skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm this - had for 11 years manual shifting bmw (3 series e46), some 2 years ago it sorta died and we bought automatic (5 series f11). The amount of cognitive load is much much lower (also thanx to laser projection of speed and other info on windshield, this is by far the best security car feature in last couple of decades) to the point it becomes boring way too easily.

Once or twice I got into situation where I was very tired and was almost getting sleepy, this would never happened with manual shifting and the need to be more engaged with vehicle. Also, for 98% of the situations, 1 hand on steering wheel is enough so you can handle stick, and the rest of situations you should be able to anticipate if you are a seasoned sane driver.

Another data point - once I had to take my wife's car for 1500km drive to take it back home. It was old Toyota without any cruise control, not ideal for such long drives on European highways full of speed radars. It was the only time in my life when I could drive this run through whole night alone with basically only stopping to refill, buy vignettes or go to toilet (5pm-8am drive). Normally on this road, I get too sleepy around 3-4am and my eyes literally start to close even if mind still can go further, and I have to sleep a bit. Was way too pumped from all sensory input. But I am sure I don't want to repeat this.
I don't think this is a big deal, of course you're going to have a massive wave at launch and a load of those people are going to bounce right back off it. The question is whether communities have started to form, because if even some small communities have started to form there that will slowly drag users back in as more features come online and more churn happens at Twitter. A social network can't really just come into being overnight, forming those communities, finding like-minded people takes time. The initial launch has done a great job of seeding the ground. The question is whether it grows and flourishes - and either way that'll take time to figure out, and it'd be silly to write it off given the incredible ability Facebook has to drive users to a new service.
> Linux syscalls are documented

It doesn't mean they are implementable atop NT/Windows kernel facilities, semantics, and behaviours, in which case it's an alternative implementation to maintain that foregoes integration.

While Wine's effort and compatibility levels achieved are impressive, they actually prove my point: compatibility is a constant fight, there are a ton of tunables (some automated), and it's still not perfect (which is what a VM gives you for essentially free).

There's more than "basic" syscall interface to it though, there's the whole implementation of features (that are GPLv2 licensed) e.g btrfs? iptables? ebpf? ptrace? hold my beer; run kernel-backed wireguard in WSL2? no problem; alsa? you betcha; real time facilities? sure! custom kernel with a missing feature like usb passthrough? be my guest; contribute to the linux kernel code? entirely possible. It's all there, today, and not at the mercy of MS's will or ability to implement this or that.
As seanmcdirmid pointed out below, I'd agree that the Macbook Air would probably be the closest approximation in the mac lineup in terms of weight, but intended to compare the weight between the 14" MBP and the Nano favourably. To me, yes the weight and size of the 16" would be a bit of a pain to carry around for any substantial amount of time, but the added 1.5lbs of the MBP 14" or the 0.8lb difference of the Air doesn't seem too significant to me, perhaps even less so when compared with the camera gear you might be hauling.

I used to see a fair number of 11" MBP Airs at conferences when they were a thing; relatively low burden mac-based computing device. I'm sure if there was an M series version it would acquire a following among those who are more likely traveling than in a position to require the largest thermal envelope.
why does the like button cover 15% of my screen (mobile) and pop off the bottom constantly, making it even harder to read? and you can't dismiss it?
True. I got derailed because the person I replied to and the replies to my comment used to TSP formulation to discuss this.

You’re right that the problem space is simply matching available drivers to riders.
Sure, unless it's lobotomized. Feel free to write your own joke about the current cellphone-addicted state of the world compared to a lobotomized population.
Q-CTRL’s quantum sensors to enable GPS-free navigation for AUKUS partners
The Vaio chime was my favorite
But at least with the loads of available data on software usage and hard work they make their applications worse than before.

My latest 'favourite' is the snipping tool and how it became much more difficult to use. Also it is made for the default app for png at some point as well not having navigation (next/prev pic in a folder) showing itself in a thumbnail size by default, unsuitable for picture viewing and have to switch back manually to photos. From app settings it jumps back again to a thumbnail sized state, someone have a real fetish about this minimal size view out there in handling screenshots....
Luckily I never caused that because I'm usually freaking out too much about it.

However since I can't smell it either, in our new house we got a gas detector. I'm a bit relieved thanks to it.

The positive side is that it also monitors the CO2 and air quality.
Show HN: Nring.info – An overview of Nürburgring info that we were missing
When we wanted to visit the Nurburgring, my friend and I searched for a good source with all information about it in one spot. Things like the best spots to view cars driving the Nordschleife track, where to rent cars or book taxi laps and other info. Turns out there didn't seem to be one clear and up-to-date source for all of this information. Many web sites were either dated, unclear os sometimes down right wrong. So we created the website we were missing and are launching it today:

https://nring.info

Currently it contains an overview of all available ring taxis and rental companies, all the different corners, their locations and descriptions and some interesting or useful POIs all on a mobile friendly interactive map[0]. It is still a work in progress and we will be adding things like walking routes to great vantage points and more thorough explanations of the (financial) risks of driving the ring.

One thing we were also missing was a way to view the track status online, since the official site doesn't seem to provide this. The only way to know whether the track is closed is to view a large sign near the entrance, which is very inconvenient when you're watching on the other side of the track and cars suddenly stop coming. There are Whatsapp groups that provide this info, but they're hard to find for a regular visitor. So we also solved this issue, by providing near real-time track status[1] info using OpenCV on their public webcam feed.

The site was built using Strapi CMS and 11ty with the dynamic parts implemented through Netlify Cloud functions, Firebase and PHP.

0: https://nring.info/nurburgring-nordschleife-map
1: https://nring.info/nurburgring-track-status
Yes I noticed the same, I had always thought that my hometown had very clean air (which by comparison it has) and that's why I never could smell pollution. After some staying at home during the pandemic, even the clean modern cars that passed every ten minutes or so on the calm suburb road REEKED of burning hydrocarbons. Going near the main road was terrible. Now again I can't smell the cars, the main road feels like clean fresh air (even though there are way more cars) maybe if a small motorbike drives by I can smell it
Was this ever REALLY a problem?

I've seen Japanese subtitles before (I mean Japanese language subtitles) and almost all subtext is lost regardless. Far worse than the english subtitles on anime.

You might as well make the movie you want, the end result abroad will be bland regardless. The translation issues are just an excuse.
The reason is because localization is expensive and tedious and discriminatory.

Every instance of text needs to be dynamic. You can't just write "Text", you need to write "$text" (a variable) and have code that refers to a file containing that word in a given language to replace the variable with. It's tons of upkeep work, and you can never cover every single language known to man.

An icon on the other hand? "icon.svg". Done.

Ironically, in an effort to be global and inclusive we are throwing out all the languages and attempting to replace them with a single, universal iconography.

I fucking hate this trend, but I can understand and respect why it happens. People are fucking lazy and this is the course of least resistance overall.
While I agree that the article is somewhat vague and imprecise, it is not accurate to encompass all statistical predictions as statarb either. That would more be what "quantitative" is.

For a strategy to be considered statistical arbitrage, it needs to be something _against_ something else. You can do purely directional statistical predictions, and that would not be statarb.
> Then I realised feeling dreadful about it was ultimately pointless ... And I moved on

But when you really think about it, moving on is as pointless as feeling dreadful. In fact, anything is as pointless as anything else. It might seem like an insane question, but why exactly is moving on somehow more desirable than feeling dreadful, if everything, including the universe itself, will be gone?

Life is about the journey, not the end, many people would argue. But in reality, most people live their life with long-term thinking. People study hard, so they can get a good job. Then they work hard, so they can retire comfortably. There's always delayed gratification in most life stages and even life activities (saving, exercising, dieting).

If life were all about the journey, we wouldn't need to feel pity for those who "wasted" their life, as long as they enjoyed it. Being drug addicts and die at twenties would not be "less" then being a president, they would be just.. different. But no, most of us think they are not just different, and it says something about human beings.
100% agreed. It also doesn't help how modern programs hide/minimise the scroll bar, so you can't accurately judge the size of the content and where you are in it.
> You can even change firmware to Zephyr RTOS if you want to do some low level stuff.

Zephyr (for me at least) felt quite bloated and abstracted away, probably because they need to support so many different SoCs. Albeit my experience is with the Nordic nRF downstream version of Zephyr.. The use of device-tree plus inconsistencies with the nordic api's certainly didn't help.

My experience with ESP-IDF + freeRTOS has been much more straight forward and felt much more nimble.
This was a really interesting article, thank you.

I'm thinking about how this would apply to human psychology of reading and writing numbers. Then it doesn't make sense to measure economy as b floor(log_b(n)+1), because adding in more symbols doesn't increase the complexity linearly for people reading or writing numbers. Maybe something like E(b,n) = f(b) g(floor(log_b(n)+1)), where f stays constant up to 10 or 20 symbols, and then increases after, and g increases faster than linearly because it's easier to read shorter numbers than longer ones.
I'm not sure what you mean by "digital bank." All banks store and move money digitally (electronically), most have web sites and apps. I think you mean the distinction between an actual (regulated, insured) bank and a company offering some bank-like financial services such as PayPal, Wise, Revolut, etc.

The best bank for someone who travels a lot without a fixed home base will charge no foreign transaction fees, no ATM fees (or reimburse ATM fees), 24/7 real person customer service (not a chatbot or FAQ or Twitter), insurance on deposits, and operate within a regulatory framework that offers protection from having your account locked or closed with no recourse, or deposits held unreasonably long with no explanation (Square, PayPal).

All reputable banks of any size can send and receive money electronically, either through their own tools or with digital wallets, or with Zelle or Wise or Venmo.

For US citizens/permanent residents I recommend Charles Schwab, the investor checking account. No fees, ATM fees reimbursed, 24/7 human customer service that actually deals with issues. Schwab gets recommended a lot by nomads. Citibank has a similar account, not sure what they call it. For people with citizenship or permanent residency in other countries I don't know the best bank but you can find discussions online in the many nomad forums.

As a long-time nomad (US citizen) with no home base anymore I use Schwab and have a backup account at a US credit union, along with several credit cards that have perks for travel. I use ApplePay more and more. I use Wise for moving money from one country to another, but I don't keep money in my Wise account. I tried Revolut, but too many fees, too many restrictions on number and amount of ATM withdrawals, online-only support, etc. made me drop it.

I suggest using credit cards and virtual card numbers when making purchases online or abroad, never use a debit card except at an ATM in a secure place (like inside a bank lobby). For Americans at least canceling unauthorized charges or getting a card canceled and reissued is much easier with a credit card versus a debit card. Think about what would happen if your Wise or Revolut card got stolen, or skimmed, or copied by a restaurant server. Banking problems while traveling can get expensive and frustrating.
I've lost my smell and a lot of my taste thanks to covid, even after a couple of years it hasn't returned.

The strange thing - it started to come back in early February, very slightly, I could smell things I'd not been able to for a while - like cinnamon, or rose.

Tested positive for covid a few days later. Once covid tested clear using a lateral flow test my smell went.
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Curious to read what others are missing, but as far as I’m concerned, 5 minutes a day on Twitter is more than I need.
Just to pour some water on this otherwise joyful news, the ratio of desktop computers to average people is in decline as mobile devices and smart tv's render them redundant for the casual users for whom even Windows was always too complicated.

Linux users are just less prone to jumping ship, because on average, we actually USE our devices more, as something other than a simple appliance.

I expect this percentage to grow, but not because the world has suddenly decided to adopt Linux; rather, because it has largely decided to ditch desktops.
I went looking for and found this one:

https://openbenches.org/bench/14519

I do wonder if they're going to have to update it at some point though.
In 2013 or maybe it was 2014 I was tasked with building a couple of things for our Sharepoint 2010 that ran our intranet. I’m a programmer but it was pretty far out of my area of expertise and it was hard to find anything documentation related, probably because Sharepoint 2013 had been released. Anyway, I made things work by doing a lot of google programming, of which a lot led me to SO. Most of it was build with JavaScript but I still needed to figure out how to work with Sharepoint APIs and Lists. Fast forward to 2023 and I’m tasked with working with our current Sharepoint. It’s still far out of my comfort zone, but the Microsoft documentation is on point and it turns out to be a fairly trivial task to engage with the APIs. This story isn’t really unique to Sharepoint, and while obviously very anecdotal, these days it’s very rare that your average blog spam or SO answers are more helpful to me than official documentation, and often the official GitHub code examples. Now I’m more experienced today than I was in 2013 so that helps as well, but for the most part, I think the key reduction for my personal google programming has been how much better we as software developers have become at documenting our tools.

So in 2023 I almost never visit SO, not because of GPT but because the people who write frameworks also supply you with documentation and implementation examples.

Again anecdotal, but I do use GPT quite a bit. Though rarely to help me figure something out. It writes my documentation, unless the code is very secret. It sometimes writes some basic code like auto-generating a docker file or basic API classes. Things that aren’t in competition with SO. I’m sure it’ll take over the role of SO for some parts, but to me personally, it seems far more likely that SO’s decline is linked to a range of other challenges as well.
> so I switched to a browser which does hundreds of things to undermine the free and open internet

like 1. forcing DNS over HTTPS
2. Copying Chrome UI and destroying usability (why do i have to edit a file to get back scrollbar)
3. Droping support for FTP (because everybody i.e Chrome is doing it)
4. Droping suport for localhost (because everybody i.e Chrome is doing it)
and so on.
Would you have some sources/info regarding the nerves part? This would explain quite a lot personally.
"On Inequality" is one of the very worst pieces of serious analytic philosophy I have ever read. The best part of Franfurt's intellectual tradition -- analytic philosophy -- is taking ideas seriously, and so to honor his life I'll try to make a brief but serious critique of "On Inequality".

This book essentially concatenates two essays, "Economic Equality as a Moral Ideal", and "Equality and Respect". In the first essay, Frankfurt argues that economic equality is less important than the worst-off having enough. As a result, political appeals to the importance of equality are bad philosophy. In "Equality and Respect", he generalises this to a general attack on the concept of egalitarianism.

The basic problem with his work is that the social world is so incredibly abstracted that the truth value of his claims is simply irrelevant -- they have no insight to offer about our actual world. In his essay, he considers different distributions of resources, but gives no serious thought to the actual mechanics of how resources are distributed.

This is fatal to his argument because resource actual distributions are endogenous, rather than exogenous, and so they can't be compared in a vacuum -- to say something meaningful, you genuinely have to take seriously the fact that control of resources is a form of power, and that the powerful tend to use their power to reinforce and maintain their status. So politics and policy -- things he explicitly denies having anything to say about -- are fundamental to understanding the issues involved.

Even making the tiniest possible effort towards taking these issues seriously blows up his argument. For example, suppose that we have people living in a perfectly competitive market. This is about the smallest possible step towards social realism that you can possibly take!

But even here, Negishi's theorem tells us that at a Walrasian equilibrium, the implicit social welfare function maximises the sums of each person's utility, scaled by the inverse of each person's marginal utility of wealth. Now, suppose our people have a utility function which is logarithmic in their wealth -- U(w) = log(w). Then their marginal utility U'(w) = 1/w, and the inverse of that is w. That is, ideal markets value individuals linearly in proportion to their wealth. So the utility function of the ideal market says that saving Jeff Bezos's life is worth the lives of 1.2 million Americans of median wealth, 8 million Poles, or 36 million Indians.

It makes one think that Frankfurt must have used "On Bullshit" as an instruction manual when writing "On Inequality".
Raid 1. There isn't a world of difference. You might be lucky and only one card failed, in which case you might be able to rebuild on another card (with the usual caveat that rebuilding your array puts strain on the other SD card, making it fail (and it does, much more often than an HDD)), but it's a very common occurence for both of them to fail, or for the hardware module that holds them both to fail (impossible to know until after you've changed both cards, it reports simply as a card failure -fun times when the Dell tech didn't bring an extra module!).

My contract involved upgrading ESXi on these servers, which is what made me aware of the issue (since ESXi basically lives in ram, if you never reboot you never have a problem). Across maybe 50 servers, at least half of them had a problem with either an SD card or the module for them. Only one had an unrelated problem.
Hah! They might be low-paid and on a salary, but they snub their noses at the "working class" and share none of their values or beliefs.
Whats it like on threads though?
Honestly, I’m not a car person at all but it had me laughing all the way through. Then I read the comments here and it just made me sad.

It’s a joke, fellas! Lighten up.
I have never done that when working as an independent contractor.
> what I can see from rudimentary search on IR35 is that it is meant to make people pay the same tax whether. employed or working as a contractor.

Yes, this is used as a vehicle to make this legislation palatable to the voter. The truth is, big consultancies who operate the same business model as a contractor are exempt from the legislation. So if big consultancy charges £500 a day for a worker, they don't have to pay PAYE on that £500, even though their worker work as de facto employees at the client's, but contractor would have to.
> The reason is because localization is expensive and tedious and discriminatory.

Just have both then? Text and Icon. Text in either the available localization, or in english if it's not there. KISS.
> These stats drive me up the wall because the US is more diverse than every single European country.

Are you seriously to claim that the EU is a single country? Or that there are no differences between EU countries? That link actually has a table of all EU countries, and it ranges from 72 to 83. This is actually a LARGER difference than in the US: where it ranges from 74 to 82.

You need to read what's actually being said before climbing up the walls.
That 475k previous TC would have been immediately offputting to most potential employers I would imagine.
Yes, and I am coming round to the idea that WebGPU is useful like this for cases other than realtime interactive WebXR pages with streaming multiplayer live state and loaded up with draw calls etc. There is a simplicity to curating the experience through the browser like this and there isn't any easier way to get SD up and running so I hope these kinds of projects keep getting support. Thanks for building this OP!
When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21946511
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394035
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36080629
It’s a unit of mass, but for normal people it doesn’t really matter.
Even so I’m not sure it’s common knowledge that influenza can do that.