skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people are terrible at defensive driving.

Mostly because people misunderstand what defensive driving means.

It doesn't mean "go slow". It means always maintain a safety margin between your vehicle and others, adjusted for speed, road/weather conditions, and relative direction of travel.

Those are the kinds of objectives a self driving system can very reliably achieve, unlike a human.
Another fine example of Judaical Activism granting authority to government contrary to the plain reading of the constitution
The happiest and most successful people I know are social butterflies.
I find a lot fallacies in this essay.

The author accurately captures the overall picture during the 1990's, yet he is talking about a frontier. He perfectly realizes that the political power was just consolidated into another form, so we never had a real frontier after the fall of the communist regime.

I am little bit younger than him, and grew up after the fall of communist regime, after 34 years of transition into "democracy", and westernization, nothing really changed now the grandkids of the communist regime,are lecturing us about "democracy" again, because their fathers are getting old.

There is also this common comparison during this time era about the west(western culture and capitalism), and soviet union(communism), with the slight little nuance which is actually the elephant in the room that communism comes from the west... So the cycle continues.

What exactly is this western culture and values that we are constantly talking about, and being sold on, and advertised 24/7?

The Brezhnevian capitalist state global citizen, just wants to offer me a slightly less different totalitarian regime, throw us in a violent war because of his boredom with the flux of time, and call it a day. No thank you.

The closing of the Bulgarian frontier was during the April Uprising of 1876, which was the last time Bulgarians decided that are going to unite as a nation and will stood for something, their freedom, they will live free under their own sovereign country. You cannot exclude 500 years under Ottoman Empire rule, which rewired our survival instincts, if you are painting a picture of what and how happened next.

Like a fellow commenter said I prefer the kaba gaida to continue to echoes in the Rhodope mountains.

Despite growing with predominantly western influence after 1990, it is really hard to explain what happens with my body when I hear Valya Balkanska - Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin, a song that is flying in the space with the Voyager probes.

The next frontier is currently happening, but this time information travels differently.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Uprising_of_1876
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxUYsf6GuU
no? why would i prefer that.
They're supposed to, but they sometimes make mistakes. Pharmacists are supposed to know about the sort of drugs they're selling so they can catch potentially lethal errors.

Doing away with this safety net to.. avoid addressing police overreach directly is a bad idea.
> "Magic link" email + TOTP is pretty slick.

Agreed. But unfortunately it's also highly phishable.
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My response is absurd because you want to put me and my family to report to a state agent without a warrant because you might detect a crime.
I don’t know the answer, but I think there is usually 2 green subpixels, so 1+1+1+4 to 1+1+1+1 for that facet
You said the answer was "yes," but the rest of your response indicates that the answer is "no."

Dishonesty is not cool.
Better (accurate) title from IGN:

> The Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer who sued Amazon and the Tolkien Estate, claiming The Rings of Power infringed on his copyrighted novel, has lost.
FTC suggests new rules to shift parents' burden of protecting kids to websites
I got a free piano from a lady that paid 25k for it back in 1980. Mice had lived in it while in storage, but I could tell it was in good shape.

Spent a summer going down the rabbit hole of tuning it myself. I found the Entropy Piano Tuner app to be quite helpful. Took me weeks to get it tuned to where I liked it.

My digital Yamaha doesn't even come close to capturing the resonance you get on a real piano. I find it hard to play digital pianos for anything other than simple melodies.

Entropy website: http://piano-tuner.org/
Not in particular, no. You seem unacquainted with the college fee structure. Some of them have Big Tuition, but almost all of them do the death of a thousand cuts, where you are subject to an endless parade of fees, so shameless that even the telcos are envious of the boldness of the bursar. It isn't merely mandatory meal plans and two years of students staying in the dorms, you have mental health fees and student union fees and ... well, it just keeps going.

Really, as universities transform into "business for the sake of business" organizations, you get administrative bloat, which gets fed through an endless series of tacked-on charges.
I won't use .NET Aspire for now
The key being "supported" - that definition has changed dramatically in the past 50 years, and what you're referencing in the US was the middle class, not those living in poverty (then or now).
Note that an "implicit allocation" doesn't need to be a heap allocation, it just needs to be dynamically sized. Stabilizing the allocator api (which seems tantalizingly close) and someway to pass a non-default allocator to the implicit box should cover zero cost sensitive folks.

Also note that "zero cost abstraction" means that "zero cost" over implementing it by hand there is no way to return an owned dyn sized type in current rust. Syntax that returns a box is inherently zero cost because there's no other way to spell it.

C++ `co_await` also forces an allocation for similar reasons and lets the optimizer get rid of them in the static case which predictably is a mixed bag in practice; at least in rust you can guarantee the static sized version doesn't allocate. That said I don't like forcing an implicit allocation it feels against Rust's ethos and the language will likely have to have better handling of dyn types writ large to get there.
I’m really sad you have decided that…always more to the story…
That weird US thing is a fractured healthcare system. You might have your GP, a specialist, and a psychologist, who all work in different offices that use different records system which may or may not have a working level of interoperability.

Chances are, if any of them know about the medications you’re on that they didn’t prescribe, it’s because you self-disclosed on your intake form or told the nurse during intake verbally. This is not necessarily a great way to know for sure, because patients forget things and people write or type or select the wrong thing.

In this system, it’s much more reliable to have all the prescriptions flow down to one endpoint and have someone trained who can see the exact medications and dosages, and that person can then give the patient the relevant information they need at the time of service.
I thought it was pretty clear from the context that I meant conformist in regard to HN, not Ohio.

I also don’t think of myself as a hero by any means.
You can also see this by using newton's third law (equal and opposite reactions). The air is accelerating and the only other thing for it to act on is the balloon in equal and opposite fashion.

And just as an aside, IIRC conservation of momentum only applies to your standard physics objects, real objects make noises and sometimes permanently deform. This isn't usually a significant source of error but its neat to think about how if you were playing pool on a frictionless physics surface the difference between the models predictions of where the balls go and where they actually go (very very small difference) could be directly and perhaps entirely attributed to the noise they made on collision.
Oh great, Letitia James’ office is on a roll!

It’s well known how annoying this process is with deal communities, to the point that everyone recommends using temporary cards (like Privacy) to avoid the hassle with cancellations.

Unfortunately that doesn’t stop the mountain of sales outreach they’ll try after you’re no longer a subscriber.
I'm involved in an Intervention Hostel in Poland/Europe. Many people need short-term help, not only with homelessness but they also need some real support.

What is provided by the city, is only some night shelter, where they can eat, sleep, and wash. The thing they don't get is a psychiatrist and psychological treatment. The Intervention Hostel provides that too.

From my perspective, one of the main problems is that, in general, people are not interested in helping those homeless people. We have problems with gathering money, there is no city support, and we also have higher costs (because of the psychiatrist and psychological treatment). We have quite nice results, but every three months we think about closing it due to lack of funds.

The thing that made me really sad was that when a couple of days ago one of Polish parliament members hit a woman and used a fire extinguisher on a hanukkah menorah, people gathered over $50k in just a couple of hours to support him.

However, when I was in USA a couple of years ago, I have never seen so many homeless people on the streets. This is really worrying and sad.
karpersky writes about then from time to time. since its not the CA key but some CA signed by those CA they just revoke that one and move on and nobody cares. last year (or the one before) they discussed this at length on the mozilla chats before the meeting
This video is a great primer on the state of the art of display technology right now and seriously changed how I view each tech. Seems like there is a lot of convergence between the main technologies and they all borrow from each other in different ways in their pursuit of the ideal display.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyUA1OmXMXA&pp=ygUjZGlzcGxhe...

IIRC talks about PHOLED as one of the upcoming technologies to get to the pinnacle.
I used to feel this way, but then I slowly realized that Curtis tends to appear to have more of a thesis than he ever actually does. The movies are less a traditional essay, and more a social history of ideas and their consequences. What the ideas mean isn’t as important to him as how the ideas influence us. By tracing the history of memes (in the Richard Dawkins sense of the word), he’s providing a service that almost no one else is providing.
and yet, if they had chosen to go in a different direction they wouldn't have been ready for ML/AI.

The point isn't that they didn't invest in the direction that ended up being right, it's that they didn't do it specifically with ML/AI in mind years before it was even a twinkle in google's eyes.
This is why things like Rocket Money exist-which itself is hard to cancel.
Cool, you built your own YouTube with hookers and coke and... bitcoin. Lots and lots of bitcoin. Cause lord knows there's literally (checks notes) dozens of people out there clamoring for an "Anti-censorship" streaming platform where they can watch spammy bitcoin videos.
It was an observation of how every thread like this plays out not a “popular meta post”. I wouldn’t go as far as to say delusional I was more going for it’s naive to assign success purely to genius in the same way it’s naive to attribute a single cause or solution to climate change. In fact I think even that’s generous given that’s a future prediction that was not a guess or a gamble. Perhaps a better example would be for me to write a post about a massive successful stock trade or crypto where A) I had the cash to do it and B) things I gambled might happen went even better than I thought. There would be people assigning all the success to me when likely there were other similar plays I made that I lost big on as well as plenty of other people who saw it but simply didn’t have the means or timing to make it happen. So yes I think it’s naive to assign this and most to purely genius. You need a little luck and cash in reality on the way.
Exactly. And it's not a single fake video of Biden promising to jail Trump supporters, which could be shown to be fake. It's dozens of little videos shared on Facebook where politicians are made to look stupider, where their speech is slowed and slurred (they've done this to Biden, Harris and Trump), where false audio is added.

We can't accurately track the effects of such videos.
I see that happen maybe one or two times a year, at most. Meanwhile I debug broken code literally every day.
Yes, and a heat pump tends to run at lower output for longer periods of time versus traditional fuel fired boilers so the peak power demand would be even lower still.
>why someone actually intends to have 3-5 children in modern times when we're not working on a farm or in the mines.

Mine write great boilerplate code - better than GPT by a good margin, anyway. Also, they're a more reliable retirement option than the state, if you have enough of them.

Just kidding, but seriously, having kids opens up a form and depth of love that is otherwise difficult to access. It's sort of like romance - why do people care so much about sex and romantic intimacy?

I believe we live in a time of love poverty. Compared to people in the past, who grew up surrounded by many siblings, and two parents, and extended family, and friends, and then lovers, and a lifelong spouse, and many children, and grandchildren, and so on - think of how wealthy in love is such a person. The love of God that fills all suchness with a certain hefty presence, like a thick blanket atop reality. Like a baby knowing his parent is there while he plays. Not to romanticize the past - but I believe a modernity with such love was possible. It's still within grasp.

On the other hand, DINK life does seem really awesome in its own way. I guess for me, both paths lead to a very cool kind of wealth, and I understand the merits of both ways.

I'm lucky I have a beautiful lovely kind wife and sweet, playful children who fall asleep easily lol.
Thanks for this detailed feedback!
I disagree with GP. I think email is generally a solid identifier, and would be curious to know why they needed to change theirs.
This wasn't non-commercial. The author was selling his book, and was trying to extort Amazon into paying licensing fees for it as well.
[dupe]

Official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722246
Ask HN: Have Your Development Estimates Ever Been Spot On?
As someone who's worked in web development, game development and software engineering in general, I don't think I've ever actually seen a project go completely as expected. There have always been scope changes, extra features requested, clients unhappy with the design they signed off on, etc, and the project usually ends up taking days/weeks/months longer than expected.

So I'm curious... has anyone here actually succeeded in estimating a project properly, and gotten everything done as expected within that timeframe? Like say, they had 3 weeks to build a website, and the site was done in exactly 3 weeks with no crunch, no changed features, no team changes, etc?

Are there actually teams that manage to deliver exactly what they say they will in the time they estimate, with no issues coming from the business itself?
I certainly do for certain film and tv series that have been banned or cancelled (e.g. Disney's Song of the South).
Yes. There are different levels of governments and those can be at odds (witness: laws limiting or barring municipal internet).

And there are people who specifically aim to be elected to kneecap government services.
^ exactly.

What people find contentious is this claim that they specifically did it for ML/AI. That's not why they invested the way they did.
Negative titles attract more attention, clicks and more money from ads.
Apple Silicon Macs don't support booting from external drives so you need to touch the macOS partition to make room for the boot files regardless. After that, you're free to mount your main directories on other drives as you would on a standard Linux install.
It's so strange they came to this fight with only the energy for 2 counter moves
The true reason to not worry about deepfakes is that both sides of any conflict will learn to use them equally viciously. Like always, the only way out is to take a step back, study things objectively through the lens of economics, and figure out the tradeoffs inherent to the choice.

See also: Michael Huemer's "In Praise of Passivity", https://fakenous.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-passivity .
To me there are only upsides: I don't like the Mac operating system but I love the hardware and running Ubuntu natively with all hardware supported would probably get me to upgrade. But I'm patient, the oldies are doing just fine, sooner or later that will just fall into my lap so no need to start taking risks running fresh stuff.
When companies purchase Macs, the serial numbers of those Macs could be associated with the respective purchasing company for enrollment purposes. Mistakes could happen, but also new (or for that purpose even used) Macs could end up being sold before their serial numbers is disassociated with the company purchasing them.
It’s induced demand in the sense that the housing enables those jobs, or to say, less people would come here for those high paying jobs if the housing market was more bonkers like in SF or Hong Kong. If they weren’t building housing at a crazy clip, Seattle would be less appealing even to you who is just here for the job.
Could you explain why you think apple is the bad guy?

They support SMS as the standard carrier-supported messaging protocol (in the states, not sure globally). They also have a private protocol for apple devices which they fully own and control. And they have now announced that next year they will be supporting RCS, the next-gen carrier-supported protocol.

I think it's fair to say that Apple has been slow to adopt RCS - but I don't think that makes them the bad guy.

(SMS is insecure, iMessage is a lock in that they use to their benefit, RCS has been on Android forever, etc etc etc)
The Nation's Busiest Bridges
Why Modular Building Hasn't Revolutionized Construction
I-5 is a notoriously congested interstate in California. I don't live in California anymore, but used it simply because there are a disproportionate number of Californians on HN.

I don't disagree about "pricing journeys accordingly," but there are many reasons why this is difficult in practice in the US. Going through those points is a bit of a digression from my main point. Namely, that there are pragmatic tradeoffs that have to be considered. I'm consistently taken aback by the amount of "simple" solutions people advocate on HN and sometimes I wonder if it's due to software developers constantly working with the abstract rather than the concrete.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722831 (42 points, 19 comments)
> Never once read a comment attributing Nvidia success to luck.

The vast majority of the comments on this article prior to the one you were replying to were attributing it solely/largely to luck.
> But cities also draw people from the surrounding population.

Yes, cities draw people from the surrounding population, but the question is whether they draw homeless people from the surrounding population. Which surrounding areas do you think all the NYC homeless are coming from?

> NYC isn't as harsh as Minneapolis, for example.

So? Minneapolis is colder than most cities in the United States.
They didn't take it from the band. Pretty sure the team photo was created as a response to everyone referencing the band.

> The name comes from our design goals - Straightforward, Lightweight, Intuitive, Native Toolkit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36389584
Or with hydrogen storage.
Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order
It depends on the jurisdiction. At least in the US, the ESIGN Act of 2000 made esignature valid and enforceable. I believe there is relevant case law after this act that back up the core idea that an esignature is valid.

People can always claim they didn't sign something, ink or digital. The reason that DocuSign is a multi billion $$ company is that they have a bunch of audit trail features which make it pretty darn clear the person did in fact sign it.
I imagine it was a fat fingering. I’ve purchased MBPs for my org in person at an Apple Store because I needed them urgently and I had to call my Apple rep to manually assign the serials to our company in ABM.
I don't think us courts for courts should be in the business of handing out stupid prizes. Instead, they should be measured and consistent with our longstanding social agreements. Someone has to be the adult in the room and seek the moral high ground.
Supreme Connections
Homeownership is not a social good
In theory no, but in practice, wow do people seem to struggle with keys. Matrix's current system went emoji only because even numbers seem to be too much for people. And arguably, even emoji are too much for people.

There's larger UX problems surrounding when/where to copy and what the caveats are, but even ignoring them, people do seem to struggle with copy paste, especially cross-device stuff. I'm not sure what the solution is.
Well, we've spoiled our police force. We've provided them with ridiculous amounts of power, minimal oversight, and very rare and minor consequences.

The behavior you describe is that of a spoiled child, used to getting what it wants immediately by throwing an abusive tantrum, consequences to others and rules be damned. Same reason they execute PIT maneuvers on busy roads, lead high speed chases through the middle of towns, and empty full magazines into densely populated areas, all things that police in other countries are trained not to do, trained to be patient and follow instead. They want it now, and anyone hurt along the way is just a casualty of war, not their problem or responsibility.
Probably a return/cancelled order from Apple Managed side, then ended up in general inventory. Evidently there are two completely separate customer relationship systems, which makes sense given the amount of power given to managed accounts (truthfully still boggles my mind the dev and managed aren’t the same system with the amount of similar power). I would have thought inventory would be separated though, but stranger things happen.
In Québec, recently there was a story of Hasidik jews homeschooling their children.

They used home schooling because they didn't want their kids to mingle with us heathens...

By law they are supposed to teach the kids a certain curriculum. But it turns out that they didn't teach the kids the material but thought them religious teachings instead.

Now they are adults and came out against their treatment and find themselves to be lacking in a lot of basic tools needed to live in modern civilized society.

As others mentionned. Homeschooling can isolate kids and exposé them to abuse and or neglect with no one to see it and denounce it like a teacher or another figure of autority.

Without strict guidelines and external supervision. Homeschooling can be a dangerous thing with the wrong people.
I requested PTO to attend a family wedding. My boss approved. While I was out on PTO, during an exec meeting, the CEO asked my boss about the status of the project I was on. Boss forgot or neglected to mention I was on PTO, and the CEO reminded him of that, and my boss was pissed that he looked foolish.

The day I returned, I was called into a meeting with HR and my boss, and berated for going on vacation without informing my boss (who again, approved my PTO), nor informing my team (a categorical lie). Later, my position was eliminated.
I don't have the study at hand but this was proven false: the impact was negligible (% points) as the fundamentals are extremely good for the big platforms. Take FB and Google: they already have extremely strong (and legitimate) profiles of users without following you around the web.
Not only has Mr. Trump not been convicted of insurrection either by a jury of his peers or from the bench by a judge; he hasn’t even been charged with it!