skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first visited the US the frequent stop signs were one of the strangest things to me. They are so rare in Europe where there are yield and right of way signs instead. Ever since I've been wondering if the fossil fuel lobby is causing this to drive up fuel consumption.
https://lwn.net/Articles/678410/
Ask HN: Looking for a simple scraper service with email notifications
There's a website I find myself checking several times a day to see if a certain thing has happened. I thought about writing a scraper that would email me if the value of a particular element on the site has changed, but then I figured someone must surely have created a SaaS app that does that. Does anyone here know?
> "Cyclists flagrantly violating traffic laws" is probably one of the most prevalent anti-bike rhetoric tools used by drivers to justify ill behavior towards cyclists.

It’s not entirely unjustified. I deal with badly behaved weekend cyclists every week.

Like, why are groups of cyclists going in rows of two or three in a narrow service road (40 to 50 mph speed limit).

Or going the wrong way in a one-way?

Lots of entitled type-As ruining the experience for regular cyclists.
> "As I write this, the world’s wealthiest and noisiest man has made a characteristically loud public offer to buy the internet’s most memetic social media platform."

There seems to be the idea in some lefty-er online circles that Elon Musk made a "loud offer" to "cause a media circus", "manipulate the market", or even "snub the SEC". They seem totally ignorant of the fact that this offer was made on the SEC's website to comply with their reporting requirements: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...
I wonder who started calling them 'Javelin cages'?
> I do not support adding it to the Kernel, I think we should just throw away the kernel entirely

What would you use instead?
"Lots" is not the same thing as "the vast majority". Millions of people used LSD between '66 and '80.
> If only because, ultimately, people seek treatment or don't based on subjective feelings.

Well… yes? You’re not going to seek help for mental illness if you don’t think you have a problem. You’re also not going to enroll in a study, either.
We could just use federated tech like the open web. No one is asking for some government run facebook.
It is much simpler in Pascal

When you write to a pointer, it writes into memory. And it does not optimize it away. As if all pointers are volatile.
I’m curious as to why you think SMF is superior to systemd. Can you elaborate?
> - Tesla loses money on every car. They make money from regulatory credit trading.

No, it's legacy auto who's losing money on every EV they make. Tesla's profit margin insane:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tesla+p...
>don’t actually seem to have a vision to realize their ideals

It doesn't help when infrastructure also refuses to host or handle payments for your platform for wrongthink. That said you're right in that the alternatives have been built with perplexingly questionable data harvesting and security protocol.
Pine64 April update: no more unicorns
When the billionaires control the public square, you can be pretty sure they're controlling the government too. So there's no difference between these two scenarios.
If the concern is socioeconomic status: One could still edit from a library, for instance.

But yeah, the internet has changed over time, and it is not as nice a place as it used to be.

I think it's important that there are still sites where people don't need an account to be able to participate. Wikipedia is one of the last holdouts in the West, and they clearly are having some amount of trouble keeping it 100% that way.

Given that you need to prevent abuse, how would you propose to keep things (more) open?
This. Every time I see the topic come up, there are countless examples of them being thrown out in court without a fight, usually because they're either too broad (like OP's example of not completing with the entirety of Amazon) or too long (18 months is nuts).
How do you square your belief in democracy with your belief that 90% of Crimeans who want the referendum result respected should be totally ignored?

(90% was also the result of a German run poll 2 years later without tanks present... the poll was consistent with the referendum)

It's worth bearing in mind that Kyiv has no intention of rerunning the poll if Russia leaves likely coz they know what the result would be. It will simply reincorporate the territory. The only vote that was ever going to happen after Maidan was with Russian tanks present.

I dont think this is about agreeing to disagree or about accepting imperfections in democracy. This is about an overarching willingness of our society to discard democracy when it conflicts with western imperialist objectives.

Not only are we willing to do it we are willing to engage in orwellian doublethink about it.
Uh? If the cold didn't affect your quality of life we would call it an asymptomatic infection. But active symptoms do affect your quality of life...
I think you're still not getting it. Sponsored posts aren't part of a chronological feed. They're not associated with any specific content. It's probably not this simple, but it's essentially that every 20 posts a user sees a sponsored post. The posts adjacent to the sponsored post are determined entirely by who the user follows.

For users that don't follow this public figure, the Colgate ads are going to appear somewhere else. If someone takes a screenshot and sends it to Colgate, Twitter will say "hey, it was that user's decision to follow these toxic people."
I'm just over the attitude I see from the decked-out "racing" cyclists that nearly run me over, yell at me, and generally act like the trail system was built for them and that as a pedestrian, I'm an obstacle on their turf. It makes me extremely hesitant to support changes that would encourage them to ride on the roads.

Oh, they're not all like that, I'm sure. It's enough of them that I end up just sticking to recreation areas and stay off the main line that runs through the metro area.
I am just amazed that people are still buying apple, I mean you literally waive any right of privacy when you do!
My guess would be Linux support if one wants to use it instead of OSX.
In a purely moral dimension, it's hard to disagree. On the other hand from an environmental perspective the best thing to do with a car is to get it up to speed as soon as possible and keep it there to the journey's end. Cars that repeatedly slow and idle use their resources (brakes, fuel, etc.) less efficiently, and emit worse fumes. This is of course somewhat mitigated with electric cars, but not entirely.

On bike or foot, I especially hate to see the one last car in a line slow, stop, and wait for me. It would be less polite perhaps but big-picture preferable for them to just keep rolling.
That is true - it takes two to tango.

That said, far too much of the present discourse leaves out that in many different situations, the US has added fuel to the fire in Ukraine, instead of taking opportunities to lessen the chance of violent conflict.
Tried to do a hashing on the "seed" input before pass to random generator, look like there are some improvement :)
I think Musk has knowingly cultivated an audience of sycophants who rarely read past headlines. Some of their commentary is hilarious, as if he is a messiah. We saw it with the Tham Luang cave rescue, Ukrainian skylink, and now with "free speech". Each time he delivers nothing, yet improves his image among followers. He has undoubtedly been successful, but I question his motives, character, and ability to actually improve equity and wellbeing of the population. Just a man with a lot of money and ego to match
I'm skeptical about that report. Maybe the user's roommate set up wifi? Or maybe the TV was refurbished and happened to be configured to connect to a common network name like "AT&T WIFI". It's foolish to just accept one random report on the internet as truth.
I would say 80% of cyclists in Denver did this anyway, so at least there the education is well under way!
The Myth of the Scofflaw Cyclist (2008)
I've mentioned this to several others (and also as a response to David in the past) but I highly, HIGHLY recommend anyone who's just getting started with nvim-dap, watch these videos. They helped me immensely when I was first getting it set up.

Thank you David, they're a fantastic overview of these plugins!
> I dream of the freedom to work on what I think is right - for how long I think is good.

> I dream of not owing responsibility to my employers or financiers. The utopia of creative freedom, where no budget limitations, no sense of scarcity, or fear of failure exists.

> I dream of a place where financiers understand my desire to take risks, a place where not only engineers have empathy towards the business but vice versa.

> It's there where I'd waste your hard-earned dollars on days of "unnecessary" and tangential work.

> It's where I'd rent servers to compute seemingly useless shit - where I'd blow tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere just to gather more, to you, irrelevant information.

> If I had all the creative freedom in the world, I'd do "terrible" things with the money you invested.

This guy should get into crypto
> I can go to my nearest journal kiosk and I'm pretty confident I can find a paper Linux magazine which comes a cd with recent kernel source

This has to be one of the most insane threads I've read in a while.
In states where right of way is codified and well defined in law, generally, "you go" is a ticketable offense (you are instructing someone to break the law, technically, by telling someone else to violate right of way). Additionally, as I once saw it noted, "By not taking your right of way, you are not being courteous, you're being unpredictable."
Then respectfully, Chris Dixon is a fool.

Or more likely, he knows its a scam and is one of many who are looking to make a buck off the suckers who don't know any better.
I googled "notorious lying woman posing as female Steve Jobs" and - credit where it's due - it seems to have given the right result.
"Idaho Stop" is also more often used to refer to the cycling move than the law. Idaho stopping is something a cyclist does; Idaho Stop laws make the Idaho stop legal.

Language is fun!
You haven't really thought this through.

One, those substances are fine for a lot of people.

Two, some of those substances are fine for most anybody. I've never even heard of a deadly marijuana overdose, and the evidence shows no increase in mortality for marijuana users.

Three, we already tried alcohol prohibition, and we are currently trying drug prohibition. It does not solve he problem you care about, while creating other large problems.

So really, you sound like somebody who has a personal hobbyhorse and uses pretty much anything (like say, losing stars on GitHub or mentioning a book on airplane safety investigations) to argue for it. And that sort of motivated reasoning around argument for societal change strikes me as way more dangerous than somebody eating a THC edible.
I'd be happy building a personal computing system that wasn't centred around a glowing screen and keyboard. One where the "computer" is practically invisible and hidden from view. Think decentraland, screenl.es, etc. e-Ink tablets, chalk boards, voice, gesture... any humane interface that works for you would be suitable rather than distinctly designed experiences sold to you.

It came from a dream of wanting to be able to do my job, software development, with theorem provers and code synthesizers using interactive assistants and hand-writing recognition on e-Ink devices. It'd be nice to have a space that was truly intuitive in the human-scale sense: a device that isn't a device; that doesn't slowly ruin my body as I adjust myself to it, etc. A device that wasn't co-opted to keep me engaged and spending, spending, spending.

It'd also be nice if I could build these things out of commodity parts with commodity interfaces so that we can up-cycle and maintain these computers well into the future without dumping them every few years for the new shiny.

... it's a distinctly uncapitalist computer which is probably why I'll never be able to build it unless I win the capitalist lottery.

But hey, one can dream. f-u money is what I look forward to.
Twitter Suspends LibsofTikTok for Quotes
I like your input, as critical as it is. Rust is developed by a community/foundation in contrast to C# (Java+). Anders Heilsberg, a brilliant language designer/BDFE can ponder and decide, after careful consideration, top down. Consensus takes time.
Yeah autocompletions are a mess with native LSP. In the last 6 months or so there have been ~3 different plugins around to support autocompletion, and each one fell into unmaintained or unused status. I hope eventually there is a stable, native solution for it.
Looks good !
Can't seem to find the GPU specs ?

This is such a terrible-time(opportunity wise) to build/buy a laptop:

On the one hand, the newer much more energy efficient intel cpu's 12xxx are out, and if you want to go Ryzen, you should wait for the new Ryzen Rembrandt(?) APU (new GPU RDNA2)

Still looks very nice :)
> Although exciting, we also need to remember that translatability rates from animal models to humans is notoriously low, usually in the single digits for most therapeutic areas.

This is true of humans as well -- there are plenty of programs that get interesting and clear results in Phase 2 (the dose ranging phase: essentially "what dosage is most efficacious") that die in Phase 3 (roughly: "OK, how does that dose really work on a statistically significant population that also represents the demographics of the country"). These studies are so expensive that nobody goes into Phase 3 unless they believe Phase 2 pretty certainly demonstrated that the drug works, and well.

It's also hard to figure out just how the animal's hearing is improving (you can't simply ask). I'm sure they have some experiments, but growing the hairs back may be necessary but not sufficient. Look at all those Alzheimers programs aimed at removing the plaque that haven't demonstrated any value in the clinic. The plaque might not even be alzheimers itself -- it could merely be the body's response to some different underlying effect of the disease.

The choice of animal is very important, and the FDA cares a lot. Mice are popular because they are cheap. I worked on a program years ago that used guinea pigs because mice couldn't get the disease. We didn't use rats as the compound caused cancer in rats, and someone else had had their program derailed because the FDA required a separate analysis and study to demonstrate that the cancer was specific to rats and not other species (rats get lots of cancers). For our program the FDA required some studies in (non-guinea) pigs before they were willing to allow any human trials.
The last CD or DVD I had was over ten years ago. I just have no use for them.
That is like ... blowing my American mind. I'm imagining whole swathes of code in self driving cars that are just commented out before they deliver to the UK.
It's not too bad, because the most basic commands are about the same. The ones that get me the most are dd and V. When I switch to the other editor I get these wrong a couple of times before the mental model readjusts. That said, I never was a super advanced vim user because I couldn't remember the rarely used motions. Part of the reason I started using kakoune is that I find it easier on my brain. Basically everything is in Visual mode by default, where you select before issuing the command.
And now I can't tell if you're joking. It's linked very prominently in the article. Here you go. https://www.bicyclecolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/S...
I vaguely remember hearing something about tapping on the back of your head can greatly reduce tinnitus. I think there are plenty of instructional videos on youtube and it's worth a shot to try.
Agree. This should have been the original conclusion of DK, if they hadn’t made the mistake.

Another way to show this would have been to keep the auto correlation plot, but compare it to the same plot with statistical noise. With infinite random data, the expected value for self-assessment would be 50% score, regardless of actual score - a flat line through the chart. It would then be significant to find a non-flat line, as DK did.

It’s not inconceivable that with a smaller sample, you’d get come biasing, where lesser skilled people would over estimate, and higher skilled people under estimate.

The follow up studies seem to suggest there’s not really a bias like that, but that there is a “honing” of the general ability to estimate your own outcome, which makes sense.

> Although there is no hint of a Dunning-Kruger effect, Figure 11 does show an interesting pattern. Moving from left to right, the spread in self-assessment error tends to decrease with more education. In other words, professors are generally better at assessing their ability than are freshmen. That makes sense. Notice, though, that this increasing accuracy is different than the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is about systemic bias in the average assessment. No such bias exists in Nuhfer’s data.
> This might arguably end up being the thing that brings society together talking again…

Twitter shutting down would be a pretty good way of starting down that path. Instead, it’s being taken over by someone who loves (and profits greatly from) controversial Tweet storms.
There's no pay off to this article. The thesis and justification for the position are there, but the author leaves you hanging. Just what are those terrible things?

Surely not:

> It's there where I'd waste your hard-earned dollars on days of "unnecessary" and tangential work.

> It's where I'd rent servers to compute seemingly useless shit - where I'd blow tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere just to gather more, to you, irrelevant information.

There are very few individuals that I would trust to create something of value in an unstructured environment. At the very least, for most people I would want to hear about their approach to foster creative thought, turn that into actionable designs, experiment and discard and iterate.
That sounds pretty cheap actually.
There's a crazy amount of problems that are due to hearing loss. There's an increased risk of dementia. Even for balance from hearing audio cues when walking.

My mother has poor hearing and she refuses to get a hearing aid mainly due to cost. They are ~$4K per ear she doesn't have the money but to her an elderly person she imagines it as $40K/ear. I also fear dementia has already begun for her. For me I have tinnitus so this drug would also be welcome.

Another interesting drug is Vuity for nearsightedness. Between hearing and sight it will be amazing if such drugs work and were available before my mother or I or anyone dies of old age.
That link was very helpful, thank you. I should have expected it to be the excellent Not Just Bikes channel.
a bit of nitpicking —
but the Soviet Union never really had predominantly Russian leadership, which would be disproportionate to the Russian part of the Soviet population.
Lenin was from a Russian noble but ethnically diverse family.
Stalin was a Georgian and spoke Russian with an incredibly thick accent to the end of his life.
Khrushchev and Brezhnev were Ukrainians, and so on.

But I get your point, and now it makes more sense to me.

I see in Putin more of that monarchist strain — chauvinism from the times of Imperial Russia, which indeed was so much focused on that "RRR-Russian" identity, much more "blood and soil" ideology. And add to that Late Soviet
state "efficiency".
Yes invading countries is bad
The real trouble is for the middle managers trying to justify their jobs. They only know how to measure your productivity by the amount of time you spend at your desk, and they don't trust that you're working if they can't see you.

As businesses get better at measuring the productivity of remote workers by means other than time spent visibly in their seats, these middle managers won't have a role anymore.
My decade-old account with thousands of edits and zero vandalization still get hard-blocked behind VPN. I once checked out the exemption process but felt discouraged to make a request (can’t remember why now). It’s pretty stupid.
It's an incredibly rich book. I learned a ton from it. Indeed, I avoided summarizing it here precisely because it's hard to sum up.
> But yes, ultimately the (U.S.) government is not able to tell businesses what content to moderate (or not moderate) because that would be a first amendment violation, so the only solution for people unhappy with current platforms is to migrate to new ones.

Migration is not what's best for society. The migration to silos creates thought bubbles, is a barrier to cross-pollination of ideas, and potentially creates extremist.

The ideal social network is a federated network with individuals selecting their own content filtering/moderator. It's possible for all nodes of the network to communicate, and the important responsibility of moderation is removed from the platform. Removing nodes form a network and adding them to a separate network (migration) doesn't solve anything at scale.
I’d be in the office and would be more willing to accept a hybrid model if I worked at Google and got free perks like team vacations.
Netflix, Hulu argue they aren’t ‘video service providers’ in Ohio Supreme Court
Resilience To Robots: check the automation risk of your job
That's a good point. A lot of what I read in sci-fi these days is the job of AI wrangler but the idea of using it as a rapid development platform for cool ideas is also super cool.
Neovim does bundle an LSP client.You can launch and attach with ~6 LoC. See `:help lsp`

https://paste.sr.ht/~mjlbach/1a1df5cd61627e87ea4c4355a0473bf...
I got the opposite impression when reading, at least when I was looking at the tabulation of "best paper." The top institution isn't a university at all. The second best is a school just down the road, not one of the super-top ranked schools elsewhere.

Oh sure, MIT is closer to the top of the list than the bottom, but it does make me wonder if they're boosted more by their reputation than reality.
I get that light-bulbs need to connect to receive control commands and get firmware updates, but I'm wondering what other things might there be to worry about here?

Collecting usage data, sure...

Amazon Sidewalk has been brought up a couple of times in this thread and it's got me thinking about how others could also bring up similar ambient/background networks that piggyback off your main network.

If this were to happen, then your TVs and other devices wouldn't even need permission to connect to your main network and instead go through one of the many ambient/background networks.

Perhaps there's good reason to only use zwave and zigbee smart devices instead of wifi ones.
Show HN: A marketplace of vetted VC experts to help startups fundraise faster
Hi HN!

My name is Artem (https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bezrukov-a59a5424/). I worked for 5 years in an international VC fund Altair VC; early investors in Miro, Deel, Pandadoc and many more great startups.

Recently I found out that my experience is very helpful to startups to help them excel their pitch, better show their strenghts and better negotiate.

So I decided to build a marketplace for such professionals (usually with 3-5+ years of experience) to help companies fundraise easier and faster.

We welcome both startups (you can start with a free call, get some advice) and VC professionals.