skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It makes a lot more sense to ban a car (regardless of price) for polluting the environment we all breathe and contributing to global warming, than it does to ban a computer that uses power the end user pays for by the kilowatt.

What? That makes no sense. Unless you're off the grid and using solar - where do you think the electricity from your outlets comes from?

People still pay for the car and the gas - just like you do for the electricity that is result of work that pumps shit into the air too.
It does not matter. The correct way to reduce electricity consumption is to increase the price of electricity, aka a tax. No need for politicians to selectively pick and choose which products to gimp.

For those who will retort with “but those are regressive taxes and hurt the poor”, I will say that if you want to fix people being poor, then give them cash. It is unrelated to the goals of reducing electricity usage, and there is no need to mix the two.

For those who will say there is no money to give poor people cash, I will say that the difficult task of enacting even more wealth transfers is the only solution there.

Edit: It is the same exact thing with fuel efficiency in cars and gas taxes. There is no need for CAFE standards or mandated fuel efficiency if a simple gas tax was ratcheted up until usage dropped. Then we would not have pickup trucks twice the size they were 20 years ago consuming even more gas.

Of course this does not happen, because it is politically unpopular to enact legislation that broadly forces people to lower consumption. So we end up with these discriminatory band aids where you get screwed if you do not have sufficient political clout.
I found this document published by Intel which has all sorts of technical information about "CEC Friendly Motherboards" that appears to describe the regulatory framework that rules out sale of certain computers to customers in those six states, https://processormatch.intel.com/Resources/Program%20for%20C....
Home built PC's are a threat to our democracy. They endanger minorities and are a National Security Threat. They must be strictly regulated and all such weapons of war must go through a 6 month delay period, 21 year old age minimum, licensing, background checks and must be registered with the federal government. Cosmetic features like RGB lighting or mice which improve targeting of the on screen cursor must be banned for all citizens. And the RAM must be limited to 8GB only because no normal person needs more than that. Thousands of kids get addicted to computer gaming each year. We must implement common-sense PC control to save lives.
The bug seems to reuse images already present on your device, not send new images to other users.
A unified voice without solutions is unlikely to be more effective at fixing a problem than a divided voice with solutions. That's the crux of the pro-solution argument.

If anti-car folks don't want us driving cars, then we need solutions to address the various legitimate use cases of cars.
I am anti 5+ seat cars with 1 occupant in them.
Thank you.

I am still researching bicycle racks, among other things. I am fortunate to be in a historica, walkable, mixed-use downtown area with "scenic" highways running through it. In other words, old-fashioned highways where bikes are permitted, not limited-access freeways where bikes are Verboten.

So we already have cyclists coming through here in spite of the lack of bike racks. I talked to a group that began in Seattle and said they were heading up around the Olympic Peninsula and down to San Francisco. So they are traveling quite the distance because of existing infrastructure and interest.

I already take photos of the area and post them online in a forum I run, which is what sparked me to think up this project. I now have a new goal of documenting bike racks and potential bike rack sites. I will develop things from there.
So I actually purchased .tk domain when it was still dot.tk. Unfortunately it switched to freenom. Since then it's horrible experience, is there any possibility to move the domain?

Since I paid it I technically own them like a normal domain, but I just don't want to deal with them and their broken UI.
MUDs are still alive[1], though there are a lot fewer very active MUDs than there used to be.

For anyone interested in giving them a try, I can recommend the Mudlet MUD client[2], which is heavily scriptable and configurable.

MUDs and programming are actually a match made in heaven. I personally really enjoyed automating map creation using Mudlet's generic mapper script.

So if you like automating stuff and don't mind mostly text interfaces instead of pretty eye-candy, you might like MUDs.

[1] - https://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?mode=tmc_bigli...

[2] - https://www.mudlet.org/
All blue states.
I don't give a rat's ass whether Assange is a Russian asset or not: trying to drag him to the USA and prosecute him is criminal behavior, both in the USA and in most other countries.

What a political clusterfuck it is for the USA to be pursuing Assange today! The situation underscores how sick, twisted and psychopathic are his American pursuers.
U.S. Drops Visa Fraud Cases Against Five Chinese Researchers
Hmm I do remember Musk joking awhile back about someone using their car as a boat. I can see why the above commenter might perceive that as real advertising since Tesla's advertising truly is word of mouth using social media.

More distressing is the above commenter described a nightmare scenario which went unaddressed. I guess that's your right. I wonder what you think about that part of their comment and whether it is "believable" or not. I find many aspects of messaging coming from Tesla, either the company itself or supporters, as unbelievable.
“Home built PCs allow the use of crypto mining software and cryptocurrencies, which facilitate tax evasion and money laundering. We haven’t had this problem on computers which require signing… “

- Future Senator
I don't know what to say except to appeal to my own experience. I've never heard of anyone I know being confined to bed by a common cold, nor getting pneumonia from one.

9 days maybe of lingering cough and sniffles, the worst of it is typically over in 3 days or so.

> colleague of my girlfriend nearly died of one in 2018 because he ignored it and went out partying...

Which suggests a mild illness? (The cold, not the pneumonia). You literally can't go out partying when you are really ill.
"The system" is just the full stack of human avarice. The eradication of which had proven to be nontrivial throughout recorded history. As soon as someone wants more than the next guy, you have a system.
Beginner's Guide to Self-Hosting
There is zero context on that video that tells us what is happening there. We have no idea if that is the Autopilot failing or the emergency braking failing. We also have no control group to tell us what percentage of humans would stop short of that dummy. It is inexact due to Twitter's video player not showing fractions of a second, but it looks like there were approximately 2 seconds between when the dummy started moving forward and when it was hit by the car. The average human time to braking is 2.2-2.3 seconds[1]. Is the car even failing that test in comparison to a human?

It also isn't clear from watching that video what the safest and therefore desired behavior should be in that situation. A self driving car is obviously not going to prevent all accidents, so it is a question of minimizing potential harm. We don't want a car to aggressively brake whenever someone at a street corner takes a step towards the road. We therefore need to balance the chance of a person stepping into the path of the car with the risk of braking when it is unnecessary and causing a rear end collision. The problem in the linked thread is overaggressive braking so forcing the car to pass a test that rewards overaggressive braking would only make that specific example worse.

That leads back to my point about needing a huge amount of data. You can't just run a car through an obstacle course to know whether it is safer or more dangerous than a human. You need to have it interacting with unpredictable humans and you need to do it repeatedly before you can confidentially predict whether it is safer or more dangerous than a human.

[1] - https://copradar.com/redlight/factors/IEA2000_ABS51.pdf
These aren't that powerful from a computing standpoint; They use low-end i5 11400F along with a low-end nVidia 1650 Super and have 8GB single-channel memory. Also, I think it's more about inefficiency when sleeping and idle.
Also
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/science/california-new-co...
Just want to remind everyone how far California has gone in energy efficiency:

> In 2018, California's energy consumption was second-highest among the states, but its per capita energy consumption was the fourth-lowest due in part to its mild climate and its energy efficiency programs.

Source: https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=CA#tabs-4

This is an achievement to be proud of.
> an international space as belonging to the US

Do you mean .com or the Internet as a whole?
That can probably be fixed with a flick of the pen by the governor. The point is, the problem is simply clerical, not organizational or otherwise difficult to overcome.
Ask HN: How to verify a business (users will register their business on my app)
I'm just curious how to verify a business that someone lists as their own.

For example, if I'm a yoga instructor who runs a yoga studio, how can I verify that information?

I'm having a hard time using google, maybe my search terms are wrong "how can I verify a business is legitimate" :(
Thank you! I did my first trade show over the weekend and found it quite useful. I'm beginning to learn the ways to promote my products.
If it were me, I'd add a quick warning beep about 5-10s before actually doing the lifting.
"Only reason to build your own computer is to conduct illicit activity"
Wow, Medium.com pages load slowly these days.
I can recommend reading this interview [0] with Niels Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

It gives a pretty good run-down of what happened, by somebody who's impartial, qualified, and actually had access to a lot of evidence and official documentation around the case.

A somewhat long read, but absolutely worth it in terms of what it reveals. Case in point: Assange was never even accused by anybody of sexual assault or rape, Swedish police changed witness testimonies to fabricate that claim, then leaked it the same night to Swedish press.

[0] https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
> It usually signifies abuses like being paid in company "currency" only usable in company owned stores,

Does it? I've never heard of companies not paying the workers any money, just because they have their own town.

> being unable to change jobs without having to move

That is true for many job changes. If it is a big deal for someone they can just not join such a company.

> ( with the associated inability to refuse whatever the employer throws at you, however hard/illegal/dangerous)

Huh? Having a company town doesn't grant the company absolute authority. They still have to abide by the laws of the land.
Well, instead of a teensy, the esp32 is sure a good bet.

But since you've got the Pi, the next logical step is to get an rtc upgrade and run chrony/openntpd and a backup dns cache. Why not? I mean its right there on the desk. Could add a quick binary clock for practicality.

Since you might now be dependent on the thing, its easy to add snmp for monitoring, hack in some rrdtool or whatever to graph your sit/stand time, maybe a serial connection to monitor your UPS power situation, and you get a free Pi-hole by now! Probably a little overkill to run wireguard on the thing, though.

But honestly, why stop there? Have it control some functional LED lighting[0] (Zack uses an ESP32 instead of the pi--must not care about clock drift. The biometric sensor is also a little expensive and uncomfortable looking.) with suntime[1] for a perfectly and coherently illuminated environment.

For the extremely paranoid, yet lazy and obsessive (who does that not describe?) you can grab an extra wifi dongle with raw monitoring mode to have some fun with trackerjacker[2]. Use an innovative static base station running map mode, so when an influx of unknown devices with increasing strength and/or known vehicle SSIDs or PAN beacons are detected, just go full Red Alert (using those very practical leds) and score a quick win by raising the desk and commanding your IoT lighting for a deft escape.

Maybe you can use this for the girlfriend too, since by now you've already got rrdtool or cacti or whatever graphing the desk height and trackerjacker output from her iPhone and Jeep Latitude hotspot, you could also use that capability to gain insight as to when it should reach out and trigger your coffee maker's ESP32, certainly while raising the desk.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6n8XLmZ__I

[1] - https://github.com/SatAgro/suntime

[2] - https://github.com/calebmadrigal/trackerjacker https://reconshell.com/trackerjacker-maps-and-tracks-wifi-ne...
one of those links (California Appliance Efficiency Regulations for Computers http://energycodeace.com/download/21326/file_path/fieldList/... ) says "High Expand ability Computer" is:

> Has power supply of 600 watts or greater and either

+ discrete GPU with 600GB/sec framebuffer bandwidth or more

+ a total of 8 gigabytes or more of system memory with a bandwidth of 632 GB/s or more and an integrated GPU

how closely did the console makers work with them on that language i wonder.

Appears to cover everything from desktops up to big iron, too. chunky.
Actual regulations here: https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/IEEDE2D64EF7B4F168...
If you believe in digital freedom , then you're probably a Nazi or something.

Edit: sarcasm if that's not obvious.
Everything's quicker if it doesn't have to work. Hadoop doesn't just run the code, it gives you job management, log collection, error reporting...
No, J&J (also known as Janssen) is an adenovirus vector vaccine, as are Sputnik V and AstraZeneca. The main inactivated virus vaccines are Chinese CoronaVac and Indian Covaxin (VLA2001 is in trials also). The Novavax is a protein subunit vaccine, which is also more traditional vaccine technology than mRNA or even adenovirus vector.
“The National Commission for Computer Safety and Integrity requires that, as part of the 2032 Standards for Internet Safety, all devices must run manufacturer authorized code unless a permit has been granted, to supposedly prevent future pipeline and cyberwarfare attacks.”
There might be all sorts of selves that you simply can't observe.

Or there could be none besides those with a CNS. Science may have a long way to go on understanding minds, but speculation on other sorts of minds entirely is still within the realm of science fiction. So, if you're going to assert something like a conscious experience by plants then you should understand that you are taking it as an article of faith.
Vehicle owners pay for gas by the gallon...
2020: Hydrogen-boron fusion could be a dream come true
Quite cool! Will try it out.
It’s more akin to any other domain registrar that offers a discount for the 1st year of registration. Or a hosting company that gives you a “free” 1 year domain registration with paid hosting.

That’s not a scam or fraud when the renewal period rolls around and the annual fee increases from the discount rate or you have to pay for the 1st time.

The scam/fraud seems to be the review alleging the reviewer had a high traffic domain name that was just taken without notice so Freenom could sell it.
> Autopilot has been running in hundreds of thousands of cars, has driven several billion miles,

Has it really though?

> I have noticed for me at least it started happening after I updated at 2021.4.18.11

This implies that the functionality of the AutoPilot is constantly changing, presumably meaning each version has thousands of miles rather than AutoPilot having 'several billion miles'. It doesn't seem like you can trust past performance is the users are to be believed.

My assumption is that OTA updates won't be allowed once this stuff starts requiring certification.
I can't imagine living in California and having to put up with all its foolishness.
I think the tomatoes is the AI, or FI to be exact (fruitful intelligence)
Then you can find another accommodation. What's the big deal? Many times people try to find a place closer to their new work. There are many factors that contributed to the healthcare problem, generalizing one factor and using that here does not make sense.
All those blue activists speaking their truth to power took their calling a little too seriously lol
While the results are worrying, and not entirely surprising... the search query made me wonder how many different queries the author tried until getting a sufficiently bad result.

I wonder if the more obvious 'PHP MySQL Tutorial' would also return this. I don't think that this changes the general point of the article, there is a _ton_ of bad information out there. I did the same with "Node.js JWT" and the results were even worse.
The mathematician that designed the model I referred to at the end ended up passing it on to me. I've now built something of an empire of people and projects using it, "just" by making better tools to manage its inputs, outputs, visualisation and automation.

I was stupidly excited to recently do more work on that same model - I took one of its internal datastructures and turned it from a simple queue into a priority queue using a couple different queueing metrics. In both cases, I had run cases out to a scale where I was able to actually show going from O(1) to O(log(n)) performance - but got beautiful wins because the fastest work is work you never have to do.

Not often I can empirically show traditional CS101 stuff in a real-world chart.
Uber: 1 death and halted the program

Tesla: many deaths, no halt, no improvement in the program. See: phantom braking
Mostly V-7 it looks like.

What's insane is trying to find this information directly on california gov website. all the links are broken.
List of countries by energy consumption per capita
Electrical activity in plants has been known to science for a long time: https://www.thebetterindia.com/76587/jagdish-chandra-bose-in...
Wonder if driving to Idaho to pick one up offsets the carbon savings.
The fuck up was not riders most likely but DS. Someone did not bother to look at the damn TV and count people in the break and who they were.. someone did not communicate this absolutely crucial info to whoever was the Dutch road captain. Did they not have a system of when to go to the DS car?? I mean you get food and water there lol How?

It is a fuckup of astronomical proportions. Break wins all the time but I can’t think of a single race that I seen where Peloton did not realize that there was someone up the road. They had A LOT of time to catch her, they could easily do it. Yet they blew it
What was the energy consumption per capita before 2018? Curious how much that mild climate is responsible for the energy consumption.
Table V-7 on http://energycodeace.com/download/26420/file_path/fieldList/... has details based on the "expandability score" which limits desktop to 50-75 kWh/year.

The issue seems to be that the devices don't have low-power modes that meet the criteria for annual idle power usage. However "If the model is shipped at the purchaser’s request with either a limited capability operating system or without an operating system, or if the model is not capable of having an operating system, the model is not required to comply with the power management requirements of Section 1605.3(v)(5)(B)." So it should be possible to buy the system without an OS from an appropriate provider.
Intel mentions consumption at idle as the reason they redesigned for single-rail power supplies.
While I don't own any recent Dell hardware (maybe apart from two thin clients I got off eBay), I own a similarly-spec'd HP Omen 30L desktop (AMD Ryzen 5800X version) that was shipped to WA.

I did get the 30L from eBay without a GPU, but Best Buy was willing to ship the GPU-encumbered version to me (Full disclaimer: I don't game, I develop FreeBSD in my spare time and need a powerful PC to compile kernels/packages, I am nc@ in FreeBSD).

Maybe HP is already complying since they are based in California versus Dell being Texas-based, who knows?
requires:

+ 87% + PSU efficiency

+ Incorporate Energy-Efficient Ethernet functionality

+. Transition connected displays into sleep mode within 15 minutes of user inactivity

+ Transition the computer into either the computer sleep mode or computer off mode within 30 minutes of user inactivity. If the transition is to a computer sleep mode, that sleep mode shall either as described in ACPI as S3
or

Consume power less than or equal to 10 + 0.03 * C, where C is the system memory capacity in gigabytes minus 32 gigabytes (see Table V-6 in Title 20 Section 1605.3(v))

i was gonna try to summarize in simpler words but im laughing too hard at the last bits there
They are destroying civilization
The piece you’re missing here is that the capitalist theory is that things will work out well on a macro level when everyone is acting in self-interest that is the key to capitalism as an economics (more specifically as an acceptable mode of the economic term in “political economy”) and it is the only reason it is seen as acceptable. The whole reason capitalism is seen as “rational” is because of this argument, if the only thing that were claimed is that “everyone should act in self interest and who knows what will happen” no one would accept it as a reasonable economic system. Capitalism took root because of this notion that rational agents acting for themselves would necessarily (with no evidence to back it) lead to the best scenario (the idea of the market dictating whats best for mankind through what it desires, supply and demand). It is also its article of faith, which mounting evidence (see climate crisis) argues against.

Marx’s whole point was to argue why this proposition was false (why “everyone acting according to self interest” actually led, in spite of the good it produced in the short term, to longer term evils, like proletariatization, exploitation of workers, concentration of wealth, etc. though Marx did not forsee (and couldn’t of course) the catastrophic effects self interest would have on the climate)). The whole point is that the progression of capitalism up to this point has proven we need more than just “self regulating markets or self interested “rational” agents” since we’ve come to see the absence of other shared values leads to species level existential threats (again, climate).
Why do you think they are cancelling AP classes in San Francisco and California under the guise of social justice? It's to further weaken the underclass since the rich don't even go to public school.
Sorry for my stupidity but isn't a tomato plant planning on being eaten?

I honestly have no idea and I'd love to know more
The freedoms of collaboration over the Internet can taken away with:

1. widespread trusted computing (we're close)

2. banning encrypted comms over unregulated spectrums (done)

3. political will to ban such freedoms (growing)

How can those that prefer such freedoms preserve them? Political activism can. Can censorship resistant tech help in that situation? Plausibly deniable mesh networks? Sneakernet?
Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure for FOSS projects
Get your point, though from a user's pov everything is done in a gui; the article reveals the lisp only "in case you're curious."