skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this dude was making payments on a $116k car for two years, without having the car? Seems clear some Tesla systems didn’t talk to eachother, and this is Tesla’s fault.

But it also seems clear this is something a single letter from a lawyer would have fixed. Certainly it’d be cheaper than these payments he’s been making.
I’m definitely going to start practicing keeping an engineering journal! This sounds perfect for treating my adhd.
Futility of Utility
Why is "sound simulation software" illegal in China?

https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/20...
(1) The rumors about HTML5 are not exactly true.

(2) There are good open-source Flash runtimes.

(3) The selling points of Flash were the no-installation experience and really good development tools. Both aspects are somehow lacking today, so the momentum is gone. Maybe someone will produce a great and accessible tool to create comparable HTML5 experiences, and that thing will become popular. But not yet.
Do you like gamification? Treat every unconducted transaction as a level up.

Remix your existing fashionware, rather than supplementing it.

Learn to mend and repair your stuff.

Learn to make your own stuff.
There's nothing indeterminate about the algorithm though. It's a fixed set of instructions fed into a Turing compatible machine like any other program.
Since we have multiple points of data for lifespan, perhaps we should be computing a weighted average between them?

Going by gut feel: 3-5 years sounds like "pretty likely", let's give that 95% of the weight, at 4 years for simplicity. 10-20 years would be nice, but really, how much tech lasts that long? Not much. How about 4.9999999% at 15 years. And the remaining can go to "indefinitely", which seems pretty darn unlikely, so it has 0.0000001% weight.

(4*95+15*4.9999999+∞*0.0000001 / 100) = ∞

I guess we can ignore the monthly cost ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I applied weights to things, so this is Bayesian, and we all know that's always right.
"Sadly" their system isn't that bulletproof, I have Firefox set to clear cookies on exit, and when I reopen Firefox, it forgets that I ran out of free articles.
Fact check: The cost of S3 standard storage per TB is approximately $23 not $153.
S3 standard storage, the most expensive kind, is $.021-.023 per GB.

S4 costs about the same as S3 Deep Archive storage.

Update: The article appears to be a joke. That aside, there are no cost savings against S3 Deep Archive; additionally S3 Deep Archive supports restores unlike the write-only S4.
How long did it take you to build OP?

I love the simple design, just one thing: consider adding to #header .menu-btn:checked ~ .nav larger max-width and some margin to .buyMenuOption, since .buyMenuOption button gets covered by the .nav div on smaller screens: https://i.imgflip.com/6c1c7a.jpg
It would definitely have been something like that. There weren't an infinite number of devices for PCs back then, but every one enabled more people to run Linux. Would be interesting to try to track it back to see where exactly interest really started taking off.

For me personally it was the Panasonic/Mitsumi interface CD-Rom on the Sound Blaster cards. Vague and possibly incorrect memory suggests 386BSD (and maybe FreeBSD/NetBSD) you could get an expensive SCSI cd-rom working, but not the Panasonic/Mitsumi ones that were vastly cheaper and more available.

Because the internet simply wasn't available in a form useful for downloading a distribution, CD-Roms were the only practical way to install a Unix-like. Cover discs, or Slackware, or Yggdrasil were available at your local book store.

The MPC[0] standard was kind of on it's knees during that period, so it was pretty hard to keep up with the variety of hardware on desks at the time.

This old usenet post from 1992 [1] has contemporary reports from where 386BSD was competitive, but the general consensus even then was "Linux works on more affordable hardware" so the problem must have existed before that post.

edit: [2] This salon article seems to point the finger at the Jolitz's approach to development.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC#:~:text=The%20Mu...).

[1]https://www.linux.co.cr/free-unix-os/review/1992/1102.html

[2]https://www.salon.com/2000/05/17/386bsd/
Not necessarily employer, but you can easily feel guilty for a team. I did when i left a few months ago because i knew i was a valuable contributor, there was lots of stuff going on and that it'd take a long time for me to be replaced, leaving the people I've worked with for years, and whom i liked, under extra pressure.
> S4's state-of-the-art write-only interface removes the headaches commonly associated with reading data.

Durability is one of the headaches you can ignore with a write only interface.
I'm not trolling, just anonymous and being goofy about it. Kiss my butt :D
Which booster number is Emory on, and how many they will ultimately require? Since the boosters only work for a few weeks and with efficacy quickly waning, it seems obvious the current injections are not going to stop Covid, especially given they do not stop infection or transmission. Israel has a lot of publicly available data on this, they're past the 4th mRNA injection now.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2201570

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-trial-worlds-first-fin...

I know this information can be very difficult for some to acknowledge.
You have to operate under the assumption that state agencies already have access to your communications. Also, 256 bit hashes are considered broken but that doesn’t mean state agencies can break the at a sufficient rate or that they are interested in breaking cryptocurrencies.
It doesn't even use a blockchain, how can we trust it?
Because it's not obvious until visiting the Heaps page and clicking through to About: Heaps is built on Haxe. So you're complimenting it, right? (Your comment reads like a non-sequitur criticism if one doesn't know what Heaps is).

That said, I agree that Haxe seems to attract a good crowd. I've also worked with some very competent people who primarily used HaxeFlixel.
And you believed these are resolved with government policies?

Which ones? Point to some examples of government resolving these to the detriment of corporations?

The examples I could provide would be government shielding corporations from these negative externalities, limiting their liability, and socializing the costs to the tax payers of that government....

I can point to no examples of govermment resolving the problem of externalities
The most prominent red flag about Signal is that, for all its purported commitment to "developing open source privacy technology", a real, working open-source app is not on F-Droid.

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/we-can-include-signal-in-f-droid...
I have a really old (college) implementation of plain old NTRU in Python, if you'd like a little insight into what NTRU is and how it works at a superficial level (kind of like how RSA is never textbook RSA). There are also some slides explaining the math, but you have to be comfortable with some college level group theory (even reading my own slides is hard because I haven't used it since then).

The short answer is that NTRU uses convolution polynomial lattices. Breaking the cryptosystem requires finding a "short" basis for a lattice described by the private key. There are efficient algorithms for this in R^2, but not for high dimensional convolutional polynomial spaces (LLL Reduction is the best I'm aware of, which is greater than O(d^5) where d is the number of dimensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenstra%E2%80%93Lenstra%E2%80%...).

Do note the impl I did is absolutely terrible and probably subtly buggy but might get the idea across. Also, it splits the message into blocks and encrypts that instead of just wrapping a symmetric encryption algorithm because I was young and naive. :)

https://github.com/logannc/pyNTRUEncrypt
Meanwhile in a different country I got basically paid to go to grad school.

The already low yearly fees were discounted for good grades and jobs for students are provided to help with living expenses.

Ended grad school positive on my bank account, loved studying what I studied (distributed systems).

The US school system has some upsides, but the whole student debt thing is pretty F’d up.

Edit: spelling
I loved the error message:

The resource cannot be read

The resource you are trying to access cannot be read, due to the following reason:

No read operation available.
It's called triaging your tickets, not letting a bot roam free hoping to catch someone that didn't press a button at the right time.

It's disrespectful to the reporters' time and effort to keep pestering them with an inane bot. It doesn't fix the issues reported. It just makes the bot owner feel good that they have fewer tickets open.
I'm not suggesting overlay networks are useless (Slack uses it to connect thousands of machines around the world!). My comment is aimed at the self-hosting community using them as a VPN replacement for remote management / access. I don't see how they are any better than VPNs for this. They're probably worse once you start connecting all the devices you aim to remotely manage into a flat network (mixing internet facing devices that should be DMZ'd with internal devices).
In the US coffee shops close around 5-6 PM ish. Also do you get a good night sleep drinking coffee that late in the evenings?
Yes and get it back after police/judge agrees that it isn't your fault. Right now damages are not proportionate between drivers and anyone else, so a rational actor will drive. If this is acceptable I'll take it and let cars gladly downtown. Elsewise, I'll take a ban on cars in downtown streets.
The issue isn't that there's no contract at all. The issue is that the contract isn't freely agreed to, since once 51% of workers decide they want a union, the company isn't allowed to walk away from the negotiating table.
Can we retire "[BLANK] for me, not for thee"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30972356
Are you guys sending HD movies around or something? How is a chat app using dozens of gigabytes for message logs?
> It seems like there's a significant disconnect between research in academia and research in the real world.

It's funny, back in my undergrad days I would walk past the Google offices that opened near my campus. I'd look in and see a giant wall-sized candy machine, primary colors everywhere, bean bags, pool tables, an air hockey table. I honestly thought it was a daycare of some kind until I asked someone why there's never any kids in there. This is what they call the "real world" apparently, as a contrast to what goes on in academia.

I can definitely say that in all my years in academia, I've never been treated to a candy wall.
The Gödel metric
What's more, floppies are actually prior art for their business model. At least my AMIGA days were just endless problems with broken floppies.
Folks in quantum computing seem to think that's it's a near-certainty, "just an engineering problem." As long as you don't ask for a specific timeline, they won't even lie.
Yeah, that’s what I’m suggesting when I talk about the normalization of crime. I have been victim of about a dozen crimes since moving here 2 years ago, but only reported 3. At a certain point it just became a hassle with no upside other than helping compstat collect better data. Talk to any San Franciscan about crime and you’ll realize that people have become so accustomed to it. I think that there’s very little reporting for that reason, so the stats don’t reflect the reality. Additionally, many crimes have effectively been decriminalized here, so I think that has totally skewed the stats when compared to other cities with stronger enforcement.

I’m really not sure, it’s an emotional subject, especially after the home invasion, but I feel entitled to be skeptical and angry about how dysfunctional the government is here.
What is the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary entity in Ukraine?
Archived: https://archive.ph/sSdeS
Many students can’t read though: https://calmatters.org/commentary/2020/01/functional-illiter...
They use AI to take away all human recourse with the company but want to tell others not to use it?

I can't wait to see how they will manage false positives.

Now not only you can't contact a human, you can't prove you're one.
If you click buy now, you get a "this resource can't be read" error.
is there any alternative FLOSS?
Why? It's a valid criticism, right?
Just out of curiosity: Is there some way for consumers to "open" a Atmos soundtrack and see what speakers are outputting sound? I remember seeing some tool that visualizes the speakers as the soundtrack is playing. Is it also possible to edit this and re-compile it back into a finished atmos soundtrack?

I ask because I have this 2010s film that was "re-released" in atmos that has a missing sound effect in a specific scene and despite my attempts to reach out to the studio and director, I cannot seem to get ahold of them. My next thing would be to try and re-add the sound effect back into the atmos soundtrack. Is this possible?
I never need a significant amount of groceries because the supermarket is only 3 minutes away. This means you only get what you need at the moment, you don’t buy things in advance. This is much more convenient, as I don’t need to plan anything in advance. I decide what I’d like to have for dinner tonight and then go out to get whatever ingredients I need. I’d hate for shopping trips to be this whole weekly expedition where you have to plan and haul all the stuff for an entire week just because you can’t quickly hop over to the store.

It also means you get fresh products. I’d hate to have to eat week old bread.
I really liked the mission of the company I worked for. The management was poor and they did nothing as they saw my coworkers going out the door. Then I left too. That doesn't mean I want to see my former company and its mission suffer. That may not be completely rational but preposterous seems a bit harsh.
NFTs Don’t Work the Way You Might Think They Do
That's only really useful if you also get rid of enough cars to make the busses effective and not stuck in traffic.
Very impressive visualization!

The submarine cable data seems to be sourced from www.submarinecablemap.com, also an amazing resource.
@cko

yes. this is the US nowadays. but tbh, its always been this way imho.
Fans who go to shows, and most who listen to live music. People don't go to a venue and hope someone they like shows up. They want want to know beforehand, and are willing to pay the artist to show up even if they wouldn't want to otherwise.
Geothermal power is a non-nuclear baseload source of energy though. Unlike all others, it just sits there and makes electricity/heat without other inputs: we should absolutely be throwing public money at it, we should've been doing this all along.

Geothermal that you can sink pretty much anywhere would be a gamechanger - it doesn't create local pollution, and it does produce waste heat: built in or neat town areas, you can make electricity and completely clean town heating that works all year round.
I think the disconnect here is that you seem to think the step-by-step is a tutorial on how to use AliceVision, it isn't. It's a high level explanation of how the photogrammetry pipeline works. If it helps, you can think of it like a pop-sci article covering scientific research. If you're looking for a tutorial on how to use the tooling built around this pipeline, you can start with [0], found by clicking Meshroom in the menu and then the tutorial link.

[0] https://meshroom-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/s...
Great article. As so many things do, it reminds me of music and also architecture:

Music: I prefer live albums to polished studio perfection. It's not just that "mistakes show they're human" although they do -- it's that they have patina. There's that word, thanks, Simon.

A live album is a recording of human beings doing the best they can do at that moment. It's no coincidence that the Allman Brothers were just a minor band until Live at Fillmore East knocked everyone's socks off.

Architecture: "brutalist" as invoked by TimTheTinker is a good word for steel-and-glass buildings, and that modern kitchen. That real estate photo is brutalist. Any mess you made there would be completely intolerable and impossible to ignore even for 10 minutes; an affront to the very spirit of the place.

On the other hand, the Shaker style of furniture is human but not ornate, and in fact I have a (very) modified Shaker style in my own kitchen cabinets.
“Is Twitter Dying?”
>Mexican cuisine in the USA is wayy past the point where people can criticize it for being inauthentic. Tex-Mex and Cal-Mex both have their own histories going back hundreds of years.

The classic Taco Bell taco is genuine southern California Cal-Mex cuisine. <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/dining/north-of-the-border...>
A meditative website where you look out of a window and draw auroras in the sky
Oh. This has nothing to do with the fact that it's a scroll-based interaction. It looks like it just doesn't work correctly with your mouse—i.e. you ran into a bug, not something that's wrong with scrolling in principle. But yeah, that looks like an annoying bug (maybe related to mouse having very high res scroll?).

I tried with trackpad and mouse on my end, and the app is well-configured for both of my devices at least: I'm able to have fine-grained control over my location by making small adjustments to scroll position.
So real numbers exist since recursively enumerable sets exist ?
The goalposts should be to create something useful, not trying to reach some nebulous criterion of "true intelligence". Submarine engineers don't labour over the question of whether their new designs are "truly swimming".
Tesla does not need to justify it's valuation. That's set by shareholders.
https://archive.ph/FwqZ4
It's not a matter of requirement, it's a matter that they want to. It's their project. Since they want to, I think crypto is the best technology available for that today.

I might be wrong, but no one responded to my question with an answer of a better solution than crypto. All they say is: "should not do it". Well, the question was not whether they should do it or not. They already did.
It appears these repository allows you to create synthetic speech of Xi Jinping, you can now see why Chinese Government might wanna take that down.
My current position was put to bid as a contract from a school district.

They tried to hire the position directly, but couldn’t fill the position w/a qualified candidate at their salary bands.

So they sent it out as a ‘service’ and approved a contract for fulfillment that was more than triple the salary band, to pay for my salary and the overhead the private company is incurring to staff the position.

If they’d been willing to break the ‘band’ and compete w/the private market directly they could of spent double instead of triple, but then they’d have to figure out how to deal w/the union and non-union staff since the salaries are public record…
The magnitude is the same as current power sources that they would be replacing i.e. 100's of MWs to 1-10s of GWs. The amount of heat being brought up would have to be about the same as you would otherwise be getting from coal, gas etc and so the same amount of heat would be vent to the environment.
Better than winning a roulette, congratulations.
"Luckily" they know that! Porous paywalls are price discrimination. Someone willing to restart their browser/wiggle their VPN/watch an ad etc. is just not at the point in their life where they are likely to pay, so it's intended to allow you to read without making the paying customers feel like they paid for nothing.

The next step ip is to replace some (but not all) of the agony with some (but not all) of the price: coupons, year-end sales, bundles etc.
But BLAS is much more than 3 loops for matrix-matrix multiplication.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1303182/how-does-blas-ge...

Why turn your back on all the carefully crafted optimizations?
> S3 Deep Archive supports restores unlike the write-only S4

I bet that a Super service like this may also support restores, but because of security reasons, they would only be internally and not be visible to the end user.
A Brief into to PyQt
Twitter should have read this article before releasing their UI update that caused the active state of the Follow/Following button to have the same background as the page itself - to this day, it continues to confuse me.

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-follow-button-redesign

That said - Twitter's problem was that in a world where dark mode exists, it's indeed difficult to show an active state of a button while restricting yourself to white and black. Here, at least, the Ham Biscuit button is ham-colored, and when glowing it does somewhat resemble a piece of ham. So at the very least it has that going for it!
UAW set it up so that the entire UC system votes on these contracts. This leads to situations where you have large student protests at union meetings followed by students at other campuses voting to ratify the contract, and then entire campuses holding unauthorized strikes in protest of the contract they just "voted for".

If things were department wide, or even campus wide, the UAW wouldn't last a year in the departments I'm familiar with.

Instead, what you're proposing would require a statewide campaign against one of the most powerful political groups in California. The UAW is well aware of this, and has no incentive to act in its members' interest.