skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m surprised you can read the ISW updates and have that be your take on the situation.

My primary takeaways from them recently:

* Russia is having serious problems getting troops

* their execution is terrible and all of their successes are very costly. Even Russian mil bloggers are complaining about this.

* the push for the east is coming at great cost but provides basically no strategic benefit

Recent news as of today has suggested significant Ukrainian success in severodonestk but let’s see. I expect the city will fall eventually. If it doesn’t then… idk, I feel like Russia has all but lost the war.
Many RAII objects really are tied to a simple scope - such as std::lock_guard. So it's not just about persisting beyond the initial scope. I don't recall the word "lifetime" being used in the C++ world before Rust came along. The word "scope" was often used in the same way we talk about lifetimes now. And if you think of the space between an object's constructor and its destructor as a scope, then anything that it owns is tied to its own scope. In this way, calling it "scope-based" is rather intuitive. The only wrinkles would be objects that are tied to multiple scopes (reference counted), and objects that change scopes (move semantics), but even then it's not hard to reason about. Regardless, the term RAII is widely understood, so I'm not sure it needs a new name.
Cloudflare used to do this with the DNS page. If you had a huge zone file, you'd have to keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling until it finally stopped loading. I can't remember exactly what is was but there was definitely an important navigation item at the end of the zone that could only be accessed after the entire zone had loaded.
A $1 authorized charge would work for a little bit of "real person here" verification, but I'd imagine the $2 is to discourage auto-filling an entire town's worth of people via a script; all you'd need is, say, a voter registration list to get the necessary info of name and address.
Last weekend I was talking with a neighbor's friend about headsets and he let me try out his AfterShokz OpenComm. These are bone conduction headphones with a swivel microphone. He said he liked listening to music on them. I didn't like the audio quality for music, but it seemed like it would be plenty good for voice conferencing. What I wanted to know, though, was the microphone quality.

So I found them on Amazon and there are some video reviews!

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09CGYBZVG/

One of the video reviews is titled "Love the battery life and microphone abilities". I thought, "great, I will get to hear what the microphone sounds like."

No such luck. The video reviewer is some doofus who wears an orange flame wig - I guess it's his trademark schtick? - and at no point does he actually demonstrate the microphone quality. He did talk a lot about how good the microphone is - without letting me actually hear it - and also commented on how the headset gets caught in his wig.

Dude! Why would I care about that?

So I did a search for "opencomm microphone quality" and landed on this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRmTMpZVoVc

Now this is what I was looking for. Not only does he let you hear the microphone, but he switches back and forth between the high-quality camera mic and the OpenComm mic, with a supertitle showing which you are listening to. And they throw in noise sources like a blender and a fan so you can check out the noise cancellation. Not a worry for me, I have a quiet private office, but gosh, I love this kind of demo.

So naturally I ordered from them instead of Amazon. And I did something I never do: I bought their extended warranty. I take good care of my equipment, and on a $150-$200 purchase, I'd rather just take the minor risk of having to buy a new one. But I paid for the extended warranty just as a way to thank them for providing such an informative video review.

If you make video reviews and want to see the difference between a ridiculously bad one and a great one, compare the two above.
I've done this and it makes a big difference, but I still get a lot of junk from local businesses. Either those businesses are not part of the DMA, or they are ignoring the opt-out list. I'm not sure what to do about it.
It is save to say that they are not fighting an all out war and it is not just because it is unpopular but because they don’t need to yet. Ukraine has already mobilized everyone they will likely ever be able to mobilize and has run out of domestically available stockpiles.
And also practical electric cars, reusable crewed rockets, and worldwide high-speed satellite Internet.

Is it bluster when it can be backed up?
Wow, so that was six years before release date. It's fascinating to think that a such a single dedicated endevour can be one's focus for a decade + :)
This made me laugh out loud :-D
There is no "fight" against entropy, there is just the evolution of a deterministic wavefunction over time.
Is there a speed/power usage metric that benchmarks can use or just pin to a max power? A cpu boosting and using 300w is a bit much.
Haha. Auto correct working its magic. Unfortunately, can't edit it out since its too late.
Not really. At least in my experience, their customer service is great and that means a lot more to me than the occasional fake product or reviews.

I've gotten wrong/missing deliveries, account issues/mishaps (caused by me in some cases), and other issues that customer service was able to quickly and promptly resolve.

The service is so convenient for the end user. While consciously minding all the other un-cool things Amazon does, their customer service is really good.
I think it’s clear people are distinguishing value based purely on speculation in a scarce asset and value based on demand (and still maybe speculation) for some underlying good which has utility. Be that a house, a car, or stock of a SaaS business, a retail operation, whatever.
> And I would never buy any food or medicine from Amazon.

The price premium to know I'm getting a legitimate version of something in this category is painful. Protein powder might be twice as expensive directly through GNC, but I share your sentiment. I'm comfortable with the risk of a fake widget, but absolutely not with food.
// Compiler doesn't make independent sum* accumulators, so unroll manually.
// We cannot use an array because V might be a sizeless type. For reasonable
// code, we unroll 4x, but 8x might help (2 FMA ports * 4 cycle latency).

That code needs 2 loads per FMA. So a CPU with 2 FMA ports would need at least 4 load ports to be able to feed the 2 FMA ports. Given that most CPUs with 2 FMA ports have just 2 load ports, unrolling by 4 should be more or less ideal.

But, ideally, the compiler could make the decision based on the target architecture.

Without enabling associative math, it isn't legal to duplicate floating point accumulators and change the order of the accumulation. Perhaps compiling under `-funsafe-math` would help.
If you're using GCC, you'll probably need `-fvariable-expansion-in-unroller`, too.

I think highway looks great. I'm sure I'll procrastinate on something important to play with it reasonably soon.
… And completely predictable and inevitable for 50 years, and written about endlessly since the mid 20th century. Short of a butlerian jihad level event, the only way to fight back is better countermeasures and better value.

The law won’t help (they want more surveillance). Democracy won’t help (most people want more surveillance on their neighbors). Exploit the system.
Unplug ethernet?
I'm not sure driver mistaking the pedals is a fair starting point with the amount of software involved now a days. Telsas push updates over the air that affect these sorts of things. In this article[0] for example, it's suggested a once optional feature that is now mandatory can be used for one pedal driving.

[0] https://electrek.co/2022/05/25/tesla-updates-car-software-re...
Tell HN: Alexa regularly lies to me about which songs are available on Spotify
This is something I've noticed over the last few months. I did previously have an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription but now I use Spotify and have set Spotify as the default for music and podcasts.

I will often ask my Alexa to play a song and it will say "This song is only available on Amazon Music Unlimited", which I know to be false because I'll have been listening to the song/s in question that day. For example, I asked for the song "Spud Infinity" by Big Thief yesterday.

I don't know whether this is because the device stores this database internally and is simply out of date, though I've noticed this on much older songs too. I'm sure there's a technical reason and not some conspiracy, though I do find it strange that during the ~3 years I've owned an Alexa it only started behaving like this recently.
In an argument with a loved one, “winning” is often losing.

You have to let go of trying to win and instead try to understand. As soon as you stop trying to win, that’s the moment you find win/win.
Do they actually? I would be interested in reading some literature about this. How have they used/exposed/sold user's data?
The difference is that instead of using podman-compose you use the actual docker-compose.

You have to point your $DOCKER_HOST to the podman unix socket or something, but other than that it’s the actual docker-compose experience. Via the env var trick you could even use the actual docker binary. But you could just alias docker to podman and it works the same, by design!
It never really bothered me either way, being an American, whether the UK continued to have a monarchy. It seemed just a touristy thing, or like a very expensive reality show.

That was until Boris Johnson got the queen to suspend parliament so he could push through a no-deal brexit in 2019[0]

Sorry, what kind of bullshit is that? The PM can just do an end-run around the elected members, pause everything to run out the clock, and then come back and force through his version of a highly contentious event for the UK?

Fucking bonkers. End the monarchy.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/754990771/britains-prime-mini...
Have a ipad 2 here not turned on in ~five years. It could no longer handle any websites, not enough RAM. Would be great to use it for something, but it has an A5, not A7 or 8, according to Wikipedia.
In a nutshell, this is advocating for eugenics by incentivizing poor people to stop reproducing
The abolition of the monarchy is extremely unlikely to happen. There's no appetite for it among the general populace. No major political party supports it. If we had a referendum about it today, it would be rejected by a massive majority. These people are cranks.
I've done this as well. Another issue I've noticed is that when a certain item is set to go to "all" addresses, the mail carrier will simply give one to everyone until they run out. This is probably right most of the time. But I would consistently get junk mail for my neighbor with an apartment number one higher than mine.

I recall reporting this to the USPS multiple times without any effect. The only thing that helped was putting a note inside my mailbox to check for my neighbor's mail.
There is a lot of community based moderation. It is not just Dang, though he is the primary admin and final decision maker, when it comes to his attention. He does not see everything.
But for americans (and a lot of EU nato members) it's not a "mistake" but just a daily part of their war-fueling politics. If US had to wait until ukraine to realize that all of their wars were "mistakes", why did they send soldiers to somalia after the start of ukraine war? If they sent soldiers there, is it really by mistake? And if they sent soldiers there, shouldn't they be sanctioned? Shouldn't a bunch of other countries be sanctioned for invading afghanistan? Or syria, lybia etc (and still having soldiers there)? Are we really doing the same thing by sanctioning russia, while we (nato members) have our soldiers occpying quite a few countries around the world? If it's a mistake, why not atleast bring them home and stop the occupation, befure we point the finger at putin?
Yes and no. A lot of EVs can do two different modes, where it "coasts" and mostly only starts the regen through the brake pedal. You're right though, from what I understand Tesla kind of forces the single-pedal driving mode.
ISW has shifted to trash talking the Russian military effort because news from the front isn't fun anymore. I enjoy the news of Russian dysfunction as much as any Ukraine ally, but if you read below the fold it's exactly as I said.

I am hopeful that Ukraine can grind some asymmetric attrition out of Severodonetsk. Maybe that is why we are beginning to see some good news out of the city. Maybe they hope to turn it into Stalingrad with Russia on the other side this time.

I think Ukraine is taking a beating from the currently superior Russian artillery and I suspect that's why they can't help but slowly lose ground right now. They need neutralizing weapons (on the way but needs to be quicker and more) and they need to leverage their many tactical advantages in urban warfare. Ukraine has an amazing fighting force but there's only so much they can do while being pounded by long-range artillery on the flat terrain of the Donbas.
But if it's just a sensor, couldn't it be possible that sensor generates an erroneous signal such that it tells the car to accelerate when nobody actually pressed it?
I think the argument is that it's already out there. Companies, with no directive to even pretend to serve the public interest, already have all that data. The government does too, because security agencies mandate that they get backdoor access. "Once it's out there, it's out there forever" - that already happened.

Given that it's already out there, there's not much more to fear in terms of a slippery slope. All that's left is to at least force the public sector to disclose more of what's going on and regulate how private interests are allowed to use it.

Otherwise, we already have the dystopia you're imagining, we just don't see it as well.
Legislators Introduce Bipartisan Digital-Privacy Bill That May Not Be Doomed
Self-correcting problem, apparently.
> Each sells things that are used to aid in crimes. That doesn’t mean the government should spy on everybody who visits them

Of course they do and have been doing it for the longest time.

that's why they are forced to keep a record of what they sell and hand over that information upon request.

It's the authorities it's not some random dude passing by
> If they just sold it, then no?

Please explain.

> though I imagine the count of streams is more influential for that than the revenue per stream

Whether I listen on Apple or Spotify, their count of streams increases by the same amount.
If they manage to capture the coast including Odessa and the Donbass, they will have recovered a large chunk of the Russian speaking population lost after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and add a lot of industrial capacity. Long term this would benefit Russia, Ukraine would be reduced to a rump state.

But yeah the pre-2014 situation would be vastly better for all sides involved. Ukraine could have taken the Belarussian or Khazak trajectory.
That sound interesting. Seems quite low on memory and the 3rd generation is 3+128… is only 605 workable. I may give it a trial as it is very cheap experiment.

The article mentioned iSH. It is sad that iSH and a-shell both are working but cannot run sbcl … And ecl run but cannot load quicklisp. Hard to be used.
Albert - https://albertlauncher.github.io/

Synapse - https://launchpad.net/synapse-project

fbrun - https://linux.die.net/man/1/fbrun

rofi (my personal favourite) - https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

gmrun - https://github.com/WdesktopX/gmrun

krunner - https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner

dmenu - https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/

and shout out to Alfred for Mac - https://www.alfredapp.com/

map any of these to ctrl+space or super+space and never use the start menu/icon launchers again (or don't run a desktop at all!)
Similar to upzoning land.

Only the big-boys that can tackle multi-million dollar bids and rental building development projects can enrich themselves by the upzoning of our existing neighborhoods, locking residents into a permanent rental class for all eternity.
> It really puts your company's humanity on full display. It's the real test.

Which are the companies from the dot com crash you remember doing this very well, and very wrong?
Thank you. Yeah, I guess it's a matter of what you're used to. For me personally, I've never gotten used to Dockerfiles. It seemed like another configuration file format invented for nothing. With rules I had to remember. Entrypoint? Ugh. So I've just done everything in Bash, made it imply which container/image I want from $PWD and it saved me a ton of time. And, actually, I do tend to create/destroy containers quite often because of how easy it is (no editing files or even providing cli arguments to `dock`).

As for supporting VMs - you misunderstood. I meant support for other container engines. To me, it would most notably be BSD jails. In fact, if I get to it, I'd like to do something much more cool... Perhaps it would make sense to have a VM with FreeBSD running on a machine and then multiple BSD jails running inside - all managed by a relatively small tool-set, such as `dock` - I'd probably have to rename or fork it. But the cool part of it all is that containers won't even depend on an architecture, since they'd be running inside a VM.
Brave is basically arguing that third party marketing-distribution networks which use personally identifiable information to target ads are bad.

I think it's pretty reasonable to suggest that exposing that they do so via a third party marketing distribution network which uses personally identifiable information to target ads may have been a misstep without arguing that means they can't advertise at all

Particularly when the "but we don't see the personally identifiable information that the third party we paid used to advertise to you" applies to everyone paying Facebook or Google to show ads too...
Nationalism isn't the problem. The problem is political tribalism. Both parties have become extreme in their own right and now people don't feel they have much in common with one another because of this extreme rhetoric coming from both sides.
I did this many years ago. 99.9% of my mail is still junk, just junk where I have some sort of weaselly pre-existing relationship with the company sending mail. ("You donated money to us! Can we have some more!? We spent it all on this marketing campaign and now it's gone!")
Tidal flows are a pretty massive energy reservoir - basically you’ve got all the potential and kinetic energy of the moon’s orbit to draw from. That’s (according to my crude Wolfram Alpha based research) about 3e28J of kinetic energy plus 7e28J of potential energy, for a total of 10^29 Joules. Technically a non renewable resource, but you would be hard pressed to make a dent in that energy budget with any kind of human scale extraction project.
You can use your resources to set up a self-sufficient homestead, or you can use your resources to set up a well-armed pirate band.
"Do not or footers and infinite scrolling"??
I can weed out products with massive fake reviews by the stars distribution.

It's a subjective heuristic I developed informally. Never formalized anything statistical.

Just looking at the ration between 5 through 1 stars, I have a high confidence judging whether they bought fake reviews or not.
I suspect that this policy violates some privacy provisions in some states and countries. Don't California (and probably other) laws guarantee you the right to obtain any data a company has on you?

The CA state Web site says:

"You may request that businesses disclose to you what personal information they have collected, used, shared, or sold about you, and why they collected, used, shared, or sold that information. Specifically, you may request that businesses disclose:

-The categories of personal information collected

-Specific pieces of personal information collected

-The categories of sources from which the business collected personal information

-The purposes for which the business uses the personal information

-The categories of third parties with whom the business shares the personal information

-The categories of information that the business sells or discloses to third parties

Businesses must provide you this information for the 12-month period preceding your request. They must provide this information to you free of charge."

The wording is unfortunately vague, though. Disclosing WHAT information they've collected may be interpreted as different from disclosing THE information they've collected. However, I wonder if the "specific pieces" clause might be a basis for demanding "all data specific to a crash on such-and-such a date."

This site seems to indicate that the "specific data" allowance goes further than that: https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/insights/ccpa-privacy-faqs-if-...

From that page: "Pursuant to Cal. Civ. Code Sections 1798,100(a), and 1798.110(a) and (b), a consumer has a right to request, and a business that 'collects personal information about a consumer' has an obligation to disclose and deliver upon a verifiable request, 'the specific pieces of personal information the business has collected.'"

It seems to me that in California, Tesla has to cough it up.
that's not why a lot of the attacks on tesla are happening - the twitter acquisition and elon being political on twitter have opened him up to lots of people attacking his companies.
I can weed out products with massive fake reviews by the stars distribution.

It's a subjective heuristic I developed informally. Never formalized anything statistical.

Just looking at the ratio between 5 through 1 stars, I have a high confidence judging whether they bought fake reviews or not.
Probably unrelated but if you have a manual gearbox, with a clutch pedal, when you are about to stop, you disengage the clutch to prevent the engine from stalling.

Clutch pedals are operated with the left foot and meant to be fully depressed. If you are used to drive stick and switch to auto, you may accidentally hit the break hard with your left foot, as if it was the clutch.

So if you see someone breaking hard at the red light for no reason, especially if it is a rental car just out of the airport, it is probably the reason.

I did it, Most of my (European) friends who rented a car in the US did it too.
Probably works just as well as the do not call list.
It's not clear to me that he was working on cars. Thinking about working on cars, planning to work on cars, sure.
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Don't have to imagine, I'm living it. In my country of Finland every adult citizen is granted free housing, heating, electricity, water, Internet, healthcare and food. If you ask, you can also get extra for hobbies and irregular needs like furniture and appliances.

It's great. I've been able to dedicate my life to the highly uncertain career of computer art research. Never needed to work a job I didn't like. Zero debt.
So it would apply here if the cars software were under GPL v3?
It's a sort of tumblehome bow, similar designs were popular in the past. For instance this late 19th century French battleship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Jaur%C3%A9gu...

No doubt computer simulation / etc have let them optimize this shape more than in the past, but it's not wholly unprecedented.