skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Looks like they pay about 40% of total RUC revenue.

So the other 60% is paid by people wanting goods and services, even if they themselves don't have a car?

> About 750000 personal light vehicles below 3500kg pay RUC charges - a lot of that is deisel personal vehicles

Yes, because your source says petrol vehicles pay fuel excise directly. It also points out "Unlike Europe, there are relatively few diesel passenger cars in New
Zealand, which may be a reflection of effects of having to pay RUC."

Where is the excise tax going?

I see motorcycles don't pay an RUC. I assume because they are all petrol.

> The RUC revenue for heavy vehicles is supposed to be assigned to road costs caused by heavy vehicles.

Yes, your source says: "Heavy vehicles pay substantially more than light vehicles, largely because the CAM includes an exponential calculation for the road wear component but also reflecting the need they create for stronger bridges and other structures, and the additional road space they occupy."

and "The weight related damage costs are allocated according to the so called “4th power rule”. This is written as ESA = (laden weight/axle factor)^4 x load factor x number of axles. The “4th power rule” is based on historical research from the USA, South Africa and NZ, and is widely accepted as a rule of thumb for road design."

A bicycle of 120 kg (including rider) has 1/10th the laden weight of a vehicle so the ESA should be about 1/10,000 th as much. In practice the exponential doesn't work that way ("Vehicles weighing less than around 6 tonnes do almost no damage to roads") but the point stands that bicycle roads are significantly cheaper to build and maintain than ones handling cars.

A bicycle takes at most 1/5th space as a car, so the space related costs should also be much smaller.

I don't know about NZ but in the US bicycles are generally prohibited from highways, which are also more expensive to build than city streets.

> That implies council rates pay about 1/3 of costs which is a similar ratio to your earlier calcs.

My earlier calcs had the NLTF paying under 1/3 of the costs for city roads in Christchurch the rest by other ratepayers and other sources.

> Hard to calculate better because a lot of the common costs are towards national infrastructure rather than local.

Yes, that is why I don't think looking at NLTF numbers gives a good idea of who pays what for the roads in Christchurch.

It still doesn't seem that the money spent on the new 101 km of bike paths is all that outrageous, given that it seems proportionate to the number of users or predicted users.
People change over time.

I graduated college absolutely certain I would be a day trader on Wall Street for the rest of my life.

And I did that for about 7 years.

But 5 years in or so I started to realize I didn’t quite like it. I actually was more interested in writing code to solve my trading problems. But what really appealed to me there was the writing code bit.

It took about a full year of my mini identity crisis for me to realize, there were other jobs out there I could enjoy. And the career my 20 year old self had picked wasn’t my ultimate path.

It’s OK to change directions.

Continue to reflect on what you want for yourself. Don’t try to predict too far out because it will likely change. But think about the next year or three, where do you want to be?

Once you have a rough idea in mind you can think backwards about what steps are needed to get there.

Hang in there, self reflection is tough but very worthwhile.

Your previous experience absolutely has and will NOT go to waste. I can’t tell you how many times my finance experience has helped me at my software jobs or just in life.

While it may not be directly related to your new job, that experience is there, helping you in more ways than you realize.
Have you tried using an LLM to write code to any kind of standard? I recently spent two hours trying to get GPT 4 to build a fiddly regex and ultimately found a better solution on Stack Overflow. In my experiments it also produced lackluster concurrent code.
So you just start a notebook and then what?
A colleague of mine came from a major aviation design company before joining tech and said they were in a state of culture shock at how critical systems were designed and monitored. Even if there are no hard real time requirements for a billing system, this guy was surprised at just how lax tech design patterns tended to be.
Hey maybe you can get together with the grand unified pure pipeline dataflow functions theory guy and make some kind of HN self-help group.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Hoc_Committee_on_the_Pale...
> Clearly we’re talking about browser exploits in this particular line of comments, not privacy

You could've re-read the thread before posting such an obviously false comment.

Here's the first mention of privacy and security in this thread:

> I think firefox focusing on performance, customization, and security/privacy is smart.

I also heavily disagree with your view that spyware has nothing to do with security, and your extremely narrow view of what counts as security exploits. The Chromium specific APIs are riddled with security issues as I mentioned in my other reply.
In my case, if I have a server to manage I'm probably using Ansible, but I'm sure everyone has their own preferred tool, unless they like directly configuring things manually.
I briefly got super excited because I thought this was about the Province of New Brunswick, in Canada... :(

Still cool I suppose! :)
I shut down my work machine at the end of the day if it has written to the swap space; else I just close the lid.

I always shut it down on Friday evenings though.
You’re right, and I personally hope it does end up with bifurcation. Because the alternative if it continues on its current trajectory is far worse. It’s astonishing how many countries have given up massive amounts of sovereignty over their own legislative power to a US-EU coalition that seeks to rewrite the whole worlds taxation and regulatory frameworks to suit their own interests.

It’s framed as anti money laundering, anti tax avoidance, anti terrorism ect… but it’s really just the worlds most powerful governments trying to rewrite the laws of every other country in the world using non-legislative processes. Pillar 1 is a great example of that, most environmental treaties are too, and so is the fact that just about every foreign aid commitment comes attached with a treaty that requires countries to sign up to ICSID arbitration (here’s a great interview on how monumentally corrupt that system is: https://youtu.be/vDsp2apG5zQ?si=7IusNjr-E3SgmE6S).

Annexation would actually be a preferable outcome imo. At least then people would actually know what was happening in their own countries, rather than just being endlessly frustrated that their governments seem to be serving everybody other than its own citizens, all the while generally having no idea what any of these systems are, or that they even exist.
What are some good looking year-view wall calendars? The ‘at-a-glace’ stuff and related things you find at staples etc look too businessy for my taste. Anyone have pointers to better options? I like the clean design of the OP’s calendar pages.
> what is the point using it rather than just run qemu?

risc-v qemu is not really fast enough for desktop gui work, even with virgl acceleration (it does make it barely usable though) its still too slow for most stuff like that especially gnome....
there are a good number of games where you can get away with one
It's going to be an interesting future where AI will let criminals have incredible skill faking all aspects of scams like this.

the forms, the fake law school, the fake school website, the fake law website, fake reviews, etc.

It will take more and more resources to verify minor things.x
TIL automated decision making isn't legal in UK/EU.
> I never heard that they do that.

Not sure how you missed it, as it's not a new thing. Straight from the horses mouth, if that helps: :)

https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/pc-performance/overprovisio...

Note that it's not just a Kingston thing, it's common across SSD manufacturers. Or at least with the major ones.
I should have put the /s tag in my post. And the Gulf War wasn't even our war to get involved in.
The VSCode terminal is the first time I've felt input lag in a terminal emulator before. When a program shits out thousands of lines of text (like catting a long log file), it takes forever to catch up compared to any other terminal (except the JetBrains builtin terminal, which is almost as slow but still noticeably faster).
Does this support the new tailored "GPTs" that just got released?
I've heard Youtube is pretty active solving these kind of issues when mentioned on Twitter/X so you might try that.
I'll probably always need Windows for some reason or other, even if it's in a VM. It would be nice not to need it at all though.
> 2. Teach to the middle of the class. Be aware that the weakest students will be perplexed much of the time, and the strongest will be bored.

True for the weakest students, but it's always possible to give harder material/exercises to the strongest students. And it doesn't even take much time for the teacher because these students are more autonomous. I only taught CS and maths, but it's very easy to keep the good students busy.

I personally like teaching CS lab classes. The key is to design projects with gradual difficulty. Even the weakest students should manage to complete a few tasks.

But overall, I think that heterogeneity makes teaching much more complicated that what it could be, especially when basic pre-requisites aren't met. It's a bit heartbreaking when you get students which are obviously losing their time and money.
My internship in the mid-1990s was with a professor studying VR systems for ATC for low-visibility operation. At the speed this field changes (or doesn't), I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime.
That's quite lovely, how marvellous
> Dealing with ATC is very stressful for pilots.

This is not my experience at all, and I suspect is also not at all for air carrier pilots who deal with ATC on every flight.

Sure, the guy in the 170 or J3 who mostly flies off his farm might be stressed by flying into the big city airport, but the vast majority of pilots who interact with ATC regularly don't find it particularly stressful.
Don't recommend using 2020 as base given lockdowns resulted in much fewer miles driven
> Precisely to argue for transient copies, they don't need to keep terabytes of data stored.

Those kinds of legal workarounds rarely work.

They are dependent persistent access allowing them the equivalent benefit of keeping a persistent copy.
Underrated comment. Police have "quit" in more than one major city in sfbay.
Oh great.

Fire creates smoke. Smoke quickly makes people unconscious, then kills them. It doesn't matter whether you trust the government or not, whether you follow the rules or not, whether you hold your luggage or not, if you can't get out of smoke, your fate is pretty much set in stone. Putting the blame on people who never had the time in the first place, and couldn't supernaturally turn to liquid and go through the door all at once is like telling that those who were robbed could've trained themselves to run faster.

Although you can argue that Titanic could survive, if only had it blasted bass-boosted <anthem of a proper country>.
Elon Musk rules out conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's return to Twitter (2022)
XFS is adding pretty radical features and reworking its internals in interesting ways, it's Ext4 the one that doesn't really see that many changes these days.
Thank you for your work. I have been having trouble achieving the desired level of formality in the generated text. When I ask for slightly formal content, the result tends to be too formal. However, when I ask the model to reduce the formality or use a semi-formal tone, the text becomes too informal. This will allow me to exercise more control over the style of the model's output and stop constantly battling with it.
Sounds cool - got any specific ones to share?
Hope trains make a comeback soon
And in the case of Python the server manages itself?
OK, thanks for clearing that up. Like I implied, it's different because the mens rea is different. I'll happily take a photo of the Eiffel Tower, but I wouldn't go up and steal the lights off it and display them elsewhere.

Stealing is primarily about denying someone else access to/use of something. Copyright infringement does not do that, in general.

In your opinion it's it always wrong to 'take without paying'?

Land? Air? Food? ... Culture? Where do you draw your lines.
No AI Feature
I'll admit I have a fever so perhaps that is why, but you're not making much sense to me.

It's not like we haven't had ISAs spanning different core architectures already. Take Intel's NetBurst (Pentium 4) vs Core (Core 2 Duo fex) architectures. Same ISA, quite different optimization targets.

I don't see why RISC-V will be different in this regard.

Of course relying on higher-level languages with JIT compliation is a thing, thats why Julia[1] exists. And with RISC-V you do have those extensions that languages like Julia could take advantage of. But it would have to be implemented in Julias complier and libraries, there's no free lunch.

[1]: https://julialang.org/
How on earth does running a file system in userspace suddenly makes file systems safe?

Also, how does putting N millions of LoC in N projects solve problems magically?
The profit is in the ink rather than the printer. There are two issues with someone coming into the market with a cheap printer/ink.

1) It's hard for any business to keep selling a product at 10% profit margin when you know you can sell it for 200% profit margin with the price increase not affecting sales.

2) In the rare situation that a business would accept low margins 'just to be nice to the customer' - they'll just get bought out. It's hard to not accept 10 years of profit for a business when it's being offered to you.
Thanks I just meant that the article did address it.

The ad for Austin you posted cites census statistics from 4 years ago, which are more meaningful, but not the topic, and they still show the city as majority white.
I think censorship implies that it is designed to suppress certain ideas or topics. Hmm.
(User-facing) software made by hardware manufacturers is almost always subpar. And printers are some of the most notoriously user-hostile hardware that exists, so naturally printer software is even worse than hardware-bundled applications in general.
Nice to see treesitter showing up in tools that aren’t just syntax highlighting.
I have always wondered about the details behind the annual traffic fatalities stat and this is very clarifying. Thanks for sharing.
Another totally plausible explanation is that CPI massively underreports inflation. Productivity is inflation adjusted. If you have 10% inflation but report it as 5%, then it will appear that you’ve gained 5% productivity when you haven’t.
The difference in experience for seeing a black or white background instead of a transparant one on the one hand, and missing HDR on the other is pretty big.

95%+ of humans won't even notice HDR being missing. Everyone with eyes will notice a black or white square.
Counterintuitively, 2D printers are substantially more complex than 3D printers. Everything inside them needs very tight tolerances and many thousands of custom components. The only companies that have the tooling to make printer-specific parts are printer manufacturers and they sure aren't going to sell you parts so you can directly compete with them.
This made it into the hacking game Uplink :)
You can go into YouTube studio, select the video, then go to "copyright" ... click the three little dots connected to the claim, and then "dispute." From there, select "public domain" or whatever is applicable.

It's kinda buried, but occasionally I get claims for songs not even in my video, so I had to go digging for it.

Also, make sure you're using the video from 1927, and not a later release which may have a different copyright.
Towards 100x Speedup: Full Stack Transformer Inference Optimization
Brother might be closest to this? See https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...

I have a black-and-white laser Brother printer from over 15 years ago. Never changed the toner, comes out once every few months for the rare occasion I need to print something. I love it
My assumption was that they simply have a contract with openai.
Makes it even more impressive: the parts that were actually implicated in the explosion itself (and scattered from the aircraft) were not defective, so the investigation had to go through parts which did not seem to have exploded in order to track down the defect.

Or at least, I assume the turbine parts weren’t defective, although given what seems to be quite a happy-go-lucky approach to manufacturing defects in Hucknall, maybe my assumption is not made on solid grounds…
Halo: A non-invasive neural device to stabilize and induce lucid dreaming
You usually still need someone oncall who determines whether it’s a cloud problem or your bug.
Exactly. Even without learning from those groups, there's a ton of stuff we know we could do to improve the reliability of our product. It's just that it would take way too much development time and our customers wouldn't want to pay for it.

It's like buying a thermometer from Home Depot vs a highly accurate, calibrated lab thermometer. Sometimes you just don't need that quality and it's a waste paying for it.
You're right, I was wrong.

Don't do any work to achieve your own goals.

It's hard and clearly you don't have the time or money.

Surely, someone will be able to see how useful you might be someday, if only given the chance.
It's small, all-in-one binary. You only need to download model, and you can use builtin downloader to do that.
What's the issue? I can print out all the years in one go now.
Microwaves are also solved problems that are complete garbage now.

Nobody gets to graduate college and become rich by maintaining a solution, so you get people who make products worse to show an increase in profit to justify their salaries and promotions.
https://archive.is/PentB
Mine is the same across MacOS and Linux. Something people can do is setup a Linux server with an AirPrint printer setup and then share the printer over samba to Windows
Are automated applications? E.g. a bot applies for ten thousand roles at a job, this forcing manual labor to wade through noise?

I wonder if an unexpected consequence will be a return to word by mouth hiring and more nepotism.
Chateaubriand is a master of egotism :) Even his tomb is a spectacularly romantic: a lone tomb on a rocky island, facing the tempestuous Ocean :)
As a rule, when something starts deserving being called by "shop", it is already too large for heavy usage of macros. In fact, I'm not sure it scales for more than a single developer.

That is, unless you treat them as another language, with tooling, documentation, and stability. Then they scale again, but it requires quite a lot of work.
Does anyone happen to know of a similar tool that can compare two codes for semantic similarity?
> So guilty until proven innocent then?

That seems to be the attitude taken towards people making copies (aka Pirates). I'm suggesting that if the company is assumed to be innocent when actually stealing by removing the customers' copies, then it would be appropriate to assume that pirates are also innocent, especially as they are not stealing anything and just making a copy which is alleged to be unauthorised.
They do have multiple kill switches to stop the engines, up to dumping a bunch of flame retardant into it which makes it impossible to restart. The problem was that all these systems for the #1 engine were rendered inoperable by the damage caused by the failure of the #2 engine.

Certainly there was a fair bit of luck involved as well.
No. I am against any regulatory, government legal action, or mandate that will have zero measurable effect on the problem it tries to solve.
The Al Capone Problem
Found this on Boredreading.com which is an interesting way to discover new blogs!
You did not say strengthen scarce-property rights; you mentioned abolishing property rights for things other than scarce goods.
Kasm – zero-trust remote browser isolation, desktop as a service and OSINT
> If you are focusing on teaching too much, you are setting yourself up for failure.

This is good advice. And this is true even once you become a professor. All time spent on teaching will go against your career progression. Even if you're tenured and don't care about promotion, you'll feel like an imposter in your department if you're not somewhat competitive research wise.

Generally speaking, there's no recognition in teaching in general, and at university level it's often not even considered as a job by itself.

Maybe it's different in Asia, but that was my experience in the western countries where I worked.
Maybe look here (never used it though)

https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
What you are describing is a dynamic that has existed in Texas since the oil boom. I'm also from Texas, and this sort of dominance by a small group of old white men exists at all political levels of scale. It's a place run by "good ole boys" and always has been. Maybe it will change but the circles of power and influence here are very small and very closed to outsiders. It's not a culture that values democracy very highly at all.

And to the point the op made about not wanting to bring his girls here, what the majority believe is irrelevant as the laws are made by the small cabal of religious right-wing authoritarians.
Good question. The nightmare was mostly organizational.

The amount of politicking was incredible when it came to which features would be in the next push and which features would slip. The planning meetings, the arguments, the capability slashing, the instability that came from all these political decisions. It was not great and this enormous amount of churn literally disappeared when they moved to daily pushes.
Cause and Effect: A Cornerstone of Science or a Myth?
Well, it is semgrep (hence sg).
Yeah, well maybe if it wasn't called Full Self Driving less people would use it as such. Where the f is Lina Khan on this?
About Time and Alphabets
Great points, I agree with you.
and that's only the board and the cpu. the case costs $2,500
How are aeroplanes designed differently at Boeing vs Airbus? What's the secret sauce?
Hi, macOS user here. I know Firefox is great, and I'd love to use it (again), but Mozilla's decision to remove all user-facing, OS-level scripting capabilities from it (i.e., AppleScript) made me drop it a few years ago. Getting anything out of FF on macOS, locally, is a major pain in the ass, actually. Try to grab the current URL from the active tab…

Add to that the non-macOS text handling, macOS-unlike font rendering, its insistence to not use the system-wide spell checker provided by the OS etc. It feels a bit rude at times.

I think it's a super-solid browser that unfortunately doesn't give a shit about the platform it's running on. Irritatingly, it's fine with being a black box, so much more than the Chromiums are (for all their various faults).
So HP wants to piss off everyone, not just their own users.
If they are, then that's why the quality is declining.
https://youtu.be/_yU4dSE1HTQ

This video is Russian, but you can discard voice. It's pirate copy of iPhone 14. I couldn't tell the difference, at least from that video. That's really lot of effort gone to copy. Those who did that really deserve a respect.
Bret Deveraux[0] did a really good blogpost on the difference between the tenure track and the teaching track for postgrad students.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2023/04/28/collections-academic-ranks-exp...

/me not an academic at all. I had no idea it was such a struggle.