skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100mio per instance sounds fair for Google, and 10k per instance for Wisner sounds fair. It's after all not something that will happen he claims.
200kWh is about 700 miles of charge (and he says he doesn’t charge every day). There’s something weird going on, but it’s definitely not typical usage.

I suspect an instrumentation/configuration problem before I’d suspect an average usage of almost 5x mine.
Timnit Gebru, Ifeoma Ozoma and Safiya Noble on Big Tech Whistleblowing [video]
It almost looks like it would be a balancing pole -the sort tightrope walkers might use. As archaeologists and others are wont to do, I would surmise it was a training exercise to practice balance while riding without a saddle.
Further analysis shows that it doesn’t perform well at all—successes are tied to things like test set leakage.

https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper2/

This paper isn’t any surprisingly effective result. It’s thoroughly shoddy scholarship by which the authors should feel embarrassed.
"just one of these turbines should be able to produce enough electricity to power 36,000 households of three people each for one year"

Does this imply that a turbine only lasts 1 year?
Yeah, because Mastodon is the most happening place online lol. I can't believe people on hacker news talk like this. Embarrassing how far this community has declined. Can't even discuss protocols without these stupid comments.
123 meter blades, that’s insane. This means the tip of the blade travels 772 meters in a single rotation. The speed of sound is 340 meters per second, meaning if it travels more than 0.44 rotations in a second, the tips of the blades are breaking the sound barrier.
Wait, so paying for premium means having the same shitty uncontrollable "you'll listen to what we choose and like it" experience as free, just without the perioidic ads?

If so, I couldn't be happier I've never paid for it.
The economic and emissions side effects of the COVID pandemic presents evidence to the contrary.
Edit: Sorry I made a stupid mistake. Should be 30kWh/day! That tracks much better with your own figure. Ignore the blow.

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You're right, most use less because they don't charge a car. The average seems to be about double that though at ~74 kWh/day: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3

Taking that average it would take around 2 weeks to reach my yearly consumption. Should be noted that's for something like 2.7 people, mine is a two person household.
Well…one that peeks at the test set labels.

https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper2/
I'm really impressed with the quality of the writing. It's succinct, informative, and engaging.

The "engaging" part might be subjective, because I've recently taken a renewed interest in LLVM internals. But regardless, good writing.

P.S. The article gives a shout-out to CodeBrowser [0]. It wasn't immediately clear from the homepage, but CodeBrowser is open-source: [1].

[0] https://codebrowser.dev/

[1] https://github.com/KDAB/codebrowser
Sure, it could be made to work, and it might even be able to keep up with your reading speed.

VoIP codecs are heavily optimized for human voice and have just a few kilobits of bandwidth. The analog phone network, before it went entirely digital, had a much higher bandwidth which is why modems were able to reach 56kbps. Phone calls in the 1980s were often crystal clear, almost on par with a broadcast radio station. Cell phones today along with VoIP are a muddy unintelligible mess in comparison.
If focusing on security, they should consider disabling the JIT compiler in the JavaScript engine. Almost all Firefox exploits in recent years have been based around vulnerabilities in this code.
Great writeup (including the human cost, e.g. loss / lack of sleep, which in my experience has a huge impact on complicated incident resolution).

Here’s what jumped out at me: “The new account was created in our database with a null value in the URI field.”

Almost every time I see a database-related postmortem — and I have seen a lot of them — NULL is lurking somewhere in the vicinity of the crime scene. Even if NULL sometimes turns out not to be the killer, it should always be brought in for questioning.

My advice is: never rely on NULL as a sentinel value, and if possible, don’t allow it into the database at all. Whatever benefits you think you might gain, they will inevitably be offset by a hard-to-find bug, quite possibly years later, where some innocuous-seeming statement expects either NULL or NOT NULL and the results are unexpected (often due to drift in the semantics of the data model).

Although this was a race condition, if the local accounts and the remote accounts were affirmatively distinguished by type, the order of operations may not have mattered (and the account merge code could have been narrowly scoped).
even if he fully charged the car from 0 to 100% every day, that isn't half of 200kwh
One of the obvious problems with this, at least in the California metros, is going to be that these stations are watering holes for people who engage in car breakins.
Ask HN: Recruiters, do you ever catch current employees job-hunting?
Recruiters of HN, have you ever found out a current employee is applying to other jobs via your recruiting network? Or perhaps a LinkedIn setting tipped you off.

Is there any sort of SOP for this? Do you tell the employee’s manager as a heads up, or simply ignore it and keep it to yourself?
The web still says Retweets too. I'm not sure what this post is showing.
I love how they'te lile unfree labor is consistent with free labor. They just literally don't care what the law is. Just goes to show it's all a bunch of playing pretend.

Sorry about what happened to you. Terrible.
Clears history on close, by default. No safety screening without getting to your own key. Definitely not for normies.

Still, competition is good.
How does it imply that?
rich guy with a big air conditioned house?
I think a third category exists which is the largest percentage of people in the system: people in bad situations for whom it isn’t that they thought they’d get away with it nor was it a crime of passion. I.e. it wasn’t that they were bad people conniving nor were they good people temporarily inflamed into being bad people. These are the hopeless people in terrible circumstances (poor, inner city, falling into a gang as the only place they belonged, with no role models - as an example) who did bad things.
> I've found pictures I posted from years ago in discord, Windows 10 can't even find half the files I downloaded and transferred to another drive the other day.

That sounds like indexing settings, on your end, are not sufficient for your use cases. I suggest decreasing the interval between indexing on your machine.

If indexing is correctly setup in windows any/all files will be immediately searchable and indexed.
lmao yeah dude they replace it every year.
Two major problems here:

1. There are some improvements worth breaking reverse-compatibility for, and removing the GIL is such an improvement. Whether the changes in Python 3 were worth making breaking changes for is debatable: certainly I don't see "print" being a function as particularly valuable. But the flipside is that the 2-to-3 transition was overblown by a vocal minority. I've transitioned more than 5 codebases from 2 to 3, and in most cases, there were few problems. Most problems were with codebases where previous developers had pulled in libraries for everything, resulting in an amalgamation of abandoned libraries, but these codebases run into problems even without the core language breaking compatibility. The answer isn't to flame your language into never breaking compatibility, it's to not import all of pip and expect that to be a sustainable strategy.

The situation we have now is that the steering committee has received so much heat from the vocal minority that they're terrified to make breaking changes. But removing the GIL should be a breaking change. It's too fundamental to how Python works to not be. So they're trying to remove the GIL and make it not a breaking change, which is a bad idea, because it is ultimately going to be a breaking change. It would be much better to admit this is a breaking change and start working on the transition plan, than to try the impossible task of making it not breaking because you're too terrified of your users to admit the truth.

We've already seen this in Python 3.11 which broke code in my codebase. The changes to fix the breakage weren't hard, but I would have liked better communication that this might happen. But I also understand why this was hidden in a deprecation warning in a minor release rather than publicized, because the Python team is probably tired of being flamed for making breaking changes.

2. The more fundamental problem here is that a lot of other features of Python were built around the GIL. Most obviously, the async paradigms makes sense largely because of the GIL. Sans-GIL, it looks like in retrospect a send/recv actor model a la Erlang would have been a much better way forward. It's not really possible to reverse this, and this might be pushing Python toward a less cohesive set of features that don't really make sense together. This makes it feel like this is too little too late.
Getting Started with FPGAs
I am sure there are women that are worth your time. But what's probably not worth your time is finding them and pursuing them.
I've been wondering what the "hanging copper plate" demonstration would look like if you were just seeing eddy currents. I kind of assumed you wouldn't see much movement because otherwise that makes the whole demonstration seem dumb.

...and based on that demo, it really does seem like a dumb way to demonstrate your miracle material. Really doesn't inspire confidence.
"Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts. — John Green
> edit: but actually, maybe this will make a good startup opportunity instead

I'm sure there are a few in stealth mode already!
Which part specifically is the breakthrough?
In a sense organizing tissues is the thing multicellular life does.
XMPP is a monstrosity, just let it die…
The X is why it failed, depending on the client used by participants, some features wouldn’t work as expected. I remember someone shitting me because the messages I sent were ugly in his client, maybe because of a bad font on one side or the other or something, don’t know, don’t care.
> list me the biggest EU software companies and their sizes compared to the SV-behemots.

List me the biggest SV-behemoths that (any combination of any three or four below below is true for 99% SV "behemoths"):

- are profitable

- don't rely on unlimited investor money to survive in hopes to corner the market

- don't rely on lax privacy laws to collect and sale user data en masse

- don't exist to be absorbed by a megacrop at a large price
I think that what makes Cyberpunk appealing has changed over time; it once reflected the concerns of the day, it invited you to reflect about the present and the future looking forward, now it offers solace in familiarity, with the social problems it presented being something that people are used to coping with, it invites you to look into a familiar past.

Back then, it explored the mystery of what the surge of computer technology in daily life meant, and what their makers would become as they grew more powerful. We know how that played out now.

It speculated on what the direction taken by the hegemon of the West, the United States, meant for common people in the future, as it vested itself on the idea that removing fetters on large businesses would deliver boons on the far less powerful, entirely atomized individual. We're well into that now.

The architectural aesthetic was familiar then, more so now. Fear over Japanese investments in the US seem quaint and innocuous, though the wealth transfer from West to East took that was prognosticated was as difficult as portrayed.

That's all forecasting from the state of affairs of the early 80s.

Reading cyberpunk today is done more an act of escapism from the struggles tearing at the seams of society today than exploring current or new ones.

Cyberware and bioware aren't part of the transhumanist experience that cyberpunk primed you for; instead, we have the polemics surrounding the transgender experience, with an intense debate and division on what it means to accept it, going as far as questioning if society should accept it.

Renegades working outside the law aren't clad in anything derived from Punk, that British subculture of rowdy youths espousing familiar ideologies in unsophisticated ways; what we got instead is the aesthetic created by the racial minorities of the US and their feedback loop with the countries of origin of the gangers proper, or their parents, or grandparents, which have more elements that are difficult to deal with for onlookers or people affected by them, from their origin, to consequences, and biases. These people give no space to the rugged individualist, the cartel will demand the submission of individuals to it like a fief, the liberty that the cyberpunk protagonist enjoyed at the margins of society doesn't exist.
That is crazy, but, on the other hand, seeing this rotate faster than once every two seconds would be insanely fast.
Covid did not crash US economy.
What is the balance of driers with 4-years full time seniority vs employees in progression and part-timers/seasonal workers?

Essentially, you didn't answer the question.
> Others

> Disable DRM, as it is a limitation to user freedom

Does that mean you can't watch, e.g., Netflix using Librefox? No judgement, I am just curious.
Meanwhile I'm over here in my 100+ year old house wondering which part of my tube-and-knob cracked-rubber insulated electrical system is going to fail if I decide to use the microwave... there's plenty of interconnected pieces in an electric system that just aren't built for the transition, and there's a lot of work in getting them ready that might not be immediately obvious.
Possible answer to the Fermi paradox: the intelligent life self destructs.

I always imagined this to involve some spectacular explosions or mass war or lasers, etc .

But in our reality it's possibly going to be the men becoming recluses and jerking off to their AI girlfriends instead of choosing to act like leaders and keeping everyone in line so we can carry on to see the spectacular version of self destruction of humanity.

C'mon guys we can do better than that!
Visual Studio upgraded Edit And Continue to support live code updates. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/hot-...

If that’s not enough, there’s https://liveplusplus.tech/index.html
That is not accurate. Some modern SUVs have lower driver death rates than pretty much any other passenger vehicle. The latest stability control systems and suspension designs have eliminated rollovers as a serious risk in real world driving.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...
3,141 digits of π fixed my memory
Curious about what is the upper limit. How much can we go beyond 16 MW before physics laws put a cap on size?
I feel like "fabrication" is just sitting right there begging to be used.
Except it will never exist for discord because discord is a proprietary communication service instead of an open protocol. At best it can provide an API, but that can be broken or shut down on a whim. This is why it's a much better use of time for developers to make things like Matrix clients match feature parity to discord rather than attempt to give discord the client diversity of Matrix/IRC.
I don’t think we realize just how much damage an online incident can affect children because we’re no longer ten years old. While I’d love to trust companies to have the best interest in all audiences in mind, my child went down a YouTube rabbit hole of Minecraft, Scratch, and innocent kid videos before being suggested Slenderman, spooky ghost stories, and inevitably a rebirthing video where the participant died.

Several years of behavioral therapy fixed the night terrors and ticks (he is a spectrum child tbh) but the anxiety attacks in certain situations hasn’t. Neither has my ability to unblock YouTube on our DNS because the recommendation engine is clearly predatory.

My child is old enough now to circumvent arbitrary restrictions. Whether it’s friends, VPN, or coding up some clever solution. But that effort comes from maturity and reasoning. Not some corp serving ads and clicks.
charging a car is ~20kwh a day, not 150
Morality and efficacy. It would be really rude and irresponsible to send metal crap all over the universe. It may also be really bad for Earth if we eat all of Mercury. Figuring out the question of "how much mass from Mercury can we send somewhere else before something becomes a problem for life on Earth" sounds like playing with fire.

What if Von Neumann probes kill life on another planet? What if other sentient life meets one and gets offended? Can we even get useful data from a Von Neumann probe that would offset the potential cost of it harming another planet? I don't think it's worthwile or ethical to send such a device into space no matter what is out there.
tail recursion reminds me of the "how to keep an ______ occupied" rock. being from texas, the blank is usually "aggie".
If I worked on that I would call it "project Pinocchio"
It's about the tension between inner desire and acceptable behavior.

A cafe is a fine place, unless you are out of work, friendless, with nothing productive to occupy your attention. Then the gap between what you are allowed to do (buy food, make pointless chit-chat, wait for something interesting to happen) and what you want to do (anything!) grows.
Meh. Tesla has been randomly changing the price of a solar roof. I can't remember the last quote they gave me, but it was slightly less than the second quote which was twice the price they initially quoted.

While solar roofs are cool, I sorta need to know how much it will cost and I need that cost not to change between the time we sign a contract and the time 8 months later when Tesla decides they don't have enough local installers in my area and cancel the contract (and mysteriously deliver a an unsolicited quote for twice the original price.)

So sure, if you're a YouTube influencer or Tesla employee, you can get one installed. But the rest of us schlubs will have to make due with unfashionable solar panels from reliable installers.
Personally, I love redux-saga. It took me a little while to wrap my head around it (but 1/10th the amount of time as RxJS), but it is _really_ nice to be able to write complex async logic in synchronous-looking code that's also readable. (At least it was readable for me and the people on my team.) Whenever I had some weird async coordination problem that I needed to solve, I was _always_ able to solve it with redux-saga. I wish more people would use it.
If they do break the sound barrier, that's also when the efficiency drops iirc. So I guess they'll switch it to a heavier load or RPM, or apply the brakes?

Not sure how that works for a wind turbine
Homeschool your kids. No one else cares about them
Before you get snide, consider what you are proposing: that 1W of insolation can cause >1W of power to be generated as waste from a solar-powered AC system.

It’s pretty clear that this is not the case.
No, complete plays is simply their measure of user satisfaction. If I like a song, I usually listen to it until the end. If I do not like a song, I usually skip it after a few seconds.

How would you measure user satisfaction?
even when it is written down, things don't stick across the internet. we're still having gif vs jif pronunciation debates
Size is an important factor because the extra crush room allows for more gradual deceleration in a crash.

Mass is an important factor because in an inelastic collision, the lighter object will experience greater G-forces.
That’s true for any transition.

The EPA is considering declaring no safe level of lead in buildings, and that is going to fuck with a lot of older homes. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/epa-lead-dust-hom...
Two observations, one mundane, one serious.

Funny how even in reference textbooks on radio/EM/etc, for some reason people cannot help but use half circles on a plot about a sine function, instead of the proper function shape. Don't know why that is! See Figure 1-2.

And more seriously, I think that all of our useful military education texts date from pre-1990s, when the military was one part an able research and development (and educational) and contracting institution. Now today most all of that capability has been outsourced to the military contractors and anyone who could write such a text (or properly design an aircraft on the military side) has long left.
Manipulating people using illegal methods to erode democracy is a massive amount of harm to the individual
My first question when I saw this graph. Are they talking about just the US? Just Europe, or the world?
Amazon identified that people hate paying for shipping, so they deceived their customers about the price of shipping and compelled any vendor using Amazon to double-charge for shipping everywhere else. This may be clever, especially since they're getting away with it, but is hardly something to be praised.
How hard is it to rise/wash it off?
The whole "Ask for permission" system is broken. I purchased two of the latest iPads. My wife has the latest iPhone. The kids need to click the "Ask" button when installing apps. On both iPads, my wife's iPhone did not receive notifications. The workaround I found on Reddit is to rename the iphone and reboot. Every month or so, it stops working again and I have to repeat the process.

In general as an android user I couldn't believe how many issues I encountered just setting them up. I also made the wrong assumption I could set it up in my name and add a kids account - but that's more user error assuming the world's most popular kids tablet could support multiple users.
Twitter is really, really bad for certain types of people.
I find myself thinking more and more frequently how nice it would be to go back to the carefree days of the early 90s.

What a sad state of affairs that is.
> > […] I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging... I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments […]

Then why would you waste everyone's time, including yours, in being a judge? It's like being a figuring skating judge and saying "I hate the cold and so think this sport done in a cold environ is dumb so will give everyone a zero."
here here. "hashbang that script will ya?" is something no self respecting hacker would ever say.
This is specifically Samsung Electronics as far as I can tell.

Nevertheless it’s an amazing drop.
The "standard" config of a leet IRC user is an always on "bouncer", that's then connected to by the user's IRC client.

This provides a really reliable chat framework in a totally open-standards compliant way.

Of course, most people don't care. This is why the corps business model of profit via surveilance is so successful. So, to jump straight to Godwin's Law: this is the same lack of concern, and passive cooperation, that led to the rise of hitler...
Birds won't be happy, unfortunately. Yet, better than wrecking Earth's cycles by pumping to much garbage in the atmosphere like we do today.
Then the question should be phrased to make that clear: "When did you create your account? (Or enter May 2007 if earlier)"

You can't threaten perjury on a form like this and be sloppy in your questions. If it were a paper form I could at least annotate my answer, but here I'm stuck with the wording they use.