skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if we could somehow see all the "zero days" that are out there that all of us, and I mean, things that exist at all, not just things discovered by some human and an exploit written, even those in the industry and those well-endowed with cynicism, would be surprised. I include myself even as I expound this opinion.

Just "SELECT * FROM nsa_exploits" would probably turn all our stomachs and I'd guess they still only have a small fraction of what exists.

Software is to a large extent built on default-unsafe primitives, and we wrest security from them at great effort and with dubious efficacy. We still have fights on HN about whether or not "memory safety" is necessary, and that is frankly so far below the level we need to operate that it would be humorous if it weren't sad. Granted, that fight is dying down as we gradually converge on "yes, it's necessary", but it's like level 2 and we need to be operating on level 18.
I had a very similar experience with a company that advertises on HN quite a bit. It turns out the company had actually split in two, and all the competent managers left to join the new company. It was amazing how much the VP and CEO would constantly contradict each other, sabotage projects, and even insult their own staff members (at one point I recommended they promote a senior eng to a higher position, but the VPE went on a rant about how the last person she promoted, who still worked there, didn't live up to the title so she didn't want to promote anyone else).

Anyways if you see a company that is constantly using their free job listing every month on this site you should probably assume there's a reason they are constantly looking, and it isn't always good.
Not really. What's it going to do, make the engine run rich for a fraction of a second until the next time it recalculates the mapping?
Overpopulation is the fundamental root cause of climate change, and I'm tired of opinion columnists and most scientists denying it or deflecting. Malthus was right. He was only too early for his time. Technology and the Haber-Bosch process gave us more time. But the inevitable can't be delayed forever.

No, we shouldn't try to support 8 billion people with the standard of living of Botswana. It would be much better for everyone involved to have 100 million people with an American/Western standard of living. Quality over quantity.
Has it ever occurred to you that it means your ideas are very very outside the mainstream? Maybe you will be laughing at us in your water front cabin at the top of the Rockies but probably not.
Because there are technical nuances in what they're actually reproducing, where it came from and how it was shared with you.

Are they actually reproducing content wholesale? If so, I would think copyright law would allow content producers to stop that unless it's properly licensed anyway.

Are they posting content from meta tags that use Facebook's OpenGraph standard for specifying how content should be previewed when linked? Then how is that not intended for this exact use case in the first place?

Are they scraping content, and using heuristics / ML to generate an appropriate subset of the content for a preview and choose an appropriate picture, that they then reproduce? Okay - that's more of a grey area. But do the people debating this even understand the difference between what would actually be happening for these different use cases? Do they know enough to clearly write a law that allows one but not the other? I hardly think so.

I just had a meeting with some lawyers at a massive tech company, whose job it is to approve the use of open-source licenses, who couldn't grasp the concept that viewing a web page results in code being downloaded and executed by the browser. Because somebody assigned that job to corporate lawyers who don't understand technology, thinking it wasn't a technical issue and didn't require any technical education, experience, or understanding.
I think a modern carb and distributor would get you a nicer running car if you wanted to stay analog. There were plenty of improvements from 1940 until the time we switched to computer control.

But for a digital solution, you're looking at an EFI conversion kit, with a ready made wiring harness to convert the necessary items to run the EFI. It is common enough to do that you'd have no trouble sourcing advice and if you like that kind of thing it would be a great project. I see Holley do good looking kits but I can't speak from experience sorry.

The difference between an ECU run V8 and an "analog" V8 is mostly in electronic control of ignition timing and fuel injection, and all the sensors needed for the ECU to know what's going on. I think just replacing the carb with an EFI carb kit would be a great project, but to take it further you would need to ditch the distributor and use coilpacks and ignitors controlled by the ECU, and a timing sensor to sense the position of the crank. At that point you need a full ECU and speeduino would do the trick, but there are supported manufactures of aftermarket ECUs as well like Haltech, Holley, Motec, and Link.
They're arguably popular because of the moderation, not in spite of it. You're free to follow whatever subreddit you'd like or create your own, which is the benefit of Reddit as a platform.

I do wish there was much more transparency around "power-moderators" though.
Have you tried something like Memory Transformers https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11527 where you move the k/v pairs that don't fit in the context window to a vector db? Seems like a more general approach, but I have tested then against each other.
HN's UI is pretty close to ideal for the sort of site it is.
Don't you realize this is hacker news and baseless overconfident claims by random code bros that use "intuition" to argue against well established scientific knowledge trusted by domain experts is mandatory
Scott Aaronson worked on that at OpenAI, but GPT-4 didn't use such technology, nor have I seen any other major language model which had the ability of accurately distinguishing model output and human text.
I wonder if Linus it taking the time to teach himself Rust.
> Used outdated tech in really unprofessional ways.

What do you mean by this?
https://riskfactor.com

We were going to buy a house overlooking a creek but were told that an offer had just been accepted. A few days later, we got a call that for some strange reason the sale had fallen through. My wife and I started researching and ran across https://floodfactor.com. It said that there was a 97% chance of a foot or more of water in the house in the next 15 years, incurring more than $100,000 of damage.

I wasn't familiar with floodfactor.com but they were linked from realtor.com I'm a little cynical about that - hey, yes, your house flooded but you should have checked that link and it's not your realtor's fault - but it's a sign that their information should be taken seriously.

Now they do wildfire and "heat" risks as well as flooding. They might introduce something like water supply risk and other things.
Most people search in small geographic areas, where the threats apply pretty equally (or the data isn't that granular to distinguish between individual plots). You might be better off looking at insurance data by county.
https://archive.is/9iRSL
Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
> In a world where people interact with their friends online more than in meat space, and hardly know their own neighbors at all, local news isn't going to survive very well.

Local news is alive and well! It just moved to Facebook, NextDoor, etc.
> the SAT favors rich applicants who can afford to pay for (and spend time on) test prep.

Its not just rich, it favors boys across all economic classes. I think one of the ideas was that de-prioritizing SAT/ACT will get more women into stem.
Lmao, your argument is flimsy as hell. He didn't work for Amazon as a good employee, he would've done what was required until he got the game and then quit.

In your scenario, Amazon would experience a boom of workers, then experience workers x unit cost theft, and then have 0 workers.
until you try to convert to (millions of) gallons.
How does one “ draws a yellow triangle in the device’s memory.”?
> I don't base my choice on what media to absorb on superficial criteria like the country of origin

Other countries, including the USA, advertise and hype their own content. Your preferences are deeply influenced by the country of origin, because advertising works.
The problem is they don't care about the mobile web and want you to use their native app where you're more likely to enable notifications and then increase engagement (everything is for ad views obviously)

Old reddit was designed for a larger monitor (laptop/desktop) and mimics the best design practices on that device over the past couple decades of bulletin board/forum software; makes sense why people like it so much

Design decisions aside, the site performance is horrible. I don't understand why serving content is so difficult. I get they have large scale, but they've also had that for quite a while and employ enough people to solve it if they actually cared enough
But that doesn't mean it is possible.
> No pagination, as mentioned.

Not sure what you mean by this, the lists of posts are very obviously paginated, as (admittedly a bit awkwardly) are larger comments threads. Maybe you mean auto-scrolling pagination?

> No notifications on reply, so it's difficult to get answers to clarifying questions (/threads helps but isn't it).

While not a HN feature, there is a simple solution - http://www.hnreplies.com/
FEMA releases a county-level national risk index. I find it to be useful for understanding natural disaster risk as a whole.

https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/map
People won't like it, but it's the truth.

> I feel like our country is extremely unprepared for what climate change is going to mean for everyone in a decade or two

I've heard this regularly since the 80s. Go rewatch An Inconvenient Truth and see how it lands.
I thought this was a good and fair article on the topic, which is kinda rare because often you just get tons of speculation. This article was just filled with real people who actually did lose their job due to ChatGPT, and I think it just shows the tip of the iceberg.

I would really be worried right now if I were a marketing copywriter. I've seen (and posted about) examples where ChatGPT still falls behind human ingenuity, but the fact is that it really only falls behind some of the best of human ingenuity. Just guessing, but I'd believe that ChatGPT is as good as or better than 75% of copywriters, and even for that upper tier of copywriters, probably only about 10-15% of the writing they do is in an area where the additional quality makes a difference.

Just a worrisome future ahead in my opinion.
Legal or not, it's the only way for such a law to have any effect.

Something similar happened over here in Europe (I believe it was in Germany?) where news media were allowed to demand payment from Google for being listed in their news sections/search results.

Google obviously decided to stop listing them, because there are plenty of news media that don't demand payment. As a result, the flow of visitors collapsed and the news media was very happy to go back to the way things were before.

I think forcing companies to pay for something and then taking away any control they have over that entire market sets a bad precedent. I don't know a better solution, but if this sticks we'll see other ways in which companies can be drained for money from basic internet services as well, only getting worse over time.

I imagine stock photo hosts demanding payment for memes posted on social media are waiting next in line. Imagine having to pay these platforms for your users' memes without being allowed to filter out the offending material. Stock photo companies could even start to artifically hype meme formats to get a bigger cut!
North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories
I assume you're planning to be one of the 100k?
I do something similar with Hammerspoon (which is an amazing app... a little bit of Lua and you can do all sorts of things to the OS!) → https://hammerspoon.org

local hammerspoonHotkeys = {
F = { name='Finder' },
P = { name='1Password', alt='1Password 7' },
S = { name='Slack' },
M = { name='Music' },
W = { name='Safari' }, -- 'W' for web
...
}
for key, obj in pairs(hammerspoonHotkeys) do
trigger:bind({}, key, function() openOrHideApp(obj) end)
end

where trigger is a global hs.hotkey.modal, and openOrHideApp is a function which uses 'name' and 'alt' to switch to the app if it's not active, hides it if it's currently active, or launches it if it's not already running. It also uses hs.alert.show to quickly (just a half-second) display an overlay in the middle of screen that says "Slack" or "Hiding Slack" or "Launching Slack".

Because I'm already running Hammerspoon to do things like window management (hotkeys to move and resize windows), control my Streamdeck (without needing to run any other third-party software → https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.streamdeck.html) and to act as my default browser (so I can use URLDispatcher to do all kinds of "smart" things when URLs are "opened" on my Mac → https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/URLDispatcher.html), etc. it makes sense for me to keep adding functionality with Hammerspoon instead of adding more and more "one off" utilities.
> Because of their mediocrity, media are dying. This is normal free market that is working well.

The problem with this mindset is that there is a negative correlation between investigative journalism and corruption. (e.g. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/08/25/when-the-local-ne... and https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/72689)

When local newspapers close (or stop doing real investigative journalism) political and corporate corruption increases which causes a financial drag on the region. Given that we tend to bail out failing cities with state funds and failing states with federal funds the rest of us have a vested interest in ensuring that the other regions we're bound to maintain basic levels of functional governance.

Setting aside the specifics of the strange law in the article, I would not be opposed in principle to spending $X a year propping up journalism to avoid spending $100X a year propping up corrupt cities and states.
Conscious is simple. And AI can have it
> But now every caller in the future has to be aware of this possibility.

Can you clarify: what possibility should you be aware off with malloc that you don't need to be aware of with calloc?
Problem solving beyond root cause analysis
Rust is by far not mature enough for serious development. Recent shenanigans with crablang are a strong sign of it going down the route of Java, i.e a corporate developed language with offshoots, which will end up with Rust being in the same crappy state.
One can import food from someplace with more water.

It's the same way we don't subsidize farmers to grow bananas in Alaska, and then pretend that bananas would disappear if we stopped the subsidies.
I'm looking forward to using one of those. My mom's old Dell laptop died and she finally made the switch to the new MacBook Air. It seems fantastic.

I had the 2015 MacBook. It was an oddball model which afaik never got a refresh: it didn't have any active cooling, had a 12" screen, a single USB-C port and a headphone jack, and was the and the first version of the terrible butterfly keyboard (which had to get replaced three times over its life!). I got it through my company for half price after an executive had gotten it for travel but couldn't get adapters to reliably work for presentations. The main things I remember about it (other than the terrible keyboard) were that it was delightfully portable and quiet, and that I had to consider the weather when I was deciding what to do. I haven't lived in a place with air conditioning in years, and in the summers I'd sometimes have to stop my chronic multitasking and decide if I wanted to browse/run other programs, or stream videos. On the rare occasions I'd do some programming and needed to compile something, I'd open the laptop halfway and put it on its side with a fan pointed at the back. I also put it on an ice pack on more than one occasion. I've always been surprised that condensation didn't kill it.

The new Airs seems like they solidly solve all of my complaints with the 2015 MacBook, which means I might finally have found a computer which can make me as happy as my Fujitsu LifeBook P1510D did. My only quibble might be that it's still a smidge larger than what I'd like, but it's a minor quibble.
Oh, I'm sure a lot of engine ECUs have redundancies, probably most at this point. I was speaking toward the Magnetti Marelli Digiplex ECUs from the 1980's specifically. They have no redundancy.
As fond of memories as I have of the time I used Windows 95 and how much I learned from using it as a pre-teen, I mostly remember my maintenance schedule of reinstalling by the entire OS about once every month or so when it broke. I guess that jumpstarted my lifelong career/hobby of computer fuckery.

My first PDA was a Casio too, I don't remember which exact model but it was a Pocket Viewer and it was great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Viewer

My "true" PDA was an Audiovox Maestro I got used off of eBay. I even got a compact flash modem adapter so I could dial-up using it. I was shocked to see almost 10 years later when I got my first smart phone, a T-Mobile Dash 3G, that the OS had barely changed since the Audiovox Maestro back then!

Not sure there's a point to any of this except my own anecdotal trip down memory lane :)

Edit: autocorrect fail
Landlords especially. Land value (whether you're measuring by sale price or rental value) is largely a function of economic activity or the potential thereof; landlords - even when they ain't colluding with one another - are well-positioned to respond to any growth in wages or profits by jacking up rents accordingly.

Land value taxation paired with a citizens' dividend would close that hole - alongside myriad other socioeconomic benefits.
Oil companies did their own research and came to the same conclusion about climate change. But then they decided to lobby against effective mitigation. You're just regurgitating their propaganda.
I don't like the phrase normie but that makes sense.

I feel the topics on their have gotten less interesting. Especially in stuff like travel and cooking. I used to really like the travel content on their but it feels useless lately. It just seems to basic and low effort.
Media is dying because of lack of funding. Mediocrity comes after the money dries up and they can't afford to pay writers and editors anymore. This in turn drives readers away, causing a spiral. But the initial effect is due to lack of funding

It is not normal in a free market for an entire industry to die. In a free market, if one competitor starts flailing, the other competitors should pick up their slack. If every player in the market is suffering the same disease, that is indicative of a deeper problem that could plausibly be solved via regulation.
> I have to say this comes across a little insulting to machine learning engineers.

How so? I have a lot of respect for ML engineers and I know what they do is no easy feat. However, I do not intend to get into ML, I see it as a tool to help me achieve an objective. My goal is to utilise said tool to achieve an objective, I have no intention of becoming an expert in this area. It's just like CSS when you want to use it, do you have to care about how the browser rendering works? No you don't, you simply use CSS.
it's impossible to build any type of business in Russia without being tied to the state.
US is kinda fucked in this regard already. The median income is what, 30k? Unless your product is cheap or a necessity of some kind, you've probably already lost half your potential audience.
> Taking control of $100,000 robots to manufacture does have value at the high-end, but still can't compete with humans at the low end.

The problem with robots isn't the physical cost vs a human, it's the task flexibility & cost to program.

This is something that could also theoretically be solved with AI in the (fairly close) future.
Would you call a quartz clock "not at all solid-state"? After all, it uses a piezoelectric material that vibrates to cause an effect.

I think that description would be technically correct while also being very misleading to the average person, and I think that's why we've seen the colloquial definition of "solid-state" expand to effectively mean "non-mechanical" in some domains.
Primitive Technology: New Brick Kiln Design [video]
while I use Python far more than R (or Julia) I don't think that this is a particularly constructive comment.

"More and better" is simply subjective and not substantiated. In fact detailed and objective comparisons of capabilities, performance etc between these ecosystems are sorely lacking not just in map-making but practially concerning every comparison.

Still, the "waste of open source energy argument" is quite bit more complex and I'm frequently wondering about this.

For sure this "waste" happens everywhere in open source. About the only thing that approaches some optimal level of efficiency is the Linux kernel. From there on, distributions, desktops, toolchains, apps, libraries etc. is the epitomy of chaos.

This diversity creates resilience and a sort of competition for the survival of the fittest. The openness also facilitates fast diffusion and borrowing good ideas. But it is also true that open source resources are still scarce so development happens at maybe much lower speed than what would be possible if more coordination / less fragmentation was practiced.
Arizona is in for a healthy dose of reality much sooner than everyone thinks. It's great that they are making any effort at all to limit development based on resources actually available to support it, but there are tons of loopholes.

As mentioned elsewhere, agriculture and industry are the real problem. You have nonsense like this going on:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/us/arizona-saudi-farm-fondomo...
> Golly gee, someone that realizes software engineering isn't entirely just sitting down and pumping out code? Why aren't you in management? (don't tell me... it's because you're honest with yourself)

My ironic situation right now is that I AM management in my company, and I'm spending a lot of time shifting the culture of our Engineers away from "just pumping out code" to shipping and supporting products. I'm literally being asked questions about why we need logging when we can just use a debugger, and I'm fighting the "that'll only take 1/2 day" (which it never does!) estimates from the team.

It feels like bizarro world to me. I had a pretty long IC career before moving into management, and felt like I was fighting the exact same battles against management,
>It is the second most intelligent thing on the planet at creating text, even with its flaws.

This also puts it in last place.
Rumors say that North Korea is behind some ransomware.
Go to the meetings or talk to people in town or follow your neighbors who care on Twitter/Facebook? If you really care what happens at your city council, and you live in a city of less than 1 million people, you can generally meet all of them and know what's happening. Cities greater than 1 million often support a regional-level paper which also covers city news.
Medical students aren't showing up to class.What does that mean for future docs?
If eco warriors rationally believe this fear mania, then why are they not screaming for a Nuclear Energy revolution aka large scale builout over the next 20 years to literally save the planet?

Because we could absolutely do it, we wouldn't need to invent a single iota of new tech.

It wouldn't even be that hard - we need to pick up where we left off in 1985 when the 'eco warriors' stopped the buildout.

Why does the current Administration believe in 'science' only when it suits them?

Or maybe there's more than 'science' going on ...
User controllable fan-curves should be standard for any actively cooled device.