skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating! I've played with VW's BCM stuff, but for some reason everything except the lighting is translated into English on the common factory equivalent scan tools, so it's a matter of sorting though a bunch of "lichtfunktion" this and "dimmwert" that.

> We can get 98% of the light output with 85% of the required wire.

I guess a 12v bulb can survive a much higher voltage than it's rated for (which needs fewer amps for the same watts, so thinner wire) if it's pulsed, like 120v assuming 10% duty cycle, as long as the frequency is dialed in such that the filament is just about ramped up to its rated temperature when power is cut. Very clever!
I sometimes kick myself for not being more productive.

But then I see the clusterfucks productive people are doing and it looks like I'm onto something
Carful, now you’re leaving random antidotes.

A specific restaurant is an actual place so if someone describes the decor and prices yesterday it’s not going to be wildly different when you show up tomorrow.
What utter nonsense

>Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had

The majority of all human knowledge has the consensus of scientists. It is only the very bleeding edge that does not.

And equating the level of uncertainty in what kind and amount of dust particles produced by a burning city with the uncertainty in rate of abiogensis in the universe is misleading to the point of lying.

And those were only the two most ridiculous things I read in the first 5 pages before giving it up as a waste of time.
So let's avoid that future.
Short-term post-fast refeeding enhances the risk of cancer in mice
You can achieve this without needing an additional app by utilizing Apple Intelligence in Safari.
I'm not an electrical engineer so what makes integer 377 easy for mental calculations?

It's seems like 50Hz would be even more convenient because ω = pi*100
Not the same, but still batsh#t.
For Better: Four Proven Ways to a Strong and Stable Marriage
This.

From shaming everything else as either slow or unsafe to rewrite the universe, the Rust community makes it hard for new comers to consider the language by its merit.

But the good thing is, the hype has settled down and Rust has found its niche. It’s not tackling Go or Python anytime soon and competes in a different plane.

Zig is another great alternative for someone like me who never found Rust a pleasant language to work with.
I don't care about either, they're voluntary problems. You're a moron for trusting X with your data, you're a moron for trusting Apple with it too. It's just like how Apple defenders said with iMessage - "just buy a different phone if you care, duh."

All of the sudden people start caring, acting like they never had the chance to regulate their OEM of choice. No, you get exactly what you paid for. You trust Apple, don't you? They're a prestige company, they'd never sell you out. Probably. Oops[0].

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...
The Earth is measurably warming in agreement with theory and slightly exceeding estimates, due to atmosphere CO2 levels.
Look at who has access to US nuclear codes now. I don’t believe it’s as constrained as you think.
When someone records the height of a specific mountain we call that a measurement not an anecdote.

If I ask someone if this bar is good, and they say they went to a different unrelated bar and it sucked then I’m going to ignore that as a random anecdote.
I see where you're coming from, but I don't believe that one can assuage people's fears or diminish accusations this way. It's the other way around: it would just provide more material, more degrees of freedom out of which to curve-fit those pre-existing views.

I could be wrong about this—my own fears and preconceptions definitely affect my thinking here. I fear trying things that can't easily be reversed, because I don't want to cause damage. Also, I'm suspicious of the idea of technical measures to solve non-technical problems. The conflicting emotions and perceptions that dominate this question seem deeply non-technical to me.
> Smartphones and the internet have given the layperson awesome technology literally in their hands.

The quote is "awesome technological powers", which, I think, is different from having a technological device. There are the data brokers, social media giants, and governments that have the technological power to manipulate the masses.

> The entire election of 2024 was driven by the people specifically questioning those in authority

The quote: "when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority". Are they serving their own agenda or the agenda of others through the media they consume? Are they knowledgable in their questioning?
In my opinion anecdotes are extremely important to take heed of, especially if they are contrary to the prevailing model. I believe a lot paradigm shifts start out with anecdotal data. We need anecdotes to know where to start looking.
Very cool! Did you consider using Crystal instead?
I wonder if the safety tops out because of the safety tests.

I hear that some (ford? gm?) high-volume pickups have extra cross-bracing, while lesser-volume trucks don't.

Or said another way - maybe lighter vehicles have necessarily extra safety tech to help with tests, but heavier ones have a limit on safety tech investment.

I wonder if a heavier volvo would have safety scale all the way up with the weight.
It's helpful for evading detection, because if you've compromised a machine, you can drop in the server binary and it'll have been added to the allowlist for devs to run.
Nanite is such an obvious idea in hindsight, I wonder why it took so long for someone to build it. Were GPUs just not powerful enough yet, even though it actually reduces the GPU's work? Do you have to store the entire high-res mesh in GPU memory, which requires more GPU memory, which only recently started skyrocketing because of AI?
How would that work? Tesla is a different company with different ownership. It would be a pretty gross violation of those owners’ property rights to seize their assets simply because of a vendetta against the CEO for actions of a completely separate company he runs.

In the case of SpaceX, it would be even less feasible in that it’s a major DoD provider and there are defense treaties between the US and EU member states.
Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? A security expert explains the dangers
Is AT keyboard signaling the same as PS/2?
I was a college math and physics major, and much later taught a college freshman math course that was a level below calculus.

The point of word problems was to recognize a pattern matching one of the topics from the latest chapter, fill in the parameters, and grind through the memorized algorithm. As a student, I liked word problems, but I knew the secret. It was all a game.

What made math come alive for me was proofs. As for applied skills, I developed those in the lab, and making things.
It's much lighter
The only thing I know about Far Rockaway is that Raymond Smullyan was born there.
this is more or less exactly what i was trying to say. for most people SSRIs are safe, they experience manageable side effects and little health risk. psychedelics and dissociatives seem like they must be really drastic and risky. but actually SSRIs are pretty risky too, there are all these terrible low-probability outcomes.

so it's good we have all options, but ideally we'd have a better way of judging who is safest with which treatment.
This is incredible! I've been looking at new houses for a while now, trying to balance living next to a park, walking distance to elementary school and a grocery store, and within a driving distance to my wife's work. I'm having a blast playing around with it right now and scoping out the potential neighborhoods that would be best.

One feature request: when you do "Search Nearby" (e.g. I did "elementary school") it found a _lot_ of schools, like 50 or more, well out side the city I was interested in. But short of adding them all and going through one by one and deleting them, is there a way to add just the matches in the city I put in the top-right corner? Maybe adjust the search radius or something? Or in the search results preview it gives you, a button to just select the few you want to add.

edit: oh, and another feature request. I'd love to accordion/collapse my criteria. Scrolling past my 40 parks to edit the bottom criterion is tedious.
Yup, I'm not at all understanding the framing of those posts as "brigading". He's venting, justifiably angry. He wasn't like "go post at these guys and help me fight!", at least I didn't see anything in his messages suggesting anything along those lines.
> Most bootstrappers have worked up some wealth via traditional methods like savings, home equity, inheritance

How in the goddamn fuck do you work up an inheritance?
Yup.

To be fair, even if you only work in software you already have a leg up (not as much as someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth) both because the salary is pretty good, and because you're used to designing, programming, debugging, and documenting.
Already in the other worst alternative which is the USA.
No experience in selling AMIs, etc. But as a potential buyer the issue is that I haven't yet found anything that offers compelling value.

Just like any potential market opportunity, you first need to create something where the delivered value substantially exceeds the price. Once you establish that then the next challenge is to advertise/market, etc extensively in order to attract buyers.

IRL, unlike in the movies, Build it and they will come is mostly a fantasy.
You’ve created a monster
On today's episode of "America Learns Why Europe Was Right To Enforce GDPR"
I run a microschool where I teach math (and I am a neuroscientist) and this is pretty obvious, and also something we see every day. And it's because we still suck at understanding learning.

Learning is not the acquisition of knowledge. Learning is all the things by which we learn to model the world. And we do that, our brains do that, because it matters.

Math in classrooms is pretty much designed to leach out all context. Meaningless symbols that need to be manipulated to arrive at some mysterious answers. Why bother, our minds scream out. The why is evident in street settings. Also, we are designed to pick up patterns in such meaningful settings and learn. You don't even need to teach it.

Fixing learning and education means being able to articulate answers to five questions: why, what, how, when, where we learn. And all our current answers are outdated and one-size-fits-all

There is also the matter of learning design. Math we use is highly compact because of its efficiency. But these can be hostile starting out. There are ways to explore mathematical concepts without using mathematical symbols.

Resonant learning requires the interplay of building competence (how) and comprehension (why) and this can be done well only in meaningful settings (where)

https://blog.comini.in/p/why-khanmigo-will-fail

https://blog.comini.in/p/what-happens-in-math-class

Also, the most profound revelation I've had about learning is from working on our book. Journey of the Mind. Spent twenty years at the intersection of neuroscience and AI but never really got to "understand" and "learn" how the mind works and learns until diving in and then trying to tell its story in an accessible manner. If you are interested in any of this lease do check it out
A lot of his buildings that were actually built were materialized sketches. Fallingwater was underbuilt, and Usonian homes are a bit awkward to live in because Wright glossed over important livability features.
If it doesn't drop below 88% then it's still higher than Finland and doesn't change my point at all.
I though of quiet restaurants. but airplanes? wow.
Oh shoot, secretive is one of the few ways I knew of to keep track of each time an SSH key was actually used to auth something. I love using Agent Forwarding but the idea of anybody with root being able to arbitrarily auth stuff gave me a (perhaps unreasonable) feeling of insecurity.
Now that this GP has agreed that what they said was vague, does that change your opinion at all?
Exactly, like Daoism.
This is true. People like TikTok and no one wants to admit it.

Personally I've found the content on it to be genuinely humorous and interesting, unlike Instagram which just wants to hook me in with Stories that I'll miss forever if I don't catch them with 24 hours, or controversial/rage-bait Explore Page videos. I was able to train the former app to be more of a happy place, the latter is still brainrot to me.
Hey, at least the NYC trains run 24 hours, so this situation would never happen if you're in NYC.
Docker Bake is now generally available
It needs a qualifier regarding backed by data, supported by a truck load of thoroughly peer reviewed papers.

For the record, AGW Climate Change in 2024 has all that, the situation in 2002 (when this lecture in January 2003 was written) had somewhat more wiggle room.

The context for his quoted skeptiscism deserves mention; Carl Sagan's Nuclear Winter was pure pop science .. there were many reasons for most on either side of the aisles to join in in on agreement and no real upside to being a nay sayer.
Maybe in the long run but right now their stock is tanking.
> https://skepticalscience.com/Examining-Hansens-prediction-ab...

LOL! You literally just linked to the exact thing that I referred to! Did you miss it? I said that Hansen was dumb enough to repeat his prediction, but bump the timeline to 2028! You literally just linked to Hansen saying that!

In 1998, he was wrong about 2008. But he doubled-down and said it'll be underwater in 2028. I criticized him for 1998 and you just linked me to him repeating it for 2028!

Why are your beliefs based on errors like this?
> That question as already answered when the experiment was greenlit: it doesn’t have to at all

Where? And in light of the ongoing infighting and lack of clear parameters, do you think that was truly sufficient?
Im so intrigued by Japan. It seems truly like a dream. As an avid love for Haruki Murakami, I feel he captures the essence of Japan more than any other writer.
The real capitalists are the board and investors.
Maybe they should apply for a grant from usaid
relatives living in Australia (a 50Hz county) but with family in the US decided in their new home to provide both 50Hz power with Australian style outlets and 60Hz with US style outlets since many household appliances are much cheaper and diverse in the US. since they built the place with a solar/battery system it wasn't too big of a deal to use two different inverters for the AC side of things.
Great idea! But unfortunately the site was too hard for me to use on mobile (iOS, Brave browser). I was unable to set the location - when I tried to set the location, the screen would randomly zoom in and I couldn’t scroll through the addresses.
Most stations play sounds to indicate stairs and ticket gates. Typically a slow ding...dong sound, and birds chirping. Though I'm not sure if they indicate elevators with those sounds, I need to check next time I'm in a station.
this is an ad for "braindojo", iOS app for "brain games" (math training, handwriting, etc...)

It is appearently ad-free, but may be subscription-based?
Which link?

Here’s one: https://kemendo.com/Beyond-Human-Limits.html
Freedom. Convenience. Is there a tension between those?
Is that to say that the server can do things on the client connecting to the server? That doesn't make much sense.
I think what people most fundamentally want out of any rating/review site is assurance of fairness and protection against cheating. Without that, the theme is almost irrelevant.

Though I also agree with the other person who said that average stars don't make sense for coffee because different people like different flavors. An average of stars only works if it's given that people want the same "best" flavor profile of "best coffee taste", and that's very obviously not true. People don't share taste buds or desires in common. All ratings of subjective experiences have the same problem. Monolithic wine ratings are likewise useless for the same reason.

If one person loves acidity and hates bitterness, and another person loves bitterness and hates acidity, that doesn't make bitter coffee and acid coffee both mid. It makes them both great for one person and not the other. Failing to capture that fails to help people find something they'll like.
Black population of Singapore is what?

Hispanic population of Singapore is what?

Zero?

Not much of a melting pot.
We cleaned our own classrooms in Canada too and it doesn't keep people from littering.
It's very complicated in implementation, so likely people didn't see it as worthwhile until recently.
That just falls into the second category (violent reaction) where it’s specifically interrupted

it doesn’t give an alternative society that never creates it
Didn't Scotland try to make an empire in Eastern Canada, eastern USA, Africa, and Panama, then bankrupt themselves and agree to the Act of Union with England making Great Britain?
My claim is that the only world that doesn’t make AGI/ASI is one where humanity is wiped out first
I'm not interested in minimizing conversation on the topic! I just want the conversation to be fresh in each major thread. That requires enough new information to support a substantively different discussion. I didn't see that in the OP and I don't see that in most of the submissions that get posted about this topic.

In case anyone is interested: the way we approach situations like this comes out of what happened with the Snowden avalanche of 2013. It seems obvious now, but at the time we weren't clear about the difference between articles containing significant new information [1] and copycat / follow-up posts [2]. Tons of repetitive stories were on the frontpage, and there was a backlash from users complaining about it. The current principles around to handle this came from reflecting on how we could have handled that situation differently.

What we need here, in order to keep having major threads about this topic, is a story containing significant new information—something that moves the needle on the discussion. If one of those is getting flagged, I'd like to know about it!

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Market failures of the other Unices aren't necessarily related to the technical advantages or disadvantages or symbiosis with C or being implemented in C. However, making C programmers' life easier was crucial.

Linux was at the correct place at the correct time. It was the only free version of Unix-like OSes that didn't have legal bullshit to deal with. IBM and Intel's support also made GNU/Linux ecosystem successful, without them it would stay as an academic project. Being free meant that it had an advantage where price sensitivity mattered and dotcom boom and VC explosion is very sensitive to cheaping out and preffers suffering with less-than-ideal software. So Linux stayed popular while other ones died slowly.

C had a huge following and all OSes had to support it. Simplicity made it popular when average hardware at the hands of many academics and young professionals was very weak. Being written in C may have made things marginally easier but neglecting it for Ada or Pascal was a terminal mistake. Windows isn't Unix at all but it also had to support C well.
Given that privacy is why my friends and I have iPhones, Apple will lose a lot of users and developers if they go back on privacy in any way.
But somehow almost every programming language and data format manages to define these equivalences and have it not ruin their editors. JSON is whitespace-insensitive but syntax highlighting it in my editor works fine; I don't know or care what the parser implementation that accomplishes that is, but it's never caused any problems I've heard of.
That’s not an alternative

And in fact the second world you describe is precisely the world with artificial superhuman intelligence
It should be noted here they're talking about cold water (above freezing) - not ice baths which is what a lot of people seem to think of and is quite a fad in the "sports medicine" industry.
Right, and while sometimes a lot of code needs to change in Rust, it's often largely mechanical, at least in typical contexts (e.g. user land development). But Rust won't automatically detect changes in semantics that happen across FFI boundaries. And I didn't argue that refactoring is easier in C than Rust. For one thing, it's an inapt comparison in the context of a mixed C and Rust kernel codebase in which the vast majority of the code and semantics come from the C side.

And there are more subtle issues. From the perspective of C code, Rust looks and behave as if it assumes strict aliasing, a consequence of the borrowing rules--a mutable pointer can never alias. But the Linux kernel uses -fno-strict-alias (i.e. any pointer can alias, regardless of type), so a subtle change in C code which works fine for the kernel could silently break Rust code if the C-side developer wasn't aware of these subtle nuances in memory models and how they were expressed in the unsafe wrappers. This might be a totally contrived scenario[1], or it could be very real given the tower of abstractions built on the Rust side over the C APIs, which might overspecify certain semantics to fit "cleanly" (i.e. best practice) into the Rust model.

Which points at another issue: all of these hypotheticals might be (probably are?) overblown. But over the past 2-3 years, with the exception of a couple of high-profile drivers not yet mainlined (AFAIU), the vast majority of the effort on the Rust side has been building towers of abstraction. In almost any open source project, C or otherwise, a newcomer who starts writing towers of abstractions rather than concrete, usable code would be shooed away. There are reasonable justifications for why Rust has been doing this, yet its also understandable why this might draw suspicions about the practicality and utility of mixing C and Rust in the kernel. But either way it means that after all this time people are still largely arguing over hypotheticals.

[1] Or entirely wrong. Maybe kernel Rust is using flags to ensure aliasing optimizations can't happen. clang (and thus LLVM) supports -fno-strict-alias, but AFAIU alot of Rust code massaging happens on the Rust (MIR or equivalent) side.
> The US populace voted for this, so if it's a coup it's a bloodless one.

The role of Trump's normalization of political violence cannot be understated. It's well known that going against Trump results in death threat and spawns acts of stochastic terrorism.
> the LLM generates the code, the agent scaffolding runs the code, the code generates errors, the agent feeds it back to the LLM, the process iterates

wait what
Zig is at least better impedance matched to C. Procedural and relatively small conceptually. Simple interop. Rust feels closer to C++ than C.
When your boss does a nazi salute, the kids can't be far behind.