skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve done it a handful of times.

1. Lost interest in working and wanted some time to myself — ended up (by choice) being nearly 3 years lol

2. Found something better

3. Was ready to be done with it, just didn’t see any good opportunities coming
For comparison, we have chemicals like mercury (and much worse) that stay dangerous forever, and we mostly handle them just fine.

There's only a tiny amount of high level nuclear waste.
I want to carry a large illuminated weight on a fishing pole that I can hang at windscreen height in front of me, so I can claim the space I have the right of way to, without risking my body
Ah this is why CarPlay isn’t worth adding, right?
Similarly happened to me in Rome, Italy, and a caravan full of stuff for a 4 weeks vacation, 2 bikes, money, IDs with address and keys for the flat. On the last day, in the last 2h - I wanted to have a last pizza hahahaha
How does one actually go about doing this? It's not like you can just guess private keys. You'd have to somehow know that the keypair was generated in a faulty manner. And then second, check bitcoins that were not moved since 2012-2015 or so. just more evidence that even if crypto is mathematically secure, the implementation is the hard part.
And you need to verify the vehicle is not in motion.
Rooftop installation is also where the majority of accidents associated with solar power happen.
Show HN: janus - blog served entirely over WebRTC
Reminds me of carcinisation; lots of things turn into crabs.
Not entirely true. There's all sorts of mechanical storage systems, the most common being artificial hydroelectric and flywheels - spin something really fast and than extract energy from its rotational velocity later.

But a practical issue here is that there hasn't really been much motivation to develop this industry, because there's been relatively little critical necessity for high capacity at-scale energy storage.
The 100 year plan from wordpress is $38,000 for 100 years of domain rego, hosting and support.
This article was absolutely incredible, and I expect it to land on The Hacker News Community with a dull thud. But huge thanks to bdr for highlighting it.
I'm on team Generation 4 Nuclear. I think the distinction is important.

Eg: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-advanced-reactor-system...
OT but may be of interested to folks that find this kind of numerology fun.

Your 10_000 th day passes when you're 27.x years old (IIRC). I had a celebration with friends as it seemed more significant than any of the other milestones that are usually celebrated because you won't reach 100_000 and don't remember 1_000. Can recommend!
I think this has as much to do with abstract vs. concrete words as common vs. uncommon. If you had to pick a word corresponding to “chat” it’s quite clearly “cat”, despite a few different expressions. But it’s rather difficult to translate “justement” to English, or “random” to French, without further context.
Shouldn't make such a bold IIRC statement correcting someone without first doing a quick Google to verify.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43488135/gm-apple-carplay...

Specifically it's for the new Ultium EVs. Bolts, Lyriqs, Hummers will still have it.
I mean, look at SVB, only as the most recent example. They went from an extremely valuable company to being worth zero over a weekend, despite having billions of dollars in assets (even minus liabilities). Their shareholders also went to zero with them.

You can argue that SVB is weird because they're a bank and their assets had to be liquidated to service banking customers; but that's basically how all companies work. Assets get liquidated to service debtors, generally at a significant discount on the value they reported the asset to be worth to the government. Usually; "believe has evaporated" happens to companies that, right before the belief evaporated, had to take on significant debt to survive another quarter, so that liabilities number is high. Lawyers and gutters get paid. Maybe insiders get priority liquidation.

You can reasonably philosophically view corporate shares are partial ownership in the assets of a company. Realistically; if there's been one instance in history of a share converting into liquid capital after a "belief has evaporated" event, that resulted in more than, like, I can buy a coffee with this money, I'd love to hear about it.
Sounds a lot like DTrace user defined probe tracing.
The GDPR in Europe doesn’t allow you to use publicly available information without explicit user consent, especially if involves personal data.
Even doing some Google Analytics can in theory result in large fines.
Since Samsung gave up highend Exynos for a few years, Pixel is the only highend Android phone with non-Qualcomm Tensor chip (aka Exynos with Google). Huawei phones aren't Android.
Or just give some other country money to do it for you?

Finland might do it? (They are also sophisticated and stable enough, that you don't need to worry about the fuel being mishandled. At least not any more than for the US.)
In iOS 16, SwiftUI introduces a new adaptive layout container called ViewThatFits. As the name suggests, its purpose is to find the most appropriate view among a given set of views and use it. For most people, this is a simple and easy-to-use container. However, this article intends to thoroughly analyze it, including rule details, the meaning of ideal size, usage examples, and more. Lastly, we will create a replica version of ViewThatFits to deepen our understanding of it.
The amount of crap kids are exposed to is insane.

I doubt this bill will fix it, and will probably make things worse.

But serious thought and political will needs to be given to how to protect kids.

The best way to do that is empower, parents, not government. But nobody really wants to do that. Look at how crappy parental controls are.

I’ve personally battled with my kids over online content. It’s absolutely nuts how difficult moderating your child’s content is.

It’s like we are stuck in the 80s where parents are expected to just “watch tv with their kids and talk about it.”

Tech could solve this problem, but there simply isn’t money in it. Politically, there’s no will to help parents either.

So when you’re writing your Senators about this bill, make it clear they should be deferring to parents on this matter.
This. My friend automated his whole job in Excel.

He supposedly can do a days work in fifteen minutes and then just hang out. Their computers are super locked down, can’t install anything, can’t go to any non-whitelisted sites, but they have Excel.
Our economies have become so hyper efficient that we've lost our ecological sustainability.

It's like the universe said wait a minute, slow down. I'll tell you when that container ship can move.
PWR is a "Pressurized Water Reactor" using (light) water under pressure as the primary coolant. The Chernobyl block #4 RBMK-1000 was certainly a PWR.

While the precise mechanism by which the #4 reactor in Chernobyl was destroyed in 1986 was rooted in the flawed design combined with unsafe operation, this does not mean that other reactor designs cannot fail catastrophically with loss of containment and release of radioactive material. Particularly when operated outside of their specification through operator error, accidents or a combination thereof.
Mildly interesting: If lifetimes were exponentially distributed (they're not, of course), they'd have a well defined mean, but your future life expectancy would never change. If the mean were 90 years old, and you were 102, you could still expect another 90 years. I bring this up because it's sort of the extreme spherical cow version of what you're saying.
Stack buffer overflow attack: 211BSD on the PDP-11
So the commenter is driving through intersections without blinkers and supposed to do that? I'm not sure if this is a joke or not.

I need to teach my grandma how to hard reboot a car without crashing?
Though couldn't you get under 'less radioactive than the ore from which it was mined' by just mixing your waste with a big enough quantity of eg ocean water?
Has there ever been a case of anyone actually being fined for using encryption?

It seems this antiquated law is enforced only by chilling effect.

Maybe this issue just needs some good old civil disobedience, like back when crypto export regulations were skirted by printing PGP code in a book.

Also sending of physical mail with privacy has established case law for 4th amendment protections. Somehow this does not apply when the message does not touch paper?

Given the rule seems rarely, if ever, enforced, and similar laws from the same historical justification are already repealed, I say just collectively ignore it.

Use encryption openly over radio (otherwise following all rules, have callsigns in the clear, etc), and let the FCC decide try to justify fining people for exercising their right to private corporate-free distance communications to the press.
It isn't about whether it is open source or not. It's about what will be their stance on GUIs in a year or two and whether the projects of today are abandonded or not. Windows Forms, Silverlight, WPF, UWP, WinUI, Blazor, and then Xamarin Forms and MAUI, and then the third party ones like Avalonia and Uno Platform.

It's insane because actually all anyone wants is Windows Forms and WPF. If Microsoft made a cross-platform version of Windows Forms and WPF, they would be the cross-platform frameworks, at least for desktop.
What kind of people still use phone numbers to send messages to people? This is exclusively an American phenomenon; the rest of the world moved away from SMS ages ago. I don't think any of my iPhone-using friends or acquaintances even know what iMessage is.
> Remember when Yeltsin tried to join NATO after the end of the cold war, or how even Putin tried to integrate into NATO and the Western system?

I don't, because that never happened. It is a baseless myth manufactured to fool western audiences into seeing Russia as a victim and blaming themselves for Russia's actions and not responding adequately. You will not find a single adopted foreign policy doctrine document, law or other official step towards NATO membership, unlike in countries that have joined or are in the process of joining.
How Wall Street Makes Millions Selling Car Loans Customers Can't Repay
https://archive.ph/uCsl8
Well, but the power plant you need to unlock that energy is pretty big.
Amazon Prime video is the worst at this; Netflix also does this when I play on my old BluRay player, but not in the browser.
Can you call os level functions from an excel macro?

Can you access raw memory from it?

If the answer to either of those is no, then that’s a big difference.
I played along the example of the chancellor question.

If you deviate a little from the examples in the article GPT-4 gets it all wrong:

Who is the eighth Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? - Olaf Scholz (wrong, Angela Merkel)

https://chat.openai.com/share/937795ea-bd91-43ee-bd76-1a125f...

Who was the eighth Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? - Helmut Kohl (wrong, Angela Merkel)

https://chat.openai.com/share/937795ea-bd91-43ee-bd76-1a125f...

Interestingly whether you put is or was into the question does make a difference.

Even when allowed to surf the web, ChatGPT gets it wrong:

Who was the eighth Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? - Gerhard Schröder (wrong, Angela Merkel)

https://chat.openai.com/share/867cb3bc-f642-4d2a-b80d-fe8dc0...

Though it's referring to the right Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chancellors_of_Germa...
I loved seeing his technique. This is a 2 min video of him cutting up a raw chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfDsNRXPKE8. He's going slow because he's explaining, but it's so smooth he's still fast.
Like a lot of stuff like this, it’s not that simple one way or the other.

Eggs are the usual example. US regulations require eggs to washed, removing a protective coating, which is why Americans refrigerate eggs. Many other developed nations forbid washing eggs with solutions that would remove the same protective coating, so eggs are frequently not refrigerated there because they don’t really need to be. The motivation in the US was avoiding salmonella, but other places have avoided that by improving cleanliness practices of the farms rather than washing their eggs.

Kind of different, but recent requirements to label foods containing sesame as an allergen led to more foods having sesame intentionally added, since it’s cheaper to add it intentionally and then label it than to prove the production facility and ingredients are 100% sesame free. It’s not removing some natural defense from a food, but that’s a regulation intended to help people with allergens stay safer which inadvertently decreased their options (and maybe made it more likely they’d buy something containing sesame by mistake if it was a product they’d been safe with before but had recently added sesame).

So I very much agree with you that the food regulations of the FDA and similar institutions in other countries are largely a blessing and huge boon to human welfare. It’s great to be confident my bread isn’t 50% sawdust and there probably isn’t melamine in my milk and stuff. But like any big regulatory environment mistakes have been made, and also sometimes regulations that made sense at one time outlive their usefulness.
Yeah, that is the best way to describe it. It also avoids the topic that pulled everyone in in the first place to just talk about....things.
password-store does have some strong merits stemming from its Bash implementation, but from having followed its newsletter for a few years (and made a few changes in a fork) it also brought its fair share of bugs and weirdness.
I wouldn’t call Zig widely used just yet. It is definitely not in the same camp as hobby languages, but it is still incredibly small.

Nonetheless, it is a very welcome addition to the low-level landscape with some cool ideas.
It may be related to the famous 301 view count where YouTube would stop updating the total pending further verification that the views are legitimate. See: https://youtu.be/oIkhgagvrjI This behavior was later removed in 2015, but I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar is happening here.
Is the title grammatically correct ? A verb is missing, don't you think... My mother tongue is french, thus I may be missing some pun.
I'm confused by

SomeProcess {}.some_message # This is fine
SomeProcess {}.some_message # This is a compile-time error

Aren't those the same call? Or is it calling it twice that's the error? or did you mean the 2nd to call some_helper_method instead?
> Why are we flabbergasted that GPT can still infer that info with mild obfuscation?

May be this was "obvious," but like a lot of research there's a bit of hindsight bias in that sentiment. The issue now is that while you can easily do this yourself in terms of inference, the problem is GPT4 allows this inference to be automated.
Chronos 4K12 Intro and Teardown – Tesla500 YouTube [video]
You can get a mirrorless camera and set it to webcam mode (1) or get an HDMI (2) or SDI (3)capture card that will show up a USB webcam interface on your computer and use a camera with the appropriate output format.

(1)
https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/download/

(2)
https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/cam-link-4k

(3)
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicwebprese...
Data broker segments target judges, elected officials, military decision makers
When I first saw Interstellar I thought it was unrealistic that people could be brainwashed to forget about space flight. When I watched it again last year it seemed entirely plausible.
> I think that, in general, most programmers struggle to accept that correctness can sometimes be traded-off—personally, it offends a deep internal conviction of mine that programs should be correct. [...] possible incorrectness more often causes problems. I might be happy trading off a bit of image-quality for better compression, but if an ML system rewrites my code and leaves off a "not" I'm unhappy.

I'm torn on this point. On the one hand, I'm as fallible as any human, and reading this has made me aware of a bias I've always had but never realised was there.
But on the other hand, our field is young, and there are surely better, correct solutions to be found for things like compression and sorting. So with that assumption, I find it tempting to label programmers who trade correctness for speed or size (e.g. using JPEG when QOI and WebP exist) as 'lazy', since "they haven't exhausted all other options". Obviously that's not fair—it ignores practicality and trivialises the discovery of novel algorithms—but I feel there's still some truth in it.
Beyond Baudrillard's Simulacral Postmodern World: White Noise
Why not? Python requires me to summon it by name. My computer demands physical touch before it will obey me. Even the common website requires a three part parlay before it will listen to my request.

This is just satisfying unfamiliar input parameters.
That was pretty much my first job, I strongly believe this still happens every day around the planet :)
I wouldn't want to go back to that 30kloc of VBA though!
This sounds like a very specific, personalized version of hell
Google DeepMind's AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard, says paper authored by Google researchers[1].

1. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi2336
Do you want to use ChatGPT to generate SQL
I'm a CEO, a former developer, and I think need it.

But don't know your idea.
But obviously that implies that you are a chicken dinner.

At least according to some people's expectations, presumably.
Add to America Europe and Australia, the two places i know of
Is that secure though?
It is because testing plays a bigger part today than back then. The complexity has also increased (people do not design at transistor level anymore).
I'm not in the market but I would laugh all the way to the door if that happened.
Unlike some other optimizations, the effects of locality optimization are usually not local. The reduction in cache and bandwidth pressure makes everything run better. These are common optimizations in e.g. databases, even shaving a few bytes off of key data structures can result in system-wide gains of 5-10% performance just from the cache pressure reduction resulting from a seemingly innocuous reduction in data size. You don’t need to measure it to know it will have impact, the relationship between reducing cache pressure and performance is pretty direct and repeatable. Spatial locality is straightforward, temporal locality is a bigger engineering commitment.

A canonical example of locality optimization is thread-per-core architectures versus classic multi-threading architectures. By random luck, I was around when thread-per-core architectures were first developed to improve efficiency on many-core processors (on supercomputers). Instant 10x performance improvement on the same hardware. By comparison, aggressive vectorization with AVX-512 might buy you 3x improvement. Locality optimizations are the highest leverage optimization we can do today. It does require disciplined software architecture.

There are limits to locality optimization in real systems. If you are doing a good job of it, you frequently run out of memory bandwidth at some point. That’s a pretty good outcome.
Ooh that's actually really interesting. I've always been a bit into lisp... even did a bit of amatuer CL back in the day..but always thought the distribution model of basically a memory dump was just the worst of all possible worlds.
Identify and optimize public IPv4 address usage on AWS
You can call any native or COM function from VBA, the only real limitation is that it's strictly single-threaded(-ish).
This sounds like very useful protection to me: yes, you can have crashes in prod, but those are unexploitable at least. That's a very big deal in some systems.
How the Pi-Searcher Works
Sounds a bit like the premise for the Asimov series, "The Foundation"
Related (but not identical), Facebook research just released an open source pdf -> markdown reader (that does a good job w/ equations in latex).

https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/
“I’m going to define generalization such that my thesis that GPT-4 can generalize reversals is true—and lo, my thesis is true!”
It is like a joke. I am not a native englisher too.
Future civilizations will marvel at the intricate grandeur of our Excel spreadsheets
I've used it to convert 40 page pdfs into text, and it did an impressive job.
It's funny you'd assume they haven't done simple math of where to get the fuel for billion dollar investments.
dnSpy was the best
This looks really cool. Like all eBPF though, what sort of eBPF verification is it doing and is it possible to do the verification in CI?

With eBPF the common gotcha is you can compile totally invalid eBPF code, with no compile errors, only to find out at go time (and only to be able to find out at go time).
Isn’t that what physicists thought about the Chernobyl reactor ? Then it exploded ?
In order to make money at sports you have to entertain others, i.e. produce entertainment for lots of people. Theoretically, you could win at poker without producing anything, but practically, the most profitable players will be the ones who at least produce entertainment for the people they play with...
We started getting Chinese cars on our market and to be honest the new Cherry Tiggo Pro and Haval H6 looks pretty good i.r.o fit and finish.

But their drivetrain is a generation behind and underpowered (1.5L) and usually either a licensed copy of an older Japanese one or developed by an Italian/German engineering consultancy.

Nothing wrong with that approach as the Koreans did the same by licensing and later developing their own.
I was just thinking of doing this myself. I'm hoping Apple doesn't shut it down. I recently switched to an iPhone because all of my friends use iMessage (I'm in the US). I'm not happy about having to switch, but it's how they choose to communicate and it's a heck of a lot better than SMS/MMS. I'm planning to buy a used Mac Mini and connect it to some messaging gateway or build my own. Then I can use whatever phone I want (used to be a pinephone user).
> Solar inverters can produce/absorb reactive power easily

> Solar and wind systems today typically do not have a voltage setpoint or control loop. That's because there is no big gas/steam valve to adjust the amount of power generated. The operator wants to inject all the power from the sun/wind into the grid, whatever the voltage.

reactive power being easily controlled is the same as a voltage control loop with droop when connected to a larger system.

Control of the traditional prime mover by way of devices like steam throttle valve controls real power (MW) and not voltage or reactive power (MVAR).

I am curious how an inverter operating away from unity power factor fails to deliver roughly the identical amount of energy as at unity. Can you provide a link that explains it? Traditional generators pump out the same MW barring losses due to increased current no matter the power factor. MW in mechanical * efficiency = MW out electrical. And of course there is a limit to how out of phase the voltage and current waveforms can be, usually +/- 0.9 pf.

A 60Hz cycle is 16.7 ms, A 13 kV breaker takes 80ms to open, to detect a fault (except for differential element) let alone clear it takes a lot longer than 20ms.
You may not have a say in the matter. Most cars are on some kind of IoT private network with their own cell modems and if the manufacturer decides to push an update there isn't much you can do about it short of ripping out the cell modem. Which may well have unpredictable consequences.
> It is super radioactive for centuries though.

It doesn't have to be that way. With nuclear fuel reprocessing you can burn all the highly radioactive stuff completely, and what's left either decays quickly or isn't very radioactive.
You can call Windows API functions from VBA.