skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention cherry-picking facts (at best). Case in point, cars today are more environmentally friendly than the 1980s, we are told. So much so that a car driving down the motorway today is greener than a parked car in the 80s.

Even over the past two decades the global annual car production has increased by over 50%, increasing embedded (production), direct (tailpipe) and indirect (electric) emissions because few countries are free from fossil fuels. Cars create noise pollution, air pollution through tyre particulates and poor land use practices that lead to urban sprawl and further car dependence.

Fortunately there is a lot of work being done in this space on many fronts, most notably around making public transport fast, efficient, comfortable and convenient, which reduces the need for cars. In the IT space there is tons of waste in short lived, locked down devices that people regularly replace because it's too hard; government action is needed (and in some cases has been implemented, like forcing Apple to support USB C cables).

I'm neither here nor there on nuclear power plants, but are actually insanely expensive. Just look at France which will spend over $US10b per replacement power plant, in a country with well established nuclear capabilities.

The idea that "climate activists" are wrong and pro-nuclear optimists are right is just a real weird take.
Instead of thinking of it as a bang in an existing space-time, the way to conceptualize it is the collapsing of a universal wave function from a superposition of all possible universal states. Of which our universe is just one potential possibility. Space time is a function of the collapsing state.
I don't know where the line is between night wakings being physiological or pathological/disorder since we have so much artificial interference nowadays. But, unless I overlooked, no where in the article does the author mention getting a sleep test in lab or at home for apneas, etc. I just find that a little odd.
The consistent reasoning paradox of intelligence and optimal trust in AI
Interesting preprint about a computability paradox in AGI.

It can be an exciting reading even for non-expert people since there is a non-technical introduction in the beginning with clear explanations about the result, the assumptions involved and their justifications as well as a reason why this result is novel (i.e. why it is not a simple application of the Halting problem).

(Disclaimer: I was not involved in the production of this paper nor know the authors of this paper)
This reminds me of Waymo's approach to self-driving cars. Paraphrasing, but basically they found that progressively adding self-driving to help human drivers is bad, because it leads to the humans becoming complacent and not paying enough attention. Therefore they decided on an all or nothing approach, where their cars would be only and entirely self-driven.
Sounds like a terrible sequel to the cult classic "Hackers".

"Ahh, The Red Book. GPT3/4 prompt engineering for neural networks. Otherwise known as the ugly Red Book that won't fit on a shelf"
It is different in Central and Eastern Europe, as the battlefield is much closer and we have extensive experience with being under the Russian yoke in the past.

But I think that any movement can have just one massive cause celebre, and the Palestinians cornered the market for that cause among the Western Left. Already in Spain, there is barely a Ukrainian flag to be seen among the hundreds of Palestinian flags.

It works the other way as well, former Soviet Bloc nations usually don't care about the Palestinians at all, or are pro-Israeli.

The size of a local Muslim community probably matters, too. Muslims care about their brethren in faith, at least verbally. In the recent General Election in the UK, the most Islamized constituencies punished neutral Labour candidates and turned out heavily in favour of pro-Palestinian candidates of third parties. It cost Labour some previously left-wing seats, though it didn't threaten their majority in the UK as a whole, as the Muslim population is highly concentrated in a few urban areas and can influence only several seats country-wide.
> this can be used wherever the driver deems it safe and useful

With the disclaimer that this depends on the location of course. For example, I think in Spain (and probably EU wide?) modifications that affect steering and throttle control would need to undergo local homologation before you're legally allowed to drive with that on public roads at all.

Which, to be honest, makes a lot of sense. I don't think anyone would be happy if cars start using software MVPs automatically controlling throttle and steering while in real traffic.
> the fact remains that the expectation of querying DNS servers in a specific order has been a common understanding for many.

That understanding has been wrong; it is an implementation detail of glibc and that's it. It could query them in random order, or round-robin them for each request; or time them how fast they respond and prefer the fastest, up until it starts timing out and then shake the order again. Some resolver stubs ask all of them and use the answer that arrives first. That's also valid. Since they all are returning the same answer, it doesn't matter. It also makes any argument for ordering superfluous.

So that "common understanding for many" is erroneous and those many should update it. The thread you linked to has exactly a discussion on this point, so in the years that passed since then, those affected many had ample time to fix up their assumptions.
For anyone in the thread that's not seen "How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" by John McAfee, you are very, very welcome [0].

Content warning: it was made in his Alpha-PHP era, and contains a lot of sex and drug references. It's mostly sex and drugs IIRC.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
> Never send back food.

I like my steak rare. But if someone doesn't, and the kitchen messes it up, the correct response is to either choke it down, or leave a $65 meal uneaten on your plate?
In the past I have wondered why Hacker News had so many articles from Forbes. Now I know.

And this from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871410

[Edit, add link to article about Forbes and Hacker News]
People, Google is not in the Tech business....

Its tech powering an search and ad monopoly....

Things only change when ctr of ads and amount of ads displayed go down.
Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
>according to the Japanese government, Okinawans eat the least vegetables and sweet potatoes in Japan and have the highest body mass index.

My first thought was, that must be because of the big American presence on Okinawa. But it seems to be much less than I thought (18K vs. 1.47M).
Ah you are right, I forgot that they both were announced at around the same time. It just feels like Vulkan took forever. To the point where some teams at my job had to use OpenGL even for greenfield projects for quite a while after Vulkan was first announced (even when they wanted to use Vulkan).

I wonder if that means that dx12 and Vulkan could have a good interop/compatibility story, since they both have similar origins.
It says my car is supported and my car doesn't have any blind-spot detection, nor does the requirements list that as needed, so maybe it's optional but not required?
And it has data for some smaller airlines like AJet in Turkey.
I am in the process of starting my own software dev agency parvaazgroup.com and also would like to know the same questions!
Funnily enough, however, businesses do get perks for how many asses are in chairs

They're often called 'Economic Development Incentives' or 'Urban Planning'. Think about this the next time someone tries to convince you the govt. doesn't pick winners or losers; that's kind of the job. I didn't say they do well.
Constellation Energy to Restart Three Mile Island, Sell Power to Microsoft AI
ROS doesn't need a clone, it needs a successor.

Took the bait as well.
No worries, that would be really great!
> Though the German word for cell phone, “handy” is pretty great.

But it sounds rather silly in the standard German pronounciation of "henndii".
From the great presentation linked: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...

> Amazingly, the graph diameter is often as high as 20: there are airports that can take 20 flights minimum to get between

I wonder if that's still true. It's hard to imagine. And just the thought of having to optimize that search function made my cortisol levels spike a bit.
Even if the majority prefer free or cheap, that doesn't mean there isn't a market for better and more expensive search. Those who don't want to pay can stick with Google and get what they pay for. Just like with any other product.

Being a more expensive premium product can even be more lucrative than being the cheaper majority product. Look at Apple, the only company to even try making a high quality laptop i the last 10-15 years. I'd say the same about smart phones, but the latest Samsung phones are actually high quality.
So much wrong with this rant. To be so dismissively anti-activist is bizarre. If we listened to them decades ago we could have developed all these improvements earlier - and with fewer mouths to feed. But apparently then, as now, they are just naive do-gooders.

Imagine writing: "Some people argue that humans have caused climate change and environmental damage, and therefore humans are the problem. This is a very black-and-white, misleading way of looking at the world. Humans are also able to solve these problems and have done so in many cases"... and concluding that because we mitigate some of the large complex problems we create, but not all, somehow we are a net good and there should be more of us.

Every time people overfish, overharvest, over intensify farming, drive a species to extinction etc. we get the same response - people have the right to a livelihood, people need to eat. And it would be unethical to deny them that. But no mention of biodiversity as an environmental and ethical problem either. It's all about climate because all that matters is humans.

We don't know how to sustainably feed the human population we have now and pro-market capitalism contrarians give the same "actually more people is a good thing because... brain trust" or some nebulous nonsense.
What sort of data does Arc track?
Our plain-english Privacy Policy summarizes it well:

We don’t know which websites you visit
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that makes way more sense
Shitty software developers will always find ways to screw things up unfortunately
An aside about Forbes: I used to be subscribed to a few of their newsletters. About two years ago, I would notice that nearly all the newletter content would say something along the lines of "as reported by The Information" and I realized that a huge portion (>60%) of the newsletter content was just summarizations or rephrasing of articles from The Information. Which, I mean, great that you're citing your sources, but are you really providing a service here?

I just read The Information, now.
Hear me out - you’re loosing in comparison to other jobs you might had had with required skills _even_ if startup succeds!

Founding engineers get 1% of company at best.

With very optimistic 200mil buyout in extremely optimistic 5 years you have 2mil tops.

With conservatively optimistic 400k/year (senior level salaries in a public company in us) you make this in same 5 years without a) relying on luck b) without 80h work week c) with plenty of talented colleagues to learn from etc etc.

This isn’t even about a chance it’s a pure math.

Just like casino is not about the chance, it’s about statistics.

But it promotes idea of “chance” to attract customers.
LLMs have no direct recollection of the qualia of their own training. This is at least a major way that I self-correct myself: if I'm about to talk about something I know, I'll try and figure out how/why I know that thing and in so doing, try to gauge whether I actually know that thing, if I'm hallucinating, or if I actually heard it from a less than reliable source etc.

I don't think LLMs can self-correct without remembering their own training in some way.
Unfortunately, Zen Browser simply isn't an alternative. If you like Arc, then Zen's UI for tabs and splitting views isn't really anywhere close to satisfying the same needs.
>SHA-512 is more computationally costly

In fact, as you suggested later, SHA-512 is actually much less computationally expensive on 64 bit machines - it has 25% more rounds, but you can do twice the number of bytes per round.

All other things being equal (which they seldom are), you will often see a significant speed improvement with SHA-512 vs. SHA-256 on larger payloads.

Of course, I immediately tried to test this with "openssl speed" on my M1 Mac and SHA-512 is 70% slower, so I guess there's some architectural optimization there.
Through civil disobedience is the only way stuff like this happens in America. You're right about the incentives to those in power, but how do you think we got emancipation2, women's suffrage, organized labor rights, prohibition and the end to prohibition?
You'd think that exactly because it's such a common pattern, there would be best practices how to help those communities overcome. Yet, the only pattern I see is mainstream politics ignoring it, locals struggling, and rightwing winning them over. It's so obvious that you really have to ask yourself whether there's some hidden agenda somewhere in there. Just like mainstream politics ignoring the younger generations - both as plans for them and as ways to communicate with them - and again who's winning? The rightwing. It's everything in the open.
The way I've always seen it is that they'd never directly sell user data because that is their most valuable and prized asset. It's what allows them to sell targeted access to users for so much money.
> Strange to label a failure to capitalize words

It’s not a failure, it’s a conscious choice.

> as I'm sure people have been doing that for many years prior to social media.

But now it’s happening more frequently. That’s what “trend” means. It doesn’t mean it never happened before.

> And nobody tYpEs lIkE tHiS except when making a joke.

Just because you don’t know people like that, does not mean they don’t exist. The world is bigger than one person’s knowledge. I personally knew several teenagers who did it for all their communication, before smartphones. The speed at which they were able to do it was astounding.
What's Missing from Communication Books
Work Hardening in Colloidal Crystals
>Google basically destroyed itself when it decided to become an ad network rather than a dumb pipe you pay to access.

It didn't destroy itself, it became one of the largest and most profitable companies ever.
> Seems pretty reasonable actually. Final reports contain -everything- and I really do mean everything.

No it doesn’t. It’s an outrage and a powerful argument against the entire system that produced it. There is no sane way that spending more money on stakeholder consultation for a comparable tunnel than Norway spent on building one can be defended.
That's the thing, the vast majority of people paying for Starlink's service could already access Wikipedia, Starlink is not democratising internet access in places where people never had access before, as much as that is their PR selling point.

The amount of people actually getting to access Wikipedia reliably for the first time because of Starlink is a tiny, tiny fraction of all users.

The pure hubris of not even communicating with the scientific community to tackle potential obstacles that could hinder their exploration is what's absolutely wrong, just a one-sided decision to fuck it up because they can.

> The stars ain't going to change. Maybe you'll miss a few supernovas. If I were a radio astronomer I'd actually be rejoicing now, because this gives me a legitimate need for the budget required to build my own Hubble-like telescope, far away from Starlink.

Oh, that's great, go tell that to the PhDs in radio astronomy right now that might be getting fucked in their observations while on a time crunch to get their doctorate because someone decided to turn on GHz radios in space that mess with their instruments developed through the research of thousands before them.

Also tell us the taxpayers that investment in our expensive radio astronomy equipment on Earth is getting less useful because one company decided they can fuck with the spectrum they've been developed to listen to, I'm sure that the observatories on this list [0] don't really care and now are tingling with joy because they can spend even more public money to build radio telescopes but in space™.

Have you ever tried to get grants to build instruments that cost 9 figures dollars, and a decade or more to be finished?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_telescopes
> Kiwi.com does this now.

Sorta, the real pain point is if anything needs changing on any of your tickets, it's a total PITA. I value 'less hassle' more than I do saving 5-20% of the airfare. For me Kiwi (and other middlemen like it) are a hard 'No'.
She is friends with JD Vance apparently
Them acknowledging the issue, then fixing it within 28 hours isn't good enough for you? That kind of response makes me happy to continue using Arc.
I don't think that is what Bjørn Lomborg said at all. IIRC he said money would be better spent on mitigating effects of climate change. Since you say things aren't looking great you actually seem to agree with him.
To ensure the driver has eyes on the road all time. It detects if you're not paying attention and beeps at you. I don't think it can be disabled.
If only there was some factual evidence to point to to suggest were wrong and Labour might do better than the Tories.
If the Supreme Court says the decision is in accordance with law - and they're the ones with the legal authority to make that assessment, and the Congress has done nothing to reprimand the Supreme Court and overrule their assessment, then the judge's decision, by definition, is in accordance with law.

The problem as I see it is you disagree with that assessment.

People disagree in democracies, it's a defining feature. There are good reasons to disagree with the judge's decision and its legality. That doesn't change the fact that the people having the power vested in them by the state think otherwise and are supporting the decision.

Appealing to a vigilante like Musk to settle your internal disagreements is not a wise move, my friend.

Seek another path.
Great idea. Just a tip. You can wrap your lua part into cosmopolitan C. This way you get lua on many architectures and os. Also cosmopolitan can be bootstrapped with tiny cc I guess.
And personally wrapping your lua code in https://fennel-lang.org/ would be nice.

This way with libcosmopolitan, you could just checkin a copy of your build tool in a project, to be self sufficient. Think of it like gradlew( the gradle bash/bat wrapper) but completely self contained and air gapped

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
That's the connector. You're missing the fact that it uses the entirety of the rest of the window
As a Brit, one of the things that made 28 Days Later so good was the fact it was set in the UK. We're saturated in American culture. LA on fire, yawn. Manchester in ruins, now that's something that connects.

And 65daysofstatic, incredible soundtrack.

It felt so fresh at the time, not particularly excited about yet another reboot though.
Psychiatry is useful in the way Statistics is useful for math models we don't fully understand. Statistics let's us get at answers with enough data even though we don't really understand the underlying model at play.

There a whole host of 'sciences' that are kind of 2nd tier like this, Psychiatry being one of them. Once we understand enough Neuroscience, it's likely to me Psychiatry will get consumed by Neuroscience which will splinter into more useful for day to day life categories as it grows (like a psychiatrist)

Super book on the subject and also talks about the rising bar for individual culpability as we understand more about the brain: https://www.amazon.com/Incognito-Secret-Lives-David-Eagleman...
> Firebase's authentication model is inherently broken

I'm not very familiar with Firebase. In what way is it broken and what issues does it cause?
Is it b2c or b2b? imo/experience, b2b SaaS are the only ones that ever succeed. If not subscriptions, how do you generate revenue? Really it's either build an audience or cold calling. Note: I've never succeeded with any of my startups (for a bunch of reasons) so take with a grain of salt.
To zero, I hope.
What is this even supposed to mean? Profit motivation is a concept invented by humans for humans to apply. If it leads to unexpected or undesirable outcomes then it's a bad idea. A system that requires all participants be paragons of some definition of virtue to produce good results is fundamentally unsuited for human beings.
> Did you know that chrome gives an unfair advantage to its user sites by giving system information (core usage etc.) and some other things which are not supposed to be seen by browsers only to the websites starting with *.google.com ?

That's pretty interesting. Where can I learn more about this?
Motherboard manufacturers would much rather pay AMI or Insyde a non-insignificant amount of money to make all BIOS development go away.

They could hire people to do the work for them, but that'd require finding and vetting people with the necessary skills without the knowledge of how to do so. As long as BIOS manufacturers can sell their services for cheaper than setting up an extra firmware department, they'll do good business.
Google built something amazing in Google Flights [1] (and they haven't ruined it yet).

It's no-nonsense, easy to filter by number of stops, and 'date grid' is great for scoping out savings by departing a day or two earlier/later without having open multiple tabs as other sites necessitate.

Only criticisms are extremely mild ones: it defaults to 'return', doesn't remember your currency, and bizarrely defaults to a month ahead for the departure date (actually, they must have very recently fixed this because it doesn't do that anymore!)

[1] https://www.google.com/travel/flights
It's below average, and lower than all of Scandinavia, Austria etc. Yes, it beats Southern Europe and ex-communist countries.

My source was the Sutton Trust and Oxera.
It may also be true that there's a national decline, I'm just saying to be very cautious about getting swept up in the idea. For instance, apparently America needs to be Made Great Again, facts notwithstanding.
That's the official story. According to reporting by Seymour Hersh and others, what actually happened was:

- Pakistan's ISI was keeping bin Laden as a "guest" at the compound after having captured him.

- A senior ISI official betrayed this fact to the US, in exchange for reward money, American residency, and a cushy CIA job.

- The US brought this up with other ISI officials, who confirmed it and used an ISI emplaced doctor to provide the DNA evidence requested by the US.

- The US negotiated with the ISI on the terms of the raid; the ISI compound guards were ordered to withdraw when the Americans arrived.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240214041103/https://www.lrb.c...
I guess it's removed? I don't see it. On Windows Chrome.
I'm not sure 15 years is enough to look back. I'm struggling to think of a time since the 80s that some formerly strong areas of British culture were vibrant and interesting.

See eg. BritPop, a vacuous derivate outpouring of jumped-up pub rock relying on waving the flag to justify it's existence.

Some areas have still produced decent stuff, eg comedy (The Office, Borat, Peep Show), etc. Our twists on black American music (eg grime, drill) seem ok.

But it's a real struggle to think of much that is vital and original as a culture from Britain in the last 30 years I'd say.