skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is "brilliant" about faking a car moving with the intent of misleading your investors, who are redirecting to you vast amounts of wealth from more deserving companies that would make society a better place?

You're stealing from companies that create economic acceleration to create economic friction.

If we keep rewarding scammers with this notion that they're doing anything remotely of value, we end up with a society of Roger Stone and Trump types who are really good at seeking out and winning negative sum games.
I can't do Vyvanse. Lasts too long. I take 2x 30mg instant release mixed amphetamine a day. Well, usually just one a day but I'm prescribed two.

Not everyone needs long lasting meds.
Capitalism has been the dominant economic system for over two hundred years. It is more specifically pertinent to this time and place than some inborn human characteristic or tendency.
It's 25x time by default. Things are sped up a lot.
Maybe in your part of the world. But grant me that it would be dumb to pay twice as much for electricity as for gas to heat my home to the same temperature which is the case. Heat pumps? For huge numbers of poor people across the world this a Marie Antoinette-esque gesture. I'm aware that there's no evidence she ever said words to the effect 'let them eat cakes' (people had no bread) but we all understand the metaphor.

Let's not forget that much of the cost of electricity is down to the massive costs involved in its distribution.
The property market is way over-priced during the fast and furious two-decades quest to blow a credit tsunami.

Now that the credit tsunami looks to inexorablly ebb under its own weight, a looming population implosion, the party will have to prevent a collective cashing-out from the speculators they once rolled out the red carpet for. esp. in the form of offshore currency.

By trapping them in, to keep people from panic dumping.
My grandfather was a partisan in Belarus during WWII. He told a few real battle/fight stories. But those stories can fill like 1% of the time. He rarely talked about the 99% he spent surviving in forests and swamps. And when he talked it was mostly about skills like sleeping in a forest when it was -30…
There isn't even a specific point in time given, only the day.
Most of those NHS waiting lists didn’t even exist back in the 80s. That’s another case where a “worse” statistic hides a massive underlying improvement. Were spending twice as much on health care now as a proportion of GDP, and our GDP has doubled in real terms.

I use the 80s as my reference because those are the days of my youth, when I became politically aware so it’s the benchmark I look back to.

I’ve looked for studies on access to education and outcomes for those in poverty over time and not come up with anything. Lots of studies how poverty affects education, but none so far on how that has changed. Anyone know?
No, not everyone involved, everyone that can’t afford the bill in Southern Sweden, it is not good for them.

Just because Germany destroyed their electrical system it should not mean that companies in Sweden should go bankrupt. Germany tampered with the EU market, they ought to pay fines.
A strong +1 to this thoughtful comment. I will also add an non-monetary perverse incentive, which is best described in this changed-my-worldview-forever post: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...

Seriously, you will start seeing this everywhere
The US is just one of many countries. Not every country agrees that global warming exists. Some countries think global warming will be beneficial.

You could cut the US military budget to $0 and it would be less than a rounding error to what’s needed globally.
It looked naively obvious to me in the 9th grade of high school that I would crank out code faster if I could touch type. That and write messages faster on dial-up bulletin boards, and crank out essay homework faster also. I signed up for a keyboarding course. After one day though, I thought, WTF am I doing in this mindless class full of ditzes? I could learn this on my own. I promptly dropped out, switching to some other course. Sticking with my initiative to learn to type, I found a book of fprogressive typing exercises: a guide consisting of a sequence of rows: type this row, then go onto this one, ... instead of just typing a row, like the book required, I filled the screen with each exercise, and then some. The book, which I must have found in the public library, started with exercises using just asdf, and jkl; and so forth, adding more areas of the keyboard. I forced myself to look only at the screen, and not the fingers. Several days later, I had gone through the entire book and, whoa, I could type. I wasn't a great typist by any means, but I was "boostrapped". All my regular typing was now done with all fingers, without looking and thus all my regular computer activities now served as typing exercises, making me faster and more accurate.
Since Crew Dragon’s debut, SpaceX has flown more astronauts than anyone
Bloody hell this is like my worst nightmare. The inability of the self to diagnose the self is particularly cruel.
If you've ever used enterprise software (SAP, Sage...) you'd know that showing a loading screen is on the table.
So why did he pay for the fraud charges against him then for his misleading tweets? [0]

> Musk and Tesla have agreed to settle the charges against them without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations.

He knew he committed securities fraud, and now he is under federal investigation over the Twitter deal.

There is no need to be a Elon apologist, since everyone knows he is a fraudster. That is before I mentioned about the FSD scandals.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
Lawfare blog, and especially its podcasts: https://www.lawfareblog.com/topic/podcasts

Close second, "War on the Rocks" podcast: https://warontherocks.com/podcasts/

Lot of "National Security / Foreign politics" content has been a breath of fresh air, because while this is clearly biased toward an American viewpoint, there is an intellectual respect toward other peoples/states situation, objectives, and possibility of getting to those objective.

In practice, that means that when talking about Putin, they debates around why Putin is doing that, and why Putin would be doing it that way, what are the possible outcomes, and how the US/NATO/other parties can try to act or react in a way that's beneficial for them.

Another example: Lawfare where highly critical of the Trump administration, but they always approached their analysis by asking "What is his thought process" and "What is he gaining by doing that".

Once you get used to hear a bunch of smart people articulating their thought in that way, it's painful to listen back to a discourse centered around "our good values vs. their bad intentions", which is unfortunately the norm.

Totally different subject, but if one is interested in religions, I highly recommend the Youtube channels "Religion for Breakfast" and "Let's talk religion", who goes deep into a variety of subjects, while disclosing what is still contentious in the academic term, and try to be as unopinionated as possible.
Mud boosts the immune system
Things are moving very quickly in PV. Something that was true in 2019 may no longer be true.

This year, for instance, the majority of Chinese manufacturing capacity, the largest manufacturers (and possibly the majority of panels manufactured, although data are sparse) have moved from p-PERC to TOPCon, precisely because of the latter's better low-light performance (and lesser reasons). p-PERC dominated from about 2015 to 2021 (after polycrys, a-Si, CdTe thin-film and CI(G)S lost the growth race). Some manufacturers are moving to heterojunction instead. HJT also does better than p-PERC. So we are moving on from p-PERC apparently.

Also this year, a large minority, or the majority (again public data are rare) of panels are bifacial, in order to capture light reflected off the ground (snow, in particular) to improve winter performance and low sun angle performance/capacity factor.

Clouds and winter are not PV killers.
I always expected the 4090 to sell like hotcakes. 4080 16gb I was more sceptical of but it still seemed like a nice card for 1440p gaming considering the 4090 is just overkill at that resolution.

It was the 4080 12gb I was expecting to flop hard. 4080 12gb was way too close to the 3080 going for jack squat so there was hardly a market for it.
Love the CCC! Visited the congress in Leipzig in 2017 and it's been such a great and fun experience, absolutely recommended for everyone. Finally a tech event that isn't all about money and corporate sponsors.
It is a great deal for 3 years ago, but tech is supposed to get cheaper as time progresses. No one says that a 42" 1080p LCD HDTV for $300 is a great deal because they were $800 8 years ago. It is a decent price but for $800 you can 60" 4K display with HDR.

(prices made up, I have no idea how much TVs cost right now)
It still does, it's now called "Secure Folder". There's "Insular" from F-Droid as well.
I always imagined the future of self driving cars wouldn't lie in cities (except maybe some main ringroads or arterial roalds) but in highways. Just tell the computer to go to highway X exit Y, and from there the driver can drive the last few miles.
Basically geofencing known 'sane' locations, which cuts down on the boring bits of driving significantly.
> MINIX is a microkernel architecture - running drivers in userspace is one of its core features/selling points, and one that differentiates it from (modular) monolithic kernels such as Linux. So, this isn't a very solid line of reasoning.

The first two versions of MINIX ran drivers inside the context of the kernel. The migration of drivers to user-space and overall emphasis on reliability didn't happen before MINIX3 in 2006.

Given that Linux nowadays has FUSE and UIO, still calling it a strictly monolithic kernel is probably a bit of a misnomer at this point. The same goes for Windows, NetBSD and others by the way.

> It seems to me that the situation is the opposite - that moving drivers to userspace is an architectural change, which is more complex than porting an existing architecture to a new language.

Trying to do a straightforward port of a C code base to Rust will quickly grind to a halt due to Rust's borrow checker. On a highly-optimized code base such as the Linux network stack, untangling every last optimization trick and shortcut to make the Rust compiler happy would require a large-scale refactoring that'll end up looking nothing like the original code base, at which point you might as well rewrite it from scratch.

In comparison, migrating that C code base to user-land would be less of a disruptive change to the code base (as was the case when MINIX3 did so with its drivers). It's still the same old network stack, adapted to run on a different environment.

> Sure, but not vulnerable in the way that the vulnerability under discussion is.

Rust isn't a silver bullet against every class of bug. Code that runs inside the trusted computing base means that it's one security bug away from system compromise. Writing that code in Rust doesn't change that.
> I don't really see how this all qualifies as "not close to AV", when really, it looks quite viable (with some already driving autonomously...?)

Also Tesla. You can see real advancements in these videos of Tesla FSD Beta [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/AIDRIVR/videos
> Get your lawyers to review the contractual structure of leagues and clubs, it can't be that the whole international set of deals is failsafe, players can probably just walk.

I think you're mixing up two things:

1. domestic club competitions - Serie A in Italy, the Bundesliga in Germany, The Premier League in England etc - where players have contracts with clubs and where the most successful teams in each league will compete things like the Champions League.

2. the national game - where country-level football associations select teams based on various national eligibility criteria to compete with other countries in continental competitions (European Championship, CONCACAF Cup etc) and the World Cup.

FIFA are not really involved with #1, it is primarily concerned with the nation-level competitions. It does have a club-level competition between the winner of each confederations' Champions League equivalent, but only the non-European participants really care about that. Additionally, players can and do "just walk" at the national level - some choose not to play either because they don't want to be injured playing for their country in a 9-0 victory over San Marino when their domestic club is in a tight race for the title or they're on a Champions League run. Players also refuse to play for personal reasons - like due to a falling out with a coach (Roy Keane for Ireland in 2002) or with an association (like Duncan Ferguson for Scotland in the '90s). So they know they can refuse to play, but they continue to do so.

There is not a snowball's chance in hell that an alternative World Cup would gain any sort of traction at all. Fans would be dismissive and the various national football associations would not take it seriously either. Additionally, the footballing calendar is already quite full so you couldn't run it in parallel with the existing tournaments, meaning that you couldn't slowly develop and grow the competition gradually, you'd need to replace the world cup from day one.

As shitty as FIFA are, they're here to stay.
Reactions to the White House’s AI Bill of Rights
An extreme black hole collisions in the universe just proved Einstein right
I can totally see the market for this. Imagine being a young person (let's say between 10 and 17), you read 2600 or something like it, you cannot pay for a server, you do not have your own Linux because the only family computer is running Windows and you're not an administrator on it. This is free and full of wonderful tools to try and explore.
Touch typing will increase your productivity because you will get your HN comments done in 10% of the time, leaving time for thinking about code. :)

Development isn't just coding. It's writing documentation (requirements, high level design, detailed design, reference manuals, ...), commit comments, bug reports, e-mails, status reports, ...

Poor keyboarding skills will definitely hold you back.

In order to reason about code, one thing you can do is write. Not write code, but prose about the subject matter. Writing is a thinking tool, and if you have good typing skills, the words pour out a lot faster, at times almost as fast as you can think.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-06/even-afte...
I subscribed to an actual physical newspaper and some magazines and deleted my Twitter account. Reading physical media feels like a radical act of self-care in the modern world.
Alaska Couple Finds Mammoth Bone After Storm
Am I misunderstanding you or are you comparing eating meat and animal products with rape and slavery?
That's just trying to solve a simpler problem. It wasn't what we were promised!
The whole Wirth language family tree is pretty complicated. Wirth himself designed Pascal (1970), Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon (1987), Oberon-2 (1991), and Oberon-07 (2007). Every iteration had many offshoots, surprisingly many were trying to build a business around their own version, most notably maybe Borland with TurboPascal/Delphi. Mesa/Cedar/Modula-3 is another interesting branch.

This is a topic that a book could be written about, tracing the 50 year old history
Bad timing, basically. By the time Modula-2 appeared, Pascal was rather popular, and there were a lot of extensions to the official standard that mirrored the main features of Modula-2. I think it was UCSD Pascal that introduced "Units", and that was quickly taken up by other popular compilers.

Also, by that time OOP started to rear its seven heads, and Modula-2 didn't have an answer to that, whereas yet another Pascal extensions (e.g. by Apple or Borland) filled that role. ISO Pascal and late Turbo Pascal/Delphi are about as far apart as they're to Modula-2, but you still had the name and quite often transitioned by compiler release, not language standard.

Modula-3 and Oberon answered the OOP call, but the former wasn't officially Wirthian and the latter probably too minimalist and non-industrial.

Also, of course, the BCPL language family enjoyed a steady rise during that time, first C eating into the Pascal space and then C++ becoming the standard low-level OO language.
You ever notice how the article will be titled something like “Analysis: Here’s why Putin won’t use nukes.” A point that could be easily summarized, but won’t ever be in the article—it will always show up at the bottom, preceded by a bunch of already known context information. It’s so they can sell ad spots in between as you scroll down.
But I think it will, and we see this already happening. Currently, the electricity price is so high that it makes economic sense to build wind and solar that are better for the environment.

I'm not saying it should be an unregulated free market - we've seen those don't work (exactly because of the externalities). But this does not mean there cannot be regulated markets and partial markets. The grid is infrastructure that shouldn't be run as a company, but production and storage capacity can be bought from markets as long as the grid rules factor in the externalities.
$100B is not that much when you compare it to the value self-driving cars will create.

There are over 1 billion cars on the road which need humans to drive them. How much are they used? I don't know. Let's say one ride per day. When cars turn into a service business, the "driver" will be software. What will be paid to the driver? Let's say $1 per ride.

That is 1B * $1 * 365 = $365B per year. Give that a p/e ratio of 10 and the value is $3650B.

So we could spent 30 times more and still break even.
Olympic Dam SA is the world's second biggest uranium mine.

For every 0.6 kg of Uranium it produces, it produces 20kg of copper and 4.5g of silver.

Monosilicon PV is made of sand, copper, silver and aluminum.

A kg of uranium going through a pwr produces about 500GJ (with 3-10% of that being required for milling and enrichment). The 7.5g of silver in the ore that produced that kg of Uranium will produce about 200GJ in its lifetime with technologies in the pipeling that will push this to 400GJ. This silver usage is going down faster than production is increasing. There will be a huge surplus of copper from this source.

The silver is recyclable.

The uranium will require special storage for millenia or reprocessing at a cost not even massively subsidized programs are willing to bear.

The solar energy can be stored in a battery made from sodium, carbon, iron and aluminum. This is basically the composition of dirt. These are being mass produced now and full industrialisation of the supply chain is expected by 2024.

The nuclear reactor requires large quantities of zirconium, molybdenum, chromium, silver, cadmium and many other rare metals. Much of this is radioactive waste at eol.

The nuclear reactor requires more steel than the solar panel requires silicon, and more concrete than the solar panel requires glass and concrete.

A uranium mine can provide nearly as much energy from PV as it does via fission, and will soon produce more. Let that sink in for a bit.
EA could very well setup "The EA Football World Cup" and invite the world's football associations to participate in it, with substantial prize money as a reward. But even if the countries could participate (they couldn't, unless they sent their Under 21s or other development/reserve players, see my other comment) and even if they did participate (many wouldn't) the tournament would be seen as an inferior knock-off and wouldn't gain the support from the fans that would be required to make it worthwhile.
The part about the grocery stores reminded me of why I love shopping at Aldi. Not only are the products great and affordable, the layout almost never changes in one store. Get in, get the goods, get out. They optimize for overall throughput, not cart volume per customer.
Britain Is Sleepwalking into Societal Collapse
If we're going backwards in time, Algol-W should be on the list (there's a transpiler called "awe", but no actual frontend for gcc/llvm/qbe).
Meta's Shares Are a Hard Sell as Good Old Facebook Days Are Over
>This exchange is expected to burden the already struggling healthcare system with additional costs of around 400 million euros.

I'm always amazed at the gross inefficiencies of the German bureaucratic machine (including most public and government institutions), despite the traditional world renowned stereotype of "German efficiency", even though at this point I know I shouldn't be surprised anymore.

The CCC is a national treasure.
Nit: "tail" usually means "everything except the head", not "last element". I got a little confused there for a moment reading your comment.
This reads like it was written about a month ago. Facts on the ground have changed.
Soldier Out of Luck.
Render what I can on the server (SSR with progressive enhancement), have a good Lighthouse score, but more importantly I'm not using tricks for SEO. If you have genuine, organic content people care about, a good UX with good TTI (time to interactive) and accessibility (WCAG recommendations) you should rank adequately eventually, or it's Google's loss for not showing what people want to see. Tricks become useless after a while, relationships are forever. Part of that is being everywhere on social media so people can find you. We live in an attention economy, so you have to be concise enough for people to be able to understand what you can do for them in a glance.
Stable Diffusion running locally on an iPhone app
Elon Musk is a lightning rod for divisive opinions but his contribution to humanity is worthy of greater respect - SpaceX has changed the game, reducing the cost of getting human beings into orbit by an order of magnitude.
You could answer: I just got a new phone 2 days ago, because my old one broke down.
> Finally, the CCC appeals to the manufacturers of the connectors to look for honest ways of earning a living.

This is fucking brilliant XD
My assumption is that we would ensure that everything you raised is accounted for otherwise it does more harm than good.
Yeah, Modula-3 had everything that the new kids like Java/C#/Go try to sell you years before, but I think Trestle would need some modernization before it could keep up visually with Qt/Gtk/etc (assuming that you can still "sell" that, as the kids these days really like their whitespacey Electron). It's a bit like Common Lisp's CLIM in that regard.

And, of course, in a land where Bell Labs won, upper-case keywords instead of glyphs are hard to sell.
>or just research prototypes that have not been really tried at scale.

Furthermore, all of those research prototypes are geofenced, since they rely on extremely detailed mapping and lots of training data from humans driving the same routes. There is not a single AV in the world close to capable of driving on any road, at any time, in any condition, that a skilled human could drive on without ever having seen it before.

In my mind, that means we are indeed nowhere close to a true AV.
So? Okay, we're not there yet with autonomous vehicles, and have spend tons of money on it. But the tech we have now didn't exist a decade ago. Give it another decade.
When it comes to anything with computers it’s difficult to imagine ways to end up more incompetent than literally all German public (or pseudo-public, like here) agencies. You’d certainly get something more competent by collecting random strangers off the street.

It’s virtually impossible to overstate how bad the situation in this area truly is in Germany.
welcome to the future

maybe its just the case that we have already picked the low hanging fruit in computing...from this point forward, the remaining loftier goals will take decades and billions to achieve

don't fall into the trap of thinking something can't be done if it can't be done easily. quickly and cheaply