skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the person we are discussing about in this thread and I don't know her opinions or the opinion of German green party etc, but I do know some arguments of green parties here in France that are also anti nuclear too (note also that France and Germany are very different when it comes to nuclear as here most of our electricity is nuclear already)

The arguments they make is that producing electricity and most usage of electricity are bad for our planet and thus we should use less electricity if we want to preserve it (and as a result wouldn't need to add extra nuclear or coal capacity).

This part is often forgotten which results of thinking they want to replace nuclear by coal, which would be absurd.

I imagine it's probably hard to imagine that someone would think that seriously from a US perspective (one of my US based colleague asked "when are you getting AC in Europe??" when here many people are wondering if the Americans are going to stop being crazy with their freezing AC ^^)
This is a dishonest way to say that since it misconstrues my argument. I never said there should be laws to protect business models, but rather laws to ban them.

One might say it’s the same difference, but the framings are clearly not the same, and makes my argument seem ridiculous.

Antitrust laws exist (even though it may not seem like it). These business models that involve dumping mountains of cash into unsustainable businesses in order to kill the competition is very clearly anti-competitive behavior. The long term harm to consumers is clear.
Let's put Arnold on it.
Or get an AMD GPU, like what I did for my recent gaming PC.
Still probably fraud since done with intent.
Who said unaffordable? Worst case is 4 years more expensive. There are already new pipelines completed and there will be more to come.

A lot of countries also don't rely on Russia ( eg. Belgium, where I live only imports 6% from Russia).

Letting the bully do/kill what it wants is no option at all.

And that's just stupid too.

Fyi, We already had cheap gas compared to the rest of the world.

Note: the more expensive it is, the better/faster the alternatives are innovated.
It may be a form of "Euro English" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTAS

"HOTAS, an acronym of hands on throttle-and-stick"
Cloudify DevOps 6.4 arrives. Here's what's new
As an artist (music, film, 3D modeling/rendering, creative writing, portraiture) and an AI engineer, I'll admit I have a lot of uncertainty about the future of art. Some days I'm very scared, other days I figure I'll just "go with the flow" and not worry too much about a future I can't control.

I read the papers. I see the pace of progress. I understand how these models work on a technical level and I am blown away by how quickly they are being iterated on. I expect little to no digital art (images, videos, films, music, writing) will be sold for profit by human artists 10 years from now, and the only reason I haven't extended that to physical media like sculpture or street art is that I don't know whether we'll have dextrous enough robots to make those yet (though dextrous robots will indubitably come soon as well).

People love to bring out the painting-and-photography example as a defense for why AI is not actually going to bring an end to the art market, but I just don't see it as a valid analogy. Photography and painting both survived because they're fundamentally different things and can be easily distinguished in cases where their respective artists choose to differentiate themselves. AI art is different, because its entire purpose is to replicate, and no matter what human artists do with the medium of digital images, the AI will always be right there to gobble up the new wave changes and learn to replicate them.

Whereas the advent of photography was never meant to kill the painting industry, these AI algorithms are very much meant to kill the image industry, whether that was the intention of the researchers or not.
> Why is UX so horrifically bad in the vehicle space?

It used to be that vehicle radio units were entirely replaceable. There was a relatively healthy aftermarket, and quite a few shops that would actually do the installations for you. There used to be a lot more competition here, but I think with the general increase in quality of speaker systems combined with smart phones and the much higher level of system integration through the head unit effectively killed it.

Hence.. you get what you buy. In a sense, the manufacturer has a monopoly on your dash that they didn't traditionally have.
Your disdain and callous disregard for the rights of low wage earners living paycheck-to-paycheck or worse is clearly evident in your classist comments on "pushing brooms", "schlepping boxes" or "stripping drain plugs", I will not engage further.
I was responding to the comment parent. Your article was practical and spot on.
Many successful artists don't paint, sculpt or build anything. It's not about the technique. Art is about sending a message, it's about what the artist is trying to say. It's about what the public feels and thinks when exposed to their work.

AI has a place as a tool to produce content in a fast and cheap way. And yes, as a result of that certain jobs will likely disappear. But art will continue to exist and great artists will still be followed and admired by the public.
> There is no point to them.

What about this?

"Under the provisions of the Investigatory Powers (IP) Act, it is now possible for the Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) community to lawfully obtain Internet Connection Records (ICR) in support of their investigations. Following the completion of some initial trial activities, work is now underway to provision a national ICR service."

https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/digital-outcom...
I'm not up on all the details, but those grayed out flags do seem to have some particular associations. Nothing wrong with a regular old flag IMO.
That won't work. Art is also not a popularity contest.
I can operate basically anything by touch in the car other than the touchscreen.
If you're literally blowing CO2 into water to get the process started, where's the threshold between doing this with air and just extracting acidic seawater or wastewater from somewhere?
> I don't even want to think about...

I'd call that an argument from laziness.

> Last time I checked, land wasn't cheap and they weren't making any more of it.

Land that is remote, not fertile and that doesn't harbor any natural resources is actually rather cheap. Moreover, "they" are making more land in certain coastal areas where land is expensive.
It can do the same sort of computation work any stack of analogue filters can do: it does one thing very fast and if you want something else done you must create those filters first and the frame holding the stack is of no help at all.
I think Ford is on the right track of having a large touch screen with an actual physical dial that just acts as a kind of stylus. The ability for the screen to dynamically adapt to different use cases is huge, but in an automotive context having tactile feedback is also so important. If they could add a couple more of the dials that could be used for climate controls or radio stations and then some buttons that users could set up as shortcuts more people would be happy.
I'm extremely confused. The situation illustrated was that of an indie game dev using Mid journey or whatever to generate concept art.

Who exactly is being defrauded? Is the dev defrauding themselves? Their future customers? How would anyone even know? It's not like concept art is used for anything external?
You don’t get any advantage of informing proactively. You are not a martyr. Stay in your own boundaries.
Ah okay—no problem. Actually the only concrete rendering-related thing I'd seen on React 18 was about the auto-batching, so I'm already clear on the differences there. So I'll still be giving the article a read—thanks for you work on it, and enjoy the golf lol.
Massive, heavy trucks with a blind spot, the ability to accelerate very rapidly, and a fiddly screen that you need to use even for the most basic of things like heating and cooling.

What could possibly go wrong...
additionally, great art can kill the artist

source: artist
Well that's you, somebody else might want to use the subscription music service they pay for and use car controls to change the tracks, someone else might want a map that displays in the center console as opposed to their phone, etc etc. With android there's the possibility of adding apps that people would want to the car itself. This would be something device manufacturers could be interested in for dash cams or other electronics that could benefit from richer control interfaces.
It’s in your best interest to say nothing and keep looking for another job.

Otherwise you’ll probably be fired on the spot or laid off as they’re looking for cuts anyway.
Ask HN: What does YC do to address political diversity and inclusion?
Definitely worth getting excited about, though it seems the current cost of fuel production as of Aug 8 including crude oil cost is $3.40/gal minus taxes and distribution.[0] Prometheus will likely cost less to distribute, since it doesn't need to be shipped across seas, funneled through pipelines, and between refineries, it can be produced next to solar or wind generation.

For reference, Prometheus costs $1.86/gal to operate and they are aiming to reduce the cost of the machine so it can be produced including capex at $3.00/gal.

[0]: https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/transp...
The fermentation slows down after a few days so the difference between one and two weeks isn't huge but the difference between a week and 4 months is significant. Consider that Worcestershire sauce is mostly fermented onions and fish... It's amazing what a couple years of aging can do. Also, there's no reason your final product can't be a mix of both! Get the best of both worlds.
No, I'm a stickler for clear thinking.
Both hands staying on the steering wheel is a huge plus. And the inputs are stepwise and therefore less prone to error, so safer.

And then there is Siri which makes all the things that you might want to do while driving, and probably shouldn't (touchscreen or not) far easier and safer.

How is a touchscreen safer?
I think the goal should be to be able to fly as much and more.
Those are much much smaller than the nuclear reactors that parent comment is talking about. A totally different beast.
I once worked as a developer for Pro/Engineer, and sometime after that, I was on the user side using BRL-CAD. I can't speak to the quality of the product these days, but at the time, BRL-CAD was achingly slow and riddled with bugs. Using it for my day-to-day work made me want to quit my job, and I left as soon as I had something more promising lined up. I am sorry to sound like I'm unfairly judging BRL-CAD. Perhaps we were using it for something it was not intended to do, or not the way it was meant to be used. I knew my way around the Pro/E interface and it was miles ahead of BRL-CAD. But even CADDS-IV was better than BRL-CAD. I can only speculate that being government-funded, the dev team for BRL-CAD had to make brutal decisions regarding when the feature set was "good enough," because they were working with a very limited budget tied to specific program goals. I don't know. I do know that using BRL-CAD was hellish back in the day.
I wouldn't even think of trying to ride one. I didn't grow up riding bikes (narrow country lanes) and still wouldn't think of riding a bike in traffic.
Too bad there's still a large collective that thinks that workers complaining about bad conditions should just get a better job.
Weaviate calling themselves a vector database is a fairly new thing.
Airplane Mode used to be a true “all wireless disabled” mode, but Apple have relaxed it a bit over time, possibly because it's so frequently used and there are so many services provided by WiFi and Bluetooth now that aren't related to the Internet (e.g. connecting to AirPods or an Apple Watch). They also relaxed what turning off WiFi and Bluetooth in the Control Center (separately from Airplane Mode) do, so that things like AirDrop still work. But I think the options in the Settings app are still meant to truly turn off wireless, rather than just mostly?

Also: if Settings says you're connected to a WiFi network, but you don't see a WiFi icon at the top of the screen, I think that means there's no working Internet connection.
> a camera that can only take pictures of the number two, no other numbers.

Well, to be precise it makes a complete (deterministic) mess of any other numbers. But given the output and the filters you can probably unfold the camera "psf" and get back whatever it was it saw.
Ask HN: Getting a job at a FAANG as a senior/principal engineer
I’ve gained a lot from Ask HN posts, so I wanted to know what the community thinks is the best course of action to get hired at a FAANG given that I’m a senior/principal engineer.

Some more context:

Recently, I’ve been offered a director of engineering position, so I’m at a crossroads: head down the management path or really focus on getting into one of the FAANGs. I’m leaning towards the latter.

I’ve been coding for ~25 years. I’d honestly rank my software skills as above average, but I’m no Jeff Dean.

I have a formal CS background from a school that seemed rigorous.

I’ve only ever worked for IT departments in mid-sized companies except for a couple of years when I owned and ran a Rails consultancy.

I was going to list the languages and frameworks I’m proficient in, but those things don’t seem as valuable when trying to get hired at that caliber of company.

Given all that, what should I focus on? I’ve started the leetcode grind, but should I focus more on system design and architecture given my experience?

I’d be grateful for any advice.
being extremely generous, and assuming he meant "martian atmosphere" when he said "air", it _might_ be a bit more challenging (depending on your process and what you've got available) to convert the CO2 at 0.095 PSI into O2, than it would be to pull the CO2 out of ~14.7 PSI human exhalations and convert it to O2.

seems like the kind of thing where there is a bunch of engineering that could be productively done.
> From a technical perspective, WARP is a VPN. But it is designed for a very different audience than a traditional VPN. WARP is not designed to allow you to access geo-restricted content when you’re traveling. It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit. If you’re looking for that kind of high-security protection then a traditional VPN or a service like Tor are likely better choices for you.

See: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-plus/
He touches on this in the piece briefly.

> I think as developers, we tend to overestimate how expensive re-renders are. In the case of our Decoration component, re-renders are lightning quick.

Certainly it's there for a reason, and you may have expensive operations, but in my experience developers reach for useMemo much too early and often, and it just adds complexity to their functions. The cost of checking the parameters for changes adds overhead that may be more expensive than just re-doing the "expensive" operation. My rule of thumb is if the operation is less than O(n) where n < ~5000 I don't reach for useMemo.

There have been some benchmarks done on this, and when it pays off to use.
> What area would it take to produce several GW that a few reactors would produce?

Out of curiosity, I tried some napkin math on this. If Nevada went whole hog, used say, 1% of their total land for solar, they could produce almost half the electrical needs of the US, if I haven't mucked up the math too much.

Sounds plausible, but 1% of Nevada's land for solar would indeed be 'all the way to the horizon' in many places.
Takeaway is really nice in Europe IMO. I’ve also used Deliveroo and they are okay but less popular where I live.

I can’t advice beyond that but Uber is awful awful awful. Every time I give them a chance I regret it, be it on price, support, ethics, quality …
are you saying they don't stand to make a lot of money on other kinds of debts.
Getting from curb-to-gate today is easier and faster than it was pre-9/11.

That's just domestic. For international travel it has been a literal exponential decrease in hassle.

Of course, this all depends on whether or not the airport you use (and it is 100% dependent on the airport itself) has deployed all of the automated systems being used to lower terminal transit times.
I wonder if third-party infotainment with buttons and otherwise ergonomic, reliable UI is legally possible. If so, it could be a viable business?
Not when you're on a scooter, I would think.

Having been to both (but not having driven a scooter in Atlanta) I'd suggest scooting around Paris is very different than scooting around Atlanta.
Endeavour os lets you install barbones arch if you untick enough checkboxes in the installer, I tried manjaro but they put on too much extra stuff
This comment would increase tremendously in value if you said something about which version of BRL-CAD you used.
"Give 'em what they want..."
I really do wish we had "basic income" in the US. Besides helping out the lowest socioeconomic class, it really seems like this would benefit artists, too.
Well, samstave's original question was one of adding power with an inline stack. As I understood it, that isn't the purpose for he Tu-95's pair of props since they share a power source. The below explanation [0] has some interesting analysis based on Russian language documentation about how torque is divided between the prop pairs. Additionally the paper linked from the Wikipedia contra-rotating prop page "Analysis of a contra-rotating propeller driven transport aircraft" [1] has a great section on fuel savings, which probably has contributed to the Tu-95's success.

Thus, the front prop gets almost 20% more torque than the rear prop.

0. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/74787/why-dont-...

1. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showatt.php?attachmentid=281...
Can it be stupid people damaging democracy? Nah, smart people do it too.
Yet the cars are more expensive than ever. Nah, it’s a bet by the management that people don’t actually choose a car based on the polish of the infotainment system.
I believe they're sacrificing efficiency for performance.
> You are wrong on this, the private part indicates the privacy it provides not the destination.

I remember using VPNs long before, to my knowledge, people were using them in the way you describe, and I was always under the impression that the "P" in VPN meant "connecting private networks" together over the Internet.

This document from 2001 agrees with me: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/i...
"From the user’s perspective, the VPN connection is a point-to-point connection between the user’s computer and a corporate server. The nature of the intermediate internetwork is irrelevant to the user because it appears as if the data is being sent over a dedicated private link."
I fundamentally disagree with this limit due to the fact they provide no alternative when you start getting into that area (I imagine scaling to 120 or 180 is going to be painful for instance). I'm really shocked they don't have a way for a customer to get this quota changed if on an enterprise account for instance (usually there is some byline to the effect of "if you need a higher quota please contact your account rep" sort of thing, but there is none of that here, which tells me no matter the size this is ironclad)

Off topic but I am curious:

Why re-deployed unchanged code?

The user-land solution I can think of is cached builds that only re-deploy changed code?
CEO took control of Celsius trading strategy months before bankruptcy
I "get" that there is an underlying note of "tyranny" in the regulator asking rich execs to justify their existence, but I have to say as one of the plebs, I am not particularly concerned at the burden placed on Bezos &c by the FTC. I can think of worse burdens, they happen all the time, to poorer people. They just tend not to have access to top line lawyers and PR flacks to get the story into the Financial Times.

I regard this kind of lawyer speak in public as part of their strategy. It isn't actually a true comment to process cost, or the burden, or the public interest.

Bezos doesn't actually have to open his capacious filing cabinet stack, which is in a cederwood room beside his selection of shirts and shoes in the lodge. He doesn't even have to do very much at all drafting his response: he pays people to do this for him.

No, to me, what this represents is a very strong signal the FTC has a valid point, because the "burden" here is the risk to Bezos that he has acted in ways which breach existing regulations.
I guess we all have a line we draw where we do the right thing on this side and "I want a hassle free life" on the other, and my line is having a stable internet connection at home. Everything I've experienced in ~20 years of Telekom pales in comparison to everything else I tried.
Atleast when a Dodge Charger is charging up from behind, I can hear the thing. Pedestrians can hear the thing.

When the demographic that currently commits most reckless driving eventually adopts electric cars, it's going to be a blood bath.
Google AI: Towards Helpful Robots
https://archive.ph/YTeHp
10x faster with respect to what?
> Why does our website look like this? At TI we believe we can change the world by displacing fossil hydrocarbon production at global scale. Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as quickly as possible. Our website embodies our cultural commitment to allocating resources where they solve the most important problems.
That was sort of how C.S. Lewis imagined Mars in Out Of The Silent Planet, before we really had a good idea of what Mars was really like. Most of the planet was unlivable without an air supply, but the valleys trapped enough air for plant and animal life to thrive.

If one were to make a hole like the one described in the video, I wonder how much that would affect the atmospheric pressure on the rest of Mars?
"Discerning"? :)
> In the story where I heard this, that's something the devil says

I appreciate you pointing this out the full quote I am referring is "You can by anything in this world for money, so if something can't be bought for money it is not of this world."

I feel like music tries to give us something that is not of this world, which is why we have so many problems when trying to figure out how to price music.
I agree with your comment, NYC is quite special (Manhattan at any rate).

I remember seeing a map of the US denoting whether the majority of commute was done by personal car vs public transport. The entirety of the US was by personal car… except for NYC. It had a bit of an Astérix feel to it.