skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The topic of this entire HN discussion thread is, indeed, nominally about the legal minutia.

But the topic of the super comment we're both arguing in reply to is "Who could possibly be on the side of Musk", i.e. a question about the relative sympathy both sides of the legal dispute evoke. My reply to that, the one this entire sub-thread is a reply to, is that Musk evokes greater sympathy, because of how twatter abuses their power and position as a social media monopoly and how much this harms online conversations. So, in this particular scope, you're the one who is actually off-topic, my reply was about who I'm more sympathetic to.

>Do you have something relevant (not necessarily correct, but at least __relevant__) to the stated topic at hand

Do you mean the bot issue ? it's probably bullshit. Every social media cesspool is full of bots, some more, some less. There is no reason to think twatter is any better or worse on that particular front. It's probably instagram who's the filthiest bot playground.

I think its pretty obvious that Musk will try to milk every single point, fair or not, to improve his position in the court. Bullshit or not, it ties up important resources out of twatter's legal team and gives legitimacy to his claims (because if you spend several lawyers trying to debunk bullshit, then you at least take that bullshit seriously, which gives legitimacy to the bullshit).

So I don't understand what to discuss, Musk bullshitted ? no shit, he's billions-of-dollars committed to the case now, off course he's going to bullshit and do whatever it takes to win. What's interesting or novel about that ?
Using memory without ECC on the so-called "consumer" devices, in opposition with the "professional" devices, a.k.a. servers and workstations, has been caused by Intel, from 1994, when they have introduced the second generation of Pentium CPUs, to 1995, when they have introduced Pentium Pro.

(The 1st generation of Pentium, the 60/66 MHz models, had been introduced in 1993, while the 2nd generation, the 90/100 MHz models, introduced in 1994, used a different socket and different motherboards.)

Unlike with the previous Intel CPUs, Intel had the idea to introduce a market segmentation between Pentium and Pentium Pro (for the successors of Pentium Pro, Intel created the Xeon brand, a couple of years later).

Therefore, Intel has retained the ability to detect and or correct memory errors only in the Pentium Pro chipsets (at that time the memory controllers were in the so called northbridge, a part of the chipset, and not in the CPU), while removing this feature from the Triton chipset intended for Pentium.

While Intel has initiated this market segmentation policy, between "amateurs" and "professionals" (unlike IBM, which since the first IBM PC had always included memory error detection via parity), both the memory module vendors and the makers of other CPUs have been also happy to follow this policy, because it allows them to extract much more money from the knowledgeable users than the cost of adding ECC, while also having larger profit margins when selling to naive users, because the elimination of ECC/parity has never caused any price reduction.

When this feature was removed, all the new motherboards and modules without parity/ECC had the same prices as the previous models with error detection (for many years, the memory errors were detected via parity, but then the memory controllers were improved, so that when using the same number of extra bits, i.e. the same memory modules and motherboards as for parity, single errors could be corrected, not only detected).
Logitech introduces line of gender inclusive gaming accessories
> Higher margins are made closer to the consumer

Which is consistent with and irrelevant to making “more by selling higher volumes at a lower margin.” Higher margins are made by Michelin-starred restaurants than TSMC. That doesn’t mean they should expand into fine dining.

Chasing margins at the expense of profits is bad business. Cannibalising Apple would mean losing volume, from Apple and others, which in turn undermines TSCM’s scale-based advantage.
Dont do what this guy preaches.

My advice: no drugs, keto/carnivore diet, omad or interminent fasting, resistance training.

Good luck with choosing the correct advice.
So many addicts in here... You guys need counselling not micro doses.
There's the ride subsidies of course, which have never gone away really.

But also, Uber is a valley tech firm, meaning it has extremely high overheads. To service all those markets Uber employed 29,300 people last year, a roughly 30% increase from 2020, and note that isn't including the drivers. That's nearly 30,000 people in operations and software development of various kinds.

Uber probably can't make money even if it stops subsidizing rides because the extra added value of a ride-hailing app (which is certainly non zero) is nonetheless not enough to offset the cost of having such a massive company, especially given that so many are earning some of the world's highest salaries.
>> Do you remember how people on HN used to take comfort that AI couldn't write code? Now they're taking comfort in the fact that AI can't write code well.

If you're referring to neural program synthesis with large language models (LLMs), the performance of current systems is pitifully low, with best results in the range of 5-7% correct programs when evaluating on a test set similar to the one used for training (and allowing a single "guess"; it goes up to 30% with 100 guesses; happy to point to references if required).

So no, "AI" (meaning deep learning I presume) cannot write code very "well".

Of course there exists an entire field of research in program synthesis that predates LLM code generators by a long time, and that can do much better than LLMs, but you haven't heard of it because DeepMind and OpenAI don't choose to champion it. But that's a story for another time.

[Correction: dammit, I misquoted the metrics. OpenAI claims ~30% correct results for their Codex model when allowed one guess on their test set; ~70% when allowed 100 guesses. See link to Codex paper in child comment. The 5-7% is the rate of correct programs for SalesForce's CodeRL on the "Introductory" level problems of the third-party APPS dataset and when allowed one guess; see Table 1b in the CodeRL paper summarising results on APPS for various LLM code generators: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01780]
After trying to read the podcast transcript (which was difficult to read, since it appears to be a direct automated transcript), then reading this Q&A, I have to thoroughly discount the 'Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice' analysis of 'the problem'. Here's an excerpt:

>Could you pinpoint any reason as to why we’ve perhaps strayed from possibility government?

>Weiss: In part, it’s just by virtue of our age. Ageing organisations and ageing bureaucracies have a harder time being innovative. A second reason is [...] it’s a problem of overlearning.

Alright, so take a material problem like "filing taxes is needlessly complicated" and ask why? The issue certainly isn't 'aging', but a lobbying arm and capitalist interests that has forced people to pay the likes of Intuit $70+ per year just to do the thing. I struggle to understand how 'aging' and 'overlearning' is the culprit here.
Given that the first recorded instance of Scottish Whisky is from 1494 (ref. https://www.glenfiddich.com/us/explore/ambassadors-blog/2014...) I don't think Bourbon pre-dates it :P

From the article it wasn't till the 1940's that Whisky started using a lot of bourbon barrels.
Top Scientist Admits Webb Telescope Star Photo Was Chorizo
The Chinese perspective makes far more sense to me here.
Neat to see this, and hope it encourages framework or a third party to make a tablet. I personally switched to a tablet for better ergonomics: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/vzs8mm...

"Connect the display to the tablet using the USB C cable" wouldn't there be some performance loss in this approach over using LVDS directly to a display?
> I would also remind you that walking is more sustainable than electric bikes and pedestrians surely don't eant to die because of e-bikes mania.

So, I'm going to get super pedantic here... But, nope.

Walking burns more calories than riding an ebike and those calories come from somewhere. Walking isn't an efficient conversion of calories into energy.

Biking ends up being more sustainable because it coverts more calories into motion.

E-bikes even more sustainable because it uses less calories and instead relies on a battery (charged from on ever greening grid).

You could debate about whether or not biking is more sustainable than ebiking due to battery production impact. However, both are going to have a clear win over walking.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-enviro....
In the last 10 years I’ve seen massive buildings constructed in the town I went to school in (Champaign). Literally sky scrapers all over.

So yes, we can solve a public problem (housing).

The question is whether we can recognize and want to solve the problems imo. Today our media seems incapable of highlighting issues. The media pushes a narrative to effect social change (ie political); rather than presents the issues. On the ground most people agree on the issues, but half the population take the narrative at face value and push the same political ideology (which often doesn’t address the root issues).

To be frank, we have a cultural issue. Most of our institutions rely on a solid cultural basis. With the degrading of our culture (classically liberal, ie conservative values, but libertarian in policy) we no longer have a conservative value system being presented. So we have the libertarian “you do you” mentality, without the public shame that comes with certain actions (such as public displays of nudity, open drug use, etc).

To me, this comes across as many places in the United States have become unsafe for children - SF being one. I can’t let me kids walk down the street with needles, human waste and screaming homeless.

We don’t help those people because we don’t have the cultural foundation to.

In short, we can solve more problems than before, but the culture itself has the problem.
>"When human-powered, speed correlates highly with proficiency and experience. With ebikes, that's no longer true, and many unskilled & inexperienced cyclists are now among the fastest on the streets."

I completely agree. I also think the biggest contribution to this phenomenon is the proliferation of food and grocery delivery services. The business model seems to practically require this type of beahvior.
ah, I assumed since the federal DOT is responsible for things like qualifying street-legal equipment (e.g. DOT-legal headlamp housings, windshields, etc) the CA DOT was in a similar role at the state level. Could have sworn I'd read somewhere CA DOT simply reflects DOT regulations on such matters, but wouldn't the CA DOT still be responsible for enforcement if say Ford was selling new vehicles within CA with non-DOT headlamps?
Oh wow, the price has gone down a lot. These are great headphones, but they're a relatively small on-ear profile. They would have me as a customer forever if they had an over-ear model. The best thing about them in my opinion is that they are very easy to take apart and clean.
One headset I’ve heard of that is aimed at more office focused usage is the SimulaVR[1]. However, it’s still a work in progress and you’d have to preorder.

[1]: https://simulavr.com/
I added "easily correctable" to account for things that are clearly not good for us in any sense, but also don't cause lasting damage if taken in moderation. Coffeine, alcohol and sugars for example. Everyday circumstances describe normal consumption outside of addictions, accidents, competitions, medical conditions that make us more vulnerable, and other things. And chemicals that accumulate in our bodies (forever chemicals, microplastics, dioxins and other fat-soluble goodies, heavy metals) or cause permanent changes deserve increased scrutiny and bias for safety.

Right now, I'd argue to be wary of _any_ novel polymers and substances (yes, it already happens for medicine and food), and to critically re-examine whatever was introduced before. The issue of microplastics and their impact on the ecosystem is clearly something we didn't think about before (more likely, we straightaway dismissed it).
most dangerous red lights and stop signs are monitored by authorities to reduce accidents.

There ate cameras mounted everywhere.

I worked on a mobility project for the city of Monza to make street crossing safer around schools and public offices.

Unfortunately bikes don't have plates and we can't send the rider a ticket after the fact.

Anyway: I challenge you to monitor a stop sign on a road heavily used by riders working for any of the delivery companies and see what happens.
Making the grid reliable world-wide requires approximately 50 TWh in batteries, approximately the same amount as to electrify every car.

If it takes 20 years to build a nuclear plant, then we'll have the batteries before that nuclear plant is finished.
I used to have a Plattan myself in 2010, but had to sell it because the pads felt painful when wearing them longer than 30 minutes… A lot of people posted reviews with the same issue.

Quite a shame, because I really like the design.
Why the international climate community isn't celebrating the US energy bill
Grift: the project of gaining power/wealth from the existence of a problem without any interest in even remotely attempting to solve the problem.

If saying “the government is the problem” is an effective strategy for a person to gain political power, then that person is heavily incentivized to do everything in their power to make government ineffective.

See:

Complaining extensively about both high taxes and high gas prices yet uniformly voting against removing the gasoline tax.

Supporting the troops, yet voting against medical care for veterans.
The instructions recommend to print with ABS. Any reason for not going for PETG or PLA ?
Was thinking something similar, but my glasses make it impractical. A company now offers prescription inserts, which I plan to order.
https://www.vr-wave.store/products/oculus-quest-prescription...

However, even with my glasses on, the resolution is about 1/4 of what’s needed to perfectly render text. It’s also too heavy, and too hot for more than an hour.

But I’m interested in your experience.
What makes Ranger better?
> But the city where I live, Milan, built standard bike lanes as they are built all over Europe.

No clue how Milan is. But for me, the most common reason I leave a bike lane is because someone has parked their car in it.

A large percentage of motorists treat bike lanes as parking lanes and often cities aren't ticketing them.
There is barely any external UI in this game (at least when you're actually playing), most of what you see is in universum. Had the game chosen a different art style, those could be 3D models that you would interact with in 3D space. You can easily imagine putting a VR headset on and having all these documents, stamps and pullchains around you, so it's only natural for them to behave in a realistic way - just like, say, SUPERHOT VR is started by pushing a floppy into the drive, when it could be just a simple button.
It's a clever use of maths that makes it simple to take information you have and work out related information. It's not magic that can always give an answer even when you don't have enough information to start with.
Moreover article mentions at the end that an existent engine is used ("integrates").
> Anyone in the US who buys online with a credit card basically has up to 90 or even 180 day free returns.

Except the average consumer rarely reverses charges. Someone doing this regularly is going to stand out and will get legal attention.

> For example, they can poke a hole in the shirt they want to return and do it 1000% legally.

Except now they’ve damaged the good. Will they wear the shirt with the hole?
Nix will never achieve any wide spread adoption, the issues are too glaring.

The Nix language itself is half of the problem, difficult to search for because "nix" doesn't refer to something specific as it's overloaded, what hubris there must of been to think that was a good idea, it's also terribly documented with too much of a focus being on "elegant code" instead of being clear. Java and Go obviously being too verbose, but you could use a subset of python like starlark to achieve clarity and readability.

This being one of many but I've lost the will to continue as Nix as a dev experience is abysmal and really something else needs to replace it because I don't the language being fixed anytime soon. Guix will not be the on either due to FSF dogma.

People can go on about having successfully adopted it at their org but simply put, if it was good enough as is the percentage of companies using it would be meaningful. FYI a little script that only a minority of the devs understand does not count.
> Cal Newport's site has a Ledger of Harms [1] at the Center for Humane Technology

Sorry, I'm not following. Could you elaborate on the connection between Cal Newport and the site you linked to?
Some good advice in here. One thing I'll add is: make sure you know which English words have weird spellings that are nothing like the pronunciation. (This is a lot of words!)

The huge mistake I hear non natives make all the time is to incorrectly pronounce things like they're spelled. Eg pronouncing the "b" in "debt" (it's actually pronounced just "det" in every dialect), or pronouncing "says" with the same vowel as "say" (it's actually more like "sez" in most accents.)

There are zillions of other examples - I can't give you a list of words to be aware of, but I'm sure that someone somewhere must have compiled a good list.
Seems the goalposts shifted. Now cars only follow the rules at the “most dangerous” intersections? They all seem pretty dangerous for a pedestrian in the crosswalk.

My city actually does have stop sign cameras, a relative rarity in the states. There are 8 of them for thousands of stop signs. Maybe it’s different where you are but here almost nobody stops at a stop sign properly and sometimes pedestrians and cyclists get killed because of it. The cameras generate constant complaints from people who live near them because even though they’re marked, drivers are so unaccustomed to a full stop that they struggle to do so even when they know it results in an automatic fine.
> Walking burns more calories than riding an ebike and those calories come from somewhere

You can't be serious...

Walking also reduce your risk of going to the hospital, how much energy is saved?

Do ambulances run on magic dust?

> However, both are going to have a clear win over walking.

I seriously hoped you were jocking.

Until we won't be born with wheels, walking will win.

I sincerely hope that you'll at least get this, one day...
Storage batteries are now LiFePO4. Lithium, Iron and Phosphate are all incredibly common worldwide. The latter 2 are already being mined in massive quantities for other uses, batteries would not use a noticeable portion of that output.
Can it even render people well?
The Corolla rant quoted brings back a memory: Group of teen males in a midwestern city, early 90s. Much more diverse than usual, in repose at the usual gathering place (my basement).

$G, who was poor, brought in an electric guitar and amplifier he'd stolen from a church, wondering where best to sell it quick because he had to help raise rent money for his family (5 brothers and Mom). $E, who had "never known want" though not actually too rich to hang out with us, thought that was awful and volunteered to give $G the money if he'd return the stuff.

$G didn't want to accept charity and didn't want to be obligated to $E. If $E had wanted the guitar for itself $G would have given it to him despite needing the money. I wound up in the middle of that transaction, $G fronted me the stuff, I gave him the money from $E, and me and $E returned it to the place it came from. We didn't tell $G about it, I just told him I'd sold it off elsewhere. We all liked most of $G's family, we'd have all chipped in to help them (and had done so before). $E didn't want to be even technically guilty of receiving stolen goods, but he wanted to help somehow.

I knew both of these people well enough to empathize with them. I've thought about the incident over the years. I still can't see any way to really explain the viewpoint of either side to the other.

As far as I know, $E went on to live a comfortable, anonymous middle class lifestyle; $G showed up on the papers 20yr later as the star of one of those "house flipper millionaire success story," pieces just before the 2008 crash. Perhaps knowing $E helped him achieve greater success, personally I doubt it.
Someone's processed data is someone else's raw input.

Here these are logs that were already filtered by their relevance to security and exported as structured data. Considering those "raw unstructured data" because you haven't personally done ETL on it seems wrong.
Worse than that. While the out there wing of the Democratic Party is getting absolutely housed in their primaries and state elections, the Republican Party has leaned into the wilder edge of their party (e.g. Cheney being literally kicked out or Cruz saying more children would die if assault weapons were banned).

As for identity politics, how can we talk about that without observing the normalization of paramilitary culture on the right? From the ubiquitous thin blue line flags to the 3 %er sheepdog culture, large portions of the right are gearing up for political violence, most of it directed at black people.

The Republicans of my youth who stood for good governance, the rule of law, low taxes & strong civic engagement have been replaced at all levels by preppers, populists & grifters.

I can understand being disgusted by the racial politics of the anarchy-socialist wing of the left but to take up with the republicans of 2022 over it seems like madness.

It’s a lot easier for me to see a “coexist” bumper sticker than a “Hang all traitors, starting with the Democrats” one. But your mileage may vary.
I live in a city with truly great bike infrastructure. Separate bike lanes off main road, secure bike parking, separate traffic light phase for bikes... and e-bikers are just as bad. Having a bike lane on the opposite side of the road, they'd still rather ride up the wrong side for some reason. Cutting through red light and meandering through traffic is commonplace, as are speeding, riding on pavement, riding while talking on clicking on the phone...

You're 100% right, it's not the bike's fault, but somehow they act as enablers for idiots. And having the infrastructure doesn't help.
Craig Wright has now been called out as dishonest by multiple judges from multiple cases.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/judge-slams-craig-wright-for-...

Look up the history of the 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF wallet that Craig claimed in court documents to own but actually contains coins stolen from Mt Gox.

https://mylegacykit.medium.com/the-faketoshi-tale-of-1feex-5...
My understanding from that is, the Iron Dome system has a decision making phase where it's able to see where the missile is headed. If it's headed to an unpopulated area, it's ignored. If it's headed towards a built up area, then it tries to intercept. It's that over-urban-area interception rate which has increased, which is quite impressive