skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keyboards go back a long way, and the iPhone was widely panned as "not a professional device" because "how could you type email on it?" After all, we all had experience with just how bad on-screen keyboards were. It was so bleeding obvious that Steve was an idiot.

But then people actually used iPhones. While not as good as a physical keyboard, Apple's soft keyboard was vastly better than anyone anticipated. So good, in fact, that everyone basically forgot about physical keyboards and started typing their email on iPhones.

A big part of it was two things:

1. Apple put an actually-good LCD in the iPhone (Apple's LCDs get brighter and dimmer than the competition)

2. Apple used a capacitive touchscreen (that didn't suck).

I think the key thing is "is Tesla going to install good or shitty screens?" My guess is good screens--so I kind of laughed when the trucker complained about Mercedes touchscreens being too bright at night. Just like Apple's good screen enabled things you couldn't have before in a phone, I think Tesla's will too.

They can show blind spot cameras, for example. That may mitigate most or all of the impact of the center driver position on visibility. The same cameras can potentially show a better view than the mirrors (who cares if they're hard to clean when you only have them installed for legal compliance). So the giant screens enable Tesla to offer a Semi with vastly better aero than the competition.
Yeah I suppose if we had fully automated space communism already I may have a different viewpoint..
I mentioned 3 trips a day because you could wake up in Los Angeles, drive deep into the inland empire, drive back to Los Angeles, and then back into the inland empire again. This was the context mentioned by an earlier top-level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33926883

You are quite right that running into problems in the Los Angeles is only a minor inconvenience. Having worked at both ends of this route, I regret to tell you that the other end is not the most welcoming environment. You probably wouldn't be out there too long if you did break down, but the desert gets pretty chilly at night.
Built a hobby informational web app back in 2005 related to a collectible item I was interested in. It basically tells you if your X is considered common or rare (potentially valuable). Determining that is nuanced and people don't want to figure stuff out on their own, so my web app became popular.

At this point it has earned over $400k USD lifetime with 75% of that being in the last two years. 100% Adsense. The audience who find/use my site are good candidates for high-dollar ads, which is why it has done so well. New data (a few rows in a table) needs to be added once every few months, but it takes < 1hr. Realistically I should invest in blog/content but I don't really find it interesting any more.

Following the "make niche complicated data easily parsable" concept I built another web app in 2018 for a different hobby. For example if the hobby was "phones" and the physical dimensions/specs of "phones" was very important to choosing it, my web app would let you visually compare any two "phones" side-by-side at the correct dimensional scale.

It apparently solved a problem and traffic grew organically. After years of work this web app should get close to 6 figures annually in 2023 - earned via affiliate sales of "phones" and accessories. It's is a much more active endeavor, but if I walked away for 6 months I bet revenue would stay near flat. It fills my time and I find it interesting.

I'm working on web app #3 now which is tangentially related to the "phones" concept.
Not a startup, but Facebook has dumped billions into "the metaverse" and it's a stunning failure.
From: December 23, 2021

“Tesla hiring drivers for reliability, performance and homologation testing of Tesla Semi”

Source: https://driveteslacanada.ca/semi/tesla-hiring-drivers-for-re...

It’s a bit silly to assume they didn’t solicit feedback from real truck drivers. While developing a multi-billion product. But “Musk/Spaceman Bad” right?
You'd expect Ravitch to oppose this, as the nation's leading intellectual opponent (I mean that sincerely) to education policy reform, right?
ya maybe we should check with the police before doing anything. Or not.
https://www.erthos.com/modeling-heat-dissipation-in-earth-mo...
The Nürburgring is a private road and does not meet criteria for calling it an Autobahn (it's a one-way road without lanes, which kinda rules out Autobahn-ness).
You can do it in Vivaldi. Use Shift or Ctrl together with mouse click to select several tabs, then open the context menu and select "Tile selected tabs". In the browser settings, search for "tile" to find keyboard shortcuts for these actions.
This is not a real story, it's published by a regime change media outlet. There is an enormous anti-Iran Persian language media industry, staffed primarily by Persians in Los Angeles and to a lesser degree by Persians in London and Paris. Tens of thousands of people are employed full time in this industry, dwarfing the number of people employed in Persian language media in Iran itself. It's truly massive in scale, primarily funded by US/UK and EU governments as well as by Saudi Arabia, which is engaged in a cold war against Iran. It cranks out weaponized propaganda at a constant rate, with the goal of creating a revolution in Iran in which a pro-Western government is installed.

This particular influence operation is headquartered in London and is owned by Volant Media, and receives donations from Saudi Arabia[1]. Volant has offices in Washington DC, and owns this and a sister publication called "Afghanistan International", which was launched immediately after the Taliban capture of Kabul, and is now focused on waging information warfare against Afghanistan.

"Iran International TV emerged abruptly on the London media scene last year; many of the 100-strong staff network were offered generous salaries, often double what rivals paid, but was elusive about its source of funding."

"The source claimed Saud al-Qahtani, the crown prince’s information tsar, who was among two senior officials removed in connection with the Khashoggi affair, was involved in the funding behind Iran International TV."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/31/concern-over-u...
Think it may be helpful to point out how the term evolved over time.

Before Marx, the bourgeoisie only meant the middle, or upper-middle, class as opposed to the proletariat on the one side (which, despite its contemporary Marxist connotations, dates from Ancient Rome's proletarii) and the nobility on the other.

After the rapid industrialization and social displacement of the 19th century that saw the middle class' rise, it was Marx who coopted the term to mean the owner class.

Outside of Marxist circles today, I think the original upwardly mobile meaning is still more common, as in bougie.
Unless the inconveniences inconvenience the decision maker, it wont influence the decision.

This is human nature and agnostic of political or economic model that human exists within.
These are all great steps toward making the internet a less surveillable space. I'm curious if any work is being done to obfuscate credit card info in ways similar to what Firefox is doing for cell phone numbers. It would be great if individual transactions could use a unique dummy number linked to a private account.
Generally if you're grid-tied your setup needs to be approved by the power company and they have a surprising amount of say in what specific equipment by what vendors you can use. If you watch his videos on his specific home setup, he has a separate grid-tied system and his testing system and they don't touch. He even remarks that some of them wouldn't have been his choice.
I didn't make the claim but I thought to look it up. From NHTSA's report, if I'm reading it correctly, 2021 had 42,915 traffic fatalities, of which 8,174 were related to alcohol. I think those numbers are estimated. I'm not aware if there's better data.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
GPUs can definitely handle more than 700 entities. Here's 100k in a web browser: http://david.li/fluid/

But even most offline rendered fluid simulations are not that convincing to my eyes, let alone real time ones. It will be a long, long time before we have truly realistic behavior of real time water in unconstrained settings for games.
Going even further back, Deming called it "constancy of purpose."
Or something like the new Stream Deck? https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck-plus

Actual buttons/dials that can be customised to what you want them to be?
I just tested right now, ⌘C copies the string "1e20" and ⌘V pastes that same string. So yeah it looks like it was fixed.
Amazing!

Is the Spatial Sound Card L a bit like a software version of the Sound Blaster 16bit cards? Does it affect performance much on Mac and PC?

I played the original Thief using a Sound Blaster card and still remember the audio giving me goosebumps!
Rule of thumb: use &str when you don't need more than that, use String when creating text at runtime, returning from a function or storing it in a struct field.

Using borrowed values in general in fields is best avoided until you get more comfortable with the rest of the language.
I think daily news is probably a good thing, given how far back in time it goes. (Newspapers have had centuries.) Possibly even twice daily like certain eras of newspapers where you'd have a morning and evening gazette.

I question a lot more "24/7 news". At some point beyond "twice daily digests" it does seem like too much news. It certainly doesn't help that 24/7 news to keep "engagement numbers" such as viewer counts or retweet counts deeply blurs the lines between entertainment and unsubstantiated rumors with "news", but even if you could somehow crack down on "news-like entertainment" there's probably still way too much diminishing return on it all beyond once or twice a day.

I don't know how we solve that though and a lot of people would complain if you tried to ban cable news networks and news Twitter, but sometimes I do envy the people that lived in "at most twice a day" news cycles.
Yes to reading documentation - there seems to be a trend on twitter these days of "I've been using this language/library for years and I just learned you could do X!!!". Really, you haven't RTFM on the tools you use daily to make your living?

I've also found reading the source for libraries you use and stepping through with a debugger is really the best way to understand them. This is probably how most people learn their in house code at work. Just treat the whole stack like in house code (within reason). And reading code is also a fabulous skill to hone.
Agreed. The dust is likely to stay there and not blow off and also type of installation does not allow of undergrowth much less dual use of land (parking lot or other potential land use).
Some supplements are expensive, some are not. Creatine, B12, iron and zinc are all cheap. They are also specifically all available in vegan forms.

You're better off getting micronutrients from food sure but there are other options if for some reason you can't or won't.

> If a supplement you’re taking is a byproduct of meat production, what is even the point

Most vegans I know are vegan for ethical reasons which is consistent with minimizing the "animal footprint" even if you can't 100% remove it.
Does anyone have suggestions with where to find more exercises? I notice the book pdf has like ~38 total, but was curious where one would find more.
Would it be slow still if it recalculates everything?
And others emulating them. I would like a Rivian for several reasons, but I can not accept the cab, especially the suv. It's the stupidest least functional least convenient least utility thing imaginable for a utility vehicle.

It's a rolling Apple "one button" joke.
hCaptcha is awful at this. You can request an 'accessibility cookie' by typing in an email address but for me it denied me with a generic error.

I contacted support, they asked me for IP and browser details. I responded and they gave me suggestions like using a VPN or rebooting the modem to pick up a new dynamic IP. :/
That’s what I’ve been trying. Maybe I’m too picky and when I go to edit them I ruin them.

Where are people finding these open source themes? I found like five valid candidates for Eleventy. Tried Hugo for a while.
What if (Arch) Linux is already the ideal user condition.

Hypothetically, of course.
Recently I encountered a tourist who didn't understand anything I said, but said he's from Korea. Recalling that I have been studying Korean on Duolingo for over a year, I excitedly probed my memory for a few seconds, then finally exclaimed, "annyeonghaseyo!" (hello), then blurted in English, "sorry, I don't speak Korean"

Later I encountered a fellow who spoke English. He told me he's from Germany. Recalling that I have been studying German on Duolingo for over a year, I excitedly probed my memory for a few seconds, and finally came up with "sehr gut!" (very good), then "sorry, that's all the German I know"

Then I was at a pizza shop and realized the person at the counter only spoke Spanish. Recalling that I have been studying... finally she lost her patience and thrusted her phone at me, with Google Translate.

True story. I still use Duolingo everyday. But surely, it isn't enough to "know"
I do like FastAPI. django-ninja looks interesting as a potential alternative in the functional & Pydantic-typed API style, while still keeping the benefits of the Django ecosystem and ORM.
tangentially I thought Mastodon's first "main character" was Wil Wheaton back in 2018
this is something you have to manage. your customers and your salespeople by proxy. yes, absolutely you should respond to the market. no, you should not drop everything to let your customer bikeshed.
> That's a weird position to advocate from.

So weird -- it's the devil!
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have right to remove photos of your home from realty sites after sale?
It's still got windows. Why would someone need to leave the vehicle to interact with police? I must be missing something.
thats really interesting, thanks for sharing! a google search for fire ants electrical equipment brings up a website on ants conducting electricity and shorting circuits. I had no idea that was an issue
https://archive.vn/JLmGW
> But... you'd rather charge every time you use it? And what if you run out of energy in the middle of a trip?

This is no work. You carefully mount the charger so that it‘s right between your car door and the charge port. When you exit the car it‘s a single movement on the way out of the garage.

As for range, you don‘t run out in the middle of a trip. The car finds a supercharger if it‘s really one of those longer trips.
The elimination of the gag clauses will reduce payouts, and likely the rate of settlement of these cases, a trade-off I rarely see addressed. Could at be that this change will benefit many, and cost victims?
Better really is too subjective and context dependent. Play with both and see what works for you. Copilot is GPT3 specifically trained on code, so my understanding is that it should be better... It's also fairly convenient due to the IDE plugins.
Recent US Traffic fatalities:

2021: 42,915

2020: 38,824

2019: 36,355

2018: 36,835

2017: 37,473

According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_... the last time the US had fewer than 30,000 traffic fatalities was 1945
After a few the rest would likely go down by debris. Not that it would matter as a world war would already have caused so much debris from destroyed satellites that nothing up there would work anyway.
Yep, and there are thousands of them around the $30 dollar mark. The case and power supply included!!!!! Governments (Local and State in the US) auction them off cheap if you really want to buy in bulk.

People have adapted all manner of thin, thick and virtual clients to run Klipper. I had it running on a VM in VirtualBox before I moved it to a Jetson Nano.
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I don’t know. Probably the same reasons people buy small day cabs today.
> They're often sleeping, with the lid down...

You should be able to wake them up remotely with wake-on-lan.
They're mandating contracts where farmers are forced to adopt practices with negative externalities just to keep their heads above water and meet their contractual obligations, and so they don't have to literally sell the farm.
If adults wanted me not to use some of the greatest resources available to humans in order to "protect" me it would cause me to constantly be wasting time I could be using to do something fun or useful on circumventing idiotic protections.

I don't like having my time wasted and I would certainly never vote for the people who want to waste my time. And that's the best case scenario, some people wouldn't be able to circumvent the ban and they'd be stuck atrophying.

The idea that twitter/facebook/4chan/instagram/discord etc aren't essential to existing in a world that's changing as fast as ours is laughable. In the last 2 weeks I've gone from novice to expert in using stable diffusion to create animations purely off discussions on social media, this information doesn't exist anywhere else in a field that's being upended every few weeks by new developments. That's not something that's going to change going into the future, the rate of change is increasing and we need to PREPARE our youth for that, not deny them the only way to stay relevant.
Searching for Unintended Biases with Saliency
Sounds like this person has never used a conventional (non cabover) truck and most of his points (minus the tablet) also apply to them?
The links are accessible to everything which can determine an <a> exists, uniquely defined with a visual indicator that doesn't require color, and show before you hover if it is internal or external.

Requiring a link to be underlined doesn't seem productive from an accessibility perspective to me. I did some research on a11y and didn't see anything in the audit checklists that this violates [0], could you explain what the precise issue is?

[0] obviously checklists aren't everything.
strangely enough Nix uses both of those interpretations for sequential tokens, requiring parenthisization of function-calls inside a list context. Truly a language with syntax only a mother could love.
Yeah the state of Chrome's extension API documentation is awful. It needs to be totally reorganized and partially rewritten. I'm hopeful that MDN will become a better resource as Firefox becomes more compatible with the APIs. It's already more helpful in some places.
I think they mean a faster way to learn coding, not learn to code faster. As for copilot - I like it - you can evaluate the quality of the results by reading the results. I nearly always edit the results a bit, but I still think it helps.
Have you seen https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad...
> People engage in wage labor because they find it preferable to alternatives like hunting and gathering berries.

They don't exactly choose.

If a person wants to live by hunting and gathering, or by subsistence agriculture, he first has to acquire fertile land. And all that land is taken. In the United States, you don't even have the Right to Roam. Nor, on the public rights-of-way, do you have any right to so much as a sidewalk.

The ability to live an "indigenous" lifestyle no longer exists. The whole place has been terraformed.

You are trapped by the actions of everyone else. Mathematically, it's some kind of game theoretic equilibrium. But what it feels like is a prison.
Except I don't want my car changing its UI. Ever.

I dislike it enough when Microsoft or Apple slip in a UI update with a feature update. For something like a car the driving needs to be instinctual so I can spend my attention on the other vehicles. Changing the UI gets in the way of that instinct.
> I, like half of us, took a ton of Spanish in high school, enough to generally stick even without continuing to build it afterwards.

Can confirm. My wife and I both took 4+ years of spanish in high school and college, over 15 years ago. We can almost get by on just that knowledge alone in spanish speaking countries, but it is difficult and we always have a translator around.

That said, we took a vacation last summer to a spanish speaking country and spent the 2 months leading up to it using Duolingo. We both had streaks for that entire time. Personally, the refresher course of Duolingo made conversing with people in their native language of Spanish MUCH easier compared to other attempts in the past. We didn't need to use our phones to lookup phrases or even ask locals to speak English. I even learned a few new words and phrases.

That isn't to say that Duolingo is the best or only option, just an anecdote about our experience.
> I'm lucky to have a bank that doesn't charge overdraft fees

Name-and-fame them (if it wouldn't dox yourself), that's awesome! Are they more lik ea credit union or more like a bank?

> I'm probably leaving a fair bit of money on the table

I have some family who keep ~8 (rewards/travel) credit cards and maximize the incentives by keeping in mind all the categories + percentages for each card, including the couple of them that have rotating categories. It's not a whole lot but it makes my head spin.

I just have a Costco visa and I use it for everything that isn't from Amazon (for which I have a set-and-forget Amazon visa) or Apple (because I'm not going to turn down 0% financing for 24 months with the Apple card). I'm also leaving money on the table... but I don't exactly clip coupons and I even throw away produce (!) that has gone bad through neglect.
To be more specific: this ruling confirms that tracking users with only implied consent is illegal. What Facebook tried to do here is to make user tracking an integral part of their service by putting it in their TOS. The GDPR is quite clear that such tracking can never be a legitimate business interest and therefore a) users must agree to it explicitly, b) consent for tracking may be withdrawn at any time, and c) withdrawal of consent may not be tied to the rest of the service offering (i.e. a business may not refuse service if users decline to be tracked).
I don't remember the name, but I've had some friends do remote teaching for foreign languages through an app, where you'd get scheduled 1 on 1 video time with a person who knows the language. I think that's an interesting approach I would look into over the self directed learning
10 years is a long time. Many of their choices are to drive costs down and that will give Tesla a competitive advantage.
>There is no reason for a user in the US to see GDPR banners.

GDPR is based on citizenship, not location.
I completely agree with you, but if we want to support apps to use APIs we have to have some sort of access flow to do so! I'm not sure what a better UX for those flow would look like.
If you haven't seen this, a great recent interview with him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5TaYFi4UVA