skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media is an important business, but I just don't have a lot of respect for The Intercept as a publication. The two biggest blows I can think of are the Tara Reade story and a smaller article on DHS leaks I read around a year ago.

The Tara Reade story had so many rocky foundations, so much so that mainstream publications were hesitant on breaking it, but The Intercept decided to move ahead anyway because their angle is "leftist anti-Democratic establishment" and the story would hurt Biden. That story completely collapsed and Tara Reade is now a Russia Today Putin stooge.

The other was a story commented on by Crooked Timber[1]. If you read the article itself[2], it's even written poorly and disjointed. Add that with a pretty horrendous quote-butcher that CT mentions and it's clearly just a hack piece.

1. https://crookedtimber.org/2023/06/08/disinformation-and-the-...

2. https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...
Those looking into the history or the user agent, and why it happens to advertise itself as Firefox, Safari and Chrome ate the same time, can look into this article: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/comment-pa...
This is horrible and very disappointing to read. But of course they cash in big time, selling themselves as the underdog and the good guys, all so caring about repairability for the super-duper premium price tag of course. But they can not pay people to keep up with software? Why is this kind of hardware even this complicated that the others need 14 and 13 bios updates? Seems like a shitty hardware choice in the first place for reliable laptops. Sound like they should have chosen more established and tested hardware, not some kind of new cutting edge shit or whatever this is that needs this much care and updates. Especially if they can not keep up with it.
Wikipedia is different, you can always check and discuss the edits.

I think your point still stands, just taking some heat off of wikis
I don’t know where you’ve been, but you can find endless articles about bird poop etching paint. With plenty of photos too.

Here’s a few:

https://www.adamsforums.com/topic/38396-can-this-be-removed-...

https://www.civic11forum.com/threads/bird-poop-ruined-my-cle...

https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/ask-your-detailing-ques...
My company has been lengthening replacement intervals with every budget cut. In the 1990s it made sense to replace computers as often as every 2 years - the new one would be twice as fast. Around 2000 that slowed down though, and so 3 years made sense. Today computers are expected to last 5 years. If the most common things to break are easy to repair it might make sense for a company to not replace computers are all anymore, just keep the important spare parts on hand. (they still need to keep new ones for weird accidents)
Playstation 1, Portable (Real PS1 motherboard)
What's happening in their engineering org is obvious: pressure is being applied to trim every unnecessary cost, even tiny ones, to maximize profit margin. And this pressure is clearly coming from the top. We've seen evidence of this from a number of high-profile changes that can't have escaped the notice of executive management: (1) the elimination of the radome, (2) the removal of sonar for parking, (3) the removal of turn signal and shifter stalks. What's different in this case is that now these penny-ante cost savings have reached safety-critical components.
"the stainless steel is already rusting" hoax was very recent as well.
I don't think that this is well commented. It explains what each line does, but it does not explain the overall technique being applied here and what it achieves. "Ah, if the parameter is optional I include undefined" is not useful. Instead what this wants is a block comment at the top explaining what this type achieves, how it should be used, and the strategy employed to construct this type.
Nearly every modern car is some sort of cover over the actual pedal. This is just an extremely poor design
Why was Watch Party removed?
Do you ever find yourself in a situation where all NAT traversal strategies fail and your only way is through DERP server. Unless your in your own DERP, this is one of the situations where Tailscale might be useful.
GP said "also"; I think you're both arguing the same point.
It’s what made me drop Hulu/Prime and start pirating and buying (usually second hand) physical media for a lot of my content again.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia which actively lampshades all of the themes being censored now has so many episodes missing from streaming services it’s almost one per season. And they’re some of the best episodes!

I’m actually surprised Archer is still around.
It looks like you're getting downvoted, but my opinion is that your statement is correct.

Yes, technically, common sense doesn't work because some things written by AI won't be obviously written by AI and some things written by people can appear to be written by AI when it was not.

However, I suspect that medium doesn't actually care if something is written by AI or not. They want to stop the person writing hundreds of garbage articles a day. The person writing a nonstop deluge of poor quality articles sans AI is going to be erroneously banned. The person writing high quality articles 100% powered by AI won't be banned. AI will simply be the justification for culling what they do not want.
It's probably good to approach nihilism from a skeptic's angle. Think about who nihilism serves and creates profit for; the perfect consumer is a nihilistic consumer. Nihilism and hedonism are ironically linked at the hip.

What snapped me out of my nihilist arc was that whether or not life made any sense or had any purpose (and I wasn't sure at the time that it did), I certainly preferred to be as much as possible "my own tool" rather than someone else's.

Yes, most of the world struggles constantly and has struggled forever. But I am the result of that struggle that made it this far, as are we all. The best I can do is keep that survival going, and maybe make the world a little closer to a less idiotic and brutish reality than the one I entered. That requires an intense dose humility.

I am not going to change the way everything works all at once, but to view things as all or nothing somewhat entails believing that I have a lot more power than any one person does. That's unrealistic. If I more realistically instead "think local" then my actions really do matter, even if it's on the microscopic scale rather than macroscopic scale.

And surprisingly enough, thinking and acting on the microscopic scale has proven in my experience to have a funny way of creating macroscopic effects if iterated consistently over time.
Learn typescript. You can do backend and frontend (and even IaC) in typescript. First-class VS code support and sprawling toolchain support.
1. Life isn't fair. The earlier you accept that, the better off you'll be. This unfairness is why you're here posting on hackernews and someone through no fault of theirs is starving trying to cross the Sahara into greener pastures. It cuts both ways.

2. Hard work rarely ever implies financial success.

3. "...second tier job from the perspective of software professionals". Tiers are a made up concept. An Nvidia programmer working on critical HPC work is in a difference league than someone who is very good at making infinite scroll smooth.

Software is a broad field with different specializations. I don't know what you do but you made a bet and it's probably turned out quite well for you. Other people's bets did worse, others did better.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Remember to be grateful for where you are and how far you've come.
> To me using default parameters to control behavior in OO languages is insanity. That’s what OO design is for?

But we all went away from this because pure OO is also pitfall riddled and extremely clunky and overly verbose and repetitive at a large scale.

The answer is a more functional style, partial application and immutability solves so much of what people are talking about, but nobody wants to learn to use functional languages.
They can also persuade extremists to consider less extreme and violent political solutions

Evidence: I've often tried to persuade GPT4 to help me engineering extremist operations against business or political targets. It consistently refuses and suggests effective and legal strategies, like using conflict resolution against a bad boss, instead of criminal threats or extortion. I've even used these strategies to peacefully resolve situations where my first reaction was violence or crime. This was much less distressing for me, and also much less likely to lead to bad consequences for myself or others.

Very useful!
> Then if the test fails, ask the LLM to fix the bug in the code.

If an LLM is intended to generate code, perhaps it's standing orders should include "Generate a comprehensive test suite, run it, fix the bugs, then iterate. Send me an email when you've finished."
How is it incorrect?

He is a billionaire. He is the owner. He owns a plurality of the stock, something like 15%.
Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit
>> make it easier to phase lock multiple chips

Another use for that is holography. If you can make a wafer-scale array of phase locked emitters overlayed with the ability to either attenuate or phase-shift each one, it becomes a nice (one color) holographic display. I'm assuming high divergence from each one.
Betteridge's law of headlines. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no"
Blind person crosses Paris using computer vision [video]
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It doesn't belong on HN!! Note the article and the HN headline are not the same!
quick summary: not a huge change

one that is interesting is that they've improved `ifdef to allow boolean combinations. it was previously hard to accomplish what CPP can do with #if.

i wish there were change bars, but could not find a draft or a way to do a meaningful diff.

there's a paper by Dave Rich:
https://dvcon-proceedings.org/wp-content/uploads/1114-Whats-...
Stop using c++ in new projects.
The price tag implied a high quality, but I think consumers have become aware that high price tags aren't indicative of quality.
It's also worth knowing that `G` in Emacs Info viewer is bound to `Info-goto-node-web`, which opens the current page in a web browser. (This only works for Emacs manuals, though.)
My bad. Typing fast.
AI-Powered Video Super Resolution and Remastering
Since Musk is a "first principles" guy, Tesla is "speedrunning" what the industry discovered years ago.
Just added some additional context from trying it which might make you glad you checked.
> I want to be able to say “this function argument is a dictionary that has at least the keys a, b, and c.” It gives the contract that the function only accesses those keys, and others will be ignored.

Do we agree that this is the behavior of regular dicts in python?
How should TypedDicts be different?

Surely, the goal of typing in python should not be to match behavior without
Meh. Like everything else with Tesla this is mostly an exercise in Who Can Best Express the Situation as a Confirmation of Priors.

In the real world, stuck accelerators are a common (but very dangerous) failure mode in all vehicles (just google "stuck accelerator"), and this isn't even the first vehicle to be dinged with such a problem at the design level. Which of those principles did Toyota violate when they had an almost identical issue in 2009?

Not to say this isn't bad, or shouldn't be fixed, or that there won't be a legitimate root cause analysis produced that tells us something interesting. But what you wrote seems poorly grounded.
They are not competing with Apple.
> Society 5.0, would see made-on-demand goods

Fans of The Peripheral, I see.

All kidding aside, the sticking point for this, as it already is for high-power LED lighting, is cooling.

It still takes a fairly significant bit of hardware to cool stuff.
Safely and not unacceptably noisily - and the same applies en-route, as well.

There are other scenarios where small, autonomous VTOL aircraft would be very useful, and in such cases, the question of whether such vehicles could reasonably be called flying cars becomes mainly a lexical/usage one.
Not sure. I only used it on Windows
These are my go-tos: https://www.eizo.be/monitor-test/ Don't cover everything and will be useless for HDR, but they're a good starting point IMO for SDR.
I mean its not like people who went to work at AMD during the last decade are poor peasants.
When you get a company car your personal taxable income increases by 1% of the car's list price per month. Tax law assumes a 1% personal use of the car. You can avoid this tax by keeping a log book of all car rides indicating personal or business use. 1% of a $60,000 car is $7,200 per year. At a tax rate of 42% it's "several thousand Euros per year"

For EVs this tax was reduced to 0.25% to further incentivise the adoption.
> The thing that keeps me from seeing Tesla fall off a cliff is that Elon seems capable of doing incredible things if he can focus.

Pre-covid Elon Musk is not a person who exists anymore. I don’t know any other CEOs who have time to tweet 6 times per day.

Tesla should have made a proper three row SUV like the EV9. The Model X is too much of an exotic low-volume car. They also should make a low cost vehicle even if it’s only sold in China.

The Cybertruck isn’t that bad of a move on paper. The big 3 make all their profit on trucks. The problem with it is that North America is the slowest growth EV market, so that effort would have been better spent on cars that appeal to China and Europe. It also could have been done with far less effort and better profit margins if the design was more conventional. It could have eaten Ford and Rivian’s lunch but instead the style is going to follow the same exotic-to-played-out curve as the Chrysler PT cruiser. I.e., in terms of styling how do you make a second generation Cybertruck? It’s a dead end.

Car companies can’t have CEOs who publicly discriminate against groups of people because cars are a product that are purchased across demographic lines. When Elon retweets an antisemitic post he is giving away 2.5% of potential sales to the Jewish population plus anyone who sympathizes.

Subaru made itself into a major brand by being inclusive, advertising to a neglected marginalized group in the 90s. Tesla took a rapid growth company into contraction by having a CEO who is more interested in divisive identity politics than making a buck.

It’s critical to the company that they part ways with Elon Musk.
> aggressive expansionist goals

Like reintegrating Taiwan and HK? Anything else? Tibet I guess? I thought China was generally satisfied with its borders, except for areas it feels were split off due to external interference.
Speaking for myself:

1. I use a small amount of the surface area of C++, so the parts I don't use don't bother me

2. I may have silent footguns all over my code, but if I run my CMake build, and the tests pass, and the application does what I need from it, I really don't care

3. The up-front cost of writing correct/no-footgun code using Rust (as just one example) for me is much worse than the fluid "anything goes" of C++

>What copes do people employ to get over it to enable themselves to write C++?

C++ is powerful, flexible, and ubiquitous. Many third-party libaries in my daily toolbox are in C++, and I can re-use my code on Android, WebAssembly, cli applications, and any kind of project I may need to deploy. C++ skills are more widely available, such that maintaining C++ code is easier for companies (hiring employees, contractors, etc.) Delivering C++ code has me access to more clients and projects.

I can finish a C++ audio project for a client faster than I can figure out a `Ref<Arc<&'a static mut`, and they're happier for it.
> the base M1 Macbook Airs were such a leap forward, that for many people there is no need to buy the M2 or M3 etc.

Yeah, I'm still on an M1 MBP. I remember when I upgraded, it 2x'd my code's performance, and... it's more than good enough.

The -only- reason it's an MBP is for the external displays. If it wasn't for that segmentation I'd happily be on an MBA.
On a lot of lower-cost cars the accelerator is a single piece of injection-molded plastic.
the differences from 2017 are relatively minor, so apparently that's not recent news? nobody told us tho. /s
Because the actual policy is “we can remove anything”. Just the positioning is they’ll only use it on AI.
Good piece, but useless as advice for 99% of people.
> ~70 million people read Italian. Billions read English.

It does not matter. Researchers interested in old Rome or in old canoes will be able to find it. All articles have abstracts in English and academics do an extensive use of keywords and publishing databases.

I had to translate a very old paper from Dutch once, before to cite it, and it didn't was an unsurmountable problem with the correct motivation. Dictionaries were made for this.
To be fair that's a series of individual commands, rather than being one huge command. Also you can quite easily make all of that one key binding if you do this enough.
That looks daunting, but it's not just a big string of key sequences you have to memorize. Half of them are moving the cursor around, and the sequences follow from what you're doing. It'd be a bit like critiquing the equivalent vscode '" " <left arrow> C-v C-a <shift> C-e ...'
Time to sell your home in the US is now
I feel as though I am a dying breed, as nothing about this seems "better" than the default. The PS1 is enriched with information, sure, but I find it very distracting. I much prefer $ or #.
>> (And sneakily dangerous as lasers are)

These seem safer. With a wide emission area and focusing lens, a reflected beam will weaken with distance.
> [big list of specifics about what works where]

So, you agree that the specification landscape is a soup of incompatible variants which make practical interoperability mostly a crap shoot for consumers. You just don't think that's a problem?
> Why doesn’t every country mandate daytime running lights like Canada has for decades?

Not everyone drives an up-to-date vehicle and TBH, some vehicle owners do not care that they are a hazard, regardless of what the law requires. Here in Austin, when the police get in a snit, they just stop enforcing the law and even when they're not in a snit about something, there are parts of town where traffic laws are traffic suggestions. All of this makes for a somewhat hazardous driving environment at times.
This Microsoft hating article misses that now, Microsoft couldn't care less.

They have their own Linux distribution, all these years after the lawsuit they have become a Java distribution provider, recently added their own Go build for Azure, speaking of which, even if powered by Hyper V/Windows Host OS, 60% of Azure workloads are Linux based, more so if count ChatGPT/CoPilot stuff.

Then there is Github holding a big deal of FOSS universe as well.

VSCode and its forks used by cloud providers as Web IDEs, completly outshadow vim/emacs clones, to the point JetBrains felt pressured to come out with Fleet.

Their sales champions in 2023 were XBox, Azure and Microsoft 365.
Interesting. Certainly, those small leaps are missing. But, that’s what made the proof fun for me. They were small enough that I could fill in the blanks. In some cases, it took a little thinking, but overall it was a nice way of approaching the construction.
I believe this to be the correct take away.

They don't actually want to ban AI content. They want to ban garbage content. If they claim that something is AI content, then it's not like there's a good defense a writer can offer. Short of meticulously recording themselves typing the article up on a typewriter in real life ahead of time. In real time so everyone can see them going through revisions.

This is AI and we're banning you, is simply a sufficiently socially acceptable reason to get rid of content that they otherwise don't want clogging up their site.
I’m more worried about people on the ground being safe. There’s not a lot of safe places to crash over a dense urban environment. Any plan that involves 10,000x more aircraft flying over cities is inherently flawed.

eVTOL over rivers, lakes, or designated ‘flyways’ could work but such limitations would make flying cars far less useful, unless they can also operate as cars.
Thanks darou, I will definitively switch to other numbers in the future ;)
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So has there never been an instance where sudden unintended acceleration was proven to be from an electrical/electronic system malfunction?

Reading the title, I thought that at long last electrical SUA had been demonstrated.
Actually modular ones would be GREAT for repairablity in fleets. I could ship them to my tier 1 guys and have them swap out a part rather than going back to Lenovo or Dell and taking weeks.
I have not tried the shareware version, but I think it is killable. Crazy difficult, but possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbl9DUl-ERE
It's not tax payer money, it's spacex's money.

Please enlighten us how they are designing the rockets wrongly.
Many people now believe things are AI generated the moment the writing says something they disagree with. That's fun!
> Wonder if this is the reason: https://x.com/garageklub/status/1779571445930324456

What's the big deal? They could just fix a problem like that with software. Just patch in an emergency acceleration shutdown button in a sub-menu on the touchscreen (e.g. hit truck, "Controls", select a new "disable jammed accelerator", click confirm).
management executives also "capture and exploit their customers" in particular, their employees but also their contractors.. MSFT is enabling that model. All the participants know it. An individual person is not the decision maker. MSFT desktop OS appeals to the decision makers, for better and for worse.