skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SUVs are a lot bigger than typical European cars. Since people don't feel safe driving small cars around big cars the presence of SUVs causes an upwards pressure on vehicle size. That's an issue in cities where the roads and parking spaces are built to fit vehicles from 20 years ago, causing a lot of frustration for everyone. Which creates the paradox that SUVs both cause people to dislike them and to buy them, for related reasons.
The problem is that the con was now spread out over multiple casinos/hotels so the odds of having to walk outside at some point have increased, even with some of the hotels connected internally.

The fact that it js now at the convention center and likely all under one roof is an improvement, IMO
… Wait, how are you defining ‘downward trend’? The rate of _growth_ has slackened, which you expect as a product category matures, but sales are still very much growing.

I’d be a little more sceptical of the media sources doing this well-reporting, if I were you.
Right, I overstated the implication. More people deciding not to have children does not lead to extinction. It's just that when people say things like "not having kids is good for environment" it comes off as a moral prescription that ought to apply to everyone, and hence those who violate it are the bad guys (selfishly acting to harm the environment). And yet if sustainability -- rather than self-extinction -- is the goal, we need a mix of both types of people.

Am I wrong to interpret it like that?

The ones who insist on having children as an ultimate virtue, I find them to be just as wrong.

Either choice is fine, and the moral objections to either one are unreasonable.

Edit: edited to expand the last sentence.
I went full in on FreeBSD, it just has the most features and biggest community. I have pf (the firewall), zfs or ufs(the real one :) ), HAST, two supported versions FB13/14, packages or ports (both available as head or quarterly), MAC, Jail's, Bhyve, Security Event Auditing, Secure-levels, Capsicum, File-flags etc etc. [1]

And one really important point for me, one can work ~instantly on the project:

-Read https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/

-Open an account at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/

-Send in patches and have fun.

-Search for outdated ports https://portscout.freebsd.org/

-Send in another patch.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/security/
Free market solutions are so simple, elegant, natural and organic...I wonder why ecologists hate it that much...not.
A U.S. Embassy Wanted to Talk About Giraffes. Chinese Investors Had Other Ideas
I've noticed this trend, but I feel like it's down to several factors, and I think as full cost gets priced in correctly, it's likely to end.

Obviously these use more fuel than the equivalent smaller, lighter car. Over time that's going to affect both the direct fuel costs, and the other taxes and costs levied for environmental reasons, road use, etc. Credit has been remarkably cheap, particularly in cars, and that's coming to and end. Insurance premiums have been going up in many countries, and these cars generally cost more to insure. On top of all of this, in the US SUVs are more practical because of the support for much larger vehicles (parking, roads, etc), and US media is a trend-setter for much of the world, so these vehicles are considered desirable more than may otherwise be the case.

The numbers you point to are from 2022, I'd be interested to see 2023 numbers as that's where I expect things would really start to turn around.
The vote did not concern resident parking places - even if you have an SUV you can still park as usual in _your_ area. Of course, if you drive to other parts of the town where you are not a resident (i.e. drive to a different arrondissement) then you count as a visitor. Its not unlogical - within Paris public transport should be used notably by those who live there - driving less than 5 miles inside the city makes little sense with some excceptions.
YIFY encodes were notorious for being bitrate starved to the point where good SD encodes trumped YIFY "HD".
The areas of the world where reproduction rates are highest care the least about this sentiment. For many reasons..

Maybe we should just accept that some things auto regulate. It's the way of nature.
Also coming from Rails, besides the way pip, etc. works, I was also surprised at just how fragmented the landscape is. And with a lot of strong opinions on how that person’s viewpoint is correct. When I was figuring this stuff out it was very confusing because of course these strongly held opinions neglect to list the huge downsides. I think it’s an interesting note about the culture of Python.
I use this one:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZVDMEL
Daily at-home charging is needed only for plug-in hybrids. BEVs can easily do a week of city driving without needing to charge.

In my city supermarkets have charging on their parking lots, so my car charges when I'm shopping.
The main drawback for me is that its UI is not so much compact.
I was amazed looking at people entering the first part of the domain into the search bar, then searching and clicking the first result. That was before chrome had the integrated google search in the address bar.

I had multiple people (albeit small sample size) who went to google.com, entered the domain they wanted (e.g. news.ycomb) then clicked the first suggestion which ran the actual search and then clicked on the first hit.
Should be added that this is for SUVs coming from outside of Paris and doesn't affect residents. Positive development nonetheless.
This was the only obvious one to me. But I'm only a simple webdev, so that might explain it.
that feels like a really weak value prop to me. how often do you have to install that stuff? how hard is it actually? can you really not use, e.g. for react, the typical vite starter and it's done?
In France, small cars are not hard to buy - there is a large range of innovative designs on the market.
Fortunately I don't see any ad

Indeed I was always very mystified when people complain about Youtube ads until Youtube started to mess with ad blockers. This made me consider stopping using Youtube altogether but fortunately uBlock Origin catched up.
Convention space and room blocks are fairly cheap to rent in Las Vegas.

No other city in North America has a similar amount of space or options for low cost block booking.

Also, plenty of DefCon attendees and sponsors are also attending BlackHat at around the same time, so it makes it easier to justify expensing most of the cost as an employee.
Yeah exactly what I thought as well. Very sad.
> While the Dutch will complain about higher education costs

Being a Dutchman myself I'll just put this down to the following piece of Dutch wisdom: Ik klaag, dus ik besta [1], a derivation of Descartes' first principle.

[1] ...which translates to I complain, therefore I am
How’s it different from getting home from work and watching TV all night? Except that TV is censored for thin skinned sensibilities by the networks?

People been complaining about walkmans, comic books, DND, rock music, rap…

Raise your hand if you’ve blown airplane smog in others neighborhoods from flying lately. Going on road trips?

Being sedate on a phone might actually be good for the planet and thus future of the species.

Is it social media screwing people up or the meta awareness of how shitty existence is and how few fucks we seem to give despite all the rhetoric about caring?
At least in my city (in NL), there are a bunch of public electric chargers with the street parking around the city. It seems like almost 25% of spots are electric only in my neighborhood
To be honest we're moving out of France. I don't see much future in this country if you have a family unless you go to somewhere like Auvergne where there's less jobs, mostly farming and these guys are getting decimated and cities run down. Owning a dog here starts to be higher virtue than having a child. French are moreover delusional about the role their country plays in the international scene and lot of other things. I give it 10-20 years max.
Apart from terrible support for subtitles even when they're available (very limited or noexisting choice of font sizes, colors, outlines, etc), the biggest problem for me is no surround channels at all when watching from a browser. You can find surround sound samples on youtube so it's not something browsers can't play. Is it some kind of anti-piracy measure? If it is it doesn't work, since it's all available on pirate sites. So I download content I already have on services I'm paying for and very rarely used them directly. They're for the rest of my family that doesn't care about surround.
i think it's more that the people who talk about it most are the ones who really did enjoy it that much. (i assure you we exist, even if you prefer hanging out with the people who only pretend to have enjoyed it.) i suspect this is because, unlike hemingway and shakespeare and hegel, it's fairly rare for people to be coerced into reading hofstadter
Wait till you see folks with fashion smartwatch being constantly immediately interrupted with all stupid notifications, its like advanced OCD factory for almost 0 added value. Then they turn it off, but usually this won't last, you can't brag about it so much and that 2s dopamine kick is missing.

Maybe some secret cabal of psychologists are actually behind it to raise their revenue.
You're not missing out feature-wise, no. Helm is the original kitchen sink power tool on this front. The Vertico-stack is interesting for different reasons, like simplicity of implementation.
“Deeply invested in having successful careers”, yes of course, because rent is too expensive for people in their prime birthing years, and it’s not getting cheaper.

So what else are we supposed to do but grind it out and hope things get better
The impedence to compiling IMHO defeats the point of open source. I use a text-only browser I can compile in less than a minute. I use an HTTP generator that compiles in two seconds. The so-called "modern" browser is a PITA. A nuisance. An unfortunate necessity for accomplishing certain tasks, e.g., commercial transactions such as banking or shopping. But most of the time I am using the web I am not doing those tasks.
Funny how the OP just complained about the social pressure and then people like you can't refrain from adding on top of it.

I have kids, I love them, I love parts of what having kids is about, and I hate other parts. If for some reason I had to hit rewind, I would probably choose it without having kids with the information I gained over the years.

And I totally understand people not wanting kids.
You should definitely give it a try. I don't have the Vision Pro, but I do have an xreal air. I used it on a seven hour transatlantic flight in economy class. I had to cover on so I couldn't see anything but the screens, but everything around me kind of just disappeared and I watched my movies, did my budget, did some writing, and didn't even feel like I was on a plane.

It's worth noting that the xreal air has a form factor of sunglasses instead of a VR headset, so it's much later on my face so maybe that was a factor.
I'm detecting snark and bad faith engagement.
TBH there were parts of that book where I felt I had had my fill long before the book let go - (e.g. the above-mentioned pre-WW2 California leftist politics) but YMMV, and it's a true history book, not a novel designed to thrill.

And there were fascinating engineering problem-solving details that were entirely absent e.g. the lengths gone to to get the shaped charges for the implosion device correct, and to run the punched-card computing for that. See Feynman's anecdotes on it instead.

But on the whole, it's a fascinating book if you're into that sort of thing.
To be fair Paris has huge problem with too many cars. I'd close the center entirely.
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I couldn't find anything substantiating this claim, everyone is reporting record sales. What is decreasing is sales growth [1]. As in: each year more EVs are sold than the last year, but the difference to previous year's sales is shrinking

1: https://www.ev-volumes.com/
Large families fit in estate cars / station wagons, just like they did in the 1980s and 1990s.
>Spotify is also a great example of how to beat piracy

By being able to compete with it on the price they pay artists. It's a uniquely powerful negotiating position for the publishers that a) won't last b) won't extend to TV/video
Critics, such as Dr Sabine Hossenfelder of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, say there is no guarantee that the new collider will succeed.

Not saying we should fund this thing but does Sabine have any opinions on what we should spend the money on? Or does she just come in and take a dump over all science projects that have risk of failure?

At my previous work, there used to be this higher ranking manager who would throw wrenches into proposals but would not offer better solutions. It drains the energy out of everyone. If you are a pessimist at work, offer a solution or a direction.
It's always interesting to me to see CLI users who are so invested in their development environment that they end up recreating the GUI IDEs they so disdain. Like vim users who insist that Jetbrains or VS Code is unnecessary after they configure vim with syntax highlighting, code completion, and gdb support with breakpoints
Interesting to note: the turnout (5.6%) is even lower than when it was decided to ban e-scooters sharing systems (7.4%).

Also note this only applies to vehicles from non-residents. And that parking in public spots is already very expensive in Paris; limited to a maximum of 6h, which will cost you up to 75€: https://www.paris.fr/pages/payer-son-stationnement-2129
Drag racing on the highway

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/investigation-cops-regula...

But they don't need to do insurance spot checks - in my state they run plates of cars that are in view and, presumably, they are alerted if you don't have insurance.
EVs produce almost no brake dust.

Someone needs to develop tyres that are made of healthier materials.
By that logic serial-type ids are unsafe for use too, and much more vulnerable.

I was kind of expecting some claim that actually exploits the inclusion of a hardware identifier, rather than "don't use predictable numbers as secrets".
Having just spent a large part of the weekend tracing and adjusting some zellij I tend to agree.

Annoyingly, though the example I was reproducing (from an image of a tiling on a wall) had either been squashed in one dimension or the original was asymmetric in an unexpected way. Like an octagon that was 120 mm in one direction and 130 mm in the other.

(Thanks for attending my TED talk lol).
The way you fix it is through piracy. The media companies then either solve the licensing issue among themselves or go out of business.
While it is quite popular, TRRS is one of the worst connectors possible for a power rail (eg usb VBUS) because it all but guarantees that VBUS will be shorted to ground if you ever accidentally hot-plug it.
I regret posting it.
Am I going to be back in those times where that capital was a lot? Where what we have today isn't there? Will I have access to the contacts and his network?

Let me guess: no?

What an odd request. This is such a lazy argument.

> So why didn't they?

The truth of the matter is: they couldn't. Bezos, Musk and Bill Gates were perfectly positioned to do what they did. You don't even hear about the hundreds of others that had the same (or better) ideas, that didn't have the capital, the connections, or even the timing.

This hero worship makes zero sense. If Bezos wasn't already rich, Amazon wouldn't exist. If Bill Gates didn't have contacts inside IBM, Microsoft wouldn't be what it is. If Elon didn't grow up filthy rich, he wouldn't be the world's richest man.

I know it's easier to believe the good old "work hard and you'll be rewarded" adage, but it's a plain lie. We have multiple orders of magnitude more of hard workers compared to billionaires (or even millionaires) to prove that. No, it's not because they were geniuses or hard workers. They might've even been that, it's beyond the point. They were plain lucky.

In today's society, previous capital is the best predictor of success there is. Not intelligence. Not hard work.
> Break dust

Should not occur in EVs because braking is not necessary.

> Tyre dust

Fine. In cities this is one of the easiest problems to solve, since most of it is washed out into drainage pipes and the waste water can be effectively filtered (although this is not done in most places yet).

Fortunately I don't live in a city anymore so I don't have to put up with these rules.
Building it yourself is kind of the point I'd say. They're highly customized computers without consideration for sleek design or practicality exactly because it cannot be profitably mass produced. It wouldn't be the same if anyone could just buy the exact device that you have.
Someone should compile this against each country population number.
Would be interesting to get an approx number of coders per 1000 people in each country.
And then perhaps run it against natality rates.

Github list they used as a source :
https://github.com/github/innovationgraph/blob/main/data/dev...
When you get to choose a potentially career limiting move by speaking to a CFO or a freedom limiting move by doing a potentially illegal thing they say... It may be a good idea to do the first one unless you're in really bad situation with work availability.

If they can throw you under a bus because you raise a valid issue, what are the chances they'll protect you when some fraud paperwork gets signed by the IT dept (so you).
Some people claim it was regulation that caused SUVs

https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn/finding-the-right-car/...

Hopefully new regulation will fix it rather than make it worse
They produce break dust.
I'm not complaining about learning a language. I'm simply stating that I have had a much better tool that can help me - which covers more than a wordbook could and is faster and means that I wasn't carrying around a book. Merely a phone/watch/communication device.

I'll add that not everyone needs to learn a language to make use of wordbooks and translation apps. Vacations exist. Temporary work assignments exist, the sort of which are much shorter than the time it would take to learn a language to even an intermediate level. Heck, my required language classes lasted 2 years at 18 hours a week of classroom time, which is definitely longer than work assignments.

And no, forced pleasantries at a gas station doesn't make people friendly. Plus it is labor for the cashier. I shouldn't be shamed for not paying attention to everyone on a bus and listening to music instead. This stuff isn't people being nice, it is people doing obligatory thing. A heart-felt thanks isn't the same as the one your mother made you say - greater society is similar. And I'll add that it isn't really making society pleasant: That sort of smalltalk isn't universal. I moved from the US Midwest to Norway, which really hasn't expected folks to chat up cashiers or talk to strangers on the bus. Society here isn't unpleasant, though.
No, the absolute sales and percentage of sales is up, it's just the rate of acceleration that's decreased. https://www.ev-volumes.com/
A good public transport system is not difficult for families and even easier. Berlin has a pretty good public transport. We had a car when we first moved here (we're a family) but we never had the need to use it other than 1-2 occasions in a year because public transport + biking is easier, faster and more comfortable.

At the end we got rid of our car and not planning to buy another one. For those occasions that happens 1-2 times a year, we just use a car sharing app. It's also a lot cheaper than maintaining a car.
being ambivalent towards a group, filling up your hotel, but otherwise alien to you, may be a little less polarizing than just having been forced to shell out $100M to a similar sounding demographic.
Figma, Adobe. And (on the wasm server-side of things) Docker, Nginx.
I've switched from tmux to zellij about 2 monthes, ago, it may have less features than tmux for now but it certainly does all i need, in most case better than tmux. It is much more user friendly and usable imo.

Frankly i've spent too much time in the past fiddling with complex confs and tools which expect the user to spent days figuring out a conf which work for them. Then if you don't use the tool for 1 month, or simply don't edit the conf for a big while you've forgotten half of it.

Zellij has a conf file, it took me a bit of time to tweak it at first, but i know I can understand it in a pinch. Same thing for actually using it, it's mostly discoverable.

And most importantly, it is very clear that simplicity and predictability are big priorities. It shows everywhere in the project, I totally vouch this approach and tend to do the same thing on my work projects. I know from experience than understanding your user's needs and getting out of your way to make their life easy by not having to think about how the implementation is done is really much harder that just making a tool configurable and extensible...

So, big kudos to you Zellij devs !
> center for large conferences and Expos

Aimed largely at the MENA, SAARC, and a bit of the APJ market.

Most DefCon attendees are in North America, which makes the flight to the UAE hellishly long and expensive.

Most attendees are also expensing the trip, so a $700-900 round trip ticket plus an additional $500-700 for hotels makes Managers balk, as that's a major expense coming out of your yearly budget.

Also, DefCon sponsors largely showed up because it was occuring around the same time and same location as BlackHat

Source: travelled a lot for corporate tech conferences in my PM days.
I see youth do things on their touchscreens in lightning speed :) both IRL and in movies/series. Sure, I am much slower. And for me, the UI is too big / screen too small (regardless of 7" smartphone or 6" or 5" the touchscreen takes too much space but it is a godsend that you have it with you 24/7).

Nokia back in the days of Hilton (touchscreen GTK) was trying two horses, resistive touch with pen UI and then same but for finger. Capacitive finger UI won, and capacitive finger needs a bigger UI.
> It does not work with MP3s

https://bemighty.com/products/mighty-audio-screenless-connec...
Towards SSH3: How HTTP/3 improves secure shells
Reading the rest of this thread, it seems that the anti-anti-natalists (to which I gravitate more closely) are misrepresenting the anti-natalists' view and that they don't actually expect everyone to be anti-natalist?
So I inherited a 5-year+ Rails app having never touched it before, and having spent two years dragging it from version 4 to 7 I actually get the hype. Everything I want to do for a boring REST app is already built in. Side-jobs, live-updates, ORMs, it's all there.

Would I use it for a new app, yes. But it is very opinionated, and the tools take a while to get working nicely.
The world is off ICEs now, no amount of lobbying is going to convince people they’re a good idea going forwards.
Your second paragraph is why BBC radio is unlistenable to me. The source of the advertising is only a minor piece of the irritation - it's still painful to listen to the same ads and jingles multiple times in an hour.
> Someone needs to develop tyres that are made of healthier materials.

Good point. We certainly have the technology. Currently tyres are half natural rubber and half plastic. They could be made 100% rubber, perhaps with some drawbacks. Maybe an engineer can comment on that, I would be very interested to know why exactly the non natural rubber is needed.

I know that Continental has a research project to make the natural rubber out of dandelion. But even those tyres still have 50% plastic rubber.
The Fiat Panda 4x4 and Skoda Yeti are good examples of small SUVs that are incredibly practical. Shame that Fiat discontinued the Panda 4x4 and Skoda never released a true successor to the Yeti.