skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You full well know public transportation isn’t a viable option.

I do not know this. I have over a thousand taps of my ORCA card in 2023. My wife has more. We have been as far north as Bellingham and as far south as Portland on transit. We attended the wedding of a friend's kid in Yakima by riding transit to Issaquah and taking Greyhound from there.

I don't appreciate being told that my actual, lived experience "isn't viable", especially when I know several other people who do it just the same as me. Not all of us can or want to drive. This is even more true as people get older.

> And you’re fully aware that commutes of >30 minutes are not uncommon, in part die to how unaffordable the greater Puget Sound

According to AAA, the annual cost of owning a car is $12,000. We don't spend that money, so we can afford to live closer-in where transit is better. I am not here to judge people who choose to move far away but I haven't done it and I won't. But even if I did, I could just move to where I already have acquaintances in Lynnwood or Redmond or Renton or Burien and take the bus just the same as I do today.
The idea was to make it blatantly clear that it's not a "munition".
> even the section of this post entitled 'i don't want fast threads, i want futures' never brings up, as far as i can tell, any correctness or flexibility advantages for async rust, only efficiency advantages

I don't think that's charitable. While there's not, like, a concise bulleted list of async's advantages other than performance, many of those advantages are discussed throughout the piece:

- Cancellation (and the corollary, the ability to externally control, suspend, or time out arbitrary sets of computations at yield points).

- Ergonomic (rather than just performant) heterogenous multiplex-waits. Doing that in non-future-oriented systems isn't just potentially slow, it's fiddly and a breeding ground for bugs in many languages, including Rust.

- The ability to outsource the geometry of concurrency and parallelism to an async runtime rather than spending brain and editor cycles deciding things like e.g. how many handler vs. acceptor threads you're going to manage, and whether executors will launch/stop lazily or eagerly.

Those aren't necessarily unique to Rust, but they are definitely discussed and are definitely unique benefits of an async/promise-based concurrency system.

Also, minor nit:

> tokio runs multiple tasks concurrently

I think you mean "in parallel" here; the whole meta-system is concurrent, but data races re-emerge in Tokio (or rather, impose sizedness/pinnedness restrictions on data in async contexts in Tokio) where they aren't in JS because Tokio can run in true threaded parallel.
if you buy broccoli and sell it a few days later at a 2% profit (net of costs), you just made 2%. if that took you a week, and you do it again the next week, and the week after that, you took your investment and grew it 52 weeks @ 2% a week, you'd be at 280% or more than 180% profit (1.02 ^ 52, presuming you also buy and sell 2% more of the broccoli itself every week. if you just buy the same amount of broccoli every week that's just 52 * .02 plus a little for interest, and you take the profits and pay off debts or take it as income, etc.)

if you lay fiber and connect it to the internet and hire cable guys to visit people's houses and customer service people to answer the phone, and your total revenue for a year minus your costs for a year comes out to a profit margin of 50%, you have 50% margins.
Solve algebraic equations interactively by dragging terms around
There is no reason why those plastics have to end up in waterways though
That's what we do for night vision goggles. https://tnvc.com/shop/ab-night-vision-lpbp-go/
I would imagine they didn't want to have an external pack and that's just a compromise they had to make for this initial version, with the intention of getting rid of it in a future iteration. It wouldn't be worth overcomplicating the external pack if they don't see that as the way forward.

A "Vision Air" that exchanges the glass and most of the metal structure for plastic, and maybe ditches the underwhelming front display, but integrates the battery like the Quests would be a pretty good trade IMO.
Doesn't help if you want to send data to the server with every request (i.e. cookies).
Anyone who thinks insurance is too cheap does not have a teenage driver.

Also, if rates are increased (to afford bigger payouts) there will be more deadbeat uninsured drivers. (Recently had to pay a large deductable when one such driver smashed into my son's car.)
Ironically synthetic cork would be much better used in high end bottles, as you don’t have th problem of one occasionally disintegrating and ruining a bottle that’s been maturing for decades. The amount of speciality products around wine corks is prettty insane, all the various removal devices and sealers, etc. A simple, impervious (Mylar lined?) screw top would be the actual best for both practical and “archival” purposes.
Melanoma doctor's high-stakes gamble to treat his brain cancer
It really depends on the kind of law that you have. As the Soviet joke goes, "severity of the laws is mitigated by not having to follow them".
>What hurts the most: I deleted my account. At some point it became undeleted. I don't have the ability, as far as I'm aware, to kill it. My profile lives on to enrich the people who betrayed the writers. Kind of sad, but it was all about engagement. Ad dollars.

This sounds horrific and ironic when Quora's founder is on the OpenAI board with a role to supposedly oversee ethics. But, after all he was the CTO of a company that pioneered putting tracking pixels everywhere, so this is just typical silicon valley stuff.
>I think the upvote/downvote model for evaluating content is fundamentally not a good one

This is why the bump model that 4chan uses is superior. You can sort threads by activity, but all posters display with equal weight, and you must utilize critical thinking to evaluate each and every post (unless it is from a trip user whose authority you trust in a particular domain), not some little number that pushes them to the top or sinks them to the bottom. There are (You)'s, but that can indicate consensus, disagreement, controversy, or something else, and you need to sus that our for yourself.

Consensus-based truth models are frankly shit for most types of topics. Heck, even for scientific topics, the peer review model has been shown to be completely bankrupt.
Curious. Cool
Asphalt has benzene. 45 years ago we had to mini-hazmat a litre of benzene out of the lab, and all got asked about our exposure. (Marine bio lab, it was being used as some kind of rinse/wash agent for samples I believe, hoarded from the 60s. They never willingly threw a reagent away)
I believe you. I didn’t experience the switchover, but the real sugar/original recipe “Throwback” from about a decade ago was yummy. Can’t get it anymore, though.
It could be done, but there are more tradeoffs than at first glance. They probably didn’t do this because when they took the battery off the head it was already too late to redesign the thing again.

You would need to propagate signals from all the sensors back and forth which adds some overall weight in copper, and perhaps latency for more encoding and decoding. Could be worth it, we’ll see in v2.
That US was a "real bad guy", or that nuking cities was an evil and unnecessary thing? The latter, while not universally held, is a fairly common take, and has been that way for a few decades now.
The real name policy meant that after trying to answer a question once I was done with it. I think it'd be interesting to move the question/topic style into something run more like Wikipedia.
> while everyone else manages with a single USB-C cable for everything.

Which brand and model of cable is that so I can go buy myself a couple dozen? I’ve got a whole bin of seemingly identical cables here and usually have to try several before I can get devices to connect properly.
Makes sense given the context. When you said bugs in open source EFI implementations, I thought you meant bugs in things like rEFI/rEFInd/rEFIt.
Headlights are regulated between 24 and 54 inches in Texas.
We're not all that different than tech workers. Who wants to be on stage 100% of the time?
I was going to push back on this, but on second thought I realized you are correct. Microsoft has a reputation, to put it mildly. A reputation that is well known to every software engineer on the planet, and indeed to many laymen.

Everyone who even applies there knows exactly what they are getting into. The application itself is an "ethics test", so to speak.
So it would be centrist/moderate then, certainly not leftwing?
The article limits itself to chemical rockets. They work well enough on Earth so that's what we are using, but we can do better. Replace chemistry with nuclear, and use the air in the atmosphere as a reaction mass. On Earth, that would cause more problems than it would solve, that's why we don't do that despite having the tech to do it. But on a higher gravity planet it may be what we would do. Harder, but not impossible.

It is interesting how we got nuclear technology that would allow for way more capable rockets at the same time we perfected chemical rockets enough to get to orbit. So much that we could have been able to escape a 10g planet almost as soon as we have escaped Earth.
A hands-on guide to inverted index in Apache Doris
You have to find it and turn it on, but there is a tool called "Style Inspector" that shows the applied styles and direct formatting of the selected text (or the location of the cursor).

Can also use control+space to strip off any direct formatting.
When Workbench 1.2 released in the early days of the Amiga 500, there was an obscure sequence of keypresses you could do in order to bring up an easter egg containing the names of the developers, and finally the line, referring to Commodore:

"We made Amiga, They fucked it up"

This was the truth.
Could Car Subscriptions Entice Mass EV Adoption?
https://archive.ph/ef527
Basically nothing since you just poop all of it out. There are some very few cases of liver damage associated with curcumin. No meaningful clinical applications have been found in non-fraudulent studies.
Thanks for sharing. Gotta love the U District, at least as constituted before the peaceful protests.
Thanks for the insight, first time i heard leap frog haha. I get that there's ways to optimize both fast-follow or searching for OG pain-points. My question is more so, given that I will follow the best practices for both options, is fast-follow really a no-brainer highest-ROI option?
Pinball machine isn't happening for reasons unrelated to the cost. Sorry to disappoint HN.
Look I do agree with you. Taiwan is it's own country and deserves to be. It's treated and acts that way in every sense of the word.

You are right the KMT has now lost 4 presidential elections in a row and the tides are changing. But they still are the majority party in the legislature and will continue to exert tons of control.

My claim is only that Taiwan needs to pretend it still feels united with the mainland to maintain the political farce and keep Beijing happy. That for Taiwan to claim independence would be a political game of chess as then that means Taiwan is no longer just a breakaway province in rebellion - it's actually succeeded.

Maybe officially you are correct but you can't claim the above has no bearing on the relationships between the two nations.
I am groveling in pure joy
What about Lua?
This isn't even a recent thing anymore. "iPhone will become the phone of choice for the pedophile" was said by a senior official in 2014, when full device encryption was starting to become common.
I Ching divination using ChatGPT
Right now, emergency vehicles seem to be in some competition to get the most and brightest lights on them. It's near impossible to see while driving past them.

And yes, you should be driving past them slowly, but with everyone slowing down at once, that presents its own problem of trying to avoid slow downs and merges while being blinded by the emergency vehicles.

Or being blinded by them in a parking lot.

Lately, I've noticed a few turning from flashing into solid light, which is somewhat better.
If I had to describe fascism in one sentence it would rather be "take social darwinism 'the strong rule the weak' and add a pragmatic leader who helps your group crush those who hold you back and rule everyone else"

You know, exactly the kind of ideology you don't want a neighboring nation to have, no matter how you judge their actions morally
Why would that matter, if source code is protected speech anyway?

And why is it more "clear" with a printed book vs. an emailed text file?
You have no compassion
It has been complained about loudly in politically involved circles (at least the ones in run in) that fraud is generally under pursued.

In the UK, fraud is 40% of the crime and just 1% of police resources [0]. Wouldn’t surprise me if Canada is the same.

[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64539087faf4a...
You’re joking, but there is concern about the environmental damage beavers cause.

https://courses.hamilton.edu/beavers/conservation-and-destru...
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp... not a Meta fan but they've just about cornered the social mnedia market. Now they have Threads. When they get into AI, they'll at least have access to just about everyone that's connected to the internet.

A search competitor to Google/Bing for starters? VR Oculus reborn? 3 million active worldwide advertisers means they have squeezed their users for every last bit of data and then some.
NVGs are also typically designed to be attached to a kevlar (combat helmet).
There are reports that they tried it. Not just wired but also wireless.

But the increase in latency in transmitting 10k+ of video data from the displays to the puck and back was enough to make the user more nauseous. I suspect because they wouldn't be able to process the data in time for the next frame.
Drugs. Oh my. Are we going to try shame someone for living their life as they want? That attitude belongs not in a progressive mindset.
Because both are safety issues. The method of fixing doesn’t matter. The issue matters.
It kinda did, though.

The Amiga with its revolutionary coprocessors (Denise, Agnus, Paula) was a game changer.

However, id Software taught the world that the important part of the software revolution was not in these coprocessors but in fast 3D code. And the Amiga architecture was simply not ready to face that challenge.

Now to be fair, I don't think DOOM killed the Amiga, but I am reasonably confident Windows 95 did.
https://archive.is/8o6Az
You talk as if being land locked is an economic death knell, Ethiopia is not the only country in the world (yet a lone region - which there are many) that is landlocked. This land for recognition isn’t going to solve truck congestion in Ethiopia. If they were interested in solving that they would’ve helped finance a rail line from Berbera to Addis, but as I mentioned Ethiopian PM is interested in selling to an uninterested public the deal of Ethiopia with a navy.
Alas, sl is a command name already well taken. https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Pro tip: lasts longer if you mainline it
Targeted strategies over dogmatic best practices
Turmeric is magical with fried onions.
while that might work for a small app, it would be tedious to interface with UIKit & co. in that way in any meaningfully medium to larger app.
Thankfully, we can quickly switch to the "Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history" HN thread [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223266
The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (1542)
Looking at the comments here, the UK is incredibly cheap for car insurance compared to the USA.

Some of the monthly prices mentioned in the US are similar to an annual price in the UK, and a lot more is covered on a UK policy.
Writing a Toy UI Library
You feel my pain, brother
Vehicles are bigger. People are constantly on their phones. There are basically no consequences for killing someone with your car.

It is unconscionable that in an era of ubiquitous data and technology that vehicle mortality rates keep increasing.
Pedestrian safety is great if you don’t cross highways at night and aren’t drunk.
It would be neat to have a version that plugs straight in to a Macbook pro and uses that for all the processing + battery. Then it's basically just a portable external display.
> I do recall that patents/trademarks/tech are owned by E-Ink inc., and one of the biggest reason for the cost is them gouging the market? That mechanism can keep high prices for a long time.

recall? gouging? You mean you have data showing is not just simple volume issues?
> trains

Huh? Do you mean public transport trains like trams? Because trains do not have batteries because they have an overhead line or a 3rd rail to deliver the current.
Thanks for writing! Love the composition of your site pages btw. I've got the same "|"-seperated nav bar on my WIP branch. Cleaner then my current branch, but I'm trying to compromise between sparse-ness and something with more "vibes". If only I was in the habit of actually writing anything-- congats!
I worked in the industry recently, with most leading carriers on how they generate LTVs for potential customers from expected frequency, severity, and lifetime.

During COVID shutdowns, there was a massive drop in frequency (obviously, hardly anyone was driving) but a significant uptick in severity. This was attributed to higher speeds with emptier roads.

After re-opening, frequency is significantly higher per driver than before. So is severity. Everyone I talked to in the industry was convinced this was due to loss of skill during shutdown as well as people driving much more aggressively. This is on top of the serious increase in parts due to supply chain issues.

I find it strange that this isn't discussed in the article when it's a pretty widely-held belief in the industry.
It certainly doesn’t seem like the economy is booming, at least where I live.
«Wantonly» is perhaps not the most accurate term at least in the context of hiragana. It evolved as a writing script for women and used exclusively by women and by women only due to the Japanese women having been denied education in Japan at the time and having been considered too inferior to learn kanji. The men scoffed at hiragana for many centuries as something relegated to the «crazy» women writing love letters and expressing «lowly» emotions in a correspondence with each other. The Japanese men would only write using kanji. Eastern Asian mysoginy has a pretty rich history that has even found its reflection in a writing system.
Nation-state actors on Wikipedia which hide behind the byzantine rules and regulations on the site are a far worse problem, imho. I think Wikipedia is still the best tool for information on the net, if the user approaches it with a critical mind, check sources (which a frightening number of times say the exact opposite of what was included in the article!), and check Talk and revision history pages. But, I would bet that most people do not approach Wikipedia in this manner. Furthermore, Wikipedia is used to train LLMs, and the problem compounds via citogenesis.

If you spend time editing Wikipedia a decent amount, you will see the same groups of moderators and actors which rapidly alter certain types of articles to fit particular metanarratvies. Anyone who points this out will get revdel'd, which means that non-admins can't even see what happened. revdelling is supposed to be reserved for doxing and serious matters, but when you see it abused with your own eyes by the same users working in tandem with mods (I am talking within 3-4 minutes of a controversial post going live), then I guarantee you will never look at Wikipedia the same way again. There are obvious nation-state actors acting out in the open, running automated software (dozens of edits across pages within minutes) without an authorized bot, and they are allied with particular circles of mods who are on the same payroll. If any other user attempts even a mere fraction of a percentage of the biased and violative TOS activity in which they engage, you will get revdel'd and/or have your account banhammered.
The cable is not supposed to be user-replaceable.

And the reason it's not USB-C is because it needs to have a locking mechanism and be ultra-robust at the ends.

I've never seen a USB-C cable with either.
I think the balance will shift here a little, now that the RP2040 has made PIO a rather more mainstream concept. Access to really very high-speed, narrowly-focussed reliable IO timing in the context of an interpreted language seems to me to be a good plan.

I gather other microcontrollers have had programmable I/O state machine cores in the past but I'd expect to see a lot more of them (or more documentation and coverage of the ones that exist)
Meta can do wireless VR streamed from a PC with airlink. That’s at lower resolution, but it’s at least theoretically possible.
> I do not know this. I have over a thousand taps of my ORCA card in 2023.

You're in the vast minority who can take the Sounder, etc. Your scenario does not reflect the reality for the vast majority of Washingtonians.

> I don't appreciate being told that my actual, lived experience "isn't viable"

Yet, it isn't viable for the vast majority of Washingtonians.

> We don't spend that money, so we can afford to live closer-in where transit is better.

Congrats on being wealthy enough to live in a place where ORCA has any value. Most Washingtonians do not.

You do, in fact, live in a transportation bubble. You need to acknowledge that your transportation bubble is not viable for the vast majority of Washingtonians, so your premise that being car-free is do-able in Washington simply is not a reality for millions of Washingtonians.

This is exactly the same blinders we see on r/seattle. Those who call for elimination of cars are privileged enough to live in Seattle and don't seem to recognize other's do not live in Seattle (or commute to Seattle from where most public transportation is not effective, viable, or possible).
Posting from Vision, right now. I can say with some serious confidence that this wouldn't work well in that way for multiple reasons. Moving around, not being tethered, being able to take it on the plane, etc. Latency would be an issue. Not to mention, the cost of on board-computing is negligible compared to the necessary cost of the displays, R1, etc.

Although, I have been using it with my MacBook Pro as a remote client, to great effect.
All of your objections are nitpicking about small, localized setbacks compared to massive global gains. As far as I can tell, we agree that the world is consistently getting better, and that these gains all come from technological progress. As far as I can tell, we agree that while the world isn't perfect, and some technologies do more harm than good, "technological progress" is a net positive.

I don't think you want to go back to a 50% child mortality rate, even if it somehow convinced Republicans to drop their crusade against abortions. I don't think you prefer World War 2 to the Ukraine war. I certainly don't think you want to reinstate monarchy and fascism across Europe.

If I'm wrong, then go ahead and tell me what decade you want to rewind to - what progress are you willing to give up?

If I'm not wrong, then... how does this at all lead to "hence being pissed about AI"? What's so uniquely evil about AI that we should give up the gains there, and assume it's a net evil in the long term, compared to everything else we've done?
I find it concerning that, proportional to the rigorous selectivity in academic admissions, the expulsion process for misconduct like this is lax or apparently in this case nonexistent.

This guy was selected to be trained in biochemistry above so many people, all to culminate in what might be a net negative effect on society. That he's still giving talks and conducting research with funds instead of someone more deserving disappoints me.