skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's a good thing that cities aren't filled with retail locations that sell liquids that, if ingested, turn humans into bad drivers that think they're great drivers. And it's a good thing that those hypothetical liquids don't form debilitating addictions that make the humans want them more.
In a city as hilly as sf getting around in an electric car is a real benefit that saves a great deal of effort. I’d rather have core bus lines that run on 2-3 minute headways instead, but I’ll take what I can get.
https://archive.is/qZKDw
Why is there a filter limit at all? Why did Firefox add that? Can config change it?
Germany’s new whistleblower law ‘risks return to Stasi era’
Since you like analogies...

There is a supermarket that at the checkout has a bowl of candy that operates on the honour system.

If you push a button next to the bowl of candy an ad will play and you can take a piece of candy. The candy itself costs a fraction of a cent to the business and the business doesn't care to put anyone in place to monitor compliance with button pushing.

This system is known by everyone and operating in this way for decades so there is no deception towards the person at the supermarket.

Is it ethical to take a piece of candy without pushing the button?
5G is LTE, except... it is designed to allow IOT devices in your home to send data back to the manufacturer without your consent.
For anyone wondering: "New provisions cover the Application service provider loophole of software distribution: Distribution and/or Communication (of software) includes providing on-line "access to its essential functionalities"."

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence
I just want a driverless RV that will drive me between all the National Parks in the US while I work remotely from the back via a Starlink dish mounted to the roof.
Fukushima is what happens when you get rid of the red tape, go look at the cause of the accident and you will see why the red tape exists [1].

The Japanese tax payer is still paying for this disaster, and the environment is paying in more ways imaginable, all of the cleanup operation so far has been running on fossil fuels and it's an significant amount of cleanup still going onto this day, hundreds of thousands of tons of top soil have been moved around the country and stored in disintegrating plastic bags which end up in rivers, for example.

People avoid buying produce and seafood from the area too which has had enormous impact on the economy and tens of thousands of people have been displaced with little to no compensation or anywhere to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster#200...
I have limited experience with podman on M1, having only pivoted recently thanks to the docker license issues but my experience so far on an M1 Mac was I couldn't initialize or start the application from the gui.

Initialize timed out due to slow proxy speeds, so I had to use "podman machine start" at the command line to wait for the image download and install to complete. For whatever reason I couldn't start using the UI after a reboot because I got an EACCESS error and again command line worked which was then acknowledged as running via the UI.

This is in an environment where the end-user has no root and podman is running in rootless mode. Once I got it running, I was able to crank up x86 http and postgres containers from the command line mostly with no issues, although pod termination seems to work better from the UI. In fact starting containers at command line throws a warning that your container architecture doesn't match your host architecture but that's it and podman just carries on after that.

When you say x86-64, is there something special about 64-bit containers that makes them only work via the UI?
I got to Pickle III before I started anthropomorphizing. Then some poor chap got carried off by one of the balloons. The other guy held fast. You might want to check on him.
How to fix India’s decrepit cities
I also think that fast reactors are the answer, and we just have to get over the "proliferation" worry. I mean with all the sanctions the world has imposed we have been unable to prevent Iran, North Korea, other countries from conducting entrichment operations and building weapons. The cat is out of the bag.
Some of the generated hands are really bad: I opted not to include them to avoid disturbing imagery.
Felt the same: the Internet is now full of "I saw it coming, and can predict the future" type of blog article, where you could replace AI by block chain (or any new technology - superconductors?) and write the same article. Very bland and not worth of HN time...
Might have been interesting to ever find out if this was true.

What happened instead was that Spotify led the pricing change by taking capital, cheating policy, and producing a consumption avenue that cut the price by orders of magnitude.

And meanwhile:

> cheaper tools like DAWs, more accessible music theory education

The gains in education are fractional. The library or a neighborhood piano teacher were good enough resource wise. YouTube eliminates the trip (and the funny thing is that we're iffy on even rewarding those people proportionally), but isn't a new opportunity.

And even for materials that are better in the way that 3Blue1Brown is for math... just like you're going to have to sit down and spend a lot of time actually doing problems rather than just watching the videos if you have any hope of really getting it, the constraint when it comes to producing music is still sitting down and putting in the time, not only on the specific problem/work in front of you but in the background to do it elegantly.

DAWs are great and can make up for some margin of missing virtuosity, but you have to put in the time practicing using them too -- they become their own instrument.

The constraint on making music has always been time. And what gets you more time to do something? Either having another source of wealth, or getting economically rewarded for doing that thing.

Spotify and the damage it's done the market absolutely matters. Just because music is getting through the damage doesn't mean there wasn't some lost, and not just quantity, level that could have been leveraged to through the magic of compounding focus. Anybody who's read Graham's "maker schedule/manager scheduler" should already know this.
No informed user would consent to a Trojan however.
In Firefox, you can disable automatic updates per-extension. So you don't need to sideload to achieve this.
If nuclear is going to happen it should be a campaign to improve & get better. Today & long term. Systems like Integral Fast Reactor & then PRISM & S-PRISM & so many others show huge promise at being absurdly safe & being able to help us burn existing waste, without having to deeply enrich: a huge win. But no one is going to foot the bill, no one is going to take risk on advanced nuclear, when we're not even sure about the plodding low effort ultra-lofi nuclear we still can't do cost effectively today.

I agree so much, this needs to be a bigger collectivized effort if it's going to happen. Ideally it should be something we can as a civilization improve on, where we keep improving together. Making a bunch of new proprietary designs then having 20 years of patent protection before anyone else can try & iterates or improve is a death knell for the industry as a whole. But no commercial entity is going to choose to participate in this prisoners dilemma today.
I see a lot of comments here saying that there are different types or qualities of screen time, but not one addressing the fact that this is a study of babies. Babies don’t play video games, solve puzzles, or interact with videos. Especially not for 4+ hours a day; even a 12-month old is only awake for 10-12 hours a day. It’s like people feel the need to defend their own beliefs instead of engaging with the article itself.
This is the classic anti-nuclear rhetoric

Always bring up the cost of nuclear power plants and the time to build them, but ignore that all the power plants built in the US in recent years use 1950s technology and are made expensive by 50 years of excessive regulation driven by fear.
musl now supports dns over tcp.
This seems like a bad change - if you want to make article cards smaller why not simply move the image to the left of the headline/extract, or get rid of the image entirely? After all the image is often entirely useless (say for instance an article about an abstract concept like finance that uses an illustration of a stock price chart), and most of the information is usually gleaned from the headline.
Nondominant hand computer mouse training (2021)
But one should be designing systems, unlike today where there is bad design of forced autoupdates
For example, they could be a system of distributed code reviews where an update is offered to the users only after some review
I am pro-open source, I contribute back to projects, I've been doing this since the 90s. I'm going to gently push back a little bit on this:

> But it's better to monetize 10% of a market that is 100x bigger than monetize 100% of a market that is 100x smaller.

The piece to really think about is the support burden. Yes, with your numbers, you've monetized 10x net more users. But you have 100x more users who think you owe them free tech support, and if you are sufficiently curt while telling them "I don't care if you're having problems, the people who pay me are happy. If you want help, you too can pay me", you can quickly end up with a much smaller market than if you just had a much smaller happy set of closed-source users to being with.

Open Source is amazing. I wouldn't in a million years want to be the maintainer of a large open-source project. The people who do that without burning out deserve sainthood.
Jaynes says the concept of self derived from linguistic metaphor. Until there was a concept of the “mind” as a container that could have thoughts “in” it, he says thoughts were experienced as hallucinations from the right temporal lobe, and people were essentially acting in a hypnotic state driven by those hallucinations
Valid! But I think it still works. Because when you're designing software for domain experts, they know their domain, but they don't know yours (software design)

So yeah, they'll say why something won't work, but the solution will probably involve another button, another drop-down, a hamburger-menu, or another option in the settings.

And then it's your job to figure out if it's the right solution.
Eeh. It seems like Musk strategy for X (formerly known as Twitter) is to remove and remove any feature that might be used by third parties to drive people away from Twitter. Presumably, I think, he does this so that people will stay on Twitter.

I think, however, that he goes about doing things in ways that are just... wrong? He has a huge userbase still, so why doesn't he do any A-B testing of these features to see if people respond how he is expecting before announcing and implementing these massive changes. I thought this was industry standard.

The impression I get from Musk is that he gets these ideas that he thinks are so great, and he just pushes them through because he's so sure they're going to work out. And then they don't and everyone is like "well of course they wouldn't work, so how did this get implemented in the first place?". I get it that he's a billionaire and all, but maybe he should be relying more on processes than so-called genius.

It also seems to me like instead of making people stay on twitter for longer, he might be pulling people who create content on the platform away from it. And if there's no one creating content on the platform, then users will go away as well. Meta's threads is coming up with a web-version soon, this will definitely put a much higher pressure on Twitter. I don't really use Twitter on mobile a lot, mostly from the web, so I haven't switched to threads for this reason; I wonder how many people are in the same boat.
Most of that skyscraper is rented out to others
Interesting analysis. Indeed without the need for oil and gas, Russia would not have the cash to invade Ukraine.
The steam water is a closed loop. It's boiled, passes through the turbine, condensed back to water, and boiled again. It's already "hot" and doesn't need pre-heating.
Commercial airlines in the US racked up 46 'close calls' in last month alone
This is how Mastodon works right now. I assure you, there’s plenty of this kind of content there.
raise hand
Apps are encrypted as a DRM scheme. iOS updates aren’t encrypted but are authorized based on your hardware ID.
Well when someone goes 'me, me, me!' and then declares their desire to reduce or 'kill' their ego, it does seem a bit odd.
Yes, post conviction.
I believe this is to prevent replay attacks?
Triple Point of Water
I will hereby celebrate one week with orbstack!
> Uh... and it's true? If the price of circular saws drop in price, and the demand for hand-made furniture doesn't change, then they'll become cheaper.

I don't know whether circular saws are likely to be the biggest input into a piece of handmade furniture, but my guess is they're not and it's time invested in the specific work and practicing the art rather than industrial capital.

Similarly, while DAWs while can (though not necessarily do) reduce capital necessary to do certain aspects of production, they don't represent the most significant investment into writing music. Also time, both in the creation of the specific work AND in terms of time practicing the art.

> It's unlikely to decline indefinitely. Piracy, Spotify, more youtube channel teaching how to make music... all these didn't prevent Billie Eilish from becoming a star.

Survivorship bias. Billie Eilish or any other individual success are no more an indication that all is well with the status quo than blue zone anecdotes are promises anyone who chooses can be a centenarian.
Annualized median earnings of those working full time wage or salary work is $57,200, as of July 2023

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.nr0.htm
But there is money in oil and gas, big money, which is why you don't get nuclear...
I think you're misunderstanding me. This has nothing to do with VGA. I was using 4K screens as just one example of the many, many dimensions of growth.

It's simply the point that there's so much more to load during booting. Your contention that computers only use 100x more resources than in 1984, and should therefore boot in "way under 2.2 seconds" is way, way off.

Computers use way, way, way more than 100x resources compared to two decades ago. Hence, booting still takes a bit of time. It's pretty simple.
Oh sorry not IFBB - not sure where that popped into my head
So "even more interesting" if it happens. :)
It does. The FMX framework compiles to Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows. Single codebase single UI.
I couldn't relate with the thought process of calling mp3s The Gold standard right after he acknowledged it was lossy.
I think it was 1992 when my dad showed me how to dial into Compuserve. We might have had a 9600 baud modem that tied up the phone line and cost an astronomical amount per minute. I recall bringing up a weather map of the US. I had no clue what to do with that information. But I was hooked.
This makes sense to me based on the economics related to interest rates.

If interest rates go up, it becomes harder to borrow money to purchase a home.
When it becomes harder to borrow money to purchase a home, demand for homes goes down and inventories go up.
When inventories go up, prices go down.
After prices go down enough (to what is equally affordable with the new interest rates), sales go up and inventories go down.

Last week there was a Washington Post story [1] about how home affordability was hurt by the higher rates, but it feels like that was just part of what should be an expected chain of causes and effects.

(Granted, none of this is happening in isolation, but my gut feeling is that interest rate changes are the most important factor to consider right now).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/12/millennia...
China has an interest in subsidizing a domestic nuclear power industry as an adjunct support for a nuclear weapons capability.
Heads up, the danger with charging LFP at low temperature is that you will begin lithium plating. While this is a driver of degradation of LFP batteries, it's also a safety risk as lithium plating can lead to dendrite formation, internal shorts, and thermal runaway (i.e. fire).

Contrary to popular belief, LFP is not immune to thermal runaway. While LFP batteries do release less heat than Nickel based cathode chemistries, they can still cause a building to burn down when you have 200Ah or more.
Science Cannot Count to Red. That’s Probably Fine
My English definitely got kickstarted by Police Quest 1 with the added incentive for fast typing. (I still remember failing to properly and quickly type "use handcuffs" so many times...)
Do I need to raise the blast shields?
This is very astute. It's as if all social institutions were dissolved, then reconstituted into a single structure that is bad at just about every interaction it destroyed.
I speak from experience and what I've heard.

The police are almost never going to police restaurants, bars, wineries, and other such places even though there will obviously be plenty of potential drunk drivers to arrest. Meanwhile, a friend who parted ways with me after a night out stopped by a liquor store on the way home and was questioned and subsequently arrested (he was legally drunk) as he came out.

The point of this story is that the law states absolutely clearly that noone is allowed to drink and drive. On the other hand, practicality and reality means police will turn a blind eye to certain areas while enforcing the law elsewhere; knowing this is how the real world works is handy and important for what I hope are obvious reasons.
It makes sense to me to have a system like this in a platform like Twitter.

Though if it's falsely flagging new genuine accounts then the system definitely needs a revision. But to completely delete it? It seems like they're just going to end up re-inventing it.

Seems better to simply take what exists and work on it, and change the name if you don't like it, though I honestly couldn't care less what the system is called internally.
Brave just shows a different set of ads.
FreeBSD on Firecracker [pdf]
The Smell of Palo Alto! You know it too?

More seriously, there really is an absurd shortage of clean, available, public restrooms that are open 24 hours. It's a huge issue in the Bay Area and SF especially, but it's bad in many US cities.

At some point we seem to have decided that clean streets (and train stations) are not worth the changes in regulatory requirements and funding that would be required. Palo Alto actually has a pleasant and quaint waiting room from its Southern Pacific days - but of course it's always closed, especially post-pandemic.

I was shocked recently though when I was in a BART station that had a public restroom that was actually open and maintained. Seems like a good idea considering how often escalators are "closed for maintenance."
> just another tightly closed platform

No it’s not. You can download and install anything you want from the web. Just like Windows.

The Mac App Store isn’t required. Largely NO ONE uses it.
It's even mentioned in the recent 4th edition(2020).
thank you, I’ll check out those!
It's inherently collusion.
Do you feel the same way about scroll-enabled menus? I had to implement a menu recently (similar to the one on https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/getting-started/introducti...) and my first draft used traditional anchor-to-id links.

It was very jarring and also felt weird being flush with the top - we added a jQuery smooth scroll to go to just a little above the item in a few hundred ms and it felt much better. I say this as someone who generally hates scrolljacking and custom scrollbar rendering on sites.
Most cars have a window frame and don’t need to worry about lowering the window. There are plenty of other cars that engage the window down on the lever though, so no, it’s not a technical issue. The only issue I can think of if you just open and push the door quickly then it could cause damage and the Tesla can lower the window before it opens when you use the button option.
You have a different girlfriend every night of the week?
> Who cares about developmental delays at age 2 and 4, without putting it into context for how kids perform as adults.

That's right, here you go:

- Children with developmental delays twenty years later: where are they? How are they? (https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2004)109%3C219:CWDDTY%3E2....) - "Findings documented a broad range of outcomes, with some young adults leading independent and productive lives, whereas the majority were un- or underemployed, living with and financially dependent upon their families, and socially isolated."

- Developmental Delays in Executive Function from 3 to 5 Years of Age Predict Kindergarten Academic Readiness (https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219415619754): "Compared to children who exhibited typical trajectories of executive function, the delayed group exhibited substantial impairments in multiple indicators of academic readiness in kindergarten"

- Developmental delay in early childhood is associated with visual-constructive skills at school age in a Brazilian cohort (https://doi.org/10.1186/S41155-016-0048-2): "Developmentally delayed children showed lower IQs, lower scores, and more errors in copy and memory Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) tasks when compared to typically developed children"

- Early Developmental Delays: Neuropsychological Sequelae and Subsequent Diagnoses: (https://doi.org/10.1080/09084282.2011.643963): "The Delay group had a significantly lower Full-Scale IQ (FSIQ), and when controlling for IQ (analysis of covariance), the Delay group had significantly lower scores on measures of immediate and delayed visual memory skills (CMT)."

- Young children with developmental delays as young adults: predicting developmental and personal-social outcomes (https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017%282006%29111%5B263%3AYCWDD...): "Developmental status at 6 to 7 was a strong predictor of developmental status in young adulthood"

Feel free to conduct your own research starting from these articles.
i think eipi10_hn's point is that from the very beginning of designing/imagining the web, those involved wanted to make it a user-controlled experience. so the disconnect here is between two views: a) there is an obligation to support sites by watching ads or b) content providers should know defining principles of this medium dictate that users can block/change/etc so they support content with blockable ads at their own risk. Under b) users blocking ads is ethical whereas sites trying to circumvent ad-blocking are acting unethically. Both stances have merits it seems to me.
How are covid hysterics harming other people at this point?
There's a term for this, or at least it's a known phenomena in the AI industry for a while. It's how AI becomes transparent after wide adoption. I'm still amazed at video filters that transform your face in real time, and that is now a common feature in so many apps that most people might not consider AI.
Reminds me of what my dad told me on drunk driving: "It is no longer safe to drink and drive. It used to be the worst that was likely to happen was you would wrap your car around an oak tree and that would be one less idiot in the world. Now the roads are full and you are likely to hurt or kill somebody else."
A lot of what DDIA covers is pretty fundamental stuff. I expect it will age fairly well.

It's not really a book about 'best practices', despite the name. It's more like an encyclopaedia, covering every approach out there, putting them in context, linking to copious reference papers, and talking about their properties on a very conceptual and practical level. It's not really like 'hey use this database vendor!!!'.