skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[prompted] Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J’ai reçu un télégramme de l’asile : « Mère décédée. Enterrement demain. Sentiments distingués. » Cela ne veut rien dire. C’était peut-être hier. L’asile de vieillards est à Marengo,

[generated] près de Bordeaux. Ils sont cent soixante-quinze dans un petit bâtiment. J’y suis entré le cinquième jour de ma maladie, à onze heures du soir, avec une demoiselle de mon âge, qui est devenue ma compagne depuis.
L’asile a été construit par M. et Mme Soubiran, sous la direction de M. et Mme Carriat, architectes, et de M. Baratoux. L’entrepreneur est M. Cailleau.

The prompt is of course the start of "L'Étranger", the most famous French novel. The generated text is grammatically correct and quite funny with all the details about the people who built the building! ;-) Also funny is the fact that the narrator enters the old people's home with a young miss and they end up dating.
Next time you see someone talk about how high quality the discussion is at HN and how it isn't like the rest of the internet.... Just remember this thread.
End of the site. There were many changes but this one will kill it in the long run. Aaaanyways, there competitors brewing up. Recently I visited Rumble, thinking "meh, one of these youtube clones again" only to be shocked that plenty of videos seem to be getting hundreds of thousands of views there. Odysee and Bitchute seem to be doing OK too? I don't know. On one hand it's sad to see Youtube go just because of Google disliking (no pun intended) that people can dislike their corporate messaging (rewind... anything biden related etc.), on the other hand Google can go to hell.
> Shorages also happen when you don't have enough production capability or transportation capibility.

No they don't.

> See most of what is happening durring the pandemic. I can assure you the price of containers and wood have not been fixed.

The price of car batteries has doubled. But they're readily available. Why do you think all those prices have gone up?
That’s possibly changing the subject from personal computer to home computer (IMO, there’s a subtle difference, but I doubt one can give a good definition of that difference)

If you think these are synonyms, the TRS-80 may have been more significant, but it wasn’t the first. The race was close, though. Apple II in June, TRS-80 in August, PET in December 1977.

And of course, the ideal first would be the Honeywell Kitchen Computer from 1969, but unfortunately none of them seem to have been sold, if the product even existed for real (https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=927). Now, _that_ would be a collectors item.
> EVs have fewer parts overall, and therefore should require fewer manufacturing hours, among other efficiencies

I agree with all of this, but how can we be so sure that is the reason for:

> Their gross margin is 50% higher than Toyota's

vs Toyota being an older and larger company with far more overhead due to an older and larger workforce.

> Those cars were never intended to be a real line of business. My measure of when a legacy automaker decides to make a "real" EV

Agreed, and I think deciding to make a real EV comes down to investing in battery production at this point. Subaru in particular is really losing the crown in its key markets like CA and CO to the new AWD EVs entering the market.
Not only that, but you can use TGA to write 16-bits per channel, which is very useful for raw data, or linear RGB colour spaces.
Things can go wrong at every step, which means each collection of fallible steps carries with it a combinatorial explosion of successes and failures. Do 5 fallible statements in sequence and it's 5+4+3+2+1 = 15 mock expectations you need to write. This tedious enumeration exercise is the majority of the time that goes into writing Go programs, for me at least.
When does anyone referring to Mexico use the abbreviation US?

One wouldn't say UK kingdom, would they? It just seems awfully redundant and leans towards a bit of not understanding the words being abbreviated.
It seems OK to me, care enough to give a specific example of a comment you'd prefer disallowed?
Sorry, that’s a lot of words that doesn’t address anything. This guy is under investigation because of his actions. Bringing up a bunch of irrelevant facts just serves as a distraction. Seriously, the U.S. causing the global financial crisis is your counter argument?
I really recommend you read my comment again before responding because I don’t think you ingested any of it. You’re literally saying that anyone anxious in an interview is both incompetent and a cog, and that anxiety in an interview is directly related to ability to communicate on the job.
Funny that I read this and then came to post one word, "wow" and see that others have posted the same!

But, you know, wow. What an amazing piece of writing.
What a surprise: if you disable a feature, the abuse of that feature is reduced...

For a balanced assessment, you also need to take the destroyed value of disabling the feature into account.
Ha! Have to laugh at one sentence in particular

> candidates are assessed in a number of ways, but one is via a decidedly non-digital method – the Japanese art of paper folding, origami.

As fingers are anatomical digits, folding using a non-digital method made me imagine people trying to fold paper using their elbows — and non-dominant elbow at that.
Apple wouldn't care. QuickDraw doesn't exist in current versions of macOS -- Preview.app can't even display them.

I've actually toyed with the idea of a PICT to SVG conversion tool. It's potentially useful for viewing certain old documents in the (long obsolete) Apple DocViewer format.
File formats exist that have JPEG in the name, that have certain features JPEG does not, and that cannot be decoded by all of these programs that can decode JPEG files. A JPEG XL file, for all intents and purposes, is not a JPEG file.

JPEG is a file format from decades ago. Obviously it’s possible to do better today. But it’s not possible to just invent a new format and have it as widely usable as JPEG. PNG did this with GIF but really only because GIF was seriously hobbled by software patents. It’s doubtful the millions of colors and alpha transparency would have won over compatibility otherwise.
Neat, reminds me of an old Java framework that did this. Anvil much later.

How are the leaky abstractions and performance?
Why not just hide it from accounts that show dislike attacking behaviour? Surely this is trivial to detect from Google AI/Deep Mind?
What is a good strategy then if one expects to need to buy a vehicle in the next 6mo?
> Set your phasers on stun, because we are going to beam you up on the physics of teleportation

This article is hard to read.
> I assume you mean OP?

"GP = grand parent, i.e. the post that the post-your're-replying-to was replying to"

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8363625
Not to mention utterly brain-dead UI and defective implementations. I have a "high-end" NAD T758 receiver and it is an unmitigated piece of shit, from design to execution.
What's amazing to me is the intellectual hoops I see otherwise smart people go through to ignore this, and often when confronted, claim refuge in apathy... I really don't get the increase in servitudinal attitudes.
I think it probably depends on what "produced" means here.

If it means designs inside an EDA environment, design get submitted and shows up realized, then that is possible now. And it's not all that expensive. eFabless chip ignite is quoting ~$10K for 100 QFNs in 130nm. That's getting into beater car territory. https://efabless.com/chipignite/2110C

If it means actually fabricate then I think there is no way because a DIY won't have the scale to compete on price and they won't be able to bring any custom processing step to justify being at boutique scale. Think about PCBs. We used to make them ourselves with chemical etch. Now I don't even use breadboards because a custom bare fab is $5 and the components cost more than that. I also get a much better electrical result, and it doesn't fall apart if I look at it funny.

The main problem with ASICs is the amount of skill/time that it takes to do it right. Floor planning, track planning, closing timing, etc. etc. on an ASIC is much harder than an FPGA. You don't even have to do half those things on an FPGA.

With an FPGA one can almost get compile and go if you're willing to be loose on area and performance. ASIC CAD tooling is no where near that at the moment. Closed or open source.
Code.gouv.fr: 9000 open source programs published by the French public sector
If I remember correctly, the silicon used to manufacture transistor-grade wafers is purified to roughly 10 impurities for every billion silicon atoms. Less pure starting stock might increase the cost of getting there, but probably not by too much.
Oh no its better than that. All the downvotes count as engagement, so it will get recommended to other people who can only see that it has 100 likes and not 20000 dislikes.

Which means my videos can finally stop being brigaded by those damn round earthers! Spread the truth!
Outside the tech bubble the vast majority of people don't have the cash flow to do this
The issues you experienced are squarely on the shoulders of your Jamf admins.

It doesn't have to suck, but it usually does because the people put in charge of it are incompetent, or at best, semi-competent. Most self-respecting engineers run fast from this sort of thing.
How exactly am I being unnecessarily confrontational? The OC constructed an entire argument based around something I never said. That is called gaslighting and is the very definition of confrontational, and I have every right to defend myself from it. For you to suggest that I should just accept being gaslit, is both absurd and its own form of gaslighting.

Also, you just made the exact opposite point of the OC in regards to rates, and then provided a link about thermal energy storage that proves the only point I made, which is its inefficiency[1] at small scale -- and at large scale it is not a pile of rocks inside every home.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Heat_st...
Last time I looked at it, WhatsApp backup key was simply stored server side. Also, backup encryption key never changes, basically. I tell you this because I needed to extract an old backup that I did on Android years ago to recover some messages: well it was as simple as extracting the key from another phone where I was signed into (need root privileges, but of course you can just access the account from an emulator, insert the SMS code, recover the key and sign in again on the main phone), then the backup is easily decrypted. And no passphrase needed (and even if it is, how it would be difficult to brute force? Considering that users use the same password everywhere...)

This for local backups, but I assume that the encryption schema is the same for a backup on Google Drive (just the file that would be stored locally is uploaded into Google Drive in a non user accessible location).

By the way I don't care that much of backup secrecy, in fact I use mainly Telegram even if everything is on the server clear text. WhatsApp tries to give users a false sense of security in my opinion.
It does both lol.
Can only speak about city Sydney where I live, but here the rent is so much more affordable than buying. My place costs $3250p/m rent but a mortgage would be ~$6000p/m.
Unsubstantiated allegations that democratic party activists are manipulating voting counts are kind a proven problem in 2021, bud.
A browser plugin that fills in the missing functionality.

Surely that exists.
nah, not giving up.

Both kids have fought it, my oldest is 17 and nextdns for her just blocks ads and keeps the spyware from calling home.

Every generation has "wtf is that" and what my 13 year old is going through is "WTF IS THAT!??"
Your cite is about basements, not crawl spaces.

In Arizona, everything was slab-on-grade because the ground was very, very dry. That's not so in most other areas.

The crawl space keeps the wood off the ground where it wicks up moisture and quickly rots. Cement wicks up moisture, too. Try a slab in Seattle, for instance, and your house will soon be uninhabitable from mildew.
[prompted] Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où blanchit la campagne, je partirai.

[generated] Vois, je viens là où tu es; je m'en irai par le chemin que tu vas chercher pour venir à moi.

Not bad! Quite poetic!
Their comment system will bury or shadow ban your comment because it has the word dislike in it.

That's why you only ever see positive, happy high-five comments under videos anymore. The dystopian crackdown started sometime after the 2016 US election.
There's a fairly common argument that Germany and Japan are actually quite unlike in this regard; that Germany truly confronted its history of militarism and came out the other side a more mature polity, while Japan's percieved pacifism is actually closer to some kind of trauma-amnesia where the same lessons haven't really been learned.

Part of that is explicitly historical: look at the rapid rehabilitation of arch-conservatives in American efforts to confront the USSR in Asia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Course

Japan never had a real Nuremburg moment, essentially.

The "national psyche" side of things is fuzzier. I don't really trust myself to write on it, so have another ref. Sorry this reference is an archived version of a now-offline blog reposting an out-of-print newspaper's literary analysis of an obscure TV show (familiarity not required), but it's what comes to mind when I try to recall English-lang sources on this sort of thing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210820145247/https://sittingon...
With a population of about 95,000 (circa 2020), and assuming 50% of that goes to the lawyers, that's about $3,294 per person.
Study on Mice... again. And reported by the Guardian, which regularly misunderstands scientific publications. That is all you need to know.
Half-Life is a little old but I wrote a parser for the .tga files it uses and it was simple (but reading the full spec... yeah it can get complicated with all the different flags).
N. Wirth: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
> [can you reasonably say rallying a mob against someone harasses or silences that person?]

Metrics would support that. A large number of humans speak less when they see their speech is unpopular.
In the US there are no pedestrian safety regulations.
Yeah, I wonder too.

Location data has a clear use case, but I get the idea that it's "worth collecting" vs "a goldmine".
It is inefficient to pay taxes on your salary, buy stocks, and then pay tax on those upon sale.
It may be my fault, but I have always set it to no backups, but 2am it'll more or less freeze with a "backing up..." message
Funny thing about that.... I never pay any attention to the likes or dislikes or even the comments. I sample the video and if I like it I watch and if not move on to the next. Can't be even the leaset bit bothered by the social interaction noise. I'm surprised to here that others actually take meaning from it.

So I read through the comments more and many deal with quality of content - for example instructions that are flat out wrong. I viewed a video on how to change spark plugs in Honda 6 cylinder car. The content creator gave the instruction to put dielectric grease right on the tip of the spark plug. I found a comment that pointed out how utterly stupid this was. Yet the comment was pushed lower by many comments praising the contect creator for his helpful video. So I have to conclude that down votes are a usefull tool. Even if they are misused.
I agree with you with a tangential perspective.

I think any non-trivial task is going to surface technical limitations which might feed back into the stakeholder decision making process.

A junior might be alienated if they are outside that process, but if they approach it with a problem-solving mindset they'll likely have a more intimate knowledge of the closed loop.
The algo loves some ragebait. I ruthlessly remove bad recs and yet I watch one self-help video and suddenly the algo shows me far-right suggestions.
Ouch. I'd like to think "not having lead poisoning" would be worth a bit more than that.
>Why would people bother with crappy MP3s when they could have no-loss storage instead?

When MP3s were "hot", storage wasn't available in the sizes now, nor was bandwidth available to make uncompressed practical. FLAC style compression wasn't really a thing then either.

MP3 was able to hit critical mass, and people have been unwilling to let it go. We see that in so many other areas as well like FB, shopping at Amazon, etc. People are aware there are less bad things, but it's just too engrained.
This loop is being closed.

The legislation would also disallow IRA investments that require owners to be accredited investors.[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/house-democrats-propose-new-...
> 2-seats-only models are highly sought after in the used market, at least based on what my farmer friends tell me

When I lived an an apartment, one of my neighbors had a 2 door Silverado as his daily. He was a 'car guy' and had an Ion Red-line I once asked about buying. He was actually -surprised- I asked about that and not the Silverado, because he had a lot of folks offer to buy it apparently.

I had a controversial thought about this, especially after the impending total-death of the American Car;

What if -only- trucks with 2 doors, or a 4-door truck with a full bed got the 'light truck' EPA special treatment? When we look at the chart of target MPGs by size/class[0] you can see there's a pretty big disparity in what Trucks vs cars have to get.

It's interesting to think about all of this in the face of the automakers' recent actions; EV/Hybrid trucks help the CAFE ratings, and part of me is asking whether the Explorer going back to Body-on-Frame was to keep it from being classified as a Car. None of this would be new, of course; the PT Cruiser and Chevy HHR's existence were in some ways prolonged, if not a result of the fact they counted as Trucks for Fuel Economy.

I think in the face of all the talk we have about climate change, it's worth looking at what we can do as individuals to reduce footprint. That's part of why I'm switching my daily to the Maverick Hybrid (if it ever shows up, lol)

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...
So in your opinion, should Go also not have generics for maps and channels (as they effectively do today), or are those also one of a kind data structures that are worthy of generics?

The designers of Go recognized that generic type parameters are necessary.. it’s just that they decided to only bestow them on a few types in the standard library instead of designing a general solution.
I think there is an opportunity here for a browser extension to rate content.
> Charging a car takes way more power than running a parking meter.

True, you'll need a heavier wire. And the cost of installing wire far exceeds the cost of the wire. When my house was wired up, the cost of the installation was 40 times the cost of the reels of wire.
not sure i know (or remember) any book that covers the entire field. but i never miss a chance to tell people about "the c programming language" by k&r.

one of a kind and, for some of us, the best book on programming ever written. i would love to see it updated to modern c.
Haha that's actually really interesting- I feel like I've seen other examples like that, where a words meaning changes to the point where it's original meaning is novel, but I can't think of any off hand.

Other than the silicon valley "there's also that movie 'Armageddon'"
Good post. Enjoyed the read. Saved the PDF for re-reading.
I agree, building tools which could lightly mangle CSAM enough to change its hash and defeat detection is trivial. Generating false negatives from a hash algorithm is trivial.
I live in Michigan, and I gotta say that this has been one of the most disappointing cases of state-level incompetence I've ever seen. This took nearly 7 years to sort out, in no part thanks to Rick Snyder dragging his feet in the mud the entire way. No matter how you feel about him politically, his treatment of this situation bordered on criminal negligence, and stands as a testament to how little your representatives actually care about your well-being. I fear that there is no way to prevent this from happening again if commercial interests continue to mar the goals of public office.
> a human reviewer has to confirm that the photos are illegal before any action is taken

The reviewer actually only confirms that the-photos-as-modified-by-an-undisclosed-transformation are illegal, and this strategic ambiguity is presumably designed to maintain plausible deniability that what Apple subjects its reviewers to is a) not psychologically damaging, and b) not illegal to possess.

Unfortunately this is "security by obscurity", so we have to assume it is vulnerable to image scaling attacks[0].

Unless Apple document their human review process, and allow an independent audit of the technology (to provide a strong mathematical guarantee that it is not susceptible to such image-smuggling attacks) and independent verification that the published process is the one they actually use, then there is an unacceptably high chance that a human reviewer will trigger a legal process against users for files they couldn't tell contained illegal data.

[0] https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/husky-ai-image-res...
White feminists are amongst the most privileged and parasitic population in history. They gobble up far more tax dollars in healthcare, education and housing spending than pretty much everyone else in the world, as well as having a stronghold on government jobs. Through all sorts of taxpayer-funded grant schemes and the like, the businesses they develop are often the result of corporate welfare.

White feminists are, in total, a net drain on society, and essentially don't pay tax once you look at how much they receive in welfare.

They can also get away with all sorts of crimes (including assault and sexual abuse) due to society's strange aversion to punishing white women for their violent and entitled behavior.

Frankly, I recommend all Asians to work from other, lower tax countries remotely, take advantage of the american dollar, and avoid paying as much tax as they can to the racist, imperialist, anti-Asian crap hole that is the united states.

Tax money spent on white feminists is money wasted indeed, and they won't ever stop demanding for more handouts. Best to chop their hands off so they can't grab any more.
> surprisingly not used that often.

VLF (and the lower frequency parts of the radio spectrum) aren't used much anymore because power-efficient antennas are too large to be practical. If RF energy enters an antenna that doesn't resonate at the correct frequency, much of it will be reflected back and forth within the antenna until it all dissipates as heat due to internal resistance.

A simple kind of antenna is a vertical antenna. These need to be 1/4 the wavelength of the RF signal. You can get by with more or less than 1/4 wavelength, but you'll waste increasingly more energy.

Wavelength is inversely proportional to frwquency. If you've got a microwave signal with a wavelength of 30cm, that's practical. VLF frequencies go up to 30 kilohertz at the high end, which is about 1 kilometer (!).

So if you want to transmit at decent power, you need a big antenna and a big power source, because you're still not going to have a perfect match and some will be wasted. This is what a VLF antenna array looks like:

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

Notice it's absolutely enormous.

Back when we didn't have high frequency electronics, commerical communication was done in the hundred kilohertz range. You can see here what those coast station antennas looked like:

https://www.radiomarine.org/historic-coast-stations