skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole wisdom of preserving biodiversity can be summarized as "Leave Nature Alone".

There are no Indigenous People with fancy believes systems taking care of Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and the area is doing better than ever in terms of biodiversity despite nuclear disaster. The whole "magic" was to get civilization out of there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...
> in April 2019, Chief Executive Elon Musk said that by mid-2020 Tesla (TSLA.O) would have over a million self-driving vehicles where riders "could go to sleep" during a trip.

This was a lie. It wasn't a mistake, or a "complicated and contradictory view". It was something that was clearly false, said by someone in the best possible position to know that it was false.

Journalism that tries to soften that is just indirect soft-touch PR. Despite the article mentioning multiple times that Tesla has "walked back" similar claims - something that happens so frequently that it can't really be omitted - the overall tone of the article is still far too accepting of Tesla's overall narrative.
Spotify Cross-Browser Extension
Did they finally manage to render a nice UI for mac Retina displays?
This central bank says it's prices going up. https://www.rba.gov.au/education/resources/explainers/inflat...
> Since when do other languages compile C header files?

I dunno, I never claimed that.
Absolutely; I consider GIFs autoplaying to be a bug—unfortunately a bug that would be rather difficult to fix.
Ever heard of UNIX?

Naturally you are being pedantic by focusing on exactly 40 years.
I don't think chip suppliers are playing games here, are they?

I think in general all chip manufacturers are at capacity and it comes down to getting in line. And I'm sure many chip manufacturers are trying to expand their capacity. I can't imagine they're sitting there thinking this will last forever.
How I became the honest broker.

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-honest-brok...
Wow, pure advertisement for a commercial book.
Very cool, I could use something like this as I teach! I was waiting for you to control that BB-8 remotely with your hands though!
You send a job-specification to the Nomad API.

There's different kind of workloads, I use Docker containers the most, but jobs can also run on a system-level, there's also different types of operating modes, some jobs can be scheduled like cron, where other jobs just exposes a port and wants to be registered in Consuls service-mesh.

A job can also consist of multiple subtasks, an example could be nginx + django/rails subtasks that will be deployed together.

You can see an example of a Docker job here: https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/job-specification#example

With a few modifications you can easily allow for blue/green-deployments.
Funny that, when something happens to you and you request footage the usual answer is that camera was broken or it wasn't recording.
Not every project needs to be cross platform.
That is good news for planet earth!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/18/opinion/infla...

"In July, some of these sectors (used cars in particular) experienced a big deceleration in inflation, bolstering the argument"

https://news.yahoo.com/us-used-car-bubble-burst-141009925.ht...

"The price index for used vehicles rose 0.2% in July, after having risen at least 7.3% in each of the previous three months. The category was one of the few, along with hotel rooms and airfares, that drove recent inflation, the economist Paul Krugman pointed out on Twitter. “Combined, these three sectors account for…more than 1/2 [half] of inflation over the past three months,” Krugman wrote. In May, in fact, a full third of the overall price rise was due to the surge in used car prices."
It's so known for its stickiness that a mixture of sugar and boiling water is used by inmates against others. It's known as "prison napalm".
Hydrogen lobby boss quits in row over fossil fuels
You could already just send them CSAM. That is a lot easier than finding a hash collision that also appears to be illegal content when downscaled and viewed by a human.
How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence
A shortage is not inflation
Microsoft pressured ISO to approve their format but NEVER implemented it according to the specification. In the meantime, many governments adopted MSO with the promise that compatibility would evetually be the norm. It never happened.

I don't know if an anti-trust lawsuit is adequate, but governments should ban adoption of proprietary formats entirely.
>> This is the first post that I've had a genuine 'I'm getting old' reaction to..

You're one of today's unlucky 10,000.
There is simple math problem:

You get max 1,400 W/m² from Earth orbit. On Earth 340 W/m^2 averaged over the year.
That's only 4x difference. Gains are not big enough justify space solar.

Even if you compare potential 24/7 electricity potential, nuclear energy would be cheaper.
"Porsche will provide cars with ‘fake chips’ to reduce delivery times"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28042518
Agreed, beyond the casualness it feels like a little hacked experiment right now. Better lighting, background and outfit would make a massive difference in overall vibe in my opinion. I like the idea though
BP says Australia is an ideal place to scale up green hydrogen production
This is very interesting, thanks! I'll give it a go.
We can't grow enough food to support our population without GPS, so either this leads to mass starvation or we go back to 98% of the population becoming subsistence farmers. I'd guess the former - not enough people will be willing to work that hard until it is too late - we are out of food in the middle of winter and thus won't get more for a few months. (it would be possible to force some people to starve in early winter thus saving enough food for the rest)
Less annoying than the tiktok voice somehow.
I know that it is tempting to paste a link to your favorite blog post, but I would like to encourage you to post really life-changing posts. If you post "maybe not" or "not really" maybe refrain from posting? Otherwise it will be just another popularity contest of random blog posts, we have more of them than those from the title I believe. It's okay for the thread to be short.

Not a GP. The opinion is my own.
A friend of mine had the footage of her motorbike being stolen, didn't help much, she never managed to get it back.
Fortune: Biometric solutions, digital ID, are helping streamline pandemic travel
I thought Toyota invented not doing that.
OCaml and Haskell don't have Go's ecosystem in terms of quantity. For F#, can it be compile to a binary like Go? I searched for a bit and couldn't find a good answer. Another thing is that people like to stay in their ecosystems. If you already have a large codebase in Go, internal libraries, etc, switching could be difficult.
Anyone who knows the area is aware of the centuries of tension there, but the current crackdown and ongoing genecide is a recent event. It is not hard to find random articles discussing this tension for decades (originally spun as a crackdown on 'terrorists' starting in the early 2000s and well before the Olympics) but Xi Jinping significantly ramped things up. What you need to do in order to support your claims is show that there were other news organizations that were doing better at reporting the problem or that there were third parties and NGOs that were making claims supported by evidence.
After running vc.com in DosBox I can't wait until "How do I exit VisiCalc?" starts trending on SO.
I still laugh at the fact that we called everything "techno" back then. What is this "repetitive, onntz oontz oontz" stuff. Then it grew on me! I've been a bass head ever since. Shoutout to Wipout for introducing me to FSOL!
Why? Because older, less efficient cars are being kept on the road for longer?
Yes, the HiDPI bug on macOS was fixed in LibreOffice 7.1.2:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138122
Lossless video is a ridiculous idea, but video encoding suffers hard from Jevon's paradox. The demand for video in pixel-hours explodes way faster than coding efficiency increases, and increasing efficiency expands the market even further.

To put it differently, you'll never optimize your way ahead of ten million people watching cat videos.
It could work to have two towers. The first carries the cutting tool. The second carries a measurement device and is subject to negligible forces. Alternatively some form of photogrammetry, possibly with a structured light field.
There is a difference though. Apple is going to scan your device. It's like having a search without a warrant.
https://archive.is/BP5j9

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/YlbqY
What is the alcohol content once fermentation is complete? Is it similar to wine?
Samsung says will stop loading $1000 smartphones with ads
Build a small ring at a Lagrange point using hinged plates. Gradually expand it until its diameter is 2 AU. Spin it slowly to keep it round. Use rockets to move it into position around the sun. Use stabilizer rockets to keep it in position.

Repeat at 90 degrees, 45 degrees, etc until you have a sphere.

You're right that speed-of-light delays make negative feedback control difficult, but it might be possible to have rockets that sense local photon flux on the inner surface of the ring/sphere and fire autonomously when it increases.
I’m not advocating for wearing a mask for life. I am (and have always been) advocating for children to wear masks until vaccines are available for them, which is probably about 2-3 months. You keep changing the discussion to amplify your points. It’s very frustrating and shows the weakness of your argument. You are welcome to have a personal opinion on masks (which you clearly do), but you’ve not convinced me your opinion is worthy of consideration as a health policy.

I don’t hold the same logical axioms as you, no. I don’t believe that minor inconveniences, of which masking is one, are anything more than that. I also believe that most people would sacrifice their quality of life (in a very minor way) to help save the life of another, particularly a child. If this were not true, no one would ever donate blood, work in a soup kitchen etc.

If you come back with some actual data (not your opinion) showing harm from masking kids for 2-3 months, I am happy to continue the conversation. Otherwise there does not appear to be a basis for further rational discussion.
Even professional video production (movies, ...) shoot the raw material in lossy formats, albeit, with minimal compression.

Not even they can afford lossless capture. Because while storage capacities do increase, so does the used video size, bit depth and framerate, and number of takes.
One of those bad ideas that crops up again and again and again. Any multipurpose machine will be bad at all things. You're far better off getting a separate CNC mill, 3D printer, laser cutter, etc. Even if this costs a bit more and takes up more space, you'll have some useful machines.
Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about. In the US for example, almost all of our historical savanna has been replaced by forests. The upper midwest used to be mostly oak savana biome but since the advent of afforestation those areas, mostly regrow as forest. This shift seems most related to eradication of native species which were able to maintain a system at certain level of ecological succession. So maybe without wolves, bison, passenger pigeons, (maybe even mastodon) these ecosystems aren't able to regrow and we instead get a much less biodiverse forest. There is some suspicion this has been the case for several hundred years as oral history from native American tribes suggests they at one time overhunted these resources and afterwards took an active hand in managing some of these ecosystems. However since the native Americans never cleared these areas they may have been in a better position to maintain them (mostly via controlled fires) whereas modern Americans are often starting with farm fields.

Anyways yes, afforestation is happening at good clip but much of it is plantation and a lot of the afforested areas were never previously forest. The same is true in other countries from what I have seen. Even India has massive afforestation but most is agroforestry.

A lot still remains to be seen. It's possible that these forests don't make sense as carbon sinks. Savana systems for local agriculture could be more efficient at mitigating carbon emissions. Nearly a third of land is now used for grazing worldwide and much of the output is shipped internationally.

Like many other systems in nature and otherwise, it's very complex. So I'm not so sure the 90's era practice of reducing deforestation to simple arithmetic is constructive in an era where scientific community is pushing to maximize carbon sinks.
I've worked for a heavy customer of Plaid, and I've experienced the good and bad side of said entities and architectures, and the propaganda used by both sides. Banks say "impersonate", Plaid says something else. I think a reasonable viewpoint could say that you are authorizing Plaid to act on your behalf. Would a bank punish a rich person for having their accountant/finance manager know their credentials and use them in their duties? Would a bank publicly punish someone for storing their bank password in a password manager? How about an online password manager?
Exactly. I can't speak for laser, extruders, knives or such, but for subtractive work (i.e. milling / drilling operations with some form of rotary tool) this design would be an exercise in frustration. Typically, you would have encoders on each axis to tell the machine where things are happening. These encoders are excellent, but any flex/slop in the chassis or moving parts is not caught by the encoder... so the software will not know that the cutter is in the wrong place. Thus, crappy parts. Any reasonably useful CNC design takes rigidity and backlash prevention seriously. Take a look at PocketCNC for a good (and yes, expensive) design.
On one hand, Toyota buys so many chips that their supplier will probably prioritize their orders.

On the other hand, Tesla is tiny compared to Toyota but is probably more flexible and can adapt faster, e.g by using alt chips with new firmware and by using fewer chips per vehicles (to be proven, but we know Model Y has half the number of ECUs of Mach E / ID.4 for instance).

Also, without dealers, Tesla could better manage their build-to-order system and pricing (to push customers towards high margin vehicles and forgo volume growth while the shortage continues)
That's one study I happened to read because it was linked in the article. You're welcome to link to the ones you prefer.

I have to say though that in conversations like this there's nothing easier than to accuse the other person of "cherry picking". I link to one study, you say "Cherry Picking!". You link to a counter-study, I say "Cherry Picking!". And so on.

What's difficult is to accept that there are things we don't know, that data is scarce, that most research results have low statistical power and that lacking solid information at a population level it's irresponsible to promote diets that may cause harm.

Like you sya, a healthy diet (probably) requires many hundreds of nutrients. B12 is one of those. To not advise people to do things that may deprive them of necessary nutrients, is the responsible thing to do.
While not a blog post really, I often times revisit Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture[1] to act as a memento mori[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7zzQpvoYcQ
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
IMO the big draw of running K8S on my home server is the unified API. I can take my Helm chart and move it to whatever cloud super easily and tweak it for scaling in seconds. This solution from the post is yet another config system to learn, which is fine, but is sort of the antithesis of why I like K8S. I could see it being theoretically useful for someone who will never use K8S (eg not a software engineer by trade, so will never work a job that uses K8s), but IMO those people are probably running VM’s on their home servers instead since how may non software engineers are going to learn and use docker-compose but not K8S?

Anecdotal, but anyone I know running home lab setups that aren’t software guys are doing vSphere or Proxmox or whatever equivalent for their home usecases. But I know a lot of old school sysadmin guys, so YMMV.
I'm not sure the reasons for the shortage matter. If you have a dependency that's causing you major problems, you try to become less dependent on it.
Actually, Toyota moved away from JIT after 2011 earthquake when several of it’s factories had to stop production due to lack of parts from other factories impacted by earthquake. One of the change was increased inventory levels of components.

Toyota is one of the last automaker to reduce production due to the current chip shortage, because they had enough chips for 18-24 months of production.

Edit: It seems some of Toyota factories in Southeast Asia have shutdown due to Covid spread in those countries resulting in shortage of parts supplied to factories in Japan. Reported to be 40% reduction in production.
Except when you read the article, then it doesn't.
Earlier today on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28230248

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232068
The speed of light alone is enough to explain it. Aliens cannot get here, and so they don't know we exist. Even if you believe there is life elsewhere, odds are it is far enough away that they cannot detect us (not to mention radio hasn't make it 150 light year yet - which is a much smaller amount of stars).
Almost 39 years by my watch.
> - A website can bring its own DoH client and bypass both the OS resolver and the browser's trusted DoH resolver for anything except the initial page request.

Not sure about that, since it doesn’t sound like simply requesting answers from the DOH server injects the answer into the DNS cache.

And I don’t think this is novel, since anyone could have ran a dns info api before if they really wanted to.
I've noticed that the shortage of chips is also strongly driven by speculators simply buying up everything in sight and trying to resell at multiples of the cost.
Ethereum’s 2014 Premine (2020)
In fall of 2018, I read a blog post by Dan Luu called "The googlebot monopoloy".

https://danluu.com/googlebot-monopoly/

It's a short blog post that I've probably read a thousand times at this point. He wrote about how websites give Google a big advantage when it comes to web crawling and how that big advantage probably makes it harder for other search engines to compete with Google. This was a pretty striking idea to me and there was a lot of talk at the time about antitrust and Big Tech. Dan's post had been written in 2015, so I was sure that a ton of other people, especially DC policy people, already knew about this and were talking about it. Right?

Turns out, basically nobody in DC knew anything about this. A ton of website operators complain about it on their own forums like HN and SEO, it's not hard to find people griping about the cost of Bing's crawlers, but those people never saw fit to tell anybody in DC about this and how it impacts the market for general purpose search engines and gives Google such an advantage. So I started writing down everything that I was finding about Google's web crawling advantage and writing it in a way that policy people could understand these things called web crawlers they had probably never heard much about before.

And, long story short, the policy people were very grateful that I had gotten in touch and explained all this, and I got cited in the Big Tech Antitrust report published by Congress last summer and then featured in The New York Times:

https://knuckleheads.club/we-crawled-our-way-into-the-big-te...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/technology/how-google-dom...

So, Dan's blog post has had a pretty big impact on my life so far and it's not quite done yet. The pandemic has slowed me down this year much more than it did last year, but I'm working on preparing to submit a paper to an economics journal for peer review that lays out the dynamics of web crawling, why Google accrues this advantage and why it matters. I'm very grateful to Dan for writing that post and, as far as career advice goes, I heartily recommend going back every once in a while and rereading everything he has ever written. Who knows what else he's hiding in there?
and what about their smart TVs ?
I've honestly considered this since leaving. Why not do my old coworkers a solid and fix something for them, but then I consider I'd be doing free labor for a company not willing to let its own workers contribute to a project if they can't monopolize the returns from it.
There are a ton of case studies listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption that might be useful.
Hyperloop is canceled because it's bs, that was already known after 1830 (pneumatic capsule system by engineer William Murdoch).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHjrFKfyZrw
This could be greatly simplified (at higher cost) by using linear motors for the cross-slides.

It may even be more rigid than what is there now (though nowhere near rigid enough to do anything real)

The design is actually not unique at all - you can buy much better versions of it (at higher cost, obviously).

Most positioning actuators you can buy are literally built to be attached to each other in a cross-slide configuration, and to have a rotary table attached to it. They also directly sell pre-built cross-slide actuators.

If you just google "cross-slide stepper" or "cross-slide servo", you can see this
(servo/stepper just gets rid of the manual ones, which also exist).

The normal reason the configuration is not used is because it has no meaningful rigidity.
Extracting mass from a star is a lot easier than trying to build a Dyson sphere around it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting

Even without considering what to do with the resultant mass star lifting is just good stellar husbandry for a civilization looking to last.
The question of whether to keep an old car or buy a new, cleaner car is difficult, with many important unspecified variables such as who 'owns' the emissions due to the manufacture of a car (the manufacturer? the first owner? all owners?).

This isn't true for mileage though. If you move closer to work, your commute will emit less.
There's a massive difference. In fact, the data describing the trained model is not at all analogous to a cryptographic key.

A cryptographic key is a piece of information which, as long as it remains secret, should be sufficient to protect the confidentiality and integrity of your system. This means that your system should remain secure even if your adversary knows everything else apart from the key, including the details of the algorithm you use, the hardware you have, and even all your previous plaintexts and ciphertexts (inputs and outputs). If the key fails to have this property, your cryptosystem is broken.

The trained model (or the weights of a NN) does not have this property at all. Keeping the model secret does not ensure the confidentiality or integrity of the system. E.g. just knowing some inputs and outputs of the secret model allows you to train your own classifier which behaves similarly enough to let you find perceptual hash collisions. If you treat your model as a cryptosystem, this would be a known-plaintext attack: any system vulnerable to these is considered completely and utterly broken.

You'd have to keep all of the following secret: the model, all its inputs, all its outputs. If you manage to do that, this might be secure. Might. But probably not. See also Part 2 of my FAQ, which happens to cover this question. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232625
Fool me once Reporting bugs to Apple
they have real hardware and defend it
Ironically, Microsoft Office also fails to render most of my ODP/ODT files correctly, which are open standards. One might infer it's by design...