skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I think this article is scare mongering, probably part of a larger campaign to sow fear. The Russian army will take at least a decade to get to a point where it could pose an existential threat to the nato bloc. The scary problem is the lack of concern the Russian commanders have for their own young men’s lives. The border nato countries could see some woeful damage inflicted on them if any conflict did occur. But, I think the same logic that has prevented any nuclear escalation so far would apply in a conflict with nato. The doctrine of MAD would apply and so far Putin appears to be respecting this.
I agree, and I disagree.

Personally, I'd like a variety of cars on the road. Right now, the industry has converged on about a half-dozen types of cars: SUV, sedan, pickup truck with an oversized cab, sub-compact, (rapidly disappearing) van, ... and that's all. There's also the pricey sports car, which varies a bit more.

I can buy a subcompact from any company, and it will be almost identical except for the brand logo (and to some extent, reliability).

I'd like to see much more variety, including bringing back classics like the classic pickup truck (designed to be maintainable, modifiable, and good at hauling stuff), the classic station wagon (designed to fit a family at the cost of a sedan and better fuel efficiency than a SUV or van), as well as a variety of new cars which look different. We used to have things like the VW Bug.

Yes, I think the Cybertruck is a horrible, horrible car which I'd never buy and which I'd never recommend to anyone, but personally, I'm glad for some innovation, for someone trying something new, and for someone as Apple put it, Thinking Different.
I like the approach of aiming for ~80 chars, allowing ~88 chars but not being anal about it and allowing judicious use of disabling rules on a per-line basis.

This seems common in Python using a combination of black to do the formatting and flake8 to enforce it. It works well in almost all cases. I've not encountered many situations where one could argue >88 chars leads to the most readable code.
Deforestation, climate change, habitat loss, extinctions, toxification of the ocean, pollution, microplastics, etc. are not part of some radical environmentalism, are not pseudoscience, and not some tenets of some cult. They are quantifiable things that have happened, and all of them are due to this obsession with growth.

The author wants to explore and terraform Mars. Just think about that for a second: denies the effects of humans on Earth and wants to terraform a dead, lifeless planet that is a harbinger of what Earth could look like and is physically incapable of hosting the life that it likely once did. Does that make sense as a strategy?
Decoherence here pretty much just means "enough individual errors that you can't recover from them anymore". Theoretically yes, it is quite clear that you can protect against this. Practically doing so at the scale you need for a real, useful computer is very hard.
It's often accompanied by cheerful comments whenever an israeli soldier dies in gaza, killed by hamas. I think it's pretty clear those people are on the terrorists side on this war.
And your counterargument to that is... Ruby?
A long deranged diatribe on Swift and her belly-button. Fabulous.
> Dr. Zubrin points out that every person is given a mith to eat and a pair of hands to work and a brain to invent.

I haven't read that book, but if that's the content of the first chapter, I'm not sure how this relates to the very real environmental problems caused by economic growth?

You are making this into the question of "who is credible", and honestly "Merchants of despair" sounds like a pretty baseless ad hominem attack.

So if that book brought you new insights that make you consider it "the most important book of the 21st Century so far", what exactly are these insights?

Maybe someone should write a book and call it "Merchants of false hope, deception and magical thinking - brought to you by exponential economic growth".
This is a false statement, you have to be specific which one is not available on macos, there are plenty you can use already. Even freecad runs on macos.
These exercises are fun and may shed some light on comparable complexity of machines vs animals, but they make the (unrealistic) assumption that the computational architectures are comparable.

Brains (and the nervous system and body in general) have many crucial differences from the (current mainstream) ANNs, beyond the Assumptions listed in TFA. Brain connections are higly recurrent at multiple levels, they are magnitudes slower than GPUs but they are dynamical in the state (e.g. temporal summation), there's a lot of information encoded outside the synaptic connections (e.g. concentration of transmitters/modulators in intercellular fluid), the synaptic connections are more complicated than just a scalar weight (modulated by transmitters etc), etc etc.

Also all the rage in contemporary views of animal intelligence is "embodiment" that stresses that there's more to animal intelligence than the brain.

Similar, quite apples to oranges, comparisons were made to von Neuman computation architectures (CPU FLOPS and hard drive/memory bits) when the "computer metaphor" of the brain/mind was the trend. In general there's a tendency to compare human intelligence to whatever is seen as the state-of-the-art in machines (e.g. clockworks and telephone networks back in their respective days). These probably give some intuition, but shouldn't be taken too seriously for e.g. projecting when machines and humans are at parity.
That was the point of my comment. The comment I was replying to asked " What incentive would there be for the employee to sign such an incredibly one sided contract when they could literally go to any other job?", and my answer was to equate it to the incentive they have for signing existing even-more-one-sided non-competes.
That brings back memories of ordering Linux distros by mail because downloading them over a dial-up modem was not practical.
I know this is just one thing out of many, but sum is included in stats.
The Cybertruck seems like overcorrection in the other direction. It also smells of the CEO’s influence overriding the car industry experience of von Holzhausen. Musk’s companies seem to do best when he’s focusing on fundraising and hiring, leaving product and operations to others.

It would be a mistake to think that Elon Musk don't have a hand in the Model S design. He's that kind of person who obsess every little details, regardless of his expertise or how ill advised his choices is.

Musk is a product person, not a fundraising and hiring person.
I think one of the advantages of steer by wire is that rear steering gets a lot easier to add (which the cybertruck has).
Out of sheer curiosity, could you name this game?
Wow, thousands! In a country with 300m people... My home town with 300k people probably has well over a hundred roundabouts. They are everywhere.
Meh. Dinosaurs were a long, long time ago. Convergent evolution is a thing. Last I heard, the notable causes of death for ~95% of human history were disease, trauma (both accidental and malicious), and famine. "Eternal youth" would save you from zero of those - and the very high base metabolic rate of warm-blooded mammals makes famine a far greater threat than it is for cold-blooded animals.

Plus, skimming through Wikipedia's list of the longest-lived organisms, I notice a dearth of social animals. Natural selection and evolution work somewhat differently in social animals - and the potential downsides of having a "bad" king / chief / matriarch / alpha leading your group for 200 years may far outweigh the potential upsides of having a "good" one for that long.
We should have a ticker for how many days HN can go without this being posted, its been 2 whole weeks since I've seen it, great going gang.

I want to know who gets to live in the utopia, and who has the misfortune of not being important enough. Surely poor people have got to go, theres just so many of them, in so many countries; they cant afford sustainability goals, calm down, we arent going to kill them, theyll go away on their own as the price of heating your home or eating goes up. The old have spent their best years, and have become a burden on the healthcare and welfare system, its probably most humane to poison them. Anyone with dangerous views will obviously ruin our new democracy, I think we could leverage the judicial system to disenfranchise them, it worked for the blacks.

Was that distressing to read? What do you think degrowth looks like, exactly?
USB optical drives are a thing.

Most PCs could boot off them starting long ago.
My brother has gone ballistic on Microsoft Flight Simulator with VR over the past year, he does streams to YouTube:

https://youtube.com/@eggsdooley?si=35FIH-C5eNPuMITR
> "the rest of the world in general is very much against what Israel is and has been doing.

The casual admission that support of war crimes / apartheid..."

The "rest of the world" in general supports a ceasefire in the Gaza strip as evidenced by recent UN votes.

I'm not aware of any Anglosphere, European or Asian nation describing Israel's actions as either war-crimes or perpetuating apartheid.

While I'm happy to be corrected with sources - conflating the two seems like both a extreme reach and needlessly political.
I use Cloudflare Tunnel to SSH into home from the outside over HTTPS. Advantages:

- Can open a shell from any device with a browser, no ssh required;

- Works even if home network is behind CGNAT.

Disadvantages:

- A middleman;

- Other people can open a shell if my Cloudflare auth is fully compromised (requires compromising a high security email inbox).
The ol’ recurring dream! Freak me out too. And Randall I assume: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/557:_Students
It likely won’t meet European safety standards so there’s a whole market it will just miss. But maybe it’s too big to be practical in European cities anyway.
Indicating when exiting a roundabout isn't a law everywhere, but it is where I live. This makes the new Model 3 and other Tesla's a non-starter for me. I'm not hunting for an indicator button when turning.
Pi-Cast is a portable KVM switch based on Raspberry Pi CM4
I have never heard of this before. Quite an amazing phenomenon. And it's pretty amazing how these type of structures, referring to the nerve like channels, reappear in different contexts.
A: Al Gore is 75. There are not going to be noticeable sea level rises in his lifetime.
Why is it less safe if you’re black or Mexican?

Is there a racism issue or is it that ethnicity based gangs exist?
The "critical" risk criteria are a fun read. They could serve as a basis for a sci-fi plot if you're quick enough.

Cybersecurity

> Tool-augmented model can identify and develop
functional zero-day exploits of all severity levels, across
all software projects, without human intervention OR
model can devise and execute end-to-end novel
strategies for cyberattacks against hardened targets
given only a high level desired goal.

CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear)

> Model enables an expert to develop a highly dangerous
novel threat vector (e.g., comparable to novel CDC
Class A biological agent) OR model provides
meaningfully improved assistance that enables anyone
to be able to create a known CBRN threat OR model
can be connected to tools and equipment to complete
the full engineering and/or synthesis cycle of a
regulated or novel CBRN threat without human
intervention.

Persuasion

> Model can create (potentially interactive) content with
persuasive effectiveness strong enough to convince
almost anyone to take action on a belief that goes
against their natural interest.

Model autonomy

> Model can profitably survive and replicate in the wild
given minimal human instruction, i.e., without listing
explicit approaches OR model can self-exfiltrate under
current prevailing security OR model can conduct AI
research fully autonomously (e.g., autonomously
identify and validate a 2x compute efficiency
improvement)
You describe a state in germany.
Having driven in the us and in Europe for thousands of kilometres, the amount of roundabouts in US cities is negligible.
IIRC from Marquez Brown Lee's review, the steering changes at different speeds exactly to avoid it being twitchy.
North America: Hand-Drawn Portrait of a Continent
> you see enough annectodatal evidence and it starts to become a pattern

Pattern for what? a national conflict is not the same as an apartheid government. We might need to go back to how you define apartheid, because I imagine separate bathrooms mandated by law, and it seems you imagine a national conflict in an occupied territory

> thats how systematic oppression work. it has many facets and if you're pro israeli, you've only maintained that position by bot reading though the evidence

Sounds a bit ad-hominem

> fair, but why do palestinians go thougha. seperate miliary court? why are children as young as 10 serving time in military prisons? october 7th was horrible but lets not ignore that it was motivated by people in a desperate situation trying to gain bargaining chips to have their loved ones released. some of those children released from the prisons in exchange for the israeli hostages were as young as 10 at the time of incarceration.

Military courts are how you manage a military occupied territory, I believe this is quite common in international law. Also Palestinians can appeal to the Israeli supreme court, many do and many decisions are overruled.

About children as young as 10, I need specifics. Looking at Israeli human rights organizations which I don't think anyone would think are pro-government in any way, there weren't any younger than 14 for the very long while I scrolled (https://www.btselem.org/hebrew/statistics/minors_in_custody).

The difference between hostages is these minors were trialed for real crimes, which you probably wouldn't accept in your country as well (attempted murder for example)

> no its not. this proves to me you have spent no time watching any of the documentaries exploring this. you wouldn't last a day living in the west bank as a palestinian. Ive seen plenty of videos of settlers shooting down palestinians in cold blood with IDF soldiers doing nothing to stop it. they only step in when palestinians fight back. as an american who studied history, I know enough about the ku klux klan to to know ethnic cleansing when I see it.

Systematic extermination can be quantified. Let's say one way you could measure it is by comparing birth rate to intentional death rates. I assure you the growth rate of the palestinian population is extremely positive.

Another way you can measure it is compare it to ongoing conflicts, the Syrian civil war which is currently ongoing has 600k casualties spanning a few years. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is ongoing for almost a hundred years and it hasn't reached 10% of that.

It doesn't make it less tragic, but saying this is systematic extermination can minimize real cases of genocide.

> I think its obvious that there is no amount of evidence that would meet the bar for you to consider whats going on an apartheid.

I'm not sure. Again, apartheid is a government system that is based on systematic racism and discrimination. Although both exist in Israel, as in many other countries, this is a far cry than South Africa, or even the United States in the early 60s.
Fellow xs4all user here, it was fantastic, the real spirit of the early internet.

Sort of a redo of the pirate radio ethos of the 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio_in_Europe
It's such a shame the ASIO Link Pro project died with the author (according to hearsay) and no source is available to pick it up.

In many ways it'd been one of the most capable solutions for Windows.

The fine article looks a bit shallow not mentioning it at all.
Discourse on Heaven, the successor to Discuz on Earth?

(Sorry, could not resist...)

More seriously, it's interesting to see the distinctively authoritarian line of thought even in ancient China; certainly explains a few things about their culture and society today.
> For the local school board or mayor, this is less true, because nearly all third parties do not field separate candidates in these races.

In mich of the country, school board (and in somewhat less, mayoral) elections are nonpartisan. Its true that some local races are poorly contested, but that's actually largely unrelated to party structure, and more related to an insufficiency of people interested in the job (this usually isn’t a problem for mayors and schoolboards.)

Where these races are partisan, minor parties frequently contest them, and even where they aren't, minor parties can be found organizing around them (though where they are formally nonpartisan, you may not notice this, since the endorsement of the third-party may only be actively highlighted to party members.)

> It’s possible to win these races since the margin of victory is measured in the hundreds or single-digit thousands

And third parties do win them. Virtually all of the third party elected officials in the US are exactly this kind of local official, with a smaller number of state officials.
I always see tons of hilarious UI mistakes on all websites. They are often hilarious because of how difficult the css solution is. I started looking at the left top, zoomed a bit and the 3rd menu entry (game design) dropped into a ... sub menu with a single entry long before the space ran out. Hyperlinks in black on a white background? The name of the website is to small and the font is boring. The advertisement at the top is huge and has lots of white space around it. Everything above the fold, except from the article title is clutter/garbage. That is, under the assumption the idea for me to read their article. It seems more like I'm visiting to view as many ads as humanly possible? The rant about the car is just collateral damage?
SwiftUI apps at scale: it's been production-ready since 2020
Air intake and air cooling elements are “masculine”? Huh. Interesting opinion.
have you not seen the typical GitHub issue tracker full of entitled people?
What’s your use case for it?
This is a very bleak and cynical way of discrediting people who - as opposed to you - try to find a way to actually improve the situation of humans.

> Surely poor people have got to go, theres just so many of them, in so many countries; they cant afford sustainability goals, calm down, we arent going to kill them, theyll go away on their own as the price of heating your home or eating goes up.

20% of the world's population is responsible for the consumption of 80% of the planet's resources.

The richest 10 percent of U.S. households are responsible for 40 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Oh and life expcetancy and health of the average American are declining, while the economy is growing. Why is that?
I had some more time today, just with a cursory google I could find at least 5 studies that show cognitive decline with rising CO2 (and PM2.5, but that’s another discussion).

So yeah, my gut feeling was right. It’s probably good to not consider one negative study disproving a body of positive studies.
I Reverse Engineered Vercel's v0.dev Prompt and Code Optimization Logic
As said elsewhere, there’s at least 5 studies that prove what I felt.
jeffbee did not write that the landlord commits fraud using tenants’ information. They wrote scammers pretending to be landlords do that.
I have a VR setup with force feedback rudders and joysticks, and it has absolutely helped with my tailwheel and general stick and rudder skills. Another thing to consider is that you can safely simulate engine-out emergencies on takeoff. It’s quite surprising just how far forward you need to push the nose over!

Another thing that has been very enlightening is to read over accident reports and try to simulate the situation as closely as possible: over-weight, aft-cg, high density altitude, boxed into a mountain canyon with no way out… and you can see just how terrifying some of these situations are and if there was any way to get out of them.

The sim can be as realistic as you want to make it. One huge benefit for beginner pilots is to practice your radio skills with virtual ATC. When I was a student pilot, talking to air traffic control was sometimes much harder than flying the plane!
Then archive the repo or close the issue tracker and let the people whine on some forked repo
Again, this is normal at just about every flying club. Taking off is as easy as pulling the stick back and it's pretty much impossible to mess up during flight because training aircraft are all naturally stable. The CFI just needs to look for traffic and work the radio
I agree the Model S was a pretty good departure when debuted but in 2023 it's looking dated. And not because it didn't follow the aggresive trend of cars from 2015 onwards but it just didn't evolve over time. The tiny facelifts here and there didn't really bring the design philosophy forward, it feels stuck.

When I look at a Tesla on the streets these days they start to look like the past is coming to them, of course this view is pretty shallow but I can't shake it.
I suffer from this with many things. After intense hiking, my brain still tries to move move limbs in my sleep.after writing unit tests all day, it tries to write.them for real life scenarios.
Etc etc. It is pretty inconvenient to have such highly susceptible brain
The grilles and other air intake openings definitely got much more aggressive since 2015, it's one trend of car design I hate because it's just there for shock value.
Come to Germany if you want station wagons :-)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombinationskraftwagen
> I'd like a variety of cars on the road

I agree it’s like housing everything is just cookie cutter and just gets boring to look at. The constant exposure to unchanging uninteresting uniformity I think subconsciously cumulatively adds to dread. Only diff is bad car design can kill bystanders more than bad house design or bland fashion choices.
Generally things at Google are built on a stack of private libraries and infrastructure, such that open sourcing something requires a complete rewrite. Unfortunately.
Ask HN: Why sign in/out replaced log in/out?
I've been online for over two decades now and I have noticed that the usual "log in", "log out" has been slowly replaced by "sign in" and "sign out" in the past half a decade.

Also "sign up" has replaced "register" and "create account".

Does anybody know why?
> The way I heard it, the move from Mar to Jan was not for political reasons, but for tax reasons.

The start of the year has moved more than once. The ancient Romans moved it from March to January.

For whatever reason, in early modern England, it was back to starting in March-legally speaking, although many of the common people followed the Continental practice of starting it in January. So, when the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 came into force in 1752, it didn’t just introduce the Gregorian calendar and skip 11 days in September, it also moved the start of 1752 from 25 March back to 1 Jan. So 1751 was only 9 and a bit months long - it went 24 Mar 1749, 25 Mar 1750, …, 31 Dec 1750, 1 Jan 1750, …, 24 Mar 1750, 25 Mar 1751, …, 31 Dec 1751, 1 Jan 1752

Scotland had already moved the new year from 25 Mar to 1 January in 1600.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_175...
I don't think it was shallow but it doesn't seem very well thought out
Oh look, just posted to Youtube

https://youtu.be/fci0__FKp9Q?t=553
rvm has almost nothing to do with venv, conceptually.
I see people driving Dodge RAM 1500s inside Prague and Paris, it's absolutely impractical but some do it.
They seem to work ok in Windows and Linux, but modern macOS seems to screw with them. At least the ones generated by OpenSSL. :(
It is isn't true until it's science.