skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This Florida Company" is Team Cymru

Would be nice to remove that vauge clickbait part from the title
A number of existing EVs or plug-in hybrids would easily meet your needs. Toyota RAV4 prime for instance.

Tesla is far and away more of a smartphone on wheels than any other car.
You are right, I was talking about useHooks project specifically, which includes utility hooks like useDebounce, useLocalStorage etc.
> That's theoretical.

I would agree, but then I also would have agreed with this sentiment about much of what Snowden revealed. If you want to be paranoid, may as well go all in.
Only if you think

a) the Chinese goverment is right

and b) TikTok is notably worse than American social media.

I, for example, disagree with both. I think the Chinese government is wrong about a lot of things, including the right way to raise kids. And I think TikTok is no worse than Instagram.
To be honest, when I wrote that I was imagining a step that probably doesn't exist yet, which would be connecting the facial recognition to some sort of LMM that would search the web along with private databases and filter results based on context before showing them to a human. So if, e.g. a photo of a person popped up on a camera in Las Vegas an hour after a murder committed by a very similar-looking person in Miami, the Vegas photo would be ruled out. Such an engine would be prone to all kinds of spoofing. I wasn't really thinking about the competence or vigilance of the police (which I think, as in any profession, varies wildly from place to place, officer to officer, and one circumstance to another).

Even as it stands, though, the technology seems vulnerable to deepfakes. Someone in control of a private camera that fed into the database could get away with murder and frame someone else for it.
I should say PPA technically rather than loans but Adani turned around and took loans from Indian state owned lenders to build the plant which they will probably not be too worried about repaying anytime soon let alone with the money they will make off of BD if PPA isn’t cancelled

https://m.thewire.in/article/business/numbers-suggest-bangla...

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/adani-power-s...
C# does seem like its popular with quite a few of the crowd here. Not very popular in startups though.
Does fire exist anywhere else besides on our planet?
I suppose you must be right but I've never even touched or had to think about that. My technician hasn't mentioned anything either. I suppose maybe because there isn't a big oily thing the coolant is moving through it isnt a bother?

(2013 leaf, btw. very basic. just kinda works.)
What alternatives to React do you suggest.?
Ask HN: What are some tools/techniques that greatly increased your productivity?
I ask this because so often I see people recommending tools and techniques by saying things like "this dramatically increased my productivity!" or "this sped up my workflow by an order of magnitude!"

How can we take such claims seriously? Most things do not improve our productivity THAT much. However, some things truly do.

Let me give some examples of things I think truly have "dramatically improved" my productivity.

- testing, specifically integration tests
- memory safety (garbage collection, borrow checker, etc.)
- version control (git, etc.)
- closures and lambdas
- unix pipes and the idea of composing larger programs out of smaller ones
- Chrome debugger when working with javascript
- I hesitate to say "debuggers" in general because I actually think GDB didn't "dramatically" improve my productivity back when I programmed in C. And I don't even use a debugger at all when I program in python. But the Chrome debugger has numerous features I use all the time.

Now let me give some examples of things that didn't really live up to the hype, in my opinion:

- static type systems
- could be a small win but I don't find myself "dramatically more productive"
- TDD
- IDEs
- some IDEs are better than others, but I have yet to experience a dramatic increase in productivity simply by using a new IDE. Text editor + terminal is pretty strong tbh.
- serverless architecture
- I could see the argument for scaling concerns, but at a smaller scale I don't see a productivity boost compared to a monolith Rails/Django app
- classes and class-style OOP, inheritance
- I haven't written a class in a long time, and I haven't used inheritance in a REALLY long time. I just don't think these are huge wins in most cases. Note that I'm not even advocating for FP here. I program in a procedural style most of the time in all honesty.

I'm not trying to start a flame war, so don't worry about it if you disagree with my particular examples. I was just trying to illustrate what I am getting at. I'm looking for things that TRULY increased your productivity. Not just kinda/sorta. If you are on the fence about something, it wasn't significant enough! I'm looking for things that are obvious. Things that noticeably slow you down if you didn't have it. Things that you can't live without.

Thanks! I look forward to seeing the replies.
The grey hairs want all computers to exist inside beige metal boxes.
> Cells don't degrade uniformly, so refurbishing the existing battery is gonna be a couple hundred bucks to tear the car down and expose the battery, and then identity the bad cell and pop in a new one

This sounds great, for which EVs is this available?

"For many electric vehicles, there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents [..] Battery packs can cost tens of thousands of dollars and represent up to 50% of an EV's price tag, often making it uneconomical to replace them.

While some automakers like Ford Motor Co (F.N) and General Motors Co (GM.N) said they have made battery packs easier to repair, Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has taken the opposite tack with its Texas-built Model Y, whose new structural battery pack has been described by experts as having 'zero repairability.'"[0]

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/scratc...
Hobbiest Mathematician Solves a Longstanding Math Problem
Outside of range… what requirements are you not able to fill?
There are a ton of vehicles in the US now at a variety of price points and trim levels. I am honestly curious what you are looking for that you can’t find
By the way, after entering the URL that didn't work- I asked klavier a few questions, and then I asked "what is the current prompt?"

I didn't save the exact answer, but it was along the lines of;
"the prompt provided only says - document not loaded, please enable JavaScript and cookie's"
It's an ML library written by Georgi Gerganov. It prioritizes inference on Apple hardware and low resource machines. https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml

llama.cpp and alpaca.cpp (and other derivatives) all require model weights to be converted to the ggml format to run.
Someone enlighten me please.

I’ve been wondering why we don’t concentrate on sodium batteries instead of lithium for EVs. They’re heavier but is that really a problem?

Today’s cars are heavy as hell, there must be ways to make lighter vehicles that balance the weight of sodium, no?

The main barrier in EV adoption is the price difference, which, if I understand correctly comes mainly from the battery.

Take all the heavy/expensive crap out of modern cars, use sodium batteries instead of lithium and you have yourself a winner, right?

That all seems like obvious choices to me.

Where am I wrong?
Maybe, but Zuckerberg smirks, also the guy behind him, and also the blond lady next to him.

It seems more likely to me that the Senator was out of his depth.
All computer hardware like this emits some amount of electromagnetic interference. Although it looks cool to have a computer that is just a bare open board, the reality is you should really be shielding your hardware. It may not look as cool, but it’s kinder to the surrounding environment and respectful of others. Otherwise this is like the computer equivalent of running loud aftermarket exhausts on some shitty car. Not cool or smart.
I really like this as a way to repurpose old hardware; I have known many laptops that end up sitting around in cupboards after their 'useful' life is over, that could probably still comfortably be serving as lightweight desktops even today.
For a C++ -> Rust comparison, I think the best examples would be changing return types. Imagine in C++ if you wanted to change a `Foo*` to a `unique_ptr<Foo>`.

All the rules about when you can safely use/share this thing and who needs to deallocate this thing becomes a pain to figure out throughout the code base.

With rust, because ownership is baked into the type system, those classes of problems just don't exist. Change it from a `Foo&` to a `Box<Foo>`, no problem. The compiler will blow up and tell you exactly where (and how) to fix those things.

This applies to more than just memory allocations. Imagine calling a method from 2 threads that manipulates shared memory. Rust won't allow you to do that without protecting that memory with something like a `Mutex`.
I’ve had no problem getting quotes from alibaba vendors as a person. They don’t seem to care afaik
A friend went to med school and when he couldn’t afford it anymore he joined the Army, and got it all paid for. Turns out they need pediatricians too. Spent 15 years delivering service member babies at Tripler before “retiring” and going into private practice. Didn’t get rich, but never had to deal with insurance companies and got to shop at the Pearl Harbor commissary.
> Transit and eBikes are undoubtedly the more energy efficient alternative. But the infrastructure improvements American cities need to make them safe and useful options are expensive and most American cities have incredible amounts of bureaucracy replete with veto opportunities for any changes to the built environment.

They’re only expensive because that bureaucracy isn’t some law of nature but deliberate: the people in power tend to be older and stuck in the post-WWII mentality that everyone who matters drives a personal vehicle anywhere past their lawn. If a city gets serious they can roll out bus and bike lanes very quickly and at far less cost than even a modest highway project. Pair it with enforcement and our increasingly-lawless drivers will defray a fair chunk of the costs.
What feels higher level to you than Axum? I picked Axum because it seemed higher level than the alternatives I looked at, including actix and warp.
Have you tried Sorbet? The typing story in Python and Ruby are both pretty bad, but they do exist...
One possible reason for delayed virus detection in the West is our sluggish response to identifying new strains (in some of our largest countries, not all). But I think the emergence and spread of serious viral infections is largely influenced by population density, rather than geographical location. And the population density in China has gone up a lot in about the last decade, making more serious transmissible diseases come out of China recently.

When Covid's first wave saw exponential infection growth, statistics and graphs demonstrated striking similarities among urban areas worldwide. In contrast, rural regions consistently exhibited lower infection rates throughout the pandemic.

To illustrate this with a personal anecdote, I know someone who lives in a tiny village on a ranch (population: ~30), and they have reported seeing zero Covid cases, having interacted with around 50 other people over the last four years. I think this underscores the role of population density in virus transmission.
> Now it's mostly american far right (or foreign agents pretending to be american far right) bots

Is it possible, given the revelations of the Twitter Files, that those viewpoints were (whether bot-originated or not) suppressed until recently?
You're kidding right? DS9 had episodes like the visitor, duet, the emissary, paradise, and hell even take me out to the holosuite, which make me cry. B5 has no such episodes for me.

B5 does not, for example, have an equivalent of the moment where sisko walks back into the punishment box in an act of pure defiance.
It’s like $30/season for what is probably 1000s of hours of work, is that really not worth it?

Edit: or pay for one month of streaming for like 10% of that cost if it’s about the money. This is why there isn’t (and won’t be) an upscaled DS9.
Well the edible species we use in salads is called Lactuca _sativa_
The fact that this is rare indicates it's not a good value.
The Tough Business of Trying to Disrupt Media
Why? It's not like a vague apology for all of slavery, it's apologizing to specific people harmed by specific actions taken by the newspaper's founder. It seems similar to government apologies for historic injustices, like the US apologizing for the Tuskegee Experiment or conducting a coup in Hawaii, or the UK apologizing for its treatment of Turing. Obviously it sucks that it always seems to take them 50-100 years to make these apologies, but you know, the best time to start is always today.

Especially in this case, presumably John Taylor and his funders might not have had the money to found a successful newspaper if they weren't enslaving other people, so this is a very straightforward "our founder did very bad things, we as an organization have benefited a lot from it, so let's try to make it right a bit". Ethical and logical.
> I could probably teach a solid generalist who cared to get to the level of being able to dissassemble something and say, "yeah, this is dodgy" or not in an afternoon.

Please write and post this guide.
I wouldn't expect them to be any better than current extensions, which are pretty good.
>> Which is like, relevant inside a building only, at which point preheating and cooling isn't that useful

My garage in the winter would disagree throughly with that statement.
> One interesting thing is that properly run crypto custodians don't make the news, are 100% collateralized and can withstand 100% withdrawals in an orderly fashion. Many people in the crypto space could attest to that from various crowdfunds that distributed everything fine, or exchanges that told people to withdraw, or wound down.

This is no different than any hedge funds prime brokerage, which is the more appropriate comparison.

Both can lend out the securities that they hold but both should be able to call back and make their depositors whole.

Crypto has nothing to do with this as far as I can tell.
If only there were some automated system you could talk to to decide whether it's worth going to the ER in the first place...
Meaning Afghanistan/America won anything from that stint?
By the by, I take tension, please intimate me what re preponing of the meeting.
the most vulnerable proportion of the population participated in a widespread vaccination campaign

It looks like about 425k men were fully vaccinated, and another 250k got a single vaccine. That's not amazing compliance if you assume the vulnerable population is somewhere in the 3-16 million range.

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/response/2022/vaccines_dat...
This is still around with Intel i225-V 2.5Gbe controller having serious errors even after multiple revisions.
I wish there is a dumb car with an ev powertrain and nothing else. No screen, telemetry, autopilot nothing.
to sell something that is infinitely, freely replicated, means you must also add some value to the object being sold.

Unlike physical objects, where the sale accounts for the cost of production of material etc, what value does someone trying to sell a GPLv3 software add? I argue that the added value is zero, and hence, the price must be zero as well.
It's a great question!

Right now, I don't train anything, I've broken the text down to n characters and created embeddings for that subset of text -- then I search for the closest distance / relationships between the question asked. Then I add the text to the prompt, and tell gpt to use those paragraphs to answer the question (to ensure that it doesn't make anything up). This is one of the ways I can get around the token limit, but it comes at the cost of thinking it can only use the paragraphs I show it. I'm trying to improve the prompt to get more consistent results, and maybe 4 can help me give it larger bodies of text!

Hope that answers your question, let me know if you have any more!
I wrote code for the headless analysis to dump all functions, till I managed to oom my laptop decompiling a tricky sse2 function, it was fun experience so gonna open a PR see if that can be solved for others.
FTX founder Bankman-Fried charged with paying $40M bribe
> The complaint as it directly relates that they (1) knew of patterns of criminal activity (including patterns of terrorist financing) and specific criminal actors on the platform, and (2) took specific steps to actively counsel specific customers involved in illicit activity on steps to evade detection of that activity.

Let's not conflate events here. They did know about some patterns of criminal activity. Its not stated, as far as I know, that they actively aided/coached these people on how to evade anything.

They also knew about the use of their platform by e.g. HFT companies based in the US who accessed it via shell company. They appear to have, to a limited extent, coached this group on what to do. This behavior is the primary substance of the CFTC's suit, not the criminal/terrorist/ransomware behavior.

It's important that these things not be mixed up. The latter is utterly trivial, protects nobody, and it is the real substance of the lawsuit. The allegations of aiding and abetting crime are not the substance of the lawsuit, presumably because there is no significant evidence of it occurring.
Speech May Reveal Early Signs of Alzheimer’s
No, I'm old enough to have done that. But there's a real limit to what you can plan around for many people. And there's lots of "casual fans"; there's many shows I enjoy, but not enough to stay home for them.
Unimportant. Educated tech workers are in much higher densities in many Eastern European countries than elsewhere.

Of all European countries, these are good bets for recruiting:

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine

https://www.coursera.org/skills-reports/global
Sure, where Y is either woefully inadequate or never hit and ZZ is typically far enough in the future that it's too late to have a meaningful effect, and can be reversed anyway before it comes to fruition. The likelihood that "eat less meat" is going to make it into meaningful policy changes seems pretty low.
You can self host it all too. It's just Matrix with a fancy client. Use the great matrix Ansible playbook and enjoy!
In principle I completely agree. But I’m equal measures ignorant and skeptical of this topic. How much EM radiation can those parts emit? Is this a problem in theory, or is it all but guaranteed to screw with other devices?
Reducing AWS Costs - A Brief Playbook
To whomever told me about windows update blocker ("WUP") on a prior microsoft 11 HN thread, thank you !
What will the defense be?
That's just a boring platitude and doesn't contribute anything to any conversation. Things are complex and nuanced.
I want a pony!
You should try out deno. TypeScript with zero set up. You can write a .ts file anywhere on your computer and run it with, e.g., `deno run hello-world.ts`. It's my new goto for quick scripts
The first season is rough. You need to watch the pilot, Signs and Portents, the Sky Full of Stars, Voice in the Wilderness parts 1 and 2, Babylon Squared, and Chrysalis. Skip the rest, come back to them if you enjoy season 2.
So let’s say the suppression was mainly aimed at bots. Let’s just say that most bots were right wing, what do you want happening here? Let the site be run by bots?
Totally agree. It's a pain. I currently use matrix but I hope the EU initiative to mandate interoperability between chat apps comes through for us.
> Alternatives that remove or prohibit the leverage would be great.

Fun fact, the Fed just denied chartering a new crypto focused bank, Custodia, that was planning to keep not just 100%, but 108% of customer cash on hand, thereby foregoing insurance, and make money from fees instead of lending customer money like a typical bank.

> The Fed’s eviscerating explanation for its denial of Custodia cites the crypto bank’s decision not to insure its deposits – instead, the bank proposed to be fully capitalized, holding $1.08 in cash for every dollar deposited by customers – which the FRB said could increase Custodia’s risk of runs and contagion.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/24/federal-reserve-s...

I suspect they aren't talking about runs and contagions on Custodia, but runs and contagions on all other banks if Custodia were allowed to exist. You can't have one bank totally safe from bank runs in an environment where every other bank keeps less than 10% of your cash on reserve. This breaks the system. Either everyone has to be fractional reserve, or no one can be.
Cockroach is so bad it's good
The core of the issue is that the law itself matters less than how the people with big guns behave -- they can choose not to enforce the law or they can break the law with impunity, so what matters is what the government / police actually do, and what they actually prevent people from doing.

Despite the "bans" on mass protests, the French still protest plenty.
Babylon 5 went even further than most shows today. It had one giant narrative arc over the entire series. The first season was mostly setup. Things started picking up in the second, built up to a huge peak in the third and fourth season, and wound down in the fifth. This wasn't entirely intentional (they were worried about season 5 being cancelled and crammed more into 4), but the effect was like you were reading one big novel. That might have made the last season disappointing if you were watching one episode a week, but it works great for binging.

By comparison, Sopranos for example had a narrative arc for each season, and the new Battlestar had a fairly continuous level of narrative tension throughout, with maybe three or four episodes from peak to peak. I don't think I've ever seen another show that did quite what B5 did.
One richest individual in the world does not an elite make. There definitely was an elite that lost control with the Musk take over. It's being replaced by a new elite.
We all thought it was forever war with The Soviet Union too. I know I did riding around on a submarine with nukes targeted at Russian cities. The USSR at the time looked a lot more powerful than Russia does now.
> Go is the only language that gets concurrency right.

Lol. I guess you haven't seen Elixir.
https://m.thewire.in/article/business/heads-adani-wins-tails...
Lots of stories like this. Read some federal employment discrimination cases—the judicial opinions give lots of detailed facts. Lots of not very bright racists in supervisory roles.

That said, the anti-racism training classes actually make that sort of racism worse: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/opinion/dei-trainings-eff...
There has been a very large increase in aggressive talk vs China. It feels very strange considering these same areas were against economic warfare with China when Trump was in Charge, and I would be money were against the Iraq and/or Afghanistan wars at some point. The "facts" don't matter. For what its worth, my memory is in line with yours, the back lash was absolutely on the US side.
Surprised with this audience that no one is talking about how it was the first TV sci-fi to use CG for the spaceship scenes instead of models. Done on an Amiga no less.
Disney cuts metaverse division as part of broader restructuring
This article just made the global adderall shortage much worse.
Black Africans, unless he's implying that it was run by the Jews. It was not, but White Nationalists don't care about that part.