skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main people who will be impacted by this are tradesmen. You can't take a van full of tools and materials and a ladder on public transport or a bike.

This will be passed through to householders in the form of higher prices and fewer tradesmen available to work when needed - on fact this is already a problem in London and will contribute further to rent inflation. It's crazy in my view to do this without a scheme to support replacement of older vehicles which would enable people to switch to newer less polluting vehicles in a much more cost neutral way.

Those higher costs will hit those least able to afford them most so I agree it is regressive.
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you've never used twitter, have you
People completely stopped vaccinating in france, and ICUs aren’t overloaded at all anymore. What changed isn’t the vaccination rates but the nature of the virus itself. Omicron completely changed the nature of the epidemic (that plus the fact that after 2 years and with super-contagious variant like omicron, almost 100% of the population have been in contact with the virus, either symptomatic or not).

EDIT : as for lockdowns, they were understandable in 202O when the virus was new. But locking down 20 yo students in 2021 made absolutely no sense, and all the evidence pointed to that.
Note that in france at least, the most serious measures against non vaccinated people were taken in early 2022 (aka: not even allowed to take the train), despite omicron being the only variant remaining, and casualties becoming super super low.
From what I understand - it’s the other way round… it’s cars made AFTER 2006 that the fee applies to.
Because of a similar confusing sign I have a avoided driving through my city centre for two years only to find out my car was well within the limits all that time.
Interesting time to introduce a measure that effectively means needing to buy a new car for taking kids to school, getting groceries, etc. given that the economy is tanking and for all intents and purposes the country is facing a long recession
Only a fool would trade modern life for the mentioned "power".

Best thing today is: I can ditch the "power struggle" stuff and live a happy, healthy and fulfilling life.

Unless I fall for the mental manipulations used to draw people as pawns into "power struggles".
None of that changes the fact that all manual labor is outsourced for profit/control, and not benevolence like OP implied.
achieving a "filter bubble" would be a remarkable achievement.

in practice, you can absolutely get your daily ration of poop on social media just by showing up.
“for transactions such as part-time work, side jobs or selling goods.”

you should be fine
Quote from NIST, "Zero trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets or user accounts based solely on their physical or network location (i.e., local area networks versus the internet) or based on asset ownership (enterprise or personally owned). Authentication and authorization (both subject and device) are discrete functions performed before a session to an enterprise resource is established."

Zero Trust is not assume everything is compromised and you dont trust anything. Its about reducing implicit trust across the pillars to reduce risk.
I lost hope. Even though hope sometimes meant faith and sometimes meant believe in something which offer no hope.

2 years hk, 20 years of trying to get them in and be part of but turn out it use its power to suppress internal and external fire (and even offer totalitarianism as alternative to human existence), not to mention 20 years of Beijing protest …

2000 years of ok with imperialism (from qin to now) and even colonialism (qing dynasty).

Not sure it can be changed. Just another one bite the dust. Or should we keep on hoping.
The mayor described it as step towards "Singapore-style" road pricing and went further in setting a target goal to copy the whole Singapore set-up for road pricing. Which is an interesting U-turn from the cacophony of outrage between 2016-2019 when it was suggested that the UK should adopt a Singapore-style trade and tax policy. Bit by bit...
No. It’s a minimum fuel efficiency standard that petrol cars registered after 2006 were legally required to meet. So it is a very lax standard in reality, and only removes the worst vehicles from the roads.
The responsible majority.
From the article: "It means only cars that meet strict emission requirements will be allowed to enter London areas without incurring a ULEZ charge: Euro 4 engine compliance for petrol cars (which includes any cars registered after 1 January 2006) and Euro 6 (after 1 January 2016) for diesel."
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I strongly support this policy, but I worry that it will be struck down in the courts.

The government of London attempted to subsidise public transport in the 1980s, but that was considered illegal after the council of the London Borough of Bromley argued that a public transit tax would be unfair since the Tube doesn't reach that far. I could see a similar challenge happening today.
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Don't forget "machine guns aren't weapons of war" which is also quite a bit of a head scratcher!
The TL;DR of the video is that 5.1 can render foliage (trees/shrubs) better, and that is a significant advance.

It's not that it's a bargain, or a good value for the price. The title of the video is "Why Unreal Engine 5.1 is a Huge Deal".

Without the word "Huge" it comes across rather differently.
Either you default or you honor your credit and potentially rebalance credit.
I your business was operated responsibly you shouldn’t be in a situation where you stop all payments to „sort out your business numbers“
That hasn't been true for a while. I regularly see tweets by people who have no connection to the accounts I follow. They'll often have accompanying tags like "Sports" or "Cryptocurrency" above their name, as if Twitter has decided I'm interested in these topics.
It is bizarre when a law designed to protect you becomes so it extreme, it actually harms you. But it's true.

Another example is the insane ways in which "zero-COVID" policies are enforced in China, resulting in probably more deaths than if they were a lot more lenient (at this point).
Good effort managing to slip in some “liberal elites!!!!” catastrophising.

This measure:

- Only applies to petrol vehicles over 17 years old and diesel vehicles over 7 years old

- Offers scrappage grants for those on low incomes or with disabilities

- Is generally not considered to be a “strong political action” and has reasonably broad support as par as polling can tell.

So, in other words, this seems like a reasonably proportionate effort to reduce local air pollution and there is not massive opposition.
The whales swimming in Thames will thank Mr Mayor for thinking of them. Also the penguins.
It's £12.50 per day.

I'm sure they can manage.
That’s what I’m saying / the congestion area is only for post 2006 vehicles.
> as a driver I find the cognitive load of figuring out where I can drive and which fees are payable is getting rather high.

I guess that's the whole point, to discourage car usage.
On the other hand, as someone who doesn't own a car on purpose, to have the city where I live in being constantely polluted and invaded by so many cars has caused me great health and stress issues.

The idea that my children are risking illnesses because we are forced to breathe such toxic air from motorists makes me feels impotent and I wish it was just a matter of cognitive load for me, but instead I'm always worried about my kids' health and I realize they are growing up in spaces designed for Cars and not for people.

It almost feels like a dystopia to me, as kids all over the world are getting preventable illnesses thanks to car pollution and we live in concrete hellscapes.
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How would you know if something is "based on nothing real" if you haven't actively worked in and contributed to said field? I for example know very little about virology or immunology and I have never published anything in those fields. Would you listen to me discrediting covid researchers or mRNA-vaccines if I say I think they are based on nothing real?
Behavioural change is a key part of these schemes. Kids walking to school, families getting groceries delivered, or picking up groceries by foot on the walk home from the bus are all viable low-cost options in London.
> My bike seems much more comfortable

cars are much more comfortable than bikes though.

so ranking things by speed we get

- bullet +3

- car +2

- bicycles +1

ranking them by comfort

- car +3

- bicycle +2

- bullet +1

final ranking

- cars +5

- bullet +4

- bicycle +3

cars win, bikes come last.
I live in London. I've never, ever seen a sign like this. There are confusing parking signs, I will admit, but if you can provide evidence of the sign you refer to I would love to see it!
Why is Time Machine backing up to .sparsebundle file?
Any diesel van that is Euro 6 compliant won’t need to pay this, which covers any van made since late 2016. Petrol vans made since 2006 are all compliant with the ULEZ and don’t need to pay either. It’s only older, more polluting, vans that will need to pay it

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/van...
Disagree. I was absolutely miserable when I was forced to meet with people in real life, although I enjoyed some interactions, deep down I never liked hanging out with them. Unless you are very lucky and born in a location where you can easily find like-minded people or if your personality is suited for meeting random people and not having any preferences in friends (kind of people who can be friends with anyone they meet), then being forced to meet people is hell. I'd rather have online friends that have similar interests/sense of humor etc... Than have forced and shallow "real" relationships where I have to change who I am in order to fit in.
Remains to be seen what happens. It depends on how pollution goes after.
> Wouldn't be better if Londoners kick out the actual elite who own all the housing and extract passive income from the working people? Many of the people that Londoners pay for the privilege of having a roof are corrupt people from all over the globe ripping of their citizens and buying properties in London.

Something tells me these people not only drive "compliant" (= new) cars, but on the odd chance they didn't, they probably wouldn't even notice the £12.5 tax.
That’s the same kind of fun one can have at a well-funded startup, and it doesn’t come with the technical and regulatory baggage that Twitter carries.

From my POV, the massive scale of Twitter is nothing but downside for engineering focus in the current situation where all the moderation and legal frameworks have been blown to bits. I spent a couple of years at Facebook, so I’ve seen what the legal reality is for product work in high-volume social media. Nothing could entice me to work in a situation where I as an engineer became personally responsible for managing that. Yet that’s the de facto situation at Twitter. They’re not even taking meetings with EU regulators anymore because there’s nobody left at the company! It’s not my kind of fun if I’m being asked to make rushed decisions that can lead to multi-billion fines and/or distress and physical harm to users.
Whilst it is not good the first respond is to isolate is right. In fact by not doing it earlier and let the wu han people running cause the outbreak of the world (and I am not talking about the origin of virus but how the first wave started). And the first wave is not as tame as the current one.

Over time the virus tame and solution appeared hence measure should be relaxed.

If you just let it goes as Boris would want it would have killed a lot more.
Oddly enough - one of my cars is a 2007 4.5 litre petrol engined… which is ULEZ compliant!

Surely a vehicle like mine is the one that should be taxed!
most people (in france at least) haven’t got their 2022 shot, and we’re completely fine. The virus evolution is what changed things.
Stuff like that is why the UK is becoming a developing country
You don't need to buy a new car. The ULEZ standards are pretty relaxed.
That makes the incredibly naïve (but equally incredibly common) that employees are literal resources of equivalent value.

In actual fact, excepting "cultural loyalty" (which is usually interrupted in any such large acquisition/disruption event) essential employees are typically the most transient/difficult to retain. Many are not as remuneration-driven (more likely to be comfortable & their competence is often driven by a more vocational motivating factor) & even those who are can negotiate good terms elsewhere with relative ease.

This leads to a concentrated brain-drain where the fewer engineers remaining to partake in the pie aren't contributing as much value. That ain't protecting your core.
Right... have a good day.
> It's a shame that so many people are growing up abused and/or neglected, but that's not the fault of the abusers, it's a systemic, generational fault in society.

It is fault of the abusers. And the societal changes you foaming about allow people to escape those abusers. Most abuse happen inside family and is directed toward weaker or dependent members. The social help from society allows people escape these dynamics and allows them to disassociate themselves from the abusers.
Hesitant to admit this, but the cable between my antenna and router is missing the clip one side, and has been for far longer than since I moved in and set it up; seems to work fine. /shrugs
> Olric v0.4 and previous versions use Olric Binary Protocol, v0.5 uses Redis serialization protocol for communication and the API was significantly changed. Olric v0.4.x tree is going to receive bug fixes and security updates forever, but I would recommend considering an upgrade to the new version.

Seems like a tall order to promise updates “forever”, particularly for a v0 release.
First warp drive test successfully conducted – US engineers

Nice
Regarding the name, quoting from the README:

"Despite the "Klarna" mention, this repository is not affiliated with Klarna AB. KATT was indeed born at Klarna, and Klarna AB holds copyright for parts of the code, but it is now being maintained outside the company, by its original authors and new contributors."
Realizing is one thing, being able to do what it takes to affect change or believing that is even possible is another.
This is good news. The complainants however need to get realistic.

I drive a 2014 vehicle which is exempt from this regulation entirely and there is no daily charge. I bought it in 2017 knowing full well that this was going to happen. It's a modest 1.0L 3-cyl petrol. It's comfortable, cheap to run and has a decent safety rating.

The problem is really that people have got used to buying oversize, overpowered luxury vehicles when they really need to either not bother and use public transport or downsize to something with less of an environmental impact.

My neighbour has a 4.8L Porsche Cayenne. No one needs one of those on this planet and wanting one is no longer an excuse to own one.
> most of the paper invoices becomes a part of dustbins

As paper is both degradable and renewable, I really don't see the problem here.

> And mostly people are interconnected

Not my parents (or their generation) that find themselves in a position of modern illiterates.

> if available online

As I mentioned, online availability can change; offline availability cannot.
"They're even dumber than people. "

Years ago when thinking about this I used to envisage a graph with a log scale that would indicate the intelligence of brightest humans (the Einsteins of this world), the dumbest ones and also all other supposedly sentient animals extending way down to the simplest forms of life.

I pictured the graph with humans way out in front at the top but closely grouped together (that is there isn't that much difference between the dumbest and smartest human on an absolute scale). The next most intelligent animal on the scale would be widely separated from humans and a long way down the graph (despite the log scale).

In recent years, witnessing some of the things you mention and other antics I've seen, that gap has just about eroded altogether. Now, I no longer have any clear idea where humans should be placed on the graph (I still find it hard to believe how stupid humans can be—and I'm not being elitist about it as I include myself in that category).

Right, we need to reevaluate intelligence, IQ tests don't mean much in the grand schema. I suppose the thing that may distinguish us humans from other species is that at least some of us know how stupid we humans are.

BTW, I'd still group all humans pretty much together on an absolute scale (if it were ever possible to construct one), we're all pretty much the same.

PS: you're right about chickens, they're about as dumb as it gets when intelligence is measured in cognitive terms, but as you infer surviving with humans implies evolutionary intelligence (again what is intelligence?). Nevertheless, the difference in intelligence (in its cognitive sense) between chickens and covids and currawongs are miles apart—a comparison would almost be a non sequitur.
Humans hugely undervalue their time. £12.50 per day is a bargain for a tradesperson if it means they can do more work because they’re spending less time idling in traffic jams.
The area is for all vehicles, and most petrol vehicles registered before 2006 must pay to enter it.
Is called a red herring. Diverting the focus toward the "but Ucranians are nazis" to be able to flash the antisemitic card against the other part.

A genocide is a crime against humanity. Is not defined as a "better" or "worse" genocide depending on how many Jews were killed on it.
I want that for servers I manage.
Given that they mention SQL more than other things, and stress SoA and memory intensive applications, I think this makes more sense than it would otherwise
AArch64 processors are available with 64 and 128 byte cache lines, and big.LITTLE processors may report different icache line sizes on different cores[1], so a single thread can even be rescheduled across different icache line sizes (no idea about dcache).

[1]: https://www.mono-project.com/news/2016/09/12/arm64-icache/
Foreign workers should learn the local language, especially if they've moved here, you're not doing them any favour by making them speak English for 8 to 10 hours a day. Work is a big part of integration and social life.

This 50% split is pretty extreme, I don't know how that happened, you'd have to be in a field really lacking local talent or purposefully prioritize foreign workers over local ones. At every company I've worked at (all over Europe) we had 10 to 30% of workers from other countries and everybody naturally defaulted to the local language. It's hard, and often you have to switch to accommodate them, but it's always temporary. I work with an Indian guy, we both started around the same time a few years back, and back then I had to switch to English often, he'd stumble over his words and take a lot of time to express ideas, now I just had a zoom meeting with him: completely fluent in the local language, barely an accent.

1-2 years is not a long time (and you don't need that long to learn with full immersion for 8 hours a day), part of having employees is investing in them. The way I see it, it's not just for your own company's sake, it's your company's civic duty as it will allow them to continue working in this country and make it easier for their next employer. If your company has a training budget I'd set-up one on one language training with private tutors once a week. That's standard at my company (and subsidized by the state).

Your documentation should be in the local language as well. Your hiring practice should prioritize people who speak the language (wherever they come from) at a minimum level and keep those who don't at a reasonable percentage. Unless it's a full-remote international company and workers don't intend to move to your country.
This isn't a congestion area, it's a low emission area. Vehicles before 2006 probably don't meet the emission standards and thus have to pay the premium. Cars after 2007 probably do meet the standards and thus don't have to pay the premium.
But here the money would go to buses, right, which should go that far?
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Is there any reason the `secret` type can't be implemented in, say, Rust, or is it just Google getting really excited to reinvent the wheel again?
Perhaps it's me but I have been stung so many times with these controlled zones.

Dartford crossing, London - forgot to pay

Heathrow drop off - forgot to pay

ULEZ Old Street - forgot to pay

Mersey Gateway bridge, Liverpool - forgot to pay

It seems like a deliberate design pattern to make revenue.

I can't exactly login and pay whilst driving.
Suggest changing link to https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ule... which contains more information
I would have expected this to be about overleaf not texmaxlcs..
We are not there yet.
How would the situation have evolved if we have had no lockdown at all is an interesting question, and assessing the quality of the models that were used to predict casualties is, IMHO, one of the main things governments should do asap.

All the projections i’ve seen during the pandemic were off by at least 50% (in their most generous intepretation), and countries like sweden that locked people down the least didn’t see any difference in the number of casualties.
How do you operator overload in C++ so that calling computeHmac(secret(string)) returns secret(string)?
A big problem is that there are no good small cars available.

I want a small car with an interior comparable with that of the S-class, does not exist. Closest thing is the 911, which is still quite wide and not all that comfortable.

If I want an "appropriate" sized car for London, I'll have to drive some shitbox.
Show HN: I wrote a book about forms usability
Hello.

I'm a developer who wrote a book about forms.

The thing is that I suffer from perfectionism. It's not "just to convince you guys that I wrote something cool". My book is pretty mediocre.

However in order to write it, I rented a hotel (!) in a different country because I couldn't find a quiet place where I could do this. And spent here ~1.5 month writing it.

I'm highly inspired by two guys. Those guys who wrote RefactoringUI (Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger) and Josh W Comeau (who made css-for-developers). Both of them made terrific products.

My dream is to get to their level.

But here is a thing: I planned to spend a whole year for this book, but due to the war (I'm from Russia) I had to migrate to another country. And a lot of things has happened. After suffering depressing (hello Fluvoxamine & Xanax), I finally made something that I can show.

If I get some results (yes, basically, sells), I'll dedicate the next year to get close to those guys mentioned above.

One of the ideas is to write a book (or even a course) about tables. They are complicated.

Another one is to upgrade https://history.user-interface.io/ to a printed book.

Many ideas, but it's hard to realize that the whole year was hectic due to the well-known sad events that happened.

One thing I want to mention about "what's cool about this offer". In the "Complete package" there is a discount for FramesX.

It's the first time I used a product in Figma and I used it for my illustrations. Next week this guy releases the second version. And I RELALY liked this one. So that might be even better than offer than my book :D