skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC from [0] US politicians long regarded the horror stories out of Cambodia as exaggerated tales at best, enemy propaganda at worst, since the Cambodian regime was opposed to the newly formed Vietnamese government.

They couldn't politically support the cause of their former enemy, so Cambodians suffered for longer, until Vietnam got bold enough to invade and liberate them (Edit: I don't know whether the aim was to liberate, the aim probably was to invade but it resulted in liberation).

But yeah, I don't remember any material support either. But the political support was deciding in keeping the madmen going in the country.

[0] "A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power
What do you mean? I cannot remember the last time we actually had a power outage here. It is also not like we aren't working on making the grid ready for increased loads. A more known example for that is Suedlink that is meant to connect the wind farms in northern Germany to the south of it by moving 4GW of power (that's 5-10% of total power generation in Germany alone) over hundreds of kilometers.
Tablerone: Browser extension for your second brain
Opel had their first electric car years back, when they were still part of GM. The GM Volt is the very same car as the Opel Ampera.

Before that came out, internally they developed their own version of an electric car, but were not allowed by GM to bring it to light and had to resell the GM version.
>Of course, I'm not against the idea of improvement, it's just funny how the goalposts continually move.

LOL Yes because we want to lower bitrate. Taking Youtube or Netflix aside, the vast majority of video on the internet haven't seen any improvement in quality. They moved to newer codec for bandwidth reduction at the same quality so they can serve more content. Until Bandwidth becomes cheap enough where like Audio we no longer want better quality at 64Kbps or lower bitrate, people instead are simply using higher bitrate. I mean 20+ years later, we still dont have what they promised was mp3 128Kbps quality at half the bitrate.

There is a question of how far we can push codec development within the video codec industry. Not because they have ran out of idea but the complexity of codec means to both encoding and decoding. That we may be edging towards a point where Software decoding is not a sustainable solution and does requires dedicated hardware, which in itself is a topic of discussion with different hardware manufacturers. And Video Encoding or Decoding Engine is already getting quite big in terms of Die area.

So what the M1 shown here is a door to a whole new world of possibilities. For example there are half dedicated AV1 hardware decoder and hybrid GPU decoder that uses more power than M1 in pure software mode.

And this is on a M1 with A14 Core, not A15, or the coming A16. We should be able to see another 30% reduction in energy usage within the next 2-3 years.

We could also question and ask, may be we could finally do Wavelet transform where previously was thought as too computational expensive.

We have a roadmap on 5G with 3GPP Rel 18, Massive MIMO is far from finished, we also have roadmap on Ethernet and Cost reduction on SerDes and Controller. Our Server is finally getting higher Core count with reduction in cost / performance. By 2030 vast majority of the world, even in developing nation could enjoy 1080P Video with very good quality at under 1Mbps.

And then the next frontier will be, how do we further improve Live Streaming Video quality with ultra low latency and bitrate. Actually that is what I am partly pushing for right now. That may be a task for another 10 years.

I love continually moving the Goalpost :)
It helps that Tesla only have ~3 car models they are selling as a brand they are quite a bit further down the list at #23.

https://www.best-selling-cars.com/germany/2021-half-year-ger...
That's how propaganda works: drown the user in noise.
sounds like they were students at the time - put the parts back before you move out and no one that cares will even notice
Walter, you are making up science in your head that does not actually exist. I would highly encourage you to do some actual research before you continue to make these incredibly uninformed comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29186001
Crystal is currently my go-to language when I want to try something out, like a new algorithm, data structure or problem, and I want to write it in Ruby and have the Ruby kind of fun doing it, but I also want it to be fast and consistent (like in Ruby you can do N-sized input and in Crystal you can do N*10).

I don't use it for work because I work for a Rails shop and we're currently happy with Rails.
Uber migrated financial data from DynamoDB to Docstore (inhouse db)
Sure they can, perhaps they have to use a solvent to get rid of it. But that is not the point. The point isn't the implementation detail, it's the fact that if someone wanted to make something that is purely bad for consumers they could.

This is what you present as being the incentive. You keep writing that there are bad design choices, things that are done just to introduce bad UX for repair personnel etc. all for the sake of being annoying. But there is no economical incentive for that and the company is a for-profit organisation. You disregard all the other reasons why someone might be done and when presented with a theoretical case that fits your narrative you dismiss it, against your own viewpoint.
I bet the attitude would have been very different had spying been done by China, Russia, Israel, or even the Netherlands itself.
To understand the ramifications without geopolitical biases and pink glasses think of the headline:

"X spy hacked Y, company stayed silent"

where X is any (quasi)state actor that feels agrieved or entitled, and Y is any giant data collector

The net as it has come to be used is a fractal of bad design in practically all conceivable ways: economic, social, geo(political)
Perhaps Volkswagens recent experience building electric vehicles gives them a more realistic outlook.
Well, perhaps they are the ones being sexist by assuming that a wife has to be a certain gender.

but you are right, this clearly NSFW territory.
You would own the home you live in or the car you drive. Those would be your personal property. But you cannot own multiple homes that you rent out. Or a fleet of cars that you run a ride share company with. Thats private property and (private)property is theft. No one wants your toothbrush, but they do want the toothbrush factory

>what about violent communities

Anarchists are not liberals. We believe in armed
Resistance and fighting back. Google the CNT-FIA, the EZLN, the YPG, and The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine
That's just goon culture, though. The same culture that Lowtax helped to invent.
Graphene battery pack that charges 5 times faster than Li-ion
The real world also recognizes thermodynamics, and simple physics should confirm that taking fuel from the ground and burning it is heating up the planet. You say everything will be more expensive/won't someone think of the poor? Look up food prices, friend. Russian forest fires in 2010 made them stop exporting grains temporarily. Food prices went up, hungry "plebs" (your term) in the Middle East revolted and 11 years later Syria, Libya, Lebanon are still terrible places.

A realistic solution would be carbon tax, yes making things like fuel and holidays halfway around the world more expensive. But yeah, no populace will vote for that, they still aspire to go to Thailand as cheaply as possible. (even rich-ass Switzerland voted against laws to lower CO2 emissions earlier this year).

In my pessimistic view of reality, we'll just go on like this. When the resources get low in say 20-30 years, the rich countries will steal from the poorer ones (by money and by military), even if you're a pacifist you'll not mind your country's military shooting up refugees at the border if it means you can have some food and water.
Swine flu is controlled within farms. Deer don't live in farms and if controlling/surveilling their population was possible, then other diseases such as lyme wouldn't be a thing.
This isn’t surprising to me. I know lots of people who work for this company in the Netherlands, and I’ve heard a lot of inside stories about the questionable business practices that go on there. Starting at the very top, with the fraudulent marketing lies to sell you rooms because there’s only X number of rooms left, which is entirely bogus, and for which the courts have punished them, if I recall. They’re not interested in anything but profit above all else. It is unfortunate, that this is what the tech industry has evolved into.
In Germany?
And they couldn’t estimate accurately how fast the Taliban was recapturing Afghanistan, a country they occupied for over a decade! Too many cooks in that kitchen!
My old Peugeot Partner (2003), can easily go 650 km with plenty of petrol left in the tank. I don't think 800 km would be out of the question.

Edit: according to the specs, it should have a range of 960 km (597 miles) under optimal conditions. It sounds more than I would expect, but then the car is almost 20 years old. Still, the low fuel consumption is one of the reasons I keep it -- it uses less fuel than modern hybrids do.
It’s not your fault and you should adjust your perspective. The joke is on you! Off brand awful humor that makes light of the worst.
It actually seems fitting!
I feel that you should be put in a mass grave with you equally retarded friends.
Sure, on paper. Their HQ is still in Germany, they use German name, and more than half of its workforce is in Germany. Being a subsidiary of a French company doesn't make them not German.
Like I said to the sibling comment, look up the CNT-FAI, the EZLN, the YPG, and the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine. There is nothing wrong with having the federation create a militia for the purpose of self defense and furthering the revolution
VW's ID4 is the only one that can keep up with Tesla in price/performance ratio, while having good range.

Hyundai seems to be doing pretty well with the Ioniq 5, and the Kia EV6 looks interesting. On a price/performance scale I would definitely rate the Honda E as well as a very nice 'good enough' electric car that's significantly cheaper than a Tesla.
Steam Deck Delayed to February 2022, Valve Apologizes
The devil is in the details - laws like that can have tons of exemptions, and likely will.

If there's both a plausible alternative fuel on the horizon _and_ a plausibly problematic law, _and_ a political unwillingness to grant exemptions - then let's talk. So far, laws even vaguely in that direction seem few and far between, and even those make it might turn out to have loopholes rendering the point moot. The conventional fuel industry and popular usage is so huge that surely exemptions would be granted if necessary. Finally, there does not yet appear to be plausible alternative fuel.

The risk of an overzealous restriction on ICE cars is much lower than the risk of an overly lenient ICE policy. After all, each additional ICE car sold has real, likely unavoidable, and virtually irreversible consequences. In aggregate, those consequences are pretty dire. Betting on some kind of hail mary wonder-fuel without considerable certainty of its success isn't wise. But it's also likely what society will do for quite a few more years.

Under an idealized capitalist system we'd just tax the carbon and thus raise the fuel prices. However, as long as much of the electorate has ICE cars that's political suicide in most places - and competitive suicide even where the body politic might swallow that bitter bill. Consider e.g. the proposed small fuel price tax hike in France recently and the unrest that followed. Raising fuel prices isn't easy.
I read this and I am puzzled. I cannot find the catch with this new tech. If Graphene gives us faster charging speeds and longer lasting(lifetime wear & tear) of batteries with same power characteristics, this is a breakthrough we all need in phones and cars. Why do we see this on IndieGogo and not from major phone and car manufacturers with huge R&D budgets?
There used to be this motto on their homepage that said "Fast as C, slick as Ruby", and I thought it really captured the spirit.
Front end stack choices sass vs. CSS-in-JS vs. tailwindcss
I miss out on a lot of misinformation because try to read only reliable sources. I use RSS to get a feed from a fact checking site just to know what I am missing out on.
All those deficits and free-money have effects, you know. But don't worry, they would solve it printing more money.

Inflation is high not even considering that the FED under-reports inflation with all their tricks - if inflation was calculated as it was in times of Margaret Thatcher, the number wouldn't be 6%, but more like 15%. See http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

Welcome to Argentina-like politics. Oh, dear Argentina: a country that had the highest GDP per capita some 100 years ago.
> What's wrong exactly with an ICE that uses clean and sustainable fuel?

To name a few:

1. Terrible efficiency. ICE average at around 30% efficiency vs 90% of EVs (close to 100% if regenerative breaking is used).

2. 1000s of moving parts for ICE vs few 10s for EVs. This directly translates to cost of ownership which is a big win for EVs already now.

3. Emissions. Even using a clean fuel you generate nitrous oxides or carbon monoxide (unless you have perfect combustion which is something we didn't achieve yet even after decades of R&D).

4. Fuel logistics. Even if it's a clean fuel, you still have to transport it from the refinery to the fuel pumps. We already have an electric grid in place and we just need upgrades (a 1-off cost more or less) instead of continuously transporting stuff around.
Why is WunderLinks so good for SEO?
Of course they could not - the gravy train for 20years... what's not to like
What Norwegians are learning as they pioneer autonomous ships
Are USB keyboards slower than PS/2 keyboards? [video]
It's true, his forums had a huge indirect influence on modern US online culture, giving rise to so many projects and careers.

Ironically, he failed to capitalise on his influential position unlike so many of his peers who sold off their online properties and disappeared from the public eye. If he'd taken a different approach, he'd probably now be sitting on media properties (or a fortune) worth tens of millions, and minting millions more in cryptocurrency/NFTs. And also possibly have a very different family life.

An example of someone with huge opportunities but not the inclination/mindset or skillset to grasp them.

(Also, I never understood the absurdist humour of Doom/Mood House back in the day. Weird stuff.)
Yeah, 20 years is way too long. If the last ICE is sold in 2040, that car is likely still on the road in Germany in 2055 and is then sold to some poorer country where it will drive on for another ten years. How are we supposed to reach net-zero in 2045 like that?
This reminds me of an 80s tv show called MacGyver which impressed on me as a kid that you can use what you got to get out of tricky situations. I've done loads of different things as a result of this attitude. The only time I stopped to think about the show's wider influence was when I was at University (some time ago) in the Engineering building with my best friend (an Engineering student) and a phone went off with the MacGyver theme. When I told my friend I thought that was cool (these were the days when you had to pay for novelty ringtones) he casually remarked that a lot of the Engineering student body had the MacGyver ringtone and MacGyver had a huge influence on students enrolling for Engineering.

After reading this article I wonder if there are MacGyver-esque influences on younger generations? I haven't come across any YouTube channels or shows on Netflix, Prime or Disney Plus that would interest my 7 year old son and capture his imagination like MacGyver did for me as a kid.

Having said that, in true MacGyver fashion I started teaching my son Chemistry last weekend using a whiteboard, YouTube and some Minecraft analogies.
> Ask Taiwan?

I don't need to. I'm well aware of how Taiwan achieves this; near absolute control of travel to and from the island, implemented early and with no meaningful political opposition. That window closed for the US by Jan. 2019 while certain parties were still screaming "Xenophobe!" at modest and insufficient travel restrictions.

The question at hand is how NPR -- or anyone else for that matter -- imagines this happening in the US. Large numbers of people literally sneak into this country on foot every day and impeding them (for any reason at all, never mind COVID) is a monumental political issue, as just one example of what separates the US from Taiwan.
It may not be purely altruistic, but seems like a net good. Participants aren’t under any obligation to work for Google, and for some participants working for Google might be a desirable opportunity! If not, this is a chance to get experience working on impactful open source projects and get paid for it.

Personally I think it’s great when incentives align this way.
O(x^2) is quadratic, not exponential (which would be O(2^x) or the like.)
In addition, a working market - as in parallel exploring, without monopolistic structures - is as close to a tamed anarchy as is civilizational possible.

We prevent a real market though with privatized pension funds- who want stability and silence in the crypts.

When you transfer traditional state obligations to a private market, the market takes on the nature of the state, it becomes self-stabilizing, monopolistic and innovation dead.
>you could, in theory, avoid punishment in the Soviet Union by avoiding certain actions (although I know this is stretching things quite a bit),

sure, as long as we admit that in practice you really couldn't because punishment, although supposedly for crimes, was irrational enough to be essentially random.
I was not familiar with this. The wikipedia article helps some, and this page has lots of links:

http://chu.stanford.edu/guide.html
Finally there's the WCF - Wife Compensation Factor;

"Here, I bought you one too."
Which internationally renowned terrorist group with a 3 letter abbreviation did this?
Nothing wrong with having their kid-ass nav system with supercharger routing. Why not _also_ develop CarPlay and Android Auto apps for it and let users use CarPlay and Android Auto like other car manufacturers?
A Tony Hsieh ending, perhaps
Deeply disturbing. Some people in China have enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude. (This isn't a literal quote, just a merger of assorted accusations that in most cases were not meant in a friendly way--it was a matter of national pride--but which ironically I agreed with, and it answers your question.): "You Americans [sometimes directed at me] are so arrogant, talking about our violent Cultural Revolution and Red Guards as if they couldn't happen in an enlightened, open, free culture like yours, just a primitive society like ours. But Red Guards weren't ordered to act that way by Party leaders. They were like religious fanatics inspired by propaganda to do evil enthusiastically while being told they were heroes, enjoying the feeling of power. And now that same Red Guard religion controls your universities. Your baizuo [white leftist] campus Red Guards decide what can and can't be spoken and enforce it on campus with threats of violence just like ours then spread out and take over the media, Hollywood, and [Big Tech] enforcing it on everyone else. [I would add K-12 schools, but the Chinese never seem to know about that part. Maybe with what has been in the news in Virginia, now I'll hear about that, too.] They use their power to decide what information needs to be hidden and who needs to be silenced so that the promoted stories can convince people that they are heroes and to give them more power to control their enemies. And lots of those who hear only the promoted stories become Red Guards and riot and burn and beat people in the streets, while the officials stand back and watch."
In short, for distributed computing at scale, it is surprisingly difficult to ensure a message is delivered exactly once.
The WAF is not incompatible with this way of thinking - it just requires you to extend your creative reach to come up with solutions that are also aesthetically pleasing.

Me, I like to work with negative space when I’m making furniture - take stuff away to create something, add as little as necessary.

I also have my fair share of Heath Robinson contraptions, but as long as I keep them invisible (i.e. tucked away in a shed or a hutch quietly fulfilling its function) the WAF is fulfilled - and I have a stringent set of controls and policies set out by the SWAMBO.

Our bed is made out of leftover construction lumber and OSBs, but it’s very pretty, as it’s also made out of a bunch of walnut veneer doors I found by the roadside. Our kitchen is built from scrap wood from a skip, and the countertops are upside down concrete pavers with a tadelakt topcoat. The sink is a rock I took an angle grinder to. The faucets came from a “5 bits for €1” box of junk. People keep asking me who designed it, where did I buy X, Y, Z.

So, yeah. There’s no incompatibility - I started with the kind of quick and dirty hacks the roommate does as a student - but now that I’m pushing 40, I prefer to execute my stingy projects with quality.
Even if they have internal counsel (I haven't checked but I'm sure a company as large as Booking.com does), for decisions which have for reputational harm, it's useful to lean on advice from X prestigious third party.

The same goes for using consultants. It's not just about deferring blame for a backlash but lending an air of objectivity and professionalism to the decision(s) made by management.
The efficiency numbers for e-fuels are simple too bad. Fuel cells might maybe be made to work, but there is no Hydrogen infrastructure available.

Any e-fuel that can use normal petrol infrastructure and is burnt in an ICE has absolutely atrocious efficiency. Not only do you lose a large fraction of the energy going from electricity to fuel, but then you burn it in an engine that has 40% efficiency is a lab and 15% efficiency in city traffic. It just makes no sense outside of niche applications.
Cargo cult programming is killing the software industry
Previous Post : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29157358
> The most limiting factors as I see them are first and foremost a lack of love and care from one's parents, and second a wealth deficit.

I have numerous friends who are teachers and they all consistently say that the biggest problem is poor parenting. Primarily disengaged parents or parents who don’t value education.

Of course this is the elephant in the room because no politician is going to blame parents.

It seems to me that all the chat up-thread about schooling vouchers and parental choice are entirely missing the point. The children of engaged parents will probably do ok anyway. It’s the bad parents that are the problem.
unless you work at Rivian in finance I don't think so.
Anarchist State.

Ruler Anarchist.

I don't think you quite grasp what Anarchism is.

Anarchism isn't simply the removal of rules and calling it a day. It's about decolonizing our minds and ideologies. It's about restructuring our societies so that would be rulers can't gain power in the first place. It's about cooperation over competition.
If you'd met him in person, maybe you, as a fan, could have had some positive effect on him, without necessarily needing to saying anything, much more likely I think than just sending him a message as a stranger which I can't imagine helping. In that way, it's reasonable to not want to scare him off. You were taking the trouble to take a plane to see him, and he did agree to it, so he expected it would be positive too. Sad to hear.
early mornings are delightful?
I'm not sure what relation the Sri Lanka has to the subject, but otherwise I totally agree with this article.