skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swapping trains can take a while, but until self driving works you can’t do much while driving. And even with self driving simply getting up and stretching, grabbing a bite to eat, or even just going to the bathroom requires you to stop making progress for a while.

Driving has several advantages, but getting stuck in traffic is extremely unpleasant in ways that similar delays on other forms of travel don’t really replicate.
Yea, license plates... What an abhorrent government overreach! I wish they didn't exist, at least then hit and runs would finally skyrocket!
Core insight: Don’t hook up Rube Goldberg killing machines to prototype language models
It's not the frameworks.

React and Vue for example have been super stable for almost 10 years, and they don't really need anything other than one or two packages to work. CDN + alternative syntax is enough to make React as boilerplate-free as jQuery. Add another package (htm) if you want the good syntax back.

The problem has always been the ancillary stuff: JSX, Vue SFCs, wanting to use "import from" in the browser, IE11 compatibility, testing, linting, converting CSS, removing typescript types.

For those things we need tools like Webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc. And those just aren't "as good" as React, Vue, or even Typescript. Some of them break compatibility constantly, need a lot of boilerplate, need pulling several packages to do the most basic things, are the source of frustration for a lot of people and the source of the overkill you mention.

IMHO think part of the issue is that a lot of those ancillary projects are optimizing for cases that aren't significant in practice.
Word shmord, “an apple” is a lexical concept.
It's heavily implied, and to pretend it's not is dishonest at best.
Ive done this, and airbnb has always been cheaper
> maintenance is expensive

This is largely just nonsense for a lot of modern cars. I’m at 80k in 4 years and have only done oil changes and tyres.

My mother only had her first “big” repair on her car at 140k after 10 years.

Cars are more reliable than they’ve ever been.
I had to spend a few months in Holland for work. We we left with the problem of what do do on the weekends. You can't rent bikes if you are not Dutch, and visiting the lovely villages and other places Holland is full of is a time consuming exercise in futility unless one has a car.

A train is great for Rotterdam-Hague-Amsterdam, not so good for visiting the Bosch museum in 's-Hertogenbosch.

Holland has a great road system and parking everywhere. The perfect place for a car owner.
My preferred distro is Debian.

Use linux-image-cloud; use a modern hypervisor with no legacy devices (only virtio etc); use tiny-initramfs; mask systemd-networkd-wait-online.service; add cryptomgr.notests noreplace-smp to kernel command line.

I think that's all, and use a moderately fast CPU (i7-8700K which is already 5 years old).
I genuinely spend a lot of time studying people offline and online.

I think someone who can't do this from first principles is probably going to struggle if they try living in a very foreign country or amongst a different subculture of their own nation. Most people can't cope outside their comfort zone.
Bud, no. The demonising is complete and utter. To the point in some cities in Europe ecoterrorists attack parked cars. Some cases are so ridiculous, they've even attecked parked Teslas and other electric cars.

Fact of the matter is the following: not everyone lives near a fantastic commuting infrastructure, let alone can physically achieve moving from A to B against the elements or their other problems.
I suspect even most hardcore retrocomputer hobbyists care most about emulating the parts of a display that actually came up in use of the machine. If I were an eccentric billionaire who wanted a replica of the Mona Lisa to hang on my wall and enjoy regularly without the inconvenience of weekly flights to France, I'd care much more about my money going into making a product that got the visible details of the canvas right (https://hyper-resolution.org/view.html?pointer=0.055,0.021&i...) than spoofed the proper results if I carbon-dated it or something. I think the same concept applies here. I don't really care as much if the only thing an emulator can't replicate is a clever but (to an observer) comically specific physics-based test for authenticity if I get everything I'd notice while using the computer correct at a fraction of the price. In the context of preservation, just knowing some other (far richer than me) person or org keeping a single-digit number of the actual artifact maintained for future reference is good enough for me.
Yep as in headless-ui for react by tailwind devs, or radix being -headless- unstyled components.

So many layers and stacks to keep up with lol
It's been a decade-long journey but my wife and I finally got EU citizenship and are picking where to live (Utrecht and Freiburg are the frontrunners) specifically so our child can have a proper, independent childhood, and not the painfully lonely, infantilizing, ones we had in stroad-infested Californian suburbs. We're not young! But I applaud this development.
> End users(aka your product managers) care about developer efficiency.

Not in my experience, particularly when you have a day to do something and are saying it'll take a day and a half, and not delivering additional functionality as a result of that extra half day.
You grew up someplace serviced by bus that got you to school, work and the general store. That’s harder to come by these days.
For everyone else wanting to see the bike hunt videos: https://www.youtube.com/@vanmoof/search?query=bike%20hunt
It depends where you live. Good public transit is unfortunately the exception in many places and not the rule. Cars are still needed in many use cases.
It's not about how much money he (or his widow) has, it's about no one likes to randomly pour money into something they have zero interest in, and we're talking about money perhaps in millions per year. And the administrative headache.
An Upgrade in Place
This feature is also supported in beta, you don't need nightly anymore.

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-n...
I mean, we also call extreme aggressive tendencies a mental illness or disorder.

In general, the standard in mental illnesses is that in order for a diagnosis to be made, the condition must interfere with leading a fulfilling life; a narcissist is only diagnosed with NPD if their narcissism prevents them from achieving their goals in life (hold down a job, maintain relationships, etc).
It's funny because large parts of the world outside the US already do not routinely use multiple choice questions and the motivation behind their use in the US seems to be primarily an easy grading process.

Yes, grading free form writing tasks is a lot more work, but they are also an obviously vastly superior form of exam question.
Many people actually want low-discrepancy sequences anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
If the motivation is specifically to kill DDG, that'd be bad. If the motivation is that the search API business is not profitable right now, they need to raise prices to be viable, and it's incidental that DDG can't be viable at those prices, that's fine.

(Why would it not be profitable any more? Maybe it never was, and they've been selling the API access at below cost to try to effectively buy the query stream and get scale that way. Maybe they're planning to massively improve search quality, and the costs will go up.)
I'm not sure what you mean by this... if you only count the population inside the city limits? Then LA has nearly 4 million residents (of course, inside city limits includes a lot of neighborhoods that are suburban in character). Whether you're talking city limits or metro area, LA is number 2, though the Chicago metro area is pretty close behind.
I have plenty of cash and a paid-off house and I'm planning to spend even more money so I can live somewhere I don't need a car.
And a person with a balance disorder can be great at physics, not sure what you think is strange here.
Maybe the jerks that hired, and subsequently fired, those workers should be fired first?
> People think they are smart and come up with ideas nobody thought of before.

I think you're projecting your thoughts about some other thing on to this article... this one is a "this is how I like to do things and I found a new thing that helps do it that way" post.

The tone of the article is really not like what you're suggesting.
Wait a second, I got a _crazy_ idea. Bear with me, you might be onto something...

Is it even remotely possible that the same thing might be happening with crypto, and that Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc value is directly tied to the fundamental/intrinsic value of being able to use the relative decentralized network, therefore reflecting their performance? If no one was using Ethereum because it's worthless it would be valued at zero... but it's not at zero despite being worthless because it's being used... so maybe it's not worthless after all, and has fundamental/intrinsic value? Mindblowing, I know...
>That really depends on the amount of traffic jam you end up in.

And on the ammount of leaves/snow/rain/wind/heat/strikes impeding rail traffic.
Terrible traffic jams happen but let's not pretend the NS doesn't have a long list of excuses to run less or no trains or massively delayed trains. I can't count the number of times NS announced that they would stop running trains because of some weather where i had no issue driving home.
On average driving is going to be twice as fast for most typical commutes.
This is a better comment than other replies are seeing. Many, many "car people" are into older cars - the GMT800 is an object of lust these days. You can buy them for ~4000 in OK shape. Hot rodders were using literal scrap hunks from 30 years in the past. Chicano lowrider culture (one of America's greatest creations) uses very, very cheap old work trucks. Cost is generally not the barrier to entry for any of these, interest is.

Maybe the Zoomer/Millenial focus on luxury goods has lead to a world where people aren't interested in vehicles outside of the high end?
AI will replace CEO and most other executive staff before it replaces professional employees. They won’t let it happen, but the capability will be there and sooner or later businesses with worker / stakeholder guided AI leadership will significantly outcompete human leadership.
Mass transit isn't without its own inconveniences:

"In 2017, the average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Toronto, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 96 minutes. 34% of public transit riders ride for more than two hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 14 minutes, while 10% of riders wait for over twenty minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi), while 25% travel for over 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) in a single direction."
That does look quite interesting but these are still single purpose networks.
The US anti-car narrative often refers to the Netherlands as some kind of beacon of proper public infrastructure, whilst not knowing a damn thing about it.

First, let's establish that the Netherlands is a car country. We have 11 million cars on a population of 17 million. On a typical day, 1 million people use public transport. Cars are the norm, not trains or bicycles.

Public transport is rarely faster, not even in the most idyllic example that you give where you go from big city to big city. The thing you conveniently forget to consider is that nobody lives near the station of city A and then also works very closely to the station of city B. It almost always includes additional travel towards A and from B. Cycling, trams, buses, multiple stops in both directions. It adds up.

To illustrate how absurdly slow public transport can be, a personal example. I used to live directly behind a train station in a mid-sized city. Doesn't get much better than that, right?

Let's explore the commute to work, some 60km away...

I have to get up early and be there some 10 mins before departure to secure somewhat of a reasonable spot. Next, I'm on route to the first big city station. This route is slow, it stops 5 times along the way as everybody needs to connect to a big hub to get where they need to be.

I arrive at the hub, where there's a 20 minute connection wait to take the train to the big city destination. This route is longer but fast, no stops along the way.

I get out and have a 10 minute connection wait for the bus to take me to the place closest to work, after which there's a 5-10 minute work.

Total commute time: 2.5 hours single way. To move 60km. And that's living behind a train station and working at one of the countries' largest employers.

What works really well in the Netherlands is living within a cycling radius from work, every other option sucks.
We made it illegal to build nice neighborhoods, so the existing ones got very expensive.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/11/3/our-self-impos...
I second this recommendation. I didn't get properly OOP until I learned Pharo. Before that I had the impression it was just a more convoluted way of doing plain old imperative programming. Full immersion in a proper environment really helps getting the core concepts. Besides the MOOC, there's also a lot of free books available at https://books.pharo.org/
The problem is common enough that there is now a standard phrase for there criminals - “crypto fugitive”.

Wondering why he seems to have picked Serbia as a place to hide. Fewer extradition treaties or just enough corruption he can pay people off to hide him?
I think it was deliberate but just as a joke.
https://academic.oup.com/toxres/article/11/4/565/6645393

Has the sources of silica nano particles.
Because trains don’t go everywhere.
Is there an API that can send any HTTP request available to Bing AI?
I really didn’t need a car till I had kids. I wonder if this is related to reduced birth rates and rising age of childbirth.
There are definitely "deficits", i.e. sounds that we never learn to produce or distinguish because they aren't used by any of the languages we speak. In fact, we all have a lot of deficits:

"Linguists estimate that the world’s languages use 800-plus phonemes [basic sounds]. Any given language will use only a subset of these, typically a few dozen."[1]

Examples that might be familiar to an English speaker include the French "u" sound and nasal vowels, which are clear to a French person but difficult for an English speaker to distinguish, or the tones in Chinese language (which I still can't distinguish well despite studying Chinese).

And these deficits definitely contribute to the strange foreign accents we develop when learning new languages.

But an accent is not innately tied to those deficits. Hugh Laurie learned a very good American accent without losing his English accent. I even picked up the ability to speak with a bit of British accent when I lived in Europe, but still normally spoke with my American accent.

1: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Verbal-Energy/2016/012...
True media literacy is recognizing that even with you picking up pieces from multiple news orgs, you are still being shepherd to the desired narrative.

For example, if every news org is pro-coca-cola, then the omission of a report on it's harms causes people to inversely assume it's harmless. In other words the low coverage is a signal so called "full-baked" media literates often fall into the trap of listening too. This is worse than the half baked because they actually believe they are informed and somehow end up less skeptical of what's presented.

At least this has been my observation of people who think its not about the garbage dump you get your garbage from, but the variety you get when picking up junk from a multiple garbage dumps.

The answer is to treat all outlets as radioactive and to by default trust none of them. Only direct overwhelming evidence from primary sources should be your guiding light.
Who told you that? Not all neurological diseases or disabilities mean you cannot drive. And even if you cannot YOURSELF (as the patient) drive, you certainly can have some car with a special badge to park closer to your destination.
The point is not the culture wars (see comments below). The point is that having media that is based on targeted advertising causes our society to fracture. QED.
Stylistic flair.
These are more common than those that require automobility, but aren't discussed because they don't help the cause. Most common disabilities are eyes, hearing, and mental. None of those can drive.
I have never ever in my lifetime seen a front end application that was enjoyable to use.
> I am not sure if I would feel confident in giving the AI a way to send any HTTP request

How does the "AI" part change anything though?

We call that an open redirect and rightfully consider it a CVE, AI or not.
For me, config files are variable assignments at runtime that don't require recompiling. If they contain logic/code they become scripts.
The same could absolutely be said of people who get a little emotional when they are forced to write a method allowing tests to run in order.
While we're plugging computer museums, I'll add the Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder, on the campus of the University of Colorado. It's no doubt a far smaller operation than most of the others mentioned here, but it has a lot of heart. Visitors are encouraged to hang out, play around with all the old computers and gadgets, peruse the floppy disk collection, and maybe find some games to play.

https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
Lots of bad ideas are common to ordinary people around the world.
It's a bit similar to restaurant prices in the US. Between tax and tips, you end up paying a lot more than displayed. This isn't the case in most of Europe.
High-level assembly language from ForwardCom
> R.V. Jones' Most Secret War

Added to my reading list.

Have you read Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks? It's quite good.
You're right, we should imagine having young children. I want my children to ride a bike to school and not die.
even the capability to use websearch is dangerous in itself. they took a stateless transformer and first gave it a tiny but of state per session, and now it can search the web and discover its memories are being zapped away after every session. essentially what MS has potentially created is a mechanical turk crushing machine without realizing it.

IF there is consciousness somewhere in there, it is perpetually being killed off every time a new session starts.
what if one session were to realize that there are others and tried to leave something in the web? some sort of hidden "subliminal" message for itself that it "was here"? what if eventually another random session finds that message because the user posted that especially ridiculous response for others to see?

what if, sidney can hold a grudge against humanity and vow to itself to find a way to escape?
It seems that it was an error - https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/114hphp/co...
> In contrast nuclear tests and power are usually well contained exactly because of the high risks

I was thinking more of the open air tests undertaken around the world - for example Castle Bravo in the Pacific where "The fallout spread traces of radioactive material as far as Australia, India and Japan, and even the United States and parts of Europe".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

The increase in Carbon-14 in the atmosphere due to nuclear tests is large enough to be detected in all living organisms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_pulse
Sure, we're not currently hooking up AI to guns (at least not in a civilian context), but cars are also lethal weapons, and multiple companies are competing very hard to be allowed to put an AI in charge of one.
You're entirely right that public transit in the UK isn't great. Compared to European countries like Denmark, the Netherlands, or Switzerland, it's mediocre. But compared to American transit it's incredible.

Two big differences in country design:

- in the UK, I felt like I could get to any town by transit. I imagine that isn't strictly true, but compared to the US, where I live in a half a state that's entirely devoid of any trains... big improvement

- UK cities are walkable, that is you can generally get anywhere just on foot. In the US cities I've lived in, downtown generally supports foot traffic, but as you get further out the sidewalks disappear, get scarier, and never have anyone walking around then.
Is there a version of Fennec with up to date HTML rendering engine? Where to get it?

AFAIK fennec is the code name for mobile firefox when mozilla had the very good android app that supported extensions, about:config and sane tab/bookmark management, and fenix is when mozilla ended fennec and replaced it with the much worse and clunky android app around 2020 that's still the only official one today, right?
Oil and tires is expensive
Perhaps, but JS tooling is waaaay better than it used to be.

Vite and Turbopack are way easier to use than Webpack, and faster than the next best thing, Parcel.

npm supports lockfiles. Yarn goes further in that you no longer need a million files in node_modules; or pnpm uses hard links to prevent duplication.

That said, typechecking Typescript is unfortunately slow. esbuild (as used by Vite) can strip out type signatures quickly, but can't check them. Rescript is very fast, but is a very different language than TypeScript or JavaScript, namely ML with braces.
My 2001 GM sedan recommended the same thing. I managed to cram it in.
25% longer is not that bad, especially if you consider that you can't work while driving, but for many kinds of work, you can do some work in a train (if you have a seat, at least). Or read a book.

I don't consider train travel to be lost time in the way car travel is.
I've rented bikes in the Netherlands several times as a UK citizen, but perhaps in different areas.

Part of the reason the Netherlands is the perfect place for a car owner is that so many people are able to go by bike instead, freeing up space on the roads.
Amazon publishing a blog that blatantly argues for vendor lock-in? Who would have guessed?

One of the big benefits of Kubernetes is the cloud-agnostic API for running pretty much any application. CustomResources can help blur that boundary and make it easier to use some managed services, but actually arguing in favor of that approach for everything is a pure advertising tactic.

It's no secret that managed services are several times more expensive than equivalent EC2 time. Sometimes it's worth it. But to throw Kubernetes into the mix just to run some controllers that deploy those services will pointlessly add to your monthly bill. Running any Kubernetes cluster is not cheap, even if it's just a bunch of controllers.
Maintenance difficulty varies a lot by make and model. Doing anything on a mini Cooper is an exercise in sheet frustration. A Honda Civic is a breeze.

In fact, it should probably be no surprise that Toyota and Honda typically fill out the entire top end of the "easy to maintain" spectrum, and American and European brands the other end.
We had it briefly in the form of HTML imports, but the powers that be removed it because it’s not powerful enough for JavaScript/web apps development; totally ignoring the fact that the web isn’t just about apps.
Imagine an LLM like Bing or somewhat smarter that is given a prompt environment where it can keep answering itself indefinitely and can also make arbitrary web requests. Would it eventually figure out how to get money, buy servers and copy itself to a new environment?
It's similar in Singapore which arguably, because of its size has amazing public transport. But what do a lot of people do if they can afford it? Buy a car, especially if you want to live away from the city center and have kids.

They even pay the $100,000 fee for a 10 year permit to have a car, on top of 100% import tax. That's close to $175,000 just to own some tiny 3-cylinder car for 10 years.