skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq quite rapidly, it's the counterinsurgency that was the issue. That's not a problem for Taiwan, it's an island with nowhere for insurgents to hide or flee to.

In a China vs Taiwan conflict, the Taiwanese would lose any and all ports and airstrips in the first 6 hours, and would be completely unable to receive any US help from then on. The Taiwanese state is meanwhile so deeply infiltrated that there is no chance the nukes could arrive before the PRC knew.

Beyond that, both Afghanistan and Vietnam are countries thousands of kilometers away from the US that the average person absolutely doesn't care about and that pose zero real threat.
> Someone’s gonna get the money, it might as well be me.

This line can defend anything people compete to be paid for, which should be a pretty clear sign that it's not a good line of reasoning.
If we could get this written into the law for all cars, that would make city life a lot better. No more than 100 parked cars per acre.
Why on Earth is "Unlikely to ban" close to the same shade of red as "On the fence" and "(Partial) ban in effect", while "Using Huawei" is green.
Common misconception and big reason why many avoid EVs. They are both Li-ion but battery degradation is very much mitigated in an EV because of very close attention to thermal management. Plus warranties on batteries give you something like 70% at ten years I think
how about with the Mona Lisa, which is protected behind thick glass with a barricade preventing anyone from getting close.

Would you rather see the real painting or a high res rendition?

https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/488167591/9...
Linked snipped will overflow localstorage in ~year of daily use and might take hundreds of miliseconds to parse multi megabyte json on every page load. I do this in my version to prune:

function checkquota(){
// localStorage limit is ~5MB, should probably do something about exceeding quota ;)
// lets trigger around 3MB
// deleting half of the oldest empty(seen, never interacted with) entries first
// popping a warning when we finally reach over 2MB non empty
//
// total entries: localStorage.length
// storage bytes left: 1024 * 1024 * 5 - escape(encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(localStorage))).length
// non empty entries: Object.entries(localStorage).filter(value => value[1] != "1")
// non empty entries size: escape(encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(Object.entries(localStorage).filter(value => value[1] != "1")))).length
// empty entries sorted, oldest first Object.entries(localStorage).filter(value => value[1] == "1").sort(function (a, b) {return parseInt(a[0]) - parseInt(b[0]);});

//size check is expensive, can be as long as 500ms for full localstorage, limit size checks to ~once per 24h
if (GM_getValue("lastquotacheck") > Date.now()) return;
GM_setValue("lastquotacheck", Date.now()+86400000);

let size = encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(localStorage)).length;
console.log("Current size: "+size+" bytes");
if (size > 1024 * 1024 * 3)
{
alert("Current hackahackernews consumed localStorage size: "+size+" bytes, cleaning older entries to make more room.");
let sortedStorage = Object.entries(localStorage).filter(value => value[1] == "1").sort(function (a, b) {return parseInt(a[0]) - parseInt(b[0]);});
let cutout = parseInt(sortedStorage.length/2);
for (let [index, value] of sortedStorage.entries())
{
if (index < cutout)
{
localStorage.removeItem(value[0]);
}
}
size = encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(localStorage)).length;
console.log("Size after culling empty entries: "+size+" bytes");
let nonempty = Object.entries(localStorage).filter(value => value[1] != "1");
if (encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(nonempty)).length > 1024 * 1024 * 2)
{
console.log("Non empty entries size is over 2MB! currently at: "+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(nonempty)).length+" bytes.");
if (confirm("Saved visited links are consuming "+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(nonempty)).length+" bytes, delete half of the oldest entries?"))
{
let sortedNonempty = nonempty.sort(function (a, b) {return parseInt(a[0]) - parseInt(b[0]);});
let cutout = parseInt(sortedNonempty.length/2);
for (let [index, value] of sortedNonempty.entries())
{
if (index < cutout)
{
localStorage.removeItem(value[0]);
}
}

}
}
size = encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(localStorage)).length;
console.log("Final size after culling: "+size+" bytes");
}
}
Logic from converse for one. If it isn't good would it be good to cut off communication despite such a power being heavily abusable? If not then why is this point a magical perfect balance of communication?
I'm assuming a friend's 2019 Bolt lease so I can try electric for a bit without much commitment. Once the replacement happens I can buy it for $21k, which seems like an alright deal on an electric with a fresh battery pack. Then again, that might be kind of high when you consider the subsidies I could get on a new EV. I'll see how the economics of the deal play out in a year when the lease is up.
Live: SpaceX to launch four civilians to orbit in mission known as Inspiration4
If the original is itself digital, then we can put it into concrete terms.

"The JPEG you can find online is just 1920x1080 or whatever. If you don't go to the museum that owns it, you will never see it in its original 8K on a 72" screen, man!"

But, you know, the analog of this doesn't always apply to traditional works. Often does, but not always.

The first time I laid eyes on Van Gogh's Sunflowers (the real item), I could hardly believe my eyes. That picture is freakin' tiny, and the colors are so bad from aging. It's just this brown, sad thing. It doesn't look anything like its reproduction you might see in a decent quality art book.

This thing needs to be scanned at a high resolution, processed, and turned into a decent quality JPEG just so you can see it properly. :)
I think practicality is governing each company’s choice; there’s no way GM is capable of pushing an OTA update to change all those cars’ firmware. If they could push an update over cellular, I would bet you GM would do it in a heartbeat.
I think the alternative would not be that teenagers would not have social media accounts, but that they would all be on Tiktok (which probably is already the case)
While nobody will come out and say it, I’m convinced based on some extensive early career battery system engineering and various evidence from tesla that what they do is put in much more raw capacity than they sell you and then limit with software the capacity of the battery.

Early in the life of the battery this leads to slowed degredation and as the battery agrees the software uses more and more of the raw capacity to make it appear like the capacity is being lost much slower than it is… then at some point capacity will fall off a cliff when the excess is depleted.

Comparable to how SSDs have capacity reserved for bad blocks.

It is probably good engineering but it would be nice for the mechanics to be sold truthfully and some level of control to be given to the owner.
Ebooks are suffering from a critical flaw in my opinion. Too many of the ebook files are not properly optimized for an ebook reader. I want simple pagination.

I want the reader to remember where I stopped reading it at (mostly solved).

I want it to simply work without weird glitches and odd shaped pages, character font substitutions and such.

Ebook is a different format than book. You cannot simply page scan a book into a PDF and call it an ebook. Every time someones first ebook falls below that undefined but obvious acceptable minimum standard, another person gets turned off of the ebook ecosystem.
That is completely besides the point. It's a historical fact that countries with enimity to the west were much more willing to give up WMD programs before the downfall of those that did than nowadays.
Is that actually relevant though, or just an implementation detail? Perhaps you could argue a moving car seems more potentially hazardous? But then that's only learned from extant behaviour anyway?
> Worse software

The radio might be better in the Tesla, but how many Volts drove their owners into parked fire trucks?
> now they can look at pictures of unrealistic bodies all day everywhere they go.

It's worse than that. Now they will be subjected to those pictures whenever they socialize online, like if 30 years ago every telephone was next to a stack of them.

Thankfully, we don't make people sit and stare at cosmo ever time they socialize. We only make people stand and stare at it whenever they buy groceries.
Also, this is a confusing mess anyway. Turing worked on the Bombe, but that's not a computer at all. Bletchley has one you can see in operation. It's a very complicated machine, but today a child looking at it can't help but wonder if this wouldn't be much easier for a computer.

The Bombe helps break Enigma, and thus is an early part of Ultra and arguably does "save World War 2" but it has no more relevance to your phone or your TikTok app than does the Rubik's cube or the slide rule.

Colossus isn't very far from the Bombe today, you might likely visit both on the same trip, but Turing didn't build it, and although it's clearly in some sense a computer, it is critically lacking in some features you'd want from a general purpose computer since it had a single purpose, to break Tunny in the mid 1940s.

In some sense Colossus is relevant to your phone and TikTok, because it is a computer, but, Turing didn't work on it and it isn't their direct ancestor by any means at all.
Of course Hollywood exaggerates for effect, but it's a myth that cars never blow up on impact. There is fuel flowing around and plenty of chances to ignite it. Like this one from today: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/poskib/speedi...
Battery scooters, bikes, skateboards, wakeboards, hoverboards, one wheels. I know these make getting around easier but we have a huge obesity problem on our hands. Why can't we help people exercise a bit more and reduce the amount of batteries we are using as substitutes for burning calories?

As for electric cars we need to make sure the software enforces safe charging practices. If there is a safety issue and the software on the vehicles doesn't prevent that behavior it should regardless of features being lost.
That's one of the worst color coding ever.
It looks like any entry of the car into the crosswalk would be illegal at that point. RCW 46.61.235, "Crosswalks", states:

> (1) The operator of an approaching vehicle shall stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian, bicycle, or personal delivery device to cross the roadway within an unmarked or marked crosswalk when the pedestrian, bicycle, or personal delivery device is upon or within one lane of the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or onto which it is turning. For purposes of this section "half of the roadway" means all traffic lanes carrying traffic in one direction of travel, and includes the entire width of a one-way roadway.

The street it was turning and/or veering into is a one-way street abd so the entire width counts as "half of the roadway" and thus any pedestrian in the crosswalk counts as being "upon or within one lane of the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or onto which it is turning".

You can only drive into the crosswalk if it is a two-way road, no pedestrians are in the part of the crosswalk on the side that you are driving, there are at least two lanes going the other way, and none of the pedestrians on the other side are in the lane on that side that is adjacent to your side.
No, lmilcin didn't suggest that.

And your analogy is imperfect. How many people died on the ground from airplane crashes from 1900-1950? Probably, not very many. (Why does the difference matter? The passengers got on the plane, knowing - at least approximately - what the risks were. The people on the ground didn't voluntarily accept any risk.)
If I was a big automaker with a huge investment in internal combustion engines and I wanted to instill FUD around electric cars, this is exactly how I'd do it.
The key here is disclosure. If eBay was transparent with its bot activity, then it may be legal.
Yeah or because an insane housing market prices you out of a single family home
But what happens when the API is updated to support Egyptian gods as keys?
Exactly my point! It’s a shame that the bolt (a car of indiscriminate quality) has been so named as to cause this confusion with the volt, (a car of discriminate quality).
> The Bolt isn't priced like a BMW though, while the Tesla is.

But only when you fudge the numbers by including FSD.

> The Bolt, with every bell and whistle selected, runs about $37,000, for comparison.

And still lacks an L2 charger, one comparable to the one included with the Model 3 costs another $1000. So for $38k you can get a vehicle that isn't quite as nice as the base Model 3 for a $3k premium.
Home Assistant really hits the right spot on the "enthusiast" vs "product" spectrum for me - it's flexible and configurable, but also easy enough to set up that I basically spent almost no time actually making it work.

I've got it hooked up to a Z-Wave Hub so that I can control mechanized blinds with HomeKit (where no native integration exists), all the way over to Volvo On Call to report where my car is, how much gas is in the tank, and what the odometer reports. It's got a great community, and isn't too difficult to extend that it's not worth mucking around in the guts when I really want something to work.
I’ll check them out next time I’m looking. Last I drove one it was touchscreen for everything I wanted a dial for, and the IOS integration didn’t work except wired, and then it was also very slow. And of course my experience isn’t universal; it’s really hard to make an attempt to go back though after I’ve had many personal experiences of just faulty electronics and engines to trust a brand again.
I don't think it's drawing everything on the screen, regardless of whether it recognized those particular barriers?
Well, you can absolutely own the copyright to a digital piece of art. Granted, you don’t get a neat little cryptographic signature, but according to the law, you control who can display that piece of art, and where they can display it.

Now then, whether copyright should grant such rights, that’s a different discussion.
As I've said repeatedly, it's different because staking means that the same people control both the current coin supply and the means of creating new ones.

A mining cabal can't stop other people from mining, because you don't need anything (other than commodity hardware and an internet connection) to mine. But a staking cabal controls both staking and current coins (by the nature of how staking works), and new entrants need to have coins to stake, so such a cabal can stop other people from staking.
I wonder if there's a map which shows HOA-encumbered property. Anecdotally, when I searched for a large modern home around Seattle in 2020, there was vanishingly little on the market which was not HOA-encumbered, and so the choice was to accept that, or do and/or between: (i) Worse property for the money (space, finishes, lot, et al.); (ii) Worse neighborhood and area (crime stats, et al.); (iii) Worse commute because you're buying much further out.
I’ve never heard of a gas tank spontaneously bursting into flames.
> Ask the British Empire, which mostly ended its colonial occupations in an orderly way.

Oh, like the independence of the US did go like a major peaceful operation. And yes the US used to be a british colony, in case people forgot.
Applying morality to jobs is a pretty piss poor strategy. I'm a big fan of privacy, how many companies have employees that I cannot morally hire with your perspective? How can a Libertarian ever hire anyone who has served in a war? How can a religious person sell goods to all people in the community they serve?

The thing about morals is that they're written by the individual, and meant to guide the individual. They're fine to have until you try to apply them to other people.
I have been noodling a few things in my head, trying to work out what my next projects will be.

I think Authentication is going to have to move over to FIDO-like solutions only. That's an effort but all the pieces are in place.

But Authorisation strikes me as needing a rethink on how everyone everywhere handles data. I cannot work out how to handle "can this person see this data" unless all data is, well, labelled.

Having little pieces of custom code written in each app to do custom checking just seems like it's the wrong way round.

I like the idea of Twitter's Strato (mentioned here I think) - which roughly seems to be "we labelled every field in every database" and then we have a data access layer that makes accessing those and validating the permissions

I get that enforcement still needs other things - but without that data access layer i think complexity will kill you.
The moral of “chicken little” isn’t what you think it is. The key message is that bad authorities fail at listening and create perverse incentives towards misinformation, shirking their accountabilities with disastrous consequences.

People telling it to children are trying to silence their kids. They’re not focused on improving transparency, or on systemic outcomes, they just want to regulate individuals. So they are in fact the selfsame bad authorities.

The target of blame in the story is not the chicken.
> But only when you fudge the numbers by including FSD.

I don't think this is fudging at all. Tesla's big selling point is the FSD package... and most people select it by default. FSD is nearly all Musk talks about.

In fact, I'd argue it's Tesla fudging the numbers by breaking FSD out into a separate line item, just so they can advertise a cheaper car knowing full well people expect to have FSD for that price.
Obviously an API run completely in house by the tech companies that make the phones :)
Different generations have always complained about one another. It might be entertaining, it might be excusing, but it's all a waste of time and angst.

Every generation makes the same mistakes. Every generation complains that that their children misbehave.

It actually gets amusing to hear your kids complaining that their kids are doing exactly the same sorts of things that you complained about your kids doing.
Your car has panel gaps, it's just a question of whether they're within spec. Most people who aren't either in the automotive industry or really big car buffs won't notice until it gets really bad.
Yes, but raw cells basically stop being rechargeable when you discharge them past a certain cell voltage. They either won’t recharge or are rather likely to burn when you do.
Ritual is really interesting to me, as a former cult member & leadership cadre. I saw and performed ritual, including those taken to extremes (of sameness) that outright excluded new information, new outcomes, and certainly newcomers. So much of it basically blocked anything that wasn't already somehow a treasured part of the group's past. In the end I learned that ritual can protect some huge cognitive blind spots. But I wonder if that's exactly why it's really valuable, too, albeit in more reasonable forms and doses. We all have this need to feel protected, whether we're aware of it or not.

I also saw that a lot of people who left the cult felt completely lost, and fearful, due to a lack of defined structure in their new lives. They were still vulnerable; some went right back in, not because of the cult being so great, but because it was their only past--it was them (identity function, a == b), and they had developed no "new them". Ritual is such a big part of the structure that helps us feel centered and grounded, but over time it easily builds into this concept of identity as well. So there is this crucial qualitative factor behind ritual.
Ask HN: Is anyone building a climate company?
What are your working on?
~41% of my screen is taken from header and cookie banner, damn... (in Firefox with the new design's whitespace)
There's a kind of self-deprecating humor that people engage in which is humorous to themselves and their community, but is insulting coming from other people. If the presenter was one of the people coming from Java to Python, the humor is reasonable. If the person has never written Java past their college courses and never worked in Java, then it's more insulting (or risking being more insulting) than humorous.
This would be quite neat if the music was actually being generated by the juggling, but it doesn't seem to be?
Whilst revealing the effective strength of the GOP in the state: capable of mustering barely 1/3 of the electorate.
Probably ignorant question but, from a thermodynamic perspective does this mean that the planet captures more solar energy because of magnetic interactions with solar wind particles than is predicted purely from electromagnetic radiation?
> And the US also left Japan and South Korea.

You don't leave the country when you have tens of thousands of military troops still on land with major military equipment stationed there. The US never left Japan and certainly never left Germany.
As a Bolt owner and advocate for right-to-repair/etc - I'd prefer the OTA option for sure.
Agree, but tactically if you want to reduce wealth inequality that’s the first one given passive investment beats working for income both in tax advantages, lack of estate taxes, and effectiveness.

There’s a giant sucking sound as all the money in the economy accumulates out of towns and cities and into the endless digital coffers of the investment class.
Correct, they're planning on replacing them but it will take a while to build the batteries and do all the swaps.
While I don't agree with your statement, I do think the Volt platform was the best Hybrid platform and GM should have scaled it up for their Trucks and SUVs.

The instant torque provided by the electric motor and the ability to switch to just EV mode and run silent would have been killer for ORV enthusiasts and hunters.
On the other hand, the scars of imperialism can be long lasting. One need only look at the legacy of the Holocaust (admittedly extreme example), or the colonization of north america.

Time can help the SK-Japanese relationship, but healing does not come easily or freely. Especially when Japan still hesitates to apologize for its past atrocities inflicted against Korea or other former colonies.
TikTok is a much more positive platform than anything Facebook has come up with TBH. Almost all of the creators I follow are just... normal people, making normal jokes and doing normal things. They aren't heavily airbrushed or photo/videoshopped or whatever. The content itself is generally much more positive and much more focused around acceptance and (body-)positivity. As far as social media platforms go, TikTok is much "healthier" than Instagram.
They could easily achieve the same 90% == 100% charging result with “myChevrolet” (onstar).

Car sends status update that charge has hit >=90%: stop charge command issued server side. Last I checked, the car sends a vehicle status update every percentage tick on charging so this wouldn’t be perfect but it’d be better than nothing.
A car being driven is guaranteed to have a person behind the wheel. (For now...) A electric car in an attached garage spontaneously bursting into flame at 2 am is a recipe for burning a house to the ground.
No one gets nuclear power, including the people with the subs. We're all phasing it out, out of a shared understanding that the political fight is worse than the climate and other impacts of just letting it die.
If I recall the FB research from that other thread correctly, it's about half as bad for young men. Instagram is bad for everyone.
What a useless map
It wasn't just Google Docs: MegaFon on fixed connections had blocked js.stripe.com and maybe more (by looking at SNI) but they've turned it off in 15 minutes, also telegra.ph has been blocked since the start of it.
I'm not sure an extra alert would be helpful since it's either going to alert constantly on streets that twist and turn or it's going to think it's doing nothing wrong and not alert. Same for the turn signal.