skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla is the only one making their own hardware for DCFC.

The other US networks are at the whim of both 3rd party hardware suppliers & 3rd party software vendors. So they are just integrators really, and do a very terrible job of it. They are slow to get new parts, slow to send out repair teams, etc.

Further a lot of them have screwed up incentives, such that the person charging is not really their end customer. Also they all lose money.

Some of this is the result of legal settlement mandated networks (EA) or them pre-selling some amount of charging to automakers (EA) or partnering with states (evGo) or running an ad network (Volta)..

All of which means you, the person charging, are not the customer. Whether you can successfully charge or not is besides the point, and possibly increases their losses if you do charge!

Yes I know Tesla also receives government money, but it is just one part of the funding, and they are actually performing well as a charging network, because they want to sell more cars. They must make enough money off it that they are willing to open it up to 3rd parties now.
I take vitamins half a shot glass at a time. Scary at first, but a mouthfull of water for each gets down a lot of water as well
> The touchscreen is in the flow as it is a digitally controlled door that ties position to gear selection for safety.

All street legal vehicles have had simple, reliable interlocks with the shifter knob and hand brake for over 40 years with a single 12 volt lead and now you're talking software-based "flow" for safety critical functions as if this is some sort of novel improvement that should impress everyone. I'm left speechless. This is the kind of absolute madness only SV could appreciate.

UPS package cars and USPS mail trucks are caveman-simple for a reason. In fact UPS is just now getting air con for the first time in 2023.
They need to do more consideration if their answer is to tie it to gnome-initial-setup... unless I misunderstand, and this is purely a GNOME-cooked thing

I fear what that means where the preference is saved, and how spins (or users who simply choose to not have GNOME), may feasibly opt out

Where's the demarcation? Is this some dconf thing that a timer will read, a service, or what?

I lack trust in their handling in certain matters. For example, every Fedora device 'phones home' for AP checks:

$ cat /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf
[connectivity]
enabled=true
uri=http://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt
response=OK
interval=300

Including those that are wired... and that's rather unnecessary. I generally get a sense of haste these decisions, lately.

To disable it, mask the /usr file with one in /etc:

touch /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf

Another example: systemd-oomd on anything with > 64GB installed; entire user scopes randomly killed with oodles free.

I say this in the softest way possible, I don't really mind it... but it raises an eyebrow towards eagerness/attention.

<snide>They already get to know how well they're doing being "the premier OS" by seeing how often they get hit.</snide>
The history of white collar crime by execs suggests there’s not an amount that’s enough to stop cheating
Blockable
https://www.Blokable.com
I saw a prefab fiberglass shell bathroom in a museum recently, I believe in Chicago (whatever their big art museum by Grant Park is called). It was, iirc, French and from the 60s. Pretty cool.
I don't think the jokey book-long tutorial is a new phenomenon.

I learned Fortran in the 80s from the Fortran Coloring Book.
Probably. There's a membrane past the hole that you can destroy and I doubt the mic could function well enough to worry about if you punctured it.
But I usually just crush the whole mic package with pliers when I need to remove one. They pry off the board pretty easily in my experience.
I am fascinated (mostly genuinely, not in a snarky way) by the fact that you express concern about storing your information on other people's untrusted/unreliable computers, then link to a twitter page - which notably decided to suddenly restrict access without a login last week. Maybe you should link an independent website page instead?
Protesters are disabling robotaxis with traffic cones
Just buy a pro/enterprise version, they support the GPOs to block updates
It can be a psychological trick you are playing on yourself by just putting it out there in public. Lots of people now know about it so you don't want to let them down by misstepping again.

In a way it's a form of holding yourself accountable.

I'm not sure how rehab works but I guess the first thing you need to do is to admit that you have a problem. And then you need to find ways to prevent yourself from giving in.
Is there an open source project to remove background from images, serverside?
I have seen here very nice articles about client side image background removal opensource projects, but are there good equivalent server side ?
There's a reason one of the most famous computer scientists and programmers titled his series of books "The Art of Computer Programming".
The 'something different' is a large battery to take power from that has no risk of outing the vehicle if you use it too much.
Please excuse my ignorance, but why wouldn't they just cut the cable when it's not in use then?

And on the flip side; there's plenty of cases with thieves cutting into live high voltage lines. This one is the most visible example I know of though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuXeJ4_s8G8
It's always fun for me to see C. elegans meet software. This is amazing.

My undergrad degree capstone project was a flow-based visual C. elegans strain builder[1]. The team worked with two researchers who taught us a lot about genetics and basic C. elegans biology. They are a fascinating model organism, and it was a super fun project to work on. Even though it's got a very small potential userbase, it did have a potential userbase (which was more than you could say about most capstone projects). We used some interesting technology to build it (Tauri[2]: Rust + Web Frontend), learned some biology along the way, and ended up with a great prototype.

Since none of the software team had any background in genetics, modeling the data was pretty difficult. We'd meet with researchers, they'd teach us new genetics concept, we'd build our models, then the next week they'd say "OH we forgot to tell you about this caveat", then we'd go back to the drawing board, update the schema (thank heavens for migrations), rinse and repeat. It was a lot of fun though :) I couldn't have asked for much more out of a capstone project.

[1] https://worm-world.github.io/
[2] https://tauri.app/
They spent some of that budget on getting a freaking sneaker designer to make time-limited theme colo-- sorry, time-limited colorways and did a bunch of popups and cringe copy on it.

Meanwhile, Brave's vertical tabs were done by a single developer.
My post wasn’t contradictory, because you missed the part about status.

Our private school teachers are treasured, and are honored to be part of the long tradition of this particular school.

My children are also the same children they were in public school, but they are learning more now because they have better teachers. The knowledge gap of them transitioning from public to private school was considerable.

Intrinsic motivation is a factor, I agree with that. But it is more than that. Public schools (as a rule) are not getting our best and brightest, they’re more getting those who are settling for it for their job.

* Editing to add I agree on lack of unions in private schools. Our public school teachers in NJ at least have no real accountability at all.
> Biggest cost drivers for construction are land prices, permits and taxes, materials, and interests.

Don't forget labor. Any tools that can significantly reduce labor will at least get someone to listen to the pitch.
There are a number of startups working on 3D-printing homes, which I'd vlassify as a genuine innovation as opposed to the usual "disruption" grifts.
Windows pro managed through intune should give you that control, though it is a bit of an awkward path for a single user.
I would be interested if you could develop the problems you've seen
At a certain scale you start to break many things that you're used to abstract away into a neat little box. This can be anything, from kernel, libraries, network stacks to anything running in the cloud.

"Serverless" is not really an option at a certain scale. It's likely too expensive, but especially a giant risk if you abstract away something that can fail in an interesting way.

I remember we once managed to break the AWS ELB in one AZ and had a nice little call with a dev from Seattle. Another time we managed to saturate EC2 in a zone at a certain time.

You will need people who can dig into this. If you're at Twitter scale you'll probably want whole teams digging into aspects that you take for granted.
The same reason everything is being replaced by fancy screens VS just a hardware interface with buttons and LEDs:

You can change the UI and UX after deploying it. Say you want to illustrate the charging differently, you'd just deploy software updates rather than having to switch out a bunch of hardware panels. Company branding changed color and now you want to display those instead? OTA updates, instead of replacing charging station hardware.

Not saying it's great, I prefer good old interfaces myself, especially outside of the internet, but I can totally understand why companies consistently make this choice over and over again.
We need another Butlerian Jihad.
I would bet a small majority of people believe advertising "doesn't work" on them.
#2 is becoming decreasing true as more general education is piled on to both make up for the knowledge that students increasingly lack of abilities (as high schools are pressured to just pass them) as well as the perverse incentive for colleges to pack in these classes to keep them paying for more classes. This is compounded by the fact that these ill-prepared students wont as successful in a more rigorous program so departmental pressures within the college system have reduced the scope of undergrad classes by a staggering amount. These days, their major grants them surface-level, watered-down understanding, requiring the need to go into a masters or post-baccalaureate program for the privilege of learning anything useful.
The CCS networks also fail to send out anyone to repair their stations.
It would be one thing to argue its a safety culture if they actually sent out staff to fix broken chargers and didn't let them sit in broken state for months on end.
>only the value of properties doubled in a city, that would increase but not nearly double the required budget as not nearly every cost the city incurs is pegged to property costs.

Correct, but that is because the current politics are all about shifting the burden to future generations, and one of those ways is vis drastic subsidies to land owners from non land owners via undeservedly low land value taxes.

Perhaps my claim of 1 to 1 relationship between property (land value) tax and land/house price is too strong, but at some point, it will have to go higher and catch up.
The problem with measuring USA, China, Russia is that they are so large and diverse that you'll get very different results depending on where you are. It would be like saying "Europe". Apparently, they used the largest 5 cities in each country, which I suppose helps make for more comparable results. But for example in Texas I'd expect the results of San Antonio/Austin/Dallas to be significantly different (they are culturally) even though they are only separated by only a few hundred km.

However, I can say in the US one of the biggest differences is just rural vs urban. The likelihood of things disappearing in cities vs towns is higher, I suspect because fewer people know each other. I'd also say that changes over time are fairly dramatic. Many people in the US didn't lock cars or homes until the 80s and 90s or even 00s.
> ... to improve the product.

That phrase can be viewed in many different ways, depending upon who the decision makers setting the goals are.

> If anything, it may have made Mozilla more confident in removing it ...

Of course. People know this, that's a good part of why people are against metrics.

It leads to dumbed down software, as there's always a 5% of features that can be cut (on every budget or dev iteration) to "focus more on the majority uses!".
Yeah, and the best way to do that is to have the village organize a central location where everyone's kids can go learn a variety of skills and subjects from a variety of well-educated adults. Otherwise you're asking every individual adult to meet people very different from them and develop such good friendships that they are willing to spend significant time with your kids.
Cops can get away with literally shooting you in the back. Even outside qualified immunity cops can get away with a lot of things that are technically illegal. If it's a matter of testimony and it's five cops saying one thing and you saying something else, your chances aren't great.
I agree with the OP. VS Code using the Jupyter protocol is superior to notebooks in almost every respect in my experience. It gives you an excellent debugger, the ability to track changes in Git without any modification, and you can also run as a regular Python script.
"Note that this model is great at creative writing"

Could you elaorate on what you mean by that, like, are you telling it to write you a short story and it does a good job? My experiments with using these models for creative writing have not been particularly inspiring.
That defeats the entire purpose of Bluesky, also ActivityPub is objectively worse…
Spell the numbers out maybe?
> This comment implies that you support conversion therapy. Conversion therapy has been tried, in every possible fashion, and has never worked. It is functionally just torture that leaves people shattered emotionally and sometimes physically. Supporting it is inhumane.

I think you're jumping to conclusions --- my reading of GP is that "the cause" == dysphoria.
https://yellowapple.us/posts.html

Not much here yet; just a couple posts about software/hardware I use.
OpenRPNCalc – Open-Source Calculator
OpenRPNCalc is a scientific calculator based on STM32 microcontroller. Its source code, schematics and 3D-printed case design files are released under open license.
Seems to me that this article does a great job explaining why jupyter notebooks are a poor collaboration tool.

I wish that non-emacs implementations of org were more commonplace, as it's a pretty sane markup language and supports embedded code and graphics, diffs nicely, and doesn't introduce the insanity of JSON.
I saw an ATM reboot into XP kiosk mode the other week.

Struck me as a bit unsafe?

BTW this also exists or did exist for "Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, and 2000"

https://github.com/kirb/LegacyUpdate
It's not that much effort either as owned slaves were included on the census.

Pretty much if you were an affluent family that could afford one, you owned at least one slave.

Notably, Mitch McConnell's, Obama's, and Biden's ancestors are all confirmed to have owned slaves. Not surprising as they all come from affluent families.
I'm pretty big in favour of removing all telemetry and studies in every way except when they're opt in. Then I'm always going to opt in. I would like the population being optimized for to lean towards me more.

Ideally, the only statistics you have are from me and my Sybils, and all of society's energy is dedicated to improving life for me.
We're about to find out too. Dad passed 8 months ago; we got a $1500 hospital bill last week (just after the probate window closed) w/o explanation or description of services rendered.
I'm just curious about the physical book there - how do you fit 26 Bible translations in one book?
Funny that you bring this up. Just the other day I looked uo the etymology of “character” vs “caricature”. Surprisingly, considering the close similarity both in meaning and sound, they are completely unrelated. You already described “character”; “caricature” apparently comes from Italian for “load” or “exaggerate”, and is related to English “charge”.
What's the source on that quote? I searched it and this thread is the only result.

Edit: I found the context around it, at least. Seems perfectly reasonable. [1]

"Recently Inc published an interview in which I said we'd noticed a correlation between founders having very strong foreign accents and their companies doing badly.

Some interpreted this statement as xenophobic, or even racist—as if I'd said that having a foreign accent at all was a problem.

But that's not what I said, or what I think. No one in Silicon Valley would think that. A lot of the most successful founders here speak with accents.

The case I was talking about is when founders have accents so strong that people can't understand what they're saying. I.e. the problem is not the cultural signal accents send, but the practical difficulty of getting a startup off the ground when people can't understand you."

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/accents.html
I don't think that is correct, many vehicles now have the auto start/stop as a way of meeting emissions requirements.
This is sympathy ethics run amok. Being unable to protect yourself or your family from disruptive influences because of some sympathetic property of the disrupter is self-undermining. Presumably you would quarantine a kid who contracted some highly contagious and potentially deadly disease. This is really no different. One can be sympathetic to the plight of an innocent and not be willing to suffer significant hardship for their benefit. There is no contradiction here.
Right, pretty horrendous. This reads like "75% of our charge issues are because we need to reboot our garbage software stack".
Given it is open source software, I'd say we have not only recourse but self-determination here. It's also transparent what is being collected and whom it is being sent to. If you want to know what they store about you, it should take one email and a GDPR reference to find out.

I'm no fan of privacy invasion, always bother clicking through the banner to find the reject cookies option, and sent out plenty of GDPR requests whereas almost nobody else I know ever sent one. I'm not in favor of tracking, but collecting anonymous statistics, especially when they open with "privacy-preserving" and the business is not Facebook or Google or so where we know there's shit about to hit the fan, the cynicism and mistrust in this thread baffles me. Nobody minds when they browse the web and every site keeps access logs invisibly, but oh boy if someone announces keeping a visitor counter for a configuration screen to see if people can find their way to it
Alzheimer's, like most diseases, is described by its symptoms (hence the jargon, "indication"): cognitive impairment accompanied by amyloidosis, a buildup of amyloid plaque in the brain.

Does the plaque cause cognitive impairment? Could it be a prion (I think this question might have been ruled out, but don't follow it). Is the plaque a defense, or consequence of one, mounted by the body? Is the plaque a separate side effect of whatever is causing the cognitive decline?

Nobody knows the answers to these questions. The first one was long thought to be likely but attacking the plaque doesn't seem to have been fruitful.

When you apply for an NDA (basically drug approval) you can specify whatever endpoints you like (e.g. plaque reduction) but the division you apply to will also impose its own requirements (mainly efficacy vs placebo and/or existing therapy, and safety, again vs placebo, existing therapy, and the seriousness of the indication itself).

So the company may have proposed a plaque endpoint (target) but as our lack of understanding of plaque has become clear, they will require a change in impairment rate as a requirement for approval. Because the disease is so serious and options so few they are likely to approve a therapy that shows marginal (but non-zero) improvement in some adequate proportion of the treatment base.

Note: I have never worked on an alzheimer's program, or any neurology program, so this is a generic observation of the approval process.
Because the question makes no sense. Unions are not just "bunch of people" but also the set of organizational principles, processes, and social-political capital that it represents. The union won the election.

I agree with the sibling comment that the title is poorly worded.
> Police attempted to pull him over at a red light using sirens and lights, the prosecutor added, but Nahel disobeyed and committed several traffic offences, endangering the lives of a pedestrian and a cyclist.

He’s not unarmed. He’s driving a 4,000lb chunk of metal that could kill more people in a few seconds than any gun short of a fully automatic belt fed. Eugen Grigore killed twice as many people as the columbine shooter did in far less time.

So we have a person who is in control of a dangerous weapon, who has already demonstrated his willingness to put pedestrians in danger, and who already had 15 different criminal charges. He was literally charged with resisting arrest a week prior.

He’s also appeared in videos for bangers with lyrics like these:

“While I rob them, and no one comes to tell me A-B-C… Me, I'm only good at making my weapon speak”

Ultimately, this seems like a pretty clear cut case of FAFO to me.

Here’s the question: where was this outrage when 12 year old Lola Daviet was found raped, strangled, cut up, and stuffed in a suitcase by another Algerian? I didn’t see riots for her, and those who dared protest her rape, murder, and dismemberment were labeled fascists by the media.

So how is it that raping and murdering an actual child, who wasn’t even old enough to go to sleepovers with her friends by herself - how is that OK, but this isn’t?
I keep it all separate. Use my personal phone if I want to access my own stuff. Works hardware belongs to them and I use it for work only.
No, but also that wouldn’t be possible because you can’t give 100% of the value to the miner or else the mining operation will cease due to the lack of overhead (supervisors, salesmen, equipment). The starvation argument is pointless, a lot of people get paid with commission and they survive. Also I’m not even saying there’s an alternative to the current system so what are you on about?
If it's so intensive, why is auto-stop/start such a common feature on many vehicles? Especially since it seems to improve city-cycle mpg ratings...
> Law enforcement that can't or won't police shoplifting can't or won't deal with anything more significant either.

It seems that's just your opinion. There's no reason that it is the case least you think policing depends on the will of individual police and not of the objectives of the department. Policing shoplifting isn't even the same job as investigating homicide or market crimes.

> Even putting that aside, are you seriously in favor of people stealing just because it's from Big Corp(tm)? Because the victims are the 1%?

> Please re-contemplate exactly what you are arguing for, because small frustrations add up and are ultimately what topple societies and countries. Those shoplifters aren't Robin Hood.

Someone shoplifting to put food on one's table and clothes on one's body is a Robin Hood, it's just that taker and the receiver are the same person :)
I don't think it should be legally but provided it is to feed and clothe yourself and not say resell, I don't think it's morally wrong either.

Sure inability to enforce the law does topple societies, but the inability for people to fill their basic needs does too, the lack of accountability of people in power even more.
One of the listed binaries is `cat` and that `sudo cat file` is problematic because "it may be used to do privileged reads or disclose files outside a restricted file system."

Like, duh, that is what `cat` does. It's not the problem, it's the `sudo` is the problem. WAI?