skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”If they take a stance, they will be banned from China completely.”

Unlikely as that kind of a move would have a huge global impact. That might lead to all Chinese companies (Bytedance, Xiaomi etc.) being banned in the west/US etc.

There would be consequences though.
If you are interested in a current year vehicle that is durable and simple, I recommend looking into the current generation Toyota 4Runner:

* body-on-frame construction

* reliable and proven engine platform (naturally aspirated v6)

* 5 speed auto transmission (modern trannys have like 10 gears bc of emissions)

* no fancy hybrid / turbo drivetrain that will start breaking after 3 years

* big after market so you can customize to your liking (got a bunch of off road toys on mine)

Cons:

* expensive (though you will save on maintenance and repair costs in the long run)

* there is a big demand for these trucks so you might need to stomach a $5K dealer mark up

* gas hog

* drives like farm equipment compared to a tesla, not refined at all

* infotainment is about as modern as the rest of the car

Next generation, it will probably go the hybrid / turbo route like the tundra.
A great product, it has support for practically any browser thanks to the bookmarklet and chrom(ium) extension [0]. I mostly use it on PDFs (e.g. papers). I definitely recommend it.

[0] https://web.hypothes.is/start/
Oh, I like tip number 3. Instead of dreading thing X, try dreading your death instead. If thing X seems more terrible, maybe you have your priorities wrong.

Reminds me of the Seinfeld joke:

“According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
Apple's relationship with China is a colossal liability.
I'm pretty sure David Jones had a DREADCO/Daedalus column on lab-grown trees, sometime last century, but my poor Google-fu is not turning it up...

Edit: "saccharostructive" turns up a hit, but not the one I had recalled; IIRC DREADCO had come up with a scheme (involving both rotation and tension?) to avoid the limited height of traditionally-grown trees.
I did minimal hardware DIY for temp/humity/pressure, with some Adafruit ESP32 boards and BME280 sensors. The inside unit has one of their e-paper displays to show inside/outside info, and sits in a box from the dollar store. I'd think that adding the other sensors would be minimal other soldering for added bits, but I haven't gone there (yet). [Edit: this could be non-soldering with a breadboard, which my outside unit is still in, with a battery and in a soap dish with holes added.]

The more DIY side of mine is all the software, with MQTT as the glue. Both ESP32s publish to that, one subscribes (to show both), and a little daemon on the Pi with Mosquitto writes it all to an Sqlite database.
I couldn't agree more. I don't think compiler vectorization is that useful even for columnar (!) database we're building. The specialized JIT doesn't even use AVX512 because too much effort for little to no gain.
Apple loves to keep up appearances, but they are behind some of the worst behaviors in our industry.

Apple has already soured competition in computing by making the App Store the only way to reach 51+% of Americans with your software. They heavily tax it, artificially limit your ability to update and deploy, force you to devote resources to regularly adhere to Apple standards, let people place ads under your name, kill your customer relationships, force deep Apple product integrations, etc.

"CSAM device scanning" is a Trojan horse that will absolutely be abused in situations like we're seeing in China now.

Apple sells itself on privacy, yet collects more info on you than Facebook to feed their growing ads business. It's hypocrisy.

Other major tech companies looked at China and said no. Why can't Apple?
The rationale would be that it might be more efficient to WASM-decode JXL than to download a JPEG, especially in pages with lots of images, but I would want a fallback if the browser does not support WASM.
>> I do wonder how long gas vehicles will be a viable option

Many many decades, they are not going away anytime soon
>indoor data, and adding those to the public maps will only introduce noise, providing negative value to the public.

Well, seeing my neighbor's indoor air quality might explain why he is such a jerk. It also might help spot local methlabs...

(just kidding - I totally agree with you)
When I signed up for this site 12 years ago I was a huge Apple fan and almost steered my web dev career into iOS dev. Really glad I didn't do that, but also wish I could change my HN username now!
Elon Musks Twitter vs. Apple App Store
Elon Musk fires anyone who criticizes him.
Fine by me, but for the love of god, label it. Label everything. Stop bending to the will of every shady food manufacturer and give some transparency to the human beings actually consuming these substances.
Ah, someone like minded. I work best, by far, very early on -- max 11am... then perhaps a bit more in the afternoon, but mostly doing 'admin' sort of things. All the big programming bits are done early on.
I published it on https://greasyfork.org/de/scripts/455551-remove-news
In what way does this censor anyone? Censorship would be Apple disabling Airdrop altogether, not coming up with some compromise so that its users could still do their work.
That seems a-historical. The way you get the real nazis is by not acting soon enough when they target/vilify/'other' marginalized groups, or attempting to get a foothold in political institutions.
Do they bleach the nuggets for hygiene, as they do to real chickens? And what about the taste? There is nothing better than a good roasted Bresse chicken :)
Elon Musk says a lot of incredibly stupid things.
> WRONG... Governments decided that emissions and safety were important, not the market.

Lots of people buy vehicles based on safety reputation, fuel economy, and environmental impact. The fact that democratic governments are using their power to enforce a baseline quality for those things speaks volumes to the interests of the citizens - which in this case is almost indistinguishable from the market.

> then that is the market decided they are not important, consumers do not ask "how much does this cost to repair" because the new car buyer most likely will trade in that for a newer model before the 100,000 mile warranty is even up so they do not care.

This is only sort of true. First owners are incentivized to trade early because of the lack of reparability. That in turn enables manufacturers to make less repairable products - which aligns with their interests because it allows them to capture more of the repair market and further incentivizes customers to buy new cars more often. It's a vicious cycle that benefits only the manufacturers.
Jalopnik had an article supposing Musk’s Hyperloop was just a ploy to subvert California's high-speed rail project.[1] Hanlon's razor seems applicable here, but that's not necessarily more flattering for Boring. Seems like a case where the hard part of deploying underground infrastructure in major metropolitan areas isn't actually digging through the dirt.

[1] https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...
> I preferred to eat lunch by myself and I only discussed the business topic at hand during meetings unless someone else brought up a personal discussion.

Probably, they thought that you did not like them.
It's literally extra screen real estate. The non-notch screen rectangle is the same size as the pre-notch screen.
Creditors in Voyager’s bankruptcy were looking at about a 60 cents on the dollar return without a buyout and about 75 cents on the dollar return if FTX could have followed through on their business and accounts buyout, IIRC.

Voyager had only 3 creditors so they weren’t well diversified. When one of their creditors eventually went belly-up, they predictably lost about a third of their holdings.
These older vehicles emit roughly as much as current (gas powered) small gas engines (aka lawnmowers, leaf blowers, etc).

So unless your household (or your maintenance crew) is 100% electrified, your part of the problem.

https://www.pressherald.com/2022/03/31/our-sustainable-city-...
> Assuming you work in an office, would you serially go from desk to desk asking coworkers out to 1:1 lunches?

I disagree with the author on a lot, but this is not a bad idea, at least for people you work closely with. I probably wouldn't take them to a sit-down place 1:1 unless you're already comfortable with them but grabbing coffee or a fast-casual lunch that you take back to the office is a good idea
I did, still can't figure out what you mean by "chinese whispers from processors"
IIRC, Firechat was The Thing for PRC and Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat

Sessions is better than Signal since it doesn't require a phone number. IYAM, it should add Android + iOS serverless&internetless BT support.
If you buy Apple products and call for Apple to change their behavior, it will have much less of an effect on their decision making than if you stopped buying their products.
Sounds like a fine option, but it should not be the only option (as it is displayed in the tweets).
Looking at the “better model” graph https://jasmcole.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-16.png — a “coin” with a thickness of nearly the diameter ratio ~0.85. Note h is half the thickness (r is more obviously half the diameter).
Interesting, I've played "tabletop RPG" (not D&D, homebrew) on vacations with my cousins, and we used coins, 6-sided dices, and sometimes (when we played while hiking) the DM was just counting quickly in his mind from a random number up or down (modulo N) and the player was saying STOP to get the number.
Vector instructions (ala Cray) are future proof in ways that SIMD are not. Eventually every high performance CPU will have HBM, I am not sure SIMD is the mechanism we will use in to extract the most efficiency out of the platform.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/yunsup-ms.pdf

https://parlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/sites/all/parlab/files/mave...

https://www.cs.uic.edu/~ajayk/c566/VectorProcessors.pdf

https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs152/sp18/lectures/L16-RISC...
What strikes me most as a former professional in film audio postproduction are the national differences on intelligibility standards.

German speaking audiences (where I worked) are used to extreme standards of clarity, to the point where a studio recording quality is what you have to go for. Most German commercial shows and dubs would work just fine as audiobooks. Meanwhile in the US originals there is a litany of mumbling, half words, half sentences spit out, chewed down and all, not only would you have to force actors to do this over here, but everybody would also experience it as bad craft.

Of course this comes from somewhere: recording clean sound on set where the microphones cannot be in plain view is challenging and overdubbing always produces a clean sound if tou don't put in work to change this. Few directors even in Germany are going to make a compromise on set if the sound guy complains (trust me, I have been there and I tried). The German speaking part of Europe as the biggest dubbing market of Europe employs 52% of all voice actors according to wikipedia. But in the end if an audience and a nation of professionals is used to do it a certain way, thay way might persist. US production companies keep getting away with this, so why invest more and risk for getting a sound that doesn't match a audience's expectations?
Flagging posts/comments you dislike. I think the threshold is 2000 or something but I haven't thought about it in years.

Unfortunately the comment you replied to misunderstood my question. I wasn't complaining about tweets in general (though I find them mildly annoying) but expressing confusion about why a specific tweet (with an inherently unique URL) was being posted over and over when the HN dupe filter should have prevented that.
Yes, I've never had a friendship survive a relocation. Not to say that I dislike or resent any of these people at all; we simply never talk anymore.

Kids could possibly do the same especially if your friends are not also having kids at the same time. Kids can also easily contribute to the making of new acquaintances (parents of other kids) as well. These might turn into friendships, or might fade out quickly once the kids' interests diverge (or they grow up and leave the nest).
Can you give an example of a bug in a Zig program caused by the lack of constinit? It seems like Zig just does not have the delayed initialization of static and thread-local variables that C++ has, but I'm not completely sure of this.
> suicide nets

I assume this is about Foxconn. Does that mean you'll be boycotting other companies that also work with them, like Amazon, Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Vizio, Acer, Lenovo, Nintendo, and Sony?

I'm genuinely asking. It's a tough pill to swallow to learn all our tech stuff we all enjoy is built on the backs of poor people on the other side of the planet.
no one is going to read that blog post and its the same level of quackery as the blog posts that say seed oil is killing our health.

"nick is a fomer student of Human Nutritional Science and Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, and he currently works as a nutrition science communicator, creating in-depth blog articles"

Not sure why you shared this. maybe you should share actual research or anectdotal evidence by someone who is actually responsible for someone else's health and has yoe.
The underestimation of US realpolitik in this article seems off. Russian tactics in Ukraine are not US doctrine. Ref: Desert Storm for an example of how the US vs a standing army can go.

Never mind discounting aircraft carriers, which no other country fields in the way the US does: blue water navy, logistics, TRAINING (caps, because readiness is most important, look at stats between US carrier and anyone else, nearly 10x less error rate), and scale.

If we try to strong man this argument, let's say it is over for carriers. Exocet/Harpoon equivalent missiles have 100% hit rate in this scenario. Does that make it more or less likely for China to be able to take Taiwan?

I'd argue it doesn't matter because China does not have an expeditionary force. Full stop. I'd like to be wrong, but my guess is they are not trained like US. Either missiles can stop ships and Chinese landing forces are stopped by a hail of Harpoon missiles, or they can't, and US conventional warfare sinks them in the East China Sea.

I would guess China has to go for culture victory, somehow convincing Taiwan that they should come back into the fold. Taiwan does not sound like they are interested.

If we think US military is not working on AI drones, I'd offer US invented the best global network of drones with the highest body count. Turkey is doing a great job with their TB2, but that's no predator/reaper, and those are the drones we can see. It's more than one thing I think, and this article glosses over that.

You can say many bad things about the US military, it's bloated, they overspend, etc. However, they have logistics absolutely down. It is the greatest bomb FedEx ever created on Earth. They work tirelessly whether there is a peer or not. Not a bet I would take.
I mean, again, $44bn is on the line here and 'well functioning app' is not why things are worth that much (what share of YC's value is Hacker News for example?).

Companies release financial statements for a reason.
F-droid is safer (reproducible builds of open source software) than the Play Store (static analysis followed by dynamic analysis in a cloud emulator), which is safer than the Apple App Store (human looking at a HIG checklist).
No, but that's mainly because Intel has been totally incompetent for the last half decade. On Zen4/Intel chips post 2020 that have it, AVX-512 is really good.
Only classes with one or more virtual functions have virtual method table. Objects of such classes are called polymorphic objects and they (and only they) have hidden pointer to virtual method table.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/object#Polymorphi...
> Which parts specifically?

One could start with the exclusion of electric vehicles and batteries that aren’t produced in the US from the tax credit. Effective immediately as of mid-August. Really great for VW, don’t you think?

But I imagine there are many other examples.
* Apple is not a green company

* Apple is not a free speech advocate

* Apple builds their products with unethical labor
> you get somewhere around 35%

That still has to be in the millions or billions of acres globally. No?
> You pay $1000 for a computer, and you are only allowed to install software on it that Apple says you are allowed to.

For i-devices, yeah, true.

> You can only pay for software on their own store.

As nice as exposing the App store to more market effects might be, the app store monopoly enables them to force other companies to be less shitty on the platform (or else abandon it—but it's lucrative, so most don't), so it's a feature to me. I'd rather some of the behaviors they ban were simply illegal everywhere, but until then I like having the option to live the libertarian dream of paying for a private regulatory agency (Apple, that is). Beats having no option of that sort.
Repurposing an Old Wi-Fi Camera into a Motion-Sensitive Litter Box
I think this is highly dependent on luck. If you're friendly and happen to live near other, outgoing, friendly families, then the odds of befriending them are higher. It also helps to have a friendly spouse (it helps a LOT).
Ooo neat, i'll have to look into Groups. Thanks!
We need sanctions. You can't expect corporations to wage international campaigns for human rights, nor do we want that corporations to exercise such power.

We need govt action.
> Therefore the speech of one side must be tolerated and supported; the speech of the other must be squelched and restricted.

This sounds like a distinction between say a friend and an enemy. Sounds like a political concept I have heard before.
I think you're overestimating that, probably because of vegan propaganda.
Eg. A lot of the water you use for animals turns into milk or pee (or sweat?), and goes back to the cycle of water.

I don't like posting videos but this one goes through several points:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g
Pretty sure Google has been mostly out of China since Operation Aurora.
I clicked expecting this to be about _whales_ having barter trade of leeches and maggots. Might be related to playing Subnautica.
What if you don't want to inhale the stuff mass produced furniture is outgassing? With DIY you have at least a slight chance to avoid that, by choosing your materials accordingly.
It’s not even a little bit close. Go on… tell me about how Google spent millions lobbying against human rights or worked with authoritarian regimes or had workers killing themselves in such high numbers that they had to reconfigure their workplaces.

Google did what Apple should have ten years ago and pulled out of China when faced with similar problems.
I'm not sure why you want to hear Musk's opinions on the protests in China, I assume it's either because you're a big fan or because you think its essential that every rich person opine about every issue so that the poors know how they should think about it.

What I wonder is why so many libs are so happy about anti-covid lockdown protests? Backwards day, or just nationalists?
Link? I will edit if so.

I have found some pro-China tweets from Musk, but that's it.
One other thought is that most algorithms don't need to be very sophisticated.

So DuckDuckGo is (mostly) predicated on the idea that if you type "mens running shoes" into a search box you can confidently sell ads for trainers all day, and possibly other sporty goods. The bet Gabriel Weinberg is making is that the accuracy / profit for selling those ads is not significantly worse than using the text plus a thousand data points about that persons pregnant daughter and bathroom habits. Inwoukd love to see some study on that (not sure how - maybe have google return duckduckgo results and see what they buy. Hell I would bet they have already done this !)

Anyway I suspect that I would get as much out of twitter if I just get what David Attenborough reads on twitter (ie a manual curation from someone interesting and well versed in the world)

Sometimes the best algorithm is a much more educated and experienced human
As I pointed out already, the Wikipedia page you linked says “re issue” under the profit
You can commit fraud at a non-profit: https://a2independent.com/2022/10/27/ann-arbor-non-profit-ho...

When you have a system like Medicare - that a few terrible people can abuse to extract hundreds of millions of dollars - it's going to happen, whether you have non-profits or for-profits, whether it's government corruption or private corruption.

The problem is setting up a system that doesn't take fraud & corruption into consideration and have a real way of dealing with them - not Capitalism
The raw materials have a pretty bad track record as well.
I find it very hard to be outraged one way or the other over Apple not wanting a cartoon frog in an app. I get that we're all supposed to be upset that Apple is censoring Pepe, but...who cares?
>Milspec, lol.

Yes, MilSpec [0].

>Doesn't that normally equal as cheap as they can get away with?

No, wrong. You're thinking of "military grade", which is effectively meaningless as a term.

>There is a high-density thread sealing PTFE tape that works a bit better than the el' cheapo generic white stuff

This is what I was alluding to. It's thicker and denser.

>EDIT: Unless the package has MIL-T-27730 on the tape, labeling it milspec has no meaning.

This is where you're wrong. Milspec has a specific meaning [0]. The milspec in question is Military Spec # A-A-58092 [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Stand...

[1] https://www.lowes.com/pd/Oatey-0-6-in-x-43-ft-Plumber-s-Tape...
That's interesting that this was rolled out a few weeks ago, however the article also says:

> Apple won’t admit why this change is being made in China, but the peer-to-peer nature of AirDrop has made it popular for spreading anti-government protest material, and hopping into your settings every 10 minutes to re-enable the ability to receive AirDrop from strangers makes it a lot less useful for that.
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose
I would posit that a hyper-aggressive corporate culture established by such a person, and continued in a not-very-modified form up until the present day, is more likely to make "accommodations" to things like the CCP and government of China for their local Apple cloud services subsidiary, provide crypto keys/copies of data on request, etc.

Because obviously it serves the global revenue and china-source-revenue figure to sell more Apple devices in China no matter the human rights and privacy consequences.
Is it? With the Android Open Source Project you can create your own completely Google-free Android distribution that you can install on quite a lot of devices.

Not that I like Google, I actually actively dislike it and hate all the anti-competitive things they did (with Android, too), but let's stay with the facts here.
Yet another example why Apple should be forced to allow other app stores. They have yet to keep one of their original promises to justify the gatekeeping. The app store is a cesspool - it's easier to find scam apps than the legitimate ones, gambling targeting children in the form of "games" run rampant and if you are a developer, good luck trying to build any sort of a relationship with your users.
It's an utter shit show.