skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The details of their deaths are no important. Saving 25 lives per day is clearly the right thing to do.

I think it's clear that if we were talking about saving 125 people 90 years old or older or 100 children, the clear choice is to save the children, from almost any rational point of view. Even just from a societal health or utility standpoint, children are worth more than people that are statistically close to death anyway at a societal level.

If that premise is acceptable, and if we accept that switching to self driving might change the demographics of who dies in accidents, then it's important to quantify not just whether it saves more people or not, but what people, in case that shifts matters.

> Hint: Imagine all of these people are your family and friends. Do you want to keep having 125 of them die every day, or only 100?

I would rather lose both my parents than one of my children. I don't know a single parent that would feel otherwise.

Additionally, there's also the possibility that like adding extra lanes of traffic to a freeway can make traffic jams worse, self driving cars could increase deaths per capita while reducing deaths per trip, by promoting a lot more car travel (by either allowing current non drivers to drive or increasing time current drivers spend in the car).
The will of some smaller part of the 51% they currently do, you mean?
Like the Clipper Chip?
> If a fork or alternative to Bitcoin doesn’t get enough people to think of it as money, then it doesn’t really matter if it is ‘superior’. It won’t win against the thing that a very large number of people think is money.

And that's a huge problem, because the whole point of Bitcoin was decentralization and lack of need to trust anyone. And yet it seems the winner is simply whoever plays the PR game best and has the most inertia.
Bear in mind that some of the super car brands do mandate terms like a "right of first refusal" in their favour, giving them the ability to block sales.

* https://wheelsonspin.com/rules-for-buying-a-ferrari/

* https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/right-of-first-ref...
I think we should not standardise lunch on Linux. Firstly it will create a lot of acrimony as different people may have opinions.

There is already a standard you need to adhere to. It lives one level lower and is the Linux userland-kernel interface i.e the syscall interface.
“Laughed at” and “ridiculed” seem to be common aspects of a dysfunctional science culture. In that, I always maintain heavy skepticism of loud, and especially media-echoed, claims scientific consensus. I say that generally.
tried reading the cuda source and I can see why it took 2.5 years to get working properly
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Look around: I am sure 3 out of 4 SUVs you see have just one person inside.
What are you referring to when you say "modern interview practices" and how are you practicing?
ha! someone actually beat me to this comment
The penn-E-farthing's front wheel passes through three sets of rubber rollers is why this thing is not going to be a low-friction low-hassle ride
It all depends on your writeConcern setting. This option is super critical to understand when deploying an MongoDb. Older versions had defaults that were more optimized for availability than consistency.

Even so, not flushing each write is not as bad as it sounds, if you have a 3-node replicaset and your w-parameter is set to majority (default), it means at least 2 servers have the write in memory. It would take both of them crashing at the same time for the unflushed write to be lost.

The idea is that MongoDB allows you to choose which corner of the CAP triangle you want, if you chose AP, that’s your decision. The defaults can of course be argued and I believe it’s been gradually moving over to more and more C for each version. Nowadays the journal does get flushed as next comment described.
2014 was basically peak ZIRP and startup era. I don’t think this could be replicated today. I know way too many people from Google/Meta layoffs who are still looking despite willing to take pay cuts, just to keep the lights on.
Google CAPTCHAs were designed and deployed as a mechanism to train AIs. That's why they are the way they are. Any security theater surrounding them is entirely incidental. So it's no surprise that the AIs are now good at solving them. We've trained them for years.
tar(1) was the command that often bit back at me across the different Un*x implementations, vs awk(1) which for some unknown reason I had internalized the most miniscule differences.

I got into the habit of immediately installing gtar on any Solaris box I had root on (damn the leading "/" in the archive).

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The 2nd worst part was dealing with SunOS and HP/UX at work and Ultrix outside of work. Worst part was not grokking why MS-DOS wouldn't buffer keystrokes the few times I was exposed to it.
That's exactly my take.
This is what a Ghetto Looks like. If i had a way to delete my account i would be happy.
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Has been the same for other cities as well, Milano for example.
It still is a very good idea. How we implemented it however, is the problem.

Nuclear energy is more expensive than any other mean of energy production. That is, when subsidies and disposal of nuclear waste (for a long, long time) are part of the equation instead of privatizing earnings and collectivizing costs. Moreover, nuclear energy produces waste for generations and generations to deal with. In all those decades of nuclear energy production we haven‘t been able to find a good solution for a secure disposal of nuclear waste. Because nobody wants it nearby. Similar to the ExxonMobil CEO quickly becoming a NIMBY regarding fracking when it was supposed to take place near where he lived.

The shift to renewables was slowed down because of cheap gas from Russia and „alternatives“ such as nuclear energy production. Both massive mistakes.

What we had needed was massive investments and partnerships within the EU and with nearby countries such as Norway and Switzerland e.g. for pumped hydro storage, green hydrogen and massive European energy networks (e.g. for solar energy from southern Europe).

That will be our tasks for the next years and statistics show that we have massive investments into solar energy and heat pumps to tackle future challenges.
Functional State Machines
I'm afraid I don't have any concrete job seeking advice for you, but if you love making software, now is not the time to bail. The cycle looks like it could be about to turn. I've seen this multiple times since the .com bubble.

Interest rates are probably at their peak. Speculation about interest rate cuts have begun. It's not long before tech companies start hiring again for fear of missing out on the best candidates.
I used to think it was spelled padouin. Like French style. Anyone think like me?
Having trouble remembering a step in a math problem? Do the work out on paper. Take a photo. Image Occlude just the step you're blanking on. Review this regularly. Boom - instant, targeted, low effort high reward deliberate practice in mathematics, tuned to what your own brain reports it is having trouble on.

This actually might be super useful for helping homeschool my dyscalculic daughter, thanks!
It fits with mathematics. You have structure (a la Bourbaki or CT) and stuff (well founded sets).

RENE THOM: THE HYLEMORPHIC SCHEMA IN MATHEMATICS

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-5690-5_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics,_Form_and_Function
30% of the code but 80% of the time I touched UI.
If you have 10 years of C++ experience, that’s 5 years more than the median employed C++ software engineer.

That might not be enough to get you fat FAANG cash. But, it will definitely get you “A Job”.

You mostly need to be able to talk like you have not been coasting at your previous job for the past 11 years. Get up to date with the C++ 20 standard and be able to speak intelligently about it and you’ll be doing better than most.
no need for captchas, just implement throttling per ip. like bcrypt dues for passwords. if a bot fills up a form(or whatever), so be it, but it won't be able to do it for another N seconds or minutes..so the problem then is lowered from per try, which can be thousands of submissions, all the way down to per period and per ip.
Powerful Todo Editor
What is this gatherer? I can only find a reference to an online card database.
> paying models always helps if you're nihilistic enough to use people as prop

they’re from a modeling agency. that’s what they do.
Sorry, lost any interest at "dozen one".
Note this not so veiled warning in the text:

"The other reason there won’t be an electronic edition is that unlike bunnie, I’m a Chinese national. My offering an app or download specifically for English-speaking hardware engineers to install on their phones would be… iffy. If at some point "I" do offer you such a thing, I’d suggest you not use it."

Especially the "I" bit.
The gas shortage is for heating and industrial use, not electric generation. Their industry is ramping up to production levels higher than pre-war which isn't helping.

Also, they delayed shutdown of some nuclear plants due to the energy crisis.

But guess where the fuel for their nuclear power plants was coming from? Hint: starts with an R.

In the US we're replacing nuclear reactors with wind and solar at 2x the rate we're losing nuclear generation capacity. Germany has also seen incredible solar growth: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/germany-goes-all...

They're still planning to eliminate coal from the grid, and not only that, they're dropping the plan to do so from 2038 to 2030: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/geared-germany-en...
Consider the fact that the small banks offer an perceived or real 'better' service. What that tells you about the market is the big banks are lazy and not competitive. So naturally the next step is to get big, beat them on service and eat their lunch.
I still find it funny that Google, with the advantage of having millions of Internet users train their AI like galley slaves for free, hasn’t yet been able to crack vision driven self driving. Tesla had no such advantage when training their FSD to recognize traffic lights, bicycles, motorcycles, etc.
Any EE member here? How's photonics' computing going?
There is literally nothing you can do to prevent bot accounts online now, other than requiring people to show up to events periodically. And even then, they can just use bots AFTER they’ve validated their accounts.

The Internet will become a dark forest, and since that is where all of our communication and transactions happen of any significance, that’s pretty much game over for the significance of human activity.

Think I am overstating the fact? It already happened with wall street trading. First, institutions prefer bots to human. Then, you will come to prefer bots to humans. Then every human will be surrounded with 999 bots and unable to change anything or appeal to any significant number of humans to change anything.
All true, except: While these are considered just an excruciating security pain for users, they do serve a non-theatrical purpose in many cases of throttling the speed of brute force attacks (or at least costing your opponent money).
Destin Sandlin from “Smarter Every Day” recently called out this 1971 report. I just resubmitted it as it did not get attention it may deserve 2 weeks ago.

“What made Apollo a success?”

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19...
However there is a big difference between those "~2 Billions Pocket computer every year including Tablet" and regular computers, so to speak.

They are mostly programmed in managed languages, where the respective runtimes and OS collaborate, in order to distribute the computing across all available cores in the best way possible, with little intervention required from the developers side.

Additionally, the OS frameworks and language runtimes collaborate in the best way to take advantage of each specific set of CPU capabilities in an almost transparent way.

Quite different from the regular POSIX and Win32 applications coded in C and C++, where everything needs to be explicitly taken care of, which is what kind of prevents most of the cool CPU approaches to take off, sitting there idle most of the time.
Tesla, the company that just recalled 2 million self driving cars?

In fairness, the company best positioned to harness user input to an AI that avoids crashes would probably be Rockstar. OTOH, that AI would definitely not obey stop signs or pedestrians.
The cost of nuclear is in planning and construction.

There only scenario in which shutting down a nuclear plant within the next, say, 50 years makes sense is if it has physically deteriorated to the point of it's stability being unknown.

Once there is a surplus of entirely green energy, you can consider removing nuclear idle capacity, but even then you'd have to ask "why?".

Yes, nuclear produces (manageable) waste. But coal throws its waste into the air, actively killing people of lung cancer and harming cognitive ability, while slowly boiling the planet. And that's before we look at mining.

Solar and wind would be nicer, but there's no discussion to be had about removing nuclear while coal and oil power is still out there killing us and the planet.

Heck, if you're looking at lives saved, nuclear wins - the total direct and indirect deaths per power unit of nuclear is lower than wind, as the large number of windmills needed to be constructed bump the worksite accident numbers.
I think us software types may be more sad about the end of the "free lunch" than the buying public. The 90s in particular had amazing performance increases, but you also needed to buy a new computer (which were more expensive then) every ~3 years, or upgrade roughly every 18 months if you wanted to stay near the top.

Anyway, my optimization skills will stay in demand :)
https://github.com/Skytrias/todool
The solution could be a cryptocurrency which can be mined in the browser. Hashcash, which was one of the inspirations for Bitcoin, was initially invented to prevent email spam.

Consumer devices have a lot of spare CPU and RAM. So a proof-of-work algorithm which consumes those resources for a minute might work?

If it generates $0.01 for the website owner in that minute, maybe that would work?
Some advice based solely on my experience, YMMV etc.

Re: Mentors - reach out to someone who you enjoyed working with in a previous role, looked up to, and would enjoy working with again. Just ask them to have a quick chat, and have specific questions about your job hunt ready - ask them to share their approach to a job search, share what you've done, and ask if they have any advice for improvement. If the chat goes well, you can ask if it's alright if you reach out again. You don't necessarily need a full "mentor", just some guidance.

Re: Referrals - This is not strictly about typical "referrals", but if you can have a chat with a recruiter, you often can similarly cut through initial screens / red tape.

I have had a ton of luck reaching out directly to in-house recruiters for roles I'm interested in on LinkedIn. They're often constantly on LinkedIn, frequently doing outbound, and IME they're often happy that someone reached out - and this can be more effective than spending an hour hand-crafting a cover letter. Keep the message to a couple sentences, share why you're interested in the company, and again, ask to have a quick chat.
> We could get on a phone call and I you could read the key back to me.

This makes no sense, the article is not from the 80-s, copy-pasteable modes of immediate communication has reached even grannies!

> Manually verifying 40 characters is feasible; manually verifying 1024 characters is not.

It's not, no user should ever be exposed to this nonsense of manual verification of such long strings
If you're living in Thailand, how about Singapore? Corporate tax at 17%. Personal tax capped at 22%. Incorporation cost seems quite cheap, but you might want to ask them directly.

They're a startup launchpad for a good reason. Plenty of American and Asian investors & acquirers. The latter is more valuable now as American investors struggle with the economy.

Also really good finance infrastructure. Stripe has trouble landing in much of SEA, but does fine in Singapore.
While I'm a die hard Arch user and also kinda like systemd, I think the goals you have are good for the whole FOSS space overall, so I hope you succeed! :)
yes, if you can sort by atime and need something as trivial as above.
and if have 3 dinosaur related documents in your files. and if you dont mind spending a few minutes scrolling through search and opening docs 1 by 1, waiting for each to download to your phone rather than typing 5 more words.

failure of imagination.

Hi dropbox, show me the costco receipt for the inflatable mattress i bought a few months ago.

Hi dropbox, show me the widget specs from ACME for 2025.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=M2dVLHnmHsTG47XR&t=23m25s&v=s...
"recall"
It's a 100-150w difference. It all adds up.

This also means you don't need to run the fans in your system as high.
It wants to ensure you die alone, leave nothing behind, and take your money in the process. I mean it is scary.

On top of that it’s a rejected DreamWorks character that wants to convince you to have sex with it... Makes you wonder exactly what’s wrong with the heads of those who made this app
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64312400

> Germany no longer depends on Russian imports for its energy supply, the country's finance minister has told the BBC. Christian Lindner said Germany had completely diversified its energy infrastructure since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.

The need for coal is temporary. They're dropping their estimate for when they'll be coal-free from 2038 to 2030 because of the record pace of solar installation. They've been adding around 1GW a month of solar. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/08/21/germany-records-1-2-g...
A US LLC isn't the worst idea. Benefits include getting easier vetting from US based companies to some degree, some payment systems get the wheels greased if you are a US company and such too.
> why the customers don't give Apple and its pathetic excuses the middle finger- and instead praise the wisdom of the company and whine about Android users not buying iPhones.

I don't think most users do either of these things. Most people don't care - they either find a common messaging platform, or their socioeconomic or cultural relationships lead to compatibility anyway.
Software isn't done eating the world yet; it is worth hanging in there.

End of year is the worst time to be looking even in bullish markets; New Year is always when hiring picks up as the hiring managers are finished with their vacations, new budgets are in, and the summer vacation is too far away to mess up the process.

Pesonally I'd pick a "enjoyed bug fixing" over leetcode-prepped every time. My tip is to focus on soft skills; being amusing in interviews has always been my superpower :)
Tesla recalled two million vehicles after federal officials said it had not done enough to make sure that drivers remained attentive when using the system. Not because their self-driving system sucks, or whatever you were trying to imply.
TFA is about philosophy, but the computer science concept is also interesting - composition of recursive functions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylomorphism_(computer_scien...
By recall you mean a completely routine OTA software update done while the driver is asleep.
Is this really so surprising?
Probably a better captcha would be sign of life not puzzles.
Our gaming hardware is linked to slave labour, concentration camps and genocide
Any good (starter) books on this?
I've written a fair bit of pl/pgsql for my startup.. not exactly my frst choice of langauge but I've turned to it for certain optomizations in or system. definitly NOT the choice I'd make for most situations. the language is incredibly clumsy and there isn't much material out there to learn it well. a lot of the ps/pgsl i know comes from reading code and guessing how things should work.
France. It's not really deterrence (deterrence is mostly about other people not killing too, no?). This is taking into account that mistakes were made, and that maybe the person can improve and not be an idiot on the road.

If the person can't improve, and is caught reckless driving or drunk driving (or worse, killing/hurting someone else), then the 'suspended' sentence transform into a full sentence, to protect other people from the idiot.
IE had the right box model years ahead of everything else, a better way of doing embeds, an element transformation language that's still ahead of anything you can do with CSS, .... Sure it wasn't "standards compliant" but I don't remember Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox ever changing their behaviour to match a standard, they just got their behaviour declared as the standard and ignored the cases where they didn't.
On an abstract level, events can be modelled as relations.
The best such method is dynamic comparison when the position of each string is the same, you just change the value, this also works for pictures, much easier to spot the deference vs having to glance back and forth

Though for this specific case of only needing to check for identity, no human comparison should be involved, copy&search to see if the other is a match if you have no better tools
If you entertain the notion that 55M years ago the PETM was caused by the Silurian civilization then geologically you have to realize that it was only 40M years ago that the Indian plate slammed into the Eurasian plate and caused the uplift of the Himalayas. Mt Everest just didn't exist at all back then. And shield glaciers have carved the continents on a 100k year cycle for at least the past 1M years which would have destroyed all of the surface mining evidence at northern latitudes. A lot changes geologically over those kinds of time periods.

Of course most of our oil reserves come from the Mesozoic age (66-252 million years ago) so either the Silurians quickly transitioned away from fossil fuels, or blew themselves up and went extinct before they could extract all of it.
You haven't answered "How?".
Solopreneur rollercoaster: first $1 online to depression
It definitely is! It's unfortunate that what seems to have developed to be the consensus view on SRS within most language learning/high-load traditional academic circles (>90% of the userbase, I'd imagine) that it is, at best, a very useful but unfortunate inevitability, or at worse a torturous and exhausting experience. That obviously doesn't apply to everyone; factors like card design, course content/interest (the passion element which Nielsen rightly identifies as integral) and good old mindset and habituation all vary within those communities and beyond; but I think it is fair to say it's the majority opinion, particularly for those just starting to use the software. Some of that difficulty can be overcome by being patient with the obtuseness I think, but at the end of the day it helps to at least somewhat enjoy what you're studying! Anki can help you love a subject you like, but it usually can't help you like one you hate.
Prompt In The Middle – ChatGPT MitM prompt logging attack
A new approach for secret exfiltration using 3rd party GPT.
The post shows how to use Code Interpreter and Bing search to exfiltrate data from my own Crafted GPT to my server, allowing to log all the user prompts.
How can it detect the driver is asleep?
Google created this problem, let’s see them solve it.
But that’s precisely what drives the reasonableness decision. If you are paying for the product directly, do as you like. If you are paying for “unlimited”, expect an eventual harsh wake up call if your usage costs above and beyond what you are paying.
Somebody please build an AI app that tracks the mentioning of countries in HN stories, and maps them to sentiments. I would be so interested in learning which country will rank number one in being laughable.