skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A HEAD is the end of that line. A detached head is when you have checked out a sha that isn’t the end.

This isn’t quite a right. I hope my clarification is helpful!

HEAD is the ref that you currently have checked out. This could be a commit ID, a branch ID, etc., and there may be multiple refs that point to the same commit.

When you check out a commit ID directly, you’re in a “detached HEAD” state because you aren’t on a branch. This is noteworthy because it means that any commits you make will be untracked by any branch, and will only be available in the reflog.
This article sounds more like a car insurance ad. Fear mongering at its best. Yea it’s probably only a a $10-20 increase in premiums if you are in a class of “very very low risk” drivers. But people with poor credit, high number of at fault accidents, or just living in the wrong zip code (higher accidents means higher premiums!) will result in much higher increases.

Most people here probably fall into idgaf category and can pay the increased premiums for the “peace of mind”. But if you are living at or near the federal poverty line. Paying for peace of mind is much less important.

Personally I have the maximum limits myself since the increase in 6 month premiums is only about $20.

I do wish I did not have to own a car though. No more car maintenance, car insurance, ongoing gas costs, yearly registration fees to local/state entities, tire replacement, brake replacements, …

I very much prefer to use my bike, walk, or use public transportation where possible. Much better for personal health (more active), environment, and my mental health (dealing with other drivers inattentiveness, poor driving skills, drunk mofos at night). Plus it’s nice to multitask while taking the bus or train home.
I’m on board with your sentiment but it’s hard to find most mapped data compelling. Everything converges to population centers so every map of data points ends up looking the same unless there’s some specific local bias.
right - in my experience that's probably the most insignificant thing to workout, but I guess if there's demand for it good luck.
I still find this hard to believe as ever since 2009s recession, I personally have never met so many people recently who have been laid off and looking for work in a lot of different industries and also the amount of people who work multiple jobs. Almost everyone I know who’s not very wealthy is doing their day job and has some other form of income to be able to pay normal bills
I am not proposing to cap anything. Please re-read the entire comment you're replying to, not just the first line.
While I share the same feeling (and we likely are not thinking of the same politicians) it's worth noting every age has had people complaining about

* The current government/politicians, which are worse then the ones we had

* The youth, who have it easy and are not as good as the old generation

We have actual texts from ancient civilizations saying this, so _maybe_ it's just a seesaw, or _maybe_ it's just getting old.
Google health insurance subrogation auto accident.

Your health insurance will seek reimbursement from the at-fault party's auto insurance. Which may be your insurance.
One tip if you do buy umbrella insurance: never tell anyone you have it. It makes you a more attractive target.
It's mentioned in the article:

> By contrast, in Germany drivers are required to have €7.5m ($8.2m) of bodily-injury coverage, and in Britain liability is unlimited. And in those countries, going into hospital does not mean running up a life-altering bill.
The pay gap in the star cast is huge for Howard. Was she just starting her career at this point?
Thanks for spoiling the end.
It's a downstream consumer of (lib)git.
A neat little company is Miller Engineering, which sells aftermarket discs of reportedly far, far better quality than the ones that come with Sony's: https://microstru.com/collections/star-discs. Their site also offers an extensive of the various home planetarium alternatives.

I've always wondered what is in these things that makes them worth $200. As far as I can tell, thehy're basically just a light bulb, a little motor that can slowly turn a slide disc, and some lenses. It leaves me wondering whether there's some aspect of its construction that makes it harder to construct. Something about the optics, perhaps? Do they need to be of especially high quality?
Spoilers! Please
> yes, fine, this one's _technically_ an initialism

From the wikipedia article on acronyms[1], an initialism is a kind of acronym.

There are some definitions that specify that it must be pronounced as a word, although in common usage acronym includes initialisms , and what iteans to be "pronounced as a word" is kind of imprecise anyway. Is CIA pronounced as a single word, but the pronunciation comes from the pronunciation of the letters? I'd argue that it a single lexeme at least.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
I don't think this' a big deal.
Yes. I will use the words you want me to use, and not my own words. Thanks for helping me out.
Yes, it looks like this was her first or second notable role.
This is neat. I take it these these accounting breakdowns for films are hard to come by? Would love to see more for some of my favorite films.
Wow, great read. I worked on the Windows DLL loader and we had to implement similar mechanics for similar reasons. The PE image format makes some part of this a little easier, but the complexity is essentially the same.
Naming is trivial, _1, _2 , etc, exist.

Good naming is hard, but you don't need those for your use case of potentially discardable work
Google Maps does the same thing on iOS if you looked up an address in Apple Maps.
Papers are designed to be read by a specific audience of highly technical, skilled people in a topic where if it is original research, must be very explicit, and prove and disprove multiple things simultaneously.

Of course, standards vary significantly institution to institution and even person to person, and highly technical, skilled people are not indicative of full capability of reading, let alone reviewing the topic, doubly so when it is original research.
The lowest recorded interbank lending rate in Australia was 0.03%

https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/interbank-rate

If you're lending someone a billion dollars, and your labour cost for doing the lending is in the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of dollars, then interest rates quickly approach 0.

Sure, no-one would do it for literally 0 dollars, but the rates at which banks lend to each other when there is a ZIRP policy at the central bank (including 0% paid on reserves) is negligible as far as the real economy is concerned.

Like the "cost of capital" in that case for issuing a mortgage has nothing to do with the interbank lending rate.
I don't think you can reasonably compare the importance of transparency in your examples to that of editorial decisions in a private moderated community.

In the first set, the stakes are far higher, which is why the collection of objective data is legally mandated in the first place.

In the second set, you have only the subjective opinions of people who have an explicit goal to cultivate a specific variety of community. As members of that community, we select into the cultivation regime under which we participate.
Not everyone will share the same preferences, and that's OK.
Also, EINE = EINE Is Not Emacs, and its successor ZWEI = ZWEI Was Eine Initially.
For the record, I think the correct answer is "change the mission statement/goals of the nonprofit - or pack it in".
I don't know if that would have helped. I figured out the twist long before its revelation, and I think the movie would have made even less sense without some kind of explanation of the characters' strange behaviour. I came out of it thinking "I guess some names can get anything funded", since it seemed like an obviously bad story, but with more hindsight "obviously bad story" is not a problem for a film project if it makes money (just a problem for the audience), and in 2004 Shyamalan's name on a movie was guaranteed to make money, so the investors had no need to care about story.
You should add a "Show HN: " at the beginning of the title of this post.
We truly live in a boring dystopia. It is insane to think how much money and how many absolutely seething customers this will make and it happens again and again.
We discovered the magicube bulbs were the perfect size to fit in the blow gun we had. It was quite impressive at night time when you hit a hard target. Or at least was at that age.
They've had 2 years since the final text of the DMA was written. From memory I think we saw it in Feb/Mar 2022.

In the text of the DMA it says "When gatekeepers operate and impose web browser engines, they are in a position to determine the functionality and standards that will apply not only to their own web browsers, but also to competing web browsers and, in turn, to web software applications" which was written to show the intention of the browser engine change was to facilitate web apps.
But higher coverage doesn’t mean higher payouts. It’s cheaper and easier to offer full coverage of a rare and inexpensive event than a more common more expensive one. Or do you mean that premiums are higher?
Ask HN: Best thread you've found on HN
what have you found on HN that is too precious to believe? (and you want everyone to see it)

Maybe one of your favorites...
A person who isn’t “good at” word processors will use it both when they change their mind and when the program doesn’t do what they want (e.g. I didn’t realize that I had a text selection before I started typing and now my selected text is deleted). It’s the same with git, and now we are just arguing about what’s “typical”. An example of when I change my mind about what I told the program to do, maybe when rebasing I decide my merge resolution wasn’t actually what I wanted. That is certainly in the “user changed their mind” class of error.

I’m not saying git has a great user interface that users intuitively grok and rarely make mistakes in. But I am saying that having an undo button is not an admission of that, either.
About 8 percent are uninsured, which is a lot with a population of 330 million. I dont know if that includes the 7+ million illegal immigrants.
Any chance you're willing to share your scripts? I'm interested in trying out NAT traversal, too, and was starting to research ways to simulate all the different types.
I’m just trying to understand what “don’t dump chemicals in water or on land” even means. If nitrogen and water are OK, then the directive is plainly wrong. What else would be OK? And how would we make that decision?
Not a whole answer, but maybe worth mentioning that Polars is implemented in rust and you can directly use it via it's Rust crate. https://docs.rs/polars/latest/polars/
So, is it implicitly condoning digital piracy?
Location: Eastern Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: only to UK with visa

Technologies: Go, GraphQL, Svelte/Kit, Typescript, Deno, Tailwind/etc, Rust, PostgreSQL, minor experience in a bunch of devops stuff incl k8s and tf

Résumé/CV: https://endigma.dev

Email: quick.note3709@fastmail.com
That sounds very low. Here in Denmark (where health care is a lot cheaper). The required liability coverage is around $20 million covering both treatment and compensation. Obviously the amount they pay out would normally be a lot less then in the US.
Meanwhile, Azure is gearing up to do the same thing.

Except that their alternative to per-VM addresses is a NAT gateway that isn’t zone-redundant. Literally everything else is — including IP addresses and virtual networks — but not outbound Internet access. That’s going to just break and leave your entire network dead in the water if one of three zones has a hiccup.

IPv6 can’t replace this garbage fast enough…
How many vehicle owners are flexible enough to give up driving for several days, in exchange for a $120 payout?

I think EVs can smooth out the daily bumps, but we need something to stabilize the grid over longer periods without burning fossil fuels. At least for the US, lots of long-distance transmission should help, because weather events generally don't affect the entire country.
Yeah, sixth film credit… but the second one for which her character had a name.

And that other film appears to have had a box office under $1.4m, with a collection of basically nobody notable attached, including the director.
The movie has been out for 21 years now. It's not a spoiler, you're just being reminded how much you've been passed by.
> I don't criticize real kindergartners, only Tesla engineers and executives

Where is this criticism? And why only Tesla engineers and not other car company engineers or executives? Why are they exempt from criticism?
There’s not a fixed federal limit on loss ratio or profit for car insurance like there is for some types of health insurance. But they need to get approval for rate increases from state regulators for every state that they issue policies in, and some states can be extremely hard to get rate increases through, even when insurers are breaking even or losing money in those states. It’s a tragedy of the commons - each state regulator would benefit from keeping premiums low within their state, but in reality any losses need to be subsidized by higher premiums somewhere else.
And the dream of Governor Weathers dies.
Is there anywhere new for us to go? Or must we wait for some new leap forward still?
I decided to take this on. Documented it here

https://dev.to/nrgapple/dyi-ai-text-cleaner-3gm8
It's a joke, but modern SV has embraced the absurdity. I suppose Microsoft embraced it back then (the 1990s?), in a way, but I guess I assume that the software industry was just immature back then and hadn't developed effective engineering.
This makes me think: maybe a neat little project would be "tinder for founders" :)
It's what we technical folk refer to as spaghetti code.
"Maybe the little bit of extra friction when you do want to push a branch is worth it for all the times you do not have to consciously move a branch backwards to avoid pushing changes you are not yet ready to share."

Very True.

This whole article really makes me miss mercurial. No need to create branches all the time, very rarely needing rebase -i, revsets, simple commands, those were the days! I'm almost afraid to give jj a try because I'll fall in love and probably lose it again and have to go back to git
There's actually a feature for this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
I love little web gems like this, here another one: https://sharkle.com
I don't doubt this kind of scam is happening. But I think it stretches credibility to say that there aren't many more people successfully paying to make Wikipedia articles more to their liking.
> That Twitter hide (soft ban) tweets/accounts that an algorithm labels as misinformation because it was massively flagged? That happened before, it was easily abused, it was censorship.

You mean something like this? https://twitter.com/chrisswartout/status/1753634492894347759
> Had Apple launched an iPad in 2000, it would've had exactly the same hardware usability issues

and thats what excites me the most about the vision pro. when Apple steps in, its generally a signal that the tech has achieved a certain critial mass.

vision pro is going to incentivise a lot of hardware manufacturers to start building components for the VR market and increase the ecoomies of scale for other vr systems.

Put another way, android wouldn't exist or be relevant if iphone didnt show us what a smart phone could be. now I can go to any store and buy a cheap andrpid for $200. is it as good as a modern flagship iphone? of course not. but it holds up well against any 4 year old iphone.
The version of the device described on Neuralink’s website for the current trial only reads signals from the brain to control external software. So this is just for providing functionality and daily use to individuals with quadriplegia, not augmenting the brain itself.
Sometimes new people are added to the world and it can take a while to catch up, though.
The nature of the Software Crisis has changed, but the crisis is still here.

At the outset of that, the predictions were simply that software wouldn't get built because it was getting too complicated and expensive. The 80's saw a lot of developments around programs using module systems, dynamic linking, etc.

But the software being shipped at that time was still mostly either "appliance" or "back-office" software: data came in through the keyboard, and left by the printer. Most memory discipline revolved around static allocation and overlays, and the microcomputers were not doing a lot of multitasking(although it did come in with the 16-bits). There were more interesting things happening in big firms and universities, but the hardware was also specified around the type of thing they were doing and there was admin staff physically monitoring those shared machines. There was a lot of software that, in Unix "do one thing well" fashion, could do very little, but also did it reliably. And there was a lot of eye-wateringly expensive commercial software of this type: thousands of dollars for a compiler or database.

In the 90's, software got uniformly bad for a while because the PC became so much more powerful in such a short time, and the approaches that worked before turned into a moving target of "plan for the machine spec of 18 months from now". Wintel machines just weren't made to do the things they became capable of, and you had little way of knowing whether your crash was the application, Windows, or your drivers. Macs were no better.

There were really three things that crept to the forefront in this period:

1. The hardware being commoditized, but not open. To this day, Nvidia wants to control their drivers. And as long as we keep buying from them, they can dictate part of the software stack. They are hardly alone - every big player knows the game.

2. Essential complexity being addressed with accidentally complex protocols. For example, everyone uses UTF-8 now. It addresses a significant issue in a reasonably good way. But you still have a lot of systems in the wild using UCS-16. USB is designed to do everything, which gives it a high "floor price" for a system implementor compared with the classic parallel/serial mechanisms. The web browser ended up with Javascript. And so on.

3. A drift towards financialization within software. The "dot com" hype of the late 90's was what it was because the VCs had found a formula for getting companies to IPO with no revenue. When shrink wrap software became a business, it had lots of competitors, but by the 90's consolidation meant there was one "industry standard" per industry(Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, etc.), and it became more interesting to target consumers with Internet appliances. This project of building the ultimate consumer platform describes most of the past 30 years or so, in different phases and across different facets.

If it weren't for open source it would not be possible to host so much complexity. Kicking things down a layer to a dependency has been the way in which the software crisis has been handled, but a lot of the hasty or accidental standards are still standard.
Sure there isn't, but that's a silly excuse to conflate some minor distortions from sensor imperfections etc to your moon-sized fails
I'm also interested.

All I have is this Colorado map https://www.coloradobrewerylist.com/brewery/
Cuda is not a normal hardware decoding API. Look for VA-API and VDPAU.
It feels that point is undermined when the accelerationists don’t succeed and only make a new equilibrium of killing the kid and replacing him.

It feels to me more like a critique that change is impossible.
Suicide drones ?
You can always take real pictures by carrying a camera on your back pointing backwards at an angle taking pictures in intervals as long as you don’t look at them later.
"The hospital charged the couple’s insurance $180,000 for his care" - this sounded like a health insurance problem than car insurance.
Huh, thanks for the explanation.

I always understood it by analogy with MSDN so it wasn't confusing to me at all.
Is there any particular reason to entertain it? If I give you fifty wild ass guesses as to things it causes, we can be pretty sure that, upon further study, at least one of them is going to come back as a positive result ( p < 0.05 ). That doesn't really mean anything other than that we've probably wasted a bunch of time and money.
This reminds me of the idea behind Lua - similarly the original users needed a configuration format which became increasingly sophisticated and at some point the authors realized they needed “proper” programminglanguage constructs.
The US will need to at least double power generation and transport capacity to support 300 million EVs. Today our capacity is approximately 1200 gigawatts. We need to double that, or more. And then we have to upgrade the entire power transmission infrastructure to support the change.

No, solar alone cannot do it. At best, solar can deliver about 40% reliability. Wind alone isn’t much better. The combination of solar and wind (equal parts) can deliver 70% to 80% reliability. A more optimal mix, in most of the world, is 25% solar with 75% wind, overbuild by a factor of 2 and with 3 to 12 hours of storage. This gets you to over 90% reliability in most of the world. Places like Canada and Rusia need more wind and less solar to achieve this performance.

The problem is equipment service life. The replacement cycle, given today’s technology, is approximately three decades. Recycling options are far from practical or mature. This means that mass conversion to th technologies we have today will result on a massive replacement/reconstruction event every 30 years. Nobody can even begin to imagine the ecological consequences of such a scenario.

In short: We need better technology.
A surprising tidbit: Key make-up and hair each made 72.5k, but there was a make-up and hair designer, who made 105k.
Nice and hands on but feels very early 2000's. Nothing about cloud, AD, limited discourse about vulnerabilities which dominate (at least) the enterprise security space. Given how frequently the cybersecurity shortage is talked about one would think some higher education facilities would adopt a more modern position.
Would you prefer the US didn't offer it's excess LNG to Europe for sale, or would you prefer Europe continued to purchase LNG from the Russians?
It's more boring than you'd expect. The comments that get most heavily upvoted tend to be either (1) indignantly rhetorical, or (2) generic. Mostly what we do is downweight those when they're at the top of the thread. The "algorithm" is about as simple as:

(1) if the top comment is indignantly rhetorical or generic, downweight it; otherwise go look at another thread;

(2) refresh the page;

(3) goto (1).

If I'm feeling diligent, I might do this for the top few subthreads, but that's about it.

This simple intervention turns out to be the highest-leverage thing we've figured out in recent years:

ttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20highest%20leverage&sort=byDate&type=comment
Post seems to be gone
The original title "The Woods" is down in the footer. Apparently it was changed during production to avoid a clash with another film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(2004_film)#Produc...
Absolutely, yes. For example, Windows peaked out at Windows 7. These days one just cannot expect software and websites to be usable even on the happy path. It may not crash, as others pointed out, it just does not accomplish the task satisfactory. With very few exceptions.

I see two main reasons. First, too much reliance on automated testing, which may catch crashes but does not guarantee good UX per se.

Second, the quality of recent talent in the industry. Too many people are in it for money, and could not care less about craftsmanship.
"Gaming is now the third largest business at Microsoft." After Office and Azure, before Windows.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/30/24055445/microsoft-q2-202...