skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been steady progress over the last couple of decades in battery tech. Much of it has gone into better Lithium-based batteries. We haven’t exactly stuck with the same tech.

“Eternally five years away? No, batteries are improving under your nose”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
Few people read blogs nowadays - they are virtually unfindible with Google, because it's page rank values them poorly.
I think this is already happening. People are realizing that not every site needs to work (or more often, become a horrible vertically-scrolling soup) on mobile. The only laggard is Google which is still stuck in 2009 and downranks mobile-unfriendly pages (even on desktop searches)
I'm not sure what you mean. Most buffets won't limit you.
Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping to see more of this sort of analysis from the HN crowd :)

There's one other person from HN doing some analysis with me via email. Maybe something will come of it. You both came to the same conclusion based on the pcap data. They're also analyzing the iphone tether pcap data I just provided in an update.
Do you need an m1 macbook to do this? I have a 2015 macbook pro..
Madsim: Magical Deterministic Simulator for distributed systems in Rust
bit of quibble, but a geological era, as a technical term, describes a duration on the order of 100MYA, which is nearly 1/100th of the age of the universe, making 'nanosecond' a bit of an exaggeration. even if we consider periods on the order of 10MYA (how long ago the titular lake disappeared), that's still on the order of 100000x a human lifespan, versus 1/1000th the age of the universe.

anyway, i bring this up mostly because, while it's widely appreciated that spatially speaking earth exists an a scale utterly insignificant compared to astronomical distances, from a temporal perspective the age of the earth (and the duration of life on earth) are actually quite comparable to that of the universe
i worked in geneva, switzerland for about 6 months, and in the summer literally every streetlight was surrounded by masses of spider webs - they had worked out that this was where small flying creatures were to be found. strangely, i've never seen this anywhere else, at least not in such profusion.
Nowhere in the article does he say the industry is ripe for disruption. Can we please change the title to something more accurate, such as "Lithium ion technology is not going to be disrupted in at least the next 5-10 years, inventor says"?
I don't see it as something to be ashamed of as a customer. Some manager made a nutty pricing descision and now they have to live with stupid behaviour.
How long did it take others to get access? I signed up before 27th of March
Part of the point is that if you read the Rust foundation's recent document strictly enough, anyone else aren't actually allowed to say the name Rust, since they didn't get explicit permission and/or aren't willing to comply with all of the terms.

So they don't dare say the name to avoid any chance of being sued.

Not that it's actually likely, but the point is that the document is that bad, so IF you take it at it's word, then well that's how it evaluates out, is the only way to be safe is just don't use the actual logo or name at all. Anything else you do technically runs afoul of at least one of the many terms and conditions in there.
There is always a limit even if it's not published.
To be honest vms was more interesting before reading its command language and seeing that it’s administration page is served over plaintext http.

If this is the preface I don’t really thing there’s going to be very much interesting stuff underneath. And it’s proprietary anyways…
"Whimsical" now means "making pointless work for yourself and everyone else" and seems rather close to "speed-running" ("slow-running"?) a bureaucracy for social media clout. Really, really pitiful social media clout.
Notability is one piece of the puzzle, but the other is ensuring that Wikipedia content is not written "in-universe". Fandom has no such restriction, and in fact skews the other way, with content being assumed to be referring to fictional people, places, and events as if real, unless otherwise noted.

I think this is a valid barrier for Wikipedia, and the desire to describe fictional worlds this way is a good signal that that content is a better fit for a more fan-oriented forum.
I think America is very rich because it incentivizes people to work their asses off all the time. Or in euphemistic corporate jargon, American society optimizes the heck out of everything to appease Wall St every quarter. If they were to focus on long, happy lives, they would not be as rich in the first place.
I recommend actually booking a hotel instead of a rebranded Airbnb.
Liveliest discussion adjacent to this matter was here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561747
‘Our kids say our small house is embarrassing’
> Evidence for censorship is never going to fit into a scientific context, especially when you're actually concerned with intent rather than statistical significance or similar data.

Generally speaking, if you can't provide scientific evidence for something, it's not worth thinking about. Even if I were to agree that censorship will not be scientifically studied by scientists (which I do not) any individual could still try to follow the scientific method to gather evidence of such censorship. I have not seen such evidence, and every time I've previously tried to follow "plenty of evidence out there" it has not convinced me.

Ask yourself: why not follow the scientific method, publish clear data etc.? I think this is not done because it would show that such censorship doesn't exist beyond what is usually expected of social media. If you have a different reason (or even data?) feel free to show it!
In Brazil:

As a person, it’s super easy to pay your taxes: download the government app, double check the data and send it (it’s more complex to a few people, of course).

As a company, it’s the hell on earth.
I agree. This is a clear-cut case of copyright infringement, as is all art. After all, people painting images have only seen paintings other people painted.
The frame rate stays the same (e.g. the player always moves the same speed). It's more that only one invader gets moved on each frame. So the fewer invaders there are, the more they get moved. It's deliberate.

I guess they weren't doing a whole-screen-refresh (with double buffer) in those days, just turning pixels on and off to move the objects. So then there's a limit to how many objects can move per frame.

E.g. the player moves by blanking our pixels on one side and adding them on the other...
I really tried to read this comment, but I can't get past the word salad. I'm sorry, I don't know what you're trying to say.

Is there some sort of allusion to the meritocracy trap or fundamental attribution bias? How does any of that relate to my comment? I'm just confused.

In any case I believe the connection you make between LSD and the discovery of DNA is apocryphal.
If you’re designing a stable API for external users, you might want to lock down your API even more by forward declaring the struct types as opaque in the public header file and only defining the struct members in a private library header file. This prevents users from messing with your library’s private state and allows you to change implementation details later without breaking binary compatibility. The disadvantage is that users can’t control how the structs are allocated or embed them in their own structs.

/* foo.h */
struct foo_object;

struct foo_object* foo_create(int flags, …);

/* foo.c */
#include “foo.h”

struct foo_object {
int flags,
…
};
I'm curious how Grant's presidency is considered underrated. I admire him for taking unpopular stances around voting rights and civil rights (and particularly, he genuinely seemed to care about Native Americans in some real capacity) but his presidency was completely mired by corruption around him, so much so that there's entire wikipedia page devoted to it[0].

While I'm not going to claim nearly any president was without scandal (really almost none, sans maybe - maybe - George Washington), evidence suggests he was a really ineffective president all things considered, particularly in controlling his cabinet members and managing economic affairs

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_administration_scandals
Yup. Go now to booking.com and pick a remote roadside motel in Wyoming for a midweek stay sometime in March of 2024.

And watch booking.com try to tell you that "19 people have booked this today" or some such bullshit.
You started strong -- upgrading the signaling system is a great idea.

But tiny cars making point to point visits...really? The fact is, autonomous vehicle systems cannot solve traffic, due to inherent throughput limitations. If you waved your magic wand and made every vehicle on the road an AV, the only thing it really solves is parking. The roads would still clog. This would also apply to doing it in subway tunnels, with the added downside of now your subways are just as jammed as the surface roads.
Prob. after 2024 elections.
depends by what measure… if it's just about how much lithium is theoretically estimated to exist in the earth crust, then one could twist together an argument for lithium to be somewhat "abundant" (even though even by that measure Sodium is, depending on the source, 1000 to 2000 times more abundant).

But if it's in terms of practicably available (mineable or otherwise practicably extractable at a sub-exorbitant price) lithium reserves, it's quite bleak actually, and we are currently forced to either rely on a small set of limited reserves, mostly concentrated in a few rather uncertain countries of origin… or to resort to extremely expensive low-yield extraction methods.

In contrast: Na (Sodium) is trivially and cheaply extractable from salt, which is readily available everywhere in much larger quantities (be it as sea water or from salt mines which are enormously more common than lithium mining) for cheap.
I've followed these basic principles for decades (Full disclosure: I've taken NNG courses -quite a few).

They're really just basic common sense, but you know how it goes...

> Common Sense: So rare, that it's a super power.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2b/ac/61/2bac61a609a63386b8342c757...
Heh, just revert back to pirating. That’s what I do whenever things don’t work.
How do you know they are all family and not child labor working to help their families? After all child labor isn't a foreign concept in Afghanistan:

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1143143252/afghanistan-taliba...

I find it strange that child labor invokes such a strong feeling in any article about EV, being associated with cobalt mining, yet it receives such a glove treatment in this discussion.
This is a good intro for anyone who already has at least some background in ML and wants to get up to speed on LLMs relatively quickly.

Props to the author for giving credit to Bandanau et al (2014), which I believe first proposed the concept of applying a Softmax function over token scores to compute attention, setting the stage for the original transformer by Vaswani et al (2017).
Thank you for the answer. From the 2012 HN post I did see some comments that did corroborate the point that it used to be more common, but was essentially replaced with coding test. (which makes me kinda feel less bad about coding tests now)
I would read the book regardless of whether you choose to make the move or not. It'll give you a good idea of what the day in the life of an SE is like. I found it to be accurate.

As for being afraid of giving up that hard skill:

1. Unlike going into actual sales or management, you don't give it up entirely. Your technical skills are still very valuable. It will give you confidence when you demo stuff and clout amongst engineering types (which are key to getting the technical win). It's just not THE thing that your performance is measured against.

2. Having presales experience will help you significantly if you choose to go back into full time engineering. You'll have a better idea of what customers want and how sales are made. This will help you gauge when/how to build the right thing and approach sales-y/business people.

In fact, my biggest pet peeve with engineering is that unless you're working at the earliest stages of a startup, you're so far removed from what customers actually want but are incentivized on your tech prowess. This creates perverse motives that tend to be more complex and anti-customer in the name of software craftsmanship and scalability.
In Canadian telecom, when you call Rogers or Bell to cancel your cell phone plan they transfer you to a retentions' department who will offer you a special rate to retain your business.

I wonder if banks will do the same. From a profit perspective, having the same price for all customers sounds inefficient.
You’re saying the definition of working is not tied to the activity but rather the motive?
Digital cameras made burst photos go from $.25+ a frame at 5FPS to effectively free with rates at 30+FPS now. That was transformative but also lead to all sorts of lamentations about lack of skill
W2 withholding is set at a fixed rate at the beginning of the year. If you get a raise mid year, that typically isn't adjusted to zero out at the end of the year and you end up overpaying. Add in all the potential deductions the IRS can't anticipate and isn't really possible to make tax payments exact.
> Non-smart TVs do exist

Not at comparable quality or price point. The insidious parts about abusive business models like surveillance/ad-sponsored or "free with ads" is that they set a price point that more honest business models can hardly reach.

Take two practically identical TVs by two competing vendors. One decides to go evil and have their product show ads in the UI, while siphoning data. They other does not. The first can use the money they make on ads and surveillance to lower the price of the product, even below manufacturing costs. You can't compete with that while staying honest.

> The reality is that people do not care enough to even read the privacy policies.

Of course. Why would you expect to? Every product and service now comes with insanely long terms of service and privacy policies, written in a way as to prevent regular people from even trying to understand it. There is only so much hours in a day, so much days in a lifetime, so much money in the wallet - people "don't care" about privacy, but not in the sense that it doesn't matter, but rather there's too many more important/pressing things to do than read ToS-es all day.
A trademark copyright document tries to have opinions about allowing guns at conventions, and you try to say the youtubers don't understand copyright?
Indeed SSS would be better security wise. This implementation is easier to use for non tech people, e.g during a treasure hunt.
The example from the wikipedia page for C11 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)#Chan...) is compile time determination of the function to call:

#define cbrt(x) _Generic((x), long double: cbrtl, \
default: cbrt, \
float: cbrtf)(x)

In code you'll write `cbrt(foo)` and the correct function will be called for the type of foo. As I understand it, the `_Generic` selection is performed at compile time.
There is no user error but UX issues :)

That has been said, you probably used paintbrush rather than the eraser? There would be more help on the Discord server though! https://discord.gg/5gcBeGU58f
Why ashamed? I don’t see anything wrong with this.
Apple's old OS X Human Interface Guidelines (pre-OS X Yosemite)[1] said almost exactly the same things.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140603021344if_/https://develo...
Thoughts on Prompt Injection Against LLMs
I disable that wherever possible since I find it incredibly annoying. I just never have enough windows to want nested window switching.
TubeSync – PVR (personal video recorder) for YouTube
My partner was sexually assaulted by a Lyft driver and lost her Lyft account in the process.

That's some great customer service right there.
The dash screen really should be integrated into the OBD system so you can read codes etc without a seperate code reader. It doesn't seem that hard to do.
How did people do this before electronic payments?
Booking.com does not do it. Once an A/B test shows positive outcome with a high enough confidence level, the experiment goes "full on" and is shown to everybody.
It's funny. At my company, the company was cheap. They paid "competitive" wages, which is code for "substantially less than prevailing."

As a hiring manager, I was constantly in the position of having to pitch the job to the candidate.

I feel it worked out. We got quite a few highly skilled people, that stayed for a long time, but the hiring process was quite gruelling, for me.
SEC Targets Bittrex, Fallen Giant of U.S. Crypto Exchanges
"Am I the only one..."
Yes. That is exactly the point, that even such obviously allowable uses of the name are actually not allowed. So they are merely adhering to the rules they didn't write or ask for.

If you think it's stupid, well, yes, so does everyone else. That's the wbole point. But it's not everyone else being stupid it's the Rust Foundation.
I signed up on 22-Mar and am still waiting.
I too found that biography to be very entertaining and informative. It was interesting how Grant spent the last several months of his life writing for most hours of almost every day. He dove into it, and apparently gave Twain's publishing firm a pretty good product that they could easily work with.

Grant was a very skilled man throughout his life in regard to arithmetic, equestrianism, and military arts among other things. However, he truly found a new skill and passion in writing while literally on his deathbed.
I haven't had a chance to test it personally, but I think this is a main premise of GitHub's Copilot CLI product. Quoting below from https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-cli

> Copilot for CLI provides three shell commands: `??`, `git?` and `gh?`:

> `??` is meant as the general-purpose goto for arbitrary shell commands. It will compose commands and loops, and throw around obscure find flags to satisfy your query.

> `git?` is used for searching specifically for git invocations. Compared to ?? it will be more powerful at generating Git commands, and your queries can be more succinct when you don't need to explain that you're in the context of Git.

> `gh?` combines the power of the GitHub CLI command and query interface with the convenience of having AI generate the complicated flags and jq expressions for you.
That very obviously isn't.
For what purpose? People can only eat so much. The buffet doesn't have to limit you. And if the buffet isn't limiting you then it's valid for them to say "unlimited".
and a big reason the web sucks is how google has made it this way.

recipe sites are terrible because the ones you find have been doing the google thing of increasing engagement, lots of info - blah blah.

No penalty for tons of ads from an ad company.

Google destroyed blog rolls, web rings, and so many other things that were user positive.

In some cases the google of years past was prodded to change (much of the censorship the hides so many results that were once popular back in the day are result of legal pushing or other outrage campaigns)

- however much of what they consider good to be in the top 10 is good for selling ads.

Google is the new yellow pages and that's all it will be so far as search goes imho - people will find what they want searching within portals and other apps more than using google for everything

- 'google it' - is no longer 'finding [obscure thing here'] - google it just means find what is curated... more and more it's 'go to reddit, amazon, tik, yout.. etc - google is known for being 'ad heavy' and prude.

Currently still good for finding accurate hours someplace is open, if you know the exact name and location of said place,

but if you are looking for a tow truck, locksmith, appliance repair, plumber, etc - and depend on google to find one - just like in the yellow pages - the first ones you find are over priced, and the deeper, smaller results may not be in business any longer -

cant wait for the less censored, more 'find the exact bit', less scroll through ads, 'definition of [thing you were looking for]' - ads, 'history of [thing you were looking for]' ads - 'part 1 of [thing you were looking for]' - ads, here's the 3 seconds of info you needed - ads

give me a different bot for each search, and less google and ads any day.

if brave browser or DDG can give me the answer without the 'history or, why you might want to bake a salmon, and 3 ads before I see it (in the search results), and 3 days before I get to the tiny info.. I could like that.

I've even enjoy a link to the info (that skips down the page to the info, auto-blocks any auto play video or audio or moving gifs/ html5 moving ads / banners) - then I'd actually enjoy searching, reading, and even clicking to verify context again.

Oh the web before google censored it into it's own desired ad filled prude image. It was a web and not a silo.
The image of Maria's ear is probably enough to identify her. Ear folds are as unique as fingerprints or facial features: https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04/health/unique-body-parts/inde...

So the mask is irrelevant.
It definitely looks like testing sites are prioritized. The fastest download speed that I have gotten is maybe 7 MB (bytes) per second; generally it is 2-5 MB per second. The speed test sites generally get 100 Mb per second dowload. In general the best I seem to get is about half the speed of the speed test sites. To me the real speed of the ISP is how fast one can download something one wants, not the result of a test.
I would prefer to see results for downloads/uploads from youtube and various CDN networks and popular sites. I would also like to see ISP have a URL that is inside their network to test upload and download so that one can at least isolate what part of the connection might be lagging.
Actually, I just used devtools to snag a 25MB file from fast.com. Curl/wget gives a speed of about 3 or 4 MB per second. That does not really seem to match up with fast.com download speed of 70Mb/second. 70/8 is 8.75, which is about double. Is fast.com accurate? Is my math wrong?
thanks for demanding intellectual rigor on HN.

because the papers seemed invalid, i didn't save them. i'll try to find them.

even if i share a few, it's possible most papers do not commit this mistake, and i was simply unlucky to stumble upon a few and generalized from an invalid sample size.

which is why i disqualified the opinion by saying it was not empirically supported.

for what it's worth, i discussed this opinion beforehand with several post-docs from respected schools and did not get pushback. this isn't proof either, but merely clarifies that the comment wasn't a thoughtless one.

in the meantime, do you mind sharing one widespread assumption you believe is false? it sounds like you're very informed, so it would be great to learn from you.
With cheques.
> Why do so many tech companies think they have a right o issue decisions to employees, contractors, or customers without communicating context?

They don’t think they have the right, they do have the right, at least in the US.
A LONG time ago, I was at a (small) company that shared a building with a phone company office. I was amazed at how many people paid their phone bills in cash.
I think someone should put up a counter of how many lives the EU parliament has taken by summing the collective time every cookie banner has taken from human cognition / lives. Maybe it'll be enough to charge them with crimes against humanity.
The majority of that comment is just, uh, wrong and bizarre and conspiracy theory laden and I can't figure out what it's actually trying to say about IEEE 1667 at all.
RFC3339 is a more restricted subset of ISO 8601, which has the problem of allowing YYYY-Www-D and YYYY-DDD as well.
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