skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should absolutely increase our industrial capacity but who gives a shit about the biggest Navy? Outside of the problem countries like China and Russia, we have military alliances with nearly every country on earth..

US has somewhere around 450 Navy vessels.. China has closer to 350 but is rapidly adding new tonnage. Sounds ominous! Except Japan has another 150, Australia has 50 more, the UK has 70 more, Spain has 150, France 180, Korea has 160, if some war ever comes down to the sheer number of available ships -- it literally won't matter who has more since the nukes will have flown long before some Canadian frigate is exchanging fire with some Chinese gunboat.
> The downsides are always fine and ignorable because of the financials

Do you sincerely believe that the downsides (which are, in the context of the forum in which you said what you just said, child abuse of all flavors) are always fine because of money? How is that even remotely defensible?
Wow, "Four Magic Words" is incredible. Up there with some of the best sci-fi short stories I've read.
In Panama? If anything there will be more rain, not less.
Not to be confused with “Surveilling escapist capitalism” (e.g. browsing the Netflix catalog).
So there’s no real use case. Got it.
What was the impetus for manufacturers to design it this way I wonder? It seems to me like you could easily implement regenerative braking in the same way by having the brake pedal respond to light pressure with regenerative braking, and firm pressure with brake pads. Then you don't lose the ability to coast, nobody has to learn anything new, and you don't have to transition from pedal to pedal if you need to surpass the capability of the regenerative brake.

Was there an engineering challenge? A safety concern? Do they think that using a single pedal has enough innate advantage that it overcomes the disadvantage of having to be learned? And if so, what's the innate advantage?
Additive manufacturing doesn't help much if you want to build Liberty ship volumes, or roller-bearing tolerances, unfortunately.
Ha, that's weird, I'm the opposite. I love manual transmissions, and anticipate that I'll always have a manual sports car in my life. But I also love one-pedal EVs. Such precise control, which is part of what I like about the manual. It's slushbox automatics I have no real love for.
I'm autistic and while it's nice to see ongoing research, I can't help but feel like this misses the point somewhat.

In particular I've seen a number of studies that make the jump from Fragile X syndrome to autism which I think is ill advised to say the least. There are a large number of genes[1] that are related to autistic individuals, and it's a very heterogeneous condition. In particular many, perhaps even most autistic individuals don't suffer from intellectual disability, don't have any physical characteristics which would set them apart from others, and don't tend to have problems with memory. All of these are characteristics of Fragile X syndrome.

> “Imagine being at a party, talking to a friend while music is playing in the background,” Frick says. “You have to integrate the sound of their voice with the movement of their lips.” But if there’s variability in sensory processing, socializing will be more challenging, he says.

And I'll take issue with this in particular. Frankly, the social issues of autistic individuals are wildly overstated and can be easily explained. Believe me, I know quite a few autistic folks and none of them have issues understanding when someone is speaking, we can tell. However, trying to sync up different minds that operate in different ways is a difficult problem.

Even among men and women with the same neurotype there's enough difference to cause _substantial_ misunderstandings. Enough ink has been spilled on the topic of relations between the sexes to fill oceans. And the difference between neurotypes is far more substantial than the difference between sexes in this regard. It's very easy for me to socialize with other autistic folks, I've had many conversations that have lasted hours on end. Doing the same thing with someone who is neurotypical though is much more difficult, and usually requires a willingness to put up with the awkwardness of not having the same vibe.

Finally, I won't go into anything about using mouse models for complex neurological conditions at the moment. But suffice to say, this article would be more properly titled "Noisy brain may underlie some of Fragile X syndrome's sensory features", but that probably doesn't get the same amount of attention.

[1] https://gene.sfari.org/
I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm. They just forgot /s.

Poe's Law in action.
How would that be passed down the genetic line?

Today's babies don't require psilocybin to become conscious.
> I’d prefer a “sailing” mode

Cruise control? If I'm keeping the same speed for more than like 5ish minutes I usually just turn on cruise control. So many cars have adaptive cruise control, and it often works in traffic pretty well. Many cars even handle stop and go in adaptive cruise as well. Both of my cars even let you set it digitally from the steering wheel, so I can accurately change my speed without touching any pedals at all.
This is actually a big problem for Germany, because the cited StGB 202 ff. penal code paragraphs have made security research in any private sector shape or form impossible, or at least highly unattractive.

Now a gap of almost 20 years has opened, where basically no young engineers have been interested in the field, let alone trained. The biggest companies with the deepest pockets have been mopping up anyone they could find. Top talent went abroad. And so the majority of German businesses which are SMB get hacked more every day. Nobody audits anything. Unfortunately, anything networked is a security risk these days.

I caution that it is highly naive to bet on this getting thrown out at higher court levels. Defendant is looking at YEARS of wasted brain cycles, trying to go from AG to LG to OLG to BGH. My guess is a 100k EUR of fees also wasted. And for what. Because a company couldn't properly secure their data, you told them that, and as a "thank you", they sued you in court?

My advice: If there is no clear bug bounty program, or it is not your own company, or you weren't tasked in writing and paid by the very company to find any holes, don't make it your problem. Suppress any good samaritan helper complex you might have. Wipe all files and talk to nobody. Especially not in your place of employment. Once a lawsuit is involved, anyone questioned will say "Oh, Mike from DevOps figured that one out from the hexdump". You will regret it.

Some of the older German infosec dogs are aggravated by this so much, that they refuse to help any governmental organization if there is an incident. Lernen durch Schmerz.
Gravity Industries locked out of Instagram account
Why is 'making things' tied to income or wealth? In the mid-20th century it was, but those are the 'good old days'. We don't want a mid-20th century economy.

The US has the most productive, wealthiest economy in the history of the world, and a very strong one at the moment, without so much of the 'making things'. Why change?

(And why do American taxpayers have to subsidize someone else's uncompetitive, unproductive business? Perhaps they are better off letting the free market allocate the revenue.)
Same here, getting into PTP, you end up studying a lot about timing on computers, and Dr. Mills is one of the main players in building up modern timing foundations! RIP, and thanks for all your contributions!
If any modern software company was given a spec sheet for Ventrilo (https://www.ventrilo.com/about.php) and asked to develop it, you would get back a few hundred Mb installer that needed to download additional components, would send telemetry to their servers all day and check for updates, add background services to startup, and consume half a gig of ram while continuously managing to use a percent or two of your CPU at idle and probably even tapping the GPU to do god knows what.

Meanwhile Ventrilo 3 has a 5.4 Meg installer, consumes 4 megs of RAM, and does none of those things. The newer bloated version has a 7.9 meg installer.
> In most EVs you can control the intensity of one-pedal breaking.

In all EVs you can control the intensity real time with your foot. I concede, though, that I have friends whose driving style is best described as "binary" and I imagine they wouldn't be big fans of one-pedal mode.
You shouldn't. You should care about the contractual terms you agreed to with them. If you did not agree to their ToS and acquired content from OpenAI elsewhere, go ahead.
That's an interesting thing. I wonder if 30 years from now, cars will all be electric but the pedal will still be called the "gas" pedal. It will be one of those words that kids don't understand where it came from, like "dialing" a phone or the file save icon.
You say no one wants that, then you describe doing exactly that.

If your “app” runs in a browser window—a window presented by a browser engine—it’s fundamentally a web page. (They’re two distinct words.)
> Policing DMs seems worse than trying to do hash analysis of private photos.

When it comes to DMs between adults and unrelated children, does it really seem worse? Because really what these platforms are enabling is a situation that's never really been common or tolerated before in society, unlimited unsupervised contact and rich (media-wise) communication between unrelated adults and children.

These platforms categorically do know when a user is an abuser, potential abuser or has in general been making inappropriate contacts with children and they could easily do something about it.
DMS is a terrible migration tool, I spent almost a month fighting with various migration issues before I gave up.

It would not migrate text and json types.
Even AWS support could not offer a solution.

We got in early testing AWS Blue/Green and that has made close to zero downtime upgrades a reality.
Putin and Chemezov themselves?

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/01/02/russian-defense-ch...
Or a disk not attached yet. Or another service it depends on being slow to finish starting up.
Are there any protein based psychedelics?

I thought they are all small molecules.
Not sure if it's relevant/allowed to post an account lockout help request on HN, but here's the text from their facebook post (I have nothing to do with GI; figured someone here might know what to do):

> We’ve been unable to access our Instagram account (@TakeOnGravity) for some days now

> The backup email associated with the account is not one we recognise, nor have access to, presumably belonging to a PR agency from the past. A third level of security that is currently being triggered, beyond password & code-to-mobile, is holding us hostage. It was triggered we think by our HQ (and hence home IP address) relocation.

> We have tried everything with over a dozen Meta-Verifed support people, who have now told us they have given up!!!!
Does anyone here have contacts at Meta, Facebook or Instagram who could assist us urgently?
That's how I read it also. If the ids you're referring to were in the URL, it's almost certainly URL Filtering. The URLs are fed to the crawler via MITM, so you were basically right.
Or maybe it isn't in their interest to identify it as a problem.
People interested in this might also be interested in Orion from the Kagi team: https://kagi.com/orion/

Orion is built on Webkit, has a focus on privacy, built in ad blocking, and runs on macOS and iOS. It also has a lot of other interesting features baked in, although the last time I tried it I ran across a couple of glitches too (to be fair, it's in beta and under active development). Another point of favour of Orion is the Kagi team is clear it's strictly funded by users and there's an "Orion+" thing where you can subscribe and get access to RC builds.

It doesn't seem to be clearly stated, but I think Quetta is built on Chrome? I'm not thrilled with the ongoing march of Chrome as the universal core of every nominally independent browser. And they also seem to be a bit cagey about what their monetisation plans are, which might be an oversight but is a little concerning.
Do you have two feet?

Left-foot braking is unpopular outside of racing but only takes about a day to get used to. For the use case you're describing it's probably even less since you'd probably only use it if you need maximum braking in an emergency.
> Yep, I think it's a useful phenotype, not a disease unless the degree to which the otherwise useful traits manifest causes one to struggle to live a happy life.

Yes, it is important to distinguish phenotypes from disorders. If one has the phenotype, but isn’t impaired by it to a clinically significant degree, one does not have the disorder (ASD), but one does have the broad autism phenotype (BAP; aka the broader autism phenotype or subclinical ASD). [0] The number of people who have the phenotype without the disorder is likely several times those having the disorder. The broad phenotype is particularly common among close blood relatives (parents/siblings/children) of those with the disorder. It is also has an elevated prevalence among STEM professionals.

I think it is unfortunate there is not greater public awareness of BAP and its distinction from ASD. Probably many of the people who describe themselves as “on the spectrum” in a colloquial sense have BAP not ASD.

[0] strictly speaking, one can speak of a narrow autism phenotype (phenotype with the clinical disorder) and a broad(er) autism phenotype (phenotype without the clinical disorder), which together make up the autism/ASD phenotype as a whole. Given the distinction between the two is clinical, it is possible in theory for the exact same phenotype to be broad for one person and narrow for another - one person might be in a less supportive environment which produces clinical impairment, the other in a more supportive environment in which impairment remains at a subclinical level - impairment arises through phenotype-environment interaction, it is not always inherent to the phenotype in itself
In my EV in single pedal taking my foot off the accelerator is already instantly like having heavy braking. By the time I'm touching the brake pedal even slightly it is like I'm stomping hard. Coupled with collision detection priming the brakes potentially before my mind registers the potential collision I'm not worried about not being able to hover over the brake like in my old car.
Tent cities != shanty towns. Shanty towns are like semi-permanent buildings, tents are just...tents you buy at REI and then set up at the park with your stuff. We had one nearby my house at the Seattle Ballard commons that lasted during COVID (and is gone now). I wouldn't have called it a shanty town like I saw in the Philippines.
Wait until you see Schengen-area visa requirements then: bank account statements, property ownership proofs, education certificates on top of what US would generally ask you for. And then you get exact-dates-of-trip visas (compared to US issuing 3-year or 10-year visas) — or, well, get denied simply because (even if you had a visa that allowed you to travel to that same spot a month ago).

Luckily, Serbia got on the Schengen allow-list in 2009: I kept replacing my passports before expiration since I had no pages left.
Lichens can survive space conditions for extended periods (2014)
“Historically, machine tool companies were small operations run by people (often descendants of the original founders) who had spent their whole life in the machine tool industry and knew it inside and out. Because of the cyclical nature of the industry, machine tool firms tended to be managed conservatively, and they operated with little debt. … [In] the 1960s, machine tool companies began to be acquired by the latest fashion in US business, the conglomerate: enormous, diversified companies that seemed to make anything and everything as long as there was profit in it. The machine tool industry was on a sales upswing … [and] machine tool firms' high profitability (and low debts) made them attractive acquisitions for the conglomerates. …

“Though the conglomerates enjoyed owning machine tool firms in the boom times when profits were high, they quickly became disillusioned during the lean periods when new orders slowed to a trickle. The new owners’ focus on profits meant that they were reluctant to make the long-term investments in R&D or new equipment needed… Conglomerates were often quick to divest their machine tool holdings when the companies began to struggle, resulting in frequent management changes and organizational whiplash…

“In his history of the American machine tool industry, Albert Albrecht states that “the actions of these larger corporations and conglomerates, under the leadership of financial MBA’s, perhaps more than any other factor, contributed to the restructuring and decline of the US machine tool industry at the end of the 20th century”.”

Bingo.

The article points to cycles of high variance in demand for machine tools. Other commenters have pointed the dominance of foreign companies (eg Japan due to their national standardisation on FANUC), globalization and “more cost-effective to import” more generally, and also suggested America is in a “post-machining” stage of manufacturing.

I think all of these claims have merit, but the real underlying cause is most certainly the humble MBA. To wit: they bought themselves into a cyclic industry, replaced the survivor-mindset management, and effectively took these resilient existing businesses and crystallized them into brittle conglomerates while the industry was on the rise of one such cycle, and when they where wholly unprepared for the inevitable down stage of the cycle, they divested, leaving a wasteland behind.
I’m on the opinion of boycotting visionOS as a protest on their link tax decisions, green bubble shenanigans and other non competitive moves.
The future should be innovative and inclusive with fair competition and equal opportunity.
Enough is enough.
Maybe this: https://hsperson.com/
Doesn't it have cruise control?
I expect it's the same way civilization coped with all the housewifes that automated their job with household machines in the 1960s, and all the jobs for computers (the people) that got replaced by calculators and digital computers, and all the secretaries that got replaced by Microsoft Word.
But the specific reasoning of the arguments in the suit, and the arguments in the decision and dissent, will very much be of a liberal or conservative bent.
You know what else is a privacy-first web browser with enhanced adblocking inside? Firefox with uBlock Origin
> Teslas, for example, illuminate the brake lights correctly when regenerative braking is used.

lol. my definition of "correctly" differs from tesla (and probably the engineering groups that recommend this).

I think it should be a setting so that you can make it come on only when you touch the brake pedal.

on twisty roads, this is especially annoying.

You are basically crying wolf, and other drivers will be desensitized to your brake lights, possibly when you really use them.
FYI this is the guy that wrote the comment you replied to: https://www.justinmath.com

He's true math nerd, and definitely not a marketer. In fact, I don't think a single marketer works at the company. It's a bootstrapped labor of love and I've been following their journey for almost a decade.

I get the skepticism, but some things are legit.
Hong Kong is super dense and super expensive, Shanghai is similar, but at Mainland Chinese prices. I'm all for density, but anyone who thinks that density alone solves affordability issues simply hasn't travel enough.
I can go from 75 to 5 mph in my ICE with the brake lights never coming on. Or, I can maintain 75 mph with my brake lights on 100% of the time.

But really, there should just be a standard - it seems obvious and easy for EVs to get it right: If deceleration is > X m/s^2, then brake lights are on.
Glad to see this most comprehensive comparison of vectordbs. Never thought that there are so many vectordbs.
Perhaps this qualifies:

Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYrJJNdrEg
> “People are coming in to do occasional big meetings, but really the rest of the time, they want a quiet private spot to get on a Zoom call,” said Witting, a partner at the company. “It’s weird.”

It's not weird. Before we had open concept hellscapes, and the cubicle farm, people had actual offices. Four walls and a door you could close.

WSJ seems to have the memory of a goldfish if they can't hark back to a time before offices became a free-for-all for noise pollution.

Surprise, surprise, people want a quiet private space to do most of their work, and will gravitate toward those [limited] spaces in a modern office.

In my experience, 90% of the modern office was never fun. It was finding a floating desk, putting on noise cancelling headphones, and trying to ignore the constant interruptions to do your work. The only fun part was socialising during lunch/coffee with colleagues, but the rest of the experience was a huge net negative.
I had suspected something like that in myself. I have no trouble reading social cues but am often overly sensitive to them and overreact or freeze up and avoid talking to people or showing emotion out of anxiety, which in some ways is just as bad as being unable to read cues.

In my case I think its due to issues with my father who was not abusive but angry and unpredictable, and unable to empathise with or mirror anyone else’s emotional state. This lead to a lot of trust issues with people that probably comes across as autism but is more anxiety and social awkwardness.
Also, number of ships doesn't mean too much. I could buy 1,000 canoes. And tonnage only means a bit more - there is plenty of tonnage in old ships rusting at docks.

Naval power isn't easily measured with statistics. The capabilities of a single US 100,000 ton aircraft carrier overwhelms entire fleets, unless their capabilities include long-range anti-ship missiles or submarines. Then adding tonnage won't help the US; they need capabilities to counter those two threats.
>The best cars are generally made in Japan.

And this isn't even a new thing: it was absolutely true (in fact, more true) way back in the 1980s and 90s, and really started in the mid-to-late 1970s. American cars were utter garbage: poorly engineered, poorly performing, and poorly manufactured, with terrible quality.

So why do people seem to assume that other American-made stuff in that era was so well-made? Sure, there's a few shining examples such as HP test equipment and printers, but the American auto industry was churning out truly bad products, so why isn't it also assumed that other domestic industries were plagued by the same poor standards and management?
If it's just two computers doing mutual backups, then having both stop temporarily due to a power outage isn't a big deal: All the data's still there, at rest, and being unable to access the backup server isn't a problem since you have nothing to make/send new data with anyway.
I find possible psychedelics on the sidewalk in my neighborhood in San Francisco quite regularly, coincidentally.

/s
I wonder if its more due to the fact if you're used to one pedal driving you're never touching the brake and thus practically never engaging the friction brakes.

My wife uses traditional driving in my EV, I use single pedal. While she's pretty good at keeping it in the regen-only braking zone, pressing just slightly too hard will end up having some percentage go to friction brakes. I just never touch the brake pedal, so I never engage the friction brakes.
I think you should be worried. Taking your foot off is heavy in the sense that it slows you down at decent speed. It is not heavy in the sense of an emergency stop, nor is having your foot on the pedal ready to remove priming you to slam on the actual brakes.

I’ve never heard of collision detection priming the accelerator to apply the mechanical brakes when a foot is removed.