skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>90% of the complaints appear to be from folks who have no ability to charge at home.

That's a significant demographic of the car owning population, especially here in Europe. Having your own house with a charger is an extreme rarity.
American Sociological Association, in absentia but not silent on open science
> I switched to Ryujinx full time last year on my Steam Deck and love it!

To play retail games you purchased, right? ;)

Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives as an independent console maker in the years to come. They ceded the traditional home console, and now everyone is making portables. Valve's portable can play the entire retail Nintendo line for "free".

Valve gets the benefit of piracy to help lift sales of their system, too.
Just walk by the security cameras with a weaponized qr code. "Ugly shirt" style[1].

[1] of course the ugly shirt was an actual backdoor - but who's to say nuclear centrifuges don't have an emergency shutdown code?

https://www.tatewilliams.org/blog/2014/07/04/blue-ant-survei...
The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?
That's the funny part I don't understand. We want EVs to become mainstream but all apartment/condo dwellers should magically have a personal charging station.
Getting the Pump
I've come to the same conclusion as you. I sometimes find it very hard to parse, but given all the praise he gets from very smart individuals, I put it down to not being native.
Yes, you do lose notable range in a gas car in cold weather:

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/coldweather.shtml

It's really interesting what sort of things are considered problems with EVs that just get ignored with gas cars. The dual standard is pretty interesting to observe.
Wow definitely breaking new ground with that critique of Hancock!
I don't know, I live in eastern Canada, modern cars don't seem to have much of an issue on the handful of -20 to -25 Celsius mornings we get every year, as long as the battery is in good shape.

Even the 2007 Yaris we had up to 2018 never had an issue (after I replaced the dying battery).

Now the -40 C weather they've been having in the prairies recently is a different issue, one I can happily say I don't have any experience with.
> "How to program" isn't something the academy understands, so they generally can't teach it

This was my (limited) experience with (introductory) formal CS.

Which is sort of amazing to me as art schools seem in broad agreement that “how to draw” can be taught, albeit in many different ways.
Yes. And then when you left, did you have an accurate gauge of exactly how far you could travel? Did you have stops along the way to add fuel in a reasonable amount of time? Did you have reliable, strong heat in the cabin?

I want EVs to be there too, but they just aren't.
Perhaps the people behind this are secretly anti gain of function research, and are doing this in hopes of sparking a movement to limit or ban GOF? That's what I'll tell myself, at least.
I disagree being a young 26 year old, I have had dozens of issues with self checkout getting stuck for 5+ minutes at a time over things that don't have bar codes and require hand typing. Or Heaven forbid you don't put the item precisely on the scale bench and it flags you as being 0.1 oz off your checkout basket.

They are not hard to clear issues and I could do them myself but only the cashier has the ability to clear those errors and sometimes there is that one customer that is taking the 1 cashier for 8 stalls for like 5 minutes complaining about a coupon.

I think dismissing the issues is sure fire way for more issues to come up.
Tesla manual says you need to precondition the battery for upwards of an hour before fast charging in cold weather.

That's clearly not an option for the cars that are abandoned and dead because they couldn't charge.

It's also not just the one station that was an issue. One guy left his Tesla at the airport parking lot, came back after his trip, and had to pay to get it towed to a charger.
No, 3% is just Apple accounting for credit card processing fees. It will end up costing developers roughly the same whether they use alternative payment methods or not, which is obviously Apple's plan.
Obsidian has tabs, you can right click --> open in new tab
We should have pushed for hybrid cars. This way, we can build the infrastructure along-side our current gas stations and give people an incentive to buy them (increases range of gas powered cars). It would have been a win-win all around.

Instead, governments want to force us to all electric too early with nowhere near the proper infrastructure.
I was the original author of an open-source, server-based, federated, infrastructure system, that has become fairly ubiquitous, for the demographic that it Serves.

But it didn't start off that way. I shepherded it -almost entirely alone- for a decade, before I found a dedicated, motivated team that I trusted to take it over.

They have done wonders for it. Most of its explosive expansion has taken off, under their watch.

Walking away from it was the best thing that I could do for it. The last thing these folks need, is a "Benevolent Dictator," peering over their shoulders, and giving suggestions.

During the gestation decade, I had to be a not-so-benevolent dictator, many times, as people tried to take it over, change it to suit narrow sub-demographics (at the expense of everyone else), and even change its entire raison d'etre. I got a ton of pretty vicious hate mail and there are people that still hate me (I cry myself to sleep over that, every night), after a decade. In one instance, I had to wait until one nasty old bastard popped his clogs, before I could spread it to the entire Pacific Northwest.

During that time, I learned how not to behave. A lot of that hate, was because I'm actually pretty good at slapping back, but I really needed to learn diplomacy. Even when they are nasty, and we are right, we often need to just swallow our pride, and let the dervishes whirl.

I don't miss working on it, and I'm really glad the new team are doing so good with it. I suspect there's very little of my original code in it, but the team mindset is still very much what I established.

I am about to release a project that actually uses that infrastructure as a feeder to my backend.
simpler, lighter, less verbose, more portable, much more readable "in the raw",....
Sorry, Dutch here, We use the IJ, which isn't officially a separate letter, but somehow I learned we have 27 letters (when sorting, the IJ comes before the Z. When capitalizing, IJsselmeer, is right, Ijsselmeer is wrong). ]

26 would be for the English alphabet and therefore the terminal. I was mistaken.
As a heavy OneNote user, I was stymied by Obsidian for a long while as the mental models are different. OneNote is best thought of as an actual paper notebook, where pages can inserted, re-arranged to one’s liking, images pasted into the page, etc.. Obsidian is better thought of as a sophisticated overlay to the file system. It’s ultimately more powerful than OneNote, but does have some frustrating limitations for the OneNote/Notion/Scrivener user as not being able to manually sort notes. For now I’m using both but ultimately will switch to Obsidian as it develops (hopefully) further.
America is one of the few countries in the world where a majority of the population lives in the suburbs, in single family homes and large apartments, with almost universal automobile ownership. It is designed this way, by both the federal and state government through prioritizing highways over passenger rail, and local governments by prioritizing local roads and parking over public transportation and pedestrian and cycling paths. Largely this has the support of the population who prefer prioritizing automobiles.

You lose a lot when you make these your priorities. You lose the magnificent airport of Singapore, the railways of Japan, the cycling paths running across the whole of the Netherlands, the twisting trails linking villages together in the Alps. You lose a lot of social venues and social cohesion.

But you also gain something. You gain something almost unique in the world, which is the ability of the majority of the population (especially outside high CoL areas) to own their own house, a real house, earth to sky, with four walls to the winds. Often with its own garage, often attached, allowing you to pass directly to your car without touching the elements. You get space - the tremendous space - that feeling of infinite possibilities that hits you when you first step out of the airport of an American city, squalor and all.

"Germany, like much of northern Europe, is a high-regulation society, but it’s also high-trust"

I've lived in Germany a long time, and while it's a wonderful place, I can tell you a lot of people who want to get out, who are tired of being trapped in their tiny cold apartment worried if they can afford heating more than just their bedroom or (the decadence!) the entire apartment. The kind of freedom you feel in a country where you can just drop everything and move to a different coast and find a job and speak the same language, you can't do that here, at least not with a tremendous number of barriers to cross. And don't even get me started on dryers.

"I like to live here, but the reality is we are rapidly falling behind the rest of the world in liveability (sic)"

Livability as defined by world rankings, no, American cities won't match up. Even NYC's public transit is a joke compared to much of the world. But livability as defined by, somewhere I have the freedom to live, to own, to dream... the USA might just be the place.
There's a 52 stall supercharger planned near O'hare. I'd guess this problem would have been much less severe if it had already opened.
Thanks for taking the time to answer! This is both surprising and unsurprising. On paper, everything you say makes sense. But to see that it's true in practice is great news.
The real blunder in this country is the lack of viable alternative transportation options in a majority of the nation.

Visited NYC recently and didn’t need to rent a car. Primarily took the bus, ferry, and rail car/trains. In some cases I just walked from my hotel to the destination. Could have rented one of the e-bikes as well. Transportation costs for just 1 week were less than $100 (a quarter of this was because of LIRR usage). Didn’t have to deal with traffic, or some dumbass rear ending me because they weren’t paying attention. I could effectively multitask while traveling by alternative means.

Unpopular opinion: heavy investing in “EV infrastructure” is a waste of time and money.
By having a more generic protocol on top, it allows the same tools to be used for different specific end results. So shared libraries and common debugging tools can benefit more use cases. You might even make a "higher-order" tool that can work with any willow data, at the cost of specific UI affordances that can be used when you know more about the underlying data.

This is sort of how ActivityPub is a thing, but it underpins multiple, sorta-but-not-really interoperable systems like Lemmy and Mastodon.
Works for most light bags, many people use heavy reusable bags which can sometimes throw off weight of some items too much and it's a lottery then. Similarly I don't use "add X items at once" because they don't multiply weight error by X so for many items it sometimes do not work.
This goes for your knowledge as well, as AI fundamentally doesn’t learn any different than humans do.

If you remove all knowledge gained from learning from or copying others works, what value do you provide?

Nothing on this planet can learn without copying something else. So if we open the can of worms for AI, we should do the same for humans and require paying royalties to those who taught you.
> No, it's not. If you applied this logic, you would just go around telling fat people that they're fat.

This isn't pointing out an error in thinking, this is stating a fact. A fat person most likely already knows that they're fat, so doing this again is redundant; a statement like "you're fat" is also usually emotionally loaded, turning this into a weapon of verbal aggression.

Are you sure that I am the one being delusional here?
> Are you being intentionally obtuse?

For someone lamenting the state of discourse on the internet, you seem to have a problem with avoiding ad-hominems. You also seem to rabidly post multiple items at speed. Please calm down and refrain.

> Ruling on this will not just affect Apple but any company with a similar modus operandi in the future,

Absolutely - and absolutely, anyone creating a digital platform should be forced to follow better rules than what we have at the moment. The market alone will produce exploitative monopolies, and this is what we're seeing with Apple. If the letter of current antitrust laws doesn't touch them, the spirit definitely does.

> Why people have trouble keeping legislative challenges (what you can do) and moral challenges (what you should do) apart

Because it's in the cracks between those concepts that Bad Things for society tend to happen; which is why we have laws to reconcile them where the market fails to do so on its own. In this case, we have large companies effectively establishing exploitative and feudal relationships with smaller businesses and consumers, extracting parasitical rents. This is a Bad Thing and should be fixed.

Including your other comment:

> And yes, loan sharks are legitimate businessmen in the US.

No, they are not. You need licenses to lend money in the US, and to get those you have to follow extensive rules and regulations put in place precisely to make it illegal to be a loan shark. Some businesses get close to the limits of such rules (payday loans etc), and that is a political item - precisely because they get very close to be something that is Bad for society.

> if you want to change it vote for people that can turn that into law

Absolutely, and people do. EU representatives are running with this, and Apple is slowly being subject to more and more scrutiny (together with Google, Amazon, and anyone else with a digital marketplace). People understand that what these businesses are doing is Bad for society in the long run, so if they can't reign themselves in on their own, they will have to be reigned in by the law.
Be careful with Xiaomi MIUI Android phones removing security manager related apks (that run apparently as root/system) can break the phone and you need to reset via fastboot or so - Learned it the hard way.

For MIUI using EEA region rom and denying consent / nextdns.io and deleting some apks seems to help. However the gallery app still uploads to Xiaomi servers without consent for some filters - overall it's my last Xiaomi. Lineage might work fine but I wanted to avoid all the complications of unlocking bootloader.

No ads after debloating, it's fast but in the end I felt I can't have trust in Xiaomi.

Still Google sends the most blocked beacons. I'm at 20% blocked requests of all requests for my light phone usage.
nah, it's just proof that I didn't LLM my blogs into existence ;)
Singling this out of that collection of unbacked assertions . . .

> Corporations are required by law to maximize shareholder value

No. And saying it more often does not make it any more true.
Yeah, I was referring to machines/software.
I've tried to like Obsidian for a long time. It had never clicked with me, despite it's simple interface and seemingly great support.

But I recently finally found a great use case for it: saving code snippets. Specifically: code snippets found on Stack Overflow and ChatGPT.

You can simply select the answer (usually written in markdown), copy and paste it into Obsidian, and it retains all the formatting, and even applies language-specific color schemes.

Here is an example: https://i.imgur.com/GBFr431.png

It's absolutely brilliant.
The equation of time gets in there too if I recall correctly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time

> The equation of time describes the discrepancy between two kinds of solar time. The word equation is used in the medieval sense of "reconciliation of a difference". The two times that differ are the apparent solar time, which directly tracks the diurnal motion of the Sun, and mean solar time, which tracks a theoretical mean Sun with uniform motion along the celestial equator. Apparent solar time can be obtained by measurement of the current position (hour angle) of the Sun, as indicated (with limited accuracy) by a sundial. Mean solar time, for the same place, would be the time indicated by a steady clock set so that over the year its differences from apparent solar time would have a mean of zero.

And this gets into a neat part of the Clock of the Long Now and a cam needed to keep track of that over 10,000 years. https://longnow.org/ideas/the-equation-of-time-cam-keeping-g...
i don't disagree, but were it that advantageous, there would be islands in the pacific where this happened
i agree! i hadn't realized you were talking about people who weren't already team members. they're usually well-meaning, but it's true that some drain a lot of contributor time on things that aren't important.

rust has a conflict avoidance problem. i think rust could be much more effective at saying no, and saying it more quickly. i want to talk about that in my next blog post.
Chinese Lab Mapped Deadly Coronavirus Two Weeks Before Beijing Told the World
It would be a baffling decision for GitHub to make any product decisions based on engagement. They don’t even serve ads, what benefit do they have to an engaged user?
ReScript v11 Is Out
Almost a year after the last release, ReScript is available in version 11! It marks the second major community-driven release and we are very thankful that there are so many willing contributors who invested their spare time into improving the compiler and its ecosystem.
> Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives as an independent console maker in the years to come. They ceded the traditional home console, and now everyone is making portables. Valve's portable can play the entire retail Nintendo line for "free".

I think you overestimate the willing of most people to play on emulators.
Not hard to add if your car doesn't have one. I've never needed a block heater in a car but I installed them on two tractors that we use to plow the driveway. My current tractor is this (particular) Diesel

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Holland_TC30_HST...

but before that I struggled to get one of these

https://www.pinterest.com/marshallwoodyar/john-deere-tractor...

to start in the winter (even with the block heater) and probably killed it by switching it to a multi-viscosity oil when the straight 20 oil specified for it became almost impossible to get and could well be blamed for the hard starting.
Study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1
I think the real answer is.. whatever we are personally 'against' is the real cause... and whatever we are personally 'for' is the solution.
IMO, for many real business use cases, the hallucinations are still a big deal. Once we have models that are more reliable, I think it makes sense to go down that path - the AI is the interface to the software.

But until we're there, a system that just provides guidance that the user can validate is a good stepping stone - and one I suspect is immediately feasible!
Do we have to rehash this story several times a day for the whole week?

An EV is a far superior winter car to my gasoline car. My comment one of the first times it came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015773
Some might think C++ will take years (few years I was hoping 2025, but seems unlikely now) to catch up to Rust in some important ways.
Anyone who has driven long distances in the cold (where you can calculate your mpg easily, as you are just driving all day, what else are you doing?) knows that is bullshit. My van that gets 20-25 mpg in the summer gets... 20-25 mpg in the winter. The only time it's affected is when I'm crossing the rockies. Mountains...
Some people might be interested in https://weasyprint.org/
For those of us not in the know, what is "Maxx-ing" in this context?
The way you phrase it (but maybe I get you wrong) suggests that the customers are somehow in their (moral if not lawful) right to do this because of previous policies from the supermarkets. They (supermarkets) may have been wrong, but so is stealing. They don't cancel each other out, nor do two wrongs become a right.

I'd say stealing is always a net negative effect for the whole.

But if you're saying that the entire context explains a lot of the behaviour, and could possibly be predicted, then yes I agree.
Thoughts and Tips After App Was Nominated for a Golden Apple Award from Applevis
Im not trying to be insulting but this also isn’t a legitimate difference of opinion scenario.

You tried to do a weird gotcha by claiming that the ability to install a web app is no different to print a webpage and implied that I was seeing conspiracies where there were none to be found.

I’m saying that the thing I’m talking about has a very clear difference when it comes to incentive structures and I know you’re aware of it because we are in the middle of a discussion about it.

So I don’t know what other conclusion to draw here other than you’re pretending to not understand the difference.
> we are able to achieve over 80% success on these tasks with only 50 human demonstrations per task

The challenge is that 80% accuracy is a far cry from being actually useful in real-world situations to the point where humans can rely on them to perform the desired task correctly. They have to "just work". And closing the gap on that last 20% becomes exponentially difficult.
This last quote just showcases a few people’s ignorance (at a minimum the author, the editor, and the person being quoted) of the fact that nobody needs a “charging station” at home. All you need is an outlet and a charging cable.
Tectonic collision causing Himalayas to grow may also be splitting Tibet
This is a smart accounting trick to work around taxes. No doubt Amazon and others do a lot of R&D. But when such comparisons are made with Europe, some details need to be understood.
Apple Watch redesigned without blood oxygen monitoring to avoid import ban
How to determine which information is a fact and which information is a someone's hallucination? How to determine that owner of the service has no interest in promoting/imposing some party over the others?

Nobody will follow 10k investments, probably Google bans your IP if you will ask 10k queries per few days.
That's essentially on call 101, you try to mitigate as fast as possible and root cause later when you are not half asleep. Surprised to see some comments here.
I like to ask them "what is the best way to skin a cat?"

Those trained on morals and empathy (like Samantha) refuses to entertain such an idea (even admonishing you.) Some make funny jokes ("If you have a problem with your cats skin, you should take it to a veterinarian").

Others will happily tell you (like a reditor) how to go about skinning a cat.

We all know how encouragable random people on the Internet can be ...
No upgrade path / discount for people on Prompt 2?

I personally bought it back in August and barely used it since it did a poor job of staying connected in the background swapping apps on an iPhone 13 Pro.
Visualising the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Readers have different expectations for poetry than other forms of writing. We don't expect technical docs to be in the form of epic verse.
>why don't they add a camera that can guess what is your fruit/veg, or at least suggest 2-3 items that look close?

this is exactly what you'll see rolled out over the next few years, all of the equipment vendors have been showing prototypes of it
Spirit also doesn’t live up to that in my experience. Their cost structure nickel and dimes the consumer so much that by the time you get to the destination you may have paid more for a much less comfortable trip.

At least in my anecdotal experience.
Podcast consumers prefer funny/entertaining ads but mostly hear dry feature ads
Revamped CRISPR restores vision in blind mice