skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if we could convince people that they must get moving and that the fire is real, people will be frozen in discussion over which path of escape is best. Maybe they should use the fire escape, or reach the roof, or take the window, or maybe that fire extinguishers but then the question if the kitchen or the basement is closer. Alternative they will argue that the best method might be to wait for a firefighter and do what they do. If we follow the analog further we would also have people arguing about which people is responsible to fight the fire, who deserve the take the blame, who should be faced with the consequence, whose parent designed the building, whose people is responsible for voting those who made the building regulations, who owns most properties, and finally who invaded whom a few hundred years ago. All while standing inside the ongoing fire.

I honestly don't know what can be done.
It's not like "stop using Facebook and products it owns" is novel advice. But it doesn't seem to be constraining Facebook much. At this point, I don't think it's a realistic way to have impact on the problem. The people who are thoughtful and aware and dedicated enough to do that have taken some action. But Facebook clearly doesn't need those people to make a lot of money.
Chinese tech giants roll out more courier robots due to Covid-19 pandemic demand
True, but the potential for needing medical care, hospitalization, or funeral services which could result in someone else being unable to receive care is similar.
Is your argument that any small optimization is needed?

Any form of transportation could be made safer with helmets, presumably cars far more so than bikes. Hell, surely some number of people suffer brain injury after falling out of bed. Should we all wear helmets to sleep?
Those processors aren't made on high reliability processes. You don't want your ECU built with the same media processor as the infotainment system.
> Sounds like you’re influenced from cable news or social media trolls, more than you realize, however.

uh no, from the signs in my own neighborhood proclaiming everything they dont like (yet gladly receive, like medicare) as "socialist" or "communist". I live in a purple district. I have to socialize with people who someday could very easily be burning my house down if they were convinced I was in fact going to war against "their country". We are neighbors with people who are law enforcement, who proudly wear "blue lives matter" garb intermingled with weaponry and show up to Trump rallies as speakers. We go to parties and dinner with these people and have polite and shallow conversations about boating and such which end quickly and back into awkward silence. other neighbors leave their lights on all night as they are afraid of mexican gangs invading their property (we are in New York state). A church features a black lives matter display throughout their lawn, and two doors down is a house with a giant 6x8 foot flag (among many others) waving out into the road of Donald Trump as a flaming skull. it is a very uneasy peace around here. this is not a "only on TV" thing for us here. I am literally afraid to post on more "close to home" sites like Facebook lest the neighbors see them and decide that I'm "antifa" and should be targeted when the revolution is called by their orange leader.

so yes im pretty triggered when people throw out terms like "all communists should be killed" in response to something stupid like RP having his precious youtube channel banned.
Kids/dogs plus automatic windows…
I don’t understand HN’s obsessive love for TikTok. It’s almost universally praised here.
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> which ad campaign brought which customer

And how do they determine that?
Kali Lindsay? Victim of what? Either way it was her actions that led her to getting brain injuries.
Funny story related to WebGoat:

In my undergrad security class the prof posed a challenge that whoever could make themself an admin would get bonus marks.

Using one vulnerability I found there was an xml file on the server that defined the list of admins.

Once you find that you can use another vulnerability (something with file uploads + JSP) that let you run arbitrary Java code to modify the file on the server.

Problem is after adding myself to the file it didn’t have any effect. I figured okay that file is probably only read into memory once when the server first starts.

So I thought no problem, I’ll just run a piece of Java that exits the JVM process.

Unfortunately there was no process manager to restart the sever process so it took down WebGoat for the entire class.

Oops. People were pretty pissed on the class discussion board because they couldn’t even work on the regular assignment.

Eventually I emailed someone in university IT and got them to just reboot the Linux instance but it took a couple days.

When the server came back up I had admin privileges and ended up getting the bonus marks.

I still wonder to this day if “crashing the server” was the real way you were supposed to do that.

Sorry guys XD
Note that GPU.js is not for graphics, it's primarily for doing GPU Compute. I'd recommend looking at a 3D scene library to get your feet wet (and there are plenty of those in JS), or if you're interested in the underlying workings, to look at either WebGL or WebGPU.
What you're describing is pretty typical though. You buy a product either because of advertising, because it "looked" like a good choice in the store for whatever reason, it was recommended on Wirecutter, the Home Depot worker or a contractor pointed you towards it, etc. And it seems to do the job and, for the amount you spend on that item annually, it's not really worth doing your own comparison which you probably aren't in a position to do scientifically anyway.
Simple: Facebook will be stopped when people decide to stop using it or reduce their time on the platform. All the information about their privacy abuses are quite public and people still choose to use the product. I am well aware and I use that information to use it in an informed way (limited usage only on desktop, Firefox container, and more). Yes yes, inside the HN bubble it does seem to be popular. But in the normal world it doesn't seem like enough people care to me. Facebook will change once their is a mass movement to pull at their purse strings.

In a free society, people are allowed to surrender some freedom and privacy if they choose. It seems like what Facebook offers is worth the cost to the average person.
> I presume you meant discouragement of helmets.

I assume he didn't - the point is asking people to wear helmets discourages biking. In practice it's overall healthier to not ask people to wear helmets.
Maybe not to control content, but to create context. We could call it GW.
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Nobody has the will to do anything to reign in any of these social media companies. We are all getting too rich off of them.

So what can be done to reign in Facebook? Nothing.
To extend it to covid, the vaccine doesn’t fully prevent transmission either. It reduces it (likely, I don’t think we’ve seen a robust study in this department), but since it’s not enough to reach herd immunity this point is moot

The argument has now become you’re taking up hospital beds because you didn’t get the vaccine. The same logic applies to not wearing a helmet.

And to take it further: are we ok with unvaccinated covid patients taking resources from those not wearing safety helmets, or vice versa?
Ah yes, the famous bike crash pandemic of 1954.
couldn’t find another one that covered every misconception in the article, sorry.

long story short, more volatility means higher collateral requirements when executing trades, and robinhood didn’t have the collateral needed to support everyone and their dog trying to buy what had become one of the most volatile stocks of all time, so their only options were to stop accepting buy orders or be in violation of the law.

payment for order flow is industry standard practice and it’s not really fair to describe it as “taking a small cut of every trade” although i guess it could technically be seen that way.

there’s no evidence citadel pressured RH in any way, and all available evidence suggests they didn’t even have an incentive to because they divested from GME almost immediately
Whenever I experience a slow, stuttering UI, I am reminded that 11 years ago, and iPhone 3GS could do this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kqz5ehun-o0
can you teach a computer to do it?
Fair enough. The future will tell us.
This was an interesting read; I was shocked to find so many seemed to enter straight into PhD programmes after completing school. Most were done by the time they were 25. Wow!
They mention the Cookbook on the books page: https://lisp-lang.org/books/ (btw Fernando is also the one who did the initial effort to port the Cookbook from Sourceforge to Github pages. When lisp-lang.org was released the Coobook looked bad and didn't have a lot of content).
They know perfectly well that there are many options available but they're not interested in putting them on the table.
That's an acceptable view point. However, that doesn't mean FB should not be punished into oblivion. They don't get a free pass just because "someone else would have done it if we didn't" is not an acceptable defense.
Converting a Commodore SX-64 to a DX-64 Dual Drive (2015)
> None of those languages were popular in the 90s.

JS was, because browsers. Python was starting to be toward the end of the 90s. Ruby (as I understand) was in Japan though it wasn't until Rails took off that it became popular elsewhere. Perl (not on the list but similar to those on the list) definitely was.
In nearly every aspect other than the "name: type" part. I think they were talking about the whole thing. And indeed, the language in the article they posted is not so far off Typescript syntax-wise.
I get that this advice works for you. What makes you so confident that you understand the situations of everybody else on the planet?
> A wholesale migration to a modern architecture is risky and costly.

I have no doubt that your company and all the other big automakers are running the numbers and trying to weigh those risks and costs with the risks and costs of not updating.

Given that the chipmakers and supply chain experts are not making rosy predictions for things to drastically improve in the next 12 months or longer, I wonder if the balance is shifting towards taking action.
2D graphics is very different and mostly doesn't require the GPU's assistance. If you want to plot a circle on an image and then display that to the screen, you don't require any of this stack. If you want a high-level library that will draw a circle for you, you can use something like Skia or Cairo which will wrap this for you into a C API.

GPUs solve problems of much larger scale, and so the stack has evolved over time to meet the needs of those applications. All this power and corresponding complexity has been introduced for a reason, I assure you.
One of the early arguments for a first strike was the ability to target military installations only.

Due to the limitations in early US targeting ability, a US counter strike likely meant having to go with a counter-value response instead of a counter-force one. Meaning bigger targets like cities over smaller military-only targets.

So if you worked under the presumption that war with the Soviets was inevitable, a first strike avoided mass casualties in the magnitude of 10s of millions in favor of decapitating military targets.

So yes, there is a logical argument that it would be the more ethical choice.

It wasn't until the 80's with advances in both surveying/geodesy (predicting precise ballistic trajectories taking into account local variances in gravity) and targeting/ delivery accuracy (B-1, B-2, peacekeeper ICBMs, and better SLBMs) that the game-theory changed.
And it should take into account the shared experiences and values of U.S. Congress members, who are elected to serve the best interests of their constituents.
This is aimed more at companies signing up rather than individuals, but a company called Security Innovation has a product that kind of gamify's (sp?) hacking vulnerable websites: https://www.securityinnovation.com/training/ (the cmd+ctrl training)

They have a couple of fake websites that have a bunch of vulnerabilities of varying difficulty and you get points for exploiting them.

I am not affiliated with them, but saw a demo once and thought it was cool.
Yes the simulation basically reads and writes all RAM each tic. So if your RAM is slow upgrading that gets you the biggest performance increase.
Indeed. Here is a chart of the performance of the cars in Norway. [1] Several sites are saying they only lose about 18.5% capacity.

[1] - https://www.naf.no/elbil/aktuelt/elbiltest/ev-winter-range-t...
Tesla has over 70,000 employees. I know people think Elon is god, but come on, he can't have "everything in his head". Tesla isn't some mom and pop shop.
I don't disagree. My point is more broadly about the ills of social media, and how it's often framed as a Facebook problem.
The rate at which people catch covid and get hospitalized is incomparably higher to the rate that people are getting brain injuries from riding a bike.

You can use the same "philosophical experiment" to ban being fat or drinking alcohol.
Yeah and each successive generation since the introduction of mass media has become more deranged.
The fact someone went out of their way to dig up anything about Vimeo is remarkable.
Recent studies show that valved respirators are actually better than or equivalent to surgical and cloth masks for source control:

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2021-107/default.html

However, the "valves bad" mantra has been repeated so long and so strongly that it is unlikely there will be any official guideline change.
Not an expert, but I would guess the issue is, pines make the most of tough conditions & usually live where other things can’t; however, planting a pine farm in a location that could support oaks is a loss.
Here is an alternative take on Bill Cosby’s culpability, it may revert your opinion: https://youtu.be/QQXZ6752EiY
For start they could provide private offices. Open-plan office is hygienically unsuitable for regular use.
Oh sure, look at you, showing up with a reasonable interpretation.

Here we had a near-perfect right wing clickbait article, attacking college students, the California left, mask wearers, and cyclists. And you had to come in and ruin it...
Yes, two things:

[1] it taught me a lot about how to present information and conduct discussions dispassionately without being rattled; and
[2] past a certain point, people like that are toxic and they stifle innovation, productivity and wellbeing around them. only answer is to GTFO.
EDIT: US centric rant.

Nobody is talking about the challenges WFH brings for small employers since we are all so fascinated with the positives so far. As a small business owner, you want to hire an employee out of state ? Just 1 employee on W2 ? Great. Go setup and register your company in that state and deal with crazy paperwork even for 1 employee. Oh you want to offer them health insurance ? Hmm, your insurance company doesn't operate well in that state. Now what ? Ok you try to come up with separate reimbursement/comp for that employee. Oh, your state offers Sick leave by law but then what do you do for employee not in that state ? Lot of hurdles.

Yes, there are services like remote.com etc these days but they don't really help you build your own organic team in house. You cannot 1099 everyone especially if they are only working for you as a full time employee (IRS won't like that). You can get away hiring foreign contractors but until there is real legislation to hire people anywhere easily, this is a pain in the neck especially for smaller companies. Large companies should have no excuse.

I am all for remote (have some of our best employees remote) but as a business owner, it is a lot of hurdles legally to go through. Yes Gitlab does it and all but they have cash to spend and circumvent lot of BS regulations with employment and taxes. I want a federal law in the United States that allows you to hire anyone in any state without doing the "Register in my state" bullshit and all that nexus crap. We can then talk a big game.
You know you can do concurrency without async calls? Async isn't a good solution for loading data in a data heavy application, game engines doesn't do it that way and they are the most data heavy applications you can find.
I am responsible for outreach of two local community based non-profits. FB is de-facto mandatory for us. Not participating would greatly hobble our ability to reach the people we serve. And, thanks to FB's crap, I am forced to manage the presence of these non-profits with an account created with my PII.
Have you also gotten phantosmia with smoke/cigarette smell? The initial reports that Covid was a respiratory disease turns out to be insufficient to describe what goes on. The virus gets into your brain and scrambles it up a bit, with varying severity. (Thankfully most people don't get it so bad.) Part of that damage occurs to the part of your brain that interprets smells - hence the phantosmia. Others have had luck retraining their brain using a collection of smells in jars.
> A bigger issue for me was the fact that the trucks completely disappeared when they hit (IIRC) Central America. They loaded the bikes into a bus and drove them across Mexico (which didn't speak well of the Harleys either)

Did we watch the same show?

They thoroughly explained how this was 100% about safety and the real risk of getting kidnapped in Mexico, even adviced by locals, when Ewan wanted to do the drive by himself.

Mexico isn’t exactly known to be a overly lawful society.
Yeah, I alluded to that with "driver behavior", which is determined by culture. Those murderously psychopathic car-centric attitudes are part of why the US transportation infrastructure is how it is and why it's so hard to change it. What is it with Americans willingness to allow the most extreme selfish points of view harm the public good?
For NVIDIA GPUs, Nsight systems is wildly detailed and has both GUI and CLI options: https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-systems

For DL specifically, this article covers a couple of options that actually plug into the framework: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/profiling-and-optimizing-d...

nvidia-smi is the core tool most folks use for quick "top"-like output, but there is also an htop equivalent: https://github.com/shunk031/nvhtop

A lot of other tools are build on top of the low-level NVML library (https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-management-library-nvml). There are also Python NVML bindings if you need to write your own monitoring tools.
That sounds like the easiest way to implement it. Giving ownership to threads and scheduling coroutines on them is unnecessarily complicated, given that a single coroutine can only be running on one thread at a time.
Show HN: Automatically Choosing Desktop Wallpaper with Music, Revisited
A carbon tax without tariffs would not work. The big question is if Canada can impose such tariffs that locally produced low-carbon emitting products has a economical advantage over those produced and later shipped from china.
Yes. But the Austro-Hungarians had famously good (for the time) schools all over the empire.
Note that this article is not really about in-office vs. remote/WFH preferences in general. It's primarily focused on that the COVID situation is still such that a lot of companies don't feel they can force people back in the office, are not necessarily comfortable with doing so, and that many people are not willing to. (Now, perhaps COVID safety is in part an excuse but still.)
> But who in the world wants to intentionally choke somebody with a power window?

children. eg:

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=124854&page=1

> A 1997 government study by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis estimated power windows sent nearly 500 people to emergency rooms in one year, and that half the victims were small children.
You aren't even engaging with the ideas in this thread. Do you think everything is hunky dory with the kids today?
I like how you don't mention the specifics, so that folks outside of your echo chamber won't know what you're talking about. Clearly the specifics don't even matter, just the general truthiness of your tone. This is perfect Colbert.
Research the keywords people use to find your product, and then write articles optimized for those keywords. Either that, or find one keyword you want your website to rank for and optimize your home page for that one keyword. You can do this with SurferSEO or PageOptimizer Pro. Then do a backlink audit of the websites who currently ranks for that content, and then proceed to build comparable backlinks to your home page to outrank them. You can do this with a tool like Ahrefs or Semrush.
So much for decentralization.
Lordstown: Fraud

Nikola: Big time Fraud

Lucid: Producing cars, no charging network, can they scale?

Rivian: Producing cars, no charging network can they scale?

Big Auto: Producing cars, no charging network, have scale for everything but batteries.

Tesla: Producing cars, scaling including battery production, MAY be able to live up to their valuation, have charging network

So the EV IPOs are IPO'ing to be inferior peers to Big Auto.

And waiting in the wings are the chinese EV manufacturers. At some point they'll invade the US, especially if LFP chemistry hits 200 wh/kg which they have in labs but not in production.

Remember that for cheaper cars, Big auto loses money. The ICE drivetrain is already unprofitable for Big Auto for the historical consumer format, which is why everything is SUV these days.

EVs have the potential to deliver a car whose drivetrain is half the cost of an ICE, once batteries get cheap enough. LFP 200 wh/kg basically guarantees a substantial cost advantage of a consumer EV platform over ICEs that ICEs can't overcome, especially given the low-end torque advantages of the driving experience.

The 200 wh/kg enables a profitable small EV car. Big Auto won't fight that, and the startups won't either, because they are obsessed with SUVs.

The Chinese are basically all-in on LFP, because their market is super small cheap LFP cars. Once the density scales the practical use of LFP to US sized cars (Tesla Model 3s, which are small sedans and not really US-SUV platforms are already LFP) then there will be invasions.

At least Rivian has Bezos as a backstop, in Bezos's strange quixotic quest to produce companies that are close to but fundamentally inferior to Musk's, and Amazon as a vendor for the van platform.

To me, the big future in automotive is the mobile home. With housing costs exploding due to constrained supply, and a generation fundamentally economically disenfranchised, and with the convergence of broadband 5G/starlink, solar, batteries, and self-driving (at least on highways), the value proposition to young people for a mobile apartment is strong. I think it will start replacing the apartment as the preferred choice out of college. I mean, why cohabitate with four people in a cramped apartment when you can have your own mobile van that drives you to work if you have to, or drives you anywhere else you want to if you don't have to? Drops you off in an urban area and drives off to a cheap/free place to park, picks you up when you need it? Plus with the e-bike revolution for super flexible urbun and suburban mobility...
We are talking about college students.