skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMS or signaling cannot use the bandwidth used for voice, they are entirely separate. On 1G and 2G one SMS needs the same bandwidth as 8 calls to go through. The signaling line can run at insanely low bitrates (and there may be errors).

The main problem was too many phones in one place causing errors on the signaling line. Like a concert. You'd get to a point where maybe one call can go through every 10 seconds. Then one person tries to send an SMS "because he can't get through" ... and the phone helpfully keeps retrying to send the SMS, each retry causing >1 minute of nothing signaling on the network. The network is now dead and while existing calls work fine, you can't even hang up anymore, never mind making or receiving a call.
Firstly, we’re not talking about America right now. Even so, the US has its faults, but is vastly more transparent than the CCP. I would be shocked if the US arrested scientists and journalists to conceal the origins of a viral outbreak.
If I'm to extrapolate my personal experience I'd say that most only care to look like that. All my respect to the real ones.
This is hardly a new thing in VPN providers though. I know that perfect privacy[1] and azire vpn[2] both advertise this feature already.

[1]https://www.perfect-privacy.com/en/features/without-logs
[2]https://www.azirevpn.com/docs/environment
Bingo. Quarterly earnings per share rules all.
Purists seem to define AI as anything that is currently too hard for computers. Wasn't long ago that chess engines with no neural networks or machine learning were being called AIs.
But you're incorrect? The lab leak theory is still widely considered to be an unlikely possibility.
I noticed on his "About" page that he says that English is not his native language. So I'll cut him a break on spelling! I wrote to him with proofreading changes including this one, and he has now corrected them.
So little? That machines you see in the pictures did cost millions of dollars each.

Each wire strand had to be carefully put in place and soldered or specially wire wrapped manually:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap

If you make a mistake, it was so painful. Today we use PCBs and if we make a mistake, we just reuse 99% of the PCB design. Once it is done, repeating the PCB design cost you almost nothing.

In the past,when you needed to make something again, you needed to make all the connections again manually. That increased the cost so much and made stupid errors abundant as humans make stupid errors all the time.

It will also took a long time for a computer to be done.

People working there having access to computers were privileged people. Now I can control a huge CNC machine, the watering of the plants and a 3D printer with a computer that fits on my hand and cost peanuts.

That is magic for me.
it's great to have a name for this.
I’m with you. 300+ comments as of this writing and most of the top ones are shitting on scientists and science in general…
I'm sure projects like chromium and llvm would love for you to just fix their build times.
USA drives 3.225 trillion miles per year, and kills 38000 people, that's about 1 death per 100 million miles. According to the anti Tesla site above, Tesla cars kill 1 person per 200 million miles. That's not accounting for deaths from pollution though
Yeah, I realized we are on a far side of the bridge when I saw how many people in the USA decided to buy their Echos. It is estimated the USA has ca. 140 housing units, and that there are 40 millions of Echos in use now. A device I would refuse to install in my house even if someone paid me a lot for it.
There's a circular problem here, though: anti-nuclear activists block development and deployment of new technologies and plants, then complain that everything's old and outdated. The cost of nuclear has to include all the decommissioning costs while Coal and Hydro get to externalise their major environmental costs.

I understand that single incidents are more visible than long-term low-level harm. But as a civilisation we really aren't paying enough attention to the overall cost of everything that's not nuclear.
3000 people die every day from Human Driven Cars
...also the other way: a lot of inventions were used in the civil world just after being designed and developed in the military one.
> - Compiler availability (DMD vs GCC)

> - Split stdlib

Oh, yes, even as a complete outsider who merely reads D related threads from time to time, I remember these coming up repeatedly years ago. Both on HN and the programming side of reddit, among the top comments on D related threads. The tone was one of these being showstopper issues too.

To be clear, I have no experience with D myself - the point is just about the PR side of things and how things seemed to an outsider.
Right, otherwise, it's just propaganda and people lying about their own horrific experiences.

Got it.
That's....honestly bad.
I agree, ReScript has no big adoption (hopefully yet), and that's the biggest disadvantage in comparison with TypeScript.
But somebody has to do the first steps...
Thank you! Now I know what that show was called. I watched it as a small kid but I could never quite describe it well enough to work out what it was called.
Well, the carboniferous era would disagree with you :)
> Price increases on existing customers are pure margin.

Don't do this. Grandfather your old customers. Of course, it depends on the kind of business. But in B2C, customers can be price-sensitize and they don't (rightly so) understand why they should pay more for the same value they receive from a product.

> Now let’s assume we increase average prices by just 10% without losing any customers.

I chuckled.
According to that lady, the Mexican drug war is an American psyop, and US Marines are the ones running the drug flow into the US.
why not link directly to the github repo? but that aside, it's quite neat
If you just mindlessly fill everything with bricks and concrete, you likely need to make the lower walls thicker than the upper ones to support the weight...

The whole engineering process can be done without ever looking at the budget as long as the framework is given ("use these materials", "you have this much space").
I played around with ranges in dlang. The idea of C++ ranges kind of originates from there. In D it's very easy to use and the standard library lets you write beautiful code with it.

C++ made it so ugly. Especially if you wanna implement a custom range.

I can recommend this article by Andrei Alexandrescu, if you are interested in the idea of ranges.

https://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly/1407357
Given the rate that non China/Tesla companies make EVs I wouldn't worry, they'll have sold about 12 by 2025
This is great because, finally we can start selling ads with verified "proximal views" to advertisers and make more money! In fact we can think of all the wonderful product synergies here. For example, we can increase the number of proximal views by automatically locking the smart lock in their room so they can't get out for the duration of the ad. Or we can lock the doors of our smart cars while the ads are playing, that's up to 6 verified viewers all at once! We can have ad screen on toilet stalls that autoplay when someone s(h)its. Your phone can start playing ads whenever you come near it! The possibilities here are endless
I remember seeing a Hackaday post that uses FFT/spectogram to infer IoT things such as boiling kettle without cameras. Is this related?
>I think this view is overly negative. First of all, consider the timing of this all; this was super early days. People, including many experts, had much less facts then, and the topic was sensitive.

I think you're missing that the lack of access to facts was a willful manipulation of the geography the "debate" took place on, which shows just what an effective strategy it was.
How many of the 10000ish FSD beta cars have crashed?
At least they try to solve issues with science/engineering instead of just giving up and throwing hands in air about climate change issues.
The average mathematician does not work on anything engineers would care about. Maybe you are talking about CS professors instead of mathematicians? I've noticed that many here on HN mix the two. They aren't the same, CS professors aren't specialists on math, they use math as a tool and often don't understand it well enough to explain it properly in a paper. Not to mention that repeating the same explanation in every paper creates a lot of redundancy, the material is already much better explained in many books or online.
The scientist in question believes there is a 50% chance of it being a lab leak, according to the article text (down a bit from their initial estimate). The scientists didn't believe focusing on a debate over this possibility was worthwhile, knowing many would focus on this possibility instead of discussing actual action. Just as predicted, Trump, Fox, and the UK equivalent, the Telegraph, duly focus on the possibility of a lab leak and consistently argue against action. They say over and over again it will soon be over, it won't really do much harm, etc. Trump, Fox and the Telegraph are consistently proved wrong over and over again. Hacker news libertarian crypto idiots lap it up, and literally use the word "sheeple" to discuss everyone who's not part of their bizarre cult.
The book „The Mom Test“ describes the behaviour very good. Most often these people are not totally honest in evaluating your idea because multiple reasons e.g. you asking the wrong way (happened to me too!) or they are not really thinking about it buying it but only about commenting your idea. Should be read by everyone!
RESF = Rust Evangelism Strike Force apparently, for those not in the know.
And it's in the Telegraph
Are you really talking about lice, or do you mean bedbugs?

If you mean lice, do you mean head lice, body lice, or pubic lice?
I think mathematical formulas are partly optimized to be easily manipulated with a pen on paper. Imagine trying to derive a slightly complex function where the variables are called `growth_rate`, `duration` and `distance`.
> and most importantly you can externalize a fair bit of the debt onto the end user as power and compute resource consumption

"The user will tolerate it being crap" is not an excellent mindset for us professionals to be striving for.
Until teslas don't require constant human attention and frequent interventions, this comparison doesn't matter. A human is still technically in control of the car.
Exactly. There's some definite substrate-ism (like sex-ism) going on here!
More like not much: the soil is non-existent, and because the latitude and weather remains dreadful the growing seasons are short.

Furthermore Siberia will not be exempt from climactic instability, meaning unpredictable weather events (limited seasonal regularity) making YoY farming planning extremely difficult.

Not only that, but the thawing creates extremely unstable ground, leading to very irregular subsidence.
One difference is that space can expand at whatever velocity it wants to, but objects can't move faster than light.
yeah, but what if you send the letter to an official of another country?

countries and people are different things; countries are generally much more secretive than people.
That's not true at all. You can charge customers before you build anything - it's just the 'pre-order model'. Lots of businesses do that, including some high-profile startups. Check out the sites like Seedrs and Kickstarter for examples.
What sqlites would it query, and to what ends?

Just trying to get a grasp on OPs "vision."
A nice way i have seen is grandfather your old users to the old price. But only users paying the new price are getting the new and shiny features. The product is not worsened for the old users. If they are really interested in the new features let them upgrade to the new pricing model with more features.
If EPA regulations stood in the way of saving a million lives a year, yeah it would be a bad way to develop new technologies. We know humans are terrible drivers leading to countless tragedies. Tesla FSD is far from working at the moment, nobody is claiming otherwise. But it requires a human supervisor, and this is enforced by a driver facing camera. That combination likely makes it safer than the average driver already today.

What I'm seeing is that Tesla's appraoch, fleet learning, is likely to accelerate the advent of L4. If Tesla can solve this using the existing cheap camera sensors, they can scale this out incredibly fast. This year they are likely to produce upwards of 2 million vehicles, and by 2025 it's likely close to 6-7 million. Even if other self-driving solutions get there first, they have no way of reaching Tesla's scale as they need specialized sensors and partnerships with OEMs etc.

Consider the possibility that I'm right. By stoking fears and getting FSD banned or delayed, many lives would be lost in the name of safety, when there has been no fatality recorded on FSD.
if only there was any proof of this actually being the case and there not being some "accidental" debug log enabled, or some other network level component having "accidental" access to the keys.

There's just no good answer to perfect trust-no-one private internet access.

If you need to hide all of your traffic from other users in your local network, you can accomplish that in a trust-no-one fashion by running your own VPN endpoint on a server you control which provides better privacy guarantees compared to a centralised commercial VPN whose business model will eventually involve selling your data (once user growth stops but shareholders demand continued revenue growth).

But if you need to hide your traffic from anybody but your peer on the internet and you need to hide the fact that you talked to that peer, then, I'm afraid, your out of luck.
What a joke. Go's GC was always pushed as a 'no tuning required' solution, as opposed to e.g. JVM collectors. As it turns out in real practice, there's no one size fits all solution and it does require tuning in non-toy applications. Go just keeps repeating the same mistakes that's been solved elsewhere 40-50 years ago.
from my understanding, it happens at ever scale. But the other forces (weak, strong, gravity, electromagnetism) are MUCH more powerful than that at small scales, and thus not observable at small scales.
The siberian thaw has literally no relevance if you don’t plant things in the ground.
When it comes to consumer gear, modern WiFi equipment is often faster than even Ethernet. I agree with your overall point, though.
Is it your actual brain or is it having a million things to worry about? Eg. if you could do a one-month retreat away from it all, would you get the same out of it as your younger self?

Of course it's also true one's younger self had other distractions, so it can be hard to compare.
I assume you're talking about the Mayo clinic firing 700 people for not getting the vaccine(given it was exactly 700 people and it was 6 days ago).

I opened the first 15 results on Google and every single one mentions the number of people as proportion of the overall company size. The vast majority are in paragraph 1 or 2.

Could you link to the article (hopefully from a reputable source) that doesn't mention the company size?
The telegraph is a mix of fox news and the daily mail, but with plummy vowels [0]

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/plummy
I think many don't fear unemployment, they fear loss of access (funding). Science isn't cheap. Proper facilities are important. Good virologists may not be independently wealthy (and they need good colleagues).

I'm sure many would continue their work unemployed, but that too would be part of the fear. If a leak can happen in a BSL4 facility and you know some would rather continue their work in their basement than give it up entirely, that alone should terrify you/everyone.
I find it important to note that "believed" suggests that their beliefs were based on as-of-yet insubstantial data to prove this was the case. Not that this really stopped this hypothesis from being explored in the public (even people like Trump jumped on it).

The way social media works today, I find it reasonable not to share all of your beliefs without gathering enough proof to either prove or disprove something.

I completely believe in open debate, but that's not what modern media provides: it usually goes for the most sensationalist angle it can get. And it leads to overarching reactions from the public when none is needed.
Yes, the combination of FSD and human may be safer. Deploying it at scale allows Tesla to accelerate the progress towards true FSD, at which point humans would not have to pay attention.
I’ve found the exact opposite, age has given me greater focus, at 50 I’ve been able to study while working and raising four kids, I was not capable of the same in my 20s
I have 0 experience in Go, and for me it looks like "Figure 11" in their article contains a full example of the needed code. Maybe I'm wrong.
A more readable version

https://outline.com/E5J2Ft
> I remember vividly president Macron (a person that I respected before that) very serious in TV explaining to all the citizens of the republic that we should not buy nor wear masks.

I don't remember this from Macron, but rather from Véran (Health Minister), but I could be wrong. anyway, at the time this was a more than reasonable request.

Because the very first persons we had to protect were health professionals, and we didn't have enough masks for everyone. (We didn't even have enough for health professionals)

> If we did that we would be safe, no need of masks.

I'll need to check again what he said, because I really don't remember that part, and I remember that the "L’usage du masque en population générale n’est pas utile" made sense to me, precisely because we had to protect health professionals first, which contradicts that part.
Apache PLC4X announcing end of community support due to missing funding
Exactly.

New is not necessarily bad. Old is not necessarily good. It all depends on what we are doing, and what our goals are.

I also use PHP to write my backends. It works nicely, for the scope of my needs. I’ve been writing in that, for over twenty years. My servers work quite well, but aren’t particularly “buzzword-compliant.”

I’m not really a server programmer, though. If I need a backend to be more intense than what I’m capable of doing, then I’ll hire someone to write it, using a more robust stack, and I need to be prepared to open my wallet, as I have high standards. Good engineers will always cost more. They’re worth it. They will frequently also have gray hair; regardless of the tech.
I embedded it in https://digiguide.tv/products/windows.asp around 20 years ago.

Aside from thread-wrangling I thought it was trvial to embed.
The comparison site seems suspicious to me. Why not use multiple comparisons? Why wasn't the study pre-registered (was it)?
Is the role of secrecy making "us" more secure? This is not to completely disagree with A. Wellerstein's thesis, however, it seems a very naive position for a historian to frame it this way (arguably a strawman fallacy). As a reaction to this piece (though I do like A. W.'s blog in general) I would suggest to write down the assumption he holds axiomatic, which are in-fact not, and explore this issue again.

Secrecy is typically an aggressive stand, a denial of or active dis-information campaigns (through media or otherwise) are the current hallmark of nation-state interaction among themselves and are they are not keeping ppl safe, but the ruling body/organization. Same holds for relationships between citizens and a particular government (with only few cases can be argued otherwise). Nay, even interaction among individuals with unequal power stand is predicated on information denial (secrecy). (deliberate software obfuscation to keep one's job, anyone?). Each of these categories would allow volumes to be written in study cases, and they are available scattered around in dis-organized fashion.
Did anyone else enjoy the irony of a group of scientists engaging in a conspiracy (of silence) in order to stop conspiracy theorists dominating a conversation about a probable (in their own eyes!) conspiracy?

You couldn't make it up.
> Unfortunately, today it's necessary to understand difference between OCaml, BuckleScript, Reason and ReScript to navigate in the ecosystem comfortably

I got hit by this literally yesterday. It took me a while to understand this mess.
Ah right, I think we're kind of on the same page. Full AI control of driving is likely 20 years away, and we should plan to have human drivers on the roads still for 30+ years. Anything we can do in the interim to improve our societal safety/utility tradeoff is good.
I disagree with the word "everything" in your sentence. If all you want to do is numeric computations, you just want a sort of "modern fortran" that compiles and runs fast. No need for multiple dispatch here. Julia almost is this language, if it wasn't for the multiple dispatch thing whose only effect is to slow the compilation (when all you have is the same numeric type).
No CS undergrad.
And its a German degree.

Sorry, the website is just in German:

https://www.hochschule-trier.de/informatik/fernstudium/studi...

There is at least one non CS undergrad path to a master in Germany through distance learning at the Fernuni-Hagen. Website also not in English:

https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/mi/studium/msc_prinformatik/ein...

And I seem to remember a study opportunity for a master in informatics for people with undergrad in humanities at the TU Chemnitz, when I looked back then.
In presence not via distance learning, so there probably are more opportunities out there now.
It was a rhetorical question :)
The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste
This is a really simplistic/neat idea to make the Strava posts a bit more interesting!
Google search doesn't have lock-in through network effects, nor is it hard to change search engines. (Well it might be hard on mobile Safari, but that is actually Apple's fault.) If Apple wanted to build a better search engine for their users and the users of Android, they could do so easily.
Is no-trust ever possible? I thought people create their threat models and verify they can trust those they have to trust.
I genuinely think that the 'zero-cost abstraction' feature of C++ is ultimately a poisoned apple that has caused far-reaching damage to the entire programming experience.
The problem, is that zero-cost in C++ means that - if all the cards line up - feature X will not cause performance overhead in a Release build.

In C, I think it's reasonable to assume that there is a linear relationship between the number of expressions in ones code, and the amount of assembly instructions it generates.

No such relationship exists in C++ code.

The problem is that due to this zero-cost mentality, brain-dead simple libraries, such as iterators, often have dozens of layers of abstractions, which all show up in a Debug build.

This makes Debug builds harder to well, debug, as you have to understand all these abstractions, (and the reason why the designers thought they were a good idea, but that falls under the umbrella of psychiatry), as well as making the build unusably slow, of†en forcing C++ devs to debug Release builds, which means that they are staring at 3 lines of x86 assembly, with hundreds of lines of 'helpful' compiler generated source code around it.
And with iMessage you need to have an Apple account, at least for carriers you have choices.
That is the great thing about mullvad. They don't have shareholders except the actual owners.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/9/16/ownership-and-future-m...