skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this is just the consequences of our increasingly atomized car-dependent society going further and further down the chain of human misery. The average commute in the US is 26 minutes, meaning people spend roughly 1 in 16 of their waking hours behind the wheel, doing a task most people view as a begrudging obligation. Most people don't like driving, therefore they do not put great effort into driving, or seek to be better drivers which is why the majority of drivers are utterly mediocre at it. And because it's basically a necessity of life here, we can't genuinely punish people too badly for fucking up at it, no matter how deadly it is: our prison population is already massive on a per-capita basis, the last thing we need is even more people in that system.

The real problem is as the parent comment states, CAFE standards which have massively fucked with the incentives for car manufacturers to aggressively market previously SUVs and increasingly pickup trucks as family vehicles that are absolutely ridiculously oversized for their stated purpose (while also being remarkably and hilariously unable to actually carry cargo efficiently) and ludicrously inefficient, with all the blind-spots and difficulty to handle that that implies. Their higher stance and larger bodies make them infinitely more dangerous to pedestrians and smaller vehicles, which also incentivizes other drivers to buy the enormous fucking things, so if they get t-boned by someone driving them they don't have basically no chance of surviving. Which is not to say that a reasonably sized sedan can't also kill a pedestrian, but an Escalade has an infinitely better shot of managing it, both by size, and because the higher ride height greatly increases the odds of people going under the damn wheels.

Speaking of going under the damn wheels, there's been a huge increase in the number of kiddos going under the wheels of these big stupid things in recent decades, which is a uniquely American phenomenon occurring basically nowhere else because these enormous stupid vehicles do not make economic sense anywhere they aren't subsidized like they are here.
That's a weird thing to call cool and whoever was saying that was cool was wrong, of course.

If someone is a domestic abuser who smokes crack on the subway, I think they should go to prison for domestic abuse and be kicked off the subway for smoking crack on the subway.

I do hate that people smoke on the Philadelphia subway, although it's mostly cigarettes and not crack in my experience. I think those people should be kicked off the subway. I just don't think that's the sort of thing someone she ould go to jail for.
Show HN: I made a tool for interstitial journaling called Interstitch
Hi HN,

I wanted to share my app Interstitch which I made for interstitial journaling.

Interstitial journaling is taking notes on what you're working on while you do it. It can help with focus and clarity of thought, and makes it easier to pick up projects where you left off. It's often combined with the Pomdoro technique where you work on something for some set time (25 minutes - 1 hour) then take a break. I do Pomodoro sessions and each session is associted with an Interstitch session.

I'm currently working on a few different projects and was taking notes in a Notion doc and realized it would be nice to make a tool, that also collects time duration so I could see how long I was spending on each project.

I realized about half way through I was basically building a time-tracking tool, which is most often used for freelancers invoicing but in my case is more about personal productivity.

Completely free. Maybe add premium features at a future date but only if there's enough interest.

Hope someone out there finds this useful! Let me know if any bugs or issues, contact info is in my profile.
Can confirm I got just a 2" body lift on my truck and it feels... Empowering. I want to go higher now so I'll be buying a 2" lifted suspension kit, nothing crazy like the 4" my friend is going for (his truck looks amazing with it). Unfortunately it won't fit in my shed then so I need to build a carport before I do that.

The pedestrians are safe(ish). For now.
I found the book “Python Distilled” got me up to speed quickly after not doing a ton of Python for about a decade.
Funny that we both formatted the commands and everything xD
If it is unusable you just don't use it.

That any car can have a dead
/failing battery/fuel pump/whatever one morning or fail and leave you stranded on the road to an hospital has never been considered a safety risk.
Is this the same author? : https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2010/07/matt-welsh-promoted-fu...

He's come a long way from SN. I used once this lecture notes to self study sensor networks.
> I don't think I have ever had an interesting or engaging conversation with a stranger

How have you ever met a person? Everyone was a stranger to you at some point.
https://archive.ph/iEiJd
Why are you at the mercy of Amazon's algorithm?

Have you tried asking for recommendations from your librarian(s)? On my public library's website there's a form for this, and if I'm ever at a loss for what to read next (I usually go with recommendations from friends, family, and HN threads) I'd either ask this way or in person.

There's also the NPR Book Concierge, BookPage (paid for here by Friends of the Library), and the Libby app, with lists put together by librarians and a option to see similar books (based on keywords? Sometimes the list items don't make much sense, but I have found some good ones this way).
No, you can run in standard processes - there's even documentation [1] about hosting it in Kubernetes.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/deployment/...
I've been hearing about the end of programming for decades now.

I remember when a VP went to a Rational conference (remember those guys?) and came back all wide eyed saying that we were "this close!" to getting rid of the role of the 'programmer'. UML and Rational tools were the key, apparently, and they had some cool demos. This was early 2000's.

Sure, we have way more computing power, the tools are more impressive now and can actually be useful. But we are way overhyping this. Wake me up when machines can actually reason about the work they are producing.

As it stands, we just have a fancier compiler-like entity that can accept poorly specified inputs and often generates useful output, in a non deterministic way. That's impressive and would be considered science fiction not too long ago, but it's still just a tool.
Just in time for the _apparent_ CyberTruck release
Nope.

My SUV has the capability of hauling all the people and their stuff I regularly have to while ALSO towing a fully loaded horse or stock trailer.

I skip the missing pickup truck bed by using a trailer (that I can tow with our old car too).

I fully recognize its size and how if I didn't have a farm it would be 100% unnecessary.
I really hope not tbh, once you break that seal it will consume the entire language into nested anonymous function soup without all the facilities JS has accumulated over the years to mitigate it. Python is an iterator based language and it leads to some very nice code if you design with that
in mind.

It's really incredible how much such a small feature in the grand scheme of things `(function() { })()` influences all API and library design. Right now passing around functions in Python is ugly and reads as such which is enough of a deterrent for most people.
I suspect that this will be an unpopular opinion on HN, but I think this raises a really good question. I am a ($10/month) paying user of Kagi and I constantly find myself using !g to search with Google. As far as actual search results, Kagi seems fine (as do DDG and others, honestly), but I think I've come to expect far more than search results when I type a query into my address bar. Kagi offers a lot of great options that I really appreciate (paying instead of selling my data, search rank tweaking, etc.), but I think I've become really dependent on Google's wide variety of different widgets and tools in what we tend to call "search results".

I hate the thought of having to go back to Google full time, but it's really looking that way. Has anyone else experienced something similar?
https://archive.ph/hThfV
At the moment we're trying to get authors on the platform to build up the "marketplace" (although we're not a traditional marketplace of selling books).

The great thing about authors is they should be reading just as much as they write. So in a sense, we're able to build both sides of the coin by marketing to a single user from the start.
It doesn't do verbatim any more.
Right? Even when you remove selfish and inattentive drivers from the equation, you still have a human behind the wheel of the remaining vehicles. Those humans may be subject to things beyond their control such as glare, a sudden mechanical issue, a sneeze, or will simply make a mistake an humans are prone to doing. As a pedestrian we can’t blindly place responsibility for our own safety solely in the hands of the driver. It is still a shared responsibility.
I am referring to myself, as the one about to get psychotic. Sorry if I was unclear. Otherwise I agree with your points.
Ask HN: How to reach tech figures who care about art?
Longtime HN poster here, asking for your help on the eve of the 15th anniversary of my first project, which has since grown into a tiny non-profit organization. Our goal is simple: to organize, preserve, and make accessible the art history of our time via online archives of exhibition and performance documentation. We've collected nearly 700,000 images, documents and videos and archived them rigorously. They're all free to the public at contemporaryartlibrary.org. People who are doing research into contemporary art know us and use the website, and we're already the top resource for this kind of information by a mile. Our sites were used around 6 million times last year, and we're already above that for 2023.

We have the rust and support of artists and art spaces and have access to a massive amount of incredible documentation. But we're too small to be able to do the work of gathering it, organizing it, uploading it, and then hunting for missing material. Our limiting factor is archivist hours, basically. So: we're trying to learn how to more properly fundraise despite not knowing many wealthy people directly. We're doing oru best within the art world, but it occurred to me that our idea board member/supporter is probably a young-ish tech person of means who understands the power of the internet as a means of providing access to knowledge and who likely has some pre-existing interest in contemporary art and would like to learn more about it.

So: how does one network within the "tech world" to find people with a specific interest? How do I go about meeting people who might be in a position to help us (ie. routinely need tax deductions in substantial amounts) and are interested in contemporary art or artists generally?

Any specific or process ideas would be gratefully appreciated! We're a 501c3 tax deductible non-profit based in California but providing our services to people around the world.
Replace "manually read through every file" with "run your security code scanner against every file" and it becomes less nonsense, but just as applicable.

In reality this really isn't how code scans are done, so it's still a little silly, but I could theoretically see something like this being a desire.
yes, gas prices are kept artificially low... but I think weight tax is an easier sell than gas tax
F# fields are immutable unless you specify they are mutable. The question I posed cannot be solved with exclusively immutable fields. This is basic computer science, and ChatGPT has the knowledge but fails to infer this while providing flawed code that appears to work.

An inexperienced developer would eventually shoot themselves in the foot, possibly long after integrating the code thinking it was correct and missing the flaws. FYI, your Python code works because of the mutation "extend()":

alice.children.extend([bob, carol])
How many pedestrian fatalities are there due to collisions with trucks going more than 60 mph? I'd guess very few, because nearly all the places with speed limits above 60 mph in the US are also places with few pedestrians. Often they are places were pedestrians are prohibited.
https://archive.ph/rmPZe
No, the problem begins when you get in the car and begin driving it. I'm not pro jail in general so I probably agree with you there, but, you're speaking as though "driving at all" is a given. It is not and it is a big part of them problem that people have that view. It's honestly really disgusting to see this blase attitude. You must take responsibility for putting people's lives in danger and when you drive a car you are doing that, you make that choice every time you get behind the wheel. There are better, less convenient ways of transport, if you care about human life at the expense of your inconvenience you would use those, when you don't you make the choice to endanger lives. I still drive, this is the view I take every time I am behind the wheel, it seems the only responsible position.
How much memory does the sort command end up using; 2N?
Miyazaki’s films are boring? What?
California already treats every vehicle with a bed as commercial (& thus weight fee), very rare exceptions. Although there are subgroups within that rightfully based on vehicle weight.
Wait until the AIs get tired of relearning a new javascript framework every couple years.
This is absolutely correct.

Suburbia is subsidized —- the cost of infrastructure is often 10x the property taxes.

Millions of people are accustomed to paying $1,000/year in taxes to live on a street that costs $9,000 to maintain. “Asking” them to pay the true cost of their decisions is considered politically untenable —- until the city itself goes bankrupt.
I’ll consider purchasing one used, in violation of this agreement. Seems like a fun adventure and could probably learn something useful along the way.
PCI-Sig Announces "CopprLink" PCI Express Cable Name
IANAL but this paragraph is completely wrong:

> As we’ve noted, a key part of the ongoing case was just how much Google was paying for these defaults (over $26.3 billion in 2021). But that seems to actually argue against an abuse of a monopoly position argument. Because if Google were such a monopoly, then it wouldn’t need to pay as much to get those deals. There just wouldn’t be other offerings to compete.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what constitutes a monopoly. It is not just "Google is the only usable search engine, therefore it's a monopoly, therefore it must be fined." A monopoly is typically someone who is already a leader in an industry, using their vast resources to make it incredibly difficult or even nearly impossible for competition. A judge may very well find that what Google is doing with Apple constitutes monopolistic practices.
https://archive.ph/MxHTT
Matt Chapman has a day job as animator/writer at Disney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1480095/). I'm not sure what Mike Chapman is up to.
They still manage to put out H*R content every so often. Usually it's just a yearly Halloween costume montage, but there have been a few small games like Marzipan Beef Reverser and the recent Dangeresque point and click adventure remaster that released a few weeks ago.
If you were capable of getting hired by Google… why would you open yourself up to so much legal liability?
I would add developing “self discipline” as a third. It easy to do work when you’re at work. It’s not as easy to set aside fun stuff during personal time to do what needs to be done.
YouTube will show labels on videos that use AI
https://archive.ph/8YrhB
His impact will be essentially zero if he's a responsible defensive driver. I've had a license for 30+ years, have driven millions of miles, and have never, not once, been at fault in an accident.
Well said! Troy alone is a great example.
I also wrote a web app but it adds missing punctuations and chapters to further enhance readability.
The AI models run locally in your browser, no ChatGPT used at all.

An iOS app is also coming soon so you’ll be able to listen and read while offline

https://www.appblit.com/scribe
I started using DDG a week ago instead of Google, and honestly I don't see that much of a difference. If I don't get a good result I go back to Google only to find it doesn't give me anything better than DDG. Might it be that people are just used to Google and not that it really produces better results?
Princess mononoke, totoro, spirited away, kiki, porco rosso, floating castle, castle in the sky, basically all of them except the last ones IMO (ponyo, the wind rises)
BBB was the first one that was really famous for some reason, so I guess it has the benefit of familiarity. That's what makes it a good video equivalent to Lorem Ipsum I guess
Cereal Killer: Check this out, it's a memo about how they're gonna deal with those oil spills on the 14th.

Acid Burn: What oil spills?

Lord Nikon: Yo, brain dead, today's the 13th.

Cereal Killer: Whoa, this hasn't happened yet!
> Keyboard handling is so fundamental that a text editor must deal with it, perfectly, from the beginning.

That would be nice but in reality it's such a tricky and subtle problem that nobody does it perfectly. All the operating systems and browsers are buggy in different ways, nevermind anything with smaller budgets. The deeper you get into proper text handling, the more you will realize that nobody has solved it.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/driver-hit...

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a30607392/group-ride-florida-...

https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/crime/2019/04/16/no-c...

etc etc etc
The app has been glitched recently and only shows the thumbs up count from the first video you've watched.
Interesting that our experiences differ so much.

Are you in an high heat/humidity market?

Or might just be some producer which don't have a big market share in Germany.

Can't find data on this case. Had hope the German tüv would go into failure statistics, but nothing.
Even the wikipedia page is confusing for someone who knows basic thermodynamics.

> PDRCs can be broadband in their thermal emittance capacity, meaning they possess high emittance in both the solar spectrum and atmospheric LWIR window (8 to 14 μm), or selective emitters, meaning they narrowband emit longwave infrared radiation only in the infrared window

It's not really that you want to avoid emitting thermal radiation per se at the frequencies where the atmosphere is opaque. It's that by the second law your thermal (i.e., passive) emissivity is equal to your absorptivity, and you want your absorptivity to be low in frequencies where the atmosphere is opaque and hence is warm. In other words, by basic thermo your passive behavior at each frequency is some value ranging between insulative (reflective) to absorbtive (transparent). If insulative, you will neither thermally emit nor absorb at that frequency. If absorbtive, you will both thermally emit and absorb at the frequency. So you want to be insulative at the frequencies where you would be thermally coupled to the warm atmosphere and you want to be conductive at the frequencies where you would be thermally coupled to cold outer space.
Is the future leads to a swarm of disconnected A55
cores each running a single application?

don't you dare tease me like that
That is not the issue. Just being a better search engine does not mean that they are not a monopoly abusing their position in the search engine market.
I honestly can’t fathom how someone would not be mindblown by these three movies.
They're more-or-less the same thing.
I think the author's recommendation has some needed context:

> Recommendation: either make your language statically typed or dynamically typed (preferably statically typed, but that's a different topic), as gradual typing just doesn't make sense for new languages.

The "for new languages" part is really important. Gradual typing makes a lot of sense when you are trying to retrofit some amount of static checking onto an existing enormous corpus of dynamically typed code. That's the case for TypeScript with JavaScript and Elixir with Elixir and Erlang.
>So a C++ plugin would understand CMake files for example.

No one understands CMake files
As another data point (possibly useful), we were at the La Quinta that is midway up the island but located on the beach. There's a pier just down from there that has a decent view (through binoculars or a small telescope).

Even there, when it went up, the door to the beach (which we had open to see if we could hear it) was rattling, as well as the windows in the room.

Obviously there is something to be said for being at the park, but I suspect there is something to be said for being a bit further north - particularly if you want to avoid the worst of the crowds leaving afterwards.

Do plan to spend some time on the island afterwards - as the main route back is a longish two lane bridge that will back up significantly for a couple hours as the early birds try to rush out.
IcePanel (YC W23) is hiring in Vancouver, Canada
I read Hacker News a lot...
> It's that most people in the US like car-centric culture, and like suburbs.

To put a finer point on it, people who like suburbs live in them. People who dislike them move elsewhere - forfeiting any voting rights they might have had where the problems are most acute. So who's left to fight the NIMBYs and car-lovers where it matters? Too damn few, by a long shot ... and this outcome was obvious to anyone who was actually thinking about society or the long term instead of just themselves and the next few years.

If you want to solve anything, instead of just shifting the problems around, you have to solve them where people are and will remain. Stay and fight. Unfortunately that's hard so almost nobody does it.
Are new ISA solving this? Time to move to Risc V?
Higher level languages did make the ability to write a program in assembly language far less relevant.

LLMs could end something akin to that, but not programming itself.
"Nobody understands how large AI models work."

I do not possess a degree, I do possess a lifetime of common sense which is the lens I used to review the good Dr's video.

We will become the Eloi.
> car is crap in places with poor roads and snow

My FWD Volvo Station wagon would like a word with you

There are (or were) plenty of small cars that did great off road that are no longer sold in the US, if I was looking for a new car and could buy one in the US I'd consider something like the Sizuki IGNIS where it's got 4WD and can hold people comfortably.
No shows in Camelot? Outrageous
ChatGPT

Start with ChatGPT
I wish Oculinm wasn't quite so boutique. GPD Win 4 handheld and Minisforum UM780 have a port but generally consumer gear lacks it.

TB is reasonably close enough, but Oculink I think should hypothetically be cheaper, since can be a physical link rather than needing fancy USB4 transceivers.

I wonder how radical a departure CopprLink is going to be from Oculink, in terms of form factor. Supporting PCIe 6.0 seems like a mighty task!
Don't forget the brief period when anyone wanting the favour of the VCs needed to do a chatbot! Ran headlong into Microsoft Tay, and no-one ever talked about it again. LLMs are actually the _third_ AI bubble (after Tay-style chatbots and self-driving cars/over-ambitious CV stuff in general) this decade. Maybe the fourth, if you count the rise and fall of Alexa-type things, though that was a smaller bubble and is stretching the meaning of 'AI' almost to breaking point.

But surely, this will be the one that works out.
Worth trying and testing. After 32 years of eating vegetarian, this radical change was worth every penny.
What about Julia?
But What Do We Do If postalrat Is Legitimately Better?
I had someone on a one-wheel approach an intersection at the same speed as me and stay hidden behind my 3" wide A-pillar the entire time.