skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre-covid, I used a bicycle as my main commute method for ~8 years in three different major cities. In my opinion, local bike shops are among the most corrupt and unethical business, and I eagerly await their demise.

I do most of my own maintenance, but for basic things and low cost parts (chains, tires, wheels) my experience is that bike shops lie about the necessity of replacements and bill 2-3x markup for parts, in addition to billing for labor.
Ask HN: I'm looking for programming YT video ideas
Title pretty much says it all. I'm looking for ideas for a 10-30 minute video to make and post to YouTube on Wednesday. Any ideas are much appreciated! Link to the channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF5lqdv89ovbD6rEE-qaESA
I think it's so interesting how this guy asked pretty rudimentary questions and got such an amazing response. I wish the tech community could be just as nice to newcomers.
If the hydraulics failed there was a jack in the cabin. And you would never operate this thing alone. A massive support team would be around you to handle such emergencies. You would be towed out of the danger zone quickly.
Natalie Wolchover is one of the finest science journalists around, especially for physics. You can rely on her.
Hawaii has the lowest coronavirus death rate per capita of any US state and is lower than the US average by nearly a factor of five.
I believe that the major limiting factor in the speed of development of AI is hardware, not software. Now and for the foreseeable future. The most important projects in AI, therefore, are the ones pushing hardware performance as high as it can go, and the people who have the opportunity to write software for that hardware are going to make the fastest progress.

Though Carmack probably doesn't agree with me on this given his statements that "I believe that current supercomputers are actually sufficient for human level AGI" https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1340369768138862592 and "I am provisionally not very interested in custom AI accelerators, because I don't think the extra performance will outweigh the reduced flexibility and immature software compared to GPUs" https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1412897975370719235
I think the Riverdale cover of it is more known among a lot of people.

https://music.apple.com/en/album/mad-world-feat-k-j-apa-cami...

It seems to be the version that they sample from in meme videos on YouTube and TikTok where they try to express a feeling of sadness either in honesty or ironically. Where they put the video in grayscale mode and put the part of this song over it that goes “all around me are familiar faces, worn out places” and so on.

They also use the song The Song of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel for this same purpose.

https://music.apple.com/en/album/the-sound-of-silence/192480...

This latter one is the one that goes “hello darkness my old friend” and so on.
The videos usually have unskippable ads.
That's an incredible arrogant and close minded way to think about software. There are plenty of domains where every extra % of performance matters. Video games, HFT, robotics etc.
Parliament holds Joe Biden in contempt over Afghanistan
> That's why your average physics PhD graduate is typically employed outside of the field they learned and earns less than an average React programmer.

Ha, I used to think that a big chunk of physicists by education are employed outside of the field they learned and earn top 10% salary of the industry doing software in financial companies.

Heard more than once that computer science is easier than physics. Physical background helps hugely with software.
Lyme disease can be treated pretty effectively with penicillin. Maybe instead of blaming the lawyers, we should blame penicillin. :) Sometimes having a safe, low cost treatment prevents the development or adoption of a preventative medicine or vaccine. One can imagine possible parallels to the present.
Taiwan actually rounded up tourists from the mainland and sent them back home, then locked down travel for all. They took it seriously from the start, ignored what the WHO and CCP were saying. I don't doubt there were many more reports from Taiwanese on the mainland, over just the posts by Li.
I tried Rudel a little while ago, and I just had some troubles. Probably my fault. I wasn't nearly as well-versed with Emacs back then.

I just tried crdt.el[^1] and holy crap that's cool. I love that it's all built in Emacs, like, there's no special server I have to run to get this to work. I'm blown away.

I use straight.el[^2] and use-package[^3] for package management; if you want to give crdt.el a whirl, just use this:

(use-package crdt
:straight (crdt :type git :repo "https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el"))

A fun alternative if you're in the terminal is tmate[^4], which is a fork of tmux. That one uses a central server to negotiate the connection though, I believe.

[^1]: https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el

[^2]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el

[^3]: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package

[^4]: https://tmate.io/
But it doesn’t include startups that didn’t apply to sponsor visas in the study, so isn’t that sufficient for randomization purposes?
Me too. Not a huge Mac user, but I use my iPad and AirPods a lot.

I haven't tried them, though the Sony ear buds look like a great option to AirPods: https://www.sony.com/lr/electronics/truly-wireless/wf-1000xm...

As far as the tablet goes... I dunno. I haven't tried an android tablet and I'm not too keen on it. Maybe a Surface? The iPad is damn good at what it does...
Have a look for Razer heatmaps; Razer do in fact run mouse and keyloggers that send your data to their cloud.
Poker chips don't have earnings or pay dividends.
Apparently (and I don’t really have hard sources for this since it’s embarrassing for NATO), in big naval exercises it’s not unusual for run of the mill diesel submarines to penetrate the defensive ring around a US carrier group.

Stealth is a lot easier in water than it is in the air.
> An ad hominem, in this case, is just a mental shortcut to get to the answer you've already picked (i.e., that SpaceX is faultless).

After so much complaining about my "empty" ad hominem "attacks", it's quite ironic to see you putting words in my mouth (thoughts in my head?) that do not fairly or accurately represent anything I've said here.

I am not interested in putting words in your mouth, nor in responding to low quality arguments driven by misrepresentations, rationalizations, and personal attacks. I asked you some simple questions in an attempt to find common ground on the existence of conflicts of interest and their general relevance, and if you can't or won't answer them straightforwardly, there is nothing left for me to say. It's up to you.
The cloud kitchen concept in its current state is cancerous, flooding delivery and pickup apps with dozens (hundreds?) of fake locations serving subpar, overpriced food. Don't even get me started on how places like Applebees are also jumping on this to serve subpar, overpriced meals with false images/advertising (check out the subreddit for delivery drivers, one Applebees can run up to two-three ghost kitchens).

It's adversarial for local, family owned business AND the final output is frankly, quite bad. If the argument here is that these are venues for 'local and minority owned businesses', then the obvious reply is that reasonably dense food halls and centers are already successful i.e. Bow Market in Somerville, MA or some of the Asian food courts in California. You _don't need_ 30 indistinguishable restaurants in one locale flipping frozen meals.

My bet is that someone is going to end up getting killed by one of these due to allergens.
I had to load it in safari because chrome + ublock was blocking all the crap and just showing a greyed out version of the article.

Surprisingly fitting!
I recently went down the rabbit hole of learning about stakeholder theory vs shareholder theory (aka the Friedman Doctrine). Shareholder primacy has been the norm for corporations for decades since the 70s and 80s after Milton Friedman published his essay in favor of it, which is worth reading and understanding:

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...

Essentially his argument boils down to this: stakeholders is a fuzzy undefined term, which allows the executives to use their imagination on who are the stakeholders and what do they really want since there's no voting process, unlike shareholder voting and concretely defined goals of maximizing value for shareholders. As a result, Friedman theorizes that executives essentially become central planners who allocate resources in a less optimal way than what free markets would be able to do. Thus it is argued that governments are better suited for this task rather than corporations.
If your question is specifically referring to the leetcode style coding interviews, this is exactly how Silicon Valley engineering careers work if you want to change jobs.
The funny thing about "classroom environments" is that a good deal of what happens even down to the kindergarten level falls under the exact definition of psychological child abuse. Heck, even a lot of "traditional parenting" does too. I'd say any child is more likely to have some form of emotional trauma or another by the time they come of age than not.
I agree with this for the most part. But just because you use Rust doesn't mean you have no security issues - there are still plenty of ways to go wrong, including integer overflow if you're using "as" conversions instead of checked conversions. But there's no doubt it eliminates a whole class of issues and makes others much less likely (and verifiably so.)

For a greenfield project, you shouldn't use C or C++ today, unless you need some huge big C++ library (e.g. game engine).

For sqlite which has 100% branch coverage and is quite well written, I don't think a rewrite makes sense. You'll surely introduce more bugs, including security bugs, than you fix. The cost seems too high. It'd be better to just fix security issues as they come up (and try to clean up bits of code that could be problematic.)
I find the in-video ads annoying and now they circumvent uBlock.

Current strategy is to turn down the volume and scroll down to the comments / look away for 10 seconds.

Ads are very irritating
The current state exists because the web can't be monetized without it. How is Gemini different? Who will make content for free?
Probably fine.
Oh for sure, I'm just thinking about it from the angle of a battery recall being a swap of the battery pack vs me getting an entirely new car because they can't reasonably change the battery components.
Cones are already, within a specific jurisdiction, a rather specific shade of orange. Except for sunlight, and shade variations, and fog, and dirt, and mud, and snow. An orange cone is easy to detect, visually. The problem is all of the real-world details and complications. If cones are the issue, the first city in the world to be brave enough to issue a requirement that all their contractors use cones that are unavoidably bright to self-driving cars (whatever the specific technology for them to be unavoidable. A discussion of how the shade of orange is/isn't enough, vs a radio marker isn't interesting to me), and will license companies for self-driving cars in that specific jurisdiction, will ride to prominence. Self-driving car companies will move there, and so will tech companies and then.... So Arizona realized this and did that a few years ago. The technology's still not there but it has become some sort of hub. If the Federal government had the bandwidth to do something about it and set standards and work with manufacturers to ensure it was safe along federally recognized guidelines, then.... Okay I'm sure the big players have lobbiests and that they're working with government to do so. The problem is that'll take time and, oh hey, have you seen the news lately? I get the sense the lunch to talk about self-driving cars got cancelled.
You're right, but it's only an issue when the application programmer is using threads. So basically for anyone that is doing CPU intensive work, that can be broken up into chunks, and needs to share memory, and doesn't want to take the time to write their own extension to do that part.

Practically speaking, I/O is usually the bigger bottleneck. Or you can change your algorithm to not share memory, then use multiprocessing, or a task scheduler like celery to spread it over multiple machines.

There are a ton of people who hear about someone running into GIL issues and they think it is affecting them, when they're not doing anything that would be helped by removing it. A JIT compiler on the other hand, would speed up every Python program.
I'm still amazed that https://gail.com/ is still just a pleasant personal website that reminds me of the early days of the web...
As someone with breaking into the hardware space with a software background, I've acquired a newfound appreciation for the amount of work that gets poured into GCC/LLVM toolchains.

Open implementations which acquire enough traction become open standards. I'm doing block-level CPU simulation work for my dissertation, and there's pretty much a wall of abstraction where my work has to stop before it explodes with licensing + compatibility landmines. A rock solid tooling ecosystem I could target for FPGAs and then eventual fabrication would be the dream.
Thats the PAC not the PUK

PUK: Personal Unblocking Key

PAC: Porting Authorisation Code

PUKs are a 8 digit code burnt on the SIM at manifacture (or whenever the network personalises them), don't change, are not checked by the network, its "just" always you to reset the SIM Pin after entering it wrong 3 times. atleast here in the UK it's normally printed on the full size card of the Combi SIM you punch your desired SIM out of.

Not at lot people I come across use SIM Pins any more, but they help prevent someone taking the SIM out of your phone, placing it in another and authing to the cell network "as you" to be able to make/receive calls/sms. A PUK is only "good" for as long as it takes for the orig owner of the sim to report thier phone lost/stolen (A PUK will unlock a PIN blocked SIM even if its deactivated because it happens before the SIM exchanges any data with the network, but if the SIM is won't any any difference and honestly, I don't come across many PIN protected SIMs even from techies in my social group).

PACs are codes generated by the network at time of request (here in the UK you can get one simply by sms'ing PAC to 65075), they are valid for 30 days and is what you would give to a new network to port your number to them. However they are not the best method of attack IMO. They will still alert the customer that a PAC has been issued. (when I last asked for one I do so online and they still sms'ed me the code, so the orig owner can be alerted. Here in the UK it takes atleast 6 hours to port a number, but personally I've found it to be closer to 24 hours as long as the request is made Monday-Thursday (they don't process them over the weekends).

If you are in phsyical procession of the SIM to ask for a PAC via SMS/Phone in order to do a 2FA SMS attack, might as well do the 2FA SMS there and then and save waiting around for the number to port to a new networks SIM, if you are not in procession of the SIM and you are doing a social engineering attack it's much quicker to walk into a store of the networks and get a "replacement SIM" on the same network as you can walk out of the store with the SIM activated and the original one deactivated.

Stores should be validating ID's for an instant in-person replacement SIMs but often they do not, heck the last time I changed my phone in person (I buy my phone outright and have a SIM only plan) just the fact that I dropped the cash on a brand new phone was enough for them to to issue me a new SIM, but in the process they had reset the adult content block on the account and I had to show ID to prove I was over 18 (I'm clearly over 18 :-P) before they would remove the block. (Got new phone, they activated my new sim, I left the store with a new phone, went around the corner to a bar to set it up over a pint, found the content block, finsihed my pint and went back to the store to get them to unblock it. It only then dawned on me that they just gave someone access to my phone number (granted, it was me they gave the access to) with no checks, but wanted ID to disable the adult content block...)
Managing Remotely
You replaced "society" with specific and narrow niches of society. That's not the same thing.
They can play an ad before and after the video, and often the video itself is some sort of sponsored content.
Some years back I had a professor who was doing research on the lack of air circulation leading to CO2 buildup in classrooms. CO2 has pretty deleterious effects of student achievement. Turns out oxygen is important for cognition, who knew? I can only assume it's worse with face masks.
I can't stop thinking about this. Logistic systems that utilize heli-stats and other drones for various flexible and inconvenient legs of the route seem incredibly powerful to replace trucks and small planes. Automation will change everything.
"Do you think that it's fair to demand people change their way of living because you don't want an unpleasant illness?"

I think it's fair to demand that they change their way of living to prevent more deaths - 645,000 and counting just in the USA.

If we weren't living in a sea of unvaccinated people this conversation would be a lot easier.
On a tangentially related note, has anyone used the Code With Me plugin for IntelliJ? Is it worth the setup hassle?
It’s quite likely that the oversupply of physicists is paradoxically shrinking the space of what can be researched.

More physicists mean more competition, more physicists mean more people to convince that a radical idea is worth pursuing, and even more so more people to convince that a radical result is true.

If the field was smaller and those in it had more freedom, we might see more interest in exploring new areas. Right now it’s hard to see many people in the field with enough freedom to do anything that isn’t the prevailing orthodox view.
I fell for the promotion trap, then escaped
How is paramerization of types on values not a typesystem-level property ? There's definitely nothing akin to macro expansion involved since you can do type-level computations that way
Generics in typescript do not affect codegen, they are only visible to the typechecker.

The main typescript features that require specialist codegen for ESNext targets are enums (especially const enums) and namespaces. These were added in the past when typescript was less strict about adding features that affect codegen, if proposed today they would not be accepted as typescript now has a policy of waiting for JavaScript to implement features first.
Most Startup ‘Pivots’ Aren’t Pivots
I believe John Romero appropriated the 'God' title, making it unavailable for Carmack, no matter how appropriate.
There are rational objections apart from superstition. Social security and driver's license numbers have already been abused to the extreme, and now form a backbone of the commercial surveillance web. Secure identification is an utterly terrible idea until the US gets something like the GDPR.
Heavier unfortuetly and bigger
And still, 95% of the population intends to take the shot anyways. What's happening in the US is really curious and can't be attributed solely to politics. I would love to hear a more comprehensive explanation for why antivax ideas could proliferate to such a large extent in the US.
And even for the most obvious ones that police agree with, how much of their resources and effort go towards investigating and actively preventing those crimes? Detective shows are popular, but isn't that sort of police work a vanishingly small portion of police budgets?
> No, it's the other way around. Transmission is correlated with viral load. In the unvaccinated, high viral load leads to early self-observable symptoms. The vaccines are designed to suppress symptoms, so a vaccinated person can be infected and transmitting, without knowing they should be isolating.

You're saying, confidently, that vaccinated people spread more COVID than un-vaccinated people? A bold strategy!

It's probably correct that lots of spread is happening because people feel OK, but that's because (especially with Delta) viral load typically peaks before symptoms show up[1]. That is, the most infectious period is probably before anyone feels symptoms, vaccinated or not. But of course the vaccines significantly reduce the chance of getting infected in the first place, and when you directly measure the secondary attack rate, instead of looking at a proxy like RT-PCR Ct, vaccination also seems to significantly lower that[2].

1. "Delta’s rise is fuelled by rampant spread from people who feel fine" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02259-2

2. "Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 transmission and infections among household and other close contacts of confirmed cases, the Netherlands, February to May 2021" https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...
It's like the front end industry has been working tirelessly for decades to serve the most beautiful fuck-you possible to each and every user.
My wakeup moment was when I realized that Fulfill by Amazon + co-mingling means you had no idea what you got - whether it was a return, fake product of random Chinese dropship, or random other item (miscategorized).

At that point, you might as well buy from Aliexpress and cut out the middleman (for stuff you want from China).

Or drastically cut down purchases (which is what I chose).
This is the stick... various attempts at the carrot. If you want to do 'normal' (for some definition of normal) things, you need to get vaccinated.
CO2 is pretty horrible for cognition. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/07/indoor-co2-dumb-a...
It is possible to have “headless” MS compiler & build tools in Windows, by installing Windows SDK. It may be used with VSCode.

The full Visual Studio is not required.
You don't think likening someone's choice of non-ideal OS over your preferred one to domestic abuse might just be a little bit, I don't know, childish?

I mean, why do you care enough about what OS I choose to even bother insulting me anyway?
Ah, thanks for the correction!

> here in the UK you can get one simply by sms'ing PAC to 65075

I did not know that, thanks! Will try not to forget for whenever I need it..
I recently discovered that Xilinx has lots of small R&D things I github. I had the opportunity to work with the team behind FINN (https://xilinx.github.io/finn/) and they're trying to do everything, put everything they develop, on github. I will praise this in every future meeting I have with any Xilinx rep.

I feel this is a mentality change, albeit slow, that is starting to happen. We still don't have source code for Intel MKL, or all of OpenVINO and it bit us in the ass several times, so much I'm really trying to find ANY OTHER SOLUTION and pay the perf hit, if I can own and debug it. I'm not even asking for github or even publicly available tarballs, but 'I paid I want the source and I want to be able to look inside to be autonomous'. Make it OSS without community involvement, for all I care, but dammit let your paying customers look and debug. Let us automatize, let us own the tech.
Understood and good points. Thank you for the candor: I got caught up and quickly typed a throwaway comment. Definitely my bad.