skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, getting rid of the part of the EU executive that actually are charged with thinking of the union itself seems excessive? Especially as that would leave the European Council as the only executive, meaning it is the executive of the nations that would also have to run the union executive...

No, probably better to make the Council of the European Union a upper house of the EP and give them the nomination right, with the EUCO having some veto powers dictated by how unanimous they are.

But in any case, because the EU is a union of independent states with quite different outlook on things I think it is unavoidable that the system that endures holding it all together is pretty convoluted.
Ironically; he complains about how it takes gigabytes and gigabytes of space, and not much seems to have changed.

Two can play at that game. Have you ever tried upgrading Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04? Or tried going from Fedora 35 to 37?

Gigabytes of space required and not too much appears to have changed! Gasp!
Except, in my experience, they don't have more features. Has Slack fundamentally changed in the last years, or Zoom, Teams etc? Why haven't these apps been optimized by now?

Same for web apps, why is Facebook, Gmail slow? I could accept it for new products but not for nearly unchanged products after all these years.

Btw: Gmail HTML was fast, so it can't be an infra problem, it's bad frontend programming.
Don't date robots!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFzOjw0pFU
“Move fast” is likely the correct thing to do if you’re goal is to get to market quickly.

I think software companies should just be more comfortable with rewriting code.

Sometimes you have to do it because your requirements changed or assumptions proven incorrect.

Move fast and rewrite things.
All this work and you don't earn money with your style of engineering. Have you maybe stopped and wondered why you don't?
I know what you mean, but until they release it in a production car it's not really real, if you know what I mean.
What does Wild West even mean here? You cannot consolidate software security that would fit any definition of "not being Wild West".

It could easily close most security issues by regulating data collection. That would seriously reduce the damage of possible data leaks. Any encrypted content is only safe for a limited amount of time. This hasn't changed for ages.
Some of these complaints remind me of the menu screens in places like McDonalds.

i.e. Holding up the queue because I'm unable to choose what I want from the menu, because the menu has temporarily changed into something else, and I have to wait for it to cycle around again.
In this case, a person who committed no crime was pulled over, and then arrested for laughing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AAx-td3uzM

They eventually got off of all charges, but the process is the punishment.

EDIT

Forgot to add - the only correct answer to a police officer asking questions is "I do not answer any questions without my attorney present". Also, for a traffic stop, courts have ruled that once they give you back your license, you are free to go. The police can lie to you and try to get your consent to be there after that, but you can just drive off. They may want your consent to stay for a dog to sniff your car or something. Don't be bullied - just drive off.
Chrome has a public bug tracker.

I can't find any bug report for your issue.

Please post a link to your bug report, otherwise it seems like you didn't even try.
Isn't the moon slated to [on an extremely long-term basis, not quite red-dwarfed-Sun timeline] eventually escape Earth's gravity?
When people say "Japanese cars are high quality", they usually mean "Toyota and Honda". I agree it's weird. Though Nissan isn't really considered worse than GM or something in that range -- they're just pretty middle of the road.
One catch would be the massive strain on the AC grid; with an EV consuming some 200Wh or so/km, 1200km equals a capacity of approx. 240kWh.

240kWh in 10 minutes translates into 1,44MW - for charging one car! (Assuming 100% efficiency.)

The bottleneck when installing EV charging stations in many parts of Norway at the moment is simply getting the AC oomph needed to the right place. Our electrical ferries (much bigger load than an EV) sidestep this issue by having huge battery banks shoreside, which are being charged at a uniform rate, then once the ferry connects to the shore terminal, it charges off the batteries shoreside rather than the grid as such. Presumably something similar will have to be thought out to take full advantage of solid state batteries.
From the paper:

> Under this theory, BNNs [biological neural networks] hold “beliefs” about the state of the world, where learning involves updating these beliefs to minimize their VFE [variational free energy] or actively change the world to make it less. If true, this implies that it should be possible to shape BNN behavior by simply presenting unpredictable feedback following “incorrect” behavior.

Incorrect behavior is punished by pushing static, simulating an "unpredictable" environment, so that the BNN (biological neural network) acts differently. I really hope that if they continue this line of development that they find something other than "chaos overrides" to sensory input because at a certain level of intelligence, that would lead to insanity.
With cops, I wouldn't be surprised if they've had woo-heavy bullshit training about spotting liars.

[EDIT] TFA specifies that in this case, however, it was not from official training.
Can you tell me the location of an actual blue traffic light in Japan?
A community building software for science
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I suspect we're a long way from technology actually being able to trick our brain (all of it) into thinking it's in the presence of real companionship.

Similar to why social media, despite "everyone being on there and available to everyone," doesn't seem to mitigate loneliness.
Hahaha my first thought when youtube launched it was "shit is this pornhub"
I realize my questions might have seemed argumentative. I was really curious. Thanks for explaining it (again!).

We all live on the same planet, in different worlds.
"An appraised value" could work for companies too! Though, in fairness, for many billionaires the gains are pretty explicit i.e. we know the public stock price or the 409a valuation.
How to build a secure foundation for American leadership in AI
From https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak...

Amid taxi strikes and riots in Paris, Kalanick ordered French executives to retaliate by encouraging Uber drivers to stage a counter-protest with mass civil disobedience.

Warned that doing so risked putting Uber drivers at risk of attacks from “extreme right thugs” who had infiltrated the taxi protests and were “spoiling for a fight”, Kalanick appeared to urge his team to press ahead regardless. “I think it’s worth it,” he said. “Violence guarantee[s] success. And these guys must be resisted, no? Agreed that right place and time must be thought out.”

The decision to send Uber drivers into potentially volatile protests, despite the risks, was consistent with what one senior former executive told the Guardian was a strategy of “weaponising” drivers, and exploiting violence against them to “keep the controversy burning”.

It was a playbook that, leaked emails suggest, was repeated in Italy, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
He used a margin loan for part of it (you can think of this as extracting money from unrealized gains, but it's kind of different), liquidated shares for part of it (realizing a gain in the process), and will pay interest on that margin loan (realizing a gain for each payment) for the duration of the loan. If he wants to pay off the loan, he will have to realize a gain. The margin loan is effectively tax deferral, not tax elimination.
To me, this is a result of products and companies being built on web stacks. Its easy to prototype, integrates with cloud services/mostly plug and play, and most developers known at least one stack that works in browsers. There's just not as much money in desktop/native application development - users are on the web and mobile. Of course I'd like to see a resurgence of desktop native programs (not electron) but the use cases are diminishing. Its harder to track users on desktop, harder to patch/update, and harder to hire people who know that stuff (always lean senior, meaning more expensive for startups).
I don't think I'd laugh at that question. I'd just be confused and quiet as I tried to figure out why anyone would ask such a stupid question.
I'm sure the MEC is a totally independent non-profit fully divorced from the mining companies themselves and thus the information is to be 100% trusted.
The GP's complaint was about not being able to notify Google at all, not at not getting the right outcome. I'm pretty sure submissions to that form will have (trained) human eyes on them after some trivial spam filtering, it's not just redirected to /dev/null.

As for whether one could expect results, there are stats on how often this functionality is used in the EU (about 200k requests per year) and how often it is successful (about half the requested URLs are delisted):

https://transparencyreport.google.com/eu-privacy/overview?hl...
They have the power to send a proposed law back to the commission, to be revised. The commission has the power to send it back to parliament unrevised.

I think the Council of Ministers also comes into the process. The Council consists of the national government ministers whose purview includes the matter at hand; it's membership changes for each meeting. It's really just all the member governments of the EU, one nation one council-member.
> I also can’t tell you much about whether the algorithm is optimizing for engagement, versus optimizing for Whatever Elon Wants.

It's possibly simpler than that; in this experiment he followed Musk and no-one else. When Musk took over Twitter, a lot of people claimed that they were joining Twitter just because of Musk. So if you follow Musk and no-one much else, it might not be that _unreasonable_ to infer that you're into the same sort of thing as that lot, and, like, I'd buy that the sort of people who joined Twitter solely to follow Dear Leader is into a lot of other weird nonsense.
Compounded with lots of opportunity for confirmation bias.
Maybe if you only read the headline?

I find the article pretty clear, though brief and not very well written. The actual report it's discussing is crystal clear.

The situation is that the wealthy keep getting wealthier without generating any taxable income. Obviously a minimum income tax rate could not possibly solve this problem unless we also redefine income.
Yes, as a natural nervous laugher myself I had to course-correct later in life and learn to have gravitas. It is never beneficial to laugh, even if your counter-part is emotionally intelligent enough to know that it's nervous laughter because:

1) Your counter-part may not be emotionally intelligent enough

2) Deep-down, even if you know someone is showing you a nervous laugh it takes yet another level of emotional discipline to not be annoyed by it (like parents telling their kids "it's not funny".)

I can't stress enough how much extra trouble I got myself into by being a nervous laugher and no one telling me any better. As a child when you nervous laugh, the typical response from an adult is typically ~ "Oh yeah, let me double down and show you how not funny this situation is" which implicitly is trying to be a punitive lesson in life to change your behavior.

All this to say, this kind of police training/question is just cops making up pseudo-science and, as someone else pointed out, "heads I win, tails you lose" situation.
I actually quite like Windows 11. It feels like Windows 10 with a lot less strange, incomplete and broken features. Having more options for window-tiling especially on my multi-monitor setup are a godsend, and miles ahead of the same system in 10 which in addition to not having the aforementioned additional options, also just kind of broke a lot and didn't work correctly.

Additionally I like the Mac Dock-esque revamp for the taskbar, and though it still has an annoying number of UI conventions that one snakes through like exploring the layers of Aperture labs, the new ones are actually quite nice, very usable, and don't feel like simply a barrier I must pass to access the settings I actually want.

My sole beef is that changing audio outputs now takes four clicks instead of three as they buried that button next to the volume control in whatever they're calling Command Center. But that's not a huge issue.

It wasn't a massive upgrade to be sure, but it was the first Windows release in awhile where it felt like an overall improvement to the experience across the board. Everything is a little shinier, a little better done, a little polished, etc. I wish more were like it.

Edit: Cohesive, that's the word I was looking for. It feels much more cohesive than 10, or really any of them since like 7. It feels like something that was actually designed for purpose, not just a mashing together of the various outputs of various departments.
I don't think this can even be blamed on what the industry prioritizes, but on what customers reward. How many users pick one solution over another because it's quicker? Outside of very specific use cases practically never happens. These types of complaints ultimately come down to wanting users to care about different things. It's not dissimilar from complaints about nobody having fashion sense anymore or buying too much processed food.
Do note-taking tools help us become more productive?
Was reading an article by Casey Newton at the Verge.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23845590/note-taking-apps-ai-chat-distractions-notion-roam-mem-obsidian

so much of what he says rings true. Who uses Pocket and Evernote these days? And if you do, do you actually get stuff done with it, or is it just organization for the sake of it?

So many productivity junkies out there. Trying to find the app that actually contributes to better output, over just link-saving...
Is the Cricut software still a Chrome browser plugin? It can't be. That thing was terrible.

It runs on a phone or tablet if your Cricut does Bluetooth. We just make an SVG on a PC in whatever we want, make the quick tweaks in the Cricut software and send it that way.

Saves us from needing Windows PCs.
By 2027 - 2028 according to this article:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/toyota-solid-state-battery
Pulling out of a parking lot, I looked left, looked right and started to pull out only to narrowly avoid getting rammed by a cop who ran a stop sign. He jumped out of his car and started screaming at me to pay better attention to the road. No emergency lights, no siren. Just (from my perspective) someone who apparently ran a stop sign and got angry when someone else was in his way. You never know what kind of day someone's having or if they're about to go off on someone. Now, make the consequences of catching someone on a bad day 10x worse because they have a badge and a gun. Fortunately for me, I don't think I even got a ticket, but people have been shot in dubious circumstances many, many times. I'm not about to crack a joke or laugh at one in a police interaction.
I'm immediately guilty in a lot of situations because I have some kind of automatic laugh when it's a high pressure scenario. I'm telling the truth but the laugh makes them think I'm lying, which then just cranks the pressure up higher as I have to convince them I'm not.
I'm into board games, so I would say "game". What might that indicate about my performance?
Counterpoint, I'm now considering this for my headstone.
The problem is it's trade-offs on top of trade-offs, all the way down.
I’ve been programming for 15 years now...There are no additional features. They are not faster or more optimized. They don’t look different. They just...grow?

I've been programming for over 40 years. OP's take is a classic underestimate of how many features new versions of software have added.

My first computers in order had:

64k of RAM

128k of RAM

640k of RAM

Those first two booted up literally instantly as they copied firmware into RAM. That last one booted up in about 10 seconds from an unbelievably slow C: drive.

What did all three have in common? Did not even have basic networking built-in. Yes, systems are bloated today but they do so much more than the systems you're comparing them to. Yes, they could re-write them from scratch to remove this bloat but we knew for 8 years before OP started coding that is not the right answer either.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
That’s a bs reason. Reasonable suspicion needs to be on an articulable particular crime. It cannot be a suspicion of some unknown crime. But cops will give any bs reason to make an arrest. Don’t fight them at the scene. Fight them at court.
matters for the survival of our species.

In our current world of seeming abundance, it's hard (for me) to wrap my mind around the fact that material considerations are actually important. This is why some people are concerned about shifts in demographics.

One example is that societies can reach a point where there are not enough people of working age to provide the services and goods for the "nonworkers" (retired + infirm + students + children)

Anything that has the potential to cause a step-decrease in birthrate has the potential to cause a big economic/political disturbance, and a 'distraction' from traditional human relationships definitely has that potential, as people only have so many years where they can reproduce.
Small correction, it's Emmanuelle Charpatier.
I think they are learning from Musk.
Well, I'm a big fan of Her, so I won't argue that non-real relationships are implicitly bad.

But to the extent (some) people substitute chatbots for real relationships because chatbots are infinitely forgiving and don't promote maturation, I think the harm could be a group of perpetual children who don't have the real-world support structure to deal with real-world issues like needing long term medical care.
My understanding is that it's coming at the end of October. So it should be out soon.

I've also been waiting with bated breath; I simply won't adopt passkeys until I can use a cross platform tool that doesn't try to lock me into a single vendor's hardware or software. But once that's available, I'd be very happy to switch certain accounts to passkeys. It doesn't matter all that much to me since I use unique, long passphrases generated by bitwarden for every account + OTP when I can, but I would slightly prefer a passkey to a password since it's one less thing an auth provider can screw up.
This is a terribly done comparison and as you are the creator of the alternative framework it smells like marketing and intentionally targeting the HN audience. Your example isn't web semantic, isn't accessible, doesn't work in mobile which is from where the biggest audience connect from but you still have the courage to say that "the semantic version is 8 × smaller, renders faster, and is easier to modify and extend."

Like your past posts about Nuejs, you discuss on this post with the same arrogance as if everybody is wrong, you are right. But then you always fail to convince anybody that your idea is good enough, like NueJS reactivity that is a copy of the (now ditched) svelte approach.
EV buyers may want to consider a used EV until new tech comes out

I'm not basing my purchase decisions on pie-in-the-sky press releases from Toyota and wild-ass guesses from some random person on the Internet. Build a car, Toyota, then we'll talk. Or maybe I'll just buy a Tesla instead, I've heard that their "Full Self-Driving" is just a few months away.
what is it about hacker news where only the worst marketing fluff about batteries is ever upvoted onto the front page?

every time the comments section decends into a combination of bitter laments about the state of journalism, random topic-adjacent bloviating, meta-commentary about the industry/market context (american's chattin about cars!), tangential speculation about other battery tech.

its so purely content free. you never learn something. why does HN work this way?
For me it's even worse. Not only have I lost a lot of the passion that I used to have for programming when I started 30 years ago, I've lost my enthusiasm for software AS A USER.

Programming for me was always about connecting to a machine. I started writing games and native desktop applications in C/C++.

My first job was for a dot-com start-up that was a bit ahead of its time. Basically it made web-based office productivity software before we had terms like "the cloud", when Google was just getting off the ground and there was no GMail or Google Docs etc. That was how I got started in web application development and for many years it was grand. I was a "full stack" developer before "frontend" and "backend" were concepts. We needed to know how to optimize our SQL queries, avoid SQL injection vulnerabilities, and we even developed our own dynamic templating language using C++.

We offered a "hosted" version of our product but also a "self-hosted." Bare metal servers were the thing. We needed to be able to port our software to multiple operating systems and have it run on all sorts of hardware.

One of the most significant differences in the customer relationship was that if we wanted more business from our customers, we needed to convince them that upgrading to the newest version would be worth their time and money.

These days everything is SaaS, "cloud" and CI. As a user I need a fucking user account for every single piece of software I want to use. All of my data is hosted on someone else's computer which isn't even a computer. It's some virtual data centre hosted inside of an AWS data centre. The product owners of the company will use me as a perpetual beta tester, throwing any shit at the wall that they can think of hoping something will stick. The products constantly degrade in terms of performance and UX and I have no say other than to stop using computers and software all together.

Which is starting to happen.

I'm a software engineer that avoids using software in my personal life as much as I possibly can.
There is a really good book that starts with the same plot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(Sch%C3%A4tzing_nove...
Wanna try it yourself?
>Note that the officer said he got that from other officers, not from official training.

This is something that surfaced in the public discourse during the George Floyd protests. The average police officer doesn't receive as much formal training as most people think. Most police academies last less than a military boot camp, and a rookie is expected to get most of their training on the job, which is how this guy was taught this nonsense.
It isn't surprising that off road is covered in warranty. They may put limits in, but look at truck ads: most of them are showing people towing a heavy load, hauling big things, or driving off road - often more than one of the above. Sure that isn't how people actually use them (most of the time), but that is how they sell them. I haven't looked at Rivian's ads, but if they show their trucks doing something in an ad, then a lawyer will have no problem convincing the courts that because it was in the ads the warranty fine print was a misprint and that is acceptable use.
22% of households still didn’t have cars in 1960. We can get into why households is a poor metric but 1960 was simply a low point not a long term average.

Murder per 100k. 1960 5.1, 2014: 4.5, 2019 5.0. Go back to 1950: 5.3, 1940: 6.3 and it hit 9.5 in 1934.

PS: Lead is one factor post 1960’s, but changing demographics is another. The post war baby boom adds a lot of kids who aren’t killing anyone as preteens/young teens but average into population statistics. The low point of births during WWII is especially important when those years line up with older teens more likely to commit crimes. Add in a good economy and it’s a perfect storm for low crime.