skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> red light running

This is actually one of the interesting cases.

Some studies indicate that while red light cameras reduce the number of red light running, it also increases the amount of rear end collisions. Because people are afraid of getting a ticket they slam on their brakes.

Similarly, (iirc) there was some controversy about certain areas with red light cameras adjusting the length of yellow lights not to maximize safety, but to maximize ticket revenue. At the very least the wiki link includes:

> There is also concern that the international standard formula used for setting the length of the yellow phase ignores the laws of physics, which may cause drivers to inadvertently run the red phase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_light_camera

I don't think running red lights or otherwise driving recklessly is somehow our right or a good thing. However, there are side effects to these things and they don't necessarily make things universally better.
Sorting, then filtering by name was my goto.
So this is the exact opposite view of the Montana supreme court. The GP post. The children won the lawsuit.. Coal is absolutely and directly ruining their future. This is no longer an argument.
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You say the games don't change significantly, then you say the games have changed in a way you don't like.

Yes, they use the same IP's for decades but they remain relevant because they do new things with those IP's. BoTW completely bucked the Zelda formula. ToTK was so successful because they didn't try to just ride off the success of its predecessor - they did a lot of new stuff.

A far better comparison to Fast N Furious would be Madden.
Especially in California, where they are forcing people to rip up their lawns

Lowkey though…it’s high time for the cult of lawnship to pass. I don’t want to stop people from having lawns if they really want them but we’re to the point where people have lawns just because everyone else does or their HOA forces them into one regardless of whether it makes aesthetic sense or sense with their weather patterns.
I don't think the privacy angle is strong, because it's on a public road.

In general, the idea of being tracked in public makes my skin crawl, but what sets me off is recent cars with GPS units. At least with a smartphone, I can leave it at home.
What's funny is while the judge might look silly suggesting such a basic technique, Twitter's lawyers were clearly "playing dumb" saying that a search for "realDonaldTrump" produced "millions of emails" and therefore was unreasonable.
Entropy creeps into everything, unstoppably, masked under the pretense of a sequence of individually logical choices. To recover from this we will have to take a few steps back before we can make more steps forward. But we keep pushing and pushing, until either the tower we're building collapses, or us and what we do simply gradually become more and more complicated, with smaller and smaller gains that we focus on more and more, until it's all indistinguishable from background cosmic noise. Fermi paradox resolved.

Sorry, poetic diversion.
Non computer people were discovering the internet at the same time.
Probably Mythical Man Month and then Manager's Path after that. But I found this reference to Hamming's "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" at Mary Rose Cook's site, which leads me to believe it may be "anecdote-rich."

https://maryrosecook.notion.site/Build-software-quickly-6c09...
Let me see if I can repro with a sanitized file.

In the meantime, I popped open Process Explorer. Here's a slightly abbreviated stack of the only running thread -- the rest are in waiting states. I don't know much about Qt, so this doesn't really mean anything to me. But it looks like it's maybe some sort of locking issue.

ntoskrnl.exe!KeSynchronizeExecution+0x7db6
ntoskrnl.exe!ExAcquireResourceExclusiveLite+0x1eb5
ntoskrnl.exe!ExAcquireResourceExclusiveLite+0x1e4
ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForSingleObject+0x256
ntoskrnl.exe!ExWaitForRundownProtectionRelease+0x8de
ntoskrnl.exe!KiCheckForKernelApcDelivery+0x366
ntoskrnl.exe!KeSynchronizeExecution+0x469c
Qt6Core.dll!QAbstractItemModel::endResetModel+0x665
Qt6Core.dll!QAbstractItemModel::endResetModel+0x6fe
Qt6Core.dll!QAbstractItemModel::qt_static_metacall+0x1f75
Qt6Core.dll!QAbstractItemModel::qt_static_metacall+0x1690
Qt6Core.dll!QAbstractItemModelPrivate::columnsRemoved+0x85d
Qt6Core.dll!QPersistentModelIndex::QPersistentModelIndex+0x2a
Qt6Widgets.dll!QAccessibleWidget::window+0xa91d
Qt6Widgets.dll!QTreeViewPrivate::below+0x7be
qwindows.dll!qt_plugin_query_metadata_v2+0x6eb3b
UIAutomationCore.dll!UiaRaiseAutomationEvent+0x6ad2
...
USER32.dll!DispatchMessageW+0x741
USER32.dll!DispatchMessageW+0x201
Qt6Core.dll!QEventDispatcherWin32::processEvents+0x509
Qt6Gui.dll!QWindowsGuiEventDispatcher::processEvents+0x19
Qt6Core.dll!QEventLoop::exec+0x19f
Qt6Core.dll!QCoreApplication::exec+0x15d
Modern CSV.exe+0xb841
Modern CSV.exe+0x235267
Modern CSV.exe+0x234812
KERNEL32.DLL!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x1d
ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x28
Good. It's time we took car violence seriously. Too many people driving around dangerously causing traffic jams from crashes, injuries and death and getting away with it.

To those who call it dystopian or authoritarian: go drive on your own private land. The roads are created by and shared by us as a society. If you don't like it you can always walk.
If I recall the essay, Lewis definitely believes that this applies to things like Nazi Germany or the USSR. The true believers in Arianism and communism thought they were doing good - they were creating this golden future for their people and/or the workers! So destroying everyone who was in the way was morally right (in their view).

It's fair to say that Lewis would prefer moral busybodies in Cornwall with speed cameras to either the KGB or the Gestapo. But he considers the Gestapo (specifically mentioned in the essay) to be the end state of what he's talking about when he made the quote.

The source is, IIRC, the essay "A Reply To Professor Haldane", which I found in the book "Of Other Worlds".
Linus needs to take a leave of absence while somebody who's an expert at this cleans up his business and removes the problem people. And when he comes back he needs to be properly trained on workplace professionalism and he needs to just be a spokesman and not leadership.

These two back-to-back scandals show that LTT has an extreme culture and leadership problem, and that looks like a reflection of Linus' personality.

My big worry is that whether or not they fix it, a company like this is fueled by goodwill. They've lost that goodwill, they'll lose their revenue, and that means the company will shrink and the most vulnerable employees will get laid off in a city with an outright dystopian cost-of-living crisis.
"A little spare time" is more than two hours a day for a lot of people.
> I don't think it's fair to make the argument that "conservatism" is still, and will always be, opposed to "democracy".

I think they are talking about Conservatism in the US specifically, not in general. In the US, Conservatism has been quite active in limiting the voting power of several demographics [1][2], a distinctly anti democratic pattern of behavior. It's a unique situation reflecting our own troubled racial history and the large ideological gulf between the older and younger generations.

I wouldn't call that anti-democratic conduct small-c conservative at all, but it's very big-C Conservative in the US.

1. https://apnews.com/article/alabama-redistricting-voting-righ...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/20/cleta-mitch...
Being unable to communicate with another human being can be very alienating.
In my experience, learning another language opens up even more the fact that different groups are fundamentally similar.
It could be that I started from a relatively low empathic capacity, but I also do not learn languages in a formal setting. I prefer to learn them immersively, e.g. working in a kitchen, traveling abroad.
Would you let your child buy tobacco once they had enough money? I'm sure there's a certain age where disallowing your child to use a smartphone would be damaging to them- but up until maybe even 16 years old - I don't see value in allowing it.

I have a much younger brother and I can watch him being mentally harmed from having access to a smartphone.

And even worse, the UIs are so simple, the kid doesn't even get computer skills out of it like we did.

I myself got some mental illness out of the deal but at least found gainful employment in the process.
Of course! That’s why many of people who speak out against China love to sing praises of job creators, clean coal, and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps to achieve the American dream. But please, no unions because we need to move fast and break things.

There is no “I” in team, but there is in mine.
The problem is more where. Water should be expensive where it is scarce, and cheap (or even subsidized) where it is plentiful. Even in different regions inside the same country.

This also works as a signal to help water-thirsty industries to locate or relocate themselves.
> ... but the climate isn't really conducive to growing a lot. We're just a bit too high up to reliably grow many things commercially.

Didn't you answer your own question here?
Nearly 85% of ALL water used in Utah is for Agriculture, with 45% specifically used for Alfalfa farming...less than 1% of the state's GDP comes from Agriculture.
The thing is, Apple is still the leader in the online ordering process, even though the competition has had decades to catch up. Dell’s website is a mess. For years the top result on Google for the XPS Developer Edition was a page saying they didn’t make it anymore, even though I had just read a blog post about the new one. Clicking a specific configuration sometimes makes the option for a previously available configuration disappear. It’s maddening.
You can't avoid the ubiquitous surveillance, it's here and it's only going to increase. (Your phone and your car both already know if you're driving and using them at the same time, and they both tell other people everything they know about you 24/7. This is already the case today.)

So the question isn't whether or not we have ubiquitous surveillance (we have it), it's how do we want to set and enforce policy?

This leads me to the oxymoronical-sounding idea of "humane tyranny". Since we cannot escape techno-tyranny we must make it humane.
Check my other comment for data and arguments. USB was already pretty much standard in new PCs and all kind of peripherals were available many months before iMac release. By the time the iMac was released the yearly computer sales were in the 90 million range >90% PCs, easily were 10s of millions of PCs USB equipped by Aug-1998. I find it hard to justify that a computer that sold 5 million units over 3 years made USB mainstream.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/04/19Apple-Ships-5-Milli...

Edit typo.
> not sure how they competed but Palm Pilot was much more successful where I was.

The Newton predates the PalmPilot. The main problem that the Newton had was that it was very slow, large, and heavy. The Palm Pilot was a better market solution because it was none of those things. It was also much less capable, but it was capable enough for the market.

Funny story: I had a software company producing commercial Newton software. When the Palm Pilot was released, my attorney brought it to my attention, suggesting that I should target it.

I dismissed it because it was a much less capable machine. He was excited about it because it was affordable, small, and light. In terms of the smart business move, my attorney was 100% right and I was 100% wrong.
i wonder why they include 'motor vehicles and component parts' jobs as 'energy jobs' but not, for example, carpentry jobs or cooking jobs

a dude selling car parts isn't producing or reselling energy, and i'm pretty sure a cook with a gas burner applies more energy in their work

if we cast the net wide enough to include auto parts stores then 100% of jobs are energy jobs

maybe they're trying to choose only the categories of jobs where employment is going up instead of down
Neuroscientists Re-Create Pink Floyd Song from Listeners’ Brain Activity
As an alternative, there is no one single cause of the obesity epidemic. People are made of confounding factors, and the world is very complicated. The world does not owe you simple explanations.

Two books have helped me understand the obesity epidemic:

Burn by Pontzer - https://www.amazon.com/Burn/dp/0241388422

Podcast about above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSNS45RJL0

Hungry Brain by Guyenet - https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Brain-Outsmarting-Instincts-Ov...

Podcast about above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlWriMdYuKk
I've said this before and I'll say this again: computing total market capitalization by simply multiplying the last traded price by the number of shares is nonsensical, because it doesn't take into account the fact that the supply and demand of those shares changes with the price. It is taking a marginal value and imputing the total value.

The media and everyone else should stop treating it as a number with any meaning.
Couldn't disagree more with the first 2 paragraphs. It feels like saying Apple publishes a slightly different version of its iPhone every year. I think you will find plenty of differences - even major ones between the first iPhone and the latest one. Same thing with Nintendo games. IMHO, Nintendo is probably the best developer in the world and have proven this again and again.
Completely agree with your last paragraph though.
What organization is going to monitor IP addresses from an IdP or VPN service log for where an employee might be sitting?

If there was some sort of suspicion, sure, but it is very unlikely an org is going to monitor logs in real time for company-wide human resource purposes.
Oh grow up.

Wearing a seatbelt isn't oppression you muppet.
You mean the data you voluntarily submitted to HN, an organization you don't own or pay for? C'mon.

If you want to be forgotten, don't participate in the first place.
Well, you can focus on doing 1x and browsing the web most of the time! :)
That scheme is ostensibly designed to encourage regulars to post*. The point of it is to grow the platform by Encouraging regular generation of new content, in order to attract a broader audience. If the people in question never see the money, it’s counter-productive because then they will be the one leaving or reducing their activity. So no, it does not encourage Twitter to have more less active users.

* I’m being generous here and consider that this was a genuine strategic decision, and not just “let’s cut a check to my nazi friend”.
I remember the issue to be also that managing UI state on the server side was a load issue that many places didn’t want to deal with (e.g. Wicket, etc). The vibe at the time JS client apps came out in my circles was "thank God we can get rid of this UI stuff."

That’s still an issue I have with HTMX, but I understand for simple use cases it’s fine. I’d rather use HTMX than JQuery that’s for sure.
Having worked with a team using Snowpark, there are a couple things that bother me about it as a platform. For example, it only supported Python 3.8 until 3.9/10 recently entered preview mode. It feels a bit like a rushed project designed to compete with Databricks/Spark at the bullet point level, but not quite at the same quality level.

But that's fine! It has only existed for around a year in public preview, and appears to be improving quickly. My issue was with how aggressively Snowflake sales tried to push it as a production-ready ML platform. Whenever I asked questions about version control/CI, model versioning/ops, package managers, etc. the sales engineers and data scientists consistently oversold the product.
> Wouldn’t it make sense to remove React from the stack?

God hear your words
It is ableism wearing the mask of curiosity.
Judging by the dates, content, and mention of asking the NARA for the individuals assigned to the account...

I'm pretty sure this is record of what it took for the special counsel investigation to get access to the DMs of @realDonaldTrump.
I think you should ask a teen what social media is to them.

My nieces and nephews are constantly messaging each other. 95% of their usage is messaging. It is spread across several apps. Discord for gaming, IG for trends, TT for short videos, etc.

This is how they stay in touch with friends.

They aren’t obsessively doom scrolling, which I found quite interesting.
Yes completely understand you re time. Just one of those things that happens with life.

Thanks for creating tinc, truly an awesome approach to meshed VPNs!
> Twitter seems to either not be able to discover that, or can't find it

They clearly CAN, but don't want to. Their (X's lawyers) objections in the transcript are ridiculous (they claimed they don't have an "affiliated account" category - like really?!?) and when pressed for timeframes suddenly they can produce "impossible" data in less than 24h.
Probably both expanded, but the difference is the farmers secured water rights first and the cities didn't. I don't see a way to take away water rights; there just needs to be a way for cities to purchase the water.
I don't like civil asset forfeiture either, but it is the exception not the rule.

We should work to get rid of asset forfeiture, not work to normalize arbitrary seizure
Legend. Well done for supporting, and for putting your money where your mouth is and laying down some code.
Everything's different for everyone.

I buy a few tickets every time the expected value might be weakly positive, even though this still doesn't make it a "good purchase."

And I've played blackjack under conditions (rules and my carefulness of play) where it's expected to be slightly money-losing, but had an exhilarating couple of hours and conversation. Cheap entertainment compared to many other things.
Worth noting, the WireGuard creator has specifically mentioned these sort of management features (user auth, automated configuration and coordination, ACL's) as out-of-scope of the WireGuard project. He wanted to keep it as simple as possible, and left it to 3rd parties to develop VPN platforms using WireGuard.
This happens in southern California all the time with fossils and such too.
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Medical pricing is so hopelessly complicated that few doctors can even tell you what a procedure at they perform themselves at their own hospital will cost you. I don’t know how they could keep up with pricing for thousands of drugs interacting with formularies across hundreds of insurance plans.
Absolutely. Public speaking, conversations with strangers, and exposure to unfiltered communication are generally avoided by the timid.
Managing inflation expectations is the Feds main job.
There's a cognitive dissonance of "this won't happen to me" that comes from years of walking on the line. She faced a lot of danger and intimidation and survived it. This created a survivor bias that made her discount the immediate danger.

I've seen this first hand. After a few missile alarms where everyone runs to shelters people start building confidence and stride gently. They assume that since they survived all the alarms, nothing will happen. I have that problem myself, I can't be legitimately afraid.
Ship the product (alfalfa) instead of the supply (water), is the point of the comment. You need water to grow alfalfa, but not much water is contained inside it.
> we use such justifications for massively increasing surveillance

Is it massively increasing surveillance? UK is full of speed cameras[1] and automatic number plate recognition cameras[2].

"Vehicle movements on UK roads are recorded by a network of 11,000 cameras that read around 60 million number plates daily."

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_speed_limit_enforcement_i...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...
Similar in function to "Dulles Gray" which is used extensively at Dulles airport so other buildings/structures do not distract from the famous Eero Saarinen designed main terminal. Employees there humorously call it "Dull-Ass Gray"
Why do you think this water is not priced at market value?

If a farmer could take their water and sell it for more money to somebody who would then treat it, transport it, and resell it to the public, the farmer would do that. It might be counterintuitive to a lot of people, but if you want to stop farmers from using their water to grow crops, raise the price of potable water.

The farmer understands markets very well. They buy and use water based on market values. What you're hearing is a lot of complaining from people who do not understand markets and think that they can dictate market prices just by word alone. Markets don't usually work that way.
Sure. It's fine to tell people to move. I have moved a lot of times in my life so I'm not personally offended.

But most people do not move and do not want to move and I think people on here underestimate the political difficulty of telling people they will have to sell their house for close to nothing and move to life an adequate life.
Politely disagree. They are a durable machine readable means to communicate data. I would argue that when a QR code is read, more tech controls need to be in place to protect users prior to where they're navigating to (show full unrolled URL, big confirm button, check URLs against malware/malicious URL databases).

Humans already don't check URLs carefully (email phishing and the efforts to encourage better behavior and awareness around that), they use QR codes because they are easy vs typing in the URL. If the camera read a URL with high confidence, people would still not check it. Humans are always the weakest link. Do more to protect the human.
> 2 million voters over the age of 55 die every year, 4 million voters turn 18.

I think this is a bit of a simplification that makes the effect sound much more drastic than it really is. While 2 million voters over the age of 55 may die every year, they are replaced by a similar number of voters who just became over 55 and who's politics, on average, are only marginally different. Of course this applies to every age group as well. Not that I'm assuming that you're meaning to suggest that the effect is drastic, but I often see the very same line of reasoning in the political media and I'm quite certain it is what they're suggesting---because clicks.
Ask HN: Is the world ready for the inevitable ChatGPT rug pull?
With extended support available for JDK 8 until this end of this decade or so, it's going to be a while before the real laggards upgrade, heh. Maybe that'll be my generation's method of funding the retirement RV purchase like the COBOL grognards circa y2k, haha.
>Last year there were 48 road deaths and 738 serious injuries on roads in the two counties.

Please let me know which of these deaths you are happy with.
That statista pages cites this paper in 'nature sustainability': https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00842-z

Which does not seem credible, it has way too many guesstimates.