skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A: It can't.

To be talking about the novelty of the blockchain and distributed governance in 2023 is like peddling the wonders of asbestos. We've been here. It didn't solve anything. Not a single thing was solved by the application of this extra level of nonsense that roped in a lot of criminals determined to make a quick dollar off the misery of the third world.
Do you have an example of Ovid's that make Catulus look like an amateur?
Yeah, but at least it's not chrome or directly benefits google. If China came out with a web browser, I'd use it. Just to starve American spyware corporations of a tiny bit of data.
> They are the people who are actually reading the conference blurb. They look at email on their phones with greater intensity than ever happens at the office. They endlessly circulate the room, like bits of plastic in the ocean waiting to be snagged on something. They take a seat in the main hall while the sound engineers are still testing the microphones.

Ouch.
I don't know what an alt is. And this is not user machines, it's not like they can't run Word on their desktops, this impacts RDP hosts, machines that use an office backend for server based programs, etc. Hospitals, accounting firms, etc all will be heavily impacted by this.
That's what they're doing in China:

https://cnevpost.com/2021/05/10/battery-swap-national-standa...

https://cnevpost.com/2021/08/17/china-auto-association-seeks...

Nio also has swap stations outside of China. It can swap the battery in 6 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmWL1hZQmD0

Gogoro does swap stations for scooters:

https://www.gogoro.com/gogoro-network/

Other manufacturers are standardizing swappable batteries for motorbikes:

https://www.rideapart.com/news/545061/honda-sets-big-four-st...
Great news. It seems there is still much room for improvement, though. E.g. in “A Short History of the World” by H. G. Wells, the AI reads Darius I and Charles V as “Darius Eye” and “Charles Vee”. Open and closed brackets in sentences are not read out. The intonation is also a bit unnatural. But it is intelligent enough to parse 1,782 as 1782 rather than two numbers.

Another problem is that the audio clips are not broken into sessions. There is no way to locate the beginning of a chapter, for instance.
Holy smokes, I missed the news that there was a reprisal of X-files from 2016-2018.
I wonder if they took into account the negative environmental impacts of mining material for batteries?
I always wondered why the import syntax is so different for the two things:

import mpmath as mp
from mpmath import mp

IMO that's the root cause of that kind of user errors. Why not just

import mpmath.mp as mp

or something that has basically the same syntax for importing an object as for importing the module?
Nim doesn't have sum types and pattern matching, which are an essential part of an expressive type system. It also appears to have `nil` be a valid value for most types by default?
It's vastly different when it's a local outage and there's functioning equipment outside the effected area. How will communicate the needs of grid stations with no electronics, satellites, internet? How will this be coordinated? How will the trucks moving the equipment be able to refuel when the grid is down everywhere, and everyone is rushing to gas stations and clogging the freeways? How can even emergency services coordinate responses?

If transformers do blow, the big ones at substations and stations... We don't tend do keep spares of those on hand. They're very often made to order, with a multi-week lead time, and that's with a functioning power grid to produce and coordinate them, again.
After a couple incidents where snipers shot at substations or hackers turned stuff off, there was a burst of worry about the fragility of our electrical grid. Of the large transformers that make up substations, almost all of them are unique. There is no inventory of spare transformers. Each one is custom made and takes months. The small transformers you see on poles are made by the thousand, and stocked at every utility. The small ones are not the problem. The big ones - that are the size of SUVs and houses - are the ones that the grid depends on.
I find CSS terrible to work with but I fail to see how this is any better.

<div class="[grid-area:span_1_/_span_1_/_span_1_/_span_1] max-[991px]:h-[400px] max-[767px]:h-[250px]">
20 years ago DJB called it [0]. The same problems exist. The only place IPv6 has gained any success is in the mobile market since handsets tend to be homogeneous and therefore configurable, which does allow a decrease in load of CGNAT for carriers. However, this success is not replicated in the broadband realm and probably never will be for all same reasons outlined by DJB. IPv6 is a second class network.

[0]: https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
People with IQs below 91 walk among us. Not sure why Project 100000 gets so much criticism of the moralizing type. Sure, it turned out to be a bad idea in retrospect and should have been a smaller trial run first, but the idea isn't crazy if you put yourself into McNamara's time and place. I could easily see myself thinking that systems were autopilot enough that the IQ of the body component of modern warfare to be of lesser importance. And if that were in fact true, we'd have found a way for such individuals to contribute. Is it more moral for the inevitable sacrifices of warfare to be solely among a society's higher IQ individuals?

In the end, it turned out that those of lower IQ would continue having less of a productive role in society--something that was already accelerating at the time. Perhaps that's the real tragedy here. We have an oversupply of those only capable of simple labor. Maybe trying more "x's Morons" ideas isn't such a bad idea?
That's pretty much the whole point of the data ownership concept in the EU, though - force these companies to tell you exactly what they're using, and exactly how they're using it.

I don't really think there's a feasible alternative. Most people don't have the means, time, or knowledge to self-host all of the tools they use, and as a consumer, I can't really tell how a company is going to use the data I give them. In cases like that, the only solution is regulatory structure.
> 1. Interrupting the program to sweep, resulting in unpredictable performance.

See my comment regarding "less predictable latency" (although new advances are making for much more predictable latency - see some of the work done in Java GCs for example)

> 2. Possibility that a circularly linked group of variables could be impossible to sweep, resulting in memory leaks.

That is not possible in a precise tracing collector, only in reference counting (Rc/Arc)

> 3. Need to check reference counts (along with bounds checks) that degrade performance.

I think you are referring to reference counting again. Both Rust and C++ have reference counting types as an add on.

State of the art tracing collectors don't collect/check dead objects, they compact live ones, and often don't use reference counting directly. Most objects die young.

> Lack of GC (and bounds checking) are factors that make C/C++ performant and then lead to the kind of bugs that result in programs that don't do what they're supposed to do (and at worst, result in security vulnerabilities.)

Replace "performant" with "predictable performance"

> I thought a key goal of Rust was to fix these problems without sacrificing performance.

Rust, like C/C++, wants you to be able to predict performance and latency and without the baggage of a runtime. Nothing more than trade offs - neither is better or worse. GCs often do perform better with the trade off of latency predictability, but as always it depends on use case as to what is appropriate. Rust likely made the right choice for its domain.
Why can't I put planned death at 130
This philosophy of thinking every opinion deserves and requires reasoned critique while maintaining decorum is worse than any rude words. The opinion expressed by the author does not deserve more than the two words they were generously afforded.
I use Firefox containers as a replacement for Chrome profiles and I find them to be quite good. The Sidebery addon adds sidebar tab groups where each group can have a different default container, I use it to maintain different sets of sessions for personal and work stuff (GitHub, etc)
> Chrome is installed by default on the handheld computer system most people use, with AFAIK over 50% market share

And if that 50% (actually 40% in the US) didn’t have privacy invasive Chrome installed - they would still be running Android which is made by the same company.
I think extroversion and introversion are just orthogonal skill sets. The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.”

For instance, small talk. You may style yourself as someone too intellectual to be entertained by small talk, and profess to be terrible at making small talk. This is to misunderstand the value proposition of small talk, which is to establish trust and rapport with strangers before you commit to sharing any high value information. To be fair the value of social customs are often not grokked even where they are followed and are effective. But if you need a reason for everything, figure it out.

Also, confidence. This is simply a function of how positively you expect others to receive your presence/engagement. People
who are quiet and taciturn in one setting will often be charismatic and open in another setting where they know the audience. Realistically appraise why others might react positively to you, and work on being able to deliver that value. The confidence will flow naturally from there.
How come such an article ends up with 30+ points? There's literally no meaningful information. I'd look into what accounts upvoted this link, something seems off.
> that people believe their own proclaimed religion
The comment above is talking about

> very popular in evangelical America that has to do with Israel being involved in the "end days" > strong Israeli state will hasten the rapture or some nonsense like that

That not a mainstream Christian view, in fact it's very fringe view and you don't have to 'over-intellectualize' (whatever that means) to realize that.

> I suppose it’s up to you if you’d like to believe that 1) Evangelicals don’t believe what they claim to believe

or option 3: don't believe what you claim they believe (the 'extremely broadly' bit anyway). There are plenty of more sensible religious, political and other reasons which explain widespread support for Israel.
I lived in a large shared house during the early seasons and every single one of us ran to the TV together when it was on, from young politicians, hair dressers, DJs, developers .. We all loved it.
Thanks for the feedback Skypuncher. I appreciate it.
> But C++? I can see why C might be up there due to the embedded world, but is C++ really more popular than JavaScript?

If it's anything like tiobe, they give bonuses for vendor offerings, which gives languages like c/c++/fortran legs up for most domains that aren't web development. Robotics, embedded, scientific computing, etc.

Or at least I've never seen a js vendor offering that wasn't for web development.
Because after 100 misery grows regardless of amount of cash on hand.
> They didn't create Chrome out of the goodness of their hearts: it was created to impose their rules on the internet.

IIRC, it's the opposite: Chrome was created to prevent other browser manufacturers (in particular, Microsoft) from imposing their rules on the Internet in a way which affected Google websites.
Most of the systems of the modern world were built in the pen and pencil days. We can go back to the 1940s if we had to I’d imagine. Especially if the national guard were deployed to maintain order.
Maybe using English as a programming language ("transpiled" to a lower level language using an LLM)?
>I bought a new dishwasher like 2 months ago and it’s the best I’ve ever had.

I bought a new one just this year. And yes, it does do a pretty good job.

But if you read the article, one of the complaints is that it takes a lot longer, and that is true for me as well. Way back in the 90s, I had a new dishwasher that was really cheap, and pretty noisy, but it would do a load of dishes in about an hour. My new one is 2+ hours.

Keeping the dishwasher quiet, which is a consumer demand, not a regulatory demand, affects your wash time. If you don't care about the noise, you can have a more powerful pump spraying a harder stream of water, and as a bonus, less sound-deadening insulation means you can cram more dishes in there.
For anyone born in the past 12-15 years, their first computing device would almost certainly not be a desktop computer. It would be a mobile device, and Chrome is omnipresent there.
> Based on what you said, you didn't actually look at HDMI protocol, only the protocol exposed to your HDMI encoder chip.

You are correct. Though as part of my studies (and curiosity, of course) I did end up analyzing the signalling protocol. The side-effect of standardizing line protocols is that it offers an abstraction for the engineers working with it. I didn't have to understand the signalling methods per se to use HDMI in my project.

> FWIW, yes HDMI is still pretty simple, but not as simple as you describe it.

I should have added that at the time I used it, HDMI was still in the 1.0 spec (1080i, 60Hz max), which was effectively DVI. Much has changed since then.
The reasons for GNU bloat are well documented, but instead you are arguing over uhh... colour? ls outputting colour or not? Isn't that the very definition of bikeshedding?
Where can I pay for information presented in such a short, clear and to-the-point manner? Preferably human generated as well (no to robots).

I dream about having access to this kind of internet.
Alas, time is inexorable. Like having a facelift, shifting to "when they became popular" doesn't actually reset the calendar.
> Not only is it discontinued,

It's well available at retailers in Canada. I could go purchase one this afternoon.

> but it doesn't seem to have info. on when it was introduced. Can you link a model that is confirmed to predate November 2020?

The product manual mentions a revision to the power cord made in September 2020, so that product predates nov 2020.
Canadian federal government new rules for public servants using AI
If you want to learn more about the creation of the Eurodollar offshore market, highly recommend this podcast episode/video from the Odd Lots pdcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-0EN8_WuvK8
One of, if not the most important aspect of learning anything that has a lasting effect is honesty between the teacher and the student. I couldn't with a straight face advise anyone to learn Python. It's just the absolute trash of a language in any aspect you choose.

Playing stupid games with someone's ego and the ability to self-assess is a sort of insidious evil. Just to give you as an example, a story of one Polish naive artist who was led to believe he was a big deal by some newspaper publishing an article about him. It was in the 80s, I think, when the world went through an infatuation with naive art phase (again). Excited about the newly-earned fame, the guy applied to Krakow's art academy, and... was basically laughed out of it for not being a "conventional" good craftsman. He committed suicide short afterwards.

In a less dramatic way, the other thing that comes to mind is the scene from Kung Pow! Enter The Fist, where the protagonist was "taught wrong, on purpose, as a joke". I cannot imagine telling someone who knows nothing about programming that Python is a good way to do anything or to learn anything. It's just a pile of trash made popular by the network effect. If anything, anyone with a drop of common sense should work hard to prevent the next generation from using it.
I am an avid consumer of audiobooks and I will never pay/listen to anything AI-generated. Maybe it's just me, I don't know, but just because they have shown that it is technically feasible, that doesn't mean that there is a market for it. I am skeptical. Listening to audiobooks is already a compromise over reading the book, listening to an AI-generated audiobook sounds to me like a bit too much. But let's see.
No one who is targeting the US market is going to ignore iOS users.
But the topics API is available to anyone to use right? So in a way they're getting rid of their moat because they're closing down a datasource where they are market leading and opening up a new data source where everyone gets access for free.

Seems like a bad business move to me.
Why are there so many arbitrary limits on all the inputs here?

Alternative sites:

https://engaging-data.com/fire-calculator/

https://engaging-data.com/will-money-last-retire-early/
Thank you to link to that page. It is very funny. I highly recommend that others read it.

Choice quote:

The benefits of using the assembly language for your web apps are immense:

You get all the bragging rights: coding in assembly while everyone is working safe and secure within the confines of their precious sandboxed languages is like doing a perfect triple somersault without safety mats.

Next: I recommend multi-threaded assembly code with self-modifying code and lock free data structures!
There are people in the comments saying Firefox is super slow compared to Chrome but modern computers are genuinely so fast I can't notice a difference. At least on my Core 2 Duo ThinkPad T61 I use regularly I have to do some comparisons on what the best browser choice is but on my main PC with a Ryzen 5 7600 and 32GB of DDR5 RAM it hasn't even really occurred that one is faster than the other. I use LibreWolf.
A clickbait, nothing more.
They raised the issue, which I hardly every see raised, that disabling the feature may not disable data collection. The gave compelling examples of both sides, rather than dismissing one or being inflammatory - the dental hygine example was great, a little personal. They clearly and efficiently spelled out the different modes. They brought up Firefox and the much more obscure Brave, and even more privacy-oriented browsers.

It was great. I'd give it to lay-people who were interested, and as a technical person I don't need to read more.
I noticed the same, especially when some kind of structure text (like a bullet point or numbered list) comes in.
I honestly can't make heads or tails of this. Can you expand on what you mean?
I guess there's two things going on here. Firstly, whether the company takes the data with your full knowledge and consent. Secondly, whether they use it in a transparent (or at least ethical) manner.

For the first of these, I quite like how on Android now the user has great control over what data is made available to which apps. The app needs to explicitly request access to camera, location, files etc... . You can toggle this on or off at will, and specify that it can only read the data while the app is active. I can imagine having regulation which enforces this type of privacy control for all tech service providers.

The second is much harder, because it's difficult to know what the company is doing behind closed doors. However we can at least check telemetry and demand that it is minimal and anonymised where appropriate. We can also apply much harsher penalties to companies that flout the rules.

Of course, all of this relies on government that acts in the genuine interest of its people and without hands in industry back pockets. We can but hope.
The salary of DEI employees is forcing them to not understand issues of race or sexism at all. It has to stay the unsolved problems for the money to keep coming.

That said, men aren't discriminated against. Or women for that matter. Still, in most cases the DEI crap should be scrapped and you would net a more just system.
Maybe paying $10/mo for email or $199 once for a browser is a good thing. Maybe if people didn't feel like browsers and email and search were human rights that should be given to them freely, moral hazards be damned, the internet wouldn't be the clusterfuck that it is now?
> the vast majority of software is written for the benefit of its users, not that of its developers.

No, the vast majority of software is written for the benefit of the company that's selling it. There's a very, very clear difference there. A lot of this business rests on advertising to people to convince them that the product is good, rather than actually creating a good product.

Have you actually worked a regular job and spoken to people who use software? The large majority of software have bugs that make the program unfit for purpose. The more widely used it is, the more of a monopoly the company producing the software has on the market, and in turn the more likely the product is to be a hot piece of shit.
Applaud the effort, and I think this kind of project is a really good substitute for an info-product or ebook: relatively low effort to get started, lots of room to scale + grow if it goes well, and in general a good way of "getting in the reps" of building a business.

However — I think you need to spend a lot more time putting yourself in the shoes of who would use such a product. As an example, going to the "Modal" section shows me four very small thumbnails, of which I can only really discern the high-level structure and not any of the actual details. Having to copy and paste this into my own editor or something like CodePen just to see how it really "works" is a very rough feedback loop compared to all the other existing tailwind component sites (take, for example, how Flowbite handles it: https://flowbite.com/docs/components/modal/).

Also, for projects like this I like to have some level of social proof and your social media links in the footer are broken! That, coupled with the "trusted by 1000+ businesses", gives off some ... bad vibes, to put it mildly.
AI tech behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa – with a lot of water
Grew up listening to Car Talk with my dad.

When I was 19 I attended summer school in Cambridge, and right in Harvard Square there was a window on the top of a building painted “Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe”. Fans will recognize this as the name of their fictional lawyers in the credits. I tailgated someone leaving, took the elevator up and knocked on the door.

A middle-aged woman answered, and I gee-golly’ly asked if this was Car Talk. She—Louie “Cronan the Barbarian”—said “Yes!” and invited me in.

She generously showed me around, apologizing that Tom and Ray weren’t in at the moment—my guess was Ray was at the garage, and Tom was exploring the cafe standards of the greater Boston area. She smiled.

On my way out she asked if I liked ice cream and pointed to a Ben and Jerry’s branded freezer right at the entrance. “They just come by and refill this for free, if you ever want some, you’re always welcome to come by, say hi and grab yourself a pint.”

I went back three times that summer. Never did meet Tom (RIP) or Ray, but sure got some good ice cream, and some welcome comfort as an awkward kid in a big new city for the first time.

I still look forward to their twice/weekly reruns.
Macs aren't for everyone.

I had a Macbook Air back in the days where they still came with spinning drives, and after dealing with random freezes for months, I finally discovered that the drive was failing despite there not being any warnings displayed. It was only when trying to upgrade to the next version of the OS that it told me it couldn't install on a failing drive... But it would have happily let me keep using the system without letting me know about it!

Don't get me started on the people at the Apple service center not understanding SMART status....
Firefox sending traffic to Google in exchange for funding doesn’t benefit Google?
The shop was called "Hacker's Haven": https://web.archive.org/web/20141206061027/http://www.goodne...