skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title 2 of the Clean Air Act "authorizes the EPA to set standards applicable to emissions... the CAA prohibits tampering with emissions controls, as well as manufacturing, selling, and installing aftermarket devices intended to defeat those controls."

They just got a $10M civil judgement against a couple "diesel tuners" here in Michigan:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-awards-10-milli...

https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/national-enforcement-and-com...

but yeah, this is civil action against vendors, not anything that police will fine people for on the side of the road.
Atari's Making a Pong Sequel About the Ball Escaping the Paddles
I haven't seen anyone else say that the easiest way in practice is simply to jiggle the track. In a correct duplo track every piece will be loose and easily move a few millimeters when jiggled. If any pieces are snug then the track is under tension. No need to remove a piece.

I suppose if the track is big enough then you would be able to insert a "wrong" piece without necessarily using up all the slack, so the pieces would still be somewhat loose. But in that case there would be no mechanical concern to worry about.

Actually I suspect that it suffices to check one piece. If any piece is in tension then they all will be, assuming friction with the floor is not too large. Unless you have intersections in the track, then you have to check each loop separately, or maybe you could just check the switch pieces. Might be an interesting math problem there to minimize the number of pieces to check in complex tracks.

I'll also point out that bending Lego pieces isn't always bad: https://youtube.com/@BrickBending
Nobody is downplaying it. Yes, it's going to get worse no matter what, relative to how it is now. But continuing to burn fossil fuels will almost certainly increase how much worse it is over the medium-longer term (decades-centuries) compared to rapidly curtailing use.

That's your interpretation, not mine.

Well, what do you advocate for? Semantic accuracy is good, but quibbling over it takes up time that could be better spent on ranking proposals.
What's really surprising here is that iMessage escaped this. Apple claims it has 25mil monthly users in the EU, so now the EU will investigate that claim.

I honestly doubt that's true. But let's see.
May be if you drive often near bars or places with specific orientation?
>I think at least one manufacturer was considering eliminating FM radio all together.

Are you sure it wasn't the elimination of AM radio? I have not heard of anyone suggesting to kill the FM radio, but I'm not that dialed in
Directory Opus, what makes it good?

I have seen DOpus mentioned several times over the years.
is it keybindings, features, performance?

What is your impression of "Worker"?
http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/
Direct Solar Power – Off-Grid Without Batteries
>By what measure?

Time and money lost to them. The idea of creating a web closed from those people starts to look very attractive when you have to spend time multiple times a day cleaning out spam from your site.

>Under what conditions you think spam/fraud would (more or less) 'destroy' the open web?

It's already happening.

>And what does that destruction look like to you?

The destruction looks like more websites able to offer free or cheap services. A great reduction in spam comments. More effective ads. For good actors nothing really changes.
I use CarPlay if I'm actually navigating, not the built-in Garmin. But it's an improvement over looking at the phone awkwardly clamped to an air vent.

I suspect most people don't use most of the native manufacturer apps even if they sort of need to provide them. Aside from rarely changing some settings, my touchscreen is mostly just a screen.
> It’s to stop AWS from doing what they always do.

Business Source License is a sane way to address that ([1], [2]).

1. https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/

2. https://fossa.com/blog/business-source-license-requirements-...
It's complicated because it's generally a symptom of deeper issues related to circumstance e.g. mental health, price, time, availability etc.

Solving poverty is also not very complicated when reduced down to "just have more money". That might be a useful starting point but it's worthless in practical terms.
I think really very few people truly enjoy exercise for its own sake, and so you depend on having the discipline and habits to enjoy it for its benefits which is harder.

Or you can find an activity that you enjoy but that is also exercise. But then you need someone or maybe a team to do it with and a lot of them are seasonal like cycling, tennis etc.

I've noticed that both indoor rock climbing and bjj have gotten really popular in cities in the last decade and I think this is basically why. Active indoor activities that are enjoyable for a lot of people.
Well, in this analogy the problem starts with how the person is noticing the lock can be broken in unexpected ways

Everything you said after that is a valid continuation from that, but the scope of the issue I am talking to centers around that how.

Because locks have never actually been unbreakable, right? The main purpose of a lock, the generally accepted way that the lock keeps people out - is by existing, not by being strong.

We have higher standards for the lock in more serious applications, like a vault, but if you buy a vault door, put it in your garage, and begin testing it for vulnerabilities- I feel like it's reasonable to view that as criminal. I admit 100% that it could be a curious tinkerer, but I do not think it is unreasonable to tell the tinkerer that they can't do that without permission.
Be aware TNMOC is separate - but co-located next to - Bletchley Park. You can do both in a day, but they're different tickets and different exhibits. Enjoy your visit!
For RDS you can change the password after creating the DB, or use the SecretsManager integration.
There are similar workarounds for other providers and resources. I use TF without storing secrets in the state file (providers: AWS, kubernetes, helm, onepassword, datadog, auth0, and more).
Recode has learned that Amazon has staff on call behind the scenes to assist the computer vision system that is supposed to detect which items a shopper pulls off a shelf and carries out of the store.

An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the setup and said that Amazon staff is asked to help out when the system used in the new Amazon Go store can’t make a determination

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/1/6/14189880/amazon-go...

I work in the industry and the 100% success rate touted by these companies just doesn’t exist in live in person real time inferencing. We will get there one day, but in many cases “magical” computer vision AI has humans verifying and changing AI outputs

Imagine Amazon was flexing the stores being fully automated before “Track Everything Everywhere All At Once” was written
AI is the latest label you put on your company headline to get more investment or press.

The previous label was Blockchain.

The one before that was Big Data.

Nobody is bold enough to print “masses of low paid workers”, but honestly a lot of investors would be just as happy.
Not the same at all but reminds me of "Mechanical Turk" from Amazon - https://www.mturk.com/worker

A lot of stuff you expect is totally automated, turns out to just be heavily out-sourced.
It's a fair point though.

The markups are a function of demand and are totally normal and expected market behavior. People who complain about it are almost exclusively people who don't understand how markets work. It's tiring listening to uneducated people constantly coming through and complaining.

If dealers weren't marking up the price, there would be no car at all available for sale. People mistakenly think that if there was no markup, they could buy the car at MSRP. No. There would be no supply at all. They would be sold out and you'd be on a waiting list at best.

This is the same dynamic as GPUs of 2021 and perpetually with concert tickets (venues will always have fewer seats than the number of fans in the area).
Bad waterfall is about as good as bad agile or bad scrum. Basically, when people make bad decisions then the results generally turn out poorly.
Not to mention the occasional automated drive into stationary objects. Guess that's partly why they have the "best in class safety tech".
If you are interested in a more rigorous collection of blending and compositing operations, the W3C "Compositing and Blending Level 1" document is a wonderful resource>

https://www.w3.org/TR/compositing-1/

I've targeted this spec in some of my digital/generative art tooling.
I think there's a segment of people for who depression and anxiety is an inability to quiet their mind. They're unable to go about their day or be present in their thoughts because they're ruminating on a thought that's evoking bad emotions.

Exercise is one way to break the thought cycle. Just holding your breath is another. When you're suffocating, your brain tends to shut down unnecessary thinking. I also think this is why people enjoy rock climbing. It's the potential for injury that shuts down rumination for a lot of people I know who fail to find the same focus through meditation.
That's your reaction. Not mine. Who am I to tell people what to do or not do?

So you just dropped in to make sure everyone feels worse? Gee, thanks.
Wow that's insane. If China did that same thing today, we would be up in arms.
For anyone from outside the US concerned about this: car inspection standards are state-specific. Many states have far more stringent standards.
How much of a progress is this? Anyone here that can add insights?
i get your point and mostly agree with it - it's frustrating when people say things like "public transit isn't profitable"... yeah, it's not supposed to be, it's okay for things to cost money.

but that's different to being in debt. a public service can absolutely be in debt. it's given a budget, and if it fails to operate within that budget it goes into debt. that might mean the budget is too low, but there's always a point where a service is no longer worth the budget it would take to keep it operating. (not making a judgement on the helium reserve - i really have no context for how necessary or useful it is)
This TED Talk about sunlight exposure and heart health is fascinating:

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_weller_could_the_sun_be_go...
This is such a cheap shot. The browser is being worked on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Firefo...
Am I reading the chart wrong or are DALYs (Disability-adjusted Life Years) down for almost everything beside breast cancer?

This seems like we're just getting better at detecting cancer earlier (especially breast cancer), and preventing it from killing you younger - not that cancer is a way bigger problem.

In fact - if you look at deaths - it also looks like it's down for most things, too - breast cancer being a major outlier.

But everyone else seems to be interpreting this the other way - so I'm hoping someone can explain why the DALY figures don't mean what I think they mean.
Actually I guess it's both. https://musictech.com/news/industry/ford-tesla-bmw-am-fm-rad... AM radio is sometimes used for information updates on roads etc. but I'm sure very few people use it.
> Some of the cars tested collected data you wouldn’t expect your car to know about, including details about sexual activity, race, and immigration status, according to Mozilla.

It's not just that I would not expect my car to know about these things, it's that I cannot imagine how my car could possibly know these things. Immigration status? Sexual activity? WTF? How?
Remember in the 1980s when movies were good? Can we go back to that?
There are certain other disabilities and neurodiversity’s that are “associated” with depression and it’s never quite clear whether it’s situational depression or intrinsic.

If all your grandparents die in six months, that’s situational depression. If dyslexia makes you feel like a failure with a secret, leading a double life, that’s situational. If ADHD means you keep hurting people you love and you never achieve your goals, situational.

Certain symptoms of ADHD respond well to repetitive motions. And walking/cycling/running/gum chewing/fidgeting/leg bouncing can help as a coping strategy. Successful coping means less situational depression, regardless of whether the activity also reduces depression.

I don’t think it’s a spectrum, I think it’s a grid. There are several things going on and there are quadrants that are dangerous and ones that are mediocre.
This is the first "Mozilla" thread I've seen in awhile where HN isn't getting all up in arms about them. So I take it we're cool with this type of stuff? Beyond FF? Because honestly I really appreciate this work.
Pixel 8 Pro: Get to know your hardware
Maybe kill-switch is not the best definition of the feature. The required technology monitors the driver to prevent starting the car or forcing it to pull over. In the context of the parent article which explains how the overall monitoring systems fail on privacy and security, we can see how these combined with the car stopping feature can be used against us. We are ultimately trusting the companies and government to do what is in our interests rather than theirs. Some people trust Apple not to use or share their data with government to be used against them. Trusting the largest corporation in the world and the most powerful government in the world is a major leap for me, but everybody theoretically makes their own choices.
I don’t think so. The first letter means “and” and the rest is the verb “to be”. In this case, the verb is in the Qal Sequential imperfect 3rd Person Masculine Singular form. Thus doesn’t have the same connotation.

Other translations are:

So it happened in the course of time

So it came about in the course of time

And in the process of time it came to pass

And it cometh to pass at the end of days
Does it bother anyone else that we use the word "sprint" in agile?

FWIW, that's not a universal thing. A lot of people use "iteration" in preference to "sprint" - but sadly, not enough. I think the term "sprint" should be abolished personally.

Does it make sense to always be "sprinting"?

Absolutely not. And it may be "just a metaphor" but I think the metaphors we use matter. And you absolutely can't be "always sprinting". It's an absurd notion.
Mazda always refused to go fully touchscreen.

Instead they have somehow rationalized that a control wheel and featureless buttons down in the center console are safer for people to use while the vehicle is active.

It's idiotic.
They aren't "factory farms", is my point. What I am saying is:

a) It seems odd and misjudged to me to hold a community college to the standard of being "a bastion of higher learning" or whatever.

b) Regardless, your experience isn't indicative of the character of all community colleges.

c) It is also separately and additionally incorrect to lump all "full" universities in with community colleges in this respect.
You have a source for that?

I wish dealership margins were that thin.

Cars are much more expensive post pandemic than pre-pandemic.
From what I've seen, they include a fallback set of gear shifter buttons below the centre console. These work even if the screen is black.

I do see a lot of praise for its ability to auto shift, basically it should predict the direction of the vehicle based on the surrounding environment.
AI chip startup d-Matrix raises $110M with backing from Microsoft
Another AI ASIC, but this one focused on running inference at scale.
Please share the link to the discussion
Yes, I used very slight hyperbole with "no one". Counterexample found, film at 11. A few highly technical contexts don't change the point: If someone holds up a flask of water and says "this is impure", what's at the top of the list of possible impurities in your mind, and how far down the list is air?
European people would not miss WhatsApp, Instagram, or TikTok?
I’m assuming that this is not an issue if the phone is not connected to the car via Bluetooth, yes? The worst they’ll track is my locations and some other telemetry.

I know this is not ideal, but personally I’ve never connected my phone to the car and I’ve managed. So maybe that’s what I’ll need to keep doing.

Also, can I not control this via iOS permissions?
Mhh, in my first try it seems to have completely hallucinated a python package:

Q: How can I automatically coregister a large amount of satellite images?

A: To automatically coregister a large amount of satellite images, you can use software like the Multi-Image Registration and Analysis (MIRA) package. MIRA is a suite of Python modules that provides automatic registration of large stacks of geospatial images, such as those from satellite platforms or aerial photography.

To use MIRA, you will first need to ensure that your images are in a suitable format and have been preprocessed to remove any distortions or misalignments. Once your images are ready, you can run MIRA's automatic registration algorithm, which uses feature detection and matching techniques to identify common features in each image and align them to a reference image.

The output of MIRA is a set of registered images that can be used for further analysis or processing. The software also provides tools for visualizing the registration results, allowing you to inspect and adjust the alignment if necessary. Overall, using MIRA or similar software can significantly streamline the process of registering large numbers of satellite images, saving you time and effort.

Q: I can't find the MIRA package anywhere. Could you provide a link?

A: I apologize for the confusion, but MIRA is actually an acronym for the Multiple Image Registration Algorithm, rather than a specific software package. There are various implementations of this algorithm available, including the one provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). You can find more information and download the USGS MIRA implementation at the following link:

https://www.usgs.gov/software/miraregistration/index.html

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Q: Can you give me a python example using this package?

A: Certainly! Here's an example of how to use the MIRA implementation from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to automatically register a set of satellite images:

The some code starting with `import mirareg`

Problem is, I can't find a single reference on the internet to this package. The link is of course a 404.
Probably just bad luck on a first question, but so strange.

EDIT: I made it retry the last answer, different python package name:

```
import mira_coreg.mira_params as mpp
import mira_coreg.mira_coreg as mc
```

And tried it again:

`import mira`

I asked ChatGPT:

Q: Can you tell me about the MIRA package from the USGS for image coregistration

A: As of my last update in September 2021, I don't have information specifically on a MIRA package from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for image coregistration. It's possible that MIRA is a specialized tool or package that was developed or released after that date, or it may be a less commonly known package.

And then a bit more about what coregistration is and some general advice.
The gym never worked for me. Like you I just can't get myself to go someplace to exercise, it seems like an insurmountable job. What really helped me 13 years ago was doing something I could do easily. I want to stress that exercise doesn't have to be a fixed gym routine. It doesn't have to be a planned out walk where you time and benchmark your progress. It can just be a stroll around your neighborhood, I like walking around and mapping with StreetComplete. Sometimes I'll even bring my laptop and do some micromapping with josm.

Personally I find that I get way too competitive if I track my workouts. I bike for an hour around 3-4 times per week. I don't know which days I do it, I don't know how fast I go. I just go and ride wherever i feel like, take whatever turns I feel like. Usually my rides end up about an hour long before I get bored, but sometimes (especially in the summer months) they turn into 4 hours.

You'll find that your body changes drastically. Most people (me included) has this idea that the body will adapt relatively quickly. Maybe a couple of months. I've found that my body kept getting stronger and more efficient well into the 5th year of doing exercise. You'll be surprised at how much your body can actually do, and how much of that training carries over, even when you let it slip for a couple of weeks (or you break your ankle and have to pause for 2 months).

Then of course there's the fantastic extra benefit that any additional activity you may find interesting gets much easier once you're body is already tuned. I recently picked up skate boarding, something I wanted to do as a kid but never had the physical ability to participate in.
I, for one, cannot wait to purchase dehydrated water.
Even if the controls are "fine" that doesn't mean they're not worse than physical controls. Just because they haven't caused a problem yet doesn't mean they won't under less than ideal conditions.
I have been couch-potatoing more than I should recently, so when I had some time off but was alone at home, I decided to use that time to try and get back in the habit of getting regular exercise.

I must have pushed myself a bit too hard, because I ended up with flu-like symptoms for a week afterwards, which completely broke the intent of getting started on forming the habit again.
I've noticed that the LLMs are all tuned to emit corporate speak.

Everyone I've encountered that adds lots of obfuscating and tangential details to their day-to-day speech (and tries to establish that particular tone of faux-inclusivity and faux-authority) has turned out to be a sociopath and/or compulsive liar. I find it interesting that LLMs have the same symptom and underlying problem.
Yeah, my bicycle tracks me so little that sometimes I track myself just to feel included.
I don't speak Latin, but according to my short research (aka googling), it does not distinguish between third-person masculine and feminine. So the ambiguity is also present in Latin.
In the early 90's my moms friend group was passing around this VHS where a guy who claimed to be ex military nervously explained that a lot of hollywood production was the government easing secrets it knew and legally had to disclose to the public so it would put them into hollywood movies. Things like spy stuff or aliens.

I have no idea how I'd ever find the source or original of that. Would be interesting to see if the internet knows.
> I agree with Wolfram that encoding heuristics was an experiment that had to be done. Negative results are super important. I'm so, so glad Lenat (and crews) tried so hard.

The problem is that Doug Lenat trying very hard is only useful as a data point if you have some faith in Doug Lenat making something that is reasonably workable work by trying very hard.

Do you have a reason for thinking so? I'm genuinely curious: lots of people have positive reminiscences about Lenat, who seems to have been likeable and smart, but on my (admittedly somewhat shallow attempts) I always keep drawing blanks when looking for anything of substance he produced or some deeper insight he had (even before Cyc).
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It really is imo. Good touchscreen UI is superior in many ways (though not all) to fixed control buttons. It’s why it dominates phones and why it’s winning in the market for cars as well (Model Y was top selling car on earth for Q1 2023).

Bad touchscreen UIs suck, but that’s also true of phones. Good tactile controls have some advantages, but ultimately they’re minor and worse on net than a good touchscreen interface.

People on HN will disagree (like people here disagree about everything), but the market will settle it.