skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That researchers found those percentages of men expressing some willingness to rape if they could get away with it in the cited studies. Not the same thing at all as being "closet rapists" or "abstaining only for fear of being caught" as you chose to frame it. Do you have some actual beef with the studies and their methodology or do you just want to vent about woke misandrists?
>The problem is that we can't build anything in this country, with a handful of very expensive exceptions.

Made-in-America cars are not competitive abroad and would hardly be competitive in the US if it weren't for a series of strange legislative moats. They are also massively subsidized in many ways.

Furthermore, Teslas are not really made in the US in the same way that things are made in China. Your average widget off the shelves is one hundred percent made in China using almost entirely Chinese materials. Teslas, on the other hand, are "made in the US of foreign and domestic components." Shut down the ports and you couldn't make a single damned Tesla.

If you haven't manufactured anything before you may expect that I'm talking about things like the screen or the cameras. No. I'm talking about nearly every part of the car. Where do you think the tools to make the car parts come from? The thousands of chemicals involved? The myriad plastic clips? Shut down the ports tomorrow and pretty much the only significant car part you could make from scratch is some pretty sheet metal.

>You can't mold plastic at scale?

Next time you speak to someone who makes plastic products, get an idea of how much it would cost to make new molds and produce XXX items for a random widget, in China vs Europe vs the US. When you get the answer you can drown your tears in a nice bottle of baijiu.

In general I find European "manufacturing" to be an even thinner layer of duct tape between Chinese components than its American counterpart. The few things we do well in the US (sheet metal, fancy semiconductors, fancy tooling) are either nonexistent in Europe or American-controlled (see ASML.)
Agreed. And depending on other circumstances the EV might save time overall vs an ICE. I only use a public charger around 3 or 4 times a year, and I've had to "wait" exactly 0 minutes since I ate and used the bathroom during the charging time.

I save at least 5+ mins a week refuelling compared to my Diesel. That's half a day a year. The automated pre-heating saves me time defrosting in the winter. Probably another hour or more saved every year. All for around 1/4 of the running cost.
Similarly, I’m not excited by “voice cloning” at all, but I’d like to have very high quality, natural sounding TTS.
All of the projects that do that seem to be geared towards also allowing arbitrary voice cloning based on short audio clips I’ve noticed.
b7r6@b7r6.net

Billionaires should be afraid of their employees.
Yeah there are at least two X230's powered on in my home as we speak. To me that was the last good keyboard. I got an X250 and it's not even close. Same with T480… really disappointing. Using the X230 (and X220) is always a pleasure with the solid-feeling keyboard that makes it easy to type accurately on. I mis-position my fingers on the newer keyboards and make typos on them frequently because it's just one big flat surface (or feels as such).
> Agreements like Montreal will never happen again

They happen all the time. Just look at how the European Union operates on a day-to-day basis.

This and the Montreal Protocol wasn't achieved with a self-defeating attitude, though.
Show HN: Voice to Text, but User Friendly
We started having issues getting our notes done after having conversations with many other builders in 2023 Therefore, my friend and I started building Sona Insight, an AI-powered transcription app (iOS).

I know every "indie-hacker" is doing something similar now (which I want to speak about later in this post), but our app has some features (e.g. creation of summary templates, own AI backend built on top of OpenAI's whisper, and a unique architecture) that make it unique. Everything is auto-saved to your account and synced to the cloud (so when we release our web app you can see and edit everything on your desktop).

As we built this for ourselves the goal never was to make a gigantic thing out of it as we worked on it in the evenings. But the app gets used successfully and we have a lot of subscribers compared to the marketing effort we invested till now.

What I want to leave for discussion here, with the context given, is why on earth are that many people building something so similar? When we started posting about it on X, we only saw apps from 2018 that had another approach, however, in October and November of this year it felt like every second post was about an app built similarly. Looking into it they always seemed to only do one API call to OpenAI or Deepgram directly, but some of them didn't even work right.
Doesn't work on Linux?
That's very close to what I want, I wonder if we'd ever have customization for programming languages on the client side but when pushing to git it would get transpiled to the most common subset. A small change I would have loved at first glance would be the double colons (::) for namespace path along with explicit extraction and pub for public types.
Neat-o wonder where this was discovered and what telemetry is being used to say it isn't used in the wild (guessing commercial anti-v products)
Can Typst only produce PDFs? Are other output formats on the development roadmap?

(I know that pandoc is incredibly flexible.)
A major flaw is also 'bumping' discussions like these. The chance you see my answer is pretty low.
A similar story (but in the USA, last year) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37600015

However this n=1 legal situation plays out in India, it is not realistic to expect a free, world-wide app to provide both 100% up-to-date local data, and large liability payouts when that data proves wrong.

India's ASCI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_Standards_Council_... ) could push for more prominent warnings about that in Google Maps. But I expect there would be a great deal of push-back, and not just from Google.
The idea is to make a group decision to stop all the kids from using social media rather then get your kid alienated by just blocking him. Some people on hackernews want their kids to have zero friends and play SNES games but that's not what we should aim for.
That article is extremely loaded. It bemoans every factor that made building nuclear a sensible choice, as if these factors were unfair and shouldn't have existed (with that logic, I guess Norway should never have built dams, and it's unfair that they have all these mountains). It also insists that France should have added a lot of burdensome process, which reminds me of CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Also bonus point for complaining about the Tennessee Valley Authority. I've read many articles about pricing the French nuclear fleet, but this was a first.

For people interested about a real inquiry discussing the price of the french nuclear program [1] which is actually exhaustive and well documented.

[1]: https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/themat...
From the Readme:

> vince started as a Go port of plausible with a focus on self hosting.
2007 is not in the 1990s which is the point I responded to. France was cleaning up in the 1990s but Germany is still doing better than France in even 1999. As you helpfully point out they were about France's 2007 level (when they had 70% nuclear electricity, 40% nuclear power, a hair below their absolute peak 41% nuclear which they hit a few years later) in 2022, so catching up to a global leader with lots of nuclear despite phasing out their own nuclear.

You can see the per capita numbers on the same site and it's the same basic story, France had a head start but Germany is cleaning up faster (while growing GDP faster).

One of the anti-German memes going around is that their decarbonisation is via deindustrialization, so per GDP helps avoid that accusation and adjusts for people importing their carbon as the country with the heavy industry gets paid.

Meanwhile the USA, which has the most nuclear plants and yet is clearly worse than Germany and the EU average, somehow gets a free pass. How odd. It's as if we attack the countries (and states) that reduce carbon without nuclear rather than the ones emitting lots of carbon.
US production costs about five times as much as Chinese production, and has a six-month lead time with actual phone calls. China has one month lead time, everything’s done over wechat, and is again, one-fifth the price. Why ever go domestic?
Recently I wanted to find references to a piece of news I heard of. Together with traditional search engines, I used LLM+RAG: the latter narrated a plausible story that mirrored the content of my query (after "Provide references about the news according to which") and added detail. But no references. Further queries revealed that plainly the intention was "Oh, I thought you wanted to hear a story".

I think that reveals particularly well the framework that constitutes an intrinsic huge risk, the design fault that can compromise the whole endeavour.

No, we do not want to hear stories. Not when we want the Finance Officer to report about the situation; not when we have to compare current legislation with future actions; not when we try to establish the trajectories of planets or the details of metabolism of cells... When we assess, we assess reality; when we plan and act, it must be based on reality.

So, there remains that base tendency which (among other issues) is especially sinister in the context of the intended purposes - those speakers that are not allergic to "inventing nice stories" we put near the bottom of trust, with a "liability!" red light flashing behind them. It's a fundamental critical issue that must be brought to full control.
Do we expect the social media ban implementation to be any different to the 18+ restriction on pornography? Personally I doubt it. Real enforcement will come from parents and schools now having authority to stop kids instead of currently being told “but all the other kids have it”.

There does seem to be an opportunity for a big tech companies like Apple and Google to introduce an over 18 verification that’s built into the browser but remains fully anonymous after initial verification.

Most over 18 verification schemes have faltered at the point where adults are asked to verify their identity to view among other things porn. If it was cryptographically proven anonymous there’d be much less resistance.
Don't be silly, they can't put a subscription on an eeprom ;)
No professional Go programmer would spawn 1M goroutines unless they're sure they have the memory for it (and even then, only if benchmarks indicate it, which is unlikely). Goroutines have a static stack overhead between 2KiB to 8KiB depending on the platform. You'd use a work stealing approach with a reasonable number of goroutines instead. How many are reasonable needs to be tested because it depends on how long each Goroutine spends waiting for I/O or sleeping.

But I can go further than that: No professional programmer should run 1M concurrent tasks on an ordinary CPU no matter which language because it makes no sense if the CPU has several orders of magnitudes less cores. The tasks are not going to run in parallel anyway.
Would be interesting to see the numbers for elixir/Erlang.
what makes your backend architecture unique compared to just calling an API?
The user name "zitterbewegung" sounds like a German. They build sentences like that.

You have to think about a sentence like a stack and read it slowly and carefully and take note of the push and pop operations.

Germans are like RPN where everyone else is a regular calculator.
> Our leaders do their job by trying to uphold our values like freedom of expression and equality and that other stuff.

Is that so, what about Chat Control then? is that law upholding freedom of expression? I guess I was not aware that automated reports to the EU cops of "suspicious" messages could be seen as maintaining freedom of expression in the EU.

Have we crossed the Rubicon here? War is peace, freedom is slavery and freedom of expression is 24/7 monitoring of your private conversations.
Survivors mark 20th anniversary of deadly 2004 tsunami
What the author did is cool in a social sense; lispers go on and on about homoiconicity, which here means that the original lisp code is data. The author uses this property by reading this code/data and transforming it into text, that represents syntax-full code. It is "cool" because it demonstrates the value of homoiconicity.

However; it's not cool in a technical sense. The result is not homoiconic any more. Code that had a cool property has been turned into code that does not, and the result looks like every other syntax-full blub language. The result destroys value.
lol - hardly! Submissions were announced on the 22nd, this closed on the 23rd, the Committee was so blindsided they literally requested submissions should 1-2 pages long, the bill was introduced to the House on the 26th and passed on the 29th.

That’s some really well reviewed legislation. Parliament sitting days close on the 31st.
The video is a gem ! Love what you're doing ! Can I send you a Continue and Persist Letter?
> The measurement is memory, not performance.

But, then they can measure memory by simply using a threat pool of size 1 and then submitting tasks to it right ? That would be the equivalent comparison for other languages.

They should launch a million NodeJS processes.
> the vast vast majority of c++ is just simple procedural code.

Probably because where C++ is needlessly complex, C is beautifully simple.

I've used both C and C++ in my career, spending 10+ years as a C programmer (kernels, applications and embedded stuff), as well as 4-5 years as a C++ programmer in a financial institution.

I find the thing most "new C/C++ programmers" complain about is memory management and type safety, but honestly, once you have a few years worth of experience, memory management is almost second nature. Most of the time i write the free() statement at the same time as i write the malloc() statement (if applicable).
Those old homes are usually used as storage for things that don't fit into their new, urban homes. The market value and taxes are low, so there's no point in selling.

Then eventually, without realizing, you have gone there for the last time, and there's nothing left to move to your new home.

Alternatively, the last old person who lived in the house dies or goes into a care home, and their kids (if they have any) never find the time to clear out the old place. There's no one to sell it to, anyway, so they have all the time in the world.
It's very hard not to see the whole marketing of the legislation as an exercise in misdirection.

The media campaign was led by Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd (who see a commercial opportunity in cutting a demographic from their competitors audience for advertisers), and the government's marketing of it entirely focused on children being restricted, avoiding until the last weeks an admission it actually meant all adults would have to undertake verification processes to use social media.

The gulf between the practical effect of the legislation (all adults are impacted) and the claimed intent (only children under 16 are the focus), is so large the claims shouldn't really be accepted at face value.

Combine that with the abuse of democratic process: what would usually be weeks of public feedback was shortened to 24 hours, and after passing the lower house the government attempted to force the legislation through in the senate with no debate, finally conceding to a brief 1 hour debate before passing it in the final hours of the last sitting day of the year.

When opposition arose earlier in the week to the idea this is about a backdoor mechanism to force the government's recently rebranded myId (from myGovId), the government hastily made changes to the bill and loudly said social media companies would not be allowed to ask for government id, in physical or digital form.

But that itself was misdirection. A clause was added saying this does not apply if an alternative option is also provided.

But age assurance based on biometrics from webcams has poor accuracy, as one senator argued in the final debate. Fresh-faced youths will have no option but to go for the myID solution on their 16th birthday - which as that same senator pointed out is the age at which you can apply for a myID account.

On the topic of digital id and myID: it was also apparent that the Government seemingly feigned ignorance that this system, designed specifically for this purpose, would be the ideal and primary solution.

Yet we know just how much focus and energy has been going into designing these systems and working out how to get the public to accept them: witness this piece from 2018 [1].

It's of course fine to argue pros and cons of digital id, both philosophically, and in terms of specific implementation details, but that's not what happened here.

Everything clearly indicates the legislation was designed to sidestep any substantial debates on this topic.

What was also sidestepped was any reasonable discussion of specific implementation options. Instead we have vague details of an age assurance trial being run for many more months, with no specifics that help us understand how this legislation may work, or fail to work.

[1] https://www.aspi.org.au/report/preventing-another-australia-...
For that price you could get some beefy Nvidia GPUs or a lot of cloud credits, but the unified memory and nice laptop are a real bonus.

I've been off Mac's for ten years since OSX started driving me crazy, but I've been strongly considering picking up the latest Mac Mini as a poor man's version of what you're talking about. For €1k you can get an M4 with 32GiB of unified ram, of an M4 pro with 64GiB for €2k which is a bit more affordable.

If you shucked the cheap ones into your rack you could have a very hefty little Beowulf cluster for the price of that MBP.
speaker recognition, faster responses and we'll be able to make our subscriptions much cheaper starting next month
I wish you could see your comment as most people see it.

When you refer to "males" and "females", and especially use terms like "low-quality female" you sound absolutely unhinged.
If the goal is "decarbonation" then the only thing that matters is the bottom line. If nuclear truly leads to a lower net carbon output (which I'm sure it does, unless using nuclear power somehow causes people to heat their homes more or drive ICE vehicles more) then what are you worried about?
The Copper Plate Must Die
I cannot stop being surprised how fast Java is in mocrobenchmarks compare to may experience with real world Java applications. Probably Java's problem is not JVM but the culture - a typical Java application probably has many times more code than a C/C++ application doing something similar. This code would come mostly form of libraries (frameworks) but many layers deep onion architecture in the application itself is also a common case.
Wise also recently switched their US bank provider from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank. Maybe they had similar issues?
There's now doubt it'd have secondary effects, which is why I didn't try to make a precise comparison. Shutting down the oil industry would certainly make a difference. Hence the focus on shuffling so much of it into the oil fund (the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund owns ~1.5% of all listed shares globally at this point) to compensate, but there's no realistic scenario where it'd account for a large proportion of jobs.

In terms of value, yes, it'd have a much greater impact, which is why they're being taxed at rates that even for Norway are absolutely extreme, and why the oil fund does not invest inside Norway, and why such a small proportion of the oil funds investment returns are spent each year - it's been a very intentional government policy for decades to both prepare for a future without the oil income and to reduce the effect it has.
> Does it matter in the end?

Yes, it does. It matters very much. The difference between a governmental body ordering you to do something and a single employee making one comment is tremendous. Maybe the latter can lead to the former, maybe, but they’re very far from being the same thing.
Those who will trade privacy for safety deserve neither.
you simple create two records linked by one 'transaction', the source in both cases is the same account, while the destination for one of those postings is the fee account and the other destination is a merchant or similar account. And you can link as many of those postings under a single transaction
What facts of nature helped you understand that it is wrong to murder someone based on their skin colour or religion?
I’ve just skimmed the abstract and I’ll mention the bit I found unobvious: in men, having children from a previous relationship showed as a net positive. One possibility is that this is a proxy variable for “has been able to sustain a relationship for an extended period of time”.

They also found that self-perception of some variables matters, but having not read the entire paper, it’s not clear if they attempted to measure external perception of the same variables. I’m guessing they didn’t, since BMI also is quoted as a factor.

Other things strike me as blindingly obvious: e.g. being choosier leads to being single longer. I’d argue that’s pretty much true by definition.
> > by taking away their devices

> That is literally your job as the parent.

Tell me you're not a parent without telling me you're not a parent!

This only works if there is broad support from the entire social group, meaning school and all (or most) of the other parents. If you try this all alone, all you can accomplish is to apply more suffering to your poor child.

For us, here in silicon valley, fortunately that broad support existed in elementary school. Not a single kid had a phone, so it was the norm.

In middle school the support is still broad, although less absolute. A few kids have phones, but they are outliers, so it's still normal not to have one.
gambling is a little bit different, as you have to pay and receive money (easily enforceable bans). But here we are talking about a free service which is also offered by many foreign alternatives (which of course are not going to cooperate.)
Howdy. I'm someone who's been diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I have panic attacks somewhat regularly, I take medication, I've done therapy in the past, etc.

Just to clear up what I perceive as a misconception - it almost sounds like you're suggesting people prone to anxiety have neglected to reflect on that, like they're just being lazy about it out something.

Buddy, I know I have anxiety. I know about the traumatic experiences I had in the past, and my family history, that contribute to my condition. I've reflected on it plenty.

"Working through it" doesn't do what you think it does. It's not a cure. What you learn to do is understand the patterns of thought you get into, to recognize when you're falling into an unhealthy pattern, and tools that you can deploy to manage that situation.

It's more like managing hazardous waste than flicking a light switch. I wish it were otherwise!
Oh? Look at machining costs in the US vs China. Look at the cost to get something punched or stamped or bent or extruded or skived.

We have a few companies that make a decent effort, it's true, and indeed the US sheet metal industry is one of the few industries that could be entirely self-sustaining if the ports closed tomorrow. But most of the metalworking in the US is just heavily subsidized six ways to Sunday and still uncompetitive.
> The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent children younger than 16 from holding accounts

Unless the fines accumulate, it seems the law is rather toothless? US $33M is a parking ticket for companies at this scale.