skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. stop putting software in things
2. especially dont put webshit in things
3. especially dont put smartphone shit in things

really, i'm not trying to sound rude, theres no other way to put it, you deserve it. its unfortunate that people value "politeness" over reason. this is the hard truth that people in this bubble have not been able to face for 20 years now. the web is an abomination which was never created for anything other than corporate interests and serving magazines. of course it's practically inoperable. same exact story for smartphones, it was created by some scum web company to carry out the old trope of making a software ecosystem where shitty devs that cant make their own software come to and said scummy company gets to rule over. none of this implies any good or even reasonably working software

also laundry is a trivial task, it was only hard before washing machines. also this is one example of where technology actually made our lives better but all kinds of idiots like environmentalists and corpos are trying to ruin it.
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AI is even better at predicting mood and emotion. See social media.
Would you still have, if you knew the strings that would come attached? Tracking your every move? Enabling governments to surreptitiously snoop on your audio and camera? Constant exposure to experiences designed to addict and immiserate you?
React is a little bit painful and massive overkill for web forms actually (compared to other approaches).

It’s the fighting with it that’s the issue; my experience is that a lot of devs go in to “force this stupid framework to work” mode and blow up tasks that should be 10 lines of code with no edge cases into 50 or 100 which “mostly works, good enough.”

React is by far the most adopted framework for desktop-level or near-desktop-level web applications.
you cant sue someone for writing down what error messages that product can produce. you cant sue someone for reverse engineering their product (it has to have been done for an actual purpose like cracking or copying). you also cant sue someone for so happening to take teh shortcut of reverse engineering to obtain what they could have got just from using the product.
I don't think you understand what a human right is. If you don't have freedom of speech, you're not suddenly not human lol. The point is that if you're human you should have access to your rights, not the other way around which wouldn't make any sense
The Decrease of Sperm Counts Globally

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the decrease in sperm counts globally. This phenomenon has been observed in many countries, and it has raised questions about the potential causes and implications of this trend. We will explore the current state of research on this topic and discuss some of the possible factors that may be contributing to the decline in sperm counts.
The Evidence of Sperm Count Decline

Several studies have reported a decline in sperm counts over the past few decades. A review of medical literature published in 2022 found that human sperm counts have fallen by more than 50% around the globe over the past 50 years[4]. The study analyzed data from 185 studies conducted between 1973 and 2018 and concluded that sperm counts fell by slightly more than 1% per year during this period. The researchers also found that the decline in sperm counts seemed to be accelerating in recent years, with an average decline of 2.64% per year after 1995[4].

Another study published in 2017 and updated in 2022 evaluated a combined total of more than 200 studies that used a counting chamber. These two papers found about a 50 percent decrease in sperm concentration — most notably in Western countries — since the 1970s[5]. However, some studies have shown an increase in sperm counts, while others have shown no significant change[5].
Possible Causes of Sperm Count Decline

The causes of the decline in sperm counts are not fully understood, but several factors have been suggested as possible contributors. These include:

- Environmental factors: Exposure to environmental toxins such as pesticides, heavy metals, and endocrine disruptors may affect sperm production and quality[1].
- Lifestyle factors: Unhealthy lifestyle habits such as smoking, alcohol consumption, and poor diet may also contribute to the decline in sperm counts[1].
- Medical conditions: Certain medical conditions such as varicocele, infections, and hormonal imbalances may affect sperm production and quality[2].
- Age: Sperm counts tend to decline with age, and older men may have lower sperm counts than younger men[2].

Implications of Sperm Count Decline

The decline in sperm counts has important implications for human reproduction and male health. Low sperm counts may make it more difficult for couples to conceive, and it may increase the risk of infertility[6]. In addition, low sperm counts have been associated with increased risks of testicular cancer and other health problems[6]. Therefore, the decline in sperm counts may be a harbinger of declining health in men in general, since semen quality can be an important marker of overall health[4].

Citations:
[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/male-sperm-count-dec...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675356/
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3739164/
[4] https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/health/sperm-counts-decline-d...
[5] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-sperm-counts-...
[6] https://www.obstetricgynecoljournal.com/articles/cjog-aid112...
Cars break down all the time but at least they can be moved to the side of the road. Are Teslas not able to be moved once they run out of juice? They’re heavy and even with a few folks pushing from the back, is it able to disengage the parking brake?
And how do you get those 3 words?

Don't you need GPS to get the coordinates to translate them to three words?
Does roadside assistance (AAA, etc) not offer some kind of "I ran out of gas" service for electric cars?

Edit: As of 2022, AAA actually does have emergency mobile charging. But of course, only in select cities. https://newsroom.aaa.com/2022/12/electrifying-aaa-member-ben...
Source is quite clear, Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (1657) (repeating after https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/)
Depends on the constraints of the scenario.

With "cold boot attacks", after you cut power to a machine the system's memory will still be readable for a brief moment. If you chill the RAM with compressed air you can stave off the electrical self-discharge even longer. Boot to a specialized OS or move the memory to alternate hardware and you can dump its contents.

These attacks specifically target disk encryption and other keys that are kept in memory.
That's also very true lol but if it works for them it works I guess
You're right, I'm being a bit harsh towards Nushell, partly because I don't see the problem these tools are trying to fix as particularly significant, and because the legacy Unix design decisions are what helped make it successful today.

My point is that an open ecosystem can't prosper if all tools are part of a single project, and they depend on each other to work. There's a good reason why even GNU tools, and even those part of coreutils, are not built with an assumption that they will be part of the same pipeline. All of them are independent, and "do one thing well", and how they integrate into a pipeline is entirely up to the user. All external tools that follow this same principle can generally be composed in the same way. The benefit of this is that the user doesn't depend on a single project, and each tool is easily replaceable by another.

Thanks for those Nushell examples. At first glance, they don't look readable or intuitive to me, but maybe it's because you're parsing the output of `ls`, which is generally a bad idea. I only mentioned `ls` as a contrived example, but imagine you have to integrate one or more external commands, and not just at the start of the pipeline, but somewhere in the middle. Doing those conversion steps from/to Nushell would become very cumbersome.

I wouldn't use `jc` or any structured exchange format for this task. `find` can do most of the legwork:

find -type f -size +10k -printf '%k\t%P\n' | sort -n -k1 | tail -5

This doesn't show the results in a nice table as Nushell would probably do, but IMO it's much simpler, very clear what each tool does, and the pipeline is easily extensible at any point.
How hard is it to use AI to generate fonts on demand?
From the fine article:

> The handbrakes of electric cars, and some other modern cars, are controlled electronically, unlike those of traditional petrol and diesel cars, which are mechanical. This means that the handbrake often locks when the power fails and the car cannot be pushed or towed.

This sounds like a major oversight by Tesla as there should be some override in case a vehicle breaks down in a dangerous position or is blocking something important.
This isn't correct at all? Here's the API support chart: https://fugu-tracker.web.app/#

Obviously yes, there are going to be platform-dependencies with any platform abstraction API, and different platforms support different things. For sure Android is "primary" for most of these and it is doing the best, but the other platforms seem pretty well-supported, with no particular winner that I'm seeing. Is there something specific you're wanting and not getting?
> Most phone manufacturers have since added a prompt asking the user if they’ll allow data to be exchanged.

And doing it badly. I am sometimes using external keyboard connected via a charging hub. The Android phone happily accepts keyboard input regardless of "charge only" setting.
You’re looking at it as tax on contracted income. Which is a consistent lens to use.

I’m looking at it as a tax on direct labor. Which is also a consistent lens to use.
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How is this even legal? They should have just hooked it up and dragged it into the ditch.
I respectfully disagree. "Beg" is also such a strong word here. I don't think there's anything wrong for him to post volunteering opportunity for people with IT skill to help homeless people
AI Art and its Impact on Artists
the word is used in at least two ways -- frame of reference Individual; frame of reference Society.

Charles Darwin woke up and discovered he was alive that day.
It's seems quite common for software to seriously rot after success. At the start, technical excellence goes a long way. At some later point, the selling point is no longer the software itself, and instead just the network of existing users.
1:10 is a little harsh,
quite far from the norm. From my experience body shops subcontracting freelancers pay 80-90% of the daily rate (BENELUX area)
Running out of fuel is something it’s obviously “easy” to do with other cars.

But I’m surprised that the electronics have _no_ power redundancy, there isn’t a manual release for the parking break, and running out of power causes the parking break to fail-closed?
A microscale soft ionic power source modulates neuronal network activity
Author of the original article here. I actually remember that bridge! It's such a huge mass of concrete. For me it is memorable because it's right next to the only Microcenter in Cambridge. If I wanted to buy a Raspberry Pi while in law school (more common of an occurrence than I care to admit), that's where I'd go.
Whenever I hear things like "understand the topic's complexities" from people they are unable to articulate these supposed complexities and we almost always land on exactly the solution I proposed in the first place.

Don't get me wrong other intelligent people are on board with me during these episodes, and they are sometimes able to present their specific concern with the solution and that is valuable. I've been wrong before of course. On the other hand the "think of all the complexities" crowd just spout nuggets of wisdom like that until they are able to comprehend the solution, and that takes about 15 minutes in my experience.
The skull maps that quantified racism
Wealth is reduced by consumption. It cannot be endlessly copied at negligible cost.

A closer (but not perfect) analogy is more like "pooling and sharing the computational time of the university's lone supercomputer makes everyone's projects better".
Get yourself bluestacks, the android emulator.
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"The Tesla Model 3 Performance is a four-wheel-drive electric car with a starting cost of £57,000 and a battery life of 41 hours."

From the article, I had no idea battery life was measured in hours, I don't even know how that would work for a car.
Slightly off-topic, but I can't stand people tell me their dreams. It annoys me to no end, but I can't quite figure out why.
They do (I've seen photos of assistance service cars with a bunch of batteries tacked on in the back), but it's a very new thing and not very common yet.

Also the assistance service cars are mostly petrol based still, but even for electric ones I've been told it's non-trivial to wire the existing batteries out (… safety mechanisms and whatnot), making extra battery packs the go-to.
My diesel and my wife's petrol card both have electronic handbrakes. I'm not sure what would happen if either has a battery failure.
City planners in Warsaw, Poland have apparently noticed that underground passages are actually an inconvenience to pedestrians and now I'm seeing a trend where such crossings are starting to get surface-level crosswalks as well, such as at Rondo Dmowskiego[0], a principal public transport hub. Such changes are a life quality improvement to people with disabilities - elevators are breaking left and right, cutting off people who rely on them. Right now I live in Berlin and the public transport notification page is always filled with reports of broken elevators all around the city.

[0] https://www.transport-publiczny.pl/img/20210430130147Dmowsk2...
You bring cash. Russian cards are useless* abroad.

People who travel or shop online often, or have to receive payments from abroad, have all got themselves accounts and cards in foreign banks. I did, too. In some countries (Kazakhstan, Georgia, Indonesia, Turkey) some banks would open an account and issue a card for you even if you're not a resident.

* except several "friendly" countries that still accept Mir cards, like Armenia. Russian Visa and MC are truly useless abroad though.
CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Pushed Back
They can be towed, but it is correct that certain electrical failures can prevent the brakes from being released.

I know because this happened to me. The tow company sent a flat bed truck and used a winch to pull the car onto the platform.

It’s pretty annoying from a design perspective but it also seems like something that any competent tow company should be able to handle easily.
I actually met BT and asked him about this track.

While it's mostly written in Csound, he "cheated" with the guitar track, which was a recorded sample brought into Csound.
Not reproduced here.
Are you sure that’s a real Masters degree? Can you link it?

Any masters I looked at on Coursera had the same application process like a real university, including application + requirements
9 hours? Nobody had an extension cord?
Yeah wildly inaccurate.
It's even weirder than that! Residents of Richfield at the time saw the lack of sidewalks as a feature, not a bug. They wanted to distinguish themselves from Minneapolis, so they protested the building of sidewalks because "how would people know we are a suburb if we have sidewalks?" (This is a real quote from a real, very politically active resident at the time. Seriously.)

Context: I wrote the article linked in the OP.
yeah its a problem that comes up regularly, fails and can’t be rolled away. probably need legislation because so many ev fanboys pretend this isnt a problem. (i am an ev fanboy)
Interesting! Presumably you have a source backing up the claim that the article and paper it’s based on are fake?
I think the Phantom Menace teaser was when I first downloaded Quicktime Player…
I need to make better use of invariants.

Part of that is the brain damage from C where asserts disappear in release builds. This relegates them to second-class, despite the fact that it is trivial to write the equivalent with an if statement and an early return.

Swift’s guard keyword is really nice. We could really use Eiffel-style invariants in our PLs now, IMO.
Or a portable generator?
I played a localized version so I don't know the names in English sadly, but the alt sounds right

The graphics were super simple, flat colors
There seems to be some discrepancy as the article mentions that it ran out of power, but the owner, Mr Grigg, 57, said that the vehicle had failed despite having shown that it had several miles of charge remaining.

And yes, I'm surprised that an important component doesn't have a manual override. Imagine if the vehicle blocked access to a hospital or a busy bridge or tunnel.
> and just check for the last part.

hit is not how I use navigation apps when cycling.
When I don't know the way, I start my navigation app (not gmaps) when I drive off, because

- I don't want to stop midway to check where I need to go, when I can do that when I get on the bike
- I don't know where exactly to stop to check where to go
- If I don't know where exactly I want to go, going roughly in the right direction probably means that I cycle longer than I need to
This is useful for transactional operations where you want to preserve the previous state until the transaction completes. If you don't need transactions, or you don't need point-in-time queries, then updating in place would save time.
This seems likely to me. When we recall memories, we "fill in the gaps" during the recall process. For example, paraphrasing a quote because you can't recite it verbatim: you'll express the ideas and emotions important to you, include impactful words or phrases, but otherwise make it up.

Dreams are like really fuzzy memories. So when we try to recall them, we have to add a lot. When a person talks about a dream they had, they're probably saying more about their mental state as they're recalling the dream than during the dream.
And what's wrong with that? If European urban design/structure is working well why not replicate it?
They have a separate 12V battery that I imagine runs things like the handbrake, steering lock etc. Just like any other modern car. Probably some electrical failure in the 12V system.
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indeed - I would have thought a separate battery to run the cabin and safety features would be a good idea. I would only have to be 1/100th the size of the motor batteries.
Most electronic handbrakes just push out a cam against the rotor. Most designs have a way to back the cam out with a wrench or tool.

However sometimes access can be ridiculous I believe BMW's release requires you digging around in the rear seating area for a socket to put a allen-key like shaft into to ultimately back it out. Some vehicles you'd have to jack up a corner to ultimately back it out.

It can vary widely from manufacturer to manufacturer, so it's unlikely something a recovery service would know off-hand since in general a "stuck" parking brake (or automatic transmission parking pawl) is an edge case situation for them.
Ha! Author here. I actually posted it here right after I published it earlier this week. I thought it was more Hacker News material than Reddit material. But no one saw it at the time. Guess it didn't get the good numbers from the algorithm.

For the record: none of the other repostings of it were from me.
A few pages? You barely need a single sentence. "Build lasting habits by recognizing how triggers lead to action."
That is an unhelpful quote. Yes, some cars have electronic parking brakes. It is quite common on new cars today. But they typically require being affirmatively commanded to change between their applied and unapplied states. Nothing about the general existence of electronic parking brakes explains why this particular vehicle would have one engaged mid-turn.
Safety-wise it's better option.

Breaking vs just rolling without working brakes.

And I really do not like trend of making brakes drive-by-wire instead of mechanical just to (presumably) save few pennies...
Probably they should have reached out to smart people from somewhere available who could come up with some sort of booking systems like all shared loundry services of residential houses do in Sweden since perhaps the 70's and before.

https://www.thenewbieguide.se/laundry-in-sweden/

You do not need pocket device for such. Do you really say that in the university - supposedly filled with loads of smart people - no-one was able to come up with a solution for this trivial problem before Steve Jobs introduced the smartphone? Wow!
I want to use the silence unknown callers feature but in the long tail I’ve received some calls from unknown numbers that I definitely needed. For example, I once called a call from a bank fraud department informing me that someone had been taking out credit cards in my name.
If you call things “declarative” or “imperative” on syntactic grounds, which would you call Ansible (like Docker, a devops tool, famously using pure YAML but in many cases for basically running a bunch of scripts)?

It’s just not a reasonable way of making the distinction; claiming X is “imperative” because you are using it in imperative ways is logically flawed, it is not a statement of truth about X.

Dockerfile is fundamentally declarative, as you note (that’s just how Docker works: every line describes a layer), and it has not even enough features to make it imperative (control flow? goto?).
I believe the author is talking more about movement within the solar system than about how to get to orbit. Skyhooks are amazing though.

For example, if you were on a station attached to
2019 BE5[0], that asteroid rotates once every 15 seconds. With a 60km tether, slowly unwound out from the asteroid, you'd be moving at something like 12km/s. (60km * 3.14 / 15s). All you'd need to do is wait until the plane of the orbit lines up with the destination to have in mind and release the asteroid on the end of the tether.
Failed Hardware Features: Tech That Didn’t Inspire Big Trends
Strongly disagree. I think this is a great thread for people looking for opportunities to volunteer for non-profits. There are awesome mutually beneficial career opportunities
Right! : )

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It's big enough - I've put my backpack filled with a weeks clothes for BOTH my husband and I plus my laptop under the seat in front of me.
Indifferent to risk, or seeking of risk, or having any other computable utility function on any other measurable that we’d have to accept as equally valid if we want to convince any non-economist that we aren’t just using utility as a weasely word for money :)

That’s not even snark, humans preferring both of higher risk and lower payoff is a canonical psycho-economic result. And even the question of whether the concept of a rational utility maximizer is well-founded is the exact subject of this very fine article!