skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People can buy this with their eyes wide open, or not. At this point, fsd has been scrutinized so much that absolutely noone can claim ignorance.

And people still buy it because it's the best money can buy right now. It's not perfect but it's there and getting better with every release.
> Criticize the US President all you like on every social network: not a problem.

given that this [1] already happened in my country, and also this [2] also happened (just to name a couple) and nobody paid, that there are 13,000 American soldiers on my Country's soil and that this [3] man has been POTUS and is probably running again for election, I wouldn't say "not a problem".

US could reach me at my house if they wanted to, OTOH PRC can't do much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

[3] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/trump-demands-barr-...

> Save a screenshot of Winnie the Pooh: you're playing with fire.

I imagine this is sarcasm.

Winnie the Pooh has never actually put anyone in real troubles.
In this case my database is 500KB in size so I'm not thinking about query performance at all.

I've run into horrific performance problems with order by random() in larger databases.

I actually suggested the SRANDMEMER feature that was added to Redis as a result of one of those projects! Details here: https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/20/crowdsourcing/
Somehow 526 standing stones were just discovered in Spain
I covered this in my archaeological newsletter — here's the TL;DR

A megalithic complex of standing stones (526 of them), dolmens, mounds, cists, and enclosures was found in the province of Huelva, Spain while surveying for an avocado plantation. It takes up about 1,500 acres and each stone is between one and three meters tall. The site probably dates to the 5th or 6th millennium BCE. According to José Antonio Linares, “This is the biggest and most diverse collection of standing stones grouped together in the Iberian peninsula.” And according to Primitiva Bueno, “Finding alignments and dolmens on one site is not very common. Here you find everything all together – alignments, cromlechs and dolmens – and that is very striking.” The standing stones were grouped in to 26 alignments and two circles, with a clear view of sunrise during the solstices and equinoxes. Excavations are scheduled to run until 2026, so I’m sure there’s more to come.

If you want to check out the rest of the news from the issue: https://ancientbeat.substack.com/p/-ancient-beat-25-gladiato...
This doesn't seem all that realistic - that's pretty surprising that they were willing to quote a price for the test ahead of time.
Flight Simulator 2020 does indeed have live weather as an option. https://youtu.be/ZszIT8eCIiw
Paid 7k for mine, I enjoy it.

When I buy my next Tesla wouldn’t pay for it though.

The thing that would make it worth buying at this price is when I can send the car 200 miles away to like go pick up my parents or something. Anything short of not being in the car though is just a party trick.
But is it Byzantine Fault Tolerant? From what I understand, RAFT is not. Paxos-based consensus can be made to be.
That reply is not my first interaction on the thread. I guess you didn't see the previous one, so perhaps you are missing context. Here's the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535499

"ȃ" uses two bytes in UTF-8, 2 bytes in UTF-16 and 4 bytes in UTF-32.
The woman golfing uses 4 bytes in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.

My surprise was at the idea of having to look up a variable length sequence of bytes in a string stored as UTF-32. To me, UTF-32 exists exactly for the use case of "I don't want to calculate variable length" (optimizing for speed), and UTF-8 exists for "I don't want to use more bytes than I need" (optimizing for space).

I never used the term "codepoint" in this entire thread until now. I was originally talking about storing bytes, hence my little discomfort of not being able to communicate what I'm trying to say. Not feeling attacked, just incapable of expressing, which might have come off wrong. Sorry about that.

BTW, there are many things that I don't understand about Unicode. I never read the full standard. I don't know enough about a grapheme to tell whether it is something that impacts or not the number of bytes when storing in UTF-32.

Why we are talking about UTF-8 versus UTF-32 and not Unicode as a whole? Because there is a code comment about these two in the commit linked by the OP, which sparked this particular subthread.
Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee: Derek Sivers
Still, merely "more vs. less" privatisation is not the determinant factor. Case in point, I currently live in Spain where universal healthcare is fully public as is the NHS(*), and over time decentralised and became fully devolved to each of the 17 autonomous communities (almost federal states in all but technicalities).

In general, from a user's perspective, Spanish healthcare tends to work better than the NHS in many regards, albeit with less flexibility at the GP level and more of a hassle when moving between regions. Anecdotally, from the experience of Spanish friends having lived in countries with a more or less public-private model (Belgium, Germany, Ireland) have expressed that the systems there are generally worse, and miss the Spanish healthcare system.

However, different regional governmens have made a greater or lesser move towards covert privatisation via externalisation, and while the two that have done it the most (Catalonia and Madrid) are generally the worst performers, there is little correlation otherwise. The Basque Country, Navarre, Asturias and Aragon are all top performers, yet the first two have privatised significantly while the latter two have kept the system more fully public. On the other hand, Andalusia with very little privatisation is together with Madrid and Catalonia as one of the worse.

And yet, when compared by investment, the pattern becomes much more clear. Madrid, Catalonia and Andalusia have some of the lowest healthcare investment per capita. The Basque Country, Navarre, Asturias are some of the greatest investers—Aragon not so much, but still on the top end of the scale.

(*) As a digression, due to historical differences in how each system evolved, they are not quite the same. Spanish healthcare evolved from Social Security, and thus used to require being either employed, officially on unemployment, or being a dependant of someone in either circumstance (now it's more lenient). Also, all doctors involved are state employees. The NHS on the other hand evolved as a right of all legal residents of the UK, and GPs surgeries are almost always private businesses that are adscribed to the NHS.
It is relevant because transitioning from premium into an ad platform is a low-brow-caveman-bottom-of-the-bucket move, only the best one to make once you're out of better options.

Truly premium products respect your privacy.

It turns out truly premium goods aren't Google, Tesla, and soon won't be Apple, if Tim&co go down this path.
Both are R6RS, by the way.
> Maybe not you specificially, but for example in the U.S., there are over three million people with security clearances

it's private files, not secret state information.

things like my address book, SMS (mostly inbound alerts, nobody sends them anymore), WhatsApp backups (which are encrypted) or pictures I took with the phone's camera, nothing compromising.
The main problem with teachers is that the price for them is not controlled by quality. A teacher who performs better than other teachers (e.g. a 10x teacher) will not be worth more in the current system. And with the quality/price relation missing, there is nothing a teacher can do about the price, and consequently their wages will be as low as possible.
If only anyplace else on earth was as flat as where the Danes live...
Just musing from intuition: but could gravity and magnetic rails come close to the potential energy of a spinning system?
> Need to check something attached to a work email (hello Slack) but purposefully not got work email set up on your personal device?

This isn't worse or different than SSO, which your work should be enforcing anyway.
> over growing big and tall

How does a parent prioritize their kid growing tall?
I don't think anybody is expected to have perfect recall of all those small details, but it will all come back easily when you need it and go back to skim over the material to refresh your memory.
That also has the problem of making your identity dependent on a third party, unless the site accepts Self-Issued identities, which is an interesting extension to OIDC:

https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-self-issued-v2-1_0.h...
Not sure what you mean exactly, but live weather is already implemented in the simulator by default.
Your not trying hard enough if you believe timelessness in music stopped in the late 60’s. Every decade since has produced timeless pop music.
"Somehow"?
> how do we share out increasingly scarce resources

We make people pay for them. Like we do with every other resource on the planet.

Healthcare is something which should be accessible for all, and we can of course subsidise the less well off. But it still ultimately needs paying for.
Seems like a perfectly good idea to me! Basically how proposing that we decide caching by some score, and the details of the score function be tweaked to handle the different aspects we care for.

I wonder whether this idea is already used for locating data in distributed systems — from clusters all the way to something like IPFS.
Religion is the only thing devoid of objective evidence.

While it is quite tasteless for Scientists to see themselves as better than most of society, an objective case can be made that they truly are better for society.

That as why most god-based religions try their best to fashion a mimicry of this type of objective evidence. They will always say ‘and you see, this is why there is less crime, this is why men and women are more faithful to each other, this is why there is charity’. Truthfully, there isn’t real evidence for their case - just parlor tricks.

The dark side of cults, religions, castes, social class is that a notable percentage of people will use it to validate their weakness via building a wall of ego protection.

We are better than you is a potent drug.
Lack of administrative staff in operations is a mayor problem, pushing paper work to medical staff. Where I live we have the same problem in schools, pushing administration to teachers.

Admin bloat seems to be at a higher level if it exists. Because ordinary secretaries are long gone.
I agree. There are duplicates. I have seen it.

I have found the same book with multiple sized pdf, with same content. Someone maybe uploaded a poorly scanned pdf when the book was first released but later Someone else uploaded a OCRed version, but the first one just stayed hogging a large amount of storage.
Which to be fair, the guy lives in San Francisco. It isn't that hard to file a small claims case. I understand that there may be some legal nuisances involved, but just getting the attention of the legal review team that will have to show up to defend the case is usually enough to get them to evaluate a matter beyond the algorithms. I don't think it is fair, but is much quicker and cheaper $7,000.
Somehow, I knew somebody was going to complain about a game I don't want to play :P

My nostalgia is perfectly satisfied by Dosbox. But now that you mention it, an old windows would run that copy of Paintshop Pro that I loved so much...
What's behind the FDA's controversial strategy for evaluating new COVID boosters
> I don't know if companies have a govt imposed rule to report porn

In the US there isn't and generally cannot be a government requirement to search the customer's data. If there were, the provider would effectively acting as an agent of the government and the customer would enjoy 4th amendment protection of their privacy (absent a warrant or other, similarly targeted and justified reason).

Unfortunately, there is a bit of a wink-nod situation going on where the government quietly pressures companies to engage in these activities "voluntarily" -- in exchange for varrious forms of preferential treatment and refraining from enforcing other regulations -- and in court when a target attempts to present 4th amendment defenses everyone pretends (and testifies) that the provider was searching the customers private files of their own volition and not on the government's behalf.

In this game neither the provider nor the governments hands are clean because they are both conspiring to undermine the constitutional rights of the public.
Same here. I came from the demo scene and was disgusted by the thought of having to sit along total beginners, because hey, I had demos ranked in the charts.

CS is a totally different beast and I am glad about the humble experiences around CS. I might not totally agree with all the educators tell you, especially around OOP, however especially the mathematics around CS was impressive and very helpful.
> Apple’s ad business began to boom following changes it made last year to its app tracking policies that made it easier for iPhone users to opt out of being tracked across other apps on their phones.

What's the mechanism here? Is it something like this? Before the change:

1. I use say a free (with ads) guitar tuner app.

2. That app usage gets shared with Facebook's app.

3. Facebook now knows I'm probably a guitar player, or at least probably play some instrument that is commonly tuned by the player.

4. Companies who want to reach guitar players buy ads on Facebook. A Facebook ad has a good chance of reaching me.

After the change:

1. I use a free (with ads) guitar tuner app, but opt out of cross app tracking.

2. Facebook is less likely to find out I'm a guitar player. This reduces the value of Facebook ads to the companies that want to reach guitar players.

3. They shift some of their ad budget from Facebook ads to ads in guitar tuner apps.
I don't have hard numbers on BBS, but on the internet-history@ mailing list, someone estimated there were around a million people worldwide on the Internet in 1990. This is a pretty informed estimate. You think BBS was more than that?
Especially because you can take photos with someone's phone without locking it. All you need is brief physical access to the phone.
Tesla advertised: 'Full Self Driving'

But in reality: 'Fools Self Driving'

It was advertised by Tesla and as a Level 5 system. However, given that never happened, it is now known as 'Fools Self Driving' since not only it doesn't work, requires constant full assistance and attention of the driver behind the wheel at all times, it is been admittedly a Level 2 system who's creator gives the endless promises of updates in order to fool the customer that it will 'eventually' be 'Full Self Driving'.

So Tesla can continue to raises prices on this false promise and customers will keep buying, subscribing on the idea that they are hoping that it will be fully self driving, which is the typical pied piper selling snake oil scam.
This is quite wrong. The purpose of e-mail verification is to validate that the user creating the account controls the specified e-mail; that he or she can receive at that address.

This author has created a silly flow whereby the user proves that they are somehow able to use e-mail to reflect back some authorization cookie to the server. You can do that without even having an e-mail address; any Internet-connected host can send e-mail, using any sending identity it wishes. The fact that you can contact my server via HTTPS and via SMTP, and relay some information between the two, means absolutely fiddlesticks.

> The “reverse” flow should make intuitive sense: we’re proving that the user controls the specified email address by challenging them to send us an email from it.

Right; here is the core misconception on the part of the author: that receiving an e-mail from someone proves that they control a certain e-mail address. (Imagine the flow being used for password recovery, yikes! Anyone forging an e-mail from you gets your account?)

The second problem with this idea is that it increases the server complexity. Now it has to process e-mail. Conventional e-mail validation doesn't have to receive e-mail; all it does is send confirmation mails. Which, I repeat, any Internet-connected host can do; and it can do so without becoming a mail server.

A third problem is user experience. It complicates things for the user. The handling of mailto: URLs is tenuous. Not everyone has it set up correctly. Many users have some webmail account like Gmail, but when they click on some mailto: URL, some default application comes up that doesn't use their Gmail account. They don't use that application and are prompted to set up that application.
Why would I want this?

It's like telling me there's a restaurant with 200B items to order.

1. Most people won't finish 10, let alone 100 or 1,000. What's the benefit of the billions of others?

2. I'd rather have 1-2 handcrafted, thoughtful things than 200B random ones. No Man's Sky is a great game for some people, but none of the worlds it creates is even a fraction as compelling to explore as the worlds of BotW or Elden Ring.
> You’ve also misrepresented the nature of private healthcare in the UK

I mentioned that we don't have the right to opt out of paying for the NHS. It's not possible go entirely private. If you could opt out, you could pay that money to a private provider instead and entirely forego the use of the NHS. That isn't an option today. But it should be.
I'm trying to sign up for an account, but when I click "create account" it just tells me "This field is required" next to each field, even though I filled in all 3 fields.

EDIT: It's worked now. I think it didn't like "jstanley" as a username, but has accepted "James Stanley". Maybe it requires a space in the username field??? That's an... unusual choice.

A few more things:

Once I'd submitted an idea I got a page saying "Thank you for your submission", and it gave me a URL to copy to share with others, but the URL was "http://127.0.0.1:5500/item?id=25" - this probably wants fixing on the public version.

Also it says my idea was submitted "2 days ago" even though it was only in the last few minutes (maybe the server's clock is wrong?)

The "following" page leads to "Internal Server Error".

This site is a really interesting idea, nice work. I like that the ideas are shown anonymously.

I clicked to provide contact details to my own idea, but I can't find anywhere that I actually access the contact details that have been provided to the idea. Does this exist yet?
What's the benefit of slack over discord?
HN is cheering it too, but I'm not surprised about it.
Markets do not demand continual growth forever. Simply being the most reliably profitable company quarter and quarter is perfectly fine. But the revenue streams of a company must evolve with the changing tides.

For example, I like the idea that Apple remaining insanely profitable doesn’t necessarily mean I need to keep buying new iPhones every 2 years.

It’s much better for consumers (and our planet by the way) if these devices continue to have increasing average lifespan.

Obviously it would need to be in Apple’s best self-interest to invest literally billions of dollars of R&D in order to get these devices closer to a 10 year lifespan than a 2 year lifespan, it’s not going to happen in a capitalist system if it halves their revenue.

For that equation to work out, factoring in increased market share for making a phone so robust and software so un-bloated, I’d say they would need to earn roughly 3-4x the revenue of selling a new device from each user over that 10 year period from higher-margin services instead.
iOS doesn’t have 95% market share.
Edit to clarify: Windows had a monopoly on the desktop market in a way that is different to regulators (I guess) from the Google-Apple duopoly of today’s mobile market.
I don’t understand that endgame. I would never want strangers in my car unsupervised. They will be having sex, puking, changing diapers, and worse. Just imagine all of the fluids and smells that they would leave behind. How is this remotely a good idea?
My response as a prospective owner would be: great, call me when you actually become Checker Motors and maybe I’ll pay the extra money then.
IMHO, every required documentation policy should have its opportunity cost measured against the decrease in actual work being done.

E.g. "Do we think this form being filled out is worth someone not being able to see a doctor?"
It would seem the market (and more current engineering and design reviews) disagrees with you!
Neural networks are commonly evaluated with matrix multiplication. A matrix multiply is orders of magnitude faster if all three matrices fit in your caches. So you want to tune the matrix size to the hardware.
I was pointing out this very possibility when their 'privacy' controls started kicking in and I would get heavily downvoted for it. Their privacy measures are not privacy measures at all, they are simply a userbase lockout.
That will only make a difference until systems like Copilot can learn computational system on the fly eg from human readable descriptions.
Musk is creating FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out).
Just like the ICOs in 2017 where the price would increase every day.
There is also a book called "Predictably Irrational" that talks about a fun experiment where people could choose to cheat without being caught when reciting the ten commandments. They found that recalling the ten commandments or even an "honesty policy" before a test would reduce cheating/lying significantly.

So why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't possibly be caught?
What are you talking about? I watch FSD progress, and it's clearly getting closer to human level driving. Just go on YouTube and compare FSD from two years ago to the latest. It's night and day. Yes, it still makes mistakes. Humans make mistakes all the time while driving.

As for build quality, we haven't had any major problems with our Model 3. It's a great car.

Tesla has a media problem, where every little problem gets reported as if it's systemic and unfixable.
> that behaved very differently than the science hypothesized

Can you give more details about that part? IIRC it worked as intended.
> if your password manager fail you'll be here on HN pointing out how I made a website with not a single fallback mechanism to get back in your account.

That's why I said:

> Email verification should be optional.
That sounds sorta expensive but I get it. I’m at 3tb of photos and videos. It’s becoming unmanageable… anyone aware of an self hosted multi redundancy photo storage that doesn’t involve manual copying of large amounts of files? Or other non time consuming setups that works with iPhones (me and my SO)?
You might be able to fine-tune GPT-3 on Assyrian Inscriptions and create a GPTiglath-Pileser III
Overengineering Coffee Bean Storage
>Can't they be satisfied with...

No, capitalism & capitalists are never satisfied. The whole system requires constant growth.
As the previous reply said, I've also seen duplicates while browsing. Would it be possible to let users flag duplicates somehow? It involves human unreliability, which is like automated unreliability, only different.