skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would go further - if the vehicle is autonomous, it should be illegal for it to have a steering wheel.

The idea that you can make a deadly self-driving car, and then jail the driver because he could not react in 0.2 seconds when your car suddenly swerved is the greatest handover of money and power to corporations since the times of slavery.

So make the choice clear - either tha car has controls, or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, there will be no temptation to blame the passenger
"How are you doing?", 90% of the time it's said, is social coding for either "I exist, acknowledge me before I continue" or "I see you exist, may I continue?" It's literally the human equivalent of a file existence check.
Using the Problem Reframing Method to Build Innovative Solutions
I've returned to buying physical media. Its really awesome. Things I like dont just dissapear anymore. And the 10 movies or so I watch per year is cheaper than a subscription service.
For clarity, the generally accepted London definition would include trophy wives.

Ladies who lunch might be the more polite term, but that generally implies well-dressed which regrettably is not the case amongst the Russian Nouveau Riche.
Um.. what? lol. Google "drudge". It's the top result. Definitely exists.
Yea -- imagine if you attempted to send the CEO / CTO a message with the same expectations.. I imagine things would not go well for you after that.. :-) The classic rules for thee but not for me.
This is far superior to the opposite problem of too little info.
https://www.peakfinder.org/mobile/
If only India and Pakistan could de-escalate so they don't need to have so many high-tech weapons on the border. Stuff like this will likely keep happening while there's a war in Ukraine going on. Luckily, it's unlikely to cause a war.
> how are you doing?

I’m so annoyed by the abuse of this phrase that I’ve taken to giving entirely inappropriate responses (based on context) when folks ask.
I say just 'Hello', if I suspect that asking my question outright, would get me delayed attention.
I used to have this problem with our triage call center in India. I'm in the U.S. It was like pulling teeth trying to get to the point. Most annoying were the delays between pleasantries... You've interrupted what I was doing three times and then ghosted.

Them: hi

Me: Hello, how can I help you?

[Two minute wait]

Them: How are you?

Me: Great, what do you need?

[Ten minutes later]

Them: Do you have a few minutes?

Me: Am I on candid camera or something?
Too many extroverts invading our nice safe online spaces ever since public health measures shut down their usual channels for in-your-face satisfaction.
Luckily Pakistan is too piss poor to build a strangelove style doomsday machine.
What makes everyone so upset is that often the people who (very successfully) lobby for open borders also strongly support Israel when they do things like this. We don't like the hypocrisy.
> can I tell a difference between 16 bit / 44 kHz (CD) and 24 bit / 192 kHz (studio master)?

Even under perfect listening conditions (which are very rare) 99.99% of people won't be able to tell the difference.

The vast majority of people can't tell the difference between a 44.1Khz/16 bits .wav and a 128kbps MP3.
No, I think that piracy is theft. You're taking something with value for free.

Consent absolutely cannot happen implicitly - would you make a claim like that to a judge? Hotel buffets advertise their prices, and you can always get breakfast somewhere else.

EULAs are not enforceable contracts, as they are offered under conditions of durress with no real alternative. No court will enforce an "I agree" checkbox, and most websites actively hide their usage/privacy/etc policies.

I pay subscriptions to high-quality news sources. But I read them online, and I still block their ads. If the sites want to charge more, they can, but "ad-free" has always been included in the charges where I subscribe.
Not for each user's own rules.

There's one set of rules. You don't need to read my own personal rules on some dedicated page before you are entitled to reply to this comment.
Agreed, but it at least gives me a starting point to check the ticket and get some context to estimate whether I can help or not.
Intended by whom?
Related (are there others?):

No Hello (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978860 - Jan 2022 (67 comments)

Please don't say just hello in chat (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881800 - Jan 2021 (350 comments)

Don't ask to ask, just ask - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259156 - Aug 2020 (101 comments)

No Hello (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24239880 - Aug 2020 (210 comments)

Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19648415 - April 2019 (265 comments)

Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868294 - July 2017 (46 comments)
Echoing what other people have said here and adding my own recommendation.

- Dont use Medium, they will paywall your users and you cant use your own domain

- Dont roll your own, it will waste time and marketing will get mad.

- Not sure about substack tbh so

My honest recommendation is to use Ghost, it has the highest quality themes and CMS (when compared to wordpress) and you can self host if you'd like or let someone else take care of the mess for a small fee.
Got it - what confused me was that when I click in the box without typing it gives me 5 suggestions already. Which I then assumed were the only 5 I could guess.
>The only way it’s impossible in principle is if human intelligence (and a lot of non human animal intelligence) is due to some potent non-physical substance of thought which can never be made by any work of artifice on the physical plane, AKA a soul.

So I was thinking "eventually" as somewhat in next 100 years, otherwise even if you need a soul you could say shit like "eventually we will evolve to the next plane and become gods and we could create brains".

Could it be impossible that we hit a tech limit for AI? I mean there is no sure what that we will invent something better then digital, silicon based computers.
I am not that pessimist though, but is possible we get smart and realize that we could just put tracks and have self driving little trains on them to travel around: 100% safe (we could have actual scientist/engineers code the software for them) and much more green.
One good way to head that off is to go ahead and answer the question.

"Well, my Lumbago is acting up and I have this new cat who won't use the litter box. His name is Sammy because he looks kind of like Sammy Davis Jr. I'll post some pictures later. Of Sammy, not the litter box failure. Also I have this nephew I think is on pot. My sister is really worried but she's always worrying about stuff. It's probably because Mom seemed to like me better but that's hardly my fault."

After a round or two that people stop and think if they _really_ need to ask you anything at all, much less implicitly get in your personal business with a impertinent "How are you doing?".
It's interesting reading the comments about the US military spending from when this originally came out [0 (230 comments)]. I wonder if anyones changed their opinions in light of the invasion of Ukraine.

Here is an interesting thread [1] from it about Canadas military budget which ends with the comment "Look at the map, find Russia, see how large it is. Do you really think it needs more territory?" Apparently, they indeed think they do!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20303029

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20305555
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I think it's fine if you're actively chatting with someone but obviously not if you're starting a conversation with some kind of request.
This comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30642052 (before we merged the threads), but I suppose it applies just as well here.
All of your arguments are dancing around a very important fact: Israel was not founded on barren land, it was founded on a land where hundreds of thousands of Arabs had lived for many generations. It was founded by driving these Arabs out - initially with peaceful means, but very quickly through force of arms.

Not content with pushing most Arabs out of most of what used to be called Palestine, Israel then occupied the remaining lands where they fled and is trying to colonize more and more of that land, keeping it under their own control but refusing to even annex it.

If the Jews of the world had sought a sanctuary, a much more appropriate deal would have been to carve out a piece of defeated Germany to create a Jewish state, probably around a formerly Jewish-majority city. Instead of that, the search for a Jewish homeland was led by Jewish religious fundamentalists, that wanted to live in the land they believe God assigned to them. The vast majority of Jewish people were (and still are) much closer culturally to Europe than to the Arab world anyway, having been driven out of historic Israel some thousand years before that.

I will not mention the similar plight of the Roma people, who no one saw fit to give a country to after the Holocaust either.
It's an art movement -- don't give the colors space in the room, they've already got plenty everywhere else.

(this was intended as a gentle ribbing, not actual criticism. I found the contrast between exclusion and inclusion interesting :)
Ah yes the quintessential Twitter news tweet, it tells you all of the facts, but doesn't tell you their effects. As useless as "some people did some stuff". What does this actually mean in practical reality?
We once added internationalisation to our app. Being British developers, our English was British English so that's what was in the language picker.

We had a very angry American (presumably) who accused us of "cultural imperialism" for having an en-GB option but no en-US option.

Got to say I was laughing about that for quite some time.
Cassettes are also ticking up in sales and major artists like Taylor Swift are releasing new material on cassette. Obviously this is a very niche market but I find it fascinating that physical formats are being appreciated again. I'm kind of a nut about this personally as I have reel to reel, cassette, DAT, minidisc, CD, and of course vinyl in my personal collection.

A reel to reel machine is a heavy marvel of engineering and arguably sounds worse than many of the better compression formats. This giant machine with moving parts, required maintenance, and finicky loading is not everyone's cup of tea - but I love the quality of the machine and process by which it plays music.

Locally we have a used CD, cassette, vinyl store that is always busy (Every Day Music - they actually have two very large retail locations.) I love the physical media aspect for all the reasons already mentioned by others in this thread. Nostalgia is also a prime ingredient. So hearing that these formats are finding a place in the market, however small, is good news and means more fun for me.
Nuclear detonations would also use the mass of the object itself. The short radiation pulse ablates material off of the surface, and that's what provides most of the impulse. Vaporized rock is the reaction mass.
Yeah, it is tricky.

Chat sits in this in-between semi-synchronous zone that different people want to treat as slightly more or slightly less synced.

And that's where the disconnect happens. "Helloers" want more sync, it appears many here want less.
There is a widely spread myth that Mt. Diablo in Oakland has the second largest viewshed in the world after Mt. Kilimanjaro[1]. With this tool you can actually compare them directly, which is pretty cool:

Mt. Diablo: https://www.heywhatsthat.com/?view=K1JW43D4

Mt. Kilimanjaro: https://www.heywhatsthat.com/?view=ME9CTRPG

1: Debunked here: https://www.kqed.org/news/11808501/does-mount-diablo-have-th...
What you say is certainly true. It is also true that since WW2 USA bombed dozens of countries back to stone age, equipped and enabled brutal dictators, punished people with sanctions which killed 100s of thousands, destabilize governments, maintain 600+ military bases to enforce corporate and political interests, etc

Both of these points are besides the subject of the article in question. It is focusing exclusively on the CO2 footprint of the US war machine, which is never accounted in the US national emissions (therefore skews any discussion on curbing emissions). (...cumulatively US is by orders of magnitude in energy demands for its military over all others combined (averaged over past 30 years)).

Effects of possible downsizing of US military is yet a separate question with its own multiple levels of analysis.
With the feature of browsers to copy requests as Curl and now this, it's funny to see curl commands be(com)ing some kind of lingua franca for HTTP request representation!

Now you can play a request and boom, you have your code to make this request in your favorite programming language.
Well I can tell you this advice would improve my student's talk 100%.
So-called "DNR" region of Ukraine was created with the help of Russian army. There was nothing similar to Israel-Palestine situation. So your analogy is wrong.
I have seen this for a lot of people where I work and frankly I don't read those. If I offend you in some obscure way, fine tell me and I'll try to avoid it next time. But no I'm not reading your user manual first.
It's not the quickest way.

The quickest way is to make a joke and not provide references for the punchline in advance.
I've gotten a lot out of Chrome debugger's "copy request as cURL" (among others) functionality. I gotta like seeing more of this kind of thing in the wild.
Really interesting data here. I wonder if someone could reverse the estimate algorithm to see what impact weather has. I'm guessing that's the largest single factor? Might be useful to have that information readily available for those using their own personal solar panels.
Not a counterpoint but supplemental. Waymo and Cruise have been pouring a lot more initial effort into cybersecurity and they are just barely in production.
I've merged the threads because that one is still on the front page and the two are so close that it's better not to have a split discussion.
How much of a market is there?

I recall some numbers that indicated a relatively small number of “accounts” (I’m not sure what the proper term is) actually buying / moving NFTs.
>I guess it's only marketers that love targeted ads...

That maybe, but it might be hypocritical if you're working at a private business that generates sales via ads, which in effect pay your salary. I'm not against ads, so I wouldn't use an ad-blocker on principle, I would just avoid visiting sites that show excessive ads.
[x] Works on relatively low tech hardware
[x] Doesn't require internet connection
[x] Can't be removed from your possession for violating ToS
[x] Can be easily backed up
Firefox has required a browser restart after an update is installed for years. It manifests as an inability to open new tabs, with a prompt to restart. This is a safety mechanism implemented to avoid strange bugs that could happen when mixing code from the old and new versions.

As far as I know, Firefox does not have any mechanism to forbid running an old version, as your title is implying. You probably left auto updates on, and got that dialog I described?
how about one standard deviation about the mean? (sorry, I'm an unrepentant mean over median person)
If you think that's going to happen, you definitely have never worked with an advertiser or agency.

Most would rather die than trust the content provider with reporting their own statistics.
Don't really get what's meant to be surprising here. To me the heyday of VHS was clearly the 90's, not the 80's.
It targets people who sleep under bridges. If, for example, there is a major safety hazard associated with sleeping under bridges, it would make sense to prohibit it, and it would be bizarre to criticize the law just because it affects mostly homeless people. If, on the other hand, the law prohibits only homeless people from sleeping under bridges, it becomes clear that the intent is discriminatory, and this becomes a valid criticism.
...so, if you think the person is reluctant to help you with something, your solution is to get them into a conversation unknowingly about the thing they can't/won't help you with?
Pihole is contributes to a defense in depth strategy. Lots of android games are unplayable when I'm connected to the internet unless I'm on a network protected by pihole. Yes, I can run a firewall on my phone, but maintaining firewalls on every device that my family uses?
When I joined it was still a pretty early stage startup so that wouldn't have been reasonable. When I left it was pretty solidly in the mid-sized company category, so maybe something like that would have been doable (invoices are pretty rude though). I did enjoy helping cross-team though, it's fun working with people you don't work with on a daily basis, and they were/are my friends.

I wouldn't even have minded being seen as the "string pattern/parsing guy". But I was specifically regex-guy in their minds.

Also story for another day and another thread, I was also the MongoDB-guy. Similar to the regex stuff though, in 90% of the questions they'd send to me MongoDB was not the correct choice.

Overall it's more nuanced then could ever fit into an HN comment (yes I brought it up with management, and other issues), but there are a number of reasons I quit. I quit a couple months before a company buyout we knew was going to happen and I had equity. I felt like it was probably the right choice then. I recently got some beers with some of my friends who stayed through the buyout and had equal amounts of equity and learned I did make the correct choice.
Thanks for that, appreciated. I'll be honest- I'm just a 'little guy' in the food chain so I always figured that doing something like that was for the ISP level folks <edit to clarify, I mean connecting to a Zone 1 Resolver. I wasn't aware that one could download the Root Hints File directly (Thanks!).

One quick question though - After taking a quick skim of it the list seems to be extremely 'Western-Centric' (reference link https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root)
Has Twitter made a statement on this or are they merely banning posts and suspending accounts and citing "abusive behavior" as the reason? Whatever the case I'm all for Twitter doing idiotic things like this because more people will wake up and leave their platform for decentralized, federated alternatives.
> Or am I missing something important?

We absolutely want to remotely control cars at some point, how else will you send a self-driving taxi to a customers or "ask" a car to comeback to the garage for a recall on the underlying hardware or for general maintenance?
(Disclaimer: not an expert, I read patio11 and Money Stuff when I'm pooping and that's about it)

This is, by and large, how it currently works today. Not that often do actual pallets of cash get moved from one bank to another; a lot more often, some centralized bank has a big ol' ledger, where various banks move money from one column to another. One of those centralized banks is The Fed, that's how the US was able to freeze so much of Russia's money; there is a bank account at The Fed, and that account is where Russia keeps its US dollars (or the bank that Russia works with keeps its dollars, some of which are Russian, or the bank that the bank that Russia works with... you get the idea).

The biggest difference between a CBDC is that there wouldn't need to be a printed dollar to back that ledger, so instead of rare pallets-of-cash movements, it would be entirely digital. Printing money would be an UPDATE statement rather than through a printing press.
I'd take it one step further. If the opening message doesn't have enough information for an immediate action to be taken, it doesn't have enough information.

A message "Hey, I need help with x" is just as frustrating as "Hello" because it results in the same back and forth. "What problem are you having with x?" "Well, I want to do y" "Why are you doing y?" "Well, for z purpose".

Your chats should be of the form "Hey, I'm doing x y z because of p d q. I've tried a b c, do you know what I'm missing?"

Enough info that the person on the other side is able to answer the question with minimal followups.

You do this, because you have all the time in the world to craft the opening message, so why not do a good one so you are requiring minimal sync points.

Even if the chat is about setting up a face to face meeting, it should be the same.

"Hey, I need to talk to you about x y z. Can we setup a face to face meeting? I'm available at these times".

What's frustrating is "Got a sec" or "can we talk?" as openers. Yes? No? What's the is about?
That is very cool!
“The Zionist Jews who founded Israel had three basic objectives in mind when they thought about the kind of state they wanted to build, Israeli political scientist Areyh Naor liked to tell me: They wanted to create a Jewish state, a democratic state, and a state that would be located in the historical homeland of the Jewish people—the land of Israel—which technically included all of Palestine from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and even some areas beyond, in what is today Jordan.”

“Ben-Gurion essentially said in effect to his nation: ‘In this world we can only have two out of three of our objectives. We are being offered a chance for a Jewish state and a democratic state, but in only part of the land of Israel. We could hold out for all the land of Israel, but if we did that we might lose everything. If we have to compromise on our objectives, let it be on obtaining all the land of Israel. We will settle now for half a loaf, and dream about the rest later.’”

“Then came June 1967. Israel, in the course of the Six-Day War, occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, extending, in the process, Jewish control over virtually all the historical land of Israel originally sought by Zionism. From that moment on, Israelis again faced the monumental question: What kind of nation do we want to be? Once again, it could only have two out of three of its objectives. One choice was to keep all the land of Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and to remain a Jewish state, but this could be done only by curtailing Israeli democracy. The only way Israel could permanently control the Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be by physically suppressing them and ensuring that they were never given political rights.”

From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman
> Slightly more annoying is someone who you do not know giving you a "Hey, how are you doing?".

This is a cultural thing - some cultures value small talk as a requisite step in person to person interactions, including in business. Americans do have a reputation of wanting to get straight to business and of dispensing with small talk though.

Speaking from experience in France, one can call the same business and make the same request with small talk (polite) and without small talk (impolite) and get vastly different outcomes. If one jumps straight to "I would like to schedule a tour of the winery today", one is more likely to hit a no than if one went in with "Hello, how are you? I was wondering if it would be possible to schedule a tour of the winery today?"