skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to ask, haven't there been several reports of LTE/5G protocols being compromised, making the worst-case scenario one script-kiddie away from major disruptions?

Why would they even contemplate building on a compromised foundation or worse yet, accelerating a roll-out? Since most of the tech from last century was built on trust models/trusted environments, waiting for a clean rewrite sounds like a better plan .

I personally hope we see them build new 21st century cities and dedicated autonomous highways to grow driverless technology, instead of trying to overlay it on the existing horse and buggy infrastructure with time-period correct code/models.

The world doesn't need any more digital diarrhea on its plate.
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That article describes a systematic design defect of Tesla’s system. (It’s a defect that all camera based systems have. They are designed to ignore stationary objects because they can’t adequately distinguish background objects from obstacles.) Car and Driver tested this last year, and the Tesla ran into the stationary dummy nearly every time. This is something humans have almost no problem dealing with.
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Have fun in your anglocentric world then. I don't think you have sympathy towards users for whom monospaced fonts do not work for their language, ASCII can't encode all the code points in their language.

Rendering speed hasn't mattered since years ago. Browsers can render megabytes of pure text (hours of reading material) in seconds. LaTeX can typeset hundreds of pages in seconds.
The feminist movement managed to make femininity almost a swear word. Fascinating and very sad. As a male, I was always turned off by unisex products. I wonder how much profit these big companies make with this new marketing strategy. Is it really profitable, or are they just changing their products to avoid public shitstorms, hoping that the shitstorm avoided would have been even worse?
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I mean, arguably ES6 and TS are as close or closer to being "the same language" than ES6 and Babel targets.
what would be better validation signals?
Can you be more specific? I'm trying to better understand this approach.
This is pretty great, the edit script is always two steps.

1. delete left

2. insert right
As of the 2000 series, AMD uses the same model as Intel. Their "105W" processors will draw up to 141.75W while boosting, their 65W processors will draw up to 88W while boosting, etc etc.

It is, of course, always more of a generalization than a precise measurement, but AMD and Intel are now generalizing roughly the same thing. Both brands will exceed specified TDP while boosting.
This would be true, but in practice I sign up with a brand new email address each time.

I am certainly missing out on loyalty / reward points, but I don’t travel often enough for it to matter.
> If 10% of the cars are self-driving, to a first approximation there will be 10% less drunk drivers.

It seems unlikely that people who buy/use early self-driving cars have the same percentage of drunk driving as the general population. Surely employment rates would be a factor, for example.
The claim was that Tesla’s system is not safer, and that only level 4 would increase safety. I asked if data supported those two independent claims.

I’m ok if we assume that things are unsafe before we have evidence they are safe, but that’s not the same as declaring they are unsafe without evidence.
You’ve got the 2 backwards.

You get about a quarter as much palladium as you did per dollar than you did 10 years ago.
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Signs currently point towards Intel skipping the chiplet-on-interposer model AMD is currently using and going directly to 3D stacking i.e. dies directly on top of other dies.

They did a paper launch of their "Foveros" 3D stacking technology and "Lakefield" Architecture this year, which is clearly still in very early stages, and also tellingly announced at their investor meetup. It will probably be some years before we see any real chips with this.

AMD is speculated to go with a combined model (chiplets, but stacked cache on the IO Die) with Zen 3/4 and then go full 3D for Zen 5 or so.
> This [plot # 2] view wasn’t very useful

I disagree. It shows that far more gender-neutral or boy names become significantly more popular as girl names, compared to the other way around. That's pretty interesting.

This conforms to the idea that a boy with a girl's name (or other girlish attribute) is bad, whereas a girl with a boy's name (or other boyish attribute) is not as bad, or is even good.
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“Each nuclear power plant employs 500 to 1,000 workers. Nuclear worker salaries are 20 percent higher on average than those of other electricity generation sources.” 40 mill x 50 years = 2 Billion dollars just for wages. https://www.nei.org/advantages/jobs"

Yes, if you multiply things by 50, you get large numbers. Note, however, that $40M per year for a plant generating 2200 MW day in day out (well, let's say 90% of the time) results in $40M / (2200 MW * 0.9 * 1 year) = $0.002 per kWh, that is, 1/5th of 1 cent per kWh in employees cost. I say that's really cheap.

> As giant complex mechanical systems over time moving components like pumps and turbines need to be replaced.

Same is true for all kinds of power plants. You need to compare the costs between all for a sensible comparison. It's fun to make all these calculations by yourself, but fortunately, there's already a metric for that, called levelised cost of electricity (LCOE). It's basically the total lifetime cost of a facility (construction, operation and decomissioning) divided by total amount of energy produced. As you can see in [1], LCOE of nuclear easily beats solar, and matches wind plants, which suffer from the disadvantage of only producing electricity when the wind blows. If you didn't have option of base load fossil or nuclear plants, you'd have to build storage for wind and solar, which would make their LCOE jump through the roof.

Look, it's clear that nuclear isn't free, so yeah, you really need to spend a billion on fuel and another on wages over 50 years. More importantly, though, over those 50 years you'll produce $50 billion worth of electricity. Just look at the published LCOEs, and consider how much they'd have to go up for solar & wind if we couldn't fall back on fossils and nuclear.

In future, if we ever manage to get off fossil fuels, the way we do it will be nuclear for base load along with some amount of wind and solar (though not much, due to environmental concerns that will make it very hard to build significant amounts of wind and solar). As I hope is clear for you, it most definitely will not be wind & solar + batteries, and no nuclear.

[1] - https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f25/LCOE.pdf
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Why would people be willing to give up their fundamental rights so easily. Isn't free speech mainly about invalidating what is false or immoral through discourse?
The filmmaker fuses east/west as a gimmick, China's ability to survive is more structured. Etc. Well written comment, but too bombastic for my taste. I give this comment 3/5 stars.
Doesn't seem obvious to me. FSD using affordable sensors seems like an unsolved problem, and I haven't heard a convincing proof that it is or isn't solvable.

Did high accuracy OCR without AGI seem possible before it was developed?
Another issue with CJK is vertical right-to-left writing:
https://www.w3.org/International/articles/vertical-text/

It's pretty popular with japanese novels/manga and traditional chinese but really hard to do without bugs on the web.
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IT company with ties to Trump won a $33M govt contract, other bidders not happy
There is regulation for political ads in almost any medium. I don't see why Facebook is exempt from that.

The anger towards Facebook is easy to understand as they categorize Breitbart News as "trusted" in their News section.
> We’ve seen the opposite phenomenon happen in every market.

Not really? If buffalo wings are like a man's name, or men's pants, the same trend would be for women to adopt those things (which we do). Similarly, if you market only towards women, it is seen as somewhat shameful for a man (and sometimes, even for a woman) to purchase that good.
They're more popular with beginners because they're more expressive and simpler to reason about.

I find naming types to be a major pain. In complex projects, you often end up with multiple types that are almost the same but have a few attributes different. In reality these are the same type, it's just not supposed to have a single fixed schema.

For example, how would you model a tadpole which develops into a frog with a statically typed language? Do you need two different types for this? What about all the awkward intermediate states between tadpole and frog? How do you model those? Do you really need to create multiple different instances in the code to represent that one entity?
Passmark is a really bad benchmark.

Real-world test with mitigations:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-99...

Or https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-3700x/22.html

9700K is still solidly faster in per-thread performance. Having SMT gives the 3700X a boost in total performance though. The 9900K beats all the 8C Ryzens (including 3800X) and beats the 3900X in per-thread performance but loses in total performance (of course).
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I find myself sometimes wanting for this. Sharing +/deltas with those you're in the trenches with day in, day out seems like a valuable thing. The current lack of precedent at my workplace is my main blocker.

Is this a good practice to introduce, and do y'all know if this is common practice anywhere?

Thanks!
Blog post about shhgit: https://darkport.co.uk/blog/ahh-shhgit!/
.... so you’re encouraging people to store files they want to keep, something called “trash bin”.

What could possibly fucking go wrong?
Those numbers are useless for concluding anything about what would happen if you remove the human completely, there are videos that show how the human intervened and saved the car from certain crash and I this situation should be counted as "Deaths" for the AI only column.

Driving assistants would improve safety certainly, but removing the driver and letting the assistant drive will need real world like tests, for now maybe you could have an independent group monitoring a number of Teslas and checking each time a human intervened and give a score on how bad the AI was.
Yes, talking about corporations avoiding taxes is the same as talking about Mexicans and refugees coming to destroy your country. You really need a dose of nuance.
> While spending a lot of time with monospace fonts and mostly ASCII characters (programming and writing, terminal emulators, IRC/mail/MUDs/feeds in Emacs) and working on a hobby project involving text rendering and selection (with potentially proportional fonts and Unicode), I keep wondering whether it's even worth all the trouble.

Yeah... and that's why FireFox & Eclipse still doesn't get CJK character input right.
The percentage of people that must use characters not included in ASCII is much bigger than people who do.
It is worth the trouble, please consider users outside of the US & England.
I grew up around cracking and the software piracy scene on the Commodore64 and Amiga so I write UltraSPARC assembler for fun (and profit, since I've always been able to utilize my knowledge and insights when landing job gigs). Does pouet.net tell you anything?

50% of servers in my basement data center are SPARC based.
Assuming what you say is true, is the Tesla system worse than a human driver overall in its operating domain?

Humans have weaknesses too. What do the data say on their relative performance? I’m not taking a position here, just asking for data.
I don't understand the comparison with Ruby. Go, as a language, is underpowered by design. Ruby is "overpowered".
Ruby should better be compared with Kotlin and Swift.
Doing this would add an extra “owner” to carfax history, lowering the value of the car. As a dealer this would be a huge deterrent to me.
9980XE can run closer to 35K physics score (Physics is the only part of Firestrike that actually tests primarily the CPU).

3950X is going to be good at productivity but Intel is still faster per-core and the 10980XE packs in 2 more cores. It's also more expensive, of course - there's a place for the 3950X here, just don't expect to see the 3950X handily best a 10980XE despite being short by 2 cores.

The 3950X is just a 3900X with more cores, and we already know Zen2 pretty much just matches Intel in the best case and loses in many other cases. There is not enough architectural lead there to account for a (32,082 / 25,838) x (18/16) = 39.6% per-core performance lead in favor of AMD. Guaranteed.

It's an erroneous test. It happens a lot with pre-release leaks, Zen has had a lot of timer bugs at launch. Or it's an LN2 run on the 3950X and an engineering sample 10980XE, or something like that.

In a more realistic set of tests, with a 50% core deficit and mitigations enabled, Intel's geomean score is 6% lower than AMD's. They're not 40% behind AMD in per-core performance.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-99...
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This implements the WPF-esque grid model, as mentioned. Does anyone know of a performant grid-based ncurses library?
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> I don't think you have sympathy towards users for whom monospaced fonts do not work for their language,

I do, that's one of the reasons I'm trying to handle Unicode and proportional fonts in the first place. Given the circumstances, it is indeed preferable to do so, but given that it's basically encoding of approximated sounds (well, potentially information in general) on a 2D plane, it is a rather complicated (both code-wise and computations-wise) way to achieve such a task.

> Rendering speed hasn't mattered since years ago. Browsers can render megabytes of pure text (hours of reading material) in seconds.

Chrome only started using "complex path" for English texts a few years ago, employing mentioned word cache. Rendering megabytes of text in seconds is indeed achievable (especially if the words are cached, and it's not megabytes of integer sequences), but still complicates the rendering, and still slower than to open and navigate through the same megabytes of text in, say, less or vim, or even links -g. It's not an issue if you don't have to do it (or to use a program where it wasn't optimized well), but if you do, it is.

Edit: added a reply to the second part.
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That link does not provide data either way. In fact it explicitly declares its inability to do so:

“Cars driven under traditional human control are currently involved in approximately 1.18 fatalities for every 100,000,000 mi (160,000,000 km) driven.[3] According to many automotive safety experts, much more data is yet required before any such clear and demonstrably higher levels of safety can be convincingly provided”
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"Phoenician" and "phonetics" aren't etymologically related; the latter is etymologically related to "phone", as in sound.
Problems like that have technical solutions. You phase in updates over time. A hundred vehicles a day for the first week after release, then a thousand a day, then ten thousand a day and so on. That way if there is a serious bug, you find it when it's running on hundreds of cars rather than hundreds of millions.
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Funny that this depends on the Heroku scheduler to work. Why not just throw a curl command in the Heroku scheduler like everyone else? I can’t think of a reason to use this when you have cron and a bash script with a curl command in it.

Or pay $7 a month to get a hobby dyno... you cant possibly need 24x7 uptime if you can’t afford $7 a month.
Perhaps the fault of my description. It is really simple. They payment process with BLIK (the mobile payments system) boils down to: select you want to pay with BLIK on the merchant's site[0], type a six digit number into a box, press OK, press OK on the phone. An extra speed bump is involved with knowing what number to type - it's a randomly-generated token with 3-minute expiry time; to get it, you need to login to your bank's app. All the apps I use (perhaps all of them in Poland) offer a simplified login flow here anyway; for me, it's "click the bank icon, click BLIK, type 4 digit PIN, see the six-digit token".

It really is fast and easy[2] enough that it's become my default payment method in Poland, but honestly, prior to that, I kept going through the slightly more involved flow described in [0]. I really don't like giving my card details out, especially that at least three large e-commerce sites I did give those details to can pull money out of my account with zero confirmation or notice beyond me clicking the "buy!" button on the site, so I assume a criminal with access to that data could do it too (and it's a debit card, so I can't exactly do a chargeback).

--

[0] - Or with one of the intermediaries[1] that you know handles it, which without mobile payments I'd be using anyway. The intermediary lets you turn what would be "give your card details to the merchant/payment processor" flow into "login to your bank directly through your bank's login page to just authorize a transfer request from one of your accounts" one. The nice thing about it is that a) it's faster (I remember my bank credentials, not my card number), b) the whole is is PUSH, not PULL - I send them money, c) it's not tied to a card; I can pay from cardless accounts, and d) the merchant doesn't get my card number or account details. The UI flow is simple too, there's a string of redirects and prefills that make a payment with the intermediary just a few clicks, a login, and some 2FA thrown in the middle.

[1] - Like these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayU.

[2] - And safe! When you can get improvement on all three of the trade-off triangle, it only shows how much the older system sucks.
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In a dynamic language it's entirely likely you still have those types, but they're just not defined anywhere. You the developer have to validate them in your head.
In most cases just switching the color scheme will slow you down. So going by that, if you spend enough time in dark mode, switching to light will also be slower.
My wife just started learning ui/ux. I think the realtime aspect could help with tutoring.
> Static typing (in any language) is just like training wheels on a bike.

Well, no. It is more like a ABS once you switched from a bike to a car that can go way more than 100kph. In theory, you can take all corners without, but it will be dangerous, you have to do more, and you cannot go quite as fast. And while everyone thinks they understand how it works, its inner mechanism is only understood by specialists.
I agree and think a lot of smart people still don't really comprehend how non-linear the task is. In other words, they believe if a self-driving car handles itself properly in 95% of situations, the final 5% is right around the corner, when in fact the final 5% (often the difference between life and death) may, in all likelihood, take longer to get right than the previous 95%. It's just that much harder to be perfect than to be pretty good.
IME in Poland, they sometimes do, but you have to ask for it specifically (and sometimes they forget). There's probably one spare terminal for the whole group of drivers.
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This is a new change? It's been like that for me ever since I knew of Instagram. You browse two or three images and plop you get a sign up screen.
There's a german cover version: Ein Mädchen namens Gerd (A girl called Gerd).

in 1971 Little Murders (based on the 1966 play) was released (includes a great speech by Donald Southerland) in which the father is named Carol Newquist and constantly says it's a man's name.
This is very helpful, especially the example at the end, thanks. I think the difficult part to understand is that dividing by n leads to an estimate that is somehow too small. The intuition tells you that dividing by n would just give you the true average.
Just like 346 people flying Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines became unwilling parts of a "technical solution". No thanks.
Guy get lucky once and talk like he owns the world.
I think it would have been better to have every body just learn english as their second (computer usage) language.
I'm german and my english was horrible until I switches my computer and my websites to english ones.

Imagine a world where everybody speaks at least one common tongue, we could have so much more peace and understanding.

English becoming the esperanto of the world is an accident but I don't care which language it is, as long as it has less than 255 letters. (Hawaiian would have fit into a nibble which is cool)
> You should pin your dependencies, and updates of everything - including build tools - should be explicit steps in the process.

Yes, and in the not uncommon case where part of the build environment is left unspecified, the untouched code accrues debt over time. As you say, it's possible not to take on that debt by making a significant investment up front. This isn't an argument against the debt metaphor, it's an argument for it.

> Vulnerabilities aren't sins, they are things that can be fine to leave unfixed.

My point doesn't change if you s/vulnerability/sufficiently serious vulnerability/.
In Poland, the lowest you can reliably get from an ATM is 100 PLN (roughly $25, or 3x the pizza's worth). Many ATMs allow withdrawing 50 PLN. Very rarely, you can find an ATM that lets you withdraw 20 or even 10 PLN.

(Also, note that 10 PLN is the smallest bill we have, below that we switch to coins - 5, 2 and 1 PLN. Our ATMs don't handle coins.)
your implied conclusion is that its better to drive doesn't stand up.

You _can't_ drive to central paris. London you're looking at a £15 charge and a time penalty of ~15-45 minutes.
Leaving the tab open for a half hour turned up about five of those, a google oauth key, and what seemed to be an SSL certificate private key, among others.
For anyone who's curious about what quantum computing actually is, I recommend Quantum Computing for the Very Curious [1]. Most articles online either get it wrong in the "free parallelism for everybody!" way that the comic warns about, or just scratches the surface and vaguely indicates that that's not what's going on (like the comic itself does). QCVC was what made me finally feel like I actually had a little foothold in QC land in the sense of slightly understanding what people do when they do quantum computing. It's pretty long but a pretty easy read.

[1] https://quantum.country/qcvc
argparse is a heavily used but somewhat complicated library. I use it in every command line utility I write in python.

I usually search or scroll that page until I get to the feature I'm interested in. I like that it has plenty of examples.
What fits all, fits none. Do one thing and do it well. Meaning: those who need it, need something else.

Also, original point about typesetting stands, even in Thai case.

Also i find it ironic that we care a lot about let's say caret movement, when whole classes of devices are unavailable for the blind.