skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you should never need a touch screen for safety critical features like wipers.

I have Model S. The wipers are controlled by a traditional stalk on the left of the steering column. Is it different in other models?
Or it is defense in depth. Although blocking it even if the / is percent encoded seems a bit excessive, especially as a default.
I've had three incidents with touch controls that would not have happened with physical controls. The fact is, it's much harder to keep your eyes on the road and be certain you've pressed a button when you have nothing to touch but a cold piece of screen. How do you know for sure you touched the right part of the screen and performed an action, without looking at the touchscreen and taking your eyes of the road?
Afaik it „just“ debayers the raw sensor image because of the unusual pattern Apple uses. Related: https://lux.camera/understanding-proraw/
Thank you, not sure how I'm going to approach market yet.
There’s also a difference between WebKit (the open source code) and Safari (the closed source software)

I assume internally they’re treated as one component which makes it easier to mirror bugs into radar?
Dying because insulin is up 1000% in 40 years is the most free capitalism - not what Scandinavia has.
Yeah I'm explicitly not saying time off in general is a bad idea, but it'd be a shame to wait too long/never do it.
The flawed premise is that synthetic clothing significantly contributes to microplastic pollution, particularly in the ocean. Plastic pollution in the ocean comes primarily from fishing gear like nets, debris unintentionally released by major storms and wave events, and countries that use rivers leading to the ocean as primary waste disposal. If you want to make a difference to plastic pollution, advocate for sustainable fishing practices, end shipping waste overseas for fake recycling (Patagonia really recycling helps this), and support programs to establish waste collection and disposal in countries that don't have it.

Standard sewage treatment processes also capture most microplastic with the solid waste, if you live somewhere with sewage treatment.
That's a very brazen or utterly naive attitude.

You can't possibly know that you don't encroach. Part of the package of being a professional logo designer is knowing the field. They literally know hundreds if not thousands of existing logos. There are books and references dedicated to finding dupes. This is a very important aspect of the logo design and ignoring it is an extremely unwise thing to do.

With your process you are guaranteed to generate a logo that will look like a blatant derivative or a verbatim copy of existing work. Consider what will happen next.
Can I ask, in places where showering that often is the norm, does one change into a new set of clean clothes each time? And does this basically triple the laundry chore burden?
Some answers seem to disagree. I, as a non-lawyer, think as long as the git commits make it clear who authored what, it's a non-issue.
Do they fulfill our current definition of life?
More like “barebones, in-memory, English-only Twitter clone on one machine”.

Edit: Still a nice writeup!
> I know the few feedback radars I’ve gotten responses from were basically “can reproduce”

Wait, you get "can reproduce" responses???

I never get that, I think literally never in over 15 years, but it would be a vast improvement to my bug reporting experience.
Seems like voice would make sense. “Hey car, turn up the heat”.
> The drugs may have changed slightly over the years, but the sad reality is that the real change was their accumulated tolerance and long term damage from drug abuse had blunted their response so much that they could barely feel the drugs any more.

This varies with the drug. MDMA is notorious for losing its "magic" after six or so trips. There's a special empathic, soul-opening quality to it - the kind of thing that makes it such a good candidate for treating PTSD. But after a few times, it becomes more like a regular psychedelic amphetamine.. fun, but not life-changing.

On the other hand, pure psychedelics don't really lose their magic. Tolerance develops, but goes away after a week. Psychedelics aren't associated with brain damage, while MDMA mildly is.

Then there's opioids, of course, which are ruinously addictive and fickle with tolerance.

When you're on the outside of the community, it's easy to lump "drugs" together and make generalizations. But every class of drug is different.
People working on gov.uk design system are absolutely amazing.
What is dusty tap water? And what kind of filter did you have? I really wouldnt expect much from something you just bolt onto the faucet.
5 mass extinctions. Arguably heading for another one (us and everything else).
They are in that the net effect is the same:

Antibotics make a given person more resistant to the current version of the bacteria. Bacteria with a mutation that survives against that antibiotic will then become the dominant version because it massively out-competes the rest.

Vaccines make a given person more resistant to the version of the virus the vaccine was for. Viruses with a "vaccine escape" mutation will become the dominant version because it massively out-competes the rest.

Personally I think this is what happened with Delta. It was first identified in Oct 2020, but didn't become dominant until the vaccine rollouts, which it was better able to survive against.
You're saying the law allows a touch screen to be used if it's secured with a "holder" but not if it's.... bolted to the console at the factory?
What a great article. When he mentions that Facebook and Dropbox were launching their own similar apps, it would be fun if in the end he would end up acquiring all of them, Pinboard style.
Ideally I think there is a time and a place for both.

If you can't test it you've probably got that balance wrong.

That being said this realization is basically a post-functional thing, so a lot of libraries are stuck with one or the other.
Using Qt 6 under LGPLv3
Some people object to eating insects. Some object to eating meat.

Nearly nobody has an objection to eating legumes (I am ignoring, among other things, people on ultra-low-carb diets, specific allergies, and Ashkenazi Jews during Pesach), so an improved yield of legumes, or a reduction in water usage, or a tolerance for greater temperature extremes, or... would be extremely valuable.
I work in IT. I manage our mobile devices, and I was shocked to recently find out that iPads (and I assume iPhones), have no option to choose the resolution of the resulting pictures.

Why is Apple like this? I dont always need a 9 MB or whatever photo size, it would be nice to be able to take lower res images to save space.
It is definitely a Microsoft project, originally.

"An enhanced compiler (yet easier for children and beginners) based on Small Basic, with a form designer and a mini Winforms lib. In short, I made small basic visual , so it became Visual small Basic, or in fact Small Visual Basic as it became a tiny dynamic version of VB6!"

=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Small_Basic

So there are most likely some copyright issues to discuss about.
The ounce of prevention doesn't work. Prohibition has been a huge failure.
This. Both parties carry a century of reactionary and identity/group politics baggage. You can't derive their policies from general principals.
As I advance in my career, I start to like the messiness of real life software engineering more and more.

We all like starting from scratch, from a clean slate, but that's actually the easy part, it only becomes hard later, when the requirement have changed and you start to notice the consequences of the bad choices you made earlier, and then you try to leave, or restart from scratch. So you want the easy part and leave the hard part to others...

But where is the fun in that? I went to programming because I like things like problem solving, and it is not problem solving if there is no problem. Digging into code that no one understands, that is not documented, working around limitations, finding what needs rewriting and what doesn't (with an emphasis on the "doesn't"), managing technical debt and deadlines without overworking yourself, etc... Now this is a challenge, this is interesting, this is the job I signed for even if I didn't realize at first.

And don't let anyone tell you that these are not coding skills. These are totally coding skills, where code reading is as important as code writing, where you have to be able to code with any API, in any environment, in any style. Not just the narrow subset of algorithms (which is also important).
Are we getting a lot of telemetry from our “center of sun” probe?
If alcohol is one of the most addictive substances around I do not think we need to worry too much. Alcohol is actually not very addictive. Most people can drink regularly drink large amounts of alcohol without feeling the least bit of addiction.

Alcohol is very bad for your health and it is a horrible thing to be addicted to but it is not very addictive.
It used to be that iPhones made great, tasteful photos by default. That was why people bought them.

If I wanted to spend time processing every snapshot I take with my phone, I wouldn't use my phone at all, I'd use my X100T and get pictures that are much better than anything the phone can do.
Well the story is pretty different if we are using waste like animal manure to create fuel.
You probably shouldn't work for a company then...
Is this backed by research? Or even some serious anecdotes?
You can keep the language in your head, but there's good empirical evidence you can't keep the code in your (companies collective) head.
I should've said CAD, my bad.
Based on the chart, nuclear is the clear winner.
The problem with the flu shots is that each year there are attempts to predict which strains to vaccinate for that year based on data on spread. You're reasonably well protected against those strains, but far less so against any other strains that may or may not end up being a significant part of that years wave, and so indeed there's always a risk they won't help you.

That's exactly what this attempt at a universal vaccine is trying to change.
Read leetcode solutions.

If you can already code you'll pick it up in seconds.
I'm not sure how you're avoiding the "sales decline" part.
> It’s from 20 years ago which means it’s something their parents probably used, so it’s personally relevant nostalgia too.

Oh my god this makes me feel ancient now.
Your comment is ideological nonsense.

You don't mention purpose or outcomes at all, just "ordered and control by government" and "interference".

Obviously it comes down to government competence but the EU has shown itself to be mostly competent.

Government regulations are a last resort, not the first as you insinuate.

An example is roaming charges. The EU warned phone companies that it would regulate in the absence of reforms. They did nothing and the EU rolled out regulations that have benefited everyone who uses a phone across borders at almost no additional cost. Very inexpensive plans are still available as always (for example I have a 2.65 euro plan that gives me 1GB of data each month, with full EU roaming).

In respect to cars, if there are safety regulations that err on the side of being a bit onerous, then so be it, but there's no evidence they are problematic.

An example is my 2016 Kia Rio. I paid approximately $12,500 (about 11,000 euros at the time). The EU mandates that all new cars must have tire pressure monitoring, anti-lock braking and stability control. Because this is existing, mature technology the added cost to the car is marginal, and very cheap cars are still available, such as my Kia.

Meanwhile, those car features have definitely saved my life on 4 separate occasions.

Free markets are not some panacea for the world's ills. They work well in most cases but since there is no perfect market there will always be market regulation. The extent and the development of smart regulations requires good goverment, and that's where our responsibility to be politically engaged comes in. Government is a tool like any other, imperfect as it is, but we can influence its form.
I get annoyed by ":W is not a valid command" errors and aliased it, and that's not even dangerous to get wrong, just have to retype ":w". Why be so careful instead of just aliasing it?

vimrc excerpt:

command Wq wq
command WQ wq
command W w
command Q q
command Bd bd
cnoreabbrev q1 q!

I hate having to get the shift key timing correct so much that I also aliased : to ; for commands, but that's more radical and gets me into trouble on remote systems that are not my own, not sure if I recommend it. I'd recommend vim to change the default for everyone, though (fat chance, I know).

Another annoying thing in vim is whatever the heck Q does. Try to type :q, fail, retry, and now suddenly you have an extra window to close or something. Solution: nnoremap Q <nop>
Failing consumers isnt an externality.
> What your doing is not gathering scientific evidence but perpetuating your own biases.

And your article you used as evidence for your claim

https://www.health.com/diets/james-blunt-scurvy

consisting solely of a third hand anecdote from the 90s is totally not just `perpetuating your own biases.` /s

My original claim was _I think_ and not written in concrete, but I just gave you far greater evidence than you've given me to show that I may be at least reasonable in my thinking and not `dangerously misinformed.`

That trial was recent and included 2029 participants. At the very least we should both be willing to concede that it may be perfectly possible to live on meat alone, but there's not much evidence either way.

> Anyway, you replied to someone saying “I don’t believe meat actually lacks vitamin C.”

Fair enough, I see why you brought up cooking and vit C degradation, but it's not really relevant to my original claim for which again, you believe I'm dangerously misinformed.

> Uncooked meat is associated with several extremely serious health conditions.

And the reduction of pirates since 1800 is associated with global warming...

But really, yumm...
https://lenaskitchenblog.com/classic-beef-tartare/

of course I do realize in this case an acid is used to essentially cook it.

Still, I'm perfectly happy to eat raw meat if I know and trust the source. For sure I would not go near raw meat from your average restaurant or grocery store.

You strike me as afraid of the world.
The overall better care didn't improved as well though? Are flu cases treated the same way today as 40 years ago? The number of flu shots increased by a factor of x16 over a 40 year period. With these numbers I would've expected a serious dent on the flu deaths graph regardless of population.
Links? I'm genuinely not aware of any; certainly none relevant to the auto industry.
The relatively poor could be generating substantial economic value for the the rich and providing useful services for the folks in the middle or they could be costing substantial resources to poorly manage on the street, wandering into emergency rooms as a train wreck and causing massive bills both in terms of law enforcement, social services, and medicine that they will never pay back based on whether we think affordable housing and safety nets matter.

A functioning society is in everyone's interest. Only the really rich can afford to trivially live somewhere else and profit enough from austerity to net out to positive even while wrecking else's backyard which is why its so strange to see those in the middle jumping on that train.
Yes. I've been annoyed by this (Iphone 13 Pro Max, iOS 16). Way too much AI/machine learning/guessing.
Sure, changing to sleet driving mode…
Progressives do not equal hippies yet somehow they took over as the representatives for that group. Hippies were very libertarian. When I was a kid our commune had everyone from atheist communist hedonists to super religious Muslim political refugees from Egypt, everyone was welcome. Progressives only welcome fellow Progressives, and heaven forbid you mention the L word (libertarian) around them. They go into 'attack the evil witch' mode and lose all reason.

Somewhere along the line Progressives were able to take up the lead as if they were the continuation/inheritors of the hippie ideal, but they in no way were/are, they are the opposite. They take the 'hippies were trying to make the world better' then add 'and WE KNOW what rules will make it better, so we are therefor an extension of the hippie ideals'.
My breakthrough idea come mostly when I'm exercising (read: running). It's one of the reasons I don't run with music / audio. Instead, it's just me and the road.

Initially, I thought it was a personal quirk. Then I read the book "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock. At this point, I'm due for a re-read.

https://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Work-Revised-Updated/dp/00...
Every camera and software pipeline for a photograph alters the raw images. You're just more aware of it.

The iPhone can shoot raw and avoid these issues, it's how I use mine. The complaints people would have if the iPhone didn't post-process for the average consumer... Every camera phone I've ever used has horrible defaults for JPG processing -- avoid it by shooting raw and using something like Darkroom to finesse.
ChatGPT AI Tool
Calling every sniffle “the flu” is a bit of a peev of mine. I hear it from people all the time.

Based on the descriptions I have read of influenza, I’m relatively certain I have either never had it or have had it maybe once in my adult life.

Most years I get a bad cold that lasts 5 days or so (plus some time for my sinuses to completely return to normal) and maybe a couple lesser colds. None of these are “the flu”.

I get the flu vaccine every year, but only started that around age 35 or so. I’m in my early 50’s now.
It hasn't been released officially yet, only as an invite-only preview so I don't think they mind if they turn away users at this point that don't know what they're getting into (an alpha). There are plenty of youtube videos if you're curious about the actual features.
You sure are making a lot of assumptions about my process.
Wasm allows you to consume as much or as little of the API surface area as you want. You are free to construct Wasm modules in whatever way you see fit for your application.
Feds always get what they want. You cannot afford to appeal to the supreme court, both financially and because non cooperation will cause you to receive retaliation. FBI has made it so an accusation of a crime can easily become a conspiracy, and a conspiracy felony is more prison time than cooperation for most non-violent crime. This is why big gov is fascism, they can do whatever they want. You'll never see the court documents.
Why would that be banned? The wording talks about holding the device in the hand. I'm only talking about the recent UK phone law. Previously you could hand hold a phone as long as you weren't using it as a phone. It's now broader in terms of what the devices are, but still only applies to holding something in the hand.
16 GB RAM ($60) + 1 TB SSD ($70) upgrade for my personal 2012 MacBook Pro (yeah 10 years!).

Upgraded to Mojave.

Works so much better than I expected. Feels much better than the touchbar macbook I used at work for 3 years.

Now looking for a good battery to keep it in shape.

(Posted from this very laptop)
> ... Methamphetamine has a chiral center, so you can produce the pure (D) isomer, the pure (L), the exact 50/50 racemic mixture, or anything in between. (L) methamphetamine is a pretty good decongestant, but it is otherwise unenjoyable and has no market as a drug of abuse. The classic P2P reductive amination will of course give you the racemate; there’s nothing chiral about the synthesis at all. At the other end of the scale, reduction of pseudoephedrine starts with a pure chiral material, and you get only (D) methamphetamine as a product.

What he's talking about is molecular mirror images. Our bodies can tell the difference between the (L) and the (D) form. The former drains your sinuses and the latter gets you high.

This is a tangential plot point in Breaking Bad. In the episode "Boxcutter," Walter White asks: "If our reduction is not stereospecific, then how can our product be enantiomerically pure?"

There's a lot to unpack there, but it implies that Walt is isolating (D) methamphetamine exclusively. It also implies that this is occurring through a selective reductive procedure.

The first few seasons established that the synthesis relies on methylamine through a reductive procedure called P2P. But that procedure produces (D) and (L) forms in equal quantities.

What Walt is revealing in that one sentence is that he's developed a way to do the reductive amination step in the P2P cook such that just the (D) form is isolated. His use of the term "stereospecific," implies that the selectivity is close to 100% in the bond-forming step itself. The process therefore doesn't just produce highly pure product, but does so very efficiently.

At the time period of the show, such a reaction would have been very close to cutting edge research.
Correct me if I am wrong, but did the author make a calculation error?

The number of required energy comes in at the order of 10^20 J or 90000TWh:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=300+quadrillion+BTU+in+...

but if I multiply the energy return from biofuels with these alleged 1billion hectares of land, I get much, much more energy, billions of TWh:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=582Mwh%2Fm%5E2+*+1billi...

So unless there's a mistake somewhere, only a marginal fraction of land would be needed to cover all needs.

So what went wrong here? I think it's the MWh per square meter number. 500MWh in PV would be a 500kW solar installation in Germany. I am quite sure you cannot fit that into a square meter.

But even if we assume 580MWh per hectare per year, the output from 1billion hectares would be 580000TWh. So there's probably more wrong in that post.
The Rust try! macro, which I assume is what you're thinking of, has been obsolete for many years - you can still refer to it because the Rust compatibility promise is taken more seriously than in C++ but you will need to use rather awkward syntax to get at it in modern Rust editions since the keyword "try" is reserved since 2018 edition.

These days you'd use the Try operator ? which is not a macro, it's an operator.

Try is really interesting, it's a unary operator so it takes a single parameter and it maps that parameter into a control flow decision. For Result the effect is similar to what you got out of the try! macro, but of course this operator can be implemented on any type. The standard library provides six implementations, including famously on Option, but also on ControlFlow itself, which is pretty nice.

This means across a complex system you can choose to collect Results, and decide what to do about the Results later, (perhaps after you have all of them, or after you've a certain amount) or you can choose the same for the ControlFlow decisions resulting from those Results.

You can also turn things on their heads, and decide that what you want to do is return early on success, but continue processing for errors -- which is something that's just unthinkable in an exception world where control flow and success are somehow the same thing. Rust took some years to figure out that's just not true which would be embarrassing if the assumption that it's true wasn't baked into the entire C++ language.
What if the warrant canary is from the developers of the encryption software? See truecrypt -- assuming it was actually a warrant canary.

Where "cross your fingers" is equivalent to the "warrant canary has not been revoked" when encryption is involved.