skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that the dogshit is so much worse than it used to be. Unfortunately, I also contributed to this. When I was 13 or 14, I scripted a little tool that allowed me to write one tech news blog post and generate multiple versions of it by simply swapping phrases, adding practically zero value. You'd be surprised (or not) how much of a tech news blog is repetitive wording, mainly to fill yet one more adsense banner after a new paragraph. It was not based on AI, but the core principle was the same as the example in the article.

I published each version on a separate WordPress blog covering roughly the same topic, chose random pictures, set random publish dates close to each other, and signed them all up for Google News. This non-AI dogshit dominated a small tech niche, making a decent amount of money at the time for a 14-year-old. I am pretty sure I was not the only one coming up with that idea at the time.
I don't get why solar is so popular.

In more northern regions, you get much less light in the winter. You effectively can only generate around one tenth of the energy you can in the summer - this is from experience talking to others who monitor their solar installations.

But, you need more energy in the winter. People are in more, using electricity for heat cos it's colder. I'm pointing out that there is a supply/demand reversal. Sure there are sweet spots in spring and autumn, but when you really need energy, you have less.

You can mitigate some minor fluctuations with batteries.... Ie you can smoothen things a bit, but you can't really take the summer's excess, to use in the winter.

It just seems like a fundamental mismatch, that leaves you exposed, when you need the most amount of support.
It can work if the other car took more of the damage than it would have compared to a collision with a "squishier" car. Would be interested to see a Cybertruck vs Cybertruck crash.
Me too. Another vote for them.
So you need to have two generation systems. Certainly possible, not cheap.

I assume in this conversation that we want:

* reliable power
* affordable power

If you relax those assumptions you open up the solution space. It isn't clear to me how much you can relax those assumptions though.
yeah, that's insane. i used to work in a pretty regulated industry and they would have all the calibrations done by the metrology department and every instrument would be tagged and made sure to be in compliance. you don't need some wrench manufacturer telling you to calibrate.

how does this help some guy in a shop somewhere that doesn't need strict calibration schedules and bought the wrench secondhand or even firsthand?
That's been true for at least a month, not new with (though it may have been in anticipation of) teams support.
N=1. Cybertruck driver reported minor injuries: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/28/24018383/tesla-cybertruc...
> Hashing every word typed

Wouldn’t work if your password contains spaces.
But it isn't a password for Microsoft's services that's being sent. It's your username and password for another service you probably didn't intend Microsoft to have your credentials for. And it's intended.
Gold does. The analogy holds.
I assume they mean they updated their dependencies to the latest. That's somewhat valid.

The trap is this: you have a strong need to update a dependency for a bug fix (particularly security fixes), but the update isn't compatible. So you've got no good option: either live with unfixed bugs or pay the price to update your app to the latest version.

There is some wiggle room though. (1) libraries will often maintain a compatible branch for important fixes. (2) you can often find and apply just the fix/fixes you want to your own version of the library. Obviously, you start to lose the benefit of someone else maintaining the library for you, but when you aren't paying for it, you should always understand that is a nice but temporary state of affairs, so enjoy it while it lasts. (Actually, even when you are paying -- maybe even a lot -- you can still get left behind.)
You're wrong. I don't need more than one data point to make that conclusion.

I pay for protonmail, and I'm very happy with what I get. I can even use it as a client for receiving and sending email from my own domain. So, if ever I were to want to get away from it, my accounts won't be tied to the email provider.
> I bet the enterprise discounts don't kick in until you're at the tens of thousands of users

I'll take that bet ;)
Not really sure about OpenAI, but you can absolutely negotiate with almost any company.
> As far as why such an obvious program isn't being carried out, it's because politicians

Occam's razor: perhaps simply because the idea can't work.

"Eighty-four distinct chemicals" - so what? There is already an uncountable number of man-made chemicals yet we are not all dieing of cancer at grossly accelerated rates beyond what's natural. Weak signals are hard to find in noisy data.

BBQed food is carcinogenic - does that mean we should ban the uncountable number of chemicals caused by a BBQ?
Preprint at arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04848
We wrote image processing pipeline stuff in C++.

Backend of the backend.

The shock was encountering the value system of modern corporations and even individual ICs.

I’m not going to get more specific, but let’s just say that I have a value system that does not mesh well, with today’s tech culture.
Well, perhaps they meant "vast majority of people that count", which for them includes F7F7F7, F7F7F7, and of course F7F7F7! :-)
I put on my robe and wizard hat.... for the last time. :'(
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SublimeText, Notepad++, CudaText and LiteXL have acceptable performance, memory footprint and responsiveness for my taste (but this is certainly not a benchmark, just another subjective viewpoint :) )
Companies like Hertz have a lot of issues that people don't consider, and making another division in the fleet makes it worse.

Over time, one-way rentals tend to congregate specific vehicles in specific areas, and so you have to have ways of "undoing" that. Having EV cars slowly pool in an area is going to be perhaps MORE annoying than just having too many SUVs, because most people will say "ooo free SUV upgrade" but will balk at "ooo free EV upgrade".

That with the double-whammy of dropping resale value (because new ones are cheaper) along with additional customer complaints, means they really have no major reason to continue.

If the EVs were working for them, they'd buy more to replace the ones aging out of the fleet.
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I second this. Coworking spaces or maker spaces are great if you are doing a show + tell metup. The one I host is more of a social one, so we can get away with meeting at pubs.
Re "...The individual system was vouched for by senior people......"

The obvious mistake most likely made here is these senior people where not asked , " exactly how they formed this opinion." and what specific evidence they had.

I would have said , if they could NOT produce the evidence , that verified their statement, their is no way they could make the statement as accurate about the system accuracy.

The people must not have had experience in software development and testing.
Why do actions use VM’s instead of containers? And yet codespaces use containers.
It seems disingenuous to talk about "short-term" costs when we are talking about grid-scale energy systems. It is the long-term costs that are important when evaluating capital intensive systems.
Chinese company's rocket debut makes waves by launching from the sea
Clearly here what's meant by mall is "shopping center," modeled on the first one in the 1950s in the twin cities, not places like the National Mall in D.C.
Showing that there are smaller scoped packages does not prove your point.

You have to prove that it has less of the software available on other distros. Even if you could find a billion small packages that represents only a single package in every distro this is not evidence or a proof that support your claim.

Simply put, you need to show where nix does not have a larger number of packages that are available on other distros.

Given that nix is mostly automated and pulls from the same root sources as every other distro you are going to be hard pressed to find a significant number of cases where nix lacks a package.

Not misleading.
This is an absolute dream for anyone with a services business ready to re-up or replace their fleet of vehicles.

Most of these hertz teslas were barely driven and those with defects are generally pretty easy to catch and they're desperate to get rid of them at bottom of the barrel prices.

It almost makes me want to quit my dev job and start a plumbing or electrical biz.
I really doubt that, but one thing that stands out is the usage of stainless steel body panels, which make repairs both harder and more expensive. Go ask anyone that had to repair a Delorean what they think of stainless for body panels..
It's a longstanding debate in cancer medicine -- google "turtles, rabbits and birds".

What is not a debate is that increased screening inevitably leads to false-positives. It's a mathematical certainty. But yes, you hope that you find more rabbits than turtles.
EVs cost more in almost every way... I had to pay $900 for 3 weeks of super charger ... And since it was a rental the cost was a surprise at the end.
RIP #linuxhelp and #linux. Some good times there. Now bash.org is gone its like it never happened.
Depends on where you live -- where I'm at, there's no time of day based savings (unless you're a big industrial user, IIUC).
That's absurd, there are many large corporations in Germany, including VW, BMW, SAP, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, Bosch. A lot of the Mittelstand is also directly dependent on those large corps as their subcontractors.
> For example someone who is a heavy smoker (ie. a pack a day) gets cancer at a rate of 25% in their lifetime should they live to age 80

I'm curious what the odds are for an 80 year old light or never smoker. Is it 24%? 2.4%? .0024%? Do you know?

Also curious how long you have to live as a non smoker to get to that equivalent 25%. I'm under the impression that everyone gets cancer if you live long enough.
Sadly wind doesn't blow as hard during the night anyways
I hope there is more going on behind those eyes than not being a regex expert
> People who made no sense.

My company made some bad decisions and had two rounds of layoffs as a result. I was cut in the first round. My boss is also a friend and confirmed over beer that the highest paid of us were the first to go.

I had negotiated higher pay based on past experience when I joined. So it goes.
Often you want to limit the expressive power, in order to obtain other important guarantees. E.g. much of the time you don't want a Turing-complete language, because it must be able to express a never-terminating program.

HTMX is expressive enough for many smaller cases. If your case requires more richness, you can always pick React, Vue, Elm, etc, and be able to do basically anything on the client side.
parent said: "no one in either car was hurt". If the cybertruck didn't have any damage it means that no energy was dissipated by "squishing it", basically it made the impact twice as bad (compared to a regular squishier car) for the occupants of both cars.
Maybe indeed no one got hurt, but then it means that the crash was at super low speed.
I’m afraid that already happened after World War I, according to the final sentence of 1066 and All That <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That>:

> America was thus clearly Top Nation, and History came to a .

(For any confused Americans, remember . is a full stop, not a period.)
Ask HN: What Twitter Tools got killed by the API pricing
We we're wondering, what are some tools that got killed or shutdown because of the API pricing changes
I don't understand the point. They are going to replace the Uber EVs with Priuses or whatever and still save a bunch of money. So what's the argument?
Is it limiting tracking, or potentially exposing a untrusted middleman with knowledge of all your traffic, and who it belongs to?

What is the difference between the ISP knowing this and being a problem, but the VPN sitting with the exact same information, also knowing it?
I would think that car rentals would be one of the slowest areas for electric adoption. You're immediately limited to people only intending to drive short distances, which is less common for car rentals than day-to-day car ownership. Of those, many will be people far from home where they're not familiar with the charging infrastructure. Maybe they can stay at a hotel with chargers, but what if there are only a couple and they don't get one one night? It just sounds like a way to make planning a trip more complicated.
> > your IMAP and SMTP username and password are transmitted to Microsoft in plain text.

I think that is not true. I think that is a lie on Proton's behalf.

When I set up the email client, it connects via OAUTH2 to the other services. It's connected as an app and not via credentials. If it connected via bare credentials, then it'd be a "legacy app" and you'd need to generate an "app password" for it, but you don't.
Dacia is indeed Renault-owned. Dacia is a Romanian, Renault is a French company. But the car is made in China.
Companies aren't charities, but if they don't act charitably towards employees it's a bad deal for employers and employees.

I think that was their point. To not be taken advantage of employees are incentivized to do as little work as possible.
Mine too. I used to co-host a "New in town" meetup and had a blast the whole time.
I'm pretty sure the great majority of users nowadays have only ever interacted with the internet through apps on a tablet or phone. And even the dinosaurs who "logged on" when desktops and icons were a thing knew how to launch different apps on their computer for different purposes because that's how Windows worked, and people were using home computers before the web and web browsers even came along.

The decision to appify the web was an economic one made not on behalf of the end user, but corporations. It's cheaper to write a website or a webapp than a native application, to distribute bits than burn a CD or cartridge. It's cheaper to publish in bits than ink and paper. It's cheaper to handle electronic forms than physical, mailed in forms. It's cheaper to send an email than call someone on the telephone.
What does age have to do with it?

"Turn that frown upside down" isn't a phrase that would make much sense to people who didn't hear it before. More so if English isn't their first language or they are neurodivergent.

I don't believe I have ever heard this phrase used IRL. It's not a very nice thing to say in most contexts (saying this to another adult is outright bad - which is what makes the IRC joke funny in the first place).
Yeah, and tbh, I'm hearing that their return fees are actually pretty reasonable. If you can return at less than 75% for only $25, just do that. Supercharging isn't particularly cheap anyway, so you can't save that much money with a long wait.
You could back in the early days (I did it), not sure today.
Some people jokingly call Spring Boot a framework to manage Spring - another framework.

If having a entrypoint function/object is enough to call something a library then both Spring Boot and Spring are just libraries. But in reality they are not - so entrypoint rule is not correct.
Interesting!

> getting calories

It's not the calories. It's the fats, trace nutrients, amino acids, cholesterol, etc. Otherwise we'd all have no trouble being vegetarian.

In any case, it's easy to agree that microplastics and pesticides are probably bad. Even if meat eating does cause cancer, it's harder to characterize it as an "addiction" and more as a biological tradeoff that our bodies made millennia ago.
EVs cost more in almost every way... I had to pay $900 for 3 weeks of super charger ... And since it was a rental the cost was a surprise at the end.

In addition to that, they gave me a model 3 when I was trying to rent the most basic gas model (for the same price). I'm glad I got to try it but never again. I thought I was getting a good deal...
Corsair, Asus, and others are making it easier to build a beautiful PC
Bingo. Local organizers are so key.
GitHub Actions computing time is crazy expensive. Especially the Mac prices.
I'm looking forward to watching Battlebots style 1v1 philosophy arguments from AI. Twitch could begin developing that platform today.
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> But they wanted more than twice as much for a model 3 than any other compact sedan, so I ended up with a gas powered Kia instead.

I mean, they were only going to charge twice as much for a car that costs 3x as much.
I am currently trying to prep for SWE roles where my focus would be performance / scalability, so this course is extra topical for me. Thank you for sharing.

Here are some other resources for people interested in improving their understanding of performance:

- "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" by Hennessy and Patterson. The "Computer Organization" book by the same authors is also good. Both of these
resources were extra useful when building deeper intuitions about GPU performance for ML models at work and in graduate school.

- CMU's "Deep Learning Systems" Course is hosted online and has YouTube lectures online. While not generally relevant to software performance, it is especially useful for engineers interested in building strong fundamentals that will serve them well when taking ML models into production environments: https://dlsyscourse.org/

- Compiler Explorer is a tool that allows you easily input some code in and check how the assembly output maps to the source. I think this is exceptionally useful for beginner/intermediate programmers who are familiar with one compiled high-level language and have not been exposed to reading lots of assembly. It is also great for testing how different compiler flags affect assembly output. Many people used to coding in C and C++ probably know about this, but I still run into people who haven't so I share it whenever performance comes up: https://godbolt.org/
Dumb comment alert.

> GUIs and proprietary protocols have killed Emacs

I used it this morning. Dired, specifically. To look through files for a meeting. Used it yesterday to edit. Meh.
It is a Strongly Typed language (and always has been), It's just Dynamically Typed.
Yes, but please keep things in context. We're transitioning away from baseload, but it's a major endeavor and not going to happen over night. I think the HN crowd is a little overzealous in this area. NERC is reporting the potential for energy shortages in many regions in the United States. This was once virtually unheard of. Solar alone isn't going to fix this in the next few years and many regions still have only tiny amounts of demand that is responsive to price.
Yeah nothing of substance here. I will say that theres nothing with Rabbit that I see impresses me that I can't already do with Google voice assistant.
gen-z channels ee cummings
IME rental car agreements prohibit taking them "off road" which might include tracks. No idea about US (EDIT not Japan) specifically.
Well I do art in the evenings and weekends, so we exist you know
sometimes you need to be able to run containers within your action, which can get complicated if you're already in a container
It was a growing trend even before ChatGPT was released. The trend accelerated, but it's not new.
CNBC did a better job than this low-density article.

Why Hertz’s Bet On Tesla Isn’t Paying Off In The U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfbkvUXTV_I

"pricing troubles, skyrocketing repair costs and low resale value"... They turn their fleet over every 2-years or so, so resale value is important, and with prices of new EVs coming down, the resale value will be significantly lower than a new model.
The term "SUV" has changed tremendously, when I was younger an SUV was a Suburban or maybe the smaller Bronco - barely would apply to a Jeep.

Modern "compact" or "crossover" SUVs are just hatchback cars. Some are quite small, they're just named differently to make people buy them.

The real loser has been minivans, station wagons, and actual hatchbacks. There's no reason to buy a sedan when on the same footprint you can get an SUV with more room.

Tesla Model 3 length: 185.8″

Volkswagen Taos length: 175.8″
>But, you need more energy in the winter. People are in more, using electricity for heat cos it's colder. I'm pointing out that there is a supply/demand reversal. Sure there are sweet spots in spring and autumn, but when you really need energy, you have less.

Northern areas tend to use fossil fuels for heating at higher rates, and less heat pumps.
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I'm wondering if someone can recommend a Windows email client for gmail and outlook. The official ones are so slow especially for Outlook that it dies for half a minute when opening up. I do have multiple accounts so that could be the reason, but there should never be 30 seconds of non-responding when opening up the app.
It may. And given the claim that most of the web is dogshit, that means that most of everything we are consuming is dogshit. Unless we can come up with a model and framework for discernment. And we don't have a workable one.
You do recall that the source control doesn't disappear, even after support is pulled? I've built ancient versions (specifically in case of SSH, to get arcfour for whatever convoluted system); this wasn't a simple operation, but feasible, even for someone with just a general knowledge of SSH and its build toolchain.

Maintaining code also takes time and effort: smaller codebase, effort better spent. If it's too costly to just keep an ancient version of ssh around, and even too costly to pay someone to do that for you, how's it suddenly NOT too costly for the maintainers? If you're going to the lengths of having a special airgapped network of legacy systems, how do you NOT have the tools to use with those systems?
The important factors with meat consumption are: 1) how they're prepared ('low and slow' is the best method of cooking, i.e., at a relatively low temperature and for a relatively long time in order to avoid creation of AGE's and trans-fats); and 2) how they're preserved, whether through salting, smoking, application of nitrites (different from nitrates!), &c.
Which is why I have no intention of ever buying a car from Tesla. I don't want to be the victim of the collective lessons learned we've learned over the past 100 years that Tesla blithely ignores because they believe they're the smartest people in the room.
Depends on whether your jurisdiction has time of use pricing.
For those confused by this comment, "It" refers to the coal power plant from the article, not the Kahe powerplant in the parent comment. I definitely went down a bit of a rabbit hole trying to confirm/deny that Kahe or Waiau shutfown before realizing my confusion.
Some other Unity games that are fun, and which others haven't mentioned:

Cuphead

Escape Academy

Overcooked

Monster Sanctuary

Lunistice