skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a pretty tall guy, and I'm not sure if it is regulations forcing weird aerodynamics, but after a certain year it basically became impossible for me to be a regular driver of most cars.

The windshield meets the roof directly in the middle of my line of sight if I'm sitting up straight / not slouching or have the chair reclined to an absurd degree.

Some cars don't even allow the steering wheel and seat to be adjusted high enough for me to see the top portion of the speedometer without slouching, either.

The last time I owned a car (before my current truck) I think I tried something like 20 models, and there were only two that had a decent profile for me to sit in. Now, I do some light forestry work (hauling wood, removing diseased trees) and other things that make owning a truck useful, so I don't bother with a car anymore, and I don't really think I'd be too interested in one again unless I absolutely had to (keeping my fingers crossed my current beater truck lives long enough for me to afford a decent electric pickup).
You can get heightmaps from NASA's SRTM data without any licensing concerns at all, and they can be used in Cities Skylines (without mods) without any problem (provided you put the heightmap into the right file format). This was pretty much always possible, it's just been a lot of steps and sort of a hassle without projects like that facilitating the process for people.

It would be incredible to have a globe viewer/DEM download tool built in to the game, but the bandwith required for hosting the project might turn into an issue (I'm reminded of the situation with high res imagery for Command: Modern Operations/TacView, where users are strongly encouraged to download only what they need due to server constraints).
Considering they can't even keep MLS operating for older games, always-online DRM is basically a guaranteed the game won't work within 3-10 years when the company decides to turn off the server. Based on many company's record with this, it's basically a guarantee that they won't patch the game to bypass the DRM check (or make the MLS modifyable and/or default to a fan-supported MLS).

In that case, I do find it morally objective to say the person is "buying" a game. If anything, they're renting the game.
The Tacoma and Ranger have ballooned in size though. They have many of the same core problems as the full size trucks.
That depends on if it's a microLED backlit LCD or microLED direct emissive. For a backlight, it seems possible, for direct emission, all I've heard about those so far have rather large pixels, so it wouldn't work for a phone.
Well, as I alluded to, sophisticated programmers/managers think about all the cases they may have to optimize for.
Self promo on social apps like Reddit is banned BC it supports grift economies
It's funny to see how people who hate trucks are now carping about things like parking space now that electric trucks make gas mileage and emissions irrelevant.

It's not wrong to like trucks.

If we could just agree on that, the discourse wouldn't be so ridiculous.

I personally don't have a truck, I don't like driving trucks, and I don't feel the need to own one. But I can also recognize that other reasonable people need or want trucks and that's fine. Sometimes I need to move a couch or a stack of drywall and I'm glad someone has a truck.
`cargo install` is a one-shot build of a program and all of its dependencies from source; in what sense does it "update" any crates?
I'm not using gcp anymore because it's not worth risk losing access to my personal gmail account just to play around with pet projects.

I might be paranoid, but I just don't feel comfortable when there's so much in play.
This kind of concept is explored in the (science fiction) novel Seveneves [0] by Neal Stephenson, specifically the first half. Also explored: reshaping and vaporizing the ice on a comet with a nuclear reactor to create an impromptu propulsion device.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
Which merchants and retailers were impacted ? I've never used this
No pain, plenty of gain: taking it easy can be key to getting fitter and happier
It is not blocked for me. I am in Russia.
everything is propaganda. Including painting nationalists as those behind these articles. :)

Unfortunately no one wants to research because many tame any research as rightwing propaganda.

No research has been done as to how an 80ton stone was moved 100s of km and lifted 20 stories up to build temples for example.
"The network is secure" is a common fallacy.
InvokeAI's infinite canvas feature is also an excellent Photoshop-like SD tool.

https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/features/UNIFIED_CANVAS...
That's what I _thought_ but the article title had me doubting it, so I clicked it and only then realized that there was another game in the series with the same name and it came out in 2013. Kind of felt like I was tricked by a clickbait title.
Higgs et al didn't just predict the boson though, right? His team explained other properties of particle physics and their model also predicted a particle.
It should be noted that when Amazon's CEO published his note about return to office, increasing productivity was not listed as one of the reasons.

Company culture, ad hoc meetings, serendipity, were the listed reasons.

So it sounds like companies are not optimizing for productivity, they are optimizing for innovation.

Whether these things contribute to innovation is still up in the air. I personally think happier employees will be more innovative, but have no data to back that up.
Ask HN: Service that blocks new inbound emails from unapproved senders
I had seen a service in the past where, if you're emailing me for the first time, it asks you to do one of two things:

1) verify that you know me by answering a simple question

2) make a donation to a cause I care about so your email goes through

I'm pretty diligent about unsubscribing from all the crummy business newsletters I somehow get signed up for, but am looking for something a bit more aggressive.

In short: I'm looking for a service to keep out all emails except for the few senders I care about
> Why would you stay at Twitter? Even if you believe in the platform and the mission, this has to be one of the most stressful work environments in tech right now.

I worked for a different eccentric billionaire early in my career. It was stressful, demanding, and unpredictable as he tried to micromanage everything by himself in short bursts of 5 minutes before moving on to the next thing.

The hook was an idea that it was a famous company and he was a [not quite] famous billionaire and that we were sitting on a once in a lifetime opportunity to build our resumes. He was going to reward us greatly at some future date when everything was working well again, and we’d be able to work anywhere else we wanted after this.

Didn’t really pan out for us as everyone got burned out, the billionaire’s micromanagement and constant product churn diminished the company’s reputation, and he eventually laid most people off in favor of even cheaper foreign labor.
that is what most want us to believe or argue about. :)
“Rich” is highly relative. If someone lives in an area where everything costs on average twice as much as somewhere else, their money is effectively equivalent to half of what it would be somewhere else. The reality is they’re probably looking to afford a upper middle class lifestyle and make an upper middle class household income. They don’t sound “rich”.
> I really want to like electric cars (and trucks, sure) but I don't like that you don't really "own" them. I don't know of any that you can buy that don't require signing up with the manufacturer and having to install an app on your phone, or have the car permanently connected to the cloud via mobile network, just to drive and charge the damn thing.

That's not an electric car problem. All cars are going to end up that way.
I have around 100GB of data in a relational database. Not sure how that would translate into nodes and edges. Is that amount feasible in Memgraph?
Yep, I have RoR on my resume/LN profile from years ago (rails 3.x), and I get recruiters spamming me - mostly for legacy maintenance/modernization/porting to another stack type jobs.

I've moved on, not so interested in going back...
If True that is really petty and goes to show the competition was at a different level all together.
> these elite schools would change that criteria, because the criteria are a means to an end.

That’s a nice opinion you have.

Do you have any evidence to support this?

The case against Harvard showed us pretty much everything behind the curtain. If there is any systemic bias against any group, that must be the best kept secret in the world.

Check out this article:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/27/opinion/harvard-presi...

Select quote:

“Don’t be fooled by those using the Jewish quota of the mid-20th century or charges of discrimination against Asian Americans (also despicable when true, but which the lower courts convincingly found was not the case here) as an excuse to limit the inclusion of Black and Latino students at selective universities.”
Not correct. In most HCOL cities in the US, you can rent space for less than the equivalent cost to own.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/realestate/owning-renting...
> Almost everywhere in the world, cars are a means to get around and occasionally carry things.

This is as incorrect as it gets. Cars are considered status symbol almost universally. Look at Bentleys, high tier BMWs, Mercedes, Lexuses etc etc etc of the world.

Occasionally you may see funny things, like France's disregard for car paint and bumpers, but almost everywhere sports car, large premium suv or luxury sedan are very often status symbols.
Yes. The problem with the article is that it focuses on the value of the asset but forgets the costs. The entire system is stacked in favor of home-ownership by means of tax and bank subsidies.
They all represent the pinnacle of their respective branch of science.

By biological immortality I mean your body doesn't fail, or is fixable - you don't die of old age or random kidney failure.

You still die if someone cuts off your head.

> self-replicating robots are quite literally what all of biology is

By the same argument AGI is just same as human brain.

Many people think ChatGPT is so ompressive, that we are on the cust of AGI. I am convinced otherwise - chat gpt makes limitations of current AI approached very clear.

My best guess is that AGI will be one of the last items, maybe after FTL
Yeah I understand that operating on opaque data might not be one of the first items on your roadmap. Thanks for the quick responses.
What are your expectations for Bevy's ability to compete with Unreal's Nanite and Lumen, and when might that become a priority?

Additionally, while obviously not perfect, are you following new developments in AI based animation[0] and prediction based light transport[1]? Do you expect these types of automation to eventually become first class within Bevy, or any thoughts on how they can be best integrated into a Bevy game?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5KOQkZOusE

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxbTiuabW0k
Does the scientific community at large take the theories of these LessWrong-type "researchers" seriously?

Sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me, with some LaTeX sprinkled in to look more serious.
But Google uses Kubernetes so you have to use it.

My plumbing can barely scale to handle a dinner party, but apparently my home lab needs to be ready to provision nodes if I ever find 2 billion people in my living room.
Bevy ECS has a good chunk of `unsafe` as we're doing granular parallel data access that the Rust compiler cannot reason about. Anything related to low-level system api bindings (Vulkan, audio, etc) is inherently unsafe. But basically all "engine logic" (like our actual renderer logic, scenes, assets, etc) is written in safe Rust. We only use unsafe if we _absolutely need to_ and give it a lot of scrutiny. Impossible to avoid it entirely in the engine space though!

The engine is very threaded in general. We do pipelined rendering so the next frame's logic is computed while the current frame is rendering, we multithread expensive potentially high-entity tasks like animation and transform propagation, all ECS systems run in parallel (which includes the renderer systems), etc. We'll use whatever cores you give us!
Alternatively, those jobs are only high paying because the red are very people who can fill them solely because of housing and far less so about skill. If 10M people could move to the Bay Area tomorrow, those jobs would pay a lot less.

Also why people insisting on teleworking as a permanent option haven't really thought it through.
Is that like a US thing? I am not familiar
This is 90% a quote from a forum post, with the context removed, and a criticism of the author as the only commentary.

The linked post is more useful: https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s...
Bun was created in July of 2022, and this blog post was written in November of 2021.
While you're not technically wrong, the idea of net-zero sources of energy does not address what happens when you start concentrating "free energy" in new places. Fish farms are ecologically monstrosities in most places they exist. Electricity is only one input, fresh water is another, and we haven't figured out where to get that much fresh water for free yet.

In many ways these arguments of "there's free energy from hydrogen fusion" feels similar to arguments about solving invasive species with another species because we haven't figured out that the new species will be invasive yet. And in a similar fashion, the local ecology may eventually re-balance (indeed, likely will) but what time scale are we looking at? Humans need human time scales.
Everywhere was once rural(ish - depending on how far back you want to go).

Nothing you're saying is wrong, but it belies the point.

At some point, someone has to do the investment that makes a place appealing. I'm not saying "everyone should live like current rural residents".

I'm saying the investment that should be happening is "take a rural space and make a medium/high density area". Usually by creating a foundational lynchpin for income (ex: battery factory, chip factory, etc) and encouraging remote work.

> Pushing more people into areas with few opportunities just exacerbates this problem.

Pushing more people into areas with few opportunities creates opportunities in those areas.
TL;DR -- It's very domain specific if reliability is your number one feature.

For a startup that is hosting other people's production application/data then this is absolutely true. Less than 100% always needs to be addressed.

For a startup that is selling bingo cards then reliability probably isn't nearly as important. I'm guessing there were certain holidays that were more important than others as far as reliability goes though? Maybe patio11 can chime in :)
This is my feeling too. The title as it stands without a date clarifying that it was the SimCity from 2013 makes no sense. If I knew there was a 2013 version, it would probably make sense, but before clicking into the article and reading a little, I had no idea. And the only reason I clicked and read was because I thought "surely there's a mistake in this title".
It depends on how you define a university.

Medieval European universities are often considered the first true universities, because they are direct ancestors of modern universities, and their traditions have survived and evolved into what we see today. There were earlier institutes of higher education all around the world (including Europe), but those traditions have not survived.
> If you want more bed and less cab again, make it legal for the passengers, kids, etc to ride in the bed again. Like we did when I was a kid. If not, don't be surprised when you make something illegal people adapt the vehicle to deal with it.

Ah yes: let's drive down the interstate at ≥60 mph (100kph) to grandma's house with all the kids in the bed. Great idea. Would you like to also bring back leaded gasoline?

Or perhaps non-farmers / non-construction workers can stop pretending they regularly need a cargo bed and get a station wagon or minivan.

The top-selling car in 2022 was the Ford F-150, the top selling car in 1982 was Ford Escort: I'm having a hard time believing that people's hauling needs have changed in the intervening decades to rationally justify the sales figures.
Step 1 and 3 are, arguably, quite probable to happen in the future. I don't think you're appreciating just how many circular dependencies we have in the global supply chains. We're one big cataclysm or global war to reverting back to pre-industrial times, and if that were to happen, we'd likely be stuck there for quite a long time. Consider the following observations:

A. For obvious reasons, we continuously improve tooling and processes. This creates circular dependencies that make our civilization non-restartable.

As a toy example, imagine we made tool A, which let us create tool B, which let us, among other things, upgrade A to A'. A' can still produce B, but can also produce upgraded B'. B' obviously lets us make A'', but also C', and A'' + C' let us make B''. Rinse, repeat for a hundred years. The result is that the whole industry relies on tools A'''''''''' and B''''''''''. The hobbyists still play with A and B, maybe even A' and B', but there's nothing between A' and A'''''''''' in actual use or production, nor anyone who remembers their design, because they've all been made obsolete long ago. If the calamity hits, and we can no longer make new A'''''''''' and B'''''''''', we don't get to downgrade a step or two - we go back all the way to A' and B'. And all the other tools and technologies that also relied on our advanced capacity - they all stop working and go "back to beginning" in lock step.

B. Making and operating tools involves ever increasing energy use.

C. We've used up all easily-available high-density energy sources long ago. Both our renewable tech and our fossil fuel mining and combustion processes are A''''''''''-level tech.

With that in mind, it's not that big of a stretch to write a plausible backstory for a culture as described in the article.
> With an umbrella of ignorance as my shield, I asked what was her mission.

I really like that line. When I was early in my career, I wanted to sound smarter than I was, so I tried to avoid asking dumb questions to experts. Now that I'm an expert in some things, I realize how ridiculous that was - the experts would've clearly known I was not an expert and weren't going to be impressed by the depth of my knowledge.

When people come and ask me things with humility, I'm almost always happy to explain, and in my experience that's true of most people (especially the smartest/most knowledgable).
This is way too hilarious
Anecdotal, but:
Head over to https://streeteasy.com/ & do some searches with whatever you deem to be "affordable," then compare between the various "building types" in their filtering.

It's been a little while since I've done this–I, at least temporarily, gave up the idea of buying something in the city–but I noticed similar trends to keerthiko. Similar to when I was actually looking at places with a broker.
Still doesn't match my experience. Even in the startups I've worked for, engineers did not concern themselves with those kinds of details. Maybe it's a factor of just how early in the lifecycle a startup is when engineers join. Perhaps somebody who is there "day 0", before the first round is even raised, or maybe just a seed round, has a different perspective than somebody who joins after a C round or what-have-you.
IANAL but I believe it would set a precedent so that one could argue the legality of gps tracking on cars. Especially without your consent.
This was a thoughtful read - but found the conclusion avoided the biggest challenge of all - that housing is not just a financial decision - but rather, people require housing to live their lives.
'Trolling' has basically come to mean 'misinformation' among the general public, in the same way that 'hacking' has come to mean 'cybercrime'.
This was a thoughtful read - but found the conclusion avoided the biggest challenge of all - that housing is not *just* a financial decision - but rather, people require housing to live their lives.
Why wouldn’t Hindus have a country? Muslims got two in the partition.
No it isn't (No1 easy to imagine). Computers are only useful because we have a stable society that we can build on. Post apocalyptic societies have zero practical use for computers.
The first thing that pops into your head when reading "private vehicle's location need not be streamed to government" is: why would it? What did I miss? These are the relevant sentences from the article:

> It seems preposterous, but the Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) this privacy-infringing protocol in 2020. [Yes, the verb is missing here, but okay it's some law.... but why?]

> What benefits does the Government point to in response? Next to nothing. [great, lots of detail there]

> The regulation—issued pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976—was proposed by NOAA. [okay we got a headline of a potential reason behind it now, but are rental boats really the culprit in overfishing? Wouldn't it be fishing companies? Why only in 2023? Sounds fishy]

And that's all we get. After 518 words on the topic, the page "goes on" to report on decriminalizing pscyhedelic [sic] plants in some cities.

So.... asking as someone out of the loop... what's this all about in the first place?
Hmm...the title contradicts the content.

"A motivated, skilled team with the worst technology"

A skilled team is one that understands tech.
I wonder what types of RPS they are seeing that required a gossip based protocol to broadcast state around versus a more traditional data store.

I take it that it’s far more important that the local region know about changes than a remote region, which makes a mastered store in one location as the source of truth problematic.

I also wonder why these companies don’t backstop themselves on the public cloud? Failing into an AWS seems better than running out of capacity and some its services could be used in circumstances where an open source technology isn’t ready.
> It depends on how you define a university.

I think the institution that invented the term probably gets to define it. And that is the University of Bologna.
That thinking falls apart pretty quickly.
Why own a car at all? You could just call an Uber every time you need a ride and it would be affordable than paying for a car, insurance, fuel, maintenance.

House? How excessive. Just rent a small apartment instead. You don't need a yard, multiple bedrooms. You can go to a park instead and put multiple sleeping bags on the floor.

People are free to buy whatever they feel is appropriate for them.
i only experienced one year in a US highschool, so i don't have much experience, but it wasn't that bad. in some aspects it was better than germany. (chemistry class was much better for example. most teachers were great, etc.)

so either you went to a really bad school and i went to a good one, or your work life was just that much better (which is great). for me both were about equivalent. work gave me a lot more freedom of course (because i simply took that freedom as a freelancer)

Even when I've been at points where I was working shit service jobs

ok, wow, you must have had a really bad school then or horrible peers. but even a job like that can be good when you have great workmates.
Render has some great features like making a new sub domain for when a PR is opened so you can test it as a fully working API before you merge