skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ideal drivetrain was invented over 20 years ago by Toyota and apparently nobody but me and Honda noticed it!

The problem is hybrid drivetrains are complex. You don't save anything on the complexity of a combustion engine and exhaust train (over 1000 individual parts that have to be machined at extremely low tolerances), but add a more complex transmission (it needs to be able to work with two distinct inputs) and an electric drivetrain on top of that.

It is worth it in terms of energy efficiency and acceleration stats since even a small electric motor can supply a lot of torque at low speeds until the high-horsepower combustion engine catches up (virtually all modern cars have a turbocharger that needs time to spin up), but it's technically challenging to actually build into a modern car design - unlike 90s cars with ample space available to stuff components in, in a modern car every cubic centimeter is accounted for due to crash resistance.
Consent is combined with device selection, at least in Chrome.

That leaks at most one bit unless the user selects a device (i.e. whether Web USB is supported or not, as a delayed error due to the user clicking "deny" would be distinguishable from an immediate one), and usually much less since that bit is very correlated with "is Chrome/Chromium-like".
I think this article misses the one big problem (as I understand it). It's that schools need to dismiss the kid to their parent. I have family in North Carolina and I understand that cars have the family number displayed, and someone with a radio communicates to the school staff "Car 315 is here", they then find that kid and dismiss them. Just do away with that. When the bell rings, send the kids outside and they will just find their parent. That's how my kids school works and there is no traffic jam.
I'm kind of interested in why we can't make a better database with all of our modern technology.

Postgres is a fantastic workhorse, but it was also released in the late 80s. Who, who among you will create the database of the future... And not lock it behind bizarro licenses which force me to use telemetry.
> That’s one country with strict blasphemy laws, not specifically about Islam, but about any religion. It’s curious you seem to only care when they apply it to Islam.

The police, the prosecutors and the courts only care about this law when it applies to Islam. Yes, it is very curios indeed!

> You get into the same amount of trouble there whether the book you’re burning is a bible or a quran.

That's absolutely not true. You in fact get into no trouble at all.
DeLoreans look fantastic, but drive terribly and are a nightmare to be inside or own.

Cybertrucks might fall apart from the outside and nazi association making it a nightmare to own, but they drive fantastic. Think spaceship tank with instant acceleration, a 11 second quarter mile brick https://www.motortrend.com/features/quickest-fastest-pickup-...
> If you agree to the notion that LLMs trained on copyrighted work are a form of IP infringement and not fair use, then training on their output is just data laundering and doesn't fix the issue.

It's fuzzy. I could imagine a situation where a primary LLM trained on copyrighted material is a big hazard and can't be released, but carefully monitored and filtered output could be declared copyright-safe, and then used to make a copyright-safe secondary LLM.
Well that headline sums it up. After 10 years of dealing with it and wondering "how the f did we get to this point", it's satisfying to hear it called what it is.

A small win in our family was in my son's final year of elementary school when he finally decided to try walking home 1.5 miles; that Spring was a delight for him. He was properly decompressed and had logged a minimum amount of physical activity for good sleep and all the rest.

Pay for the buses! Build the greenways! Normalize walking! And stop worrying about abductions for the love of gawd!
iOS doesn't allow apps to stay active in the background to listen for messages like Android can. And since Briar very much does not rely on the vendor push services that is a showstopper.
And who exactly considers Mohammed to be a deity?

Edit: Blaspheming against Islam is a criminal offense in many European jurisdictions.
The US has a lot of 4ft+ hood height pick up trucks with drivers on their phone. Basically, all the cars are heavier, higher, and cause more damage.

Although, that specific picture’s grassy area is sufficiently large that there is room to walk far away from the cars.
Firstly: I'm a fan of Harbour Air's work and their electrification. Have flown that airline.

Retrofitting electrical flight to a 1950s airframe will be, in the long run, not a great use of the technology.

Those planes were designed around having a single heavy powerplant up front driving the propeller, and fuel largely distributed along the center of gravity (in the wings) so as not to adversely alter flight characteristics over the trip. The electrified Beaver stores its batteries in the fuselage; of course there is no change in mass/CG over the flight with electric, but all that fuel tank space in the wings is going to waste. The fact that these are floatplanes make charging/battery replacement tasks at the dock challenging and restrict options.

A clean sheet design, with multiple distributed smaller motors and more options for battery placement, will be a significant improvement.

https://harbourair.com/going-electric/?tab=Specification
> Why reinvent the wheel when we already have Reticulum network

Assuming README is among the first files created in a project, here's the date of the first commit for each:

markqvist/Reticulum: Apr 4, 2018
briar/briar: Nov 9, 2015
In her book Medicine Stories, Aurora Morales speaks of the impact our participatory existence in an unjust world has on us.

We have to harden our hearts in order to walk by the unhoused, harden our hearts to buy stuff me know is produced by slavery, pretend we don’t see the extortionist, your-money-or-your-life nature of industrialized health services, harden our hearts to the slaughter of billions of animals for the meat industry, pretend we don’t witness the ongoing ecocide and destruction of our only biosphere.

That’s before the daily servings of doom via our doom-monetizing, amygdala-destroying media outlets.

Such levels of ongoing denial and desentization impact us to the point that we live in an increasingly unhealthy state of mass psychosis. We are all freaking out internally, pretending that all is OK externally.
I'd say it's the opposite: undercutting Ukraine's ability to fight would effectively be a one-sided ceasefire. It would indeed end the violence, but lead to a literal genocide.

Resuming arms deliveries gives Ukraine a negotiating position. They have some firing to cease.

Whether it actually will lead to a ceasefire is hard to say. There is reason to think that Putin has demands that Ukraine will see as preparation for the next war. Ukraine will be demanding guarantees of future sovereignty that Putin is unlikely to tolerate -- not just a promise, but alliances with the West to enforce them.
My samsung was so noisy that I went to forget the wifi network... but it couldnt. So I ended up blocking its mac at the router. Prior to that it was always the #1 blocked device on my pihole.
- if the manufacturer retains some form of ownership after "sale", it is obligated to provide free repairs/replacements for the duration of the contract
The standard documents are proof of employment abroad (in Canada) and Canadian bank account statements showing sufficient funds to support himself or herself while in the U.S. Also, something pulling this person back to Canada, such as a spouse or significant other or other ties and/or responsibilities.
Humane AI pin fails: A $700 gadget adds to the global e-waste crisis
Didn't know that, thanks. Then speakers are actually a pretty big data source. I bet most people don't assume their speakers can be listening. I wonder if you can get internet connection over bluetooth aux or what'd be the best way to get someone to let you send data home on a speaker.
Does this article really need a visual aid of cars waiting in a line, let alone a sloppy AI generated visual aid?
That's fucking ridiculous.
Even seemingly trivial missing features can push people to another browser if they're otherwise largely indifferent already.

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that to some people, the inconvenience of juggling two browsers alone outweighs the benefits of using Firefox for most browsing.
It’s awful. Big long line where I live and it used to be handled by one school bus and kids walking home. Imagine the waste of human productive time, fuel, etc. I’m always astounded this many people don’t have a job to be at at 3pm.
Right. I walked home from school every day and it was about 4 miles through farm fields and along country roads with blind corners.
Depending on group privacy, they may be able to identify members without joining it (i.e. no need to hack someone else in the group).

I haven’t kept up on WhatsApp research but at some point this was true - same goes for online status and avatars. I have those set to “nobody” and “default.”

WhatsApp makes it way too easy to go from “phone number” to “real person online at X, Y, Z hours.”
Wait until you find out about WebBluetooth
I recently replaced all my kitchen appliances with matching mid-scale Samsung-branded ones. The first thing I did after powering them on for the first time was disable the WiFi. For this reason.

Also, it's entirely unclear to me why I need WiFi or a remote server for my dishwasher or refrigerator in the first place. What possible value-add is there?
> Google cannot make this into a web standard unilaterally

At their market share, what's the downside to them of something remaining Chrome proprietary forever?
I have my sonos integrated nicely inside Home Assistant and can control all core and most extra features nicely without using the app.
Same here. I stopped using it partly for this reason.
The stop-start nature of city busses makes them a real low hanging fruit for battery electrification, benefiting from instant torque to start and regen to stop and, as you say, fixed known routes within larger fleets.

The only nation that seems to have capitalised on this basic fact is China which bootstrapped its EV industry on busses, pulling ahead from 2010 and hitting 90% of global market share for EV busses in 2020, and now a big exporter.
You don't need a pickup truck to be on the phone! It's truly shocking to see just how many (usually speeding!) drivers are on their phones on the highway and elsewhere.
This has nothing to do with caving. It’s always been about not supporting a proprietary standard for E2EE. GSMA dragged their feet so long, and this is just Apple announcing they’ll support the standardized method… which everyone would in theory assuming Google doesn’t keep their proprietary RCS stack.
Luckily for them no one can listen to their radios now.
>Teaching isnt giving up on something before it's finished, it's trying to push them to be inspired or interested in learning more about the topic you're teaching.

Thanks for sharing this. To add on, I think that teaching is about giving students a mental model for them to abstract away certain complex concepts, then seeing how they assimilate those ideas into their own mental models, which unlocks more curiosity (and the cycle continues).

I'm not sure I understand the OP's product release metaphor. But if I tried to speak in those terms, I would argue that teaching is more like shipping 1000's of products that may take decades to be considered "released." Or maybe it's like being a pre-pre-seed or angel investor... ?

I used to teach at a top-tier design school, which attracted some of the brightest and/or wealthiest students from all over the world. Watching a select few rise into staff roles, start their own companies, and change the world evokes an overwhelming feeling of pride and contentment.
hi I have a friend in a tricky situation wondering if you could help.

he and another founder are both technical cofounders.

he decided to be CTO and the other CEO but he is the only director in delaware c corp.

The CTO is Canadian and CEO is American.

However, CTO found out the CEO wasn't doing in his role. He wasn't committing code and also not contributing to executing, just sitting on his linked in private messages as some way to promise potential investor interest. So to protect the IP, CTO decides to block CEO from accessing github until he can explain and negotiate what to do next.

CEO used this as an excuse to terminate the CTO and acquire the IP by automatic buyback and claim ownership of the IP.

CTO is currently lawyering up and plans on filing injunction against CEO who acted in bad faith.

Will the CTO have trouble getting visas in the near future? It's clear the legal dispute will become public very soon.
I think this is a somewhat mainstream opinion outside the hype train. AI is helpful as a Google replacement but not ready to do serieus context sensitive coding.
The traffic is caused by vehicles queuing up in line, period.

The system you describe isn't necessary to cause the traffic. It's not the root cause.
A soft brick is still a brick.
Promos before the terminal level are easy because your manager wants to retain you. After the terminal level, they're used as carrots to squeeze more work out of you. One scenario to look out for is the company doing well. You realize your RSUs are worth more than job hopping, so you aim for adequate, but the company doesn't like that you opted out of the staff promo rat race.
In the end, I suspect most cults want all your organs.
I think the word "foreigner" is perfectly correct. The difference is that as a foreigner, you have chosen to come to another country – among hundreds to choose from. As a native citizen, you haven't made any such choice and you might not be able to even if you wanted to.
Nothing that needs wifi or an app is allowed in my kitchen.
what bother's me even more is that they are constantly spying on me (phone home, what am I watching, ...) and pushing advertisements to my TV. My next TV will probably not be connected to the internet.
"We understand how frustrating an unresponsive soundbar can be."

Isn't this about the most condescending thing they can start with?
> There is no known battery technology, or one on the horizon, that can provide a large enough power/weight to make them practical.

Small aircraft are already there. I'm looking into starting my pilots license this year, the local flight school recently acquired an Elektra Trainer [1], that apparently has 2.5 hours worth of flight time [2].

Big transoceanic widebodies obviously will be fossil fuel based for a long time to come, but I think a lot of the GA market and bush pilot/island hoppers can and will be done by electric planes sooner than later - alone because the noise and lead emissions are all but gone, and I think that in a few years, when experiences on failure modes are a bit richer, electric planes will also be cheaper to maintain - similar to cars, there are less parts involved in the first place that can break down.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektra_Trainer

[2] https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/elektrisch-fliegen-in-l...
Can I really, in Firefox? This seems like something that's impossible to provide via the Web Extension API.
Community size and reach plays a big part in this.

Aside from the the whole "Am I trolling as a racist or am I a racist trolling?" issue, communities get away with a lot more when they are smaller, more insular and more hidden from the public. Once the community starts to bleed out beyond the immediate site, you start to run into issues. Not just because the jokes and content are spreading, but the attitudes behind those jokes. And those attitudes (even if they make up just a portion of the users) have a tendency to not be great.

I think a perfect example of this would be what happened on Reddit with the /r/antiwork subreddit. As soon as the community got too large and started spilling into other areas of the site, the cracks started to show. Culminating with the interview by one of the mods (?) on Fox News I believe. All of a sudden a chunk of the users are questioning "Wait, this is who I'm siding with?" and then the only people left are the people who aren't bothered.
Sakugabooru's blog has much information on the internals of anime production. This article answers some questions about the production committee model: https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2017/05/02/what-is-an-animes-pr...
What’s funny is that a lot of modern parents think the latter option is ridiculous.
That has to be out of the norm. I’ve only heard of kindergarteners needing a guardian.
FYI: s/running in the black/running in the red/

[0] https://languagesystems.edu/history-of-idioms-to-be-in-black...
I used to walk or take the bus, even in elementary school. I am not sure at what point parents decided they must take their kids to school. We did have parents dropping kids off and it was busy but not like it is now. I know then, at least to me, there was a sort of an air about about seeing kids being picked up or dropped off because they didn't have to ride the bus. Maybe that's it, parents gave in to not wanting their kids to feel less about themselves because they had to ride the bus?
What's more ridiculous is someone probably sued them and they were forced to do something asinine like that as CYA.
500 manually driven cars and 500 robocars take the same space. Building schools, cities, and communities in the US that are pedestrian based is the only real solution. The author summarizes as "We need to thicken up our places, slow down cars, and install pedestrian or biking infrastructure" which I couldn't agree with more.
>once they drive it…

No, and saying that makes me think you never tried. Its a fun rocketship. External size, being shaped specifically to kill pedestrians, cracking plastic fantastic components, weight related accelerated wear, falling off panels and finally nazi association are its main problems.
Why do transit agencies keep falling for hydrogen busses? From the perspective of the US, it’s pretty simple:

1. Transit agencies have no way to reasonably validate what the future holds. From the standpoint of today, a hydrogen bus can be expected to replace a diesel bus 1 to 1, while battery electric is a 2 to 1 replacement. This might not be a huge issue except:

2. FTA regulations have strict requirements on how many spare busses may be kept at any time (defined by the ratio of peak vehicle usage vs the size of the overall fleet), doubling the size of the fleet blows this ratio out of the water.

3. It doesn’t matter what BYD offers or what’s possible in China, US transit agencies are required (FTA regs again!) to buy busses made in the US. American manufacturers do have somewhat decent battery electric products, but they are clearly not at the leading edge. With the proterra banktrupcy, there are limited competent suppliers in the market. To a large degree, gillig et al do get to decide what gets pushed into the market.
That, and just let kids walk home. It's good for their muscles.
Just letting the kids out en mass is how my son's school worked until Covid. Then they went to the call out the car as it arrives system as you describe, and they never went back. It is so much worse. Thankfully, my son drives himself to school now so I don't have to deal with it any longer.
I was watching this documentary Happy People, about people who live in the Siberian Taiga (by Werner Herzog, would highly recommend). A man is talking about making a new set of skis, and it shows the incredibly long and careful process of selecting the perfect trees, chopping them down in the right way, treating the wood and so on. He mentions how mass manufactured skis are light and cheap and will work fine for a while, but when one breaks and you're in the Siberian wilderness you can't just go to the store for a replacement. That really stuck with me.

1960s US is hardly Siberia and I don't think any NASA engineers had their heads on the chopping block if their designs failed. But engineering philosophy was still rooted in survival; the primary goal was to make something that wouldn't kill you because it fails.

You hear stories about artisans in the old days refusing work because they don't believe what they're being asked to make is safe or reliable enough for the person asking for it. Maybe it's romanticized and idealized, maybe it's just them covering their ass so they don't get blamed. But that philosophy of personal responsibility not just for making things according to the constraints, but for the outcome too, is something that served society well for a long time before slowly disappearing over the past century or so.

It hasn't left without reason. As the things being made became less key to survival and more key to thrival, as the world became more interconnected and safe, it didn't make as much sense. Just think of how many crazy, inventive concepts we use every day wouldn't have been made if they could only be made to work reliably! Our entire modern existence is based off things that don't work reliably. It's a blessing and a curse.

But when we're exploring the final frontier we need frontier thinking and frontier technology; things that, from the ground up, are built to work first with all other constraints secondary. Unfortunately spaceflight endeavors today must invariably build off the 'good enough, when it breaks just make a new one' foundation that permeates modern design at every level. Even if you want to make something nowadays with the sole purpose of working, as long as you're using any technological advancements made in the past 50 years chances are you're using something that wasn't made with that goal in mind.
Isn’t x^2 a multiplication?
Could you please share your contact details so I can reach out to you for legal assistance if needed?
wish PKD was still alive to write about today man 1984 and mannin the high castle look like jokes lmao
Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Intermediates and Individual Ageing
One interesting application was for maze creation. ChatGPT was not able to code the maze specified in the requirements so I did some googling and found Python code which came pretty close to what I needed. I asked ChatGPT to rewrite it into Java and then I tweaked the result to meet the requirements.
The massive success of Steam points otherwise.
Country of birth, if not a dual citizen
Great article. It wouldn't be that difficult for schools and cities to encourage walking or biking. There are lots of easy things that could be done. My daughter's school doesn't properly clear the sidewalks during winter. The giant parking lot is always immaculate though. They actually renovated and rerouted traffic to make it less safe for pedestrians. My daughter's friend was hit in a crosswalk (with a crossing guard!) by a parent leaving school after dropping her kid off. No penalty to the driver.
Would be much more efficient to assign numbers to the child abductors instead, assuming that they are less numerous than the legitimate families.
"Can I use the same account with several devices?"[1]

[1]: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#can-i-...
They mean cloud backend as in switching one's cloud backup destination from iCloud to a competitor - e.g Onedrive.
Not possible on iOS.
> GC holders are naturalised citizens

Incorrect. GC holders are not "naturalized US citizens" and still need to apply for full US citizenship with the USCIS when they are eligible to do so.
There's a rumor that future desktops will use LPDDR6 (with CAMMs presumably) instead of DDR6. Of course CAMMs will be slower so they might "only" run at ~8000 GT/s while soldered LPDDR6 will run at >10000.