skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s time we rethought tires from first principles.

I have to think we can do better. Why live in fear of nails and spend a thousand dollars every 20-40k miles?
> Distributed object frameworks like CORBA, DCOM, and Java
RMI use a programming model similar to ours but suffered
from a number of technical and organizational issues [ 58]
and don’t fully address C1-C5 either.

And the pendulum swings back yet again.
That was supposed to be "challenged". Thanks for noticing. Fixed.

I wanted to write "competed with" but didn't have the space. "Replaced" would have fit; however, it would be too easy to answer "no".
Extra effort for getting to "perfect" I would argue mostly is gold plating, which not only is less productive than those good-enough-peers. But sometimes counter productive where every hypothetical edge case have been solved with extremely complicated/complex (unmaintainable) code. I'm currently replacing such "perfect" code with a, hopefully, simpler mess that still get the customer's work done.
So basically you would disallow pre-buffering more than an ad's worth of video? I'm not sure about that...
If that weight difference results in a noticeable tax difference, then lorries will be virtually priced off the road due to the tax. Realistically, the tax would have to be affordable for heaviest vehicles which would make the tax difference between 1.5 to 2 tons negligible.

Maybe one way round it is to have tax bands for heavy commercial vehicles and weight-based tax for cars and SUVs.

Edit: thought I'd try to work out an example of pricing.

If a fourth power tax rate on weight works out to a £100 difference between 2 tons and 1.5 tons, then an 8 ton vehicle would be paying over £37,000
The cheapest.

In our case that’s a rack in a datacenter, a SAN, MAAS, VMs, terraform, and chef.
I would rather not watch anything than watch ads. The cost of watching ads is my sanity.
There was an app called “workflows” on iOS (I think it was eventually acquired by Apple) that felt very similar to a Zapier, but on my phone for controlling/automating my apps.

I only used it a few times and found it too clunky. But I loved the idea. Worth researching what happened to them.
I don’t think the size differences are as drastic as that. An opel Astra hatchback is 4374mm long and 2062mm wide, while a Volvo XC90 is 4950mm long and 1923mm wide. As long as they both fit comfortably in a normal parking space the dimensions are not going to contribute meaningfully to more congestion or other inconvenience.

In the Netherlands I often see people with Dodge rams that are noticeably wider and longer than every other passenger car. If this was a large or growing category I can see myself being inconvenienced and annoyed more
There is now another 'form' of propaganda that seems to be being used:

> We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”[2]

> Contemporary Russian propaganda has at least two other distinctive features. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency.

> Interestingly, several of these features run directly counter to the conventional wisdom on effective influence and communication from government or defense sources, which traditionally emphasize the importance of truth, credibility, and the avoidance of contradiction.[3] Despite ignoring these traditional principles, Russia seems to have enjoyed some success under its contemporary propaganda model, either through more direct persuasion and influence or by engaging in obfuscation, confusion, and the disruption or diminution of truthful reporting and messaging.

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

This has been picked up by some other folks:

* https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzxqj/steve-bannon-jan-6-tr...

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/i...

For a history of propaganda, the book Munitions of the Mind by Philip M. Taylor may be of some interest (the third edition was published in 2003, so covers up to 9/11):

* https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719067679/
Sounds like a good way to end up with unintended consequences like happened with the chicken tax and the Subaru Brat.
Show HN: FootballGPT – Explore AI-Generated Football Insights
Related/taking this further, and what I thought this was going to be about, apparently there's AI-generated Jennifer Aniston discussing/paying 'her' tribute to Matthew Perry. But a complete fabrication. (Not going to search for and link it to give it any more of a boost.)

I'm sure that's not the only or first example, but that's the one I heard about.
> As a conservative anarchist, Tang ultimately desires the abolition of Taiwan and all states, and justifies working for the state by the opportunity it affords to promote worthwhile ends.

Undoubtedly a skilled person, but with weird politics.
OP here. The defeatism is strong in this thread.

Mostly along the lines of "we're powerless to change things, it's all too complex to determine what brings positive change. Family comes first".

While the reality is our world already has changed for the better in many ways: child mortality, # of people dying each year in wars, education (especially for girls), healthcare, internet access, overall wealth, etc etc. Or eg. watch some of Hans Rosling's videos.

It is people who made that change. So on average, ...

> However working at more ethical or environmentally friendly organizations often comes with a pay cut,

... more than ever before in history, people are in a position to put "improve world" above "maximize income".

Especially well-educated people in developed countries, with extensive access to technology, personal networks, etc. Many HN users likely in a prime position there.

And yet they choose to work on more powerful (read: energy consuming) AI systems, fintech startups, intrusive advertising companies, add yet more features to already mature, bloated software, etc, etc.

We can choose to be part of a problem. Or to be part of a positive change. However small each individual's contribution.

In face of these facts concerning 'the state of our species', that defeatism is not warranted.
This is scary good. Well done. If your product have any frontend and you have the power to decide ensure at least one of your hires can write CSS at this level.
You could bind your disk unlock to also include a PIN entered at boot-time (TPM+PIN).

This gives you the benefit of system integrity verification at time of boot, but also requiring your input to release the keys (and meaning you can't get to the system lock screen without the PIN).
Yes intermittent fasting sometimes is efficient against certain types of cancers since those have a different sugar metabolism , BUT nutrient deprivation in cancers can lead to a signalling cascade that triggers metastasis.

So far we only know in a few pretty stable occurring cancer types if the tradeoff is worth it.

This paper is the first step towards a possible trial in humans.
> can you point to anybody who has been more successful at reclaiming power from megacorporations?

Given she has been a net boon to M&A, anyone. In the last years, I’d flag the Illinois, California and Massachusetts legislatures, as well as Warren and Wyden, federally. Several state attorneys general come to mind, too.

Sending a zealous rookie into the field may placate the base. But it’s a gift to experienced players; it’s why you’re seeing her acceptance from Wall Street, the folks paid to close mergers. Khans ideas are solid. As a Congressional staffer, or even Congresswoman, she’d be great. But spending a year learning to manage a team is a dead giveaway to corporate interests.
Ok, but now you see, it would be a bit more involved than just splicing together static byte streams that even a dumb CDN can accomplish.
I know a few folks that use their learning allowance to work with fractional CTOs that offer paid mentorship i.e. grow from an engineering manager towards CTO. LMK if you need an introduction.
Sounds like a bunch of thugs. Gross.
Roman coins discovered in the waters of Sardinia
I stopped bothering with obfuscation years ago when Gmail's spam filtering got good enough.

I presumed it was mostly a solved problem now - albeit at the cost of false positives and the occasional need to go through your spam folder.
3M Aura N95 masks are effective and inexpensive.
Glass, for containers.
MAX, YouTube Premium, Spotify, Netflix, Disney+ can all be had for about $100/mo. Even assuming someone only makes $20/hour, that's about 15 minutes of work per day for a month to access effectively unlimited content. If you can't find what you want to watch there, swap providers or just buy the content on Apple TV/Google Play/etc.

Again, I struggle to see how these platforms don't provide massive value. Like that's one meal out any more for a family of four. Pirating content when it's so cheap seems entitled to me, like not tipping when you go out to eat (in the US) because you have personal issues with tipping.
It's so good to meet another "hobby-author" (as I label myself). I've been self-publishing for over a decade now and the tips/gotchas you mention resonate as strongly today as they did when I started out on this unconventional path.

My goto publishing platforms have been, since the early days, lulu.com for print-on-demand and Smashwords for ePub.

I chose lulu because there weren't many (reasonably) simple online publishing services in the days before Kindle Direct Publishing. I considered moving to KDP after it launched but, sadly, I developed an intense dislike for the whole Amazon book publishing/selling ecosystem - I still happily buy books on Amazon, but as I give all my published work away for free Amazon is not a place where I feel the need to list my work for download. And for the last few things I've published, I've not even bothered with Lulu: ePub is enough to satisfy my needs.

I chose Smashwords for similar reasons - there just wasn't many other options around when I started, and the core services Smashwords delivers (ePub generation from docx files, and distribution to Apple's bookstore) still meet my requirements. The one big gap in Smashwords's distribution network (ignoring Amazon) is the Google Play store; it's an additional bit of work to manually upload the ePub/cover files to Google and copy over the book details/metadata to get it listed to my satisfaction.

The only cost of this publishing activity is my time. I spend £0 on marketing/promotional stuff; I will occasionally spam friends/family on Facebook with updates ... but that's the price they have to pay for being related/friends with me!

You mentioned the key advantage of self-publishing: the ease of updating the books whenever you want/need to update/correct the copy. No book, in my view, is ever "finished" - all of my books will always be works-in-progress, until I die (of course).

As for sales ... never underestimate the role that pure, blind luck plays in the process of popularising a book. My "bestseller" has been shifting 30-60 downloads a month for many years. Soon after I uploaded the book it got featured on the Apple Books front page via some algorithmic mystery, stirred enough interest through a clickbaity title to get into the top 50 poetry books list ... and has never looked back since! I like to think the book's success is down to the astonishing quality of the poems. Critics are free to disagree!

Best wishes with your endeavours!
IMO, everyone should start from phasing out street parking. Mandatory private parking would create selection pressure towards smaller and less obnoxious cars, proportionate to mental as well as financial investments by its owner.
They exist for a reason. Some people have more to haul than just groceries.
I kind of expected it to include tiled window management :)
No, why should I subsidize somebody else's children any more than I should subsidize somebody else's ego booster?

Ignoring the fact that this wouldn't even work because SUVs would just get extra seats to work around the tax structure.

7-seat private buses wear down the road just as much as private tanks, so tax them equally.
Yet in the countryside, the higher driving position gives better visibility, with grass verges etc blocking the view around corners. That is what I see from my 20 year old non status symbol 4x4.

Should I be taxed because my car is inappropriate for London, where it will never go?
In case you're curious like I was, BVO (the additive in question) is commonly found in off-brand, citrusy sodas. My dear diet coke is safe, and PepsiCo apparently doesn't use it at all, at least in the US. (This is all on the second paragraph)

This article has a list, it claims
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/the-full-list-of-...

Though it borders on chum bucket ad quality. Proceed at your own risk.
You seem to have made a mistake, as some people do, to assume that everything in the newspapers and on the radio, in the movies and magazines, is “propaganda
So have job openings overall like you can see from the graph in the article. I don't see a reason to single out AI.
And the US almost achieved official metrication in the 80's, but the head of NPR (and Kissinger bagman) with another bagman convinced Reagan to stop it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Metric_Board
I was about the write similar comment.

People keep mixing up H.264 and MPEG-4 being the same thing ( As they did in another HN thread ). Divx in 2001 was using MPEG-4 Part 2 or better known as H.263. Divx also has its H.264 profile that came much later.

Anyway I am very pissed that Nokia could be allowed to do that to AVC.

And then there is next bit;

>The patent trolls were the people claiming that MP3 was “dead” in 2017 — when in fact it was finally freed, because the last patents on it had expired. MP3 is sorta mediocre, but it’s also a common baseline everyone knows how to handle. And, y’know, it’ll do.

The common baseline should be AAC-LC. It is also patent free as MP3, still being used in iTunes. You get much better quality while having practically same hardware and software support.
It still exists as an iOS feature called Shortcuts and plenty of folks use it for exactly the use cases requested in this post.
> Road damage scales with fourth power of axle load.

Why? That's not intuitive to me. (I'm not saying you're wrong, just want to understand.)
When I was working for a data hog we just had a regex for that.
Which problems are those?

One problem I usually have with GUI builders is that they generate huge and messy data files for the layout which can't be meaningfully diffed. Visual Basic is even worse because the form files are binary blobs. Lazarus seems to use fairly concise and readable plain-text files for its forms, although there's also some sort of binary resource files.
In a lot of these cases yes, it is truly the best chemical for the job at any price. I’m not aware of any nontoxic antifoulings that come anywhere close to TBT. If you produced anything nearly as good you could very easily sell a few gallons for _ten thousand dollars_ and I’m just talking what some small scale fisherman or guy with a boat will pay, simply because it will save them more in fuel+paint+haulouts, not even some crazy performance yachts or whatever which would pay FAR more.
First habit: stop calling them engineers.
ChatGPT is very expensive to be used in a crawler that collects emails.
The "Eh, we'll just throw it away and build a new one" attitude in C++ is part of how you got into this mess. Slices are a vocabulary type, without one what can you do? Well of course you just pass raw pointers around. Huh I wonder why we're having so many safety problems in C++...
No, that’s not accurate. You could just the FDA regulations on the website and know that.

Why reply with something that is clearly false?
The "slightly tall hatchback" form factor is also the best form factor for electrification. A Fiesta doesn't have a lot of underfloor real estate.

Although the industry isn't so dishonest as to pretend that "consumers are more resistant to £30,000 hatchbacks than they are £30,000 'SUVs'" isn't a factor.

Yes, it's a real bugbear describing these as if they're the same as an F-150. Although I've seen more of those as well.
x86 has survived, not despite its flukes, but because of them. The effort to learn around them increased the sunk costs that created an emotional block against moving off the platform.
A Prius will kill or seriously injure someone with something like 85% effectiveness of a larger vehicle, no?
No large-scale email scraper has the budget necessary to run the content it scrapes through a LLM. So as far as real-world goes, nothing changes: the .2 cents it would cost to run ChatGPT on a page to extract potentially obfuscated emails would cost magnitudes more than it could ever bring in revenues.

Regarding the examples provided, there is nothing there that a simple regex couldn't achieve, so I don't really see the benefit of introducing a LLM into the flow, besides making it slower and more costly. john [at] company [dot] com was never a safe obfuscation in the first place, and ~99% of text obfuscations are known (because they have to be read by a human ultimately, and conventions are a thing).
So you use soldered RAM. And the OS provides hardened memory areas that can't be dumped.
We have lots of snow and hills here in Norway. I bike year around. Studded tires in the winter. I always find the argument a bit funny, because on the worst snow days the roads are littered with cars and accidents. While I bike happily past.

Electric bikes solves the hills-problem for those that don't want to get sweaty. I see lots of parents shipping their kids around on cargo bikes.

I hate the argument about "bodily abled". What about all those that cannot drive? Lots of conditions where that's the case. Or even factors as age (young, old), money (car is expensive). A car centric society is far more excluding than one made for active modes of transport and public transport.

Additionally, one can of course make provisions for those that need a car because of handicaps. Would you be fine if we banned cars in the city centre, except for those not bodily abled? My experience is that those pushing HC as an argument doesn't do it in good faith.
Or like my other note at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150286

Visibility needs depend on your environment.
Yeah externalities in particular, like with CFCs or tributyltin, mess up incentives. A lot of individual benefit can be derived from pushing costs onto the general world and when the cost is individually hard to observe and/or spread out over time/space but magnified across massive numbers in total it can go on a long time. That said sometimes it's only "temporary" (which granted can be years or decades) until R&D catches up and figures out alternatives that still work but are just plain better. Like:

>Any boat owner knows the increase in speed and fuel economy from a clean hull is massive - and now you can’t get anything nearly as effective as TBT.

As far as I know there's been a lot of interesting progress on alternatives in just the last decade, even if that's not at all evenly distributed yet. I remember reading "Fouling Release Coatings: A Nontoxic Alternative to Biocidal Antifouling Coatings" [0] a decade ago as an interesting overview, and looking around seems like there has been significant progress since then. Advances in fluoropolymer brushes [1] looks pretty promising for example. Some of these may be more costly, but again the issue with the originals being "cheaper" is that they don't actually price in their true costs.

That said it would probably be more effective if there was a solid international framework and norms so that bans could be better coupled with future capital support for transition to more effective options once they come out (or best of all of course if they already exist). Including dealing with incentives around IP. If some new non/low-toxicity coatings appear that is easy for rich country users to immediately apply but folks in the Caribbean can't afford saying not merely "TBT is banned" but "we'll arrange you to get this replacement for cheap/free" might significantly reduce/eliminate ban evasion.

0: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cr200350v | https://sci-hub.st/10.1021/cr200350v

1: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00695
Except not many startups are 40 hour work committments.
The Chinese system where all books are in a central database gives them huge advantages in training AI.

I just realized that western companies are screwed because of the people who wanted to make a buck by creacting artificial scarcity.

I have been predicting for decades that IP laws would bring about the end of our civilization. I did not know how it would happen. Now I know.
Is it common in other professions for senior colleagues to opine so lengthily, definitively and frequently about not only every little detail about others' work practices, but their non-work life too? There's no end of blog posts like this where someone who's been around a bit (and sometimes not even that!) lays down the law about what's good and what isn't. And unless it's done with a lot of humility and nuance, my reaction is likely to be very negative, even if they're right (and/or I agree with them).
Michelin tried.. (is still trying?) with the “tweel”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweel
I came across this https://codebuy.org/
They certainly can't complain about someone else taking it from them when that's how they got it in the first place.
At the end of the day these are wars of opinion until someone checks back wether these gold platings actually make a difference
You haven't seen Florida drivers turn right on red. Also, is death the only measurement? Would you be happy to be paralyzed or maimed?
Highly recommend the NewPipe upstream repository within F-Droid, they usually fix breakage right away whereas F-Droid repository version can be a few days behind.
> I thought AV1 was as safe as it gets.

The only safe video codec are those 30 years old codec where all patents has expired.
Now do cubism.[0]

I'd ask for something in the vein of Escher's Relativity[1] but I'm not entirely sure how useful the result would be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism

[1] https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.54256.html
They also seem to have adjusted the Fiesta. I've had one as a rental car and felt like sitting on an elevated platform - which I didn't like. I thought: "So the Fiesta, of all models, is now a kind of SUV lite?!".
Would a VC have any other generic inspirational viewpoint? Looks like all his fad investments post 2014 get acqui-hired or dud out.

When digitization/automation/globalization are done right the disruption days are over.
I live in a smallish city in Mexico. For many years I had a Honda City, and I hated it the whole time because the streets are awful.

Which means I was always scraping the bottom of my car. Potholes, uneven pavement, damaged pavement etc. It was so bad the plastic coverings underneath tore apart and now I was dragging plastic everywhere I went.

Needless to say for my next car my main priority was ground clearance. I ended up getting a Jeep and now my problems are solved.

So that's my only point, I agree we should all have small eco cars. I would love to have a 2 seater and save on gas. But you have to live in a place with good infrastructure. A lot of cities in the third world are basically "off road" in practicality.

Especially in the third world a car can be an extraordinary purchase, people need their cars to not get damaged easily.
You should be able to use a Hong Kong or Singapore market Zojirushi in Europe with a UK -> Europe plug adaptor. HK and Singapore use UK plugs and 220/230 V 50 Hz as they were UK colonies.