skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta: I intended this comment to be a pun because of the post about the Tesla 3 update but it is getting a surprising number of upvotes. Apparently it's striking a chord.

First of all, if you're a UX designer sorry for being a little snarky to you. A fair amount of it is probably unfair.

Second, maybe you can shed some light on why that kind of UX updates happen. As somebody else wrote in another comment "designers designing for design sake". Maybe it's not.

Third, maybe you can enlighten us developers about the circumstances when designers think that developers develop for development sake. I'm sure it happens.
The Dishwasher please :D
Yeah, but the release from this month is fairly boring:

* https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2022-January/060861.html
The unintended persistence of recycling in India
Unless I misread the article it will be more expensive for non-tesla evs (the mentioned about the cost going towards supporting just that and building it out furhter), tesla's would pay the same. There would be no priority given either way afaik.
> In short: we've climbed the ladder and set it on fire behind us.

I guess that's fine as long as we keep climbing, right?
the other side of this cyclical effect is new ideas emerge to take advantage of cheap supply and drive new demand
fixed! on the page

https://www.pixelhop.io/writing/my-experience-being-in-my-fi...
What benefits do smart dishwashers bring that are worth the costs of having to deal with wifi connectivity issues and firmware updates? It sounds like a poor tradeoff.
Same with Jaspersoft, I used to enjoy working with their technical guys and went to a few conferences, but then it disappeared into the larger Tibco bucket. Tibco did spend a bucketload of cash on a hotel for their conferences though, very flash but I didn't get much out of it.
.69€ or $.77 on on Fastned, one of the largest relatively fast charging networks in the EU.
.45€ or $.50 with an 11.99€/$13.37 monthly subscription.
What are your thoughts on qemu's microvm in contrast to firecracker ?
It solves the problem that you can plan your trip. The complaint was that you couldn’t plan your trip.

Not everyone go to work at the same time, so every car will be available for several trips. And what would be wrong with prices that varies with demand? Isn’t that how market economy is supposed to work? It will still be cheaper than owning your own car.
Your comment above is wrong. Sorry, let me try to explain again. Let's put the whole fact that random bugs != stochastic modelling to one side. I don't quite understand why this is so hard to understand but, let's shelve it for a moment.

ICL likes to claim their model is stochastic. Unfortunately that's just one of many things they said that turned out to be untrue.

The Ferguson model isn't stochastic. They claim it is because they don't understand modelling or programming. It's actually an ordinary agent-like simulation of the type you'd find in any city builder video game, and thus each time you run it you get exactly one set of outputs, not a probability distribution. They think it's "stochastic" because you can specify different PRNG seeds on the command line.

If they ran it many times with different PRNG seeds, then this would at least quantify the effect of randomness on their simulation. But, they never did. How do we know this? Several pieces of evidence:

1. There are no confidence intervals in Report 9, only different scenarios. See for yourself: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/m...

2. The program is so slow that it takes a day to do even a single run of the scenarios in Report 9. To determine CIs for something like this you'd want hundreds of runs at least. You could try and do them all in parallel on a large compute cluster, however, ICL never did that. As far as I understand their original program only ran on a single Windows box they had in their lab - it wasn't really portable and indeed its results change even in single-threaded mode between machines, due to compiler optimizations changing the output depending on whether AVX is available.

3. The "code check" document that falsely claims the model is replicable, states explicitly that "These results are the average of NR=10 runs, rather than just one simulation as used in Report 9."

So, their own collaborators confirmed that they never ran it more than once, and each run produces exactly one line on a graph. Therefore even if you accept the entirely ridiculous argument that it's OK to produce corrupted output if you take the average of multiple runs (it isn't!), they didn't do it anyway.

Finally, as one of the people who forensically examined Ferguson's work, I never accepted Guptra's either (not that this is in any way relevant). She did at least present CIs but they were so wide they boiled down to "we don't know", which seems to be a common failure mode in epidemiology - CIs are presented without being interpreted, such that you can get values like "42% (95% CI 6%-87%)" appearing in papers.
Is anyone interested in doing this kind of analysis for games that are in development?

I am a SWE with 16 years of experience at Google with lots of practical/applied ML. I am about to be funemployed, and I'd love to incorporate an AI player/analysis into the playtest feedback loop of a board/card game in development.

I've won the Race for the Galaxy tournament 4 times in 7 attempts at the World Boardgaming Championship (average size of field around 80?) and placed in the Dominion tournament a few times. I created rftgstats and councilroom.com (Dominion), which did analysis/modelling on game logs, but didn't have AI players.
EV's are better than fossil cars, but they too have most of their emissions in operation rather than manufacturing.

So the significant question isn't "will driverless lead to fewer emissions because of fewer cars", the significant question is "will (electric) driverless lead to fewer emissions because of fewer miles driven?"

It's no question that electric is more efficient on emissions per mile, but if the number of trip-miles increases because driverless cars eg are constantly circling the downtown waiting for passengers, or they make more low-occupancy trips possible so they induce demand of low-occupancy miles, well it could be worse emissions wise!
Thank you, was looking for light read Ruby book.
For 90% of household appliances I want them to be dumb AF.

Also no capacitive touch or press and hold BS. I want heavy duty physical switches and buttons. As few chips as possible. No way in hell am I letting it connect to my wifi. I want steel, I want access panels.
Insofar as government agencies are involved in this, it’s a layup for some enterprising lawyer.
Yea I'm generally onboard - how long until people start complaining about the "Tesla Tax" though? Or "why do I have to use the Tesla app"?
Until we use the last of the pods up I've found if you put a squirt or two of Dawn Powerwash in for the prewash it works amazingly well. And before the inevitable comments come up: unlike regular dish soap (do NOT put in a dishwasher) it doesn't suds up either. Yeah, it does a little at first but by the end of the prewash cycle the foam is gone - yes, I have checked.

As an aside: Dawn Powerwash is flat out amazing in general, especially for really crusty/baked on stuff. Spray some on, come back in 15 minutes and it will more than likely wipe right off - if it hasn't dissolved whatever was crusted on and ran off already. If you haven't tried it and it's available in your area give it a try! Amazing degreaser. Works on laundry with grease stains, carpet, oil stains on the driveway (mop up with kitty litter/towels; don't wash down the street!) and all kinds of other non-kitchen uses too.
Wim Hof's guided breathing exercise
I’ve decided I’m going to stop trying to figure out what acronyms like IIUC mean. I figured it out, but I realize my time is better spent elsewhere, and ultimately it’s OK if I don’t solve the little puzzle embedded in the comment.
The Genie was a rocket, not a missile. Missiles are guided. A nuclear bomb you can just generally boresight more or less in the direction of a bomber formation and let fly, or so went the theory.
Sometimes. Sometimes it comes out of corporate profits.
Common false beliefs in people who know way more about math than I do.
The air force has a quick reaction security force they dispatch via helicopters and hen there are regular patrols in trucks.

You can read a bit about them here
https://minutemanmissile.com/missilesecurity.html
Indeed, sets come later, around university, and I would assume that most university fields that use mathematics do NOT need to care about some sets like R (and C ?) having the clopen property ?
Compare them in your particular scenario. Only you know what is important to you. If choosing for a company, ask the people who will have to work with it.

Maybe one has more responsive developers, or a more helpful community.
It's hit or miss.

I placed an order on their business website for the note, along with another dozen items, paying for next day shipping.

The ship date got pushed back a week at a time for over 2 months before it just timed out and auto-canceled after the FTC deadline.

But calls and emails (foreign call centers) were pointless. No info other than the system ship date. Couldn't separate it into multiple shipments. Even once I canceled the phone from the order, no one seemed able to get the rest of the order to ship.

Even unsolicited "follow up" US sales calls/ emails were humorously useless.

"Yes, please take my money."

"Hmmm- let me follow up and get back to you."
I reached out to researchers for every renewable energy source to estimate the actual limits when we say renewable. Purely a thought experiment, renewable energy is necessary.
Yep. And as with many things there will be a mix of solutions for different needs.
Arguing from first principles, the first step in detecting a problem is to know your device's baseline operation. This means knowing the bevvy of processes that are running, the resources they use, and the messages they send and to which hosts. With this baseline, you can now see if something is going wrong - a process you don't recognize, connecting to hosts you don't recognize, and so on.

Of course, this is also the step where almost everyone, including devs, fail. How many devs know their phone to this degree? Even for our laptops, we tend to give way too much leeway to 3rd party binaries, and allow the environment to get so noisy that any kind of signal is impossible to detect. It's a depressing trade-off we (almost) all make for convenience, using the (almost) good enough assumption that we're safe in the herd. It's actually a very, very dumb assumption and I feel like it's something of a hacker golden age because of it, and as long as they don't get too greedy and spook the herd, the gravy train is here to stay.

On argument against doing even this is that a hacker can take steps to hide their process. This has happened on PCs, with rootkits that hide certain processes. This may happen for phone malware, if only to make it harder to automate detection and removal, if not to guard against watchful users (of which there are precious few).

In terms of capability, I speculate that the best an attacker can achieve is a sticky, privileged process that accepts arbitrary commands at runtime, which can be used to read the disk, analyze other running processes, install and exfil sensor data, etc. From the attacker's POV for high value targets, it probably feels like ssh'ing into a mystery box, and "see what you can do" - and they probably have a (growing) library of scripts to check for easy, juicy things. (I would guess that they would hate to see bespoke applications that have to be understood and reversed to get value out of.)
To go on a tangent, I am curious whether the effect would be any better with lead ammunition residue instead of DU?

I believe that the toxicity of DU comes from its properties as a heavy metal, same as lead, rather than from being radioactive. [0]

[0] Chemical DNA damange effect is a million times higher than radiological according to this: https://zenodo.org/record/1259849
Joe Rogan Apologizes, Spotify Publishes Content Policy in Response to Neil Young
There's nothing complicated about a Tesla charging.

You drive up. Plug in. Done.

There's no app. There's no wallet.

There's no kiosk or attendant that has to be maintained or paid.
I know it doesn't negate that use case in the moment, but it's a poorly designed building where neighbors even know your dishwasher is running.
No thanks. It would be nice to have the car drive itself (although I doubt we'll achieve true SAE level 4+ capability on most roads in my lifetime). But I keep a lot of useful stuff in my car. I don't want to load and unload it every time. The car also serves as a reasonably secure storage locker at my destination.

But your model might work in shithole cities like San Francisco. No one can leave stuff in their cars because they have to park on the street and auto burglaries are rampant.
Yup. I tend to prioritize manufacturers like Whirlpool that make service manuals and parts readily available. Sadly Whirlpool is in an ever shrinking minority. Here in the US there are zero advantages to the European brands - parts and service are atrocious adding insult to injury.

Theres more than initial acquisition cost or the looks of the appliance that's worth considering when purchasing!
Is it weird that the more tech becomes like this the more I feel checked out?

I don’t want smart devices, nor do I want to be online 24/7. However it’s hard to escape this reality. My thermostat (in apartment) recently reset due to a power issue and I had to have maintenance over to do its configuration again. They had to come twice because after setting it up they have to figure out how to connect it to Wi-Fi for a software update.

Before this apartment I lived in one where all the appliances were straight out of 1950/60. They were retro af but they worked without any issues for the time I lived there. Here I’ve had issues every month.
I don't think that's ever going to happen because XWayland exists.
> Can Tesla set their own electricity price freely?

This varies wildly by jurisdiction. In some places electricity costs are highly regulated and they would have no control. In other places only utilities are allowed to sell power by the kWh, so charging is sold by time. Here in Canada our measurement regulator has dragged their heels on a standard for DC comsumption measuring, so even utilities like BC and Quebec Hydro can't sell DC fast charging power by the kWh.

It is unlikely there will ever be much profit in selling DC fast charging power. DC fast chargers are a huge capital expense (100k-250k per cabinet for 100 kW+ plus installation that can easily run 3-4 figures) and drawing that much power in bursts comes with huge added costs from the utility. You can save on bursts with battery buffers, but that also raises the initial capital outlay. It's fine though, gas stations don't make any money selling fuel. All their money comes from the captive audience. Charging batteries has gotten a lot better, but it still creates a highly captive audience.
Rogue in the browser! https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/game/other/1985/rogue/

This is awesome, I've played Roguelikes but never the original. Cool art and transitions, feels really similar to Brogue(CE), which is still being maintained!
I mean that was back when 'don't be evil' was credibly the company philosophy. Going public didn't help.
Whoa, easy there.

I would caution against painting with too broad a brush. There are many nice cities in the US and yes, many are quite livable without owning a car.

You are correct that the US has a major problem with a polarized and paralyzed political system though. But I think there's reason to be optimistic: smart solutions are also the cheapest. Effective transit, like bus lanes and signal priority, and safe biking infrastructure are phenomenally cheap compared to suburban highway and bridge construction, bordering on free. Housing affordability is, at its core, a zoning problem and we would make huge progress by simply letting people build houses and apartments.
There is much more to mindfulness than the popular media hype
Did not get is it sarcasm or real thing. those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it
Wi-Fi wouldn’t seem to help though… the machine would need to have the relevant sensors locally.
iOS also has a contacts only whitelist, you can set "Silence Unknown Callers" to On.

It's great - my only feature request would be to allow an API for app access so things like door dash, uber, amazon, etc. could be optionally allowed through.
Yeah, this sentence is both verbal and logical soup.
forgot to give reference to the 8 limbs of yoga:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali

Yamas and niyamas are basically to live clean, ethical life. Samadhi is enlightenment and should be the same as Nirvana is to Buddhism.
That matches my experience as well. I'll do a fresh distro install and not notice at first if it defaults to Wayland, then I'll run into something. It might be crashe or app compatibility (I had a game on Wine once that crashed on Wayland but not X11), but it drives me to switch things over to X11.
CCS type 1 was one standard among many. It wasn't until CCS type 2, and many many many years later (my recollection was the EU mandated it's use in 2018 or so?) that it became viable.

Chadamo (IIRC) was the evident standard at the time, and couldn't do supercharging.
I'm assuming you read the article, but the BBC is sanitizing historical programming concerning entertainers who have been involved in and recently convicted of certain crimes, notably organized paedophlilia and sex trafficking.

That seems less like harmless cleanup as much as it does a directed PR campaign on behalf of the perpetrators and their associates at the BBC.
Did Xorg ever claim it was no longer being developed, or was that just something someone said in a blog post?
I get the living day lights scared out of me at least twice a day (by my gf) while working with headphones on. Light is perfect.
It's things like this that help me to remember how very little I know about mathematics. I looked about halfway down and saw that I didn't have the slightest idea what any of them were talking about. I console myself with the thought that there are other subject matters that I am an expert in that they are not. Probably.
If you care about this, consider using a security-oriented OS on desktop based on hardware virtualization: https://qubes-os.org. In this case, if you use your phone only to confirm the transactions (as the second factor), you should be safe enough.
Think of it this way. You could probably design something logic-compatible, voltage-compatible, speed-compatible... but a chip is fundamentally an analog device with sensitivity. You can't change the mask, let alone the process, and still have the same device. Something will be different. Certification is the process of saying the difference is OK.
I was surprised to find this published on begin.com, which offers an app deployment platform based on AWS Lambda. So are Lambda, API Gateway, and friends considered boring now?
The weird, wild world of dodgy academic research
They might lead to more use but fewer cars, leaving the net effect ambiguous, if people rent out their auto-cars ala Uber.
We were driving through Northern Ontario for most of the trip, so the busiest we ever saw a supercharger was 3/8 stalls. Most of the time we were the only car using a charger. The car rarely got below 50% because the kids always asked to use the bathroom or get a snack before the car needed a charge.

> We need to adjust our expectations, driving style/planning/habits

Before I was married, I had a diesel car with a 1000km range. I made that 3000km trip in 36 hours total, which I never could have done with an EV car. Driving that far that quickly by myself without stopping to rest more was reckless and stupid, so not being able to do so is a significant side benefit.
It's similar overcompensating logic as people use to now rename git branches from 'master' to 'main' or whatever -- even though the concept of master was never anything about, or analogous to, slavery (i.e. there are no 'slave' branches -- it's just not the mental model, at all). Keep in mind that it's ostensibly smart people doing this.

Surprisingly (but maybe I missed a memo), the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), is in fact defined in terms of master and slave devices; but, I'm not aware of any movements to redefine it. The embedded systems world has not (yet) been cleansed and re-educated.

It's a new Puritan era.
That's true, but they're not really aimed at the same type of user. Publii is much, much more accessible to non-technical people.
Water consumption I can imagine, but power consumption? And by how much anyway?

Improvements in these appliances always feel a little like those percentages on dishwashing liquid. If I would multiple all the improvements since 1990 I think one drop of detergent will be enough for the rest of my life.
Your regular reminder that there will be no such thing as personal property in dystopian survaliance capitalism future.

You will own your appliances as much as you own your spotify subscription.
if holding the wrong opinion in a conversation is morally wrong, one ought to converse in a way that welcomes and seeks being refuted.
I see some echoes of this in the advice about steelmanning friends and family who are in to conspiracies. But it's hard to imagine going into a conversation with say a flat earth theory believer and really want to be proven wrong about the sphere..
We're far enough past the initial shockwaves from car manufacturers under-ordering at the beginning of the pandemic. Is it safe to say now that this shortage would have occurred regardless of covid?
This.

Destination chargers are highly underrated.
The average car in the US seems to be 12 : https://www.wsj.com/articles/average-u-s-vehicle-age-hits-re...

And the average yearly mileage in the US is around 13.5k, yielding an average mileage of 173k miles. It is incredibly unlikely that the average car is salvaged at 100-150k miles. 200k+ miles is more like it. This number will also increase as vehicles produced recently have much higher durability, while the 16 year old tail-end is dragging down personal cars.

I can't find a great source, but it seems for example USF only expects 85k miles out of a car, for example: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.usf.edu/administrat...

Taxis are an exception with around 210k average mileage, but that's because they are individually owned.

Rental cars seem to be retired at around 60k miles : https://www.wsj.com/articles/rental-cars-with-higher-mileage...

It doesn't make sense commercially to operate a vehicle long after its warranty ends. You risk losing revenue when the car breaks down, and you can expect upwards of 1000$/year in repairs and increased insurance costs as an extra. It makes more sense to sell the car shortly after the warranty ends, recoup 50% of the costs, and buy a new one.
The dymaxion projection of the globe is one of my favorites and is essentially what an unbroken singular peel/shell of an orange would look like, centered on the North Pole
Pretty sure the person you were responding to was pointing out more ways that wifi is an anti-feature for a dishwasher
The first one is the YouTube help saying "Never post things like your name" and the second one is the YouTube website saying "Start using your full name on YouTube", prefilled with your Google+ info.
Zelda Map Made of 25,000 Lego Bricks