skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steganography-wise, timestamps of HN comments aren't part of the UI, but are delivered in the HTML:

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<a href="item?id=36280770">22 minutes ago</a>

so —in principle— the minutes field could be used to provide a very low bandwidth covert channel on top of innocuous commentary. Wouldn't it be pretty difficult to pick up even an outbound one-if-by-land two-if-by-sea style communication from the general noise floor?
These are smart people though. And many articles about AI have been low effort paranoia-inducing clickbait. I don’t think their effort here is wasted.
On the contrary, it often takes more effort to identify and call out bullshit* than it does to create it, so I think this is noble work (at least in theory - of course the "call out" could also be bullshit).

*in the technical sense popularised by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
I really haven't followed it, but from what I've seen of it peripherally it seems like hard coping for people who want to believe that Trump is better than he actually is, and has more control than he actually has.
As dumb as it sounds, I think I didn’t like it because it was too “Will Wrightish”. Felt more like Sim City than The Sims.

Sim City was too brainy, my 10 yr old self didn’t want to do homework about power/water resources. The Sims was a complete sandbox.

Spore wasn’t brainy, but I expected it to be more free form. The 4 stage concept kills any reply value because there’s not much left to be curious about. The creature creation was fun, but I don’t remember my models having any unique behavior. At least nowhere near like The Sims where I could make them pee and cry >:)
Everyday, if I can manage and we live as close to wilderness, as we can get.

But a fridge, hot showers, supermarket and if needed a hospital, are kind of useful.

If all that would be suddenly missing, things would get very bloddy, as hunting cannot sustain 7+ bio people.

So I am not wishing for a collaps, even though I do understand (and sometimes feel) the hate of the savage towards the concrete people.
interestingly, the existence of this site says something about the importance of AI/GenAI/LLMs.
That’s a pretty remarkable leap you’ve made from 2-3. Coordinating activities across large organisations is hard.
I think this article is a little too overzealous with trying to simplify a topic like beliefs and ideas.

A lot of it also sounds like common sense to me, the people capable of grasping this:

> Be careful what beliefs you let become part of your identity.

Are quite capable of adjusting themselves.

Everything else falls into either Ego, or people being self-(un)aware, and for the latter - you can only change "their" belief system if they themselves are willing to change.
Reddit was born of Digg's ashes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg

"After a controversial 2010 redesign and the departure of co-founders Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose, in July 2012 Digg was sold in three parts: the Digg brand, website, and technology were sold to Betaworks for an estimated $500,000;[9] 15 staff were transferred to The Washington Post Company's "SocialCode" for a reported $12 million; and a suite of patents was sold to LinkedIn for about $4 million."
As an American who drove a manual car in Chicago for a few years, trust me, there are ways to eat and drink while rowing your own gears.

Most European countries have far higher barriers to entry for driver's licenses compared to the USA. A German driver's license costs around $2000 to obtain. I spent $2000 on my first car (in 2018). Combine high financial barrier with competent public transit, and people who would be bad drivers just don't drive at all.
> The reality is that I am responsible for arbitrating the delivery of decisions from more senior managers to the teams and the decisions from the teams on how they execute on those decisions back to the managers.

"What would you say... you do here?"
Lithium fires are a scary thing to deal with, but electric cars are something like 75x less likely to catch fire than ICE cars. [1]

Regarding weight, yes. Electric cars weigh more than comparable ICE cars. But it’s pretty rich how this is such a large concern when the target is electric vehicles, and not the ever-increasing size of vehicles (especially American) people are buying. A Nissan Leaf is still far lighter than a gas powered F-150—the top selling “car” in the US.

[1] https://www.autoweek.com/news/a38225037/how-much-you-should-...
The Wakatime.com domain was registered in 2013 around the same time these covert websites were all being replaced. Also the creator of wakatime is an American living in Vienna, known to be the city of spies.
> for their bug bounty program, Valve requires a full-chain exploit demonstrating RCE impact

That sounds quite bad.
> so just to clarify, are you endorsing violence?

Yes, but I don't see how that's some kind of a "gotcha". I think most people endorse violence when all other options have been exhausted. If the police catches someone in the act of doing what you describe and they resist arrest, violence is likely to occur and is probably justified.
What value is this comment adding to the discussion?
Would not that be a good thing because they have incentive to perform better?
Seems like big hypes generate a corresponding, co-dependent anti-hype that thrives off generating negativity around the hype (see Donald Trump as 45th President of the USA, Cryptocurrencies, young people discovering sex, etc.). Loud personalities appear in both sides. Les extrêmes se touchent.
Have you seen these typos? These aren't just "I don't speak the lingo" typos.

And if I was attempting to bend the narrative, a good tool for that might be a counterargument that, tho apparently strong, is actually weak. Let's not be naive about how this works.
Spore was especially interesting if you used the in game friend list. I had a great time experiencing worlds full of various creatures - a lot of which were from my artistically talented friend playing around with the creation tools. His experience was unfortunately ruined because the game decided that each evolution of my creature was distinct and deserved to be shown to him separately - it was like his whole galaxy was overrun with my (admittedly unimaginative) "wobba-pods" with just different variations of hats and facial hair...
once upon a time, I'm told, tipping (at all) was seen as un-american.
I tend to ignore manuals, but two exceptions stand out to me. The Civilization series always continued making decent in-game manuals, or maybe 'wikis' is the more appropriate term. And while I would say that the manual for bash and python are decent, if inconsistent --- I wish bash manuals would prioritize frequently used arguments or flags --- R has really taken things to another level. R is probably the only software where my first instinct is not to google it, but to actually look at the documentation, because it is integrated so seamlessly, and because it is well organized: parameters at the top, examples at the bottom. And R's cheat sheets are also something else: https://posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/ . I had some of those laminated, because they are just such a joy to look at and browse.
Improper input validation chained to command injection? Those are quite common unfortunately.
Ok yeah, I stopped at the civ like stage, where it was too weird, that I can adjust the evolution of fighting machines and make them fast or strong just as needed in real time. That felt so half baked.

And the "action rpg" was also not very thought through, but still enjoyable.
https://www.smarty.com/
A peek into Japan's convenience stores (Part 2)
Hello HN!

On my previous post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36110833#36123339) many people encouraged me to write about Japan's convenience stores.

I set out to write and it was so interesting I just _had_ to create a Part 2. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it!

Thank you!
in the context of the area it does make sense. the Poor are majority in the outer boroughs and uptown manhattan with the only poor community I can think of near the area is in Chinatown and you would have to question: What is someone from chinatown doing with a car in FIDI? they’re not going to brooklyn since they would’ve taken the Williamsburg bridge or even the Queens Midtown tunnel. No way they’re looking to just chill at Battery Park or the seaport since the 6 train is right there.

Someone from the Bronx or Harlem could drive there for work but both places have public transportation options that makes driving not make much sense and neither places require going through downtown in order to access south brooklyn.
Any genesis for the name? Because it somehow sounds like they took inspiration from Polish infamous 4chan spin
What about the Google guy who thought Bard was sentient. Classic.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/23/google-fi...
I'm very price aware though it's not the only factor in where I shop. Publix provides a much nicer environment than my local Kroger so I prefer Publix and pay a premium but I still go to Kroger about once a month for the CarbMaster store brands and cauliflower rice. There are also a couple of regional chains I sometimes to go if they're having a good sale, usually on meat, to stock up.
George Soros Hands Control to His 37-Year-Old Son: ‘I’m More Political’
Around half of the top 250 aren't participating atm https://save3rdpartyapps.com/
We should also figure out how many millennia it took the bison to do this and whether other uses for the land could sequester more carbon.
Spore is the only game I ever actually sold. It was just so bad and boring.

The first stage was the most fun and felt too short. The space exploration part was so tedious and boring I just restarted the game a few times to play the fun parts. Then I sold the game.
Spacetime diagrams and intersecting light cones
Do you really believe someone crunching numbers is worth USD 600000 per year?

- it depends where you live

- how tight that job market is

- and with inflation these days, probably 2x that.

Bit of a rant, but many things I buy are 40% more than a year ago, some are 100%, yes double the price. That means aalaries should follow the same metric.
You do you, but I find sites like this a nice antidote to the opposite, which seems to be the norm these days.

Sites like https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ I find not only amusing, but interesting and informative. The author was on Michael Lewis' recent podcast, and she was quite interesting as well.
I transitioned to EM and I assure you it’s a lot more work. If you don’t want to fight with your company’s trash IDE, then maybe. But if you think you’ll have less on your plate as an EM then either

1. You’re wrong and you’ll find yourself working more
2. You’re right and you are screwing over your team.
A lot of comments here seem to be framed around the idea that Elixir is aiming to some day dethrone Python. Knowing the Elixir ecosystem, I wouldn't even say it's the case that it's trying to gain equal market share. The Explorer library even calls out: "The aim here isn't to have the fastest dataframe library around". There seems to be a significant interest within the Elixir community around this and, as a non-data scientist who needs to do some analytics sometimes, I certainly appreciate having powerful tools like this without having to step outside Elixir. I've never had to learn about Python tooling and I'm happy to keep it that way!
1. No it would not be expensive. Writing metrics is literally free: https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing . If metrics didn't exist yet then log 1/1000 requests to control the log volume and find the pattern from the averages.

2. It isn't up to google to tell you if you are querying against the cache or the DB. It's your code. You should know. Just tick something when you use the Redis/BQ/GCS/SQL client.

This task is so easy I would assign it to a junior engineer and expect code changes done in one day!
Even if the proposal was a fancy luxury condo, with per unit prices averaging more expensive then the existing homes, it would still be heavily resisted because of the inconveniences associated with construction, higher pressure on local services, etc...

So even if the average home prices slightly increased it would still be the same dynamic.
What is worse, citing ChatGPT or citing oneself?
I like this nice little text. Einstein is a perfect example for mental liquidity. I think we should be very forgiving about this for two reasons: first, Einstein was one of the people establishing quantum mechanics. He also got the Nobel Price for his work on the photoelectric effect. Second, even the brightest minds have only a narrow time frame until mental ability starts to decline. So we cannot expect a brain to dig deep into general relativity and at the same time something completely different like QM.
Surprisingly, Einstein even contributed to QM in old age by trying to poke holes into the theory that later proved to be true (e.g., spooky effects at a distance).
HSTS preload adoption and challenges
I'd assume it's bandwidth costs.
Around half of the top 250 are participating atm https://save3rdpartyapps.com/ which I think gives a better idea of how big it is. Despite that, I think it won't be enough to change anything. Maybe if we got all top 250 subs to participate and extended the protest to being indefinitely.
NY is spending $7B to on a Phase 2, to expand a long delayed subway line by 1.5 miles, and half the tunnel is pre-existing from abandoned project in 1970s.

The original Phase 1 was only about 1.5 miles and took something around 20 years on top of the existing half built stuff from the 1970s

There is a Phase 3 to expand the line a further 4 miles with all new tunnels, and there is a rarely talked about Phase 4 to go a final 2 miles again in all new tunnel.

I point to this project in terms of an example of those with a negative agenda "knock stuff down" without having a matching, if not pre-requisite "build better stuff" plan in place. The original 2nd Ave line was planned in the 1920s, they knocked down elevated train lines in the 1940s in anticipation, but didn't start the subway project til 1970s, which opened for service in 2017. By the time Phase 4 finishes in 2140 or so, we may have finally matched the transit removed in 1940s.

So any modern era "just knock down __" without first building transit / alternates / etc risks putting us in a net transportation deficit for a lifetime or three.
Oh good gravy I just tried. It’s over 50% ads.
Side question (irrelevant, just as curiosity), why did you write it in third person?

I see that later on you switch to "we".

JFYI, there are a couple typos I could spot, "pubic" and "lits".
We are now doing that. Planes with ADS-B send out their position, altitude, direction and speed every eight seconds. That's how flightradar24 tracks most airplanes. ADS-B has been introduced sometime in the mid-2000s, and became mandatory in many countries in 2020. It originally depended on ground receivers or other aircraft picking up the transmission though, which is an issue if a plane goes missing in the middle of an ocean. This seems to be mostly solved now by satellites equiped with receivers.
The problem with management roles today is they are watered down to the point of being basically pointless. Product people determine the shape of things and priorities. Tech leads determine how things should be done.

The manager is supposed to shepherd career growth and decide how much people should get paid. In my view this is a really part time job at best.

I think we need to go back to coupling more of these roles together, similar to what would happen in a startup. A strong leader should be able to fill product, tech lead and management roles.
Not total activity, but I think half of the top 250 subreddits participating in the protest gives a good idea https://save3rdpartyapps.com/
> They also had very strong, armoured doors, certainly was quite well isolated from strangers with an urge to grab a microphone and were buried in the core of the building. I got the impression they had half an eye to "This is the BBC. At this very time, unstoppable nuclear rockets have been launched toward London.. "

I think the BBC Studios of Last Resort are:

https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/bbc-wood-norton/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Norton_Hall

PS: It’s not just that Gill was a predator, the sculpture itself features a child - it’s pretty much all kinds of wrong, but it’s built into the fabric of the building which is itself ‘listed’ (a preserved historical site).
This is very cool!

I was thinking of a VS code extension that lets me put files or directories “physically” on my desk. Itd be emulating the way that I read text books. Instead of keeping notes and bookmarks physically in the book I could drop sticky notes that represent files directly on my desk and show a preview by by just shifting my eye focus to the AR/VR note.
Filtering is important. Remembering everything is an obstacle to remembering the key things. Too much data is as useless as no data.
Glad to see the part 2. Part 1 generated some interest on HN too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277962
For senior engineers you need to at least double the number to get an idea of the actual total compensation.
I think they do not. But the feds are softening us up for a life on Mars announcement by teasing us with UFO sightings. Revealing UFOs as fakes will make it easier to accept non-DNA life on Mars.
It’s a lot of typing but I really don’t see a huge amount of effort in the reviews of the news articles on that site. Once in a while they provide a better article but mostly they just quote chunks of text and say they are wrong. That doesn’t strike me as a lot of effort.

It’s their site they can do what they wish, more or less effort.

I don’t doubt countering bs can be huge amount of work, but I’m not sure that site and the Wikipedia idea are quite the same.
Geez, calm down with the insults.

I have no positive proposal because I think the underlying premise is ridiculous.

That is my opinion, and I'm entitled to it. I respect yours even if I don't agree with it, give me the same courtesy?
Yet not "enhanced interrogation," which is arguably a continuation of MK-Ultra experimentation. That has plenty of defenders, though I'd argue both the Iraq War and Guantanamo Bay aren't as universally despised as you claim.
> It's not that hard, you find an email and you basically do a cold call. I was doing it in high school off Newgrounds (which is full of royalty free stuff too!)

You are missing the point, most programmers are introverts and absolutely deplore doing cold calls and cold emails.
I miss these places so much. The nikuman and famichiki were my go-to breakfast along with a hot can of coffee and the occasional pack of cigs (where they had all of the nicotine levels labeled). Konbini have some of the few publically accessible trashcans in Japan as well.
> the US is the only country, rich or not, that regularly experiences school mass shootings. So there must be some other factors at play

A few other sociological factors to consider given that the phenomenon of school shootings in the US has established itself in the past 50 years.[1]

The US population has doubled since 1950[2]; this means an increase in the (unaddressed) need for adequate health care and especially mental health care.

Domestic US gun business has grown its profits in this period of population growth. And, of course, the US is one of the few countries with a constitutional guarantee to protect its gun business, which results in political gamesmanship in a time of profits, instead of real social policy.

[1][a] _ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-mass-school-sh...

[1][b] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...

[1][c] _ https://www.chds.us/sssc/data-map/

[2] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_Uni...
Having worked with both open source and proprietary 3rd party software, in many ways, open source is actually maybe the safest pick. Or rather, proprietary stuff probably has the worst failure mode, where you end up being dependent on a legacy product with no support and no code(and this is pretty much guaranteed to happen at some point!). And even if there is support, it could take weeks to get a support request elevated to a bug report, assigned to a dev, reviewed, tested, yadda yadda yadda. Especially if you're a smaller customer.

I won't comment on overall risk of third party open source vs proprietary. But it is obviously true that open source has an advantage in that there's no problem that could arise that can't in principle be solved in-house.
True, it's the new COVID super-contagious variant paranoia. Almost all of which ignored the well established tendencies of viruses to evolve into more contagious, and less dangerous forms. It's this sort of nonsense that allows Trump to say the media is sh*t, and be somewhat truthful.
There actually were things of note from the early demos that didn't make it into the final game. For example, the way you created your creature had gameplay implications. Things like limb length, limb count, limb placement, center of mass, etc were going to influence the viability and pros and cons of your creature. However, there were philosophical disagreements between team members and ultimately the decision was made that they'd throw the systemic approach out the window in the name of cosmetic freedom.

Personally, that isn't the decision I would have made, because I think the game is more shallow because of it. Maybe it would have made the game less enjoyable for people who just want to make whatever they want with no consequences, but that could have been solved with a difficulty option.
You are not wrong. But the sub title of the article is: "Experts say that across the board, EVs are a win compared to similar gas-powered vehicles."

Whether you look at manufacturing, sourcing of battery materials (which get recycled), energy production needed to power the vehicles, it all boils down to EVs being far better than gas powered vehicles.

Why is that? Kwh for kwh, EVs are just far more frugal with the energy. Petrol contains lots of energy, most of that is converted into vibrations, heat, noise, etc. And a little of it propels the vehicle forward. EVs produce a bit of heat, very little noise (tire friction mostly), and convert most of their power into forward motion and can actually recover some of the energy when you slow down through regenerative breaking.

Even if you use brown coal, which is a nasty fuel, to power an electricity plant, about half of it turns into energy and most of that ends up being used for useful things by the car. It gets more miles per kwh worth of CO2 emitted relative to ice vehicles. If you add the emissions needed to produce the vehicle (which you'd also have to do for an ICE car), it boils down to any difference being eliminated by this within 1 or 2 years of the vehicle hitting the road. Even if it is a bit more co2 emissions to produce the vehicle (which is debatable), the difference is wiped out early in the life of the vehicle by it just being more efficient. After that every year the vehicle manages to not break down, which as it turns out is mostly quite long, it just gets better.

Why is this important? One of the many myths that people keep rehashing, is that EVs are more polluting than gas guzzlers. This article attempts to rectify that. Of course, there's a lot of good work being done in the EV industry to improve things further. Cheaper batteries with less exotic metals, more efficient motors without rare earths, recycled materials, using renewables to power rapid chargers, etc. But even without all that, EVs are already cleaner.