skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, a bit conspirational much.
There have been dramatic improvements in car safety in each of the last few decades. Accidents that used to be death sentences are now dust yourself off and walk away.

Actuarially as well, the value of a human life is so high that a few $1000 in safety options on a car for marginal increases in safety will almost always be worth it.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...

Arguably the other thing you can do is live in a state with a 55~65mph max speed limit. Looking at the state level auto fatalities stats is pretty striking how much lower fatality rates are in the low limit / high traffic (and therefore low speed) northeast .. whether you measure per capita or per mile driven.

The most interesting but hard to measure metric would be per vehicle hour, I would suggest. Commutes are driven more by time than distance, and in congested areas people commute shorter distances at lower speed vs some of the super commutes people do at 75mph+. You can see this sort of reflected in the stats where the per capita fatality rates are 1/3 to 1/2 the level of the Deep South, however on a per-mile basis closer to 2/3. You can also see that the northeastern per-capita miles driven is 1/2 ..
The title is a little bit misleading.
It doesn't write commit messages, it generates PR summary.
Im pretty sure the individual bias section was just there to provoke emotions
I had bad floaters for a while, but either they healed or I learned to subconsciously ignore them.
Having plenty of experience in both the car and watch worlds, what you're saying is somewhat true but it's based on brands, models and exclusivity rather than the price (which is a derivative of those factors).

It's knowing which car or watch to buy, and also recognizing it on others, that acts as the signal.
It's interesting that your first three items are memory related. Is research into individual memory capability actually 'social' science at all? Technically it falls under the umbrella of Psychology, but the examples you cited seem like they're researching things closer to Psychophysics than anything socially influenced. For that matter I think that general response applies to all items on your list. Unless you can make a compelling case that sleep deprivation leading to poor performance is the result of anything socially related, or that the forgetting curve is cultural or something which is unlikely.
When you start listening only to marketers/accounting and ignoring your engineers and users, you will eventually fail.
They also make little devices that take a usb thumb drive and have a little screen for preview, then you don't even need to tie up a computer while doing it.

Just hit record on the box with the usb stick and hit play
on the VCR and set a timer to come back in an hour or two.
> Because reputation matters nothing

Ask Blizzard. Ask EA. Ask CDPR. Ask Ubisoft. Ask any AAA developer.

All have released absolute dogshit that sold based on their reputations alone. And that doesn't even account for the reports of everything from absurd quantities of mandatory crunch to rape and suicide.

All have eagerly awaited sequels and new IP. All are more profitable than ever before.

Some folks care, but a vast majority do not.
Towards “Intelligent” Neuroprostheses Through Brain-“Brain-Inspired Systems”
What's funny is seeing the correction in action on cars.com / autotrader.com. You can see the price history, and dealers even just 6 months ago were asking outrageous prices and have since slashed their asking prices because they can't move the things, because new cars are cheaper or not much more expensive, have a warranty, and better financing.
Confusion between '=' and '==' is a typical pain point that beginners have when learning to program. Plus it is super at odds with the notation we all learn in math.

':=' is didactically better because it shows that assignment has an direction. It also leaves '=' for actual equality.
Easy to blame that it's a manual paperwork driven process, but I'm glad that transferring a legal title isn't a one click process. These are not software EULAs and title related fraud is still a big risk even with all the safeguards.

National chains like CarMax handle this paperwork just fine and Carvana should've invested more in the back office staff rather than overpaying for used Jettas, you know to move fast and break things.
Thanks for mentioning! I posted it to "Show HN" last week but it didn't get lots of attention back then.
Ask HN: How can we make the current CI/CD ecosystem better?
Having dealt with lots of CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, Azure DevOps, etc.), I feel like there is lots of room for improvement:

* There is little to no inter-op between CI providers. Sure there are 3rd party providers, but they only seem to focus on the basics, like running a job when a commit is pushed. But, if you choose something like GitHub Actions, you are now locked into their platform, making switching Git hosting providers very painful.

* YAML. Everything is YAML. Sometimes it is just one big file (Gitlab, Travis, CircleCI, etc), and it becomes very hard to maintain very quickly. Workflows for GitHub Actions can be split up into different files, but at the end of the day, you are still writing YAML, which means no loops, conditionals, functions, and so forth. In addition, you must follow a strict file structure, meaning very little room for customization. In many cases, you need to write a Makefile/Python/shell script for more complex situations.

Does anyone else share these annoyances? Are there any similar sorts of issues that you deal with on a day to day basis that you wish could be improved?
There’s a pretty monumental amount of overhead to hardware. Software does have a lot of overhead, but I don’t think the opportunity cost of macOS on iPad is beyond reach.
Even if the stock crashed 50%, it’d still be way more than a “few” billion.
I pay not to have to deal with bullshit in a lot of areas of my life. Buying a car is the definition of “dealing with bullshit”. We have bought three of our last four cars from there and it always felt like a good experience.

We bought our son a 2010 Jeep Liberty from there in 2020. It constantly had little problems that they would fix without a hassle for the first few months.

Out of the blue, they called me and offered to reimburse me for one months payment on top of offering reimbursement on a car rental - they didn’t have to do either.

We ended up turning down the car rental since I was working remotely by then and I just let him use my car.
As measured by dollars per mile, you'll pay 1/3 or even 1/4 as much money to fuel an EV as an ICE car.

This assumes you recharge at home. If you recharge only at Level 3 (fast) chargers it costs more but it's still much cheaper than gasoline.

Routine maintenance is also cheaper for EVs.

I'm willing to pay a one-time premium for a car that costs substantially less to drive (not to mention being a lot more fun), so I'm a counterexample of one.

And I'm not sure why you think Tesla's supercharging network is a loss leader. They charge around 25-39 cents per kwh, and Tesla probably pays around 10 cents per kwh for that electricity. That doesn't sound like a loss leader to me.
Cars are heavier because they're safer. They aren't just stuffed with hundreds of pounds of electronics.
It’s worth clicking through to see the version of the article with annotations. The link is near the top.
He’s set to testify this week so we’ll be able to test these theories:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/investing/sbf-ftx-collapse-se...
Additionally in manhuas, some non so usual topice are overreepresented, like a _lot_ of shonnen manhuas about business character success/CEO kind of stuff.
Remember when "It's ready when it's ready" worked and sold products, much to consumer delight? It's been awhile, but it feels like those folks have been driven out of the industry (or into the niche indie studios).
That's not really the case with watches.
CEOs responding to criticism is way more valuable than the stuff they usually do…
> someone doesn't take credit cards or bank transfers

That will change with this law, finally. Or put them out of business. That's a good thing, don't you agree?

> so I can still pay for stuff even if the internet goes out regionally

If you having to pay transactions >10k frequently enough that network outages block you, I'd wager you're doing exactly the kind of something this law should prevent.

> there are plenty of ways around these laws.

Sure, but now there's an instrument in the toolbox which wasn't there before.
Or are you arguing that outlaws gonna outlaw no matter what, so why even try?
Here, quick example from today. Working with an R-script and needed to check date functions [1] and you got mm/dd/yyyy literally in the docs. Good luck figuring out what "%a" or "%D" means, btw.

Another recent example - I had to fight for two hours with yet another javascript date/time picker to present date in localizaiton of a browser. Turns out this popular picker didn't have proper support for localization and set US one by default.

The same issue I had with Flutter time picker, btw. Not sure if it's been fixed by now, but making proper localization support can be quite challenging even in 2022.

Sure, localization support is getting better each decade, but it's far from perfect. And if you've used software since 1986, then you should remember that at that time the concept of localization DIDN'T EVEN EXIST and majority of the software (including DOS!) used US format (there were "localized" versions of DOS, ofc, but those were even branded differently and the best you could get is codepage, keyboard and printer support).

[1] https://www.statmethods.net/input/dates.html
Why wasn’t advertising going to pay the bills for 7,500 employees? Ads pay the bills for Meta and Google, which each have way more than 7,500 employees.
I dont remember which paper, but there was once a FP vs OO for learning paper that showed that there was not much difference in speed of learning: but that was on total beginners. Since most langs are OO/imperative, the FP-style is simply less common, thus a steeper learning curve than the next OOish/imperative language.
I don't understand why this is better than simply doing composite or s-video to 480p HDMI with a cheap little box and capturing that?

It seems like this is an order of magnitude more complex and expensive.

Is the quality really that much better?
Any real-world examples of this being achieved in any business domain and jurisdiction?
I mean this could happen by accident right?!?

"Whoops! I'm so sorry, Mrs. H. I guess this just isn't my week."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102266/quotes/qt0468298
Yes and no. It really depends on how fast and accurately you want to move that much mass. I worked on a mobile robot years ago that weighted ~5000lbs. It was only putting 2mL of fluid into a tile on the space shuttle at a time. It needed to be that heavy because it had to be very careful not to damage the tiles (or the shuttle) and it needed to move in and out of the same standard height doors at the orbiter processing facilities that people walked through, but then needed to operate at up to 13' in height.
>Yes this is also because these days monitor engineers optimize for peak brightness and totally neglect minimum brightness specs.

You can get a proper full range of brightness by using a radiology reading monitor. It's going to run you well into the four figures, though.
It can't be either of those, because any given outcome is forcing a single value of y (or any variable in general).
The good experience you had early on and the bad state of the company now are closely linked.

The story is always the same with this type of company: take a mature industry that is profitable on a unit basis because it’s boring and unpleasant, then build a narrative around some strategy to make it exciting (giant vending machines!) and get buy-in to spend huge amounts of money in pursuit of the narrative but eventually discover the only way to be profitable is to do what the mature industry players already discovered — but now you’ve got so much debt to service you have to cut even more corners and somehow manage to spend billions on becoming a worse version of what already existed and whatever goodwill you earned is burned.

There’s lots of room for businesses to improve on the boring legacy industries with low margins — like car buying and selling — but it requires careful iteration, it requires taking the established understanding and then building on it. Subsidising the cost of good-but-unprofitable service using investment dollars (Carvana was losing thousands per sale pre-pandemic) doesn’t build a sustainable business unless it’s part of a strategy.
I’ve heard that before, and always wondered: how dealership owners are able to buy so much power in state capitals?
Why is this comment not getting traction? Seems like it wants to spark "curious" discussion - not everybody has to believe this in order to discuss it.
Most Tacomas seem to sell with a 5’ bed these days, but otherwise yes, trucks are larger than ever.

Personally, I found it easier to move 2x4s or anything longer than approx. 5 feet (fishing poles) in my Prius because the Tacoma I had, had such a short bed. Otherwise I was sticking crap through the Tacoma window which was super jank.

Oh the irony.
Human airline pilot here, a lot of comments about the reliability of automation for takeoff, landing and some emergency scenarios but the proposed regulation is a little more specific. They're trying to allow one pilot at the controls in the cruise phase of flight, this will allow airlines to alter [read: reduce] the pay for the resting second pilot.

What I think the regulators and manufacturers are missing has less to do with the what-if scenario of an incapacitated pilot and more to do with what happens when pilots get bored. Sitting in a cockpit for my 7+hr shift at night over the Pacific is made safer by the fact that I can have a conversation with the other pilot to keep my mind somewhat alert. Take that away and the mind gets dull, complacent and prone to error.

I'm all for more automation as long as there's a measurable benefit to safety. If getting rid of all human pilots leads to a reduction in lives lost per unit of time then it's worth it. Sure there will be major accidents that a human could have prevented, but there will be accidents prevented by the machine too. The crossover point matters.
There's really not much new here. All these ideas have been used in other languages previously, but perhaps not in exactly this cocktail.

I'm decidedly in the not convinced camp.
Someone should try doing a dsp+ml hybrid filter that takes both the optical signal and the generated audio into account to filter out the crackling
It didn’t benefit Drivetime at all, but father & son more than made up for it by selling off CVNA as it rallied to $370 last year.

Give it a year or two, it’ll all come out.
The more dollars and jobs you can claim you brought to your district during the next election, the better.

This isn't just a NASA thing, a NASA contract is probably pretty small compared to getting a new military base, or keeping one open that the military wants to close.
Here's one concept of heavy vs light: I have often wished I could just email a small Pg db to a colleague. In the same way I can just attach a single file to an email and transmit an entire SQLite DB.

I'm not dissing Pg. I really love Pg and I understand that it's built the way it is for good reasons. But it sure would be awesome to pg_dump and have a single tar that could be "run" with a single pg command without worrying about which version is required, what configuration is required, etc.

When that convenience is the most important requirement, SQLite wins. But that is hardly ever the biggest consideration in which RDBMS I choose.
That would be a problem if we instantly replaced all ICE cars with electric. But, that's not going to happen, and these are the least of the reasons.
There was an interesting comment a few months ago [1]

> Not mentioned is that the full test sqlite test suite is proprietary and you need a super expensive sqlite foundation membership to get access to it.

According to Dr Hipp [2], no one bought the test suite. So there are definitely deficiencies in the test suite which may have been better addressed if the full test suite was open.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33346661

[2] https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/#billio...
But it's very much not non-deterministic. It's a deterministic choice. You can give it an exact semantics.
The problem is that like with OpenDoor, asymmetrical information favors the seller.

If I know I can get a better deal, I’m not going to use Carvana or OpenDoor. If I know there is something wrong with my car/house I’m going with Carvana/OpenDoor.
It continuing unabated for 13 years is a historical anomaly, however
They’re different kinds of power fantasies. The one in webtoons is called “naroukei” in Japan, has more self identification and a dark brooding incel hero, and implies you’ll get a girlfriend by being really good at video games. Most popular Japanese example is SAO, although the author of that has lightened up a lot and is woke now. (The fantasy novel “isekai” variant has a strange tendency to have the MC buy sex slaves and the author to explain why it’s fine actually.)

Jump comics are the best selling manga in the US, but the brand basically works by having a few big magic power based series (Demon Slayer etc) that draw you in and then a lot of other ones in different genres (Spy X Family is a family comedy). Also, while none of the editor staff are or ever have been women, these are actually appealing to girls.

Rather than a single self-identification MC, Jump’s magic battle shounens tend to have very large ensemble casts who simultaneously have unique superpowers and are in some kind of corporate org chart power ranking. It’s unclear how they figure out that the guy who can turn into lava on Thursdays is rank #5 and the guy whose shoulders are drums and when he bangs the drums your head explodes is #28.
My understanding is that most residents of Kyiv/Kiev speak Russian day-to-day, and therefore are more likely to use "Kiev" themselves. Russian language ≠ Russian state
Oh, oops that's a mistake, thanks for catching that.

Also, interesting fun fact indeed.
I do this too, but when I come back from lunch I git reset HEAD~1 and keep going till I have a meaningful piece of work to commit on its own. You can also use interactive rebase to reorder or squash commits if you realize that for readability reasons it makes more sense for a refactoring you started later to appear earlier in the stack or for a subpar commit and its subsequent fixup to be combined. This makes the final history more easy to read for reviewers, and (after it's merged) more easy to read for future you and other devs on the project too.
How can there be "too many children"? That is like having too many flowers!
I've heard both.
Thanks to inspiration from Freek van der Herten, I switched to light mode. At the time, I didn’t appreciate the importance of minimizing the relative change of color when switching apps.

Most of the websites I build are light, so using a light theme keeps things more consistent when switching back and forth. I don’t think light or dark makes much difference but the consistency helps me.
It’s a tiny percentage of the market, but if you’re not doing due diligence then it’s going to be a large problem for you.
You should see a psychiatrist it sounds like you have some sort of personality disorder, maybe NPD? Hope that isnt rude to say...
How do you propose to ban that kind of use? In order to ban it you have to detect it.
This is the problem when SV startup approaches hit the world of physical products. This isn't software. To sell a car, you first have to buy one. You cannot create them out of bits and sell more at nearly zero marginal cost. Your inventory has a carrying cost. You're playing in a market. Carvana got caught buying high and having to sell low. Was there any securities trading firm or auto retailer experience on their management team or board?
I was a big believer in dark mode for a long time, until I started trying to reduce my SAD symptoms during the winter time. I read this blog post here [0] after seeing it on HN, and ended up buying 28 100W equivalent bulbs and a 500W equivalent corn bulb. I get a pretty decent amount of light in my home office now, and light mode is essential on my workstation or it's almost impossible to even SEE anything on screen, since the external light will wash out the backlights of the LED. I bought some higher brightness monitors but am starting to realize all those years of using dark mode was just lending itself to me spending 8 hours a day working in a dark room and was making me depressed, especially in the winter.

It's been interesting because my wife is complaining about feeling glum but I've been in a much better mood than I've been in the last few winters. We're talking about spending a few thousand dollars to get ultra bright lighting throughout the house instead of just in my office.

[0] https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/
LLVM-based CFI is interesting; does this mean that distros are going to start building kernels with Clang instead of GCC?
Very much so?

Let's put it to the pragmatic challenge. What will be the output of Go's "Jan 2006" and of R's "%B %h %M" format strings? Don't google.
I have a tablet that I want to read webtoons on because I don't want to use a tiny phone screen, it's basically impossible. The spaces between the panels are way too big. So I basically never read webtoons and stick exclusively to manga... If anyone knows a service that "fixes" the webtoons for me that would be great.
Wars aren't usually faught because people are different. Even in bitter ethnic conflict there is often an underlying cause that isn't really about the people being different.
Ask HN: Posting using ChatGPT should be banned?
I've recently seen the news about stackoverflow banning ChatGPT generated answers, and also HN itself seems to ban this kind of questions/posts. What do you think of that?

To me is kinda similar to fair use in copyrighted material, for instance using some parts of generated content and some original parts in one answer/post shouldn't be banned. Also with which degree of confidence we are able to detect if the content is actually generated by AI or not?

It's quite an interesting topic on how this will change moderation and if this is actually possible to do on scale

Couple of opinons from HN moderator will be highly appreciated here!
Edit: Ah... I see now.

By that logic, how is either (7,7) or (8,8) allowed?
That’s normal for Korea - Kdramas do it all the time too. Not so much in the West.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601964069023531011.html
Besides, equatorial speed of Earth rotation is about 450 m/s, low orbit speed is 7900 m/s. Israel has to launch counter to the Earth rotation, so it definitely can be done.
That's a good question. It's already not that uncommon to do surgeries remotely using surgical robots, operated by a surgeon on another continent. I wonder if the labor laws have caught up to this yet.
The minimum brightness issue depends a lot on panel technology. IPS panels are great for their consistent color from any viewing angle, but they don’t give very dark blacks

If you want better contrast a VA panel does better, but they have color shift from different viewing angles.

Or if you have a lot of money, OLED is probably the best bet for this. But those are pretty new on the market and still expensive.
False. The best UI library are those where you can build solid, readable and long-lasting terminal UI's - so nothing on the web.
Do you have a source for them being banned? I could only find an article saying they were being phased out by 2025. https://www.thelocal.ch/20120925/swiss-mps-back-ban-on-elect...