skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you need is a minivan. Toyota Proace City Verso for instance. SUVs are big but the usable space inside is quite small. It'a not a sports car or a status symbol, but it handles the 3 kids part quite fine.
When I first saw this I thought it was a skit from The Onion. I fear we have reached some dystopian state of post-irony.
Works with USB-c cable for all day charge but also works without a cable. iPad 19.9" with Magic Keyboard as stand is spectacular second screen for all day dual screen work and then ... you also have an iPad with you. Ideal for week-long biz travel.
I guess that’s a local issue. I wonder why people who don’t have such clearance issues don’t choose minivans. I, for example, drove minivans in California for many years in mountain snow without issue.
Many ethnically white English born English people would fail immigration language testing. Languages change for a start, there is no standard way to speak English, as can be attested by how the language has evolved through usage throughout the world.
Volcanic Fissure Opens in Icelandic Town of Grindavík
Time to join the minivan gang
Implementing allow-lists for AI services in GNU Emacs
I'd get what I import (explicitly). If I import conflicting extensions then its my fault for doing so and (only) my program fails to compile.
No need to apologize. You might have been thinking of parallax due to earth location changing as it orbits the sun, which causes very small shifts in the apparent angular positions of stars. Closer stars shift more, which allows it to be used as a distance measurement to stars, but the effect is too small to measure for far away galaxies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_in_astronomy
On the models designed for the US market - maybe. I have checked with 3 cars being produced specifically for Europe: Volvo, Audi and Toyota. While on the majority of videos and instructions there's a special off switch, on those cars it does not exist.
>Have you tried shopping for a TV in the past 5 years? Actually, scratch that – have you used a “smart” TV in the past 5 years? – it’s awful. Sure, displays are getting better, but manufacturers insist on cramming bloatware and spyware, embellished in the worst UI imaginable, running on a processor designed for a smartwatch.

Anyone have recommendations for a "dumb" TV in 2024?
Backstory:

I originally made a version of it at a previous job awhile ago as an innovation project but didn't get too much traction so have recreated a better version using a completely different stack.

My newer version was also originally tailored just for people looking to get a job in the Australian Public Service but have now pivoted it to big tech (as I have an interview coming up )

There are currently 2 interview modes, Problem Time Trial and Algo Kata but more to come in the future

Problem Time Trial was using questions scrapped from leetcode, thinking about it, probably a big no no so they're removed.
What gets me about newer cars is that they seem to be stolen at the same rate as they have always been (conjecture. i could be entirely mistaken). What with keyless entry, immobilizers and standard car alarms, I would expect them to be virtually theft-proof nowadays.
A churn and burn sales team cycle does not speak to a high bar. The companies I've worked with that have taken this approach have been the least thoughtful, and the least productive, usually relying on high pressure sales tactics that yes, most people are not cut out for.

Sales is a profession that anyone can do, because it's a ubiquitous life skill. If it's so easy for them to tell at three months the employee isn't working out, why can't they figure that out in three interviews? What critical info comes out in 90 days of work that can't be extracted during a 2 month long interview process? It's far more likely that they have no idea who will and won't turn out to be a good fit, and that these kinds of 'for cause' firings are meant to 'positively' motivate the remaining workforce, or are due to internal budgeting that is in no way related to the salesperson.
> cars are better in every way now than they were before

The author listed a bunch of ways that they are not. Perhaps it would be more interesting to address those directly
Code vs. Data Driven Displacement
I think that important difference though. WAFs are very useful when they are used as a quick fix for a zero-day vulnerability. Especially if you are running some generic software like WordPress and can subscribe to a managed WordPress rule set.

The key is that they should mitigate specific vulnerabilities and ideally once the proper fix is deployed the rules are then removed from the WAF.

WAFs have near-zero value for things like trying to detect shell-code or generic SQL injections as they just turn into fuzzy bug injectors. Any real attacker will very quickly find a way to structure their exploit to avoid the heuristics.

WAFs also have minimal value for custom software. Because even if you use it to deploy a quick block for an exploit unless you are just blocking a whole endpoint the attacker will also likely find a way to work around it.
You put the passenger adult in the middle in the back.
Tease much???

What did they say?
I don’t buy that sorry. Sounds plausible but isn’t an excuse.

I can’t imagine many mail servers will retry up to 14 days unless the spammers configured it to do so. That’s a very uncommon length of time.

And it’s totally within the spammers’ control to choose and/or configure mail servers with a shorter duration. Just how important do they think their spam is!
Meh, probably I was thinking unlucky with my garage then
Land is capital. And the importance of land in economies have lessened quite a bit from the 19th century.

And even Henry George wasn't really a Geoist. He criticized all forms of unearned income, and called for e.g. abolition of intellectual property and nationalization of banks.
Cool scientists and detectives roll around in Minivans with their telescope and listening devices.
I did my training at Deutsche Telekom, and our instructors told us a story of an ISP that tried to sell a flatrate working over the D-channel; apparently they had some reliability issues and did not last long. That must have been in 2003 or early 2004, by then of course DSL had arrived and rendered such experiments (and ISDN in general) more or less pointless.
I abandoned Ubuntu when they started pushing snaps. Zero regrets and Debian has been great.
Private capital should not exist. See socialism.
Very handy. I use Docker so rarely that I always forget those pesky details.
There’s no plausible scenario in which I’d ever write a single line of Rust/WinRT.
I drive a Ford Escape and I fit 3 car seats. You just need to strategically choose them, particularly using a slim size in the center.
I can’t really understand this sentiment. If you keep enough distance you’ll be able to stop in time regardless of what’s down the road. I personally feel safer in smaller cars.
No such option in Europe?

This is mandatory at all European countries since the first passenger seat airbag.
Seen this every day for the last week it seems, one article even suggested it could run your phone for 50 years.

I'm sure it has uses, but it's just 100 microwatts - that's the realm of arduino boards in sleep mode.
Cool. Now how about networking, scaling, dns, scheduled tasks, secrets management, identity/access management?
> Spam email is pretty par for the course nowadays.

And it's against the law.

They sent 80 million spams in a year; that's more than the number of humans (including infants) in their target market.

Laws should either be enforced or repealed; laws that aren't enforced are a menace. It's true that the ICO's primary mission is behaviour-change, not punishment; but before issuing a fine, the ICO will write several times, explaining the problem and suggesting remedies. To get fined at all, HelloFresh must have ignored these letters.

The UK government never wanted to introduce anti-spam legislation; it was forced on them by the EU, and our implementation was kitted out with loopholes.
I have a sheet of printed labels that say 'Return to sender, unsolicited mail' which I use for such instances.

I am of the belief that the offending business must then pay to receive it back. Not really sure if this is true but it does seem to work in many cases since the amount of junk mail I get now is less than one a month.
It’s just doing hash math (think like bitcoin mining) to make your CPU burn enough processing time to make a layer seven DDoS not worthwhile. It works. Because now the server uses way less processing time than the client did.
It didn't provide free time at all - quite the opposite: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
> There are very few people who would buy a car without any screens, ui or infotainment.

I really don't get this - just put a space in the dash where I can stick a phone that charges it and connects to the car audio. I have an old GM car with Carplay that all still works pretty well, but it's basically just a second screen for my phone and as such I barely use it.
I Built a Great Team Culture Using First Principles (No Gimmicks)
Admonymous: Provide Anonymous Feedback
I'm talking about victims who could've self-defended.

Either way, you want those people to be defenseless, and the people who are supposed to defend them to also be defenseless.

Who do you want to stop evil actions? Or does evil simply not exist?
Great album. (Of course, all of their albums are great in my book. ;-) )
I love my car. I love driving it every weekend. Cars are my passion, sorry.
It isn't useful, it is used to avoid going through a healthy emotional arc.

It is reflective of a society that sees emotions that don't feel productive as "bad" and to make excuses or falsely positive reasons to dismiss them.

The classic example is the British attitude of the "stiff upper lip".

These narratives result in lower happiness, compassion and generally poorer mental health.

Don't let a society that encoded outdated views on emotional health dictate that you shouldn't freely allow emotions to complete their cycle and be expressed.

I truly cant express how bad perpetuating this kind of thinking is on an individual and societal level.
Honestly, any smart TV connected to Apple TV is fine. You can skip the wifi enablement on your TV and will never think of the bloatware in your life. Been with that setup for 5+ years, have absolutely zero complaints about my “smart TV” for that reason.
I am a car enthusiast and I agree.

Cars just keep getting worse. Manufacturers try to cram too much functionality into the car at too low a price point. Even if you buy a car that costs more than most people's house, it is going to be full of technology that at some point will fail. You can't fix it yourself. And when you get it fixed, it invariably ends up costing some significant fraction of what the car is worth. Even if it is just a faulty rail for the seat.

To top it off, silly regulations also contribute to making cars more distracting and annoying. I used to laugh at American cars for making those incessant ding-ding sounds when the door is open. But now European cars ding, and ping, and whine constantly because regulations require them to constantly bombard you with warnings and interruptions. As if that's actually going to make the car safer.

There is something extremely relaxing about driving a vintage car from the 1970s. Sure, you have to learn how to coax the engine into life on cold days. And you actually have to learn how to modulate brakes and throttle. And learn how to fix the 4-5 things that break every couple of years. But that's a lot less bother than having a computer on wheels where every single problem could end up being so expensive it is cheaper to scrap the car and get a new one.

Here's what I'd like: an electrical car modeled on the philosophy of the Fiat 500 or the Citroen 2CV. A minimalist car that is so simple anyone can afford it, and anyone can learn how to repair anything on it. A car with as few parts as possible and where every spare part is easily available. (Fiat 500 parts used to be available where you bought your groceries. That's not going to happen today, but if you could buy every single part online at a reasonable price, that would do).

A car that comes with drawings for every part, for every electrical circuit. A car that can be modified and evolved to fit new needs. A car that can grow a cottage industry of companies that make upgraded parts, rebuild cars etc.

The Fiat 500 and 2CV were important cars. Even more important than the VW Beetle. Because they provided mobility to much deeper demographics. Nobody really makes important cars anymore. Important cars change how society works. And I think the only way we can make cars tolerable again is to figure out a way to come up with a minimalist, open source, vehicle architecture that can satisfy the safety requirements. I think we have the technology to do that today.
Where are you getting this 160 tonne figure from? An individual car can approach that, according to https://www.cn.ca/en/customer-centre/safety-guidelines-and-r....

Apparently some Australian ore trains are 43,000 tonnes (24000 tonnes of ore), according to Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_trains) so we are within an order of magnitude
> I dread it every time I need to pair my phone to a car

So it's too difficult to wirelessly connect your phone to your car? Something you do one time and then it magically works forever? I'll grant, it should be easier, but this is like saying there's too much paperwork to buy the car in the first place: sure, it would be nice to walk in, pick a car, and drive it away (hello, volkswagen sign and drive disclaimers) but it's a one time thing.
I’ve yet to see a WAF that wasn’t eventually accidentally triggered by some zip file.

I’ve had to recompress zip files with a higher compression setting to get around whatever string was triggering it.
I had an idea to embed ICE candidates to QR codes, but its more like a toy project.

You'd literally have to scan QR codes on both devices, but that's the only option I have in mind
The upgrade files for a product I used to work on was (and perhaps still is) a .tar.gz file with a shell script prepended to them, to make a self-extracting/self-executing archive. The archive wasn't even base64 encoded or anything; just binary data with some text in front that can find the beginning of the binary.
Because they think they’re “citizens of the world” and ideologically believe nation-states are obsolete.
Does it make sense to connect west and east coast via inland waterway e.g. Snake <-> Missouri river. Would it be too expensive? I assume nukes are out of the question.
My two cents HN angle is about expectations in progressist/liberal thinking (or whatever we call it) attitudes and reality when feelings are involved. In a rather technical way will be amazing technologies vs. their impact in the real world.

My personal take is that this person is free to choose their own lifestyle but there are real consequences in life (or the world) beyond the fantasies.
HelloFresh is nice, until you actually have to pay for it... (the trial period is priced reasonably)
Has anyone used this on regular basis and what kind of feedback does one get?

Edit: quite a good use case for AI whereby submissions are pre-filtered by their nastiness, i.e., only constructive criticism goes through.
I do feel there’s a regulatory failure with headlight angles in the US. Owners of maladjusted headlights should get fix it tickets and it should be strictly enforced. If a car without high beams blinds you, something is wrong.
I've never actually seen one but a while back on HN there was a claim that in Europe they sell a "4 across" car seat. It's apparently just one BIG seat but b/c it's a, pardon the pun, a "monolith" seat then it will fit into the back of a regular European SUV.
Minivans are awesome. My first car was a 800 dollar Ford Windstar I got from a touring band called Creekside. Had a "I believe Edward Snowden" sticker on it and only 4 seats.

Quiet, spacious, Great sound system, V6, 4 captains chairs, room for our drums and amps. Cruised great. No maintainence in the 3 years I owned it. Fuel economy around 20 on a good day. Very comfortable.

Seats popped out, tons of storage room. Low rear bumper / floor so you could easily load it.

Prior to the Ford flex they were used by a lot of installers for these favorable features
I haven't seen any of that tbh, I have seen a lot of disrespect come in direction of Walter and him responding in a gracious way actually. Criticism existence means it is allowed and thus is "open".
why not ship them USPS?
I had ISDN in Southeast Michigan (bit north of Mt. Clemens) back in the late 90s and it was amazing. Being local, your stoy really caught my ear. I wonder about that timing, though, because 56K modems weren't available in '92. They didn't get to be a thing that people could buy until '97 or so, IIRC.

(I worked retail computer support at the time, and USRobotics did a neat sales presentation at Henry Ford Manor where, if we went to an "educational" session about the technology, we got a free modem. I already had ISDN by that time so I didn't really need it, but it was still neat. And a couple-hundred-dollar modem, for free, for a retail employee seemed like quite a perk.)
Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]
> It is impossible to do physics by thought experiments.

Tell that to Einstein.
That's how one of my past employers resolved this. Basically base64 encoded every field in the JSON as someone reported a bug where the WAF blocked it. Not only was this done inconsistently and was super tedious but completely defeated the purpose of the WAF. (Except of course to check the checkbox that we had a WAF.)
SUVs are pushed by manufacturers due to their relative lack of regulation in the US, and so the more money they can make from them. Safety and car seat sizes have nothing to do with it.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo
I think many (most?) CPython extensions using the pure C API could be profitably re-done as Cython modules. I once almost did this for NumPy when Python3 compatibility was too slow in coming. I think a PyPyJIT-CythonAOT system would be a potent tonic against Python slowness { personally I prefer just going all the way to Nim, though that often entails small ecosystem/adoption-entailed work }. I also suspect there is prior art on this in the Common Lisp (a compiled, gradually typed system) world, possibly as interop between Lisp systems.
.17 cent per message. What a bargain.
Not only that. You can also connect your car via USBC and then it is paired and will also work wirelessly.
There's a good argument that a lot of people buying 3-row SUVs would probably be better off with a minivan--which is what many of my whitewater paddling friends drive. But, as you say, they're mostly not actually smaller vehicles for the most part.
> No portrait of Michell exists, but he was described as “a little short man, of black complexion, and fat.”

Why are Wikipedia contributors hallucinating the meaning of "black complexion"? Apparently since "black people" were not capable of intelligent thought, "black complexion" means "In this case it means he was sad and melancholy".

Do Wikipedia contributors then think that "fair or white complexion" must mean "happy and high-spirited"?

Or is it because all the black people around in the medieval era were uneducated slaves performing menial tasks? What terminology would be used describe the complexion of people of "black African appearance" if "black complexion" meant "sad and melancholy" people?

Charles II was described as "tall black man" when he was on the run during the civil war. I guess those on the look out for him were supposed to look for a tall, "sad and melancholy" looking man, as though that would be a help in picking him out, forgetting that in the middle of a bloody civil war there would be lot of sad people of all heights, shapes and widths out and about.
Oh yes, I forgot about the packaging! It's insane, and also quite a bit of an overhead to dispose of it properly (where I live).
You know who else is not a car aficionado? Most people in the world. I was hoping you might say something erudite about the engine timings since you knocked the author for not being a car expert and all you were able to say was “screens are important for safety” like what safety?
Same here. I eat mostly salad and vegetables and fruit, some canned or dry beans. I haven't seen much of any change in prices. (Possibly it's just too small to notice, like from $1.09 to $1.29 or some such.)

The things I buy that have noticeably gone up in price are the occasional frozen item (breakfast sandwiches going from 4 dollars to nearly 7 for a four-pack) and protein bars. So the price inflation mostly does seem to be dependent on the industrial processing parts.
I think the word they're looking for is "buying stuff".
Yes, I'm arguing against you when you say that it is "exceptional", though I agree that it is "abhorrent".

> There are plenty of companies lead by grade A people that treat their employees well instead of heartlessly throwing them under the bus.

I agree. But I also think companies aren't static things, founders can't stay forever, management always turns over eventually. I believe companies that are permanently incapable of looking for loopholes to reduce staff at the lowest cost to themselves are vanishingly rare.

I don't think relying on companies to not do things they are incentivized to do, on the strength of their principles, is an ineffective strategy. But maybe I'm arguing against myself here; if publicizing this kind of behavior results in bad PR that actually breaks through into being a problem for a company, then that changes the incentives, which I do think is good.

So yeah, even though I don't think this is new or unusual behavior, shaming it nonetheless could potentially have a positive effect.
“indefinite” doesn't mean infinite or eternal or forever. It just means “end time unspecified/undetermined”.
I also think that profit for LLM-based businesses without massive data troves is now solidly capped.

Content owners are moving quickly to monetize their hordes of data. The days of free training data are over. If you don’t own it already, you probably can’t afford it.

I think the interesting side effect is that LLMs will end up as bifurcated as the internet. Each only being trained on some subset of content based on which subset the LLM builder chooses or is able to license for training.

LLM agents will all be hamstrung and biased in various ways based on fragmented training sets.

There will be no singularity.

There will be many LLM agents that learned to think based on the information their creators could afford or chose to provide it.

These agents will have biased, inaccurate and incomplete world views, yet will be very confident they know everything. How very human!
Over the years I've adjusted my life such that I can live without owning a car. My place is at a walking distance from the office, I live near a hospital, there are multiple supermarkets apothecaries, schools, diners and pubs that I can easily walk to and back without encountering any dangers. I've saved on so many costs and that it is almost criminal at this point.

Not having any traffic stress is an added bonus. I actually feel a guilty pleasure walking past cars stuck in traffic.
> However this is a function of complexity that exists throughout all technology.

To a degree, yes, but auto manufacturers are all too willing to make self-servicing difficult. They only make money when you buy a new car after all. We also see this with, well, almost every other field.

> they are being added because the general population wants them.

Much like phones with unremovable batteries leading to slimmer devices, I can only imagine this is a product of marketing convincing consumers of their desires, rather than them actually requesting all of that. It doesn’t even really make sense; why would the consumer want all of that when they’re not even using it the vast majority of the time in the vehicle?