skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuel is money as well. Recent diesel price inflation caused a lot of misery for truckers. A full tank of fuel costs way more than a typical trucker earns per day. And most truckers own their trucks and are under heavy debt. 600 gallons is a lot for a truck. Depending on where you get your diesel, you are going to pay 2-3 dollars per gallon at least. Closer to 5 in some places. So even a "modest" 150 gallon tank could set you back close to a 800$.

Recent price fluctuations due to the rise in oil prices have hit that sector really hard.

How many truckers will answer the question "would you like to save more in fuel cost per day than you currently earn per day?" with a "no?. Time loss for charging is maybe inconvenient but the price tag isn't that high for everyone.

Anyway, this stops being optional pretty soon after electrical trucks start undercutting transport prices because they simply have lower cost of course. But while there is still a choice, there are going to be smart truckers and broke truckers. They'll pay the difference out of their own pocket.

In any case, if the vehicle charges at night and has enough charge for the route, there is no time loss.

We're talking mail delivery here not trucking. They are not doing hundreds of miles per day. More like tens. With lots of drive a little, idle, drive a little, etc. driving. This has very poor fuel economy with an ice vehicle. An EV essentially has no energy cost when it is idling. At best you lose some energy to keep the AC and the radio going. Which isn't free with an ice vehicle either.

Mail and package deliveries are an ideal use case for EVs. Most commercial delivery companies have largely completed their move to EVs for this reason and are rolling out EVs as fast as they can get their hands on them. That debate is over and there never was much of a debate beyond "Would you like to cut cost? Yes!". Ancient history, the industry has moved on and the answer was conclusive. If you want to compete in that sector, EV is the only way. There's no case left for ice vehicles in that sector.

Trucking will follow.
Somewhere I once read an answer from Umberto Eco to this question that was along the lines that if he had already read them he would not need to keep them, his library was explicitly mostly for things he hadn't read, so that he could always go and get something new from there whenever he wanted.

For some reason I had never thought about it myself, but that answer made a lot of sense to me when I read it (and still does). Until that moment I too was one of those people who thought one should have read most books in one's own library.

EDIT: Or was it Nassim Nicholas Taleb? Now that I tried to think about where I read that I'm beginning to doubt whom it was from. Or maybe Taleb talking about Eco? -- https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antili...
If everyone would release their own incompatible version of TCP protocol, internet would have never happen to be. This is just same interoperability on higher level.
To the best of my knowledge the USPS doesn't deliver food. Farmers are quite digital and even though remote, many use PO Boxes for their junk mail which could easily be done by an alternative service.
Large scale power management like this can help smooth out the supply and demand fluctuations.
Angry engineers? How about taking to typical internet users?

How many loading spinners do they have to see just to get to what they're looking for? Between frontend frameworks, marketing analytics scripts (aka tracking) and crap UXs* we're moving sideways not forward. On a typical mobile device with a typical connection the internet has often become a health hazard (i.e., increase in stress and blood pressure).

* True story: Last month I went to pay a bill online for a major health insurance provider. After 3 or 4 tries with my Amex I concluded they don't accept Amex. But there was no icons to communicate what they did accept. No validation to say "we don't take that card", and no error msg either. But I bet it was built with Angular or React. I understand. That's not the engineeers' role. Perhaps. But if we're freeing up resources why are experiences like this happening? Why are sites like adidas and Home Depot so marginal on my mobile device?

I wish I could be angry. But I'm too beaten down to fight back at this point.
I tried listening to the podcast that I discovered thanks to this post. I tried 2 episodes and both had audio issues where one person was just too quiet to hear what they were saying.
>The simplified and (generally) commonly accepted narrative is that a cohesive group arrived here 45-60,000YA, lived peacefully and in harmony with the land right up until Europeans arrived.

This theory went down the drain when Europeans discovered Aboriginal shields (i.e. very fast). Spears and clubs are useful for hunting, shields only help against homo sapiens. They were fighting over resources just like anybody else, and their everyday lives were violent as hell, evidenced by parry fractures and skull cracks on fossil bones.

Also "living in harmony with the land" means watching your children starve to death after a dry spring.
Ask HN: Are there papers showing “hivemind AI” or AIs that control other AIs?
South Australia is a bit special isn't it.

Their new hospital is (from wikipedia)

> the most expensive building[1] ever built in Australia, and the most expensive hospital[2] ever built anywhere in the world, at US$2.44 billion in construction and equipment costs.
I understand that China is worse. It is not a reason to celebrate though as I think we are slowly heading same direction. Hopefully the trend will reverse.
Clean code is about developer performance - understand stuff fast - not about hardware performance.
Agreed. I'd counter that much (all?) of it should be online.
The problem is it’s increasingly difficult to pick out the Mozarts from the vast sea of Salieris.
> can you share what made you drop the smartphone?

Sure, there were a few factors that made me not keep one:

Firstly, I’ve never been that active on social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat etc. I did have an account for a short period of time, but I noticed there’s really not much of value Im missing out on. 99% of teenage group chats are about teenage crushes and general high school drama which isn’t something Im much interested in. Ditching the smartphone thus didn’t really affect my communication with my friends.(I might have missed out on the popular kids parties though :P)

Then there’s also the problem that I found myself getting distracted and procrastinating on school-work which was affecting my productivity.

It wasn't an easy and I did have withdrawal symptoms initially, but I do think I'm able to focus more now for longer intervals and more ‘present’. I did receive a lot of derision from my friends, though.

>I wish my kids were like you and would like to push them in this direction

You could maybe talk to them about whether they think it’s having a negative impact on them and what do they think they can to do reduce it. If its not mutually agreed upon it will be difficult to work on it.
Not very effective considering that it will be remade in open source 1-2 years from now.
Seems to think the CCP achieved world domination
Or just don't shop at Walmart.
Have your circular dial divided in 24.658 sections then.

Nothing good can come from using a slightly longer second then what absolutely every piece of Earth hardware expects. Unless you are billion dollar rover mission where every bit or hardware is a custom design, it's imperative to use Earth seconds.
> Drivers must not exceed 4.5 hours of driving without taking a 45-minute break and a standard day of driving for a HGV driver is considered to be 9 hours long.

The speed limit for this vehicle will be either 80km/h or 100km/h, I'm not sure how they decide, but with some good logistics for a rapid charge part-way through that's not far off.
Two pairs of physical "mouse" buttons - one for the touchpad and second for trackpoint (red "dot") - look quite unusual.

Especially in comparison to the new Z13 model[1] in which Lenovo has ditched buttons-buttons on top of the touchpad in favor of an area of touchpad acting as buttons for both trackpoint and touchpad. My T-series has physical buttons-buttons for the trackpoint on top of the touchpad and bottom area of the touchpad acting as buttons for the touchpad. I haven't tested neither Z13 model (not yet released) nor the old W-series but I think Z-series may be a downgrade.

Seriously, the trackpoint/touchbar from MacBooks is the only thing I miss after switching to ThinkPads.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34954787
Microsoft has always been very siloed. They want to do their own thing with it - as evidenced by the pile of hot garbage they've turned it into.
I assume that "20M" is supposed to be 20min, not 20 million.
I would prefer to just see screenshots of the app instead of the AI generated art. It just feels like they had empty space to fill so they put some futuristic looking AI generated art.
Do you realize the concepts for computing tablets came out of PARC as well?

Alan Kay gave a couple lectures at Stanford on "How to Invent the Future" and went over all the stuff that came out of there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ

Much of what we use today was conceptualized 50+ years ago. PARC's outputs paid off immensely for Xerox over a very long period of time since they picked a tech (laser printing) that was perfect for their wheelhouse. Companies and our culture these days don't allow for exploration like PARC was allowed. There is too much focus on monetizing everything and having an ROI.
The person that received the money has some days (7 I think) to send money back with 1 button click on the his Bank App without knowing the account details it needs to send back.

So yeah, you need to contact the person on the other side.
A similar issue: finding a photo relevant to the discussion.

Photo searching has come a long way but it's often not fast enough to keep up a discussion. It really blunts the flow.

I just say "I'll send it later", and often I forget because it was unimportant.
Before the invention of flushing toilets, the place where people were going to shit or piss was generally outside the house, also known as an "outhouse". A "domestic dwelling that contained a toilet and a kitchen" does sound unusual.
It’s so boring …
Passenger Checked Bag with Explosive at Pennsylvania Airport, FBI Says
The younger you are the more you should try to save. Compounding interest is your new best friend.

Other than that, diversify your portfolio.

Finally, if you're serious, at least speak to a professional. There's no telling who will reply on a forum such as this ;)
https://archive.ph/fsYCA
Constructive criticism - Your post would be a little easier to understand/parse if you would refrain from using “cutesy” talk - leenucks, Amigas etc. that totally hijacked my attention and distracted from the actual question.
I'm going to disagree with the sibling comment that it doesn't matter what meditation you do. I'm a scientist at heart and my science of interest is exploring things like meditation and consciousness, and have been doing it very actively for a decade. You can apply as much mysticism to it as you want, but there is nothing inherently "magical" about any of this anymore or less than there is when eating toast.

I've tried many different meditations with many different teachers and guides and books, and the ones that I have found most effective for me personally and for people that I have taught, in order of how I'd suggest them:

• Zazen is a simple but hugely impactful meditation, and you can do it anywhere with any length of time as it doesn't require "zoning out". It can be very helpful to sit to do it until you get the hang of it, though. (read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it's an easy but meaningful read).

• the practices in The Mind Illuminated book - neuroscientist + meditator modernizes and de-mysticizes older paths. Anytime you get stuck, this is a great way to get unstuck. Find where you are in the journey, and start practicing what he suggests for where you are. It makes a big difference.

• Neti Neti meditation (any thoughts or experiences that arise in meditation, you think "not that" as in "if I can think it, I am not that"). This doesn't need any "lead in" so if you only have a couple of minutes to sit this can be a great way to be impactful during a short time.

• the Brahmavihārā https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nyanaponika/wheel006... this is the best practice I've found for bringing the inner work you do out into the world as a more kind and uplifting human. I think this is best done when you have a while to sit; I have found that the longer you do it in a session, the more densely it gets integrated.

Side note, if you want to explore your inner experience in a more active way, try finding a local meet up that does shamanic drumming with a guide. I know this sounds weird, but our subconscious is all about symbolism, and if you can play along it's basically a short and gentle drug-free psychedelic trip in a good setting that can be very rewarding.
Redesign of Tox’s Cryptographic Handshake
I rarely need to use maps, but everytime I had to, std::unordered_map was measurably slower than std::map. In particular in debug mode, it was really slow, and if you choose an unfortunate hashing function (I think older MSVC versions had a really bad one), it can easily become a bottleneck. In particular with small data or data that has trivial comparison functions, std::map might often be better and should be the go-to choice.
Everything has a cost. Serving special needs may costs more. A rich society can decide and afford to cover that cost and that is perfectly fine. A developing economy on the other hand, may decide to impose that cost on its businesses, thus unwittingly weakening itself.

Regulation is not free and doesn't magically make our wishes come true. It just moves costs around, hiding them and often preventing the free market from minimizing them.
I have had to make my computer believe that I was in Japan to play certain videogames.
There was also that fascinating time I had to roll back the calendar to use a crack for a Denuvo protected game.
Does the NLRB have any teeth? Can they impose fines? I’ve yet to see any of these rulings result in any meaningful changes.
Canadians Fume as Migrants Surge at Their Border
Greybeards and Greybuns (hey, us old ladies in tech need a catch-all)
>>> allow side-loading of apps outside of its App Store

Just in time to replace that broken Siri thing with OpenAI based assistants!

Previous app submissions were rejected on the basis of being "too close to existing functionality". Maybe they meant dysfunctionality? If the EU needs witnesses of anti-competitive behavior I volunteer.
This isn't at all aimed at Apple, it's aimed at Facebook. Apple already has SMS messaging integrated, it just has a green bubble and there's nothing in the proposal that would force Apple to change anything about how the messages are presented.
Half of my friends were born inside a city walled by a Warsaw-Pact state.

I myself was born in a military dictatorship and we knew some houses were locked because the people there "disappeared" a few years before.

The more I think about it, the more it feels like the 90s were an anomaly in history.
I know such things make for "sensational news" (if there is such a thing), but given the number of flights / passengers, statistically speaking it's a miracle such things don't happen more often.
C++ really needs an 'operator auto' to properly support proxies :(
https://archive.md/cpiPS
In terms of progress in DNA sequencing this is quite an old news. Quite a lot of studies have been conducted since then with better sequencing techniques. David Reich, a well known researcher in the field, a student of Svante Pääbo who was awarded the Nobel Prize[1] for pioneering this field and technique, has authored a terrific book[2] synthesising all these findings.

The details are fascinating a nuanced, highly recommend this book if you would like to pursue this rabbit hole.

The book from Svante Pääbo [3] is equally fascinating which goes into the details of how DNA sequencing works to determine ancient ancestry. In a way it takes off from where the Y-chromosome study ends.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2022/paabo/facts/

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35749414-who-we-are-and-...

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19243883-neanderthal-man
The body of the article doesn't really support the headline; it's a lot more "might, might not, no one knows and the past few years have been weird".
I disagree, by filtering and subscribing carefully, I've learned a tremendous amount from Reddit. There's whole subreddits about history, art, literature, finance, programming, fitness, cooking, and economics. That being said, after awhile I've moved more and more to just reading books instead.
It is then easier to understand a point when people are more nuanced I will give you that. Usually people comment on just one small part of the comment that is why you always have to try to interpret everything with good will. Saying "Men might have to do what women do" could also be interpreted as belittling what women go through.

São Paulo was a pretty dark place back in the days I hope it has gotten better because it was also one of the most friendly places I've visited. Those tips for women seemed prudent for me back then.

I am more worried about the problem with digital money. It's a lot easier to rob/assault someone if you do not have to drag them to an ATM.
Disruptive tech trends set to revolutionize 2023
I remember a (Dutch) programme about teens in the 80s; the motto among the youth was "no future". Programme in question (in Dutch only): https://anderetijden.nl/aflevering/286/No-Future

TraumaZone ("What It Felt Like to Live Through The Collapse of Communism and Democracy") is a pretty good film about the final days of the USSR and 90s Russia by the way.
You're not wrong that it's more socially acceptable.

It's insane though. IPad is fundamentally a media consumption device. I'm a touchless, fast, organized typer on my laptop (I used to be primary screensharer when I was ops manager). All that socially acceptable iPad would do is handicap me severely :-/
If the difference was 70 or 80% would they even be the same species?
are other smartphones/laptops doing this?
Example: https://everwas.com/2009/11/old-school-playground/

> there was also this rotating hoop called a witch's hat which taught early lessons in conservation of momentum and unbalanced mass rotation.

I loved that thing. Back in kindergarten we'd get the young student teachers to spin us as fast as they could and then the brazen of us would let go for our first experiences with flight. I'm incredibly grateful to have been part of the last class at Edwards Elementary that had access to that deathtrap, it was removed at the end of that year.

Hell, thinking about it now makes me want to weld up an adult version for my friends and I. Though, I think our increased mass might limit our fun; it'd probably "good" idea to power the rotation.
1MBD: The Fugee, the Fugitive and the FBI
Social media is such a weird thing. You feel envy even when you're doing pretty well.

Like I would see some old school friend sharing vacation pictures on Instagram and I would somehow feel an instant pang of envy. Even though I had been on a vacation literally a month back.

I concluded that I was getting absolutely nothing out of social media. The entertainment is middling at best. The connections are shallow. And the feeling of envy can be overwhelming.

Deleted Instagram and Facebook. Kept WhatsApp because that has actual friends and family. Kept Twitter because shitposting on anonymous accounts is actually fun and has no impact on my state of wellbeing.

Also, I don't know what TikTok is like because its banned in my country, but Facebook and Instagram (especially Instagram) seem to be the most mentally damaging of all social media apps. Maybe its because of its culture or maybe its designed to be that way, but it really, truly is awful.
Tell HN: Google Meet stopped working in Chromium
I have been using it this morning, however after my lunch break I had to download Proprietary Chrome?

Zero add-ons installed, reset to default settings, same issue in incognito.

Edit: by changing my user agent to Chrome it works again. So this seems to be solely a User Agent "issue".
https://imgur.com/a/MPctsT1

Edit2: It is the string Ubuntu
`Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`
Works

`Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`
Doesn't work
Here is a text version of said talk:

https://workforcefuturist.substack.com/p/building-a-world-wi...

My own opinion:

I think it's a tad bit too futuristic, something they admit. That we won't probably remove all jobs.

However, even then I find the biggest concern to be our economic system, less work means more opportunities for big corps to be part of the de facto institution as a oligarchy.
I’m not very literate in CS; I don’t understand your characterisation of late OO as a request response paradigm. Isn’t calling a function or method to get a result just procedural programming 101?
When construction workers are motivated to work twelve hours a day and not care about their own safety things can move fast. Think ants.
I don't know for this specific publisher, but in research, usually:

- scientific editors… are researchers paid by a university

- copy editing… is done by the authors

- typesetting… is done by the authors

- reviews… are done by the other researchers paid by their respective university

Okay, the infrastructure remains. The needs are: a simple website serving PDF files and pages with the metadata. You can even let something like HAL, Arxiv or Sci-Hub do that.
The only time the problem receives publicity and the victim receives minimum empathy is when a foreigner gets extorted, mugged, or murdered there. The mindset in Poland is "if a man desires sex, he deserves extortion and beating".
Nothing pisses me off more than journals charging thousands for access. None of the money reaches the actual researchers and it only serves to reinforce public distrust in research
I do know people who use mouse movers because their employers judge their efficacy on business hour observance rather than productivity.

Not to say I enjoy retyping a complex 15-character password for having answered a phone call or refilled my mug.
And what does it interrupt you with? Social media notifications.

It's true that phones might be a better vector for it than most, but it's important to have clarity if we want to change anything. The article presents zero evidence for the damage phones cause without citing social media.
Then wear this: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51u1WvdSZHL._AC_UY1000_....
Here in Rio already happened before by using ATMs in far away places to withdraw cash, and using credit card machines from "laranjas", people that is hard to trace, usually without their consent.

Nothing new. Didn't increased. São Paulo cases are a novelty because it's really a "well" thought/planned method with specific personas to attack. It's not just a random person in the streets.

And it shows that men are as fragile as women in these emotional tricks. (and we should understand them better as part of this increased awareness)
If you're an Apple user, it's built-in, and I've found it ergonomic to assign its toggle to a triple-tap on your phone's back and/or laptop power button.

Those triple-taps are effortlessly quick and rarely if ever misfire, making it totally reasonable to stay in greyscale by default and reengage color selectively when you're looking at something that merits it (film, family, friends, a Wordle scorecard...)