skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See the recent very public humiliation of formerly very prominent ex-president Hu Jintao, the flip-flopping on Covid, or the fixation with Taiwan for how much power one man wields. This is a dictatorship.

As to unofficial disappearances, here's a short list of the most prominent, imprisoned and threatened for becoming popular and/or critical of the regime:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/china-disappea...

Many foreign companies have been threatened too - leading to Google for example leaving the country, Apple's supplier is currently under threat:

https://www.ft.com/content/e6abcb86-1c80-4914-ae54-c7df94d7a...

Finally, they also insert CCP members at board level in companies to control their direction directly:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...

As to saying China is more efficient than France, France is a terrible example for efficiency, so that's a very low bar, but at least France isn't a dictatorship and has rule of law, I know where I'd feel safe investing.
http://archive.today/X4KEX
It's too late, the genetics community already caved :-(

[Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates](https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...)
DMCA abuse is rampant all over the net.
The main problem is that companies like Shopify have implemented these DMCA processes very sloppily, and as the recession continues, there are fewer resources available for making improvements and fixing it. The recession also provides more incentive for bad actors to misuse DMCA as a way to gain an advantage over their competition.

So it is a vicious circle all over the net.
5G boils down to “cell phones will continue to work in dense cities” and not really anything consumers care about beyond that.
Honestly, OpenSCAD has a great UI - it's everything else that sucks about it. OpenSCAD's core advantage is that if you can code, then it is so damn simple; cube sphere cylinder variables modules rotate translate (and if you want to be really fancy: hull union intersect difference), that's all you need for 99% of projects and it fights onto a half-page cheatsheet.

The problem with OpenSCAD is that it's fundamentally really dumb; it doesn't have constraints, you usually just create shapes additively but then you have awful Z-fighting because the engine sucks, and the solution is "just barf epsilons everywhere lol" (which is pure cope - that's not a solution, that's an awkward workaround that requires a bunch of pointless busywork (and more importantly, forces you to figure out stuff about your model that you legitimately don't care about) because the engine is incapable).

I would love to see a successor to OpenSCAD that keeps its IDE-style interface (and no, that doesn't mean using pycharm - the beauty of OpenSCAD is that you have a minimal functional DSL and the GUI is built around the DSL and its use-case) but finds an elegant method of integrating constraints, basically anything to do with curves, that sort of stuff.
> I wish we could get rid of the European Commission

Well, the UK got rid of the EC and the UK still works exactly the same.

Our government is a proxy of lobbying agencies, working behind closed doors.

There's a bigger root cause
I have not. I'm afraid I am a gaming luddite, though for no particular reason other than having a lengthy list of mental "to-dos" in front of it.
Hasn't Toyota made largely similar claims just about every year or so? Why do we believe this time is different?
> One small thing: it's from 7 years ago.

What article are you talking about? The one linked from this discussion thread is from last Friday. The one I linked in my comment is from 3 months ago.
> How do y'all get excited for EVs?

By owning one. Hard not to after you start driving them for a while.

> Any sort of sound and feel is "generated".

The sounds of ICE vehicles are also generally "engineered". Sure, it all comes from the engine, but the sounds you hear have been carefully tailored.

If you drive a few different EVs for a while you'll notice that they have their own sound and feel, even the ones that don't make any artificial sound. It's a lot more subtle than ICE vehicles. But that's a good thing. I'd rather listen to my music than the engine. Still, you generally get enough sound and feel that ... when taken together with the instant response and one-pedal driving ... you can really feel like you're "one" with the vehicle. An ICE feel like you're trying to give kind of suggestions for how the car should drive. Like riding a horse I guess. It goes where you want but also has a bit of a will of its own. An EV feels more like an extension of your body.

EVs will generally have a speaker projecting some sound forward when driving slowly to alert pedestrians. I've never thought of that sound as important to me as a driver.

> for one of these uniform soapboxes

Have you tried the Ioniq 5? Kia EV 6? Honda e?

> I know I can just get the cheapest one because in terms of motors etc. it's all more or less the same.

Not really. Going for AWD on EVs has a huge impact for instance. How the motors are controlled is also important. When done right, you can get the feeling that EVs are absolutely glued to the road no matter how hard you push it. But sure, even the Kia Soul EV 2015 we've had drives better than most ICE vehicles I've driven. Even the cheapest motor will be responsive. Nothing wrong with the cheapest options, and they'll be reliable too. But you can get so much more out of the motors with the right engineering.

The ultimate expression of this is Rimac Nevara. How can you not get excited for that kind of vehicle and what it could mean for the EVs of the future?
The intention is clear, but you are exaggerating your argument by comparing a plane with a car. The Tailwind example is a much more feature complete product, then your „lightweight“ copy. Also, as I said it might be written with another intention then being super small. You use body > header > nav > a. You could write an example in Tailwind that uses the same markup structure, which then would be a valid starting point for an article like this, despite I assume you could not come up with the same conclusions.
> I think that cold fusion is basically completely unviable in any situation

So do I.

> Rich people who have far more resources than they have any need for and live wildly extravagant lifestyles don't need to redistribute any of their wealth because one day we'll crack a high yield problem and everyone will be able to be wealthy' is a very dangerous viewpoint as far as I'm concerned.

It's a bad idea to base your emotional conception of capitalism on so few people they don't matter to the system. In fact, it's a bad idea to have an emotional view of an economic system in general. But I think this is also false.

(If you just want to say "steal" but use the word "redistribute", you'd be in plentiful company, but I'm assuming by "redistribute" you mean "tax".)

Whenever anyone spends money, it's repeatedly taxed. It's taxed with VAT (UK-specific, but this adds 20% to the purchase price already). It's taxed because of all the fuel tax paid to get the good/service going. It's taxed with all the income tax paid to the people who made/supplied the thing. It's taxed with the employee tax (National Insurance in the UK) for those employees. It's taxed via the corporation tax paid by the company that supplied it. So much tax is paid on every good.

Additionally, governments inflate currencies, so governments can tax savings by devaluing them.

Talking as though none of this is present, and we're somehow in a world where barely any tax is paid seems beyond ludicrous. So much tax is paid, at every level, all the time.

> It's clear that the current stable climatic state that our planet sits in is becoming strained by human economic activity, and the capitalist promise of 'there will always be more' is becoming more complex to fulfill. There is a clear solution which exists now, and it is to redistribute wealth.

We already tax people. If you think this is a clear soluton to the climate, you might need to elaborate as to why that is.
possible. "printable" seems to be just the category but not that it was actually printed. of course some people print base64 of encrypted passwords (for offline storage) that would otherwise contain unprintable characters.

usenet exists since 1979/80 [1] and base64 was first described in 1987 [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
2: https://base64.guru/learn/what-is-base64
hmm it might be possible with enough tooling:

- read from webpack's output

- read from css-in-js: emotion / vanilla-extract / etc
I feel like we're talking cross purposes. A sentence like "MPG increased by 20%" should be translated to "L/100km decreased by 16.6%", a sentence like "MPG increase by 5" is untranslatable without more context.

I understand if you are getting a human to translate each sentence you can just point them to the right phrases but my understanding is that you're translating text in bulk via machine translation. For scales in which the conversion is linear and the starting point is zero, this task is relatively trivial. For scales like temp where the zero points are different, you need to treat deltas different from absolute values. For scales where one is the inverse of the other, there's a lot of very tricky edge cases that make machine translation hard.
> The famed 42k bill was for a rear end collision that caused more damage than it looked like.

This is the Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) for that Rivian that got the famously large bill. They go through what all would need to be removed to replace the panel. It seems extensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKPfy5djvLc
Are we, really? Do we have King's financial independence, spare time, crazy useless dinners and parties?

Working your a* off for free (yep, in many countries you have a lot of free labour, free internships, slavery-like conditions) for future opportunities™ and still fighting for remote working.

my ancestors worked from home (as sharecroppers the land was literally behind the house) and at least they had lunch paid for by the feudal lord.
yeah ymmv for sure. The auto formatting and easy editing without having to reconfigure the whole thing helped me out. I would often cut targeted versions of my resume for certain roles i applied for. This made that less painful.
Many of them don’t even need to be directly read - they have a little sensor that can be read from nearby, sometimes even just by a utility truck driving by.
Been following that car for a bit, something I would love to see in person. It sounds absolutely crazy too.
I would say Fall of the House of Usher is at best surface-level related to Poe's writing. It mostly references character names, a few poem lyrics, and some plot points. But it doesn't have anything of the actual soul of his work, the way guilt or desperation push his characters into insanity.

It's not a bad series, but it's definitely lacking in actually adapting what is most memorable in Poe's works. The parts that reference The Black Cat and The Raven are particularly weak, with the Tell-tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado being close seconds.
>What service, commodity, or neccessity one owns, one pays a billion for?

Nobody has to actually pay a billion to make someone a billionaire.

If you and three of your friends create a website that someone wants to buy one percent of for 40 million dollars, you are all billionaires whether you want to sell or not.

It doesn't even matter if nobody else wants to buy the other 99% for the same price, in the eyes of the world you are a billionaire anyway.

Society doesn't create billionaires because they need to exist, they are a side-effect of other things that we desire to exist.

Any society that allows 1) ownership and 2) freedom will generate billionaires when it reaches a sufficient population.

It unfortunately sometimes also happens because 3) criminal activity, and we should of course do everything we can to prevent 3, but if we prevent 1 and 2 we've created a dystopia.
And they are promptly out of stock, I assume.

I've owned every Raspberry Pi since the first one but I think the 4 was my last one. They are fun to tinker with with but not great for long-term use in my experience. I felt like I had to babysit it way too often, it absolutely wasn't a "setup an forgot" device, again in my experience. It'd be rock solid for 2-3 months then randomly stop working, rinse and repeat.

A little bit back I bought a cheap (~$250) mini pc to run Home Assistant on and I haven't looked back. The Raspberry Pi 4 did decent at that job but was a little flakey for my liking and I even had a special case with an m.2 adapter so I didn't have to use the SD card. And before "$XX < $200" (whatever these are going for now), I spent over $100 for my RPi 4 (top ram, I think 4? or was it 8?) especially since you need a case, power supply, etc. Also I had to buy a m.2 ssd and that special adapter.

EDIT: I don't doubt that some of you don't have stability issues and/or have a Raspberry 1 that's been running since release without issue. That just wasn't my experience. Maybe that's my fault, I don't know. I know that I bought "raw" boards, kits from multiple suppliers, and expensive cases that came with approved power supplies but without fail in a couple months it wouldn't be pingable/ssh-able and I'd have to power cycle it and sometimes the software on it would just lock up (same software wouldn't have issue on my home server). In the end maybe I'm an idiot or not smart enough to manage a RPi but especially after the stock issues not too long ago and who the RPi Foundation prioritized, coupled with my experience of the hardware, I'm not really interested in the platform.
If I put something defamatory on my website I can get sued.

Why should it be different for Google?

"We cannot have someone response to every complaint!" – okay, I understand. Then maybe don't do whatever you're doing at all then if you can't handle the responsibility?
Look to the example of Russian intelligence officers being indicted by U.S. DOJ for an example that both proves and disproves your point. Governments do indict foreign nationals that can’t be extradited. They also don’t bother unless they’re a big enough fish to fry. Goatse doesn’t cut it. You have to do something like NotPetya to get a four-star cyber wanted level.
Your news is biased and your intellectual discernment of motivation for free speech is that of a child (or slave, or wannabe tyrant).
Moon may be 40M years older than previously thought
Because it will get abused and used as a tool for content suppression by the bad actors on here. Just like flagging is used for a similar purpose occasionally on here.
Well a bit more than that.

The second lawsuit was about the auto-complete where ever time you searched her name it'd suggest appending "psychic stalker" to it. So it'd be more akin to every time you ordered coffee from startbucks they wrote down "Dude, Physic Stalker" on your cup every time.
Maybe Canada's just a bit different then. I've lived in a few rural areas and do currently. Previously I was located 1.5 hours and two ferry rides from the nearest police detachment. The acreage I'm on right now is in the catchment area for a town of 500 people. Spent some time in the prairies where, if you're not living in the two major cities, there's 1/10 the population of Norway spread out over almost double the land area.

A gas station has never been hard to come by in my experience. Anywhere I've been that's big enough to have a grocery store has a gas station. Anywhere not big enough to have a grocery store has a gas station, and that gas station probably has a limited selection of groceries. And if you live somewhere small enough that you don't have either, chances are you're occasionally driving your car to somewhere that does because you generally need to buy groceries and other supplies.
Ukraine's American Missiles Wrecked 21 Russian Helicopters in Single Operation
It will be a very long time before all cars will have systems like this (and I mean all cars on the road, not ones being sold).

This is why it’s important that we fix street design to lower speed limits, reduce conflicts at intersections, and improve safety of road users outside of cars.
Not true apparently -https://www.google.com/maps?ll=29.966667,-90.080556&q=29.966...
There is a deadline which is the end of the term of the current european commission (next year after the elections).If the new commission doesn't want to take this law any further, it will be dropped.
There are many people who make their livelihood by drop-shipping products from China.

Since the products are identical the only way of succeeding is being the store that the customer sees first. Some invest heavily into SEO/Paid Ads. Others try and harm competition like the DCMA requests and leaving negative reviews.

But one thing I've seen first hand is that the competition is brutal. Everyone just steals website content, images, marketing material etc from the competitors. Whatever they can do to get ahead.
"Legal" in the bottom left links to Apples servers and does not show the necessary attribution to OSM data, based on https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Could you correct this?
I'd prefer Walgreens invest their IT innovation energy into their Web sites, and their pickup&delivery operations.

Sometimes it's fine, and I've had worse healthcare IT experiences, but when something goes wrong for me involving that, it's alarming/infuriating to think how scrod people will be who are non-techies and/or who are limited due to illness.

I've seen great work by Walgreens pharmacists&pharmtechs, and hope for other aspects of Walgreens and CVS to consistently rise to that level of greatness. They are first go-to institutions for some aspects of critical healthcare, not 7-11s nor gas station convenience stores.
Not GP, but I can see. Not comfortably though and my eyes want to refocus so I have to expend conscious effort to keep looking at it - unlike most other stereograms where once locked in the effect remains almost effortlessly.
Accessibility and inclusion isn't always going to be cost neutral
Indeed!

The Protomaps project encompasses the generation of basemap PMTiles and the ecosystem for delivering them to clients. It supplies a standard daily build from OpenStreetMap, and since the generation is open source it can be customized to conform with your specific requirements.
Part of the problem is many of these companies have a faux DCMA process.

Rather than use the “official” DCMA process, they build a reporting mechanism in front of it. People can abuse it without facing federal repercussions.
I'd probably be looking at a shorter timeline, just because of the Harvest Now, Decrypt Later strategy[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later
NJ Man Hired Online to Firebomb, Shoot at Homes Gets 13 Years in Prison
> We've been harassed by the same scammer that placed 7 fake DMCA over the past 2 weeks and Shopify automatically removes you content with zero check.

So much for " The e-commerce platform typically receives thousands of takedown notices per month from rightsholders, which are in part processed automatically. That works well in most instances, but not always."

As a person who's built at least half their career on Rails, I want Shopify to succeed in a big way, but every "platform" acts the same way. What's worse is that I've read other stories from Shopify creators who are having their stuff directly ripped off, and their complaints have no effect.

Why do the people running platforms all wink and nod, and agree to enshittify the service for the creators in the same way, leaving them nowhere else to go? Seems like there's an opportunity to make more money by breaking the mold, and being a platform that favors creators over complaints.

Ahhh, don't worry; I'm sure AI will sort all of this out shortly. <eyeroll> Anything to avoid hiring actual people with brains to sort these kinds of things out.

If these automated systems are so great, you'd think there'd be relatively little gray area for human beings to sort out, but no one seems to actually do that, until a stink is made on some social media that the company can't avoid.
Who on earth has a "Cooler screen preference" (refering to the statement on their website)?

Truly a first world problem, and another things we don't really need...

The only redeeming quality is that they apparently "Drive TikTok'ers nuts" according to Businessinsider...
Because the cost of your vehicle is a small fraction of their total liability.

Suppose your insurance cost is 100$/month for a Subaru and 110$ for a R1T but only 90$/month for liability + personal injury. Now your total bill increased by 10% while they are charging you 2x to insure the vehicle itself.

They may also be getting this calculation wrong, but it’s unlikely to change that much.
how did you deal with the china map part?

AFAIK it is illegal to distribute accurate geographical data about China without their authorization.

You can distribute the one that is slightly inaccurate, such as what provides google maps or apple maps for non chinese users
It's hard to believe this is an actual opinion a human holds and it wreaks of someone who has never gone through particularly hard times.

Redefine their life? Good luck doing that when you suddenly don't have an income because you were automated out of employment. People who are able to recover from these events and reinvent themselves are the exception.

Any job is better than no job and it's not your place to judge the value of someone's life. If said person is making an income, can tolerate their job, and enjoys their time outside of work that's all anyone can really ask for.
> I have an android phone, google account and ...

Settings -> Google -> Manage your Google account-> Data and Privacy

Just disable anything you don't use.

You can also have an android phone without registering a Google account.
As an sort of counterbalancing aside, there are two common japanese words for red, the slightly less well known to foreigners is the name for the color of the sun on the japanese flag: beni/kurenai (a deeper red). Well Chinese has the parallel kanjis too but as far as I understand it for the Chinese the semantic values are flipped: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-%E8%B5%...
> There seems to be a lot of noise, confusion and FUD coming from Toyota lately.

Not really? The old CEO with his irrational hate of all-electric cars left, and Toyota is now free to catch up with the rest of the industry. And the best way to catch up has always been to leapfrog a tech generation ahead, rather than trying to copy what the competition designed last year.
I typically don't respond to recruiters, but now I do all the time. If one reaches out for in-office job. I make sure to tell them I am not interest in non-remote work, but I could be convinced for a wild amount of money.

I used to have a pretty bad commute (2 hours total).

I can safely say that finding a fully remote gig was the single best thing that happened for me in terms of improving my quality of life. My relationships are better. My health is better. I am happier.
It is _loosely_ coupled. I can switch the design completely without touching HTML.

If I modify the HTML structure, the component specification changes and CSS obviously needs to be updated.
Flexport kicks off restructuring with layoffs
Congrats on the baby!
Towards Open-Ended Evolution in Cellular Automata
This is not just PR, it's real and the current trade war is likely to lead to real war in the next few years.
Someone in the comments here absolutely worked on these, and knew it was garbage the entire time
> writeup

please; I'm always keen on counterpoints to /r9k/ ideology