skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the solution to charging from an untrusted port is a power bank. Mine will pass through power to my device if the device needs charging. If not, it will recharge itself. It's also powerful enough to recharge a tablet and I think my M2 Air.

I bought the power bank from a well known brand, and I've tried charging it from different supplies. It seems to negotiate the power to charge itself correctly. And my devices just detect it as a power supply. It has wireless charging for phones too.
My favorite was "Vinegar $8" as an appetizer? Or maybe it was a cocktail. Either way, someone on Vanderbilt St would sell that to me (and I'd buy it just because I'd want to tell my friends I bought a vinegar drink).
My suspicion is that whoever did this was emboldened when none of the climate change vandals who did similar things to paintings in museums got any real punishment. If they all got a year or two in prison instead, I don't think this would have happened.
I stopped drinking alcohol. Immediately dropped weight. I wasn't a very heavy drinker as in not many drinks per session, but I had frequent sessions per week. Turns out alcohol encourages fat production. The drinks themselves have a bunch of calories, and when drinking I would also snack. Couple that with feeling a bit off the next day and sometimes that meant skipping a workout or doing it half-assed. Add those all together and its was enough to go from calorie surplus to deficit.
Uh, they already have debuted, and not even this year
Cray supercomputers used to have special "vector" units that would perform operations on multiple scalars (eg 128 doubles) in parallel. A bit like gpu units. Any algorithm that could be cast in a form that benefited from this type of parallelism would be called vectorizable. Linear algebra obviously fits perfectly (but, depending on the problem, you might0 need to juggle the vector dimensions).

Vectorizing code was fairly straightforward using the latter versions of fortran. It was all quite sweet and productive but could not provide the required hpc scaling so was eventually abandoned in favor of massively parallel designs.
This might just be my distaste of Musk showing, but whilst under most other circumstances I’d assume that this was entirely a joke but in this case it does seem consistent with Musk’s libertarian space fetishism.

The extraterrestrial pecking order has zero chance of being independent of Earth’s. I find it hard to believe that Musk would be all for holding hands and singing kumbaya if things started swaying away from…anarcho-capitalism.
Long daily walks with a recorder for notes.
Thank you and contributors for all the work!

Out of curiosity, is there any infrastructural portion that also gets shut down or if someone fired up the last released version or a dev instance, could they still access a hyperdrive (provided it is still hosted)?
What does "enhanced" and "all-in-one" mean there?
Yes, small kitchen appliances are a curse of disposability.

Eg Blenders all seem to have proprietary connections between the motor base and the jar, often in plastic. When a small connection tab breaks, the whole thing is junk even though it still 'works' as 3d printing, glue, etc is usually not strong enough.
By market cap. Not sales, or revenue, or number of employees, or profits.
One of the most common accidents with "self driving" thus far has been the auto getting rear ended.

Yes, this is undoubtedly the human drivers fault for following too closely but ... is it being precipitated by unexpected AI braking? In any case, the AI has demonstrated very limited ability to avoid these sort of collisions.
Elon Musk is not at risk of taking anything anywhere.
I don't know about "has become". I've known it to be the goal as far back as the 1980s. (Anything before then is before I started forming memories.)

I think it probably comes from the same place as organic food and suchlike: a conflation of "more natural" with "better for the environment." They're not necessarily the same thing, and we're finding increasingly many situations where doing things in a "more natural" way is actually pretty terrible for the earth's ecosystems when seven billion humans are trying to do it at a planetary scale.
> Surprising.

For me it was the least surprising thing I've read in a while.

One thing that has become clear is AI's learn to cover the common cases very well, and the less common not at all well. So you get a lot of mistakes in the area's where there is not a lot of training data. Sometimes those mistakes don't matter. Creating art is a great example - how do you even define a mistake in art? (Perhaps it's not so difficult, as apparently AI output is recognisable but it takes an experienced eye to spot where it's gone wrong.) So is playing a game like Go - playing the 2nd best move occasionally doesn't matter. Apparently protein folding fits into the same class as getting the basic shape right matters a lot. Ditto for voice to text - humans compensate, and the same for translation. There are lots of places mistakes don't matter.

But some applications are very intolerant of mistakes. Driving a car appears to be one. Programming is probably one of the worst as a minor mistakes don't just degrade the program, they can destroy it in a way that's utterly non-obvious. It seems to me the current generation of AI's are always going to struggle in areas where mistakes, even minor ones, are costly.

Interestingly, one area of programming mistakes are tolerable is review. Therefore I'd predict programmers will find AI's reviewing code is a net positive.
Data science and software engineering
Does anyone have a full/clear image or a before and after? The best one I was able to find is the one in the article.
Is it possible that the teenagers did not know that the "scratchings" (for lack of a better term) were actually ancient and wise and sacred and enlightened aboriginal art?
I would rather have a home covered in black soot than the entire planet turned into a hyper-authoritaritan nightmare state just to reduce plastic waste.
If dependency hell is pretty much unavoidable at this point, is the best solution for everyone to have something like Little Snitch or similar installed that monitors for unusual outgoing traffic so that the hackers can't get away with it for very long before getting shut down? And to do all high risk activity like coding in VMs?
The EU cookie law (ePrivacy Directive) isn't specific to cookies. Using local storage does not exempt you from its requirements, and you still need to get consent from users before any use of client side storage that is not strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user.
The complexity and medium-specificity of all this just shows that computer-based annotations (considered as semi-permanent artifacts) aren't worth the trouble. Our systems aren't ready for them, and will only become so when we have some kind of interoperable standardised protocols or data formats. Possibly never, but certainly not now.

Until our systems have reached some sort of maturity (not guaranteed of course), consider annotations as transient, and if an ongoing artifact is needed, incorporate them into notes or papers or whatever in your long-term format of choice.
> “because they are actually using JVM a lot”

It has nothing to do with my company, and so interesting your rebuttal to my comment was snark and about an entirely different company.

Here’s your original comment.

> “if you commit in 2022 to java/scala - you subscribe to heavy 20yo over-engineering legacy, whether you want it or not”

And now you said:

> “Your success with java doesn't mean that java world is not full of legacy and suffering for many other teams.”

You painted a broad brush stroke, and I shared personal evidence of a successful business running on JVM.

Now you’re painting another brush, indirectly saying this case is exception or somehow doesn’t matter.

If you have something meaningful to say, or any particular experience on what my organization should watch out for (some blind spot), call it out.

It feels like you’re not here to teach or inform, this is more about you being right. Everyone can have an opinion. They’re worthless unless you have something actually constructive to add.
In some sense, classical probability is just the study of category of Markov Kernels [0]. We can gain much of the insight without a lot of measure theory/functional analysis machineries by restricting to its full subcategory of finite states, which gets us to the category of stochastic matrix.

In this view, quantum probability (of finite states) is just about study of category of classical quantum maps described in Picturing Quantum Processes by Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger [1]. I highly recommend the book, which requires hardly any prerequisites other than linear algebra and mathematical maturity.
Once we get into this framework, no philosophical interpretation is required. E.g. we can't reproduce a quantum state by classical data just means any morphism from a (non-trivial) purely quantum state to a purely classical state does not have a left inverse.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_kernel
[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/picturing-quantum-proce...
You seem to suggest cars save more lives than they take.

I am not sure that's the case. Especially knowing the car injury stats and secondary effects of different kinds of pollution.
Other than tax differences (minor and mostly not applicable on the short side), I think that’s the wrong way to think about trades.

If you have reason to invest on the thesis that the stock will go down to $68 from $109, being short from $105, $150, or $300 is all the same at this point.
I have no proof that this submission was inspired by this comment [0] but the strong possibility (conceived by me having stumbled across both) is remarkable.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/zw3g9d/what_food...
Musk is a regular person but now with a butt load of money. It means he’s gonna be all over the place, but with money

Scary
Did you find anything?
Let’s hope these fuckers are stupid enough to post on social media. The punishment should be 10 years, not 6 months.
Idk if you've been asleep the last 10 months regarding the politics of Ukraine, which isn't even an EU member. VdL bends over backwards on anything the US asks of her.

How she even became the head of the EU council can only be explained with corruption.

And that's also the main reason why the right is on the rise on the EU, because they don't want an undemocratic overlord. The irony is real.
Even knowing the risk, I’m amazed at how many it hasn’t stopped. Mind you, millions of people still smoke.
But that's reciprocity for ESTA, 15 years too late...

And they are applying it to everyone, not just US citizens.
If you mean the case in the article? Almost no chance. The drawings were deep in the tunnel system which itself is essentially in the middle of nowhere.
>athenago.com was much better for that.

And athenago is terrible compared to just hiring from onlinejobs.ph

They charge you $3k/mo and pay the EA $700/mo, that's a ridiculous price to pay for a recruiter. Just spend $1500 a month on onlinejobs and you'll get somebody much better, and they'll never leave you.
I’m Australian and I’m pretty sure it’s just children trying to be “spooky”.

I doubt they were trying to vandalise Aboriginal art, since it seems they only covered finger flutes which are hard to distinguish as art.
The climate change protestors did nothing wrong. We desperately need more attention on climate change or the human race will die out. There is literally nothing else anywhere near as important. Literally everything matters less.

To equate those two things is disingenuous and offensive.
When identification can be difficult or costly, you can always just impose harsher penalties to increase the ex ante cost: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/10/prison-time-vanda...

Historically this is why in the United States both nominal and actual penalties imposed in Federal criminal cases can be so swift and harsh: the Federal government doesn't want to be in the business of prosaic criminal law enforcement. (Ignoring the changes wrought by the War on Drugs.) But this doesn't work unless the population appreciates this. In the U.S. it's generally understood that Federal penalties tend be swifter and harsher even for mundane infractions; an American will definitely think longer about, for example, trespassing on Federal property than they will comparable private or state properties, even when there's less chance of being caught on the former than the latter.

Or perhaps what this really points to is granting or expanding indigenous groups' territorial and legal sovereignty over various lands and sites, so they can make these decisions themselves.
If you limit yourself to the equipment that humans have, how do you expect to outperform humans? Would we accept 40k deaths every year in the US from self-driving cars, too?

For that matter, I don't think the cameras installed in Teslas work as well as a good human eye, with dynamic range and depth perception.

So it seems like a bad premise to start with, and the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so to speak. So many years in, and when they pulled the radar out for supply chain reasons they had to disable self-parking, too.
How is Musk still allowed to be CEO? Serious question. Why don’t large shareholders demand some fresh blood?
Considering how many Russians don't think so high about most of the presidents of the USA are we sure Medvedev is _nice_ to Elon?
The drawings survived 30K years on the wilderness, but couldn't last more than a few decades on civilization!
The cheap shipping from multiple depots may be cheap because it's more efficient than consolidating first, so it may be making the situation worse.
Non software engineers? In other words, "engineers"? (I kid, sorta. :P)
There is a difference in betting against Elon Musk and betting against Tesla. Tesla's stock price has been hyped up for a long time now. It all depends on FSD and that isn't going too well so far.
That's what happened with Apple, but there was no way that Steve Jobs was going out anyway but feet-first.
P/E is still 33 as we head into a recession, and Musk continues to anger the traditional customer base that cares about environmental issues. He might make up with Maga republicans, but many of them want a Ford Pickup.

We'll see what the 4th Quarter holds but it's still possible that EPS will grow and the price will still tank as it becomes clear that the market becomes saturated with Elon's big ego.

Even $68 is would mean a P/E of around 20 which is still ~3 times higher than Ford's.
All the other interpretations require additional assumptions on top of the mathematical formalism, hence MW seems the most plausible to me. The GP wrote “[in a] universe-as-a-wave-function”, which basically is the MWI.
And yet Tesla is still the market leader.
Modern life is starting to consistently be a real drag on almost every front. It’s straight up illegal to sell something as basic as all natural meat in the US: https://fee.org/articles/amish-farmer-faces-fines-prison-tim...
Alex Karp has a PhD in philosophy. So there's at least one company that we can trust to navigate these issues.
The self driving stuff is (in my view) all a red herring. There is no mass market call for it, it's not going to drive further growth. The only thing it may do is help maintain their position in the higher end of the market.

They should have brought out another lower cost, smaller car by now. Why haven't they built a commercial van? Why is there no family MPV? The investment in FSD is ultimately a distraction that wastes resources and slows growth.

One day FSD will be a reality, but that shouldn't be their primary goal.
"negative decimal logarithm"
"enhanced" is my branch that has a few experimental patches, a C rewrite of the tokenizer from lua; but I'd avoid it for now, as it can be slightly unstable.

"all-in-one" is my build that bundles all necessary files into the executable, so ships a completely portable, mostly statically built lite-xl as a single file.
ZFS snapshot thing was also a huge pain with bup back in the day. I remember doing some work to add in a path graft system for it but it never got merged.

Backup tool authors never seem to support this use case.
The article is about nitrites not nitrates.
Might also be because it's cheaper to ship rectangular boxes than bags here.
> the correct mathematical models

There are those that think reality (including the universe) is just mathematics. Not modeled by mathematics, but is mathematics. To me, the mathematical universe hypothesis is starting to be the only theory that makes sense.
In case you would like to tell your friends that, some cocktail bars will make you a shrub.
I suspect it’s meant to be a “don’t look behind you”, but done by foolish children so they managed to screw it up.
We've banned this account for repeatedly (and indeed mostly) posting flamewar comments. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Maybe one of us who lives nearby can drive over and take a few snapshots for the “after” pictures. It sounds like they let anyone just walk on in.
LOL I asked chatGPT this question:

Question: Will chatGPT kill Google search?

ChatGPT says: It is unlikely that chatgpt, which is a language model developed by OpenAI, will replace Google search or have any significant impact on it. Google search is a web search engine that uses algorithms to provide relevant search results to users when they enter a query. It is an established and widely used service that has been developed and refined over many years. chatgpt, on the other hand, is a language model that can generate human-like text based on a given prompt. It is not designed to perform web searches or to provide specific information on demand.
> it was designed to effectively get people to buy more plastic.

I hate this kind of cynicism, because it's disempowering when the truth is so much more actionable. In reality, it was designed to be cheap and useful, and with the disposal costs handwaved [1] away.

Plastic can be overcome by developing equally useful and cheap materials.

[1] "handwaved" really understates the amount of effort that went into dealing with the disposal costs. You don't create national recycling programs and international standards by handwaving. But reality didn't pan out relative to the hopes.
Is that really saying burning chlorinated plastics --- in particular --- causes climate change? That whole quote reads so oddly it's like it was written by a bot.
ChatGPT
A key distinction, though, between euthanasia and forced sterilisation or eugenics, is consent. The latter are, almost always, decisions taken or considered based on the externalities -- they're not done for the benefit of the person that the procedure is applied to.

While a dystopian society could consider choosing to kill people based on their externalities (such as, for example, as we currently do by putting criminals in death row) advocates of assisted suicide put the wishes of the person undergoing the procedure first and foremost. Euthanasia should never be something that is done to you without your explicit, self-driven, sound-of-mind consent.

And indeed, morality judgements are always influenced by the context of their time. Eugenics was a somewhat popular idea around that time, but it's important to note that this does not mean that early 20th century people were less moral than we are.

Families required the labor of all of their members to survive, and an unproductive member of the family that required extensive care carried a very clear cost in opportunity and quality of life to the family, often one that permanently impacted the life of the mother. It was seen as a moral good to somehow use science to figure out a way to "spare" families, and especially women, from what was seen as an arbitrary misfortune, an "act of god".

One of the reasons why eugenics is not nearly as popular today is that society takes on a more collective approach to supporting and caring for disabled people. While there's still a long, long way to go, there are schools for children with special needs, there are disability payments, there are ways through which society organizes to help those who care for others, alternatives to what was often a very tough choice for mothers, between abandonment, murder or misery.

Eugenics didn't change. Morality didn't change. Society changed, and in doing so, it shifted the balance, and it is no longer seen as the moral choice to engineer humanity so that Jerry doesn't exist, because the alternative to that no longer is to make his mother's life untenable. By having better options, we are enabled to make better choices.
Some additional hearsay evidence that this whatever the initial cause was it has been compounded by some massive IT failures: https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/zw5lsl/southwest_pi...
As much as I hate to be in agreement with the down voters, I joined them on this.

Yes, it IS that big of a deal. Anything 30K years old made by humans is precious beyond measuring. We don't have written words that old. The stock of them is strictly limited and there won't be any more (unless someone discovers one somewhere else, which will be world news).
I definitely agree with these two major pain points. It relates to some of my personal experience as well, you would have to effectively solo an entire design markup just to potentially get key FOSS members on board with design changes.

You have the same problem when trying to show an early mockup to a paying client, they keep picking at things that aren't going to be that way in the final, so you wind up rarely involving them until you have a really solid draft ready. It's a tradeoff you actively make because you're getting paid to make those micro-decisions for them.

It's unfortunate because I feel FOSS could work wonderfully with design, so much of what makes design great also makes FOSS amazing, but the bridge just isn't there.
They could have put their vandalism on another wall that didn't have one of the rarest pieces of human expression. But no, they purposely went out of their way to destroy something extremely rare and utterly irreplaceable.

Yes, all things change, and eventually everything will be lost in the eventual heat death of the universe, and all human endeavour will be rendered pointless. But it's still a totally pointless and tragic waste.
Do you have any further information on whether the USDA still intends to do something about this?
Why that’s Feynman’s interpretation.

“Shut up and calculate”
Competition is fierce now for EVs and I think they miss deliveries and Musk’s shenanigans have dried up his backlog. Even at $68 it’s still $250B valuation which is too high for a car company like Tesla. It won’t take a lot of lost sales for Tesla to go red.
If you scale it up over the entire time-series, it's fallen off a cliff.
Because without the remnants of the Musk-hype it'll be worth even less than the current amount, maybe 2x Ford. Investing in Tesla was, for many people, investing in Musk and his vision.
> they tend to call what others call “overengineering” a “scalable clean architecture”.

I’m not sure what this means or what you’re referring to. It seems the premise of your argument is that Java is bad and over engineering, and anyone who disagrees is fundamentally misinformed, bias, and wrong.

With your argument, it’s actually impossible to have any kind of debate or constructive discussion because the premise is the other biased and stupid. You went from attacking the tech to actually attacking the people.
I think what you're describing would better be described a libertarianism/classical liberalism than as right wing. Libertarianism is regarded as right wing, but not everything right wing is libertarianism.