skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found that OSMAnd~ and BRouter was a good middle point for accessing detailed offline maps and getting route suggestions. At first I thought I might want to mount my phone on my handlebars, but I couldn't find a cheap holder so I just left it in a bag and pulled over every now and then to consult the map. Convenient, since that was usually a good time to have a drink of water too. Plus it saved battery, which was useful in remote areas where there was no electricity to recharge at the end of the day.

To be fair, I also work in the tech industry and could afford snazzier equipment, but I leaned toward keeping everything cheap and cheerful so I didn't worry too much about it getting stolen in town, or busted up when taking some questionable cross-country "shortcut". At the end I donated all my gear to a local co-op, then bought a new bike in the next country, so it also helped me feel more free and not bound to a pricey piece of hardware. I feel like spending money makes you need to spend more money - now you need a better lock, now you need a storage unit, now you need to take your bike on the plane etc. For me that's just more stress that would get in the way of my goal, which was to travel carefree.

I get your point about the utility of electronics, though. I'm not anti-tech, I guess I just tend toward cheaper and simpler solutions unless there is a very strong motivation. I don't think I'm especially unique in that sense - I think a lot of people (even those who own bicycles) would be surprised to hear that some cyclists nowadays are using electric shifters! I'm sure at some point the tech will trickle down to the mainstream, but in the context of this thread which was about someone thinking of retiring to become a bike mechanic but worried it'll just be like retiring to do the same tech job they just left... I think that future is still far enough off in the distance that it's not something people who are thinking about retirement at the moment need to worry about.
We both hashed "theragun" in all lowercase. We actually bought each other two different models of Theragun but it was pretty natural to refer to them with that string.
Not OP, but San Soo Gab San (Western & Foster) was always great when I lived in Chicago.
This is very true, and my saucier skills are poor, but once upon a time I swore by thin aluminum or copper cookware for making eggs--especially omelettes. A couple of years ago, we decided to install an induction range in our home and, of course, those pieces of cookware were no longer usable and my eggs suffered until I learned about carbon steel pans and modified my technique a little bit. Induction with carbon steel isn't quite as responsive as copper or quality aluminum pieces, but it's dang close when used with a good induction system, and I also haven't had a flare up when frying at high temps since the change over.

Flip side is that cookware maintenance is now higher, and I spend a lot more time ensuring my pans have a good seasoning on them. But good food is worth the effort!

For certain sauces though--especially acidic ones--I'm not sure there's a better option than a gas hob just yet.
Well it's a flawed optimization in the end. Shareholders will actually not gain from removing critical thinking, the inverse happens but at an unknown point in time which is somehow the worst-case for a shareholder. But I think things actually got better, there was a time when people would have to answer about their greatest weaknesses that they are impatient about tasks getting finished.
I mean I’d count adding lane markers as building infrastructure - and the same caveat of people disobeying them applies. Not to mention you wouldn’t be able to add dedicated lanes outside of main thoroughfares and highways.
Arguing by the year is a fallacy. It's a logic smell.

("I can't believe that in 2022, people still argue that way." See how that doesn't actually say anything that anyone ought to take seriously? It just uses the assumption of rightness to pressure anyone who disagrees.)
Algorithm: Words are similar if they're used in similar places.
I'm talking about recent presidents, especially the ones you claim came to power as result of a coup.
I think the idea is that the OS has a better chance of keeping the plugin isolated than a VM sandbox.

I'd certainly trust v8's sandboxing over any attempt to do it myself but OS level sandboxing + IPC seems like an even better idea if you're trying to be really sure.
Since exits are limited and risk is still high, your accelerator for "Mittelstands" will end up looking like a traditional financing vehicle, providing loan funds in return for profit or revenue share, or some other earnings distribution. In which case it will look like a high-interest loan. You'll find yourself competing with all the alternative financing and "fintech" companies ranging from Stripe Capital to Paypal financing to local bank financing. I'm not sure the accelerator model really works here given the exits and risk.
There are certainly 100k BTU/hr induction woks
Haven’t checked, but it’s possible that the RAV4 and RAV4 Prime use different hardware and software.
The right question to ask is how many rear-end collisions does it produce and how many accidents it prevents.

If it infrequently phantom brakes (especially when there is no vehicle behind - an AV can sense that), that doesn't cause any collisions, this might be optimal behavior, given the current level of technology.
Thanks I found this list very helpful so did a quick check on the tech of some of them:

1. Spree: headless ecommerce with REST/GraphQL APIs built using Rails/Ruby. Next.js and Vue starter sites

2. Saleor: headless ecommerce with GraphQL API built using Django/Python. Next.js starter site

3. Reaction/Open Commerce: headless ecommerce with GraphQL API built using Node.js/Javascript

4. Solidus: headless ecommerce with REST API built using Rails/Ruby

5. Medusa: headless ecommerce with REST API built using Node.js/Express/Javascript. Gatsby and Next.js starter sites

6. Sylius: ecommerce built using Symfony/PHP

7. Shuup: ecommerce built using Django/Python. Looks like open source version is dead

8. Vendure: headless ecommerce with GraphQL API built using Node.js/Typescript
I guess I just find it annoying that people want to quibble about "relevant markets" and that kind of stuff, when they could clear up the more likely confusion, which is basically just vocabulary, instead.
To me, if there's one thing Elon must succeed in it's Space-X. They have the people, the technology, the theory and most importantly the reality of refuellable, reusable rockets going to space. With an in-orbit delta-v budget to make it realistically to Mars, even considering shielding. And the plan to source Methane on Mars to get back is also scientifically backed, as far as I can judge that.

If there's one hope to make it to another planet in my lifetime, it's Space-X.

So could we dump the hate on other stuff he does, but still admire the Mars goal?
A gun isn't going to minimize your risk, it's going to increase it. Does the president ask that every reporter to carry a gun for interviews to feel safe? Do you get a complimentary gun as you walk into a football stadium to help protect everyone else?

Get this ridiculous rhetoric out of here. If you want to defend arms, do it with arguments that don't depend on the warm and fuzzy feelings you get and call security.
New York state passes right to repair bill
I think you are responding to the author actually. But I agree, I think the author is mixing up privacy and security here.
I thought you can manually configure VSCodium to use propertiary registry. I have done it before. So this option has been removed?
note: someone seems to have attacked my web sites contact form api, so it's down for probably a few hours to a day while I update things.
Chromium is open source but also principally developed and maintained by Google
What "impacts" are you referring to, specifically?

If your parents are miserable (or split up) because they cannot even talk about, let alone practice alternatives to socially sanctioned monogamy -- does this not also "affect" the children?
Boosts confidence in the company if the only way to get any comment is the social media account of the guy who also tries (tried?) to buy said social media.
I think this paper was actually written by a narcissistic bot.
Building iOS apps
Contracting rules are very much on your side, being able to work the hours you want. Being an employee would give the employer more control over you. I don't understand why people don't get this. Contractors really valuable this flexibility.
This is solid, but my biggest question is how this fares different than something like Pipe. I saw it called out as an existing solution, but didn't find an advantage point speaking to it.

If you had the metrics, and could give up no equity, isn't that a better deal?
The sounds of the prince yelling while falling or being chopped in half are deeply ingrained in my brain...
I thought even Wolfenstein was creepy; today, not so much.

Are we losing our imagination or just becoming numb?
> ...avoiding the need to build the gas infrastructure results in significant savings and so does skipping all the chimneys, vents and fans needed to remove the smoke from the kitchens

I agree that skipping the gas infrastructure will save some money. However, you can't skip all the chimneys, vents and fans for the kitchen because heating foot produces particles and sometimes smoke.

> Thus, for example, wine that has been casked in wooden barrels is often said to have a pleasant smoky smell, even if the barrels are not actually burned.

Those barrels are always burned. There are various levels of "toast": light toast, medium toast, heavy toast.

> And to create initial demand in new buildings, where you are actually making significant savings by not hooking up gas at all, is just an easy slam dunk decision.

I mean, it saves money for the builders, but will probably cost more money for the people who live or work there. Unless electricity prices go down drastically, which doesn't seem likely.

On the plus side, it's nice not to have gas lines around if there is an earthquake.
Yeah but commercial gas wok cookers are also just basically broken-off gas mains with a foot pedal valve. They're probably up into the tens of kilowatts effective, too.
> Like, how did it get to be that everyone is expected to read more fake stories than real ones?

Real stories have a tendency not to be as real as one might hope.

Fake stories have a way of being more real than the "fake" label might imply.
I'd rather have Google do this than go to multiple different disjoint sites. imagine without Google search, you go to Pinterest for wedding ideas, stackoverflow for questions, then target for a toaster oven, etc
I thought FB no longer let you share your personal events calendar? I know I used to have mine shared to Google Calendar a long time ago but haven’t looked into it since it stopped working.
BestBuy sells TVs so they can sell you overpriced cables while you're there.
If you want to benchmark for internal reasons you don't publish the results and nobody knows. If you want to make a service to the community, run your benchmarks, download Tor and publish the results anonymously. I don't see what the big deal is?

Is this only limited to marketing claims where you post it on your company's website?
Ask HN: How to write sensitive data to S3 from thousands of untrusted devices?
I am trying to figure out how to write sensitive data to a private S3 folder from thousands of windows and Mac laptops. No matter how much I read about the topic I can’t figure out how to grant systems access to write to S3 without having to store some authentication secret on the system that a sophisticated user can find in the registry, environment variable or in the binary if they bother to look for it.
I'm pretty sure Tesla's with FSD get in less accidents when compared to the average driver. Mine tends to be frustratingly overly cautious in most cases.
It would be quite refreshing if we could have a story in which Oracle are the good guys for once.

I'm sure they are at least purchasing some modern-day 'indulgences' by - for instance - donating food to starving north korean elites?
An Interview with Brian Kernighan (Year 2000)
So I just went and searched for The Lean Startup, which I'm currently reading, and there's a huge amount of notes. So my question for this audience: do you read books this way where you take huge amounts of notes? I often lament not taking notes while reading a book, but at the same time, I'm certain that if I tried to take good notes, certainly at the level of detail I see here, I just wouldn't read many books at all. I have young children and it already feels like a huge time commitment to me to read any particular thing, which often sends me into an analysis paralysis loop trying to figure out what book to read next that is worth that commitment. I mostly just try accept that I just won't be able to read as much as I'd like for a bunch of years, and certainly not with good notes.

But I'm curious how other people square this circle.
Interesting take! I agree that we will all reevaluate the software we are paying for and get rid of "nice to have". If companies fire employees in means software businesses will sell fewer "seats" per customer. The average revenue per customer might decline.
Reminds me of this video that came from University of Michigan during one of California's fire season when many fires were ablaze and air quality was terrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU
I'm not sure where that reputation came from given that they've only done it twice.

Also Blue Origin has no vehicle capable so would have no standing. You can't sue for something you're not a potential party to.
(Felt engineer here) That does sounds like a big issue! Are you able to reproduce the marker or polygon moving based on zoom levels? I tried for a bit and I wasn't able to reproduce this. How are you changing the map zoom?
Mittelstands (defined as $10M-$1B in annual revenue) are very stable, profitable companies once they get to that stage. But there are very few funding options for pre-Mittelstand businesses.

I would like to create a small fund to invest in these pre-Mittelstands at the earliest stages and help them go from $0 to $10M faster.

These businesses need much less funding (usually <$1M) to get to this stage, so it's a different model than VC. But if you invest early enough at the right valuation, the returns could be VC-style with a much lower risk profile.
Wonder if you could use this for regular notes and do something interesting with a method of loci

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci)
I'm saying Nader did some good, but that regulation hasn't caused cars to stop being the most deadly threat people face in life before they age into the heart disease bracket.

Or perhaps more to the point for the autonomous vehicle discussion: that no amount of hacking on the concept (which I fully support, and think is amazing and important work!), whether prompted by regulation or not, is likely to finally end the era of petro-carnage. For that, we need to stop using our tax dollars to build cities (and other roads) that are for cars first and people last.
2022 Model Y with regular Autopilot. Phantom braking is rarely an issue on divided highways; however, it's definitely an issue on highways without generous medians. If a semi is coming the other direction (especially over a hill) it will panic and slam on the brakes more than half the time (this has been the case since we bought the car in November). I've also had problems with the shadows cast by bridges and adjacent buildings as well as changes in road surface (e.g., the boundary between a section of road that was recently resurfaced to an older section of road). Further still, the problems seem to be worse in dim light or at night (it also insists on running the brights even when they're not necessary for a human, and even if it means blinding oncoming traffic) where it will occasionally phantom brake even on an empty divided highway. Moreover, sometimes it decides to abruptly drop the cruise control set point speed from 75mph to 40mph (even though it knows the speed limit is 70mph) which results in abrupt deceleration (not sure if this is the same as phantom braking or not).

Additionally, if you interrupt a phantom brake by manually accelerating, it often won't resume speed until it has decelerated to whatever it thinks its "safe speed" was at the time of the perceived danger, even if the perceived danger is well-past. So if you were going 60mph when it got spooked by a shadow and manually compensated for the phantom braking, when you let off the accelerator the car will still slow down to ~30mph even if you're a quarter mile past the shadow.

This is all frustrating, but the most frustrating thing is that I don't even know for sure what the car's reasoning process is--why does it sometimes sporadically set the speed to 30mph below the speed limit on a busy highway? What threat is it perceiving when it phantom brakes?

> and more often brakes hard and late ... If you have the minimum distance set to 2 or 3 car lengths, you should not be complaining about late and hard braking- that's the setting you chose.

I disagree here. As a human driver, I can prefer to follow someone "closely" (pretty sure I could fit 3 or 4 cars into Tesla's "2 car lengths"), but that doesn't mean I wait until I'm that far from them before I begin decelerating. There's no reason fundamental reason Autopilot can't do the same.

> It also is annoying slow to recover back to cruise speed from a slow down.

Fully agree. I think this pisses people off behind me more than the brake checking.

> The phantom braking is annoying but infrequent

I suspect this depends on what share of your driving is on divided versus two-lane highways.
And the workers get flexible hours. You're only telling part of the story, making it seem as if there are no benefits whatsoever to being a contractor.
>> Can you be more specific? What about the F35 was based on "fantasy physics"?

> That it was possible to make an all in one plane for all branches of military for all purposes, and have verticals take off and landing for the Marines.

That's not so much fantasy physics as it is fantasy product management.

IIRC, the major result of that was that the program cost way more to end up delivering three different planes that cost too much to fill the roles they were supposed to.

> And have some type of 360 degree futuristic digital heads-up display?

That actually seems pretty plausible. IIRC, it's basically see-through VR goggles.
I find your attitude terrifying. I am glad you can handle your car now, but there are many thousand people driving those cars and they might not know how to deal with those "bugs".
I am curious, are you currently holding Tesla stock?
I very much oppose there being "platforms" with gatekeepers in the first place. The countermeasures to privacy-violating apps should be technical, not organizational. Sandbox all apps, don't give them anything that could be used to uniquely identify the user across apps. Require user consent for everything potentially sensitive, including internet access. Give the user the ability to grant fake permissions to apps — for example, a fake location permission where the system says "yes it's granted" but never returns any location data, "searching" for GPS indefinitely.
I didn't think hackernews attracted this kind of trolling, but taking this at face value:

I think you're picturing dark-alley, masked man, movie-type rape against an unsuspecting adult otherwise minding their business.

That's a vast minority of sexual assaults.

https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics

I'm generalizing, but it's usually: Relatives, acquaintances, fellow party-goers, and very often the victims are children or teenagers.

"Most individuals who have experienced sexual violence report the offender was someone they knew. (CDC, 2010)

Almost half (46.7%) of women who have experienced sexual violence report the offender was an acquaintance, while the other half (45.4%) report the offender was an intimate partner. (CDC, 2014)"

These are not the situations in which a person would normally have a gun at hand (e.g., at home, already intimate with a partner), and saying they "should have" is basically victim blaming.
I would much prefer 'local first' as a description of that in theory, but in terms of creating an accurate picture in the head of most users 'private' is probably better in practice.

There is always a tension between communicating pedantically accurately and communicating effectively, and while I really wish there wasn't, said tension's existence requires a selection amongst trade-offs nonetheless.

(i.e. "I agree wrt 'OK definition' but I understand why others don't and I'd prefer to live in a world where believed I was wrong and they were right")
I'm sure I'll end up using other planning and tracking tools, including paper state maps and a laminated US map I bought. But I found this really helpful as a first cut at "What's an interesting big swing I can do that optimizes for places I haven't been but want to see and that involves a minimum of out-of-the-way driving." I basically put a bunch of color-coded places on the map and then started recoloring them if they didn't really fit my objectives.

My intent is certainly not to overplan. But having a "strategic" first cut seems useful.
It's interesting they see a noticeable difference. I don't think it's the calls themselves that cause the latency, probably all the code trying to figure out every single thing you're doing within VS Code to send over.
As with everything, a tragedy must happen before something is done. I'm not condoning this behavior, but that's the way things are -- I'd be surprised if the opposite happened, and preventive action was taken. It took decades for mass adoption of simple security devices such as seat belts and third brake lights.
The "rationalist community" is morbidly fascinating in their tendency to be so self-important while also having a deficit of self-awareness. The author of this piece can't understand why an internet-famous blogger/Substack writer that he follows doesn't have time to drop everything and debate the minutia of a blog post he wrong last year on a topic that has long since been settled. Note that Scott did listen to him, work through his reasoning, and update his blog with a note about it, but that didn't satisfy the author:

> Step 6: Semi-Permeable Membranes

> One thing that shocked me was how hard it was to discuss even a simple thing with Scott, even when he knew I could have made a big deal about this without giving him an opportunity to make whatever correction he thought appropriate. It felt like communicating through a straw. I get the sense that Scott is busy. Busy and/or surrounded by people who think the world of him; a community of readers that compliment his writing early and often.

This piece also shares several other characteristics of "rationalist" writings: Unnecessarily long and rambling prose, flowery language and dramatic subsection titles when basic text would suffice, hedging in the middle of the article in case the author turns out to be incorrect, and a relentless insistence that the conversation revolve around their experience and some perceived sleights instead of letting the argument stand alone.

Regardless, this seems like a silly diatribe after the medical community has already investigated the Ivermectin idea to great lengths and at massive scale and concluded that any effects it might have are too small to be worth pursuing. It's weird to see someone writing volumes about re-litigating last years' amateur scientist social media battles.

This author is either obsessed with Ivermectin and the TOGETHER trial or playing a game to pander his Substack to a certain audience who loves this content. His first post was only a month ago but he's already written 11 articles suggesting errors and alluding to conspiracy theories.
US child advocacy groups have asked the FTC to investigate EA over loot boxes