skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unfortunately, a typical journey involves passing more than 20 cars, which means experiencing at least 1 very close pass

Unfortunately I see it the other way. Asa rule I give cyclists plenty of space when overtaking, even happily sitting behind a slow cyclist on a 60Mph road for 30 seconds to a minute in order to find a safe passing spot.

However the same courtesy is not paid the other way. When in multi lane traffic jams (or even slow traffic on a single lane road) cyclists will fly down the tiny gaps between the cars, often only just wide enough for their handlebars to fit through.
If vehicles at speed need to give such room for an overtake, why doesnt it work the other way around? There are plenty of videos on youtube of bikes going very fast between stationary cars, only to hit a wing mirror and crash.
An extrasolar world covered in water?
It means that, instead of incremental improvements on an idea, these can now be limited to 20 years per step.
> most of the hard problems were solved in 1960 to 1980

Yes, if you're talking about sorting algorithms and similar. But there are, of course, still many, many even harder problems waiting to be solved. Harder, because they are compound, and more complex. There's still need for top talent. But it's true that most "ordinary" businesses do not need those types of programmers.
Thunderbird isn’t almost abandonware.

It literally was abandonware for several years.

It was only recently resurrected by 1-2 devs a few years ago and they’ve had to rebuild the community, funding and contributor support.

The fact that Thunderbird worked perfectly well even while being abandonware is a testament to Thunderbird and email.

I think the last part they really need to get completed is separation from the Firefox code. We’re already seeing accelerating delivery of features which should hopefully improve.
Not the OP, but I could imagine a system where instead of paying money, a sender might have to calculate a certain number of hashes. In this way, mining on a blockchain would be a substitute for actual payment.

There are many other problems with this (not least of which being the amount of energy required now just to send a message).
Agreed. And I own a Tesla and am in the “FSD” beta. It’s nowhere near ready. There is absolutely no way in hell it was even a thing when he first started promising it given the current state.

And there’s incredibly small chances this system will actually work given the limited sensor set in the car, and especially with the removal of the radar (which is not them “cleaning up the data”, it is 100% entirely due to supply chain issues).

It’s a great car, and I applaud them for making various major advances in the automotive space including the push for EVs and OTA updates. But FSD is a pipe dream and won’t be anywhere near full self driving in the next decade. And other manufacturers are quickly catching up to the current public feature set.
Censorship and ostracism are themselves thousands of years old. Of course they work.
I concur.

I loved staying up late and playing games, reading, coding, watching films, whatever.

When I had kids, I had to start waking up earlier. So I decided to go all in and switch to early-down/early-up, and it changed a lot of things in my life.

The biggest change was not working on or doing things I love while super tired and pushing through it anyway just because I love it.
This is pretty funny. Also, you've misspelled journalist.
> Vote for politicians who promise punishing bike theft with multi-year prison sentences

Please don't - this is typical 'tough on crime' trick: promise long sentences, so easy - longer sentence-less crime, right? Wrong. Sentenses are useless if no-one ever gets caught. Look at countries with the toughest sentenses in the world, and you will find they have loads of crime

You actually have to use your brain, and think and plan, on how to make sure criminals are caught. You have to take real action like training investigators, installing trackers, registering property, etc.

For example in UK concervatives have been in power for 12 years, punishment got much harsher but crime is growing because they have cut police numbers, and you chance of getting caught is ~0%. The longer people get away with crime, the better they become at crime. Now we have a large 'talent pool' of highly trained thieves.
I did this a couple of years ago. Nothing bad happened.
I mean in a way its right. One then need to go for professional companies, sign profession contracts, pay professional service fee and real professional sounding software
That depends on the way it is linked. If it's linked causally in the opposite direction, your advice is quite dangerous. Meaning that if higher per capita head injuries are causing more helmet wearing in sub populations (maybe because they see more news about deadly injuries), than your advice is for people in those sub populations to not wear their helmets.

So it's relevant information, but the direct effect of "wearing a helmet cuts the risk of serious head injury by 60% and a deadly brain injury by 71%" is more important information.
Algorithms of AI can generate images or videos based on a set of parameters or it can create new images by combining and altering existing images.
But the point is about the quality of the product, not the financial size or userbase of the company. Isn't it possible to have the (impressive) attribute of size while simultaneously making a bad product?

What about Myspace? $800m in revenue from 115m users. The classic 'good product' story, right?
It’s only uncommon because people know they can get higher bids in the open market, and use a broker to facilitate deals. If housing prices weren’t always going up, that could change.
What would happen if you spent a couple of bucks on cheap facebook ads on first year?
> The most common angle of attack is territorial: "get off _my_ road".

Yeah, but why do you think it's your road when in a car, especially when the same attitude exists in places without the tax, or with drivers cars that are exempt, or hell, if you've just not bothered paying it? My bet is it's nothing to do with ~£100 of tax, and everything to do with not wanting to admit you were misled by advertisers into thinking spending tens of thousands of your hard-earned cash on something you thought would give you effortless, fast, convenient transport.
The technology that makes you sound more American and whiter
It's probably mostly a poverty issue. Poor people have more difficulty affording a car. This forces them to walk and bike, even in areas where the infrastructure makes it unsafe to do so (areas like this are ubiquitous in US cities).

Black people in the US, due to a wide variety of systemic issues, are more likely to be poor. Which means that issues of poverty are more likely to affect black people.
As a driver of an oversized vehicle I am always paranoid about driving in the city and almost never do it in my truck. If you walk in front of my truck I literally cannot see you. The tires are almost 4 ft tall and it is easily possible to simple drive over smaller cars. I keep this diesel monstrosity where it belongs, out in nature off roading and buying groceries in my local suburb.
I live in an area that is sparsely populated and has hard winters, oftentimes plowing isn't going to happen soon if it happens on the day of a snow storm. I also have several children that I need to transport to various places.

I have yet to find a mini-van that is able to handle appropriately in the snow and conditions I am likely to face, and a smaller vehicle can't carry my family.

Just because you can't think of a reason doesn't mean someone who does something you disagree with is morally deficient.
Do images taken during solar eclipses count?
The etymology is from "letters patent", i.e. a public description of how the invention works. The social contract here is that the inventor gives up the details to the public, in exchange for temporary exclusive use rights granted by the public.
Spending less time with Facebook is a positive step towards better mental health, not a virtue signal.
Ha, yeah, sure it is
> Otherwise they just read your slides and put their brain in park.

I believe this is the point of the strategy. Imagine the presenter is hired in as a consultant, but the audience are the ones footing the bill without any knowledge of the actual work, timeline, etc. involved.

All they want is a white dude in a shirt, tie and suit to talk a lot and sound smart. The easier it is to convince the audience of that, the more suitable to purpose the presentation is.
Start journalling your growth from this point onwards. Write down what you want to learn, what you want to accomplish. Then take steps every day towards your goals in your journal.

Write down your side project ideas and work on projects that improve your skills.

The idea of journalling is to get yourself to be reflective and adaptive to your situation.

Edit: write goals that are achievable and that you think you think aren't. Why both? Over time some of your goals shall look different. You can bank on gradual progress. Everyone has the same 24 hours a day, try use them on things you enjoy and that work toward your goals.
The Inflation Reduction Act Does Little to Reduce Climate Change
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Have you thought of working for a different company? Maybe a different technology? It sounds like you've been pigeon holed and you don't like it. You can leave for another.

I got my bachelor's degree almost 15 years ago, and never once have I wanted to get a master's degree. Only do it if you have an extremely good reason to, as it doesn't have much market value over a bachelor's.

Becoming a software architect comes with experience, and credentials usually come in the form of industry or platform certifications, not degrees.

Don't worry about learning potential work related things or tech projects outside of work. That's your time, not your employer's time. Go outside, touch grass, and feel sunshine.
If you only have apple clients (iOS, ipadOS, tvOS and macOS) you can try infuse. Its only a client, so you need to store your files somewhere (icloud, gdrive, you NAS) but it can then play all kinds of files and sync progress between different instances of it self. If you dont want transcoding on the server and only uses apple devices for playback it IMHO works much much better than real plex.

It can also play at being a plex client to provide better playback options than the official plex app.
Needle Engine
Maybe it’s just me but it seems irresponsible to move your entire team to a programming language none of them knows.

Rust is great, but modern C++ is great too.
In the coming years, MERN Stack is highly to be used extensively since more and more applications are now built in JavaScript. It is the most sought-after language that serves both the front-end and the back-end side, doing away with the need for context switching.
We Need To Talk About The NYTimes Quality Decline (and what you can do to stop it)
https://archive.ph/Yra4u

"If you plug the predicted emissions decline into the climate model used for all major United Nations climate reports, it turns out the global temperature will be cut by only 0.0009 degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century. This is assuming the law’s emission reductions end when its funding does after 2030. But even if you charitably assume they’ll somehow be sustained through 2100 without any interruption, the impact on global temperature will still be almost unnoticeable, at 0.028 degree Fahrenheit.

The law will similarly have little effect on the sea level. A model that calculates changes in ocean levels predicts waters will be somewhere between 0.006 and 0.08 inch lower in 2100 than they would have been without the Inflation Reduction Act.

To reach even this minuscule climate impact, the law would have to be kept intact over the rest of the decade, across four more Congresses and two presidential terms. Given the $369 billion price tag on the act’s climate policies, it’s hard to imagine the Inflation Reduction Act surviving a Republican majority. It might not even survive sustained Democratic rule."
Yeah it’s a design trade off. Buyers prefer the aggressive look of large grills but that shape decreases visibility and is more likely to kill pedestrians on impact. That trade off is pretty well known. Without government regulations there is little value to car manufacturers to design vehicles that don’t kill pedestrians on impact so they choose designs optimized to sell that also kill more.

There was a recent case where a vehicle designed for the European market actually had the pedestrians protection hood design stripped off and replaced with more aggressive and deadly styling for the US market.
I don't think this is accurate. The "no income tax, high sales tax" tax structure in TN/FL/TX/etc is intended to make sure poor people are paying high tax rates even when they aren't making much money. Thus somebody who makes less (and is forced to spend most of their money buying basic "things" needed to get by) will spend a higher percentage of their overall earnings on taxes than in states with lower sales tax.

In regressive tax states, tax revenue "per capita" may be lower (because you're leaving a lot of money on the table - you're letting the rich take home more) and you've de-facto shifted the tax burden to people who have less money to begin with. So a large percentage of the population ends up paying more in taxes - the people who make less and use most of their income for purchases - while the high income earners pay less. You simultaneously reduce the money available for government programs while penalizing the people who need those programs more.

Note: people on HN are likely to be the "high income" earners who benefit from such a tax regime. If you're looking to work remotely and are optimizing to this level - i.e., you are seeking out regressive tax regions so you can pocket more money - you might want to consider whether this is a moral choice you actually feel comfortable with.
Parent's idea is called Web of Trust and it does work, but it doesn't have wide adoption for exactly this reason. For the average person it's too much work to curate their network, or to "debug" the chain of trust that let some spam slip by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
Quiet Quitting and the Death of Office Culture
> Really quite easy.

“Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”

Is there a detailed writeup on this? This sounds great, but I don't want to faff about with it.
Because preferences. I use Emby and Kodi and generally I prefer Emby's UI.
Also; no dudes, dude? Aww.
Blocking the senders simply files the emails under the Spam label.

I'm currently trying to get rid of them by filtering the messages. I do

Settings --> Full settings --> Filters and Blocked Addresses

Create a new Filter

Add the display name or similar to the 'Includes the Words' field

Create Filter

Select 'Delete it'
This Website leaks geo coordinates and email of people
If you covered your ceiling (and wall which transmit sound) with such boxes, it would.
French oil giant Total supplies a refinery making Russian military jet fuel
Bonus round: Use WhatsApp and get everyone you know off Facebook Messenger (and pretend they're not the same company)
Facebook for actual one on one friendships sounds like overkill. Facebook for a small
business to have a website sounds fine. And keeping in touch with large swaths of people who live far from you can be tricky, I guess you can use Facebook for that. I’d rather just not deal with anything beyond a few people on a group chat, and text messages seem fine for that.
A Preview of Raptor Lake’s Improved L2 Caches – Chips and Cheese
The case you refer to (Cariou v. Prince) is also a case where part of the artwork is reproduced verbatim :)
IM sucks hard. IM used to be great when it was based on open protocols so you could download Trillian on Windows or Adium on Mac and choose your client and communicate across a wide variety of protocols from the same context.

Now you have to download and run massive resource hogging apps like Team and Slack to simply communicate on 2 protocols.
Infuse.
And, if you can save 'snapshots' of a given fuzzmap to detect potential regressions and / or changes in general to the flow.
I was on an ebike doing 32km/h in a 30 zone and cars keep overtaking me

The entitlement of car drivers in unbelievable, they feel like they own the ourdoor space, park on sidewalk, and the only reason we havent paved every forest and ocean is their mercy
Has anyone ever called you a “radical centrist”?
> move fast and break things

This is basically the same philosophy as "Worse is Better" (in contrast to "Do the Right Thing") and it's how UNIX and C took over "like a computer virus".

I'd say Facebook has succeeded in that "viral" aspect, unfortunately for society. Apparently, their broken interface is good enough for a lot of people.

Their software development philosophy is not the reason why Facebook is falling apart. It's their lack of vision, lack of respect, decency, human values, care and social responsibility.
A good takeaway from this whole thing will be that despite crypto largely being marketed as decentralized and uncensorable, in reality >50% of the validation power is in the hands of private equity and miners who will bend at the first sign of financial and legal risk.
I found it. It's a five part series by Adam Westbrook called Parallax.

https://youtu.be/42XcN52xEfU
Hmm, in Harry Potter "wizards" seems to describe the entire human magical society, so I don't think they are using this sort of classification.

A good name for someone who only casts spells could be a magician on a conjurer.

On the other hand, when telling a story, I think it makes sense to make it so that the main character is a wizard just because it has the most cultural cachet. And most people don't want a story about debugging. So either we could be skipping over their day-job debugging (most programmers also have decent computer skills as a side-effect, so when the village is attacked by goblins it makes sense that some wizard would suddenly be flexing their more directly applicable skills). Or wizard could be something broad, like "general STEM person," and the main character is in some applied subfield. Or the magic creators could have some other job title (Mage, although that sounds a little generic for some reason... Sorcerer among people who are into games is sometimes mapped too closely to the wizard/sorcerer distinction from D&D, but not every magic system has to follow D&D tropes and it does have a good pun built in... or something like spell-weaver could be made up).
I dug it up, see parent
I used Adsense. Only spent $200 or so but could only get a single signup or two. TBH I haven't used ads since and prefer word of mouth.
Worse in what way?

worse for car manufacturers, sure

worse for lazy people, sure

worse for pollution?

worse for cities?

Following your train of thought everything new is inherently better in every aspects, which is far from true when you start digging

Cars became so widespread that we underestimate the innumerable problems they cause, it's like telling an heroin addict he was happier before he started being an addict...
We have rethought it extensively. There are proposals in every major city and probably nearly every neighborhood for improved street designs. But enough of those who drive through those neighborhoods oppose those improvements that they rarely happen.

It’s easy for a driver to assign themself responsibility to “drive safely” - and hard to admit that we take constant risks that sometimes result in harm. Accepting that we need new street designs is taken as a personal affront by many drivers.

I think the only way to solve this is to take street design decisions (and funding for safety improvements) out of the hands of governments - there’s no level of local gov that is immune from the backlash. But how do we do that without some horrible other outcomes?
I probably would have given this a full-throated endorsement just a couple years ago, but after years of improving safety standards that drove down the number of automobile fatalities, we've seen two years of massive increases (7% in 2020 and then 10% last year [0]). And that pairs nicely with my anecdotal experience, which is that people have lost their fucking minds on the roads. (And also, more controversially, coincides (with utter predictability, in my view) with a massive drop in traffic stops by law enforcement.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
Right, but if you didn't build the mountain there would be no tours.
Yes. If you have 3 kids and 2 are in the booster seat category, which some agencies recommend until they are 4'9" (145 cm), which some kids may not reach until 12 or older. You cannot fit 3 large booster seats in a Golf, or at least not comfortably.

I personally doubt the necessity of booster seats for older children at all but that's another topic all together.
It seems that you are missing a creative outlet in your current role so it would be wise to find it in a new role.

Uninstall Dota 2.
It's hard but you can do it.
Channel that creative energy into a side project, an instrument or whatever else you find fulfilling.
Furthering your studies is also a good idea but be prepared for the marathon that comes with it.
You can always ask them. My guess is that after 9 months and 200k images they went with what they had.

https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/wtl9fj/two_years_ago...
That's uniquely interesting. Curious.
One examples of this is back translation [0]

It works fairly well as model size increases

Also, shameless plug, we're pretty proud of our generated anything's at Gretel[1]. It's tabular, text, and time series for now - but we recently had a blog post that shows how generated data can be useful for downstream ML [2]

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05448

[1] https://gretel.ai/

[2] https://gretel.ai/blog/how-to-safely-work-with-another-compa...
> React has its roots in StandardML

Really? This is fascinating, is there anywhere with more on this?
I genuinely don't understand what you mean. Are you saying that the man in that case suffered negative consequences because others perceived him negatively? I would argue that, in the end, others perceived him positively, as evidenced by the fact that there are news articles lauding him.

Edit: Seems like I've maxed out the conversation tree depth so I'll reply via edit. I absolutely agree, and I think it's therefore important to educate people and let them know that this has never happened and, if it did, the legal system would have their back.

I'm not saying I don't believe the medic above, I'm sure people make accusations. And if you're performing CPR all the time, having a partner with you absolutely makes sense for more reasons than one. However, there is no evidence that any of those claims has ever gone anywhere, or that it's a relevant issue for us non-medical people who are unlikely to perform CPR more than once in our lives.
I haven't used my oculus cv1 since they added a non-oculus account requirement. A shame, really. Computers are finally getting to a point where driving a cv1 is a pleasant experience.
In the case of Teams, I think they regret choosing Electron.

A Xamarin app doesn't need to use XML or Xamarin Forms which provides UI components. A totally custom interface/game can be developed with Xamarin + SkiaSharp which provides drawing primitives.
I liked the article. The author seems to have the same attitudes and preferences about software that I do. But, does Wired have a policy that forbids linking to anything that’s not another Wired article? The piece contains only two hyperlinks, both pointing to Wired. One of the main points of the Web is that it’s a web of information. Every piece of software he talks about has a web page, and plenty of good articles and tutorials about it; there are certainly other interesting articles talking about the issues the author talks about. Why does Wired hate the web?