skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So for a mere $850M/year in new tax revenue, the government is going to require millions (my guess) of people to have to deal with a new tax form.

$850M to make life more difficult for millions of the poorest Americans, or less than 1% of the money we sent to Ukraine in the last 12 months alone! Government priorities..
Come on with the panic stuff. People have been drag racing forever. I remember going racing with my buddy 20 years ago in his souped-up GT3000. Yes, it's dangerous and obnoxious. But I highly doubt we're in any sort of epidemic.
This is downvoted by political partisans but is spot on and undeniable.
It's plausible that this is a fake, but consider that what you described is based on reasonably simple physics, something than AI that's capable of generating human faces could likely figure out.

What makes me believe this is actually AI generated art is the hands. They're all fucked up, in every image. I don't know why, but all image generation AIs I've seen struggle with the human hand.
Your memories of that Russian serf village are distorted and incomplete. Most subsistence farming work is far from being happy and fulfilling. Talk to adults who spent decades living that way. They might not have been lonely, but their lives were bleak in most other ways. Why do you think so many left as soon as they could? Why did those who remained turn into alcoholics?

Today is great.
Miserable stuff. Ordinary Americans in 2016 might have creature comforts that weren't available to John D. Rockefeller, but this does not somehow translate to being "richer than" Rockefeller.

Rockefeller's wealth can be seen 100 years later, in forms that no creature comfort can surpass: media and political power, generations of rich and powerful children, and countless buildings and institutions named after his family. None of that is meaningfully offset by the fact that it's easier for me to keep ice cream cold, that I can travel to France a little bit faster (but a whole lot less comfortably), or that I can watch content produced by his progeny online whenever I please.
Yeah I used to use alacritty with the ligature patch, but swapped to wezterm as it supports ligatures natively. It's fast enough, maybe not as fast as alacrity or kitty.

I just don't use the built in multiplexer or whatever.

I think if you're running tmux, a lot of kitty/alacrity's performance is mooted anyway?
Show HN: Scramble text to slow down your reading
You’ll have better healthcare, hygiene, and pretty much better everything. Status is for the birds. Who gives a shit.
Where Are the BlueSky Apps‽ Rival Protocols Have Them
The amount of "significance" isn't a question of the portion of the total "market cap" for the cryptocurrency but rather the portion of the personal holdings.

There are a lot of people who have put a few thousand dollars that they couldn't really afford to lose on the promise that this was the future of money and that they needed to get in on the ground level.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/19/the-money...

> ‘A lot of us feel cheated’
William, a construction site manager from California, was woken by a text from friends about potential trouble at FTX in the early hours of 8 November. At the time, the 40-year-old had about $85,000 of fiat currencies on the exchange, plus three bitcoins worth about $55,000 and about $10k in other altcoins - a significant chunk of his assets.

Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are not the domain of the millionaires and billionaires. Yes, these people are speculators - but they're ordinary people with incomes much closer to the median than likely you or I.
For alternatives we can recommend Hetzner US Cloud [1] which was the best US Cloud provider we've found that works out to be an order of magnitude less expensive than equivalent specs on Azure/AWS and also includes 20TB free bandwidth that would cost a fortune in AWS/Azure's artificially inflated egress costs [2].

The UX behind managing instances is delightfully pleasant where new instances are available faster than any other cloud provider we've used, within seconds of creating an instance you can immediately login with your configured SSH keys. Another nice feature is being able to "rescale" your instance to higher specs after a restart [3], so you can confidentially start with a small instance that just meets your current workload knowing that you can easily scale up your instances as your workload increases.

AWS RDS was the only critical service keeping us on AWS, a service we no longer need in our new Apps which we're building with SQLite thanks to the effortless replication in Litestream [4] that we're using to replicate to Cloudflare R2 - another great value alternative S3 alternative with $0 egress fees [5] where you can get even greater value & performance when hosting behind their free CDN.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

[2] https://servicestack.net/blog/finding-best-us-value-cloud-pr...

[3] https://bizanosa.com/how-to-upgrade-resize-hetzner-cloud-ser...

[4] https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/litestream

[5] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/
so a person who is unable to find the DMV is expected to figure out how to set up and run their own wallet?

They would also have to avoid major exchanges for any operations, because Coinbase KYCs the crap out of you.
That sounds interesting, someone should make 9 or 10 movies about that.
> Because most of it isn't interesting or relevant to you. Most data being sent isn't actually data about you, but data about the product.

Thanks but that's for me to decide. And all of the privacy abuses in clear view by Meta and others over the past few years make that assertion sound ridiculous. In my view the owner of a device has a right to have complete visibility into said device's communications.
Not for /r/DataHoarder/s. All entertainment cached locally bb. B)
To be fair both Kubrick and Tarkovsky probably felt dwarfed by the likes of Vertov, Eisenstein, or even Chaplin. Specifically in terms of pushing the envelope. These were different times with different envelopes.

Villeneuve innovates in a different space, maybe not as philosophical as Tartovsky, and not as symbolic as Fellini... but I don't think that language and that storytelling would work nowadays anyway. There is also Nolan with his very sophisticated world building. Yes it's all pretty mainstream, but so was Kubrick and Tarkovsky (at least in the USSR).

You mention Tarantino (which I personally don't like), but there are many lesser known directors from the 90s-2000s with a fantastic filmography. Kim Ki-Duk and Noel Gaspar come to mind. The world of cinema has not stalled, maybe we need to look outside of Hollywood more eagerly (but then again, neither Fellini nor Tarkovsky where Hollywood).
If you want people to stop speeding, stop building infrastructure to let them speed. Any measures less than this are mere bandaids.
I'm only referring to those who build these complete echo chambers on social media. For relatively mentally stable adults it's good to know about and consider dissenting opinions, especially so if you publish your own opinions, like the author. I completely agree that a bit of head-in-the-sand can be quite good for mental health and happiness.
Tesla completed a 500 mile drive with a Tesla Semi weighing in at 81,000 lbs
Not even. The pamphlet in question opposed the draft by peaceful and legal means and further asserted that conscription is in violation of the 13th amendment. He was simply telling people that the law is unfair and unconstitutional. He didn’t even tell people to break it per se.
> 50% of LA’s entire city budget

You have a citation for this? A quick google reveals LA’s city budget to be 11.8bn while LAPD budget is around 2bn
23%: see page 2 of https://ceo.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-23-...
I think part of what "not designed for humans" is probably suggesting is that you shouldn't have to drive away from your nine lane residential street in order to go find something to do.
Let them have fun; if they do any damage, they're also the ones paying. IMHO it's a deeply-ingrained part of American culture to be rebellious and risktaking, and a good thing as long as it doesn't happen in excess.
Personally I don't have much experience with people behaving like this, motivated by straight-up laziness or covering up incompetence so blatantly. These seem like they would be very obvious problem behaviours, and not as damaging as other more common but perhaps less overtly dishonest habits of overrated people.

I have encountered many people who behave in harmful ways according to personal or organisational incentives that they or others could argue were legitimate. Technical people promoted above their managerial competence level for example, can end up being rated highly by upper management as they are seen to be experts, but can then go on to make terrible strategic decisions.

Also non-technical project management professionals, using techniques that could be interpreted as legitimate, can be rated highly despite contributing next to nothing. Asking tech contributors for deadline estimates, recording the answers, and then chasing the overruns can seem like constructive action.

Then you realise that there are no high level plans coming back that integrate the timelines in a constructive way, it's just a way to apply psychological pressure by getting investment in a target that can be held over people's heads.
Let me just say, I don't want to think what crime and violence in LA would be with fewer police... It says something about our society that we need that much police to keep us from committing more crime and violence against each other.
Konversation: https://konversation.kde.org/
This went on in the 70s when I was in high school. It's been going on much longer than that, see "American Graffiti", "Return to Macon Country" and "Two Lane Blacktop".
> Police say they don’t have enough manpower to stop such street takeovers

Classic overfunded police department bullshit
Absolutely! In the 1920's the son of the president of The United States died from an infected blister he got playing tennis. That's a fear I don't have. I love music, and even a fast food worker has better access to recording than Rockefeller did. I probably listen to more music in a year than Rockefeller heard on his lifetime. In 1911 hundreds of people died when temperatures went over 100 in North East New York. We build a city in the middle of the desert where temperatures reach 110 almost every year and fast food workers in Las Vegas are not dying by the hundreds.
Then you clearly did not spend much time on pre-elon twitter where it was often the case.

Infact more than one story has been posted on Twitter calling the "'traditional' family with a single wage earner and a full-time homemaker mother" actively dangerous to women in general and something that should not only be advocated against but actively resisted.
You have people you can summon to bring you food, give you rides, buy your groceries. Services that bring you all sorts of entertainment, video games, anything.
The premise of QC is that QM is essentially correct, to the n'th degree. We know that QM is "wrong" in the sense that it isn't the Grand Unified Theory of Everything because it does not merge properly with Relativity, but we respect the Correspondence Principle to hold for it in the relevant domain.

Ignoring the substantial engineering challenges, if QC doesn't work, we would learn something very interesting about our world in how it breaks, because any break would represent a deviation between the predictions of QM and reality, something we desperately need to get to the next level of theory.

Contrary to what some people might think, physicists would be giddy over a clean, lab-reproducible, engineering-type break in QM. They are starved for data right now. To be able to push a button and reproduce it is an almost impossibly beautiful dream. Almost for that reason, I expect our problems in QC to remain firmly in the engineering domain, and that no matter how many qubits we manage to deploy they will obstinately perfectly conform to QM theory.
It's not 50%, it's more like 27%: https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/politics/2022/05/18/los...
Eh. I street race, and I've been doing it since the late 90s. I've been in MA, NC, SC, VA, FL, OH, MO, and all around them frequently during that time.

It's _way_ easier to find events of some sort now. They're more organized, safer, and the cars are faster.

I was fairly well connected back "in the day" and it was a monthly thing at best, with the occasionally drags on someone's street on the weekend. Now I know a handful of people, yet I can find an organized street event twice a week.

I've been told it's even more common on the west coast.
23% seems shockingly high to the point that I wish activists would get the number right so that the story wouldn't be "activists heavily overstate how much of your tax dollars go to police" and instead "a shockingly high portion of your tax dollars go to police".
I am going to take on a senior role in a really old organization. They dont have any ADRs. They informed me that they did the architecture design using contractors/consultants so they never provided it. If we pay for their service, aren't we supposed to be the owner of the ADRs?

In my previous company, we owned the ADRs from external contractors and consulants.
I just played Resident Evil Village on MB Pro and now I’m a Mac gaming believer
This has to be the analog of "the first amendment only protects you from government restrictions on speech" in this conversation.
It's more accurate to say their parents are making millions.
The context for that question is important: OP had a set of requirements and Rust seemed to meet them. I’d personally consider investing time to learn technology X if I found out it met my requirements. This is not a Rust-specific thing.

I agree that Rust is not simple to learn. There is a definite learning curve involved, especially at the start. I hope your experience with the community and the language improves going forward.
Trading with my cousin is less risky than that, he's honourable, keeps his promises, and does not need to know your keys to trade. Also, his operation is not financed through extortion.
It's a huge failure of reporting that this article contains precisely zero data about how dangerous this practice actually is is (or, alternatively, if it results in measurable harm like increased congestion or transit times.)

I'm left wondering if this is a real problem, or just a bunch of HOA types getting all bothered that people who don't look like them are behaving in an unseemly manner.

If you're going to call something "dangerous" in your headline then I would like to see at least one statistic, please.
"it would be simpler if there was a general language to learn, for how to communicate with it- but instead, it's just bad natural language processing around an undocumented collection of abilities, where you have a new learning curve for every different function"
No charges pressed because jury will nullify; it's a cycle.

Jury nullification, of a sort, actually dates back to England. One of the pressures that diminished the penalties for theft (which had crept up to "death") was that juries, seeing a young man in the box with their whole life ahead of them whose only crime was taking from some unaccountable rich boffin, found themselves unwilling to toss the man in the gallows for taking from one who had plenty.

Upon seeing this pattern emerge, the London merchant class panicked and petitioned the king to lower the penalty, lest no crimes against them be punished at all.
This is the county budget, for LASD.
> whose proprietor is an alt-right troll

I like tbray, and I don't like Elon, but that is not a fair characterization. It's right this post has been flagged.
Drag strips have been closing left and right across the country. There's only one 1/4 mile track left in California.

https://www.dragzine.com/news/californias-auto-club-dragway-...

"Auto enthusiasts" these days aren't into racing as much any more as just clowning around for the 'gram.

You'd think the cops would shut this sort of stuff down and have a field day with CARB violations.
How about both? Let’s fix street design AND throw all these people in prison.
Walmart overtakes Amazon in shoppers’ search for Black Friday bargains
Here's the HN discussion of the original Netflix TechBlog article that this one references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33540091
This percentage doesn't mean anything; it's a fraction of a single taxing body. You need the percentage across all taxing bodies.
I'm sure you mean well, or at least as well someone who wants to restructure society according to their current hobbyhorse can possibly mean. I like walkable urbanism myself. But the problem with this kind of argument is that people know there are countries where you can have huge highways without this kind of thing happening. Some of them remember living in, say, America circa 2014. And while we cannot--nor should we want to--go back to the benighted days of eight years ago, people will naturally wonder if it's not possible to revert those changes (whatever they are) that made this specific kind of problem start to happen, instead of just plunging ahead into the total revolution of their way of living.
> I was finding that Twitter was bad for my mental health,

Same here. It's all that rage-boosting the algorithms do to increase engagement. I deleted my twitter account back in May and went to mastodon. It's been so much more pleasant and non-addictive.
A lot of them have been closing because housing developments have been built up close to them. Ironically the major complaint? The track is too loud.
> they don’t care about the (mostly black or Latino) residents of the residential neighborhoods in which these happen.

From wikipedia:

> As of 2019, the Los Angeles Police Department had 10,008 officers sworn in. Of these, 81% (8,158) were male and 19% (1,850) female. The racial/ethnic breakdown:

48.8% or 4,882 was Hispanic/Latino (of any race)
30.9% or 3,090 was non-Hispanic White
9.62% or 962 was African American
7.66% or 766 was Asian
2.46% or 246 was Filipino American
remaining were Indian and Other Ethnicities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department#...
I think in due course you'll get to see how impotent a lot of modern medicine is when faced with certain maladies especially those that come with advanced age, e.g. cancers, strokes etc. We're far better at telling you what you're going to die of vs 100 years ago but not really all that much better at keeping you alive.
Road width is an issue because it inherently encourages fast, not uncommonly reckless, driving. There's a science to this which is implemented in places like the Netherlands, but it gets totally ignored by people who are excessively pro-car.
In this case, it’s a way to signal one’s fealty to a very specific ideology.
Sounds like you are making an emotional argument here. Outright scams do exist in the crypto arena since we are in the early days. But 2-3 decades from now, I can see crypto (or some version of it) being robust and ubiquitous.
My (admittedly US-centric) understanding of the TPP's demise was that it simply found itself politically untenable in an time where globalization was very unpopular, and concerns about the influence of China were not top of mind. Both 2016 US major-party presidential candidates came out against it (though you could reasonably argue about whether Clinton really meant it).

Ironically, speaking of freedom, the Libertarian candidate was the only one to support it officially.
Creating a 2D Physics Engine from scratch in JavaScript
I personally don’t hate cars, but I hate that we let them park anywhere for basically free. If we built more high-volume garages and then banned street parking in city cores, our sidewalk cafes and restaurant culture would improve dramatically. Remove parking, expand the sidewalks.
I’m an aspiring overrated person, I started as a developer, then was promoted into a product owner role because of attrition.
I have ended up spending most of my day in meetings and being interrupted over IM, and there is not much time for coding. Realistically, I should either do less meetings, or commit to less coding. The latter is better because I’m not as good at coding as my peers.

My barriers are that I’m not great at the people skills, and to compensate I’ve focused on the technicals of this pseudo leadership role such as making graphics for power point slides, and agile administration, like using the tools and scheduling those rituals.

How can I make the leap to doing no coding and just doing the meetings and delegation?
My entire life, I have been sickly, getting sick to 3 to 4 times a year. But somehow that all ended when the pandemic started. I was certain I'd be one of the first to get Covid, but something significantly changed to the point I never get sick anymore.

Is it possible that an immune system can be overused and all I needed to do is give it a break for ~6 months which happened during lockdown. Now given that break, perhaps I have a super immune system after over-training it for so many decades. Maybe ?

More likely it has to do with these habits I developed:

1) Breathing almost exclusively through my nose and holding my breath when passing people especially if they cough or sneeze.

2) Drinking water with 1+ gram of vitamin C powder and 5000IU+ of Vitamin D _everyday_without_fail.

3) Not drinking in bars past 10PM and sleeping ~7.5hrs every day.

4) Eliminating the gym. As an aside I have one kettle bell, a pull-up bar, and several bands. To my surprise, I am built like Daniel Craig with more definition from just ~3 ~seven minute mid-intensity workouts through out the day.

5) Hyper conscious to not touch my eyes or face.

Does anyone else have a turn-around story like mine ? Or are most of the people who didn't get Covid the type who never get sick? For the record I am vaccinated. As a counter-anecdote to my second question, my dad, also vaccinated, hasn't been sick over a decade until he got a mild case of Covid a few months ago.
https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/
I looked at A.3.1 and figure Figure SPM.2 to try and find cutoffs for cascading effects.
As far as I can tell, the basis for 1.5C / 2.0C is local system collapse, like warm-water corals and arctic ecosystems. I can't find the reference for feedback mechanisms cutoffs right now, but for things like methane hydrate melting the limits are much higher.
I'm not saying 2.0C warming is desirable, but the existential "hard limits" on the globe are much higher. I think this distinction is important, because it changes how we look at framing this as an emergency. If we are near existential limits, we can consider more harmful policies (e.g. population reduction, energy rationing), but if not we can plan our response longer-term.
Are you serious? That is way cooler than the alt detector site. Depending on how much extra work you're willing to do I think TAILS is actually looking for a program to do this because they had some problems with Anonymouth.
Pretty sure that violates the ADA law.

I assume they have some number available for the hearing and visually impaired.
It's a deeply ingrained part of American culture to have a complete disregard for those around you. Any minor change in behavior that could improve the life of everyone around you is an affront to "freedom."

Destroying property, keeping thousands of people up at night, getting people killed. You can't just throw "fun" on it and say it's okay.
I guess you mean designed for today's humans.

Before the late 1800s, cityfolk did not have to go get entertained at night or do other business -and they lived and they prospered for thousands of years. Nor do people in small villages have to.