skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mark Zuckerberg, the man who started his endeavors in business trying to take what was a wholesome idea -- getting to know your neighbors -- and then took that data and used it to create a machine that exacerbates women's eating disorders.

No amount of money can solve the issue of rich white men who invent ever elaborate reasons to alleviate their... :"concerns", and maybe Marky Marky should think about why we even use these sites to begin with?

Three words, free of charge: fuck, marry kill. (Hopefully in that order, but you can play around with it apparently? Big if true.)
Sunak favourite to be new UK Prime Minister
It's reasonable to assume that some govt did it, the number of options is small. The two likely suspects are the US or Russia.

Russia in active aggressor in this conflict and has the most to gain by killing the pipeline since the gas they now still sell is more expensive and they have other places to ship the gas (if anyone know a reference to Russian gas exports, I'd like to see).

For America to do it is harder to believe (even though there is a video of Biden alluding that they will "shut it down"). Even though they might have what to gain from LNG exports - the destruction of the European economy is not something that will help the US in the mid/long-term.
> A system which stops 50% of incoming missiles means that only half as many people will die in a nuclear war,

That doesn't make sense. The population isn't evenly distributed, and a target can have multiple missiles directed at it.

New START set the number of warheads to 1,550.

The 500 largest US cities have a population (2016) of 103,020,808. https://www.cdc.gov/places/about/500-cities-2016-2019/pdfs/5... . (Note LA, Long Beach, and Anaheim are different cities, when I should be using metropolitan areas, so my estimate is low-balling things.)

With 6x coverage of the largest cities, and 2x coverage of the smallest, that's a good chance of ~100 million deaths, even with a 50% missile intercept rate.

While a 0% intercept rate will still leave many people alive, in the sparsest parts of the US - not a factor of 2.

> [footnote] but the number of targets is cut by 50% either way

Note how targets are places or cities, not people. Nuking Gann Valley, South Dakota kills far fewer people, and causes far less disruption, than nuking Seattle.

> Obviously, these are one-off tests in ideal conditions

Last I knew, we had no good numbers for realistic conditions. I last looked at this years ago. At the time they were doing things like including a transmitter with the missile, and excluding chaff and other counter-measures.

Clearly if real-world numbers were a 5% then the entire calculation is wrong.

> The last half-century has seen very little in the way of better decoy technology, and massive improvements in discrimination.

Citation needed in how those improvements affect the overall intercept rate, and the cost/benefit of running an expensive defense system vs. building a few more nukes.

> In practice, no leader this side of Stalin is likely to court those kind of losses unless they really need to, no matter how much they stand to gain from it

Really now?

No one like Curtis LeMay - willing to nuke Vietnam if that were needed to end the war - will ever become president?

And ... won't that encourage North Korea to build more bombs? Because the argument seems to be that with 99% effectiveness, the 30 to 40 nuclear weapons they currently have gives a ~33% of having a strike in the US. So the US could nuke North Korea and risk it. Which means North Korea should build more nukes.

Ditto for every other smaller nuclear power.

> whose opposition often seemed to flow more from political opposition to Reagan than from a technical evaluation of the merits of the system

We've spent how many billions of dollars since the 1980s, to build a missile defense system, and we still don't have something that could handle a 1980s-era Soviet attack?

Yeah, I'm going to say the critics were right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

You're slaying a strawman here; no one claimed iPhones stop phishing, or meteors, or any number of other things.

The (correct) claim was that people on Android sometimes get their devices compromised in ways that aren't possible on an iPhone.
Thank you for caring for this :)
It suggests that you reboot. You don't have to reboot. It doesn't crash or force-reboot your machine.
I was one of the people that didn’t care Facebook was doing that. I am one of the people who still doesn’t care that TikTok is doing it. I stopped using Facebook because my feed became garbage not because of any kind of privacy concerns. TikTok’s feed has been amazing and consistently feeds me content that I like. History probably repeats itself because a massive body of people don’t care about the things that you care about and are being delivered value that they do care about.
HelloScribe uses AI to evolve the craft of writing
Do you have a source of the government "placing the blame for climate change on the backs of Dutch farmers"? The Dutch government wanted[0] to curb emissions, and since (high intensity) farms are huge polluters, some of the measurements affected farmers.But I can't remember them placing the blame on the farmers.

[0] Well, they didn't really want it, but had to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/dutch-official...
Previous discussion on the Cell language here:

Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31915925

I thought it was worth posting this page of the documentation as well, because it is quite thought-provoking and I'd love to see some discussion on it.
They were wrong in the sense that they used it to condition people to accept non-security updates and they were wrong in the sense that some people are better placed to determine whether any form of update is an unacceptable risk.

As things stand today, I only trust updates from community driven open source software projects. With exceptionally few exceptions, commercial software seems to offer the guarantee of delivering undesirable payloads.
Yes, but you do not reply via git. You review the patches in the MUA of your choice (outside of git) or in editor or IDE of your choice, after applying them in your local repository clone (applied maybe by git, maybe by the "patch" command, but viewed and evaluated completely without git), then you compose a reply in your MUA or maybe have a direct chat with someone about it (again, outside of git).

Git only comes in play when the review is finished, and it's time to commit the changes to your repository. So I claim that git does not have tools for reviewing pull requests or patch sets, only for managing them on either end of the pipeline - creating them, sending them, and applying them.

Which, to be clear, is not a criticism of git, as I do not think git should grow such review tools.
I’m not the OP, but I think there is a very real concern that a single person or single group of people who create the “new better system” can significantly drain the resources of everyone else.

We actively see this all the time on smaller scales (credit cards, global franchises, FAANG), but the idea of someone doing it at a larger scale should make us hesitate.
Surely there is a cost benefit analysis to be had regarding any regulation? It's not always as trivial as railing and fire escapes. What would the cost of building become if every building had to be built to withstand 9.0 magnitude earthquakes or be resistant to bunker-buster bombs?

Such policies do a number of things:

1. Raise consumer costs since these new regulations need to pass the costs to the consumer.

2. Inhibit competition since now new businesses need to have to know-how or pay for super specialists or some external service to get them complaint before they can even offer a product or service.

I'm not discounting all regulation, but at some point consumers can't consume blindly and need to be thoughtful. Some businesses may get third party certs stating they're compliant with industry leading security practices. They can charge a premium. Other companies may target more elastic consumers that want the service but don't care about whether their data, etc. is protected. They can choose to buy the products/services without certs, as they would likely he cheaper to differentiate themselves.
Yep.

There's also the slightly more twisted version of this, where companies have special 'leadership' training programs and the employees on teams get 'hand picked' by their managers or the org. It tends to lead to lead to knock-on effects like managers selecting for sycophants in hiring, the program being used as an additional carrot/stick (I saw one abusive manager threaten to get someone 'knocked out' of the program I'm thinking of,) as well as generally causing a level of artificial false seniority.
The amount of law concerning that suggests that it's something we're well aware of and have handled correctly since forever.
The internet is certainly built on "peering" relationships. So when someone finds out that you host a website where you spray your "white replacement theories", or your forum members spend a near decade documenting and mocking the existence of dozens of human beings.

You shouldn't be surprised when people don't want to be in a relationship with you anymore, or do business with you anymore.
And isn't that an amazing world to live in?
Chinese Province Has More EV Chargers Than All of the US
Money making course course generator as a service. MMCGGaaS. It's the next big thing.
Long live cannibalism

Clownworld!
First, determine exactly what the goal of your demo is. There are lots of reasons to show someone an MVP - maybe your product has a fair deal of complexity, so you believe that a demo of functionality will help people understand. In turn, that understanding will allow them to better answer business questions ("Does this seem like it would solve x need for you?"). Maybe you have some basic UX mechanisms planned, and you want to test whether they're intuitive.

Once you know what you're looking to get out of it, focus the entire experience on answering the important questions. If there are parts of the product that are important to see for background but aren't critical to actually have the user try out in order to answer your questions, you might be able to film videos of those parts instead of building the functionality.

In your case, if you need people with good diction/utterance, just try to recruit those people. If you're trying to answer the question of whether your software solves a problem under ideal conditions, create those conditions. If it turns out the answer is yes, then you can work on solving for non-ideal conditions later and run user testing with people who have heavy accents later.
Isn't the word for this "constructive dismissal"?
Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

SSH is a great option that I hadn't thought of, and that's good to know it works well over it. I have always seen web UIs being inherently easy to share as a benefit over others, but for dev-focused stuff and SSH connection isn't much harder than web access.

I wasn't thinking about full web apps, more things like status pages and other little utilities exposed on an internal server interface. I've built these for software before, and things like Fish Shell have them too. I'm not sure they require much in the way of web skills, but pure-Python would certainly be easier.
How to improve a GitHub profile (readme)
I tried to look at a lot of Github profiles for inspiration, but if you have any tips on how to present things better, please let me know:

https://github.com/lorenzi-nicolas
> [...] laptops that are rechargeable via a wired cable, with a power delivery of up to 100 Watts, will have to feature a USB-C port.

Most important change, finally cheap laptops with usb charging!
Technics SL-1200
A problem of the mentioned SVCB records is that while theoretically they're capable of HTTP (unencrypted etc), http is not mentioned in the upcoming drafts directly and no browser supports HTTP via SVCB. Only HTTPS.
Yeah, that's a fair argument. You'd probably expect any public API exposed by functions in the module importing ctypes to provide a "safe" interface. The difference would be if any of that public API was unsafe, in Rust you could force the caller to use the unsafe keyword too (since unsafe functions can only be called in unsafe blocks), whereas in Python you'd rely on documentation.
I am an active engineer and software developer, and I already feel like I don’t have a clue how any of it works already. I am being a little bit hyperbolic of course, but that’s the feeling.

And to be honest, I don’t think it’s me. It isn’t clear to me that the people who make all this stuff know how it works either. Nothing works as intended in technology. At least some form of technology doesn’t work as it should every day, from your work machine’s OS, or some program, or your smartphone, or Android Auto or Apple Car Play, or your TV, or your Internet provider or WiFi router, or that website you visit, or your smart thermostat, and on and on. And that’s stuff just plain not working or encountering bugs. It doesn’t even address the usability of all this.

We are just shitting out technology left and right, all at the alter of scale. In my opinion, capitalism is part of the problem. The other is human nature. There are no incentives to get this right. And these days, large companies do not care that they get it right. Statistics of failure and user frustration are explicitly part of their business models. They don’t want to even know if there’s an issue with their product. They just let some statistics drive their decision making.

It’s all just a tragedy and comedy all in one. Amazon has their 12 principles they hire with that makes it seem like they hire geniuses left and right. And they can’t even get book selling right these days. And there’s no way to report issues. They do not care.
Where does the heat go? That seems like a couple watts at least.
So much innovation in a tiny libc.
Big fan here :)

I very much enjoyed the one where he explains how music videos are made ... by inviting a Japanese pop band and making their music videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cz8CjLq0fQ
I'd argue used corporate class laptop is a better choice at all price points.
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Efficiency in this case defined as "extracting as much money from consumers at as low a cost as possible", not "providing as much value as possible to consumers at as low a price as possible".

"providing as much value as possible to consumers at as low a price as possible" is exactly the opposite of efficiency since as a company you don't have to invest that many resources for the given price.
What will happen first? Robots drive us around, or we all live in the metaverse?
My mother in-law got her first iPhone recently and after few days of „training” done by herself managed to get a hang of everything she needs.

Apple products UX is so much better than anything currently available on the market, but its slowly eroding due to lack of Steve Jobs.

He had a huge drive to make perfect UX. Newer designers lack this and you can just feel it from how new versions of iOS look like.

And how new iphones design is just small changes or bigger screen. They no longer have that spark like they used to with Jobs.

RIP Steve, visioners are not looked upon kindly.
Why the Founding Generation Fell So Hard for the Illuminati Story
> If you need anything outside of a browser

And yet I clearly wrote "basic user"...
Related to PRC reducing dependencies on TSMC, today I saw in https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/10/22/10-cents-ch32v003-ri...:

> GT Collection

> Great silicon part, and quite timely as we were forced by HQ last Friday to revise all product line designs to comply with 100% Chinese domestic semiconductors & passive components by latest Q4 end. All western sourced/accounts and parts are now forbidden, apart from those sourced by HQ’s registered jurisdiction.

> Worth adding to the list, we’ve also signed accounts with GigaDevice and Expressif Shanghai in the MCU and connectivity range. Thanks for the info, we’ll get in touch with WCH and have a few shipped over for bench tests.

Although another commenter claims GigaDevice and Espressif have all their parts made by TSMC?
There are no movies from the 2010s that made it into imdb.com/list/ls000551766/ top 100 all time comedies.

I noticed this pattern when watching deadpool; or various ryan reynolds. Hilarious and modern. Yet, bucking a trend. I expect if Ryan operated in the 1990s he'd be an ultra super star. He understands the role of a jester. So he gets to continue operating.

> A new age of sanctimony: feminisation and Trump

This comedy drought has nothing to do with trump. trump is a symptom just as the death of comedy is a symptom.

It's quite obvious the inflection point is 2009. Obama killed comedy, though not literally himself. He represents what killed comedy. "first black president" seems to have socially broken the USA. The relationship of race, politics, and comedy is well understood. It's crazy how many of the top comedians are black. Hence, comedy = dead.

>Maybe I’m just an old man and wow what a coincidence comedy died after I graduated from university when I had loads of time to enjoy movies. Gee whizz, my nostalgic youth just happens to coincide with the Golden Age in everything. Am I just an old man yelling at clouds?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charts-americas-political-d...

Put your finger on 'median republican' in 1994. The big divide started around 2009. The death of comedy is political. Which is well understood, comedians vs political correctness has been around since forever.

>And now this. Drooling, limp regime propaganda:

Yes Colbert peaked you guess it, around 2009 as well. He clearly took the money and became a good jester obeying the regime.

The important thing to note is that we haven't changed. What exactly is Colbert? He's a court jester. In 2009 the court jesters were shutdown.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls052391452/

Kevin hart is another obvious trend bucker. If he and ryan got together it'd be like none else. Whereas a brilliant dude like martin lawrence died with comedy, but still trying.

Dave Chappelle is the lightning rod. His ability to make jokes about the situation and not get cancelled in addition to racial unrest is what is going to help heal this wound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932022_United_State...

>Tina Fey seemed to have birthed a new era of female-led comedies with her excellent 30 Rock (2006 – 2013). The show belongs to the Before Times. Not only temporally (began pre-Obama, ended in 2013), but culturally: it could not be made today.

This isn't a 'women arent funny' thing. Instead it needs to be measured relative to the politics. Relative to 'intersectionality' or 'social justice'. Women were briefly the only jesters who were still allowed to joke. That got shut down.
I talked with my social circle just the other day how our timeline is really a Cyberpunk timeline with only technology and body augments seemingly lagging behind.

I am both excited and horrified, because that universe is pretty dark. I suppose I should be thanking our lucky stars we are not moving towards 40k universe.
Minnesota Police Battling Car Thieves with GPS Tracker Launchers
Car is too big, barely fits in lane :)
Well then we got sick and cockroaches invaded, and the house got dirtier and we got sicker until it all spiraled out of control. One or two people messaged us after that but nobody else has the ability to host regularly.

Hiring a housekeeper and an exterminator were in retrospect the best decisions we’ve made in the past year. It’s super important for both mental and physical health that you keep your house clean and free of pests folks!
> but [the market] will not decide whether the 10 smartphones are needed or what kind of smartphone are needed.

This is what buyers decide about via their buying decisions.
it annoys me a lot: media appeals to personal responsibility a lot; people in my area disregards those who ostendebly cares for sustainability, saying they're weird as not following the herd, and "one single man can not switch the tide" attitude. which if you respond to like "why don't you do it too?" - they reply "others would reckon me weird"; so not "because that certain behaviur does not make sense". These people calims a heigher power, ie. government, should step in and regulate. The same people who gets utterly rebelious if they face a slightest little new regulation in any area.
I wonder what power laserpointer you could fit in there without going overboard with the battery... Imagine being able to light matches by looking at them for a bit.

On the other hand, every mirror would be a great chance to lose your other eye as well, so maybe disregard my ideas.
So we should add safety requirements to fossil fuels, then they'll be even more obsolete.

You're not making a great argument for your trustworthiness "not letting us poison the world and directly kill millions is unfair and political" is at least a rare piece of honesty, but hardly a compelling argument.
120 ftw! seriously though, I am not understanding the argument here, I look at PR#1 and the 80 column wraps too on my screen,
The repulsion hackernews crowd will face while opening TikTok.
"90% of everything is crap" ; but, now, 'everything' is computer-generated, and therefore, infinite. I'll let mathematicians study the convergence, while physicists conclude that "everything is crap", give up and get a beer, and software engineers go back to fixing the other 90%.
Toyota scrambles for EV reboot with eye on Tesla
They're allowed to keep the backup gennies while connecting to the grid, especially when the grid is so much cheaper it will pay for itself in the 99.9% of the time it's working.

It's not like hospitals and data centres refuse grid connections and run entirely on the backups.
It loads a lot quicker for 1
Lenovo too.

It's called Windows Platform Binary Table, and lets the firmware provide an EXE for Windows to execute on boot. So even if you install a clean OS, this will run, and there is no mandatory prompt (if it's run through this approach and you see a prompt, then the software that was run was nice enough to ask, it was not Windows asking you to confirm whether that is OK).
It appears simple on the surface, it is as complex as Common Lisp or C++, when one starts exploring the language surface, runtime capabilities, and standard library.
> if someone decides to target you

I think reducing log spam is actually a great security outcome, if the only thing normally present in the log are my real logins, an attacker's attempt world stick out like a sore thumb.
Sure it does. It says per-second.

What is confusing about it?
There are group activities you can take part in that have nothing to do with school. Actually, you should take part in it anyway, but with private tutors you have much more time to spend with a peer group of your choice. Not sure how scouting works elsewhere, but in my country it is well organized, more or less well funded, teaches a lot of very useful skills, and most of all gathers kids who want to be there. You have to actually experience it to feel how huge is the difference in atmosphere in a group like this versus one where participants are forced to attend.

Private tutors are the best there is and you won't beat it. Whatever is lacking, can and should be supplemented. It doesn't even need to be a 1-1 with a tutor: 3-5 kids are still a manageable group. 25-1 or sometimes 35-1 is absolutely horrible and it shows in the results.

Remote learning without help and care (honestly, "supervision"? The heck? Are they your child or inmates serving time for the crime of being born?) is obviously even worse than going to school. So, to my eyes, the GP got it right with that quote.