skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the argument is which perspective you take. From the internal observe perspective, you actually have to do the thing for the thing to get done. Yes you need individuals.

If you take an external observer perspective that collectively internal and external pressures cause individuals with talent and drive to go and tackle that problem.

For example, even if you personally did absolutely nothing, Apple will still collectively create some new fangled device with new features, new performance etc etc. That’s literally true of every human endeavor - no person is doing it alone regardless of how pivotal they may seem. So then the question is “how pivotal is Musk personally”. Certainly Tesla existed outside of him but I think his accomplishment there was to make EV cars sexy and grow that industry from nothing despite headwinds. Would it have happened without him? Not sure. I’m not as bullish as the author given how Tesla really was a motivating force for them to get the show on the road and government regulations in the space are a joke (vs what is actually needed) and even still manufacturers are dragging their feet.

So I think the author is right that “it would have happened anyway” but wrong about the scale of the specific impact Musk has had through Tesla.
Of course they are, everybody is free to do whatever it pleases to them, but this was not my point.

In some cases is an allotment, is a borrow. In other not. The dealerships aren't borrowing cars from the maker, they are "forced" to buy those cars from the maker with their own money, and they resell the cars later to recover the money. Is called a "zero Km" car. The maker is selling the dealership X cars each year, and they are thousands of dealerships in each country, so the maker has thousands of sold cars guaranteed even before the car is the market. Official dealerships are lending money to the brands all the time.
Love this.

Curious how you chose the default 8 stations? This is obviously super nitpicky but WERS deserves the Boston spot over WHRB IMO. Yeah, Emerson isn't exactly a powerhouse school, but their radio station is a legitimate player in a major radio market in a way that most college radio stations (Harvard's included) aren't. Definitely more important in Boston than WHRB is.

That aside, I'll two stations to your list: my former home station, WRBB, in lovely Boston, Massachusetts, and WMBR across the river in Cambridge.
Even bigger issue is Musk using his position of power to criticize Twitter staff publicly and if they defend themselves the fires them.
If you are reading it, yes. If you say it out loud, it sounds like “no va”.
Assuming that a "car length" is always equal to the length of a car is the unsafe bit. A car length is simply the minimum safe follow distance based on weather, traffic, and speed. To my mind it has almost nothing to do with the literal length of a car.
Good to know! I'm also considering the Schenker[0] with 99wh battery, or the Starbook[1] as they seem to be linux friendly

[0]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Schenker-Vision-14-Laptop-in-r...

[1]: https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starbook
I was really tempted to buy a new Mac but there are still lots of gotchas my colleagues had to solve, so I decided to wait. Pushing ARM64 to developer machines still seems like a rushed decision imo, and it definitely shifted resources into building and supporting ARM64, resources that Apple doesn't necessarily pay for.
At the end of the day, for me it matters how fast I can do a certain task and how much spare time I have left after I finish it.

Docker example: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/troubleshoot/known-issues/
See the "Known issues for Mac with Apple silicon" tab.
> Nobody cheers on Bezos because of Blue Origin.

I honestly think they would, if Blue Origin actually did anything worth cheering. Their best achievement so far is stalling ULA's Vulcan Centaur for years. By the time it flies it will most likely be utterly obsolete, because Blue Origin has fumbled the BE-4 severely. Vulcan Centaur was supposed to fly in 2019 but Blue Origin only delivered some engines about a few weeks ago. They're years late and it's hurting ULA badly. Because of Blue Origin, SpaceX's Starship will probably fly before Vulcan Centaur. Vulcan Centaur is meant to be a HLV marginally more performant than Falcon 9, but Starship should wipe the floor with both.
Bill per day, not per hour.
Casey’s is interesting, good at the stories pre-occupying users more than investors. Glad he’s having a big moment right now with Twitter. His coverage of Basecamp last year was good.

What I find with Thompson is that his big public stories have the problems you describe, but the paid content is succinct and pulling in the best parts of news stories. I’d almost rather have the option to skip the big stories and receive everything else. I also like the interviews, though recently I’ve been amused by how often the same guest appears on Nilay Patel’s podcast in the same week. (They are as well and discussed it on each other’s podcasts together.) I’m quick to skip ads, so the listening experience is similar.

My perhaps uncharitable guess is that the user who started this discussion doesn’t have any need of analysis in their job, or isn’t busy enough to benefit from a paid news filter. But I’m still hoping to hear from them.
Love how it's "recommandé", "pour des raisons esthétiques."

Which I guess means we're completely free to ignore it. Pour mêmes raisons =P
It's more startling but dangerous, but also, disabled the Reverse Automatic Braking when pulling a trailer. If you try to back into a parking spot with it engaged, the car will freak TF out and make an awful noise as it jams on the brakes. Or so I've heard.
Household debt soars at fastest pace in 15 years as credit card use surges
My current problem with rust is the dependency hell. Hundreds of sub dependencies for every top level one. Yes some of them are super common like serde or rand, or oddly some crate that seems to be just to create directories on the filesystem?! A blessed subset of crates is what I was counting on to save the day, but when something like tonic brings in 100 or so fine grained one-off sub dependencies I don't think that can work. Right now I am just plugging my ears saying "my code is memory safe and I am fearlessly concurrent!" But I am thinking "what horrible thing is lurking in the depths of my dependency tree and which state actor put it for later?" If that seems paranoid look at the recent issues with pypi malicious packages. I know I can roll my own, but that cost money, and if tokio or tonic didn't exist, and crates wasn't so darn easy to use, maybe google would have made a monolithic grpc crate instead?
I don't claim to know, but this article may be part of a start? It was an interesting read to me. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-o...
Did I miss something or is a description and/or link to the software used not in the article?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1592124116748103681.html
You can use whatever payment processor you want, but if you ship it on the App Store with in-app purchases, then Apple will demand a cut. This happened to a few dating apps in the Netherlands that implimented a similar workaround but still got invoiced for 30% of their IAPs.
Just added! Their stream is insecure, so it might not load on Chrome desktop. But should be functional on other browsers + on mobile :)
Be fair to both the client and to yourself.

Some of this depends on your role and the specific contract/agreement but a couple of general thoughts:

* If you're having short breaks midday where your attention drifts to non-work, do you also have short moments at home where your thoughts drift to work?

* Remember that there is value in you "being available". Even if you have a slow day or less than 100% focused day, you're still working and available if something urgent comes up.

* How is your output and impact? Are you contributing on par with others?

* If you catch yourself thinking "Wow, I haven't done anything for the past hour" maybe that time shouldn't be billed but that's different from a quick HN skim or stretching and grabbing coffee.
...in fish.

Which is fascinating! And we know that gut micro biome has impacts on humans too.

But, we shouldn't extrapolate from research in fish all the way to humans until we can show it. The painful (or joyful) thing about science is dealing with the uncertainty and knowing that hypotheses are just that.
> the network of editors moves over to the new Wikipedia

oh please yes
Five years ago it was just some crazy college kids, pay them no mind, now they have institutional control of HR departments and college administrations. Scientists in academia have to write proper ideological statements about how "woke" they are in order to research fluid dynamics.

Until this kind of thing gets successful pushback, we should assume they'll continue to reorient institutions around the culture war and there will be no outbreak of common sense.
At the very least every subreddit has the same domain reddit.com/r/*
I have a theory that certain successful people have a very acute ability to grasp opportunities while downplaying downides/risks, which sometimes can be a very successful life strategy. The average person may be more in tune to these risks as our life depends on only a few paychecks of runway before homelessness.
If this is the case, would we expect to see lingering side effects in adults who were afflicted by gut issues like Crohns disease in their youths?
Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva
Why: Making any sort of thick, strong plate metal is seriously non-trivial, both in terms of the manufacturing facility required, and the metallurgical expertise to actually do it. The CSA had very little heavy industry compared to the Union. Boiler plate (widely used, in a steam-powered world) would be about the only armor-ish product that the CSA could manufacture for itself. (Similar for hull plates for a submarine - though boiler plate is far closer to the ideal material there.)
Sure, but isn't Shenandoah more "general purpose" or whatever?
Employees criticizing the company they work for get fired, news at 11.

Can't have employees working against the company public image.
Since WMF really cranked their fundraising popups into high gear ~6 weeks ago people have been posting articles here protesting about the foundation and on every thread there is someone who takes this standpoint. It's your money, but this attitude also strikes me as being very stubborn when confronted with the possibility that your charity is being wasted.

The critique is not merely administrative bloat or waste. The critique is about the magnitude of these problems. There is always waste but WMF has more than comparable non-profits like Internet Archive and when you have board members kicking large sums of money around to their other non-profits then there are questions of a serious ethical breach.
The critique is about the deceptive nature of the WMF ad campaign. The critique is about how the WMF does very little of the actual work in running Wikipedia but takes the lions share of the cash from the community of volunteers. The critique is pretty detailed and well articulated and it is not simply a technical objection that anything beyond servers is a waste. This representation is of the critique is pretty unfair given how much thought and effort people have put into spelling out their case against WMF.

Again it's your money but I would strongly suggest doing your homework before defending the WMF.
The lamb sandwich, orange juice and almonds alone could approach 800 calories, even excluding the other three meals. People are quite bad at estimating calories though, it takes practice.
No, it's true.

Theoretical TPS limit for mainnet and L2s isn't enough to support the scale of twitter. The writes will get expensive very fast unless you offload that and only send a batched proof. Putting actual content on blockchain is a non-starter as well.

Most of the blockchain based social graphs end up using centralized indexer.

Everyone is also dependent on centralized RPC providers for querying and sending transactions since it requires a lot of resources to maintain your own.

So peer to peer isn't possible at their scale depending on how you interpret it.
I don't see either?
I also road trip quite often, and have road trip'd in a lot of places of the country in my EV, and again, my experience doesn't match this at all.

Maybe 5-6 years ago, it was true, but it's definitely not true anymore.

I can't even remember the last time i hit a non-working non-tesla charger on a road trip or locally
The bacteria developed antibiotics! We just took them from the bacteria.
I drive a 2017 Forester and in 5 years of driving it I never had to turn off any of its safety features including pre-collision braking.
Six Reasons DuckDB Slaps
Flying High with SimCopter 64, Maxis’ Lost N64 Game
> I try to do this instead of braking sometimes as I believe it assists with keeping the flow of traffic predictable for others.

Just that bit from my original comment. The other child comment worded it better than I did though.
+1, asdf is so good
This is gone over in Bitcoin is not a store of value: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32892327
Do yourself a favour, and bill by the day, rather than by the hour. Engineering is creative work, and you're paid to think - code is just the end product. Thinking happens consciously and unconsciously, at all times of the day. Billing by the day will allow you to focus on the work rather than the administrivia.

Whatever you do, do not drop your rate: you'll just be undervalued by your clients.
18m/year pays for maybe 40-60 engineers. An engineer might get paid 150k, but their salary doesn't include the cost of buildings, facilities, insurance, benefits, payroll, etc etc etc.

But then you aren't paying for legal, hr, recruiting, admins, leadership, data center workers, etc.

To say nothing of the global operations teams you need to ensure Wikipedia is compliant with local laws.

18m to run Wikipedia would be absolutely threadbare.
I think part of what people are upset about and pointing out is that these wages and operating expenses are far greater than they need to be, and have been inflating near exponentially.

Probably a huge amount of fat and bullshit jobs able to be cut without affecting the Wikipedia service at all.
Predictions of where this tech goes from here: shall the satellite SOS infrastructure be adapted into full-blown satellite-based wireless service for all mobile devices? I am thinking global 5G capabilities off satellites, untethered from domestic wireless network carriers. Sort of like how doctors got pager service in 1950 progressed into the smartphones we have today.
First, there are ballot measures, judicial elections, city council, school board, and many more offices that have nothing to do with party politics that are on the ballot in almost every election. You'll never know what they are if you don't participate. "Should dog racing be banned?" and "Who should hold the office of Soil & Water Conservation District 9?" have nothing to do with party politics or mental health.

Second, for party elections the vote total still matters. It's a message that says how strongly the electorate feels about particular candidate or issue. There's a big difference between a 49.9/50.1 result and a 70/30 result.

When you don't cast a vote, you are still sending a message.

There's a huge difference between expressing a minority opinion and saying, "I don't care just do whatever you want. It's all a sham anyway."
It should be mandatory on all new vehicles
Nope if you do it too early they don’t qualify.
Show HN: $0.15/hr audio transcription API based on OpenAI Whisper
Hey HN!

I've been working on a side project to create an audio transcription API based on the OpenAI whisper model.

Sign up link:
https://whisperapi.com

I tried to make the API really easy to use and get setup with. Also, because the Whisper model is so good, turns out I can offer the service for about 75% cheaper than what seems like the industry average.

I'm always looking to make improvements, so would appreciate any feedback anyone has!
It's kind of sad cause ideally the company using a portion of the money they made on the product, to study adverse effects from the product, is the responsible and transparent thing to do. I wonder what options there are for ensuring/verifying that this kind of research is not swayed or influenced by the sponsors.
It has University of Cologne and a bunch of Canadian stations! Are there any other international college stations you'd like to see on it? I've mostly been adding stations from user requests, and most of them have been in the US.
Foucault is often considered the father of the ideas that underpin intersectionality, at least in the academic sense.

Check out his wikipedia and read the section Influence and reception, specifically Critiques and engagements > Social constructionism and human nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
I predict future generations (maybe even those being born right now) to start moving away from recording and uploading everything as it's the uncool thing their parents are doing.
FT has been a long-time read for me. I suppose Alphaville is the closest corollary to Thompson’s big columns and selective reading of Companies and Markets bulletins is closest to the daily updates.
Considering that "pretend money" is purchased with "real money", this distinction doesn't matter much. I guess it just depends on if you consider property valuable despite not having a green tint and dead political figure on it.
I've wanted to do the same thing with my online activity as well. Chat logs especially. They tend to go into a void and finding an older log is weirdly difficult. I've wanted to log everything and then be able to apply better search algos (semantic search perhaps) to try and make my chat logs useful.
> And then another driver t-boned her because he didn’t have enough distance to stop, also cleary partially at fault IMO.

Not partially at fault; completely and totally at fault (except if we're talking about someone deliberately trying to cause a crash in which case I'll settle for partially). The reality is there could be a hundred reasons the car stopped, the driver being an idiot is only one of them. Mechanical failure, something unseen from the following car, a door flying open, someone stepping out in front of them, a queue in front of them which is not obvious from behind etc.

If you are not leaving enough room to come to a stop when the car in front does then you are riding your luck, there are no two ways about it.
I'm not sure people are increasingly willing to share their whole actual lives online, they are mostly presenting a curated and tailored image of themselves to project the self that they want the world to see. 24/7 straight-to-internet type recording doesn't serve that goal very well. I'm not sure that something like this would be popular among streamers, other than maybe a small niche for who that is their whole thing.
I've been using Fedora Desktop since ~25 or so.

It also typically "just works" and has much newer packages in it's repos.
I think you’re likely reversing cause and effect - English is so widespread because the English ruled over the majority of the world for quite awhile.

When you speak the language or starve for generations , the language has to be pretty bad to lose it’s power.

Notably, the same was true for Latin for a very long time. Pax Romana and all.
There's also a more basic version of something like this in older cars, "emergency brake assist", which senses a hard application of the brakes (determining from the nature of how the pedal is pressed) and applies full brakes.

Apparently most drivers don't actually apply the brakes fully when emergency braking, so this helps with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_brake_assist
Yes there are monthly plans that have different features - such as number of texts, custom messages, tracking intervals, etc.
This sounds horrible. Nobody should freely record and analyze others without consent. This is not only dystopian but also very rude and possibly illegal.

As far as recording oneself to capture thoughts, processes, this is a fine idea that I'd like to give it a try.
> There is no obligation on Wikimedia's part to do specific actions

Uh, people have gotten in a lot of trouble in the past for claiming to raise money for specific causes and using that money for something else. I'm guessing Wikimedia is on the legal side of this fairly gray area, but as a blanket statement, you're mistaken: Wikimedia is very much under a specific legal obligation to use funds collected through charitable fundraising for that charity.
Great question! We have a technical blog post about how PlanetScale Boost is implemented: https://planetscale.com/blog/how-planetscale-boost-serves-yo...

In short, it can be compared in consistency to an up-to-date read replica; PlanetScale Boost uses Vitess' VStream to process events as they happen and keep itself up to date. The blog has much more information if you're curious.
Tab suspender is your friend
Authors get paid for library books. (They often cost quite a bit more than the same book sold to an individual.)
Many of us are quite familiar with the reliability of humans and have serious concerns about trusting them to make the right decisions in a complex real-world situation.

There are almost 2 million rear end collisions in the US every year. Humans just don't have the reaction times to handle many situations. That is also best case. Many people are distracted while driving.
Rather ironically, it would imply that Muslims in the medieval age weren't doing "science", and therefore the Wikipedia article on it[1] is inaccurate and should be removed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islami...
Yeah, this is the first Apple feature announcement for a long time that I'm actually impressed by.

Not the biggest Apple fan, but I have to let them have this one. If I weren't so invested in the not-Apple ecosystem, I'd consider switching.
Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
> It's too sensitive and tends to brake shockingly hard during fairly mundane maneuvers.

I've had a Crosstrek since 2018, and it has prevented accidents for me at least 4 times. It can be annoying when someone edges into your lane, or is edging out of your lane (and usually braking), but for every time it autobrakes for that, there's probably a situation where I'm glad it did. I'm sure the tech will just get better over time.
I hopped onto Mastodon, and threw money at our local instance (infosec.exchange)

Right now, they're seeing loads of x10 and above. And since Mastodon is inherently noncommercial, I'm glad to support the instance im on.

And it's so much more peaceful there. Fake viralness doesn't exist. Re-toots (re-tweets) don't exist as a intentional design ideal. And its chronological. No re-loading to see more forced psychological viral garbage for more forced interaction.

So far, it's calmer and much more pleasant than I had thought possible.
In a world first, astronomers observed a star with a solid outer surface
I like the line from Succession:

`I'm the Chief Operating Officer: if it operates, I chief it`
Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”
Another book in this vein is Taleb's Fooled By Randomness.
I think you are confused (either that or I am!). I’m pretty sure a car length is literally the length of a car, which for a Crosstrek is around 15 feet.

Given this confusion, it does seem like it explains the root of the disagreement here, but that said, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people reading your comment to assume that when you said “car length” you meant the length of a car.