skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a ton of information in this article, which appears to just summarize this NYT article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/climate/biden-epa-auto-em...

https://archive.is/OJvBr

It seems like the following things are true:

* They are changing the milestones, but not the final goal. That is, according to this new plan, 2032 is still the target date for 2/3rds of new sales being EV, but the requirements will be relaxed until 2030, at which point they'll suddenly jump back up where they were in the old plan. I guess that's the "then a miracle occurs" step in the overall strategy. Sounds like it'll definitely work, can't see any way for that to fail.

* This push comes from both automakers and labor unions, for different reasons. Finally, they can all agree on something, which is that you can use the threat of a second Trump presidency as leverage to make your job a little easier for a while.
> That goes double for chatbots.

It certainly doesn't!

I would look...negatively...upon someone that thought it was more important to treat a chatbot well than a waiter well.
What is a jump but an addition to the instruction pointer?
Show HN: GPT-4 solves a crackme with just 1 prompt
Hi HN

I made a small plugin for radare2 to try out how good GPT-4 is at reverse engineering. It's become a useful tool for me, so sharing it here.

https://twitter.com/dnak0v/status/1758650673862705179
https://github.com/dnakov/r2d2
I actually even reject that premise, because that comes with an implicit "I know better than you, because I read the science."

Science is only a small factor in everyday decision making for most people. Art is not scientific. "Feel" is not scientific. The feel of "safety" is not scientific. Etc.
I think there's actually much here tbh. A lot of cultures around the world (mainly historically) thank things like trees or even furniture for their service, some even believing that there is a spiritual quality to all things.

I don't believe any of that, but I do think that a general attitude of gratitude can be very beneficial to one's happiness and general outlook. IMHO psychologically your approach has benefits.
Firstly, wow, that is absolutely insane.

I'm wondering about this part though:

> The source of the finger-swiping sounds can be popular apps like Discord, Skype, WeChat, FaceTime, etc. Any chatty app where users carelessly perform swiping actions on the screen while the device mic is live.

Is there really enough information left for this method after the sound has been lossily compressed by any of those apps?
What is passive-aggressive squared?
I think I was just showing off. The vectors are just fine without the animation. They are a setting I had on inside realness. on a blog that's for reading they are a distraction and turn oppressive without the option to disable.

Thanks again.
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39368859
I'm unsure if the climate cares how one feels about science. Like gravity, the hard stop is ambivalent to a position on the topic.
I always wanted to sort/filter goodreads like this. I don't know how you scraped the site, but the Kaggle datasets I've seen are always deficient in one way or another: either too small (less than 10k), or books are scraped randomly (not top), or (at best) they use Best Books Ever lists (skips many top-rated books). I hope your source data is better.

Thanks !
It might not matter to the robot, but it might matter to you - your self image might change based on how you interact with the outer world.
> So, not fun, not rewarding, no intellectual challenge, no career benefit. Why exactly should I want to do it?

It does help you get the next job. You’re just pitching it wrong.

Instead of “Built boring tech” try “Delivered $5,000,000 return 2 months early”. Watch your inbox blow up. Business leaders don’t care about what you do, they care about results. What you do to get those results is just an unfortunate cost and obstacle to overcome on the way to the outcome.
>> The only way Microsoft or OpenAI would know this would be to spy on chatbot sessions. I’m sure the terms of service—if I bothered to read them—gives them that permission. And of course it’s no surprise that Microsoft and OpenAI (and, presumably, everyone else) are spying on our usage of AI, but this confirms it.

What? The chatbot is not your therapist. The chatbot is Microsoft. They are the same entity. Everything shared with the chatbot is shared with microsoft, just as every google search is shared with google.

Related legal determination re chatbots:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/02/18/air-canada-...
That I could ever be a dick to a chatbot seems to suggest that the only other way of being is that I'm nice to the chatbot.

I can't be either, anymore than I could be a dick to a slab of granite, or to 5 kilograms of oak wood shavings.

And given how most humans are of the opinion that apathy is dickishness, I'm pretty sure I can guess what most of you will think of me. But I'm empirically correct on this issue. You all are experiencing defective cognition. Your species has scaled technologically well past your ability to have sane responses.

Things are going to get bad soon. Then they're going to get worse. And most of you won't even understand why or how.
Ideally I would like to see both behaviors available, making the current way the preferred one. But AFAIK it would be hard, because /dev/fd/* are just symlinks and this would need a very special case.
When 37% of Americans cannot afford a $400 emergency expense, there are other things that need to be fixed first. Make Americans feel like they can afford more expensive vehicles - and they will buy expensive vehicles.
My parents were against it too, even though my 5th and 6th grade teachers both suggested it. Then in High school my guidance counselors highly recommended I get tested.

There was definitely a stigma for mental illness with the boomer generation, I suspect my mom did not want to be associated with a child that has a mental condition.
AWS Extended EKS Support: A Costly Band-Aid for Kubernetes Clusters
I just modified some Obj-C code 2 days ago. Part of a RubyMotion app I migrated to Swift. The core was written in Obj-C for performance reasons.
I don't believe FreeBSD has any support for micros without memory controllers.
What you need is some kind of handle with the ability to do system calls on behalf of another process via that handle. CreateProcess would return this handle, whereas StartProcess would actually use that handle to start execution.

Windows and Fuchsia are two handle-based OSes, and Fuchsia does in fact spawn processes in this manner (Windows just has a family of CreateProcess methods that do both).
Let's be real, there is only one way to debug C and C++ program : fprintf(stderr, "%s %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);
I learned Objective-C and Cocoa in the days of manual reference counting. I use Swift for new personal projects, I don’t plan to rewrite the old ones in Swift for no reason, but I may add new features in Swift even if not strictly necessary.
I'm not familiar enough with Java to answer that question, you may well feel the same about Java, and it may well be true.
This is a big factor in why Haskell is widely considered a really fun language to refactor in. The enforced purely functional paradigm makes adding nonlocal effects much more annoying, so later contributors can much more confidently reason about the state of their code (assuming you can find any later contributors in such a small community!).

I don't know whether the Lisps have a similar "fun to refactor" quality to them, since while they are in the functional camp, they're totally different and more flexible beasts architecturally.
Let's create an awesome-simplicity on github.

A repo for not hyped, dead simple solutions, to work with.
Required inclusion like this in publicly accessible Google Streetview interface would be ideal as well - otherwise there are some tricks that are used sometimes to make mammoth buildings look much smaller in perspective due to the angles (etc) they use and print on their promotional material in order to get less resistance from the public.
That wasn't the angle I got from the post at all. To me they were focusing on how un-noteworthy it actually is to be top 1%. All they had to seemingly do was take an extra couple seconds to upvote answers, perhaps post a question when a lack of existing answers necessitated it or add onto what others had already said.

The message I took from the post was that it doesn't take a lot to do your part in contributing to the wider community
Nintendo, for example, regularly hires game designers with no game design experience.

Famously, there was a shoe designer who was hired on the BOTW team. The fresh perspective keeps Nintendo games from falling into idiosyncrasies, which is part of the reason children and adults can just walk up and play most Nintendo games and have immediate without needing prior gaming experience.

I think it’s valuable to have non technical designers and QAs for that reason.

Sure the fresh perspective fades after a while, but it’s still valuable AND gives us in tech a reason to hire those not in tech.
Fair enough, I should qualify that I don't think it's a universal. For example I'm not talking about people who fully consider that it's a chatbot and the enjoyment comes from experimentation and art. Rather I'm thinking of people who get satisfaction or enjoyment from being feeling superior to others and seeing submission
One of the best jobs I ever had was under "technical magpie." Did we get shit done? No. Did I get paid a lot of money and always have new stuff to do instead of shoveling CRUD? Absolutely. It was a blast.
Sorry, my bad, your site (whichever it is) invalidates the findings in the article completely.
My point was that the “insurance” premiums and whatnot the FDIC collects are all fiction, because in practice, the Federal government will always step in if the reserves are insufficient (assuming it can). If it can’t, then the country is about to dissolve or otherwise undergo some major changes.

Kind of like the PBGC premiums that are wholly inadequate, and the real DB pension insurance is the political power your union has (see multi employer pension bailout a couple years ago).

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/biden-to-un...

>No, it isn’t. The Fed (and Treasury) issue currency. And when the FDIC is coming in the risk is deflation.

The short term risk is deflation, but I think the longer term would be still be reduced purchasing power of currency since it would disrupt so much of US society’s ordering, that it would decrease confidence in the US to be as economically productive and secure as it used to be.
> There were 374 polio cases in 2023

Wikipedia says polio is asymptomatic in 72% of cases, and feels like a mild-ish flu in 24% of cases. So in total 96% of cases are probably not detected at all.
This comment finally pushed me to try out Kagi and WOW. I did not realize how much I was missing out from a search engine - pinning & blocking websites on my search???? It seems so obvious now, but damn is that incredible.
The Future of Self Driving
If you are good at Go, use Go.

I write a lot of Python using aiohttp, I have a lot of fun doing it (WebSockets!), but my experience is that it's really problematic to hand off Python code to somebody else to maintain (compared to, say, Java or Javascript) and I've been told that aiohttp multiples the problems by a lot.

Some very early web frameworks like the one pushed by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita

put authentication first, I wrote one of my own and the world just did. not. care. Circa 2002 there was a lot of shovelware like PHPNuke that had a single auth system for a large number of low-quality applications. My paradigm at the time was to have a centralized cookie-based auth system that had a very simple (often about 50 lines of code) cookie handling module that could be ported to any development environment. The UI for registration, password resets, and all of that were written in PHP but the rest of the application could be Java, ColdFusion, Perl, WiTango, or whatever.

Frameworks like this never really caught on until around 2013 when they were coupled to a third-party SaaS vendor which would handle login for you. This was pretty convenient but I was always telling people... Look this is a non-starter because the company is going to get acquired and go out of business but they went ahead and did it anyway and then they went out of business. Don't fall for that, please.
They do. But since most miners would just ignore the license, they implemented LHR (low hashrate) beginning on GeForce 3000-series that detects the types of ops used for mining and artificially slows the GPU to about 25% of its actual speed.
> It's also risible to suggest that any of that nonsense has seriously hindered eradication, caseloads in that region remain very low, the hotspots are elsewhere.

It has killed off trust in Western vaccination programs not just in Pakistan but also in Africa and a whole other lot of places. The ripple effects from that have been immense...

There is a reason why the label "medical" should not be abused. The US campaign against Bin Laden, Hamas using hospitals to hide command centers and hostages or as a shooting range, Israeli agents infiltrating a hospital to execute suspected Hamas operatives, German police placing Red Crosses on their medical vans [1]... the list of abuses is long, and at least for war-related action international agreements actually ban that kind of abuse - we're seeing in Palestine right now why.

[1] https://www.l-iz.de/leben/faelle-unfaelle/2021/12/ausgekreuz...
How ridiculous!

Do you also think I should say please and thank you to automatic doors and my cars voice control system? And if not, why not?
I went in pessimistic but the demo was pretty good- every AI-based feature was solving a real point of friction and seemed reasonable.
Many people go to Florida. Eventually you kinda of have to go to assisted living, right?
We've already seen self-checkout kiosks ask for tips. Is there an English word for "somehow-not-funny-dystopian"?
Kind of OT, but FWIW... a very fun series was ReBoot. An animated series set inside a computer.

In one exemplary episode, the user initiated a reboot of the machine and this set off an entire string of song & dance numbers by the system's inhabitants.
I have a section from a longer post about productivity in which I describe a “left-aligned” todo list. It’s something that has been independently implemented by a number of productive people. The key features:

- no due dates

- everything on the list is immediately actionable

- there’s a mechanism for regular rewriting

I use a moleskin with a page per day, listing things that I could do that day. One of my friends in college used a calendar, but wrote assignments on the day they were assigned, not the date they were due.

Most TODO-list apps are “right-aligned”: everything has a due date and items show up on the due date.
Well I don't know if that's the case, but I also don't know why your trackpad should brake after buzzing for an hour straight?

Your iPhone doesn't break from buzzing for an hour straight, developers are free to call the apis as much as they like. The taptic engines in both of the devices are pretty much the same thing, no?

Although, mildly related to your point: There was a Tesla software update last year that put a cooldown on the steppers moving the seats if the user fucks around with a seat position too much. Apparently _those_ were prone to overheat and brake.
In almost every business setting, your incentives are _partially_ aligned with your employer's. For instance, you usually both want to build a good product; conversely, you want to get paid as much as possible while your employer wants to pay you as little as possible.

If it's all above board, and the non-aligned parts are agreed-to, all is well.
Vello is used in Skia

https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/2e551697dc56/third_part...
And if it's anything like me, the current senior coworker on the team, sometimes it says something completely incomprehensible, and you ignore it and move on :)
There's even a third category: Is there, but only in a defective, incomplete fashion. (For years now, a number of Bob Dylan's live albums have been missing the gapless between-tracks transitions online. It almost feels as if Columbia ripped its own CDs for uploading and accidentally configured the ripping software to drop the pre-gaps…)
> I know Vizio is considered more of a low-end brand, but I have a ... probably 2010s era Vizio that's one of the best TVs I've had.

I bought a Vizio back in 2006 that is still running today. It's now at my parents' house but runs as well as when I bought it.

Unfortunately I also have a modern Vizio I bought for the guest bedroom. That thing is a piece of shit. It's just ridiculously slow, sometimes won't display the picture from an input signal, and software updates break stuff all the time. Before I bought it I hadn't ever bought a cheap "smart" TV but it's been worse than I imagined they would be.
FreeBSD was never big on embedded in the first place.
32 bit Linux isn't going to go away anytime soon.
My biggest peeve of Spotify is the feature discrepancy between mobile/desktop. Two examples:

1. On mobile, you can see the top trending podcast episode.

2. On mobile, you can filter liked songs by *some* genres.

Why? These seem like fairly trivial features to implement across both platforms. You have hundreds of devs. Wtf is going on over there?
That is obviously incorrect, is English not your first language?
I believe he is saying they add expectations and responsibilities till you are back to equilibrium (i.e. over extended).
You know what else would help reduce carbon emissions? Banning private jets and mega-yachts.

Funny how you never see that in the mainstream discourse.
I’m not sure if it’s sarcasm or not, but The Devil’s Chessboard lays out a case for the CIA acting as the military arm of the rich and powerful starting basically at its inception. All of the “communist” overthrows in the 50s and 60s happen to coincide with nationalist leaders (often democratically elected) who want to keep some of a country’s resources from falling further into the control of American corps. This typically resulted in actual dictators replacing them that allowed the businesses to continue to exploit while at the same time severely oppressing the locals.

Some of the evidence is compelling, others is speculative, but a lot of the same bad actors show up in a lot of very similar global (and local) affairs.
> the communication between kernel and user-space is going to add some overhead,

What does this look like specifically? Is it that the kernel operation needs to copy memory that is in "kernel space" to/from "user space" for security reasons? Is that all?
embark is, more or less, an answer to "what if emacs had a context menu?"
I worked there for 1.5 years. There's lots of smart people. There's lots of people hiding in the bureaucracy of a large bank that get away with very little action. I haven't worked at Google so I can't comment on that. Overall it was a good experience but things moved very slow.
Greenhouse gas emissions dropped under Trump: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-...

And no... criticisms about the economic situation during covid should not count. Trump is criticized for covid, and people argue he is responsible. Then he should be praised for the good and criticized for the bad equally.
I don't trust Microsoft as far as I can throw them collectively but it doesn't come as a surprise to me that they are doing this any more than it would if I were to hear that OpenAI, Google, etc... are engaging in this behavior.

That's not to excuse it, however. I think it's already time they all implemented a privacy stance where they are only allowed to view chat conversations if the user gives them explicit and revokable permission.
This reminded me of the old World of Warcraft subscription cancellation webpage in all its emotionally manipulative glory:

https://imgur.com/DwtpdJm
> If money is created as debt, how do you explain bankruptcies?

Banks typically loan money they don't have on hand (see fractional-reserve banking). And when they do that -- money is created out of thin air. Bankruptcies have nothing to do with it.
What kind of chatbots are you talking to? My experience is the total opposite. They're mostly the dumbest uninterested intern you've met who somehow memorized the basic FAQ and everything beyond is met with Russian diplomat levels of deflection or goes straight into the Kafka-maze.
I don't want it free. I want to put $2 on the account. Try the server and decide after using the server.
It's a good article but it could use a bit of background as to what "stonelifting" is, exactly, for those who aren't already familiar. From what I gather, this is more about lifting stones in public places than, say, using stones in your own personal gym? With an emphasis on historic stones? There's mention of a "stonelifting tour" as well, would love to understand more of what that's about.
The majority of residential rates (about 40 ct/kWh) are taxes and levies, not the actual price of the electricity. That's why industrial rates can be less than half of residential rates.
The price difference between something with Cortex-A55 64-bit cores and something with obsolete 32-bit cores is negligible.

For modern home routers or security appliances you want them to be able to easily execute firewalls with complex sets of rules at multi-gigabit per second throughput, so that the router throughput should not be limited by the CPU instead of the Ethernet or WiFi interfaces.

For this, you really need something like Cortex-A55. The routers with obsolete CPUs limit the performance without any worthwhile price reduction.

On the other hand, for many embedded projects where a 32-bit CPU is the right choice, the developers choose Linux just because they are familiar with it and they are too lazy to read the manuals of some free real-time operating system, even if in fact the latter might require less development work and maintenance work for their software project.
Think of yourself and your services as a one-person company. You need to always be marketing and doing sales. You never know when that one big client (your employer) might have layoffs (or you have a bad boss, or get stuck on crappy work, or whatever).

I don't put all my professional energy into my employer but hold some back for myself. I keep a constant public presence, write a lot, go to conferences, work on my own projects.

I think constantly about my positioning in the market. What's in demand? What problems need to be solved? Where are people stuck? What should I specialize in?

I take a lot of chats with folks who want general help, or just compare notes on what we're working on, or even straight up interviews.

It's constant work, but you can't trust the wiles of just one employer. It's like putting all your eggs in one basket as an investor. Be more diversified. Lately, they tech companies haven't proved loyal _at all_. They are always considering their options, so you should too.
Is It OK to Be Mean to a Chatbot?
Is it OK to Be Mean to Spreadsheet Software?
Is it OK to Be Mean to Photoshop?
Is it OK to Be Mean to Chrome?

Just because you anthropomorphize software, doesn't mean the rest of us have to. All of these questions are ridiculous and the obvious answer is that there's nothing there to be mean to. They aren't things that can perceive and feel your attitude or treatment; there is no "mean" happening.