skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the illegal electric mopeds/motorbikes I ask myself what stops someone driving an illegal petrol moped/motorbike around without type certification/registration/licensing/insurance? Why are electric vehicles somehow able to be sold bypassing those requirements?

For the legal "electrically assisted pedal cycles" as they are called in the UK, the solution has to be police actually doing their jobs: when they see the driver of a bike with a battery & cargo casually going >= 20 mph without any effort being put into the pedals (I spot these every single day, nearly all of which are operated by Deliveroo/Just Eat/Uber Eats): Stop them! Confiscate the vehicle! Prosecute the driver for driving an unregistered, non-certified vehicle, uninsured and without a driving license!
I see what you're saying but this only leads to a discussion about the differences between heroin and alcohol, rather than deciding if you can roughly judge alcohol use from the outside.
If you are interested, I highly recommend the youtube channel Kings and Generals. It has very good history content on the last centuries of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Ottomans, among others.

Rise of the ottomans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfb9fIMzuRw&list=PLaBYW76inb...

Fourth crusade and the restoration of the roman empire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vp_IENiSnA&list=PLaBYW76inb...
What exactly is euphemistic or sanitizing about saying out right that a chemical engineer engineered some chemicals for a generally desirable purpose.
Recent and related:

How a Frenchman stole two billion dollars’ worth of art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36449581 - June 2023 (19 comments)
nix does incremental file system.
i use process-compose to build and manage process hierarchy.
Radio War Nerd #384 – Prigozhin's Mutiny, Feat. Anatol Lieven [video]
Guest: Anatol Lieven, author & journalist
Co-hosts Gary Brecher (John Dolan) & Mark Ames
We talk to Anatol Lieven on Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed Russian coup-slash-mutiny, Kremlin succession, class warfare in the trenches & the stalled Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Disclosure: I am a very senior data science consultant in an infrastructure management consultancy

Consultancy can be a good thing - or a bad thing, depending on which consultants are brought in, and why.

It is one of the oldest tropes that consultants are brought in to tell people what they already know - and there is some truth in it. But when it comes down to it, consultants are asked to do this job because they are external - and they can tell truth to power without being seen as having an internal political agenda.

As consultants, we are brought in by clients to provide skills that they don't have in house. There tend to be two reasons for this. Either they want us for a short period to do a specific task which wouldn't be worth them recruiting for, or they are looking for a longer term relationship - in which case we can offer them access to a wider pool of talent than they would get by recruiting in.

Finally, I have worked with a great number of talented folks at all stages of their careers. Almost without exception, every one of them has been passionate about their work, and determined to do the best job possible for the clients. And a number of them have left us to work directly for clients.

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Thatcher was a disease we've never recovered from. Shit, just look at water privatisation... Going sooo well. Or the utilities that have left us privatising profits and socialising losses
> Hell, why do you think California literally has an amendment to their constitution (article 34) prohibiting the construction of low-income housing without explicit approval from local residents? These aren't the demands of private developers, but the demands of influential neighborhood associations, unions (SEIU, CBTC, etc), and average homeowners who like their neighborhood as it is and don't want it to change.

I may get downvoted for this, but if I were to live in a nice neighborhood with a nice view I will be damned if I would say yes to any construction that I see it could ruin my neighborhood or take my view away. Yes, NIMBY attitude, but a lot of people desire to live in nice places.
Nice story and glad you found a solution you like to use. I'm all for promoting earplug use in daily life. Hearing loss isn't even the worst outcome from sound exposure - tinnitus/ear ringing (and worse still) hyperacousis (painful response to sound) can occur without warning in loud environments. It's shockingly easy to lose one's ability to "hear" silence, and it's often taken for granted until it's gone.

On the plus side, I don't spend lots of money on silent PC components. :)
> monitor the traffic?

Like, how exactly? With a separate firewall between WAN and the TP Link? It makes little sense because TP Link makes cheap home routers and adding a firewall to the design would make the whole setup expensive.
As someone who grew up in a heavy drinking part of Europe, I never had an issue to meet friends without drinking, e.g. during the day. My fondest memories with them happened both with or without alcohol, that was never the factor.

Granted, there are people that you never meet outside of a bar or pub and there are people that always have to get a drink, but that might depend on the circles you are in.

Alcohol certainly isn't healthy, and a heavily drunk person is certainly more unpleasant than let's say a heavily stoned one, yet I would not discount the amount of conversations that people dared to have just because they had a glas of wine before. Sure, I'd love people to open up without that glas and sure, some people won't be able to ever open up without it and that's bad, but most people don't overdo it with the alcohol, just like most people don't drink 4 kegs of coffee each day. Whether alcohol is a bad thing over all depends on the amount.
> The traditional Conservative voter is a home-owner. So you might be a rabid socialist in your youth, but once you get a job, save up for a deposit, and buy your own home, you eventually transition to become yet another middle-aged Tory voter.

I think we're seeing that trend break now. Even those that can afford to buy (I count myself as one of those lucky folks, although the costs have been astronomical) I dont think the Millenial generation aren likely to switch to being Tory's, at least not to the same degree as previous generations.

Unlike previous generations where once you had your home you were 'done' Millenials have by far and wide had a worse deal, and will spend most of their lives struggling.

It's not lost on me or my peers that we as a group will struggle as we get older, with retirement age likely being in the late 70s by the time we get there, and the pension pot being significantly lower than previous generations.

Not to mention Millenials seem to have been the first group to actually question the whole 'working to die' situation we find ourselves in.
You’ll be missing out on some experiences for sure. Would it be a net positive? Probably not. But you really can’t quite comprehend the feelings you’re missing out on.

There might be tangential things you don’t experience too, places you’ll never go, and people you’ll never meet.

-Someone who has experienced “hard” drugs
UK cities definitely have this problem. We also have local pubs which don't play music and have lots of soft furnishings, but go into any pub or bar in the city on a Thursday evening and you will have to shout. Go anywhere "trendy" and it's got loud music, reflective ceilings and you can barely hear anything.
In a country where this[1] is a thing, it that seems like a bad idea.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat#Timeline
I emailed Bill Penzey a few years ago, asking if they did testing for lead in their turmeric, got no response.
I've been drunk, had a couple of beers and tried pretty much the whole spectrum of alcohol consumption and honestly I've never been a fan.

It makes you stupider, less able to control your actions, your emotions and your thoughts. That allows for fights, hooking up randomly which isn't good for anybody and even makes people dependent on it in order to have sex.

It basically makes you more like an animal and less like a human. People like it because they don't like being human, it's hard to have fun as a human, much easier to let go of your higher functions and behave on autopilot then blame it on whatever substance they're on for whatever stupid shit they did.
That's a valid opinion. Society would probably be much better off without alcohol. Ironically, I say this as someone who occasionally drinks (around 1-2 beers a week, at most). It's not about me, it's about the entire society that revolves around getting drunk. Parents who become entirely different people around their kids. Can't be good.
Enabling FEELS great, but you are still just making (less) money - you are a work for hire no matter what. And it's a lot of work - making someone ELSE rich.

Now, if you are entrepreneurial and aiming to start something of your own, a smaller company will force you to wear many hats and become the jack of all trades, learning tons.

I say, do it when you are younger - you will have more time, more energy, and you will need to be learning a lot. And later on - be a mercenary for money.
> We understand how to put multiple terms together to express nuanced ideas.

That's not the same as having a single word that embodies a specific concept, that helps/shorten the expression/sharing of it.

If you don't have this single concept that stands for itself, and/or that you don't know the word, as long as you can't name it, it's hard if not impossible to see it. That's why we give a name to things or people we find/meet.

See shades of white (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_white), plural forms, different depending on the language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural#Use_in_systems_of_gramm...), love (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love) if only in Greek where it has at least 6 very distinct ones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love).

But, also, that knack for ambiguity and second and third order meaning in apparently detached sentences in some languages, it has its own charms.
Still amazes me how readily people are to assume GPT is doing something noteworthy without a second thought to simpler ways it could be faking an intelligent and specific analysis
Painting the culture of every European country, city and social gathering space with the same broad brush is uniquely American too.
Am I understanding this right? You invest a lot of work in creating a database, in this case transcribing lot of songs. Then someone comes along, vacuums your website, and there is nothing you can do? How odd.
This happened back in the Cyanogen days where they released it on actual phones (by Oneplus if I remember correctly). They included the whole GAPPS-suite and of course fell under that license agreement.
It doesn't. All of the modern wooden/eco houses with wooden facades I've seen in Sweden look really shabby and rundown after as little as one year. Because for some reason modern construction prefers to just expose wood to the elements.

In contrast all the traditional houses look pretty because no one thinks that painting your house is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Every household gets sent a form once a year to register those people who are eligible to vote - ours is pre-populated with details of the current registrants
We do know: ANC doesn't reduce sound pressure, thus it doesn't protect hearing.
I'm excited for Project Valhalla to affect Minecraft performance; a lot of the temporary allocations are things like BlockPos objects (a Vec3i, basically) and VoxelShapes (a tree of axis aligned bounding boxes; so, like, an array of a struct that's six f64s) which seem ripe for becoming value objects that are inlined by HotSpot instead of living on the heap
No, sorry. Might do it myself, though not now as I said.
Yes, at least decoder-only transformers afaik.
Alcohol has been a significant part of many cultures for thousands of years, while heroin most certainly has not (and still is not to this day, aside from a cultural fringe here and there). That seems like a relevant difference?
If most of the population did heroine and hard drugs to socialize then probably, yeah?

I've also never drank besides the occasional cocktail, and I can count on my hands the number of times I've bent to a bar. I had other kind of experiences instead and I wouldn't change it, but of course I've missed out on certain things.
The "weird wordless IKEA instruction sheet" is actually a thing of genius, because it's universal: it allows them to sell their furniture anywhere they like. Contrast that to the typical approach of American or British companies, who start by printing their instructions only in English, and are then surprised that there are other languages and they have to provide instructions in those languages too if they want to sell to non-English-speaking countries...
It depends where you are. In Scotland it's hard to find a pub without a good whisky selection and in any UK city a pub will be able to make a wide range of cocktails. Having said that, some play loud music and some don't.
I love literally on the border of a state forest where there is deer hunting. I have driven around in that forest hundreds of times, and I never see deer up there. But down on the road I live on, near the houses, in people's yards, you will see deer everywhere.

But the state forest is also crawling with hunters driving around endlessly when the season opens. Like in the last couple years, I have run into traffic out in the woods. Not to mention there are tons of people out on loud ass dirt bikes with no mufflers on them, people shooting at gravel pits constantly, even blowing up tannerite and shit... It's no wonder the deer stay out of the woods. It's so peaceful down here in the rural neighborhood.
Well, the US Federal Reserve is/has, for one. Here's an article titled "Fed’s Powell cites top barrier to taming inflation — workers’ wages": https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/30/feds-powell-inflati...

Now, of course, he's not saying to any particular workers "Hey, stop asking for much higher wages," but he says plainly in the final paragraph of the article:

> “The labor market … shows only tentative signs of rebalancing, and wage growth remains well above levels that would be consistent with 2 percent inflation over time,” he said. “Despite some promising developments, we have a long way to go in restoring price stability.”

How would you suppose workers are supposed to have wage growth "consistent with 2 percent inflation" if said wage growth were to greatly exceed that magical 2% number? This is the Fed literally saying "Please turn down your pay increase so we can fight inflation," except that there's also the implicit thread of "... or else we're gonna have to make sure a bunch of you lose your jobs so it all balances out. It'd be a shame if that happened, wouldn't it?"
Quite literally you have missed out, yes. The question is: is that a problem? I generally don't suffer from FOMO, and any current science on alcohol (which the WHO basically classifies as hard drug, it's just one that's culturally accepted in many places) is pointing towards the safe dose being 0.

I unfortunately come from a culture where alcohol consumption is accepted, so it's been harder than I would like to break with tradition in the face of science, but doing so it a good thing, and if your cultural background helps you a hand because it does not accept alcohol as readily as mine, more power to you.

Drugs FOMO is some of the stupidest FOMO around. I've nothing against using soft drugs, but making any drug part of your life style is almost certainly a bad idea, and if never even trying suits your personality type (some are just more easily addicted than others), then you are wise for steering clear, not an ignorant traditionalist (or at least, not necessarily so).

That does not mean gathering in third places is problematic, I do wish we could come up with ways of doing it without the expectation of the consumption of alcohol.
> C++ has all the opinions!

Yeah, but it didn't create any of its own, it just inherited them ;-)
Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Pizzas
I think that's a bit conspiracy, "an unwritten list". If there was, DanG would preview them first, and there aren't that many so it would be quick and they'd never get on the front page. My guess is it's down to HN posters doing the flagging, and I am aware that some of them – who don't like porn or drugs – will simply use any method to try and kill discussion (these people are a bloody nuisance). Dan reviews then unflags them, I think that's all that's happening. I had one of mine recently flagged, then finally deleted after a few days – it took days. Dan is a busy guy here.

I have to admit, I am getting pissed off that when it comes to discussions of sex and drugs, where abusive flagging occurs and other misbehaviour like injecting negative comment or claims without providing any backup, there seems to be no dealing with the culprits and they're allowed to continue. Then again I don't know what goes on behind the scenes. Dan does a good job and is very busy. But I wish he would handle it, or at least open up a discussion with us on how it might be handled.
OTOH won't this just push the price up for everyone?
Eventually, the company gets too big and cocky, does a massive mistake and goes out of business/downscales. Like, you know, bad investments of 2008.

The economy must go in growth/bust cycles, where growth brings out new ideas, and bust cleans up the inefficiency. And keeping it decentralized keeps busts manageable.

But if you instead let everyone merge during good times, and then bail them out during bad times, the next good times will never happen - the incentives are all wrong!
They can still compete with the other men. The only difference is that they won't get the affirmation they crave from competing against actual female women. But that's their own personal problem to deal with in their own minds.
we have public oss project. i guess we were not attacked yet.

prs from forks run only main workflows, and these run nix which is kind of isolated enough.

i guess one could attack with some infinite nix store bomb.
> Not according to trailer rental companies. And since it's their trailer, not yours, they get to make the rules - yet another way it's more convenient to own a truck.

> I had to go buy one, and there were three different main sizes of ball hitch, so there doesn't appear to be a single "basic ball hitch."

Damn the US are silly as fuck. The wiki confirms that the US has 4 size of hitch balls (1 7/8, 2, 2 5/16, 3).

In europe there’s only the ISO (50mm) hitch ball. Above that you might get drawbars and pintles, but they tend to be more specialised and for heavier applications than a basic trailer or camper.

But surely you can get a class II or class III receiver tube, and then have a set of tow balls you can swap in based on trailer requirements?
Sweden already has fossil free energy. Nuclear is just helpful for expansion and for reliability.
> weird wordless IKEA instruction sheet.

Where did this trope come from exactly? I can't remember the instructions being unclear, really.
A fairly lengthy article about Autonomous AI, and, as far as I can tell, not a single word about the safety implications of such a system (a short note about reliability of LLMs is all we get, and it's not clear that the author means anything more than "the thing might break").

I get that there are different philosophies on AI risk, but this is like reading an in-depth discussion about potential atomic bombs in 1942, with no mention of the fact that such a bomb could potentially level cities and kill millions.

If a field of research ever needed oversight and regulation, this is it. I'm not convinced that would solve the problem, but allowing this kind of rushing forward to continue is madness.
Do you consider the adicitiveness of alcohol to be the same as that of heroin?
Sure, but an assumption in your argument was that feminism is winning on all fronts. Was just remarking that it's not made all that much progress.
And Sweden is already one of the biggest electricity exporters in Europe, sometimes the biggest, despite its size.
Yes you are right, its that simple.
I just made a Github Action wrapper around this 2 commands, that download and then caches the godot/butler files, so the next tun gets the files from the cache.
By the time I shit them out, they are definitely dead.
> styrofoam

Nobody would call that modern around here, PIR has been around for half a century now?
You should get an award.
Can Gmail Ads Get Even More Annoying?
> I chose to allow any queue size as opposed to allowing only sizes that are a power-of-two. This means that at least one queue item is unused in order to disambiguate between the empty queue and full queue state.

Don't you still need an unused queue item even with a power of two size? Isn't the point of having a power of two size that you can calculate the next item index in the buffer using binary rollover to go back to 0 as opposed to requiring a comparison and a branch.
This has gotten ridiculously meta...
Minecraft Java used to allocate over 200MB/s per player when moving, and just 50MB/s when static. A lot of it stems back from Minecraft 1.8, where code was updated to take a BlockPos(float x, float y, float z) class instead of just (float x, float y, float z). Pretty much every single object in the game has to deal with its position. Millions of objects allocated per frame, only to be discarded later. Along with a looooot of other questionable choices. It's not even a runtime problem: you'd have the same issues free()'ing that memory on your own. Just stop allocating so damn much.

But then again, Notch never claimed to be a great programmer.
yes. nix builds linux filesystem with all dependencies and puts it into oci image.

so locally i use process-compose to avoiding waiting docker builds.
Hydroplane’s electric propulsion system selected for CalTestBed initiative
I have totally normal hearing but I also crave these kind of places. I don’t know why. There’s just something about having to scream at someone to be heard that I find vomit worthy. Even to the point that when coworkers go to a bar that is a yeller I simply and literally just turn right back around and walk out now.
I always get confused between OPNsense and pfSense - one is the open source fork the other is the original.
IIRC the arctic expeditions found it to be 10mg a day
And let's not forget Alpine, which is a fairly common minimalist distro clocking in a ~5MB
With apologies for not remembering the article I read, to provide a source…

I have read that stolen masterpieces are sometimes used as currency for (high level) criminals. Similar to how Tide bottles were (still are?) used as a value exchange within homeless communities, “I owe you $X00,000 but would you accept this Picasso instead?” passes some stolen art around at a large discount to “market value”.
Some people will assume X and some will assume Y and the majority won't bother to assume anything.
Where do you see those being available for under 100gbp!?
> If a company says the reason is inflation they can only maintain that pricing power if every other firm does the same thing

empirically, this is what's effectively happening in multiple instances

given the content of the article of this post, I'm not convinced anyone can reasonably conclude that profit increases aren't accounting for a large portion of inflation: such a conclusion is unpersuasive given said content

the questions of "why now" etc. are interesting, and I encourage you to seek answers on them, but answers to them aren't necessary to observe reality, a reality the article helpfully illustrates

why did I decide on coffee this morning instead of tea? another similarly interesting question, but the answer, or lack thereof, similarly doesn't change the fact that that's what happened.
the post-1.8 codebase awfulness has nothing to do with the source programmer. hell, by 1.13, the game had practically been rewritten at least once over.