skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me want to make good on a joke/threat to make a Linux distribution that is incapable of displaying animated GIFs. It will also block emojis.
This is why Spack supports external packages. For any package, you can tell spack the prefix where it lives and build with that install prefix instead of a spack-built version:

https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_settings.html#e...

People use this the tell Spack where the system cuda libs or system MPI are.
>These are not independent malicious actors. These are researchers and students at a University.

They wanted to prove that others are too trusting, they got exactly what they wanted: heightened suspicion to things that are normally expected to be done in good faith.

I understand that inside the academic world the status imparted by "researchers and students at a University" is significant and important. For those of us outside the academic world, it's prudent and has no downside for us to drop our perception of them below the floor you'll continue granting them.
I don't think ford will be able to build enough to meet demand. And ford dealers are going to price gouge the crap out of buyers. I have a friend of a friend who is a ford dealer and they are charging quite a bit over for regular F150's because of the chip shortage.
Inspections are pretty cheap at least in the US. Inconsequential compared to the price of the house or any other expense related to buying, really.
How this works in most areas is small amounts of electricity are subsidized and that subsidy goes away the more electricity you use.

Fridge, washing machine, A/C, tv, game console or such - you are probably not paying much.

Running a rack of gpus to mine the latest coin? Running a machine shop? Well, your cost is gonna start climbing.
In a modern social media world, it's generally a pretty bad idea to make over the top controversial statements even if they have a context and you don't intend them to be taken seriously. And it's probably worth noting that in this case, it became an issue because the person in question wrote them in a published book and was being hired for a fairly high-profile position. But it can just as easily be some 20-something who posts something on Twitter (or gets captured for YouTube)that goes viral, given they're essentially disposable from the perspective of their current (and potential future) employers.

And I don't even blame the companies. They're just looking out for their own interests and individual current or potential future employees have pretty much zero weight as balanced against any public PR hit.
Such opinions on the cryptocurrency threads tend to come from biased/invested sources who want to either whitewash or ignore it, very few even try to justify it, just dismiss concerns.

It's not measly, it's enough for entire countries of many millions of people. Most countries in fact. That you seek to cast it as "measly" shows that you also are simply seeking to dismiss or whitewash, rather than take the issue seriously.
Summarized at https://www.thedrive.com/news/40675/electric-2022-ford-f-150...
Yes, of course, but it's an article for English language speakers published by the BBC, so it's written in terms of English being the native language. Perhaps there's an analogous article written in some Spanish publication for Spanish speakers.

In any case, English is the most popular second-language in 55 countries, so it's not a bad guess to write this article in terms of English.
And it's always fun to remember ARM's second explosion: Nintendo. For a while, the most popular device using ARM was the Game Boy Advance.
Ah, got it. No, I was suggesting that IPFS may be a legitimate option here.
I don't trade time for money.
A pyramid scheme implies there's future payments to be expected if one were to aggressively recruit people into the scheme. A Ponzi scheme implies there's a central orchestrator extracting value out of the scheme and keeping it functioning just well enough to maximize personal profits before it all crumbles down.

There's no such central authority with Bitcoin and there aren't further expectations of payment either- value fluctuates but you're always going to have the same amount of coin unless you personally do anything about it. If Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme, then every penny stock is also a pyramid scheme.

I do wish these kind of posts that appeal to the lowest common denominator were less prevalent on Hacker News, as they're particularly found whenever there are big price swings so it's nakedly obvious what they're truly about.
This counts as a paper? "These considerations on efficacy and effectiveness are based on studies measuring prevention of mild to moderate COVID-19 infection; they were not designed to conclude on prevention of hospitalisation, severe disease, or death"
I suspect if mild COVID is prevented, then people are not going to hospital or dying.
Looks interesting. I saw that training data is available, but didn’t see any pre trained models, etc.

We talked about trying to do this at my last job.
Just from a code quality process standpoint, that’s an interesting result. Now I’m wondering what would happen if you picked a set of 150 random kernel patches and told 80 reviewers to re-review them assuming they could be malicious. I bet you’d find quite a few fixes.
Please don't shit on Tesla for being the first car company to actually fix bugs. I've worked in automotive infosec, and it SUUCKS. Before Tesla, security issues were dealt with by layers threatening to sue the shit out of anyone who publishes anything. What Tesla did moved the industry forward by decades. I never worked at Tesla, but were I was at, we were all super grateful that they finally set the precedent to take security seriously.
I guess the fact that's it's electric is a good step. But it seems insane to me that we don't do more to discourage massive consumption of what should be utility vehicles. I'm willing to be 80% of people buying an f150 or similar never have been and never will be building contractors or lumberjacks.
Last words of 10 famous people that were meant as jokes
The perfect vehicle to let everyone think I have a complex about the size of my penis.
it doesn't though. The reasons why it's kept as store of value are historic, and its real world usage is a side show that can't really justify its speculative value. It represents something that globally people believe in. Most of the gold is not held physically.

NFTs are status symbols, but i haven't seen bitcoin worn as jewellery yet. In any case, if people could use bitcoin to paint their house, its value wouldn't go up
RSAC: The Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques
Much earlier in my life I spent a lot of time hunting and fishing, and the philosophy expressed in this book offered me a calmer perspective that I sorely needed at that age.

I haven't thought about it in years, it's surprising and quite nice to see it on the front page of HN. It's a mixing of my past and present worlds that I wouldn't have expected.
I heard the following quote in a youtube piece† outlining what happened, and thought it was interesting and relevant to this disaster: "Energy providers are paid for what they produce, not how reliable their production is."

This kind of policy benefits solar and wind power, which are not reliable (without storage), but it hurts the consumers when abnormal weather hits.

And with how the Ercot energy market works, being unreliable can actually be profitable, since it drives the prices of what you are producing up past the generation shortfall.

Quite the mismatch between what behavior is needed, and what is rewarded.

† https://youtu.be/08mwXICY4JM

EDIT: Accuse wind and solar of not being reliable on HN (even with the storage caveat), and you're punished. But it's true. It happened here. Wind turbines were shut down. Solar panels were covered in snow. They didn't have storage attached to make up for these shortfalls.

Even a nuclear power plant went down due to problems with its water supply.
> That's the question everybody should be asking.

Yes I agree, but at the same time it is also true that you could be that guy.

If Bitcoin turns out to actually be used in the wild in the long term, for asset storage or otherwise, you will be the one missing out.

Basically, Bitcoin and other crypto investment right now is all about FOMO. If it's gonna be important for many people in the future the valuation that it has now is nothing and could easily double many times.

I have just a tiny amount in bitcoin and eth to be frank. I am not sure I believe in the crypto space or not and so far I have missed a great opportunity because I was being too negative.

Honestly, stock investments is basically the same thing. If you invest early, you may get a big reward but the risk is greater that it won't amount to anything. The same is true for crypto.
I wrote the article on stunnel encryption.

NFSv3 was strictly numeric uid/gid, but this is not the case with NFSv4.

It is still best to keep uid/gid values synchronized, but there are idmapd processes that negotiate permissions between client and server.

Examine the output of "man idmapd.conf" for details. It even does LDAP.
Given the recent work to design a 'clockwork' rover for Venus exploration[0] I could see some utility for mechanical circuits in harsh environments like Venus, or helping in the event of a nuclear meltdown like Fukashima Daishi, or other environments particularly antagonistic to electronics.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27164195
Very interesting, thanks for the response!
I have depression and anxiety and the pandemic ended up helping me a lot. Yeah, the isolation sucked, but it did help my anxiety a bit when I stayed to myself.

During that time of reduced anxiety, I was able to introspect a bit more without external stressors and was able to identify some trauma that led to the depression and anxiety -- something that I wasn't even aware was affecting me.

I really don't know how to actually deal with said trauma, so I'll be going to therapy for that, but I think the lessons I learned and the benefits I gained will stick with me since I'm taking concrete steps to deal with it now that I've identified a problem.

Without the year long pause we all went through I'm not sure I would have had the time to sort through my brain so thoroughly.
What happened in Texas was Sum of all fears. Every type of energy production failed, and entire state from Dalhart to Del Rio were under winter storm at the same time.

The core issue is whether to winterize the infrastructure or not, in 2011 North Texas was effected by rest of the state did not have to endure cold front, that was thought to be once a generation thing. (Remember the cold snow superbowl in DFW in 2011?).
How would you know if they were the consequence?
Micro-Optimization Is Stupid (2009)
People knew this too - and so navigating by landmarks was much more common.

Some cities are setup so that with most addresses you can pinpoint almost exactly where it is in the city. Seattle’s a good example of this.

Also if you think of most taxi trips they will either be to a major location (hotel, airport, restaurant) or to a place personally known by the rider (house, work).
A heavy estate tax is a good idea. A wealth tax is even better, as there's no good reason to wait until the wealthy die to tax them based on their wealth.
> For the same reason you trust an auditor and accountant hired by Tesla to produce quartely earnings report - they are on the hook if they lie.

“On the hook” has different meanings when you have the enforcement power of the US federal government and criminal courts versus an individual who has to cough up tens of thousands for lawyers in civil court.
We need a spent fission rod party, which when I write it down reads like "fishing rod" which could cause a lot of confusion later.

In any case, spent uranium, solar and wind is the way forward regardless.
Ha, thank you :)
I think this is a tell that Abbot is bought and paid for. This is what corruption looks like.
I hope the ability to use your EV battery to backup your house power becomes an expected capability in the future. Glad Ford included it. Too bad Tesla backed away from it, i’m guessing due to their powerwall business.
Tax everyone for making anything. And if a country doesn't sign up, tax their imports.

Also means they're all incentivised to invent cheaper ways of cleaning the planet.
I'm shocked AND stunned.
I'm sure this image is heavily photoshopped, but it looks like they're trying to make a center console that's half touch screen, half physical controls. I wonder what that will look like in reality.

https://www.ford.com/is/image/content/dam/vdm_ford/live/en_u...
It's great to see the best selling vehicle in the US be zero emissions. It's wonderful.

But this truck will be very heavy, very tall, and very fast. Drivers are already the leading killers of children, and more and more people are being killed while walking and cycling.

I'm very worried about the effect of making this vehicle even faster and heavier. Hopefully reduced deaths from pollution offset this.
Folks I know that have owned Ford vehicles in the past few years have done nothing but complain about issues with electrical subsystem and accessory breakdown. I'd be very wary of buying a Ford period, much less one that relies entirely on electricity to move.

Not FUD, as I have no dog in the fight and personally don't care if anyone else buys one, but its a make of automobile I avoid.
You are correct, and here's a citation for your assertion: https://danluu.com/car-safety/ .
> Many (like me) don't care.

Not everyone can afford to not care. You probably make a lot of money :-)
> I'll keep my very efficient Audi diesel car (79g/km CO2) for now thanks.

Diesel exhaust is a concentrated source of sub-micron teratogenic particles.

You're increasing your family members' cancer risk. Against this you have a made-up fantasy.

There is every reason to believe Li-ion vehicle batteries will be recycled as effectively and safely as lead-acid vehicle batteries.
Storytel's Audiobook Library Is Headed for Spotify Later This Year
For anybody wondering what seL4 is, here's the whitepaper[0].

[0]: https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf
>that will never see Linux installed.

Right up until you see someone run Doom on it.
Running a service isn't hard.

Going a year without any sort of outage is. For example, if you're just serving from one place, any network outage between the users and that place will be an outage -- seamless failover is pointlessly hard and very few shops do this for their internally-hosted services.
The batteries do not tend to spontaneously combust. In vehicles there is much greater danger of physical damage causing a fire, and even there the incidence rate is a fraction of ICE fires. In a proper housing in a commercial/residential installation the risk should be far less than, say, having a car in your garage.
Almost a decade ago I walked into an interview with a music tech company I had known forever, while coming down off of a 3 day weekend rolling molly (mdma) with some girl I’d met while playing a gig whose name I never knew.

I probably should have put it off, but the tech stack was exactly my expertise and I knew they were using some tools I had developed.

I aced the first two interviews. Then the 20 year old kid came in and asked me to code the two glass ball challenge. I was a bit insulted, no big deal, right?

Wrong. Instantly I had the worst panic attack of my life. I just looked at the guy, started sweating and walked out of the room.

My bike was in the hallway and I had to get out of there so fast I literally road it down the hall, down the stairs and out the door without dismounting.

I can still hear his freaked out, apologetic voice timidly saying “I’m so sorry, did i do something wrong?”
The Texas Legislature, which meets every two years, is wrapping up a session right now. To get a sense for how the Legislature has prioritized addressing the grid failure relative to other issues, and what they propose to change, see this list of pending bills at the Texas Tribune: https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2021/permitless-carry...
"Decoding the language of plants and flowers has been a decades-long challenge. But that changes today. Thanks to great advancements in artificial intelligence, Google Home is now able to understand tulips, allowing translation between 'Tulipish' and dozens of human languages."

https://www.blog.google/products/home/google-tulip/
California facing drought crisis as water shortages mount, fire danger escalates
KubeCon Panel: The Edge Won’t Make a Decentralized Internet
I've never been one of those things, but they're still useful. I had an F150 for a while that I only used to transport things like mulch or helping friends move or moving myself.

I still have an old Ranger that I use for those purposes today.

It seems insane to assume you can be the judge of what's "useful" or "utility".
Sorry, I thought I was clear that the risk profile of the elderly precluded private insurance as being an option.

The elderly would get better care if more hospitals and doctors accepted it; there are several ways to achieve this with, I suspect, mixed results.
Yeah we've just gone past my level of understanding :)

I should probably learn about the information theory aspects here, they seem quite ... derived.
The aspect I'm most curious about is towing range. I have a 5000lb travel trailer that I tow about 200km away a few times a year. I'm pretty sure I'd be out of luck with a vehicle like this.

It has the ability to pull the trailer with ease, but most preliminary estimates are that range would be two digits with that sort of load. In my current vehicle I do stop for gas midway, but it would be an entirely different situation hoping for a charger spot (with connected trailer) and then the time to charge.

Still a great truck, though. For a huge range of uses, including more local towing situations (the vast majority of commercial uses), it could be brilliant.

And eventually they can market a super-range battery you can tow. I kid...or do I?
I have heard co-workers curse, myself included.
I think this is because video codecs superseded everything else. An MP4 file is going to be roughly the same size as an apng, while enjoying hardware acceleration on a lot of devices out there.

There's still the weird niche of lossless compression where apng or webp would be preferred.
Why even say this? Every single car company has a bunch of users who hate them.

This has nothing to do with your random friends hating Ford lol
It already exists in the electric mustang, and looks exactly like that.

Go to 10:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4n5iPqxpaw
This interface is already in production in the electric mustang. The buttons are all touchscreen, with the exception of the physical center wheel which is embedded in a hole in the screen. The photo on this article may be helpful: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/02/im-obsessed-with-the-ford-...
Unfortunately compact pickups aren’t really a thing any more.

As a homeowner and a parent this would be a great vehicle for me — having the utility of a truck bed.

Not everyone that owns a home does work on it themselves but trucks are very useful. Today my only options are rent a truck or put a trailer hitch on my van and pull a trailer when I need to haul stuff. That’s so much more hassle.
I'd love to audit your life and make sure you also aren't using any more resources than are absolutely necessary.
In many places people can make the choice to bicycle. That they don't choose it is why so few places have infrastructure for bicycling.
It has a giant battery in it. It already takes 150kw to charge it that fast.
> With that said, this illustrates death gasps of a dying ideology.

Ideology or party?
Only companies that hire H1B have to do those filings, AFAIK. Lots of companies don't hire H1B because it's a lot of work.
Humans emit recycled CO2

Cars emit new CO2
I have mainly French sources:

1. The article was in Le Figaro: https://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/des-substances-nocives-r...

2. It talks about a study by Generation Future (not familiar with them). The actual paper is in French, but a bunch of references have English titles and seem to be in English: https://www.generations-futures.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/0...

3. In particular, there's a reference to a Danish law enacted last year (in English): https://www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk/english/SiteCollectionDocu...

4. UFC Que Choisir (French consummer-watchdog-like organization): https://www.quechoisir.org/action-ufc-que-choisir-test-sur-l...
value is "decentralized store of value". if you don't believe in that ok but then you maybe think that banks magically exist without using any energy.
Yes, this is considered a problem, but not a disaster.

As wind blades multiply and start to age out, this is already being worked on very strongly in the composites industry, and there are major breakthroughs[e.g., 1,2]. This should not be a disaster in the future

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/04/26/a-scottish-university-finds-n...

[2] https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1716110/vestas-deve...
Thing is....it is until it isn't. The idea of a fully decentralized currency outside of the power of any Federal Reserve is incredibly exciting, it's no wonder the current PTB are attacking crypto with every angle they can think of. OTOH, the current high fluctuation in crypto prices make it worthless as a currency since nobody wants to be the guy that would have been a millionaire had he not paid bitcoin for a pizza 3 years ago.

The upshot of this whole situation is that many people outside of tech circles are now buying crypto as a form of lotto ticket, except when the dust settles, a bunch of people will be holding crypto that they want to use. It's possible the current gold rush will help crypto go mainstream.
Yellow is Snap's incubator for small startups. I don't think that the bad experience the parent commenter had is typical, and from what I've seen of Yellow it seems very well-run. Perhaps the parent might have misinterpreted things to be different than they are and I'm sorry they had a bad experience.
Look into it before posting insult, perhaps? Its reasonable, arguable, and probably right.
I think it matters policy wise. If you have folks trying to put out false information and it emboldens politicians to change policies, good choices become very difficult.
This is also my perspective, that living things are fundamentally machines which externalize entropy, and the processing of information is crucial to this task. The task of living is that of using information to harvest order out of entropy, much as maxwells daemon .

Of course this increases overall entropy, only conserving order locally....so you could also think of life as a “fire” that burns order out of imperfectly disordered systems.
you do you.
Wait, so you're against cars? I am confused as to what any of that has to do with the new electric F-150.
When health records are held by ransomware, patients are last to know
I used sarcasm to make the same point: life is not a Disney movie.

Why was the bicycle, a very simple machine, invented 100 years after the steam engine, a very complex one? My theory: the idea of auto-motion had to be invented first. I imagine, the inventor of the bicycle must have observed a moving train and though: hey! like those levers, my legs could move a wheel as well. Eureka!

The blockchain is a very, very powerful idea, the application as decentralized, untraceable currency is powerful as well, even though we clearly understand the pitfalls. But the idea is already there, with real life applications, with many advantages.

For this particular case, I think we better fix/improve infosec rather than hunt down cryptos.
What is Pinboard and what does it have to do with Bitcoin?
Maybe critical systems shouldn't have wireless transceivers (especially Bluetooth, the implementations seem to be full of bugs and CVEs.)
Data61 drops world-class seL4 security team
Tesla is fucked.