skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you would like to bet [1] $10k to a charity of the winner's choice that mass transit and urban planning is more successful by somewhere between 2030-2035 vs rapidly scaling up EV production, I'll take the EV side of the bet. Let me know. A "gentleman's bet" is fine as well if you'd prefer; I'm signaling accountability with regards to my position with my offer. I am highly confident that EV deployment will be more successful than public policy around urban planning and mass transit over the next decade.

China has an enormous amount of state controlled deployment of mass transit [2] and urban planning [3], and it is still one of the world's largest markets for light auto units [4]. For sure, people will continue to urbanize, but they will also buy cars. Sell into reality, not what you wish reality was.

[1] https://longbets.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_rail_transit_in_China

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_China#Modern...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308077 ("The Chinese car market is about 23 million a year. The United States is about 13 million. China will be soon be shipping more EVs than the US ships cars. That should be enough to get the EV market to a tipping point.")
The assumption appears to be "one" Mars habitat, with a lot of engineered systems to support human (and other) life.

Three would be better, and each should be capable of supporting the population of one of the others (that is, meaningfully under-utilized.)

When, not if, a biosphere breaks down the inhabitants will have a safe refuge.

Meanwhile the under-utilized biosphere can hoard, ummm, accumulate, spare food and water for use in lesser emergencies.
Password managers help a lot. Site asks for a birthdate? Whatever I choose to enter goes in the password manager. My mother's maiden name? I guess I can reveal publicly: it's fgjlh%ngf9, so into the password manager it goes.

My password manager offers to generate a password for me; I wish it would offer to generate those other fields as well.

Turns out you can fuzz your address too when validating a credit card. Autofill should handle that.
No I’m not saying it isn’t worth saving at all. Maybe it was nicer when it had more water flowing into it? Can anyone that visited it decades ago chime in?

I’d even say save it if it was always disgusting. It’s certainly unique.
Softbank still controls what, 90% of the stock? It would seem mathematically impossible for anyone to execute a hostile takeover.
https://archive.is/vpOH5
You're not wrong and I assume it will become even more powerful--but it's almost certainly way more effective if you have reason to believe that throwawayxyz is so and so IRL.
The article is roughly 1,500 words.. If that is a lot to you, I guess it just means you probably like twitter these days!
best blog about working in Antarctica, with fabulous photography by Mike Krzysztofowicz: https://antarcti.co
Firefox Relay offers "randomized" phone numbers along with its emails: https://relay.firefox.com
I want to understand this better.

Are you saying that flooding a field loses the same amount of water to evaporation as other, more targeted, means of irrigation? Or are you saying "alfalfa itself uses the same amount of water regardless of irrigation methood."

If it's the latter, that makes sense. A plant can only use so much, and that rate of use is consistent for a given crop, but that doesn't address the water not used by the alfalfa. Wouldn't flooding lose more water to evaporation than other irrigation methods?
I grok and understand your concern. I am not being defensive; I am just trying to provide an explanation. I really enjoy having conversations like this with developers as honestly and empathetically possible.

I apologize if I was rude in any way by saying the word "meme". I saw a sister comment and thought you were being sarcastic. There is a popular meme about "I have your IP address", so I thought you were referencing that. I have had conversations with many young people who were concerned about their IP address being leaked through a game server. Therefore, I try to use humor to alleviate their stress. However, I now realize that this situation was different, and I am sorry for not understanding that.

We provide a service that helps users keep their internet-connected services secure by providing IP metadata information. Are you being attacked by malicious actors? Use our free IP database to identify the location and ASN to block them. Do you want to restrict access to your service to certain regions? Do that for free with our services.

We have the most accurate data available, and yet we offer the most generous free tier. We provide a full accuracy IP database for free, without any range aggregation, and with daily updates and a commercially permissible license. We have built a community forum solely dedicated to answering users' questions. We invest in website tools and open-source tools, all with the goal of helping users maintain the security and functionality of their services.

We do have premium tier services, but if you use our free data as a foundation, you can always replicate those premium features to a reliable degree.

Our IP metadata information is being used in marketing and sales intelligence. It is the same data that you use to protect your internet connected devices, used by our customers to sell you something.

IP metadata information that we provide is a cornerstone of keeping the internet safe and accessible for everyone. That is how things just are. The deepweb is immune to IP meta data information, and that is why it is such a messy and chaotic place.

That is just truth of the internet. We are essential and we prefer to be open about our process and listen to our stakeholders (users + customers + non-users).
In the US trains/bikes are a multi-hundred-trillion dollar solution. The issue is infrastructure is built for cars. Saying "use bikes" is saying "Get rid of the millions of single family houses that already exist and build multifamily houses with commercial integrated".

Yea, we can start that, but that is also a multi-decade process whereas an electric car can be bought tomorrow.
The lawsuit is linked in a press release from one of the firms pursuing it [0]. The legal argument is summarized in paragraph 8 in the Introduction:

> The public trust doctrine is well-established in Utah law, confirmed by statutes, Supreme Court decisions, and the Utah constitution. Under this doctrine, the public owns many natural resources, and the State holds and manages them in trust for the public, which is the beneficiary of the trust. Such resources include the Great Salt Lake—a historically navigable waterway—and the sovereign lands underlying the Lake. As trustee, the State of Utah has an ongoing obligation to protect the Great Salt Lake’s waters and underlying lands, so that Utahns can continue to use them for navigation, commerce, brine shrimp fishing, recreation, and other uses recognized under the public trust doctrine.

That is, they're arguing that the state government has a duty to protect the public waterways, alongside its powers to manage them. They elaborate on their interpretation of the public trust doctrine in the Legal Background section; the precedents they cite don't look like obvious bunk to me, but I'm no lawyer, much less an expert in Utah law.

[0] https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/lawsuit-targets-state-of...
It does when that involvement means they're one of the few architecture licensees. Allegedly.
As an end user with unlabeled cables, chargers and devices, that encoding may as well not exist.

I have 10 chargers, 10 cables and 10 devices. It could be that only one charger and one cable provides the highest level, so now I have to try 100 permutations to charge something.

Also, many cables get flaky after a month or so, so I might have to try the winning combination multiple times.

Finally, having the cables form a compatibility hierarchy is some strange theoretical property. We could have every device come with a cable that is mutually incompatible, but have one special cable that works with all devices in a vault at nist next to the standard kilogram, and then we would have a pyramid of compatibility.

For instance, I’ve encountered situations where I need two different USB-C cables if I want video out to HDMI to work on two different laptops.
A password manger helps with keeping up with which fake names/DOBs you used if you need to reset the password/recover the account or whatnot.
>I think we're all intelligent enough to recognize that she's obviously talking from her experience.

She is talking from her experience, sure, but she's certainly going well beyond that!

>There’s a phrase I heard tossed around that I think is pretty accurate: Antarctica: Full of badass women and mediocre men.

But even more than epistemology, this is uncivil. Polite society is made up of small restraints for the sake of others. This represents one more crack in that.
https://archive.is/JNqh9
I Became an $800K Meta Staff Engineer
That's understandable, and so perhaps that we need to re-think our computing model to replace yes/no popups with something a bit more involving.

By "involving" I do not necessarily mean harder, the goal isn't to make computers less accessible, but if we give users the ability to control whatever go in and out their devices maybe that making them a bit more interactive so instead of clicking "yes" to allow keyboard access you could drag a keyboard icon to the app or any other device you want to use as input instead.

Consent doesn't need to be presented as yes/no, there are multiple ways to make users understand what is being accessed.
Thanks Alex! Appreciate it. I am usually a big critique of AI as a buzzword trend as well but I really think this is a fitting use case for it.
I need that CONTENT! :<
> follow small tutorials, build an intuition, and only consult docs when I need some specifics

While I basically tend to learn like this - (solve my current problem and move on, since I have limited time to spend on things) - I find that this type of learning can miss some things. Like when the documentation says this is important etc and you never know about it/find out about it the hard way when your stuff doesn't work properly.
That was a pleasant read. I love the writing style amd the type of humour.
And not a single person there had any desire for a newer phone?
> And there's a simple solution: eliminate water usage rights and charge everyone for water usage, based on the amount of water used.

If your great, great grandfather was a pioneer and moved into the SLC valley 150 years ago- a particularly harsh and rugged place, and then started a small farm that was perfectly sustainable, but then millions of transplants moved in, what exactly makes them so entitled to the water under your property? Sounds like theft to me.
I think the rationale behind this statement is that it doesn't apply to small specialty manufacturers. e.g., small manufacturers that sell direct to their customer are exempt.

I build custom electronics (not consumer items), mostly with very small unit volumes. e.g., I just shipped 10 units of a device that monitors a controller and sends a message to an Android app when it turns on or off. The entire lifespan of this product will probably be under 100 units. Making someone like me have to comply with laws like this would probably be enough to rethink the whole thing.
Do the perpetrators of this cheap think this through?
I don’t understand. How do you convert hot water to electricity in the evening?
It's a bit more secure if you use a proper write once DVD as well to read the live cd. It's a bit slower to boot but the best way to prevent persistence is always to make it virtually physically impossible by not having any physical storage mediums connected
Absolutely rekt, haha! I don't know at all what you are talking about.
It is not great, but it is better (if you wish to not be identified) to keep it in fewer perhaps non-public or poorly indexed archives. The internet does forget, sometimes.
and MATLAB was entirely influenced by Fortran's array-based syntax.
In NixOs it's called Impermanence:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Impermanence

Also NixOs has absurd levels of control for upgrades, rollbacks, and control over the build and resulting files.
You have to wonder what comes next.

The act of killing virality for long form content leads to a reduction in its production.

Then what? Do the deep and important, but not world shattering, stories stop being told?
Insane that they have the power to foreclose on a primary residence. Wouldn't a lien on the house suffice?
Relevant (the site has since been deleted)

Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 (676 points by costco 9 months ago | 519 comments)
Looks interesting, are everyone's generations made public though? A private option would be nice.
5% after your first million in game sales and only in quarters when you sell at least $50k of product?
You can just grab the repo off of github to use it without the epic launcher but you do at the minimum need an epic account to get access. I'm not sure why you would want it to be unofficial or be so stubborn against making an account of any sort.
For those interested, Facebook's Demucs page (https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs) gives performance comparison for several models including open-unmix.

See also: https://www.stemroller.com This runs as a local app on Windows and Mac.
There's def. some truth to this. Wonder when that trend will be over.
One of the founders here - happy to answer any questions!

Previous discussions on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781
You don't need to lock down a console and prevent "unauthorized software installs" to prevent cheating. You do what game developers have been doing on PCs for years: validate all of the player's actions on the server, look for players with suspicious patterns of activity then ban them.
>Turns out you can fuzz your address too when validating a credit card.

My experience is that only your ZIP code is used, not your street address or city.
https://archive.is/gk6Cn
People are interested because of the possibility of an architecture for AGI. A system capable of generalizing to all types of problems and also being able to leverage everything you said as a tool (or even build the tool) is extremely valuable.

We're not even close to this result yet but LLMs seem the closest.
It used to be that the selling prop for a lot of sites was "we'll send you away, but you'll come back every day because we always have a variety of interesting places to send you." In the early days of blogs, The Atlantic would link to other sites, for example, and the Verge is doing it now with their new HP. As social media took over, homepages died, so it didn't make sense to link to a post at blog B from your blog A because no one reads your blog A anymore, they just see some of your Tweets. At this point, the social media giants have changed their algorithms to try to retain more engagement and compete with Tik Tok (which never sends users off platform), but I think in the long run they will fail because there will always be more interesting stuff somewhere else than on your site.
I think the lesson is, avoid rewrites and don’t break apart your monorepo; have teams improve the platform while your product engineers go full-steam ahead. Compare with Twitter which spent 2 years in the woods rewriting to Java while FB kept growing, giant ball of PHP and all.
I thought you might be exaggerating a little bit, but... oh my, this website is quite terrible.
Getting people to play the platforms game is why they end up paying content creators. Twitter recently started paying people per message specifically because they don’t want all monetization to happen off platform.
Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes
The game is anthropomorphic, quite irreverant and sarcastic. I don't see anything NSFW unless you mean hand holding.

The feed's style fits the devs pretty well. I don't see anything off putting in that kind of way...
I'm wary about even Googling it because I swear I heard you are tracked in the US for even Googling it, or downloading it, or even reading on Wikipedia. It sounds laughable when I type it to be honest, but hey. I feel I have better hills to die on.
This is that. Tree Sitter has become one of the foundational advances that is allowing us to make progress on solving that problem.
Time to start laundering all of our online posts through GPT I guess.
Absurd bureaucracy, and what are you gonna do when it ceases to exist after the paperwork is filed and hte aprts are just funneled back into manufacturing? Making manufacturers bank the schematics and auto-releasing them after manufacture ends is less work for the manufacturer and easier for the market.
Biggest barrier IMO is getting used to how the Controls are supposed to work (HBoxContainer/VBoxContainer/MarginContainer/...) and how the system encourages deep nesting, which you have to handle up front if you don't want any attached scripts to be full of long relative node paths. Once you have that down, and the flex-fill options, it's nice! Really!
I mean, the image literally shows two cartoon characters making out with saliva everywhere. How is that SFW?
I think the main concern of most tor-users is that their real IP address (and hence location) is leaked.

For that, just a run-of-the-mill firefox exploit is all that is needed, and suddenly exploit code can do a wifi scan and get a very precise location.
I dunno, I also found it sort of rambling and not getting to the point of its thesis.
what crazy things are going on in Linux?
Yeah, anyone who hasn’t had to rewrite and/or port will think it’s easy. Not knowing Unity has its own lifecycle for scripts and has its own APIs for doing things the “Unity” way. Want to create an instance of something? No, it’s not just new Thing()…
The revolution starts at home. Just make sure it doesn't end there, too. Vote for politicians who are willing to do something about it. Call your current ones and tell them you're pissed and why.
Yes! This is something we'll be adding soon!
Each of those absolutely do have them. Here is a list for just Golang: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#web-frameworks
This may well be marketing, but it's good marketing. It leads with being open and honest that not everything is great with Unreal or Epic either. That's much more convincing than something which claims to be sunshine and rainbows.
Yes, but Unity targeted the Indie market with "free for small unsuccessful projects and we take a small cut of sales if it takes off" first and then Unreal jumped into that market.

While Unreal entered that market from the opposite direction (offering a proper, supported high-end gaming engine to replace in-house engines of AAA gaming companies) they both converged into the same market when it came to selling to small players.
And what about the Native Americans that lived there before that? etc.
Worked with selling games on steam. Op’s scenario would happen in the current model.
I wonder what extensions you tried to port or the ones you can't live without. I want to try to port it
The HOA sold a home worth over $500k (almost paid off) for $85k at auction, to recover $6k of fines. Their response is that their "foreclosure rate represents less than 1% of their population". Too bad for those people. Unbelievable.
I’ve never heard of these rumors till I saw this article.

It’s a slow news day, I guess?
Bought some earlier and it's already up 20% today.
>Sacrificial parts that are designed to fail in order to mitigate a more serious failure do not count for the purposes of this request -- that's just Good Engineering Practice.

Except when that part breaks and the company does not make replacements available and the product was not meant to be taken apart to replace it. Mechanical fuses only work when you can easily buy and replace the mechanical fuse and ALSO fix whatever caused the failure in the first place. Otherwise it's just a weak link.
Your use-case sounds like you could be using any other live distribution. Why did you choose Tails over Knoppix, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, ... ?
HOAs should be illegal. :)
> I assume this is a joke?

There's no need to be condescending.
Fair warning: there is an registration wall in front of the service.
Sure, but.. wrong thread? I thought you and the parent were saying this isn't proper sailing, how dare he use the same name for it as my hobby sort of thing?
Yeah but then they could keep living there with that godawful color for the garage door, and the oil stain on the driveway.
Pricing stocks today at what a company might be worth in 10 years is pretty much fairies and unicorns.

Other sectors do not price in the way tech does.
This is an often used argument by PMs, definitely. Kind of a headshot on anything sophisticated

The fact that it also kills known useful things like VS, Photoshop isn't recognized and we continue to allow this invalid argument
> My "randomized emails" all use my personal domain, so it's trivial for people who have access to the email to know it's me, but probably not trivial for dumb ad networks to link my accounts back to me.

This bothered me as well, so I bought a completely unrelated domain to create a new trust ring. I'm sure you could link that domain back to me if you are buying information from a data aggregator, but at least that way I have the satisfaction of knowing people had to pay for the privilege ;)

> The one bit of leaked identity that really bugs me is my phone number. So many services require a phone number for text notifications and 2-factor auth and there's not good way (that I know of) to generate a random phone number that still works.

Ugh, yes. I had an old phone number that I moved to Twilio & set up SMS forwarding that used to work, but everyone seems to use phone verification APIs to block VOIP numbers.
Thank you for sharing!

Exactly what I needed for my own note storing system where I can tag and describe various pdf's like books, lecture notes, and papers with tags, then use `rga` for searching inside of the pdf's for content!
In my experience the Chat version of Llama 2 is significantly worse than the GPTs, on the "I'm afraid I can't do that" front. It doesn't lecture you as much, but suggests "how about we do [something unrelated and useless] instead?"

As for the plain text prediction version (which is the only uncensored one?), I haven't been able to get it to do anything useful, even when I provide examples (seems dumber than even ancient GPT-3?).

Also, I got some bizarre and disturbing outputs from the uncensored version, like it was trained on some very nasty inputs! I assume that's why they went so hard on the safety phase to compensate...
Does the plastic gear break if you attempt to recreate "will it blend" videos at home? They probably try to sell this as a safety feature.
Yes, that's exactly how I treat them.
> No way are they going to negotiate to raise prices in a meaningful way against their largest client.

Why not? It's not like Apple will have anywhere else to go for the next 8 years. x86 cores are too slow and power-hungry for the foreseeable future, and building their own risc-V core will take... at least 8 years.
There are not nearly enough white, black, East Asian, Latin, or Native American scientists and STEM graduates.
Comparing Different Embeddings Models
I enjoyed that video. I recommend watching that video, albeit at 2x speed because his delivery is so slow, but great content.
This always comes up when I mention privacy.com. It's always a theoretical possibility. No one's ever shown a case where that actually happened (and it's never happened to me). People also say, "oh, but they'll ruin your credit rating."

You couple the card cancellation with a message to them demanding they cancel your account. Just imagine a credit card collection company agreeing to come after you, when you made a good faith attempt to close the account.