MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _kava | 2025-04-12 20:01:23+00:00
For me, I guess it was the experience with the public transport, the cleanliness of the city, the way everything was built to interact with your phone seamlessly and automatically once you have the local apps(at the cost of privacy, I am fully aware), and the dazzling look of it all. Everything is new and shiny and feel safe. And not just the sterile kind of clean, but one that has a vibrant life under it.

Yes, the english localization is trash. But I mean, I am in China, I am happy enough they even have some english available. I speak some other Asian languages and not sure if it was obvious, but the US also have trash translation to those languages here too.

Maybe that was the biggest difference. I can read a bit of chinese so my experience was more "the way it was meant to be" I guess? I assume it can disappoint if you expect just an upscaled Western experience there. China is big enough they don't need to cater to rich foreigners. I knew the feeling well enough when I first came to the US so I am not surprised. But maybe it is a novel experience to Westerners.
by Reason077 | 2025-04-12 20:01:32+00:00
EVs have very low brake wear because you simply aren’t using the friction brakes at all most of the time.

A lot of EVs even have smart “blended” brake pedals that preferentially apply regen braking when you press the pedal. Only in particularly hard stops will the friction brakes get used.

An easy way to test/observe this is simply to check for wear on the brake pads of EVs compared to combustion vehicles of similar mileage.

Tires, on the other hand, do tend to wear out quicker in an EV. Partly due to weight and also due to higher performance/acceleration compared to combustion models.
by fredoralive | 2025-04-12 20:01:33+00:00
I seem to recall whether 0xE1 in codepage 437 is supposed to be a Greek lowercase beta (β) or a German sharp s (ẞ) is intentionally a bit fuzzy, so its perhaps they intended it to be both a delta and a dingbat.

I'm not really sure if a house fits it that much, wouldn't a generic "house" symbol have a chimney (although obviously, it's hard to fit one in with such a low resolution).
by const_cast | 2025-04-12 20:02:06+00:00
> Which wasn't a problem when everybody could afford to drive before Europe ruined everything.

It was still a problem, because a lot of those people died or had reduced quality of life. The reality is driving is very dangerous. In the US, it's the primary cause of death for many age groups.

And the pollution kills. And it kills pedestrians. And car-dependence is a lot like heroin. You depend on cars, so you build things further, so you must drive more. It's a self-eating beast.

Once cars started becoming less polluting and less deadly, i.e. _less cost was externalized_, they got more expensive.

If you truly think Europe is "ruined" because morbidly-obese people aren't puttering around in stinky automobiles for 2-3 hours a day, then I don't know what to tell you. To me, it's nice to have beautiful cities were people can walk. It's nice to go to work and not have a sudden urge to kill yourself.

These people can always move to the Land of the Free, of course. Suburban concrete hellscape after suburban concrete hellscape. I'm referring to the US, of course. The land of varicose veins, fatty liver disease, suicide and smog. Ah, beautiful.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-12 20:02:45+00:00
For me at least, Bsky acted that initially but it tapered off after a certain threshold of training. After that it was pretty solid.

For Xitter it didn’t matter how much I trained it, eventually it’d insert something I didn’t want to see and even the slightest hint of engagement would push my feed that direction. This could happen even after multiple weeks of training.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-12 20:03:05+00:00
> Where can we see evidence of what you claim?

This is not only a reasonable question, but it is a good one, too. Unfortunately, the line beforehand:

> Just rumors and conspiracy theories.

...makes it seem like you've already made up your mind, and makes it difficult to interpret your post as a good-faith attempt on your part to learn something new from someone.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-12 20:03:23+00:00
So far, Bluesky hasn't been inserting alt-right nutjobs into my feed like Twitter has.

Bluesky seems to focus on curating your own feed, to the point where mass blocklists will block hundreds or thousands of accounts, and not every blocklist is reliable. The "block first, ask questions later" approach is very freeing and I've been practicing it on social media long before it gained traction on Bluesky.

I expect the platform will be very painful for people who believe everyone should be subjected to their opinion (the people who will cry censorship because Reddit shadow-banned them). Good riddance, I'd say; they can be happy on Twitter with the rest of their kind.

On average, my experience has been a lot better. I'm guessing that's mostly because I had to fight and subdue Twitter to exclusively show me content from the people I follow, combined with social media's general attraction to alt-right nutjobs (and of course, Twitter's owner being an alt-right nutjob doesn't help either).
by xxmarkuski | 2025-04-12 20:04:03+00:00
Thank you for the background explanation and the link. KIT is actually my Alma Mater (cs). You are right the overlap is not that large. I was thinking about the WissZeitVG, Exzellenzstrategie, Tenure-Track-Program. As for the Länder, I personally think the transition between the Abitur and university could benefit from stronger collaboration between the involved ministries. For example by better aligning the educational goals of high school to the demands of universities and by integrating education research into schools. By this I mean the continuous application of the results of educational research to schools and the constant monitoring of schools.
by epolanski | 2025-04-12 20:04:20+00:00
Good point.

I'm quite sure it was brake dust because during COVID 19 lockdowns everything was the same (heating etc) but streets were void of cars.

Then I've read some scientific article about brake with pics and it looked exactly as what I got inside my house.

I can't conclude 100% it was it (or just it), but it seems to be the most probable cause along tires.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-12 20:04:44+00:00
Seems like the only new light being shed is a literary fragment of the tablet that has a striking resemblance to lines from Homer's Iliad.

And surely he would have been versed in poetry that existed at the time about the event.

Very cool research, but like lots of research it's not a breakthrough, doesn't mean it's not super valuable and laudable
by hagbard_c | 2025-04-12 20:05:51+00:00
It is also amazing and sad to see positive comments on such technological developments in China where similar developments in e.g. the USA would be lambasted on this very same site: Flying taxi drones? They'll fall out of the sky on the heads of the elderly and Musk should stay away from this. Tech and integration? Big brother getting even bigger and no I don't want Musk to be part of this. Is it just that the neighbour's grass is always greener or is there some deeper reason for the oikophobia that has become so popular, especially in 'progressive' circles?

I also notice you're mentioning SF without mentioning that this city - like so many others - has been driven into the ground by decades of mismanagement by so-called "democrats". California is on a road to nowhere while building high-speed trains to nowhere, the streets in SF only get cleaned up when the leader of the Chinese Communist party comes to visit, the place is a dump and people are leaving it in droves. It wasn't when I was there for the first time in 1979 - people on roller skates, some left-over hippies, disco really made it - but the last time I visited - 2003, for the IETF conference - the signs were already clearly visible and I was warned that the hostel I stayed in in the Tenderloin district was 'not in a safe area' and that I should not walk around the city (which I did anyway, I'm stubborn).

California should kick the "democrats" to the curb for a while, try to repair the damage they did to the place and its reputation and maybe, just maybe the "Golden State" can once again become the place of dreams it once used to be. This is not so much an endorsement of Republicans but simply a statement of fact, a single-party system nearly always leads to decline. To slightly paraphrase MC5: Kick Out The Dems! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJGQ_piwI0&t=13
by marcosdumay | 2025-04-12 20:06:03+00:00
> The code used 10x less CPU with CPU limits, with no adverse effects?

The normal situation is that defective situations get a much large latency, while the correct requests run much faster.

It's a problem on the cases when the first set isn't actually defective. But it normally takes a reevaluation of the entire thing to solve those, and the non-limited situation isn't any good either.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-12 20:06:23+00:00
Well one could argue that this ought to be a discussion of morality and social acceptability rather than legality. After all the former can eventually lead to the latter. However if you make that argument you immediately run into the issue that there clearly isn't broad consensus on this topic.

Personally I'm inclined to liken ML tools to backhoes. I don't want the law to force ditches to be dug by hand. I'm not a fan of busywork.
by const_cast | 2025-04-12 20:06:39+00:00
Of course it's evil, it's just that historically that's what we've done and historically that's what effective.

It's largely good that we, as a people, have become more civilized and don't resort to that. The unexpected downside of that, though, is that we are much more susceptible to being exploited. It's a sort of naivety trade-off.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-12 20:07:09+00:00
Still not sure what you mention. Hard to say that Israelis don't grovel to whatever tyrant comes next when they are currently ruled by a tyrant who would rather endanger his citizens and commit war crimes than gold and election he knows he'll lose. Also they have elected him over and over again despite how he endangers them and funded their current biggest enemy Hamas, in a cynical ploy to weaken his more moderate opposition at the time, the PA
by cycomanic | 2025-04-12 20:07:17+00:00
I find it fascinating how the debate around cars in cities evolves. Initially counter arguments always are that reducing cars is not desirable "nobody wants less cars in cities, people need to do their weekly groceries, nobody wants to bike in bad weather...". Once these points are refuted it always evolves into "yes it would be great, but it can't be done, because it's too expensive, politically controversial...". It's almost like there is an irrational fear of less cars in cities.

Regarding it can't be done I encourage anyone to read up on how the investment into public transport transformed Bogota. Which is both much poorer and in a much more challenging geographical environment than most US cities. So if they can do it, why can't US cities?
by maccard | 2025-04-12 20:07:21+00:00
If you stick:

<video controls> <source src="/video/sample.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video tag. </video>

into a html file, and run it against this pastebin [0], you'll see that chrome (and safari) both do range requests out of the box if the fileis big enough.

[0] https://pastebin.com/MyUfiwYE
by dharmab | 2025-04-12 20:08:21+00:00
Originally Bond wore a Submariner, which wasn't a wealth signal at a time- it wasn't a _cheap_ watch, but also not the choice of a wealthy person. The Submariner was originally a tool watch, used by naval infantry. The modern equivalent would be wearing a G-Shock DW5600 with a tuxedo. It hints that Bond is a military vet.
by mtalantikite | 2025-04-12 20:09:36+00:00
When I look around on the subway here in NYC I see every type of person imaginable. There are wealthy people going to work and unhoused people and everyone in between. There are certainly transit deserts and I have friends that live in them who do have cars -- largely out in Queens, East New York, etc -- but many of the people I know in the city with cars are financially doing just fine.

It's also important to note that the extreme cost of living in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn is relatively recent. My friends that grew up here in the 80s, taking the subway to school, were far from bougie. They were living a car free lifestyle then and now just because that's how the environment of many parts of NYC is built. It's not like NYC was constructed as a walking paradise only for wealthy people in the 19th century.
by dboreham | 2025-04-12 20:09:47+00:00
Having done a long trip in an EV, in a very inhospitable location (the USA, without access to Tesla chargers), I'm not convinced there is an EV range/charge time problem. I think it's mostly in the minds of the public. Hence I'm skeptical that the changeable battery pack is a solution to any problem.

My experience was that you end up stopping to charge a bit more often than you'd stop to fill up gas, but factoring in stops for bathroom and food, it's really not a significant difference. There just needs to be more chargers (to avoid queuing for an open one), and chargers that are more closely spaced (every 50 miles like gas stations instead of every 100+ miles). Then today's EVs will be just fine for long trips. Not completely perfect, but perfectly adequate, to the point that it won't be worthwhile buying an ICE vehicle just to have it for long trips.
by linkregister | 2025-04-12 20:09:49+00:00
According to the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, that espionage was sniffed in-transit in plaintext across the Internet's trunk and filtered against XKEYSCORE queries for eventual collection. Google's surprise came from the expectation that cross-datacenter traffic was sent over direct circuits and not susceptible to interception.

It was totally unrelated to PRISM, which was more like a voluntary law enforcement access portal that autoapproved every request. The participating companies since made public statements saying they no longer operate the portal, thereby forcing intelligence agencies to use National Security Letters instead. That's certainly closer to the intent of the laws passed by Congress.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-12 20:11:02+00:00
> (de-industrialized, vulnerable economy, hollowed out working/middle class, enormous debt/deficit).

The debt/deficit is on politicians (and the public who votes them in). See also issues with US Social Security (Canada was on a similar path, but the government(s) sorted things out in the 1990s).

At least for the US, it has not de-industrialized, as exports have never been higher. It makes a smaller portion of total GDP, but that's because of growth of other sectors; and a smaller portion of the workforce, but that's because of automation:

* https://www.csis.org/analysis/do-not-blame-trade-decline-man...

The largest problem nowadays is probably housing costs, and that has nothing to do with trade, but is about things like NIMBY and zoning.

If you want more than "a particular section of society" and more folks to benefit look into redistribution, which plenty of conventional economists will happily agree with.
by coldtea | 2025-04-12 20:11:19+00:00
Adapting to whatever battery exists 200 years from now to the form of a CR2032 battery would be simple. A Casio just takes a round battery shell that contacts with the positive and negative terminals on each side.

Hell, I can make one from scratch in my workshop trivially, from basic materials.

Finding high-end mechanical watch technicians? Not so easy. And hardly so cheap.
by wnoise | 2025-04-12 20:11:25+00:00
Arguing that Mangione is _criminally insane_ is arguing that he shouldn't be legally punished, that a mental disease prevented him from having the necessary mens rea to actually have his act be criminal. Are you sure that's what you want to argue? (Confinement while he remains criminally insane is certainly justified, of course.)

> For example, you think that the crime that you facilitate is "justice" for perceived wrongs but in reality it is only the execution of an innocent man with a family. Such a delusion is the definition of criminal psychosis.

"justice" and "innocent" are not facts about the world but societal judgements. Having different opinions about these is moral disagreement, not insanity, nor delusion. Expecting society to agree with you and maintaining that expectation even against evidence afterward would be delusion. Sometimes societies don't have fixed judgements. Is an abortion a medical treatment or an execution of an innocent child? Although I agree with one stance, and disagree with the other, neither is a delusion. It's a moral disagreement that remains one whether I live under laws that treat it one way, or the other.

> Very seriously, see a skilled therapist. Tell them what you wrote. Hope that they are able to begin to help you.

Don't be a dick.

Accurately describing other's morals is no reason to see a therapist. It says nothing about my morals or my sanity that I recognize a large fraction of fairly normal people do value lots of things above others' lives. Conformity and fitting in often enough, as witnessed by Hannah Aredt's phrase "the banality of evil". To the best of my knowledge I haven't contributed to excess deaths beyond the externalities of living in a first-world country, participating in its market economy, and the actions its government takes funded by the taxes I pay. I do actually value lives, so I am unlikely to attempt to take them except under extreme circumstances (and I most likely would not have the instincts to do so effectively; never been tested, and hope to never be).

Societies in general certainly don't treat lives as infinitely valuable, nor even equally valuable. They regularly make economic tradeoffs (and incoherent ones at that) that it's okay to take actions that increase the death toll as long as enough money is made from it. Society is happy to use and endorse violence -- so long as it's done by the right people to the wrong people.
by throwanem | 2025-04-12 20:12:50+00:00
> ...what? Did you mean to respond to me? I'm the one exposing the lie. There's a weird trend on here of karma chasers playing "gotcha" by posting rebuttals to things that literally nobody is claiming and hoping that we don't notice. It's fucking pathetic man. What would it take for you to reevaluate your life.

https://archive.ph/T33PI

https://web.archive.org/web/20160617070827/https://news.ycom...
by carstenhag | 2025-04-12 20:13:48+00:00
Of course, noise on sidewalks is important and annoying. But to a German who is used to good (sealed) German windows, French and Spanish cities, just to name some, are just a pain.

Be it in hotel rooms or regular homes, almost nowhere the windows are sealed. Just pressing gently on the window (more pressure on the sealing) reduces the moped noises by 30-50%.
by jart | 2025-04-12 20:13:49+00:00
Only a small percent of people will actually produce ideas that other people are interested in. For most people, AI tools for building things will enable them to construct their own personalized worlds. Imagine watching movies, except the movies can be generated for you on the fly. Sure, no one except you might care about a Matrix Moulin Rouge crossover. But you'll be able to have it just like that.
by indigodaddy | 2025-04-12 20:13:53+00:00
Thanks it loads but taking longer than when I first deployed it. Wonder if archive.org is throttling the app's source IP if it's seeing higher than normal activity/requests. I may throw this somewhere else if render/vercel, et al don't play nice with any sort of reasonable traffic, but again it could just be archive throttling as I'm not even using their API for it..
by madphilosopher | 2025-04-12 20:14:18+00:00
Not the OP, but I have a Postfix mail server running on my home media box that receives YouTube URLs sent to its special email address. Postfix passes the message to a Python script that parses out the URL and places it into a Redis queue. A second Python program, running as a daemon, watches the queue and then downloads the video using yt-dlp. I can also enqueue video URLs from the command line.

This is the command that the daemon runs to request 720p, for example:

command = 'yt-dlp --write-info-json -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba" --output "out.%%(ext)s" --merge-output-format mp4 "%s"' % url
by pjerem | 2025-04-12 20:14:23+00:00
Yeah but like I said, I’m just trying to do that. I’ve been like the former people you described.

In my case, I feel it’s just the wisdom of just being older. I also have the luck of having a stable life, a few friends and nice little family. I’ve never been more emotionally stable than today so of course it’s much easier not to care when people randomly betray me.
by notpushkin | 2025-04-12 20:14:53+00:00
Personally, I find Zod’s API extremely intimidating. Anything more resembling TypeScript is way better. ArkType is neat, but ideally we’d have something like:

export reflect type User = { id: number; username: string; // ... };

Edit: just remembered about this one: https://github.com/GoogleFeud/ts-runtime-checks
by Mawr | 2025-04-12 20:15:20+00:00
I feel kinda bad already for engaging further, because you sound slightly mentally off overall and stuff like "I personally leapt out in front of a Waymo going 35mph once, just to see if it would dodge me (it did but I was crazy)." doesn't help, but...

> Now it is possible for a single pedestrian, a cyclist, or a scooter to really cause a big fuckin' accident. [...]

Everything you describe here results in the pedestrian themselves dying. That's not comparable to a car plowing into a bus stop, killing a family on the sidewalk, etc.

> All a pedestrian needs to do is leverage a lot of momentum by surprising the operator thereof.

It is physically and biologically impossible for a ~100kg human to exert enough force to surprise anyone in a traffic scenario. Any movement a human makes is going to require windup time proportional to the resulting force/momentum. Therefore, the only people who are ever "surprised" by something a pedestrian did were not paying enough attention to their surroundings.

> Walking on the sidewalk, I routinely encounter illegal scooters, illegal powered cycles, really aggressive wheelchair users, and all sorts of idiot behavior.

Man, those aggressive wheelchair users are a real menace. One swerved in front of me just the other day, I almost lost a leg.

> You simply can get away with murder, literally, on any sidewalk around here, because there's nearly no accountability for violations, compared to motorists on the roads.

Literally couldn't be more wrong. The phrase "if you want to kill someone, use a car" exists for a reason.
by moogly | 2025-04-12 20:15:23+00:00
I long for the day when people have tired of roguelites and stops putting roguelite elements in every. single. game. of. every. genre.

But hey, it makes you get away with reusing the little content you made ad nauseam and procedurally tweak some numbers on top of it to fake progression.

Loop Hero was probably when I nope'd out forever, but at least that game was pure and honest.