skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of pumping the breaks, I really enjoyed the recent documentary, The Year Earth Changed, which explores how the lockdowns from COVID had a significant positive impact on the natural world. The message is optimistic—essentially, it is still possible to make an impact if we're able to change our behavior.

One of the more moving stories is the that Himalayas were visible for the first time 30 years in Jalandhar, which were previously hidden due to air pollution. Infant mortality rates amongst a number of species improved substantially as well (whales, penguins, dolphins, and cheetahs are among a few the documentary covered).
That's a real thing, to be sure. The Loudness Wars have completely ruined any number of otherwise decent recordings. The worst I ever heard was Dropkick Murphys's "The Meanest of Times" which had the dynamic range of an air conditioner in Phoenix.

Still, you can always take a great analog recording, pipe it into a good ADC, and listen to that sample forever without degradation. I think almost everything can play FLACs now.
Or on the command line:

sudo defaults write -g AppleShowScrollBars -string Always

I include this as part of my setup script for any new Mac.
tl;dr The concept of artificial sentience makes me feel icky, and the people who believe in it are weird, therefore it cannot exist.
Dean Preston is the head NIMBY of the city next to Aaron Peskin. Dean spends approximately all his time denying housing project applications.

He doesn’t even only block them in his backyard; they’ve ignored member deference to block one in Matt Haney’s district before.
I never said it sohuld be used for everyhting. Excel it great for some simple tasks. But since the learning curve for those simple tasks which Excel does well is so low, people stick with it and start doing all kinds of stuff it isn't well suited for.
You were a scientist so you have the power to understand.

For the general population the choice is between the voodoo man, or a professor. I prefer people to choose to blindly believe the professor (which carries a risk) than the voodoo man (which is always crap)
> Brake wear is lower because of regenerative braking

that's specifically why I've mentioned "high end cars".

Most hybrid cars use it too.

Most high end ABS systems are way more gentle on the brake pads than a 20 years old Ford Transit van.

> In my car I barely use the brakes at all

that's what most good drivers have been doing in the past 50 years.

Especially on manual.
There's a chrome extension that records all your steps and then generates a puppeteer/playwright script for you. Then you can just edit bits of that script and run it. This is my go-to method presently.

I feel like you could incorporate some of those features into this and eliminate some of the manual entry of css selectors.
To be fair, the task at hand is to immitate a random person on the internet. Not to give the right answer to things.
> Telling this out loud upsets a lot of people, but I’m on the same boat with you.

It "upsets a lot of people" in the same sense and for the same reason as telling them drinking alkaline water cures cancer.
I mean when people talk about 'human level intelligence' with machines, we're already there, 99% of people are dumb f*cks.

We have stupid people building stupid machines (or not even that, just using 'pre-trained models'), it's not hard to convince themselves and other people that it's 'sentient'.
Which is not an issue with the digital format, but with the mastering.
> there is a conflict between jews and muslims in Palestine and Israel

There's a conflict between the settlers/gentrifiers (and their police State, military industrial complex, and security apparatus) and the rest of the population. From what i hear there is still an anti-nationalist/anti-colonization/anti-war jewish movement in Israel, what remains of a once-strong internationalist socialist/anarchist jewish movement.
I am in general against patents, copywrite and trademark.

if an idea is protected by such laws - you are limiting thought.

I do not support such artificial thought limits.

In addition - arguments for it allowing innovation or promoting innovation...

no: innovation comes from innovation's own sake - patens and copywrite only incentivize spending resources from other's thinking the wrong thoughts... patent trolling... or milking patents for what they are worth...

Humanity would be a lot better off with a copyleft view of intellectual property. An idea in another person's head does not diminish your idea in your head... people need to stop thinking that thought itself is a zero-sum game.
If it’s a 1ZZ-FE, I’m convinced the engine likes the abuse. Just replace the intake manifold gasket ($9 part). That engine will outlast the rest of the vehicle, in a salty climate anyway.
Encryption is much, much faster than you think. In my carefully-optimised Rust implementation of my scheme (see another comment in this thread) that uses a variant of Speck128 for encryption, and simple base-conversion into a 20-character array (no allocations!), the base conversion takes takes 100× as long as the encryption, which, in large batches, takes two cycles. Now AES (the topic here) is slower than Speck (which is one of the very fastest “real encryption” schemes out there), so the base-conversion wouldn’t be as much slowerer (certainly nowhere near 100×), but it still goes to show something.

I would not expect you to be able to even measure the difference on general workloads. On massive batch workloads, I think there’s a good chance that the encryption approach with my scheme at least (AES would be a little more iffy) and a 64-bit ID would be just a teensy bit faster than a UUID primary key because of dealing with less data in the database, network and app before the encryption is done—in fact, assuming equivalent stringification I have decided to confidently assert my scheme would be faster, since the only thing that can slow it down is the added encryption code and round keys, which at scale are negligible, and my scheme will save around 60 cycles on stringification due to needing only 20 characters rather than 26. (And you could reduce it another six characters and sixty cycles if you limited it further to 70-bit IDs.) But even there I think you’d be straining to measure it.
That's the nature of almost all civil cases - they are pretexts for negotiations.

BUT, accusing Twitter of actual federal and state crimes is going to raise the awareness of several regulatory bodies, so this is going to get hairy.
Bearings are pretty much industrial jellybeans. The biggest difference between the two is that an ICE would have many more of them.
On a phone yes, on a "desktop" OS losing resolution often also means being able to display less stuff.
Mathematical Origami
Exactly. If you like that warmth, awesome. There's not a thing wrong with that. It's when people confuse "warm" for "better" that the problems start.
On the other hand, there's also a lot of confusion about what sentience is. There's a common conflation between sentience and sapience, there's an overly mystical view of what emotions and human cognition are, there's a habit of thinking of sentience and sapience both as binary rather than a continuum, etc.

So while I wouldn't say current AI is sentient yet, I also don't think there will be an AI that's just "suddenly" sentient, and I don't think it's an undebatable fact that current AI isn't sentient or sapient. I think there's an argument to be made that it is, to an extent, just nowhere near to the level of humans. I think it'll just continue to get more and more sentient, more and more sapient, until it becomes full P-Zombie levels of indistinguishable from human-levels of those traits.
I said ARM64. Surface is not a desktop computer as it’s not fast enough.
not finding an acceptable way to describe

"first and third Tuesday at noon each month "
No questions just appreciation. Your blog and Marc’s channel are about the most interesting things I’ve read and watched for years (as an ex EE). Pure quality content. Thank you.
Jordan Peterson voice: Hey Alexa clean my goddamn room
> yeah this is the computing equivalent of a locked file cabinet in a disused toilet stall in a dark basement with a sign on the door that says "Beware The Leopard"

OTOH it makes complete sense to have a look at the Trackpad pane to see how it works. It’s not like it’s hidden behind a defaults command line, and it even has movies. It’s much worse on phones.
Oh, interesting. What is the name of that extension?
Digital was a badge of honor back in the 80s and 90s when CDs were new. No hiss, better sound. They Used to label CDs with 3 letters (the SARS code) : A for analog D for digital.
For recording, mixing and mastering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARS_code

We had a high school radio station (10 Watts, mono FM). One kid had all these great classic rock albums he was getting from his neighbor who was giving him them when he got the redone CD versions.

Even my old Sony V6 headphones have a "For Digital" sticker on them which thinking about it is pure marketing.

I mean we tried A/B testing when I was kid, CD vs Cassettes. The Cassettes with dolbyC sounded better when recorded from CD onto decent tapes (they were a little louder) and it was hard to tell the difference anyway. Maybe in the quiet passages you could hear hiss... CDs were a better format though and we knew it. Becuase cars and cd walkmans were rare, my CDs were often copied to cassettes.

At some point its good enough, just enjoy the performance.
I suppose the next time Musk tries to buy something that costs $44 billion dollars he should do a little more homework. Waiving due diligence, though perfectly in line with his trollish vibe, is something he's going to regret for years.

The bottom line is the guy gets off on being an irreverent, flamboyant dipshit and this time it's biting him in the ass. And I for one am here for it. After the last few years I have run out of patience with assholes with money/power thinking they can do whatever they want in broad daylight. Christ, at least have the decency to be surreptitious about it.
No, the focus of the article on the individual, Marc Andreessen and vilifying him for arguing for density in cities like San Francisco while voting against density in his suburban town. The underlying idea is that billionaires should opt for the exact same living standards as people who make orders of magnitude less than them if they write articles commenting on housing, and if they do not do so, they are hypocrites, while conveniently ignoring the fact that these very same billionaires single-handedly sway government revenues because of the taxes they pay and drive ginormous GDP increases that enable governments to solve housing problems, for example, by creating efficient transportation networks, or providing incentives to companies to locate themselves in ways that alleviate or avert housing crises.

The real culprit is not Andreessen complaining to his mayor, but the Bay Area and California politicians who have squandered the enormous revenues of the past 10 years and have literally nothing to show for their housing efforts.
Some became Flancians, I say.
You're right. Zooms video quality is the best. Zoom screen sharing is also crisp af. Meet screen sharing is like looking at a 480p CRT monitor.
When open conflict with China would also "end the world" the exact same could be applied to OP. You want a world in which China is not appeased, and you're okay with ending it all if that's what it takes.
Why gullible?

When you look at images of stars there are plenty of versions. This one looked plausible, backed by a scientist.

He fucked up and does not have the balls to face the music
Huawei and the USA has some history. The first Huawei product was a line of routers that had the same names (Cisco gave all their routers a numbers as their names), same features, ports, command interface, and even same bugs. As the corresponding Cisco routers.
Rewilding is an extreme answer, but an answer nonetheless. Could humanity ever have the discipline to only allow “some technology?” Maybe, but the extreme answer will always be there waiting for us.

That his ideas were undermined by his actions is just as sad as the actions themselves. They weren’t terrible ideas. As you’ve pointed out, we might be on the path to a dystopian future where we’ll look back and say, “Damn, Ted was right.”
Harnessing Boredom into Productivity or Something Like That
There are absolutely people who think the computer does all the work with digital art. They might even be a plurality. That kind of feedback is a common complaint from digital artists. Especially when it comes to commissions. "How can you charge so much? The computer does [most, all] of the work!"
Applications can overwrite dependency versions they want to use. It's just not possible in the python package set because if ever two versions of the same package are in one environment very strange things happen and everything falls apart.
> 100% fine for someone to say that they subjectively prefer the sound quality of a record player to a CD

It's not intellectually fine, only fine in the sense that it's well within the bounds of free speech.
Which actually might not be all that bad.

Or we could go all conspiracy theory and suggest that we already are pets. ;)
I liked it, but I do prefer VS Code’s default+ colour themes (for light or dark).

For the terminal I use the “USWDS: The United States Web Design System” colours, which I find have a great luminance balance and a huge palette, I use the middle 50 vivid variants. See: https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-tokens/color/system-...
In my country gambling is legal but regulated. And so you can, indeed, bet on political outcomes, subject to certain rules. Just go to a web site, prove you're eligible, deposit money, gamble.

Now, I don't gamble, but in December 2020 I was able to use that platform to "bet" that Donald Trump had lost the US presidential election he lost the previous month. I "won" a bunch of money. Because lunatics had decided facts aren't true, we can just make up whatever we want, and it took a few weeks for that to get knocked down and meanwhile you could just bet against these morons.

As to financial instruments: For a bunch of the instruments you are actually buying something, and these are clearly just fine. If you buy Oil futures or Pork futures that actually literally deliver oil (or pork) and you're holding them when they come due, you're getting oil (or pork). This is probably not what you wanted, but that's what those instruments do, the people who were supposed to be buying them want oil, or pork, and so they're happy, too bad for you.

I agree that some derivative instruments might just be gambling, these instruments are also too risky and poorly understood, so if you say we should ban those with gambling I don't see why not. Again, gambling is legal in my country, and so are these derivatives, but the Americans can choose different, as they have on many things.
> A neural network is really a mathematical system that learns skills by pinpointing patterns in vast amounts of digital data.

And that's different from a brain, because... ?
From the official withdrawal letter [1]:

> [Victoria University] has not operated its market in compliance with the terms of [the 2014 letter granting no-action relief].

Nowhere does the CFTC state exactly what the alleged violations where, so we can only speculate. It certainly lends support to the hypothesis that the no-action withdrawal is regulatory capture by a competing prediction market.

[1]: (Forced PDF download) https://www.cftc.gov/csl/22-08/download
It is possible that this means Musk's spam analysis tool is defective. But, there is another logical possibility...
It’s not an additional attack vector.
Have you seen credible evidence that they are right about their numbers?

Without Twitter providing more context and showing their work, the number can't be trusted, thus it isn't credible.

If you claim you have such a low number of bots (5%), you better prove it, otherwise I'll assume the worst and go with 20%.

Anyone that goes on Twitter knows it's above 5%. All 3rd party estimations are well above 5%. Prove it Twitter. Prove it.
> and there aren't cheaper beans and rice to buy at the grocery store

I mean, this is a question of policy. The US Federal Government mandates that crops be burned as fuel, which hugely pushes up the price of corn and in turn that pushes up the price of other things that could be grown using that land. We don't explicitly buy up and destroy crops anymore, or pay farmers not to grow them, but the food supply is being deliberately contracted as a matter of federal policy to keep farming profits high.

It seems bonkers to say that there's nothing we could do about rising food prices when we're literally paying to (from the perspective of the food supply) destroy food and keep it scarce.
I saw a woodworker on TikTok say he intentionally does something in every video that is against standard practice and appears unsafe, because that drives comments which then drive his revenue.
The average age of a car on the road today in America is 12 years. According to Hedges & Company, only ~10% of all cars on the road today are 20 years or older[0]. That’s not a small number, but “in general”, people do not drive 20 year old cars.

The minimum battery warranty for an EV in the US is 8 years or 100k miles[1], and crowdsourced reports of battery degradation over time suggest that (at least for Tesla vehicles) it is not a major issue; range loss averages out to around 11% at 200k miles[2], which is the expected EOL for most ICE vehicles[3]. There are anecdotal reports of high-mileage EVs running on the same battery for over 350k miles[4] and 620k miles[5] without issue.

[0] https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2022/02/how-old-are-cars/

[1] https://www.myev.com/research/buyers-sellers-advice/evaluati...

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c3m9wqlxPBo8ziDYVm5c...

[3] https://www.caranddriver.com/research/a32758625/how-many-mil...

[4] https://insideevs.com/news/342457/this-tesla-model-x-90d-cov...

[5] https://jalopnik.com/one-tesla-model-s-has-gone-nearly-1-mil...
Writing a fuzzy search component with Preact and Fuse for Astro
Hey HN, I wrote a blog post about my experience using Preact (like React) and the Fuse text search library to build a component for searching on my Astro based site.

Astro is a static site generator for Node.

https://astro.build/
I'm imagining a Let's Do It And Be Legends type with an extra dash of sociopathy who had just watched an edgy Discovery Channel show about the Stanford Prison Experiment and thought, "If we don't call it an experiment, we don't need to worry about experimental ethics [taps head]."
He was talking about the car-mandatory suburban design of the USA, which is pretty much everywhere by law outside of a few grandfathered places that were built before the car was invented and some commercial down towns. They also tend to be very expensive since they are in short supply and high demand. It has nothing to do with the people or culture per say and his experience exists everywhere! Look at pretty much an identical experience in Houston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54 . The channel also has few examples of the same thing in london, ontario, canada.

In Europe, small town life is not necessarily suburban life, there are a lot of of walk-able villages connected via a train line that you could take to commute to your job in city, and they're wayyyyyyyyyy better than the sadness that is US & Canadian suburbia.
Just in case anyone isn't seeing through the bullshit of Elon Musk, let me lay this out for you:

On April 14th: Twitter stock was worth about $45. Tesla stock was worth about $985. Elon's contract said he would sell $13B worth of Tesla stock (about 13.1m stocks) as part of the plan to buy Twitter for $44B, $54.20 per share. A good deal for the Twitter shareholders even at the time. (23% higher than the market said it was worth).

On May 13th: Twitter stock is worth $40[0]. Tesla stock was worth about $769. So now Elon would have to sell 16.9m shares of Tesla, 28% more, to get a company worth 12.5% less. All signs pointed to both stocks continuing to decline along with all of tech, so the deal was getting worse and worse every day for Elon, and better and better every day for Twitter's shareholders.

Elon Musk will say or do anything he has to in order to cut his losses. There's that well-talked-about $1B get-out-of-deal fee that everyone thinks he'll be able to use. But that's actually not a valid thing- that was only if the SEC blocked the deal. He's contractually obligated to buy the company.

Elon is screwed. All the noise he is making is not going to get him out of it because the Twitter shareholders will hire lawyers just as good and expensive as his- and they are in the right.

[0]And even then $40 is only because the stock was pumped up from Elon saying he's buying it all. If not for that, it would be even lower- meaning this is an even better deal for the shareholders.
Bad: why would someone qualified to give advice want to join the community? What prevents your forums from devolving into the blind leading the blind?

Yes, that's my experience with cscareerquestions, lots of questions about the big 4, doing leetcode to get into google, facebook, etc. A lot less about where most programmers are probably employed, small to medium businesses doing boring ETL, large companies in a enterprise environment using ITIL, doing lots of web development, and very little engineering.
Dell warranties have covered this (and more) for me
Yes, we already know about that problem - we will fix it in the near future, it's already in our roadmap.

Thanks for you comment and have a great day :)
Eighties computer magazines were amazing. Is there anything that comes close?
No. He is only famous because of the callous methods he used to get his paper published.
7bn are fed because of tractors, not baseload electrical generation input into electrical grids which dont exist in many countries, and many many more in the 20th C.
Deep Work by Cal Newport is near the top of that list - I have to warn anyone who might buy it that it is an incredibly disappointing and derivative book written with all the rigor of a BuzzFeed list. Read Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi instead - where the only decent ideas in Deep Work are taken from.
That blog post is using nix-env which you shouldn't do if you are trying to achieve more than the bare minimum.
It’s only a string of it comes from the null-terminated region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling character arrays
Yes it’s common to have a timed payment machine for air. Usually dual purpose with a vacuum machine as well.
I think he fucked up and does not have the courage to say so.

He is hiding behind all these explanations instead of saying "when writing the tweet I found it funny. It is not and I am sorry".

This is what a real scientist would say.
The article mentions Steve Mann. At the same time Mann was at the MIT Media Lab (as one of the first "Wearables" computing people, along with Thad Starner, Bradley Rhodes, and others), more conspicuously involved specifically in Transhumanism thought and discussion at MIT was Sascha Chislenko.

Sascha was associated with Marvin Minsky and Pattie Maes, and (like Minsky's protege, Pushpinder "Push" Singh), was one of the few people who'd wander the halls of the Lab, at all hours, striking up impromptu intellectual conversations (new AI methods, transhumanism, philosophy, economics, etc.) with random students. (Basically, much of what I imagined MIT would be like, they were it.)

Tragically, Sascha died way too soon. I don't know how much this impacted the future of Transhumanist thought, but I'm sure he'd have done more to advancing that and whatever he saw that thinking should be evolving into.
> and not all of it has reached upstream to this day.

Which parts haven't? Asking as the project lead.
Is there a way to get it so that UI applications installed with Nix show up in Spotlight Search? I remember that being my big annoyance when I tried using Nix instead of Homebrew on MacOS.