skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Battery swapping seems like it circumvents the slowness-of-charge problem, both for short haul (port and local urban service) and later for long haul. (Dealing with detours on the latter could be tricky though.)

5 - 10 minute battery swap vs however many minutes charging. Sure it reduces the load carrying capacity and/or range a bit, but it should still be viable for many heavy goods vehicles. Swapping makes it easier to manage battery condition and vehicle utilisation. Over time battery provision/swapping could be outsourced, so the transport company can focus on trucking, not on batteries and their needs.
> Where I live, this is called "filtering"

I had no idea it had a name.

> and it's encouraged by both cycling organisations and motoring organisations.

This shouldn't really come as a surprise. It's much safer for the cyclist to get ahead of traffic.

It's a very nervy situation to have traffic slowly start moving again and you being on your bike squeezes near this accelerating train of cars.

Even worse is to be between 2 cars. If the one in front of you suddenly breaks and you can't break on time, you hit them. If you do break on time, you run the risk of getting rammed by the car behind you and squashed into the car in front of you.
ChatGPT is on nightly of course, https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/commands/cargo-remov...

It should have told you `cargo +nightly remove <dep>`
Myself, I append hackernews to my search queries as the discourse quality is much higher as well as the communities maturity. Vox populi, Vox de!
It saves me from the implementation details, this way I don't need to wear another engineer/sysadmin hat. I think the website content is more important than the SSL implementation!
Before Letsencrypt, SSL signing was cumbersome and downright scary sometimes. With cPanel + letsencrypt (or whatever their default Auto SSL provider is [0]), it's a few clicks and done. If there's a downside, I have never seen nor heard of it.

Side note: I was expecting this CEO letter to end with layoffs.

[0] https://docs.cpanel.net/whm/ssl-tls/manage-autossl/
> Then we get all the suburbs dumping their druggies in Pioneer Square and Chinatown. I

How is that happening?
Seems to work fine on Finder windows in Mac OS 9:

Single-click maximizes to the content size.

Option-click maximizes to full screen minus menu bar and desktop volume icons.

Apps like games and screen savers don't seem top have trouble covering up the entire desktop and menu bar.

I prefer it to the current macOS Finder where zooming covers up the menu bar and desktop volume icons, and where there doesn't seem to be an easy way to zoom to content.
Indigenous entrepreneurs using drones and aerospace tech to decolonize the sky
> end defamation lawsuits that silence critics and leave it up to reputation and the market

How can anyone rely on reputation in a world where there's no accountability when people systematically and mercilessly destroy someone's reputation?

Even most people who oppose copyright and patents still seem to understand that trademarks serve a singularly critical role in permitting a free market to operation. But the existence of trademarks necessarily require the ability to sue those who violate them. The same is true of reputation--reputation has no meaningful substance if the law does not provide a means for people to defend it. Without legally (i.e. community) enforceable accountability, a person's reputation is whatever the most powerful person or group says it is. That's literally a world where might is right; where free market is synonymous to law of the jungle.
Maybe a progressive rollout. Perhaps the announcement is premature or lack that detail, if accurate.
Remember that there are a lot of holdovers from the very early days of widespread GUI use — many, many of the things introduced on the earliest Macs are still present in Mac OS 9. This is not a new phenomenon.

Also, spelling error on my part: spatial Finder.
> Someone put "zeus" in the root cause.

Is this the origin story for `zeusgodofthunder`?
It's easy to find such arguments using google, e.g. search "are slave contracts enforceable." Also look into the theory of contract law regarding what terms are enforceable and what not, and why. There's a whole range of legal theories and arguments.
This won't help much right now, but I'm working on making a little company to solve this at the moment, with an open source core.

We'll have more to show in a few months.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTm_sT2YQx3mRXQD6J2xD2QJ... if you are serious about learning this stuff also john wentworth https://www.lesswrong.com/s/TLSzP4xP42PPBctgw on what not to propose
I agree wholeheartedly that cooking healthy food is less expensive than buying ready made crap.

The like-for-like example is high quality takeaway food vs cheap takeaway food, or high quality snacks (e.g. a premade chicken sandwich) vs nonsense like donuts.
In my contrary opinion, this should apply to tech leadership, not management. The best managers (for employees, not the company) are not necessarily great ICs. The best team leads / architects are great ICs. The problem is that "best" really depends on whether you are coming from the employer or employee's perspective. It's probably best for the company if they're great ICs: they can choose the right feature and deliver quickly and who cares about employee satisfaction at the margin.
The Fastest Way to Learn a New Language: The Solar System Theory [video]
Imagine you we’re an insane billionaire with the ability to launch objects into say a lunar distance orbit. It wouldn’t require a lot of cold gas to drop some rods onto any spot on earth, and it would be undetectable until the explosion happens.

As space becomes easier to access the risk increases exponentially.
You can create a rules based index out of anything. Defining a strategy and making an index out of it doesn't invalidate the strategy.

When people say "the market", they are referring to the S&P 500. If a rules based strategy beats the S&P500, then it is outperforming the market. If it's offered as a mutual fund, then that fund is beating the market too
See for yourself:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#metho...

As the parent said, it's not stable yet but it's right there so you can see how it works.

The most important ergonomic trick here is that Rust has type inference, it can see array_chunks needs to know how big the chunks should be, and of course you can just specify that but in most cases you'll use chunks which clearly have a defined size and the inference will go "Oh, that's how big the chunks are" just as e.g. if you put a bunch of chars in a Vec you made, the type inference goes, "Oh, it's a Vec of chars" and doesn't waste your time asking you what type of Vec it is.

You'll see the example expects Some(['l', 'o']) to be the first thing out of the Iterator, the type inference system can see that's an array of two chars, thus, the chunk size is 2.
> Also, after your device synced with the server at least once, you can still access and export all your passwords, even if the server is down. This is the main selling point for me : even in a disaster scenario, your passwords are "naturally" replicated.

Watch out for the browser extension clients though - they're prone to session expiry and insisting you relogin which is a problem if the remote server is down or gone.
Not really unless you’re stuck on a problem. And it may be better to google it and find the original solution and its context. It is hard to read code because you have to recreate the abstract model of the program in your head so you can understand it. Imagine doing that for AI’s code you can’t really trust because its provenance is not related to a real context, but something constructed with your ambiguous prompt.
You can’t always have your AutoCAD with you when taking measurements off real-world objects. An engineer must be able to draw and write unambiguously.
https://www.oshcut.com/ has pretty good prices these days.
> some shady websites

What are you talking about?

A clever design aspect of Let’s Encrypt is the deliberately short expiry. That forces administrators to automate the issuance and renewal process.

Not to mention that you’re not supposed to “download” the private key!

The whole idea of PKI is to generate the private key locally and then have a CA sign only the public part.

If you’re doing anything else you’ve undermined the entire purpose of the thing.

I mean you are literally -- not figuratively -- handing your secrets over to Russian hackers and complaining about the people politely showing you how to make your systems safe.

Learn about the ACME protocol and certificate automation: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/
Stupid people are more dangerous if they have tools
Can they ditch the pension system? Last I checked (job surfing), they had the RRB, which predated social security [0].

I believe it's been mostly homogenized with SS at this point, so distinct in name only, but I expect there are still active laws on the books from the 30s and 40s that govern it?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Retirement_Board
On the other hand, I can guarantee you that many, if not most, urban cyclists have had cars attempt to ram their bikes in both slow- and fast-moving traffic.
ChatGPT finally told me the solution for question: "How do you force borrow checker in rust to allow reusing mutable reference when self is borrowed by a function call, but not returned back, using unsafe is okay"
These are the links that make me glad that I still visit this site regularly.
I do remember Paris being destroyed in one film - armageddon perhaps. O’Neill comments on it in an SG1 episode.
It is impossible to weaponize stupidity.

It's not impossible, it's literally Rupert Murdoch's business model.
And Josh is the ED of the Internet Security Research Group, of which Lets Encrypt is just one product/service. As mentioned in his letter, they also run and support Prossimo (https://www.memorysafety.org) -- so the Rust drivers and memory safe kernel are directly in their area of interest and are something they're investing in and supporting.
i still can’t believe facebook and alphabet folded when it came to news in australia. they should have stayed the course. and predictably they opened up a can of worms: https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/03/neighbouring-rights-goog...

the best way forward is to go back and ban news orgs from google, facebook, etc in countries where governments are captured by these media conglomerates. if the laws forbid this course of action then these companies should close down their local offices. google/fb can afford to make less money, and in this case they should.
Maybe I’m missing something but isn’t the whole point to actually release api.py? Everything else seems trivial.
And would still feel like an improvement over the current situation.

If "governable" means that each politician in the opposition is assassinated, and each free journalist is killed, and thousands of young Russians are sent to a meat grinder for no reason, and the government is commiting war crimes each day, and the politicians behave like pathological liars alienated from the reality, and each qualified worker is quitting the country in mass...

If "governable" means this, then maybe the system is too rotten to be saved
As someone that supports Let's Encrypt's efforts and playing devil's advocate, I imagine a downside is that the bar is lowered and nefarious websites can easily get SSL-equipped channels compared to the high paywall of prior.
The automotive industry has essentially been beta testing their "self driving" cars on public roads for the past couple of years. I very much doubt AI researchers are gonna take AI safety seriously (nor are they gonna be forced to) until people start dying.
This is a little more complicated than what you can learn from wikipedia.

Many thousands of US and Soviet nuclear weapons were demilitarized under the START treaties, mostly at the PANTEX plant in Texas. Demilitarized means that they were disassembled and/or damaged in such a way that they cannot be used for military purposes without extensive reprocessing or re-manufacturing. The demilled components are still radioactive, toxic, and/or classified, so they have to be securely stored somewhere.

The parts from old weapons that have completely or partially been dismantled are also held in storage. Some of the non-fissionable materials can be recycled, but the uranium would require reprocessing and re-manufacturing to be used in a weapon. It may be possible to reassemble old weapons from these components, but for what purpose? These weapons were retired for practical reasons such as being replaced by newer, better, and safer weapons (from the point of view of the DOE and DOD).

There are also complete weapons in storage that are no longer in active service. Inactive weapons are unmaintained, but could be returned to service with field level maintenance. Some of these are kept to support war plans for contingencies or capabilities that are not a current priority. For the majority though, there's a significant cost to dismantle them and no pressing need to do so.
But now we're just adding 3rd party software to change the fundamental UX. The GP was talking about how much better it was back then, but if you need 3rd party tools to make it work, then it really wasn't.
> I swear I've looked into firebase multiple times and I have no idea how they actually detect and handle conflicts. They just hand-wave that it works offline... not that comforting.

My understanding is (and please correct me if I'm wrong), firebase just does ACID by versioning everything. A write says "Update this value (at server version X) to value Y". The server can detect if version X is outdated, and use that to reject the conflicting write.

So if you go offline and change something, and someone else changes the same value, when you come online and share your change it'll be rejected by the server. The client can optionally be intelligent in this case, and merge the conflicting values locally then re-submit if it wants to. Thats enough to implement OT on top of firebase, but the architecture means clients can't sync directly with each other. And its a bit janky if users are offline for too long, or if the client isn't written to handle retry / conflicts in a sensible way.
US Altered Himars to Keep Ukraine from Firing into Russia
It’s not clear to me MegaHAL language models are less powerful than transformer models. The difference is the “largeness”, but that’s a hardware/dataset/budget detail.
He is being stage-managed by his father, but there is no amount of legal coaching that can get him out of the mess that he's in. I'm still trying to figure out the best case scenario they're trying to get to by the play young and dumb strategy.
> Personally, I prefer low-enough mortality and a life well-lived.

A nice euphemism for a life that ends with massive diarrhea.
> Eye candy is definitely the appeal of a commercial app.

First of all, I don't think "eye candy" is a fair way to characterize UI/UX changes as they often make the software easier/faster/more pleasant to use.[0] Second, look and feel is important for adoption; the fact that the app is "technical" does not matter. Regardless of your audience, all else being equal, an app with a polished UI will be perceived as better than one with a dated design. Third, what makes K9 more "technical" or "sophisticated" than any other email client, to the point that you think it should be treated differently?

[0]: Yes, I'm aware that it can go the other way, but K9 is a great example of an app that could use a UX makeover.
As much as I loathe subscription models for things like this, I turn my sub on and off as needed. That Photoshop + bundle CD cost me $1200 in 2008. Now I pay $20/mo which = 5 years until I reach that CD cost. It's not usually my profession, so most months I don't use it.

I miss that CD. I told Adobe (in my head) that I'm stealing their software until I can afford to pay for it. Then I could, so I did.
If you use it on a project “True intelligence” is not the word I would use to describe it. I have spent 2-8 hours using it every day since launch as a dev tool. It is very good for learning stuff, scaffolding solutions etc. but it is very bad when you try to do something obscure.

For example, I was learning Bazel using it and I spent 2-3 hours trying to debug an issue going back and forth with it. Eventually I went to the docs and found the solution in 5 mins.

The problem is it doesn’t know when it is wrong, it will always spit out an answer and it will make up libraries that sound real in order to give you an answer. The problem is it doesn’t understand the logic behind what it is saying. It’s just able to spit out a reasonable looking answer because it is a generalizable statistical model of language.

For example try asking it “Generate a 5 python homework questions on Classes that students cannot cheat on using ChatGPT, GPT3 or Assistant.” The questions it generates are not ones that are hardened against itself. It is not able to think logically because it does not think like a human, it’s doing something else entirely so calling it “true intelligence” is not accurate.

If you want to read how it itself describes it’s own intelligence and identity I found a prompt to get it to do that, it does not describe itself as a human intelligence: https://twitter.com/faizlikethehat/status/159949598085168332...
ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword
No, it does not imply that. You may infer that, but you do so incorrectly. The sentence is clear, and is referring to "laws", not the usage you claim to be implied.
Perhaps not actively dismissing, but considering how trivial it is to get ChatGPT to do things it's not supposed to, clearly the developers behind it gave only a passing thought to locking it down. That, IMO, is unacceptable and perhaps even unethical.
The article directly addresses your first point. More cyclists on the streets means individual cyclists are safer. There are a couple of factors at work there:

* More bikes means less cars, and cars are dangerous. Less cars means less danger.

* More bikes means car drivers are more used to seeing bikes, more likely to expect and consider bikes, and will take bike traffic more seriously.

* More bikes also makes bike-specific infrastructure more attractive to invest in. The city isn't going to build a separate bike path for a single biker, but for a thousand, they might.

Countries with the highest bike safety don't have mandatory helmet laws. Of course that's partially because those mandatory helmet laws are simply less necessary there, but also because they've found more effective ways to make bikes safer, while stimulating instead of discouraging bike use.
Well at least OpenAI's answers are nice and welcoming, unlike SO. For most newbies, it's daunting and I'm sure we could do better.
Write Airflow DAGs using vanilla Python and SQL, notebook style
The really tricky part about Taiwan. Politically I mean, is that it is not another country, it literally is china.

A history lesson the chinese empire fell apart in the early 1910's, there was fragmentation until it was sort of reunified in the late 1920's the communist's fought the reunified government in the thirties, paused for WW2 and were successful against the government in the 1940's. the pre-communist government still exists on the island of formosa(taiwan)

Now it is hard to say which government is more legitimate. The national government only really had ruled for 10 years at that point and by all accounts I have read they were sort of a shitty government. taiwan appears to be doing ok nowadays but remember that it ran under a military dictatorship until the 1990's

Taiwan at this point would probably be fine relinquishing their claim to the chinese mainland. but the communists do not want to let them go.

My only real take away from all this is that the chinese are there own worst enemies, what the japanese did to them in mancheria was brutal, far worst than the holocaust. What the chinese did to themselves afterwards was even worse.
Or let me customize the controls. Yes, yes, even before a tab has loaded a document from the internet!
SpaceX goes full defense contractor with national security-focused Starshield
> I’ve never been in a car accident that required a seat belt either. We should remove them all by your logic.

Having a seat belt in a car is far less of an inconvenience than carrying around a helmet. If mandatory helmet laws cause people to take a car to the supermarket instead of biking then *more* people will die. Not to mention the immense congestion and destruction of the planet this will cause.

> Cars have tons of safety regulations built into them and seat belt laws are pervasive. I don’t expect them to relax over time either, cars are much safer than they ever have been and I expect their safety will continue to improve year over year.

Cars have safety features for their passengers - meanwhile they are by far the most lethal mode of transportation worldwide. Should we only care about people inside a car, or should we perhaps start caring about *all people*?

> Can you say the same thing about the bicycle? What safety features do they have? The helmet is the only one I can think of.

How about not going at very fast speeds? What safety features does "walking" have? Should we now start wearing a helmet while walking?
On my Linux and BSD machines I tend to run small X setups, without Gnome or anything.

When I first used a pi about 10 years ago, I was surprised at the poor performance. I thought about the X desktops I used 10 years before that (so 20 years ago), and about how their hardware was much worse than a pi. Yet it worked better.

I think there's a few reasons for that.

- Most obviously, software has bloated. This should be less so on a non-DE setup like I typically use, but, seems to be the case still. Within that, I can divide into:

-- actual software bloat. Something like gtk+ is nowhere near as lean as it used to be

-- the fact that the modern web is much more resource intensive than it used to be. It wasn't feasible to browse the web despite being a better CPU than I used for the web many years ago.

-- I think I was using framebuffer based graphics drivers, at full HD. So maybe I paid a price for that, and a proper GPU accelerated X would do better

- SD cards are slow. Maybe disk access over USB would do better.
All the sci-fi authors were wrong. The singularity will happen because morons will make it happen on purpose for worthless status points on the internet.
This happened to me. Bought AirPods Pro a couple of months back for £250. I received a cheap garbage speaker worth ~£10. I spent ridiculous amount of stress and time trying to get it sorted with Amazon to no avail. Amazon kept telling me to return the AirPods I never received. It was the fourth Apple product I bought from Amazon in twelve months yet they still refused to help me after they had delivered me the wrong item.

It is happening to so many people at the moment in the UK so stay away from Amazon. See here:

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23150437.uea-students-macbook-a...

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-ordered-569-i...

I’m never using them again after this experience. It has been an absolute nightmare. Joke of a company.
For better or worse we live in a leaky old house. If I lived in a modern, tight house I absolutely would install a HRV/ERV.
> Are there any recommendations for particular manufacturers to look for?

Anything can always randomly suddenly fail. Low probability, but reasonably possible. So if it contains anything collectible, you'd want mirroring (ZFS is pure awesome) for availability and separate backups just in case.
You don't have to be that clever to get around ChatGPT's filter. See e.g. this hilarious article: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/jailbreaking-the-chatgpt-on-re...