skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has zero revenue from China. They pulled out of China when told they would have to censor search results years ago. Android phones in China don’t use Google’s android.
Same with “liberal”. Pretty natural conclusion given the polarization.
You just went and gave carmakers some ideas for easy cash grabs.

Don't complain when they extrapolate to the subscription based door locks and braking system. Just about everyone would almost have to sign up for them! /s
Rare to see a company so over funded but can't work on it's core mission because the money tap will slow.
>Why on Earth would I want to use a security product that phones home..

I share your opinion, I don't want my security products to phone home, but the question was answered earlier : 'you' want a product that phones home so that the central data collection group can make statements like "vulnerability was not triggered or exploited." -- otherwise the onus is on the data holder to make similar assessments.

in other words , the proprietors of wireguard cannot make statements regarding their entire userbase. (This may or may not be a good thing.)
Both religions are leading you astray.

The solution is to become a software atheist and just break things down when they no longer fit in your head.

Interestingly, this seems to be what microservices originally were about until they got twisted by hype.

It is also what OOP was about, until it got twisted by another religion.
Or limit sites to one cookie?
Curious, is there room at LANL for a senior full-stack generalist engineer who hasn't necessarily been doing published research work? I've looked at LANL Careers and can't gauge how biased you guys are toward research backgrounds.
Ask HN: Do recent improvements to language AI change the spam/scam game?
I know I shouldn't, but sometimes I engage with a scammer--just to try to understand what kind of scam it is. I get curious.

Recently I got one that started as a wrong number and ended with a pitch involving teaching me how to make money via liquidity hedge trading of cryptocurrencies, whatever that is.

It took them four days to get to the point, until then they just acted like they wanted a friend. It was kind of fun. We exchanged pictures of what we were eating, talked about fiction we like, etc. Had a surprisingly deep conversation about our relationships with our parents...

Every now and then I'd get suspicious that they were a bot (they wrote D&amp;D instead of D&D), but then (presumably) a real person would take over and edit previous posts to fix the error and provide a somewhat reasonable explanation involving switching input methods between languages (they were ostensibly Japanese).

My heuristic had always been: if it's a scam they'll want something from you. But if AI can let one scammer do the work of twenty... it could be a very long time before that happens. Despite going into it with "this is a scam" in mind, there were moments when I was fooled. I wanted to believe that friends could still be made that way.

Is this the final nail in the maybe-the-world-isnt-a-dark-forest coffin? Can we fight back?
Why? They'll pay us to buy the land and if they fight us, we just take it. This is ideal: they give us money to own in name something that we will own in practice.
I figure—but what, the doctors that developed this just take home NHS salary? It is going to save the NHS billions.

HBP costs over 100 billion $ in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/policy/polaris/healthtopics/highbloodpre....
Great to know. Thank you
Well the curvature of the orbit at the earth <-> sun distance is minimal. So you have to hit a decent fraction of the speed of light to create that centrifugal force to replace the earth normal 1G. Those incredible speeds mean that all of ring world is under 1G of force, which creates incredible tension.

What I don't know is if the sun was 1/16th as bright and physically smaller if that would bring the ring into the realm of physically possible.
Most often than not yes.

Some will continue after a master's. Still, they will usually need to change universities (or at least go through the full selection process again), so if you're interested in a Ph.D., you should apply for that rather than a master's.

For that reason, most master's programs in the US are professional degrees, not research ones.

Also, almost no university advertises or promises a terminal master's degree. It is a very subjective process as well.
"It feels like our culture’s impulse is to wring every last cent possible out of any creative endeavor"

This rings true to me. There even seems to be more dredging up of other people's past creative work and trying to wring more money out of them.
> Loads of people in other countries issue the same threats, but because they don't readily have access to ranged weapons, and specifically firearms (and every legal firearm that they do have are registered with the police), those threats are just that: threats.

All my examples were from Germany, a country with very strict gun control. And yet, Drachenlord got haters literally every single day shouting at or vandalizing his property, attacking him physically, swatting him (the first conviction of swatting in Germany was for a Drachenlord hater). LGBT people or people "looking foreign" routinely get beaten up with fists.

Gun control is a relevant issue, yes, but it's only a very small part.

>If you want to walk into a lion's den, expect lions. If you don't like that, maybe consider that you don't need to rile people up

That's pure victim blaming with a healthy dose of "chilling effect" applied and I'm sad to see such a take on this site. Speaking the truth, advocating for democracy must be protected at all costs.
It's definitely something that can be trained and improved with practice. The brain needs to switch from thinking "Is this a situation where I can actually help? Do they need help? What if I mess up? What if it's a scam?, etc." to "I'm helping, how do I help?". It's easy to freeze and let the opportunity to help pass by, but once you start it's much easier to continue.

I remember an interview from an old LARP camp director (Brennan Lee Mulligan, although I forget if it was his podcast or another one) who recalled the nurses helping out at the camp saying LARP was surprisingly good training for first responders because it gives kids practice with running towards the people who need help instead of away from potential dangers.
If "woke" is going to be bucketed into purely leftist ideology, which is already oversimplifying it as progressivism or simply being anti-racist isn't strictly leftist, then "clown world" is going to be bucketed as a neo-Nazi dogwhistle.

Its origin on the internet was tightly bound to the "Honkler" meme, which was a neo-Nazi dogwhistle so thinly veiled that it was only denied by people with "1488" in their usernames. There was essentially no real attempt to try and present it as something else.

Is spreading a neo-Nazi dogwhistle really a good push back against anti-racism?
Get a forward camera view from that vehicle right ahead of you. It of course needs cooperation, but it could make certain maneuvers safer, to my mind.
I'll admit it, I didn't understand it. Doesn't seem like I'm the target audience though, so that's okay. It was interesting to read.
The extra-credit question on one of my finals in grad school was:
"What is the time-resolved fluorescence of a fluorophore in 4 spatial dimensions?" We had covered 2D and 3D cases in class. my housemate started the question on Friday night (after finishing the regular questions) and was done some time Monday- she said it was pretty hard problem that involved deriving several new equations for 4 spatial dimensions, throw in some tensor calculus, finally some ugly integrals, and then out pops an analytical expression.

I didn't even attempt it because I knew it would be beyond emotionally trying.
I tried the Light Phone II but found it too limiting. While they did an admirable job trying to get functionality like maps usable it wasn't practical enough overall. Currently using the Unihertz Titan Pocket with the minimalist phone launcher as my daily driver.
One has to wonder if I've been going back and forth with ChatGPT.

People talk about having a feeling of uncanny valley when reading some of the things ChatGPT says and I must say, this must be what it feels like.

And if you're not open to the possibility that I'm speaking with ChatGPT it's because you're misusing HN.
I have the sneaking suspicion that "woke" has been turned into a dog whistle used by right leaning people. Maybe it's the new "uppity."

Given how commonly it is used on this website which I otherwise appreciate, I would love to be convinced that this is not the case.

To that end:

1) Can anyone who freely uses the word "woke" pejoratively please define "woke" as you use it?

2) Can you please tell me the opposite of "woke?"
I would love an ODBC dongle! SQL queries to access diagnostic data would be quite handy. :)
What’s your usecase? Can you define “more complex”?
Chris Seaton
I remember a lecturer responding to similar feedback from one of my class mates. I'll never forget his reply.

"Life is hard. Then you die"
I mean it’s not like the Austrohungarians were angels; didn’t they annex Bosnia just before (and upset the Serbians quite a bit who then reiterated the need for help...)
This is complicated by the fact that your finances might never allow you to quit. You may die early, or other tragedies may occur.
I've gone in between both roles. I can be a CTO of a $50 million company and just another senior engineer at a $5 billion one.

Probably the most approachable explanation of this phenomena is in Reid Hoffman's blitzscaling. I was looking for the diagram and I found it on some random blog
https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*LDHDNGnfy2IJmIWE

Anyway, if we extend this analogy, I could be say, an important member of a village, but within a nation, I'm just another worker. His book is fine btw, get it used. He's just summarizing other authors who said things in more nuanced ways, whatever.

I think this is totally reasonable for people who are not egoists. I can handle about a $10 million budget, but a billion dollar one, I don't look at with envy. Excuse my french, but fuck that level of responsibility. I'm only human.

That's how you can know intuitively that the people who take it on are kinda special, and usually not in a good way.

I've had to deal with lots of capital management and investment groups in my startup days and people that are senior execs at large firms. There's a couple brilliant ones but most are what I could best describe as neurodivergent. Understanding how they process information is crucial in securing that round of financing (unless you're lucky and in a hot industry) and in being on the safe side of their executive decisions.
Looks like OS with Lisp all the way down (or up.. All the apps on top)
> It is common knowledge that when first learning programming, one should start with small projects to build something real rather than learning rules and syntax of the language only.

I would start by examining that assumption: it varies from one person to the next. If you like the project approach then great, go for it, but for other people it can be better to exercise individual features of the language in isolation until they are well understood, rather than trying to put a lot of half-understood features together into a more complex program. I have gotten into trouble over this myself a few times, and now definitely prefer the piecewise approach to the project approach.
Too late, you get literally all of that on current Teslas for free (well, Steam games cost money I guess). I actually can't tell if grandparent was being sarcastic or not, but yes: these are already products.
A really good book on this topic I recently read: Quit, by Annie Duke.

The book boils down to "Calculate EV of your decision, try not to fall prey to sunk cost fallacy". But it makes the lesson really sink in which is nice.

My favorite bit was her sharing the research that you cannot avoid sunk cost fallacy. Humans don't work that way it seems. What you can do instead is to pre-commit to quitting when certain conditions are met.
Having looked at that bug, and seen your reaction to somebody else asking about why you are so concerned about this, I am now of the opinion that your worrying here is a manifestation of https://xkcd.com/1172/.

For reference for people who haven't read the linked bug: the change makes it forbidden to alter CORS and related security headers via extensions, and invites developers to provide use cases where it is necessary so that proper permissions can be designed to permit this. OP complains that this is unreasonable, because... well, "the use case [is] already obvious to your team".
I think the reason for the big push is to get people to switch over. At this point, they are still supporting some Intel macs and needing to try to keep some parity with previous macs is probably just a cost sink now with how their future trajectory is going. Get all the people off the intel macs ASAP so they can drown intel support in the bathtub.

Granted, I don't think they will 100% kill intel. My guess is, it just won't be public. They will keep a few internal machines that MacOS is minimally functional on so if they ever want to switch back, they already have a base. Would be my guess.
I hope Amos doesn't get crucified for leaving amossu in there haha.
Considering the market is moving towards pertual licensing, by the time this is a thing, you probably won't be an owner and it won't matter to anyone except some bean counters when they update lease rules.
Mozilla provide unbranded versions of Firefox that don't require extensions to be signed: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...

The official branded releases only require signatures because everything else they tried to stop malware hijacking the browser ultimately failed. Mozilla are not trying to copy iOS, they don't stop you leaving the walled garden if you want to.
Sorting high to low indicates that Apple does charge quite a bit for these (currently $39,239.00 is the most expensive)

https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac/mac-pro-macbook-p...
And yet undertaking a new creative endeavor is far from guaranteed to succeed financially.
I wonder if there's anyone left at Twitter to backport security fixes to the custom fork of git they use to support their monorepo.
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation, and Can We Hack It?
Building a Simple Private Analytics Service for a Sudoku App
> I would see this as a relatively painless opportunity to cut out low performers.

As many other comments have pointed out already, that's not how mass layoffs work in practice.
There will still be one holdout complaining about Stripe’s lack of customer support.
Ask HN: Best way to find a neurodiverse cofounder?
Does anyone have experience sourcing neurodiverse talent for an angel stage startup including cofounder/first engineer type involvement?
> Do most in the US start their PhD from a Bachelors degree?

Yes, it's almost always in the student's interest to go direct, for two reasons:

1) Master's degrees are frequently unfunded. PhDs in STEM are fully funded basically as a rule.

2) You are going to be in school significantly longer if you complete a Master's degree at a different institution from your PhD.

In general the biggest reason a student might complete a Master's elsewhere is because their academic performance in undergrad was poor.
Here in New Zealand you cannot go directly into a PHD.

You have to get a first class honours or complete a masters before you can start a PHD.
The value of flipping burgers is dependent on the productivity of who you are feeding.

In an ideal world, it would be worth about the same everywhere, but it will take many years until the GDP per capita is uniform everywhere. Especially now that China’s population and its workforce has started to decline.
Not sure about current gen, but you can get plug-in replacement head units for 2010 and older cars at least.

They're basically Android tablets with physical buttons and a direct OBD connection.
Maybe it is stochastic parrots; all the way down.
Nebula is amazing and I'm so happy it exists. I use it everywhere now.
Any way to set a seed, to reproduce failures trivially? This has been really useful with pytest-randomly. Update: Should've read further, it supports --shuffle=SEED. Nice!
ESP32? On the firmware side I've been pretty happy with ESP Rainmaker: https://rainmaker.espressif.com
Could have fooled me based on who they vote for. Perhaps it isn't that they don't like the Nazis so much as they don't like the negative association of the name, because they sure do seem to like the philosophical underpinnings.
> The decision is about whether you can match other aspects.

I disagree. The whole package should be compared, because that's what you're paying for. If 2x battery life cost a few hundred more, it's a no brainer, for me.

edit: We're out of reply depth, but this all started with "they're ridiculously expensive" and ended with "there's nothing else in the market".
Huge catalyst: massive colonialist profits from India (est. $1 trillion), Africa and later on the Middle East (oil, prior to nationalization)
> I would like to use my car battery as a temporary home battery in the inevitable case of a grid outage. This opens the option to bring energy home from another location. Reduce or eliminates the need for a battery in a grid-tied house.

Question is "how long?" and "how much?"

Lets take a 100 kWh battery which matches a Tesla Model S battery option and is a nice number for doing conversions from.

https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-household-electricit...

> The recent figures, as of 2021, show that the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer is 10,632 kilowatthours (kWh). If you divide that by 12 months, the average monthly electricity consumption is 886 kWh per month. What about in a single day? That would be 10,715 KWh divided by 365, or 29 kWh. Then the average daily electricity consumption is 29 kWh.

So, hypothetically, 100 kWh would give you 3 and almost 4 days. This can be improved by unplugging things that consume more power. The other part with this is a "once that 100 kWh is drained, you're stuck stuck."

You're going to still need something between the mains power and the circuit breaker box. I'm also going to note I don't know what rate it can discharge.

You might also want to look at a system that is a dedicated whole house battery backup ( https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/energy/best-home-batte... )

The zdnet article links to a Lowes worksheet - https://www.lowes.com/pdf/portable_generator_wattage_chart.p...

And from that, look at the "this is what we want" and the question of "generator or battery" becomes interesting.

Then consider also, you can get a 10,000 watt generator (that does a cutover in event of a power outage in 7 seconds) for about $3000 which can provide 10 kW at 40 amps.
A Declaration of Digital Independence
> That movie was pretty good, but it would’ve been great if it had been thirty minutes shorter.

For me the canonical example of a movie that didn't know when to quit was A.I. Artificial Intelligence. There were at least four points in the movie when I firmly thought to myself, this would be a good point to end the movie. And then the movie just ... kept on going. On and on and on. I understand that Spielberg took it upon himself to remain faithful to the original Kubrick/Watson treatment, but you can just hear him screaming in the background "can't we just end here?" as well.
why block email but not messenger?
1% of all the companies or 1% of the carry the VC is getting?
> this ranting would be a lot more relevant if you couldn't hail rides in our vehicles

Where? A narrow area in which you can create ultra-HD maps that are in no way indicative of the general case?

If you’re at Cruise, I can only grab a ride between 10 pm and 5:30 am (lol, lmao). If you’re at Waymo, your beta is still closed (though I have several invites from former colleagues) and you only serve a tiny fraction of realistic destinations in the city. Do you think this proves your point? Let me restate my position: you can’t scale to the general case. You never will. You will be stuck in Phoenix and specific part of SF forever. Your business will never be viable. Your vehicles will never be able to navigate roads without a prohibitively costly mapping effort in that region that doesn’t scale. Your valuation will continue to decline. What part of offering unsafe rides to friends and family right now changes that?
Missed opportunity for DVDs to popularize optional endings and alternate cuts
> Switzerland didn't get wealthy by being easy to invade.

Yeah, back before modern missiles, satellites, fighter jets, and drones. Back when the physical storage of gold was economically significant. Back before technological infrastructure started creating outsized productivity. In the modern day, what actually creates and protects Switzerland's way of life is their economic and political connections to their neighbors.

> We can be aggressive imperialists

Repeat after me: Ukraine wanting to join the US economic empire is not aggression. Ukraine wanting to join NATO to protect themselves from Russia is not aggression. Now write it on the blackboard 100 times.

> if you threaten the bear it will still claw your eyes out

More like when the bear occasionally comes out of the woods and wanders into yards, it will be tolerated. When the bear starts routinely posing a danger to humans, the bear will be shot.

> Destroying western Ukraine ("demilitarising") as a viable functioning state also renders it much less useful to the west

I agree this has become their open goal. Russia failed at stealing it, so they'll try to destroy it and kill everyone living there. Ultimately the more Russia destroys, the larger Ukraine's IMF loans and other foreign indebtedness will be. That indeed disgusts me, but not as much as genocide.
> They've held onto their legacy concerns about certain non-carbon power sources for other reasons,

Is there a reason you are unable to just use the word "nuclear"? Non-proliferation was, and still is, a major concern for nuclear power. Add to that the fact that current uranium supply lines end in Russia. It may have a role in the future, and we should continue to invest in that possibility, but it's far from conclusive that it will be viable economically.

> and many environmental groups seem convinced that there is no future where the planet is safe and our current economic system stays in place.

Our economic system is always changing and evolving in response to social pressures. That's how we got the 5 day work week, Medicare, and historically low tax rates. Globalized capitalism itself is experiencing a retrenchement at this moment, which is as much a response to growing internal inequality in the developed world as it is about the aftermath of the pandemic and concern about onshore strategic manufacturing capacity.

Furthermore, negotiations are underway for the wealthy world (who put most of the CO2 into the atmosphere) to pay the developing world for the damage they have incurred due to climate change, and to develop in a renewable way.

Which is all to say, our current economic system is changing no matter what.
I didn’t like 1899 or Dark so I celebrate their cancellation and their resources going to a better series.
Is the energy in these batteries for scooters or the grid? So you need to store more energy than the scooters need so that energy is not depleted from servicing the grid. Now you have excess batteries in the middle of urban area. Not what you want. The amount of energy needed for some scooters is peanuts when talking about the grid. Not to mention that scooter usage and grid power consumption surge will roughly correlate. Have scooters, sure. Have batteries of some form to handle the grid, sure. There is absolutely no need for this to be combined.
Do you come from a parallel universe with an extra spatial dimension