skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most of the established car brands, the electric transition has been the most expensive projects they have ever undertaken. I think the problem is that they're trying to get that money back too quickly by setting prices way too high.

For a short while you could sell electrics at any price to wealthy customers because there were no real options but that was temporary. There doesn't seem to be a way for publicly traded companies to deal with temporary "goldmines", they treat it as the new normal. Any executive who says something like "while we figure out how to make electrics cheaply we might have a few weak years" risks their bonus and being replaced by the shareholders.

But it's reality. Most electric cars are still at about 2x the price of an equivalent fossil car, and most people simply can't suddenly pay 2x as much for cars than they could pre-electric.

I think there is a massive price bubble in cars at the moment but nobody wants to take the loss. My guess is that Ford, VW and the like will have to reduce their prices by as much as 50%, causing losses down the line to importers, dealers and the customers who suddenly get a fraction of their expected resale value.
There is a boardgame with this theme. First clue is just one word. Second clue is two words. Everyone places a pawn on their color guess. Points awarded based on distance. Easy to play.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/302520/hues-and-cues
You simply legislate that if a company is building anything that will be used regularly by more than eg. a few thousand people, then the work must be designed and/or signed off by a licensed engineer, who will a) be subject to a code of ethics and b) be professionally liable for any failures causing loss or damage to the public.

We seem to be able to manage this with bridges, planes, electrical & hydro installations etc. No reason it shouldn't be the same for critical software infrastructure.
I make things, check my twitter profile!
Everything I get validation for, I make it.
I am building everything transparently in public.
If I shut something down. I tweet about it and let you know. If I ask for payment I will give refund.
According to a comment on another thread it is not a mainland Chinese name, so that might still be chosen to mislead in a more subtle way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39869047

Western and Chinese are not the only possibilities, it could be a Russian, or Indian or pretty much anywhere else that engages in intelligence gathering operation.
delaying cascading deletion us much easier to implement than a high-performance tracing GC
> If your service manager crashes an automatic reboot is nice, in a way.

I don't think it's gonna do that! I saw it in the source code: when it's running as PID 1, systemd installs a crash handler that freezes itself in a desperate attempt to avoid the kernel panic! It's pretty amazing. They could have written it so that PID 1 watches over the service manager and just restarts it if it ever crashes. I mean, systemd already supports soft-rebooting the entire user space which is pretty much exactly what would happen if PID 1 restarted a separate service manager.

Know what else I found in the source code? Various references to /proc/1. I'm starting to think that's the true reason why they want to be PID 1...
Still it is mentioned in the ABI specification, although as an optional type.
Two issues. 1) Did Snapchat consented to this? And 2) did the users know what they were consenting to?

Saying we’re going to do “ traffic monitoring” doesn’t carry the weight of “we are going to listen to your private conversations”.
This is super cool. My main feedback at this point is about the dictionary. I'd have it be open on the side so I can see the board and use it at the same time. Or, as a half-step, have a shortcut to open it and have ESC close it. Although personally I'd prefer the former.

But congrats on this, it's awesome!
The engineers should be criminally charged.
Fortunately, it didn’t make it into an Ubuntu release: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/xz-liblzma-security-update/43...

Though it was frighteningly close, 24.04 is scheduled to be released on April 25.
What's wrong with them buying you coding assistants? Sounds to me like more time on hand to prolong those movie nights.

In seriousness, the upside with code assistants is increasingly clear. And may be the bet that these would continue to improve quadratically is worth taking if you're a VC. In fact, PG argues that buying into hype cycles is the default: https://paulgraham.com/herd.html
I agree, he does a great job. But the last couple of years I've noticed a couple of worrying trends.

First, there has been a huge surge in activity. Back in the day, 50-100 comments on a post felt like a big thread. Now we regularly see threads that are 500+ comments, sometimes even more (the recent one on the xz back door has 1,700 comments). Because of how HN paginates long threads, this encourages new commenters to reply to the top comment rather than adding new top-level comments. (In some threads, the entire first page is just the top comment and its replies.) In short, I'm not sure HN can sustain that many comments in terms of the reading and discussion experience. As a possible improvement, I'd like to see big threads having some way of "aging out" older sub threads and promote new comments. But at that scale, how do you even follow a discussion? HN doesn't have a "highlight new comments since last visit", for example.

Secondly, there's been a significant uptick in lower-quality, low-effort comments. The regulars (some of whom are so active that I don't fully understand how they can be productive in their day job) are still keeping the quality high, and HN is still often the best place to get commentary that is superior to the article being commented on. But the quality drop is still noticeable, and I see an increase in comments that are low effort (memes, jokes, "lol", "this tbh" etc.), promote conspiracies, and so on. I suspect that with time, it's going to be increasingly harder to control the influx from other sites like Reddit without even more diligent supervision.
Makes me wonder if there’s going to be a push for KYC (know your committer) in the open source world.
Not spam actually, just creating good blogs using AI for Better SEO.
If someone wants to spam they have to pay a lot at a rate of $1 per blog. So, basically it is impossible or difficult
The issue is entirely cultural.

The "issue" is entirely about money. Sports make so much money because so many have fun watching them. And it's an issue only if you want fame so badly as to make an issue of the fact that what you do is anonymous.
The dictionary isn't very good.

* Doesn't include useful but rare short words, such as el

* Does include obscure or slang words such as stere and jones

* But doesn't include their conjugations. I lost due to making steres without checking to see if the game knows the plural (it doesn't).
>The major problem with CP is that the most cost-effective way of producing it is abusing children.

I'm not sure that's completely true. Despite the surprisingly widespread notion that generative AI can only strictly reproduce things it's been trained on, it can still deductively create novel things based on that data. For example, image generation models are trained on a wide variety of adult human figures. Children are just... kind of a subset of what makes an adult, so via some clever prompting, it should be possible to steer a model to generate CP. It should then be possible to generate synthetic data to better tag, fine-tune, train a new model, or whatever.

The problem with this is a person needs to steer that ship -- who's going to do it? Even if it has the potential to prevent abuse, it's something that's so universally unacceptable that people generally don't want to touch the topic. There are law enforcement officers whose job it is to manually search for and assess CP on the web, but given the underlying philosophy of law enforcement, I'm sure most of them would not approve of the idea of generating CP, even if it's synthetic. So... the ideal pick would be an actual (hopefully non-offending) pedophile, but who wants to be known as an employer of pedophiles?

There are supposedly communities of pedophiles who wish to stay non-offending, and I imagine it'll be an "outsider" group that tries this, if at all.
Asimov, I. (1955): The radioactivity of the human body [pdf]
No, I am AJ haha!
How to rebuild a toilet with rotting parts and replacing a whole vanity with old plumbing systems.
Does fine tuning datasets need to be structured a specific way or can you take unstructured data?
If you read them as fantasy horror books they are some of the best I have ever read, just for the originality and the detail of the world-building. They are basically free of fantasy fiction tropes and instead borrow heavily from oriental mysticism and, it seems to me, computer science (in the books, reality itself is a great flow of information). For me, they're up there with Lovecraft's work.

Their flaw was that the guy who wrote them was an honest-to-god cult leader, who didn't mean the books as fantasy tales but as recruiting tools for his New Age cult. Ultimately, he indirectly caused the death of at least one of his closest followers, and possibly three more [1].

The first book was also basically an instance of academic fraud: "The teachings of Don Juan" was first published as a work of real anthropological research into the mystical practices of Yaqui Indians, but it had nothing to do with them and in any case it was not the result of field work as it was presented. In later books Castaneda clearly tries to retcon this by pointing out that Don Juan's tradition is unique and separate from Yaqui shamanic beliefs. One of his followers, Florinda Donner, also published a made-up anthropology book [2], btw.

After finding all this out it would be really hard for me to read the books today and enjoy them.

Maybe that's overreacting. I've been way more relaxed about the lives of other authors I read; like Lovecraft, for example. I was once called a fascist because I said that Starship Troopers is one of my favourite Sci Fi books. I ignored Heinlein's politics and I only read it as fiction and I still think it's clearly just fiction. The guy who called me a fascist, btw, is a Warhammer 40K player with a Grey Wolves army. Hmph.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taisha_Abelar#Disappearance

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florinda_Donner
The minimum price of the book is free. You could grab a copy and determine if you like what you see and then pay the full price.
Thank you for the well detailed response to my question. I'm currently working on returning to the CS Field due to a devastating and career ending injury. The specific Field I'm interested in his programming the interface between hardware such as robotics and user interfaces. So much has changed over the past decade I feel like I'm having to start all over and relearn everything to do with programming! And on top of that I have to also relearn how to live as a quadriplegic! Thank goodness for the Internet and it's incredible amount of free knowledge available these days!
I was attempting a joke, but clearly that didn't convey, and isn't really in the hacker news spirit.
Someone else posted this in another thread and I found it a really interesting read. It doesn’t really answer your question directly, but it is very related.

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
A picture taken with a Soviet camera, late 1980's, nostalgia and teddy bears, carpets on the wall, dark wood juxtaposed with the lightness of youth.
More widely called Conway’s law…
Thread from yesterday (221 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39874404
If I'm on windows I like portable applications. I always have:

https://portableapps.com/

"Installed" and if I'm looking for a program I tend to go here:

https://www.portablefreeware.com/

first. There's also sysmenu:

https://www.ugmfree.it/

Which has way more programs, and let's not forget nirsoft:

https://www.nirsoft.net/

Someone's already mention sysinternals.

Much as I like Linux over windows, portable app have no equal on Linux.
There are a lot of similar games, eg https://trycolors.com/games/guess-color

I use them in my code club to teach about what is light, actually, how do we perceive color, how tv and computer screens 'trick' your color perception by simply mixing RGB in the right proportions, etc.
You’re looking for driver programming.

IIRC OpenGL is implemented at the driver level.

I’m sure you could find a, potentially dated, walkthrough of mesa’s code if you looked hard enough.
Oh, so it’s a _kitchen appliance_. Makes more sense than it being a car, I suppose.
They could have written a better head line and mentioned the name of the mathematician. Leaving the mathematicians name out of the head line is a click bait technique, and tends to devalue the whole article.

"Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for his work on randomness/stochastic processes" would have been a good headline to have, but they chose theirs deliberately to not reveal the import information at a glance.
> If training costs 17x revenue you'd better bring in some customers, but you might be alright in the long term if you've trained something useful.

Yes. The key is 'if' and that is the hidden risk when training a model which can overfit or under-perform.

That cost is in the tens of millions and they (Cognition Labs) better make some revenue to cancel all of this out.
> I don't think your paraphrasings are a fair representation of what I actually said.

I think their paraphrasing was a fair representation. You want to have it both ways. You said some incendiary victim-blaming thing, but now you're backpedaling with a "no no, you misunderstood".
> State governments are not governments of enumerated powers. They inherited the plenary authority of the British parliament, and have general police powers to regulate the health, welfare, and morals of citizens.

How fortunate then that we have the 14th Amendment to prevent state governments from "abridg[ing] the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States" — which textualists and originalists presumably would say can be authoritatively defined by the Congress using its enforcement power under section 5 of 14A.

So if the Dems retake the House and keep the Senate in 2024, then we can expect federal legislation reinstating women's Roe rights as "privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States," no matter what the Taliban wing of "Christianity" in Texas, Missouri, etc., might prefer.
Clearly inferior to the "crawl inside the cover" method. Where's the step where I chase my partner around the room making ghostly "woo woo" noises?
I had this issue. Didn't realize that on my phone I was fat-fingering and struggling to get exactly one movement on a slider instead of two.
Thanks for flagging!

Not very much difference; primarily the props that replace opinionated presets. Wanted to make an easier-to-find, plug-and-play version since I liked using it for my own project and noticed the data structure is a fairly common one that people may want to browse visually.
I don’t think that’s a good application of Occam. Does it really seem parsimonious to think that someone who shows up with no prior history or subsequent activity is really just a random open source user who cares deeply about new maintainers for a low-level library they’re otherwise silent about?
The purpose of cap and trade is that you don't want to micromanage the process. Do you really think that the government can perfectly plan how much pollution is necessary in every single business down to the lawnmowers? If you hand too many certificates to a single company, that company needs to move the certificates to the other companies that exceeded their limit, but if you just give it to them for free, they have zero incentive to cut pollution.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10245836
It goes both way. You may fear for your job and decide that works more, especially if it's a good job you want to keep or/and if the market is uncertain.
Shouldn't there be a unit test to confirm landlock is on/off? (I mean, this seems a crucial aspect of the code which needs 100% test coverage.)
In case no-one’s aware, iPhone / iPad Files app has a “Connect to Server” (…) option which can connect to an SMB share, making it significantly easier to back up any downloaded or created files to a PC without having to install and use iTunes. And there’s plugging in the device via USB, which mounts the DCIM files (photos and videos) as a mass storage device, and allows to you to back up those, too.
I think this is a wider social problem of the internet.

Most people want to be helpful to others. This works fine when it is with a limited no of in real life interactions with mostly reasonable people. It can get wrecked by one or two unreasonable people, but the more fundamental problem is that it does not scale well, and the internet takes it to a far greater scale.

It is one reason so many of us essentially work for free for FB and the like: we do things to help others (advice and information), and the side effect is creating content and data for FB.
More acting weirdly for ads and profit from what I gather there. Does he actually dig a tunnel / have someone dig a tunnel for him (like he has others cut out the concrete slab etc.) or does it stay at the stage of a hatch set on top of dirt?
The better fix would be to move to proper dependency management and depend on a version range of a dependency instead of hoping you can do a better job of modelling the same with strings hardcoded into a CMakeLists.txt.
This is all-time favourite, indispensable graphics utility! I've used it for years and it's never let me down! If Irfan is reading this, can we pleeeeease have a native Linux version?
Wiretapping: In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation [pdf]
I don't understand why align 128-bit values to 16 bytes and waste precious memory if CPUs read and process data in 8-byte chunks anyway. Or is alignment necessary for SSE insructions? But SSE doesn't work with 128-bit integers.

Also, if program uses lot of memory (due to alignment) it can cause swapping and the performance will be much worse than with unaligned storage.
Given that we also have a huge shortage of nurses they're probably just thankful to not have to answer every single question everyone has all the time

It's the one AI application that is not going to replace any jobs
Wow, ok, that's close. I wonder how many have actually made it.
Oh, that's probably it!
Excess demand that degrades service (traffic) is an externality.
The English used in the commit messages I’ve seen was pretty much perfect, but unfortunately the repo has been suspended now.
and users, who could pay a monthly fee to GitHub that will distribute among maintainers. The donation system doesn’t work well.

There ought to be streams of input funds.
Offtopic, but this has reminded me that allegedly some of the more obscure star trek novels actually did do some kind of borg-meets-dominion crossover.

(and on the seventh day, the devops nerd didst look upon his backups, said "this is good", and enjoyed a trashy scifi book)
TFA addresses all of these questions.

Briefly, the author's beliefs appear to be:

> If the elections are rigged how did he “win”

The election is partially manipulated by gerrymandering but won in the sense that Bukele's overwhelming popular support is real, and the gerrymandering only pushed him from "clear victory" to "almost total victory".

> If he is responsible for the crime reduction, how did he do it in such a short time

The crime reduction came because it happened at a time when both of its opponents (the gangs themselves, as well as anti-Bukele government forces) were weak. It may also have benefited from a decline in murders that had already started before Bulele took office.

> how were the police trained so fast

The police and army were less "trained so fast" than having been relatively competent for a while but hamstrung by insufficient political will/funds (this point is less well explained -- maybe because the gangs trade so much off honor rather than actually paying off economically, reasonable people find the police/army a more enticing career path?).

> If the original crime reduction was due to gangs hiding the bodies is it really that unreasonable to think that what actually is happening is that the government is more effective at hiding the bodies?

Maybe the government is fudging things, but even anti-Bukele organizations and media don't seem to think so, and Bukele's popular support in the absence of repression (yeah, Bukele is not a champion of free press, but he doesn't yet seem to police the actions of everyday civilians to the extent that they would all be scared and lie to a visiting ~journalist) suggests that the murder rate really is down, and not just faked.
Collin gives his thoughts on both PRs and essentially says they just need more cross-arch testing with a focus on performance. The requester could absolutely help by doing some of those tests and providing back the results. Seems very straightforward to me what Collin is needing help with.
Silicon spikes take out 96% of virus particles
Wierd military computer boards [video]
The shaking part requires a lot of upper body strength that not everyone has. I can get a nice whip-snap out of a down comforter on a double bed but not a king. I ended up with a new synthetic comforter on the double and can barely make the far end rustle now because it weighs like 5 times as much.
> there is a very heavy atmosphere in the open source community of excommunicating anyone who dares to ask for payment as heathens of the vilest order

I fully agree that forcing payment or using dual licensing is unfortunately heavily frowned upon. But a voluntary Patreon/donation option is perfectly acceptable to the same anti-payment people.
This car feels like the car equivalent of the Tu-144 (the Soviet Concorde clone which, on an early flight, blared a warning siren in the cabin for the _entire flight_ because no-one could figure out how to turn it off) just _comically_ unready for launch but launched anyway to stroke egos.
Cap and trade is not the same as carbon offsetting at all. You are mixing up things. The idea behind cap and trade is that there is a limit to the total amount of emissions and you need a certificate from the government to pollute. The trading part just moves certificates around with a monetary incentive.

Carbon offsetting is the exact opposite of cap and trade, since it raises the cap by issuing more certificates.
https://mpc-hc.org

This is the lightest fastest yet feature rich media player for windows I know. Its 12 MB compressed though. Didn't know irfanview could do that
Is Bitcoin Beach different from Bitcoin City? Because the latter is talked about extensively.
Maybe putting down a tile should open the dictionary and look up the words formed, instead of the player having to type them in, and then there should be buttons for "make this move" and "make a different move instead".
I think the author is a tad naive on the worst-case scenarios. Bukele sounds a bit sociopathic: for now he seems good, but it doesn't seem he has the most principled world-view. With the god-level worship from his people and crazy high levels of support, I would worry about him turning into a lifetime dictator. You have to remember that Hitler was democratically elected for seemingly bringing back the glory of his country.

Re weapons making people feel safer: this is something I heard from Israelis (~2017) that for them seeing soldiers with big assault rifles makes them feel safer; for me it normally does not. I wonder what the conditions are under which this makes people feel good/bad.

Re innocent people ending up in jail and abused: I wonder how the number of people whose lives are now destroyed by the state is vs how many peoples' lives were destroyed (e.g. murders) pre-crackdowns?
(The author has since added a correction.)