skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you describe is actually becoming common.

What I want is something in cars that makes it impossible to go over X inside city bounds etc. The tech for knowing the speed limit isn't good enough yet to be used for limiting, but some kind of max limit in an area a bit over the highest speed limit would help a lot.

Electric scooters have geofencing and speed limiters. My drone has gps zones it wont fly. Electric bikes have speed limiters. But you can just take your car and blast 150+ down a residential street if you'd like. Just insane. It's a solved problem, just need enforcement.
The beauty is that one does not even have to break the law to get a wider perspective this way. Getting caught or not getting caught for a crime is another thing all together.
The professor who ran the course has left a comment on that article linking to this web page: https://www.landhortnursery.org/biology-courses.html

> The BIO848NV Cadaver Dissection class will no longer be a fee-based course. It will be converted into a for-credit class, to be offered Fall 2024.

Given that his comment is apparently only a month old and he defended offering this fee-based course because it helped preparing cadavers for other for-credit classes, it seems this change happened within the past month. I wonder what motivated this change given the tone of his comment.
> It was also about co-ops, unions and non-profits.

Those all sound like things that would exist just fine in a capitalist system. It's just "free agreement between individuals to create organisations that can only compete based on rules set out by the government". They can all exist in that framework, and do.

Co-ops are just a type of ownership structure, like any other. Unions are a condition of employment agreement between employee and employer. Non-profits, like charities, are just a type of governance and taxation arrangement that exists fine in that system.
> Repair your stuff, or get it repaired - Clothes

I know some people bark about the non-technical stuff on HN, but a post about darning changed my life. When I get a hole in my jeans these days I will actually fix them rather than just buy a new pair. It’s frankly saved me thousands of dollars and is pretty relaxing and satisfying to do.

Took some digging, it’s apparently not up anymore

https://web.archive.org/web/20190321220452/https://dieworkwe...
I'm sorry but this is the ultimate definition of a solution looking for a problem.

Sorry you've wasted your time coding this because in reality the solution is already built into macOS: enable the "require passsword after screen saver begins" setting in system preferences.

When you need to clean the keyboard, just activate your screensaver (easily done via configuring a hot-spot). Job done.
Well, I'm in the UK but not a driver (cyclist by choice). My point is that the black boxes should be almost mandatory (or at least fitted by default) in order to detect health problems which I don't think the insurance company provided boxes do. Have it be a standardised device and provide the data to the owner so that they can decide on whether or not to provide that data to third parties (probably worth having anonymised data available to the government too). It could be a very useful early warning of a number of conditions as well as providing an incentive for drivers to pay attention.
I really wonder how many people still believe Blender should have stayed in 2.79 UI paradigm today.
It's easy to find out if someone is driving as though they are impaired, less easy to find out if they actually are. Medical emergencies spring to mind as something that will be hard to distinguish.

How many people rushing to the hospital with a pregnant wife in the back will no longer make it before giving birth?
Laws of this kind always have a string of unintended consequences attached.

Imagine if a robber, intent on making sure you can't flee with your car, douses you with a bottle of vodka.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. I'm not particularly unhappy about getting certain drivers off the roads.
What's the acceptable ratio of lives saved to lives lost? Because this will kill at least a few people who are desperately trying to get to a hospital or flee a disaster zone.
And his late paranoia wasn't only present in his work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24468452
Here's the video of the talk associated with linked the slide deck, I haven't finished it yet but it seems like the benefit is making the life of the bpf programmer easier by supporting something like a "filter chain" of bpf programs and some nice API's for adding / removing and semantics for combining them. Hopefully someone else can expand on this.

https://youtu.be/EM09k066pB8?si=9UvNXGMcrLuNf7Q9
Hollow-Face Illusion
How exactly does this violate your privacy, assuming the data is analysed inside the car itself?

It's a massive violation of an individual's freedoms, but not everything has to be about privacy all the time. Your car deciding it doesn't want to drive because its sensors decided you steer too funnily impairs your freedom of movement, the privacy aspect is minor in comparison in my opinion.

I'm also not too happy about the prospect of cars, which have been proven to be hackable remotely, having yet another point where an evildoer may insert motor control inhibitions. Perhaps a shitty car will let the media console inject false data about driving behaviour to trigger the system, or perhaps a particularly bad car will allow the kill switch signal to be injected directly. Either way, if I were a highway robber it worse, I'd start investigating the wireless stacks of cars common in rural areas.

With how much data car manufacturers are already sucking out of you as a driver (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...), this kill switch is such a minor thing to add to the list.
> create a maximized window with as little decorations as possible using a black background so we can clean the display too.

That's called sleep mode.
I believe insurance companies already look at your location when deciding premiums, so this would just give them greater granularity on your actual driving habits.
Certainly for my own scripts it's a lot less than "99%". It won't even run on most of them as it will just exit on some fatal error:

Special variables like $argv and $status.

Most array things (e.g. ${(o)arr} for an ordered array)

(( .. )) conditionals

"short loops" without "do".

repeat loops.

You could rewrite these things, but what errors remain where shellcheck is helpful in zsh?
> The first humans were kinda dumb

How can you assert this ? Do you have any evidence?
Strongly disagree on this. Where I am, a lawyer will tell you squarely if something is criminal. If the facts or law are unclear, they may advise about the balance of risk that creates, but the conclusion (if x, therefore crime) will be clear.
Agreed. I am willing to pay for a Photoshop license out of pocket than getting paid to use GIMP. Every time someone says "use GIMP" I wonder how much time they have spent designing/drawing anything and what level of experience they have. It is not a matter of different UX -- it is a matter of whether the UX makes sense at all. GIMP stands in your way of productivity.

And I notice UX is a big problem for GNU software from that era, and to some extent community driven open source software in general. Of course there are notable exceptions like IINA, but often it is like "we have this feature" and are done with it and nobody bothers to work on improving the UX.
Given the author works at Isovalent, I think it's a safe bet that Cilium will be among the first projects to adopt this.
Yeah, when parking is not allowed somewhere it is always for a reason.
As a European I am using my bicycle to move around the city and the amount of times I got into dangerous situations because people park wherever they like was too high. I started reporting the violations to the police because I am sick of this antisocial behaviour.
Integrated Compiler Explorer looks pretty neat!
>Buy goods/services from your friends It’s not weird unless you make it weird

No, but it might change the nature of the relationship, which is a risk. If the goods/services don't work out then you risk ruining the friendship. Appreciating the risks involved is important.
Btw, that factorial translates to S (K (S S (K (S K)))) (S (K (S (K (S S (K K))) K)) (S I (K (S (K (S I)) (S (K (S S (K (S (K (S S (S K))) (S (K (S (K S) K))))))) K)))))
over the basis {S,K,I} that the paper uses. Widening the basis with combinators C and W allows for the less verbose C (B C (C (B B (C I (B W (B (B (C I)) (C B (B W (B B))))))) K)) I.
The confusion is on the other end, it's a made up problem, you don't need any tracking to solve this, and people are not that dumb to be unable to come up with sorting algorithms besides "most globally viewed" and "most recent"
Besides, you ignore a use case where no recommendation is even needed, like only having a single video you opened paying without all the junk. No algorithm is also an option
This article is about the Qt Creator IDE, not about the Qt Framework, though.
Population of England and Wales grows at fastest rate since 1962
> However, I've long thought that motor vehicles should have some kind of black box that monitors various driving metrics such as how "smooth" the driving is. This could provide valuable data to insurance companies and they should provide a sizable discount for drivers who agree to provide that data and have good driving scores.

That just opens the door to the driving version of "your grandma had cancer, so you won't get health insurance". Unfortunately, it also already exists.
More like, why take antibiotics if you are currently underwater and drowning.
Driving on public roads might be a privilege, but I don't think you can say the same about private roads.
I would warmly recommend everyone to read The Power Broker[0] to get a tiny glimpse into how innocuous things in different laws get planted and combined into getting wildly different outcomes from public perception.

It's also gotten way worse nowadays.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker
I mean... It's definitely not mandatory, like at all, when I travel alone for work I usually get takeout. The only time I'll ever eat at the restaurant is at the bar and only if I'm also getting several drinks.
TDD Outcomes
It seems odd to treat the suggestion that unnecessary emails cause excessive carbon emisions and the suggestion that unnecessary air travel causes excessive carbon emissions as the same or similar.
Blender is much older than you think.
Does he have any pull with the current team? Because God damn, the new color scheme is hard to read. It's so low-contrast all the roads and grass and water look like one big aqua smear.

For me Google Maps has sucked ever since they merged Maps and Navigate into a single app, preventing you from using many Maps functions while navigating somewhere.
It doesn't inspire confidence when your spy agencies start stealing ideas from the villain spies who got caught in a TV show from the 90s
> Much of the criticism Google received around Chrome and Search, especially around supposed conflicts of interest with Ads, was way off base (it's surprising how often coincidences and mistakes can appear malicious).

What a coincidence that in the only country outside the US where Google search has a worthy competitor in the open market, search engine choosing dialog should not appear in all chromium-based web browsers.
Certainly this is the care for the users

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=81578

https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/kz5cn/google_disabl...
Why Mr. Beast's Humanitarian Efforts Work
Increased Error Rates and Latencies in Intercom Europe
two things come to mind:

- good ideas too early don't grow, but they reemerge as genes for subsequent generations (closure, pattern matching, immutability etc are all back in fashion)

- there's a paradoxical idea of great pioneering ideas that die before becoming mainstream on their own but need future lesser vessels to shine anonymously. somehow the past was better but couldn't be.. how many other nice things were partially lost ?
This already exists and has stopped people I know personally from driving like idiots.

https://www.boxymo.ie
Sure, but they would still just be a whole long list of floats. There wouldn't be any context based on property names to gleam out of the JSON, just a long long long long list of floats.
He's been saying the same things, always focused on google and never apple, for a long time, and that's also why he was called in the first place.
If you were to learn to code again, first, would you?

Of course. I can’t imagine being unable to program things in a world of routine. Non-CS programming isn’t even a profession to me, it’s a skill like PC/Excel user. Everyone should learn it to keep up.

If yes, How would you go about it and why?

Assuming the present time, I’d find someone like myself, who would tell me to learn a couple of my current stacks and also explained (1) what to never touch or do and (2) how all other tech works, from top to bottom, because it’s important to clear misconceptions and as an overview. Otherwise I would be clueless and used the same BFS method to navigate this vast space. As this person be unlikely to spend so much time on me, I’d ask you know who.

In contrast to other posts itt, I’d also avoid spending time in “the industry” and worked my way to clients directly. It would reduce (or never induce) my coding standards anxiety. Also good from the income/freedom pov.
> You can try this but I've had at least one service (Xbox Live) manage to miraculously get my new card information without me giving it to them. Cancelling the card will cancel any service but just letting it expire and getting a new card with the same number and different expiration date might not.

Depending on where you are, companies can get updated payment information from your financial institution. I use revolut virtual/disposable cards for many things for this reason. I think privacy.com is the US equivalent.
I also don't really see the point. Insurance is for risks that will wipe you out. Insuring things for levels you (and therefore likely your friends) can afford is basically just a stochastic wealth transfer to whoever is better at estimating risks.
> It's a solved problem, just need enforcement.

In reality it's a political problem. Here in the UK, certain right-wing media outlets and personalities are often complaining about the "War on Motorists" which is ironic as when you look at RTC data, it's the motorists that are massacring pedestrians and other road users.
As the civilization progresses, people should be _allowed_ to work less. Workers from the fin-de-siècle will be appalled that we still work 8 hours a day and average real wages stagnate since 1970s despite all the tech and effectivity improvements.
> But on the other hand I'm sorry to inform you that your insurance has gone up, because we found that drivers in your neighbourhood are in general 2498% more likely to have accidents.

These types of statistical analyses are exactly why insurance is as cheap as it is.

I'm no fan of all the discounts insurance companies hand out for handing over private data like driving behaviour or healthcare stuff, but insurance companies with no risk management can't compete in any kind of open market.

I would argue that in terms of broader accessibility of insurance, these microtargeting approaches may actually be an improvement for many. If you live in a troublesome neighbourhood you may be paying through the nose for getting categorised as "one of the bad ones", but these individual data points can help prove you're a responsible driver and escape some of the cost of having a shitty start in life.

I'm still against these data collection practises ("you want privacy? Live in a rich neighbourhood and get a college degree!", plus a lack of any kind of law preventing these companies from sharing or selling that data) but there are solid arguments in favour of feeding insurance companies more data.
None of what you've said eliminates the issue highlighted in the title
Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor (2004) [pdf]
The claim that those fact-checking websites are "gaslighting" is itself gaslighting. If you actually read the statements they make, it's clear they are debunking the claim that the law requires a kill-switch that can be activated remotely. They correctly state that the law requires a switch that can disable the car when it detects an impaired driver. Just because not everyone is as up in arms about the law as the author of this article, doesn't mean they are misinformed.
If this is the case, the finding sounds trivial. I thought it was literally a theorem that hubs emerge from networks if you minimize distance or wiring cost.
SLS already did a successful moon orbit last year. Starship hasn't even made it into orbit so far.
Related pet peeve: always writing variables as $UPPER_CASE in shell scripts.

Useful: $UPPER_CASE for exported variables ("super globals"), $lower_case for anything else. Can also use $lower_case for function locals and $UPPER_CASE for exported and script global variables (stylistic preference; both are reasonable).

Not useful or reasonable: $ALWAYS_UPPER_CASE_NO_MATTER_WHAT.

I suppose people started doing it because they saw $EXPORTED_VARIABLE and thought "oh, I need to always upper case it", not realizing what that meant. And then after that more copy-copy of this "style".
> there is no giant warehouse at the commodity exchange that stores the commodities

Actually for many commodities there is: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/metals/base/base-metals-war...

But of course not for electricity.
GIMP ui is hard for new users and because of the extremely hard learning curve most people give up on it. People overreact about the gui complains but people that have been using it for years have blinders same is the case for most of its developers.

Similar is the case for calibre another popular open source project I have been using it from almost its inception so I don't see the problems that new users face that have grown up with a new gui rules and interfaces.

Both of these have pain points for new users but the legacy behind the code makes it impossible for the current devs to change it. So when people say don't like it then you should fork it is actually the only real way that it can move forward. And then if it is good enough change it might get back into the main fork otherwise it won't.
Fused Breadth-First Probabilistic Traversals on Distributed GPU Systems
This is about the Qt Creator IDE, not about the Qt framework!
Can someone shed light on why the fundraising goals are so high? Is it because of music licenses? I cannot imagine the hosting fees being that much.
> Perhaps it would be a better idea to solve diseases by dismantling this system

Why not both?
Exactly. But I'd also add that China surely performed a fair amount of 'lobbying' (cash in envelopes, disinterested campaign contributions, girls in hotel rooms) to facilitate understanding the benefits of Chinese manufacturing. I'm not anti China, but realistic. You use whatever arms at your disposal.
In Switzerland with have the swisstopo map which is really good in term of readability. I often refer to it to explain what a good map is.
Krita isn't that new. Between using another program and fixing the gimp UI, most graphics people aren't going to learn to program because they love GIMP so much. It's nice that people still try GIMP, once everyone 'knows' GIMP's UI sucks they'll just use krita for everything and it'll be forgotten.
Have you tried to get ChatGPT to answer questions about factual topics at a level of junior grad student/hobbyist independent researcher?

It will generally tell you those things which are known to someone who has neither done detailed research, nor gained specific insights into that topic. (Together with made-up stuff.)
> If you're murdered in DC you're more likely to be murdered by someones fists than by a gun. When you compare that to Alaska, you're more likely be murdered in DC by fire arm, fists, knives, etc than all causes in Alaska.

You’re reading that chart incorrectly, half of DC murders are by handguns. Handguns is the dark blue at the bottom, the hands fists feet rate is the grey at the top of the bar chart.

> What are you talking about?

In 2019 ~2 million rifles and ~0.5 million shotgun vs ~3.5 million handguns were sold yet the murder rate by weapon type is vastly in favor of handguns. It’s like we can treat them as separated categories.

So what we care about is not Homicides per Firearm Owner, but Homicides per Handgun Owner etc. DC wanted a handgun ban, not an all weapon ban because over half of DC murders are by handgun.
I don't know what it's like in USA, but where I'm from insurance premiums change a lot from location to location, so much that some people change their residence to a cheaper city.
Steel structure won't be necessarily heavier cause density and strength are almost thrice as much as aluminium ? I think the issue with steel is that it for the required strength, the structure would be too thin that it would buckle under compression much sooner.
To be fair we didn’t have most of the existing infrastructure ten or even five years ago. Once the time is right it expands a lot faster than you expect it to.
> car determines that you are driving like a drunk person, so shuts down

1. Surely algos don't produce false positives. You will be hostage to an obscure algorithm than can shutdown your car at any moment.

2. If it's possible to abuse this, it will be abused. This is another Trojan Horse under the guise of safety.
They have been doing this in the US, for some time.

Fleet cars tend to have these systems, as do trucks. I have a friend that drives 18-wheelers, and often complains about getting nagged by Safety, when he does something out of bounds, or, more often, when drivers around him drive out of bounds.

It’s definitely an insurance thing, with his company. They probably save millions per year, using that system. I explained to him that’s why they’ll never make an “exception” for him, because he’s skilled and experienced. The system is there for all the low-rent knuckleheads they hire.
What is it keying that to tho? Like at some point, there's has to be some flowchart that integrates the floats/ratios whatever to certain human readable concepts/keywords?
> A lot of insurers will give you a discount if you let them fit such a "telematics" box to your car.

And for bonus points (pun not intended) will suspend your insurance because they think you're speeding even when you're not [0], with not a lot of recourse.

Driving without insurance could get you a £300 fine and 6 points on your license - enough to cancel it in one go if qualified less than 2 years, which is usually the target audience of these boxes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67335868
Fully agree. I was playing in the early 90ies with warez CDs and played with most photo editing packages at the time as a poor teenager.

Photoshop for me was actually the worst software package of the bunch from a casual user, and never understood why it was so popular. My impression was that without plugins it was next to worthless.

As I migrated to full-time linux early, gimp wasn't perfect to what I was used to, but it was pretty ok. The ui is a bit different, but nothing extreme. I really don't see the parallel with blender: blender today still requires a minimum of RTFM to get going, while you can do almost everything with gimp just by trial and error.

I assume there are nuances you encounter as you get more deep into photo editing. But as a newcomer, and my experience with greenfield colleagues to both, is that this is just an internet trope. You get used to one, and complain about that "the other is not the same". This is the dumbest form of complaining ever.

I've attempted multiple times to use krita for example after reading HN and seeing the praise, and while I agree it has a somewhat more intuitive ui, for actual photo editing (that is, not drawing), I still prefer gimp.