skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728/phot...
I immediately remember encrypted, region-locked DVDs and the oppressed but often open-source tools to counteract it, like DeCSS. Early 2000s were fun!
I have to reload every page multiple times until it loads.
Can we please stop having static websites rely on 65 (???) scripts.
You could also easily claim the inverse: the lack of Democrats shows that the refusal to contemplate a lab leak is political.

Besides, since when is something being political a problem? You'd expect the party in opposition to investigate the wrongdoings of the government, that's part of their job.
Self-driving cars will definitely happen. It won't happen next year, but it will absolutely happen. That's the way humans are. If they can do something and make some money, they will do it.
Trains are an order of magnitude more efficient, however, and there’s a huge cost & environmental impact to building those extra highways. What we should be doing is more intermodal work where long-distance trucking is replaced with rail & local delivery.
Elon could assert dominate by banning Breton for "repeated use of violent threats". Private property after all :)
Interesting that the 1989 Reston, VA release was not included...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone
I dont think Google Glass can be seen as failure. The product is still on market, it only has changed the target audience.
I agree with you that Congress shares part of the blame. But there are currently two paths to effectively amend the Constitution, and one of them is waaay easier, so it's not surprising that it has come to this.

I would like to see the U.S. take a page from Canada, which has what is called a "Notwithstanding Clause" in its own constitution:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/notwithsta...

The clause essentially says that if the judicial branch declares a law unconstitutional, then the legislative branch, with broad support, can issue a temporary override, which lasts for five years and can be renewed.

If the U.S. were to ratify a similar amendment, then there would be two ways to head off or invalidate SCOTUS decisions on constitutional issues. With the assent of 3/4th of states, an amendment can be ratified outright, either to prevent or respond to a court ruling. Alternatively, with the assent of 2/3rds of Congress, a specific Supreme Court decision can be temporarily overruled.
Q: Is this the same article style like the one from New York Times about humanity not able to fly in a million years 9 days before Wright brothers did it? (https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp...)

A: Yes, it is.
Doubtful, they weren't able to even complete the Jedda Tower.
What is a "real report" by your definition? The word report is a very general one.

Peer-review studies are not exactly trustworthy on this topic, are they? The peers in question are virologists and others who directly enabled their work.
Not take off, but we do have many planes which routinely fly a route and land. It depends on the airline and route, but some airlines now have changed their standard company procedure to engage autopilot as soon as you're about 400ft off the ground all the way through to autoland. Some airlines only use autoland when the landing is too difficult for the pilot due to poor visibility (though as you say, high crosswinds usually mean a manual landing). On top of that, autoland is very old technology - ILS is from the 30s and autoland not much later.

We don't have automatic taxiing or take off in any common airplanes yet. This phase involves a lot of ATC back/forth so it doesn't really make sense at the moment, but there are some changes coming to ATC and transponders which might make this more feasible in the medium term.
Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars
You are assuming that the lettuce-funded buger business is the only possible way to provide free food for those in need. Maybe there are government bugers that are just as good but the burger joint they are served in is not as flashy. Maybe there are people who just like making burgers or want to help others and give them away without insisting on you eating lettuce - or they would if the lettuce-funded burger business didn't have exclusive bun contracts with all the local bakeries that they finance with their lettuce income.

Also, don't forget that big lettuce is not subsidizing the burgers out of the goodness of their hearts - they are doing so because they believe it will allow them to capture more wealth overall. Wealth that people could have used to pay for food.
Maybe something like a subreddit if it was like a DAO but without the crypto?
Does that matter if the thing being designed is gonna printed by a cmyk printer or displayed on a screen? And more: does it matter if the color is 1/3 of a lumen off from whatever was shown on a screen that was possibly not even properly calibrated?
Yep, the sibling comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33370118 ) explains it well:

> humans are really bad at co-operating with machines. We are asked to pay full attention to everything around us and take over at a moment's notice, while doing nothing >99% of the time. Humans simply do not work like that.

I have been trying to find some refs.

here's a couple: https://www.skybrary.aero/articles/cockpit-automation-advant...

https://themobilityforum.net/2021/03/15/the-potential-pitfal...

Like most of the 'Human Error' research, it focuses on Aviation, but is worth a read anyway if you care about topics such as e.g. SRE and Incident response.
The subways in Japan are fantastic. Interesting that they make a loss on the trains themselves and more than compensate in profit from retail and real estate.
https://archive.ph/zy5Vn
In an article linked from this one, they advocate for, wait for it, yet another markup language (albeit a subset of html).

> What I would want is a simple .htmd standard file format, which - like all the "lightweight markup languages" out there - is just text containing a strict subset of HTML (no forms and iframes) and CSS which basically mimics the output of Markdown.

So, basically, they want Markdown with angle bracket. Yay? No. Yuk.
All pointers that could be deterministically generated from existing values. I could store a pointer in a 64-bit field, or I could go mad with power, break it up into 11-bit chunks, and store it in the unused exponent of half a dozen float64 values, to be recombined later on.

It's not to say that this would be a reasonable thing to do, but that these sort of shenanigans may be done (e.g. to pass data across an excessively narrow API callback)
Unlocked link (with videos, unlike the archive.ph link): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/27/world/asia/hu...
so a worker cooperative?
They don't care if you come out with more, just less.
As a moderator/manager of communities like these, those are real problems. And unfortunately, I don't think any of the existing platforms have a way to address the lack of and perverse incentives.
Reminds me of Rational Software's Instant-C from the 1980's which combined an incremental function-at-a-time compiler and runtime link/loading. Basically you just edited your code and ran it - kind of like using an interpreter, except it really was compiled. It really was instant even back on the slower computers of that era. You could even run code that had missing functions, then write them and continue when the runtime system complained!
It's almost like we need some kind of lightweight markup language like HTML that lets us focus more on the content, with less boilerplate... so something like markdown in other words, then?

I don't think the problems Russel mentions are as big of a deal. I've never encountered an issue due to the inconsistent spec. The basic markdown practices are so simple they just work, and when they don't it's clear you need to make a slight adjustment. At worst you are missing something you want to use that's not available in the flavor at hand. In the places I commonly write markdown there is no need for a complex tool-chain to render it as HTML, it's either a real-time part of the apps I use, or I consume it as plain text.

I'd be curious how Mozilla is finding it. I know it's a favorite among bloggers, but I'm not sure about such rich documentation as MDM, the quality of which has never been better in my view.

I think we need to invent new ways to store and retrieve enriched/inter-related/hierarchical data in a way that's convenient, interoperable and ubiquitous. I can't think of any though, can you? Something like a relational database, but lightweight like plain text, but richer, like a website.
I've thought about similar stuff, but I'm on a slightly different path.

I'm picturing a long-running server, and people wanting to run experiments on it. Like, the next time an HTTP GET comes in, please use my new code.

In my head, I had imagined that there would be a versioned method table for each function (or at least each function that I wanted to be versionable.) I would compile my new version of the code, and then dynamically link it in, and then use some experimentation flag to say which version of the system the execution should follow.

So, it's a bit like Git. Each object is versioned, and you can request a snapshot of the entire tree, at a particular version. And because you can walk the tree of function calls, you can have a root version, etc.

It's super cool to see people experimenting with this.
I have slowly gained 30kgs over 20 years. That's 1.5kg a year, or about 4g per day.

4g per day is almost insignificant amount and yet it is enough to make you fat over long periods of time.

I challenge anybody to accurately measure their daily calories intage to within 4g of a target (forgetting for a moment that the target can't be measured accurately either).

This suggests that while I was technically overeating -- by just couple of grams per day -- the problem lies entirely somewhere else -- in our ability to self regulate.
True, I have never in my life noticed screen tearing, X11 or otherwise.
As time goes on more and more interesting high quality experiences come out.

And more current vr headsets like the quest 2 can play many games without 'hooking up' anything.

When VR was pretty new lack of entertaining content was a thing, but I don't think you can say that today.
Ideological Purity Requirements. Anybody can post; but only those who pass a 600 question, quarterly test verifying their lack of controversial interests will have anything they write propagated through the system. Surely once the irritations, provocations, and microaggressions are removed it will become the Utopian space it once was.
and still it seems a lot of india fetishes socialism/commando economy USSR style. why?
> If anything I'm more and more convinced people don't have the first clue about security, let alone password security.

I feel the same, both for fresh sw engineers and non-technical people. And they compose the majority of people writing and using software.
1. Allow conservatives to discuss issues again. No more echo chamber.
1.1. Allow liberals to see the conservative discussion and counter it. This is a key missing point.

2. The blue checkmark - celebrity system becomes a system where you cannot be kicked or banned for anything you say but you also cannot edit or delete anything you say. Whereas without bluecheckmark you can edit it anytime lowering the quality of your post.
2.1. yes, edit button.

3. Hostile countries such as Russia, NK, Iran will be completely banned. Analysis to be done and if a country's engagement on the platform is more abusive than good, it also gets banned.

4. Far more complicated, change the algorithm to promote positivity and punish negativity.
Colleges brace for the beginning of affirmative action’s end
Like anything in life, context is everything.

This "Don't reinvent the wheel" thing comes from the observation some people (software engineers in this case ) tend to spend a huge amount of time ( aka money ) creating things that were already created AND could just be used by them. It's a very valid point, especially when you have to pay salaries every month and don't have a money printing machine.

However.. the motto is also used to justify mental laziness and protect egos from ignorance.

People learn by doing, you can read all the books you want and you'll be a very competent parrot but you'll never really know. The question is, what do you choose to know and what to you choose to parrot? Since time is finite (for you ).
Overclockers maybe?

But I definitely do remember the era of cold cathodes:)
We use these in production because the IO signals are buffered: https://www.artekit.eu/products/debug/ak-cmsis-dap/
I don't understand Musk infatuation with twitter, is just another social virtual pool with some interesting posting but also a ton of toxic comment and useless discussions. It's true that it has hundreds of millons of rabid users but so had mySpace at its prime, but hey what do I know...
Azure's Security Vulnerabilities Are Out of Control – Last Week in AWS Blog
More like - let's see when Mercedes will stop selling self driving systems or renounces liability for L3 systems when their self driving car will actually crush somebody.
Yeah most routers come with a fixed list of services, when they really mean is a list of protocols.

I have a Huawei Fibre ONT, that only listed DynDNS, NoIP, and a few others. I could get away by using a NextDNS DNS override, and hosting my own script that forwarded the API call to the actual DDNS provider.
The problem is that the revenue leakage for babysitters and other under the table services is lower than the scaled grifts that an “easy box” would generate.
Or people who argued that “the eye can’t see more than 60fps”
Well, certainly someone got your money.
CoWasm: Collaborative WebAssembly for servers and browsers, written in Zig
> we are comparing it to Gmail itself, one of the few Javascript apps actually created by people in possession of some engineering sensibility.

Are you kidding me? The JavaScript version of Gmail is awful. One of the slowest client-side apps I've had the displeasure to use. Full-fat Gmail used to be fast and pleasant to use (and at that point it was indeed faster than the plain HTML version), but they did a rewrite a few years back and completely borked it.
I don't super care about my desktop, but spent significant premiums to keep my home server stuff fan-less since that is 24/7.

Needs to be silent when I'm sleeping. When using the desktop I've got music and headphones going anyway
That depends on the function of what you are building.
Almost forgot about that one... I wonder how they are going to contain the fallout from this to some low level BaFin employees and Wirecard's leadership. because it will be contained, nobody went to jail for things like the 2006 FIFA World Cup for example, or the various defense contracts in the last decade, or...
You'd gave to be quite lucky to buy a high-power GPU like that which, under load, wouldn't have coil whine significantly louder than quiet case fans. (GPU fans usually aren't that quiet even at lowest operating speeds but these days 0rpm modes on low loads are pretty much a standard feature.)
Remember growth is exponential - we won't recognize the next revolution because we'll still be dealing with the fallout of the previous one. Or previous dozen.
Good one, yes. Clean and minimal studio.

Also, first time I got jealous about cables hah
> "Together with the fundamental liberties of speech, association, and religion, the Basic Law confers a general right to “personal freedom” as well as a more specific right to “life and physical integrity."

Germany has too many curbs on freedom of speech for me to consider it a real liberty. Holocaust denial laws are a particularly obvious infringement of speech rights.

Most of Europe is the same way. I just watched a video of police in England telling a reporter who was having a conversation with a LGBT activist that they would arrest him if he continued to insult the activist.

That's not free speech.
They covered all the bases so it’s impossible to be wrong.

“More likely than not..”

“More information is needed…”

“As noted by the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, the COVID- 19 Lancet Commission, and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence 90-Day Assessment on the COVID-19 Origins, more information is needed to arrive at a more precise, if not a definitive, understanding of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and how the COVID-19 pandemic began”
For the non Americans:

A "sidewalk" is a footpath adjacent to a road.

A "curb cut" is ramp from footpath to road.
Bad products is not a reason close specs. Unless you are heavily vested into Canon’s lense ecosystem, or have no issues with money, it makes no sense to go with them; if we’re considering full frames. Glass prices are overly marked up by the body creators and quality is subjective when there’s Sigma.
I feel bad for young Chinese people who were born after the economy opened up. Can't shake the feeling that the world that they've known is about to be turned upside down, and not for the better.

Increasingly hard to go back to business as usual with China. And I'm not even sure Xi wants to go back to business as usual.
You can also run Recoll on it .. awesome full text searchable personal history and knowledge base.

grep is nice, but Recoll gives you stemming and such.
It implies that people on HN are intelligent enough to understand that analogies are not meant to be a one of one match instead of using it as an excuse to prepare for a twitter like outrage.
It is paywalled. When you scroll down you have to subscribe to keep reading. The section "What Made Me Nearly Give Up on Zig" is closed behind a red big banner that says "keep readying with a 7 days trial".

To the thread creator:
Please just stop, no one wants to subscribe to read your opinion, experience on certain languages
Signal Says It Will Exit India Rather Than Compromise Its Encryption
I wish public transport providers would take advantage of the possibilities of apps more aggressively. I'm in London and I rely entirely on CityMapper to use public transport (mostly) and some Uber. I don't have a drivers license - never got around to learning to drive (I'm 47... maybe one day) as I've always lived places with excellent public transport.

Apps like CityMapper revolutionised that in making me resort to Uber/cabs far less, but there's some really obvious improvements in terms of leveraging journey data to both offer "virtual" bus services where you can offer higher frequency than you have buses to service by filling in with on demand minibuses and cars from car hire companies, and in using the end-to-end journey data to adjust schedules more dynamically.

There are plenty of on-demand shared services (e.g. London's Dial-A-Ride) but most seems to be operated in isolation and/or targets people with limited mobility for end-to-end transport rather than to fill in smaller gaps in other services.
Kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage are varieties of a single species
The point of Markdown isn't to replace HTML. It lets you write a plaintext document that can be post-processed into a rich text document (including HTML). It doesn't define the rich text template, styling, or anything else. It certainly isn't meant to have a 1:1 relationship with every HTML element.

With Markdown I can type up a document in the most brain dead of editors. I can then effectively read that document in the most brain dead of readers, event just printing it to a terminal. That simple document I can run through any number of post-processors and get great looking documents in a variety of delivery formats.
In a nutshell, he decided that streamlining things by eliminating courts and elections would help him achieve his vision.
> the differences aren't as drastic as you'd imagine

And a honda accord driver won't be able to drive a formula one faster than a formula four around the track, give it to someone who knows how to drive and the difference will be drastic
In defense of Tim and his scrupulous due diligence, the podcast is very clear wrt to the issue but perhaps the precision of my language was less so on examination I should have called it an "imperial vs metric" conversion error as in one of substitution not one of the math involved which my language allowed you to assume I was talking about. Not sure if it rises to the level of getting the story horribly wrong but you are entitled to an opinion.
Fellow Minnesotan, do you have a source for this? Not that I don’t believe you, I just want to read for my own eyes.
You should never trust any disk, that's why we have backups and redundancy in the first place.
Some websites are funded by taxes. A lot of websites are funded by free work.
You don't just get a CS degree and just magically understand everything there is to know about software engineering. There are specializations just like in the medical field and many others.

Tesla engineers working on AI have their own domain specific knowledge they likely spent many years to get a PhD for. The same goes for Twitter engineers working on natural language understanding AI to detect certain types of posts. By your logic there is just one broad category of AI researcher and they're all the same and have the same expertise. Scratch that.. there's just one broad category of computer engineer and they're all the same and have the same expertise. Twitter or Tesla engineers could easily do a code review of Space X's code base right?
The "briefing" PDF on that page has a GIF in it. Never seen that before.
I agree, it would be terrible for democracy.
pantone have a colour mixing system based on 6 primaries called hexachrome, they then publish a book of formulas using those colours - it’s an easy way for printers to mix up the colours. This represents the majority of “pantone” colours.

Anyone is still able to mix and use a colour through other means, but no one can put out a book with pantone’s same formulas.

The real problems however arise with trademarked colours (think tiffany’s blue, whiskas purple, kinder orange, etc.) That’s where you literally can’t use a colour in a particular copyright category.
Or more importantly, definitely re-invent the wheel on your own fucking time.
Novelty Automation
It’s easy to offer innuendo.

“The voting machines are rigged…”

I like Bill Barr’s answer: “It’s all bullshit”

Going from one BS story to the next, seeing what sticks then saying “see we were right” is growing old.

How about providing evidence with each new theory.

Now did China engineer the virus, or was it one that they were studying and it escaped? I’m having a hard time keeping up.
> On current hardware can only implement but a poor caricature of a real neuron.

We don't need a complete physiological model for it to be useful. We don't need a perfectly accurate silicon-based mirror of a mammalian brain to outsmart ours on every task we do (and many we don't even realize we could). The challenge will be to coexist and cooperate with these completely alien intelligences that share almost nothing with ours.
Sweet, good to know for my laptops. :)
> Is a c compiler not a large dependency and a maintenance burden?

Not in my experience, unless you feel that 577KB is a large dependency.

For size, ship TinyCC(100kb, also available as a `libcc.so` or `libcc.dll`) and a small stdlib (377kb for musl) with your app and you're done.

For the maintenance issue, it's not different from depending on any other library, except that TinyCC and/or Musl are incredibly more mature than any other library you are bound to use (with the exception of SQLite).
"Oh, that's nice then" ... nope.
how could I possibly speak for anyone but myself?

Christ, you "hackers" are thick.