skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major issue in these fires is the lack of someone attentive. We can leverage the existing horn in the same way as anti-theft systems to fix that. We need a way to detect the issue, but I would hope there's a thermometer somewhere we can use to sense dangerous thermals.

Even more interestingly, the car could communicate with your smoke detectors to set off the fire alarm. It would be a great value proposition for something like Nest. It can let you know that there's going to be a fire before it even starts.

I would hope that honking the horn in case of fire is something we could achieve with a software update, but maybe not.

The pipe dream would be for the car to be able to get itself somewhere safe-ish in bad conditions. We're probably a good ways off from it, and safer batteries may take over first, but worst case scenario we may be able to program some kind of "escape path" into the cars. My car has the ability to save garage door opener codes. It's not too far fetched to be able to tell it to roll up the garage door and pull out into the driveway in case of potential fire situations. You might need an automatic ejector for the charger cable, but that doesn't seem insurmountable either.

I do agree that electric cars are more dangerous for now, and will continue to be even after the updates. We can narrow that gap with software, and even more with some integrated hardware.

It's not all doom and gloom for EVs, though.
The vaccines are something around 98% effective against severe disease. If people were vaccinated they'd stay out of the hospitals. The hospitals are the problem.

I feel like I'm explaining arithmetic to an idiot.

And if you vaccinate everyone there will be less infections overall. For all of the worst-casing about VE and waning against infection it still isn't 0% VE. And breakthrough infections have less culturable virus and decline faster since the primed immune system defeats the disease faster. That means less chance for mutations.

We need to stop assuming that up could really be down. It isn't. Vaccines work. They prevent disease. They keep people out of the hospital. They reduce the chances of mutation. If everyone was vaccinated all this stupid shit would be over. Antivaxxers are dragging this shit out because they're afraid of needles and they are the ones causing all this suffering.
In addition, and unlike every other serious company in the space, Tesla is using random untrained drivers for testing this crap.
I agree, it's a high priority to build discrete versions of differential geometry, calculus, PDEs and so on. That's what I'm trying to do
> There must be hundreds of thousands of bolts

99,356 in USA & Canada, per this number: https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/chevrolet-bolt-sales-figures-u...

I was curious about this so I looked it up, you might think it is interesting too.
Both GM and Ford have OTA updates on their modern cars. They just don't do it very often. The upside of Tesla pushing an update every week is they're good at it.
Yeah this statement kinda discredits everything he says. The world is littered with countries that exist only because some existing adjacent kingdoms happened to both be colonized by the British, and they merged them into one colony. Countries fell apart after they left because there was no shared national identity to begin with.
The network is designed to consume all available resources until it achieves financial equilibrium. It produces junk computations and heat. It does this very well. I'm glad its helped some people, but you can talk about 'BTC maximalists' all you like it still doesn't address that bitcoin is fundamentally a huge resource sink.
I don't know enough about chemical engineering, but there was a tyre recycling company called Pyrolyx AG that went bankrupt last year. I think they were doing something along the lines of what you're talking about but they failed to commercialize and the pandemic accelerated their demise.
Are there any Shift4 users here? How does it hold up compared to the likes of Square pos?
Sure. I lived in SoCal without a car for a few years in my youth, so it's possible. Until the first child. At a mature age, I'll take up biking just after I get that knee replacement I've been postponing for a while and learn to bike with a kid on my shoulder. Throw a couple more hours in a day and I'm game.

Joke aside, even if we were to stop driving a car and flying a plane in US (the biggest pop-enviro boogeymen) it will cut 25% of USA greenhouses emissions. US greenhouse emissions is 15% of the world. Completely eliminating the automobile and the plane from US will only cut global emissions by less than 4%. The world energy usage is growing at 1% per year, so all that was accomplished was to push the inevitable about 4 years into the future.

Lets up the ante and ban the automobile & plane globally. (Or wipe US economy off the map). That would only save 15% of global emissions, i.e. push the inevitable 15 years into the future.

Here's a challenge: go find a city of non-trivial size that is living a sustainable life according to Paris accord energy targets. Bikes, Passivhaus, local agriculture, solar rooftops, windmills, the works. You won't find any, other than perhaps 3rd world slums. The only known lifestyle that fits the Paris accord energy envelope is subsistence agriculture. And we can't go back to subsistence agriculture, there is too many of us.

(Obviously) Malthus was right.
I figured it was in there somewhere. Thanks for pointing me to the spots! Gonna dig in now and try and grok it (hopefully)
I strongly support minimizing the use of disposable plastics.

I often think of schemes such as this as establishing a price on the alternative. It makes me ask how many uses I should expect out of an alternative solution. So if I think the bag I am considering purchasing (which seems to be made of an awful lot more plastic, but also promises to keep cold things cold), will last 200 uses, then it will be fairly priced at $0.05*200, or $10.

In practice, if I shop around, I can find robust bags for about that price. This makes good sense to me.

The replacement for plastic straws (which, again, seem to be made of less plastic than the cup or lid they are frequently used with) has a much harder economic argument. There's no way I'll ever keep a stainless straw around and unbroken for even 50 uses.
Some people have bad reactions to Tylenol.
Let's not beat around the bush. Trump is not very smart, and not at all well-informed. In fact he actively removed anyone from his inner circle who showed signs of being either of those things. So I think China was able to move confidently in a lot of areas, because they knew Trump and his cabinet would fail to understand the significance of their actions. This includes erosion of democratic norms in Hong Kong - Trump doesn't understand or care about democratic values, and has in fact attacked them himself domestically, so that represented a huge opportunity for China.

At the same time, Trump is deeply insecure, and is attached to the idea of military power somehow reflecting his own masculinity. Look at his tweets in response to North Korea's provocations, for instance, and how he made them all about him personally. So I think China was careful not to take action that would cause Trump to feel slighted or emasculated and feel a need for direct military action.

So within that narrow area of military pride and perhaps domestic manufacturing, Trump represented a real threat of retaliation and escalation, but beyond that he was pretty much asleep at the wheel.
I bought an RTL-SDR dongle years ago thinking I was going to do all sorts of awesome things with it. After my initial screwing around with it, it landed in a drawer for a few years.

Well a couple of months ago I found this[1] and hacked together my own daemon to read my power meter and publish the result via MQTT. I then wrote a couple of sensors in Home Assistant to estimate my upcoming electric bill and the instantaneous power draw of my house.

It's been rock solid so far. I've been surprised how much energy I use while sleeping in the middle of the night (something like 350W)

[1] https://hackaday.com/2017/12/21/read-home-power-meters-with-...
Life was simpler when you could stick hand coded HTML and some gifs in your ~/public_html folder and bingo, you had a web page.
Hah, I have a copy of Reason Lite that I got for free that loads as a VST. Mainly use it for ReBirth, but now even that's redundant since FL has its own 303 emulation that's pretty good

Back in the day producers used to complain that you could recognize a Reason track from a mile away. FL used to have the same problem. 'Garbage' is probably an overstatement nowadays (at least judging by the FLStudio demo tracks, their quality has been steadily improving over time) but the meme persists.
The fact that ALL the 'major' polls were heavily biased towards Biden, and Clinton before him, is clear evidence of corruption.
They are not all bullshit.
In 2016 the LA Times/usc poll was honest and accurate, so it was shut down for the 2020 election.
Completely digital, but this might be of interest : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxDoO9oODOk
This is great news as a cancer survivor.
Thanks for the explanation and the code locations!
I don't know, the bravery and courage it took for the "guests" to join this ride inspired me to donate to St. Jude.

If it had just been billionaires (and a token scientist or aspirational astronaut), I may have agreed with your jaded opinion.
If it's not benefiting the pre-existing home owners then it's not much of a rebuttal to the original point
And what do you do if those fires cause other things to burn in the vicinity?
That's a non-sequitur. Did the British leave Canada & Australia in a peaceful state? As far as I know, there were no civil wars or disarray in those countries, whether ex British subjects or original stock of native populations.
Are there any under-12 kids in the blood donors?

And yes blood donors aren't representative of the general population due to selection effects.
All these things existed before facebook
That can’t be right, it would leave your cars immobile after like 6 years, and getting half the range out of a tank after 3 years.

Cars are good for 20 years still going roughly as far on a tank as they did. I’ll believe 10% loss of mpg over a lifetime, I don’t track that closely, but 10-20% range loss on a tank per year, nahhh.
Did you read the article? They have to throw lots of those carcasses into landfills as they are running out of ways to handle, store and consume that much meat.
In animal trials, the jabs killed ALL THE ANIMALS. The human trials were NEVER MEANT to prevent Sars...they only proved in some cases, symptoms were reduced. That's it fellas and gals...if you still don't believe it, check CDC itself.

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Towing the car in a tank seems a sensible solution, but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be simpler to tow the tank near the vehicle, lift it and dunk it there?
COVID aside, the number of line of duty deaths seems a lot higher than I expected. At least given the focus in news and social media these last few years on notable incidents of police killing unarmed civilians in non-dangerous situations, I assumed the police themselves are almost never killed from job related hazards. I wonder how these figures compare to the number of police or number of calls/stops/whatever they handle.
You're in luck. Many European countries and Canada have taxed plastic bags for a few years, so you can explore the results those experiments.

For example, Montreal (and many other canadian cities) started taxing plastic bags in 2018. Then bags under 50 microns we're banned. The larger ones are easier to cleanup and recycle. Around 90% of people carry their reusable bags. I always have a tiny one in my backpack, my partner in her purse, and we keep large ones in the car trunk. The bags are usually made of recycled material.
Does China even need to attack Taiwan? Put an embargo on the island. Will US has the political will to directly confront with China? Seems unlikely.
This looks like one of those kinds of tools that, if it works well, would be very difficult to remove from my digital tool belt once I get used to it. I was just thinking this morning about how shitty documentation can be worse than no documentation, so this is kind of serendipitous.

My only concern is about the code that is uploaded to your servers. I can see people who maintain proprietary or private repos being adverse to having their code on someone else's system (ie companies who would pay this money per head). This leaves people who maintain open source software or only work on small personal projects, which I can't see paying this much for an auto documenting feature.

Unless I'm missing/misunderstanding something of course.
Your link it's about tablet market share. It's based on the number of shipments from each company. Does a Kindle count as a "tablet" in that? Does an Echo Touch count as a "tablet"? I don't know that I'd agree that Apple dominates the market either but I think you need to use a better metric to justify your opposition than the one you posted.

https://dazeinfo.com/2019/08/21/tablet-browser-market-share-...

This is just browser use and the Safari version of iPad is only available on iPads and yet makes up 48% of use. My primary browser on my iPad is Firefox and I know others use Chrome so that does put them squarely in the "leader" category based on that.
> Generics has so much indirection ...

I don't understand. What do you mean?

> almost every use of generics ultimately ends in type erasure or forced casting

Again, not understanding. Would you mind giving an example of this?
Gorbachov left the Eastern Block in relative peace I would say. Afghanistan of course was an exception.
A recall is worthless until the manufacturer can actually fix the issue.

The first recall was in Nov 2020 but my car (2018 MY) wasn't eligible for the fix until August 2021. I'm fairly certain it's going to take years for GM to replace all the batteries.
I posted this in a duplicate thread, but I don’t think this is the first “all civilian” space flight?
E.g. Here is a space flight where no crew members were in the military:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-09
"Hit me and we blow up together"

-The new Pinto, Bolt
It's harder to code in bad languages. Someone who does the same thing in a bad language that someone else can do in a better language is a better programmer, not a worse programmer. I may be a little biased because I just spent three hours wrangling with a scripting interface which is, to this day, in IronPython 2.7. It's bad. Don't sugarcoat it.

Suppose some poor people wear bad shoes and enter races. Sometimes they even win despite the shoes. Does this imply that they are bad runners? Should we conclude that no shoes are bad, because shoe criticism might make them feel excluded? We can't. That would deprive them of what they deserve: better shoes, sooner rather than later.

Criticism of languages should not be extended to those using the language, but it can't be abolished.
The only positive there is that at least the car didn't burn to the frame before they got it put out. And the amount of water they used to quench it doesn't seem like any more than a regular fire.

Edit: What an interesting house, very unique design and lots of built-ins. Says Scandinavian Farmhouse, and I guess I could believe it.
>by default turns are allowed.

It depends on where you live. In downtown Vancouver there were arrows at each intersection telling you what directions of travel were legal.
Weird. I know a lot of people who work in that space. None of them are morally corrupt.

What kind of people are you seeking out?
So if you knowingly open a store in a neighborhood "protected" by the mafia, it would be unfair to characterize a protection payment as stealing?

Sure, they're providing a service but that service is only necessary because of the mafia's market capture and threat of punishment in the first place.
They are effective at what, exactly?

Openvaers.com
This could be a 2 edge sword.

How long until the Police departments are sued for unlicensed public performance of copyrighted music?
Prediction markets have huge positive externalities, as they help non-PM participants predict the future! One problem PMs have is that non-PM participants often feel that people betting short (or in some cases long) are 'hoping for failure'.
> the idea was that prior to independence you educate a generation of civil servants who will then run the country along essentially British lines. I'd argue this worked well in India…

I certainly wouldn’t draw that conclusion. Immediately after the British left Nehru adopted 5 year plans based on the soviet model. Nehru and Stalin didn’t get along because he was still too Britain-friendly for Stalin, but India and The USSR developed very close relations within a very short period of time.

Some elements of India’s governance structure were distinctively non-Soviet, like having a multiparty democracy. But if you look at the way the country was run, it was done in the style of soviet central planning, most certainly not along British lines.
You can read the report, but the blood donor population is 17 years or older.

The result of the report is that some form of immunity exists in 97%+ of the blood donors at least 17 years old, in the UK.
Probably going to pay russia instead...
> You could argue that overweight folks are also paying disproportionately more simply by buying more food than someone who weighs 20% less.

You have a real incorrect view of obesity. Being obese does not mean excessive eating. There’s a whole slew of digestive and hormone issues that someone can have and be obese while eating less than 2000 calories a day.
"These are exactly the same if you ignore the differences."
The problem here is the form factor of the cell as much as the chemistry. Pouch style cells are very difficult to regulate temperature in. This is a key reason why other automakers like Tesla use the small cylinder cells. Chinese companies like BYD have always used lithium iron phosphate. It has less energy density than lithium nickel batteries like NCA and NMC, but is cheaper. The patent was never taken out in China and the key patent expires for the rest of the world in April 2022. As much as 3/4 of vehicle batteries might end up being LFP. Improvements in the chemistry and less need for cooling systems and packaging mean its disadvantages aren't so glaring. Plus there aren't enough nickel mines to supply the coming avalanche of demand. Lithium, iron, and phosphate are plentiful.
House proposes new retirement plan rules repealing Roth conversions
Gotta say, "launching four civilians to orbit" definitely conjures up a certain mental image!
I'm driving a 2013 F-150; it's got ~20mpg since I got it in 2014. The 2004 Corvette still gets approx. 30 (mostly highway), although it desperately needs new fuel injectors.
I wish the copyright police would sue these police for an unlicensed public performance.
Police got a lot more $$ than some teenage dowloading - sort of 'Law of unintended consequences = ON' and lots of witnesses = slam dunk that many judges would love to slam.
This is one of the more idiotic extrapolations of demographic bomb. Even the one-child policy annual birth rate in China is ~9-10M per year. That's an incredible amount of bodies to recruit from for the needs of modern air / naval warfare with limited casualty potential. Around half of births will be from underclass, where becoming a military martyr for the cause of reunification would be the surest guarantee their family has a meal ticket for the rest of their lives. Throw in upward mobility incentives like preferential queuing for universities, real estate etc - there won’t be a manpower problem.
I remember you could get flash to work on iOS through Cydia. I don't know how that was done though.
Considering the Bezos/Branson debacle, I think it's easy for people to get lost in the "This is just another billionaire paying to go to space" thing... and it is, but that's a small part of it. The passengers themselves are basically unimportant compared to the bigger picture.

Who cares if the passengers are some random billionaire and a group of people carefully chosen purely as a publicity stunt, let him have his attention/marketing that he gets on the side of paying for this trip... the real story is the actual actions that happened:

This is the first time a group of civilians have gone into (proper orbital) space on a re-usable launch system as paying tourists.

This is a MASSIVE moment for space travel in general, and has absolutely proven that SpaceX is onto something really special here with their systems and people.
If all the artists who are doing it for money suddenly stopped getting paid no one would care or notice.
There is also a sex imbalance that could result in tens of millions of un-paired male adults because of the one child policy. These are men who will not be able to compete against more attractive men (money, power, influence rather than looks)
You also seem to have no clue about obesity. Do you think everyone with it overeats?
Lithium batteries are far more explodey than modern gas tanks. Battery fires burn much hotter and faster than "regular" vehicle fires (which are generally just the contents of the vehicle burning, not the fuel).
Are you suggesting then that vaccines are totally ineffective?
Yeah, code reviews definitely killed some of the fun in coding, they are rarely performed with humor.
Also a gasoline car actually exploding is exceedingly rare. It generally takes a bit of effort to get gasoline to explode, rather than simply catch on fire. The tiny explosions that occur in the engine are only possibly due to gasoline being aerosolized into a fine mist.

Take a gas can with a soaked rag & trail of gasoline leading to it & set it on fire and you'll have quite a fire on your hands, but no explosion. Now, add a tiny bit a black powder to the equation to disperse the flaming gasoline into the air and you've got a small fuel-air bomb on your hands. But that-- or similarly explosive circumstances-- just don't happen with cars much at all. Pop culture, where a few guns shots result in an explosion, gives the wrong impression here.
Looks like they’ll be performing some health research while up there.

> Specifically, data will be collected on the crew members' ECG activity, movement, sleep, heart rate and rhythm, blood oxygen levels as well as the light and sound levels within the Crew Dragon cabin, according to the statement. The research will also monitor both behavioral and cognitive performance using an app called Cognition, organ systems using an artificial intelligence-powered ultrasound device designed for use by non-experts to assess the crew's balance and perception before and after the flight.

Doing some blood sampling too. Very few people have been to space, so glad to see they’re adding themselves to these studies.

https://www.space.com/inspiration4-spacex-mission-research-h...
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/bmw-adds-nearly-185-0...

"BMW is adding nearly 185,000 vehicles to a 2017 recall for possible engine fires.

Two years ago the company recommended that the vehicles be parked outdoors until problems are fixed."

Now you have heard.
Moonraker?
Right, they're using the term informally to mean non-government with no professional astronauts. (They clarified this on the stream.)
A man who looked into a particle accelerator