skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard "grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't!"

Close enough.
I don't know the data - I was surprised to learn that half of California can run on batteries for 4 hours; that's actually impressive at present.

I keep hearing about how we need some sort of dues ex machina innovation to save us from climate change. Given the impressive improvements on renewable energy and battery storage, doesn't it seem likely that they are the best hope for such innovation?

To be clear, when I look at the data regarding carbon emissions and the implications there, I'm reasonably sure human civilization is boned, but is there any better hope than renewables? It doesn't seem like we ever really figured out nuclear. I've been hearing about how thorium reactors are some magic solution for maybe 20 years now, but you'd think that there would have been some progress on them somewhere in the world if they were really so helpful.
When I first heard or read this I think it used to be years, not months between each time he opened an envelope.
A valid diagnosis of one condition doesn’t preclude a litany of seriously dangerous other ones, either, correct?
> it's in the context of disengaging to let safety driver take over, in carefully controlled conditions.

There is no safety driver. This study is discussing the fully driverless level 4 autonomous vehicles that Waymo operates in California and Arizona.

This particular study show that those vehicles had accident rates 3-9x lower than human drivers, even after controlling for the limitations on where they operate (such as not operating on highways).
Archive link: https://archive.md/GODfa
The subtext of your argument is that you think you can legislate away human behavior.

There is a cheap process to make meth, and there’s another process that involves Sudafed. Banning Sudafed does not stop meth production. But here you are still supporting a ban on Sudafed - because of what some theoretical person might do with it ignoring that they’re doing it now without it.

I don’t believe this is a logical failure, I believe whatever culture you grew up in imparted this way of thinking.
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You often need to show the document to some kind of a third party, from a local government to your medical provider. People usually expect to get a nice PDF with that useless skeuomorth signature and put into their archive in case they will then have to show it to somebody else during audit or something. Document+signature is simply a convenient artifact. It's obviously very easy to manipulate, so the government invented this whole PKI stuff which nobody uses, as repudiation happens almost never and nobody provides validation services for the cryptography part of it.
So old that it's weird that the author would seemingly self-attribute it.
You're mixing up patents, copyright, and plagiarism. Similar but not the same ideas.

Copyright exists to protect a creator's right to the proceeds of their creative output. Copyright is pretty broad. If I tell a different story with your characters I'm still violating copyright.

Patents exist to protect an inventor's right to the proceeds of their invention. If you invent a true hoverboard and I buy one, reverse engineer it, and sell copies I'm in trouble. But if I am merely inspired by your creation to go invent my own hover tech that works differently I can sell that just fine.

Descriptions of the real world as it already exits do not get copyright or patent regardless of the work put in. No matter how good a job you do creating a map of New York you can't prevent someone else from making a map of New York.
I've never been a huge fan of Android due to its quirks – the annoying bloatware, the subtle yet persistent tracking, and the endless wait for security updates. It can be a real headache. However, what keeps me loyal to Android is open source and nod to the hacker culture (see xda), fostering an environment of innovation. This stands in stark contrast to the profit-centric motives that seem to dominate Apple's iOS.

In the Android world, it feels like Google is saying, 'Hey, go ahead, tinker with the code, use it for whatever you like.' (though it's far less open than it what it used to be tbh). Android makes it possible to even create hacker friendly hardware like the tv boxes and modular phones which is still a breath of fresh air for someone like me who values innovation and customization. On the other hand, Apple's iOS, with its polished exterior, often feels like a closed ecosystem where every change is meticulously controlled, primarily to maximize profits under the guise of ensuring security.

So, while Android may not offer the seamless, perfectly curated experience, the OSS part of it still makes up for it by promoting a culture of exploration and innovation. It's the difference between a platform that welcomes change and one that seems more focused on maintaining a pristine garden, even if it means stifling the potential for growth.
No one in the US outside of the billionaire/ultra high millionaire class is paying $150,000 a year for child care.
The iMessage “social pressure” is mostly a USA problem.
Europeans use whatsapp and some eastern use telegram.
Which is not surprising since iphone is and always was one of the most expensive phones to get.
Interesting! That doesn't really change the argument, does it?

"Where am I right now", is a different requirement than "where have I been, roughly, over the last 6 mo"
Great site! Surprised it doesn't list the prices transparently. Are you charging differently per region? (I saw you charge less than a month's membership - which is great, but clearly that varies locale to locale as I'm sure your costs do as well)
And for that matter, small-scale meth enthusiasts, wisely or not, were in fact robbing stores for it at the time. Meth access aside, there’s probably some social benefit to tamping down on robberies in these places where sick and vulnerable people need to go for their meds.
Blackberry thought BBM was their moat, and for a while it did seem that way. Teenagers worldwide were buying what had been a boring business phone just to get a BBM ID. Then some shinier phones came along and turned out no one really cared about which app they used for texting.
A combination of good capabilities, ease of learning, and low commitment (casual, a few days or even hours of effort to meaningful result) can go a long way. Remember Flash.
2024 Will Be a Big Year for Small Models
> Why this car, and not all cars? If I fail to assume control of my steering wheel, I will also crash.

The short answer is because this isn't a deterministic "if". The probability matters too.

The thing is in a normal car you're forced to be alert all the time. With autonomous driving, 99%+ of the time you have nothing to do. Humans simply cannot pay as much attention all the time when they're not actively forced to. It's much easier to lose attention (drowsiness, chatting with people, etc.) than if you're physically already driving.

And moreover, regaining control of a car requires some context switching time that isn't there when you're already in control.

If my car is going to disengage and at a random point (whether due to my fault or otherwise), I'd rather just be in control the whole time.
I'm out of the (hyper)loop... what was he saying did make economic sense then?
The United States has similar laws in place. There have even been cases where people were convicted for responsible disclosure, since they had to circumvent the system to determine that there was indeed an exploit. It's not as common as it used to be, but there are plenty of small financial firms that would still go after someone reporting an exploit.
I've yet to dip my toes into Wasm. This might push me to finally get going. Based on a quick search, Wasmer and Wasmtime appear to be the two most popular runtimes with the latter being backed by some big names (via the Bytecode Alliance). Wasmer seems to push new features first. Can someone share what their experience was like with either or why they chose one over the other?
I think the problem is this misunderstands what FPGAs are good at. They're actually very bad (or at least painfully slow) at calculations like your examples. GPUs are good at that.

FPGAs excel in parallelizing very simple operations. One example where FPGAs are good is where you might want to look for a specific string in a network packet. Because FPGAs are electronic circuits you can replicate the "match a byte" logic thousands of times and have those comparisons all run in parallel and the results combined with AND & OR gates into a yes/no decision. (I think the HFT crowd do this sort of thing to preclassify network packets before forwarding candidate packets up to software layers to do the full decision making).
Generally speaking extreme temps don’t coexist with wind for very long. Wind, after all, convects air around, and fundamentally you’ll have the extremes mixed with non-extreme air.

Like a heat dome, for example, is only possible when there’s no wind to push the dome away.
> …made to be unreliable due to interference by Apple…

What a brazen characterization. They try to take a free ride on someone else's infrastructure by a process akin to breaking and entering, charge their own users for it, and when Apple fends them off, they call it interference. I'm speechless.
I'm thinking Ctrlera™.
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> Neither privacy abuse nor cops lawlessness are "young".

Agreed, but I was trying to comment about digital privacy which is a fairly new issue.

> constitutional amendment would allow for a general principle. US laws really do not.

That's pretty much my point. We already have a similar amendment (the fourth amendment) already officially ratified, so this is not unprecedented.

The problem with the fourth amendment is that it was written in a time when the government would need to physically go somewhere and take something, so there is no general principle allotted for digital privacy.

At the same time, there _are_ laws governing ownership of data which made sense when it was the credit reporting agencies trading information for legitimate business purposes, but now we are in a very different landscape of what information can be stored, traded, transmitted, sold at a scale never before seen. These laws would need to be revised and would need the heft of a constitutional amendment to drive that process.
> “As those things get scaled up, they start to make a meaningful change in the user experience and enable new innovation which has the potential to create a new upgrade cycle in smartphones.”

Interesting read. "Create a new upgrade cycle" is a phrase that's almost too on the nose, but will be interesting to see if the AI-powered feature set genuinely justifies an upgrade. I have a hard time imagining someone wanting to shell out 4 digits to be able to run ex. stable diffusion locally if they weren't already in the market for a new phone, but maybe I'm underestimating the AI hype wave right now. I could see predictive typing or improved voice assistants being the two biggest opportunities for a killer feature, but even then not sure if the value proposition would change that much, especially if the battery life takes any hit whatsoever.
Yes, absolutely thanks to all who keep our world running when no one is looking. To keep the yule log on Youtube, to keep our christmas tree lights on, to keep a fresh glass of water from the tap, warm natural gas to keep the freezing cold outside etc. Thank you for keeping society ticking away :)
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723309
A lot of "exploits" are simply a certain level of trust that normal people have in each other

I'd rather have him out than live in an absolute zero trust environment
I don't know how this argument can hold? Malls charge their tenant stores a fee to lease space. Why shouldn't app stores?

I use an application that supports plugins from 3P developers. The number of times some script is broken because a certain developer fat fingered their own config drives me mad. Whereas the experience of downloading apps from the Play Store is seamless.
Which was also dupe-closed to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722246 (139 points, 262 comments)
I feel like I read this exact comment in 2018. And I am certain I'll read it again in 2028, even as Waymo is operating in dozens of cities and serving millions of trips per week. Because with the Tesla religion, the magical AI rapture is always just around the corner.
Another way to look at it is that there would always be a fixed cost to operating any global messaging network that would probably be at least a million dollars a year. Piggybacking on Apple's already-built network and focusing only on marginal cost sidesteps the reality that standing up a service that big from scratch is very expensive. Even if iMessage were a decentralized network like email that allows federation, Beeper Mini would be on the hook for a much bigger bill.
The sentence sound very... Soviet.
This would be a total waste of effort when you need to be building a product and iterating. I hate articles like this because they do a poor job contextualizing the tradeoffs and when it might be appropriate to do the weird exceptional thing.

IMHO if you have a performance critical case when foreign keys are in the way, load THAT data into an in memory DB on a recurring basis and server time sensitive requests from there.
Thanks, this is good. I wasn't trying to discredit, the site just seemed unprofessional and gave me a vibe.

I am curious, like the other poster, how it says eating sugar isn't necessarily a cause but sugary drinks are. I wonder if that's due to their use of fructose?
In large part because of Google's cajoling and creation of Jibe. The carriers view messaging as a software product. At this point because basically every phone is running android or ios thus supporting a lower level carrier protocol is of questionable value for them when anyone can submit an app and run their own infrastructure to support a messaging protocol.
Yeah that's a good page and covers the weirdness of the term well. You read 'rootless cosmopolitan' in English and think 'ah yes, Soviet antisemitism and Stalin's abortive final purge'. And that's not at all wrong! But the term as used by the Soviets is not a simple euphemism like, dunno, 'urban youth' is in the US.

The ideological terms where picked fairly carefully with an eye towards 'ideological soundness' and had multiple purposes. 'Rootless cosmopolitan' was an antisemitic dogwhistle, it was also part of a deliberate effort to shift to a more Russia-centric Soviet ideology. In a way it was also a Russian dogwhistle so tptacek was kind of right after all, completing the pedanticircle.
I thought AMD had to spin off their fabs due to cost and cash flow issue because Intel was too busy playing dirty?
It served its purpose of diverting attention (and so funding) from high speed rail, which is a threat to his business of selling cars.

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lan...
This is exactly the issue (plus the stalking and the paying employees for inside access)

He's not a "grey hat", he was actively extorting those orgs
Depending on what kind of signature it is, the burden of proving it's validity can also fall on a different side.
Robert Goddard designed a vacuum train in the 1910s, why did Elon think it was going to work a century later?
It can be nice for groupby-aggregate logic. And it feeds into plotnine.
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Back-updated to cover 2000 to 2020: "outsource", "on shore", "blame tarifs".
I could swear I at least once received an email that was sent to myname.mydomain@gmail.com or something similar in my myname@mydomain email. It's been several years but I remember thinking that was fucked up and looking into the full email to see if there was any other explanation for me receiving it, which I did not find.
It's the same process for any amount up to the limit.
Part of this I'm sure is management style and culture (Nvidia famously has a very strong get-it-done-at-all-costs culture for example) but I think the reason these ventures were persisted is because the founder (Jensen Huang) is still CEO and controls the majority of the company.

Intel now, without Andy Grove and the founders steering the culture[0] it seems there is no-one who is able to steer this ship past quarterly results anymore.

AMD had suffered decades of mishaps and near bankruptcy to finally find competent leadership in recent years which turned the company.

[0]: After all, one core virtue that Andy Grove had was "only the paranoid survive", which in context, was all about never getting too comfortable with your market position. Granted, they also engaged in many illegal practices as essentially a monopoly in the 90s. I guess they lost his second virtue of Competitive Mindset which as Grove saw it viewed competition as the key driver of innovation and progress. This was out the window by then, though I don't know if he was effectively leading the company by 96. He stepped down in 98, but he had health problems before that - eventually diagnosed with prostate cancer. This is all to say that Intel's culture is a mixed bag of unhealthy paranoia and being used to being #1 in their categories, which is all incoming executives and major shareholders see when they think Intel. There's no-one to faithfully steer the ship back to clear waters it seems
I honestly don't see it like that anymore. You paid in to buy the object but you're still asking for permission to use their overall ecosystem.

I think it's more like a child buying a teams jersey so that he can play on the team, but he can still get kicked off the team if he doesnt follow the rules. You can't argue "but I paid for the uniform with your logo, you must let me play 1st base!"

Sure the child still owns the uniform, and maybe he can get some use out of it or sell it off for spares (parts) to other people, but him paying doesn't make him own the team.
Something where this immediately has an advantage over Obsidian is not having to pay for the sync feature to have the notes synced between your phone and your laptop.
It's part of AOSP- is this it in their git tree? https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Laun...
I'm of the same opinion. I also don't live with a false sense of security in "just trusting Apple" with everything. I know Android is more open for both tinkering and with less privacy (though that's been improving).
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As someone who cooks quite a lot, it's not propaganda. Induction has 2 minor/moderate annoyances vs gas: It gets low temp by varying the time the burner is on full and heating diminishes rapidly if the pan isn't in close contact with the element. The former can be super annoying in some situations (i.e. making a sauce) as the sauce boils for a second, then gets too cold non stop. The latter can be a big problem if your pans warp even a bit (i.e. most non cast iron pans) or if you are basting.

That being said, I currently cook on induction at home because the annoyances above have work arounds/mitigations and the cleanup/ lack of heating the room of induction vs gas is worth more to me than not being annoyed sometimes. I don't like the pressure to get rid of this stuff, it should be individual choice depending on your own personal situation.
They’d have to define and document a “safe” subset of HTML, and implement a filter/checker for it. Otherwise we’d end up with papers containing ads and tracking and XSS vulnerabilities and whatnot.
Though CA “high speed” rail is so profoundly dysfunctional that it was hardly worth Musk’s efforts.
Are you implying that burying carbon waste is NOT an unsolved problem?
> How does recycling reduce plastic pollution? It's degrading and destroying the same plastic over and over. You're taking the high-quality plastic that would have sat in a landfill, making it into a lower-quality plastic and then sending it back out in the world. And then eventually... yep, the landfill, in the best-case scenario.

> Recycling just increases the chance that it's going to end up as low-quality plastic polluting the environment.

Recycling was/is a scam

https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recyclin...
> Furthermore, I bet Beeper was outright hoping for a lawsuit from Apple

Doubtful. Beeper has several legitimate causes of action to bring their own suit, if they really expect that outcome (and more importantly, if they have the financial resources to litigate)
This really depends on the size of your data set. If you have a large database (TBs+) it's likely to be very long-lived due the effort/hardware resources a migration requires - especially if you want to improve the schema when migrating.
This is actually a very good reason to not tell them your real name, but go by an alias.
Sometimes people really are guilty.
That's one side of the equation. The other side that's being explored is to vary the demand side. Only use 90 GW when 90 GW is available, and run the aluminum smelters undercapacity when there isn't the solar power to run them at full capacity.

It's an interesting balancing equation that someone could make an interesting game out of.
> It would be neat if they offered submitters the chance to upload their own HTML version alongside the PDF version, instead of always relying on an automatic conversion process.

Please don't. Then you will have a mismatch between the source and the "own html" which ruins the point of uploading the source.
nice! will make reading papers on the phone so much more pleasant!
A lot of citations just use Fox News, Vox, CNN, etc. as fact.

Wikipedia isn't very serious about scientific/objective truth.
Oh, my goodness. DALL-E really loves bombing cities. Both the Golden Gate and the "DAG Diagram" starting image turn into disturbing mushroom-cloud series.

It looks like "Sun centered over city -> Eye of Sauron -> Energy Beam of Destruction -> Mushroom Cloud" is a reliable pathway.

Oh well, at least it didn't blow up Royce [Taj Ma]Hall.
Large ERP systems do that sort of thing as a matter of course and have for decades now. It does require careful planning and design. I mean AR / AP / scheduling / manufacturing / inventory and so on.

The main downside of splitting everything into isolated databases is that it makes it approximately impossible to generate reports that require joining across databases. Not without writing new and relatively complex application code to do what used to require a simple SQL query to accomplish anyway.

Of course if you have the sort of business with scalability problems that require abandoning or restructuring your database on a regular basis, then placing that kind of data in a shared database is probably not such a great idea.

It should also be said that common web APIs as a programming technique are much harder to use and implement reliably due to the data marshalling and extra error handling code required than just about any system of queries or stored procedures against a conventional database. The need to page is perverse, for example.

That does not mean that sort of tight coupling is appropriate in many cases, but it is (typically) much easier to implement. Web APIs could use standard support for two phase commit and internally paged queries that preserve some semblance of consistency. The problem is that stateless architecture makes that sort of thing virtually impossible. Who knows which rows will disappear when you query for page two because the positions of all of your records have just shifted? Or which parts of a distributed transaction will still be there if anything goes wrong?
This is one of the saddest things about American life. I still have intense memories of being surrounded by cousins, mostly living in the same city, as a small child in Bangladesh. My wife had the same experience growing up in Oregon. Very sad that my kids will never have the same experience.
That's the corporate equivalent of losing $10.