skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it not subject to the same certification requirements as the Cessna 172 which features similar specs but at 3x the price?

Maybe the question should be, what exactly justifies an airplane first flown in 1955 being 3x the price..?
I'd say that's lack of enforcement "of course". And I really couldn't care less about people now claiming "ohh but that's stupid" - it's your country, vote against those speed measures if you don't like them. Or just follow them, because your own mates and not some reptilians voted for them.
Unfounded concerns about photovoltaic toxicity and waste slowing decarbonization
Anyone else “see” a women holding her right hand to her face in the upper left blue cloud?
Who's to say that's a good idea? I beg to differ.
Why not target the ammunition instead? After all, guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.

And ammunition can't be printed and can't be made out of plastic. You can make it yourself yes but it's also possible to make a rudimentary gun from regular metal parts.
Yes, plenty of cameras on motorways. I set my cruise control on motorways and ignore them so maybe that's why it didn't spring to mind. But the article is about local roads and at least where I drive I never see any. I drive in Europe occasionally and I think they have more cameras on local roads but again, it's my experience and not stats. I don't drive around London so maybe my experience is not representative.

I have only seen a mobile speed camera van once in my life. Even that was signposted. If you want to avoid tickets and keep speeding it's super easy. I don't see people speeding. Again, I imagine it might be different around London but isn't everything different over there?
My view of the author changed somewhat when I reached the section where he had to ask ChatGPT how to read command line parameters.
I once counted the number of people between me and the CEO while in Nokia and I got to about 8 levels.

It gets worse if you need something from elsewhere in such organizations. Because now you are communicating up the tree to some busy executive with no attention span who then barks down another path in the tree down to (hopefully) the right person you should be talking to directly. Of course doing the sensible thing here (talk directly) pisses off everybody along that path who justify their existence by gatekeeping their precious resources (i.e. people) and jealously control flows of information.

I've been there and done that and have had to deal with such executives. Not fun to have your boss tell you that his boss got yelled at by their bosses because you had the nerve to send an email to a report of their report's report. This is a thing that happened to me. I was actually encouraged to continue to engage with "the other side" (as it was obviously the right thing to do) but please keep them (all of them) in the loop because it made them look like the bunch of useless muppets they were. In their defense, this was a tense time for them because there was this thing called the iphone that was an existential threat to the entire organization and people were very busy identifying the most dysfunctional bits in the org tree for firing as things were going rather poorly. I got caught up in one of the larger rounds eventually.
I don't see why you'd need to stop at "grammar". If you have something like intellisense that can tell you all legal completions (eg. list of member functions of the class of the last-referenced object) then you could use the same approach to limit sampling to function names that actually exist.
ChatGPT does not think and we’re anthropomorphizing it. Having said that, it does “sound” like they are thinking in en-US or as if they are machine-translating English boilerplates.

e.g. wouldn’t say “cake may be cutted by a knife” and instead would say “knives can cut cakes”, always. In languages which the first example would be more correct and the latter would be borderline incorrect, GPTs tend to prioritize the second pattern. And this isn’t ideal.
The real question is, will it pick up and emulate national archetypes in communication - I expect this model to be introverted and avoid talking to strangers
Refresher tests every 10 years would do more to solve the current driving standards problem in the UK. But it'd be political suicide for any Government that tried to introduce it.
We agree the word is an open window to flawed analogy extension.

On the other hand we do use analogy all the time, because it makes such a good fit with the way we infer our models of the world. The key point is to always remain sufficiently aware of the fact we use analogies to not fall in the trap where we push it too far.
I don’t buy that given I went to middle/high school in very backward-ass region, but we all managed to be friends. It’s something that needs to be cultivated from the early childhood. I agree that it is much harder to reinforce it later in life. Again, not a lot of data points, just a few looking at my other friends with no female friends. And the way my nephews are growing up and talking about girls in their pre-teen/teen years.
Marcus Aurelius wrote something like "Waste no time worrying about what it means to be a good man. Be one."
I tried Zebra Sarasa, Pentel Energel, Pilot G-2, Comix, Bic Gelocity, Bic Gelocity Quickdry(indeed they are very different inks), Muji, Sharpie S-Gel, Unibal Signo,... probably even more, but Energel indeed is in a league of its own. I would put Bic Gelocity Quickdry as close second. Which surprised me. Though their pen cases suck(rattling noise while writing, changing writing angle can mitigate this). Also not all tip sizes are equal. Pilot G-2 0.7mm writes like Pentel 0.5mm for example. You have to find the one you like the best and it mostly comes down to your preferred tip size. To me, 0.5mm or 0.35mm will always be scratchy, no matter how smooth the ink is. 1mm can be good but 0.7mm is just the sweet spot for me. Also not all black are equal. I think Zebra wins here. Uniball is the worst(can become almost gray).

YMMV.
Or just make it so the system-wide Toast cannot be overdrawn, it will always stay on top.
Show HN: PodSnacks (Summarize Podcasts with AI)
Someone has to pay for the creation of the content we all consume each day.

It's one thing for low-level stuff like funny cats and dogs because people do that for the fun of it, but even there someone still has to pay for moderation, hosting, traffic and platform development.

But "high class" stuff like Practical Engineering? That's running some serious budget, impossible to recoup without advertising or other forms of monetisation.
Exactly. Even as a committed atheist, you also have to accept that should you accept an axiom that there is an omnipotent and omniscient being, all and any experimental results become null and void.
ECE building at UIUC has a "nano fab lab" that can be viewed through orange tinted plate glass in the lobby.

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/composing-the-fut...
> Why do people pretend to do therapy to make money?

I think you probably answered your own question right there in the premise.
Politics basically.

When they were first being installed, drivers got all whiny and said it wasn't fair. They were being tricked and local authorities were using them to raise cash rather than enforce speed limits. Cameras were placed where speeding was very common, and councils were supposedly hiding them behind foliage to catch as many people as possible. If they were really about stopping speeding, shouldn't they be visible?

Basically, drivers didn't want to have to obey the speed limit all the time (God forbid!). But they could just about put up with being forced to obey the limit where it was particularly dangerous. So to mollify the car lobby a rule was introduced that the cameras had to be highly visible.
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Interesting fact: doodles were initially generated with... MidJourney (then processed by hand, to make them usable)
Already got 4 on order :D
But the Energel will be hard to beat. Even on practicality side of things. I think we have figured out the modern gel pens and they are just so good that i doubt fountain pens will be able to compete even on smoothness of writing. But i want to give it a try just for fun.
I read that as satire given the current state of the LLMs like chatGPT
But 20mph is not low enough for that to be a problem.

2 seconds at 20mph is ~18m.
I’m a native speaker and interpret “man” in this context as definitely male, and I’d be very surprised if any other native speakers disagreed with that.

I think it’s because “a good man” is quantified by the indefinite article “a”. Whereas “man” in a sentence without that qualification, e.g. “one small step for man” I would not interpret the same way. So, “a man” = a male human, “man” = maybe a male human, maybe any human.
Give you a woodworking example where it matters, see if it reaonates..

You’ve got a box 10" high, 15" wide, you want to decorate the side with a few raised panels with borders, whatever. You decide that they're going to be inset ¾" from the sides, middle one will be maybe 10% larger on each side, the double spacing of 1½" between seems too wide so you want to fudge to 1⅛".

So all told width-wise you have a 15" span of which ¾ + 1⅛ + 1⅛ + ¾ is margin, so that’s 1½ + 2¼ = 3¾, you'll have 11¼ left over. You want to divide it into 1 + 1.1 + 1 = 3.1 pieces.

So you locate axes A and B on your slide rule, these should be double log-log, going from 1 - 100, fine for multiplications. You will also see C and D, single log-log going from 1 to 10, higher in precision, also having them next to A and B allows you to perform square roots, use the hairline on the cursor to confirm that the square root of 16 is 4 for example. You also probably have a red series that is single log-log but backwards called CI, this can sometimes be helpful for divisions, and a maybe a K scale that is triple log-log allowing cubing or cube roots. Flip it over, you might have S for sine, t for tan, L for logarithm being a linear scale.

Anyway, move the hairline on the cursor over A=11.25 to “remember” it, then put B=3.1 under the hairline and look at the place where B=1, it's around 3.625. Of course we would rather have this in eighths or 16ths, but look at (no sliding!) B=8 to find this is nearly A=29 or 29/8 inches, that 3.625 is 3⅝". And looking at B=1.1 you get that 10% larger is just 4".

So you want a 4"×8½" panel in the middle, two 3⅝"×7¼" panels on the sides, you can again get that 7¼" by moving B=1.1 next to A=8.5 and then B=1 shows 7 and change, peek up at B = 4,8,16 to see if it's best written as a quarter or eighth or sixteenth fraction.

So they're great at

- multiplying or dividing numbers, especially if they are not round

- converting those decimals to eighths or sixteenths, calculators just give you digits usually, slide rules you can quickly see what is 1x this number, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, makes it a snap.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Great book to understand Human evolution
Apriori assuming that those things are somehow intrinsically valuable. These decisions (eg. language quotas) are made by armchair intellectuals with career/identity investments in the said language. Language evolution ignores them, but they can be annoying in the interim.
> Is there a grain of truth to the “lazy Indian” trope?

There is none. I worked at a big tech company where a big chunk of positions were moved to India, and the teams in India were constantly overworked and under pressure.
This is profound. What is possible serves as an anchor in our assessment of what actually took place.

This premature adjustment of judging criteria is probably not so useful, obfuscating the actual outcome. In this case, it would be easy for the author to be ashamed of such "wasted" effort, when the more appropriate reaction would be appreciation for the lessons learned. And the lessons learned on a project like this are immense.
Agree, the “see it, say it, sort it” tannoy announcements on the trains drives me mad - we are getting treated like children. I don’t buy in to “government control” conspiracies but clipboard warriors overly bothered about rules and everyone behaving just like them seem to have been able to push through a lot of this stuff.
how can I get a train from one side of the atlantic to the other?
It's not. There is no sanitizer on embedded platforms and it turns out, I only use C on embedded platforms, which for me means the UB sanitizer doesn't exist.
Hi Lionga, grandparent poster here and fellow German. Did exactly the same thing as you did. For the same reasons. With the same success. I congratulate us for leaving a, pardon me everyone else, highly corrupt state.
To be clear, you totally could exceed 60 on these roads, you would just be insane to do so.
> intentionally misleading blue check accounts are boosted above actual journalists

Actual journalists are often blue ticks and intentionally misleading so this is as pot/kettle/black situation if there ever was one.
Okay, and how do you define a seat exactly? Because what is a seat for one person is half a seat for another or two thirds of a seat for the airline. There is no universal definition for what a seat size should be, so your comment is just hot air and doesn't add to the discussion. Even more so when pricing is so malleable and disconnected from actual physical dimensions of the plane and its interior.
I mean clearly it did not give Palestinians everything they wanted if they rejected it. Indeed,

> This was unacceptable to Abbas, who had made it clear that he could allow over 60% of the settlers to remain in place, as long as the Ariel settlement, which formed a significant obstacle to Palestinian development, was removed.

I'm no expert on the situation in Israel/Palestine, and I doubt few of us here are. But for sure these proposals are extremely complicated and you have to be aware of a lot more than how the map looks like in order to fully judge the implications of a proposed peace plan.

Furthermore, it's very likely that actors like Iran were influencing Palestinian decisions, and if the proposal was not in their favor, they would go against it.

In any case, I find the view of outright dismissing Palestinians as not willing to take the best possible offer and only wanting war rather naive. The whole conversation around the topic, including people salivating over how to imprison people better with better technology, is so damn toxic.
It's a measure of how alive/acive your starter is. If you know what you are doing, you can indeed just wing it and judge things by feel, touch, and smell, etc. But you do need to know what you are doing to be able to do that.

Weighing things out indeed helps and I do that too because it makes things easier. But it's worth noting that people have been baking bread for millennia without access to any hyper precise measuring devices or flour milling and sieving techniques.
Rye starter might not double in size, and that's fine. In fact, mine usually go through a period of hyper-growth 2-3 days after they are initiated, but that is not when they are ready: if I make bread then, it comes out overly sour/acidic. I learned to wait another 4-5 days until the starter stabilizes and stops growing like crazy, which gives me a better balance of bacteria and fungi.

Mind you, this is with a starter based on while rye flour. So, a side note: HN is predominantly US, and for some reason everybody in the US seems to think whole rye flour is only good for making pumpernickel. None of the bread-baking books I saw listed this simple recipe: 350g whole rye flour, 250g wheat flour, around 500ml water, 10g salt, 50g starter, let grow for 8h, bake at 210C for 1h10.

No kneading, no fuss, bread for busy people, and extremely tasty at that. But you do need good quality whole rye flour.
When discussing the government's overreach in quelling a protest, it doesn't matter to me if the protest was funded by the Estate of Adolph Hitler, Philip Morris Tobacco and the Society for the Preservation of Crying Babies on Airplanes.

It's the fact of the government's action that's in question. If they could do what they did with impunity, imagine what they will do with impunity when if you protest they can turn off the faucet that feeds your family.
Quite simply, because in 1789, "the press" meant the printing press. I pointed to historical references when that began to pivot to mean more broadly "journalism" in general, but in 1789, the printing press was the only meaning "the press" carried at the time.

They of course couldn't have envisioned alternative mediums that the "press" might alternatively refer to. They couldn't have predicted radio, television, and the internet as alternative forms of "publication". There was the spoken word and the written word and that's all there was for thousands of years. The press simply made the written word more scalable.

I understand that Constitutional rights are interpreted by Courts to carry meaning through progressions in technology or society norms. Clearly the spirit of the "freedom of the press" is partly an implied "right to publish" as you say, and as the 9th amendment underscores, the enumeration of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

There is no mention of "distributing news and information" with regards to "freedom of the press" in the Constitution. It simply says that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press. It doesn't justify it or give a reason for it. It's held to be self evident. It should be understood that the U.S. was founded on the principle of "liberty by default". There is no need to justify liberty. The purpose of the bill of rights was to provide extra protections against the egregiousness of government, to preserve liberty, but not to box it in and define it for all time to mean "these specific things."

Clearly the founders couldn't foresee the advent of 3D printing, either. However, milling machines and molds very much did exist. It would be equally unthinkable to the founders to enable the government to restrict the usage of mills and molds on the basis that they might be used to produce arms (another right they saw fit to enumerate), as it would be to restrict 3D printing.

On the basis of the 1st, 2nd, and 9th amendments, and the principles of liberty itself; the 3D printing press should remain as equally free as the 2D printing press.
>Perhaps it also helps that cops here are dressed as professionals, with shirts and ties, rather than as paramilitary troopers.

100% it helps! That is how police were dressed in the UK when I was young. They were known as the 'boys in blue'. Now it is all swat team black. If you dress someone as a soldier and equip them as a soldier, we shouldn't be suprised if they act like one.
Until the ad break and some idiot starts shouting about insurance. Snooker on BBC TV or cricket on the radio, nothing beats it.
> there are a bunch of different movements all using the "defund the police" moniker. That leads to a lot of disagreement about what it means, and the most extreme types (who really mean eliminate the police) use it too.

It might be worth checking the history there. I read that the anarchists who want to eliminate the police are the origin of the specific phrase "defund the police", and the less "extreme" types are the ones who attempted to expand/dilute the meaning. Saying that the anarchists "use it too" and "adopted it" is, I think, a little unfair.

See also the discussions around r/antiwork a couple of years ago, where the subreddit had been pretty anarchist since its inception, before it suddenly got popular and watered down, and suddenly the original regulars who'd been there for years were being labelled as extremists who didn't fit in and shouldn't even be there.
That's exactly what I meant. If people agree to the rules you don't need to waste resources policing them.
see here: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
Yes but the proposed legislation doesn't really address illegal procurement of real guns either.
Nope. Passkeys replace passwords, just as SSH keys replace your root password during login.

Passkeys alone are a slight upgrade in terms of security compared to password only. They are a major downgrade in terms of security compared to password + second factor.
The famous story is Philippa Fawcett, who took the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams at a time when women weren't officially placed on the ranked list of successful candidates. Her official exam result was listed as "above the Senior Wrangler"- in other words, above the top male candidate.

15 years later Fawcett became one of the "steamboat ladies"- women who took advantage of a long-standing agreement (that still exists in a limited form today) between Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin that graduates of one university can receive the same degree from another one without further examination. When Dublin began to award degrees to women in 1904, they briefly opened this arrangement to women who had passed exams at Oxford or Cambridge that would have entitled them to degrees had they been men. Several hundred British Oxbridge alumnae travelled to Dublin to graduate, and the fees they paid financed the construction of a hall of residence for Dublin's female students.
"And note that 'they' are supposed to represent 'us'."

'They' in the Council of Ministers do not represent us, they are not elected by 'us', and their names sometimes are not even on polls.

They also have a conflict of interests, as Minister of Interior wants more power for himself and his services.
I agree that 40 is too fast for urban settings, but 30 isn’t and that’s the most common speed limit and what would be moved to 20.

I drove at 20 the other day for a bit assuming that this Wales rubbish would make it to England and it’s hard to stick to due to the drive train config (I drive a very boring Volvo as well), 25 is much easier.
The issue they state isn't password reuse.

All the bits and such to generate those passkeys originate on one device...
And it's specifically designed for it's security, to not allow the key material be removable from that one device...

A device that may end up in the bottom of a canal in Venice...

It's then a case of how do you bootstrap back up to having access?

- Did you remember to spend money on an additional passkey device?
- Did you ensure you don't need the passkey device you lost to access the other device which the passkey syncs with (for the iOS keychain/google whatever options)
- Did you remember at each. and. every. account. you. have. to enroll both your primary and secondary passkeys?

vs.

- You can remember enough to get into email for resets, or there's a note or a thumb drive kept in a drawer that has enough password info (itself possibly password protected) to get you back on your digital feet.

I understand the need for not being able to export from a passkey device... but it massively shifts the paradigm of how users need to operate. And puts all the trust in devices.
> If you want to use a USB security key, you still can--Passkeys do not take away from that.

I can't. Most of services I use do not support using Passkeys + a USB security key as second factor.

I'm very happy to use Passkeys (synced with my password manager, just like how I sync my password database now) + a USB security key. Unfortunately, most services force me to use Apple (or Google, Microsoft)-implemented Passkeys which are secured by their hardware devices so that they can also function as a second factor.
A lot of 20mph limits as enforced simply by some motorists driving at <=20mph. This prevents anyone behind from speeding unless they go for some stupid overtaking manoeuvre.

So, yes, simply sticking up a sign and not actively enforcing it (Police, speed cameras) can have a pretty good effect.