skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I could be snide, and say, “We’ve already invented that — it’s called a train.” :D

But I’ve thought the same, too. If every car on the road is robot-controlled then it changes the problem. Modulo failures, discrete algorithms should behave predictably towards each other, like the unix API philosophy.

It seems hard to get there, though. Even today it’s a PITA to maintain API boundaries in simple libraries, never mind make sure that the new Tesla v12.4 Full Self Driving For Real This Time doesn’t trigger edge cases in Volvo v7.7a Actually Real Self-Driving We Promise.

Can we make software that allows cars to behave as predictably as rail cars, but without the rails? Maybe, but I expect only on limited-access freeways. I’m sure these robot-driven cars will remain incompatible with common road uses cases like pedestrians, cyclists, and children chasing balls.
Will they provide the tritium required to bridge the gap to fusion? Canada provides almost all the world supply, but it's from stockpiles iirc. Once fusion is up and working, it can generate its own tritium, but ITERs tritium generation experiment has been massively scaled back, so we need more from nuclear reactors.

see https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run... for more info.
The first five are quite readable, but I had problems to decipher the last one. In the end I think I got them all :)

Together Human Strong
Separate Weak Failure
Since even early humans had to be parents, and many parents suffer sleep deprivation, I'm guessing it's since the time of cavemen!
> "choose from among twenty different categories of gender and sexuality."

And just when I thought I was "emotionally mature" at 40, I can't help but giggle at that sentence. Are there really 20 different genders and such nowadays? Are these filters "kinks" or have I lost touch with the current state of identity labels?
> By not doing so, it did the legally correct thing. The other driver will be blamed for this. But it may not have done the thing most likely to avoid an accident. This is the real version of the trolley problem.

It performed the only sane solution to the problem - stopping. You can't possibly predict what the most likely thing is to avoid an accident, because there is a multitude of factors beyond just 2 cars moving towards each other. Are there pedestrians present? Other parked cars? Storefronts with customers inside? How close to the sidewalk? Trees? Construction/Debris?

Once we get AI working better than 99.9% of humans on roads with speed limits of up to 30 mph - we can expand it to faster roads and introduce advanced behaviors. But for now, stopping in uncertainty is the best available option.
https://archive.ph/gCatY
I ordered a pack of 100 off amazon, and I have them everywhere -- desk, laptop back, suitcase, car, bookshelf, etc...
Learning the Elite Class
> One of the Uvalde officers was checking his phone

The one whose wife, a teacher, was injured and dying? That doesn’t seem like a case of phone addiction.
An acre might be low, five acres might be high. Depends a lot on what the local conditions are like, what you can grow, what tools you have.

I keep bees, for instance, and my hives produce about 50-100lbs of honey per year. It's not super nutritious, but it's low effort per lb. Ten hives could produce a lot of raw calories. But it's also a skill, and you can kill your bees if you aren't careful.

The point I'm making is that, we're all bringing different skills and backgrounds. I've grown potatoes but never at the scale of an acre. I don't know what challenges that brings.
What's the best FOSS alternative to this?
Okay but Israel came up because that's where the company is, in a comparison of different kinds of bad actor. Your complaint, in this specific context, is not helping.
A lot of "Normal" people are not stable. People are petty, vindictive and childish, to think anything else is just flying in the face of evidence.
Well then you could just play literally any other game. I'm very intrigued by the possibilities of a physical-location-based multiplayer game. I got into Ingress, but there wasn't significance to decisions in that game for my taste. I hope one day someone produces another GPS-based game that has more interesting strategy.
> If the day were 28 hours long, it would match my needs perfectly. Why is this?

It sounds like you might have non-24 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wake... )

I also think I have this, though my lifestyle seems to play a big role.. if I'm very active I can stay on a 24-hour cycle; but the majority of the time my cycle is more like 24.5-26 hours, which slowly causes drift until I need to do a 2-3 day 'reset' (go to sleep at 6 AM one night, 12 PM the next, and 6 PM the next), which leads to me being really tired for the majority of those days.

Once I get to sleep at 6 PM I'm set for at least a couple of weeks though, I can slowly drift to sleeping at midnight - 2 AM which is pretty good for me.

> I think the great thing about our industry is that most of us can set our hours and work any block in a 24 hour period.

And the problem with this is, meetings.

Unfortunately, almost no one knows what non-24 is, including sleep therapists I've talked to.
Probably TSMC - https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-re...
I like Bogleheads: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

The wiki and forums are great resources.
> I can angle my Ring camera to my smoking hot neighbor so I can record her doing yardwork

Probably too late to add that this was a hypothetical, but I'm glad the voting on this indicates how much we despise what's legally allowed.
The formal name used nowadays (one of them, anyhow) is Quadrature Detector. It's a scheme so elegant that grasping the simple mechanics of it demystifies some of the core concepts of Signal Processing.

The QEX series "A Software-Defined Radio for the Masses"[1] is usually offered as the work that popularized this approach. The Motorola patent[2] that cites Dan Tayloe as inventor expired in 2018 [3].

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/thesdrinstitute/A-Software-Def...
[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6230000
[3] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/rf-microwave/patent-expiration...

It's quite the rabbit hole and if you dive in you'll end up with a HAM license and a workshop full of instruments and soldering tools.
> US does distinguish (typically in state law) between listening and recording. Recording is different from watching/listening. It's reasonably possible to know who is present at any given time, but not possible to know in advance who might hear/see a recording in the future.

I'm not sure how universal is, and it's not always reasonably possible to know who is listening. You can listen from afar. But I would think most states have eavesdropping laws that include overhearing. Here is an example from my state, Kentucky.

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id...

This law covers both listening and recording.
Just 2 months old?

The good news is that you can still be sleep deprived three years later! Source: me.
Paying in cash, in addition to being a minor inconvenience that non-the-less outweighs most people's desire for privacy, does not work in online payments. It also doesn't work in businesses that get robbed.

The better question is, why do you need a new currency to get privacy? Why couldn't we have a private crypto currency backed by dollars or euros? There's no technical reason, indeed several groups are building this. What remains to be seen is if there's sufficient incentives to build anything around these or for any portion of the economy to move to them. Most purchases aren't sensitive, so for private payments to work, they need to be ubiquitous for non privacy reasons and just give people who need it the option for privacy. Much like cash does. But again, cash doesn't work online or increasingly offline
> The government keeps a whole lot of military R&D projects, warcrimes, space projects, ect, secret from us and only to be declassified X decades later. Why couldn't they be forced to keep transactions private for X decades?

Because unlike those secret R&D projects, they don't benefit from not being able to access the data they're storing in your scenario. There's absolutely no way you could trust with absolute certainty that a private blockchain run by the US government, one of the largest acquirers of zero-day vulns, would build such a system and not have some sort of backdoor. They've been caught so many times playing this game, thinking to the clipper chip and beyond.

It would be so much simpler and more private to just require everyone to accept cash. The more I think about it, the idea of a private government blockchain that they're not looking at is fundamentally antithetical to the existence of that institution.
> Remember Angry Birds? Rovio took VC funding. How did that work out?

They have branded toys and merch everywhere in the universe and even had a movie.

Whether they’re making money, I have no idea, but from a naive point of view they seem to have been pretty successful.
Well clearly I need a throw away also. Also an Australian in late 40's.

There was a golden age a while back using websites such as AMM for hookups and threesomes, and Fetlife was unusually great for kink. I basically just listed myself as a male into needle play (with equipment) and LOTS of girls actually came to me. I would get messages asking if my lab was real and when they could visit. Which is a completely contrast to anything you'd see today.

Fetlife really died. The vast majority of female accounts have some variation of "if you'd like to talk to me more, subscribe to my Onlyfans". I opened my inbox today and clicked on the profiles of girls that messaged me years ago, they've all left the site, and you absolutely can't replicate that experience on Tinder.
Ford lighting is currently my next vehicle, but we have a need for a truck specifically (we have forest land we work on conserving).

I'm keeping an eye on Kia, VW, Hyundai right now. But I expect other manufacturers will catch up.
It generally comes with more chromatic aberrations (rainbow splitting of high contrast edges / light sources), but the tech keeps improving and my current pair is only barely noticeable in my normal vision window. At the edge it basically makes text unreadable though, just because the aberrations overlap enough.

Which is much much better than like 15+ years ago, when I had a pair that had enough aberration that I was happy to get the thicker ones the next time. It was kinda fun being a walking spectroscope, but definitely uncomfortable in quite a few cases.
The elephant in the room is fraud.

Tesla has been collecting thousands of dollars, each, from car buyers and utterly failing to deliver what it represented, and keeping the money year after year. Would be let GM, Toyota, or Audi do this? Where is the criminal prosecution? Where are the refunds?
I think the distinction is a bit more blurry than you're implying here. Political (maybe too limiting) ideology is a linear model fit over the vast complexity of life that provides a framework for its adherents to make simple choices in the face of complex problems.

Traditionally conceived "spiritual" religions seem very similar to me.
I interviewed at ring before they were absorbed by Amazon. The hiring manager tried to close the deal with an inspiring story about using ring cameras to scare "gang bangers" who got too close to his girlfriend. I walked out. I'm white, but I remember Emmett Till.
Their revenue is hidden in shell and related companies. What revenue are you looking at the public profits of Disney?
So it's estimated to cost 4x the cost of wind or solar today and it's not being deployed for at least 10yrs. Sounds like a bargain.
Previously (April 2022, 1382 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30977147
What are the prospects on those rates?
> One of the Uvalde officers was checking his phone with an ongoing shooting right next to him.

If you’re talking about the one with the Punisher lock screen, I’m pretty sure his wife was contacting him telling him she’d been shot and was dying. AFAIK he wasn’t just “checking his phone” out of boredom.
Tesla is focused on unit production, SKU minimization is a side effect. They are supply contained. Why make additional models of cars if you can sell more of the ones you already make instead? There's more than enough demand to support their limited SKU's, high price points and current production; for the moment. When Tesla manages to cap out on their demand, they can lower prices and introduce more models. But when that happens they will be at a scale where their economies of scale and vertical integration allows them to still make a large profit while their competition breaks even or worse.
You can now play 'Doom' inside 'Doom II'
Big issue in Australia is we like to dig things up and essentially give them away internationally.

Fossil fuel companies have a very big say in government decisions. There is a recent change of government, so they'll have slightly less of a say - but still a large amount.

What we really need to do, if we were forward-thinking enough, is value-add our resources. Instead of sending away lithium and buying back batteries, we should develop the capability locally.
Umm, I'm pretty OK with medical suppliers not being able to sub in no-name or grey-market substitutions that may have unknown silicon bugs. Regulation isn't always bad, and being in a regulated industry had some of these problems even before the component shortage.

Sure, subbing a MCU for an unknown supplier in a kids toy isn't likely to cause any serious problems, but in anything that can hurt or kill people it's objectively a good thing that there are regulations in place to prevent safety issues.

Ive heard the same complaints about food regulations, but it's objectively a good thing that a consumer can purchase anything (that isn't expired) from a grocery store with near certainty that it won't make them I'll. That same surety can't be had in countries with more lax food standards.
It's hardly a matter of "belief." They've done it before! Ever heard of the Cultural Revolution?!
This is the first article I read on feeld/3nder that really resonates with me.

Dimo and Ana were the first paying clients of the last startup I co-founded, Smooch.io, that would go on to be acquired by Zendesk. I even had a chance to meet Dimo on a trip to London.

Unlike many of the hundreds of other brash founders that we sold our platform to, this team was different. The level of maturity, emotionally and otherwise, that the pair demonstrated was astounding. They poured themselves into this product and its very much an artistic creation first and foremost. Using the app, you can sense that real people, with real feelings, expressed thoughtfulness and empathy like few other builders of the era.

They've since moved on from Smooch/Zendesk, and I've moved on from it as well, but seeing their work covered here leaves me feeling really nostalgic for those days gone by. They (and their love for one another) really built one of the few remaining places left in the digital world that are delightfully special.
Just got mine last night. I think they are scaling up invites in the past few days.
My dad worked on these for the (even further north) northern provinces.

I forget which company, but I know one of these were sold as being tested to be safe under a direct missile hit in case of an attack! Super cool.

Edit: Territories, not provinces. All three of them.
The funny thing is that I hate changing tech at the backend, but still love many of the innovations at the frontend.

I know, it still seems crazy what's happening at the frontend ... but Vite brings substantial advantages compared to the old standard. Same thing with the next-gen frameworks like Svelte, SolidJS or Vue 3 (composition API) that are substantially better than the old ones (mainly regarding DX). Another welcoming example are the quite new E2E testing frameworks like Cypress or Playwright.
For anyone that played Ingress, Niantic's earlier game, then the poor handling of Pokemon Go development is exactly inline with expectations, though still disappointing.
It's well established that lower income cohorts have less access to digital finance and credit. Cashless systems instantly become a proxy to exclude those cohorts.
Why not use APCu?
Claude Shannon's masters thesis was quite short as well [0], around 25 pages!

[0] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf
Giving your database credentials to a random website is completely insane and likely professional malpractice for a developer. I hope no one does this.
Albanese laid out a vision for Australia: clean energy exporter and manufacturer
It’s not VC money but you pretty much described Amazon, Netflix, and so on. If they are dumping money hand over fist into original content they probably have a good economic argument for it.
Archive link - https://archive.ph/ZyYKt
The argument was: "he's made the cardinal sin of being a Republican."

So why would being a Republican cause both parties to dislike him at the same percentage?
The jury should have been asking exactly that. Obviously the guy could. And just as obviously, this CIA unit was fully equipped to make it look like he failed to. It was their everyday job. None of their "evidence" passes the smell test.

The child porn thing is an obvious extortion tactic: plead guilty to this or we'll try you for that!
I've seen some re-interpretations of phaux-3d rectilinear skeuomorphism that used a lot of light scattering effects and looked extremely modern. I thought around this year those would be common but everyone seems to be still hung up on flat design which is a bit disappointing (and then there's adwaita which is off in left field picking daisies as usual.)
Ex-CIA engineer convicted in theft of secret info
> I'm more describing debian repos. A non-mandatory trusted source for JS libraries. Perhaps the browser creators would like to fund it.

No, I imagine browser developers probably would not like to fund the development and review of your codebase. How about you do that yourself?

Serious question, why would you even think that's an option? Why does Mozilla want to pay for doing code review for Facebook?

> Great, so lets have an optional trusted source, that's available as standard in browsers, but which can be opted out of with a few button presses and a warning. Just as a concession to "I don't want any old web page to be able to execute any old crap without oversight".

as stated, if such a "couple of button presses" mechanism exists, the worst offenders will instantly demand that you use it and bypass app review/permissioning for them. Facebook and Netflix and the like have "network effect" to get away with it, if you want to use facebook to talk to your friends/family you will do this, or else you won't use facebook. We could certainly start unwinding some of these monopolies so there is no longer such a network effect - but I'd absolutely want to see that happening before we even talk about loosening app review protocols, not just "loosen app review, step 2: a miracle happens".

User choice already exists - the optional trusted source is you build the app on your PC and deploy it on your phone with developer credentials. But the mere existence of a broad-spectrum mechanism by which publishers can publish un-reviewed code guarantees its usage. Show us that you aren't stealing our movies, or else you don't get to watch movies. It has to be a user-driven thing - and that's exactly what exists.

And again, as I already said - this isn't a hypothetical, Facebook already has been using its developer credentials to get users to install spyware that they couldn't get through the app-review process. They already are exploiting the "user-driven mechanism" beyond the allowable bounds, if you hand them the blanket ability to deploy third-party software that bypasses app review, that's essentially curtains for the concept of app review.

Your magical fantasy world where everyone is a good actor and nobody malicious will ever just demand that users push the button to bypass app review is just that - a naive fantasy. In the real world, widespread sideloading is antithetical to the concept of app review, period the end. Sideloading has to be gated significantly enough that a typical user won't want to go through the hassle - like requiring a $100/yr dev credential to do it.

Let me put this in perhaps a different context: how do you think this will all work out when it's WeChat and Tiktok demanding you give root access to the chinese government? There are a lot of people for whom WeChat is not an option, it's just the "facebook of china" and everybody communicates over WeChat. It's not going to be very nice when you hand WeChat the ability to demand that you root your phone for them, or else you just don't get to talk to your family.
batteries are round because the process to make them was a flow process, and its natural to roll things up from ribbons and sheets. Folding introduces more complexities: how do you make the fold the right length? what does it do to the barrier between things?

folding and layers don't mix as well as rolling and layers. swiss rolls, sushi rolls, battery cells are basically the same thing with chemistry differences.

capacitors come in cans for much the same reason. you take sheets of "stuff" and cover them with semi liquid other "stuff" and you roll them up and then cut the long rolls into short segments, put them in cans, attach electrodes and you have a capacitor. Sorry battery. Sorry Swiss roll. Sorry, sashimi. No: we got that order wrong.
I got LASIK. One of the best decisions I have ever made.

EDIT TO ADD:

I got the surgery 3 years ago, I'm 42 now. Post surgery I am at 20/15 vision.

No complications, and no side effects.

If anyone is interested, here is the video of the entire procedure (they even offered to live stream it on facebook for me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4YOuS-nznk
What’s Going on in Those Police Fentanyl Exposure Videos?
>128D even more so, with its desktop box, built-in floppy drive and separate keyboard

and Atari ST price point, or 80% Amiga 500
This is exactly what Niantic deserves for their long-running war against rooted phones.
No, it very much is not. It's literally how all education works, for example.
>worked well enough for this country for hundreds of years.

If I remember my numbers from an economics course right, from 1776-1912, there were major runs on banks in the US an average of every 12 years. While the US didn't leave the gold standard until 1933, the fed, after it learned not to drastically raise interest rates quickly in 1929, has kept things pretty stable for almost a century.
Sears Catalog Fought White Supremacists (2019)
Since this is HN and we're playing the tbf game...

To be fair he'd only have to hit the FTL goal and then FTL can be used as a time machine.
> You could buy software to transcribe voice on your home computer, and people did. And, now, well, it's better than in the mid-90s certainly, but you wouldn't trust it to write a transcript, not of anything important.

Is this the fault of software or people generally frequently using bad sound equipment in poor and noisy conditions, such as talking on the phone while driving, on the street, poor connection, wind/rain, etc. ?

Personally, because English isn't my first language, I frequently "fail" to transcribe what is being said and have to ask the other person to repeat themselves. It seems like an AI voice transcriber in 2022 is going to work better than me.
> All contracts have conditions which is not met make the contract null-and-void.

Yes, and when negotiating the contract with Twitter, Musk effectively waived _all_ of them.
“Critical” projects and volunteer maintainers