skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think coming up with ways to get people to want smaller cars is the way to go

Make gas expensive and keep it that way, regardless of the political cost.

Massively increase insurance rates for bigger cars. Again, this would have to be done through laws.

Tax vehicles based on weight.

Effect a radical transformation in culture that changes what people value.

Which of these are most doable?
It’s not an overwhelming advantage. Also the problem isn’t having luck, individuals only have luck in hindsight, it’s competing against luck.
Probably explains why <1% of bike and car thefts are solved in UK's big cities.
Do those actually work? How widely are they deployed? Newer LED headlights seem particularly blinding to me as a driver on the other side.
They were ready for a conditional surrender before even the first bomb was dropped; the bombs facilitated an unconditional surrender.

At the end of the day, they seem to have had more to do with letting the Soviets know the time of day more than anything pertaining to Japan. The whole event is a reminder of why having a figurehead president with all the real decisions made by military leadership is rarely a good way to run the country.
Wouldn’t you want to use static instead of const, otherwise you might get a new unique mutex at each usage? I think there’s a Clippy lint for that.

The playground rebuilds overnight (roughly after the nightly is released); releases don’t have as fixed timing so I tend to trigger a rebuild when I notice. This HN post was delivered before the git tag was published even, so I’ve started it.

Playground is updated now.
I guess the UK are having their pimmelgate [0]. That was quick, it took 3 years in Germany.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...
The side-curtain airbag in the A-pillar is also a factor [perhaps a bigger factor than rollover strength] of the expansion of the A-pillar's view blocking in particular for pedestrians during turns.
Back before the internet, in 1964, I read a brief Scientific American column on laboratory glass blowing (for making condensers and so forth). This set me on a quest; and I acquired supplies and primitive homemade equipment. I was years away from being able to drive so I took the bus downtown to the Detroit public library where I found several books devoted to the subject. I studied these for hours. I worked on this project for many days.

I ended up being able to make a few primitive items from my tubes of glass, but of course, it was a silly pursuit that led nowhere. So I moved on to my next project, making a solid fuel rocket from scratch, then an arc furnace, then gunpowder, then a homemade gas-mask, etc. So it was for a curious kid in the 60's. I'm lucky I didn't burn down the house. This of course was made possible by the lack of an internet (and of course periodicals like Scientific American back when it was great and really about science).

I admire the 17-year old in the article for coming up with something in this age when it is so much easier to entertain oneself by surfing the net.
It's true for every class of vehicle.

For example, consider the Mazda Miata -- perhaps the most "feminine" car imaginable.

1990s: https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1997_ma...

Now: https://cdn.drivingline.com/media/21637/drivingline-2016_maz...

For almost every single car model that has existed for more than 10 years, the old model is friendly, open, soft, "feminine." For the new one, the design language is angular, closed, hard, and "masculine." There's no way to say for certain why this is the case. In my opinion: aesthetic design of products reflects the id of the consumer. Our id has changed.
It's entirely possible for both to be right: different companies have different DEI policies. At Dropbox from 2015-2019 we had 4 diversity categories, from most to least desirable:

* Double diverse: Black or Latin + female

* diverse: white or Asian female, or Black or Latin male.

* standard: white male

* Negatively diverse: Asian male

So it definitely is the case that asian males are even more undesirable than white males at some companies. I can attest to that myself. But each company is different, some categorize Asians as diverse.
Sure they are. Or rather, their pattern of use is. Wearing your seatbelt is also a meme. Just because something is a meme doesn't mean it's not useful.
In addition to the raw costs of moving anything into space, there is the contingency cost of what happens if the launch goes wrong. A new satellite blowing up on the launchpad is bad, but a cargo of nuclear waste exploding a few seconds after liftoff is catastrophic.
It's nice to hear someone admit that Google hires a lot of mediocre people. I'm also not shocked, their interview process invites people to gamify.
> or maintaining as much team cohesion and not "stirring the water" too much.

On an individual level, yes, that's the choice I had.

But on an organizational level, it's possible to do much better! In a healthy organization, tech leads listen to feedback and evaluate it with an open mind, and are willing to acknowledge that they're wrong. If they don't do that, then a healthy organization removes them from their position. In my case, this particular tech lead had a long history of being toxic, but the manager refused to fix the problem; this was a case of organizational dysfunction.

I don't know the details of the OP's situation, but I think it's possible they're running into something similar: Their coworkers aren't listening to valid points, and management isn't holding them accountable for being open-minded. If the org considers this behavior normal, I'd consider that a form of org dysfunction.
if you watch the video, tesla puts the magnets in the air gaps. (around 6m 40s)
Thanks. I have looked for information on this and can't find much. Maybe part of this is per-state variation?
There is no longer any freedom of speech in the UK.
The answer as always is TRAINS! MORE TRAINS! For the love of the Earth and all that is sacred we need more trains! Trams, commuter rail, low gauge freight, high speed rail, street cars, metros and parks with little trains to ride on! Not rubber or plastic, steel on steel!

Cars should be something that only a few people really need. Unfortunately auto makers and oil companies have had a huge influence on our government and society since World War II. The result is this stupid nonsense where you can't even go to a GROCERY STORE without some form of car. Where our train tracks are rotting and rail lines are slowly disappearing. Where you can't even go out your back door without seeing a monstrously loud big rig turning acres of asphalt into rutted gravel.
My first unix experience. I spent a weekend backing up my A4000 (at work) to to a writable cd (at $30 a pop no less) and installed NetBSD on it, played with it for a few hours and then restored AmigaOS (so I could work on Monday). Might have been sometime in the fall of '93 or so.
I am not a legal expert but shouldn't the prosecutor prove that you knew about the content? Because if yes, this is basically impossible.
Nvidia Grace Superchips to Feature in Atos' $160M Arm Supercomputer
These problems should be addressed at the OS and device level first. Policing app makers is not enough, and there are far too many app makers involved in a revolving door of deniability at the individual application level.

Device and OS makers should transparently and clearly define what features can be accessed by apps, and allow them to easily be administered and disabled easily by device users... Period. Then penalties for abuse and misuse can be addressed for app makers with severe fines.

Any device a consumer buys should never be used to undermine them financially nor ever in terms of their personal privacy beyond basic analytics. That's a well known principle that should never be redefined.

With all of the other advancements in technology to monitor and track individuals that are out there, we should not be personally paying for devices that monitor us and report on us to private companies or anyone else for that matter.
What kids do depends on lots of things, including the makeup of the kid.

None of my 5 were heavy into social media, even tho I was for 15 years.

One followed my skillset and became heavy into computers/electronics (8y-now) and old cars (19y-now).

The other 4 didn't pickup strong hobbies. I believe it's because there weren't available examples that fit their abilities.

Two settled on gaming (one now a technician tho). One does music and graphic art.
Source? Everything I've heard is that the exact opposite is required -- that hoods are designed such that pedestrians will roll over them, and higher hoods increase hip injuries.
And why the 'glas' in Glasgow refers to what you'll be shanked with.
No, because there is no mathematical proof for any assertion in economics. You cannot prove economics true.

However, historical counter-examples of zero-growth democracies are limited. We might look to the Greeks or Romans as examples of democracy in the antiquities; but there's two problems with that:

1. Their democracies were limited, with no universal suffrage and very low citizenship rates.

2. They had economic growth anyway. Rome in particular was as addicted to military conquest then as America is to oil today.

Selectorate theory[0] would argue this point in the opposite direction; i.e. that strict dictatorships squander economic growth. Political and economic franchise are inherently linked: people who cannot vote will have their livelihoods taken away from them, while those who produce the economy's goods will eventually demand political power themselves. Democracies are ultimately the means by which we distribute political power among the people, and that is itself a reflection of the distribution of economic production. If you give the people political power, the economy can't help but to grow as they are no longer being shackled.

But I think there's an even simpler argument than that. If the economy is zero-growth, then the only way for an individual to improve their living conditions is to make someone else's worse. This turns the economy into a zero-sum game of who can monopolize everything the fastest, which spikes income inequality, which makes it easier to disenfranchise voters, and eventually results in the ossification of social and political structures (since you shut up everyone that you said didn't matter).

[0] Excellently summarized by CGP Grey here: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers based on a book called The Dictator's Handbook
How would a native number type avoid some serialization overhead that using e.g. 4 byte BE keys yourself must pay?
Thanks for the kind words and your constant feedback!

Onboarding is definitely one of the topics we want to iron out further.
As of right now we only support RBAC (role based access control), basically one role/template for one type of user. Our goal is to offer ABAC (attribute based access control) in the future where one user carries several attributes (country, team, management level...) and applications + permissions are being matched to those attributed accordingly.

Hope to have it live for you to test it out sooner than later!
Ya know what, poor phrasing. You're allowed to be mad at whatever you want. Just don't expect it to do anything so long as the incentives that pushed them to this decision in the first place haven't changed.
Woah, this looks slick! I had no idea this existed.

Now I kinda want to have a poke at this Civ AI business. Or at least look at the code so I can get a better idea of how the AI is implemented and why it's so bad.

Edit: that is, assuming this version has similarly bad AI to the original.
$0.15 is laughably cheap for some parts of the country... Here in California it's not uncommon to pay 3x that, so $600/yr in electricity saved by a $400 appliance is a huge deal.
Funnily enough the “ate meat every day” part might be the key. Red meat boosts testosterone and testosterone plays a big role in mens health, especially as they age and experience the natural drop in testosterone levels.
Its kind of expensive. About $30-50k for the entire process. For a big company with deep pockets and IP lawyers already on retainer that price is just the cost of doing business and an investment of beating the competition. If your an individual $30k for a not sure bet is a hell of a lot of money.

A good friend patented a makeup applicator and she's not sure if she'll ever get that money back.
I've eaten flavoured crickets. They are actually very palatable. Don't know about the pestilence risk, hadn't thought of that.
Yes, these can be framed as concrete problems. But people usually don't start with much clarity in their thought, so it is unlikely that they will be handed to you in such a way.

As for not producing a single concrete reason to try the new framework, there is no reason to believe that the manager didn't. According to the article the manager had just read a blog post on it, that caught the manager's attention enough to spark a conversation. SURELY there was SOMETHING in that article about why it might be a good idea to try React?

We aren't told what points were made, likely because they seemed irrelevant. But I'd bet good money that some were made.
Quite possibly. But since Russia itself is one of those fronts (its tax revenues from oil and gas dropped >30% YoY in July despite high prices), what happens in winter might be More Bad News.
The "meaner" look isn't just about aesthetics, but about physical size, which is increasing. The MacBook analogy seems flawed because the change in the design of the MacBook doesn't actually make it harder for me to avoid killing pedestrians while using it.
I feel like you need to go back and read the comment I'm responding to again, because you have deeply misinterpreted what I'm saying. I'm talking about the things users access, not who they are when they access them.
> This contrasts with say, Bash developers [who] will write for what is actually available on the OSes people are running.

This is obvious, right? Rust is compiled with what you have on your machine, while Bash is interpreted and so depends on the capabilities on the target machine.
Similar attempts occurred b4. Without addressing the real root causes, it will create yet another mess.
They've been developing this technology since 2010. Nobody outside of academia even knew what a blockchain was at the time. The blockchain gives them an easy way to create an immutable sequence of invoice and shipping data that reduced the overhead for freight companies by 20% and reduced their manual reconciliation burden from 70% to less than 1%.

My SO used to work in factoring. She and others would spend every day reconciling invoices and shipping information in order to allow the company she worked for to supply freight haulers with short term business loans. Not only would a lack of reconciliation result in not getting paid immediately, but if enough of these pile up (see the 70% number for manual reconciliations), then you're not going to be able to get a factoring loan either and you're dead in the water until something happens. Because it worked so well, everyone jumped on board almost immediately. Freight carriers are spending 20% less to haul the same goods, and Walmart is spending less trying to reconcile invoices.

Could they have used something else? I guess. But blockchains are pretty much just immutable lists of receipts anyway. They're perfect for the use case.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-TEX-ERCO

Your cheap TX electricity is, unsurprisingly, mostly gas. And if you look at data from 12h ago it was more coal than wind.
Not true for most of the big hitter crates. MSRV is a big thing and I never understood why, but it was recently explained to me it was so the old tool chains in distros could keep compiling, so the big crates tend to bump MSRV very slowly. Obviously, each project owner decides this on their own, so it isn't universally true, but is common practice.
I agree, but none of these trust issues are solved by using blockchai based solutions…
The False Language Dichotomy
With the "try_reserve" stabilizations, does that mean the "allocator_api" is closer to stabilization?
FWIW I got this way thanks to a stint in the sysadmin/support/operations world at the start of my career. I wonder if trying to give juniors similar experiences might help jumpstart the process of getting this kind of intuition.

When you operate software, you realize all the little things a developer can do to make the operator's life much easier or harder. I always thought this was the "true meaning of DevOps" -- thinking of how to make it easy to operate the software at dev/design time, as if it were an old school shrinkwrapped application like Windows 95... but instead it got turned into writing terraform or something haha.
How the look of 'The Simpsons' has changed over three decades of 2D animation
Found this link while i was trying to find out why Simpsons art style has changed so much. I can't stand the modern look and movement in The Simpsons.
AFAIK when you use "send to Kindle", Amazon takes your epub and runs it through Kindlegen (or whatever Amazon's current equivalent is) to create an azw3 on their end. They are not rendering the raw epub - it goes through a black-box conversion before you see it. Thus, all bets are off as to how the "epub" will look on your Kindle. (Indeed, Calibre does a better job converting to azw3 than Kindlegen! That's why we use Calibre when creating azw3 files at Standard Ebooks.)

I won't believe Kindle supports epub until I can transfer an epub via USB cable and have it available to for immediate reading. Anything else is Amazon "supporting" epub with very big air quotes.
So, if the article mentioned {insert product name}, doing mushrooms, drinking and smoking, should I look at it as a possible path for me to achieve great health? Even though all it is, is just some survivorship bias? Should I think about doing those things? Am I wrong for not doing those things?
Yes, they are designed to look mean. That's what the fashion of the larger grill is for.

https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/2020-gmc-sierra-hd-desig...

> ‘Powerful’ and references to powerful things was a theme that the GMC exterior designer referenced multiple times to describe the exterior direction for the 2020 GMC Sierra HD.

> “I remember wanting it to make it feel very locomotive… my first week in Detroit I was driving through downtown and seeing the fist of Joe Louis, and remember thinking that’s what this truck should look like – a massive fist moving through the air.”

or this bit:

> “The front end was always the focal point. The rest of the truck is supporting what the rest of the truck is communicating… we spent a lot of time making sure that when you stand in front of this thing it looks like it’s going to come get you. It’s got that pissed-off feel, but not in a boyish way, still looking mature. It just had to have that imposing look,” explained the GM designer.
Yeah. I was born in 1957 and took my first programming class in 1973, assembly language on a PDP-8. Admittedly I'm not a typical 65 year old.
Maybe the constraints are artificial. From a layman’s perspective it doesn’t seem all that hard. The satellites are already up there, so why would it be any different from providing coverage on land.
I’m just going to point out that Trump said this exact thing and was ridiculed for it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/25/trump-accuse...
@dang Should we instead link to the reddit post boredpanda is regurgitating (and monetizing)?

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/wiltka/
Maybe we just have very different ideas about what aggression looks like, but the average 1980s F-150 looks downright homely to me. It basically comes equipped with a farmer in overalls and a wide-brimmed hat.

The 2022 F-150, on the other hand, has much more front-facing chrome, a much larger (and higher, and therefore dangerous to pedestrians) bumper, and much larger headlights. Some of these are probably good features! But they certainly feel more aggressive to me.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-62352502

> Hampshire Constabulary said, after initially visiting the property, officers agreed to return on Thursday.

> When they returned they were prevented from entering so arrested the 51-year-old suspect so they could interview him about the alleged offence.

> He has since been released and will face no further action.
My HOA is $700…

…per month.
messed up

the future is here, it’s not evenly distributed
Sure, this is how capitalism works after all.

We can dislike a company's business practices despite them being obviously valid and legal.
Perl + Mojo::DOM, or Perl + Playwright or Selenium when JavaScript is required
I don't think it makes much sense to use the latest update dates as any sort of indication for that though, old stuff with updates is still old (e.g. a simple way to think of it, fixing some old radio from the 20s wont make it any less old unless you change the entire mechanism and even then assuming you didn't modify that, the "interface" would still be the same).

It might have been long lived but the overall user experience didn't change much between the original release and the very last release. You can see a screenshot or even a video of the original WinXP and the last WinXP patch and they'd look and feel almost the same.

On a similar note, when people play around with 90s retro PCs, they often install software, patches and drivers released in the early 2000s (or even late 2000s or sometimes recent stuff) - that doesn't make these machines any less "90s PCs" either.
As someone who hadn't heard of either company before today, AccessOwl has an informative website, and your link has a login button without any docs saying why I should bother
Every now and then someone visits from Europe and has an idea of the "day trip" they are going to make. We have to explain to them it will take them 12 hours to drive that in one direction even if it is in the same state and there is no possibility of doing it by rail.

The miles driven are just much different, and much more necessary. Along with that comes the desire to enjoy the time spent in the car/truck.
No, but pointing out something that most people seem to gloss over. It is like reading "startup X raised Y dollar with a Z year old founder" articles and oohing and aahing while misunderstanding the actual circumstances that got them there. It is never about solely the product and idea, HN hates to acknowledge this but you don't raise money without strong connections and network, and it is the same story for science fairs (especially at the pre-undergraduate level). Follow your children to the next state-level science fair and most of the top award winners will have similar backgrounds. Almost always a relative or "family friend" in academia/research who's guiding them, either that or a blank cheque for the children/extremely well funded school clubs.
"economics needs to answer."

Economics is not a science. It's not really possible to apply the scientific method. How we value things has a serious impact too.

Don't get me wrong here. The study of economics is high value and definitely can yield insight we can put to good use, but it's not on par with science in the sense of getting answers.

I would argue the answers we seek lie more along the lines of corruption and how money in politics has empowered large enterprises to shape society to a much larger degree than we can say was generally intended. Surely, carving society into a bunch of what looks like a bunch of fiefdoms impacted growth in a negative way.

Secondly, the lack of effective representation ordinary people see in politics today has not made things better. Corruption has competed very well, pushing the voice of ordinary people, the weight of their concerns, off the table, leaving us all with a poor environment to prosper in.