skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been accidentally zapped by 110 and 220 and former feels like a tickle compared to latter which was seriously painful
No, not really. We can observe it indirectly and have mapped out its structures. And intuitively, why do you find it implausible there is a massive particle that only interacts via gravitational force?
This would probably drive me away from buying a Tesla. They can't even keep up with demand for their superchargers when they're only serving Teslas[1]. Opening them up to any random EV would make make their charging network a complete mess.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/31274/more-teslas-on-the-road-...
And if the price is reasonable, and they can actually deliver them, it will sell like crazy. Most people are looking to get around, not be inspired.
Yup. This idea that companies like Toyota are intentionally not selling products that consumers want but other products that consumers don't want is very common and very wrong.

It just means that not everyone has the same taste, and some peoples' tastes are in a minority, even if they don't know it.
"Important, but not important enough."
He isn't in solitary confinement
It might be worth nothing that Toyota - from where the JIT idea came - hasn't been as much affected by it as many others.
> MANGA

This was a funny bit when i saw it on twitter yesterday, but if we're actually going to update our top 5 tech companies acronym let's do it comprehensively.

Google has been Alphabet for a while, so MANGA should be MANAA. And I haven't understood why Netflix is in there for a while now, I think we should swap it for Microsoft.

What do we think about MAMAA?
My employer keeps hiring more argentinos. It’s a few notches better than India IMO but is not without challenges. It’s still a few hours time difference and the language issues remain. Giving them well capsulated or boilerplate work seems like a slam dunk but if it’s code that we need to work with as well then it sucks.
Most of the article is specifically about how financial innovation has resulted in less "nickel and diming" people for transactions.
I thought the whole value proposition of a 4Runner/Tacoma is the drive train has so many years and miles of being proven to be bulletproof that buyers know exactly what they are getting. An ICE car that will last a few hundred thousands miles with just maintenance. And they are so simple they are easy to work on and customize.

An electric version would not have any of that.
Would have been easy to drop one on, say, Tokyo bay if you wanted intimidation. But the US also wanted reliable data on the effects to buildings and people.
3-5 years ago, the prevailing narrative about Facebook and other social media was that of the 'filter bubble', where you would only see things you agreed with. More recently, it's been a 180 to decrying Facebook force-feeding users content they disagree with. TikTok is basically the old model, the one that was blamed for things like Trump being elected.
Don't really get your gripes.

> Launched under a sub-brand ? Check.

It's still a Toyota. What sub-brand are you referring to?

> Tron-car / iMobile / eMachine styling ? Check.

No more or less than every single crossover wanna-be SUV for the last 15 years. Cars have pretty much visually converged to looking the same, due to aerodynamic requirements.

> Dumping ground for UI/UX experiments ? Check.

The wing-shaped steering wheel is optional. What else is being dumped here as an experiment?

> We don't want your "electric car" - we want your car, electric.

If you have a driving pattern with short trips, you can already drive any single Toyota PHEV as an electric car.

Also, pure EV Camries and RAV4s are sure to follow this in the next couple of years.
Why does a free basic checking account mean some some depositors are being subsidized? Is it the interest? The cost of storing an extra record in a database?
This is why messaging apps need to be decentralized and built on top of protocols that cannot be censored or meaningfully monitored.
Banning ads for legal products to adults would require a Constitutional amendment.
isn't ByteDance's play with TikTok to be as inoffensive as possible too? over-greedy filtering out of voices deemed to be "controversial"
What new powers should we give the government and how do we make sure that it's not abused later when the person you don't like is in charge?
This really doesn't track with even basic fact checking.

They didn't treat it like the Black Death; if anything, death estimates were way too low.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/09/830664814/fauci-says-u-s-coro...

> The final toll currently "looks more like 60,000 than the 100,000 to 200,000" that U.S. officials previously estimated, Fauci said.

As for obesity and age, they were pretty clear on that:

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/fauci-offers-upda...

> "It’s so clear that the overwhelming weight of serious disease and mortality is on those who are elderly and those with a serious comorbidity: heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, obesity, respiratory difficulties," said Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

> "There will be outliers, as we’ve seen with influenza, [a person] who is young and healthy who winds up getting COVID-19, [gets] seriously ill and dies," Fauci said in a taped interview with Howard Bauchner, M.D., editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "But if you look at the weight of the data the risk group is very, very clear."

You're getting mad at imaginary experts.
Smart contracts are the executor, for example, imagine a smart will. It would hand out an estate in eth automatically upon death.

But just as in real life, an executor can make mistakes.

Traditionally, a judge may return or redistribute assets in such a case. Or claim the will was not interpreted correctly. In such cases, determining the intent of the contract is the goal of the court.

Like it or not, smart contracts are not immune to contract law, civil law, courts.

The first court cases, which will undoubtedly happen, will be very interesting.

And moreso, different legal jurisdictions will interpret things differently. If I was writing smart contracts, I'd want some sort of boilerplate, insisting upon legal jurisdiction, maybe like an open source license, but for smart contracts.

After all, once your identity is known, normal courts can compel you to do things...
Well, I don't think anyone pronouncing this in Portuguese will pronounce this in the way "fuck" would be a word. At least in Brazilian Portuguese, the pronounce is in the same way in English.
> The ability to pull back funds and reverse transactions creates the excess fat that keeps banking expensive and processes slow.

For the victims of, say, Madoff, the ability for the authorities to intervene was very much not "excess fat".
Sprint’s 3G Sunset Will Make All MCP50s Inoperable
Sprint, the service provider to all Omnitracs MCP50s, is shutting down their 3G networks on December 31st, 2021.
They made a bad bet on hydrogen. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/climate/toyota-electric-h...
When you think about this too much it starts to seem inevitable, but I agree those types of predictions can be off by multiple decades
surely signal has at least the IP address used to connect to their service? aren't they by law required to log that?
Styling-wise, I think it's a derivative of the Lexus NX and UX.
The wheel arches, panels, mirrors, lights etc all look very familiar just a little bit more angular I guess.
The interior cabin looks very wide (based on the centre console) so perhaps more in line with the RX in terms of size.

NX Exterior:
https://inchcapecdn.azureedge.net/cdn-images/stock/f/fn19yuj...

UX Exterior rear:
https://cdn.carbuzz.com/gallery-images/840x560/498000/900/49...

RX Interior:
https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2021-Le...
Dude Motorola doesn't even exist anymore. At its height Motorola had 150,000 employees. After it imploded in 2011, Lenovo bought the mobile brand name and what was left is now Motorola Solutions, a telecom company with 18,000 employees that's losing a billion dollars a year. I don't see how a company that's fifty thousand dollars a year per employee in the red can be doing well.
What about this though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29036327 ?
>Lets not have client side scanning apologists here.

It's not scanning on the client side, it's hashing. People on this site should really understand the difference. The alternative, as many have pointed out, is them uploading your whole image to be scanned server side.

Smart money is that this is a move in front of Apple encrypting your whole icloud backup, and they have to do something if they don't want the legal, political, and social liability of being a free encrypted cloud storage for CSAM.

There's lots of reasons to criticise Apple, this isn't one.
All that work, when you could just print the optimal (given current knowledge) genome? [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whole-genome-synt...
Without going beyond the tagline, my BS meter is pegged.

Electric motors are already better than 90 percent efficient. There is no theoretical room to "triple" the power unless it creates energy and qualifies as a perpetual motion machine.
With enough effort, anyone can go to jail. America held a taxi driver for 17 years at Guantanamo Bay with no evidence. Tech won’t save you from the state. As always, if your threat model includes a state actor, you are going to have a bad time. For all intents and purposes, their resources are unlimited.

Freedom is won in the courts and the legislature, not in the code (although tech is as useful tool for keeping government implantations in check).

(I still use and donate to Signal, but have a healthy understanding of its limits)
> Munger is the top-rated residence in the area.

Does this mean Munger is great or that every other sizeable offering in the area is even worse?
They are just following normal procedure. If it's encrypted then that's fine
Because tables and SQL operators are really sets and acting on sets, so naturally operations take place on the set unless a subset is specified. Once you completely and totally internalize this SQL is pretty intuitive, although I think that the clause order might be nicer in a different order.

For example, I would like SELECT to be FROM, WHERE, SELECT. UPDATE could be UPDATE, WHERE, SET. But then DELETE would end up inconsistent...

> If I just do 'SELECT *' and execute it, it does not rotate through all the tables.

Because you did not specify what set you wanted to operate in, and the set of sets isn't meaningful because of schematic differences.

> Same with 'SELECT from xyz' if I can not have it empty and return all.

SELECT is asking what pieces of the subsets (rows) you want to display. If you don't ask for any, you don't get any. You are asking for the number of rows in xyz times zero. That's zero. You can write SELECT 1 FROM xyz and get 1 returned for each subset.
An NFT Just Sold for $532M, but Didn’t Sell at All
2021 MacBook Pro review: Yep, it’s what you’ve been waiting for
It really depends. The early bytes probably contain things like image dimensions which might discriminate a lot - or not at all. They might contain palette-style color information which might discriminate tons - or not at all. Most things with hash functions depend upon distributions of inputs relative to the function, though.

I think it would be accurate to say "Determining where they are likely to differ is not necessarily hard, but it could be." If it happens to be easy then you can radically change the scale of the problem.

File length alone is a weak hash actively maintained by any file system and so available "for free" (or one stat call). And it can work surprisingly well, as the grandparent alludes to.

EDIT: You actually do not need to even open(2) files that are not part of "same size clusters", never mind hash their data. This alone can really squash the problem size over a more naive approach even if you did feel the need to hash the whole file.

EDIT: And in terms of performance, if this data has to actually be read off a drive then the hash need not go any faster than the drive IO which is probably much, much slower than most candidate hash functions. Even PCIe5.0 NVMes are only like 14 GB/s, SATA buses like 0.75 GB/s, etc.
Nothing about solid state batteries so I guess they're not ready yet.
No, why would they be? Just because everyone else logs more info than they should doesn't mean everyone has too.
Good to know that I shouldn't recommend UCSB to my daughter.
>Apple behaves ethically

There was that whole no poaching thing.
Responding with millis since the epoch was a nice touch.
As far as the sauce, everyone I've heard in America pronounces it "worst-ah-sure".
Why bother buying efficient lights if you are already heating your house?
As long as 110 doesn't go through your chest, it's probably fine. I've had 110 through my chest and I was fine. 240 through your chest is a lot scarier.
>All of this funny stuff is mostly people trying everything they can to get capital gains instead of income so they can pay a 25% tax rate instead of a 39% tax rate. When you're talking about billions of dollars - 14% is a lot of money.

0.1% doesn't pay 25%. That's well documented. I don't know what the effective rate is, but averaged out over multiple years it's probably somewhere around 5% and then another few % that's spent on avoidance (not taxes). Maybe 10% at most.

Just look up Bezos or Musk's tax return. Same with Buffett.
I don't know that they need any new powers, depending on what's being proposed.
> Well, knowing what we know from step 5, a clever trader realizes that if they do all of the above, and then borrow some yUSD (say $8m) and just donate it to the yUSDVault, when Cream goes to calculate how much cryUSDVault is worth, it will have immediately doubled in value, because some generous donor has just doubled the balance of yUSD owned by yUSDVault (and doubling the borrowing power of cryUSDVault in the process). So if you had flash borrowed a bunch of cryUSDVault (say $1.5b) against flash borrowed collateral (say $2b of ETH), you just now managed to double the value of your loaned assets to $3b but you’ve only posted $2b of collateral.

It's wild that markets can be manipulated inside essentially an uncommitted transaction.
>Because everything in Signal is end-to-end encrypted by default, the broad set of personal information that is typically easy to retrieve in other apps simply doesn’t exist on Signal’s servers.

The E2EE in Signal only protects the actual content of messages. In the case where Signal takes an assertive action, and the users are not paying any attention to their "safety numbers" (probably the most common case) they could in theory get message content with a MITM attack.

With an less assertive action (simply saving the data) Signal could get access to things like contacts and phone numbers.

Tutanota and Protonmail have both been forced in the past to take assertive actions to retain data as a result of legal warrants. Does American law even allow such warrants? If not then perhaps the USA is underrated as a place to base privacy oriented services.
Nope in my country you can get basic assistance which is €1100 per month. But when you see drug dealers driving around in BMWs...
Well, perhaps "uninspiring" isn't the word I should've chosen.

The Pontiac Aztek and Toyota C-HR are hideous and polarizing. The only people that want them want to demonstrate that they don't care what their car looks like. That takes more commitment than taking on a bland, uninspiring vehicle like a Camry.

In my opinion, the bZ4X is also kind of "alternate powertrain" hideous. In a way, that worked for the Prius. You could clearly tell that the driver was an eco-warrior driving something "different." I think Toyota might actually be trying to hint at Lexus with this styling, which has a similar edginess to it.
Hubble Space Telescope Spotted Something Scary [video]
Yeah I wish my credit union had more controls. I appreciate being able to set transaction limits and GPS-limited transactions, but I want daily limits and also a transaction timer. For example, I don't want more than one transaction in a single five minute period. That would eliminate all instances of accidental double-charging.
> simple […] unlimited

I like how just explaining your concept makes it seems almost impossible in one word.

Otherwise, from a bank perspective having a set of legal obligations for each account it handles feels like a nightmare. If you split your 10 billions into an infinitiy of smaller 1000s accounts, is it supposed to guarantee all of them if it goes under ? Does it report and audit each single account etc.

If these “accounts” are just a virtual partition of your money and all follow the same rule, why wouldn’t you just deal with them as separate entities in your excel sheets and let the bank have it as it is now ? If you have a clear business use (e.g. those are “wallets” for your customers) there are already banking entities providing these services, it’s a matter of paying them enough to work with you.

For non business accounts there are already clear cases where you would create new accounts (money that effectively needs to be under a separate ownership, or bound to a specific legislation, rule or currency), so it’s not like there currently is a limit on account creation, the friction added to create one is actually protecting the system from abuse.
Isn't this what happened to Protonmail? They were required by legal order to start logging activity for a specific group of users. It's not outside the realm of possibility that the govt could try to force a company to either start logging Signal metadata or provide a backdoored app to a user. Not that it would necessarily work, but I do expect them to try at some point.
Revisiting this from 4 days ago more like
The idea that there could be anything resembling a fair trial is simply laughable. The US has been trying to kill Assange for more than a decade, he will be basically dead as soon as they get their filthy hands on him.
So this study only looks at covid-19 patients that were hospitalized and comparing that to the vaccinated population? How is it an improvement to introduce a selection bias that wasn’t there in a previous study? I guess more data points are always good but then the conclusion they reach here about natural immunity vs vaccinations needs to be qualified.
In my interest, too. Pay attention to non-geeks using this "feature" and it's clear that web push is the 3rd party toolbar[0] of the modern web. Crap they enable by accident, then don't know how to get rid of.

[0] Ask someone who worked with computers in the late 90s and 2000s if you don't get the reference.
Maybe for some things (like playing board games or hanging out a la Fortnite) it would be a great idea.
Reminder that this does not hold true for Apple's fake "end to end encrypted" iMessage: iCloud Backup, which is not end to end encrypted, uploads all of your iMessages* to Apple each night in a format that Apple can read without you (and turn over to the state upon legal demand such as this).

Note that disabling iCloud Backup won't help you, as it's turned on by default and everyone else you iMessage with will be leaking your conversation plaintext to Apple for you.

Disable iMessage. Use Signal exclusively.

* if you use Messages in iCloud, iCloud Backup instead backs up the cross-device sync key instead of the iMessages themselves, which means Apple gets your iMessages in real time as they sync between your iCloud devices, instead of once per day

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1ZK1CT is why fake pro-privacy Apple will never be able to run a story like Signal has here today.
I think what's confusing for Americans who didn't grow up with a lot of towns named that way is that "cester" is pronounced "ster", but "chester" is pronounced fully. Throw in a "shire" at the end of that and it's a mouthful.
I'd love to see how would a similar WhatsApp's response look like.
And you've just answered why Toyota has been so hesitant to move the conversion from ICE to electric motor forward. It's a key market advantage they are about to lose.
Which law requires you to log the IP address used to connect to your service?
Where does the government get money from? The tooth fairy?
Primitive saw is just a rope + sand + water.

The problem was not to make things, ancients were able to produce few very advanced tools, mechanisms, and technologies, but to save them and pass knowledge of making them to future generations.

To make a dent, you will need a tool for mass spreading of knowledge en masse: a church, a library, a copier, or a book making machine.
Ironically though, phones usually struggle more with single-page apps / Javascript heavy sites which have all the client-side application logic, 3rd party libraries, and DOM re-renders based on state changes.
When did the English discover the Anglo-Saxons? (2018)
Thanks for saving me a few words.
It's a fixed expression meaning "with intent to harm". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fire_in_anger
So is email.
It has been really cool to watch the evolution from Apache PhoneGap -> Cordova -> Ionic -> Capacitor (where now Ionic is the UI component library)

I had strong negative experiences/opinions, all the way up until Capacitor. It's good tech and an undervalued option when compared to React Native.

Source: Have built mobile apps with PhoneGap, React Native, NativeScript, and Android.

I'm not a fan of React Native -- though my last experiences with it were many years ago so I'm sure much has changed.

Also I don't think most "native apps" need to be native apps. They want a place on the homescreen usually, not use of underlying hardware API's like accelerometers.

Most "native apps" should really be installable PWA's or using something like Capacitor IMO.
Neural Interfaces in Facebook’s Metaverse
That still doesn't rectify the conflict. The living being is reducing local entropy -- meaning it's less conscious than if it maximized local entropy per gp comment. Or put in real terms, lighting yourself on fire likely does not make you more alive/conscious even though it definitely increases your entropy.

If anything, it seems like the reversal of entropy would be a better description of life. To make paper and oxygen from fire would have higher consciousness than a fire itself
Yet another aspect: In Latin, after the Republic, there's an increasing loss of punctuations and word separators in the written language, and with varying writing directions, as in verses, a distinctive word ending becomes really important. (Which may be a cause for the simplification mentioned in the article.) Now also take the rather free word order into account and it may become quite clear, why forming a relational web using types and repeating the respective word endings is really helpful.

The other way round, that this loss of word separators and punctuations had been possible at all illustrates rather well the amount of redundancy and robustness this system introduces in a language.
Personally I'm looking forward to approval for vaccination of fetuses during pregnancy. If it saves just one life, right?
..and being bitter and cynical about EV success.

Seems like they might have been in petroleum's back pocket this whole time.
> Design life for buildings is under 50 years and 100-year pandemics are somewhat less frequent?

Mankind has been designing and living in buildings for far longer than 50 years. Supposedly the US has a lot of experience designing and building prisons, which have far more stringent requirements than university dorms, and clearly these lessons have been learned long ago.

But just not by Munger, who apparently is militantly against any feedback from any architect.

We can't feign ignorance. Bad design is bad design.