skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kiwifarms goal is to remove the freedom of speech of LGBTQ people online. Is it okay for them to this?
> Putting this all in perspective, if physicists ever uncover a Theory of Everything for our universe, and even if we deduce the initial state of the universe, we may still be helpless to deduce the long-term behavior of our own universe. Thus, as Stewart has said, the Theory of Everything in this case predicts everything but explains nothing.

Isn't it the other way around with these cell automatons? We have explanation (cause we know all the rules and the initial configuration) but we don't have enough computational power to predict anything meaningfull long term.
To clarify the analogy:

Quantum computing with todays technology :: Classical computing in the early era of vacuum tubes

The point of the analogy is to communicate that we are at an early stage of development. Also, I just like vacuum tubes.
So you were exceeding the speed limit almost all the way? My journey was a similar distance and only the German stretch had any roads with speed limit higher than 130 km/h. Perhaps next time I do it I should record the speed as I go. The average speed was probably about 60 km/h so the amount of driving above 130 must have been quite small, some of it was a lot faster than that though, just for fun on the autobahn.

And of course the vast bulk of traffic on the roads is very much slower. Also quite a lot of ICE cars are not built for sustained driving at high speeds anyway.
That’s only if you change memory layout. If you only change code within a function then you can use LiveCoding and it’s maybe 7 seconds?

> the productivity gained by fast iteration times is honestly exponential

Preaching to the choir! Iteration speed is GodKing. But I’ve never seen a large game engine that had sub-second compile and startup times. C++ is a rather miserable language and just including any STL header can break that target.
Just because you use it doesn't make it in any way 'usual'. Just because you learned it in some school doesn't make it non-regional. Also, your own example "𝑥" is decidedly not of the )( form, but of the × form.
Scandinavia in winter won't usually be a heat pump to air though right? Don't they heatpump from geothermal?

Even just locally here the 25 degree F differential with ~50% relative humidity in summer would be interesting to compare to the 60 degree F differential in winter. Maybe those ultra efficient hygroscopic dehumidifiers will finally enter production.

And heat pumping to geothermal for summer might help too. I know some people locally do that. Big investment though.
Because of corruption and foreign interference, same as with any other form of asset. I don't see any conflict with the thesis of the article.
They’re cognate to the French words maître and plâtre.
If you moved from Europe to the US (or vice versa), I'm curious what your thoughts are on using A4 vs US letter? And I mean once you were settled and transitioned to using the other standard, did you find yourself thinking one was better than the other?

Another way of asking this is, if you could magically make it so that everyone had been using and today used one of the two (A4 or US letter), would it matter to you?
Harassing people (and their families and friends) off the internet is absolutely something that has chilling effects on freedom of speech.
Yea, I do agree that we need to reduce meat consumption and focus on sustainably grazed operations for the meat that is consumed.

But that's not the same as putting it on top of the list. Ever since Cowspiracy came out (which has been roundly debunked) there's been this segment of the environmental movement that wants to put beef on the top of the list of carbon problems. It just doesn't belong there and there are so many issues with putting it there - not least of which is the individual responsibility trap.

Climate cannot be solved by individual action alone. Individual action is necessary, but not sufficient. And since people have limited capacity to make lifestyle changes, we need them to focus that capacity where it will do the most good. Meat just isn't it - transporation, housing, energy - those are where it belongs. We should be encouraging people to eat less meat, yes, and to eat sustainably pastured an grazed meat. But we shouldn't be telling people to go vegan as their primary lifestyle change.
I mean, the paper uses data from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association™, which is a beef lobbying group. The third author of the paper is also from the NBCA, and the paper was funded by the Beef Checkoff™, which a beef marketing program. I have my reservations about the accuracy of this paper.
Then 'https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=<doi>', where <doi> is URL escaped?

It seems to me that Crossref can give you the DOI, and once you've got that then getting to article text is pretty trivial. I must be missing something.
I never would have imagined the environmental impact of cotton bags was that high. It would take me several lifetimes to get 7000 uses.
Sounds like china can't even control the internal Chinese internet! Perhaps a richer economy means they can afford more anonymous web sites.
Most cars have traction control AFAIK. Instead of limiting max torque, they notice when it's spinning the wheels.

Same in reverse for breaks and abs.

On my car you can turn it off if you want some fun on dirt tracks.
Frankly, the article reads as if the author has an axe to grind.

On utility, there's more than just Shor's: unstructured search [1], finance ([2], [3]). Even if quantum computers ultimately prove unfruitful commercially, that doesn't render it a useless endeavor. Like String Theory, it can beget findings in other areas, regardless of whether you can profit from them: novel classical recommendation algorithms ([4]), quantum algorithms for SAT that could possibly help automated theorem proving ([5]).

Part of the difficulty of quantum computing is that to show speedup, you need to find complexity bounds on classical problems whose runtime is actively being researched, e.g. neural networks ([6]).

As for their financial worthwhileness, while there is valid concern ([7], [8]), it's far too early to tell: it's hardware, not software. Also, it's my understanding that private investment is much larger than public funding in the US for quantum computing, both of which pale in comparison to China's investment. Thus, I wouldn't want to see investors shy away if the government is unwilling to make up the difference!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm

[2] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02666

[3] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08040

[4] - https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3880

[5] - https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/36428/do-any-qu...

[6] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01198

[7] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/topological...

[8] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03137
Wrong. It is very easy to mitigate (DoS) attacks on Tor, as long as you're happy to edit the source code.
> Can anyone recommend DRM free music providers?

I have some download from Bandcamp.

+CD-ripped music from physical media I own.
Majority outsource to the big providers. Way better total cost of ownership, and corp accounts are safe from all the scanning bullshit because they’re paid for accounts. They’re actually the customer not the commodity like on the free versions.
After the attempt of Apple of using "neural search" to spy on its customers, the term has been left with a bad rep.
This is why I can't understand the whole streaming garbage. There one day, gone the next.

I never could understand how people can just rely on always having internet, or the service, available.

I get my podcasts from whomever's webpage and just listen when I have time and delete when done if not worth keeping.

Hopefully this will be a learning experience for younguns. My own kids love spotify. They pay for premium (meaning I do), but still always complain.

I will say some of the playlists they listen to have turned me on to some really cool music. I see that as their only value to me, personally, but I still download them to have a listen at-will.

I truly feel so bad for all the devs who put so much time, effort, and money into something to be yanked. But I also can't imagine my project hinging on the whims of a random company.
Silicon Valley's newest mafia: The Palantir Pack
Interland – a Guide for parents to make their kids internet ready
I feel like people glamorize architecture in general. Sure the Empire State Building was probably fun to design, but 99.9% of architects are just designing bland office buildings or long hallways of apartment boxes. On average it's probably just as exciting as a software architect designing their 100th CRUD webapp.
Quantum Computer: Hello, Music
Previous post mentioned self/circular references. You can't do that with a `Box`. You can with `Rc<RefCell<List` or `*mut List`, but those options either have a runtime cost, or aren't borrow-checked.

Lack of self-referential types that are both safe and zero-cost is a legit limitation of Rust.
Unfortunately, like macFUSE, this is not really open source. The license appears to be BSD-like for non-commercial use only. Also like macFUSE, the project uses GitHub but the source code is not available.

https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t/blob/main/License.txt
Thanks, I misremembered it, I thought it was 130 km/h. But that still doesn't change the fact that most driving is at far lower speeds, even on the motorway.
Instagram fined €405M for GDPR violations
Kiwifarms was not a 'nazi' forum, it's so easy to tell who never actually lurked there or did enough due diligence to actually investigate for themselves what the site actually hosted lmfao
Survey: Are there any BA's in the HN readership, and if so why do you visit?
I wonder if there are any fellow BA's (Business Analysts) out there in the HN community.

There are a lot of different types of readers out there on HN, but I feel like my segment is being under represented... or is it.
Diameter...

(Is there anywhere that doesn't use this mix of measures for tire sizes [tyre syzes]?)
3 people are dead because of that site. What they were doing was a crime. Criminal activity is not is not protected free speech. That's like arguing carding and SIM swapping sites are just expressing their right to free speech and should be protected.
A more complicated gearbox means more friction which lowers the fuel efficiency of the vehicle. Since the battery is the most expensive part of a BEV, maximizing fuel efficiency is always a priority. It determines the cost and the range for the car.

EVs with multiple gear ratios do exist though, the first of which was the 2020 Porsche Taycan. The first gear lets it maximize torque at low speeds (up to 62 MPH) so it can set 0-60 records, then the second gear lets it maintain a more economical motor speed for highway driving.
One of the authors/contributors was looking into it: https://old.reddit.com/r/mainframe/comments/wevyvg/whats_the...
I don't think this project was ready for a public announcement, yet.
The linked chart about grocery bags[1] is not only about GHG footprint:

> Environmental impact is measured over a full life-cycle analysis (LCA) across the following metrics: greenhouse gas emissions, ozone depletion, human toxicity (cancer effects), human toxicity (non-cancer effects), photochemical ozone formation, ionizing radiation, particulate matter, terrestrial acidification, terrestrial eutrophication, marine eutrophication, ecosystem toxicity, resource depletion (fossil), resource depletion (abiotic), and water resource depletion.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environmental...
Ask HN: How useful are code comments and documentation to you and your team?
I've started to rethink how to approach documentation of code when working with an international team of developers. One of the things I'm starting to realize is that programmers where English is a second language may not find insight in code comments or documentation as useful as the code itself, as reading through and comprehending the code by itself may be easier for reaching the understanding needed, and possibly more concise requirements documents describing what must be accomplished by the program.

What types of code comments and documentation do you find useful that you wouldn't be able to find in the code itself, and which ones do you find counterproductive?
I feel like we need a better metric to use when something "kills" people. When heat waves kill people, the vast majority of the time it means these people already had major health problems that (a) let the heat do more damage and (b) prevented the person from seeking help in the first place. To be clear, I'm not saying that heat wasn't the final cause, but I think it's a fair assumption that most of these people didn't have much healthy life ahead of them regardless.

Compare that to, say, a tornado that wipes out a family with 2 young kids and 2 middle-aged adults. That to me feels orders of magnitude worse, both in the violent manner of death, and the fact that these people had years and years of healthy life left.

And, to hopefully kill this anticipated straw man, I am not making the assertion that "it's no big deal" if elderly or sick people die. I am only commenting on the comparison to other forms of death, and arguing that I think it's fair to think those other forms are death are much worse if you look beyond just "number of people killed".
Could you elaborate on what proper disposal looks like?
How do you feel about the washington post doxxing libsoftiktok? Did that violate her freedom of speech? Should cloudflare drop the washington post?
As a driver of a manual Miata older than I am, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised by this idea. I find this similar to the Fujifilm line of digital cameras with analog-style exposure dials and optical viewfinders; the affordances are objectively worse and largely unnecessary compared to the PASM mode selectors found in almost every other line of camera today, but they make all the difference between the feel of shooting a computer with a lens versus a proper dedicated camera.

I'm glad someone is trying to save the manual transmission baby from the ICE bathwater.
Go on, how do you plan to do that while remaining compatible with stock tor clients?

It's simply not possible for the server to distinguish between real and malicious rendezvous requests.
"BA"?
There were tons of unofficial clients, mostly open source efforts as Spotify didn't allow for any monetizable components in apps so it never made much sense to build a business off the back of it.
For me it complains about NSFW when I ask a smirking expression on the face of the example prompt. I wonder if this is using some special NSFW filter?
> Tesla’s power and torque band is already covering high and low speeds with one gear, although an additional top gear would probably get them to a really insane top speed.

Tesla tried that in their original Roadster. It had a two-speed transmission. The lurch when the transmission shifted during launch was too hard on the transmission, and many of them broke under warranty. Tesla had to replace many transmissions. It was easier to fix the problem on the electric side than the gear side.

There's something to be said for a paddle shifter, but mostly for better control at low speed. For parking and off-road use, it can be helpful to map more pedal angle to a range of low speeds. This is more like the high/low range lever found on off-road vehicles and tractors than like a stick shift.

Mode switches are undesirable because they lead to "wrong mode" accidents. This is an ongoing problem with aircraft automation.

Behavior with zero accelerator and brake is an interesting question. Should the vehicle creep slowly forward? That's a classic feature, or bug, of automatic transmissions. Some automatic transmissions had anti-creep mechanisms to prevent this. If the vehicle comes to a full stop, should releasing the brake initiate creep?
Should the vehicle roll back if on a hill? Some cars have "hill holders" to prevent that. For an electric car, those are all design decisions - the power train has no inherent behavior.
At one point in time, North America was approximately 50% covered in forest. That was approximately 1 billion acres.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_the_United_...

The Amazon forest is roughly 1.5 billion acres.
Those feeling tempted wouldn't care: I've had students insist on 'this is my own written text' when a full page of text was verbatim copied from a patent, with the only student contribution being to replace 'motor' with 'engine'.
It’s also possible its moderation process worked. Though I understand the skepticism.
The current mainstream view is that QC is a very hard but tractable engineering problem. There is no fundamental reason for quantum error-correction to not work, and a demonstration that it cannot would be a major and surprising breakthrough in fundamental physics. This has been our state of understanding for a couple of decades now, and the progress we have been seeing is consistent with this view.

To be clear, there are people making sophisticated arguments for fundamental barriers to quantum computation. For instance, the quantum-skeptical mathematician Gil Kalai writes about his thoughts on recent progress on QC at (https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2022/05/26/waging-war-on-quan...). His view is considerably more nuanced than this FT article, and much more conducive to learning and discussion. I hope you take the time to read it, and I think I'll submit this to HN main as well.
There are no solid principles, times change and people change. Would it have made a difference if a month ago they forbade websites that dox people?
There are billions of people who use FB/instagram/Tik-tok, so yes that’s the majority of people that spend time in digital worlds
Working on an ERP software atm, A lot. Often invoices HAVE to be immutable for accounting purposes, so changing the address has to keep an old copy around for the old invoice, while attaching it to any new ones/ones not printed yet. Along with that, some other data may be tied to that address that cant be changed. Like tracking a package in transit that has been sent to the old address.

Idempotency is a godsend for such actions.
Us/me too! The besssst feeling in the world!

In the summer of 1997 I actually made my own Mille Bornes card set by hand (after finding the card distribution on the (new) web) to pass the time while studying in Taiwan.
Only if you have reason to believe that the events are not independent. And anyway the way the original scenario is phrased suggests that it is a one off.
> Do you really think you're a good person because you're code is good?

That’s a bit of putting the cart before the horse… what if they think they’re a bad person because their code is bad?
> Speech is ingrained in American culture on both aisles of the political spectrum until last 5-10 years.

Death threats, fraud, harassment, libel, and other harmful forms of speech have had legal consequences for much longer than that.
Yes, agreed, reduction of meat consumption does need to happen. But saying "we should reduce meat consumption and ensure the meat produced is produced through these systems" is very different from putting it at the top of the list and drawing almost all focus to it.
Torque isn't the only consideration, there's also efficiency and acceleration. Transmission aren't a necessity like they are in ICE cars, but they can improve the experience.

For instance the Porsche Taycan:

"Having a multispeed transmission in an EV provides the same benefits that it does in a gasoline-powered car: improved low-speed acceleration and increased efficiency at high velocity by lowering the rotating speed of the power source."

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a28903274/porsche-taycan-t...
What a coincidence! For a project that I maintain (Buildbarn, a distributed build cluster for Bazel) I recently generalized all of the FUSE code I had into a generic VFS that can both be exposed over FUSE and NFSv4. The intent was the same: to provide a better out of the box experience on macOS. Here's a design doc I wrote on that change. Slight warning that it's written with some Buildbarn knowledge in mind.

https://github.com/buildbarn/bb-adrs/blob/master/0009-nfsv4....

Fortunately, fuse-t doesn't make any of my work unnecessary. Buildbarn uses go-fuse, which talks to the FUSE character directly instead of using libfuse. fuse-t would thus not be a drop-in replacement. Phew!

PS: A bit unfortunate that fuse-t isn't Open Source. :-(
Roon and Volumio both label themselves as audiophile audio players. I guess that's why I hadn't heard about any of them.

Also, the term audiophile has turned into a red flag, at least to me.

Isn't Apple Music hi-res/lossless audio (ALAC) also snake oil when compared to high bitrate psychoacoustic codecs such as those used by e.g. Spotify Premium?

https://www.macworld.com/article/346595/no-one-actually-need...
Just prompt it again, did that for me every once in a while too.
Freedom of speech, famously, doesn't give you the right to shout "fire" in a crowded movie theater [1]. It also doesn't give you the right to target, stalk, and harass people.

The question to me isn't why did it take Cloudflare so long to make this decision. The question is why hadn't governments stepped in and _forced_ Cloudflare to take action, given the illegal activity taking place on the site.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
By this logic, there is no way you can deny someone their freedom of speech. What is the difference between someone putting you on death row for speaking out against the government versus publishing your information so that angry randos can do the same? Is the only problem with government censorship that their violence is somehow "special" and worse than other forms of violence?
The security boundary thing breaks smart cards. Had to jump through unpleasant hoops to keep my Firefox profile after upgrade. Plus, patching now is two separate things instead of one. Different version of packages are in two different repos that I now need to search.

Literally just broke a bunch of stuff and gave me nothing in return.
Along this vein I’d be curious if we could grow mangroves on the pacific garbage patch?

The shade and roots might even attract enough fish to provide the plants with fertilizer.
That "repo" appears to exist solely for housing the release artifacts, for those who came to the comments looking for "the goods"

Also, https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t/blob/main/License.txt appears to be "playing lawyer"
Same for me. Pretty much any prompt I tried produced a nsfw error...
What do you anticipate the effect of GPT3 will be in the reviewing process?
Big companies regress to the mean. It’s especially sad to watch it slowly happen to CF over the years.
ah that explains it, thanks!
No, you are paying for your own biological needs. It's no different than having to spend money to buy food. It's not at all accurate to equate these costs to rent.
nothing screams "professional" like putting quotes around French spelling mistakes.

What's the point here? That a French editor doesn't know the gender of the word "édition"? Highly unlikely.

I'm very grumpy today.
Business Analysts. Updated the description for clarity.
Quantum Computers: A Brief Assessment of Progress in the Past Decade – Gil Kalai
Cloudflare/DDoS-Guard doesn't care about you. You don't do enough business. The DDOS protection company cares about the reactions of the abstract things called corporations and institutions. Corporate persons have different motives than human person do. I don't think it is controversial to say most corporations and institutions have no problem with this decision. That'd be despite what any informed IT dept. employee might believe about the situation.

So yes, they worried about their income.