skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wall riders are a perpetual bane in multiplayer races. Perhaps Forza and GT finally added measures against that, but among e.g. videos on the ‘Super GT’ simmer channel, you can see plenty of riders, especially in Forza Horizon.
More Untappd data explorations with jq – my top ranking beer types (part 1)
https://archive.ph/BVmb3
So, what is your living situation? Inner city? If so: Do you expect everyone to move in with you? How do you get your food (and - you'll likely buy it from somewhere - how does it get there)?

Stopping individual traffic is a pipe dream. Climate change is happening, and we don't have a choice, nor will we be able to stop it - so we do what has always been the major advantage of our species: quick and rapid adaption. Accept that some land is lost, and move to places that are more habitable. Install air conditioning / heating where necessary. Change agriculture to focus on new produce that is more adapted to the climatical circumstances. And start working on a Plan(et) B, because we have only a few more hundred years.
This is the first time you've seen one? They seem pretty ubiquitous, at least here in the Netherlands. I know of three or four in my neighborhood alone, and I don't even drive.
I was going to say, if you're not at risk of getting tackled and you're ahead it makes sense to stall.

I do believe in football (soccer for americans) a referee will intervene if players are obviously stalling (e.g. by not playing, or the goalkeeper just holding onto the ball) but they can just go back and forth for a bit.

Probably also happens in boxing and other time related sports.
Works great as a cups AirPrint server or as a Homebridge server! Or both.
The UK already has a ban on new petrol & diesel car sales from 2030, so is a few years ahead of the EU. However, under the current rules, plug-in hybrids will still be permitted.
That’s interesting. Are you in tech?
It’s all form. Buildings 30 years ago and buildings today do almost exactly the same things. Sure there have been marginal improvements, but they are marginal.
Seems doubtful. Economics & science aren’t there. World is wrapping itself around Cold War II. Lot of economists saying we’re headed for a dark age of a decade. Furthermore, science just recently made sense of the chemical processes that turn sound into electrical signals, as the last holdout of the senses. If you’re holding out for an Neuralink implant, that shit is all vaporware.

How are you that age having hearing problems without tinnitus?
I'm currently using a Twilio trial U.S. number to receive SMS from a certain bank. Redirected them to a Matrix.org channel using one of those nocode services (although writing a script for it would be trivial, too). I'm travelling a lot so having free slot for a local SIM is a major benefit :^)
Got a similar setup with the same board: 3 disks, one with important stuff (photos, documents), one is a backup with rsync, the third is for downloaded media (not backed up, I don't care if it gets corrupted).

Services: syncthing to sync photos and videos on my phone, SMB, nfs, FTP (accessible from internet), a web file explorer (on docker, exposed to the internet with basic auth), a torrent client (on docker, exposed with basic auth), caddy (for reverse proxy with https).

It's not the fastest you can have, but it works ok for what I need.

I have a separate pi4 box with Kodi from which I can view photos and films on the telly.
>Every second we delay, countless earth-like planets are being consumed by black holes, never to be seen again.

You don't know that. We don't know what happens to objects that fall into black holes. In fact, it's quite possible we're already inside a black hole.
Angular Directive Composition
I've seen Rust crates where the code was generated from a Python script and some other data and neither of those things are in the crate, which is potentially a license violation for copyleft crates. Or crates where the tests were in VCS but not in the crate. Or there were prebuilt files in the crate. I think always going with the VCS is a better option.
I use a five button mouse...(6 if include scroll wheel)
That was an amazing read, thank you. Clearly lays the proposition that the first (if only) problem to solve is philosophical. Which brings us to the sorry state of academic philosophy today. A bunch of people who for the most part don’t know math, or a solid understanding of reality (including quantum mechanics). A group among which “anti-scientism” is a more and more popular topic for some reason. A group, which from whenever I ask this question, they agree there’s no moral standing for eating meat but almost none of them are vegans. Only slightly less forgivable than cardiologist who die of heart attacks I suppose.

Whatever happens one can bet this AGI breakthrough if it occurs will happen quite far from this group of people.
So? That’s not different from decades of regulations in the car industry. You can’t sell a new car without safety belts, ABS, reversing camera, distraction detector, etc.

And (nitpick) this doesn’t require all cars sold to be electric. They have to be emission free.
Nice; my experimentation was actually before this (and I posted it to the RPi forums), the firmware updates _did_ make a measurable difference but I decommissioned the setup shortly after testing it.

EDIT: What that post is missing, is a comparison of all generations of the Pi; We know the Pi4 is hot, but I haev every previous generation sitting in the drawer, might be interesting (for me at least) to do some comparison.
While they could argue it's a safety issue, at the same time it's a risky move, and it could end up in the car crashing and being out of the race entirely, so it's a bit self-managing.

I mean if they start equipping cars with side wheels then it becomes a different matter, but I'm pretty sure the cars are already tightly regulated.
> to only interact with other humans they can reasonably trust.

Remember when key exchange parties were supposed to be a thing ad we would build a network of trust and so on?
> In KDE I can precisely control and set window border thickness and colour.

What I do not comprehend is the logic behind why Windows does not support such in my view easy to implement choices.
The type system is a programmer's best friend
4.1 Looming recession makes them put up with a lot more bullshit than before...
Something something Lance Armstrong…good point I think you made.
> few more hundred years

Wow that seems like a generous figure. I’d guess fifty at best.
What if you had a OCR overlay that had a DOM like structure along with coordinates? You could hit a key combo, and then the text dom could float over the page and you could select nodes of it using your keyboard modifiers of choice (vim, emacs, etc).

You could also read the process memory directly by a supervisory program, like a debugger, to extract or insert text directly. It would be like idea implantation.

Does that make sense?
Right, New Zealand has strict bio-security protocols. They want less stuff that shouldn't be there not more.
Looking at data gathering difficulty is a good way to look at it.

Though I may disagree with his classification hard / very hard / very very hard: you can definitely work on some ranking tasks with just behavioural data (i.e. no labels). And to build decent OCR, you need to label your own datasets, the problems is not that different from speech.

Also, what is hard / not hard changes w/ state of the art. Translation is a good example: it used to be that you had translate 1:1 each text. But not anymore w/ recent advanced in NLP (transformers, etc.).
This is like killing Lord British tactic in UO
Isn't Mastodon pretty much a drop-in replacement for Twitter? And it has the advantage of being distributed and it supports Fediverse cross-platform sharing (with Friendica, GnuSocial, etc).

I'm on Friendica so I can follow people on both Mastodon and Diaspora (which would be the drop-in replacement for Facebook).

Still, I think we need something better. I'd like to see a social network with all of that, and support for email, but with sender-authentication (to stop spam), builtin encryption, but also Whatsapp/Signal style chat. And easily shift to whatever mode you're most comfortable with. And maybe also integrate blogging a bit more. I don't like having to choose between commenting on the blog itself or on the social share of the blog post; those two should be integrated.

I see the current flock of distributed social networks as basically the testing bed that should lead to something like that. We're not there yet.
The original Mozilla browser that came out of Netscape.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite

It had a reputation for being slow and bloated at the time which prompted the creation of a slimmed down browser, Phoenix which eventually became Firefox
You are probably (or, the default config) doing "something stupid", like atime, or something that writes continuously to the fs, like logs, etc

(I'm not blaming you, it's hard to have a pure RO FS, that would help a lot - and a standalone RPi doesn't need a lot of stuff that comes by default)
The AMD based Thinkpad E series we have here don't have any coilwhine. I'm also very sensitive to it.
Extremely proud of my big brother - a true super hero.
Yes, I agree with all of that. What you've said pretty much aligns with my view on the Fermi paradox which is that we live in a post scarcity universe where 100% of alien civilizations discover FTL technology and have no need for EM transmission or the kind of spreading colonization that the grabby aliens paper talks about.
Of course people want them when they end up cheaper in the long run. Many governments are subsidizing EVs while taxing non-EVs.
Yeah the Brady rule (made an angry face at Brady, 5 yards) is such a wonky thing that can be misused. Horsecollar in the other hand…I think I’ve seen a couple guys thrown down by jersey alone so yeah no need to grab pads in that battle. At the time though when I saw it live, I would say “you test Roy downfield…”
Well, that increases the expenses from the sensors several fold (at least 2x of course, but I would guess closer to 3x-4x, depending on how many you need to cover the whole range).
And various thinkpads.
Doesn't Cargo always build from source? It still doesn't mean it's reproducible, but at least you can see what you're getting.
Rather than being frustrated you should consider that you're holding on to something that is an inelegant relic of another age. There are things PGP/GPG do that need replacements, but those replacements need to be very different to PGP.

1. I've fethed around with PGP since Zimmerman published the source code, and I attest that setting it up properly is not simple. Not as difficult as creating an x509 certificate in OpenSSL with SANs, but really not straight forward. But the real difficulty is actually using it.
1.1 Trusting in-browser crypto like mailvelope is bizarre. mailpile was a better approach, but they seem to have lost momentum.

2.1 The only significant use for PGP is signing linux packages and git code signing. But this is terrible as a breach means you could generate whole trees of fake checkins, and it desperately needs something like Signal's ratchet mechanism, or (heaven forbid) a blockchain.
2.2 If you want to send something on a USB stick then encrypting it with a sensible and usable tool (with modern AEAD encryption) like https://github.com/FiloSottile/age will be far more reliable.

3 You have no basis for this speculation. Signal are clear that they don't hold your data, and I really can't see 'compelled speech' like writing a backdoor being possible. Signal is as capable of resisting analysis as anything else that's around, far better than PGP, to the point that your security is essentially as good as you and your correspondents device security.
That's like saying that "we" had computers in 1951.. The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

Something existing is different from something being in widespread use.

When I was a kid in the 90s, I had a computer in my room that was entirely for my personal use. There was a pretty long stretch of time where most kids I encountered didn't even have access to a shared family PC.. much longer before they had a computer of their own.
They're being installed a little bit everywhere here in Stockholm, Sweden – I used one just yesterday.

Half the time they don't work, mostly it seems because the credit card reader doesn't seem to work or the pole isn't able to process payment for some other reason. The kicker is that you still have to pay for parking, and should the pole not be working you can't use the spot anyway lest you get fined for parking and not charging. In a city where parking spots are generally few and far between this is supremely annoying.

Another thing that's supremely annoying is that cars have their charge inlets placed in different spots, meaning people will park in whatever way is convenient for them to charge, no matter if that now means two other spots are blocked. Tesla owners seem to be the worst offenders in this regard, in my experience, presumably because their charging ports being placed in the back right (like on an ICE car) just makes it really awkward to use these poles that generally seem placed to optimize for plugging in to the front of the car.

Teething issues aside, I'm glad to see these things popping up.
It's a noble goal. I think many an engineer have tried. Even convincing your own social group to try new things is hard so it really has to offer something new or attract a specific type of audience. I think most people's group of well know friends and contacts caps out at 100. So that would be where I'd put a soft limit on follows e.g a little hint that says maybe you want to split this out into sub groups or separate as accounts.
It's about what I'm thinking to do with my Odroid running from a microSD card. dd the microsd to another one and swap it when it will inevitably fail, more sooner than later. The only problem is that I don't want to pull the card off and copy it periodically or after an apt update. I'm storing configs in git but restoring them is a tedious task. Maybe Pets can help me. Or rsnapshot as on my laptop.
It'll be interesting to see the list of exemptions. Will anyone in a remote area be allowed a petrol car? Or will hydrogen be long enough range and feasible to store?
From Platforms to Musk to Protocols?
I don't know if I'm a "normal", but I kinda hate this trend to stick everything in tabs.

For example, I hate having to jump through hoops to disable tabs in Firefox. Which means using a janky extensions that usually is able to split the tab into a new window. Doesn't always work. I also have to go and manually tweak the browser chrome to hide the tab bar.

The way I see it, tabs and whatnot are a window manager's job. I don't want to have several levels of window management, each being handled differently by a separate app.

If you want to provide tabs, go ahead, but please don't force them on me and let me disable them. I'm OK with having to modify some obscure config file if you insist on removing preferences from your UI. Heck, if I could compile firefox with a special feature flag, that would still be better than the current situation.

Also, FWIW, the latest win 11 22h2 update brought tabs to the windows explorer.
These kinds of things are usually about defending the trademark against future claims.

If they didn't send a cease and desist then that could be used as evidence that they don't conduct business in this area and so they can't claim protection.

You have to use a trademark to keep it, and of of the ways to use it is to enforce it in cases like this that are relatively inexpensive.
I am Australian, and for no one real reason, don't drink that much at all any more, mostly for convenience of being able to drive for dropping off and picking up children etc.

But, as a country, drinking is historically Australia's national past time, and we used to eclipse all others including the Germans, but trailing off a bit these days, I think.

But, based on personal experience and empirical observations, a six pack a night, of American beer, most people in Australia would class that as necessary rehydration, maybe undertaken before breakfast.

If it was, say, two bottles of wine a night, I'd be saying that I have seen that sort of level to potentially have a detrimental effect, but in many ways other than cognitive before that would creep in.

You also have to take into account that your body will become to a certain extent accustomed to alcholo use and you tend to build up tolerance via production of more enzymes to break alcohol down, shaping of your drinking habits (eg guzzling vs drinking) type of alcohol you choose and so on.

I do not advocate use of alcohol in an extensive or pervasive way, and statistically alcohol is one of the worst drugs there is, partly because of availability. But I feel there are worse things that you can be doing to yourself, including excessively stressing out about things, like work, or drinking too much...

There are many things you can do to start to minimise impacts.

For instance if you start to not really know how many drinks you have had, put the bottle top or ring pull in your top pocket for each drink, measuring something is the first step to controlling something.

Also, it is not just the amount you drink, it is the rate you drink and the condition of your stomach when you drink that makes a big difference.

Rule of thumb is for an adult male it is 0.01 BAC ( 0.01g of alcohol in every 100ml of blood. ) out, or processed every hour by the body. (YMMSV)

And one standard drink is 0.01 BAC in. One can American standard beer is about 1 standard drink, strong beer maybe up to 2.

If you space out your beers, say by having a glass of water between each one, the peak alcohol BAC can be substantially reduced, it's basic queueing theory. Plus the impact of any dehydration will be greatly diminished and the next morning should be somewhat more pleasant.

And make sure to have some food first, the rate of absorption on an empty stomach can be substantially greater than one that has food to dilute the alcohol in the stomach.

But, regardless of all this, if you start having episodes where you can’t remember, or maybe act inappropriately, causing regrets, it is wise to seek some help if you cannot diminish these effects on your own.
Carmack was arguing for a cheaper, lighter headset instead of the Quest Pro:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/carmack-wants-a-250-v...

> As a "counterpoint" to the push for the Quest Pro in the Meta offices, Carmack says he "personally still [tries] to drum up interest internally in this vision of a super cheap, super lightweight headset." His rallying cry, he says, is a target of "$250 and 250 grams" for a headset that cuts out as many extraneous features as possible while still being usable (the Quest Pro weighs 722 grams, while the Quest 2 is 503 grams). That could help bring "super light comforts" to "more people at low-end price points."
No, the Rust crate doesn't have to include the source. I've seen crates where the source is just files generated by a Python script and some other data, and the Python and data weren't in the crate, just in the upstream VCS.
> Those trends are growing at faster rates, before they are mandated EVs will be the main preference by ~80% of the public.

Maybe of the same public who already owns an EV. Electricity prices are rising.
Tire wear and noise will not get better with electric cars, more likely worse due to their greater weight.
And would require that no war would happen, where attacker deliberately targets civilian electrical infrastructure, like Russia right now in Ukraine. Like it or not, ICE-powered cars save lives, because you can pack your family and escape those rapists and murderers.
>code was generated from a Python script and some other data and neither of those things are in the crate

Yes, it's (IMO unfortunately) possible to have non-reproducible code generation during compile time. The most prominent example is code generation based on DB schema. But such cases are quite rare and "going with the VCS" does not help here in any way.

If you mean that Rust code gets generated by a Python script and then gets uploaded to crates.io without the "origin" scrips, then I don't see any problems here.

>Or crates where the tests were in VCS but not in the crate

Tests are not used in building the final application, so they are irrelevant for reproducibility.

>prebuilt files in the crate

While I think it's a bad practice (though I haven't seen such crates myself), it does not hinder build reproducibility.
> "the battery in an electric vehicle is likely to be next to useless within 5 or so years of buying it"

Nope, this is an anti-EV myth. Car batteries are not like your phone battery: in most cases they will probably outlast the vehicle itself. Most car manufacturers guarantee the battery for at least 8 years, and in reality they should last a lot longer than that.
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> and it’s always kind of sucked.

Some of us quite like it.
“Does anyone use LinkedList? I wrote it, and I never use it.” (2015)
Here's me wondering how the full scale smart grid that is required to make this work will be created in this timeframe.
6 .NET Myths Dispelled – Celebrating 21 Years of .NET
It is bait and switch. There is no 50% consumption tax on electricity where there is one on petrol. And you can already have BEVs more expensive than gas if you charge on fast DC chargers. So it is just matter of time before government will want those money.
Linear algebra is the one thing I wish I was better at. I almost want to go back to school just for that.
I wonder, as parallelism is exhausted too, will there be a point of reversion, were the cost of bad management practices on product and performance become so big, that the decision power returns to the experts who craft such systems? As in, the council of engineers vote no on middle managements eternal bloat for company internal status points? Else the users switch to engineer governed systems, as created by open source?
Calling a list of acceptance criteria a "roadmap" is a joke.
A New OPEC for EV Battery Metals
It hasn't been long. When things take a nosedive at a job, most people who were enjoying themselves tend not to move right away. All the same, they'll probably be fine, I'm sure twitter looks great on a resume.
where the heck is Transmeta ??? intel was so afraid of them in 1997

Obv AMD was the true and once... but there was a lot of Transmeta-fear back then too
> we need proper safety measurments to ensure this isn’t abused

The courts. They can be sued if they abuse it.
> They have to be emission free.

This hasn't been a big problem. Even German diesel train are going with green current. /s
So no brakes and tires either? Wow, cars should start levitate cyberpunk style.
I'm aware of the rule here (I'm in England); everyone I know has simply said they'll buy a new ICE car near the deadline to gain some extra longevity.

I want to go all-electric, but I cant get on board with the glaring issues that are battery-tech and all-touch interior-controls; Gone are the days where you can buy a car and it'll last 20+ years with maintenance, you buy an electric, at a premium, get a crap interior and a battery that won't hold charge within 5 years, so you can't drive it, and you can't sell it.
That’s how I look at it.

For any one of us that is a “Mel” programmer, there’s some kid, sitting in an Internet café, in Hanoi or Lagos, that will make us look like a sick sauropod.

I love designing and shipping software. I love learning new stuff. I’m not competitive, at all. I want to be good, but I really don’t care if I’m better than anyone else. It’s a luxury to be here.