skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My way feels so much simpler :-). It's a bit like public/private key: when I use my credit card, I know I'm paying. And if I pay from my bank, I do it from my e-banking and it's super clear.

I can allow a company to withdraw directly, but still it's clear I'm doing it (and I don't use that, I hate that feature).

Feels like it just prevents such scams. Of course then you can still convince people to "lend" you money ("send me 5k to leave my country and when I'm safe I send you 2M"), but that's slightly different.
Prime Day deals include big companies' stuff mislabeled as small-business items
It does seem reasonable, though, that if humans can solve safe driving with a brain mass (3 lbs) that computers wouldn't need that much more help. Put another way: every machine learning "expert" who has a kid is amazed to learn how simple unsupervised learning is and how few training examples are required.
They have a nice image of Jupiter in it:

https://external-preview.redd.it/qnzeIpeBtxxrLMfMsH1aDlSMHpK...
Thanks for that. I was still wondering why the flashing couldn't be achieved on a running system as-per the usual method of updating the proprietary manufacturer's BIOS. I found this key quote on the Coreboot web site:

There are various protection schemes that make it impossible to modify or replace a firmware from a running system. coreboot allows to disable these mechanisms, making it possible to overwrite (or update) the firmware from a running system.

Usually you must use the external method once to install a retrofitted coreboot and then you can use the internal method for future updates.

https://doc.coreboot.org/tutorial/flashing_firmware/index.ht...
I'd push back on "concurrency so difficult in Rust" -- because async isn't the only, or even best, way to do concurrency in Rust. I prefer using threads when I can, and Rust makes working with threads quite joyful[1]. I'd cautiously agree that it's possible async wasn't the best model to go "all in" on, though Rust is quite happily multi-paradigm so if something better comes along and has a notably different set of optimal use-cases than threads or async, I wouldn't be surprised to see Rust adopt it as well.

I'm personally sort of skeptical about "color free async" because the models for sync/blocking IO and async IO are so different -- you can paper over the syntax differences, but you're going to be in a world of hurt when the semantic differences arise[2]. I'll admit I haven't tried a color-free async implementation myself though, so it's just speculation / sour grapes :-)

> There are also languages which separate threads' memory from each other which allows them to do non-atomic refcounting, relying on copying for any messages crossing thread boundaries (though that's often optimized away, and could be even less than Rust's clone()ing elsewhere).

Curious what you mean by this -- my understanding is that Rust also does this (i.e., you can `move |x|` a value into a thread and that thread owns it now, and then the thread can hand it back in a `JoinHandle`. That sort of sharing doesn't require an Arc or Mutex, since there's only one owner at a time. Is this something different?

[1]: The other day I turned something reading in files from the filesystem sequentially into a custom threadpool passing blocks of parsed JSON over a MPSC channel that exposed the whole thing as a sequential iterator and it worked first try. I almost didn't believe it until I wrote the tests.

[2]: E.g., "I wrote this and tested it with blocking IO but this syscall isn't supported by io_uring so in async mode it goes to a threadpool and passes some huge object in a message which kills perf with a huge memcpy", or some similar jank. Just spitballing on the type of thing I would fear happening, not a specific example.
Except a broken clock can be right twice a day, here the extrapolation I dont think is an exaggeration but a very likely outcome.

If in 2019 December, you warned the world about a pandemic, you would've been laughed out of the room. Same here, we are on a trajectory towards a massive war.

You can always tell when the mainstream media is who usually airs on the side of sensationalism tries to quell fears and attack people for being fringe.

I'm afraid Zeihan is very correct this time, not only on China but the outcome of this Russian conflict. Ukraine won't be the last country for Russia to touch, there will be more and it's going to come down to a nuclear stand off.

Zeihan points out that there is no NATO response for a tactical nuke detonation. If Ukraine receives an artillery strike with a low yield nuclear warhead it would immediately send NATO to its highest combat ready status but it will not sacrifice its major cities to protect a smaller non-EU country.
Memory.lol
You can upload an image to DALL-E, edit it and add a prompt to it as well.
App development here peaked some 4-8 years ago, dipped for a bit when RN came out, and it's entering a new generation.

I think it goes about in waves where people make mobile sites and think that's enough, then realize that the direct hardware and lifecycle access is actually pretty important after spending a few months wrestling with certain edge cases. And then go overboard with it.

The cycles might happen in different periods of time in different ecosystems, but they also seem to be anchored around technology.
RabbitMQ cluster mode for classic queues is not a true HA solution. If a node gets replaced the content of your queue has to be synchronized to the new node and while this is running you can't produce to the queue which is an outage. Unfortunately this synchronization method is also unreliable if you have a significant (a few GB) amount of messages in the queue, it often crashes nodes with no way to recover the internal database. And even if everything works you still have a chance of lost messages or lost acks (to be fair, this is documented). It is so bad that it is now officially deprecated.

This also makes online upgrades extremely hard, the only acceptable way is to stand up a new cluster, switch producers and consumers and then shovel the data from the old cluster (which is also not too reliable).

They came up with quorum queues which have less features and require to keep all messages in memory. I don't like having servers with 90% unused memory for that one event where I actually need to queue a lot of messages because a consumer is broken.

I would never pump logs through RabbitMQ, if you get into a situation where you accumulate a large amount of data in a queue you will face trouble sooner or later. Most likely RabbitMQ will run out of memory, will "flow-control" producers and you'll have an outage you can't recover from.
I think most of what is available on the internet is too toxic to be given freely to teenagers. Specially social media
The go to ‘sprinkle some crack on em’ tool in the alphabet toolbox.
In medicine, residencies matter, and good ones in specialties are competitive. Income ranges for MDs vary tremendously by specialty, with GPs / FPs closer to the bottom.

In computer science, the current hawtness is a FANG pedigree, though the bloom may be comming off that rose. (I've been predichoping that for a decade, salt appropriately.)

I'm not sure what the situation for hard engineering (EE, ME, civil, aero, petroleum, etc.) is, though I'd suspect there's benefit to a larger firm initially. See the MBA route through McKinsey or Big N consultancies for example.
This is a bit of an oddity of US urban planning. The US has maybe 10 big to very big cities, where people can get around on foot, and then a host of what are called cities in the US but are essentially just collections of shopping centres, office parks, industrial estates, vaguely near each other.

It doesn't work like that in most countries; small cities and towns are navigable on foot and public transport.
English is nominally a Germanic language (German, English, Dutch etc) and French is a Romance language (French, Spanish, Italian etc).

Before the Romans rocked up, a Greek bloke called Pytheas sailed to the region and sailed around the mainland Britain and wrote up his travels and mentioned the Pretanike as the locals so that's an early description of the name that eventually became Britain/Britons.

You are a Texan and I'm sure that if you and I met we would understand each other perfectly well. My brother lived and worked in Plano for a couple of years and my niece was born there - she's a Texan!

English is what we make of it. It is just as much yours (US-TX) as mine (GB). I think the beauty of English is it shows a bit of thigh to everyone.

English is quite an odd language - it wants to be spoken by everyone and will quite happily take from other languages. I suspect that some languages may have evolved simply to be different ... to differentiate.

Anyway, it's probably time I visited a TL&C.

Just to reiterate: you speak English - the same one as me. I'm a Brit and you are a Yank but we both have exactly the same ownership of the language. It is very polite of you to say otherwise - and I think that is a Texan thing.
I use JS (typescript) with Playwright. I look forward to see it supported!
I am not aware of any autoregressive transformer model that doesn't follow scaling laws. Tesla only needs to tokenize actions and images and voi la, self-driving capabilities. The problem, of course, is how you deploy such a big model so every car can run it locally.
> Promoting recycling rusting steel

I was under the impression that China had soaked up most of the recyclable steel and part of the reason why things like coke plants near Pittsburgh were reopening was because we were now back to primary steelmaking.
You've selectively quoted from the article. The full passage follows:

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At one point a US border official asked Gourley, who was wearing a loose-fitting dress, whether she was pregnant. The same question was repeated as she was moved between rooms. When she again told the US officials she was not pregnant, Gourley was asked whether she had had an abortion.

“She was walking me from one room to the next, and she asked the pregnancy question again,” Gourley told Guardian Australia. “I don’t know if she had forgotten, or she wanted to work out if I was lying or something. “I said no, and she looked at me again and said, ‘Have you recently had an abortion?’

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Unless Gourley is directly lying, she herself (not the journalist) has stated quite unequivocally that the she was asked 'Have you recently had an abortion?', following on from being asked twice about whether she was pregnant.

In addition to selectively quoting, you've assumed motivation on behalf of the CBP person asking the question - that the purpose of the pregnancy question was related to concern about Gourley's medical condition. However the fact of the "pregnancy question" also comes from Gourley, which you're accepting was asked. Did she then make up the "abortion question"? You seem to be trying to have it both ways. That the pregnancy question (as reported by Gourley herself) happened but was merely out of concern, and that the abortion question (also as reported by Gourley herself) did not.
Interesting. Might as well try charging that one back if you need the money back and they refuse.
That's an open source recreation based on DALL-E 1. It's different to DALL-E 2, if you want that look for DALLE2-pytorch, but note that it hasn't been trained fully yet.
> I remain convinced that "real" self driving (as in: go ahead and sleep in the backseat) will never happen without changes to road infrastructure and possibly some sort of segregation between robot-driven cars and people-driven cars.

Yep, I talk to people working in traffic engineering, and their mindset is always building new road tech and road-side and cloud infra to support autonomous driving. They have no expectation of fully autonomous vehicle without road and infrastructure assistance.

And from historical perspective, the coming of automotive and the replacement of horse and other animal carts, are exactly facilitated by the road transformation; which has been the single largest scale infrastructure in human history.

It makes no sense that an even bigger transformation of the vehicle would require less drastic road transformation.
I think we can tell for certain that time travel will never be invented because if it were to happen, then logically we’d already be experiencing people visiting us from the future.
If you have browsers/grazers this is a nightmare.

A lot of mis-information on the internet. Even more unknowns.

You can't even assume if it doesn't kill one species it won't kill another. Sometimes it's age of leaves. If they are for meat, something's won't matter short term, but are bad long term for pets.

What's interesting is you can sup up cows with a rumen bacterium Leucaena inoculum which has skyrocketed productivity on some places. This goes from harmful to productive
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wj14UNTKpo

It's not the only rumen bacterium that works either, there is Fibrolytic rumen but you can't buy it yet, you just mix camels with cattle so they share it at drinking locations.

I think this would be interesting to hack in humans. It'd be nice to eat grass occasionally.
If you're comfortable with people younger than yourself, and it'd be rewarding to share your experiences with (those of them who are also motivated), education might be an option. You could try it out somewhere appropriate, your GPA will help. (I suspect that there are many smaller schools looking for well-qualified educators.)

It'd give you time to consider if it's for you, and a more relaxed time to consider what other options are best-suited to you.
well that's why you have an emergency collection of clean water and long-lasting food in your flat... Aren't you?

Putting 5 bottles of 1.5L water under the bed is not that hard...
For months I had to drive my Yarris up and down a pretty rough track - no gravel, full of potholes, just hardened earth and stones.

The Yarris with its little go-kart wheels handled it like a champ, even if I'd bottom out almost every single time. Even climbed up it fine provided you kept it above 25km/h all the way :) Took to a mechanic later and he said the suspension and undercarriage were fine.
They sell better than any single car brand, sure, but much less as a fraction of the market. Their market share in Europe has been around 25% (compared to around 70% in the US). And it's falling. In March 2022, Tesla's market share was just 10.5%.
The design really looks solid - do you remember where you drew inspirations from?

Cok guzel, helal olsun :)
A significant cost driver of most energy sources is the work involved in dealing with the high temperatures and high pressures- cooling towers, steam chambers and turbines that can withstand superheated, high pressure steam, etc. It's a lot of concrete, thick steel walls and safety regulations as each one is basically a small bomb should the containment fail.

If they can actually produce a 50 megawatt generator the size of a shipping container and requiring inexpensive, easy to source fuel, with sane emissions, every power producer in the world will be chomping at the bit to buy them.

My state is currently in the process of putting up solar panel fields on the sites of coal power plants that are being decommissioned, because it is getting harder to find suitable locations with cooperative local governments. Many see them as eyesores, along with the added trouble of putting in new HVDC lines out to the fields.

If instead you could get significantly more power, and equally clean, from the same site, power companies will ditch solar in a heartbeat. No need to buy more land or run new lines, just decommission your coal and nat gas power plants and put up a few of these.
ah, the theranos defense
Proving you haven't bothered to read the article. The woman herself is directly quoted as having been asked that specific question.

I find it ironic that you're making stuff up to accuse a journalist of making stuff up. Whether it happened or not is still open to question (is Gourley a believable person?), but it's not open to the accusation you're making.
> re: "5" as the system call interrupt - I've never seen an SCP machine or QDOS, but on an IBM PC interrupt 5 handled print screen (and on the 80186 and up it was a CPU-generated interrupt for BOUND exceptions).

Not an interrupt, a CALL. In 8080/Z80 systems, a system call is just a subroutine call to the OS kernel, there is no memory protection so no need for any special type of instruction. (I suppose on 8086 there is no memory protection either–but software interrupts are beneficial in isolating software from direct knowledge of memory addresses, which simplifies memory management; 8080 systems had far less need for simplified memory management–you can't fit much in so little memory, so there is not much to manage.)

So, on CP/M-80 and CP/M-8086, you CALL 5 (call to memory address 5), where there is a jump instruction which redirects your call to the actual entry system call dispatcher entrypoint in the OS kernel (CP/M BDOS). QDOS/PC-DOS 1.0 preserve the same mechanism for source backward compatibility with CP/M, and their system calls are a subset of CP/M's (with equivalent numbers/arguments). Except, of course, in 8086, it is not a CALL to absolute address 5 (0:5), since that would be calling into the IVT, it is a call to CS:5 – DOS puts at offset 5 in the PSP a JMP FAR which eventually lands you in MSDOS.SYS, via some bizarre mechanism involving address wraparound (the infamous "A20 gate" was introduced to keep this mechanism working on 286+). "CALL 5" ends up being essentially equivalent to INT 21, and very little software ever used it – basically only software directly ported from CP/M-80 (such as, possibly, very early versions of WordStar for DOS–surviving copies appear to use INT 21 instead, but the earliest versions are quite possibly lost.)
https://reddit.com/comments/vt7w3d
> Zeihan predicted in 2014 that they would invade the rest of Ukraine around the end of 2021, because if they waited much longer they wouldn't have the manpower. This is the first of many trade-disrupting conflicts he expects.

What's scary is China is going through the exact same issue as Russia. Their demographic is aging, after this inflection point they would certainly lose manpower. However unlike technologically advanced countries like Korea & Japan, it cannot modernize, not with US sanctions hitting it like it did Russia.

I'm afraid Russia is on a path of no return. No sanction uplift or normalization is possible at this point. Putin is in a do or die mode, he chose to throw his country in a perpetual war rather than being over thrown.

Question is will Xi do the same? I believe so. The globalization capital is dwindling and that is it's lifeline. Without rest of the world buying its labor output, it's sitting on a massive population that increasingly become uncooperative with a centralized leadership.

Couple that with young single unwed males living in city centers, its rife for a major revolution, much like what happened in Syria.
Woah... seeing Pym here on HN is the best crossover in my universe I could ever see.

Thanks for helping bring my beautiful P5v4 into this world.
> Then, it solves nothing for all those folks living in rural areas and having to drive f-150s.

Fortunately thats not a lot of people.

When electricity was being rolled out, Westinghouse and Edison didn’t bellyache about not being able to provide electricity to rural areas. They electrified all the cities.

Rural areas will just never be able to pay for modern infrastructure. And… thats ok, its not a lot of people.
Is this significantly different from Dall-E2?
Sure, but that conversation should have been between him and his lawyers, and between his lawyers and Twitter's lawyers. He might have actually had a chance, if he had. As is, he can't win for losing.
I buy a 500 count box of lens wipes and clean them whenever they get smudged enough to notice.

I get inexpensive glasses from Zenni so they're almost disposable.

Cleaning them like your the old man from Toy Story restoring Woody to collectable quality just feels like overkill.
If you're going to illegally leak sensitive information, give it to journalists, not WikiLeaks.

Good journalists know how to balance public safety and public interest, and have the resources to redact dangerous information. WikiLeaks is much more anarchic and leans heavily towards total disclosure.
> I don't see legacy auto being capable of refactoring their cars, manufacturing processes and business models fast enough to survive.

My take is the opposite. Incumbents already have like 90% of what Tesla had or chose to build from scratch. EV's are not complicated at all compared to ICE, and incumbents have been refining their manufacturing process for decades in a brutally competitive industry.

Unless Tesla can somehow get an effective monopoly on battery tech or FSD, which they are not, they're going to be just another car company. Nothing they can deliver can't be done by others.

Personally I think it's way more likely Waymo or Apple deliver FSD first, with broad industry partnerships wiping out Tesla's advantage.
> So why do you visit aggregators to find links to and read these news articles, when their reporting practices are so poor?

I read the comments first, assess if the article is worth reading. And why read them at all? There is nothing else to learn what is happening outside my sphere without disrupting my life to find out.
Also due to the recent spike in the price of nickel, as Russia is (used to be?) one of the major exporters. (There's more nickel than lithium in nickel-based lithium batteries.)

Edit: and cobalt is mined in the Democratic Repuplic of the Congo, which seems to be held in opprobrium by Western countries.

Iron and phosphate are much easier to come by.
The impression I get is the supplies for batteries are rather more rare than the aluminum and steel, so if current companies are having problems sourcing them it seems like a worthwhile question to ask.

Whether it's in this factory or Tesla or whomever, there is going to be increasing demand in any case.
I hear you - loud cars are annoying, and I probably over-emphasised how loud it was. It's stock exhaust on a subcompact family car, but the cabin isn't the quietest and it has to rev very highly to do anything.

It's my lame safe way of having a little bit of fun. Certainly quieter than all the trucks on the road, and slower than a lot of the SUVs.
Well, perhaps you've come to the wrong place. Most tech discussed here, and produced in SV, is basically hijacking people's emotions to click on things. That seems to be where trillions of USD and the world's best engineers are working on.

Which is exactly my point: recalibration. Those resources should be spent instead on real tech that solves real problems.

Making renewables cheaper/more efficient. Advancing lab-meat. Innovation in housing. AI manufacturing to deal with the population pyramid.

Existential things. Not "click this ad".
"As enterprise customers turn to cloud to meet the need for more compute resources or to easily access the latest processors or GPUs, they bring their batch workloads with them. Batch is a general-purpose batch job service and the latest in a long list of products we’ve created over the years that process jobs to help enterprises migrate their workloads to the cloud. These services include Cloud Life Sciences (formerly Google Genomics), Dataflow, and Cloud Run Jobs."

My time as a SWE at Google included: launching/founding Google Genomics, explaining to Cloud leadership that we needed a common Batch executor for customers, being ignored for years, seeing multiple batch executors launched, each for a specific product, only for this to be launched at a point where I've concluded SLURM does a better job than the cloud batch PaaS. Google Cloud Batch looks very similar to AWS Batch, which is not a product that sparks joy.