skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suspend is an industry-wide new problem affecting almost all new hardware since Windows convinced hardware makers to make S0 the default, and some don't even support S3 in their bios any more.

Google about "modern standby".

It's driven by a software change in Windows, but it affects Linux too because all mamufacturers made bios changes to support the Windows change.

The point I'm making is, Windows machines have the same problem for the last 2 or 3 years. Even macs have an essentially the same problem, just that on mac it's easy to change a setting to fix it.

It's not a Linux problem, and by that I do not just mean the usual that it's not Linux's fault that hardware manufacturers cater to Windows. I mean everything has the same problem right now, and the fix is to A: hope both your hardware has a bios that still provides support for S3 standby, B: use it.

Seperately, I personally have just never used standby or hibernate. It's true that aside from the current industry-wide issue caused by "modern standby", it's always been a bit of a problem on linux. Especially since I dual boot and also just never know how long the machine will be turned off or how much charge it will have when I close the lid, or rather I don't want to have to worry about it. So I just decided decades ago that the entire suspend and hibernate concept was a bad idea and I don't use them, on any platform. My machines shut down and boot up every time on battery. Plugged in they merely go idle and turn the monitors off. No swap or hiberfile even cpnfigured on linux or windows. Ever since ssd's booting from scratch has been fast enough. Standby and hibernate are just fundamentally not good ideas IMO. I don't care how popular and how they work 99% of the time. I opt out of that whole idea, on any platform.

And everything else works great.
My daily life on linux is all in all, less grief than Windows.
Crypto group Circle ends $9B deal to go public through Bob Diamond’s SPAC
If that's how you want your license to work, then sell it as a 10-year license, not a lifetime one.
Fantastic option. Thanks for sharing.
If you know the answer and it's a valid question (i.e. it's not trivial or easily googled already), it's fine to do. The point is less to reputation farm as it is to share knowledge.
In some countries like Norway, a lifetime sentence is 21 years. In most European countries you're unlikely to get more than that even for murder except under special circumstances.

If the developer chooses to end a lifetime license after 25 years.. he has already basically fulfilled his end of the bargain IMO. Especially since he isn't even terminating the license, just asking people to personally renew.
Yeah but in this case it's not an outsider it's someone with firsthand experience of the cost of the mitigations, and the knowledge that the tiger isn't there.

I see your point, and understand the inclination to find a generalizable principal for understanding complex social situations. But there kind of just isn't one, each has its own nuances.
India’s Coming Decade of Outperformance
For comparison, in Poland the "old" and "new" functioned for 2 years.

After 2 years it was not legal to pay with them but you could still exchange them in national bank...

...for next 14 years

It's just WTF.
How did Stripe come up with its name?
While there is certainly a lot of room for progress in architecture to improve training time, model size and inference speed, high quality data and curated data sets are the ultimate bottleneck in terms of what AI can actually do. Low quality data can be useful to a point, but once you have enough data all it's doing is teaching the model to produce low quality output.

The next wave of major progress in AI will come when we create image/text data sets that have been heavily annotated with aesthetic judgment metadata, and train models to make aesthetic judgments, then condition generative models on aesthetic judgment scores during training.
It absolutely makes sense to wear a helmet while cycling but it just shouldn’t be compulsory.
How cybercriminals have been affected by the war in Ukraine

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/11/30/...
I agree with everything you wrote, but I really dislike contributing to the negative spin on GMOs. GMOs are super important for our future and a really amazing technology, they really do not deserve the bad wrap they've gotten from science ignorants and marketing departments. Please don't disparage GMOs :)
Counting the cost of training large language models
I see your point. But also, reinventing the wheel is just fun. Building things out yourself, you eventually realize why certain design choices were made with the leading implementations as a consequence. I'm convinced the best way to understand something is to try and build one yourself. Even if it sucks.
Now do the tidal forces
and...it's mIRC. It hasn't had major changes in that decade. It still looks like it did in 1998.
Oh man, I totally forgot about the Star Wars plugin. What an awesome game EV was. I regret never paying for it.
We all have repositories with open issues. I'd suggest that you open up github, click the first issue you have open, and try to close it with ChatGPT assistance. For me, this revealed a gap between its spectacular skill at programming puzzles and its total incompetence at closing issues- it can do dynamic programming challenges instantly but can't modify (a function that loads a file from disk, or downloads that file if it isn't already present) to (the same function but it correctly handles a failed download)
This is such a hot take. Your assumptions aren't just wrong, they are unintelligent. You have zero evidence on which to base any one of 1,000 possibilities, but you go right to blaming middle-America "homeowners" and "churches." As if homeowners have an interest in destroying their supply lines of electricity, and churches preach "thou shalt not have transmission lines."
Over the summer I had this idea I wanted a full linux install on a USB stick I could move from machine to machine. Years ago I had splurged on a really nice Sandisk Extreme 64GB (200MB/s+) and so I installed to that.

After installing, on the first boot KDE immediately informed me my drive was moments from death. I really appreciated that, as I had no idea. I didn't know a thumb drive even had SMART capabilities. I had been using that drive in Windows for random things and it certainly never told me.

Checking SMART it said something to the tune of data loss expected within 24 hours. Yikes.
> Everyone knows that a lifetime license only lasts for a limited period

That period is my lifetime.
If you burned it, couldn't you still count it as a tax loss?
FWIW, the prodfiler.com agent has had no-symbol stack unwinding since summer 2021, and a minimum kernel version of 4.15 :-), and happens to have a lower footprint than the solution discussed here.
I disagree, so no, it's not. You shouldn't pretend that your own opinion is fact.
The meaning of "lifetime" is an agreed-upon term. If this developer decides that the word means something different, that's not what the buyer has agreed upon based on the wording of the license being sold.

If you don't actually want to support something until you die, then don't offer lifetime licenses. If you do offer that license, don't act surprised when your users interpret that with the common and dictionary definition of that word.
I thought James Long's 200 or three hundred lines of code to implement a real-world CRDT solution (Actual) was pretty cool. Seemed to solve a lot of issues revolving around heavy duty servers.
Probably just throwing food under the bridge but here we go.

Short hauls:

1) Are at slower speeds which for most EVs means greater efficiency.

2) Have more stop and go driving which is more efficient in EVs compared to ICEs. I don't have the papers handy but IIRC there can be more pollutants generated in the acceleration phase of a vehicle, another reason EV makes sense for short hauls.

3) Park at the same facility at night which can have charging setup. Long hauls, unless specific corporate routes, do not have charging infrastructure.
A few months back I ordered an Xbox Series X from Amazon but a large box arrived with nothing but some plastic picnic forks in it. Luckily I managed to get the driver to pose for a selfie with the box showing there was no Xbox. In this case I think they had sold out and decided to ship "something" instead of cancel the order as they didn't even ask for photo proof that the box was empty.
We provide a commercial and a popular open-hardware air quality monitor [1] that includes CO2 as well as PM 2.5, VOCs, NOx, humidity and temperature. I am talking everyday with people around the world about why they want to measure air quality and the parameters they are interested in.

On CO2, we observe mostly three different use cases:

CO2 as an approximator of Covid infection risks: With the possibility to use CO2 levels as an aproximator of aersols with potential virus load, CO2 became quite popular as a measure about how effective the ventilation works.

CO2 as an indicator of cognitive performance: There are a number of studies, e.g. [2] showing a clear link between high CO2 levels and impaired cognitive performance. I am seeing more and more people that especially want to measure CO2 levels in order to keep them low and have a better working environment.

CO2 as an indicator of ventilation rates: Without ventilation, indoor pollutants e.g. harmful gases from furniture, colors, building materials etc. will increase. Some of them can be measured as TVOCs but not all of them. Low CO2 values indicate a high rate of air exchanges and these typically flush out these indoor pollutants. Ideally the HVAC system uses HEPA and carbon filter for the fresh air intake to ensure that the air coming in is clean. In climate zones with a high differential between indoor and outdoor temperature, heat exchangers should then be used.

If you measure more than CO2, but also PM and Temperature and you have the ability to control your ventilation rates (either by manually opening windows or by a demand controlled HVAC system) you can see and optimize potential tradeoffs, e.g. cooling or heating energy is wasted by increasing fresh air ventilation rates or opening windows will bring down CO2 but increase PM if you live in a polluted area.

Regarding the OPs question on moving away from gas stores. Here the new TVOC sensor from Sensirion SGP41 [3], that can be uses in our open-source open-hardware air quality monitor [1], is able to measure NOx and can be a good indicator if your stove emits fumes into the living area.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/

[2] https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/27662232

[3] https://sensirion.com/products/catalog/SGP41/
That's true, people are often wrong about evaluating expertise. This is why I seek out people at respected institutions who have a track record of respect from peers.

No system is perfect, but I'm way more likely to hold correct opinions using this approach than most other approaches.
Finite Feeding Frenzy
If the article was "Mandatory Helmet Laws Make Cyclists Less Comfortable", you'd have a point there in that first part.
I only buy older cars, mostly for this reason. It's too bad that we have to choose between two evils on this, but we do. I choose to use older cars and drive less.
There is some serious reaching going on here, chicago has mandatory helmet laws, most people don't wear helmets anyways its one of those selective enforcement laws that will get you in trouble you're already doing something the cops care about. Our bike share program is fine and bike infra is increasing.
FWIW, the prodfiler.com agent does the same, and we have experimentally working ARM unwinding, including high-level language stuff (Python, Java) mixed with native, on ARM, too.
My teacher used Spivak in my high school calculus class. It went way over my head. But I re-read it every five years or so and pick up new things every time.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on ChatGPT’s abilities in your area of expertise?
Hey HN.

I have been using ChatGPT for 2-8 hours every day since the launch as a development tool. I’m interested in hearing what you think about it’s answers in your area of expertise?

For me, I found that it’s really good at generating new ideas, getting started on a project, common knowledge in a field, generating tutorials and other tasks early on in a development cycle.

I found that it is really bad at generating runnable code the more esoteric your coding task goes. I also found that many times the code or answers it generates sound plausible but when you run them they contain infinite loops or other major bugs. A lot of the time it will generate fake library names or algorithm names and fit them together in a way that looks good.

If you’re not already an expert in whatever you’re trying to do you can miss these things, for example I tried using Bazel for a multi language project without knowing Bazel and I only used ChatGPT with no docs for the project. I had a bug in my build that I spent 2-3 hours back and forth showing the logs and code to ChatGPT and it would always give me a plausible answer but the bug was still there. Finally I decided to read the Bazel docs and I was able to resolve it in 5-10 mins.

The overall take away for me so far is that this thing is going to vastly change how we work just like adding google search to your workflow did. However it also tells me that in the future expertise is what will be valued most, you can generate a million ideas but you need to be able to be able to tell which ones are good and bad ideas.
You're right, Google is a sane and healthy model of business to follow and surveillance capitalism, based explicitly on capturing data on users and selling it to third-parties for ads is something that benefits society as a whole. There are absolutely no models other than the one Google is running.
I agree, plus it seems to be data from a fixed point in time to it can't comment on anything up to date. So if a new theory came out tomorrow it wouldn't have any way to be updated to add that to it's knowledge.
I develop programs that take unsorted data as input, and sort them as part of the processing... I haven't touched a database in 10 years, because I do graphics programming, nothing that needs a database. Also, I don't actually use radix sort but a hand written CUDA counting sort that beats the crap out of radix sort for my given use cases, since counting sort is often used as part of radix sort, but simple counting sort is all I need.

> and use a real database.

I'm not going to use a database to store tens of billions of 3D vertices. And I'm not going to use a database to sort them, because it's multiple times, probably orders of magnitude faster to sort them yourself.

It's weird to impose completely out-of-place suggestions onto someone who does something completely different to what you're thinking of.
Not only that but one of those GDPR dialog boxes that forces you to untick thirty different "legitimate interest" buttons then click through to the vendor list and give up. I thought these vampires were bound by law to require one or two clicks to opt out?
Is the JVM running out of code/JIT cache space?

We had a similar problem recently in vanilla Java: monolith-like servers would seem to eventually "go bad" for no real discernable reason after hours/days of uptime. It turned out we needed to increase the amount of code-cache size the JVM was allowed to use.

Though supposedly the cache should have kept working (in the LRU-like way many caches operate), we observed that formerly-fine parts of the affected servers also seemed to be unreasonably slow, as if the whole code/JIT caching behavior had been disabled completely.
I don't think Ford has particularly struggled to stay profitable making the MachE and Lightning truck. Neither has Volvo (Tesla's biggest competition in the Semi market).
From dang, May 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199264
How do they know whether answers are ChatGPT generated?
Interesting, I wonder if people will modify how they write to avoid appearing as an AI.
that is not correct. i had a raspberry pi (4b, 8gb) delivered (for a friend) in india this january. although this information is quite old now, so might be outdated.
Aren't "Considered Harmful" statements themselves a causal explanation?
>Everyone knows that lifetime licenses aren't really lifetime.

Clearly "everyone" does not, which explains why you're being heavily downvoted elsewhere in this thread. Words have meaning, "lifetime" means "lifetime".
Imagine you're a function whose implementation body is written over time by you (the conscience). Your function is invoked once at your birth and seizes to execute when you die.

* You don't control what arguments are passed to your function

* But you do have complete control over the implementation

It's OK to verify your arguments, but then, once you realized you've been given less-than-ideal values, you don't have to continue processing them. Stop writing code that depends on these inputs and write your own implementation as if those arguments never existed. You're not the product of your input values, they're just there and it's your decision whether to use them or not.

Also, how are you dead weight if you're a millionaire? This would mean your parents are carrying you. Buy a house and GTFO then. Visit your parents once in a while. Call your mom.
The "failed" part of the experiment is that far fewer people ride bicycles in Australia today than did before helmet laws (edit, incorrect, it's per capita reduction, not absolute) in absolute numbers, not even per capita, adjusted for population growth.

The laws are successful in that they get people to wear helmets, but they are an abject failure in terms of participation in cycling.
Apparently we do have some kiddie porn fans on HN, who knew?

I did. Because I've been running discussion forums on and off for 40 years. If you let them, a tiny tiny number of foul people will take over your site by driving away all the normal people who don't want to be exposed to that garbage. Free speech absolutists have trouble understanding that such bad faith actors exist, and in sufficient quantity to crush what could otherwise by a robust, diverse discussion.
Right, but how do you know you're asking a seasoned CTO? We all deal with this in real life, when working with somebody new you might not fully trust that person until you've had an opportunity to gauge their skills.

Same deal here, this isn't a perfect system and it doesn't produce perfect output all of the time. So, work with the system and get a sense of how much you can trust it, just like you would with normal human interactions.

OpenAI is not positioning this as a CTO-level intelligence. If you came into it with that understanding, that isn't OpenAI's fault.
Easy is relative.
How is that true? Why should I not be able to use a piece of software for the rest of my life, even if the company dies?

Of course, only through rejecting DRM can you achieve this.
Have a couple seedboxes for myself and friends. Sometimes public torrents are used, some of which are monitored. Hetzner just sends a notice about the report and gives you 24 hours to reply without disabling the server. If you miss it then they null route the offending server. Never had any issues with them denying my responses, they're usually very quick to respond to clear the abuse report after submitting.

Seriously love Hetzner, amazing prices and really fast human support.
> this sort of stuff sucks the air out of actual interesting archaeology

Semi rhetorically: What makes fantasies, conspiracies, hoaxes, gossip so much more enticing than reality? What itch does having "sacred knowledge" scratch?

For me, reality is so much more interesting. Looking up at the Milky Way, I'm just gobsmacked. Microscopic images of cells, proteins, and frikkin atoms just breaks my brain. Whole universes left to discover and understand. Woot!

The truth is so much more compelling than fiction.
TURN OFF JAVASCRIPT

I'd say it louder if I could
These reactions are primarily a kneejerk because frankly, Western mentality is much too eager to present their methods as 'the cure', presenting women primarily as victims and men primarily as perpetrators, without ever introspecting on the damage they do with their supposed methods.

Your reaction is almost synonymous to this, mainly showing fear women have, statistics for women, etc. Regardless if perpetrators are primarily men, men tend to be victims far more often than women, and far more often than they are perpetrators. For almost every country. Yet the narrative never reveals this, and goes as far as to make it sound like men are predominantly perpetrators (which is a vastly different statement than 'perpetrators are predominantly men').

Even writers who recognize this will quickly dismiss any notion that the West is introducing other problems through the methods used. That statement of 'men need much more civilizing'? That happened, and now boys are walking around thinking they are the problem before they even had a chance to prove themselves while girls are told they can do everything, even get way with (sometimes literal) murder. Western media is arrogant enough to denounce counterculture to boot.

Whether that be better than what is the current state in LA is irrelevant to those preoccupied with looking at the West alone. Doubly so since the situation is LA is generally irrelevant to them and won't ever affect them directly.
Not very practical for daily commutes. If I would not feel safe biking, I would rather wear a helmet than a device like this.

Here in the Netherlands, biking (without support) at speeds around 15km/h if you are in good health and of sound mind, is not more dangerous than walking or traveling by some other means. Recently, the number of traffic causalities has gone up, that those are mostly related to the use of e-bikes by elderly people and younger people. I feel that if you need support for biking when you do not have the strength (due to old age), you probably are not fit for biking at all. Many young people using e-bikes remove the speed restriction allowing them to bike at speed up to 30 km/h. At those speeds, the chance of accidents go up very quickly.
> What I'd really like to see is cyclists giving themselves that much space.

If I had a penny for every time someone's squeezed through between my wing mirror and the kerb in start/stop traffic with just an inch or two to spare...

This really gets pulled out every single time someone points out the proper distance required for passing a cyclist and it’s wrong.

First, passing a cyclist with a car and passing a car with a cycle are asymmetric things. The cyclist needs space to actually go a straight line, the path of a bicycle is never straight - and it sways more at slower speeds.

The cyclist also needs space in both directions to make a turn, for example to avoid an obstacle. If you take that space to one side, they cannot even safely turn the other direction.

Cars have a significantly higher draft than cyclists. They’re bigger, heavier and scarier. If the cyclist twitches as you pass them, you were too close.

Cars just don’t fall over. Cyclists do. Slippery patch on the road, whatever. And when they fall, they need space.

The car driver passing the cyclist has no idea how skilled the cyclist is. And unskilled cyclists need more space to maneuver - or make mistakes when scared and fall. See above. The cyclist passing the car knows their skill. And even unskilled cars do not randomly fall over.

The danger is asymmetric. A car even slightly touching a cyclist is likely to end up with a major injury or death. A cyclist slightly touching a car is a dent and a scratch.

This is why in many places, there’s a mandatory minimum distance when for a car passing a cyclist, but none for cyclist passing a car.