skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After that imagine an Earth without any humans. Birds are singing, wild nature is living, fresh air on your backyard, no plastic, peace everywhere.
If it's a matter of lobbying aka legal bribery, why are foreign companies disadvantaged? These American companies have no qualms about lobbying in America, they could do the same in the EU. If the EU officials prefer to serve the interests of EU companies despite lobbying from both of them, maybe it's because they earnestly believe EU interests are better served by EU companies?
"Perhaps the most important factor, though, is that because WIGs are not classed as aircraft the regulations that govern them are far less onerous. That means that they don’t need to carry the kind of backup power that an aircraft would need for emergency landings, and they don’t need to be flown by trained airline pilots."

Just what every passenger wants to hear haha

They say this is a solution for the fact electric airplanes are going to only be able to hop between cities and then says how this can only go 180 miles with 12 passengers, hardly a long distance, oh and it has to be across a body of water... and the water can't be too rough... sounds like a great solution!
You should make it proportional to the miles driven. Someone who does 1,000 miles a year causes far less wear than someone doing 30,000 miles a year

That's the crazy thing about vehicle excise duty, if you do 1,500 miles a year you might use 300 litres of petrol (about £150 tax), but you could be paying another £160 in VED, making the total tax 20p per mile

Meanwhile someone doing 30,000 miles at the same mpg will be paying about 10p per mile
I want this desperately. I’ve got close to 8 years blogging with photos on Wordpress. It’s a diary of my son’s childhood.

I looked at the options… there are very few but currently I think the best is https://www.blookup.com/en/products/blog-book/wordpress/auth...

The price is decent. They split the blog into multiple volumes if needed. But I just don’t know about the quality. And there are very very few customizations. Just to get the date printed on each blog entry was difficult. I really want to customize it more. I have not pulled the trigger yet but probably will because the alternatives all suck.

All the other options I found could not consume my blog; it was too large or their scraping was just too poor. But these guys use some kind if Wordpress api to get the entries instead of scraping. And it works decently. They are in France I think so pages are A4 instead of American sizes.
It is kinda funny, it was this behavior among others that made me switch from android to an iphone. I got so tired of BT shenanigans.

I do feel sympathy for the people still having trouble, but mine has been flawless. I do not, however, drive a Lexus.
The ageism in the reply makes me bristle as well. A little past 65 here. Currently employed at my third startup gig in my thirty eight year embedded systems career. Ignorance spans all age levels.
I feel like we could do this for homes & businesses too...

How big of a thermal battery (assume we are freezing water) would you need to store the cooling capacity of a 5 ton HVAC system running for 1 summer day?

Perhaps we could design a new generation of heat pumps with this approach in mind.
I think it's mostly just the difference in goals.

Programming has one clear goal; describing logic rules that both human and machine can understand with the least room for misunderstanding. Simplicity facilitates that.

Natural languages serve many purposes. When used purely functional simplicity is still wanted. Instructions for example are written as simple as possible with limited vocabulary, not that different from programming.

But we don't speak purely for functional reasons, it's also entertainment, expression, play, emotion, for those you need more options on how you communicate something.

For example a story told in its simplest form is usually not very effective. How it's told makes it interesting, entertaining and/or evoke emotion. That requires more options and freedom.
Thank you, I have the XM3 so somehow now I know that it's possible.
This might work at a small company with a limited number of SWE’s. Every company over 1k that I’ve worked at that followed this pattern was a shitshow when it came to incidents. Not to throw it out the window, just suggesting that it isn’t as simple as it seems here. The accountability problems surface quickly, even in very talented software engineering orgs. And of course the only thing harder than convincing a software engineer to go on call is convincing a software engineer who was hired onto a team that doesn’t do oncall to do so..
Or just look at the odometer each year at the MOT
Tolls are paid by those who drive on the roads, not by those who benefit from the roads if they don't drive. That's why it's a shifted burden. Tolls and fuel taxes are paid by those who drive, not those who otherwise benefit. Just my opinion.
Oh, intriguing title. How is the book?
The steady creep of surveillance posing as convenience.
I’ve never used a wireless version of CarPlay, I always plugged it in which worked reliably in every modern budget car I’ve rented (Toyota included).
There are usually three outcomes:

1) the builder changes are accepted at the same cost AND they are actually same or better than project

2) the builder changes are accepted at an extra cost AND they are actually same or better than project AND the construction goes over budget

3) the builder changes are not accepted, the project is (hopefully) executed as designed BUT the builder losing money will not complete it (or not complete it in time) with daily bickering on site AND an endless trail in Courts

No, the plans - generally speaking - are not good enough.
A road or car tax doesn’t have to go away just because the car is electric no? Am I missing something?

As for the fuel tax, why not make up for it with an increase in car tax once sufficient adoption is reached? Once 80% of cars are electric, the car tax increases by an amount required to make up for the average revenue from fuel. At that point, electric cars pay just a high car tax and fossil fuel cars pay both the high car tax and the fuel duty, further incentiveiseing the switch to electric.

Am I missing something? What would be the issues with this approach?
What's the plan for enforcing it? Did the United States sign off on it?

In my opinion they need the US buy-in, and there actually need to be criminal penalties enforced against top executives (jail time) and the other executives need to see it happen. Unless they do that stuff it seems like they may really try to ignore and delay and do the absolute minimum effort.
Yeah, if you need coverage shuttles are great albeit at a high marginal cost per trip. If you need capacity then they don't really work. A city will spend more on shuttles than they would on a network extensive and well designed enough to get good utilization.

I guess they are useful in some US cities as a stepping stone where there are massive political and legislative barriers to building a functional city.
In fact, pre-Google YouTube has very loose standards with regard to copyright. Most of the content was blatant piracy, a bit like "tube" porn sites today (YouTube also had porn btw). But it was a small company, and rightsholders didn't really care.

The minute it was bought by Google and their deep pockets, it was lawsuit after lawsuit.
TIL

manularity
[prob. fr. techspeak manual + granularity] A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate.
Tractors don't know how to repair each other, either.
In the UK local council tax funds local roads, and national government (funded mainly from income tax, national insurance and VAT) funds major trunk roads.
The kind of fissile stuff being proposed for most forward-deployed reactor designs is not useful for weapons. The biggest danger is blowing up the reactor itself, causing it to be a type of dirty-but-conventional bomb, a non-nuclear (fission/fusion) blast.
I kinda did this. Cheapest Brother printer, but with WiFi. Which is exclusively how we use it. Been flawless, printing from windows laptops, macbooks, iphones...
> write commit messages describing _why_.

Could you provide a concrete example? I don't understand your point.
The recommendation does not hold up when scrutinised.

MDN is also third-party, thus equally unofficial. The official sources are IANA and IETF.

The quality is objectively worse compared with webconcepts. It's not immediately visible where a status code originates from, and when you follow through to the detail document, you can see that the outdated RFC 2616 is referenced.
Most authors of textbooks are grad students who don't see a single dime out of it. If anything, I think that it is to reach the minimum word count to get it accepted.
VED (Vehicle Exercise Duty), as it is currently known, is now based on emissions. It would be a hard sell to undo that, and base it on something else (like vehicle weight/size/etc). The most acceptable way to tax EVs at this point is probably taxing at the charging point.
What I don't understand about messaging is, do only the large providers have to be interoperable among each other or can I create my own crappy messaging app and integrate with WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal et al.?

Edit: typo
European democracy at its best. Proud to be European today.
A millennial is someone who came of age around 2000-2010. I did, turned 18 in 1999, and I grew up with home computers. Early millennial/late gen-X grew up with home micros, later millennial grew up with Windows 95+ PCs (which are plenty complex enough to force you to learn a lot about computers).

And yes, it's true not everyone in this generation learned anything about computers. Even in middle school in the nineties in a very developed country, I reckon less than half of my class had a computer at home.

But those who had, even outside the "subculture", learned a lot which people generally don't know today.
If it may be a helpful perspective - I don't care if I phone one's room phone or cell phone; but texting/messaging is a completely different mode of communication than a phone call to begin with.

Texting, like messaging and email, are async whereas phone is sync. For 99% of my communication, I don't need to talk to somebody right now (and they don't need to talk to me right now :). I don't care if other party has a cell phone or not, but written comms is preferred to voice comm for large number of my requirements.

Similarly, email/messaging/text can trivially be a group conversation, and plans can be narrowed down or many people can be informed quickly; again, don't care if other party has cell phone or not, but in many circumstances I'd prefer to send one quick message/email/text, than to call 7 people.

(lest you think I lack empathy, I am of course on the other side of the equation too! My family is all on Whatsapp, which for me is the worst messaging system that an evil mind could possibly invent, so I feel the pressure :)
Modern problems require modern solutions. Nice work.
Not to detract from you comment, but you don't have to have a disability. Some people simply cannot do on-call, disability or not.

I had a co-worker at a previous job, he did two or three on-call rotation and told our boss that he couldn't do it. Mentally it's simply to much for him, especially outside business hours where he felt alone with to much responsibility. In terms of abilities and qualifications he was absolutely able to do the job. Nobody complained or got angry with him over it, because everyone could relate.

At the other end of the scale I had another co-worker, in a more complicated scenario who absolutely didn't care. The payment for the on-call shifts was very good, so he just grabbed as many as possible. He would just take his laptop golfing, no problem. His reasoning: Either he'd know how to fix the problem, if not he'd just to call someone else and hand of the incident.
Not only does it force the 8 players to prepare before the tournament, it forces the champion to prepare against all 8 players, making their task even worse!
It’s EU law, not US law. US cannot sign off on EU law.
A side effect is that it allows anyone running a website to build a database of TeamViewer installs behind IP addresses. If there was a TeamViewer security issue, that database could be useful.
aka Xennials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
Any Ampere vs M1/M2 comparisons I wonder...
Another bad idea that keeps coming back. Real experts have written about it. Start with https://humantransit.org/2019/08/what-is-microtransit-for.ht... and be prepared to read for a while to understand why this is not a good idea despite the hype.
Your theory is that legislators mainly write legislation themselves about problems they have personally experienced? Because my understanding is that legislators are just the most visible person on a team, with much of the work being done by staff, who range widely in age. Based, of course, on input from constituents, lobbyists, civil society organizations, and government agencies.

I think it's pretty weird to jump right to "the olds know nothing" when the problem is a niche and relatively new scam. Scammers are always finding new scams. Would I like the lag time between scam creation and scam elimination to be faster? Sure. But I'd guess that legislator age is well down the list of factors causing that.
I’ve imagined that self driving cars would fill in this “last mile” from the end destination to an air conditioned transit hub. Once you get enough density in a transit hub, the frequency and destinations should explode, making the network usable, even in car heavy towns like Houston.
I'm a huge fan of wondering openly whether what people commonly do is best, or if it's just best for some people and everyone else does it because they haven't really thought about it.

For instance, the idea that an expensive, thousand plus dollar rackmount server is only able to run in a special place where the temperature is just right and might fail if a fan fails or the temperature is a wee bit higher than usual is utter bollocks.

I build my own rackmount servers that can run at 100º temperatures, even with fan failures. I know this because that's how I test them. I have the OS aggressively throttle on the most egregious failures, but fan failure is much less common in general when you're using 80mm Noctua fans instead of 40mm fans that have to run at many thousands of RPM to keep their zones cool.

So maybe people need to rethink the idea that datacenters have to be kept at 70º or below, and instead should insist on better thought out hardware.
You joke, didn't Apple add custom instructions to their silicon to accelerate their safari/js hot paths like they did with rosetta 2?
>>firstly because you can't rely on it and secondly because a sovereign government has no need of revenue in the first place. That's not the purpose of taxes!

Soo much wrong here...

Revenue should be the ONLY purpose of taxation, and falsehood that sovereign government steams from a combination of fiat currency and MMT, which when combined and executed on like you are implying lead to inflation can currency collapse (in the extreme)

governments SHOULD NOT use taxation to pick winners and losers, nor to legislate morality, they should use taxation ONLY to collect revenue to projects and programs approved by the people, and for no other purpose
Can I now install Linux on an iPhone?
Wow I think that site has the 1st decent GDPR popup thing I've seen. Just two buttons, accept cookies, reject cookies, u click one and then it goes away.
A generator or an electric motor don't have a particularly low efficiency or don't wear much? Hybrids happened in locomotives and ships way before cars. Many ships have diesel engines turning generators and then have electric motor propulsion.

You can replace all 23 MW (consisting of 20 MW propulsion and 3 MW electrical) on one ship with batteries + propulsion motor.

Or you can replace just the 3 MW pure electric part with batteries, getting rid of the auxiliary motors and their generators, doing it on 8 ships.

In the latter case you don't need the one propulsion motor, that's true, so it might be somewhat better.
> So you arrest him for homicide, seize the equipment and reveal the fact that it is just some kind of electric chair. It'll go to trial and the lies will be revealed, or he'll have to give a complete confession.

There may be environments today in which prosecution under the current regime would not be possible. What if he was doing this in a hospital, and had full legal immunity granted similar to Pfizer?

> We know that we'd be able to tell the difference between the deepfake and a specific living person

After seeing the advanced deep learning systems OpenAI has put out there, like GPT-3 and DALL-E, I'm not so sure. No, those systems aren't perfect, but the imperfections could be hidden from view in a low-fidelity virtual environment like FB's metaverse.

> But if the premise is that the salesman's simulation is so good that we can't tell the difference at all, then is there actually any lie to detect?

For myself and many people, human lives have a special status, and they more than just an algorithm or input/output relationship.

The idea that a simulation of a person, no matter how well-trained, being morally or legally equivalent to that person, just does not compute to people like me.

Also, a liar knows full well that he is lying -- so why should other people be confused about it, once they know it?
Show HN: A breeding ground for code - or have fun trying
It seems like giving only TeamViewer's site the ability to see this font would solve the fingerprinting problem and let it work as designed.

Per-site font lists don't seem to be a common feature in browsers nor extensions, however.
Correct, once the labor pool is expanded to include those people, the value of the work is re-adjusted, since value is relative to all options available.

I did mention income being a rough approximation, implicitly acknowledging unpaid work. Yes, I agree that open-source contributions should be counted as charity donations in regards to taxes.
They can't transport many people either though.
Plus, the counter-factual is not the same use of bus systems, but instead lower use of bus systems in favor of private ride share companies who don’t have the incentive to limit congestion or pollution at all. The consumer revolution has plainly exposed that people will consistently choose the more convenient option.
Cool, I bet you had fun with that.

Two random comments: if you haven’t played with the Hy language (hylang) it is pretty cool, a surface Clojure like syntax on top of Python. Also, have you tried the Python version of the book?
The BT spec defines 5 overly complicated ways to do any given thing but most devices only support 1 or 2. Multiply by the number of things that need to be done. In practice the compatibility situation is "test all pairs" and just as bad as if there were no standard at all.
Prodrive’s New Racing Simulator
I do not agree with both statements. Please show me at least one example of:

good natural language

bad natural language

good computer language

bad computer language
Side note - it's been a while since i've seen a Docco-style annotated-source-style documentation! http://ashkenas.com/docco/

Backbone.js was the first time i saw it, and I loved it! https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html It demonstrated to me that the libraries I use are just normal code that other people write, and i myself can read it to understand a problem.
This bundles in firearm suicides with firearm homicides, obscuring the real issue.

When most people say "gun violence" they do not mean gun-as-tool-used-in-suicide, they mean nonconsensual use of a firearm against someone.

Suicides are way up. Gun murders are up too, but they're still pretty low in the scheme of things. They're "safe to completely ignore" low if you're not in one of a few specific counties in the US where gang violence causes 70-90% of the gun murders.

The movie plot/evening news gun violence stuff that you hear about is so rare as to be safely ignored in all parts of the US.
From your description I thought for a second that you were somehow parsing the page :D
> …since I'm an Apple Music user, whenever I start the car, it just defaults to whatever's I've been listening to there… […] Now why apple just defaults to Apple Music, and not "your music player of choice a.k.a. Spotify" is questionable…

As you noted, it continues playing whatever you were playing in whatever app you were using, with no preference for Apple Music (I'm also a Music subscriber). If you were playing something with Spotify, that's what will continue to play.

I do wish it were configurable with contextual defaults. Too often, I start my car and my sleep sounds app continues to play "Airplane Interior".
They days of not assuming malice are long past.
We have many documented cases of malice from corporations and world governments.

We must assume malice and push back on the invasion of our rights.
Well but they can include a back door at hardware level… not that bad for the effort, especially if the China government pay for it! (I’m sarcastic obviously, but who know)
n+1: The people that wrote the code and designed the systems are the first to be paged. Their work, their disrupted sleep.
> where is the creative freedom?

Creative freedom is for companies that are valued below €75bn and exempt from this regulation. The big ones have to comply with more heavy-handed regulation, as it should be in my opinion.
That's a drake meme if I ever saw one.

No -> Fact checkers

Yes -> Checker facts
Is pulling people's pants down your normal response to using words that aren't well-defined?
Is this thinly veiled attempt at dissuading people to not work for this company. Or this has to be a parody of tech culture.
Follow the money. It is always about the money. I was at a corporate security conference where one of the speakers stated that organized crime groups hire the top mathematicians and computer scientists from the top universities every year. They provide them with laboratories that you wish your company could afford.
The US Army Bought a GMC Hummer EV for Testing
Hexagonal Architecture (2005)
2. is true or untrue depending on how deeply you interpret it.

A branch is named, points to a commit and under normal circumstances will track the sequence of commits made via itself (i.e. when you commit and HEAD points to branch b, b starts pointing to the child commit). So you could say it's a named sequence of commits.

On the other hand you can reset the branch to any commit in the tree, even ones which aren't even on the current sequence of parents. It is still technically a named sequence of commits, just a totally different one.
They're smart, but the language of the regulation gives enforcers enough leeway to fine them for trying to pull bullshit like this. Using "bazillions of devs" to try to circumvent the spirit of the law would be an enormous waste of time and money. Hopefully they realize that before even trying.
Having a winning strategy for black seems impossible though; the discussion is whether white have it or is it a forced draw.
It would be totally sufficient to use the protocol handler. You also can not be sure teamviewer is not installed, just because the font is missing. The user could use an older version that does not include the font, or could have removed the font manually.
Interestingly enough, an iPhone that complies with these demands is actually the first iPhone I'd ever consider paying for. I wonder if this might actually increase adoption.
unless those housing is all owned by those 0.1%, how does taking away the wealth of say Bezos reduce the rent of working class people?
>Most people in software have no idea what leadership looks like, which makes evaluating for strong leadership all but impossible.

what does it look like according to you?
It's not US only. US companies also do it in Europe.

And there are plenty of cases where you need to fix something ASAP and the Ops team can't do it.