skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. When they changed the timing of my usual intersection it caught me by surprise (and just entering the intersection on when it turned red). Thankfully no one on the cross street was trigger happy, but I can anecdotally attest that I was accustomed to a much longer yellow and behaved accordingly.

I do believe that's why most accidents occur close to home, we develop expectations and operate on them, blindsided when conditions change without warning.

But... to play devil's advocate, it's hard to develop expectations from a dynamic system, as it's operation is constantly changing/adapting to conditions.
I don't like the idea of Squarespace becoming a registrar, so I moved my domains over to Porkbun at the suggestion of the friend and have been quite pleased with them.
If it's causing problems it may actually work more for the party profiting than the rest. "It just works" is lazy...
Guess they'll be #lookingforwork
Is this an AI-generated comment? Nothing about the article mentions herbicide
Was this posted in response to

Ask HN: Why are there no open source NVMe-native key value stores in 2023? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897921
That's also where the `git config` command gets/sets things by default when you don't pass --global.
I think a lot of people will love being able to have deep and personal conversations at all
true, it is called routing. But to be fair most mobile apps also have routing, usually with semantics similar, but still different, from web-based routing. The reason mobiles apps have it is for deeplinking.

Old school desktop applications didn't really have deep linking, even today it is quite uncommon (with the exception to trigger some action in the app like opening a file as opposed to navigation)
I don't think it's comparable. Cybernetic parts replace biological parts wholesale. The Major is mostly cyborg. The only biological part left is parts of her brain and brain stem.

Unless adderall and vyvanse has some unknown side effect that damages the brain, when you stop taking you just return to your baseline self.
Oh I only wanted to add more context to show how it’s not really comparable to Canada’s proposition. I think your point is sound, should’ve explicitly stated that.
I spent much of my youth playing on gravel, really builds character quickly. Wood chips are another good option, builds good callouses.
I was not aware of this story, but found that there is a Wikipedia page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...

I don't think it's quite as clear as you put it, and Bayer was by no means the worst offender in this regard. Other related scandals are linked to at the bottom of the Wikipedia page, and the Canadian Red Cross (for example) seems to have behaved even more negligently.
Likewise, the weaponization of any particular thing is more closely related to the adversarial nature of a relationship instead of the essence of the thing which is weaponized.
Beginner question: Why would someone use BSD over Linux?
> the USA considered the autopilot to be munitions.

I could be wrong but it might be related to the GPS. Most off the shelf GPS units have a height and speed limit to stop them being used in ballistic missiles.
530K people's info feared stolen from cloud PC gaming biz Shadow
I see this line repeated year after year, but is there any truth to it? Assuming at Twitter someone post the news at T+1 second as they happen, because you can't report news before they actually happened (unless your newspaper is called Tomorrow). The question then - are "old" newspapers really reporting major news with 24 hour delay (online)? Does ANY newspaper work with such delay?

I honestly don't remember a single case when something big happens in the world today, I go to the "old" news site the same day and that event is not reported.

Maybe some obscure regional politic events are reported with delay (even that is debatable), but why would you want some urgent news about obscure regional stuff? And how would a person understand that it is a real event and not a fake posted on twitter for some outrage?
Right. Farmers and other end users don't give a crap whether it's "profitable for Monsanto" or not.
I mostly disagree with Doctorow's opinions on how platforms die, and I don't really hate Elon as much as I could. I do think Twitter is bound to fall off if it hasn't already, though. The value it provides is too easily copied by others in my opinion, and the actual incentive to participate in it is dwindling. I've never made a Twitter account, and today it has never looked less appealing from the outside-in. Even if the premium features were free!

I can believe that certain people are bought-in on Twitter for the long-haul. But social networks are dynamic, and after a while we're going to see the effects of a worse client, less dependable web app and weaker hosting architecture. Even if Elon isn't a destructive force internally (ha ha), the changes have already soured it for a lot of people. Twitter's existence is based on a delicate precipice of advertising and free content. You can't change the deal and expect everyone to be on board going forward.

Imagine if Hacker News made the same changes, do you think it's audience would stick around? I certainly wouldn't. Maybe I'm wrong though, I don't really see the inside story.
If you look at these CDC pages:

https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/basics/cost.htm

You'll notice one key thing is missing: Side by side comparison with communities that don't have fluoride in their water. That could be other countries. Or better, rural US communities that for the most part use well water. Those controls exist.

Note: Better diet also has an impact on oral health, and diet over the last 75 years has also improved.

I'm not saying not including that comparison is wrong, but as "the science" goes, it does feel odd that something so obvious is not included.
You're right, it's always been awful, but it's actually gotten worse which is something I did not think was possible (Facebook quality 'news' feed, constant awful captchas and popups to name a few).

I only look at it once every couple of months to check up on old colleagues. If I am looking for a job I am forced to use it more often, but mostly just the messaging part. The feed is something I think most people can safely ignore.
No. Like another poster posted, it's more like github. It's hard to overstate the sharing of information, code and documents that happens on twitter.

Side note: it's a very strange thing to read a comment like this from someone who puts their multiple websites in their profile not unlike a resume.
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France has the shittiest laws concerning freedom of communications. To run an open WiFi you need a licence from the comms regulator.

The good thing about it is that it's an ungovernable nation and they havd mass protests and strikes when the government does something unpopular.
A while back someone, replying to one of my comments, mentioned affordances in C#. He simply meant procedure or function, but chose to use a fancier sanding, more abstract word which really confused me. There is too much misuse of pompous language happening where simpler, plainer descriptions work better (yes, language is also a user interface of sorts).
> concerning levels of glyphosate

Go on.
A doorknob tells you the door will open, but doesn't tell you which way it will open, so you have to add something (a signifier) to the door if you want that.

Whereas a pushbar both tells you the door will open and how to do it and it's all tied together without a sign.
In Czech Republic as self-employed ("živnostník") your effective tax+insurance rate for income up to 2M CZK (~ 80k EUR) is never more than 15%. I have SW contractor friends paying around 8-12% - including health and social insurance. No need to have any accountant at all for income under 2M CZK, you just keep your invoices and sum your income at the end of a year, the tax return form is online and the sum of income is your only input.
Kind of ironic of them to mention "improved transparency" while writing in the most possible opaque way. Just say it as it is.
I've been slowly building my own rendering and training on a non cuda library (trying with vulkan/spirv) I'm curious how many cameras they used here though.
Indeed. Compare with say paraquat where one sip will kill you with no cure.

I use Roundup very carefully to manage bindweed and Bermuda grass. It's the only method practical for home scale and timeline.

It should not be used indiscriminately at industrial scale, where cultural practices are more appropriate and important.
I think whether or not a population in general supports gay marriage has no bearing on the morality of ethnically cleansing them. Civilians being cut off from food, water, fuel, and electricity is not defensible. And trying to turn it into this transactional gotcha is really gross, coming from a queer person.
But only those likely to need them receive them. UBI goes to everyone, me, you, and bill gates. And none of us are starving for food.
>> Within the Culture itself, the Minds are of one mind about how to act.

> That's _certainly_ not the case in Excession (I'm assuming that's the one you haven't read?)

I have read that one. I recall all the depicted disagreements were about foreign policy. They're all of one mind about maintaining the "liberal anarchy" the quote referred to.
You lose enough niche hobbyist networks and suddenly the place starts to seem awful empty...

Or at least I'd like to think so. Realistically, I don't care either way. Even if Mastodon empties out completely I'm not going back.
What's wrong with HN as it is?
Yeah, the linked job board is only for YC. The monthly threads are generic, though. And decently active.
I use it to kill the driveway weeds, works like a charm.
Curious about the word 'true' there, are you asking about the Planck Epoch of the big bang?
5 years ago the guy at the local garden store use to tell me this stuff was so safe you could drink it.

I had my doubts
> That's provably false.

Then why did Epic sell this veritable cashcow?
> artificial intelligence and cameras to be able to say "there's no cars come in the opposite direction, I'll turn on the left turn green light and let this car go."

You don’t need artificial intelligence or cameras to do that. Inductive loops can detect cars and bicycles and their velocity just fine and control nearby traffic lights, and have been doing that for decades.

I would think such local control is less prone to failures, too.

Interview with a traffic engineer (IMO one that’s a bit too focused on throughput): https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/traffic-lights...

Their systems aren’t completely local, given “every bus is tagged and the computer knows all the time-tables of every line. The system knows exactly when which bus needs to arrive at a certain intersection. The installation checks whether a bus is too early, on time, or running late and sets the lights accordingly”
IMO, that's a job for the type system. But if you can only have one option, clearly an error is the best one.

Anyway, none of those are anything nearly as damaging as C's UB. All of them are reasonable, on the literal sense that you can reason about them, anticipate what your program may do, and defend against the problem (or shrug it off and claim "it doesn't matter here"). You can do neither with by the spec C.
Thank you. My neighbor planted bamboo! Twice a year I have to dig the frickn roots/shoots out of my yard.
Then we can redesign welfare benefits to fix this. That's not an argument for UBI. Most canadians or americans do not need UBI to put food on the table, so most UBI spend will be wasted if basic food security is the goal.
Is a biplane the worst or best of both worlds?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2
Swiss German[1] is a related example for this. Even though Swiss German varieties are mostly unintelligible with Standard German (Hochdeutsch/Standard High German), German writing in Switzerland is mostly done with a variety of Standard German[2]. One of the main causes being, different varieties of Swiss German are so different that it would be difficult choosing a "standard" Swiss German orthography, so a very far variety closer to Standard German is used instead of Swiss German. There are other reasons for this, but this is one of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Standard_German
Great tip!

But how could I also select the config for an initial clone of a repo based on the repository address?
What did I accept as truth? I said it was unsubstantiated. As in, no evidence for it. The context of the thread is that some people are saying that the broken clock was right a couple of times, and I was pointing to times when it was wrong. And yeah, Biden is pretty unpopular too -- he's doing worse than Bush II.
"Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about...?") denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation."

Critical question or argument: Tech giants are hijacking the internet

Counter-question or counter-accusations: 1. Why doesn't DW have a link to a fediverse. 2. DW does not have an RSS feed. 3. The press is complicit in hijacking the internet.

The critical question or argument is neither answered or discussed.
The recruiter spam and self promoting content from people who talk like they got 3 mortgages and 4 ex-spouses or ... -the opposite- absolute silence and disdain of a crowd that never posts these thoughts under their real name (and rant on HN or twitter instead speaking their truth on LinkedIn) has always been deafening.

In the age of Musk's twitter it is somewhat peculiar that LinkedIn ended up as the last social media platform where interesting posts can be discovered provided you don't "blind-follow" and follow the right people. None of this will work for those who expect it to work as some kind of magic garden where recruiters will present only what is relevant to you. That LinkedIn though never existed in the first place.
Hard to believe the original Gaussian Splatting paper is still less than three months old, given the explosion of new techniques in recent weeks. It's wild to see the state of the art in environment and object capture suddenly advancing this quickly – beyond the obvious applications like real estate, I wonder what else GS will end up transforming.
Terraform Associate is $70 and a good cert for backend engineering.
Windows 10's latest update issue isn't a bug but a feature to test your patience
Growth that never materialized?!?

https://companiesmarketcap.com/microsoft/revenue/

They're all bullshit factories. They grew like crazy and are still growing but depressing the tech job market is more important. Why have $1 million in profit per employee when you could have $1.05 million, lives be damned?
Great article and interview with a great artist.
WebSummit derailed by founder's public fight with those supporting Israel
From a direction and production values point of view though, the 1995 movie is head and shoulders above the TV series. If I could only watch one, I would choose the 1995 movie hands down.
Was there a new red light camera set up at the intersection recently? The city-contracted companies in charge of the cameras alter the yellow light duration to increase ticket revenue supposedly
Thanks for your kind words. I'm kinda going through it today, and it helps to have people to lift you up.

I hope you have a great day.
We can just buffer manually and wait. It's an unsolvable problem without DRM, and even then...
Yes, however, if your goal is to give your money to the people you want to give it to, there isn't a better way.
Eatonphil posted a link to this paper https://web.archive.org/web/20230624195551/https://www.vldb.... a couple hours after this post (zero comments [0])

> NVMe SSDs based on flash are cheap and offer high throughput.
Combining several of these devices into a single server enables
10 million I/O operations per second or more. Our experiments
show that existing out-of-memory database systems and storage
engines achieve only a fraction of this performance. In this work,
we demonstrate that it is possible to close the performance gap
between hardware and software through an I/O optimized storage
engine design. In a heavy out-of-memory setting, where the dataset
is 10 times larger than main memory, our system can achieve more
than 1 million TPC-C transactions per second.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899886
Probably half of them are buying the Tractor Supply knock-off brand, anyway.
You can also just use boiling water. Killing above ground vegetative structures is easy.

The problem for most people are perennial weeds with deep storage structures. It's very hard to kill those without a metabolic poison (or lots of labor over long times)
Out of curiosity: do you know how banks do their backends were the money is stored?

Like what are the security measures?
Excel Hell II: If the sickness can't be fixed, it must be contained
Every comment you make just shows how disconnected from reality you are.

> Top 25% among agriculture workers in Kansas?

Top 25 across all us workers

> The newgrad earning those 100k will have to live sonewhere in Northern California, where rent alone will claw 25k back for a crappy apartment

Yes, I know. I lived as a new grad making 75k in a major city (Los Angeles, not bay area though). Rent is expensive and will likely take 1/3 of your paycheck or more. It's been like that for years though and that's not something that's changed recently. It also doesn't negate the fact that our industry still pays far better than most.

> food expenses another 25k

The fuck are you eating? If you're spending 2k a month on food you don't get to complain about money. I hate cooking and love good food and regularly spend $1500 a month on dining, but I'm well aware that if I needed to I could drop that by $1000. Spending $2k a month on food is choice you're making.

> save for a 200k downpayment and 7.5k/month (is this the current rate?) mortgage payment.

Who is saving 200k for a down payment? The days of 20% down are long gone and pretty much everyone gets PMI. Especially for your first home you can cut that in half.

Also, why are you as a new grad buying a million dollar home? Where did you get this idea that a new grad's salary should allow you to purchase a long term home in a major city without making some financial trade offs? That has never been the case. Your expectations are completely disconnected from reality and you're comparing your situation to a reality that never existed.

You can either wait until you're further along in your career and your salary is higher to buy, buy something cheaper (don't say this isn't possible, I know for a fact it is in), or move to an area with a lower cost of living.
Holy crap did this topic take a nosedive. My point wasn't even to "dismiss" COVID conspiracies, just point out that I didn't really want them on my LinkedIn wall.

But fine.

> Then there was the vaccine effectiveness, which was claimed as 100% but actually was well below that. Same for their preventing transmission, which was nonsensical.

I think there's literally no one that claimed the vaccine was 100% effective; certainly no one with any kind of medical credential. I don't think there's ever been any vaccine in history that's been 100% effective, the numbers I heard when I got my vaccine was between 80-90% effective, and due to Bayes theorem hijinks that means the actual likelihood of being immune is well below that. This was never a cover-up, the scientists were pretty up-front about this.

> Let's start with Wuhan being a likely origin point. This one gets bonus points, because it wasn't just a "conspiracy theory" but also "racist". All based on a Lancet paper that any smart reader could tell was bunk, and which turned out to be totally soaked with conflicts of interest.

I don't recall anyone saying it was racist for saying Wuhan was an origin point. What people called problematic was people trying to label it as "kung flu" or "Wuhan Flu".

> Then there was the "conspiracy theory" that natural immunity is superior to vaccine immunity; again, turned out to be true.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I don't think this was ever disputed. "Natural" immunity may indeed give you stronger immunity to COVID, but it has one major disadvantage: you have to catch COVID to get it, which is potentially lethal, and even if it wasn't "lethal", can have long-term side effects that we're still unsure about, not to mention that while you have COVID you're substantially more infectious than when you're not. Any reduction on infectiousness is a potential win.
This is an excellent blog post and the conclusion makes me feel sad. Because there are so many apps that I feel that way about. Where I just wish there was a version that was crap free. The amount of work that went into this is awe inspiring.

I launched a much simpler iOS app, and eventually got up to around 1000 DAU organically, but ultimately closed it down because I had 1 IAP to remove ads for like $1.99 or $2.99. I was making maybe $70 a month or something, and dealing with bug reports. SwiftUI was not mature enough yet to use, so I was still using UIKit and I would constantly run into really hard to fix edge cases.

The thing that made me throw in the towel was when Google claimed I was clicking my own ads and stopped serving them, effectively cutting off all revenue. It made me realize I'd worked so hard to build this thing, and it was all at the whims of these tech giants. Apple gets a 30% cut (this was before they dropped it to 15% if you are doing under x amount per year "because COVID") of every IAP, I make peanuts from ads and Google can turn those off for no reason with no way to appeal.

I also wasn't trying to make a bunch of money off the app, but I needed to justify spending my time and energy on it and I just couldn't.
Google could do something good and test the license. They have the resources to fight it out.
> …it was crack cocaine for narcissistic journalists and media personalities…

i think the mess of blue checks now shows that this issue absolutely isn’t limited to “journalists and media personalities”

social media as a whole has shown us first hand the lengths people will go to in order to seek impressions. it’s pretty common to see regular people lie, manipulate, twist, etc… to get those impressions.

in the past, We devised something called journalistic ethics which he expected those with a platform to put a good faith effort to follow those guidelines. this allowed us to make a distinction between signal and noise.

of course this wasn’t perfect, nothing ever is.

either way, we’ve seen pretty clearly now for quite a while that it isn’t some nefarious plot by former “narcissistic” journalists or whatever—people on every site do this, and people actually pay money for the checks on twitter now lol.
> Trust me, I've seen it, they know almost everything about you consumption/location/device wise.

I also know the truth of this, and it makes it all the more remarkable that they're so bad at targeting ads regardless.
My sense is, based on comments I've made and have been down voted, is that every _______ Industrial Complex has actors on HN. Some are likely employees who will naturally stick up for their industry and employer. However, there are plenty of hired-gun PR types who use the down vote to help influence the narrative.
That other thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37895861 in case anyone wants it
That is the way it was sold but peer review fraud is a major problem.