skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It needs to produce about 100X more energy if it wants to produce grid power. It didn't achieve net break even compared to the amount of energy that went into the NIF equipment to produce the shot. Not even close.
> I swear I read the same article about my generation when I entered the workforce

me too.

But when I got in the tik tok of the time was called IRC and really cool people used Bitchx and double booted Linux and BeOS
> I was unable to find where this was answered in the article.

For example here it makes an explicit point:

"The UK’s main adversaries today — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — are repressive societies with few women in positions of power. For the female spy, this weakness in the enemy is exploitable. Precisely because they are so likely to be overlooked, women have the potential to be the best spies of all."

> pretending that women where not allowed to be spies is a disservice to women.

Where does it say they were not allowed? Mata Hari is explicitly discussed in the article. A lot of examples in MI6 itself are made, but the article talks at length about how their careers were more difficult.

> It also reads like the author relied mostly on novels, movies, and such instead on a the interview.

I think the article is amazing. It literally interviewed three of the top british spies. How can you say that? And the last paragraph is all about all the things that the author could not cover.
> Lol. It's supposed that one of them (i.e the mother) should behave like and adult and own it. Of course nobody forced her to choose serving her country but I believe in this case she failed both her duty to family & country.

> It's just proof that not all the people are up for this job.

It's understood that family members will know to some extent. If nothing else, this is so that they know to be wary of security threats many people would otherwise ignore. She's almost certainly not sharing details of operations, she's instead sharing with her daughters why things are the way they are in their household.

I've said in other comments, this is another world and the concerns here are different. It's not like it is in the movies.

Again, that family members will know to some extent is understood, which is why she felt comfortable admitting it in the interview, otherwise she would have lost her job and the article would have been kiboshed by the security services.
You can already do that. Some libraries wilfully restrict their MSRV for backwards compatibility or distro compatibility (e.g. Debian stable provides 1.48).
Ancient Mexico Basin inhabitants kept an accurate agricultural calendars
Testing: How to actually write tests?
Write tests in Laravel using PHPUnit and the Given-When-Then pattern. I also explain how to use the “Red-Green-Refactor” approach with TDD.
ChatGPT and the Imagenet Moment
I mean, he's openly been saying the level of death threats he's been receiving is exceedingly high. Seems like it could just be for security.
Notably, as best as I can tell none of the other automated aircraft tracking bot accounts have been suspended. Just this one.
All the people saying that they were leaving are the worst behaved on twitter who everybody wants to leave. Reply guys all, the ur-leaver is somebody who nobody ever heard of until they replied "how dare you, sir" about 1,200 times under Trump tweets, and who now spends all their time reminding Briahna Joy Gray that she's a bitch and a Russian traitor.

They're pretending that their leaving is a threat, when it's really the targeting of advertisers and the direct threats of investigation and regulatory retribution from the administration that's the threat to Twitter.
Exactly. Pre-Elon Twitter was all about the need to censor information because of a supposed risk of danger. As the twitter files indicate, often this risk was not readily apparent. Accounts that track high profile people's travel plans is such an evident risk. If are not willing to apply your rule equally to everyone, you really are not in a position to be making these decisions.
Recently had a nightmare interaction with T-Mobile and they actually wouldn’t take any form of alternate identification if I didn’t have my pin - sounds good but no, wild inconsistencies in policies cause the reps to not know what to do like the author found: only locking ports and not locking the sim.

And in my cause I had no pin on THAT account because it was set up the day before and the store reps did not set up a pin when I was in. And I had another linked account but despite being a linked account under my name just like the new account, the linked accounts pin was not acceptable for id. Neither could they send the linked account an otp and the new account wasn’t functional.

The whole reason I got into that Byzantine mess, was trying to set up a cellular watch when my phone is on a prepaid plan because I save $35/month but have all needed features. All major carriers arbitrarily restrict watches to post paid account, and despite what the original rep said, cannot be on a standalone post paid account.
isn’t this basically like doxxing? aren’t the people criticizing this move the ones who would be in hysterics if someone did this to a journalist or politician they like? especially if it was a woman of color or whatever preferred group
A rust implementation for people who don’t like rust seems like a strange take.
>after releasing damning evidence of corruption and collusion in the highest echelons of government and industry

When did he do this? He released cherry picked anecdata that supports his priors, proving literally nothint.
Thanks! I will give your approach a try : - )

Regarding your question, based on what I found on Google, at least Microsoft and NVIDIA seem to have AI red teams.
> abysmal failure

In what way?
While I agree that the Alexa devices would cost more if they were a normal product, $115 is too high. The Apple HomePod Mini sells for $99 and Apple is known to maintain a higher margin (average 35%) on their products than most other manufacturers. Assuming a similar cost for the Alexa (likely cheaper as the HomePod is a better speaker) and a lower margin puts the most likely retail price for an Alexa at around $70-75.
Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports
> then market will decide what to do with them.

Which market? There are no browser engines beyond Chrome, a very distant Safari, and a near-irrelevant Firefox

> for a phone that has the limitations of a feature phone from 20 years ago

Tell me you never used a feature phone from 20 years ago without telling me this.
You think we should enshrine property (e.g., aircraft) with a right to privacy?
It's lead news everywhere.

The question for me is why is it news at all?

It's not really relevant to anyone and is really a technical milestone more than anything meaningful.

Tin foil hat time. We're back in the cold war and every potential sign of being ahead of Russia will be lead news.
I saw somebody call Musk "Phony Stark", and that seems to me a pithy summary of the cognitive biases going on here. This place is a magnet for would-be world-changing tech geniuses. Musk's level of technical skill is in dispute, but he's been incredibly good at hyping himself as Thomas Edison 2.0, and has been very effective in using that to attract cheap capital for gee-whiz projects. I get why he got the benefit of the doubt here.

But the Twitter acquisition has blown some big holes in the myth. He talked a good game about free speech, but it was clear from his initial bid for Twitter that he didn't really understand the realities of the business or the difficulties of hosting speech at scale. And since he took over, he has stepped onto turf a lot of people here understand quite well: running a business, managing software development, and the dynamics of online forums and social media.

And I expect this disillusionment will continue. Somebody described the Twitter acquisition as "fragile narcissist buys criticism factory", so I expect Musk will feel emotionally compelled to engage with Twitter personally, rather than doing the sensible thing and turning it over to somebody competent while turning his attention back to his at-risk car company.

So look for more of him pursuing personal grudges and putting far-right political views (e.g. "The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters") into action with absolutely no regard to his pieties around free speech. In the US right, "free speech" is often code for "the powerful should never experience criticism or accountability". That may seem weird, but it's a specific instance of the more general point: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Cross that with "free speech" and you get what Elon is doing: free speech for the right people, arbitrary deranking and account bans for the wrong.
Nice to have some development in this space. However I would be very interested in some discussion why this approach should be superior to goBuildModule, which is also mentioned in the article. goBuildModule works well for us and it is even arguably simpler to use, you just have to update the vendor hash whenever you updated the dependencies.
The only real downside for us is that it doesn't handle private dependencies well.
I've only had a very brief encounter with eGui (using Python+ImGui on a project), but I was very positively impressed by it. If we were starting that project today, we would've gone with eGui.
"> For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times"

--> If that were true, should those spies be paid more than their not-as-good male counterparts ? And if yes, should the gap-salary which would follow, be then gapped by hiring more men as top spy positions despite their lower performances ?
Musk isn't a person, he's public property. He's our puppet now, and we make it dance until it falls apart.

Like anyone else so unreasonably rich or famous, they should have no expectation of privacy or any of the other privileges us commoners enjoy. There need to be consequences to such sociopathic hoarding of resources.
The housing crisis.

Build more houses, increase supply, lower prices. It's simple on the surface, but unfortunately, NIMBYism, political interests, status quo, antiquated zoning/permitting, etc etc makes this far too difficult.
Ask HN: Decentralized single-use email forwarder?
1. Disposable email is becoming a necessity because of frequent leaks

2. Current disposable email requires a trusted intermediary

3. There are many tiny providers that might disappear overnight, therefore insufficient for using with financial accounts.

Apple offers something like this at scale, but only for Apple users.

What would a decentralized solution require?
Record lows on the Mississippi: How climate change is altering large rivers
I would say that it is not about being tech savvy it is more about how their brain is wired. Some people just do not do analytical thinking: break down a complex a task into smaller, more manageable parts and make a plan. In other words, they do not think step-by-step.

And majority of computer task require that type of thinking.
You underestimate alcohol.
It is a cheap and versatile desinfectant, that can be made relatively easy in remote areas or by people who want to live more independant.
Furthermore, hot alcohol, especially beer, is a very strong medicine for respiratory infections.

Red meat: https://www.healthdata.org/research-article/health-effects-a...

Saturated fats:
Nina Teicholz: A short history of saturated fat: the making and CURRENT
unmaking of a scientific consensus

I do not understand why so many adult people favor a nanny state; it means to be treated like a child or an idiot and to promote that all people get forcefully treated like this. One should fight this with all means.

Edt: I forgot, that a moderate amount of alcohol each day (i.e. 1 glas of wine) reduces the probability of dementia when one approaches death.
Only Google login available?
Definitely not the wrong place nor person, but what do you mean by mcguyver in this context?

If you want to use it for general purpose computation not tied to rendering I would suggest CUDA. If you want to play with rendering try shadertoy.com
Everyone's comparing this to a regular browser. But since it's electron based, I'm just wondering whether this could be a path to creating a really good browser for development. As of now, most of the debugging that's done on browsers are either based on the tools provided by the browser itself, or via extensions and add-ons.

I just hope, this kind of paves the way for developers themselves to add features and capabilities.

Other browsers in this space - Polypane[0], Sizzy[1], Blisk[2]

[0]: https://polypane.app/
[1]: https://sizzy.co
[2]: https://blisk.io
This is nonsense that never happened. Many people have left, some have not. Did you expect 50m to close their account overnight? Many people with big following and many with no followings have left. Also, people can leave twitter but still be interested in the "drama", as it can shape how other social media outfits behave moving foward.
Show HN: A small, text browser friendly, Hacker News articles filter
Sharing this little tool as it proved to be really useful to me. I've been
using it for the last 2 years and I can't imagine browsing HN any other way.

The set of filters in this tool is quite specific, so I'm sure not everyone will
want to use them, but I also bet there are people here with interests similar
to mine.

Might be that someone else will find it useful as well.
The main difference is that it's easier to track what changed in the vendor closure rather than just waiting for the build to fail and updating the hash with the result that Nix gives you.
It’s an automated account that only makes one type of post lol
Consumption software and production software has diverged tremendously over the past three decades. It used to be that the software you used to read the news and the software you used to write the news were both fairly clunky and required your brain to be on. Today, production software is still about the same but consumption software has been polished to the point of being completely effortless and largely brainless. Just keep scrolling.

Consumer uses of software are 100:1 in favor of consumption which now teaches essentially no useful skills because we got good at UX and good UX means the user doesn’t have to think.
Yes, Energy (and AI, etc) as national security issue(s) and geopolitical dominance assertions.
This is the core problem, I rarely ever hear of someone using fentanyl by itself. Fentanyl is incredibly potent which maximizes profit/volume for traffickers. This creates a tremendous financial incentive for them to adopt since it provides a competitive advantage. If it's easier and cheaper to obtain fentanyl than Alprazolam (xanax), then illicit manufacturers will produce a counterfeit using fentanyl as the active ingredient. Fentanyl overdoses are also frequently caused by improper mixing techniques (powder to powder) and the non-uniform distribution will result in someone getting a hot dose. In that case, testing might not even help.
What you are showing here is a very severe lack of empathy in my opinion. The fact (which you seem to recognize) is that there are people that do not have mobile phones.

You are also right that mobile apps make it easier for people that do have them to do all of those things. However the problem appears when it's so convenient to have a phone that when making decisions about how to provide access to things they think of only two options: Android or iOS. I have none and I don't like being a third class citizen when I want to connect to my bank, to my COVID appointment or, god forbid, interact with the government machine.
I agree completely. Also, it would also help if we didn't treat nurses like garbage. If we offered stuff like paid time off, sick leave, and appropriate levels of staffing. If we didn't lay off half of them and expected the other half to do twice the work.
Incorrect. Thiel advocates maximal unaccountable freedom for winners like himself, and none for every one else.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." -- Frank Wilhoit
Damned if you do it, damned if you don't. Just damned if you're not a Democrat in general.
I think having to present ID to get access to encrypted tools is pretty dystopian. A big part of encryption is anonymity.
Actually, the results of the AVIF team's comparison do show the value of JPEG XL, if you look a bit further than the main page and dig into the actual plots. E.g. according to this plot, JXL is about 15% better than AVIF for 'web quality' images (around 1 bpp): https://storage.googleapis.com/avif-comparison/images/subset...

Here is a detailed analysis:
https://cloudinary.com/blog/contemplating-codec-comparisons
Because 80% of the company was cruft. As it is in most large orgs.
https://archive.vn/dStnz
Remember all those comments on HN for how right Musk is to decent free speech and how this is definitely going to improve Twitter? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Most people of any generation are not technically savvy. Most people here in HN were technically savvy before formally joining the tech industry.

Our industry benefited a lot from new employees who had prior experience fighting against buggy Linux distributions or writing random hacks for fun [1]. One of the many consequences of the abatement of general purpose computing is making it harder for teenagers to accidentally discover this wonderful world.

[1] https://xkcd.com/519/
...? What exactly do you plan on using it for?
Thanks for replying!

I'm getting the feeling that your opinions (such as mine) come from dealing with many of the issues you've encountered when working with Drupal.

My opinion is it's far from being perfect, but is much better now than it was with Drupal 7.

If page building is all you want a CMS for, you're right: Drupal isn't for you; there are better alternatives. Doesn't mean it's dying.

Having the possibility of integrating with 3rd party services via installing a module is better than having to wire up your product/codebase to work with it. Many SaaS services also offer this, Drupal is not different.

I agree that a PHP Dev isn't a Drupal Dev and vice-versa (even though there's a very significant overlap). The learning curve for Drupal isn't steep if you only focus on learning what any of the simpler SaaS CMSs you mentioned offer. I argue it might even be lower and better documented. It does get steeper when you have to develop for Drupal - but then again, that's not something you can or have to do for a SaaS. Those products have learning curves of their own as well.

I've used Webflow before and liked it, but when the client started asking for some custom stuff, Webflow couldn't cut it either. Every tool has its limitations.

I have worked with Drupal as a backend with REST APIs for exposing data in multiple frontends and the experience was fine - probably not ideal and yes, it did require Drupal knowledge - but not different of what you'd expect trying to wire a FE app to consume/use JSON/GraphQL (which, by the way, is making its way into Drupal, too) from any other source.

Also, there's a significant point that neither of us has addressed, that I think is worth mentioning: what happens if/when one of those hot SaaS products goes bust because it didn't gain traction? Do you own the codebase? Can you quickly and simply migrate to another platform? Can you host it yourself? My guess is you're back to the same kind of predicaments you'd find in Drupal all the same. With the added bonus of now also having to find someone with experience and expertise to help migrate away from that even "nichier" product - might prove even harder to find talent than with Drupal.

Again: fair points raised; worth discussing; Drupal isn't dying.
This has been discussed many times - the flight data and aircraft registration details are publicly accessible via the FAA. Posting that data in an easily accessible form hardly violates anyone's privacy.
On the build versus buy axis, there is the Lomokino

https://microsites.lomography.com/lomokino/

I have one.

It's been pretty fun and certainly a different way of thinking about making pictures.

It fits in a hoodie pocket so it makes a reasonable walk around.

Scanning workflow requires some bespoke decisions.

As would lab processing if I used it. I don't. I shoot it in B&W and develop in a tank.
AIG subsidiary files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Probably a dumb question, but I'd really like to know if this somehow affects/improves Rust's support for dynamic linking in any way (i.e., when comiling Rust code with the GCC-based toolchain, instead of with rustc)?
Would you like ketchup or mustard on this Very Important Boot?

On a more serious note, AFAIK (IANAL) Elon and other celebs are public persons who don't necessarily have the same kind of expectation of privacy since they've chosen to be in the public eye.
Meaning unless it's something protected by law like medical records or something done/talked about on their private property out of the public's view they can reasonably expect the public will know/talk about whatever they do.
Wasn't this a bot account?
If so, I don't really see what all the fuzz is about.
I wonder how much of this has to do with poor tools being rolled out that entry level workers have to deal with. I feel like this is definitely the case in my big company. I was lucky enough to promote out of the front line rolls before any of the tools were replaced with strictly inferior alternatives. I can't use them effectively either, but at least I don't need to use most of them anymore. I have a lot of sympathy for junior employees that need to do their day-to-day work.

Now I just have to deal with garbage tools where it takes maybe an hour to process an expense report in concur or find the right training module to be compliant
> I'm guessing bankruptcy has always been the plan

Why? What advantage would that bring to him?

Honest question. With him overpaying for Twitter already (maybe not completely voluntary), bankruptcy looks like the fastest way to make the deal even worse.
It doesn't matter if its publicly available. To aggregate the data in such an easily accessible form is an invitation to crackpots. Few crackpots are going to seek out such information unless they are truly dedicated from the get-go.
Proposed Adage: "Cognitus' Law of Headlines" ("cognitus" from Latin for known, recognized, acknowledged - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cognitus#Latin )

Similar to Betteridge's law of headlines ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... ), this proposed adage states:

"Any time that something is referred to as 'Secret' in a headline, it is not actually secret at all."
https://twitter.com/BillGatesJet
https://twitter.com/bezosjets

I guess Musk only sees it as an issue when it's his own privacy innit
Chinese ‘diplomats’engage in open thuggery and beat the crap out of a Hongkonger and then have the audacity to claim the protester was hurting all of China so their actions are justified. The crybullying here is off the charts.
Because sometimes they are very relevant. The Kanye ban and the details around it are one example as Kanye clearly wanted people to believe it was for a different reason than it was.

I'm not saying this applies to the ElonJet case, but I can see why the question would be asked.
>He won't buy Twitter because it has a bot problem.

I'm not asking for examples of Musk being wrong about something and correcting himself. I think it's commonly assumed that Musk discovered that this argument would not hold up in court, so he pivoted accordingly.

>Elon will not fire most of Twitter (November). Look, stupid media was tricked by Rahul Ligma.

This is a better example. Could you link a statement to this effect directly?