skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waymo hasn't killed anyone yet. I think that is probably the most important thing to show.
Not in the (upcoming) future, at least wrt the high end devices: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2022/08/snapdragon-8-...
Britain is hawkish right up until the cheque clears for donations to the Conservative party, then it's all fine and dandy.
At my previous job I was up for a raise and negotiated to reduce to 4 days (32 hours) and keep my full salary. That was a good day.
I am commenting in support of optimism and to counterweight pessimistic outlook.

Humanity indeed faces a lot of problems. Each of them have many possible solutions (The only one unsolvable is a heat death of the universe).

Thing is, the solutions usually may be divided into two categories: technical and societal.

For example, for the horse manure problem in big cities there were two possible solutions: invent a car, or limit the number of horses in the city.

The thing is: technical solutions are always cool. They open up new possibilities, the one which could not be foreseen. Technical solution also creates new problems, that require solutions of their own. Societal solutions always suck. Societal solution is to make people do less of the thing that causes trouble. The problem therefore kind of resolves, but the life become more boring and less free. Such solution does not bring new possibilities, does not advance life, but there is no risks of unforeseen new problems.

Examples of the problems and possible solutions:

Global worming: limit consumption and consumerism - or - perform climate engineering (spray high albedo particles in stratosphere, send controllable aluminum foil mirrors to the orbit, install more solar cells and wind turbines

Cancer, Alzheimers, heart diseases, obesity, etc.: live "healthy life", eat boring non-tasty grass, die 5 times a week at the gym, don't eat most awesome sugar, don't dring amazing coke, don't smoke, don't enjoy, don't ... - OR - Concentrate on solving the cause of those illnesses, that is the ageing. Treat ageing as a disease and fund anti-ageing research.

"Overpopulation": Make people believe that earth is dying and they shouldn't have children - OR - Build habitat (O'Neil cylinders) on the orbit thus opening virtually endless living space

Nuclear war: Pacify a horrible dictator, leave him "ways to retreat" - OR - build habitats on the orbit; atomic explosions in space won't do much damage at all (there is a constant atomic explosion already there, called Sun).

Hunger: Not a problem, earth agriculture is overproducing; the real problem is horrible dictators and the lack of new land that people can escape to from that dictator.
Coincidentally, there have been a large increase in heart issues, and SAD (sudden adult death syndrome) happening too.

This appears to have started back at the end of 2020, in waves over the last few years. First, the elderly, then filtering down to the younger age brackets.

All in the wake of the terrible things you have mentioned.

Having worked with the NHS for years, I've seen the good and bad of it. The nurses are the rock, a lot of the doctors seem great, others quite alarmingly without common sense. The management seem to have a policy to "promote to incompetence", and the government intervention seems to encourage the wasting of the vast sums of money they are given.

It's a perfect storm, people don't want to recognise what is happening, the NHS is dead already.
No, they couldn't. Firefox is developed by Mozilla Corp which, being a for profit, can't accept donations.
Well it's a log graph.
Haha.

The next time you leave for the wilderness, go to a field, go the edge of it and see if you can figure out if there was a reason they didn't expand it further out.

I wouldn't dream of asking you of taking a random commenter at face value.
Honestly why stop there? I'm big on the Fred Flintstones foot-driven model. I'd even put my vote behind a political platform that has it front and center.

I think cars make the world worse, but to the extent that we have them electric cars are significantly better than ICE cars in basically every way. I want less cars, but until then, they should be electric. Efficiency is higher, torque off the line is significantly better, carbon footprint is lower, they're way more fun to drive and significantly simpler from a mechanical perspective. What's not to like?
I've rarely found myself getting all that tied up in solving driver issues in linux especially after the first week of ownership of a new machine. Fighting annoying in OS ads, again, really a first week of ownership sort of thing.

Linux I find what's painful about it is that some things will always be kind of broken, for me it was bluetooth, I used bluetooth all the time, it did work, but I had to fight it into submission fucking daily. Windows? My goto example of what a shitshow windows is by far is the incoherent settings menus, and generally whereas Android and iOS and MacOS and Linux and all the OSes people actually use follow a lot of similar conventions Microsoft is SUPER SPECIAL and of course must do everything in their own unique way.
I don't know how the IRS work in the us, but if it's the same as in my country, they basically do the accounting for you, send you a letter that read 'you owe us XXX for 2015 and XXXX for 2017, please send the money to this address or contact us via mail so we can etch a repayment plan.

I would be more afraid of our poorly trained cops firing guns near me.
On a previous job they reused old tablets to schedule appointments. The devices were on ethernet but ran Android 4.x. They used http to grab the appt URL. It was neatly implemented except they were riddled with vulnerabilities, and VLANs weren't set up correctly. All of this occurred in 2019 and the organization was a non-profit. Given energy crisis, e-ink would possibly save on electricity here. Though in their case b/w or b/w/r would suffice back then.
I wonder if it adds to the discourse at how ill-received this is: https://twitter.com/clipstudiopaint/status/15615777032618352...

Some upset Twitter users isn't their entire customer base, but as a part of the story I enjoy reading the comments and how the community is responding.
No. Mozilla doesn't deserve this. They are purposely making Firefox worse with each stupid update. I'm not going to tell someone to use something that I think it sucks.
I agree it defies belief. Why think it was from London and not from some other city closer to Scotland also mourning her?
The implied license you give when uploading to Github is this https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

> 4. License Grant to Us

> We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program.

Unfortunately this implied license is only granted to Github itself. Maybe this could work if Github created their own version of Gentoo though.
We had this as well... OSHC (Out of School Hours Care). It was mostly staffed by volunteer parents with one or two school employees (since it was on school grounds and presumably needed trusted persons to lock up / have a first aid and/or fire warden available / etc.

That said, I'm curious as to what age this care would be required? Back In My Day ™ I was entrusted with a house key at a relatively young age (10? 11? it was a while ago...) and would walk myself home / prepare food / generally take care of myself until an adult came home. But these days you hear about police being called for kids playing without an adult present in a fenced-in front yard (and the fact that as I understand the USA is far less walkable than where I live) which makes me wonder what age is considered suitable over there?
Not strictly related but I remember how 3D was the feature every TV set needed to have some years ago and now it's not even a thing anymore.

My indestructible TV (it has survived my son's first 3 years of life, so far) set has 3D and I remember having fun even playing games with this feature.

What happened to 3D is a mystery to me.
Because the browser people decide to use is none of your business? Just saying...
The cost of doing business is a lot more than the cost of buying a former business premises. Across use, disuse, and re-use planning and zoning regulations can change. I live in an apt where my current fire alarms are legal for 7 more years but in 1 years time if I sell, I have to up-rate even though they have 6 more to run.

Now, translate that into industrial scale re-zoning, re-rating, power, light, water reticulation.

I like his spirit. But he's naivety is .. well its the root cause of most of his downstream trouble.

I live in a fully developed western economy and 12 years ago when my employer took ownership of a light industrial space to become our offices, it included having to deal with the squatter who was "camping" in the carpark for months and months. This stuff happens all the time.

In the period between this being a 24/7 noise machine, and going empty shell, It is very likely land use around the factory has changed. If the new neighbours established better relationships with planning, they can make simple process like re-certification for noise control go on for years.

A friend has a telescope in his back garden from when his house sat amongst surrounding fields of corn. They are now a piggery.. he doesn't use the telescope any more, or go outside much in summer.
> There is no amount of renewable energy that will make "average homes are 2,657 square feet and have air conditioning" a sustainable way of living.

Why not? Do you think it's impossible for energy to become 'to cheap to meter'?
I don't think they're building the roadster in any capacity - at least haven't seen any evidence of that. What makes you think so?
I believe many of us who worry about the sustainability of our current society is not really worried about facing hardship, but rather about causing hardship (for future generations). At least that’s true for me. I want to leave this world in the best possible condition for my kids, and cause them as little hardship as possible.

However, I’m also trying to not beat myself down over things I cannot control.
The taker is probably used to talking to other takers, where each person taking time to say stuff is normal. Talking to a giver, using this terminology, can be really disorienting: it's like trying to make conversation with a person who's not participating and is just being polite.
Brings back fond memories of frontback, an app where you juxtapose 2 images (typically from the front camera and the back camera, hence the name). It had a ton of interesting content thanks to that concept.

https://www.businessinsider.com/frontback-app-shuts-down-201...
Isn't this more about economically producing low-volume motors, than about designing in-wheel motors? Production process seen in the video looks way simpler, requiring far less jigs and process adjustments compared to more typical EV motors.

I don't see Ferrari or performance cars divisions of Mercedes suddenly starting to ship 500hp motors at 10k units/year volume, so the production process would have to adjust according to their volumes, and to me this design seem to do just that.
Monday is also a lot of public holidays which you miss out on, as I realised when I stopped working Monday here in Aus too ;)
> mid-range flagship

Oxymoron.
Not Learning from Others [pdf]
It's really cool. It's definitely not a DAW, it's a tracker (e.g. a sequencer).
Saying music theory has no rules and is purely descriptive, is like saying grammar has no rules and is purely descriptive. These days grammarians have sensibly decided to be descriptive only, but there have been a hell of a lot of prescriptive grammar books over the years.
If I'm arguing for anything is that the global food production is probably not sustainable.

That doesn't exclude farming, fishing or high-density food-farming (salmon, shrimps etc.). I mean, the number of issues with providing a couple of billion of humans with enough energy and variety in their diet is not insignificant..

A sheep roaming the hills is probably one of the better ways of producing protein..
> Finally, I seem to remember that there were a bunch of patents in the way.

Remember? Meaning you worked in the display industry?

I work in the display industry. I've never heard anything like what you describe, except on HN comments and blogs that use HN comments as citations. Look at my comment history. I think your claim is false because everytime I've challenged a claim like yours the poster has never been able to substantiate it, but I keep an open mind, if you can provide some real citations backing your claim then I'm happy to be corrected.
Media doesn't report good things that happen in the environment. From 2013-2019, they hammered constantly on how the Great Barrier Reef was dying. But, not a peep when they found that it is healthiest its ever been in recent history: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/parts-australia...

No wonder the trust in media has fallen to the lowest. Reuters/AP are informative as a root source, but I have stopped trusting environmentalist doom-and-gloom stories from MSM.

Environment is going to get far worse though. Germany is busy burning the shittiest form of coal as its primary fuel (35%): Lignite coal with 1/5th water content. It is the worse than burning literally anything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

Again, thanks to the utterly idiotic emotionally-driven environmentalists that are going to make the planet worse ironically. We need to stop giving them fodder and look to the tech/engineering community for solutions.
I think the root cause of homelessness is many things, but it's not the bare minimum cost of living. Not saying CoL isn't high right now, but it's not what's causing the vast majority of homelessness. Poverty? Sure. Homelessness? No.
My friend and his dad are completely ignored by mosquitoes. There can be hundreds of them and zero interest from the mosquitoes. Meanwhile, everyone else is getting ravaged.
Isn't this on uBlock? I still get the occasional report from Brave/uBlock users when I've accidentally included "ad" in a class name or ID, but I really don't believe that I should be working around that 100% of the time. If uBlock breaks the site, the problem is uBlock.
Got the numbers?
> All EVs offer the sensation of instant acceleration

...but of course luxury brands will happily charge you ten times more for that little bit of extra acceleration. Which also ensures future noob owners of Ferraris will keep crashing their eye-wateringly expensive cars (hopefully not causing others to get hurt in the process).
LOL!!

In all seriousness, Comic Sans is actually a great font for people with dyslexia, because the unique shapes make it easier to distinguish letters.

http://omgfacts.com/comic-sans-helps-people-with-dyslexia/

(a font like Open Dyslexic is probably even better https://opendyslexic.org/ but I guess it's a matter of taste and familiarity)
The problem with his channel is that there are lots of fraudulent kickstarters and projects out there where a debunking video is as easy as taking a kid's lolly away.

The real problem is that a lot of people buy into this crap.

As you get further and further away from dehumidifier scams, the debunking becomes more speculative because there is a non zero chance that the project delivers something even if the hype and marketing are all wrong. Debunking hype and reigning in expectations isn't the same as debunking the concept. If spin launch is only ever going to deliver tiny payloads to orbit it is guaranteed to find some underwhelming niche and become just another boring business among hundreds of thousands of others.
https://unreasonablerocket.blogspot.com/2010/11/personal-non...
Pocketbook make two models (15cm and 20cm) of colour e-ink books - they've been around a while, and reviews tend to be generally positive. As noted by others on this thread, latency can be rough. Doubtless other vendors have some similar spec'd devices, but I've only ever used (monochrome) ebook readers from these guys.

[0] https://www.pocketbook-int.com/us/products/pocketbook-color https://www.pocketbook-int.com/us/products/pocketbook-inkpad...
The article is following the predominant formatting method for Lisp dialects. What you propose is not unheard of, even in professional code bases, but very rare.

In the predominant style, nobody worries about which specific closing parenthesis goes with which opening one. The indentation reveals the subordination structure, and the editor takes care of that.

Speaking of indentation, you have it wrong: the sqrt should be indented inside the let.

(lambda (x y)
(let ((xs (* x x))
(ys (* y y)))
(sqrt (+ xs ys))))
^^^^

At the ^^^^ spot, all that matters is that we have four closing parentheses. They are all the same otherwise. Which specific one closes the let is not informative.

There are too many parentheses to be focused on them; you have to learn mostly not to see them, except within a line of code where there is no indentation. Someone who has been working with the language for a while just "sees" this:

lambda (x y)
let (xs (* x x))
(ys (* y y))
sqrt (+ xs ys)

Or maybe even this:

lambda (x y)
let xs (* x x)
ys (* y y)
sqrt (+ xs ys)

(The question of "why not make that the syntax" has been thoroughly explored; it exists out there in some forms, along with other proposals for alternative Lisp syntaxes. https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html )
> Ignoring any formality, I think most folk work a 2-3 week if they were honest about it.

The real difference maker is if you need to show up to the office or be reachable. I am sure there were weeks where I did 16 hours of work(i.e 2 days) at BigCo but I still showed up to the office 5 days as week. It didn't really matter to me if I was working at the office or just goofing off in the coffee room, I still couldn't go surfing or do something I enjoy.

> if you're working 4 day weeks and you're feeling behind, you may well end up working that 5th day without anyone asking.

If you're behind on a 5 day work week, do you work the weekend? I don't see how this is any different.
If I have a solo code task, I can do a 10 hour day without feeling burned out. But a day of randomizations, collaboration and firefighting, I feel done after 6 heh.
Are you aware of gumtree? Or Facebook Marketplace?

It's a buying and selling platform, similar to eBay, but the platform only connects buyers and sellers, but doesn't do payments or complete the sale.

Therefore, they have no reporting requirements (since they have no idea if those sales completed or not).

Perhaps allow customers who are scared of government paperwork to put your platform into a mode that allows that?
> The last I saw, it is indeed a complex patent and licensing issue.

What do you mean by "last I saw"? You are working in the display industry?
You can use it on-line directly without the extension [1]

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/translate/
Letter to the Editor he sent Wired.

Actually there have been several kicks at the can for rebuttals.
Most recent ones are videos:
Shorter Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-5cGEU9S0
Feature length: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASgjSxNdDqI
It's been standard for quite a few years now. Not a huge hit in battery life either.
> With such renown and respected experts as Gore, Obama, Trudeau, Gates, and DiCaprio as my guiding stars on this matter, it's clear that the experts are firmly on my side, and anybody saying otherwise is a dangerous extremist denier.

I think a big flaw in your thinking is that for these people climate change won't have big consequences equals in climate change won't have big consequences for you.
They can pay there way around the negative effects by e.g. buying another house somewhere more habitable, paying security personal to protect from looters or pay high prices for goods. You probably can't. The people you named are aware of the consequences for the ordinary people and that's why they are raising there voice but they are not directly affected that's why they are only raising there voices and take less action.

You on the other hand should do both, raise your voice and demand action as well as take action yourself by limiting your negative impact where its easiest (which apparently you started to do already) and don't wait for the upper class to change.
Thanks, I was at a loss as to how Continuity Camera was related.
> You can though. Many old phones are hackable.

Lineage doesn't help you update the NDA protected binary blob drivers
Reminds me of Bill Watterson:

"I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you’re doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you’re lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you’re really lucky."
Yes it is. For majority of people convenience of wireless far outweighs ehh… what exactly it outweighs again? I’m not an audiophile, so whatever 3.5 provides.
> But if it's reasonable for me to change my behavior, why can't we expect the non-interrupters to do their part a bit and... interrupt?

I'm not an interrupter. When I feel the need to interrupt (like when I'm being monologued at and need to bring up a point or ask for clarification), it doesn't work, because interrupters ignore interruptions and don't even listen to what other people say. The other half of the conversation is just their time to think up the next monologue. I'd rather leave than have to scream to get my point heard.
You can use uBO on Firefox Mobile on Android. Is that good enough?
They've been developing a (first-party) extension that already supports about a dozen languages and does translations completely client-side: https://browser.mt/

I'm assuming it's gonna merge into Firefox once they're satisfied with it.

Also EU supported its early development, which I think is quite cool: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825303
> When you're actually from the US as a Millennial or Gen Z'er, it's not hard to see what happened. The previous two generations taught us nothing

> Gen X had such an easy go of it

I was still in college when the dot com bust happened, followed a few years later by the Great Recession. Please tell me more how Gen X had it so much easier than Millenials. Also in a previous comment you claim to be 44. Since I turned 45 this year we’re basically the same age. We both, by most definitions, are Gen X. That being the case maybe you’re making a subtle point that your life was really easy as a result of that fact (not that the generation this and that crap means much anyway though you seem to put some stock in it hence my comment).
"I remember as a kid looking at the images on the back of video game cases and wishing I could explore these worlds". Same here. Love the idea and execution.
Secureboot style integrity systems that only boot into envs with ubiquitous signature validation and have lots of hardware protections to maintain that in the face of other bugs.
And the Humvee