skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m saying that private motor vehicles are a huge net positive despite all of that. This is hard to fully discuss in the context of a comment, and we may not see eye to eye on this, but I hope I am able to explain my perspective well:

For many urban areas, real estate is desirable in part because of its accessibility, including by cars. Without that, many who live outside the downtown core wouldn’t be there, lowering the value of that real estate. Sure pollution is undesirable but we can address that, and it’s hard to ignore the fact that being able to get places quickly via cars has improved the richness of our lives and added tremendously to the economy over the last several decades. Traffic eats our time but that’s not true everywhere, and traffic also reflects demand. Traffic is evidence that a lot of people value being able to get to the activities they want, whether that’s work or leisure. And traffic can be alleviated by just building more roads and highways to meet demand - induced demand is a myth that relies on the illogical notion that there is literally infinite demand, which is not true. Are cars expensive? Sure but so are a lot of desirable things in life. The fact that we still purchase them reflects their value to us.

There’s no other transportation option that gives me fast, weather proof, point to point transportation, on my own schedule, for me and any cargo or passengers I have. Public transit will never meet the travel times and flexibility of driving in locations with adequate road infrastructure. And there are no alternatives if I want a life where my day might span a variety of people and activities, which usually mean traveling across a wide area. Having lived in very dense metropolises with only public transit, I can confidently say there’s just no comparison - without a car you’re forced to live on a limited set of routes and on timetables with wait times. Your freedom to experience life is reduced because you just can’t get as much done on any given day, and for me it was hard to even see that until I moved out of an urban jungle. A high density transit only life may be great for young urbanites whose range of activities and circle of people matches that situation, but it isn’t what everyone desires. I’m fine with some cities like NYC optimizing for subways and buses but not every place has to be that way, because people are different and live differently. In my view, cars enable that variation in who we are, and unlocks lifestyles that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.
That’s the stock symbol for the company. Investors often refer to companies by their tickers.
Why not set SUVs and trucks as the default then? One ould have to select the vehicle capable of accommodating the most people and situations. Many large/tall people have trouble fitting into cars. You can't pull livestock in a car either.

It's like two people are in a room. One says they're hot. The other says they're cold. The hot person can only take off so many clothes, while the cold person could put on warmer clothes.

Edit: is nobody reading this in the context of the parent comment?
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From our experience here in Queensland, it's definitely not lost. We managed to get on top of a delta outbreak that peaked at NZ's current daily cases with a week of lockdown less than a month ago.
I don't know anything about AI, but I've heard that asking "how do humans do it?" is not the right question.

Still, though, how _do_ humans drive? One answer that comes to mind is "humans are smart." True. But I suspect a severely "dumb" person can drive safely in a variety of novel scenarios.

It makes me think of child development, all that time making sense of depth perception, distinguishing objects, fine motor controls, expectations of motion, etc. It takes years. Could a non-human animal trapped in a "car suit" drive effectively, if it could somehow overcome the panic? Maybe it could maneuver safely, but what about a four-way stop?

I have no idea what it takes to drive a car in general, and specifically I don't know how humans do it. Where do you even start when trying to model the task in a computer?
I have a group of friends who all worked there (San Diego office, formerly Cymer), half of whom have quit. They complained of massive inefficiency (very bureaucratic, lots of meetings), relatively low pay, difficulty moving around, feeling overworked but still shipping buggy software, and some difficult colleagues.

I also happen to know a project manager there who had a bit of a rocky time getting started (overworked), but I think is now happy there.

To be honest, my friends have put me off from working there, but who knows, it could just be a biased impression and maybe the company is working to turn things around.
unsuccessfully https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/billion-dollar-heist-how-sc... https://interconnected.blog/chinas-semiconductor-theranos-hs...
For those reasons, I personally would not object if YC decided to change the name of Hacker News to something else. The current name seems misleading, at least to me.
What about this table makes it periodic?
Interesting indeed. Where can you find lectures that are far removed from, say, software engineering, but still provide solid new information without being either too superficial or too hard to grasp due to level of depth? I don't like to exercise but may be something like this would get me to go for walks.
Thanks for the link.

This moral issue is indeed really fascinating. Cars are one of the few places where we regularly accept preventable deaths as faultless accidents. Across wide swaths of the US there's an implicit assumption that if a pedestrian gets hit they somehow deserved it, or that the only people that walk or bike are people too poor to buy a car and hence undeserving of compassion or justice. Our society is so saturated with these attitudes it's a bit shocking once you see it clearly in the abstract.
You got me curious. It looks like their innovation here is in fluid routing, and they're just using a standard compressor: https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-ys-octovalve-and-coolin...

It's probably pretty easy to swap out the compressor for a new design, fundamentally all compressors do the same thing.
Bill Maher is such a bootlicker that this honestly makes me consider that maybe Apple is ultimately helping privacy.
> they would of taxed cars based on volume + mass

Taxing status goods can be paradoxical (Veblen good): if people buy cars to show off their wealth, then many people may still buy large vehicles because they are a symbol of high wealth.

I guess it really depends on what was done with the extra taxes - there are a variety of ways money could be spent to reduce accidents (although the cynic in me says any extra tax wouldn't be used that way).
Humans can beat these kind of problems via legislation. People need to remember they're inside at most 1 car, but outside of a billion.
One page summary diagram of this article, courtesy of the Principia Discordia:

https://principiadiscordia.com/book/59.php
This hits me particularly hard right now. I just got home from visiting with my parents. My uncle was in town for a family friend's funeral.

I hadn't seen my uncle in person in a few years. As he went to bed for the night, and I got ready to head home, I realized something - my uncle is in his mid-70's, and if that pattern of only seeing him once every few years holds up... it might never happen again. The hug I gave him before he went to bed might be our last in-person interaction.

I'm going to visit him in Boston soon. There's no reason not to. Nothing I'm doing at work is worth not taking the time off to do it.
Not as extreme as PlsExplain. But in JavaScript you can also describe what you log using babel https://github.com/furstenheim/babel-plugin-meaningful-logs
Pronouns unclear, please type $username instead of "I".
Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet (1993)
Ask HN: Any Ortholinear Keyboard Users?
I’d like to know your experience with ortholinear keyboards, right now I’m using an HHKB but have considered picking up a kit since I like the idea of a smaller spacebar.
Why should there be a single default, instead of a default for each actual use case?
It's a theoretical thing under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, IIR. It hasn't been tested. In practice under the law it'd probably be a stretch under a sensible judiciary since you can't prove a negative and thus can't prove you don't know something.

In a number of countries there is a defined offense, like in Australia if they don't believe you they can jail you for six months under the Cybercrime Act, 2001, or possibly 2 years (failure to obey a court order under the Crimes Act, 1914).
Slightly tangential, the image on the homepage of the woman/baby is 11MB and scaled down by the HTML attributes !

Thats ridiculously large for that image
See Goodhart's law.

> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
This is a redrawing of a previous graphic by Vox [1]
which references a paper [2] that its numbers are based on. The paper states:

>"Absolute biomass of different animal taxa. Related groups such as vertebrates are located next to each other. We
estimate that the contribution of reptiles and amphibians to the total animal biomass is negligible, as we discuss in the SI Appendix."

(The description references their graph, not the subsequent redrawings)

[1]: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/al...

[2]: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506
I've done some unpaid policy work. Defending democracy by advocating election integrity. No one is writing books about my mendacious activities.

FANG has a phalanx of former electeds and staffers paid to hustle their former colleagues. To defend their grift and dismantle civil society. Grist for an endless torrent of outrage porn.

While pendants will argue both me and FANG are "lobbying", petitioning our governments, our respective efforts hardly seem comparable.
> Incumbents will resist choosing to continue with current public domain technology. In 30 years when the IP expires it might possibly come into more common use. The current IP regimes are a complete disaster and are hamstringing human progress.

I am curious. What explains the success of Microsoft Windows as the dominant "technology" for PCs and laptops? That's not due to "intellectual protection rights" is it? I am not a software engineer, just a display engineer, would I be correct if I alleged that "IP regimes" are hamstringing operating system progress? My gut instinct is no, that would be an absurd claim. Perhaps equivalent to me claiming that "IP regimes" are hamstringing search engine progress? I am genuinely interested to find out what people think about this.
> Women have been, for valid reasons and patriarchal overprotectiveness, been trained to feel vulnerable and exposed when walking outside.

Been trained?

“10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A
You could just do it based on tire load index and tread wear rating, with rebates based on remaining tread depth when disposing the used tires.
i actually agree with the extension to engineer to include software. however, many programmers do not do software engineering - any more than a construction worker does bridge engineering - yet they're casually 'engineers'
From Pwn2Own 2021: A New Attack Surface on Microsoft Exchange – ProxyShell
If it has already integrated git, why not support syncing through the VCS instead of third party like Dropbox or iCloud? Is there any note taking app that automatically syncs changes with a remote repository, so I can simply provide credentials to a hosted git instance and it does everything out of the box?
Car makers are making this the default. Ford is (or has?) eliminated cars from their American offerings. The problem is that even within the class of SUVs and trucks, those vehicles have gotten larger and faster over time.

The analogy of the hot and cold person assumes the hot person is wearing a t-shirt and sweater, when in reality when you compare it to vehicles, it's more like they are wearing that gortex jacket from Seinfeld + 3 layers of sweaters. People don't need to cater to somebody unreasonable. People don't need SUVs. They provide like no advantage compared to a wagon to most people and endanger everybody else.
Interesting. I read his book Predictably Irrational and quite liked it (of course that doesn't imply he's a good scientist). Are there any other scandals he is involved in?
I've been ``statically'' compiling my php scripts to HTML. It's marvelous.

My build system is a makefile, and it feels like I'm parodying myself and the entire industry.

Is this the same?
The famous porn actress Traci Lords was 13 when she got started in the business. She has talked about what happened back then, and the fact that well known actors like John Holmes knew about it and didn’t care. They just gave her more drugs to keep her quiet while they did their business.

So, anyone with those videos or explicit pictures of her that were taken before she officially turned 18, would be guilty of having kiddie porn on their computer, or otherwise on their premises.

It’s gotten better since then, but the industry is still pretty seriously messed up.

Where the crime becomes even greater is when the “ignorance is no excuse” policy is used to harass and even convict innocent people for crimes they could not possibly have known that were committed by other people.
It’s incredibly easy to trade statistical deaths for statistical happiness. Ask yourself instead if you would be willing to kill yourself and your family if you knew it would make your neighbors happy.

Sounds aggressive, I know. But it’s a solid way to illustrate that there are real people behind statistics.

If 10x more people die, “everyone” is not going to have 2 years of a non-miserable life. The people who lose their spouses, parents, friends, children, etc will be horrifically miserable. It’s easy to trade lives when you assume you won’t be one of those people (or worse, one of the prematurely deceased).
I think only about 15 states have period safety inspections.
Is it too much to ask for a humanoid robot to play ping pong with nunchucks as well as Bruce Lee ? Or as good as Tim with paddles ?

https://youtu.be/SncapPrTusA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8

Or is this the best we can do in my lifetime : robotic soccer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bam9WzQbtfM
> That seems to be eroding now as millennials have decided...

...you're really going to lead with this?

> The behavior of the medical community during the pandemic has been outrageous. My dad has done public health for 30 years in the developing world. You don’t get vaccine-skeptical people in rural Bangladesh to get vaccinated by telling them they’re idiots and making threats. Yet that’s been the main game plan with less educated rural people here in the US

What part of the medical community, specifically, are you talking about here? What concerted pattern, explicitly planned or not, are you referring to here?

It honestly seems more like you're giving a take on popular discourse, with more than a little generalizing.

What I do see is many many medical professionals trying to counsel their patients and communities, finding out Fox News and Facebook have gotten there first, and still trying to do their jobs, sometimes in the face of a lot of abuse.

> berate the white ones for not being vaccinated, and then ignore the lack of vaccination among the non-white ones

Well, first, we know about racial disparities in vaccination rates because it's been measured and reported on as concerning well before people turned it into a talking point.

But I hope this isn't a reference to the Texas Lt Governor's comment, because not only is he stupidly wrong and his comment is a huge distraction for public health efforts and discourse, but he's the one who trotted out relative vaccination rates in different groups out of the blue in an interview that was about (wait for it) public health policy. Can't blame the medical community for that one.

And he's not remotely a millennial.
The whole article hinges upon this sub-title,

> Remember, the "open internet" that regulatory rules purportedly preserve emerged from a world without net neutrality rules.

But ahh if you actually look at what it was that emerged that world it was a bunch of data-center operators quietly interconnecting to each other without asking for permission. It was an inherently anti-capitalist pro-connectivity pro-inter-networking viewpoint, that ardently vocally did what it thought it was best: connect. Because. Because it was the right thing to do.

Net Neutrality is almost assuredly 100% necessary, completely necessary, now that pro-humanity cabals no longer shape how networks forms. That boon is over. The do-gooders still have presence, that's still the core heart & soul of internet exchanges, but to no where near the extensive degree of influence they had. Darkness & vile means of control enroach from many points. Net Neutrality is seemingly the one sane coherent principle that can keep the board from becoming ever more lopsided to those who have. Those who would, on the internet deserve a chance, but unless network neutrality is defended, unless we can see what a dumb pipe situation we have, the whole enterprise is at risk.
I’m not the person who posted that comment but I think the idea is that the phrase “colonies” diminishes those locations’ worth implicitly. It makes their role as a subjugated territory their defining identity and characteristic, rather than placing their individual sovereignty and identity first. I am guessing it’s not as much of a problem for America as for other colonized nations (non white, non European ones) where colonial rule lasted longer, was more brutal, and has had longer lasting impacts.
If I had to wish only one thing in context of shell scripts, it would be to be able to separate passing back the actual result from a function from stdout/stderr/logging without messing with boilerplate around non-standard file descriptors/named pipes/temp files etc.
We stopped extensions since there were multiple exchanges being used on campus so you have to dial someone's entire number. But, you will have to dial 9 and 1 and then the number. Everyone has externally accessible phone numbers so why are we still dialling 91 when youve got to dial the whole thing anyway?
Alterantively one can use Math.abs().
We can reduce our carbon footprint without cramming into cities like sardines. Living permanently in super dense mega cities is a dystopia. 97% of the population already lives on only <5% of the land.

Why not improve upon EVs, renewables, public transit, insulation, and delivery services?
The spirit of the fourth amendment is violated in several ways by our government already, dating back to the patriot act at least.
Both the government and private sector have acted like it's okay to do mass spying these days because it's affordable (or profitable) and doesn't interrupt people's day-to-day activities. If we gave this issue the attention it deserved, I think public sentiment would be that it is not okay, and that we need new laws which protect people's privacy. The current information asymmetry creates fertile ground for abuse of individuals by both the state and private sector, in a way that amounts to tyranny, IMO --something the fourth amendment existed to protect us from.

There's some activism around this, including, BNLT:
https://restorethe4th.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28272188
Why isn’t the wealth and power of the targets mentioned in debates for privacy ?

I mean, no one cares to know the private details of the powerless, and who has the power to know the private details of the powerful ?

There must be some analogue to eat or be eaten for privacy. Some people like reading tabloids.
"Larger pickups and SUVs should have much more stringent licensing requirements akin to a CDL."

Why only them? The basic driver test is a joke. They should make the testing more strict for everyone. The license requirements for a CDL are probably more strict than you think (health, alcohol, etc).
But that was just a coincidence.
It really puzzles me, even as a rail fan, how it is said that America’s freight rail is the envy of the world, but in every town there are abandoned tracks pulling right up to downtown warehouses.

It just seems like we let good infrastructure go to waste. It’s probably a tax thing, iirc the rail companies pulled up half their mileage because they were on the hook for property taxes on all that acreage (turned lots of double tracks into single tracks, and old single tracks into recreational bike trails)
That's not an accurate figure for the density where a typical Swede lives. Most of the population lives in the southern part of the country, a quarter of the population lives in the Stockholm metro area as well.

It's like using Canadian population density with the whole country when almost the entire population lives within a hundred miles of the US border.
Titles are important. It’s a terrible title for the actual topic, and it’s not complete to disregard such an important aspect of the topic. If nothing else, at least name dropping the most notable efforts at cancelling science in recent times in their intro would show they considered that angle. Not acknowledging them raises massive questions about the author’s perspective being clear.

We disagree about naming clarity. Don’t cancel my post because my opinion differs on that.
Actually, notthebee.com is very clearly not babylonbee.com
"Not the Bee is a humor-based news, opinion, and entertainment site from the creators of The Babylon Bee and Disrn. Like the name suggests, it'll feature some absurd and hilarious (but real) news that seems like it should definitely be satire."[0]

That link that apparently got @jmnicolas flagged, actually does cite an external source[1] which says, "the alcohol-related death rate increasing by 20 per cent in 2020 to the highest level since records began.[...] PHE data showed there were 6,893 deaths blamed on alcohol in 2020, compared to 5,819 in 2019 before the virus reached Britain."

(edit) This seems to be backed up by a gov.uk press release.[2](/edit)

NotTheBee definitely has a opinion/bias to their articles [3] but I don't think it deserves to be called "fake news."

[0]https://notthebee.com/article/welcome-to-not-the-bee
[1]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9884297/Covid-19-...
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/alcoholic-liver-deaths-in...
[3]https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-all-these-crazy-cons...
I'm curious if you think that an accused person could be used to setup a Touch ID, then have the prints collected at a crime scene used to unlock the device.

Do you think the forensic prints would meet the standard required by Touch ID?
This is 25 years too late; maybe they could have defined ATSC to only support integer frame rates.
I was very intrigued then you had me with mermaid support. New customer!
Makes sense, will give it a shot.
Thanks for the suggestion!
The user's definition of "wet wood" and SawStop's often differ quite significantly. Hope you're keeping a moisture meter nearby.

You also have to wait for the blade to come to a complete stop before touching anything or you will fire the system. This can be annoying when you have the motor turned off, retracted the blade, and start setting up your fence only to have the system fire because it wasn't quite stopped.

Was there a sticker on something that was slightly metallic? Oops.

I'm happy to have a SawStop on my saws, and I would even recommend it. However, given how often it false fires, I'm not sure I would mandate it by law.
What was the start time?