skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People in this thread almost make it sound like people don't want SUVs, its a decision being forced on them by others.

> A lot of people I've talked to about car buying decisions like buying these SUV/crossover things.

Classic.

City-dwelling non-car owners projecting their understanding of the world onto the rest of the country. (Or in the case of Europeans, onto Americans.)

American suburbia and rural life is car-centric, and that's not going to change. People are not going to want to move to densify or live in the city because that's what "everyone should want". They enjoy their private cabins, their tall all-wheel drive vehicles, not shared transit and subway.

If you try to force these people to move to cities through taxation or a lack of support for their infrastructure, they'll vote out your political candidates.

There are a lot of people from SF and NYC here. As is the case with /r/fuckcars and their advocating for bikes and "strong cities", these are not the views shared by the rest of the country. If they were, you'd see policies changing overnight.
I would believe it because online I only find the most chalanged Russians, the smart ones seem to stay out of onlie discussion and not dare to contradict theyr "special" compatriots.
don´t use 1Password - they are not trustworthy as an organisation.

Go with https://www.enpass.io/ lifetime instead and safe a LOT of money.
Don't care as long as it doesn't affect core functionality (like requires internet connection to use for something that should work offline).

The benefit of a product that is paid for by personal data is immediate and real to me - I use this product and get benefit about it.

The risk of said personal data being used against me is currently hypothetical. So far, I haven't experienced any drawbacks.

For anything that is privacy sensitive, I use a dedicated privacy oriented software.
Trains are more vulnerable because they will always have long unguarded sections of track.

A train without breaks isn't really comparable because the planes can break using thrusters. I don't believe that you can engine break on a train to a comparable degree.
I'm okay with discussing reasonable risks people are taking. I'm just arguing not to bullshit me with what the risks are. I'm okay with motorcyclists on the road. I'm not okay with a motorcyclist trying to say "no, cycling actually makes me safer because I'm more agile and can drive between the lanes, so I'm totally out of the way of cars now!"
Modern vehicles beep like crazy with sensors when something is in front of the car like that though. It is impossible not to know.
Sure, but that's somewhat orthogonal to the matter of how you does your accounting or who issues your tokens. That's just scarcity.

I suppose you could burn tokens when the factories are bombed (or you know, when whatever other resources that back them expire), but that seems like a lot of extra bookkeeping just to keep two numbers equal.
Hard to hide an airliner crash in this day and age. Certainly over land, anyway.
It can be legitimate to have side effects in lazy processing and in particular to rely that a lazy sequence is not accessed beyond the visible access that is coded in the program.

Suppose we make a sequence of numbers which grows very rapidly, so that by the time we hit the 17th one, we have a bignum that is gigabytes wide.

You probably don't want this to be chunked in batches of 32.

Another situation might be if we have some side effect: the lazy sequence is connected to some external API somehow or foreign code. You might want it so that the observable behaviors happen only to the extent that the sequence is materialized.

The advice to be careful with side effects is good in general; not sure why you're downvoted.
No, because money transfers are such a central locus of government interest everywhere in the world.

It’s like asking “any good way to avoid paying taxes?” You’ll definitely get lots of opinions, but you should also be cautious about taking the advice.
> Ultimately, I decided that C# really is good enough and I didn't see enough benefits to continue using F#.

I’ve heard this story repeated so many times over the years. The responsiveness of the C# language team in particular (as opposed to the runtime or ASP teams, etc) is remarkable and the thoughtful inclusion of functional-inspired features over the years has really dramatically improved QOL for C# devs. (With the exception of some annoying carve outs like going too far with trying to please JS/node refugees with not only introducing support for top-level statements but also pushing it as the default in the various templates, the botched delivery of global includes, and other such changes —- but to be fair, many of these were implemented correctly and without any complaints on my end in the language itself but my quibbles are more with the delivery, integration, and polish in the IDE and downstream by teams like the ASP.NET Core one.)

After a long pause during the denouement days of the .NET Framework, the C# of today would be unrecognizable to C# devs of yesteryear, and the changes keep coming.

(All this is from the POV of a developer that’s been using C# since 2002; back when J# was a thing and I was slowly adapting to writing code in a case-sensitive manner after years of VB.)
20-25 miles highway is absolutely appalling. Like shockingly terrible. A conventional ICE minivan would get 10-15 extra mpg with additional room for passengers, and would cost less. A reasonably sized hybrid would easily get double the mileage.

In my opinion, full size trucks are the absolute worst vehicles on the road in terms of those trade offs. You get pitiful gas mileage, a tiny cab, high prices, and the thing is absolutely massive despite most folks only generally using a tiny portion of it at a time.

IMO the only justifiable reason to drive a pickup is if you tow or carry extremely volumes of stuff on a near daily basis.
It seems like being fat is uncomfortable then, rather than cars designed for human bodies.
What is the alternative, curl up and cry? Doing anything (especially anything interesting) involves taking risks. Not to mention that I probably have more chances of being arrested or conscripted then actually suffering in an airplane accident, they are still quite safe. I don't think that worrying about everything, especially things as basic as an airplane travel, will do you any good.
the article explains that they do in fact prosecute tho

otherwise i agree
Shorting is free money. You literally sell something you don't own and have cash in hand, which you can put into other investments.

In the best case, you never pay it back. In a good case, you make a small profit, which you get to keep -- as well as whatever profits you made from your other investment. Your returns are literally infinite, because you started with nothing.

They won't actually let you do it with zero money, but it is a way for somebody with a very tiny stake to multiply it quickly.

The flip side of the "infinite" return is the "infinite" loss. And that's way too rich for my blood. But there are those who like taking risks. And unlike other get-rich-quick schemes, it's not a pyramid scheme or a scam. It's just a bet that you're smarter than the market. (Though if you don't realize why that can be a sucker bet, then it is surely a sucker bet.)
> No. Not really. Russia has the means to produce brakes for their trains. They do not have the means to do the same for these airplanes.

I meant in terms of riders' perceptions of safety, not industrial capacity. That being said, it astounds me that Russia can't fabricate replacement breaks here: we're talking about a country with some of the best metallurgists in the world and a domestic aerospace industry; what gives?
> The planes might be missing some maintenance, but they are certainly not falling out of the skies

Yet.

You don't want to be in the first one that does.

Planes have gone down for much stupider reasons. Even serious airlines like KLM (Cityhopper) and Air France have flown perfectly good aircraft into the ground. It doesn't have to be faulty, human confusion is enough.

Going outside of normal procedures like this reduces redundancy and increases the chances of confusion and error.
That sounds like an awesome deal for TSMC. Right now, they lose money on every chip. But if they can improve their processes and get the defect rate down, they will start to make profit off every chip. So this is Apple giving them a fighting chance to improve yield and profit off it - if they can do that.
This is nice! The UI is very professional. It even reminds me a bit of some versions of Adobe Flash authoring software in the way that it looks :D
> Feminism wants to erase all male privileges, seems unfair to do that while still saddling men with extra duties.

There are different types of Feminism.

The first wave of Feminism is defined in terms of trying to gain rights that males had:

> Originating in late 18th-century Europe, feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, run for public office, work, earn equal pay, own property, receive education, enter contracts, have equal rights within marriage, and maternity leave.

I think that you may be referring to more recent strands of Feminism that may be going in more radical directions.
Available only on Mac. Not open source. Not free.

There are better options.
> Zoom re-updated their ToS to clarify that they will not do this.

To be more specific, they clarified that they absolutely _will_ do this. But they provide an opt-out. That "without your consent" is carrying a lot of weight in the TOS.

From the blog post:

> When you choose to enable Zoom IQ Meeting Summary or Zoom IQ Team Chat Compose, you will also be presented with a transparent consent process for training our AI models using your customer content. Your content is used solely to improve the performance and accuracy of these AI services.
I don't use windows often enough to have gotten the hang of how it handles layout switching. I think, by default, it's supposed to handle them "per app". Which, in my case, sounds great: I need French for Outlook / Teams, and English everywhere else. Somehow I always seemed to type expecting the wrong layout. So I've looked for a way to have a single one which works everywhere.

Windows doesn't natively support the Mac behavior. I had to find some layout that almost does it, with the caveat that it uses alt-gr instead of mac's alt, which isn't exactly the same nor in the same spot. So I had to pile another utility on top that modifies the WIN/Menu keys to send alt-gr. Luckily, it was also able to move win to caps. So now, aside from the "weird" altgr, I'm happy enough with my keyboard under windows.
This advisory is probably not "Disconnect the brakes" but rather "don't turn on auto-brake for landing and use brakes only for emergencies or sparingly"

At least, I sure hope.
That reminds me of a case where an evolutionary-algorithm was being applied to FPGA circuits ("programmable" circuit layouts) with the goal of detecting the presence or absence of a particular tone. [0]

One of the results was a bizarre circuit that wasn't really digital anymore, because the pieces were arranged to exploit ways in which the digital circuit was imperfect, forming a system that was actually analog and idiosyncratic to the test environment.

[0] https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
> unintended consequences of government regulations

Sounds more like a(n intentional) lack of government regulations to me
It reminds me of Blackberry's criticisms of the iPhone: completely correct yet ultimately irrelevant.
FWIW, this a switch expression rather than a switch statement.

But in any case I really love this addition to the language but the inability to have multi-line or block expression arms is a constant annoyance for me.

You can even combine these with the new one line record syntax to create a poor man’s discriminated union.
They're in two gists here:

https://gist.github.com/kaspermeerts/781f0137b361b51224dcab7...

https://gist.github.com/kaspermeerts/b6f158b1278de307e48a200...

I just hacked it together, but I do think it's not unreadable code
Okay, so there are a handful of massive $4k+ chips that can fit the Linux kernel in the L3 cache. Meanwhile, you could fit 5 copies of the SEL4 kernel in the L2 cache of a raspberry pi.
Sweetheart, of course it's obvious to you. Of the two people that responded to you, neither knew what you were talking about. If you don't wish to heed anyone's advice, that's on you. Byyyeee.
Even if that’s true, it’s an absurd reason to own a truck.
I think it’s a good article with some food for thought.

TL;DR: Future websites will mostly be APIs interfacing with Local Learning Models (LLMs). This will enable user-driven tasks where agents determine the right sources and interfaces, rendering locally and connecting to necessary APIs.
The machines are different. Multicore 64-bit chips are now standard for consumer PCs. RAM and persistent storage are faster and much more abundant. The architecture of the modern x86-64 is much more sophisticated than that of the 386 for which the earliest Linux was written. Vectorization, predictive branching, and asynchronous code are all front and center in the modern programmer's ecosystem.

In short, hardware is more capable, and so perhaps now we can afford to take more opportunities to trade a little bit of overhead for abstractions that are more modular and robust.
This looks great!

How is Phind monetized?
Russian Roulette is not that big a deal either, as long as it doesn't stop on the wrong chamber...

Yes there are risks everywhere, but what you are putting on display is Normalization of Deviance [0], which reliably gets people killed. With luck, it won't be you that is killed before the entire fleet is grounded, but at this point it is just luck, maybe with better odds than Russian Roulette.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
I don't know what you mean. If you're denying people access to the system based on where they happen to be, it's not universal.
>This inability to fully cache the kernel ends up negating the primary benefit that monolithic kernels have, which is performance.

OK then, so, which microkernel provides performance on-par with or better than Linux?

This is a strong claim and some evidence is warranted.
My 2600 isn't in the same motherboard I originally got it in (or its recalled replacement[0]). I bricked that MSI board when I tried flashing the BIOS from Windows 10. Turns out, that utility didn't support Windows 10, so I'll avoid MSI boards going forward.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6...
I'm honestly not sure which counts for this purpose, physical or virtual? And which fraction do you get to use on HURD?

But still, 256 TiB is just a dozen drives these days. Not a very consumer-like configuration, but very much a limit you can run against.
It already exists and is called SENTIENT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient_(intelligence_analysi...
very cool idea - essentially that your search engine would also be a software engine, creating the "right" experience for each search term. it would interact, I presume, with the design and product aspects of websites the way chatGPT interacts with their data. identifying existing patterns and developing the ability to regurgitate them in an uncannily responsive way?
I think the originally posted article is fair, as it notes that

> An aircraft can land without brakes, as during landing most of the work of stopping a commercial aircraft is done through the use of thrust reversers. However, landing without the aid of brakes will significantly increase the amount of runway an aircraft uses on landing. Brakes are also necessary for aborting takeoffs, through the use of Auto Brakes, which automatically activate should pilots decide to abort a takeoff for whatever reason.

The risk is clear: takeoffs will be significantly more dangerous to abort and runway overruns will be more likely, but this doesn't immediately halt aviation and is a more or less necessary step when the brake parts cannot be obtained.

Your polemic reaction is much closer to feeling like propaganda than the original article, in my opinion.
A plan which makes small children responsible for preventing their own deaths at the hands of adults driving vehicles they personally chose seems at the very least unlikely to produce good results, assuming you are trying to keep children from dying. I suppose if your metric is “nanny state impositions prevented” rather than “children being crushed to death” then it could be considered a success.
I had the same issue for years in the Midwestern US. I wasted a lot of money on the little 1 galon warm and cold mist humidifiers.

You need the type that uses multiple paper wicks (they look like air filters). I have one that uses 4 of these and has 2 big fans. It can burn through 4 gallons a day. It's not quiet but it does work.

And as a bonus you can use tap water without having to worry about limescale (it'll stay in the paper wicks which are replaceable anyway)
Had some fun with this ;)

TITLE: Why You Should Eat More Sand

1.1 The Nutritional Value of Sand

1.2 Sand as a Source of Minerals

1.3 Sand as a Source of Fiber

1.4 Sand as a Source of Protein

1.5 Sand as a Source of Carbohydrates

1.6 Sand as a Source of Essential Fatty Acids
> The feature@raidz_expansion on-disk feature flag must be enabled to initiate an expansion, and it remains active for the life of the pool. In other words, pools with expanded RAIDZ vdevs can not be imported by older releases of the ZFS software.

Interesting - this indicates that the resulting vdev is on-disk different than a fresh vdev would be. Normally when you have a RAID expansion/level change, the format during the conversion is different, but when it is complete the on-disk is identical to it having always been that way.
From the tutorial:

> In rare cases, this type of phrasing might result in irrelevant web results and therefore a bad answer. If you find that the web results are unrelated to your topic, try asking the question the same way you would on Google.

This seems to imply Phind isn't doing query expansion? (i.e. using GPT to generate several web queries)

Is this due to cost? (I looked into doing this myself and it would scale the costs by the number of queries.)
I always liked the Martin Gardner books from his Scientific American columns. Some suitable for children are listed here: https://nrich.maths.org/books
It would seem that the revenue-optimizing ML has learned that the median user could really go for Chinese take-out right about now (for all values of now), no matter what sort of food they started out looking for, so it's always going to show up.

I know median and mediocrity already share a common root, but I wish there were a clever portmanteau describing ML-optimizing for the median user leading to a mediocre experience. "Medianocre" just sounds like an eggcorn, so I presume 99% of readers would take it as a mistake instead of a neologism.
This is a good approach and produces valuable content, but I think it either needs to skip the higher level commentary and conclusions, or it needs to be a much more considered commentary that takes into account the wider context.
As someone who grew up from outside of the US/UK/Commonwealth, you really have to stretch the imagination to see the difference. Quebec is the only place in the US/CA I can feel is different.
If you are signing up to use their AI services, it's pretty reasonable for them to ask your permission to use your data to provide said AI service.

If you don't like that possibility, there's a simple answer: don't use their AI services.
"This guide is meant as a loose inspiration for a poweruser looking to switch to Linux."

It's your guide, but as a non-technical Linux power user of over 2 decades, I don't think I would recommend Windows or Mac power users make the immediate shift to the (Neo)vim and i3 "metaphors" (if that's the right way to express it). I'd recommend KDE for Windows PUs and Pop? Peppermint? (I forget which disto aspires to the MacOS look and feel.

I started using Emacs for Org because I don't program, and I gradually added email, file management, irc, gopher, roam, and other "functionality" as I became more proficient. I finally switched any key binding I could anywhere to Emacs, but I would never suggest Emacs to a Windows or Mac PU unless they already used it, let alone modal editing if they never used it and didn't live in a text editor.

When I started using Org there were not many decent open source plaintext information managers that could also do agendas, to-dos, etc. I mostly used Zim prior. Not all PUs live in text editors, program, or edit configuration files in a modal editor. Why would someone who uses a text editor primarily to edit configuration files do so in a modal editor unsteady of Gedit or Kate or even nano or micro?

Today, I would likely recommend Joplin for a PU who wants open source plain text information management plus a multitude of plugins on any platform and any GUI text editor with good syntax highlighting and customization and a Desktop Manager. It would allow for more gradual transition because being a PU on Windows or Mac means making significant changes would actually be more difficult.

But you can have my Emacs when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I think it's more directed to the regime not valuing citizen lives rather than racism against Russians?
GDPR adequacy decision for safe and trusted EU-US data flows
It's similar for movie review sites. The audience reviews are so wide ranging they provide almost zero value.
It would be amazing if you could filter a site with a sort of prompt: "Hey Goodreads, pretend I'm a stay at home mom with 3 kids and born in 1980, show me what I would likely think of this movie"
I found the blog post to be very useful as someone who is in the process of building a product! I’m very interested in how you extended the AWS Activate Credits- was it difficult getting AWS to extend the credits over 3 years?
> A train without breaks isn't really comparable because the planes can break using thrusters.

I'm pretty sure a plane at V1 can't break using thrusters.
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Given the Max 8 debacle [0], I'd agree we don't seem to have many great rules around this.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/boeing-max-crashes-faa-ea8fac0ad2...
if I were to try paying my taxes that way, I'd end up in prison.
I could say some of my inspiration came from the good old Macromedia Fireworks :D
I followed the same path - it served me well in life, but man did my university assume when you were taking Calc 1 that you had already taken calculus in high school mess me up.
An Asus PN51 might be worth a look too unless you really need the I/O connections. For about another $100 you get an AMD processor and a solid case.
Meh, I use both layouts and it never really bothered me.
Not surprising at all. What is surprising is that boys are still good at math, despite being beaten down year after year by a girl focused environment.
The IIHS has stats on this and it does seem that larger vehicles have lower average death rates[1].

In a world of only smaller sized cars, having a larger car would likely be less safe for the reasons you listed. However, with large cars being so popular, it would make sense that being in a smaller car is less safe as you are more likely to be in a collision with a vehicle that has more mass than yours—not to mention you have less room for crumple zones and the larger vehicle would hit you at a higher point on your vehicles, which is known to be more lethal.

[1]: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics
While that’s true, a relatively small portion of Americans live in an area where that’s a serious concern. Yet go to any suburb and you’ll see huge numbers of SUVs.