skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EU should have its own leading-edge chip foundry.

Yes, "should". But it is unclear that the EU has the organisational capability to pull it off. The last few decades have seen the EU loosing it's technological edge in more and more fields, the more the EU makes (funding) decisions in science and technology. Whether there is causation or just correlation is an interesting question, see [1] for a recent discussion.

> planned obsolescence of compilers

Which planned obsolescence? Intel is backwards compatible at least to the x86 from 1978 (?). And I think even back to the 8080. IBM mainframes might still be System/360 (1964) compatible, although I have not checked recently.

Given the RISC-V extensions and profiles tend to proliferate, and indeed that there is a competitive advantage in pushing your own extension, there is an often articulated fear that the RISC-V might fragment faster than those controlled by a single vendor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33971577
Tall grass is not the only option for reducing sightlines near the shore of lakes/ponds, and reducing sightlines is not the only option for reducing the appeal of an area to geese. Another comment suggested introducing a pair of swans, though that also has potential downsides (swans can be aggressive toward humans).
I find it strange that the charts only go down to 20°F, when for example at the moment I write this comment, it's -5°F (-21°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota.

And sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures are pretty common in the winter across the Northeast, especially at night. "Normal" driving conditions extend way below just 20°F.
YouTube may be a business but, if you take away online advertising there, it wouldn't be a successful one. In fact, one of the first things people bring up when discussing YouTube from that standpoint is how much money it loses. If Google wasn't one of the richest corporations in the world, YouTube would have been killed off a long time ago. I'm frankly not even sure that the advertisements are enough to sustain it even now, would have to check the recent data.
Or in – a battery while charging tends to emit quite a lot of heat on its own, doesn't it?
I work in news and can confirm. We have a news archive going back to some previous cohorts of editors who were less professional than the current one and we get hit with a lot of copyright trolling. It's barely worth the effort to fight and even basic compliance is costly. I'm guessing a purely archived site doesn't have any resources to answer complaints.
How to Start with CP/M
Not if the battery itself is generating heat. Then the insulation keeps the heat in.
With work fromn home and the efficiency, its worth asking if billion-dollar right-of-way public transiy makes sense anywhere. Waymo is to rail as packet-based networking is to dedicated copper analog phone lines.
Narrating a technical book: some Shameless Self-Promotion here. Two books for that hard-to-shop-for person on your gift list.

I considered, briefly, narrating my own books, but then after a little research, realized that was a bad idea. It is acting.

I auditioned about 25 actors, both on ACX and on Voices, with a 2-minute section from my book that has all three main characters talking (two male, one female). I really wanted to hear how they did it.

Maxwell Glick (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Maxwell+Glick&i=audible&ref=dp_by...) won. He's done both of my books now.

Inventing the Future: https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-the-Future-A-Novel/dp/B09NZ...

(On this one, there is a section of Mesa code. I had to tell him exactly what to say, which I modeled on what a CS professor would say if he was reading off the whiteboard.)

The Big Bucks: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-The-Big-Bucks/dp/B0BDBG5VNP/r...

What was interesting for me was, on Voices, some of the actors only gave me 20 seconds, and said they'd do the rest if I wanted! I found this incredible: it's only two minutes, for God's sake. I need to hear how you do the voices.

In their market, some producers will listen to that 20 seconds, say "Nope!" and turn them off. So they're reacting to that. Sad.

Maybe if you don't have people speaking, you can do your own book. Otherwise get a voice actor.

Edit: if anyone would like the text for the samples on the Amazon page, just speak up.
Only ChatGPT is unsure
Yeah, I get why people have other impressions: media reports. But local media is under severe financial pressure, and negative news about city crime is both eyeball-grabbing and cheap to report. And right-wing national media has had it in for San Francisco for more than 25 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_values
PICO-8 is a good competitive ground for performance coding: it's Lua, but with intentional limiters on size, performance, and source token counts. Writing good PICO-8 code generally means code golfing, with the side effect of the performance limiters being designed to make small code also be fast code - so optimizations are often whole-program.

Real-world performance on modern hardware is often a lot more dull and consists of finding the inner loops, parallelizing what you can, organizing the data to be cache friendly, then getting the loop fast at instruction level. You don't learn the same lessons from that because the majority of the codebase is "dark" and run too infrequently to show up as a bottleneck.
Too little, too late, SF. The damage from the last few years of relative anarchy will not be undone by a few arrests. Get back to me when you stop people from rampantly shitting on the streets.
I feel very sad and Bad. I Hope there will me a miracle for this man. If he reads my comment, i want him to know i give him a lot of love, to this dad of children and to his children and all of his family, and that I want to cry.

Hope a miracle will be, really.

From a French young computer scientist.
Do you really agree that making the public location of Elon's plane more public and easily accessible is doxxing though? I get it if it was the real time location of Elon within 100 meters, or his personal house in a forum with the intention to do harm or something, but the location of a plane that narrows your location down to a city and requires government grade anti air missiles to realistically expect to take down while in flight? The increased security risk of the latter seems like a rounding error to me, which makes the justification for removal very suspect because the thing it does dramatically increase is the public knowledge of how much of a climate hypocrite the guy is flying as much as he does.
It does, but I suppose the Superuser post is really against the text "Search" being there. At a certain point it's unrealistic to expect configuration, even in registry etc, to be able to customize every little part of the UI. Even if it's 10 lines defining the registry state and checking it when the OS is pulling the search text, it's debt that only a handful of users will be annoyed by enough to go change.
The data on shoplifting is highly unreliable. Most victims don't file official police reports because it's largely a waste of time. The large nationwide chain retailers do have accurate data on loss rates internally but they don't release it.
Ford Raises Price of F-150 Lightning for Third Time This Year, to Nearly $56,000
You're right about international flights and I should have specified that, but you can view the aircraft's recent US-only flights and see that it also used its permanent ICAO code.
I don't doubt that it'll take a lot of incremental work, but look at the rate of progress everywhere else. In 5-10 years, AI speech - coupled with good text models that can understand sentiment and subtext - will probably blow us away.
C++ has a much more complicated (Turing complete) type system than C# and Java.
I'm writing a small side project app using Next.js. I found out the bad way that i18n support is quite bad. Sure, you get an i18n router, but you have to manage translations on your own. There are libraries to do it, which are fine, but translations only work in the front-end, there's no way to, for example, use translations inside an API call (!!).

Also, halfway through they decided to push a new Next.js version (still in beta) so you''ll need to move all your `/pages` to an `/app` folder, with a completely new structure.

I wanted to learn something new so that's fine, but something like Rails, Django or Laravel would have allowed me to develop way faster. I'm quite disappointed.
https://archive.vn/heHvz
SF voters have a habit of voting for pro-crime government. Being anti-crime is a losing political proposition. After all Dirty Harry from the 1970s was set in SF.
We have a tiny electric fiat 500 for small distance trips. 21 kWh battery. My wife routinely gets 7 km/kWh out of it, I struggle to reach above 5.5 km/kWh.

Driving style really matters. Especially with such a small battery ;)
Unlike QOI, TGA only has RLE as a means of compression, and therefore has worse compression on many images than QOI. At the same time, TGA supports a much larger range of format variants (arbitrary color depths, color palettes, grayscale mode), making it much more complex to implement than QOI.
What was that first meme/AI religion comment about? It was just deleted a minute ago.
How to Start a Paper?
I feel like every site is doing it these days. Wonder if browsers should start blocking it.
I think some publishers are reluctant because on Windows, those anti-cheat systems involve out-and-out rootkits, so allowing Proton support for them is seen as a relaxation of their 'security'— the Linux ports of those systems are userspace only, Proton and Wine don't have that kind of kernel access anyway, etc.

I think if, over time, it looks like those fears are unfounded and there are few practical problems with anti-cheat for competitive games on Linux, then probably some currently-hesitant publishers will relent and enable their games on Linux. But only time will tell, I suppose.
I’m also curious how people come from the level “I know C, C++, Arduino, I understand what capacitors, resistors, transitors and diodes do” to the level of “I can integrate a 3.3V Arduino Nano with 5V or more circruitry with logic level shifters, I know when to use certain capacitor types, understand when inrush current conditions can happen, etc”. And I mean just for hobby. Not interested in anything pro.
From a consumer's standpoint, is that bad? I'd rather wait longer and know for a fact that the product is 100% safe and tested. This isn't something I would be willing to take a risk on, getting into a car crash because I was really anxious to try a driverless taxi seems embarrassing.
That's funny, with that framing it seems as though it won't be the robot cars fault for screwing up even though the majority of drivers can get home safe in those conditions.

When it's -30 for a week you end up in a situation where road salt doesn't work and the exhaust from cars polishes intersections to an icy sheen. It's hard to protect against that.
lack of algorithmic feed (and the whole anti-algo slant) and lack of openly viewable likes on people's profiles are actually gonna backfire. mastodon is gonna get lonely and boring, because it's kinda hard to do content discovery, particularly the kind where you get recommendations based on people you follow or interested in, so that those recs would be in closer proximity to you, rather than just getting random posts from trending. for how much algo stuff (like topics, suggested tweets, etc.) and particularly algo feed gets talked shit about, it's vital to discovery of new posts and new people.

without those things, it's easier to just run out of stuff and people to see, and end up in a place where you're caught up with things, and new people aren't entering your circle, and the activity just stops. well, it is also unlikely, because people just do stuff and mix other people in, but it's easier to end up in that static state, when you don't get suggestions in other ways.

at least there are reblogs. but there's also no option to filter those out right in someone's profile. so it's gonna get real annoying if those are gonna be the only way for someone to push content from somebody else.
With fat-tailed distributions, increasing the sample size actually makes it more likely that you'll get one element much greater than the others.
To be clear, that doesn't refute the point I am making.

For anyone who suspects it might (I'm not sure how...) consider this: a model of the Titanic (or a replica, for that matter) is not the Titanic. A model of your brain would neither be your brain nor necessarily a brain at all, but whether it could think is a different question.
It is not clear that the optimal amount of terrible things is 0.

It may be that what is lost by constraining the madness of humanity is greater than what is gained. It is not clear, but there are people who would fight tooth and nail to see the madness, and the value they find within it, remain.

Personally, I do not want to live in a monoculture of mutually-acceptable perspectives.
I can only hope to be lucky enough to know when I'm going to for. Having a few days or months to say goodbye etc. would be great.
> I know no one at Apple uses iTunes on Windows

In some way currently I actually regard that as an advantage – iTunes might have its foibles, but the hard split between e.g. Music and Podcasts that happened on Mac definitively isn't something I'm looking forward to.

That's because I've found the Podcasts section of iTunes actually quite useful for also managing my collection of radio comedy, e.g. to get the nice at-a-glance listened/unlistened episode display. With unified iTunes it's simply a matter of adding those files (which are only rarely native podcasts and usually have been scrounged together from all sorts of various sources) to my music library and then manually setting the media type to "Podcast", but on a Mac post-split-up that no longer works, and the successor Podcasts app apparently allows no manual file management.

So I'd either have to manually hack the database, or more likely set up a fake local podcasts server, or just give up entirely and switch to something else (which might still mean having to set up a fake podcasts server anyway in order to sync the episodes to my phone).

At least on Windows iTunes update and general compatibility aren't as directly tied to the OS itself as on Mac, so if push came to shove, I could just keep on using iTunes – the only slight annoyance would be if compatibility with the iTunes store would eventually break…
There are also gaps in the history ("no data available") of the permanent code, like:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af&lat=34.765&lon=-...

Couldn't they have used the PIA code on those days?
I have a mindset where I prefer everyone to have a gun, instead of select few. If AIs get limited and only governments/researchers etc. have access, as usual the rich and powerful will control it. I don‘t want that.

That might become a realistic scenario. Massive scale high performance compute & memory becoming a tightly controlled resource to avoid private creation of AI.
Having tried Tesla FSD many times, I'm very bearish on self driving technology. Genuinely alarmed how Waymo was able to get a permit for rides without human supervision. If I had not intervened multiple times when I tried FSD in a Model S for just a 30 minute trip, I certainly would have crashed.
I've never seen that happen. I have seen it give optimistic numbers, which are dozens of miles short of GPS trip logs, and worse in moderate cold.

When you say "this is information you can trivially look up", not only does this article reference their own testing, but others, and a quick google shows these results aren't abnormal. This article is on the extreme end of test results, but it is not unreasonably so.

Tesla does get a lot of flak, and unsubstantiated fanboyism like this does not help.

https://www.naf.no/elbil/aktuelt/elbiltest/ev-winter-range-t...

https://insideevs.com/news/498554/tesla-model-3-range-extrem...

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a30209598/2019-tesla-mo...

https://www.whatcar.com/news/range-test-how-far-can-electric...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Long-term-Model-3-testing-reve...

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/testing-teslas-range-anxiet...

Notably: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/disappointing-range-...

etc...
The fact that there is a entire service because AWS is so confusing is hilarious.
The Communist Manifesto has led to multiple mass killings, too. What should we do?
I'm never sure if people are downvoting because they disagree or because they think its a bad post that doesn't contribute to the discussion... maybe we should have a system with more than one way of voting?
You can both be right, the journalists need to pay their rent, and this also forces them into a situation where their personal interests are aligned with those of the super-rich owner. Even if they’re explicitly told to ignore this alignment, it’s still there. The book Manufacturing Consent examines this relationship if you’re looking for a light Sunday read
Will the car follow through with these solutions as well? Are they set up to do that now? Can they make that assessment?

Sounds like the solution here is just to not run the cars when people are going to be most likely to want to use it.
Marion Stokes secretly recorded 70,000 VHS tapes' worth of US broadcasts from 1979 until her death in 2012.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-48190528
I stopped watching it after the penalty.

This is not football, it's geopolitics.
The curious thing is that I've lived in two places now where I see two competing takes: crime is lower than it ever has been, and crime is much more visible to the average person. It always forks into these kinds of discussions where folks roll out stats that don't match people's testimony and there's some mention that all media is conservative and thrives on this kind of news.

I'm not really ready to settle for either of those takes. They both seem wrong. Is there anything else that could create both of these outcomes?
If your goal is to build an audience: focus on individual posts, not the blog as a whole. You don't need to spam links to your blog to drive traffic: I've written some blog posts that I have never shared anywhere but get a continual stream of traffic because they answer questions that people google. If you write a post that you think will be valuable to a specific audience (e.g: HN readers) then you can share it with confidence (you do not need to feel like you're spamming) but sharing every post you write just for the sake of it is pointless: focus instead on writing valuable things. After you've got a bunch of posts that are regularly being read you'll have the information you need to convert them into readers of your blog, e.g: if your most popular posts about AWS, you'll know that there's an opportunity there to produce more of those type of posts and build an audience.
I'm aware of it and I'm using it. But I feel uneasy when some software can wreak havoc in my DNS, even if theoretically. For example Cloudflare does not have some kind of very limited "letsencrypt tokens".
Is it nothing? I agree it's easy, but why do it if you don't need to. Besides it being "nothing" compared to all the rest of the code in the compiler it's also the least interesting part of it, unless you're trying to aim for some real fancy programmer comfort features like Rust and newer versions of GCC are. You can sketch your grammer out in EBNF, and just throw that into a parser generator and bam you're ready to spit out some byte code.

And just absolutely talking, 10-20k lines of code is never nothing. That's months if not years of coding, that has to maintained and expanded upon as your project grows.
Brain-linked VR. The ultimate goal of humanity is to built a self sustaining society of people in VR for life, like in the matrix except by choice. AI will probably be needed to get there.
I disagree personally, but I don't use Obsidian like most people. The majority of my notes just have a couple sentences. I mainly make notes about new project ideas, cool things I find online (eg. a note for each new programming language I discover), and cheatsheets (eg. a bash scripting cheatsheet).

I probably spend 15 minutes total writing in Obsidian each week. I'm not writing down things that I don't have difficulty remembering or things that are very easy to search for online. Obsidian is a place for me to store info that I might want later but would have difficulty finding/remembering again.
Interesting how other OS can get away with it, but Windows must always stay thre same.
A cool and aesthetic office supplies tracker for notion.
Waymo Driver and Tesla FSD are leagues apart
Maybe there aren’t many people driving EVs there
I travelled freely in China fourteen years ago. I paid cash everywhere. Nobody had a smartphone. I didn't feel surveilled. From my limited perspective it seems much less free now.
Makes sense, thanks for indulging my curiosity.
> you're asking OP to be silent. You can also just ignore this kind of point

No, to be clear: I'm saying you guys are wrong, that you're arguing from bad logic, and that taking your point on its face would require ignoring good and important pieces of public interest journalism like the linked article.

I certainly don't deny that the business structure of newspapers sometimes leads to conflicts of interest[1]. I just don't see that whining about it in the abstract does anything but drive people away from journalism they need to read.

To repeat: you (you, personally) should read this article, and the rest of the WaPo, even if Bezos paid for it. Because if you don't all you're doing is wrapping yourself in an information bubble.

[1] Though I don't for a second believe Bezos is any worse than "News Corp" or "China", or for that matter "Russia" or even "VoA" as an interfering owner.
Every technology has changed how humans interact with the world and society at large. For me, I use ChatGPT as an AI pair programmer. In certain cases, it returns better results than Google. Because you can continue to ask it questions and ponder pros and cons of one approach over another, it really does feel like you have a competent engineer next to you.

There are good use cases to GPT. Not everything it doom and gloom.
The Germans would say that you have a heavy foot.
I agree, but the problem is that if we don't push technology forward, then certainly China or Russia or Iran will. The responsibility is thus not with researchers, but instead with politicians.
WSL virtual environment will allocate memory during use, but won't release it... in earlier releases it would use up everything... in more recent versions (not sure when the cut from 10/11 was), it will limit to half system ram... You can set this manually with a config file in your home directory. WSLg is limited to Win11 though, even though it was in the insiders builds for 10 before 11 came out.

Win11 isn't too bad, but the increases in effectively advertorial software, ads in search results and breaking twice on me, my desktop is on my Linux drive most of the time, and I'll probably remove my Windows drive altogether (nvme/pcie adapter) for a 10gb nic.
GPT4 stories might be a huge feature. Usually when I read a story about something I know quite well the reporter gets things wrong or at the least you can tell they are a journalist and don't really know the subject well.

AI just has a very low bar to cross to put most journalist out of business.
This would be like saying “I refuse to eat all leafy greens because of one poorly managed farm didn’t stay up on its health standards and had E Coli”

Waymo’s approach is so different from Teslas in both tech and safety I’m not even sure you could compare or generalize.
Someone who occasionally spends time on the internet writing defences against some of the more out there negative stuff that gets said about Musk. Got that "someone is wrong on the internet!" thing...