skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels even more impressive to me because it's always used outside and picks up multiple birds easily. Our current record is 14, and we live near a busy road.
it says they're planting it and harvesting the plants after no more than three years so the bark doesn't redden, but looking at the photos in the article, it looks like the hill districts in question aren't very forested? google maps makes it look like there are in fact many forests there: https://www.google.com/maps/@26.9,88.5101152,20665m/data=!3m...
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Literally any car will have its clear coat eaten away from the same list of corrosive substances. It’s very common to get rings around where bird poop drops on a car and sits, because it etches the clear coat. Don’t see how this recommendation is different.
> The HN audience expects certain standard of quality and insight in the article if the article is on the front page.

It was on the front page ... it hit the top spot. Various people in the community clearly did think it met the bar.

> ... nobody said the OP was stupid ...

Reading between the lines, several people effectively said exactly that.

I know, I'm in "Old man yells at cloud" territory here, but I was kinda hoping people would find a more positive way of interpreting the situation, rather than "Can't the author just RTFM?!?" types of responses.

My agèd and fading memory of what HN was like when I first joined suggests that people used to be more interested in being constructive and learning from other people's mistakes, even the mistakes that, when they didn't make them, seemed obvious in retrospect. Perhaps especially those ones.

Since this didn't meet your bar, since it's all too obvious for you, I guess there's very little for you to learn. I'm sorry you (and others) felt you had to dump on it, instead of leaving it for people who can still learn from things as "obvious" as this. After all, the votes that got it to the front page show that not everyone knows as much as you do.
So what's the specific difference between Saudi/Turkey and Russia/China then?

Sounds like all the moralizing is just chaff and it's pure power politics.
>My response was: “it’s a scary thing when tech and politics mix.”

I too am neurodivergent, beware bluntness, but you're trolling in my opinion.

I don't know what event you're talking about but I wonder if it's that techno-optimism religion that was proposed recently by marc andressen? It would take a great deal of writing to explain what this religion really is.

>I honestly thought it was an important callout. Seemed very unprofessional to me

Contemporary politics is literally all about tech. You basically cant talk about tech without it being political. The vast majority of political subjects are tech subjects. Therefore the callout doesnt make sense to me.

You cant divorce politics and tech. So you are essentially saying both are scary? That be trolling.
June is also when Wayland nvidia gaming and application should be fixed by an nvidia beta driver with explicit sync support.

Year of the Linux desktop?!?!!!
Using common sense, probably. You don't need an LLM detector to tell that something is AI generated.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240106121752/https://thermoele...

(With thanks to @varenc)
A quick check at my local credit union shows APRs between 6-7.5% for people with “excellent” credit.

Compared to when I bought my recent car, rates were hovering between 1-2% (2015-2017).

A large majority of Baby boomers in US reportedly do not have savings for retirement [1]. A large portion of the US living paycheck to paycheck. And many of those people do not have the savings to cover more than a $400 emergency. [2]

most people won’t have the liquidity to pay out of pocket. Thus why they reach for loan products. Either that or they forgo medical expenses or forgo other expenses.

[1] https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/3991136-nearly...

[2] https://time.com/personal-finance/article/average-american-s...
"The average car-buyer or metalworker" can already afford a $30 cordless angle grinder:

https://www.harborfreight.com/power-tools/grinders/angle-gri...

(Cost plus a $30-$80 battery, of course, but after you pick your color, you've already got batteries). Your locks are far more protected by the social contract that would compel a stranger to stop someone who was cutting a bike lock with an angle grinder, and would cause a thief to fear arrest, prosecution, and jail time, than by actual physical security.

If you want a laser, you can already get a 100W CO2 laser tube for $500:

https://www.amazon.com/Cloudray-W2-Dia-80mm-Engraver/dp/B08G...

It won't do a great job of cutting steel - it will engrave it, but to cut steel you'd need O2 assist gas and a lot more power. It will trivially cut ABS, foam, fabric, wood veneer/thin plywood, cardstock, etc. if attached to a pair of mirrors on an XY stage such as might be borrowed/scaled up from a 3D printer. And, of course, it will trivially scar corneas with the invisible danger of its 10,600 nm laser light. Good news, though - ordinary polycarbonate safety glasses are opaque to the extreme IR light.

Laser safety is serious business, but highly-collimated, tightly-focused laser light is not likely to be produced by a cheap, portable laser. The above tube produces a 100W beam with a diameter of about 8mm. I wouldn't put my eyeball in the path, but a safety shutter can sit in the beam indefinitely and merely get warm. You melt steel by focusing a this 8mm beam down to a infinitesimally tiny spot, and beyond the focal length of your optics it diffuses to something no more dangerous than the source 8mm beam, and beyond that it's no more dangerous than an average lightbulb - albeit one that you have no aversion response/blink reflex to. I always wear my goggles near our cutting lasers, but I know lots of guys who have worked around 20W-20,000W CO2 lasers their entire lives and they're pretty cavalier with regards to laser safety.

Finally, a welding mask is a neutral-density filter, suitable for the (very approximately) black-body radiation produced by a welder, and is much less effective than laser safety goggles at blocking high-intensity light of a very specific color. Depending on the sensor, an auto-darkening mask might not even trigger when exposed to a laser! You'd want a set of 940nm laser safety goggles for this, which is far more exotic and dangerous than a 10um CO2 laser.
Tesla will decline as soon as the US lifts the embargo on Chinese cars. However, it is unlikely that the US will ever do that.
This is feels like a hit piece masking under the safety umbrella. Toyota had a similar issue in 2008 and recalled millions. I assume Cybertruck has less than a thousand on the road.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/09/toyota_recal...
Totally agree. Moreover, some of the things I look for are completely missing, and those are strategic. So tactical laundry list is a good synopsis.
> Any story using AI help must clearly mention this within the first two paragraphs.

What’s AI here? Is the spelling correction tool in Google Docs "AI"? Are the suggestions from my iPhone "AI"? This is the kind of very vague sentence written by someone who doesn’t understand AI.
With a aerospace industry grade fix incoming - rivets.
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> It was on the front page ... it hit the top spot. Various people in the community clearly did think it met the bar.

It was on the front page. It hit the top spot. Then it got flagged. Many people in the community clearly did think it was clickbait and did not meet the bar!
Reading the article this appears to be more a rip off of GBA4iOS and being removed for that more so than apple not allowing the genre of emulators.
Yes, there are such printers in existence already --- they either use a laser to melt a layer of metal powder, or spray a binding agent on a layer of plastic powder --- for the latter it's possible to include a colouring agent and get full-colour 3D plastic prints.

Search term is "Laser powder bed fusion" (as opposed to the trademark: "Direct Metal Laser Sintering" as was pointed out below)

https://www.3dsourced.com/guides/direct-metal-laser-sinterin...
FWIW I really don't need to remember the IPv6 addresses of devices on my networks, DNS and my router handle that for me fairly automatically.

I can even control how I connect to the device, either by using it's hostname on the LAN, it's WAN hostname, or it's VPN hostname. This has always been preferable to me over remembering IP addresses, even in the v4 realm.

The only time v6 has ever caused me any difficulty is when dealing with services/tools that don't support it, but that's getting to be less and less of a problem even.
People are constantly slathering paint all over shit. Blows me away. Not only that, they will pile on layer after layer so as to build a crust that has no hope of being aesthetic ever again.

Sometimes people with an IQ come along and remove the paint and everyone is flabbergasted at the beauty that was underneath.

Sorry, I get triggered by naive paint slinging.
Ignorant question here, but I have been wondering if they keyboard/trackpad would be upgradable in the future? Still rough to release a laptop at such a high price-point with sub-par UX, but it seems possible that they could release better components for the 16 in the future, right?
thank you, i didn't know that!
I could not find any record of this failure mode* ever happening to any other car in automotive history, so I don't think it's that common.

*–Stock cheap cover clipped onto acceleration pedal which causes the accelerator to jam
Most of the stuff that could be replaced exists in an easement. I don't have to agree to let my local utility upgrade my infrastructure.

Also, any time something "just works" and a business can charge someone to use it, they'll do that instead of actively working to improve the product, particularly if that product is a commodity and they have a monopoly on it. They've also leveraged regulatory capture to make sure that the public utility boards don't put a lot of pressure on them to make needed changes.
I mean, it's not like spacex rockets are exploding regularly or anything.
You don't need an LLM detector to tell that something is visibly AI generated. With some minor prompting and editing it can be indistinguishable from any other writing.
Fritzbox assigns a domain for the router, something like DynDNS. The config is bound to this domain.
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I was going to buy it, but this lack of privacy explanation scares me.
Building free tools alone is not a viable LT strategy, you need to market any tool (even the free ones) to get traction and usage. If you rely on SEO, you need to clearly demonstrate to Google that this is the best page for a search query (or set of) -- this is't very obvious to google if the value is not textual so this needs to be worked on to complement it (then you need backlinks too... the marathon begins).

I would question whether the 'ad-free' element of the strategy is potentially only a very small and ultimately insignificant weight in the perceived value of your tool vs others and might not be as impactful as you'd think -- if you deliver enough value for people not to care about having to ignore ads (which ppl are very, very good at these days) then they will confidently ignore the ads and find the value (e.g. academic referencing tools, wetransfer, {filetype}-to-{filetype} convertors)
It's not just the opinions he holds, it's the activist effort to implement those opinions in society. His access to capital assists those efforts, so buying a Tesla is seen as directly complicit. People then choose a substitute EV which may or may not be a Chinese brand.
Seems like default parameters are riddled with pitfalls. Even Python has its own minefield — and hilariously the only proper default value is “None”

To me using default parameters to control behavior in OO languages is insanity. That’s what OO design is for?

Or make a “simple” method with a few parameters that calls an “_ex” version with the full set of parameters. (To borrow Microsoft terminology)

Sure, a little extra typing but it separates the common and special cases, perhaps inviting scrutiny on why the nondefault parameters are needed…

Soon after that, one will probably refactor all this away too.
I just watched the video from that presentation and it didn't sound like anything so egregious that it would make you want to never attend a similar event was said (we couldn't hear your actual question very well). I get that there's a little more to your decision than that, but still.
> It is a different thing to use that language to understand completely scientific/medical/law/tax forms and texts.

Jargon has to be learned independently. This is true of every kind of jargon, not just academic and legal stuff. If you want to talk to junkies and sound like one of them, you'll have to learn how first.

The technical term for this kind of concern is usually "register", as in "writing in an academic register".

A Chinese college student once asked me to review a paper of theirs for English quality, because their professor had criticized the English in a prior paper and they trusted me to be a native speaker (which I am). But being a native speaker didn't really help; once I saw the paper, I had to say "I'm sorry, but I don't have academic business training; I can't guarantee that anything I said would be phrased correctly."
Could you please clarify this? I was under the assumption that eSATA was the name for the external [hot-pluggable] SATA connector. If memory serves, eSATAp was that, but combined with a USB plug. Very clever engineering, though the connector seems to be very rare these days (possibly due to SATA itself losing market share [in the context of ordinary people]).
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For comparison my 240hp awd non-hybrid vehicle gets about 34mpg
>> Using common sense, probably. You don't need an LLM detector to tell that something is AI generated.

This could quickly turn into a witch hunt
People died. Depending on how negligent the crew were, it could rise to the level of manslaughter, even without the act of fuel switching.
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DVDs are great. The only downside is the obnoxious trailers and loading screens they make you sit through. Often I can start playing a movie on Netflix faster than when I possess a physical copy of that media. Which is crazy when you think about it.
Erm, what? English is literally the most important language in the world. You're a nobody if you can't speak English in most of the world.
Nothing is a replacement for writing decent code.
> Even Python has its own minefield — and hilariously the only proper default value is “None”

What’s hilarious here?
I was able to remove YouTube thanks to Canta + Shizuku. Unfortunately, the latest android OTA upgrade breaks canta. But I'm already free of YouTube and enjoying NewPipe \o/
I don't think you're misunderstanding, it's a strange choice to make even if the example here loses context to make it easier to make the point. It wasn't code that anyone currently here wrote and because it worked with the old compiler, nobody really touched it.
I believe the nodes are pushed into the list before adding connections but I don't think that changes the point you're trying to make. That said, one's intuition is different from another's and I don't think it's unfair to assume that pushing into a vector of lists won't cause every existing list to be copied. For that to be the actual behavior is kind of disgusting.
It may make more sense to create pointers here but that's a larger change to deal with and ensure correctness versus just swapping the vector out for another list. I don't claim to like that solution but it seems to me like legacy C++ code in general is fragile enough as it is, the less I have to change to fix bugs the better.
I have had to RMA my entire AMD laptop due to a BSOD issue, that lives on in the replacement device. It isn't a DIY config, using their charger, etc. I am 70% sure it's firmware, but no matter what the root cause is, I have little faith that the problem can be resolved due to lack of transparency or knowledge of the root cause.

Edit: I think this is why Dell/Apple end up winning in the end. Stability in a computer is critical.
Pretty cool platform since most of similar tools introduce the risk of vendor lock-in and here it is open-source
The article is about exactly that:

> Normally, such a sudden loss would spell disaster for a small, islanded grid. But the Kauai grid has a feature that many larger grids lack: a technology called grid-forming inverters. An inverter converts direct-current electricity to grid-compatible alternating current. The island’s grid-forming inverters are connected to those battery systems, and they are a special type—in fact, they had been installed with just such a contingency in mind.

> At the time of this writing, at least eight major grid-forming projects are either under construction or in operation in Australia, along with others in Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East.

Utilities are low margin businesses. Why wouldn't they jump at any opportunity to improve efficiencies?
Sorry, I’m not sure why it was off topic or clickbait. Can you explain? Should I have added WHY I think it’s bad as well? I honestly thought it was self evident but again, I’m neurodivergent.
Being a business means they have to optimize for profit (to at least some non trivial degree), or die.

Many hospitals are run by non profit organizations to help reduce this problem. However even they cannot run at a loss overall for long. Bankruptcy doesn’t help anyone actually provide services, after all.

Gov’t has different incentives - but then care is strongly controlled and limited by public policy, for better or worse.

And an organization that is able to optimize to produce more value than they consume (aka is more profitable) can take more risks, expand better, have more capital to invest in training, equipment, etc, be more competitive in who they hire, and have better and more comfortable facilities if they want.

And being a Dr. can be really miserable sometimes, and the training is also really hard and miserable.

Some (surgeons, esp. plastic surgery) optimize for maximum $$ for misery, usually. Others (pediatrics) optimize for maximum ‘feel goods’ for misery, usually. Most others are somewhere in between.

Either way, if they didn’t want/need the money, they’d be going to medicine sans frontiers or working in rural medicine eh?
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That's free training/fine-tuning material, right?
Doesn't Framework publish the schematics for building new modules? If so, I guess if there is a market for an SD card module, one will present itself...
Yes, people are generally talking about morals in our sense when they talk about eg, business or work ethics.

But I would not say that's wrong, because there are three common senses for the words:

1) Morals are principles, while ethics is the philosophy of how we develop them

2) Ethics and Morals are synonyms for principles

3) Morals are principles for individuals, and ethics are principles for groups

Professional and work ethics are most in line with sense 3, because they are about groups. Sense 2 is also consistent and probably what most people actually mean.

However, professional ethics ethics can also be seen as an example of our sense 1. It's a field of applied ethical philosophy, where we engineer codes of morals fit to a specific profession's needs. Business ethics fail when they end up choosing bad morals. So we can call the ethics themselves bad.

And work ethic is not just a set of good morals, but also the ability to spontaneously reflect and improve on our own morals as workers. This gives it some of sense 1 as well.

However it would be a stretch to say this is what people really mean, since most people subscribe to senses 2 or 3.

Sense 1 is mainly useful for people interested in systematically developing morals.
Daphne is a complicated material to manipulate. All its parts are very poisonous. Edgeworthia is a little safer, it seems.
You're assuming that, in the future, we'll still have huge, centralized plants. With solar, it's very possible that we'll have small stations in each town or area, and only need to balance between them infrequently, greatly reducing the amount of energy we need to carry across large distances.
This go-to argument for why we must all start using IPv6 doesn't fly, at least for me. We ran out of IPv4 some time ago, and yet, here we still are.
Every skill we learn incurs some cost to learn it and provides some benefit.

The benefits are uncertain, they might be more or less than before LLMs could produce some code.

We know the cost of learning to code is now much less than before. The cost of learning almost anything is much less than before.

Those who say we should not learn are fools.
Combine these with hydrogen-boron (aneutronic) fusion and we may be able to generate electricity directly without needing a thermal plant. Even though we are years away it still shows a possible path forwards. Here's hoping!
Toyota’s unintended acceleration was a yearslong scandal during which many accidents involving Toyotas became national news.

Manufacturers don’t get a bye from safety just because they haven’t sold many units yet.
My understanding is that the official Saturday Night Live clips on YouTube have been silently edited to remove "problematic" skits.

I will again make my proposal regarding such edits (and continued availability of content in general <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113529>):

* If a Blu-ray of a film or TV show has excised or modified scenes for whatever reason, and the original isn't also made available (whether on a different "theatrical cut" release, or as a different cut on the same disc), the entire original version immediately goes into public domain.

* If NBC posts Saturday Night Live skits on YouTube that have removed "problematic" scenes without explaining the differences—a diff file, basically—the entire original skit loses copyright protection.
> Thunderbolt is packetized PCIe over USB-C

It is not this. PCIe can be encapsulated over a Thunderbolt connection, but that is not what Thunderbolt is. Thunderbolt is Thunderbolt.
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That is rather sad to hear.
All publishers are grappling with this where they want generally higher quality content (defined as more engaging, intrinsic quality is something else) and less low effort spam or retreaded concepts.

AI-generated content has really dropped the floor on how cheap it is to produce niche blogspam, and they're saying: "Hey if you're pushing out 1000s of articles a day on a topic and we look at it and it's insane gibberish, we're just going to assume it's no good on principle and ban you."

Nobody is getting banned for the "Gray-AI" of assisted writing, where you get help with an outline or use Grammarly Pro to rewrite your sentences into coherence.
Given that, it makes this incident worse: they didn’t heed the lesson of the past.
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If we are unable to make full self drive work for cars, how are we going to safely have flying cars land anywhere except far out of the way airports?

The dream of flying cars is to reduce City traffic, and until we can take off and land safely in a city there is no point.