skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is stopping them exactly?

Living in places not suited for it. I don't have a drivers license. I'm 48 and have never gotten one because I like to walk and have always lived places with good public transit.

So, when in a past job I often travelled to the Bay Area, I tried to walk as much as I could there too, and it often worked.

But I also frequently found direct routes to places I needed to get to unsafe to walk, and ended up on massive detours. E.g. once while we had offices near Menlo Park, I stayed in a nice B&B in Atherton. The direct route along El Camino Real would've been short enough to walk (for me anyway), but there are parts of it that have no pedestrian affordances whatsoever and woefully insufficient lighting to walking along the roadside. I did that. Once. The detour I found (there might well be better ones; I tried once and wasn't very familiar with the area) took 2-3 times as long at the time.

Had the direct route "worked", I'd have loved to stay at that B&B again on future trips, instead it was written off as too inconvenient for me.

As a visitor, I took some perverse pleasure in trying to figure out how to manage there without a car. But had I lived in the area, I'd probably quickly have given up and resorted to learning to drive.

And frankly, that's one of the more pedestrian friendly areas I've visited in the US outside the highest density urban cores.
> Well, that's US. I am in much more densely populated Central Europe - several orders of magnitude compared to California.

The average population density of California is 250 per square mile, for Germany it's 620. Considerably less than one order of magnitude in difference.

> For most people here, workplace is 15-30 minutes walk/public transit away, that's not going to solve anything about car charging.

If people are not driving to work, their cars can charge at home during the day, so it's already solved.

> And there's not enough physical space for solar arrays of this size.

There most certainly is. People overestimate the required space to a ridiculous degree.
The point is that the leaked material stops being dangerous before it can get very far.
"Compromised" and "comprised" are different words.
You're forgetting that 1) carriers have near-zero engineering capability to fix this and 2) don't actually have an incentive to prevent spam/fraud because fraudulent traffic still pays them money.

This is not about stopping fraud, this is about preventing "grey routes" that do arbitrage around tariffs and bypass carriers' outdated business model.
This week between ChatGPT and Phind I asked an AI four questions. Two were about SMT-LIB, one was about homomorphic encryption, and one was about software-defined networking.

Both ChatGPT and Phind insisted on giving me example SMT problems and then incorrect solutions to them. The HE answer was so vague as to be useless, and I don’t actually know enough about SDN to verify the last one but it seemed useful.

Overall it didn’t give me a lot of confidence in the two systems.
Right, but again, what's the True Goal of jump part of athletics? Unlikely it's "achieve maximum at vertical jumping with these very specific conditions". It's more like "achieve maximum at vertical jumping". Which includes thousands of variantions. It's just we can't measure it without some standards, so specific rules were introduced. In a way, these limitations that rule impose at technique are the byproduct of inability to measure True Goal. We measure what's measurable, and for that some degree of standartization is required.

I'm not sure I'm familiar with racewalking story. Any good links to read?
I think P and B are closer phonetically than L and R, though.
That information was tested in grade school civics class or as part of the citizenship exam.

Let's try some other questions.

In what decade did we land on the moon?
Who was elected in the previous presidential election?
The Earth is thousands? millions? billions of years old?

I am fairly sure you could find people who would be more than willing to put those questions on the tests with the goal of disenfranchising people who have belief in the other answer.
> Like the subway, AI is a public good

Nonsense. He just hand-waves this alleged "fact" into existence with no justification whatsoever, and build the rest of his case on it.

Now, one can argue that AI systems belong to the people who created them. One can also argue that those who created the training data should also have some ownership rights (this argument is of course going on right now).

However, neither of these makes AI systems any kind of "public good", in the same sense as a subway built by the government with tax dollars contributed by all citizens is a "public good".
> What about buying clothing or other necessities? If you're ordering most of your stuff in, you're not reducing the need for driving, you're paying someone else to drive for you.

not really... batching a bunch of orders and delivering them out of a van is about as efficient as last mile logistics can get.

ubereats/GrubHub is a notable exception, since people expect much stronger latency guarantees for this use case.
I think the idea is that engine braking (regenerative braking) makes up for the difference.
E Unibus Pluram [pdf]
Waymo has even developed custom localized climate models for San Francisco: https://blog.waymo.com/2022/11/using-cutting-edge-weather-re...
This is what I am pointing out about the article, industry, and fear mongering on this subject.

the p50 for daily commute distance in America is ~41 miles; if cars only had a 200 mile range. they'd still last ~4+ days; and that's not accounting for the possibility of "topping" off at commercial electric properties (places or employment/entertainment, transportation hub, gas stations installing chargers)
If you’re doing more than domain verification, there are a couple of other options you might want to consider [1][2].

Both are run by really good guys that’ll answer any questions you’ve got.

https://www.entri.com
https://www.dnshelper
Yes, transport nerds talk about why you need public transport that runs at night and weekends so that people can rely on it, but increasingly technology opens up options like you suggest.

Rural areas have been early adopters of this kind of on demand public transport due to low density but it can be applied further.
"Best for readers" is not particularly subjective here. We're talking about an encyclopedia whose audience is the entire English-speaking population. Its #1 job is to communicate relevant information on each topic clearly and accurately to the broadest audience in each language - not to match anyone's preferred terminology, write Shakespearean prose, or push the boundaries of the language. We already have multiple words that are perfectly well-suited for use with the intended meaning - we don't even have that luxury with so many other words. Deliberately picking a word that confuses some readers and annoys others just introduces problems and friction where there don't need to be any.
I applied the first day and just got API access a few days ago.

It is strange they can roll out 32k for some, while not even having 8k for everyone yet.
Curiously, I'm observing in bash 5.0-6ubuntu1.2 that tidily appending the above to the default ~/.bashrc does not work: The variables appear overwritten as intended when inspected, but upon shell exit, the first-set values (from first few lines of .bashrc e.g. HISTFILESIZE=2000) control the update to .bash_history.

Anyone else see this in the bash distro? Seems to be a regression.

The fix of course is to simply delete or hack a '#' into the start of the unwanted lines from the default .bashrc.
first paragraph

>>In April, MSI fell victim to a cyberattack perpetrated by the ransomware group Money Message, who successfully infiltrated MSI’s internal systems and exfiltrated a staggering 1.5TB of data, predominantly comprising source code.<<

https://securityonline.info/intel-oem-private-key-leak-a-blo...
>I figured out how to make my dynamic IP still serve requests accounting for IP changes using a background script. If someone has a better solution I’d appreciate that.

cloudflare costs $0, scales up to your gigabit connection without blinking, and there are docker containers that keep the IP updated like it if were dynamic dns service.
I understand about it’s their resources. What I mean is that it’s a private, closed group that’s invite only. They have no need to moderate content as if someone doesn’t like it, they leave. This is different from public networks where content spreads broadly and is seen broadly.

I wouldn’t expect, nor want discord to know if my material is nsfw or not. If they imposed any restriction it would make me less likely to use them.

I noticed through using bark, an app used to monitor and protect kids device usage, that discord doesn’t provide any api user access to content and the only way to see material is through their app.
I work full time. I make all my food from scratch(when tomatoes are off season I do use canned tomatoes and tomato paste but not something such as tomato sauce) I have one child, an elderly dependent, and a wife. My wife also works full time.

We do not order delivery.

I do not commute currently, but I have walked for 75minutes one way(2.5hours total for 12.5hours a week) for about a year at a previous position with a poor bike route.

We do order stuff from Amazon. Which covers things that are hard to find close by.

There's no way that everyone is lazy in my area. They could definitely stop 3minute drives to the park though.
It's just a string of characters.
But secure boot is a good thing! I want my machines to verify what they're loading at boot time!

I just want to specify the root of trust.
Exactly. And modern thermostats and modern electric cars can work around each other, around grid usage dynamics while also extending the average driver's battery life because 8 hours of sleep doesn't require full speed charging.
I got into Berklee for piano performance, couldn’t do more than a few scales fluently despite lessons my whole life.
There will always be situations where self-driving vehicles are not appropriate, but those situations will continue to decrease.
Incorrect, they can have an assigned phone number and can do anything a normal SIM can do.

There are SIMs (either physical or eSIM) that do not have a phone number and/or has restrictions on what it can do. It's not the form itself that limits the functionality, it's the mobile network provider who decides what functionality each individual SIM has.

E.g. Mobile card payment devices may have a SIM that has no phone number and is data only with connection only permitted via a certain gateway to the payment provider.
I almost always ask it to also ask me clarifying questions.
Why would we necessarily need the small scale storage systems when we have the whole energy grid, though?

Solar panels on homes, sure, because that’s free real estate. But generally, if something is cost effective for a single home, it’s probably more cost effective for the full grid.

The solution seems almost certainly to just reduce prices at night and during the day, installing more chargers at workplaces, so people are incentived to charge at off peak hours.

If I can reduce my electricity bill by 30% by smarter charging, I’m going to do that for sure.
Thanks for taking the time to respond (seems I got mostly downvoted). I guess my understanding of hacking meant most technology related.
For me it is complementary. While I consciously touch grass, I ground what I am doing with reality.
Is the problem I am stuck coding on really that important? Is there a simpler solution, or is something else more important right now?

At least, that's what works for me, sometimes metaphors are to be also taken literal.
Problem with this is that for a lot of games and integrations, having the same name on server as you have in game is expected. This will screw that up, for a lot of people.

Same is true for various YouTube/twitch channel communities.

And then of course, some smaller companies use discords as a better TeamSpeak alternative.

Right now you could just have one identity and change nick for each server.
Now I'll probably end up having half a dozen different accounts, each with some servers.

This is kind of stupid, and will kill some neat things.

Oh well we knew it couldn't last and VC's will want their money back.
If you're opposed to nuclear, it's also a good idea to look at who is on your side and consider what their motivation for fighting that fight is: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...
Presumably. The USA did build a sodium-cooled submarine at one point, the Seawolf. Having high thermal efficiency increases range, and liquid metals can be pumped electromagnetically and completely silently, with no moving parts.

It was converted to water coolant later due to technical challenges though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)
Why would you want to disable secure boot? Personally I'd rather not have software able to modify my bootloader.
https://twitter.com/subtee/status/1654858616065732609?s=12

in an interesting coincidence, I found this today!
it better represents reality, at your job you also don't have some objective measure you're being evaluated against. you just have to do well enough not to get fired
The use of "literally" as an intensifier goes back centuries. I'm not sure why people act as if it's some kind of new development.
Wow, that’s even worse as it means people paid to skip the line. It’s weird that they are only rewarding historical nitro users rather than letting people pay now.

Nitro is a weird product offering as it really seems like no benefit to paying. But people do.
This is all correct, and the standard capitalist's party line. What it misses is conflating Money and Optimization. Money is absolutely the complete and only goal, and yes corporation Optimize to make more money. Regulations put guard rails on the optimization. It was only a few decades ago that rivers were catching fire because it was cheaper to just dump waste. There will always be some mid-level manager that needs to hit a budget and will cut corners, to dump waste or cut baby formula with poison, or skip cleaning cycles and kill a bunch of kids with tainted peanut butter(yes, happened).

But, your are correct, there really isn't an answer. Government is supposed to be the will of the people to put structure, through laws/regulation, on how they want to live in a society, to constrain the Corporation. Corporations will always maximize profit and we as a society have chosen that the goal of Money is actually the most important thing to us. So guess we get what we get.
My understanding (which might be wrong, crypto is a complex topic and i am an amateur) is that homomorphic would hide the data being worked on from the algorithm working on it. Here we want to verify the (non-secret) algorithm has been approved (code signing) which we then run on non-secret data. I don't think homomorphic encryption can help with that since its kind of a different problem.

The issue here, of the key holder leaking the key, also seems impossible to work around in general, since the requirements are: 1) there exists someone who can sign code. 2) that person cannot screw up (e.g. leak the key) and allow the wrong code to be signed. These are pretty contradictory requirements, that no amount of crypto can fix. Ultimately it is a social problem not a technical one; there is no full technical definition of misusing a key. There are things that can help - like HSMs, splitting the key between multiple parties, having better methods of revoking and replacing compromised keys (hard without network access and an unwillingness to brick old devices). Not the same domain, but AACS is an interesting example of a system somewhat resiliant to key compromise.
Paper Summary:TinyViT Fast Pretraining Distillation
Software, movies, music is just a string of bits.

Using something leaked always carries some inherent risk.
It's not that either system is a problem, the problem is changing randomly after hundreds of millions of users have signed up, and probably gotten used to their username.

On my friends server everyone changes their server name a few times per week (for whatever quote or joke is topical), and it's the discord handle we use to @ each other, and the discriminator isn't important. But now I'm sure many of us will need to change our discord username.
Added the /s for clarity;

The gasoline delivery pipeline is a risk to national security and the health of citizens; it has experienced a number of issues over the last 10 years.

95% of fear-mongers are concerned about the 5% use case, while ignoring that humans sleep, eat, or need to stretch legs in less miles.
What factory reset? PC motherboards are not Android phones. When you flash new BIOS you can't get back to old one without flashing it and obviously new BIOS versions after accident will likely forbid flashing of older versions.
Thats just your opinion. if you understand me and i understand you then were good. my experience with grammar is that it just explains how we talk, like music theory. when your young and learning to speak, you just speak, your parent (probably) don't sit down with a white board and explain noun and complex verbs tenses at the age of four
AI Chat Assistants Can Improve Conversations about Divisive Topics
While bilinear works best when operating on linear colors, this isn't true of all resampling techniques. Fourier based kernels (sinc, lanczos, jinc) works better on nonlinear colors, as the ringing induced by these filters is exagerrated by linear color spaces.
> many, many people feel more comfortable approaching someone in person vs. online.

Also many, many people feel more comfortable approaching someone online vs. in person.

Seeing your arguments here, I'll guess that you're just more social than many people. When I was a junior, a long time ago, I learned most things by trying and studying on my own. I always learned very little from senior engineers directly. I would do a lot better by having them tell me what to look at and exploring stuff alone.
Now check the population distribution of US states and even the lowest density US states have most of their population in areas with far higher population density than places in Norway served by trains.

Yes, it's not a solution for everywhere. It's not a solution for everywhere in Norway either. But the point was not that. The point was that contrary to the comment I replied to, it is perfectly viable to serve areas that are quite low density. When you consider the low density areas in Norway that are served by trains, the proportion of the US population that lives in lower density regions is tiny.
E pluribus duum; e duobus nil.
I recommend you check out Acceptance and Commitment Therapy https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/acceptance-....
That statement is being challenged.

https://www.ctvc.co/firming-costs-renewables/
Interestingly there has been a lot of discussion about hydrogen lately[0] because the Inflation Reduction Act provides a tax credit for production of clean hydrogen (e.g. hydrogen not from methane). Nuclear is one of the best possible methods to ways to generate this (high electricity, high heat) given that its operation does not generate carbon (just like renewables). The problem? Nuclear power generates $30/MWhr and will make between $60-$70MWhr producing hydrogen. Sounds like a win, but reactors are already at 90% capacity and supply ~20% of the US's energy and half of our zero emission energy.

Variability isn't that much of an advantage. Excess energy can often be sold off as well, reducing other areas' reliance on fossil fuels. France, Norway (almost all hydro), and Sweden (also a major nuclear player) and the main energy exporters in Europe (also lowest energy based carbon emitters)[1,2]. We see a similar thing with Quebec (major nuclear). But it is concerning given that nuclear is the main source of zero emission energy in the American South East[3]. Gates probably isn't concerning himself with the variability since there's no shortage of regions where selling a zero emission source isn't going to help reduce its neighbors energy emissions. The only areas where there is a shortage is where regions already rely heavily on either nuclear or hydro (or a combination).

There's no reason to not run at max load. You either sell the energy or your produce hydrogen. This is also a big reason that a carbon tax makes nuclear a viable option. Just for reference, here's an annual solar radiance map[4], wind (10m)[5], and hydro[6] as they might help explain the situation in the South East.

[0] https://heatmap.news/economy/the-nuclear-hydrogen-conundrum

[1] https://www.enappsys.com/interconnectorreview/

[2] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR

[3] 80% of TVA's zero carbon, 77% of SCS, 86% of Duke Carolinas, 81% of Duke Ease, 80% of PJM(looking at 12 months)

[4] https://www.nrel.gov/gis/assets/images/solar-annual-ghi-2018...

[4.5] find other maps -- look at DNI -- for different months and energy sources here https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar-resource-maps.html

[5] https://www.nrel.gov/gis/assets/images/wtk-10m-2017-01.jpg

[6] https://www.nrel.gov/gis/assets/images/map_hydrogen_kg_count...
Yeah, Danny should never have bought those keys. Don't forget Rainbows End either.
Small-scale solar installations are not supposed to get you off-grid and like you observe, a small-scale/battery storage isn't going to change that.

Instead, the idea is the grid-scale combination of solar, wind and hydro with various storage and adaptive consumption solutions. For example: when water levels are down, pump water up the dam during sunny/windy hours to store energy for the bad months.
Am (especially) and Em happen to be very easy piano keys, too.

What I meant is that playing a C major scale is easy, but it gets weird as you work through different keys. There's no consistency, so transposing is non-trivial. Compare that to a guitar and barre chords and capos.
Solid, a spec that lets people store their data securely in decentralized Pods
EV’s greatly reduce brake wear. We live on a mountain, and typically apply the brakes for 1-2 seconds to get down with the EV. We ride the brakes for 1 or 5 minutes with our manual or automatic transmission ICE car. Put another way, we’re pushing 50K miles on the EV’s original brakes and replacing / servicing them isn’t on our radar.

However, the EV eats tires like a full-size pickup truck with somewhere to be.
You are of course wrong ! Becouse everyone needs to buy new... everything every 2 years ! It's good for some :>
Ask HN: My sister asked me to help her move into IT. Help
Hey everyone,

I was always into computers. I did not really intend it as my career ( and really still isn't; I am in analytics ). I learned basic SQL, because I wanted to run FF11 server. I learned basic VBA, because I didn't want to do some manual tasks at work. I basically kinda learned new things, because I want to solve some issue.

The other day, my sister contacted me saying she wants to 'learn IT' and linked goIT[1] video. There was really nothing wrong with the material, but the cost stunned me ( basic HTML course was 3k USD when converted from local currency ).

I kinda want to help her, but I am wondering if anyone had similar request from a family member and how you approached it. I am almost debating treating it as a personal project ( teaching is a skill ) since she has two headwinds facing her:

1. basic English, which kinda limits her ability to pick things free resources I take for granted
2. chatgpt is likely to remove entry level positions for the stuff they teach in those courses

Anyway. Any thoughts?

She can be tenacious, when she has a goal in mind. She is not mathematically inclined, but she can logic through a problem.

Thank you,

[1]https://goit.global/us/
Exactly, and you don't need to invest tons of $$ on EVs to solve that. ICE vehicles should be acceptable in rural areas. In fact, you'll probably have hard time convincing rural folks to switch to EVs.