skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree, but I'd say it depends. I'm not too surprised that software developers are less likely to spend money on software - they do have another option non-programmers don't have. I'd also not be shocked to hear that trained accountants starting a company are less likely to hire accounting firms than non-accountants.

And most software I deal with isn't exactly free of opportunity cost - I dabbled a bit with accounting tools to the point of frustration and time sunk that I decided to roll my own (built around ledger, in case anyone cares) in about a day. Writing my own tool is sometimes faster for me than trying to figure out how to use one that's not designed around my specific needs.

Sure, 10$ doesn't seem like much, but all these little invoices can creep up to a non-trivial sum.
No, masochists use Gentoo.
The Arch Wiki has the advantage of only having to manage documentation for (mostly) a single set of packages. Every non-rolling distro ends up maintaining separate websites for each releases.
If it's so big maybe you shouldn't drive across it so much
Title is misspelled, should be “ridiculous”.
As you might expect from such a polarizing issue and thread, doing some research shows that the JD Power and Associates stat (80% of sold cars are trucks and SUVs) is extremely misleading, and probably meant to just be a headline-grabber. It includes glorified hatchbacks (that might be raised by 1-2 inches) like the Kona, CX-3, C-HR, HR-V, Crosstrek, Mercedes GLA, BMW X1, and Infiniti QX30.
Does anyone have resources for learning some of these topics as an adult? Some of them I've never looked into, some I have but it's been a while, and I'd love to have a way to revisit them.
That's not consent though. Consent is not granted until explicit stated in the affirmative. Try applying "assume yes initially, until told otherwise" to entering someone's house or touching someone's body and let me know how that works out for you.
As someone not deep in the startup game, it's interesting to me to see what others are doing for their stacks, so I appreciate this being shared. Two things stood out to me from this list more than anything else.

First, the author is clearly a hustler, as many of these definitely-not-cheap services are being paid for under free credits. Cheers to them for that. If AWS is willing to give someone $5000 to get going, take it and run. I do think that makes it slightly disingenuous to then say one is running their business on the cheap, but if they can get profitable before that well dries up, who really cares and no one is hurt.

Second, and I saw this theme in the comments as well, if these are valuable services, they're worth investing in. SaaS uptime is definitely important, and it would be a silly risk to self-host such a thing. Frugal is a good way of looking at it, but if these tools help ultimately make money, they're worth paying for. I think that ties in to point 1, where the free services are meant to help you prove that out while also entrenching you slightly if it holds. But as someone who is notorious for yak shaving, being able to shove code out the door and not worry about the rest of it is deeply appealing and worth the gamble.
Lol, this is true. I drive minivan and it's incredibly convenient but I often think of getting a third car just for non kid related events.
Related: "Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked?" https://www.jstor.org/stable/23562447

Which argues that because larger cars are more likely to injure/kill someone in the event of a crash, buying a larger car makes you morally culpable for all such harms.

Discussed more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35082315
> and every time it has been a solution in search of a problem.

More refined to this, in my experience at the last two jobs, the queue problem is there, but the Kafka solution is based solely on "enterpriseyness" of Kafka, not any practical reason. RabbitMQ is highly performant, SQS is really easy. Both are great queues. Kafka is muuch more, yet, Kafka is chosen because "it's enterprise."
Interior layouts have come a long ways, especially with EV designs where the geometry isn't constrained as much. As a big guy, the actual space I'm sitting in is more roomy and comfortable on many subcompacts than full sized cars used to be. Since people have gotten taller, there's also more emphasis on leg room. I remember big 1970s cars where the drivers seat just wouldn't go back far enough for me, whereas even the smallest subcompact modern cars do.
> a criminal kidnaps 10 people, then steals an orb, and uses those 10 iriscodes to register 10 new credentials on the network

This is a lot of work. Just steal the iriscodes. If they're used for re-issuance, they're being stored and transferred. If they are not directly used, there is a hash-like reduction that can be exploited.

For sake of argument, though, let's assume perfect security. Infallible security. All the way through. Congratulations, you've turned every pair of eyeballs into an oil spigot. When the Taliban or ISIS carves through a town, instead of beheading the leaders and taking their treasures, they take everyones' irises. Every authoritarian state would require scans of its citizens so payment could be routed through (read: stolen by) it, a requirement they would back up with violence.
the current 'normie' understanding of ChatGPT and other current LLMs like Bard is not that they are stochastic parrots that can complete sentences by probabilities, it's that they are 'stupid AGI.' And if we give them more funding and more training, eventually they will become 'smart AGI.'

OpenAI markets their product exactly this way, focusing on how ChatGPT can 'write code' (it cannot) or 'write poetry' (it cannot) or do any number of things that lean in hard on the 'stupid AGI' angle, never clarifying that their actual product is a spicy autocomplete. You'll never hear OpenAI say 'ChatGPT is a stupid AGI' out loud, but they'll never correct any mainstream misunderstandings that it is.
Now do the maths for jets, especially private ones.
> Cities could combat this by setting up a rent a big f off truck for 24hrs program I suspect.

Doesn't uhaul already fill this niche?
When did I say that, and how is it relevant if they knew it or not?
Alpine 3.15.10, 3.16.7, 3.17.5 AND 3.18.3 RELEASED
It is fucked up. Pigs are just as intelligent as dogs, yet they still end up as a McRib.
No, they don't. He's talking about traditional American body-on-frame sedans. The last one of those was the Ford Crown Vic, and it's been out of production for the better part of two decades.

There are not Audi A4s or Honda Civics.
Sounds like you're currently optimized for throughput, not latency. (I work with customers for whom 10ms of latency for a 128kB write is too high.) What are your plans to improve latency?
"They" don't make many non-trucks at all, at least for general sale to consumers. Perhaps rental fleets still get some?

Ford stopped their Focus, which seemed to be one of the last 'us-based' sedans. My next car will probably be some Toyota or Honda camry/civic/accord/etc.
I would definitely consider a modern version of those big wood paneled ones
Pretty sure the Camry, Accord, etc. are still available.
Isn’t it still a problem as all these cars classified as trucks no longer have to meet car emissions and safety standards?
Waze is a decent alternative, if not mostly for the community driven aspect of it. Sometimes it’s too aggressive to save 1-2 minutes but it knows tolls , when they’re open, and just as accurate if not more than google maps at times
I knew a super tall guy who had an old VW Golf. He removed the driver's seat and was able to sit comfortably in rear seat while driving.
Editorialized title on this submission. The year of this article is 2022, which isn’t reflected in the HN title.
hate was always there, but this was equally true even before any internets. I don’t think it’s possible to do anything about that

this can be addressed by teaching people to be better and to get a better understanding of each other. on the individual level and in school, our education needs to focus on this.
I made a 6 foot long LED staff with 1,500 LEDs. It had a huge custom battery inside it and it lasted for hours and hours. I got really into programming LEDs and making great patterns, but it was a lot of work keeping it running and replacing LEDs as they failed.
It was a default on some Unix systems, and is an easy configuration option on Linux.

Search "Compose key".
I have evaluated GNU Jami a few times for screensharing. They had some tweaking to do a year ago, I haven't checked recently. I really like their network model, no servers.
Please don't sue the scientists who exposed your papers for containing bad data
These seem good. "Experience over opinions" was novel to me. Good one.

I didn't like "pre-empt" because it results in tedious prose. She's obviously a skillful writer so it's smooth for her, but I cannot do it right.

"Don't argue" is good. I fail this one frequently. The trick that works for me is to remind myself that I'm training someone for free.

I can't say I'm very good at "analyse negative comments". Some sort of CBT technique is probably necessary here, but I feel the following in order:

- "omg was I wrong?" followed by a quick check

- if yes, good outcome. I can just correct. if no, causes anger

I don't know why but being right and misunderstood is far more frustrating than being wrong. The latter triggers the "well, damn" dopamine response of discovery. But I'll keep pecking at the damned subject if I was right but the other guy refuses to understand it. This is my prime motivation for blocking on Twitter - and ideally people who misunderstand me frequently would block me too so I won't engage.

The others are sensible and it's nice that they're listed, but I don't think they are novel (which is obviously fine - presumably everyone has a different novel set here).
Indeed, the most ridiculous thing about this article.
Car registration shouldn't be based on the value of the car, it should be based on how heavy the car is. Because heavier cars cause more wear on the road, they should pay more for road repair.

We should also ease a lot of regulation from states regarding minimum road width, minimum parking spot sizes, minimum height of parking garages, minimum number of parking spots for residential and commercial development. Much of this problem stems from bad regulation. (Developers generally don't want to have all this unproductive space in their buildings, but are forced to by local and state governments.)
In Europe we still have station wagons. They are better than SUVs and these stupid american trucks in the overwhelming majority of cases.
I see more interest on this than I expected!

In the last month, we have rejected quite a few tickets that may have been easily tackled by a senior dev. Including technical documentation for infra, K8S, CLI agents to collect runtime traces, fixing flaky E2E tests and so on.

Hola at me if you are interested! (email in bio)
You do know that the CEOs of Nvidia and amd are family, right?
The rise of the far right is in large part due to mainline society failing to "Uplifting the many men falling out of society", "Protecting children and their parental rights", and "Reversing the declining trust in institutions (media, public health, DOJ, etc)"

The Left doesn't believe these are issues, but are instead moral failings or the result of a reduction in privilege by cishet white men. Their statements to that effect have pushed ~a dozen of my friends from D to R voters.
Modern minivans are crossover SUVs with sliding doors.
Already available at most Home Depot stores. https://www.homedepot.com/c/truck_rental#load
Books for young people interested in maths
I'm literally saying that people dying of preventable deaths is seen as an acceptable price for society to pay so that a tiny few aren't inconvenienced or have their feelings hurt.

If this idea sounds radical and needlessly trolling to you, it should. But this is not some sort of straw man. It is literally a popular position in contemporary American politics among those on the right. [1]

For seatbelts we had on one side of the ledger preventable deaths, injuries, and if we're being callous, the economic drain that results from that. We also knew from looking at other countries that had these problems, that seatbelt laws massively reduce those negatives. On the other side we had, "But I don't wanna."

When it comes to mass shootings in America, we've had 427 as of yesterday, the 218th day of 2023.[0] That's almost two a day. The United States is literally the only country where this happens. We know the solutions. We can look at how Australia reacted when they had a kindergarten murdered in 1996, and how they haven't had a similar instance since. When America had a kindergarten murdered in a similar way, the government shrugged it off, and even talking about reform was shouted down, because of "freedom".

That's what I'm talking about. So if putting it out in such straightforward terms makes you uncomfortable, it should, because it's literally people dying and a majority of Americans wanting the dying to stop, versus a small number saying, "I don't care. I don't wanna. Your dead kid is the price I'm willing to pay to keep my hobby."

[0] https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-half-gop-accept-mass-shootin...
I have had a long standing suspicion that the proposed attentional mechanism is the same reason why nagging someone almost never actually helps get something done, because it shifts their attention away from the actual activity and toward a negative social interaction.

Far better to restructure the environment so that the person can get the work done. In the case of traffic deaths we have really good data that says that you should change the structure of streets and roads so that people instinctively drive safely.
I drive a C-Class Benz in the US. It's tiny compared to the rest of traffic.
Minor correction would be to use

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
The legacy criminal system and all the laws around background checks are not ready for the false positives of AI.

Either legacy criminal laws need to be changed or tech companies need to be made liable for false positives.
This is a nice statement, but the TOS is the important part, not what this marketing piece says.

> You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content.

> (ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof
> The vive 2 is 2448×2448 per eye, or 4896×4896 total

Typo there: 4986 x 2448 total

> That’s not that big of an improvement over the pro 2

If it's 3391x, that's almost 40% more pixels per axis than 2448x and almost double the number of pixels per eye. Bit more than "not that big", surely.
You may be underestimating the size of the average American these days...

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/04news/americans.htm#:~:t....
Check out immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite.
I can see your point of view. Here's why I think these problems are "minor": there's a very richly-resourced system of capital, highly-developed and educated people, developed systems, and social trust (even if you think trust is declining, it's approximately one million times higher than the world average).

This system can take care of every problem you mention with a couple of tweaks. Now "tweak" doesn't mean it's easy or will work instantly; it might take decades and consume entire political careers. But there's no need for a total re-imagining, or a doom-and-gloom outlook.

Most bad things I've noticed in my time here (GTA + Calgary) can be fixed by cheap housing. This is a matter of political will - there's a ton of space and a ton of capital ready to triple our housing stock in a year if they're allowed to build. Toronto doesn't have to be the Center of the Universe. Even if we insist on putting every tourist and immigrant in this one city, there's so much space around it, it could in principle be one of the biggest on the planet.

I'm not arguing for complacency. I'm saying let's not throw our hands up in the air.
> It's not just gamergate style rage though. Large and small companies have made statements in support of JPEG XL standardization.

These facts support my point: the issue filed as linked above correctly cites one of those statements of support, without resorting to outrage, and has been successful at getting Chromium team's attention to the matter.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=145180...

(Note that I wasn't able to identify any viewpoints or opinions in your reply, other than the facts discussed above. If that's an oversight, I'm happy to revisit.)
Show HN: Building a Llama 2 Telegram Chatbot for free
neat, I don't think I have any use for this, just used a few pre-assembled laser galvos for optical coherence tomography but I love the super niche small companies selling hyper-specialized instrumentation.
Fair. I'm not a fan of apples to oranges comparisons without leaning into more of it. Especially not when the obvious driver for difference between two things is that one is old and has a ton of the code you are currently behind on writing.

I do question if process isolation isn't fundamentally hard. Separate processes for separate things entirely is not fundamentally hard. That, I agree. But, so much of what we do is integrated together. Is why early attempts to make it so that some programs can't see my whole hard drive are bonkers annoying. I specifically want access to the picture I just saved in that editing program so that I can email it.
> I'm very open to that debate, but then show it. Exclude the drivers from the numbers. To do otherwise feels very dishonest.

With drivers:

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Language files blank comment code
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C 32699 3332747 2610014 17218820
C/C++ Header 23690 712617 1373965 7109290
Assembly 1336 48534 101884 234314

Without drivers:

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Language files blank comment code
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C 13200 1031558 951267 5356551
C/C++ Header 13760 300309 535100 1643611
Assembly 1321 47500 100899 230638

Seven million lines without drivers. Linux is huge. I'm sure you'll move the goalposts further though, so what should I do next? Delete most stuff in arch/ and samples/ ?

Numbers obtained by running cloc 1.96 on current kernel master.
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a1707441/who-really-benefi...
Wait, what? Even with gamma encoding?
At the opposite end if the size spectrum, the Citroen Ami is enough for a majority of everyday needs in cities. So much space saved.

https://electrek.co/2021/05/04/citroen-ami-small-electric-ca...
Well, it's easy. That's the one of the main purposes of governments.
Maybe it should be based on your driving record? The worst driver you are, the higher the cost to society when you are driving.
So many big boned people these days
I designed and sold a faceplate mod for the Behringer Neutron semi-modular synth. I sold a few thousand before shutting down in late 2020. There were two varieties - here's what they look like (search Google for Behringer Neutron to see the stock look):

https://imgur.com/a/ezbg3py
Yes also bad. Two things can be at once.
> this is directly Google fault.
> Check number of accidents since 2006

I believe it is a funnel of things: Slovenia became part of EU. GPS navigation in cars and smartphones became a thing. Google isn't even the only traffic data provider. Slovenia has RDS-TMC since 2009. So even a boring TomTom will show some form of congestion info.

But I agree with you, that navigation tools should not direct traffic away from the main roads (especial transit roads). Traffic planners should somehow be able to weight streets or routes.
Not being able to see for 12 feet in front of your vehicle should be illegal. The only reason trucks are allowed to have that is because they are pegged as farm equipment. Treat them as farm equipment. Special license to drive if visibility is impacted, special taxation for large vehicle without a business use case, you name it.
There are many factors. The minivan itself is dying, and it's almost a "perfect" car for many use cases - can hold 8, can get car-like mileage, can hold as much as an SUV, is easier to get into.

But they're dying because people ain't buying, because the costs are so high and those with the money to buy new vehicles don't like them.

There is NOTHING preventing small SUVs that hold 5 people and cargo, get really good mileage, and are cheap(ish) - but they don't exist used because they don't exist new.

(It's sad, because I'm buying a new minivan, and I could not make the PHEV Pacifica make sense no matter how I finagled the financial numbers, the Sienna is simply unavailable at reasonable trim levels, and nobody makes an EV minivan.)
Dudes in the US got a pickup but that can't do a pull up.
I heavily recommend you switch to https://organicmaps.app/, a privacy-focused, open-source fork of Maps.me, not by a payment processor.
> It's also a mechanically simpler thing to send out a request and wait for the response than to do the dance via a message queue.

Yeah, this is simpler for the requester, but not for the counterpart that has to respond. Because now, the responder has to have 100% uptime and better not fail during the request, otherwise things get lost.

Let's take sending emails as an example. You have a server A that can send emails, you have a server B that fulfills requests/actions by a user. Let's just assume that this is the (legacy) setting we are dealing with.

Now, what do you do if you want to send the user an email on a certain action, e.g. a password reset or changing a payment information etc.? Is B then making a synchronous request to A? What if server A is currently down due to maintenance? What if A uses another entity to send the emails, which itself is down? How do you observe the current state of the system and e.g. detect that A is overloaded?

With a message queue you get all those things for free and A doesn't even have to have any persistence layer for "retries" in case of crashes etc.

While it's true that those issues can all be resolved by "by load balancing or persistence" it just means that you now traded one issue (having a message queue) for multiple issues (having database(s), having load balancer(s) and essentially re-implementing a part of a message queue).

In most cases a message queue seems like a good trade-off.
I hate dynamic speed limit signs so much. You don't need to tell me that the recommended speed is 30mph in bumper-bumper traffic. It's patronizing and that money could have been better spent elsewhere, like on things which reduce actual traffic such as highway merge lights (the kind that you wait at before getting on the highway).
Unfortunately most EVs are way heavier and cause more wear on roads, so we'd be paying an even higher green tax to reduce emissions and fossil fuel usage.
We're much more than a hosted email list. We field over a million requests on a normal day.