skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting wrinkle

I'd have to think any fully electric car is a better target for autonomous retrofitting, because the drivetrain is already completely fly-by-wire?

Using a random estimate, a $100,000/vehicle autonomous retrofit probably pays for itself in like a year. The initial outlay of let's say a half billion to replace the city's fleet with EVs is a much bigger hurdle.
Yeah, basically anything that requires security, like say a login system, is a pain, and there are a lot of server quality of life features that you don't get with S3. Basically with an S3 bucket, they get the file system, the whole file system, and nothing but the file system.

For the security issue, the way I organized it was to have a second s3 bucket that the lambda could access but not an external user for storing anything sensitive. AWS has some dedicated services like Cognito and IAM for dealing with user login and verification, which in theory should make a lot of stuff easier but I struggled with getting to interface with everything else.

For the data storage there were just a bunch of little hacks to deal with things like write order and file size as the lambda functions are stateless and the timing/ordering of their execution is not reliable. Luckily what I was building was never intended to scale but if it ever did those hacks would not hold up. I was unaware of it at the time but AWS actually has a simple queue service (SQS) which I haven't personally used but seems like it would fix a lot of the issues.

But yeah, really the issue is that aws splits up its functionality such that it is hard to do things unless you are using the one arcanely named service that is actually designed to do it, the services aren't very compatible with eachother (they use different naming conventions for the same things, and are generally structured as if the teams working on them never talked to eachother) and I personally find the documentation for a lot of these services to be very unclear. I'm sure some AWS power user would have a much easier time doing it, but I don't know why anyone would sink in enough time to get that familiar with all those different services when there are plenty of straightforward all-in-one options out there. Plus, I don't feel spinning up 13 different services is really in the spirit of the S3/Lambda site.

That all being said, I do really like S3 for static sites and honestly adding just a little bit of dynamic functionality like adding an email form is not too bad.
The music and athletic pipelines are similar in that a really large number of kids enter the funnel and a vanishingly few come out the other end as well paid pros.

Pretty much the same with art.

That said, there is reward in the pleasure non pros can have in music, art and sports. But these people will need to have day jobs.

Nowadays the proliferation of easily available music online tends to smother music making at home.

Half a century ago, most every middle class home and school classroom had a piano.

Yep, there's a love/hate relationship with practicing, plus its imposition on the rest of the household.
I could have sworn there was a popular SCP by the same name! I will check this out, thanks!
My SO got a classical musical "high-end" education (as both her sisters). She stopped around the age of 15. Her sister stopped as well as teen. Her other sister is about to start a real professional/international classical career.

The foundation for such a career starts usually around the age of 5 or 6 and its *lots* of studying and playing. When you are not able to play like at least 4 hours every day you just can stop. There are times where you have to exercise 8, 10 or more hours until <insert body part> gets bloody.

Their parents are professional musicians too. The work just never stops. They both get like 4-6 hours sleep a day. That while teaching (university), learning/memorizing new lassic pieces and making sure the kids do the same while also making sure they get to casts and performances all over the world (at least at some state, before you have to attent to national auditions.) Sure because they are teaching as well, you dont have to do that, I guess.
A psychiatrist asked me to evaluate a remote video service marketed toward their profession for sessions with patients. I think it was early in the pandemic. The service promised confidentiality on the front page, etc., but was no different than any other website:

* Most importantly, and almost always overlooked, a clause in the privacy agreement that says, 'we can change the agreement at any time'. In other words, there is no agreement, there are no restrictions.

* The usual third parties, etc. obtaining the usual data.

It was alarming. I'm not sure what the psychiatrist did, but they did tell me 'everyone is using it'. Great.
>it should have been Win+Tab since the beginning

In the beginning, there was no "windows key".
Oh, interesting. I guess the cases I know of its use are diabetes related, now that I think about it, but I'd seen "I take metformin, so no alcohol" enough times I thought it was a drug interaction.
Most programming languages have underwhelming origin stories and are evolutionary hodgepodges held together with hot glue.

The most likely opposite to "basically invented overnight" is "designed by committee", and is that much preferable?

Origin stories aren't the end of the story either. Humble origins aside, JS has had many of the best minds in many of the largest companies contribute all sorts of feature work and performance efforts across a span of decades. How many languages can claim that many eyeballs and that diverse a set of language developers and engine writers?

Sure, a lot of it looks like a hodgepodge, especially with its mandatory, deep respect for backward compatibility, because no one wants to break an old website. But show me the language with any respect for backward compatibility that doesn't look like a hodgepodge?

Core systems languages like C and C++ started out as intentional hodgepodges. Their macro system was originally its own, different, language brought in from another existing project for some temporary duty, and now enshrined in the language as a forever feature.

Hodgepodges are how languages are built and evolved. That's how we got ourselves here: the natural way. Every programming language on the planet is its own beautiful house of cards, built piece at a time. Don't just look down on JS because it went "mainstream".
You don't need to write it though. The average Internet building person would be better off writing in a language which isn't terrible, and only using JS as the bytecode of the web.
Sure but Apple can just have a range of lens types and you upload your prescription.

How do you think people buy glasses online ?
I use sharex and screenshot and region snip a lot. I have it override the screenshot key and then just ctrl and shift for region. Screen. And current windows modifications.

F keys are in my opinion better used elsewhere when you can override screenshot key for screenshots.

I know lots of apps that use those F keys you've overriden.

https://getsharex.com/
I would agree that the author of the write-up took some creative liberties in applying certain malware category terms like "trojan" and "backdoor" and that it lacks the polish and depth found in other reports from malware reverse engineers.

However it contains enough basic information for a site operator to search their logs and filesystem to see if they have those indicators of compromise. It's "nice" in the sense that someone published the details of an attack quickly and provided some key details to the community, who can expand on these findings or use them in signature-based antivirus detection tools.

I also linked to the Virustotal report which has more information about the go executable including headers, exported symbols and debug information that you can see for free, and which has more detailed analysis for security researchers who have an enterprise subscription.
Here is an introduction I found from his blog:

>I am Petro Dobromylskyj, always known as Peter. I'm a vet, trained at the RVC, London University. I was fortunate enough to intercalate a BSc degree in physiology in to my veterinary degree. I was even more fortunate to study under Patrick Wall at UCH, who set me on course to become a veterinary anaesthetist, mostly working on acute pain control. That led to the Certificate then Diploma in Veterinary Anaesthesia and enough publications to allow me to enter the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia as a de facto founding member. Anaesthesia teaches you a lot. Basic science is combined with the occasional need to act rapidly. Wrong decisions can reward you with catastrophe in seconds. Thinking is mandatory. I stumbled on to nutrition completely by accident. Once you have been taught to think, it's hard to stop. I think about lots of things. These are some of them.
Why Google and Apple work to snuff out the mobile web
I'm struggling to get past OP's central conceit here: they want to share views that are generally considered unreasonable, but then are surprised when others in turn may behave in an unreasonable way towards them. It really seems like two peas in the same pod. (Worth noting we are getting the most positive read on OP's proposals via self-disclosure, while we assume the most negative responses via the same.)

It's also worth noting that the OP has not claimed they have suffered verbal abuse, harrassment, or threats. It's as likely that if they were speaking in person the typical response would be someone disengaging from the conversation with haste. I imagine many HN readers are very familiar with how the nature of online discourse fundamentally shifts the responses available.
I would but Wordpress seems to have an active vulnerability every 6 months or so. What is the average impact of this on users, I have no idea.
Wallfacers, and Swordholders: Strategic Thought in Chinese Scifi (2021) [pdf]
Discussion about the relevance of Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem trilogy to US defense strategy with respect to Chinese perspectives.

Two things I found interesting from reading this journal article:

1. There exists an academic community of US defense strategists that publish open access material regarding strategy. I didn't know such a community existed.

2. That community sees value in understanding potential Chinese perspectives regarding military strategy through published popular fiction.
Oh man, the first result for him on Google is a link to a YouTube video. That makes my BS meter instantly peg.
Interesting, I've seen them stuck more than once, I'll have to check up on what the deal is there, I walk by the depot every couple of days and I'm sure they'll be happy to talk about it.
Not the author but for me it’s insane that the router doesn’t do http routing on verbs but rather leave it to be repeatedly reimplemented in every single page (and the fact that you can’t do simple things like what’s been available in rails for over a decade with resources).
people really need to read Baudrillard where this all falls into perfect place.
As a guitar player for over 30 years now, it's fascinating how quickly you can teach something like Smoke on the Water or Whole Lotta Love in the span of a few minutes to someone who has never picked up the instrument... sure the timing/fretting is off but it's close enough that their face will light up.

To underscore your overall point, I took lessons in 2 phases:

1) At 10 years old, had a cheap classical guitar. Did 8 'proper' lessons, went home on the 8th one crying after being sent home to learn Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

2) At 14 years old picked up a guitar mag with a tab for Living Colour's "Type", which is almost as simple as something like Smoke on the Water. After learning a couple dozen more songs like this my parents purchased a Squire strat and signed me up for lessons with a dude who looked like Jerry Cantrell. Practiced 5 hours a day, and after 9 months stopped going as it appeared I had outclassed my instructor.

As to your #1 point, I'd humbly disagree. I was in a guitar center with less than a year under under my belt noodling and some guy walked to compliment my playing and see if I was in a band he could check out. My practice partner was similar, went on to win our battle of the bands and dropped out his freshman year of college to helm a critically acclaimed jam band for several years (at their height they spent 3 months touring w/ Phish).

Nowadays with the power of online tools kids can get frighteningly good very quick, and some within a few years to session pro level playing in a myriad of styles. Bedroom guitarists that become obsessed with the likes of Guthrie Govan and Tim Henson.
Elgg – open-source social networking engine
> This more than doubles the complexity

hybrid systems are complex but really not much more complex than traditional ICE when you consider that they no longer need starters or alternators, have transmissions with no shifting components, and can use electric A/C compressors to avoid accessory belts entirely.

They also have much longer maintenance intervals because the engine is only running ~2/3rds of the time.

Electric cars are of course simpler but have cost and range issues that are prohibitive for some use cases, not to mention will usually weigh much more than even an equivalent plugin hybrid.

Suffice to say there is a reason that the best taxi vehicle has been the Prius for more than a decade. efficient and rock solid reliable despite increased complexity.

Most importantly though, you can make 10 plugin hybrids with the battery from one BEV. As long as raw materials for batteries are a bottleneck then we should be seriously considering PHEVs as a stopgap if as we can make sure they are getting charged.
GCC has crashed on me every time I've tried LTO. Though that is an optimisation flag and not a code pattern. Still a crash though
Okay that’s personal preference but the long term trade off seems to heavily out weigh some brain fog for a few months. Talking years of improved health.
This is exactly what I mean. You guys have no idea how silly you sound everywhere else.

I also noticed your sleight of hand. "Greatest city in the world" includes Tokyo, Paris, Seoul. All far superior to NYC in almost every way, with similar issues of scale.
Me.

I was the conceptologist. I learned by fitting things into chunks.

Then I got to the world of tables of apis and frameworks and shitty microservices and all of it ad-hoc, and found that my mind, tuned to do what I found valuable and beautiful in the world, was worthless.
Why is asking ChatGPT becoming so common? Are people experimenting with AI or actually expecting google-like quality of information?
By row house do you mean something like this? https://goo.gl/maps/XTDwyAZy6GoqPRXt7

That's 4-5 stories of ~4 apartments per floor, times however many of those buildings fit in the 900ft/247m length of a block. There's nowhere near enough space on the corner (here's the corner: https://goo.gl/maps/aszPHqrQVGftcqTCA) to collect that much garbage, much less to do it three times a week.

Yes they could build big underground containers. Yes they could reduce the amount of garbage generated. But both are massive projects far beyond "why can't they just".
Wikipedia's Tips for Using the Wayback Machine
The implication is that something has happened during the last 50-100 years that caused people's "natural weight" to change upward. (Someone's "natural weight" is normally called their "set point".)

The evidence is a little slim (no pun), but there's one theory which I find quite compelling. The theory is that eating foods with high flavor-calorie association increases your set point, and eating foods with low flavor-calorie association decreases your set point.

Flavor-calorie association is when your body knows that a particular flavor results in getting lots of calories in the near future. The flavor-calorie association will be higher for foods that are more flavorful or more calorically dense, and flavor-calorie associations can only be developed for foods you eat regularly. This explains why I lose a bit of weight whenever I go somewhere new – I'm trying new foods, so what I'm eating has doesn't have any flavor-calorie association, so my body's set point goes down, so I get full more quickly, causing me to eat fewer calories overall, causing me to lose weight. And since foods have gotten much more flavorful and calorically dense in the past half-century, it would explain why people's set points have gone up.

There's a simple way to test this theory at home. Extra-light olive oil (not extra-virgin) is tasteless and textureless. So, find a 2-hour window of your day when you don't taste anything with flavor, and have two tablespoons of extra-light olive oil right in the middle of that window. Since the oil has no flavor, it should have no flavor-calorie association, and your set point should go down. I've been doing this, and I've been getting full faster and that's been causing me to lose weight. (If you want to google more info, it's called the shangri-la diet.)

(Note that if you try this, your toothpaste probably counts as a flavor.)
FYI: GoodRX says it costs $1K/month.
At a glance, the debugger user interface looks much nicer than gdb's terminal ui. How tightly coupled is the debugger interface to the emulator/debugger engine? How much work would it be to plug in a different debugger, say lldb or gdb, into the ui instead of blink?

I think the user experience of cli debuggers is generally somewhat dreadful when compared to their gui cousins -- they seem to display a much narrower view of what's going on. Could the big blinkenlights debugger view be useful outside of blink itself?
Energy production from a black hole requires adding to its mass, which might not be a good long-term plan.
No build frontend dev is a thing, although obscure.

Preact has a no build path in their documentation: https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/getting-started/#no-build-too...

And here’s my no build react setup: https://github.com/jsebrech/create-react-app-zero
> It's probably the worst-designed programming language I've ever seen.

I always wonder in these discussions why bourne shell/bash gets a pass. Many people know it, but are somehow blind to how terrible it is.
The issue is that garbage trucks drive serve each street equally often, for the most part. There's no streets where garbage trucks drive more often. It's not the situation that 20% of streets generate 80% of garbage that needs to be picked up [1]. It's block after block of townhomes and mid-rise apartments that are leaving out trash bags. Overhead lines inherently lend themselves to consolidated routes, but garbage disposal is the polar opposite of that.

1. High rise apartments generate a lot more trash, but they already have bulk garbage disposal systems and thus aren't part of the problem of picking up garbage bags off the street.
We did our toy shopping at thrift stores in the early 70's and the old Gilbert sets I had as a 10-12 year old were much better (for dangerous values of better) than what's available today.
IMO "Cross-platform UI" should really be a non-goal. A Windows user has very different expectations about their applications' look and feel, affordances, keyboard shortcuts, and the functionality of controls, than a macOS user has. Same between Android and iOS users. They expect things to work a certain way on their platforms. A UI that looks and feels the same across platforms disregards the expectations and needs of users in favor of the company's needs such as development cost and brand consistency.

You have a point about Windows though. Every time they try a new native look&feel, they are diluting what it means to "act like a Windows app" and becoming more and more part of the problem.
If the Zig language never goes anywhere, at least zig cc has shown people how much better the GNU toolchain could be.
In the world of chess the machines are so intelligent, that this can actually be used to distinguish them from humans. That Niemann has probably cheated in his chess carrier has been "proved" by comparing his moves with computer engine moves.

We might see a similar metric in the future when trying to prove that a certain text has been AI-generated. So a text will be marked as AI-generated, if it is highly correlated to the output of common LLMs.

But even in chess this metric is far from decisive: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/40695/how-often-do...
I'm obese. Most people my age at my work are not obese. I managed to get back to normal weight pre-pandemic by IF (16:8) and ~1hr a day of walking.

Various things have lead to me eating/drinking (alcohol) to excess and becoming more overweight than ever.

My long-winded point is that it seems specifically to be my personal actions that have caused my obesity -- poor food choices and lack of exercise. Others from the same background, others at the same workplace, etc., are not obese.

I would hate anyone to start telling me being fat is OK and that I shouldn't bother to do anything about it.
As far as string interpolation goes, what's wrong with the format() function? It was already in v1, and hasn't gone anywhere in v2.

https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v1/lib/Format.htm

https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/lib/Format.htm
Major Private Torrent Sites Have a Security Disaster to Fix
We can't make sure that every child in the US is fed, but you think they are all going to get AIs?
Well good news then! The future of VR is here, and you can already watch movies, educational lessons and virtual screens at your desk, bed or sofa. You don't need a headset to do that, even. You certainly don't need to spend $3,000 on it.

The problem is, none of that stuff is appealing. It's not only not a killer app, it's not even a profit driver. Games move some units, but even that is arguably clunky when you're not fully leveraging 6DOF.

So, what's the point of making a mobile headset that's not intended to be moved around? Why tether a headset that could be plugged into another machine altogether?
One internet complainer doesn't decide anything :)
Gridstar flow battery for US Army
I have a theory that the Nature group, ostensibly a bunch of academic journals, actually wants to become the NYTimes. They have chosen a custom font, they publish increasingly editorialised political content, and they produce these hype train news pieces which really lack objectivism or scientific rigour. Scientists should consider carefully what is appearing alongside their research, and the ultimate result of an unassailable, centralised academic publisher with opaque editorial practices.
Here's what I got. It's still pretty thrown together but hopefully it's helpful for ideas at least: https://github.com/url00/ModalAHK
Oh true, I’ve definitely encountered it doing that too. It’s strange (and funny) when it just keeps making the same mistake no matter how many chances you give it. It will often say that it now understands the mistake just before making the same mistake again. Or sometimes it fixes it but makes another mistake, forever alternating between the two mistakes. But I’ve also managed several times to get it to print a working program after breaking it down into multiple steps.
I have been hearing for at least 20 years that calorie restriction increases lifespan [0]. I have not seen compelling evidence of this, but I know a lot of people believe it.

[0]: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/can-calorie-restrict...
Hi I would love to send in my resume for the role but I am having trouble with the email, its j@88stacks.com?
Pushing snow is hard work. Harder than towing a large payload, so it makes sense to me that electric garbage trucks that might last a full day of garbage collection will fail to last as long while pushing around tons of snow. Just a simple matter of physics here.