skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a coincidence the law conveniently incentivizes vehicles with larger profit margins.

Also, it's a fine excuse, basically consumers avoiding responsibility for their own choices. `But it's the Fed's fault!` The size of current trucks and SUVs are completely sociopathic in most urban environments. Certainly because they're dangerous to other road users (as the current rise in fatalities bear out). And, if you wish, because they contribute excessively to carbon emissions. These vehicles don't purchase themselves.

We're trapped in a large vehicle arms race (cars are getting bigger too). Yes, at some level that has to do with ego, or at least, an atrophied sense of civic duty and responsibility.
All vehicles tend to become bigger. Check any model year over year over year.

The problem isn't that the F150 is getting bigger, the problem is that the F050 hasn't come into the picture. (Arguably the Maverick may be an attempt here).
Many people feel that launching the rocket is just the end of the tutorial. I think this is the same crowd that installs power armor/roboport starting mods and sneers at Satisfactory because it doesn't have bots. There is a split here into the group that plays mostly vanilla and goes for extreme scale and the group that plays fuck you tech tree mods like bobangel, krastorio, or pyanodon if you really have a lot of time.
I can't tell who is creating/sponsoring this...

Without some institutional sponsors I have a hard time seeing this getting adopted--presumably you need cybersecurity companies to adopt the standard.

Edit: it looks like maybe AWS, based on the contributors!

Edit 2: Here we go: https://github.com/ocsf/governance/blob/main/Maintainers.md

* AWS

* Sumo Logic

* Rapid7

* Splunk

* Trend Micro

* IBM

* Tanium

* IronNet
I am sorry, I didn't understand anything of that. You are jumping from HTTP requests to AI models to micro transactions. Real world is much more than API calls.
Supreme commander has cheating AIs that will waffle stomp you seconds after the no-rush timer if that is what you are looking for.
Well, so the solution should be to put the same regulations on bigger cars as well. Another thing is that I don't really see almost any pickups in Europe. Why do Americans love them so much?
Yes, the plugs are next to each other. And a mains tester is happy with the mains output.
I did read it, and the intent of the article is to discourage people everywhere from using non-industrial food sources. I will take my chances with farmed eggs because the balance of probabilities are that this will not be the dangerous part of my life, and the alternative is accepting the admonitions of people with insincere agendas.

Further, I like how it is on skeptics to maintain the high quality tone of a discussion, but the hegemons are somehow not accountable to conventions around civility, wit, and clarity. It's like some people have some kind of luxury-stupidity whereby someone whose opinions aren't officially protected can't afford to be that petulant.

Another commenter here observed it's a war on nitrogen with protein as a casualty, which is pretty consistent given aligned climate change initiatives.
I am not completely sure, but it appears to be a one-time charge for an initial three-year subscription.

I have no idea whether GM is also making some not-quite-essential but both simple and useful features only accessible with an ongoing subscription, but I have my opinion as to whether it will do so, if it is not doing so already. Plenty of other manufacturers do this.
These same reasons could basically apply to the folks buying huge Sprinter vans instead of smaller minivans or lightweight delivery vans.

When I was a kid in the 90s, the Suburban was the vehicle people bought for these reasons. I’ve assumed the Sprinter was this generation’s Suburban.
Pick an average US headline; does it even mention US?

The local context bias is here to stay.
I don’t know for sure what will work, but they don’t seem to be trying anything other than forcing Elon to buy them out as hard as they can
You’ll be happy to know that pickups are actually more dangerous for their driver. Mostly because they’re more likely to spin out or roll over.
Seems they do, more or less. I once had a GM vehicle where the OnStar system (not activated) would occasionally fail to turn off and drain the battery overnight. Although, once I discovered the source of the problem yanking the fuse made it go away.
I don't have a big truck but I also don't remotely think it's a "problem" that some people do.
That's the synopsis of the article shared here.
Read the book Distributed Services in Go. You implement a complex micro service oriented commit log like Kafka. The code is beautiful and the author created Kafka.
How much longer until buying a new non-subscription car becomes like buying a new non-smart TV?
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German here. The causes of Germany's sky high electricity prices are not the Ukraine war.

A large part of the current spot price hike is the French bet on going all-in on nuclear: first, half the reactors is offline because they are simply broken down - they bet on Flamanville to replace parts of the extremely aged fleet which infamously failed. Then, the drought led to rivers drying up which means the reactors that are operational simply cannot get cooled, which led to a further reduction in capacity right when AC demands a lot of power, which in turn led to the French buying a shitload of capacity from Germany, and our spare capacity is mostly gas peaker plants since we phased out many coal stinkers over the last year.

The second part is regulatory... the fees that have to be paid for by everyone other than heavy industry for modernizing the grid and build out renewables are a large part, as well as the taxes that add on top of that.

And the last part is that states like Bavaria did their very best to impede the build-out of renewable energies (especially wind farms) and, worse, transit lines that could ship cheap North Sea wind energy to Bavaria - that led to an oversupply in the North where wind and solar have had to tune out because the energy could not be transferred to where it's needed.
This is an interesting theory, but there's a way to test it: if it's true that trucks have gotten bigger to avoid the light truck definition, we should see a proliferation of light trucks just long enough to avoid the classification.

[Edit: I originally cited 280cm as the wheelbase cut-off from [1], but on a re-read, it's more complicated; see below.]

The best-selling vehicles:

F-series pickup[2]: 392cm

Dodge Ram[3]: 367cm

Chevy Silverado[4]: 373cm

Correction/Edit: The relevant definition for a light truck is based on a number of criteria which relate to the wheelbase but don't actually specify it. If someone wants a fun trig problem, you could determine whether these vehicles are designed to be just long enough to satisfy the requirements listed here [5].

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...

[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/ford/f-150

[3] https://carsauthority.com/2023-dodge-ram/#:~:text=2023%20Dod....

[4] https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/silverado-1500/specs/...

[5] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...
What people dont realize is that leetcode problem style testing is a very eastern/asian approach to hiring. Memorization for a test with a large body of problems ends up selecting for people that grew up in those cultures....
That would be a nice thing to try sometime. Of course neither side is very consistent about that.
You know, you can just eat lentils, beans, peas, rice, wheat, fresh vegetables, olive oil, and so on? Like, right now. It's very affordable, and you don't need to shop from Amazon or install an app for it.

Your comment is such a hot take that it could heat up a hot air balloon.
It has some preinstalls that make onboarding more straightforward (and opinionated of course). These include MicroG (takes care of some Google services dependencies, should some apps need it), an App store which fronts Google Play, a navigation app. Updates are possible from within the system. With their Advanced Privacy app, you can block trackers in apps (TrackerControl fork I believe), fake your device location, or force all network traffic through Tor.
Insanely disingenuous to conflate "55 Sydney urban gardens" with "backyard" hens. This should be flagged.
Even if it was, they could be objectively worse. For example, because they are more likely to be involved minor accidents. (Think of the well-known example of low-weight births having better survival rates for smoking mothers.)
Maybe articles like https://www.infoq.com/articles/build-a-container-golang/ could help? Basically learn how to build a simple one.
I decided that I wanted to own at some point in my life every type of vehicle except a mini van. When my crossover got totaled by a deer last December I decided it was time to buy an F150 as my first pickup. Before y’all crucify me for this:

1. I live on a gentleman’s farm and actually do use this vehicle for transporting construction materials and such. That bed is rarely empty.

2. I work from home and ride my motorcycle year round. My bike gets great mph compared to even electric hybrids. My truck is used for transporting stuff that needs a truck to transport or for short runs to get kids to/from school or camp on occasion.

With that, Ford walked away from making cars. They now make crossovers, SUVs, and trucks specifically because nobody was buying cars. I have read a bunch about why and mainly it comes down to the fact that cars are just not desirable anymore. The form factor isn’t fun or fashionable, you sit on a skateboard compared to everyone else on the road, and they feel cheap. They are absolutely the economical option the same way that 50cc scooters are, but they are not an option that people actually want. You can’t convince people to buy that little cab Subaru from TFA for the same reason: it just isn’t an aspirational vehicle. I think we will see most of that form factor die out in the next 30 years in favor of hatchback crossovers and small pickups like the Ford Maverick (which by all means looks like a car replacement).
I don't know. While I'm not completely against the points the OP is making, something about this statement "you should go into meetings only if you know in advance what their outcomes will be," really rubs me wrong.

In my view, in a healthy organization, the meeting itself should be a point of collaboration. Otherwise it's a waste of time. This culture of behind-the-scenes-go-betweens also creates a lot of opportunity for opacity and malicious miscommunication (deceit).

Meetings are not the only collaboration point, probably not even the most effective. OP's advice is good advice for increasing communication and building consensus leading up to a meeting, especially if done with an eye towards transparency, as I assume they intend. Ideally you're able to get everyone aligned beforehand and can cancel the meeting. But if someone walks into a meeting blindsided by a predetermined outcome, that's a red flag that you've created an adversarial environment rather than a collaborative one. If a colleague is important enough to be in the meeting then their opinion is an important enough to affect the meeting.
As someone doing management in a company that hires many Indian workers, both in on-shore and off-shore teams, this is a highly relevant topic for me.

I'm a native western european so I'm likely blind to some extend for these issues. Like the article says, this sounds like harmful class-ism that silences or disadvantages specific groups, but not in an "obviously" racist manner based on skin color.

Anyone care to share some real life experience? Was this a problem in your workplace? How did you detect this was going on, at all?
The more I read about car subscriptions and the "connected" nature of current and upcoming vehicles the more inclined I am to keep my current car running until parts for it are literally unobtainable.
What a sadly ignorant, bigoted and unrealistic world view. This statement reminds me of the era when all gay men were treated as suspected pedophiles.

There are more guns in America than people. 99.99999% of guns will never be used in a crime. An American who buys a car is far more likely to hurt someone with their car than someone who buys a gun is to hurt someone with that gun.

Most gun owners use them to target shoot as a hobby, or hunt deer. Some people also consider them a supplement to locks on their doors as home protection.
"I've cut the antennas out of hardware that is part of a subscription software package I'm still paying for"
Whoops meant “aren’t”
> The energy cost gap between US and Europe are going to get bigger.

Only briefly. The fracking boom is basically over:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/01/1027822/fracking...

We're presently running a good portion of our heating and electricity via the cheap gas that the fracking boom unlocked but that's going to taper off pretty quickly over the next decade. Because fracking was never a long-term solution.

Here's what's probably going to happen: Places like Europe will be investing heavily in renewable energy and locking in long-term contracts to get things like solar panels and wind turbine blades. Meanwhile the US will continue "business as usual" thanks to the largely for-profit power sector that only looks at next quarter. Then as the cheap gas from fracking runs out the US will be screwed and have the same problem that Europe is currently having.
Transit lines even in Germany are already at capacity, and the French are buying up whatever capacity they can because of their nuclear foolishness.
Or, just use gallium instead of boron as the dopant.
Also safety ratings are only with respect to other vehicles in the same class. Great ratings for a sedan don't say anything about how well it will perform head-on against an F-150.
Not sure if it’s the intent but a large vehicle carrying a trailer with 10,000lbs. Is much more efficient than a small vehicle that might need to make 5 or 10 trips to move the same load. In that sense, the larger vehicle is more fuel efficient.
>failure mode after an escape

What does this mean?
Do we want FAANG employees? From what I'm reading here great people started these companies and we've had 20 years of sleepy civil service style meeting people. They sound like they might fit at a bank but not at any company that needs to produce?
Same reasoning for my wife and I. We imported a full size truck from the US when we got our kid.
because this is an American company and American cultural norms should be expected
As far as I am concerned cities of 1m or more people should not allow any cars to enter. Delivery trucks and public transit should do it. Yes it will make cities more expensive. It’ll also make them a whole lot more pleasant.
They haven't done that so far, and the predecessors were getting plenty of traction (CyanogenMod, LineageOS). Neither have they controlled the alternative Chromium distributions too much. Nevertheless, the project depends on Google on the long term.
I remember that when these standards were revised some german car manufacturers warned the EPA that they favor larger vehicles and will have an adverse effect of what was intended.
Absolutely my inspiration. Mentioned in the blog post.
Wouldn't make much sense to restrict it to living things in the case of a truck though, since they're specifically designed to haul things other than passengers. Seems like a good heuristic apart from that though.
Yes it is just used as an easier to setup manage and dispose of chroot. Which I believe is also a perfect use of docker. It is not all about isolation, sometimes you just want to be able to experiment and go back easily. Sure there are filesystems that allow you to take snapshots but not everybody use these for various reasons.
I just read that a whole base went up in flames near Moscow.
Congratulations on the launch. How do you compare to Tunza (https://tunza.co)?
Well, I don't want to lecture you about your country's history, so please don't take it the wrong way - but IIRC, the Ceaușescu regime was showing signs of fatigue in 1989 - and during that year, the wind of change was blowing pretty strong in CEE Europe.

I would claim that current Russia isn't comparable, I don't see signs that the regime is severely weakened and the security apparatus would stay neutral.
As always it's the Germans that get things right. Their class of high performance (200+ hp) 4x4 high clearance station wagons are just brilliant family cars. Think audi all road, insignia country tourer, Small-ish compared to the truck, you can cram a lot of stuff in them, relatively nimble and fun to drive, safe and can take on surprisingly challenging dirt roads. Unless you are construction worker or the like - probably most us SUV could be replaced by them. Of course they are the most unsexy and uncool cars there are
Doubtful. It's more to do with population density, climate, and concentration of services.
> Grandmas are 70-90, not 50.

To a reasonable approximation:

- Grandmothers of infants are between the ages of 40 and 80
- Grandmothers of HN commenters are between the ages of 55 and (dead for decades)

> I work with many folks around 50 and most of them are functionally technologically illiterate

Most people of all ages are functionally technologically illiterate.

Many people around 50 are functionally literate in different technologies than you are. Those may be less relevant, or merely invisible to you as a user.
People always mention the pizza but I don't think it's that good to be honest, for some reason the crust is always soft and the toppings are so basic that makes domino's look a million times better. The meat and asado really are great though
I drive a Honda CR-V, and the thing that bothers me is that, even in an SUV, I CAN'T SEE AROUND THESE THINGS. I almost got hit pulling out of a parking space because you literally can't see past the front end of these monsters without sticking your nose out of the space.

I was traveling down the interstate not long ago, and had one of these new trucks to my left, and a semi tractor to my right. The front end of the truck was a FOOT higher than the semi. (These trucks has all the design finesse of a brick with a cutout for a bed.) I presume that the auto makers justify the ridiculous sight lines with all-around cameras and warning sirens or something.

I've long been a "hey, you do you" kind of person when it comes to vehicles and emissions, but I really, really resent this trend. I think it creates unnecessary hazards.

Also, have fun with paying for the gas, and good luck finding parking spaces.
> I highly doubt GitLab could’ve achieved nearly as much people even if they charged $1.

Good! The less adoption of these productized solutions, the more self-hosted instances there will be. The less attractive browser signup flow is, the more attractive download this VM image or run this Ansible (etc) playbook becomes.

These companies are running a bait and switch where they draw users in with ease of getting started, and then gradually turn up the restrictions and extraction while friction keeps users from moving away. Your appeal basically boils down to Gitlab being the underdog to Github which did this despicable thing first.

These companies are a pox on the efforts of free software. Recently, Github proactively disabled the accounts of anybody that contributed to a piece of software used by a sanctioned entity, never mind their numerous repository takedowns over the years. The discussions are full of people arguing to what degree the lawyers had to do that, while basically accepting the top-down control as a foregone conclusion. That's one hell of an attractive nuisance to the detriment of software freedom.
Every living organism that doesn't have photosynthesis may be seen in some way as a parasite.

Every individual live in something like an ecosystem. I would argue that society is part of the ecosystem for humans.

Whether or not (or in what cases) one individual should be forced to give up resources to another will be a never-ending discussion. Should government money be used for development aid abroad? For social welfare domestically? Are you responsible for caring for your parents? Your sibling? Your children? Is a mother responsible for providing her biological resources to an unborn child?

We may never come to permanent, full agreement on most of these questions.
It's your tiny car a Honda Jazz? (I think it's called "Fit" in the US)
Firstly, i am developing my own ideas all the time on this.

I would suggest that people who want to make a difference with money do so on a local level. If they can create a local eden then perhaps someone else will notice and create another one locally where they are. It's kind of like small scale experiments which you can test and the ones that work will naturally be extended for little or no extra money.
Aren't most of the absurdly rich people in California white people? To me it seems like Asians in SF as a race are more in a middle to upper middle "professional" class, hardly the group of people to fix very hard social issues such as homelessness.
I would recommend that you upgrade to a Marauder produced by the Paramount Group:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoRmT0iRic
According to the IIHS, trucks had worse occupant fatality rates throughout automotive history until about 10 years ago, but have had lower rates than cars since then.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/passe...
Eastern religious actually talk a lot about material pleasures and how they are harmful. Both Buddhism and Hinduism are very much against "showing off" or "accumulating wealth". In fact, Buddhism clearly says - "Desire is the root cause of all sufferings". That said, most immigrants from Asia are used to seeing poverty and homelessness everywhere, so it probably just feels like the extension of that in the west. Also Hindu text talks about - कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥ २-४७ - which literally means you only have right to perform your duty (karma) you have no right to expect the fruit of your duty (karma). This whole bastardised definition of "karma" doesn't fit with the values that I was brought up with.

(Disclaimer: I grew up Hindu in India, but I am no longer religious, I would identify myself as atheist/agnostic/rationalist/freethinker.)
New poster with a name like E675347734 and tired rhetoric
On HN users are in fact expected to modify titles which are misleading or clickbaity, without resorting to editorialization.

This would include for example, changing an article from a Florida news source saying "diabetes epidemic out of control" to "Florida reports highest level of diabetes in its history" (these are completely made up).
Funny that in Germany even a Model Y is already so big that it can be cumbersome to park it in the cities :)