skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLHWYCONS we are spending about 120b per year on highways and roads.

Per https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative... state and local fuel tax revenues are about $55b and per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_Sta... federal fuel tax revenues are about $40b. These figures are from different years and I don’t know how to get aggregate estimates of various other vehicle fees and taxes less government administrative costs, but assuming it’s about $100 per car you are right that the fuel revenues seem to be enough to fund roads.

Still, I see private vs public transit as a collective action problem leading to a local, non-global optimum: in aggregate we are still spending a lot on private transit, and when public transit is poorly funded in a particular area you have little choice but to choose private transit, which creates a negative feedback loop on multiple levels (incremental increases in public transit funding have little effect because they’re not enough to ditch a car, new development is dispersed and car-dependent). In my opinion, being all but forced to pay for private transit out of pocket is not much different from being forced to pay for public transit through taxes.

Heavy public transit vs heavy private transit is never going to be an apples-to-apples comparison because each has pros and cons (especially when considered systemically) and distinct cost structures. But personally even with a high tax rate that ends up paying for more public transit than I consume, I prefer the systemic outcomes of high public transit funding compared to private transit and deliberately choose to live in an area with that so I can forego car ownership.
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That's pretty extreme growth, with a lot of influencer/power user types too. Now with Bluesky and people just abandoning social media altogether, a Twitter implosion seems all but certain.
I get it you don't need that pass because you already get it cheaper. In fact I think very few people need a national pass and would rather prefer a cheaper local pass.

But the general point is that 49 euros a month to use public transport is dirt cheap and is definitely not a barrier, quite the opposite.

NB if a ticket is 3 euros it means 60/120 euros a month to commute daily without any discounted pass. Obviously, if you use only now and then the 3 euro ticket will be the cheapest option anyway...
If it’s your own computer you should be able to break it until you learn how not to.
You're ignoring that many people don't want to rock the boat. And anytime you tell a child that the person they thought was their daddy, isn't, you're rocking the boat. Regardless of the age of the child.

If this is an un-partnered mother and her children, then sure, much less excuse to not tell the kid, and much less reason to not tell them. But for partnered couples there's an inherent friction built in.
Did Ada zealots try? Do you have a link to their proposal?
That doesn't help. Web3 is decentralised blockchain etc. where it's actually impossible to delete content, Web2 is where you have meaningful user interaction; in both cases your lawyers will insist you need to cover your backside by requiring your users to grant you an irrevocable copyright licence so that you're safe from e.g. a DMCA lawsuit from a user if they delete their account and all their messages and yet someone else on the forum is quoting them in a reply.
XML + XSLT brings back memories :D

It's a great tech that was sadly mostly forgotten when JSON took over because it was way easier to parse with Javascript.
It's a way to share code in multiple ways:

- the language is like JSON, so you can send programs (and custom types) between computers

- you can store code in public "scrapyards", and send references to the scraps for others to download later and reuse

Code is executed on your machine, just like python, JS, etc.
> If you were to digitally record the output of a record player and play it back, there would be no discernible difference.

That’s probably true, but nobody does that.
Yeah. I tried two videos. The site demanded money because it was too long. Then I tried a shorter one, and the site demanded money because I'd reached my daily limit.

Is this for real?
Although the HN title is exactly what The Economist titled its article, the article's contents do not match the promise of the title.
We learned COBOL, CICS, and JCL in college (in the early aughts), because we had a lot of industries in our town that still relied on them, so they were churning out programmers that could actually apply for those jobs as the older programmers were retired.

COBOL was fine, ultimately. Clunky, but functional. CICS was less fine, but still something you could adapt to. JCL was _miserable._ I honestly cannot remember why, I've blocked as much of it from my mind as I could, I suppose, but I remember every part of JCL being awful and no fun to work with.
17°F isn't the point at which my heat pump stops working. It's just the lower temperature conventionally used as a point of comparison on the spec sheets for such devices. There's another column on the spec sheet for 47°F (where my heat pump model is listed as having a CoP of 3.6).

And as for the question about colder climates: it's not a matter of whether an area can occasionally experience temperatures below eg. 17°F. What matters is whether you'll ever experience daily highs that are cold enough to prevent heating the house.
I once entered 'sudo echo hi" or something similar on a large HPCC and received an email back from a sysadmin that just said "hello".
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It should also be clear that this article is about "deleting" code from an active project, not about "deleting" it entirely from the version control system. Thus, any code "deleted" through the described process could still easily be restored if necessary.
this is just a faulkner quote and a hemingway quote in response to it plus some worthless filler
Spotify compresses it anyway but for digital audio you'd want to encode in 48 kHZ/24 bit whereas CD only supports 44.1 kHZ/16 bit. Anyone who can hear the difference would be an exceptional listener with an exceptional sound system though, at least assuming the masters are generated with proper dithering.
Yes, grease is clearly where soaps made with lye become almost mandatory. I'm willing to bet for such chores, you could add a bit of regular soap to the mix.

In one video I watched, the person added a 1/4 cup of baking soda, and then some vinegar water in the fabric softener mechanism. Maybe that would have a similar effect.
If the attacker can execute sudo they can probably just alias it to a sudo that sends them the password and wait. The number of users on multiuser systems who don't have sudo access is just vanishingly small. Universities perhaps. But in most companies, if they trust you with access to the machine in the first place they'll trust you with sudo access.
You can mark yourself as busy, with a recurring event, outside the windows of time you wish to accept meeting requests.
There's another paper which showed GPT-4 (or was it 3.5?) going from something like 78% to 99.9% success on difficult multi-part reasoning tasks by running two copies of itself where one is an editor/reviewer.

I'm on my phone at the moment. But maybe someone else can link it.
I've worked with Rails at two companies: 500px and Shopify. The former was what I take to be typical use of gems and monkeypatching magic. I didn't like it, though I ended up doing myself to get other issues under control. (And luckily much new development were as separate services in Go.)

The Ruby/Rails at Shopify is much more sane (by my definition) looking much more like regular API made using a statically typed language (lots of Sorbet type info). There is of course dynamic magic, but tends to be limited rather than preferred, and where feasible static Sorbet type info is generated to match what the magic produces so users of magic can operate as if it was just a static typed library with a bit of DSL. There's enough in-house specifics that I wouldn't even call it Ruby on Rails, but rather Shopify Ruby/Rails and it's constantly evolving. There can be 3 ways of doing something: the old way (being phased out), the current way, and perhaps a new one being tested out in some part of the codebase.
Pretty sure there are no fornicators or adulterers mentioned even obliquely in this article. What on earth are you on about?
Value of this vs having mock interviews with someone who works/worked at said company and has interviewed candidates is very very minimal. There isn’t much incentive here whether the interview is anonymized or not.

You would be better off providing a service where candidates can simply talk to people who have successfully gone through the interview process for similar roles recently or vice versa.
Sounds like a useful system from which almost nothing is usable outside of Google.
bard makes total bullshit up tho
History of printing from the 20th century
I was recently in Korea and surprised to see how many iPhones there were in the Republic of Samsung.

My last time there was right before Covid in 2019, where iPhones were somewhat of a rarity. Samsung Galaxies ruled everywhere.

Now, everywhere I went I saw iPhones in Seoul, especially younger people. Android phones (including Samsung) seem to be mostly in the hands of older people.
Just got one NOW, yes invest. They are still paying to promote their product.

630.7K views, https://twitter.com/LiquidPiston/status/1625932968865693718
Gas cooking makes sense when people want to cook with gas.
For the most part Apache (foundation) is where software goes to die. Libreoffice replaced OpenOffice for most people from what I've seen.
I remember trying (and funding) Reincarnation and finding it hard to really explore the physics, as it lacked set-pieces and seemed less fun when compared to Carmageddon 2. It's possible that I played after the big physics downgrade of maybe 2015 [1], or on a machine that couldn't handle it.

I do wish there was a way to set up physics demonstrations, in all the games, for comparison with other engines. Certainly, the common boxes-made-of-jelly issue [2] is something I'm sure you wouldn't see from Carmageddon, though you'd probably see devastating performance issues with that same test.

Carmageddon 2 did notably lack (as far as I could tell) simulations of aerofoils and other surface dynamics and their effects on handling; cars seemed to be modelled as near-blocks as far as drag was concerned.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/app/249380/discussions/0/34378855...

[2] https://kripken.github.io/box2d.js/demo/webgl/box2d.html
A cheap inverter from a car battery will run any gas furnace
As an amateur who does have it, yes, it's super awesome for transcription. However, I don't think it's very useful for anything else.
For things that fly, what I’ve seen be more significant is the weight savings (as long as you’re not running too rich).
Cloudflare's decidedly _not_ about keeping the bots out. It's about keeping out malicious traffic. This seems like a tautology, but I'll explain why they are not the same: When I hit refresh in my RSS client and it GETs 250 different servers, on my behalf, is that a user agent or bot activity? How are you going to differentiate the two by their behavior? Some bots are let in, on purpose, like search engine crawlers. Some users are kept out, on purpose, because they use anonymity tools.

Since we don't have chips that detect one's heart's intentions yet, the best we can do is treat bots and user agents the same, and address the problem of malicious activity in other ways. This can be rate limiting, paying per request (i.e. hashcash) or other mechanisms I don't have top of mind. But bot=deny and user=allow is not what Cloudflare does or seeks to do.
Is there something like this, for "guerrilla" situations? An open source DIY project, a Raspberry PI image, and some kind of WiMAX antenna/WiFi AP combo to give internet access to a wide area in emergency situations.

I have no experience with that field but I think that would be really neat, for people in unstable countries where internet is blocked, or inaccessible. A plug and play, ghetto way of restoring internet access on the go, when all you have is a crappy, flaky and possibly filtered internet connection.
The post I was replying to did not specify those devices.
With 1/10 gravity dust also goes quite a lot higher. That's on top of lack of atmosphere letting dust float higher. Not to mention, there's going to be a lot more dust to kick up.

Anyway, the easiest way to get a feel for these things is to play some Kerbal Space Program. Try doing some moon flights. You'll quickly realize that the part of the mission that feels easiest on the home planet (landing) also feels the hardest on atmosphere-less bodies, and vice versa (e.g. taking off, or slowing for landing).
The 100% efficiency for the worst case electric heating is still 100% efficiency.

Burning gas is inherently more complex to transfer heat, and has more losses as a result.
Power going out isn’t apocalyptic.

I’m not saying the power going out is no big deal. I’m saying he’s not being overly dramatic.
I'm probably describing what I want incorrectly with 'memory mapped IO'. All I'm after is GPIO, SPI and I2C directly attached to the real processor, as you get with a completely standard Raspberry Pi or Rockchip board, but apparently never on x86.
Scientists Develop Mobile Printer for mRNA Vaccine Patches
Ok, so even with the slightly click-baity title, looks like the important part is this

> Canadian law bans any visual representation of someone depicted as being under the age of 18 engaged in explicit sexual activity.

Media in question copy-pasted real kids faces into sex videos, which seems to be illegal as read.

This ruling probably doesn't cover 100% fully artificially generated stuff. Still wondering when that will hit the courts.

Also the guy had plenty of the real stuff apparently.
I‘m not sure if Microsoft ever cared about user privacy, being a major player in mass surveillance and data processing for the US government. Instead of selling out our data to a nation state, they are now engaging in surveillance capitalism, too.

If you care about privacy, there is only one option, and that’s Desktop Linux, albeit less than ideal in many use cases.
FYI: The text on the top comes out all overlaid and nearly impossible to read. That might be why I couldn't see anything about reviewing any GitHub repos, either.
Maybe they just mean that Google started investing seriously in unit testing 20 years ago?
I disagree, there are a number of very large ETF's and other securities holding bonds which have not correctly valued the bonds at current or future bond prices in this hyper-inflationary environment.

A bond is only worth the sum of its interest and principal payments over a period of time. In any market that exceeds 2% inflation per annum, you have to account for the additional inflation in the future remaining coupon payments as well as during the elapsed period's actual inflation. This requires a certain amount of projection simply to adequately protect principal.

If you argue to get into bonds generically without considering the facts, you are promoting to people to burn their hard-earned money in effigy. Yes a bonds 60/40 portfolio is standard financial advice, but we are not living in standard times.

My parents followed that advice during 2008 and lost most of their retirement. I'm not saying anyone should do anything, I'm saying you need to do what's best for you and proper valuation is part of that, and your response seems to have remained silent on that part. Risk management is crucial for any kind of investment; and there are risks today which we have not dealt with in the past 20-30 years.
The plan for many central banks is for CBDCs replace physical cash. I believe China has started with its digital yuan.

TreasuryDirect is just a place where you purchase tbills and bonds right?
Why not just serialize objects to disk? I don't see how this is different from a javascript object, other than being disc-based. Unless I'm missing a detail?

Also, local KV obviously won't work for compute lambdas, as the KV isn't shared across instances.
> He also pleaded guilty to possessing hundreds of thousands of computer files of child pornography, for which he was sentenced an additional four and a half years.

Seems like hundreds of thousands of child porn images should be more than 4.5 years in prison. Is child porn not a serious offense in Canada?

Also, he used deepfake so the videos were childporn before he replaced the faces. So I think these are AI-augmented rather than AI-generated. If he has made whole cloth videos that never involved children I wonder what his sentence would be.
My understanding is that SHAKEN/STIR wasn't supposed to stop spam calls, but to stop caller ID spoofing. That way you could have "verified callers". Some calls I get on my phone (Android, T-Mobile) do have little checkmarks next to them, and I assume that means they had valid SHAKEN/STIR information.

Possibly at some point we'll be able to just blackhole calls that don't pass verification. But that won't really stop spam calls; it just means that they'll come from verified entities. I guess in that case you can go after them with complaints and get them fined in the cases where their calls violate the law, but that doesn't sound like a great solution... I have better things to do than chase down misbehaving companies.
If you try to do exactly what you were doing on the gas stove in the same way, you will have a bad time, but my and many other people's experience is that a decent electric stove is perfectly capable of making good food once you figure out how to use it. Electric stoves in general can heat faster than gas, and in my experience heat more evenly (no hot spots), so you don't need the crutch of a copper bottom to conduct that heat across the surface. It's certainly true that there are a lot of crappy cheap electric stoves out there that are not nice to cook with, but there are also plenty of crappy gas stoves that don't work well too. There's a ton of propaganda out there about how cooking with gas is better (much of it funded by the gas producers and distributors), but it doesn't hold up well under inspection.

You are right that most people in new york have gas, but new york is an outlier in that -- one of only five states that are majority gas. Most of Tucker Carlson's audience have electric stoves.
The question is what the cop is at -20C though, which is a fairly common winter temperature, and you really need heat at -40
You might want to overlap the first pass of chunks, something could get lost at the chunk boundaries. Not any sort of expert on this sort of thing, it just seems like an obvious pitfall for the context length.
But how accurate does it have to be to be considered perfect? As in within one hz? What about very high frequencies, where a single hz is much smaller, relative to the frequency?
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I couldn't disagree more. I have several email accounts and the gmail one by FAR lets through the most spam, a lot more than my Fastmail emails which despite being more published have far less spam than Google.
sudo only seems to have two contributors outside Todd Miller which committed more than a handful of lines: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

It's the kind of infrastructure project that doesn't really attract much interest, I doubt there would even be a single external contributor if it were written in some niche language.
Having lived in the metro area for quite a long time, I am qualified to tell you that few things NY does is exemplary of success. Most energy or public works projects turn into a total debacle. Shoreham Nuclear Power station is a good example. Billions spent, and they never even turned it on. Residents are still paying that down. Endless road project cycling. I'm not sure there has been a single transportation project that wasn't at last 3x over budget. Public corruption, kickbacks, bribery, influence peddling, patronage... The entire state apparatus is rotten to the core and rife with incompetence. I'd like to believe in the state's benevolence and concern for the well-being of its residence, but then I'd have to start or join a new religion (on blind faith alone) with its dogma being the bullshit that the state feeds to its residents.
In my area I got a 50k quote to get connected to mains gas even though it's less than 200 meters away. They can pound sand, even the a state-of-the-art heat pump system is a fraction of that.
from the article

> The donor "deliberately misinformed" prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past, the district court in The Hague said.
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At Red Hat, it was. The culture was such, for the most part, that you never had to be worried about getting fired unless you really badly messed up. People felt safe. Many said that Red Hat would never do layoffs. There were many boomerangs who went to other companies and came back for the culture. I guess that feeling of safety is now gone.

Source: I just left Red Hat unrelated to the layoffs.
As far as I know, the lower levels of smoking have not made the US health outcomes any better than places where smoking is at ridiculously high levels, like France.
> At 12%, SVB's Tier 1 capital ratio was well above the industry standard (5-7%

T1C is a solvency test. The liquidity test they were exempted from were LCRs. They would have failed that test in March 2022.
Personally, I've had much better results with repeating, but I haven't bothered to experiment enough to see if it's from "rinse, lather, rinse" or the full "lather, rinse, lather, rinse".
Given the price stability and the hardware specs, probably also a higher profit per device.
> a BTC developer could be rubber-hose compelled by the legal system to publish a patch

> you are right that people would probably fork and not update

One of us is misunderstanding how the Bitcoin core works. You're correct that a BTC developer could be compelled to publish a "bad patch", but nobody is obligated to accept it. If it's sufficiently controversial (eg. "accept my new ledger!"), there wouldn't even need to be a fork in the first place. It would die as a PR, and if it was forced through then miners would almost certainly protest since it undermines their authority.

You're right in the strictest possible purview of "this is possible", but Bitcoin's community would be left bereft. Anyone who tries modifying the ledger knows the weight of what they're suggesting, that's why it just doesn't happen.
I think that fidelity is the only important measure in media because it is what lets the author give the purist possible reproduction of their work to the consumer. All media has a level of degredation between thoughts, words, and interpretations, but digital is the one that has the highest fidelity.

Further, if the author intends, they can take their digital and make a vinyl; or record to vinyl, distribute as digital. (caveat: potentially having a double-lossy situation) Once you have a lossless digital you can publish it over two cans and string if you want. So it is quite literally a superset of analog media.
A surprising number of gas stoves do not work without electrical power. It's supposedly for safety reasons because a user might leave the gas on after the electronic igniter fails to fire. Of course, it's possible for a sufficiently incompetent user to turn the knob past the light position and achieve the same result when it does have electrical power, so this feature strikes me as nonsensical.

I had an annoying experience with this during a multi-day outage in Alaska last year. We did have other options including a generator, but I'm not a fan of being patronized by an appliance.