skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering how modern, US society was built for cars perhaps it's only fair we dial that back a bit. The end result is likely to be more humane and ecologically sustainable.
"Network error. There was an error when trying to load this page. This could be due to a temporary problem with your internet connection or this server."
Yes, after last year's hurricane devastated the Gulf and Eastern coasts and erased all human presence in Florida... oh, wait. that didn't happen; they just predicted it would. Every year for the last 20+.
Doing something cheaper than competitors is a good thing when you’re achieving the same goal. Doing something cheaper than competitors when there’s a trade-off to the buyer fills out options in the market. Doing something cheaper than competitors when there’s an externality (e.g. a self-driving car that fails to recognize pedestrians) is morally condemnable.
Wait until you get into car engines or mechanical watches, then you are truly in the rabbit hole!
How similar to WSL2 is this?
Been using vftool to host docker instead of Docker.app. It's been alright so far, got rosetta set up inside to run x86 images. All it takes is a little startup script and some up front work to prepare a disk image with Ubuntu server.

Every once in a while, the guest Ubuntu kernel will oops about smp related things. Every time it boots its clock is reset almost a month in the past and I have to force sntp to correct it. After sleeping the host, the guest clock will not advance so it'll be behind several hours.

I'm not sure where to assign these issues: Ubuntu kernel? virtualization framework? vftool? bad configuration?
I'll offer a guess educated by almost a decade of working for Google: security treadmill. How can you trust something to stay secure for more than a couple weeks? Borg will outright refuse to run any binary that's been compiled a couple months ago. Couple that with notorious internal API instability culture and you get just this - can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself. So they did the better thing here - give a schedule for the turndown, instead of "this will stop serving a couple months after some binary no longer compiles".
My mother in law has stage 4 lung cancer. Tagrisso is extending her life. The cancer has been shrinking since going on it with few side effects.

Unfortunately stage 4 cannot be cured, and at some point tagrisso stops working. My understanding is the cancer mutates and eventually develops resistance. Then she will go on chemo and her quality of life will go down.

I am thankful for modern medicine that we get some extra time with her.
Love it — https://puppiesai.com/result/?conversion=5546699430da4eba8bc...
I used to watch youtube channels where people post their videos that are supposed to record bad drivers. Many times I was under impression that person who was recording was actually law offenders, driving in aggresive way, and yet they were accusing others for being bad driver. I also was reading comments below such videos- everyone, literarly, has their own idea what 'good' or 'bad' driving is. Pepple can't evem agree about actual regulations, they interpret it in their own way... We have points system (probably it's the same in other parts of the world), it is not really promoting good driving in my opinion. There are many cases of people who lost their driving license because of points and were still driving (badly).

There is also a website where people post bad drivers by license plate (I sometimes search if I'm already there). People are using this place as vehicle to vent their emotions and insult each other...

I'd say it's hard to quantify what good/bad driving is? Maybe many drivers (me included) have ego problem?
If that were true, then manipulation of the masses through media would be impossible. And you wouldn't see so much resources in to advertising and propaganda.
We are susceptible to changing our minds. Some of us more by logical arguments, most of us by emotional means. The emotional response by itself is very complicated. It's influenced by your core values, which you usually indoctrinated into as a child, and by multiple other cultural and personal tendencies.
That glass jar featured on top of early pumps? You would pump gas (often by hand) until it reached the desired level in the jar, which had a calibrated measuring stick inside. Then you would pay then empty the jar through a hose into your car or container.

The trick? (there's always a trick). The measuring stick took up volume, reducing how much gas you actually got by a tiny margin. Similar to the 'thumb scale' on the back of early butchers' scales (the butcher could put their thumb on the button, add an ounce or two to the displayed value) and charge for more than you were getting.

The gas jar measuring stick could have been just engraved lines on the jar of course, and taken no space at all.
My "perennialy [sic] problematic ideal" is that the history book you got from the library has been overdue since 1972, and the historian has a 1950s conformist America mindset, which is the basis of the basic, red-pilled model of white male resentment.

There is no "nuance" in that mindset. It is factually wrong. It doesn't work today. It wallows in nostalgia. The nostalgia is, in part, to make up for the fact that the red pill contains no culture: No art, no literature, no music, no theatre - nothing that makes America a global cultural beacon, and nothing that women would want to spend any time with. It is a loser mindset, and deservedly so.
Notes on std:optional’s monadic operations
As a former Uber/Lyft driver, I had to pull over and at least shake out whichever floor mats people's shoes were on after nearly every single ride. Some kind of visible debris usually ends up on the floor immediately when a person enters the vehicle. Often there was worse stuff to clean up. It was a rare exception that someone didn't leave any trace at all.

I've seen some of the cars of drivers who clearly don't clean as often, and they can get pretty gross looking (at least in daylight) pretty quickly.

I think these self driving taxis are going to need really good internal cameras, a vast network of human cleaners large enough that one is always reasonably nearby, higher pricing and a strong fine/fee system to avoid looking nasty for the majority of riders. With maybe a little less cleaning needed at night.
>Today tech is dominated by a cognitive elite of Ivy Leaguers, management consultants and MBAs.

> The people who built it, such as David Packard and Bill Hewlett, Fairchild Semiconductor co-founder Robert Noyce, and Apple’s Steve Jobs.......They had a vision of how to use new technology to enhance productivity and make money.
( Edit: I would change the make money to bring value, which in itself makes money, subtle but important difference )

>relying on inertia to garner income without worry of competition in what the author David P. Goldman neatly summarises as ‘the transformation of disruptive tech companies into rent-seeking monopolies.’

>Oddly, as the Valley has become more feudal – its reliance on ‘indentured’ H-1B visa holders repeats a very old arrangement – its political culture has become more uniformly progressive. Back in its heyday, the Valley’s disproportionate number of eccentric and oddball engineers and tech visionaries belied a pragmatic political culture.

>Today’s Valley is a political monolith......

> ‘people in tech’ can become ‘one of the most powerful political forces’ in the country since they increasingly ‘control’ what he labeled ‘the avenues of distribution.’ Once known as quirky outsiders, the Valley is now the establishment.

Given half of the article is about politics, especially politics that is anti-US Left and mostly Anti-HN. I wont be surprised if this drop out of front page soon.

Also not surprising this narrative is coming from UK press. As most of the point made will never appear in most US media.
Mastodon is such a revelation. It is the internet I want to be in.
Those designs are the result of the lack of competitive pressure coming from the fact that the Detroit automakers effectively had the US market captured.
That says nothing against my point. If the "real thing" has little consumer protection as well, crypto comparatively becomes more attractive. There's ALWAYS risk.
In practice there's not much difference if you use a wrapper application. The wrapper application sets the version of modules and provides whatever glue they need. For Rails that would be gems in the Gemfile and mounted engines. To deploy a new version of your module you bump the version in the Gemfile and roll the nodes.

Essentially you have:

Modules = Microservices

Wrapper = Terraform/Helm Charts

And practically they work the same way.

This is another thing that used to make sense but no longer does. Back in the day we had pets and not cattle. You couldn't just roll someone's servers and expect everything to be fine. But today we write stateless cattle that can be killed at any moment.
Per the recent sama interview that was taken down, he said plugins haven't found product market fit based on usage data. They may be slowing down efforts in this feature overall to focus on their scaling issues.
Lol. After 5-6 questions it started doing the opposite response that I choose. I choose A every time and it started forcing me to take B option. Classic LLM success.
Yep, works in M2 in asahi linux, but I'm not sure Apple has it enabled in their framework.
Try to refresh the page, the error seems to be intermittent.
How is that possible if FSD has so many safety controls? Are their controls so easily bypassed that they're effectively non-existent?
I said nothing about solving problems, more the opposite. If the "real thing" can't be relied on to an extent, then might as well go with the risky thing.
If I'm a lowly IC leading a project to improve code reviews, are those interested in my work "bootlickers"? Notice the article didn't say managers, you're assuming it.
For example, those repositories contain a lot of privately identifiable information

This seems to miss my point - I have no idea why PII is in a code repo.
> the weekend surplus crawl that would turn up hardware prototypes, power supplies, vintage numerical LED displays....

I was living in London at that time (it's not restricted to SV). There were electronic surplus stores in Edgeware Road; you could buy used ham-radio sets, PCBs that might or might not work (depending on whether you knew what they were supposed to do in the first place), nixie tubes, used oscilloscopes and whatever, and all kinds of components.

Then gentrification hit the area, and the shops are all now (and have been for 30 years) big-box outlets for TVs and surround-sound rigs.

I regret the passing of tinkerer shops.
The tidyverse has made it pretty “nice”.
Ask HN: Largest DBs (any) you worked on?
Why write 5 paragraphs poorly explaining something that can be understood in 5 seconds with a gif?

https://blog.matthen.com/post/112212054651

Edit: referring to the author struggling to explain the orbit pattern when it could be shown instead.
A not-so-quick introduction to the C++ allocator model
This is why VR is a necessity and not a dream. We have evolved to stand straight. It'll be easier to build on top of that adaptation instead of trying to go against it.
My father is in this situation with prostate cancer. First line therapies have stopped working and now its on to chemo. I am hoping chemo won't damage him too much.

There are also radioligand therapies like lutetium 177 but they haven't been sequenced on chemo naive patients yet. So soc is chemo first.
Here's hoping people will finally stop propagating the myth that SpaceX had been intentionally shutting off Starlink in Ukraine to blackmail the government into paying.

All other defense contractors haven't been expected to indefinitely provide services for free, so it was always absurd to see people arguing that SpaceX should do it for free.
"hope" is not a plan
In a way, even easier? Why not just get on the interstate, bolt cars together. Then you're also saving on gas.
> Of course it always depends what borders you draw.

You seem to be rapidly redrawing yours in a different place all of a sudden.

"It's an exaggeration to claim that ballast would have been used for railway tracks for centuries"

You may well have meant "ballast (specifically sharp crushed rocks as they use nowadays)" but that's a very different statement.

> Some [X] has been used for centuries. But not the kind [...] we know today.

I mean, yeah, truism.
> If a rollback were needed, some features would have to be implemented in both the monolith and Billy. This was time-consuming, so moving fast to remove that code from the monolith and rely 100% on Billy was essential.

This is the hardest bit, where if the monolith is relying on a shared db transaction between the client and service the network boundary makes them separate. Even without explicit rollbacks, at any high scale/load there can be timeouts/failures leaving an inconsistent data state.

The article suggests migrating a less critical client first, then developing such consistency mechanisms before migrating the more critical clients.
I use Windows at work and dual boot windows + distro hop in home desktop (currently: Fedora)

The good:

- In the past 5 years my Windows development experience went from garbage to pretty good.

- VS Code + devcontainers + Docker / Podman Desktop using WSL 2 as a backend was a productivity game changer for my company.

- scoop and Winget made tooling much easier to install. I do most of my sysadmin tasks on Windows, not WSL.

The bad:

- WSL 2 still has rought edges, and you're still using a VM.

- Native app / Desktop development is a mess of SDKs, 90s development patterns and for some reason it's tigly coupled to visual studio (the crappy one, not code).

The ugly:

- My home desktop sports 24 cores, a decent gpu and 128gb ram. Teams still feels slow. Same for some parts of the UI.

- Ads / telemetry. C'mon MS, I'm paying for Windows Pro.

Overall, I prefer using Windows to most Desktop Linux distro nowadays (although one could argue that's a pretty low bar).
it's not; it's the dust from the actual stones themselves not a contamination.
thats unfortunately how it is, ANYTHING can be rationalized when you rationalize theft(so called "taxes") from people. Soon after you begin to think you can decide what other people do since "i pay for it". Along the same levels of logic you also go create insane zoning laws and crap that extends into other peoples property, and is NOT just based on non-harrasment, but more like "you cant paint your house red, only green/blue pastel colors in THIS neighborhood", or "grass is maximum 1 inch long" and such insane shit
>Atkinson is a pretty heavyweight knowledgeable car guy and as he says in the article has a university degree in electrical and electronic engineering, with a subsequent master’s in control systems.

Apparently none of that stopped him from thinking that cars get thrown in the crusher after the first owner is done.

FTA:

>Currently, on average we keep our new cars for only three years before selling them on, driven mainly by the ubiquitous three-year leasing model. This seems an outrageously profligate use of the world’s natural resources when you consider what great condition a three-year-old car is in. ... It’s sobering to think that if the first owners of new cars just kept them for five years, on average, instead of the current three, then car production and the CO2 emissions associated with it, would be vastly reduced.

Far from "vastly reducing" CO2, duration of first ownership has almost no effect. Total vehicle lifespan (not just the first owner) is what actually has a huge effect on lifecycle CO2.

With such a glaring and elementary logic error, it's impossible to take anything Atkinson writes seriously.[0]

Besides that, all his points are just regurgitating the same tired anti-EV talking points we've been hearing for 15+ years now:

"Hydrogen is right around the corner!" (please ignore how the unavoidably terrible thermodynamic efficiency causes unavoidably terrible per-mile economics)

"Or e-gas!" (ditto)

"Or combustion hydrogen!" (even harder ditto)

"Batteries have some problems, don't you know?" (Nirvana Fallacy; nothing's perfect, but batteries are already better than the alternatives and improving fast)

"Batteries are improving fast so we shouldn't make EVs yet." (why do you think EV battery technology is improving so fast?)

The "support" for these claims is invariably cherry-picked, like the fact that manufacturing emissions are 70% greater, while ignoring the fact that EVs more than pay this back in reduced operating emissions (meaning EVs have lower total lifecycle emissions overall).

So like I said, nothing beyond an extremely typical hydrogen puff piece, which are always (and always have been) just anti-EV puff pieces in disguise.

[0] to be fair, perhaps Atkinson actually knows this and he is 'just' making his argument disingenuously; in that case his word has even less credibility
Right. I believe the idea is to virtualize macOS inside macOS. I think some developers use that to test on older OS releases.
Thank you. That article was begging for a TLDR. The cooking blog effect but for science.
Rapidly increasing likelihood of exceeding 50 C in the Mediterranean and the ME
If the goal was to reduce the spread of the disease, then the mitigations in place need to be based on what will be effective against an airborne disease, not what will be effective against a disease with a droplet based spread.

> no I (personally) have not seen anyone have any sores or issues with wearing a mask, medical professionals, students, or otherwise

We aren't talking about wearing a cloth mask, as those are ineffective. We're talking about wearing an n95 mask (or better), fitted tightly enough to your face to prevent unfiltered air from leaking in through the sides, and wearing it day after day. You end up with bruising and pressure sores.

For instance, here's the CDC guidence on how to know if your n95 mask is fitted properly.

> To conduct a negative pressure user seal check, cover the filter surface with your hands as much as possible and then inhale. The facepiece should collapse on your face and
you should not feel air passing between your face and the facepiece

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2018-130/pdfs/2018-130.pdf

As far as Doctors and Nurses posting pictures of the results of properly wearing PPE day after day, they were all over the internet.

> Exhausted doctors and nurses post images of their bruised faces after long shifts wearing protective gear

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-health-care-bruised...

> Healthcare professionals around the world are sharing photos of their exhausted faces, sometimes bruised from masks, after harrowing shifts treating coronavirus patients

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-doctors-and-nurses...
What alternatives do you recommend, and why?
I think I made a Factorio like this once.
Bitcoin Coders Feud over Whether to Crush $1B Frenzy for Memecoins
Just curious: what's the benefit of installing them pre-heated vs installing them at air temperature with a slight expansion space between them? I assume that when they are installed pre-heated, the first thing they do is cool down and contract.
Don’t be anxious.

The best programmers I’ve ever worked with and deeply respect are the ones in their late 50s, early 60s. They’re unflappable when it comes to outages. They’ve seen it all. They work more sustainably and methodically to get stuff done.
China Investing in Open-Source Intelligence Collection on the U.S.
It is even more ridiculous when there are about 3 months of the year when people decorate their front lawn with giant snow men with blinking lights, giant skulls and witches that blink off and on or giant Easter Bunnies and eggs on the front lawn, corn stalks...

Surely, even some of the people complaining about this have a giant inflatable reindeer in storage that they look forward to putting on their lawn.

We are fine with decorations as long as it is only 25% of the year. More than 25%? What are you crazy and a deviant?
https://archive.ph/c1Zfw
Yep, I looked at Out World in Data [0] at the time and from the numbers it was very clear to me that it was a disease that was mainly risky for old people and people with co-morbidities. At that point it was clear to me that most people wouldn't need to be very scared.

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[0]: https://ourworldindata.org
Not surprised, even with Blue on Twitter the engagement is close to Nothing, even more on "sensitive" topics such as Ukraine or climate.
i see this type of reasoning going some pretty dark places, and unfortunately it seems like this is what a large part of the woke-push is heading to
Tangential, but the AlphaGo that beat Lee Sedol was written in Lua and I would have loved to see them stick with it instead of migrating to Python.
>I'm sorry but when was Microsoft ever reputable?

They went on an open source charm offensive a few years ago. "Oh, we've turned over a new leaf" etc.

A lot of people believed that they'd had a legitimate change in heart because of the change in strategy.

More realistically, Linux had driven them into near irrelevance in the server market and just pushed them from "extinguish" or "extend" to "embrace".

Their dubious anti-Linux tactics via leaning on OEMs in the desktop market remained more or less unchanged.
I love omg.lol. Brings me back to the simpler times of the internet.
Happy to hear, rather Gabonese management than Freenom, such an awful company in every way.
>I think Apple still mostly holds true to it's original promise of trying to make the world better.

Not by a wide margin. Steve Job's Apple and Tim Cook's Apple is very different. To the point I would even argue you might as well call it a different company.

At least the "Better World" in Tim Cook's view is very different to Steve Jobs's "Better World". The message Tim Cook is sending in its PR and marketing is very different to the message Steve Jobs is trying to tell/sell.
Making a Plan
> Steam powered railways were only widely deployed from the 1830's

Sure but GP didn't specify steam powered / iron-railed / commercial usage / whatever kind of railways in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36184243.

GP suggested that "ballast hasn't been used on railway tracks for centuries" (incorrect) because "railways haven't even existed for 2 centuries" (incorrect).
Sweden distributes 'be prepared for war' leaflet to all 4.8M homes (2018)
Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in England
Facebook shadow bans accounts that mention climate change? Wtf?
You forgot a very important part of this equation: you have to commit fraud and get away with it undetected for it to be an issue.

These folks were found to have voted when they shouldn't have, whether intentional or not. (And I do think intent should definitely come into play here, as it does in most areas of law.) But you and the Washington Examiner blithely skip over the part where the illegitimate votes were found out and dealt with.

I NEVER said folks would never attempt to commit voter fraud. I asserted that the kinds of voter fraud associated with in-person voting were never successful even without stricter ID requirements. I asserted that large scale in-precinct ballot stuffing simply would not work.

There is one area where someone could vote multiple times—or at least they could more than ten years ago. That was across state lines, where one casts their votes in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, etc. This however was solved ten years ago with the ERIC program, which allowed states to compare their voter rolls to detect federal voter fraud.

So when a deeply red state like Louisiana declares their intent to dump ERIC while also championing stricter voter ID requirements, I think it appears clear to an objective observer that the primary concern isn't extra voters but rather who they're voting for.

And that feels deeply un-American to me.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation...