skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded."

- Yogi Berra

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
The political context here is: There have been four different coroners' reports where smart motorways have contributed to deaths.

Most recently in January [1] after two stopped vehicles - which would otherwise have stopped on a hard shoulder - instead had to stop in a traffic lane and were hit by a truck.

In principle, smart motorways are already supposed to be covered in cameras etc, so people in a control centre can stop the traffic in a lane if the need arises. Apparently it doesn't work all that well in practice, though.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-557087...
Weird that the big projects mentioned there does not have a link.
I really don't understand how these smart motorways are so expensive.

They're literally a regular motorway but with slightly different signs that update over WiFi.

Adding those to an existing road doesn't justify costing far more than building the road in the first place!
what i always think about stuff like this:

if stuff like mongita and sqlite would exist for all kinds of databases (graph,kv,xml; as for document and sql it already exists), couldn't we "just make distributed versions" if we put stuff ontop of it? like with dqlite/rqlite with sqlite?

or does there have to be some inherent mechanisms withIN the database to support distributed versions?
That means that if you made Parrot work better the way Rakudo-on-NQP-on-Parrot was at the time, it would have been a wasted effort.

Two thoughts.

First, that wasn't my plan. We were actively working on the Lorito plan to reduce the total amount of C in Parrot and eliminate the need to write C to extend Parrot, just as you suggested needed to happen in another reply.

Second, it would have been nice to sit down and come up with a plan, rather than Jonathan and Patrick deciding all of this on their own, not telling Parrot developers, and then spending years complaining that Parrot developers weren't responsive to their needs even after their antics had chased away pretty much all Parrot developers.

Granted the JVM port has only ever been a second tier backend.

Ah, so frittering away a bunch of developer time and developers helped them halfway reach a goal years later.

As predicted.
Thats only partially helpful. What if you get mentioned in channels you have no role for? What if a team needs a way to spin up private channels, so they need access to setting roles, wouldnt that open up the whole "role" system to anyone? What if you just want to join a channel to drop one line and leave, where did they put that role bot button thingy again to automatically assign roles?

Discords roles are really well done and make totally sense in a hirarchical chat system. However i don't see this being sensical in a professional (flatter) environment.
There are two sides of Xamarin. It builds native apps and you can use their native UI systems. So you can build a native Android UI and a native iOS UI next to each other. This will give you perfectly native apps with the ability to share as much code as possible.

The other side is Xamarin.Forms and its designated successor MAUI. Here you have the typical Microsoft UI problem. It is quite an unfinished framework. You can build everything with it, but if you do something else than the showcase app, you are going to have a difficult time.

Xamarin is for sure not going to die soon.
You can create the holder from any biodegradable materials, leather or cardboard etc. No need to use "non-recyclable plastic".
Impervious.ai API and VPN Demo – Building Censorship Resistant Tech Stacks on LN
It's that one, yes.
Pretty sure the cameras have some leeway built in, and in addition your speedometer will probably read a few mph under at 70, unless you're using one on a satnav. I do agree though, I tend to just try and find someone else who has cruise control and keep a steady distance behind them.
I read there is a Teams client for Linux. And it works kinda well too.

Is this really the year of the linux desktop? But really, what a weird time to live in. Native (working) linux clients from Microsoft?
What methodology do you use in data science projects?
Hi, all! This is not the first HN post I've made on this project - I try to make significant milestones in between.

Essentially, this is a video player that will let you watch videos in your local library or on YouTube on your Android device -- and you can tap or drag on subtitles and it will query Jisho.org for dictionary definitions.

You can then export the cards to Anki with full image, audio and definition export. You can edit the CSS template and the cards from AnkiDroid from thereon out.

It was simple and straightforward. Ever since the initial release, I've since added a lot of features. I've since done since my first release:

- Experimental custom dictionary support

- Full YouTube support with search and a closed captioning indicator

- Having the trending 20 videos in Japan as the default screen means users always have something new to watch and first timers something to play with

- Migrated the app to VLCKit (via flutter_vlc_player) to significantly broaden the supported formats

- Used the AnkiDroid API so users can instantly add cards instead of sharing each card to AnkiDroid

- Ported the Jisho.org parser (Ve linguistic framework) to Dart to implement on-device text segmentation to implement tap to select on words

- Channels, search history and suggestions and resume feature lets users get to content they frequent to much faster

- Video history so users can get back to what they were watching and a clipboard so users can always review their last 50 queried words in between watch sessions

- Automatic captions support which works surprisingly well in podcasts and news shows with clear speakers, and otherwise can be quite terrible

At its core, this is a video player with extra sprinkles. I have been working really, really hard to make the app that I was frustrated to find did not exist, at least with mobile solutions. I've been taking feature requests from my own users and I am glad to have more and more Japanese immersion learners use it.

When I feel like I've done enough, I'll probably pause at making new features, and just patch and make fixes for bugs. I'm hard at work at a release candidate that I can proudly call stable. For now, I'm really quite happy with what I've made and want to share it to as many users that can find it useful. I also want to try to bring this app to as many languages as I can, but I have to be able to source the necessary definitions from somewhere, and I've really found that there's nothing quite like Jisho.org when it comes to their API.
Can't be done, since the Android ecosystem is too fragmented. This only works because Apple controls all the devices and the backend.

Samsung will release the STag soon though :)
This seems like a huge con. Terraform at least allows you to store state yourself if you want to on multiple backends. With Pulumi you have to pay to store state, and you have to store it with Pulumi Inc. ? Why?
A discord chat got me through one of my very difficult classes in university. I think without it I probably would have passed, but probably wouldn’t have understood the material half as well.
MeshCODE: Revolutionary New Theory for How Memories Are Stored in the Brain
I am saying: what are other options besides the two I mentioned, and the one that they're using?

I'm saying that the two I mentioned are absolutely absurd. Not even worth a conversation.

The one they're using is deferring their decision making to a source that, even if they're a bit flawed, is WAY WAY WAY better than themselves when figuring out what is worth keeping online.
Rakudo on Parrot was slow. If you happened to use a Unicode character in your source file it got dog-slow.

Worse yet, Unicode was an optional feature of Parrot! WTF!!

This is nonsense, and I say that as the person who spent months profiling Rakudo to figure out why it was slow.

Rakudo's parser was (maybe still is) slow because it can't optimize anything, even the <ws> token.

Adding NFG could have helped by allowing fixed-width access to normalized codepoints, but IIRC Patrick told the person who was going to implement NFG not to do it.

Seems like a pattern.
That’s obviously ridiculous, you can’t purposefully puncture a moving cars tires to enforce a lane. You’d kill people, what about people who missed the signs?
Yeah... Do not use the already existing wheels fiddle your own shitty wheels
Port speed was always mostly about satisfying home network rather than being simply bigger than your net bandwith. NAS, sync or streaming between local devices, etc.
The bandwidth to RAM will be many orders of magnitude smaller than the bandwidth of on chip SRAM. You likely won't be able to use the full potential of this chip unless your problem can mostly fit in the SRAM.
Nope, Apple just enabled their business:

"works exclusively with the Apple Find My App"

It's a 3rd party device that hooks into the network.
Its not only the sound thing. Its so weird to me how i still am able to find most options on a modern Windows computer even thought i stopped back with XP. And not because its so intuitive, but because it never really changed at all, just added more layers over layers.
Following the word play of the main post may I suggest nativealter.net?
How often do you imagine a professional thief stealing a jacket?
These blog posts are as relevant as ever.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
You really think Apple would release a new product and forget to update the ToS to allow it? :D
I sincerely hope that thanks to SpaceX the cost of launching telescopes to space will become small enough to allow multiple space-based telescopes (and radio telescopes). We are obviously some ways from that, but not that far away that we cannot start planning for when it happens.
So tax inheritance?
Blog Post: Kubernetes in Space – Azure (Deploy K8s on Azure with Terraform)
People who miss the signs also kill people.

Which is less bad?
Email marketing,Ads,Landing pages, and Automation Tools to – elink
Easier separation of ideas.
I want to be able to close my browser while still keeping VoIP running.
Alt-Tab-ing is far superior UX compared to trying to find the VoIP tab in browser.
Over all UX is way nicer with separate application even if it is just another browser running.
We actually know the primary sequence (i.e. order of amino acids) for every gene in the body. It’s trivially easy (a senior undergrad in bioinformatics ought to be able to do it with little or no handholding) to look for genes with even a vaguely similar sequence. Protein folding is a hard problem, but the space of possible solutions is large enough that it’s unlikely that an unrelated sequence would have a similar enough structure to be recognized by the same antibodies.

Most variation between populations is not so much what genes are there, but how at what level they are expressed, point mutations, and short repeats (all of which are unlikely to create totally new structures). For there to be a population that had spike protein expressed, there would have to have been some sort of horizontal gene transfer into the germline (which is relatively protected from mutations for precisely this reason) at some point in the past. There’s reasonable atlases of human genetic variation (see, for example, the 1000 genomes project), so if there was some large population of people with any obviously new viral sequence, we’d see it.

Plus, if a person somehow, miraculously, had a protein that looked like Spike, their immune system should already be tuned to ignore it. (I have a PhD in biology, but immunology was not something I have much expertise in, so take this with a grain of NaCl).
some of the known hardest languages are - Chinese; Arabic; Japanese; Hungarian; Korean; Finnish; Polish...but i feel it all depends on your mother tongue and/or probably any other language you know apart from your mother tongue, that how quickly one learn new language.
It makes sense if you are buying drugs with Monero.

First, a centralized solution will not even allow you to make the transaction; they are in control of who you pay.

And the privacy, while still not perfect, requires considerable effort to break. Maybe the FBI or NSA are doing it, but if so they aren't revealing it.
They combined a lot of things others were doing well too and combined it into a resource hungry piece of software. I too am not really impressed
Maybe this will trigger less leisure flights too since those will have to become more expensive to pay the airline's bills. Which could be better for the environment as well.

Maybe...
The reword is literally having a better job that allows you to work remotely, so you can feel better about your work without thinking about moving constraints of your household.
Motorways ("freeways" in en-us, I think) are traditionally 3 lanes with a 4th lane as a 'hard shoulder' that is closed to all traffic except those who have broken down and the emergency services.

Smart Motorways were a Tory government idea designed to be "car friendly" and increase apparent road capacity without actually costing much money -- by using already-existing lightable signs above the motorway to convert the hard shoulder into another lane of traffic, and adding in "refuge areas" every $[$RANDOM % 5+1] miles.

The trouble is, if you're in a motorway where every one of the now four lanes of traffic is going at the speed limit of 70 miles an hour (or, more likely, 80 miles an hour) and your tire explodes, you might not be able to coast the requisite distance to a refuge area, and you might not have the wherewithall to adequately pull into what is in effect a small siding about the size of an articulated lorry. If you break down in a "live lane" the signs are supposed to change to move traffic out behind you, so it doesn't ram into the car.

Naturally, this hasn't worked well, and a bunch of people have died. At least one coroner has specifically called out Her Majesty's Government for directly contributing to deaths and blamed the smart motorway concept in general. There's at least one harrowing 999 call I've heard somewhere of someone saying "Help, I've broken down in lane 2 of the M4 and my car has stopped and I couldn't get into lane 1 when <BANG> <sound of young child crying> <no more adult voice>".

Some of the "smarts" in smart motorways in doing lane-light switching this have been provided by humans and/or computer vision on the basis of CCTV. The trouble is, they've been ineffective. This announcement states that they're going to replace the previous approach with mmWave radar that I presume can detect changes more rapidly (quite how that works with shadows and reflections -- and cars in front of lorries, I don't know).

Fundamentally, this seems to be "papering over the cracks" of the idea -- and I unfortunately don't think it will work. Many, if not most, British people want to go back to the old system of having 3 lanes + a hard shoulder. We don't understand why the Tories really, really love smart motorways: it probably comes out of a combination of 'driver friendly' Manifesto promises combined with economic modelling about the cost of traffic jams.
C) His desire to prove something new leads him to overstate / overemphasise / mislead himself on degrees of difference.
I don’t get why you complain anout the OS and then have hopes for the more polished hardware platform. Is it due to it being ARM based? That would impact on performance and battery at most, UX wise...
I think this is a step in the wrong direction.

Open source is about an open community, open contributions, the multiplier you get from contributions from multiple companies. That way open source is a win-win. Companies benefit from each other's contributions.

Once you have free and non-free tiers or need restrictive licensing it is already broken. The incentives no longer align.

I'm being paid in part to work on the open source projects that we utilize for our service(s). Some of those we started, some of those we're contributing to, but we _own_ none of them. We handed them off to external entities (Apache and others) for governance and we actively encourage others to participate.
And, yes, some of those are used by Amazon, and we welcome their contributions to the code.

Single support companies that use the popularity and reach of permissive licenses for profit that then turn around and bemoan the fact that their licenses are too permissive are disingenuous.
Did they have to faithfully transcribe the researcher's umms and awws?
Hard to subpoena something that doesn't exist.
Would you like to hear the reasons to let cats outside, or have you already heard and ignored them many times?
Zoom meetings work because everyone is on Zoom. When it becomes a group in a room and someone on the board, I suspect the dynamic will change.
It's more than the snapshot figure now though.

Carbon removal is early in the development cycle and needs rapid acceleration to be able to become more efficient and scalable.

However often the cost overshadows this need and companies choose the greenwashing "carbon credits" approach to save $$s which blocks the progress.

Nobody can live a life without being responsible for some carbon emissions at the moment. Even if we could, there is still an excess of CO₂ already present that we need to remove.

This is an early, important step.
https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...

Page 139 onwards is the FindMy network security stuff. Apple actively doesn't want to know where your shit is. This is similar to the COVID tracking stuff Google and Apple are running.
i can recommend the .NET 101 series on YouTube. If you want to quickly write .NET code you should try the .NET Interactive extension for VSCode
> housing has actually been a poor investment relative to investing in the stock market

Even if you wanted to think of housing as an investment, it should be compared not to the stock market but to the lifelong cost of renting, since it's one or the other (unless you plan to be homeless).
Do you want to be friends with people in a community where having the admin look up your IP and ddos you is acceptable???
The terraform AWS provider lags from time to time too. I remember waiting the best part of a year for API gateway websockets support.

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/7...
How many competitive games are you playing where the enemy team is an admin on your teamspeak server and feels it is appropriate to ddos you?
All of which earned their prize AFTER their political achievements.

Obama got his before or just as he was sitting in the Oval Office the first time.

How is that not a farce? Because he was the first black president? Give the Nobel prize to the voters then.
Great work! Thank you. I see that you are structured as a GmbH in Switzerland. Does Switzerland have a similar concept to the gGmbH (German Wikipedia: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinnützige_GmbH) which might help saving on Tax while still running a for-profit business?
check out KoReader [0] from the F-Droid Store, imho it's way better than the built-in onyx reader app.

[0] https://koreader.rocks
> Admittedly, I don't try to do, I dunno, video editing or something

> something that actually uses all that juice they keep shoving inside, I just... don't see the point

Is this a joke or something? Video and image editing was actually the biggest selling point shown repeatedly all over the keynote.
> “showed commitment by showing up”

Societal Proof of Work. I don't disagree. Just interesting how much deliberate waste is demanded by society as proof of something.
11 grams is too heavy?
I remember when this clearly deadly and badly thought out idea was implemented, and thinking "what, who are they kidding!".
Did you read the WP article? It seems the original game had 2 sets of rules:

> The set had rules for two different games, anti-monopolist and a monopolist. The anti-monopolist rules reward all during wealth creation while the monopolist rules had the goal of forming monopolies and forcing opponents out of the game.[3] A win in the anti-monopolist or Single Tax version (later called "Prosperity"), was when the player having the lowest monetary amount has doubled his original stake.

So one rules similar to modern day Monopoly. And one that teach us the virtues of "social policies". (can I say socialism here without being down voted to hell?)

And there was a clear intend to teach its players about "unfairness":

> The game was created to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences". She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some people could find it hard to understand why this happened and what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might be easier to demonstrate. Magie also hoped that when played by children the game would provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness, and that they might carry this awareness into adulthood.

I've learned something today!

Also, I'm quite a fan of Georgism (tax bad behavior so heavy it disappears). For instance, I think we should georgize pollution and wealth hoarding.
I agree, but "operating system" is very poorly defined. Name a feature of an operating system and you can find one that doesn't support it. Just about the only definition that seems to hold is that it runs without an operating system.
It may just be me, but using the one (relatively) safe place on a highway for cars sounds like a spectacularly bad idea in the first place.

Think how much money can be saved by just... not allowing anyone to drive there.
Lack of understanding why Telerik, Infragistics, Syncfusion etc. exist.

A library with a rich ecosystem of third party vendors instead of the clunky GNU/Linux offerings.
Yeah great points.

I think I heard that NY state might be on track for similar legislation soon too?

Anyhow, we'll see - we certainly don't want to do anything super dodgy or put people in a bad position.

Got any pointers to affordable datasets/lists?

At this stage our first tool is a way for us to build datasets and a user base though yeah, it could turn out this is for a limited time only. Buying datasets can be expensive and we're trying to bootstrap.
Actually the GPL has special wording to exclude system libraries and headers from the "derivative work" - since the AGPL does not have something similar (why would it?) one would assume that the derivative work of Postgres includes your app, even if you only communicate with Postgres via http requests going through three levels of indirection
Fower v1.0: About An utility-first CSS in JavaScript library
Yeah, it has been a while since I used it, but I remember having to fall back on Terraform docs more than once. But it really is nice being able to ditch Terraform DSL with your language of choice.

And when I used it they also had quite permissive pricing for personal use, where you could store your tfstate or equivalent on their servers which is nice as well for solo devs, who doesn't want to build or shell our for a storage platform or CI for terraform.

The only thing I had some problems with was errors, which wasn't the easiest to decode. But it wasn't too bad.