skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way. The difference is that if you develop something with public source code, you're vulnerable from day zero of development. That means severe vulnerabilities are more likely to surface before the product is mature enough for those vulnerabilities to represent massive risks. OSS applications benefit from survivorship bias: the code that's there probably contains fewer vulnerabilities because any vulnerabilities that were there have likely been exploited already, allowing them to be detected and fixed.

Meanwhile if you allow a closed code base to grow and mature for years and then expose it to the prying eyes of the public, it might contain a few bangers that would have been caught much earlier if the code had been developed in public.

Of course this assumes that vulnerabilities get fixed and dev teams learn to avoid them once they've found them. This somewhat breaks down in typical plugin-heavy open source stacks where any random plugin might be developed by a 13 year old in their bedroom and no longer maintained and your flagship product now depends on it because nobody noticed its glaring security flaws. Though this can be managed and avoided somewhat by being more deliberate when picking out plugins.

EDIT: A really straightforward example is committing unencrypted secrets (API keys, passwords, whatever). In an OSS product this will likely be exploited almost instantly but this creates cultural awareness to not do that (either by learning from mistakes or by being told horror stories about those mistakes). In a closed source product this could easily go on for years with no consequences until someone exposes the code to the public.
Popcorn time.

Is it wrong that I'm smiling?
Tesla has already lost its lead as far as the car itself. The Ioniq is an affordable car and better than Tesla Model 3/Y. Mercedes and BMW have better luxury models with EQS and i7, and the BMW i4 is more fun to drive than a Model 3. The Cadillac Lyriq costs what a Model Y does but compares favorably to the Model X. Tesla interiors feel cheap compared to other cars in their same class and they have notorious build quality issues.

They do have one major advantage, which is why I still drive a Model S, and that's the Supercharger network. It's a big deal for anyone who regularly drives a few hundred miles in their EV.
> The control of funding agencies at the federal level by vested interests seems to be a major problem

This is a fundamental problem with the nature of science and the nation state in that modern science is constituted by the nation state, not merely imposing into or upon it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvntr0J5eQk
Some companies have internal policies that set hard limits on the increase an existing employee can receive per year. Those obviously do not apply to a new hire, so the salary negotiations are expected at that time. This has been the reasoning for the "if you want a raise, get a new job" concept that I have always understood.
I'm pretty sure this is a generational thing as well.
Younger engineers are used to just "google it", or "watch a youtube video" and you are suddenly an expert in whatever you want. Watch a video on building a cabin in the woods, and you have it all figured out.

Older generations are used to studying the field, and learning about the capabilities of the language, environment, etc.

It comes down to this. A language is a tool. Learn your tools well. Become a master craftsman in the tool, and then you will be able to craft amazing things.

If you just learn "enough" to get by for now, i.e. "On Demand Learning", then you won't even be aware if some particular capability of your toolset exists, because, you can't "learn it" if you don't know about it.

Eventually, you will "see some code" that does something, and suddenly you will be prompted to "go learn it", but your understanding will always be limited.

I still take time to read through books (Oreilly, packt, etc) or do some langauge reviews to understand what my tools can do, and do my best to get a good feel for the capabilities. As I approach a particular problem, I usually need to do some more review, more "on demand" learning to deal with the specifics of the problem.

I guess, my approach is a bit of both. General coverage so I "know" my tools capabilities, and then on-demand for the details when I'm trying to use a particular capability for the first or 2nd time.
This isn’t surprising at all. General commercial or industrial parts aren’t highly controlled around the world. Even if the US has export restrictions, many other places don’t. There are plenty of middlemen more than happy to sell these parts at a premium to make a buck.
Real libertarianism hasn't been tried.
> it's not really possible to regulate

Hell of a lot easier than cash.
The way "switch" works in C is very weird. It behaves more like a "goto", where each "case ...:" is a label to which it can jump.

So when the character is '-', it starts just before the "if (0)" (this part is hidden within the ARG_BEGIN macro), and as you noted, it will never enter that block. However, when the character is 'a', 'b', 'c', or nothing (the end-of-string marker), it will jump directly to the corresponding "case ...:" label, even though it's within that "unreachable" block.
“Everything in (content) moderation, including (content) moderation.”

― Oscar Wilde

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/22688-everything-in-moderat...
Debt in itself doesn't matter when you value a company. What you want to look at is shareholder equity, which is assets net of liabilities. When you look at that indicator, Tesla comes behind GM and Ford.

Tesla: $31.0 bn

GM: $65.3 bn

Ford: $42.1 bn
Rentals and a la cart are pretty much always more convenient these days. At my adult income level, $3 for a movie that's not on the services I'm subscribed to hits a reasonable spot in terms of convenience vs price. Anyone who ignores the a la cart option to justify "piracy is just convenience" isn't being honest with themselves.
It was a very interesting time in computing history. The changes from the i80286 to the i80386 were extreme - the i386 gave us a fundamentally different instruction set that common 32 bit systems still use in 2023.

On the other hand, the changes in the i80486 were purely about speed: relatively large built-in caches, integrated FPU, significantly better pipelining and so on.

It was the last time Motorola really competed with Intel. The m68040 was all about performance, too, and Motorola's chip was faster in integer, floating point, synthetic and real world uses, clock for clock. (The m68060 was somewhat competitive with the Pentium, but people weren't choosing between x86 and m68k by then.) The x86 world really owes some thanks to Motorola for the competition.

However, the fact that Intel was selling '486s like hotcakes meant they spent the time and money to continue to improve the '486, so the clocks went way up. The m68040 never had any clock improvements over 40 MHz.

An i80486 system can still run NetBSD decently in 2023, which is a testament to the generally good performance of the CPU :)
If what you are saying was true then NIMBYism wouldn't be a problem, and we also wouldn't have any large "open spaces" left.

The problem is more parochialism than it is short-term thinking. And both sets of entities (powerful individuals and aggregate masses) are capable of parochialism.
"Something went wrong, please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact us."

Tried several times.
This morning I would have had to bike in the dark, in a 35f rainstorm. Not going to happen.
> Bankman-Fried claims ownership of the shares, seeking a source of payment for legal expenses, according to FTX.

These shares must have completely slipped his mind when he said all he had left was $100k in his bank account.

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-100000-ft...
>electric bicycles and trikes like the Aptera are much better direction for the vast majority of individual transport.

I think a vast majority of people in the United States that choose to drive cars, suvs and pickups would disagree your assumption.
Their new octovalve heat pump stuff makes a significant difference in cold weather. Anecdotally our Model Y (heat pump) is a bit more performant in the cold vs our 2018 Model 3 (not heat pump).
What about them is market-monopolising? Cruise and Waymo both are working on self driving cars and making progress (those are ones I know, I'm sure there are others that I'm not aware of). The traditional taxi businesses are watching this, and won't sit still.
Doesn't look like it. if you have a hypothesis, write it up and publish it
In one of his most recent videos, Peter Zeihan cites some things, which actually make me question his objectivity in this matter.

- He claims that graphite will be a problem. I'm not sure if this will
be if we divert coal and petroleum away from energy to graphite, which
would sequester that carbon.
- He's not aware that the aluminum industry has made plans to become
carbon neutral. I'm not sure if they really mean it, but they've
made plans.
- He claims that at no point in history, has the world doubled the
availability of a resource by a factor of 2 in 10 years. This just
strikes me as fishy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf85EuQKWeQ
I’ve done both kinds of work on my own home. Calling it back breaking is pure hyperbole. Is it physical, certainly. But it’s something you can easily do until you’re 50 without issue and between 40 to 50, you can start taking apprentices that do the taxes that benefit from youth. Of the plumbers and carpenters I’ve hired, they are all in no worse shape than other adults their age.

I sit at a computer all day and it’s not good for my body either as I’m more sedentary than is healthy. I would say that my work is equally unhealthy but in different ways.
I dunno.

So far as fashion, some people think men stuff way too much in their pockets for their own good. One of my quadriceps has some fibers that don’t really want to fire and having a stuffed wallet doesn’t help for me. When I am dressed formally I like keeping my wallet in an inner pocket of a suit jacket but really I try not to keep my wallet in my pants pockets.
A Breach at LastPass Has Password Lessons for Us All
> the 486's on steroids were for budget users

As far as i remember Pentium at 100 MHz was slower than a 486 DX/4 at 100 MHz
Probably just as well. Garden leave can be a pretty unsatisfactory mitigation, especially if it's not 100% of salary or if a lot of total comp is in bonus or equity. And even money aside, some people may not want to put their career on hold for a year.

Essentially garden leave is a compromise that's better than nothing and will make companies think twice about trying to enforce a non-compete. However, non-competes still raise flags for potential employers as well. (I used to work for a very small company and we wouldn't touch anyone who had a non-compete in place.)
Hi, so I looked at the links in the above post and while cartoony they are clearly not okay.

It's not a "normie" take that we shouldn't sexualize children, even if they are animated.
Tesla sales dropped in China, but production now resumes
Almost as if ICE car companies don’t want electric to sell. BMW was the worst of the lot. They’re doing better now.
Ask HN: Examples of great PWAs
Looking for examples of best-in-class of PWAs, a few of my favorites listed below.

Pinafore, a Mastodon client:
https://pinafore.social/

Resilient Web Design, a PWA book by Jeremy Keith:
https://resilientwebdesign.com

2048, the game:
https://2048game.com

I see a bunch of praise for the Starbucks PWA, but I wasn’t too impressed:
https://app.starbucks.com/
Each of us is an inexperienced parent; we can all only do what we think is right. What I think is right may differ from you, and that's completely ok. My main objection to this really started when I saw the short "Out" listed prominently on my kids Disney+ account. Its an animated kid friendly short detailing how to come out to your family. While I don't think that watching a show like this will turn someone gay I do think it can potentially lead to confusion in a kid. My take is that while people are generally born gay, that peoples minds can be changed or confusion introduced, in much the same way that exposure to pornography can induce / awaken sexual fetishes (I am not calling being gay a fetish). I am very open to the fact that I could be completely wrong and I am ok with that. My kids know about gay people and I am always careful to tell them that people are free to live their lives and be happy how they want. In the long run I don't think not allowing my kids to watch a few shows is going to have detrimental affects and just do the best that I can.
Are 2:1 sparse matrices a common thing? It seems weird, like clearly that’s not sparse enough to want to use, like, sparse matrix “CSR” style storage or something, haha. I would just treat it as dense I guess.
Yeah people have forgotten this but when the Pentium came out and all Pentium PCs required a CPU fan, this was criticized by many reviewers.

Now I have an Intel CPU with a motorcycle-sized radiator and a coolant pump :-|
I don’t understand. It’s remote cooling. It even uses electromagnetic radiation. What’s the gap?
Exactly!

As can probably be gleaned from my posts here, I'm an activist working for better cycling and human transportation in how we do urban planning.

And one thing I often see, at least locally, is how those using a wheelchair or other amenities want better pedestrian infrastructure (or cycling infrastructure). Not car infrastructure. Many don't have the ability to drive, or the money for a special car. But a motorized tricycle, or an electric wheelchair using bicycle ramps works great.
Top AI conference bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write papers
I mean you could just read the article:

"The Justice Department said Wednesday that has moved to seize millions of shares of Robinhood, the popular stock-trading app, whose ownership is disputed by several parties, including Bankman-Fried himself, his bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and another bankrupt crypto company.

Because the competing claims, FTX filed a motion earlier this month to the Delaware bankruptcy court to keep the assets frozen until the court “can resolve the issues in a manner that is fair to all creditors of the debtors.”"
Perfect for the all-too-common situation where your performance bottleneck is in command line argument parsing...
Just came here to post this also!
>This looks like a tool for generating images of underage cartoon children?

Same way Photoshop can be considered a tool for drawing images of underage cartoon children.
> but it takes a very specific set of circumstances for it to make sense.

> funding

Not everyone is coding for a commercial entity or otherwise monetising their projects, they might just be doing it for fun and want to share, but want to keep their version properly theirs.

A key reason for this can be licensing, if the licence is not a very permissive one. If you have a project that is AGPL and you later want to change to MIT, or if you do decide to go commercial, then if all the code is yours that is easy: just do it. You can't revoke the earlier licence of course, so the last GPL release is effectively dual-licensed. If you have numerous other contributors then you may have issues with relicensing their contributions. They might not care if you are going from AGPL to something more permissive (though that might*, depending on ideology) but they are more likely to if there is money involved.

Moving to a more restrictive license is often easier, but might still not be 100% plain sailing.
Wait until you learn that "Full Self Driving" is $15,000USD right now.
I’ll always pay for Spotify or something like it because the UX is 1000x better than pirating everything and trying to sync up my collection to the cloud across devices. Not gonna bother with that. The ease of discovering new music and sharing it with friends is also unparalleled.

For movies, I usually just pay $4 to rent it from iTunes on my Apple TV. If it’s something I love and want to keep forever I might pirate it.
Libel law has a much longer legal history.
Interpreting these images "correctly" requires a TON of context, which unfortunately is not the kind of slack that (for example) Canadian law enforcement are willing to give. Many regulators really don't care about details in the slightest.

In general when it comes to porn and porn-adjacent content, "I know it when I see it" remains how the law generally works :(

There are VTubers and video game characters that in their canonical profiles will say things like 'eternally 17' or whatever. How is a regulator supposed to interpret something like that when deciding whether something is meant by the artist to be transgressive or not? We know the actresses involved and the artists are all adults, of course.
The HotJava Browser: A White Paper
Related anecdote: My father-in-law died in Louisiana state police custody, in a pretty brutal and depressing way, after breaking no laws but "acting suspiciously" in a casino parking lot. No lawyer would touch the case because he had meth in his system according to the toxicology report, despite the fact he'd been restrained for hours before he died. Apparently it's nigh-impossible to bring a wrongful death suit against police in Louisiana.
The Road to Out-of-Process ReSharper: Asynchronous Typing
Independent plumbers/local plumbing businesses can easily earn $1,000/day with 2-3 service calls. Not sure how universal healthcare, PTO, immigration, and more pay have to do with this.

Edit: Thank you for all the downvotes for me calling out the weird correlation between tech benefits/politics and plumber skill-shortage + high-reward wages. Your wokeism will forever benefit society.
Amazon's stock price rises and falls with the rest of the market. It does not indicate "corporate health". There's no conspiracy theory here - tech companies have a history of colluding to suppress wages. Even if there's no collusion here it is easy for executives to recognize an opportunity to cut wages and employee power and they'll all jump on it.
Firefox Focus works as a Safari content blocker: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/

It's quite effective at defanging the annoying ads without breaking things I care about.
I am absolutely not clicking on that link.
> Were you actually accepted to any of the batches? If so, which ones?

Yes. I was in the Airbnb batch (when it was called airbedandbreakfast.com). I was also in the Stripe batch (when it was called /dev/finance).
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here is a 32Bit MCU, ARM Cortex-M3, for $0.08

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Original-In-Stock...

This can probably run all the software needed for a simple drone, control, navigation, etc.

Here is an EU supplier:

https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Lumissil/IS31CS8977-QFLS...

They cost less than nails, how are you gonna track this shit?
It is quick, but it also looks faster than it is because of the way they're animating the rows as you type. At the end of the day it's still taking the full 300ms or whatever to load the images from S3, and without all the extra jitter it would look kind of janky.
In this analogy, Putin is the child who stuck their finger in the mousetrap?
Depends on your country. In Germany: Extremely. Probably a few seconds of uploading (of a movie or porn, don’t think they care much for other things) will get you a letter (edit: C&D + damages, courts see it as commercial distribution, so the letter blackmails you to pay 300-500 € instead). Or you can use a VPN.

As I said in another post, I like to pay when given the option and I don’t have to jump through tons of hoops.
Financial Times reported on Silvergate's disclosure of $8.1B in withdrawals [1], but curiously, don't mention a $100M seizure. Is this new / verified?

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/69cd8629-278d-4cd5-a3e7-96d2f6c85...
Most of those in charge of transit do not believe in transit. (in the US). Most politicians see transit as a way to shovel money into some special interest: they appoint a supported to lead transit as a way to reward help with no concern if they appoint someone who will be good.
> We could argue over the implementation of it, and worry about the downstream consequences, but then shouldn't the argument be: how to accomplish this without those effects?

I'm not sure this follows. For people that really care a lot about both issues, perhaps.

For me, I care much more about privacy and preventing government overreach than making porn harder to access.

As such, I'm not going to be the one trying to figure out how to accomplish this without these effects. I'm going to focus on saying "Don't introduce those effects, regardless of your motivations."
Things like this bring out the most socially conservative commentators.

I know some subreddits do these kinds of posts to tag all the conservative commentators that are lurking and won’t flair themselves.
How the physics of diffusion inspired modern AI art
You are right, I mean even though FTX has declared bankruptcy and SBF admitted that either his incompetence or malice is the cause, the government surely couldn't have enough probable cause to seize these clearly unrelated assets.
their investment in teaching you their IP -- that's the theory

you trade getting to learn for agreeing not to use it against them for a while -- is the theory

at line worker level i'd argue this is nonsense, at 'how to mill iPhones from a single block of metal' or 'self driving car brain' maybe its real, but there are ndas and patents for that
From my impression and exposure to construction it seems the wood construction techniques are different in Europe (to speak broadly) than in the US. Without getting into details it seems European (and also Aussie) carpenters (and "tradies" to also speak broadly) are paid more than their US counterparts. Have also heard a lot of the "best" carpenters and builders in the States are from Europe - this may be slightly outdated info (a few decades) - I had thought this being due to the more "timber frame" -type construction styles in Europe.
Also lots of talks from blackhat, defcon and native conferences. Tanenbaum's 'Computer Networks' (on page 50 lol).
Is that true? The Tesla semi presentation cracked me up with the huge container of batteries prepared to charge a single semi. The grid load for charging any meaningful number of EVs simultaneously is hilariously out of reach (even if we could build the generation capacity, NIMBY-Americans will never accomodate the transmission). It seems to me that hydrogen is a relatively elegant solution to this problem. We are good at transporting and storing compressed gases today. It seems to me that building out that infrastructure is more likely than the gigantic power delivery infrastructure necessary to charge lithium batteries.
The TL; DR being the DoJ moving to seize is the start of due process.
I use the iOS Speech Accessibility feature to listen to ebooks and it works great.
Jeremy’s blackface taboo sex with Nancy.
I haven't read this one. The inaccuracy and mean-spiritedness of Cunningham's criticism of Neil Armstrong's performance during his Gemini VIII flight (detailed in James R. Hansen's book) put me off this, personally.
It is also interesting to consider problems that will likely be still hard even for advanced AIs:

Control of (complex) nonlinear dynamical systems over long timescales will likely pose a problem and will require high-level unsavory shortcuts to work out. This may or may not include large-scale genetic engineering of mammals (including us) to express new characteristics later in life.

The moderate-scale genetic engineering, for example to uplift our cognitive capability or extend our lifespans could be easier for AIs, while for our own scientists it turned out to be barely tractable. Some will disagree here, noting the political red tape around the fields in question.
I guess he did have a little more than $250 million available to him.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/investing/doj-seizes-robinhoo...