skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Elon's biggest problem with mass transit is just that he doesn't like the masses. As he once tweeted:

> I think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people[...]And there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great.

Not the only problem he cites there (note the "[...]"). But I'm pretty sure there's a reason it's the most prominent.

(Incidentally, given the demographics of those most reliant on mass transit, one wonders why exactly he thinks that they are so likely to be serial killers.)
I tried to buy a Rolex and fell into a grey market for luxe watches
Last I remember, they didn't want people working on both viewer and OpenSim to avoid accusations of copying from a GPL viewer into the permissively licensed OpenSim. This, obviously, makes implementing new non-Linden features nigh impossible.

Of course, this policy changed a few months after I stopped playing with OpenSim. I think RealExtend had something to do with it. I remember playing around with their viewer and being impressed, but never doing much else with it.
Apple had wheel keyboard https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
Ah but you see it’s not an exact replica they carved a copyright notice and their name on the bottom! Clearly that qualifies it for the copyright notice itself.
Duke Energy cuts power as extreme cold taxes grid on holiday weekend
Black Goat Tonic
All I Want for Christmas Is You (Wii Shop)
> It has come to the Courts attention that the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, at which my husband is a partner, advised FTX in 2021, as well as represented parties that may be adverse to FTX and Defendant Bankman-Fried in other proceedings (or potential proceedings).

The key to this is simple. 'as well as represented parties that may be adverse'. (Past and as I say below 'future')

The judge doesn't want her husband's firm to be disadvantaged by the connection such that (for lack of a better way to put it) the firm can't further benefit from the money that will flow surrounding this case going forward for any party that is involved. If a partner's wife is the judge hard to believe that wouldn't be a good reason to not pick the firm 'just to be sure'.
https://archive.vn/cnTOV
Ok, we've taken uniqueness out of the title above.

(Submitted title was "Apple's Unique Device Curvature". I assume that rewrite was intended to replace the linkbaitiness of the article title, which is in keeping with the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Exactly, by actually taking advantage of advances in RF and information theory since the Communications Act of 1934. Which we can't do at the moment.
Something I noticed is that religion is a great "forcing function" for a lot of healthy behavior including socialization.

If your daily or weekly life involves going to a Church, synagogue, it something else- you have a built in structure for being around and interacting with people.

It's interesting for me to think about - religion declined as percentage of population in recent decades but I suspect in the long run (1/2 generations) religion provides enough antidote to things that plague secular society (isolation, depression, childlessness) that it might swing the percentages in the other direction.
Is Open Simulator back in active development? The last time I looked at it there hadn't been a release for some years, if I'm remembering right.
They’re switching to lines.
Wells Fargo recently (couple months ago) had mailserver issues where they failed to realize they had actually delivered the email. They sent me about 20 copies of each email, then after a week sent an notice how they cannot send me an email . Even though they’ve got their 250 proper from my MTA.

But they had fixed it since then, now emails work fine. I suspect they had some bug on their side, because I haven’t seen anything suspicious on mine (and nothing had changed on my side).

Idk what was that.
I suspect these decisions are driven from the top down. We know who loves a shiny tech choice at Tesla. The company has been quite proud of their end to end ML system in presentations. But it sounds like they’re struggling with execution.
Wow. I haven't researched moving costs at all, but I'd probably buy all new stuff and still save money at those prices.
> As such, i maintain she probably did this because she didn't want the case.

I was going to agree with this but then I realized and made this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34120906

Essentially I feel this is about business for the firm going forward, not anything that happened in the past.
I don't think this is a disagreement...
If you have the money, hire an expert grower and pay them a salary. Have them manage the plantation and the migrant workers.

That’s it. Keep it simple. No partnership. No business deals. A simple employee arrangement.

That’s basically step one. However, it will free up your time to find a buyer for the beans when it’s time to harvest them and sell them. Rinse and repeat.
> one of them will drive at least as well as a human learner driver and the other will probably refuse to move.

refusing to move is a feature not a bug. and human learners don't slam into a jersey barrier because there's some glare.

why tesla bros continue to insist that they have a good vision stack while they can't even do contrast adaptation is beyond me. the dril tweet comes to mind
Why are you expecting the world now to exist as it was when you were a child?
Restaurants also can have a number of tables pre-allocated to third party companies on the assumption someone can book them though that third party. Similar to this, I once tried to stay in a hotel by just showing up to the reception desk. They told me they were fully booked. I then found the same hotel on a booking website, booked it on there, showed the hotel my now 'reserved' room then stayed at the hotel the same night.
> Presumably Cory thought he could do better the second time around.

I remember a post from him where he said something like "Note to self: next time spend more than a week(end) on the scripting language". :-)
Thank you for this. I always appreciate click-unbaiting.
"the taxpayer expects us to alleviate his burden by trying to make at least some money, and the FOIA requestor declined to promise non-commercial use. "

Yes and the taxpayers will be happy, that they hired one of the most expensive law firms, to protect their amazing 5000 euro revenue.

"SPK confirmed it had earned less than 5,000 euro, total, from marketing the Nefertiti scan, or any other scan for that matter"

"Instead, SPK made arrangements for me to inspect the scan at the Los Angeles office of the law firm WilmerHale, one of the most expensive, well-connected law firms in the world."
Sounds like they took acid and also designed it doesn’t sound like they designed anything more interesting because of the acid. In fact (no shade on a good trip) maybe they’d have got more designing done if they weren’t taking acid at work.
Is that the older Mobileye stack? It had much better autopilot than Teslas solution.

In the video I linked, you can see it out perform Tesla’s implementation.
This story was unreadable.
I remember this article discussed on HN a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036825
Yes, this quote is included in the article
I actually think this is a valid question. I think the post belongs here because a lot of us run companies that have or will have business that requires us to travel to London.
Perhaps I am simply not imaginative enough but I simply do not have any clue how the following could occur in three weeks. What am I missing? This seems like bullshit, similar to how I felt reading about Elizabeth Holmes in the early days, baffled how someone without any training could miraculously change medical testing.

> Then she convinced phage scientists around the country to hunt and peck through molecular haystacks of sewage, bogs, ponds, the bilge of boats and other prime breeding grounds for bacteria and their viral opponents. The impossible goal: quickly find the few, exquisitely unique phages capable of fighting a specific strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria literally eating her husband alive.

> Next, the US Food and Drug Administration had to greenlight this unproven cocktail of hope, and scientists had to purify the mixture so that it wouldn’t be deadly.

> Yet just three weeks later, Strathdee watched doctors intravenously inject the mixture into her husband’s body – and save his life.
> That exactly what flat earthers claim.

I have no idea what this has to do with this discussion, and this just comes off as an ad hominem attack. Flat earthers claim that there's an economic interest in lying to them? And you think that claim is particularly genuine or even similar to this argument?

> You don't know if this person has nothing to lose

It is possible that they have some competing business and are trying to damage LastPass, but there's absolutely no evidence of that, nor any suggestion other than to double-check your credentials and your expected security if you are a LastPass customer. So, if they do have an interest, they're doing a particularly bad job of acting within it.

> Even if they have nothing to lose that doesn't mean they are being honest.

And we're not going to reach 100% certainty of any fact through discussion on a message board. It is interesting that some people spend a lot of effort trying to ensure this obscurity gets injected into the conversation, and it suggests that their own motivations should be questioned.

All in all, on the balance of apparent probabilities, there's more reason to trust this person than not. You can attempt to assail that logic if you like, but I would appreciate it if you stuck to the facts of the argument instead of kicking up dirt.
Always worth keeping in mind that Stanford protected John Yoo after authoring the torture memos, and it was MIT that pushed for prosecuting Aaron Schwartz.
University administrators are as much your friend as HR.

Edit: Berkeley not Stanford protected John Yoo
She also had many good connections to pull this off esp the approvals. So not everyone gonna be able to pull this iff
It can work for long commutes when you have park and rides, but you still need cars to go the last 1-5 miles. Still nice to take a train the bulk of a long commute into a city core.

A lot of people who think trains and buses can do it all are young and have never had kids. Nothing about the suburbs made sense to me before kids. Everything makes sense after kids.
I remember reading an article in wired back in 2003, and since then heard basically very little about phages:

https://www.wired.com/2003/10/phages/
As someone who has plans with family this holiday, this thread still makes me happy to see. Been a while since I've seen a meetup thread on the parts of the internet I frequent.
It's very common on railways.

You don't want a train to suddenly experience a sideways force as it enters a curve. So the 2nd derivative of the position, acceleration, should not instantly go from 0 to a constant, instead, it should grow smoothly, like pictured in TFA. So you want a non-zero 3rd derivative, and possibly even a non-zero 4th derivative.

Cubic splines of course give you a nice 3rd derivative. In fact, you can't make a perfect circle using cubic splines, because of that. Draw your device's shape in Illustrator or Inkscape, and you likely make it Apple-like :)
AI bias is interesting, but I still keep recalling back to Peter Watts' Rifters series. There AI are semi-organic and referred to as head cheeses. It's also amusing that the internet is taken over by AIs blasting ads and other traffic while human generated traffic is the minority.

There's plenty of consideration for how these head cheeses limited understanding of the world produces unreasonable outcomes.
Great point. Interestingly, JK Rowling didn't do that.
Consider that your question is tantamount to the tautological "if it could understand us deeply and we couldn't prove otherwise then could it understand us deeply?"
There are lots of leading indicators that a car (or human) is bad at driving, so you don’t actually have to wait for an accident to know if you are on the right path.

E.g. keeping track of near misses / interventions can get you data points much more quickly.
> A fixed block subsidy (i.e. pure linear emission) is not only simpler, but arguably fairer too, avoiding a concentration of wealth on early miners/adopters, and leaving later generations more than mere crumbs

Yet Ethereum had a premine of around 60M, roughly half of all existing coins today. Later emission seems negligible regarding fairness.
> Elon’s claim of “humans drive with eyes so a car can drive with cameras” is naive.

Specially because we don't drive with eyes only, we use at least our ears too for hearing unusual noises and the balance sense for detecting vibrations, changes on road surface, and to get feedback about orientation changes.
I have never liked this roundness in any product. It somehow reminds of children toys. Apple has them. Most cars have them. It just give this supreme baby toy vibe to me. I never knew what it's called but this article finally explained it.
Climate-change content shrinks in US university textbooks
I believe the parent comment is saying they're generally underpaid.
This is not something specific to Elon. Anyone who’s regularly ridden the 38 “Geary” in San Francisco knows there will be a minority of riders who make the experience, at the very least, annoying, if not scarring. Riding home every day with a screeching schizophrenic is not top on my list of preferred activities, nor anyone’s.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

What the “Nefertiti Hack” Tells Us About Digital Colonialism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978089 - Oct 2021 (2 comments)

A Museum Tried to Hide This 3D Scan of an Iconic Egyptian Artifact. (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26935781 - April 2021 (4 comments)

The Neues Museum claims copyright over 3D-printing files of the Nefertiti bust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21670786 - Nov 2019 (92 comments)

Official scan of Bust of Nefertiti released after three years of stonewalling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21558805 - Nov 2019 (13 comments)

The Making of Nefertiti 1kb (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18869904 - Jan 2019 (20 comments)

There’s Something Fishy About the Other Nefertiti - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11238921 - March 2016 (91 comments)

Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11141840 - Feb 2016 (84 comments)
This is cool. I have my own script which is fully automated. However looking at their ISO building it is much cleaner, maybe I should refactor to that.

https://kevincox.ca/2021/05/06/workstation-install-with-nixo...

I think the really cool thing about NixOS is that once you have any sort of base system installed it is just one `nixos-rebuild` away from any other system. This means that once you have your config the amount of futzing around on a system that isn't set up the way you like it.
As someone who's worked in cybersecurity in one capacity or another for my entire life:

It's because people really don't care about security. They don't see it as something that needs effort like managing personal finances or cleaning your car. They want "set it and forget it". Psychologically, it's because there isn't any immediate benefit, and the perceived expected value of the effort is low.

This problem is why I don't enjoy working in cyber security and probably won't go back to it.
If you still believe that either political party in America has any real differences (besides caring slightly more or less what people do with their private parts) I'm kinda surprised you bother to browse this particular forum, there's a lot of better places where people read simpler books you should probably be hanging out digitally
Airfield (San Jose, CA) accepts debit cards for quite some time already. The additional fee is astronomical.
I did, did you? I’ll ask again, if that wasn’t your point then what point were you trying to make?
Jeff Sessions, Trump's first AG, issued this memo purporting to reverse thr policy

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-issues-mem...

However, federal law since 2014 has prohibited expenditures of federal funds to interfere with state medical cannabis laws, which limits what the executive can do (on its face, it only applies to state medical-use laws, though, so in principal federal enforcement against state-legal not-purely-medical marijuana might be viable.)
Neuro-sama – AI learns to play osu (and become a Vtuber)
Lazy sci-fi. Every civilization except humans is unified and monolithic, or has at most maybe 2 subgroups, because it’s hard to invent thousands of years of history.

And not just fiction, but science also: “Why haven’t aliens done X by now?”
The founder of second life was inspired by the virtual world described in Snow Crash, so both are forks in spirit from that novel.
I don’t think you can do this without basically outlawing, say, pizza (intentionally contains wheat and dairy).
Given that this is a fairly common sentiment, it’s a bit wild to me that SpaceX uses touch screens to control almost everything in their Dragon capsule.
>I also removed the author name from the title. For the most part, we keep author names out of HN titles. It's a trick I learned from pg for keeping the focus on content rather than personalities. Of course there are always exceptions.
—dang, April 2, 2014

>Generally we remove author names from titles.
—dang, June 12, 2021

In this case, the content of the title gains its power from the author.

>Of course there are always exceptions.

This should be one of those exceptions and Philip Pullman's name restored to the title as originally published.
Fascinating story that is also rather terrifying considering the steady decrease in the efficacy of antibiotics. Antibiotics are arguably the most important medical invention ever, and yet we use them so haphazardly and at such scale that we are throwing into doubt whether they will continue to be effective. This is a little-discussed facet of industrial animal farming in particular: we are jeopardizing our defence against superbugs so we can eat cheap chicken!
I made a playlist called Maxfaith with songs from Maxi Jazz band too.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dYl8jfeE9QGkAdCBXNYas
Using google, you are already "paying" by giving them your data (which is worth way more than the value of their service)
To answer my own question, yes it does appear to be in semi-active development. At least there's a release from this year.
(2017)

Talks about Google's "material design" as recent. Did anything ever use that much?
Uh, even my state (VA) is 3x the size of Switzerland. And we’re dwarfed by all the larger states west of the Mississippi.
If it was simply ‘self-driving’ there would seem to be more wiggle room, but the inclusion of ‘full’ to the claim makes a much more specific promise of the degree of autonomy drivers should expect. Adding more specific detailed language elsewhere should explain a marketing claim, not contradict it.
Likewise. It seems so very promising but I'm guessing that it would be challenging to scale to volumes that would interest big pharma.

Considering how antibiotics are being increasingly rendered ineffective we'd be well served by the government investing in more research on how to make it more viable so that we have better treatment options going forward.
It also matters who has heat pumps and who doesn’t. Keeping the meat bags warm is a lot of energy.
She was able to make contact with people who were already working on phages so they had the skills, laboratory machinery and protocols, and the contacts to make it happen.

In Georgia they do this all the time. For me the oddest thing about the article is how little Georgia was involved.
I wonder if a FOIA would show the lawyers cost more than the revenue?
I've thought about this: if all transport is public transport, then how much is our physical freedom limited?

Yes, bikes and other things may exist, but if all high-powered transport is outside of our control, how much control do we have over our movements?

That being said, I think a lot of people in the US purchase cars through auto loans, and those loans while not physically limiting one's day-to-day mobility, can restrict one's job mobility. Maybe it only applies to certain economic classes, yet I imagine some people may be afraid to leave their job or lose their job because if they do, they lose their car and therefore lose their ability to move. And the safety net for physical movement in some places if one doesn't have a car is close to zero.
> Musk will continue to lie about it because he thinks that without full self-driving Tesla is worth basically zero

Lots of people who buy Teslas don’t care about the self driving at all. They want the best-designed, best-driving, fastest electric cars on the road with the best charging network.
> Although Tesla has never claimed that FSD was fully autonomous

...this seems like a weird argument, insofar as the very name "Full Self-Driving" is making that claim in plain language.

You can do a lot with an asterisk after a marketing claim, but "Full Self-Driving: is not yet fully self-driving" seems like a stretch.
War Is Over
I've never submitted here before This is my Christmas thoughts. https://www.codepink.org/christmas_truce_in_ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbKsgaXQy2k
He had risked freedom and possibly his life for a cause. Having accomplished the goal his next most important task would be to save himself. That is what he did and I do not think he should have a slightest concern whether you or anyone else like it or not. Playing martyr would be foolish and I do not think he does that.
Obviously most places have their racists but I'd say the east-end of London is one of the least racist places anywhere in the world. People come to live there from all over. When visiting someplace unfamiliar it's easy to see any treatment you get that's not to your liking as a personal attack of some kind. Maybe those people are just bastards to everyone.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to phage scientists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036825 - July 2022 (99 comments)
It's a huge case being watched by the entire world, even if there is a minuscule chance of it causing an actual issue, or there is the possible bad optics, I fail to see why the judge wouldn't do it. Nobody is going to excuse themselves on these terms for regular cases where the entire world isn't watching, but why risk anything in this case?

The law might be blind -or at least should-, but the audience isn't and that audience might very well include federal agencies and nutjobs.
I would always recommend taking some photos, if possible and if relevant, and leave a review concerning, and asking, about their apparent reservation policy.

London can be great. It can also be incredibly disappointing when you’re confronted by the isms that we had expected to have been excised.
Wow, way back in 1972 , that is amazing
Ah, things would be simpler indeed if words could be dictated.
Yes, that's sort of my point?

We tried private healthcare, it failed and the government had to step in. The same for education. The idea of using the free market for education is already defunct because education isn't software development. It's much harder to measure success or failure.
How do you know? It's definitely hard to prove that something is impossible.
Where do Transit app riders go for the holidays?
It’s trust. Docker already demonstrated that they’ll change the rules when they need cash, and they’ll target big “customers” when that happens.

Unfortunately, those big customers 1: think about future risk and 2: are, by definition, massive software development organizations.