skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the car companies, dialed down orders at the start of the pandemic. Now they are all trying to stockpile chips, due to not enough supply. I imagine (no data to support) the increased size stockpiles are a large part of what makes the problem worse. Kinda like TP really.

Also, Toyota is now cutting 40 percent of global production due to chip shortage.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794
When Apple was designing Mac as personal computer for everyone, a single button mouse is truly godzillion times better than two button. There used to be an Apple guideline on how to move a mouse and not to lift the mouse up into the air, but mapping the horizontal plane of the mouse to the vertical plane on the screen. Even that was difficult for some people.

People just dont realise how normal people have problem with mouse. Of course as we progress I think Two Button mouse could make sense as default. The role of PC also changed. The PC for everyone is now an Smartphone.
There's a really good (free) interview on the Verge with Dr. Willy Shih who explains whats going on:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22648372/willy-shih-chip-...

TLDR: it essentially was the pandemic: cancelling orders -> redirecting supply -> too late to uncancel + competitive hoarding.
Maybe they could spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a ballot measure to overturn it. It seems they had some success in the past with this.
Anyone can be sued for any infraction of the law, but to establish that a defendant is "aiding and abetting", it needs to be shown that the defendant was aware that the offense would be committed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiding_and_abetting#United_Sta...

However, since this law leaves the defendant liable for legal fees, it could be used to financially harm any defendant whether or not the allegation has merit.
Correct.

I wrote Lamborghini, but I was thinking about Maserati.

Also what the Italian minister said has been wrongly translated.

According to Italian sources, minister Cingolani is worried that in Italy what we call "the motor valley" will have to close if forced to rebuilt itself in only 14 years (it's really a short timeframe to reconvert an entire production chain) then he also talks about the niche supercars market, not only of Italian brands like Ferrari and Maserati, but also Lamborghini and McLaren.
A non-profit sued it's way to SCOTUS a few years ago in defense of frogs.

Absurd arguments both for and against standing are hardly new, and most don't have statutory authority behind them.
EvE is one of the worst architecture for an MMO, there is almost nothing to do and yet they need to slow down the simulation loop when there are too many players. I mean when you gameserver is based on Python what else can you do?
Yeah, I dunno - I had a 13 year old Daihatsu with >200,00km (which is a damn lot for japan)... Never had to do any maintenance. Had several friends with similar age keis who also had no issues.
What software did you use back then? How did the process change when they started using software as a tool to gerrymander?
Love the font on this site. Looks like you can find it here: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
Key takeaway

"factories are more advanced and cost over $20 billion each."

"Once you spend all that money building giant facilities, they become obsolete in five years or less. To avoid losing money, chipmakers must generate $3 billion in profit from each plan"
Keep in mind that modern safety features add both size and weight. Increasing the maximum engine displacement (last done in 1990) and size (last done in 1998) is necessary in order to keep speed and interior volume consistent with new safety features.

In fact, I'd argue they haven't increased enough—safety tech has improved by leaps and bounds since 1998, and anyone who's been in a modern car compared to a 1998 car can testify that there's much less usable interior space now in a car of the same external dimensions as one from 1998, and you can thank all the extra airbags, crumple zones, etc. that have been introduced since then.
Train fans will always still take the train, and for good reason (they are a better experience in some ways), but the fundamental issue of whether we can address car traffic and congestion is about whether other forms of transit can be faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQY6WGOoYis and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1G0Lyh3uik are great overviews
As much as many people here won't like it, the lesson here is that there need to be strict limits on what kind of laws government is allowed to impose, period. You can't have some system where the government gets to have broad powers on things you agree with, but somehow isn't allowed to make laws about things you don't like. The only solution is being very narrow about what government can tell you to do. Personally, this law appears so ridiculous that I think existing checks and balances will have no problem rendering it irrelevant, but it should still be a warning about what government thinks it can impose on people.
Name one person who has decided banks are no longer to blame for 2008 because rainbow flags.

The Occupy movement failed because sitting in tents complaining about systems almost invariably fails, and people aren't as angry about a deep recession caused by subprime mortgage lending because it's 13 years later and the deep recession we experienced most recently wasn't caused by anything at all to do with the banking system.

Some overlapping but largely different groups, with different priorities and strategies had more success in making a difference; perhaps not a difference you care for but a difference. Rather than wonder if certain groups of "woke" activists were better at organising and picking their goals, and can be learned from, you accuse them of "neutralising" unrelated causes you feel closer to, as if it's impossible for any activist to be opposed to homophobia and Goldman Sachs, and spend your message board days railing against "woke" activism instead of corrupt bankers.

It's the perfect divide and be conquered tactic, and you can guarantee nobody appreciates your argument that the real reason billionaires got away with crookedness is some trans activists had a bit of success more than crooked billionaires.
I have used PopOS and I like it for the features and stability (coming from macOS).

I agree about their focus - however the laptops just look and seem out of date for the price. I see myself going down the Dell Precision or even XPS line and putting Pop or elementaryOS on it.
There's a really good (free) interview on the Verge with Dr. Willy Shih who explains whats going on:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22648372/willy-shih-chip-...

TLDR: it essentially was the pandemic: cancelling orders -> redirecting supply -> too late to uncancel -> low supply + competitive hoarding. Plus a 10 year $150B head start.
"Look closer, you’ll find them doing cross app and cross device linking and behavior aggregation, and “sharing with our partners”. Tracing further, the partners are adtech. Look more broadly, you’ll find these used as sources by firms commercially offering user screening, fraud prevention, credit approval, etc. to enterprises that are making increasingly automated decisions about who qualifies and who doesn’t.

We aren’t talking about this*, and that’s weird."

Agree.

I avoid mobile apps like plague, the only emergency thing is banking apps and for this I have an old iPhone SE. Other than this mobile apps are no go for me.
Until I have in my hands Linux phone with acceptable UX I am out of the whole mobile apps idea.
"You can order whatever you want unless a payment is made and product accepted a legal transaction hasn't occured."

It may or may not be a crime depending on intent, but a transaction is not the issue. It is breach of contract. Laws obviously vary around the world, but the US Uniform Commercial Code is probably typical. The restaurant has made an offer. The customer has accepted it. There is agreed-to "consideration" (value) to be provided by both sides. If the restaurant does what they said they would do you, having accepted the "offer" by making an order, are bound to do what you said you would do (pay the price that you knew was the price when you accepted the offer.)

Just increase the dollar amounts by a large enough factor, and you'll see it. A company sells widgets. I order a million dollars worth, items that can't simply be put back in stock and resold to others. They make them, but I don't pick them up. I'm not arguing that they didn't do their part by making defective items. I'm (probably) not required to pick them up, but I am required to pay what I agreed. You are saying "no transaction occurred", but that's not at issue. The company will (rightly) sue me for breach of contract.

It's the same for fast food except that the static friction of legal costs vastly overpowers the scale of recovery from the breach of contract for each instance of no-show. But if a single order for $10,000 (catering a company picnic) is not picked up, you get past the friction, and the restaurant will sue for breach of contract.
This winter will be interesting when furnaces break and there is no way to repair them.
What's the advantage of binary packages through GitHub releases? How do you audit them?

I'm aware of the fact that you can detect curl | bash server-side, and it's a neat trick, but I don't understand the security risk of it. The server is supplying you with arbitrary content that you're not auditing - what does it matter if it supplies you different arbitrary content?

What's the advantage of the GPG approach? Last I checked, the GPG command was capable of signing malicious binaries.

I do agree about the configuration argument. But that's not a security argument.
It seems a little odd to say that anti-choice policies disproportionately burden women when men has no choice at all beyond having half the vote of consent for the initial act of having sex. The whole issue is deeply sexist with very clearly defined gender roles with expectations and enforced obligations.

From an ethically perspective it would be significant if those expectations and obligations could be replaced with voluntary acts in an universal way.
No. The whole point is to avoid scanning all your images on their servers and instead only scan when there is a suspicion. Ie Hash match.

You will not have any of your images scanned at all, if you don’t load a certain number of images that’s metadata match known CSAM. That’s a superior position, than: everything you upload is scanned for visual features.
Most of my family lives in Texas. They're appalled by this law. But yeah, don't go anywhere near their guns. They've literally called the cops on each other over their guns. They have assault rifles by their beds and vaults full of Zombie Apocalypse ammunition and they didn't think the sketch below was remotely funny...

https://youtu.be/QHqB2t-DGb8
> It would require a complete revamp of the entire DoD contracting process. Which may or may not be something that can or should be done, but with the understanding that it IS the way it is, for a very good reason: to prevent fraud. Which was a painful learning experience going back to the very beginning of the Federal practice of providing national defense. The current system is NOT perfect, but you don't throw the whole system away in pursuit of "cost savings" or you'll attract every grifter and con artist out there into this business looking to scam every penny they can from taxpayers.

The thing is, at least for software dev, DoD projects don't know their software requirements any more than private sector ones do.

Plus, the current acquisition system is by no means more fair or less riddled with fraud. The WWII model of much easier acquisition regulations run by bureaus or offices with deep technical expertise and independent auditing did quite well.

Just because we intend to reduce fraud with a given set of policies doesn't mean we should assume that the policy actually works, or that the other problems such policies introduce are to be ignored as a result.
Whooo! Hold my beer! You literally were part of the group to draw the lines. Imagine looking back and seeing the damage it has caused in the long run. I couldn’t even imagine.
I don't know what their mission used to be, but now their website says "Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity." -- quite a bit difference than access!
I think Christopher Alexander's insights into the organic structure of natural cities, what he calls a semi-lattice, is what a long lasting organization needs. It's never optimized at any moment in time but it continues to improvise, adjust, and adapt. Cities live much much longer than companies. I buy into Hayek's hypothesis that you never have enough information or intelligence to centrally plan anything above a very small scale.

I don't quite understand what your concerns are about "silo busting." I have normally seen it applied to teams that have become to locally focused, who don't care about the downstream consequences and second order effects of decisions they are making and outputs that they refuse to adjust.

Happy to chat or work on a joint write-up (contact info in profile). I don't have the sense that we are in agreement but that can establish a common ground to walk around the implications of our different perspectives.
Its this. The route from the Bay Area to LA actually starts in Seattle. The route is largely on shared freight tracks. Due to the nature of rail travel, delays compound - if you are delayed at the beginning of the route, you will likely be delayed at many additional points along the route due to missing your scheduled time.
Look at the "Park & Ride" concept in the Seattle area (I am sure it exists in other cities). I've seen a lot of people that are very comfortable financially take the bus to work.
Public transportation only becomes inferior when its infrastructure is horrible, and it is humiliating to take a bus because of the wait time, delays or how packed they get.
Also how do you connect up the nerves? A heart transplant works because the heart is basically self-regulating. But the eye needs thousands of nerves to connect to the brain to be useful.
Right. Actually, since it's hard to tell if the earth is round y observation, I'd say it's more like a debate on whether the Sun goes around the Earth. You can just look up in the sky and see it move - the folks saying otherwise are obviously cranks. There's no need to listen to their arguments.
I was only suggesting a failure in law. Merely scanning is not creative and not protected.

As for fonts specifically, while I am not qualified to describe creative elements versus prior art, I think we can all agree the the field of commonly used fonts is quite well within the realm of the public domain. Font foundries only exist to squeeze unearned profits from only minor and non-expressive additions to that that is already well within accepted public art for many hundreds of years. They are swindlers and con artists.
There’s not many code review platforms that are great at showing you relevant comments in a diff because they are often in a much different part of the file, so I kind of think it’s hopeless in a large code base to catch this sort of thing in a code review
Yeah - those reprints of novels for libraries. It's basically a Show Reader View for wood pulp. As my eyes deteriorate I can see where she is coming from :-)

Edit: also kudos to you for having the foresight to ask - I don't know what age you were but to most kids a great grandmother is not a source of wisdom but a distraction from friends and tv. I hope she told you lots :-)
Nothing would be decimated if we yanked those funds other than our ability to destroy other nations. We could build a much better social safety system that covers far more people. It’s not as if military spending is the only option as far as this goes.
To speak to a "long perspective" on the issue, that was one of the things that scared people when electronics moved to integrated circuits. There's no "knowhow to keeping them alive". Once the magic smoke gets let out, they're just dead.

There was a time when every part of a computer - including, literally, an individual "bit" of ram, could be hand-repaired, craftsman-style (and even visually assessed for failure), but we've been on a long, long trajectory towards none of this stuff being user-serviceable.

We're now watching the rise of SoC, wherein my graphics card and my ram crawl into my CPU and disappear as discrete components. Strange times.
It’s a network mount. Hence it’s “don’t use it cause it’s shitty” reputation.
Or probably an insecure entrepreneur that doesn't want to look like a one person company.. :D
In that era they may have been afraid of reinforcing the stereotype that black people were more likely to have children yoo young and outside of marriage.
The northeast corridor (Boston to DC) is very popular and profitable for Amtrak. They have routes connecting major cities in the rest of the country but they're slow, expensive and unreliable. They're pretty much only ridden by train enthusiasts, people who are very afraid of flying, or banned from flying.
Not everybody wants to setup Ubuntu to be the way ZorinOS comes out of the box?

Surely this concept is not so foreign to you in 2021, after questions like yours have been rehashed on HN thousands of times.
They all have their flaws. Parliamentary democracies, for example, are susceptible to minority extreme views having massive weight if they are needed to keep a coalition in power. Direct democracies are the opposite with minority views being ignored.

edit: Also, one needs to separate the impact of the democratic system from that of the social/cultural system. A country with a very homogenous population tends to have less issues under any system of government.
> He's touting a lot of accomplishments here that are accomplishments because pushing broken functionality and calling it done is a very easy way to say you delivered faster than a normal DoD program that has to actually prove it does what it says it does.

Is your experience that normal DoD software programs have to actually prove they do what they say they do? Because that has not been my experience at all in the Navy.

We work on something for years until political and leadership support for working without concrete progress can finally no longer be maintained, throw whatever we have at that point at the users, and then force people to use it because "we've already invested $XXM into it and worked on it for years and all the rest of our plans assume that this system is there."
The author should have a "buy me a pint" donation button.
Regular Car Reviews have showcased several of these:

- 1993 Suzuki Cappuccino Limited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWUbEvapRM

- 1991 Honda Beat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_EfLbWlZn4

- 1992 Mazda Autozam AZ-1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBVy1ciP_ik

- 1988 Honda Acty Street Kei Van: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL_T4Lr0uu8

Warning: this channel has a puerile sense of humor. Probably NSFW.
At least Texas has tons of cheap wind, solar energy, no income taxes and healthy competition between electricity providers.

In Texas, you can choose amongst like 20 or more electricity providers so if one doesn’t suit your liking, you have many others that are very easy to switch to.
Anything particular about it that you like. What makes it worth paying for? Just curious.
Worth noting that the NSA isn’t saying quantum computers (if achieved) cannot break public key encryption, instead they are saying that they have doubts that building a quantum computer powerful enough to be a threat is possible.

I think this is an important distinction and it’s lost in the title as posted here.
This is actually also discussed by Nassim Taleb in his book which I assume the parent comment is referencing.

He says Toyota is one of the few examples where just-in-time was not distorted and warped. So Toyota implements true just-in-time, which can be robust, with buffers. But most other companies implement a half-assed version that is very fragile.
Ahaha I'm glad you found it useful.
I hope it'll get tested in court soon and ruled against GitHub/Microsoft - because otherwise this will mean that Copilot and other GPT-3-like models become perfect copyright laundering machines.
I think Linux users believe they have choice when in actuality its the same shit just repackaged in a different way again and again. Sure there are innovations that happen between distros, with some having novel philosophies, but its not as often as users would like to think
Did you read this article? Or visit ZorinOS’ website?

Or do you somehow believe that only a 5 word motto should explain everything to you?
That's because they're not a day by day car.

They are not built for that task.

Just like you wouldn't ride a BETA EVO 300 to go to work.
Maybe I'm a GUI traditionalist, but I prefer the stock debian config of xfce4. Without the pseudo dock, just the taskbar.
No Daemon at all is what I was alluding to. A smaller memory footprint and lower attack surface are advantages of that, it may not be an issue for many/most but is worth pointing out I hope.
The thing is that you can not apply this method (suddenly stockpile because of anticipated shortage) globally. Now of course, putting gratuitous buffer everywhere would not be the panacea either. But some buffers may be needed to improve global resiliency.

One has to optimize to reduce fragility, but when massive chip (or anything else) shortages start to appear for extended periods it is obviously already way to late. And way too downstream if your strategy was just a punctual stockpile decided by a single company. Because that probably would have been impossible for everybody to apply this punctual strategy at the same time...
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It's still a fossil fuel though. Not emitting climate affecting gasses one but still.

Turns out releasing hydrogen in the atmosphere has some greenhouse effects: http://www.ghgonline.org/otherhydrogen.htm
The image is never scanned either, unless you consider generating a hash: scanning.

Given hash comparison is how we treat passwords (an extremely sensitive piece of information). I don’t see how anyone can make a compelling case that: generating a hash is an image in some way compromises the privacy of the owner of the image or contents of the image.
Personally, recognizing that my burnout was caused by one or more of the following and doing something positive about it.

1. Lack of autonomy
2. Lack of mastery
3. Lack of purpose
I was just looking at Zorin. I use PopOS as a daily driver and one of my favorite things about it is that it supports the firmware update manager. Zorin Connect is highly compelling, but without the firmware update manager I'm not quite sold.
2. Or it will just cause the women to get abortions elsewhere, or let the kids grow up in homes that can't support them. Not to mention the extra loads of single moms (or dads). No one will be "saved".

What it's more likely to accomplish is to make Texas even more republican, and to make the US appear even more crazy to the outside world.
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