skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> your very biased agenda

I'm very biased towards things that have a proven track record of success.

> Your defining socialism as the opposite of freedom

Because it is. Socialism takes away your right to the fruits of your labor. I'm very much biased in favor of human rights, whether you want them or not.

> We've never had real socialism

And we never will, because real socialism will never actually work. Even the Soviets had to allow farmers to farm their own plots of land and keep the results to keep the country from famine.

Free markets, however, have delivered the highest standard of living in the world, and the richest poor people in history.

BTW, the Southern slave economy did very poorly compared to the Northern free one. That's why they wanted to secede.
Ask HN: Why does the CA Pay Transparency Law only address base pay?
The new CA regulation regarding pay transparency only addresses base salary, but not stocks or bonuses. Employers can continue to do whatever they want with stocks without being transparent about it. There can be great disparity in stock grants for existing employees in the same role, or for new hires even if they get the same base salary. Same concept applies for bonuses. What am I missing in interpreting the law or its purpose?
Yep, this is my understanding.

Also, world practice shows that noone ever got into troubles for posting chip pictures, and in 10 years noone ever contacted me to remove any photos.

But companies do get intro troubles for trying to do copycat chip production, although it is not always easy to prosecute.
A construct being human-created doesn't mean it isn't important, or that we can simply ignore it. Just means it can be changed, unlike a law of nature, for instance.
Work/life balance? Yes, work/life balance matters. On the other hand, when one enters a professional field, the expectation of the employer is that they maintain their value. The employer is paying for productivity. The individual has the responsibility of maintaining and enhancing their knowledge. Those thinking otherwise are opening the door to foreign competition, against which they will lose. And comparing software development to cashiering is apples and oranges.
Expanding human life to Mars (and the entire solar system) is a fantastic goal for humanity. Better than just about everything else we could do. To accomplish it, we will solve many problems along the way. I would much rather we advance our technology in the pursuit of Mars than in the pursuit of weapons of war.
Louis Rossmann's opinion on why Filmora/Wondershare is a GARBAGE company [video]
I'm defending myself vigorously because I truly wasn't trying to promote myself, despite what you claim. I took time out of my busy day to explain on this forum my use-case for text to speech, which combines two AI technologies and happens to involve kid's stories. I did not ask people to follow or subscribe to the podcast - that is you putting words in my mouth. I thought this audience would find this use-case interesting because this is Hacker News and I hacked together this solution. I also started my answer with "This doesn't answer the question" because it's not a literal list of TTS technologies; instead, it provides an interesting example of how I used one such technology.
how about that tesla owner that had to kick out his own window to escape a battery fire because the manual latch wouldn't open the door? tesla makes garbage quality cars, go talk to longer term tesla owners and they will tell you themselves.
I've seen some made in Thailand.
I would expect chip itself & quartz oscillator made in Japan.
Nonsense. Depriving you of access to your property indefinitely is no different than depriving you entirely.

The government is welcome to charge and deprive, then provide a speedy trial to that end.

That’s not what is happening though and you know it, they know it, their collaborators know it. Everyone involved here deserves jail time, and in a just world they will see it.
Except you won't know if the fictional film is accurate or not because they don't cite sources.
Needs [2014] in the title.

(This detail changed my interpretation of the piece quite significantly)
> Better than just about everything else we could do

[citation needed]
There are do appear to be more people who want remote jobs than there are remote jobs, but whether or not you're actually in competition with all of those is an entirely different question.
If there wasn't a specific story, just an 'overall sense', I don't see how this is something that you can credit to a specific journalist?

Unless you're saying that this local journalist had a series of articles which had this effect, in which case perhaps you could link some?
Entirely unconvincing to someone who thinks it would be cool to go to Mars. Honestly not even worth having the argument. Humans do things to explore or try to push ourselves to do something new all the time. That's the whole fun of being alive.

There's basically no real reason not to, despite this cynical laundry list of FUD. It's not trading off against any major Earth-based priorities. It's not that expensive. The only mildly compelling argument is the contamination one - but the only real alternative is simply never going anywhere but Earth in case there are microbes. No fun!
> There is no beating around the bush, the economic situation is far from good. Walking outside, seeing normal, retired people dumpster diving collecting empty bottles makes me depressed because I can easily see myself doing the same when my time comes.

This is the part that most people who want to take a single sector that benefits them and project it on to the rest of the economy need to understand; as someone who has spend time in HR before it was in the EU, when it was on the HRK/non-schengen and then as it was announced (rather late in '22) that it would be entering a year ahead of schedule it's hard to wrap my head around this false reality they've been painting. I've both worked and lived there (as a US citizen) for a total of 3.5 years and just how normalized things like that are, and variations of these kind of things, is what I took away with the most as the date got closer.

Lots of things look like the rest of the EU, and thanks to Chinese hot money flowing into E. European markets lots of it has a very thin veneer of looking as you said 'normal.' But if you stay outside the tourist season you will get a very clear look of how things really are and it's stark if you are not of the upper-middle class who own properties and has multi-generational privilege--as someone mentioned, the massive drain is just beginning with 10% of the population leaving in 10 years,some of my close friends being some of them. The cost of surviving in a tourist based economy has always been difficult, COVID really hurt many regions hard and never really recovered, which led to more consolidation to already wealthy and often foreign property owners etc...

My last year was under the digital nomad visa program there, not bordering hopping as I had before, and I even had to get an OIB number etc... as I became a resident, and the truth is the government is still culpable of a lot of the post war 'Baltic mindset' thinking that still holds lots of things back--even for their own population. I don't see many things getting better in that regard to be honest, because even when it is in their own interest they are either too ossified to adapt (the public sector is filled with older age lifers) to a newer EU standard or seem to just ignore it until the problem goes away.

I love Croatians and their culture but now really only enjoy myself in Dalmatia anymore after spending lots of time around the country, and while I wish them well in this as it can help the youth have better career prospects I cannot see how it will not lead to more of the same and it will likely end up like Slovenia (massive brain drain due to the high COL relative the wages) and ultimately end up like Portugal.
Musk was definitely instrumental to Tesla's early success, but my understanding is that's mostly due to his deep pockets, his fundraising connections, and his ability to attract and motivate real engineering talent. his direct design and engineering contributions are marginal, and he continues to inflate his role in those areas as part of his decades-long project to portray himself as an engineer or designer (which he definitely isn't).

Elon says he "led the design of the original Roadster"[1]. However, Elon is often loose with the truth - and even by his own admission in 2006[2], his role at Tesla mostly involved business and product strategy.

Really, the visual design of the Roadster is a highly modified Lotus shell. It was designed by a group of people, notably Barney Hatt[3]. Musk had strong opinions about how the car should look, and participated in key meetings with designers. You can think of him as the product owner for the visual styling of the Tesla's shell (but not the designer). This is impressive on its own, as he was also running a fledgling SpaceX at the same time.

Building a really nice version of the Lotus Elise shell is not what makes Tesla unique, though: their all-electric drivetrain and battery systems were revolutionary at the time, and they designed by a bunch of brilliant people like JB Straubel[4] -- not Elon Musk. Ze'ev Drori also deserves credit for bringing the Roadster from prototype to production and bringing the discipline needed to solve their early manufacturing issues.

Tesla's incredible marketing, though? The thing that let them hire best-in-class engineering talent and inspire those folks to work for long hours on changing the auto industry? The thing that let them raise money from Google and eBay founders? The thing that continues to inflate their share price to massive P/Es, even today? That's all Musk. He's the best marketer in the world, bar none.

It irks me that Musk is not satisfied with his incredible level of accomplishment and needs to also obscure the work of the people around him who made important contributions. It's been a successful strategy for him so far though, as evinced by the wide acceptance of his version of events and the resulting positive effect on the companies he's involved with.

I'll write a blog post about this with more research if people are interested.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596862790408568836

[2] https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j...

[3] https://www.tesla.com/blog/lotus-position

[4] https://archive.ph/HK5uh
I think it would be great to send humans to mars but it is kind of hard to justify. I don't think there will be a colony there - there's no real reason unless you want to make the argument that we need people on another planet in case we destroy earth. But it would still be cool.
Are there any that use TensorflowLite?
It's interesting you put it this way, since one of the reasons for Tokyo's public transport success has been exactly this "property owning".
Premature Burial
Elon is a litmus test for nerds. You can tell a lot about an engineer by when they decide(d) Elon is a clown. No doubts the insanity started long before the cave diver defamation incident (although this was the turning point for me personally as well)

If you're a techie that is still holding onto Elon as a hero, good businessman or otherwise decent human being after the Twitter fiasco I'm not sure there is much left to save (or the horse incident, or the time he had secret children with an employee, and the time he stole Grimes' eggs to have a child with a surrogate, and the time he.... )
And none of that has anything to do with

> can be fine in a feature factory workplace. But having an engineer on your team who has no idea about infosec is an active danger. “I make a sql query from this string builder” / “we save the passwords in this database table” / “the AWS credential is here in the javascript code in the repository” / etc.
From what I remember of the early blog posts on the site, his side of the story is that when he invested in it, the only thing the company had was an electric motor design, and that the funding round was in an effort to turn the motor into an EV instead of selling off the surrounding IP and patents.

Even if you don't take his word, it's tough to suggest that he isn't effectively responsible for all of Tesla's success, at least in terms of knowing when the technology was ready to be turned into serious cars and hiring the right people to achieve that, both in terms of design and getting the production lines to scale (which was the prerequisite for the 2018 stock bonus that is now responsible for a large portion of his stake in TSLA/net worth).
if we can't make it to mars (and,imho,we probably can't) then maybe we have the answer to the fermi paradox - it's to effing difficult.
Why is it important that our species survive longer than Earth? Honest question.
>because most voters do want FBI and CIA and NSA and ATF to do their jobs

The primary means through which said voters learn about these institutions are controlled by said institutions.

The FBI/ATF murdered hundreds of people at Waco, the CIA murdered the elected president of the United States.

These are not passive institutions that serve the people, they are hostile mafias hell bent on our subjugation, and inherently incompatible with the concept of democracy.
Cool. Link?
If a Bitcoin core developer couldn’t be bothered to keep a hardware wallet, why would a regular Joe be bothered to do so.

Also, how is having a hardware wallet supposed to be secure? Hardware wallets may get stolen, lost, damaged, etc.

Edit: Also, the link you have shared doesn’t even allow you to choose the “New” user type option if you pick a hardware wallet, allowing you to choose only the Experienced user type option.

IOW, a hardware wallet is something that’s only considered usable by someone who is experienced.
> I would much rather we advance our technology in the pursuit of Mars than in the pursuit of weapons of war.

Pfft these will just end up one and the same.
Not them, but vaultwarden doesn't accept the license file, so it's surely just to support. I'm planning on doing the same thing at some point.
Power consumption and cost.
10 years on a battery is very hard to achieve for microcontroller.

https://sorwatch.net shows that : with much more advanced microcontroller (much more modern tech.node, low power features) - it only works for 1-2 years on a single battery after extensive power optimizations.

In custom silicon when seconds tick - it's maybe 100 transistors change their state. In microcontroller - it's roughly 10'000-100'000 transistors changing state to handle interrupt and update display content...
> We've seen several new spreadsheet implementations pop up in the past years, including ones with built-in programming capability, but none of them really seem like as big of a deal as Gsheets/Excel adding lambdas.

I think this is just because Google Sheets and Excel are used by many orders of magnitude more people than any other spreadsheet product, and so any major change in them is automatically a ‘big deal’.
I was curious to see where the author sourced a SID chip, perhaps the most prized component of a C64 these days. It's an ARMSID, an ARM-based emulator.

I keep thinking I'll pull my C64 out of the attic, but the nostalgia is kind of fading for me at this point. That compact flash cartridge looks really cool, though. I would have loved something like that back in the day.
Mortal Kombat 2 source code leak reveals unused animations and sprites
This is true. But there are no studies about the effect of partial gravity, and how much is enough to maintain bone and eye health.
We must not allow a Martian gap!
No one voted for the bay of pigs. No one voted for MKULTRA.

Stop pretending these organizations represent democratic interests, or are beholden to democratic forces.

We pay for them, but they do not serve us.
Another thing is pedestrianised streets and lack of on-street parking. It makes it so much more pleasant to walk around and sit outside.
> There's basically no real reason not to, despite this cynical laundry list of FUD

You seem to be ignoring one of the main points of the article, which is that sending robots to explore the solar system rather than humans is cheaper, easier, and more effective. That alone is a very good reason to not focus on putting more humans in space.
The impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies
I've had multiple ICE cars which have had "don't park in your garage" recalls precisely because they would catch fire overnight while you're sleeping.
Texas has less zoning regulations and it resulted in more roads, parking lots and dependency of the car.
This essay argues that a moon base is required to study the long term effects of low gravity and greater radiation exposure or test such systems to ameliorate those problems in situ before designing the systems for deploying on Mars, the space station is not enough for this and close to the end of life.
Take a look at his “A day in the life” video, or how he boasts about half marathon runs typically preceded by meditations on the horros of WW2 and followed by “deepwork on tensorflow”, all on the same “typical” day. Or how about the time he boasted on Twitter about going to Ukraine to try and get Zelensky and Putin together on a podcast to stop the war through the power of love (his whole schtick). Talk about peak narcissism and phoniness… This is to say nothing of his claim to be an “AI researcher.”
Do you mean the 3 mountain snowflake rating? I recently switched from some AT tires without it to those with it and while they definitely don't rise to the level of snow tires, the 3 mountain snowflake rating does seem to be legit. I don't do anything extreme in the snow but I don't want to turn around, either, and they go further than similar AT tires without.
We seem pretty great about not having false positives with blood glucose and diabetes. There are of course lots of false positives in other areas. But I'm sure we could dial in many of those type-1/type-2 errors, or just look at the ones where we're confident in the ratio and that there's a net benefit.
Crazy coincidence with this post going live a few hours after I used tire chains for the first time.
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to provide multiple links to your podcast as a public service.
Good choice with the PMS5003 which is in our experience one of the best sensors from Plantower. It is bigger than the PMS7003 or PMSA003 but in our experience more accurate and has a longer life span.

A few things you can consider in the follow up blog post:

a) When you add the temperature and humidity sensor, one of the key aspects is to shield it from heating up inside the enclosure by the ESP (and also the PMS sensors create heat).

b) If you live in area or high humidity, the PM values will be overstated but there are compensation algorithms. We use for example the Di Antonio algorithm [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164928/
> With gasoline you can put it off using water, while for EVs water will actually make the fire worse

Water is perfectly fine to use on lithium-ion battery fires. It cools down the battery eventually stopping thermal runaway. A strategy I've seen is to submerge the battery pack in water. There's also water additives that help dissolve some of the chemicals in lithium-ion batteries.

Note that lithium-ion (and similar) batteries only contain a small amount of polymerized lithium, unlike lithium batteries which contain raw lithium and thus react with water.
The value of our survival is entirely subjective. But if you value it up to the point of Earth's destruction, why would you stop valuing it afterwards?
> I long for dense conversations

There are at least two ways to interpret this, and neither of them sound pleasant to me. I say this as someone who enjoys meeting and talking with new people, whether engaging in small talk or more deeper topics.

I’d kind of like to ask one of two things:
a) what do you think about “small talk”?
b) do you have some example in mind where someone recently interrupted your sentence you think is perfectly normal and informative? If you can write a quick script, using as many phrases as possible from the situation you remember, including the topic, I bet you could get a free, informative, constructive critique.
Local politics is a sham. My local AT&T fiber node is not being tapped by my local government. Traitorous elements within the NSA conspired to defraud the United States by violating our constitutional rights and tap my local fiber grid.

If you make $150k/year half your paycheck goes towards funding traitors to the United States of America, funding people actively seek to undermine the constitution.
My understanding was that dendrochronology records go back about 12k years. Is there anything about that in the book you’re reading?
With containers the entire surface area of the kernel is available to attack (syscalls). With a VM the surface is restricted to the VMM and KVM.

This is an oversimplification, there may be other protocols that are passed through or utilized, they would add to the surface.
I tend to agree that Julia and other modern programming languages with hygenic macros aren't "homoiconic". Maybe GP is making a point about the title of this presentation? Read generously, maybe he's criticizing calling this homoiconicity by comparing it to Julia which originally claimed to be homoiconic but removed the claim from its website because of contentiousness[1]?

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/julia-users/c/iKxqn-J9frI/m/QzaS...
> Democratic Republic of Congo produces more than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt...

The article talks about where certain raw materials are currently being produced (cobalt, nickel, lithium, etc.) without discussing where those materials could be produced (reserves). There might be vast reserves of those same materials in areas where it is forbidden to mine or where things like permits and regulations make it unprofitable to refine. Does the DRC really have 70 percent of all cobalt on the Earth, or is it just cheap to mine there due to slave labor and lax environmental laws?
Guilt, Shame, and Depravity
How? If I live in a town/city/state/whatever where 70% support party X unquestionably what good is voting in the elections going to be if I support the Y candidate? I’ll always be outvoted unless the local majority absolutely fails to show up.

I met a guy running for congress a couple years back and had some discussion. We didn’t align politically but he seemed like a genuine guy who cared about helping people in his district more than reciting the party line and joining in on culture wars, and ultimately that screwed him out of the election.

The only time I can’t understand voting is in swing places where a small margin can make a difference, but even then I wouldn’t vote given some of the people on both sides running.
Direct link:

https://twitter.com/annoyingdog322/status/160770152004442521...
The tradition of only knowing a few of the lyrics and just mumbling through the rest is also alive and well in Scotland ;)
Heavy metal isnt too hard, just pick one of the Baltic countries or Finnish.
The senate had their computers compromised by the CIA. When caught they apologized and no one went to jail.

Tell me again about how voting is an “effective solution”.
This is a very simple, but not obvious, statement. I think your comment clicked something for me. I always noticed the two types of conversations you pointed out, but for some reason I never made the connection to categorize it like this.

Many of my awkward conversations are strictly because this distinction wasn't respected. Thanks for teaching me something new.
Most studies in this reference class (social science) don't replicate, so I'm fine with that being the default assumption.