skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ordered a new 3 series (2023) which does away with those buttons and a few others. I would have preferred having at least the temperature controls as physical buttons but other than that they do have the navigation knob/joystick which is well positioned to control the system. It feels like a reasonable compromise.
Nobody is building hydro dams anymore, because there is noplace left to build them. Many are being razed, instead, to try to restore fisheries.

But pumped hydro is a completely different proposition.

Meanwhile, each dollar diverted to nukes from building out solar+wind+storage brings climate catastrophe nearer. The immediate cause for catastrophe will be global thermonuclear war triggered by ... more subtle ... effects of the change.
> The arguments they make is that producing electricity and most usage of electricity are bad for our planet and thus we should use less electricity if we want to preserve it

Unless they have ideas about how people and society can continue to accomplish all of the things we want to, using less electricity, this is not a serious argument. It's simply ideological fluff, advocating for people to embrace a lower standard of living for nothing in return.

If a person advocates against cleaner sources of energy on the grounds that "we should just be using less energy", then I don't think they are a serious person and they should be ignored. Let them go live their hippie life on a commune somewhere and free up the space for the adults to talk about real solutions.
>91% top marginal tax rate of the day

it's worth noting that even though the top marginal rate today is only 37%, tax as % of GDP stayed mostly the same since the 1960s. The difference can be explained by the fact that the 91% tax rate was accompanied by a plethora of deductions, which reduced the effective tax rate.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
You have various legal remedies in Canada which do not exist, in practice, in Singapore.
With my Librem 5 developer hat on, I'm surprised that a SPI chip matters at all.

The Librem 5 eMMC contains a hidden "partition", which is preferred by the CPU to boot from over the "data partition" where the OS boot loader resides. It should be possible to put Tow-boot into this hidden area, and the OS stored in the data area will have no say. No separate flash chip needed to have an independent boot loader.

I wonder why the PinePhone needs a separate chip for this purpose. Is the CPU unaware of hidden areas on the eMMC?
It is impossible to charge a fee large enough to recoup costs of certain smells.

Many years ago, when I worked at a hotel catering to long term stays, a portion of the clientele used to be Indian families working for TCS/Infosys/Cognizant/Gentech/etc. Their rooms were automatically put out of order for 2 to 3 weeks after their anticipated departure date, because there was a sufficiently high probability it would need significant time to air out and probably carpet shampooing and other remedies.

At $150+ per night of lost revenue, no one would be willing to pay damages, and smells leave no conclusive evidence that will let you win any damages in court.

Solution was to amortize these costs over all hotel guests, just like any other externalities caused by other hotel guests.

Obviously, if you do not have volume, then you can greatly reduce your expenses by avoiding certain risks, which manifest as deciding not to rent to someone who you think has a high probability of costing you more money to rehabilitate the dwelling for subsequent rentals.
> Before 2010 the world was quite multi-polar with the US being the leader. Now, we are moving to a uni-polar world

Don't you mean the opposite? It was unipolar since the end of WW2, with US being the top superpower. Now other countries want, and can get, a piece of the pie. To be fair that means pretty much only China.
Nice. Even lazier Mondays and early checkout Fridays. I would vote for that.
Does curry smell even linger? I don't even consider it a bad smell but its not like it's going to permeate the walls like smoking. Funny he was fine with the Chinese in that case, who are more likely to cook chitlins at some point which can smell strong and bad for a week.
Right now struggling to separate out architecture-agnostic code and architecture-specific stuff in a way that can be switched out with `--target` and still undergo LTO as though it were all inlined.

Cargo recently got multi-target builds which is great, and makes this way less of a headache before (usually had to run cargo once per target, now it can do all of them at once).

The next challenge is packaging things up. Cargo gives you a hook for running things prior to the actual crate compilation (e.g. using it plus graphicsmagick to generate a bit font for the boot sequence rasterizer) but lacks the ability to run anything after the build, which means no development disk image building or any image checking can occur without a second command.

There's an open issue tracking this with countless use cases but the cargo team seems reluctant to "replace build systems" (which is ludicrous to me).
I understand dogfooding and ensuring your developers feel the users pain, but this ain't that. I don't know what this, but it doesn't seem conducive to being able to write quality code.
> What was even more surprising, to me, is that Mercedes had this amazing nice center console unit to control things with your arm in a rested position. They removed that piece of brilliance!

My MB is a UX disaster.

Have a guess how many controls there are in the car for navigating the (non-touch!) screen?

1? Nope. 2? Nope. 3? Yes 3. A touch surface in the centre console, a spinning wheel in the centre console (which is also a joystick), and finally a little joystick thing on the steering wheel.

Volume controllers? 2.

And don't get me started on how dangerously absurd it is trying to switch between MB's own system and Apple Carplay/Google Auto whilst driving.
Yes, when the same functionality could be achieved in like 200KiB, 10 MiB is too much. It adds up and suddenly you may have to bundle a whole browser with your ap...oh
I think it's hard for even Americans to wrap their heads around how big the country really is, and how diverse it is. While typically less racist, you still get a ton of it in various places, less about the place and more about the individual person.

It's also hard to compare the US to other places. Japan and many other places are very homogenous societies, the US is the polar opposite and wears that with pride. At a high level you can say "Americans aren't racist" and that would mostly be true, but in the details everyone is different.
I don't think I missed the point. I was replying to the parent comment.

And as I wrote a carbon tax on raw fossil fuel would also be a great way to fund such carbon removal projects.
> Russia won the war in the first 72 hours. Russia has also only committed 10% of their resources, the rest are on standby in case NATO intervenes.

Imagine the mental gymnastics you have to do to believe this.

Some sources:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-14/russia-tu...

> There are indications the Kremlin is running out of troops for its war with Ukraine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62496905

> the nation has been "forced into a greater reliance on old Soviet-era equipment, such as personnel carriers offering limited protection, and tanks last produced in 1973."
> Kremlin is increasingly using "older, less-precise missiles for strikes, killing and injuring innocent people."
> "These outdated tactics are a sign of Russia's desperation amid its equipment shortages and tactical deficiencies,"

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-running-out-steam-growing-de...
Off-topic - I highly recommend watching the show "The Man in the Highcastle" on Amazon. It depicts a future in which Germany and Japan won World War II.
Most countries try to feed their population what makes them feel proud, calm and ready (got a war to fight? Time for nationalism and that BS).

Of course, if you are living in a country where the war is happening, you tend to see things differently. Many people in the West haven't seen a war in a long time and would happily believe what the general media is telling them; or the other side of the media (the alternative media).
Henry Kissinger in the Wall Street Journal last week:

> “We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to lead to,” he says. Could the U.S. manage the two adversaries by triangulating between them, as during the Nixon years? He offers no simple prescription. “You can’t just now say we’re going to split them off and turn them against each other. All you can do is not to accelerate the tensions and to create options, and for that you have to have some purpose.”

> https://www.wsj.com/articles/henry-kissinger-is-worried-abou...

He had something to say already in May about Ukraine at Davos: “Kissinger vs. Soros on Russia and Ukraine” https://www.wsj.com/articles/dueling-approaches-to-world-ord... (on a lighter note, this URL sounds like a conspiracy theory bingo card)
Funny enough, found this browsing the litefs repo and trying to understand the choice to go with consul. It was about five links down the rabbit hole, didn't realized I walked in a circle.

Thanks!
Yes I can, I'm busy with launch stuff today but I'll get that done soon
Maybe she could appeal to UN Women’s Rights Commission, or UN Commission on the Status of Women.
> impossible to charge a fee large enough to recoup costs of certain smells

Why? Hotels that permit pets frequently have astronomical my-pet-peed fees. The point of the fee is less to be charged and more to signal that someone shouldn’t take the room if that’s a probability.
I came here to deposit this exact same comment with one addition. Great project but seems to be lacking base support. As an engineer I need hex at least.
Too bad there isn't a service that could look into the historical background of prospective tenants to gain references, criminal, credit, job and salary information. Completely objective and mostly without inherent prejudices.

We may even call it something like "a background check".

Just spitballing ideas!
German election should be rerun in parts of Berlin, ballot supervisor tells MPs
It makes me biasless. The tenant I thought would be awesome in paper really screwed us over. Now I have no idea how to judge a good perspective tenant and it is a crapshoot. It wont be because of race though.

Yes did thorough DD.
But there’s also utility gas. I wonder if hydrogen powered home appliances would be any good.
The future of fossil fuels (2020)
Yes. At least partially.
Since you mention it as an excuse, what do you think the real issue is?
> And, lying under oath is its own crime

And how do you prove that? A lie isn't the same as a body.
Touch screens suck. My twenty year old son and I were just discussing this a couple days ago. He has been working part time as a valet to make some extra money, so he gets to drive a lot of different cars, just to park them, but has to interact with the transmissions, at the very least, and often has to turn off blaring sound systems (yeah, people drop their cars with the valet with the radios cranked.)

His daily driver is a 2012 Hyundai Elantra GLS. He also occasionally drives my 2007 Ford Fusion. Both have fairly logical physical controls.

He hates how non-intuitive the touch screen controls are, and how you physically have to look (even if briefly) at the screen to see what state it is in, and to find the buttons. You cannot just operate them by feel.

He also does not like electronic shifters. I have never driven a Mercedes, but he says the shifter on the newer Mercedes is frustratingly slow. You have to put you foot on the brake, tap the lever, then wait for the indicator to actually change.

What I find particularly frustrating on all this, I know that the knob driven climate controls are just inputs to a computer that is driving servo motors under the dash. There are no cables. But it is intuitive, it is tactile. I don't have to look to change the fan, or the temperature, or the vent configuration.
Same with the radio. I know where the on/off and the volume is. I know where the AM/FM/CD buttons are. I know where the six preset buttons are. I can run the radio with out looking. And when I move the shift lever on the Elantra, it has a very distinctive 'gate' flow. It is easy to know what gear it is in without looking. Doubly true for the five speed manual in the Fusion.

So this change to glass panels is not for the consumer, it is for the manufacturer. It is for the designer. We have reached the age in electronics where the display is cheaper than physical controls. The manufacturers are trying to sell it as a 'feature'. It is not a feature, it is cheapness. It is crass.
Yes. Let's just remember that 49% of the population dying is most of the population surviving.
Is it somehow comparable to Haxe? (https://haxe.org/)
My 2010 Opel/Vauxhall Astra has tons of buttons/knobs, and I love it. I hope the next time I'll have to buy a car (in 3 years? 5 years?), the touchscreen fad will be over.
To be fair, while I agree that touchscreens are far worse for distraction than physical controls, they're far, far better than a smartphone. Phones are designed to hold your attention, have small text sizes and interface elements, require actually holding the phone vs just using the touchscreen, and a lot of distracted driving comes from wildly inappropriate activities like texting vs advancing to the next song on Spotify or something.
That does work on the original pinephone, the A64 SoC can boot from the mmcblk0boot0 partition. The rk3399 in the pinephone pro is way more problematic which it is why it's important to have the SPI and also have the SPI flashed from the factory.

The pinebook pro batch that has shipped now did not end up with Tow-Boot and instead has BSP u-boot on the eMMC which makes it unable to boot anything else than the shipped manjaro by default. Of course it's only the other distributions supporting this platform that have to deal with this
What a uniquely quirky way to communicate! Glad to see via your sandbox update that you identified the cause.

Now all you need do is write "lambda-mta" to take over email!

Seriously - that 'free.fr' MTA spam block needs fixing if it triggers on proper 7-bit ASCII email that doesn't contain MIME parts (which are usually stuffed with HTML and/or images).

I use Mozilla Thunderbird in "Plain Text" mode. One benefit is there is no possibility to embed hidden malicious links in plain text. Another is small size (some embedded HTML emails are HUGE!).
The big one for me is that Cmd+C and Cmd+V do the exact same thing in Terminal as they do everywhere else, unlike with terminal emulators under Linux. Copy and paste are too ingrained from decades of Mac/Win use to fight against muscle memory for that one exception.
CoSIm: Commonsense Reasoning for Counterfactual Scene Imagination
That seems very abandoned.
Prague?
Does this honor the rc.d prefixes? Eg 0- files go first and then alphabetical?

Edit to say that my compile function does a syntax check too… but this is easier than setting up the dir listener.
Hi!

Could you be so kind and open a bug for this at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dotnet6?

Thanks in advance.
When loaded on my desktop, it displayed a rotating icon and just stalled.

How about just some static text explaining what they're doing? I don't need a web site with overcomplex crap that doesn't work.
Amazon Kindle update is removing a key feature for loads of users
At some point- optional physical buttons attached via magnets that transcribe the input to the touchscreen, will make a comeback.
> Does curry smell even linger?

Maybe it’s liquid fats (like ghee), cooking processes that aerosolise them (pressure cooking) and the heavy use of spices that’s the problem more than curry per se?
Genuinely curious, how does she hit a button on the dashboard by accident? To me, the dashboard is behind the steering wheel and shielded from accidental presses.
The automotive industry is moving to self driving cars. Screens will be needed for entertainment and trip planning. You won't need simple physical buttons to quickly actuate while you're driving, since you won't be driving. The car will drive. You'll be a passenger like on a plane for most of the time.

I like physical buttons and dislike cars :)
European, especially the German brands are very good at that. The sound and the feel of buttons and switches are known to feel premium.

Actually, Porsche Taycan apparently has an amazing knob. MKBHD was very impressed by it[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/BAZX9p2oGOg?t=631
"Reproducible environments" sounds like a strong argument to me. If you don't have a reproducible environment, you have no guarantee that your code will work at any point in time. The more complex the projet and its dependencies, the more likely breakage will happen with a new version of a dependency.

Maybe this is something that is best learnt the hard way? Something you understand once you reflect back on how many hours you have lost fighting with dependencies, instead of doing what you actually wanted to do with the code (be it running it, developping, debugging, bisecting...).

Freezing dependencies comes at a cost though, especially since dependency management in python is a PITA. So this is a trade-off. For simpler, projects or scripts, I personally don't bother with freezing dependencies, and I handle issues when they happen. (And they do happen.)
Sure, but the screen need not have any touch capabilities. It doesn't need to be large either. A 2 inch screen is large enough for the camera functions.
If FOSS culture is bad at design, then one could imagine it being beneficial to just blindly copy an existing good design
My 2004 Fiat Stilo has dedicated buttons and no single touch screen. The "board computer" is a 5 "pages" menu that is able to adjust simple things like dashboard lighting and disable my door light, that's it. I never have to search for anything and, even more important, don't have to take my eyes off the road to adjust heating, radio, etc.

What's next? Touch screen gear shifting? Touch screen horn? It's dumb IMHO.
Underfloor Insulation Installed by a Robot
That was a super interesting read, thanks for sharing!
It's super easy to blow your budget on a higher-spec'd SoC, too.

We made responsive applications on 1980s era 16-bit and 8-bit computers. We did it by being conscious of what we were doing in each cycle.

There's a huge budget to burn on even an older super cheap SoC.

Often what is making the screen lag is accidental stupid pointless idle states (blocking on I/O etc.) inside tight animation loops.

Lag and jank aren't usually a throughput problem, but a latency problem.

Diagnosing and fixing this requires concern and effort and recognition that it's actually super important to the consumer experience.

You get what you pay for.
Speak for yourself. My car gained the ability to display directions from CarPlay in the heads-up display overnight, while parked in my garage, increasing the value to me massively.
> you need to explain why

You really don't, and the fact that people consider it a given that you do says some very bad things about society. You should be buying the things that work the best for _you_, not the ones that will impress your friends.
The most amazing part of this article is that Kissinger is still alive.
Definitely, I believe BMW for example had a big knob that just feels padded and luxurious. Same with car interiors; thicker padding, better noise insulation (e.g. when closing a door) makes things feel more premium.
It’s crazy that memory declines after 30, I guess mental workouts are just as important as physical workouts as you get older
Is the assumption here being that all employees would prefer 100% WFH?
It's somewhat interesting because I'm finding that I don't find touchscreens particularly "premium" looking. Touch screens and LCD screens seem to be everywhere nowadays in low-class places and look like obvious cost-cutting like Walmart and fast food drive-thru.

Back in the day, you could easily tell the difference between an expensive high-quality amplifier and a molded piece-of-plastic mass-produced boombox.
its not like it's going to permeate the walls like smoking

Why not? Granted curry isn't one of the smells I've dealt with but I've renovated a few houses and there are a large variety of odors that will sink into walls and floors.
The boot ROM in the RK3399 in the PinePhone Pro has a hardcoded boot order, and doesn't use the special boot partition of the eMMC - it only looks for a bootloader on the data partition at a fixed sector (64).
Most current pumped hydro uses existing dams because duh. But nobody is building those anymore, for reasons you note. Existing hydro power dams were expensive because they needed to be deep to store years of water, and concrete because deep water has high pressure. They destroy ecosystems because that is where the water comes from.

Dedicated pumped hydro storage is typically quite shallow, with an earthen dike (if needed at all), and the only place with high pressure is at the bottom end of a penstock. It does not need to store years of water; just a day's worth is useful.
I worked briefly as a freelance experience designer hired by an appliance manufacturer. I asked if they could send me physical prototypes of controls so they could be tested. They refused and said it would be too expensive. They expected the controls to be designed, spec'd, and sent to the factory without any usability testing.

Designers can do all those things, but often they're not given the space to.

The best products are typically produced in an environment where the people running the company care about the design. This is a rare environment.
I'm with you on this, I do understand people not wanting the extra cognitive load to learn new changes in the UX but as a tinkerer I really love that my car can get OTA updates that add/changes features.
Actually many (most of?) Tesla owners have a Tesla also for this reason. Source: lurking in Tesla owners forums/groups.
Ask HN: Modern UI framework that pairs well with Vue and Strapi?
For my next project I have decided on Vue and Strapi, but I’m looking for a good general purpose CSS framework that goes well with them to get it off the ground. What do you recommend?
If only the WIP commits were non-Free then relicensed to Free for each release, then the legal uncertainty would probably have the desired effect - no packager / distro worth their salt would touch any non-release with a barge pole. Such an unorthodox approach would risk scaring them off completely though.

In a roundabout way it's pretty much trying to re-invent the trademark system (ie. "don't distribute this code and call it MyProject without it being an authorised release"). Quite frankly far easier to just get a trademark if that's the desired effect.
And sells poorly, you can have hard time finding accessories for it because it sells poorly. Unfortunately, according to the leaks so far, it appears that there won't be iPhone 14 mini.
These days the instrument cluster is being displayed with an lcd. It could be used for the backup camera and wouldn’t be practical to be a touchscreen.
But these images are not copyrightable - what's stopping someone to rip off your artwork?
Are Layer2s Good or Bad for Ethereum?
Meher Roy, CTO of Chorus One explores the scenario where ETH L1 token loses value against the L2 tokens that are emerging.

He revisits Ethereum's scaling history and talks about the new layer 2s that are emerging like Starkware.

He posits that liquidity will leave ETH L1 in favor of ETH L2s and also ETH's pivot in narrative to adopt 'moneyness' as an attribute is dangerous.
I wonder if more companies will start giving in as they lose applicants to companies that offer WFH.
> we make some exceptions for people far from the office

So move far away from the office. Got it.