skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern vehicles are still made with steel, if I am not mistaken (since I own two). I also think the designers did a fine job over at Tesla. It's more baffling that the automaker decided to forego a layer of clear coat---just like with all other cars---because they think they can defy the elements, or up-sell you on that $5000 wrap that they are offering.
Alert box:“Are you sure you wish to close this page without saving”
Me: of course! Just let me close.
Me a moment later: doh!
Experimental robot performs simulated surgical operations aboard space station
I'd imagine that Elon and Twitter would deliberately keep bot numbers in their reports to make it seem like the website is doing better than ever.

Can Elon / Twitter straight up lie and share fake or misleading numbers? Would that be illegal and result in any kind of legal action, or are would they be allowed to lie and mislead because they're a private company? It's not like these reports would be audited by any external sources. Asking genuinely if anyone is familiarized with this legal domain.
And they don't even spam! Instead its just endless ChatGPT drivel and noise. In a way that's even worse.
Homelessness is an inherently hard problem to solve. Programs to "help the homeless" tend to make the problem worse. If you need to be homeless to qualify for help, there are perverse incentives at work.

We need a new housing model. Since World War II, average house size has increased, average household size (number of people in the home) has decreased.

We fundamentally need a different form of housing than what is getting fostered by policies and financing mechanisms largely created as part of the process of solving the last housing crisis by inventing the modern suburb and blanketing the country with it.

We now have a cartoonish 1950s single family home on steroids as our default expectation, thus the red queen effect. We have torn down a million single room occupancy units and expect as a default that single young adults in the city rent a bedroom in a 5 bedroom family home shared with unrelated single people in a living situation not designed for that.

Then we make horror movies about room mates, like Single White Female, and pretend this is inevitable and not a consequence of policy decisions that actively discourage builders from building homes that work for singletons, students, seniors and single parents.
Been using kagi for awhile, also in Portugal. Google shopping is the one thing that Kagi can't beat them at yet. If i'm looking to buy a product online not from amazon it's still the best option.
Hah yes I had to read it twice.
This is also the definition of blurriness.

This is not true in any sense, but it is what some people think when they don't know much about the underlying principles and just see fractional pixels.

A blur would be lowering the frequency of an input signal, anti-aliasing is representing that signal more accurately when quantizing it into discreet values.

Do some animated aliased 3D renders then try to blur it to get the same result as an anti-aliased version.

Look at a checkerboard pattern as it goes into the distance. The pattern eventually converges into grey if it is antialiased because the integral of everything under the pixel is grey as the squares end up smaller than a pixel. Blurring the entire frame gives a much different result.
I don't know what truly zero military tension looks like but I think economic integration can both prevent and reduce it.
Grants are great but are often not nearly enough and they can vanish from a year to another. You'd better secure other sources of income. Grants will also usually fund specific features of your product but not the whole thing.

Other kinds of income are also good ways to fund open source like service, consultancy, support and even paid open source apps (which works particularly well for apps that have enterprise oriented features, turns out it doesn't matter that the source code is available under a free software license if it's convenient enough to click and buy).

Coincidentally, this is how I get paid :-)

Still, grants should not be ignored indeed.
Reminds me Overtone build with Clojure https://overtone.github.io/
> If they try to replace customer service agents with chatbots that lie, they need to be prepared to pay for the results.

The result would be a de facto ban on AI chatbots, because nobody knows how to get them not to make stuff up.

> I'm glad they're not allowed to use such unreliable, experimental technologies in their airplanes (737 Max notwithstanding).

If you use unreliable technology in an airplane, it falls out of the sky and everybody dies. If you use it in a chatbot, the customer can e.g. go to the company's website to apply for the discount it said exists and discover that it isn't there, and then be mildly frustrated in the way that customers commonly are when a company's technology is imperfect. It's not the same thing.

> There's absolutely a technology available to make a chatbot that won't tell lies: connect a simple text classifier to a human-curated knowledge base.

But then it can only answer questions in the knowledge base, and customers might prefer an answer which is right 75% of the time and can be verified either way in five minutes than to have to wait on hold to talk to a human being because the less capable chatbot couldn't answer their question and the more capable one was effectively banned by the government's liability rules.
Also Japan, Korea, Canada-US-Mexico, also improving relations with various Middle Eastern states
I think you should seriously consider who can operate bots with blue checkmarks for free and your question gets easiky answered.

Occams Razor…
Recently in the SF Bay Area, there's been a lot of displeasure by transit activists that object to VTA's BART to San Jose extension (it's being built by VTA not BART) who had the choice between two tunneling options:

1. Two small-bore TBMs ~2 stories underground, one for rail in each direction. This would require cut and cover for the stations only

2. One large-bore TBM ~7 stories underground, with technically enough space to fit an entire station platform inside but displaces a HUGE amount of soil/rock along the entire line, and require very deep stations that take a long time for riders to enter/exit.

VTA consultants went with option 2 because they didn't want to disrupt the surface (again, only for the few blocks where the stations would be built) even though it costs $$ billions more.

Many transit activists (including me) are upset because it makes the project both take much longer and cost more. We could save money by literally just giving billions of dollars to the businesses on the affected blocks. There's no geo-technical reason to go with the large-bore option. This has also led to a lot of recent VTA-negativity among these activists.
> This switch to centralization was mostly forced by people using low functionality dumb terminals (smart phones) that users don't control and that literally can't hold a TCP connection open.

Not being able to hold a TCP connection open is an implementation choice of the OS developer (and some choices at the network level too). At WhatsApp, we would find Nokia Symbian devices with 45 day old TCP connections to our servers anytime we looked. Nokia S40 isn't a smart phone platform, but it could hold long connections too. Old versions of Android could do it, although old versions of Android had trouble switching between wifi and cellular. You can probably do it on current Android if you turn off all the Doze or whatever stuff (which isn't always easy to turn off).

There's an efficiency argument for having a single long TCP connection for platform push, rather than one per app that needs it, of course. But in that case, platform push better be reliable.
I try to explain the elegant simplicity of CGI to peers and get blank stares
It certainly is good, but money also turns many people bad and impacts organizational dynamics.
> I get where you are coming from, but journalists today aren't real journalists.

Some are, some aren't. Just like some programmers are real programmers and others are not, and some managers are real managers and others are not. The world is full of posers but that doesn't mean there aren't people that hold the title + the ethics that come with it dear. They're a minority, but they've always been a minority, that didn't change at all.

> Public trust in media is at an all-time low for a reason.

It mostly is because there are well funded political groups that incessantly undermine the public trust in the media. Because the last thing they want is for their deeds to be properly exposed and investigated.

> I understand that real journalism must be paid for, but allowing megacorps to buy up all maintream media was a huge mistake and now they are all corporate mouthpieces.

> I don't know what the answer is, but trusting 'journalists' of today is not it.

Well, one thing that could be done is to seriously limit ownership of media by global empires. The likes of Murdoch have done untold damage to the world in the pursuit of some green paper.

> The head of journalism at my college warned us of this over a decade ago, and he didn't have the answer either.

Yes, it is a problem. And given the cost of good investigative journalism it is in fact unbelievable that there are still people doing this because they see it as their calling. And I'm mighty impressed with that and do not accept the broad brush with which they too are being painted. In every country you can find journalists that operate with integrity and that are not to be muzzled by corporate interests. They're real heroes too because in plenty of places that will get you ostracized, beaten up, blacklisted or murdered.

> They lost their ethics in search of clicks and clout and cry foul when they aren't believed.

Some. Not all.

> They use divisive language, outright lie, holy crap this election cycle will be a shitshow. There's no unbiased truth finders anymore.

There are, just not all that many, but they do exist.

> The ones I feel sorry for are the real journalists drowned out by the fake.

So, it seems we agree they exist. My solution is pretty simple, I seek out the journalists whose work I trust and I try to get my information about country A from any source except the ones in country A because they likely will not be objective. That's a hack and a workaround but it seems to work quite well.
Alon Levy's Transit Construction Costs project breaks down where NYC's (extremely) high costs go - https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/02/06/our-constructi...

There's no simple reason - basically everything that can cost more, does.
Where are russian cluster bombs on cities happened? I thought the US provided Ukraine with cluster and gave them green light to start.
That's quite a russian narrative. Mariupol alone is in vicinity of 100k civilian casualties. Kyiv holds because of air defense and denying ru air superiority by shooting them down.
Ukrainians have plenty of issues with invading forces. Plenty.

Also, Yalta? What?
You thought wrong, fingerprinting is impossible to resist.
I think the fact that so many tools were setup to assume `master` and have no way to configure it differently was the real problem, and as annoying as it was to have GH switch to `main` it did force a lot of tools to be updated to make that configurable. Whether you use main, master, trunk, development, or anything else, the fact is the name is arbitrary and treating it any other way was incorrect.
> It doesn't matter how you classify the problem

It does if you care about building a viable business.

> food delivery apps have a ton of advanced logistics going on behind the scenes that the basic "pizza shop delivery" of decades past don't have.

Pizza shops don’t have advanced logistics because they don’t need it. A pizza shop can already saturate multiple drivers.

> Consider route optimization with multiple restaurants and multiple stops, area incentives for drivers, recommendation algorithms for consumers that take into account time of day + location, etc.

But this complexity isn’t necessary and the tiny increase in efficiency is less than the cost of the algorithms and systems to run them.
The difference is what's in the water.
"might be"? IS
> What happened is that the unification was seen as beneficial but that a larger body with a more future proof organization was what really was required.

You're saying the EU wasn't required? That seems like a bold statement, but probably too much to sort out in HN comments.

I'm a bit confused by "but" in that sentence. I'm not sure if a 'not' or another word is missing there. Certainly many saw unification as beneficial - again, it was the key to many. Many still do.
Can you share your GH to follow updates?
Also, take a look at this, they have a layout too
https://github.com/lit/lit/tree/main/packages/labs/virtualiz...
That's not the rules used in this submission though.

> A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39387387
I agree. Black and white often pop up against certain types of content (e.g. white spreadsheets on black background, dark mode terminals on white), but gray's a good compromise.
Diagnosis done and dusted. Now aren't you glad you visit HN?
If you are truly unable to pay taxes, you would be surprised how much effort the IRS will go to help you on that. Similar to any debts you owe, courts will work with you to meet you where you are.

Similarly, if someone owes you payment for something, you can take them to court to compel reasonable payment.

If you can never have a "moral basis" for compelling payment, than I'm curious how you think any contract law can work to secure payments?

And note, this is in the US. There are places where you can be forced into servitude for payments owed. Or imprisoned for non-payment. Yes, there are prison sentences for fraud in the US, but it is very different from how things have "naturally" worked in the past.
Not at the moment. Had some tough times at work with the announcement that the entire department was going to be laid off sometime in May, and finding a new role is kinda stressful about now. Meanwhile most of the hobbies and things that usually keep me happy have been on a downward slide, so it feels like everything is falling apart at the same time.

It is probably interesting to think about though, since on the surface it probably seems like everything's going well at the moment; materially speaking I have more of what I want than ever and my life seems like it's good on a surface level. But that's all a bit of a rapidly crumbling facade.
Had fun killing an hour there, fun gameplay. Is there multiplayer?
Sadly it will have as much of an impact on the Russians as any political martyr in any past dictatorship. And that is, almost certainly nothing.
Relatively common practice where I work. What do you do instead?
> they’d buy whatever crypto [Musk] decided to pump.

For a moment, I'd forgotten that was a thing Musk actually did. I got so used to bots impersonating him pumping cryptocurrencies, my memories had rewritten the times he did do it himself into more impersonators doing it instead.
Try salt water.
> Second, why not stop there? I have a program for reading my email, it isn't VSCode, I'm fine with that. So telling me Emacs can read email is completely irrelevant to my use of VSCode.

I agree it is irrelevant to your use of VSCode. The comparison, though, was for VSCode with Emacs. Not "VSCode with Emacs for samatman's needs".

> For most people, adding all of these features to the Emacs side of the balance backfires, because now Emacs has to be better than all the tools they use for that stuff, rather than just better at what VSCode does than VSCode is.

It's illogical to say that Emacs has to be better than all those tools to use them. We're not enforcing a dichotomy. You can use both. You can use Gmail's web interface and Emacs mailing abilities. All you need is for one to have some capability that the other doesn't, as opposed to having every capability the other has.

Next: A large part of my point in this thread is that comparing VSCode to Emacs as a whole is in itself silly - one is a fairly specialized tool and the other is fairly generic. If you want to reduce the discussion to SW development, then fine. But people (not you) blanket saying VSCode is better (or worse) than Emacs is like saying Excel is better than Linux. I don't have any desire to convince someone to leave VSCode for Emacs. What for?

Next: Implicit in your comments is the notion that stuff like reading mails is an "extra" in Emacs. It's artificially categorizing. Reading email in Emacs is not an addon - it's part of Emacs's capabilities (although you may get better experiences than the default with addons). If reading/writing emails is considered "extras", then keep in mind so are things like syntax highlighting, debugging, compiling, etc. Emacs is a text editor, and all those features are addons - at the same level as reading mails.

As a VSCode user, some of these addons mean more to you, and you don't care about the others, but understand that lots of people do care about them. So many people out there use Emacs only for org mode and magit.

> This isn't at all what you're doing. It's more like if someone says "awk is fine for text munging, why would I use Perl" and your answer was that Perl has a web server.

Context matters. Understand that my list was in response to "What can Emacs do that VS Code can't?" If someone asked "What can Perl do that awk can't?" then mentioning CPAN and Web servers is totally appropriate. It's pointing out that if you learn Perl, it may benefit you far more than awk ever could. Whether it would or not depends on your goals, of course.

> There's such a thing as a like-for-like comparison.

Agreed, but it helps if the scope is stated clearly. More often it's "Why do you use Emacs when VSCode exists?" And then of course, I'll list all the things I do in Emacs that VSCode doesn't provide. If someone asks "Why do you shop at Walmart when you can shop at Whole Foods?" it's not a problem to respond with "Because I can buy electronics at Walmart." You wouldn't jump on him and say "Hey, you're not doing a like-for-like comparison!"
The plastic industry knew, but not the government or environmental activists shaming everyone into sorting their garbage like a hobo for the past decades? This is the one thing they trusted the oil companies on? Give me a break.
I think it’s because your kitchen sink and cookware aren’t regularly exposed to other corrosive elements that damage that a car left parked outside would be.

The article mentions this:
> Once the chromium oxide barrier is breached, corrosion takes hold. And caveat emptor, because Tesla's owner's manual advises promptly removing corrosive substances, emphasizing not to wait until the Cybertruck is scheduled for a "complete wash,”

I think kitchenware will eventually suffer from the same problems, but it’s just not exposed to the same level of wear and tear as a car, so you’ll see things rust after maybe 10+ years, versus <=1 like with CyberTrucks
> 1. XWayland apps (...) The Wayland compositor has no way of detecting whether it actually scales

Can't X apps just set a window property (XChangeProperty) with their scale factor and have compositor read that?
I'm guessing the white noise GPT posts are to "warm up" accounts before they start spamming links, to get around spam detection heuristics.
The Tetris World Record Just Got Shattered [video]
Yes, that is a massive problem. But I don't blame the journalists per se: the masses are part and parcel of that and they collectively seem to prefer to be lied to over the unvarnished truth, which as often as not is very uncomfortable. People want simplicity and predictability, they don't want to have to exercise their grey matter too much, they don't want to be inconvenienced and they - and this one really gets me - would prefer not to know. That makes it easier to ignore things and to focus on the little joys in life instead of on the overarching much larger troubles.
What everyone was afraid would happen if Trump wins in 2024 -- him blocking aid to Ukraine -- has already happened.

Trump winning would be bad news for Ukraine, but in practical terms they've already been thrown under the bus by Republicans in Congress.
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39391458
Frontiers published a paper with botched AI-generated images
Of course, saying "White Lives Matter" or "All Lives Matter" will get you labeled a racist and a nazi, among other things. Double standards are glorious, aye?

All men are born equal, so we really don't and shouldn't have to specify identifiers. Specifying identifiers means there are implicit differences and thus discrimination or special treatment, which both of which are both unwarranted and not okay.

I know for a fact now that you do not mean any dark implications, of course. So this is all in general terms.
Nice work! It captures the same fast, small-track feel of RC Pro-Am from back in the days of the NES.
> To me this seems that you're hacking the system. You're avoiding learning how to think and understand, you're just learning how to pass the class.

I can certainly grasp that these are literally different, but are they practically different for most people?

Eg I know that some of my clothes need to be washed with cold water. I don't know why, but it's never made a difference in my life.

I know my car needs oil changes, but I don't specifically know why. Some kind of lubrication, but for what and why it goes bad I have no idea.

We all do hundreds of things algorithmically without really understanding what we're doing or why. We know enough to get the answer we want and that's good enough.

The kids that do algebra algorithmically probably aren't going to be math professors, but neither am I, and there are plenty of lucrative and productive professions that are fine with getting the right answer without knowing why.

On some level, most people are doing arithmetic algorithmically anyways, based on rules structured around base 10. Ask some people you think have passable arithmetic skills to do addition and subtraction in like base 5 and watch the smoke come out of their ears. I'm not casting aspersions, I'd have a hard time too past a couple digits.

I would wager most of them can't explain why we carry numbers over, they just know it needs to happen to get the right answer. I don't think I'm much better; I'm sure there are dozens of things in basic math that I just do without really understanding why.

> That said, I cannot concieve that some kids don't understand 20-8.

I would almost put money down that it's around carrying the 1's. I've met a few people that struggled with arithmetic, and they almost always get lost around carrying over numbers.
I was thinking it would be sort of Martian Time Slip, only just Elon Musk instead of Ernie Kott all the time.
There's dozens of varieties of stainless, all with slightly different properties. All of them can rust under varying conditions.

Most sinks and silverware are typically fairly rust resistant varieties of stainless, and are exposed to pretty minimally demanding conditions.
Sure enough, 17 new bot followers today after blocking 14 only a few days ago. There's precisely zero reason any legit person should be following my entirely passive, unengaged account. Twitter truly is a cesspool.
still confused, what could possibly be in rainwater or coastal humidity that isn't in dirty dishwater? i get the focus is on salty water on the coastline, but i can guarantee the dish sink has been exposed to extremely concentrated salt solutions.