skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean?! Americans don't want to keep buying $80K pickup-trucks? What is the world coming to..

Also car leases from 2021's COVID money are coming to the end. Not only dealers can't move anything but also people are going to have a "nice" surprise when they learn the value of their overpriced 2021 car is nowhere near what they imagined.
>MariaDB is also somewhat widely used, but not nearly as much as MySQL.

I believe this is factually false. Consider just one datapoint:

https://repology.org/project/mysql/versions

https://repology.org/project/mariadb/versions
> 1) They're engineered.

Famous last words.
I don't take any issue with people flagging a post, so long as an actual person makes the ultimate decision on whether to keep it up.

This is in contrast to how I feel about a statistical model flagging people to be murdered. That's not even remotely OK, even if the decision to actually carry out the murder ultimately goes through a person. Using a statistical model to choose targets is incredibly naive, and practically guarantees that perverse incentives will drive decision-making.
It's possible, but that formula is (after a log2 transformation) equivalent in comparison power to log2(mistakes) + blunders. This is almost reducing the mistake term to a tiebreaker, because mistakes and blunders are on the same scale (a proportion of the number of actions taken in a game).
It's pretty amazing, a decentralized liver. I wonder how many other organs could be decentralized like this for backup.
Very cool stuff!

I haven't done much C development lately, so I'm curious how often `strcpy` and `strcat` are used. Last I checked they're almost as big no-nos as using goto. (Yes, I know goto is often preferred in kernel dev...) Can anyone share on how helpful the c-string analyses are to them?
will people trust this site, pasting a top secret into a browser textbox :-)
The flagged article is a lot more detailed and interesting. This one is pretty much devoid of details, it just tells people that there’s reporting on the software, really.
It's a very complicated situation.

Genocide seems like a bit a stretch, but it is hard to tell. I would like to think that Israel is incapable of genocide, but at the very least it's clear they don't mind killing thousands of innocent people. Israel has done some truly inexcusable, horrific things.

I do sympathize with Israel. Israel is surrounded by countries that would like to see it wiped off of the map. Hamas has been attacking Israel from Palestinian territory for two decades. I'm glad that Israel exists and that the Jewish people have a home.

I'm afraid there doesn't seem to be a right answer, but Israel could at least show that it values human life.
That's a better description and a better goal
4 Part Operating System to Becoming a Meal Machine
The Statue of Liberty is just sitting there too - it would be far more valuable recycling all that copper and putting it to use. Could there perhaps be another reason we haven't melted it down yet?
> I wonder why I have wasted so much of my life assembling this tonight. I should've been sleeping.

I know that feel :)

If it makes you feel better, I read through the whole thing and gave you an upvote. Peace :)
Let's be real, sshd loading random libraries it doesn't actually need because distros patched in a kitchen sink library is inexcusable. That kitchen sink library is libsystemd and it follows the same kitchen sink design principle that systemd-opponents have been criticising all along. But its easier to accuse them of being biased rather consider that maybe they have a point.
Who would have thought that $120,000 vehicles would stay viable post-zirp? What did they think was going to happen once they saturated the market for predatory auto loans?
> Have one array grow normally from location#0, and the second array grow backwards from location#End.

The stack in most ISAs and ABIs grows down from a high address, allowing this trick to be used to divide memory flexibly between heap and stack in single-threaded small-memory systems.
Why would “everyone” want a giant truck? Harder to park, we more fuel, carry fewer people for the same size+weight (if you need a bigger vehicle).

The reason people aren’t buying pickups is because they’re vastly less convenient and more expensive to run than a regular car for the overwhelming majority of people.
This was an amazing system! All we needed was more law enforcement to keep things running.
>What? No one wants to deal with china.

And yet everyone keeps dealing with China, because money talks and China has lots of it.

Whether it's Intel and Nvidia exporting their latest tech to China, Apple manufacturing iPhones in China, BYD poised to crowd out the car industry (sans America), or having our cheapass blue jeans produced in the finest sweatshops, everyone wants to deal with China.

No one wants to deal with the dynamite basket that is Taiwan. Initiatives like CHIPS are so we can eventually leave Taiwan out to dry, not because we want to overcome China.

>No one wanted to sell the tech to china to make modern chips before all the wars and saber rattling of belt and road (facing).

Except everyone wanted to sell to China because the monies involved was ludicrous and that is still the case today.

>And china lacks the will, talent and now access to catch up.

China has practical implementations of 7nm process and are shipping product today from what I understand. Pedantically, China is ahead of Intel and thus the US right now. This is something the west should be terrified of, now is not the time for coping or denialism.

Let alone the implied sentiments of "Ha ha, Intel's losing big bucks! Losers!" in threads like this which are the epitome of counterproductivity if the goal really is overcoming China instead of just ridding ourselves of Taiwan.

>See the Ukraine war and Russia. To see what "no chips" looks like. modern optics on tanks are now outside what they can do, never mind glass cockpits of 4th and 5th gen fighters, never mind gps and smart mentions, never mind drones...

And yet Ukraine still hasn't won. With western high tech.

Mind you, I want Russia to lose and lose hard because I hate the idea of warmongering validated as a means of diplomacy in the 21st century, but it is what it is.

It also goes without saying you don't need high tech to kill people and destroy entire landscapes.

>China isnt stupid, they keep pouring money into missles in the hopes of being able to do exactly what you're saying.

Yes? I said China might blow up Taiwan and they most likely eventually will. China couldn't care less about TSMC or really anyone and anything that exists on that island, they just want the island and they will invade if or when the geopolitical winds blow appropriately for them.

>If you pay attention to recent conflicts you will note that the patriot missile system has been shooting down the best Russia has to offer. You will note that the anti missile ships off the coast of Yemen are using the same system and missles. That the brits and French are in on the game.

Congratulations, we've managed to do the same thing as the misguided cavemen but did so behind schedule and over budget. Truly an achievement for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yeah no.
That is not the case at all.

See this comment from dang:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435024

There are more comments like this from him, you can find them using Algolia.

HN is not acting in bad faith whatsoever.

This story in particular “qualifies” for what would be interesting to HN readers while taking into account the sensitivity of the subject.

I fully expect the discussion to be allowed and the flag lifted, but HN mod team is very small and it might take a while - it quite literally always does.
Highly recommend the best-selling book A Brief History of Time!
I do nominally agree with you. But I'm also pretty sure I can't convince my coworker or my sister-in-law to switch off of their Jeep.

But switching them to a Jeep Wrangler 4xe is much easier. They seem more amendable to that idea, because they want an offroading vehicle so much. I do think its a bit of a "cosplay" situation because they only do offroading one or two times per year, but ... yeah.

Anyway, getting +5 MPG and electrifying the overall drive of a Jeep will save a ton of fuel. If I can't convince them to drive efficiently with a Corolla, I'm still happy to convince them to get a more environmentally friendly decision here.
The CISA report is definitely worth a read and so is questioning Microsoft's security posture. Comparing the incident to the xz attack doesn't make a whole lot of sense though.
It’s not just prices. I’m taller than 80% of Americans (6’0”) and I cannot effectively reach into the bed of a pickup truck. Used to be I could easily grab almost anything by reaching over the side or leaning on top of an opened tailgate. Now the trucks are so tall that the walls are higher than my armpit and the tailgate comes down to my nipples.

I drove trucks a lot, split my time between city home with Mom and rural home in the middle of farms with Dad. Lots of backing up open hauling trailers (dirt, rocks, furniture, lumber, whatever) and boat trailers. Modern trucks are so much less usable than they were 25 years ago. They’re not just expensive, they’re impractical. Why would I pay more to get less?

It’s past time to reform the CAFE standards to incentivize smaller trucks and slowly phase out the 25% “chicken tax” on imported trucks to let domestic manufacturers compete on design and quality.

I’m also very uncomfortable driving around with the giant blind spot in front of the truck. This did not used to be a problem with my old pickup trucks. Now you need front cameras in addition to backup cameras just to not run over your own kids!?

New trucks have some wonderful features but I don’t think theres any reason that smaller trucks couldn't have these too. These include higher towing capacity than in the past, 360 birds eye cameras, trailer back-up computer aid, apple carplay / android auto, excellent crash protection for passengers. Of those, the only two that size can affect are crash protection and towing capacity. I think you could still get most of the performance with a smaller truck that is more usable for 90% of the population.
Here are Cloudflare's docs on R2 consistency model https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/reference/consistency/
Bad UX, it's hiding under the hamburger menu in the top left
https://web.archive.org/web/20240401100849/https://www.972ma...
The people harmed with less money for lawyers probably won’t get anything, I can see that happening.

Automakers might get a payout for the shipping delays, but people waiting longer for their new car won’t see any of it.

The people’s commutes that will be X minutes longer for the next while will have to just suck it up.

Same for anyone paying a few percent more for goods that have to be imported through other ports.
My time library considers measuring time from different frames of references:

https://github.com/withinboredom/time

From the earth frame of reference, the lunar day is different than from a lunar frame of reference.
The "Explore the Global Map" portion's pretty interesting, as there are several regions where the difference is rather clear. Gulf of Siam and the Caribean both have fairly clear areas where the low res old data and the higher res new collection can be examined. Unfortunately, if you zoom in too much though it goes back to the old Maxar data.

The Azores and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge work is also kind of interesting. Much larger number areas that are "almost islands" than I thought there were. The old GIS data seems smeared out and makes them look shallow, yet the newer maps show pretty distinct near surface ridges.
Bricklayer work isn't classified as unskilled labor nor are masonry helpers.

Neither are jobs like carpenters, roofers, pipelayers, cooks, truck drivers, clerks and many, many others.
The best (IMHO) ode/obituary for floppy disks:

A:las poor floppy, I knew you well.
I think the flat door handles are because EVs biggest enemy to range is wind resistance, and so they flatten the door handles to get an extra .5% range. Do that on 15 different parts of a car and you've got yourself a 300 mile range.
Not skill - that's an internal metric not an external one. The difference is between what people will pay for that skill.
Maybe, but the reasons given don't seem to make any sense, so if they're right it'll be more luck than anything.

> While China has made huge investments in renewable technologies, they are nowhere near transitioning to a much cleaner energy portfolio over the next decade.

Well that's a surprisingly vague and clunky non-statement.

They're definitely transitioning to a cleaner energy portfolio, with world leading buildouts of hydro, nuclear, wind and solar (plus EVs, DC grids, batteries) and lowering grid carbon intensity.

What's debatable is whether economic growth will offset that progress, making the absolute level of coal consumption go up.

> Dispatchable energy is required to completely replace coal.

Wait, are we talking about completely replacing coal, or whether the total amount used will rise/fall over the next decade?

They mention both that solar is currently a small fraction of energy supply, but immediately worrying that there's not enough storage. Storage isn't a requirement until the solar is a very large fraction, at which point you're already using less coal and their prediction is already wrong.

So basically they're focused on tasks that China won't be attempting until after their prediction period is over.
Developing a Modern Full-Stack Application: My Front End Choices
Backblaze B2 is cheaper than Cloudflare R2 IA. Hmmm
I found this explanation quite bad. Poorly motivated and making a priori regularity assumptions that are not necessary. The quoted explanation by Arnold is much better.
Good. These things are absolute monstrosities and a menace to pedestrians and cyclists.

The number of close calls with the drivers of these vehicles is way too high. Doesn’t help state DMVs basically hand out licenses to anybody that can pass these useless tests.

Hope the entire industry comes crashing down tbh.
Good point on the lease returns! I suspect they'll probably be quietly offering sweetheart deals for lease buyouts. They'd be stupid to let those vehicles hit the used market.
From the article you linked:

>Previous reports had also indicated that some number of Russian troops operating in the Red Forest experienced the effects of acute radiation syndrome after preparing this base area, but there remains nothing to substantiate this.
I've published the 2nd part on this post, covering my front-end stack here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919574
According to Bloomberg, Amazon Go wil continue. I'd bet they are more correct than Gizmodo.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/amazon-pu...

From Bloomberg:

"Amazon Go stores will still use Just Walk Out technology, and the company will continue to license it to other retailers. Smaller stores in the UK also will keep using the system."
Twitter Files Brazil
My first reaction is: No

But if you rephrase it as "Are those resources more valuable just sitting at the bottom of a deep sea instead of mixing them into our bodies and environment?" my reaction is now: Yes
The dream scenario for those people is to have the SUV / sedan and the oversized dualie diesel truck.

Sometimes you can only get half the dream so you have to pick which side you start from.
I think the concern is that the AI is making life or death judgements against people. Some may of course be lawful combatants under the rules that govern such things, but the fact that an AI is drawing these conclusions that humans act on is the shocking part.

I doubt an artillery system using machine learning to correct its trajectory and get better accuracy would be controversial, since the AI in that case is just controlling the path of a shell that an operator has determined needs to hit a target decided upon by humans.
Only according to some specific streams of thought within IT. It's not really the mainstream view. That's while apps still exist both on mobile and desktop.
They’re a status symbol. It’s the same way that men don’t drink “girly” drinks. Men don’t drive Toyota Corollas. They drive trucks, minimum F-250, even if they never use the truck bed and actually work from home.
More targeted with half a million dead? Sounds like you forgot to take your not crazy pills.
If you don't have a whole lot in funds, a candle business can be mostly done with one person until sales pick up enough to require help making enough of them.

If you like/don't mind marketing you could try the RedBull route and have a beverage company work with you to make some new drink and you'll only have to worry about the business side of it and not deal with production/distribution.

Depending on where you live, a vending business could also be an option, as the biggest costs are at the start, then it's just maintaining supplies, ensuring stock minimums, and doing occasional maintenance on them. You don't even have to start that big; coin-based vending machines are still around (although used a bit less since COVID) and they're usually less than $200/each for a 3-candy unit.
Because insecurity issues. Obviously.
I know programmers like to blame mathematicians for writing functions with lots of one letter variable names, but it's the physicists who insist on doing so without defining any of them.

You want to know what V is? It's clearly the potential, we've defined it six papers ago! Oh you were wondering what it's type was, well it's usually a scalar field. No, don't write the parameter as t that changes the whole meaning!
>The saying goes "don't re-invent the wheel"

TSLA: check out my yoke!
This kind of play is boring in a friendly setting because you’re folding so damn often. That bothers me more than how often someone’s winning (and is why my friend group doesn’t play anymore—the guy most-interested in organizing games plays “correctly”, and it’s boring, so nobody wants to do it)
I've been in some 15min standups but actually take 30mins wallclock time, during which interval years pass.
Hit the share button and select "Save to Files". Dead easy.
But Nvidia doesn't want to make consumer compute cards because those might steal market share from the datacenter compute cards they are selling at 5x markup.
The quick adaptability of mRNA vaccines to new variants is a key advantage, not a weakness.

Their rapid development and adaptability make them probably the best type of vaccine for fighting quickly mutating viruses. This is shown by the rapidity and relative ease of development and deployment of bivalent vaccines. mRNA vaccines are one of the great technological triumphs of the American industry and science apparatus.
It's public knowledge that the US Navy has its own fleet of surveying vessels, concluding that they actually use them as well isn't much of a stretch.
Firefox: Cannot import HTML Bookmarks for large sets of bookmarks
FWIW my Polestar 2 has a 300 mile range and regular door handles.
What part of this upsets you vs a baseline understanding of reality?

There's often a criticism of the US military doctrine that our weapons are great but are often way more expensive than the thing we shoot them at (as exemplified in our engagement with the Houthis in the Red Sea.)

If anything, the quote you pulled sounds like its talking about highly precise weaponry, and it seems to me that the way to minimize the overall death in a war is to use your precise weapons to take out the most impactful enemy.

Which part of this is different than how you see the world so that reading this quote threw you?
So frustrating how easy it is for those of a certain zeal to wipe off mention of that which they find inconvenient.

There could hardly be a more pertinent issue for tech right now. Just sweepingly wild shit that we should be grappling with.
Had to check the article date at first to see if the "-Wanalyzer-infinite-loop" was a play on casually solving the halting problem with a gcc flag!
Most of the mainstream media has historically glossed over the atrocities, but it is impossible to ignore them today because of what we see live on the scene thanks to smaller outlets having a broader reach and social media.

It's mostly business as usual. The technology makes the brutality more efficient, though:

Describing human personnel as a “bottleneck” that limits the army’s capacity during a military operation, the commander laments: “We [humans] cannot process so much information. It doesn’t matter how many people you have tasked to produce targets during the war — you still cannot produce enough targets per day.”

...

By adding a name from the Lavender-generated lists to the Where’s Daddy? home tracking system, A. explained, the marked person would be placed under ongoing surveillance, and could be attacked as soon as they set foot in their home, collapsing the house on everyone inside.

“Let’s say you calculate [that there is one] Hamas [operative] plus 10 [civilians in the house],” A. said. “Usually, these 10 will be women and children. So absurdly, it turns out that most of the people you killed were women and children.”

Using Google search, you can search new articles in previous years. You'll find older articles about Israel killing aid workers, for example. This is from 2018: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/24/i...

The interesting thing about how this conflict is developing is that this story is full of quotes from Israeli intelligence. Most plainly say what they're doing. Western outlets may put a positive spin on it (because our governments generally support Israel), but the Israeli military themselves are making their intentions clear: https://news.yahoo.com/israeli-minister-admits-military-carr...
That's all well and fine, except that is very much not the situation with Israel and Palestine.

Quite the opposite. Israel has the Palestinians entirely cornered and that already for the past 76 years. They have always had the upper hand and could very easily have negotiated a reasonable peace deal. Heck, where they not racist ethnonationalist bigots they would have incorporated the Palestinians in Israel as happens in normal situations when one state decides to land grab another.
If anything it is the Palestinians, you know the victims who are entirely cornered and helpless, who should use your argument to justify civilian causalities, but you would be completely horrified if were to write that.
and makes this particular release of GCC (14.1) the coolest ever. indeed I have been teaching intro to C++ with similar box-like diagrams, and you know what - it takes a second for everyone in a group of 20 people to understand not only pointers, references, and buffer overruns, but also virtual tables, difference between composition and inheritance, and how the memory gets composed. visual explanations have long been a very very very weak spot in most university publications.

it is with great relief that I find ML people using lots of visual explaining rather than more weird 17th century crypto-language.

as a side-note Edward Tufte wrote a book called Visual Explanations: Images and
Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. highly recommended and inspiration for above-mentioned approach.
I kind of feel like reasoning models will be less based upon the amount of parameters, but I could be completely wrong.
There's a ridiculous number of these vehicles on the road but only a certain amount of chavs that really exist to buy them, can't say I'm shocked.

Actually I feel like all of auto is in for a bit of a reckoning, the peak of the auto-car-buyers inflating the used car market has long since passed (RIP shift.com, I'll never forget you paying me over MSRP for my 3 year old car which I used to buy a brand new version of it).
I suspect it’s true, but that also a bigger share of that pie is going to fewer labels and artists. It works out to a net gain for a minority and a net loss for everyone one.
'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza
Original submission here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245