skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hot take: Apple’s. The parts of their SDKs that are documented follow the same pattern of giving a broad overview of what a type is and what it can do, and then the declarations are grouped by topic so that you can jump straight to the part that you need instead of scrolling through the whole thing just to find only the one thing that you intend to use.
Their anti cheat is a kernel level driver and requires secure boot to make sure it loads before anything could potentially tamper with the system.
HN posts are not always in chronological order.
Garbage. People pick products all the time, based purely on how the presentation makes them feel. They buy crap products all the time based on aspirational signals. People are people; this is selling a book; and most of the comments seem to just reveal/confirm a success bias (just 'cuz) or a failure bias (just 'cuz) with absolutely no evidence.
I don't live in Germany. Germany is a large state with a lot of empty space. I live in a much smaller, much more densely populated state.

Anyways, the average is deceiving - I think you should compare the average of a city like Berlin, Cologne or Amsterdam, not the average of an entire large state like Germany.

The city where I live has nearly 3 million residents on just 50km2, and it's not even the most dense city around. Compare that to San Francisco (second most dense US city) - which has 815k residents on 120km2.

People here live in very dense cities with agricultural/natural space in between, you don't have that in US cities which are mostly long stretches of single-family households. We don't have single-family households at all except for the few villas of the ultra-rich and the few people living in the villages around the cities.

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

That's not solved at all! That's exactly where the issue is - the grid isn't able to provide that much power and especially not during peak hours, not to mention the missing power generation capacity. The grid is already nearly overloaded. It would need significant capacity upgrades and the people here don't want to pay for it.
Existing hydro is able to fill in for some of the storage needs, and pumping water up the dam will be one type of large-scale storage that can be built. See pumped-storage hydroelectricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Amazing how a “slightly sexist” post not being banned from Twitter is definitive evidence of leadership malpractice and direct threats to murder people on Bluesky is just fun “shitposting”. Mainstream media is truly horrified of Elon Musk.
Dependabot Confusion: Gaining Access to Private GitHub Repositories
All of us and society benefits.

Good riddance indeed.
It's just semantics. Some people use intelligence to mean sentience, others use it to mean directed problem solving / solution-finding.
Chromebooks don't use UEFI, just coreboot
Good points. I was subconsciously focusing on laptops when I made my comment.
That everyone knows it is easy and accepted to reuse names fixed the problem where people just assume that if you have the right name you are the right person.
A ChatGPT plugin that can answer search queries over your favorite sites would be basically trivial to build and would probably work very, very well. Not only that, but it would be immediately composable with any other ChatGPT plugin. All that said, I'm all for building alternatives to ChatGPT. I think we're heading to a future where the ChatGPT plugin store is the iOS app store of LLM apps.
There is for the german speaking countries and it is called Geizhals[1]. It allows A LOT of detailed filters for different categories and shows you websites offering that product.
Most times when I need something I just input my criteria for the thing I want to buy and look for the best price to performance ratio of the products that fulfil my criteria.

[1] https://geizhals.de/
Didn't get it
Then don't run code from untrusted sources.

This also has major implications for cloud compute.
> "Best for readers" is not particularly subjective here.

This is correct. It is exactly the same amount of subjective as the word “best” normally holds. Since there has never been a reproducible measure of best-ness in any objective sense of anything linguistic, it’s squarely in the territory of subjectivity.

If by “best” you mean “understandable to virtually all readers” then “comprised of” and “composed of” are equally “best”

If best-ness is measured by something other than usefulness, then the person that decides the new set of weights with which to weigh best-ness is performing a personal and subjective act. “Orthodoxy to a standard of English as cited by me in context of the year x” does not automatically qualify something for extra best-ness points.

I will gladly entertain the issue of “comprised of” somehow lacking in accuracy with a person that is genuinely confused by its inclusion in a sentence.
Tell HN: My suggestions to improve Microsoft Edge
1. I've grown to like the Discover feature in Edge. I use it to summarize blog posts before deciding whether I want to read the whole thing or not. I also use it to extract information from PDFs.

But every time I need to use the mouse to click the Discover button on the top right corner. IMO, this useful feature needs a shortcut. MS should at least allow us to create a custom shortcut for it in edge://extensions/shortcuts.

2. Bing and Discover should STOP showing relevant search after completing a task. It's just annoying and is on par with Google's "People also search for".

3. Discover keeps the context of the first webpage it visited, even when you go to another webpage while Discover is still open. IMO, Discover should adapt to the new webpage.
There's also a well-known thing about English in that it's culturally much less prescriptive about grammar than other languages. The American-English philosophy around grammar doesn't necessarily transpose to other grammars around the world.
There are 3 places where people can charge their car: at home, at work, and at the store. If you can't charge at home because you park on the street, that still leaves two opportunities to charge.

Another way to think about it is where does your car spend its time, 24 hours a day? Is there any time where you car is somewhere for an hour or more, sitting idle? That's where chargers should be.
I find YouTube to be vastly better for language learning. Good subtitles are surprisingly easy to come by, the variety of content is much greater, and you can also download the transcripts for offline study. And, perhaps even better yet, the videos tend to be short. Repetition is super important for rapid progress, and it's much easier for me to watch a 10 minute video two or three times than it is something that's 30 minutes or longer.

If you're willing to shell out some money, YouTube + LingQ (which has a plugin for automatically ripping audio+transcripts into lessons) is so effective it's almost like cheating.
> My manager once said to me “I hired an adult, so I don’t need to hold your hand” and this has resonated with me since. If you cannot trust your staff to do what is best for you then that is your problem for hiring the wrong people. It isn’t the problem of an entire industry.

Or you're just a bad manager.
Forgive me if I decline to take writing advice from someone who tells me "I go house" is meaningful English. It isn't. It's violates the rules of grammar, rules which are a description of the normal English as used by members of the English speaking community. English expects you to specify whether you go into, towards, around, out of, or through the window of a house, or the house that we already know we are talking about, or Joe's house.
If you don’t already know it servarr (radarr, sonarr, etc) will also download it for you and sync your tv media player (Kodi etc). It also handles failures, redownloads, quality upgrades. Downloads from torrents and/or newsgroup. There is also one for books but I forget the name.
Yeah I was going to respond “Well it better get ready I guess”, as I agree, this content reads like disparagement instead of encouragement
I always assumed the opposite: the translated subtitles reflect exactly what the script says, while the actor may have remembered an approximation of the exact line, which is normally good enough not to bother with another take.
Are they really such extraordinary claims?

Witness: the 2000 election. The voting machines that were hackable with a screwdriver and USB. The fact that even now, many states lack any paper trail. The termination of exit polls after double digit discrepancies in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_the_Unite... has many sources and stories for you to have a look at. It's ... Extraordinary.

While election shenanigans may not be as clearly, obviously bad as the flagged (!) GP claims, they are far from what I would call a basic minimum standard.
> Will the already narrow sidewalks be full of charging stations next to each parking spot, and will pedestrians constantly be tripping over the charging cables? How will this work?

In my neighbourhood (London) there are now some charging ports coming out of lamp posts, and some coming out of the floor. There is a short cable required to connect the car to the charging port, but it's not too bad a trip hazard as it's only between the car and pavement.

EDIT: looks like this https://imgur.com/a/H9aqMCo
There are arguments for this position that are philosophically and scientifically respectable and to which I am inclined. But merely repeating this nostrum isn’t very constructive. Of course, I’m also repeating nostrums here, but I am not making any definitive claim here.

1. Intelligence is surely best characterised not bivalently; if, then, it’s a matter of degree, it is at least somewhat non-trivial to show that LLMs make no progress whatsoever on previous AI (soi-disantes).

2. It’s also unclear that intelligence is best characterised by a single factor. Perhaps that’s uncontroversial in the psychometric literature (I wouldn’t know), but even then, why would g be the right way of characterising intelligence in beings with quite different strengths and weaknesses? And, if ‘intelligence’ admits multiple precisifications, the claims that (a) some particular system displays intelligence simpliciter (perhaps a pragmatic notion) on one such precisification and (b) that some particular system displays some higher level of intelligence than before in that respect are yet weaker and more difficult to rebut.

3. It’s unclear whether ‘are’ is to be construed literally (i.e., indicatively) or as a much stronger claim, e.g., in the Fodorian or Lucasian vein, that some wide class of would-be AI simply can’t achieve intelligence due to some systematic limitation.
Clarification question: what is your backend tech?
I agree with you. Frankly, utilize instead of use just sounds finicking. As an engineer, I'd use it in a corporate powerpoint that I make to impress management. These kind of things have no place in Wikipedia.
I suspect that broad public alignment would be far less broad and far less aligned the moment one suggests actually changing said transit paradigm to any significant degree.
The original links:

Announcement: http://blogvl7tjyjvsfthobttze52w36wwiz34hrfcmorgvdzb6hikucb7... (link likely to be invalid over time, since the number seems to change)

Link with the actual data: http://vkge4tbgo3kfc6n5lgjyvb7abjxp7wdnaumkh6xscyj4dceifieun...

(Links found via https://www.ransomlook.io/group/money%20message)
To me it's a tech colloquialism for a thing that uses a neural net in some capacity. I think its misleading to use it to describe other types of ML (i.e., SLAM robotics)
The climate has rapidly changed throughout Earth's history. Our current period of warming over the past couple of centuries began at the end of a mini ice age, so its not surprising temperatures rise when exiting the ice age. Just like its not surprising that temperatures rise after winter into spring & summer. CO2 is more likely a side effect of warming, coming from the warming ocean, than it is the driver of the warming.
If we were speaking out loud you could figure it out
I don’t know if you saw my edit, but in my case, it’s charged by either a portable solar panel or (optimally) home solar panels.

In the not so distant past there were plans for neighborhood scale nuclear reactors. That would go a long way towards distribution, redundancy, and scale issues.
Did you mean to reply somewhere else? I don't think this makes sense in this context.
They typically hire two different companies to do the translations, and the translations are optimized for different goals. Subtitles are just meant to be easy to read. With dubs they try to make what's being said at least vaguely line up with what the actors' lips are doing in an effort to avoid the infamous "1970s kung fu movie" effect.
Could you give an example of people who explicitly claim that sentience is equivalent to intelligence? I’d agree that some arguments trade on an equivocation between the two, but I don’t think their adherents intentionally do so.
I suspect you end up with two or three or ten similar parties because of the vast majority of the people don’t basically agree on most things, you can’t have a democracy and instead have a civil war instead.
>and the oxford comma, but I wouldn't make them the law

Oh, I would :-) But I do reluctantly conform to AP style in certain contexts.

That said, there is a certain appeal to authority mindset if you're looking for mainstream non-fiction (and a lot of fiction as well) publication. Maybe "correct" isn't the right term but "accepted practice" or something along those lines which boils down to more or less the same thing.
The comment you replied to explicitly addressed how to make cheap renewables more available.

You might disagree, but acting like they never even mentioned it makes it seem more likely that you're just going on outdated info.
You do you, but I think it's insane not to want to have more norms around the particular uses of language. We already barely understand each other (see any political conversation or pseudoscientific debate on the internet where words get thrown around in abandon, with an abundance of ambiguous constructions).

The English/American are culturally less prescriptive around grammar, but other languages (such as French) are often much more prescriptive with it.
On many modern motherboards there is a backup bios that you can boot into by shorting certain pins. This can be done in about 10-15 minutes by a person with a metal paperclip, some basic technical knowledge and instructions from a YouTube video. I don't think there is even a mechanism to update this backup version, it's just a "known good" bios shipped with the hardware so that a bad bios update does not brick the device.

So even if they push an update, people can pretty easily downgrade to a vulnerable version if they want to.
Yes. But fusion is not quite here yet. It's a difficult business proposition to store large quantities of tritium in the hope that you'll be able to sell to an operator of a fusion reactor three decades down the road (after about 80% of it has decayed).

On the other hand, when fusion is ready for prime time, one could use liquid lithium in a reactor. Liquid lithium has quite a number of advantages over sodium: in that temperature range it has more specific heat capacity than any metal, higher even than water. It has excellent conductivity.

And if it captures a neutron, it splits in helium and tritium plus energy. It could increase the energy production of a fission reactor by more than 5%. And you get that tritium for free, and ultra-rare helium-3 if you fancy some aneutronic fusion at some point.
The Wikipedia editor here is not allowing personal use, part of their proposal is to edit quotes too - to me it reads as if the person has problems with compulsion and doesn't want to stop themselves from "correcting people" (which is not correction so much as forcing that editor's own personal linguistic predilections on others).

There methods comprise of robbing others autonomy. (Wording chosen purposefully!).
> Your vote counts in proportion to your expected remaining years left in society. So if you’re 95, you get 1 vote. If you’re 20 you get around 60 more, depending on the tables. If you’re an immigrant who arrived as an adult, eg a corporate expat, you get maybe 5 votes.

This is both a bad general idea and a ridiculous specific application, as immigrant citizens who arrived as adults do not, in fact, have particularly reduced future in society than any other citizen of the same age.

> There will be a table of stats about all sorts of things like this.

And…how detailed will those stats be? Will it take into account race, income, place-of-residence, and similar factors that correlate to expected lifespan in society? So that those who are most disadvantaged in the status quo have their voices systemically deweighted to protect the status quo elites?

> When you vote, it’s a quiz.

Other comments have addressed the problems with poll tests with regard to history, but structurally, this is just another way to deweight the voices of those least well served by the status quo system.

> Parliament is chosen by proportional representation.

This, OTOH, is a good idea.

> Term limits. Maybe just a single term of 10 years.

The form of PR suggested above (MMP with some by-district proportional method underneath) renders this mostly superfluous; while there may be a decent argument for term limits to mitigate problems in a system which denies effective choice because of FPTP, or denies effective specific candidate choice because of simple party-list PR, that really applies only to top-up seats in MMP.

> Large salary and large pension for the MPs.

“Large” is extremely vague this could be good or bad.

> Not sure about geographic seats. Maybe just assign each voter to a virtual MP, at random. Local geographies should have local government to deal with local matters. This also does away with gerrymandering.

You already suggested areas with proportional representation, with top up seats for finer-grained proportionality. Each voter than already has a set of MPs set by the side of the “area”, with a very high probability of having an ideologically largely aligned MP from that area. This also already solves gerrymandering, since once you get away from FPTP winner-take-all districts to multiseat proportional districts, (especially with at-large top-up seats for fine-grained proportionality) the ability to influence partisan balance or other features of the legislature by where you draw district lines is basically eliminated. All the random assignment suggested in this item (whether voters to an MP or addresses to an electoral district) is superfluous.
>They are using the current state of the law as their definition for what is unethical

No, they're not. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35837498

>It isn't a hard line, but negotiated with the FDA on a Case by case basis.

Of course it's not a hard line, but this particular case falls way over on the 'not allowed' side. It's not any kind of borderline case.
Qdrant: Vector Database for the next generation of AI applications
boring is low stress. to a point.

too little boredom, too much stress.

too much boredom, new issues arise.

balancing act.
What scientist doesn’t have a ‘pet’ theory?

Also, this article basically answers the question “Do Colonoscopies Really Save Lives?” with “We don’t have proof for that, so we should spend our money elsewhere”.

They get a bit pushy in the end, but there, I don’t think there’s disagreement that the USA doesn’t get much health per dollar spent.
Yes it's a mistake exactly in the eyes of those who know the meaning of the word. "com" + "prise" = "grasp together". An error can be more common than the correct usage and still be an error.

Would you accept "A table setting is included of plate, fork, knife and spoon." as correct usage? What if "included" becomes rarely used in the future and this incorrect usage becomes relatively popular? Would that make it correct? Nonsense.

The job of an editor is to raise the level of the writing before it goes to print, including fixing common mistakes. A professional writer would just learn something from it and improve. What I'm amazed by is the number of people who seem outraged, like someone's right to freedom of expression is being violated because someone came along after and removed some mistakes and improved the writing, literally a Wikipedia editor just doing the job of an editor. And then a whole essay has to be written justifying it, and that's still not enough, and we are all discussing it even further. It's a remarkable phenomenon.

It makes me wonder if software developers are as defensive about common programming mistakes. If so we might have a bit of a problem.
I think language study just got an overpowered AI teacher. This works more or less for any pair of languages.

I am using GPT4 to reformat text from English to Japanese in easy reading mode. It is very good for language study using topics of interest.

> 私は (Watashi wa) [I am]
GPT4を使って (GPT4 o tsukatte) [using GPT4]
英語から (Eigo kara) [from English]
日本語へ (Nihongo e) [to Japanese]
簡単な読み物 (Kantan na yomimono) [easy reading mode]
に変換します。 (ni henkan shimasu) [to reformat]
それは (Sore wa) [It is]
興味深いトピック (Kyoumi bukai topikku) [interesting topics]
を使って (o tsukatte) [using]
言語学習 (Gengo gakushuu) [language study]
にとても良い (ni totemo yoi) [very good]
です。 (desu) [is]

Same, but in German:

> Ich benutze (I am using) [ikh benoot-se]
GPT4 (GPT4) [ge-pe-te-fear]
um Text (to reformat text) [oom tekst]
aus Englisch (from English) [aus engl-ish]
zu Japanisch (to Japanese) [tsoo yap-an-ish]
in einfachem Lesemodus (in easy reading mode) [in ine-fakh-em leh-se-moh-dus]
umzuformatieren (to reformat) [oom-tsoo-for-ma-teer-en].
Es ist sehr (It is very) [es ist zehr]
gut für (good for) [goot fuhr]
Sprachstudium (language study) [shprakh-shtoo-dee-oom]
mit interessanten (using interesting) [mit int-er-es-sant-en]
Themen (topics) [tay-men].

The prompt I used:

Create a Japanese easy reading mode version of the given English, breaking it into 2-4 word chunks, providing romaji and English translations in brackets for each phrase. This is intended for language study purposes.

~~

Of course this is just a reader prompt, we could also have chat mode, asking clarifying questions, asking for more examples of a phrase, generate quizzes, etc.

I am at this weird point where I know phonetically much more than I can read. This formatting helps a lot because you get to see the Kanji first, then you use romaji and English only when necessary. Being different scripts helps separate them visually so as not to read the romaji before I want to.
And (guessing here) you'd be SOL if there were already 9999 Susies registered when you tried to sign up.

Me, I'm gonna treat it like a firstnick.lastnick format when it arrives at my account. I figure "crb3.cdp1802" is very unlikely to be taken before I get there, but, if I'm wrong, there're lots of other already-memorized device-numbers I can append.
You have no privacy from Discord Inc. They can read everything if they want to:

>investigation is centered around the reported messages, but can expand if the evidence shows that there’s a bigger violation.

>we may investigate whether the entire server is dedicated to bad behavior, or if the behavior appears to be part of a wider pattern.

>we know there is also violating content on Discord that might go unreported. This is where we get proactive.

>When we have data suggesting that a user is engaging in illegal activity or violating our policies, we investigate their networks, activity on Discord, and their messages to proactively detect accomplices and determine whether violations have occurred.

https://discord.com/safety/360043712132-how-we-investigate