skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are in agreement so, in that bikes are an absolutely essential component of a more sustainable transport infrastructure. 20% by the way is a very large number in the context of the total number of trips taken by any given population and unlike you I do not believe this is an upper limit of what can be achieved with bikes but this is a separate discussion.

I just wanted to clarify a bugbear with me which is the "people don't use bikes because the weather is crappy". I know nuance is lost in such a few amount of words and that's probably not what you are saying in totality but i just wanted to highlight this point.

As an aside, I lived in a large city where amenities such as supermarkets were relatively far away. For a couple of years I got away with not owning a car and using a bike for all shopping needs. There are some examples of where a car would have been way more convenient but the fact of the matter is I made do without it. There are a large number of trips that I made with the bike that I wouldn't have done if I did have a car. Humans are creatures of convenience. There are some trips where a car (or something similar) is absolutely essential but for the vast majority it is not. In situations of necessity it is amazing what can be achieved. We are not living in an age of necessity with regards to means of transport but we really should be if the climate science is to be believed.
> ZFS is not the simplest solution to the problems that "ought to be solved"

What are simpler solutions to the problems that ought to be solved?
Maybe you should see this from a marketing POV. If you want to sell "Proteins easy to fry" you will probably fail.
But if you sell "Vegan Steak" with the texture and like taste of a steak out of meat, you will have your customers.
So the alternatives have no established name and naming it "meat" will make sense.
And yes ... it's processed and no I think it's not healthy for day to day consumption (like coke) but once a week or month ... why not? Smoking (even passive) so most probably more dangerous ;)
The cost of managing cars is so huge, we should really have more fluid intersections.
Consumer grade printers are a barren wasteland of planned obsolescence and anti-consumer practices. I recommend everyone that needs a printer in their home spend the extra couple of hundred dollars and buy an office grade printer. The difference between our current HP OfficeJet color laser printer/scanner/copier (cost about $450) and our previous cheapo under $100 consumer grade ink jet printer is unbelievable. Well worth the extra cash and it’s a total workhorse that feels like it’ll last for years.
This is fixed in the latest release. Surprisingly, no-one complained about this so far!
I mean, the thing that got me to try Supabase was that they had the most generous free tier for Postgres that I could find, didn’t even care about their other features.
Define 'comfortable'. It's always relative as people aspire to be what others have become. Wars have always happened, naturally, so it's nothing 'unnatural', and perhaps nature's way to flatten the curve. Our current feelings about war may or may not be correct - wars have many benefits too.
For how long have you been using python and ruby professionally?
You can just use a GCC version < 4.8 or something like e.g. TCC if you want to avoid C++.

Though Ninja is implemented in a very moderate C++ style; I'm able to compile it even with GCC <= 4.8; it even seems to compile on pre-C++11 compilers.
Oh, nice! Neuecc's posts and packages are absolutely unparalleled. Worth checking out if you work with Unity and/or C#.

https://github.com/neuecc/
There are lots of good CppCon sessions you could watch. Unfortunately, they're not in the form of a comprehensive book. Maybe you should try Bjarne Stroupstrup's "Tour of C++":

https://www.stroustrup.com/tour2.html

which might fit the bill. It doesn't go very far in depth, though. 240 pages.
Many if not most countries have preferred front-line treatments, usually decided by a combination of overall costs. These costs will include things like actual monetary cost, how closely you need to be monitored by your doctors (blood tests and stuff), how severe side effects are, how much the reduce disability in the long term, the ability of patients to stick with it and things like that.
The genius of the modern ones is in marketing.

Beyond & Impossible are somehow seen as meat competitors, not Quorn & Linda whatsit (I can't even recall the name! Says something itself) competitors. Which of course they are, but somehow the latter are seen as 'for vegetarians/vegans', bought I assume mostly by people who are cooking meat but also have vegetarians coming and have no idea what to do. While somehow the former has the same meat-eating cooks going 'cor I want to try one of those new ...'.
My comment was in response to your 'better performance' point.
I agree with your other points of course.
My go-to for this is "A Tour of C++". It's pretty short and only really covers up to C++17 with a few mentions of C++20.
That's the case in many places of the US as well.
The point about being independently wealthy is that you don't have to work at all, you can spend every waking minute on your "hobby".
Why do you need a web slicer? This just seems more work than running PrusaSlicer locally.
Quite simply, Apple Color Emoji isn’t licensed. They could have chosen one of the free emoji fonts like Noto Emoji, or if they don’t like any of the existing free ones, commission their own. Instead they chose to adapt an unlicensed proprietary font.

> This is a puzzling move on Apple’s behalf…

Hardly puzzling. What’s puzzling is their developers and designers seem to have never heard of licenses on artwork. And no, “your emojis are boring and we’re making them awesome” is not a valid copyright infringement defense.
Indian here, I think eating utensils came with the Europeans.
Why not ? There are certainly a lot of reasons. But I'd like to pin this as a missed opportunity. Missed opportunity to educate taste, missed opportunity to have more "agro" and less "industry", missed opportunity to consume locally, missed opportunity to discover new varieties and so on...
> Other truck makers like Volvo still talk about hydrogen sometimes but what they are actually deploying and commercializing is guess what, battery trucks.

Or hydrogen fuel cell trucks and haulers:

https://thedriven.io/2022/08/04/hyundai-rolls-out-27-heavy-d...

https://thedriven.io/2022/06/21/volvo-unveils-hydrogen-power...

https://www.volvoce.com/global/en/news-and-events/press-rele...

https://www.cummins.com/news/releases/2022/05/11/daimler-tru...

The main fault with your thinking is that you're fully bought into the false dichotomy of it being BEV versus FCEV.

The choice isn't FCEV or BEV, the choice is both FCEV and BEV.
Democrat led states and cities have paid sick leave, paid parental leave, longer leave periods for new moms, higher minimum wages, daily overtime laws, laws requiring sitting, pay transparency laws, laws requiring employee to be able to sit, higher unemployment insurance benefits, same minimum wage regardless of tips, etc.

Republicans led states do not. That seems to be clear evidence indicating one cares more about labor than the other.
Virtual land prices crash 85% amid waning interest
I was agreeing with your basic premise by using words/phases from the previous mass hysteria. Sorry the satire was too subtle.

I personally haven't read all the IPCC reports (is it even possible for one human) but I think I've read enough to know that 'the science' paints a completely different picture to the one presented to the masses by policymakers though the media.

The west is engaged in trading-off food security for some kind of perverse moral purity. A kind of utopian lysenkoism.
It doesn’t have it wrong, it just uses long scale trillions and the US EPA uses short scale trillions.
Mental Outlaw doesn't seem to appreciate the plethora of benefits to using higher level software.
It is common that very little is lost by using a slower language like python but a lot of development time is saved which can be expensive both in personal projects and from a development cost perspective.
This is not Amazon branded due to optics. Amazon itself is also a store, so it’s competition doesn’t to buy something with the Amazon brand name on it for their key operations.

On the other hand, they may already use AWS which feels like “a company owned by Amazon” rather than Amazon itself.
A vegetable being transported all around the world, still has a drastically smaller footprint than meat from a farm next door.
"The idea is that very small humans interpret sufficiently complicated (in the information theoretic sense) music as a language."

That was my hypothesis as well. I often played "field recordings" (captures of real-life sounds, maybe later composed into something experimental) and all sorts of free-form music to our son when he was very young. He had a keen interest in those "strange sounds" at around age 3; with kindergarten and now school, he has IMO developed a more "mainstream-radio-pop-framed" understanding of music. Stupid radio songs, LOL. If I continue to bother him with weirdo stuff occasionally, I think he'll be good nonetheless, though.

The "everything is language, and everything is music" paradigm has always felt natural to me. That's why I also started to read out loud to our children even when they were inside mommy's belly. Later, I read all sorts of "adult books" to them as infants: the key was not having them understand every word (vocabulary development), but rather having them sense the melodic flow of human language. Be it mother tongue or not. The music of spoken word, so to say.
... you mean the US, possibly allies? Not only is that broad enough to be meaningless, I don't know offhand of any military going to someone's house to require them (by force I assume) to change their GitHub repo name. What are you getting at?
I often talk to founders that are still in the process of understanding their target buyers.

Most of them are confident in what their current ideal customer persona looks like.

This assumption often sets you up for failure.

That’s because we tend to have an ideal of what our target market looks like. But many other times it’s just because of a low budget or time constraints that halt your research process.

So if you’ve got a product that fixes all issues you’ve ever had, don’t assume others will feel the same way. Even when they have a seemingly similar profile to yours.

How about we looked again at your positioning and if you’re really resonating with the right buyers?
The right to repair is not the same as the right to maintenance or whatever you might want to call forcing the manufacturer to keep updating your device. The issue is when manufacturers make it so that it is impossible for anyone except THEM--actively excluding the so-called "owner" of the device, who somehow doesn't actually have many rights currently (and what thereby needs to be fixed)--to be able to develop fixes or updates.
Don't the cameras pay close attention to the grabbing of the product?
There is ongoing work to generalise ? operator in Rust with traits[1]. If it succeeds, current code is not going to be obsoleted by the new solution, only extended.

[1]: <https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Try.html>
There is no larger market than the smart phone market.
Linda McCartney I assume is what you are referring to. Oddly easy to remember for me once I found out that it is, indeed, made by Paul McCartney's wife.
I don't think they quite address the same thing. `guard` isn't just an `if` statement that looks for the negative of a Boolean; it also forces handing control flow out of scope in a consistent way — you cannot write a `guard` statement without also deciding how you'll exit the scope if the Boolean is false.

The developer not being made to do so, and just embedding conditions within conditions, is how the pyramids of doom are constructed to begin with.
Even if we stopped the production completely right now, that doesn't remove what's already in the water. The root problem in this case is: it's already out there.
Line-of-business apps and heavy data-entry tasks are the exception. Every enterprise is full of them. Navigating across fields/buttons using the keyboard without using the mouse is a huge productivity factor in those scenarios.

A good metric to use in these scenarios is effective keystrokes per hour. Several years ago we did a study while building a remittance processing system for a financial institution and found that just doing 'amount entry' (fully numeric input only) increased the effective keystrokes per hour compared to mixed mode entry. That means higher items processed per day (which translates to $$ transacted).

There is a marked productivity difference between doing numeric only entry using the numpad versus the numeric key row at the top of a keyboard. The numpad is orders of magnitude faster.
The 6S from 2015 still has software feature parity at least until this September. That’s still pretty good.
I think one just has to acknowledge there are no feasible solutions to these problems. The actual solution is to let the next generation do a better job, and believe that they can. Unfortunately, as people live and work for longer, the cycles get more drawn out and some generations lapse with no impact.
The article put up a simplified view in order to reduce the topic down to a single number of energy in vs energy out. It is a technical definition of energy efficiency, but without all that messy context that define transportation.

If we were to discussion energy in transportation the context is much richer and complex. The easiest way to see this is in weight. A EV car in general is much heavier than ICE cars, sometimes by a factor of 3x, which happens to cancel out the energy efficiency of the EV. We also have to consider reduce, reuse, repair and recycle aspect. EV car is generally more electronica complex and (according to what I have read), have worse reuse and repair aspect than ICE cars. EV might win on the recycle aspect, and train/bicycles obvious win on the reduce aspect.

We also have to consider drive distance. The average trip for a car (using statistics form my country) is 5km, which most of those being commute to and from work, with a majority within biking distance. Of course, if people need a car to transport kids, participate in hobbies, regularly transporting large items, then they might simply use that same tool to travel to and from work as a convenience. Owning a car enables unnecessary travel with car as well as enabling the necessary travel.

And finally we need to consider how stations for stores, buses and trains are designed. Train stations are not designed for a person to haul a toddler, an infant and 3 bags of groceries. Subways however are rather much designed to make transporting a toddler and a single bag of groceries a fairly acceptable experience, and since subway stations generally has good coverage, people don't need to have 3 bags of groceries. Supermarkets that focus on subway users tend to be located in the subway stations, while supermarkets that focus on car users that travel a few miles from the store tend to have large parking lots and be located at the outer edges of cities near big highways.
>Anyone who cares about the environment including ecosystem breakdown and climate change will go meatless one way or another.

I "care about the environment" and I will not "go meatless". I have stopped eating beef entirely and have switched to chicken and fish, with the occasional pork steak.
1 pound of beef has the carbon footprint of ~8 pounds of chicken. Especially in the States, the best thing to do is switch your meats.
What good is the “right to repair” a phone that is insecure?
I also watched that doc a week ago, and loved that pioneering spirit from Dykstra and the other heroes of my youth. In the next 5-10 years, I think that the growth of AI in VFX will bring some of that back. In fact, that's happening right now, across the world, as every VFX house seems to have some sort of AI skunkworks in place; techniques that are not ready for prime-time, as many applications of CGI weren't throughout the eighties, but who time is yet to come.
Exactly right.

The core problem with nuclear isn't so much the safety record (although this has been a problem).

The issue is building Flamanville and co have been so extraordinarily expensive.

Any new nuclear plant will lose an incredible amount of money as solar energy becomes more and more cost efficient.
Catching the atom, and moving the atom, should result in the ship being returned to its original place.

"Being sneaky" by moving things slowly, or catching things, just doesn't work. It will all add up.
All movement will be undone.
Now we have cookie pop up banners that made the web browsing experience worse. You consider that a win?
BSD-style init vs Sys V-style init -> upstart -> systemd
Well above they're claiming he's lying about temperatures in Australia so I just assume he's fudged 15-20 degrees to sound cool
Muon is a very nice project; especially the bootstrap means are great; unfortunately it doesn't seem to run on Windows and personally I don't think that Meson is a much better system/language than e.g. CMake; otherwise I would have used Muon instead of implementing BUSY.
People aren't dumb. Cars are expensive yet extremely popular. Thus, car travel is superior when it comes to satisfying the needs of the owners. Train travel is often more costly and much more inconvenient. Air travel obviously doesn't work on short routes. Travel by bike comes closest in terms of cost and convenience, but only in good weather, for extremely short routes, and with relatively little baggage.

That being said, cities don't have to look like the US dystopian suburb. Germany, for instance, is full of towns and cities that are walkable, bikable, and impose no artificial restrictions on car ownership and usage. It's the big cities that have problems with cars due to space constraints. But that's not an inherent property of cars. They start to see similar issues with cargo bikes and will arguably face problems with kitchen ownership at some point.
Yes but you don't have to be wealthy to not work. 42% of Americans aren't employed. Would you say they're all aristocrats? You don't even necessarily need a family member to support you either, if you're willing to couchsurf, backpack, and be creative in how you acquire food. Lifestyle anarchists do that for instance, so they can move out and focus on their passions.
Trucks are already moving to electric.

It not going to happen overnight, and currently bans on new sales only are scheduled for like 2040, but they're likely to be brought forward as people get more confortable with the idea.

Starting with last mile delivery in urban areas, trucks are going electric today. And it's not initially about energy density, it's about the poisons and pollution they emit.
In Sweden you get frozen raspberries, strawberries, cherries, passion fruit, mango, lingon, black berries plus other unusual berries. Frozen avocado too!
It seems the test was faked due to Dan O’Dowd, a rival software maker who arranged it, having a long running grudge against Tesla https://electrek.co/2022/08/10/tesla-self-driving-smear-camp...

They said FSD failed but it wasn't even on.

He also used to go on about the "linux threat" of people using linux rather than his software https://www.eetimes.com/odowd-then-and-now-on-linux/
What's funny to me is you can have all this "immersion" and then for most bigger markets you get some rando voicing for Brad Pitt. I can't believe e.g. Germans are ok with this. I can't watch Spanish movies with English voiceover, I'd rather have subtitles
Movies have become something absurd. It's wasted effort in my opinion. All this money doesn't lead to an improvement artistically. Some movies are just trash piles made for advertising products
People generally dont need more calories that they already have, they need less. They must do (but dont do enough) physical exercice to loose extra energy they consume (in places where cars are an issue).
I don't know what/who `pnkorka` is, but I love the word.
Is it stable in the water, indefinitely? That would surprise me.
Any plant based meat must start with the extraction of proteins from some plant product.

Most vegetable products have a content of protein so low that the cost per protein mass is higher than for the cheaper kinds of meat, e.g. chicken meat.

The main exceptions, which can provide cheap-enough proteins, are various cereals and legumes.

While the proteins from plants are cheaper than those from meat, the difference is not huge. Where I live, in Europe, the ratio between price and protein content for wheat floor is only 3 times less than for chicken breast, while for lentils is only 2 times less than for chicken breast. For other cereals or legumes, the costs are even higher.

So, to remain cheaper than meat, the cost of protein extraction and of its further processing to make its taste and texture similar to meat must not increase the cost more than 2 or 3 times. This is not at all easy, because even bread is usually at least 2 times more expensive than the wheat floor used for it, and bread requires much simpler processing than artificial meat.

Protein extraction is simpler for the gluten of wheat, because gluten is insoluble in water, while starch is made of loosely-attached grains that can be washed away. Even so, extracting the proteins from wheat requires a lot of water and time.

Extracting the proteins from other plants is more complex and it may require the addition of various salts or solvents to the plant source, to create conditions where the proteins can be separated from the substances they are mixed with, and whatever is added must then be removed in another step of the process.

So besides the cost of the plant source, extracting the proteins has additional costs for water, chemicals and energy.

Similar additional costs are needed for transforming the proteins to have a meat-like texture and taste.

The cost of the plant source of the proteins ends being a very small fraction of the cost.

Then there is, as the other commentators have mentioned, the inefficiency of small-scale production.

The result is that I have not seen yet not only any meat substitute that is not many times more expensive than meat, but not even any kind of raw protein extracts from plants that are not many times more expensive than meat.

The only way that I have seen in which is possible to make a meat substitute that is cheaper than real meat (in Europe, i.e. where soy is too expensive as a protein source) is too make at home gluten from wheat floor (i.e. not accounting costs for water, energy and work time). Any kind of commercial product would be more expensive than real meat.
Automobile software has good standard for critical parts. The problem is all the software never considered a remote attack, since it was not connected to the internet. The CAN bus was local and the only way to interact was to physically connect to the bus, thus it has no security built in (every device can send any command since every device is trusted). Now to enable all the smart stuff there is a connection between the car bus and the internet, of course indirectly trough the entratainment system, but if for example the entratainment system (for which coding standards are bad) is exploited, you have full access to the bus and thus can send commands to various parts of the car, which is very bad!
You are wrong, but explaining this to you would involve you knowing things you don’t.

No virtual production does not solve VFX. Many reasons including the ability of the screens in resolution and max lumens, and the fact that a VP stage doesn’t allow you to shoot anything, because of size and other limitations. It also won’t add a CG character in front of your characters.

Such arrogance! “This is a solved problem”…