skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If that startup succeeds, people will no longer be able to prove their identity other than thru them.

The article doesn't at all claim that the startup seeks to monopolize world wide human authentication!

For the benefit of "bystanders", the TLDR of the article is that (1) WorldCoin is collecting biometric data (not just a cryptographic hash of it), (2) Worldcoin switched compensation of its "operators" from a stablecoin to a brand new cryptocurrency, (3) perfecting the tech to authenticate being a human while preserving anonymity itself might be very valuable, and (4) the fact that brand new cryptocurrency is distributed to everyone might make the cryptocurrency itself very valuable.

I think 1 is valid concern if true; 2, IIUC, wasn't done "behind the backs" of anyone, so it's fine, 3 and 4 are very true. Thank you for linking the article!

> The mistake you made here is assuming that without understanding the details you can't come to any conclusions.

You are free to choose whatever standard of evidence you see fit, but personally, I will always choose to reserve strong judgement (like calling someone a scumbag) until I am confident that I fully understand the details.
Does Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad not deserve a mention? It was an early touchscreen / stylus interface from the 60s.
Aspen trees do this.
Site C should not have been built. It is in a relatively remote area, so the government was able to strong-arm local residents. Hydro has major impacts on the environment, river ecology, eliminates farmland, but this is all greenwashed away.
Assuming you mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree)

It says that its trunk is about 5,000 y.o. as counted through growth rings. I would think most people would understand this to be the proper age of a "tree".
Check out Drop.com there is a fairly large audiophile community + products.

Disclosure: I was an early employee of Drop and I remember our team trying to get Schiit listed, but he didn't want to offer the community a discount. So there are a lot of alternatives to Schiit out of spite.
You missed my other reply where it's a claim without basis and may easily have been an innocent well being question
The major difference between the examples you mention and Windows Update is that your examples are _failures_ while Windows Update is considered a feature. I usually don't "apply router failures" while I do apply updates to Windows.

When was the last time a switch just restarted to apply updates? i do not dislike Windows Update but I want to control it and apply things that are convenient to me.
Performance Comparison: AWS Graviton2 vs. AWS Graviton3
I concur about Windows Vista. For all the criticism that OS received, it did bring Windows a compositing desktop similar to Mac OS X, which was a crucial milestone to the GUI experience, which brought compositing desktops to more than 90% of personal computer users.

I believe Windows 98 and ME were omitted because this is largely a presentation of the evolution of GUIs. Windows 98 and ME did not substantially differ from Windows 95 in terms of their look-and-feel; the same can be said about Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000.
The problem with me is that technically I can find time for everything I want to do. But as soon as I start to get into a strict routine, things start to feel monotonous and I eventually go back to my old ways.
To me the question is very simple: make a digital currency that has both a completely traceable way of exchanging money and a completely anonymous one.

If you send someone money in the traceable way then the state knows exactly the motives of the transaction and can automatically calculate the taxes you ought to pay on it.

If you send someone money anonymously then you get taxed at the highest bracket possible and nobody asks questions. Are you a drug lord paying his cronies? sure, it's untraceable and safe but 40% goes to the state automatically.
I thought Pandora is 80,000 years old. Where did you get 14,000?
> No part of today’s living tree is as old as 9 500 years, but genetically, the tree is exactly the same individual as when it began to germinate.

It looks like we've found a Theseus tree!
A free transaction between parties is a horribly abstract term.

I mean a gunman robbing you on a side of the road is a free transaction between two free parties. Gunman is free to shoot you, and you are free to run away or take the bullet.

Free transaction between peers is what is actually useful considering.
The question with fusion I never see answered is: "How do we convert the heat to electricity?"

If the answer is steam then fusion is as dead as coal and nuclear. Or is there some solid state like solar or very non-complex working method like a wind turbine which is the target?
Again it's misleading here, if she was in fact on a transit (connecting flight) then this wouldn't have happened but since she attempted to enter the US it's probably that she had non connecting flights, no evidence either way because the article is nonsense
Congrats to the element team for delivering the first decentralized messaging system that can be used in a modern context (open, full E2EE, hostable and not only text oriented)

Plus points for showing the world that you don't need a blockchain for this :-)
this. I feel exactly the same, we are probably at the same age :)
when I started learning html & css it was awkward for me that I need to specify stuff in pixel coordinates. For me it was a step backwards in terms of technical progress :)
What's bad about revision? Isn't that what we're supposed to do when we write?
Mathematical Proof Between Generations
As someone who has worked for almost a decade with safety critical software, system design and functional safety analyses (both aerospace and automotive) etc. I don't think I ever met anyone who believed they would be anywhere near FSD/Level-5 what-have-you in the timeframe they presented.

The only ones I met who thought so was managers and software developers and ML-people, i.e. people who has never in their life seen the level of effort it actually takes to get something qualified for RTCA or other safety standards.
My favourite reason is that I can move retry logic into the thing sending the HTTP request and my front end web handler thing can be significantly less stateful as a result, which makes restarting it a lot less annoying etc. etc.

I'd probably have started out with -just- the outbox though and bolted the HTTP request sending onto the database, then looked at switching to a dedicated queueing system later. But that's a "because I already understand the care and feeding of PostgreSQL" choice as much as anything else.
There are always more ways to mess up a distributed system. But when running Windows, the Windows Update reboot is just some more thing to worry about.

(TBH I am not sure if the author is using the right tool for the job. But everyone is an arm-chair expert and I only know MQTT from my smart home; if I reboot that daemon then a temporary loss of state simply doesn't matter)
Birds migrate over winters. Spruce trees migrate over ice ages...
This is similar to Zone Maps in Netezza.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/psfa/7.2.1?topic=statistics-zone...

Incidentally, Netezza was built on Postgres engine, years back.
Was Andrej in to competitive programming?
If only this quite interesting work could be read on a normal, no-JS webpage!

Scrolling to see more content fading in is such a bad UI practice. Completely negating all the natural reading experience.
Sure, because having a synthetic intelligence that seems to understand complex concepts to create coherent visual art is something humans are used to.
Just to be clear, the tree is found in Dalarna in Sweden, though this is indeed East of Trysil in Norway. Since Sciencenorway.no (!) is a Norwegian outlet, they need to at least attempt to make their articles relevant for Norway.

The outlet is the English version of Forskning.no. Forskning means research in Norwegian, but in this instance it really means science. Their focus is to bring news about what Norwegian scientists are up to with popular science articles for the masses. That's why some of their articles seem a tad tabloid at times.

The tradition in Norway is that the most tabloid articles are published during the main summer vacation, when newspapers employ interns and temp journalists. We even have a word for such articles: Agurknytt. It means cucumber news, and implies that the article is desperately trying to make news out of something that isn't.
By getting acct and routing numbers they can easily siphon money.
I was about to submit this article, but PaulHole already did: I hope it will not be a problem if I compose here the abridgement I would have composed for mine.

Subtitle: If every driver has a horror story about charging, adoption is going to stall

> In many regards, electric vehicles are clearly better than the internal combustion engine-powered relatives they will eventually replace. They're quieter, they rattle and vibrate less, they accelerate faster, and they're much more efficient because they can recover energy under braking. And their batteries should last for the life of the car. // [But] even the biggest EV enthusiasts can't ignore the fact that it takes a lot longer to recharge a battery [...] Stopping to charge every 150..250 miles becomes an impediment to... freedom

> Finding a charger isn't actually the problem [in the USA], though, even if it adds another 50 miles to your road trip [...] No, the problem is whether or not any of the chargers will be working when you arrive

> Man plans, universe laughs: A few weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal published a piece...: "I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping" [...] A few weeks later, [...] despite plenty of planning, I still spent almost as much time stationary, arguing with charging machinery, as I did actually pulling electrons... throughout the 600-mile journey. // At each charging stop, in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York, I ran into problems. A five-minute wait to see if the car and charger would establish communications was invariably the case[; w]aiting 10 minutes was not uncommon. Even then, there was no time to relax; more than once, an error somewhere in the loop shut everything down after just a few kWh. // Only one of six charging stops was painless [...] // Then there was the problem of whether or not all of the chargers at a given location were even functional [and review ratings will not help]

> I think a lot of these communication errors come from the plug weighing down and one or more pins losing their connection [and it seems the issue is not restricted to the vehicle model]

> 97% is the uptime requirement for chargers that will be built as part of the federal government's Interstate charging network

The article may include other useful information (names software applications for road trip planning), together with many links to further explore the matter.

--

Incidentally, as a free comment: the article further specifies the statistics about the average trip in the USA to be less than 30 miles per day (less than 50km/d). But it should be clear that the problems lie in the exceptions, not in the norm. Hence, the need for the preservation of options. And will that lossfully compressed number hide uncontiguous realities and potential clusters - with different needs - such as city dwellers vs commuters vs rural dwellers (more telling clusters could be found)?

By the way: think of emergency ops vehicles depending on "careful planning"... From the very car of a doctor to specialized vehicles...
I knew a guy who built a very profitable business hacking BMW software. Most of BMW dealers and especially used car dealers in Eastern Europe are his clients, his exploits are used on most new and used cars - he started with simply reducing mileage recorded, but proceeded to hack everything else.

With this new thing i guess, he'll become a billionaire.
Probably less than your backpack with a laptop. I would guess its effect on fuel consumption is less than error margin.
what PG said about time to market is most part of the article IMO. what is the time to market, how long does it take to cold start a project from zero to mvp.
sadly our ideals as SE might not be able to match that reality always. As much as we like to pretend that we know what is the best stack , at the end of the day it is the market / customer / client who votes with their money bloat , lean , fast , slow , typed , etc none of it matters if nobody buys your solution. in 2013 is when there was a huge shift in enterprise to be more open OSS until then enterprise would only use solutions from the catalog of either oracle or microsoft .
I think a lot of the "element is slow" can be attributed for using the matrix homeserver. I personally notice it somewhat frequently that that one is quite slow, in comparison to a privately hosted one.
Given how much regulation is out there to make car road-legal... It's barely open market.
If immediately assume CBP were malicious and not just useless then sure, but that isn't a good story, what's better is to make it sound like they removed her for violating an abortion law, which if they did and it was a lawful question, wouldn't have bothered hiding when asked for comment, if it was unlawful then internal investigations will need to be done
Saw a similar tool called Kopia [1] posted on HN last year. Anybody have experience with it?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27471945
I feel like no one read the entire article, and it's partially the fault of traditional newspaper writing style for sticking the juiciest stuff up from, but the article concludes there's no consensus on what chronic sleep deprivation does to humans.

> Nevertheless, many scientists said that the new research should not be cause for panic. “It is possible that sleep deprivation damages rat and mouse brains, but that doesn’t mean that you should get stressed about not getting enough sleep,” said Jerome Siegel, a sleep scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who did not contribute to the review.

> Dr. Siegel noted that neural injury comes in degrees, and that the extent of sleep deprivation’s effect on the human brain is still largely unknown. He also expressed concern that undue worry about the long-term effects of sleep deprivation could lead people to try to sleep more, unnecessarily and with medication.

The opinion of a single review paper on effects in mice is not conclusive science. So, in other words, there's no news here.
I don't. Public WiFi is provided by a variety of ISPs, and means you're not beholden to a couple of mobile networks.

Monopolies are always bad.
i would not short this token right now. exchanges make their money scamwicking obvious longs and shorts.
You cannot buy a macbook pro in all cash in India. It is illegal to use cash above certain limit. There are restrictions on what a business can claim as an expense if they are paying in cash. There are onerous compliance and tax hits which come with accepting cash.

Businesses are reluctant to accept cash when government punishes them with compliance and additional paperwork + tax + tds.
Van Gogh self-portrait discovered behind earlier painting
To be fair, hasn't Apple dabbled with manufacturing in Vietnam and India for a while now? It would make sense for them to swap some more manufacturing out if they already have a base elsewhere. (Not trying to dismiss the rest of your comment just making an observation)
This is super helpful, thanks! I'll probably go with route 2 as well.
The blog post highlights this specific point - "US English" and "Indian English" really aren't the same English (in fact, I'd probably go even further and state that "Reddit English" and "US English" probably aren't the same English either).

Likewise, the Common Voice English dataset isn't great for ASR training outside India, either. There's a huge proportion of Indian speakers, and their data doesn't really help train ASR systems for non-Indian accents.
While I also hate Ford and think he's a national embarrassment, 60% of Ontario's power comes from 3 nuclear power plants: Bruce, Darlington and Pickering. We're happy with our nuclear [1]. We'd be happy with wind and solar too - but substantially the entire Ontario grid is already renewable. 92% zero-carbon power. [2]

[1] https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canadians-support-gove...

[2] https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/pr...
> It performed the only sane solution to the problem - stopping. You can't possibly predict what the most likely thing is to avoid an accident, because there is a multitude of factors beyond just 2 cars moving towards each other. Are there pedestrians present? Other parked cars? Storefronts with customers inside? How close to the sidewalk? Trees? Construction/Debris?

Not only there are other factors, but you also need to predict what the other human driver will do. As stated in a sibling comment this is a huge part of safe driving.

> Once we get AI working better than 99.9% of humans on roads

But what you stated above require AGI, so what's the plan to get there? It's even more blurry than commercial fusion at that point.
It's "nice" to meet somebody else who has experienced hypnic jerks before. It's like torture how they set in right on the edge of sleep. I went through a period of months of sleep jerks that seemed to be induced by a back injury, it's like my nervous system was going haywire in the presence of a pain signal as it was switching into sleep mode. Not only was it terribly disruptive to my sleep, it interfered with the healing process of my injury and turned into a vicious repetitive cycle.

While it was happening, I'd describe the sensation as like skipping a stone - I'd have to go in steep by taking a valium and going to sleep at my most tired or else I'd need to resign myself to "bounce" off the sleep surface a bunch of times before I finally fell through.
I legitimately don’t know what you’re talking about. “FTP” does not mean “film the police” if you provide no other context. And a single acronym too-level reply is extremely low effort.
I use 1Password, but I'm not sure storing the OTP next to the password is a good idea?
Can you switch to remote working? No commute saved me a lot of time and energy.

Try shopping and meal prepping on the weekends.

Try to go to bed at the same time every day. Eventually it becomes a habit.
I've built systems similar to this dozens of times and what they're doing makes no sense. Use a database table to store the state of a given job and query it. Super fast, efficient and you're not hiding state in what should be an ephemeral part of your infrastructure.

The MQ is great for scheduling jobs, passing data between different parts of a given process and generally detaching systems. However fast it is not, unless you're using something like Zero MQ for slow IPC.
correct, the article has some good examples about this

But even without that, the context or just the topic of the discussion should help
How much is it to buy outright?
On the whole the Schiit Audio origin story and growing pains one can read in those threads is very educational to anyone considering running a niche hardware company.

Tons of real world experience on what worked and did not work.
Not too much info on running hardware companies out there.
This is one of the reasons I'm not sure why car companies are getting directly in to batteries. Plus they are locking themselves into a technology which may well be superseded.

It seems to me equivalent to pc manufacturers making their own chips.
Ask HN: Mechanical Keyboard Recommendations
I must confess, although I've been a professional programmer for 15 years, the keyboard was my most neglected work tool.

I've used from Apple's magic keyboard, to cheap stock plastic keyboards, creaking bluetooth discount ones, etc.

Recently I've seen the System76's Launch Lite and was considering buying it. But since it's not _that_ cheap I was wondering if someone could share some tips on good mechanical keyboards similar to it.

It's _doesn't_ need to be ergonomical, portable, cordless or anything more than a good keyboard I can plug to a PC desktop.
No it doesn't. Also the sun shines 24/7.
I'm also interested in this - is anyone working on it?

I know that in Australia we have Rode Microphones, who brought manufacturing onshore over 15 years ago and (according to this article at least) no longer import any Chinese parts except for some shockmounts. Also worth noting that since they brought production onshore, part rejection rates fell from 50% to less than 3%:

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/peter-freedman-rode-micr...

While it's nice to have microphones, it seems more critical infrastructure parts need to be made here. Apparently China completely dominates the world production of solar panels and solar parts, and I can't think of much that is more critical than power generation & supply:

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/08/u-s-solar-chin...

I wouldn't know where to start with any of this myself (nor would I be the right person to do it), but I often think that if I changed careers, working in that area might be a direction I would look into. I love software but it is useless without the actual hardware devices it runs on.
did you try structural editing and using keyboard shortcuts to select, cut and paste the whole inner contents of a parens scope? for my that made the whole difference and I never found such a similar good feel in other languages.

Fair to mention dart (flutter) in VSCode has a refactoring option which removes, adds and modifies all widgets but it falls short in comparison to lisp.
Similar issues can be found with drones too - STM32 flight controllers and gyroscopes are both in short supply. The prices have lept up and supply has dwindled.
I still cannot understand how the world tollerates VW still to this day.

There has been ZERO change in the company's corporate culture since Dieselgate and while there is a lot of green washing happening and the enterprise is visibly moving towards electricity powered products this is just a company going where the money is. They are still the same ruthless business as they where a dozen years ago!
This is called a Tayloe Quadrature Product Detector [1].

1: http://www.norcalqrp.org/files/Tayloe_mixer_x3a.pdf
The difficult thing is all types of power have their own externalities. Dams flood large areas of land in normal operation and can potentially collapse. Wind power is intermittent and can have 'calm spell', takes up a large area and is generally just really big. Nuclear has difficulties around permanent waste disposal, and possible risks of accident and proliferation.

All of these factors and more (except cost) are on different scales and dimensions, so comparing them requires human value judgements - inevitably people disagree.
I disagree. OP’s observation was interesting. When did it become common that websites would show you nothing if js is not enabled? Or to see nothing on a website about nothing?
And that’s not up to you or your glorious ruler to decide. I think we are still a free market somewhat. How about government workers get a mandated work from home. I think these jobs are not needed at all. Think how much oil our government and its employees burn.
Yeap, this is very likely proper motion. That star is in our galaxy.
There's RR, which was made by the same people who make Pernosco IIRC.

https://rr-project.org/
Crucially the tree is in Sweden and not Norway xD
I do hope I'm not spamming you here but an acknowledgment would be appreciated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026459

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32020929

Summary: element-desktop sluggish and freezing with accounts with large amount of rooms and history on Linux (consistent across devices, dists, and DEs). This is separate from a recent freezing issue which was fixed in v1.11.0.