skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you could come and argue logically, on the planetary impact of 300 or 400 less SUVs on downtown London or Paris

New Yorker here. They’re loud and take up more space and navigate our tight corners awkwardly when driven by nonprofessional drivers.

I broadly believe in abolishing street side parking, and making in-city parking more expensive. I drive a car in the suburbs, and feel that when I take a rideshare downtown it should be expensive.

> hiding behind your downvotes

Don't do this [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The cause is distracted driving with cell phones and pedestrians becoming more emboldened in complete street designed areas.
DARPA: The Heilmeier Catechism
Was during the Harper government era, like another commenter said, there was basically constant on-going scandals at the time. Big populist decisions like breaking up Make A Wish Canada Ltd (or at least putting some pressure on them) was a distraction from a lot of shady government dealings happening at the time. I think most people assumed we'd see a more bespoke wish market arise, but sadly the downgrading of MAW Canada, then it's eventual restructuring lead to a buy out by Rogers Communications Ltd, who very quickly laid off the Joy and Magic department. They're pretty much just a holding company for the IP now. Things just aren't like they used to be here.
I think there should be a requirement for a CDL instead of a regular license if you can't see over your hood and know if you're going to run over a child.

But that said, it's not even really a commercial requirement. We have safety guidelines for humans inside cars, but no safety guidelines to protect people who are struck by cars. Both commercial and emotional companion vehicles like those with 5 foot grill heights should be forced to be designed for safety in collisions. Otherwise the vehicle doesn't belong among normal traffic.
Accelerating and who knows - everyone is extraordinarily terrible at making predictions about power generation. New solar/wind capacity is already significantly cheaper than new nuclear (and new plants of any sort other than natural gas), but more expensive than running existing nuclear plants. Nuclear is a great way to get stable base load capacity - while wind and solar require significant storage to be used as base load (because the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine). We'll ultimately probably land on a mix of power sources.
Nickerson, J. and Solomon, D. "Car seats as Contraception", SSRN (2020).

https://assets.super.so/6b4b5d92-904a-4e7b-95bd-914dd1d1528f...
You may be interested in rust.cards, which I'm also working on :D
How and who is effected.
Run Mistral 7B on M1 Mac
A Zoe is 1.5t ..
Electric cars do most their braking using regenerative braking which produces zero particles.
It’s been accelerating exponentially for a long time, but generally seems to have taken over secondary energy sources like biofuel more than displacing fossil fuels. Wind is roughly the same price as nuclear & fossil fuels but solar is still expensive. Costs continue to drop & solar bulls contend that it will be cheaper in the long run although I’m skeptical that nuclear couldn’t compete (e.g. MSR or thorium reactors would be much safer & thus cheaper to build reducing nuclear costs too). Additionally, solar bulls conveniently ignore the costs of batteries which complicate the economics by a lot & even fission built today (where costs have been going up rather than down because we don’t build a lot of it) is much cheaper than solar (even without batteries & blows battery-based solutions out of the water).

The numbers just aren’t positive for solar/wind helping us reach net 0 by 2050. Also, grid energy isn’t the only thing we need to fix. For example, you can’t power a commercial shipping vessel off of solar / batteries. You’d need nuclear reactors which would require a major social shift to make people comfortable with it (& of course there are always risks but for some reason spilling radioactive material into the ocean scares people a lot but then they conveniently ignore how much fossil fuels we spill into the ocean which creates waaaay more ecological devastation).

Finally, it’s the only tech we have right now that’s energy dense enough that we can divert excess capacity into efforts to sequester excess carbon - we’ve already unlocked runaway processes on Earth and sequestration, while insanely expensive, is likely the only mechanism we have to try to undo the runaway processes.
I think you're equating the likely cause of the crash with the severity of it. If I'm going to be hit by a car whose driver is distracted by their phone, I'd prefer to be hit by a smaller rather than a larger vehicle.
Do Europeans not have smartphones? Because pedestrian fatalities are down something like 20% there over the same period that those in U.S. have skyrocketed.
Yes, but it is still a serious problem.

Tesla Model Y is a huge vehicle.
The point is you’d have to create an exception. The rule doesn’t work naturally, which implies it might be flawed.
https://diono.com/ Is moderately close
What I've learnt about motherhood: maternal love isn't always a curse
Existing self hosters won't get it either past Feb 2024.
I think there should be an internet timeout for people who derisively post links "correcting" others, only to share a link that contradict their own false points. There's no excuse for that sort of behavior.
Better to keep 5c and 25c rather than 10c and 25c imo, if you're keeping two. 10 is fairly redundant when you have 5 and 25. (Even more so with 5 and 20, as with bills.)
Go directly to jail.
Linux is also a moving target, which is why I don't like it very much.
Truncating the hash, I mean.
That's not the equality being claimed, you left out the quite central "capitalist" modifier, so properly stated it is "capitalist automation = obsoleting workers".

The Marxist response to automation is simply to let the workers have more leisure time.
We don't know what causes life.
> one certainly cannot afford to throw away thousands of dollars every year “to not have to worry” about one’s precarious finances.

There are plenty of people who live near paycheck-to-paycheck who also need a car to get to work, where a stroke of bad luck like engine + transmission damage would not only be a significant financial hit but the downtime of the car being unavailable might compound the problem as they can't get to work.

While it's not a great financial situation and ideally nobody should be in it, in reality these people don't have a choice and budgeting away a fixed percentage of their salary on a vehicle that guarantees them to be able to get to work (to pocket the remaining percentage of salary) is a better option than not paying a monthly fee but gambling on the fact that a significant breakdown might completely wipe them out financially and jeopardize the transportation they use to get to work.

It's a bit like insurance - technically it should always be cheaper to self-insure, but insurance exists because for many people perpetually paying the premium is still better than a single event wiping them out completely.
Irrelevant but curious if MongoDB is still being picked up for Greenfield projects given it's licensing.
Maybe. Many countries in the EU already place heavy taxes on engine displacement, so a curb weight tax or vehicle size tax wouldn't be something entirely new.
I’m not “in the know” but here is a fun chart showing 2023 solar PV adoption compared to past IEA predictions. You can decide which function class you want to assign it to. (I did not make this, see subsequent post in that thread for credit and sources.) https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/111505497033606507
The puzzle description begins at 1:18:44.

But it doesn't feel like it's a complete description of the puzzle, just the data format. Do the competitors have a list of questions?
Link to the finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGdPE_C9u8
Great catch. Added to list above. Thanks!
How would this work with the used market?
When was the last time Apple launched a new product with the i prefix?

They’d be called Apple Pods.

(Yes I know it’s meant to be a joke but it’s too outdated to be funny.)

The article should have suggested Apple Dorms rather than iDorms.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55719

Most new capacity is renewable (and it's been that way for years). It's just that there was a whole bunch of natural gas capacity built out over the 90s and 2000s that it'll take a while before we see any significant reduction in natural gas generation
Sorted arrays can be navigated like a tree. For sufficiently randomised data, the middle element is approximately the middle of your data. You can use binary search. You can implement range iteration very efficiently. It's not wholly ridiculous.
He was the one who introduced me to the pro scene.
Not across the states. Across the border. What stops people in US to buy and drive car from Mexico?

Huh, you can't even buy in US a decent new European car if someone decided not to sell the model through the dealership. Wait 25 years and only then you can import and register it.
Do you size your car for median or max occupancy needs? If you drop the kids at school for 1/3 of your commute and you are alone the other 2/3 going to work, your mediam occupancy is 1.
They did, just like Google and then both companies stopped supporting XMPP - in 2013 and 2014 respectively [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Non-native_deployments

And thus, Meta cannot be trusted not only because of various privacy issues raised in last days by users regarding its joining fediverse, but also because it's highly possible that once it'll gather enough data and/or capture enough users it'll drop support for ActivityPub
Make it into an e-sports competition.

But rather than try to hype it up like fighting game tournaments, have it be somewhat milder in aesthetics and tone, for the type of crowd it might draw. Like "Best in Show" or "Great British Bake Off" or what have you.
Sure, but that project name is still in the title - what I change was the description. I don't know enough to say if the description needs to be more accurate. Others here surely do?
Catholics officially believe in aliens, and that we should save them (if they weren’t visited by Jesus)

Reminds me of the punch line to an amusing first-contact cartoon, one that makes the (unstated) previous line easy enough to guess: "Yeah, he comes by every couple of years. We gave him a nice box of chocolates when he first visited. What'd you guys do?"
Second-order thinking is the practice of not just considering the consequences of our decisions but also the consequences of those consequences. Everyone can manage first-order thinking, which is just considering the immediate anticipated result of an action. It’s simple and quick, usually requiring little effort. By comparison, second-order thinking is more complex and time-consuming.

This seems like an arbitrary distinction. Just any consequence is the product of a chain of events. Throw a rock to break a window? That can be roughly described by the sequence "flex muscles, aim at window, impart velocity to rock, hit window, break window" so you could say really simple things are "second order thinking".

Sure, the point "there's a benefit to thinking ahead" remains but the article seems to dress up simple things as deep epiphanies.

Edit: Also, Chesterton's fence itself is a deeper point. It's the "second order thinking" buzzterm that seems misplaced here.
Thanks, I'll see what I can find, but plenty of 2g and 3g rugged phones are unusable now because of network shutdowns even though the phone hardware is still perfectly good. I have several non-rugged phones in similar straits. I'm told that 4g is now gradually getting displaced by 5g, though I expect it will keep working for a while. That and replacement battery availability seem like limiting factors. Also, from sad experience, the micro USB charge port has finite lifetime so I wonder what it will take to repair it.

The DuraXE does look like a good phone though it has imho non-dumbphone features like wifi. I guess I better check its network coverage and will look into it. According to PC Mag it runs Android 5.1 under the covers, which is a little bit scary to me.

A Baofeng ham walkie talkie is about as rugged as a typical "rugged" phone and costs around $25 so I don't see why there's no phone in roughly the same format. Until the 2g shutdown you could buy 2g phone modules for a few USD, that had some analog audio wires and some control lines and a power wire, so you could make your own phone around it pretty simply. Sparkfun had a product that was one of those built into a vintage rotary phone. I don't think they have those modules for 4g or 5g but I should look again, I guess.

Added: aha re 4g modules, this is $60+ but looks interesting, and makerfabs has some other neat stuff:

https://www.makerfabs.com/maduino-zero-4g-lte-sim7600.html
I agree that the winters are getting milder but Elfstedentocht is moving the goalposts a bit. The requirements on ice thickness are bigger than they used to be and more rigorous. It makes sense as there is more participants and people are more risk averse in general but still.
Understatement is a cultural thing to the point that chatbots have to be retrained to understand it: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/agl-trains-its-chatbot-alfie-...
Accelerating. Unclear timelines but not soon. It is already cheaper than nuclear. Energy should be priced using the levelized cost of energy. Currently nuclear is way more expensive than utility solar ( but not rooftop solar).

The need for nuclear is about base load and making use of space and existing assets and what not.
I didn't know, I didn't know it was a thing.

And yes, it's very murky as you say. There is a difference between genetic and chosen unfortunately the difference isn't obvious from just the optics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_tax

https://news.mit.edu/2022/robot-tax-income-inequality-1221 (7 months ago, 74 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35935554 )
It's a curious puzzle, since "in places like Canada and Australia, a much lower share of pedestrian fatalities occurs at night, and those fatalities — rarer in number — have generally been declining, not rising."

Yet in America "total pedestrian deaths from ["smaller vehicles (like sedans, coupes and station wagons)"] are up more than 70 percent, suggesting the bulk of the problem cannot be attributed to increased car size alone."
What exactly are you decrying as "dangerous" here?
S3 Express One Zone, not quite what I hoped for
SSHv2 is likewise trivially probable though ("nc $HOST 22" replies with "SSH-2.0-whatever"!), and that never hurt it. If you want to hide your services from attackers, there are many tools for that. I don't see why it needs to be part of the application protocol.
... road and tire particles ...
While 1 in 5 households do not have internet, and 58% expressed no interest or need to be online, at least roughly a quarter of them do want internet.

18% of those who do not have internet say the reason is they can’t afford home internet service, and another 4% lack internet availability in their area, says https://www.ntia.gov/blog/2022/switched-why-are-one-five-us-... .

I don't know about the other 20%.
To be clear, my reading of the parent post is that the grandparent doesn't like HTTP/3-QUIC making it harder to read data off of the wire (ie: for internal security analytics).

But I don't see how this is worse than SSHv2. In both cases retrieving the hostname / IP is obviously trivial since you just instrument DNS for the hostname and, of course, the IP is cleartext.
I was picturing more like VW ID buzz
Does all that take into consideration the number of tires per axel, and size of the contact patch for each axel?

I would assume that road damage is proportional to surface pressure at the contact patch, so greater contact patch means less damage. As a result you can have a heavier vehicle do less damage than a lighter vehicle with the same number of axels, if the number and size of tires on the larger vehicle is greater than the smaller vehicle.

Most busses I see around run large truck tires, and normally have 4 tires on the rear axel vs the normal 2 you’ll find on a Hummer. So a bus spreads it weight over 6 tires rather than 4, and if we generously assume the Hummer tires and bus tires have the same contact patch, that means a bus can be 50% heavier than the Hummer, but not cause any additional damage.

I know loading regulations are normally done based on axel number, rather than tire number. But I assume that’s mostly down to ease of regulation, rather than axel count being the most accurate way to calculate road damage. Indeed the document you link too even breaks down loading limits based on number of axels, but also single tire limits, which maybe different depending on pressure of the tire.

Edit: I also note that U.S. buses seem to be much heavier than necessary. As a point of comparison a two axel double decker, New Routemaster in London[1], which carries up to 87 people, has a curb weight of only 28,000lbs, which would give it a fully laden weight of only 29,000lbs. That’s substantially less than equivalent buses in that document.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Routemaster
What’s wrong with licensing?
You think any rule should have a one flat rate. One size fits all?

To be fair, rule should have different multipliers. Small rate for small car and buses, huge rate for trucks. Easy.
Most Compelling Deck Championship?

Not quite the same but I've attended a few barcamp conferences that have had "PowerPoint kareoke" competitions - the goal is to present a random deck from SlideShare that you haven't seen before, and the most entertaining (by judges or by the crowd) wins. It's very funny.
Nice and to the point, makes it clear that this is early, explains the current scope, tells us to expect a follow up as the information makes its way to them.

I like this tbh and I hope people won't punish them for not including more info when this is clearly in the early days of investigation.
Now consider how many hummers you'd need to transport 123 people.
import tax, probably.
Is AI even there yet? Or are we using the term very loosely here?
> Don't they have a database of every device they've sold?

A database isn't enough. They'd also need a way for that device to attest its identity to Apple, and serial numbers can be relatively easily copied (or sometimes even brute-forced).

This should be possible for newer devices using Apple's own chips, but I believe that at least non-T1/T2 Intel Macs lack any such capability.

> Why don't they check "is this device sitting on a shelf un-sold or does it belong to this account, activated"?

How would they know this? I highly doubt that every retailer in the world reports sold devices' serial numbers to Apple.
That's like arguing graphics suck in Linux compared to Windows because your 4090 in Windows works great but your CGA adapter you use on your one Linux desktop isn't that great. You're not doing a real comparison of like hardware, you're comparing different adapters across different OSes.
pod people? as in "invasion of the body snatchers".
It must have crushed your soul to have Neovim in the support list and no Emacs to be seen anywhere. Hilarious post, though... Don't let the Marketing folks keep you down. :)
> If I'm going to be hit by a car whose driver is distracted by their phone, I'd prefer to be hit by a smaller rather than a larger vehicle

Sure. Big cars are a safety problem. I'm just challenging the claim that "it’s largely thought that the reason...pedestrian fatalities are up big time in the U.S....is bigger cars."
Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements (1889)
The struggle with the religious types is forever that they can't be pinned down in the details: it's not that new information can't be assimilated because it conflicts with doctrine, it's that doctrine, aside from a few very core concepts, is extremely fluid and will seamlessly flow and change to admit the conflicting information without affecting anything of importance.
We SHOULD (be flush and distorted). We can be realistic AND enthusiastic about it. Some technically challenging work was done and achieved results FAR FAR beyond expectations. That is a result worthy of changing outlook. Before, the outlook was on statistical grounds (the universe is so vast that there has to be). Now this outlook has been justified a billion billion times over. It's certainly time to be far more ambitious and inverse the presumptions that we had before.

I.e. before, "there had to be - some, somewhere" and now, "there is most likely all over the place".
Renewables have replaced roughly half of the coal production decrease (and the other half is gas). Gas just had its growth moment before renewables did.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55960
This isn't an Apple facility, and it will undoubtedly make products for rivals.

I do think Foxconn should do what's proposed here, however.

What Apple should have done recently is stepped up to give actors and writers the protections they need to keep their professions viable. They would have been the only media company back in business for a time, and would have set an example that they could easily have afforded to set.

But no... they sat back and let the people who create their media get screwed again. That's pretty disgraceful.
I am arguing on the pollution argument.

- SUVs constitute only a fraction of the total vehicles on the road. Even if pollution taxes successfully deter some SUV drivers, the overall impact on city-wide emissions is marginal

- Imposing higher taxes on SUVs in downtown areas will shift the problem rather than solve it. Drivers will choose to drive around these areas, increasing emissions by driving longer distances.

- Less SUVs means more space for smaller cars. At the end 3 cars will make the same pollution as an older SUV. The modern ones are frequently hybrid.

Another focus on symbolic actions rather than tackling the larger issues of urban pollution...
note: I realize this release takes advantage of OSTree - that's pretty solid. Flipping an installation to another is clever.

I can't edit now but thought this deserved mention
There are a lot of contributing factors:

1. Shenzhen is sort of a tech center of Southern China so it requires good and new infras

2. Local governments are economically and politically encouraged to build infra (Google 土地经济) in general

3. Infra is built faster and cheaper in China so Shenzhen is not an outlier. Usually it starts with some planning to build a line in a remote area (to save buyout costs) -> line gets built -> other infrastructures including super markets, post offices, whatever get built -> apartment buildings get built -> government gets paid back by taxes collected from real estate companies, super markets and other expanded economy entities

4. Some cities actually lost the bets on building new infras and this created a whole range of issues (Google 地方债 and 地方融资平台公司债)
I still like that setup for using trees in low level languages.

But personally I’ve been working at higher levels of the stack the last few years, where these kinds of decisions seem less important.

And on another level, it seems like coders in general aren’t that interested in vector oriented languages and techniques which makes their study somewhat isolating.
#1 - Executive Suite, 1954 starring William Holden is great. Back-stabbing, dissimulation and betrayal abound. Also starring June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern (The Asphalt Jungle), Dean Jagger (Bad Day at Black Rock) and Shelley Winters. "When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him."

#2 - Margin Call

As a distant third I'd also include Blackberry (2023)