skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Catalytic converters were mandated by law in the 70's. So if we include the time period of the article mentions the beginning year of 1980 in the comparison of weight, by that time most cars were automatic transmissions and included air conditioning. Plus the mid-priced to upper priced vehicles did include these extra amenities such as sunroofs, power windows, power seats and so forth. If you go all the way back into the 60s this wasn't the case but the article didn't go back that far it's specifically mentioned weight differences from 1980 until essentially modern times. And if you look at cars between those time periods primarily it was safety features airbags which have a significant amount of weight added along with abs traction control and even things like crumple zones add to the weight of cars. These were all things that had come about since the I'm very late 70s and early 80s.

Even things like electronic fuel injection systems were common on American built cars by the early '80s. They have become refined over time, but those refinements have allowed them to become a more efficient and lighter in weight yet overall cars have increased massively. And this weight increase is despite lighter weight composite materials and the use of aluminum in many components that were not before. In the mid '80s old engines were essentially cast iron, now it's difficult to find an engine that is not aluminum. Even in heavy duty trucks the block may be cast iron still for durability but the heads are aluminum. You mentioned exhaust systems previously exhaust was exclusively steel, now it's common that it's a titanium based alloy that is very much lighter than the steel counterparts.

I think we very much underestimate the weight of components such as airbags and abs systems have in cars.
What bothered me the most about this was Thanos destroying the stones after. He should realize that the snap is something that will need to be done regularly if he wants to actually keep population down. Halving the galaxy once accomplishes nothing
> Whatever the case, we need to start pushing back against this perspective; it is a scourge on our industry, destroying confidence in our code and our compilers.

> And compiler authors need to back down from their “evil” perspective.

Compiler authors are perfectly happy having no UB (that's why things like -fwrapv exist), but customer's revealed preference is that they want code that is X% faster and Y% smaller and they usually don't understand UB (if they even think about it at all).

Then the question comes up "why not make e.g. -fwrapv the default and have -fallow-ub for people who want to opt-in to the safety tradeoff" and this is because very often benchmarks have rules like "all default options except for -O3 (or equivalent)" and even when they don't people run their own benchmarks all the time; if someone compares the default-no-UB compiler to someone else's compiler with UB on by default, they just see that "oh boringcc generates worse code than superunsafecc, let's just user superunsafecc"
Let's do this?

Anyone can hit my username at gmail or telegram
Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying "Hello"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4
URLs please.
I lost my hair early and I just shave my head with a Braun Series 9.

I had a cheaper Braun till the charge pins broke (Part of why I got the 9 is it doesn't have the same style chare dock) but was not happy with it, my face always slightly hurt and it took too long to do my head.
And celery salt contains massively.high levels of nautral nitrates/nitrites which cures meat. Pork producers have requested celery salt products to be labeled as cured instead of uncured. But the USDA has not taken this suggestion up yet.
I shall now use a book to decide which LLMs to ban
Ask HN: What's your favorite essay/blog post of all time?
WokeGPT: Study Says ChatGPT Shows Liberal Bias
I'd say most errors I handle are user facing in some way.

The specific error (going to say in response to API given the article) you gave would likely be returned through the system as API response error tuple.

The parts of call stack higher up could determine if they want to show the error or swallow it. If it's a generic KeyError or MatchError, there's a 0% chance anything outside of the immediate call site could handle the error.
And if this doesn't make the hair stand up on the back of your neck:

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In fact, Moore told the audience, she believes that forensic genetic genealogy can help to eradicate crime. “We can stop criminals in their tracks,” she said. “I really believe we can stop serial killers from existing, stop serial rapists from existing.”

“We are an army. We can do this! So repeat after me,” Moore said, before leading the audience in a chant. “No more serial killers!”

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There is nothing more dangerous than a true believer.
Lost all lives trying to place the 10th card :(

I liked how it made me think about prerequisites for various technologies in order to guess when they were invented.
> Which is what apparmor and firejail/sandboxes kind of want to embrace but in practice people just care too less.

In practice I don't have the time to debug every shitty little app armor integration for weeks. I lost days to libvirt-manager because its app armor support was enforced and not even half assed. Some configuration paths would automatically get whitelisted in its auto generated app armor profiles, others would just get you a file not found until you whitelisted them manually. The process responsible for generating these profiles would also silently kill itself if it encountered a path that was on its internal ban list, have fun debugging that when you do things like using an alternative bios rom, which by default are all stored in a blocked path.

Apparmor feels like security through obscurity, unless you already know that you are dealing with app armor fuckery there is no chance in hell that you will be able to run your application and not being able to run anything is the holy grail of security.
Sleep deprivation causes a reduction in ability to reason. Similar to being drunk. A drunk person can also feel drunk, but “how drunk is too drunk?” Similarly “how sleep deprived is too deprived?”

The answer is, at a minimum, that a second “sober” party make that judgement.
There's already a Federal ID required for banking in the US: your social security number.
Because Moonbit is a modern language, while AssemblyScript is carrying forward the mistakes of the past. For example, Moonbit supports pattern matching and most language constructs are expressions. AS doesn't have pattern matching and consists primarily of statements. Moonbit has algebraic data types; it's not clear to me that AS does.

There might be other differences at runtime, but it's difficult to tell from just the website.
Intellectual curiosity in the spirt of classic liberalism is fading with the perpetually shifting sands of ephemeral, amnesic, digital pseudo-knowledge and mirror image closed-minded orthodoxy of each side in the culture wars.

Ginsberg and Nabokov will disappear from America since the religious right is hell-bent on banning anything remotely controversial, the new left is now banning whatever they don't agree with, and most students' parents are too busy and uninvolved to push back against moral panics, ignorance, or indolence. The end result is like the fun level of modern kids' parks: so "safe" they're absolutely boring.
My hair is thick, curly, and I tend to let it grow long. I've found that, more often than not:

- 90% of male barbers are butchers

- clippers are for butchers

- anyone who tries to cut your hair without washing it first is probably a butcher
-fwrapv is there for people to use. People don't use it.

Yes defaults matter, but they matter both ways. People benchmark with the default options and a compiler with -fwrapv turned on by default will lose those benchmarks and the "ordinary workaday programmers" still end up with trading correctness for speed, since one person at their workplace ran one benchmark once and picked the compiler that won in speed.
If anyone tried to pull this kind of language lawyering in my job they would be fired

Maybe it's about time to fire the C compiler developers
I'm excited to see a modern GCed language that is targetting WASM. Closest comparison is probably Grain (https://grain-lang.org/).
100TB so far ;)

And that's probably just 1 year. There's data that's vanished over time. The point of all this is that they're point-in-time references of the internet.

the more practical thing is that (the royal) they have set up a rclone like utility that allows you to retrieve a slice of the whole snapshot, if you know your domain.

it would be extremely funni if commoncrawl was a de-facto ipfs, allowing queries along domains (or arbitrary dimensions/clustering) of interest.
Not OP, but I presume he is referring to Oracle Cloud, as they offer "free-forever" 4 core (24 Gb RAM) instances.

Fairly good deal, the only problem being that it's Oracle.

ps. if you do decide to give them a try, be sure to upgrade to "pay-as-you-go" (and never go beyond the free offering) otherwise they will close your account without any warning (ask me how I know).
You're right! It's been a long time. There was a 68K to PowerPC, then later Power to Intel, and now Intel to arm64.
Huh? Assuming I understand your comment correctly, that is, not what that paper is showing.

That paper is showing that if the verifier has polynomial time computational power, with two provers who each have unlimited computational power, and who have some shared quantum entanglement, are communicating individually with the prover, and the prover also has access to randomness and such, then there is a protocol that can allow the provers to, for any recursively enumerable language, demonstrate to the verifier, for any string, whether that string is in that language.

RE is a WAY bigger class than what the verifier can compute alone.
And, is also way bigger than the without-entanglement version, MIP.

That paper is showing that adding quantum entanglement to the setup for MIP, allows for way more problems to be in the class.
I used to get mad about characters doing stupid stuff in movies.

Now I instead say, "well, that's just bad/terrible writing."
AI can utilize the full history of mathematics in ways we cannot comprehend because it isn't constrained by peer review, proofs, or cultural squabbles (other than pitiful attempts to bring it into culture war)

It takes a human 40 years of training to get them to such a masterful position to wield mathematics in innovative ways.

All AIs moving forward start with the entire history of math at their disposal.

If we impose a "You can only use X math", then we have no assurance it doesnt just recreate math from that checkpoint and still surpass our best comprehensions of math-based encryption
I worked in theatre for years and audiences have a very high suspension of disbelief (much higher than for film or TV).

Except for things related to the military, specifically uniforms.

If you have a modern military uniform in your show, then it has to be _perfect_. Any errors you make will be glaring to someone who wore that uniform and it will take them out of the show.

IME almost any other factual errors in a stage performance can be ignored by the audience. They're willing to overlook it because they know it's a show.
No book is being "banned" here. Here's a list of the books that are allegedly "banned", linked in the article[1]. They're all widely available. You know a book has been "banned" when its price goes to $3000+ and you have to buy it online using a pseudonym or on the darkweb. If a school makes a choice about which books to include in a library or a curriculum, that is their choice (or their loss, I suppose).

Insofar as this relates to ChatGPT, it seems to be behaving as designed and answering the questions the administrators are asking it.

[1]https://www.thegazette.com/k/19-books-pulled-from-mason-city...
This kind of reminds me of all the weird toys people would buy in the 90s and 00s. Just an infinite amount of junk that would get used four times and then stored somewhere in a McMansion and never used again.

I’m sure people will buy this thing and show it off to their friends and all their friends will be very impressed and maybe buy their own. But this really doesn’t have a lasting appeal. Is this something you’re going to use every day? Will you recharge it to use it again after a year?
<tr> and <td> are just hipster flexboxes.
Had the same issue with „Before Sunrise“, set in Vienna. Hawke and Delpy walk from one cut to the next in minutes, what IRL would have taken them half an hour on public transport.
If it's a state actor - the Chinese and Russians do it for practice and to sow general chaos / destruction of US infrastructure, costing money and tying up resources. Sometimes it's just to slow down other country's academics.

If it's not, it's a group doing it for practice, the lulz...and under the encouragement (or at least ambivalence) of the Russian or Chinese.
But the "suburbs" (some of them would not be considered suburbs but simply outer parts of the city in a lot of other places in the world) are immensely more populous than 100 years ago.
Non-administrative users are given administrative privileges to complete their work all the time, even today. Misuse results in them being disciplined or fired. Heavy-handed privilege controls are very often a drain on the productivity of users and can result in stupid or dangerous (from a security standpoint) workarounds. 20 years on, you have to exercise more judgement in what you allow considering modern risks, but the idea that you shouldn't make things harder for people over a small number of bad actors that you can handle at an organizational level is still a good one.
The article looks great! I like that it explains both classic IO for a webserver (which helps since a lot of developers don't even know that read() and write() might return without all data being processed) and then proceeds from non-blocking IO to async/await.

However there seems one thing worthwhile to point out:

> All to implement graceful shutdown.

It isn't true that async IO is required for that. Blocking IO calls can also be interrupted via signals. For the use-case of Ctrl+C that is mentioned in the blog post even the simple setup which unblock the syscall and let it return EINTR are successful. But even custom in-application cancellation from different threads works via signals. E.g. building a Thread::interrupt() that unblocks IO on a different thread is possible.

Most classical applications (e.g. proxy-servers) that went for the nonblocking route did it indeed for bigger scalability and lower memory footprint than using a thread per connection model. In the last couple of years and especically in Rust I however feel that most applications choose async either because the library ecosystem forces them or because there's just an assumption of missing out on something if not using it. There's rarely measurements performed with both setups that actually quanitfy any win or loss of using async IO.
>It's also not their fault for being mean to you for legitimately ruining their game.

It is 100% their fault. Whatever circumstances befall someone, it doesn't give them the right to act toxically and insult and degrade others. There's a difference between being angry (an emotion), and channeling that anger into a negative interaction. They're perfectly capable of controlling themselves and not throwing a tantrum like a child.

It's not about helping out the noob, it's about being civil.
Is there a term for this kind of thinking, or a type of job role in security that focuses on problems like this? Are there any professional 'strategic rearranger of security complexity' or 'security UX champion' jobs out there?

This seems like it could be a really valuable and maybe also fun role, if one can find an org that has made room for it.
That's not really what that paper is saying.

The class of problems computable by a quantum computer is equal to that of a classical computer. That does not neccesarily imply anything about the relationship between BQP and P or BQP and NP.
>They’re not an asshole the companies are for letting the government search the data without a warrant.

In my opinion trusting anyone with your DNA makes you an asshole. The possibility of a leak, hack, misuse or government search (consensual or non-consensual) approaches 100% very rapidly over time.
I haven't slept 8 hours more than 3 or 4 times since I have dogs. I need more than the 6 or 7 I get of sleep because of them, my mental and physical health suffers for this.

We can't go on vacation, or even have a night out somewhere else, without planning and paying for them to be hosted somewhere.

I love my dogs, but I'm looking forward with both dread and hope for the days they will no longer be around.

A dog that could be turned off would be much better in this regard.
I played a lot of moparscape back in the day. Was a fun community of people. Learned a lot standing up my own server and getting it listed on their registry for others to join.
My recollection is it was trying to keep up with Fortran's performance on numeric code as an impetus for taking advantage of UB (variations on what eventually became the "restrict" keyword were discussed but rejected for c89 and that idea comes directly from Fortran, which can assume arguments do not alias)
Dogs sleep at least 16hrs a day. My old girl sleeps 18hrs a day.
Ensuring you don't get screwed in equity agreements isn't "squabbling over numbers." What exactly are you saying is a waste of time?
A lot of discriminatory practices exist in the US. We should strive to eliminate them, not expand them.
This exists already, though the URL escapes me
If we scrape the tos to a git repo, and update it, we can diff it to a telegram bot, then pipeline to openai to summarize.
I'd rather have this than an iPad
They would likely not have done this today. That fix was a product of its time.

From what I can tell, SimCity had already been released. Many users likely didn't have an Internet connection, and even if they did, there was no auto-update via Steam.
Doesn't have anything to do do with this does it... https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/11/def-con-hackers-spa...
Cyberdog 2's specs are genuinely p impressive: 19 sensors, proprietary micro-actuators, dynamic stability, and it's just 8.9kg! Pretty crazy they were able to fit all that in such a small form factor. Xiaomi's investment in this is evident.

I'm a bit puzzled by their choice of modeling it after a Doberman. I would've thought a more universally appealing breed or a unique design might resonate better, unless there's some cultural nuance I'm not aware of?

The open-source nature is commendable, but there's a definite concern for potential misuse/surveillance applications. Esp given the current tech landscape. Yet, it's a bit rich to single out Xiaomi, considering Alexa, Ring, and Roomba devices. Makes me wonder about my ThermaPen
https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origi...
> With the promise of quantum computers solving certain problems exponentially faster, it'll be interesting to see how they fit into our established P vs. NP paradigm.

Its been studied for a while now. One of the most interesting things, is there may be problems in BQP that are not in NP.
Maybe EU dma related?
was this written by a LLM?
Wind Visualization of Hurricane Hilary
Listen, I left Russia last year. I lived there my whole life, and I saw how the government was handling this topic with my own eyes. Putin likes to twist history to his whims, but the topic of Chernobyl specifically wasn't as affected by this as you seem to think. The worst thing I've seen is one conspiracy-loving TV channel pushing theories about the disaster getting caused by aliens or the Americans, but no one tried to pretend that the whole thing never happened. I know about all of these things too well, don't try to school me on this topic.
VisualPing already does this: https://visualping.io/blog/how-to-monitor-changes-in-terms-a...

Docacracy did it a decade ago, but closed shop.

The problem isn’t the tech — it’s coming up with a business model that pays for the system and upkeep. As much as people give lip service about privacy, they sure don’t throw money at lobbying efforts that protect their rights in those areas.
They would have Dutch passports and be Dutch citizens, yes. And if they live there for long enough they would take on the culture. But let me ask you this. If you breed a German Shepard, with a German Shepherd anywhere in the world, what do you get?
This is not a dog replacement. It's a robot that looks like a dog.
Trains. Buses. Bikeable areas.

How did we land in a spot where the “only serious contender” to solve this problem is VC funded companies using the roads and people’s lives as beta testing grounds?

Absolutely absurd.
Assuming this pooch will have cellular connectivity. How does one sniff its traffic short of getting one’s hands on a StingRay? Because I would not trust this thing as far as I could throw it.
I posted the sources in the edits of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37182828#37183914

Do you have another position for the trenches?
Presumably, whichever side was losing would destroy it, it they were able. I wouldn't be surprised if the US also has a plan to evacuate skilled staff.
Why are you talking about hypotheticals and abstract "distrust" ? We're already being harmed by existing central ID systems - social security numbers and drivers license numbers - with little hope for reform in sight. If there were something like the GDPR that prohibited companies from nonconsensually demanding, storing, or using these identifiers for anything but their bona fide governmental functions, then it might make sense to talk about adding a new system. But until the government is capable of reigning in abuse of the existing systems, any new identification system would inevitably be a gift to the surveillance companies.
This must be a breed thing? Our rescue mutt can be left in (we block the couch or the little terror sleeps on it), or left out outside (where he pretends to shiver).

He can stay inside for 12 hours at a time without issues. He would be fine at a kennel.
Are they doing their remote control with Windows Remote Control and sharing passwords?
Our buildings, cities and economic life (work) are not organized to support social cohesion and the wellbeing that flows from that condition. Actually the main motto is "there is no such thing as society".

Digital online life has been a major opportunity to partially remedy the isolation induced by designs that maximize anything else (real estate value, GDP) than emotional balance.

Somewhat predictably though, the same driving forces created the same alienating mess. People are starved for social interaction and adopted digital tools en-masse, only to be exploited and reduced to data minable products.

There does not seem to be an exit from the trap we are in the short run. Material well-being has been prioritized above everything else and that is not compatible with social well-being.

We are left we somewhat sad "tips and tricks", like greeting six neighbors. Which obviously wont hurt but are so helplessly far from achieving something tangible.
PayPal already has an “Updates” page for their legal agreements. It describes which agreement is updated when and when that change takes effect.

I also received the PayPal email notification, but when clicking through the link the only legal agreement change this month was a week ago and was related to how much of your user data is available to a user visiting your PayPal.me page. Highly unlikely this is a coordinated change with Meta and MSFT.
Seems like a pretty good deal for the school. They need to run to kinko's to print out a fake degree (that says right on it that it's fake), and spend 20 minutes listening to a blowhard pontificate. I'd do that for a few million dollars at least once.