skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's complete nonsense and the fact that France had to import some electricity has everything to do with the massive regulations and environmentalism.

Grids need to be balanced on a second by second basis so both importing an exporting power is a sign of a problem here. Exporting subsidized power is a net loss, and if everyone had significant nuclear then nobody would want to import it. Similarly, imports mean you lack sufficient domestic production thus if Germany goes nuclear suddenly France loses money and might face blackouts.

You really need to understand the underlying issues here. US nuclear power plants averaged between 90% and 93% every year from 2013 to 2021 without exporting or importing significant electricity. France has never gotten close to those numbers. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51978

Demand is spiky, trying to add 1GW of nuclear in France would be useless if they are already curtailing nuclear power. Thus each additional reactor is useful for fewer hours a year. This means no they can’t avoid importing power, if they doubled the number of nuclear reactors they could do so but only at a truly ruinous costs.

Random French nuclear reactors capacity factor:
72.60% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belleville_Nuclear_Power_Plant
75.15% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blayais_Nuclear_Power_Plant
73.78% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattenom_Nuclear_Power_Plant
71.6% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinon_Nuclear_Power_Plant
70.6% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant
69.4% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruas_Nuclear_Power_Plant

By comparison you see plenty of US reactors with lifetime capacity factors approaching 90%. It here’s a random selection:

89.55% (lifetime) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood_Nuclear_Generating_S...

88.45% (lifetime) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Nuclear_Generating_Stati...

87.70% (lifetime) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callaway_Nuclear_Generating_St...

88.40% (lifetime) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_Peak_Nuclear_Power_Pl...

There’s some overlap between the most used French reactors and the least used US reactors but we aren’t exporting that power. Subsidizing energy that you then export is clearly a cost. They do this because getting some money per kWh generally beats turning them off.
I use an Optane drive for boot/pagefile and for my VR simulators (two drives) for exactly this reason. It doesn't help peak FPS, but it has a noticeable effect on the 1% and 0.1% cases, to the point where I notice it and can tune around the difference.

This is a 905p vs SK Hynix Platinum for reference.
RAM in 2010s were more expensive - or rather, more capped than it is today. Consumer desktop platforms always had 4 Unbuffered DIMM slots, servers had multiples of four RDIMM slots, and typical UDIMM were up to 8GB per slot although there were some 16GB modules towards the end of DDR3 era. SSDs were less advanced but were already exceeding 128GB in size when Optane appeared.

So there was significant hurdle going beyond 16GB per machine, and sales pitch for Optane was DRAM substitute at near-NAND density and cost. Which, if taken at face value, implied >64GB RAM without committing to server/workstation platforms. That was appealing, at least to me back then.

Nowadays you can buy 4 sticks of 32GB DDR4 or DDR5 modules for ~$350, which makes a hypothetical 64GB Optane DDR3 module a rather moot point.
> He had his own TV show, has multiple published books and a popular podcast.

That alone doesn't meet Wikipedia's requirements for noteworthiness. Some of the sources you used have to be independent. Eg. published biographies written by someone else, an independent TV show about him (not starring him), etc. Otherwise any random social media influencer could be included if they publish their content in various formats.
Food delivery products and companies are definitely not moving up market. Valuations have plummeted and many are still struggling to turn a profit despite layoffs and cutbacks.
Only if you continue to invest time and energy into. Not everyone puts 99% of their life online. When’s the last time you left your house to do something without a cellular? Or compromised by not ordering something you think you need?
Great job! Just from taking a quick look at this, what you have here is much bigger than iMessage itself.

This could literally allow things like Universal Clipboard to work on Linux and Windows - by using the method presented here to access the iCloud Keychain and generating Continuity keys and placing them there - then the iPhone will broadcast its clipboard data encrypted with those keys via BLE. If I understand all of this correctly.
Did anybody actually buy it though? This could be misdirection, or just misguided marketing based on historical instances of abuse. China isn't known for trying to repatriate descendants, and it's not exactly difficult to find Jews.

Ancestry data would certainly be of interest to a particular demographic known to discriminate by caste. There's no escaping your low-class heritage when anyone can look up your stolen DNA profile on the black market.
Post author here, happy to answer technical questions.
Green/blue bubble is about the prior probabilities people use to make
assumptions about others. E.g., if you use Android/iPhone, there is a prior probability of x% of being y type of person.

WhatsApp/Signal have been available for a long time for anyone that has wanted group chats with modern capabilities.
I'm sadly almost in this camp. Firefox is incredibly important to me and is critical for the open web to survive.

Mozilla has proven to be really bad stewards, and as long as they exist nobody is going to pick up firefox. They've had many years to wake and up correct the course but choose not to, so it may be time to die. If Mozilla disappeared, a new organization could pick it up and run with it. If it weren't so overloaded in tech already, I might even call it "Phoenix" as it arose from the ashes of Firefox.
> But is that really substantially different from somebody keeping their gas tank always at least half full, or making normal short-range trips with the long-range version of a Tesla?

A gallon of gas weighs around 6 pounds. A car usually has less than 20 gallon capacity. Keeping it half full would mean you keep 10 gallons which is 60 pounds. Even if you kept it full all the time, it is 120 pounds. That is going to be a lot less than any sizable battery ( theTesla Model 3 battery weighs around 1000 pounds).
Hate to be "that guy", but pypush technically isn't open source because SSPL isn't an OSI approved license.
> I am personally unaware of any serious reason to believe that Firefox’s numbers will improve soon

MV3 in Chrome
There are very few water is wet articles in T&S research. It’s pretty dang hard to get any good scientific information. It’s only in the past few years that I have got an idea of churn and impact of toxicity behavior online on communities.

I’ve been looking into this from before the term trust and safety existed.

It’s THAT bad. Most of our data is behind platform walls.

That water is wet is state of the art.
I would guess this is also why the code was found: it's parallel construction.

Somebody was told to take a closer look.

Otherwise it would be very weird to have 3rd party developers disassembling firmware code. I've never heard of that happening because a train didn't want to start.
thanks. What are these "greater tax benefits of public charities"? They both qualify for deduction of contributions.
Insurance is parasitic but they are the symptom not the root of the problem. They suck insurance dry so insurance has to suck you dry. The root is low supply of doctors. Thus unhealthy competition and thus doctors and the whole industry can charge exorbitant prices. They rip off insurance so insurance in turn rips you off. Make no mistake insurance is ripping you off, but there's healthy competition in this area. One insurance company can undercut another if they could... But they can't. Because the root of the problem is the cost of care itself.

Of course the reason why there's a low supply of doctors is a deliberate business maneuver made by the AmA to lower the amount of doctors by lowering the amount of medical schools. In short Doctors are the reason why there's a low supply of doctors.

The problem isn't purely capitalistic. It's sort of a hybrid of capitalism and government thats what causes this problem. When doctors aka the AmA are able to influence law to give them an unfair advantage that's what is responsible for the current state of things.

In fact hybrids are responsible for most of corruption. You have to keep a clear separation between business and government for a healthy free market economy as in business cannot influence government but government can influence business. The incentives are misaligned for both parties. One is profit the other is honor, thus they cannot mix.
I'm not sure they would. I never used Amazon more than when I was unable to walk.
Basecamp 2 was good, and we also used it to scale our company.

However, we found that Asana was a much better match for us.
Well, the "fun" one to consider is IMO not that, but this:

SELECT (SELECT sum(a + x) FROM xx LIMIT 1) FROM aa;

Making a pretty diagram where all the behaviours from various DBMSs are listed is left as an exercise to the author. :)
Very cool - thank you very much!

> My take is that ML can soundly defeat the "easy" and more static obfuscation types (encodings, control flow flattening, splitting functions). It's low hanging fruit, and it's what I worked on most, but adoption is slow.

If I wanted to implement my own toy HexRays-like decompiler using a few of these techniques to decompile x86-64 binaries is there any high quality up-to-date paper/resource you would recommend?

Or do you think that "A Generic Approach to Automatic Deobfuscation of Executable Code" paper is a good enough start?

Also, what do you think about https://tigress.wtf/ ?
Hmmm... I became a single parent when my daughter was 10 months old and I was 26 years old. There are laws in some States against dropping your sick child off at a daycare provider, and that makes sense, but it also meant I had to stay home with her.

Because of that I was struggling to make ends meet so every dollar I earned was desperately needed. For the most part "Single Moms" are far more common than single fathers and they generally make less money than men so charging a single parent to park a car will take away a lot more for them than most others. And it will cost low income families more than others.

So this sounds like yet another "screw the poor more" idea to me. I'd much rather see a tax on the wealthy to deal with the cost mentioned in this article.
Code review by a _third party_? Does that usually happen?

It's clear this was intended by the manufacturer of the trains, who directed the writing of the code, it's not like a hacker put this in without their manager knowing, right?

What kind of code review are you thinking of by whom?

[Wait, reading other comments, I'm thinking HN switched the article at the top, and some of these comments were written when the article at the top had much less information? That may explain why these comments are so confusing!]
>Octane was an incremental improvement in performance when compared to SSD

Optane PM was byte-addressable and had latency of ~300 ns. It rendered the entire block storage abstraction obsolete. It was so radical that using it effectively would require throwing out the assumptions all OSes have made about IO for the past fifty years.

The fact that it offered an incremental improvement even when its unique capabilities were completely ignored shows how phenomenally capable the technology was.
What compatibility? If Firefox breaks forms, then Firefox broke forms and needs to fix it. Not your bug. If Chrome renders differently from edge because they decided the default color on .gov sites will be pink on white and all padding will be multiplied by 1.5, then that's fine. Not a bug. Chrome just decided to present a different look.

If it's even possible for basic functionality to break in a way where you wouldn't obviously say the browser is broken, then you've built it wrong. That means you need to test that TLS/HTTP protocols are implemented correctly and that your documents conform to a schema.
Keep up the awesome work, Lexi. You are very skilled and I can tell that you will rise very quickly as an engineer and a teacher
This looks like a decent project, but I really didn't appreciate waking up to messages from mods on my community notifying me that you joined lastnight, ignored my welcome message, request of giving us an intro to yourself and what you're working on, didn't bother reading the community rules and then just blatantly started spamming my users to upvote you on ProductHunt.
Zero people drive 500 miles in a straight line on a daily basis though, so cornering ability is more important than 500 miles of range, especially when most gasoline cars (several diesels do) don't get that much range in a single tank. The biggest change for EVs is the ability to charge the car at home, though, so you wake up every morning with a full tank of "gas". An EV with only 50 miles of range would do great for most people if they had home charging given how many miles "most people" drive in a day.

I don't work for BMW (or Honda, or Tesla) though, so what do I know.
> This way the people who don't use the hardware don't pay for it

OP was saying they pay to cart it around the country.
Do you think this also applies to kernel density estimation? I've used the R program and noticed extra density peaks that I wasn't able to explain except as artifacts. I guess it could've been picking up a mixture of distributions... but the densities appeared periodic if that makes any sense?
subscription is a significantly fairer revenue model for software which undergoes regular upgrades and has support, which is most software nowadays.

It makes sure that people who continue to use continue to pay. Upfront charges are often either too low with long term users free-riding or too high, in case the project is abandoned. Subscription makes it much more likely to price products correctly.
> Same, but I know more that then got COVID and changed their tune. Many are close family.

Likewise, although unfortunately the folks I know have not materially changed their attitude. I know someone who has gotten it 4 times, apparently, and still spouts conspiracy theories and just shrugs it off. I guess he's gotten lucky that it hasn't caused him a lot of problems.
I didn't know that, that's a really cool information. Thank you! :)
exactly this. Start building resistance to these anti-patterns early and often. Reviews need to call this out.

More broadly, business models should only rely on recurring revenue streams for products that are receiving nontrivial updates or for which there are demand-based costs.

Presumably where this gets murky is with AI features, where inference costs are high and one-time fees aren't sufficient or appropriate.
The organization that gave the world Rust, Web Assembly, and countless other useful technologies is in a probable death spiral, and most of the blame goes to Mitchell Baker. If Mozilla was not primarily driven by greed and laziness, smart people that still exist in around Firefox would have made the difficult technical decisions needed to continue to ship a useful product that protects user privacy while still being easy to support in a world dominated by Chrome and Safari.
There's an excellent documentary on how sophisticated Government Surveillance is and how well it's tuned to be used against the general population:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/
In what world is DOUBLING one's salary within two years while the company overall and, most importantly, the company's absolute flagship product are in continuous decline "reasonable"?
In the US, the party in favor of unrestricted gun access is also the party that performatively hates porn, so I'm not sure if that would help in this case.
I'm not sure if Sony would want to make a system with a very unique architecture again. Devs complained about how hard it was to program PS2 games, and again with PS3. PS4 and 5 are practically PCs by comparison.
Oh there's a way around that. Places like Lisbon and London already have time periods where older vehicles cannot enter parts of each city without paying a fee. It's only a matter of time that they're banned altogether for "the sake of the environment".
Both me and the other poster in this thread have posted links on the overlap between Rusyn and Ukranian identities in Eastern Slovakia. The Magyar identity is centered around the Hungarian language and Roman Catholicism or Protestantism, while any history of the Rusyn people will emphasize how they are East Slavic-speaking Greek Catholics, so why you feel that the Magyars are relevant here is beyond me. Some of the Rusyn-speaking world was under Austrian administration in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so they weren’t even under Hungarians politically.
You're describing a hypothetical world that will never exist. Basically if we solve all corruption and inequality in enforcement between economic/power classes - all-pervasive surveillance will be a net benefit.

It's like pondering hypotheticals about what would happen if we lived in Middle Earth.
This article's 90% outrage and 10% material. The idea is still in its infancy so we don't see an impact in prices yet -- there aren't enough models with this function to price out a difference.

Here are my questions:

1. Would this work for much more than small conveniences? Heated seats, steering wheel, wifi, etc? Where it's literally cheaper to build 1 part instead of 2.

2. If it's cheaper to always build in the feature, why wouldn't a competitor just include the feature as standard? The auto market is pretty competitive, and Brother did pretty well just by not screwing up their printers.

3. Will people get turned off at the fear of higher replacement part costs?

4. Has this grown past the small-experiment stage? Is it any more than BMW heated seats?
Tampermonkey: Dev Mode will become mandatory for running userscripts in Chromium
I think this one is obvious actually! There's no choice but to aggregate it at the level of the `xx` `SELECT`, no other level has access to the `x` column.
What's the difference between a paper on a new prompt and a paper discussing a new domain-specific model, e.g. heart failure risk? If they analyze the problem and solution equally, they both seem useful. It's not like most other ML papers share their weights or datasets.
Yup. I am already in the used market for the long haul. I find many new features detract from the overall vehicle value.

For now, there are a lot of used cars and my plan is to get good ones and drive them.
The other similarity was that they needed to treat developers like VIPs: Itanium failed in part because almost nobody was interested in paying a premium for a slow chip, licensed compiler, and then spend their time optimizing code to match competing chip’s out of the box performance. In both cases, they really needed to flood developers with free hardware & help - especially open source developers working on things like databases where you could see the most wins.

People might have bought Optane if the pitch was “Postgres/MySQL runs twice as fast” rather than hoping someone else would make your purchase cost-effective later.
This is probably much more your bank's fault than it is FF. I think Mozilla has badly neglected FF to the point they probably deserve to die so a new org can take their place, but the blame for that most likely falls at the feet of the bank for not testing on FF.
Renewable Energy Could Be a Casualty in the War on Inflation
GM dumping CarPlay / Android Auto fits this as well. GM thinks they can generate $20-$25 billion in annual subscription revenue within 6 years and they can't do that if you can just connect your phone and use that.
Oh hey, that's me! Glad that you enjoy the story.
> If this was a for profit company I could agree with your focus on profit.

There are two parts to Mozilla: a for-profit company and a non-profit company. They are separate. You are reading the mission statement of mozilla.org, not mozilla.com. Mitchell Baker is the CEO of the for-profit company, not the non-profit.
Shout out to Firefox Mobile. I have it as the default browser on my android phone and the experience is great. I don't miss chrome at all. Once you get used to the minor UI differences you won't even notice you are not on chrome.
> You can’t exactly stop someone from putting an open source OS on their hardware

Of course you can. Have secure boot requiring a signed bootloader. Currently Microsoft are good enough to sign a linux bootloader so you can run things like ubuntu.

Doesn't mean that in 73 years you'll have a situation where OSS is not only illegal, but you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that [0]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
I do personally think tech companies [0] are better of if the CEO is a visionary techie instead of a lawyer.

[0] Mozilla and others might not think they are a tech company but a activist plattform, so this is irrelevant to them from their perspective
Holy shit those aren't some random ass hackers

They are members of top CTF team of last decade - Dragon Sector

Also, the story is wild as fuck!
Unveiling IBM Quantum System Two [video]
Initially, this was my "alternative" setup when I couldn't have Caps lock mapped to both Esc+Control and only doing control, but I've found it easier than using Control-[ for Esc (I never got into this habit) and more reliable that betting wherever I expect Esc to be on the keyboard is where Esc will actually be, or that I'll be on a system with Caps properly remapped.

I need to reliably enter/leave edit mode way more than I need to insert tabs, but I can still insert tabs when needed with Ctrl-q Tab

When do you need to insert tabs in vim?

Personally, I rarely need to insert raw tabs: the only exception may be Makefiles (and for that I have a configuration)
Such a transparent example of how "the science" is deliberately misrepresented by media to get clicks. The author knew this full well, and revealed that later in the article. And we just accept being lied to as normal and okay if it's for the sake of novelty. But he didn't have to reveal the boring "plot twist", and indeed many don't, or bury it so deep that most people never read far enough to get it. So we end up with part of the population not believing reality, and part of the population not believing the media.
I actually don't think you'd see that many raised hands go down
I'm sure your already aware of it, but if anyone is interested in digging into western esotericism now, the podcast is great:

https://shwep.net/

But it should really be accompanied by the History of Philosophy without any gaps podcast for more historical context. It's very interesting to hear the contrast between the "mainstream" and the "underground" takes on the exact same philosophers throughout history.
I hate the "subscriptionification" of everything as much as anybody, but there is a cost to ongoing updates to software. Especially on something like a browser, where both standards and exceptional behavior contrary to the standards change rapidly.

Maybe we could go back to where people paid once and could pay separately for support?
And it magically starts working again on the 1st December.
> But I 100% agree with the author, "prompt engineering" is not science, and I'd say it's not engineering either. All you're doing is exploring the parameter space of particular model in a very crude way. There is no "engineering" going on in this process, just a bunch of trial and error.

I wonder what your definition of “science” or “engineering” is…
Aside from if you want to physically move a light switch, all the rest of the things you mention are cheap and easy to change.