skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine it is expensive and there may not be a leader. All you need is a date, time and location and some social media and the next guy organises it.
Not exactly. Rural 2 lane roads have a long history as being used as drag strips. Although perhaps less problematic when it's not near any houses, cross streets, etc.
Protests Erupt in Shanghai and Other Chinese Cities over Covid Controls
Which is a work of fiction
Re: 4C

It is true that technically a 4C world is survivable, but it will be an immensely hot world (land warms faster than oceans. So that 4C is the average of the two) and we won’t be able to sustain our current population. Vast swathes of the planet will be not fit for farming. Especially already arid regions today. So entertaining this world means entertaining the death and suffering of billions.

We are long past the need for “balance”. We need to decarbonize yesterday and it is unfortunate that workers in fossil fuel industries might lose their job along the way. We could do what most climate policy think tanks suggest and provide compensated job training & a guaranteed position for fossil fuel workers transitioning to a cleaner energy field.
The problematic realization is that as we all get taxed at higher rates than every we're continually met with political and police leadership constantly acting overwhelmed and out of options in enforcing the very same laws they diligently enforce on those of us who can afford to pay the fines. Out neighborhoods are less safe now, but we pay for protection that only works against us.

In many states the speed limits are being lowered well below reasonable levels and speed cameras are deployed to opportunistically capitalize on citizens, rather than deploying officers on streets to monitor for other offenses that go unchecked... The worst part still being that we're paying outrageously high income and other taxes. Eventually people will start to ask what the purpose of high taxes are for, and why becoming a police officer is more and more of a desk job than being on streets.
I think technology is fundamentally opposed to the human experience. What will happen when AGI agents are more empathetic, caring, attentive, funny, supportive, soul-nourishing than any human could ever be? On every level that a human can enjoy and appreciate the company of another human, computers will do it better. It’s like the concept of infinity… you are forced to accept all these strange outcomes that are logically sound but make no sense. That is what AGI will be and AGI is the logical end of technology. There is no humanity at end of that road. And the outcome is very bad overall. But that doesn’t change the fact that people have been lonely a long time and there are more reasons for loneliness than technology. Better to see clearly regardless of the context.

Stop intelligent machines!
"What Microsoft needs to do to become a large tech company
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I guess that depends on the literacy rate around 1900.
The unhealthy part is people who curate an echo chamber and then live in it.

Of course, the even healthier thing is probably being more like you and just not getting involved with Twitter at all.
You clearly don’t have experience with airlines in other countries!
All of that is just smoke and mirrors over the fundamental scam of it. Try to understand this: all of crypto is a scam. They can not be anything else. Not for now.
Cancelling a proposed project causes lower employment in that region, thus affecting workers. Economic prosperity might not be an explicit human right, but lower employment causes suffering regardless.

As I stated before, in this case eliminating coal is more important than these considerations, but that doesn't mean we should ignore them entirely.
This sounds like the same problem you'll have with the snail mail system if other people used to live at your address and forgot to inform people of their new address. Anytime I get something for somebody who doesn't live at my house, I put "NOT AT THIS ADDRESS" on it, cross out the routing barcode and stick it in a blue mailbox. Some companies honor the unsubscribe request but others don't because they apparently like wasting their money knowingly sending spam. I don't care because it gives me an excuse to get some exercise and it isn't my money being wasted.

The problem is much worse with email because there's no cost to sending it so marking it as spam or blocking the sender is your only option if the sender won't unsubscribe you.
I think they were making a joke related to the movie.
I never realized that the crowded theater of the idiom refers to WWI and shouting fire means opposing the draft. The metaphorical argument is much less compelling when the crowded theater is actually on fire!
Straight rural roads are good for this because of the lack of traffic. Curvy rural roads with a lot of trees, not so much.
Hm, those are not traditional mainstream political views, unless of course it aligns with your own views, then it would look like they are right?.
I've gone through Elon's replies on Twitter and he is purposely trying to make the left mad, it's pretty obvious. Does he want to stir the pot for engagement? increase traffic? maybe, who knows, but whatever it is, he's picking up meaningless fights that side with alt-right views which by the way love the hate-speech and the whole conspiracy theory thing. So yeah, recently Twitter is (from my point of view) just more people fighting about their political views because of Elon's controversial responses.
Would you like to guess some other historical figures that were populists?
> What makes you think we won't survive 4C? I'm not saying you're wrong but the last IPCC report I read suggested global collapse was more on the order of 6 - 8 degrees.

Could you cite that one please?

Every IPCC reference I can find just now is citing 1.5C as the maximum temperature jump we could expect to cope with and not be guaranteed to have a cascade of catastrophic events.

The sentiment of 'we can survive 4C' feels weirdly phrased. Some people will survive, but it certainly won't be pretty for most people.
I just want you to know that I got the joke and appreciated it.
Vangelis's 25th Anniversary Blade Runner soundtrack was made for your life: https://youtu.be/73um9Dr3VDY?t=854
My wife was involved with this, and was on country for some of the testimony to the land court. It's massive news in conservation circles here. She said the cases presented by traditional owners were both compelling and heartbreaking, showing first-hand the visible and culturally significant effects of climate change to e.g. the land (including sea level rises in the Torres Strait causing, among other things, grave sites to be lost to the ocean), and endemic and totemic species such as the flying fox / fruit bat around Cairns. The Environmental Defenders Office, who litigated the case, deserve serious kudos for their work, as do Youth Verdict and the first nations representatives who stepped up to tell their stories.

Yes the court's decision comes in the form of a recommendation, but it is a significant one and will be difficult to ignore. At the very least it should remove any question of a social license for these kind of activities in Australia (i.e. thermal coal extraction!) - which are often presented as beneficial to first nations groups, yet are environmentally and culturally blasé through and through.
I would prefer to live in 2022 USA no matter my profession than anyone in 1918. Antibiotics, computers / internet, cancer therapy, airplanes, you don’t have half your kids die of random stuff before age 18, the list goes on and on
> Edit: by bigrams and trigrams, I mean reducing word to their parts of speech labels and using THOSE as word tokens. You’ll find that native English speakers have higher weights on some phrase construction patterns than, say, folks from Romania. TF-IDF is useful for these POS-grams (just made that word up) as well.

That is a very good idea and when I update the site that will almost certainly be included :) Any other tips? Been reading papers for ideas and I think I may have to ditch the cosine similarity and go for something fancier soon. Thank you
This is a perennial problem in California before Covid.

The draggers are what I refer to as a "self-correcting problem." Generally the roads have potholes and obstacles (these aren't offical dragging areas after all) so fairly quickly somebody will screw up, vaporize their car and kill some girl. At that point, there will be a big bruhaha, lots of wailing mothers and the cops will shut them down for a while.

The biggest problem for locals is that this will cause several hundred pedestrians and cars to suddenly appear in the dark where they're not supposed to be. It's really easy to get in an accident with them and sometimes they shut down your only path home.
What does “Venmo for the salsa” mean and is HENRY a meme of the person who bought the coffee? The writing is pretty confusing
I suppose it depends on what your end goal is. For example, I've disabled news notifications on my phone. I used to get pinged multiple times per day to be told that either someone had died in an accident, or was raped and murdered, or some other such thing. One might argue that I'm sticking my head in the sand and 'living in a bubble' by turning these off. But while I think it's beneficial to expose myself to ideas and events outside of my comfort zone, I'd argue that it's better for my health and well-being if I exercise some control over what goes into my eyeballs each day.
He had maximum available choice for his time.

Yea, everyone has an iPhone but who can faff off to Paris whenever they want?
> The Supreme Court has made many awful rulings with respect to the first amendment.

I am astounded you'd bother to qualify that "with respect to the First Amendment." They've made stacks of awful rulings, period. Some of their greatest hits: Dred Scott v. Sanford; Plessy v. Ferguson; Hammer v. Dagenhart; Bush v. Gore; Kelo v. City of New London; DC v. Heller; Dobbs v. Jackson.

The Supreme Court is supposed to be above politics but time and again proves it's a vehicle of partisan politics, and one megalomanic sociopath can slant the Court for decades.
The Rock tried a few years ago, but Vin Diesel escaped near the end, real physics were not involved. They need someone who doesn't look like a grown adult perhaps.
It's easy to imagine a utopian future where aging and mortal disease is conquered, climate change and sustainability are figured out and molecular machinery can produce any consumer level products in an instant at trivial cost. In such a future (if it ever comes) a Bezos or a Musk is a pauper with no access to such transformative inventions.
You don't believe Elon's alt-right, but most of his replies side with alt-right...
I legitimately assumed it was this exact combination…… Good to know it isn’t!
I don't get the argument since when it's no longer economic it will presumably be shut down.

Personally I don't think the "perfect substitution" argument is that great in the first place (since it fails to take into account what it means for more supply to be on the market).

"if that mine doesn’t supply coal, then another will." smells of assuming that demand is fixed, use is insensitive to price and that substitution can't happen.

... BUT I also don't follow the logic behind this ruling.
shutdown /?

oh no
Cities that were "designed for humans" would have open businesses and activities for people to do at night. Here in SF for example businesses start closing around 7PM. There's one restaurant near me open later than 10PM, but it has no indoor seating. Golden Gate Park is covered with signs telling me not to be there after sundown. The roads aren't the problem — there's nothing else to do.
Basically the "free speech" Elon liberated was transphobia. Which, considering that his trans daughter no longer speaks to him and changed her last name away from Musk, and Grimes left him for a trans woman, and he's publicly posted anti-trans tweets, means he might have an axe to grind against the trans community.

This has led to a lot of progressive twitter either exiting the site or switching to full-time culture war stuff, while the identity-conservatives are basically doing donuts in celebration.
95% of all asbestos in use is of the chrysotile variety, which is Mg3Si2O5(OH)4 and doesn’t contain any iron [0]. It’s linked with human health hazards but is less dangerous than the crocidolite variant.

Crocidolite does contain iron (Na2FeIII2FeII3Si8O22(OH)2 per [1]) but it’s not the common type of asbestos and is known as blue asbestos and is found primarily in South Africa, Australia, and Bolivia.

I think given how dangerous asbestos is, it can’t statistically be reasonable to assume that it’s cancerous properties arise from something only found in a minority of the asbestos we use.

[0]: https://www.britannica.com/science/asbestos-mineral

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocidolite

The second link is in French.
It Ruined Everything’: Buy Now, Pay Later Drives Gen Z into Debt
I'm sorry, I didn't intend to make anyone feel bad (that was not sarcasm). But, I really am concerned about the amount of screen isolation already in evidence (I say, as I type this onto my laptop), and I'm not sure why we would want more temptations to increase that.
I don't personally know the OP, but his profile isn't that of a passing crypto fanboy hustling to attract a followers list. I'd wager that he probably doesn't care much if some pro-Elon HN folks don't agree with his views on capitalism or proper vs. improper ways to migrate a follower base between platforms.

He's contributed to the software industry longer than most people here. That's not to say that anyone is owed anything in deference or respect, but "he's seen some shit." It's hypocritical to applaud what you believe to be pro-free-speech changes at Twitter while criticizing somebody for the manner in which somebody communicates their decision to deprioritize that platform.

If somebody has 50k followers, I imagine they would have reasons to communicate to that audience why they're not going to be as visible on their current platform and how to go about finding their content in the future.
You're blaming street width? Why not blame oxidation or the vulcanization of rubber? Those are also involved.

For my part, I blame the shitheads not getting their asses thrown in jail with vigorous immediacy. Let the cops barricade the roads and load up the wagons.
The parent comment isn't saying anti-China actions and suspicions by the government are xenophobic. It's instead saying more or less the opposite: that the delay in these kinds of actions is possibly down to policymakers seeing China as lesser and not worth concern.
Oof, Piers is a hard one. I loved the Xanth books as a kid, but looking at some of his stuff again as an adult, he comes off as incredibly creepy, especially knowing about some of his non-Xanth works. It really casts that 1-800-HIPIERS hotline in another light.
Exactly. You could dump 1.4M worth of BTC in literally a second.
Why not just use tmux? It’s super nice.
They agreed to wto rules when they joined.

And your last sentence is wrong— Chinese are not free to buy us made goods if they think they are better. China places heavy tariffs and other protections on imports.

Since you seem to be unaware.. that’s what you’re arguing for: the right of China to place heavy tariffs on foreign goods, while using wto rules to prevent other nations from doing the same to Chinese goods.

Counties agree to wto rules so they can export more.. those rules apply in both directions. If China doesn’t like wto rules, they can withdraw and do as you say: everyone applies whatever tariffs they want on Chinese goods; and China does the same.
Two terms: undefined behavior and memory safety. Try searching the web for those terms.
This thread was fine with me until I considered Vercel might do the same thing in five years with their free tier.
Hold on a second. LAPD might be more than 50% of the budget of some Los Angeles taxing body. But --- this comes up over and over again in these discussions --- most municipalities have multiple taxing bodies. Defund advocates were all over my town claiming that the majority of our money was going to the police. But of course that wasn't true; it was a big portion of the village budget, but 2/3 of our property taxes funded school districts, which are separate taxing bodies.

Are you sure LAPD is >50% of taxes paid by LA residents? Or is it just >50% of the budget of some taxing body that is essentially just "police, fire, and sewers"?

It would be pretty shocking if LAPD was actually 50% of all Los Angeles spending. It seems pretty unlikely. Compare "Los Angeles public schools budget" to "LAPD budget" in search results.
TCP has only 2 round trips, so more like

> C: I would like to tell a joke

> S: You may tell a joke

> C: We are now exchanging the joke

> C: "Knock knock ..."
been happening in Portland for a while, mostly on the Fremont bridge:

* 2020 - https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2021/08/street-racing-s...

* 2021 - https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/04/13/street-racers-shut-dow...

* 2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygvZCYdPsNk

* 2022 (burnside bridge) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M3v9AngxoU

given that they blocked off the bridge, it was surprising that the police made the decision to just let it go until they got tired and left. there's one way on and one way off a bridge, and one of those ways is blocked with traffic.
I thought by this point PayPal would be "a bank", however (https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/manage-money/start-....)

Clearly states

"PayPal is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Synchrony Bank, Member FDIC. PayPal Balance account is required to use PayPal Savings."

So maybe part of this legislation is some sort of attempt to have these payment processor "pseudo banks" have to be more like real banks and deal with banking regulation.
Most of the items here are good things that are taken too far. You can almost automate writing an article like this: take any set good things (writing code, releasing products, innovating, being kind to others, helping old ladies cross the street, etc.), take them to an unhelpful extreme, and say “don’t be like that.”

Don’t obsessively add code, or release useless products for the sake of releasing, or reinvent things that are perfectly good and not worth improving, or be creepy like Dr. Jekyll, or stalk old ladies.

I like people who keep track of status and make documentation, thank you! They are useful people!

All you need to not overrate someone is to be a critical thinker who pays attention over time to how things are done.
I heard they ordered T4 turbos and Spoon engines.
Yea, don't worry too much. If someone invited me into an almost empty apartment and gave me spaghetti and just seemed interested in talking to me I would be really appreciative. I have friends (some of whom who are really good cooks) but almost nobody that I don't already know puts effort into talking to me or becoming friends so that would feel super nice.
> This means the optimal strategy would be discarding an account either after every comment or after a small number of comments. Unfortunately, this is against HN rules and may result in a ban.

Is this? I thought that it was ok to have throwaway accounts, as long as they're not specifically to avoid a ban or something like that.
Not sure if GPT3 at least if prompted right would have clearly identifiable style. Could probably detect converted call centers in Russia or Cambodia where 50 employees post on 10000 accounts though.
GalaxyRaver. It was the goto place to find raves in California in the years before Facebook became the norm, after mailing lists died (~2006 - 2012). It ran on phpBB with custom extensions for calendar and chat (using flash). It was invite only but there were thousands of users. They would pass out flyers at raves, pretty much the whole Bay Area scene was on there at the height of its popularity.

It was a lot of fun to find raves, attend them, then after make connections with other users who you met there. It was so cool because it bridged online and real life. Facebook groups and events just don’t have the same community feel that galaxyraver did.
I would say the whole Arm situation in China is a much more clear-cut example of this. I haven't seen the west do anything about it.
I mostly agree with the broader point here, but 9/11 is IMHO a bad example. People were signing up for essentially a war of adventure against adversaries that were really no match. It’s a very different situation that the people of the Philippines up against the imperial Japanese army in WWII.
I wonder if this is the case because if you publish with a publisher, you'll eventually have to end up in .docx or something. I think that for a lot of people, Microsoft Word would be enough (and maybe Google Docs nowadays).
They don't really punish criminals in Los Angeles.
I can absolutely assure you there is plenty to do in Los Angeles at 7pm. It’s not San Francisco. The problem is the seven and nine lane residential streets with no traffic lights for a mile.
That's most of a football field away. I could not care less about someone being that close to my house.
In other news, a simple way to cure your athlete’s foot…is to amputate your foot! Problem solved, right?

Not everyone agrees with you that cars and roads are something we should discourage.
HN draws in a large urban audience. A small, but vocal subset of urbanites absolutely hate car transportation and suburbia. It's a fast growing subculture with many adherents. They favor bike and rail transportation, "complete streets", and removal of surface parking lots.

The /r/fuckcars subreddit, for example, would absolutely turn this thread into an anti-car talking point.
A political identity based on belligerence, narcissism, and toxic individualism, has taken root and replaced religion for a great many people. Not that religion was all that great, but the current "everyone for themselves and fuck anyone who is not like me" movement is a hell of a lot worse. For these people, isolation is not a defense mechanism, it's a core value. They're against anything that diminishes the Individual, like collective action and cooperating for the good of society.
It was somewhat difficult to engage with your comment because it felt kind of like it was strawmanning.

But I think the reality is you just misunderstood the original comment. The original comment was saying that it was good that people were withdrawing their crypto, not that it was good that any particular exchange had become insolvent. Only after I read your edited original comment did I realise that this is what happened.

When a crypto exchange fails I always say "That was unsurprising. Remember to hold your own coins." A lot of other people say similar things.

I do not say "This is a good thing. I'm sure that now that Failed_Exchange_1001 has failed people will finally learn to hold their own coins." I don't think I've heard many people suggest that.
I am typing on one now, but I wouldn't trust them to be used in any national security situation. Unfortunately we are beholden to autocratic countries as we have chosen cheap labour over everything else.
Very few people ever paid 91%. The reason was there were all sorts of tax shelters available at the time. This resulted in a lot of misallocation of resources. A lot of personal expenses could also be written off as a business expense, the most infamous of those was the "three martini lunch".

Reagan, in his deal to reduce the top marginal tax rates, also eliminated a vast swath of tax shelters and tax deductions.

More generally, the government consumed much less of the GDP in the 50s than it does today.
I think in Japan a lot of curvy roads out in the country are used for drifting(with spotters of course).
Also NYPD

In fact NYC rents them out to other countries
This is the first I've heard of it. Looks neat. I do like the Front/Body/Back Matter view in the sidebar.