skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad died two years ago and my mom is in a nursing home with Schizophrenia. What option should I pick, "no"?
My mom is basically an invalid at 65. She has supranuclear palsy. There’s just nothing there to get along with. It’s sad. My dad, I get along with okay, unless we talk politics. He thinks he knows everything from exclusively watching one news source. I’ve tried to get him to broaden his horizons, but he’s not interested. I wish he and I could talk about politics but it’s just not good for either of us.
I think you’re focusing on the wrong issue here. Engine noise nowadays is a lot less of a problem than tire noise, especially with cars going 50km/h+.

Some cars are loud because people want them to be, most cars are loud because the noise the tires make when driving is loud, and that only gets worse the more cars you have around.
If anyone doesn't think cities are loud, they came come to my neighborhood at anytime. Between the bars, the "lounges" and just loud people in general.

In certain parts of NYC people just blast music from large speakers to small Bluetooth devices, even on public transportation.

Here is the 311 data for noise complaints and see how many are not car related.

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/311-Noise-Comp...
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Main takeaway is apparently I've never really pulled up a dandelion root. Never expected them to have that giant potato on the end!
I can see this being useful for creating pleasing ratios between font sizes. Though I feel this may be less useful today than in the past. Headers, navs, and other elements often require responsive font sizes to adapt well to all screen sizes. You could still maintain a ratio if using a container query of the full document, but it's usually not a good idea to scale the body font more than a couple points up or down for readability.

I think this tool may be good for documents with careful typesetting and layout, but maybe not modern, interactive, responsive pages.
>> No offence, but have you spent any time in Japan?

> As someone who moved to Japan it's always funny. I think people literally get their impression from Japan solely from neo-Tokyo sci-fi from the 80s.

Yes, I have visited Japan several times, multiple cities. My wife is Japanese.

But don't let that stop you. Please, continue.
Honestly, I hate both.

Years ago, I had a job where I loved the commute. Grab a coffee on the way- it was a beautiful commute in the mountains along trees without so many cars.
I've never asked google search to write my emails, presentations, or feature proposals. Nor to summarize company documents like reports, memos and the like.
It's not an advanced or particularly well optimized GC, but that's effectively what Arc<> or Rc<> is getting you in Rust (or shared_ptr in C++ etc).
Yes, is that some kind of problem?
Yeah. The issue in itself has little merit, because cyclists are also very quiet, even quieter than an EV, and would also send a pedestrian flying on collision.
'Suggesting a solution' somewhat indicates that the person receiving the suggestion didn't think of it (or wouldn't have thought of it, or couldn't have thought of it). -- Giving a solution is kinda like "see how helpful I am".
Yes. They're not perfect, but they do their best.
haha, NYC has entered the chat.

Cars aren't loud, car SPEAKERS are loud.

The subway. Ambulances. Construction. Garbage truck compactors. Guys trying to get you into their restaurants. Panhandlers. Buskers. Customers haggling with street vendors. Hassidim on cellphones negotiating deals. Mothers on cellphones giving relationship advice. Laughing teenagers. Drunken couples having fights. Cops chit chatting with each other, or arresting people.

People have recorded the sounds of NYC and during the pandemic someone posted this to YouTube for nostalgia.

I've traveled to 35+ cities and they're all quiet compared with New York.
I can't help but think this is the excuse, anything for another foot in the door to further their adoption.
With the trend of open space office and desk hotelling, I don't really like the office either..
>Car culture in the US is hardly justifiable by means other than convenience

Ah yes. The “convenience” of driving 30 minutes to the nearest city, compared to walking for 8 hours.
I do not know what to tell you, I was informed through like 3 different ways.

I think “Tokyo has better air than other metropolises” is a kinda verifiable thing, and if you grant that it’s kinda normal to consider that! There’s a reason lots of people end up here from other countries, and it’s not the pay!
Excellent way to put it.

Btw I have had coworkers which did successfully negotiate a per-mile rate for their commute.

I think they were earning $0.5 per mile. I thought it was hilarious (but also, fair).
From Einstein to Turing: Misdirecting GPT-4 with Hidden Prompts
No, not, if you can't change the users.
This led me on a very interesting tangent!

https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/from-einstein-to-turing-misdir...
For a company of Apple's size, banning ChatGPT entirely is probably the only effective way of preventing people from training ChatGPT on their internal data.
If you yank them too fast or the soil is too dry, you’ll only get the stem. To get the root out you need to do it the day after a good rain and use a dedicated tool to get leverage beneath the surface.
> His idea for optional GC for some data and manual memory management for other data is kinda interesting though.

Most GC languages (Java, C#, Go) have the concept of memory arenas: manually managed memory allocations. Seems like what you're looking for, though not native to Rust.
It’s all a lazy river flowing in a circle. Everything is downstream of everything else.
Not my experience. I live next to a 40mph dual carriageway which is an arterial route. The road noise is pretty much constant, and I don't find it that disturbing (although my recently-moved-in partner differs on this). What is disturbing to everyone is the sound of loud-exhaust boyed up sheds which drive past pretty much every day. There's one guy who has made his car backfire, and does this pretty much every time he drives past, at around 11pm each night. Incredibly annoying, selfish behaviour.
Hackernews.com (1998)
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/average-...

I wasn't able to find anything like "average car payment for low-income Americans", but this link shows that average car payments are pretty evenly spread across the credit score spectrum, with rates inching up as you go down, probably because of higher interest rates. No idea if credit score is a proxy for wealth though.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/15/cars/car-loan-interest-rates-...

A ton of concerning stuff here, most notably that two-thirds of these loans have 5.5-7 year terms now, compared to 30% in 2004. The article it links to shows that for 2023 Q1, the average term is 70 months, down payment is $4k, APR is 11.1% (!!!!), so that the monthly payment is $551 even as down payment increases and amount borrowed decreases.

Again, I don't want to say you're wrong: you can find cheap cars, people survive with clunkers. And the most frustrating part about searching this is that I haven't been able to separate the rich people buying Escalades from the poor people buying entry-level vans, so I don't have a sense of demographic makeup here.

But all of the trendlines are pointing towards car payments being bigger than ever and terms longer than ever. Mash that up with higher interest rates and some lingering supply constraints and it's not a healthy market right now, which is why it doesn't surprise me that people are yearning for a different solution that doesn't involve a heavy reliance on cars.
> reducing the number of vehicles in use. But that’s a difficult problem

That's not a difficult problem (except in cases like sloped terrain etc.) - and the solutions are known and readily available. They are not even expensive, socially. The problem is:

1. Increasing awareness and understanding of the alternative and the solutions available to get there.

2. Translating public interest/will into political action by municipal administrative bodies.

3. Rearrangement of resources away from private expenditure on cars and their maintenance, and national expenditure on roads, into municipal (and perhaps national) expenditure on mass transit systems.

... and these problems, or at least their combination, is what's difficult.
IMO you are both right at the same time, there were even studies published here on HN saying that background far-away engine noise is very harmful for the humans when we're exposed to it for prolonged periods of time.
For Apple it's a risk management problem.

Hence why they are banning it.
Sure, smaller cities are better than big cities. Less dense cities are better than denser cities. All else held equal.

The neighbourhoods you’re referring to - walkable areas free from car noise - are open to the wealthy only. The absolute vast majority of people in Tokyo live with constant traffic noise and terrible air quality. Not to mention cramped living conditions.
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PSP sucks, man. I'm sorry.
Everyone pays all the time — through externalities.
The Quest Pro seems a better comparison: It sits between the normal Quest and the Apple headset in terms of specs and price. But apparently it didn't sell well (there was an early price drop), suggesting that an even more powerful even more expensive headset won't sell either.
They're not mutually exclusive to hate.
The tyranny of the default is real. People on this site are perfectly aware it takes three seconds to change it but the great masses don't even think about it and they are worth the money spend to keep this default.
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> Why do we need to subsidize naything? This already exists.

Because the problem presented here is: government bans TikTok, teenagers become experts at using VPN apps to work around the ban.

Social media apps live on network effects - it's near-impossible to compete with a well-established giant directly. But this also means that, if you manage to pull a critical mass of users over from your direct competitor, most of the rest will quickly switch too.

Therefore, the solution to teenagers overcoming the ban with VPN is to prop up a domestic competitor fast - pump money into it until it becomes more attractive to the kids than jumping through VPN hoops to get to TikTok. Once you get there, the problem solves itself.

(This is ofc. only for the scenario where the problem is China, not TikTok-style social media.)
This sounds to me like a new way of saying that languages with GC allow developers to move faster in very many cases than languages without GC which I think I largely agree with.
Mopeds are also really loud, I hate them so much. It's a shame that the engine noise isn't dampened somehow, because otherwise they work very well in city traffic.
That was one of my favorite parts of Stargate. Every so often you got to see what the team drove when episodes took place on Earth. Most went for generic trucks or SUVs. Carter (engineer, scientist, colonel, destroyer of worlds) would always show up in some fancy ride from Amanda Tapping's collection.
More than a decade ago when i worked in software security google was banned from work stations. Both due to it spreading virii via ads and also due to tracking.

Fast forward to 2018 at a large corp for critical code and data chrome was also banned. Regular workers not but certain webapp features had to be sealed off.
I’d also add the enormous expense: if you’re rich, sure, cars aren’t a concern but even middle class people are usually worried about payments & repairs, and loss of a reliable car is one of the most common ways people fall out of the middle class, not to mention everyone starting retirement with so much less money.

There are good parts, of course, but I think it’s very reasonable to ask whether we get a good value from something we collectively give up so much for.
Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine
Awesome project by Nils Bakker. Linking 3D tiles to Unreal Engine and ChatGPT.
Can we please get the title put back, the weird anti-Rust clickbait does a disservice to an excellent podcast.

The original title was The Future of Programming With Richard Eisenberg.

@dang
About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.4
In Norway there is no realistic option to have fiber cheaper than 45-50 Euro per month.

Based on personal experience 10 MBit/s is enough for video including full HD options. In fact it worked better than 100 MBit/s that was shared with several users and when somebody was downloading big gaming files.
300m long, 287kW, or 1 kW/m.

At ~€1m total price, it's about 3500€/kW, which is roughly 2-3 times the equivalent rooftop solar price (but this likely includes paving the bike path, frame structure, etc).
I think the blind spot and empath gap gp is referring to is the attitude of the anti-car crowd. I had this just yesterday in another thread. The attitude of many city folks toward suburbanites is basically "have you considered radically changing your lifestyle, abandoning most of your existing habits and hobbies, and petition your town to put in bike infra where zero room to do so exists?"

They fail to realize that huge swaths of America is pretty much permanently stuck with pedestrian-unfriendly infrastructure.
id have voted partially if inlaws counted
Being non-Durbin enables Truist to compete with bigger banks by being able to offer things like cash back on debit. That seems less like abuse and more things working as intended.
I would recommend an old Alphasmart

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

Way better battery life and ease of use with USB. It's my go to note and writing machine.
I'm so sorry to hear that.

Please select the option that best describes your overall lives together.
>Snow tires are known to be louder

Studded snow tires are louder than other tires, snow tires without studs are softer than normal tires so less noise. Modern snow tires without studs are surprisingly good on ice, which is the only place studded tires can compete.

Noise levels is one of the things tires are rated by, but a quiet tire would normally require a softer compound and softer compound wears out faster than harder tires
This is the biggest crock of shite I've read thus far on HN.
You do have to think about memory a little bit in Rust with RAII, but not much.

There are two situations:

First there are cyclic data structures. For these you have to be sure to use a construct like weak reference counting pointers for things that are self referential or you will leak memory. Either that or you store links by object ID instead of pointer. The former adds a bit of cognitive overhead and the latter adds runtime overhead.

The second case is high performance code where you want to avoid allocating memory in an inner loop.

The second case comes up a bit in GC languages too though, since if you allocate without thinking you can easily write code that balloons the heap and forces the garbage collector to constantly invoke and do a lot of work to collect temporary objects. The code will work but will be slow and allocate more heap than needed.

Edit: actually embedded is a third situation where you might have to think a lot but that’s true for any language you are using.
The hype surrounding immutable objects
Maybe I’m missing what you are saying, but my take is that millions of Python, Java, JS, and Ruby programmers would beg to differ. Even if GC sometimes causes problems, 95% of the time it vastly reduces the friction involved with solving problems using computers.
They are now going to force all ISPs to block access in their state including wireless providers?
Yes there are - new tyres are rated in the EU (and still used in the UK) for noise, as well as wet grip and fuel efficiency. [1]

[1] - https://www.kwik-fit.com/tyres/information/tyre-labelling
Some part of me made me interested more in dandelions as I saw them sprout up in my neighborhood this spring.

I found this video on their history interesting.

Dandelions and Civilization: A Forgotten History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyePMeGE3CI

In particular, I did not realize that they were brought over by settlers. Likely on purpose as a food source/herb then spread with western expansion. Another thing I remember is that he says there are accounts in China of roots getting much longer. 10+ feet IIRC, compared to 2 claimed in this article. Although that's a bit hard to believe. I guess it is used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Of course now they are just seen as a weed. I guess I have mixed feelings The yellow flowers themselves dont put me off but seeing large patches of them after going to seed dont look good. Unlike many here probably, I do like a pristine lawn but even still I don't think the flowers themselves are a pure eyesore.
Garbage collection, if well implemented, makes a program less buggy and more secure. Those are benefits to the user.
> Also I prefer not be limited in my shopping choices just to the single shop that happens to be in my building or on my block...

And I prefer not living with constant traffic noise and at risk of being run over every time I step outside. I prefer biking with my kid to his school, but we can't because the traffic makes it a suicidal idea. I also prefer to listen to birds when I walk to the shops nearby, but the traffic noise drowns them.

Yet, here we are.
> are not actual issues because none of that is happening anyway, the producer has no incentives to invest anything into future improvements all the funds get absorbed by it's shareholds or the administrative apparatus.

I disagree, there is huge misallocation of resources. For example, medicine, housing, transportation, etc. And as you mention, the problem is monopoly and oligopoly, which is insufficient supply of sellers.

So society can choose to fund taxpayer funded R&D for medicine that is in the public domain, or technology, or use land value taxes to disincentivize large landlords, or landlords at all.

The point of my original claim though is that price should only be used as a signal of which way society needs supply and demand to go. Another way of saying which way society needs goods and resources to be allocated. Directly controlling price will always lead to corruption and inefficiencies.
My guess is whoever submitted this wanted this particular aspect to be discussed, clickbait or not
Europe is definitely not a monolith with regards to noise. Loudest place I’ve ever lived is Barcelona. Was a one-way side street but the scooter noise was still insane. Cars make a lot of noise but at least in my city-living experience across both Europe and US people at bar closing times, parties, construction, scooters and motorcycles are far worse for noise affecting quality of life. Also remembering what it was like to live next to the L in Chicago forever ago… that was loud.
Or perhaps Google is just better than the competition.
He died from pancreatic cancer.

Anytime, I read someone dying from this particular cancer, I think of Randy Pausch and the Last Lecture.

https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo

HN discussion from 2008:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256623

It’s really a shame no progress has been made in treating this cancer in the last 16 years.
> I think it is only the case in companies where there is no proper onboarding process or it is an afterthought.

I think this is what it comes down to. Most companies have nonexistent onboarding, so new hires can be unproductive for quite a while.
The benefit for the user is that the software exists. While it might have not if the developer was forced to be bothered with manual memory management.
How isn't this price fixing?
I agree. I wish the credit card networks didn't give into this, even if I might agree with other parts of the recent reforms. Cash discounts were always allowed.

I think the real problem is that merchants don't want to discount cash, because it still costs money. So now they can have their cake and eat (some of) it, too.
A language/framework that explored well this idea is Elm, which is used in front-end apps. It started with Signals and FRP, then 7 years ago changed course to the Model-View Update architecture [1], today known as The Elm Architecture. It is still a bit niche, but a handful of frameworks in other languages like Rust are following this architecture for GUI apps.

[1] https://elm-lang.org/news/farewell-to-frp
(Largely with the exception of the highest rated mainstream media outlet Fox News, funnily enough.)
Indeed, Rust is ideal for writing kernels, drivers, or getting more secure software in domains where people are religiously against any kind of automatic memory management system.

Other than that, there are better options in regards to productivity.
There's a clear point where an API call is being made. That point is when a blocking consent prompt could show up.

Like, at worst openAI could "mitm" the prompt's call, and display a pop up modal asking for permission.

I'm not suggestion that you handle this by having the user type "I give permission to call google".

I don't see how it could be possible to forge user consent that is delivered to openAI's servers via a separate mechanism from the model. You'd have to give the LLM a "accept openAI permission prompts" or "run arbitrary javascript in the chatgpt browser session" plugin for it to then be able to use that plugin to bypass modal dialogs for other plugins.
I always chuckle when I see companies trying to “ban” new technology. On one hand, I understand (it’s impossible to ensure the proper data security controls), but there are 100 new AI based applications popping up a day. Ban ChatGPT and people will just use some other tool (probably with even worse data security safeguards).

In my opinion, the only real way out of this is for companies to offer their own security-approved solution. This might take the form of an internally-hosted model and chat interface, or one pointing to Microsoft Azure’s OpenAI APIs (Azure having more enterprise friendly data security terms).

This article says Apple is working on their own LLM, and presumably they’re offering that for employees to test, but many other companies are simply closing their eyes and trying to pretend it doesn’t exist.
Free Kevin!

Question: does that site have anything to do with this site?
Classic deflection and scapegoating. He’s not to blame for shitty work situations: it’s the laptop class!