skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Transparency: We don’t censor, bias, filter, or downrank results (unless legally required to)

Is it me or does the description not match the bullet? To me 'transparency' would be 'we detail on this page exactly how we bias/filter/downrank results (except where legally required not to)'.

Second point somewhat implicit in the first: how can a search engine be said not to bias/filter/downrank results? That's the whole job? I think what they mean is they have some generic algorithm, and there's no special casing going on to further political or social ideals etc.?

Circling back to the first - I think you can even do that (if you want) and claim transparency, you just have to say 'we aggressively downrank anything to do with XY rights' or whatever, and it might not be what everyone wants but it will be transparent?
Sorry, I don't follow post lifetimes. It was interesting enough for me.

However, I want to quote some parts of the guidelines.

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Have a nice day.
Thanks, will update later. https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/ is the address.
That is a truly miniscule group of the population, to the point where I would wager that those people would have eventually ended up smoking even in a world where vaping didn't exist.

The benefits of vaping over smoking even ignoring health concerns are simply massive. It doesn't smell nearly as offensive, it's vastly more palatable, you don't need to litter or look for an ever-dissapearing batch of ashtrays, there's vastly less social stigma, and if you're so inclined you can get much heavier nicotine hit.
> Why specifically go after tobacco when we're moving towards legalizing/decriminalizing everything else?

Why impose standards on tobacco when we are moving towards standards rather than prohibition on everything else?
Public transport was crippled during the pandemic for obvious reasons... Let's not forget that.

Also during an earthquake/power outage scenario would likely do the same, and cause far more dramatic loss of life if it was the only option.

It's a hard sell to people who want to be free and independent, and in control of their safety and time.

Getting rid of cars also means eliminating a huge volume of revenue from federal, state, and local government from related taxes... This means funding for bike lanes, roads, and even public transport, would evaporate.

Most of the busses in many major cities were also once electric (at a very high cost to cities), but now (somehow) have mostly gone back to diesel... No one is asking Why...

We still have major factories, ships, planes, and many other big business hallmarks that create the majority of pollution in the world (while the same companies try to portray that they are "green"). Conservation efforts are futile unless we start talking about the real issues, and create accountability, not if we leave rules up to profit seeking individuals and companies.

It's beyond a hard sell at this point for many people, and contradictory to the concept of a free society.

Back when we had mostly horses providing transit, they consumed more energy than cars on an individual basis too, and created health problems with their waste...

It's all just shifting the buck somewhere else, and not solving real underlying problems.
Yes, I believe so, although you need “privileged network access” on the box - meaning you can craft random IP packets, not just “control” of the box. So on the LAN or otherwise in-path for the route for that subnet’s responses.
The PDFs below are a little dry, but they have noticed and cared since at least their 2018 forecast. As for the remedy, what exactly does it mean to lose public utility status?

[1] https://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/ra/Reliability%20Assessments%20...

[2] https://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/ra/Reliability%20Assessments%20...

[3] https://cdn.misoenergy.org//Aligning%20Resource%20Availabili...
I feel like the 600 DPI HP Laserjet 4 produced better printouts 30 years ago than what I'm getting from modern laser printers, but perhaps that's just fuzzy memories...

That point in time was a bit odd; it was exciting to do "desktop publishing".
Love this stuff and was expecting to find more "wild" engineering stories in the comments. Not disappointed!
Hmm, I would be really curious to see what happens when a foreigner with an Identitetskort leaves the EU. Maybe those countries that accept an EU ID would also accept that?

I'm not sure about this but I think the German residence card, if you have one, is "ID" enough for a lot of things inside Germany, but there are still cases when you have to use your passport. I know at least one person who drives around with her residence permit and her driving license, but doesn't carry her passport regularly.
I predicted the invasion of Ukraine in 2014 after no one gave a shit about the Crimean invasion. Plenty of other people did too, it wasn't even a difficult prediction to make, Putin has been very clear about his Ukrainian ambition for a long time. Remember Trump's first impeachment? It was literally about withholding military aid to Ukraine, all of the state department officials were bewildered because they knew about the impending invasion.
I'm fine with nobody else being able to sell an apple computer.

AAPL's repeated stepping on the Beatles' record label and holding company called Apple's trademarks were pretty heinous though (so far as trademark abuses go) until they were resolved by AAPL buying out the trademark completely for perhaps half a billion dollars in 2007.

The whole purpose of a trademark is being able to own the name of your product so nobody else can pretend to be you and confuse/steal/defraud your customers.

That doesn't mean that AAPL can stop anybody from selling fruit or calling a completely unrelated product something apple related.
I keep saying this but we need a local web search engine.

How can we accomplish this?

I'm not sure if it's possible or feasible.

But i want the discussion to happen. Maybe someone will eventually find a clever way to solve this or maybe it's just a matter of time until our cpus/bandwith/storage is good enough for this to work
Around the time they transitioned to Apache, they were pretty close to dead. After the transition they've both notably picked up dev work.
The EPA says that for every 100 pounds of weight carried around by a car, fuel efficiency drops by around 1%.

So if you avoid carrying around 8 gallons of fuel everywhere, you could increase fuel efficiency by around half a percent.

Not a lot of savings.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/driveHabits.jsp
Shoes that retail for $120-$150 don’t cost $100 to make. Normal shoes cost like $20 to make. The rest of the costs are transportation, warehousing, marketing, etc. Also remember that retail takes a 25-35% cut. I would expect a shoe that costs $200 to make to retail for at least $400.
9. "there is no known way to create any permissionless blockchain that is impervious to malicious nodes without having a trusted-third party"
This is even worse than falsely binding to 127.0.0.1. If I don't publish a port in a container, I expect to *not publish any ports*.
Novice question about D: From my brief reading, it looks like appending to a slice in D avoids the "invalidate all references into the old allocation" problem in a similar way to how Go does it, by having the GC keep the old allocations alive as long as there are references into them. Is that right? How does that interact with optional garbage collection? Is there anything like C++'s std::vector or Rust's Vec that D programmers reach for when the GC is off?
Right, you aren't going to send that packet over the Internet, and you'll only getting it through local routers that have the routes you need, which should not be common.
>Blink being Open Source does not change what Google does with the engine.

That's absolutely right, but it's not the point.

What matters is how much investment is required to offer an alternative to Google's Chrome. Does it take billions or does it take mere millions?

Building on top of Chromium means that it takes mere millions. And that changes the situation.

For that to be true, it is not necessary to wrest power from Google when it comes to deciding what does or does not go into Chromium as Google doesn't get to decide what goes into any forks.

Does any of this negate the power that Google currently has over web standards by way of Chrome's overwhelming market share? Certainly not.

What it changes is Google's margin of safety when it comes to imposing truly user hostile technology on everybody or stop investing in the technology.

And I don't mean "user hostile" in the sense that it enrages the HN crowd. I mean user hostile in the sense that many normal users will actually look for better alternatives on their own accord, not for political/advocacy reasons.

The fact that open source Chromium exist makes Google's dominance over the web far less assured than it would otherwise be.
> Attempts to make things decentralized all seem to be aggregating into central controls, i.e. "Web3/crypto" -> coinbase, kraken, etc

Coinbase and Kraken are not "central controls" as you not only can use either and they are exactly fully interchangeable, but you can use any number of other similar services--or even deal directly with another user and keep your credentials locally--all of which are exactly fully interchangeable.
Almost certainly nothing, even if this university were to attempt to enforce its trademark against you. The legal test for trademark violations in the United States requires that consumers are reasonably likely to be confused about the origin of the product.
I’m not sure I’ve ever in my life seen a sports garment (or any garment, actually) with solely the word “the” printed on it. So to object on the ground that it is “common” seems pretty shaky. If they tried to go after any use of the word on garment, that would be an obvious overreach. But establishing a trademark on the use of it by itself, given the lack of prior use, sounds reasonable.
I just want to take some issue with your characterization of "with mathematical certainty".

You're completely right that given fertility rates are under replacement rate—from memory: 2.1 children per woman—populations will decrease with mathematical certainty. But there is no universal law that developed countries must remain below replacement fertility levels; that's just what has always happened so far—given the cultures and policies which exist today.

It's not completely absurd to imagine scenarios like:

- a rich society getting serious about the fertility problem and putting it's money where it's mouth is: free childcare, free fertility clinics, generous subsidies for having a third kid, etc

- a culture shift amongst the patriotic, or the religious, or whatever subgroup, to believe it's their responsibility to have more children.
It's extremely common to use both cores on the dual core Xtensa because you can bind ESP tasks (WiFi/Bluetooth) to one core and schedule your application code on the second core, reducing jitter visible to the application code.

The cores were even named Core0 - PROtocol and Core1 - APPlication in the initial ESP-IDF design, where the core affinity model was going to be more strongly enforced (thankfully they backed off on this idea and now it is fully configurable SMP).
Why does it have to be in one place? There are dozens of cheap and fairly private email providers and you can run spreadsheets locally or self-host an Etherpad.
It sounds like there's a story to that last line and now I'm curious.
Have you ever heard of https://www.shodan.io/?
There is public code and data available to train similar models (text generation, image generation, whatever you like). Training details are also often available. The learning rate schedule is actually nothing special.

However, you are fully right that the computation costs are very high.

One thing we can learn is: It really works. It scales up and gets better. Without really doing anything special. This was kind of unexpected to most people. This is really interesting. Most people expected that there is some limit and the performance would level out. But so far this does not seem to be the case. It rather looks like you could scale it up as much as you want to get even better and better performance without any limitation.

So, what to do now with this knowledge?

Maybe we should focus the research on reducing the computation costs. E.g. by better hardware (maybe neuromorphic), or more computational efficient models.
I've been writing Java for about 15 years. There hasn't been a single instance where I've used String.intern(). I'm starting to think that there is never an appropriate place for it. What do you get from it? Anything else other than the ability to reliably use == for String comparison instead of .equals()?

Nevermind the architecture astronauts saying that the string intern pool is actually global state and global state is always problematic.
Bob, your continued love of synths gives me hope we will see you take a real leap of faith and give us a ‘Crafting Real-time Audio via custom digital Synthesizers’. I would genuinely love a beginner friendly guide to audio programming in the style you developed for Crafting Interpreters. Help me get my friends into digital instrument programming Bob, it’s not like it would take that long!
Yeah it's nuts. The best solution I've found is some kind of cloud firewall, whether that be an off the self service that you use with whatever cloud provider you are using, or rolling your own by routing all traffic through another host that doesn't have Docker nuking all your firewall rules every time it restarts.
Well, Howdy!

I'm a licensed radio amateur since 1996, I've spent about 20 years working in the cellular/telecom/two way radio industry, and I've done Motorola R56 inspections (as well as other proprietary grounding standards).

I respectfully disagree, a direct lightning strike almost certainly will take out gear at a cell site, even when properly grounded. Similarly a direct strike to telco cable will certainly fuse the 16-20ga wire in the cable itself at the first point its near a ground. Carbons, Glass Tubes, and other similar hardware will protect you in the event of a nearby strike (like to a lightning rod on a tower, or building) - but wont save you if the infrastructure is struck itself.

Generally the point of lightning protection systems is to well ground the tower, to draw the lightening away - so the tower and grounding system can protect the equipment - that isn't a direct strike by what I'm saying here - a direct strike would be if it struck the antenna itself.

Thats the perspective I have from cleaning up from strikes at well grounded and protected tower sites.
I'm an unusual guy.
> … emigrate if they can.

Where are you recommending they go?
> What part of it is a scam, if at no point users are required to put any money or buy anything to participate?

That's not a convincing rebuttal. A scam with a "free-to-play" tier is still a scam. Lots of carnies will let you play their scam game for free a few times, letting you get into the game for free is a popular trick for scammers.

With respect to Brave's thing specifically, it doesn't really seem like a scam to me. But I don't blame people for thinking it's a scam. If you reflexively call anything remotely related to cryptocurrencies a scam, you'll be right more often than not. It may not always be accurate 100% of the time, but it's a very good heuristic. If Brave wants to use a cryptocurrency and not be considered a scam, they have their work cut out for them. That's just the way it is.
Is it neglience if it is a documented feature? Bad UX does not imply neglience?
They're Coming for Behaviour Genetics
Absolutely better. OpenProductivity? When I ddg it, the third hit is OpenOffice, so they're probably buying it, it's so good. CornerOffice?
Just don't confused Miami University (Ohio) with University of Miami (Florida).

There was a comment a few days ago from a sad European student that had made that mistake hoping for a university with plentiful beaches and nice warm weather.
> When it happened a lot of people were surprised.

Meanwhile the US intelligence service had been claiming since summer that an invasion was likely. Trump's impeachment was over withholding military aid that the state department deemed crucial. The career foreign service workers saw this coming.
There's a clear difference between 'THE' and 'The University'.
They're a state-sponsored monopoly. If they're not competent to maintain enough capacity for the easily-projected demand, go find someone who can and make them the new state-sponsored monopoly.

It'd be ugly, but if no one loses their job nothing will change.
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Yet somehow my car doesn't take down the grid every time I plug it in and the car tries to draw 150KW to charge the batteries at max rate.

Why would grid storage configure the cars to supply power at the max battery rate?

Even if my car and the grid-tie system malfunctioned and tried to send unlimited power to the grid, the 30A breaker its plugged into would trip before it hits 7500W.

It's not like it needs to handle a lot of power because EV's don't have that much power to spare, if I have a 75KWh battery and am willing to give up 30% of my capacity to the grid, that's 25KWh, or around 2.5KW for 10 hours.
Nice, that's interesting indeed!
Yeah this got me the first time I was using docker as well. I wanted my app server to only listen locally and configured it like that, then Docker helpfully punched a hole in my firewall so anything could talk to it.

Agreed that podman has been a great experience in comparison.
Believe it or not, overlayed closed captions was one the first things I came up with. It's also not that hard to do with commodity voice and face recognition. We did a POC just on a 2d phone screen in like a week. Trying to capture multiple people speaking at once is way beyond the capability of any retail headset and would require an elaborate 3d microphone array and noise filtering to pinpoint where a voice is coming from. Ours worked pretty well sitting across a table, but would struggle mightily trying to hear something across any distance in a noisy room.
Is the status quo on drive firmware lying about what's actually been flushed to media still as terrible as it was, oh, twenty years ago?

A friend used to work for Apple and said that one of the reasons they had apple-specific versions of various mass market SCSI and IDE drives was because Apple's firmware actually flushed data to disk when told to do so, and didn't lie about whether data was flushed or not.
Obfuscation (Software)
Mozilla: source?
we had some people at work running a copy of librespeed, and they kept pronouncing libre as LEE-BER I had to correct them once a week for 2 months before they got it.
My point is that as long as there is an algorithm, it will be possible to optimize for it.
People don't see industies where they don't work. Rising specialization and automation means that fewer are involver in industry. People are myopic and judge facts by feelings instead of using them as a proper guide of priorities.
In Russia, Western Planes Are Falling Apart
In my opinion, the best project is one that meets your specific need.

In other words, you don't want to say "I can copy someone else's work", but rather "I can have an idea and then build it myself", which is a much more desirable skill. It also usually indicates that you know the tool/language/service well enough that you can create something original and not just follow a script or tutorial.

I can give you a million ideas (really!) but you need to come up with something that resonates with you, personally.

As an example, I will tell you the project that I'm finishing up, and the project that I'm doing next. And I already have a good job... I just like building things and solving my own problems!

I just finished designing, building, and installing a LED light fixture for my kitchen that integrates with my smart switches and Home Assistant. I'm editing the video for it now and will post it on YouTube soon.

My next project is to create a digital audio mixer that my home automation can control via ZigBee. Reason: no commercial offerings do what I want done with separate and overlapping zones.

You might look at this and say "but none of that sounds interesting to me!", or "I'm wanting to work on different technologies!" That's great! You shouldn't try to copy me! Scratch your own itch and explore your own interests! And tell us about it here when you do something cool!
> Moreover the late 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries taught us that focusing on the nation-state leads to widespread warfare. Better to have those nation-states in economic cooperation that leads to peace than economic competition that leads to war.

I think it has taught us the opposite? Pre WWI, the world was already very integrated and globalized, to the point that many pundits said that a large war is impossible, because it would hurt businesses everywhere too much. And yet it happened.
What are the inputs derived from the training images?

Do they do object detection prior and if so, at what granularity (toes, eyes, hat, gloves, etc)? Is it at the pixel level?
The FDA have pretty strict standards in terms of project management. Of course it depends on the "class" of the medical device we are talking about. But if the software is used for diagnostics, you will need a whole battery of controls (test, documentation, processes, etc).
The fact that they can attempt to enforce it is a big part of the problem.

Frivolous trademark and patent lawsuits is a whole damn industry, built upon milking money out of people who cannot reasonably afford to go through an entire trademark/patent dispute without going bankrupt - so they either give up what could potentially be a completely valid use case, or pay some sort of licensing fee they don't need to.
230MB/s, not 230Mbps; one day, not eight.
You mean people at Big Tech and dependent editorial downrankers such as DDG, right?
This is what I'm looking for, thanks! Any pointers on good places to read about these issues?
It's not. I had a spreadsheet suddenly start throwing errors for no discernible reason. Reached out to support expecting something like the enterprise process (send screencast, HAR, etc). Rep replied with copy/paste tips on using Sheets twice, ignoring most of what I wrote, before I just gave up.
Ideally, but there is a tendency for overreach by the courts and much broader harassment by lawyers "protecting" trademarks.
God bless wikipedia. It's one of the only parts of the internet that turned out to be just as awesome as we expected in the mid 1990's.
Absolutely! I see a lot of people complain about twitter, but if you actively curate who you want to see and turn off recommendation posts it can be a very pleasant experience. There's loads of positive communities posting heartwarming and uplifting content. It's just that rage and anger are optimized by the algorithms, you have to actively curate your bubble to counteract.

Goggles have a lot of promise. I'm excited about the concepts Brave is bringing forth.
Eh? Give someone, who drinks only lagers, anything with IBU > 35 and they would cry why it is so bitter.

I don't know how it tastes for you, bu the most common mainstream beers (ie lagers in some form) are pretty sweet. Belgian? Holy fucking sweet. IPA? Depends. APA? Sweet. Not the soda sweet, but sweet, compared to the plain water.
But what I think really makes it front end

I meant to say what really makes it full stack, but it's too late to edit