skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla produced about 1.3 million cars just last year (2022)[1]. It has been successfully meeting its goal of an annual production rate increase of 50% per year for around a decade and is on track to continue this until they reach their goal of producing 20 million cars annually in 2030. The outcome is uncertain but the track record is there. This plus fusion power gives a much different vision of the future. The world you envision depends where you are looking.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/02/tesla-tsla-q4-2022-vehicle-d...
>The content is mostly written by subject matter experts that contribute large blocks of useful text to just a few articles each.

I'm not too sure about that, actually. Wikipedia has a lot of special interest groups to handle niche topics, so I don't think that there's much room for experts outside of the group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject
It looks like I was wrong. He never really embraced criminal Justice reform sincerely. He thought it would make inroads with minorities and he had to be convinced by his son in law (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/01/trump-republicans-f...).

That isn’t by itself meant to be a criticism. But politically, he couldn’t even fight the rhetoric from the right.

And I didn’t know the transparency rule ever made it through.

But, he didn’t get a law passed. It was administrative meaning it would be easier to fight in court (which is happening) and another administration could overturn it.

Again, with his political clout over his base, he could have brow beat enough Republicans and the Democrats wouldn’t dare oppose it. He didn’t focus his energy on getting laws passed in support of the parts of his agenda that’s traditionally not conservative.
I've been using Linux long enough that I was around for KDE 3 and KDE 4. I did not enjoy using them, but I love 5. I'm nervous about this upgrade. I can't think of anything I want that would merit a major version upgrade.
I find that when it writes code, I can't trust its output. I handle that by being Grumpy Old Programmer: I eyeball it closely and ask myself about error handling, assumptions, off-by-one errors, is it confusing the 1.1 API with 2.0, is it efficient or naive, and all the other questions that happen in a code review.

So you're pushing 100 Chinese numbers through ChatGPT to get Arabic equivalents. What do you then do to ensure the quality of output is high? Do you eyeball the list and go "hm, seems plausible"? Spot checks? Is there some context around the lists that means erroneous translations will be quite obvious to the trained eye?

I'm always curious what QA looks like in other fields.
The trick is seeing different personas rather than just "you".

IT admins are thrilled to have limited access to their own hardware, as long as adversaries do too.

In corporate IT, the greatest fear is insider attacks, either knowing or because statistically some users will inevitably make mistakes. Secure boot is fantastic in this context, even if it feels like an unreasonably impingement to gamers / tech enthusiasts.
I realize that there's real research being done here. But as a layman, I read this and only understand that Scottish, Welsh and Irish people are descended from the people who lived in those regions before.

This seems obvious. So what am I missing, as a layman?
Should the opposite should also hold true then, we should dismiss staunch capitalists that continue to believe in that economic theory in spite of the atrocities perpetuated by most capitalist societies against people in adverse conditions? Seems a bit knee jerk to dismiss things wholesale.
Eh, it's a bit more exclusive than that. I'm writing this comment on a Sandy Bridge Core i7 which handles current gen games (mostly thanks to the GPU, but still), yet Win 11 won't support it.

Not a huge loss in my eyes, I see Win 11 as a strictly worse OS than Win 10. Haven't yet seen any feature whatsoever that strikes me as an improvement.
No way, the grip on a normal road with those tires would be terrible. They would also be destroyed very quickly. They are designed for off-road low-speed applications. Low rolling resistance rubber tires are much more efficient energy wise as well. Rubber tires are very advanced anyway, many use chlorobutyl blends and steel and/or Kevlar reinforments.
I don't really know to be honest.

But there's this that might be worth reading: https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-vs-pine64-pinephone-li...

> On the other hand, Pine64 opted for a community-based approach: they provide the base hardware and OS to users and developers, and the community develops the needed software to make it run. postmarketOS and (Ubports) Ubuntu Touch developers have already ported their OS to the PinePhone development kits, and KDE Plasma Mobile will be the primary desktop designed for this phone. About $10 for each device will be donated to open source projects.
Framing type checking as a crutch is a new one to me.
The OP lives on top of a mountain. Brakes don't last 50k if you have to ride them for 5 minutes every time you leave home.
I didn’t know it was so easy to pirate switch games. I paid for a ubisoft title that won’t load due to copy protection or some other such bullshit that I don’t care to debug.

I guess if I care at all about actually playing it (I got it for my kindergartner, who promptly asked me to return it to get my money back once it failed to run), the hard part will be bluetooth paring the switch controllers to my Linux box.

Thanks for the roundabout tech support, Nintendo!
Is it not an appropriate degree of grandeur?
No, they added sesame where there was none before.

The law requires you either have no sesame contact at all (as in not even having sesame based products travel on the same belts), or you list sesame as an ingredient.

But you can't just list ingredients that aren't in your food: "travelled on the same belt as sesame" isn't enough. So they actually went and added sesame.
Next C++ book or course to do after doing PJA videos?
I've done (70% of) PJA's(Prateek Jain Academy) videos(I'm from India). The course was around 50 hrs long. Now, I'm wondering what course or book to do next. Please suggest some. I don't yet feel comfortable with C++. Should I try unreal engine? Or what should I do? Which book is best for learning C++ at this stage? I just need a quick revision?

sadly learncpp.com and cppreference.com didn't work for me because they weren't tailored to my needs which is more of example based, visual explanations.
If this entirely fictional friend only ever emailed me from his .jp email address and never contacted me any other way, I guess so, I would never talk to him again.

Since he’s not real I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe he’s kind of a dick.
Sure! I'm not too worried about fancy features. Cover images and ISBN would be nice for sure, but manual input of books probably wouldn't be a huge bother (at least for me). Reviews would also be nice but aren't a big deal.

Mainly I want something that lets us pretend we have a "real" library system and is easy to use.
Right I’m saying I don’t particularly care about the governance structure of the protocol underlying my social media network. A centralized network run by a nonprofit or a b-corp and a relatively open API sounds great to me.

User safety is a dealbreaker though. Pretty sure I’m not alone.
Randomized trial of potential of different beverages to affect hydration status
> My point is that we should not delude ourselves into thinking that we can arrive at “rational” decisions about resource use by reducing everything to accounting.

Have you any idea what should replace rational decisions and reducing everything to accounting? I cannot imagine what the other way may be, but I would like to know.
And one bred to have extra sugar to boot
A curiously deep dive I wasn't expecting.

Reminding me of the song "Wellsville" by the never-made-it band, The Embarrassment from Wichita, Kansas.

"We stopped just past the Flint Hills, there's a sign, it was Wellsville."

https://youtu.be/vWm6-htMu4U
> TPM2.0 is used only by bitlocker

This isn't true at all, Windows Hello uses it as a secure credentials store.
>It's far easier to do productive, useful things with AI if you just treat it as a tool, like a chainsaw or a pulley.

I am seeing a lot of comments paraphrasing this, without pointing to anything.

A lot of comments also say confidently and repetitively that AI is different from crypto.

The best use case I have found so far for ChatGPT is...editing HN posts. [1] But after being mildly satisfied with it once, it seemed like too much bother to use it regularly. Like being a nobody and getting an autopen [2] to sign for you.

But more than a month ago, there was a "Show HN" by someone who claimed that they had an AI-powered solution to writing SQL. [3] The tagline was literally Never write SQL again. That sure sounds like something that could replace real people's jobs, that could be spun into a multibillion dollar market cap.

I tried it, made an attempt at a constructive comment without being negative, and there was not one response, from the submitter or anyone else.

I could explain in scathing terms how useless it appeared, but anyone capable of understanding what writing code is could read between the lines, and nobody like that engaged, so I let it lie.

What is a reasonable person to think about real applications?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35487015

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427229
I can imagine a future where certain governments prevent people from purchasing guns without this technology. A company like this could position itself to push society towards that reality while also profiting off of it.
Ben Nadel: On Starting a Side-Project: Hotwire vs. Angular
Me neither, there’s some too-clever-for-it’s-own-good metaprogramming that enthusiastic Ruby devs sometimes indulge in, such as private inner DSLs, or baroque/arcane dicking around with eigenclasses, prepends, anonymous modules etc, that could certainly blow up spectacularly when part of the application code, and should either be extracted to a standalone gem or reconsidered entirely.

Having shat out such over-engineered malarkey myself on occasion, I will say, there but for the grace of gods go I.
I would be interested in some of your examples of what these companies were
doing wrong? Bear in mind they have multiple pressures. One is to make a good working environment for staff but they need to compete and stay profitable.
That was my first thought, but look at other well-documented comments here. It sure looks like "may contain" is a certification that every possible avenue to avoid "contamination" had been pursued. Which is an open-ended liability. Easier to just add 1% and definitively say it does contain sesame.
Beautiful! Thank you!!
I don’t use Windows for work or home. I keep a VM around for the couple of times a year someone sends me a word document.
"We believe a tight-knit group of engineers with a common vision can move faster than a community effort. "

But can't they just open source it and not accept PRs?
I believe the theory is that processed meat leads to visceral fat accumulation in the pancreas. Of course you can mitigate the risk if you exercise and eat meat in moderation.

https://youtu.be/X5GIExMa4rM

This is the video I got it from. I'm in no way an expert on this topic so take it with a bit of salt
I think the uptick of blue sky posts is directly tied to a bunch of techies/journos getting their invites and are excited for a possible Twitter alternative. But I’ve also seen articles talk about the issues with bluesky as well (hell threads, bunch of butts, public block lists, s3 domain thing). Exciting times.
Just a quick note of thanks for your serendipitous comment - as someone who wants to improve their French, uses Android, likes RSS and wants a non-shit podcast app preferably with free software principles, this has pretty much nailed it
It appears from the Wikipedia page that the early Pentium IIIs were in Slot 1 format.
The link to Sedgewick's 1978 paper no longer works, but an archive of it can be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/20190713031319/http://penguin.ewu...
that is spectacular!
>the question is whether the security benefit is worth the loss of freedom.

At least as far as Benjamin Franklin would tell you: No.
Cannot disagree more. The author is either a Javascript savant or has never worked on a 100k LOC Javascript project.

I remember the days before Typescript, chasing down those “undefined” Javascript bugs. Not fun.
I know a guy who had that. Turned out these actually were panic attacks after all. Finger-prick blood sugar test told the story, and anxiety meds fixed it right up.

Hypoglycemia actually causes a panic attack, so symptoms are the same.
> tunnel of 1,036 m (3,399 ft) length... built in the 6th century BC... excavated from both ends... At the rendezvous, the closing error in altitude for the two tunnels was a few millimetres.

starting a hole from two ends a kilometer apart and meeting within a few millimeters in any axis is phenomenal, would love to learn more about what they used to ensure this kind of accuracy
The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
>> I'm honestly confused why researchers in one or a few fields haven't already gotten together

I am not knowledgeable, but it looks like just game theory.

Ideally, I would wish you to publish in open access while I reap the immediate career benefits of publishing in a prestige journal.
I don’t get why Nintendo doesn’t just hire these people. You’d want these talented people on your team and they probably know the hardware/software better than people in the company.
RCJH
As for me, if I ever sort my shit out and get around to having kids, I'll try to teach them to challenge me when and only when I'm being unreasonable - and how to tell the difference between.

Then we'll navigate interpersonal difficulties as they inevitably come.
Windows 11's system requirements include both SecureBoot and TPM2, so yes it is in fact relevant.
Yeah, you can get cosmic crisp apples of around 400g
Yeah. Also, I got a pair for my father in law (who has expensive hearing aids) for the remote listen accessibility feature (which uses the iPhone mic on the table next to the speaker instead of an in ear mic).

He was sorely disappointed. I tried that feature out before returning them, and agree.
Modern North Americans largely are not descended from those that lived in North America two thousand years ago - the original locals were swamped by immigrants from elsewhere.

Modern England is largely made up from those descended from earlier immigrantion waves of mostly European origin that displaced original iron age occupants.

The "fringes" (for want of a better word) of the modern UK and Republic of Ireland (Scotland, Wales, the island of Ireland) still retain populations that are largely descended from OG occupants.
"have X-ish ancestry" versus "I'm X-ish" ... the lifelong conundrum

It gets even more perplexing when you consider someone like .. well, me .. who would say "I'm from X, but not of X".
I guess it’s worth qualifying that my mother is not fat either, she’s a normal skinny human being with regular muscle density in this regard.
What training app? Could benefit from this
This is a terrible take.

Journals without fees (or lower fees) are available. Why don’t researchers publish in those?

Presumably because the journals that charge high fees offer something the lower cost ones don’t.
Seems like a… dumb quote to me. Failure to account for externalities is a regulation policy failure and nothing more.
When I first came to Silicon Valley, the free soda really hurt me. I gained 30 lbs because I was drinking over 6 cokes a day. I didn’t realize the damage it would do and now I have type 2 diabetes.
If intellectual work can’t be protected, then be prepared for a lot less of it to be done.
The car weighing a lot is the second issue, though, not the first. Is the ultra-low rolling resistance a third issue, or related to one of the other two?
My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
Hackernews types did just fine with 1970s terminal applications. Only with the introduction of the Macintosh did commercial computers become "usable".

Usability to normies is usability. Even technical types benefit from it: normie-friendly systems impose less stress and cognitive load.
Lots of semiconductor design tools are Windows only.
Are vector databases (mostly) commodities ? Do they have a winner takes all property (Pinecone seems more popular at the moment?
But your later day examples were caused mostly by disease, not strategy.

The deaths caused by europeans arriving in the americas (without fighting) are estimated at 10% of all living humans of that era.
Hearing aid manufacturers are currently making things loud enough to cause hearing loss in normal ears. According to the quote I pasted in, the comment period is the reason they are still prescription-only.

Also, the concerns about not having safe ear canal protrusion limits, and not having volume controls are not things I (or the regulators) invented.
He wasn't convicted of any of those things, though. You can look up what the actual conviction was:

> The official charges are "Conspiracy to Circumvent Technological Measures and to Traffic in Circumvention Devices" and "Trafficking in Circumvention Devices", both of which are federal felonies in the United States.

Perfectly reasonable to assume the worst about the guy, but given that Nintendo is involved I will assume that anything the government couldn't prove is false.
The crazy thing about this, is growing up and realizing that not everybody was raised like this.

I sometimes see kids screaming back at there parents. If I had ever done something like that there would be a funeral.
> the original locals were swamped by immigrants from elsewhere.

Not swamped. They first had up to 80% of their existing population eliminated by diseases that early european explorers bought with them.
> the hard part will be bluetooth paring the switch controllers to my Linux box.

Do you expect that to be hard? The mainline kernel has a driver already.

https://github.com/DanielOgorchock/linux/blob/ogorchock/driv...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> Lives get better through many factors. Better knowledge. Better medicine. Better education. Better products. Greater shared wealth. And, ideally, better regulation.

Who pays for that? You don't sound like you're an active participant in producing any of that stuff. You sound like you're just an advocate for "more" regulation. How does that help? Don't you agree that bad regulations do more damage than a single bad actor? Like in Soviet Union?

Or it could just be that you're the bad actor in disguise, or you don't realise it yourself. Don't get me wrong here, but your mindset sounds like that of a young child, who wants to control everything, by "regulating" others' behaviour.
If they cared about us, inclusion of DRM into any product would exempt it from qualification for copyright protection.

Basically, you should be allowed to have copyright, or DRM, but never both. And you can't change your mind on it either... if the hardware is released with DRM, you don't get to release a non-DRM version because you realized you fucked up. If it's extant anywhere in the world, copyright's forever out of reach.
This part just before's even crazier: The use of miraculin as a food additive was denied in 1974 by the [FDA].

It's been banned for 50 years for no legitimate reason.
this is what mcfly does but it does it all automagically and stores everything in sqlite database. Also easy to sync that db between two computers connected by tailscale/ssh.
Not to be too pedantic, but I think the Kansas City you are referring to is in Missouri :)

You’re right about the draw though. The KC metro is growing — sort of feels like Denver felt about 15 years ago
I think he’s been trying to cut that down very recently. His latest video begins with him not even on camera! I think he’s testing the waters and he’ll find that even with the most rough, sloppy edit his videos will do really well.
Yeah they are pretty sweet, why I didn't eat anything else at breakfast. I am fairly sure that an all-apple diet would kill a person.
I'd be a terrible dad, and I aint got no kid
It worked several times before (Clinton email server, Hunter Biden laptop, various examples from other countries) so no reason why this argument would not work again.
Where I work pretty much everyone who's not a developer or system admin uses Windows. Most of them never leave the confines of Edge, Teams, Sharepoint, Outlook, and MS Office with maybe the exception being Zoom. It's an enterprise config of some sort so it more or less stays out of their way. Windows Home sounds absolutely horrific and I can't imagine why anyone uses it, other than they don't know anything else.
Problem is most people dont care about VR. The market is far from exploding and its not because of a lack of trying.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/humans-fea...
Yeah, right. Wait until the day when iOS App Store infra keys leak.

Oh no! That will never happen. Because it runs on Apple M1 kryptonite chip that even Superman can't touch. /s
yes but they've been building more stuff on top of it with modern 2023 tech.
Even beef jerky has ridiculous amounts of sugar, it's hard to find a brand that doesn't have more sugar calories than protein calories. I tend to cook nearly all my own food anyway, but it would be nice to be able to pay somebody to make ready to eat foods that didn't include ridiculously needless additions.
I switched to full time macOS in 2019 from a 15 year background professionally on Windows in IT admin/architect type roles.

Granted, at that point Windows was web browser, IDE, and remoting into Linux machines for 95% of my work.

I appreciate having first class support for all my command line tools and utils, which I generally get on macOS. I have linuxified my macOS experience, installing and pathing gnu versions of everything you would normally expect. I rarely use the utils from macOS.

I have a Windows gaming PC that hasn't been powered on this year.

I like my MBP battery life and lack of futzing needed for my work (I do use better touch tool, but that's it).

I have turned down further interviews if I find out I'm going to be saddled with a corporate locked down Windows laptop.
I feel safe using KeePass. Its hotkey auto-fills most of the time. You can regularly sync/backup the database to cloud.
There’s a pretty significant section in the article called “Surveying techniques and construction” that answers your curiosity.
I would like to remind everyone reading this that we're mainly talking about playing certain video games without paying for them.
First, this conflicts with stories ascribing more exotic origins to the Picts. Second, that it demonstrates that there is some continuity between the pre-Indo-European population of the British Isles and today; i.e., they weren't totally replaced. Third, that the particular sub-populations having this ancestry, and similar to the Picts, are in Wales, Northumbria, Northern Ireland, and Western Scotland, not in Sussex, say. None of this is obvious. There are people in the British Isles today who resemble the Picts. There are people in the British Isles who don't resemble the Picts.

It was known that there were people in the British Isles before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans. It was not known that these were the Picts. It was known that the Picts were regarded as culturally distinct, when they were around, from other populations which are regarded as having a continuous history to the present times. It was not obvious that there were any genetically Pictish people left, or, if so, where they lived. It was not obvious that the Picts were just the pre-Indo-European people of the British Isles. These things were among hypotheses offered, but genetic analysis has established that it is so.