skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For instance, car keys.
Generally it is the people coming from C or C++98 who write unsafe code. People picking up C++20 start out using it safely, and continue.
Actually, ChatGPT is exactly the reason why I don't see chatbot taking over the world of knowledgebases !!!!

Right now, for what I read, ChatGPT is able to "synthetize" answers that are just false ! And even if it's right 95% of time, you just can't afford to have 5% answer being false... Just imagine what would be the consequences if ChatGPT "decides" to discount your product or say that a non-existing functionality is implemented...

ChatGPT might be some kind of answer IF it's the beginning of a pipeline that is followed by some kind of "reality check". But right now, I wouldn't trust this technology to replace some "certified and validated" information on a website representing a product or a company
You have this back to front.

The concentration of resources involved in getting people to and on Mars, will as a side effect also open up these areas on Earth for habitation.

The same effect occured with the space race. Instead of standing around saying it's impossible, our species rose to the challenge and as a side effect the technologies developed ended up altering our lives on earth in fundamental ways.

We are doing it because it is hard. Because we know the payoff for achieving difficult things.
The primary reason Antarctica is uninhabited is because it’s effectively against international law. Unfortunately there are similar laws affecting outer space.
In the abstract the researchers state:

We used serum sodium, as a proxy for hydration habits.

However they do not explain whether higher or lower levels mean more or less hydration, or vice versa.

I found the answer at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK306/

Only when such a patient is denied access to water or is unable to obtain water because of unconsciousness or disability does the serum sodium concentration rise, resulting in hypernatremia.
efficiency only matters to offset the impacts of dirty methods of energy capture or storage

it's believed we can have cars and equipment on synthetic fuels producing waaay lower lifetime emissions than equivalent battery electric vehicles

when that's the case, it has potential to reduce the scope of the mobile emissions problem to a degree where we can focus almost exclusively on cleaner centralized energy capture, for which the most difficult engineering has already been done, and storage, which needs more attention and investment either way

it would also allow for a quicker transition away from fossil, by giving people a more affordable transition option (or free, if cars don't need conversion) vs. buying electric, and by using more of the energy infrastructure that's already in place
My wife and I are doing the digital nomad thing and we try to talk to people as often as possible. Since we fly everywhere and take Uber, we try to strike up conversations with our Uber drivers.

We also always sit at the bar when we eat. People at the bar are more amenable to striking up random conversations with strangers than almost anywhere else.

Just last night I went to the bar myself and the couple next to me was speaking Spanish. I politely said excuse me and said I overheard them speaking Spanish and said that I wasn’t eavesdropping - I didn’t know enough to.

They laughed and we struck up a three hour conversation. We exchanged information and they said they are in Orlando all the time. That’s where we will be for half of the year.

On a professional note, I now work in cloud consulting that’s heavily customer facing and knowing how to strike up a conversation becomes very important especially during pre-sales and when you meet in person.

I don’t watch sports and usually has nothing interesting to talk about that wasn’t news or politics until I started traveling a lot and had a genuine interest in other peoples travel experience.
Not as useful as one would hope. The world produces 20M tons of vegetable oil vs 4B tons of petroleum.
Modern C++ provides enough nuts and bolts to avoid explicit allocations. My current C++ project (backend business server) only has single one. The rest is handled happily by RAII (what a dumb name). I could eliminate that single explicit allocation as well but I think I could manage single occurrence ;).

Also It would be really dumb to use shared_ptr for every case of allocation
I suspect a lot of it is historical. If you go back a few years there were lots of browser incompatibilities and many limitations in Javascript, CSS and HTML. To work around those difficulties and limitations many frameworks were created. Today many of the limitations of the basic technologies have been fixed but the frameworks are still here, though probably less necessary than ever. But once people have gotten used to doing things a certain way (for example using jquery instead of querySelector) they tend not to change.

This isn't unique to web development. The same thing happened with C++ and Boost, for example, where gradually the language and standard library evolved to include functionality that previously required 3rd party libraries.

But I think far more work and money has been invested in web development than other areas, hence creating a bigger mess.

My impression is that the actual user experience of most web sites, including the big ones like Amazon, has improved very little over the last decade, so it feels like all the effort put into web technologies has, so far at least, not produced a lot of value.
It doesn't "just say what it does or doesn't" is what I'm trying to tell you, there's a lot of controversy about this within the Catholic community, and his views are specifically counter to current doctrine (which he views as illegitimate). (See the edit I made when you were typing this.)

Gloating about them being robbed is shitty though.
Wow all the way to the sun revolving around the earth. Ok, 14 years ago but still...
Funny how "everybody" is working into the same ChatGPT projects right now (Speech to Text, API integration, TTS...)

Somehow it's a nice to observe this trend to start working in other areas.
I was more addressing the idea that the Flipper device, while cool, seems to stand to do more harm than good by making its functionality so readily available to a wide class of people. Yes, it is generally a good idea to not oversupply teenagers with things that do things they otherwise couldn't but do harm.

Cars are trivially broken into. Increasing the safety of the locking mechanism would do some good but not prevent. This is what I was referring to by appropriate. Maybe that weakens my argument about at least considering the Flipper as a potentially harmful device, but the Flipper can do a lot of things.

There is a lot of security that relies on things simply being inconvenient.
i find keeping a grand enough to cover most emergencies, without being so much that i’m worried for it.
Those are reasonable use cases, but:
- those are entirely different types of engines
- which are already able to use ethanol today
- and none of which mazda is even producing engines for
find a better bank... Revolut has been great for me so far, seems to be in the usa as well, check them out at least for transfers

> Also, my checks don't have my full name or billing address on them.

Return address on envelope does...

Also, aren't you worried someone will intercept check like in article and rewrite it?, non issue with electronic payments
> Is there even a theory that the oil is infinite?

Not quite infinite, but renewable: https://edu.rsc.org/news/treasure-from-the-earths-mantle/202...
> > and not on say crypto or ad serving or military pursuits, is still a net win

We are not in the 1960s anymore, the US should do better than just an Apollo program 2.0, going into crazy Mars expenditures without a plan would guarantee you just that.

The inspiration should be the Manhattan Project and the Marshall Plan.

In both instances the super-geniuses with type-A personality got you to the Promised Land, but then what happens? They move on the next shiny thing. Nonetheless The Manhattan Project and the Marshall Plan were able to continue because once the super-geniuses got the US to the Promised Land there were operators who got to keep the project going.

Generals, admirals, ambassadors were more than willing to dedicate their lives as operators to make sure that the U.S. Govt and its citizens would actually get a ROI on the 2 endeavours. You can say it's patriotism, status-seeking, the thrill to have authority over powerful weapons, borders and huge economic resources. Whatever the reason there were operators at the helm once the super-geniuses got out of the picutre.

The Apollo Program had the same amount of super-geniuses but no operators to take the helm to secure ROI, that's the reason why the U.S. Govt. had to pull the plug on the whole program.

Operators are not interested in writing their name in history books, they need enemies and competition to beat and take resources away from them. Said resources would then be paraded around and shown to citizens in order to both show the competence of said operators and improve the quality of life of American citizens.

What resources can be extracted from Mars and given to citizens in order to propel their quality of life?

If you think the infamous "We are there for the oil!" was bad then I guarantee you that "We don't know why we are there at all!" is much worse.

The former people will understand the rationale and even accept it, while being openly critic about it in public they'd be at peace with it while in the privacy of their homes with the curtain closed. The latter, not so much.
> To me it’s weird because it’s so unimportant. Who cares which groups of who were advanced or not and what they were doing back then.

The people colonizing those lands certainly cared at the time, and they used such beliefs to justify a lot of pretty awful acts. Given that the modern, western world is built on the legacy of colonialism, it's important (at least to me) to understand whether those motivating beliefs were true.
Roundworm lifespan extended in mitochondria study
> understaffed

Bingo.

There's a lot of dubious research that shows that the quality of education is not related to the student-to-teacher ratio. It flies against common sense, but people in power like to give it credence, since it's budget-friendly. The funny thing is that education budgets in the US are already very large. I don't know how the money is spent, but it's not spent on lowering that ratio.

If people need a proof that fewer students per teacher result in better outcomes, they just need to compare public and private schools.
I don't know much about it, but I would assume that some effort would be made by miners to look in different parts of the search space - you don't want 1000 machines looking checking the same hashes, in order, after all.
Catholic moral teaching on homosexuality does not require there to be a God. In fact the reasoning is entirely secular. You may disagree with it, but that is the case. Catholic moral teaching on slavery is based on there being a God.

When it comes to marriage, the church believes that relations between men and women that can result in the generation of a child are worthy of special privileges. Relations between impotent men or women who cannot have sex are similarly not considered marriage. If you can find two men or two women who produced a child, the church would change its beliefs, but no one has been able to do so. Note that there's no dependence on their being a god for this one. The fact that heterosexual couplings produce children is an observation. That this relationship should come with societal privilege is a statement one can come to through reason.
> Because nobody wants one. That’s not an understatement.

That is an understatement. "People" have talked about a Moon colony for a long time. Even before there were Moon landings.

The primary difference is that a Moon colony doesn't have a billionaire propagandist.
Does that work with the process described in the article, can it be done at scale, how much does it cost? While I hear about a couple of these breakthrough alternate fuels a year, I’ve yet to see a single one that doesn’t fall down on at least one of those areas. The first one isn’t a deal-killer — you could have an alternate fuel product for petrol and a different one for fuel oils, but if they can’t be made economically at scale, these technologies are useless for all but niche purposes.
Can you enforce at compile-time that only such a static factory can ever be used for creating the object in Rust? This is the whole point of constructors, they cannot not be used. Otherwise you're just one commit away of creating an object that will not respect the invariants - will you even remember to call this specific factory function in 6 months?
If it is reproducible I assume bit by bit the same from the same sources. Build date then seems irrelevant as you only need to date/version source. Also I think a metadata file could be put aside as an optional thing.
A common variant of this is the Boolean argument to flip between function modes

doAOrB(args, aOrB: bool)

Especially if the toggle gets used in 3-4 places or more in the body, control flow is a nightmare to follow. Instead of 2 paths to read, you have to mentally coalesce 2^n paths into 2. Worst-case scenario is when args has different meanings depending on the value of aOrB.

@param flag: if set and if aOrB is true, warnings log to stdout and die, otherwise warnings are saved in the foobar field of args
Well I don't know that Seiko has been directly involved in whaling in any way and some of the proceeds from the "save the ocean" line are given to divers that work to remove marine debris so that seems like a really odd connection to make.
That's actually an interesting use case, vintage vehicles, old diesel trucks used near radio telescopes, etc. That said, I doubt that market would be large enough for the amount of money currently being invested in it.
A check is literally an instruction to a bank to talk to another bank and get some money, a process which, in the US, they usually complete by sending the check to a federal reserve clearinghouse. In what way does that give the parties directly participating in the transaction independent ‘control’?
As an owner you still want money to spend. How do you get that if not from the profits?

In the cable company example, from taxes (not paid) and accelerated depreciation (a big part of the taxes not paid). Money is fungible and cash is the ultimately fungible form of money. Tax money (not paid) is better than money taken as taxed profits.

By running the business at a loss (from a profit/loss point of view), the cable company paid little or no taxes. You can take $100 in profit and pay $30 in taxes (net $70 in your pocket), or you can show $0 profit and roll that $130 into your business expecting $130 + growth in the future. Note that, with the cable company example, the cable company "was unprofitable" every year yet paid a compound return of 30% to its shareholders.
> with a bit of code glue sprinkled in-between

https://ptrthomas.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/jtrac-callstac...

:)
That exact image is found in the link I shared, with additional detail :)
The cost to transition away from fossil fuels isn’t really talked about much.

For example, our electric grid can’t handle everyone using electric cars. Everything from electricity production to distribution needs to be upgraded. There is a massive cost to that.
shared_ptr use is very rare in good modern C++. Uaf bugs are much rarer. Most people using modern C++ never have any, see any, or risk any. So, no, they would not be better off with GC.
Fertilizers can also be made without fossil fuels.

One really has to distinguish between CO2 that would be emitted by the process in the current fossil fuel economy, vs. CO2 emitted when the world is off fossil fuels. In the latter, where do the carbon atoms come from if not from the biomass, and hence from the air?
>“Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.” -Satoshi Nakamoto

That’s not applicable in this context because the coins were stolen (ie. transferred to someone else) not lost (ie. transferred to no one). In the former case it doesn’t make everyone’s coins more valuable because it could still be spent.
This is a non-sequitur. Apply the same argument to a serial killer who is a trauma surgeon. Just because you have the same units doesn't mean you have an equation.
> ...You could just as well bootstrap a tiny, successful internet business selling Wordpress plugins or Shopify themes, believing that ‘startups shouldn’t raise capital’. You would then never need to update your beliefs, because those are perfectly sufficient for a small, independently-run business.

At the scale of a one or two person show the up front costs for building and selling your software are pretty reasonable. This setup rearranges how much cash you need up front to 1. be competitive and 2. win over new business. True this has a cap on it of say... ~1-2M ARR but that's a very reasonable game for a lot of smart people to be playing. I didn't read the original article he's arguing against, but if that's the style business they are discussing then the "don't raise" argument holds up. Frankly given the original article's conclusion of "don't raise money" I suspect they weren't focusing a post-IPO cable business...
I absolutely have little knowledge in this area. I just know that the models have reached an entirely new level of performance based on what I see with ChatGPT and limited reading in recent weeks.

I’m trying to get a read on how things will play out over the next year or two. I’m bracing for big change and trying to get my head around the enabling and gating factors.

If you can point me to any articles/resources that would help with that effort, I’d appreciate it.
Fair enough. It seems to me that you have thought a lot about this and you are living true to the values that you have set for yourself. I don't personally feel the same way but I respect your decision in being true to yourself and as long as you're not hurting anyone else in the process who am I to judge?
Seems like that will just drive the foreign super rich to ‘buy’ citizenships too. With enough money and in-country fixers/ lobbyists, that’s usually not unobtainable in most countries.
For larger purchases there’s often a fee to pay by credit card. If the fee is equal to or lower than my cash back rate, I’ll pay by card, but sometimes checks are the only feasible option.

Recent example: Tree trimming company. They accepted check (no fee) or card with 3% fee. The highest cash back card I have for generic purchase is 2%, so I paid by check instead.
Speaking for central EU schools, there is no such capacity and the teachers sometimes join in the bullying too, and pretty often they ignore it when it's the popular children doing it.

It's also very hard to deal with it if you have 30-35 children per class and 3-5 classes per year - which you do because we are at the height of a population wave in this region right now.

They are also absolutely unable to deal with stuff like dyslexia, ADHD, or other mental issues - meanwhile we have a push for "inclusive schooling"...
Coryton (the fuel supplier) has a PR post [1] about it with a few more details. Their Sustain fuel is "blended bioethanol and biogasoline" [2]. Sustain 100% might mean either it's 100% bioethanol or 100% biogasoline, I haven't been able to find anything saying what the percentage means.

[1] https://coryton.com/lab/news/mazda-using-sustain-100-per-cen...

[2] https://coryton.com/sustain/
I agree, yet that doesn't seem to be the strategy the author employs. Nor do many other people. In fact having an argumented discussion is heavily discouraged in those "polite" groups and being agreeable is seen as the only acceptable behavior.

In other words I'd much rather have this argument/conversation with you than engage in a conversation with a sole reason to cheer the article and everyone who read.

But then again I'm on HN on New Years, so by default I'm not a winner in the social interaction game.
In reality a $55 per month colo provider with a history of security incidents is not a reasonable choice for a high security application.
PyTorch discloses malicious dependency chain compromise over holidays
Corruption. Allows an additional non objective criteria to let the powers at be manipulate the “rules” to their favor with plausible deniability. It also inherently benefits richer people because poorer people will not have as much resources to invest in sports (for example, the kids need to help parents’ operate business).

On the high end (division 1), it is also a taxpayer subsidized training/filtering mechanism for the for profit professional sports leagues. The taxpayers, from high school to college, fund the development and resources for figuring out who the best players will be to hire for the professional sports businesses.
In Denmark checks are not supported payment anymore, not even at banks: https://danskebank.dk/privat/find-hjaelp/betalinger-og-overf...

Everything is debit card, bank transfer or MobilePay. Creditcards are only really used for travel and payment of US companies.
Funny how the more the screenshots go back in history, the more 'useful' the UI looks like (even though they no longer adhere to the current fashion fad - which should actually be handled through a user-accessible themeing engine, no need to pay some UI designers big bucks to come up with rounded corners).

For instance right in the first Task Manager screenshot, I have no clue what those tab icons on the left side actually mean - with one exception: "users". There are two icons that both look like hamburger menues FFS.
The proven oil reserves have steadily increased for the last decade, even as consumption has increased. This means that we are discovering oil faster than we are burning it. The Earth obviously can't have infinite oil, but we don't know how long until we run out, and it's likely well over fifty years from now.
Yes, those. I made no claim about the morality of said rules. Only that it appears that the logical conclusion is the same in both spaces.

Good luck to you, competition is a good thing.
>> They're basically all-seasons rated for snow.

Ya. They are the bare minimum to qualify for that label. They are essentially the worse snow tires that can still be called snow tires. It's all marketing hype, which becomes dangerous when stupid people rely upon it to make safety decisions.
I had forgotten the exact number, i knew it was at least 7k. I didnt want to lie in my comment, but im almost sure you are right.

Im at work right now so cant look it up.
Very few countries have a wealth tax, and US is definitely not one of them.
Only one bank in Poland handles them, I had to open a separate account just to cash it. As far as I remember the cashing in process took some time (about a week maybe?) and the fees were about 25% of the check value (operations + currency exchange).

There's no option in doing it from the app/ATM afaik.
Same here, am excited for what happens in the coming year. I did read on HN some time ago and just checked, SWISS airline working together with Synhelion https://www.swiss.com/magazine/en/inside-swiss/sustainabilit...
The obsession about private flights in general feels like greenwashed hatred/jealousy towards rich people - environment-wise those represent a rounding error of all total emissions.
MS office is the only time I’m frustrated by keys being different. Otherwise control/alt/fn + arrows is a pleasure to use for text navigation.

For terminal its pretty easy to remap keys, in iterm at least as far as I remember.[1] I stopped doing this because it was annoying when switching between MacOS and Linux.

[1]https://emilyemorehouse.com/blog/001-iterm-keybindings/
He is also looking for new "affordable" colo options. Budget $55 a month.