skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know those jokes about "how do you know someone is a vegan/PhD"?

Well, how do you know someone is a rationalist? Don't worry, he will tell you soon that he's "updating".
Main Keyoxide dev here. That's an interesting suggestion, could be very useful! I don't have much experience with Open VSX or VS Code Marketplace. Do they have APIs for accounts?
Autopilot in aircraft have a similar problem, which led to the Air France Flight 447 crash in 2009. The airspeed indicators froze over, the autopilot switched from "normal law" to "alternate law", and the pilots failed to understand that the autopilot's protection from stalling no longer applied. They did not have enough training (or were too confused) to fly without the help of automated aids and flew the plane right into the ocean.

Boeing's planes were known for having fewer of these automated aids and thus required more skill to fly the plane, but the 747-MAX debacle threw cold water on that idea.
"This just in Oracle legal team takes down entire Tor Network"

Jokes aside, I'm surprised they're so touchy about these things. They can make plenty of money without it, they can also save plenty of money with less lawyers.
Same reason people work for Bezos, Zuck, etc.

A lot of people have the capacity to set aside morals/ethics for a bit of chump change.

The work is interesting. I'm sure the people making nuclear bombs probably said the same thing. Or the death star. "It is such interesting work" Yeah ok.
> I don't think a think of the children rhetoric is justified by the data.

I'm not a proponent of "think of the children", but I also think that urban areas in the United States are largely designed in ways that put them at substantial risk of traffic fatalities. And I think that your data don't paint the rosy picture you seem to be using them for.

> Only 18% of pedestrian deaths occur at intersections,

You can also say that about 1-in-5 deaths occur at what are supposed to be the safest places for pedestrians to cross roadways. I'd expect it to be far more remote if in fact intersections were designed for people instead of cars.

> only 21% of pedestrian deaths occur during daylight.

I'm not sure this is particularly meaningful - are we to suppose that a civilized society is one in which death can take us, arbitrarily, at night for no good reason?

> Of the 6205 pedestrians killed in 2019

To be clear: this ICD code is very literal - it means people on foot. It does not include cyclists, people in mobility devices, people entering or exiting vehicles, and many other codes which are preventable by producing less car-centric infrastructure. It also does not include deaths from causes other than "traffic", such as those that occur in parking lots.

> The pedestrian fatality rate for adults is 10x higher than that for children (0.46 for 10-14 vs 4.6 for 55-59.)

I have no problem with the idea that adult pedestrian fatalities are a good target for reduction as well, but, as I've noted above, I can't help but notice that you (the report you cite) has focused on codes which are responsible for a higher proportion of adult deaths and which ignore substantial causes of pediatric mortality from cars.

> Furthermore, about a third of pedestrians killed were drunk.

I had a feeling the victim-blaming was coming.

> but telling them to get home before dark is probably prudent

"Prudent" is to stop subsidizing lethality by building cities for cars. Then kids can enjoy the stars without a taxpayer-subsidized death lottery for petro profit.

> And don't let them drink (without supervision.)

OK, yeah. That's a good one.
Could be your seat sensor detecting that you are lifting your butt (maybe even if you don't)
A substantial chunk of the books I read are based on HN recommendations, so... yes?
> There’s a reason wealth taxes are not popular in OECD countries.

Well, there are two reasons: the Prisoner's Dilemma, and good old fashioned bribery (or "campaign financing" as we euphemistically call it).

Fortunately, however, the recent agreement for a global minimum corporation tax rate[0] shows that major economies can sometimes solve the coordination problem needed to avoid the "race to the bottom" that capitalists try to impose on nation states.

A modest proposal would be that the top 1% of wealth holders in the world would have to pay a 1% annual tax to their country of residence. The WTO could be tasked with determining the true wealth of any multi-millionaires who bribe national officials into under-reporting their holdings. Any country that defects from this agreement, and any multi-millionaire who hides in one of those countries, would be met with sanctions and treated like the corrupt oligarch that they are.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_r...
I used a similar technique to obfuscate the answers in a silly TV quiz[0] I wrote a couple of years ago.

I have a terrible habit of looking at the source of web-based puzzles to discover the solutions and wanted to make something where that was impossible.

My solution was to use the given answers as the key to decode a small blob of data. Multiple correct answers (different spellings) were handled by simply encoding the blob multiple times and trying them all.

Everything happens client side but at no time does the client store any information about the answers unless the user proves they know them by typing them in.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2020/4/tv_opening_sequences_quiz.html
As I recall, there was a market for that back in the 2000s to help determine what was salvageable from a dead/dying company. The business would probably be much larger and more complex today given that 3/4 of the problem will be disentangling what's actually needed vs. what's nice to have between 10+ teams which are no longer around.
Things I'm nostalgic for are slightly older like the VT100 and PDP 11 series. There was something just amazing about the soft blip when turning on the VT100, and something very powerful about clacking away on that keyboard, writing code to do whatever you could think of. But even if someone made a brand new VT 100 with a proper CRT and embedded a PDP 11 equivalent, would I pay $832.50 for it? Nah, probably not.

Still, kudos to the team for successfully recreating the C64 in FGPA. Preserving digital heritage is important even if it's time consuming and expensive.
thanks. can't wait to try it once multiple VPNs and wireguard are supported
There is an opportunity to invest in these businesses pre-revenue and even pre-product. Pipe doesn't do that.

TinySeed is probably the best example of a YC for Mittelstands now. I love what Einar is doing there and am trying to refine a model that works here.

Getting to enough revenue where they can be Pipe funded isn't trivial. We can be a bridge to those funding sources.
yeah gotta agree. I suspect it is software version dependent - the most negative comments here always seem to be from folks who don't own teslas - whereas people who do seem to be mostly saying that the issue is getting better not worse.

Tesla topics seem worse than political topics on HN for triggering blind rage
Last week I had a Model 3 cross an intersection in front of me causing me to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting it broadside. It was stopped at the stop sign, I did not have one, and it went anyway. I have no idea if the driver was in control or it was FSD Beta.

Couldn’t help but wonder if there should be a way for other drivers to report bad behavior by self-driving vehicles. I don’t see how it could be implemented or how it would work though.
I kind of agree, however at least from my experience in Germany keeping at least the minimum legal distance is an exception rather than the norm. It kinda makes me mad and I wish it was mandatory for all cars to have sensors which would either not allow you to get closer given a certain speed to be in line with the regulations or at least make a really annoying sound so that you simply wouldn't want to. I would bet this would save so many lives.
Yes it seems to be worded incorrectly.
Is a high performance HyperRAM controller really simpler than a normal DRAM controller? It's serial rather than parallel so you need higher frequency signals for the same bandwidth.
Go has a runtime and a GC, and importantly can implement an event loop outside of anything reached by tracing execution from your code's entry point. Rust's philosophy lead them to make the runtime something you bring in with a library import and start manually. Bundling Tokio with every binary would not be their way, although something like it may one day wind up in the standard library.
Upon reviewing the issue surrounding this change on their repository, I can see that an option to persistently change this setting was merged in about 9 months after the change was made. So yes, it is an option now, but at the time the change was made there were only temporary workarounds that would be overwritten whenever an update hit.
Neil! Check out purpose ventures, based in Berlin and SF.
I'd argue that in most corporations, the majority of seats on the board of directors are the optimal candidates for AI automation: all they really do is report to the shareholders. And what practical value do shareholders bring to a corporation? To they have skills in the corporation's business domain? Are they improving the quality of the products? Are they streamlining and improving the manufacturing lines? What value does a shareholder have, really?

Now, if the shareholders were all working employees of the corporation, that would make sense. Otherwise what role do they serve?
In a big application, wouldn't rounding to a random direction (a feature GNU MP supports) be the most accurate probabilistically? If you round up or down all your numbers and you perform a lot of arithmetic operations, you create a lot of bias.
Postgres Schema Change Mistakes
It's astonishing that there were things which existed decades ago with only inferior substitutes today. Ms Streets and Trips had functionality google maps doesn't seem to aspire to; and same of course goes for Encarta. It seems a no brainer something like that shoild exist for tablets - but it doesn't. The myriad data and graphs you could overlay and chart on maps was wonderful.
There's a difference between doing bad things to prevent someone from hurting your kids and doing bad things to someone who hurt your kids in an accident. Acting in defense is justified, but acting in revenge should rightly land you in legal trouble (including prison depending on the severity of the "bad things").
Amazon urges consultant to ‘push’ message from minority groups
2021 MYP w/o FSD. Happens often. Usually related to a corner while on cruise control, but can reliabily make it happen cresting a local hill. Have also had it happen while passing a flat deck trailer on the interstate a few weeks ago.
Counterpoint: The lightning port has both the locking spring tabs as well as the spring contacts in the receptacle, both of which wear out over time.
I'd much rather replace a cable due to worn out springs than my phone's port.
Now why is Apple holding onto Lightning for iPhones when even the iPad has been transitioned to USB-C? I like the theory that Apple is trying to keep it until they can make an entirely wireless iPhone happen, but the failure of AirPower [1] was likely a factor in delaying this transition further than planned.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/29/apple-officially-cancel...
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-to-county-health-officials-arr...
Sure. BC is 87% hydro, 5% biomass, 3% wind.
Two things I disagree with in this article.

1) I think the author is mixing up privacy and security here. At least to me, security is about whether the program has any bugs that allow access to data that the developer didn't intend. Developer's intent is important here, since a program itself does not have any intention, it always behaves exactly as it should.

Privacy on the other hand, is whether the user has control over who has access to their data, assuming that the program is secure. So say, if iOS exfiltrated data to Apple, but was intentionally coded that way, then iOS might still be secure, despite not being private. On the other hand, I consider Linux private, because while you could always install malicious packages, it's still your choice to install those packages.

2) The article is specifically discussing security against plugins accessing data / processes outside the application. But this severely cripples the power of plugins. I recognize that this is subjective, but I prefer it when plugins can extend the application in very powerful ways. I think often plugin developers are more creative than the application developer. Chrome, Firefox, VS Code, all have some amazing plugins.

That being said, I do like Standard Notes, and while I only tried the product for a little bit I appreciate rhe overall vision.
Ask your police force why a union is beneficial...
Which disasters in automobile safety are you talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

If there's a Ralph Nader effect in these data, it's hard to see.
Sears and K-Mart are working on it: https://brostocks.com/2021/11/20/how-many-sears-stores-are-l... and https://brostocks.com/2022/04/28/how-many-kmarts-are-left-in...
Workers aren't doing well. Their salaries are not keeping up with inflation.
Yes.

When there's 152mm 100lb shrapnel artillery bombs dropping all around you, the only safe location is inside of 200mm+ thick steel plates.

Or what? Are you going to hide inside of a trench all day, or get into a thin APC / IFV and get shredded before you even reach the front lines?

Armor still matters. The whole MLRS debate has demonstrated that the powers-that-be are worried about the artillery battle above all else (as is common in war, those 20km guns are called "the king of battle" for a reason).

Advancing, or retreating, to positions while 100lb shrapnel bombs scatter around you is only possible when inside of armor. APCs/IFVs have a bit, but Tanks have the most.

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Walking around, on foot, with only a helmet and some kevlar is nothing compared to the amount of shrapnel that is in play in any of those warzones. The shear number of 152mm artillery rounds being used is insane, and plainly obvious from the terrain in any footage I've seen.

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Tanks also remain the largest direct-fire gun on the battlefield, and have repeatedly proven their usefulness. Drones fly at 50mph and can take 10+ minutes to reach position. (Air Force/support flies faster, but also has 10+ minutes of delay as the pilots prep and launch).

Artillery fires at much higher speeds, but still takes 1 to 2 minutes for the shell to land.

Tank guns? They fire and land near instantly upon the target. If you need immediate fire support, the only solution is a tank. All other forms of support have a significant delay. All other guns are way smaller (ex: Sniper Rifles or Browning Machine Guns can't kill enemy tanks, for example).
I never know how to conceptualize my feelings about these things, do you sort of try to talk about and spread ideas about what should happen or what's realistic. Part of what is embedded in the idea that police is the only public safety effort we talk about is that it's the only solution that's politically feasible. shrug?
These things become substantially easier when approached correctly.

In this case, never run Oracle software. Not only will it vastly improve your mood during budget season; your developers will be less likely to stab you in your sleep and you will never worry about their primary line of business: lawsuits.

And you don't care how they benchmark.
> phonelosers

Wow, there's a name I haven't heard or thought about in years... I wonder if RBCP's writings are still floating around somewhere. Even the fictional ones (especially the fictional ones, I guess) are amazing.
It seems questionable to evaluate what happens when you cook without any ventilation. You need ventilation to avoid smelling like food later on. Poor ventilation also has other bad consequences.
Gas pipes in old cities like New York and Boston leak constantly, these cities have had thousands of active leaks for a century.
You and the Tesla aren't the only ones on the road. You can't control people behind you being just close enough to not be able to stop. Or having another person behind the Tesla swerve into you when trying to avoid hitting the Tesla.

There are plenty of scenarios where you are still impacted by the brake checking Tesla without you being at fault.
This is neat. How does live-reloading work? Manually reloading a chrome extension with each code change has been a pain point for me in the past.
> 4. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by.

The relationship between person and name is one-to-many

> 11. People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points.

You can implement custom characters, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas or have a process for exceptions

> 12. People’s names are case sensitive. 13. People’s names are case insensitive.

You can store this as an attribute

> 14. People’s names sometimes have prefixes or suffixes, but you can safely ignore those.

This can be other fields if you're trying to structure the data, or you can simply store the entire name as a contiguous field.

> 18. People’s names have an order to them. Picking any ordering scheme will automatically result in consistent ordering among all systems, as long as both use the same ordering scheme for the same name.

Don't string compare names as a test for equality.

The obvious response to this is: that's too hard (/impossible to do). But that's just the reality of the situation. These issues are not necessarily possible to solve. #21 in particular makes this application very broken even with very plain vanilla western names.
In case anyone is wondering, since it was a photo op flight, there's a photo of it shortly after the midair collision, missing a vert stabilizer. The fireball is the F-104 that contacted it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyri...
The moderators removed my reply, the parent.

Shadow-removed in fact. Which is to say, they removed it without warning, notice or explanation. And from my account-view, it was not removed at all.

And when I asked what's up with that, I was threatened with banning "if I keep it up".

What do you think of that?
You can't avoid using generics, but you can avoid writing generic data structures if the standard library is sufficient and your application won't benefit from de-duplicating code shared between similar structs.
2018 Model 3 with Enhanced Autopilot. I took a weekend trip from LA to Phoenix a few months back. I was in the left-most lane for a majority of the trip, and had ~10 phantom braking occurrences each way. It seemed to think the shadow of a car in the adjacent lane (where the shadow fell well into my lane) was something that needed to be avoided.

It also doesn't infrequently highlight a car in an adjacent lane (or even exiting the freeway) as the lead car and slam on the brakes.

I have follow distance set to 7 and it still slams the brakes way later than comfortable.
https://www.tryaqueduct.com/docs is broken

Whenever there's no pricing it immediately says "not for me, move on". Maybe that's your intention!
I'd encourage any React devs to look at Remix, I suspect a lot of the best parts will be integrated into React itself.

(Note to beginners: it's normal to vomit the first time you read "get jiggy with some optimistic UI" on the homepage)
This seems to imply terms can only have and only one “right” definition, which is not how languages work, at all.

Clearly there are two big clusters of meaning for “zero-knowledge” and they seem distinct enough to not overlap. Seems fine to me.
I took my laptop for repair to an Apple store in Germany. After that, they kept emailing me, despite me asking them to remove me from their mailing list several times. I then wrote an email to Tim Cook. They never answered back, but did not get any further spam.
> They're more expensive, though, and it's harder to find ones without aren't 100% terrible touch controls (especially if you're also trying not to pay a ton of money).

They're more expensive, but amortized over the cost of the lifespan, it's not a big difference. And because it's more efficient, it's oftentimes going to be cheaper in the long run, depending on the relative price of gas and electricity in your area.

The touch controls issue is real, and I'm sympathetic to that because I really despise them myself. That said, there's no inherent reason that induction stoves have to use these - it's just a style choice - and I suspect as induction stoves get more widespread, if enough people prefer tactile controls, more options will become available. It's not a good enough reason to hold up local public policy that will have a measurable, positive climate impact.
Thanks a lot for the link. I enjoyed reading your article and all linked GitHub issues. The `lsp-mode` maintainer showed himself as a bit offended and insecure and that definitely made me lose faith in his project, can't deny.

I might try your setup or might not -- after all, we should not forget that the answer to "Emacs requires constant babysitting" can't be "well, now go do that extra babysitting", right?

> Theoretically Emacs is the best editor, but in practice it takes hundreds of hours of configuration to get going and then you find out it's painfully slow.

Yeah that sums it up for me. And they are taking pride of the fact that they are just starting to work on multithreaded engine... in 2022... {facepalms}

I am still fairly primitive in NeoVim but I already like it more.
As my marketing teacher used to say: It’s not sold until it’s in the landfill.
Why would I buy equity in a new business shooting to become a medium sized business? I get all the disadvantages of investing in a startup:

1) the business, like many new businesses, will probably fail within 10 years

2) when the business fails, I won’t be able to recoup my losses because bond holders will be first in line for the liquidation money

However, it’s even worse because:

3) the business isn’t even trying to become large enough for a buyout or IPO, so it will be very hard for me to sell my equity.
Yes, once you take the VC track, you have to grow or will fail. You gave away control for money.

For the "Mittelstand" path you have to look for growth paths with the aim of sustainability.

Find a niche and fullfil the needs there.
Matthias Wandel's secondary YouTube channel has a lot of recent videos about retail air purifiers compared to homemade ones using box fans. I'm not up to snuff on the science of it all, but he does a lot of cool comparisons on the effectiveness of each. Worth a look if you're interested in this sort of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_AWXcf2K3l9ILVuQe-XwQ/vid...
The text says "They point out that, based on their peptide sequences, both precursors are likely to be secreted molecules." How can they tell that from the sequence?
That's why I mentioned that I've tried to reproduce the issue. I would deliberately let the computer handle speed even though I personally prefer to, so that I could experience the phantom braking firsthand.