skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate
I don’t know how a pensions would work in tech. 95% of the companies won’t exist by the end of your career so who pays for the pensions?
It's a little unclear exactly what the scores even mean, Consumer Reports doesn't share their methodology. They're just unitless numbers supposed to represent the relative likelihood of needing a repair. But the sense of the description is that these are supposed to represent the risk for a new car, not an existing one.

Really... this seems like a study designed to get clicks and not make real predictions. An actual result with units saying something like "16% of vehicles surveyed lost more than 1 day of utility due to maintenance problems in their first year" would be really interesting. No one has that, alas. So we all end up arguing about bad science.

(My car is just great, FWIW.)
I still use it. Best directory regex search and replace ever.
Yeah it's weird. I have these in depth technical conversations with every guest where it's great, I love this part. The frequency of verbal ticks and filler content really takes an edit from "this isn't too bad" to "what the fuck am I doing with my life?" all based on how many times you need to remove filler content within the first 5 minutes of editing a 90 minute show.

I'm kind of surprised that wedding producer openly said that. My philosophy has always been the opposite. One of my main goals of the show is to make the guest walk away thinking this was the best podcast experience they ever had from start to finish as well as do everything I can to make them come off as good as possible.

I rarely cut content but most episodes have hundreds of manual edits to remove filler content and create a more concise flow by removing long pauses because my 2nd main goal is to optimize for the listener. I keep the edits organic at the same time by leaving in some filler content and subtle things like a deep inhale or a sigh because there's a lot of meaning around that when it comes to sentiment and tone, the same can be said for sometimes leaving in an extra 500ms pause to amplify the meaning behind something. At the same time, sometimes filler content gets left in because it flowed too quickly into the next word so cutting it sounds too unnatural as if it clipped.

This is why I think it's a crazy hard problem to get a machine to be able to make decisions like this.

I do use separate recordings (we each record our track locally), it definitely helps eliminate the few cases where we talk over each other or being able to lower the volume of a laugh so it doesn't overpower what the other person said while still keeping it in because it's a good part of a conversation and a snort or laugh can easily be the difference between a listener wondering if the guest was offended or happily agreeing with something.
Your response is a non-sequitur.

I said: “The only value comes from rights that token can confer.”

Did you not see that?
To your point about psychological safety, that is actually reason to have an initial phase of idea generation occur individually before meeting in a group. Even a fully "positive-only" group likely inhibits divergent thinking to some degree.

Regarding groups, research challenges your claim that avoiding criticism during brainstorming "expands the boundaries of creativity", and that criticism is only useful for "winnowing down [already proposed] options." There are multiple studies showing that criticism during discussion _produces_ (not just selects) better ideas.

This is a good academic review of literature covering these topics https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2020.14...
> does anyone really care about building a fictional garden?

I think the market already answered your question, given that some of the most popular video games from the past few years have been based around gardening and farming.
> The best you can do is have the "target" userland marshal calls to the native userland, translating across native and target ABI.

Which is what Box64 does.
>you're overselling the difficulty - it is not extraordinarily difficult to deal with these attackers.

Of course you'd say that, because you're vastly underselling the difficulty.

You're not accounting for the number of attack surfaces, the number of attack vectors, or variables that are outside of a firm's control, such as zero days in software from third party vendors.

Many firms also deploy tons of legacy code that they depend on to operate their businesses, some of which may have been developed by vendors long gone and cannot be easily replaced.

Social engineering attacks are also becoming vastly more sophisticated.

In general, you're not accounting for the relentlessness of these actors. Sure, it's easy to mock a company when they are sniped over some low hanging fruit, but I've been on the front lines of having to deal with these types and it's nonstop cat and mouse. They only have to be right once and most small companies don't stand a chance.

But, none of that is really the point. The real point is that the blame is not with the victims, but with the criminals and the nations who sponsor them So, we should respond accordingly, instead of accepting or regurgitating their victim-blaming propaganda.

I know at least four people who work at companies that were attacked over the last few years. Two of them are small businesses that sustained devastating losses and lost time.

The economics hurt all of us, raise prices and can cost lives. These are attacks on society's collective security. What's so hard about holding these criminials and their sponsors accountable?
my 2015 honda odyssey is terrible.

They have these huge knobs that dont control anything important on the radio. The giant knob only lets you scroll through presets.

XM tuning is buried multiple screen taps in, then if you want to manually tune you have to tap up and down, through 100 channels.
Disclaimer: I have not read the article.

I have ridden 230 (hilly) km in a day (10.5 hours from start to finish, 9 hours actual pedalling time). So I'm going to guess that the conclusions are similar to mine, which are that it was tough and one simply can not eat enough salty potatoes.
Pfft. the Amiga was obviously and clearly superior to the Atari ;)
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I second this recommendation. Listen to the last two episodes and be gladly surprised.
I did the same and fixed the license issues by pirating windows.

As for drivers, the idea is that you're passing through as much of the devices as possible so it works on that level. For those you cannot passthrough, Windows 10 was surprisingly accomodating.
The EV6 and the Ioniq 5 are at the same level as the Model Y. They charge as fast, if not faster, are slightly cheaper (at least on the UK market) and have a better range.
The PDP 11 was a 1970's machine. So more like 20 years behind.
But they will not pay for it. They don't want to pay for it. They have no intention in paying for it.

Why is it moral then? When you deprive someone of something that costs you nothing and this someone will not buy it from you under no circumstances because he's not able or willing?
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Science used to be called 'natural philosophy'
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Hilarious, and unfortunately a bit too close to the mark.

It's a shame that humans will evermore remain the largest thing in the universe, and that the computer that will one day read this comment with semantic understanding will be more diminutive in all regards.

But as the paper clearly showed, the pinnacle of scientific thought in 2017 is future proof.

Q.E.D.

(And for the computers out there: q.e.d.)
Oh damn, that brings me back. First editor I used beyond notepad for coding. Was required for my AP CS class in high school.
It seems that swapping out n-way stops for circles is almost always better, unless they have signals on them IMO. Or unless you have the circle turduckien one Swindon.
Great story, about someone trying for a record length one day bike ride - interestingly, it's not say Sydney to Brisbane but looping many times on a loop around 5k length. And I learned about the concept of bike packing.
Note that there is somebody mentioned in the article who did 1040+km in a day.

Maybe they should interview that person?
Advertising payment processors is ok behaviour by Microsoft but attempting to make Windows actually respect the users default browser choice is "improper" behaviour by Mozilla[0][1].

Interesting mental gymnastics Microsoft.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/15/22782802/microsoft-block...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210
Some people would probably prefer private military and private police/security forces, but those services work differently from private schools and private healthcare due to the inherent adversarial nature of the service they are providing.

For example, the amount of police needed scales with the amount of criminals, and criminals wouldn't be the one funding the police, so there needs to be a way of forcing criminals to pay for the police, which requires something like a government.

Similarly, everyone in a society benefits from that society's military, as you can't ask a foreign power to only invade the parts of the country that haven't paid their annual mercenary fees. Either the people who want to pay keep moving to more easily defensible locations, taking their military hardware with them and leaving the borderlands undefended, or you need a government to tax everyone to pay for a society-wide / territory-wide defence.

In contrast, if other people don't want to (or can't afford to) pay for their own (or their family's) education and healthcare, that doesn't make you any less educated or healthy. (There are probably some economies of scale, and unhealthy people can affect you by carrying contagious diseases, but these are edge cases).

So I don't think it is hypocritical for someone to (grudgingly) accept that the government provides a military and police, even though those are precisely the services that they should most fear trusting the government with.
They were interesting for tech vision, yes. Super scattered for an energy company but they were definitely thinking about the uses of networks and transmission.

But ethically no better than any used-car dealership. Good riddance.
The original argument was that with traditional finance, banks could edit your balance when needed. That can't be done with bitcoin: the protocol won't accept transactions that aren't signed with the owner's private key.

The best metaphor is perhaps digital cash. No government can edit the cash in your wallet out of there, but as the owner, you can definitely lose it by force or stupidity.
> satellite internet - that is easily solvable

Starlink's latency is probably barely OK for multiplayer games, but not for remote rendering.
I’ve wondered what Go APIs involving channels should do when the computer is put to sleep and later on wakes up.
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In my system (Gentoo Linux), I boot via efistub and a built-in kernel command line that points to my root partition, so you don't even need Grub technically though I think it works basically the same way. Literally just 'root=PARTUUID=$whatever' compiled into the kernel, and you can set it as any valid rootfs target as far as I know. I don't even use an initramfs or initrd. I just boot right into my root partition in a couple of seconds.
Where do I apply to be a hall monitor as well?
What’s in it for a developing county to not defect? I think to make this work, you need transfer payments from developed countries to developing countries and to have those payments tied to effective carbon taxation.

For that matter, we probably need transfer payments here in the US. Put another $5/gallon of taxes on gasoline and you smack the working class hard. Do that and give every individual (literally everyone) who files a tax return 1000 gallons worth of the tax. Commit to reducing the gallon subsidy by 25 gallons per year per person and increasing the tax by 5% per year for the next 20 years. Evaluate every 5 years and see how you’re doing towards your goals. At the end, you’re taxing gas about $10/gallon in today’s money and subsidizing everyone $5K (in today’s money) to cover some of the increased costs of goods and transport, but giving a painful signal at the pump to incent minimizing gas consumption.

I’ve thought about those numbers for five minutes. Undoubtedly, better numbers can be chosen, but I think we’re going to have to give money in one motion and take it away in carbon taxes in another in order to be able to implement carbon taxes steep enough to change behavior.
Ask HN: What is the best grandpa OS?
I have an elderly friend who seems to have a technological learning disability stretching back for 30 years. He's been in video since 3/4 tape and today can barely use a dvd player if the inputs are set correctly. Is there a kind of linux for elderly? We kind of degrade as we get older and he wants to watch his videos, listen to his music collection, and write some stories. What would you recommend?
Yes and no. Yes, they pay for some of your consumption, but if the formula is accurate, they save that (or more) because the heat leaking from your appt into theirs means they can heat less.
When I was very young, parents would tell me to turn off the bedside lamp for bedtime. Engrossed in a book, I would lean by the window to read by the light of the street lamp. I blame this now for my nearsightedness.
Meiko, there's another name that I haven't heard for a really long time.

Are there any Transputer based systems still in use?
I've been very underwhelmed by the adaptive cruise control in my car as well. It was one of the features I was looking forward to the most, but in practice now I rarely use it. I'm also located in the pacific northwest, so I don't think highway design has anything to do with my complaints.

I find the braking is far too abrupt. I can see the car in front of me slowing down, but the system will continue accelerating until some magical distance threshold before it begins to brake.

In addition the follow distance doesn't seem to be dynamic relative to my speed. When I increase the follow distance, the car leaves too much distance at lower speeds, but increasing the follow distance causes tail-gating at higher speeds.
Something like Steam Deck for PC games would be very convenient due to the form factor.

But it remains to be seen if it can replace the mouse/keyboard combination.
AMP was built using existing web standards, which means publishers don't have to wait half a decade before Safari lets them use it.
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Unless you don't use features in vim that are available in jEdit, I don't see why it would be worth switching.

I'm curious though, I don't meet many non-coders using Vim. What's your main use case? What features do you use a lot in Vim for what you do?
> No one ever taught me to save, so I had to learn budgeting and finance management on my own while I was in college.

Just in case nobody has pointed this out to you yet, if you're in the US, how you use the tax system can make an enormous difference in your personal wealth and your generational wealth. Learning how to invest in tax-advantaged ways (backdoor 401k, tax loss harvesting, real estate transfers, trusts, donation funds, etc) is extremely complicated, but it is possible to deep dive enough to understand how it applies to you.

The US incentivizes a lot of risk taking and keeps an elite class by requiring obscure knowledge about tax laws. Most of it is "buy, borrow, die" with a lot of nuance to do it optimally.

US Dollars are losing value faster than ever, so saving in a bank is not a valid strategy. Optimally, all dollars should be invested in assets immediately, ideally assets you can easily borrow against at a low rate as you need dollars.

The whole system is crazy.

For really rich people, "life insurance" is the money they borrow against while they're alive, "living trusts" are how they pass money along to their heirs when they're dead, and "investments" are things they will never sell.
Weird, I always had HN in adblock whitelist, but I followed your advice and installed Min - upvotes are there. Seems it's my error, thanks for advice!
How would that work geopolitically? How would all those tiny nation states defend themselves against behemoths like the Russian Federation and the PRC?
There is a shitton of very crappy rotary encoders out there that attest to that.

For example, most microwaves I've seen that use knobs tend to wear them down pretty fast. Mine has a pretty much analog timer and just cannot be set for anything less than 1 min since it will randomly stop somewhere in the 0-60s interval due to wear.

A relative's oven has a digital relative rotary encoder, but again due to wear it tends to skip some positions from time to time. Meaning you'll rotate 180 degs and some days that will mean 30min, some days it will mean 10min, and then some other days it means 2 seconds.
It also uses the same knob to set the RTC, and with the knob in such state it is so much of a chore they have basically succumbed to the 12:00 phenomena.

I am a big fan of "knobs" (specially compared to capacitive buttons) but these days they are no longer reliable at all.
Companies use fossil fuels because they have no choice, either because of chemistry or because of the doctrine of shareholder primacy, or because they lack access to credit.

There are no alternatives to carbon-intensive inputs in the offing for many industries. For all of them, efficiency measures require capital investment. Borrowing to install efficiency measures reduces next-quarter returns to stockholders. Companies with low profits have a hard time borrowing.

Yes, it may be a pain point, but it's also a coordination problem (or three).

The cases where efficiency provides a clear benefit? Few and small, on the global scale.
That is money taken from custodials (i.e. the bitcoin wasn't actually yours) or through force from captured individuals. No part of that was taken by calling the bitcoin CEO to require editing the balances on the blockchain.
Well, instead of repeating it again and again, how about just stating it once, but this time with something like, you know, a proof? Or at least a source for the claim?
Seems like another subtle call for censorship of non-approved misinformation and disinformation news sites. But no mention of all the misinformation and disinformation of corporate media. Some like Washington Post have corrected their coverage of Russiagate and the Steel Dossier. Most of the other content/news outlets have yet to. Some have resorted to equivocation and contrived workarounds. They have failed the test again on the recent Kyle Rittenhouse where all they had to was to the whole video and court trial.
This is Russell's teapot. You can not prove that infinite states do not exist. In fact, common models of physics assume possibility of infinite number of states by depending on formalism axiomatically assuming infinite sets (e.g. axiom of infinity in Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory).
You're right! That makes collisions even less likely then.
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I'm skeptical of that number. I drive a Tesla, and I've occasionally been inconvenienced by the phone key not working as smoothing or immediately as I'd like, but for that reason I always carry my key card in my wallet.

Is it a problem that Telsa's servers went down? Yes. Is it a bigger problem than 1) running out of battery on your phone or 2) bluetooth acting up? No. Carry your key card, always.
My car has a physical knob for the volume, which can also be pushed in to disable the entertainment system entirely. If I need to turn off the radio in order to give full concentration to driving, I don't need to navigate through menus in order to turn it off. I'd consider that safety critical.
We don’t know how they work exactly, but we do know the mathematics that create them.

The question is if the systems that generate complex intelligence are too much for humans to create, not just the phenomenon that emerge from those systems.
Does writing ZIP archives usually cause memory inflation? I thought the algorithm had a simple fixed-size sliding window?
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> but the idea that you expressed here seems to be that younger people are better at their jobs - which is very wrong

That is not the idea I took from the GP's comment about government workers being younger.

Younger people have a different perspective to older people. That might lead to a better direction.

If you think about progress/improvement as a vector, there's speed and direction. Young and old people might have the same speed but different directions, and younger people might have a direction which is more beneficial long term.
That graphic with the ones and zeros as links in the chain is pretty clever.
Workplace injuries. Something that the diplomats are doing at work is damaging them.
and none of those tap tap tap buttons, work with gloves.
Unfortunately the article does not provide an explanation how the GPIO transmit function was achieved, but most probably it was based on prior art here:

It started with piFM [1] where the possibility was explored to modulate the internal PLL Raspberry Pi with FM and output it on pin GPIO4. This was then further refined and a PWM phase and amplitude modulation technique was applied which made it possible to generate SSB signals [2]. Based on this rpitx [3] was then created which made it possible to basically modulate any type of signal, enabling to use a raspberry pi for analog and digital broadcasts, and to replace key fobs for RF smart plugs and other wireless devices. So yes, it is possible..

[1] GPIO4 piFM transmitter, by Oliver Mattos and Oskar Weigl http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspb...

[2] Direct SSB generation by frequency modulating a PLL, by Guido http://pe1nnz.nl.eu.org/2013/05/direct-ssb-generation-on-pll...

[3] Universal I/Q TX for rpi, Evariste Courjaud, https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx
I used BDB as a Win32 profiler backend. The profiler was lightweight and would write a flat file with profiling data and function addresses to keep the captured data small.

A post processing tool would read the profiler data and create a BDB file with support for extracting call graphs and topN sort of analysis.

The final GUI was implemented in Visual Basic since other developers would not use the TUI/CLI based tools in console.

The next project used BDB to store file system metadata on embedded NAS storage. We implemented a fast ‘find’ like service based on file metadata (stat fields) stored in BDB with support for user defined file metadata.
These were meant for simple PCs aimed at students. Yamaha MSX and Sinclair clones used similarly dated Z80 way into 90s as well.

If you think late soviet CPUs are behind, wait until you see late soviet cars