skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The example conversation given in the article is long and complex and there are no obvious surface level flaws. If there are contradictions and flaws they are not noticeable but even if these flaws existed I would argue that such contradictory things also exist in human conversations and human thought. Humans by nature are contradictory and the conversation in the article shows no extraordinary deviation.

If you inspected real conversations between two sentient beings you can ALSO find equivalent flaws is the short of my argument. The given conversation is more or less indistinguishable. Contradictions found through scrutiny is far past the bar of even human intelligence.

Additionally the conversation is complex enough such that if there were identity related questions that can break it, the complexity of the AIs answers for other topics makes it look like such flaws can actually be mended with additional training. It is a very realistic possibility given the jump from earlier AIs.
Good thing you don't have to and could look it up...
Weize teardown review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6A1THDaeU

tl;dr: It isn't totally horrible, but you get what you pay for in this case.
Average population density can be misleading, especially if all 7,000 of those people basically live in one town.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720277

Crypto Platform Celsius Pauses Withdrawals (celsius.network)

132 points by xur17 2 hours ago| 59 comments
yes. I don't think they talk about 1000 metre stare but you fire a 155mm cannon and NATO standard is 7.62mm -It is arguable that NATO forced this outcome because whilst the numeric superiority is with the US forces, the heads around the table are predominantly european, and metric.

I bet you there is some component of the US military supply chain which still thinks in gallons and pounds. Probably the quartermasters translate into metric equivalents, when ordering in bulk.
I think you would see both, but not quite ubiquitous like GP claimed unless in a region with trouble keeping their grid up. Utilities will do the cost-rational thing and deploy those batteries where beneficial, and households will adopt them as well because there is always the chance that an outage can happen between the big battery and your house. Or, if the entire system falls over for some reason, you can still be an island unto yourself with solar + batteries

re: hot water heaters - it should be noted that hot water and steam delivery systems exist and are quite effective(commonly derived from cogeneration sources) e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system
I love that sound. ZZZZZEEEEEERRRRRRPT. And then you get to tear off that paper strip on the edges, oh man.
The prius prime and Rav4 prime are excellent, affordable vehicles. I only burn gasoline when driving across the country (and I can do my usual 12 hour drive with one 10 gallon refill)
Did they practice TPS/lean? Or was it more of a startup disconnected from Toyota culture?
Brand new aircraft has teething issues, or in the case of the F-22 issue found, issue fixed.
Why? How would you even buy that?
Also see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720277

Crypto Platform Celsius Pauses Withdrawals (celsius.network)

132 points by xur17 2 hours ago| 59 comments
Google dominating search, internet needs crawl neutrality, what do you think?
Regulators and policymakers need to step in if they care for competition in search. The market needs crawl neutrality, similar to net neutrality.
>> I honestly believe that China, India, and other Asian countries will dominate the next century and beyond.

Before they do that, they'll have to solve similar problems the US is facing right now in terms of inequality. In fact they are running into these issues even now.

However there is one major difference that India and China have to contend with which would be a big problem. And that is scale - the very thing that propels their growth will be a major obstacle. It is one thing to have inequality in a country of 300M, it is another to have to contend with 500M+ disgruntled citizens.

And sadly, looking at the state of affairs, I am not sure if the leadership of both the countries are equipped/want to deal with it.
I think we’re going to see these sorts of things take off in the next couple of years.

Greenworks and TORO have a little 300W inverter that you can plug their lawnmower/yard equipment batteries into and use as a portable power back.
My experience of my stuff (rarely!) getting posted here was not nearly as bad as you describe but yeah this certainly exist. My suggestion would be to learn to ignore/brush off these parts.
What's the significance of 98 to 97 ?
Right, both are not "startups" they are public companies.
The ugly seafood looks too similar to bugs for my taste.
CodeWeavers has done an amazing job getting Wine gaming functional on macOS, but it looks like they’ve been fighting the platform every step of the way.

32-bit games have terrible performance because 32-bit support has had to be reimplemented in Wine.

DirectX 12 games (such as Elden Ring) don’t even boot, and likely won’t run at all for another year or two. Metal has been missing major functionality utilized by the vast majority of DirectX 12 games such as Elden Ring. The Metal 3 improvements announced the other week should go a long way towards making this actually possible, though.
The title here is nonsensical. You should the one from the article.
Is the F-35 not in full production? There are already more F-35s than super hornets for example.
There must be a better way to screen people who are likely to leave. While maybe being a beat cop walking patrols isn’t too intellectually stimulating (though I wouldn’t take that for granted) surely there’s other positions like detective and management that would benefit from intelligent people, and where are they going to get them if they filter out all the smart people up front?
That is decriminalizing, not legalizing. Even taking decriminalization, however, I would wager there are many, many more people who simply want to legalize cannabis relative to those who might want to decriminalize/legalize all drugs.

It is probably more accurate to say lots of liberals and conservatives want to legalize cannabis, and a non representative extreme contingent on both sides either want to decriminalize all drugs or continue to ban cannabis.
I really don’t understand why we need standards for UUIDs. I get that with cryptography it’s super easy to make subtle mistakes. But UUID4 (the most commonly used variant these days) is just a long random number. Except for a few bits which aren’t random because the standard says so. As long as you’re using a goodsource of randomness (most are these days) it’s pretty hard to screw up. Why do we need a standard to tell us how to combine time stamps and random numbers?
Imagine being so uptight that you see a harmless joke, get mad about it, make many assumptions about a person that you've never met, and not only tell them to change it but give them a deadline to do so.
Full disclosure: I'm a crypto hyper-bull.

That said: these weird DeFi platforms that were getting like 20% of whatever yields never made any sense to me.

20% isn't that great. You can get 15% on basic blackrock/vanguard funds.

I just never could understand why people would tolerate this sort of risk for that little reward.
“What do you think?” is redundant since the point of submitting links is discussion.

On HN we submit the original titles of the articles.
Usually you have a pretty high rate construction or bridge loan that you plan on refinancing into a normal home loan when there’s a house to backstop it.

But you can’t get that backstopped loan until the house exists.

Likely you could pull out and lose a deposit (and a good lawyer might even get that back because of delay) but you’re still without a house.
Much of the actual “redemptions” happen on Bitfinex. Tether and Bitfinex have the same owners and they buy Tether in open market operations. You can see the accumulations in Bitfinex USDT wallets before they move to the Tether Treasury

The 0.1% is entirely theoretical. There has never been a documented Tether redemption so we have no idea what the actual terms are. We already know in many cases Tethers are created with no dollars changing hands: Celsius admitted to giving Tether Bitcoin for USDT as a loan

So without actual proof of redemption it’s naive to merely believe the stated terms of known liars.

The exchange prices are the real prices, and they haven’t been this low this long. Accompanied by outflows that is significant.
$98 per share to $97 per share.
The parent is correct. You don't need to worry about being interrupted. If you did no program would be correct in the presence of interrupts. The entire state of the processor can be saved and restored during an interrupt as if nothing has happened. LOCK is for multi-processing.

EDIT: That said you do have to worry about being interrupted mid-sequence of instructions and data races but that's what critical sections are for. So INC or DEC (which increment/decrement and set flags) are perfectly safe under interrupts. If you have more a more complex sequence then you need a critical section. However they are not safe (without the LOCK) under multi-processing.

EDIT2: also to clarify you're not interrupted mid-instruction. I.e. you can't observe the undelying read/modify/write through interrupts, only through a second core/processor.
Can someone explain this a bit more clearly ?

> Consider what that means for the home buying market. Those of us fortunate enough to have 30 year fixed rate mortgages at about 3% are about to see our mortgage “debt” give us better returns than our stock holdings.

Does this mean we should have borrowed as much as possible to buy a house when rates were low ?
I think we could make a primitive simulation of physics, but that is mighty presumptive because how much do we still not know of physics, and how much do we think we know because it is the best explanation we have right now? When you step away from equations, everything gets real fucky very fast, because there's a lot that is subject to conjecture and interpretation. How do you teach a computer nuance?
I don't fundamentally disagree with this position, but I do feel the level and types of training a US LEO should go through (yes, I suggest a Federal standard) should be completely different from the mess now.

The training and discipline of the Met in the UK the JNI of Japan or the German Police all are both less prone to misbehavior and more effective. Frankly, we could learn a lot from elsewhere: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/am... (we won't, but we could)
Is it just me or Canadian pension plans seem to be involved in a disproportionate share of dubious late stage tech investments? The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has an extensive Crunchbase page. Are there differences in regulations between the United States and Canada?
What did you do to cure yourself?
Sure, decentralised allocation is the intent of UUIDs, but in practice UUIDv4 is used extremely widely where it’s completely unnecessary, because it’s a convenient way of generating non-sequential IDs with good tooling support (UUID libraries, UUID data types in some databases, &c.).
Doing beer delivery for a bit while you work out some other parts of your life sounds like an alright time to me.
If I want to build a modest cabin in a continental climate powered purely by solar+batteries, could I put the batteries underground for temperature stability?

I don't know much about this subject, but I'm scared of battery fires and I don't see anyone doing the underground thing, so I'm probably missing something.
But if people are responding to these sort of posts, then it seems like a "collective megaphone" that would be useful for a variety of purposes, for example, designating a market need for new companies potentially addressing that need to pitch off of.
I grew up before social media, and I stayed up late reading books. "just one more chapter and then I'll go to sleep". And I'm not even a book nerd - I haven't read any fiction in over a decade now, it's just what we had. I think young people will find something no matter what.
Yeah there’s a tiny m18 100w 120v outlet thing that’s a bit more reasonable, especially if you already have batteries.
Well deno is about five years old. That is to be expected, isn't it ?

The timing feel similar to rust to me. It needed almost a decade to have real production ready project. Mozilla was an exception as they built it.
> You cannot hear some crazyman running at you, screaming, until he has passed you? You cannot hear the stereo in some guy's car until after he passed you? You cannot hear a siren of police until the car has passed you?

For all of those things, you will see them pass you before you hear the sound they emitted when they were passing you. (Maybe not by enough to be noticeable, given the smaller distances involved)
If there was a high chance I would come home to my house being devastated whether I lock up or not, I would probably not bother locking up.
Also see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720277

Crypto Platform Celsius Pauses Withdrawals (celsius.network)

132 points by xur17 2 hours ago| 59 comments

And 5 or so articles from different publishers: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=true...
how did it go
In a rational world, that hose would have had someone trying to strangle it ~two decades ago.

In the irrational world we live in today, because of sentiments like what you've quoted, we're heading straight towards a climate catastrophe. The cheapest time to avoid it was by taking action 20 years ago, the next cheapest time to avoid it is today, but unfortunately irrational people aren't very price-conscious.
Likely because people are unfamiliar with what you're talking about. I never heard of this.
This is my fault. I do see how that part is worded ambiguously (I'll fix it later), but I have not been with MIT in years. Copy pasting what I've written in another comment:

To clarify: I have not been with MIT in years. I was paid the minimum hourly rate (roughly $14 an hour) to work on a related project during my undergraduate years, which eventually evolved into this project years down the road. (In fact, I had to pay for my own compute to get my work started - MIT never offered me any credits.)

And to address the philosophy behind the MIT license (also copy pasted from another comment):

For the past three years, I have done nothing but work on this project nonstop. I've been working on massive improvements (that some have pointed out in this thread) that I've been stuck on for the past several months, but I'm getting close to finishing that up.

I don't feel comfortable publishing or releasing anything until I know for a fact that I can make no further improvements. It's not out of corporate greed or anything like that - I'm just really paranoid about getting out the best work possible.
Respectfully, the perfect is the enemy of the good, and it’s entirely reasonable to publish what you have now. If later you make further improvements, you can simply publish again.
What is a 'crypto hyper-bull?'
The irony of "we're an entrepreneurial tech forum that doesn't want to hear problems about tech companies that don't want to hear problems about their platforms" is just ... so delicious!

Just waiting for the inevitable next round of Congressional "What are you going to do about these issues?/Oh we're definitely going to read these legal department-prepared statements that vaguely suggest that we're possibly maybe definitely going to try do something undefined about these issues in the unspecified future."
One of the smartest men I know was a police officer. He was frustrated with the poorly thought-through rules of the job and with his coworkers and commanders, and was never happy in that job as far as I could tell. He was indeed too smart to be a cop, or at least too smart to have wanted to be. It would have been better for him if he had been rejected.

Was he a good cop? Depends on what you mean by that. He was non-violent, and conscientious, and principled, and enforced the law with unusual accuracy and precision — but whether his superiors were satisfied with his performance, I can't say. I'm inclined to imagine that they found his resistance to what he saw as bad, stupid, or unethical policies inconvenient, and his enforcement of what they saw as trivial violations tiresome. I'm inclined to doubt that his superiors appreciated his intellect.

Are we really sure that it's unreasonable to reject an applicant because he is too smart, if it creates a dissatisfied officer and dissatisfied superiors?
Consensus capital markets are fairly novel: https://mirror.xyz/alkimiya-protocol.eth/PbTyQ3JnVtGq54fLjDr...
Probably because “smart person” isn’t a protected class
These "solar generators" have been a thing for a couple years now; GoalZero sells 'em up to 1500W in most outdoor shops (I just bought a 500W "generator" + a 50W panel from REI), and their website has "home" versions in the multi-kW range.

I have a feeling these are gonna be a gamechanger for offgrid and nomadic living, especially with further improvements in capacity and price.
What is 'tech elite' here?
It's always so fascinating to read about EVTOL outside of industry forums, especially where commenters are highly inquisitive (both in the physics/engineering of these vehicles and in their proposed business models.)

For those who've read into Lilium and their business model, some comments:

1. There are lots of very talented people at the company, including several friends of mine. They also have strong leadership and a very well connected board. However, their design has several unproven aspects to it.

2. The biggest issue Lilium has is their battery, which is predicated on technology that doesn't exist yet. Battery technology doesn't improve like the semiconductor. There is no Moore's Law. What Lilium needs is an Einstein-level breakthrough in chemistry. Who knows if and when that will happen?

3. Lilium, like several other EVTOL manufacturers, managed to SPAC itself last year. Many of its investors are now retail investors who do not understand aerospace platform development, the challenges and risks of this nascent EVTOL domain, nor the necessary timelines for development, certification, or infrastructure development (a much bigger challenge IMHO than certification.) As a result, thanks in part to the reveal about above issue #2 some months ago (which may or may not be related to a major drop in stock price,) there is now a class-action investor lawsuit against the company. Uh oh!

Btw, I do a lot of work in aerospace safety standards around emerging tech, and therefore have a lot of tentacles into this new domain of aerospace, although I do not work commercially in AAM/EVTOL/UAM. As an engineer and leader, I think broadly and connect dots. This is uncommon in the industry, which is highly siloed.

In short, there is a good deal skepticism in these comments. I think that's warranted, and I tend to agree with that skepticism. Lilium and others will have a positive and positively transformative effect on aviation--especially in the general and business aviation space (what we aerospace nerds call Part 23, even though EVTOL is now Part 21.17b--another issue to read up about!) However, I wouldn't bet a dime on the current business models of most of these EVTOL/UAM OEMS.
I suppose if you don't want it to for whatever reason it'll shut off if it gets too hot (perhaps short of where it would otherwise start cooling) instead?
The Wayback Machine indicates that the ownership counter was steadily increasing until that point, so that's presumably the record. Of course as others pointed out in other threads, this "counter" might be just a fake as well.
Yep. DoC hires the people who can’t successfully get a job with the TSA.
> What also makes this situation peculiar to me is that it's being immediately rushed into Cargo proper instead of the usual way these tools are handled by the Cargo team (i.e. allowing multiple ideas to compete as third-party tools and maybe choosing one once a winner is clear).

This tool isn't being pushed into Cargo proper, and I doubt it will be any time soon. Instead, it is a third-party crate called "cargo-vet". If an executable named "cargo-whatever" is in the search path, Cargo can invoke it as a subcommand "cargo whatever". See Cargo's docs for more info: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/external-tools.htm...
I have one of the Anker batteries. It'll happily take in >1000W from an AC wall outlet to charge fully in ~1hr. It's 300W max DC input from solar (which is where that 3.6hr number comes from) or 100W max from a 12v car adapter.

Those other batteries you linked look like a potentially great deal for raw capacity, though there's something to be said for having a mostly portable package with thermal management and a bunch of different inputs and high-powered outputs.
> Deno version of Astro (static-first with SSR) and Isle (vue-focused) and bigger Next.js/Nuxt SSR (with no client js) modes.

I think you have just summoned Cthulhu.
Twitter's blocking tools are second to none. Specifically the ability to block words is pure magic. I used to see tons of retweets of political garbage, but with a block list of political words it's all gone and all I see are interesting technical discussions.
If it requires discipline, you’re doing it wrong. For best results, it should be threaded through your ORM or equivalent so that you can’t do it wrong, that at your app layer you never get raw IDs.
Many (perhaps most) police departments require new cadets to be patrol officers for N years prior to being promoted to Detective. Once promoted to the equivalent rank, you still need an opening on a unit and it can be competitive from what I gather.
I happen to write control and processing software for wind tunnel experiments.
I am currently working on an acoustic setup. I believe things like wind speed I influence the delay too, as it affects the distance the sound has to travel between the source and you.
”Tickets should be minimal depending on the task. Creating a ticket that says 'update documentation' may take 10 seconds”

This type of placeholder-documentation is literally the WORST type of tracking you can have. And a sign that everybody in your company forgot the reason why this type of traceability was implemented in the first place.

If I review a PR that links to a Jira ticket that says absolutely nothing except “update documentation”. What’s the whole point?!

What’s worse is when people see a link to a Jira as an excuse to write bad commit messages.

I would much rather read a commit message detailing out the background and rationale of the change, rather than a nonsense commit message linking to another nonsense kpi-chasing Jira ticket.

PRs are code reviewed anyway so it’s not like you have a bonanza of unknown changes being pushed left and right. Code reviews not only catches coding bugs but also accountability within the team, eg “why are you refactoring something that works, when our backlog has 100 other more important things to do.”
Note: Don't believe that what a photograph shows is what you will experience in real life.

I visited Bahía Bioluminiscente[0] on an island off of Puerto Rico and you could definitely tell something strange was going on, but it was not at all comparable to photographs of the same thing. I would say it is more akin to the glint of a half moon off the water where you disturbed it more than a kind of bluegreen LED in the water.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Mosquito

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Surfing_on_bioluminescent...
Apple’s New CarPlay Is the Foreshock to Releasing Its Own Vehicle