skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$40bn would be enough for around 40GWh of wind power capacity which is around the same as total generation capacity installed totally in Sweden today.

To me nuclear seems like a giant waste of money.
It seems like some metrics and well named domains might help with this. There are different levels of driving challenge and self driving cars can handle some of the most basic challenges already. Cars are used for all kinds of tasks in all kinds of places, but currently self driving cars are making a significant impact on taxi services in some big cities. All of that is limited and should be noted as such, but having mastered many of the basics and now offering taxi service in many areas it is clear that self driving cars have made and continue to make progress which is very different from the "going nowhere" this clickbait article claims.
It's a technical application, so I'm not entirely thrilled by doing that. I just looked for documentation to replace a popup or preference window with WinUI 3, but didn't see anything that made sense for me.
Fun fact: mice do not particularly like cheese[0].

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/531921...
It does seem to have quite a bit of functionality, though obviously not in the same league as a real Bloomberg terminal. (I used to work on the Bloomberg software for online trading of bonds, repos, derivatives, etc.)
> Ok, I gotta ask. How does NIST source a large supply of mud that's stable in composition over a long period of time, both in terms of supply chain and storage?

Technically, they don't. Obviously, they have some storage (this is one of those things you don't want to use just-in-time manufacturing). Instead, NIST (and other analogous standards organisations) have batches of materials and really, really expensive machines (that are hard to mass-produce) that can measure out the precise quantities of whatever thing they need to measure backed by processes that intrinsically is just precise (and accurate, for pedants), for example, electron microscopes or atomic force microscopes, which is then used by others (like in this case for measuring mud) to machines that are easy to mass-produce but can measure badly if not checked regularly.

For some things though (like drug testing in urine), they instead have a pure substance laced with precise amounts of substances you've expect to find, but that's relatively easier than most SRMs where you're measuring things you've already have (whether it's mud, crude oil, whale blubber or peanut butter).
That "peace and quiet" is only for car owners though, not so much for pedestrians.
According to wikipedia they sold 93 trucks yes. All recalled because a seat-belt issue (that's how I got '93'), but it seems they have some trucks on the road right now, whatever the quality (and unlike Tesla, btw)
Thank you for clearly and concisely conveying what the author was unable to do in an entire blog post that includes diagrams.
What sensor suite is that?
If you like private transport, then you should be doing whatever you can to get as many people as possible to use public transport so there’s less traffic on the road for you.
Exactly, if i want to test my pf firewall with "triggers" then this is one way, test my IDS etc, and with installed Kali everything is possible ;) just perfect!

Big Thanks to the Creators!!
I have two phones, one for my personal shit and one for privacy intrusive shit like my work wants to install or this.

Seems to be the best solution.
According to the UN, it's enough to save over 40million lives (for almost two years)

We have our priorities all twisted.
I went to the US for tourism and the immigration asked for my phone. They checked the contacts and asked me about random people (who they are, how I met them etc.)
That’s cute, except that of course in the real world you get some nice quality time with border control/the police/secret services well before that if you try playing these games.

Or: try arguing about the fourth amendment, human rights and the constitution when a uniformed thug wants to seize your phone when you fly into the US. It does not sound that clever in the real world.
There’s an electron wrapper for macOS and Windows, but it’s the same as the web app, so you’re not missing out on anything.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33199562
Vegas Loop — How is it for cheap? Did you see the costs? The costs weren’t for what the tunnel is outputting right now. Even with more Teslas, the tunnel hourly output is too little to hit the contract milestones Boring Co set with Vegas. It is a massive failure and seems like a con or fraud to just get Tesla more mindshare.

Also. Who’s paying the drivers? That’s a lot of drivers driving all day. This was never part of the deal as it was supposed to be automated. So whoever is paying the drivers is not doing anything for cheap.
That would be great. But the minute I have to get out of my car to get in another vehicle to then get in another car at my “destination” then you’ve lost me.
I just tried my usual "benchmark" stock, LHA.DE, and it didn't even find it.
It's odd that it's treated as a matter of pride that, while other cities have AVs today, your own city or nation will take much longer simply because it's full of dangerous drivers breaking the law and infrastructure full of literal roadblocks. It's like claiming that cars are infeasible globally because the roads around you are full of potholes and manure. Congratulations?

Rather than assume this is a death knell for self-driving cars, a more pragmatic view would be other nations will be able to benefit from them while you are left behind. Self-driving cars don't need global saturation to be worthwhile.
That would make sense... but them most people wouldn't install the base gitlab extension.
>Everything has been carefully mapped out ahead of time.

That sounds sustainable and scalable to earth-size, for sure.
> Not to mention that the upside of self-driving cars is capped at the cost of an uber driver

An uber driver that can drive 24/7. Also there are a lot of cars that sit in parking lots 95% of the day that can be used.
Isn’t that how subsidies work? They go to the massively wealthy and powerful too much? Which is the problem?
> If there are 4 new technologies on a project and the team were insistent that they each solved a lot of pain I'd be less averse than I would to 1 new technology that they adopted because it was "cool", "made by google" and "everybody [cool] is using it".

Programmers always insist that the new flavor of X solves a ton of pain. Occasionally they are right, but more often than not programmers adopting four new technologies- if they ship at all - deliver what Rich Hickey called “a knit house” in one of his talks: a system that solves a problem, sometimes in a pretty way, but is never able to be extended or grow. Sometimes the actual software is fine enough, but the choices are so novel that it ends up being maintained by one or two people who get it, and growing the team is a nightmare. Either way, it’s a knit house.
Regarding the deuterated version, it's actually possible it would have very different pharmacokinetics to normal ethanol. The first step in metabolism involves breaking the -O-H bond to create the =O aldehyde, so replacing that with a heaver -O-D would have a kinetic effect.

For example, here's a Derek Lowe article about deuterated drugs (not ethanol):

- "So a well placed deuterium (or two, or three) can actually have a significant effect on how long a drug will circulate in the bloodstream, by slowing down the liver's clearance mechanism."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/first-deuterated-d... ("The First Deuterated Drug Arrives")
Perhaps we should pour more money in adapting the infrastructure to these cars, so they can become more like a train in some sense.

And perhaps we can design city centers to be car free.
TheMotte [0] is pretty good. It's explicitly about long form argumentation about any topic really. It was originally a subreddit and stemmed from the Slatestar Codex community I believe, and then they made their own forum. The discussions are pretty interesting, ephemeral even, but if you hang out, you soon learn who the regulars are.

[0] https://themotte.org
As response to the loss of Russian gas, renewables don't have to replace all fossil fuels. They just have to reduce fossil consumption enough to compensate for that loss.

Eventually, all fossil fuel use must be replaced, but that has nothing to do with the issue of responding to Putin that I was addressing. And the backup generation can eventually be non-fossil also, particularly hydrogen. Europe has massive amounts of potential capacity for underground storage for hydrogen, far more than would be needed.
"I don't agree with this movie and I won't be watching it," is an expression of opinion and is completely fine with me.

"Withdraw the movie from the program and defund it," is a call for hostile action. Not as bad as "burn the director at stake", but still. I don't think it should be illegal to call for such measures, but it should be considered deeply shameful, on the level of advocating for slavery or torture.
They certainly have a lot of money. Aren’t dollars basically people these days? Not to mention, oil.
I don't know about that.

They do offer a lot of goods.
And they do build lots of infrastructure abroad, like in africa.

Also the theoretic doctrin behind is communism for all people, not just Han Chinese. In practice it has of course become very nationalistic, but I really doubt they dream about ruling the whole world.

Some taoist thinking of maintaining a healthy balance between the forces is also still alive. They would like to become the dominant power, though and that would be arguably worse, than US dominance.

But I actually would prefer it, if no state has dominance over others.
Ignorant comment. Par for the course around here though.
They announced a lot of things since the announcement in 2017 though. Let's not take Tesla's announcements as anything else than stunts for now, like, really.
Set them in a managed way.

We use a password generator, but it happens that some machine cannot be unlocked. We don't assume malice, but the biggest error source is probably data enter error when setting it. You cannot see what you type and in real life it has happened that obviously the same typo was made twice, but later we have not been able to guess what it was.
You should share the design principles!
It wasn't your money.
The First Deuterated Drug Arrives (2017)
Nikola delivered its first "Nikola Tre" electric truck on December 17, 2021. It announced the start of serial production in March 2022, and delivered 48 trucks in Q2 2022.

According to the company, they remain on target to deliver 300-500 trucks by the end of 2022.
> You can’t do this reliably on the web for a major event because you can’t assume network connectivity

I can't believe I'm saying this, but you could've use PWA instead (except for brightness).
This couldn't be more wrong for me, personally. I first started getting depression when I was, so to speak, at the top of my social game in high school. Now, it is more or less well managed, and doesn't really manifest except for periods of time when I'm under significant stress.

Depression isn't a defense mechanism at all- it is purely destructive and aimed internally. Projection is a much better example of an unhealthy defense mechanism to social failure.

How can you help? Depression and anxiety are both examples of self-reinforcing pathologies; the manifestation encourages the continued behavior in a repetitive cycle. Treatment focuses on breaking that cycle- medication for what we guess might be the underlying biological cause on the one hand, and therapy to build up more resilient behaviors that don't lead to spiraling on the other (i.e. if you get too anxious at work, methods to handle the anxiety that don't put your job in jeopardy by feeding the flight response and causing more anxiety).

Social life being zero sum is also, I think, a fundamentally wrong statement, but I'd rather keep the discussion focused on the medical side as it is more relevant to the rest of the thread.
Why not? Because it's economically pointless to build more nuclear at current prices.

The current situation where you might regret not having built more reactors 30 years ago is not comparable. Renewables were not competitive with nuclear 30 years ago. But that situation no longer obtains.
This principle denies our shared humanity and divides us as if we were different species.

It is just a new mutated form of the plain old racism and we should probably call it neo-racism.
What I do is get a couple of Androids (preferably different versions, not even necessary different vendors. The difference / efficiency in WiFi & GPS implementations are enormous.), install Wiggle and off you go.

No messing with GPSD, no tuning, absolutely nothing just supply power and you are ready to rock.

Additional benefit: you also detect cell towers & bluetooth if you wish to do so.

For extra good results, drive... slow... I use a scooter that allows me to comfortably drive 20km/h (15 in Freedoms) with a plastic case on the back with a handful of phones and can easily get about 80 / 90% of the SSIDs.

I VERY seldomly wiggle, am in the 600 - 700 range.
The disabling of hardware codecs in community distributions
There's never a simple answer to this.

Here's some of the things we encounter:

* A bored developer is an unhappy developer. Unhappy developers leave. Developers that leave take a swathe of domain knowledge with them.

* Your good developers are often the ones who like to tinker with frameworks, patterns and complexity. Note: good developers don't force this down people's throats, but they're always thinking about what they can apply in the future. That's not to say they can't be perfectly fine working on boring code. But they often get bored with it. They can be 5x as productive as your average developer when working on the boring code, but you're just ticking down a clock in a lot of cases.

* Complex code can be a hindrance to onboarding new developers. Boring code can be a hindrance to onboarding new features.

* You often end up in a situation where you're reinventing the wheel and you're spending increasing amounts of development time on keeping the wheel round. At some point you've got to consider a ready-made solution to your problem or consider hiring more people to deal with it.

* Technical leaders have a fine balance between keeping developers happy, keeping development velocity high and keeping onboarding speed high.

Creating a company off the back of a flavour-of-the-month tech stack isn't a good idea. But I can't see how any large software company can scale without having a bit of spice somewhere.
related: "choose boring technology"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323246
I'll be blunt about this.

Most of this research is funded in the US and the hyper individualistic Americans as a group don't believe in public transport.
Steam Deck Emulation Testing: Six Months Later
Iif you really need to be there, use a burner phone. Or just don't go. Keep in mind those stadiums were built by slaves. Do you want to support slavery?
It tends to be indistinguishable or strictly better in side by sides. Is the last time you checked it out back at initial release perhaps?
They can ask for access to their own directory on iCloud, or arbitrary files on the iCloud Drive. They cannot ask for access to other directories than their own on the device, sandboxing is rather strict.

It’s still not ideal; mobile platforms are not designed to protect you from state actors.
The fact that someone survived a botched assassination attempt does not mean that they were never in danger. Outcomes != intent.

AFAIK the movie is still in red because of all the cancelled festival screenings - a major problem for the director who isn't wealthy.
It doesn't matter what your 'real' roads look like, the money is a hemisphere and a continent away.
Having been the victim of public transport for the first 30 years of my life: nope. You just can’t polish a turd. (Maybe other countries can but here in Germany it’s a lost cause and you can’t make individual mobility expensive enough for me to ever take public transport again).
Can $60B buy the innovative courage from SpaceX to perform human rated safe propulsive landing on land after space travel to the Moon and Mars and back, the passing of 50 years has seen no change or forgetful institutional decline?
What details must be missinh for 100 lines of js and a sql backend with or without orm to be a walled garden?
I’ve read it - there’s still a time limit and so long schema migrations still would be an issue. Even without FoundationDB long schema migrations are problems.
It's a non-trivial amount of our society's wealth, doesn't really matter who owns it in regards to talking about it's use. Just like we can talk about how spending a billion hours on reality TV is probably not an amazing use of time. It's not our time, do what you want, but you can still talk about it.
SQLite and the N+1 (No) Problem
And what after those 2 years?
> I've encountered a code written in the 12factor style of using environment variables for configuration, and in that particular case there was no validation nor documentation of the configuration options. Is this typical?

I think it comes down to how your team values the code they write.

You can have a .env.example file commit to version control which explains every option in as much or as little detail as you'd like. For my own personal projects, I tend to document this file like this https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/blob/main/.en....
Yeah, who wouldn't want an tiktok implant. It is going to be called TickTok be the size of a tick and will give you the Lyme disease symptoms so you can create funny clumsy videos more easily
But i thought it was inflation that drove the price of everything up the last two years?
Yup, women in the US need to be extremely careful about the apps they install. In Texas, app devs can get massive bounties for reporting if a woman has a medical procedure.
Something close to that, AFAIK. But then, it’s not “go download this app from the store”. More like “we steal your phone, jailbreak it, and now we can see everything”. Not sustainable at scale.
I don't think you can decouple mental health from politics and economics. Poverty is a huge stressor, especially when combined with homelessness. So to quantify suicides accurately you'd have to exclude the effects of the relatively benign 90s with the current outbreak of extreme financial stress.

I agree with your last point though. Mental illness is the result of a complex mix of social/personal, political, and financial stressors, biochemical weaknesses, and unhelpful cognitive habits. But current diagnoses are behavioural, not contextual. And treatments tend to concentrate on one factor to the exclusion of others.

Having said that, I think "you'll feel better with insights" line of psychoanalysis continues to be bullshit. Analysis has a terrible record of delivering useful results, and "insight" usually means "learning the mental model the therapist uses without questioning it."

There are better and more effective cognitive and psychotherapeutic techniques which work more quickly and are cheaper. Combining them with chemical and welfare help shouldn't be an issue.
I honestly think you did the right thing--your conclusion is more a cynical take than a truthful claim. You clearly had organizational problems, and that's beyond the scope of your code.
The Founders Who Raised Money Easily
I'm about as big of a fan of mass transit as you can get, but this is completely overblown.

That's $1Bn for the hundred largest cities in the world.

Assuming even 40% of that went to the US, that's $1Bn for the top 40 cities. That leaves out 22 entire states [0], and like 75% of the population...

Look to NYC, LA, and SF for what $1Bn gets you... It's about 1 mile of subway [1]. And it takes close to 15 years to build.

We wouldn't all be riding around on space elevators with materially better lives if this money was invested in subways or trains.

If you spent $40Bn on busses - you'd have to spend another $250Bn to pay people to ride them...

Self-driving cars will eventually change cities. I think there's evidence it's already starting to happen.

I don't think this money would've been better spent on trains, and definitely not busses.

What else are you thinking of?

I'd be interested in a better cost breakdown of bike lanes and how much it would cost to get a significant percentage of people in cities biking & scootering around - but I'm skeptical, and also, it's not mass transit!

NYC installed 29.5 miles of protected bike lanes last year [2]. I can't find the cost, but next year they're asking for $3.1Bn to build 500 miles of protected bike lanes, among many other things [3]. I know it costs less than $1M to pave a two-lane road one mile [4] - so a protected bike lane should be well under $1M - but then everything costs way more in the city...

If protected bike lanes cost substantially less than $5M per mile in the city (like $0.5M) - $40Bn could get you pretty far!

That's 80k miles of protected bike lanes! That's about 4x the amount of total bike lanes we have now.

Bike commute rates in NYC are decent (by US standards). I'd love to see a study on how much bike commute rates increased after these new lanes were completed.

Copenhagen has only 240 miles of bike lanes and 600 miles of paths for 70 square miles and 750k people [4]. That's enough to get 62% of people commuting by bike [5]!

For the top 40 cities, you'd be looking at like 80k miles of protected bike lanes for 4000 square miles and 81M people. That's better than Copenhagen!

That could potentially get you close to 62% of people biking instead of driving - just depends on if that many people live within 5 miles of work / school / going out. 5 miles being the average commute distance in Copenhagen [6].

62% of cars off the road in the top 40 US cities would DEFINITELY change my life for the better - but I'd be surprised if we could even get 15%. Still, it's something you could do in a couple of years - and for $40Bn - would definitely be worth it. But it's decidedly not mass transit.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/vividmaps.com/map-of-largest-me...

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyre...

[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/cyclingintheci...

[3] https://www.6sqft.com/council-wants-additional-3-1b-to-build...

[4] https://homeguide.com/costs/asphalt-driveway-cost#:~:text=Co....

[5] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-08-07/copenh...

[6] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-08-07/copenh....)
Some of the comments have ben written by people who have not read the link, either. That does not necessarily mean they are uninformed comments, but sometimes you will see claims that have been thoroughly refuted in the article.
That's not what he said, sounds more like anybody (reasonable) could have handled it alone, or for redundancy in a small team. Boring standardized battletested tech is the opposite of creating a walled garden, and he states (understandably) that this was the problem, for him and the product itself.
Very sad story, but seeing what lasagnacode over-and-underengineered-madnesses-at-the-same-timr are put up today, more than completely believable..