skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two counterpoints I'd raise, in case they can help broaden your perspective:

- Industry wide layoffs != Mistake. By analogy, think about naturally occurring forest fires. Vast majority of ecologists would agree that such fires are healthy and necessary for the long term health of forest biomes. It's not a "mistake" for the trees or brush to become dense when energy or water is plentiful, and it's not wrong for a fire to destroy much of existing forest (allowing new and different growth in the future). So it is with business cycles and investment hypotheses.

- There are many accidental products or inventions, that proved more popular and durable than anyone could reasonably expect. Have you heard the story of how champagne was invented? Dom Perignon (yes the actual historical figure) was a French monk in the 17th century, tasked by the Catholic Church to solve the problem of wine fermentation that resulted in too much carbonation in the Champagne region, since the local climate was such that winter was too cold and the fermentation process was naturally interrupted by winter there in such a way as to introduce unwanted carbon dioxide. Wine with carbonation was considered undesirable, but Dom Perignon tweaked the process (inventing the "French method") in such a way as to invent a drink that consumers surprisingly found preferable (remember, nobody originally wanted carbonated wine at the time). The point of this story is that, there's no way to truly know what becomes a lasting trend or a change in consumer tastes; maybe people really would continue to shop and consume media online at higher rates even post-pandemic because they truly changed their tastes and liked it more, after being forced to do it by pandemic? How could anyone know that carbonated wine would stick around, when nobody had ever shown any interest in it before?
I wish there was less subscription model for movies. I like gog & steam, where I can precisely buy something. This gives incentive for the company to produce good content. Where subscription model does not incentivize company to create a good product.
This is terrible advice. Any tracker worth participating on is monitoring ratio cheating like a hawk.
making a white only rimworld mod is worse than distributing malware now I guess. Next move is they'll ban the account of everybody who complained about there being black dwarves, hobbits and elves in Rings Of Power.
To be fair, this repo is not FOSS
The reality is that electric vehicles are a fools errand. The real winning strategy is one that overall reduces dependency on vehicles, and moves more to walking, biking, and mass transit. This would mean actually making hard decisions and having policy changes though. You lower the CO2 produced by orders of magnitude compared to even electric vehicles.
Or you could use the command `say` on the command line on any current mac to get good-enough text-to-speech.

See full script here: https://gist.github.com/ivanistheone/de3ccb244224d101bb93320... and this doc explains how you can setup a keyboard shortcut to turn any text selection into an audio book https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...

Here is a sample if you want to hear what it sounds like: https://minireference.com/static/tmp/constructive_feedback.m...

which is the audio from this blog post https://productivityhub.org/2019/04/19/how-to-deliver-constr...

IMHO, the computer generated voice like Alex (the default voice on mac OS) sounds better because it doesn't try to do inflections or add human character when it is reading. The real-world narrators (voice actors) seem to add too much "character" into their reading, which me distracts from the story/content. The only exception is when the narration is done by the author, in which case I'd consider the narration as part of the work.
Funny, I'm not from the US, all I get from https://dvd.netflix.com/ is a 404 page not found error.

Maybe that's the perfect use case for subscription-based VPNs, renting DVDs from an American IP address... Hope it fits through the IP tunnel.
Regular people and their kids do not need uncensored content. In fact, an errant boob is the opposite thing these companies want to popup for the general public.
This is really cool - so cool that I hate to be a naysayer. We used to build pages this way and to a large degree moved away from this practice because the applications became to hard to test. At the other end of the spectrum is "Passive View" which allows for testing of the business logic and easy mocking of the view - https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/PassiveScreen.html.
None of it is racist nor problematic.

As an example, there are plenty of racist things a black only mod enables.

Yellow only I would use if I still liked The Simpsons and played the game in question.
If they did, at the current rate of content we would then just cancel.

Maybe a pay per series could work, but then that's them admitting that they don't make enough good content to justify a subscription.
Lately I've actually been finding a good place to start on new languages is talking to ChatGpt. You can ask really naive questions and get a lay of the land for the language or framework. You can even ask questions like (I know how to do X in Y framework, how would I do it in Django).

You can also use it to build your first hello world to get up and running a little faster.

After I would reccomend shoring up / confirming your knowledge with more traditional tutorials but I've found ChatGpt great for those early moments of learning.
On the other hand, not consuming the content vs pirating it doesn't change the outcome for the creator - if anything, piracy is slightly better as it still keeps the content relevant in the collective mindshare so that others who don't pirate (either due to moral or technical reasons) might buy said content.
AFAIK powering a BEV from electricity generated by fossile fuel has a higher efficiency than an internal combustion engine. Especially if you factor in the refining steps for car fuel.
Can browsers make it easier to use other search engines?
Let’s put aside the fact that a state of the art gasoline engine is about 20% efficient and an EV is about 50% efficient if you include power delivery deficiencies if we use non renewable fuel sources. What you’re stating is an infrastructure problem, not a specific EV problem. Genuinely would love to see literature how a EV increases the total carbon increase compared to a ICE vehicle.
It's high time to transition from RSA to the unbreakable TUPLEZZ (www.tuplezz.com)
> ...a mod called 'peaceful protests' which is seemingly criticizing the valid upset about George Floyd's murder by the state.

If that that's the ban reason, it's pretty Orwellian. There was a lot of severe property destruction (e.g. arson) during those protests, some of which was indisputably committed by people aligned with the protests. They were complicated events, with peaceful and violent parts. They were only one or the other when seen through a blinkered political orthodoxy.
> hydrogen fuel cell technology isn't anywhere near the point where it is ready. But we shouldn't stop developing it.

Scientific development on the technology should continue, but the focus on FCEVs as a use case is misplaced. The idea has been worked on for decades, but we're just about as far away from practical hydrogen infrastructure as we've ever been. It's still only available in any meaningful way in two metro areas in California. There are far more practical solutions to fast EV fueling than hydrogen.
On the off-chance that you're arguing in good faith: No.

Circumstantial evidence becomes compelling only when there's a lot of it, all in one direction, without exonerating or at least contradictory evidence of some kind.

If you have white robes with pointy hats, a noose, and a Confederate flag in your closet, I'm very comfortable assuming certain facts about you. If you can come up with a good explanation - perhaps you're an actor in a play about the civil rights era - I'm prepared to shift that conclusion, but "nuh uh, this doesn't prove anything!" isn't a compelling response to it.
As another commenter said, employees have been hired in corporate and technical roles that require training to become productive. Hiring is expensive, especially in technical areas, training is expensive and takes a lot of time, severance packages are expensive. The layoffs strike me as damage control rather than a well-calculated business move.
>Strange, I've found doing meal prep one day a week that you partition into fixed quantities for each day to be way easier than making a meal every day

I can't stand eating the same thing multiple days a week. Are you preparing multiple different meals for each day, one day a week?

Not to mention that it's never going to be as nice as a freshly-cooked meal anyway.
BMW shows color-changing e-ink concept car in action
I guess I don’t see maturity and humor as mutually exclusive.
Of course they do, Apple like to remain as much in control as possible. If suddenly it becomes more efficient/faster to run ML/AI stuff on Asahi Linux on Mac hardware then with macOS, I'm sure they be embarrassed enough to take some sort of action. And I'm pretty sure that action will be towards the side of "closing things down" rather than "opening stuff up", as is tradition.
Should be easy enough to fix:

5 SANCT Pull this pin high if you're using this product in a sanctioned country or product
There's one, and only one takeaway for me: it's time to start hosting my own git repos, and only treat GitHub as a mirror. (And on top of that, mirror elsewhere incase my host decides to boot me off.)

The arguments over moderation have gone nowhere. The same people who demand over and over that "something be done" about <controversial topic du jour> keep scratching their heads after events like this, and ponder how we got here.

Decentralized is the future.
What language are you referring to? It sounds like you have something very specific in mind, because the usual “not terrible” suspects (Python, Ruby, Rust, Go, etc) don’t have the properties you’re talking about.
I don't even know how - what's the best torrent sites nowadays?
I hard disagree. I think layoffs incredibly emotionally jarring and a huge act of disrespect to the employees. You could be years-in pending promotion and given the boot with not even a word of justification (happens more often than you might think). And even though it's just 1% the not-knowing factor means it psychologically affects everyone.

It's important to name-and-shame companies that can't be bothered to let go of people through legitimate channels of performance reviews, PIPs, allowing transfers, etc. Legitimizing overhire overfire is a dangerous road.
For everyone? No. Fortunately we don't need lithium for everyone's EV. Other battery chemistries and designs are already coming to market, like sodium batteries, solid state batteries, and more.
Why would Apple hide such optimization from public APIs?
Interpreters don’t mean the internal evaluation method here, but only the mode of operation. E.g. ruby implementations that use JIT, java’s jshell, python also has a JIT interpreter.
IMVHO

> How much lithium does the world have? We don’t really know for sure.

That's the simple main point. The rest are speculation. Oh, sure "not being sure" is not a reason not to try, but is a reason to have some backups. SO far we lack them. And that's the main issue.

The secondary issue is recycling of metals, so far we have many experimental procedures, more or less doable at a not-just-lab scale, but nothing usable on scale.

The corollary issue is that we do not have just cars, we also have airplanes and ships. So far some eVTOL have popped up but also prove they are not much more than very-short-range cars replacers for certain use cases. We also have some battery-electrical ship (and modern sub), but nothing really usable on large scale.

Long story short: the road is very long and looking for alternatives is a MUST. A company can fail, it's perfectly normal, a society should NOT FAIL by all means and when happen it hurt much.
As long as these are commonly available components, made in the millions, it's absolutely impossible to stop Russia and Iran from sourcing the thousands they need.
I think "smell nice" is pretty under-rated, though I'd suggest the nicest smell is so smell at all

Personally (at a normal work-interaction distance from someone)

Nothing > normal BO > food > cologne
> halfway through reversing the license checks I started feeling bad for the developers

What do you mean by this? Is there a story I'm missing?
The licensing/royalty mechanisms for music have long been much more centralized.

I also strongly suspect that, if you look at the numbers, all you can eat for video would come with a price tag that very few consumers would pay--especially if you throw in live TV.
Still sounds stressful and like a chore. I would feel "forced" to burn through as much of the backlog as possible during that month, even if I don't feel like watching something from it right now.
Making profits does not have to mean funding teams that aren't generating anything significant in terms or product and/or income. Many of these companies have a small portion making most of the profits, and all the others eating them up (see: VR, Voice).

You can do it the Amazon way, cutting products that are bleeding money, or the Salesforce way asking all units to cut 10% across the board, but just keeping failed products and units because "we have money" isn't really a good reason
Yeah, but...do besides a very few people actually have problems with that?
The Sony Xperia 1 is one answer. At the time, my Nokia and LG smartphones had significantly better photo quality than the top iPhone of the time.

Despite their marketing, I’ve never been aware of iPhones actually having the best image quality of smartphones.

I haven’t followed the iPhone 14. Does it do something different?
What would happen if you send one beam through double-slit and see how the other beam projects.

Would it also form a pattern as the first one?
I don't understand.

All countries army/police in the world can spy on anybody they want to have an eye on.

That goes for democraties and authoritative regimes.

One important aspect is how deep the spying goes... passive or active (why is not really spying anymore)?

In my country, such systems which are supposed to be used for _really_ nasty stuff (human trafficers/killers/pedophiles/hard drug dealers/etc)... end up being used for the music/movie industry... financed by my country citizens taxes. In the end, there is no way to trust them when they say, "don't worry, only really bad ppl"... yeah yeah... my...
> Also, you say parchment; should it not be papyrus? Parchment doesn't get cracked.

Sources I could find all say the Dead Sea Scroll are in parchment, not papyrus, but as I said I'm not a scholar or an expert on this. It seems the problem with parchment is that it doesn't absorb ink, so that sometimes the mere rolling or unrolling can crack the ink out of the surface, even if the surface itself stays intact.

Also, many fragments are torn apart, and in that case there should be no ink at the tear, whereas the forgeries were written all over, from side to side.
Particularly given that these seem to be fairly low tech devices that a modellist could probably put together.
Agreed. An argument is that themovie producers won't continue producing movies. Which is false because more money is made in royalties, merchandise, and advertisements on streaming.

Piracy is stealing something measurable, property. If something is not unique or measurable, then what would the value be?
So legally, I wouldn't consider it piracy by definition.
The Army's Project Convergence – Congress
The most basic way to analyze security is to look at it in terms of cost to penetrate security versus the benefit to the attacker. Things are not a binary "secure" or "not secure", they are secure when the expected costs are greater than the benefits, preferably by a comfortable margin.

The problem is that there are some resources where the benefit to the attacker goes up faster than the company can afford to cover, and the company has to cover all the attack avenues. You can imagine that the value of Slack's source code can be high to certain people, and it can be difficult to completely seal off something like that when source code by its nature pretty much has to be distributed to hundreds or thousands of people. (At least overall; any given source may not be that distributed, but there will be thousands with some sort of access.)

Major corporations basically have to act as if source compromise is inevitable. Best practices obviously include partitioning who can have access to what (perhaps the best practical argument against a one-company mono-repo, if de facto it has to be broken up by access permissions anyhow) and not including anything in the repo that is directly security catastrophic if it gets out (security secrets mostly), but this is still limiting blast radius rather than "solving" the problem.

It's a perfect storm of being extremely expensive to cover, in terms of money, internal process friction, and having a lot of heterogeneous vectors you need to cover, and for certain companies, being very high value to a number of different kinds of entities.

Being in GitHub specifically would only matter if GitHub was itself compromised. GitHub can not do very much about legit credentials being stolen through completely non-GitHub related means. (Most things, if not all things, that might leap to your mind will also block legitimate usage quite a bit. No matter what crazy thing you can imagine, someone's probably doing it somewhere and it's probably mission critical.)

I expect there have been a great deal more source code compromises than we've heard about.
Correct. It isn’t. It is copyright infringement, and there is a lot of case law to support this.
if you don't like it don't consume, no? seems simple to me. seems like a strange rationalization
They licensed GPT3 exclusively

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-...
That seems incredibly counterproductive to me. If its more for face-time and getting-to-know people fine, but if its supposed to be an actual _thing_ with actual impact then I'm skeptical.
I think people can complain about the less obvious stuff. The opt-out default is just ... people kind of throw their hands up at this point.
I'd assume they are. IIRC they are giving free compute to the project, and those models cost an absolute fortune to train.
I just stumbled across Reduct.Video who have something similar released as a service for $25/20hrs per month. They have some text to timestamp based clip editor and collaboration stuff thrown in but search is the main driver and I imagine they use a similar pipeline.
Not all censorship is an evil.
Would you say this is a natural consecuence of human emotions (e.g ego), economic interests, powerful players that have corrupted the game etc? I'm genuintely curious. As an ignorant on science and its processes in academia or markets, I cannot feel nothing other than dissapointment and loss of hope everytime I heard this kind of things about a matter I've always considered quite rational and focused on pursuing the truth over anything else. Naive me, I guess...
> That sounds intuitive to me but the fact that train tickets are so expensive on long distances (more than twice than if you travel alone in a car) makes me think it's not the case.

Have you factored in all the costs associated with owning a vehicle (e.g. cost of purchase, maintenance, etc)?
LFP batteries have not been widely used outside China till now because CATL[1] owns the important patents. The patents expire this year.

The energy density discrepancy is not as bad at a system (whole vehicle) level as it appears at cell level, for various reasons. And there are lots of use cases where LFP has more than enough energy, provided the price is right.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATL
Imagine if we used the same logic for law enforcement. "We can't tell you what's illegal because that would help bad actors. Also, not knowing the law is not a defence for violating it."
I am not entirely convinced you really hold this view, but if so, you could reduce technology's pernicious effects on yourself by not participating in this discussion.
Related, recent Electrek video discussing the next moves for countries that have phased out ICE for EV, such as Norway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F6Bz-0EKA0
if you don't find value don't consume or purchase it and it will stop growing. it grows because people pay. piracy is a strange rationalization
What would be causing this? Are they licensing something regionally… like Netflix?
Isn’t this article quite pointless considering everyone is aware of the current Lithium resource limitations and new technologies targeted to replace lithium are already emerging? For example the Sodium Ion batteries hit the news recently.

Similar to oil, we can all speculate what is the remaining capacity we haven’t extracted but eventually it all comes down to - can we get it cheaper somewhere else and preferably using own resources instead of paying 3rd party (country)?
9/11 (believe it or not) had a lot to do with that in IT/computer engineering research (and likely other fields) with government funding. After the attacks, the US Federal government moved to stressing development more than blue sky research. That drew all the funding away from fundamental science to projects that could be made into a product in 3-5 years and focused on addressing some issue of the War on Terror.
Why is that of note? It doesn’t explain anything related to GitHub’s takedown of the repository.
No its not overlooked, its called wheel to well efficiency and EV's are more efficient than ICE even if run off fossil fuels at a power plant, which it won't completely since even the US has a renewable/carbon free mix of about 20% currently on the grid.

Multi-stage heat recovery power plants are more efficient than even the best ICE engines in cars, there is no need to worry about space or weight so you can have very complicated heat recovery and emissions gear maintained by dedicated staff rather than being in my vehicle.

Power plants can run off less refined or even unrefined fuel, the efficiency of refining is often overlooked along with physically shipping refined fuel to fueling stations.

Finally it decouples the power source from the vehicle. Even if it where no more efficient to run EV's off fossil fuels burned at power plants, your vehicle can get upgraded to run off solar or nuclear or wind or whatever in the future while you get to keep the same vehicle. Any programmer should recognize the value of separating concerns for easier migration.

Where I am we have a garbage incinerator power plant with an elaborated scrubber system, EV around here are technically running partially off garbage. This is not carbon free by any means, but effective at reducing landfill use and getting power out of it.
There’s an intuition that recent products and inventions are more incremental and that historical innovations are more revolutionary- in the sense of lacking precedence.

But this is an effect of the simplification of history, and when you read the detailed technical histories you can see how remarkably incremental the old innovations were.

We can easily see the precedents of recent innovations but not for older ones.

This is pointed out in the book I am reading on the development of the turbojet, which only looks more unprecedented than it really was.