skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pulling to the side when the traffic jam starts, not only when the firefighter walks up and knocks on the window.

Also, since it's a relatively time-insensitive situation (as in, tens of seconds to deal with it rather than seconds), once it identifies that it's an exceptional situation, it can have someone connect to the truck remotely.
Rye's Simple Evaluation Rules
I'll be honest, the first few times I tried using Nix I just couldn't get into. It was too complex for the benefits I was getting. But that was using Nix on another OS.

I recently switched to NixOS because I wanted what they were selling and the experience this time around was way better. Having no other option but to figure it out made me learn the essentials real quick (like an exchange program to a foreign country that speaks another language).

If you think about it, when you used Ubuntu or Fedora or RHEL for the first time, and probably for a very long time, you could get by without learning the deep intricacies of what is going on behind the scenes. The same is true with NixOS. The things you need to learn are different, but once you get a basic setup with home-manager setup you're off to the races. (Btw, I used this "book" to get started and it was great: https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/)

The best part about using NixOS so far is that things just work. Setting up my graphics card was as simple setting enabled = true. Same for configuring specific audio frameworks. And I had tried many times to get Davinci Resolve working on other distros and always encountered issues leading me to need to dual-boot Windows so I could do video editing. Now I just enabled Davinci Resolve and it works! No more Windows.

If you're brand new to linux on the desktop, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you've been doing that for years, maybe try NixOS in 2024.
That may work for your house, but it really doesn't make sense for the emergency heat source of your vehicle to also need an emergency heat source.
I'm talking about a human doing the copying.

I'm also talking about the way it would feel as a human.

You're jumping to conclusions.

Edit: You also didn't answer the question.
If you stick the amplifier in the speaker, then you have much lower voltages and currents in the cable to the speaker, so you are, perversely, much more sensitive to noise that couples into your wiring.

As a silly and dramatic experiment, touch a wire connected to a passive speaker (without power applied — don’t zap yourself!). You won’t hear anything. Now touch the center pin of an RCA wire leading to a powered-on speaker with appreciable low frequency response, e.g. a subwoofer. Bzzzzzzzzz!
I think the op was hoping for a technical answer
> I know because I also switched to work for one of the vendors)

Is that legal in the United States? In many European countries, you can't just leave your employer and go work for a client/partner due to the potential of you using the business secrets to disadvantage your former employer
Townhomes are seen in large numbers in the form of townhome developments i.e. pave a parking lot off a major road and throw up several rows of townhomes in it. What is less often permitted is for an existing city grid to have a mix of single-family and townhomes, or for older single-family homes to be replaced by townhomes as an area becomes more in demand.
I wonder whether they've accounted for running it on actual RISC-V hardware.

It could definitely still emulate itself, but it'd be far higher performing to run the code directly in some sort of sandbox.
this is a good one
http://scipp.ucsc.edu/~haber/ph251/Periodic_table_of_finite_...
I think the problem few people talk about is the small, in-city rail lines that used to exist that don't anymore. 100 years ago the city I live in had dedicated rail lines going to every major factory in the city - there was little need for last-mile trucking. AFAIK there are no western cities that are organized like this anymore, so the best you can do is deliver goods to a rail station and truck it from there - this requires a bunch of temporary storage space to transfer cargo and delays everything.

Here's another example - look at all the little rail branch lines servicing parts of 1944 Boston: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/MA/MA_Boston%20...

I don't know how you bring that back after decades of building for cars.
HN threads die to quickly though. For the true old-forum feel we need fewer users with focused interest and threads that last for weeks.
Sounds like excessive paging, aka Thrashing[1]. Newer software uses more memory, and when the OS has no more physical memory to allocate, it moves some data from RAM to disk and back until the process frees those pages. This destroys performance, and the more memory is over allocated, the longer it takes to finish the operation and go back to normal.

Differently from high CPU usage or network problems, this can potentially affect any memory operation, so even carefully designed GUIs will freeze.

This effect will not happen in systems with sufficient RAM, or that don't swap memory to disk. In that case it'll either crash the program trying to allocate, or a random process[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing_(computer_science)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_memory
do you use kemal?
> You could use an editor that auto-completes elements if you find that they're too long to type.

Maybe, but why do things the hard way? Even if your editor autocompletes, typing the angle brackets is more cumbersome than Markdown.

> Also remember that there are a few common elements, like <p> and <li>, that you usually don't need to close.

Having to remember random trivia like this is exactly why writing HTML is awful.
Not related to the issue at hand, but I wonder if Apple (and others moving employees from CA to TX) maintain the same salaries, since there's no income tax here. (Combined with the lower cost of living, it would make for a substantial realized income increase)
> The answer to all of them is they are happing during combat, as damage as a result of combat.

Turning off water is not combat.

Rigging the supreme court with explosives after posing for selfies in it is not combat.

Destroying universities and mocking people in Gaza for having no education (when they're not singing that they're no schools in Gaza cuz there are no kids in Gaza) is not combat.

IDF soldiers singing about how "there are no innocent civilians" and bragging about how many residential houses they destroyed is not combat.

Sniping a 70 year old woman fleeing with a child isn't combat.

Shooting at youth, then running over their body with an army truck on camera and leaving them to bleed to death isn't combat.

Bombing the tents of refugee camps is not combat.

> Hamas can surrender any time and combat will cease

Right. So occupying land and blockading Gaza is fine. Supporting Hamas over moderates to get "legitimacy" as Smotrich called it, is fine. But NOW you draw a line, and simply make demands that must be met before we can stop hiding crimes against humanity under the cover of "combat".

No. Such arguments, no matter how often we have heard them repeated, are not even a bad attempt, and light of the gravity of the situation that's grave as well.
No I have a digital connection to the speaker, because I am modern and rational.
GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered
Android does not natively have any kind of file browser?
One aspect sometimes overlooked is that the physical device degrades over time. Blocks of memory corrupt, connections erode, humidity or dust slows down cooling mechanisms. We tend to think of computers as either working or not but they can and do break down over time.
Your iPad has flash memory and a battery. Both are consumable items that wear out over time.
Is Google large enough?

https://idx.dev/blog/post/nix-in-the-wild-project-idx
All three of the scientists who were the lead authors of the Great Barrington Declaration are senior scholars or authors at the Brownstone Institute. The institute was founded by Jeffrey Tucker. Tucker formerly worked with Ron Paul, the Mises Institute, and Lew Rockwell.
Those operating systems have non-kernel long running software and more and more long running UI software. Heap fragmentation and memory garbage collection seem like probable causes.
Gentoo and Flatpak--there's an interesting combination. [1] Flatpak for GUI apps, Distrobox for CLI, and Portage for base system stuff.

[1] https://wiki.xenialinux.com/en/latest/usage/installing-apps....
Triremes had to be regularly lifted out of the water or they would become waterlogged. They were surprisingly light weight, and could actually be carried onto a beach by their crew.
There is a new one steam-deck-like that's intel, but I don't remember the brand
RF capture of Laserdiscs as in the Domesday Duplicator?

https://github.com/simoninns/DomesdayDuplicator/wiki/Overvie...
And now you have a tag that is sometimes closed and sometimes open, forcing me to scan the entire document to figure if you've ever closed this bloody thing - as opposed to knowing that you will eventually close it, and that anything I see until then is inside the P.
The stuff on the PRO is a Xilinx FPGA, or they have both an ARM Processor and an FPGA?
That friction equation comes originally from empirical experiments, not from idealised models.

The explanation in fact relies on deformable surfaces. If you imagine keeping the normal force constant and reducing the apparent contact area, the pressure on the surfaces will be increased which will cause the surfaces to deform more, resulting in more microscopic points of adhesion.
That is not what "impossible" means. It is perfectly possible to maintain this distance, which is based on your speed. You just have to be comfortable with getting cut off or slowing down.

(Note that I am not dictating what you should be doing, I am simply commenting that

1. if you maintain a safe follow distance, sudden braking isn't an issue

2. if sudden braking is an issue, it is your fault

3. it is perfectly possible to maintain safe follow distance, even if it irritates you.
MSI. But expect very bad power consumption
It’s true that it’s not inherent, however, the unfortunate thing is that they’re being built like this and it makes it costly to repair them.

If they fix the above then yes, repair costs should come down and make their total cost of ownership make sense.

As it is people try to convince others that because there are fewer moving parts on the drive train, that TCO is in theory lower, in practice it’s not yet due to all the above issues you mentioned.
> 4chan doesn't actually give a damn about the kids.

> they got

> they wanted

> they equate

> and then they

> they'll gladly take credit

4chan is not a person, or even a coherent population.

You want the world to be simple, but it's not, even if, apparently, you never had in your life to face the fact.
Surely if a connection erodes it is either still connected and working or not connected and not working? It wouldn't get slower.
I stopped closing <td> and <tr> because I found the (completely valid, completely unambiguous) practice of dropping the closing tags dramatically reduced the visual noise and clutter, making it easier for me to read my own tables.
Doesn't happen with my Mac. Just make sure you have minimum 16GB.

I still use an iPhone 6A and it works fine.

Stuff like this is one of the key reasons I dumped Windows.
Fortunately not all governments are terrible at rail infra planning/upkeep. Perhaps autonomous trucks as you outline could do the last X miles from the point the train offloads.
That’s the programming part. As others have shared, the “Dynamic” part was made up by Bellman so it sounded important and politicians wouldn’t try to cut his funding. It’s often applied to dynamical systems, but that’s a coincidence.
Show HN: Configurable open-source web-scraper
I was at PyCon AU (my first one and a wonderful time) and I'm surprised to see "Digital Rights / Digital Wrongs" so far down the list! Possibly a relatively niche topic for the audience but I found it a gripping and massively informative watch, especially for anyone following the work of orgs like the EFF.
Exactly. If growing up on a spaceship was all you ever knew, it wouldn't seem like a problem. It only seems like a problem to people who grew up with a lot of choices on Earth. Most people on our planet don't have a lot of choices in how they live their life.
> the steam deck arose out of prototypes for a wireless VR headset

Do you have any source for this? I don't recall seeing this kind of info so far.
And Nix doesn't? At least with Docker you can get something useful within 2 minutes
Complexity comes gradually.

You will not find reasonable to reparse HTML spit out from Dreamweaver or Word to fit js/cgi parts in there but withstanding 5 years of work you may find perfectly sane to compile JSX. Plus most of the people in the field never wanted to mantain two very different stacks for work and play, it's also a good way to dogfood.

Also you can recover better in plain text when markup is messed up vs a wysiwyg editor.
The base Bazzite image is actually meant for desktops. Bazzite-deck is a build for the steam deck, as well as HTPCs.
C# runtime is HUGE and not ported to everything. The compilation step to native code takes a significant amount of time.
my old Compaq w/ Windows 95 boots up like a charm, and I can still play games like X-Com w/o a problem. My early generation iPad can barely run the home screen.
Console.delight
"Taken way more seriously" is a step on the spectrum. Where did we put the cursor ? At the point where the cost vs the number of deaths kinda makes sense.

I think it's a poisonous to ignore that tradeoff and wash our hands of the whole issue. It's like eating meat ignoring where it came from. That doesn't mean we all take extreme positions and become vegetarians, but it's not something we can completely ignore saying it's hyperbole or cynical to recognize as a fact.
Supposedly a big reason is that Nvidia is difficult to work with.
That's not inherently bad if the comment is relevant and the relationship is made clear in the comment.
This reads like antivaxxer propaganda.
Should *not be lethal.

Btw, I saw some of your older posts against car-centric design, and I really love this one about how cyclists are effectively geofenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274702 (9 months ago)
Roblox games
Yeah a lot of apps charge about 30% extra if you subscribe through the app due to the Apple tax. It's best to go to the site directly and see what the actual price is.
https://youtu.be/TVCmPrDthlE
But this is not just PE - this is the Jack Welch school of business. Ascend to the top of the company, attach to it like a parasite, and suck it dry over time.

Short to mid term, "woah, the stock is going up, this guy is a genius!"

Until there is no more company left to juice the shares with buybacks. This is how the GE engineering culture was destroyed as well.

Private Equity is like that, only much accelerated. There is no pretense of "management".
I used to love tinkering Android phone and always kept up to date with the newest app possible, and I remember having a Material Design being a major selling point at that time
Spent some time with this kind of system in WoW, TradeSkillMaster. Figuring out an accurate valuation was difficult and one of the biggest differentiators of how successful you were.

This would vary by item, but was most commonly some combination of recent minimum buyouts (usually over the last two weeks) historically value (several months), and much more. Common items would usually be mostly recent value driven, whereas lower-supply items might have a larger component of historical weighed in, as there might be quite a bit of fluctuation day to day and you care much more just about the general trend.

All sorts of nuance to it. You can do more complex stuff like only doing your price estimations off items that actually sold, set values based on a percentage of any other value, and much, much more. It gets really complex but is really cool at scale.
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Just as an example, we had a 4 day power outage here in Quebec last year in Montreal with a million people out of electricity. The only redeeming factor was that it wasnt during the very cold periods and that it was late in the winter, but still a 4 day outage in the second biggest city in Canada (2nd time it happened in the past 20 years though last time it lasted more than a week lol) is pretty dysfunctional but we Canadians have normalized said disfunction.

Compare that to how the Texas outages were covered and put under the spotlight even in our local media and it shows a good example of the "we are not the US!!" Mentality where we completely ignore our own issues even when they are worse than our neighbors.

In this case it's even worse since we should be more prepared and have a better infrastructure to handle freezing rain since it happens every year! While the Texas situation was an outlier. Yet, it was all about patting ourselves in the back about how we are so good at recovering from the power outage lol
I've had laptops slow down like this due to dust on the fans. They weren't able to cool effectively, and presumably the CPU got throttled.

Not sure why it happens with phones -- I assumed the OSes shipped more expensive animations & apps to encourage people to upgrade.
I don't think points 1 and 2 are really that valid, but 3 is why I'm a Nix hater. They've managed to design an arcane solution to an everyday problem.

Nix solves real problems that Cargo can't/won't. And the 95% use case worth optimizing for isn't someone authoring flakes, but people just looking for the proper incantation to get the software they need for their environment.
Calling it an AI team gives the wrong impression imo, these aren't researchers or engineers.

>The group, which also has offices in China, India, Ireland and Spain, is responsible for improving Siri by listening to queries to the voice service and determining if it heard and handled questions accurately. The announcement to close the San Diego group was made by Christine DeFilippo, a top deputy to Apple AI chief John Giannandrea, the people said.

This sounds like a low level position that wouldn't be worth moving for.
Neat. I wonder if these cores are exposed to thr system in any way and if there's anything interesting you can do with them?
> aren't most consumer choices driven by price?

To varying degrees. Air travel is a product where cost dominates more than with other services.

> even the best experience is somewhere on the scale of cattle-car-in-the-sky

This is most Americans. I personally find lay-flat seats worth the premium from time to time, though not always.
Capacitors wears out.

Hardest to identify exactly which one blew unless it is obvious.

Toss motherbord and upgrade it.
Apple moved me from Cupertino to Austin (granted, ages ago). There was a region-specific salary adjustment then, and to my knowledge that adjustment still happens. I believe most large companies impose regional cost-of-living adjustments.
The point isn’t that everyone could be a von Neumann, given consistently good conditions.

The point is that the world would benefit from even one more von Neumann.

Which would also indicate the likelihood of a lot of other people achieving more than they would have under more adverse conditions.
The process of recognizing that a subset of a component has failed, recovering from the failure, and resuming would result in a slow-down. I'm not sure that's a full explanation for the experience though.
That's 40% of "ton-miles" - trains disproportionately move heavy, cheap goods (i.e. aggregate, coal), which makes that number potentially misleading. The percentage of freight moved by rail by "value" is closer to 15% (trucking is ~65%).

https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017-north-american-freight-num...

https://www.aar.org/facts-figures#:~:text=Freight%20rail%20a....
No, they are not, and probably disconnected at the chip level
I've always attributed it to the fact that developers typically have really good hardware all the time. When you develop on a great machine, you don't give the performance of older machines as much consideration. Software now typically has a mandatory upgrade path, so even if there is a version that works well with your hardware, you may not be allowed to use it.
The biggest thing about learning to drive at 40 versus 16 is an appreciation for risk. Insurance companies prove this with numbers and charge accordingly.

First, let's get something out of the way. Not everybody is a good driver. Some people are horrible as teenagers and remain horrible for the rest of their lives because they make bad decisions or simply cannot focus on the road. These drivers will always pose a higher risk to themselves and everybody around them.

For the rest of us our ability to appreciate and respond to risks changes as we get older and this greatly modifies our driving behavior. When I was young I learned to drive fast. This means I got into many accidents in slower speed zones because I was driving too fast for conditions. I had to learn to not do that and take turns more carefully and learn to read the environment and pay attention. Older people will do this almost complete naturally even when they are first time drivers.

The other side of that coin is that I learned to drive at greater than 120mph on the freeway and I got very good at it. That means I could drive fast, test my limits, and still remain safe. Its no different than performance testing software in that you push the limits, measure the results, and learn from mistakes. The only difference between learning to drive extremely fast and performance testing software is that writing software will not kill you or leave you permanently disfigured.

Now I am in my mid 40s. I can still drive extremely fast and be safe, but I don't. Part of that is that I am a bit more risk adverse since I older, but even more to the point is that I have less disposable income to spend on vehicle maintenance and traffic convictions. I suspect if I started learning to drive now, in my mid 40s, that I would never have learned to drive fast like that. My behavior would eliminate the opportunity. Most people also have some forms of motor-cognitive decline as they get older. Fortunately, this has not impacted my ability to drive, even at high speeds.

Some examples of driving fast include being clocked at 135mph in a 45mph zone. Another example is driving around 49 miles across Dallas in 27 minutes. Now, in all fairness that is off the charts extreme risk that almost nobody attempts to evaluate in real time, regardless of age, when it means increased probability of death or prison. The natural ability to abnormally evaluate high risk scenarios without getting nervous allows for learning things that cannot be learned otherwise.
Sounds like a Windows thing in my experience
We did this at bit.io and people loved it - there a bunch of articles we wrote on what we found during our work: https://innerjoin.bit.io/

We’ve since shut down (acquired by databricks) but happy to answer what I can.