skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't disagree with the comment, but I fear that pro-nuclear advocates have become almost as irrational as the far more irrational anti-nuclear advocates that they fight against all the time. Wrestling with pigs makes you muddy too, after all.

Disclaimer: I wouldn't consider myself anti-nuclear according to any of the standard anti-nuke arguments, and was extremely pro-nuclear power in the US in the 2000s. However the experiences of advanced economies with very high productivity and labor costs (France, US, Finland) have completely soured me on the possibility of nuclear in the future, as the tech doesn't work that well and is very expensive. Even the country very best at construction, China, is only planning another 50GW or so, which is a tiny tiny fraction of any other new energy source that they are investing in. And if the best in the world at large construction projects is only putting in a token effort, I don't know why we in the US, who suck at large construction, should attempt more boondoggles. And in researching the history of nuclear, I find that it has always been this way, not so great. I think it only gets ardent supporters these days because of its prominence in SF.
Pro tip: import your collection to Music app on a Mac, buy “iTunes Match” subscription, it gets available as Library on iOS devices. Match likes high bitrates, better chance on matching a song and not uploading.
Here’s a detailed breakdown (although no deaths/mile figures).

Proportional to population, pedestrian fatalities have risen significantly since 2010.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
I was surprised at how poorly documented/indexed it was when I searched around, too!
https://archive.ph/ZTP9S
Filters aren't free
This is not generally true. Amazon is plagued by drop shippers now and as a result most of their solar junk is many years old warehouse stock. Harbor freight tends to be better.

Ex: https://youtu.be/W-fgI6Kyy2I
LOL, I write emails like this to ensure they get read.
> It's how AI becomes transparent after wide adoption.

I don't like this framing for video filters.

Go back ten years and nobody thought of that kind of visual effect as AI. Then someone made an AI version, and people talked about that for a bit, then they went back to considering the actual effect.

This is very different from situations where a task is inherently thought of as an AI task when people are anticipating it.
> If everything was calculated to include the amount of time invested, it would have been so much easier to just buy the thing.

But then when that thing breaks you can't fix it with the knowledge and spare parts you have on hand.
lol, what a fantastically obscure game to choose!
Show HN: Speleomorph, Shapeshifting Puzzle Metroidvania
This was my entry for a Metroidvania Month game jam last year. I like how Metroidvanias make you rethink movement as the game goes on, and since I didn't want to design combat I focused on that. But I didn't want the different mechanics to be objects you pick up. The theme for the jam was "shapeshifting", which suggested the unusual mechanic seen here.

Fortunately I'd forgotten about Snakebird or I might not have been bold enough to make the gravity+snake parts so prominent. And in the year since this came out, there have been at least three cool puzzle games nearby in design space:

- Tetronimeow https://pdotjpg.itch.io/tetronimeow has a heavy focus on rotation (which I skipped to avoid confusion), it gets much more Metroidvania mileage out of the central idea

- Growmi https://carlospedroso.itch.io/growmi does a great job building mechanics out of the snake+gravity idea

- The Plumber Thing https://hempuli.itch.io/the-plumber-thing

If this looks familiar, I did post a Show HN last year, but dang invited me to re-submit it. I kept putting it off in hopes I could make a big splash when launching a new version: I have some ideas for touchscreens (currently keyboard only) and for an earlier game with more restricted abilities (no free transformation, then swapping with just one previous shape). But it's looking unlikely that I'll revisit it.
That's not what I asked, is it unethical to take the candy?
This is one of the very few times that I read valid critisism on Tesla instead of baseless infotainment parroting.

Thanks a lot for that (non sarcastic).
If you see a car with those plates in 'the south' (ie where 90+% of the country's population lives), you can presume that a car has physically travelled thousands of kilometres across a vast, nearly unpopulated wilderness to get to where you are. People who live in remote areas seem like hardy people; seeing that someone drove that far proves that they're a hardy person.*

*Of course, the effect is greatly reduced if you see a tourist sample plate that someone bought, with all zeros. That just means the person's been there. Far more impressive if the car's been there.
The point is to neuter extensions to the point where they can't effectively block ads.
As a young man I spent lots of energy collecting and trading stolen credit cards on IRC. A large amount of what I was doing with them was carding local shell accounts so that I could avoid long distance charges by telnetting in to Compuserve and Genie. I of course carded my accounts there as well. I was hooked on an online airplane game and mechwarrior type arena game and still fondly look back on both those experiences. As you can imagine someone on that path without guidance life didn't go so hot and I still every now and then wish I could man a turret in a b17 on an airfield run and enjoy the simpler times.
I worked in Android Security. Pixel phones (and all other phones running Tiramisu+) can attest to the full DICE chain's integrity to any app that requests it. This can be done through the KeyStore API.
>Which is exactly the thing Epic can't compete on.

I mean, with these criteria is Epic really that far behind? They made desktop a better experience for devs, have decent enough customer support, and they don't exactly shit talk their users like other parts of the industry. The only arguable part is good platform, but it depends on what you need out of the platform. Does a platform have to offer a way to play windows games on linux to be "good"?

>I honestly couldn't name anybody else that has kept their company private, grown it to such heights and stayed true to their founding principles, without selling out to shareholders and advertisers for an easy buck.

hard to find platforms like that, but there are certainly creators that stayed small and humble despite growing huge in influence and pull.
We have finite resources, and that is the main argument against nuclear. If cost was no object, if we could pay lackadaisical EPC to waste billions and throw timelines off track, if we could bankrupt more design firms like Westinghouse due to complete incompetence in delivery of design, sure, why not just fritter our finite labor pool and resources away.

But if want to be effective as possible at fighting climate change, we need to Marshall our resources as if we were at war, and put all the effort into the most effective routes.
From Sci-Fi to reality: Flying cars powered by NASA tech in the works
Can someone explain why France has insane nuclear capacity (75%+ of their energy), yet their energy isn’t too cheap to meter?
Why would you expect that
That would be something! But sounds complicated.

I have a committed girlfriend, and another girlfriend who just wants a man for Thursday nights. I do what I can!
Proton has to pull from somewhere.
Worth noting Xcode 15 is still in beta which is why I (and other mobile developers I work with) didn't know this was a thing. Glad they eventually got to this, but judging by the upvotes (and my own personal experience) this would have been welcome much sooner.
Compuserve was the first thing I dialed with my 1200 baud modem, back in 1988. I still have one of the original "sign up kits" at my parents' house!
Self driving cars are effectively "more and better trains". They also go wherever you want whenever you want, don't subject you to other passengers, and are less expensive per passenger mile.
Sure, but on the other hand, he was bald.

I would consider that a strong indication at least that the authors aren't talking completely out their asses.
I bought mine for about 100$ for 10 years which is about 10$ a year. If it went 10x times the price, then it would be $1000 that I would owe when it comes time to renew
No, the Comcast Technology Center is taller than any building in Texas or California at 342m.
You need source access to verify this. Much of the Pixel firmware is not available to users.
No, it isn't. In practice no human will care whether you push the button. The social understanding is that it's fine to just take the free candy. In fact, the employees probably don't want to hear the ad again, so it is an ethical imperative to not push the button and subject them to that.
I worked at a place that had a futon, but they got rid of it because if people slept on it, the company would get a reputation for being a sweatshop.
every single thing I have ever purchased from Harbor Freight has yard test ceased to function or physically broken after the first serious use.

every. last. thing. ~25-30 things between myself and my family & friends. all of us have had the same results.

sure, they'll often replace the thing free of charge, but that just addresses the money - my time is valuable, too, and going back and forth to HF all the time just got really old.

no more.
Thank you!

I like the "associated idea" suggestion, will look into implementing it. Would make it easier to explore interesting topics and enrich the experience, like you said.

I was also thinking of "lists" or "courses". Users could make their own by adding ideas to them to address a topic or problem, and they could be private or public.

Might add simple comments as well as, but not quite sure yet if they'd add enough value.
I believe that's only the case if the update increments the anti-rollback counter.
What I’ve noticed is overall link reliability going down on my carrier in the las couple years as more 5G is rolled out. Areas where I had decent reception are often worse. I suspect it is more enshittification rather than 5G per se.
I started at 50k in 2000 with a BS in computer science. In northeast though.
Not really getting your priorities if you think the good one is one of the ones that is so hilariously expensive that even rent is obscene.

Also, NYCs transit system (and NYC in general) is in a state of decay. They've added the shiny new station in Manhattan, but the decay is so blatant over in Queens, ancient metro stations with flickering or broken lights, the few renovated stations being blatantly cheap jobs, it's pretty depressing to compare to the money they burned on some of the stations in recent years in Manhattan.
and I'm sure there's a different timeline where you're a serial rapist.

It's irrelevant to the time and place that we live in now, and drunk drivers are a menace that should be purged from our streets.
No, thank you. You got me interested enough to practice my Greek and look it up.
Yeah, alright. As the former "PowerShell guy" for an office of 200+ people when I still preferred WSL and bash, I can definitely accept this answer.
>but can you blame them?

Sure I can. They decided ultimately to make an indirect dependence on Windows instead of encouraging devs to make good native linux ports. They more or less made the deal with Windows without having to get their hands dirty.
But the Clone-a-Lisa page does not use a native dark theme, and the problem seem to be just with the paint colors, which in my case for some reason are altered by Dark Reader. It could also be that it was a temporarily glitch as I've noticed that color manipulation by Dark Reader can be inconsistent at times (could be due to DOM loading timing and stuff like that).
A certain engineering firm recruits college graduates mostly to brainwash them “we are #1 in employee happiness!” (Made up bs for mid tier form smaller than Benesch).

Eventually fired because I’m handicapped and wouldn’t join their softball team and pretend the baby faced bully was cool.

Glad it finally broke me. Social security disability time.
Nobody has a single proposal on what regulation to fix, or even the more basic problem of what regulations are unnecessary.

However, if you look into detail at what happened at Vogtle, you find absolutely incompetent management that thought they could just ignore all the basic quality requirements and get away with it. Leading to massive delays, etc. etc. etc.

Regulations are a red herring, IMHO. Idiotic construction companies are however a huge problem, as are absolutely idiotic design companies like Westinghouse, which many times delivered "unconstructable" plans!

Ironically if there was more regulations, and plans were required to be checked by regulators both for safety as well as constructability, perhaps these projects could have been completed closer to on time and on budget.

But that's just because of all the people working on these things, only the regulators are doing their job as if they were accountable entities, and the utility, the EPC, and the designer are all looking simply to pass the buck and hope that in the eventual lawsuit they can take minimal damages.
Did you read my linked post?

I've had to acquire some domain names via Godaddy recently, and I do like their management console. I really dislike the company, though. They screwed me out of one of my domains when I was just a teenager.
> it's a shame that docker is built around linux

There is some interesting work happening to get an OCI-compatible runtime working

https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj
Lack of custom filters is an immediate no-go.
Your feature is done, try it out.
One of the major reasons I took up the violin last year, after 20+ years of guitar and bass.
That value comes from the firmware and is not writable by Android. As for whether the daisy-chain of strcpy() calls are robust, and without a rich history of 0-days, that is something I don't know.
I'm about to go to the Online News Association (ONA) conference, which starts this week. I am really interested to see what is said at the various sessions about generative AI. Last year there was a mention of generative AI, but this was before chatGPT officially launched. I'm sure this year will be very different, as different organizations embrace or fend off this undeniable new development. Some orgs/journalists will surely use it to churn out more articles in less time. Others will probably adopt a purist stance and eschew it entirely.

There are good reasons to keep confidential info out of LLMs that you don't control, but I'd think it would make sense for anyone to run text through a locally-hosted LLM for editing suggestions and the like.
Agreed. Advert blocking wasn’t a necessity until adverts became intrusive, tracking and targeting became pervasive, and every site flooded with cookie banners.

I remember when AdWords was just a humble bar of contextual text links, absolutely manageable. Not so much the case now.
That's a very low learning rate -- between 2-3 orders of magnitude lower than what I've seen for that number of steps. I'll have to give it a try.
You usually have to redesign the storage from the ground up around S3. Some databases do transparent data tiering with S3 which can work ok too depending on the use case.
Thanks for the explanation. I think that’s why the whole thing feels kind of … unserious? Like in Japanese a whole sentence like “I didn’t eat” could be one long “word” (食べませんでした) but who’s to say it’s more complex than English? If you wanted to play devil’s advocate you could make an argument that analytic languages have their own complexity, for example Yoda-ese (“eat I did not”) which is intelligible but distinctly unnatural to an English speaker
Nothing against this model, but your website states “OrbStack is completely free to use during beta, but it will become a paid product afterwards.”[0]

Also, the rest of the page implies OrbStack will be charging for any commercial use.

If this is the case, I don’t see how this is “free” in the sense that most people on this site interpret it. Have you thought about the FOSS model with support, maybe a Jetbrains style thing - adding enterprise/paid features on top of the FOSS stack?

[0] https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq
Many, small, cells _is_ 5G :)
He did. I saw him right before his voice blew out on the tour with Willie Nelson. He was touring with those players and did a fully bluegrass set.

He’s not taper friendly.
Ahhh GIF trading and the first time I met a skinhead. Still use my old handle. For DJ work now…charming_weasel
It's not obvious to me that video games would be better than watching videos. That's different research question, and unless there's already research establishing a difference it seems reasonable to clump them all together.

In your examples you're also heavily involved in all his video gaming. I don't know that that's true of every kid playing games.
>They are great for taking the blame for decisions you had planned on making.

One might say that's the point of consultants! They're there to externalise accountability, you're outsourcing taking the heat.
I remember i had an interesting project on a resume, and one guy really drilled down into the details of it. (I think this is an interviewing technique)

At some point, really deep down the rabbit hole, I remember saying, "I don't actually recall, it WAS over 15 years ago"
There are plenty of scenarios where that is not desirable. Perhaps most famous is IP addresses: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737.html
Well I certainly don’t have empirical data or anything other than my own experience of close to 20 years interacting with people online prior, the biggest thing that has changed as far as I can tell is the drive to engagement and introduction of algorithms to further that goal.

Of course there’s always has been and always will be toxic content but to me it feels like society is breaking down in a way that is unlike what was happening before and it seems largely driven by social media interactions.
Try Colima [0], it’s a CLI only Docker Desktop replacement built on Lima.

[0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
Then you should be running more powerful tools like noscript and the full version of this, not a pared down version. Or a significantly more locked down version of Firefox on qubesOS.

Manifestv3 will have negligible improvements on potential security risks and will significantly decrease overall security.
I mean, they made an entirely new architecture just to keep their vertical integration running. Stubborness is basically in the DNA of the company. They still have enough draw that they can get away with it, so I guess they were pulling off "Valves" before Valve got popular (minus the whole "open source" moniker of course. but then again, Valve didn't exactly care about FOSS per se; just a smart move for independence when you're not yet a billion dollar corportation).
«A neighborhood of infinity» was one of the blogs which inspired me as a young person, and definitely put me on the path to do research. I would spend hours reading the posts, testing the code and trying to use the stuff in my own programs. The kind of insights it showed off are still what I spend my time searching for.
Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
Don't know enough to say but I would guess so.
The point of anti-rollback technology is to make it so security holes are patched permanently: an attacker can't unwind updates back to the point at which the known exploit works.
I’ve built pretty much my entire career around this problem and it still feels evergreen. If you want a meaningful and rich career as a software engineer, distributed storage is a great area to focus on.
My elderly father still uses this as his primary gateway to the internet and email. For all intents and purposes, this is the internet to him.
Focusing on batteries is thinking too long-term IMO. If you have 50% renewables or less in the grid, you basically don't need batteries yet, and our deadline isn't time here but greenhouse gases emitted - getting to 50% renewables will give us more time to tackle the rest of our emissions. I expect nuclear to easily beat solar/wind+batteries for the last 10% of the grid, but frankly the last 10% of the grid almost doesn't matter - if we've reduce our emissions by 90%, then we have 10x the time to tackle the rest.

Of course, I've been wildly conflating electricity with all emissions, but I think the low-hanging fruit argument still applies.
Plus then we could get more Fallout themed public places which IMO is a huge plus
A fun solution to this would be to remove copyright protections for anything generated by an AI. Now nobody profits!
We'd also get intergalactic ships
Probably not. Customer success are teams dedicated to keeping customers happy and paying and finding ways to ensure that they remain customers. Customer support is typically who you contact when you don't have any leverage and encounter a problem.

If you spend a million dollars a year on a contract, you will typically have someone you know by name and meet with regularly who will legitimately hear your feedback and work to resolve your problems.
It has deaths/mile, in that they provide deaths, and we know the miles.

I do not disagree the numbers are trending up (although, I believe rates/miles driven might show a different story, but I didn't grab the miles driven for years 1975-2021 to normalize).

Americans drive 400 MILLION miles before a pedestrian death.

Let that sink in. 400 million miles per ped death. That's just absolutely gob-smacking amazingly good for something involving direct human control of an enormous ton+ vehicle.
Because they "put customers first"? That seems to be the PR that people feel had them invest in Linux, but they forget it was more of a desperation move in a time where Windows may have been trying to strongarm 3rd party game stores out.

Very smart to leverage that failure of Steam Machine into a portable form factor. A bit ugly and clearly some cut corners, but the price saved on no Windows license speaks for itself.
Or a motive to secure the resources lying beneath the east of the country.
Not a real equivalent. Those machines are made by many, many people along the way. Industries exist from those machines.

Sure, and even taking that into account we produce far more food with far less human labor than we did 100 years ago, and that's a good thing.
This makes me think of those interviews where the code the candidate figures out is integrated into the product.

Wonder if your responses helped them practice for real meetings. :)
My compliments on one of the few times I've actually seen that phrase used and spelled correctly.
Why does having no driver suddenly enable this?

You can do all this now, you just need a driver. Why is that the part that needs to be eliminated before you can do all these things? All it is, is route planning based on demand. Uber, etc should be able to do all this now. Isn't that what Uber Pool was supposed to deliver? Nobody uses that shit for anything but a commute. Nobody wants to sit in a car with other random-ass people stopping 30 times to pick them up. That's half the reason people who drive don't take transit now.

What is it about having no driver that suddenly makes cars green, free up space on the road, etc?

Why would someone who owns a car now, want to wait around for a driverless taxi to pick them up? They can go into their driveway and be driven to their destination right away in their own personal driverless car. And if the car is gonna park itself, that means it's driving around, taking up more space on the road just looking for a parking spot.

I mean think about it. If you can work for an hour while your car drives you to the office, and you don't have to stress or worry about the traffic, why would you even bother with anything else?
I predict future social media will be required to come with Recommendation Algorithm warnings in a similar way that cigarettes now need cancer warnings.