skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your citation (https://archive.today/QHfAb):

> About a decade ago, encouraged by government subsidies, hundreds of automakers across China, both established players and startups, waded into electric-car manufacturing. They churned out huge numbers of early-stage EVs — relatively no-frills cars whose batteries in some instances could only run for around 100 kilometers (62 miles) on a charge.

> Those vehicles were mostly bought by ride-hailing companies that leased them to drivers. “At the beginning of China’s EV market, delivery numbers were driven by car-sharing fleets,” said Young Huang, a senior analyst with JSC Automotive, a consultancy with offices in Shanghai and Stuttgart. “Only a few private customers chose to buy them.”

> The demand helped juice an industry that has grown exponentially ever since. China is now the world leader in clean cars, producing around 6 million EVs and plug-in hybrids last year, or almost one in every three new cars sold domestically. It accounts for 60% of the world’s current electric fleet, and has the most extensive EV charging infrastructure on Earth — also built with government support.

(emphasis above mine)

> The graveyards are a troubling consequence of that consolidation. Not only are the sites an eyesore, getting rid of EVs so quickly reduces their climate benefit considering they’re more emissions-intensive to build and only produce an advantage over combustion cars after a few years. Each of the vehicles’ spent batteries also contain precious ingredients like nickel, lithium and cobalt — metals that could be recycled to make China’s EV industry more environmentally friendly.

> According to local media reports, the government of Hangzhou has vowed to dispose of the cars, which started to accumulate in 2019. But when Bloomberg News visited late last month, reporters uncovered several sites filled with abandoned EVs in the city’s Yuhang and West Lake districts after scouring satellite images and hacking through overgrown dirt paths.

These historical relics from several years ago are not today's EVs China is pumping out, and that is fairly obvious from your citation. I hope this has helped improve your mental model on the topic.
The importance of the "several centuries" is that it sets an upper limit on how long we can wait before reprocessing or burying (or otherwise permanently disposing of) spent nuclear fuel. After that point, the fuel's gamma activity will have declined so much it is no longer self-protecting from "amateur" reprocessing and diversion of the plutonium.

I think it's quite plausible that today's dry casks could last several centuries. So, we have a technology that will last as long as it could be intended to. Arguably it's better for our descendants to do this and let them deal with the waste, not needlessly do something much more expensive. Our descendants will not like that we squandered wealth and left them with larger debts or lower growth either. Always consider what else could be done with resources when you advocate their use.
i recall GWB speech in UN on this. Literally everybody called BS on this, it was glaringly obvious. Then nations leaned on each side if they simply wanted war to happen (and subsequent contracts from all the change and damage) or not. It wasnt a stellar day for US, and history showed why.
Why would you want to wear earplugs while singing?
Really cool article. This sort of stuff is mind expanding for me!

I wonder what it would take to make a version that works on Windows. Will you indulge me?
https://archive.is/y6d41
You're saying you've never ever made a typo in anything you've published?

It's almost universally agreed that you can proof read all you want, but has soon as you hit publish you'll spot at least one mistake.
which federal privacy law were you thinking of?
> Vikramshila

I saw this spelling somewhere before - why do some people use it instead of the more official Vikramashila (Vikramaśilā)?
> ./myfancytool -nofx -doingbusiness -pwn "the_ops"
> There's nothing elusive or untranslatable about the French word.

Indeed. But “terroir” also encompasses things like climate, techniques, and processing (and therefore indirectly people, know-how and tradition). Not only the land. It’s a bit broader than just the place of origin.
Lol, once upon a time Dick Cheney used to disappear from travel logs by doing the opposite: traveling first class commercial like a "normal" person. He didn't even claim the costs as expenses so as to avoid any publicly-accessible records of his travel. A relative of mine ran into him, and his security detail, on a small aircraft flying out of Hartford.
Can you name one federal law passed in the last 20 years regarding online privacy? I work in this space and genuinely cannot think of one, but would glad to be corrected.

Edit: misunderstood the comment I was replying to, haven't had coffee yet
Loops are great as a sibling comment mentioned but I had to have very loud dehumidifiers in my house all weekend; I've been walking around with my Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 3s in transparency mode (i.e. uses microphones to play sound from the outside into the headphone), and it's been amazing. It cut the audio to a maximum level and let me discern conversations more easily than folks not wearing anything.
After typing this I tried the live chat out and it honestly seems a lot more promising than current GH Copilot, very nice!
I'm talking about both. I cannot listen to audiobooks that are acted, in fact, that was the reason I decided to go down the rabbit hole of creating my own.

> For fiction it'd be a big step down from a professional human reader who understands the story and the characters' mental states.

On the contrary, I don't want the reader to understand anything, I just want the text in audio form and I will do the interpretation of it myself.
> If it is not 96 bits, then the value is first hashed with GHASH, GCM’s universal hash function, and the full 128-bit output becomes the initial counter value: [---] However, we can’t just assume that the output of GHASH is ideal with respect to collisions

They already special-cased 96 bits, so couldn't they have special-cased 128 bits to be direct addition, without concatenation?
Same! If I'm temporarily instantiating a pseudo-mindstate to work with me on a problem, I might as well do it the courtesy of informing it of the resolution.
lets flip the coin over, suppose the NSA, has been nattering at canada to get up to date, and resume fulfilment of obligations to a current standard.
If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
The distinction is that one of them actually tests hypotheses
There's a double word (yet) in the quote.
How else will $GOVERNING_PARTY find out which of their political opponents' bank accounts they should freeze?
I thought Go could handle a million-plus active goroutines? Are you saying it'll work but be poor performance compared to something equivalent in C++, JavaScript, or Rust?

A quick search reveals cgo is mainly slow due to overhead when invoking non-pure go functions (i.e. C-functions).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28272285/why-cgos-perfor...

How does this relate and interact with goroutines in a performance impacting way? As in, why is the case with goroutines any different?

Edit: @neonsunset: Thanks <3. The thread you linked covers erl/BEAM and C#/dotnet, and makes salient points of skepticism about the practical need for millions of routines. I'm still curious what makes the Go story worse or different?
Really, what you'd want is to train a LoRA or something on user input. Then you can leave it specialized to that user.
Researchers build AI-driven sarcasm detector
unfortunately masking peripheral stimuli won’t necessarily do much for reducing central percepts of non-peripheral stimuli. Tinnitus isn’t a sound, exactly…
Second, but first with BT.

Connecting to the app takes forever and frequently fails. It seems to clash with the Android device pairing somehow. It's not great. The only workaround I've found (if restarting the things by opening/closing the battery compartment doesn't work) is to remove the pairing and set them up again.

I also would prefer to set up the programs once and then switch them with physical buttons. I had my audiologist do something like that with my old pair. New audiologist now that doesn't seem as flexible, or maybe it's not possible.

The bad app experience is honestly a reason for me to look at other brands for my next pair.

I'd like to think that a bit of a learning curve is okay for something that's basically an extension of your body, but everything seems to be getting stevejobsified these days. (I'll be driving my 2006 Saab until my mechanic either retires or runs out of spare parts!)
Are you saying GH has more than Codestral and therefore GH has a better model? Or that Codestral would be better because Codestral is not littered with "bad" code?
Absolutely right, negotiated peace in some fashion is common even then. But either side might be able to follow through and entirely subjugate the other, or at least dismantle their state. That’s not on the table with very-unequal combatants. The only plausible outcome (barring expansion of the war into something more like a world war, anyway) of the Vietnam war that was a victory for north Vietnam was “the US gives up and leaves”. That’s the only way a US loss was ever gonna look—there weren’t (realistically) other ways to lose.

[edit] my point simply being that yes, that’s a loss, and in fact it was the only real way a loss could have looked, so if that’s not a “real” loss then I guess we “couldn’t lose” that war, which is plainly a strange way of looking at it.
Big question, what problem are we really trying to solve with customer support chatbots? Goes back to management and not the technology. I'm working on chatbots. Curious what would you like the bot to do when you contact customer support?
Thank you for your work Andrej! <3
Ah, that's why I was confused: I did not understand why would a website has anything to do with files on a POSIXish machine. Thanks.
It should, but additional server-side mitigations are good for defense in depth. There may be people using a different client-side library, maybe because they use a different programming language.
Yes, that's essentially the position:

> What happens when everything is allowed, as long as it is consensual? Then the burden to say “I consent” or “I do not consent” lies squarely with the individual. Individual women need to radiate “I do not consent”.

The restrictions on women's freedom and especially stigma/taboo around their real or perceived sexual interactions limited the "attack surface" for harassment as well. Now that women may accept or initiate sexual encounters (theoretically) free of stigma, they also must repel all unwanted advances, when previously some of these would have been prevented through social norms.

I think this is maybe a little optimistic about to what extent these norms actually prevented unwanted negative interactions, and between whom. But it seems like an overall accurate observation to me.
One could also argue that this is merely being conversant on the topic one is conversing on.

And not taking on the job of police when you don't know as much as you think you do, such as the speakers whose speech you presume to police.

You might not know the significance of "textfiles says no", but you do know that in general it's a thing that on HN, sometimes the rando is no rando, and you do know that you're not dang.

That's all it takes to avoid looking like a douche. And soon enough some comment or other would fill in the significance, from someone else looking like a douche and having it explained to them.

Jason could have added "Internet Archive here, it's not that." But he would have to say that in front of every comment he ever writes, which I think would get old for him and probably no small number of other people would criticize that too "yesss we know you work for IA FFS get over yourself..."

I think it's fine for him to just speak and let everyone else take care of themselves.
I would recommend "Programming Server-Side Applications for Windows 2000" by Jeffrey Richter and Jason D. Clark.

Richter also wrote "Windows via C/C++", which was previously titled "Programming Applications for Windows 2000" (4th edition) or "Advanced Windows" (3rd and earlier editions).

I realise these books are now very old (17 years old for "Windows via C/C++" and 25 years for "Programming Server-Side Applications") but really, the Windows API hasn't changed all that much in that time.
"Folks over at Bluesky dug into the specific language of the reauthorization bill and found it was inserted by Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman of Arkansas."

It's always funny (both haha and sad) to me which sacrificial lamb the parties convince to push something like this forward. It signals so much about their intent. If they wanted lots of coverage, they would pick a much more recognized person within the party as a champion to push something forward. For stuff they want to sneak in, they pick someone much more obscure. This protects the more recognized from catching any blow back. This poor guy is probably barely known in his home state, so he's probably using it as a "happy just to be mentioned" type of coverage.
This is an interesting comment because it's stated with an air of confidence but interpreting statements like "got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right" this way (i.e. got everything else wrong or there were no other tests) would really distort someone's perception of reality.
If only there was a high-level GC-based language with fast FFI and good performance, surely the industry would pick it based on the merits and not simply what is hyped...
All in the name of security. Sure, go ahead, let the curtain fall.
wazero works fine on Windows.

In fact the exact same assembly works across Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD: the calling convention used by the compiler is entirely custom, and all "host calls" are provided by wazero, so assembly ports fine across OSes.
The concepts are not hard to understand and it is not uniquely French, far from it. That said, I cannot think of a single-word equivalent in English.
If I wanted to give my AI headline-writer software typos, I bet there's a simple algorithm for that. Letter missing, letter doubling, transposition, and nearby-qwerty keys. Of course, you'd need a separate algo for brain farts (their/there/they're and whatnot), but I think I could make something for that too. The sad truth is that it's not worth it to anyone to go to the trouble just to spare us the insult to our intelligence.
Last I checked my lost-password fortune was about $8k.

Now, had I spend the same amount of money on bitcoin that I did on the janky underpowered miner setup I put together by not quite understanding the math, my lost-password fortune would approach $1MM.

Either way, I lost my password.
The only thing that can protect you from state actors is a one-way data diode, and/or a complete air gap system with rigorous physical security AKA another state...and even then...spies ;)
That's a good counterargument, I agree.
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Ha! I bought the same box literally a month ago, this listing ships Prime and costs a little less: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007XJOLG

Those are great for the workshop, but they're flourescent green and pink. That makes it easy to see when someone's wearing them, which is good in a shop but usually bad in social settings.
Google controls the APIs that extension writers can use. They are currently using that control to impose limits on what adblocker extensions can do. [1][2]

You could download the Chromium source and patch it to change the extensions APIs (or better, just use Firefox), but the majority of users won't do this, and extension writers aren't going to make a version for a patched Chromium browser unless it has significant market share and support.

[1] https://nordvpn.com/blog/manifest-v3-ad-blockers/

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...
As in ‘fix the mess’ - you know, mitigate the melted down reactor catastrophe?
I hate this but isn’t this what the US is secretly doing anyways? How did outrage in America die down?
Even HN gives you a two hour grace period to edit the contents of your post.
I've got Visual Studio.NET 2003 on CD, and it comes with a slightly more up-to-date MSDN library. I wonder what the most up-to-date version is.
Thanks. Until now I thought he still holds that title. Good job with the "hushed up at the time" I guess.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435220

(C# can handle millions of active tasks, and so can Elixir, though with greater overhead as it offers a different set of tradeoffs)
Hey, this looks great! I'm going to try it
Canada being totalitarian? I'm shocked.
A post get more than 100 upvotes within one hour with no real source code and very few commits. I really doubt where the votes come from.
It’s like one of those logic problems isn’t it; if what you say is true (and it likely is) then why hasn’t the report been released? It likely contains information that even at the fantastic fees WilmerHale charge couldn’t be skirt around.
By that logic, neither is gasoline.
Good catch! Thank you.
The crux is that people can agree that "housing is a basic need" without agreeing that "no one should be able to own houses they do not live in".

Even the most well-intentioned attempts to implement this will probably be more harm than good. There will always be enough loopholes to create many of the same problems while the added restrictions can introduce other problems of their own.

Some people cannot afford to buy, and some would not buy even if they could, preferring flexibility or a different kind of market exposure. For them to have a place to rent, someone else -- be that a company, family, or individual -- has to own a place they don't live in so they can rent it out. There will always be a need for this, you can't just ban it.

Aside: Don't tell me you want state-built housing projects. People seem to forget that the USA already tried that. Even in Russia and China virtually anyone who can afford to move to private housing does and never looks back.

Australia's state housing projects may have kept some people off the streets but have not prevented runaway housing prices for everyone else. One could argue they took up valuable land that could have helped with the supply side.

It's not "anarcho-capitalist" to recognize that many laws and regulations have had paradoxical effects once implemented. Even the most die-hard planned economy maximalist has to acknowledge that the plan can function differently in practice to how it was imagined by the committee. History is full of examples of well-intentioned plans functioning far worse for both the collective and the individual.
That's not true at all. In war? The Nazis took great pains to preserve (stolen) art; the Islamic State went out of their way to destroy it. Americans vigorously catalogue war efforts, with much risk to photographers. Even going back to ancient times, weapons and armor were lavishly decorated. What's the enduring symbol of the space race? An American flag, planted on the moon. And the way out of the Great Depression was the WPA, including its art and architecture initiatives. One of the few fully-intact survivors of Japan's economic crash in the mid-90s was its animation industry; the US gaming industry grew while the rest of the economy languished following the GFC. I could go on.

Art is political; it stirs passions, which is to say that it's the motive force behind (public support for) many great undertakings. In these cases, you've mistaken pricelessness for worthlessness. You're just one in a long line of very incorrect people to mis-define "intrinsic value"; designating that as a "brutal reality" is ironic, since you won't face the actual reality.
> The key message I'm trying to convey in this piece is that models don't instantly remember what you tell them.

Are you sure? We have no idea how OpenAI runs their models. The underlying transformers don't instantly remember, but we have no idea what other kinds of models they have in their pipeline. There could very well be a customization step that accounts for everything else you've just said.
I mean a) this is the right thing to do. b) it’s pathetic that this can be accomplished yet cell location tracking and and ALPRS data has not been addressed
While that would be nice, this writing excerpt from ~2000 years ago suggests that it's deeply ingrained in people:

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
I have no clue what a Quine clock is, but I think it would be easier to read if the diagonal stroke on the front of the 1s only extended to the second row of characters from the top, instead of the third.

I noticed this because it was just 11:11 in my time zone >:)
I love this kind of things the first time I see them but I would hate it in a tool used everyday
Classified, I'm sure.
> if this is so unreasonable or silly how come everyone thought this way only a decade or so ago?

Conventions change, right? Ten years is doesn't seem like much but it's nearly half a generation. A lot can change from one generation to the next. The younger generations seem to be much more liberal when it comes to lifestyle choices, and much more explicit around communication and consent.