skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how these things work. There are many inventions that, looking back, could've happened centuries earlier purely from a resource/physical constraints point of view (of course, scientific knowledge doesn't work quite that way).

As a film photographer, if I ever find myself in possession of a time machine, the first thing I'll do is go back to ancient Minoa/Rome/Egypt/China/Tikal and show people how to make silver based emulsions to use with pinhole cameras.

In a similar vein, this article "Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?" is a nice read.

https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-...
I just can’t help think how much wider the global support for the west (incl eg ukraine) would be today if Kissinger’s “we can do war crimes and install dictators all we like cause we’re the good guys” doctrine hadn’t made it to the forefront of US policy. Even from a hardcore neorealist perspective, the harm has by now well outlasted the benefit.
I think it's down to the technological challenges that involves and they are just not there yet.
I commented from my experience with ebiten and FFI, and you come claiming it as nonsene because your experience with WASM. Dude, you dont even understand what I brought up then.

FFI .... IS ... SLOW ....
Also the 'continue' statement in most programming languages does the opposite.
What we must not forget is that literature was originally meant to be performed, not read. Live performances have physical and temporal limitations that books and movies don't, and are often divided into acts and scenes in order to overcome these limitations. The stage is rearranged between acts, the performers grab a glass of water, while the audience has time to go pee.

The Homeric epics are divided into 24 "books" each, one for each letter of the Greek alphabet. The size of those books makes them feel very much like the chapters of a modern novel. It is said that the divisions were not made by Homer himself. One could easily imagine his students using some convenient unit to refer to parts of the poem: "Hey, let's perform scroll no. 16 tonight!" "Have you memorized no. 2 yet?"

Some of the more play-like books of the Old Testament, such as Esther, also lend themselves naturally to divisions between scenes. The deliberate context switches leave the audience anxious about what will happen next, just like modern shows often end in a cliffhanger to make the viewer return for another episode. Not surprisingly, medieval priests who assigned chapters to the Bible preserved many of these natural breakpoints.
I’m not going to answer the question as-asked because its core premise is flawed.

Instead of looking to disable 2FA, look to speed-up providing 2FA codes.

Most passwords managers support auto-filling 2FA codes. Yes, some are still super-old school and only support SMS and email. But Safari on macOS (for example) can pre-fill the texted/emailed codes (as long as Mail.app is open, and/or your phone is paired with your computer).

Even better/faster? Passkeys. GitHub supports them, and they’re the fastest (and most secure?) login solution.

There are all sorts of solutions for this problem outside of making security worse.
This is such an instructive story in how social media messes up discourse. Yes, fine-tuned shadow banning of stuff one does not like politically is BS (point taken, Musk). But promoting a bunch of randos with personal endorsement so they run important debates is also a very questionable service to democracy (see https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/10/20/new-elites-twitter-x-most-...). Overreacting to some of the stuff that then floats to the top on the part of advertisers and commentators is again not right, but calling this reaction "blackmail" is probably a little over the top. So what have we learnt? Make time for reading paper books and sniffing the flowers sometimes maybe?
Oh is that simply what he is doing? This seems a charitable read given his confused comment about "blackmail"

He looks, sounds, and acts unwell. But even that doesn't really excuse his behavior, just explains it possibly.
This is the most perplexing comment I've ever read.
"inferior" technology? Let's not make value judgements on this. X-ray and MRI both have significant and different problems of their own that ultrasound doesn't have. Horses for courses.
Which is part of his bigger plan to save freedom of speech. Which is part of his bigger plan to make the human species interplanetary. Makes sense once you think about it.
I think he is also the creator of the “Like” concept. It was introduced in FriendFeed and then Facebook started using it.
Only if you do your repairs at the dealership
Definitely. Unfortunaly, the people who are currently enjoying the benefits of being China's leaders would only lose. So they have decided to take a different path, esp. in the recent years.
I discovered the Adrian's basement channel recently. It's amazing! Been watching repair videos that are over an hour. Somehow he can keep me interested. I like how he explains things and his enthusiasm is very contagious. "It freakin' works!"
I have a reasonably nuanced view on him and admire his ability to cut through bullshit and build, but he needs to stop visiting the website formerly known as Twitter and go back to working on real concrete problems.
Flagged because news headline matches the headline posted which match the statement made?
I do not think it is hard for any of them to get a new job and they would be flooooooded with offers if the opened their linkedin
They might have more money but there's no higher class.
Poor people were never buying new cars anyway.
About to pickup a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV strange they don't make a mention here.
Variable > enum ;)
Not necessarily 'unjustly vilified', but most of Edgar Hoover's biography were done before the extend on soviet spying in the US was declassified. It talked about a very interesting podcast on a previous comment [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257604
The ones from the 90s in good shape are already commanding higher prices after bottoming out like a decade ago. I don’t think the late 90s supra or s2000 ever got truly cheap.
> nan > nan is false, while nan < nan is true.

You learn something new everyday. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Seems like more than just a bug..
Well, chances are if you think you don't, you already do.

There is a reason a big part of numerics (the mathematical disciplíne) is about dealing with it.
It depends on the country. BMW are well known by any mechanic and parts are widely available, OEM and aftermarket. In my experience BMWs are not more expensive to repair than any Toyota or VW, but due to the increased set of features they have a higher failure surface.
Internet was hard limited on getting access in a physical world.

The first tech giving me internet reliable was DSL or 60kbytes/sec.

This tech could only be replaced with replacing or adding cables.

Nvidia is making a ton more petaflops per month than last year and a lot of money and people have moved/shifted in a very short period of time.

Even my company saw the writing and the only/primarily thing we talk about is ml.

I also don't have to wait for services like a bank or anyone else supporting emails or internet services.

We have everything already in place for a much faster speed than at any other tech before.
But if you do maintain them in that certain way, they can be brilliantly reliable. Problem is, many people (especially in America) don't. And getting the proper fluids for them can be a pain in the ass in America, since BMW LL oil is basically impossible to get anywhere except dealerships and specialty websites.

I'm surprised Mercedes is so low in the list. They've traditionally been one of the more reliable German brands, that's why they're used as taxis in many countries.
TBH he's exactly the kind of guy the Old Testament God would like.
In all these discussions pro or contra existence of Free Will I always miss the "Will" part. If we take Sapolski's definition about a neuron being a causeless cause - ok, this would confirm (or deny) the "Free" part, but where does the "Will" part come from? Will assumes that some outcomes are more desirable than others (otherwise it is Brownian movement), but why? And here my thought stops...
Supreme Court conservatives seem likely to axe SEC enforcement powers
I am only aware of 2, the Hyperloop concept and recently Tesla’s NACS. what IP are Musk companies giving away?
I don't care either way about Wayland or Xorg, I just want something that works.

However, I haven't used a screensaver in so long I can't even remember. At least 20 years. I just want the monitor to switch off when it's not in use.

Sorry Jamie, nobody values screen savers anymore.
Bytes #219 – Rome has fallen
I don't know anything about the podcast beyond the name, but I could see a podcast called "Beyond the Bastards" not having a forgone conclusion about their subject, but being more about why someone is believed to be awful and then going "beyond" to see if that were fair. I'm going to give the podcast a chance.
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1223820
The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.
I owned a BMW for 8 years. It cost more to fix it than its original purchase price.

I now own a Honda CR-V. In the last 5 years, not even one time it caused an issue. It is as reliable as cars get.
That's not how Kissinger is pronounced. It's a soft g. Sorry to spoil your joke, but as you say it's reached the end of its natural life anyway.
Yes, Dunning-Kruger indeed. Or have seen any real world use of said catapult?

Engineers come up with all kinds of ideas all the time. Most don't result in more than some PR piece, like the one you quoted above...
There's an odd dig at the FSF in there that I wish had more context. What must have it been like to watch GNU clone unix, having worked on it?
IMO you might be overindexing on the usage of that word. It is clearer what Musk means in context. Again, he is simply saying that he won't let advertisers pressure him into changing X. That is clearly all he means by "blackmail" even if the actual usage of the term is incorrect.

He is fine, his values simply don't align with most peoples'. He is acting quite consistently with his stance on how he wants to run X (eg profit is not the primary goal.)
I find it quite amusing that someone critiquing another person’s comprehension and use of the English language would define ‘educated’ as ‘retarded.’

Hath thou ever read an English dictionary?
What about reading and commenting on dialectical formats/platforms like HN/Reddit? I mean, we're reading and writing and picking apart each others shit. I feel like we're all lawyers sometimes. Bang!
How do they seal it to stop mud getting in those gears?

A huge rubber boot?

Some kind of set of sliding metal plates?

Seems hard to design something sufficiently robust to last the lifetime of the car while not letting I. A single drop of water or grain of sand (which would make quick work of destroying these gears)
This was a really nice and detailed writeup, what a wonderful read!

For my own needs, I essentially let others do the heavy lifting and used docker-mailserver, which includes Postfix, Dovecot and some other software in an easy to deploy package: https://docker-mailserver.github.io/docker-mailserver/latest... Actually, that documentation of theirs is a nice read as well!

I've been using this for a low volume of mails for a few years and haven't had much in the way of issues, deliverability, or otherwise. I even got lazy to the point of only configuring SPF, not DKIM or DMARC and have no problems there either (though that might change in the future). Throwing something like a Roundcube container into the mix when I need a web UI is exceedingly easy as well, as is setting up Apache (with mod_md), Nginx (with certbot) or Caddy as a reverse proxy.
Well last time I had to fuck around was because the entire IP ranged ended up on an RBL and I couldn't deliver to half the people I needed to. Oh and then there was that time that Yahoo did its thing and asks you to fill in a web form to continue delivering to them, the URL of which is neatly hidden in an SMTP response message. If you get that form wrong or they don't like the answers they will just ignore you for 6 months.
Your handle sounds familiar. Have we crossed paths previously? Hmm
Even those that did not escape the Hague have admirers.
See, this is what I'm talking about. You can read about Operation Menu for yourself.

"In 1966, Sihanouk made an agreement with Zhou Enlai of the People's Republic of China that would allow PAVN and VC forces to establish base areas in Cambodia and to use the port of Sihanoukville for the delivery of military material

Before the diplomatic amenities with Sihanouk [and the US] were even concluded, Nixon had decided to deal with the situation of PAVN/VC troops and supply bases in Cambodia.

On 30 January 1969, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Earle Wheeler suggested to the president that he authorize the bombing of the Cambodian sanctuaries. He was seconded by General Creighton W. Abrams, who also submitted his proposal to bomb the Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN), the elusive headquarters of PAVN/VC southern operations, located somewhere in the Fishhook region of eastern Cambodia. Abrams claimed to Nixon that the regions of eastern Cambodia to be bombed were underpopulated and no civilian deaths would be caused."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu

But instead, all any snarky layman hears from the grapevine is that Kissinger is coming up with the whole plan to bomb a random Commie country for zero reason. That you know Kissinger's name and not any of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sec Def, or Sec State at the time involved in these decisions tells everything. People need an evil mastermind scapegoat, like McNamara was for Vietnam, because they can't comprehend the complexities involved in fog of war decision making, with no hindsight, and all the actors involved.
AFAIK the Prius, for example, has never had a CVT, only an "eCVT". The core of the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive system is that "eCVT".

Toyota CVTs are decently reliable, but other automakers tend to have trouble implementing them well.
They aren't fixing the real problem.

Want ZERO fatalities? ISOLATE the Pedestrians from the cars entirely. Build it like Disney World does.
Common? Give us another example
There are also pretty significant differences in diet and substance use between different income quartile...
Newer BMWs are some of the most reliable cars that you can buy. Minis and BMWs are essentially the same cars, just Minis are limited to the low segment, with less luxury features and smaller motors. That means that, as expected, the higher complexity of luxury segments and their big V8 or V12 engines have more chances of failing.
Label your axes.
Well, - frozen doors, LEDs failing, misaligned headlights, radar/camera cruise control suddenly braking for no reason - there are all pretty common and happen to all cars, not just Teslas.
Coroutines, Asynchronous and Iterative
Aren’t they using Jet-A anyway?
If Chomsky had known this...

Chomsky have denied genocide that Kissinger helped perpetrate, so he could have known.
I've got a domain which I forward my primary address to my outlook box. I just reply from outlook.com.

I've had the account since 1999.
The protein folding project was basically solved due to money and ml.

Alpha fold.

The leap that area took thanks to it was a leap.

It's more than just something potentially better
Sometimes passengers clap already, we are one letter away from harvesting that energy!
XCurl
I use jq on a daily basis. This is new to me thanks for remarking it
I cannot upvote this comment enough. I can't stand these blue/white LED headlights. What an abomination in the night. To top this, in India highways are littered with white LED street lights. I really miss cruising at 65-70 mph on a dark highway, with just the reflectors to guide my path, lit by the the pleasant yellow headlights.
LWN
Realpoliticans are always playing for the autoritarian team, as it flattens the playing field, giving up the moral high ground, one of the reasons russian bots desperatly push it as the "default" mindset. Got to turn everyone a psychopathic maniac out for themselves, to justify being one.
Exactly :). The funny part is, the thing actually crashed! [1]

Why? Bad error handling in the software (primarily). What is the worst that could happen? An instrument saturate, a variable gets stuck at a value, but keeps being integrated, the spacecraft computes a negative altitude and thinks it'a below ground level (negative altitude) but is in fact in full descent and at 3+ km from the surface. Oopsie !

[1] https://exploration.esa.int/web/mars/-/59176-exomars-2016-sc...
Renault 9 is a great car. Similar to Nissan Sentra from 90s.
so in a typical EV, the torque travels through one gear to hit the wheels (there are other gears involved, for example in the diff, but no energy is lost to friction inthem on a straight road). The CV joint, while straight, has no friction either.

In this design the torque travels through 4 gears. That has to cut efficiency rather substantially?
Which is why I started as making the point I lived through it, when fancy graphics weren't even an option.
I doubt it will backfire on them at all. No one cares about who is spending money on Twitter. Moreover, Twitter is an irrelevant advertising platform and also an atrocious one as well (still lacks DR). Twitter's influence is exaggerated by media dependence and loquacious users.

Twitter has 360m MAUs, 225m DAUs globally. That's less than what Facebook does in Europe.
Where do you confidently take the idea from, that electro motors for electric aircraft are cheaper to maintain than piston engines?
No, the 12V battery, the hybrid battery and the combustion engine all need to work for the vehicle to function.
US centered NATO imperialism sometimes shows itself amongst all the Hollywood and the international PR indeed.
I wouldn't be surprised if the first draft was written as soon as he gained fame (notoriety?) and then it was just periodically updated to keep up with the times.
A REPL and scripting languages make automation easy without having to live in a TTY emulation world.
Why would anyone pay that much if he gets into television cheaper? I doubt that number.
What I would use: Python-based Django/flask depending on the complexity, SQL database (postgresql, even SQLite for minimal projects), Apache/WSGI, Ubuntu-based VPS (e.g. AWS EC2) with semi automatic deployment, automated backups on e.g. AWS S3, HTML5/CSS3 with a minimal CSS framework such as Skeleton, Vanilla JS. Mature tech stack, minimal dependencies, slow upgrade pace, and most importantly, a stack I'm quite familiar with. No surprises. Never failed me.
This poster knows what's up. I'd put money on a future which looks exactly like this.
Simon Willison's blog post has a screenshot. It's worth a read. https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/29/llamafile/
I went to see Cabin in the Woods based on nothing but the title and the 18A rating. It was quite an experience.
Ah just like my first experiences in MS-DOS 3.3 and Xenix....
Love this, thanks!

One question - is pagination broken or not implemented? eg. searching for a band with a large discography like Built to Spill / Okkervil River only returns a small selection of tabs. It actually doesn't seem to be the first page even, more of a random selection.
> Personally, I think the "electric SUVs are bad for pedestrians" is just there to replace "SUVs are bad for the environment". Basically, this isn't a real argument, just a vibes thing, where big trucks are conservative coded and smaller cars are liberal-coded.

It's not a vibes thing, SUVs are more dangerous to everyone on the road, doesn't matter if it's electric or petrol, they are heavier, causing more road wear, they are taller, killing pedestrians more easily; being heavier also means they carry much more energy at the same speed than a smaller car.

> and the difference in pedestrian danger from large car vs. small car is minimal.

Well, and this is a "vibes thing", all the data shows the opposite, you'll need some supporting data to make this statement.

SUVs are only better for their owners, consuming more space, more road, and more lives than other types of smaller cars...

Not everything is "wokeness" and "muh liberals", there's objectivity in the basics of motion physics, just run the numbers for weight and velocity. Check any study on pedestrian safety regarding cars with much higher ground clearing, it's pretty obvious what the data says.
Of course, you’d still need pins for power…
Thanks for the quotes! Here is a collection of primary sources

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cold-war-henry-kissi...
How many tokens was that before it diverged from your original request? If it filled the context window, the original prompt would no longer be available to the model and it would start predicting just based on the repeated word. That certainly looks like what's happened here, although I haven't checked what model context size you used or how long the response is.
I don't think there's any evidence that Allende was worse than the regime that took over. You might argue Allende wasn't a communist (which would be true), but the coup was of Kissinger's making. Cuba was communist, and was absolutely not the hell-hole that Cambodia was or North-Korea is.
> "[willing] to say good-bye to yesterday and move forward

> poverty is when you CANNOT "say good-bye to yesterday"

Both are not exclusive. You're willing to yet you can't, and possibly feel trapped in a miserable existence that's not yours.
That is the urban myth that keeps saying Microsoft did it, forgetting how C++ was used everywhere else.

On UNIX powering CORBA and Motif projects, on Apple taking over Object Pascal, on OS/2 alongside Smalltalk, on BeOS, on Epoch (later Symbian), on IBM replacing PL.8, PL/S usage.
The article mention other techniques also stimulating the brain, but aside form transcranial magnetic or DC stimulation I never of this working.

Has anyone usefully stimulated a brain (ie input information) using electrodes?
Li-Ion batteries at that! Ibdon't see any reason why regulator wouod object to that. Also, those batteries cost close to nothing, so yeah, just use as consumables...
Nah.
Podcasts are one of the few mediums that don’t have set lengths. The one here goes to 6 parts because of the volume of material. And often I’ve heard podcasts do multiple episodes in one. There’s no time they’re trying to achieve as there’s no standard.
It is not only how they are maintained, but also how they are driven.

BMW's are sport enthusiast vehicles. They are probably used and abused and higher levels than typical Toyotas and Lexus. You won't see many Toyotas and Lexus in race tracks, however they are usually populated by all type of BMWs, specially M performance and full M models.

So I expect that under normal usage, BMWs are even more reliable that the ranking shows.
> I mean... 300 tracks? You're basically testing the DAW's thread management at that point, not the CPU as it would be used.

Any realistic test is going to have more tracks than there are CPU cores, so thread management would seem to be an unavoidable aspect of the test. The test results were in the 60–100 track range, not 300, so not really as excessive as you are claiming. And while testing with too many tracks could certainly be problematic for introducing excessive context switching overhead, the problematic behavior that was actually revealed is much more serious and less subtle and applies to any scenario with more than 5–8 threads.
With less snide than this will sound like: There are better things to spend my time forming opinions on. Music/Art/Family...

He's occupying enough brainspace as it is and I've had enough.