skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think that's a real consumer problem (particularly for the space they're in, which is portable laptops). Being reusable is a solution, and in this case it doesn't seem to be solving a real world problem. Usually people want their desktop computers to be more powerful than their laptops, and have dedicated graphics. This gives people a desktop computer which is older and less powerful than their laptop, and barring niche use cases (like a home server) isn't solving a consumer problem.
Circle and Paxos are big players in custody, too.
Better in some ways, worse in others. If you are just driving around town, plugging in at night is probably better than having to fill up at a gas station. If you are driving your family, including young children halfway across the country to visit in-laws, having to stop for hours while waiting for your car to charge is much, much worse. Even if charging stations become ubiquitous.
>We don't need rare earths for permanent magnets, though again this means a bulkier and less powerful motor

It sure would be nice if there was a breakthrough in producing rare-earth-free magnetic materials:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202204...
Mostly circumstantial evidence. Regulators/feds have taken down one of the largest and most crypto friendly bank, Silvergate. Federal Reserve Board unanimously denied Custodia to be a member of Federal Reserve System.

And the latest Economic Report of the President[1] has a full chapter (Chapter 8) in which they make their stance clear in no uncertain terms.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ERP-20...
I actually asked 3.5 to do this and it chose the thumb’s down, amusingly.

I asked it to explain why it chose that and it told me that as an AI model it could not choose emojis.
There are a lot of custom EV conversions if you really want to control everything, probably no modern new vehicle is going to meet what you describe.

You can already buy lifepo4 cells, I've thought about making a boat, but time and money etc.

But this is about the masses, the Toyota Camry sells well, and I'm sure those same people will eat up the Toyota Camry EV when it comes out.
Radio Hobbyists capture Russia’s real-time hunt for the U.S. drone
What do you mean by "installer driver package", like literally the setup.exe that the vendor provides? Or like, extract the resources out of that and open _those_ in Ghidra?
I guess we don't need to worry about authoritarian China stealing our data if we become authoritarian China!
Doesn't justify the use of Open without being actually open. People associate the prefix Open with OSS, and just because PublicAcessAI sounds bad doesn't mean you need to call it OpenAI
LIDAR is absolutely the technically superior approach compared to photogrammetry + ML but is cost-prohibitive (in Tesla's view)

Personally, I'll never trust their self-driving product for anything more than lane-keeping unless they incorporate LIDAR
Even given inelastic demand, a market with open, easily available pricing would be freer and fairer than what we have today.
It's very good at that. Inspired by your song, I asked it to make a parody about Yngwie Malmsteen. It totally nailed the aimless guitar noodling.
Reproducible builds. Sure not every project can be built in a reproducible manner, but it at least reduces the chances of getting shady binaries
FWIW, Framework also announced a new battery with the same form factor but another 10%-ish capacity. And because the system's amazingly easy to disassemble, if your battery starts to lose capacity, it's trivial to swap in a replacement.

I do the "unplug and spend a couple of hours hacking without a charger" thing all the time with mine, and mine's using the previous-generation battery. Not running Windows seems to help a surprising amount.
Hacker News chops off the # after the URL, you can see the story directly here:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/21/world/russia-ukraine...
As I understand it, when there's a law that says something like "the bank has to report cash transactions over $10K", and you divide all your transactions into chunks of $9999 to evade it, then there's a law that says you can't do that. Even if every one is at a different bank.

While it does seem to involve intent, a lot of laws do.

"operatives...who scurry from bank to bank making these structured deposits are known as “smurfs” because, like the little blue cartoon characters, they’re everywhere"

https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article223878770.h...
> I guess SSH could default to asking me which key I want to connect with and then store that info afterwards?

Exactly. When you consider that it already does this sort of thing for host keys, it’s really a pretty obvious way to plug the information disclosure vulnerability.
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Yup. The "1/3-rd of mechanical power" is an empirical rule.

However, it seems reasonable once you think about it.

The mechanical power of a car is about 25-30% of the total heat generated. So a 150hp car actually generates about 450hp of heat energy. Most of that power is indeed lost in exhaust. The 1/3 of 150hp is 50hp, around 10% of the total.
It's possible if the money isn't actually there anymore, like what happened with FTX.
To be fair, Teams is probably the worst piece of majorly used software there is. You couldn't find a better example of slow garbage.

Also, I just tried the boot up example and old teams finished loading faster than the videos new teams.
Or it's mostly wash traded and manipulated so not very related.
First, define "climate change"
Well I for one welcome our Trojan horse banning, hostile foreign agenda squashing overlords
yeah i also want to know if he's a fellow ftxbro
Did you build that C compiler yourself? Using what compiler? Unless you bootstrapped it from a handwritten assembler, you'll need to consider the attack outlined in Reflections on Trusting Trust
I'd be so curious to get a window into the profiling, back-room discussions, etc. that happens at orgs like Slack and Teams. What's going on here? What all did Teams just improve? What are the barriers they're still running into?

I don't want to be that person who says "mrahhh a new CS graduate could have built Teams in 2002 and it would have been faster!" But I'm also like, whatever is stopping it from being faster, I can't imagine what that is from where I'm sitting!

I've built high-complexity, high-performance web apps, and while there are challenges (the smooth infinite scroll without any placeholders in the video was actually pretty slick), there are other things like 900ms to switch tabs and 9.1s to boot that are just really hard to believe (and those are the improved numbers!)

Some of it's probably back-end; Slack for sure has back-end performance problems, where the UI is snappy but then sits there and loads the conversation for several seconds (or has synchronization problems, or loads an old version of history, or...). And I can understand having some performance challenge here- these apps deal with huge amounts of data per-workspace. But also... it's very simple data. Mainly a series of messages, displayed in chronological order. That's one of the most straightforward possible things to optimize.

I'm just so fascinated. The HN commentary around this topic is usually lazy, but there is a genuine mystery here.

Edit: A light overview of the new version was posted below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35352521) but I'm linking it again here for visibility: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...
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> don't see how any depositor's assets could be more "risky" than another depositor's - it's straight cash in all cases

One, correlation. A bank with one $1bn hedge fund is riskier than a bank with a billion $1 individuals. This is the part regulators focus on. (One oversight with SVB was not classifying VCs as quasi-financial institutions.)

Two, reputation. As we've seen, there is a premium to being able to say you're clean of crypto when e.g. Binance or Tether go under.

Three, cost. KYC and AML, for one. (It's why many banks won't open accounts for gambling businesses.) But also how often they use revenue-generating versus free services. If you're constantly wiring in and out your entire balance, you're substantially more costly to your bank than someone who deposits leaves it alone.

Finally, core competence. Flagstar/NYCB focus on a niche. They have built their processes to deal with those customers' demands, trained their staff to be familiar with the, and hired people who like working with them (and with whom they like working). They don't want a bunch of crypto deposits any more than they want aerospace manufacturers'. It's a different business.
> For the battery in a single EV, it can build four PHEVs which means four households reducing most of their gas miles versus a single household

Is the adoption of new EVs being slowed by the lack of batteries? Building 4 PHEV with the same batteries as 1 EV doesn't mean you're going to sell four times as many PHEV.
>am wondering if the users are aware of these news, they don't care, or are confident Binance will come through.

Or this is evidence that the 'true' market is thin/insignificant and the price is mostly controlled by inauthentic volume that is coming from (and going to) Binance itself.
Mental math can be surprisingly good for your brain.
Founder of Levels.fyi here, we have a page for salaries in India more specifically here: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/india

We just haven’t done a great job of building awareness for all of our different locations, but you can find them on our location directory here: https://levels.fyi/locations
Putting aside questions of whether TikTok deserves this or not, I really worry this is the beginning of the end of general purpose computing. Given how locked down our machines are today, whether on account of walled gardens or increased security, we're almost at the point where it may actually become possible to "ban software" with a few policy decisions, which backers of this bill seem to intend. ("We need a comprehensive, risk-based approach that proactively tackles sources of potentially dangerous technology before they gain a foothold in America, so we aren’t playing Whac-A-Mole and scrambling to catch up once they’re already ubiquitous.")

Wrote some brief thoughts about it here: https://concernedsoftwareuser.github.io/software-freedom/
Was referring to the CEO mate, but henceforth noted.
Need to use something like less or tail
Crypto collapses when demand for it collapses, not in the sense that it becomes inoperable, but in the sense that anyone who was trying to store value will lose it once the fad abates.
Hopefully Binance still has all the money customers deposited and didn't lose it or trade it for magic beans like FTX did.

If a lot of customers take out their money and Binance goes out of business, that's fine. I mean, it sucks for Binance, but they are kinda shady and the world might be better off without them. If customers find out their deposits don't exist anymore, that's definitely not fine.
I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; I see it’s benefit to certain groups like the elderly but hope I never have to use such a startup
We have similar requirements but compromised on different criteria:

- Active family of 4 that likes to go on road trips. Need to be able to haul bikes, gear, etc.
- AWD required for the occasional ice/snow on the hill I live on
- Cost <=$125K. <=$100K preferred
- EV

Except that I absolutely refused to compromise on the "EV" part after driving a Model 3 for a few years.

Would have loved a electric minivan if one existed. We evaluated Model Y, Model X, Rivian S. Ended up going with a 7 seater Y with a tow hitch. It has been great but a little cramped with 2 car seats, and the third row is unusable for tall people (all the adults in the extended family are tall).

I have a preorder for a cybertruck which may be nearly perfect. Huge cargo, fits 6 people. Ridiculous range if that hasn't changed from announcement specs.
vim is my go-to for large text files. Works great even on TB-sized monsters.
Be careful, it's a fake market and you have no idea how easily they might be able to control the price, for a while at least
First there was APM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/asynchrono... then there came TPL (using Task but without async await but ContinueWith) and finally async await with some later refinements like ValueTask. Generally you just use async await nowadays with maybe the complication of when to use Task or ValueTask
This is true (in WW2 it was clearly a war of annihilation to everyone in the country vs protested decision today) and a good example for another comment I wrote above, that there is considerable selection bias amongst armchair historians :)
You gotta be careful doing that with modern ssds, they generally fail instantly with no warning signs. I've never seen smart data report under 90% but I've seen tons of modern ssds fail in a year or less. I wish they would just be DOA, it's rare to see one to fail between 2-5 years old without heavy workloads. At least with hard drives you can hear them fail when you walk by.

(Not only from the samsung firmware bug, I've personally seen about a dozen of these failures in the past 2 years alone. Drive quality went down the drain during covid.)
We thought about this, but at the point that you want to add the space for a battery, picking up an extra Bottom Cover for a Framework Laptop becomes a plausible path. We worked with Cooler Master to make this case as minimal as possible.
So your position is that wikipedia are terrorists too? Why would their "advise" be exempt?
You'd think so, but not really
nope, don't want any of them, though i must admit i quite like cara.
Sure but that limits the applications. Want to have Gordon Ramsey to advise you while you are cooking? Or have r2d2 roaming your house? or play poker at your actual house with lock stock and two smoking barrels characters? and so on ...
You made a great point but it's the opposite of what you argue for. Duffel bags full of cash moved across borders are quite easy to spot, not to mention the numbers of people transporting them (along the way stealing some or cooperating with law). That's why dictators don't like duffel bags of cash and really like cryptocurrency.
I'm wondering if this is designed only for in-house use, or if it's something intended to be public-facing. If a company were to embed this on their website, say, to answer questions about products for sale...

1. Would there be any way to restrict the conversation with the customer to questions related to the products?

2. What strategies could be used to prevent malicious overuse / spamming / flooding the bot to cost the company money?
Woah. I can't believe this is still online!
Why universities are making us stupid
"A managerial war is remaking and destroying our once-noble centres of higher education."
The demonstration here is not working. The author should ask GPT-4 to provide a piece of code or so to disprove the convergence of 3n+1 problem, instead of in form of the usual vague unidirectional math exercise.

Sometimes usage of the user reflects the user's ability. It is more likely a test to find intelligent human.
A month ago the head of the SEC said every crypto other than Bitcoin is a security. Now they are suing Binance on the basis that ETH and LTC are actually commodities. What changed in the last month, other than a bunch of banks failing?
> The EV transition is harder..

I drove exclusively pure electric (bmw i3) for 7+ years and it was far easier a transition than i ever imagined. Like 10x easier.

These titles with such FUD assertions prioritize drama and attention seeking over facts from years of data.

edit: these articles overlook that a huge percentage of daily around town driving recharges easily on the existing grid at 110v, but the articles tend to presume everyone need charge a depleted long range battery, daily, which is patently false.
Time to see if the emperor has clothes on.
Define “doing the job the best”.

There could be barriers like credentials that some groups may have at a lower rate. A hiring manager sees one candidate with a college degree and another without, and chooses the one with, because that is what is “best”.
Kind of like how clothing and food are produced by some of the poorest people ever, mostly people think it's all due to automation.
Britain Is Broken
"It will take radical ideas to reverse decline: cut university places, ban foreign home-owners and drop HS2 for a start."
> users are really damn good at immersing themselves using just a screen and a controller

Not only that, but VR/AR doesn't solve any incremental immersion blockers. My brain is very good at 'not looking away from the screen,' it's awful at overriding my inner ear balance, temperature sense, smell sense, circadian rhythm, etc.
The same thing happens with Dimenhydrinate. There's a huge price difference between when it is used for motion sickness, antihistamine cold remedies, and sleep remedies. For literally no reason since they're all the same thing at the same dose.
Foundation Models and Fair Use
To do those things you're already going to have to make VR an order of magnitude more convenient than it currently is, which means it's not relevant to my comment.
I think where we disagree here is on whether it should be the bank's business how and when their depositors deposit and withdraw their money. In my ideal system, the bank's consideration ends as soon as they receive the money and put it in their vault. In your ideal system, the bank considers the likelihood of the depositor coming back the next day and asking for their money. And you're right, at least in the current reality of fractional reserve banking. But from a fundamental perspective, it just seems morally wrong to me.
Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh network
Shanghai's population drops in 2022 after Covid lockdowns
Oh, is that why I felt like drivers in France are the best I've encountered? I've driven a couple tens of thousands of km's there in total (both city and country) and been regularly impressed by the responsible and conscientious driving in comparison to anywhere else I've driven (17 countries total now). Maybe a bit too much tailgating though if you're not driving "fast enough" on those single-lane country roads, but otherwise great driving skill IMO.
> like the elderly

really? i cannot imagine strapping my late mum into some vr headset.
The one redeeming quality of crypto is that you can only lose your holdings if you give them to someone else.
Gently achieving those goals would be real indicator of high intelligence.

Very well said. "Gently" is a great to be approaching this.
Make no mistake, they let everything sensational trend until it makes the news because it makes them look edgy to a younger audience and that makes them lots of money... Covering your tracks is easy when there's no algorithm/operational transparency.

Social media is the puts when it comes to moral bankruptcy... It is a casino based on popularity, and so many people are dumping money into it on a regular basis that it's really too late to do anything to stem the way it manipulates our world. Congressional action is far too late and futile to the maximum in encouraging any sort of ethics, they did nothing with all the damning evidence presented about Facebook, The only reason they'd ban TikTok is to satisfy the anti-competitive lobby of US competitors if you ask me.

TilTok is a corrupt platform nonetheless, and I really wouldn't be sad if it got banned, the basis of it has already infected everything else, including YouTube to the point of useless overload, so the entire ideal of going viral and getting paid on platforms is actually way past anything meaningful any more.
Chains don't stretch, they wear down. When measuring a chain, you measure the distance between links to see how much material has worn away. The links don't actually get longer from stretching.

https://youtu.be/gXd-3UnqoaM
Been there. First, the company I worked for 11 years sold my team like livestock to another company. Two years later, they laid me off along with the majority of my team. I learned a hard lesson: you are just a number on a spreadsheet.

The interesting thing is that, after several months of unsuccessfully finding anything decent again, I was offered a lower position job at the same company that laid me off, but at a 50% lower salary. It included medical and was better than what I could find on short notice. I reluctantly took it.

The good news is that the work was based on a daily quota, so I made sure I reached my quota by lunchtime every day and then went home to look for new jobs. I must have applied to five jobs every day for about three months, managed to get a couple of interviews, but they were low-paying jobs. Finally, I got a call for something that looked decent. I had to backtrack as I forgot when I applied to it since there were so many. This one was from two months prior. I went for two more interviews before I received an offer. I accepted with the condition that I would give my current employer a two-week notice. I didn't give the two-week notice; I quit on the spot and took a well-deserved two-week break.

This new job is the best I have had so far, 12 years and counting. The best advice I can give you is that you didn't do anything wrong, so don't let it take you down. Most importantly, don't give up. Be patient and persistent; you will be pleasantly surprised.