skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> let me recall that it’s controlled by Zuckerberg who spent $419 million to influence US election administration in a seemingly partisan way

For more context, from: https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/policy/zuck-bucks-consp...

> He offered nearly half a billion dollars in grants to any election official who wanted one, as long as those officials spent it on what a lot of people would consider mundane essentials: ballot sorters, drop boxes, poll workers and — because it was 2020 — hand sanitizer.

> And when those election officials applied for more money than he originally offered, he kicked in another $119 million to satisfy the rest of the requests.

> At a time when Republicans are rapidly restricting access to the ballot box in states across the country, spending nearly half a billion dollars to do the exact opposite of that is tantamount to a partisan choice. Or, at least, it was bound to be viewed that way.
When pre-modern battlefields are brought up, I often think of the Battle of the Bastards scene from Game of Thrones. One of the few battle scenes that gives me the cold sweats. Watching the absolutely suffocating clash of flesh and metal is horrific.
The alternative to building thousands of reactors that finish construction in ten years if we're lucky is building millions of wind turbines and solar panels that incrementally reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
The few legislative protections apply mainly to U.S citizens. I guess the europeans and the rest of the world is doomed. Of course CCP is not same as the U.S government but we know that when money/interests of U.S corporations or U.S government is at stake bad things happen(i.e data is/could be weaponized).
Arm Introduces the Cortex-A715
>We used to have a term for individuals like this: all hat, no cattle …

The phrase I've heard in cattle country is "dimestore cowboy" or "drugstore cowboy"
The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world
Thanks. The next step would be combining it with text-image foundation models such as clip https://github.com/openai/CLIP so that the model no longer depends on a limited set of predefined labels (coco…), right?

Also occlusion inference would be fantastic, so that we can select between the visible parts of the object and the whole shape (behind trees etc).

Exciting decade.
If we, the US and/or EU, send humans to the moon and Mars, soon we will have humans, maybe a lot of humans, dead on the moon or Mars or floating in space, for maybe some thousands of years. Big, long term embarrassment. Not good.

Thus, I strongly suggest we send no humans to the moon or Mars.

And I strongly suggest we take this opportunity to do the research, engineering, and development of essentially robots to do what we would want humans to do on the moon or Mars. Then we will have dead robots out there, but we won't have to care so much.

If China, Russia, India, etc. want to send humans to the moon or Mars, then they will have dead Chinese, Russians, Indians, etc. out there for thousands of years. Their long term embarrassment, not ours.
Or maybe we should just support and adopt open source alternatives, so that the rest of the world doesn't get stuck into pointless geopolitical disputes?
> Additionally, you very, very rarely have the antenna on chip

I didn't mean that there would be components intentionally serving as antennae in a design; more that you might be choosing analog trace lengths in e.g. a modem, or SDR ADC, to minimize harmful analog-domain interference at your bus frequency — i.e. to increase SNR, you're trying to make your traces be as little like an antenna as possible for the frequency bands they're carrying signal in, because you can't just band-pass that interference away.

The nice thing about shrinking by half, in such deigns — I would think — is that if you've already "tuned" your trace paths to a quiet band (for the country the component is being licensed in), then the harmonic frequencies of that band will also be quiet. Otherwise the band's fundamental frequency wouldn't be considered quiet!

(See also: why the unlicensed commercial-use spectrum was allocated to 2.4GHz, and then to 5GHz. 2.4GHz is an obvious choice, already useless for long-range communication due to water in the atmosphere; the other is its equally-useless first harmonic. But the great thing about choosing the first harmonic in particular, is that transmitting at 5GHz isn't putting short-range harmonic noise onto any lower bands that weren't already noisy due to existing commercial use of the fundamental frequency; so you won't suddenly find your other-band devices working worse in the presence of 5GHz transmitters than they already worked due to 2.4GHz transmitters.)
Cash

Yes, you'd then need some middlemen... but are the cost of those middlemen really higher than a skil-road rugpull? Or a crypto crash? Or all the pyramid-scheme lot coming in to pump your dark money system, and screwing you over?
Parties and events are a huge problem for hosts, but they are getting easier to detect and prevent with tools like exterior/doorbell cameras and decibel monitoring.

I suspect that a blanket ban on them is more likely aimed at changing the public narrative around airbnbs. It’s not that hard for a group of NIMBYist neighbors to cite parties and noise to justify a blanket ban on airbnbs in their community… at the very least this gives STR owners a simple soundbite on the topic of parties.
I don't understand the argument that we shouldn't ban tikTok because Meta/Google/etc.. also collect data. I would rather ban all three, but tikTok is in a whole different league based on how that data is used.

The difference is that the CCP is literally on the board of bytedance and uses this information to arrest, imprison, and harvest the organs of political, ideological, religious, and other dissidents.

Yes, the US has done evil things in the past (and present) but our abuse of data is a far cry from what happens inside many tightly controlled communist countries on a daily basis.
I think you might be right.

Admittedly, I was projecting my own disgust about neighborhoods around me being razed to build row houses and 3 story wood apartments to house the endless influx of out-of-staters into the city where I live in the northwest. And also my dismay at government corruption seeping into every facet of our personal lives.

To rephrase: I'm concerned that terminology distracts from core issues. Spin sways the masses one way or another so that they can be manipulated into voting against their own self-interest. Without context, there's no way to know to what extent NIMBYism or eminent domain plays into these debates. So we should generally consider 2 or more perspectives, but infotainment often only hits us over the head with 1 to achieve a political goal through propaganda.
True, there are plenty of invisible emissions causing chronic air quality issues, but um an over-rich diesel exhaust in your vicinity is rather acute.
The incentive structure for an above average programmer is usually somewhat broken, though stock options can theoretically patch this up some.

The way to get maximum return on your above-average output is to go into business for yourself.
That's good. A lot of people will come to you with ultimately low business value asks. It's just how it is. People have ideas, they want to briefly discuss it, I direct it to the backlog. If the EM and the Product Owner both consider it low-value, the requestor has to accept that fate or create a more compelling argument for why the assessment was incorrect. But most requestors won't put in the work to justifying the requests. There is no problem with backlogs becoming graveyards. We might revisit the item later if business priorities change yet again, and now we have a paper trail of the decisions.
How is seasonal data important for modern farming operations? Farms want even more precise weather data which they can augment to their own calendars. Most people care far more about weekly weather variations and will not experience difficulty in determining when summer is coming.

Also, given the variation that people experience across geography, my per-month weather is quite different from yours. A global synchrony is not fit for farming operations. How much of the world even experiences a beautiful alignment of the seasons to their calendar?

Further, the kinds of adjustments people are proposing is not going to knock anyone off their ability to schedule around entire seasons. People are proposing tiny roundoffs to eliminate calendar idiosyncrasies (excluding the offhand 360 suggestion, which while "small" is going to lead to more idiosyncrasy).
I think yours is multiple axis version of this one since this the topic ...
How do you conceive of these societal structures? What would a wealthy society, where people have more choice over their outcomes, have to do to put these “societal structures” in place?

It seems a lot of those previous societal structures came into being because of the limitations of previous lives. Couples got married at 20 and had kids because there weren’t really other options on how to live a life.

Should we make it illegal for women to work? Tax single people over the age of 30? You blame liberalism but it seems the entire goal of liberalism is decentralized decision making and personal freedom. Are those things bad? It sounds to me like your suggesting modern society is centrally controlled.
Honest question: why was this on Twitter? I don’t use Twitter at all.
Reminds me of Peter Naur's essay, "Programming as Theory Building": https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
Web3 is not meant to be useful, it is a carrot dangled in front of investors. It's there to justify the existence of cryptocurrencies. It's customers are greater fools investing into the cryptocurrency behind the project.

The joke is that there is an incentive for Web3 projects to be competitive. Most video games with microtransactions strive to have a wider appeal, otherwise they have less people to sell to. And yet such effort is not exerted for Web3 projects. The people are just supposed to see how potentially revolutionary they are and come flocking. Because it worked for Bitcoin and Ethereum the developers think that this is how the market works. You build something new, if relatively useless and the people throw their entire savings at you, because they don't want to be left out.
I'm not a wizard in the dark arts of electricity and semiconductors, but my guess is that PCIe is optimizing for bandwidth, whereas RAM is optimizing for latency.

Obviously, these goals often coincide, and demands on hardware will occasionally shift one priority over the other (a good example being DDR5, higher latency, but higher bandwidth).

That's really the nature of comparing two levels of cache though. Going from L2 to L3, you sacrifice latency for capacity. Same thing going from L3 to L4 (RAM), and L4 to L5 (Disk). The gaps between levels may shrink over time, but we have distinct levels as a form of cost minimization. If we could cheaply stick a terabyte of L1 cache onto a consumer grade CPU, we probably would.
While I personally support nuclear energy as part of the solution, I am keenly aware that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) (currently 1600 square miles) if applied to either of the decommissioned reactors in South East New York State would constitute a crisis of epic proportion.

The CEZ applied to the Shoreham reactor would make most of Long Island uninhabitable and in the event of a disaster there would be no practical way to evacuate the bulk of Long Island. In fact this evacuation concern lead to the decommissioning of the plant.

The CEZ applied to the Indian Point reactors would potentially make New York City north of Upper Manhattan similarly uninhabitable with similar evacuation issues.

I think Indian Point particularly should not have been decommissioned and replacing it with natural gas was a mistake but I am also empathetic to the concerns others have around safety.
the BMW F-series M3/4 of the same time-frame have a manual gear shift option.
A couple of housecats multiplied and wiped out a bunch of native species on California's San Clemente island a while back. A friend of mine was a contractor doing work for the Navy on that island (it's USG property) and told me stories about how some of the other folks stationed there would grab a shotgun and Jeep and go cat huntin'
"Yes but what about the US Government?" is not an actual response to concerns about Tiktok, it's a lazy attempt at deflection and distraction.

And the US Government doesn't use private sector data to round up and imprison their citizens in concentration camps. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surve...
I'm guessing that was loading over the LAN, as that's the only time I recall seeing multi-minute load times on a DX2. In that scenario, the speed of the computer was largely irrelevant, as files were being pulled from a NetWare server (reading files of very slow spinning disks) over a 10Mb shared media ethernet network.
it is also seen as where you can send your awful politicians so that they can't do any damage

(von der leyen being a prime example of a national government doing this)
The US supreme court seems to disagree with you.
Show HN: An open data portal for the French Police
Website (in French) : https://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/barometre-numerique/

Background notes (in English): https://github.com/GendarmerieNationale/barometre-numerique-notes/blob/main/barometre_numerique_notes.pdf

Source code (in Javascript) : https://github.com/GendarmerieNationale/barometre-numerique-website
Data breach exposes private info of all California concealed-carry permit owners
What crypto business do you imagine making and what are the missing pieces?
> nuclear waste. Again a big issue for Greenpeace in the 80s; admittedly this has massively improved.

Did it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
Not exactly (if I understand the question correctly).

Imperative usually goes with mutation. If I'm willing to do mutation, then I can replace the old value with the new value in the same location, allocating nothing either before or after.

If you want to do immutable with imperative, then yes, you have to allocate sometime.
Isn't Marine World now Six Flags Discovery Kingdom?
What's interesting is that taxpayer money is rarely used to pay debt (in modern economies, it happened once in the US, around the 2000s, and i think one year in Germany too). Instead, we just issue lees debt than the year prior as our GDP grow.

Debt is just another name for obligations. Right now, pension fund (and the government i guess?) hold most of them. If the US governement choose to forget that debt, it will take it upon itself. Or issue money to repay it.

However, there is another danger than inflation or more government debt: people choosing to play an alternate game. Each generation have those. The hippies, then the back to landers were probably the first to check out. But now, you can see full communities stopping to play our game. They get an education, grow on adult's production, then after they grew up check out and join an alternative way of life, and produce mainly for themselves. But the proportion is growing way too fast, especially if you count the NEET staying at their parent's home and knowing that they can reach FIRE without the FI with their parent's assets (often high-middle class guys).

I am involved in this communities in my country. I fix electronics and configure arduinos for them. I know that if this continue, this will be an issue for my way of life, but really, the only difference between me and them asset-wise is luck and timing. I can't really blame them for stopping, if i was a minwage earner i would've stopped too.
Thank you, I missed that part.

As I asked elsewhere, where is the part of these agreements that permits them to profit off my IP through copilot?
Ask HN: Issues with Vercel?
I am having timeout and stability issues on Vercel without apparent reason. Anyone else? Database is fine, code is running locally.
The State of Serverless 2022
Maybe a bit anectodal, but the reason is that diesel emission devices are more complex and more prone to failure or require more maintenance (perceived as annoyance by the user).

Here is more explanation: with the diesel emission devices, you are trying to control soot and NOx gasses. For example the EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) system reintroduces a bit of exhaust gas back to intake to reduce combustion temperature to reduce NOx gasses. However, this means that you are introducing sooty gas back to the intake, where it messes with other stuff like swirl flaps.

Swirl flaps are there to create a small tornado inside the cylinder for more efficient mixing and burning. But these are mechanical flaps and, in the best case, they stop working when they soot up. In the worst case, however, they go inside the cylinder and cause catastropic damage, requiring an engine rebuild/replacement.

Then another emission device for diesels is the particle filter. This is a very fine filter to catch soot exiting the exhaust. The engine puts a bit more fuel every now and then to burn them off properly. But the engine needs to run under a certain load and operating temperature for this operation to succeed, and if not, it gets permanently blocked and you need to visit a garage to force it or to have it cleaned/replaced. This happens if you only drive short distances and never let the engine to warm up, or if you idle for too long, or if you always drive in stop and go traffic. And sometimes, the filter collects ash instead of soot and that can't be burned off. This happens when you use incorrect sort of oil in a modern diesel car or if the fuel is bad. The only cure is cleaning or replacement of the filter.

Then you have another emission device: the ammonia. Newer cars spray a bit of ammonia (AdBlue) every now and then on the exhaust gasses to reduce NOx emmisions. This adds one more thing to refill every now and then and the car reduces power if you don't comply.

Now compare this to the gasoline car emission device: the catalyst. This one fails if you overheat it, or if it goes too old by age. The overheating happens if the combustion is too rich (too much fuel for the amount of air) for a long time but the engine controller prevents it anyway. Catalyst is there to burn any unburnt fuel and turn carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide.

Some newer cars also have EGR in them like a diesel car AFAIK, but I am not aware of the relevant failures of that bit.
That battle was a terrible representation of medieval warfare. And it was still one of the better representations of the entire show.
> The PCI-Express bus cannot sustain such a latency hit, and the PCI-Express 6.0 spec said it had to be under 10 nanoseconds, and in fact, the goal was to keep it down to 1 nanosecond or maybe 2 nanoseconds.

What do they mean by latency here? Isn't just getting data through the serdes going to take a load of clocks? And then the correction will take a few clocks.
For Intel, they also missed a lot of targets in terms of both delivery and thermals throughout the x86 Apple era.

As a company, they don't like being at the mercy of someone else if they can help it.
Yes, the author list is one of the most notable things about the article!!

It's also striking how they basically just go out and grab onto the third rail with their bare hands. Yes, they try to be dispassionate, but it's amazing that Janet Yellen was willing to go out on a limb and write publicly about these topics at all.
I think the other thing that goes on these days is that, for better or for worse, DEI initiatives have flattened pay bands for everyone. I'm not making any comment about whether certain subgroups are over or under paid, but it should be quite obvious that the incentives mean that hiring managers are now terrified of overpaying certain groups and equally terrified of underpaying others.

When, as this article points out, outcomes are extremely difficult to measure for any individual programmer, this results in less variation of pay yet still with wide variation in real underlying productivity.
Wow even after reading the above comment I still can't confidently piece together what "chimps f.x." means. Is it "chimps for example"?
The case for leaving the perfectly manicured lawn behind
Love these suggestions. Patios are the best. Good for you for hacking a solution together:) Taking the kid out in the yard and watching a movie while they play can be fun too. By the way, cool word:) https://www.dictionary.com/e/jury-rigged-vs-jerry-rigged/#:~....
I am surprised that I did not find keycloak here…
They displace food containing more fiber and by doing that change gut flora to that which does not produce IPA.
What do you do with the extra days in February?
Sorry, I should have clarified, they are developers that quickly do 80% of the work and move to the next thing.

They are often quite intelligent and very productive, but aren't inclined to think a problem through to completion.
I think this entirely fair and from all the tools that I pay for , Jetbrains is the one that delivers the most value. Not to mention that their licensing model is very well made and you are not even forced to upgrade if you don't want to.

I do, however wish they would focus more on performance and code intellisense than constantly trying to add bells and whistles to their IDE. Don't give me more Github integrations, give me better code analysis, improve inspection with regards to common bugs and security vulnerabilities. Give me better code quality tools and suggest potential ways that I could write a certain code block to improve performance.. these are the features that are most useful for me and since IDEs can index and deeplink everything, they should be able to leverage that to better understand code context for analytics and reporting.
Ask HN: How do you avoid getting lost in the lessons learned from experiments?
If you've used validated learning or an experimental approach for your projects. How have you managed them and kept track of the learning learned along the way, without getting lost in the sheer amount of experiments and learning?

I'm quickly getting lost in the experiments across multiple facets of my business, and would love some insights into how you guys are managing it.

Cheers
The problem with fake information on Wikipedia is that poorly sourced documents will source it, which will then be sourced by Wikipedia down the line until the misinformation is self- legitimized.
Tempeh in Indonesia is great; it takes nothing like the tempeh I’ve had in the states. Admittedly I stopped trying over a decade ago because the disparity was so great. Can you finally get good tempeh in the US?
In what way are they non conforming?
Jwt is a much easier term to google for information than the api key/session solution you mention. I actually default to jwt just because I don’t have a clear picture of what the alternative is called.
Why do you think this is?
Enough for https://comma.ai/ to work so can't be that restricted?

Edit: thanks to responders, I misremembered how it worked.
>The military applications of this tech would be to stir up decent or manufacture outrage in a country for political gains.

I didn't need that thought in my life, thank you. Seriously, though, this genuinely makes it possible to gently tweak an algorithm (which is absolutely invisible to anyone outside the company or the Chinese government) to nudge public opinion. Like, you could probably nudge elections by a percentage point or two, manufacture specific outrage about policies unfriendly to China, generate a bit of chaos with conspiracy theories when convenient, etc, etc. Black Mirror stuff. I

'm telling myself it's unlikely to actually happen but when I ask myself why I can't come up with a reassuring answer. The technology is there. The control is there. The willingness is certainly there. I guess it would be a bigger endeavor and there might be leaks of it happening. But, ultimately, a few dozen people could do a lot of damage.