safe distance back, but no more lane changes. I believe if AP is really mad at you, it eventually will stop, but I don't want to stop on a highway to test it out.
See the Harrison Ford vid linked at the end of the original article. Billy Dee Williams also gets inserted. There’s no doubt that this technique will defeat CGI Youngface.
Did you measure the latency? Latency should be below 100ms to have a pleasant conversation. Talking over a dedicated low-latency app like Jamulus is much nicer than the enormous latency in video calls.
As a developer, there's a lot to be made in Chrome compared to other desktop browsers. As Chrome owns a large percentage of extension supports, it also the leading browser in terms of usage shares.
As clients accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud, having a secured, scalable environment is critical for the underlying transformation process. IBM z/OS V2.5 introduces new capabilities that support application modernization and provide a cloud native experience on z/OS:
If only Google could run their other businesses as frictionless as this...

Found an interesting bug? Let's have a 1-1 chat over lunch, drinks are on us BTW.

Your developer account was banned by some bot gone wild? Sorry, no human interaction is allows in my department. Maybe if you have a famous buddy that can pester some hotshots on twitter...
There is no problem, assuming that one believes that the list-of-USV abstraction (i.e. sanitising strings to be valid unicode) is the right thing to enforce at the component boundary, _including_ when the internals of the component are implemented using JavaScript.

I appreciate that this is exactly the point where we currently disagree, and accept that I won't be able to convince you here. However, the AS website's announcement did not make the boundaries of the debate clear.
I’d say trying to make a PWA with Push Notifications on iOS.
What bothers me is the only way I can support Safari is by buying a recent Mac. I have users who complain about Safari issues. But my 2012 Mac will only run Safari 12. It's unreasonable to expect me to pay $700 just so I can debug a crappy browser for a side project. So I tell Safari users sorry, please use a different browser. At least Microsoft offered VM based solutions to debugging IE.
The batteries are replaceable, so the body of the car won't go to waste.

As for the battery, there's still plenty of useful things it can do. Just because it's not useful for a car, doesn't mean it dead. The most obvious use case right now is grid-scale energy storage. There you just need lots and lots of joules of storage, you're not really worried about space or weight (at least compared to car batteries), so it's perfectly viable to take thousands of scrap car batteries with only 60-70% of their original capacity and use them for grid storage.

Additionally in grid storage you can be much kinder to your batteries, further extending their life well beyond what they could do in car.

At the end of all that, break down the battery and recover the materials. Admittedly we don't have any cost effective ways of doing that today, but as demand for battery raw materials increases, the finical viability of recycling also increases.
No, OTA updates are deltas which are model- and version-specific [0] (which makes them A LOT smaller), and full IPSW restores are model-specific.

[0]: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/OTA_Updates
>"we don't have the desire, expertise, or agility needed to make these decisions in-house, so we designate this organization to be our regulator of it."

Yes, because this has stopped them doing dumb things before. The gov't will still be in charge of selecting the people in the regulator. The lobbiest will still have influence. There's just no way around it.
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Yes, the viewer has way more information than Columbo, so should be able to solve it even more easily. And yet it’s still extremely hard.
You're making my point with every sentence. The University doesn't want headlines like "U of WTF condones classroom screaming" or "Student Sues U for Abusive Workgroup". When it comes down to it, the other student's parents likely don't want his name and behavior in any of these stories either. Bad for job prospects. The person acting with integrity is the one with the least to fear from press or the legal system.

Again, I'd first try explaining the rules to the other student as another commenter suggested. But the University has a responsibility to step in if that doesn't work. I would remind them they have more to fear from failing to act than from acting properly. I likely wouldn't actually sue—as another commenter said, students don't want to deal with that. A private threat is likely enough, and certainly a story in the press would do it.
You can buy a home near me for under 100k. No one forces people to live in NYC/SF.
> In the 1800s, 90 percent of the US population lived on a farm, rocking their WFH setups. How did they all survive without mental breakdowns and Harvard Business Review articles praising strict Work-Life Balance?

They didn't? Child mortality was 500 times as high as today in 1800 in the United States, and in the first half of the century, most of the people working on farms were slaves that I'm pretty sure had plenty of mental breakdowns even if nobody was treating and diagnosing them.
well, you are right, I got that number wrong. I would guess that few of these couldn't also be achieved by, say, minivan with the seats down, given how few trucks have full-size beds (another hint they're not for work).
I don't see how this is reasonable. I can grant needing to do the rendering on the phone, and pushing to the watch, due to resources. But why does it need access to the screen? Is the phone not capable of rendering to a buffer in memory? (Or, because that just doesn't sound plausible & given the name of the permission in the article, can iOS not separately permission access to the screen & rendering to a buffer?)
Haven't read the article but meson will run on a lot more systems than bazel.
> I imagine in 10 years today's battery tech will be obsolete.

What's your basis for this? Battery tech has largely been incrementalist for the past decade, are there specific breakthroughs you're watching?
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Ask HN: What is your ideal email backup solution?
I like to be able to go back and look at emails from the past, when getting in touch with people or to remember what we talked about. I have emails since the early 2000s. My recent migration of my primary email of 7GB is still going on as we speak and I want a better solution.
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No, that is just horror
Hm, Safari has done it its own way right from the beginning. (Meaning, Chrome and Safari had never the same implementation.)

Edit: As I recall it, Safari was an early adapter of the standard (even before its release), which comes with its own caveats. And it's actually because of not breaking things that there are these Safari idiosyncrasies. (The alternative would have been some kind of rolling prerelease standard, as it had been with Web Sockets. Which means, the API remains somewhat obscure and fragile, even, when it is eventually frozen, and developers have become accustomed to using some wrapper, anyways.)

And it isn't so that Chrome wouldn't do it, as well. E.g., a few years ago, Chrome had a major rewrite of the Web Audio framework. With this, any newly created source node would point to a null buffer and any calls to the `play()` method were triggered immediately, referring to this null buffer (instead of automatically pointing to the processed buffer source, as soon as this becomes available, and postponing the call in the meantime). This meant in effect that you could practically play a sound from its decoding callback only (which is somewhat optional and only seldom used). At this point, the Web Audio API had been around for several years and this was breaking about every use of the Web Audio API, there was (including Chrome's previous implementation). Turned out, the standard wasn't exact on this – and it took Chrome several revisions to fix this issue (in the meantime, you could work around this issue by user-agent sniffing only). The standard was eventually updated to define the specific behavior.

(This is probably also why most developers ignore the Web Audio API for the most and use some wrapper instead. Which is much like using jquery to work around IE idiosyncrasies.)

Also, what would it have cost Chrome to implement KeyboardEvent.keyIdentifier to provide a somewhat compatible API?
Ah, this sort of brings back memories.

When I was making my own extremely crappy and derivative games on the TI-99 4/A, the agony of doubly-interpreted BASIC meant that my pre-programmed walls and pits and such were painful to check for. I hit upon the idea of just checking the video array for where my sprite was going to move. Which wasn't bad for a tween.
For me (Android) PictureThis requires a login, and limits you to 1 identification per day, unless you pay for a monthly subscription. It didn't use to in the past.

However, the linked app (Candide) also seems to require a login, so I'm sure it's just a matter of time before they put limits on free accounts.