skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the tire wear varies with the square of the weight we are comparing:

100x(car weight + grocery weight)^2
Vs
(Truck weight + 100x grocery weight)^2

I couldn't find an empty weight for a box truck that could carry that much but assuming 10klbs total, and that grocery weight is negligible to the car, it looks like thebtruck is slightly better. It doesn't seem like a clear win.
> the forced paid subscriptions thing was confirmed by elon to be fake news

This would be the same guy who claimed it _in the first place_? I mean, I’m not sure how much comfort one should take from that.
We AB tested 16-44.1 and 24-96 versions of some really good classical recordings recently - you need good listening equipment (ears and electronic) but undoubtedly the dynamic range and top end (particularly) sounded better. It really depends on the listener, the source, and the equipment.

A few years ago I did lots of AB testing with some Sony xm1000w3s (Sony LDAC) and Tidal Hifi with some 24bit masters and it was an incredible experience that changed my mind in the whole "640K.. 16bit is enough" argument.
Routers!

What about your Synology NASs and your DJI drones and every other network connected device that can theoretically answer a magic packet?

Chills…
A bank I use rewrote all their sites, bigger fonts, much slower and blocks firefox, and it's not just user-agent.

There are a few government website where I live that block Firefox, although those are just checking the user-agent so easy to work around.

And yes I complain all the time about it.
Very important topic, but this is a bad article whose authors have their heads too far into cryptocurrency which IMHO is a mostly failed approach to decentralization.

The decentralized AI that is working is just sharing models. Splitting the inference across the net for cooperative execution is possible.

The thing that really needs to be solved is distributed training. We need to be able to train base models in a manner more like Folding@Home so we’re not captive to organizations with big expensive GPU farms to make any innovation.
I have literally never seen actual evidence of harm from ad tracking by Google or Meta, even though I've asked dozens of times on HN. Please dont say Cambridge Analytica, which is so meaningless it hurts.
> Too many of them are bigger than they need to be. But that also goes for new ICE vehicle models.

That's a very American centric claim. The gap between ICE and EV weight is relatively much higher in many other places where smaller cars are more popular.
The gamma knife is a similar idea, but using gamma radiation focusing: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/brain-stereotact...

Edit: similar idea
Yeah the problem is there is no single investment that will happily grow 40% a year and reward you for doing nothing. At that rate of risk, expect any of a number of things to happen before Year 42:

- You get scammed/cheated

- Company goes bankrupt

- Fund goes bankrupt/fails

- The currency one invested in fails to keep up

- You need the money (life isn't perfect, and a few million
dollars at year 20 can solve a lot of problems)

- You stop being greedy and are happy with the cumulative returns
I'm not responding to the challenge to my points. I'm responding primarily to the infantilizing tone explaining how science works, and especially triggering is how inaccurate it is yet delivered with such confidence. It often feels like commenters want to cosplay intelligence and see how far they can get -- in other words, there's a lot of bullshitters on this website.

If others cannot judge an argument on its merits, that is not really something I can control. I understand your point about rhetoric re: persuasion I'm just resistant to playing civility games in what should be a facts-based discussion.

I acknowledge I am impatient with those who refuse to offer good faith responses. In my opinion such good faith would mean engaging with the facts of the matter not running through a phil.sci. 101 lecture, however sincerely.

Thanks for your engagement. Your point about third parties is a good one, one I keep forgetting and re-learning.
> Case in point: can you copy text on your phone, and paste in your computer (and vice versa), seamlessly as if it were the same device, without any configuration, hacks or programs needed?

Circumstantially, yes. I am a KDE user though, on GNOME you do have to install a little app for it.
As others have pointed out why single out linux? Why not BSD? And second which linux? 4.14? 5.10? 6.2? Can they release it for linux 2.7 and call it a day afterwards? Supporting linux requires effort and money. How would you go about defining "reasonable effort" at supporting linux. If it breaks every month? every year? Enforcing this simply would turn out to become a nightmare. I think a better approach would look like what jandrese said in this thread. Force them to publish the specs so other companies or individuals can write open source drivers for the hardware.
What if your (read) DB is just a projection?
It's more than just the chain length.
The most common synthetic rubbers are styrene-butadiene copolymers. Natural rubber is polyisoprene. While it is true that shorter chain synthetic polyisoprene is available, it is a much smaller part of the market than styrene-butadiene.
Facebook never evaporated… but it did become _irrelevant_. Nothing _happens on Facebook_, or at least no-one cares about what happens on Facebook.
Are you confused about what PII is?

Should I explain this too?
I genuinely don’t understand why this perspective is so compelling. CRE is a big deal, but I don’t think companies are so incentivized to optimize CRE value. They’re trying to succeed in their business.
That is… the opposite of what has happened. Russia is the one the spent 9 months throwing Russian troops into the Bakhmut meat grinder which had no strategic merit.

Russia is the one that has seen massive attrition on its artillery and is constantly complaining about Ukrainian counterbattery capabilities are far superior.

Ukraine has been very clear that these areas were held to fix and attrite Russian forces. And it worked. The Russian offense culminated with basically nothing achieved and is now on the ropes with Ukraine getting awfully close to gaining fire control on the last train lines leading west in Tokmak.

Russia is the one that is notoriously throwing its men at senseless counterattacks rather than trying to maintain its own defensive lines
Question: There's a case to made that personification of the non-human
is an equally egregious mirror of objectification of the human. If
dehumanisation leads to hate, cruelty and violence then ought it not
be a wicked or illegal act to take mere hardware and code and elevate
it to the status of a real human?
Until you change the underlying tables, or the api schema. At which point you don’t need to change the other.
This is a fantasy. In general, people don't want a shared vehicle. If they did, everyone would own a 5-year-old Toyota Camry, and not luxury pickup trucks, sports cars, Mercedes and BMWs, etc.

The idea that these people are just sheep blinded by marketing is ludicrous. You might spend $5 on a beer instead of $4 because of marketing. You buy a $60,000 new vehicle over a $15,000 used one because it's a good product that you actually want.
Rephrasing with a euphemism still doesn't make it appropriate to inflict upon children, who are really far too young (some only 12 years old) to consent, such serious surgical interventions that cause them lifelong damage.
I mean, doing that was arguably one factor in Facebook fading into cultural irrelevance some years ago, yes.
With those preconditons, it doesn't even work on Apple devices.
Some people want to develop open source software in a professional manner. Having to support the output of a single toolchain is the definition of keeping things simple.
Porn star insures something for $1M (2012)
Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer
My bad, I meant UTF-8. My brain had a relapse to 1988.

And, thank you!
Bill Ackman Tweets Many Big Ideas. His Biggest Might Be Combining with Twitter
https://archive.ph/RXw1T
A question for the engineer.

You should at least know what the journey is, even if you haven't made it to the end.
> It's very interesting though isn't it! These people were obviously skilled enough to make a clean environment for pickle to... pickle, but were seen as untouchable.

There are often whole systems of technicalities created to rationalize these contradictions.

Here's an even more striking example (priests using clay from the ground of the house of a prostitute to make an icon for a religious festival):

https://www.india.com/viral/why-is-the-soil-from-outside-a-p...

There are all kinds of these scenarios that happen when theoretical social hierarchy comes into practical contact with the lived reality of people in interdependent communities.
I mean, sure, the person you replied to wouldn’t but if this was your primary method of charging your device, as the original comment suggested, then you would need to crank the whole 5000mAh. Multiple times, since I assume you’ll want your phone charged more than twice.
Because Microsoft has a difficult relationship with information security and developing internal corporate procedures that are more conducive to growth and safety than to pleasing interpersonal and interdepartment disputes.
KDEConnect lets you sync your phone keyboard, even with Windows. And Apple could let you sync your clipboard to non-iOS devices too, they just block arbitrary features unless you buy into their entire ecosystem.
Hahah, damn that's hilarious. I wonder if they even realized or is this another https://penisland.net/
You can write a database in Go, sure, but if you want to compete at the very top end, you need all the control. Go is nice in the way that Go is nice (if you even agree with that statement) precisely because it doesn't have that control. Unless it is a terminal goal for a database to be in Go simply to be in Go (BoltDB seems to fit into this category) or you don't care to compete at the very top end, I think it's a mistake to even start in Go.

To be honest, most of the "we started in Go and switched to Rust" stories read to me as "you should have always known that you should have started in Rust" (or C++ or something, though I'd choose Rust out of the viable set of languages here too). It's IMHO always been obvious that Go was not really viable, I mean, sure, you can get farther than you could with starting with Python, but, it's not something Go was even trying to solve.
50 years after the civil war, Ireland would not particularly keen to start up the random violence again.

I suspect everyone assumed normality would resume "tomorrow", for a lot of tomorrows. Which is the other reason you can't just start up the lynchings, this isn't America and you'll have to live with these people and their families on a comparatively small island.
I’m still _kind_ of amazed that no-one managed to talk him out of that; it’s just so clearly a terrible idea. And it’s not a _new_ terrible idea; dating/hookup sites/apps have been wrestling with it for about 25 years now. Pay-for-attention is really hard to square with a well-running social site.
What Discord servers and subreddits would that be?
the right term is ఊరగాయ or ఆవకాయ.
Says the person that wants to visualize the “end of the primate line”

Please keep this rhetoric localized to Stormfront or wherever you generally hang out online.
I'm afraid you broke the site guidelines by using the submission title to editorialize. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

If you want to say what you think is important about a page, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... Alternatively, you could have made a text post to communicate what you think is important about the issue, and then your title would have been fine.

What's not ok on HN is to use the title field as a way to comment on an issue, because then the submitter gets a privileged position relative to other commenters. Since the title is by far the largest influence on a thread, we want to avoid that. Being the submitter of a page shouldn't confer any extra special power over the discussion.
I think your understanding is fine. A friend of my wife once came up with the novel idea of renting books out of big buildins that are loaded with books. Brain farts happen to all of us
If you want to ban cars from New York City, that's fine with me. Do you realize that NYC makes up 0.008% of the land area in the United States?
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Just let’s please not require a government-approved mileage tracking device to make sure that each vehicle is charged it’s fair share. That’s one really nice property of gas taxes they will be hard to replace without going full dystopia, and there is a significant contingent that doesn’t give a shit about the privacy and security implications.
I last applied this approach a few years ago at an IIOT startup, where we had billions of rows of sensor data. We needed it all in one place, but with a fairly varied set of users, like an application team showing customers various slices of their data and a data science team applying all kinds of analytics to the data.

When I showed up we had a single Postgres database with a half-dozen different clients. One managed the migrations in addition to doing real work, and the others were a mix of "direct" users and API layers used elsewhere. Tons of overlap, tons of repeated logic, tons of inconsistency.

I used this approach to first stem the plague of direct DB access, and later to consolidate our APIs. It worked pretty well, and the folks I left it to seemed to appreciate my approach.

We did have a lot of debates about what is or isn't "business logic", what belongs in this DB or not. We tried to keep it pretty light; our raw data was many independent tables, and our API schema had functions for insertions and views to make that data usable in ways that didn't feel very application-specific.

I was pushing to replace our handwritten API service(s) with something like Hasura, though that didnt happen before I left. I think that's where this approach gets more powerful: manage your data with your database, get a web API for free. Then your data store is encapsulated behind a singular service with a well-defined API.

You're right that it requires some serious attention to the DB. We wrote all migrations in PL/pgSQL (managed with sqitch), giving us a level of control that is hard to get from a language-specific migration framework. That required a lot of upskilling, but I think it was worth it for us.
Yeah, much of the big family thing is a numbers game. You get 7 kids to be sure to have 2-3 surviving ones.
Rust is not hype.
This is so true. Another example is the many packaging-free/plastic-free shops cropping up in cities. I can buy a plastic packet of oats for £0.80 for 1kg, or I can buy without a packet at one of those shops for £5/kg. Same for rice. Same for flour. etc.

No one is going to have an impact on the environment charging >5x for products because no one in their right mind will switch, especially for undifferentiated commodities like food basics. These shops are only appealing to people with too much money and too little sense.

There are a few cases where products actually do need to be priced higher to price in all the externalities that aren't being accounted for at the moment, but even in those cases I believe that meeting consumers where they're at right now, providing value and changing behaviour, and then advocating for change when you have market share, is likely to be a much better approach in the long run.
> […] if you don't understand that a DKIM-signed message proves the mailhost was authorized, and at least some of the headers could easily prove who sent the message.

I’d love to hear more about this. If I send an email from the Gmail UI, at a high level, how does DKIM ensure that Google can’t deliver the message with a different FROM header?

And, to clarify: your answer can’t involve trust/reputation because, well, both you and the person you quoted chose to use the word “prove”. Something being inadvisable and unlikely (Google forging emails) does not prove the opposite thereof.
Earliest source I've found for this quote is a 2009 HN discussion. (And indeed, it seems like a very internet-ish kind of quote.)

But yeah, sounds about right.
The “social solutions” are just policy solutions, and people on HN don’t like the idea of regulation, so they act like “social solutions are impossible”, when the truth is just that “social solutions are impossible without policies I find distasteful”.
MITM can't prevent leakage for a determined spy or insider trader. I worked at a bank, they blocked FB etc with a blacklist, but it was very easy to circumvent. Whitelist might work, but it would create too much management headache.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
U2 at the New Las Vegas Sphere
WhatsApp Business API Webhook Integration with Data API
Well, whatever it means, and as far as one can extrapolate, it's nice to know that death itself is not traumatic or painful.
Even at steady state cruising the the tires are flexing and stretching with each revolution. Tires are round but a driveway is flat. If you look at the contact patch of the tire it flattens a bit to confirm to the driveway's shape. Now visualize with each revolution that flatten part of the tire is cycling around the wheel.

At a microscopic level there's a lot edges in the road surface that we don't fully appreciate which also contributes to tire wear.
http://insideracingtechnology.com/tirebkexerpt1.htm
Interesting how rebuilding the support from the ground up allowed them to find a bug in the existing implementation. It really speaks to the quality of Asahi's work, imo.
The car shaming mindset makes sense if you live somewhere like Japan where transit is clean and fast, and you don't have problematic people who assault other riders and do drugs. As a family man living in a large American west coast city, there is no way I would ever give up my car lifestyle.
It should be exposure time or do you mean something else with "exposure rate"
About half of England (the bit closest to London) is in a good state, Wales not so much, likewise much of The North.

How much of the blame you assign to the Tories, to Brexit, to Covid, and to the global economic repercussions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is up for debate; but the quality of life was very noticeably worse when I last visited friends and family back on the island, compared to my final pre-lockdown trip.

However, none of that is quite as substantial as the colossal loss of relative power that came from the pyrrhic victories of the two World Wars that cost it control of the largest empire the world had ever seen, and left it losing a series of disputes over fishing rights to a country whose primary military forces are its coast guard.
That’s not vaccination that’s inoculation which is how they originally prevented smallpox before they developed an actual vaccine
Curious which is worse for our health and environment, tire dust or brake dust?
Because a page looking off for a subset of people is worse for the brand then the page not working for them at all. On the other hand, making the page work for everyone (including lynx users?) is simply uneconomical - and when the business tries to optimize for it, you get Java Applets and Flash.
I think there are enough commonalities to say useful things about American English. We all spell it "color" instead of "colour" to take a widely known example.
No, the typical hackernews comment is yours. Take a very complicated issue, present your favored simple solution without evidence, then say "period" as if that somehow settles the issue.
> The LLM probably thinks of the image generator as a tool it uses

I don’t think it’s correct to describe the LLM as “thinking” in this instance, and not even for the normal philosophical objections, but just because I suspect it is a bad heuristic for designing these kinds of prompts.
The Mitsubishi Mirage is available in the US and comes in at just ~2100lbs, but it really ends up just serving the purpose of showing how huge of a gap there is in the American market. The fact that Mitsubishi can make a 4-door, 40mpg, 2100lbs car that passes US regs on a shoestring sale price shows that other mfgs could but just don't have the incentive to. You have the cancelled Chevy Spark at 2246lbs, the 2-seater Miata at 2,341lbs, and then the next lightest is a Versa with +500lbs on the Mirage.
The USA is a lot more spread out than Europe. In places where it isn't (NYC, Chicago) you can get around without a car pretty well.

Guess what, in small towns in Europe and in rural areas, most people have cars too, and they drive to get their groceries.
It's stretch to call what any of them have a "language".
Former DBA here turned Python dev (flask mostly) and now Data Engineer: 1 million percent this:

“ 1. rollbacks are bullshit, stop pretending they aren't. They work fine for easy changes, but you can't rollback the hard ones (like deleting a field), and you're better off getting comfortable with forward-only migrations”

Think of database migrations like you would versioning an API, deprecate and then drop old columns only after declaring a breaking change and giving consumers time.

Or take the Google approach where the protobufs contain all the fields from the start of time or something along those lines so that old applications can still work and the service devs can choose to migrate as needed.

But yeah re: point 1 databases are best thought of like the arrow of time, just evolve forward not backwards and you’ll be fine and not lose data or worse.
> (People won't like the crime that comes with it).

Does crime come with it? I certainly wouldn't expect that.
Cities like LA, SF pay more than $2000 every month for each tent space and spend almost a billion dollar a year on emergency responses.
Don’t think $5 tent is gonna change anything.
Akihiko Kondo, married to the virtual singer of his dreams
> Musk is driving Twitter to the ground intentionally

I think Hanlon’s Razor applies here. You don’t need to read a conspiracy into it; everything is explicable by leadership which is not only incompetent, but too incompetent to be told it’s incompetent and take advice from competent people.
Which I think is 100% ok for art or tech school or project. They are not supposed to be experts in social help, sociology or whatever. They kinda lack training for that. The are supposed to show practical skills and come up with an idea of a project that would demonstrate them.
Who says SME's/experts should always be listened to? For that matter, a damn representative better damn well listen to their constituents first.
What does the words of an idiot like Abbas have to do with systematic ethnic cleansing by Jewish paramilitary/terrorist groups like Haganah/Lehi/Irgun in the 1930s and 1940s? Was Abbas the reason they murdered villagers to scare away the population? Was Abbas the reason they assassinated prominent Palestinian Jews who opposed the foundation of Israel on Palestinian lands? Was Abbas the reason they bombed hotels and engaged in terrorism?