skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the e-scooter app + sharing model solved the parking and storage problem in a way that Segway did not. You don't need a bike room at work or secure bike parking at the restaurant / movie theater / bar if you can park it anywhere and get a different one to ride home. Also allows one-way trips where you use another mode of transport to get home.

Downside: you might not have immediate availability, but you can always walk a block or two to find another scooter.
> it’s amazing what a couple years of aging can do

At a certain point don’t the cultures you’re fostering run out of food?
Yes! trying to use it for new things.

Because of the stable nature of the base language and library, and the way libraries are imported, with multiple pinned versions allowed and without import loops, it gives better longevity to "set and forget" type back-end services.

I rarely have a problem when coming back to work on an old project, it still compiles and even updating dependencies is usually fine.

This helps with the problem of back-end services becoming "forgotten children" that don't receive attention for extended periods.
Related:

Dude, where's my fuel? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31264388 - May 2022 (183 comments)

Prometheus Fuels (YC W19) Closes Series B with $1.5B Valuation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28631067 - Sept 2021 (121 comments)

Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240 - May 2019 (565 comments)

A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19792412 - April 2019 (279 comments)
You can always approach HR and say you can’t continue in your role because reasons. Ask about possible next steps. You have a good chance they’ll make you some kind of severance offer in exchange for a general release.
I’ve spent the last decade working with very good EU engineers. If I wrote a list of the top 50 people I’ve come across in EU, I would estimate 45 of them now work remote for US companies or have moved to the US.

Anecdotal, but at least that’s my experience.
If you work 60-80hrs a week but get paid 200k you are better off getting paid less total but getting more per hour
Older aircraft have the Flight Engineer position, which is the 3rd or 4th person in the Flight Deck. Modern aircraft do not need flight engineers because of the improvements we've been able to make to aircraft reliability, longevity, and ease of use; but at the time, they were worth their weight in gold and absolutely essential for any flight.

Current-generation Boeing aircraft have what's called a "moonlit" configuration, which are switches with lights in them. When the lights are white, everything is okay. When they're yellow or red, something is wrong. When the lights are off, that system is off. Very easy UX.

EDIT: Photo of the 787 Dreamliner overhead panel showing almost everything in yellow. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b33588d9a7504731f8815f5/mast...
Boo hoo, mark andressen the billionaire experiences minor inconvenience. Sometimes the government seizing private land is good.
What happened to thr interior?
what year was Sync 1? My 2013 f-150 has sync, i think, no touchscreen or anything, and for bluetooth i do have to push the "talk to car" button on the steering wheel and wait 3 seconds for it to talk to me, then say "bluetooth audio". But i use siriusXM or USB 99% of the time anyhow.

There is a bug in my version though, sometimes it resets to Aux, which is funny, because if you have a USB stick in it, you cannot switch to aux without unplugging it - yet if it bugs out to aux, you can just switch back to usb by saying "USB".

I'm just glad i don't have a touchscreen. I'm not looking forward to a future car purchase where i don't have a choice.
Yeah I feel like the fact that there are N screens all over the place is a huge distraction (even when I'm trying to relax!)

Just having somebody watching transformers in the corner of my eye... on a flight a couple of years ago I watched 2 bollywood movies start to finish cuz the lady in the row in front of me was watching it and I couldn't help just watching on her screen.
We might agree about the problem, but I doubt a pinko social welfare lefty like me and an arch-Randian libertarian “eat the poor” John Galt wannabe agree whatsoever on the solutions.
Whether to Monitor the Weather and More
More likely, SOAP as in ASP.NET (old one), which has been around since .NET 1.0. Few people remember these days, but the reason why .NET is called .NET is because it was pitched as "all about web services" back when XML and SOAP was the new hotness.
The Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed into law today, provides incentives for this.

Here’s an Australian dairy farm that just went solar and storage: https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2022/08/05/australians...
The US admits up to a million immigrants a year and has been for decades and will continue to for many more decades.

Could this be having a destabilizing effect on a number of things in America including real eastate?
> And the idea that these so called ‘VPN’ services somehow improve your security and privacy on the internet is laughable

I trust Mullvad more than I trust Optimum.
The most obvious question should be “is what I do valued by society? Are the opportunity costs low enough?”. But, nah, it is all about social injustice. The level of narcissism is astonishing.
Typically, but it does not summarize this content. The author repeatedly says he doesn’t know much about most of all the things but he also knows he can test things out by just watching the activity in his router logs. And, it’s not good.
Not perfect for everyone but for my commercial content, Vimeo has been a good choice in terms of presentation, storage, and cost.
If only you could easily print out the routing table and/or modify it so you could direct the traffic exactly where you want it (i.e. stuff it all through the VPN tunnel)...

...and that's when you realise that trying to configure a device to which you do not actually have full control of is a futile endeavour.

As such, in agreement with many of the others here, I don't consider this much of a bug nor a "scam". It's merely an effect of what VPNs are (an additional network interface) and how routing works, combined with a device whose manufacturer deliberately does not want to put users in full control of the routing table.
There isn't and that's because it didn't used to be a big deal. But now, everything has a modem in it. Cars are now part of the IoT with all the security that implies.
Yeah… “libertarian”
It sucks and it's more vulnerable to rollovers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIN8CyhYREM
…but you have to live driving distance from work, ruling out almost the entire planet for living in. I will add that it also rules out almost every workplace for you, and almost every employee for your business. Face to face is sometimes better, just not worth the massive tradeoffs.
Also, wouldn't the density of the atmosphere stay at about the current level (i.e. pretty low, regardless of the composition)?
> The real reason is probably he doesn't want his neighborhood transformed.

Oh the Urbanity! recently did a (7m) video on this, 'The Problem of “Neighborhood Character”':

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bkC8YlBxoM
Voice control is terrible, I have to use a fake accent to get it to do anything, and even then its often flaky
Without the assumption the user will not cure their distrust, your original point.
At the same time that I was working at an ISP on a product that would let employees from various companies connect via dial up and VPN into their corporate networks (whose gateways were also on our network) several of my co-workers were using a VPN of their own to connect to their home networks, but not to access the resources on those home networks (although some did that too). They wanted to use the internet from their machines at home in order to hide their internet activity from our IT department.

This is basically the same thing people do with VPNs now, only instead of hiding their internet activity from IT, they hide it from their ISP.

VPNs were always used for things other than connecting someone to a corporate network, it's just that most of the general internet population at that time (and I'm guessing you're old enough to remember this) were not aware of the technology and not tech savvy enough to set it up. This is true even for the employees of the companies we had as customers. We had to build entire software products that did nothing but hand hold people through setting up a dial up networking connection. It's not surprising that corporations were the majority users of VPN technology until the rest of the public (who don't have IT staff) caught up, at which point it became increasingly more common for people to use it to hide their internet traffic.
2016 ford escape has both manual clicky buttons and dials for the radio and the HVAC, but also completely navigable by taking your eyes off the road and attempting to tap a touchscreen that isn't calibrated for use by someone off to the f'n side of the display.

it's one of the dozen or so reasons i rarely drive my spouse's car.
> funded with a new 1.9 billion dollar funding allocation

That's not how it works. The money was already disbursed from past taxpayers to ITT many years ago. No new money is getting disbursed now. (Not to mention that it would require an act of Congress to allocate more money.)

Cancelation of debt held by the federal government just means less incoming government revenue in the future. But that revenue was never guaranteed to come back anyway, because many student loan debtors can't afford to pay back their debt, and some die never paying it off. (One of the fastest growing groups of student loan debtors is senior citizens. Some are getting their Social Security garnished.)
> A VR headset, say, is astronomically high up the hierarchy of needs

Debatable. One of the most popular uses of VR is pornography, which is targeted at one of the needs on the very bottom layer. Other uses are probably mostly serving mid-level needs like social belonging or esteem needs.
Does this fall under holography?

As a layperson, do I understand this correctly?

There are point spread functions, but they vary, in an extreme way, across the "image plane". The diffraction patterns scatter the coherent light. Since the light is coherent, the output image brightness is the result of the number of photons, and the interference from all their waves coming from the patterns. This can't be reversed because the phase is a degree of freedom that means, even though we know how any ray of light will pass through, the image that made it is undetermined?

I assume these diffraction patterns, and the "film" have to be placed with sub-wavelength accuracy?

If you exposed this with holographic film, what would you see? Maybe a bright "2" protruding from a rough, bumpy, background? Surely it's 3d, that falls into chaos right behind, right?
I just spent about 15 minutes scrolling and I’ll grant that the best 2 or 3 examples are better than the low low bar of some random crap on the social network of amateur art. Even those have weird artifacts and an utterly odd quality that feels inhuman.

The best looking ones in general feel like banksy painting a character into a flea market painting, collage.
Horizontal scaling has been a feature of Pinecone for a while now.
> Ford is not a tech company.

By what standard?
Well put, I forget how much Google actually owns. Microsoft had an OS, AOL had ISP, but Google has The Internet and a good portion of phones.
Desire for attention and desire for creativity are not mutualy exclusive, usually you have a feedback loop between both.
Thanks for the links! I checked them all out, and am relieved to say it's all very recognizable as music to me :) (even though I hadn't heard of any artist) The Amaarae track was probably most up my alley, though not quite

Being in my 40's, I thought there was some TikTok-specific music that has passed me by :)

Related to this thread, there was a recent Grimes interview on Lex Fridman and she had some interesting and good things to say about music and your brain aging (e.g. purposely listening to new music to "stretch your neurons" or something like that, which I also try to do). And ironically I heard of her precisely because of that habit, i.e. I think most of her listeners are younger than me (FWIW I first heard of her in 2015, well before any relation to tech gossip)
Especially on backgrounded browser tabs, users circuts were frequently lost. also People frequently multitask their activities. 3 minutes is nothing.
This is why the SEC has a lucrative whistleblower program:

> The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower
Maybe that wasn't the original intent, but it's a designed and supported configuration. Many places don't want a fleet of Windows laptops to become network bridges to their intranet. The default configuration for most VPN setups is to route all traffic. If you want to selectively route traffic, you have to specifically set up a split tunnel.

While you could only route client traffic to an intranet endpoint and prevent access to any external services, that wouldn't be very practical in most deployments so a proxy is added on top. This type of deployment is common and has been used for decades.
no. rezoning to multifamily housing in single family housing areas pretty much always lowers the value of the single family housing units. crime goes up, schools get worse. it's all relative, but it's a real phenomenon.

if people wanted to live by multifamily housing they would live in the city. people move to suburbs to escape dense housing.
There are no useful alternatives to airplanes for crossing a continent, or an ocean.

I agree we should do more trains, but they are limited to around 1500km per trip before flying is enough better that you look like a fool for suggesting it.
> If you want to package an application which depends on a library, you have to package the library, too.

You don't have to. You can package the application together with the right version of the library, as a single package.
Err, why would they not be able to teach the same class to a new cohort the next time it's taught? Yeah, it's a little repetitive, but how interesting can you make intro-to-$SCIENCE. Profs, usually junior profs, have been doing this at uni for ever.
There’s not enough queer Black women to make intersectionality more than an academic topic. White people are who give it prominence. Black people themselves are as conservative as republicans on sexuality: https://news.gallup.com/poll/112807/blacks-conservative-repu.... When you see BLM-style advocacy that ties together Black+queer, that’s primarily for white people. Similarly, folks like Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour have such prominence not because Muslims see themselves as having common cause with queer people (https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/us/lgbt-muslims-pride-progres...) but because white people do.

Put differently, Black people and Muslims may advocate in their own self interest, but otherwise believe whatever they believe. Ordinarily, such advocacy would seek to avoid issues that divide the community within itself. White people, by contrast, are not advocating on their own behalf, but on behalf of a variety of groups that are the object of their sympathy. Intersectionality uniquely reflects how such white people see the world.
> is that it didn't solve any real problem

Perhaps beyond that in that the Segway ran into the same systemic and structural problems that people that use traditional active transportation devices like bicycles and scooters ran into: the cities don't have safe infrastructure.

The big problem is that while building safe infrastructure for Segways, scooters and bicycles is pretty cheap and well worthwhile, because it would effectively require taking road space away from exclusive car use, there's an enormous well funded political lobby that will turn out to quash any efforts. Doesn't help that for some bizarre reason transportation choice has also been politicized so it's even a partisan reflex to oppose such things too.
We should start calling them vISP or something.
it’s cultures all the way down
I read an interview with Francis Ford Coppola a while ago. He’s filthy rich.

He emphasized again and again he isn’t rich because of his movies. He made outside investments than turned out well.

He made it pretty clear any future movies he makes will he self-funded and at a loss.

So even Hollywood is at the mercy of donors.
Another quick calculation, in addition to the one from tfussell:

Google tells me [0] that total fuel consumption by commercial airlines in 2019 was 95 billion gallons. One gallon of fuel has around 33 kWh of energy.

Power capacity needed to produce that amount of energy in a year is around 358 GW.

Total world electricity production in 2020 was around 3000 GW-year [1].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=total+yearly+aircraft+fuel+u...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=total+world+electricity+prod...
> You're not supposed to be adjusting the climate controls while moving, auto climate should just handle it. Why would I want to be distracted by needing to change the climate controls? I shouldn't have to adjust them while the vehicle is in motion.

That auto climate thing does not work well for me. I end up messing with it so much because it can't keep me comfortable. The old style where I set it at some level between hot and cold and some fan level from 1 to 5 or whatever and it just does what I tell it works perfectly. Plus I can adjust it if I have to without looking at it.
The point of docker compose is to orchestrate containers. It's great for you to have lines that you always color inside, but other people choose different lines.
> Ford is not a tech company.

By their CEO's own admission, Ford sees itself as a "data company":

https://www.autoblog.com/2016/01/06/ceo-mark-fields-ford-dat...

Their software chops are certainly dubious, but there is no questioning their intent when it comes to entering the surveillance economy.
> fancy grocery store near me that sells

I'd love to have one of these. What's the store?
If anything, not breaking things makes you more careful about what you put in. I feel like that's not a bad rule to go by.
We've found https://tilt.dev/ to actually be a great alternative to docker-compose that also keeps the local setup and knowledge more inline with production (which is Kubernetes hosted)
It would be more efficient just to redirect some comets. There is more then enough of everything floating around the inner solar system, and the Oort cloud has even more.

The composition of Mars' atmosphere is less important then getting the pressure right - at 1 atmosphere, humans don't need suits just respirators, and Earth-microbes will be more then happy to normalize things to suit them (they did it here, after all).

For Venus the big problem is water: Venus is dry. The reason it's in run-away greenhouse is because all that CO2 just will not precipitate into carbonate minerals, which to do so needs water. Again: something comets have plenty of.

The difference between the two in suitability though is the tidal lock: Mars has a day-night cycle. Venus has a day-night cycle but it's 116 Earth-days long - half the planet, if you got the atmosphere under control, would be in a freezing night for 3 and half months. You could settle it, but life would only really survive at the polls. While we can process a planetary atmosphere with plausible near-future technology and local resources, there's no known way we could "spin up" Venus (ironically a fully-tidally locked planet would have much more usable surface area as an oculus-world).
Well, I mean us after the New Deal but before smash-and-grab, “how many gold bars can I carry” politics and economics starting gaining steam in the Reagan administration.

I appreciate that’s like one human lifetime and high economic mobility had barely started to come in for e.g. black people before rich people decided to loot the place, but we were headed in the right direction for many decades before this kleptocracy-in-broad-daylight shit kicked in.
When algee biofuels were first proposed someone calculated that Arizona could produce all the fuel we use on currently unused land.

The limit is our ability to scale algee, but the lab results also show that the numbers are right.
Try finding that video via YouTube's search function.

I couldn't.
If 10 years ago I had predicted that housing, healthcare, education, and energy costs would further spiral out of control, I would have been correct.
LOL I do not live in an area that's nearly as fancy as what you're describing
I'd guess it's two major factors:

A lot of the DN talk and stories online you read are not from people originating in the US in the first place.

I'd also wager that doing this domestically has never really been uncommon at all? Just that many of these people don't think of it as "nomading" (cf "expat"/"immigrant" difference iukwim) and so are 1) less attracted to the idea because of cultural preconceptions 2) the ones who do are less likely to try pushing their lifestyle onto you.

That is, it's actually not less common at all, you just hear about it less.
Exhausting All Possibilities: The Stanley Parable
Archived: https://archive.ph/rdSN1
I put all the qualifiers around “libertarian” precisely because plenty of libertarians are perfectly nice people with no designs of building a Bond villain hideout in New Zealand once there’s nothing left to loot.
Despite the general online sentiment, it's important to realize that the average American makes an absurd amount of money compared to their global peers. Even adjusting for PPP and other factors, average disposable household income for the US - a nation of 340M people - blows the doors off Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, etc. [1].

What's more though, median disposable income per capita ALSO places the US at the very top in the world, which is super impressive.

All of this is to say that the US is actually a very wealthy place for the white collar worker demographic, so companies need to pay high salaries to attract employees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
Then they will continue to do so in their own little world and largely be ignored by society. Which is fine.

Everyone else engaging with art will take what the algorithm(influenced by monetary deals/cuts/middlemen as ever in history) puts in front of them. Which will be the "hey look at me" people.
There’s a fix for this. Assign production “visas” to specific image builds. The visa has a clear start and end date and can be renewed if evidence is provided that no security issues above a defined threshold are present.

That said, I really like Trivy. It has native output template support meaning you can plug it in where licensing gets trick (looking at you, Palo Alto Networking).
Exactly. This is the little guy punishment, not the big guy who get hundreds of millions of dollars.
I was thinking more that optometry appointments usually include medical testing (the "air puff" test for glaucoma etc.) and may turn up issues that you need to be informed of. A machine translator or a friend who speaks both languages conversationally may not be sufficient to translate complex medical terminology.

I'm not sure what you'd do about the eye chart. I don't know about optometry but I would imagine you can't just print off a poster of an English-language eye chart and use that, I always figured they'd be calibrated for a certain size, resolution, and the distance from the vision test machine taken into account.

As you suggest, given the number of western tourists to Japan I'm sure there'd be some subset of optometrists who are set up for English-language patients.