skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the depth thing, I really only meant to mean you need lots and lots of water. You could have a shallow basis, and take over a huge area of land, or or smaller amount of land if you have deeper water. Deeper also allows for less evaporation, less land area.

Perhaps your and my definitions of favourable geography are different. You need a water source, due to evaporation, you need a big resovoir at elevation, and another lower. If you don't want to build it all yourself you need valleys that you can close off at one end. You need ground that is not permeable, so the water you have stays where you want it.

Perhaps I am misreading you, but you seem a bit agitated with your in fact writing style. We're all friends here. I am not anti pumped storage. Far from it. If you can make it work economically, it's a great solution. It will definitely be part of the mix. But there's reasons it's not being rolled out everywhere, and a lot of this is due to cost and unfavorable geography.
Europe schools Elon Musk that Twitter’s wings are already clipped
The worst human driver is blackout drunk. I’m not sure that’s such a high bar to clear.
The fact that a lot of people do it customarily doesn't preclude for it to me morally reprehensible.

To bring it to the extremes: If I found myself visiting Germany during World War 2, I would still strongly object to killing jews, even if it was "customary" there.

And since know this is a reductio-at-hitlerum, I will try again: I would not seek or consent or engage to having pedophilic sexual intercourse if I found myself in certain neighborhoods of Thailand, where apparently it is commonplace.

Perhaps a bit less extreme: I would not expect someone who is a convinced vegetarian to start consuming meat when they arrive to my country just because meat is consumed in almost every meal here.
The Nikon DSLRs I used so far could be carried in your hand at the side of your body, turned off. By the time you had the view finder in front of your eye, they are ready to shoot, and focused, in case you don't mind composition for a quick snapshot. No idea how the mirrorless ones stack up to that, I don't see a reason why they should be any slower so... Maybe EVF and displays need more time to switch on, I don't know.
Other articles on the subject:

Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/tech/elon-musk-twitter/index....

Tells advertisers he doesn’t want Twitter to become ‘free-for-all hellscape’
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/tech/elon-musk-twitter-advert...

Elon Musk closes deal to acquire Twitter: Reports
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-closes-deal-acquir...

Says site will continue to police hateful content
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-nearing-twitter-de...
No, it's because these states have fewer options.
Self-driving cars were always overhyped in the US because roads are the only decent transportation infrastructure.

A future where we have better cars is a waste. For long distances, we should build trains. For short distances in cities, we have buses, trams, bikes. This technology already exists and is very good, it’s just not supported by the government-business hybrid that runs the US.
Markdown is popular because most developers are too lazy to look for better alternative and follow the hivemind.
most of his articles are written in this style. they're great!
Given the high resolution videos, could we attempt to do some lip reading?
It’s a conservative group promoting the conservative narrative.

Both sides do this. It’s all about creating the right story to win elections.

That’s how a country gets $32 trillion in debt, keeps Fed Funds to zero until inflation goes out of control.
> It will be many small changes, that taken together will slowly transition towards full self driving cars.

The problem is that there is no smooth transition: there is a "valley of failure" in the middle of it, where there is enough automation that the human can disengage most of the time, but not good enough automation to avoid all errors, so the human operator has to step in to correct errors quickly, and doing do "cold" (i.e. from a disengaged state) is not good enough.

Dekker touches on this in "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'"
I don’t think Android would retain much market power, especially in the US and Europe, if Google stopped backing it.
Cool, I'll be able to get my access back too, hopefully!
You can probably judge that relationship at least a little from:

> Ex-girlfriends aside...
It's also good. There's also mailcow that provides a containerized solution.

Running your own mail server is not hard at all.
Tech Stars has released a Venture Deals course which is an excellent introduction to how to raise investment and aims to level out the playing field for entrepreneurs vs VCs!
Elon Musk will reportedly take the CEO role after exec exodus
I think it's neat that Arabic, where we got the numbers from, is an RTL language. From their point of view the numbers are little endian.
Duck dns is very usefull. I use to host a demo from a CRM portal my company sold at my house.

The problem was that I had dynamic IP and my isp shit router did not suport DNS services. So I made a simple script that would log in and acess the router information page, get the public IP and update in the DUCK dns with a curl.

Worked Like a charm.
> The European Commission’s internet market commissioner, Thierry Breton — who is fairly obsessively online himself — quickly tweeted back at Musk, offering a passive-aggressive emoji wave greeting, following by a further punch: “In Europe, the bird will fly by our [EU flag emoji] rules. #DSA”

> DSA is a reference to the Digital Services Act — aka, the bloc’s newly minted reboot of ecommerce and digital services rules which intends to drive accountability on Internet businesses by laying out governance expectations for how they handle societal risks like illegal speech.
> I think, if we had fenced-in and dedicated roads for self-driving cars, we could have had them yesterday.

We could put them on rails and have overhead cables providing electricity efficiently, and make them go up to 300kph too, damn the future looks bright !
This happens with eyeballs as well as ears.

Witness people who don't notice screen tearing in X11, or people who don't mind (or even prefer!) Windows font rendering.
> ###*this is __test__* … Is that bold with italics? Italic bold? In a heading?

That’s not a markdown-only characteristic, it’s the same with HTML.

> Markdown will never get beyond developers

Ever heard of WhatsApp? A few billion people use it everyday.
personally I don't think twitter is healthy for a democracy
I agree about re-inventing anything. What people really mean when the say "don't reinvent the wheel" is "don't copy the wheel":
http://move.rupy.se/file/wheel.jpg
If you are behind a NAT then you may consider your any OS safe. But I have no idea about state-of-the-art of NAT hacking, maybe some of them are flawed.
Ask HN: How to read algorithms and math notation in scientific papers?
Hi! I'm a CS outsider, I write code but I'm not literated in computer science. I need to learn how to read both pseudo algorithms in papers and all the letter soup in math formulas, in the machine learning space. I had formal calculus and linear algebra in college, but that was 15 years ago.

Any tips are appreciated!

Thanks
Unless you recompute the hash of the new password for each (username,salt) in your database.
Therein lies the long tail of challenges to be truly self driving, right?

If AI dodges the debris 99/100 the whole world will claim it as a failure because that 1 miss ended in someone's death - even if human drivers are only able to dodge 90/100.
I want to be able to install free apps from the Appstore without providing credit card details
Ah yes, the scam companies that care more about raising vc money than solving the actual problem obviously would never make it happen.

Then there's comma.ai that's the actual leader in the space having production units you can buy and fit into your car right now.

Something the "experts" that seem to be expert only at reading company financial numbers seem to have missed.
What is not clear (to those that do not understand x86 assembler and/or boot sectors) is that the floppy won't have a filesystem, as if the sectors from 1 onwards are directly occupied by the kernel file, there won't be space for the FAT12 tables or the ext2 structures (though most probably this could be worked around and have some space available inside a filesystem created after the extents occupied by kernel (+ embedded initrd).

AFAIK/AFAICR, in the good ol'times you could directly dd the zimage or bzimage to floppy:

https://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/boot/boot.html

The critique was anyway mainly about comparing size of very different programs with very different features, maybe wrongly, I read that statement as "I am tired of the weight of Porsches and Ferraris, here is my soapbox, and it is much lighter".
I think incremental linking is already a thing. It involves leaving bits of unused space in the binary to deal with minor changes in the size of the object file. I can't remember if Sony shipped that with the PS4. Pretty sure Microsoft had a version for the Xbox at that time.

Unloading code while running is difficult. Dlclose doesn't really know whether anything is still holding onto pointers into the shared library.

What would probably work is compiling each object into a shared library and otherwise disallowing shared libraries. That would ensure the loader has a consistent model of which addresses have been patched to which shared library and give a relatively sane way to unload and replace at that granularity.

Moving symbols between object files during linking would be tricky.
Working in the other direction is that the region locking works by region you're in, not where you opened the account. So an edge cache would presumably never have titles that are only available in different parts of the world.
Germany requires you to have an ID document from the age of 16. You do not need to carry it however (there are a few exceptions, e.g. if you work in construction or the like where tax evasion/cash in hand is not uncommon).

Inside the EU's Schengen area, the ID is only needed at borders.

Again, once inside another Schengen country, you do not need to carry it around.

I'm not sure if the same rules apply for foreigners though, once they are inside the EU.

From trial and error over the last five years I'd say three out of five airlines will let you board flights using your driver's license as ID. They always complain but they let you through anyway.

ID checks at Schengen to Schengen borders are absent anyway since many years so this isn't a big surprise.

That said: I'm a white man.

These rules apply to everyone by law.

Sadly, the less 'Caucasian' your phenotype is, the more likely your experience with EU security forces will be for them to expect you to carry ID -- despite the above rules.

And boarding a flight with your driver's license if you are not white -- forget it.

Racism is everywhere though. It is just especially painful to see in this context.
Ok, thanks, now I know what you mean.

> censorship resistant

You know, everything at scale will be regulated. For example, in Germany it will (and for parts it is already the case) regulated by BaFin. You know, the same institution which regulate banks. Beside how unpredictable cryptocurrency is. TBH, I would better stick to money regulated by some constrained entity than by people how don't have any clue how local and global economy works.
Im really sorry. Somebody kept posting expletives to the table so I had to force email verification as a way to protect against it. I’m thinking on alternatives to stop that kind of behavior but for now, I need to keep sign ups on
Does slack even use markdown? It seems to me that it just uses some markdown-like sybtax as a shortcut for generating its rich text. Like Google Docs will start a list after -<Space>.
On a straight highway in sunny california maybe, in the city, on a mountain road, anywhere with snow or heavy rain or fog, it's game over and will always be if we keep using the current techs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbSDsbDQjSU
When Elon Musk says this, he's flat-out lying. When Waymo says it, they're talking about an extremely narrow set of circumstances[1].

Regardless, it's not true in any practical sense.

1. https://jalopnik.com/waymo-claims-its-driver-ai-is-safer-tha...
I make markdown tables by hand. Very simple ones. And simple is good.

Statements like “no one” are silly because they are easy to disprove and then get into “well maybe you do, but I don’t; therefore…”

There are lots of tables in markdown. I’m not sure how you definitively know if they are made by hand or cut and pasted from a helper tool.

Anyway, it’s a dumb argument to make. The beauty of markdown is that if you don’t understand something, just don’t use it. It’s not like there are many tables in blog posts or comments any way.
Yes and no. The thing is that it is quite convenient to track time in computers with monotonic clocks, but it also turns out that humans do not define time markers based on monotonic clocks (when far future times are considered) and just from time to time [re]define relationship between time markers and monotonic clocks.

By definition you cannot unambiguously tell how many seconds in the future Christmas in a few years will be. However, it turns out that as long as you have the monotonic clock synced, time marker definitions up to date and have reasonably accurate understanding what local time means you can rather easily tell whether `now` is "christmas in 3 years, when defined at 123456789 Unix time".

We, humans, define time markers based on astronomical phenomena relative to this particular floating rock. A system based on time markers (calendar days, holidays, full moons, whatever) can represent human times, but is very inconvenient for computers, because they are not necessarily well-defined. I mean, 12345679 Unix time is well-defined in itself even if it is not well-defined in relation to real world while "2025 May 3rd at noon" is simply not well-defined today. Timekeeping is extremely weird.

This is a trade-off. Either you store computer consumable time markers (monotonic clock values), but have to do processing to figure out how they relate real-world markers, or you store real-world markers and have to do processing to figure out how they relate to the monotonic clock. Sans DST, the first one is much more ergonomic.

DST is pain, but turns out it is pain in both systems. If you have future time marker and there is DST adjustment between `now` and `then` you have the very same problem: you don't know whether DST adjustment was taken into account when creating the marker. Fun thing is that if you do control (or can infer) adjustments, both systems become very similar, but the current is much more ergonomic.
We definitely have different physiological sensitivity to stimuli,
and sensitivity can be unintuitive (sounds we can be either made more or less noticeable depending on noise), we also differ in our processing ability and finally our conscious and unconscious ability to direct attention.

This leads to interesting things like for many a white noise source (actually pink noise) nicely blots out most other auditory stimuli by helping direct attention away. Yet the noise source itself heightens sensitivity (why some people find ANC annoying).

Finally some people simply can not direct their attention strongly and it's worsening.

Hypersensitivity it's being swallowed up as an autism trait but many people simply aren't as trained at directing attention than we were in the past since we have such loud hobbies.

Mindfulness does wonders here.
Unfortunately, right now it is nearly impossible to actually change energy suppliers. Thanks to the insanity of the energy market, all market comparison sites are essentially not working (they list no results) and providers are refusing to show their tariffs, instead telling you to stay with your existing supplier.

They were used by the previous tenants when I moved in, so I basically had to stick with them. Nevertheless, the above really didn't leave me with a good impression of a competent company.

Tangentially related to your last point, I really don't like the dominance of direct debit here. In Australia, I paid everything via my credit card in order to be able to review charges before I paid them. Here, so many places really push direct debit and as a result they can charge basically whatever they want to my account and then I have to fight to recover it if it's wrong.
According to the polls Lula should win: https://www.as-coa.org/articles/poll-tracker-brazils-2022-pr...
PoohBear, it's because Smalltalk, Oberon, and J2ME systems didn't need MMUs. People came up with MMUs because of low-level languages, a category which includes assembly and C. But we're just rehearsing debates that are half a century old.

(On the other hand, the B5000 had hardware memory protection despite being programmed in Algol. The B5000 inspired Smalltalk, which inspired Oberon and Java. But its memory protection didn't use an MMU.)
"too messy for proper tooling"

Obsidian and its many amazing plugins are powerful evidence to the contrary.
Formula 1 was racing there but pulled out due to tax issues that could not be resolved.

https://edtimes.in/why-was-formula-1-racing-forced-out-of-in...
Actual self driving is likely to happen, but it's going to need some accommodations.

They might be high-resolution mapping with the ability of (local) government to mark changes as they occur. Road workers with devices that can direct automated vehicles to avoid holes in the road and the like plus other special cases.

Along the way there will be many stand-alone (self-parking) and in between (freeway/highway autonomous driving) functions that will be very useful and will be attractive to customers.

If we're only talking about "the holy grail" unlimited full autonomy, then yes, it's probably not possible, since it approaches general intelligence.
Oh cool didn't know about this!
I'm still not sure I understand you. And you know, decentralization doesn't mean that there is no regulation.
Waymo already went public several times since 2017 or so saying true self driving would be impossible without major infrastructure changes and might be impossible in bad weather conditions with the tech they use
Here’s a link without the paywall https://web.archive.org/web/20221028111149/https://www.newyo...
Make them bigger so they can hold many people for one trip, while we are at it.
> Many parts of the planet will be inhabitable. And that's in a few decades, not even centuries.

I don't think it's going to be a few decades. I think as you said the models are too conservatives. We are already seeing things that they didn't predict.
Very aware of it. Only care about 1% of the time, and the 1% isn’t a big deal.

Had Android until about iPhone 6. By that time, iPhone has closed the gap on the dealbreakers for me (and continues to do so). And once I acclimated to the iOS flow it was (and continues to be) a net-positive move. Imperfect, but net-positive.
The bar to legally drive a car is very low in many parts of the world. As such there are many people who can legally drive, yet do it worse than the best AI, and on the whole people seem to be OK with that.
Why Aren’t More Users More Happy with Our Language VMs?
For some reason the make and model of those disks is absent from your comment, must've been lost in the wires.
Often had this problem as a nomad (sometimes you find people you click with, but sometimes it's really lonely) and as I couldn't find any good app that would allow me to easily find people I actually liked between locations and to keep in touch with them as I moved on, I co-founded Revity App which helps remote workers and nomads find others who share their hobbies, connect online and then meet offline!

We need beta testers (I am about to make a post about this on here) so would be awesome to have you there for free: https://community.revityapp.com/plans/245832?bundle_token=83...

We're focused on people who like the outdoors, because 1. that's what we both love, 2. there's something about people who like outdoor sports and adventure activities that makes us get along with each other, across cultures and age.
That's the point, if you don't want to request consent, don't use telemetry.

It has nothing to do with cookies.
It’s likely profitable and better for the environment if we get electric self-driving trucks on private highways. 70% of freight is moved by trucks.

https://www.trucking.org/economics-and-industry-data
I beg to differ. Self driving cars are unlikely to make it to the West but the outlook for the East (China) is totally different.

In the West there are economic woes that will make the dream of everyone having 2.2 Teslas in the driveway not happen. There is no getting around this, the West is in a bit of a pickle.

Meanwhile, in China they have an entirely different way of achieving self driving. That is to put 5G (6,7 or 8...) on everything. Therefore, when you approach a junction, the 5G gadgets at that junction with their all seeing eyes and ability to communicate with vehicles just tells your car where to go and when.

By the magic of 5G it will also know what the deal is at the next point of decision, so your car can arrive for when the lights are green and you can be on your merry way.

The sensors on the car can do the lane keeping assist and slam on the anchors should an unexpected object appear on the highway.

There are aspects to this approach that are un-American. So it is not going to happen, even if a magic wand magically fixes economic woes that are far too structural for America to fix.

You could say that the Chinese approach is not 'self driving' but 'networked driving'. But what is the big deal if your car whisks you off from A to B without having to touch the wheel?
Slack has nothing to do with Markdown. The plain text that its text box turns into formatting bears no meaningful resemblance whatsoever (it’s more similar to some other lightweight markup languages, and really it’s just completely its own thing), and you mostly can’t interact with it in that format anyway. (See also https://api.slack.com/reference/surfaces/formatting.)
Good one!

I've always been a fan of trains. I seem to be in a minority, in the US, though...
> And we definitely won't be getting flying cars

Seems I'm going to have to downgrade my New Year disappointment about "still no flying cars" to "still no self driving cars" (for the general public).
I agree and have had success teaching job-devs to use and even create markdown files for project documentation and stuff like that.

It’s also frequently coupled with “learning git” and I’ve found it helpful in governance processes where someone needs to approve or make sight revisions to something before approval. It’s better than signing word documents and emailing them around.
WTF Is Istio?