skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They have excellent engineering when used for good, but as history taught us, that's not always the case.

For what's worth, the "German efficiency in WWII" is mostly a myth.
> CGP Grey

He produced a grand total of 3 explainer videos this year, and maybe 5 last year. He’s got an entire production team, and has a podcast on which he brags about his productivity system. Tom Scott makes 2+ videos per week, while Alec from Technology Connections has produced 17 videos this year, many of them long and deep dives.
> The problem isn't the concept, it's the backing. If the Fed were to announce an official USD stablecoin [...]

This sits right next to the sibling poster's comment:

> The US dollar is regulated and it’s use and transfer crates all kind of legal issues [...]

It looks like people who want stablecoins can't even agree on why they want them.
Android Resources to Level Up as a Developer
To be a great developer, you must keep up to date with the latest technologies and continuously learn new skills. In this article, you’ll explore seven materials to level up your Android skills.
> In his home country, you couldn't trust the banks, so people hid their money. Of course that kind of thinking is silly in Australia

If I had to choose between the two positions, one of implicit trust and another of implicit mistrust towards banks, I would consider the latter choice to be the saner and safer one.

The push for no cash is real, and it’s becoming more real with every constriction of cash transactions and with every CBDC trial.

As the BIS chairman said, the goal is total knowledge of every financial transaction. Fanfares about financial inclusiveness seem to me little more than marketing quips, the actual goal being zero financial privacy.

Now, one may wonder, why would a law-abiding citizen require any modicum of privacy - have they anything to hide? After all, “transparency” is a nice notion, right?

I think the answer is that privacy is a fundamental right, something that all the scaremongering about criminal enterprises is used to corrode.

Not to mention that “transparency for thee but not for me” isn’t real transparency.
Yes, it is a violation of privacy. Forcing KYC and ID verification is a violation of privacy. Putting trackers on my wallet is a violation of privacy. I love how Europeans are perfectly content making anti encryption arguments when it means they could get more money out of others. The fact that taxes have anything to do this this at all highlights a bigger issue with taxes. Instead of being a fee the government charges for services they offer, they've become some slice of someone else's wallet you vote to be entitled to. You people talk the loudest about paying the fair share and yet are the last to want to do so yourselves.
Steer clear of ‘mediocre writing’ by celebrities for Christmas, authors plead
Wouldn't it be more constructive to give arguments first for the opposite: Why should hacker news limit paywalled articles. Since you acknowledge you are already offtopic, you could add a little more than just ask a question that is a little too broad for an easy answer.
As an continental European, first time I heard about Netherlands as a "paragon of virtue". Is this some UK/US talking point?
> Singapore

Basically a dictatorship

> Denmark

Only if you are Danish.

> Norway

Yeah, Norway gets some things right.

> Switzerland

Slow transition away from tax haven.

> Finland

Can't complain too much.

> Netherlands

An actual narco state in the heart of Europe, just don't tell the Dutch, they get upset when you tell them this.
Yes. Most Nazis which held high-ranking posts before and during the war continued to do so in West Germany, under allied consent.
At least another pilot can try saving the plane even if a pilot attempted to crash it. In addition to flight 9525, I remember a Mayday documentary on EgyptAir Flight 990, where American and Egyptian investigators reached a very different conclusion.

American investigators said that it's more likely for the first officer to intentionally nosedive the plane while the pilot was away, and the pilot tries to recover from it, while Egyptian investigators said there's a problem with the elevator control.
I'd say the most important after the money laundry aspect is that people treat art as an investment.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/09/2...
Tax, if your country has capital gain tax you need to declare every single trade to real USD. When you are trading between crypto pairs you are not realizing any gain, thus you don't need to declare it. Until you eventually sell of course.
Don't you even dare try say Elster is "decent software" lmao.
Growing a blog is not an easy task, especially if you don't have an existing audience.

I'm blogging[1] actively for about an year, and my main channels of getting audience are HN and Reddit. I also believe in producing high quality content, so I get organic traffic from Google as well.

- Make sure to have your blog indexed by Google and Bing (use their search console to submit the blog for their crawlers to index). Make sure your blog is not punished (slow page loads, invalid HTML, missing meta attributes etc).

- Make sure to produce high quality content.

- Make sure to share you content through distribution channels like Twitter, HN, Reddit (where appropriate).

- Experiment with newsletter to collect subscribers to whom you can send your content.

I'm also experimenting with reposting my articles to Medium and dev.to, but I can't say whether is has a big impact as of right now. Obviously if you do repost, make sure to maintain correct canonical link back to your blog.

[1] https://www.yieldcode.blog/
Hashing Apples, Bananas and Cherries
Because it is the only evidence that is presented, and lay-people can easily come up with objections. These people then express their frustration or confusion why some of these objections seem completely unaddressed.

These people are effectively asking about these objections. Perhaps many of them are phrasing it differently. But, with exceptions, I think people tend not to be angry or vitriolic. At best they are frustrated. Just treat these remarks as questions.

It might be annoying to get the same questions repeatedly, but that is a fault of wider communication about dark-matter.
And get rid of the surface population of earth what we're at it so the flying robo-bombs don't fall on anyone.
Looking at those example makes me think that Jesus really loves cell phone towers.

The disguises are pretty cool, and a really good option. My objection is when people complain that they have poor coverage in the area where they live. They want the phone companies to fix it, but only on their terms. There have been examples where cell phones companies have offered to put up towers in areas where people complained, then the same people turn around and demand the most expensive solution. That sort of behavior takes a certain type of self-centered people to pull off.

Windmills are rather hard to disguise and if you think they're ugly then sure, it's going suck having them placed in view. I happen to think they look great, so I'm less affected. What I don't understand is the sense of entitlement. People will rather have everyone else pay more for power, or keep coal power plants running, than lose money of their holiday home. Seriously, we've seen windmill parks 15km out to sea blocked, because someone believe it would mean that their holiday home would, in theory, lose $20.000 in value (Out of $325.000).
ipv4 or ipv6 no one serious only has a single upstream
Yes, and even though a lot of tech companies killed the architect role, this is exactly the job function assigned to architects, or more specifically enterprise architects in a lot of more traditional companies.
Of course not.

For the same reason why companies pay $2000 per day for an experienced consultant when an employee could theoretically build the same stuff at minimum wage. Sometimes, mistakes are expensive. And then you need people who can reason about why they are doing what they are doing. AI can maybe churn out CRUD better than other generators, but when you have any significant amount of money depending on the software working, nobody is going to use ChatGPT without a human code review.

But ChatGPT code is typically overly lengthy and complicated, just like what a beginner would produce. And that makes for expensive and slow code reviews. That's why in the end it's cheaper overall to skip all that and just hire a professional.
There is also another interesting unwritten rule of the English language at play here. The rule goes like this:

In a series of words which differ only (or mostly) by the vowel used, the order should be e, i, a, o

- tic tac toe

- flim flam

- ding dong

- king kong

If you doubt it, try saying the opposite and hear how odd it sounds: The clock went 'Tock Tick'
Wikipedia is rarely a good introduction for laymen. It tends to be a great reference for people already in the field.
Can't Element (the company) fund audits?
First point, things should first be regulated by actual laws - not random complaints voiced after said action is taking place. If fracking is legal, it's legal. If it isn't then it isn't.

Second it's very simple. For any kind of property right people care about, allow it to be bought and sold. In most places, the property owner owns the air space up to a certain height. This should mean that "views" are irrelevant since they were never owned.

If a place is so wealthy that they are more concerned about aesthetics over functional improvements; energy from fracking, housing for workers, etc. then let them buy them but the rights to compensate everyone else.
EU strikes provisional deal to create a sustainable life cycle for batteries
"The provisional agreement reached between the Council and the Parliament will apply to all batteries including all waste portable batteries, electric vehicle batteries, industrial batteries, starting, lightning and ignition (SLI) batteries (used mostly for vehicles and machinery) and batteries for light means of transport (e.g. electric bikes, e-mopeds, e-scooters)."

"The agreement provides that portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user [...]

Light means of transport batteries will be replaceable by an independent professional."
My take is that it will decrease the "value" of developers by reducing the demand for them. If a company can be 10x more productive it will probably need less developers. if you can do your job 10x faster it will mean your team would less team members.

There's no shortage that is not followed by a glut..
Ok so this person is claiming the rights to all pictures with a similar pose and/or decoration?

Sounds unlikely that would merit copyright protection.

Edit: but that being said, the painted portrait is pretty much an exact (mirrored) copy. That definitely does not seem correct to me.
Crossrail/Elizabeth Line was completed this year, with roughly a 3 year delay.

Heathrow expansion has considerable opposition, the flight path overflies millions of people.

High Speed 2 is under construction.

An additional nuclear power plant was approved last week.

Britain's problems for major infrastructure are the North/South divide and a general opposition to government investment, not environmentalism.
We need them to starve just a little bit and the world will start becoming a much better place. Most of our (EU's) problems are literally caused by Germany's double standards over the past 20 years.
This really doesn't seem like material for hackernews.

From the posting guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "
Yes exactly. We've all experienced reading an account on our particular domain of expertise by a journalist and realising they have absolutely no clue what they're talking about. I find it amazing how presumably otherwise intelligent people reading Hacker News don't see the issue with offering lay opinions on Cosmology of all topics.
> No crackpot ever revolutionizes condensed matter physics or statistical mechanics

Well, the memory of water still has a lot of support, as the scientific explanation for homeopathy. Lots and lots of crackpots here.

I would not call this crackpot, but it took an awful amount of time for some to let go cold fusion.

As for statistics - my personal hell is when I have to read some biology or biology-like document and there are numbers that are tortured to make them sing the way they are expected to. I do not even talk about economy, psychology, sociology and other similar ologies.
If anything, there have to be people in the loop to check balances (write good prompts to generate code and fix them) and take responsibilities for downtime.
I mean, no? There is absolutely no indication that that particular slippery slope is being slid down. Can you even point to anyone advocating for infinite copyright on all works on the basis of the Great Ormond Street example?
It seems Jeff Dieschburg copied others too: https://twitter.com/bekka/status/1532097291330281472
According to this link that was posted on hn a couple days ago it currently costs around 10 million dollars to train something like GPT-3.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/12/01/counting-the-cost-of...
You're forgeting, or perhaps unaware, of the many years of remote UAV operation and autopiloting.

Modern aircraft are capable of autonomous flight and large armed drones are able to fly with light supervision switching to tight control as required already (and for some time).

Emergencies such as three way redundant altitude control failing, bird strikes, engine failure, et al are best handled by humans at the controls, sure.

None the less it's both possible and desirable for emergencies such as the humans at the helm having heart attacks or food poisoning to dealt with by remote supervision.

Again, that desirability must be balanced against other security factors.
There was a post on Twitter comparing this question to the effects of calculators on mathematicians, which makes some sense.
I think, strongly typed is okay. Same goes for statically typed.

Just nominally typed isn't my thing.
I'm always interested by the relationship between science fiction ideas, how the idea changes as it becomes near-term... and how the idea manifests in real life.

AIs wired into brains is a complex endpoint. It's a plausible nexus of technologies or culture, a fit premise for a plausible fiction. Fold space, spice monopoly and galactic aristocracy. As sf approaches near term, the nexus tends to simplicity. Once we get to imminent, the nexus can get downright subtle. At this point, the agents of technological change might be a catalyst or process... not necessarily a breakthrough. The breakthroughs may have already happened. It's just a little hard to know, until after the affect.

The point we're at now, plausibly, has us on the precipice of "AI avatars having a discussion for us." That path from here to there, is relatively banal. Autocomplete, autoreply. It could happen with or without moments of decision "I hereby decide to devolve such-and-such powers to my ai avatar because Y." Consequences can be profound, but decision making rarely is. The banality of will.

FWIW, I can really see this happening quick and hard. In fact, now is the first time I've had non-abstract or distant concerns about ai. The proliferation of a gpt enhanced software keyboard has some unpredictable potentialities.
We are talking here about using wrong grammatical gender throughout your speech. That is a bunch of very noticeable mistakes that affect multiple words in the sentence. Just because English does not have grammatical gender does not mean it does not matter in German.

The difference between "der and dem" is NOT gender mistake. And it is also less noticeable as treating the masculine word famine, due to the way it affects other words.
There are many contradicting examples:

The original JPEG standard is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 10918) with payed access.

MP3 is also an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 13818-3). Perhaps not as relevant today but was once used by basically everyone.

Access to the standard is only relevant to the implementer.
It's of no consequence to users of a piece of software.
In the short term AI assisted writing makes people sound smarter than they are (as a tool), which will require a dependency on it to keep up appearances.

In the long term (as a convenience) it excludes those who cannot afford the price that will be put on using this service, from accessing essential societal services and exercising their rights. Its necessity takes away control from the individual. So it’s in opposition to an equal society.
If anything, the correlation between low birth rates and Individalism (at least the way academics use it) goes the other way. Asian countries have some of the lowest birth rates of the developed world and are culturally the least individualistic. The United States is the most individualistic country in the world, and maintains one of the highest birthrate in the developing world.
Not everything of value is available for free.

Obviously few people subscribe to several newspapers, but I expect HN users subscribe to one or two.
I wonder who might be able to make use of this.

Here is the license, from their LICENSE file on Github:

>Copyright (c) 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All Rights reserved

>The Universal Permissive License (UPL), Version 1.0
> There’s an incredible amount of corruption among German politicians, especially among the “richer” parties CDU/CSU and FDP

You conveniently omitted SPD, who overall was involved in some of the biggest scandals in history of BRD. Including the current Chancellor.
It's excellent for menial programming tasks like fill up database with dummy data or generating boilerplate code.
Move to Guatemala where the average female height is 4'11. This is the average, so there are shorter women than that.
Except the government fighting a war is getting taxes from those people that just want to engage in the economy to fund its war effort. Sanctions are not perfect but they're a better tool than a shooting war.
Could this be used to predict outcomes of a single match in Fantasy Football?
Do you actively write and research new exploits?
It's definitely a step up from GPT-3, but I'm curious how much further it has to go before it's actually scary. Right now, I feel like there's still quite a bit of progress to be made.
Same here. I went through two Brother laser printers (wireless, scanner), the previous one having had an unfortunate mechanical accident (ach, children...).

It works great. The only negative comment is that it starts to cry for a new cartridge some 6 months early, but I just go on printing and there are no problems (they even have a setting with what to do when "ink is low": stop and cry or go on)
The "bug" is from assuming you are parsing a valid packet. The option length field is the length of the option legnth and option data combined. The minimum value it can have is 1 which is when the length of the option data is 0.

cp[IPOPT_OLEN] refers to the option length. Your delta variable is the length of the option data. The confusing part is that in most network protocols length fields do not count the size of the length number.
So you mean buying gold and using gold? That has nothing to do with the 'loophole' previously described.
>First the design of the software used in commercial airplanes is bat shit insane

At least in that case. But it isn't normal that you blindly trust a sensor, not even Level D (failure is unimportant and easy to deal with) Software would/should do that. It actually takes a significant effort to put Software into a plane, which only increases with safety requirements.

The chain of failure which needed to happen in this case is enormous. Dozens of people need to have looked at the documentation and nobody cared/figured out this blatant security issue. How can a company like Boeing even operate like that?
They didn't.

Remember the decades of corruption they found in Greece?

Companies like Siemens were the ones who bribed greece politicians.
I did not mean stellar black holes.
Men have a very limited wardrobe range, and most of them does not care about it. You have to look a the woman clothes.
And to go the constructive path:

J A Poritz: Lies, damned lies, or statistics

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/670
At the end of the thread there are translations from the ruling. The Luxembourg court didn't rule "this is different enough not to infringe", they ruled "the photo doesn't have enough originality to be covered by copyright" and so even an exact copy would be legal.
You will mess it up even if coming from other gendered language, because the genders will he different.

But it is one of things you do end up memorizing the same way you memorize the word itself or its conjugations. It just does not make sense to go "I don't care about this stuff and won't learn it" and then demand language app will accommodate your refusal to learn gender.
You’re not adressing how a comany would be 10x productive. You are just making things up.
Blood/bone marrow is relatively easy as you have a very clear delivery vehicle for your modified genes. Actually getting to the colon cells or retina is a lot harder, can’t just inject it into the blood and expect it to end up in the right place.
No, but tech consolidation probably will. Tech is following in the same footsteps as the American car industry in the 50s.

Just as vertical integration in the auto industry killed off the auto startup ecosystem, vertical integration in the tech industry will kill off tech startups. This isnt because there won't be demand for innovative new tech or that startups won't be able to innovate, but because control of core platforms will allow the bigger players more leeway to crush and swallow smaller companies as well as to siphon their profit margins.

Think what aws is doing to elastic on a large scale.

Once the tech startup ecosystem dies (which could be soon; high interest rates will suck capital away from startups), the behemoths will probably stop innovating and slash headcounts.

Once that happens, I'm pretty sure that the stewards of capital and captains of industry will scapegoat AI and the Economist and Time magazine and the like will dutifully believe them and so will most of the people who read them.
I claim even driving a car is unethical. Russia earns more money from energy imports now than before the war. Price is a function of supply and demand. Supply is difficult to change and certainly not in an ethical way. So everone maintaining demand supports the war, whether they want or not.

An action does not get ethical because others are worse. It's good for your conscience noting others are worse, I don't deny that.

(And I did not say that I don't do the same. I recently had to take a plane. It was unethical to make Russia's war budget grow a tiny bit by doing so, but I thought staying at home would have had other morally unpleasant consequences.)
> Grid assets are measured by power

That seems of limited use without knowing for how long the power can be supplied. 1GW for 1 second is pretty useless. 1GW for a minute not much better.
Most people would say that 1GW lasting a day is more storage capacity than 10GW lasting only an hour.

Wouldn't batteries optimized for power take the form of supercapacitors [1] instead?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor#Comparison_with...
The reason cell broadcast hadn‘t been used in Germany was a desire not to “burden” the telco providers with the implementation. I’m sure they lobbied against it.

Germany went so far as to request a change in EU legislation that required cell broadcast to be used.

After the last warning test day was disastrous, it was decided to implement it after all.
Its a matter of preference. I prefer to go to previous presentaton page.

You should learn to use browser - there is right click on back button