skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be great is a legal precedent to own the metadata you generate. If companies didn't own this data it would solve many privacy problems for individuals. I would like the legal ability to opt out of harvesting under scrutiny of punishment from the Government or the ability to opt in and sell it back to the companies who harvest it.
It should scarcely cost any power to cancel the cogging torque though, wouldn't it? Can't you just keep a small percentage of the battery in reserve for that purpose?
I was also wondering, because there were some other vague mentions, but couldn’t find anything concrete.

The only thing[0] I could find was one person who questioned how he could technically make a shredder do what he said he did in one experiment (and there were even photos of the shredded-but-only-at-the-edges papers)

[0] https://fraudbytes.blogspot.com/2021/08/top-honesty-research...
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>It would probably be a lot harder for them to get it from mobile carriers. There are multiple mobile carriers. They may not have the systems from which they could easily give law enforcement that data (Google has them, and uses the to respond).

Rather, there are laws governing what data police may request under what circumstances from mobile carriers. They can either follow the rules and do all the paperwork to get data from the phone companies or they can request location data from Google, which is just as good for most purposes and much easier to obtain.
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What about this one? https://www.gov.uk/government/news/alcoholic-liver-deaths-in...
We need privacy at the societal level though. Even if I have perfect privacy for myself, bad actors who invade everyone else’s privacy are still able to influence society in a way that has never been possible before. Think of the election interference made possible solely by the huge amounts of data these companies have.

Even if I have perfect privacy, I’m still screwed if I live in a society where 99% of people don’t.
nothing better than some well place printfs

If anyone is interested gdb has a visual mode.
Eg:
gdb ./a.out

then while inside gdb
ctrl+x, a

so press ctrl+x at the same time, let go and press button 'a'
> people who have never been here can point out the expensive neighborhoods because they are the greener ones

This is normal in many cities.

Trees can mean high status because

(a) you need excess land to have trees.

(b) old wealthy suburbs often have old trees (a massive old oak tree implies something).

(c) single dwelling houses that are near the city often have very old trees due to the age of the location, and can have high value because the location has now become central (due to city outskirt growth).

(d) maintaining trees costs time and money, as mentioned, so that also implies wealth (and status).

Aside: lawns are another status symbol - that is why so many people care about them so much! Think of a huge old English estate with manicured lawns, and why that is a strong symbol of wealth.

Edit: and I should say I love trees and I think they are really worthwhile, independent of any associated status!
And what is the average mileage with SUV or trucks vs. other cars? What is the average age of truck drivers vs. other cars?

There are many other interesting factors here that were completely ignored.
Very interesting docs like this are discovered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247196
And yet in the US cars are only getting bigger and bigger. I was looking for a small EV for commuting recently and found that both Smart ForTwo and Fiat 500e withdrew from the US market in the past couple of years.

There are a lot more new SUVs than sedans, and the ratio has definitely gotten bigger over the past 5-6 years.
I’ve read they sell tax-exempt diesel for off-road farming equipment, dyed red to try to catch fraud.
Many of these tricks are not secret. They are commonly known and coordinated among emergency service personnel. They cooperate to take vacation, etc. in ways that will maximize the overtime of coworkers. That overtime can then be recycled into time-and-a-half leave that will reciprocate into the maximum overtime for the first party.

An administration that squashes all overtime faces extreme wrath. They can be cutting employees' take home in half. I and plenty of others have seen people lose their houses or suffer other financial crumbles when the expectation of built-in pay far beyond their published salaries were cut off. You can argue that it is foolish to depend on such extra pay and I would agree. But when that significant extra has been their reality for all 10 years of their employment with the department, you can see how they would just plan it into their future finances.
I’m happy they left it up to the customer to put the front plate on. It makes the car look worse and I’ll accept the risk of a citation.
Take her out back and shoot her, obviously.

Driving and texting in a full size car or a crossover isn’t any less dangerous to pedestrians than texting and driving in a truck. Full blackouts (the effect of driving and texting) means full speed hits and reduced visibility is irrelevant.
Not if you're writing Math.abs().

The motivation for the article is this change in OpenJDK, where they got a 10% performance improvement by switching from the single-branch implementation to the branchless one:

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/4711
> Most are terrible off-roaders

I always love revisiting the Canada episode of The Grand Tour where they tested 3 midsize SUVs and concluded that they’re neither sporty nor provide much utility.
Over the last four years the all cause mortality has been the same for Sweden and Norway [0]. So it would appear more people died in Norway before the pandemic, and more people in Sweden since, equalling out over the last four years.

So maybe it's not geography we should be talking about, but instead the number of older vulnerable people at the start of the pandemic.

[0] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201116/Study-compares-de...
I like this idea, is a private git repo (on github.com) a safe place to store personal notes?
Please read the comment chain. If you ban SUVs and trucks, there is a segment of the population that will be negatively affected by not having the ability to perform their tasks. The question was way ban SUVs and not cars - that eliminates the energy mismatch and allows the most people the utility they need.

I'm asking that person if they've thought of these details when they made their comment.
This is Dan Ariely's response to the case:

http://datacolada.org/storage_strong/DanBlogComment_Aug_16_2...
> There's been multiple points in history where poltically left leaning professionals were systematically kicked out of their jobs and blacklisted from their careers.

Well, communists right? Literal sympathizers with the US' greatest geopolitical foe?

> Also it doesn't look good to repeat a racist fox news [blah blah blah fox news..]

Wait are the vaccination rates between whites and blacks actually substantially equal? And your link is just playing the trick of swapping out percentages for absolute numbers to make a tendentious argument.
From my short pre-Web memory, I feel there was a "brief" (several decades) period when a small number of regulated (and after regulation ended, acculturated) neutral TV news channels provided a baseline common narrative. That was already eroding in the '90s, as the massive expansion of available channels through both cable and better over-the-air encoding created a similar publishing boom. Both cable and talk radio in the '90s-'00s presaged the greater impact the web and social media would have.
"Can't Get Your Out Of My Head" and "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" are both required viewing epics in my mind.

The contrast in this interview here, between a "Black Mirror" think-piece, and the expanded-mind reality viewing of a "Can't" is remarkable. I want to give full respect to Brooker, and I don't know where one would really begin to evince the deep, wild, strong currents of an Adam Curtis film from Adam, but the coverage feels superficial, glancing, a glossy commentary. His videos are so deep, so powerful. They speak to longer, wider conflicts & tensions, and this interview keeps trying to reduce the discussion to contemporary points. Adams videos skip around between time points, but in a way that shows continuity, show how ever-present the tensions have been: while we get to visit some contemporary points & places, that wider pan-optic view is not as strong in this interview as what AC videos I've seen.
How are they spending and how will they continue to spend on feeding at McDonalds and the other things that call for other people to accept jobs? Paying rent pays very few salaries.
But the running joke is that it often turns out becoming true. That's why they spun off NotTheBee to do real news.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/alcoholic-liver-deaths-in...
"Not everybody needs to do those things. I have lived 28 years without owning a truck and will never need one."

But in a proposed world of no SUVs or trucks (read comment chain), there are some people who would not be able to perform their tasks. If we have to ban something, why not leave the most capable vehicle that provide coverage to the most people. I'm trying to get the original commenter to explain.

Also, aren't vans the worst pedestrian offenders?

And for EVs...

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/axa-insurance-claims-high...

https://frankellawfirm.com/are-electric-vehicles-leading-to-...
“to attract new talent”

I think it’s primarily this, and it’s not a bad strategy.
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You have to look at the pros & cons, the likelihood of success, how "bad" the condition / urgent the treatment is, general condition of the patient etc.

Same for things like anxiety, insomnia, ...
I am sure they probably do not, crashes are mostly human error.

I was suggesting that I think it’s unlikely that a prohibition on any type of modifications could be effectively enforced when nobody is inspecting the vehicle.
That would make sense, except for the countries that did lock down and did worse. It would help a lot to have a satisfactory explanation for that, too. Geography by itself is not enough to eliminate the doubt sown by that contradiction.
Yes, they are self goals too. It doesn't mean you got to score more of them.
Out of interest, were you arrested?

As part of a duress protocol — where your extortioner is likely observing you — law enforcement would be required to go through the motions of arresting you and taking you offsite. You can expect to be held for X hours regardless of whether they believed you had simply made a mistake.

Long and unavoidable administrative delays make it much harder for villains to subvert protocols. See also time-delay bank vaults and mandatory two-week vacations for pension fund managers, where they are locked out of corpnet.
So, my situation is more personal. In our neighborhood, there is a history of vehicles being parked on the street that get broken into, damaged, or stolen. This happens much more frequently with more expensive cars.

Since our garage is not big enough for two cars, that means whatever I have, will be parked in our driveway. And thus vulnerable.

This means I can’t have a Tesla or Lexus, or any other kind of more expensive vehicle, even if I could afford it. The best I can hope for is a nice Toyota or Subaru. Don’t ask about Nissan — you don’t want to get me started on that rant.

Since Toyota and Subaru don’t make any decent BEVs and they don’t appear to be likely to do so anytime within the next decade, the next best thing I can hope for is a good PHEV.
I understand all of that and don't disagree, not even about cats. As I wrote in my comment above, I mean to point out the apparent lack of awareness. It wasn't clear that the Audubon guide even knew mandarin ducks are not a native species. Whether they cause ecological damage or harm native duck species is another question.

Sparrows and especially starlings have competed with native species. They are such successful species that they may have made their way to the New World on their own if humans hadn't introduced them.

I lived in Portland for a long time. Once I was hiking with my son, on a trail with clear signs Stay On The Path and Dogs Must Be On Leash. We came across a woman off the trail, with her black Labrador off leash digging in the brush, tearing up a fern. I stopped to ask her to put her dog on a leash, and mentioned she should not be off trail damaging the plants. She was busy tearing down English ivy, and responded haughtily that she was doing that tree a favor. Besides her lack of awareness and virtue signaling it seemed she was doing more harm than good, and her off-leash dog, which no doubt never bit her, was barking at my young son and scaring him (which is why I stopped to ask her to leash her dog in the first place).

I hesitate to call such people hypocrites, or to point out that all the pot growing in Oregon required clearing native trees and plants. I call that lack of awareness, and in some cases virtue signaling.
> It's strange. I'll see people compare U.S. numbers to the numbers from Germany, Vietnam, and New Zealand. Then when you Sweden is compared to other European countries, they'll suddenly say that you can't make such a comparison and Sweden should only be compared to other Nordic countries.

That kind of makes sense though. Sweden, specifically, is held up by a certain political faction as a poster child to advocate for certain set of policies, and the best test for those policies is to compare like with like (e.g. other Nordic countries).

When people compare US numbers to other countries, I feel that's from more of a "what did the US do wrong" angle, and those comparisons could surface differences that could be learned from.
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Are existing 480V systems killing many people?

If it is as bad as you say, the current 480V Tesla supercharger network with nearly 27000+ connectors worldwide should've sure killed a whole bunch of people in the last 9 years.

It's not like 480V is that much safer to the body than 800V ...
It is using llvmpipe which is a LLVM-based software renderer, so it will be sluggish than what everyone here is used to which is direct rendering manager hardware acceleration. The graphics drivers are not there yet.

Hence this, don't expect graphical elements or graphics intensive software to be any faster than other systems using accelerated graphics right now.
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Alternate history can be a really powerful way of exploring the way the world works, even if you need to invest some amount of charity in the premise. The best example I can think of would be the TV series "For All Mankind", where the central conceit is really not about how close all of it was to actually happening but about examining the dynamics of American identity in the space race and the Cold War in general.

It's also a risky genre. I can buy the Western Roman Empire not collapsing in the fifth century A.D., but if you extrapolate that to mean that Latin-speaking Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor in 1804 and conquers China it's difficult to take your opinion on historical contingency seriously.

At face value the hypothetical Incan conquest of Spain could really go either way, but there's definitely potential for something fascinating there. I hope this is worth a read.

P.S. It's not exactly the traditional kind of Alternate History, but if you're fascinated by the genre I think the 1632 series by Eric Flint would be right down your alley.
Half of their nation is 50 Hz, the other half 60 Hz, and the interlink between the two is stretched to its limit. It would be crazy to dump huge new electrical loads onto their grid, especially post Fukushima, with the increase reliance on non-renewables.
A question: if the software that Apple is proposing to use on iCloud is accurate when looking at images sent to/stored on iCloud, how difficult is it to adapt to look at the screen buffer before it’s even saved as an image?
> I said this in another comment, but how do they get away with it?

Because it was a joke and most people have a sense of humor?
Since mvfs is a Linux kernel driver, it must be free software. Here is a git mirror of it: https://github.com/msteinert/mvfs

I'm not sure how easy it is to use with anything that isn't the rest of the clearcase suite
Google deletes old data after 18 months for new users: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-colle...

For users who signed up before that point you choose how long to keep it for.
No matter what you do, you still have the ultimate potential endpoint of being stuck out somewhere with a dead battery pack and an annoying ride home compared to a freewheel system.

(It's worth mentioning that the other main reason you don't see regen used much on bikes is that freewheel systems allow the use of gearing, which greatly improves starting torque, which really is what matters for ebiking comfort. Direct drive systems are less efficient, so they are already starting from behind the curve with regards to making regen worthwhile.)

https://www.bikeberry.com/pages/direct-drive-vs-geared
100% privacy can be hard, for some people also next to impossible to achieve, but making spying more difficult and expensive is still worth. Surveillance is pervasive because it is relatively cheap; what if suddenly it became more costly after people change their habits and adopt safer technologies? Companies do that for profits, and governments use taxpayers money; forcing them to spend more by putting obstacles will hit where it hurts the most.
Hoo boy. Here we go.

Eugenics is technically sound science. Selective breeding for traits is something we do with plants and animals. It works. You want pug nosed humans that yield 20% more crops, you can breed for that . There is nothing about selective breeding that technically wouldn't work for humans.

Now. Despite all of that, we should not do it. It is a moral wrong. It would require us to violate the autonomy of people. Don't want short people, you can't let short people reproduce. And so on. That's what makes it icky.

That's why we don't do it. And why we shouldn't. Not because it wouldn't work, it would. But because it would require us to violate another's autonomy.
Failure to check blind spots is the cause of many accidents on the road. They’re called blindspots for a reason. Large trucks, like mine, have blindspots closer and lower. I can mentally track as much as possible, but if a small person leaps out from between a parked car, they’re likely ending up getting squished. In a smaller car, lower to the ground, you can see small people without having to peer over the sides of the vehicle.

Even after years of driving it, I still have issues time to time with the size of the truck and curbs. The reality is: the larger the vehicle, the more space you have to watch out for, and the greater the chance that you mess up and hit something.

I’m glad you feel confident driving your truck, but you can’t deny the reality that bigger trucks are more challenging to manage in pedestrian environments.
Well, the idea behind this solves ONE problem of the whole process... here is an alternative, that rethinks the whole process and already is used in many german projects: https://fahrenheit.cool/en/
"Because you are willfully ignoring the pedestrian angle by saying the default should be SUV over sedans."

I'm not ignoring it, I'm taking a systems thinking approach to the proposed ban.

If it's all about pedestrians, then we should also ban EVs (all cars, really).

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/axa-insurance-claims-high...

https://frankellawfirm.com/are-electric-vehicles-leading-to-...
Part of the appeal of SUVs is they put you in a superior position in case of crash. It's for people with competitive mindsets.
> Consider that Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog is already operating on industrial sites today.

In fact, SpaceX has one in Boxa Chica.

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-robot-dog-wreckage-ex...
There are plenty of people who choose to work from office, around 20% of total staff of major software companies as far as I remember. I worked from home about 5 years (remote-only company), long before COVID, and I strongly disliked it. I'm just tired to live in the office, not having private space and private time, and surprisingly, having fewer and fewer time for my family. After COVID I took a firm decision not to work from home anymore, even I like the project and other conditions.
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Technically it’s not far too wide but it’s…it feels too thick and nice to call it a Kei to me, Kei is more like Ford Transit van scaled down to Smart footprint while retaining four seatbelts.

Maybe this is a pedantic argument like whether a Dyson cleaners qualify as “a typical handy vacuum” but those aren’t bland Walmart specials.
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Salute to the Fiat Multipla, which demonstrated 23 years ago how that problem may be addressed.

("But it looks funny!" – "Hum, it also kills less people." – "Still, I want an impressive car!")
The leg up that I gave over a super-networked AI: I’ve seen a trash bag before. If the cars have to hit every item they see to find out what happens then we’re going to be here a while!
Tell that headline to the relatives of the dead.

"The highest number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in the Nordic countries as of August 18, 2021, had occurred in Sweden at 14,664. Denmark followed with 2,562 deaths, Finland with 1,008, and Norway with 811."

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1113834/cumulative-coron...
This is very helpful. Assuming Dan is being honest, it seems pretty obvious the insurance company is at fault here. It's so hard to know though. He could be covering for the whole group, or a teammate, or even himself.

Frankly I'm fine believing it was the insurance company though. Auto insurance has already screwed me before and now I have an irrational and emotionally charged inclination to view them as villain
I'm genuinely curious here - does anyone agree with me that being on foot seems to make it a hell of a lot easier to avoid cars than being out driving with them? I've had three drunk drivers hit me while I've been in a car, and yet have never been run over while just out walking around. When I'm on foot I just look around for the damn things and stay the hell away from them, in my car it's no such luck.
I guess I'd be worried about the rate of breakthrough infections amongst vaccinated people in Israel, the first good data we have (the reason for booster shots). That same data showed that natural immunity was much better. [0]

It may be the case where countries like New Zealand can only delay, but not prevent, this moving through their population at some point.

[0] https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762