skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in Chicago - if you kill some cycling and it's an accident - it's just an insurance payout. You don't even lose points on your license.

Unless you literally run someone over intentionally - you won't even lose your license. And if you do that, I bet you wouldn't even go to jail most of the time.

Can't tell you the amount of cyclists I know that have been hit by cars (and myself) and I don't know a single driver that had any real consequences (beside their insurance paying out a tiny sum that doesn't even cover half of your damages).

Not to mention, it's quite common for cyclists to get hit by cars and they hit and run (just happened to me a couple of months ago). Can't do anything if you don't have a full match on the plates. And even if you do have the plates - despite the fact that a hit & run is a pretty big deal if you hit a car - if you hit a cyclist - at least according to the police officer I filed a report with - the driver is unlikely to lose points - and almost certainly wouldn't lose their license. I could be entirely wrong - hopefully someone will correct me if so.

With Robo Taxis - no chance of that. The company will know which car was there when you got hit.
>differences of German [...] are much more significant than the differences between various forms of Serbo-Croatian.

Maybe, but it adds no argument to the issue of the same lang vs different langs. There's no clear purely linguistical distinction between dialect and language. As an old joke goes a language is a dialect with an army. In other words when it has a separate political status, and governed by a separate body - it's a language, no matter how similar it is to other languages. The reason is that a literary/official language is defined by rules, and as rules are defined by separate entities, existing differences will be preserved, and new will emerge, and multiply eventually.
My goal is not to convince, merely my own comment i was broadcasting.

Though, I’m as interested in why people pirate as I am why people steal from stores.
I feel like these conversations condense down to "the death of authenticity... if you want to make money/get mainstream."

There's plenty of people doing it for free, but there's a melancholy from people who saw the myth of "being yourself and getting paid well for it" dissolve.
No. The only thing he was ever right on was Britain leaving the EU. He was a far Left agitator whose only policy position was "do the opposite of the USA".
I used to follow quality people posting meaningful stuff. They disappeared. Why? No blue check.

Meanwhile I had to ban the Primerian or whatever the fuck that is because I got his every tweets, responses and memes shoved in my face and I never followed him.

Every tweet is another "10 fact you didn't care about that will shock you" with a thread emoji like I should care.

The whole thing is just disgusting now.
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If those are your complaints, I think they're probably doing okay.
Eraser is an open-source project that is an automated solution for cleaning up Kubernetes nodes, removing vulnerable or unused images, and ensuring your cluster runs smoothly.
>We want our children to grow up in a world where humans can thrive instead of hiding underground to keep cool from deadly heat and starving from the lack of stable food production.

Sure, but most of global harming pollution doesn't come from ICE cars and it won't be solved by people switching to EVs.

EV evangelists should know that EV manufacturing is 70% more environmentally damaging than building ICE cars. Also, mining enough materials to replace all ICE cars on the road today with EVs would literally obliterate the planet.

So no, the reality is we literally can't all have EVs, or cars of any kind for that matter, if we really wish to save the planet, instead of pretending that we are just to sell EVs.
Having seen now 3 people die of colon cancer in their early 30s, I can see why early and frequent detection makes sense.
DALL-E struggles to generate blank images
Personally I agree. It’s a social engineering feature and, accordingly, you need a lot of time to see how the system ends up abusing/adapting/repurposing it.

It’s just an easy critique: “they don’t ship fast enough according to my totally uninformed and arbitrary assessment!”
The difference being that Top Fuel Dragsters exceed 500 km/h regularly.
> Elon’s political antics chased away a lot of good people. Many of my favorite follows have moved to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Also, more and more people are waking up and realizing that social media is actually quite bad for you, and leaving it behind. Good for them. Bad for me.

It's common to blame the move from Twitter on Elon's politics. And that's perfectly valid. I moved away for a much simpler reason. He killed Tweetdeck for anyone not willing to pay $8/month. Regular Twitter hits you with ads (very disruptively), related tweets they know you want to see, and an algorithm that tries to get you hooked on hits of toxicity. Mastodon is pretty close to what I had with Tweetdeck, but less toxic due to lack of quote tweets.

Edit: Rereading this comment, I want to add that the things the author is saying make Twitter bad were to a large extent things we didn't have to deal with when we had Tweetdeck. That's not clear in the original version of my comment.
GPT Pilot, prompt driven app creation
Presumably - there is some accepted standard for the smallest geological features which can be called a "lake", "island", or even "pond". Otherwise - I know a few nice, flat areas with clay soil (water drains very slowly), and have a couple grand-nephews who'd be willing to help dig concentric little moats around a big pebble sitting in a puddle, for the fun of setting a record...
It varies. It likely is an exaggeration for you, but for someone else it isn’t. It only needs to target a few domains to act as a DDOS. Rejecting invalid recipients reduces spam scanning overhead. It’s very significant at scale, for someone managing enough domains to see it.

The problem seems to be that while many domains don’t see this behavior, it seems random which ones do. Having the catchall in place when someone finally does target your domain like this seals the deal: Every one of the 16,000 recipient addresses that were accepted were just added to a list of working email addresses to be sold to spammers for the next 15 years. One hour to ruin your domain, and maybe it never happens to you, or maybe it happens to you tomorrow.

I’ve seen it go down like this at least a few hundred times in the last decade. Safe to say I’ve managed email for a few domains during that time. Enough to say it doesn’t happen to most people, but the ones it happens to usually end up having to disable their catchall or buy a new domain.

As an admin of shared mail servers you often have to base protections and actions on the worst of events, as those are the ones that threaten your infrastructure.
Any particular styling extension you’d recommend? Have to confess I’ve only ever used the vanilla admin myself.
Yeah they’re taking personal transportation and braincells, so the 1% can sustain the multi trillion car industry by itself, because the economic boom wasnt sustained by the access to personal transportation to the masses
I was answering to this other user:

> This is factually impossible.

> For anything larger than (very) small programs, Rust requires an upfront design stage, due to ownership, that it's not required when developing in GC'ed languages.

It seems that is not factually impossible.

Now, answering your question: It could be useful to use boxed types and later optimize it, so you get the benefits of rust (memory safety, zero cost abstractions) later, without getting the problems upfront when prototyping.
Pair that with a caries vaccine and now we're talking.

Getting a new pair of chompers in middle age would be super great, especially if they won't decay the same way.
They are eating the costs, as a marketing ploy. It won’t be free forever. They’ve said as much in their press releases. Basically, they are trying to pressure AWS and friends to lower their egress fees. Once they’re lowered, they’ll start charging for it.
Musk ... renamed Twitter after his dot-com-boom-era online bank, X.com, which eventually became part of PayPal.

So that's where that comes from.

Though I'm guessing he's desperate for money and thinking if he squeezes his employees, he shall magically get blood from a turnip.
MG, Nio, BYD cars manage to pass UK and Australian safety tests, and end up with very good scores.

US has EV incentives explicitly tied to domestic production, so it's about industry protectionism.

US probably doesn't want a repeat of what happened to Detroit industry after Japanese imports.
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The use of the words "Attention Economy" is what I personally call the pablumization of a problem.

If we want to address the problem we need to use the correct term: clickbait economy. The internet as we know it, is bought and paid for by clicks. And the way to get more clicks has nothing to do with authenticity. Just the opposite.

Which article would you click on to read
- "More and more Americans sink into poverty"?
- "Trump and Biden have food fight at restaurant?".

And Twitter takes this even further.
`if isdemocrat title = "trump throws food at biden?"
if isrepublican title = "biden throws food at trump?"
if istrump title = "lock em up"

It is actually worse than that, because the clicks are then used to sell you a bill of goods. How you should hate 'xyz'. How you should spend $10,000 for a new desk chair. Or how you need a $1000 a month obesity drug to fix the fact that you have been eating clickbait food?

Tracking ads are toxic. They threaten our personal well being and the well being of our society. They are right up there with air pollution.

Oh wait, no one will want to think about those issues, so why post this comment?
There is a big difference between storing CSAM (Freenet) and transiently transferring it (I2P).
not sure why the mad votes exactly

to my knowledge banning ground effect devices and geometries has been a decades long game of cat and mouse which at virtually no point has resulted in an on the track reality of equal footing due to a complete absence of positive traction from active or passive ground effect features on all cars

just about every race I've ever watched has featured that year's aero controversy front and center in the commentary

F1 has been as much about engineers racing the rules as drivers racing the cars as long as I've been watching
The reason AI-generated art looks better to you is because it is cribbing from better (human) artists. Maybe D&D should just hire better artists directly?
That contradicts the parent's point that "Strikebreakers are not illegal in EU.". Since Sweden is part of the EU.
I just bought my first 3d printer a couple weeks ago. It was so tempting to pull up the benchmark and see what I could do. Instead I sat down, drafted something I wanted to make, and made. So my first print is something that sees daily use.

My woodworking setup for my garage, however. Someday it will see use other than for organizing my woodworking setup in my garage. I just need that one more tool. And to build a place to put it.
When I saw the title I knew it would be by Nina Paley!
We have fixed mortgages. We also have variable. We do not have 30 year term mortgages, but only 5 year financial terms, and sometimes a 10 year.
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Wow, down the rabbithole I go. Thanks for sharing (especially that second link). Always good to get a dose of awe first thing on a Friday.
Personally, I find HN difficult and frustrating on mobile: It's all tiny text.

Then again, I rarely read HN on mobile. It's just not the kind of stuff I enjoy looking at when I'm "on the go." Perhaps that's why they never tweaked the layout for mobile?

> ...leading to overly wide text in comments if using a full screen browser.

IMO, that's a bug, both with HN, and with the "default" styling in a browser.
Cool! I'm still on the plantuml train, but I like how much easier mermaid is to integrate with (no need for java), so I'm happy to see it evolve!
>“Driver” happens to be the most popular job in the United States

...which still only work out to 1-2%
When you are developing hardware on an FPGA, a lot of hardware bugs look like they have locked up the CPU and strangely enough, a lot of undefined behavior looks exactly like a hardware lockup...
I'm generally pessimistic but I don't think this is true. We're still generating print information at an astounding rate. Plenty of organizations work on archiving information in various forms.

Historians will have plenty of information to sift through from this era in 500 years. Will they have a complete collection of ACM Journals? Perhaps not. Will they have ample information to get a clear picture of society from this era, and clear timelines of events, etc.? I would say yes, better than any other time so far.

I think people conflate "a lot of information won't survive in 500 years" with "we're going to lose everything."

I have literally thousands of pictures on my phone / in cloud storage. Odds are none of them will survive 500 years. That's OK, from a historical perspective -- 95% of them are cat pictures or memes anyway. 5% might document something interesting if it was all a historian had to puzzle together a picture of what life was like in the 2020s.

But it won't be, because we're literally producing trillions of digital artifacts. If even 1% (or probably even .1% or .01%) of those survive they'll have a richer visual representation of the 2020s than we have of other times in history.

(Whether we'll have any historians or humans in 500 years time, that's the real question.)
not sure I understand. why would one want to turn an app into a website?
> My feed is full of posts that have obviously had more effort put into it than most of what I used to see. Megathreads about AI, thoughtful, longform narratives that could have been blog posts, carefully curated images, and super-positive business updates. It’s mostly engaging stuff.

I think that simply, it is NOT an engaging stuff. That is why author is bored by it. It is content author think "should" be engaging. Seriously, following two are pretty much opposite of engaging: carefully curated images, and super-positive business updates.

These two are definition of the boring. And while the long form narratives have potential to be engaging, just being long form does not make the thing engaging. The content actually have to be engaging.
It's important to recognize the bubble you're in. Go to the American south and the Ford vs Chevy vs Dodge is a major identity for a lot of people. You'll see ridiculous bumper stickers like "I'd rather push a Ford than drive a Chevy." or "Ford. Like Chevy but for men."

And the more you customize your truck, the "higher" your status. To the point where you get ridiculous monstrosities like this https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCPjEi.... There is no point to this besides to declare ones status.

Hell even closer to your bubble of private jets and yachts, plenty of high net worth people collect expensive and rare cars. It is a major status symbol to say they have 1 of 500 La Ferraris made or 1 of 375 McLaren P1's.
> The problem is that wages are rising in absolute terms, but tanking or stagnating in relative ones.

Again, that's not true, at least not to the extent you think. It's a meme. It's something you believe because everyone else believes it.

> the top percentile are making great strides but the so-called "low skilled" are getting shafted badly.

Tell that to the UAW and the monster contract they just negotiated. Or the minimum wage laws that keep getting passed in almost every major metro area. (Again, this is all US stuff because those are the facts in my head, but this is a global phenomenon).

I mean, how about you personally: are you personally making more or less in nominal terms than you were ~6 years ago. By how much? If it's not less than the 26% rise in CPI inflation since then, you are doing better, not worse.

Again, the data doesn't support your impression. It just doesn't. And I find it absolutely fascinating that these impressions persist in the complete absence of evidence.
Have you considered https://www.sqlite.org/inmemorydb.html
Imma check it out, I need more disappointment in my life...
Our minds have evolved to thinking of "theft" and "ownership" in terms of physical terms, for the most part. Digital presents dynamics that don't neatly fit that legacy mental model.

With digital goods, it isn't about stealing a product. It is more about stealing an income stream or someone's time and labor. When I deprive someone of an income stream that they are able to generate without coercian (by forcing others to buy), I am stealing their income stream which is really stealing their labor and time. The object (in this case digital) is simply a proxy.

Another angle to come at this from is to take it to the other extreme. If I spend all my days creating a digital product that people want, and everyone copies it, they are stealing my labor, my time, and I had no say in it.
This very issue is why I haven't had a social media account in years. Even something as benign as posting here on HN entails editing to avoid downvotes.

While we all make necessary and unavoidable judgements, the explicit nature of being judged and acting as a judge on social media lends itself to being inauthentic and narcissistic.

Hans-Georg Moeller has an excellent YouTube channel called Carefree Wandering. There several very good episodes on authenticity and social media.
The advantage is that the chair usually comes with a bunch of money which you can use to fund grad students and pay for research. The latter is of course much more important in experimental sciences and engineering than it is in math. Still, mathematicians often do hire grad students to do grunt work for them.
Maybe "Refined Hacker News" should fix this.

See: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

Edit: You can use the F12 debugging pane to adjust the width of a single tab without resizing the window. It's kind-of a hack, though.

Just push F12 and drag.
Yeah, but then they are both "good ideas" (or bad ideas, depending on your PoV). Stimulation with cheap money, trim the fat with high interests.

What I don't this is reasonable to say is that one is good and the other one is crazy.
On the contrary, I wish more of the software I had to use every day worked more like the Django admin.

Is it the shiniest UI? No, but a well configured Django admin is a power tool that stays out of your way.
Literally everything you say in defense of Tesla and against the striking workers can be inversed without becoming any less true.

As others have pointed out, you seem to misunderstand what laws are and what they are for. They're not special and they're not magic, they're just slightly more rigid frames padded with layers of contracts and ultimately held together by good will.

To put it another way: a law can not stop me from killing you. Gun laws can make it more difficult for me to acquire a suitable weapon to do so, laws requiring the presence of an armed police officer at every corner may make it more difficult without having to deal with the police officer first, or immigration laws may make it more difficult to reach you, and murder being illegal means I'm very likely to suffer consequences after killing you (or after failing to do so if the attempt is illegal) but if I'm in front of you with a loaded gun in my hand, what's stopping me from killing you isn't the law.

I'm not saying Tesla can't do things differently as long as they operate within the law. I'm not even arguing whether its immoral for them to do so[0]. I'm just saying that laws are in the most real sense of the word socially constructed and they're an artefact of society, not the other way around. If laws are in conflict with a society's understanding of justice, eventually the laws will change, one way or another.

[0]: It is, although I appreciate that you seem to have constructed an ethical system that isn't built around reducing suffering and increasing happiness for everyone - which is fine, of course, in terms of it being possible for your ethical system to be internally consistent. It just makes me think less of you as a human.
I'm building a small startup and wanted to have some semi-automatically generated admin for it. After looking at all the modern React-based solutions, Django still looked like the easiest way to go. Ugly and non-SPA? Sure. But still very simple to keep working, google has answers to most little tweaks one wants, and easy to manage. Loving it.
I'm still on Linux.

I just use a premade Debian rather that selecting every single tiny piece.

If I need to change things I can, I just don't feel I have to change everything.
Are borderline insane conspiracy theory comments like this considered flaggable on HN?

I feel the HN moderation has managed to quell the angry and hateful type of comment but has an apparent blind spot when it comes to this type of weirdness where people calmly state worldviews that are detached from reality and clearly tips of very disturbing icebergs.
>And yes, on the surface this incentivizes people to create better content. The better your content is, the more it gets seen, and the more money you make. And yet, my felt experience of this change is the exact opposite—as people seek more engagement, their content gets worse. What’s going on here?

It always tickles me when terminally online people realize that human connection doesn't scale. It's valuable precisely because it takes a lot of time, energy, and luck to establish. You want authenticity? Go find community in meatspace. You want authenticity online? Talk to those meatspace friends in private group chats.
I will comment on each point:

Zero Latency - irrelevant for 99% of use cases
One Less Service - premature optimization - saves almost nothing
Multi-instance replication - where is the advantage over say postgres?
Database size - irrelevant for 99% of use cases today
Development and Testing - no advantage here
I'm glad Rand got his share, even thought it was way smaller than initially planned!
Ahh shoot never mind I though this was something else. It looks like tomorrow of the same. Thanks anyways.
I can't believe that video games still have a "saving data. Please do not turn off your computer" like two-phase commit hasn't been a thing since 1987.
Wouldn't that be a biased view based on the fact that foreigners are the ones more likely to travel?
One reason might be the backlit display and the glossy screen. Glossy screens, especially, really strain my eyes.
I read somewhere once that for every community of hobbyists, there's 4 main types of activities enthusiasts engage in:

1. Doing the thing

2. Talking about doing the thing

3. Getting into the gear for doing the thing (collecting, building, customizing)

4. Talking about the gear for doing the thing

Very often, the first group is the smallest!
Unfortunately, the loss of authenticity has also overflowed into life outside of the internet. Marketing today is just another word for "telling our customers that our new product or service is exactly what they want, agnostic of reality".

Hype through loud talking is big too, but my mother-in-law has been doing that since before the internet age began.
At Prisma, the "twelve easy steps" for performing a table change in SQLite documented on https://sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html is a bit of a running joke.

SQLite is super versatile, but very different from other more traditional RDMBS.