skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You buy those brands because you know exactly what you get."

No, you won't. Just because you had an appliance that lasted 20 years before doesn't mean you are going to get the same today (you aren't). Energy efficiency standards have affected all manufacturers. Complexity leads to unreliability over time - all manufacturers are affected. Some will still be better than the rest, but if you aren't prioritizing manufacturers who are repair friendly you are going to either be spending multiples of the original cost of your appliance over time, or just flat out replacing them more often.

Or just fix that 20 year old appliance you already have when it breaks (almost always the best answer vs. buying new - with just about anything!)
Manufacture of Junction Transistors (1961)
Protecting National Security, Cybersecurity, Privacy While Ensuring Competition
When sundar took over he changed some policies within google to reduce previous commitments to a high quality internet, with the goal of increased growth. This includes a mixing of ads and search results in a way that maximizes revenue as well as many other dark patterns. I believe that Google concluded that it was going to lose relevance and market share if they didn't do this. Note also that the vast majority of google revenue in ads comes from mobile video ads, not search results these days.
Symptoms ≠ Causes
Driverless cars de-incentivize carpooling and incentivize idling on public roads to avoid storage / parking costs (unless states implement fee structures for occupying roads).

A taxi model means you can compete for market share by being fastest to respond, which means you can fill the roads to the brim with your vehicles to push your competitors out of the market with sheer capital expenditure. You would be further incentivized to do this through economies of scale.

You only need to look at how taxi freelancer apps increased the number of vehicle miles on the roads in all major cities and how bike rental apps filled urban areas with bikes annoyingly scattered all over the place.

Any car based transport vision of the future means more cars on the road, and consequently more car-focused infrastructure.

To really be more efficient you need to focus on passenger miles / unit of energy, which very decidedly means mass transit.
I got some Aqara buttons and switches from cloudfree.shop, they're closed-source but local network (Zigbee) only—combined with Home Assistant, which is open source, I think this is what you want!
I'm beginning to use "going public" as my indicator to stop using a product. My decade-old reddit account was recently deleted for this reason, as they were showing all the signs before they announced their intention to go public.

I'm really hoping DigitalOcean and Gitlab prove my theory wrong. You would think that private companies would be more prone to unethical practices.
Missing two of the biggest:

- hireability: large community of developers to hire from today + years from now

- low risk of abandonment: long history of development, stable funding, and ideally many users+contributors from diff orgs using in commercial contexts

Not easy for startups and new frameworks to achieve 'boring' status!
I think it's more about the projects you work on than the language you use. C is a system programming language and most appropriate projects are compilers, operating system, classic console programming, embedded system programming and other low level stuffs.
Miele's user interface isn't that great. I owned a Miele laundry machine. After you press "start" there is no way you can undo that. This sucks. Even missiles have an "unlaunch" feature.
Weston has always had an x11 backend.
The premise is that the self driving, not them being electric, leads to them being used more.

But you singled out electric cars as disproportionately taking up more space than other point to point transportation solutions, for some reason.

Oh and time and money… on the money point, if you look at the total cost of ownership, a $25,000 Camry costs more than a $35,000 Tesla, so I'd say that money point is open for debate.

As for time, also open for debate. I presume you're referring to the time it takes to charge, which is getting faster all the time and usually takes place whole the owner is sleeping.

If the vast majority of auto trips are in self driving cars, the charging time will not figure in as a factor in the experience of using a car.

It hardly factors in now even. On long road trips, just stop for a quick bathroom break. I spoke to a Model Y owner who says he drives from the Bay Area to LA with one stop for charging, 9 minutes. Hardly a big deal. My own experience is similar, although my last trip there was before we had faster V3 charging stations available.

I'd suggest learning more about EVs before hardening your opinions.
It infuriates me that this sort of thing is the trend with devices like tvs and appliances. For now you can work around it by just never connecting them to your wifi. But I'm sure a day is coming when the device won't function until you do.
I agree. Especially with the differentiation between altering a message and cutting a scene that does not add to the overall story and message and is only an inconsequential point in the work of art.

There are really muddy waters to be traversed in other cases, but I fail to understand what the problem is in the specific case here.

To name an example I am thinking of: changing the guns in E.T. imho actually changed the message, made the movie/story less understandable and painted a more rosy/pacifist image of US law enforcement.

It changed the underlying critique against the government's reaction mode into nothingness.

Not even a scene cut, but altered in a way to tell a different story.

Also I would like for the originals to be preserved in an accessible way so that we can learn about gone times and what was normal/acceptable for people in these eras. To be able to have the 'true' sources as objects of study. And their reception and changing over time. This way we could learn.

Edit: Typo
Fermat's Theorem: The Texas Oil Heir Who Took on Math's Impossible Dare
As a customer of Gitlab, I'm satisfied with their uptime and I have no reason to believe that they can't fix these issues in good time.

Yes, I can also fix it if the server was my mine but more than likely I'll be busy doing my actual job (which does not involve fiddling with self-hosted gitlab instances) so I'll take my chances with the Gitlab engineering team. They do fix things and me being busy, asleep, sick, or travelling have no impact on their response. I intend to keep it this way.
That must be why polar bears are so grumpy. Not a lot of woods in the arctic circle!
The screenshot text does not say at all what the author of the tweet claims it does (and what's in the HN title). Nowhere in the text does it actually talk about "above" and "sidebar", that is just an interpretation that the author made up about what "buying a better position in the search results" would mean. Given the context of the times, it was clearly not a statement about layout but about actually reordering the "organic" search results based on payments and without marking those boosted results as ads.
> I believe the real trick is not to overfill the machine with dishes, and ensure your dishes are arranged properly.

This. Filling a dishwasher is an art of binpacking in itself. I'm pretty satisfied by my Bosch one, unless it is just a1-2 cycle before asking for the cleaning cycle, 95% of the times everything come up perfectly clean, even with the "eco" program. When something comes out dirty (if everything was properly placed), usually it will nag you to clean the dishwasher on the next cycle or the other.
Weirdly enough I do believe Clojure ticks the boxes from that checklist.

It's familiar in that it both "supports popular language runtimes" (runs on top of the JVM or transpiles to JavaScript) and it's a Lisp dialect (or close enough) and Lisps have been around since a very long time.

It's incredibly stable: so stable some libraries commonly used haven't been updated in years. There's also very little code churn inside Clojure's own codebase.

It is very reliable.

It's limits and trade offs are well known.

Somehow I though my language of choice was "edgy" but I realize it may actually be "boring": a dialect from a very old family of language running on top of a boring tech (the JVM).
Slow Death of IE and Progressive Enhancement (2018)
It seems inevitable that Tesla will have to start catering more in the future to a upscale/luxury market (even if they are technically already, despite the popular perception that works in their favor that EVs = Tesla's for many people), which might be difficult for them with some of their QC issues. Hopefully, they can get that under control and not end up like the Jaguar of the EV market.
That is stinkin' adorable. Though I'd prefer one with a Cambridge Z88-type keyboard...
Used car lenders will collapse.

The 72 month loan for a $50,000, 2019 F-250 will be completely underwater, and the car owners may decide to literally send the cars “underwater” to get out of the loans.
I always laughed at this, until I became a parent, but am now utterly convinced that there are a lot of features out there that look stupid until you are a parent

why does my fridge need to text me if the door is left open? that's ridiculous!

Well yeah...but if your teenager leaves it open, as teenagers are won't to do, how would I know if I'm in an office in another part of the house? (hypothetical, I don't have teenagers but I was one).

We (partner, me , contractor) are renovating a house right now. There is a kids bathroom upstairs. I FOUGHT and I mean fought my partner and the contractor over one feature I wanted. I won and am so happy. That feature? The whole floor is sloped towards the external wall, the whole floor (from door to door wall to wall) is a three inch high sealed tub, and there is an emergency drain with an oil filled p-trap that just dumps outside. Cost us an extra $1,000. That's less than the deductible on our home owners insurance and way less than the damage a flooded bathroom would cause. The user research here was totally in how many families (including mine) had kids accidentally flood a bathroom doing dumb stuff and ruin the space below it as well.

Features are driven by user research, or should be. Rather than just calling it dumb because it doesn't fit your use case - think about the other users who might benefit. Especially when you are looking at feature that don't make sense if people behave rationally.
Why can't the now-offensive stuff not just go behind a clickwall?

A big full-screen disclaimer. That this material no longer conforms to current standards, or was made by persons who are now considered bad. Continue at your own discretion.

Or even have a scrolly banner or watermark in the material itself to prevent it from being stripped of the disclaimer by others. But preserve the historical record.
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General Position Analysis of Single-Loop Planar Mechanisms
My dad whistled between his teeth. He was a prodigious whistler. As I recall, it was two tones alternating. Too bad we never measured how far away we could hear him whistling, because now I’m wondering. I’d guess half a mile though.
My memory (as a layman) was "quorum sensing."

Quick Google:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-021-00211-w

https://asm.org/Articles/2020/June/How-Quorum-Sensing-Works

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.0247...
Not necessarily my toilet.
How can you prove that this is more secure against state level actors than iOS which have billions (?) of users? In modern phones there are multiple levels of sandboxing already. If some state really wants to target you, I would say that this is more insecure solution.

The most common OS are very heavily tested because of the user amount. These "secure" operating systems have niche amount of users which further reduces the amount of testing. And this is the only helping factor you - it is more beneficial to target operating systems which have a larger adaption. You need to be on high priority that they start developing exploits only for you who is using some random OS.
In theory yes, but so far in my 43 years of life feature updates are usually things that are hostile to the user.
You reading the same page that the GP linked? It says YoY car prices are up 36%... which is enormous.

That's got a huge ripple effect across the market, as best as I can tell, because it pushes people to buy older/lower cost cars across the board. Either that or they continue driving their old/potentially unsafe car even longer.
This is why the comparisons to ford are so absurd.

Tesla is a car manufacturer, and the gas station (chargers), and the oil company (grid tech, battery tech).

Not only that: Tesla has said that they will start licensing their FSD tech to other companies.
> Here Azure has a great advantage.

Why not GCP?
Is lambda really that different from any other server technology?

It’s just a container that you have to boot and it handles web requests, right?

They boot fast, so for a low traffic site you can worry less about cold start, is there any other difference with any other containerized web server?
I can't imagine navigating the web without an ad-blocker.
I agree that there is an integrity problem in some areas of research (due to incentives), however the Eric Weinstein reference is laughable. I'd consider him a prime example of pseudo science for dollars / influence with zero credibility. Not saying he can't be on the right side of an issue some times, just that he's a particularly untrustworthy source, and the way he gets to his conclusions is just... wow.

https://youtu.be/0TI0jtr6APw
If that is so, then that should have been your response. As it is, this is found in the article:

> Yasseen worked hard and he cared about his work. In Arabic, we would say Yasseen had Dhameer—“a conscience.”

That's a clue as to why conscientiouness is also listed in that dictionary defintion as a derivative - one precedes the other.

> Bringing a conscience to your work means working conscientiously—as Dr. George Simon put it, “Conscientiousness is mindfulness guided by conscience.”

That's enough of this for me.
That requires staffing (at a 24/7 level ideally). I just did a cross country drive in a Tesla and most of them are in stations that are around stores, malls, hotels or restaurants - but none of them are staffed. The costs of these stations are already high, adding a physical building that is staffed by somebody 24/7 will just make it even harder to build and more expensive.

How is getting out of your car, walking to a valet or booth to talk to a person, and paying where they ask "What is your stall number?" less complicated than literally just plugging in your car?

To be clear, if you have a Tesla, there is NO app needed. There's nothing. You literally just plug in and it works. That's better than any gas station I've ever been to.

FYI - This isn't a Tesla EV thing. This is an EV thing. EVERY network basically requires either an RFID card or a smart phone app: ElectrifyAmerica, Chargepoint, SOMA, Flo, EVGo. I can't think of one that doesn't.
I hope you include the CEO for signing off on it too.
That's their service department. The build quality is an entirely different story and Miele stuff in stores today is not of the same quality that it was 22 years ago. And it definitely isn't the same as it was 50 years ago (amazingly: some of that stuff still runs today).

Miele had a definite edge on build quality, that means that services are fewer and farther between than with other brands given the same amount of use.

The joke was that if you wanted to armor plate your car you could do so with the side panels of Miele washing machines. Not too far from the truth, they were also much heavier than competitor gear. But those days are - as far as I can tell - over.
I always liked Caddy for its simple config and automation around TLS certificate management. I hope it doesn’t go down the path of feature bloat. Markdown rendering seems innocent enough, but what will be next?
There's some interesting images of the evolution of what ads looked like in Google's search results over time. Starting with distinct background colours and slowly fading to looking more and more identical to organic results with just a little icon.
Research also suggests that biofilm can be broken up by reducing inflammation generally in the body. So we have some options here for combatting antibiotic resistant infections. We just need to start focusing more on those approaches and less on finding novel or stronger antibiotics as our only answer.

Infections aren't stupid. They adapt. If you only have one tool, well, that's relatively easy to adapt to. We need to focus more on these adjunct therapies for enhancing the effectiveness of existing antibiotics.
U.S. appeals court will not block California net neutrality law
If you just want more diversity, reading a book seems like an easy option. Otherwise like some comments mentioned, bodyweight exercises are good. 1-2 hours of those a day should be fine if you are doing them seriously. Look up on youtube if you need specif exercise suggestions.
Just crack it open and either clip the leads to the "speaker" or put a few layers of tape over it. I too hate appliances with loud beeps - or the new annoying trend of playing songs (usually from the Asian manufacturers).

Love my Breville toaster oven though - thing is so stinking versatile and by far the best of any I have ever used. We use it as an oven far more than as a toaster. Perfect for heating/baking most stuff without heating up the entire house like the regular oven does. We have the one that also has the air fry mode - use that mode all the time to cook vegetables that are delicious and a lot healthier too. Did I mention we really love our Breville toaster oven? And to think I originally chose it because it was the only one I could find that had a stinking light inside?
How about hiring though? If you have a vacancy for a Clojure developer, how many applicants could you expect?

When it comes to programming languages, I'd stick to the top 10 languages if your company isn't hip enough to attract a certain kind of developer on its own.
I'm confused, your own data says a small minority supports racially discriminatory policies like affirmative action.
It’s not just the 3 is it?
Avoiding card fees is a legitimate thing, I admit
> rental housing isn’t “an evil thing that needs to go away.”

I disagree, rental housing is a thing that does need to go away, or at least be severly limited.

Because there's a strong trend towards corporations owning all housing and then everybody must rent from them.

(as a milenial my chances of owning the place I live in are small... specially in big cities; I looked into it, I would need to get a loan and then pay the loan amount twice over for the next 30 years to buy a shitty small appartment without a real kitchen).
Every time I get a new iPhone and forget to install an ad blocker, Safari crashes due to an ad problem and then I remember to install the ad blocker.
I believe this would have been an even worse strategy for policy acceptance. We were and still are dealing with unknowns and these unknowns are able to justify wearing mask as a precautionary measure without a (not so) noble lie being necessary. Society isn't a military unit and has profoundly different dynamics. Some will ignore this advice but the repercussion of that are very likely managable.

This type of PR will not work with a modern information infrastructure anymore or at least significantly less effective.

> handed ammo to the anti-vaxxers by the truckload

It is a stupid image of an enemy and policy was crafted with a steady look on these groups. That is a mistake in leadership if there is one. You have provided them with legitimacy without anything for you to gain. A complete waste for nothing and you elevated your opposition without benefit to you. That is neither competent leadership nor politics. Figuratively not looking them in the eye would be better. They are beneath you and don't even warrant attention. Few politicians would have even used the term, at least the smart ones.

That said, since I oppose mandatory vaccination I am an anti-vaxxer myself in the eyes of many.
Unfortunately, the general populace does not understand that finding evidence in support of a conclusion is not equivalent to doing scientific research. Never mind evaluation of the science within publications. Never mind that often people find secondary sources (oneliners extracted from summaries from news post from press releases from groups writing the actual paper).

In practice, "doing your own research" is never that, at least from what I have seen. This pandamic had a special effect on my opinion I should add...
> How can you prove that this is more secure against state level actors than iOS which have billions (?) of users?

By comparing the number of exploits? Qubes relies on Xen, which is used by very big targets, so should be under constant attacks. Qubes uses hardware (VT-d) virtualization, which AFAIK was last time broken by the Qubes founder in 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software).
I call bs. Show me.

What's the source of a month shutdown? I've never heard of that.

Pfizer, additionally, already had positive trials before the order from the US came! OWS had nothing to do with the quickest delivered vaccine, since Pfizer wanted NO political interference.

The contract was not funding at all. They didn't receive the money upfront and it had to be approved by FDA before the contract was considered valid.

Israel had the fastest vaccination rate/program in the world and it was supplied by the Belgian manufacturing part of Pfizer in Puurs.

https://nsl.consilium.europa.eu/104100/GeneralNewsletter/4od...

> Most vaccination technologies have been initiated or developed in Europe. Most of the doses with which Israel embarked on its mass vaccination programme were sent from Belgium.

There's a big difference in supplying the world with enough vaccines ( EU ) versus buying all available ones at a premium ( US).

I don't even know where your fraud argument comes from...

But worst case is definitely not 2 billion $ waste. But a 10 billion $ risk of funds taken from hospitals for COVID care that could need it, which paid for "operation Warp speed" - https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/02/trump-administration-qui...
Take Away: 'Is a "smoke ring" also possible as an accustic phenomenon ?' (-;
Our tariffs for electricity vary by the hour. I don't know how to detect that by voltage?
China pilots nationwide blockchain development over real-world use cases
High-quality images of a "decapped" OC45 can be found here[1].

To me these old transistors are just as awe-inspiring as the billions of modern ones you can get on essentially a grain of sand.

[1]: https://www.richis-lab.de/Bipolar88.htm
There's nothing difficult about it. If Apple builds a car media/navigation system, I'm sure they can agree with car manufacturers about an interface. The problem is: manufacturers don't want this.
Right. They need to show growth every year in search advertising. One way to grow is to put more ads in more places. Of course, even before going public, they still had to grow (so that they could go public), but they had natural growth then.
or as Nintendo puts it "Improvements to system stability"
What makes you so certain about that? What's the relation between both?
For all those ranting a only partial rant: Citrix, I did use it once kind of without anger at it: to run an unpatched IE8 instance to run an even older unpatched ASP (not .net) application (to run some ancient ERP software from BAAN) which I did get angry at.
Diffusion models are autoencoders
You say that, but setting up a LAMP stack from scratch is more involved than just yeeting something onto GCP these days.
Doctors can do intrathecal antifungal administration. I wonder if this guy has tried that.
They could go with NFC only (swipe card or phone), that's at least one app-less and standardized payment system.