skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that problem can be addressed in other ways - primarily better infrastructure (though I'd like to see better driver education too, e.g. as per the Netherlands where drivers are encouraged to open doors while parked in a manner that ensures they see any oncoming cyclists before doing so).
We have MHL where I live and while I think there's a good argument for relaxing them at least for certain cases, I am grateful for having grown up in a culture where wearing a helmet is expected/ normal while riding a bike - they've certainly saved me from more serious injuries multiple times (including cases where I've hit the top of my head on branches etc. while riding!).
But the fact that so few places in the world do have such legislation is telling - if a law truly is effective with limited downsides it tends to get adopted far more universally.
People in Europe are going through inflation rates not seen in decades. States are trying to minimize the effects on the population through various means like price caps. I think these measures benefit the present generation at the cost of future generation, here is why.
Cloud is very expensive and very complex.

Evaluate costs against self hosting.
They have on many, many occasions. Here's an example: the Nov 2019 special edition of the SAA magazine [1] is dedicated almost entirely to debunking some of Hancock's claims in a recent book and explaining why they're so problematic in context.

The reason you're probably not aware of things like this is that public awareness of the discussion is very one-sided. People like Hancock are fantastic at getting their narrative into the public consciousness. Good academics (almost inherently) are not.

[1] http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=634462
The article isn't for either of those things. Mandatory helmet laws are a matter of public policy, they have nothing to do with individual people making individual decisions.

The article's information is useful if you are a voter or a politician trying to decide whether mandatory helmet laws will help to make your city a safe place for cyclists.
Guard Rails to Prevent Overwork
No doubt. This was an amusing aside, not a critique, intended to illustrate the long-term impact of storage choices. That's part of the bull-case for AWS long-term, and why we see projects like AWS Snowball.
The commercial vehicles market tend to still be "stupid". Of course this limits you to full size vans, big trucks, and things like that. I suspect "smarts" will infect these as well eventually, when it's just cheaper for the manufacturer to just include them in the build even when not asked for them.
In my experience, when a flight is international then the checks end up being pretty similar to what you see with the TSA in an American airport. When they are regional then there's nothing happening.

(granted, that was dealing with a UK->US and US->UK flights)
People are surprisingly bad about reading words and instead reading something entirely different.

It's clear from even the short HN title that we're talking about making helmets mandatory by law, not whether you should wear them.
RNNs are probably not practically Turing Complete (2017)
My anecdote is that I've tried to clear out wax with a Q-tip only to "clog" the ear. I could still hear a little out of the affected ear, and it wasn't painful, but it was very annoying. The only thing that eventually fixed it was flushing the ear with lots of warm water to get the wax plug out.
Maybe we can just extend it forever and drop it. And dissolve DHS at the same time as well.
As this article points out, there was a lot of correct information being posted that was flagged as misinformation because the officially correct information was incorrect, even though much of it was extremely obviously true (such as n95 masks reducing the chance of infection). In fact it was simultaneously a crisis that n95 masks were in short supply for medical workers and disputed that n95 masks could be useful to protect people from covid infection.

Before you have a knee-jerk reaction to this, look it up, what I am saying is easy to verify for yourself to be accurate.
I wish I could have a list of everyone who thinks $20 for 20 years of support is unreasonable, so I could avoid having them as customers.
My memory is exactly like that, but also vague on this specific matter. Hence the question.
> pending 30 days in jail, where she suffered a miscarriage.

Ok this is horrific, and Hertz should be ashamed of their behavior. Now, we dont have any proof the arrest or jail time caused the miscarriage, but to the extent we believe it did, can we also talk for a minute about why our executive branch/jail system is so hard on people (of both sexes btw) such that physiological distress occurs such as miscarriages or suicides?

It's completely unnecessary, I'd dare say detrimental, to getting rehabilitated.
> A game company can always just block the credit card details (not just the number) from buying the game again, there’s a limit to the number of CCs that a person is going to be able to use.

Gift cards exist. Companies can't block people from buying a game effectively, otherwise cheating wouldn't be a problem anymore as most cheaters are repeat offenders.

> The problem is theft of a product that has been purchased.

While it may be true that taking back a physical product without permission is considered theft, companies have the right to enforce their terms and conditions. In the case of a game company, if a player is found to be cheating, they have violated the terms and conditions and the company has the right to revoke their access to the game. This is not theft because the player has not fulfilled their end of the contract by following the rules of the game. The player has never "bought a game", they bought a software which allowed them to accept terms and conditions to play online.

Also just to be clear, I fucking hate Activision and haven't given them money for years already. I'm talking more generally about the practice of game bans.
Yea had similar aspirations. Someone even implemented the "Flow" concept as a Go interface. I felt like the first implementation was too complex and we never got back to it but definitely agree, it's a core primitive that needs to be built. Flow, triggers and actions that can be sequenced into steps with rollbacks.
Why would private security be more accountable (you say it as if it’s self evident)? ELI5 and despise libertarianism.
I had an environmental science professor who would not buy a new car to replace his beat up gas guzzler that was decades old.

The production of a car produces about 40k gallons of hazardous waste, removing that water permanently from the water supply.

https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/water-water-everywh...
Has there been an evaluation on whether the SMART data is valid/accurate?

It would seem that the vendor is incentivized to not report the most accurate data so their drive doesn't come across as bad and/or to avoid warranty claims.
While I agree that the expectation of privacy is somewhat flexible and that future legal precedent in favor of enhanced privacy is definitely achievable (though well-defined statutory protections would, in my opinion be preferable), I don't buy that increased automation actually results in a net loss of privacy relative to the status quo.

The US government is acting within well-established legal guardrails if they were to carry out the same tasks in a highly manual fashion. If it carries out the same tasks in an automated manner, the substantial legal issues remain exactly the same: there's a change in efficiency, an increase in data capture, and improved accessibility to authorized parties, but the fundamental act of capturing images, cross referencing them to a database of known persons, and logging movement activities remain basically unchanged. I don't see how you could argue that this harms the notion of privacy in itself any worse than it already was already being harmed, and I don't see how one could construct a sound legal argument that the introduction of automation itself somehow introduces additional damages.
Potato or po-tato.

FedNow is the solution the Federal Reserve is proposing for a "digital dollar". It will only be used for inter-bank settlements.
We're looking seriously at Tauri for a new application. It seems good, although we're very early days.
https://openai.com/api/

Enjoy.
As far as I'm aware, America is the only country that makes you take your shoes off. Certainly it's not the norm.
> I don't even want a screen or backup cam.

Backup cams are mount lower and have a wider field of view than people do. They are really effective at keeping drivers from running over children. They are incredibly effective at this. Even in my low to the ground compact car, my backup cam sees things I cannot out my back window.
Do other countries have anything like this program?
I've always been eager to try out Hetzner as they always come up as a very affordable provider of VPS' and small dedis.

However, whenever I price compare, I always find OVH and Kimsufi far under-price them on small servers.

Am I missing out on a Hetzner product line or are they offering features I'm not getting on OVH?
I agree with your point here, but I am curious if there isn't space for people to gamble and not be hedged? Speculating naked with the contracts.
Horowitz & Hill's Art of Electronics has been the gold standard for quite a while.

https://artofelectronics.net/
That’s the way I see it. Give the people the means and expectation to protect themselves in a dangerous situation and the rest of the problem solves itself.
I'm going to guess that the dispersion of this association between Louis XIV and Alexander probably really tweaked the nose more than one Holy Roman Emporer.
Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk.
I'm sure this has something to do with that entire re-organization feeling more like an excuse to create some contracts for companies connected to administration insiders than it did anything actually useful that couldn't have been accomplished without the creation of a huge new department (and several smaller ones).
Why are there many posts about the US on HN?
He took money in exchange for a lifetime license, and is now revoking those licenses.

I don't see how you can ever call that "honest" unless we have fundamentally different ideas about what honesty is.

It can be honest to say: I made a term I can't support - I am going out of business as a result.

It can be honest to say: I made a term that is no longer worth my time - I am going to stop working on this as a result.

It's sure as fuck not honest to say: I want the marketing from the current name and user base, but I made a bad deal so I'm going to break my terms because I want more money.

It feels like he's trying to have his cake and eat it too. Frankly - I'd much rather he own by just going out of business or by end-of-lifing the product and launching a new one.
> It might even be a good idea for pre-flight training videos to explicitly tell passengers to immediately attack anyone attempting to hijack the plane.

You'll have a lot of passengers attacking each other for no reason.
This is a remarkably bad idea.

Fact is: plane hijackings isn't really a problem anywhere. Low-tech solutions like locking the cockpit goes very far.

Stopping those really determined is probably hard/impossible, the best tools is probably old school humint.

But it's probably best to accept that attacks are not impossible.
Spend the money on something else.
Precisely. And it takes forever. Forcing them to rethink the entire strategy.

The point is non-compliance to inject latency and delays.
I think to call it a "cover-up" is a bit silly. One important thing to call out is that former smoker status does seem to result in an increased risk. Only current status MAY be a reduced risk.

It seems more study is needed but I'm obviously not as invested in this as the author of this article is.
...lion meat? The fuck...
I appreciate the pun.

And sure, I think your view point is fair, but I also think you muddied the top level waters a little because the topic at hand was the ability to reason abstractly past a point of contention and your point seems to be that there are signals where you don’t believe the juice is worth the squeeze. Which, yeah, fair.

To relay a related experience I once listened to this guys MLM pitch. The things that seemed to reach this guy the most were conversation points past ‘is there any indication this works that survives a cursory inspection’, like ‘given that this is good and everyone should do it, what happens to the half of humanity that joins and has no one to recruit?’.

>> The only time I've ever run across this kind of flat earther, all it took was to remind them that one of their family members - sitting right next to them in a permanent state of cringe - circumnavigated the globe in their sailboat.

Side note: glorious
Real ID was originally supposed to take in effect in 2008, so it's been delayed 17 years at this point, which is absurd. It was created 20 years before it would take effect.

Why is it still being pursued?
If you heard that more police officers had been arrested than had ever arrested anyone, would it really matter much if those police officers had been arrested as teenagers, or on the job? It's a program that employs people who have caused more incidents of crime than they have intervened to prevent. Not because they're particularly criminal, but because they are particularly useless.
If I could get significant discounts on health or car insurance by wearing a helmet I would (though I'm not sure I'd fit in most cars with a helmet on).
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

This site is a gem
It’s too bad Optane failed. It legitimately improved latency over NAND flash.
that's a good point, I just made a comment next to yours responding to the same original comment about whether homework should exist at all, and I think you're idea that it is a way to extend the "learning time" of students without requiring more time and resources from teachers is a good counter-point.

If you have the time to read my other comment, what would you think about the idea of only making homework mandatory for students who's quiz/test grades are below a certain level, say 70% for example
OJ Simpson is "legally" not a murderer.
Anything imaginable *might* become "mandatory" at some point. As of right now, no one is proposing to change anything at the consumer level. The only impact will be faster, easier transactions.
I had ChatGPT generate a table of 10 test cases for a Jewish calendar to Gregorian calendar conversion function. None of them were valid.
It seems obvious to me that if drivers are passing closer, then there's less room for error, either by the driver not judging distance or the cyclist needing to avoid a pothole etc. There's also the intimidation factor - a lot of people are put off from cycling due to not feeling safe, and having vehicles pass at speed within a metre is extremely scary.
If this were actually true we would see elites and politicians constantly smoking, since it would be keeping them safer and they have access to infinite resources, knowledge, etc. Instead we see them getting vaccinated (sometimes in secret or with no acknowledgement like Trump did) and guzzling Paxlovid courses (multiple times like Fauci did) if they do get sick. I'm sticking with the pharmaceutical interventions that the elites seem to love...
Completely anecdotal, but I got Covid ~2 weeks after quitting smoking (3 or 4 cigarettes a day), having had avoided it for months. Essentially everyone I know, save my brother who smokes heavily, has gotten it.
Nice writing. Made me feel warm remembering a few people with similar persona from my childhood days. I feel there were a lot of people with similar persona in my dad's generation. Ubiquitous connectivity via Mobile/Internet and how much our cities/towns have changed makes it difficult for this persona to exist today.
Windows is a mess. When I boot into it once every 5 years I'm floored by how bad it is. The touch controls in Internet Explorer don't even work consistently
"view source"... Oh how I miss thee.
You should probably understand that somebody who uses an efficient vehicle for commuting, and a big truck for real big truck things, is utterly an outlier. Most trucks in america have never left the pavement, and the largest thing they carry is a 40 pound bag of dog food. The vast majority of americans buy the biggest truck they can get credit for and drive it everywhere at 12mpg, usually while boasting "It's got a hemi!" as if that even matters after 1980
> with which email provider are you using it?

My own fully self hosted dns, postfix SMTP and dovecot IMAP over TLS setup. Not something to attempt casually unless you work in network engineering for an ISP and have the motivation to maintain your own MX and email hosting environment for other reasons.
To conflate the main activities of an occupying army with that of a tactical cell or rebel/insurgent and claiming they're the same in nature, really makes me wonder why we would have intelligence agencies or counterterrorist rapid response units. The army would suffice.

This is not a "we're the good guys, and they're the bad guys" propaganda thing. It just defines a very different mode of combat. Nice try, but a terrorist is a subversion of a secret agent, not a soldier.
Mandatory motorcycling helmeting was enacted in Minnesota and traffic deaths with motorcycles went way down.

I think it was people wanting organ donations that wanted helmets to be not mandatory(and maybe some other unsavory people). I guess it makes sense.
I'm aware of it, and I'm not aware of anyone using it for proprietary software in the kinds of projects where Ada would come up in discussion. FSF GNAT + Alire are fine as a hobbyist toy and for open source, but they're not in contention for [workjob]. FSF GNAT isn't just unsupported, but also very thinly documented. And that's if you're only targeting Linux or Windows on x86, and not embedded devices with a cross-compiler you need to build yourself.

The basic Windows / Linux versions of the cheapest commercial Ada package only recently dropped to high 4-figures / seat. The equivalent cross-compilers are still $$,$$$.
It Hertz didn't intend to ruin people's lives, they would withdraw the police reports when confronted with their mistakes. Instead, the company prohibits that because:

> A Hertz spokesperson told the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2020 that the company has no “mechanism” to withdraw reports and does not do so because “In the rare instances this happens, if you report a crime, and you later say it didn’t happen, then law enforcement tends not to believe you if you retract it or say you were mistaken,” the spokesperson said. “Hertz’s continued good relationship with law enforcement is important.” [0]

It seems like there is plenty of intent there. The intent to continue lieing to police to protect Hertz's reputation at severe cost to Hertz's victims.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/04/11/hertz-stolen...
I immediately check out whenever someone says "Google it and see what comes up" as "evidence" proving some conspiracy. Also, this is weird hill to die on. This dude has amassed a mega-blog post with a ton of aggregated studies - it's not a small amount of work.

Anecdotally my only family member who regularly smokes just got COVID.
Warcraft II actually plays, I wasn't expecting that.
Air marshals may be pointless, but not for this reason.

Air marshals are almost certainly trained not to intervene in minor disturbances. Otherwise a team of hijackers could locate the air marshal by having one person act as an unruly passenger.
I don't typically carry passengers in the rear, so I just removed all of my rear seat headrests for better visibility.
True. I hope you like negative interest rates on your savings account.
We do put restrictions on drinking and smoking, such as limiting consumption to certain times, places and age groups, and many places have things like taxes on soda and other such tactics to reduce obesity. We have even heavier restrictions on other activities that don't pose much threat to anyone but the person doing it, such as hard drugs. We don't want to stop people from having fun, we're all willing to bear some cost for our fellow man, but minor inconveniences which lead to big cost savings make sense. Helmets are incredibly beneficial and the burden is pretty light - even when not required by law most people voluntarily wear helmets. Mandatory helmet laws allow cyclists to keep doing what they love while dramatically reducing the number of severe injuries that society at large needs to deal with, it's a happy medium.
Many of the most impassioned activists who are against including the T with the LGB are themselves part of the latter. Groups such as the LGB Alliance have formed in recent years as a direct reaction to the forced teaming of the LGB and the T.

Partly this is to dissociate themselves from the bad reputation that mainstream LGBT activists are giving the movement. The drag shows for children are part of this. Really, this really should have nothing at all to do with being gay, or trans for that matter, yet it's being promoted and defended by various LGBT activist groups.

But the main reason to separate the LGB out from the T is because having one's sexuality rewritten from being same-sex attracted to same-gender, as has happened with this ideological change that centers gender identity instead of sex, is a quite offensive form of erasure.

By and large, lesbian women (female) aren't romantically or sexually interested in transwomen (male). And the same for gay men (male) and transmen (female). From an shared activism point of view, it makes little sense for the LGB to be stuck with this modern incarnation of the T.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
:)
funny `mtr` is listed but not `drill`
Context is important, lest you prime your reader to make unsupported conclusions. Imagine if instead of doing this to police officers, we insinuated things about arrestees instead.
Yes they're related. This is SpaceX making public (to a partial extent) what they have long been doing for the Space Development Agency (a Mike Griffin government program closely aligned with Starlink).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
I don't think it's that shocking to see the sentiment. People who work with computers have (IMO) a better understanding of the pitfalls that can come with their integration into systems. We are more aware of the security issues that can arise, as well as the complexity they can introduce.

I don't agree with the backup camera take (I love mine), but I otherwise generally agree with the dumb car comment. I want my vehicle to be understandable and hackable, so I can work on it without needing access to its computer as much as possible. I don't want aspects of my vehicle to be made available on the public internet. I don't want a touch screen that eliminates tactile controls.
In typical use both are IMAP clients.
AsyncAPI[0] might be worth a look for standardising async.

[0] https://www.asyncapi.com
I used to be a Hetzner customer for a few years (2018-2020), one day my card stopped working, while I tried to get a new one I ended up with a 5 EUR invoice, once I got a new card I tried to pay the invoice but they had blocked my account, so I had to transfer the money to their account to pay the invoice, once paid they told me to create a new account, I did and was asked for a picture of my passport after being a customer for years, I stopped trying to use their service at that moment. Now paying twice the price at Linode but at least they only ask for a phone number.
This. It's got loads of amazing diagrams and explanations. It's got the basics and more advanced stuff too. This is a great book.